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What Separates Successful Bloggers From Everyone Else ?
Do you know what it really takes to run a successful site? The answers may surprise you. It’s not an uncanny technical skill or a tremendous wealth of internet knowledge or a marketing degree or a boatload of cash.
As a blogger who has been in the web space for over 2 years, I’d like to think that I’ve gained valuable insights on what separates the truly successful site owners and the rest of the blogsphere. With hundreds of millions of blogs and 80-90% of them being abandoned, going 2-2 is something I’m pretty proud of.
Separates Successful Bloggers From Everyone | IMFROSTY
I'M FROSTY hit its 2nd birthday last month. Have I learned new things? Of course I have! However, the core lessons still remain. In the last year of running this site, I was able to reinforce what I already believe are the key ingredients of being successful.
What it takes to be a top blogger
The eagerness to learn is more important than skill. I know so many technically sound people in web development, SEO, marketing, and so forth. Why can’t all of them make money online? Because many of them don’t have the willingness to pick up the parts that they don’t know well. Their core competency can only take them so far.
They have to be willing to be a student to fill any gaps in their skillset. Besides, regardless of what their expertise is actually in, there’s a good chance that they’d have to adapt over time within their own area.
The ability to apply lessons learned is more important than the eagerness to learn. Anyone who is willing to learn can accumulate knowledge. But what good is it if that person doesn’t have a knack for applying that knowledge? I believe one must be able to apply knowledge and learn from successes and failures. Then repeat.
They know how to take something on paper and make it come to life. They also happen to the ones making the most money.
Passion is more important than the ability to apply lessons learned. You’ve heard me say it before. Passion is something that you must have for your niche, your site, and your writing. For instance, if you choose a niche you’re not passionate about, you’ll quickly lose interest. Be passionate about the decisions you make and be passionate about following through.
You must be willing to build your site without making any money because that’s the way it’s going to be for a little while. Get used to it. Passion will help keep you going when things don’t look so hot.
Perseverance is more important than passion. You can be passionate about something but that can only take you so far when it seems like you’ve spent hundreds of hours on your site and are in the red from your small domain and hosting investment.
Successful people are often willing to grind away knowing that they will outlast the masses. They will look at problems as learning opportunities and are determined to hit their goals. Putting sweat equity into something makes them even more engaged. There is no stopping someone who is truly prepared to persevere through turbulent times. And you know what? There will be many of those when running a site or any business for that matter.
Do you have it in you to be great?
You see, many of the folks making money by blogging about making money online aren’t telling you the entire story. Their articles are usually geared toward the very tactical side. Those are topics that both newcomers and veterans can easily learn and apply. In spite of this, why do so many of their visitors still fail? More often than not, they are missing at least one if not all of the elements I listed above.
What I’m saying is that the biggest factors are those that are inherent in you. Use whatever words you want: hunger, drive, determination, resolve, fortitude, etc… The bottom line is that you need the essential internal makeup.
People with the eagerness to learn, the ability to apply lessons learned, passion, and perseverance will be successful in anything they touch, not just running a site.
Do you think you meet the criteria?
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1. You have outdone yourself this time all the tips you told us about a successful Blogger are definitely outstanding. Thanks a lot dear.
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Re-opening the Cobram line to Passenger Traffic
The Vinelander Minister for Railways
Location: Ballan, Victoria on the Ballarat RFR Line
Mikelander: I have a "bias against regional rail" as I have looked at the history of the VR and have done so without rose-coloured glasses, and quite frankly the history of regional passenger travel is littered with discreet pork-barrelling as a passenger service, nor did any expansion of "rail services increase the patronage on any given service".
"Deep Throat"
Thankyou for admitting your bias Deep Throat Exclamation
The pass service to Tocumwal was underpatronised in the 1960's and less so in the 1980's when it went to Cobram. I can cite - and did cite - a report that was written in 1985 stating this.
"Deep Throat"
Of course it was under-patronised, anybody with more than a passing interest would know that.
The question that needs to be asked, today is WHY was it along with other similar type services under-patronised QuestionIdea A few answers if I may.
1. Services operated when they suited VR, not the travelling public. There was NO surveying of pax in those days.
The minimal service ran, you used it or you didn't. Most drove, petrol was cheap. Trains and buses were particularly 'un-cool'
2. Trains were slow, the DERM wouldn't have exceeded 80KPH, unless it had a tailwind and was going downhill and unless you travelled in the motor, you didn't even get a heater in winter.
3. Cars were preferable; if it was summer you stopped and went to the pub, had a few beers to wash the dust down, and then kept going.
.05, what's that, it never existed in those days, people routinely drank and drove.
4. PT was actively discouraged by the parents of that 60's & 70's generation who were glad when the price of cars, Holden 48-215's and FJ's became cheaper than the earlier, imported Chevy's and Fords et al. Holden's were mass produced to the point of everyone being able to afford one, the parents included, who were joyous of their new found freedom.
Hardly a ringing endorsement for PT, agreed Question
5. Where did the now popular Griffith bus connection depart, Shepparton or Tocumwal Question Nowhere, I bet because I don't believe it existed.
6. Though I keep stating it ad nauseum, and the pax agree because they are voting with their feet, though many posters don't want to admit it, more, many more pax are using Vline services these days, including, apparently the Griffith service.
AND PT , particularly trains are now seen to be a 'cool' mode of transport, with a much less environmental footprint than cars, buses and particularly trucks
(More about that LATER, under Kevin '07)
Though I'm an expansionist and you have a bias against regional rail, praise be that you weren't officially consulted for the RFR, I can see little or no point whatsoever in upgrading or re-opening for example, Horsham to Yaapeet, Lubeck to Bolangum, Numurkah to Picola or Timboon to Timboon Jcn, or other branch lines of that ilk.
PS, many years have have passed since your report, it's somewhat out of date in today's very much changed world.
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Location: Gone. Don't bother PMing here.
This board has become a sad place - to paraphrase Kim Beasley Snr, the cream of gunzeldom has become the dregs of foamerdom.
Before proposing one more 'let's reopen the passenger service to Upper Dingdangdongalong West' thread - some facts:
-Australia is a failed 'European settler land' project, despite 200 years of work by colonial and state/national politicians
-Australia is not a fertile land. Apart from a narrow coastal strip and the island of Tasmania, it is a mix of savannahland and desert. The northern half is in a monsoonal rain shadow of New Guinea, and the southern half near unusually cold ocean currents that yield little rain. What rain does fall is intercepted by coastal ranges not 2 hours by road from the coast.
-Neither the European or North American settler model worked because of this
-Colonial and then national politics was skewed to the advantage of conservative farmers' parties and their alliance with city-based business and property interests. The payoff was that conservative farmers' party's members' mothers could come down and visit them on an occasional slow passenger train, at least until the point when the road and air networks were able to take over. Then they were redundant.
-Where in Europe we have millenia of decentralisatioin (usually around Roman soldiers camps) and in the USA we have hundreds of years of independent cities and states in the 100000-1000000 population range (an artifact of their very decentralised political system and cultural lean towards the individual) we have a somewhat viable network of rural rail lines, in Europe used for passengers and in the USA for freight
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Everybody Hurts is a song by REM from the album Automatic for the people. It was released on 1992 and was originally written by Bill Berry, Michael Stipe, Peter Buck, Michael Mills. Musically, the song is a Pop track and it has a tempo of 93 beats per minute.
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Chagas Disease is Not HIV/AIDS
4 06 2012
I sat up in my chair when I read this headline last week: Chagas Disease: “The New HIV/AIDS of the Americas.”
I remember the early days of HIV and AIDS. Anyone infected seemed guaranteed a horrible, painful death, and the typical reaction of too many friends and family members was to refuse to give a last embrace lest they, too, acquire the infection.
To say that Chagas disease is the new HIV/AIDS is quite a statement. Or at least, a startling headline.
Chagas disease comes from a parasite. The disease spreads when a big, bloodsucking insect known as a triatomine bug bites a person or animal infected with the parasite, then bites an uninfected person or animal.
The bugs come out at night and love to bite humans and critters on the face—hence the nickname (shudder) “kissing bug.”
The bugs bite, eat (remember the bloodsucking), and poop on the skin, and it’s the poop that harbors the parasite. The poop gets into the body through skin breaks or mucous membranes.
Infections can also occur through transplantation of infected organs or transfusion of infected blood, as well as ingesting infected bug poop piggybacking on uncooked foods. Also, it can be passed through vertical transmission, from mom to baby.
Chagas disease, according to the CDC and PubMed, appears in the acute phase as a mishmash of symptoms, making it hard to diagnose. And sometimes, there are no symptoms at all. If symptoms appear, they can include “. . . fever, fatigue, body aches, headache, rash, loss of appetite, diarrhea, and vomiting.”
An exam might show a slightly enlarged spleen, liver or glands. A telltale sign, called Romaña’s sign, is a swollen eyelid where the bug bite occurred or the poop got onto the eye.
After several weeks or even months, the acute symptoms (if any) go away. If an antiparasitic treatment is used during this acute phase, there’s a good chance that it’ll be the end of the infection. Treatment is also occasionally successful later on in the disease.
If there is no treatment, the infection becomes chronic, but might never again cause problems. Or, it could flare up after several years or even decades and cause serious complications for the heart or intestines.
Death is sometimes the outcome in either the acute or chronic phase of this infection.
There’s no way to prevent infection, other than going after the bloodsucking bugs.
But, is Chagas disease the new HIV/AIDS? No, say Rick Tarleton, president of the Chagas Disease Foundation, and Dr. William Schaffner, president of the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases.
Champions of public health wrote the editorial with the eye-opening headline, which certainly brought attention to their case, but in this instance they went too far and made a claim that is more likely to raise alarm than awareness.
By Trish Parnell
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Police Are Warning Everyone About This License Plate Scam That Everyone Is Falling For
Let’s be honest, getting pulled over sucks. I’ve personally never been pul…I’m actually not going to say that for karma reasons. You get the drift.
It would be even worse to be pulled over by a fake cop or a scam artists like these fellows. Fishers Police Department in Indiana was alerted to this and wants everyone to know that they shouldn’t trust trucks like this.
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Two men were following this woman in their car. As they pulled up to her window, they waved a license plate at her and tried to get her attention. They signaled as if the plate was hers and it had fallen off her vehicle.
Thankfully she had memorized her license plate and she knew they were conning her. She didn’t stop and definitely sped away.
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She called the police later on that day and let them know what happened. They then posted about it on their Facebook page and in total the post has over 16,000 interactions on it.
Take a look:
“Suspicious Activity Alert in the area of 116th St/Allisonville Rd Fishers, Indiana. Occurred yesterday, a female driving south when two men in a powder blue small size pick-up truck(loud exhaust) pulled up alongside her.
The male passenger got her attention and told her she had lost her license plate. He held up a license plate pretending it belonged to the female.
Thankfully the female knew her license plate number and recognized that she was in danger. She did not pull over, but continued driving.
If you are approached in this manner please call 911 immediately. Please Share!”
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If this happens to you, definitely call the police first. You wouldn’t want to call a friend or family member just in case the other car or people see you. They could get spooked and who knows what they are capable of.
Which leads me to my next point of…
Even if this type of scam doesn’t happen to you, be careful of other weird drivers. The only person that should be trying to pull you over is a police officer with a proper working police car.
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A woman from Chesterfield, Virginia had this happen to her. A person was driving an unmarked police car with flashing lights and it pulled her over one day.
You know in the movies how they flash their badge, well there’s a reason for that. They have to let you know who they are and have proper identification.
It was a highly trafficked area and this could have happen to anyone including to senior citizens or kids due to their being a senior home and school nearby.
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This isn’t just an American problem too! This account of a fake officer happens across the pond in England.
After another woman reported an unmarked car with lights, the real police reported this:
“The driver of the vehicle pulled over and one man, not wearing a police uniform walked towards the car. The member of public immediately drove off and was unharmed.”
So moral of the story?
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Work from home the new reality?
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Recent developing virus spread of COVID-19 around the world forced governments, companies and societies to accommodate more alternative approach to everyday life. Simple every day routine like commute to work, buying groceries or dropping kids to school became very limited.
Not a long time ago, just a few months back from the now general understanding and daily usage of modern technology, particularly in work remotely, wasn’t widely considered as beneficial in a full extent. Classic office as a destination from where people only could or must be productive finally comes into the question that deserves thorough evaluation.
Modern technology following by fast internet connection plays a crucial role and makes the foundation for current employees and generations to come.
Let’s go back in time slightly and check the overall thinking of those who where huge fans of “work must be done in an office”. Here are quotes of people from buses, train stations, shops and other public places in the early days of coronavirus and somewhat before full lockdown:
“It was so nice to go to an office, to have tea with colleagues like a grown up… ”
“I like to work in an office, cause I have a nice canteen there..”
“I love when my colleague makes me coffee..”
“I enjoy having a chat with other people…”
“In an office we have free coffee and snacks…”
“When working from an office, I do not need to spend on heating and electricty…”
Well, sounds familiar? Until now physical presence in a same room with other team mates was decided by the companies. Old fashioned businesses forced people to waste time without any opportunity for rationalization.
Long distance commutes to work, extended office hours surrounded with other employees in limited office space, bad dietary habits, work related stress, peer pressure, various distractions… these are some of the standards of daily work routine.
Work from home as an idea came into light quite a bit before the actual pandemic and smart companies already started to implement certain measures to improve productivity. Many companies already had a small percentage of their work force try remote work and they already know all the benefits.
Work from home and different personalities
People consider personality as major driver in a persons life determination and social interaction.
Remote work probably has more admirers from more introverted people but extroverts should not feel as if they’re losing something, on the contrary one of the most important benefits they will start to see is that they have more available time that they could manifest in their well-being. It’s just a matter of slightly adjusting daily routines. Whatever type of daily routine you used to have is nothing more than a habit, no matter if delegated by others or instructed by yourself. But time can not be reverted once waisted and we can’t do anything about that!
How could work from home benefit companies in the long run?
In remote work, companies have to face with planing new budgets, strategies, analysis and managing human potential.
Recent statistical data gathered from various companies shows significant improvement in employees productivity. While global data still has to be gathered and evaluated these recent positive news can not be ignored.
Budgets that were previously used for building and maintaining offices could instead be used for giving employees the equipment they need for their work, for example tables, laptops, insurance, collaboration software etc. The cost of running a business could drop. The employees health could benefit from better nutrition and well-being which would lead to a happier professional life.
How can local businesses benefit from remote work?
The shift from centralized economy and large city centers with situated businesses who are trying to gain as much as they can in profits, in the future could be spread to smaller local communities. Local communities could become more organized and further improved to support new business structure. People could get more connected to local society, participate in local activities, orient their wasted energy and time spent in commute to and back from work into more quality oriented habits with in their close proximity.
Let’s consider another interesting fact, if you own or rent a property and spend approximately 10 hours out of your home by working and traveling to work then 41.5% of your rent or mortgage is being wasted. Do you see my point?
Environment benefit?
Less travel means less pollution, the daily commute to work is a big contributor to greenhouse gas emissions which are harmful for the environment. Especially if you are traveling by car instead of public transport.
The average car produces around 6 tones of carbon dioxide each year and traveling to work is a big part of that. So by not traveling to work you are greatly reducing the carbon footprint and ensuring a safe future for the next generation.
So in conclusion working from home can greatly benefit everyone involved and this could be the first step towards a better and promising future!
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Quick Answer: How Long Can You Record On A 1tb Hard Drive?
How many hours of video can 1tb hold?
How long does a CCTV hard drive last?
How many gigabytes is 58 terabytes?
59,392 gigabytesThis conversion of 58 terabytes to gigabytes has been calculated by multiplying 58 terabytes by 1,024 and the result is 59,392 gigabytes.
What’s the difference between 1tb and 2tb?
The difference is twice the amount of storage on the 2TB drive in comparison to the 1TB drive. Nothing else is different between the two, provided that they are the same make/model with the storage space being the only thing that is different. Underneath the cover of the drive, there is a platter of disks.
How much storage is 58 terabytes?
TB to GB Conversion TableTerabytes (TB)Gigabytes (GB) decimalGigabytes (GB) binary58 TB58,000 GB59,392 GB59 TB59,000 GB60,416 GB60 TB60,000 GB61,440 GB61 TB61,000 GB62,464 GB96 more rows
Is 4 terabytes a lot?
4 TB seems like a lot of storage capacity, and for many people it is. … Still even if people use more content on mobile devices that content will have to be stored on inexpensive storage in the cloud made of HDD arrays.
How much does 1tb of cloud storage cost?
How long can you record on a 2tb hard drive?
How long can a HDD record for your DVR/NVR?Recording channels500G HDD2TB HDD4 channels9.7 daysThirty eight days8 channels4.8 daysTwenty days16 channelsFour daysSixteen daysFeb 7, 2017
How many days a 4tb HDD DVR can record?
How many days a 4TB HDD NVR can record?Recording ResolutionRecording channels/Number of IPC4TB1.0 Megapixel (720p)16 channels12 days2.0 Megapixel (1080p)4 channels24 days8 channels12 days16 channels6 days2 more rows•Jun 7, 2016
Is 58 terabytes a lot?
You could fit ~500 hours worth of movies on ONE terabyte. 58 Terabytes of memory could be used to store a whopping 7.5million digital photographs. Fifty-eight Terabytes also could fit up 29,000 hours of video, according to the tech blog LifeWire. … In the article it says roughly 29,000 hours of video.
How many hours of 4k video can 1tb hold?
Do I need 1tb storage?
How many hours of 4k video can 2tb hold?
70 hoursWhat can you do with 2TB of storage? You can store up to 256,000 images at 24MP quality, or over 70 hours of 4K video files.
How many games can 1tb hold?
How much does 1 terabyte cost?
Seagate Hard Drive Prices By SizeDrive SizeModelPrice1 TBST1000DM010$49.992 TBST2000DM006$66.993 TBST3000DM008$83.724 TBST4000DM005$99.992 more rows•Jul 11, 2017
Is 2tb a lot of storage?
Is 1tb enough for a computer?
1TB ssd is enough to start. Probably will need more eventually, depending on how many games / other media you end up storing. Yes, it’s more than enough if you couple it with an HDD. … It depends on your needs, but i think that 1 TB should be more than enough given that you have a secondary hard drive as primary storage.
How many hours of 1080p video can 1tb hold?
How many hours of 1080p video can 1TB hold? Average 1080p video size is 3-4GB, so we can say you can store around 250 movies of 1080p resolution on 1TB. How many songs can 1tb hold? 17,000 hours of audio files can be stored on it.
How many movies can I watch with 1tb?
How many hours of video can 4tb hold?
It depends on the size of the movie. A Typical commercial DVD is roughly 8 Gigs, so 4TB would hold about 500 DVDs (4000/8). Single layer Blue-Ray disks (high def) will be around 25GB and dual layer disks 50GB, so figure 160 and 80 respectively.
How many hours of Netflix is 1tb?
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ALTOM: Can new technology make a toilet cleaner?
In a previous issue of IBJ, another columnist wrote that technology can raise the productivity of toilet cleaners. It wasn’t a central part of his argument, but as you might imagine, it caught my eye. I couldn’t resist looking into bathroom technology.
First, I wasn’t sure what kind of technology might promote the productivity of those who swab out our toilets for a living. A better mop? A breakthrough in spray bottles? And would it actually improve productivity?
Let’s talk first about “productivity.” I’ve seen a lot of definitions of productivity; unfortunately most of them were uttered by politicians and other people who quite probably make up their own definitions as they go along, to suit their audience. It turns out that economists have a pretty simple definition—it’s how much you get out of a system compared to how much goes into it.
Labor productivity, therefore, can be measured as the amount of work done per dollar of pay. In fact, the U.S. Department of Labor has a measurement of productivity specifically for janitorial workers. As an ironic aside, they also designed one for video-and disc-rental workers, just in time to watch it land with a thud on top of that industry’s coffin, the lid of which was nailed into place by online rental companies.
The Department of Labor ( concluded in 2004 that janitorial output had gone up during 2001-2002, but by a measly 1.1 percent per hour. At the same time, unit cost had gone down an even punier .1 percent in that time. The best times for janitorial improvement came in 1995-2000, when output crawled upward by 6 percent, and costs dropped by nearly 2 percent.
Clearly, this is an industry segment sorely in need of technological bolstering. There have been some small steps, of course, such as many public toilets getting automatic flushing devices that don’t depend on unreliable humans to manually pull down those handles. But it’s hard to see how they improve productivity, except possibly to forestall multi-user toilet-paper jams. In point of fact, I suspect that whatever small productivity gains you might achieve from them would be lost due to the need to have someone replace the batteries. Those little urinal cakes undoubtedly do some good, too. But neither of these promises much productivity improvement for the janitorial work force.
The Japanese get points for trying to upgrade the “john” experience, but mostly with an eye to making the user more satisfied, not to making the janitorial crew’s job any easier. For example, Daiwa ( has designed the Intelligent Toilet, which takes the user’s blood pressure, weight, body-fat, and sugar-level readings and issues a report on the user’s overall health. At around $4,000, however, it’s not going to appear in commercial restrooms any time soon.
A brief Web survey of janitorial services reveals that there’s an emphasis on technology, but it’s almost entirely about tracking and ensuring cleanliness, not about how individual employees gain anything from technology. One janitorial service, for example, emphasizes that it has Web-based work orders. In today’s Web-driven world, I would certainly hope it would. It also proudly proclaims a dedication to “cleaning green,” none of which seems to promote substantial productivity. Some parts of cleaning green have a little promise, like the emphasis on catching dirt at entryways so janitorial workers don’t have to clean it up piecemeal throughout the building, but I suspect it helps too little to be a real contributor to individual productivity.
I don’t want to leave the impression that technology hasn’t made janitorial work more efficient. It has, at times. Installing air hand dryers instead of paper towel dispensers has made a difference, because it reduces paper clutter and pick-up time even as it annoys the customers. Automatic cleaning-solution dispensers also help reduce janitorial costs. Technical Concepts (, for instance, offers the SaniCell, which pumps sanitizing fluid into toilets on a schedule. The SaniCell doesn’t use batteries; instead it uses a fuel cell that operates up to 60 days. That, however, is as high-tech as the device gets.
These technologies have been around for years now, so whatever productivity they goosed upward has already been heralded and is now old news. What neither SaniCell, nor any other technological advance, has managed to do is continually clean the outside of toilets, which is where most of the mess is. They can’t mop floors, wash down walls, or clean bugs out of overhead lights. I’ve been unable to find any technology that reduces the time or effort needed for those things. It would appear that bathroom cleaning has reached its pinnacle of efficiency today, and is likely to stay that way.•
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How did you stop binging?
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Feb 7, 2020
Maybe I need to try that. The thing with fasting is it gives me migraines though
I wouldn't do the fasting if I were you. This could get you into even more ED behavior.
Are you eating enough healthy food every day...every day? Cut out the junk. Give the body the nutrients it really needs. Don't restrict....it leads to binging.
Nov 20, 2020
My binges were the result of starvation getting the better of me. Then I’d purge it all and start all over again. My binges were spectacular and expensive!
It wasn’t until I was in a better place mentally that I started to gain weight leading to less starvation meaning fewer urges to binge.
I’m in recovery now, I’m a healthy weight and I’m slowly building myself a new life but I still have comfort eating episodes. They’re not what I’d call a binge but I can easily eat a whole packet or two of biscuits or a few family size packets of anything.
Ive learnt there’s always a reason behind each urge but, when you’re caught in the grip of one, sometimes its hard to put your coping techniques into action.
But I’m not beating myself up about it anymore and I know enough about how my body processes food to know that the odd pig out won’t have an effect on my body. I now have a good nutritious daily diet so if I comfort eat nowadays, I draw a line under it and continue with my healthy plan.
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RAINY RITUALS You might be sick of the stuff, but for centuries native Americans have held rituals called rain dances to make it rain and help their crops grow. The Zuni tribe, who settled in North America 4,000 years ago, wore blue feathers while throwing shapes! SHOWER POWER Ramesses the Great became Egypt’s pharaoh in 1279 BC. He made the Hebrew people his slaves and forced them to build temples and palaces, but let them go, according to Bible stories, after suffering ten terrible plagues, including one where it rained fireballs! GHOULISH GAULS In 52 BC, Caesar’s Roman army attacked Avaricum, in France. The Gauls, led by Vercingetorix, vowed to battle back bravely – until it started raining, that is. They gave up, thinking it was a bad sign from the gods and the sky…
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on this horrible day…
25 Mar, 1306 Robert the Bruce is crowned King of Scots. He won Scottish independence from England. Great Scot! 31 Mar, 1889 The 300-metre high Eiffel Tower is opened in Paris, France. It was the tallest tower in the world and millions turned up to see it! 3 Apr, 1882 Famous American outlaw Jesse James is betrayed by gang member Robert Ford and shot in the back of the head while dusting a picture frame! 9 Apr, 1747 Baron Lovat is the last man to be beheaded in Britain. Too many come to watch – a stand collapses and kills nine people! 14 Apr, 1865 American president Abraham Lincoln goes to the theatre – and is shot dead by actor and assassin John Wilkes Booth. 19 Apr, 1587 English Captain Francis Drake hears Spain is plotting a huge attack on England.…
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Salt and Pepper Tofu with Amazing Sauce
What you need:
vegetable oil, as needed for frying
1/2 cup corn starch or potato starch
1/8 teaspoon sea salt
1/4-1/2 teaspoon black pepper
1 (14 ounce) package extra firm tofu, patted dry and cubed Amazing Sauce:
6 tablespoons low sodium soy sauce (I use San-J or Tai Hua brand)
1/2 teaspoons toasted sesame oil
1-1 1/2 teaspoons chili garlic sauce
2 garlic cloves, finely minced
1 tablespoon scallions, sliced
What you do:
1. Put vegetable oil at least 1" deep in a 8-10" wide pot and bring to about 350 degrees F/medium heat. Put corn starch, salt, and pepper into a large plastic bag and mix.
2. Gently place 1/2 tofu in the bag and toss it very gently. Grab the pieces out, and give each one a pat to displace excess starch.
3. Place them in the hot oil (not warm oil!). Do not move them at all for at least 1 1/2 minutes. Then turn to the opposite end and allow to cook for another 1-2 minutes.
4. Place on a paper towel to drain. Repeat with second batch. This tofu stays nice and hot for quite a while, so don't worry too much about the first batch getting cold.
5. Mix the sauce ingredients and enjoy your tofu with jasmine or black rice and a salad!
To those of you afraid of frying, just know that I was too. It's so easy for me now though. I don't take a temperature even. I just put my stove to a solid medium heat (#4-5 on my electric stove) and wait about 4-5 minutes. Then I put 1 piece tofu in the pot; if it sizzles nicely, I place the rest of them in. If not, I wait 1-2 minutes more. Also, if your oil gets too hot, simply pull the heat down a bit and just watch your food. The only truly scary thing that commonly happens is splashing water in the oil or using a utensil that has water on it, so don't do that! Oh, and always fry on the back burner in case a water accident does occur.
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Paradoxically, this dish seems to be both bland and overpowering at the same time. All I can really taste is the soy sauce, and I used less than the recipe prescribes, which was still too much. Is the tofu supposed to end up like rubber with a crusty coating? That might have been my fault. Either way, I just don't care for this.
WOW!! This was the best tofu ever :)>>>
The only changes I made: added a little more salt, used arrowroot starch instead of cornstarch, and added about a teaspoon of garlic powder to the mix.
The sauce was--as described--seriously amazing. C's dad (a chef) came over for dinner and was totally floored by the whole dish ;D
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Here are three reasons to have a family movie night with Christian movies. If you are not Christian or are not faith-based, go ahead and keep reading anyway because this may be a valuable article for you. It can often be hard to find activities that the entire family will enjoy, and this is one that almost any family of any faith or lack thereof can enjoy. I am going to go into detail about how exactly that is in the paragraphs below. First and foremost you want to understand that one of the largest selections of Christian and faith-based movies and entertainment is at On this website, you will be able to find just about every Christian movie that has ever been made.
The first reason that having a family movie night with Christian movies is a valuable component to any family is simply because of the time you get to spend together. If you make this a weekly event that is expected by everybody in the family, then it turns into a family bonding experience. Whether everybody likes the movies or not that doesn’t matter. The movie is really immaterial it is just a reason or an excuse to get everybody together at one time for a few hours. This in and of itself is extremely valuable to any family or friend relationship. It simply helps to build relationships when you spend an extended amount of time together whether you be watching a movie or not.
The second reason that watching Christian movies is extremely valuable to any family is because these movies teach good lessons. All of the faith-based and Christian entertainment teaches valuable lessons that help people in real life. Lessons like treating your neighbor the way that you would like to be treated. Lessons like having honesty and integrity. Lessons like treating everybody the way that you would like to be treated or the way that they should be treated. All of these lessons are extremely valuable no matter what faith you are as long as you are a human being. These are the types of lessons that you want your children to be learning.
The third reason that watching Christian movies can be a valuable time to spend with your family is because you might find some movies that you like that you wouldn’t have watched otherwise. A lot of these movies are not in your face Christian. In other words what I mean is many of these movies are just movies with a great message and a great plot. Many times people think that Christian and faith-based entertainment is preaching. There are some movies that are preaching. However, this is not how all Christian-based movies and entertainment are. There are many movies that you will genuinely like.
There are three reasons that watching Christian-based movies and entertainment are a great idea for you and your family. If you simply schedule a Friday movie night every week, you will start building a strong relationship with the members of your family. One of the best places to get these types of movies is You can also give them a call if you have a specific movie that you want to watch by dialing 918-481-9999. Try it out this week and schedule a Friday movie night.
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Christian movies are a great way for you to educate your children on history, your religion, and good morals. One of the best ways for faith-based families to help their children grow up to be strong members of the Christian faith is by having a Christian movie night every single week. Maybe this is Friday, Saturday, or Sunday night. Whatever you do you want to be consistent with it so your family knows that that is what they are doing at that time every single week. One of the best places to get these movies is You can also call them to see if they have the movies that you want at 918-481-9999.
They have the largest selection of Christian movies online. Since they have the largest selection online they also probably have the largest selection off-line. Simply because most of the off-line video stores are starting to go out of business and do not have as big of inventory as the online stores. So if you are looking for a Christian or faith-based movie if you cannot find it at then you are going to have a hard time finding it anywhere. It is very unlikely that you will not be able to find the movie that you are looking for at has over 20 different categories of movies to select from. With so many categories to choose from, you can watch a different category every single month. In fact, with all the categories that has you can watch a different category of Christian movie every single month for two years straight. This is pretty impressive. This will also help to keep your family engaged and entertained as they learn about the Christian faith, history, and having great morals and being a good human being.
You can feel safe and secure in allowing your children pretty much no matter their age to search is a faith-based and family owned business. The owners of understand how important it is for you to give your children some freedom while also knowing that there is no damage that can be done. Show your children that you have confidence in them by allowing them to search for movies for the family to watch. You can rest assured that they will pick something good no matter what they pick. is the number one source for Christian movies and faith-based entertainment online. Utilizing Christian and faith-based movies to educate and entertain your family is a tremendous way to go about having good family interactions and bonding time. Schedule a movie night once a week to get your family together to spend quality time watching one of these tremendous movies. If there is a specific movie that you cannot find on the website go ahead and give or call at 918-481-9999. Get your movie watching tradition started this week.
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Picking Health Insurance Can be Hard. Here's How to be Smart About It
by Dan Weissmann
Kaiser Health News
Wednesday December 11, 2019
It's open enrollment — time to pick next year's insurance — for folks who buy it on their own and for many of us in our jobs. Lots of us aren't sure we know how to pick, and research shows: We're not wrong.
A group of economists found that most people will not make the best choice among the plans in front of them.
And it's not just average people who have trouble. One of the economists who did that research — George Loewenstein of Carnegie-Mellon University — told me he was personally dreading the process of helping his adult son pick a plan.
"I have no confidence that I'm going to make the right decision," he said.
So, it's not just you.
Most of us, Loewenstein and his colleagues found, have two main problems: We don't understand all the terms, and we have a hard time doing the math.
The good news is, you can avoid some of the worst mistakes. That can mean saving thousands, or even tens of thousands of dollars.
Here's what you're aiming for.
Set Realistic Goals
You've seen the stats, like how most bankruptcies involve medical debt, and you've seen the horror stories, like the guy whose first month of dialysis threatened to stick him with a half-million-dollar bill.
The goal in my family is simple: Avoid disaster.
That may mean paying a little more every month. A health insurance payment — the monthly premium — is very annoying for most of us, especially since we often still have to shell out to see a doctor, even with insurance.
But getting that monthly payment as close to zero as possible? Probably not your best move. Not if it puts you at risk of a horror story you could avoid.
So: Be very careful with plans that don't comply with Obamacare rules. They're sometimes marketed as "Trumpcare" — which is not actually a thing — and although they do tend to have lower premiums, they could leave you vulnerable in unexpected ways.
Just ask the woman in Philadelphia who had her foot amputated. Her insurance plan's response: "Nope! Not covered."
Understand The Terms
Quick: What's a deductible? What's a copay? What is coinsurance? What does out-of-network mean? What does OPX stand for?
And those are just the basics. If you've got them down cold, you can skip to the next section, but otherwise here's a quick rundown:
The deductible is how much you shell out before your insurance covers much of anything. The amount can be absurdly high. If your plan has a $7,000 deductible, ask yourself, "Where would I get hold of seven grand?"
Copay is how much you pay for an office visit with a doctor. Usually a flat amount: $20 or $30 ... or more.
Coinsurance is your share of other medical expenses — stuff that can get pricey, like a hospital stay. Usually expressed as a percentage: 10%, 20%, etc. (Of course, serious medical stuff gets so expensive super quickly, so 10% of a LOT is ... a lot.)
The network is the set of providers — doctors, hospitals, clinics — that accept your insurance. Anybody who doesn't take your insurance may be able to charge you ... whatever they want.
OPX stands for out-of-pocket maximum, and it's a key number: It puts a cap on how much you could pay (beyond your premium) in a given year.
If you could use more detail, here are some resources:
Smart and well-organized: The great reporter Sarah Kliff, formerly of Vox now with the New York Times, offers the most confusing words in your health insurance forms, explained.
Longer, more fun, also great: "An Arm and a Leg" podcast listener Anna Jo Beck sent in a self-published booklet that does a great job explaining the basics and more. Friendly, thoughtful, and sprinkled with lovingly captioned pictures of stuff like toddlers, kittens and newlyweds — which Beck describes as "moments of cute, heartwarming distraction to keep you from totally wanting to give up hope."
Less warm and fuzzy, but very straightforward: This Health Insurance 101 post from Reddit's personal-finance community.
Do The Math And The Research
For the math, you're going to want to make a spreadsheet. Maybe open yourself a beer first.
To evaluate an insurance plan, you're solving for two things:
1. What does this plan cost me in a normal year?
If you're superhealthy, maybe that means you don't go to the doctor at all. If you've got some conditions that mean you know you'll need a provider, or you're going to need access to meds, figure out what those copays and coinsurance fees might add up to.
2. How much might this plan protect me — and how much would I still have to pay — if, God forbid, I got hit by a bus or something?
That's really what insurance is for, and you want to know the answer to this one. It's usually the same as the answer to "What's my out-of-pocket maximum?" — assuming you've done the research.
The research? This is where you study the network.
This step is especially important if there are things you know you will — or could — need next year: Might you or your partner get pregnant? Have you reached the age where docs say you should get a colonoscopy? Is there a funny rash you're starting to worry about?
You get the idea.
If so, definitely make sure you're OK with whichever providers are in the network for a given plan.
Because remember that key term, "out-of-pocket maximum"? Well, in a lot of plans — including everything on the Obamacare exchanges — this threshold applies only for in-network providers.
With out-of-network providers, not only are they free to charge whatever they want, your insurance is not there to put any limits on what you might have to pay.
For details about making your spreadsheet: Check out this first-person account by Zachary Tracer, the health care editor at Business Insider — which is illustrated with a photo of him working his spreadsheet, beer close at hand.
About the research: It's not easy, especially if you're going to the hospital for something like surgery or childbirth. A reporter from Bloomberg who writes about health care recently posted to Twitter asking for advice.
Get Help, The Best You Can Find
Here's why my economist source was dreading this process. Getting to the bottom line taxes the average person's spreadsheet mojo.
I thought I could figure it out on my own. When I said that to Lynn Quincy, who runs the nonprofit Health Care Value Hub, she laughed.
"Your plan could have different deductibles," she said. "It could have a general deductible, it could have a pharmaceutical deductible, it could have a hospital deductible."
She was basically saying, How's your spreadsheet looking now, smart guy?
Of course, the answer was: Looking pretty sad.
For instance, here's part of an actual quote my insurance agent sent this fall: $200 IP $150 OP
I was, like: What do IP and OP even stand for? Just getting the answer to that required a couple of tries-and-misses with Google on my part — and I report on this stuff full time. (Answer: "inpatient" and "outpatient." But even now that I've got that answer ... how could those numbers affect my bottom line?)
There are automated services that can help — basically, databases that do the math for you — but we don't all have access to them. Some employers offer this kind of thing as a benefit.
Check with your HR department, and if it's an option, jump on it. And if it isn't, well: Ask your HR folks all the best questions you can. And ask if they'll consider adding a service like that next year.
In some states, the Obamacare exchanges offer a similar service, developed by a nonprofit called Consumers Checkbook. Here's the list of states where that's available.
For the rest of us, here's a place to find actual human beings near you whose job it is to explain this stuff. Note that you'll find two types of folks listed:
"Assisters," who can help you navigate the Obamacare marketplace or see if you qualify for programs like Medicaid. They're obligated to be on your side, paid by government grants.
"Agents/brokers" can also help you navigate ... but they're generally paid by insurance companies. And not all states require them to act in your best interest.
OK, there it is — and, of course, it's not entirely pretty.
Just remember: It's not just you.
And this: This is not an SAT question. There's no one right answer.
Especially: It's not realistic ? and probably not a good idea ? to shoot for a game plan where you end next year having spent the absolute least amount of money possible on health care and insurance. Life is kind of a crapshoot that way.
But with a little patience ? and maybe a stiff drink ? you can reduce the risk that you'll go broke. And that's worth doing.
Dan Weissmann is the host of "An Arm and a Leg," a podcast about the cost of health care, now in its third season. It is co-produced by Kaiser Health News.
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What Have You Done to Make Your School or Community a Better Place? Essay
For the wellbeing of all the members of our community, it is important that it the surroundings and the environment is kept clean and tidy. It is also necessary to satisfy all sections of the society. In order to ensure that everyone in my community lives happy, I have participated in several clean up drives that were held by my school and have also taken part in other community service activities such as serving at a labor camp.
During the month of Ramadan in Dubai, I along with my friends organized a group aimed at serving the labor at one of the labor camps by serving lunch and dinner to the entire camp which constituted of about 200 workers. We were a group of 11 members. We were supported by Dr. Sangeeth Ibrahim who provided us with transportation and we are really thankful to him for his support. When I reached the labor camp which was located in an industrial area, I was amazed that there were so many other people who were eager to help the society.
We had around about 2 hours setting everything up. We couldn’t waste our time talking and I being the senior-most, and therefore, the team leader distributed the different tasks such as setting the floor, preparing food, keeping water and tissues at regular intervals on the carpet by dividing the task among ourselves. Since we were accompanied by other people also, it was not that the tasks were very difficult. I started setting the carpet and water from the cartons. Once everything was prepared, we made long chains and started plating with some rice and watermelon. I was the person sitting next to karahi and running that big serving spoon into it and then passing it to the person who was next to me who would pass it on.
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Does America Have a Future?
On Monday, Oct. 5, our occasional contributor James G. Jatras gave a lecture at the Institute of European Studies in Belgrade entitled “Does America Have a Future? Options Before a Declining Hegemon.” He presented a complex and rather bleak picture of America’s condition to an audience of some 30 scholars and analysts from Serbia’s leading research institutions.
Jatras opened by saying that millions of Americans are gripped by the sense of foreboding, the feeling that “something big and wicked this way comes.” They don’t know what that “something” is, but they feel its presence. The process is not deterministic: there are more variables than constants. The COVID-19 Plandemic, BLM/Antifa, etc. merely reflect acceleration of preexisting pathologies which are moving to a tipping point.
At the same time, we are facing a paradox: America’s social dislocation—her organic destruction—leads to growing social control, to matrix construction. A weakened society is subjected to ever-tightening mechanisms of anarcho-tyrannical supervision. It is still uncertain whether all this is heralding the Big One, or represents just a foreshock of the “Fourth Turning” as predicted by William Strauss and Neil Howe. Some keep crying “wolf,” claiming the end is near… any minute now. Others see the trajectory of a thousand and one days in the life of a Thanksgiving turkey, which ends in a sudden surprise.
Preexisting comorbidities, Jatras went on, are social, economic, political, and geopolitical. They affect America’s social organism in different ways, but all of them are detrimental to its well-being. Financialization has taken us from a production-based economy to a debt-based one, a levitation game with no reflection of real value. It has resulted in deindustrialization and stagnant wages where two-earner families are living check to check.
At the opposite end, there has been a massive shift of wealth to the rentier class, from the heirs of 19th century barons to the U.S./global nomenklatura. It is not composed just of President Dwight Eisenhower’s military-industrial complex, but also of the financial sector, IT, entertainment industry, etc. They are not capable of change, and there is no pathway to change.
“We’re all in this together!” does not apply because there is no “we.” There is declining public trust vertically, against them (however defined). There is horizontal polarization: people on the opposite sides of political and cultural divide live in different worlds. In the Civil War there was a broad agreement between the belligerents on the core issues of the human condition. In today’s America there is none. Externally, the edifice is fragile. It is weakened by trade imbalances, dollar seigniorage, and geopolitical overextension exemplified by the attempt to confront China and Russia simultaneously.
At home there is demographic and moral decline. It is manifested in decreasing longevity, out-of-control immigration, feminism/LGBT ideology, demonization of “toxic masculinity” and “whiteness,” and in suicide and drug use. We are witnessing the unraveling national self-awareness of the American ethnos, facilitated by treason of our guardians and combined with the centralization of their power.
Trump has shown himself to be the disruptor rather than visionary, a Gorbachev rather than an Octavian. He is powerless against the nomenklatura that loathes him, so rot progresses like it had done in the final decade of the USSR. Trump’s inability to turn a new corner was partly due to his inability to appoint people who share his often ill-articulated but nevertheless potentially coherent vision of what the real America is and how its vestiges may be preserved.
COVID-19 has accelerated all these trends, according to Jatras: we are doubling down on the faulty structures of society. Public discourse is curtailed by surveillance, censorship of fake news, conspiracies, and hate speech. Corona has accelerated deplatforming, demonetizing, doxxing, cancel culture, instilling irrational fear and panic. Obedience to therapeutic edicts has become mandatory, manifested in virtue masking.
By contrast, no opposition is tolerated to mandatory vaccines, digital passports, screening checkpoints, biometric IDs, IT-driven contact tracing. We have a permanent “new normal.” It includes, but it is not limited to social distancing, personal isolation, immunity decline, further fertility decline, isolation, depression, suicides, and more crime.
The U.S. economy is crony capitalism on steroids designed to bail out investors and let the proles sink. It has given us a rolling debt bomb. The 9/11 attack triggered the 2008 financial crisis; COVID will give us a Great Depression or worse. Reduced economic self-reliance and universal basic income lead to serfdom. “Whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken away even that he hath.” (Matthew 13:12)
All along, the system is characterized by irrationality and arbitrariness. Anarcho-tyranny means releasing criminals and aliens at alleged risk from infection, while locking up ordinary citizens who do not obey the lockdown fiats. Of course, resistance is demonized. “Deniers” are Nazis, in fact everybody to the right of “me” is a Nazi. The final station is a post-human society, such as described in C. S. Lewis’s That Hideous Strength.
The key segment of Jatras’s presentation came under the heading “The Death of a Nation: Race, Language, Religion: Ethnos/ethos, Cultus/Cultura.” Speaking fluent Japanese, appreciating and even writing haiku poetry, mastering the tea ceremony…cannot make any one of us a Japanese, he said. Try as we may, we’d never be accepted as such. In a nation based on self-awareness of shared ancestry, civic nationalism is an epiphenomenon of ethnic self-awareness, and civic values reflect ethnic awareness.
The state-building ethnos and ethos were deemed inseparable in early America, too. John Jay wrote in Federalist Papers No. 2 of “one united people—a people descended from the same ancestors, speaking the same language, professing the same religion, attached to the same principles of government.” This is countered by two big lies. One is the myth of America as a civic-ideological “proposition” nation like the USSR. The other is that of America as a “nation of immigrants." But English settlers were not immigrants.
Ethnic hegemony builds national ethos. As Samuel Huntington said, “Over the course of three centuries, black people were slowly and only partially assimilated into this culture. Immigrants from western, southern, and eastern Europe were more fully assimilated, and the original culture evolved and was modified but not fundamentally altered as a result.” Assimilation demanded accepting ethos to join ethnos.
That was America’s ethnogenesis. Now we are witnessing her ethnothanatos, Jatras said. “America is a corpse being consumed by maggots. Liberals are rooting for the maggots. Conservatives are rooting for the corpse.” Both ethos and ethnos were redefined in an eminently revolutionary manner in the 1960s. Its key pillars were sexual revolution, the Civil Rights movement, feminism, abortion, the early LGBT movement, and the 1965 Immigration Act leading to open borders and a demographic shift.
The cumulative consequence is de-Christianization. Decline of cultus means debased cultura.
There will be no “Kumbaya” reconciliation in contemporary America. Domestically, Americans are not just political opponents but aliens and enemies. There is no shared moral universe, no civic myth. Outmoded concepts of left and right mask fundamental issues of incompatible self-awareness and morality leading to burgeoning hatred. As the late Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Kwan Yew once said, “In multiracial societies, you don’t vote in accordance with your economic interests and social interests, you vote in accordance with race and religion.” Stable ethnic hegemony leads to social stability. Tribalism, by contrast, leads to Hobbsean competition. At the national level it will lead to perpetual one-party rule once Texas flips blue, and the question is only “when.”
Overall, American politics is no longer about a narrow range of governing styles or competing economic interests. It is tribal. Today’s “tribes” are defined in terms of affinity for or hostility to the founding American ethnos characterized by a European, overwhelmingly British origin. That ethnos is Christian, mainly Protestant; and English-speaking, as augmented by members of other groups who have totally or partially assimilated to that ethnos or who at least identify with it. As for the “American experiment in democracy,” when can we say an experiment has failed?
One consequence of tribalism at home is that U.S. foreign policy is guided by corporate and foreign interests instead of “national” ones. It cannot be otherwise. As Huntington has noted, “Efforts to define national interest presuppose agreement on the nature of the country whose interests are to be defined. National interest derives from national identity. We have to know who we are before we can know what our interests are.” Since Americans have no nation (ethnos), the world is our country. It is there to be invaded, or invited, by the so-called Universal Nation.
The link between global empire and nomenklatura’s domestic hold on power is material as well as ideological. The neocon-neoliberal duopoly created an ideological empire based on democracy, human rights, and free markets. All countries are divided into satellites and enemies. At the same time, America is supposedly saving the world through degeneracy by promoting sexual subversion, primarily in Christian countries of Eastern Europe where U.S. embassies effectively answer to the Open Society Foundation and its allies.
Where does it all end? Various scenarios include inertia, war, repression, resistance, civil conflict, perhaps even restoration. Or maybe none of the above. The economy may recover. Things may stumble on but don’t essentially change. Maybe Thanksgiving Day is still a long way off, or never arrives. More likely we’ll get Rainbow Fascism: triumph of the therapeutic state, dictatorship of victims, and demographic endgame.
Intersectionality in ersatz America means an entity which is borderless, multiethnic, multilingual, multireligious, multisexual, and ahistorical. In that entity the key principle is “who gets whom?” There is no common morality, and America’s ethnos is turning into the antithesis of its ethos. In bourgeois Bolshevism, the new villain is not the bourgeois, but the white, heterosexual, American, Christian male. And this new country demands a new people. After a few decades of this we won’t be ’Muricans anymore. Fewer natives born—65 million aborted since Roe vs. Wade—will be more than compensated by foreign replacements.
When and how does the crunch come? Neither side will accept the outcome of November 2020 election, but what will the losers do? Expect proactive moves by nomenklatura, including false flag attacks by “Russians” on our democracy to deny Trump a victory regardless of the count.
Who will resist, considering the decrepitude and sterility of American ethnos? Chunky, screaming, pink-hatted, blue-haired thots; pathetic, incel soy-boys. Record marriage lows, amidst spiritual, slow-motion physical, and demographic suicide. Declining quality of human materials does not bode well when survival of the most ruthless is the norm. For the Remnant, Christianity is both a strength and a vulnerability.
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Typically sunny stuff from Jatras. Most of it true enough. Particularly good line: “America is a corpse being consumed by maggots. Liberals are rooting for the maggots. Conservatives are rooting for the corpse.”
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“America is a corpse being consumed by maggots. Liberals are rooting for the maggots. Conservatives are rooting for the corpse.” Like others, I was struck by this line. However, it's a faulty analogy. A nation is its people. The people are not observers who view it from outside and "root" for something to happen but the living body of the nation. A better analogy is cancer. "Liberals" are part of the body of the nation, but being nihilists who take the side of evil and falsehood on all issues, all the way, all the time, they are a malignancy. Non-liberals are the healthy tissue gradually being overwhelmed by the malignancy. America is not dead yet, but she's suffering from a terminal disease. Only a miracle can save her. | <urn:uuid:b80456d9-7da3-47d3-a6de-c4e674e49eb3> | https://www.chroniclesmagazine.org/blog/does-america-have-a-future-/ | en | 0.937015 | 0.058604 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
In mergers & acquisitions, a letter of intent (LOI) is a vital document because, when it is signed, it spells out the preliminary agreement between a buyer and a seller. Simply stated, an LOI is a non-binding document that outlines the key business terms the parties have agreed to, which will later become the basis for and part of the Definitive Purchase Agreement and other agreements and documents that memorialize a business sale. Letters of intent (sometimes also called a term sheet) vary in length and specificity. They should spell out the major deal points, deliverables, timeliness and contingencies that become the basis for the legally binding agreements.
An LOI serves many purposes, besides documenting the business deal, including the following:
• It is a record of the progress of the initial negotiations;
• Identifies items that need resolution in order to reach a preliminary agreement prior to due diligence;
• Defines (often) a no shop provision or standstill period during which the seller is precluded from negotiating with other parties;
• Minimizes the waste of time and money by both parties because if they cannot reach agreement on the key terms and conditions of the transaction in the letter, there is almost zero probability of negotiating the other definitive documents;
• Acts as the basis for the buyer to obtain financing from a lender; and
• Defines time frames and deadlines so that the transaction can move towards a closing in a predictable manner (even though delays and extensions are common in merger and acquisition transactions due to the need for third-party consents, renegotiation of terms, the magnitude of work involved in gathering due diligence materials, supporting schedule information for the definitive agreement and other reasons).
At a minimum, an LOI should address the following three items so that there is no misunderstanding between the buyer and seller at a later date:
The Parties to and the Type of Transaction
These should be spelled out clearly. Some key elements to consider include:
• Who is the buyer?
• Who is the seller?
• What is the form of purchase (asset, stock, recapitalization, merger, etc.)?
• What is being purchased and what is being excluded (are all assets, liabilities and debts part of the purchase, or are only specific assets, liabilities and debts part of the purchase?)?
• How are these assets, liabilities and debts defined (cash, accounts receivable, inventory, furniture, machinery, customer and employee lists, seller's right, title and interest in the office lease and other contracts, trade names and trademarks, accounts payable, accrued payroll and payroll taxes, capital lease obligations, etc.)?
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• What is the total purchase price?
• How much will be paid at closing?
• What is the method of payment (cash, buyer’s stock, note, stock options, earnout)?
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Transaction Contingencies and Conditions
There are many potential transaction contingencies and conditions. Some of the key ones to watch out for are:
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• Is the transaction subject to the satisfactory completion of due diligence?
• How will due diligence be scheduled?
• Is there an "adverse change in the business condition" clause?
• What is the outside date for execution of the purchase agreement and closing?
• What information is to be considered confidential?
• Is the transaction subject to board of directors or lender approval?
• Is approval required by a legislative body?
• Is there an exclusivity period?
• If there is to be a press release, when will it be issued and will the content be be subject to mutual agreement?
• Who will be responsible for the various costs of completing the transaction, including any audit, brokerage or consulting fees?
• How will the purchase price be allocated so that each party can understand the tax ramifications of the transaction?
• Can the LOI be extended if deadlines are not met?
In Conclusion
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Joker history: the entirety of the Joker's movies and funnies with their accounts 2020
The Joker shows up in the funnies and the movies wherein he is included, with various and various foundations. So what's the genuine story of this Joker, one of DC's most dearest reprobates?
The widely acclaimed Joker, known as Batman's famous adversary, is one of the most cherished scoundrels. The way that this famous character we experience in both comic books and films has various stories causes us to notice a lot.
The Joker, who has moved from funnies to TV screens and whitepaper, doesn't have only a solitary story. At this point The Joker's resume had been dealt with distinctively in different funnies and movies. How about we take a gander at every story independently after we talk about who The Joker is and how he became.
The Joker History
Who is the Joker?
The Joker, one of the most psychopathic reprobates in comic book history, is Batman's infamous foe. The Joker, the world's most darling scalawag, was made in organization with Bob Kane, Jerry Robinson and Bill Finger, motivated by the joker card found in the deck of playing a game of cards.
He initially showed up in a funny cartoon distributed on April 25, 1940, and his appearance was befitting his character. He challenged Batman and the cops by informing them concerning his homicides individually in a live radio station, and along these lines began a pursuit that never closes even today.
How did the Joker turn up?
As per the DC editors ' plan, The Joker would be squashed under Batman's wonder, however he transformed into a character who pushed superheroes to the edge of total collapse, despite the fact that he didn't have superpowers. Toward the finish of the ' 40s, general society revolted, and therefore a law was passed that it was important to limit the savagery that funnies contained.
The happening to such a law, exactly when it was going to top and Shine, negatively affected The Joker. Because of the limitations forced, he turned into the same as a cumbersome, entertaining and fun loving bazaar comedian. With the evacuation of control in the comic book universe in the late 1960s, he came back to his old vicious, distraught and horrendous state.
The Joker's story is told contrastingly in each comic book and each film. Some state he's an ex-fighter. This clarifies his adoration for weapons and his authority of utilizing them. Some state he's Batman's missing sibling. He says he'd preferably have increasingly over one past.
Funnies highlighting various accounts of the Joker:
• Batman volume 1 # 168 (1951)
• Batman: The Killing Joke (1988)
• Batman Confidential #7-12 (2007-2008 )
• Batman: Streets Of Gotham #14-21 (2010-2011)
• Batman: Year Zero Volume 2 #21-33 (2013-2014 )
• Batman #90-91 (2020)
" The man behind the Red Hood " Batman volume 1 #168 (1951)
The Joker initially showed up in the 1940 Comic Book Issue Batman #1. In spite of this, it took numerous years for DC to decide a previous story for the trump card.
11 years after the Joker originally showed up, Batman was showing a seminar on criminology. It recounts a criminal named "Red Hood" who he experienced ten years back at the Ace Chemicals production line yet later vanished. After examinations, it is uncovered that Red Hood is really the Joker. This criminal portrays his own previous story as follows::
"I used to be a lab specialist. Until he chose to take $ 1 million and resign! That is the manner by which I became Red Hood! I at last accomplished that objective by ransacking the Monarch Playing Card Company. On account of the oxygen tube in my head protector, I had the option to escape effectively by swimming under the concoction squander pool."
At the point when the guilty party gets back, he is stunned, understanding that the synthetic concoctions in the waste pool have turned his skin white like lime, his hair green and his lips red. In any case, at that point he receives this adjustment in himself and is tossed into an existence of wrongdoing. Along these lines is brought into the world one of the most famous characters in the comic book world: The Joker
Batman: The Killing Joke (1988))
Initially planned to happen uniquely in contrast to the first works, Alan Moore's comic book Batman: The joke that murders shows review scenes uncovering that the Joker is a scientific expert who leaves his activity as a lab laborer at the Ace Chemicals manufacturing plant to turn into an entertainer. Despite the fact that his better half Jeannie reveals to him he's clever, he's not entertaining by any means.
He and his pregnant spouse help a few lawbreakers enter the Ace Chemicals industrial facility as they frantically need cash. These lawbreakers were utilizing men who could help them in thefts. Each time the police got the possibility that a solitary guilty party had submitted the theft, the individual who might help them would wear a Red Hood protective cap.
When Jeannie kicks the bucket because of an electrical mishap at home, the scientific expert strides up to the edge of having a mental meltdown. Be that as it may, the burglary needs to proceed. In a flash everything start to turn out badly, the cops shoot the physicist's associates and Batman appears at make all the difference. He hops into the close by lake and leaves without having the chance to see the synthetic concoctions that had been wrongfully tossed into it in the desire for getting away.
Subsequent to expelling his cover from his face, he goes distraught when he sees a picture of himself in his appearance on the water. Her skin is white as lime, her lips are red and her hair is green. The Joker, disappointed notwithstanding his own ruin, starts to giggle. There's nothing left of his old self any longer.
" Lovers and Madmen", in Batman Confidential #7-12 (2007-2008))
The Batman Confidential comic book arrangement, comprising of stories told by different imaginative groups without the worry of uncovering a work of art or unique work, was all around cherished by fans. This account of the arrangement specifically covers Jack Napier, a fruitful burglar and previous assassin who used to work for the Berlanti wrongdoing family who is presently tired of life and has lost expectation. Be that as it may, he later experiences Batman and is loaded up with energy to test himself against such an infamous foe. Jack begins a chain of wrongdoings that invalidates all Bruce Wayne's work up until this point and causes him to feel like he's futile.
In the long run, the two go up against one another, and the war between them heightens quickly. Batman hesitantly utilizes his weapon to incapacitate Jack, and Jack cuts somebody in reprisal. At the point when Jack attempts to get away, Batman heaves his Batarang towards him, in this way removing the criminal's face. Batman turns his eye in outrage regarding Jack and guides the crowd to Jack, advising them to would whatever they like to do with him.
The horde takes Jack to the green Pharmaceutical industrial facility and beats him there. The machines in the industrial facility initiate during the disorder as the criminal attempts to get away. Remorseful of what he has done, Batman shows up at the industrial facility similarly as a synthetic blend is pouring over Jack, and he is the primary observer. After the episode, the criminal advances into the dim night to return as The Joker.
"The House of Hush", Batman: lanes of Gotham #14-21 (2010-2011")
In this account of the Joker, you see Young Martha Kane as Dr. Leslie appears as an associate working at Thompkins ' center. Martha routinely cares for Sonny, a little youngster who lives with his temporary parents and is continually mishandled by others, at the facility. Sonny witnesses Martha meet the youthful specialist Thomas Wayne. Weeks after the fact, a gathering of lawbreakers contaminate Sonny with the infection trying to spread it to a local where low-pay individuals live.
Sonny educates Martha and Thomas of the circumstance. Along these lines, the specialists at the center and the Wayne clinical exploration group help him and forestall a potential flare-up. A group part named Sallie Guzzo blows up on the grounds that he can't accomplish his objective and sets the facility ablaze and captures Sonny. For some time he keeps Sonny hostage by helping him in his home and bothers him.
Review scenes including Sonny proceed to this point. Be that as it may," House of Hush " shows years after the fact that the Joker executed Sallie Guzzo, and keeping in mind that he was murdering, likewise rehashes similar words that Sallie said to Sonny to him. Afterward, when Paul Dini, the author of the story, was inquired as to whether Sonny was the Joker in this dull story, the essayist stated, "Yes."he reacts.
" Batman: Year Zero " Batman volume 2 #0, #21-33 (2013-2014))
In this rendition of the Joker stories, a criminal named Red Hood (or Red Hood one), another piece of the DC Universe, drives a pack of red-veiled hoodlums in Gotham, months before Bruce Wayne embraces the Batman personality. Every one of Red Hood one's Bottoms is relegated an alternate number, and they all have various abilities from one another.
Red Hood one is dazzled with him when he understands that there is somebody attempting to keep up request and harmony in Gotham, and even extends to this saint an employment opportunity. Additionally Red Hood one feels a bond among them and Bruce Wayne. He guarantees he was affected by the killings of Thomas and Martha Wayne since he says his own temporary parents were additionally slaughtered by their neighbors. Every one of these occasions have propelled him for wrongdoing as well as for tumult.
Batman #90-91
Catwoman uncovered reality with regards to the Joker in the comic book Batman #90. The story started with Designer on the night The Joker abandons a bright hooligan to a sociopath who makes Batman insane. The story starts with an odd greeting to Catwoman, Riddler, Penguin, and Joker. At the point when they show up at the planner's home, he lets them know of an adversary as ground-breaking and invulnerable as Batman, whom he has now crushed yet whose competition has gone on for quite a long time:
"At that point, I was not arranging a wrongdoing for my own benefit. I was simply attempting to beat that damn analyst unexpectedly. Triumph was escaping from me every step of the way, and I was being hauled to the verge of craziness that gave me reality itself and transformed me. I was playing the game on the investigator's terms. One stage forward, he abandoned each progression he took to crush me. On the off chance that I had structured a wrongdoing with a level of intricacy, he would have returned with two degrees of unpredictability to overcome me. Beating him would have required a quicker and bigger (exponential) ricochet."
This "exponential jump" offer from the originator to Catwoman, Riddler, Penguin and Joker will assist them with understanding their fantasies and execute their last plans. The architect's just wish is that they offer him a large portion of the riches they will have when they accomplish the triumphs they focus on. This is cause for festivity for Selina, Edward and Oswald since they will at last have the option to overcome Batman. In any case, things are vastly different for The Joker.
It's not known precisely what occurred between the Joker and the Designer in the room, yet Catwoman tells Bruce (and furthermore Readers) her forecast is in no uncertainty. After the Joker tells the creator of his solicitation, his voice echoes in the room and requests his men: "execute them all!"
Everything that occurred in the room becomes known gratitude to the Joker's discussion with the barkeep in Batman #91. In the story he tells the barkeep, he makes reference to the Designer as "The Devil" and says that others want Satan to be lord, to be the Supreme individual, and to be the most extravagant individual on the planet.
When it comes to the Clown, The Joker, The Clown laughs because he understands the Devil's game. Thus, he realizes that there will be no great, powerful or rich people left in the city who can oppose Satan, and he is the owner of the city again. When it's the Clown's turn to ask, the Devil asks him what he wants. The Jester says,” I want to be the devil himself " and kills him. So the Joker becomes Batman's worst nightmare.
Films featuring different stories of the Joker:
• Batman (1989)
• The Dark Knight trilogy;
1. Batman Begins (2005)
2. The Dark Knight (2008)
3. The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
• Suicide Squad (2016)
• Joker (2019)
Batman (1989)
In this 1989 film, directed by Tim Burton, the Permanent protector of Gotham City faces Batman and his archenemy, The Joker. We can say that this Batman movie was the first film that allowed us to learn about the Joker by digging into his past. Besides this, the film contained the most comprehensive Joker story ever to come before the audience. It is one of the best films of the series, and has endeared the Joker to Batman audiences thanks to his rendition and rendition of Jack Nicholson's Joker character.
The Joker, according to the story in the film, was a hit man who worked for Carl Grissom, the head of the Gotham underworld for some time in the past, and whose real name was Jack Napier. Napier is trapped by Grissom when it is revealed that Grissom is having an affair with his girlfriend.
As in the comics, this film is about to fall into a chemical waste during the confrontation with Batman, although Batman reaches out and tries to grab his hand, Napier's hand slips and he falls into the chemical waste. As a result, permanent scars remain on his body and face. Her face is white as Yesil, her hair becomes green and she gains a distinctive smile.
The 1989 Batman film not only gave the Joker a past story, but also ensured that the character had a story intertwined with Batman. In a scene that depicts the past in the film, The young Napier's murder of Bruce Wayne's family was the beginning of the birth of The Batman character and his dedication to purifying Gotham City from crime.
The Dark Knight trilogy:
The Joker, portrayed by Heath Ledger in the Dark Knight, which we can call one of the best superhero movies, told us two different stories about his life. In the first of these stories he tells that his father was an alcoholic man. One night, when he is drinking too much alcohol, he is annoyed that his son is seriously stopping, and he cuts The Joker's mouth off by taking a knife in his hand and says: “Why Are you so serious?”
In the Dark Knight trilogy, The Joker tells another story in which his wife's face is chopped off because of the debt she has entered against criminal gangs, and The Joker cuts his mouth to support her, but he leaves her because he finds the Joker too ugly.
Suicide Squad (2016):
Warner Bros. When it was announced that Jared Leto would be cast in the role of the Joker in the film Suicide Squad, many fans were skeptical: after Ledger's legendary Oscar-winning performance, I wonder what the new version would be like. Leto has tried a variety of methods to get into the role better and easily take on The Joker's personality. But the haphazard cutting of the Joker's scenes in the film unnerved both Leto and his fans.
The final scenes focused on The Joker and Harley Quinn's not-at-all-healthy relationship. The Joker manipulates Harleen Quinzel, his former psychologist, asking her to prove his love for him and jump into the tank with chemicals in it. This is the beginning of Harleen, who, without a moment's thought, jumped into the chemicals and became Harley Quinn. Thus, although not as scary as The Joker that Ledger portrayed, a cold, distant, and self-contained Joker appeared.
Joker (2019):
This 2019 film centers around the life of Arthur Fleck, a bombed entertainer. The story in this film shows Arthur, who was by one way or another isolated from his own mom in youth, being fiercely tormented by his stepmother, Penny. The way that she had to giggle while enduring during her pains undercuts her brain research. So Arthur starts to imagine that he is glad when he is enduring, and that bliss is languishing.
Arthur gets by working in a fooling office, and his greatest dream is to be a comic and make individuals snicker. Arthur, who was not effective at being a humorist but rather was additionally taunted, is gradually putting himself on The Joker with the homicide he submitted live on the network show where he is called to be derided once more.
In the film, he goes to visit Thomas Wayne, who is his dad, as his stepmother claims, and experiences Batman, Who is as yet a little fellow at that point. So the Joker and Batman have their first experience.
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Ancient Mural Portrays Ordinary Mayans
(Image: © Carrasco Vargas et al./PNAS)
Very old artworks provide a fascinating glimpse of ancient life, but not without limitations: They typically portray the lifestyles of the rich and famous (rulers, royals, generals, and priests), abandoning the masses to the mists of history.
That's why the recent discovery of a 1,300-year-old mural at Calakmul, Mexico, is so significant. It is the only known pre-Columbian artwork depicting ordinary Maya engaged in everyday activities, rather than serving the wealthy.
Archaeologists first unearthed the pyramid bearing the painted exterior walls in 2004 and are still in the process of restoring it. The murals show Maya of both sexes preparing and dispensing food, or carrying baskets, sacks, and large vessels. (Previously discovered images mainly show men.) The women wear face paint, and both sexes sport broad-brimmed hats, earrings, necklaces, and pendants. Hieroglyphic captions identify some people by their trades: salt person, tobacco person, and maize-gruel person, for example.
Ramón Carrasco Vargas, of the National Institute of Anthropology and History in Campeche, Mexico, directed the excavation with two colleagues. The trio report an intriguing observation: The original pyramid was expanded over the centuries, but its murals were preserved with packed mud before being built over.
The Mayan builders may have had to cover the murals—you can’t stop progress—but they were apparently still reluctant to destroy such exceptional artwork.
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Saturday, August 23, 2008
Ha, ha, Modern Art, Giggle, Snort
Have you ever noticed how modern art can take any strange thing, or even any mundane thing, and call it art? How some artists make thousands of dollars selling paintings that are essentially nothing more than blowing some different colors of paint onto a black canvas with a straw? Or smearing it all over with their fingers? You know those pieces of fine art that people pay good money for the opportunity to see and tons of money for the privilege of owning it? Well, here's on that fits that mind-boggling category of art.
This not-to-be-missed exhibit is currently being showing in Seattle? The installation is a collaboration between Gallery4Culture and the Seattle Art Museum. You need to hurry because this art exhibit will only be available until the end of October. And you'll never guess the topic of this exhibit. Never ever. Not in a million years.
Wanna know what it is?
Orange traffic safety cones.
Giant ones.
Yep, you read that right. Someone made giant orange traffic cones...the ones used to block off or redirect traffic...and called it art. And someone else decided this was worth being put on exhibit as part of the Olympic Sculpture Park in Seattle.
I don't get it.
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Luke Holzmann said...
My best friend can't stand this kind of thing, and it always makes me think of a quote from "Adventures in Oddyssey":
"Umm, why are you chopping the table up with a chain saw?"
"Because it's art, Lucy! ART!"
...but I have several relatives who are artists. They inform me that part of art is about enabling people to look at the world in a different way. So, honestly, have you ever looked at a traffic cone that closely?
And how is that much different from the super closeup photos we have of raindrops on leaves?
As for me, I don't get modern art and like to smile at it as well. But I'm slowly learning that there may be something to this whole thing...
...of course, there are enough crazies out there to make this process rather difficult to do. [smile]
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Silence of the Night
Sitting alone, as the night in silence
Grew heavier, shedding age old tears
Into the darkness of the night,
She heaved a sigh that pierced through the flying clouds
Then reached the distant stars and made them sad.
Tonight no love with glowing eyes,
Or longing transpired through the fingertips
Is there to trace the contour of her face.
No whispers and no soothing touch to say
She is missed by someone even when love
Has entangled her hair and their limbs.
The sadness in her smell like a violin
Plays out the invisible symphony of sorrows
That spreads like a ripple through the silence of the night.
A Love of Dreams
As fear comes from hope, I’m not afraid
Because I know my dreams will never fade.
When I wake up in the bright morning sun,
When all the sweet dreams of last night are gone,
I can find no seeds of hope left behind
By the dreams to grow as trees that would need
The sun’s care and love from the open air.
That’s why I’m not afraid in loving you
For I know that my love will only dream
And never hope, my life has taught me that
A long time ago. What I feel within
I cannot say, only words can be said
And arguments, explained but emotions
Fluttering in the air are to be felt
In the texture of my skin and the change
In its smell for there is no other way
They can be seen or heard, tasted or be smelled.
Inexplicable emotions can’t be seen,
Can’t be heard or explained, they must be felt,
And feelings cannot hope for they can only dream…
Love At Winter
When the sun is gone from the western sky
And the scarlet blush is fading
With the evening being spread etherized
A mellow breeze starts to blow from up north.
The caravan of clouds are heading back
Sailing with the wind for the sea
From their valiance in battles lost
Against the highest mountain on the earth.
Busy life on the city streets
Starts to take a yellow shade from the lights.
Yet throughout these I let my airy kite
Fly with the wind and rise higher
Than the floating clouds. I don’t know
How far might this invisible thread can go!
For My Love
“Would you please let me hold your hand
And take you down to that faraway land?
There human life is full of peace
And of happiness, not at all like this.
Darling would you please let me love
Like sunshine kissing the clouds up above?
My love, would you please stay with me
Until the day when death would set us free?”
Restless as I try to get some sleep long overdue
All I hear in reply is silence whispering
And see the lonely hours become empty days
But I ask again, waiting through the night for you.
Sweetness is bitter in the end.
Sweet life ends in a bitter death
And sweet kisses in a stale emptiness.
Even when love is all around
Sparkling from dewdrops in the morning light,
Dripping from the warmth of the humid sun
And floating with the clouds on moonless nights,
Some invisible walls remain like a cage
Around you and me, locked inside
For the rest of our lives with no keys.
You and me so close, yet so far away
Like living in a dream of love
Where from the sweet longing to mingle our breaths
We wake up half-way through the dream
Lying stretched across an empty space.
Dreams, sweet and mellow dreams, some still alive
And others buried deep in the distant past,
With our memories fading all the time.
When the sweetness of your smell in the air
Floods my limbs and blood and the soul
I close my eyes but still the taste
Of a bitter loneliness
Is never too far away and I know,
Sweetness is bitter in the end,
For sweet life will end in a bitter death
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Anthronoetic Artificial Intelligence
Artificial intelligence has made great strides, integrating algorithms with big data to infer answers for critical strategic, societal, and scientific problems. NoME’s Anthronoetic (human-like) Artificial Intelligence is the next generation of sophistication: an artificial intelligence designed to think in a human style.
Surpassing Neural Nets
Oceanit is developing the next-generation AI: Noetic Mathematical Engine (NoME).Through this approach, we will replicate the human thought process in computers and surpass the current, big data approaches of neural networks.
Natural Language
NoME focuses on natural language processing, a linguistic-centric approach designed to think in a human style. This means an AI that understands fluidity; the nuance and recursive nature of human cognition.
Explanatory AI
NoME's Anthronoetic style of artificial intelligence offers explanations to accompany answers. This enables a user to understand both what the NoME output or answer was and understand how NoME arrived at that output.
Noetic Mathematical Engine
NoME is a unique AI utilizing linguistics and analogy algorithms to derive not only answers and descriptions, but meaning and explanations.
An AI that can be understood
One of the most popular AI frameworks in recent years is deep neural networks, whose structure is based on a simplified model of the network of neurons in the brain. Indeed, Oceanit has used deep networks in many applications and demonstrated state of the art levels of performance. However, understanding the human brain is difficult, and similarly understanding why a deep network makes the predictions it does can be difficult or even impossible. Our goal with NoME is to create an AI system that overcomes this limitation, and whose decisions can be easily understood by and explained to the user.
Linguistic-based architecture
Rather than drawing inspiration from how the brain functions physically, our approach is anthronoetic - that is, it is based on how humans reason abstractly. Indeed, humans do not reason at the level of a neuron. Instead, we create complex combinations of a richer set of concepts. To describe what these concepts are and how they can interact, NoME uses ideas from Chomskyan linguistics. This provides both a theory for the structure of human cognition and the means for conveying those thoughts to a user.
Explanations not predictions
The difference between anthronoetic and statistical AI is best seen in their outputs. Statistical approaches such as deep networks simply generate predictions (only answering “What?” questions). By contrast, our anthronoetic approach creates explanations (answering fundamental “Why?” questions), from which predictions follow. This additional explanatory level of output enables NoME to demonstrate how it derived its conclusion, and thus work in conjunction with experts, who need to trust their AI collaborator, particularly in safety critical applications where the AI requires a human in the loop to correct any costly mistakes. Importantly, such error-correction works both ways: humans checking AI and AI checking humans so as to eliminate error, converge on truth, and make unlimited progress.
Our long term goal is to build artificial general intelligence. We are passionate about changing the world with science and software, and we are looking for exceptional people to join us in that mission.
NoME is a high impact team that’s building the next generation of intelligence and language understanding. To achieve this, we’re working on projects that utilize the latest techniques in artificial intelligence. We strive to be the best and the brightest in the fields of linguistics, AI, cognitive science, computer science, mathematics, biology, genomics, and beyond. We are looking for software engineers and other talented people that have applied experience to join our team.
As a software engineer in NoME, you work on a small team, collaborating closely with other product teams and you’re able to switch projects as our fast-paced business grows and evolves. We need our engineers to be versatile and passionate to tackle new problems. Because you’ll be working with cutting-edge technology, you’ll also get a chance to work closely with researchers across our parent company, Oceanit.
Minimum qualifications:
– BA/BS in Computer Science, related technical field or equivalent practical experience.
Preferred qualifications:
Types of Artificial Intelligence
The widely accepted types of artificial intelligence are Narrow AI, General AI, and Superintelligence
NoME Development Trajectory
Anthronoetic AI will grow at an accelerated rate
Infant - Years 1-2
Toddler - Year 3
Adolescent - Year 4
Adult - Year 5
The Next Level of Sophistication
NoME is strong artificial intelligence: a computational system designed to “think” the way a human thinks. NoME processes and understands natural language by running computations that are formally isomorphic to those running on human
The 'weak AI' of Google, Apple, and IBM is typified by unintelligent, brute force methods that can only retrieve general information given explicitly in the data. By contrast, NoME generates specific information - and explanations - by understanding user queries, searching the data intelligently, discovering (possibly implicit) semantic content, and communicating its answers.
Frequently Asked Questions
Here are some FAQs
1. What are the definitions of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning?
Artificial intelligence is the capability of a machine to emulate intelligent human behavior. Machine Learning (ML) is the science and engineering of endowing computers with the ability to learn without explicit preprogramming.
AI and ML are often conflated with one another, but it is important to understand that not all AI techniques use Machine Learning and that ML is not genuine AI.
2. What are neural networks?
Neural networks are a subset of machine learning algorithms. They are computer systems based on super-simple models of the human brain.
The ‘neuron’ is the computational component and the ‘network’ is how the neurons are connected. Neural networks pass data among themselves, accumulating patterns as the data flows.
3. What is deep learning?
Deep learning is a subset of machine learning. It refers to using multi-layered neural networks to process data in increasingly complex ways with task-specific algorithms.
This enables the machine to ‘train itself’ to accomplish certain tasks like speech- or image-recognition through exposure to vast amounts of data. Deep learning allows for continual improvement in the ability to recognize and process that information.
4. What are some examples of AI?
AI technologies are developing in many different fields with many diverse applications, some used today include:
• Computer Vision – Recognizing objects in the visual world — to provide data input for control of an autonomous car, for example.
• Speech Recognition – ‘listening’ to audio and interpreting what the words spoken are/reacting to them.
• Natural Language Processing – Taking sequences of words and trying to determine the intended meaning.
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Saying that he had a ‘moral obligation’, on 3rd August President Obama unveiled the final version of his plan to dramatically cut emissions from U.S. power plants, in order ‘to save future generations from climate change’. So, is the world suffering from man-made Global Warming or Climate Change as we have been told since the 1980s by the Great and the Good? No to Global Warming since there has been none for nearly 20 years, but Climate Change? Quite possibly. But is it All Our Fault?
In 891 AD, Eric The Red set off from Iceland with a few followers to explore a land to the west which they had probably spotted some time before while sailing out in their longboats. They then returned three years later with about 500 fellow Vikings and at first settled on the south-east coast, close to the tip of this new land and then, as the population grew, created a further settlement to the south-west.
They called their new home ‘Greenland’.
It has been suggested that this name was a ‘spin’, a publicity stunt to entice more Vikings to come to join the new settlers, but this would have been pointless if it had been impossible for them to survive. They must at least have been able to create their own dwellings, build their own fires, make their own clothes and above all, grow their own food since their compatriots in Denmark and Iceland would have been neither able nor willing to row their longboats out each month with the groceries.
At present, the temperatures in Greenland range from a maximum of 7˚C in July to -9˚C in January. This is too cold for grain such as wheat or even rye to grow and ripen in the short summer of such northern latitudes. Nor are sheep and cattle happy at those temperatures. Also, wood is needed for the building of houses and boats and of course, for fires, but Greenland is now above the treeline and only bushes and such weak trees as birch survive.
Yet in 1991, two caribou hunters stumbled over a log on a snowy Greenland riverbank and over the past century, further archaeological investigations found frozen sheep droppings, a cow barn, bones from pigs, sheep and goats and remains of rye, barley and wheat, all of which indicate that the Vikings had large farmsteads with ample pastures. The Greenlanders obviously prospered, because from the number of farms in both settlements, whose 400 or so stone ruins still dot the landscape, archaeologists guess that the population may have risen to a peak of about five thousand. They also built a cathedral and churches with graves which means that the soil must have been soft enough to dig, but these graves are now well below the permafrost.
It follows that temperatures must have been higher than those of today during that first settlement of Greenland, which lasted from approximately 900 until the mid 14th century, when these settlements died out. But since the Greenlanders in 1000 AD did not burn coal or use petroleum gasoline, these temperatures could not have been due to an increase in man-made CO2 emissions and therefore this rise in temperature was Not All Their Fault. Yet the whole reason for the Anthropogenic Warming Scare is to thrust upon the world’s population the idea that industrialisation in the West over the last 100 years and our use of fossil fuels is producing a run-away heating of the planet through the emission of greenhouse gases, mainly CO2, which unless checked will lead to humanity’s death. And that it is indeed, All Our Fault.
Over the past 30 years or so, the idea that in the past the world’s climate had changed, turning hot or cold naturally became anathema to the Great and Good. becoming warmer or colder, was anathema to The Great and Good. They almost managed to air-brush out of existence the warm periods during the Roman and Medieval centuries and also the Little Ice Age which was another world-wide event, lasting from roughly the early 14th century to the mid-19th century with interspersed warm periods. Luckily, it is well-known from written reports that while, for instance, wine was produced in England as far north as York in both the warm periods, temperatures must at times have been considerably lower since in 1658, during the coldest period of the Little Ice Age, King Karl X Gustav of Sweden led an army across the frozen Danish waters to lay siege to Copenhagen and Frost Fairs were often held on the frozen Thames until 1814.
In Greenland during the 14th century glaciers grew, sea ice advanced and marine life migrated southwards as it did so, leaving the Greenlanders with a smaller catch. The summers became shorter and progressively cooler, limiting the time cattle could be kept outdoors and increasing the need for winter fodder which became less available. Trade between Greenland, Iceland and Europe became more difficult and finally ceased. It can only be hoped that a few Greenlanders escaped to re-settle somewhere less cold before starvation overcame them all. But since temperatures during the Medieval Warming Period were higher in Greenland than they are even today, and since this was followed by a Cooling Period, and since this has happened many times before (which have not been considered here), the fact that the earth may have warmed somewhat in the 20th century is not unusual. Nor will it be unusual if the temperatures now start to drop.
So why this attempt to brainwash people into believing in a global warming which is going to kill us all if not halted and that is apparently All Our Fault?
Just what scheme do the Great and Good, including President Obama, have in mind for us all?
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HAPPY MARDI GRAS! Today’s party in New Orleans is one of the biggest in the country, and, if you’ve ever paid any attention to it, you probably know about one of its most famous features: bead necklaces. The necklaces can be found pretty much anywhere during the Mardi Gras celebrations, and the idea is this: you give a woman a bead necklace in exchange for her flashing you.
It’s harmless (if a little skeezy) fun, for the most part, right?
Well, unfortunately, no. As it turns out, those beads are made in China, and they’re made under some pretty appalling conditions. In David Redmon’s 2005 documentary, Mardi Gras: Made in China he uncovers the process behind the making of these beads. They are largely made by teenage workers (mostly women, the owner explains, because women are more “passive,”) in a factory in Fuzhou, China. They are paid per bead, which adds up to around 10 to 12 cents per hour, and frequently work for up to 16 hours a day.
On top of this, the making of the beads involves the use of the chemical styrene, which is a carcinogen. Mardi Gras beads, then, may well actually kill the workers who make them.
Then there’s the problem of what happens with the beads: an estimated 25 million pounds of plastic beads arrive in New Orleans for Mardi Gras each year, and these beads are most likely to end up in landfills or in our oceans. Less than 2 percent of Mardi Gras beads end up being recycled, though there are efforts to try and increase that number.
None of this is to ruin the fun, but do these beads really need to be wasted at such a massive rate? And is the “beads for boobs” tradition one that really requires the beads? Are they actually that important of a currency? There’s no reason one of America’s most colorful cultural festivals can’t be sustainable, and there’s no reason fun can’t be had without the use of plastic beads that are harming those who are making them, and that are harming the world they’re cast into after being used for a single day.
So this Mardi Gras, consider skipping the beads.
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New DM here. One of my players wants to be able to cast vicious mockery without doing damage (because his character became a pacifist after death and resurrection). I'm considering allowing him to cast it with a bonus-action casting time in exchange for the damage.
The only changes to the spell would be to its casting time (1 bonus action, instead of 1 action), and to its effect (it no longer does damage but still imposes disadvantage):
Choose a target you can see. If it can hear you, it must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw or have disadvantage on the next attack roll it makes before the end of its next turn.
Would this be overpowered?
• \$\begingroup\$ Doesn't this player deal damage at all, does he/she? \$\endgroup\$ – enkryptor Aug 6 '18 at 9:24
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\$\begingroup\$ The way I see it Vicious Mockery is the perfect spell for a pacifist character to deal damage in combat. Remember the characters don't think of damage the same way we do. You may want to avoid hitting his face but you can hurt his feelings. \$\endgroup\$ – FenrirG Aug 6 '18 at 10:34
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\$\begingroup\$ Like FenrirG said, in D&D 5e hit points can represent "mental durability, the will to live, and luck". If he casts it on a fresh NPC, it likely won't kill, and if he casts it on a hurt NPC, that might be enough for them to just give up and succumb to their wounds. And it'll probably make the rest of the party feel a lot better about this player if his character can do damage. \$\endgroup\$ – DaaaahWhoosh Aug 6 '18 at 15:12
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\$\begingroup\$ Have you tried playtesting your idea out? As a DM I try to always do a playtest of a tweak before allowing it to become homebrew. Roll up your own bard with the tweak applied and play it out on a random quest, maybe escape goblin imprisonment, just to see if you approve of its balance. \$\endgroup\$ – Software_Programineer Aug 6 '18 at 15:47
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\$\begingroup\$ Not worth an answer on to its own, but as mentioned above, hit points are more than bleeding damage. Just change the damage to non-lethal. It doesn't change the action economy and the player stays true to the character. Just track those hp deductions separately. So long as the rest of the party doesn't hurt the enemy by more than those hp, I would consider them "knocked out" from a combination of damage and succumbing to pain/anguish. \$\endgroup\$ – MivaScott Aug 6 '18 at 16:39
Yes, this unbalances the spell
Vicious Mockery is not particularly strong in the damage department to begin with. By allowing it to be cast as a bonus action in exchange for the damage, you're essentially giving your player a way to impose disadvantage on one attack every turn, except in the rare circumstances where they have something else to use their bonus action for, such as Healing Word.
Few things you do will actually require a bonus action, so being able to use that bonus action every turn to impose disadvantage is a huge buff.
The only real problem here is that it will stop you from casting any other spells during your turn, except for other cantrips. This might not be nearly as big a deal as it sounds, however, as you don't generally cast a spell every turn anyway.
Another thing this might fight for in a turn is using bardic inspirations, but once again, you don't use these that often.
So for a Bard who uses a lot of cantrips (like most casters) or who uses the attack option a lot, this is overall a big buff.
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\$\begingroup\$ It might be worth noting that casting something as a bonus action does restrict the caster's ability to cast anything as an action: "You can't cast another spell during the same turn, except for a cantrip with a casting time of 1 action." \$\endgroup\$ – V2Blast Aug 6 '18 at 8:31
• \$\begingroup\$ This (V2Blast's response) is why I'm not so sure about this, having it limit your ability to cast other (non-cantrip) spells or take other bonus actions seems like a pretty resonable trade-off. \$\endgroup\$ – uorbe001 Aug 6 '18 at 8:37
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\$\begingroup\$ Added a bit on the tradeoff. Let's be honest, if you were going to cast vicious mockery, you weren't casting any other spells either. Being able to cast vicious mockery + another cantrip means you're doing more damage than you were doing before in a turn you would have normally only used vicious mockery. \$\endgroup\$ – Theik Aug 6 '18 at 8:39
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\$\begingroup\$ VM is not an Easy Button. The creature still gets a save vis a vis the disadvantage on their next attack roll. NPC's with more than one attack only have a chance at disadvantage on one of their attack rolls. Please read the question again. cast vicious mockery + another cantrip means you're doing more damage The Character will not be doing damage. That is part of the problem statement: pacifist, not doing damage. \$\endgroup\$ – KorvinStarmast Aug 6 '18 at 12:26
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\$\begingroup\$ @Theik It's worth noting that the Mastermind Rogue does get the Help action as a bonus action with 30 feet range, effectively providing Advantage to an ally every turn. The VM hybrid would potentially provide disadvantage with the same resource, with a high risk of failure, while still preventing him to cast Healing Word, Bardic Inspiration, or other things. That Mastermind could still easily get his Sneak Attacks in, though. \$\endgroup\$ – Man_Over_Game Aug 6 '18 at 16:20
No, this is fairly reasonable
By using the spell as a bonus action, this is going to cause your bard to lose out on several things:
• Damage
• The ability to cast larger spells
• Bonus Actions for other uses (Bardic Inspiration, Healing Word)
Since you mentioned that he isn't planning to deal damage, he likely isn't going to be using his main action for an attacking cantrip or weapon attack. This leaves his main action to be used for skills, defensive spells, or Dodge, which are all pretty low effect in combat.
Compare this to the Mastermind, who can use the Help action at 30 foot range, who can:
• Grant an ally guaranteed advantage every turn on their choice of action (Vicious Mockery requires a failed saving throw to do anything, and only impacts an enemy's attack)
• Attack with the main action
• Land sneak attacks with his main action (his primary class feature).
If you do this, realize that this bard is going to be losing out on a lot of utility he could normally use his bonus action for, like the best level 1 healing spell, Healing Word, and his class feature, Bardic Inspiration. Without this change, he would be able to cast VM and still use those two resources, but now that he cannot, he will be fairly limited in the low levels.
This change would have more value for someone who was aggressive (using spell slots to hurt enemies, uses main action to attack), but for a pacifist, this actually doesn't mechanically make him much better than any other bard.
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\$\begingroup\$ You compare this to the Mastermind's Master of Tactics feature, but that's the core subclass feature for the Mastermind and a 3rd level class feature. It's not obvious to me in your answer if you mean that comparison to be fair or unfair, since you're comparing it to a cantrip. Are you saying it is comparable to Master of Tactics? If so, are you saying the proposed cantrip modification is balanced or not relative to that? \$\endgroup\$ – Bloodcinder Aug 6 '18 at 22:23
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\$\begingroup\$ @Bloodcinder Fair question. I brought up the mastermind to compare the two characters as wholes. A mastermind can attack, sneak attack, grant advantage each turn without loss. A pacifist bard has a 50% chance to cause disadvantage without loss, and...that's about it. I mean to say, even with this benefit, a Mastermind is still much better of a choice. This bard wouldn't have access to his class feature during the same turns he'd use this spell, where a mastermind does. That's the part I was trying to compare. A mastermind does it better. \$\endgroup\$ – Man_Over_Game Aug 6 '18 at 22:30
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How We Advent: a glimpse of what we do and why we do it
I wasn't going to post much on what we're doing for Advent this year mostly because it's pretty similar to what we've been doing the last few years. I've written on it before and there is now so much regarding Advent in the blog world it almost feels overbearing. But then a few people began asking for a little more on what we do and why so I figured I'd share a snapshot of the ways and whys of how we observe Advent in our little domestic church.
Here's the foundation behind why we observe Advent the way we do...our family's Advent philosophy, if you will.
And here's the at-a-glance rundown on Advent around here (if you want more details please feel free to ask and be answered in the comments!):
The Wreath
The Advent classic. I suspect most people reading already know the tradition of the daily lighting of the Advent wreath so I don't need to describe it. We use the wreath blessing from the Catholic Household Blessings and Prayers the first night and then every night during dinner we light the candles while singing O Come, O Come Emmanuel with a follow-up in Latin. Luke can belt a pretty mean Gaude. During the last week of Advent (the "O Antiphons") we sing the corresponding verse for that day. We turn off all the other lights in the house and eat by the candlelight and I absolutely love that. The boys will freak if you dare turn on another light for even the briefest moment. We love rolling our own candles before Advent begins using the Toadily Handmade beeswax sheets! (I recommend getting their triple pack if you have the upfront money so you don't have to rebuy every year and can feel like a super organized liturgical superstar the next two years.)
Memorizing Luke 2
We began this last year and did pretty well. I think we got to about verse 20. We're starting at the beginning again but it's going a little faster since we had worked on it all last Advent. The boys are way way better at memorizing things than me. I can fill in when prompted but their fresh little brains are so good. We simply added it to our morning memory work that we do during breakfast.
The Jesse Tree
Admittedly, this is my least favorite Advent tradition but I do see and love the significance and purpose of it. I think I just have issues that there is no one way to do the Jesse Tree. I'm way too type A and I want it all neat and tidy and it never seems like the ornaments match up with the readings and every version seems to leave out significant figures. But I'm getting better at accepting it's limitations ;) I have yet to find a version that I feel makes the most sense BUT the boys absolutely love it and we do it nightly, each of them taking turns with the ornament hanging. This year Luke's been in bed when we do it which plays a part in making things run a little bit smoother sometimes. I still am so grateful I was able to participate in Jessica's ornament swap a few years ago. If you want to do the Jesse Tree but are overwhelmed with all the making of the ornaments, a swap is most definitely the way to go. I love that all of our ornaments have a different personality and style and came from other Catholic families like ours.
Gifts for the King
I explain a little bit more about this here. As a gift to Baby Jesus we store up our good deeds via coins that Brian and I give to them when we notice them doing something of virtue. This can be as simple as obeying right away or helping their little brother put on his shoes or doing a task without being asked. This year to simplify things a bit we are just doing one shared jar and we'll use the contents during Christmas to buy something for the Christ Child (i.e. the poor) most likely from the Food for the Poor catalog.
We pray this after the Jesse Tree devotion in our little oratory. We try to light our prayer candle by the creche and that helps to set the tone. I was introduced to this prayer by Sarah a few years back and now it is one of my favorite prayers of the Advent season. I don't feel like it's too long for children and the repetition and meditation is incredibly beautiful and powerful. Here's a post I wrote about it :) We made knotted cords to keep track of the prayers many years ago using a very long piece of cording but there are also some you can buy just for this (or just use your fingers...I always lose track, though!).
Nativity Set
Our nativities are set up at the very beginning of Advent. The stables are bare of all but the animals as it awaits for the traveling Mary and Joseph. We're not always very good at remembering to move them every single day but theoretically, they journey through the rooms to reach the stable on Christmas Eve. First thing Christmas morning before we do anything else (minus coffee obvs...) the Christ Child is placed into the manger after reading the birth story. During the twelve days of Christmas the Magi also then journey towards the stable ending there at Epiphany.
No Christmas Music, Parties, or Treats (?!?)
I know. Crazy Catholics. I really appreciate the waiting on these things and I think it helps to fully celebrate and embrace the tremendous change of Christmas once it comes. We try to do all these things without being rude or jerky or tyrannical, of course! (It really is possible!) It's a joyful hope sort of waiting like the wait that comes right before the birth of a baby. It's aware of a very very good thing happening but, as any woman heavy in the third trimester will tell you, still very much in the not yet. At some point if we want, really want, our family culture to be different from the pull of the rest of the world, we've learned that we have to make decisions that aren't going to be understood by everybody. And that's okay. In fact, it's good. It's been good practice for when we have to make the decisions that matter a whole lot more. So we wait on Christmas music until Christmas Eve Mass (although exceptions are made for practicing piano songs!). We try to avoid overcommitting and when possible and charitable, avoid intentionally celebrating Christmas when it's not yet.
We remember that in the history of the Church Advent has a spirit of penance about it. Dinners are simplified and treats are only on special feast days. In fact, the first few weeks of Advent are actually focused more on the Second Coming and the end times, not directly on the birth of Christ! It's not until Gaudete Sunday (the third Sunday of Advent) when the liturgy begins to focus on the first coming of Christ and anticipating Christmas. So in our home when the Christmas season does come - all twelve days and then some - the celebration takes on a height and power that it couldn't have had otherwise if we had been celebrating it all December long! We take our lead from the wisdom of the Church on this. If the Church isn't celebrating Christmas yet, then our little domestic church doesn't either. There's a wisdom and authority to that which we really want to honor even when we really really want to get our Christmas on. If she's waiting on the music and the decorations and the feasting and the partying (liturgical style), then we do as well. Preparations are made, of course...we're baking and wrapping and buying our tree (decorated on Guadete Sunday) and getting things ready. But the full blown celebration begins at Christmas Eve Mass and we've found it's one of the absolute best ways to enter into the Christmas season.
Individual Feasts
For some of the specific feasts of the Church during Advent we have little traditions that the boys (and I) remember and love. On December 6 for St. Nicholas' feast, they put out their shoes that are filled the next morning with a few treats - a saint or Christmas book, candy cane, chocolate coins, and a golden dollar coin to be used for the poor. For the Immaculate Conception, we try to have a special meal and dessert and like with all Solemnities, there is no school that day. For the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe on December 12 we simply remember to have tacos or something Mexican-esque for dinner. On December 13, we honor St. Lucy by having St. Lucy bread in the morning and using that day to light the outside Christmas lights and window candles to prepare for Christ's coming (and also celebrate our Luke's birthday!). On Gaudete Sunday we put up the tree and over the next few days the rest of the decorations. Once the O Antiphons begin on December 17, school is done until Epiphany! This sets the season apart but it's also a huge sanity saver for me with all the last week prep that a runner of the household needs to do for Christmas.
Do we celebrate every single minor feast day or devotion of the Church during Advent? No. And that's okay. I mean, we recognize it with the Church, but not necessarily by doing something 'extra' at home. A mom (or at least I) could go nuts by doing that! The smaller devotions of the Church are not mandatory, they're invitations. And if you're schedule is already packed with other equally good or necessary things, then it's okay to decline. I also don't have the time or energy to take on some of the many newer trendy Advent ideas from Pinterest. The ones we've chosen have deep roots, have been proven good, and are beautiful. They are enough and I leave the rest. There is such a peace knowing that the roots that have been carefully, intentionally, and thoughtfully cultivated in our little family over the past ten years have now taken hold and run deep. And we can now enjoy even more of the growth and fruits of that labor. The intentional Advent in our home took effort and planning and work but it has born such joy for our family and has most definitely deepened our celebration of our Lord at Christmas.
So that's how we Advent and it's been awesome and so full of blessings. Again, please drop any questions in the comment box and I'd be happy to try to answer.
If you're interested in reading more of my Adventy musings or for a deeper explanation on some of the devotions, please click on over here. The Advent posts are right on top :)
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1. Thank you for sharing you family's Advent observances. We pretty much do the same. Though, I really liked your thoughts on taking the church's lead on waiting to celebrate (liturgical style) with treats, parties, etc. etc until the Christ King has arrived (it makes complete sense). Also, got a good chuckle with how your boys will freak out if you turn on a light for even a brief moment, boys do the same! =) May the rest of your Advent Season continue to be holy and blessed with God's grace and joy!
2. I love that you shared again since I don't presently remember your other posts :) You make seasons beautiful and it inspires me to do the same in my home. Hope you're feeling well!
3. Your family Advent traditions are so inspiring. Thank you for sharing, I loved it. Gives me something to think about...
God bless,
4. Hi ,
Love all your traditions !
I was wondering if Food for the Poor was a catholic organization ?
1. Yes, it's Catholic at its foundation and has several archbishops on its board. I think it's so great that over 95% of what is given goes right to the people.
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The recent global crisis caused due to the sudden outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic has resulted in an upheaval of events in day to day life. It has adversely affected almost every sector across the globe. The travel bans and restrictions imposed on public gatherings have resulted in the cancellation of various events, thus affecting the event industry and bringing businesses to a halt. Today, almost every industry is facing challenges and loss of revenues due to the cancellation of events or due to travel restrictions, which are mandatory to ensure public safety.
Organizations are working on coming up with innovative ideas to recurring financial losses. However, organizations are exploring new avenues and relying on virtual conference solutions to alleviate their issues. Businesses are switching to practical alternatives to keep the business running even in the time of global turbulence.
Many organizations and marketers have shifted their events online to reach the audience remotely irrespective of geographical constraints, thus safeguarding the health of people. Virtual conferences and events have become an integral part of most of the organizations to carry out internal and external events seamlessly.
Virtual events have existed for a long. But if stats are to be believed, a sudden bump in live virtual events has been witnessed recently in the past few months due to lockdown scenarios. Hosting virtual events on the best virtual event platform enables you to reach a wide audience segment thus resulting in increased accessibility, participation, interaction, and engagements. A win-win scenario for all.
Organizing a virtual conference or a virtual trade show or exhibition helps the business to keep the audience engaged thus generating leads and revenues. Earlier it seems like converting an in-person event into a virtual format is a daunting task, but while walking with the latest trend it has become the first choice for marketers that saves a lot of time and revenue and delivers the same experiences as in-person events without having to spend on travel and accommodation. In this article, we have shared a step by step guide for event organizers to move their events online in a virtual space with minimized efforts. Before getting started, understanding what virtual events are is a must.
What are virtual events?
The definition of virtual events may vary from person to person. But in general, events that are carried online in a virtual space on the best virtual event platforms and offer interactive features to enable real-time networking between audiences, organizers, speakers, exhibitors, and shareholders irrespective of geographical location are known as a virtual event.
Webinars, virtual conferencing, online product launches, virtual meetings, virtual trade fairs, virtual exhibitions and so on all are part of a virtual event that is carried out seamlessly in a digital environment to deliver immersive experiences to attendees.
There are many virtual event service providers available nowadays that offer customized virtual conferencing solutions depending on the need of the organization. Selecting the best virtual conferencing platform depends on the needs and requirements.
Steps to move in-person events into a virtual format
1. Inform about your switch to online events
Virtual is the new normal that every organization is adopting with each passing day. Once you decide to move your events online and Go Virtual, make it a point to inform your attendees about the shift. It helps in eliminating the uncertainty and prevents attendees from the hassle of traveling and booking tickets beforehand to attend the event. Announce to them on all social channels and the measures you can take that events have been moved online with the revised date and time if it is not happening on the same date. Giving them a brief insight into how virtual events will deliver the same value and immersive experiences as in-person events. Apart from posting on social channels, you can take the help of a press release, or send an email to registered attendees along with follow-ups, inform the help desk about the same to inform your attendees.
2. Shift event registration online
Once you have informed attendees about the switch, working with a virtual event service provider to set up a landing page is the next step. Work on the landing page that informs about the benefits of live virtual events along with interactive features. Apart from benefits, the landing page must include the date and time of the virtual, schedule of speakers, and the list of sponsors and exhibitors. Deciding on the format of registration depends on which registration policy suits your virtual event. You can keep the open entry that is accessible to the public without pre-registration and share a link on the landing page. If your event demands some privacy, you can keep the event private. You can go on with the invitation-only format which only allows entry of authorized members who are on your list to invite.
If your virtual event includes a virtual booth, lobby, etc. create a separate page for it and promote it through social channels, PR, email marketing, and so on.
3. Request Speakers
Request the finalized speakers of your in-person event to the part of your live virtual event. Ask them to join the virtual conference or webinar with a strong internet connection from their place and deliver the speech to evoke audience interest and keep them hooked throughout the event.
Have a word with your guest speakers over the call or email and tell them about shifting the sessions online. Elaborate on the advantages of this arrangement and tell them that they are free from the hassle of traveling. You can schedule your webinar as per your guests. With virtual events, you can opt to go live, semi-live, and even offer on-demand videos to attendees who missed it.
4. Time to set up virtual booths
If setting up a booth for an event is in your plan, virtual event platforms enable you to create an immersive walkway and set up virtual booths and lobbies for exhibitors and sponsors.
Virtual event platforms backed by 24*7 customer support helps the organizers in setting up virtual booths in time without any hassle.
5. Inform about available networking options
The virtual event platform has an in-built chat interface that allows attendees to interact with each other in real-time. Inform the exhibitor about the chat models or interactive features that the platform compiles such as grout chats, live chats, one on one sessions, audio/video/text chats, and so on.
6. Run a trial
After you are done with informing attendees, moving registrations online, creating a landing page, having a word with speakers, creating virtual booths, and looking out for networking options now is the time to run a trial. It is mandatory to run a trial for virtual events to verify user experiences. The trial run helps in looking out for any missed expectations or any technical glitches before the actual event.
7. Open the gateway
Make it a point to promote the virtual event as much as possible to boost maximum attendance and interactions before it goes Live. Check out on staff beforehand and ensure that they are all set to answer the questions. Answering the questions asked by attendees on time contributes to the success of your virtual event. Send thank you emails to attendees who showed interest as a sign of gratitude.
Planning to move your conference, meeting, trade show, and other events online? We have summed up a step by step guide to minimize your friction and move your events in a virtual space. If you are still thinking of online events, now is the time to embrace it and get started.
Author's Bio:
Abhinav Puri is a social media marketing manager and a personal blogger who has written a couple of blogs on health care, Technology, Virtual events, social media, science, and health benefits that are liked by many. he keeps herself updated with the latest in the world of social media and imparts her knowledge to her followers through her health care blogs. Sharing her views on health care remedies, an effective diet to stay fit and healthy, and following a regime for a healthy lifestyle are some of the topics that hold her interest. he loves to read and travel and share her piece of knowledge with her experiences. | <urn:uuid:128f9387-36ef-49e9-89c9-5dae33eae69b> | https://www.selfgrowth.com/articles/step-by-step-guide-to-move-your-events-online | en | 0.938529 | 0.113474 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
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Go For Launch - Merlin & His Friends
Go For Launch - Merlin & His Friends
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Introducing Go For Launch Comics: Merlin & His Friends, the first book in the Go For Launch series!
Go For Launch is largely narrated by Merlin the rocket engine, with each character introducing itself and telling the story of how they work together to complete a mission. The first book's timeline covers the first orbital rocket booster landing in history, the first drone ship landings, reusability, and getting ready for Pad 39A. The second book is in progress and will include Falcon Heavy, Starhopper, Starship development, and Commercial Crew! Every book contains easter eggs that parents and engineers will enjoy.
THE BACK STORY: Go For Launch: Merlin & His Friends is the very first SpaceX-inspired illustrated children's book, created in 2016. It was created by Abby Garrett, an artist who lives near the SpaceX McGregor test site. She heard engine tests every day for years and followed SpaceX's progress. When she was invited on-site as a guest for SpaceX's 2015 return to flight and very first landing, she got to see what it was like for engineers and other critical members of a rocket company. This experience changed the trajectory of her life. They weren't just launching rockets--they were launching these machines they had been working on for months or years and were connected to them like they were their children. It was as if a piece of them was launched into space in that moment. There was an explosion of joy in the room when the launch was not only successful, but made history as the first ever orbital rocket launch and landing. Even if a person wasn't an engineer, technician, or employee, it was impossible to not jump up and cheer, moved to the point of tears as so many accomplished a collective dream. It was during emotional and thrilling moment that Abby decided everyone needed to be able to experience a glimpse of this feeling and understand how companies like SpaceX are changing our future. A few days later, Abby sketched a cartoon of Merlin the rocket engine while hearing the deep rumble of an engine test from 20 miles away, and Go for Launch Comics was born. Over the next several months, despite a major spine injury, Abby completed the very first Go for Launch book in a neck brace and gave some of the first copies to the "rocket scientists" who inspired her.
THE CHARACTERS: Abby anthropomorphized the different rocket components and spacecraft (Falcon, Dragon V1, Dragon V2, Merlin, etc.) in order to make the vehicle and its complexity more relatable to kids of all ages. Not only is Elon Musk introduced, but also SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell--someone girls can definitely look up to. Though it's a "children's book," space lovers of all ages can find something to relate to, learn, and enjoy in this book. Diagrams and advanced terminology are incorporated into the art and story, which go into detail behind how a rocket goes from production to test, to launch, landing, and reuse. The goal is that as a child grows, this book will teach them (and their parents) new things over time. This first book covers detail from 2015-2017. Book 2 will cover the updates and cool stuff like new vehicles!
AN OUTREACH TOOL: Since their creation, the art and comics have had moments of virality on the internet, have been loved by space fans and aerospace employees, and have been introduced to schools around the world. Every year, Abby gives away books to schools, kids in need, and children's hospital wings. She also does outreach in schools to get kids interested in space and make it more relatable through art. This is a self-published book and comic strip series. All proceeds go directly towards funding local STE(A)M outreach efforts, enabling Abby to continue creating more space art, potential animation, and funding the next book.
Go For Launch: Merlin & His Friends is dedicated to the employees of SpaceX--the people who worked tirelessly on a dream many thought was impossible and made it reality, ushering in a new era of spaceflight.
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Is Uncle Sam Really The Greatest Entrepreneur Of All Time?
First, there are the facts. What role, precisely, did the government play? After all, success has many fathers while failure is an orphan.
And then, almost as important, there are the counterfactuals. Which of these technologies would likely have been developed without government involvement, when would they have been developed, and how might they be the same or different? What else could the nation have done with the money if the people who earned it, rather than government bureaucrats, decided how to invest it?
And finally, there are the opportunity costs. What other “investments” made by the government at the time resulted in massive destruction of wealth through the support of dead-end technologies that diverted talent and resources from the market?
A failure to look beyond industrial policy advocates’ cheery anecdotes and to ask the key “what if” questions can lead to very bad policies. As an antidote, I suggest reading French economist Frédéric Bastiat’s discussion in his classic essay, “What Is Seen and What Is Not Seen.”
How can we assess a gambler’s prowess at blackjack if we count only his wins and not his losses? And how can we know if mastering blackjack is the best use of his time, talent, and money if we don’t consider what else could be doing—such as starting a business? This is especially important to consider when a high roller like Uncle Sam tries to gamble with other people’s money.
So, let’s consider the leading example of a technology claimed to be invented, or at least enabled, by government, the Internet. There is no disagreement that the Internet began life as the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET), a program funded by the Department of Defense to allow university researchers to more easily share data. The telecom connections between early ARPANET users—the actual physical network—was built by stitching together leased lines owned and operated by Ma Bell’s government-sanctioned telephone monopoly (more on that below).
The researchers contributed a set of conventions, or protocols, known as TCP/IP. While extremely long lived, these basic conventions also proved grossly inadequate for the commercial Internet. That’s because ARPANET was a closed private network designed for use by a small set of trusted insiders, not an open public network populated by spammers, Russian mobsters, bandwidth hogs, and a bewildering array of applications that require more than just “best effort” delivery. So, if this government “invention” were ever to be commercialized, it would be up to the market to do the actual design work.
But it was a market that almost didn’t come into existence, because government planners and self-styled “consumer advocates” like Ralph Nader, through his Taxpayers Assets Project, fought tooth and nail to keep commercial traffic off the fledging Internet. Instead, they envisioned the Internet as a great commons, like a public library, not to be sullied by commerce.
It took entrepreneurs like Bill Schrader, founder of PSINet, one of the first commercial internet service providers, to badger his way past the early Internet Acceptable Use Policy, which made the majority of what we do today on the Internet illegal. (How many of us remember that the only way to get an internet email account was to lie about having a university affiliation?)
Would another source of seed protocols more suited to open public networks have developed had ARPANET never been sponsored by government? Most likely, yes, once the telecom market was deregulated.
Which brings us to the actual physical wires upon which the Internet is built. Had Ma Bell’s telephone monopoly not been broken up in 1983, the rush to wire the country with broadband data pipes would never have happened. That is because government-sanctioned and -owned telecom monopolies were once the biggest examples of industrial policy outside the Soviet Union. AT&T and its Bell Operating companies got a 12 percent guaranteed rate of return on capital in exchange for delivering universal service—equality first, innovation maybe later. (Despite the hagiographies written about the brilliant innovations produced by Bell Labs, by the time I got there in 1978, it was a sclerotic bureaucracy plodding its way up from 2400 bps dial-up service.)
Creative destruction was poison to Ma Bell’s business model. The 20-year telecom boom, which led a ravenous crop of competitors to lay down the physical network upon which the Internet was built, happened only after the government got out of the way.
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Ancient Egypt provides a canonical example of an early culture considered a civilization
A civilization (or civilisation) is any complex society characterized by urban development, social stratification, a form of government, and symbolic systems of communication (such as writing).[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8]
Civilizations are intimately associated with and often further defined by other socio-politico-economic characteristics, such as centralization, the domestication of both humans and other organisms, specialization of labour, culturally-ingrained ideologies of progress and supremacism, monumental architecture, taxation, societal dependence upon farming and expansionism.[2][3][4][6][7][8]
Historically, "a civilization" has often been understood[by whom?] as a larger and "more advanced" culture, in implied contrast to smaller, supposedly primitive cultures.[1][3][4][9] In this broad sense, a civilization contrasts with non-centralized tribal societies, including the cultures of nomadic pastoralists, Neolithic societies or hunter-gatherers, however sometimes it also contrasts with the cultures found within civilizations themselves. Civilizations are organized[by whom?] in densely-populated settlements divided into hierarchical social classes with a ruling elite and subordinate urban and rural populations, which engage in intensive agriculture, mining, small-scale[citation needed] manufacture and trade. Civilization concentrates power, extending human control over the rest of nature, including over other human beings.[10]
Civilization, as its etymology (see below) suggests, is a concept originally associated with towns and cities. The earliest emergence of civilizations is generally connected[by whom?] with the final stages of the Neolithic Revolution, culminating in the relatively rapid process of urban revolution and state-formation, a political development associated with the appearance of a governing elite.
The English word civilization comes from the 16th-century French civilisé ("civilized"), from Latin civilis ("civil"), related to civis ("citizen") and civitas ("city").[11] The fundamental treatise is Norbert Elias's The Civilizing Process (1939), which traces social mores from medieval courtly society to the Early Modern period.[12] In The Philosophy of Civilization (1923), Albert Schweitzer outlines two opinions: one purely material and the other material and ethical. He said that the world crisis was from humanity losing the ethical idea of civilization, "the sum total of all progress made by man in every sphere of action and from every point of view in so far as the progress helps towards the spiritual perfecting of individuals as the progress of all progress".[13]
Adjectives like "civility" developed in the mid-16th century. The abstract noun "civilization", meaning "civilized condition", came in the 1760s, again from French. The first known use in French is in 1757, by Victor de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau, and the first use in English is attributed to Adam Ferguson, who in his 1767 Essay on the History of Civil Society wrote, "Not only the individual advances from infancy to manhood but the species itself from rudeness to civilisation".[14] The word was therefore opposed to barbarism or rudeness, in the active pursuit of progress characteristic of the Age of Enlightenment.
In the late 1700s and early 1800s, during the French Revolution, "civilization" was used in the singular, never in the plural, and meant the progress of humanity as a whole. This is still the case in French.[15] The use of "civilizations" as a countable noun was in occasional use in the 19th century,[16] but has become much more common in the later 20th century, sometimes just meaning culture (itself in origin an uncountable noun, made countable in the context of ethnography).[17] Only in this generalized sense does it become possible to speak of a "medieval civilization", which in Elias's sense would have been an oxymoron.
All civilizations have depended on agriculture for subsistence, with the possible exception of some early civilizations in Peru which may have depended upon maritime resources.[21][22] Grain farms can result in accumulated storage and a surplus of food, particularly when people use intensive agricultural techniques such as artificial fertilization, irrigation and crop rotation. It is possible but more difficult to accumulate horticultural production, and so civilizations based on horticultural gardening have been very rare.[23] Grain surpluses have been especially important because grain can be stored for a long time. A surplus of food permits some people to do things besides producing food for a living: early civilizations included soldiers, artisans, priests and priestesses, and other people with specialized careers. A surplus of food results in a division of labour and a more diverse range of human activity, a defining trait of civilizations. However, in some places hunter-gatherers have had access to food surpluses, such as among some of the indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest and perhaps during the Mesolithic Natufian culture. It is possible that food surpluses and relatively large scale social organization and division of labour predates plant and animal domestication.[24]
Civilizations have distinctly different settlement patterns from other societies. The word "civilization" is sometimes simply defined as "'living in cities'".[25] Non-farmers tend to gather in cities to work and to trade.
Compared with other societies, civilizations have a more complex political structure, namely the state.[26] State societies are more stratified[27] than other societies; there is a greater difference among the social classes. The ruling class, normally concentrated in the cities, has control over much of the surplus and exercises its will through the actions of a government or bureaucracy. Morton Fried, a conflict theorist and Elman Service, an integration theorist, have classified human cultures based on political systems and social inequality. This system of classification contains four categories[28]
Writing, developed first by people in Sumer, is considered a hallmark of civilization and "appears to accompany the rise of complex administrative bureaucracies or the conquest state".[31] Traders and bureaucrats relied on writing to keep accurate records. Like money, the writing was necessitated by the size of the population of a city and the complexity of its commerce among people who are not all personally acquainted with each other. However, writing is not always necessary for civilization, as shown by the Inca civilization of the Andes, which did not use writing at all except a complex recording system consisting of cords and nodes instead: the "Quipus", and still functioned as a civilized society.
Traditionally, polities that managed to achieve notable military, ideological and economic power defined themselves as "civilized" as opposed to other societies or human groupings outside their sphere of influence – calling the latter barbarians, savages, and primitives.
Many historians have focused on these broad cultural spheres and have treated civilizations as discrete units. Early twentieth-century philosopher Oswald Spengler,[32] uses the German word Kultur, "culture", for what many call a "civilization". Spengler believed a civilization's coherence is based on a single primary cultural symbol. Cultures experience cycles of birth, life, decline and death, often supplanted by a potent new culture, formed around a compelling new cultural symbol. Spengler states civilization is the beginning of the decline of a culture as "the most external and artificial states of which a species of developed humanity is capable".[32]
Systems theorists look at many types of relations between cities, including economic relations, cultural exchanges and political/diplomatic/military relations. These spheres often occur on different scales. For example, trade networks were, until the nineteenth century, much larger than either cultural spheres or political spheres. Extensive trade routes, including the Silk Road through Central Asia and Indian Ocean sea routes linking the Roman Empire, Persian Empire, India and China, were well established 2000 years ago when these civilizations scarcely shared any political, diplomatic, military, or cultural relations. The first evidence of such long-distance trade is in the ancient world. During the Uruk period, Guillermo Algaze has argued that trade relations connected Egypt, Mesopotamia, Iran and Afghanistan.[34] Resin found later in the Royal Cemetery at Ur is suggested was traded northwards from Mozambique.
The notion of world history as a succession of "civilizations" is an entirely modern one. In the European Age of Discovery, emerging Modernity was put into stark contrast with the Neolithic and Mesolithic stage of the cultures of many of the peoples they encountered.[36] The term "civilization" as it is now most commonly understood, a complex state with centralization, social stratification and specialization of labour, corresponds to early empires that arise in the Fertile Crescent in the Early Bronze Age, around roughly 3000 BC. Gordon Childe defined the emergence of civilization as the result of two successive revolutions: the Neolithic Revolution, triggering the development of settled communities, and the Urban Revolution.
The earlier neolithic technology and lifestyle were established first in Western Asia (for example at Göbekli Tepe, from about 9,130 BCE), and later in the Yellow River and Yangtze basins in China (for example the Pengtoushan culture from 7,500 BCE), and later spread. Mesopotamia is the site of the earliest developments of the Neolithic Revolution from around 10,000 BCE, with civilizations developing from 6,500 years ago. This area has been identified as having "inspired some of the most important developments in human history including the invention of the wheel, the planting of the first cereal crops and the development of the cursive script."[37] Similar pre-civilized "neolithic revolutions" also began independently from 7,000 BCE in northwestern South America (the Norte Chico civilization)[38] and Mesoamerica.[39]
The 8.2 Kiloyear Arid Event and the 5.9 Kiloyear Interpluvial saw the drying out of semiarid regions and a major spread of deserts.[40] This climate change shifted the cost-benefit ratio of endemic violence between communities, which saw the abandonment of unwalled village communities and the appearance of walled cities, associated with the first civilizations.
This "urban revolution" marked the beginning of the accumulation of transferable surpluses, which helped economies and cities develop. It was associated with the state monopoly of violence, the appearance of a soldier class and endemic warfare, the rapid development of hierarchies, and the appearance of human sacrifice.[41]
The civilized urban revolution in turn was dependent upon the development of sedentism, the domestication of grains and animals and development of lifestyles that facilitated economies of scale and accumulation of surplus production by certain social sectors. The transition from complex cultures to civilizations, while still disputed, seems to be associated with the development of state structures, in which power was further monopolized by an elite ruling class[42] who practiced human sacrifice.[43]
Towards the end of the Neolithic period, various elitist Chalcolithic civilizations began to rise in various "cradles" from around 3300 BCE, expanding into large-scale empires in the course of the Bronze Age (Old Kingdom of Egypt, Akkadian Empire, Assyrian Empire, Old Assyrian Empire, Hittite Empire).
A parallel development took place independently in the Pre-Columbian Americas. Urbanization in the Norte Chico civilization in coastal Peru emerged about 3200 BCE;[44] the oldest known Mayan city, located in Guatemala, dates to about 750 BCE.[45] and Teotihuacan in Mexico was one of the largest cities in the world in 350 CE with a population of about 125,000.[46]
The Bronze Age collapse was followed by the Iron Age around 1200 BCE, during which a number of new civilizations emerged, culminating in a period from the 8th to the 3rd century BCE which Karl Jaspers termed the Axial Age, presented as a critical transitional phase leading to classical civilization.[47] William Hardy McNeill proposed that this period of history was one in which cultural contact between previously separate civilizations saw the "closure of the oecumene" and led to accelerated social change from China to the Mediterranean, associated with the spread of coinage, larger empires and new religions. This view has recently been championed by Christopher Chase-Dunn and other world systems theorists.
A major technological and cultural transition to modernity began approximately 1500 CE in Western Europe, and from this beginning new approaches to science and law spread rapidly around the world, incorporating earlier cultures into the technological and industrial society of the present.[43][48]
Civilizations are traditionally understood as ending in one of two ways; either through incorporation into another expanding civilization (e.g. As Ancient Egypt was incorporated into Hellenistic Greek, and subsequently Roman civilizations), or by collapsing and reverting to a simpler form of living, as happens in so-called Dark Ages.[49]
The Kardashev scale classifies civilizations based on their level of technological advancement, specifically measured by the amount of energy a civilization is able to harness. The scale is only hypothetical, but it puts energy consumption in a cosmic perspective. The Kardashev scale makes provisions for civilizations far more technologically advanced than any currently known to exist.
The current scientific consensus is that human beings are the only animal species with the cognitive ability to create civilizations. A recent thought experiment, however, has considered whether it would "be possible to detect an industrial civilization in the geological record" given the paucity of geological information about eras before the quaternary.[65] | <urn:uuid:98c04258-04d4-4ac3-9780-b7ddbdcfc98e> | https://dir.md/wiki/Civilization?host=en.wikipedia.org | en | 0.95169 | 0.438267 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
Wednesday 2/20 ~ The Turncoat
The scripture for today, February 20 (2/20), is Galatians 2:20 as found in the New Testament of the Bible:
The apostle Paul wrote this. He had been an angry, spiteful, and hateful man in his younger days. He had been a terrorist and had even declared holy jihad against Christians. He had gone around the country rounding up Christians, torturing them to get them to renounce Jesus, then sending them either to prison or to their death. He hated Christians.
But once Jesus got his attention and Paul realized he was persecuting those who could tell him the true way to heaven, he switched sides. Jesus had to do it himself because all the Christians were afraid of him. Then Paul, so to speak, crucified his old self, and let Jesus and his words live in him instead. All the tremendous energy that he had used for hate was now used for love, and he turned his part of the world upside down for Christ.
Is there someone in your life or that you know of who is angry, spiteful, and hateful? Dare to talk to that person and tell them how much God loves them. S/he will argue with you and maybe even be meaner to you than ever. But when things calm down, try saying something else, perhaps about what Jesus did or said once in his life.
It may take you months or years. S/he will be curious why you keep coming back when s/he is being so mean to you. And eventually, this same person who uses all his enormous energy in a negative way, just might turn that same enormous energy around and use it for Jesus in a great way.
Give it a try. If you are crucified with Christ, then nothing anyone says can hurt you because your ego is dead. Keep trying to reach this enemy of Jesus. Keep trying to help this person become Jesus’ friend and defender.
You may be the only one in his or her world with the courage to do it. Keep trying. Cry in private after the insults, then take a deep breath and try once again. And once again. And again. Never stop. Who knows?
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RandomSel Script
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This example shows how to use Perl scripts to read the state of the model through ScriptQuery interfaces and execute commands, as well as using user values to create a simple user interface with Forms. The script RandomSel allows you to randomly select points, polygons and edges in a model. What percentage of the model is selected is governed by a user value with the name RandomSel.Coverage.
The script uses the select.typeFrom command to determine the current selection mode. It then checks the value of RandomSel.Coverage using the user.value command. The query command is then used to walk the list of selected points, polygons and vertices via the layerservice ScriptQuery interface, and chances the selection using the select.element command.
The Script
Here is the entire random selection script. The leading line numbers are for clarity only. Blank lines are so the line numbers will match between scripts. Note that the Python implementation could use the lx.Service method to obtain a Service object instead of using the query command.
Now a line by line breakdown of the script:
All scripts must start with a language-specific header. Some languages, such as Perl, often included a path as well, such as #/user/bin/perl, but that isn't required here. The Perl example also turns on the Perl’s strict and warnings flags. In Python, we import the random module.
Using lxout() for Debugging
Throughout the script there are commented-out calls to lxout (Perl/Lua) or lx.out (Python), which were originally used for debugging purposes. Removing the comment character(s) will cause these lines to show up in the Event Log Viewport, such as this one stating that the script has started executing.
Querying the User Value
Line 13 marks the first call to the lxq (Perl/Lua) or lx.eval (Python) function. In this case, the user.value command is being queried for the value of RandomSel.coverage, the creation of which will be discussed later. The value is stored in the variable chance. RandomSel.coverage is defined as a percent with a minimum of 0% and a maximum of 100%. This means that the chance variable will be between 0.0 and 1.0. There is also another commented-out call to lxout to report the chance of selection by using the 0% to 100% value of chance as stored in chancePercent.
Next, the script defines two new variables. The selType variable is the mode argument for the select.element command, which will be used later to select vertices, polygons or edges. The attrType variable is used when querying the layerservice ScriptQuery interface.
Checking the Selection Mode
The next section checks to see what the current selection mode is via the Select.typeFrom command. This command takes a semicolon-delimited list of selection types to test against. If the first type in the list has been more recently selected than any of the others, the query will be true. These tests are used to check the vertex, polygon and edge selections, respectively, to see which is the current selection.
Notice that these calls also test the item selection. Together with vertices, polygons and edges, these define the four most common geometry selection types that can directly selected by the user (although more have since been added to modo). Since the script does not support items, it checks for them and uses the language's own functions to exit if they represent the current selection.
Querying the Foreground Layer List
Now that the current selection mode is known, the script needs to get a list of foreground layers to operate on. It could operate on only the main or primary layer, but instead it chooses to operate on the entire foreground layer selection.
To get the list of foreground layers, the query command is used with the layerservice ScriptQuery interface. The layers attribute is used with the fg selector to get the foreground layer list, storing it in the fgLayers variable.
The count variable is used for debugging, and keeps track of the number of elements that have been selected.
Scanning the Foreground Layers
Line 59 marks the beginning of the main loop. The outer loop runs through the list of foreground layers.
A list of all elements is obtained with another call to layerservice through the query command. This time, the attribute is stored the one in attrType, which was set in the if/else blocks from lines 30 through 43. For polygons, attrType contains the string poly, but the attribute that gets a list of polygons is called ploys, and so an ‘s’ is added to the end. The selector all is used to get a list of all elements.
Scanning the Layer’s Elements
The inner loop scans the layer’s element list. The current element index is stored in the variable e.
Next, the script picks a random number using the language's random number function, comparing it against chance to decide if this element should be selected.
If the test is successful, the Select.element command is called to perform the selection. The command takes an index into the layer’s element list. To ensure the indices match, the script queries layerservice yet again, this time for the {attrType}.index attribute. For polygons, this will resolve to poly.index. The selector in this case is the index of the element in the list returned by the {attrType}s query made earlier.
Selecting an Element
Finally, the script executes Select.element using the lx (Perl/Lua) or lx.command (Python) function. The select.element command takes the layer number, which was stored in layer at line 59 when the outer loop was started. It also takes an element type, which was determined at lines 30 through 43. The mode argument is set to add to add these elements to the current selection. Finally, the index argument is set to the contents of index to select that specific element.
Finishing Up
The counter is incremented before the loop closes, for debugging purposes, and a final commented-out call to lxout or lx.out is made:
Running the Script
That’s it -- the script is done. Try running modo, creating a unit sphere, and executing the script with a line similar to this:
modifying that as necessary to match the path to the script. Don’t forget to use curly braces around the path to the script if there is a space in it. When you run it, you’ll see that the script does nothing. This is because it relies on a user value, RandomSel.coverage, which hasn’t been defined yet.
Defining RandomSel.coverage with user.defNew
To define RandomSel.coverage, you’ll use the user.defNew command. Open a Command History Viewport and enter the following command into the edit field:
user.defNew RandomSel.coverage percent
The first argument is the name of the variable to create, in this case RandomSel.coverage. Note that user value names are case sensitive. The second argument is the datatype of the variable. Since we want value in the range of 0% to 100%, we entered percent.
The default value of a percentage is 0%, so running the script still wouldn’t appear to do anything. You can assign a value to RandomSel.coverage using the user.value command, the same command that the script uses to get the state of RandomSel.coverage:
user.value RandomSel.coverage 0.4
If you would prefer to use units, you can enter the value using the square bracket syntax:
user.value RandomSel.coverage [40%]
Now you can run the script with @d:\randomsel.pl as described above. If all goes well, you’ll see that about forty percent of the elements in the current selection type are randomly selected.
User Interface
While this is interesting, RandomSel.coverage seems a bit unnecessary. The script could just take an argument, or you could edit the script whenever you want to change the coverage. But what if you could put a control on the interface to adjust the coverage, automatically executing the script every time it changed? This is where real power of the user.value comes into play.
Creating a Form
First, you’ll need to create a new form for the user.value command to reside in. The Form Editor is beyond the scope of this article, but here are some quick steps to help you along:
1. Open the Form Editor from the System menu
2. Right click on the (new sheet) entry at the bottom of the list, and select Add Form from the menu. Name the form Random Selection.
3. Click in the X column of the new form to export it. This allows the form to be selected for display in a Forms Viewport.
4. Click the right-facing triangle to show the controls in the form. Currently there are none, just the (new control) entry.
5. Right click (new control) and select Add Command from the menu. Enter user.value RandomSel.coverage ? as the command
6. Use the Label edit field in the properties viewport to the right of the tree to change the label to Coverage.
7. Create a new Forms Viewport, or find an existing one.
8. Right click in the Forms Viewport’s header to see the list of exported forms, and select Random Selection.
You should now have a Forms Viewport showing a single percent control labeled Coverage. If you change the value of this control, nothing happens, but the next time you run the script, you’ll see that the new percentage of elements are selected.
Running the Script when RandomSel.coverage Changes
What you really want is for the script to run automatically whenever the value changes. This can be done by assigning an action to RandomSel.coverage using user.def:
Now whenever the value of RandomSel.coverage changes, the script will automatically run. Go ahead and give it a try: as you drag the Coverage minislider, you’ll notice that the retiring feature is taking effect, with the previous change being reverted before the new one is applied as long as you are dragging. The script is undoable because it calls the undoable command select.element.
Limiting the Control Range
There’s still a problem: it is very easy to go over 100% or under 0%. To fix this, we’ll use user.def’s min and max attributes.
user.def RandomSel.coverage min 0.0
user.def RandomSel.coverage max 1.0
Now RandomSel.coverage can never go outside the range of 0% to 100%.
Creating RandomSel.coverage Preset Buttons
You can also add a button to your form that will execute the script directly by using the same command you used to execute it from the Command History:
You can also make buttons that execute with a specific coverage through user.value, such as this example that sets the value to 50%. Since we have associated an action with the user value, the button will execute the script after changing the value.
user.value RandomSel.coverage 0.5
Creating RandomSel.coverage Value Presets
An alternative to adding preset buttons to the form is to use Value Presets. This adds a popup to the right of the edit field that allows users to create and choose preset values for edit field style controls.
Value Presets are defined through the use of a cookie. Simply setting the cookie on the user value will cause the popup to be created, with any presets automatically being loaded and saved in the config. The cookie can be any string, and multiple clients can share presets by using the same cookie.
user.def RandomSel.coverage valuepresetcookie randomSelCoverage
Improving the Script
There is quite a bit more that you can improve in this script. For example, the current random selection isn’t really selecting an exact coverage amount, but rather deciding, on an element by element basis, if the element should be selected by chance, resulting in more or less the coverage amount chosen, but not exactly. You can modify the script to ensure that the exact coverage amount is selected.
The script does not support item selections. You can use the layerservice ScriptQuery interface to add this support as well.
Another enhancement might be to add a deselect toggle via another user value, causing the script to deselect elements instead of selecting them, or an option to limit the selection to only currently selected or deselected elements, rather than all elements matching the current selection type. The script could be changed to clear the current selection before randomly selecting; currently, the new selection is added to the existing one. There are surely many more variations that you can experiment with.
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MFF Special: Tracking Michael Myers Movements in Halloween
October 30, 2017
Back in May, I broke down the data on Michael Myer’s Illinois to California road trip in Halloween H20: 20 Years Later. The trip had always fascinated me and I wanted to know how many times he had to refuel and use his turn signal. The idea of an evil murderer using his blinkers made me laugh and it lead to surmising that he used his blinker 57 times due to the route on Google maps. However, after rewatching the original Halloween (1978) I came across a startling discovery. The dude never uses his turn signal (cue semi-dramatic music) and puts in a lot of work to scare Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis).
I know this is a stupid thing to harp on but if you’ve read my posts you know that I love tracking the deadly journeys that horror film characters embark on. I enjoy filling in the blanks and figuring out the intricacies of trips and giving the world something stupid to talk about. I had never considered covering Halloween (1978) before because director John Carpenter and writer/producer Debra Hill admitted that they were “kids” while working on the shoot and many of their one-off decisions (killing promiscuous people) have been given way too much thought. There is something pure about Halloween and that pureness was simply to scare audiences, keep them uneasy and have Michael Myers pop up everywhere at any moment.
For instance, take a look at the ground he covers while hunting poor Annie.
Myers knew the outside of that house very well.
What I love most about Halloween is how in Carpenter’s quest to make the audience “uneasy” he had Michael appear pretty much everywhere which meant he did a lot of walking, running, and hiding behind shrubs. The following post breaks down the various sightings and tracks his movements in three heading scratching scenes. This post is totally unnecessary but hopefully, it gives you a clearer idea into the movements of a famous fictional killer.
Before I get to the three scenes here is a very loose breakdown of Michael Myers movements throughout the film.
1. Steals a car
2. Kills a guy and steals his clothes
3. Arrives in Haddonfield
4. Finds childhood home
5. Pulls a large gravestone out of the ground
6. Robs a hardware store
7. Eats a dog?
8. Spooks Laurie at school
9. Harasses a kid
10. Follows Laurie home
11. Drives around for like two hours
12. Hunts between the two houses and kills another dog….
13. Cuts two holes in a sheet and kills a lady.
14. Dies?
I want this deleted scene. I need to see the eyeholes be cut.
Here are the three instances where he appears to Laurie then has to make a quick getaway.
1. Moment: Laurie sees Michael staring at her.
How long do you think he was standing there?
Where: Laurie is in a classroom. Michael is standing across the street on the driver’s side of his vehicle.
When: 15:40 – 16:15
How much time did he need to get away? 15 seconds.
How did he do it? I tested this out in my driveway and there is no way he could’ve simply walked around the car and drove away. Michael literally had to run around the car, open the door, start the car and drive away. It is unclear whether the car was on or not. This doesn’t affect the fact that an evil shape had to run around the car to drive away.
Random Thoughts: There are a lot of variables to this scene. The only thing that never changes is that Michael had to run around the car. How did Michael find her? What happens if Laurie looks back to the street faster? How did he time it so perfectly? We do know that she actually saw Michael and it wasn’t a vision (confirmed on 35th anniversary Blu-ray commentary by Carpenter). In those 15 seconds, he had to do more than saunter which I think is pretty awesome.
2. Moment: Laurie sees Michael standing next to some hedges.
Where: She is walking home from school. Michael is chilling.
When: 23:41
How much time did he need to get away?: 26 seconds
How did he get away?: He walked around the back of the house and stopped when he got to the clothesline behind Laurie’s house. It’s doable.
Random Thoughts: This moment takes place after Michael slams on the station wagon brakes when Annie yells “Speed kills!” at him. So, he parked the station wagon on the street, ran 200 feet to some hedges (counted their steps) and waited till they came up the sidewalk. I love that Michael must’ve been peering through a crack in the hedges until it was safe to step out. Having Michael play peekaboo with Laurie adds another dimension to the character. He starts to come across as a cheeky/evil fellow who enjoys messing with babysitters.
3. Moment: Laurie sees Michael hanging around some clotheslines.
Where: Laurie is at her house. Michael is hanging out by a clothesline.
When: 26:36
How much time did he need to get away: Zero seconds because Laurie is looking at him the entire time.
How did he get away: I’m assuming he waited for a perfect wind to push the sheets up so he could walk into a wooded area.
Random Thoughts: This is the toughest appearance to break down because it happens so quick. I am assuming it happened (per Carpenter) so I’m taking the escape at face value. Logic suggests that Michael sidestepped into the surrounding foliage. However, I’d like to think that he did a quick somersault and propelled himself into the wooded area. That would be awesome!
There you have it! Michael Myers covered a lot of ground and potentially did a somersault to escape Laurie’s view. Hopefully, this post fills in some blanks and lets you know that Michael put in a lot of work during his Halloween hunting!
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October 30, 2017 7:49 am
“#7 Eats a dog?”
• October 30, 2017 7:53 am
I’m 98% certain he ate a dog.
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October 31, 2017 2:54 pm
I can get behind that kind of confidence!
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Top 10 Taylor Swift Songs That Will Make You Nostalgic
Here we bring you the musical treats by Taylor Swift from her iconic albums. Scroll below and save these top 10 songs on your playlist which gained her immense popularity.
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Top 10 Taylor Swift Songs That Will Make You Nostalgic
Taylor Swift is one of the world’s leading recording artists. Born on 13 December 1989, Taylor Alison Swift is widely known for narrative songs about her life. As a songwriter, Taylor Swift has received awards from the Songwriters Hall of Fame and Nashville Songwriters Association. She has also been awarded 1 Emmy, 12 Country Music Association Awards, and 10 Grammys.
At the age of 14, Taylor Swift started her career in country music. She then signed up with the Big Machine Records and became the youngest singer to have ever been signed by the Sony/ATV Publishing House. One of her favorite childhood memories is listening to her maternal grandmother singing in Church. She is her inspiration to become a singer.
No doubt, Taylor Swift is one of the finest artists of this century. The diva is followed by 112.7m people on Instagram. She was first a songwriter before she became a star. Today she is a multi-talented diva better known as a performer, guitarist, and record-crafter.
So let’s celebrate the iconic songs of her so far. If you are also a fan of Taylor Swift, then get ready to dance and feel the emotions around you.
Popular Songs of Taylor Swift to Remind You of Your Schooldays
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From a country artist to a global pop star, here is the list of the ultimate hits by Taylor Swift. We agree it is difficult to narrow down her best songs, so these songs are Billboard picks of top Taylor Swift Songs from her debut through 1989.
1. You Belong With Me
Source = Rhapsody
You're on the phone with your girlfriend
She's upset
She's going off about something that you said
'Cause she doesn't get your humor like I do
I'm in my room
It's a typical Tuesday night
I'm listening to the kind of music she doesn't like
And she'll never know your story like I do'
You Belong With Me is recorded and co-written by Taylor Swift. The song is produced by Nathan Chapman and was released as the third single from her second studio album, Fearless (2008). The song features Swift in two characters - as a popular girl (girlfriend and antagonist) and a nerd (protagonist and narrator) along with American actor Lucas Till as a male lead. The song portrays the secret love story of a protagonist with the actor who already has a girlfriend.
You Belong With Me won the MTV Video Music Award for Best Female Video at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards. The song has also received the nomination for the Grammy Award for Song of the Year. Unfortunately, it lost to Beyonce Knowles’ Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)’.
Source = "Taylor Swift"
2. Love Story (2008)
Source = Cloudmind
We were both young when I first saw you
I close my eyes and the flashback starts
I'm standing there on a balcony in summer air
See the lights, see the party, the ball gowns
See you make your way through the crowd
And say hello
Taylor Swift’s ‘Love Story’ was released by Big Machine Records in 2008. The song features a love interest of Swift’s which was not common amongst her family and friends. Swift used the plot of William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet as an inspiration and then composed the song. Love Story was a huge hit selling 8 million copies worldwide. In the US, the song ranked at number 4 on the Billboard Hot 100 and sold 7 million paid digital downloads.
Source = "Taylor Swift"
3. Teardrops on My Guitar
Source = Sinaimg
Drew looks at me,
I fake a smile so he won't see,
What I want, what I need,
And everything that we should be,
I'll bet she's beautiful,
That girl he talks about,
The song ‘Teardrops on My Guitar’ was co-written by Taylor with Liz Rose. It was released in 2007 by Big Machine Records. Taylor Swift wrote about her experience with Drew Hadrick (her classmate whom she had a crush on). He was unaware of this and spoke to Taylor about his girlfriend. The track is soothing and guided by an acoustic guitar. Taylor Swift’s Teardrops is still considered her best song which gave her popularity throughout the country. The song is a pop song with a length of 3 minutes and 35 seconds. It is Taylor Swift’s first song to have debuted on the Billboard Year-End Hot 100 charts.
Source = "Taylor Swift"
4. New Romantics
Source = Tumblr
We're all bored
We're all so tired of everything
We wait for
Trains that just aren't coming
We show off
Our different scarlet letters
Trust me, mine is better
New Romantics is a popular song recorded by Taylor Swift for her studio album, 1989 (2014). The contemporary song hit the radio stations in the US through Big Machine and ranked at 46 on the Billboard Hot 100. The music video for the song was directed by Jonas Akerlund and finally released on 6 April as an Apple Music exclusive. The video features the BTS footage from the 1989 World Tour. New Romantics received a nomination for Teen Choice Award for Choice Music – Single. As of 2018, the song has over 80 million views on Youtube. Can you believe 80 million is the least viewed video from her Album 1989?
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5. Fearless
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There's somethin' bout the way
The street looks when it's just rained
There's a glow off the pavement
Walk me to the car
And you know I wanna ask you to dance right there
In the middle of the parking lot
Fearless is Taylor Swift’s second studio album released in 2008. Due to the unavailability of collaborators, the diva wrote eight tracks for Fearless and other five songs were written by Colbie Caillat, Hillary Lindsey, and John Rich. Fearless was a massive hit, and the album grabbed her title of the youngest artist to have the year’s best selling album. She wrote the title track while touring with songwriter Hillary Lindsey. The lyrics speak of taking courage during a date. After completing the album, Swift rephrased the definition of the word fearless.
She said,
“Fearless doesn't mean you're completely unafraid and it doesn't mean that you're bulletproof. It means that you have a lot of fears, but you jump anyway.”
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6. We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together
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I remember when we broke up, the first time
Saying, this is it, I've had enough
'Cause like we hadn't seen each other in a month
When you, said you, needed space (what?)
We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together is a popular song recorded by singer-songwriter Taylor Swift for the 4th studio album, Red (2012). The song went on the floors on August 2012 by Big Machine Records. The song features her frustrations at an ex-lover who wants the relationship back. Till date, it has received over 540 million views on Youtube. The song topped the charts in New Zealand, Ireland, the United Kingdom, and Japan.
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7. Mean
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You, with your words like knives
And swords and weapons that you use against me
You, have knocked me off my feet again,
Got me feeling like a nothing
The song ‘Mean’ is written and recorded by Taylor Swift for her third album ‘Speak Now’ (2010). The song garnered an amazing response from the crowd. Swift performed Mean for the first time at the 46th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards on 3rd April 2011.
The song makes you feel her pain and lets you focus on the music and lyrics. Mean won awards at the 56th Grammy Awards for Best Country Song and Best Country Solo Performance. Initially, the song was released as a promotional single from her third album Speak Now in 2010. Mean debuted at number two on the Hot Digital Songs and ranked at 11 on the Billboard Hot 100.
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8. Style
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Midnight, you come and pick me up, no headlights
Long drive, could end in burning flames or paradise
Fade into view, oh,
It's been a while since I have even heard from you
(Heard from you)
And I should just tell you to leave 'cause I
Know exactly where it leads but I
Watch it go round and round each time
Style is the third track from Swift’s fifth album, 1989 (2014). The song was released to Radio by Republic Records under the partnership with Swift’s label Big Machine Records on 9th February 2015 following Blank Space. The song received a great response from the countries and made it to rank 6 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart.
The song made its debut on the Billboard due to digital download sales but fell off the chart the later week. After Swift’s live performance at Victoria’s Fashion Show, the song bounced back and entered the charts at number 75 with a sale of over 45,000 copies.
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9. Babe (Sugarland Song)
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What a shame
Didn't wanna be the one that got away, yeah
Big mistake, broke the sweetest promise
That you never should have made
I'm here on the kitchen floor
You call, but I won't hear it
You said no one else, how could you do this, babe?
‘Babe’ is the latest song of Taylor Swift in the list. It is originally written by Patrick Monahan and Swift. The song went on the floors on 20th April 2018 as the second single from Sugarland 6th studio album, Bigger (2018). The trailer of the song first released in 2018 during the CMT Music Awards and then uploaded to Sugarland’s Youtube Channel on 6th June 2018. Till date, the song has about 20 million views on YouTube.
The video features Brandon, Jennifer, Anthony and Taylor in lead roles. Brandon and Jennifer are a couple while singer Swift plays the role of a secretary who has an affair with a married boss (Brandon). The video ends with Brandon leaving Swift’s house with doors locked and his belongings spread out through the lane.
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10. Gorgeous by Taylor Swift
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You should take it as a compliment
That I got drunk and made fun of the way you talk
You should think about the consequence
Of your magnetic field being a little too strong
And I got a boyfriend, he's older than us
He's in the club doing, I don't know what
You're so cool, it makes me hate you so much (I hate you so much)
Gorgeous by Taylor Swift reached the top 10 in the charts of Hungary, Australia, Canada, and Malaysia. The song went on the floors on 20th October 2017 as a single from the album. She co-wrote the song with producers Shellback and Max Martin. In the US, Gorgeous debuted at number 13 on the Billboard Hot 100 and 16 on the streaming songs chart, with 17 million US streams with downloads of over 70,000 copies. She sang this song during the Jingle Bell Ball 2017 in London and at BBC Radio 1st Weekend in Swansea.
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The most fascinating and interesting thing about Taylor Swift music is no matter what, her songs would always make you at peace.
So which one is your favorite Taylor Swift Song? Drop your comments below and let us know if we missed any of your favorite songs. If so, we will soon be back with a sorted list of best Taylor Swift songs.
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Is This Taking 'Giving Tuesday' Too Far?
I think my coworkers are misunderstanding the purpose of Giving Tuesday.
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How to make money online?
This is the most common question we hear,
and, and, and
Can you believe it? This is one of the highest searched keywords on google.
We’ll keep adding new ways to this page so go ahead and bookmark it. And please do share your own ideas in the comments!! I have noticed here that people have this question always on their mind, but they have no clue where to start, and in this article, I want to cover the basics and then help people navigate their way to make some money online.
Before we dive into the various ways we can make money; it is important to understand the various income types.
• Active Income: Income made from a full-time job or business, usually where we participate and put in a lot of effort. For example, a job or income from your business.
• Passive Income: Passive income streams allow you to make money without being there and putting in a lot of effort—for example, rental properties, Income paid from bank deposits, rental income from real estate/property., royalties from writing.
• Portfolio Income: Portfolio income is income from investments, including dividends, interest, royalties, and capital gains.
What is a side hustle?
side hustle is any job undertaken in addition to someone’s full-time job. For example, if you work as a software developer and do day trading, your day trading is your side hustle. Few side hustles are freelancing or piecework in nature, providing some extra cash in your pocket.
I have seen many students asking me this question on my Instagram page, and here is something I would like to teach them.
How to make a passive income?
There are several ways to make money as a side hustle. You can basically do anything under the sky to make some extra cash. You can babysit kids or take care of someone’s dog or Freelance a skill.
I found a very interesting article for students to make some money while studying at a university. has listed 40 easy ways for students to make money. If you are interested in knowing how to make money without spending a dime, here is an excellent article from balancesmb.
Here is a list of links that have some excellent resources for making money online
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Tuesday, September 4, 2018
'Toon Tuesdays
Guess it's that time of year again ....
1. That's what I feel like when I'm trying to get a picture of both cats in non-embarrassing positions! Someone is always licking their butt!
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Bailment and Pledge
Definition of Bailment
“A bailment is the delivery of goods by one person to another for some purpose, upon a contract that they shall, when the purpose is accomplished be returned or otherwise disposed’, of according to the directions of the persons delivering them”.Sec. 14.
The person delivering the goods it called the Bailor. The person to whom they are delivered is called the Bailee. The transaction is called Bailment.
Examples :
(i) P lends his book to Q.
(ii) P delivers a pen to Q for repair.
(iii) P gives Q his watch as security for a loan.
In all these cases P is the bailor and Q is the bailee.
Characteristic Features or the Requisites of Bailment
1. Delivery : It is delivery of goods by one person to another.
2. Purpose : The goods are delivered for some purpose.
3. Return : It is agreed, that when the purpose is accomplished the goods are to be returned or otherwise disposed of according to the direction of the bailor.
4. Contract : Bailment arises from express or implied t contract. (n case of finder of goods bailment arises by implication tit’ law.
5. Ownership : In bailment the bailor continues to be the owner of the goods. Therefore bailment does not cause any change of ownership.
6. movable goods : Bailment is concerned with only movable goods. Money is not included in the category in movable goods. A deposit of money is not bailment.
Deposit of money in a bank does not .constitute bailment.relationship between depositor and the bank is that of borrower and the lender.
7. Possession : A person already in possession of the goods may become a bailee by a subsequent agreement, express. or implied.
Example :
X is a seller of motor can, having several cars in his possession. Y buys a car and leaves the car in the possession of X After the . sale is complete, X becomes a bailee, although originally he was the owner.
Delivery to bailee how made
“The delivery of-goods to the bailee may be made by doing anything which has the effect of putting the goods in the possession of the intended bailee or of any person authorised to hold them on his behalf.-Sec. 149.
Different kinds of Bailment
Bailments may be classified into;
(1) Gratuitous Bailment and
(2) Bailment for Reward.
A gratuitous bailment is one in which neither the bailor, nor the bailee is entitled to any remuneration, e.g., loan of an article gratis ; safe custody without charge, etc.
A bailment for reward is one where either the bailor or the bailee is entitled to a remuneration e.g., a motor car let out for hire ; goods given to a carrier for carriage at a price ; articles given to a person for being repaired for a remuneration ; pawn, etc.
1. Duty of reasonable care
The bailee is bound to take as much care of the goods bailed to him as a man of ordinary prudence would, under similar circumstances, take of his own goods of the same bulk, quality and value as the goods bailed.-Sec. 151.
The degree of care to be taken by a bailee is that of a man of ordinary prudence. If he takes that amount of care, he will not be held responsible for loss, destruction or deterioration of the goods bailed. (Sec. 152). The degree of care required from the bailee is the same whether the bailment is for reward or is . gratuitous.
There may be a special contract between the bailor and the bailee by which the bailee is required to take a higher degree of care or under which he is responsible for compensating in full for loss, destruction or deterioration of the goods. Such special terms are usually incorporated in contracts of carriage.
2. Bailee’s liability for negligence Of servants
A bailee is liable for damages caused by negligence of the servants about the use or custody of the things bailed, when acting in course of their employment. But the bailee is not liable for damages caused by the acts or default of third person which cannot be prevented by ordinary diligence. The bailee is also not liable for unauthorised acts of his servants outside the scope of their employment. Sanderson v. Collins.
3. Unauthorized use of goods
If the bailee makes unauthorized use of goods bailed, i.e., uses them in a way not authorized by the terms of the bailment, he is responsible for all damages to the goods and must pay compensation to the bailor. This liability arises even if the bailee is not guilty of any negligence, and even if the damage is the result of accident.-Sec. 154.
examples :
(i) A lends a horse to B for his own riding only. B allows C a member of his family, to ride the horse. C rides with care, but the horse accidentally falls arid is injured. B is liable to make compensation to A for the injury done to the horse.
(ii) A hires a horse in Calcutta from B expressly to march to Benares, .-f rides with due care, but marches to Cuttack instead. The horse accidentally falls and is injured. .9 is liable to make compensation to B or the injury to the horse.
4.Mixture of Bailor’s goods with the Bailee’s
If the bailee mixes up his own goods with those of the bailor, the following rules apply :
(a) “If the bailee, with consent of the bailor, mixes the goods of the bailor with his own goods, the bailor and the bailee shall have an interest, in proportion to their respective shares, in the mixture thus produced.”-Sec. 155.
(b) “If the bailee, without the consent of the bailor mixes lie goods of the bailor with his own goods, and the goods can be separated or divided, the property in the goods remains in the parties respectively ; but the bailee is bound to bear the expense of separation or division, and any damage arising from the mixture.”-Sec. 156.
D bails 100 bales of cotton marked with a particular mark to B. B without D’s consent mixes the l00 bales with other bales of his own, bearing a different mark. D is entitled to have his l00 bales returned, and B is bound to bear all the expenses incurred in the separation of the bales, and any other incidental damage.
if the bailee without the consent of the bailor, mixes If the bailee,mixes the goods of the bailor with his own goods, in such a manner t it is impossible to separate the goods bailed from the other that good, and deliver them back, the bailor is entitled to be compensated by the bailee for the loss of the goods.”-Sec. 157.
Example :
D bails superior flour worth Rs. 45 to B. B, without D’s consent . mixes the flour with inferior flour of his own, – worth only Rs. 25 B must compensate D for the loss of his flour.
5. Duty of returning goods
“It is the duty of the bailee to return or deliver according the bailor’s directions, the goods bailed, without demand, as soon as the time for which they were bailed has expired, or the purpose for which they were bailed has been accomplished.”sec160.
“If, by the default of the bailee, the goods are not delivered or tendered at the proper time, he is responsible to the bailor, for any loss, destruction or deterioration of the goods from that time.”-Sec. 161.
Example :
G agreed to carry certain goods of B expeditiously. The driver of the van which was carrying the goods, left the van unattended for one hour for lunch. During that time the goods were stolen, B filed a suit for damages against G. Held, the carrier has a duty via to deliver the goods or return them. The carrier could not do so. The van driver’s departure constitutes a fundamental breach of the contract to carrythe goods forthwith to the destination. Damage, were awarded. Bontex knitting Works Ltd. v. St. John Garage
6.Accretion to the goods bailed
“in the absence of any contract to the contrary, the bailee is bound to deliver to the bailor, or according to his directions, any increase or profit which may have accrued from the goods bailed.”-Sec. 163.Example : C leaves a cow in the custody of B to be taken care of. The cow has a calf. B is bound to deliver the calf as well as the cow to C.
7. Liabilities of Innkeeper and Hotelkeepers
In England Innkeepers were governed by the Common Law. They were regarded as insurers, i.e., loss of or damages to customer’s goods had to be fully made up, except certain special cases. This rule was applied in Bombay High Court in an old case (1886). It is now held that the liabilities of innkeepers and hotel-keepers are as bailees and are governed by Sections 151 and 152 of the Contract Act. (See para l, p. 16) Rampal Sing v.murray & Co.Jan & Son v. Cameron
8. Liabilities of Carriers – See Book V, Ch 1.
l. Bailor’s duty to disclose faults in goods bailed
“The bailor is bound to disclose to the bailee faults in the goods bailed, of which the bailor is aware, and which materially interfere with the use of them, or expose the bailee to extra ordinary risk, and, if he does not make such disclosure, he is responsible for damage arising to the bailee directly from such faults.
If the goods are bailed for hire, the bailor is responsible for such damage, whether he was or was not aware of the existence of such faults in the good bailed.”-Sec. 150.
examples :
(i)A lends a horse which he knows to be vicious to B. He does not disclose the fact that the horse is vicious. The horse runs away, B is thrown and injured. .A is responsible to B for damage sustained.
2. Payment of expenses in Gratuitous Bailments
“Where by the conditions of the bailment, the bailee is to receive no remuneration, the bailor shall repay to the bailee the necessary expenses incurred by him for the purpose of the bailment.”-Sec. 158.
3. Responsibility for breach of warranty of title
The bailor is responsible to the bailee for any loss which, the bailee may sustainby reason that the bailor was not entitled to make the bailment, or to receive back the goods or to give direction respecting them.-Sec. 164. Example : A gives B’s car to C for use without B’s knowledge of permission. B sues C and receives compensation. C is entitled to recover his losses from A.
1. Enforcement of rights
The bailee can, by suit, enforce the duties of the bailor.
2. Bailment by several joint owners
“If several joint owners of goods bail them, the bailee may deliver them back to, or according to the directions of, one joint owner without the consent of all, in the absence of any agreement to the contrary.”-Sec. 165.
3. Bailee not responsible on re-delivery to bailor without title
“If the bailor has no title to the goods, and the bailee, in good faith, delivers them back to, or according to directions of the bailor, the bailee is not responsible to the owner in respect of such delivery.”-Sec. 166.
4. Bailee’s Particular Lien
Lien means the rights to retain property until some debt or claim is paid. The right of lien is given by law in certain cases. Lien may be of two types : General Lien and Particular Lien. General lien means the right to retain all the goods of the other party until all the claims of the holder are paid. Particular lien means the right to retain particular goods until claims on account of those goods are paid.
A bailee has a particular lien,. when he has rendered any service upon an article and is entitled to some remuneration for it according to the terms of the contract between him and the other party. The following limitations upon the Bailee’s particular . lien are to be noted-Sec. 170.
(i) The particular lien is available only if the service rendered by the bailee is one involving the exercise of labour or skill in respect of the goods bailed. There is no lien for custody charges or other charges for work not involving labour or skill.
(ii) The right of lien cannot be exercised until the services have been performed in full. When a bailee has done only a part of the work contracted for he cannot claim lien for part payment.
(iii) The lien cannot be claimed if there is an agreement to pay the money on a future date.
(iv) The lien can be exercised only so long as the goods are in the possession of the bailee. If possession is lost for any reason, the lien is also lost.
Examples :
(i) .9 delivers a rough diamond to B, a jeweller, to be cut and polished, which is accordingly done. B is entitled to retain the stone till he is paid for the services he has rendered.
(ii) A gives cloth to B, a tailor, to make into a coat, B promises A to deliver the coat as soon as it is finished, and to give a three months’ credit for the price. B is not entitled to retain the coat until he is paid. S. Bailee’s General Lien Section 171 provides that bailees coming within the following categories have a general lien : bankers, factors, wharfingers; attorneys of High Court, and policy brokers. Such bailees can retain all goods of the bailor so long as anything is due to them. I he general lien in all these cases may not exist if there is a contract to the contrary. Bailees failing in categories other than those mentioned above may have a general lien if there is an express agreement to that effect.
I. Enforcement of rights
The bailor can enforce by suit all the liabilities or duties of the bailee
2. Act inconsistent with the terms
“A contract of bailment is voidable, at the option of the bailor, if the bailee does any act with regard to the goods bailed inconsistent with the conditions of the bailment.”-Sec. 153. Example : A lets to B for hire, a horse his own riding. B drives the horse in carriage. This is, at the option of A. a termination of the bailment.
3. Restoration of goods lent gratuitously
When goods are lent gratuitously, the bailor can demand their return whenever he pleases, even though he lent it for a specified time or purpose. But if the bailee in such cases had acted in such a manner that the return of the goods before the stipulated time would cause loss greater than the benefit which he has received, the bailor must indemnify him for the loss if he compels an immediate return.-Sec. 159.
A contract of bailment terminates under the following circumstances :
l. Efflux of time : If the bailment is for a stipulated period, the bailment terminates as soon as the stipulated period expires.
2. Fulfillment of purpose : If the bailment is for a specific purpose, the bailment terminates as soon as the purpose is fulfilled.
3. Act inconsistent with the terms : If the bailee does any act, with regard to the goods bailed, which is inconsistent with the terms of the bailment, the bailment terminates.-Sec. 153.
4. Goods lent gratuitously : A gratuitous bailment can be terminated any time but if premature termination causes any loss to .the bailee, the bailor must indemnify the bailee.-Sec. 159.
5. Death : A gratuitous bailment terminates upon the death of either the bailor or the bailee.-Sec. 162.
A finder of goods is in the position of a bailee if he takes charge of the goods. (See p. 132) The rights of the finder of goods can be summarised as follows.-Sections 168 and 169 :
l. Possession : He can retain possession of the goods against everybody except the true owner.
2. Compensation and Lien : H;, is entitled to be compensated for the trouble and expense incurred by him to preserve the goods and to find out the owner. He has a lien upon the goods for the payment of these sums i.e., he can refuse to return the goods until they are paid.
3. Reward : He cannot file a suit for the expense he has incurred but can sue for any reward which the owner might have offered for the return of the goods lost.
4. Sale: If the goods found are commonly the subject-matter of sale and if the owner cannot with reasonable diligence be found or if he refuses to pay the lawful charges of the finder, the goods can be sold provided the following further conditions are fulfilled
(a) When the thing is in danger of perishing or of losing the greater part of its value.
(b) When the lawful charges of the finder amount to two thirds of its value.
Duties and Obligations
The finder of goods is a bailee. Therefore, he has the following duties and obligations :
(i) He must take reasonable care of -the goods (Sec. 151).
(ii) He must not mix the finder’s goods with his own goods (Secs. I55-157).
(iii) The goods must be returned to the real owner (Secs. 160 & 161).
(iv) If there is an accretion to the goods bailed, it must be given to the real owner (Sec. 163).
(v) He must not use the goods for his purpose.
(vi) He must try to find out the true owner of the goods.
1. Right to interplead
If a person, other than the bailor, claims the goods bailed, he may apply to the courts to stop delivery of the goods bailed and to decide the title to the goods.-Sec. 167.
2. Suit by bailor or bailee against wrong-doer
If a third party wrongfully deprives the bailee of the use of the goods bailed or does them any injury, the bailee is entitled to use all such remedies as the owner of the goods might have used. Either the bailee or the bailor may file a suit against the third party in such cases.-Sec. 180.
3. Apportionment of relief or compensation obtained by such suits
Whatever is obtained by way of relief or compensation in any such suits shall, as between the bailor and the bailee be dealt with according to their respective interests.-Sec. 181.
The bailment of goods as security for payment of a debt or performance of a promise is called Pledge or Pawn. The bailor in this case is called the. Pledgor or, the pawnor. The bailee is called the Pledgee or the Pawnee.-Sec. 172.
Difference between Bailment and Pledge
Pledge is a particular kind of bailment. The difference between Pledge and other kinds of bailment lies in the purpose or objective of the transaction. The purpose of a pledge is to provide security for a debt or the performance of a promise. In other kinds of bailment there are other purposes for example, repair, safe-custody etc. The pledgor and the pledgee have certain special rights and duties.
When can a non-owner make a valid Pledge?
The owner of goods can always make a valid-pledge. In the following cases, one who is not, an owner can make I valid pledge.
1. Mercantile Agent
A mercantile agent who is, with the consent of the owner, in possession of the goods or of the documents of title to goods, can make a valid pledge of the goods while acting in the ordinary course of business of a mercantile agent. Such a pledge will be valid even if the agent had no authority to pledge, provided that the Pawnee acts in good faith and has not at the time of the pledge any notice that the pawnor has no authority to pledge Sec.178.
2. Possession under a voidable contract
A person having possession . of goods under a voidable contract can make a valid pledge of the goods so long as the contract is not rescinded. The Pawnee gets a good title to the goods provided he acts in good faith and without notice of the pawnor’s defect of title.-Sec. 178
Example :
A gets an ornament by inducing the owner to sell it to him by undue influence. Before the contract is rescinded by the owner, he pawns it to B. B will get a good title to the ornament provided he acted in good faith and was unaware of A’s defective title.
3. Pawnor with a limited interest
Where a person pledges goods in which he has only a iimited interest, the pledge is valid to the extent of that interest.Sec 179.
4.possession with co-owner .
If one of several co-owners is in sole possession of the goods with the consent of the owners, he can make a valid pledge of he goods.-Sec. 30 (I). Sale of Goods Act.
1. Right of Retainer
“The Pawnee can retain the goods pledged. not only for payment of the debt or the performance of the promise, but also for the interest of the debt and all necessary expenses incurred by him in respect of the possession or for the preservation of the goods pledged.”-Sec. 173.
2. Retainer for subsequent advance
The Pawnee’s lien is a particular lien, i.e., he cannot retain the goods for any debt other than the debt for which the security was given unless there is an express contract to the contrary. the Pawnee makes fresh advances to the same debtor it will he presumed that the debtor has agreed to. create on the goods already pledged a lien for the fresh advance.-Sec. 174
3.Extraordinary expenses
the Pawnee is entitled to receive from the pawnor extra0rrlinary expenses incurred by him for the preservation of the goods pledged.-Sec. 175. .
4. Pawnee’s right where pawnor makes default
“If the pawnor makes a default in payment of the debt, or performance, at the stipulated time of the promise, in respect of which the goods were pledged, the Pawnee may bring a suit against the pawnor upon the debt or promise, and retain the goods pledged as collateral security ; or, he may sell the thing pledged on giving the pawnor reasonable notice of the sale.
If the proceeds of such sale are less than the amount due in respect of the debt or promise, the pawnor is still liable to pay the balance. If the proceeds of the sale are greater than the amount so due, the Pawnee shall pay over the surplus to the pawnor.-Sec. 176.
1. Defaulting pawnor’s right to redeem
“If a time is stipulated for the payment of the debt, or performance of the promise, for which the pledge is made, and the pawnor makes default in payment of the debt or performance of the promise at the stipulated time, he may redeem the goods pledged at any subsequent time before the actual sale of them ; but he must, in that case, pay, in addition, any expenses which have arisen from his default.”-Sec. 177.
2. Preservation and maintenance
The pledgor can enforce the preservation and proper maintenance of the goods pledged.
3. Protection of debtors
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Eminem "Campaign Speech" lyrics: A breakdown of the verses in his Trump-ethering anthem
The world would be a terrifying place if Eminem were president. He's first to admit it on his latest single "Campaign Speech," released Wednesday just hours before the third and final presidential debate. However, he insists he wouldn't be as bad as one of the people currently aiming for the Oval Office.
"Consider me a dangerous man," Eminem raps, stating the obvious on his first new potential album cut since 2014. "But you should be afraid of this dang candidate."
Eminem doesn't go into specifics about what makes him unfit to serve exactly — the way that YG does on his "Fuck Donald Trump" tracks, or how Death Cab for Cutie did on "Million Dollar Loan." Instead, the track functions as more of an aimless, chaotic revenge fantasy, something that will likely remain Em's bread and butter until the very end.
On the 8-minute long, sparse track, Eminem imagines kidnapping and drowning Trump supporters, but seemingly blames all of us for his rise.
"Run the faucet, I'ma dunk/ A bunch of Trump supporters underwater," Eminem raps about halfway through the song. "Snuck up on 'em in Ray Bans in a gray van with a spray tan/ It's a wrap, like an Ace bandage."
His only other Trump mention comes a few lines later, where he admonishes all those who asked for an anti-establishment candidate of the people. "Great idea!" Eminem sneers after running down the wishes of those people:
"You say Trump don't kiss ass like a puppet
The rest of the track simply features Eminem torturing, mocking and lampooning various pop culture figures. It's a writing strategy he employed to great effect on past pop hits like "The Real Slim Shady" and "Without Me." In 2016, he's aiming at Daniel Pantaleo, the cop who killed Eric Garner, and George Zimmerman, the man who killed Trayvon Martin:
"I'm givin' Daniel Pantaleo a refresher course
He also imagines a brutal fate for Dylann Roof, the white supremacist that attacked and killed nine black congregants at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in June 2015.
"And send Dylann Roof through the windshield of the Benz
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Emir of Qatar Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani addresses the 68th United Nations General Assembly on September 24, 2013 in New York City.
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DOHA, Qatar — We stood outside the guard house in the desert wind on the outskirts of the city. Doha Central Prison rose on the horizon of a barren, rock-strewn landscape, electric wires cutting across a cloudless sky. We had been told we had permission to visit Qatari poet Mohammed al-Ajami, whose 15-year sentence for two poems had been confirmed the previous day by the high court.
For five hours we stood, paced and sat in broken chairs, negotiating on mobile phones with the attorney general’s office. The prison authorities had not received the request for our visit. The guards changed twice while we waited, guards from nationalities other than Qatari as are most of the workers in Qatar. They were friendly, sharing fresh oranges with us as the hours passed, but had no authority to help.
Inside the prison members of al-Ajami’s family were visiting him and knew we were out there. Al-Ajami knew we were there and wanted to see us. No one had gotten this far, the family later told us. But in the end we were denied.
For the last two years Mohammed al-Ajami has been in solitary confinement with limited access to visitors. A known poet in the Gulf and the father of four, al-Ajami was a literature student at Cairo University in 2010 when he recited a poem in his apartment among friends, a poem that allegedly criticized former emir Sheikh Hamad Al Thani. The poem was in response to a poem by a fellow poet, but one of the students in the apartment recorded al-Ajami and uploaded the reading on YouTube.
According to al-Ajami’s lawyer Dr. Najeeb al-Nauimi, a former justice minister in Qatar, the poem was spoken in a private setting and violated no law. Another of al-Ajami’s poems — “Jasmine” — was circulated on the internet and expressed support for the uprising in Tunisia and criticized all the Arab regimes.
Sixteen months later, al-Ajami was summoned in Doha and arrested, eventually charged with “encouraging an attempt to overthrow the existing regime,” “claiming that the emir misused and not abided by the Qatar Constitution” and “criticizing the crown prince,” who has subsequently become the emir.
Al-Ajami was sentenced to life imprisonment after a trial held in secret where the investigating judge, a non-Qatari, was also the chief judge. [The emir appoints all judges on recommendation from the Supreme Judicial Council, 75 percent of whom are foreign nationals, dependent on residency permits.]
Later on appeal, al-Ajami’s sentence was reduced to 15 years.
As representatives of PEN International and PEN American Center we — two American women — had come to Doha to argue for al-Ajami's release, but by the time our planes landed, the court had already upheld the 15-year sentence. All judicial appeals were now exhausted.
A country of two million people, but with only 250,000 citizens, Qatar is among the richest nations in the world per capita. Extensive gas reserves developed in the 1990s have given Qatar its huge income and given the country a seat at the leadership tables of the region and the globe.
During his reign the former emir set a course of modernization and brought reform to the government, brought institutions of higher education to the kingdom and developed programs in the arts and set up a Center on Media Freedom. The West looks to Qatar as a leader in the region. The imprisonment of a poet on an offense of lese majeste has confounded many though in an interview, the prime solicitor general insisted the charges were not about freedom of speech but were brought because the poet publicly offended people and urged the overthrow of the government.
In Qatar itself the case has received little coverage. The news media is owned by the government and the emir. Those familiar with the ways of the kingdom say the only recourse now for al-Ajami is a pardon by the emir. However, if an apology is necessary for that pardon, a standoff may occur. According to al-Ajami’s lawyer, the poet has questioned why he should apologize for having spent the last two years in solitary confinement for sharing a poem in a private setting. His lawyer notes that Al-Ajami has had his career disrupted; he has missed seeing his family for two years, including missing the birth of his youngest child.
As I flew out of Qatar, I stared at the desert below now filled with skyscrapers and modern museums rising from the land. I considered the math. Over 90 percent of the jobs are occupied by men and women of other countries who have no rights of citizenship and can be deported. Only one in 10 people are citizens; half of these are women, who have limited rights; over a quarter are children and the elderly. The country is run by a very small minority. I questioned whether the math was on the side of history.
If the country puts its poets in prison, one must wonder. On the other hand, if the new emir, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, just 33 years old and educated in Britain, pardons poet al-Ajami unconditionally as PEN urges, then perhaps the curve of history will extend outwards, at least for a while.
Mohammed al-Ajami is an honorary member of PEN American Center. PEN’s representatives in Doha were Joanne Leedom-Ackerman, Vice President of PEN International and Trustee of PEN American Center, and Sarah Hoffman, Freedom to Write Coordinator for PEN American Center.
To sign a petition urging a pardon for Mohammed al-Ajami, click here
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December 10, 2015
The Christmas Story is about [whatever has the Left worked up at the moment]
Not long ago, I remember hearing the Christmas Story being about a homeless, unwed mother being shunned by society.
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Now, the Story is about a Middle Eastern refugee family. Sheesh.
It's bad enough when the secular left tries to hijack Jesus for its causes; it's downright shameful when a church does so, betraying its ignorance of the Book upon which its faith supposedly rests.
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For the record, Jesus' family fled to Egypt during a period when the government was seeking to murder Him -- but He was almost certainly a year (or more) old by then, when the family was living comfortably in a house (Matt 2:11) in Bethlehem. At no point during the birth narrative was the family fleeing anything.
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The Applications of Spectrometers
A spectrometer is a measuring device that looks at wavelengths of light over most of the electromagnetic spectrum. These devices, made by companies like, are often used to analyse sample materials in a wide range of industries and applications.
The light coming from the source is absorbed into, reflected by or transmitted through the sample and the changes to the light that occur during this interaction with the sample can reveal the sample’s composition and characteristics.
There are usually two types of radiation or light source used in spectroscopy – line sources and continuous sources. Line sources use specialised lasers or lamps and continuous sources are either solid, heated substances or wide-spectrum lamps.
The uses of spectrometers
Spectrometers are used in many industries and applications, including environmental monitoring, for example to measure dissolved oxygen content in water; looking at emission lines from distant galaxies, gas analysis in medical settings and space exploration.
Mass spectrometers
These are devices that measure the concentration and mass of molecules and atoms in a sample by producing spectra from them. These spectra can reveal the elements, masses, chemical structures and isotopes within a sample.
They work by calculating the mass-to-charge ratios of the molecules and atoms in the sample by ionising them with an electric charge.
Space exploration
Mass spectrometers are useful here because they can be used to find out what sort of molecules and compounds are in a sample from deep space. We can’t travel very far into space at present, but we can tell what’s out there before we’re ready to go.
Carbon dating
Mass spectrometers are also used in carbon dating so the age of once-living samples can be estimated to a fairly accurate degree. These devices are also useful in analysing radioactivity or toxic compounds in a contaminated area or air sample.
The different types of spectroscopy
Absorption spectroscopy
Absorption spectroscopy works by absorbing light according to its wavelength. Sample molecules are excited by absorbing the light and reach higher energy states – the excitation is proportional to the light’s wavelength.
Infrared spectroscopy
This is where the spectrometer measures the vibrations of the inter-atomic bonds of a sample material as it’s exposed to infrared light. These spectrometers can also be used to count the number of absorbing molecules in a sample.
X-ray spectroscopy
Here, the inner electrons of sample atoms are excited by energy and when these electrons move into new levels within the atom, they produce x-ray fluorescence emission spectra that can be analysed.
Ultraviolet spectroscopy
In ultraviolet spectroscopy, samples are exposed to UV light and the electrons are excited by the light energy. The absorbance characteristics of the sample’s compounds can then by measured by analysing the excitation of the electrons. This method is useful for looking at chemical bonding.
Laser spectroscopy
This type of spectroscopy uses laser light as its source of radiation. It’s usually used to measure and analyse the interaction between the light and the sample molecules. This type of spectroscopy has particularly high resolution and sensitivity.
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SPECIAL REPORT: Trump, Putin & Syria
To understand the significance of what just happened, it is important to ask the right questions. Although the gringa would never deny the importance of humanitarian actions, we first have to determine if the American people have been told the truth of what happened in Syria or if we have been duped to support a dark operation. Please read on with an open mind. More importantly, follow the links to further your own personal research in order to draw the most informed conclusion. Even after the research the gringa has already done, she is still left with more questions. Although I am deeply moved by the suffering of the Syrian people, I cannot support Trump’s actions.
Trump had been quietly building up troops in the region of Syria’s conflict since February yet the mainstream media rarely reported these movements. Why?
Trump has always criticized publicizing intended military action as a stupid way of giving the target a head’s up. Yet he notified Russia and Syria officials of his intentions, though not the public. Russia and Syria had time to evacuate personnel and critical equipment and supplies. However, it appears that innocent Syrian civilians were left behind to become collateral damage, public sympathy insurance for Syrian and Russian anti-American propaganda. Also notice in Russia’s drone footage it only appears that outbuildings and insignificant runways were destroyed. Unscathed are major runways, earthen, concrete open hangars with aircraft parked within and aircraft parked in the open. Why?
Russia has troops deployed strategically around the world. Build-ups have been reported by many European nations that see Russia as a growing threat. Yet Trump did not think it necessary to be concerned of Russia retaliation to the US or our allies. Why?
Trump is an avid conspiracy theorist who has publicly insulted and questioned the integrity of the US intelligence community. Such intelligence would be required to verify the identity of who authorized the Syrian gas attack. Conflicting reports throughout Europe, the Middle East and Asia raise possibilities that it was a false flag event staged by the rebels and terrorists designed to be blamed upon Assad. Yet Trump immediately chose to trust the US intelligence community and reject conspiracy possibilities intended to provoke this very response. Why?
Trump has consistently praised and supported the brutal leadership characteristics of Putin and Assad. Yet suddenly he changes his position and engages in an act of war with lightning speed. Why?
Historically, when a president is fraught with unpopularity, low employment, paralyzing controversy, and stagnant economy a war temporarily solves these problems. For a president accused, and being investigated, for treason and collusion with Russia, what more significant gesture to refute the accusations than to attack Russia through an ally proxy? Considering how much power and wealth is at stake between a Putin-Trump alliance, it is entirely possible KGB master of propaganda, deception & mind-molding, Putin himself, cooked up this plan because it is certainly too complex for Trump. This could all be political theatre at the cost of Syrian civilian lives.
Read history, dear readers. Look at Operation Ajax from the 1950s, perpetrated by the CIA on behalf of British oil interest in Iran. All the elements are the same. Staged civilian protest. Staged revolution. Arming of rebels and radicals. Bloody political coup. Massive propaganda and misinformation campaign to win US public support for a fake war that was the cover to install a puppet government to control oil interest. Delve into the documents of the CIA itself to discover that what has unfolded in Syria is simply a re-run of what happened in Iran nearly 70 years ago in Operation Ajax.
Read the works of Noam Chomsky. Hegemony has long been US foreign policy regardless of what party or individual controlled the White House. Trump is no different. That is why, by and large, Congress will support him regardless of party affiliation and even though his action was illegal, lacking Congressional approval. The US is a warmonger, always looking for justification to act on its power for profit or power expansion. And April, 6, 1917, 100 years ago yesterday, the US entered WWI. For a man who loves the taste of drama, don’t think such a detail as this significant anniversary escaped Trump.
Although Trump is justifying his act on the horror of civilians, especially children, being gassed, America has NEVER waged a war for purely humanitarian reasons. If Trump was motivated by humanitarianism, he would not reject desperate refugees seeking shelter in the US. He would not be ignoring the suffering of South Sudanese children caught up in their nation’s civil war. He would be inserting US military into Nigeria to stop the ethnic cleansing and religious genocide that is ongoing. There is only one reason Trump has intervened in Syria. Power and national interest. If you wonder what’s so darn important about Syria, check out the basics of the strategic interests of each party involved in this long, drawn out conflict:
US strategic interest in Syria: The importance of Syria is not because of the resources it has, but because of the countries that border it. Iraq is one neighbor, an oil production giant with many Americans on Iraqi soil and vulnerable to a Syria that might be controlled by a leader who is no friend to America. American allies Israel, Jordan and Turkey skirt 3 other borders.
Russia’s interest: Syria has provided naval station Tartus to the Russian Federation for the past 40 years. It is Moscow’s primary marine foothold in the Mediterranean region. The Mediterranean serves as the major corridor for Intra-European trade and the flow of oil in and out of the Middle East through Syria and, ultimately, to Russian interests.
ISIS interest: ISIS is composed mainly of fundamentalist Sunni Muslims who believe that the whole world should become a single Islamic community living under one Islamic State governed by Sharia Law. War in Syria would give them a golden opportunity to build a proto-state adjacent to countries where Sunni Muslims are a majority. Sunni majority nations bordering Syria or in extremely close proximity: Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Egypt and Turkey. These Sunni rich nations are vast recruitment assets for growing the ranks of ISIS. For ISIS to control Syria would mean greater ease in accomplishing their global mission. It would solidify their grip on the Middle East. This would mean the rest of the world would see their oil interests strangled unless they submitted to ISIS. A nation without Middle East oil powering their military is a nation that is powerless in the face of ISIS. Control of Syria is crucial to winning, or losing, the war against ISIS.
At first glance, the war with ISIS is the most logical reason for Trump’s action. However, we must still consider that Russia has been no friend to ISIS, nor has Assad. There was really no real threat of an ISIS takeover of Syria. The civil war in Syria was beginning to turn in Assad’s favor with the helpful latest push from ally, Russia. Why would Assad then sabotage such progress by a reprehensible gas attack on his people? He is no naive child on the world stage. He had to know there would have been a backlash at least, retaliatory action at most. This is a puzzle many nations who have no oil interest in Syria are openly discussing. And their conclusions are quite dark and disturbing.
Is Trump’s action in Syria indicative of yet one more secret Trump-Russia pact? The election collusion has always centered around the power of oil interests. The allegations: Russia would gift Trump an oil interest in Rosneft along with the White House in exchange for the US lifting Russian sanctions. Trump was also to blackmail the leader of US ally Ukraine to step down making it possible to install a Russian friendly Ukrainian leader. The end result would be a Russian proxy Ukraine allowing unfettered access to lucrative pipelines. What if Syria was also part of the deal?
By destabilizing an already weakened Assad, Trump can create the conditions for Putin to gain control of Syria. Syria has a coastal border which has long provided Russia with port access to move oil. Is Syria to be another gift from Trump to Russia? Was this move to set the stage of pay off by toppling Assad which would enable Russia to tighten its control and install a puppet Syrian leader? Some nation’s are beginning to suspect just such a secret deal between Trump and Putin. Peruse the discussions taking place amongst foreign policy experts in Asia. Such a pact would then explain the inexplicable. Whereas Assad has nothing to gain from gassing his people, the US and Russia or the rebels have much to gain by staging a civilian attack and blaming Assad.
The dear reader may think these suggestions are preposterous. But stop and consider what happens if Middle East oil power is consolidated into the hands of one individual or a partnership between two individuals. If Trump and Putin have ambitions of controlling the world’s oil supplies, they will become the most powerful and wealthy men in the entire history of the world. Such an ambition is not beyond the realm of possibility with these two megalomaniacs. And to achieve their dream, regime change in Syria is necessary. To better understand how critical control of Syria is, read the analysis of the Communist Party USA. Even if you are virulently opposed to Communism, one cannot refute facts regardless of the messenger.
Although the missile attack is sensational, it is the motive that preceded it and the aftermath that ensues that really matters. Someone, or a group of “someones”, will pay the price for this action. Is death for the masses to be the
price of Trump’s low approval ratings? Would these lives be Syrian troops on the ground at the base during the missile launch? Assad, himself? Nope. Trump gave Syria and Russia a head’s up so they could evacuate critical officials, military personnel, equipment and supplies. The only ones paying the price for Trump’s low approval ratings right now appear to be the Syrian civilians left behind, the price Syria and Russia were willing to pay for public sympathy. And a future price may include the American and Russian soldiers who will die as a result of Trump’s desperation to turn things around for himself and deliver what is owed to Putin.
Russia’s navy and biggest guns are speeding to the region as we speak, prepared for confrontation with the US naval ships who launched the attack. And, in the grand scheme of things, every American who continues to naively accept being emotionally manipulated by a government bent on world domination will pay the price. The path of hegemony the US follows will continue to wreak havoc around the world. This will continue to destabilize populations. Desperate populations will continue to flee to America and other places. And they will always require our financial assistance.
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8 thoughts on “SPECIAL REPORT: Trump, Putin & Syria”
1. Reblogged this on Filosofa's Word and commented:
I was directed to this blog by my friend, David Prosser, and here I found a post by Gringa of the Barrio, that asks many of the same questions I have been asking for the past 24 hours, regarding the strikes against a Syrian airfield, allegedly in response to the chemical weapon attack by al-Assad earlier this week. Gringa asks not only the questions that have been going round and round in my head, but poses some new ones that I had not considered. I do not know the answers to the uestions, do not pretend to, but I think this post is definitely worth the time to read and ponder. Much of what she says makes a great deal of sense. Thank you, Gringa, for a well-thought post and for permission to re-blog!
2. Indeed an excellent piece, gringa. Your deeper understanding of the facts is very welcome, and brings up logical and probably-accurate explanations. The CIA keeps itself busy around the world, just recall the Central American banana wars which killed so many people. Iran-Contra et al
Besides—what creates such a marvelous diversion of thought and attitude than a good solid rocket attack on some country already demonized thoroughly by forces dedicated to other points-of-view. Namely—the current Congressional investigations of Trump and his … uh, cronies … which may or may not pursue evil until someone is jailed for treason.
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Britney Spears does 1,000 abdomen crunches. Every day. It’s true. I saw it on one of those shows. She said one thousand crunches a day. Or almost every day. She thinks she might sometimes miss a day or two. Imagine if she wrote 1,000 words a day instead? Better yet, imagine if I wrote 1,000 words a day?
Well, I do actually–often more, much more. It’s just that not all of them are on paper. The majority of the words I write stay somewhere else–in between thought and fingers and keyboard, waiting for a chance to be spewed onto the page.
For me, it is something like speaking. There are times when I don’t speak because I’m writing what I want to say in my head instead (or worse, I think I’ve said something and only thought it). Typically, it sounds much better in my head than it does coming out of my mouth anyway. Same for writing, better in my head than on the page–much.
It’s all about anticipation of the reaction–will there be fame or shame?
Say you are in a classroom. The instructor has asked a question. You know the answer. You alone—you’re sure of it. No one else could possibly know this answer and when you say it, when you WOW them all with your brilliance, it is going to be great. The teacher will be impressed with you, the other classmates will hate you and yet you hesitate. The time is not right for you to speak, maybe the instructor is still speaking (and you wish he would shut up so you could say what you have to say. Just shut the fuck up would you? Let me speak! I know the answer!) and the pressure builds and your face gets hot.
Or maybe it’s your fear, your doubt. Do you really know the answer? You? Come on! Don’t be so stupid. You are going to open your mouth and the words will come out and everyone will laugh because you are such a fool. They will all know that you never should have been allowed in the class anyway. It’s a fluke. You are way out of your league.
But the words are pushing to get out and yet for whatever reason you are mute. You can’t open your mouth. Your mouth will not open. You are waiting for just the right time. The right moment when everything comes together and your answer or statement is thrown out to the rest of the class and relief. And satisfaction or humiliation.
So you speak and your answer is the right one and the teacher winks at you and your classmates hate your guts for knowing what they did not know and you sit back all smug and satisfied and feel for once in your life that you might be on the right track.
Or you speak and it comes out all wrong and hackneyed and stupid and all of that hope you put into your answer plops to the ground under your desk. Everyone can see it. Some people might even laugh at it—maybe even laugh behind your back, later, which would be worse. The teacher seems embarrassed for you and quickly changes the subject. You can no longer make eye contact. You may never speak again and think that becoming a cloistered monk doesn’t sound so bad after all.
Or you just never say anything and wonder for the rest of your life what would have happened if you’d spoken. The others might have lifted you up on their shoulders and carried you around the room. You might have won a car. A Nobel Peace Prize was not outside of the realm of possibility. If only you had said something.
Or you are Britney and you do your crunches regardless. You grunt them out, day after day until they are like breathing. And you do it because you want killer abs. You want abs you could bounce a nickel off of.
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Curtis Dion had two rushing touchdowns and Kevin Harmeling and Jimmy Coughlin each scored as Seymour defeated Kennedy, 43-12, in a Naugatuck Valley League football game Saturday afternoon at Crosby High.
Harmeling also threw two TD passes, one to Louie Cortello and one to Ethan Hamilton, for the Wildcats (2-0).
Defensively, Adam Violano recorded a safety for Seymour. Sean Foster booted five PAT kicks.
Dereck Ledee threw a TD pass to Tre Graves for the Eagles (1-1), while Joe Colon forced a fumble and freshman Devin Johnson scooped up the ball and scored from 25 yards out for the second TD.
WCA 54, Sacred Heart-Kaynor Tech 6: Cyris Smith had two rushing touchdowns and Jalen Gopie added a rushing touchdown and another on a pass play for the Spartans at Crosby.
Gerald Council returned a fumble for a score for WCA (1-1) and Carmelo Mojica returned an interception for a score. Manny Escobales and Julio Torro also had rushing TDs.
Cheshire Academy 21, Capital Harbor Prep 6: Jack Brandon completed 17 of 22 passes for 210 yards and three touchdowns for the Cats.
Brandon threw touchdowns to Cameron Maddox (22 yards), Jackson Parker (30 yards) and Charlie Davis (27 yards). Parker led Cheshire Academy with five catches for 70 yards.
Torrington 27, Derby 8: On Friday, Jacob Coleman’s 25-yard fumble recovery for a touchdown broke an 8-8 tie and helped the Red Raiders to their first win at Lou DeFilippo Field.
Conrad Avallone ran for a 2-yard score and Christian Estefani scored on an 83-yard run for Torrington (1-1), which scored 27 unaswered points.
Aiden Traver recovered a fumble to set up Joey White’s 21-yard field goal midway through the fourth quarter. Zerion Montgomery had a 1-yard TD run in the first quarter and scored the two-point conversion.
Lewis Mills 29, Rocky Hill 6: Colby Nordstrom ran for three touchdowns (2, 2, 27) and Sean Polinsky had a 2-yard rushing touchdown and two-point conversion to lead the Spartans on Friday night.
Cheshire Academy 3, Greens Farms Academy 2: The Cats bounced back from a first-set loss to rally past Greens Farms, 16-25, 27-25, 25-13, 21-25, 15-10, to pick up their first win of the season.
Watertown 2, Weston 2: Moni Jusufi had a goal and an assist and Troy Tedesco scored for Watertown (3-0-1).
Litchfield 3, Wamogo 0: Timmy Donovan scored twice, Luke Parsons had a goal and an assist and Harry Barnes had two assists for the Cowboys.
Chase Collegiate 6, Marvelwood 1: Aiden Coelho and Simon Kopecky each recorded a hat trick for the Highlanders.
Marvelwood 2, Chase Collegiate 1: Izzy Kopecky scored and Ali Dassatti made eight saves for the Highlanders.
Cheshire’s Brendan Mellitt was third with a time of time of 16:11 at the 3.1-mile course at the Winding Trails Invitational boys race in Farmington.
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What Does Freedom of Petition Mean?
What Does Freedom of Petition Mean?
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The Definition of Freedom of Petition
The Freedom of Petition originates from its history of being one of the fundamental freedoms that is duly constituted for the benefit of all Americans in the United States.
The Freedom of Petition is duly stipulated and documented in the First Amendment of the Constitution of the United States.
Legally speaking, the United States of America’s First Amendment is constitutionally composed of five specific freedoms and these are as follows: Petition, Free Press, Religion, Free Speech and Assembly.
The Constitutional Basis of the Freedom of Petition
The Freedom of Petition’s section, as legally manifested in the first amendment, which is largely referred as the “Petition Clause”, states the following three premises:
1.The people of the United States of America have the right to appeal to the American government, either the concerned individuals are duly in favor or against the specific policies that may greatly affect them or in the contrary, may have felt strongly with, personally.
2. The freedom of petition legally states as an inclusion the right to garner signatures which will be in great support to a certain cause and in the longer run, will serve as a lobby that will pave the way for legislative bodies or may hinder due to being against the legislation, respectively.
3. In a simpler meaning, the right to petition provides every American citizen concerned; “the very right to present their personal or group requests to the American government, without the fear of being led to punishment or reprisal.”
This right is absolutely a guarantee as constitutionally stipulated in the First Amendment of the United States Constitution.
The Origin of “Petition”
The word “petition” is highly related both to the freedom of petition, as well as with the First Amendment in an in-depth sense, for the reason that the word itself is described as follows:
“Any method and approach that is ladened on the dimensional tenet of being non-violent, which legally means encouragement or disapproval of any action performed and initiated by the government, as a direct and immediate response to any of the three branches concerned which are the legislative branch, judicial branch and executive branch.”
In addition, the petition clause is heavily provided with the following provisions wherein the freedom of petition can be performed, executed and availed by the change maker and purposefully-driven with the following methodologies, approaches and strategies as follows: letter-writing, filing lawsuits, lobbying, supporting referendum, testifying before tribunals, email campaigns, peaceful protests and picketing, and most importantly, collecting signatures for ballot initiatives.
Furthermore, the entirety of public articulation should revolve around the presentation of complaints, issues and interests as a specified design that will lead to the direction of spurring any action initiated and performed by the government in terms of being qualified greatly, under the constitutional standards and requirements of the petition clause.
The Importance of the Freedom of Petition
The freedom of petition as constitutionally manifested in the first amendment of the United States of America’s Constitution is often not overlooked, in respective comparison to the other four freedoms that are enlisted in the first amendment, on a legal point of view.
However, this freedom and right has remained significant, and essential in the United States of America, for the reason that it provides determination and motivation to every individual and citizen in America to steadfastly stand up and firmly speak out against prevalent injustices that are recently occurring.
In addition, it directly gives the change maker the innate and immense power to impact and influence change that will eradicate and abolish prevailing injustices.
To continue with, specifically, the right to petition government is a provisional freedom that has remained to be upholded firmly by the Supreme Court of the United States that has been proven time and time again in various occasional scenarios.
As an effect, the right to petition is a means of proving that it is absolutely an inalienable right under the United States government, so to speak.
As a means of looking back to the time and era wherein the Civil Rights Movement transpired, the Supreme Court of the United States of America, upholded the rights of numerous groups of concerned individuals with regards to their protest on segregation.
The main root of this protest originated from the transpiration of rampant segregation in several public institutions specifically with regards to schools and libraries, and in return, the Supreme Court resulted with a ruling that these citizens deserve the right to resort in expression, as mandated in the petition clause, relatively.
Moreover, the act of petition has greatly contributed to the immediate change in terms of specific practices that are centered on environmental practices, activists and organizations.
As a reality, it is tremendously impactful if a lot of voices are contributing and supporting a specific cause, compared to only one voice alone.
Definitely, the right and freedom to petition is a highly prized tool and platform for citizens to make great use of in terms of speaking and voicing out in terms of issues that are of great importance and essence to them, respectively.
The Holistic Relevance of the Freedom of Petition to the Nonprofit and Philanthropic Sector
In relation to the connotation that numerous voices are always better than one, it is definitely understandable in the point of view of citizens concerned that they should greatly consider, adapting an approach and methodology that is effective in utilizing a petition.
As an effect, this approach and methodology is more feasible in terms of encouraging individuals to unite for a similar cause, and in return, garnering more signatories that will allow the cause to reach the direction of realization.
As a means of emphasis, the nonprofit community plays a dynamic role in rendering a petition to the national government by direct means and provision of an organized medium that will enjoin citizens together, in order to render support to certain causes and on the contrary, may petition practices that are in violation to their supported cause, respectively.
On a larger scale and on a later part, if a concerned individual alone has that innate capability of garnering a hundred or more individuals to join him or her in a petition that is in response or against a specific government practice, it will definitely benefit and catapult him or her to a position wherein he or she has a trademark of influencing people.
Alongside with it, in terms of bringing an impact to the petition itself, in support of the cause that he or she is advocating for, a clearer and brighter result is definitely on hand if such initiative and effort is exerted by the individual, who is a certified changemaker and influencer as well.
On the basis of building a specific perspective, a change and transformation will be noticed vividly, should the individual participate and become a duly authorized member of a nonprofit organization, wherein its members are in full support of a similar cause.
In a bigger picture, they can altogether create a magnanimous difference, should the need of petitioning a government practice arise.
Furthermore, citizens can also provide the needed financial support to their desired organization whom they want to extend their help with, as a way of manifesting their support, and this in return, will contribute to the sustainability of the organization, in terms of funding the organization through donations that will provide protection, defense and support to the cause in totality.
In conclusion, citizens who are imbibed and strong with regards to specific issues are given freely the option to be maximally involved in a certain nonprofit organization through time, money and donation which serves as his or her major contribution to a specific nonprofit organization, with a ladened basis that it is definitely impactful if the right and freedom to petition is exercised in an optimum level as a whole.
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Guide to the Musée Picasso in Paris: A Lothario's Great Cache Of Art
Updated: Jan 21
-- Marina Picasso, Picasso's granddaughter
Pablo Picasso, Yo Picasso/Self Portrait, 1901
Here's my guide to visiting the Picasso Museum in Paris, known as the Musée National Picasso-Paris. It's a fantastic single artist museum and a must see site in Paris for art lovers. The Musée Picasso holds one of Paris' most treasured art collections, shown off in an elegant private mansion in the Marais.
Visiting the quietly prestigious museum took me back to my youthful days. And if there were a nugget of wisdom I could give my younger self, it would be don't fall for artistic men like Pablo Picasso.
Artists tend to be volatile, delusional, and self-absorbed, sometimes vacillating willy nilly between overweening arrogance and abject self doubt. They often torment the women they love, some intentionally and some unwittingly. Their art is always the top priority.
I subjected myself to this hazard in college and became entangled with a charismatic young man who fancied himself a novelist in training. Naturally, it didn't end well and, heartbroken, I cried so many tears I thought I'd rust.
Later in life, I auto-corrected and ended up with a more faithful type of man: a lawyer. I suppose lawyers may have other bad habits -- workaholism, a tendency to treat their spouses like opposing counsel, and, well, perhaps a more tedious kind of temperament. No one is perfect, of course.
Nonetheless, my fascination with artists persisted and I have spent many hours at museums or reading artist biographies. It's easy to slide into old habits, isn't it?
Aside from the great art they produce, artists also come complete with compelling and tragic life story lines. They provide great escapism, a thing that readers (if I have any) will know I am quite attached to.
The Picasso Museum, in the 17th century Hotel Sale in the Marais neighborhood of Paris
The Picasso Museum in Paris
And so, recently while I was in Paris, I bought a timed entry pass to the Musée Picasso to see the art of one of the all-time great tormentors of women and would be muses: Pablo Picasso.
the beautiful limestone interior and wrought iron staircases of Paris' Picasso Museum
The Musée Picasso is quite lovely. The museum is housed in the gorgeous 17th century Baroque Hotel Sale in one of my favorite Parisian neighborhoods, the Marais.
What I love most about the museum is that it houses all the art that Picasso could not part with. It is a personal collection that he created, curated, lived with, and kept nearby his entire life. It represents all the artistic periods of his life, all the women he loved, and reveals his extraordinary range and talent.
The museum was born from an "acceptance in lieu" scheme whereby his heirs donated works of art to France avoid paying taxes. I'm glad they did because it is a stunning single artist museum.
Pablo Picasso was a lothario and chronic womanizer. He was a one man female wrecking ball who once said "love is the greatest refreshment" and then never left the concession stand.
He had a series of long relationships with women, punctuated with affairs, often trading one woman for another when they no longer inspired him.
As you stroll through the Picasso Museum, which is organized chronologically, you can see the progression of his artistic styles and the succession of his long suffering female casualties. His art and his loves were always intertwined, and his loves ended up with the short straw.
What To See at the Picasso Museum in Paris
1. The Blue Period
This period is characterized by Picasso's use of the color blue and by his own depression caused by the death of his close friend, Carlos Casagemas.
Picasso said “When I realized Casagemas was dead, I started to paint in blue.” The Picasso Museum has three brilliant paintings (shown below) from that oeuvre: Picasso's 1901 Self Portrait (which marks the beginning of the Blue Period), the 1904 La Celestine, and the 1901 haunting Death of Casagemas. They are mesmerizing, so allot time to be mesmerized.
Head of a Woman, 1906
2. The Rose Period and Cubism: Fernande Olivier
Picasso's first love was Fernande Oliver, an artists' model who looked like she had stepped out of a Toulouse-Lautrec painting. They met outside the dilapidated Bateau Lavoire in Montmartre when Picasso was a young artist living in dire poverty.
Fernande is typically associated with his Rose Period, where he traded his bleak blue palette for one of pinks and oranges, and with Cubism.
The bust of Fernande, of which there are many versions, is considered one of the first Cubist sculptures. During their relationship, Picasso also produced one of his African inspired masterpieces, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, 1907, which is often credited with launching the modern art moment. Picasso later admitted that one of the Desmoiselles was Fernande.
excerpt of Les Desmoiselles d'Avignon, supposedly a portrait of Fernande
Unfortunately, as a young passionate artist, Picasso was not the ideal mate. He would often lock Fernande in his studio in a jealous fit. But his fervor didn't extend to fidelity. Predictably, they parted in 1912 amid angst, ill will, and infidelity.
Fernande was left destitute and forced to pen tell all memoirs to survive. See what I was telling you? It's no picnic being with a moody narcissistic artist. It doesn't end well.
3. Classicism: Olga Khokhlova
Picasso's next venture into romantic bliss was with the Russian ballerina Olga Khokhlova. She disliked his more abstract work and, in response, he began to paint in a more traditional form, known as his Classicism Period. The beautiful and melancholy Olga Pensive above is typical of that period.
The elegant Olga was the first woman to get Picasso to say "I do" in 1917. He was attracted, for a time, to her social ranking and high society lifestyle. But "I do," like his previous declarations of love, meant little.
Olga Pensive, 1923, by Pablo Picasso
Portrait of Olga in Armchair, 1917
Several years later, tiring of his bourgeois life and bourgeois wife, Picasso began a clandestine affair with the teenage Marie-Therese Walter. He successfully kept the affair secret for years. He and Olga parted, on poor terms naturally, when she discovered that Marie-Therese was pregnant.
Olga grew progressively more demented and fled to southern France, thereafter labeled the "mad wife."
a blistering depiction of Olga: Grand Nu au Fauteil Rouge, 1929
By the end of their relationship, Picasso rendered Olga in distorted violent configurations as in Grand Nu au Feuteil Rouge. He claimed that "a good panting ought to bristle with razor blades."
Razor blades? See what I mean? Most artists manage to muck up their personal lives and eviscerate their muses. The instinct to create seems to coincide with the instinct to destroy. Buyer beware.
Portrait of Marie-Therese, 1937, by Pablo Picasso
4. Surrealism: Marie-Therese Walter
Marie Therese Walter was probably Picasso's most colorful love affair.
He encountered the buxom 17 year old on the street and tried to woo her with a cliched "I am Picasso" line. That seems rather repellent, not sexy, to my mind.
But Marie-Therese was obviously young and impressionable, and hence may (like some of us) have had an attraction to artistic types. Although she hadn't heard of him, she nonetheless jumped into a long term secret affair.
Marie-Therese embodies Picasso's dreamy Surrealism stage, and his nude paintings of her, like Le Rêve, have commanded the greatest prices at auction. They have an erotic languid style with a fluent line, not previously found in his work.
Nude in a Garden, 1934, by Picasso
Later, when the bloom was off the rose, Picasso ditched Marie-Therese and plucked another young woman. Marie-Therese tried in vain to re-capture his affection, but eventually hung herself. It just gets better and better with this relationship aficionado.
5. Surrealism & The War Years: Dora Maar
Compared to the submissive Marie-Therese, Picasso's next replacement, Dora Maar, was an intellectual giant.
When she met Picasso, she was already a well known Surrealist photographer, deeply involved in the Paris avant garde and an anti-fascist protestor. She urged him to take the commission that would become his most famous painting, Guernica, and documented its creation process.
Portrait of Dora Maar, 1937, by Pablo Picasso
The surrealist-expressionist portrait above is possibly my favorite piece in the Picasso Museum. Dora is represented majestically seated in an armchair, smiling and resting her head on a trademark red-fingered hand. These colorful tortured deformations are the very hallmark of Picasso's art.
Here, she appears relatively cheerful. Later, she would come the subject of the Weeping Woman series, as the relationship moved from happy to hateful, and as the war inflicted terrible suffering.
All the while throughout their affair, Picasso continued to carry on to some degree with Marie-Therese, with Dora's full knowledge and much to her chagrin -- a daily torment in and of itself even though Maire-Therese was mostly relegated to the sidelines at that point.
When he grew weary of the high strung Dora and turned his attention to Francoise Gilot, Dora was unceremoniously dumped.
Portrait of Dora Maar, 1937, by Picasso
On cue, she psychically disintegrated. She had a mental breakdown, was hospitalized, and subjected to electric shock treatment. Her substitute for Picasso was God and catholic mysticism.
Later, she said to Picasso: "as an artist you may be extraordinary, but morally speaking you are worthless." That about sums it up. Who can really arguee with that assessment?
Decades later, Maar has regained salvation and acclaim as an artist in her own right. She will be the centerpiece at a June 5–July 29, 2019 retrospective show at the Pompidou Center in Paris.
6. Family Time: Francoise Gilot
It's rather difficult to see why the even younger Francoise Gilot fell for Picasso. One likely explanation is that the men her age were at war. Picasso was in his dotage, but apparently still had the fiery flame of genius, which drew her, moth to a flame, into his orbit.
She knew what she was getting into.
Picasso was blunt, saying that "women were machines of suffering" and that "for me, there are only two kind of women, goddesses and doormats." Francoise apparently didn't care, claiming in her autobiography that Picasso was a "catastrophe" she didn't want to avoid. Lovely.
Portrait of Francoise, 1946, by Pablo Picasso
Fortunately, Francoise was not a doormat. She bore him two children and his work veered into a more ethereal, family oriented style, as show in his beautifully evocative 1946 Portrait of Francoise above.
The headstrong Francoise eventually left the difficult philandering artist, the only woman to leave Picasso in his lifetime.
It was too much of a "permanent earthquake" -- quelle suprise! Though he declared that "no one leaves a man like me"and that she was “headed straight for the desert,” Francoise went on to have a fulfilling life as an artist in her own right in New York.
Aha! A small victory for women. But she still put up with ten years of his nonsense. Even after their split, Picasso disinherited their children, interfered in her marriage to Luc Simon, and turned the Paris art world against her.
He had a mean side.
7. The Final Years: Jaqueline Roque
Apparently desperate for a new muse to help defy old age and death, Picasso met Jaqueline Roque in a pottery shop while still married to Francoise and they began an affair. She was 27 and he was 70.
The themes continues, no?
Jaqueline with Crossed Hands, 1954, by Picasso
Jaqueline was no Francoise.
Instead, she outlasted other paramours by being slavishly reverent to and obsessed with the senior citizen, referring to him invariably as "God" or "Monseigneur." As one art historian described, "She thought he was God and he thought he was God ... The two of them were in love with him."
Blech. Thank god there are feminist artists now. (Though you have to wonder whether they are inflicting damage on their male counterparts. Perhaps fodder for a different article.)
The Kiss, 1969, by Picasso
Jaqueline was sometimes called a "scheming dragon" because she isolated Picasso from his family and fought Gilot's children over their rightful inheritance.
But Picasso was incredibly prolific during their 20 year union, and she became his most painted muse, eclipsing even Dora Maar. He often portrayed her, as in the 1954 painting from the museum's collection above, as a sculptural sphinx-like odalisque. She created peace for him and his work took on a fun loving sometimes kitschy style not always beloved by art critics.
But when Picasso died, and the object of her obsession was gone, she turned to drink -- like Picasso's son Paolo and grandson Pablito. A dour drunk widow, she committed suicide in 1986. Another one bites the dust.
Picasso wracked up a long string of damage, creating misery in the lives of all of his women. He drove two of them mad and caused two of them to off themselves.
There wasn't a woman he couldn't troll. He had that dark brooding thing going for him, and women mostly fell for it. “When I die,” Picasso had prophesied, "It will be a shipwreck, and as when a huge ship sinks, many people all around will be sucked down with it."
The Picasso Museum documents his life of torment and the women he tormented.
Having seen and admired it, I was happy to have checked out early from my obsession with artists. Bad people may make good art, but they tend to live for their art not for others. Being married to a lawyer seems the much kinder and gentler path. My husband even made dinner tonight.
Pablo Picasso, The Suppliant, 1937
Practical Information and Tips for Visiting the Picasso Museum in Paris:
Location: The Picasso museum is located in the heart of the historic
Marais neighborhood in the 3rd arrondissement of Paris.
Address: Hôtel Salé 5, rue de Thorigny, Paris Metro: St-Paul, Rambuteau, or Temple Tel : +33 (0)1 42 71 25 21
Entry Price: adult €12.50, children free
Hours: Tues–Fri 10:30 am–6:00 pm, Sat-Sun: 9:30 am–6:00 pm, Closed Monday
Visit the official website
Other Picasso Museums in Europe
You can find posts about many other Paris museums on my Paris page
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What are the likely consequences of Tory electoral fraud?
Despite efforts by swathes of the mainstream media and the political establishment to starve the Tory electoral fraud allegations of coverage, it keeps on getting bigger.
The Electoral Commission had to take the unprecedented step of resorting to the courts to demand documentation that the Tory party had been trying to hide from their investigation, more than a dozen police forces have initiated enquiries into fraudulent Tory campaign spending, leaked emails show that senior Tory figures (Lynton Crosby, Andrew Feldman, and Stephen Gilbert) approved the decision to pass off local campaign spending as national expenditure, and more questions are being asked about other local Tory election expenses in marginal constituencies that the party failed to declare as constituency spending.
Despite concerted efforts by many in the media and the political establishment to downplay, dismiss or ignore the electoral fraud story, it looks like it is definitely not going to go away. However there is still absolutely no guarantee that action will be taken to punish the perpetrators and beneficiaries of the electoral fraud.
In this article I'm going to consider some of the most likely, and most unlikely consequences are.
Legal consequences
It is a criminal offence to commit electoral fraud and if found guilty the punishment can be up to a year in jail or unlimited fines.
There's plentiful evidence that the Battle Bus teams were campaigning for particular candidates in their local areas (see image), so short of a complete whitewash, there's little chance that the Tories are going to get away scot free.
The Tory approach to the electoral fraud scandal seems to be to claim that it's all just some innocent administrative mix up. This kind of excuse looks an awful lot like they are preparing the ground to throw some lowly administrator under the (battle) bus.
The problem with this age old strategy of pinning the whole scandal on some lowly minion within the organisation is that the leaked email about the Battle Bus clearly implicates the Tory party treasurer Andrew Feldman, the deputy treasurer Stephen Gilbert and the recently knighted Tory party election strategist Lynton Crosby, because they all signed off on the plan to miscategorise the Battle Bus spending as national party spending rather than candidate spending.
The emails make it absolutely clear that they signed off the plan to avoid declaring the Tory Battle Bus expenses (running the bus, catering, hotel bills ...) as local spending, even though the entire purpose of the Battle Bus campaign was to tip specific marginal constituencies in their favour.
It doesn't matter if these senior Tories try to plead ignorance about UK electoral law becuase "I didn't know it was a crime" has never been an acceptable defence in any court of law. Ignorance of the law does not magically render unlawful actions lawful, especially if it is the actual job of the accused (two party treasurers and an election strategist) to ensure that the party complies with electoral law.
"I didn't know it was a crime" is clearly not a defence, but alongside a guilty plea it could certainly be used in mitigation. If the Tories pull off their attempt to dismiss the whole thing as an "administrative error" it's highly unlikely that anyone will ever end up going to jail for it, because an establishment whitewash of the whole affair is still a possible outcome.
Even if the allegations are proven, it's unlikely anyone would go to jail for it unless they are found guilty in court after trying to contest the charges, rather than pleading guilty and accepting a few fines and suspended sentences.
Electoral consequences
Several people have tried to argue that the Tory electoral spending fraud should trigger a re-run of the General Election, but in my view this would be an unfair consequence. The Daily Mirror investigation revealed that the hidden Tory campaign spending would have pushed some two dozen constituencies over their campaign spending limits. Even if another ten or twenty additional constituencies get dragged into the scandal over other issues (like undeclared spending on adverts in the local press, undeclared spending on campaign leaflets, or undeclared expenditure on flying in of Republican Party activists activists from the US) a re-run of the General Election would clearly be extremely unfair on the 600 odd MPs who complied with electoral law when they won their seats. For example, why on earth should the 56 SNP MPs in Scotland have to re-contest their seats as a consequence of a spate of Tory electoral fraud in England?
In my view a full re-run of the General Election would constitute punishment of the majority of innocent MPs for the crimes of a small minority of guilty MPs who gained unlawful advantage from undeclared campaign spending.
A fairer course of action would be to hold By-elections in any constituencies where the sitting Tory MP benefited from electoral fraud. If the allegations of Tory electoral fraud are proven, this could result in By-elections in 20 or more constituencies, which would be more than sufficient to end the Tory majority in the House of Commons assuming enough people were to vote against the Tory candidates who cheated their way into the House of Commons.
Legislative consequences
If it turns out that twenty or more Conservative MPs benefited from electoral fraud in winning their seats, there could be some very interesting legislative consequences. If these politicians entered the House of Commons by fraudulent means, any legislation that was passed as a result of their votes could clearly be seen as having been fraudulently imposed on the public.
The situation is clearly unprecedented, so I'm not exactly sure of the legal grounds for overturning legislation that could have been passed as a result of Tory electoral fraud, but if the Tories are found guilty of electoral fraud, I can't see any reason why legal efforts couldn't be made to overturn legislation that made its way through the legislative process as a result of votes by people who cheated their way into parliament.
The Tories would like nothing more than to have the whole electoral fraud scandal brushed under the carpet as some kind of innocent administrative error, while possibly pinning the blame on some lowly minion. Until the leaked email detailing how the Battle Bus plans had been signed off by senior Tory figures came to light, an establishment whitewash and sacrifice of a lowly scapegoat seemed to be the most likely outcome. Now that senior Tory figures are clearly implicated, it might be a lot more difficult for them to whitewash the whole affair or pin the whole fraud on some lowly admin worker.
If the complaints are upheld it seems likely that By-elections would have to be held in any constituency where campaign spending limits were broken. It would be extraordinary if people who cheated their way into power were allowed to continue reaping the benefits of their fraudulent activities. Whether the constituencies would reject the Tory candidates who cheated their way into office is another matter. It would only take the loss of seven or so Tory seats to put an end to the Tory majority in the House of Commons, however it's likely that they would still be able to cling onto power by seeking the backing of the likes of the DUP, UUP (who are already affiliated to the Tory party) and the UKIP MP Douglas Carswell.
Whether it would be possible to overturn legislation that was passed with the backing of MPs who cheated their way into the House of Commons is an interesting legal question, and one that will definitely need to be asked if the allegations of Tory electoral fraud are proven.
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Query Cursors
Query cursors allow an application to retrieve a query's results in convenient batches, and are recommended over using integer offsets for pagination. See Queries for more information on structuring queries for your app.
Query cursors
Query cursors allow an application to retrieve a query's results in convenient batches without incurring the overhead of a query offset. After performing a retrieval operation, the application can obtain a cursor, which is an opaque base64-encoded string marking the index position of the last result retrieved. The application can save this string, for example in Datastore, in Memcache, in a Task Queue task payload, or embedded in a web page as an HTTP GET or POST parameter, and can then use the cursor as the starting point for a subsequent retrieval operation to obtain the next batch of results from the point where the previous retrieval ended. A retrieval can also specify an end cursor, to limit the extent of the result set returned.
Offsets versus cursors
Although Datastore supports integer offsets, you should avoid using them. Instead, use cursors. Using an offset only avoids returning the skipped entities to your application, but these entities are still retrieved internally. The skipped entities do affect the latency of the query, and your application is billed for the read operations required to retrieve them. Using cursors instead of offsets lets you avoid all these costs.
Query cursor example
In the low-level API, the application can use cursors via the QueryResultList, QueryResultIterable, and QueryResultIterator interfaces, which are returned by the PreparedQuery methods asQueryResultList(), asQueryResultIterable(), and asQueryResultIterator(), respectively. Each of these result objects provides a getCursor() method, which in turn returns a Cursor object. The application can get a web-safe string representing the cursor by calling the Cursor object's toWebSafeString() method, and can later use the static method Cursor.fromWebSafeString() to reconstitute the cursor from the string.
The following example demonstrates the use of cursors for pagination:
import com.google.appengine.api.datastore.Cursor;
import com.google.appengine.api.datastore.DatastoreService;
import com.google.appengine.api.datastore.DatastoreServiceFactory;
import com.google.appengine.api.datastore.Entity;
import com.google.appengine.api.datastore.FetchOptions;
import com.google.appengine.api.datastore.PreparedQuery;
import com.google.appengine.api.datastore.Query;
import com.google.appengine.api.datastore.Query.SortDirection;
import com.google.appengine.api.datastore.QueryResultList;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.PrintWriter;
import javax.servlet.ServletException;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;
public class ListPeopleServlet extends HttpServlet {
static final int PAGE_SIZE = 15;
private final DatastoreService datastore;
public ListPeopleServlet() {
datastore = DatastoreServiceFactory.getDatastoreService();
protected void doGet(HttpServletRequest req, HttpServletResponse resp)
throws ServletException, IOException {
FetchOptions fetchOptions = FetchOptions.Builder.withLimit(PAGE_SIZE);
// If this servlet is passed a cursor parameter, let's use it.
String startCursor = req.getParameter("cursor");
if (startCursor != null) {
Query q = new Query("Person").addSort("name", SortDirection.ASCENDING);
PreparedQuery pq = datastore.prepare(q);
QueryResultList<Entity> results;
try {
results = pq.asQueryResultList(fetchOptions);
} catch (IllegalArgumentException e) {
// IllegalArgumentException happens when an invalid cursor is used.
// A user could have manually entered a bad cursor in the URL or there
// may have been an internal implementation detail change in App Engine.
// Redirect to the page without the cursor parameter to show something
// rather than an error.
PrintWriter w = resp.getWriter();
w.println("<!DOCTYPE html>");
w.println("<meta charset=\"utf-8\">");
w.println("<title>Cloud Datastore Cursor Sample</title>");
for (Entity entity : results) {
w.println("<li>" + entity.getProperty("name") + "</li>");
String cursorString = results.getCursor().toWebSafeString();
// This servlet lives at '/people'.
w.println("<a href='/people?cursor=" + cursorString + "'>Next page</a>");
Limitations of cursors
Cursors are subject to the following limitations:
• A cursor can be used only by the same application that performed the original query, and only to continue the same query. To use the cursor in a subsequent retrieval operation, you must reconstitute the original query exactly, including the same entity kind, ancestor filter, property filters, and sort orders. It is not possible to retrieve results using a cursor without setting up the same query from which it was originally generated.
• Because the NOT_EQUAL and IN operators are implemented with multiple queries, queries that use them do not support cursors, nor do composite queries constructed with the CompositeFilterOperator.or method.
• Cursors don't always work as expected with a query that uses an inequality filter or a sort order on a property with multiple values. The de-duplication logic for such multiple-valued properties does not persist between retrievals, possibly causing the same result to be returned more than once.
• New App Engine releases might change internal implementation details, invalidating cursors that depend on them. If an application attempts to use a cursor that is no longer valid, Datastore raises an IllegalArgumentException (low-level API), JDOFatalUserException (JDO), or PersistenceException (JPA).
Cursors and data updates
The cursor's position is defined as the location in the result list after the last result returned. A cursor is not a relative position in the list (it's not an offset); it's a marker to which Datastore can jump when starting an index scan for results. If the results for a query change between uses of a cursor, the query notices only changes that occur in results after the cursor. If a new result appears before the cursor's position for the query, it will not be returned when the results after the cursor are fetched. Similarly, if an entity is no longer a result for a query but had appeared before the cursor, the results that appear after the cursor do not change. If the last result returned is removed from the result set, the cursor still knows how to locate the next result.
When retrieving query results, you can use both a start cursor and an end cursor to return a continuous group of results from Datastore. When using a start and end cursor to retrieve the results, you are not guaranteed that the size of the results will be the same as when you generated the cursors. Entities may be added or deleted from Datastore between the time the cursors are generated and when they are used in a query.
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10 plants to grow to repel mosquitoes in your backyard
Mosquitos go hand in hand with warm weather, unfortunately. They show up uninvited, making a nuisance of themselves, inflicting discomfort on their innocent victims. Keeping them away from yourself, your guests and your children becomes a high priority, especially with the continued rise in mosquito-borne illnesses.
Warding them off doesn't have to involve dangerous chemicals or a tacky-looking bug zapper, though. The following 10 plants are specimens to add to your garden or flowerbeds to repel mosquitos naturally. As an extra bonus, many of them have other household or culinary uses too.
1. Citronella
Most people are familiar with citronella and know that it's a common ingredient in mosquito-repelling products. What they aren't aware of is that citronella is a beautiful perennial grass that grows in clumps 5 to 6 feet tall and emits a strong aroma. It is easy to grow and the scent is more powerful than manufactured repellents, making it an effective plant to add to the yard to keep mosquitoes at bay.
2. Marigolds
These cheerfully bright, annual ornamentals contain pyrethrum, a natural form of the compound, pyrethrin that is found in most commercial insect repellants. Marigolds emit this botanical insecticide from their flowers, leaves and roots. According to NewScientist, this unique smell – a characteristic of the volatile insecticide – is especially toxic to mosquitoes that carry yellow fever and malaria.
3. Geraniums
Scented geraniums have beautiful, bold, fragrant blooms known for repelling mosquitoes and other insects. The lemony fragrance is thought to be reminiscent of citronella grass and overpowers the mosquito's ability to smell.
4. Garlic
Eating garlic by the handful won't prevent mosquitoes from bothering you, but planting it in your garden helps. The natural odiferous compounds given off by the plant are strong enough to keep insects at a distance.
5. Peppermint
Both the scent and the taste of peppermint plants deters mosquitos and other insects. As an added bonus, if you do get bitten, MedicalNewsToday recommends using peppermint oil on mosquito bites because of its cooling sensation on the skin; rub the leaves directly on an affected area for relief.
6. Lavender
Essential oils in the leaves of lavender plants give off a soothing fragrance that acts as a natural mosquito (and sometimes deer and other critters) repellent. Once established, lavender plants are drought-tolerant and very hardy. If you have problems with mosquitoes in the house, try growing a potted lavender plant on an indoor windowsill.
7. Rosemary
The woody scent of rosemary is also very effective at keeping mosquitoes away. Rosemary plants do well in hot dry, climates and thrive in containers. The plants also attract butterflies and add flavor to many culinary dishes.
8. Catnip
Another plant from the mint family, catnip was proven by researchers at Iowa State University to be significantly better at repelling mosquitoes than DEET, the compound in most commercial repellents. The oil found within plants is even effective at much lower concentrations than DEET.
9. Basil
When most people think of basil their mind automatically thinks of its culinary uses in pesto and tomato-based dishes, but the plant is an effective mosquito deterrent too. The pungent smell deters pests. Basil grows well in containers or in the ground, making it a feasible option for people with no ability to garden traditionally.
10. Lemon balm
Another citrus-scented plant, lemon balm is a fast-growing plant that is easy for beginning gardeners to grow. It is both drought- and shade-tolerant.
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Can Health Become a Tradition ?
By Lucas Pahlisch
There is a wide range of traditions that have a direct impact on health. There are traditions that are good for health such as circumcision as it reduces the risk of Sexually Transmitted Diseases. There are also those that are harmful to health such as indoor cooking with solid fuels which can lead to respiratory diseases. The scope of what is considered as a tradition can also be expanded to include tacit rules such as the age someone is eligible to wed, diet and what is considered to be food or gender role. Basically any knowledge or practice that is shared and transmitted within a group of people can be considered a tradition. There are some traditions that are considered to violate human rights and that are actively fought against, like female genital mutilation. There are practices like smoking tobacco, that are embedded in everyday life to such an extent, that people don’t consider them as tradition anymore. All these examples point out that traditions are deeply intertwined with health and could therefore be influenced in a way to improve health.
In everyday life, the term tradition is used to refer to a cultural practice or belief which is passed on from one generation to another and thus perpetuated over time. However, traditions are not as stable as one would think. Traditions change quickly, people react to new ideas and influences, and come to change the way they do certain things, adopt new practices or drop old ones. One of the most convincing examples of this occurs in the field of ethnomusicology where the transmission of knowledge occurs through speaking rather than writing. This led to an emergency stance where scientists tried to record “traditional music” before it was either lost or blended with other music. No one would argue that music practices do not evolve and change quickly and it should be the same for every tradition. Any given practice is in constant evolution as the people perpetuating it enter in contact with external influences. Embracing this conception of tradition means acknowledging the possibility and the legitimacy to try and influence peoples’ traditions.
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Now that we have conceptualized traditions as something dynamic, we can go a step further and try to see why some traditions are passed on, and why others are dropped. One example, could be why did smoking spread so widely and not jogging? Unfortunately, the answer does not lie solely on the advertising made by tobacco companies. According to the anthropologist Olivier Morin, smoking is a practice that appeals to humans and presents a compulsion to be imitated. Namely, if you have never heard of the practice of smoking and you encounter someone smoking you would find the exercise intriguing and you would like to find out how to do it. Even more, if we go back to when smoking was an unknown cultural practice rather than a trendy way to commit postponed suicide, you would likely be willing to show off the new acquired skill in front of your relatives and friends, inviting to the spread of the practice.
This is all well, but also very theoretical, so how can we apply this conceptualization of tradition for the promotion of health? There are many ways this could be done. For instance, you could find practices that are appealing to follow and that are healthy, and try to promote those. For example, if you want to increase the physical activity of a given population, you should promote activities that are appealing to this population. Practicing Kung-Fu or learning to dance could be good examples of appealing physical activities that people would like to share with their friends.
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Of course it is not simple, and it takes time and effort to change people’s traditions or try to make them adopt new ones. It can take many years, from the moment a population is confronted to a new idea until it is taken over as part of its tradition. However, there are also promising proofs that traditions can be changed. In the United States where the consumption of meat is high and spread, there are now whole communities following a vegetarian diet. If such a practice could spread to the majority of the population and other countries, it could mean a lot in terms of resource saving as meat production is a lot less effective than vegetable production.
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Any Tips on Making THC Sour Cream?
Discussion in 'Weed Edibles' started by alienlinux, Mar 23, 2012.
1. So a friend of mine and I want to make tacos, and we wanna find a way to make them "Cannatacos". We were thinking of boiling the THC into the sour cream. How should we go about doing this?
Any information would be helpful
2. I'm not sure but you could always make some cannabutter and mix it in with the sour cream
3. Makes sense. I'll keep that in mind
4. I just made some the other day, smokey hash sour cream, Guacannamole (or 'GuacaCannaMole'), hashed meat and all, and I happened to take photos for an upcoming tutorial.. here's a teaser (older photo, took new shots that include tips for slicing and peeling the avocados with the least hassle). :)
5. Niiiice dude. Send me a pm when you have the tutorial up, I look forward to using it.
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6. Here is a link for home made sour cream. Heavy cream has enough fat to properly extract the THC (it's fat soluble so you HAVE to use full fat cream or it won't work). I would assume that simply making sour cream using the THCream would work? It works for hot cocoa!
7. The best canna milks, are made starting with pure milk fat... in other words, clarified butter!
A big misconception is that canna milk or cream is made by boiling or simply heating high fat cream, with cannabis... that's lazy milk, but not the 'good' kind of lazy feeling you'd get from a properly made milk. Using the right edible solvents wastes much less potency, and provides a stronger, longer-lasting experience.
You do NOT want to begin the process by using a solvent with so much water contamination.
When you are given preparations of various types of 'bhang' in drink-form or yogurt form, in India for instance, the hash and flowers have been pre-treated with ghee (a pure clarified butter, that is often probiotic, with a more rich flavor derived sometimes from fermentation-type process, and from heating the milk solids for longer before removing, or both).. just like we would do in a medical or recreational scenario. :)
Once you've created a proper bioavailable solution with your pure milk fat and canna, it is then reincorporated with the milk or dairy product of your choice, just like you would do with sour cream, whether it's home made or store-bought. :)
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Vanishing Bees
—Albert Einstein*
Courtesy of Maine Department of Agriculture
Did you know that honey bees are vanishing worldwide? Like frogs, they are being decimated by disease. While frogs are dying because of a fungus, bees are dying from a fungus combined with a virus.
Bees are responsible for pollinating 90 percent of the world’s commercial plants, from fruits and vegetables to coffee and cotton. Over the past few years, more than one in three honey bee colonies has died nationwide, posing a serious risk to our natural food supply in a phenomenon known as Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD). When a hive experiences CCD, the honey bees desert their hive and die. CCD symptoms have been recorded in over 35 states across the U.S. and in many other countries worldwide.
Why are Bees so Vulnerable to Disease?
Some of the possible causes for weakening the bees’ immune systems, include pesticides, inbreeding, monoculture (planting one crop only), and the possible effects of genetically-modified crops.
To learn more about this problem, you might want to check out a new documentary called Vanishing of the Bees that is coming out this month, narrated by actor Ellen Page. The film is being screened in selected towns and cities nationwide. Here is a link to Bill Maher’s recent interview with Ellen Page.
And to help the bees, you might want to consider planting bee-friendly flowers or putting a bee house in your garden, and limiting your use of pesticides and herbicides. Buy organic honey from local bee keepers, or even consider becoming a beekeeper yourself. Please see the Honey Bee Conservancy for more ideas about how you can help bees.
The parallel between the plight of the frogs and the plight of the bees has an eerie similarity, although the specific issues involved are quite different. While scientists might have some clues about what is killing the bees and frogs, the underlying cause for why they are so are vulnerable to disease is still unknown. As one commenter on a NY Times blog wrote,“People should be aware of how fragile are the links in the eco-system, how interdependent all life is, and how simple, small things can quickly create major threats to all we take for granted.”
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Do you wear shoes?
Do you wear shoes?
You know the thing about shoes, right?
All of us wear shoes, but the difference is that we wear different pair of shoes – different sizes, different designs, different brands and of course, comfort is different for all.
What does that tell you though?
Can you wear the same shoes as mine? What if it doesn’t fit you though?
In the same way, our journeys are different too – our paths are different, our goals are different, our thoughts are different and that’s the beauty of life.
When everything is different, there’s no reason as to why anyone’s journey or anyone’s accomplishments should be compared with someone else.
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a couple sitting on the floor looking at bills
Getting out of debt may sometimes feel like digging out an entire beach with a child’s toy shovel. But ditching your debt is not impossible. First, it’s important to remember that not all debt is bad. Some debt helps you live a more fulfilling life. For example, student loans may allow you to get the training or degree you need to land a good job. Mortgage loans can allow you to own your own home – few people can purchase a home with cash on hand. Even an auto loan may be considered good debt if it means you can buy a safe and reliable vehicle for transportation.
So, what’s bad debt?
Personal loans, credit cards and store cards are not in themselves bad. But having too much debt is bad if you are having difficulty making payments. You may be in over your head if you answer yes to any of the following questions:
• Do you carry balances from month to month on more than one credit card or store card?
• Do you pay only the minimum due each month?
• Do you sometimes exceed your credit limit?
• Have you had more than one late payment penalty in the past year?
• Have you ever taken out a payday loan to cover bills?
Two strategies for paying off debt
How you work towards paying off debt depends largely on what motivates you. For example, if you want to pay the least amount of interest, pay off the highest-interest-rate debt first:
1. Pay as much as you possibly can each month on the highest-rate debt, while paying the minimum on other debts.
2. Once that bill is paid off, direct the money you would have paid to the next-highest-rate debt, while continuing to pay the minimum on remaining balances.
3. Repeat until debt is gone.
If you are more likely to be motivated by seeing entire balances disappear more quickly, try the snowball method:
1. Pay as much as you possibly can each month on the bill with the lowest balance. Pay the minimum on other debts.
2. Once you pay off the smallest bill, start paying as much as you can on the next lowest bill. Continue paying the minimum on other debts.
3. Repeat until debts are paid.
Of course, neither of these strategies will work unless you stop adding more debt to your load. Commit to getting spending under control. Stay away from the mall, opt to pack a lunch and make specialty coffee a nice reward, not a daily habit.
Other debt-reduction strategies
Perhaps you’ve accumulated a wallet full of high-rate store cards because of the promotions they offer. Those offers look attractive, but the average interest rate on a store card is a whopping 25.64%.1
In the long run, what you save on promotions is likely far less than what you are shelling out in interest.
Consider doing a balance transfer to a lower-rate credit card. A balance transfer may result in a more affordable monthly payment and fewer bills to keep track of. Plus, you may save hundreds of dollars in interest payments.
If you qualify, the Advancial Visa® Rewards Plus offers:
• No balance transfer fees
• No annual fee
• 0% interest for 12 months on balance transfers and purchases
• After that, your interest rate will be 8.90% - 14.90% based on creditworthiness – even the highest rate is way less than the average store card!
Imagine how fast debt could melt away if you are managing one monthly payment at a much lower interest rate.
Save on financial products
Another debt-reduction strategy is simply to lower your monthly costs. For example, are you paying a monthly fee for a checking account? Getting hit with foreign ATM fees just to get to your money? Advancial members have access to our Ultimate Checking account , which features no monthly service fee, no minimum balance requirements, unlimited free ATMs worldwide, free mobile banking - you name it, we’ve got it. .
Getting out of debt isn’t easy, but it’s definitely worthwhile. Advancial is here to help you make the most of your money with free products, low rates and superior service the big banks just can’t match.
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Norse Greenland: Viking Peasants in the Arctic
How could a community of 2000–3000 Viking peasants survive in Arctic Greenland for 430 years (ca. 985–1415), and why did they finally disappear? European agriculture in an Arctic environment encountered serious ecological challenges. The Norse peasants faced these challenges by adapting
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After posting my taxes on Sunday, I was wondering how things would go with my return. I am currently in a reassessment for the previous tax year, so what would the CRA do about this?
It did not take long, as they replied on-line with a message asking for receipts for the tax year for the exact areas where I am being reassessed for the previous tax year. This actually makes perfect sense, to me. This process is called a pre-assessment, which seems to imply, they want to verify my claims before processing.
Given my previous year reassessment is still in process, I will include all the information from that process, just to be thorough. I am attempting to make the same claims that I am having reassessed, so it is better to give too much information, than not enough.
Remember, in these situations, always have a complete cover letter. The cover letter must identify the process identifier, and should inventory all the documentation you are sending. I am also having my wife check what I am sending, it never hurts to have another set of eyes check things for you.
The only interesting part is that they are asking for receipts for my charitable donations, which has nothing to do with my reassessment. The value has gone up, but I am curious as to why they are asking for that as well.
What to Do?
I will be submitting them all on-line (for speed), and shall see what comes of this.
This is all part of the whole tax process, but does seem to be how this year is going for me as well (i.e. things that can get complicated, do get complicated).
Remember to keep those receipts too!
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Oregon bear put down after people feed him, take selfies, officials say
A black bear was killed by Oregon wildlife officials last week after becoming so accustomed to humans through being fed that the public could get close enough to take selfies with the animal, authorities said.
Law enforcement was alerted to the bear near Henry Hagg Lake through "selfie" photos on social media, the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife (ODFW) said in a news release. Authorities tried to force the bear back into the woods Wednesday, but the animal returned the following day. It was discovered eating food the public had left for it.
"This is a classic example of why we implore members of the public not to feed bears," said Kurt Licence in the release. "While the individuals who put food out for this bear may have had good intentions bears should never, ever be fed."
Biologists found the bear eating trail mix, sunflower seeds, cracked corn, and other foodstuffs left in the area, the ODFW said. It is illegal in Oregon to "scatter food, garbage or any other attractant so as to knowingly constitute a lure, enticement or attractant for potentially habituated wildlife."
Bears that become habituated to humans are more likely to have dangerous interactions in the future and can't be relocated, the ODFW said. If the bear hadn't become habituated, it could have been safely relocated, the agency told the Salem Statesman Journal.
"This was a tough decision the wildlife experts at the Oregon Dept. of Fish & Wildlife had to make for the safety of everyone," the Washington County Sheriff's Office tweeted. "Relocation wasn't an option in this case. Humans shouldn't feed wild bears."
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Fuse Review
Fuse Review
Originally named Overstrike, Insomniac Games' Fuse is largely a mixed bag in terms of gameplay. As we mentioned in our preview, Fuse shares many similarities with both Gearbox Software's Borderlands series and People Can Fly's Bulletstorm. Yet, whilst Insomniac have made good use of existing ideas, you'll frequently find yourself wondering during the 10 hour campaign why Overwatch 9's death defying mission can sometimes feel so dull.
Fuse is frequently good, but it's never great. It's a sweeping statement to be sure, but it's one that perfectly sums up the title in a nutshell. You are part of a quartet of rag tag soldiers, dubbed Overwatch 9, who are tasked with retrieving the titular alien substance after its theft by the rogue military group Raven.
What sets Insomniac's 3rd person shooter apart from others of its kind are the 'Xenotech' weapons that each protagonist acquires. Not long into the game's first stage, you'll conveniently discover the now weaponised substance; with each gadget having its own unique ability. Much like Borderlands, these weapons are tied to your skill tree, which can upgrade both standard weaponry and unlock new abilities for the former.
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These are unlocked by earning skill points through creative kills, completing objectives or finding hidden experience stashes, and this is when Fuse really starts to shine – if you're playing co-op. Insomniac have clearly created their shooter with teamwork in mind, and whilst Fuse is perfectly playable alone, you may feel short-changed by the lack of adaptive AI if you decide to go solo.
Team up with three others though, and the Bulletstorm inspired scoring system reveals itself as the true star of the show; with an extensive list of methods to kill enemies on offer. Your foes become progressively stronger as you progress, with one certain enemy carrying impenetrable shields, you are forced to think strategically. As Dalton, the stereotypical wise-cracking hard man, we would use his Magshield for cover whilst another player would use Naya's invisibility to sneak behind and assassinate them.
It's a brilliantly fun system when you have four players working together to think up creative kills. However, if for whatever reason you are flying solo, the whole experience starts to turn slightly sour. Insomniac hasn't left players completely in the dark, as AI is competent enough to revive you and take out hordes of Raven soldiers, but they will rarely, if ever, be of any tactical advantage to you. In addition to this, if your AI teammates are downed and bleed out, you'll be dragged back to your last checkpoint which is rather unfair.
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Enemies themselves become rather stilted and repetitive too, with most being variations of earlier grunts. In addition to this, later iterations, such as manned mechs and airships, become bullet sponges, and although most of these have weak points, the battles largely come down to plugging away at the enemy until they fall. Firefights also get increasingly frantic towards the climax of the game, and we found it almost impossible to survive unless we used Dalton's Magshield to protect ourselves, resulting in tactics going swiftly out the window.
Dotted between the arena-like battles that each conflict feels like, are stealth and climbing sections. These have clearly been implemented as a means to break up each battle, but neither feels essential. Stealth sections especially feel clunky, as once you are seen, all hell breaks loose, giving you no choice but to clear the room of enemies.
Chances to explore the linear levels are slim, but if you do venture off the beaten path where possible, you'll find the usual deluge of audio logs, extra experience and 'Fuse credits', which can be used to purchase perks that buff the entire party.
These will mostly be earned in Fuse's horde mode however, which is where the majority of the titles replayability will come from. You'll be helped along the increasing repetitiveness of Fuse by its above average sci-fi score and wise-cracking cast, but by the time you reach the game's conclusion, you're unlikely to find the experience a memorable one. But if you're a fan of co-op games, then Fuse is a good candidate to see you through this summer's games drought.
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How Is A Public Offering Structured?
Public offerings are a way for some companies to generate income. Public offerings may be either initial public offerings, if the company has never issued shares publicly before, or additional issues, if the company has issued shares in the past. Public offerings can also be described as primary offerings, where the company earns the proceeds from the sale; secondary offerings, where a major shareholder or shareholders profit from the proceeds; or a combination offering, where both the company and the shareholders sell shares.
At the point when a business decides it will offer its stock to the public, the business owners and officers should consult with an experienced business attorney if they have not already done so. Public offerings of securities will be subject to federal securities laws and regulations, as well as other applicable laws; thus, advice from an experienced business attorney can provide valuable guidance through this complicated process.
What is the underwriter’s role in a public offering?
First, the company will seek an underwriter, an investment or brokerage firm that will purchase the shares from the company issuing them and subsequently sell them in the public offering. A firm commitment is the most common type of underwriting. In a firm commitment underwriting, the underwriter contractually commits to purchase the securities at a closing following the effective date of the registration of the shares with the Securities Exchange Commission. The underwriter will draft an offer to purchase the shares, and if the company accepts, the underwriter will own the shares after closing.
After purchasing the shares, the underwriter is responsible for marketing the securities so that it can sell them. Depending on the size of the public offering, the underwriter may form a group of other brokerages to help market the sale of the securities.
What is the issuer’s role in a public offering?
The company seeking to go public, called the issuer, will issue a prospectus. This prospectus will detail information about the company and its potential so that interested parties can review it. The prospectus may include a preliminary price for the shares. The company issuing the shares (the issuer) and the underwriter may change the price of the shares when they are offered, depending upon the market for the shares at the time of the offering.
The issuer and the underwriter will try to price the shares high enough to generate the profits that the issuer wants, but low enough that the underwriter can sell all of the shares. Most shares of an anticipated initial public offering will be purchased by individuals or entities with close relationships to the underwriter and the other brokerages that are a part of the marketing and sale of the shares. Individuals without these connections will usually have to wait to purchase shares in the company until the initial buyers sell their shares.
What will the underwriter require from the issuer and its shareholders?
The underwriter’s potential for profits depends on proper pricing of the public offering and a demand for the shares. To ensure a market for the shares, an underwriter could require lock-up agreements with officers, directors, selling shareholders and other large shareholders. A lock-up agreement provides that the owner of the shares agrees not to sell his or her shares for a period of time (usually 180 days) after the effective date of the registration statement. Since the underwriter will be the only seller of shares for a certain period of time, it is more likely that the underwriter can successfully sell all the shares in the public offering.
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China: Capitalist, Socialist, or “Weird Beast”?
by Robert Montgomery, 7th September 2019.
While there is growing interest in socialism today, there’s much confusion about its meaning. Among theoretically informed socialists there’s also confusion. The word tends to be used impressionistically, a yardstick for classifying states where capitalism has been overturned. Such states are said to be either socialist or capitalist, either x or not-x, either the one, or the other. Cuba is either socialist or capitalist; China is either socialist or capitalist (or state capitalist.)
In The Revolution Betrayed, Trotsky listed criteria for evaluating post-revolutionary states. The USSR was, “a contradictory society halfway between capitalism and socialism”, plagued by material scarcity, and with a level of productivity far too low to give state property a socialist character. It was a country where socialist norms of production coexisted with bourgeois norms of distribution; where conscious economic planning contested with the market. Based on a foundation of socialized property relations expressed in nationalized means of production, and centralized economic planning, the USSR was history’s first workers state. An isolated island in a capitalist sea, enmired in generalized want and scarcity, economic growth facilitated the conversion of the state bureaucracy into a privileged bureaucratic caste. This social caste parasitized on the body of the healthy workers state to gain material privileges for itself. As this stratum crystallized into a permanent social caste, the workers state degenerated. However, Trotsky insisted that the revolution survived in the socialized property relations, nationalized industry and central planning. Trotsky wrote, “It is the duty of revolutionists to defend tooth and nail every position gained by the working class, whether it involves democratic rights, wages scales, or so colossal a conquest of mankind as the nationalization of the means of production and planned economy.” Like Marx and Lenin, Trotsky argued that socialism could only exist internationally: “The socialist revolution begins on the national level, unfolds on the international, and is completed on the world scale.”
The Deformed Workers States
Preobrazhensky was the economic theorist of the Left Opposition in the USSR. Since publication of his New Economics (1921), Trotskyists have viewed economically backward countries like the USSR as transitional states between capitalism and socialism. They are marked by a conflict between two different economic imperatives: one determined by the law of value; the other by the social relations of a planned economy. The law of value distributes resources in accordance with the laws of commodity production. Planning distributes economic resources independently of the market in accordance with socially necessary priorities.
A series of overturns of capitalism followed the Second World War. In Yugoslavia, Eastern Europe and China capitalism was ousted but without organs of working class struggle like the Russian Soviets of 1917, or a party of the Bolshevik type. After years of debate, the 4th International decided that the establishment of nationalized property relations and economic planning had resulted in new workers states. Since these states did not degenerate from proletarian revolutions, they were deemed workers states, bureaucratically deformed from birth by Stalinism. In these states political power was monopolized by a bureaucratic caste along the same lines as in the USSR. Deformed workers states followed the “socialism in one country” dogma of the nationalist Stalinist bureaucracy.
Mao and Stalin in Moscow, 1949
The same criteria Trotsky used to characterize the USSR revealed that these new states possessed the same contradictory and transitory features. To understand the class character of China today this history must be kept in mind.
The China Question
Aside from scattered sects and the “Spartacist family” there are no Trotskyist tendencies that characterize China as a deformed workers state today. Two examples suffice to represent the consensus view among Trotskyists: Socialist Action, of the Pabloite Unified Secretariat, and the orthodox Trotskyist, Socialist Equality Party of the ICFI.
1) Socialist Action ( S.A). — “China, built on a foundation of monopoly capitalism, is a major capital exporter that exploits workers at home and across the world. Its economy exhibits highly uneven development, with advanced and highly productive regions alongside impoverished and underdeveloped ones. Its military is increasingly advanced and is deployed to support the interests of Chinese capitalism worldwide. China is a major player in most theaters across the world today and is continually seeking to expand its already significant influence”. (China: A New Imperialist Power”, Dec 2018, convention resolution).
2) Socialist Equality Party (SEP)- “Moreover, the social catastrophe which has engulfed China is the direct product of bureaucracy’s restorationist policies. Having repudiated central planning, the Chinese economy is at the mercy of the anarchic forces of the world capitalist market. The creation of innumerable private links between provincial enterprises and foreign capitalists has undermined what was considered the greatest single achievement of the 1949 revolution—the unification of China.” – World Socialist Website – Victory to the Political Revolution in China.
Most accounts of capitalist restoration in China like those above are based on a purported dominance of market relations permeating the economy. The question then arises, if socialized property relations have been replaced by bourgeois property, wouldn’t it have taken a counter-revolutionary struggle to restore capitalism? If we hold that capitalism can be restored through the quantitative extension of market relations alone, aren’t we repeating Bernstein’s claim that capitalism can become socialism through the gradual expansion of the state into banking and industry? By Trotsky’s criteria, such ‘market creep’ accounts of capitalist restoration lack explanatory power, and seem superficial and unpersuasive.
There are plausible reasons for holding that capitalism has been restored in China: the state owned enterprises (SOEs) were reduced in size and pressured to become profitable; privatization of industry has made major inroads; working class exploitation in factory sweatshops is legend; social inequality now exceeds US levels and has produced a billionaire stratum; and the workers in the state enterprises who should be the bedrock of socialist consciousness have been forced on the defensive. Closer examination of these ugly features of China’s economic reforms suggests that the Chinese state has not undergone a qualitative transformation.
Market ‘Reforms’ & CCP Control
When the CCP began market “reforms” in 1978 it had no intention of incubating a capitalist class or undermining the SOEs. It hoped that market competition would make state firms more efficient, boost exports, modernize production and transform China into an economic “Super Power”.
But market logic didn’t meld easily with the Maoist system characterized by state ownership and central planning. As the Left Opposition argued, if the law of value is not suppressed when it conflicts with consciously determined priorities, the planning mechanism will be over-ridden and scarce investment resources will be directed by norms of profit maximization rather than by social and economic need. The laws of the market discipline workers and managers through the “law of value,” not by bureaucratic fiat. When labor power becomes too expensive, it is shed. When firms cannot compete, they go bankrupt. The “efficiencies” of the capitalist market derive from the commodification of both labor power and the means of production.
Chinese market reforms brought significant economic growth between 1978 and 1989. Yet growth was accompanied by large-scale appropriations of state property, an enormous rise in social inequality, and severe regional unevenness that threatened the unification of the country. In 1989 the Tiananmen massacre brought this contradiction to a head. When Beijing’s workers entered the mobilizations, the Deng leadership called on PLA divisions from the provinces to drown the uprising in blood. By 1992 the market-oriented faction in the CCP was hegemonic. Hothouse marketization resulted in large-scale appropriations of state property. This produced phenomena we generally associate with a social counter-revolution: endemic corruption, environmental despoliation, mass layoffs, increasing inter-regional unevenness, and the fracturing the social safety net of the “iron rice bowl”. While indicative of the direction in which China was (and remains) headed, these developments do not in themselves signify that capitalism has been restored. While China’s capitalists limit themselves to talk of “reforming,” rather than overthrowing the CCP, both the imperialists and the indigenous capitalists anticipate the establishment of a bourgeois multi-party democracy.
Privatization: How Great?
How extensive is privatization? Agriculture remains immensely significant as half the population (750 million people) still works the land. Many leftists view Deng’s de-collectivization of agriculture as de facto privatization. However, land remains state property, which has insulated poor peasant families from the full impact of market shock. Legal prohibitions on farm households using their land for non-agricultural purposes have limited speculation and capitalist appropriation of land. Restrictions on land use have proved to be a lifeline for the millions of migrant laborers now returning to their home villages in the interior after being laid off by the export industries of China’s east coast (China Leadership Monitor, Winter 2008)
China’s entry into the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 2001 threatened peasants unable to compete against the large-scale, mechanized production of imperialist agribusiness. While meeting certain WTO obligations like lower tariffs, to avoid bankrupting millions of poor peasant households, Beijing shielded small agricultural producers. The CCP’s “new socialist countryside” program eliminated tuition fees for primary and secondary schools, reduced agricultural taxes, expanded infrastructure investments and increased funding for social services, easing pressure on rural families.
At the height of the pro-market reforms in the late 1990s, the state owned enterprises (SOEs) in the industrial sector saw drastic changes. 30 million workers were laid off, and tens of thousands of small and medium-sized enterprises were privatized through issuing shares and entering into joint ventures. These measures were pushed through as a form of “shock therapy” in preparation for China’s WTO entry. The intention was to force the largest SOEs to become internationally competitive while retaining state ownership. Due to state control of the banking system, the large industrial SOEs survived regardless of their profitability.
CC, part owned by the Beijing Municipal People’s Government
By 2003, SOEs accounted for some 70% of total fixed assets and 30% of non-agricultural production. The state sector remained dominant in strategic industries, including heavy machinery, steel, petroleum, non-ferrous metals, electricity, telecommunications and transportation. Since the early 2000s privatization of larger SOEs has virtually ceased. Subsidized by the state banking system just 10% of insolvent SOEs filed for bankruptcy in 2007/2008. The insolvent SOEs were kept afloat by the state banks and local officials concerned about losing access to government resources (Economist, 13 December 2008). But the weight of the private sector grew until very recently.
The sheer dimensions and relative weight of the state sector suggest that despite the inroads of private property, the Chinese economy is still predominantly collectivized. The increasing weight of capitalist enterprises strengthens the forces of counterrevolution but does not resolve the fundamental issue of class rule. The task of counterrevolution is the political conquest of state power by the capitalist class. The continuing resistance of workers and peasants across China to capitalist encroachment, while so far politically inchoate, is evidence that the ultimate fate of the Chinese Revolution has yet to be decided.
Nationalization as Criteria
Deformed workers states cannot be defined solely by the extent of state ownership. Many capitalist states have resorted to extensive nationalizations to prop up enterprises in strategic sectors unable to compete on the world market. Semi-colonial states have nationalized oil and other natural resources for purposes of national capitalist accumulation. None of these are anti-capitalist measures, but rather attempts to strengthen the position of the national bourgeoisie as a whole. Many who see China as capitalist see the nationalized property as functioning to accumulate capital in order to strengthen the emerging bourgeoisie. They view the ruling bureaucracy as simply an agent of foreign and domestic capitalism.
Challenging the Left Consensus
For the viewpoint of Marxist economists it is worth examining Michael Roberts’ contributions on China. A professional economist, Roberts writes a daily blog, has authored four books on Marxist economics and the causes of the current long depression. While he has some roots in the Trotskyist tradition, Roberts eschews the workers state terminology. A great merit of Roberts’ blog is his referenced documentation, and use of graphics to illustrate his analysis. In what follows I’ll try to summarize his view of China as expressed mainly in:
China workshop: challenging the misconceptions
Trading economics the Chinese way
China: a weird beast
Like economists in general, Robert tends to ignore politics, especially the role of class struggle in shaping economics and confounding predictions. This is a shortcoming of his work, which he accepts as a necessary evil of economic analysis.
Roberts refers to China as a “weird beast.” It is a non-capitalist state with interactions between competing factions of the state bureaucracy, with increasing conflict between the private and statist sectors, between the now dominant working class and both the CCP bureaucracy and the domestic and transnational capitalists. He stresses that it is capitalism’s drive for higher productivity, conflicting with the requirement for increasing profitability that is the main force driving the falling rate of profit of the global capitalist economy today. This contradiction is at the root of the Long Depression, which has plagued the capitalist world since the GFM of 2008. Growth rates in the advanced capitalist countries have yet to return to pre-2008 levels.
Conch Cement, is the largest cement manufacturer in mainland China, majority owned by Anhui Provincial People’s Government
Explaining Chinese Growth
While Chinese growth has also fallen from previous highs, which doubled real living standards every 13 years, economic growth has stayed high compared to the slumping capitalist countries. China’s poverty rate fell from 88% in 1981 to 0.7% in 2015, as measured by the percentage of people living on the equivalent of US $1.90 or less per day. While the world capitalist economies remain mired in a deep slump since the 2008 GFM, the Chinese economy has continued robust growth reaching national output second only to the US.
Source: Michael Roberts Blog
Roberts asks how to explain China’s success in raising 850m people out of poverty, and reaching such phenomenal growth on a capitalist basis? According to World Bank figures, a disproportionate share of this change has occurred over the last fifteen years. How can a purportedly ‘capitalist’ economy have bucked the trend, when the record of all other capitalist economies can show no such result? How is this exception possible if China is just another capitalist economy entangled in the same web of global market relations as the dominant capitalist powers? He answers that the accumulation of capital by the state sector has been the major engine of growth:
–102 big conglomerates contributed 60% of China’s outbound investments by the end of 2016.
–State-owned enterprises including China General Nuclear Power, and China National Nuclear have assimilated Western technologies and are now engaged in projects in Argentina, Kenya, Pakistan and the UK.
Echoing Chinese economist Dic Lo, Roberts asks, “How can it be possible, in our times, for a late-developing nation to move up the world political-economic hierarchy to become imperialist? Can anyone on the left answer this question?” The majority view of leftist economists, pioneered by Martin Hart-Landsberg, David Harvey and Minqi Li, as well as nearly all Marxist political tendencies, is that China is a “neoliberal capitalist” state, employing the so-called “Foxconn Model” of low-wage, coercive, and brutal labor exploitation. Most Marxist and mainstream economists consider that China is capitalist, even imperialist. It is commonplace for Marxists to assert that Chinese export of capital to invest in projects abroad is driven by the need to absorb ‘surplus capital’, similar to the export of capital by the capitalist economies before 1914 that Lenin presented as a key feature of imperialism. Does China invest abroad through its state companies to export ‘excess capital’ or because the rate of profit in state and capitalist enterprises has been falling?
But isn’t the drive to expand global influence and to “extract the natural and technological resources” of other countries a hallmark of imperialism? Roberts responds that this would be the case if its purpose were to export surplus capital in order to realize higher rates of profit than are available in the home market. He contends that massive Chinese overseas investments in infrastructural development projects are undertaken to expand political influence and obtain resources needed to fuel domestic investment by the state-owned sector. Consider the case of the “one belt, one road,’ New Silk Road project for Central Asia for example. This major undertaking to construct the infrastructure to link China with Russia and the West is emblematic of Chinese transnational development projects: state sponsored, high cost/low yield investment outlays to build forward linkages which will drive future domestic accumulation of social capital.
Hambantota Port is a Sri Lankan Port part of the Belt and Road Project
This has nothing in common with imperialism, at least in the sense that Lenin described.
Certainly, Roberts’ argument is open to question. But it does fit logically with his data on the hybrid nature of the Chinese economy. If his Preobrazhenskyist analysis of the Chinese economy is correct, then China isn’t capitalist; and therefore, not imperialist. It is a transitional state whose economy is driven by the contradictory forces of the law of value and central planning.
The Gathering Storm: Conflict with the U.S.
For Roberts the issue ahead is the battle for global trade and investment between China and the US. The US is out to curb and control China’s expansion as an economic power, and is taking aggressive measures to isolate China, block its economic progress and surround it militarily. But this policy of economic war is failing. What really worries U.S imperialism is China’s progress in technology and its aim to become the manufacturing center of the global economy within a generation.
Following Marx, Roberts starts from two premises: a socialist society of freely collaborating individuals where scarcity, toil, exploitation and class struggle have been eliminated is possible with the technology of AI, robots, the modern logistics industry and the internet; socialism cannot occur until the capitalism is no longer globally dominant, and democratically planned economies under workers control integrate production internationally. Like any other nationally based country, China cannot move (even gradually) to socialism unless the power of imperialism in the world market is ended. And though China may be the second-largest economy in the world in dollar terms, its labor productivity is less than one-third that of the US.
Limits to Chinese Growth
China has been transformed since the revolution of 1949 by overturning capitalist property relations and replacing the profit system with state control of the commanding heights of industry and agriculture. It is now applying the newest technology as a modern, urbanized society. As in the former USSR, the law of value asserts its destructive force through foreign trade and capital inflows, as well as through domestic markets for goods, services and funds. That’s not really surprising since socialism cannot be built ‘ in one country’. There is no doubt that the law of value under globalized production feeds through to the Chinese economy. But the impact is ‘distorted’, ‘curbed’, ‘blunted’ and blocked by bureaucratic interference by the state and the party structure to the point that it cannot yet dominate and direct the trajectory of the Chinese economy.
In fact, the capitalist sector in the economy is growing. There are many more Chinese billionaires (285), and inequality of income and wealth has risen as Chinese workers struggle against exploitation in the workplace. When, on the advice of neoliberal elements in the monetary institutions, China relaxed its capital controls the economy suffered serious capital flight. But 80% of all banks are state-owned, with the government directing their lending and deposit policies. There is no free flow of foreign capital into and out of China. Capital controls are imposed and enforced and the currency’s value is manipulated to set economic targets much to the annoyance of US finance capital.
There is an ongoing struggle within the Chinese political elite over which way to go – towards the Western capitalist model, or to continue with “Socialism with Chinese characteristics”. After the GFM of’08 and the ensuing Long Depression in the West, the pro-capitalist factions have been partially discredited. Xi now promotes ‘Marxism’ and says state control under CCP guidance is here to stay. But the only way to guarantee China’s progress, to reduce the growing inequalities, and to avoid the risk of a future swing to capitalism is to establish working class control over Chinese political and economic life, and adopt an international socialist policy. That is something that Xi and the current political elite will not do.
Stock Markets and Billionaires?
If production of commodities for profit based on market relations is the motor force of capitalism, then China is non-capitalist. Under capitalism the rate of profit on private capital determines investment cycles and generates periodic economic crises. This does not apply in China. Public ownership of the means of production and centralized state planning remain dominant, with the CCP’s power firmly rooted in state ownership.
But yet again, “socialism with Chinese characteristics” is a weird beast. It is not socialism by any Marxist definition of democratic workers control and socialist democracy. And there has been a significant expansion of privately owned companies, both foreign and domestic over the last 30 years, with the establishment of a stock market and other financial institutions. But the vast majority of employment and investment is undertaken by SOEs, or by institutions under the direction and control of the CCP. The lion’s share of China’s industry is not foreign-owned multinationals, but Chinese SOEs. As for the stock market, which enterprises may be listed, is strictly controlled by the state. Since the vast majority are SOEs, share markets don’t operate like the stock markets of finance capitalism. Chinese enterprises raise their capital mostly through the nationalized banking system, not by floating new stock through investment banks. Less than 8% of the population operates in the stock market as “retail investors” as opposed to institutional investors. Trading shares on the Chinese casino stock markets is basically like betting on a horse; or better, it’s like putting money on one’s favorite SOE.
Brokers watching the stock price display on the Shenzhen Exchange
A report by the US-China Economic and Security Review found that “The state-owned and controlled portion of the Chinese economy is large. The SOEs and entities directly controlled by SOEs-accounted for more than 40% of China’s non-agricultural GDP.
Chinese Industry and the CCP
The party/state machine infiltrates all levels of industry in China. There are party organizations within every corporation employing more than three party members. Each party fraction elects a secretary, and the party secretary is the lynchpin of the management system of each enterprise. This extends party control beyond the SOEs, partly privatized corporations and village or local government-owned enterprises and into the private sector.
(Capitalizing China, NBER Working Paper No. 17687)
The reality is that almost all Chinese companies employing more than 100 people have an internal party cell-based control system. The CCP is currently writing itself into the articles of association of the country’s biggest companies, both public and private. There are 102 key state enterprises with assets of 50 trillion Yuan that include state oil companies, telecom operators, power generators and weapons manufacturers. Xiao Yaqing, director of the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council (SASAC), writing in the Central Party School’s, Study Times, noted that when a state-owned enterprise has a board of directors, its party boss tends to be the board chairman. Communist Party members at state enterprises form the “the most solid and reliable class foundation” for the Communist Party to rule.
Will there be a Chinese Perestroika?
What guarantee is there that this army of party functionaries won’t play the role that the enterprise managers played in the restoration of capitalism in the USSR under perestroika? Perestroika reforms in the USSR freed the managerial strata to circumvent planning and assume greater personal control over the means of production. Their appetite for ownership was whetted both by perestroika as policy, and their own position as a privileged stratum managing the productive forces directly. In China, by contrast, party cadres don’t directly manage production but function as political functionaries under the direct control of the Stalinist party.
Social Inequality greater than in the U.S.
It’s true that inequality of wealth and income under China’s ‘socialism with Chinese characteristics’ is very high. There are growing numbers of billionaires, many of whom are related to CCP leaders. China’s Gini coefficient, an index of income inequality, has risen from 0.30 in 1978 to a peak of 0.49 in 2003 (the U.S Gini index is .41). Though wages in the factory sweatshops are leaving peasant incomes behind, when workers assembling Apple Ipads earn under $2 an hour, urban wages are brutally low. As urbanization has decelerated since the global recession and the growth rate has slowed, the inequality index has fallen back a little (Gini =.46). But it is also the result of the elite at the levers of power getting fat, while allowing some Chinese billionaires to flourish.
While the Chinese economy is partially protected from the law of value and the world capitalist economy, the threat of capitalist restoration remains high. IMF data show that, while public sector assets in China are still nearly twice the size of capitalist sector assets, the gap is closing. The issue for China is whether the capitalist sector of the economy will eventually override the planned public sector, so that profitability will dominate over productivity and crises will appear, leading to economic stagnation. For Roberts, that point has not yet been reached in China. The state sector and public investment through one-party dictatorship still control investment, employment and production decisions while the growing capitalist sector is still subject to that control. Under Xi, the majority of the party elite will continue with an economic model dominated by SOEs directed at all levels by CCP cadres. The currently hegemonic faction of the CCP elite understands that if the “capitalist road” is taken and the law of value becomes dominant, it will expose China to chronic economic instability, insecurity of employment and income, and greater inequalities that can only lead to the threat of more social turbulence.
Ma Huateng is Chinese riches man worth $US 38 billion
On the other hand, Xi and the party elite are united in opposing socialist democracy. They wish to preserve their autocratic rule and the privileges that flow from it. The working masses have yet to enter the stage and play a role. They have fought local battles over the environment in 2015, their villages, and their jobs and wages. But they have not fought for more democracy or economic power since 1989. While opinion polls like that of the Pew Research Center show passive support for the regime, worries about corruption and inequality abound.
What’s In a Name?
Is this debate over China just a sterile hairsplitting exercise of little actual consequence? What real world difference does it make if Marxists view China as capitalist, socialist, state capitalist, some form of Bonapartism, or a deformed workers state? As a matter of principle won’t Marxists defend China against imperialism no matter what they call the state? Aside from the most principled Trotskyists like the SEP, this is unlikely. How can we expect that those who deem China a predatory imperialist power will defend it in a conflict with the U.S.? And how can a movement against war be organized when both sides are imperialist gangsters? We are more likely to see support for “pro-democracy” forces inside China as in the waning days of the Soviet bloc, and as we see today with the knee jerk cheerleading extended to the resurrected “Umbrella Revolution” in Hong Kong. This time around, “Neither Beijing nor Washington!” will substitute for the 3rd Camp slogan, “Neither Moscow nor Washington!”
Despite broad antiwar sentiment in the working class, soft support to imperialism predominates on the “left.” If left to these forces, the material gains made by China’s workers and poor peasants since the revolution will be left to the wolves of imperialism. We can expect to see the pseudo-left swamp abandon the Chinese workers with the same fecklessness with which it has betrayed Julian Assange. The broad antiwar sentiment in the world’s working class will remain inchoate if the forces of revolutionary Marxism aren’t capable of “calling things by their right name.”
With the US/China conflict reaching white heat it makes a big difference if China is just the newest, big kid on the capitalist block. Threats may fly over technology, intellectual property, trade imbalances, tariffs, regulation of foreign corporations, and plans to make China the world’s leading economic power within five years. These conflicts can’t be downplayed. Capitalist powers fought two world wars in the 20th century to re-divide the world market. But when capitalist powers jostle over relative global economic power, these conflicts may be negotiated short of military conflict. (May, being the operative term).
U.S Pacific Fleet during “Valiant Shield” Operation 2018
On the other hand, if a non-capitalist China tightens control over market access, and increases production of media and other high value-added industries like semiconductor design and production, cell phones, high-end machine tools, medical devices, and optics, China will enter into direct competition with major US-based companies. Should China be seen as choking off unfettered penetration by foreign capital, the conflict will differ qualitatively from an inter-imperialist struggle, dangerous as that may be. In the context of the long-term decline of American capitalism, continuing long depression, the failure of the rate of profit to recover after the GFM of 2008, and the looming prospect of a new recession and financial collapse, China faces a definite prospect of war with the US. If anything were to survive a nuclear exchange, or the Stalinists capitulate short of war, imperialist capital will move to:
• wrest control of the accumulated and natural resources of the world’s 2nd largest economy
• open the 1.4 billion person market to its capital exports
• seize the mineral and material wealth under its soil
• and most importantly, exploit its massive working class for the surplus value so desperately needed to overcome its secular profitability crisis.
The stakes are high in either case. But if China remains a post-capitalist, non-capitalist, deformed workers state— call it what you will— a war fought with nuclear weapons will be more than a horrible possibility. It will be a virtual certainty.
The venal Stalinist bureaucracy can’t be relied upon to defend the social gains made since 1949. Only the power of the massive Chinese working class can oust the Stalinist clique and defend the gains of the Chinese revolution. By uniting with their class brothers and sisters throughout the world, China’s workers can play a leading role in the fight against war, poverty, all forms of oppression, and for the socialist liberation of humanity. It will take the formation of a conscious revolutionary vanguard party of the Bolshevik type to give political form and leadership to such a movement.
Robert Montgomery is from Boston, he has been active in antiwar and labor struggles as for almost fifty years. He has functioned as an independent Trotskyist since leaving the SWP (US) in the 1970s. A historian he has published numerous articles on US labor history. A union activist he has served on numerous action committees and was local president of two different municipal library unions. He is a retired medical radiographer and P.A. (Physician Assistant). He has contributed this article to classconscious.org as a guest contributor
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Why the US military's proposal to dispose of Saddam Hussein’s Victory Monument is misguided
They represent good and bad aspects of Iraq’s modern history and cannot simply be obliterated
US Army tanks and soldiers stop under the "Hands of Victory" in Ceremony Square, Baghdad, during Operation Iraqi Freedom, 13 November 2003 Photo: Technical Sergeant John L. Houghton, Jr, United States Air Force
Since the fall of Saddam Hussein, there has been much debate in Iraq by curators, heritage experts and the public about what should be done with the monuments built by the late dictator. These works, especially the public sculptures, are undoubtedly visually menacing. The four gargantuan bronze-plated statues of Saddam’s head placed on top of his Republican Palace in the Green Zone are good examples of this aggressive type of art. These pieces were removed in 2003 (three of them were reportedly handed over to the Iraqi authorities while the fourth sculpture was melted down).
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Interested parties outside of the country are pushing for the destruction of this landmark in spite of its historical and artistic importance
Since I left Iraq over a year ago, it has become clear to me that interested parties outside of the country are pushing for the destruction of this landmark in spite of its historical and artistic importance. Monuments such as these in Baghdad and other Iraqi cities must be preserved. Not just because of their artistic importance but also because they serve a powerful purpose as reminders of the horrors of war and Saddam Hussein’s legacy. They represent good and bad aspects of Iraq’s modern history and cannot simply be obliterated.
• Donny George served as chairman of the State Board of Antiquities and Heritage in Iraq until August 2006. Following death threats, he fled the country with his family. He moved to the US and took up a position as a visiting professor in the Department of Asian and Asian American Studies at Stony Brook University in New York State.
• Originally appeared in The Art Newspaper with the headline "Saddam’s statues should not be destroyed"
Update: a 2020 Vision
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Merry v. Knudsen Creamery Co.
Annotate this Case
[Civ. No. 17256. Second Dist., Div. One. Nov. 21, 1949.]
THOMAS M. MERRY, Appellant, v. KNUDSEN CREAMERY COMPANY (a Corporation) et al., Respondents.
William K. Young for Appellant.
Reginald I. Bauder, W. I. Gilbert, Jr., and Henry F. Walker for Respondents.
Plaintiff has appealed from a judgment for defendants entered upon the verdict of a jury in an action for damages for personal injuries arising from an automobile accident.
On the morning of September 2, 1947, plaintiff, who was driving his automobile southerly on Western Avenue in the city of Los Angeles, approached the intersection of 54th Street, where traffic signals were in operation. The signal changed to "Stop" for traffic on Western Avenue, and plaintiff halted his automobile behind several other vehicles in the traffic lane adjacent to cars parked along the west curb of Western Avenue. Within a short interval, from "a second or two" to "half a minute," a truck owned by defendant Knudsen Creamery Company, and operated by defendant Glenn I. Brunk struck the rear of plaintiff's car, driving it into the car ahead.
Defendant truck driver testified that he was following plaintiff's car and applied his brakes when he was about 50 feet behind plaintiff's car and traveling between 25 and 30 miles per hour; that at first the brakes took effect, but that as he continued to push down on the brake pedal, "it just kept going down and kept going out the more I pushed on it." It was not shown by the evidence precisely what was the difficulty with the brakes. The defendant driver testified that on the evening before the day of the accident he observed a slight slack in the brake pedal, reported it, and it was adjusted on the night before the accident. On the morning of September 22, he drove the truck from 21st and Santee Streets to 21st and Broadway, thence down Broadway to Santa Barbara, thence west on Santa Barbara to Western, and south on Western to the scene of the accident; that during that time he experienced no difficulty with the truck's hydraulic brakes. [94 Cal. App. 2d 717] With respect to the action of the brakes immediately before the accident, he testified that he first discovered that the brakes were not going to hold when he tried to stop behind the plaintiff's car and was 40 to 50 feet behind the same. He saw plaintiff's car being brought to a stop and slowed his vehicle from 25 to 30 miles per hour to about 15 to 20 miles per hour, at which time the brakes failed completely.
Appellant assigns as grounds for reversal the following:
"The court erroneously instructed the jury that the fact the accident happened was not evidence of negligence. (2) "The court erred in instructing the jury respecting an unavoidable accident." (3) "The evidence was insufficient to justify the verdict."
The court instructed the jury in part as follows:
"While there are two defendants in this action, one of them, Knudsen Creamery Company, has been sued herein because, as has been established, it was the principal for whom the other defendant, Glenn I. Brunk, was acting as agent, and within the scope of his authority at the time of the events out of which the accident occurred. It follows, therefore, that if one is liable, both are liable. ... It has been established that the defendant Glenn I. Brunk was acting as agent for said corporation and within the scope of his authority at the time of the events out of which the accident involved in this case occurred. Hence your verdict must be the same as to both said defendants, either in favor of both or against both in one sum.
"... The mere fact that an accident happened, considered alone, does not support an inference that some party, or any party, to this action was negligent.
"In law we recognize what is termed an unavoidable or inevitable accident. These terms do not mean literally that it was not possible for such an accident to be avoided. They simply denote an accident that occurred without having been proximately caused by negligence. Even if such an accident could have been avoided by the exercise of exceptional foresight, skill or caution, still, no one may be held liable for injuries resulting from it."
The court then read to the jury section 670(a) of the Vehicle Code, which provides that no person shall operate on any highway a vehicle unless such vehicle be equipped with brakes adequate to bring the vehicle to a stop within specified distances at specified speeds, and instructed the jury as follows: [94 Cal. App. 2d 718]
"Conduct which is in violation of Section 670(a) of the Vehicle Code of the State of California just read to you constitutes negligence per se. This means that if the evidence supports a finding and you do find that a person did so conduct himself, it requires a presumption that he was negligent. However, such presumption is not conclusive. It may be overcome by other evidence showing that under all the circumstances surrounding the event, the conduct in question was excusable, justifiable and such as might reasonably have been expected from a person of ordinary prudence. In this connection, you may assume that a person of ordinary prudence will reasonably endeavor to obey the law and will do so unless causes not of his own intended making induce him, without moral fault, to do otherwise ..."
The record further discloses that after the jurors had deliberated for about an hour and a half, they returned into court, whereupon, in the absence of counsel, the following discussion took place:
"The Court: Ladies and gentlemen, I have been handed a question from Mr. Glenn H. Lyle, a member of the jury, which states as follows: 'If the defendant's driver, Brunk, was himself not negligent, must we bring in a verdict for the defendant?'
"Pursuant to the instructions given to you that when there is a principal and an agent in operation of a series of events, an action is filed as it is in this instance against both the principal and the agent, the principal in this event being Knudsen Creamery Company, the agent in this event being Mr. Brunk, the defendant, it is your duty should you find that there was negligence and that as a result of that negligence and the proximate--and from the proximate cause thereof--that is, the negligence proximately caused the accident, then you are instructed that you are to bring a verdict against both defendants, that the agent and the principal in this particular matter are negligent, if you should find that there is negligence. Mr. Lyle, does that answer your question?
"Mr. Lyle: It does to me.
"Juror No. 5: If one of them is negligent and the other is not--if we find that one is negligent and the other is not, do we clear them both?
"The Court: Under the instructions herein it would be impossible for you to find that the accident occurred from the negligence of merely one; if there was negligence in this instance [94 Cal. App. 2d 719] it was the negligence of the agent as well as the principal, not only the principal or only the agent.
"Another Juror: Your Honor, maybe I am asking this question out of turn; this question is not the question under discussion, but is this__________
"The Court: (Interrupting) Well, I don't think I can go into the discussion with you. I would like very much to, but you will notice that counsel are absent here and they have stipulated that should the jury desire further instructions we could do so without their presence; however, I do not feel that it would be right for me to listen to the discussion had or any part of it by you in the jury room at this time. However, you are instructed--and you must follow the instructions of the Court--that if one is negligent in this instance that both are negligent, or if they both are not negligent, neither one is negligent."
The court then reread the instructions hereinbefore quoted in part concerning the principal and agent relationship between the driver and the creamery company. Thereupon the following took place:
"Juror No. 2: This question probably might clear it up: Mr. Brunk is not sued in the action with Knudsen Dairy, is that correct?
"The Court: No, both are sued; both are defendants. The action is by Mr. Merry against Knudsen Creamery Company and Glenn I. Brunk, both being defendants, and if the judgment is against one, it shall be against both. Do you have a question?
"Juror No. 1: Well, no, I had in mind to ask you to read that portion of your charge there referring to the law on an unavoidable accident."
The court then reread the instruction on unavoidable accident and the jury resumed its deliberations.
[1] It was not error to give an instruction on the subject of unavoidable accident. As stated in the instruction itself, the terms "unavoidable" or "inevitable" simply denote an accident not proximately caused by negligence. (See Polk v. City of Los Angeles, 26 Cal. 2d 519, 542, 543 [159 P.2d 931].) Under the testimony of the defendant driver it could be inferred that the brakes, although tested and checked the night before the accident, failed completely and without warning after operating satisfactorily for several miles immediately [94 Cal. App. 2d 720] preceding the accident. (See, also, Smith v. Hale, 3 Cal. App. 2d 277, 278, 279 [39 P.2d 445]; Graham v. Consolidated M. T. Co., 112 Cal. App. 648, 651 [297 P. 617].)
Neither of the two instructions complained of can be held to be improper, under the circumstances presented by this case, in view of the fact that these instructions were immediately followed by an instruction in the language of 670(a) of the Vehicle Code concerning the requirement of adequate brakes, and the jury were told that a violation of the section requires a presumption of negligence which could be overcome by a showing that the conduct in question was excusable.
[2] We are, however, of the view that under the facts disclosed by the evidence in the case, prejudicial error was committed in advising the jury when it returned into court for further instructions. The jury was told that there could be no verdict against the owner of the truck and in favor of the driver. They were told that unless the driver was negligent there could be no liability on the part of the creamery--in other words that they could hold the creamery company liable only on the theory that it was responsible for the acts of its agent, the driver. It is obvious from the colloquy between court and jury hereinabove quoted that the jury considered the driver to be free from negligence, or at least desired to exonerate him. The jury were thus precluded from basing a verdict upon a finding that, although the driver acted as a reasonably prudent man in reporting the slack in the brakes and in relying upon the fact that they had been adjusted and appeared to be in good order the following morning and functioned normally up to the time of the accident--that nevertheless the owner of the truck had failed to meet or overcome the presumption of negligence on his part arising under section 670(a) of the Vehicle Code.
The complaint in this case charged negligence on the part of defendants in general terms. The defense was a denial of negligence. The deposition of the defendant driver was taken under section 2055 of the Code of Civil Procedure and offered in evidence by the plaintiff. His testimony in the deposition was adopted as part of the defendant's case. In addition to the testimony on deposition, the driver testified, for the defense, that he reported the slack in the brake pedal and "they" adjusted it that night (the night before the accident); that he had no further difficulty until the time of the accident. The defense offered no further testimony in explanation of the failure of the brakes, nor did they offer any testimony to [94 Cal. App. 2d 721] show that the failure occurred despite the exercise of due care on the part of the owner and his employees.
From the testimony of the defendant driver it could be concluded that he did all that he was reasonably required to do and was free from negligence. When he noticed a slack in the brakes, he reported it and "they took the slack out and adjusted them." This occurred the night before the accident. On the morning of the accident the brakes appeared to be in good working order. Nevertheless, they failed without warning. The obvious inference from this set of circumstances is that the negligence, if any, was the negligence of the person charged with the duty of inspecting and repairing the brakes.
It is self-evident that the owner of a vehicle who knowingly or negligently permits it to be operated upon a public highway in a defective condition is liable for damages resulting from such condition, whether his agent in the operation knows of its defective condition or not. In other words, as might be concluded in this case, the driver was but an innocent instrumentality in operating the defective vehicle for his employer, whose responsibility if any arises through his failure, either personally or through an employee or agent, to exercise due care to see that the brakes on the vehicle were in the condition required by section 670(a) of the Vehicle Code.
Upon this state of the record, the jury would have been warranted in drawing an inference of negligence from the unexplained failure of the brakes or in indulging the presumption of negligence for failure to comply with section 670(a) of the Vehicle Code, and in concluding further that the defendant owner of the truck had failed to present facts to overcome the inference or presumption. As above noted, beyond the testimony of the driver, no attempt was made to show what precautions had been taken in the maintenance of the vehicle. Whoever adjusted the brakes on the night before the accident was not called as a witness. It follows that a verdict against the creamery company alone could have been fully warranted, and it was error to instruct the jury that its verdict had to be against both the company and the driver or in favor of both.
[3] In many cases it has been held that a collision between a moving automobile and a standing automobile, whether a parked vehicle or one momentarily at a standstill, calls for the application of the doctrine of res ipsa loquitur. (Bauhofer v. Crawford, 16 Cal. App. 676 [117 P. 931]; Slappey v. Schiller, 116 Cal. App. 274 [2 P.2d 577]; Creamer v. Cerrato, 1 Cal.[94 Cal. App. 2d 722] App.2d 441 [36 P.2d 1094]. See, also, authorities collected in 151 A.L.R. 878.) To apply the rule is simply to say that the circumstances of the particular accident justify an inference of negligence. Such a case was here presented.
[4] The plaintiff charged negligence in general terms. The defense disclosed by the driver's deposition was that the brakes failed. This defense in turn placed upon the defendant the burden of overcoming the presumption arising from a violation of section 670(a) of the Vehicle Code. "Proof having been made that the collision was occasioned by the defective condition of the party's vehicle, the issue as to his responsibility for the happening of the calamity depends upon the showing as to whether he knew or ought to have known of the existence of the defect." (Whitechat v. Guyette, 19 Cal. 2d 428, 436, 437 [122 P.2d 47], quoting 2 Cal.Jur. 10-Yr.Supp. § 157, p. 234.) To the same effect, see Cavagnaro v. City of Napa, 86 Cal. App. 2d 517, 528 [195 P.2d 25], and Satterlee v. Orange Glenn School Dist., 29 Cal. 2d 581, 588 [177 P.2d 279]. Quoting from the latter case:
"And if the evidence establishes that the plaintiff's or defendant's violation of the statute or ordinance proximately caused the injury and no excuse or justification for violation is shown by the evidence, responsibility may be fixed upon the violator without other proof of failure to exercise due care. ... (Citing cases.) ....
"However, in an emergency, or under unusual conditions, it is generally held that circumstances may be shown to excuse the violation. The rule has been aptly stated in Jolley v. Clemens, 28 Cal. App. 2d 55, 67 [82 P.2d 51), where it was said (quoting from 1 Shearman & Redfield on Negligence, § 13): ' "... violation of such a statute or ordinance is presumptive evidence of negligence, which, if not excused by other evidence, including all the surrounding circumstances, should be deemed conclusive. ..." ' Continuing, the court said: 'But unless and until justification or excuse for such conduct appear ... the general rule applies and it must be treated as negligence per se.' ..."
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5FCV-A system, Great Wildlands region. On the 22nd of July at 19:48 EVE Standard Time E.B.O.L.A. [E8OLA] forces clashed with The Unthinkables [INK] and The Blood Covenant [VIT.C] in the system.
The two sides fought over an E.B.O.L.A Raitaru engineering complex. Following E.B.O.L.A’s attack on Capitalist Army [CANS]’s structures, the other residents of the Great Wildlands region decided to organize into their own coalition to contain E.B.O.L.A’s aggression. This came on the heels of the collapse of the Great Wildlands Conservation Society (GWCS) coalition which gave E.B.O.L.A an opportunity to expand its influence in the area.
The Laughing Buddha (LB) coalition was recently founded by The Unthinkables and The Blood Covenant with more entities in the region slated to join it. The coalition’s goals seem to mainly protect members from the continued expansion of E.B.O.L.A, as well as other outside forces which are seemingly drawn to the chaos gripping the region. The first action this new coalition took was to reinforce structures belonging to E.B.O.L.A, including the Raitaru in 5FCV-A.
E.B.O.L.A prepared to defend the structure alongside The Hell Legion. [H.E.L.], gathering a 35 pilot Armageddon battleship fleet. The fleet included three force auxiliaries serving as logistics backbone, a squadron of combat carriers and five dreadnoughts to top it off. This force set up in range of 5FCV-A, the battleships gathering on top of a titan, ready to bridge in should hostile come to contest the timer.
Laughing Buddha forces indeed came to attack the structure and push it into its second reinforcement timer. The coalition gathered a 45 pilot Machariel battleship fleet which included a force auxiliary, several combat carriers and a squadron of dreadnoughts. The sub-capital part of the fleet arrived at the system and warped at a 100 kilometers off the reinforced structure. Once it became vulnerable the battleships opened fire, the artillery cannons slowly chipping away at the Raitaru’s armor hit points.
E.B.O.L.A was ready, its cynosural beacon lit up on the structure and into the field jumped the Armageddon fleet with two force auxiliaries. The battleships anchored up and fired cruise missiles at the Machariels, which returned fire. The battle had begun.
The Armageddons found themselves in a pinch, unable to apply damage well to the Machariels which continued to hover at the edge of the falloff range of their missiles. The Machariels, on the other hand, had no issue hitting the Armageddons, taking down a couple with well-coordinated volleys. The Armageddon fleet’s logistics wing in the meantime was struggling to keep the rest of the fleet alive. The constant target switches and the energy-hungry remote armor repairers took their toll on the force auxiliary pilots. To ease some of the pressure, E.B.O.L.A opted to bring the reserve force auxiliary; at this point that the course of the battle changed.
The third force auxiliary materialized on the field and entered its triage cycle immediately. However, it landed on top of one of the other force auxiliaries. With its mass increased by the triage module, the ship received a hard bump which launched it away from the fleet. By the time it managed to stop finally, it had traveled 180 kilometers away from its allies. Laughing Buddha forces saw this and decided to pounce on the separated force auxiliary, warping to it and landing on top.
E.B.O.L.A fleet commanders gave the order for their own fleet to align to the stricken force auxiliary, and the other two FAXes to de-cycle their triage modules to regain mobility. Once out of triage mode, the fleet warped to the third force auxiliary. The two sides were now face-to-face on top of the force auxiliary.
The Laughing Buddha fleet lit a cynosural beacon and let through its capital force. The dreadnoughts hit the grid, entered siege cycles and targeted the force auxiliary. E.B.O.L.A did the same, bringing forth its own capital fleet. The battle had become a full-on capital brawl over the force auxiliary.
The E.B.O.L.A sub-capitals and combat carriers spread their energy neutralizers on the hostile Revelations, the Amarrian dreadnoughts susceptible to capacitor warfare. Laughing Buddha in the meantime focused its firepower on the stranded force auxiliary, bringing it down with well-coordinated volleys before moving on to target the E.B.O.L.A dreadnoughts. E.B.O.L.A chose to focus its firepower on the Naglfar dreadnoughts brought by Laughing Buddha fleet, since their guns required no capacitor to fire, thus making them impervious to the energy neutralizing effect of their fleet.
The two fleets traded losses back and forth as capital ships on either side succumbed to the relentless onslaught. As the battle slowly progressed, E.B.O.L.A seemed to gain the upper hand. Their strategy of applying energy neutralizers helped diminish the capital firepower of the Laughing Buddha fleet. With combat carrier fighters and the Armageddons themselves, the combined E.B.O.L.A fleet was able to dispatch the Laughing Buddha dreadnought force, though not before losing an equal amount of capital ships in return.
With most of the Laughing Buddha dreadnoughts destroyed, the E.B.O.L.A fleet turned their attention to their sub-capitals. Machariels went down one after the other as well as their force auxiliary which was unceremoniously dispatched. Though the Machariels managed to inflict a few losses in return, they were losing mainline ships at a rapid rate and having lost their logistics wing, were vulnerable to the missile barrages of the Armageddon fleet.
Realizing they couldn’t tank the incoming damage anymore and having lost a significant portion of the fleet already, Laughing Buddha fleet commanders ordered the retreat. The remaining ships that weren’t tackled warped off, leaving the rest to be cut down by E.B.O.L.A who quickly cleared the grid of hostiles and set about looting the field. In all the commotion the Raitaru was able to initiate self-repair, additionally securing the strategic objective for the defenders.
With the battle won and the objective secured, E.B.O.L.A forces continued to loot the field while extracting their capital assets. Though their scavenging did not go unchallenged, after the battle no major threat opposed their operations. With the field picked clean, the main E.B.O.L.A fleet departed the system, bringing the fight to an end.
Battle report for the 5FCV-A system can be found here.
All told the battle lasted 31 minutes with Time Dilation not reported and the system hosting an estimated 120 pilots at the peak of the fighting.
E.B.O.L.A and The Hell Legion lost a combined 20 ships including 5 dreadnoughts, 1 force auxiliary, 2 combat carriers and 3 battleships for a total of 23.42 billion ISK damage.
Laughing Buddha coalition lost 36 ships including 8 dreadnoughts, 1 force auxiliary, 3 combat carriers and 13 battleships for a total of 37.87 billion ISK damage.
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Midterm Election Results a Disaster for America
The mid term election results are in, and it doesn't look good for the Democrats. They have lost the House badly while barely retaining control of the Senate. If we thought that government couldn't get anything done when Democrats controlled all branches of government, just wait and see what happens when the Republicans can actually do something to prevent legislation passing.
The Democrats spent two years negotiating with themselves over health care and the economy, essentially enacting Republican policy for fear of alienating the center (whatever they believe that is). As a result, the economy has yet to pull out of recession and health care won't be of any use till 2014 (and it still relies 100% on the private insurance industry).
Anyone who has bothered to actually look at Obama's policies will notice that he's a centrist in virtually every sense of the word. He has moved to the middle on virtually every single issue, and while self identifies as a progressive, has bowed to the Right and given concession after concession when he really didn't have to.
Progessives warned him that saddling up to Wall St and bowing to non existent pressure from the loony Right on issues like health care would get him nowhere, and Obama has paid the price for giving away his had before starting negotiations. His policies have been at best luke warm, and at worst down right spineless. Had the Democrats taken a hammer to Wall St and told the insurance industry to shove right from the get go, the economy might have pulled out of recession faster and health care might have had a chance at serious structural reform.
But the opportunity was wasted and Republicans have had two years of target practice pretending Obama is a radical Leftist and a closet Nazi. Now they have some real power, the political landscape is going to get whole lot uglier.
The American people have become utterly confused as to why they are struggling to pay their bills and unable to find work. Given the amount of mud throwing the Fox News network and the GOP have thrown at the Obama administration, it is almost understandable that Americans believe some sort of Big Government experiment has taken place and failed miserably.
The truth is that the exact opposite has happened.
Obama passed a stimulus package that most serious economists knew was way too small and was far too reliant on tax cuts. He passed a healthcare bill that didn't include a public option - a provision every serious analyst knew would be crucial in having meaningful reform. In short, lack of government intervention has cost the economy and the country, and we're about to get a whole lot less of it now the Republicans get a say in how money is spent.
The effects of this swing to the Right will no doubt be disastrous as were the 8 years suffered under the Bush Administration. Obama's policies will be watered down again and again until they are virtually meaningless, and every ounce of energy will be spent on attaining the smallest of victories that will probably have little effect in the long run.
The Republicans want to shut down government and now they have the opportunity to do so.
I'm painting a bleak picture here, but the truth is the Democrats have only themselves to blame. The Republican party has been hijacked by the even stupider descendants of George Bush and are now looking to plunge the country into the abyss. The Democrats could have stopped them by enacting legislation that actually worked and have instead borrowed the same ideas that caused the economic collapse in the first place.
The Democrat's gigantic losses boil down to a complete lack of faith in government. Republicans have not been elected for what they stand for, but because Democrats have failed so badly in governing.
The worst thing the Democrats can now do is follow the advice of morons like Mark Penn (the former campaign manager for Hillary Clinton) who subscribe to the notion that Obama must move to the center in order to be a successful President.
Well, he's already tried that, and it was a disaster.
If the Democrats want to get anything done now the Republicans control the House, they will have to start negotiations from a much harder left position. Perhaps Obama will realize that giving away everything before you start negotiating isn't the best way to pass progressive legislation.
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Nino Negri, a winemaker of some repute, founded the company in 1897. It was his son Carluccio who put the name on the map, exporting the wines as far afield as the the UK and USA. Valtellina has four ‘crus’ (Sassella, Inferno, Grumello and Fracia), and Negri owns vineyards in all of them. The grape Chiavennasca is a strain of Nebbiolo, and because of the steep vineyards and southerly exposures, the wines are deep and complex, yet always enticingly elegant, even for a region so high up in the Alps.
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What To Expect At Your Social Security Disability Hearing
August 11, 2015
Understandably, most people who have filed for their Social Security disability and have been denied twice, will have some trepidation about what will occur at their hearing. Since all disability hearings are heard in private, this is not the type of proceeding where you can watch to first see how they take place.
However, there are some things you, as the claimant (and your attorney, if you are represented) can do to better prepare so that your hearing goes more smoothly.
First, make absolutely sure that all of your medical evidence has been submitted and received at least 10 days prior to your hearing so that the Administrative Law Judge can review your claim. At this point, suffice it to say that actually even medical records that discount your claim are supposed to be submitted. If you do have such medical evidence, then either you (or your attorney) needs to explain the discrepancy while at your hearing. If you are represented, then it would be in your best interest for these to have been submitted in a prehearing memorandum to the judge to better define the issues.
What you ultimately want to show through your medical evidence is a continuum of treatment and symptoms which effect your ability to engage in at least basic work activity.
So, let's say that if you have a solid record of treatment, then what will likely happen at your hearing?
Well, the first thing you have to know is who will actually be there on the day or your hearing.
First, a Social Security disability hearing is not an adversarial proceeding like the court cases you watch on TV. There is no attorney at this stage representing the Social Security Administration stating that you are not disabled and you have the ability to work. There is no cross examination and the rules of evidence are basically nonexistent. The judge is basically looking to see, through your testimony and medical evidence, whether you can actually perform basic work activities or not.
Second, a Social Security disability hearing almost always take place in a small room in one of the many federal buildings located around the country (not a traditional courtroom). The judge is usually elevated in his or her bench and you are seated directly in front. There are always two additional people in the room. One is the judge's assistant recording the hearing and usually an impartial vocation or medical expert. However, in almost all Social Security disability hearings, a vocational expert will be asked to testify in order to help the Judge determine whether or not you are capable of performing some other type of work, taking into consideration you age, education, and the work skills you have acquired through your years of working.
Beyond this, the hearings tend to vary depending upon which judge is chosen to hear your case. Some judges allow opening statements and the attorney to present his or her case. Others take over immediately and want to discuss with the claimant a particular aspect of their medical records. After either has happened, then the vocational expert will be called upon to testify as to what he or she believes you are able to do, given your medical evidence and testimony.
Here is where many claimants become very confused. The vocational expert will often testify that you are capable of working at some type of job within the national and local economy and will give the D.O.T. (Dictionary of Occupational Titles) number to the corresponding job. This may be the most critical part of your hearing because if the judge finds that you are capable of working at some other type of listed job, you will be found not disabled.
This is also why it is so important that you question the vocational expert to show that you are not capable of working the types of jobs he or she says you can.
Let's use an example to help better explain this confusing part of the hearing. Again, depending upon how the judge chooses to conduct the hearing, each case will vary. But, there is some consistency in the given example.
Let's say that you are a claimant with a severe back injury, The part of the hearing would go something like this:
Judge: "Ms. ________, as the vocational expert, after reviewing the medical evidence and hearing the claimant's testimony, are you able to testify as to what jobs the claimant may be able to perform?"
Vocational Expert: "I have, Your Honor."
Judge: "Let's take a hypothetical person with a severe herniated disc that is capable of walking and standing for two hours per day and is capable of sitting for a combined total of six hours per day. -Would there be a sufficient number of jobs within the national or local economy this person could perform?"
Vocational Expert: "There would, Your Honor. I find that this hypothetical person could be a Dowel Inspector. Code 669.687-014, with a sedentary strength requirement..."
OK, so right now your more than likely really confused. First, you had no idea there were actually jobs such as a Dowel Inspector in the United States. Second, you have no idea what consists of a sedentary strength requirement. At this point, if you cannot come up with a reason as to why you cannot be a Dowel Inspector, then the judge may determine that you are capable of performing a sit down type of job instead of receiving your Social Security disability benefits. So, how do you overcome this problem?
Judge: "Mr./Ms. ___________, do you have any questions for the vocational expert?"
The judge is now asking you to actually cross examine the vocational expert to show that you, as the hypothetical person, are incapable of being a Dowel Inspector or any other type of job. -And you thought you were just going to be able to go into your hearing and tell the judge your tale of woe and he or she would immediately award you benefits after hearing your testimony?! How wrong you are! This is a very complicated part of the hearing and the disability determination process, but try and follow along as best you can.
Here is where you will have to use your medical evidence to contradict the vocational expert's testimony that you are capable of performing a job such as a Dowel Inspector. You will use your medical evidence as a basis to show what further limitations you have. It would go something like is...
You: "Madam, let's take the same characteristics as the same hypothetical person the Judge just gave you. But now, let's say that same hypothetical person had to alternate between sitting and standing throughout the day. -Could this person perform the same job or other jobs within the national or local economy?"
You see, you have now added another restriction to this same hypothetical person (which, again, is really just you). You were able to use common sense and your medical history to show that you (or this hypothetical person) would have to alternate between sitting and standing throughout the day due to your severe back pain.
And, so what if the vocational expert comes back with another job? What if the vocational expert tells the judge that this hypothetical person could be a Silver Wrapper? -What then? -Yes, this is a go-to job the Social Security Administration uses to show that you would be capable of still working even though you have a severe medical condition.
Well, go back to your medical records (you will know your own symptoms at this point) and add yet another restriction. It would go something like this:
You: "Madam. Let's again use the same hypothetical person, but now would there be any jobs within the economy if this person had to lie down periodically throughout the day to relieve his or her back pain? And, such breaks would be unscheduled and were likely to last twenty minutes or more."
Vocational Expert: "There would be no jobs within the national economy."
Yes! You were successful in getting the vocational expert to state that there would be no jobs within the national or local economy in which you, as the hypothetical person, could perform, given your severe restrictions as shown through your medical records.
Does this make sense? First, this shows why it is so important that your medical records are up to date and adequate to support such a question. If your medical records show that you have two herniated discs, it helps when you state that this hypothetical person would have to lie down at various times throughout the day in order to relieve his or her back pain. Also, if you took you Function Report very serious, then you also showed through your restrictions in daily activities that you also had to lie down throughout the day to relieve your back pain.
The judge may then feel comfortable ruling in your favor that you are actually disabled and are unable to work.
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Motorcyclist’s Claim for Underinsured Motorist Benefits
The Crash
The collision occurred on the freeway at the east end of Portland. A motorcyclist was traveling from northbound Interstate 205 onto eastbound Interstate 84 in the right lane on a Buell motorcycle. He was wearing his helmet and full protective leather gear. An underinsured motorist was operating a 1999 Harley Davidson motorcycle in the left lane behind a pickup truck. The pickup slowed as it approached backed-up traffic. The underinsured motorist failed to slow, crashed into the right rear of the pickup, and suddenly fell directly into the path of the man we represented, in the right lane, causing the crash.
Several eyewitnesses reported that man we represented could not have avoided the collision. The fault of the underinsured motorist, and the fact that our client’s harms and losses were substantial, were recognized when the at-fault driver’s insurance company settled for its policy limits. Our client had additional insurance coverage that included Underinsured Motorist benefits.
Harms and Losses
The injured motorcyclist was taken by ambulance to the Emergency Department of Legacy Emanuel Hospital in Portland, where he was admitted to the Trauma Service Unit. He remained hospitalized at Emanuel for the next six days. X-rays revealed multiple left rib fractures with subcutaneous air along the left chest wall; a comminuted fracture of the left scapula; a fracture of a foot bone, and a fracture in the left hand. A CT of the chest revealed a laceration in the kidney, and a left pneumothorax (punctured lung) which required chest tube placement. This CT also noted significant internal damage to his spleen. The motorcyclist was also diagnosed with a fracture of the left collar bone, and had lacerations and abrasions. He was documented to be in significant pain due to his extensive injuries. He was later discharged from the hospital with orders to follow up with an orthopedic surgeon for further assessment of his orthopedic injuries.
Two days after being discharged from the hospital and eight days following the crash, the man suddenly became weak, with increasing abdominal pain. He became sweaty and dizzy when he tried to stand, and was very pale. He was rushed from his home by ambulance to the Emergency Department with the sudden onset of severe left upper quadrant pain. Because of the severity of the pain and the history of trauma, a CT scan of the abdomen was done, which showed a ruptured spleen with intraperitoneal bleeding, both subcapsular and peritoneal hemorrhaging. The splenic rupture was treated nonoperatively, and after six days, the man was discharged from the local hospital.
The injured motorcyclist had a series of follow up visits with a local orthopedist, who referred him to a physical therapy. At the time of his physical therapy evaluation, the man’s pain level registered 6-7 on a 10 scale. His physical therapy program consisted of treating 2 times a week for 5 weeks. At the end of his physical therapy program, he continued to have pain, soreness/tenderness, and stiffness.
The man also experienced vertigo following the collision. His primary care physician noted this vertigo might be part of a post-concussion syndrome, and also had concerns that the man’s clavicle did not heal properly, as the X-rays showed the union to be questionable.
The orthopedic surgeon again examined the man, imposing permanent medical restrictions on lifting and any overhead work. The surgeon found that the man was left with a disability that prevented him from working at his previous job as a repairman. The orthopedic surgeon also concluded that the man would likely continue to have to have pain in the future, may require further physical therapy, and may have further medical problems resulting from these injuries. “The restrictions are permanent and he will never be able to return to work as a repairman.”
The man continued to live with the effects of the significant injuries. His shoulder and clavicle continued to be painful and stiff. He took Ibuprofen daily for pain. He was also sometimes bothered by his injured ribs. His strength on his left side was left diminished. His injuries limited his ability to do many of the physical activities and hobbies he used to enjoy, such as riding a bicycle, gardening, digging, and working in the yard. His wife had to hire outside help for these kinds of tasks, which he normally did before the collision.
The collision initially caused the man to miss three months of work as a repair technician with his long-time employer. Before the collision, he regularly carried a 40 pound toolbox around with him, plus any added weight for any parts that needed to be replaced. He was also required to do extensive climbing, crawling, stooping and reaching as a maintenance and repair technician. Due to the collision injuries, he was unable to meet the physically demanding requirements of his position, and was eventually forced to leave his employment. Afterward, he went to the less physically demanding work of being a state inspector, but at a significant loss in income.
Notes about the case
We successfully obtained a $100,000 policy limits settlement against the underinsured motorist. Because the motorcyclist’s harms and losses far exceeded that amount, he needed to also seek compensation from his own insurance company under his Underinsured Motorist coverage.
An underinsured motorist case sometimes can be resolved by litigation in the court system, and sometimes by statutory arbitration. Arbitration of underinsured motorist cases does not suffer from all of the problems or ordinary consumer arbitrations, in part because the injured person is able to appoint one of the arbitrators (the insurance company appoints another arbitrator, and those two appoint a third arbitrator; two out of the three must agree for there to be an arbitration decision).
Different underinsured motorist cases are handled through the court system or through an arbitration track, depending on multiple factors. In this case, the underinsured motorist claim was pursued through arbitration. There was a $150,000 underinsured motorist policy, and additional coverage on top of that. The insurance company eventually requested a pre-hearing mediation. The insurance company argued that the motorcyclist was partially at fault. However, it was never able to to respond to the question of what, if anything, the motorcyclist supposedly did wrong. His only “fault” seems to be that he was riding a motorcycle, which we thought would not likely count for much in a collision with another motorcyclist. All the witnesses agreed that he was properly riding in his own lane, and that there was not time for him to do anything to avoid the crash.
In the mediation, the insurance company agreed to pay the full $150,00 underinsured motorist policy limits, plus an additional $50,000. Together with the underlying policy limits settlement with the insurance company for the other party, the injured motorist’s recovery totaled $300,000.
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Justin White
Lisa Hayes-Minney
November 11, 2018
How Single Player Games are Essential to Modern Video Games
Single player games or slowly dying form of video games. That's why were dominated by Thirteen-year old’s dancing to their favorite Battle Royale game in the gaming market, and that's an issue.
These massive, multiplayer-only, “AAA” titles are weeding out games with extreme time, and care poured into a world with a rich story, in place for as much “quantity-over-quality” as developers can fit. This can lead to issues such as developers shipping unfinished games , broken games, games with more than half of the content blocked by a DLC (Downloadable Content) paywall. This also arises the issue of players gaining an unfair advantage with special equipment, or items bought with real money in game, as opposed to people play the game on an equal, or more frequent basis, that do not spend money on what are now commonly referred to as “Microtransactions”.
1. Current Issues:
1. Only a total of 4 solo-centered “AAA” games were released within the span of 2017, to 2018. Those being: Super Mario Odyssey, the Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Red Dead Redemption 2, and a remake of God of War for the PlayStation 4.
1. Video game production company Activision, most commonly known for producing the “Call of Duty” franchise of first person shooter games, was met with harsh criticism when they revealed the executive order to remove a traditional single player campaign, in place of a 100 player free-for-all Battle Royale game mode similar to Epic Games’ “Fortnite” in their newly released 2018 installment of: “Call of Duty: Black Ops 4”.
1. Censorship, or banning of video games due to content:
1. As stated before, production company Activision, and development team Treyarch, faced hard criticism at the unveil of Call of Duty: Black Ops 4. One such complaint, was that in the October issue of Polygon’s (a game review media source) “Games This Month” Article, a reviewer stated that Activision's latest installment in the Call of Duty franchise, was quote: “Too gory for today’s leading audience.”. Referring to Not any cinematic cutscenes in the game. Due to the lack of a cinematic story mode. But instead refers to when a character is blown up by an explosive in the game, resulting in a brief explosion of blood and body parts.
2. Video game developer Valve’s hit zombie horde survival game “Left 4 Dead 2” was released in 2011 almost internationally. However, Australia has been notorious in the past banning international releases of games due to the games breaking Australia’s very strict censorship laws on media and video games. Even though no gore is present in the game, besides whenever the player kills the only enemy in the game. Zombies.
However, with the ever-growing evolution of today's modern Internet, a large sum of independent video game developers have gotten the chance to share the projects they have made with everybody around the world. Most independent developers do not charge for sharing or playing their games. Indie game developers have become more successful in recent years of producing higher quality, Unrestricted video games to share on the Internet. The most notable examples would be the advent of Scott Cawthon’s “Five Nights at Freddie’s” line of horror games in 2014, or Toby Fox’s smash hit “Undertale” in 2015, which has just received a second installment, also provided for free to anyone with access to the Internet. Most independent game developers create these types of games out of their own free will, passion for the art a video games, the dedication to their fans. All I will ask of you, is to download, and support independent game developers, in order to keep the art of creating video games with no creative censorship alive.
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If someone has died and there is no one who can arrange the funeral, we have a duty to make sure the person receives a proper burial or cremation.
Who we arrange funerals for
We usually arrange the funeral if the person has no known relatives, or if their relatives can’t or don’t want to be involved.
The police, the coroner, social workers or care home managers refer most cases to us. If the person died on a hospital ward it’s the hospital’s bereavement services who will arrange the funeral, but we do it if the person died in the A&E department.
We can’t help if you or someone else has already taken responsibility for arranging the funeral.
What happens before the funeral
When we've been told about a death, we collect the person’s belongings from the police or whoever else has them.
We search their home for a will or any other documents which tell us about any relatives, religious beliefs or funeral preferences. We try and contact family and friends to let them know about the death and ask if they would like to make the funeral arrangements.
If we find a will, we contact the named executor of the will and ask them to make the funeral arrangements instead of us.
Paying for the funeral
If there is any money in the person’s estate, we’ll reclaim the cost of the funeral.
If you’re arranging a funeral, we can’t help with any costs. You may be able to apply to the government for Funeral Expenses Payments.
Unclaimed property and belongings
If there is money left in the person’s estate after we have recovered the cost of the funeral - and there is no will and no known next of kin - we refer it to the Treasury Solicitor at the Government Legal Department as an ‘unclaimed estate’.
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I Am Therefore I Am
Saturday, September 03, 2011
The Past
What binds us to the past? Nothing can, but we believe we are bound to it by the power we give to regrets, guilt, self judgment, unforgiveness, anger, shame, etc. There is a difference between being in the present moment and remembering a past experience versus living in the past. In the former you remember, you re-experience, the feeling of joy and love from an experience such as your marriage or the birth of a child. Although this happened in the "past", you are bringing it to the present moment, which is all that exists, through the vehicle of those attributes you inherited from God --- joy, peace, and love. In the latter, you are not living in the present moment, because the power you give to regret (just one example) binds you to no mans land. The past does not really exist, so you are not there, but neither are you in the present moment, because in this one moment, nothing false exists (regrets, guilt, etc).
If we have regrets, we are saying more than the fact that we wish we could have done it differently. We are beating ourselves up (guilt, self judgment, unforgiveness --- all legs on the same stool), and not allowing ourselves to experience the wonder, joy, and peace that comes from the present moment. Now, you can say that you wish you had done something differently but be in the present moment. We all have things that we would have liked to have done differently, but we can choose how we look at these "regrets", and we can choose whether we judge ourselves.
How do we take a "negative" experience that happened in the past and let it go? We think differently about what happened. For instance, if you had something traumatic happen in your childhood, you now have the benefit of a much wiser perspective as an adult. What that little boy or girl thought at the time the experience happened is very understandable, but you are now an adult, and it is likely that your resources to heal from that experience are completely different. By staying in the present moment and bringing that experience into that moment, you can transform it. We heal things by bringing them to the present moment. That is where He is, and when we come to the present moment, we are acknowledging who we are and our innate ability to heal ourselves.
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Sweet Sixteen in Paris
To My Dearest Bianca,
Happy 16th Birthday, my love! What a blessing it is that we are celebrating your birthday in Paris, of all places. I can feel your excitement and your joy ever since we arrived here and I'm just so thankful for this gift.
We've been through lots of heartaches and sad times you and I, and I know that this is God's way of making it up to both of us.
I know there were times when you felt discouraged when you thought your prayers were never heard or answered. But, this is proof that God hears and answers all our prayers in His perfect time. We just have to believe and keep the faith.
We have so much to be thankful for. How our friends and family rallied us on and the outpouring of love and support to make this dream trip happen is just so overwhelming! The only way we can ever repay them is to give back.
Thank you for bringing me so much happiness and laughter. I am so proud of all your accomplishments and the wonderful, caring and responsible young lady you have grown up to be. You are the reason I get up in the morning.
Dream big, my dear Bianca. Don't let anything hold you back. Be the best that you can be. Because now you know, that nothing is impossible with God.
Bianca trying out the tiaras at the L' Opera Boutique.
1. Wow! Pictures Ms. Cym... I adore Paris very much as much as you do... Happy birthday Bianca!
1. Thank you!! Follow us on Facebook and Instagram, we've been posting lots of photos from our trip :)
2. Happy birthday sweet girl! God bless po She said sa paris vacation nyo ni she said, hehe!
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Who Were the Ancient Sumerians?
The ancient Sumerians created one of humanity’s first great civilizations. Their homeland in Mesopotamia, called Sumer, emerged roughly 6,000 years ago along the floodplains between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in present-day Iraq and Syria.
The Sumerians learned to farm on a grand scale in the so-called Fertile Crescent, a thin, crescent-shaped sliver of Mesopotamia often tied to the dawn of farming, writing, mathematics and astronomy.
And while the arid, ancient landscapes of the Middle East may not seem like the most likely location for an agricultural breakthrough, Sumer actually had a massive advantage. By settling between two large rivers, the Sumerians benefited from rich floodplain soil and ample water to irrigate crops. Their success was accelerated by Sumerian technological innovations like canals and plows. With time, Sumer got so good at growing food that they started to have enough resources left over to focus on building the cities and temples.
Sumerian city of Kish
Archaeologists walk the Sumerian city of Kish during excavations in 1932. (Credit: Matson Collection-Library of Congress Catalog/Wikimedia Commons)
Emergence of Sumerian Cities
Roughly 10,000 years ago, villages started popping up across Mesopotamia. The people who lived in the region raised animals and grew grains, even as they continued to hunt and gather. Over time, those villages expanded and their people became increasingly dependent on farming.
Archaeologists still aren’t sure exactly what life was like for these early cultures. However, similarities in pottery styles and stamp seals placed on a variety of containers suggests some level of administrative control emerged between 6,000 and 7,000 years ago.
Meanwhile, people started constructing a series of temples using mud bricks at a site called Eridu. The city seems to have been founded around 5400 B.C. and it was occupied for thousands of years until it was finally abandoned for good around 600 B.C.
Eridu’s status was legendary even in ancient times. Babylonians actually believed that Eridu was the oldest city on Earth, having been created by the gods themselves. That kind of reverence attracted modern researchers, too. Even before archaeologists discovered Eridu, they had read about its existence in ancient texts.
“After kinship had descended from heaven, Eridu became (the seat) of kingship,” one Sumerian tablet reads.
The area around Eridu was excavated a handful of times between the mid-19th century and the mid-20th century, turning up the remains of a once-sprawling metropolis that saw successive buildings constructed on the remains of temples and other structures that had come before.
Those digs did confirm Eridu as a real and truly ancient metropolis. At around 7,400 years old, Eridu is among humanity’s oldest cities, but nowhere near the oldest. The current favorite contender for Earth’s first city is Çatalhöyük, which sat just north of the commonly accepted edge of the Fertile Crescent in modern-day Turkey. Çatalhöyük was founded 9,600 years ago and also survived for millennia, disappearing just centuries before Eridu was founded.
However, Eridu was just the beginning of Sumer. The civilization quickly grew to include dozens of cities, like Ur, Kish and Uruk. As Sumerian cities exploded in size, Sumer emerged as one of the world’s first great agricultural societies. In time, Eridu would fade in influence and Uruk would take on an outsized role. At its height some 4,800 years ago, Uruk was the largest city in the world. Some estimates suggest the city held as many as 80,000 people at a time when the total human population was somewhere around 15 million.
map of sumer
A map of the cities of ancient Sumer, which covered much of modern-day Iraq. (Credit: Wikimedia Commons)
Sumerian Technological Innovations
Innovation was one of the key factors in the Sumerians’ efforts to turn the desert into an oasis. And one of their most beneficial innovations was also among the simplest: the plow.
The first plow appeared about 3500 B.C. And by 1500 B.C., the Sumerians had also invented a seeder plow, which let farmers use beasts of burden to till and plant at the same time. The devices even came with instructions, courtesy of the Sumerian Farmer’s Almanac, which told farmers how to boost their crop yields thanks to tilling and irrigation.
All the efficiencies helped support a growing population, as well as a growing system of rulers and religion. And as their cities grew, so did their efforts in writing, math and religion. As far back as 5,000 years ago, the Sumerians had developed cuneiform, one of the earliest forms of writing. Sumerian inscriptions on clay and stone tracked the trade and movement of grain and other goods, recorded Sumerian history, and even included cooking recipes and pornography. Thousands of Sumerian tablets still sit awaiting translation in museums around the world. The Sumerians also invented or utilized a wide-array of other more modern seeming innovations like wheeled chariots, the 60-minute hour, and even possibly the first written work of literature — The Epic of Gilgamesh.
Proto-cuneiform from Uruk - CDLI:Wiki
These proto-cuneiform tablets were discovered at the Sumerian city of Uruk. (Credit: CDLI:Wiki)
One clay tablet discovered at Eridu, as well as others found elsewhere in Sumer, also tells a flood story about a deluge that mirrors the one found in the Bible’s Old Testament. Biblical historians call it “The Eridu Genesis” story. According to the tablets, it was the gods who first told humans to take up living in cities in Sumer. But eventually, the gods decided to wipe out the human race with a deluge. According to the myth, one particular god, Enki, tipped off a Sumerian king named Ziusudra that he should build a boat to save his people.
The idea that the flood story would’ve been passed down from the Sumerians makes sense for other reasons, too. In modern times, Sumer has captivated everyone from archaeologists to ancient alien conspiracy theorists. But the fascination with Sumerian society goes back much further in human history. Both the Babylonian and Assyrian empires, which rose to control parts of the Middle East as Sumer faded away, continued using the Sumerian language in their religious rituals for millennia. Excavations of Babylonian homes have uncovered tablets inscribed with the Sumerian language from long after the civilization itself was gone.
And the Babylonians, who created the first star maps, seem to have inherited some of their knowledge of astronomy from the Sumerians as well. The Babylonian people had two sets of constellations — one for tracking farming dates and another to recognize the gods. The latter was passed onto us today thanks to the Greeks and formed the foundations for the 12 zodiac constellations. And the star names that they used seem to date back to the Sumerian people, implying this ancient civilization had a seriously sophisticated knowledge of much more than the Earth below their feet.
So, while the Sumerians may have disappeared thousands of years ago, their influence and intrigue has continued on into the present, shaping aspects of modern society we all take for granted today.
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We have successfully isolated a highly proliferative MSC population from CV of postnatal placenta while optimizing our protocols to maximize cell yield from extraction (approximately 2.7 × 107 cells/kg wet weight of CV) and after a few weeks of in-vitro culture (approximately 7.5 × 109 cells/kg wet weight of CV, after 3.6 ± 0.3 cPD). We kept CV-MSC in culture for an extended period (138 ± 64 days, corresponding to 25 ± 3 cPD) and observed delayed onset of the earlier stages of cell senescence compared to BM-MSC. In line with Barlow et al. [23], we observed that CV-MSC proliferate faster and show greater long-term growth ability than BM-MSC.
Collagenase digestion was used for cell isolation in our study so associated costs must not be overlooked as they certainly rise above those of the concurrent explant method when digesting maximized volumes of placenta tissue is a priority. However, collagenase digestion has the advantage of allowing for higher final cell yields in a short period of time. Adapted or alternative methods for isolation of placental MSC of fetal origin have been proposed [52, 53]. The preferred isolation method and in-vitro culture conditions must be assessed according to the specific requirements of each given stem cell application.
We have extensively characterized the CV-MSC cultured fraction in early and late passages. It is obvious that CV-MSC fit all MSC defining criteria [48], as reported previously [3, 50, 51, 54], including being able to differentiate into osteoblasts, adipocytes, and chondrocytes cultured in vitro in standard differentiation cocktails. We also observed that CV-MSC present a surface marker profile consistent with increased potential for proliferation (high CD44, CD73, and CD166 combined expression), vascular localization (high STRO-1, CD146, and CD106 combined expression), and predisposition for myogenic commitment (high α-SMA, SM22α, and CD146 combined expression), unlike BM-MSC. It has been introduced that combined CD146 expression and a high α-SMA expression is associated with SMC commitment in BM-MSC [55]. Myogenic expression of CV-MSC, however, remains another topic of debate, as some studies report residual expression of α-SMA in MSC isolated from placenta tissues [56, 57] while others, such as Castrechini et al. [50], report high expression but just in CV-MSC isolated from first-trimester pregnancies.
Numerous studies report that CV-MSC isolated by collagenase digestion are prone to contamination by maternal cells, which rapidly and completely overgrow CV-MSC within one or two passages [23, 58, 59]. To address this issue we have excluded by FISH X/Y chromosome analysis the presence of maternal contamination in late-passage CV-MSC.
An often overlooked contributor to an even more complete phenotypic characterization is trophoblastic contamination in the cultures. Trophoblastic cells are the cells forming the outer layer of the blastocyst that provide nutrients to the embryo. This layer later develops into a large part of the placenta and so trophoblast-derived cells make up the majority of the chorion in the developed placenta. To determine cytotrophoblastic cells (eventually the most frequent trophoblastic cell type) in vitro, markers such as human chorionic gonadotropin, pan-cytokeratin, epidermal growth factor receptor HER2, and E-Cadherin could be investigated. Despite the controversy, most indications for trophoblastic contaminations are unlikely [20, 50].
In terms of ECM remodeling potential, CV-MSC showed the ability to produce matrix proteins (namely FN and OPN) and contract a collagen matrix in vitro similar to BM-MSC, confirming CV-MSC suitability for major stem cell-based applications.
To understand whether the observed increased potential of CV-MSC to proliferate correlated with increased telomere length, we analyzed the telomeres, repeated TTAGGG sequences at the ends of chromosomes that protect them from deterioration or fusion. Telomeres undergo progressive shortening with each cell division. Progressive telomere shortening is therefore one of the molecular mechanisms underlying aging, as critically short telomeres trigger cellular senescence and loss of cell viability [6062]. Thus, telomere length is known to decline during in-vitro and in-vivo aging. Our results showed that CV-MSC undergo minimal telomere loss as they age in vitro compared to all other MSC sources. In contrast, UC-MSC underwent dramatic telomere loss within the very few passages we were able to keep them in vitro. At the same time we observed that UC-MSC become quickly senescent (i.e., in early passages) in β-galactosidase senescence assays. Interestingly, CV-MSC escaped in-vitro senescence—showing reduced β-galactosidase-positive cell rates—for more passages than all the other cells types due to increased potential to maintain telomere length while proliferating. The increased potential of CV-MSC to maintain telomere length over the other tissue sources reflects not only different rates of telomere loss within those tissues, but also different telomere loss rates during in-vitro passaging, potentially due to oxidative stress. Given that both CV-MSC and UC-MSC originate from postnatal tissues with virtually equivalent chronological age but dramatically different telomere length maintenance potentials, it is not clear to us why telomere erosion during in-vitro culture was so dramatic in UC-MSC. It can be related to donor variability, differential telomerase activity expression, or alternative mechanisms of telomere maintenance, as discussed later.
DNAm is known to change during aging. However, some CpG sites show almost linear changes during aging and so can be used for age prediction. Weidner et al. [45] have established an EAS to predict aging with higher precision than telomere length alone. EAS revealed predicted age in CV-MSC decreased rapidly with progressive passaging, confirming delayed aging phenomena. It is worth mentioning that our results were apparently limited by the fact that the signature was designed for age estimations from blood samples and does not seem to suit cultured cells. This leads us to a discussion based on the analysis of linear regression fits and not on absolute predictions (which fall out of the acceptable chronological age range).
hTERT is a catalytic subunit of the enzyme telomerase, which together with the telomerase RNA component (hTERC) comprises the most important unit of the telomerase complex. hTERC acts as a template for the addition of telomere units by hTERT. hTERT is expressed during early development but is absent in most somatic cells, with the exception of proliferating cells and renewal tissues [63]. In highly proliferative cells of the germline, in ESC, and in the majority of cancer cells, telomerase (by adding telomeric repeats onto the chromosome ends) prevents the replication-dependent loss of telomeres and cellular senescence [61]. The causal relationship between expression of telomerase, maintenance of telomere length, and elongated life span of the human cell has been established. We have confirmed the absence of hTERT mRNA in CV-MSC. hTERT gene expression typically corresponds to telomerase activity in many multicellular organisms. This can be untrue in some cases. Izadpanag et al., Yanada et al., Zimmermann et al., and Hiyama and Hiyama [6467] reported that low levels of telomerase activity were found in MSC. Contradictory studies report no telomerase activity in MSC [68]. Therefore, a mechanism other than or in addition to telomerase—such as alternative lengthening of telomeres (ALT)—might play an important role in CV-MSC telomere maintenance. There are, for instance, hints from work done on subtelomeric DNA hypomethylation facilitating telomere elongation in mammalian cells suggesting that epigenetic modifications of chromatin might occur in MSC [69]. Work done in whole chorion tissues indicates a downregulation of telomerase activity over the gestation, also supporting the idea of a decline of primitive stem cell features with aging [70]. In order to clarify the origin of our telomere observations, investigating telomerase activity levels and ALT mechanisms in CV-MSC would thus be an interesting outlook.
Previous studies using equivalent methods for isolation of CV-MSC [79] report the presence of panels of pluripotent markers such as NANOG, OCT4, and SOX2 in those cells. Studies typically focus on gene expression level observations only and often PCR primer sequences or expression data are omitted. Without further concerns, some conclude that CV-MSC retain characteristics of pluripotent stem cells.
We have designed qRT-PCR primers binding to the DNA region encoding for the highly conserved AFMVW helix inside the HMG domain of the SOX2 protein. Additionally, we used SOX2 primers to bind the DNA region encoding for the C-terminal domain of the SOX2 region, equivalent to what was done in other studies [71, 72]. Our data show that CV-MSC express SOX2 on both the gene and protein levels, an indication of improved neurogenic potential in the light of current knowledge. SOX2, a pluripotency marker, is also known to regulate FGF4 expression, which in turn promotes neural stem cell proliferation and differentiation in the postnatal brain [73]. The improved neurogenic potential of CV-MSC compared to BM-MSC has in fact been demonstrated [18, 20].
We did not detect the presence of OCT4 variant 1 or NANOG in CV-MSC. Our data are partially supported by previous work from Jones et al. [72], who compared first-trimester to term fetal placental chorionic stem cells. They observed no detectable OCT4A variant 1 in the term fetal cells at the transcript level using primer pairs binding only to a larger DNA fragment within the same region as ours. Based on the absolute expression of NANOG reported in that work, and given the fact that one of the two primer pairs we used was equivalent to theirs, we consider the possibility of marginal but nondetectable expression of NANOG in our cells due to donor variability.
We nonetheless commit to exclude the possibility of pluripotency in CV-MSC given the corroborated absence of OCT4A variant 1. OCT4 and SOX2 were identified as the fundamental transcriptor factors underpinning naïve pluripotency [74], although the critical role of SOX2 might be to activate OCT4 [75, 76]. NANOG becomes part of the OCT4/SOS2/NANOG (OSN) triumvirate as its presence is crucial for the acquisition but not the maintenance of naive pluripotency [77, 78].
One other indisputable feature of pluripotent stem cells is the formation of teratomas in vivo. We applied the equivalent in-vitro assay, designed to assess the tumorigenic potential of cells in culture—the soft agar assay—and found no evidence for malignant transformation of CV-MSC, as suggested previously [16, 79].
In human ESC the predominant signaling pathways involved in pluripotency and self-renewal [80] are TGF-β (signaling through SMAD2/3/4, activating the MAPK and AKT pathways) and the noncanonical WNT pathway (β-CATENIN signaling). Pluripotency signaling through these pathways relies predominantly upon the key transcription factors OCT4, SOX2, and NANOG. When NANOG is inhibited, differentiation takes place via the BMP pathway (Smad1/5/9 signaling) and NOTCH intracellular domain (NICD, CSHL1). After investigating multiple pathways we found no evidence of any pathways being differentially activated/deactivated leading to pluripotency of CV-MSC.
Placental-derived MSC have been reported to be capable of neural, retinal cell, pancreatic progenitor cell, and hepatic cell differentiation [8, 81], an indication for greater plasticity. We have no evidence, however, to support the notion that a putative pluripotent stem cell population is present within CV-MSC or that CV-MSC are less differentiated than BM-MSC. | <urn:uuid:c4f4fe99-bfa4-4aa1-bd96-68d23f216001> | https://stemcellsdaily.com/comprehensive-characterization-of-chorionic-villi-derived-mesenchymal-stromal-cells-from-human-placenta/ | en | 0.91967 | 0.043902 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
163: Learn How to Truly Savor Everyday Moments & Watch It Elevate Your Life
~The Simple Sophisticate, episode #163 ~Subscribe to The Simple Sophisticate: iTunes | Stitcher | iHeartRadio “Growing your inner strengths through taking in the good is like deepening the keel of a sailboat so that it’s less jostled by the worldly winds, it recovers more quickly from big storms, and you can now safely head out into deeper waters in pursuit of […] Listen now or continue reading below.
~The Simple Sophisticate, episode #163
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“Growing your inner strengths through taking in the good is like deepening the keel of a sailboat so that it’s less jostled by the worldly winds, it recovers more quickly from big storms, and you can now safely head out into deeper waters in pursuit of your dreams.” —Rick Hanson, author of Hardwiring Happiness
The founding premise of the book Hardwiring Happiness is change your brain, change your life for the better. Having discussed this fact before on the blog/podcast, it may not appear to be profound on the surface, but what always keeps me reading is how do we change our brain to change our lives for the better, how does it actually work neurologically?
And the how is exactly what made the most sense to me above any other book I have read upon reading Hardwiring Happiness.
Simply put, we need to deeply savor the good that occurs in our lives, the small as well as the overtly large and as we do, we begin to build new synapses into our brain, enabling it to expect the good rather than spontaneously always looking for the bad.
The skill that we all need to develop, practice multiple times a day and then use habitually is to take in the good. What is meant by this is a four step process which Hanson outlines in his book, but essentially it is to be present in your life, to be engaged, to be paying attention, and thus, to recognize, and then savor those moments, no matter how small or large, that are good.
“By taking just a few extra seconds to stay with a positive experience you’ll help turn a passing mental state into lasting neural structure . . . the practice brings you into the present moment and teaches you to have more control over your attention.”
Did you wake up and feel rested? Savor this moment for 10 more seconds and let it truly be absorbed by your mind. Did you receive a loving gesture from your partner? Slow down and savor it, engraining into your memory to be appreciated even after the moment has passed. Did you feel safe in your home last night? Tip your hat to the world you have created and take a deep breath to again welcome even more appreciation of the fact into your being.
An analogy (and he uses an abundance of them throughout the book which I found quite helpful) Hanson uses to describe the three step process of rewiring the brain is comparing it to making a fire: “Step 1 lights it, step 2 adds fuel to keep it going, and step 3 fills you with its warmth.” He also further explains that often step 2 & 3 overlap which makes sense because you can adding wood to the fire to keep it going as you are remaining warm.
To repeat the steps (notice the acronym – HEAL):
1. Have a positive experience
2. Enrich the experience
3. Absorb the experience
4. (optional step) Link positive and negative material so that positive soothes and even replaces negative
All of this may sound overly simplified, but after reading and coming to understand how the brain works, how it creates paths of memory and why it has evolved the way it has, Dr. Hanson, who is a neuropsychologist, demonstrates that it is in the daily routines and the daily tracks we allow to run through our mind that create a happier, I like to use the word contented, way of living every single day not matter what is going on outside of us.
Why? Dr. Hanson dives deeply into this, but a basic synopsis is “In a positive circle, feeling better helps you act better, which helps the world treat you better, which helps you feel better.”
And on the flip-side, if we continue to let negative events run through our minds and become absorbed by them, we are making tracks in our mind, strengthening synapses that reinforce the need to be on the look out for negative and thus reactive rather than responsive which I detailed in episode #145 of the podcast.
In fact, Dr. Hanson points out due to our ancestral need for survival which actually impedes our way of life in the 21st century, our brain is designed in such a away that “negative stimuli are perceived more rapidly and easily than positive stimuli”. In other words, “the default setting of the brain is to overestimate threats and underestimate opportunities and underestimate resources both for coping with threats and for fulfilling opportunities”. Which is why, it requires a conscious effort to rewire the brain to be less fearful and more positive seeking, and if we do nothing, the above hereditary scenario will persist throughout the duration of our lives blocking us from attaining our full potential.
Knowledge of how the brain works is power. And upon reading the book, if further understanding of the most powerful tool in your body is of interest to you, you will appreciate this book and how he delivers the information.
Let’s talk about the “how” of savoring the good moments, both enriching them and absorbing them.
1. Slow down
In order to recognize when a good moment has occurred, we need to slow down. At that time, take 10 more seconds to just fully observe, imprint in your memory what is going well.
2. Become fully aware of what surrounds you
Being present in the now will help you to be fully aware of all that is going on, all that is going well and even if certain things are not, because you are fully aware, you can put it into perspective, bring forward the good and ratcheting down the not so good so that it doesn’t become more inflamed than it needs to be.
3. Strengthen emotional intelligence
There are many components to being emotionally intelligent (I go in detail in episode #140), but the key component to rewiring your brain is to be able to identify your emotions and what you are feeling accurately. And then once you understand what you are feeling, if it is a positive feeling, you can grow the feeling into a mood – for example as Dr. Hanson points out, you can grow a feeling of gladness and gratitude into a mood of contentment. Conversely, if you recognize you are feeling sad about something, you can combat the feeling from developing into a mood of depression simply by recognizing what you are feeling, why you are feeling and combating it by shifting your mind and even your environment to a positive scenario so that your mind doesn’t become fixating on something that isn’t productive or helpful.
4. Instead of wanting, choose to like or appreciate the moment
Often we are fully aware that a moment or an experience is exponentially good and because we know it is good, we want more of it. But by wanting, as Hanson points out, we aren’t experiencing what is going on right now. We are removing ourselves from the situation and acting in such a way that reveals we unconsciously feel we lack something, thus the “want”. In fact, our “want” is killing any growth of more goodness.
Instead, be present, enjoy what is occurring, appreciate it for what it is without cajoling to trying to make more and relish what you have the opportunity to be amongst. As I have learned upon bringing more appreciative and secure people into my life, is that when such beautiful moments happen, I can take that moment with me in my memory so long as I savor the experience and allow my memory to absorb it fully and then replay it whenever I need to to brighten my future days. Again, more is not better, simply deepen what you are given by following the three step process: have a good experience, enrich it/savor it and absorb it/commit it to memory.
5. Give yourself permission
I recently was listening to Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Radio podcast, and he was interviewing Nigella Lawson who stated on the topic of guilty pleasures, “Look, if you feel guilty about pleasure, you don’t deserve to have pleasure.” Back in 2013 I wrote a post about the difference between pleasure and joy, and while one is not bad and the other good, knowing where each is derived is important. However, with regards to rewiring the brain, anytime we observe and experience a pleasure, we can turn the pleasure into joy which is something entirely within our own control. For example, I pulled an excerpt from the post mentioned above. Here is a list of how to welcome more joy into your life, and upon doing so, you can make all of these moments opportunities to rewire your brain as you shift to a more contented way of living each and every day.
2. Take time to meditate, pray and be still.
The conclusion of Hardwiring Happiness that drove the point home for me of choosing to take on the task of changing the hardwiring my brain (because initially it will have to be an entirely conscious choice) was the realization that when we shift away from seeking more happiness and running or trying to avoid pain, we come to recognize that we have the ability to be content wherever we are at any given moment. We have that power. We do not have to chase it, we don’t have to run from what we perceive as bad moments. Because as we begin to live more consciously, as we begin to focus on the good, take it in fully and commit it to memory, we begin to build a life that snowballs in the best of ways. The cycle that was mentioned above strengthens and we attract people, moments and environments that are full of goodness to appreciate because we are someone who brings and cultivates moments of goodness in our lives and those around us.
“Taking in the good is not about chasing after pleasure or chasing away pain. It’s about bringing the chase to an end.”
~How to Be the Master of Your Mind
~11 Ways to Live More Mindfully
~From Seeking Happiness to Cultivating Contentment: A Shift in What We Pursue (podcast)
Petit Plaisir:
~The perfect simple and delicious appetizer for summer: Melons & Prosciutto (cantaloupe & cured ham)
History: An Italian antipasti favorite, dating back to the second century, it was Galeno, a doctor during this time who believed that the combination of these two ingredients was the perfect way to incorporate the four things a being needed to feed what he believed each human was made of – warm, cold, dry and juicy corresponding to the four elements fire, air, earth and water. The melon was cold and juicy and the cured ham was dry and warm (salty and cured). Learn more here.
~The other appetizers are Tangy Cucumber Bites (recipe here) and figs with chèvre.
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The Antibiotic
Antibiotic resistance is an escalating global crisis, where the spread of drug resistance is outpacing the development of new antibiotics.
Infections due to antibiotic-resistant bacteria are more dangerous for patients and more difficult and expensive to treat. They often require extended hospital stays, additional follow-up doctor visits, and more costly and toxic alternative treatments.1
As drug resistant bacteria become more common, so will deaths from life-threatening infections like sepsis, which is the body’s unregulated immune response to a severe bloodstream infection. Antibiotic resistance already causes at least 700,000 deaths a year and is expected to cause over 10 million deaths annually by 2050.2
Sepsis: Leading Cause of Death and Most Expensive Hospital Treated Condition in U.S. Hospitals.3-8
• Affects 1.7M adults per year
• Primary cause of 1 in 3 hospital deaths in the US
• In 2013, sepsis was estimated to cost the US $24B in hospital expenses
• Patients diagnosed with sepsis are 8x more likely to die during hospitalization
Early and effective treatment of antibiotic resistant infections has been proven to save lives. However, current technologies cannot provide actionable information quickly enough to enable early, targeted antibiotic treatment.
Day Zero is developing desperately needed diagnostics that rapidly identity pathogens and determine which antibiotics they will be most vulnerable to. This will allow doctors to provide the most effective treatment immediately, putting the brakes on life-threatening infections and saving countless lives.
Current Treatment
Minimizing the Time to Effective Antibiotic
Administration is Critical
Antibiotics are critical tools for fighting life-threatening bacterial infections, but the speed with which the patient is provided the appropriate antibiotic can be the difference between life and death. For example, the risk of death from septic shock increases by almost 8% for each hour an infection goes without appropriate treatment.9
Risk of Mortality, Septic Shock
Hours to Treatment
When a patient shows up at a hospital today with signs of an infection, samples are collected and sent to the lab, where they are cultured on various media to see if they grow. It is only after the bacteria are allowed to grow for 1-2 days that they can be identified and tested for drug resistance. This antiquated process takes a total of 2-5 days and fails in 40% of severe infections. In the meantime, every hour that a patient remains inadequately treated increases their risk of complications or death.10
With little information to go on, physicians are forced to treat with empiric therapy: powerful, broad-spectrum antibiotics that are expensive, can have significant toxicity, and are increasingly less effective due to the spread of multidrug resistant pathogens. This practice also leads to higher rates of organ injury, increased risk of Clostridium difficile infection, and contributes to the growth of antibiotic resistance.11-13
Without innovative diagnostic approaches that bypass the need for time-consuming cultures, the world’s ability to prevent deaths from bacterial infections and address the growing threat of antibiotic resistance will be severely limited.
Day Zero’s
Day Zero is pioneering a new class of infectious disease diagnostics using whole-genome sequencing and machine learning to revolutionize how the world fights the growing threat of antibiotic resistance.
We are developing a diagnostic system that is intended to help physicians quickly and accurately diagnose and treat life-threatening infections without the need for a culture.
The system promises to help patients with severe infections receive the most effective antibiotic treatment on the first day they are admitted to the hospital — day zero.
Learn about Day Zero’s Technology
1. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
2. IACG Report on Antimicrobial Resistance, April 2019.
3. Rhee C et al. JAMA 2017; 318(13):1241-1249.
4. Paoli C et al. Critical Care Medicine 2018; 46(12):1889–1897.
5. Rhee C et al. JAMA Network Open 2019; 2(2):e187571.
6. US Mortality Report 2017.
7. Hall M et al. NCHS Data Brief 2011; 62.
8. Torio CM et al. AHRQ Statistical Brief 2013; 204.
9. Kumar A et al. Critical Care Med 2006; 34(6):1589-96.
10. de Prost et al. Critical Care 2013; 17(5):1001.
11. Singer M et al. Am J Respir and Crit Care Med 2017; 196(7).
12. Jiang M et al. Front Cell Neurosci 2017; 11(308).
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AMD’s 90nm Winchester CPU
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In February of this year, Intel released their first 90nm processor, code name Prescott. With a new architecture that promised everything from better energy efficiency to cooler temperatures to improved performance, the Prescott was arguably a failure. Hindered by extreme temperatures and disappointing performance, the Prescott was blasted by enthusiasts and reviewers alike for both its temperature issues (See the Prescott Survival Kit) and its performance as measured against the CPU it was designed to replace, the P4 Northwood.
Intel’s “failure” to win hearts with the Prescott and AMD’s notable absence from the 90nm CPU field has led many to question whether 90nm CPUs were worth the issues they raised. A little more than six months later, shortly after releasing the socket 939 Newcastle, AMD has quietly released the 90nm Winchesters in 3000+, 3200+, and 3500+ for the socket 939. Noticeably absent from this list are the new 4000+ and FX-55 (The good news here is that AMD says their FX series of processors will make the jump to 90nm sometime during the first half of 2005).
Did AMD wait to see how Intel handled the thermal issues with the Prescott, or did they wait because they were having issues of their own moving from 130 to 90nm? After talking to a source at AMD, I was told that neither was the case. Instead it was simply a case of AMD choosing to work at their own pace on the 90nm processor, and only releasing it when they were satisfied with the end product (I wish all companies took this approach!!! Are you listening motherboard makers?). Next was the rumor that the new 90nm processors would include changes to improve performance, most notably to the on die memory controller. There was also talk that the < ?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />Winchester would possibly include SSE3 commands. Again, this wasn’t the case. Although I was told there were some “minor changes”, a tune-up of sorts, there is no noticeable performance difference in the CPUs. This may come as disappointing news to some, but whether that really is the case, or whether AMD is letting the product speak for itself is something we’ll touch on later in this article.
AMD has said that the major difference between the Winchester and Newcastle CPUs is that their 90nm CPU actually runs much cooler and consumes far less energy than its 130nm brethren. If the CPU does in fact run cooler and consumes less energy, does that make it a better overclock candidate than the 130nm chip? Again, we’ll see later.
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Yesterday I caught up on blogs, as is my wont during the weekend. I read the ever FoxyJonno’s blog and cringed…then I read the Curious Orange’s response….I was so embarrassed.
I am a feminist.
I am in the Vagina Monologues and exhibiting my artworks at the Vagina Monologues.
I cannot believe that feminists still think they ought to act like anything other than ordinary considerate human beings.
There is a time to protest, there is a time to have a political debate, it is not in the middle of Lonsdale bar on a Friday whilst collecting for your charity.
There was a group of women, the Suffragists, during the period before women got the vote who said that men would give them the vote if they only acted rationally (like men were supposed to), they thought that the acts of the more radical Suffragettes only harmed the movement. I disagree, I believe there is a difference between active and passive repression: active repression is preventing any section of people/person from accessing their human rights; passive repression is being unaware of the issues surrounding a group of peoples/persons human rights.
My personal belief is that when faced with active repression you fight as hard as you can (if the active repression is armed with shotguns then my beliefs may undergo some changes). Passive repression is different, for one thing you can’t tell who’s doing it.
Passive repression is about ignorance and that is what the Vagina Monologues is supposed to fight; ignorance. We are not facing men telling women that we can’t think properly and so do not deserve suffrage. We are not facing corporations (until you get to high up positions in the City and in some sections of the Armed Services) telling us we do not work as hard and so do not deserve as much pay as men. We are facing people who do not know that one in ten women who are raped feel comfortable reporting it, people who do not know that only 10 percent of rape cases reach a conviction, people who do not know that over half the perpatrators of rape are men that the victims know. But, and I think this is where the FemSoc representatives in Lonsdale missed the point, not everyone is ignorant of this. Us feminists are not the only ones who have access to this information. The world is not divided up into those who know this (feminists) and those who don’t (everyone else).
Political decisions are necessarily based on knowledge and people do find out and understand about all sorts of questions before making there minds up, not, however, everyone, those blissfully ignorant souls who believe something because ‘Mum said..’ or ‘Dave down the pub said…’ or best of all ‘this bloke said…’ However, once you have made your intelligent political decision you should feel secure enough in it that you do not see every question based around it as an attack. How embarrassing for a feminist to isolate and attack her allies, people who are not ignorant of the issues, to just assume that everyone is against her. How embarrassing to hear that someone (who in my view has made the correct political choice) is so insecure in their choice as to need to attack the slightest movement.
The nineteen seventies are over sisters and boy what a lot of damage they did for the movement of feminism. Are we really going to achieve equality by screaming about our genitalia? In the middle of Lonsdale bar? To people who care…or did?
How embarrased I am to admit that there are foolish people who are feminists who have no idea about how to behave.
How proud I am to belong to a group of women who are putting on the Vagina Monologues (in the face of actual and not precieved adversity) and are raising money for the local womens refuge. Men are not our enemies, ignorance is our enemy and you do not fight it by screaming and shouting, you fight it with persistance and education: the reason for the Monologues in the first place.
How dare there be ignorance anywhere…but most of all within the ranks of those who should be fighting it.
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1. Thinking of them, when are the Vagina Monologues and where can i get tickets? I missed it last year and refuse to repeat that.
Also, I got your message, I’m afraid we’re staying in for a table delivery, but you’re welcome to pop round if you like.
2. with reference to the suffragists, I think it was a two way thing between them and the suffragettes. The suffragettes relied on the arguments on the suffragists, the argument had already been won by the time the suffragettes began their campaigns, they sometimes put the movement back by reenforcing the "emotional woman" stereotype. It was the war more than anything that got women the vote, but that effect was only possible because the suffragists had already won the intellectual arguments.
3. Fluzz:
Vagina Monologues info
It’s on the 14th and 15th February. You can get tickets (I think) from the Nuffield Box office, which is just inside the Jack Hilton Music Rooms on the right hand side. If not, they’ll probably know where you can get them.
4. Mis UD is right: you can get tickets for the Nuffield from the Nuffield Box Office, or, if you fancy coming to see us ar The Grand on the 27th you can get tickets from their box office too.
5. I’m not sure what you mean Jo when you say the argument had already been won when the Suffragettes began their movement; suffrage had not been granted to women, in what way had the intellectual arguments been won?
6. I mean nobody was really disputing the case for women having the vote by about 1900, it’s just that neither party (liberals or tories) then had the guts to put it through parliament. It was around this time that the suffragettes started their more high profile campaigns.
7. Jo, you’re an intelligent man, I know this. But frankly some people still don’t believe women should have the vote. Yes you can mock and call them neaderthals along with most feminists…well except for women who belong to religious organisations like the Plymouth Brethren who aren’t even certain they have souls half the time.
If, as you have said the intellectual arguments had been won why did it take ten years from the enfranchisement of women (1918) for it to be lowered to twenty one like the male vote (1928)?
Who had the intellectual arguments been won by? Who had they been had by? The intellectuals? The intellegentsia?
Female suffrage was an argument had by the likes of Mary Wollstonecraft and Charles Godwin, largely in essays and the written word….any idea what the literacy rate was before 1900? Any idea what the female literacy rate was before 1900?
Intellectual arguments don’t mean squat until they are had by the general populace. They are pleasant over dinner discussions had by earnest people with a university education like you and I and they do not count in the real world until they are had by everybody. The Suffragettes movement meant that everybody knew about the issues, everybody could talk about female emancipation.
Until women had the vote the intellectual arguments counted for squat.
8. I know what you’re saying but, in regards to getting the law changed, it is the intelligentsia who matter. The reason I say that the intellectual arguments were won by 1900 was that, from about that time onward, no politician could try any of the traditional arguments against women voting without getting laughed at. The fact that we no longer have a death penalty in this country is proof that it is the intellectual arguments among the educated that make the laws rather than the beliefs of the population. Whether that is right or not is another matter but it is the case.
9. So please explain to me if it is only the intellectual arguments that matter and they had all been won by 1900 why no politician ‘had the guts’ to put the law regarding female suffrage through parliatment?
10. because there was still the Lords to deal with, all hereditaries at that time, even less inclined to listen to rational argument than now.
11. So when you say that ‘nobody was really disputing the case for women having the vote by about 1900’ what you actually mean is that nobody who you deem important was disputing this…so thats what? The intelligentsia who’d had a university education and some people who could read. So most of the population who can’t read and any hereditary peers, who at that point had a fair amount of political power are nobody? Jo I never realised your brand of political intellectualism was so elitist. It’s the intelligensia who matter when it comes to getting the law changed? Well not by your own arguments, by your own arguments it comes down to hereditary peers who don’t listen to rational arguments.
Like I said the intellegensia have nice ideas to talk about over the dinner table, its only when it gets out of that after dinner conversation and out into the real world that those ideas start to matter.
12. I mean that it is possible to disagree with something and vote against something despite having no rational arguments against it. The repeal of section 28 is a case in point. There was nobody willing to come out and say that section 28 was good because it discriminated against homosexuals, but the tories and many peers still voted to keep it. I’m not saying people who disagreed with women’s suffrage don’t matter, I’m saying they weren’t putting up rational arguments, or even attempting to. In that sense the arguments had already been won. If the suffragette movement had such an effect, why was it that it was only after they suspended their activities in support of world war 1 that suffrage was granted?
13. I’m still seeing a certain amount of intellectual elitism in your arguments Jo.
My point was that until women got the vote in actuality it doesn’t matter one way or the other whether the intellectual arguments had or had not been won.
It’s a good question, and one that I believe shows that the intellectual arguments really don’t matter one way or another. Few people in Britain actually cared whether women got the vote or not whether there were intellectual reasons or not. However I think that the suffragettes were the reason that women got the vote in 1918 and this is why: In 1917 the conservative powers within Europe saw for the second time how bloody a revolution concerned with social equality could be. If the movement for the enfranchisement of women had purely been made up of Suffragists then it is entirely possible to believe that Parliament wouldn’t have made the connection between the women’s suffrage movement and the Russian Revolution. However they could see the connection and the 1918 Representation Of The People Act was a limiting device enacted by people who had seen how irrationally educated people could be made to act in Russia the year before.
14. You may be right. Please understand that I’m not saying it’s a good thing that only intellectuals and the upper classes that are involved in law making, but it is the truth. How many of the suffragettes, even, were from working class backgrounds? This is why I don’t think it makes any difference what the majority of people thought, just as with the death penalty. The intellectual arguments sway MPs, and with the parliament act after 1912 that was all that was needed. It may be that this was part of the reason the age was 30 to begin with – it could be got through the Lords without the parliament act and also while keeping Lloyd George’s government in power, some of the less enlightened tories might have baulked at men and women being given equality. I must confess I haven’t thought of it from the persepctive of the threat of revolution before, though I’m not sure of the extent to which the government of the day would have taken the threat seriously, particularly given the patriotic nature of the suffragette movement.
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Happy world egg day!!
Versatile, healthy and affordable
On October 9th, we celebrate World Egg Day! Why? To raise awareness of the many benefits of this versatile food and its importance in human nutrition. At Moba, we love eggs and our mission is to make sure that consumers all over the world can enjoy the most delicious and healthiest eggs possible.
At the IEC Conference in 1996, the idea was born to celebrate World Egg Day on the second Friday of October each year. Through the years, World Egg Day has become a phenomenon around the globe with countries, key players in the egg industry, and consumers celebrating and promoting the egg on this day.
Protein Powerhouse
What makes the egg so deserving of such a special day? For centuries, eggs have played a key role in feeding families around the world. No matter where you are in the world, be it in Australia or America, chances are it is part of the (consumer's) weekly diet. That is not surprising; the egg is of course delicious and versatile to use in the kitchen. Cooked, baked or scrambled; the possibilities are endless! However, there are more reasons why the egg should absolutely be on your grocery list. The egg has been recognized as an affordable protein powerhouse for many years. Protein is important for the development of the brain and muscles, and plays an important role in disease prevention. Still, the benefits of eating eggs are far more wide-ranging than protein alone.
Eggs are known as natures ‘vitamin pill’, containing the majority of vitamins, minerals and antioxidants required by the human body, such as vitamins A, B, iron and zinc. The egg is also one of the few foods that naturally contains vitamin D, a key component in building healthy bones and teeth. Eggs also contain the highest amount of choline in any natural food source, which is essential in memory and brain development.
Besides the many added health benefits of the egg, there are also sustainability credentials that make eggs a great choice in feeding the growing population. Eggs have a relatively small ecological footprint, and the egg industry puts a lot of time and energy into food safety. Therefore, eggs play a significant role in the eradication of malnutrition around the world thanks to their affordability and important nutrients.
Moba – Committing to the Egg Since 1947
Moba has been committed to the egg since the founder Job Mosterd invented the very first egg grading machine in 1947. Since that moment, Moba has been focused on enabling food producers worldwide to feed a growing population with continuously developed food preferences for safe, high-quality, tasty, affordable, egg-based food.
Over the years, Moba has grown to be the recognized world leader in the egg industry. Every day, 1,000,000,000 eggs are being graded and packed by Moba equipment around the globe. We use our 73 years of experience to offer total solutions that add value when it comes to efficiency, food safety, flexibility and ease of use. Together with our customers, by listening to their needs and wishes, we keep finding ways to feed the world population with top-quality eggs.
The worldwide Moba team wishes you a very Happy World Egg Day!
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Your body is talking to you. Isn’t it time to listen?
Dance/movement therapy focuses on the dynamic interplay of thoughts, feelings, and physical experiences. Through creative role-playing, talking, and spontaneous movement, our therapy practice offers unique expertise and tools to help you live your best, most creative life.
Make sense of your emotional world.
Based on the premise that the body, mind, and spirit are interconnected, dance/movement psychotherapy (DMT) supports your cognitive, emotional, and spiritual growth. Movement is often used as a metaphor, giving voice to what is too difficult to say verbally, or when words are not enough to fully express a feeling or experience.
It is possible to move beyond difficult experiences.
Turn your pain into self-expression.
Your body is the container for all of your human experience. It holds the totality of your thoughts, feelings, and memories. By using your body and breath as inroads, we can give voice to upsetting thoughts or sensations safely and effectively. We meet you with compassion so you can discuss the things that shame you, embarrass you, and control you.
What does a dance therapy session look like? Generally speaking each session can be divided into three parts: a warm-up to prepare both the body and the mind for the session; a period of thematic development where emotional and metaphoric material is explored; and closure or cool-down, when the session safely comes to an end. A good movement therapist will transition fluidly between these three components.
Most dance movement therapists work improvisationally—that is, there isn’t pre-determined movement for the session. We will work in the moment together to create, develop, and make sense of your movements.
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Kidney And Urinary Tract Disorders in Fish
PetMD Editorial
July 02, 2008
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Kidney Disorders
There are few major kidney and urinary tract disorders seen in fishes. Of these the main kidney and urinary tract disorders are Renal Dropsy, Carp-dropsy complex, and Proliferative kidney disease (PKD).
1. Renal dropsy in fishes is caused by the parasite, Sphaerospora auratus. Renal dropsy usually occurs in pond-raised goldfish. There is damage to the kidneys and swelling of the abdomen due to fluid accumulation is the most common sign of renal dropsy. There is no treatment for this kidney disorder and it usually causes death of the infected fish.
2. Carp-dropsy complex is a kidney disorder that usually affects the carp and goldfish. The Carp-dropsy complex disease is caused by the parasite, Sphaerospora angulata. Other complications include viral and bacertial infections, and carp swim-bladder disease. This is why this kidney disorder is called Carp-dropsy complex.
Similar to Renal dropsy, there is renal damage, along with an enlargement of the fish's eye (exophthalmos). The treatment is usually unsuccessful and death occurs within six months.
3. Proliferative kidney disease is caused by the PKD parasite, and has become the most important kidney and urinary tract disorder to affect the fish industry. It usually occurs in rainbow trout and other fishes belonging to the salmon family. Proliferative kidney disease infects young fish, generally during summers when the temperatures rise above 12 degrees Celsius.
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