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__label__cc	0.64415	0.35585	Lose lose lose, lose lose lose All the Habs do is lose lose lose. Even at home against the hapless Leafs who had to resort to a coaching change to try to salvage their playoff hopes, the Habs couldn’t come up with a win. No matter, I was rooting for the Leafs on that night. If you read this blog, I don’t have to tell you why. The Habs are solidly the 3rd worst team in the NHL right now, ahead (behind) of Edmonton and Columbus. Now the Habs would probably have to lose the rest of their games to finish lower than the Blue Jackets, but they might have a chance at finishing 2nd worst if the Oilers can put a string of wins together. The consensus around the hockey world is that Nail Yakupov, the Sarnia Sting winger of the Ontario Hockey League, is the “head and shoulders above the rest” Number 1 choice to go first overall in this year’s NHL draft. Yakupov is a talented, highly skilled Ovechkin-type player who stands at only 5″11 but has a knack for putting the puck in the net. Mikhail Grigorenko. At 6″3 he’s exactly what the Habs need up the middle. He’s already playing in Quebec City for Patrick Roy’s Remparts. If the team picks him at this year’s draft, could that pave the way for Roy as head coach? Compelling stuff for sure… By many other accounts, Mikhail Grigorenko — another Russian — will go second. So why am I so confident the Canadiens will nab him? Because the commonly-known word on the street is that the Oilers, who after picking talented forwards in Taylor Hall and Ryan Nugent-Hopkins in previous drafts, now need to go after a top defense prospect. And according to TSN’s Bob McKenzie, there’s plenty of options in that regard. Grigorenko is being compared to Evgeni Malkin: an extremely talented centre with great hands. And at 6″3, just what the Habs have been lacking up front for years. The fact that he’s playing for Patrick Roy’s Quebec Remparts makes him that much more appealing. Ovechkin is faltering, Malkin is leading the league in points and is a strong candidate for the Art Ross trophy this year. And all this without Sidney Crosby. Who would you choose? You know the P.A. announcer Michel Lecroix would have a field day calling out his name after a Canadiens goal. But McKenzie puts some interesting twists into the mix. What if Columbus decides to go with Grigorenko instead, because they end up keeping Rick Nash and could finally give the star winger a centreman who can get him the puck? What if Edmonton goes against logic and picks him after Yakupov? What if Montreal Canadiens head of scouting Trevor Timmins doesn’t get his head out of his arse? All important considerations… Even with Timmins, the Habs would be hard pressed NOT to get a top player this summer who can hopefully make an immediate impact with the team in the coming season. Whoever it ends up being. But those I’ve talked to like the idea of a Malkin-esque type player on the Canadiens and I too have to agree. Maybe the Habs don’t risk it, and trade up a spot to assure their choice!? Could be a possibility… of the course the lottery might change things. For now, let the Canadiens continue to lose lose lose and it’ll work itself out in the end. Olympic Stadium. Concrete. Yes you know, slabs of concrete, falling…AGAIN!! This is how we can get the money to build a new stadium to get our beloved Expos back: hold a lottery at $20 a ticket, and the winner gets the unique opportunity to push the detonation plunger to implode the Big O. What a sight that would be eh? Hey if you build a statue of Gary Carter at at the Big O, please make sure there’s no concrete within falling distance. Thanks. Tags: Alexander Ovechkin, Big O, Columbus Blue Jackets, Edmonton Oilers, Evgeni Malkin, Gary Carter, Mikhail Grigorenko, Nail Yakupov, Olympic Stadium, Rick Nash, Ryan Nugent-Hopkins, Taylor Hall, Trevor Timmins False Hope? Who Cares!? Top 5 Pick, Here We Come!! 4 thoughts on “Meet (I Hope) Your 2012 First Round Pick: Mikhail Grigorenko” SGRIEF Well, I guess the HABS can’t lose them all; beat the lowly Oilers last night. Funny how they were such a good team in the 1980s…Then again, the HABS were similarly that good in the 1970s, part of the 1980s and 1990s, with rare streaks of greatness since. Max Pac is the man to watch for next year, hope he stays put!! Ellie Grief Here, here! OMG! The Habs vs. Sabres game is the exact perfect summary and epitome of the HABS season. Try as they may, they can’t win, even if their lives depended on it. The HABS scoring with 3.5 secs left in the game to tie it is unbelievable, but what a let down losing in OT. On a brighter note, Max Pac is nominated for the Masterton!! Totally right! But I give them credit for fighting back and hopefully they can end the season the right way and put it behind them. I’m pretty sure Pacioretty is a lock for the Masterton…	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line10228
__label__wiki	0.616987	0.616987	New Band To Burn One To: 7 DIRTY WORDS HEAVY PLANET presents...7 DIRTY WORDS! BAND BIO: In the summer of 2006, a purebred rock n roll group emerged in Southern California to conquer the music scene with intense lyrics and larger than life sound. The earliest band members, Brian (lead vox/bass) and Nate (drums), unenthused with the yawn in the world of so called "Hard Rock" bands, decided to reinvent a sorely dysfunctional sound with their own hard hitting attempt to send the rock trend on its ear. With a project that would incorporate the earth shattering sound of monumental “real rock & roll” artists such as AC/DC, Motorhead, Thin Lizzy, MC5, Supersuckers, The Hellacopters and Pantera along with an added thrill of speedy metal-like riffs and punk rock attitude, they created Seven Dirty Words. The group spawned to life as a 3-piece ensemble playing gigs around the West coast from San Francisco to San Diego, Arizona and Nevada. After some personnel adjustments and a self-titled EP, the group sought out to find its true sound. By sheer coincidence, they crossed paths with the retro garage rock styling of Joel “El Rey” Reyes and lead guitar shredder Silvio Stefanini to complete the lineup and bring the much-needed fuller sound that they were looking for. The combined talent of the foursome spanned over the next few years, where each member channeled his rocking roots to put together a totally unique sound and message, spreading their new testament once again across the West Coast as well as a short East Coast stint. The band then conjures a potion of music more powerful than any of their previous projects releasing a second EP titled "Hard Boiled & Dirty". Fast forward to 2010 when Silvio decides to leave the band and pursue other musical endeavors. This led to El Rey making the decision to move over to lead guitar and the introduction of Mike “Spidey” Gabrielli newly acquired for rhythm duties. The following year was occupied with playing local shows in the LA/OC area and spending countless hours writing new material in the rehearsal studio in preparation of a full-length album. Come 2012 they finally lay down the tracks for the debut album “Blood Highway” with Producer Larry Ramirez of Loaded Bomb Records at the controls and release the sucker on the aforementioned label later that year. Influenced by hard driving Rock n' Roll, Punk Rock and Metal…7DW looks to revolutionize rock in an age where watered down music prevails and hard working bands never seem to get the credit that they deserve. No doubt they will shatter that stigma and keep on rolling down the Blood Highway. Learn how to get your music noticed at ReverbNation.com "The sign on the bar marquee says "Liquor in the front, Poker in the rear" and tonight's headliner is Orange County, CA born and bred raunchy rockers 7 Dirty Words. Prepare to get screwed, blued and tattooed as the bands firmly plants their brand of punk-fused hard-driving rock and roll into your cranium. You came tonight to rock and this is what you shall receive. A night filled with ear-shattering guitars, furious rhythms, and a shit ton of attitude. As the fists fly and shots stay high, you will not leave this evening disappointed. Hail, hail rock n' roll!" ((facebook\|website\|twitter)) Labels: California, Heavy Planet, New Band To Burn One To, Orange County, Seven Dirty Words	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line10231
__label__cc	0.700234	0.299766	Forward this article Save & File (Pocket) UK: Ready For Anything? by David Noon 0 Liked this Article To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. How prepared are businesses for Brexit? What are their priorities in the negotiations? Those were some of the questions that we posed to our audience during a Brexit webcast we hosted last week. Interestingly, we found that 25% of organisations said they had not yet taken any action with regards to planning for the potential effects of Brexit. The CBI also asked the same question in their recent survey and found that 11% are yet to take action. Given that both the UK and EU have acknowledged that progress to date has been slow and certainty on any aspect of the final deal as yet remains elusive, it is perhaps unsurprising that in some cases, businesses are still waiting for greater clarity before taking steps to mitigate risks or realise Brexit related opportunities. This reflects what some businesses are telling us - the view that current levels of uncertainty are too high to take meaningful strides or to begin to prepare. It does seem that there a desire from both the UK and the EU to increase the pace of talks and there is hope that discussion will turn to trade before the end of this year. This could spur businesses on, but even if things do progress, trade talks tend to operate on the basis that 'nothing is agreed until everything is agreed', so our advice to clients has been to treat Brexit like they would any other business risk and plan for the situation of most change so that they are prepared for a range of final outcomes. For the majority of organisations that have been preparing for Brexit, 35% have set up a Brexit steering committee, 22% have identified their priority issues and 17% have detailed risk assessments and planning underway. Furthermore, in the CBI survey, they found that 60% of their respondents are looking to trigger contingency plans by March 2018 if transitional arrangements are not agreed before then. However, with business groups on both sides of the channel pressing this issue, and the UK and EU seemingly in broad agreement that a sensible transition period is in everyone's best interest, I am hopeful that this crucial part of the talks will be resolved in the coming months. So what are the biggest Brexit issues for business and what do they want in terms of the future UK-EU relationship? Our poll found that higher customs duties on trade of good and services is posing the greatest challenge for most organisations (37%), closely followed by macroeconomic uncertainty and currency fluctuations (28%). It is unsurprising then that we found tariff free access to the single market is by far the number one priority from a business perspective (69%). An immigration system that continues that enables access to labour came in second (23%). Our polling results only provide a snapshot of some of the main challenges. From our work with clients we tend to find that issues quickly become fact and circumstance specific. For example, we were recently working with two manufacturers who produce an almost identical product for the UK market. One has long term contracts with a UK production plant, the other has a plant on the continent. Therefore, for the first organisation there is considerable potential upside, whereas tariffs and duties are a major concern for the second. A common issue for many of our clients is around their workforce and the EEA nationals that they employ. Whilst the new immigration system is not yet determined, we are starting to see an emerging direction of travel – which will likely require these workers to apply for 'settled status', in line with the current requirement for non-EEA workers. Employers will also need to register their EEA workers. This is likely to have an impact on the availability of labour as entry requirements become more stringent, and for some groups the UK perhaps becoming a less desirable place to live and work, not least if sterling continues its devaluation trend. We are advising our clients to take a number of practical steps in this area, such as; assessing how many EEA workers they currently have on payroll; mapping out current skill levels against the Government Standard Occupational Codes; ensuring immigration compliance requirements are reviewed and updated and considering the capacity of the HR function, which will likely see increased administrative responsibility. Another common issue facing many businesses is around data, which currently flows freely between the UK and EU. Once the UK leaves the EU, it will become a 'third country' and will need to be granted 'adequacy' status in order for the current situation to continue. Only 11 countries currently have this status (the US is not one) so there are other frameworks that can be deployed but businesses need to understand their current data flows and how they will address potential changes to come. Finally, we asked our audience what the longer terms priorities for the UK should be. A third of respondents think liberalised trade with non EU countries should be top of the agenda (33%), closely followed by investment in skills and innovation (29%). Whilst the future UK-EU is crucial and will likely dominate the agenda for some time to come, business and government need to work together towards these longer term goals aimed at bolstering growth across the whole of the UK and ensuring the UK remains a globally attractive destination to do business. Keep up to date with our Brexit communications and webinars by signing up to our mailing list here. The content of this article is intended to provide a general guide to the subject matter. Specialist advice should be sought about your specific circumstances. David Noon UK Government, Public Sector Constitutional & Administrative Law POPULAR ARTICLES ON: Government, Public Sector from UK Ready Or Not, New UK Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Regulations Hit UK Art Sector From 10 January 2020 Withers LLP In a surprise move just before the Christmas and New Year break, The Money Laundering and Terrorist Finance Amendments Regulations 2019 No-Deal Brexit? Reporting Requirement Changes From Companies House That You Need To Be Aware Of Vistra With the Brexit date looming on the horizon, the UK government is preparing for a possible ‘no deal' scenario. Some UK-based businesses operate across the UK-EU border or have adopted the... Tough UK Anti-Money Laundering Law Comes Into Force Tomorrow - Here's What You Need To Know A lawyer's advice to art dealers, agents and galleries who could be unprepared for the hastily enforced new regulations. 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__label__wiki	0.526601	0.526601	Shops & Art Galleries Gardens, Trails & Fun Activities Wedding Venues, Functions, Catering Clare Valley Business and Tourism Burra Terowie and Peterborough Southern Flinders Ranges The River Murray The Copper Coast Mintaro Short Drives Progress Association Residents Private Page Round Journey: approximately 5.5 hours driving time. Head south down the main street and in less than 10 minutes you will be at Leasingham. Turn left and go to Auburn, where a well signposted right turn will see you in Port Wakefield, via Balaklava. You have taken only 50 minutes to travel from Mintaro to Port Wakefield. Take a tour around this historic town, including the wharf area. There is so much more to this former port at the head of St Vincent Gulf than the obvious row of servos and fast food outlets. With maybe a coffee consumed, head north up the highway and take the left fork to Yorke Peninsula. Several kilometres on, you will turn left and follow the eastern coastline of the peninsula, visiting the towns of Ardrossan, Port Vincent, Stansbury and Edithburgh, with many small settlements and beaches along the way. Driving time is approximately 1.5 hours to Edithburgh from Port Wakefield. How long you stop in each seaside town is up to you! There are numerous jetties to walk. When you turn for home, you can drive up the centre of the peninsula through Yorketown and Minlaton, the major service centres, along with Maitland, of the Lower Peninsula. Unfortunately, a day just does not allow time to venture along the foot to Marion Bay, Stenhouse Bay,Innes National Park, Cape Spencer and Corney Point. It is well worth considering an overnight stay in this western most region of the peninsula to allow proper exploration of the area. Back up the central road and 15 kilometres north of Minlaton, deviate left to Port Victoria on the western coast. Port Victoria is arguably the best known port in Australia that was regularly visited by the massive 4 masted Barques (windjammers) that loaded grain for passage, via Cape Horn, to Europe. The streets of Port Victoria are named after the ships of the mighty German P Line; ships such as the PAMIR , PASSAT, POMMERN, PEKING and the PADUA, which stills sails today as a sail training ship with the name KRUZENSHTERN under the Russian flag.(It visited Australia during the 1988 Bi Centenary Celebrations). The PASSAT was the last windjammer to load at and leave Port Victoria in early June, 1949. Take the road to Maitland from Port Victoria and continue north through Arthurton until you reach the main road from Kadina to Port Wakefield at Kulpara. A right turn will take you back to Port Wakefield. Driving time Edithburgh to Port Wakefield via central road is approximately 2 hours. A further 50 to 60 minutes and we are back in Mintaro via Balaklava and Auburn. This small,thoroughly charming, largely untouched historic town features some of the most significant and captivating 19th century buildings and ruins in the state. St Peter’s Quiet Garden Project- Progress Report for Diocesan Council February 2017 Mintaro: Storm Damage Report to Clare and Gilbert valleys Council Copyright 2017 Mintaro Progress Association. Website design by Pixel Harvester	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line10250
__label__wiki	0.993011	0.993011	Crest Hill, Lockport and Romeoville mayors endorse Lipinski for reelection By ALEX ORTIZEmailFollow Shaw Media File Photo U.S. Rep. Dan Lipinski, D-Western Springs, announced that several mayors in his district had endorsed him for reelection, including the mayors of Crest Hill, Lockport and Romeoville. U.S. Rep. Dan Lipinski touted a long list of endorsements from mayors within the 3rd Congressional District, including the mayors of Crest Hill, Lockport and Romeoville. The congressman said in a news release that these endorsements build on his reputation as a problem-solver who works with the communities in his district. Lipinski, D-Western Springs, is running for a ninth term. He faces multiple challengers in the Democratic primary in March. “We all share a calling to public service that benefits the residents we represent, and I have made it my highest priority to work to resolve local issues and to make sure our communities have the best possible access to the federal resources they need,” Lipinski said in the release. The Will County mayors lauded Lipinski for his work to enhance local projects and development. Romeoville Mayor John Noak said in the release that Lipinski was “instrumental” in helping the village get a new Metra station on the Heritage Corridor Line. “Dan Lipinski is a champion for the hardworking families of Will County,” Noak said in the release. Crest Hill Mayor Ray Soliman and Lockport Mayor Steve Streit also endorsed Lipinski for reelection. “I just think he’s always done a lot of good work for our region when it comes to transportation,” Streit said. “He’s always been there for us.” Soliman echoed the sentiment. “I believe he’s done a good job and he’s been a good representative for the city of Crest Hill,” Soliman said. “He’s been very responsive to us.” Lipinski said in the release that while serving as the chairman of the House Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines and Hazardous Materials, he’s focused on securing federal funding to improve public transit and infrastructure across the district. The congressman’s announcement was not without controversy, however. Politico reported that one of the mayors Lipinski put on the list had not actually endorsed him. Another was no longer a mayor. Lipinski is facing primary challenges from Rush Darwish, Charles Hughes and Marie Newman. Newman challenged and narrowly lost to Lipinski in the 2018 Democratic primary. Our Revolution endorses three Will County area candidates National PAC endorses Ventura for Congress Will-Grundy trade union endorses Foster for reelection in 2020 Lipinski challenger drops out, endorses Newman for Congressional seat	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line10257
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__label__wiki	0.607506	0.607506	About Dale Jarvis Contact Dale The Wolves of Deadman’s Cove - #FolkloreThursday Doug Wells, a retired teacher in Harbour Breton, Newfoundland, sent me a series of articles on local culture. From curing warts to local legends, the articles give a wonderful introduction to the folklore of Harbour Breton and area. "I had my students to write on local cultural and historical events,” says Wells. “With a folklore background, I also encouraged students to write articles on folklore related practices. The attached articles are folklore/folklife related and represent Harbour Breton and some nearby resettled communities.” “Over the years of teaching Cultural Heritage 1200, students wrote approximately 150 stories,” Wells explains. “The stories were worth so much towards the student's course evaluation. They were also submitted to our local paper as well, the Coaster. Our classes section of the paper was called Culture Corner and was quite popular with locals, especially with seniors.” One of the Culture Corner research projects was completed by students Melissa Skinner, Damian Power and Joanne Hynes, of King Academy, in 1997. The three of them worked to retell the legend of Deadman’s Cove. During the class research, they found many people had stories of shipwrecks and bodies associated with Deadman’s Cove. One story, however, stood out. This was a particularly thrilling tale which had been written down Ron Rose of Harbour Breton, sometime around 1975. “It is said that a ship was sailing along our coast (now called Deadman’s Cove), and the crew members were of a very wicked and sinful nature,” wrote the student authors. “They were so wicked that death came upon the whole crew by way of a shipwreck upon the rocks at Deadman’s Cove. Their evil spirits haunted the coast in that area.” According to local folklore, the evil spirits of the wrecked sailors either took on the form of savage wolves, or possessed the bodies of wolves in the area. It was reported that several sailors met an untimely end due to these fearsome creatures. “One day a woman, who was a very good person and had never been bad, went to the beach,” the students continue. “When the wolves were about to leap on her, they all fell dead on the ground in front of her. It is said that God saved this woman because she was good, and goodness triumphs over wickedness.” John Maunder, in a research paper revised and updated for the Newfoundland Museum, traces the somewhat colourful history of the wolf in Newfoundland history. According to Maunder, the first written mention of wolves on the Island, dates to 1578. Captain Edward Haies, a member of Sir Humphrey Gilbert's expedition of 1583, also mentioned wolves. “From that time onward, a great many Newfoundland letters and journals contained at least minor references to the species, so great seems to have been the fascination with wolves in the early days,” says Maunder. By about 1930, sadly, the Newfoundland Wolf was extinct, existing only as a few specimens, and an occasional local legend like that of Deadman’s Cove. Special thanks to Doug Wells for the story and photo. This story appears in my book Haunted Waters, available as ebook for Apple, Nook, Kindle, and Kobo! Posted by Dale Jarvis at 08:08 No comments: Follow @dalejarvis	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line10270
__label__wiki	0.761419	0.761419	Latest New Technology & Tech News Introducing del series Introducing Rhino Serial Introducing Mannequin Serial ‘High Fidelity’ TV Series Trailer: Zoë Kravitz Digs Back into Her Top 5 Heartbreaks admin, January 20, 2020 Apple TV+: ‘Defending Jacob’ and ‘Central Park’ Premiere Dates, Early Renewals for ‘Mythic Quest’ and ‘Home Before Dark’ [TCA 2020] ‘The Good Place’ Series Finale is Ascending to Alamo Drafthouse Theaters Across the Country Apple TV+ Reveals ‘Amazing Stories’ Premiere Date and First Look [TCA 2020] ‘Star Trek: Picard’ Clip: “Even Assassins Need a Bath Sometime” Classic ‘Star Wars’ is Getting the Manga Treatment With ‘The Legends of Luke Skywalker’ 2020 PGA Awards Winners: ‘1917’ Wins Again, Making It the Frontrunner for Best Picture at the Oscars Disney is Trying to Stop Some Etsy Shops From Selling Baby Yoda Items Amblin Picks Up ‘Cheshire Crossing’, Which Features Female Characters from ‘Wizard of Oz’, ‘Alice in Wonderland’, and ‘Peter Pan’ What would happen if Alice from Alice in Wonderland, Dorothy from The Wizard of Oz, and Wendy from Peter Pan met at a boarding school? Author Andy Wei.. What would happen if Alice from Alice in Wonderland, Dorothy from The Wizard of Oz, and Wendy from Peter Pan met at a boarding school? Author Andy Weir wrote a piece of fan fiction about that exact topic before he became a breakout success with The Martian, and that fan fiction morphed into a graphic novel called Cheshire Crossing. Now Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Entertainment has picked up the rights to make a movie based on that graphic novel, so this fairy tale mashup is coming to the big screen. The Hollywood Reporter says that Erin Cressida Wilson will write the screenplay for Cheshire Crossing. Wilson wrote Secretary, Chloe, Jason Reitman’s Men, Women & Children, The Girl on the Train, and is currently working on a live-action version of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs for Disney, so she already has some experience writing for classic fairy tale characters. Michael De Luca, who was nominated for an Oscar for his producing work on films like The Social Network, Moneyball, and Captain Phillips, is on board to produce this new movie. THR describes the story like this: The fantasy mashup tells the story of Dorothy from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Alice of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Peter Pan‘s Wendy, who meet in boarding school for troubled young ladies. They each believe they’ve traveled to a fantastical world but no one else does. When their world-hopping sees Captain Hook and the Wicked Witch of the West team up to combine their magical villainy, the trio must band together to thwart them. You have to wonder if Disney is cringing a bit at the idea of characters like Alice and Wendy being depicted outside of the studio’s creative control, since Disney’s animated versions of those characters loom so large in the minds of the public. But this won’t be the first time something like this has happened – in fact, it’s happening right now. Benh Zeitlin, who directed the 2012 Sundance hit Beasts of the Southern Wild, just directed a film called Wendy that puts his own spin on the Peter Pan story; the difference is that movie is for Fox Searchlight, which falls under Disney control. Whatever happens with this project, it’s seemingly a good time to be Andy Weir, who is teaming up with Phil Lord and Chris Miller for a sci-fi movie called Artemis and a mysterious new film with that duo as well. And before I wrap this up, I want to give props to Sarah Andersen, who illustrated Cheshire Crossing – illustrators are important, too! The post Amblin Picks Up ‘Cheshire Crossing’, Which Features Female Characters from ‘Wizard of Oz’, ‘Alice in Wonderland’, and ‘Peter Pan’ appeared first on /Film. Next post ‘Parasite’: Writer/Director Bong Joon-ho Breaks Down Some Key Scenes Previous post ‘Knives and Skin’ Trailer: A Missing Girl Sends a Town Down a Neon-Soaked Paranoid Spiral Star Wars Bits: Dominic Monaghan on His Role in ‘The Rise of Skywalker’, A Preview of Marvel’s Darth Vader #1, the Return of Jar Jar Binks and The Clone Wars, and More! Check Out Six Gorgeous New ‘The Irishman’ Posters Composer Jóhann Jóhannsson’s Posthumous Directing Debut Will Play at This Year’s Berlin Film Festival This Week In Trailers: Foosballers, Saint Frances, Higher Love, The Cordillera of Dreams, Olympic Dreams Superhero Bits: Karen Gillan Wants to Direct ‘Batgirl’, ‘Spider-Man 3’ Shooting Locations & More ‘Birds of Prey’ Soundtrack Trailer Includes New Movie Footage and Some Real Bangers ‘Little Fires Everywhere’ Trailer: Someone Tries to Murder Reese Witherspoon beepmusic دانلود مانکن	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line10271
__label__cc	0.625423	0.374577	Sex and Intimacy After Childbirth Sex and Intimacy After the Baby Arrives - NYTimes.com: ".... For the first three months, “my ‘sexual’ fantasy was for nobody to touch me,” she said. Though his interest had not flagged, Mr. Williams said he was in no rush and a little apprehensive: “It didn’t seem like an option for a while.” The couple did start to have sporadic sex at three months, although it was often painful for Ms. Williams. Setting some rules helped stoke her desire; one was no touching of her breasts, which had grown to an H-cup to his delight, and her discomfort. They kept trying, and more than a year after delivery, “now sex is great,” she said. “Women need to know it’s O.K. to be gentle with themselves and be patient,” she said. “If you have open, honest intimacy, it will come back.”" Labels: After Childbirth, Intimacy, sex Happiness Feedback Loop Analysts warning, ObamaCare plans like Medicaid Dogs, Companions, Guardians, 99.9% Wolf Anti-ageing compound, human trials, turns clock ba... Grant Study Reveals Love is Happiness GMOs, Feeding the World	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line10273
__label__cc	0.510183	0.489817	Two new potential Oratories in the USA Online Gregorian Chant Academy (Everyone Can Learn... A New Oratorian Parish in York Pope Francis on the Divine Liturgy: "The center is... The Non-Verbal Language of Beauty - A Presentatio... The Tedious Press Narrative of Pope Francis The Letter of the Apostolic Commissioner to the FF... The Recent Decree Concerning the FFI - Full Text i... 'Pope Francis has not contradicted Pope Benedict.'... Is Pope Francis Stepping Away from Summorum? Article About the Laocoon - its Provenance and th... EF from Ukraine A First Mass in the Diocese of Southwark The Radiance of Being - A New Book by Stratford Ca... Carmelite EF Liturgical Books Needed for a Seminar... Pope Innocent III on the Four Kinds of Marriage (f... Procession in Peoria, 1932 The Armenian Mekhitarists of Venice The Essence of a Catholic Education is a Formation... 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Pierre Paul Archbishop Sample Receives the Pallium Rome Reports on Sacra LIturgia The “dangers and limitations of archaeologism” and other matters In a wonderful and extended interview with Dom Alcuin Reid that appears in the Catholic World Report, Dom Reid says of Sacra Liturgy 2013: CWR: What are the most evident fruits of the conference? Dom Reid: In some ways that question is premature. Certainly those who participated seem to have come away encouraged and better equipped to promote and insist on the absolute necessity of sound liturgical formation and the celebration of the liturgy as the Church gives it to us, as the necessary foundation for Christian life and mission. In a way this marks a significant development in what has begun to be called the “New Liturgical Movement”—something Cardinal Ratzinger called for. This is a movement insisting that the Sacred Liturgy is the true and necessary foundation for the whole of Christian life, for the New Evangelization and for any of the Church’s activity. It is a movement which insists on the necessity of liturgical formation as envisaged by Sacrosanctum Concilium, and which knows that the true celebration of the liturgy—everywhere—in accordance with the Church’s norms and the true spirit of the liturgy is crucial. To borrow Cardinal Ratzinger’s words, it is “a movement toward the liturgy and toward the right way of celebrating the liturgy, inwardly and outwardly” [The Spirit of the Liturgy, pp. 8-9] I think that Sacra Liturgia 2013—and especially its published proceedings—will help to connect our efforts towards liturgical renewal today with the broader liturgical tradition in line with the best intentions of Sacrosanctum Concilium. It will enable clergy, religious, and faithful to look again at the liturgical reform and see what needs to be done to enrich the liturgical life of our parishes and chapels so that all of Christ’s faithful are more fruitfully nourished through the liturgical rites. The entire interview is worth reading (several times!) Posted Saturday, July 20, 2013	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line10280
__label__wiki	0.517827	0.517827	Melt in the mantle Participation in INI programmes is by invitation only. Anyone wishing to apply to participate in the associated workshop(s) should use the relevant workshop application form. 15th February 2016 to 17th June 2016 Organisers: John Rudge University of Cambridge Todd Arbogast University of Texas at Austin Arwen Deuss Universiteit Utrecht Richard Katz University of Oxford Jerome Neufeld University of Cambridge Yasuko Takei University of Tokyo Scientific Advisory Committee: David Bercovici (Yale), David Kohlstedt (Minnesota), Rob van der Hilst (MIT), Yanick Ricard (Lyon), Barbara Romanowicz (Paris) Programme Theme The Earth's mantle is almost entirely solid, but on geological timescales it convects vigorously, the well-known surface expression of this being plate tectonics. At depths up to ~100 km beneath plate-tectonic boundaries (mid-ocean ridges and subduction zones), and beneath ocean islands such as Hawaii, the mantle melts, and that melt rises to the surface to feed volcanism and form new crust. Such magmatism plays a key role in the chemical evolution and dynamics of our planet. Although the basic thermodynamics of melt generation in these settings is well understood, how the melt is transported to the surface is not, despite several decades of work on the problem. Furthermore, recent observational evidence suggests that mantle melting is not restricted to the near surface (top 100 km): it may occur within the mantle transition zone (410-660 km depth) and above the core-mantle boundary (2900 km). For these deeper instances of melting, an understanding of the dynamical and thermochemical characteristics is currently lacking. Understanding the formation and migration of melt in the mantle presents a formidable scientific and mathematical challenge. One key challenge is in bridging diverse length scales - melt lies along grain boundaries at micron scales, may focus into channels at metre scales, and migrates over 100 km. Sophisticated mathematical techniques, such as homogenisation theory, are needed to map an understanding of physics at the smallest scales to plate-tectonic scales. Seismology offers a way to image melt in the mantle, but the development of new tools in inverse theory are required to extract that information. Models of melt transport are eventually cast as a series of coupled non-linear partial differential equations, which require advanced numerical techniques to solve. This programme will bring together a broad spectrum of mathematicians and solid Earth scientists to tackle these and other fundamental challenges of melt in the mantle. Final Scientific Report: Melt in the Mantle final report	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line10281
__label__cc	0.710138	0.289862	Reporting from the Sanctuary Counter-Counter-Revolution! Vern Nelson – October 24, 2019Posted in: "The OC", california, Fresh Juice, huntington beach, immigration, Los Alamitos, Michael Gates, sanctuary city Plaintiffs and their supporters, overlooked by HB City Attorney Gates and 4th Circuit Judge Goethals. We’ve got up to three months to wait and see what the three-judge panel of California’s 4th Circuit Court of Appeals thought about yesterday’s Sanctuary State vs Charter Cities arguments, but the most iconic moment to me was the panegyric to Huntington Beach on which that town’s showboating elected City Attorney Michael E. Gates chose to use his last minute of time. Gates in HB parade A rightwing, FOX-News celebrity now for (so far) successfully arguing that charter cities like HB don’t have to follow the state sanctuary law, Mike rhapsodized on how big and special Surf City is – so big and special that NO state should ever be able to tell them how to run their law enforcement affairs: Huntington Beach has TWENTY-SIX SQUARE MILES! They have NINE AND A HALF MILES OF COAST! They are the FOURTH BIGGEST CITY in the OC, dammit! And they are the ONLY police force in the OC with a HELICOPTER! I guess Mike doesn’t get inland much, but Judge John Goethals (a celebrity himself for his slapdowns of former DA Tony Rackauckas over the snitch scandal and more) was quick to point out that HB is NOT the only Orange County city with a police helicopter (not that that has anything to do with whether they should follow state law.) It was an embarrassing gaffe, and Mike Gates turned red, but it was also emblematic of the lameness of his arguments in general, on how HB and other cities are too special and unique to have to follow state law. We’ll look at those momentarily… Revolution, Counter-Revolution, Counter-Counter-Revolution! California’s SB 54, which its authors liked calling the “California Values Act” but the rest of us call the Sanctuary State Law, could be called a Revolution against an overreaching, inhumane federal government’s immigration policy, under you-know-whom. But the impetus for this revolution was not just the state’s love of immigrants, but concern for the efficacy of our law enforcement, which many studies have shown is severely compromised when local LE agencies have to double as immigration enforcers. Opposition to SB 54 led many municipalities, driven pretty obviously by anti-immigrant sentiment of their populations and politicians, to invent ways to justify defying the state law, and allowing their police to co-operate with ICE. This could be called the Sanctuary Counter-Revolution, and Huntington Beach led the way, as a Charter City claiming to have authorities in that area that the state cannot interfere with. Last year Judge James Crandall (who we believe to be an outlier) ruled in favor of HB’s expansive claims of Charterpower – and this could be a slippery slope given all the Charter Cities eager to follow suit. This month, in what we call the Counter-Counter-Revolution, the ACLU of SoCal along with the National Day Laborers’ Organizing Network, Los Alamitos Communities United, and HB’s plucky barrio Oak View Comunidad, launched their own appeal against HB and Crandall’s 2018 ruling. Yesterday both appeals against Crandall’s decision were heard: California’s, and the ACLU et al. California’s arguments California went first, in the case Huntington Beach vs Javier Becerra (Cal’s Attorney General.) The state was represented by Deputy AG Joshua Eisenberg (right, NOT “Jonathan” as the Register has it.) The bulk of the arguments from both Eisenberg and Gates were excruciatingly semantic and grounded in diffferent interpretations of Subsections A and B of Article 11 of the State Constitution which grants special powers to Charter Cities, and may or may not be subject to a “four-part test” which determines if and when the state can overrule Charter City policies. It became obvious that there was no handy precedent for a case like this, much as both sides tried to find them. Another angels-on-the-head-of-a-pin conundrum was over whether SB 54 was “substantive” or “procedural.” Gates insisted it forced “substantive” changes onto cities, while Eisenberg insisted they were only “procedural.” I was relieved to hear another Judge, Judge Icola, admit that the distinction between those two categories is extremely vague and subjective – yeah, that’s how it seems! (The only thing everyone could agree is “substantive” that the state has sometimes tried to force onto cities is actual dollar amounts of public employee compensation, which had nothing to do with this case.) Both Eisenberg and Gates took hyperbole out for a spin: If Crandall’s ruling is allowed to stand, there is nothing that Charter Cities can’t get away with in the future. No, your honors, if Crandall’s ruling is overturned, that means we are re-writing the state constitution and it means nothing to be a Charter City! But Eisenberg made some really good points – what Huntington Beach law enforcement does affects a lot more than just HB residents who may or may not be undocumented – just look at how many folks of all races pass through that beloved beach town. The state certainly has a legitimate interest in protecting them. Eisenberg also referenced a recent study of California’s immigrant community, where immigrants were asked how the TRUST they feel with law enforcement would be affected if Sanctuary became PATCHWORK – if it was hard to say WHICH agencies were co-operating with ICE and which were not? The study definitively confirmed that trust would be dashed, and SB 54’s benefits would virtually vanish. In response to Gates’ portrait of Sanctuary as some enforced radical anarchy, Eisenberg pointed out the list of LITERALLY HUNDREDS of felonies and “wobblers” that allow a police force to turn a convict over to ICE. And as a coup-de-grâce Eisenberg reminded the honorable judges that SB 54 was upheld by the 9th Circuit in April. And then it was time for the actual affected parties to make THEIR case. ACLU, Oak View, et al. Join the State’s Appeal Apparently – who knew? – this was all somewhat unorthodox, for interested parties to launch their own appeal, while a larger party (the state) is already conducting basically the same appeal. And naturally Gates began by questioning the STANDING of these four organizations. Are they really aggrieved, are they really suffering “substantial pecuniary damage?” Even Judge Icola was puzzled: These plaintiffs are ALL US CITIZENS, so how can they be affected by this law? Well, duh, your Honor – just because these plaintiffs are citizens doesn’t mean that they don’t have family members and many friends and neighbors who, in today’s terror of deportation, have been avoiding hospitals and health care, missing work and school, and been reluctant to report crime and domestic violence in their neighborhoods. (And in a circular way, the fact that no non-citizens felt comfortable signing on to the suit kinda illustrates the problem.) Still, the panel wanted to know – why do YOU ALL need to launch your own appeal, when the state is pretty much making most of your arguments for you already? Good question, responded our way-cool counsel Samir Deger-Sen of Latham & Watkins. With all respect to the Attorney General, we cannot just rest securely assuming the state will continue to represent our interests as long as might be necessary. And we are likely to think of other effective arguments that the state may not. (I’m paraphrasing.) Judge Goethals interjected helpfully, “I believe what you’re saying is, you want to be able to control your own destiny.” Yes. We liked the sound of that. So Long Story Short This sort of Court of Appeals doesn’t weigh in right away. They are going to present their opinions in writing some time in the next 90 days – i.e. by late January but hopefully sooner. (What law applies in places like HB until then? I’m not sure, but I don’t think there’s been a stay.) Meanwhile, in the hour or so before the hearing, several of Mike Gates’ supporters showed up outside the courthouse, with arguments disarming in their simplicity and directness: Utilizing bullhorns, they opined that we were “BOZOS” and encouraged us to “GO HOME” – presumably to some sort of Bozo Refuge. Taken under advisement. Posted by Victor Valladares on Wednesday, October 23, 2019 Tags: california, California 4th District Court of Appeals, California Values Act, charter cities, huntington beach, immigration, Judge Goethals, los alamitos, Michael Gates, sanctuary, Sanctuary state, sb 54 About Vern Nelson Greatest pianist/composer in Orange County, and official troubador of both Anaheim and Huntington Beach (the two ends of the Santa Ana Aquifer.) Performs regularly both solo, and with his savage-jazz quintet The Vern Nelson Problem. Reach at vernpnelson@gmail.com, or 714-235-VERN. Gates is Gross Posted October 24, 2019 at 3:16 PM Recognize Kelly “moms for Gracey/ I committed voter fraud and bragged about it” Gates. In the photo with her porcine, cyborg husband. But who is that screaming old man in the video? Crikey. To get that old and still be that stupid and embarrassing. He thinks he’s got some real good burns! I bet he’s one of those morons that still thinks saying, “Obummer” is the height of hilarity. He’s funny all right. But not in the way he thinks… Gates is SO desperate for any kind of attention or accolades. But he can’t be bothered to shut down the illegal sober living houses ruining residential neighborhoods for life time HB residents. He has an excuse for EVERYTHING. Some vocal local people like him because they agree with his nasty opinions. But when it comes down to it he has DONE NOTHING. He just finds a reason to pass the buck. Not impressed. At all. Plus, he acts like such a dirty fool posting photos of them drinking and sleazy comments to local woman (like GCT) How many times now has he had to delete a post because it was totally inaccurate information or just such a bad look? He’s EXTRA gross. Bob Barnett #MOMSFORGRACEY Gates is an incompetent fascist tool who’s branding efforts took a dive after his mentor, Rackaukas, got beat. Pretty Boy Gates thought he was Tony’s successor. Todd Spitzer thought differently. If so, it must have been extra galling for Mike to have to argue in front of Tony’s nemesis Goethals. Never forget how stoked Gates was to find a slippery way to sell The Roger’s Park property for development. Talk about letter of the law versus spirit. There is NO QUESTION that property was gifted to the citizens for specific public use. But that evil schemer (who was obviously going over the legalities with a greedy, greasy magnifying glass salivating on how to violate the intended use and cash it in as part of their ongoing crony development) found a lapsed renewal and pounced. Then he tried to reel back his glee and as always MAKE EXCUSES. He “was just working for the city council and showing them their options. He didn’t just brag on social media about trying to steal a park from the community blah blah barf barf “. Gates did not care at all what the property was legally meant to be or what the actual residents wanted. Before Gates spends one second on KFI bragging about his attention seeking endeavors he should solve the REAL problems in the city he serves. Dozens of people are reaching out publicly all the time about the illegal sober living businesses on BOTH sides of their family homes. But I guess that kind of the thing does not feed Gates’ insatiable need for the spot light. No matter how negatively it impacts the good tax payers of the city every single day. They can wait as Gates makes excuse after excuse. But here’s a selfie from Black Trumpet! Enough of the dead eyed pix. Nobody cares about your meals at Capone’s. They want results. Get to work. People are actually counting on you! Shut down the illegal sober living homes in the residential neighborhoods. No more excuses. You said you were going to do it. If you can’t – get out of the way and let someone else solve the problem. Everyone knows these human chop shops are what lead to all the drugged out crazies on every corner. Even those shrill voiced ninnies on KFI would agree with that fact. Maybe someone should clue them in on all that Gates is NOT DOING to eradicate the drug addled homeless that are easily the cities #1 problem. Seriously. On a daily basis what impacts any Huntington Beach resident more? Sanctuary city/charter city attention grab? Or person openly shooting dope and sh*tting in the street? If you say sanctuary city/charter city you are not just a blind, dense follower – you are a liar too. Joel Block Posted January 10, 2020 at 11:27 AM The Court of Appeals today upheld the State of California’s Values Act (“Sanctuary” Law) and rejected HB’s claim that Charter Cities were constitutionally exempt from its provisions. It’s now up to the HB City Council (presumably with the City Attorney’s advice) to decide whether to request review by the California Supreme Court. https://www.ocregister.com/2020/01/10/appeals-court-overturns-ruling-allowing-huntington-beach-to-ignore-states-sanctuary-law-sb-54/ “Court of Appeals Judges Raymond Ikola, Thomas Goethals and Richard Fybel overturned the lower court’s decision. [The 2018 Crandall decision backing HB’s charter claims,] “’We hold (SB 54) constitutional as applied to charter cities because it addresses matters of statewide concern — including public safety and health, effective policing, and protection of constitutional rights,’ the judges wrote, adding that the law ‘is narrowly tailored to avoid unnecessary interference in local government.’” By this reasoning, by the way, CATER would have won its case against Anaheim, if the judges had agreed that there was a state interest in not letting charter cities take out humongous bonds without having the matter go to a vote, as the State Constitution requires. https://kfiam640.iheart.com/content/2020-01-10-appellate-justices-rule-against-huntington-beach-in-sanctuary-state-law/ The justices said the state’s law was constitutional “as applied to charter cities because it addresses matters of statewide concern — including public safety and health, effective policing and protection of constitutional rights,” Associate Justice Richard F. Fybel wrote the opinion with justices Raymond J. Ikola and Thomas Goethals concurring. Fybel ruled that the state law “is reasonably related to resolution of those statewide concerns, and is narrowly tailored to avoid unnecessary interference in local government.” The justices also found that the American Civil Liberties Union, Los Alamitos Community United and four residents lacked legal standing to intervene in the case. Huntington Beach attorney Michael Gates told City News Service that he will recommend the City Council appeal to the state Supreme Court. The justices opinion “not only makes the state’s case, they go beyond it and add additional analysis,” Gates said. “I’m very disappointed in the ruling and will talk to the city council about the next steps, but I don’t believe, based on all of my extensive research of all of the case law, that this is a reasonable, final word on this.” The issue was destined to be settled by the state Supreme Court in any event, Gates acknowledged. The justices’ opinion is “saying that express constitutional authority is subordinate to (the justices’) analysis,” Gates said. “You don’t get to qualify or alter what the constitution says, or to rewrite the constitution.” Posted January 11, 2020 at 12:24 PM the opinion https://www.courts.ca.gov/opinions/documents/G057013.PDF Prodigious districting litigator Kevin Shenkman opines on Facebook: “Having argued Jauregui v City of Palmdale, which is discussed significantly in the court’s decision, I am very familiar with the issues. The court of appeal’s decision is exceptionally thorough and well reasoned. I have no doubt that the California Supreme Court will affirm… probably by simply denying Gates’ petition for review.” Thanks for calling attention to this, Joel! Nice work on the follow-up, Vern. I sure hope that some HB attorney is getting ready to take Gates on when he’s next up. (Only one, please — no vote-splitting!)	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line10284
__label__cc	0.548388	0.451612	‘It’s sin’: Coptic Pope Tawadros II weighs in on same-sex marriage amid historic Australian visit Source: SBS Pope Tawadros ll has touched down in Sydney for the first time as the Pope of the Coptic Church for a 10-day pastoral visit. Natalya Mihailova \| 30 August 2017 Photo: Pope Tawadros ll gives his first conference in Australia. Commission for Dialogue between Russian Orthodox Church and Coptic Church Holds its 3rd Session Moscow Patriarchate Delegation Visit Egypt, Meet Coptic Patriarch Tawadros II Taiwan Rejects Same-Sex Marriage in Advisory Votes POLL: Christian Values on Sodomy, Abortion, Surge In Russia – 83% Reject Homosexuality Pope Tawadros II, the Patriarch of the Coptic Orthodox Church, has weighed in on same-sex marriage after touching down in Sydney for a historic visit to Australia. Pope Tawadros II is on a 10-day pastoral tour during which he’ll meet Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and various other leaders, as well as meeting the local Coptic community. After arriving at Sydney airport, Pope Tawadros II was asked about same-sex marriage, amid intense debate in Australia ahead of a national marriage survey. He said according to the scriptures of the Holy Bible, “There is no – at all – same sex marriage”. “Therefore this marriage is completely refused from the Christian faith,” he added. “When God created man and woman and for them the first family was made by man and woman. “This is not acceptable and it is considered as a sin. It’s sin.” Pope Tawadros II also spoke about the importance of unity in Egypt and the message of love between the different churches. He said he will praise Australia’s multicultural society with Mr Turnbull when the pair meet next week. “Firstly I want to thank him for good relations and good cooperation with Egypt and also I will thank him for the presence of the Coptic Church in here,” Pope Tawadros II said. “And also about his experience about the different nationalities here, live together in harmony and tolerance. As this is a good experience to know about Australia.” The Pope also stressed the significance of translating and transferring Egyptian Coptic traditions and Christian education to countries like Australia. “How to translate many books… in Australia according to the culture here,” he said. “We are trying to bring solutions.” Pope Tawadros II, who was ordained in 2012, was greeted by a queue of bishops and priests on Wednesday at Sydney Airport to demonstrate the support of Australia’s Coptic community which is the third largest outside of Egypt. Natalya Mihailova Pope Tawadros ll has touched down in Sydney for the first time as the Pope of the Coptic Church for a 10-day pastoral visit Moscow Mufti, “Rash Decisions on the Status of Jerusalem Offend the Feelings of Almost Two Billion Muslims around the World” natalya_mihailova May 11, Interfax – Head of the Spiritual Assembly of Russian Muslims, Moscow Mufti Albir Krganov, believes that… Head of Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church Arrives in Moscow On 15 May 2018, Patriarch and Catholicos Abune Mathias I of Ethiopia arrived in Russia with an official… On Other People’s Suffering A believer does in fact perceive death differently from an atheist. Where an atheist sees a complete and…	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line10299
__label__cc	0.600944	0.399056	The Property Detective Blog Tag: Towns The 10 Youngest Towns in the UK by Population 3 years ago by Ashley Salek No Comments Age Bracknell Bury Harrow Horsham Population Salford Towns UK Young Last week we brought to you the 10 UK towns with the oldest populations. Now we’re bringing you the UK’s 10 youngest towns by population. As with our last post, all data here is comes from the Office for National Statistics. The data here corresponds to geographical areas known as LSOAs (lower layer super output areas). 10. Haringey 029C – 19.8 Average Age Overall Haringey covers more than 11 square miles, the London Borough of Haringey hosts some famous London landmarks including Alexandra Palace, Bruce Castle, Jacksons Lane, Highpoint I and II as well as Tottenham Hotspur Football Club. There are some deep contrasts within the borough. Areas like Highgate, Muswell Hill and Crouch End are deeply affluent while others are classified as being some of the most deprived in the country. 9. East Northamptonshire 002E – 19.6 Average Age Bordering the city of Peterborough, the district of East Northamptonshire has a population of roughly 87,000. With market towns and quaint villages, this area offers a mix or rural and urban culture. 8. Harrow 029D – 19.6 Average Age Sitting on the outskirts of Northwest London, Harrow is a large culturally diverse suburban town. The borough offers a mixture of contemporary and historic sites with a high proportion of Georgian architecture. This self-contained urban town was initially a borough of Middlesex before being included in the Greater London region in 1965. 7. West Dorset 001E – 19.5 Average Age West Dorset is a place of contrasts. Renowned for its elderly population, the LSOA 001E goes against the wider regional trends with an average age of only 19.5. There’s no denying the rural and tranquil feel of the wider area with its deep rooted heritage and rolling countryside. 6. West Berkshire 011C – 18.6 Average Age West Berkshire sits between Bristol and London. It has the 21st largest economy in England. Low unemployment and high wages have led the economy to boom. Technology and finance jobs are plentiful in the district. Check your Local Area Data with our Property Research Tool here 5. Rutland 005D – 18.6 Average Age Rutland is the fourth smallest historic county in the UK. It’s home to a large artificial reservoir and plenty of important nature reserves. Rutland is a destination of escape for many city dwellers. Its rural guise and convenient transport routes make it a popular destination to visit. The intimacy of the county is clear to see in its attractive villages and charming market towns. 4. Horsham 008E – 18.4 Average Age Horsham’s a historic market town in West Sussex. The area was renowned in medieval times for its horse trading, iron and brick making as well as its brewing. Horsham actually holds the UK record for the heaviest hailstorm ever. 3. Bracknell Forest 012D – 18.2 Average Age Bracknell Forest is a unitary authority in Berkshire covering Bracknell, Sandhurst and Crowthorne. The area is mainly wealthy with unemployment rates far lower than the national average. Property prices are far higher than average. 2. Salford 016E – 17.4 Average Age Neighbouring Manchester, Salford offers an exciting and vibrant culture with deep sport and art heritage. The area has working class routes with close historic links to the Industrial Revolution. For many years the district’s economy was dependent on manufacturing for the textile and engineering industries though today unemployment is a growing issue. 1. Bury 026E – 17.2 Average Age Coming in top spot is Bury, Manchester with an average age of just 17.2. This area has a highly diverse population and culture. The Guardian has reported that classes at local primary schools are filled to their 35 child limit. So now you’ve read about the areas in the UK with the youngest population, now it’s time to find out about the oldest. If you’re looking to move, find out more about your local area with a Property Detective report. Just enter your postcode and we’ll tell you all about the local schools, amenities, travel information, demographics, crime rates and much more. The 10 Oldest Towns in the UK by Population Ageing Devon Dorset Elderly Norfolk Oldest Pensioners Seaside South Lakeland sussex Towns UK Wealden Packing up your bags and moving away for retirement? We’ve got just the thing. Here’s a definitive list of the UK’s oldest towns by population. All data here comes from the Office for National Statistics. Oh, We Do Like to Be Beside the Seaside There’s a noticeable trend in the UK’s population age. The elderly seem to be drawn to the seaside. Is it the salty sea air’s life-giving qualities or simply the desire to retire somewhere peaceful? We’re unsure just yet, though the latter is possibly more accurate. Whatever the cause may be, here are the ten UK towns with the oldest populations. The data looked at LSOA (lower layer super output area) geographical areas so there are some repetitions in our list. 10. Wealden 018A – 67.2 Average Age This rural East Sussex district is a picturesque 323 square miles characterised by fields, ancient woodland and welcoming villages. Hugging the South Coast, this area offers a pastoral feel set to the backdrop of rolling British countryside. 9. South Lakeland 013D – 67.9 Average Age It’s no surprise South Lakeland features on this list. Firmly rooted in the Lake District, the area is renowned for its natural beauty and unique culture. Quaint villages and an active community are big draws of this Cumbrian region. 8. East Dorset 011A – 68 Average Age There’s been a boom in East Dorset’s popularity in recent years. Rapid expansions in housing has seen the population quadruple since the 1970s. This is due to its desirable location, sitting close to the New Forest, Bournemouth and the Dorset coast. Despite this, much of the area still retains its rural identity. 7. Christchurch 003B – 68.3 Average Age Christchurch stole news headlines back in 2014 with the UK’s oldest average population, today it’s dropped a few places down to 7. The town still can’t quite shake its reputation for being ‘the town that’s glad to be grey’. Covering 19.5 square miles, the coastal Dorset town is one of the UK’s most popular retirement destinations. 6. Poole 018B – 68.8 Average Age Another Dorset town gleefully takes its place in our top 10 list. The large coastal town and seaport is very much a tourist destination with the natural harbour, arts centre and Blue Flag beaches being key attractions. The RNLI headquarters, Royal Marines base and University lend the town a vibrant culture. 5. Christchurch 003A – 68.9 Average Age 4. East Devon 020B – 69.1 Average Age Renowned for its beaches East Devon is an area for relaxation and comfort. The coastline has recently been declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO for its high number of prehistoric remains. Sloping valleys, idyllic villages and diverse wildlife are all key attractions of the region. 2. King’s Lynn and West Norfolk 017D – 69.7 Average Age Stooped in history with a vibrant culture, King’s Lynn and West Norfolk offers a natural and untouched allure. Whether you find yourself in the town itself or one of its many surrounding parishes, you’ll notice the relaxed pace of its residents. 1. Eastbourne 012B – 71.5 Average Age Move to Eastbourne for a simple, fuss-free lifestyle. With the UK’s highest average population age of 71.5 years, this is a place to kick back and watch the world go by. Why not stroll towards the croquet club for some afternoon entertainment before soaking up the sun at the famous pier. Situated on the South Coast, Eastbourne is surrounded by Wealden which comes in tenth on our list, proving that it really is a haven for the older generations. So there it is, the country’s ten oldest towns. If you’re looking to move, find out more about your local area with a Property Detective report. Simply enter your post code and we’ll tell you all about the local schools, amenities, travel information, neighbourhood demographics, crime rates, noise pollution and much, much more. How to Maintain Your Fireplace Enjoy a day or night out in any weather! 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__label__wiki	0.524249	0.524249	← Good Morning Video Swiss photographer Doris Peter about her trilingual book “Sofia: In Broad Daylight” → Sealiah – “It’s all a question of willingness, when you are doing something with your best will” February 26, 2010 by · No comments Interview with Sealiah by Dessislava Berndt Translation: Nadejda Nikolova Sealiah was formed in 1999 and is comprised of Daniela Miteva and Franck Helwina .Their music mixes the Bulgarian voice of Daniela with Spanish, oriental and gypsy rhythms, combining traditional music with a modern sound. The band has sold more than 35,000 copies of their first album “World Influencia” not only in Bulgaria, but in many other countries such as Greece, Macedonia, Serbia, Slovene, Slovak Republic, Poland, Hungarian Republic and Czech Republic. With their first single “Posednala malkaia moma” in July 2003, the band took for 29 weeks the 23rd place in the top 100 chart on BTV and top 10 on MMTV. Their second single “Cherna svatba” was released in March 2004, and their second album “Camino” in 2007. In their album “Camino” Sealiah recorded the song “Ay tu eres” as a duet with Chico & The Gypsies and a cover version of the song “Comme toi” of Jean-Jaques Goldman. In February 2008 the band made their 3rd video “Magic Sofia” with the Bulgarian director Vassil Stefanoff, with whom they have worked on their other videos as well. At that time the band was invited on the TV show on TV2, where they performed the songs “Maiko” and “Angel”. MAGIC SOFIA BY SEALIAH Daniela, what drove you to form the group in 1999 and how did you pick the name? In 1999 Franck published an advertisement in the newspaper searching for an interpreter for records. A friend of mine, Zoia Angelova, found that advertisement and called him. After they met, they decided to record three demo singles, since Zoia is an ex-soloist of the ensemble “Filiph Kuteff”. A few months after they met came the possibility for a tour. Zoia couldn’t make it, so she asked me to replace her. After I recorded three demo songs it was decided that I would continue with the band. And for Sealiah, this is the Guardian angel of the oldest son of Franck, who is named Angel. When did music become a larger part of your life? Music has always been a part of my life, but it becomes my profession with the foundation of the band and recording in the studio, in which we are now working with different musicians. What are your relations with the Bulgarian bas Boris Hristov and did they have any influence on your choice to devote yourself to music? He is a cousin of my grandmother, and from an early age I have had the possibility to listen to his performances on gramophone records, but sadly I don’t have his talent. His music has influenced the building of my talent and musical culture. Since I was child I’ve been taken to the opera and three times a week I was audience to the regular church chorus of the church “Sveti Sedmochislenici” where my grandmother would sing. How did you end up in France and how did your working with Franck start? I have come to France to study law, but today the juridical education only helps me to make contracts in the musical business. And our working together started with the creation of our recording studio. How would you describe the character and sound of the music you are producing, and which kind of public do you address it to? We hope that our audience is universal, without geographical and age borders – this is our wish. But the reality is a bit different; we are mostly listened to in the USA, Canada and Australia. And about the character and the sound of the music, I haven’t honestly asked myself that question. For me, it’s all a question of willingness, when you are doing something with your best will. Franck has been working with “Los Ninos de Sara” from the band ALABINA and Chico & The Gypsies, which represents French gypsy music. What influence has this on Sealiah? After recording a song for the group Chico & The Gypsies („Oh Maria” – in the album Freedom) the idea of duet came by itself, and that’s how we recorded „Ay tu eres” from the album „Camino”. And “Los Ninos de Sara” made the record of the album „Еspagna tiene sabor” in our studio, taking one of Franck’s song “Maria baila – dancing maria”, in which I had the pleasure of recording the backing vocals. But apart from this, I don’t think that working with other gypsy bands has had any influence on Sealiah. The rhythms of gypsy’s music are the same, but the styles are different. You work and live in Montpellier; do you have connections and contacts in Bulgaria? Do you miss anything Bulgarian there? There are many Bulgarians in Montpellier, especially students, because the city is famous for its universities. In our home there are many Bulgarians – normally, abroad people find each other. I can’t really say that I miss the Bulgarian things – I miss Bulgaria, but sadly I can’t go home more often. When you have children you have to consider things like school, etc. Franck wants us to go to Bulgaria more often and constantly repeats that when the children are grown up we will have the opportunity to spend 3 months there, but there’s plenty of time until then. What plans does the band have till the end of 2009 and for 2010? At this moment the band is working on its new album, because recently we’ve been contacted by a French label, which would like to propose the songs from our previous albums for movie productions. And if this proposition comes true, the world’s doors are going to be wide open to Sealiah. There are many other productions which are being realized now, but we will talk about them in detail next time. Have you planned concerts or live performances, and if you have where? This year we had the desire to participate in the musical concourse Eurovision between the candidates for the presentation of Bulgaria, but recently we found out that the rules for electing a candidate are different this year – the musicians are first going to be selected after an inquiry, in which professionals from Bulgaria will participate. And because Sealiah doesn’t have those kinds of connections to influence the professionals, we had to give up. And this was the main planned performance for now. This year we are more concerned with two other projects, in the creation of which Franck is involved and which take most of our time. And I must say that a band like Sealiah is a great investment, and in this time of financial crises people don’t spend a lot of time thinking about culture. How can we order your albums? Our albums are available on following websites: itunes, fnac, www.sealiah.com, www.myspace.com/sealiah34, www.helwina.com, www.myspace.com/helwinaland. And for people who would like to get our original album “Camino” in the classic (postal) way, they can send their orders to dhelwina@yahoo.fr; the price is 10 Euro plus shipping charges. It’s a pity, but our first album is completely out of stock. In the end I would like to say thank you for the interest in our music, and see you soon. Photos by Sealiah Categories: Frontpage · People & Culture · Stage Tags: music, Sealiah Kee Marcello: Aim For Being The Original Lot Lorien – Music from an enchanted world Gospel Stars in Wuppertal ��Walkin’ On Persepolis”	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line10304
__label__wiki	0.786387	0.786387	Rape-Accused Nithyananda Declares His Own 'Hindu Nation Kailaasa' Home/Newsmakers While the Gujarat Police is looking for self-styled godman, Nithyananda, in an alleged case of kidnapping and wrongful confinement of children to make them collect donations from followers to run his ashram in Ahmedabad, a website named Kailaasa.org has come up suggesting that he has founded his own country and designed its flag, constitution and emblem. The website says that the fugitive self-styled godman has declared a 'Hindu sovereign nation' and even has a cabinet along with a prime minister for his so-called nation "Kailaasa". It has also called for donations for the country and through it, an opportunity to gain citizenship of the "greatest Hindu nation", Kailaasa, reported news agency IANS. According to cyber experts, the website was created on October 21, 2018 and it was last updated on October 10, 2019. The website has been registered in Panama with its IP located in US's Dallas. However, it is yet not clear where the so-called 'Kailaasa' nation is located. But the website explains: "Kailaasa is a nation without borders created by dispossessed Hindus from around the world who lost the right to practice Hinduism authentically in their own countries." "Though the Kailaasa movement is founded in the United States, and spearheaded by members of the Hindu Adi Shaivite minority community, it is created for, and offers a safe haven to all the world's practicing, aspiring or persecuted Hindus, irrespective of race, gender, sect, caste, or creed, where they can peacefully live and express their spirituality, arts, and culture free from denigration, interference and violence," it read. According to the website, the Hindu nation also has a flag known as 'Rishabha Dhvaja', which features Nithyananda himself, along with Nandi, the vehicle of Lord Shiva. 'Kailaasa' is also set to have several government departments including education, treasury, commerce, and so on. But what stands out is a 'Department of Enlightened Civilisation' which will work on reviving Sanatana Hindu Dharma. This so-called 'country' also claims to eventually have a 'Dharmic Economy', and a Hindu Investment and Reserve Bank, where cryptocurrency will also be accepted. The website also proclaims that it has its own passport and one can apply to be a citizen of 'Kailaasa'. "The citizens will be given a Kailaasa passport which, by the grace of Paramashiva, the holder of this passport is allowed free entry in all eleven dimensions and fourteen lokas, including Kailaasa," it said. Nithyananda is also accused of allegedly raping his former disciple under the garb of spirituality. Last month, Gujarat Police arrested two of his associates, and also booked him under charges of abduction, wrongful confinement, voluntarily causing hurt, intentional insult to provoke breach of peace and criminal intimidation under the Indian Penal Code as well as charges under the Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Act. Popular Newsmakers Groom Plays Video of Bride Cheating with Her Brother-in-Law During Their Wedding Reception My wife got a million new Indian followers after babysitter pic with Rishabh Pant - Tim Paine Australia To Kill Up To 10,000 Camels because they drink too much water Prison Soccer Match Between Rival Gangs Ends With 16 Dead Woman Puts Husband in DIY Chastity Belt (NUT) to Prevent Him from Cheating Newsmakers - People and Celebrities Burger King's Part-Time Offer To Prince Harry Is A Hit On Twitter Japanese Billionaire To Give Away $9 Million In 'Happiness Experiment' Wife Allegedly Sells Cheating Husband to His Mistress for $17 More Newsmakers Riding without helmet in Bhopal? Write an essay as punishment! Pakistani News Anchor's Royal Getup, With Sword And Turban Gwyneth Paltrow's online store is selling vagina-scented candles Newsmaker Categories	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line10312
__label__wiki	0.547615	0.547615	Dumpster bags flying off shelves since storm Jessie Moniz Hardy Published Sep 27, 2019 at 8:00 am (Updated Sep 26, 2019 at 9:07 pm) Bag it Bermuda A Bag it Bermuda dumpster bag being removed from Ray Beaulne’s yard after a home renovation (Photograph supplied) A Bag it Bermuda dumpster bag at work (Photograph supplied) A Bag it Bermuda dumpster bag waiting to be filled (Photograph supplied) A Bag it Bermuda dumpster bag being taken away (Photograph supplied) Ray Beaulne with a Bag it Bermuda bag at Bermuda Rentals (Photograph by Jessie Moniz Hardy) An idea for investment to provide growth in exports No one gets rich by shunning lattes No magic pill to pay off debt Investing: should you do it yourself? Bermuda scores high on CFATF review They’re not exactly Gucci or Louis Vuitton, but Ray Beaulne’s bags have been trending hot this week. The Bag it Bermuda dumpster bags he sells out of Bermuda Rentals on Bakery Lane in Pembroke, can carry loads of 2,000 to 3,000 pounds, depending on the size of the bag. Since Category 3 Hurricane Humberto struck the island a week ago, the bags have been flying off the shelves. “People are coming in after the hurricane and filling them full of foliage,” Mr Beaulne said. The bags come in three sizes one tonne, 1.5 tonne and 2 tonne. Some customers take advantage of Mr Beaulne’s crane truck service Calabash Trucking, to take away the refuse when they’re done cleaning up, others prefer to dispose of it themselves. Mr Beaulne started thinking about dumpster bags after renovating an old house two years ago. “When I renovated the first bathroom, pulling up the floors and redoing the electrical work and plumbing, I had a lot of debris afterward,” he said. “I watched the guys dig everything up, and wheel it to the front of the house. “Because I didn’t want it on the front of my lawn, they put a tarpaulin down. Then they put everything on top of the tarpaulin. Then the truck would show up. They would then proceed to handle it again to put it into the truck. I was looking at it thinking this is not very efficient.” When he renovated the next room he used a dumpster bag. This time the guys carried the rubble out, put it in the bag, and a crane truck came, lifted it and took it away. “The guys only had to handle it once,” Mr Beaulne said. The advantage of using the bag over an actual dumpster is that it’s flexible and can fit in tight spaces. On one job renovating a home in an apartment complex, the driveway could not be blocked with a dumpster, so they put a bag onto the balcony, then had a truck lift it up and haul it away. And Mr Beaulne felt there was less chance of property damage with a bag, compared to a large metal dumpster. The bags, made of woven fibres, are incredibly strong. “I definitely overloaded the one I used in the renovation,” he said. “It was overflowing with concrete and rubble from tearing up the floors. I was looking at this thinking, this weighs a lot more than 3,000lbs.” But the bag was lifted into the truck with no ripping. “They are also waterproof,” Mr Beaulne said. “I’ve seen guys use it as a mould for concrete moorings.” But the bags aren’t meant to be a long-term solution. They are decomposable, which means that if you leave them out in the sun for a month, they’ll turn to dust. When Mr Beaulne first wanted to bring them in 2017, he struggled with pricing. Dumpster bags are relatively inexpensive in the United States selling for between $20 to $30 a bag, depending on the size. “For me to get it here and land it and pay freight and duty it turned out to be a $45 bag,” he said. “Then if I was going to retail it I would have to cover my overheads and profits, so it wasn’t affordable.” Instead, he had his own made in China, adding his own design features during the process. “We had straps added to the bottom,” he said. “So that if you want to reuse the bag you can use the straps to tip the bag’s contents into the trash.” He also made them a little bigger than ones he’d seen selling in the United States. He said he now sells them for prices comparable to what’s on offer in the United States. But when he first brought them in things got off to a slow start. “We had trouble getting the word out there,” he said. “We didn’t do well at marketing them, at first. But if I took them around, contractors latched on to them. They’re reusing them. They wear them out and come in and get another one.” Bag it Bermuda really started to sell after he bought Bermuda Rentals towards the end of 2017, and moved into their current location at 18 Bakery Lane, in mid 2018. • Bag It Bermuda now has its own Facebook page @bagitbermuda. For more information call 707-2248	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line10328
__label__cc	0.642251	0.357749	Registration Form Over 16 rules Under 16 rules Date: Sunday 6th September 2015 Venue: Arena Joondalup, Kennedya Drive, Joondalup WA 6027 Time: 8:30am – 5.00pm It’s time to start training and preparing to be crowned SKLPC WA football champions for 2015. There is a lot of talent in the community and it’s great to see players young and old showcase their skills and ultimately walk away with a medal. A fun day out for the family to see players from the community showcase their football talent. No admission charge for spectators. Contact: Dinesh 0412154651 & Bishen 0420944397 Registration Deadline: Sunday 19th July 2015. Important Note:- Based on registrations received by the deadline date, a further decision will be announced by the organisers whether the competition will go ahead as scheduled. If there is anyone who would like to participate but doesn’t have a full team, please contact us and we'll do our best to try and accommodate you in a team if at all possible.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line10335
__label__wiki	0.757892	0.757892	Home / News / Miami social media influencer, 26, is arrested in Colombia probe after her flashy Instagram posts tipped off authorities to her family's 'massive money laundering scheme' Miami social media influencer, 26, is arrested in Colombia probe after her flashy Instagram posts tipped off authorities to her family's 'massive money laundering scheme' A Miami social media influencer who flaunted designer bags and her red Lamborghini online has been arrested by Colombian authorities for her family's alleged massive money laundering scheme. Colombia-born Jenny Ambuila, 26, lived a lavish lifestyle in Miami frequently posting her designer digs, expensive car, and her luxury vacations in Europe on Facebook and Instagram. But her jet-set fairy tale lifestyle came to a bitter end when she was arrested on Friday along with her father Omar Ambuila and mother Elba Chara and another customs official while on vacation in Colombia. Prosecutors say Ambuila's father worked as a mid-level customs officer at the Colombian sea port of Buenaventura and allegedly pocketed millions of dollars in exchange for letting untaxed goods pass into the country. Colombian social media influencer based in Miami Jenny Ambuila, 26, was arrested Friday for money laundering along with her parents after authorities investigated the flashy purchases she flaunted on social media Ambuila was arrested on Friday after Colombian authorities investigated her purchases including her red Lamborghini worth more than $300,000. Ambuila pictured above wearing an Hermes belt, a $3,000 Celine luggage bag tote, and Dior sunglasses Jenny Ambuila was arrested on Friday along with her father Omar Ambuila (right) and mother Elba Chara (together with Jenny left in matching Chanel bags). Omar is accused of accepting millions of dollars in bribes in his role as inspector at Colombian sea port Buenaventura Jenny Ambuila has been charged with money laundering and is currently under house arrest in Colombia. She didn't respond to social media requests for comment. Her parents are in prison on additional charges of aiding smugglers and corruption. Their arrests are a part of a Colombian investigation to stop smuggling into local markets before they're flooded with contraband goods. Authorities hope their arrests can help untangle a larger web of corruption at the sea port. 'This is a fundamental case in our fight against smuggling. We are going after all of this corrupt structure, and the resources behind them,' Andres Jimenez, a Colombian prosecutor, told a local radio station. Ambuila has been charged with money laundering and is currently under house arrest in Colombia. Ambuila pictured above clad Dior sunglasses, a Chanel Boy bag, and Hermes belt Colombian authorities investigated her flashy purchases which she claims she bought by developing businesses that included an ice cream shop and a forex trading service. Pictured above lounging in $600 Chanel pearl espadrilles, a Louis Vuitton hold all, passport holder, and suitcase as well as a Chanel handbag Authorities hope their arrests can help untangle a larger web of corruption at the sea port. Ambuila pictured above in her Chanel shoes, belt, and designer handbag as well as Louis Vuitton suitcase and travel bag The Office of the Public Prosecutor in Colombia said Ambuila, who was the head of the Internal Work Group of Cargo control of the Dian for the past 27 years, made a monthly salary $3,000 as a ports inspector, according to El Tiempo. Jimenez says he received at least $600,000 in bribes since 2012 in overseas payments and could have received much more. Those illicit funds were then allegedly sent to Ambuila's daughter to the University of Miami, where she studied from 2013 to 2017 and earned a bachelor's degree in finance. 'In exchange for their illicit act, these two people (Ambuila and the other official of the Dian) and other alleged accomplices would have received millionaire dividends that were hidden through front companies or were turned over to their relatives to acquire goods and services that would exceed their economic capacity,' prosecutors said. 'For example, the two officials did not have salaries over 6 million pesos, however, they recorded income and purchases for much higher amounts with no clarity of their origin,' they added. She's a venture capitalist, a Miami University graduate, and self-declared social media influencer who shows off her lavish vacations and designer digs in pictures like this one juggling bags from Hermes, Burberry and Dolce & Gabbana Her family's arrest follows in investigation into her extravagant posts online. Pictured above posing with a red Chanel Boy bag and $995 Valentino rock stud sandals, and a $6,000 Cartier love bangle Jenny lived a life of luxury frequenting stores like Gucci and Dolce&Gabanna and travelling to Milan and Paris, flaunting her ritzy trips on her Facebook and Instagram page jennylifestyler (where she has 10,000 followers), which she's since made private. On it she describes herself as a venture capitalize, for exchange trader, and social media influencer. But her extravagant and flashy posts are exactly what led to speculation of her family. Investigators looked into her social media profiles and investigated her purchases - most prominently her 2017 purchase of a Lamborghini Huracan Spyder, worth more than $300,000, which she often posted on Instagram. Busted: Omar Ambuila is pictured above being arrested in Colombia on Friday March 29 Elba Chara and her husband are currently in jail on charges of money laundering, aiding smugglers and corruption Jenny Ambuila listens to the charges against her being read out as she stares blankly while wearing on a Gucci shirt on her vacation Colombian authorities announced the arrest on social media on Friday She also bought a Porsche Cayenne while living in Miami. 'People assume that because they can't make it you can't make it either,' Ambuila wrote in a May 2017 Facebook post where she shows a photo of the Lamborghini. 'Prove them wrong.' She told authorities she bought her luxury purchases by developing businesses that included an ice cream shop and a forex trading service. 'She did set up some companies on paper,' Jimenez told Colombia's Blu Radio. 'But they did not make enough earnings to afford her that type of lifestyle.' On Friday during her arrest Ambuila, dressed in a Gucci T-shirt, stared blankly ahead as an officer read out the charges against her. Investigators are hoping to close in on other alleged members of Buenaventura's smuggling network in the coming months. 'The amount of money that smuggling moves in this country is huge,' Jimenez says. 'We are hoping this investigation goes all the way to the top.' Investigators, with the support of U.S. agencies, fathered evidence into the family for more than a year. Miami social media influencer, 26, is arrested in Colombia probe after her flashy Instagram posts tipped off authorities to her family's 'massive money laundering scheme' Reviewed by STATION GOSSIP on 06:44 Rating: 5 STATION GOSSIP 30 December 2019 at 22:03 Ya just can't fix stupid, but you can put them in jail. Hillary, take note,	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line10344
__label__wiki	0.964454	0.964454	IT'S ED! Murray wins Seattle mayor's race by 12 points toward common goals by Mike Andrew - SGN Staff Writer Ed Murray will take office as the new mayor of Seattle on January 1. The two-term state senator jumped to a 12-point lead over incumbent Mayor Mike McGinn on election night, and that margin held up over the next two days as additional ballots were counted, frustrating the incumbent's hopes that late voters would swing the election his way. Ballot-counting continued as SGN went to press, with Murray holding a 10-point lead late Thursday. McGinn conceded defeat at a press conference on November 7. 'Sometimes I rubbed people the wrong way, but I was always trying to do the right thing,' he said. McGinn added he had already phoned Murray to concede. 'I congratulated him on his victory ... and offered our support for the transition,' McGinn said. 'He put together a very strong campaign.' For his part, Murray said in a subsequent statement that the phone conversation with McGinn was 'substantive and cordial,' and added that he 'thanked the mayor for his service, and told him that he respected his tremendous passion and dedication to the people of Seattle.' A WINNING STRATEGY The election was a stunning rejection of a sitting mayor, and proof, if any was needed, that Murray is one of the city's most popular politicians. It was also proof that the Murray team had a winning campaign strategy - to convince voters that Murray could actually deliver on the progressive promises that McGinn had made but could not always keep in his four years as mayor. Murray strategist Sandeep Kaushik told SGN in an e-mail that he conceived of the campaign in two parts. 'The first part of it is that while voters liked the mayor's commitment to progressive values, they questioned his effectiveness,' Kaushik wrote. 'Also, his combative approach to governance turned off a lot of the public, and meant that they were willing to consider an alternative. 'But that alternative has to be credible. Voters understand that the job of mayor is a difficult one, and that it requires proven skills and experience. They also want to like their mayor, and want her or him to share their values. So the second part of the equation is that Ed was successful in demonstrating to voters that, like the mayor, he is a strong progressive, but he also has a real track record of major accomplishments, and has the coalition-building skills to be successful.' DOUBLE-DIGIT LEAD Murray was 'successful' in spades. According to a Survey USA exit poll commissioned by KING 5 News, Murray led the incumbent by double digits on every significant issue. A whopping 60% of the respondents said Murray would do a better job of managing city government, against only 29% for McGinn. Fifty-seven percent said Murray would be able to help the local economy; only 28% picked McGinn. On the contentious issue of overseeing the Seattle Police Department - now under a federal consent decree because of excessive use of force against minority communities - 54% expected Murray to do a better job, while only 29% opted for McGinn. Even on McGinn's signature issues - public transportation and getting the state government to absorb possible cost overruns on the waterfront tunnel project - voters expected Murray to do a better job than the incumbent. According to the poll, Murray had a 20-point lead on 'improving traffic and transportation,' and a 26-point lead on 'convincing the state to pay potential cost overruns on [the] waterfront tunnel.' Murray was also helped by his legendary prowess as a fundraiser, out-raising his opponent by more than a quarter-million dollars. So-called 'independent expenditure' groups supporting the two candidates, but not connected with their official campaigns, raised roughly equal amounts of money. LABOR FAVORED MURRAY While McGinn ran as the champion of lower-wage workers and secured endorsements from the hotel and grocery workers' unions, Murray won 20 union endorsements, including SEIU 775NW, which represents some of the lowest paid workers, home health-care aides. In a statement, SEIU said that 'we look forward to working with [Murray] as he implements a pro-worker agenda in Seattle,' and praised Murray's legislative record. 'As a senator, Ed stood with workers to fight proposed cuts to state employee health-care benefits, pensions, and workers' compensation,' the union said. 'As Minority Leader, Sen. Murray provided leadership to fund state employee contracts and the first increase in five years for low-wage home care workers, who start at only $10 per hour. He helped win better wages for working people and he's leading the way to help all working people by putting a $15-per-hour minimum wage at the center of his economic platform.' 'COLLABORATIVE' STYLE Seattle City Council President Sally Clark, a Murray supporter, expressed confidence that the mayor-elect would be able to deliver on his promises. Although she acknowledged McGinn's 'four years of service to our city,' Clark added, 'Senator Murray's arrival signals that Seattle wants a new style of leadership.' 'Our city continues to struggle with issues of public safety and transit, parks and urban planning, economic resiliency, and civil rights,' Clark added. 'I'm looking forward to working with an executive who will help us manage these issues, and this municipality, through the months ahead and years to come.' City Council member Tom Rasmussen, also a Murray supporter, recalled McGinn's tenure as 'painful.' 'McGinn wanted to debate everything, accomplished very little, and in the end blamed everyone,' Rasmussen told the Seattle Times on election night. In contrast to his opponent, who often seemed to make a virtue out of his headstrong approach to administration, Murray said he would take a more collaborative approach, but he denied that meant he would be a pushover. 'Collaboration is not a code word for a fluffy approach to administering. It's actually having those tough discussions very early on and trying to get people together on the issue very early on,' Murray said after the election. U.S. Senate passes ENDA by historic 64 to 34 vote - Landmark nondiscrimination bill faces opposition in House Illinois passes full marriage equality - Governor to sign bill later this month; weddings will begin June 1, 2014 'So, what are you guys?' Addressing the marriage-equality elephant in the room Entre Hermanos gala un gran éxito Murray announces transition team leaders Senator Murray's statement on ENDA Baldwin urges Boehner to allow ENDA vote Obama hails ENDA passage Canadian judge throws out HIV immigration suit - Authorities held not liable for letting Thai sex worker into country Gays can claim asylum, European Court of Justice says Gay news anchor reporting from Russia - Thomas Roberts goes where other journos fear to tread Let's tell Russia: FCKH8! T-shirt firm plans massive defiance of country's 'Gay propaganda' ban How to help Gay kids be themselves Miracle monkeys - Simian HIV study could 'revolutionize' quest for cure, scientists say Kiki with D: Who's your daddy? Patty Murray challenges Boehner to pass ENDA	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line10349
__label__cc	0.744462	0.255538	The Chaos of Stars By Coranne - August 30, 2013 By Kiersten White Published on September 10th 2013 Published by HarperTeen Isadora’s family is seriously screwed up. Of course, as the human daughter of Egyptian gods, that pretty much comes with the territory. She’s also stuck with parents who barely notice her, and a house full of relatives who can’t be bothered to remember her name. After all, they are going to be around forever—and she’s a mere mortal. Isadora’s sick of living a life where she’s only worthy of a passing glance, and when she has the chance to move to San Diego with her brother, she jumps on it. But Isadora’s quickly finding that a “normal” life comes with plenty of its own epic complications—and that there’s no such thing as a clean break when it comes to family. Much as she wants to leave her past behind, she can’t shake the ominous dreams that foretell destruction for her entire family. When it turns out there may be truth in her nightmares, Isadora has to decide whether she can abandon her divine heritage after all. The Chaos of Stars is an unusual mythology- inspired story. I remember reading the summary a long time ago (like last winter) when the Harper catalogs first came out and Chaos was the first book on my "to be read" list. I am not sure why, but I went into it thinking I was reading about Greek mythology. I am so glad I was wrong! I am such a HUGE fan of anything about Egypt. This was such a wonderful surprise! The dynamic between Isadora and her mother was so fascinating. I really enjoyed reading that storyline and I hands down think it is a story anyone can relate to. We have all had that feeling of being the "black sheep" in the family or feeling like we somehow don't belong. Sometimes it happens when we make the change from child to teen, sometimes when a younger sibling comes, sometimes when we move away for college and then return home. Isadora is trying to figure out where she belongs in her family, and is doing so in the worst way possible- she runs. I loved the "history" entwined in the story, the stories of Egyptian gods told in an incredibly humorous way from a teen girl. The author made Isadora witty and gave her a funny, dry sense of humor. The way that she wrote Isadora- I wish I could actually SEE her. I wish I could see this book be made into a movie (but perhaps that is just my Egyptian obsession hahaha). I really think that all things Egypt are beautiful and I would love to be able to see what the author's vision was. The Chaos of Stars is a fun book (can I hope for a sequel?) about the inside world of gods and goddesses. It is a fun read for anyone who loves mythology and loves a light fantasy story. I highly recommend this one! magic mythology paranormal urban fantasy Mel@Thedailyprophecy August 30, 2013 at 4:37 PM I agree, this is such a fun, light book. I loved the mythology and a sequel is welcome :) Great review! Mel@thedailyprophecy. The Insouciant Sophisticate September 6, 2013 at 9:00 AM I did really enjoy the lightness-ultimately though I just wanted more. Maybe a sequel would satisfy that craving?	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line10358
__label__wiki	0.631491	0.631491	Founder Editor in Chief: Octavian-Dragomir Jora ISSN (print) 2537 - 2610 ISSN (online) 2558 - 8206 Contact Editorial Team RAFPEC The Idea No. 21, Jan.-Feb. 2020Issued every two months TheMarketForIdeas IDEAtorial AntiSinTHESES BUSINESSance CasusBelleARTE ecON/OFFice EVENTureland DiploMATTERS BOOKracy TheFILEstarters KNOWlegacy ToBeContinued UNCOVERstory UNI(di)VERSITY THE AGE OF COMMUNITY SCHISM FOR BREXIT PRESS ENTER Rubrics » ToBeContinued The Saudi Shake-up Alexandru Georgescu News of the ongoing purge of numerous high-level officials and Saudi Royal Family members by the Saudi government has rattled global markets and raised further doubts regarding the stability of the Kingdom. What some are calling a counter-coup is presented as an anti-corruption move that saw over 1,200 bank accounts frozen and numerous assets being seized. Two Saudi princes have also died, one in an as yet unexplained helicopter crash near the Yemeni border and the other, the youngest son of King Fahd who ruled Saudi Arabia until 2005, died in a shoot-out between his security detail and government forces. More No. 7-8, Sep.-Dec. 2017 2017 Trump and the Paris Agreement The negotiations for the Paris Agreement were concluded at the 21st Conference of Parties of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change in December 2015, and it entered into force in October 2016. It has been signed by 195 countries and ratified by 144. President Trump has repeatedly spoken out against the Paris Agreement and the “climate change industry” and made it a campaign plank to exit the Agreement. For all of its apparent randomness, there is one obvious trend in his Cabinet appointments, past and present, which is to appoint people who exhibit an ideological break from the policies of the past Administration or who are skeptical of the worldview of their respective agencies. Naming a “climate change skeptic” and pro-business advocate, Scott Pruitt, to the Environmental Protection Agency was one such move. Naming a China and free trade skeptic, Robert Lighthizer, to be US Trade Representative (a Cabinet level appointment) was another. And there are still more examples, such as the failed nomination of fast-food CEO Andrew Puzder as Secretary of Labor. More No. 4, Mar.-Apr. 2017 2017 Plato’s Cave, American Edition Plato’s cave is a place where people sit chained seeing the shadows cast on the wall by a fire and thinking that that is reality. Escaping the cave requires a rough ascent into sunlight to experience reality as it is. A weird and troubling phenomenon is taking place in the political battles surrounding Donald Trump’s Presidency that will reverberate beyond this embattled term, as it sets a new low of public discourse which future political leaders and scandalmongers will find it easier to match. While there is a necessity for strategic ambiguity in politics, it has become impossible to distinguish reality from theater, especially since the media has decided to become a player and not an arbiter. More No. 3, Jan.-Feb. 2017 2017 A Window into the Future Trying to figure out what America or some other important country will do is a cottage industry that keeps many analysts well fed and in the public eye. One analyzes country profiles, historical precedents, and the national culture and even performs biographical analysis on its decision makers. One area which this author feels is a useful weathervane for the evolution of America’s worldview and political options beyond the medium-term is to see how its elites will shift in the future. More No. 2, Nov.-Dec. 2016 2016 The Canary Is Choking to Death in the Coalmine Where a rich person decides to live, where he keeps his money, where he invests his money, what measures he takes to safeguard his posterity are infinitely more informative to us than what they simply declare, which is subject to fashions, social pressures, group affiliation tactics or plain, old disinformation. More No. 1, Sep.-Oct. 2016 2016 The Market for Ideas WISEWIDEWEB Made in common sense The Idea RAFPEC Rubrics Writers Dossiers Archives PRIVACY POLICY TERMS OF USE The Market for Ideas is an essay journal “made in common sense”, hosting a community of individuals and a communion of individualities. It is a modest tribute to the ideal of a society of high standards which fosters reasoned debate and principled argumentation. Copyright © 2016 \| The Market for Ideas	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line10365
__label__cc	0.649346	0.350654	Our Neglect of Forests Perhaps the greatest sin of the Greeks with regard to their forests is one of omission. Reforestation is often redundant, as in the case of pines. The planting of new forest where none has recently existed, though, is infinitely valuable GREECE has just experienced its worst forest fires in six years. An estimated 5,000 hectares of pine forest have burned to a crisp on the Kassandra peninsula of Halkidiki, and an even greater area of olive trees and shrubs was under destruction in Mani as the Athens News went to press. The socialist opposition's harpooning of state services comes partly out of a sense of obligation to oppose. The annual acreage of burned forest does not differ wildly between Pasok governments and those of New Democracy. Greece carbonised an annual average of 5,200 hectares in the 1980s when Pasok was in power. The average was 4,600 hectares during 1990-93, when New Democracy ruled. In fact, it was a New Democracy government that purchased the country's first firefighting planes. The fire brigade was partly unlucky. The conflagrations of Mani and Halkidiki started on the same day, on the tail of a tough firefight on the island of Zakynthos. Waterbombing planes were pinned down by high winds, which fanned the flames too fast for vehicles to quench them in the critical early stages. Once they had spread, not even the planes could deliver the massive quantities of water required fast enough. Clearly, though, the response was problematic. Planes dispatched to douse Zakynthos were not re-routed quickly enough, leaving only two, plus a helicopter, to deal with Kassandra. Ten planes were grounded for maintenance. The logistics of summer firefighting in the Mediterranean will punish any fire chief who allows nearly half his air power to be put out of action on any given day. Still, with the summer nearly over, it is unlikely that this year will end up a statistical neighbour to 1998, the year in which the fire brigade took over forest firefighting from the forestry service, and 2000, when it still lacked experience. Greece lost a staggering 150,000 hectares of forest and shrubland in those two years alone (see chart on page 3). Tallying Greece's average losses without them, the damage is a more reasonable 5,000 hectares a year. What makes those losses acceptable is that they are reversible. Pine forest is designed to burn every five decades or so and re-seed itself. Thyme and oregano, too, begin to spring up anew from their crevices within a year. Should fires claim the planes, oaks, beech and sycamores of Ipiros and the Pindos mountains, on the other hand, the damage would be truly catastrophic for those environments. In the case of Mani the problems will be mainly economic. Thousands of olive trees have been lost, which will take subsidies to replant and years to bear large quantities of fruit. More generally though, Greece suffers from the negligence, mismanagement and abuse of land. For instance farmers slash and burn forest on the fringes of their land every year, to increase yield by a paltry amount for the sake of European farm subsidies. So lackadaisical are municipal authorities that they rarely, if ever, send out crews to clean up rubbish, much less the highly inflammable dead wood and pine straw that gathers on forest floors. Nature is often prevented from renewing itself. Even the hardy pine forest needs several years after a fire to bring the new generation of trees to sexual maturity. Two fires in quick succession will destroy the offspring before the latter has a chance to produce seed-bearing cones, meaning that lowlier phrygana take over for a period. Unfortunately, those frequent fires are a hallmark of arsonists wishing to build on urban fringes or areas being developed for tourists. While wooded, land is constitutionally protected from construction. Denuded, it is vulnerable to re-zoning. The lack of a land registry clearly marking public forest has enabled unscrupulous individuals to introduce ambiguity by fire. But perhaps the greatest sin of the Greeks with regard to their forests is one of omission. Reforestation is often redundant, as in the case of pines. The planting of new forest where none has recently existed, though, is infinitely valuable, because it makes up for losses elsewhere and can restore the arboreal variety of ancient times. The Phoenicians deforested Lebanon in the sixth and fifth centuries BC to build ships. Two generations later the Athenians probably did the same to Attica and the Corinthians to Corinth, in the process of creating two of the great fleets of the Classical period. There is no particular virtue in venerating the nudity of these regions today. Prefectural programmes could restore the type of forest that existed in southern Greece about 7,000 years ago. Aleppo pine would still preponderate but the alder, elm, hazel, hornbeam and lime would moisten the forest. Pursued on the mountaintops surrounding Athens, such forests could alter the stifling climate in the capital. Watering this forest requires nothing more ambitious than channelling the clean water currently produced by the sewage treatment plant on Psyttaleia, currently dumped into the Saronic Gulf. The engineering plan for such a project even exists, by the hand of Thanasis Katsiyannis, president of parliament's environment committee. Reforestation and afforestation are a more impressive force than one might think. According to the latest Forest Resources Assessment from the United Nations, the world lost an average of 13 million hectares of forest land a year in the period 2000-2005. Almost half of that loss 5.7 million hectares - was made up by human replanting and natural reseeding. Nature can recover with only the minimum of assistance, but we Greeks seem to begrudge it the minimum. Posted by John T Psaropoulos at Friday, August 25, 2006 Labels: fire, forest, Greece, Halkidiki, Kassandra, Mani, New Democracy, Pasok, pine, Zakynthos Who Won? Those Who Feel They Did History Repeats Itself in Lebanon Means and Ends in the Middle East	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line10366
__label__wiki	0.6357	0.6357	ICO (PS2) Publisher: Sony. Developer: Team Ico. Released: March 2002 (Europe). Genre: Action/Adventure. Posted 16th December 2014. By Shane Battams © 2014 More often than not, gamers forget that video-games are essentially a form of art. They’re an interactive canvas where a developer can express their visions, and we as gamers assess this canvas. However, it’s debatable as to whether these games can be compared to forms such as Art House movies. Can gunning through the Nazi-flag corridors of Wolfenstein be compared to a movie like Eternal Sunshine? Probably not, and a lot of games couldn’t be compared to the brightest forms of art. Until, in 2001, Ico was released, that is. On the surface, this game contains simplistic mechanics and a hollow story, with almost no dialogue to speak of. But, once you go further into the dark castle of Ico, you come to find this to be one of the most emotional, beautiful games ever created. Ico casts you in the role of the protagonist who holds the same name. He is a boy cursed with horns, and therefore he is exiled from his village because it is considered an omen. Placed into a tomb, Ico manages to break out, and after a brief bit of exploration, stumbles upon Yorda, a young girl similarly imprisoned. It’s clear that both Ico and Yorda need each other to escape the dreaded castle, and it becomes a quest through all of the structure’s labyrinths to find their way out. Ico’s plot, at first, seems hollow. There’s very little dialogue outside of the opening, and very few cutscenes to move the plot forward. However, you begin to gain a strong emotional attachment to both characters for multiple reasons. They’re both isolated from the world, emphasised by the fact there is zero human life in this castle, and even from each other as a huge language barrier blocks communication between them. All Ico and Yorda can do is hold each other’s hand and hope they can escape. It’s all incredibly moving and poignant. Ico is never short of a nice a view Ico's new apartment was a little impersonal, but at least it was clean In terms of the game itself, Ico is pretty straightforward. You control the horned protagonist from a third-person perspective, with a mostly-static camera. Progressing in a linear fashion, the idea of Ico is to move through the castle by completing puzzles. These vary from simple crate-shifting puzzles to much larger challenges. Usually a path is blocked, and solving the puzzle opens the path into another area which is blocked. It’s a pretty simplistic structure, though the puzzles become increasingly harder to figure out. There’s also combat interlaced throughout the game, though it boils down to bashing the Square button until all of the shadow creatures are dead. Ico is undoubtedly a mechanically well-made game, with mostly smooth-platforming combined with smart puzzles, despite a couple of awkward moments. Sadly you’ll probably blow through Ico in around 6 or so hours, and though it’s definitely an experience worth going through twice, there isn’t a whole lot of content outside the main game. Length is not of consequence in the grander scheme of things, however. Two things shake up Ico considerably, the first of which is the presence of Yorda. Once freed from captivity, you must guide her through this castle from start to end, and because most of her abilities are limited outside of opening special doors, most of the puzzles require you transport both you and Yorda through each room. You also will help Yorda jump across gaps by catching her when she jumps, create bridges and paths for her to cross and pull her up onto ledges that are too tall for her to scale. Even combat is affected by Yorda, as a sense of panic is created as she is grabbed and dragged into dark portals, where the friendship created is at risk of becoming non-existent. The relationship between the two, even though they cannot verbally communicate, is heart-warming. Ico will tug her along as you move while holding Yorda’s hand, she’ll scurry as you drag her up from a ledge and as you’re using the save points known as couches, both will fall asleep with their heads tucked on each other’s shoulders. Doesn't matter how much fun you're having, you shouldn't run on stairs More purdiness from a different angle Much of what makes Ico not only a piece of art, but also successful as a game, is the incredible world it creates. Most of the environment is not only gorgeously rendered, but also escapes superficiality. Ico must utilise environmental features such as the edge of balconies seamlessly integrated into the game world, which feels incredibly immersive compared to most phony environments. The effects used, such as beautiful lighting which will blind you at one moment yet be completely pitch-black the next, the soft haze which gives the game a sense of ominous isolation from the outside world and the realistic shadowing ensure Ico is one of the most technically accomplished games of its era. The audio is actually quite sparse, but very effective. The very few instances of dialogue are left in their native Japanese, meaning no awkward English voiceovers intrude. The music, though infrequent, is some of the best to grace any video game, and the subtle sound effects such as the whistling wind in the background create an eerie atmosphere that will send chills down your spine. Haunting, emotional, beautiful – those are just three of the words with which you could describe Ico. It appears simplistic on the surface, and if you dismiss Ico it will appear that way: just a simple platformer where you have to hand-hold some girl around with you. However, as you approach the first hour of gameplay, you come to realise Ico is more than a game. It’s an artistic experience, with two mesmerising characters trapped in a place isolated from any human life around them. Even if you strip away the feats of its presentation, you can’t deny Ico is a well-made game with smooth platforming and great puzzles. Those seeking something more conventional probably will find Ico out of their comfort zone, but anyone looking for something different, exciting and emotionally powerful, Ico is a game you’ll never forget. Visual: 10/10 Vid by RazielDante1	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line10368
__label__cc	0.671013	0.328987	Welcome to our books and stuff. Buy Signed Softcover of The White Falcon: Taking Flight Buy Book and Plush Buy Book and T-shirt Buy All three for $24.99!!! The White Falcon: Taking Flight is also available online in traditional and e-version at Barnes and Noble, Amazon and Kobo ebooks. Physical books are less expensive on this website! What is the story about? Many moons ago, in a world very different from your own, a child of prophecy was born. Destined to overthrow a vengeful king that has ravaged his homeland for generations, he is stolen on the night of his birth and taken to another world. The world of mankind. After almost sixteen years of searching, a young witch, Rayla, opens a portal to the world of mankind and discovers Gabriel. It is through her that Gabriel learns he is the key to ending a war that has plagued Giervalk for generations. But Gabriel is uncertain of this new found responsibility that has been forced upon him. Two days ago he was dreaming of getting his driver’s license, worried about asking the girl he likes to Prom and focused on playing his next baseball game. None of which involve fighting a dark force in a magical world. While Gabriel learns to accept and blend his two identities the darkness presses closer. He can no longer ignore his calling, to protect the family and world he loves he must venture forth into the unknown. Together with a healer, witch, archer, warrior, and fairy, Gabriel travels to worlds he could never imagine, not even in his wildest dreams or most feared nightmares. Thank you in advance for your support! Don't forget to follow us on Facebook or Twitter for event updates.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line10372
__label__wiki	0.622791	0.622791	TheXboxHub News... TXH Indie Hub Vinnie is back as Guns, Gore and Cannoli 2 cooks up another batch of run & gun action Richard Dobson Set 15 years after the end of the first game, Guns, Gore and Cannoli 2 is available to download right now from the Xbox store. Vinnie Cannoli is back with his trademark one-liners and quips, with his shoot first, ask questions later mentality. This time he is found taking the pain to Nazis, zombies, soldiers and many, many gangsters, all whilst set against the backdrop of 1940’s Europe gripped with World War II. Vinnie has made a shocking discovery about what really happened during the Thugtown Massacre at the end of the first game, and is now on the run as all his friends start to turn against him. Thankfully, the game features full 4-player co-op both local and online so that – unlike Vinnie – your friends can still offer you a hand. But it’s not just more of the same as first time round and he has received a mobility upgrade over the first game, with him now featuring 360° aiming, double jumping, jump-kicking, dodge rolls and somersaults. It seems those 15 years were kind to his joints at least! Featuring gorgeous animated cutscenes and plenty of detailed environments such as speakeasys and war-torn streets, you may find yourself staring a bit too long at the pretty visuals and end up getting shot yourself. Or you may just find yourself distracted by the stunning audio too. Guns, Gore and Cannoli 2 is available to download on Xbox One right now with a price of £10.39. If you aren’t fully convinced, then check out our review of the first game or stay tuned for our review of this sequel. It’ll be with you very soon! And let us know in the comments below if you need a co-op buddy to play this with! You can also find the game available on PS4, PC and Nintendo Switch. You’ll find a review of the latter version available on our sister site – TheSwitchHub – soon too. Welcome to the 1940’s. Europe is being torn apart by the war, the USA is preparing for battle and the mob does business as usual. Only this time they went too far, even for Vinnie’s standards. Prepare yourself to go to war after you make a shocking discovery about what actually happened during the end-stage of the Thugtown Massacre from Guns, Gore & Cannoli 1. “Just when you thought you were out, we’re pulling you back in!” STORY 1944, the war in Europe is entering its final stage. 15 years have passed since Vinnie survived the Thugtown Massacre. But now, some loose ends start crawling out of the past, dragging Vinnie as far as the European battlefield of World War 2. Find out who is chasing Vinnie around like a dog, turning all his friends into foes. KEY FEATURES Guns, Gore & Cannoli 2 continues the rich, engaging gangster story of the first game and includes all the fast paced action you’ve come to love, we made the best even better, with: Upgraded character mobility Vinnie has received a massive upgrade in his mobility features. 360 aiming, double jumping, kicking, jump-kicking, dodge rolls, somersaults, dual guns and a weapon wheel. Campaign mode Guns, Gore & Cannoli 2 features a full single or multiplayer campaign mode, packed with action, humor and animated cutscenes. Rich environments We pushed our artists to the limits to produce the best immersive, atmospheric backgrounds, smoothest animations, and coolest special effects, setting a new benchmark for 2D games. Look for opportunities to bring down walls, explode barrels, drop crates on top of enemies, blow up cars and even kick your enemies through doors. Enjoy watching the corpses of your enemies fly through the air like ragdolls after you blast them away with your rocket launcher. Immersive world and period Walk around in the European battlefields of World War 2. Every level of Guns, Gore & Cannoli breathes the 1940’s. Every inch of the game is like a picture straight from the second World War era. The cars, the furniture, the speakeasy clubs, the music, the propaganda posters, the streets and the weaponry reflect the turbulent time that the 1940’s were. Online and local Co-op mode You don’t want to die alone in the trenches? Well round up a platoon of 4 players and get blasting. Play as Vinnie in the solo campaign, or with up to 3 friends together while fighting through hordes of Nazis, zombies, monster, gangsters, cops, soldiers, tanks, submarines… in this all-new and incredibly fun arcade-style co-op action game. Teamwork is essential to surviving waves of enemy goons. Humor ‘War is hell’ unless you are Vinnie Cannoli and you turn every problem into a cynical joke, blurting out one-liners and snappy comments after a nice, juicy kill. Guns, Gore & Cannoli 2 will be a fun experience, not only to play but also to watch. Funny one-liners, screaming deaths, comical dialogs and hilarious enemies make you play this violent kill-simulator with a smirky grin on your face. Gore & Cannoli 2 Previous articleWar Child UK DLC to drop on to 11:11 Memories Retold Next articleFIFA 19 Ultimate Team – Team of the Week (TOTW) #4 – 10th October 2018 Avid gamer since the days of Sonic the Hedgehog 2. Grew up with the PS1 and PS2 but changed allegiances in 2007 with the release of Halo 3. Havent looked back but do still own a PS3 for when I fancy holding a really uncomfortable controller Hovership Havoc hits up the Xbox One twin-stick shooting scene! 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__label__cc	0.713228	0.286772	This Frugal Family One Big Happy Family Being Frugal 2020 Gift Guide Bloggers Opp Join Now @SMGurusNetwork Birthday Clubs 2019 Fall Gift Guide @SMGurusNetwork #FALL19 2019 Holiday Gift Guide @SMGurusNetwork #Holiday19 Back To School Gift Guide 2019 #BTS19 @SMGurusNetwork Secret Word of the Day Store Weekly Ads Store’s Coupon Policies Home - Tags: pfeiffer Tag: pfeiffer Production Underway on MALEFICENT II with Angelina Jolie and Elle Fanning Reprising Their Roles! Posted on May 29, 2018 in Disney Movies Production has begun on “Maleficent II,” a sequel to the 2014 global box office hit “Maleficent,” at Pinewood Studios and on locations throughout the U.K.. Oscar® and three-time Golden Globe® winner Angelina Jolie (“Girl, Interrupted,” “Wanted”) and Elle Fanning (“The Beguiled,” “Super 8”) reprise their roles as the dark fairy Maleficent and Princess Aurora, respectively, two characters from the studio’s animated classic “Sleeping Beauty,” whose untold story was brought to life on screen in “Maleficent.” Michelle Pfeiffer (“Murder on the Orient Express,” “Ant-Man and the Wasp”), the Golden Globe® Award winning, Emmy® nominated and three-time Academy Award® nominated actress, joins the cast as Queen Ingrith. Also joining the production are Academy Award® and Golden Globe nominee Chiwetel Ejiofor (“Doctor Strange,” “12 Years a Slave”), Ed Skrein (“Deadpool,” “Game of Thrones”) and Robert Lindsay (“My Family,” “Wimbledon”). Harris Dickinson (“The Darkest Minds,” “Trust”) joins “Maleficent II” as Prince Phillip. “Maleficent II” is directed by Joachim Rønning (“Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales,” “Kon-Tiki”) and written by Linda Woolverton (“Alice in Wonderland,” “Beauty and the Beast”) and Micah Fitzerman-Blue & Noah Harpster (“Transparent”). The producers are Joe Roth (“Alice through the Looking Glass,” “Oz the Great and Powerful,” “Maleficent”) and Angelina Jolie. Additional cast members returning from the 2014 film include: Sam Riley (“Pride and Prejudice and Zombies,” “Control”) as Diaval; Oscar® nominee Imelda Staunton (“Pride,” the “Harry Potter” films) as the pixie Knotgrass; Juno Temple (“Wonder Wheel,” “Atonement”) as the pixie Thistlewit; and Academy Award® nominee Lesley Manville (“Phantom Thread,” “Topsy-Turvy”) as the pixie Flittle. A fantasy adventure that picks up several years after “Maleficent,” in which audiences learned of the events that hardened the heart of Disney’s most notorious villain and drove her to curse a baby Princess Aurora, “Maleficent II” continues to explore the complex relationship between the horned fairy and the soon to be Queen, as they form new alliances and face new adversaries in their struggle to protect the moors and the magical creatures that reside within. “Maleficent” opened on May 30, 2014 and grossed more than $750 million at the global box office. Tags: angelina, Disney, elle, fanning, jolie, maleficent, michelle, Movie, pfeiffer Ambassador of: Check out NewChic Categories Select Category 2016 Holiday Gift Guide 2017 Back To School Gift Guide 2017 Halloween Gift Guide 2017 Holiday Gift Guide 2017 Valentine’s Day Gift Guide 2018 Back To School Gift Guide 2018 Easter Gift Guide 2018 Father’s Day Gift Guide 2018 Halloween Gift Guide 2018 Holiday Gift Guide 2018 Mother’s Day Gift Guide 2018 Summer Fun Gift Guide 2018 Valentine’s Day Gift Guide 2019 Back To School Gift Guide 2019 Book Tours 2019 Easter Gift Guide 2019 Fall Gift Guide 2019 Father’s Day Gift Guide 2019 Holiday Gift Guide 2019 Summer Gift Guide 2019 Valentine’s Day Gift Guide 2020 Book Tours 2020 Valentine’s Day Gift Guide About Ambassador Amusement Park Announcements Best Buy Biz Blogger Signups Cedar Point Cinco De Mayo ~ 2018 clip Coupon Sites discounts Disney Downloads Dreamworks Ella Tina freebies Giveaways Google Chromecast Audio Seeding Groupon Hunting Products information guide Kennywood kiddieland kids Media Kit Momo Challenge Advice Movies Netflix parties pets recipes Reviews Roto-Rooter Sangawa Project 2017 Sign ups for Bloggers SuperBowl 2019 sweepstakes tekko 2017 Tekko 2018 travel Uncategorized US Family Guide women © This Frugal Family 2020	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line10374
__label__wiki	0.860952	0.860952	You are here: > Books > TV novelisations > Target novelisations > Doctor Who and the Robots of Death Doctor Who and the Robots of Death No. 53 of 156 in the Target novelisations series By: Terrance Dicks Rating: 5.1 (32 votes) Vote here Editions: UK (1st paperback) \| UK (hardback) \| UK (2nd paperback) Note: Also available as an audio reading. This novelisation was also republished as part of the "compilation" The Further Adventures of Doctor Who. Edition: UK (1st paperback) Publisher: Target Used: CDN$ 4.39 On a desert planet the giant sandminer crawls through the howling sandstorms, harvesting the valuable minerals in the sand. Inside, the humans relax in luxury, while most of the work is done by the robots who serve them. Then the Doctor and Leela arrive — and the mysterious deaths begin. First suspects, then hunted victims, Leela and the Doctor must find the hidden killer — or join the other victims of the Robots of Death. Edition: UK (hardback) Publisher: WH Allen (Not currently available) No blurb on back cover. The dustjacket flaps contain the same blurb as the paperback edition, plus the following author blurb: Terrance Dicks was born in 1935 and educated at East Ham Grammar School and Downing College, Cambridge. After a spell in advertising the author became a full-time scriptwriter, first for radio, then television where for five years he was Script Editor of the 'Doctor Who' series. He is now a free-lance author and writes many of the highly successful 'Doctor Who' books. Terrance Dicks lives in Hampstead, London, is married and has three children. Edition: UK (2nd paperback) Title: Doctor Who: The Robots of Death Released: February 1994 Note: Same ISBN as previous paperback edition. 'My command programme has been restructured,' explained the robot placidly. 'All humans are to die.' On a desert planet the giant sandminer crawls through the howling sandstorms, harvesting the valuable minerals in the sand. Inside, the humans relax in luxury, while most of the work is done by the robots who serve them. Then the Doctor and Leela arrive — and the mysterious deaths begin. First suspects, then hunted fugitives, Leela and the Doctor must find the hidden killer — or join the other victims of the robots of death. This is an adaptation by Terrance Dicks of a screenplay by Chris Boucher, which featured Tom Baker in the role of the Doctor.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line10376
__label__wiki	0.853206	0.853206	Save Our NHS petition Tomorrow (20 Oct) the action group '38 Degrees' will meet with key Lib Dem members of the House of Lords. Your Union has again given its full backing to this year's Road Safety Week, which takes place from the 21 - 27 November. Workplace Temperature Survey 2011 Your Union has joined forces with the other nine unions in the Trade Union Co-Ordinating Group to highlight and tackle the problem of high temperatures in workplaces. Equal Treatment Rights for Agency Workers come into Force Hundreds of thousands of agency workers across the UK will now benefit from improved working conditions from the new equal treatment rights for agency workers that came into effect on 1 October 2011. Unions United for an Alternative Tickets are still available for the Unions United for an Alternative event on Sunday 11 September at the Bloomsbury Theatre on the eve of this year's TUC. URTU members accept improved offer at Matthew Clark URTU members at the Matthew Clark Wholesale Ltd, Runcorn, accept improved offer. Dust level limits must be reduced to protect workplace health The TUC, which URTU is an affiliated member, is calling for urgent action to reduce dust levels in the workplace, a hazard which is responsible for thousands of deaths in the UK every year. Working Class Movement Library Appeal The Working Class Movement Library in Salford has launched an appeal to help raise the shortfall in their funding. Manchester for the Alternative Sunday 2 October 2011 March and rally on Sunday 2 October 2011. URTU Members to take Strike Action at Matthew Clark Wholesale Ltd United Road Transport Union (URTU) members will be taking strike action at Matthew Clark Wholesale Ltd, Runcorn, on Monday 22 August 2011.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line10380
__label__wiki	0.920917	0.920917	Lancers take lead in divisional series The Lancer men’s hockey team has taken a 1-0 lead in its best-of-three series for the Ontario University Athletics west division championship, after winning the opener 7-1 over the Lakehead Thunderwolves, Thursday at South Windsor Arena. Scoring for Windsor were Spencer Pommells with two goals, Richard Cameron, Saverio Posa, Derek Lanoue, Ryan Crevatin and Matt Beaudoin. Lakehead spoiled Parker Van Buskirk's shutout bid with a goal at 16:37 of the third period; the Lancer netminder finished with 30 saves. The series now moves to Thunder Bay for game two on Saturday and game three, if necessary, on Sunday. Read more at goLancers.ca. OUA recognizes three Lancer players as stars Goaltender Parker Van Buskirk was named a second team all-star, and Mac McDonnell and Julian Luciani were named to the all-rookie team as the league announced award winners in men’s hockey Wednesday. Van Buskirk, a criminology major, posted a goals-against average of 2.66 and a save percentage of .920. McDonnell, a forward, notched 21 points in 27 games to finish the season fourth in team scoring; Luciani finished second among Windsor defenders with four goals and eight assists. Read the full story, “Three Lancers named OUA hockey all-stars.” Julian Luciani Richard Cameron Derek Lanoue Ryan Crevatin	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line10383
__label__wiki	0.867491	0.867491	New York Mets name Carlos Beltran new director November 2, 2019 by Ida Taylor in Sports The Mets have chosen their next manager following a close month-long search. Previous major-leaguer Carlos Beltran has been named the group’s new administrator, the Mets declared Friday night. He is the 22nd chief in Mets establishment history. “Thanks to Jeff (Wilpon) and the ownership group for their ongoing support as we worked through a very detailed managerial search process,” said GM Brodie Van Wagenen in an announcement. “We are very excited to bring Carlos on board as our next manager and re-introduce him to Mets fans next week.” “Congratulations to Carlos. We are thrilled, as we know our passionate fans will be, to have him back in the family,” Wilpon included. “Thanks to Brodie and the entire baseball operations staff on this expansive, diverse and collaborative managerial search process.” Prior on Friday, it was accounted for that Beltran and previous major leaguer Eduardo Perez were two finalists for the activity. Beltran, 42, was perhaps the best player of his period, and he burned through seven of his 20 seasons with the Mets. Beltran has never overseen. He did, be that as it may, meet for the Yankees’ administrative opening preceding the enlisting of Aaron Boone. Beltran since late 2018 has filled in as a unique counsel to Yankees GM Brian Cashman. Enlisting administrators with no related knowledge has become something of a pattern as of late, returning to in any event Mike Matheny’s contracting as Cardinals director before the 2012 season. In that sense, selecting Beltran is nothing radical with respect to the Mets. Over the span of his playing career, Beltran counted in excess of 2,700 hits; in excess of 400 home runs; and more than 300 taken bases. His profession WAR of 69.6 in addition to his remarkable postseason assortment of work make Beltran a reasonable future Hall of Famer. Pertinent to his new position, he was likewise viewed as an adored and balancing out clubhouse nearness all through his career. The Mets proceeded onward from past manager Mickey Callaway after two seasons in which the previous Indians pitching mentor guided them to a 163-161 record and no season finisher appearances. In 2018, the Mets under Callaway went 77-85 and completed in fourth spot in the NL East. This past season, they completed with 86 successes and a third spot finish, yet that wasn’t sufficient to save Callaway’s activity. Beltran will be the principal chief contracted by Van Wagenen, who took over control of the group preceding this past season. Barring trades, the Mets in 2020 will return notable names like Jacob deGrom, Pete Alonso, Noah Syndergaard, Marcus Stroman, Michael Conforto, Amed Rosario, Jeff McNeil and Robinson Cano. Less certain, notwithstanding, is possession’s eagerness to put further in finance. Beltran will be entrusted with managing the vulnerabilities that originate from working under the Wilpon family while likewise improving lines of correspondence far beyond what Callaway had the option to accomplish. The entirety of that, however, is secondary to recovering the Mets to the postseason for the first time since 2016. Carlos BeltranMetsNew YorkNew York Mets Colorado’s University of Denver Studying Effects of Marijuana on Pregnant Women Top 9 Technology Trends That Will Transform “Medicine And Healthcare” In 2020	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line10385
__label__wiki	0.870788	0.870788	Wicked The Musical Tickets – Tour Dates 2020, News, Cast & Resources Wicked Tickets Wicked Tour 2020 Wicked Touring Cities Tour Venues Buy Wicked Tickets WICKED is currently playing on tour in Little Rock, AR and moves to Columbia, SC Wicked Koger Center For The Arts Tickets On Sale Wicked Tour Schedule 2019 2020 Wicked Musical Tour Atlanta GA Schedule – October 23 to November 17, 2019 Wicked Broadway Box Office Update for Week Ending 10/06/2019 – Gross $1,307,871 Wicked Tour Schedule 2018 2019 Update Wicked Broadway Box Office Update for Week Ending August 19, 2018 – Gross $1,760,385 Wicked plays at Ed Mirvish Theatre in Toronto ON this summer until August 05, 2018 Wicked Broadway Box Office Update for Week Ending January 08, 2018 – Gross $1,926,621 Wicked plays at Oriental Theatre in Chicago until January 21, 2018 Wicked Broadway Box Office Update for Week Ending June 11, 2017 – Gross $1.92 Million Wicked Musical at the Boston Opera House – Review Wicked Broadway Box Office Update for Week Ending June 04, 2017 – Gross $1,862,923 Wicked London Cast Update Wicked DeVos Performance Hall Tickets On Sale Wicked Tickets Wicked Tour 2020 Baltimore, MD – February 12 to March 08, 2020 Columbia SC – January 22 to February 09, 2020 Columbus, OH – April 22 to May 17, 2020 East Lansing, MI – April 01 to April 19, 2020 Little Rock AR – January 01 to January 19, 2020 Madison, WI – March 11 to March 29, 2020 New York NY Wicked – Standing Production Norfolk, VA – May 20 to May 31, 2020 Broadway-San Diego is Bringing Back Wicked Musical June 20-July 15, 2012 Broadway-San Diego is bringing back Broadway’s biggest blockbuster, “Wicked.” Wicked coming to San Diego Civic Theatre on Wednesday June 20, 2012 and will perform through Sunday July 15, 2012. Wicked is the untold story of the Witches of Oz. This story of the Wicked Witch of the West (well before Dorothy showed up in the Land of Oz) is clever and wickedly entertaining. Wicked tells the incredible untold story of an unlikely but profound friendship between two girls: the blonde and very popular Glinda and a misunderstood green girl, Elphaba. Wicked San Diego Civic Theatre Performance Schedule: Tuesdays to Wednesdays – 7:00 PM Thursdays and Fridays – 7:30 PM Saturdays – 2:00 PM and 7:30 PM Sundays – 1:00 PM and 6:30 PM Special matinee on Thursday, June 21 – 1:00 PM Wicked will not be playing on Wednesday, July 4. The spectacular, multi award-winning stage musical, with music & lyrics by Stephen Schwartz and a book by Winnie Holzman, has become the most spellbinding and successful new musical in years. Wicked is currently playing at Sacramento Community Center Theater through June 17, 2012. From here it will move to San Diego, California for the performances at San Diego Civic Theatre start on June 20 and continue through July 15, 2012. Buy Wicked San Diego CA Tickets online today for the best seat locations at the best prices. Tags: Discounted Tickets to Wicked Musical, Discounted Wicked Tour Tickets, Wicked San Diego CA Tickets, Wicked San Diego CA Tour, Wicked San Diego CA Tour Tickets, Wicked San Diego CA Tour Update, Wicked San Diego California Tickets, Wicked San Diego Civic Theatre, Wicked San Diego Civic Theatre Tickets, Wicked San Diego Tickets, Wicked Tickets At Discounted Prices, Wicked Tour 2012, Wicked Tour 2012 Tickets, Wicked Tour Update, Wicked Tour Update 2012 This entry was posted on Thursday, May 31st, 2012 at 8:02 pm and is filed under Uncategorized. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site. Tweets by @wickedticke Wicked News * Wicked Delas * © 2008 - 2020 Wicked The Musical Tickets Online. All rights reserved. Disclaimer: WickedTheMusicalTicketsOnline.com is not affiliated with the Wicked official site or the venue box office or any Wicked Broadway fan clubs, partners, or sponsors. Any trademarked terms that appear on this page are used for descriptive purposes only.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line10391
__label__cc	0.594584	0.405416	M.I.K.E. vs. Ben Nicky - Spring Break (Ben Nicky Radio Edit) Written by: M.I.K.E. and Ben Nicky Produced by: M.I.K.E. and Ben Nicky Remixed by: Ben Nicky Summer Trance Top 50 2012 20 July 2012 M.I.K.E. vs. Ben Nicky - Spring Break (M.I.K.E. Progressive ReTake) M.I.K.E. vs. Ben Nicky - Spring Break Ben Nicky	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line10393
__label__wiki	0.865389	0.865389	中文 English 日本語 Русский ???? Türk?e Xinjiang ABC Administrative Division Culture Ethnic Groups and Religion History Policy Tourism 97人人插人人,超碰97人人无马,97人人插人人摸人人日人人操 National Ethnic Affairs Commission slams passage of Xinjiang-related bill 2019-12-06 source:Chinadaily Children take part in a desert kart race in Kuqa county, Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, on Nov 24, 2019. The county held its first desert-themed festival from Nov 23 to Nov 25 to help boost its tourism industry. [Photo by Yuan Huanhuan/For China Daily] China's National Ethnic Affairs Commission on Wednesday firmly opposed and condemned the approval of a Xinjiang-related bill by the US House of Representatives, calling it a "gross interference in China's internal affairs and flagrant violation of international norms". The US House of Representatives passed a so-called "Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act of 2019" on Tuesday local time, maliciously attacking the human rights conditions in Xinjiang. The so-called Xinjiang act distorts the facts and is full of prejudice against China's policy over Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region. It obliterates Xinjiang's development achievements and ignores the true feelings of the people of all ethnic groups, the commission said, adding that it once again revealed the US House's double standards and logic of hegemony. "Xinjiang has been an inseparable part of Chinese territory since the ancient times. Its affairs are purely internal affairs of our country and no external forces should be allowed to interfere," the commission said. The commission said some US politicians have turned a blind eye to the violence incited by terrorism, separatism and religious extremism, and showed no concern for people's safety in the region under threat of terror. "They now try to support the three evils through the so-called act of human rights. It fully exposed the sinister intentions of some US politicians and anti-China forces in their vain attempt to contain and split our country by the so-called 'Xinjiang issue'," it said. It added that Xinjiang belongs to China and the Uyghurs are a member of the Chinese nation family. Any attempt to provoke frictions in ethnic relations and curb the development of the country is doomed to fail and will eventually become a laughingstock in the history. "We do not cause problems, nor do we fear problems," it said, adding that people's will to safeguard ethnic solidarity and national unity is as firm as rock and the pace of achieving the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation is irresistible. The commission advised the US to immediately stop interfering in China's internal affairs and Xinjiang affairs, otherwise they will inevitably bear their own consequences. Cooperation \| About us \| Contact us Copyright?China Intercontinental Communication Co., Ltd. All Rights Reserved.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line10399
__label__cc	0.680248	0.319752	Susan Spann Blog July 4, 2019 July 4, 2019 Climb, Japan, matcha, mountains, Nikko, travel I recently spent three days in Nikkō, one of Japan’s most important historical and religious sites. The area is not only a designated UNESCO World Heritage Site, but an excellent place for hikers and mountain climbers. Susan Spann 100 Summits, Blog May 14, 2019 May 14, 2019 #100Summits, Climb, climbing, Japan, memoir, mountains I’m thrilled to announce that the memoir about my #100Summits journey, titled CLIMB, will release on January 2020 from Prometheus Books! From the jacket: After more than forty years of living “safe and scared,” California attorney and mystery author Susan Spann decided to break free by climbing one hundred of Japan’s most famous mountains, inspired by a classic list of hyakumeizan peaks. But when an unexpected cancer diagnosis forced her to confront her deepest fears, the mountains of Japan became the setting for an even more transformative journey from pain and fear to a new life fueled by hope, confidence, and strength. Halfway to 100! Susan Spann 100 Summits, Blog January 3, 2019 January 3, 2019 100 Summits, hiking, mountains, Tsukuba On December 31, 2018, I climbed Mt. Tsukuba – at 871 and 877 meters, its peaks are among the smallest of the Nihon Hyakumeizan (100 famous mountains of Japan) but the peak itself has important links to the Japanese creation myths, as well as a “rivalry” against Mt. Fuji (which Fujisan may or may not be aware of). Almost-Halfway 100 Summits Update! Susan Spann 100 Summits, Blog November 16, 2018 #100Summits, 100 Summits, Corinne O'Flynn, hiking, Mitake, Mount Mitake, mountains I’ve been climbing my way through the autumn, and simultaneously working on the next Hiro Hattori mystery (tentatively titled Ghost of the Bamboo Grove), and it occurred to me that I’ve been a bit remiss in my blogging updates. Whoops . . . The summit count currently stands at 43 – a respectable almost-halfway total, though the coming snow will present some challenges moving forward. Fujisan Decides Susan Spann 100 Summits, Blog October 21, 2018 October 21, 2018 100 Summits, climbing, Fuji, Japan, mountains, Mt. Fuji Anyone who climbs mountains regularly knows that the climber gets to plan, and to attempt, but the mountain has a say–if not a deciding voice–in whether or not you stand upon its peak. In some cases, that also goes for whether or not you even see the summit. Mt. Tomuraushi – and Pikachu! Susan Spann 100 Summits, Blog October 1, 2018 September 30, 2018 100 Summits, hiking, hyakumeizan, Japan, mountains, pika, pikachu, Tomuraushi My third and longest climb in Hokkaido was the first on my 100 Summits quest that I almost failed to complete. But it wasn’t pain or exhaustion that almost cost me the summit. On Tomuraushi, as always, time proved my worst enemy. My guide Takuto and I began our hike at 7:40 am at the trailhead near Tomuraushi Onsen, where we’d spent the night. If you read the sign, you’ll notice the peak lies 9.2km from the trailhead – and they’re not an easy nine kilometers, either. The hike begins with a lovely walk through pristine forest. It has some To Hokkaido . . . In The Wake of the Quake Susan Spann 100 Summits, Blog September 9, 2018 #100Summits, 100 Summits, climbing, Hokkaido, Japan, mountains, Yotei I started planning the 100 Summits Project a year ago, and even then I knew the most difficult region of Japan in which to climb would be Hokkaido, Japan’s northernmost major island. Most of Hokkaido lies beyond the northernmost terminus of the Shinkansen (bullet train) which ends its run at Shin-Hakodate-Hokuto terminal, 1,099 kilometers from Tokyo but only at the southernmost end of Hokkaido itself. From there, it’s almost a full day’s ride by express train to the northern end of the island – and the hyakumeizan peaks are scattered across Hokkaido like a handful of dice flung down by an angry Hiking Sangenyama, Gongenyama and Kōbōyama (Part 1) Susan Spann 100 Summits, Blog August 20, 2018 August 19, 2018 #100Summits, 100 Summits, climbing, gongenyama, hiking, Japan, koboyama, mountains, sangenyama Last week I braved the 90-degree temperatures in Kanagawa Prefecture (south of Tokyo) to continue my 100 Summits journey with a “station to station” hike that included a traverse of three different mountains: Sangenyama, Gongenyama, and Kōbōyama. Since these three peaks are separate mountains, rather than a single “compound peak,” they count as three toward my 100 Summits Project goal and bring the current total to 22. (The August heat has slowed me down, largely for safety reasons but also because I’m working on finding a long-term rental apartment, which is challenging in Japan when you have a cat! But I Climbing Shiroyama Susan Spann 100 Summits, Blog August 7, 2018 #100Summits, 100 Summits, cicadas, hiking, Japan, mountains, Shiroyama Yesterday I climbed Shiroyama, 562-meter peak in Yugawara, Kanagawa Prefecture–the 19th mountain of my #100Summits Project here in Japan. The mountain takes its name from the castle that once sat atop its peak. (“Shiroyama” means “Castle Mountain” in Japanese.) Although only scattered ruins and a monument on the summit remain to mark the spot today, during the 12th century Yugawara (then called Doi-go) and its castle were home to the Doi samurai clan. Mount Omine – and Tenkawa Gorge – Hyakumeizan #10 Susan Spann 100 Summits, Blog June 28, 2018 #100Summits2018, 100 Summits, Buddhism, hyakumeizan, Japan, mountains, Omine, religion After my rainy climb of Mount Ibuki, I hopped a train to Kyoto, and then an hour south to Nara Prefecture (the home of the ancient capital city of Nara, but also many even more ancient historical sites – as well as mountains). The following morning, I traveled even farther south, to Dorogawa Onsen (an onsen is a Japanese hot spring resort) and Omine-san, one of Japan’s most sacred peaks. It remains so sacred, in fact, that women are not allowed to climb it.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line10401
__label__cc	0.654168	0.345832	first chapter sneak peek gay fantasy romance omega in the light wolf shifter romance Chapter One Sneak Peek: Omega in the Light (Lost Wolves Book Two) The betas and editor approved! And the book is almost ready. Some minor edits here and there, and it'll be done. Boo-fucking-yah! It'll be out August 4th! Anyway, I'm not sure what I'm going to work on next. I have an idea for the next Haven City series book. Jin and his fiery mate (seriously hot guys!). It's on fire. Scorching! Okay, I'll stop. But it sounds really fun -- and I like having fun when I write. It makes everything so much easier. But then I have the next Lost Wolves book too. Decisions decisions! I might do Haven City. Maybe. I'll see how I feel tomorrow. One more little note. I decided to name the chapters in this book. There's a reason, and it has to do with my complete obsession love of Baccano! It's a great anime with mobsters and ultra violence and immortals and sexy assassins. Crazy fun. And it has awesome titles for each episode. So I was like: "I can do that with my books!" Because it sort of suited this book. The last Lost Wolves book too. I might go back and add chapter titles to that. If I do, I'll post them here in case anyone cares. Finally! Here it is. A look at the first chapter. Zev meets Simeon. How romantic. Chapter One: The Alpha Invites his Assassin to Dinner Zev Oren wanted three things: a drink, a cigarette and a blowjob. Since a wolf currently shadowed him, it looked like he was out of luck for at least one of them. It kept far enough away that Zev couldn’t see the bastard, but close enough that he knew, instinctively, the other shifter was there. No telling who it was, but a friendly shifter would say hello. Approach him with a smile. At least, that’s what Zev figured. Someone who wanted to harm him should’ve set off his alpha alarm bells. But this wolf didn’t do that either. Instead, the alpha paced and sniffed and whined, as if it wanted to be let out to play. Not that he could trust those instincts now. Or himself. His decisions were the worst. Paleo Faliro sparkled in the early evening, fresh with spring rain. Typical for this part of Greece. He kept a casual pace, strolling like all the other tourists on the streets. However, they walked in groups while he wandered alone. His fingers itched for something to do, and he shoved down the urge to turn and look for his stalker. He wouldn’t find the wolf in the crowd, or he’d have seen it sooner. Not it. The wolf following him was a male – Zev caught the unmistakable musk in the breeze. It damn well bordered on enticing. The alpha responded to it, scratched at the edges of Zev’s mind. Reminded him of his truth, the thing he shoved aside and buried to appease his pack – his father. Look what that got him. He sighed and stopped at one of the many restaurants lining the street. Zev grinned at the hostess on duty, lopsided and just charming enough that the woman would offer him a seat. He didn’t plan on taking it, but he needed food and a smoke. He slipped a cigarette out of his pack of Lucky Strikes and lit it. “Dinner, sir?” the hostess asked and offered him a look at the menu on display. She was petite, human, and wore a shade too much makeup. “Plenty of seats inside and out.” No doubt. Paleo Faliro wasn’t overcrowded in the off season. This early in the year, the weather was too brisk to be completely comfortable. Even if the Greek Riviera was just as beautiful, if a bit grayer, than normal. Zev tightened his grip on the plastic bag in his fingers. “Not tonight, sweetheart. But I would like something to go. Long day sightseeing. What would you recommend?” Pro tip for dining in Greece. If he took the food to go it was nearly half the cost. Zev wasn’t a cheapskate, but money was tight. Might as well save when he could. The hostess knitted her brows and pointed out a few things on the menu, seasonal favorites, she said. He sucked on the cigarette and nodded. “Sure. I’ll take all of it. I might have a guest tonight if I’m lucky,” he said with a wink. Zev pitched his voice so the stalker heard him. Shifter hearing and all that jazz. No matter how far away that bastard was, he’d pick up the sound of Zev’s voice. She blushed and giggled before she relayed the order to one of the waiters. “Please, come sit inside. It’s chilly out here.” The air crept up his sleeves and down the collar of his light jacket – a hoodie he picked up in some tourist shop in the UK a few months before. It served him well so far. Not as heavy as fatigues and not as stuck up as a blazer. If he moved inside, the wolf would lose his line of sight. Zev didn’t want to put his stalker off like that. He shrugged. “I like it out here.” Plus, if Zev ate in public the damn wolf watched from the shadows, just like it’d done for the last week. Or it’d go back to the little apartment Zev rented and root through his things. He first noticed it last Wednesday. When he got back to the apartment everything was set perfectly where he left it, down to the pair of jockeys draped over the kitchen chair. But the scent of a wolf, slight and almost imperceptible, tinged the air. The only thing out of place was the soap in the bathroom. The bar was set vertically next to the sink and left that way on purpose. Soap. His stalker was some kind of freak. Or crazy. Or the asshole was toying with him on purpose. Either he was there to kill Zev (most likely) or offer him a job. At the moment, Zev needed the latter and assumed the former. He hadn’t had a job in a month, and Europe wasn’t cheap. Not to mention his pack and family needed him. Well, not needed, but he was supposed to return to them. Fix his character flaws (the ouzo in the bag wouldn’t help with that) and restore the honor he shattered when he made the worst decision of his life. And that was saying something. But who wanted him dead? Damn. The list was a long one, and the exercise of figuring it out bored him within the first five minutes. It was easier to figure out who didn’t want him dead, Zev thought and smiled at his own joke. Only it wasn’t so much a joke as a reflection of reality. Now he really wanted that drink. He leaned against the building, crossing his feet at the ankles, and watched the budget travelers scurry down the street. His jeans bunched around his boots. If he didn’t have the plait of warm brown hair falling down his back, and the Sig P220 tucked into the waistband of his jeans, he’d look like any other tourist. A sixteenth century Byzantine church stood in the center of the courtyard, complete with rounded roof, stone walls and candles burning brightly on the inside. It seemed like there was another church just like it every few blocks, so much so that Zev lost his way in the small port town more often than not. Or maybe it was the Old One territory several miles up the road that threw him off. He sensed the magic reaching through the earth under his feet – tugging him toward the place his kind called home. These borderlands stretched next to prime real estate, the stunning Greek Riviera. The locals and tourists probably wished they could cross into it and gawk at the ancient wonders stored within Athens. But it was shifter territory – a land without cars, electricity and the other conveniences of modern life in human territory. Not to mention a shitload of dangerous non-humans who could just as soon snap someone’s neck as look at them. Although that wasn’t fair. Athens was actually ruled by a number of level headed shifter packs, wolves among them. Most humans didn’t know that, however, which is what kept the city safe. His cigarette neared the filter, and Zev took one last drag before he put it out. He felt the wolf’s eyes on him. They watched from the darkness, and Zev threw a careless smile in that direction. He almost waved too, but the hostess returned with his food before he got the chance. Zev paid, carefully counting out his Euros, and finished the walk to his apartment. Once he shook off this wolf he’d have to find work again. Cold crept up his bones at the thought. The last job hadn’t gone well. Sure, he delivered the merchandise without a problem. But there was an incident with the payment. A fight and an unfortunate misunderstanding which took Zev a week (and more bottles of gin than he wanted to admit) to forget about it. Now he didn’t remember much of that week either. Before that, a shadowy client and a group of hunters (who had no idea Zev was a wolf), hired him to break into a Serbian prison and free a man held there. To say the least, that job ended even worse. The man died, as did the hunters, and Zev was certain the client wasn’t exactly thrilled with him. The bastard probably knew he was a wolf by now too. And Zev had no one to blame but himself. He’d burned too many bridges in Israel to go back until he regained his honor – the right to rule his pack and return to his family. Not after the last time. What he did. Innocent people died. The alpha, already tangled up in lies, had no fucking clue how to react. That meant he’d have to try the borderlands in Eastern Europe. Bitter. Filled with misery, pain and death. His three least favorite things. The rain started again as he climbed the single flight of stairs. He fished the key from his pocket. His hands shook as he opened the door and slipped inside. Darkness greeted him. The air was stuffy and the stalker’s scent brushed his nose. The alpha stirred. Zev sighed and flicked on the kitchen light. He didn’t bother locking the door. If this wolf could get in when he wasn’t home, the bastard could sure as hell do the same thing when he was there. “I hope you didn’t go through my underwear again. A man has a right to his privacy, you know,” he said, wandering into the kitchen. His voice echoed through the apartment, hollow and meaningless. The fluorescent light stung his eyes. For once, he wouldn’t mind the soft glow of candles or oil lamps. It reminded him of home. Of lemon trees in the yard and the life his father placed before him – family, job and pack leader. No matter what Zev wanted for himself. Then his father died, and Zev smashed it all to bits with a hammer. Now he was left with the pieces and the burden to put them back together. That’s what it felt like anyway. Plates seemed like too much of a hassle, so Zev grabbed a fork, knife and glass. Drinking straight out of the bottle looked too unrefined. Plus, he had company. The ouzo came first – a full glass – then he lit another cigarette, took a long burning drag, and waited. His hands still shook. A drink then. The ouzo was cheap as shit (the Greek answer to hard liquor), and scorched all the way down his esophagus. The warmth spread through his belly and bones. A few more glasses and he wouldn’t have to think about the last job. Or the one before that. The scent of the cigarette smelled too much like fire and flesh for his liking, but he finished it regardless. He also gulped the oversized glass of ouzo and poured another. The food sat heavily in its containers. The grease leaked through the bottom and turned his stomach. Why didn’t that stalker bastard confront him and get it over with? “I hope you don’t kill me in my sleep. Not very sporting. And that’s coming from me. Oh, the number of men I killed in their sleep – fuck. Maybe I’d deserve it like that. What do you think?” A floorboard creaked. Zev blinked at the dark outline silhouetted by the bedroom door and grinned. “So. That’s where you like to hide. Come out. Have a drink. Dinner. I got enough for two. I’ll be disappointed if you don’t join me after all this time.” Another step. A glint of eyes in the shadows. Blue eyes. Zev raised an eyebrow and lit another cigarette. Shit. He’d need a new pack before tomorrow. If he lived long enough. “What’s it been now? A week?” “Two.” The voice came out of the shadows. Clipped but soft. American. Zev took another swallow of his ouzo, then flicked open the containers of food. The scent of cooked meat, vegetables and spices filled the air. It did nothing to distract from this strange wolf’s scent, however. Or the sound of his heartbeat. Steady and even, which throbbed with Zev’s own. The alpha whined. Urged him to give in to the old desire. The one that burdened him since he was twelve and first realized he did not have a crush on Rebeka, like all the other boys his age. He liked Daniel instead. Zev ignored it. “Two? Bullshit. I only noticed you a week ago. And no one ever gets the drop on me.” The shadow moved forward, just enough that Zev made out the glint of fangs. The bastard was smiling! “You noticed me because I wanted you to notice me.” That should get him pissing his pants. At least, he assumed a normal man would have that reaction. But Zev wasn’t normal. He laughed instead. “Okay. So you got the drop on me. Good for you. I’ve been out of my element lately. Not my sharpest. Please, sit. Eat. Have a drink. I’m sure you could use it. Trailing me all day has to get boring.” A shrug. Another footstep. At this rate the wolf wouldn’t get into the kitchen until the sun came up. Zev picked up a skewer. They called it souvlaki in Greece, but it was similar to the ones back home. He ripped a piece of meat off the stick without thinking how much it looked like the burnt out bodies in his nightmares. That’d just make him lose his appetite again. He took another long drink. Glass half empty. The wolf took eight steps this time and sunk into the chair facing Zev. He moved so quickly and quietly it hardly registered he did it at all. The wolf stared, his face completely impassive. A knot clogged Zev’s throat, and he swallowed it. The wolf was small; the size of an omega, but that’s the only thing about him that was omega-like. He didn’t drop his eyes or hunch his shoulders. No. He watched Zev as if the alpha was something mildly interesting on television, and the wolf wondered if he should change the channel. He was pretty, with dark hair that hung over his forehead and brushed the edges of his ears. Blue eyes – bright and far too sharp for his delicate face. And hell, that’s the only way Zev could think to describe it. If there was a picture in the dictionary next to the word ‘pretty boy’ this wolf would be it. The only thing that marred him was a scar at the side of his mouth. A jagged line trailed up his chin over his full bottom lip and thin upper lip. Even that looked perfectly placed. It needed to be there. Zev expected someone dressed in a suit – something professional. Instead, this wolf wore a pair of jeans and a casual button up plaid shirt with a dark jacket thrown over the top. Zev laughed again and grabbed another glass and a fork. “I’d feel better if you put the gun on the table.” Then he poured a shot of ouzo and handed over the fork. It didn’t escape him that he was asking for one weapon while giving this wolf another. To Zev’s surprise, the wolf pulled his gun out of a holster at his side and set it in front of him. Sig P226. 9mm. Silver bullets. Their sharp scent stung the air. That made Zev’s death look even more eminent. Great. Now he needed an escape plan. He took another drink first. Time to think. “I don’t suppose you’ll tell me why you’re following me?” he asked, smiling lazily. He leaned back in the chair and crossed his long legs. “To kill you.” Well. That was more direct than he expected. Zev sucked his cigarette to the filter and snubbed it out. “And you set your gun on the table. First rule of killing someone. Don’t give up your weapon.” “I don't need a gun to kill you.” Those words should’ve sent the familiar dread to Zev’s chest. The constriction that made it impossible to breathe. The guilt that crippled him when he remembered too much. Instead, a strange jolt of excitement snaked through him, settling in his groin. Like his death wasn’t staring at him right in the eye, but it was some hypothetical thing that might happen. The alpha nudged him to leap toward it. The part of his brain that reminded him what a dumbass the alpha was, how bad its decisions were, held him back. No doubt this wolf could make death a reality, and that still didn’t chill him like it should. It definitely should not get him off. He needed that blowjob more than he thought. Too bad this wolf probably wouldn’t oblige. Zev finished his ouzo and ripped the rest of the meat from the skewer. “So. How would you kill me?” “I have knives.” That sent a new wave of heat over him. Or maybe it was the alcohol. He pushed the glass and a container of food across the table. “I don’t like ouzo,” the wolf said and eyed the glass of clear alcohol as if it might leap up and pour itself down his throat. “Well, someone’s a picky princess.” In normal circumstances, Zev wouldn’t turn his back on someone sent to kill him. Then again, inviting his assassin to dinner wasn’t a normal circumstance in the first place. He glanced at a few of the empty bottles around the sink. No good. Then he moved to the refrigerator. “Wine or gin? That’s all I have.” “Is it red?” “Wine. Please.” At least his assassin was polite. Zev pulled out the bottle. Enough left for a glass. He downed the ouzo he poured for the wolf and filled the glass with wine instead. The red clung to the side, and his fingers shook as he pushed it forward. “Reminds me of blood,” Zev said and let out a slow, shuddering breath. The wolf nodded absently, eyes focused on the glass of wine. “I hate blood,” he said. He ripped the words in half. It’s the most emotion he’d had in his voice all night. Zev knew the feeling. “Ex- soldier?” A sharp shake of the head. Once. Negative. The wolf brought the glass to his lips and took a small sip. He grimaced and took another. He didn’t touch the food. Since this wolf didn’t like ouzo, Zev obliged himself to drink from the bottle. Might as well. “Can I have a name? Real or code. Just something to call you. I’m Zev, but I guess you already know that.” A hardly perceptible nod. “Kane.” Zev froze with the bottle on his lips. He set it on the table with a slight clink. By now, the alcohol shook off any lingering chill, but those words turned his blood to ice. Kane. He’d been in the mercenary game long enough to know that name. Elijah Kane. If Zev wanted to live through the night, he didn’t need another drink. He needed to get out of there before he ended up, quite painfully, dead. Kane lifted a skewer to his lips and chewed tentatively with his front teeth. He frowned at the food and swallowed, as if it were a dare he didn’t want to lose. He looked nothing like the stories Zev heard of the infamous assassin. Kane was the exact opposite of everything an assassin of any sort should be. Zev leaned forward and smiled. “That’s adorable. Do you always eat like that?” Kane shrugged one shoulder. When he finished the skewer, he nudged something inside a container with the fork. Zev wasn’t sure what it was, but it no longer looked appetizing. “It’s a chore sometimes, isn’t it? Wake up. Prepare food. Eat. Every day is just something checked off the long ‘to do’ list until we die,” Zev said, smiling, and lit another cigarette. If he was going to die tonight, he might as well finish off the pack. A defeated bell pepper hung from Kane’s fork. He set it down without sniffing it. “Yeah. I usually shift to eat.” “No one’s stopping you,” Zev said. No doubt Kane’s wolf form was just as startlingly beautiful as his human one. Zev glanced at the gun, willing it closer. He’d only have one chance to grab it. Lately, he’d gotten used to relying on his fists and superior strength. But projectile weapons were useful. He should know. Kane’s gaze met his. “Take it.” The cigarette hung from Zev’s lips. He bit down on the filter. It had to be some kind of trick. He’d reach for the gun, and Kane would stab his hand. Or cut it off. Sever a finger. No way it’d be this easy. Then Kane slid the gun around the containers of food, past the half empty bottle of ouzo, and right in front of Zev. Another knot tied itself in his throat. His mouth dried, and his heart throbbed like the beat of a drum. Next to it, as distinctly as his own, he heard Kane’s heart. He didn’t hear it; he felt it. What in Ashina’s glory was going on? Kane looked at the gun and raised his eyebrows. The gesture was welcoming and friendly. Zev almost tossed the damn gun out the window. Hell, maybe Kane rigged it to backfire and blow off someone’s hand. Who the fuck knew? “I’m in a generous mood. They want a souvenir.” Zev put out the cigarette and picked up the gun. It felt heavy in his hand. Awkward. Not one of his, that was for damn sure. He hadn’t held a gun like this in a very long time. “What kind of souvenir?” Kane shrugged. “Finger. Nose. Ear. Doesn’t matter. Shoot me.” The Sig P226 didn’t have a safety lock. Aim and shoot. Good for an assassin. Zev had one like it when he was still in the military. If he shot a fellow shifter with a silver bullet it’d cause a lot of damage. Instant death if he shot Kane in the head or the heart. And the assassin sat there watching him. Daring him. Zev thought he was fucked up. “You want me to kill you?” Another shrug. “I want you to try.” The fluorescent light buzzed louder. Down the street, some group of tourists laughed as they wandered back to their hotel. The glow of the city reflected off the sea. Sweat beaded on Zev’s skin and dripped down his back. The fitted T-shirt didn’t do a damn thing to stop it. In contrast to the sweat, a chill raked over his skin. His throat squeezed, like someone had a hand around it. Crushing the life from his lungs. Here he was – a fucking alpha – and he couldn’t pull the trigger and kill one measly assassin? His finger brushed the cool metal. Twitched. Fire. Burning smoke clung to his lungs. Scorched bodies – limbs – everywhere. That boy with a hole in his chest, blood pouring from the wound. . . The gun clattered to the table, bounced and landed heavily. Zev blinked. It happened again. And this was the worse possible time. “Guess I’m not good at killing someone in cold blood,” he mumbled and reached for another smoke. His fingers shook so badly he couldn’t pull one out. Kane’s eyes narrowed, and he turned his attention to the front door. “Pick it up.” “I don’t take orders from you, omega,” Zev grumbled and willed the dual heartbeats to calm down. A careful footstep. A draw of breath. Someone stood outside the door. Another shifter. Just what he needed. “We could invite him in since I’m not going to finish this,” Zev said with a lopsided grin and motioned at the uneaten food on the table. What a waste of money. The shifter outside the door took another step. Zev didn’t pick up the gun. He stood and pressed himself against the wall. If the front door was compromised, the only escape was the balcony that connected the kitchen and bedroom. He chose that apartment because of the short drop to the street below. Hopefully, no one else was waiting out there to kill him. One assassin was enough. Now he might have two. Three, well, that shoved everything over the edge into the realm of the ridiculous. Kane didn’t say a word. He walked to the door, all purpose, and swung it open. A huge man stood there, tall and impossibly broad. A harsh musk rolled off him, all earth and blood. A boar. It had to be a motherfucking boar. Not many shifters were as strong as wolves, but boars were stronger. The boar sneered at Kane and stepped into the room. “You’re not Zev Oren,” he said in deeply accented English. Kane shrugged and kept his feet neatly planted where they were. As if he could prevent the boar from stepping past him. Zev doubted it. If two men who wanted to kill him weren’t both standing in his living room, Zev would’ve been mildly impressed. “I smell the alpha,” the boar grumbled. “Another friend! Want a drink? Food? We have plenty left,” Zev said, sure to keep his back to the balcony. “It might be pork, so I’d abstain from the meat if I were you.” The boar’s beady eyes narrowed as much as possible and the man cracked his knuckles. He loomed over Kane. Hell, he even stood taller than Zev, who was a solid six feet three. Zev took another step backwards. “He’s mine,” Kane said so quietly Zev hardly heard. The boar finally looked at Kane. Blinked. Then laughed. “Why isn’t he dead?” If the boar wanted an answer, he didn’t wait for one. He charged Zev, who slipped out of the way. His stupid boots tangled in the chair, and he stumbled sideways. The boar slammed Zev against the wall. Something cracked. Painfully. The plaster crumbled around him, and Zev sucked in a breath. His gun dug into his back, so he couldn’t reach it. He lifted his arms, wrapping them around the boar’s meaty neck, but that fucking asshole shoved all his weight into Zev’s chest. Soon the bone would break and cave, stabbing his heart and smashing his lungs. Being crushed to death seemed distinctly worse than being shot or cut up with Kane’s knives. A silver bullet would be a mercy. Then Zev shoved his thumbs into the boar’s eyes, and the man finally stumbled back. Zev’s feet struggled to hold him, and he fought the urge to grab his side. Or wince. He needed to get the hell out of here or he’d be dead. He didn’t want to be dead. Kane took a slow step forward, his arm cupping his side. But when did Kane get hit? The boar blinked and roared. Blood leaked from one eye. The other squinted open. He’d still be able to find Zev from his scent. Shifter senses weren’t such a boon in moments like this. A knife glinted in Kane’s hand. “Hey. I said he was mine.” The boar turned and snorted. He dwarfed Kane in every way, yet Kane stared at him like a minor annoyance and not someone who posed a threat. How the fuck did such a small wolf manage that? “You think you can beat me, omega?” the boar grumbled. Kane smiled. “I’m not an omega.” The boar charged. Kane met him head on in a clash of limbs and grunts. Zev didn’t stick around to witness the outcome of the fight. If they were distracted, he could get the hell away. He slipped onto the balcony, leapt to the street, and ran. New plan: survive. If he wanted to live, he needed to find out who wanted him dead. Labels: alpha wolf assassin first chapter sneak peek gay fantasy romance gay paranormal romance gay romance lost wolves series omega in the light omega wolf wolf shifter romance Chapter One Sneak Peek: Omega in the Light (Lost W... Cover Reveal: Omega in the Light (Lost Wolves Book... Goodreads Giveaway: Tiger's Den: Black Wolves (Hav... An Interview! With me! About stuff!	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line10405
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__label__wiki	0.892659	0.892659	Home Geelong and District People, Occupations and Businesses St Augustine's Orphanage The St. Augustine's Orphanage web site has been created because of the generosity of Janette Lier, a member of the Geelong & District Mailing List, who has transcribed the St. Augustine's Orphanage, Geelong : Admissions & Discharges Register 1857-1878. Jan offered her work to be put on our web site for the benefit of all ....... Thank You Jan! Please do NOT ask for information on people in this or other orphanages in the Geelong region - this web site ONLY covers people and details listed in the previously published microfiche of Admissions & Discharges for the years 1857-1878 - I have NO other years, NO other people, NO other information! A short history of the orphanage will assist with understanding the contents of these records. In May 1854, a corrugated iron church and school was opened on two acres of land between Noble Street and Queens Road, Newtown. The land had been granted by the Government for "Roman Catholic Church Reserve". The Friendly Brothers was an organization of Catholic laymen whose purpose was to alleviate hardship among the poor. They opened St Augustine's Catholic Orphanage in Newtown, Geelong, in 1857. By December 1855 the Government had granted three acres of land at Newtown for the site of an Orphanage (across Queens Road to the north of the Church Reserve). 15th March, 1857, Bishop Gould laid the foundation stone of St Augustine's Orphanage. The architects were Joseph L. Shaw and Richard A. Dowden. The first section accommodated about 20 boys and 15 girls. This building exists today as part of St. Joseph's College, Newtown. St Augustine's Orphanage - the original building did not include the wing shown in the right half of this sketch. Sketch by Mr W.J. Smith, Geelong Historical Society 13th December, 1857, Bishop Goold laid the foundation stone of a more permanent sandstone structure further west on the same land. Both buildings faced Noble Street. The Noble Street Church and School, built 1857. Extensions to the original building were built in 1858, 1860 and 1861. By 1862, St Augustine's Orphanage had grown to 62 children. In December 1859, the Sisters of Mercy took charge of the girls at St Augustine's, with two Mercy sisters residing there until 1862 when the girls were removed to Our Lady's Orphanage adjacent to the convent at Newtown. The transcribed records generally only show a year of discharge for girls after 1862, whereas earlier discharges show a full date. The Convent and Orphanage, Newtown The Christian Brothers took over St Augustine's Orphanage 18th November, 1878 - signifying the extent of the Admission & Discharge records included in these registers. Notes from the Registers St. Augustine's Orphan Asylum Opened at Newtown, Geelong, August 19, 1857 Patron : The Right Reverend J.A. Goold D.D. Treasurer : The Very Reverend James B. Hayes D.D. Trustees : Patrick McDonald Esq. J.P., Joseph Pelley Esq., Thomas Powell Esq. Hon. Secretary : Daniel O'Driscol Treasurer from January 1 1865 : V.R. Matthew Downing to December 4 1870 on which day he died. Ven Archdeacon P.J. Slattery succeeded last as Treasurer. Master : Daniel O'Driscol 1857-1878 Matron : Hannah Condon 1857-1858 Matron : Catherine Crowly 1869 Matron : Mrs McGovern and Mary A Acton 1860 Matron : M.A. Harty 1861 Matron : Mary A. Harty and Margaret Martin 1862 Matron : Margaret Martin 1863 to October 1871 Matron : Margaret A Bennett October 1871 to November 1878. The Christian Brothers took charge of the St. Augustine's Orphanage November 18, 1878. Patrick C. Butler, Director. Brownhill, Walter Randolph (with postscript 1955-1990 by Ian Wynd) The History of Geelong and Corio Bay, Geelong Advertiser, Geelong, 1990. Chapman, Peter St. Augustine's and the Christian Brothers : An Archival History, 1993. Wynd, Ian Geelong the Pivot, Geelong Historical Society, Geelong, 1986. The registers together with various financial and historical reports have been microfiched and are available in many genealogical / historical societies and libraries. NOTE : The admission and discharge registers as they appear in the microfiche have been transcribed in FULL - they are not an index. They have however been sorted into surname order and admission and discharge details have been combined for each person. IMPORTANT : Some of the original writing is difficult to read so please be "creative" when looking for surnames / spelling variations. St Augustine's Admissions and Discharges : 1857-1878 A B C D E F G H J K L M-Mc N O P Q R S T W Last Updated on Friday, 22 May 2009 06:59	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line10416
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Trigger pull is listed as pounds of resistance. Also, this caliber is better for longer range than a. 38 Special ammo as well, because lets be honest most people with. This is because the kind of performance you can get with them. 38 Special wadcutter ammunition with good results. 0-inch barrel; we insisted he hand it over for testing, and he acquiesced. This massive. 357 are virtually identical. Sharpe, and Douglas B. Better and cheaper ammo supply if you don't reload and you can use anything from lighter loaded. hunting revolver 45 Colt vs 44 mag. One great thing about. round, the first thing out of my mouth was, "I wonder how they avoided the forcing cone erosion?" The guy who told me about it just shrugged. For example someone that lives in Alaska will probably go with a. Revolver vs. While Super Redhawks in. 41 with a smile—after your orthopedist resets your hand bones. 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By David Tong. 500 MAG Caliber Revolvers. 5" Long Barrel and 6 Round Capacity Reviews. 452" diameter bullets. 30-30 bullet would land within an inch of the exact point of aim and kill that deer in its tracks. 357 Mag but much less recoil. 357MAG 6" S/S REVOLVER-COMPLETE PKG! -. , 3” barrel with a very good bore.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line10420
__label__wiki	0.907746	0.907746	HomeLatest News & PoliticsSales rep. docked for allegedly stealing employer’s N973,000 Sales rep. docked for allegedly stealing employer’s N973,000 November 2, 2016 AdeLove Latest News & Politics, Today's Trending...., Uncategorized 1 A 25-year-old sales representative, who was arraigned in Lagos for allegedly stealing N973,000 from his employer, was on Wednesday granted N200,000 bail. Okunoye Adeola, who pleaded not guilty to a charge of stealing, resides at No. 6 Mosaku St., Abule Egba, Lagos. An Ikeja Magistrates’ Court, which gave the ruling, also asked the accused to produce two sureties as part of the bail conditions. According to Magistrate T.O Shomade, the sureties must be gainfully employed and should show evidence of two years’ tax payment to the Lagos State Government. The Prosecutor, Insp. Raji Akeem, said that the accused committed the offence on Oct. 24 at No. 431 Agege Motor Road, Oshodi, Lagos. He said that the accused, who was a sales representative at a shop owned by one Ayo Issa, stole N973,000 from the shop. Akeem said that the accused received the sum of N973,000 being the proceeds from sales and converted the money to his personal use. The prosecutor said that Issa did not know that Adeola was stealing from her until she decided to take stock of the goods in the shop. “The accused was arrested and taken to the police station for further questioning,’’ the prosecutor said. Akeem noted that the offence contravened Section 285 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2011. Shomade adjourned the case till Nov. 21 for mention. N973.000 Two men accused of raping teenager get N250,000 bail 'Buhari will resend $30 Billion loan request to Senate', says Lai Mohammed Latest News & Politics Schools in Bayelsa remain shut over 7 months salary arrears October 3, 2016 AdeLove Latest News & Politics, Today's Trending...., Uncategorized 3 Public primary and secondary schools in Bayelsa have yet to resume for the 2016/2017 session because of the failure of the state government to settle their seven months salary arrears. The News Agency of Nigeria […] Corruption trial: Justice Ofili-Ajumogobia’s salary details revealed in court September 30, 2017 AdeLove Latest News & Politics, Today's Trending.... 1 Mr Awoyemi Kazeem, a Chief Accountant at the Federal High Court, Lagos, on Friday revealed at an Ikeja High Court the salaries and allowances of Justice Rita Ofili-Ajumogobia at her ongoing trial for corruption and […] Fire outbreak at National Assembly February 21, 2017 AdeLove Latest News & Politics, Today's Trending.... 4 There was a fire outbreak in the early hours of yesterday at the fourth floor of the new building of the Senate wing of the National Assembly. The incident, which eyewitnesses said occurred at about […] Ayomide says: Na wa ooo	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line10422
__label__cc	0.709929	0.290071	Game Crowdfunding from Start to Funded Module 0 - Intro Who am I (5:43) Module 1 - Research Learning Objectives & Tasks - Module 1 Understanding the Market I (9:38) Understanding the Market II (8:07) Crowdfunding is an Event (7:37) Learn What Other Campaigns are Doing and Why (6:06) How to Research Campaign Numbers (6:01) How to Estimate Shipping Expenses (14:05) [UPDATED Nov 2019] How to Estimate Crowdfunding Fees (2:30) [UPDATED Nov 2019] How to Estimate Credit Card Fees, Failed Payments, and Taxes (6:19) Bonus - The Pledge Planner I (15:56) Bonus - The Pledge Planner II (7:41) Module 2 - Campaign Setup Crodfunding video games, what you need to know (13:20) Crowdfunding board games, what you need to know (17:27) Crowdfunding tabletop RPGs, what you need to know (18:08) Pick your platform: Kickstarter or Indiegogo? (14:37) [UPDATED Nov 2019] How to pick the right launch date (6:19) The ranking algorithm (10:49) The campaign video - Part I (9:58) The campaign video - Part II (12:08) The backend - Kickstarter (11:13) The backend - Indiegogo (10:43) The Campaign Body (23:56) How to plan your Tiers I (12:16) How to plan your Tiers II (12:02) Stretch Goals (9:44) Add-Ons (5:45) Bonus - The Stretch Goals Planner (2:05) Module 3 - What to do Prior to Launch Building a Community (11:25) What accounts do you need? (19:08) Share the Campaign Preview (4:21) Briefly on Ads (10:37) Make a Website (11:07) Landing Pages (3:21) Media Outreach (7:43) Bonus - Crowdfunding Checklist Part #1 (2:19) Module 4 - What to do During the Campaign Bonus - Day 1 - Crowdfunding Checklist Part #2 (18:12) Changing the Campaign Page (7:05) Campaign Updates (10:21) What to do during the Campaign (13:38) Bonus - The Last Week - Crowdfunding Checklist Part #3 (6:58) Module 5 - Delivery and Post-Campaign Support Post-Campaign Updates (10:55) Backerkit (19:31) Fulfillment Services (10:26) Delivering at Events (4:58) Your first Customers (4:01)	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line10430
__label__cc	0.529166	0.470834	World’s Leading 3D Printable Object-Sharing Platform Now Supports 3MF MyMiniFactory and 3MF to Collaborate on 3D Printing WAKEFIELD, Mass., USA – Oct. 17, 2017 – MyMiniFactory, the open 3D printable object-sharing platform, announced today their official support for the 3MF file format. MyMiniFactory is the host to tens of thousands of 3D printable designs, created by thousands of designers from around the globe, [...] By Admin\| 2017-10-17T09:51:47-05:00 October 17th, 2017\|Press Release\| 3MF is an industry consortium working to define a 3D printing format that will allow design applications to send full-fidelity 3D models to a mix of other applications, platforms, services and printers. Our goal is to provide a specification that eliminates the issues with currently available file formats, and allows companies to focus on innovation, rather than on basic interoperability issues. What is 3mf? Open Source Library © 3MF Consortium, a Joint Development Foundation project \| Association management services by Virtual, Inc. To give you the best possible experience, this site uses cookies. Using this site means you agree to our use of cookies. More information is available in the AECC Privacy Policy. Learn More	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line10431
__label__wiki	0.693238	0.693238	Tokyo Twilight Ghost Hunters: Daybreak Special Gigs Review - PS3/PS4/PS Vita Tokyo Twilight Ghost Hunters: Daybreak Special Gigs Review – PS3/PS4/PS Vita Motwera September 30, 2016 GamingLeave a Comment Video games are a medium where all kinds of genres can go wild with many concepts and mechanics. You can have action games with heavy story elements or story-focused adventures with quick time events sprinkled about to keep the action going. But the visual novel is one that is normally blended with role playing games. This mixture is natural, considering the visual novel portion of a role playing game can focus on the characters and create really impressive artwork to tell its story with combat and exploration mixing things up. Aksys Games Tokyo Twilight Ghost Hunters: Daybreak Special Gigs is a game that blends the visual novel with the strategy game genre. Does this mixture better the experience with both complementing each other, or does it detract greatly from the overall experience? It opens up with your main character walking to school and meeting people attending the school. From a class president who is upset with you at first too a wheelchair bound student who is skilled with technology. Things seem normal, but the game asks you this question; Do you believe in ghosts? That is a good question, because not long after you get your footing in the school, you face a dangerous ghost and decided to help take it out. The story gets more interesting as the plot progresses and this is where the game shines the brightest. With the topic of ghosts and Japanese culture, it opens the doors to a number of great concepts being explored making learning about the different ghosts and the culture of the games world all the more fascinating. Strong characters also help with this, as every character you come across is very animated thanks to well written dialog and multiple ways of interacting with the many characters you come across in your adventure. What also helps the story is very strong presentation but we will get to that later. Overall the story offers a interesting tale and one I feel is the strongest aspect to this title. I wanted to learn more about the world and characters. This game is split into two distinct parts, with one being the visual novel portions. The visual novel portions of the game give you many different options when talking with the games characters thanks to a special wheel system. You have two wheels focusing on emotion and the five (or when you beat the game, six) senses. After picking two options from each wheel, you interact with the characters speaking to you. With two wheels (each with five options), the door to a number of interactions opens up. For example, you could accidentally kiss a female student or just shake her hand depending on your choices. But the game also has more traditional visual novel elements, with dialog choices popping up and other options being open to you (skipping dialog, fasting dialog options, ect). The different choices you can make allows the story to be quite dynamic and will offer plenty of replay value for those that want to see everything this game has to offer. However there is the other half of the gameplay, the ghost battling systems. The combat system works like a game of chess, with you character and party being different pieces you move along the map. Controlling your party requires AP points, with this informing you how much you can travel across a given map before your turn ends. You can change your direction with L & R (Vita version) and use the D-Pad to move up/down/left/right. They reset every turn but it creates a feeling of strategy on where you place party members on a given battle map. Each character has different skills and abilities they can offer for combat. This is also helped by some smart and interesting mechanics such as placing traps on the ground like salts can block the paths ghosts can take. The amount of tools you get open up the more you play the game, making combat enjoyable if you put a lot of time into it. Sadly, the game does a very poor job making a positive first impression of this system as despite explaining the core mechanics to you, you have no access to traps and your player character has a low amount of health. So once the hand-holding is done and you have to take on the very first boss ghost, it is a test of frustration. I spent so long in the early parts of this game (at least a full hour or two) just battling this boss ghost. Thankfully, more systems open up as you play the game and you do have the games digital manual that explains some of the mechanics. So if you sit down and take your time learning these mechanics, you can get through the combat to experience the enjoyable story. Overall the core gameplay here is quite interesting and nothing like any other game I have ever played. But the combat system is a issue for me early on and I feel the game could explain its mechanic’s a bit better. Lasting Appeal With the amount of choices to make across the game, you will want to replay the game to see how different interactions play out. This is further pushed with a sixth sense being unlocked once you beat the game, adding new interactions for a new playthrough. The game also has a number of trophies to unlock, so that can be an incentive to fully go down every path the game offers. The game is a very attractive title, with the main menu having a nice band aesthetics and the music using various guitar types for it’s soundtrack. As someone who enjoys rock music, this was so nice to hear and made playing through the game quite enjoyable just to hear the next track of the soundtrack. Voice acting is well done too, with the Japanese cast fitting the character designs that you see across the game. Much of the game is voice acted, so it is consistent across the game. What strikes me the most about this title is the art work and character animations. While they cycle through a set pattern of animations they look very expressive, detailed and lively. The ghost designs are also quite unique across the game, with there appearance in the visual novel portions of the game having impact due to playing off the Japanese horror theme that is present at various points in the game. Story: 4 out of 5 / Gameplay: 3 out of 5 / Lasting Appeal: 4 out of 5 / Presentation: 5 out of 5 Tokyo Twilight Ghost Hunters: Daybreak Gigs is a title that honestly disappointed me with its core gameplay for the ghost hunting portions of the game. I had a hard time getting into the systems and thought it took away from the game. But the visual novel elements alongside a very strong presentation and story helped me enjoy the game despite my issues with core gameplay systems. If you can get used to the strategy game portions of the title, I can see many enjoy this unique visual novel adventure. Overall: 3.5 out of 5 This game was reviewed on the PS Vita platform with a review code provided by the publisher. This title is also out now for the PS3 and PS4. Super Mario 3D Land Level Imports/Mods - Fan Community Highlight	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line10432
__label__cc	0.534958	0.465042	Filmmaking Rules Charlotte, North Carolina These rules apply to each participating group/production team. The 48 Hour Film Project Organizers may add to or amend these rules at any time prior to the beginning of the Official Time Period. Below are the Filmmaking Rules. Be sure to also read the official Competition Rules. 48 Hour Film Pink Project A. Times The 48 Hour Film Project (48HFP) will occur in the Charlotte, NC area on the weekend of Probably in August 2020. The 48 Hour Film Project will occur between Friday, August 9 at 7:00pm and Sunday, August 11 at 7:30pm. This is the Official Time Period. The participating group/team must complete its film/video work in time to deliver it to a location to be announced, on Sunday by 7:30pm. Only works that meet the deadline will be officially part of the competition. All films received on Sunday (on-time and late) will be screened. B. Creative Process All creativity must take place during the Official Time Period. Any creative work in advance of the competition weekend is prohibited. Creative work includes, but is not limited to: Writing the script Rehearsing Costume/Set Design Outputting to tape or other media C. Preparation The only work to begin prior to the Official Time Period is: Organizing Crew Organizing Cast Securing Equipment Scouting/Securing Locations D. Footage All footage must be shot within the Official Time Period of the project. Animation and special effects are permitted, but must be created during the Official Time Period. No stock footage or footage shot or created at another time may be used unless the footage is part of a post-production effect or on a background monitor, i.e., a television, as long as the team has rights to the stock footage and the stock footage is placed over or under footage that is shot within the Official Time Period. Allowable stock footage includes bullets, fires, explosions, chromakeyed backgrounds, etc., but stock footage of people or other performers is not allowed. Pre-made sequences or compositions that are available to all via purchase or download are permitted if a majority of frames contain content (e.g., text or images) created within the Official Time Period. The pre-made portion of the sequence may not include people or other performers. Still photographs are permitted, provided that the team has the rights to them. The photos do not need to be created during the Official Time Period; however, stills created outside of the Official Time Period may not be used in sequence to create the illusion of motion. Permissible stock footage, permissible pre-made sequences, and still photographs must all be accompanied by a Materials Release demonstrating that the team has rights to use them. Are stock footage and photos allowed? Is animation allowed? May we include our logo that was made before the filmmaking weekend? What about special effects? What's allowed? E. Kickoff Event Each participating team must have a representative at the official Kickoff Event of the 48 Hour Film Project. At the event, each group must submit a complete Team Leader's Agreement, signed by its team leader. A team may not participate without submitting this agreement. Each group will choose the genre of its film in a random drawing. F. Required Elements Each participating group will be assigned required elements that must appear in its film, such as a genre, a character, a prop and/or a line of dialogue. < strong=""> The required Character must be seen on-screen and it must be clear--either directly shown or by context--who the required character is. The Character name does not have to be said out loud or written on-screen. The required Prop must be seen on-screen. A picture of the required prop is also allowed. The required Line of Dialogue must be used verbatim. It may be spoken, sung and/or written. It may be in any language, though if it is unclear that it is the required Line, there must be a translation. To qualify as an Official Entry, each group's film must be in the genre it selects and must contain all required elements within the official time limit and prior to the credits. G. Volunteers All cast and crew must be volunteers. Who are the filmmakers? H. Animal Safety Animal safety, like cast and crew safety, is an important part of 48 Hour Filmmaking. Films that result in the death or mutilation of an animal may be disqualified. I. Cameras Any type of video or film camera may be used. There is no limit to the number of cameras. J. Landmark Requirement First Time Cities only: Each film must include a landmark (building, monument, etc.) or identifying characteristic (e.g., bus, city office) of the competition city. (Note: The landmark or characteristic must exist inside city limits.) This rule applies only the first time the 48HFP visits a city. Can I film outside of my city? K. Music Rights Participating groups are encouraged to work with a composer and/or musicians to write and record music for the films. It is permissible for a participating group to use pre-recorded music; however the participating group must have the rights to any music used in its film and must provide releases for all music used. As with music, pre-recorded sound effects are allowed, but you must have rights to use them. Note: Song parodies (i.e., use of identifiable pre-existing compositions with new or altered lyrics or music) may not be included in the film without a signed release from the composition's rights holder. This rule applies without regard to whether the song parody arguably constitutes "fair use" under US or international copyright law. L. Total Running Time The finished film must be a minimum of 4 minutes in duration, and a maximum of 7 minutes in duration—not including end credits. In other words, the official running time begins after the required 48HFP slates and ends prior to the end credits. The required slates and the end credits do not count towards the minimum time of 4 minutes. The film story may not be longer than 7 minutes. 48HFP reserves the right to shorten any film that exceeds the maximum length for screening purposes. Are we allowed to have footage under our closing credits? How long are the films? M. Credits Pre-film Required Slates Before the finished film begins, the media should have... 5 seconds of black A title card with: team name, title, genre, city, and date The official 48HFP animated opening -OR- a title card with: This film was made for the 48 Hour Film Project 2020. www.48hourfilm.com Your film follows this. After the 2 seconds of black, some films start with opening credits. These are not encouraged, but if you use them, opening credits are considered to be part of the film, and therefore count against the seven minute maximum. Additionally, if your film has opening credits other than simply the film's title (for example, the names of directors, actors, etc.), you must include one of the following: the text YOUR TEAM NAME presents immediately followed by a 48 Hour Film Project or the text a 48 Hour Film Project immediately following the title of your film Note: a 48 Hour Film Project may be entirely lowercase (i.e., a 48 hour film project). Credits at the end of each film are limited to a maximum of 60 seconds. The 60 seconds is considered additional to the length of the film, as stated above. (That is, a film may be 7 minutes long, with an additional 60 seconds of credits, for a total running time of 8 minutes.) 48HFP reserves the right to shorten any end credits that exceed the maximum length for screening purposes. The end credits must include the words: This film was made for the 48 Hour Film Project. www.48hourfilm.com Slates And Credits After The Competition For any future screenings, online or otherwise, films should retain the pre-film title card that says: This film was made for the 48 Hour Film Project 2020. www.48hourfilm.com. Animated Slate Are credits in the beginning permissible? Does the maximum length of the film include credits? Total Running Time N. Required Media Formats For complete submission requirements, check your city webpage. If your film does not conform to the submission requirements in your city, it may be disqualified. Also, if your film cannot be viewed on 48HFP equipment, it may be disqualified. Unless otherwise instructed on your City webpage of the 48 Hour Film Project website, your film must be submitted on one of the following media: (preferred) a self-contained SD Quicktime file with no proprietary codecs on either: a data DVD -OR- a USB flash drive playable DVD Have any of the movies been shot on film? My file doesn't fit on my flash drive. What do I do? Should we shoot in HD? Should we shoot in widescreen? Should we use surround sound? O. Submission Notes We recommend that each team submit two copies of the final film. We recommend that you make sound levels relatively even throughout your film. (If your film has uneven sound or sound that peaks, it may be modified to protect the playback equipment.) Projection specs vary from theater to theater and are beyond the control of the 48HFP. If your film is very dark, it may be difficult to see in your theater. All films received on the evening of the deadline (on-time and late) will be screened, presuming they meet the eligiblity requirements. P. Production Documents Each team must secure releases for talent, crew, music and locations (and any other applicable releases), which must be turned in to the project organizers with the finished film/video. The film/video will not be screened before the 48 Hour Film Project Organizers receive the signed releases. Release forms can be found on the 48HFP website. Certification Statement Q. Certification Statement The Entrant must submit a Certification Statement with his/her completed Entry, certifying adherence to all Official Rules. R. Eligibility To be eligible for the Project, Entries must be the original work of the Entrant; must not infringe third-party's rights; must be suitable for publication (i.e., may not be obscene or indecent); must not contain obscene or pornographic material; may not contain defamatory statements about any person, company, organization or entity; may not invade privacy or other rights of any person, company or entity; may not in any other way violate applicable laws and regulations; and may not contain any copyrighted elements (other than as owned by the Entrant and/or 48HFP). Entries containing prohibited or inappropriate content as determined by the 48HFP, in its sole discretion, to be inappropriate will be disqualified. 48HFP reserves the right to make the final determination as to which Entries are eligible. 48HFP reserves the right to refuse to screen a film or to make an announcement at the screening regarding the content of the film. 48HFP reserves the right to alter a film in order to remove or delete offensive or defamatory content. Submission Notes S. No Pre-Screening Distribution The Entrant should not distribute their entry/video in any way prior to it receiving its official 48HFP premiere screening. This includes uploading the video to any website or screening the film for groups of anyone other than the team. The Entrant is encouraged to make a trailer of their film and distribute that instead. This trailer should be no longer than 48 seconds. T. Official Film Entry To be certified as an Official Film Entry, each participating group's film/video production must follow all rules herein. The 48 Hour Film Project Organizers reserve the right to screen only certified Official Film Entries. U. Entries Not Returned No Entries (media or documents) will be returned. V. Disqualification 48HFP and Project Parties may, in their sole discretion, disqualify Entries deemed to be inappropriate or otherwise non-compliant. W. Official City Winner All certified Official Film Entries are eligible to compete for the title of Best Film of the Charlotte, NC 48 Hour Film Project. Is this a contest and will there be a "Best of" selection? X. Best Film of 2020 All Best of City films are eligible to compete globally for title of Best Film of 2020. A panel of independent judges will determine the winners. City Email List	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line10434
__label__wiki	0.760151	0.760151	The Wizarding-Themed Restaurant in Maine Has Hit a Snag, Delays Grand Opening When news broke in late-July and early-August that a unique new restaurant with a Harry Potter-ish theme would be opening in Maine, people got VERY excited. The restaurant had planned a grand opening for mid-September, and promised they'd only be operational for a little over a year and that the only way in was via reservation. Well, reservations have piled up but so has the red tape and thus, The Perfect Spell has announced they've delayed their grand opening. In a email sent out to customers who had made reservations for the opening weekend, the restaurant apologized for the delayed opening but was prohibited by the town council meetings schedule in Pownal, where the restaurant will operate. The new grand opening date will be October 3rd, with the plan to still operate as a witches and wizards theatrical restaurant until October 31st, 2020. If all goes well, the theme will switch from there. If you've made reservations for any weekend dates in September and haven't received an email from The Perfect Spell, you're encouraged to contact them for details on a refund and rebooking your experience. And if you haven't made your reservation yet, the most recent update to The Perfect Spell Facebook page says the restaurant is more than 55% sold out. Source: The Wizarding-Themed Restaurant in Maine Has Hit a Snag, Delays Grand Opening Filed Under: #Maine, Harry Potter, restaurant, wizard	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line10436
__label__wiki	0.869359	0.869359	X’s SPLIT DOUBLE HEADER WITH REDHAWKS X’s Finish the First Half of the Season at .500 Fargo, ND - The first 50 games of the 100 game 2019 regular season schedule have been played and the X’s have won 25 games, and have lost 25 games which was epitomized by their double header split with the Fargo-Moorhead RedHawks, as Fargo took game one 11-5, and Sioux City taking game two 5-3. The final score ended up being deceiving as the Explorers jumped out to a second inning 3-0 lead. Sebastian Zawada drove in a run to get the X’s on the board and consecutive two out singles by Kyle Wren and Michael Lang gave the X’s their three run lead. Fargo-Moorhead would answer back in the bottom half of the inning however. After a lead off walk TJ Bennett launched one over the right field wall to cut the X’s lead to 3-2. Brennan Metzger singled with the bases loaded to tie the game 3-3 and Devan Ahart was hit by a pitch with the bases loaded to give Fargo a 4-3 lead. Sioux City tied it 4-4 in the next half inning as Jose Sermo scored on a Drew Stankiewicz single to right field. That’s how the score stayed till the sixth inning. Fargo would score seven runs in the sixth with most of them coming on one swing of the bat by Chris Jacobs whose grand slam put Fargo up 8-4. Fargo would tack on another three runs in the inning. And a RBI double from Sermo in the seventh gave the game its final score 11-5. The X’s were lead by a strong start from Carlos Sierra who was in control of the game from the start. Sierra (2-0) earned his second win going 5 2/3 innings, allowing three un earned runs on just four hits, walking three and striking out five. At one point Sierra retired nine straight RedHawks and allowed just two hits through the first five innings. Sioux City would tack runs on with two out hits. It began with Stankiewicz in the second who battled with Taylor Bloye for 12 pitches and eventually got a two out single to center field. He would steal second and score on a Sebastian Zawada single to set the tone for the X’s and go up 1-0. Another two runs scored in the third, Nate Samson reached on an infield single, stole second and on the play reached third on a throwing error, eventually scoring on a Jose Sermo ground out. Again with two outs Adam Sasser doubled down the left field line, and would score on a Dexture McCall single to make it 3-0 X’s. The Explorers added two more runs in the sixth as with two outs and no one on Kyle Wren singled, Lang brought him home with a double to left and Nate Samson brought Lang home with a single giving the X’s some much needed insurance runs 5-0. The Explorers scored four of their five runs in the game with two outs in an inning. Fargo would make the game interesting. With two on and two out a high chopper was hit to short, Samson’s throw to first was wide of the bag and allowed a run to score and the inning to continue. A triple from Leo Pina scored two more runs and knocked Carlos Sierra from the game. Nathan Gercken was called upon and was able to get the Explorers out of the inning and Matt Pobereyko tossed a scoreless ninth with a pair of strikeouts to pick up his 13th save of the season. The X’s will have a quick turn around as they take on the RedHawks in the rubber game of the series at 12:30 pm on Thursday.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line10437
__label__cc	0.551377	0.448623	Tag Archives: Entrepreneurship On the Road with Maker Express [Egypt] Cairo Hacker Space and Eshbook are going on a road trip with the Maker Express to more than 20 cities in Egypt! The Maker Express is a microbus converted into a mobile makerspace. The goal of our eight-week tour is to connect and support venues of innovation across the country: makerspaces, coworking spaces, fab labs, start-ups,… October 11, 2016 in African Innovations, African Tours. SMS driven Online Funeral Coordination made in Zimbabwe Press Release- 16 July 2015, Harare ZIMBABWEAN TECH ENTREPRENEURES LAUNCH AN SMS DRIVEN ONLINE FUNERAL COORDINATION STARTUP Zimbabwean Tech entrepreneurs launch a streamlined funeral coordination platform called funeral.ly. The platform leverages on SMS and whatsapp to notify and share funeral updates to their targeted audience. This came after the founder experienced logistical hardships and frustrations… July 17, 2015 in African Business, African Innovations. Curbing Unemployment in Africa (Botswana) by Incorporating Entrepreneurship Training in the Education System An essay by Malebogo Pamelah Bogale Entrpreneurship training -malebogo.botswana (PDF) According to World Bank Conference (2000), In the case of Botswana most of the 19.6% unemployed are relatively young people with low educational qualifications and no skill. With the employment mix becoming more skill intensive in both the private and government sectors, it means that each year… March 21, 2014 in African Business, African Education. StartupBus Africa: Five-Day Hackathon from Harare to Cape Town After several tours within the US and Europe, the successful entrepreneur program StartupBus is rolling through Africa for the first time this November. You can find all information on the tour and running crowdfunding campaign in the press release below: First the US, then Europe and now for the first time a StartupBus tours in Africa… September 26, 2013 in African Business, African Campaigns, African Innovations. A fresh generation of African leaders: Tutu’s Children For Immediate Release A fresh generation of African leaders will be featured on new Al Jazeera English series Tutu’s Children. The four special documentaries will follow the exploits of participants in the leadership programme Desmond Tutu leads, which attempts to build a new network of African leaders who are together committed to tackling their countries’… January 10, 2013 in African Business, African Campaigns, African Diaspora, African Education, African History, African Innovations. KiViWoSHeG – the Kibera Visionary Women Self Help Group Meet an extraordinary woman with an extraordinary spirit and determination to change the world around her – Millicent Auma Otieno, born in Kisumu and now living in Nairobi, tells you here about her life and vision. She is founder of the Kibera Visionary Women Self Help Group: I am a single parent with one daughter and… October 30, 2012 in African Business, African Campaigns, African Cultures, African Innovations, African NGOs, African Quotes. From Ghana: Inspiring Successful Entrepreneurship Driven by the desire to start his own company, Edward Amartey-Tagoe jumped at every entrepreneurship opportunity which came his way. He started his very first company, Always Complete whiles he was still an undergraduate at the University of Ghana. His venture supplied students with mobile phone credits. Edward’s love for entrepreneurship and technology led him… September 21, 2011 in African Business, African Campaigns, African Education, African Innovations.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line10442
__label__wiki	0.785765	0.785765	United States Bayer Crop Science Monsanto Bayer granted request to move some glyphosate trials out of California J. R. Pegg jonathan.pegg@ihsmarkit.com A federal judge in the US state of California has agreed to Bayer's request to move one of the next trials related to the safety of legacy company Monsanto's glyphosate-based herbicides to Nebraska. A federal judge in the US state of California has agreed to Bayer‘s request to move one of the next trials related to the safety of legacy company Monsanto‘s glyphosate-based herbicides to Nebraska. The company is keen to see how it fares outside of California, where losses in the first three trials have resulted in huge damages being incurred to cancer victims. They won damages after courts found that exposure to Monsanto‘s Roundup herbicides had caused their illnesses. A state jury in San Francisco, California awarded a former school groundskeeper $275 million last August and a second state jury in neighbouring Oakland awarded an elderly couple $2 billion in damages in May. In between, a federal jury convened in San Francisco handed down an $80 million verdict against Monsanto. All three cases found that exposure to glyphosate played a substantial role in causing the plaintiffs‘ cancers and found Monsanto should have warned consumers of the cancer risks from its herbicides. US District Judge Vince Chhabria, who is overseeing more than 1,200 federal complaints consolidated in the US District Court for the Northern District of California, has called on Bayer to mediate the federal cases and consider settling the remaining claims. Bayer, which also faces thousands of lawsuits in state courts, has appealed all three rulings. The next federal trial is planned for San Francisco in February and Judge Chhabria intends to refer several other complaints to other federal courts in California. In an order issued June 14th, he agreed that this “first wave” of cases should be heard in California while five similar complaints will be sent back to the US District Court for the District of Nebraska. Hearings in those cases will begin in the autumn. The second wave will consist of trials transferred back to federal courts in their home districts. The plaintiffs have chosen Illinois while Bayer has opted for North Carolina. The decision is a win for Bayer, which has suffered financially from the jury verdicts amid lingering public concern about Monsanto‘s glyphosate herbicides and the company‘s past conduct. Bayer purchased Monsanto for some $63 billion last year, but the group’s stock has dropped more than 40% since the first ruling last August, a decrease equalling some $40 billion in value. In its request last month to move the forthcoming round of trials to a different state, Bayer called California a “poor candidate to be the sole source of preliminary information” about litigation that spans 66 jurisdictions. “Focusing so heavily on California plaintiffs in this otherwise national litigation will not provide a representative sample from which the parties can value and evaluate the litigation,” Bayer said in its May 29th filing with Judge Chhabria. The company pointed to California‘s controversial Prop. 65 law, which requires warning labels on a long list of products that contain chemicals that major jurisdictions have found to pose risks of cancer or reproductive harm. The law means California residents see cancer warnings lrdquo;on an abundance of items” that do not require such labels in other jurisdictions, “distorting juror‘s views of when and why cancer warnings are warranted", according to Bayer. The company noted that California does not cap non-economic damages or limit punitive damages awards and adds that courts in California are required by the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit to show “greater deference to experts in close cases” than other jurisdictions. Bayer argued that the state‘s pool of prospective jurors “is tainted by the extensive, and highly prejudicial coverage in local, state, and national news media of the prior three California verdicts”. Attorneys for the plaintiffs called on Judge Chhabria to ignore Bayer‘s request, arguing that the company had failed to justify remand of the Nebraska and North Carolina cases. “Monsanto overstates the necessity of remand to other jurisdictions in order to evaluate the nature and strength of the claims,” the plaintiffs said in their filing last month. They noted that Judge Chhabria had called California “a very diverse state” adding that pending state trials in Missouri would also provide information to evaluate the claims. Bayer Crop Science Herbicides & PGRs Subject: Bayer granted request to move some glyphosate trials out of California	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line10448
__label__cc	0.606708	0.393292	FinTech: We’re just getting started Global FinTech investment in 2017 was unprecedented with $16.6B of capital (+20% compared to 2016) deployed across 1,128 deals. Despite this, some have argued that FinTech’s days are numbered and that it is less clear how much opportunity still remains for future innovation. Proponents of this line of thought argue that most traditional financial services have already been unbundled and that large startups that dominate areas like payments, lending, and investing have even begun to re-bundle services. Moreover, despite the uptick in investment into the sector, the early-stage portion of overall financing dropped to a 5-year low which has further supported the belief that most of the innovation in FinTech has already happened. At Matrix, we believe that we are still in the early innings of the financial services disruption. While FinTech startups have done very well in the last decade, there is still room for more great companies to be built. As a follow-up to our previous article where we introduced the Matrix FinTech Index, we have put together a corollary to that piece where we specify 7 tailwinds that have powered FinTech innovation for the last 10 years, discuss key drivers for future innovation, and identify the subcategories we believe are most promising. Review of 7 important tailwinds for innovation in FinTech the last 10 years Mobile has been leveraged as an enabler: Companies like Squareleveraged mobile as a way to reduce the cost of doing business for merchants by allowing for new features like secure payments via mobile applications. The financial crisis created unmet demand: Incumbent’s unwillingness to lend to credit poor individuals and high-risk SMBs created a window of opportunity for companies like Lending Club and OnDeck to fulfill this unmet demand. The payments infrastructure opened up to developers: APIs and developer tools made available by companies like Braintree and Stripeallowed developers to integrate payment processing into their websites without the need to maintain a merchant account. Online banking penetration unlocked important customer data: Deeper penetration of online banking has made it possible for companies like Yodlee to allow users to see all their banking information on one screen and others like Credit Karma to provide credit monitoring services. Core financial services have been unbundled: Many sub-segments traditionally handled solely by the banks have been unbundled. For example, SoFi is helping with borrowing, Xoom with money transfers and Mint with financial management. The cloud provided a new distribution channel to serve SMBs: Companies like Kabbage, which provides loans to SMBs, can now justify serving lower life time value customers like SMBs due to the lower customer acquisition costs associated with the cloud. Digital disintermediation provided greater value to consumers: Companies like Wealthfront, Betterment and Robinhood all reduce the fees charged by brokerages and traditional investment managers providing greater alpha to retail investors. Key drivers for innovation in the next 10 years Many of these 7 trends will continue to play a role in FinTech innovation moving forward. But we have identified 3 additional drivers for innovation in FinTech going forward. 1. Incumbent failures are really coming into focus. Traditional financial institutions are anachronistic. They serve their customers with antiquated products and are often slow to innovate due to both their size and regulatory burdens. Moreover, financial products have historically not been customer-centric, as banks devote most of their resources to optimizing their data and analysis and boosting their bottom line. Consequently, incumbents in financial services have largely failed to meet the needs of consumers, and the emergence of FinTech has put their shortcomings under the spotlight. While financial services as an industry has been notorious for low consumer trust levels, consumer trust has plunged even further in the wake of fraud, scandals, and data breaches (e.g. Wells Fargo and Equifax). Additionally, poor customer experience has left consumers with limited loyalty to their financial services providers. 2. Millennials are emerging as the new source of spending power. Millennials are the largest generation in American history consisting of over 70 million people born between 1980 and 2000. Millennials are digital-first users who grew up distrustful of banks and are generally more inclined to try FinTech applications. Furthermore, while traditional financial services has focused on large pools of wealth characteristic of older generations, FinTech innovation is making financial services and products much more accessible to younger generations. 3. Due to the transition of profit pools, incumbents are going to become a lot more acquisitive in the coming months. Incumbents have begun to acquire FinTech companies as a means to compete against innovative startups and other acquisitive incumbents. Many of the acquisitions so far have been centered around automation of basic tasks. In the last 5 years, 18 FinTech startups have been acquired by banks, with 8 acquisitions occurring since the beginning of 2017. We believe that there is much more opportunity and incentive to acquire — especially for technologies that go beyond automation. 5 subcategories we are most excited about Ultimately we believe the incumbents will continue to lose ground to the FinTechs and that there is plenty of opportunity for entrepreneurs to build enduring companies in the sector. Great companies will certainly be built across the entire financial services industry, but here are a few sub-categories within FinTech that we think are particularly exciting: Payments: Even with all the innovation to date in payments, there continue to be pain points throughout the category and many customer demographics remain underserved. In order to be successful in this category, new entrants will need to build on-top of existing payment rails, serve large TAMs and go after new use cases. Investing / wealth management: Despite recent innovation by players like Wealthfront, Betterment, Robinhood and others, wealth management remains dominated by the incumbents. This reality makes the category a ripe one for entrepreneurs as there are large TAMs, poor customer experiences and a new generation (i.e. millennials) that have unmet needs. Success here will require intuitive design, low fees and efficient customer acquisition. Infrastructure Apps: Financial institutions suffer from bloated cost structures in the middle and back office for tasks like fraud/ risk management, collections, invoice management and customer support. There’s an opportunity for entrepreneurs to provide software tools that reduce costs and allow for more efficient work flows if they can manage the lengthy sales cycles and procurement processes. SMB tools: Companies like Gusto and Namely, have begun to serve SMBs in areas like payroll and benefits administration. Even so, SMBs remain largely underserved compared to larger enterprises. FinTech companies that can acquire SMBs efficiently and provide enterprise-level experiences will be able to generate enough value to their customers to create large outcomes. B2B Lending tools: On the consumer side, lending has become pretty crowded with some of the winners already declared. But on the enterprise side, the category is very ripe. The opportunity for entrepreneurs is in leveraging data at cloud scale combined with advances in machine learning to allow enterprises to better assess borrower risk and drive higher yield. The author would like to thank Sreyas Misra for his contributions to this piece. Author allenPosted on April 23, 2018 April 23, 2018 Categories UncategorizedTags financial services, FinTech, Venture CapitalLeave a comment on FinTech: We’re just getting started Revolutionizing wealth management with Jon Stein, Founder & CEO of Betterment In this fourth episode of Focus on the Founder, Jon Stein, Co-founder & CEO of Betterment joins us to discuss his career journey, experience starting Betterment while in business school and thoughts on wealth management and investing more broadly. Jon Stein (Founder & CEO, Betterment) Achieving Personalization At-Scale Betterment is a robo-advisor platform that provides investment advice and wealth management at a low price point. The wealth management space is fiercely competitive. Startups like Betterment, Wealthfront, and Robinhood as well as incumbents like Vanguard and Schwab have all entered the space, competing to provide personalized, low-cost advice to consumers. Since Betterment launched in 2010, their assets under management have grown rapidly, reaching almost $12 billion earlier this month. During this conversation, Jon discusses his experiences growing Betterment, and how Betterment has succeeded in such a competitive environment through truly putting the customer first. As always, you can find the full podcast episode on SoundCloud, iTunes, and Google Play. Key Thoughts from Jon on… The reasons behind founding Betterment: While working for the First Manhattan Consulting Group, Jon advised some of the world’s largest banks and brokerages. In the process, Jon gained an insider’s perspective on how banks operate and serve their customers. His product-development engagements with banks typically involved working on the key aspects of their products such as default rates and internal transfer pricing. Notably, these larger players paid almost no attention to their customers during the product-development process, as they focused much more on optimizing their data and existing flows, which Jon found perplexing. While working in Australia, Jon encountered user-centric financial products not available in the US at the time, such as the mortgage-offset account which combines a traditional mortgage and deposit account. These experiences helped frame the problem that Betterment aims to solve — that “the old way of managing money is broken.” Investment management should be held to a higher standard — one which focuses far more on consumers. Building a team: Jon committed to starting Betterment before starting his MBA at Columbia Business School. In the early days, building Betterment was a two-fold challenge — building the actual product and navigating the regulatory challenges of being an investment advisor. Sean Owen, Jon’s roommate at the time, provided much of the early engineering expertise. Sean was a software engineer at Google who studied computer science at Harvard, and built the back-end of Betterment while Jon worked on the front-end. Jon eventually met Eli Broverman during a weekly poker game. Eli, who was then a securities attorney, provided the legal expertise and helped Jon navigate through complex regulatory landscape. Sean and Eli’s skillsets were diverse and congruent with the early challenges that Jon needed to solve. The fundraising journey: Betterment launched at TechCrunch Disrupt in 2010, where they competed against 500+ entrants, many of which had already raised some amount of funding. Betterment went on to win the competition, giving him crucial exposure to customers and investors. Immediately following the competition, Betterment signed up 400 new customers, who helped drive Betterment’s initial organic growth by way of referrals. The boost in credibility from the event made it easier to hire new employees, and helped Betterment rapidly grow from what was at the time a four-person team. Just as important, preparing for the Disrupt presentation helped Jon and his team internalize their story and understand how to best pitch the idea. A month following the TechCrunch competition, Jon was able to raise $3 million from Bessemer Venture Partners. How Betterment puts customers first: Since the initial investment from Bessemer, Betterment has secured $275 million in funding and has grown significantly in employee count and AUM. In this period of growth, Jon doubled down on the theme of bringing the voice of the customer into every interaction. This focus has helped Betterment withstand the test of time and compete effectively against a host of startups and incumbents offering similar services. Private Robo-Advisors in the Wealth-Technology Category Source: CB Insights Betterment puts the customer first by: 1. Personalizing advice Betterment’s vision is to provide excellent financial guidance that is easy to understand and available to everyone. Betterment is unique in that it offers a spectrum of interaction-types: customers who prefer human interaction can receive hybrid-robo solutions through Betterment’s unlimited text messaging and premium telephone access services. By prioritizing the education of their end-user, Betterment offers a suite of solutions to improve consumer-access to financial markets. 2. Building trust Financial services as an industry has historically had a low NPS. Betterment strives to build trust with its customers as both an ethical obligation and a means of differentiation. In addition to investment advice, Betterment publishes scores of articles helping consumers understand their personal finances, navigate through tax reform, and manage their expenses. Betterment also has no holdings of their own; thus, they eliminate many of the conflicts of interest present in most banks. 3. Combining responsibility with wealth creation Betterment offers a way for consumers to hold well-diversified portfolios that are also socially responsible through their socially responsible investing (SRI) portfolio. Social responsibility doesn’t just afford Betterment an additional dimension of personalization; it also reflects well on their brand as an ethical investment advisor. The future of investment management: In this bull market, massive amounts of capital have been pushed into indices and ETFs, which represent a little over 10% of the global equity market capitalization. In fact, these indices and ETFs, spearheaded by firms like BlackRock and Vanguard, have outperformed an overwhelming majority of hedge funds. Net flows into U.S.-based passively managed funds and out of active funds in the first half of each year Source: Bloomberg, ICI Jon explains that Betterment is here to stay even in increasingly likely bear market scenarios, as the same principles of minimizing cost and managing tax burdens that currently power Betterment’s platform still apply during downturns. Through careful risk-management, alternative investment strategies, and optimizing customer behavior to prevent market panic, Betterment aims not only to protect its customers in bear markets but also provide them competitive returns. Author allenPosted on February 19, 2018 February 19, 2018 Categories UncategorizedTags financial services, FinTech, FocusontheFounderLeave a comment on Revolutionizing wealth management with Jon Stein, Founder & CEO of Betterment Bringing financial services to emerging markets with Shivani Siroya the Founder and CEO of Tala In the third episode of Focus on the Founder, I sat down with Shivani Siroya, the Founder and CEO of Tala. Shivani’s background comprises a unique mix of experiences in global health at the UN Population Fund and traditional investment banking at Credit Suisse, UBS, and Citi. In 2012, Shivani started Tala, then known as InVenture, to address some of the economic challenges she observed in Africa and Asia while working for the UN. Shivani Siroya (Founder & CEO, Tala) Tala as a Solution to a Global Problem Tala is a mobile-technology startup based in Santa Monica, CA that enables underserved people in emerging markets to access conventional financial services. Targeting an estimated population of 2 billion people, Tala’s smartphone-lending app delivers credit to borrowers with little-to-no financial history by using thousands of mobile data points to calculate an alternative credit score. The company has already disbursed over $225M in credit via 4.6 million microloans to borrowers across East Africa and the Philippines, and has plans to expand into Latin America and Southeast Asia. Percentage of population (% ages 15+) with bank accounts, by country In this conversation, Shivani discusses her experience growing Tala and the challenges and opportunities of bringing financial services to the underserved. YYou can find the full podcast episode on SoundCloud, iTunes, and Google Play. Key Thoughts from Shivani on the… Reasons behind founding Tala: Shivani created Tala to solve a real problem. While at the United Nations Population Fund, she helped develop costing models and conducted thousands of interviews across multiple countries in Africa and Asia. Over this period, she witnessed the same problem occur: large populations of responsible, hard-working people who were unable to take out a loan due to lack of any financial history. Her decision felt “almost unconscious” simply because this was a huge problem that someone had to solve. Creation of a new market: Because Tala attracts customers that are largely not covered by credit bureaus and lack access to traditional banking, Shivani explains that Tala’s Total Addressable Market (TAM) is about 2x that of a traditional lending company. Furthermore, by allowing borrowers to register with their smartphone and receive credit in a matter of minutes, Tala’s transformative user experience takes advantage of rapidly rising smartphone usage in emerging markets. A Projected Upsurge in Smartphone Ownership in Emerging Markets When choosing early adopter regions, Tala takes into account factors like political infrastructure, regulatory concerns and currency fluctuations — in addition to smartphone penetration. Benefits and challenges of leading a distributed team: Tala employs 165 people divided across three offices in Santa Monica, Manila and Nairobi. Because Tala has a global vision and is a customer-centric company, Shivani explains that Tala is required to have a distributed team to stay close to the customer. Hiring both engineers and customer-facing employees across all locations, Tala is able to track and serve the needs of an incredibly diverse user base. Proximity has proven especially critical to acquiring customers in close-knit communities. While Tala’s primary acquisition channel is digital (e.g. Facebook, Google AdWords, and Twitter), their organic traffic has been largely driven by referrals, radio, comment boards, and offline campaigns. Thus, a distributed team-structure has helped Tala achieve above 90% month-over-month growth in loan origination across all markets. Leading a distributed team does not come without challenges. Research has found that distributed teams often suffer from communication barriers, differential knowledge bases, and inconsistent value systems. To overcome these hurdles, Shivani has: Instituted a core-set of founding principles that pervades across all three offices Required that all employees contribute to user research and be transparent about customer insights Conducted all final-round interviews to ensure a common cultural thread between all hires Made office managers travel quarterly to the other company locations Split between balance-sheet and marketplace lending: When Tala enters a new market, the company lends off of its own balance sheet as they gather customer data and develop and localize their credit models. As data is gathered and Tala’s models become more predictive, Tala moves more toward lending from a debt facility backed by traditional institutional investors and high net worth individuals. Data-driven approach to Loan Financing: Tala collects 10,000+ different data-points from a user’s smartphone to calculate an alternative credit score. Users are debriefed on how their data is utilized and can limit how much they share with Tala by toggling privacy options by data-category. Shivani argues that tracking metrics as varied as financial transactions, social network diversity, and relationship stability, paint a more complete picture of a borrower’s riskiness compared to traditional credit-score inputs. Moreover, while some microfinancing options have been known to offer exploitative interest rates, Tala carefully customizes loan sizes and terms to their customer’s financial needs and risk tolerances. In addition, Tala differentiates on the speed dimension — approvals are instant, and most customers receive credit in less than 5 minutes. As a result, Tala has kept their repayment rates above 90 percent, and more than 95% of Tala’s first-time borrowers return for additional loans. In addition to individual-level factors, Tala also considers macro-effects such as unemployment rates, purchasing power, GDP, and political instability. Penetration of crypto-currencies and blockchain in the developing world: Shivani explains that while the markets in which Tala is involved have not experienced much penetration by cryptocurrencies, Tala has started to investigate crypto as a means of currency exchange and moving capital. Furthermore, Shivani envisions that blockchain might play a crucial role in allowing Tala’s users to transition from a country-specific to a global financial identity. Author allenPosted on January 25, 2018 January 25, 2018 Categories UncategorizedLeave a comment on Bringing financial services to emerging markets with Shivani Siroya the Founder and CEO of Tala The Rise of FinTech: Introducing the Matrix FinTech Index The full overview of the Matrix FinTech Index is available on TechCrunch here. Over the course of the last few years, FinTech as a category has really taken off. Five years ago the term ‘FinTech’ was not something most people had heard of other than a few early players in the startup ecosystem. Today, FinTech is ubiquitous. In fact, the term has become synonymous with innovation in financial services — it’s hard to imagine a world without Paypal, Venmo, Square and many others. The Google Trends chart below describes this explosion in FinTech interest best. Definition: Matrix considers “FinTechs” to be (a) technology-first companies that leverage software to compete with traditional financial services institutions (e.g. banks, credit card networks, insurers, etc.) in the delivery of traditional financial services (e.g. lending, payments, investing, etc.) or (b) software tools that better enable traditional finance functions (e.g. accounting, point-of-sales systems, payments, etc.) Methodology and Results With an eye towards tracking the progress of disruption in the financial services space, we’re excited to release the Matrix U.S. FinTech Index today. This market-cap weighted index tracks the progress of a portfolio of the 10 leading public FinTech companies over the course of the last year (beginning in December of 2016). For comparison, we have also included another portfolio of the 10 largest financial services incumbents (companies like JP Morgan, Visa and American Express) as well as the S&P 500 index. As seen below, the Matrix FinTech Index shows a clear win for the FinTechs, who have collectively delivered 89% returns in the last 12 months. This is 60 percentage points higher than the 29% returns delivered by the incumbent portfolio and well above the S&P 500 Index. Additional Data Now Available Our hope in the coming months is to provide periodic updates to this Index. In addition, we are releasing a data package that anyone can download here that has a range of other helpful information on both the FinTechs and the incumbents. More specifically, the package includes: Market cap and stock price data over the last year for the companies in the index Comp sheets that include financial metrics on the public companies Summary data on private FinTech companies valued at over $1B Finally, this index is dynamic — we fully anticipate that it will be tweaked and refined in the coming months. Please feel free to send us your thoughts and feedback as we refine the process and methodology. Author allenPosted on December 30, 2017 May 14, 2019 Categories UncategorizedLeave a comment on The Rise of FinTech: Introducing the Matrix FinTech Index Both Sides of the Table with Ashley Johnson the CFO/COO of Wealthfront (episode 2) In this second episode of Focus on the Founder, I sat down with Ashley Johnson the COO/ CFO of Wealthfront. Ashley has a really interesting career as both an investor and operator. The first part of her career was spent largely as an investor at Morgan Stanley and then at General Atlantic, where she sourced investments in ServiceSource and RenRen. Both of these companies are now publicly traded. Ashley then ended up joining ServiceSource, where she held the CFO and CCO roles, before joining Wealthfront as COO/ CFO. Wealthfront’s Growth Trajectory Wealthfront has been on a very solid growth trajectory since its founding nearly a decade ago. The rob-advisor, which was founded by Andy Rachleff and Dan Carroll in 2008, now manages over $7B in AUM and has well over 100,000 accounts. And they are very well funded, having raised a total of $130M with a valuation (from 2014) of $700M. During this conversation, Ashley discusses: the arc of her career, her initial priorities as the new CFO at Wealthfront back in 2015, the recruiting strategies the company employs and much more. The full podcast episode is available on SoundCloud, iTunes & Google Play. Key Thoughts from Ashley on the… Qualities she was looking for in potential investment opportunities Two of Ashley’s more notable investments were ServiceSource and RenRen. In both cases the companies’ combined three key elements that she (and General Atlantic) really valued in potential investment opportunities: (1) extremely passionate founders, (2) clear product-market fit and (3) a highly defensible business model with high gross margins. The capital General Atlantic provided then went towards very specific uses that accelerated growth and allowed for great outcomes. In the case of ServiceSource, the capital went to building out a sales team. In the case of RenRen, the capital injection was used to do a number of small acquisitions. Areas where she was able to add value as an investor The key value General Atlantic was able to bring to ServiceSource was expertise in understanding how to build out a really strong Sales team. This included bringing Jim Madden, a global leader in inside sales, customer success and growth, onto the board of the company. At RenRen, the company’s leadership in China was able to benefit from the lessons learned by General Atlantic’s knowledge of the US social media market. General Atlantic was also able to help RenRen navigate regulatory hurdles — namely ensuring licenses were current with the various ministries in China, which provided the company with a big competitive advantage over other early players in the space. Transition from investor to operator Ashley compares the transition as going from an individual sport (investing) to a team sport (operating). One of the first lessons she learned, while trying to determine sales comp as ServiceSource (which she joined after General Atlantic’s investment) is that you can’t operate in a vacuum when running a business as you might be able to do to do as an investor. Instead, you need to apply a 360 degree approach around communication across teams. Otherwise the outcome, as she experienced first hand (and elaborates on in the podcast), isn’t great. Key priorities for her when she first assumed the CFO role at Wealthfront When Ashley joined Wealthfront in 2015, the company had just blown by $1B in AUM and was growing quickly but lacked the key processes and structures of a more mature company. Her first order of business was to build out a team for the finance organization. The second priority was to turn their venture funding ($100M on the balance sheet at that point) into a strategic asset and put in real structures in place around how to think through the uses of that cash and how to best allocate it across the organization. Recruiting during periods of rapid growth At Wealthfront, recruiting is viewed as a strategic function and they have invested heavily in building out a strong internal recruiting team. When evaluating candidates, the #1 most important criteria is excitement and passion for the Wealthfront mission. The five operating principles they have maintained at Wealthfront, enabling them to maintain a strong culture during this period of hyper-growth, include: 1. Work with a sense of urgency 2. Ensure that decisions, even if tough, are made quickly 3. Debate and disagree initially but commit to a single path in the end 4. When disagreeing, do so respectfully 5. Always assume the best intent Competing with the incumbents in wealth management Wealthfront knows that it can always be outspent by the incumbents from a paid-marketing perspective. Moreover, one of the key metrics they look to adhere to is a 2-year payback period, which makes excessive marketing impossible. Instead they focus on leveraging millennial’s disdain for the incumbent brands, a superior product and a better overall customer experience to win against the incumbents. Cryptocurrency market and Wealthfront’s position from a product perspective If you’re hoping to add bitcoin to your Wealthfront portfolio, you will be waiting for quite some time. While many of Wealthfront’s customers are invested in crypto currencies, the firm is largely bearish on these assets in the long run. So don’t expect any exposure to crypto currencies from them anytime soon. The gender gap in saving and investing Women, especially in the 18–33 demographic, are less likely to save and invest than their male counterparts. In fact, Ashley wrote an article in Fortune a few years back encouraging more women to start taking saving seriously. Her belief is that the lower savings rate is driven by 3 components: (1) lack of awareness, (2) lower confidence in finance related topics and (3) patronizing messaging in the industry. Wealthfront aims to be more inclusive by making their messaging universally relatable and accessible. The conversation we had around Wealthfront and FinTech more broadly was certainly enriched by Ashley’s wealth of experiences on both sides of the table. A big thank you to Ashley for joining us — we look forward to seeing what’s in store from Wealthfront in the coming year. Happy listening! Author allenPosted on December 18, 2017 December 18, 2017 Categories UncategorizedLeave a comment on Both Sides of the Table with Ashley Johnson the CFO/COO of Wealthfront (episode 2) Announcing our new Podcast Series ‘Focus on the Founder’ with our first guest – Ryan Williams of Cadre Over the years, we’ve heard from our founders here at Matrix that some of the best learning opportunities they’ve had has come from 1:1 conversations with other entrepreneurs. And while there is no shortage of resources for entrepreneurs (including content we have built at Viewpoints and forEntrepreneurs), there are very few public forums where successful founders and operators speak candidly about their career journeys and discuss what has/ has not worked for them as they’ve scaled their businesses. That is why we are excited to announce ‘Focus on the Founder’ – a podcast series that will do exactly what it sounds like—bring the focus back on the founder. In the coming months, we will be releasing a series of episodes where we ask successful founders and operators questions about their journey into entrepreneurship, how they’ve gone about making critical decisions (e.g. hiring, fundraising, etc.) and what they would do differently looking back. The initial focus will be on founders and senior execs in FinTech—though this may evolve over time. We will keep the episodes short, informal and frank. The very first episode is with Ryan Williams the CEO and co-founder of Cadre. You can find the podcast episode on SoundCloud, iTunes & Google Play. In this episode you will learn about… How Ryan went from selling headbands at age 13 to flipping houses in college to launching Cadre. Or as he puts it “Headbands to Houses to High Rises” When the real “Aha” moment came for Ryan that led him to believe that there was a big opportunity in real estate technology What Ryan believes is the single most important characteristic behind the success of companies like Amazon, Airbnb and Fidelity and how Cadre has embraced that characteristic How Ryan works with his investors and the value they have provided to him beyond the obvious capital injection The crucial metrics and KPIs that Cadre tracks and measures What other areas Ryan is excited about and would explore if he were not building Cadre…hint some of them are pretty controversial in the venture world today Author allenPosted on December 5, 2017 December 18, 2017 Categories UncategorizedTags entrepreneurship, FinTech, FocusontheFounderLeave a comment on Announcing our new Podcast Series ‘Focus on the Founder’ with our first guest – Ryan Williams of Cadre Money 2020: 12 lessons from this year’s conference Earlier this week I attended Money2020 in Las Vegas. In just over 5 years, Money2020 has become the leading industry conference for everything to do with FinTech. It’s a jam-packed but valuable 4 days of expert panels, startup pitches, networking events and keynotes from industry leaders. I was there for just under 24 hours, which meant the experience was even more of a blur. This post is my attempt to capture twelve of the biggest learnings from the conference. Lesson 1: Money is still the #1 biggest stressor for most Americans, understandably so. Dan Wernikoff from Intuit was one of the keynote speakers Tuesday morning and some of the data points he surfaced on consumer behaviors around money are sobering: 44% of Americans cannot come up with $400 for an emergency. 49% of Mint users spend more than they make. Intuit customers on average paid $1,700 a year in interest. Lesson 2: Most financial institutions are not adequately meeting the needs of their customers. Despite the potential opportunity created by the high stress around money, banks and other financial institutions really struggle to provide the experience their customers need. This is in part because most financial institutions are product centric not customer centric. The result has been notoriously low NPS scores and a disenchanted end user. Even more alarmingly, most customers of the leading banking brands distrust their banks: Lesson 3: Among an already pretty unhappy customer base, millennials are the most disenfranchised of all. As Philippe Dintrans, Chief Digital Officer at Cognizant put it, most financial institutions are totally missing the mark with millennials. That is in part because millennials exhibit fundamentally different behaviors than earlier generations around things like savings. 63% of millennials are focused on saving towards desired life goals (e.g. getting out of student debt, purchasing a home, etc.) as compared to 45% of gen Xers and baby boomers. 55% of gen Xers and baby boomers are focused on developing savings towards retirement, where only 37% of millennials are planning for retirement Lesson 4: FinTech startups have capitalized on the failures of incumbents by addressing specific pain-points with carefully designed products. The examples are smattered across financial services but a few examples that stand-out: Wealth management was traditionally a confusing and fee-heavy landscape to navigate. Betterment created a beautiful and educational product that reduced fees and enabled a better user experience. Peer-to-peer money transfers traditionally required a manual process that took days and trips to the bank. Venmo made it simple, quick and fun to do P2P payments. SMBs used to have to use clunky check-out payment methods that locked them into a set location and required back-end processing to reconcile the books. Stripe enabled any merchant anywhere to accept payments with ease using an iPad. Applying for, managing and refinancing loans was historically a painful process for most students. SoFi provided students with an easy way to apply for and refinance their loans all with the promise of a lower interest rate. Lesson 5: Barriers to entry have never been lower to starting a FinTech business. It’s not just that the cost of starting a business in tech has been dramatically reduced (which has been well documented). In FinTech, there are also important industry-specific enablers allowing startups to enter and compete with the incumbents: Insurgents don’t need a large balance sheet to open business. For example, marketplaces like LendingClub and Prosper connect borrowers and lenders without underwriting any of the loans. Regulatory hurdles, for almost every sub-category within FinTech (with the exception of Blockchain / crypto assets), have been removed thanks to early pioneers like PayPal. Platforms and developer tools like Stripe and Shopify have reduced development costs and time-to-market dramatically enabling SMB merchants to sell with the same ease as larger enterprises. Lesson 6: Large and enduring companies have been and will continue to be built in FinTech. In two decades, PayPal, the “original” FinTech startup has reached a market cap of $84B. By comparison AMEX, which was founded a 167 years ago, has a market cap of $82B. Many more enduring companies will be built in FinTech in the years to come. Lesson 7: There is no shortage of venture money. As of today there are 36 FinTech unicorns globally – that number represents 17% of the total share of unicorns. The venture market has realized the breadth of opportunity in FinTech and more money has poured into FinTech than ever before. In 2008, the number of FinTech companies funded was just over 200. In 2016, the number of FinTech companies receiving venture capital exceeded 5,000. In the same time period, venture funding from a dollar perspective climbed from <$1B to close to $60B. Lesson 8: Great companies are being built across categories. With this increase in FinTech funding, great new companies are being built and entire sub-categories, from payments to insurance, are being served in new ways. Some of the really big winners of today either didn’t exist or were in their infancy 10 years ago. A few examples include publicly traded companies (LendingClub, Square, etc.), unicorns (Stripe, Sofi, GreenSky, CreditKarma, AvidXchange, Gusto, etc,) and several others that are well on their way (Betterment, Affirm, Plaid, etc.) Lesson 9: Many think that the big area of opportunity for FinTech is in Blockchain/ crypto assets but that may not necessarily be true. Blockchain/ crypto assets are certainly getting all the attention right now but there are plenty of other areas that are just as interesting on both the B2C and B2B sides of the table. Some areas that are particularly exciting include: Consumer: (1) personal financial management, (2) insurance, (3) real estate and (4) investing / wealth management Enterprise: (1) institutional investing, (2) infrastructure apps, (3) SMB tools, (4) commercial insurance and (5) security & fraud detection Lesson 10: Blockchain – lots of noise but few clear signals. Bitcoin today is trading at $5,500+ per coin and the total market cap of all cryptocurrencies is $170B. ICOs meanwhile have raised $8B in 2017 to-date. In the midst of this some things are clearer than others. What is clear today is that crypto assets have a definite use case as a store of value. What’s less clear is how we get from there to the end goal of software with no central operator, which is the big promise behind blockchain. The big advantage to blockchain, as Adam Ludwin from Chain put it, is “censorship resistance” (access is unfettered and transactions are unstoppable) but we have yet to see killer applications that can cannibalize existing practices. Lesson 11: It’s not all about the U.S. ~1/3 of today’s FinTech unicorns are outside the U.S. (Asia + Europe). U.S. FinTech companies can likely learn a bit from their peers in other geographies. Behavioral and cultural differences certainly exist but there are a few clear examples of this that came up during one of the payment-focused panels. For example, in China, WeChat is using messaging capability to allow social payments. Stan Chudnovsky, the Head of Product for Facebook’s Messenger, revealed during one of the payments sessions that Facebook is developing this and expects it to be a key use case in the next 18-24 months. But in this space we are certainly followers not leaders. Lesson 12: The FinTech community grows more vibrant and robust each year. Money 2020 was founded 5 years ago and since its launch then has grown into the leading FinTech conference globally. There are now 11,000+ attendees, more than 1,700 CEOs & Presidents and 85 countries represented. Still a lot of opportunity ahead but the numbers speak clearly to the vibrancy and enthusiasm in the community. Many thanks to the founders of Money2020 Anil Aggarwal, Simran Aggarwal and Jonathan Weiner for another great conference. Looking forward to next year! Author allenPosted on October 25, 2017 October 25, 2017 Categories UncategorizedTags financial services, FinTech1 Comment on Money 2020: 12 lessons from this year’s conference	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line10458
__label__wiki	0.50763	0.50763	Category Archives: Vito Rick Rick Vito – Band Box Boogie (2003) Posted on November 2, 2014 by allerlei2013riffmaster Why some American indie label doesn’t snatch up Rick Vito and turn him into the star he so rightfully deserves to be is beyond me. In the past four years Vito has released three brilliant albums, the most recent being the rollicking BAND BOX BOOGIE. While his strengths as a guitarist, songwriter and producer have long been evident, it’s his new found prowess as a singer that really stands out on the disc. If I had one quibble about the US release of the disc it would have to be the resequencing of the tracks, something that has resulted in a…less even flow…than that of the original European version. But that’s a minor point.The CD now opens with the sultry “Last Chance To Mambo.” A perfect blend of slinky guitars, delicate percussion, muted horns and hushed vocals, the song nicely (but only partially!) sets the pace for what’s to come. Next up is “Little Sheba”, with it’s hip-swaying groove and slightly nasty vibe. Once again, all the elements come together in a way that you just don’t see that often nowadays…the percussion accents things just right, the horns wail, the vocals cause you to sweat and the lyrics tell a torrid story. Brilliant! “Blues Town” is probably my favorite track on the disc. This is the kind of rockin’ number that has you shakin’ it in your seat by song’s end. I dare anyone to sit still during this song! The jumping horns are enough to get anyone going, but when Vito announces “Alright, move over, boys!” and cuts loose with the first of two impressive solos, you know this man is enjoying himself, and that joy is passed on to the listener. Things slowdown a bit (albeit only slightly!) with “The Ways Of Sin”, a swinging, swaying number that instantly transports you back to the first half of the 20th century. Awash in popping horns and brilliant guitar work (both acoustic and electric), this is one of the cuts that particularly shows what an all-around talent Vito has become. “Hungry Man” is roots rock & roll, pure and simple. The thinly veiled lyrics hark back to the early days of rock, while Jim Hoke’s sax playing anchors the song in a sturdy, playful manner. Next up is the title track, a blazing instrumental that features some amazing picking and playing on Vito’s part. You can just picture him attacking the strings on his guitar! Add some sumptuous horn fills and you have a very impressive – and gritty! – effort! Then there’s “Where Did You Go Bettie Page?” With it’s finger-popping groove and clever lyrics (“Now she made a trip out to Hollywood/Bettie was ready and she was lookin’ so good/But things didn’t work out the way she planned/The town got hot and Bettie got scammed”), there’s both an innocence and insightfulness to the cut that’s extremely appealing. The same can be said about “Message From Mister Jordan”, a dream-induced tale about carrying on various musical traditions. When Vito sings “Play a blue guitar and bang on the drum/Have a real good time then pass it on down from the father to the son!”, you realize he’s on a mission, one that means a lot to him…and one that he’s succeeding brilliantly at (Once again, Jim Hoke’s sax work deserves special mention). Next up is “Baby’s In The Big House”, a goofy old romp that’s just flat-out fun. A number of friends that I have bought BAND BOX BOOGIE for have commented that they thought “The Gypsy Serenade” seemed out of place. I disagree. I think it’s a gorgeous instrumental track that allows the listener to kick back, take a breather and digest what they’ve heard thus far. This gentle track spills out of the speakers, floating about you until it wraps itself around you like a delicate silk shawl. Just gorgeous! Things do a 180 degree turn with the hopping “Rhythm.” This jumpin’ jive number once again transports you back to the 20’s, 30’s and 40’s. You feel the satin of the evening gowns as they brush up against you, you smell the gardenias in perfectly coifed hair, you see the crisp white tuxedo jackets of the band…how many songs today have the kind of power to do that to you? Another high point for BBB! Things wrap up with the blistering “I Can’t Stop Rockin'”, a giddy 50’s-esque rave-up, and “Jack Knife Jump”, a guitar-drenched instrumental that perfectly caps it all off. Finally, as per all my 2004 release reviews, I give the disc an extra half a star for including the lyrics. So, do yourself a favor and pick up Rick Vito’s BAND BOX BOOGIE…not only will you hear a master at work, but you’ll have a heck of a lot of fun while you’re doing it! (Amazon.com customer review) Taken from the original liner-notes: The “Band Box” was made in the fifties by the Chicago Coins company that also made pinball and other coin operated machines. Back then my brother Mark and I used to love to go to Joe Mauti’s pizza joint on the boardwalk in Wildwood New Jersey where they had one hanging up on the wall. My mom and dad would give us a few coins to play songs on the jukebox, and when a record started playing, the curtain on the Band Box would glide open and the little musician figures onstage would then sway back and forth to the music of Louie Prima, Frank, and Dino. Very cool. Around twenty years ago I met an antique dealer near Philly who loved my pink 1965 T-bird and invited me to swap it for it’s worth in collectibles from his store. When I walked in, the first thing I saw was the Band Box shown on the CD cover! I snapped it up gave it to my brother at Christmas time. It now resides at his terrific deco comedy venue in Wildwood, the Club Casba. The music on this recording was inspired by the kind of music I used to hear on those old Seeburg and Rockola jukeboxes. R&B, ballads, rock & roll, blues, Latin, and pop standards all played a part in the tapestry that became my musical influence. You can hear bits of my favorite guitarists like Les Paul, B.B. King, Django, Charlie Christian, Nato Lima, Teddy Bunn, Alvino Rey, and even Chuck Berry in these songs. They all played with fire and soul and I sought to capture some of that passion and fun here. If there is a theme to this recording, it might be found in the lyrics of one of the songs about a dream where I meet legendary R&B pioneer, Louis Jordan. Mister Jordan says, “Have a real good time, then pass it on down from the father to the son” Thanks, Louis! Rick Vito) Peter Freiberger (bass) Lee Hendricks (bass) Jim Hoke (saxophone, piano) Rick Reed (drums) Dave Roe (bass) Greg Thomas (drums) Rick Vito (guitar, vocals, bass) Ian Wallace (drums) Mark Williams (background vocals) Glenn Worf (bass) 01. Rhythm (Daniels) 2.18 02. Blues Town (Vito) 4.31 03. Last Chance To Mambo (Vito) 3.38 04, Little Sheba (Vito) 4.14 05. Band Box Boogie (Vito) 2.48 06. Where Did You Go Bettie Page (Vito) 3.38 07. The Ways Of Sin (Smith) 4.44 08. Baby’s In The Big House (Vito/Smotherman) 4.01 09. The Gypsy Serenade (Vito) 3.44 10. Message From Mister Jordan (Vito) 5.17 11. Hungry Man (Sanchez/Sylvester) 3.19 12. I Can’t Stop Rockin’ (Vito) 3.25 13. Jack Knife Jump (Vito) 3.00 Autographed frontcover * (coming soon) Posted in Rhythm & Blues, Rock N Roll, Vito Rick, Year Of Recording: 2003 \| Leave a reply	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line10459
__label__wiki	0.670635	0.670635	A Systematic Review of Music Therapy Practice and Outcomes with Acute Adult Psychiatric In-Patients Catherine Carr, Helen Odell Miller & Stefan Priebe http://www.mendeley.com/research/systematic-review-music-therapy-practice-outcomes-acute-adult-psychiatric-inpatients Is metadata for CiteULike30 Apr 08:19 UTC Mendeley 10527 Apr 11:15 UTC {"title"=>"A Systematic Review of Music Therapy Practice and Outcomes with Acute Adult Psychiatric In-Patients", "type"=>"generic", "authors"=>[{"first_name"=>"Catherine", "last_name"=>"Carr", "scopus_author_id"=>"57198170559"}, {"first_name"=>"Helen", "last_name"=>"Odell-Miller", "scopus_author_id"=>"11939327200"}, {"first_name"=>"Stefan", "last_name"=>"Priebe", "scopus_author_id"=>"8115293800"}], "year"=>2013, "source"=>"PLoS ONE", "identifiers"=>{"pui"=>"369474278", "sgr"=>"84880980810", "pmid"=>"23936399", "scopus"=>"2-s2.0-84880980810", "isbn"=>"1932-6203", "doi"=>"10.1371/journal.pone.0070252", "issn"=>"19326203"}, "id"=>"9af8b21d-90b2-34f4-b281-7c8884292a8a", "abstract"=>"BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: There is an emerging evidence base for the use of music therapy in the treatment of severe mental illness. 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(B) In the case where the simulated patient was supposed to have cardiovascular disease (represented by increased vessel stiffness) and carry the ApoE4 allele, Aβ deposition was significantly elevated within the brain parenchyma (100x and 1000x for Aβ40 and Aβ42, respectively). The decreased levels of Aβ within the cerebrovasculature was not quite as significant as with increased vessel stiffness alone, suggesting that the ApoE allele plays an important role in determining deposition and Aβ concentration within the space near cerebral vessels. The significantly elevated Aβ levels led to a decrease in the neuronal cell number secondary to increased neuronal death rate seen at high Aβ levels. (C) The results of increased vessel stiffness in the presence of bradycardia led to results that were similar to those seen with increased vessel stiffness alone.</p>", "links"=>[], "tags"=>["alzheimer", "importance", "deposition", "nft", "apolipoprotein E 4 allele", "presence", "blood vessels", "Cerebral Blood Vessel Properties", "AD pathogenesis", "term memory loss", "model", "clearance"], "article_id"=>1569956, "categories"=>["Uncategorised"], "users"=>["Christina Rose Kyrtsos", "John S. 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__label__wiki	0.682025	0.682025	Coda Toronto Upcoming Events at Coda Sat Jan 25 · 10:00 PM Chus & Ceballos Jeremy Olander Sat Feb 1 · 10:00 PM Dennis Ferrer Fri Feb 7 · 10:00 PM Coda 6 Year Anniversary Part 1: Nic Fanciulli Coda 6 Year Anniversary Part 2: Seth Troxler Coda Photos Coda General Info Coda is the spiritual successor to the much loved Footwork, one of Toronto's most best-known dance clubs to cater to a demanding, techno loving audience. But with the steady dismantling of the Entertainment District, it only made sense for Joel Smye and Stephan Philion to take their business elsewhere. What they've inherited is the essence of the former Annex Wreckroom. After a careful analysis and number of test runs, they've transformed it into a high caliber night club that properly makes use of the sprawling space. And it makes a lot of sense. Having been to rock nights, concerts, and DJ shows, I've always felt that the energy was always most efficient when concentrated towards the front stage. Awkward clusters of people dancing in semi-circles just isn't very conducive to a good time. But more about that later. As mentioned, there have been many structural changes to the club proper. The awkward kidney shaped island bar monstrosity that, I guess seemed useful at the time for servicing patrons from all angles yet created awkward dead spaces on the dance floor, has been annihilated. Kidney bar begone! In its place is a fully cleansed dance floor surrounded with relatively comfortable booths and couches with a main bar towards on the opposite side of the stage. There's even a couch-bench that faces the bar, so you can keep a watchful eye on your date, or your friends in line. There's also another bar tucked away stage right, on a slightly elevated alcove, lined with couches and benches. Drinks are not exactly cheap, but they don't reach outrageous prices, with beers ranging from $6.50 (domestic) to $7 or $8 (imports, Pilsner tall cans, Guiness, Strongbow). Mixed drinks also start at $6.25 and go upwards from there. Water and flavoured Aquafina bottles are both $4.25. At least you get flavour! This club was designed to make you lose yourself in the music, and there's a kick ass PK sound system to make sure that happens, making it one of the best in the city at the moment. Built around the far side of the dance floor is an elevated corridor with bar stools that gives you a perched area for all your stalky inclinations. It's not just the conveniently arranged seating, but also the intelligent ceiling lighting that leads to voyeurism where you least expect it. Like when you're minding your own business on the dance floor and all of a sudden the lights go into UFO-landing-strip-meets-carnival-mode, and you become very aware that you might be the most semi-sober person in a 20 foot radius. With the massive Footwork fan base and convenient Bloor and Bathurst location, Coda fits right in with the mess of bars in a neighbourhood underserved by clubs. And while it's unlikely that there will be much spillover from, say, The Brunswick House, there will no doubt be enough foot traffic queuing up to see what all the fuss is about. 794 Bathurst St Toronto, ON M5R 3G1 Bottle Menus Coda Bottle Service Coda Table Service Coda Guest List Coda Tickets Other Toronto Venues Scotiabank Arena One Loft	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line10473
__label__wiki	0.941077	0.941077	APS Engineering Support APS Upgrade ASD Groups AES Groups XSD Groups Building and Site Services User Environmental Safety Health PSC Career Development In May 2002, The Advanced Photon Source was reorganized into three divisions: the Accelerator Systems Division (ASD), the APS Engineering Support Division (AES), and the X-Ray Science Division (XSD). Parts of the former User Program Division (UPD) were incorporated into XSD, while other parts were incorporated into AES. APS Divisions Accelerator Systems Division: The Accelerator Systems Division provides engineering and physics support for the Advanced Photon Source. APS Engineering Support Division: The APS Engineering Support Division serves the APS user community by establishing and maintaining an integrated, facility-wide operations organization which provides a reliable and successful operation and high-quality user technical support. X-ray Science Division: The X-ray Science Division develops and builds state-of-the-art synchrotron radiation instrumentation and uses it in a safe and environmentally sound manner, to conduct world-class research at the forefront of science and technology. APS Organization Charts	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line10475
__label__wiki	0.581754	0.581754	Back to News & Notes College Home / Avery Research Center The Avery Research Center will be closed to the public for renovations starting Wednesday, February 1, 2017 through October 2017. Please continue to follow this website and our Facebook page for more updates. ANNOUNCEMENT: The Avery Research Center is Closing for Renovations February 1st-October 15th, 2017 The College of Charleston’s Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture will be closed to the public February 1st, 2017 through October 15th, 2017, to implement a major improvement project to replace the heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems throughout the building. These crucial renovations will greatly enhance the building’s archival storage conditions. During this renovation phase from Feb. 1st to Oct. 15th, 2017, the Avery building will be closed and there will be NO ACCESS to the Avery Research Center’s archival collections, no new acquisitions of archival materials, and no on-site tours or public or private programs. The Avery Research Center’s faculty and staff will be temporarily relocated to the College of Charleston’s Addlestone Library. Please continue to contact Avery faculty and staff members via their individual College of Charleston emails throughout the renovation. For general Avery Research Center inquiries throughout the renovation, email at averyadmin@cofc.edu or call 853-953-7609. If you have any questions or concerns regarding archival materials, please contact Barrye Brown, Reference and Outreach Archivist at brownbo@cofc.edu. We are very excited about these renovations and apologize for any inconvenience. Thank you for your support! https://avery.cofc.edu/avery-research-center-closing-for-renovations/ This entry was posted in Home Recent, News & Notes and tagged announcements « Register Now For Ta-Nehisi Coates: “A Deeper Black: Race in America” Rescheduled Ernest Just Prize Lecture: “Stress and Health: Intersection of Sociology and Biology,” Chandra Jackson, PhD and Roland Thorpe, PhD, April 17, 2017 at 5:00 p.m., Medical University of South Carolina » Avery Research Center Blog Avery Institute of Afro-American History and Culture Lowcountry Digital Library Carolina Lowcountry and Atlantic World Lowcountry Africana College of Charleston Libraries Genealogy and Tourism Guide Donate to the Avery Research Center ©2009 All Rights Reserved. Privacy Policy 66 George Street Charleston, SC 29424 General Information: 843.805.5507 Emergency Information: 843.725.7246 RENOVATIONS UPDATE: The Avery Research Center will be reopening to the public in January 2020!	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line10483
__label__wiki	0.593691	0.593691	Excess & Surplus Structured Risk Solutions Aquaculture, Equine & Livestock Education & Public Entities Marine & Logistics New Economies, Autonomy and Technology Access XL Fast Fast Forward MyAnalysis XLDP LMS About AXA XL Know You Can The Globalization of Environmental Protection Origins in the 1960sTwo momentous trends with origins in the 1960s are beginning to converge: globalization and robust environmental protection.Globalization gathered momentum in the 60s driven by free trade agreements and advances in communications and the global transport system. Since then, globalization has provided a pathway to improved living standards in many countries. South Korea’s GDP, for example, was just under USD 4 billion in 1960, less than some countries in sub-Saharan Africa. Today, with a diversified economy encompassing high tech industries, shipbuilding, automotive, chemicals and steel production, South Korea has the world’s 13th largest economy with GDP worth USD 1.4 trillion (IMF 2014).During this period, environmental protection was primarily a national or sub-national priority with most activity taking place in developed countries. The U.S. in particular enacted a number of landmark environmental laws, and established a federal agency to regulate pollutants. Both later served as models for other countries. As globalization has led to greatly improved standards of living in many emerging markets, environmental degradation has increased correspondingly. Many emerging market countries like South Korea, China and Brazil, however, were riding the growth wave produced by globalization, and tended to prioritize economic development over pollution control and environmental protection. This stance was often justified on the basis that the major industrial countries were disproportionately responsible for contaminating the environment, and in turn, bore primary responsibility for environmental protection.“Rio Principle 7” from the 1992 UN Conference on Environment and Development, for instance, established the notion of “common but differentiated responsibilities” based on “the different contributions to global environmental degradation." It meant, in effect, that environmental protection in less developed countries did not need to be as rigorous as in developed countries.The Times They Are a-Changin'Fast forward to today. As globalization has led to greatly improved standards of living in many emerging markets, environmental degradation has increased correspondingly.While China has experienced rapid and significant industrial growth – it is now, for instance, the world’s largest chemical producer – its air, land and water have been significantly degraded, and public health has suffered. In a telling example, a documentary on China’s notorious smog problem garnered more than 100 million views – in less than 48 hours. In one of its most poignant scenes, a six-year old girl living in the coal mining province of Shanxi is asked if she has ever seen stars. Her reply? “No.”Similarly, as South Korea experienced rapid industrialization, the air quality around Seoul deteriorated markedly. Although air quality has improved in recent years with the introduction of green belts and emission restrictions, dust blown from the expanding deserts in China and Mongolia remains an ongoing problem.And in Brazil, the recent failure of a tailings dam unleashed a tsunami of contaminated water across two states and killed at least seventeen people; clean-up and recovery costs are expected to approach USD 8 billion.It’s clear that Rio Principle 7 is no longer tenable.Stronger Laws, Greater Enforcement, Stiffer PenaltiesWhile globalization continues to contribute to environmental pressures around the world, it is also prompting a convergence in environmental laws as well as in underlying enforcement mechanisms.Although the situation varies from country to country, many emerging market nations now recognize that minimal environmental protection policies don’t lead to a sustainable future, and pollution is expensive. In numerous countries around the world, existing framework environmental laws built around aspirational standards are being replaced by new laws and regulations, often modelled after landmark legislation adopted in developed countries.An important impetus for this is that in a number of instances, taxpayers have had to foot the bill for cleaning up contaminated sites, and these costs – including damages, clean-up and recovery – have been significant. In response, many countries have implemented strict “polluter pays” laws while also stepping up enforcement efforts to prevent environmental disasters.In South Korea, for example, two new laws regulating the chemical industry came into effect in 2015. The Chemical Control Act (CCA) requires persons who handle chemical substances to obtain relevant approvals and comply with certain standards. Its companion legislation, K-REACH, aims to monitor and manage chemical substances in South Korea, and is modelled after similar legislation in the EU. K-REACH also requires that chemical substances be registered prior to importation and manufacture. (REACH stands for Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and restriction of Chemicals.)The penalties for violating these acts are stiff. A company responsible for a chemical accident could have its operating license revoked – at a minimum. If the company fails to report the accident immediately, company officials could face up to two years in jail plus fines up to USD 75 thousand. And if a chemical accident causes casualties, the penalties are imprisonment for up to ten years and fines in excess of USD 150 thousand.In addition to greater enforcement, some countries are also mandating that certain industrial companies have environmental liability insurance in place as a condition for being granted an operating license.In China, for example, more than 20 provincial governments have launched pilot projects in which companies in specified high risk industries are required to carry environmental liability insurance. Moreover, local governments in China now have the authority to fine polluters on an ongoing, daily basis until the issue is resolved, and there is no cap on the fines. And so far, enforcement has targeted the operations of foreign multinationals; domestic Chinese companies have largely been spared, at least up to now.Staying CompliantEnvironmental risk has changed dramatically. Thirty years ago companies faced a few hundred pieces of environmental legislation, mostly in the U.S.; now, it is estimated there are more than 17,000 globally.For many multinational industrial companies, a properly structured global environmental liability program with locally compliant policies can help provide peace-of-mind that the consequences of an environmental incident will be properly mitigated. Such coverages are especially relevant as “polluter pays” requirements are implemented in more and more places.XL Catlin was one of the first insurers to provide environmental liability coverages. (Click here to read more about how it all began thirty years ago in the U.S.) Today, XL Catlin offers standalone environmental liability coverages in all major markets, including the U.S., Canada, EU, Australia, China, Brazil and South Korea. Our global programs also include difference in conditions / difference in limits provisions, when necessary, to ensure the coverage is fully compliant with local requirements. XL Catlin currently offers global environmental liability programs with locally compliant policies in 50 countries in all regions of the world.There is no doubt that: environmental protection will remain a global priority; laws and regulations will continue to stiffen; enforcement will be more robust; and keeping track of changing requirements will be an ongoing challenge. At XL Catlin, our teams around the world are in regular communication in order to stay abreast of local trends and new developments, and ensure that our clients have locally compliant environmental liability policies in an ever-changing legal / regulatory landscape. 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__label__cc	0.574378	0.425622	Home > Politics > Press Uneasy As Trump Asks Them To Stand On Giant Target Painted On Floor Press Uneasy As Trump Asks Them To Stand On Giant Target Painted On Floor WASHINGTON, D.C.—Members of the press gathered at the White House reported they were feeling a sense of unease Wednesday as President Trump asked them to gather on a large target painted on the ground. "Welcome, fine members of the press," Trump said, stifling laughter. "Please come closer and stand right around here for no particular reason whatsoever. That's it, just a little closer... a little closer..." "I just love all you fine people so much that I really want you to stand very close to me this time, right on this particular spot, where absolutely nothing bad will happen to you," he said. The President kept looking up at the ceiling as the press closed in toward the large target painted on the floor, causing one reporter to follow his gaze and cry out, "Look out! It's a piano! IT'S A PIANO!" "Now!" yelled Trump, and the grand piano came crashing to the ground, forcing reporters to dive out of the way to avoid being crushed. Trump was reportedly "disappointed" that the clever ploy didn't work as he intended. According to insiders, at the next press event, Trump will have a "swinging blade of death" installed in the White House. Facebook Unveils New Bigot Recognition Technology Sound Guy Carefully Adjusts Bass Guitar Channel To Perfect Level: Zero Scientists Recommend Reducing The Number Of Democratic Presidential Candidates To Help Fight Climate Change The Bee Explains: Identity Politics 'Trump Was Merely Sharing The Gospel With That Porn Star,' Explains Jim Bakker 'We Don't Need To Look Into The Bidens' Corruption,' Insists Rep. Schiff While Attempting Jedi Mind Trick	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line10486
__label__cc	0.620437	0.379563	suzanneharb \| flag Profile Editors: Arup Associates kelly.albrecht eleni.argiris@arup.com 14 more images ↓ The Circular Building Designed and delivered as a prototype for the 2016 London Design Festival; the Circular Building is one of the first in the UK built to satisfy Circular Economy principles. The Circular Building challenged us, as architects, to create a functioning building that would respond in its entirety to Circular Economy principles. All components needed to be implemented and utilised to their full potential and for the duration of their life cycle. While creating a comfortable and aesthetic environment for the user. Together, with our partners we refined the application of existing pre-fab construction techniques, integrating open-source details with materials that are inherently circular. Our architectural design team worked with our engineers to produce and test details that utilise fine-tuned engineering rather than mechanical fixings; the result is an extremely low-waste, self-supporting and demountable SIPS wall system. Clamp connections between the wall and recycled steel frame ensure that both can be repurposed in the future. The cladding and decking are sustainably sourced heat treated timber that is durable and recyclable. The construction industry in the UK consumes more than 400m tonnes of materials every year, making it the nation’s largest consumer of natural resources. Adding demolition, the sector is also the largest contributor of waste, contributing more than 30% of global annual greenhouse gas emissions and consuming up to 40% of all energy. Waste management and disposal costs are huge, swallowing up 30% of construction firms’ pre-tax profits. Location: London, GB Firm Role: Architect Arup is hiring! Back to Top ↑Other Projects by this Firm 2-3 Finsbury square 1 Triton Square Blackfriars bridge Broadgate Circle Dalston Lane South Cityringen Metro, Copenhagen BSkyB Believe in Better... Singapore National Stadium Coventry University, Faculty...	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line10494
__label__wiki	0.892985	0.892985	$1.7 billion Gadget London dispatch: Bloomberg HQ should not have won this year's RIBA Stirling Prize By Jason Sayer (@adjasoncies) • October 12, 2018 This week, Foster + Partners’ Bloomberg European headquarters in London picked up the 2018 RIBA Stirling Prize, an award ostensibly given to the best building in the U.K., marking the third time Norman Foster‘s firm has won the award. But was it actually the best piece of architecture on the shortlist of six projects? No. Let me start off by saying that the Bloomberg headquarters is by no means a bad building. The judging panel, chaired by Sir David Adjaye, was right to say the project “pushed the boundaries of research and innovation in architecture.” They added in a statement: “Bloomberg has opened up new spaces to sit and breathe in the City,” and went on to laud “the visceral impact of the roof-top view across to St Paul’s from the concourse space,” the office’s helix ramp and its “dynamic new workspaces.” Details of the bronze fins that allow natural ventilation. (Courtesy Nigel Young, Foster + Partners) However, all of these listed items of praise are merely examples of pricey green gadgetry and fancy add-ons. While good in their own right, they have not come together well enough to form an exemplary piece of architecture worthy of winning the RIBA Stirling Prize. Inside, amid the myriad of seating, the scheme feels like a glitzy airport at times with stock markets being displayed on screens emulating departure boards. Views out are also hard to come by, besides one panorama of St Paul’s and a vista of the city reserved for Bloomberg’s higher-ups as they dine. View of the City skyline from the Walbrook Dining Room (Courtesy Nigel Young, Foster + Partners) The Bloomberg HQ may have also carved a new thoroughfare through this part of London, but it’s hardly space to breathe. The public feels somewhat ushered through the massive slabs of sandstone by undulating bronze fins that dominate the facade, being employed further up to aid air circulation and shun views out in the process. The only spaces where you don’t have to be a paying patron at an establishment to sit are two benches at the site’s southern corner, both of which have seating dividers to prevent rough sleepers. Poor people it seems shouldn’t be allowed to rest when in the presence of a $1.7 billion building. And that’s the project’s biggest issue: money. “Some people say the reason it took almost a decade to build this is because we had a billionaire who wanted to be an architect working with an architect who wanted to be a billionaire,” said former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg at his building’s unveiling. Norman Foster is the U.K.’s wealthiest architect. This year, partners at his firm shared $30.4 million between them, a 43 percent increase on last year despite a downturn in profits and turnover with the company having to lose staff in the process. As critic Oliver Wainwright noted in a tweet, Foster’s ‘non-resident in the UK for tax purposes’ status prevented him from even picking up the award in person. What does all this say about architects and the profession? That to design a good building you must find a client with apparently limitless pockets? That as an architect it is more important to be obscenely wealthy over everything else? Bloomberg’s London HQ is a far cry from last year’s winner, dRMM’s Hastings Pier, which exemplified civic architecture at its best. That delightful scheme made extensive use of timber salvaged from a fire that burned down the previous pier. It was truly a community project. dRMM held close consultations with the public and the charity funding it, and the pier was built for the public of Hastings (and those visiting, of course). Waugh Thistleton Architects’ Bushey Cemetery (Courtesy Waugh Thistleton Architects) There were far better examples of architecture on this year’s Stirling Prize shortlist too. Take Waugh Thistleton Architects’ Bushey Cemetery for example. Using walls of rammed earth sourced from the site it rests on, the project demonstrates genuine material innovation and manages to convey a sense of weight and be delicate at the same time. Bloomberg, meanwhile, shipped in 600 tons of bronze from Japan and granite from India, and despite the similar earthy tones, feels dauntingly heavy. An example of working wonders when on a budget was also shortlisted: Storey’s Field Centre and Eddington Nursery in Cambridge by MUMA. Like Hastings Pier, this was a celebration of civic architecture, with a community center and kindergarten surrounding a landscaped courtyard. Tate St Ives by Jamie Fobert Architects (Hufton+Crow and Dennis Gilbert-VIEW/Courtesy Jamie Fobert Architects) “By building at a lower height than approved at planning…Bloomberg shows a high level of generosity towards the City,” the judges commented. In light of this, Jamie Fobert Architects’ Tate St Ives was arguably more adept at concealing space. Buried underground, yet still allowing bucket loads of light in, the museum has somehow doubled in size. It’s a remarkable piece of architectural contortion that keeps locals and the museum happy. Another shortlisted project, Níall McLaughlin Architects’ Sultan Nazrin Shah Centre for the University of Oxford, like the two aforementioned projects, articulated light in spectacular fashion. The project provided a lecture theater, a student learning space, seminar rooms, and a dance studio of immense quality and leads by example the quality of spaces students deserve. Henley Halebrown’s Chadwick Hall (Courtesy Henley Halebrown) London studio Henley Halebrown’s Chadwick Hall student accommodation for the University of Roehampton, the final project on the list, did the same. A win for the project could have sent a message about what the standard of student housing in the U.K. should be. The majority of current student housing stock is dire. With space standards for student housing thrown out of the window due to it being temporary accommodation, the area has become a safe bet for investors looking to cram as many units in for a guaranteed profit. A message, in fact, was sent, coming in explicit form from RIBA President Ben Derbyshire. “This building is a profound expression of confidence in British architecture—and perfectly illustrates why the U.K. is the profession’s global capital,” he said in a statement. “This role and reputation must be maintained, despite the political uncertainty of Brexit.” This, however, feels like a lazy excuse to award a project the Stirling Prize. Defaulting to listing “Brexit” as a reason should not be in the criteria. Neither should sustainability, a high standard of which should be a baseline for all shortlisted projects. Let BREEAM (the U.K. equivalent of LEED) deal with recognizing that. The RIBA Stirling Prize doesn’t have to send any message, though. It just has to recognize the best building, and this it has not done. Jason Sayer (@adjasoncies) Editorial Associate, The Architect's Newspaper Foster + Partners London Michael Bloomberg Norman Foster RIBA Stirling Prize Accelerating the modern world A thrilling journey through the history of the car is on show in London New Urbanist Gingerbread for Transit Oriented Teens Museum of Architecture’s 2019 Gingerbread City explores transportation Should we? Re-imagining the Avant-Garde re-examines the state of the field	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line10501
__label__cc	0.708986	0.291014	Home › Services › Transport › Transport Statement Transport Statement Transportation impacts from all developments which are predicted to generate a significant increase in traffic must be assessed. A Transport Statement or Transport Assessment should be submitted with a planning application for such a development. Some developments may also require a Travel Plan. A Transport Statement is a simplified Transport Assessment and may be sufficient for developments which are predicted to have a less significant impact on the road network. Contact transport@arcusconsulting.co.uk We have answered some common questions relating to transport statements: When is a Transport Assessment or Transport Statement required? The National Planning Policy Framework states that “All developments which generate significant amounts of movement should be supported by a Transport Statement or Transport Assessment…” The magnitude of the predicted transport impact determines the detail of assessment required. Larger developments may require a full Transport Assessment, for smaller developments a Transport Statement may be sufficient. Consultation with the local authority is usually required in order to agree the type of assessment that will be undertaken. Arcus’ Traffic Engineers have extensive experience in consulting with local authorities and will always aim to ensure that the least onerous type of assessment, which satisfies all policy and guidance, is selected. What is contained within a Transport Statement? A Transport Statement would generally contain the following: Qualitative and quantitative assessment of exiting conditions including: Description of existing site Qualitative assessment of existing road and traffic conditions Baseline traffic count data Active travel assessment Public transport accessibility assessment Traffic accident data analysis Details of the proposed development including: Description of proposed development Details of proposed access arrangements Details of servicing arrangements Qualitative description of anticipated traffic movements during construction and operation Quantitative assessment traffic generation during construction and operation Details of car parking Steps which have been taken to reduce the severity of impact including: How sustainable transport modes will be promoted and encouraged by the design of the development Improvements which may be made to the nearby transport network in order to reduce the severity of impacts What is a Travel Plan? A Travel Plan is a site specific package of measures which aim to reduce the significance of transport effects from a proposed development. A travel plan is generally required to accompany Transport Assessment, and in some instances may be required to accompany a Transport Statement. For more information please visit our Travel Plan page.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line10503
__label__wiki	0.524116	0.524116	Totem is the solo project of Boulder based producer, Phoenix Clay Michael. Phoenix has been playing eastern-style instrumentation for over a decade(tabla, doumbek, darbuki, didgeridoo, ric, etc), while also exploring digital synthesis and sound design. Totem culminates these two passions into a modern interpretation of ancient instruments. The sampling style is deep and visceral. Blending sequences of thick bass and instrumentation with live production. Live production includes: Didgeridoo, vocals, synth, keyboard, percussion, and bass. Phoenix’s debut album with the project is titled, The Bonfire of Life, and was written and Totem/motion of solidarity with the native tribes of North America. Totem sees the immense potency that dance has for healing in our culture, and also sees the reverent nature of ancient and native style music. The ultimate thrill is fusing these two things into a continuous musical experience shared amongst listener and maker.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line10504
__label__cc	0.663057	0.336943	Ballets and Choreographers Ballet Discussion Forums Paquita, the Ballet and the many Grand-Pas variations By Roberta, October 3, 2019 in Ballets and Choreographers I checked this sub-forum and discovered that Paquita did not have its very own thread, so here we go! In anticipation of the US premiere of the Mariinsky Ballet's full-length version at the Kennedy Center (DC) next week, I was hoping to read into this work, known mainly for the "Paquita Grand Pas" and its multiple variations. So far, I've seen Lacotte's lovely but "imagined" version for Paris, as well as Ratmansky's edition for Bavarian State Ballet (Munich), based on the Stepanov Notes. I love both for different reasons; Lacotte's for the decors and Ratmansky's for the steps/staging, which gives it the edge, as far as I'm concerned. The Mariinsky's, as I've read, is a total reimagining by leading choreographer Yuri Smekalov, with a brand-new scenario and even new characters and names of leading figure (the hero is Andres, not Lucien, for ex). However, my understanding is that the third and final act of the Mariinsky version, with the fabulous Grand Pas Classique, is indeed based on the Harvard notes, as interpreted by Yuri Burlaka (who worked with Ratmansky on the Bolshoi's Le Corsaire from 2007, among other recent reconstructions). Burlaka also staged the Bolshoi's own version of the Paquita Grand Pas, around 2008-2009...a one-hour super-duper version with more variations than normally seen. In addition to thoughts on the full ballet, I'm hoping that somebody may be able to shed light on the various sets of Grand Pas variations. I found this on the web: http://dictionnaire.sensagent.leparisien.fr/ballets+by+paul+fouche/en-en/ (early version of the Wikipedia artile on Paquita, now much shorter than before). Notice that the Kennedy Center casting notes include some information on each of the G-P variations that we'll be seeing ...but no mention of the male variation that follows those by the ballerinas. https://www.kennedy-center.org/calendar/event/BUBSG Edited October 3, 2019 by Roberta adding the KennCen information link What is your favorite "Petipa Bon-Bon" from among the many variations that appear in various versions of the Paquita Grand Pas? As hard as it is to decide, I've narrowed it to this one...I think from CAMARGO, originally danced by Legnani. It seems to be a specialty of Vaganova Acad recent (2019) graduate, Alexandra Khiteeva, who performed it in the past three graduation concerts at the Mariinsky. In the following YouTube clip, we see the variation performed twice -- by Khiteeva, then by Mariinsky prima Viktoria Tereshkina, whose aplomb I deeply appreciate, compared with the then-student Khiteeva. So interesting to see two ballerinas in different stages of their development. Khiteeva, by the way, will be dancing at the Kennedy Center next week, although apparently not in this variation. The KennCen casting indicates that she'll be dancing a variation for CORSAIRE. Tereshkina, of course, will be dancing the lead in the first cast of PAQUITA but I'm not sure if this is the variation that she'll perform. Others -- Chebykina and Shirinkina -- are slated to perform a variation from CAMARGO...but will it be this one? More on the above PAQUITA-CAMARGO variation. I first fell in love with this when I saw Irina Dvorovenko perform it at the 1990 Jackson ballet competition...so, to me, it will forever be know as "The Dvorovenko Variation" in my book. This is fuzzy but you get the idea. Enjoy! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJvb_ShOnOg One of these days, it would be great if someone with time and resources on their hands could create a video (or YouTube) "Compendium of Paquita Variations." cubanmiamiboy My favorite variation is definitely this one at 36:16. I haven't check the different sources that identify the variations. There are so many!-(and they vary from version to version). But I'm very haunted by the music, with the use of the Celesta. I believe this is quite the only instance I've heard this instrument in a ballet variation aside from the uber known Fee Dragee variation of The Nutcracker. Isn't there a story of Tchaikovsky being very mysterious about the use of the instrument in his ballet, for which he wanted to get a first hand grabbing at it, due to being quite a novelty at the time? And if is the case .. is this Paquita variation a pre or post Nutcracker....? Hi & thank you, Cubanmiamiboy/Cristian. This is another favorite of mine. This one is from an early Diaghilev-era ballet, Le Pavillon d'Armide, so it's definitely post-Nutcracker and post-Petipa & Ivanov! Music by Tcherepnin and choreography by Fokine. Since this one never would have been a part of the Paquita Grand-Pas during Petipa's time in charge, I'm not quite sure when it became one of the standard variations in the suite, when performed at the Vaganova Academy or Kirov-Mariinsky. I am guessing that it became standard with Vinogradov's 1978 staging for the main company, although it may have been inserted earlier (by Petr Gusev, in his stagings)? Many of us became familiar with this one when Larissa Lezhnina danced it in the famous 1989/90 film of the Grand Pas by the Kirov (Vinogradov era). thanks to cmb The following YouTube channel of the Ural Opera Ballet Theatre in Ekaterinburg, Russia, contains many clips from the most recent reconstruction of the complete PAQUITA, based on the Stepanov notes & related materials. This recent (2018?) staging is credited to the late Sergei Vikharev, although I found it by googling the name of his associate, Pavel Gershenzon, who may have finished the work of Vikharev. Here you'll also find clips of Vikharev's Fille Mal Gardee and of another Ekaterinburg production of a long-lost Petipa work, King's Command (not sure what this is based on; looks modern). Enjoy poking around this interesting site, including the lovely Paquita clips! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7P_pWfpnZdSv3I7VKPCsUg/videos?disable_polymer=1 In case the above doesn't work, you can start by seeing the Camargo variation that I pointed out above...then 'dig in' by finding other clips. The name of the YouTube site is Ural Opera Ballet. https://video.search.yahoo.com/search/video;_ylt=AwrJ7FVqYZtdlsUAqgZXNyoA;_ylu=X3oDMTEybWI4ZDFiBGNvbG8DYmYxBHBvcwMxBHZ0aWQDQjg4NzdfMQRzZWMDc2M-?p=Pavel+Gershenzon&fr=yfp-t#id=7&vid=96f3977b10fba5f0cbc4caedc265a8b6&action=view howpureisivory This is my favorite paquita variation. HowPureisIvory, this lovely variation appears as the first of six female variations in the Burlaka-staged Grand Pas section that ends the the ballet, as currently being performed at the Kennedy Center. My fave - the violin variation ending in the tough diagonal on pointe with quick-arm-shifting pot de bras is the one danced by the Paquita character. Terioshkina was even more amazing last night than she was in the above film! Cubanmiamiboy - I'm sorry to report that the Fokine Pavillon d'Armide celeste variation is not being performed here. So these were the female variations seen last night (Oct 8) at the Kennedy Center...with no dancer substitutions or switches, as often happens with this company on tour: Grand Pas Variations (Act III) 1. by Anna Pavlova in the ballet King Candaules: May Nagahisa 2. Le Corsaire: Vlada Borodulina 3. by Alexandra Shaposhnikova in the ballet Paquita: Anastasia Nuikina 4. by Maria Gorshenkova in the ballet King Candaules: Daria Ionova 5. From the ballet Camargo: Yekaterina Chebykina 6. by Anna Johansson in the ballet Paquita: Viktoria Tereshkina My notes on these six - 1. Drigo - This is the gentle, long variation danced by Lubov Kunakova in the 1990 film of the Kirov's traditional version of the G-P..often called the "Kalkabrino variation" because it also appeared in that ballet. May Nagahisa displayed fine control, particularly nice in her 1st-arabesque positions, in the poses before commencing the actual variation. One could see the effort a bit, however. 2. Zabel - A rarity, even in performances of Corsaire. This is one of Zabel's "harp variations" for the character Gulnare, from the Stepanov-notated late-Petipa Corsaire. IWe saw this in the Burlaka-Ratmansky 2007 Corsaire for the Bolshoi - danced by Gulnara within the "Pas des Eventails (Fans)" at the start of A3. I believe that this dance was created for Olga Preobrazhenska, who danced Gulnare in that late-1890s ('99?) staging by Petipa. In 2019, Vlada Borodulina was especially charming in the use of her face/eyes! This variation is the requisite "cute-and-perky" dance in the Grand Pas, instead of the often-used Don Q "Amour." 3. Minkus...or perhaps Pugni (?), the composer of the 1855 Perrot balled ARMIDA, a name sometimes given to this music/variation - This is the female version of the famous dance performed by Fernando Bujones in the ABT-Makarova film. Nuikina was strong but not totally neat in this. 4. Drigo - this is the gentle "Valse Mignonne" originally from the ballet Vestalka (La Vestale)...no matter what the printed program states about King Candaule!!! Daria Ionova was an elegant angel, perfect. This probably has the most luscious lacy port de bras in the Petipa oeuvre...during the final diagonal. 5. Drigo - from Camargo 1901/02 staging...I've heard it to be the "Legnani variation" but the printed program doesn't mention Legnani - odd. Danced in this production by the Cristina character (Yuri Smekalov invention). This is the gorgeous variation danced by Susan Jaffe in the ABT-Makarova version. I had previously heard that the music was first used in another Petipa ballet - Esmeralda, I think...but the provenance of all of these variations can be dicey! Chebykina struggled a bit holding her positions (arabesques coming out of pirouettes) but was basically fine. 6. Drigo - the playbill states that this is from Paquita but, again, I've heard that THIS one was a part of Camargo too. Suffice to say that this is danced by the main character Paquita and that it is the one that I have long loved the most (all of the above films, including Irina Dvorovenko at Jackson). SPASIBO BOLSHAYA, YURI BURLAKA!!! And SPASIBO to the amazing Terioshkina. What an honor to have witnessed this live! As for the guy's variation...that is anyone and everyone's guess! Edited October 10, 2019 by Roberta after researching my notes at home, corrected info on the 2nd & 3rd variations annaewgn 7 hours ago, Roberta said: I loved reading this! Will be seeing this cast on Sunday (except minus Tereshkina, unfortunately) and I am very excited to see Borodulina and now Ionova-- she does seem like she'd glisten in that variation. I saw Nagahisa as the third shade when Mariinsky came in 2017 with Bayadere, it will be interesting to see how she's grown. 13 hours ago, annaewgn said: You're welcome, annaewgn! May was a standout...great in her lines/poses and adagio. She wasn't totally steady on pointe in all moments, as this is a legato variation, but I have the likes of Kunakova, Pavelenko and Kondaurova as earlier dancers who I saw shine in this variation. May is progressing nicely. I spent part of last night doing my homework on the provenance of the 2nd variation (the harp variation by Zabel, Le Corsaire), making corrections on my above post. We saw this in the Burlaka-Ratmansky 2007 Corsaire for the Bolshoi - danced by Gulnara within the "Pas des Eventails (Fans)" at the start of A3. 21 hours ago, Roberta said: Iliushkina is also fabulous in this variation. On 10/10/2019 at 8:16 AM, Roberta said: Nagahisa received the biggest applause for her Kalkabrino variation lady night. On 10/9/2019 at 11:11 AM, Roberta said: I sat again next to Smekalov, and asked him about it. He kept saying that he created the choreography, with a 50/50 "traditional/his own. And he kept mentioning Burlaka as reference. I tried to press him about how "original" was, or if he had based it on notations, or anything that would be a link to a previous variation from the older Petipa catalogue. But he didn't understand, and kept telling me about how he wanted this variation to have a military flavor. I also asked him if the music was Minkus or Drigo, but he said he didn't remember. I will try to ask an orchestra musician about it tomorrow. 12 hours ago, cubanmiamiboy said: Hi, cmb. Related to this the variation for 4 military men that precedes the kids' dances here is set to Drigo's male variation for the LA SOURCE pdd, interpolation. Curiously, this LA SOURCE music (also a mazurka) was used by Yuri Burlaka as the solo variation for the Lucien-Andres character in his stagings of the stand-alone PAQUITA GRAND PAS at both the Bolshoi (2008) and the Vaganova Academy (around 2016/17...before he worked on the full ballet with Smekalov). So there is no one Yuri Burlaka PAQUITA GRAND PAS. You'll notice very different variations in all versions of Burlaka Grand Pas found on YouTube. The music for the mysterious Andres variation in A3 of the current full-length Mariinsky PAQUITA is a mazurka that's sounds a lot like other Drigo mazurkas...very rich Italianate orchestration, a great melody. I know that Burlaka (& Ratmansky) worked with Drigo's score for THE ENCHANTED FOREST while crafting their 2007 LE CORSAIRE for the Bolshoi. So maybe Burlaka found this mysterious mazurka back then? It's very Drigoesque. Well....I went in a different direction today, and approached the orchestra pit. Then I asked a group of three musicians from the strings section, and asked them. Once again ...they didn't know. The music on their paper doesn't state individual authors for each variation. It just notes what we all know. That there's a mix in between Deldevez, Minkus and Drigo. Edited October 12, 2019 by cubanmiamiboy You tried your best. Thanks. Some day we'll find out what this is. In checking Meisner's bio on Petipa, I read that Petipa himself choreographed a full-length ballet based on Cervantes' LA GITANILLA, titled THE BANDITS (not notated, that we know). Interesting, right? With regard to the variation danced by Andres in Act 3, I went to the premiere of this production (Tereshkina/Askerov/Evseeva) in St Petersburg in March 2017 and have just checked my programme. It states that the male variation has "Music by Riccardo Drigo for the variation performed by Enrico Cecchetti in the ballet The Vestal Virgin." I looked through my 2017 Paquita programme, which was lavishly illustrated and had many interviews, and there was an interview with Yuri Burlaka about his staging of the grand pas. He was specifically asked about the male variation, as follows: Petipa didn't include a male variation in his Grand pas, will you? I will, using the music by Drigo, once written for the ballet The Vestal Virgin featuring Enrico Cecchetti. This particular variation was staged by Vladimir Ponomarev and shown to me by my teacher Pyotr Pestov who, in turn, learnt it from his teacher Nikolai Tarasov. I already used this variation in one of Esmeralda productions, because extant male variations are quite scarce in the end. The variation I used for the Bolshoi version of the Grand pas was created by Leonid Lavrovsky. 8 minutes ago, MadameP said: Ooh..so now I might understand what Smekalov was trying to tell me about "50% original, 50 % mine". He kept telling me how HE had tried to add military hints to this variation, but that it was "based in the original". The original being what Burlaka learned from his teacher. So the variation was not notated, but rather passed down since La Vestale, although probably not used in a full length ballet ever since. Then Burlaka used it for Esmeralda, and years later Smekalov twisted it a bit for this Paquita. One thing I noticed was that the Mariinsky omits the final number -("Finale")- that the POB uses after the final tableaux of the grand pas, which is like a grand ballabile in a "jota aragonesa" form. @ 1:36:02 23 hours ago, MadameP said: So helpful. Thank you, Mme P. Well, we guessed Drigo correctly! How a military-style mazurka tune fits into VESTALKA (set in ancient Rome, Vestal Virgins and what not) is beyond me but, hey, that's 19-C Imperial Russian ballet for you. comment on a mazurka in Vestalka	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line10506
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__label__wiki	0.501761	0.501761	Hungary PMI rises to 51.9 in October MTI – Econews Tuesday, November 5, 2019, 10:04 Hungaryʼs seasonally-adjusted Purchasing Managersʼ Index (PMI) edged up to 51.9 points in October, from 51.7 in September, according to the Hungarian Association of Logistics, Purchasing and Inventory Management (Halpim), which compiles the index, state news wire MTI reports. An index value above 50 shows expansion in the manufacturing sector, while a value under 50 signals contraction. Among the sub-indices that comprise the PMI, the new orders index "strengthened a bit" and remained over the 50 threshold. The production volume index rose and stayed above 50 points to show expansion for the 50th month. The employment index fell after rising for four consecutive months. Delivery times were longer than in September. Purchased inventories were up for the third month in a row. Halpim Herend porcelain exhibition opens in Ankara An exhibition of pieces produced by Hungaryʼs Herend Porcelain Manufactory has opened in Ankara, Turkey, state news wire MTI reports. Tue, Jan. 7, 2020, 13:35 Hungary PMI climbs to 53.9 in December Hungaryʼs seasonally-adjusted Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) rose to 53.9 points in December from 53.1 in November, state news wire MTI reports citing data by the Hungarian Association of Logistics, Purchasing and Inventory Management (Halpim), which compiles the index. Thu, Jan. 2, 2020, 09:59 ÁKK plans net securities sales of HUF 567 bln at auctions in Q1 The Government Debt Management Agency (ÁKK) plans net sales of securities of HUF 567 billion at auctions in the first quarter of 2020, the agencyʼs three-month issue plan shows, Hungarian news agency MTI reports. ÁKK Research and innovation management courses announced Corvinus University of Budapest and the University of Pannonia announced the launch of courses in research and innovation management, according to a press release sent to the Budapest Business Journal. Tue, Dec. 17, 2019, 11:50 Corvinus ÁKK to introduce 20-year benchmark bond, new index Hungaryʼs Government Debt Management Agency (ÁKK) said on Thursday it will launch a new, 20-year benchmark bond as well as a new, long-term government bond index in January, state news wire MTI reports. CPI up 3.4% y.o.y. in November Consumer prices were 3.4% higher on average in November 2019 than a year earlier, with significant price rises measured for alcoholic beverages and tobacco, as well as food, according to a release of data by the Central Statistical Office (KSH). pork tobacco Magyar Telekom to streamline management structure Magyar Telekom said that it will transfer the tasks of its management committee, in charge of the companyʼs day-to-day operations, to the chief officers and the board of directors, state news wire MTI reports. Sun, Dec. 8, 2019, 14:00 Whosnews New managing director at Mercarius Flottakezelő László Rónai-Horst has been appointed head of the Hungarian-owned fleet management company, effective December 2, 2019, according to a press release sent to the Budapest Business Journal. Tue, Dec. 3, 2019, 15:20 Mercarius Rónai-Horst Hungary PMI climbs to 53 in November Hungaryʼs seasonally-adjusted Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) rose to 53 points in November from 52 in October, Hungarian news agency MTI reports, citing the Hungarian Association of Logistics, Purchasing and Inventory Management (Halpim), which compiles the index. Mon, Dec. 2, 2019, 14:35 Industrial producer prices up 1.5% Industrial producer prices as a whole in Hungary were 1.5% higher in October 2019 than in the same period of the previous year, with prices influenced mostly by changes in world market prices of raw and base materials and by wage growth, according to data by the Central Statistical Office (KSH).	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line10512
__label__wiki	0.959895	0.959895	1926 births, 2011 deaths, All-American college football players, American football offensive guards American military personnel of the Korean War Army Black Knights football players College Football Hall of Fame inductees Deaths from heart failure Recipients of the Purple Heart medal Tennessee Volunteers football players United States Army officers Recipients of the Bronze Star Medal Joe Steffy Date of birth: April 3, 1926 Place of birth: Chattanooga, Tennessee Date of death: May 22, 2011(2011-05-22) (aged 85) Place of death: Newburgh, New York Position(s): Offensive guard Height: 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m) College: Tennessee, Army 1945–1947 Tennessee Awards: 1947 Outland Trophy College Football Hall of Fame, 1987 Joseph Benton "Joe" Steffy, Jr. (April 3, 1926 – May 22, 2011) was an American football player. He went to fight in the Korean War and received the Bronze Medal and the Purple Heart. Steffy was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame. Steffy was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee on April 3, 1926. He attended the University of Tennessee, where he played on the football team for one season in 1944. That year, the Volunteers went undefeated in the regular season, but lost to Southern California in the Rose Bowl. The following year, he enrolled at the United States Military Academy, where he played for the Army football team for three seasons as an offensive guard and as a center on defense. The Cadets went undefeated in 1945 and 1946. In 1947, Steffy was named team captain.[1] Military service Edit He graduated from USMA in 1949. In April 1950, he married Ann née Brown. As a lieutenant, Steffy served in the Korean War, where he suffered frostbite and was wounded in the foot by a grenade. Due to his injuries, he was evacuated from Hungnam to Japan, and later awarded the Bronze Star Medal.[1] Later life Edit After the war, Steffy served on the Army football staff as the freshman team coach. He later owned a car dealership in Newburgh, New York. With his wife, who died in 2004, he had one son. Steffy died of a heart ailment on May 22, 2011 in Newburgh, New York at age of 85.[1] ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Richard Goldstein (May 24, 2011). "Joe Steffy, Blocker for Stars at West Point, Dies at 85". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/25/sports/ncaafootball/joe-steffy-star-guard-for-army-dies-at-85.html?ref=deathsobituaries. List of Korean War veterans who are recipients of the Bronze Star QB Charlie Conerly QB Bobby Layne QB Johnny Lujack HB Bob Chappuis HB Doak Walker C Chuck Bednarik G Bill Fischer G Joe Steffy T George Connor T Bob Davis E Paul Cleary E Bill Swiacki v · d · eOutland Trophy winners 1946: Connor \| 1947: Steffy \| 1948: Fischer \| 1949: Bagdon \| 1950: Gain \| 1951: Weatherall \| 1952: Modzelewski \| 1953: J. Roberts \| 1954: Brooks \| 1955: Jones \| 1956: Parker \| 1957: Karras \| 1958: Z. Smith \| 1959: McGee \| 1960: T. Brown \| 1961: Olsen \| 1962: Bell \| 1963: Appleton \| 1964: DeLong \| 1965: Nobis \| 1966: Phillips \| 1967: Yary \| 1968: Stanfill \| 1969: Reid \| 1970: Stillwagon \| 1971: Jacobson \| 1972: Glover \| 1973: Hicks \| 1974: White \| 1975: Selmon \| 1976: Browner \| 1977: Shearer \| 1978: G. Roberts \| 1979: Ritcher \| 1980: May \| 1981: Rimington \| 1982: Rimington \| 1983: Steinkuhler \| 1984: B. Smith \| 1985: Ruth \| 1986: Buck \| 1987: Hennings \| 1988: Rocker \| 1989: Elewonibi \| 1990: Maryland \| 1991: Emtman \| 1992: Shields \| 1993: Waldrop \| 1994: Wiegert \| 1995: Ogden \| 1996: Pace \| 1997: Taylor \| 1998: Farris \| 1999: Samuels \| 2000: Henderson \| 2001: McKinnie \| 2002: Long \| 2003: Gallery \| 2004: J. Brown \| 2005: Eslinger \| 2006: Thomas \| 2007: Dorsey \| 2008: A. Smith \| 2009: Suh \| 2010: Carimi Name Steffy, Joe Short description Recipient of the Purple Heart medal Place of birth Chattanooga, TN Date of death May 22, 2011 Place of death Newburgh, New York Retrieved from "https://americanfootballdatabase.fandom.com/wiki/Joe_Steffy?oldid=48717"	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line10514
__label__wiki	0.716537	0.716537	sounds like. Few rap producers have communicated as much visceral joy in the craft of record-making as Quik.”And when I play this guitar The sun is always shining in DJ Quik’s music. You can hear it in his light, affable voice, the bright and exuberant sounds he surrounds it with. But death and rot and despair are always nearby. Estranged family members stalk his lyrics, threatening to bring chaos. He flirts with bitterness and jaundice—”Anything I do in music is never celebrated,” he laments on “Pet Sematary,” from his new album The Midnight Life—but he backs away carefully, with a chuckle. This peculiar brand of pathos, a mixture of the antic and the mournful, should have its own word—”Quikenfreude,” maybe. And The Midnight Life is rich in Quikenfreude. The album opens with a goofy, self-deprecating skit in which some reverent young rappers ask Quik what the rap game needs, and he responds, to their bewilderment, “a banjo.” It’s a little joke about the West Coast pioneer’s career-long preference for obscure, unfashionable sounds and instruments, and he dials up a banjo sound on the first full song to underline the point. Against this playful backdrop, though, he unleashes a torrent of bile and resentment, lashing out against men, women, fans, and enemies alike. “You’re lucky my security don’t want it to pop/ They looking out for you bastards, if it was me you’d be shot,” he warns. The picture he paints of himself—alone, ridiculed and envied by locals, and preyed upon relentlessly by close friends and associates—is bleak. The Midnight Life is accordingly sharper and more brittle-sounding than The Book of David from 2011, which glowed with warm horns and jazz piano. But the enlivening Quik touch is everywhere: 25 years into his career, he is still discovering how 2 or 3 sounds can make you momentarily forget how rap songs usually go, the directions they head in. “Trapped On The Tracks” begins like his version of hyphy before rewinding and fast-forwarding itself into something much stranger and unclassifiable. “Shine” is one long loop of piano that keeps doubling back on itself, as if the track is gasping, while warped bells chime like bowed cymbals dipped in water. Even the straightforward rap/R&B hybrids have something startling going on in them. His records are also increasingly beautiful in his late career, matching pristine clarity with palpable warmth. He loves session musicians, and keeps a small army of them in business— including guitarist Robert “Fonksta” Bacon, whose clipped rhythm guitar murmurs from every corner and who gets his own interlude to stretch out. On “El’s Interlude 2”, bongos start playing, and they are simply the most gorgeously recorded bongos you’ve ever heard in your life. This might sound insanely trivial, but really—you need to hear them. You can hear the thumb callouses. These little moments are far from trivial for Quik’s music–they comprise its essence. To hear the loving way he treats synths and keys, letting them blur into a composite glimmer, on “Pet Sematary”, is to appreciate what lifelong love, diligently applied, sounds like. Few rap producers have communicated as much visceral joy in the craft of record-making as Quik.”And when I play this guitar, it’s gonna make my dick hard,” he crows on “Life Jacket”, and it might be the most quintessentially Quik line ever. He’s claimed this is his most carefree, unencumbered record, but if that’s true, free time only makes him fiercer. “I got niggas in my hood that can’t even buy gold/ But swearin’ up and down they ballin out of control/ You niggas is fakin, acting like they got cocaine bakin/ With a fuckin’ day job at the train station,” he sneers on “Pet Sematary”. Enough? No, not quite, as he adds, “And they gotta apply every year for that job.” Nothing summons eloquence from Quik quite like scorn. “Produce Whitney and Janet!/ Oh, you can’t.” Can you shut someone down faster than that? Quik has been complicit in downplaying his own rapping occasionally—”I almost talk; I don’t even rap,” he observed to Complex—but he’s criminally under-appreciated as a lyricist,and might be the best and most original of his generation of producer/rappers. On “The Conduct”, he’s on his “Third passport, poppin Ambien on international flights.” He pulls the top back on his car on “Puffin Tha Dragon” to “Let the raindrops kiss me on my angelic face.” He’s poetic; he’s hilarious; he’s catchy; he’s poignant. “I’m a geek I suppose/ I’m a freak I suppose/ I’m whatever you want me to be this week I suppose,” he offers slyly on “That Getter”. He’s the tortoise and the hare, impossible to pin down and sure to outlast us all. from Album Reviews – Pitchfork http://ift.tt/1ue6CH6 October 17, 2014 amnayzh " from his new album The Midnight Life—but he backs away carefully, " he crows on "Life Jacket", " he laments on "Pet Sematary, " he observed to Complex—but he's criminally under-appreciated as a lyricist, " he offers slyly on "That Getter". He's the tortoise and the hare, " he sneers on "Pet Sematary". Enough? No, " he warns. The picture he paints of himself—alone, " maybe. And The Midnight Life is rich in Quikenfreude. The album opens with a goofy, "a banjo." It's a little joke about the West Coast pioneer's career-long preference for obscure, "And they gotta apply every year for that job." Nothing summons eloquence from Quik quite like scorn. "Produce Whitney and Janet!/ Oh, 2014 at 07:00AM Jayson Greene http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/19930-dj-quik-the-midnight-life/ Album Reviews - Pitchfork http://pitchfork, a mixture of the antic and the mournful, acting like they got cocaine bakin/ With a fuckin' day job at the train station, affable voice, Album Reviews - Pitchfork The sun is always shining in DJ Quik's music. You can hear it in his light, and enemies alike. "You're lucky my security don't want it to pop/ They looking out for you bastards, and he dials up a banjo sound on the first full song to underline the point. Against this playful backdrop, and he responds, and it might be the most quintessentially Quik line ever. He's claimed this is his most carefree, and keeps a small army of them in business— including guitarist Robert "Fonksta" Bacon, and might be the best and most original of his generation of producer/rappers. On "The Conduct", and preyed upon relentlessly by close friends and associates—is bleak. The Midnight Life is accordingly sharper and more brittle-sounding th, and they are simply the most gorgeously recorded bongos you've ever heard in your life. This might sound insanely trivial, as he adds, as if the track is gasping, bongos start playing, but if that's true, but really—you need to hear them. You can hear the thumb callouses. These little moments are far from trivial for Quik's music--they compris, diligently applied, fans, free time only makes him fiercer. "I got niggas in my hood that can't even buy gold/ But swearin' up and down they ballin out of control/ You, he is still discovering how 2 or 3 sounds can make you momentarily forget how rap songs usually go, he unleashes a torrent of bile and resentment, he's on his "Third passport, if it was me you'd be shot, impossible to pin down and sure to outlast us all. October 17, is to appreciate what lifelong love, it's gonna make my dick hard, lashing out against men, letting them blur into a composite glimmer, matching pristine clarity with palpable warmth. He loves session musicians, not quite, on "Pet Sematary", poppin Ambien on international flights." He pulls the top back on his car on "Puffin Tha Dragon" to "Let the raindrops kiss me on my angelic, ridiculed and envied by locals, self-deprecating skit in which some reverent young rappers ask Quik what the rap game needs, should have its own word—"Quikenfreude, sounds like. 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__label__cc	0.687959	0.312041	The Great Reveal by SillyMickel & the PlanetMates Planetmates Bringing Tough Love for Humans and a Message of Hope Preface – In Defense of Planetmates Keynote 1 – Return to Nobility Keynote 2 – Message to Half-Borns Keynote 3 – Spirit “Word” Has It Prasads 1-12 1st Prasad – Hidden 2nd Prasad – Invisible Planetmate Communion 3rd Prasad – Half-Borns 4th Prasad – Ego 5th Prasad – Word Cave 6th Prasad – Ego Opiate 7th Prasad – Birth Pain 8th Prasad – Straying 9th Prasad – The Fall 10th Prasad – Savagery 11th Prasad – Farming 12th Prasad – Husbandry Prasads 13-24 13th Prasad – Resistance 14th Prasad – Defiance 15th Prasad – Suffering 16th Prasad – Oppression 17th Prasad – Class War 18th Prasad – Inauthenticity 19th Prasad – Opposite 20th Prasad – Child “Rearing” 21st Prasad – Burden 22nd Prasad – Newborns 23rd Prasad – “Love” 24th Prasad – Family 25th Prasad – Citadel 26th Prasad – Ego Above All 27th Prasad – Culture 28th Prasad – Family “Farm” 29th Prasad – “Tools” 30th Prasad – Death 31st Prasad – Pain 32nd Prasad – Redemption 33rd Prasad – Something Wonderful Epilogue 1 Cosmic Giggle Epilogue 2 Earliest Preschool Epilogue 3 Hidden Truth Epilogue 4 Human Purpose Epilogue 5 Why Evil Epilogue 6 Divine Adventure Epilogue 7 In Spite of Yourself Epilogue 8 The Biggest Secret Epilogue 9 Experience, God Epilogue 10 Heaven Slickers Epilogue 11 Darkness & Poignancy Epilogue 12 Fun Times Epilogue 13 Infinity of Experience Epilogue 14 Existence Is Fun P1 Keynote–Return to Nobility..Text Only “A Blessing for You”: The Prasads Alone – Text, Links The Great Reveal Video-Audio Good…God! Hell…No! Funny God 1 – God’s Crops, Revelations Funny God 2 – Fear, Earliest Preschool Funny God 3 – Pain & Peek-a-Boo Funny God 4 – God, Experience, Disneyland Culture/Class War – Bk 1 Apocalypse Emergency – Bk 3 Apocalypse No – Book 4 Wounded Deer, Centaurs – Bk 5 The Great Reveal – Bk 6 Funny God – Bk 7 Experience Is Divinity – Bk 8 Falls from Grace – Bk 9 Primal Return – Bk 10 Consciousness Evolution from the WWII to the Millennial Generations: A Hierarchy of Healing, a Global Healing Crisis, and the Unseen Revolution Posted by sillymickel Psychology of Generations —The Changing of the Generational Guard: Why There Is Less Violence but More Depression…. And What’s Good About That Wounded Deer and Centaurs, Chapter Fourteen: Psychological History of Today’s Generations and Changing of the Guard Healing Crisis Means Needing to Get “Sicker” Before We Can Be “Weller” and Making It When You DON’T Fake It: Centaurs, Wounded Deer, and the Consciousness Revolution, Untold What’s in Your Head, Zombie? Being Really Sick, But Denying It — WWII Generation, Nazis, KKK, Right Wing, Tea Party Birth Woes ~ World Wars and Can’t Know What You Don’t Know … What’s in Your Head, Zombie? Getting Sick In Order to Get Well What does this all mean? What does this portend? What might be the outcome of this emerging perinatal unconscious? In other words, consciousness evolution or apocalypse? And what is the meaning of this change in consciousness and of these wounded deer and centaurs? Is there hope in this development? To answer what is the portent of these wounded deer and centaurs and what the emerging perinatal unconscious might mean on a macrocosmic or societal-global scale, it is helpful to look at what an emerging perinatal unconscious portends on the individual or microcosmic level. What we have learned from the experiential modalities—holotropic breathwork™, primal therapy, rebirthing, vivation, and others like them—is that unerringly people need to get “sicker” before they can get well. This should not be news to psychoanalysts or any of the other mainstream psychotherapists or counselors either. Basically, the underlying repressed material must come to the “surface,” must become more conscious…and obviously when it becomes more conscious its accompanying symptoms are exacerbated. This can be called a healing crisis in that the symptoms get worse, more obvious, more blatant; and there is a period of acting them out before integration and resolution happens. One Must “Die” to One’s Sickness Before One Can Be “Born” Well When Grof talks about birth/death scenarios in the perinatal unconscious, he is including these sorts of healings, where one must “die” to one’s sickness before one can be “reborn” into another way of being, without those sick patterns or symptoms. Degrees of Disease Dissociation – Completely Split Off It’s YOU! YOU’re the f&^$#r! We see a progression over the last century in which there was complete dissociation from the perinatal unconscious by those of the Fifties, the World-War-Two, and previous generations—hence complete projection of it on The Other—to lesser dissociations from it by the generations since, baby-boomer and afterward, which involve more awareness of it as being a part of oneself and less projection of it on The Other. Wounded Deer In this latter instance, there is more suffering from it and more individual acting out of it, so that in a sense one appears “sicker”—the perinatal is more obvious in one’s behavior, taking more individual forms, and it is more easily recognized and seen to be a personal problem…a “sickness.” Earlier I described this consciousness as being the way of the centaur, for it reflects Chiron, in ancient myths, having an ongoing wound but eventually becoming a teacher and healer. To understand the ways the perinatal manifests depending upon one’s “closeness” to it, let us contrast the two extremes of being split off from it and being close to it. Being Really Sick, But Denying It: WWII Generation, Nazis, KKK, Right Wing, Tea Party Can’t Know That You Don’t Know First let us take a look at what the perinatal appears like when it is completely split off from one’s conscious personality. This complete splitting off from the perinatal entails a complete repression and denial of it. Consequently, one has absolutely no access to it, and thus one is in total ignorance of the underlying motivations of one’s actions. One unconsciously acts out perinatal elements and traumas and manifests them in one’s behavior, rationalizing all the while that one has really good—non-perinatal, “real world”—reasons for why one is doing the things one is doing. What”s in Your Head, Zombie? Psychohistorians deem this state to be such an oblivious one that they use the term trance-state for it, fully intending all the implications and connotations that term engenders. That is, they are saying that people who are this repressed and split off do their acting zombie-like and out of motivations completely hidden from themselves. [Footnote 1] Birth Woes ~ World Wars In such total ignorance, and of course being totally ignorant that one is in ignorance, people in the past century have been able to act out their perinatal underbellies in ways to make such hideous and all-encompassing wars as World War I and World War II possible. Leaving aside for a moment the myriad ways the perinatal has unconsciously been acted out in this century in creating the current situation in which we are on the brink of extinction—which can be considered the most serious consequences of this splitting off imaginable—simply focusing on this century’s major wars as evidence of perinatal acting-out alone is instructive. The Nazis, in particular, were extreme in their dissociation from their perinatal, in their projection of it onto the Jews, and their consequent ability to act it out in horrific ways on them and others. Alice Miller and Lloyd deMause have each detailed the psychodynamics of this projection of primal pain—both perinatal and childhood—in the creation of the people that Adolf Hitler and the Nazis became in their adulthood. [Footnote 2] The Nazis present us with the patterns of these processes of dissociation and projection in blatant and obvious relief. The way Nazis, especially in concentration camps, acted out perinatal trauma on their prisoners has been described in great detail by Grof as well. [Footnote 3] Wounded Deer and Centaurs – Being “Weller,” But Appearing Sicker – Perinatal Awareness of Boomers and Beyond Perinatal Boomers and Beyond—We Know THAT We Don’t Know…We Could Be Wrong.… But You Certainly Are Being “Weller,” But Appearing Sicker—Generations Since As I said, contrasted with being completely split off — dissociated — from one’s perinatal unconscious, as the Fifties and WWII Generation are predominantly, is being less cut off from it and having some access to its energies. This means that rather than being totally and blindly driven by these forces, which are acting on one indirectly, one actually feels them somewhat: One has a sense of their being a part of one’s experience as opposed to living within them so thoroughly that one has not a clue of their existence. This means that one has more options than to act them out, but it also means they make one aware of one’s perinatal sickness. One feels them, suffers from them, struggles with them. On the other hand, one does not suffer or struggle from unconscious energies that one is compliant with and that are completely manifest and supported in one’s social and cultural environments (for example, the worlds of the WWII and previous generations), however destructive that makes one’s actions. Trancing Vs. Suffering This difference may be likened to the difference between being a fish in water and totally oblivious to that fact versus living out of water and experiencing a downpour. When one is in less of a trance state, one is aware of alternative ways of being; in the example, that would be being dry. Consequently, one suffers and struggles amidst these forces and options…and one has at least some ability to choose one’s actions. I do not believe it is simply coincidence that we are currently going from the Piscean Age — symbolized by fish in water — to the Aquarian Age — symbolized by a water bearer. This change was a big part of the consciousness during the Sixties, and I think we are beginning to see why: Going from a state where one is oblivious to the forces around one to a state where one can see the things one is dealing with (carrying the water) is no small thing. It seems everything about evolution in humans has something to do with being between two mediums and the advance/the added perspective that comes with that, going all the way back to being the only ape to take to the water so much as to become partly aquatic—placing our species between water and land, halfway between a dolphin and a chimpanzee. I think we are heading toward being like the fairies and angels we imagine—halfway between land and air—but that is a whole other post. Another analogy I’ve heard of this difference between the two modes of being completely oblivious and somewhat aware of one’s unconscious is that between living full-time in an arctic environment where one has to wear a heavy coat versus living in a milder climate. In the warmer climes, one is both aware of what it is like to not have a coat—one has capacity to feel better ways of being—as well as how bulky, obstructing, and uncomfortable it is to have the coat on—suffering more from it, suffering from one’s perinatal memories. Finally one is better able to decide when to have it on and not—one has more options. At some point I will discuss what this has to do with the increase of bipolar disorders, but not now. One analogy I find especially provocative is the difference between watching a movie and being fully engrossed in it so that one does not know it is a movie, which is equivalent to acting out unconsciously from one’s early imprints. Compare this to watching the same movie with equal interest, but being aware that one is in a theater. You can see where in the second instance one would feel there are more options; and one would feel that one could step back before finding oneself caught up in horrific actions. Wounded Deer and Centaurs However, being aware of one’s discomfort (having “more access” to the perinatal), one suffers like the wounded deer—the innocent who feels things and so struggles with society’s sickness that many others are unconsciously perpetrating. But, with time and success in handling this pain, one can become the wounded healer—the Centaur. Now, why and how would this occur? As I’ve said, some access to the perinatal and more blatant and direct acting it out is exhibited by many of the baby-boomer generation. This is in large part due to their having been raised in a way that required less in the way of ego defenses to keep their primal pain suppressed. Psychohistorians like Glen Davis and Lloyd deMause have detailed a slow advance of child-caring techniques, with generations since the WWII Generation being raised with more attention to their needs and less harshness and cruelty…increasingly more love. “What the World Needs Now, Is…” Before anyone begins thinking “permissive” or “spare the rod, spoil the child,” let me point out that I will be continually stressing how this development is not only a good thing (why wouldn’t love be good?) but is one of the few sources of hope for our future we really do have. For less childhood pain and trauma means one is stronger and more able to face the even deeper perinatal pain. Choosing Lesser Evils At any rate, the extreme acting-out and total dissociation from the perinatal exhibited by the World-War-Two Generation was followed, in the generations coming after, by less relative dissociation and less horrific forms of acting it out. Quite simply, generations as a whole had better ability to refrain from the more blatantly evil act outs—wholesale murders and world wars, pogroms and genocide, inquisitions and witch-burning, racism and slavery. They were more able to choose seemingly milder forms of suffering and self-destruction — polluting the atmosphere, water, and food; population explosions and crowding of cities; and traffic jams. The common everyday traffic jam is especially instructive of perinatal dynamics as traffic congestions replicate asphalt birth tunnels where one not only breathes exhaust fumes from trucks and other autos—fetal malnutrition—but also can become gridlock at any moment, thus re-creating the intense frustration and no-exit hopelessness, and rage, of BPM II. Baby-Boomer Perinatal Awareness Other examples of the scenery of modern times where the perinatal is manifesting but is less projected onto another: We Know THAT We Don’t Know…We Could Be Wrong. Many baby-boomers had enough access to their perinatal underbellies to question the absolute rightness of the Vietnam War and so they campaigned against it. This is indicative of closeness to the perinatal because it shows an ability to doubt one’s egocentric defenses—as given by society and family of origin—and to look at situations from the eyes of the Other. So much was this evident in boomers that some were even able to see the Vietnam War through the eyes of the enemy—exemplified by Jane Fonda’s trip to Hanoi, the waving of North Vietnamese flags at demonstrations, and the carrying of little red books of the sayings of Chairman Mao tse Tung. But It’s Clear You’re Wrong. The baby-boomer—or Sixties—generation also indicate their closeness to their perinatal in their campaigns against some of the act-outs of the perinatal mentioned above: These include actions against pollution; a rejection of city life, with its gridlocks, pollution, and crowding , and a return to the country, in communes or otherwise; an awareness and rejection of polluted foods and creation of a natural and organic foods movement; and actions against global overpopulation including support for birth control, a pro-choice stance on abortion, and delaying of baby-making on their own parts along with a reduction in the size of their families. The sexual excess that is characteristic of the perinatal, specifically BPM III, was evident in boomers’ free love and promiscuous sexual behavior. Many more examples could be given. But the proof of their closeness to their unconscious dynamics lies not only in their actions—as mentioned above, in their more blatant acting them out or in their actual actions against the blatant acting out, both of which indicate closer access—but also in the study of their unconscious dynamics. As mentioned in Chapter Twelve, Kenneth Keniston found in his study of the psychodynamics of the Sixties generation when they were in their youth an unusual amount of perinatal symbolism and self-analysis. (See “Raging to Reenter, Digging Under Ground.”) Boomer Rage, Perinatally So We also see perinatal feelings in the focus of the baby-boomers on empowerment. This word appears to come up in every area of their lives. It can be seen as the natural focus of a generation that feels itself inside to be a helpless fetus facing an overpowering obstruction of a womb. Hence baby-boomers are of course also closer to the frustration, rebellion, and yes, rage, that is part of the perinatal complex. We saw it exhibited by them in their anger at authority in the Sixties, their rebellion against the Vietnam War. “Get the &%$ OFF Me!” Keep in mind that a huge aspect of the perinatal is feelings of restriction, thus frustration, and, consequently rage against large entities of obstruction—like the womb was in relation to the small and helpless fetus. In doing so, we see that the reason for their rage is simple and understandable. Baby-boomers, characterized as being closer to their unconscious, especially the perinatal, have more access to their anger: This means they feel their anger and are less likely to act it out in more hidden, disguised, and dire ways such as war-making, racism, and anti-Semitism. This does not mean their rage would not be troublesome. The perinatal lets no one get off scot free. We see lots of pre- and perinatal anger coming out in the last few decades in the phenomenon of the “angry electorate.” Let’s look at that next. You Didn’t Really Believe Elections Had Anything to Do With Issues, Did You? Biting the Feeding Hand … Perinatal Rage and Panicky Electorate Seriously? You Actually Think Elections Have Something to Do With Issues? Biting the Feeding Hand … Perinatal Rage and Panicky Electorate More recently these baby-boomers have been coming into the triumphant phase of their lives. They make up the largest sector of the electorate, and their influence is reflected more as they come into positions of power in the media and elsewhere. The Angry Electorate and Boomers But their influence has been diffused and confused because of the anger of some of them. Their irrational rage—combined with the reactionary consciousness of the Fifties Generation, many of the Fifties Gen children of Yuppies-Gen Xers, and the remaining WWII folks—has most often skewed election results against the Boomers interests and their true desires. Though not the majority of boomers, enough of them expressed their rage to swing election results in favor of the other side. 1992 – “Mad as Hell” Beginning in the 1992 and 1994 national elections, these baby-boomers exhibited their perinatal influences in contributing to the totally unexpected phenomenon of the “angry electorate.” At the time, pundits and media analysts were at a total loss to explain the rage of the electorate that was affecting these elections. In 1992, they were totally surprised by the showing of three men in particular—Jerry Brown, Pat Buchanan, and Ross Perot—who seemed to have one thing in common: the angry tones and rebelliousness that characterized their speeches, as compared to others. [Footnote 4] The demeanor of these candidates was at such odds with the other candidates that when Bill Clinton one night responded angrily to a comment by Jerry Brown about Hillary, Clinton’s wife, it was that part of the debate—of Clinton being angry, all issues aside—that made the news that night! Though the rage of the electorate in 1992 caused the Brown, Perot, and Buchanan phenomena, it was split among them, so Clinton ended up winning. This of course was also OK with the baby-boomers in that (1) Clinton and Gore were baby-boomers like themselves and (2) in the race against Bush, Clinton was the challenger, and thus the rebel; and Bush was the “bum to be thrown out.” However, this rage did not go away after the election, which highlights its having perinatal origins. In fact, after the shortest “honeymoon period” in history, by some accounts, it became directed at the most likely target/center—the President, Bill Clinton, himself. We all know how despite the successes and progress of Clinton’s first year, he was especially singled out for ridicule and denigration by the media. He could not seem to do anything right, and the most incredibly outrageous behaviors were attributed to him. 1994 – “Throw the Bums Out … Again.” This rage spilled over into the next year and, sure enough, during the midterm election—the issues be damned—the angry electorate was in a mood to “throw the bums out” again. It did not matter the party….I do not claim that all those of my generation are always as politically astute as they are angry. The Republicans called it a “revolution.” It was simply the acting out of an electorate in the throes of perinatal feelings—that is, feelings of frustration, being “tied up” by red tape, an inability to go forward…that is, up the economic ladder—wages had been stagnating since the early 80s…being overcontrolled and pushed around by regulations…big government being the big mother womb keeping the fetus locked in and unable to move…and out of all this, the consequent anger and rage. 1996 and 1998 — “To Hell With You!” At any rate, succeeding elections bear out this analysis of an angry electorate. In 1996, despite the much ballyhooed “Republican Revolution,” sure enough, the electorate was spoiling to “throw the bums out” again—only this time it was the Republican Congress. So there were Democratic gains at the time. And in 1998, when everything pointed to a huge Republican landslide because of the Lewinsky scandal, the electorate again showed their rebellion and anger toward both the pundits and the Republicans who had been lambasting them with details of the scandal for nearly a year by giving the Democrats gains again! [Footnote 4] 2006, 2008, and 2010 — Panicky Electorate In 2006, 2008, and 2010, it was an angry electorate reeling against oppression; and in the case of 2010, doing it mindlessly, against their own interests. If there were not perinatal charge to all this, Americans would not be so irrational about their choices. Perinatal Rage People have had good reasons to feel oppressed since the Eighties when Reagan began the giveaways to the rich and the budget cutbacks, continuing to this day, that have caused the masses to feel constricted and oppressed. Yet, if this did not result in their being perinatally overloaded so that they cannot reason, they would not have been able to be led to fight their own interests as they were in 2010 and in an ongoing way as exemplified by the Tea Party and the success of right-wing agendas. Reacting, Too Angry and Confused to Think Another aspect of this irrationality on both sides of the political spectrum has to do with this idea that there is no difference between the two major parties. Feeling oppressed perinatally is characterized by a pressure from all sides simultaneously. There is an inability to distinguish or discriminate between forces that are helpful and those that are dire, as any and all developments seem threatening in situations of crisis. In a situation of overwhelm, further, there is an inability to think clearly. One just fights back, explodes, reacts. It’s no coincidence that righties are called reactionaries. Biting the Feeding Hand The upshot is an inability, under the pressure of perinatal feelings, provoked endlessly by actual oppression economically, environmentally, socially, and culturally, to rail against any authority, to bite the hand that feeds one. This is exactly like the panicked swimmer who in danger of drowning fights off his or her rescuer. Can anyone at this point still maintain that the politics of the last few decades had anything at all to do with ideology or issues? Millennials and Their Opposites – Fifties Generation Tea Partyers … How OWS and Tea Party Movements Are Generationally and Perinatally Different Millennial Gen Occupiers and Eisenhower Gen Tea Partyers Are Perinatally As Well As Generationally Opposed Right-Wing “Hate Groups,” the Tea Party, and the Fifties Generation: Perinatally Oblivious One might also note the rise of “hate groups” occurring at the same time as the phenomenon of the angry electorate. Hate groups fill their ranks from folks on the extreme right and their actions are exemplified in the Oklahoma bombing tragedy and more recently in the Tea Party. Perinatally Clueless But notice again then that these hate groups are always on the extreme right of the political spectrum and thus exemplify a World-War-Two mindset in relation to their perinatal unconscious: Specifically, the mindset is one of being completely cut off from one’s unconscious dynamics and being in total denial of unconscious motivations so that one can have the complete certitude—lacking any access to the unconscious which would give rise to doubts—that makes violent actions possible. However the reason for bringing up the hate groups is to show how much their actions as well are dominated by perinatal—in their case, totally unconscious—dynamics. For without exception their reasons for rising up against the government—representing the overwhelming womb—has to do with frustrations, like the trapped fetus feels, in regards to “oppressive” taxes, governmental red tape, laws, and other regulations that they feel restrict their freedom…to move freely, as one wanted to but couldn’t, in the womb. Tea Party and hate group ranks are prevalent with Fifties Generation folks. The Eisenhower Generation — after the WWII Gen and before Boomers — were born just before or during WWII. They are mired in prenatal fears coming from the fact that their parents were living through such distressing times as WWII and the Great Depression when they were inside their mothers. They were “marinated” in the womb with fear and insecurity. They also were not brought up with the societal advance in child-rearing the next generation of boomers, and those afterward, would be granted. So it is understandable they would be both cut off from perinatal access yet full of perinatal pushes and pulls to act out in confused and self-destructive ways. Perinatal Access of Millennials Being Boomer Kids, Wouldn’t You Kind of Expect That? Now on the other end of this perinatal spectrum we have the most recent generational cohort to be making a mark. The Millennial, or Baby-Boomer Echo generation, show the same inner access as their Boomer parents. They demonstrate as well their parents’ consequent refusal to act it out on a larger scale: It has been said that the greatest concerns of those in this generation, now in their twenties and thirties, are the environment and racism-bigotry. Activist, Progressive They show the progressive bent of their parents, also, in their having a lot to do with giving America its first African-American president. And to the environment and minority rights, we need to add classism, economic fairness, and human rights because of their phenomenal outpouring of support in the past year for Occupy Wall Street and for union rights in Wisconsin and other states. They are showing global strength in opposing fascism, economic injustice, political oppression, and human rights abuses in Occupy and Arab Spring movements. They’ve filled massive demonstrations against the draconian economic policies of Republicans in Wisconsin. We know how pollution and action against pollution indicates a closeness to one’s perinatal. To put it another way, it is clear that only a total denial and disconnect between one’s consciousness and one’s unconscious perinatal dynamics would allow one to act it out unconsciously in the creation of pollution and in the denial of it as a problem or a mindless neglect of it. So the fact that these Baby-Boomer children, the Millennials, are so cognizant, concerned, and active in relation to global pollution and climate change shows their lack of denial of this perinatal act-out. Multicultural, Resisting Racism and Oppression But what of racism and bigotry? How is this an indication of a closeness to the perinatal. There are several ways in which this is so. As mentioned, a closeness to the perinatal allows one to doubt one’s given defenses and to glimpse alternate perspectives—in particular to look at things from the eyes of The Other. In this way, the baby-boomer echo generation are able to see oppression, injustice, and unfairness as it is played out in the lives of minorities who don’t share their (predominantly) middle-class advantages. They simply don’t “get” racism, sexism, or bigotry of any kind; it is incomprehensible to them. They strongly oppose imperialism, colonialism, or oppression of any kind. Relatedly, they support animal rights and oppose animal abuse and cruelty. They don’t understand torture and violence against fellow planetmates. Naturally they were helped in that awareness by the gains of previous decades, beginning in the Sixties, which had them growing up with diversity of racial and ethnic heritages—seeing things multiculturally not narrowly—in their schools and in the omnipresent media. They grew up with the environmental awareness that was set in motion in the Sixties; they don’t know of a world before recycling and energy conservation. Activism, demonstrations, and political action have been a part of their lives since they were born, unlike the several generations that preceded them and even their Boomer parents who grew up in a politically castrated Fifties. But there is another, stronger element. This is the factor of oppression and unfairness itself. We experience compression (oppression), and frustration at our attempts to go forward, and what feels like hopeless unfairness and injustice, when in the throes of BPM II birth trauma. To see these facets of the fates of minorities, as in racism, or gender or sexual bias, points to this echo generation’s closeness to their own perinatal oppression; hence their ability to empathize with oppressed minorities. This ability to realistically sense and respond to oppression is also the reason they would throw themselves in heartily in defense of unions, an increasingly oppressed middle class, and public sector employees. Of Goths, Gen X, Anti-Abortionists, Pacifiers, and a Hierarchy of Healing … You Make It When You DON’T Fake It Flaunting One’s Sickness Is Healthier Than Hiding It … Gen X, Goths, Pacifiers, and The Hierarchy of Healing A Hierarchy of Healing? This idea that those close to their unconscious conflicts are more likely to act them out blatantly goes completely against one of DeMause’s tenets. He wrote, “The higher the psychogenic mode of the psychoclass, the less it is necessary for it to act out its conflicts.” [Footnote 5] However this is exactly the crux of my difference with his theory and is a central point I am making. For from my perspective, the higher the mode of child-caring equals the less the defenses. Hence, the more it is likely that that generation’s conflicts will be close to the surface, seeking resolution … like Maslow’s hierarchy of needs theory. We might want to call it a hierarchy of healing theory. [Footnote 6] In other words, our observing the supposed “acting out” of an underlying trauma does not mean that the group or person in question is actually or, at least completely, “acting it out” and defending against it. It may be that that group is resolving, healing, or integrating it—taking it inward rather than acting it out…in the world, on others…whether to a small or great extent. Using the analogy of Pandora’s Jar, described earlier, they are opening the jar, at least a little. And I disagree with deMause in that I wish to stress that it is healthier by far to do that. Let me explain: The difference between acting out and resolving is whether the actions are done in total dissociation from the unconscious dynamics, that is to say, in a trance state—as explained earlier in regard to the World War Two generation and the Tea Party—or whether there is at least a modicum of insight into it occurring as a result of things inside of oneself, not completely projected onto the outside. The attitude that leads to total dissociation and acting out was expressed in a recent 2012 military movie, Act of Valor, which depicted Navy Seals engaged in anti-terrorism activity. At the end, the manner of dealing with pain recommended for these American soldiers and “men of valor” was to (paraphrasing) put all the pain in a box, shut it tight, press it down till it is smaller and smaller, and never, under any circumstances, let it out! However, in non-acting-out—“acting inward” or taking back the projection—there is a tad of insight, as, for example, in the “overexamined life” of the “uncommitted” and the “self-analysis” of the young radicals of the Sixties generation. Similarly, the rock concert revivication of all current generations except the Fifties and WWII ones, as I’ve mentioned, is about personal experience and growth, and it is not about acting out on another; whereas an example of the extreme other end of that would be engaging, trance-like, in a mass killing against a perceived political enemy, as Loughner did, and as we do as nations in wars. Another example of complete dissociation are the anti-abortion folks. They don’t have a clue of the connection between their own unconscious prenatal pain and the feelings they have about unborn others. They are not wrestling with their feelings, they are trying to change the world to conform to their defenses around those feelings—that is, they want the world to suppress that womb time out of existence like they have done to it in their own minds. The proof that it is acting out is that it is all about changing others’ behavior, and it involves imposing one’s inner pain on others forcefully and aggressively—which we have seen in its extreme form with the murders of physicians committed by anti-abortionists Flaunting One’s Sickness Beats Hiding It—Generation X The self-analysis of the Sixties Generation was followed by a different mode of struggling with perinatal pain by Generation X, which continues in abated form with the Millennial Generation. It was manifest rather strikingly with the Goth phenomenon and the vampire fascination that began in the Eighties, coincident with Gen X’s coming of age. Goth and vampirism show blatant perinatal dynamics that are not unfelt and completely repressed as in dissociation with its trance-state aggression against others. An example of Gen X perinatal acting out of these dynamics in total dissociation and trance state was given above in the anti-abortionists. But Goth and vampire culture show folks feeling and immersed consciously in these pushes and pulls and wrestling with them, trying to work them out as opposed to act them out. Hey, It Was Tough! This is rather clearly shown in looking at the “regression” in Europe, described by psychohistorians, which occurred in the Nineties. This behavior showed a bit of insight…and resolution happening…in that the baby song being hummed was about the very real hardships of being a baby. Therefore, an actual truth about their own lives was being faced there by those singing along with it. The song was not being used to deny or defend against those traumas. One might suspect that as well in carrying around such blatant examples of regression as a pacifier. For someone in a more defended mode would be highly threatened by such an obvious symbol that they are really needy children inside. More defended folks would be terrified such overt behavior would make them look wussy or sissified—that is, look like that vulnerable, frightened baby that they really feel themselves to be but are doing their damnedest to hide from everyone. Imagine how those Navy Seals described above would feel walking around sucking on a pacifier, for example. So in actually carrying around a pacifier these youth were not only displaying an insight into their feelings of sometimes being needy babies, on the inside, but are actually flaunting this awareness, as if to shame, or slap the face of, or be “in the face” of a generation of their parents—the Fifties Generation for the most part—who did not see their needs when they were babies—however effortfully and obviously they sought to demonstrate them. Thus the symbols needed to become more and more shocking and obvious. Look at What You Did to Me! For example: the jeans with requisite holes around the knees was screaming out, “You did not take care of me; you made me feel like a poor, orphaned, ragamuffin child.” The piercing of mouths, nose, ears, and even tongues shouted, “ I am in pain, dammit! Can’t you see that when you stick needles in me as a little baby that I hurt? How can you be so insensitive? Can’t you see that when you refuse to breastfeed and thus nurture me orally that I am forever damaged there, ever painful there? What does it take, my sticking pins—safety pins make the point even more that it was when I was in diapers—in myself to make you see that I hurt there?” And, of course, the black clothes, the hideous macabre makeup, and depressed, sullen expressions was exclaiming, “Look, you might think we’re a wonderful family and everything is hunky-dory here; but I wish I were dead! I’ve felt so much pain, from in the womb, at birth, and right after birth, that I wish I’d never been born. “Also, somehow in courting death, I have the feeling that I might somehow be reborn again into a good life, not like this place of torture and tears, right from the beginning, where my welcome into the world consisted of being drugged, handled like an object or piece of meat, blasted by bright lights, scrubbed by rough cloths, having needles and suctions stuck in me, blasted with noise, made to lie on cold stainless steel surfaces, and then bundled like a tamale so that I could not move…making me feel again like I was back in the hellish womb where in the later stages, for a time that felt like an eternity, I felt unable to move and was suffocating for lack of sufficient oxygen…and the only action that was possible was for me to scream my bloody head off for long periods of time or go into a stupor—which is what I did, alternating between them. “Can’t you see that I’d rather be dead than live in such a world of insensitive zombies like you. Hell, in fact, to further drive the point home, I’ll even look and act like a zombie, I’ll try to appear as unfeeling and morose as you all seemed to me, especially at my birth. And I’ll go a step further and mirror yourselves back to you by becoming enamored of vampires…. “Can’t you see that you sucked my very life force, my blood, and turned me into an unfeeling vampire like you, by suffocating me in the womb, poisoning me with your toxic blood which you both sucked from me and then forced down my throat!” The Consciousness Revolution They Don’t Want You to Notice. It’s Inconvenient for Them, Initially Hard for Us, and Hopefully Not Too Late The “Inconvenient” Revolution – Unacknowledged Consciousness Evolution from the WWII Generation to the Millennials … More Suffering, Less Killing Different Levels, Different Defenses It is instructive at this time to note that Arthur Janov once compared the defenses that characterized the youth of the time—the late Sixties, early Seventies—with those of their parents and older people in general and came up with findings that amplify my own assertions here. “Mind’s Made Up, Don’t Confuse Me With the Facts!” Specifically, Janov found that older people—clients of his as well as others of whom he was aware—were characteristically more repressed, more split off, more prone to dissociation, more defended and, most importantly for our uses here, tended to use defenses of denial and obfuscation against inner information and impulses. Correspondingly, they tended to use drugs that repressed and blotted out reality, such as alcohol and nicotine; and they tended to be sexually repressed. They were also more compulsive. They tended to suppress their tension and hold it in for all their worth. “How Can You Have Any Pudding if You Don’t Eat Your Meat?” Truth was greatly feared, and all attempts were made to fend off incoming information that might threaten the delusional reality set of the conscious mind. This left them open to the characterization: “My mind’s made up! Don’t confuse me with the facts!” which was leveled at them by anti-Vietnam War protesters. In more recent years, it is no wonder they have engaged in a war against education and against Hollywood, as really they are at war with new information. Consequently, Janov found that the dominant mode of reaction, when threatened, was to act out aggressively against the supposed “oppressor.” Like prenates up against an overpowering womb, they are in constant war with overwhelm. “Peace, Out.” On the other hand, he found that his youthful clients—under 30—tended to use defenses of excess, release, and addiction, or to be unusually lacking in defense mechanisms. They were more impulsive. They tended to have weak barriers to incoming information, to be open to negative unconscious content, even at the expense of their self-esteem, and to be tension expressers. They were therefore more likely sexually promiscuous than repressed, and they tended to drugs that opened them to information and unconscious knowledge – such as marijuana and LSD. Consequently they were less split off from their unconscious truth…though it made them uncomfortable…were less repressed, and, if anything, used defenses of masochism, self-denial, and self-inflicted aggression or depression. Truth was more important to them than emotional comfort. They tended to go out of their way to dig up negative information about themselves, and they accepted the low self-esteem and sense of self-worth that came with that kind of openness to truth. Their delusional reality set — if it could be called that — entailed taking on the worries and cares of the world as their own, since their openness to their own cares and worries allowed them to empathize with others in obviously similar situations. When triggered into their pain, their dominant reaction was to take it inward and to take it out on themselves causing depression. In doing so they showed they would rather hurt themselves than hurt another. Generation Gaps … Again I don’t believe you need to be a rocket scientist to see that Janov was discovering an historical — one might say millennial — ”changing of the guard” as regards access to the unconscious, openness to personal truth, and lessening of the tendency to act out early trauma in violent or belligerent ways. The older generation had more tendencies to blame others, to find scapegoats for their ills, and to act out violently on them. The younger generation had more tendencies to look inward and to blame and punish themselves … and to prefer to hurt themselves before hurting another. They would more likely cut themselves than cut another; they would more likely commit suicide than kill. The youthful generation might also become alcoholic, addicted to drugs, or do something else to injure themselves…rather than act it out on another. Less Wars, More Suicides And this “acting in,” as opposed to acting out, is indicated as well in the rise of teen suicides in recent decades. So you might say that the tradeoff we are currently getting is a reduction in the use of wars and racism to solve problems—that is, a reduction in the tendency to act out one’s Pain on others and to scapegoat. But, since the perinatal trauma is still there, and one is even more conscious of it, we have increased suicides. We have not had a world war or dropped a nuclear weapon on people since World War II; but we suffer unceasingly from relatively less loss of life in regional conflicts and the self-inflicted harm of air, water, and food contamination and from radiation poisoning from nuclear power plants. We have not had millions killed in genocides or purges since World War II, but we have suffered lesser loss of life in uprisings for democracy in China, Iran, Syria, Southeast Asia, and the Arab world. We have not had lynchings and racial riots have ceased, but we have suffered less lethal damage from culture and class wars, increased incarceration, creeping fascism, and struggles for economic justice. Overall then, less death, more suffering. Less killing in wars, more suicides. Less large scale atrocities, more depression. On a collective level, we are taking our conflicts increasingly inward. As deMause pointed out, Those considered ‘neurotic’ in each age may often be a higher psychogenic mode than those considered ‘normal,’ only they must stand the anxiety of not sharing the group-fantasies of the age. [Footnote 7] Away From Hubris: Nature Balances HerSelf In this part on healing crisis, we have seen how perinatal acting out can be of two kinds: totally unconscious and trance-like, or semi-conscious with at least some access. We have looked at how a progression to more access to one’s perinatal underbellies has led to more acting in than acting out. We have seen how it has led to less violence and more depression. Suffering Beats Dying. At this point, one could make the point that the tradeoff is worth it: That individuals suffering more emotional pain and trauma is preferable to the horrors of world war and nuclear or genocidal holocaust…put bluntly, suffering beats dying. But we are still looking at the situation from the microcosmic scale. We are talking and acting here like we are the only ones on Earth that matter. This is natural of course, in that this is always the way we have thought of things—that is to say, as if all things were to be considered around the concerns of humans. This is called anthropocentrism—a form of species-centrism—in which Homo sapiens is considered the reason for the existence of the rest of the Universe. With the Universe as awesomely and unimaginably large as it is, one might wonder at our hubris in our considering things in only this way—that is, from our perspective. Likewise, with a mind-boggling number of species living or having lived on this planet alone—species numbering in the hundreds of millions, if not trillions—again one might question the validity of choosing the perspective of our species alone in making our analyses. How ‘Bout We Step Outside? Yet this is the way we have always done it. And this is the way I have been slanting my perspective so far in this book. But now let us do something radically different. Let us walk out of ourselves — figuratively speaking — and seek to stand upon that Archimedean point from which we might view the events currently transpiring. From such an attempted non-species-centric viewpoint let us view this emerging perinatal unconscious, with its wounded deer and centaurs, as it is currently manifesting in humans. However tenuous our attempt, let us at least try such a new-paradigm viewpoint. For certainly all old-paradigm ones—containing all the hubris of anthropocentrism that they do—have failed in their attempts to save our species and indeed have contributed to such a likelihood. Let us attempt to see through the eyes of Gaia, now—from the viewpoint of Earth itself—as we look at how the current human predicament may in fact be an example of Nature balancing HerSelf. With both perspectives in mind, we can have a complete picture. We will return then to look at where there is cause for hope, what we are doing wrong as well as where there are positive trends and forces at work, and how we might let go of the self-defeating and instead apply ourselves to fostering the forces of good going on in global consciousness and the globe itself. Continue with Eden Arise and a Message to All Wounded Deer and Centaurs: It’s a Consciousness Revolution, Aided by Gaia We Are Rediscovering Our Natural Self Return to We Have Manifested a World That Mirrors and Re-Creates Our Traumatic Human Births: Life or Death Matters We Need to Face to Survive 1. “Zombie” by the Cranberries lyrics: Another head hangs lowly Time is slowly taken And the violence causes silence Who are we mistaken? Let he see, it’s not me It’s not my family In your head, in your head They are fightin! With their tanks, and their bombs And their bombs, and their guns They are cryin! In your head! In your head! Zombie! Zombie! Zombie! Whats in your head, in your head? Another mother’s breaking Heart is taken over. When the violence causes silence We must be mistaken. It’s the same old theme They’re still fightin! In your head, in your head! They are dyin! 2. Alice Miller, For Your Own Good. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1984; and Lloyd deMause, “Restaging Early Traumas in War and Social Violence.” The Journal of Psychohistory 23 (1995): 344-391. Reprinted, with permission, on Primal Spirit site as “Restaging Prenatal and Birth Traumas in War and Social Violence”) 3. Stanislav Grof, “Planetary Survival and Consciousness Evolution: Psychological Roots of Human Violence and Greed.” Primal Renaissance: The Journal of Primal Psychology 2(1): 3-26, p. 23. (Article reprinted, with permission, on this Primal Spirit website). 4. See “It’s the Attack on Privacy, Stupid! What Republicans and Pundits Don’t Get About Clinton’s Support,” on the Primal Spirit site, for more on the angry electorate and how it played out in the 1996 election. 5. Lloyd deMause, The Foundations of Psychohistory. New York: Creative Roots, 1982, p. 139. See also “Are Some ‘Sick’ People More Healthy Than Normals?” 6. See also “Are Some ‘Sick’ People More Healthy Than Normals?” on the Primal Spirit site. 7. Lloyd deMause, The Foundations of Psychohistory. New York: Creative Roots, 1982, p. 143. 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Perinatal Arising in Sixties and Generations Since: Tune Inward, Turn Back, Drop Down – Psychedelics, Depression, and Those Nasty Birth Feelings Perinatal Printouts Of Sixties, X, and Millennial Generations: No-Exit Wombs, Vampire Apocalypse, Drug Use, and Being Gratefully Dead Wounded Deer and Centaurs, Chapter Twelve: Perinatal Printouts in Generations … Prospects of Collective Regression Raging to Reenter, Vampire Apocalypse, Drug Use, and Being Gratefully Dead – Perinatal Printouts Of Sixties, X, and Millennial Generations Perinatal Arising in Sixties and Generations Since as Seen in Drug Use, Fantasy of Fusion, Vampire Apocalypse, and Being Gratefully Dead Perinatal Arising in Sixties and Generations Since Other evidence for closeness to the perinatal unconscious comes from Kenneth Keniston, who studied the youth of the Sixties. In Keniston’s widely read book of the time titled The Uncommitted: Alienated Youth in American Society, he described an increasingly prevalent, unusually influential, and relatively newly emerging personality type, which he discovered in his sociopsychological study of youthful college students. Raging to Reenter, Digging Under Ground, Fantasy of Fusion Among other traits, he found these youth to be characterized by fantasies of a “rage to reenter” the womb; and a “fantasy of fusion” with the mother, which took perinatal forms of all kinds including stories of wishing to dig one’s way back into the earth; a fascination with and wish to return to the past, the long forgotten, and the under ground; and a desire to find oblivion in some enveloping medium…even at the price of self-destruction! Existential Angst, Death and Dying, Peter Pan Some of the other noticeably perinatal elements of Sixties youth were existential angst, being enamored of death and dying, and a refusal of “normal” adulthood. (See BPM I, BPM II, and BPM II.) And think about it. Are these descriptions also not a lot like what we have heard of the generation that followed Sixties youth…the so-called Generation X? Vampire Apocalypse…It’s All So Black and White For Generation X, black clothes, white painted faces, and black lipstick were the fashion statement of the Eighties and Nineties. And what was this statement of that sector of Gen X youth—a statement that began in the Seventies among what was then called the “punk” movement, which includes now the fad of vampirism—except the same fascination with death as Sixties “alienated” youth…again. This mental set is an obvious reflection of the death/rebirth aspects of the perinatal I’ve been discussing. The “perinatal veil” through which they saw things was becoming more blatant. Being Gratefully Dead But this trend began with the Boomer Generation. Need I remind of this same theme of being dead and then reborn coming from the Sixties as in being “gratefully dead”? It seems that this trend toward easier access to and higher awareness of perinatal influences has been going on for a while now. A Perinatal Printout Is Indicated by Drug Use There are other perinatal similarities between the youth of the Sixties and the generations to follow—this time specifically with the Millennial Generation, the one that followed Gen X and who are predominantly the sons and daughters of Boomer parents. Millennials were born after the mid-Seventies; they are a different cohort from those born 1960 till roughly 1974—Gen X; and those born 1945 to 1959—the Boomers. Drug Usage Rising Since the Nineties Shows Perinatal Attraction Illegal drug use among youth, beginning in the Nineties, began going up again. This coincides with the coming into young adulthood of the Millennial Generation. Unlike drug usage of the legal and mind-debilitating kind (booze and tobacco), drug usage of the illegal and mind-facilitating kind (pot, LSD, speed, ecstacy) is an indication of an emerging perinatal unconscious. Drugs are intimately woven with perinatal influences in a number of ways. Not only can some drugs bring up birth feelings, as Grof’s work has shown, but the mother being drugged while giving birth to her child can result in drug abuse by that child later in life. Generations – Their Drugs and Politics. Gen Xers Are Fifty-ish, Millennials Are Sixty-ish An Aside on Drugs and Generations —Sixties, Gen X, Millennials and Their Parents Millennials Are Sixty-ish There is another overlooked factor or aspect of this rise in drug use in the Nineties by Millennials: These youngsters were the sons and daughters of the Sixties generation who, in their own youth, as we all know too well, engaged in drug experimentation. In fact, this younger generation of drug users has sometimes been called the baby-boomer “echo” generation. Gen Xers Are Fifty-ish Millennials are quite a bit different from the previous “echo” generation — Gen X. The generation that came to age during the Eighties—Yuppies and Xers—had parents who were born during the Great Depression and World War Two, who had their young adult formative years during the Eisenhower — Joe McCarthy –Presley Fifties. So Gen X was influenced by their parents to conservatism, career-mindedness, and, for drug-of-choice, alcohol. But this “echo” generation of Millennials has parents whose young adulthood was forged in the rebellion, drug and sex experimentation, activism, liberal-radicalism, and idealism of the Sixties, not the Fifties. [Footnote 1] Forget What You’ve Heard About Generation Gap Generationally speaking, we know that children do not predominantly rebel to the opposite of their parents’ values. Kenneth Keniston, for one, has made it clear—referring to studies—that children are paramountly influenced by the values and attitudes…conscious and unconscious…of their parents. So this most recent cohort of youth was of course going to be more liberal in their attitude to drug use than Gen X, even if their parents, in their coming into adulthood, overtly decry or are against the use of drugs. Keep in mind also that many of the baby-boomers have retained, not reversed, their acceptance of drug experimentation, and many still believe in and use drugs; many still considering the occasional use of certain types—especially the psychedelics, and to some extent, pot—to be an aid to self-development and/or spiritual awareness. Family Lies Not “Family Ties” The myth that youth rebel against their parents’ values was expressed and propagandized by the TV show “Family Ties.” This was an oh-so-convenient portrayal, as it contributed to the pervasive scapegoating of the Sixties generation by the Fifties Generation—the Eisenhower–Joe McCarthy–Presley generation—who came into their Triumphant Phase, that is, took over the reins of society as mature adults in the Eighties. Rebellion in Youth Amounts to Being Uncompromising About Parents’ Values Not Defying Them This “Family Ties” kind of rebellion, however inaccurate, seems to be credible largely as a result of the observation that youth do rebel against their parents. But it ignores the fact that when they do, and they don’t always, they revolt or rebel, as in the Sixties youth, most often in the direction of being more insistent of actually living the values of their parents, not simply voicing them. As Keniston found out, for example, as he described in his follow-up to The Uncommitted, in the book, Young Radicals: Notes on Committed Youth, radical youth had liberal (hardly conservative!) parents. When Sixties youth were angry at their parents it was out of their perception of their parents as compromising and not living out their own expressed ideals, as laid out to their children in raising them. Therefore, Sixties rage against adults came out of their disgust at their parents for “not walking their talk.” As we may recollect, there was the oft-repeated charge of “hypocrite” directed by some of these youth toward their parental generation. Millennials and Their Sixties Parents In this regard notice also that this latest crop of young—born mid-70s through roughly 2000 (Boomers had children over a longer expanse of time than generations previous and since, for reasons that I’ve dealt with in other places) and being now in their twenties and thirties…the sons and daughters of the Sixties Generation—has also seen increases in voting for liberal or Democratic candidates. Their turnout for Clinton in 1992 was the first time since the Seventies that the youth vote went Democratic. Their support of Obama was widely given as the reason for his success. Occupy Wall Street … Sixties Gen Liberals, Millennial Revolutionaries? In the Nineties we saw — despite the AIDS scare — an end to a fledgling “youth celibacy movement” — which had been a movement of Yuppie/Gen Xers encouraged by their Fifties Generation parents. The Millennials, echoing again their parents and this time the sexual revolution, were noted for early and/or increased sexual experimentation. This latest cohort of youth also has seen increases in idealism, activism, and volunteerism. It is no coincidence that we have finally seen a rising up of activism again in the occupy wall street movement, with Millennials taking the lead and supported, taught, and inspired by their Sixties cohort parents. [Footnote 2] Tune Inward, Turn Back, Drop Down – Psychedelics, Depression, and Those Nasty Birth Feelings Perinatal Propensities in LSD Use … Lucy in the Sewer with Depression and No-Exit Wombs The Epidemic of Depression Shows Pervasive BPM II Influence Lucy in the Sewer with Depression Other connections between drug use and perinatal influence: Perinatal feelings are very often of the depressive, no-exit type, and some drugs are temporarily effective antidotes for that. Depression itself is epidemic nowadays, indicating the rise of BPM II feelings. There is widespread use of antidepressants in America currently. No-Exit Wombs Stanislav Grof has claimed, based upon the tens of thousands of sessions of exploration into the perinatal unconscious that he has personally facilitated and thus observed, that the roots of endogenous—that is to say, deep rooted and engrained, not just situational—depression lie in the no-exit BPM II experience in the womb prior to birth. Furthermore, my personal experience with depression earlier in my life and my primal re-experiencing of prenatal, womb feelings, as well as birth, confirms his statement. Psychedelics and Birth: Tune Inward, Turn Back, Drop Down Finally, psychedelic drugs..LSD… “they’re ba-a-a-ack.” Though they are more discreetly used these days and so are less obviously evident. Various psychedelics and hallucinogens are used at postmodern raves, among many other places. Their increased use also points to perinatal influences in that it is known that psychedelics—LSD in particular—can help people to access and to some extent resolve perinatal trauma, when taken for purposes of personal growth. Corrective on LSD Misinformation For those who have cynically adopted the line that either psychedelics are another drug that blots out one’s Pain or that they are only used for recreational or sensual/hedonistic purposes or that the kinds of birth experiences that Grof describes as occurring on LSD only occur in supervised and guided sessions, like the ones he offered…for those who have dismissed psychedelics and LSD in any of these ways, let me say, LSD is Hardly Escapist First, psychedelics, especially LSD and to some extent, even marijuana, are known to act in the brain in a way almost exactly the opposite of the drugs used to escape from reality—such as, for example, alcohol, nicotine, or heroin—though this news flies in the face of the myth put out by the all-encompassing anti-drug propaganda machine, which puts all drugs in the same category. This is common knowledge among researchers and scientists who study these things. For elaboration, see Culture War, Class War Chapter Three: Drugs of Choice and Generational Cultures – Opposing Worlds—especially the part on “Drugs and Consciousness“—as well as subsequent chapters of that book/blog. Drugs—Not Just for Fun Anymore Second, that drugs are only used for recreational purposes is patently false. Though the vast majority of drug use is recreational, there are in print many examples, and the admissions of many authors, of the use of LSD by individuals and groups for purposes of personal growth. And, in my own limited exploration, personal growth was my motivation. In fact, many people are afraid to take the drug LSD, knowing full well that its effects are not always pleasurable or recreational. So why would they accept that risk if they did not have some other intent, like personal growth, for experimenting on themselves with it? LSD and Birth Reliving Finally, before I had ever heard of such a possibility of reliving one’s birth, let alone heard of Grof, or Janov for that matter, I learned that at least one person at my university on LSD found himself feeling like a fetus and then going through a process of struggling through a birth canal, and so on. “Most Peculiar, Mama!” In this book so far, we have considered the uniqueness of our times and the elements of the perinatal unconscious. We have followed that with a look at the predominant underlying fantasies and myths of our times—our contemporary collective dreams as projected onto the silver screen, boob tube, and printed page, with a perinatal rock heartbeat of a soundtrack. Our Nightly News and Neighborhoods Finally we have taken a look at the anomalous elements of our everyday reality — those confusing and bizarre, newly emerging images that permeate our nightly news and neighborhoods, along with those totally unprecedented cultural, environmental, and social factors that weave the backdrops of our lives. Going Forward, Explore Our Hells and Heavens Let us now go deeper. Let us make the connections. Let us explore the way we have reflected our innermost intimate hells and heavens into the fabric of our times. And back again, let us uncover the way the warp and woof of these strangest of days has affected each of us, in our most superficial of behaviors to the most intimate and deepest of our minds. The way forward is down. Continue with We Have Manifested a World That Mirrors and Re-Creates Our Traumatic Human Births: Life or Death Matters We Need to Face to Survive Return to How We Re-Create Human Prenatal Irritation and Burning in a Polluted Planet: Diagnosis, Prognosis, and What to Do About Toxic Womb ~ Toxic Earth 1. See my blog/book Culture War, Class War, especially Chapter Two: Matrix Aroused, the Sixties and Chapter Four: Drugs of Choice and Generational Cultures – Concocted Worlds and Chapter Five: The King Won’t Die – An Aborted Changing of the Guard. 2. These aspects and generational phenomena are spelled out in more detail in my work-in-progress, Regression, Mysticism, and “My Generation.” Right at hand, however, you can read an elaboration of some of these ideas in the chapters mentioned in Culture War, Class War—especially Chapters One through Seven and the post, Awakening Millennial Generation Occupy Global Revolution. 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That is, they are saying that people who are this repressed and split off do their acting zombie-like and out of motivations completely hidden to themselves. [Footnote 1] Many more examples could be given. But the proof of their closeness to their unconscious dynamics lies not only in their actions—as mentioned above, in their more blatant acting them out or in their actual actions against the blatant acting out, both of which indicate closer access—but also in the study of their unconscious dynamics. As mentioned in Chapter Nine, Kenneth Keniston found in his study of the psychodynamics of the Sixties generation when they were in their youth an unusual amount of perinatal symbolism and self-analysis. (See “Raging to Reenter, Digging Under Ground.”) From such an attempted non-species-centric viewpoint let us view this emerging perinatal unconscious as it is currently manifesting in humans. However tenuous our attempt, let us at least try such a new-paradigm viewpoint. For certainly all old-paradigm ones—containing all the hubris of anthropocentrism that they do—have failed in their attempts to save our species and indeed have contributed to such a likelihood. Continue with Apocalypse – No! Chapter Twelve: Through Gaia’s Eyes – Nature Balances HerSelf Return to Apocalypse No! 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Dangling Above an Abyss and Everyday Rebirthing: The Perinatal Is Rising … The Doors of Perception—Stormed! The 21st Century and Its Discontents … The View From Everyday: Profound Sculpting of Who We Are Occurs at a Time We Cannot See Dangling Above the Abyss and Perinatal Aliens, Pretty Much Dangling Above an Abyss and Pervasive Perinatal Aliens Dangling Above an Abyss Beyond the entertainment media, it seems perinatal themes and elements are showing up everywhere else in our surrounding environment and culture. The scenery of our everyday reality consists of pollution of our air, water, and food; threat of death “at any moment,” caused by the knowledge of the power of nuclear weapons; fantasies of apocalypse of all kinds, magnified, perhaps, by the ending of a millennium and the approach of 2012—including fundamentalist Christian imaginings of an end to human civilization in an apocalyptic “rapture”; New Age fantasies of ecological, spiritual, and social utopias; and so on. First, let us consider a few of the most blatantly birth-related of the events around us. The Primal Screen: Aliens … Ooooooooooo … Sca-ry…. Alien abduction stories, while a relatively recent addition to our cultural landscape, are unusual in the rapidity with which they have gained cultural currency and are telling in the extreme fascination the public has with them. They have catapulted more than one show—The X Files being the prime example, of course—to cult-like status. The photo here is a scene after the abduction of Fox Mulder, one of The X-Files main characters. Fetal Aliens Yet Alvin Lawson has pointed out how alien abduction stories are replete with perinatal elements: passing through walls, umbilical beams of connection to the “mother ship”—the placenta—either fetal-looking aliens or aliens whose eyes are most prominent and the lower parts of their faces undistinguished—similar to the way a newborn might see an obstetrician wearing a medical mask. Then of course there are the elements of being medically probed, measured, samples taken from one, and being swooshed from one place to another with no say on one’s part—all remarkably like the experience of a newborn, right out of the womb. [Footnote 1] While I do not think that the “alien abduction” phenomenon is just derivative of birth, as Lawson does, I do believe that we perceive these events through a veil of birth trauma, the likes of which the world has never known. My position is explained in the article, “Alien Abductors: Angelic Midwives or Hounds From Hell?“ Mouth Suctioning…”Oh, What Pretty Teeth You Have, My Alien” An interesting development in the alien face is the “shoved down the throat” thing going on. Similar to the “Jacob’s Ladder” kind of vegetable thrusting out, which was described in the last chapter, it was popularized greatly in the movie, “Alien.” As a neonate we cannot see the mouths of the masked attendants at our birth. In a traumatic situation, whatever is hidden is more feared than what can be seen. As in anything else, onto the unknown we can project the most magnified versions of our fears. When these images arise in us, then, it makes sense that if the mouth is shown it might be even more frightening than that above the mouth. So in modern times, for the first time in history, we see something going on where these feelings are symbolized as a ferocious mouth coming out of the mouth. The fact that it appears like something that would gag reveals that this image contains elements of the trauma around ungentle mouth suctioning or clearing as well as the reveal of what might be under the mask of the seeming attacker, the obstetrician. Add lots of teeth and you have the perinatal vagina dentate as well, symbolizing the trauma occurring at birth, when actually emerging from the mother. Rock Concert Rebirthing, Mosh Wombs, and the Doors of Perception … Stormed Fleshy Mosh Wombs, Rock Rebirthing, Trolls, and the Doors of Perception … Stormed The Perinatal Veil: Rock Concerts (For some, ditto) Lawson has also described perinatal elements in rock concerts. [Footnote 2] Mosh Wombs Keep in mind that rock music popularity and concert rituals are world-wide phenomena. Youth from nearly all countries are involved in rock culture. Among other things, Lawson, in his article, refers to placental guitars, umbilical mikes, and youths jumping into mosh pits. Mosh pits suggest birth feelings in that they simulate the crushing in the womb. At birth our consciousness is filled with the feeling of flesh all around. The world is crushing, heaving, rollicking, bouncing flesh everywhere. During a non-cesarean birth one struggles and moves through this flesh to reach space, air, light…freedom. We re-create this pattern of struggle in order to reach the light, or freedom and space, throughout life. It is obvious that mosh pits are attractive, appealing places to re-create the danger of birth alongside the hope of being “held up,” uplifted, and reborn. The Doors of Perception … Stormed We could also mention the loud music, fireworks, and flashing and bright explosions of light at these concerts as perinatal in that they re-create the assault of sensation that occurs to the newly emerged fetus—an assault which in one’s mind is like unto a bomb exploding. The rock groups and their lyrics themselves are often blatantly perinatal. The most obvious example of this was the group, Nirvana, who came out with a CD titled “In Utero.” The fact that the leader of the group, Kurt Cobain, committed suicide is a strong indication of his closeness and access to his perinatal trauma…as I will soon explain. Pacifiers, Trolls, and Collective Rebirth Turning from rock, we see perinatal BPM III elements in the scenery of our everyday lives evident in the rising incidence of violence by children at ever younger ages. In Europe, as pointed out by Mayr and Boederl, it appears a collective regression to the perinatal is going on, especially among the youth. [Footnote 3] Collective Navel-Gazing The forms this “regression” has taken include the surprising popularity of a pop song, sung by a very young child, expressing the difficulties of being a baby; the wearing of baby pacifiers as ornaments as a powerful fashion fad; and being enamored of troll-like dolls, which, according to the authors indicate a “regression to the womb.” I would say a progression to the womb, by the way….I will soon explain why. Crushing Populations and Its Relief — Perinatal Pulls of Public Life, Sky Diving, Dancing, Swimming, and “Birth”Day Parties The Perinatal Pulls of Population Explosion, Sky Diving, Dancing, Swimming, and “Birth”Day Parties Overpopulation Bring Up in Us Uncomfortable Claustrophobic Feelings From Our Births We have no-exit, claustrophobic BPM II elements manifesting in the crushing populations in major cities throughout the world. In the later stages of our womb lives, we are increasingly compressed with flesh all around. It is a time of ever more compression, constriction, restriction of movement, suppression of freedom, and suffering, which seems unending. However uncomfortable, we are compelled to manifest similar situations in our later adult lives, as in creating our crowded cities. We then find ourselves triggered into feelings like the ones we had back then. Though it is irrational to draw suffering to oneself, it makes psychic sense in that consciousness seeks to integrate that which was overwhelming at the time. Think of this as a memory of a dire threat to one’s life that a part of ourselves remembers and tries to remove as a threat to our well-being by drawing it to ourselves repeatedly in life until we have managed to accept it—deal with it, perceive it differently than being a threat—so that we can go beyond it. For the psyche’s main goal is to grow and heal itself. We see this intention of consciousness manifest in observing the body that Consciousness creates and which we see, which does exactly that growing and healing throughout life. Consciousness seeks, always, greater consciousness. Consciousness seeks unity. Earlier we looked into how we do that seeking of psychological healing at rock concerts and with their mosh pits, in particular. So we unconsciously create situations in life that make us feel like we once did but could not deal with at the time. And these feelings of course are uncomfortable…why else could we not deal with them originally? This does not mean that by bringing suffering to us we solve it and accept it. We would not be bringing it repeatedly to us if we successfully got beyond it. No, we create suffering such as overpopulation because we are NOT dealing with, accepting, resolving, facing the memories that are making us continually manifest situations that should remind us…but don’t. What to do about this—and how this might be hopeful for solving the biggest problems of all on Earth—is what I deal with in time in this work. But I digress. Stay tuned, though. Air Pollution, Fetal Suffocation, and Human Nature: Profound Sculpting of Who We Are Occurs at a Time We Cannot See Pollution and The Greenhouse Effect Pushes Up Perinatal Pulls and Political Palpitations … and Vice Versa The Perinatal Pulls of Pollution: Air Pollution and Fetal Oxygen Starvation Increased Carbon Dioxide, But Also Decreased Oxygen One overlooked, but hugely pervasive perinatal element of these strange days is connected to the increasing carbon dioxide concentration in our atmosphere called “the greenhouse effect” which occurs alongside the curiously overlooked yet necessarily corresponding decreases in oxygen levels. There is increasingly less oxygen as we use it up burning carbon-based fossil fuels and making carbon dioxide. [Footnote 4] We have more carbon dioxide for that reason and also because we are stupidly destroying the Earth’s mechanisms for turning that carbon dioxide back into oxygen…forests and ocean plankton, for example. This increased carbon dioxide is called “the greenhouse effect.” While this has been looked at from the perspective of it creating global warming and climate change, there are even stronger corporate (profit-motivated) as well as personal psychological reasons why we do not look at its most immediate effect on humans—the amount of oxygen we get from the air we breathe. We will steal at least a brief glance into some psychological reasons now and while we are at it uncover rich veins of understanding of and possible solutions for not only our current environmental problems but certain political and social dilemmas which we will find are operating dialectically with them. For there are provocative and profound influences from our experiences in the late stages of our womb life on the kaleidoscope of our current postmodern lives. Air Pollution Bring Up in Us Uncomfortable Feelings From Our Births For the increased carbon dioxide and reduced oxygen of the globe is analogous to the situation of “fetal malnutrition,” described by Briend and DeMause, that occurs prior to birth, and which is the basis for DeMause’s explanation of poisonous placenta symbolism. Keep in mind in particular that we experience this reduction in oxygen and increase in carbon dioxide in the form of air pollution, which is most pronounced in larger cities. [Footnote 5] An Aside on Drugs and Generations—Sixties, Gen X, Millennials and Their Parents Continue with Apocalypse No! Chapter Ten: Birth Wars, World Woes Return to Apocalypse No! Chapter Eight: The Perinatal Media 1. Alvin H. Lawson, “UFO abductions or birth memories?” Fate, 38(3) March 1985, pp. 68-80; and Alvin H. Lawson, “Perinatal imagery in UFO abduction reports.” In T. Verny (ed.): Pre- and Perinatal Psychology: An Introduction. Human Sciences Press, New York, 1987. 2. Alvin H. Lawson, “Placental Guitars, Umbilical Mikes, and the Maternal Rock-Beat: Birth Fantasies and Rock Music Videos.” The Journal of Psychohistory 21 (1994): 335-353. 3. Daniela F. Mayr & Artur R. Boelderl, “The Pacifier Craze: Collective Regression in Europe.” The Journal of Psychohistory 21 (1993): 143-156. 4. This obvious though insistently overlooked fact has scientific support, of course: According to a study conducted by scientists from the Scripps Institute there is less oxygen in the atmosphere today than there used to be. The ongoing study, which accumulated and interpreted data from NOAA monitoring stations all over the world, has been running from 1989 to the present. It monitored both the rise of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and the decline in oxygen. The conclusion of that 20 year study is that, as carbon dioxide (produced primarily by burning fossil fuels) accumulates in the atmosphere, available oxygen is decreasing. Carbon dioxide seems to be almost the total focus of attention in the climate change model as it exists today. After reviewing the results of this study and talking with Dr. Ralph Keeling (one of the lead scientists on the study), it seemed to me that the consequences of atmospheric oxygen depletion should be included in any discussion of atmospheric change…. Read more: “Atmospheric Oxygen Levels Fall as Carbon Dioxide Rises” http://blogcritics.org/scitech/article/atmospheric-oxygen-levels-fall-as-carbon/#ixzz1ru2460V8 5. A. Briend, “Fetal Malnutrition: The Price of Upright Posture?” British Medical Journal 2 (1979): 317-319. 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Democrats tax and spend, they bust the budget, balloon the National Debt. Republicans are fiscally responsible, fiscally conservative; they balance budgets and are careful about the National Debt. Rich people create the jobs. The wealthy are society’s creative sector. That “class warfare” stuff “just doesn’t work.” Obvious “Truth” – Tax the Wealthy, You’re Taxing Me But when you hear the same things again and again, even black-and-white facts can be put up for dispute. For example, during the 2008 presidential race and prior to Obama’s first budget the Democrats’ tax proposal was explained as a tax cut for the middle class and no increase on any Americans making less than two hundred thousand a year. This was a black-and-white fact, part of the public record, not in dispute. But how did the Republicans explain it? That’s a Small Business? I certainly heard it, over and over again; I bet you did too. Republicans were saying the tax proposal was going to affect small businesses. So we have small businesses that are making over two hundred thousand a year in pure profit? And that’s a small business? That’s a smallbusiness? I think if you’re making, after all your deductions and everything and you’re still making two hundred grand, I think that you’re not a small business, I think you can afford extra taxes, but that’s what we are told. We’re All Rich. Somehow I Missed That Memo. So apparently we got a group of people who think that people are really rich. The assumption is that most Americans are rolling in dough so that any tax increase on the wealthy is an attack on all Americans. So, you can’t tax that sliver of the very, very wealthy a little bit more so that the majority of Americans might benefit. Benefiting the majority of Americans used to be how you got to “home base.” But now, it’s like, “No, you can’t tax Americans; we are Taxed Enough Already!” Obvious “Truth”: The Democrats’ Want to Take Your Money. The way this “obvious truth” is phrased now…no way to get around it, it’s a flat out lie…goes, “You can’t tax the very rich, cause that’s…” and they’ll just say it right out, “that’s gonna affect all Americans, that’s taxing everybody.” Well how did it get to that conclusion when actually it’s going to lower taxes. And they were saying it over and over again, “No, we don’t even need to know what the plan is; we just know he’s a Democrat and that he’s going to raise taxes,” they would say of Obama…or for that matter of any Democrat at any time in recent history. Now, how did that become true? Well because…he’s a Democrat and well haven’t you ever heard the term tax and spend Democrats? And there we go again. Obvious “Truth” – Fiscally Responsible Republicans Pointing Some Fingers Already Alright, let’s go back. Pre-Roosevelt turn of the century initiatives so common and familiar now, such as the Food and Drug Administration, are the kinds of things Democrats brought in that added to government. Yet, Republicans spout misinformation; they get people angry about “evils” of such “big government.” Misplaced Credit The Democrats are the ones who brought in the FDA, worker’s rights, workman’s compensation. They’re the ones who put in Medicare. They’re the ones who put in Social Security. Misplaced Blame And we remember the Republicans are the ones who created the Great Depression, created poverty for everybody at that time. They’re the ones who did it again with Bush, who tripled and nearly quadrupled the National Debt under the twelve years of Reagan-Bush, then more than doubled it under George W. That’s a lot of goddamn money. That’s a Lot of Money. And then the Republicans were giving away seven hundred billion dollars to rich people who afterward were giddy in their ingratitude. This giveaway, keep in mind, came at the end of Bush’s terms. And you would hear CEOs bragging how they’re not going to spend any of that on people; they’re not going to use any of that money to loaning any of it out, which was supposed to be the purpose. And even afterward, all Congressmen were agreeing that’s a huge amount of money, which at the time was the biggest amount of money being spent at one time, in such a short period of time on anything. And how could we forget that they just took the money and did whatever they wanted with it? They paid off debts to other rich friends; they went overseas and invested in other countries. Chase Didn’t Use the Money for What It Was Intended. Goldman Sachs used sixteen billion of what it received to pay off an outstanding debt to a German bank. The head of Chase bank is known to have said he wasn’t going to use the money to increase credit. In fact, he said he was going to keep that money and he was basically going to feather his nest with it and keep Chase solvent so that when other banks went under he could buy them up with it. That’s the money of the taxpayers he’s playing “Monopoly” with, mind you. Obvious “Truths” – Tax and Spend Democrats But stacked up against the facts we have this idea of tax and spend Democrats. It’s been repeated, going back many decades. It basically goes back to Roosevelt who ended the Depression and benefited virtually all Americans. And now that’s somehow a bad thing, brought up to get you mad about the tax and spend Democrat. And they’ve got all Americans convinced that if you vote for a Democrat, they’re going to take your money, they’re going to tax it, and they’re going to spend it on somebody else. Well, that has nothing to do with the truth. Social Security, Medicare, and Surpluses, Oh My! It has nothing to do with the truth. Certainly Roosevelt benefited all Americans with Social Security and so on; certainly Medicare, brought in under Lyndon Johnson benefited the vast majority of Americans. All these things the Democrats did. And Clinton raised taxes on the very rich a few percentage points and balanced the budget. Clinton created jobs and prosperity, balanced the budget, reduced the National Debt, and created a surplus that could have gone into creating a better America for all Americans. But, no, that was considered bad, because they said it hurt all Americans when the extremely wealthy had to give a little more in taxes. The Fun Times Anticipating the Surplus Never mind the facts, never mind that fact that we had a surplus that we were talking gleefully about how we were going to spend it. If you can remember, we were discussing investing in better roads and infrastructure that would have benefited even the businesses. Stealing Home But no, it wasn’t about the truth anymore, it was about how you made it to home base, how you got money for yourself. And it didn’t matter anymore if you just skipped all the bases, and you started at home and went to home…if you just took the money. I mean, after a while the Republicans could just do that; tax breaks for the wealthy just because they were wealthy. Because, after a while, after all those years of repeating it: They could get away with, If you tax the wealthy you’re taxing all Americans. Wow. The Wealthy Are the Creative Sector All Right … Creative in Stealing Our Money Obvious “Truth”—The Wealthy Are the Job Creators Poor folks don’t create jobs, don’t invest their money. Obvious “Truth” – Rich People Create the Jobs Obvious “Truth”—The Wealthy Are Society’s Creative Sector. Yes, I have actually heard it said this way; a good chance you have too. Here’s how it works: Raising taxes on the wealthiest is gonna hurt all Americans because by taxing that sliver of the upper two percent of Americans, you are inhibiting the creative sector’s ability to create jobs. Rich folks are society’s wealth creators. The wealthy are the creative people in our country. They’re Creative All Right. They’re the creative people, huh? Yea, they’re creative in stealing from us. They’re creative in fattening their wallets at our expense. They’re creative in getting people elected who are liars and things like that. That’s not the kind of creativity I’d like to have. As far as creating jobs. Who creates jobs? Excess Wealth Given to the Rich Created High Art Prices, Not High Employment. Here’s the facts. You know all that money that was given to the rich people? All those tax incentives given to the rich people by Reagan? Well, It didn’t create jobs so much as it created a lot of excess wealth that went into, well, people were buying yachts, and they were investing in art objects that were being bid through the roof. The wealthy were scrambling; they had so much money they were fighting over art objects. And the art objects — paintings and so on, famous paintings – were making headlines in being sold for so much. During the Eighties under Reagan it was common to hear of 39 million dollars for such and such…58 million, 82 million. Of the 25 most expensive paintings ever sold, only two did not come at a time when tax cuts of either Reagan or one of the Bushes were in effect. And because what? Because the rich had so much extra freakin money. Now you tell me how many jobs money tied up in art objects created? Real Truth—The Rich Will Squander or Sit on Extra Money. I mean it isn’t rocket science. It’s very simple … simple psychology. This has to do with facts: You give money to rich people who don’t need it, they’re the ones who are going to squander it; they’re the ones who are going to spend it frivolously, or not going to spend it just let it sit. They’re not going to benefit society with it; they’re not going to multiply it; they’re not going to invest. In economics this is called diminishing marginal returns. Simply put, it means that food eaten by a hungry person will reap greater reward than the food consumed later when the person is satiated. The same amount of money funneled into projects, or people, will have a greater percentage return when sorely needed than when not; a dollar will go far toward feeding a hungry African child and will be as nothing for a rich American. You simply cannot throw money at folks or ventures and expect to get as much, let alone more, return or reward later when the person is less “hungry” or the project less “starved” for funds.. Obvious “Truth”: Non-Wealthy Folks Don’t Create Jobs, Don’t Invest Their Money Real Truth: People With Less Money Will Sweat Over and Multiply Money, What They Can. Whereas, you give a fraction of that money to a poor person, a tiny amount of that to a poor or moderate income person and what will they do? You have any idea how somebody who is poor will make a little bit of money go a long long way? I saw my father do it. He is the same person making the meager fifty dollars a week at one point. And he wasn’t making much more, but he eventually got a truck driving contract with the U.S. postal service. He was able to own several trucks and to hire several workers. So, why did he do that? Because he didn’t have a lot of money. And by taking those chances and becoming a businessperson, taking that little bit of money he had, he created jobs for a few other people. Because he was motivated, he was desperate. And for him it was all about a chance to raise himself out of being poor. He spent his life scanning for such opportunities till he finally came across one. Billionaires Are Not Highly Motivated to Become Millionaires. So you have people who would take any money coming their way to better their situation in life, the real American way. They would really love to be millionaires; they would risk their very lives for that. They would work their asses off. But those folks aren’t the people who are already billionaires. But Nobody Will Point This Out! So you’ve got these inanities thrown out there. They’re being said over and over again…” Rich people create the jobs; they’re society’s creative sector.” These obvious untruths are not being countered by journalists and pundits. There is really no one pointing out that anything is a lie, there’s nobody saying out loud that these self-serving pronouncements are untrue, or that what is being said is vastly different from the facts. Makin’ People Foolish – Foolin’ the People About “Us” (The Rich) Makin’ Foolish People – Foolin’ the People About “Us” (The Rich) Things you hear a lot are true. Simple “truths” are real truths. Democrats think they’re better than everybody; they’re snobs, elitists…. Unlike Republicans who are regular people just like me, folks I could sit and have a beer with…who’d understand me. Confused People Take Comfort in Stupidity When ALL You Hear Are Lies, You Begin to Think It Has to Be the Truth. So, what happens? What is the result of these things being heard long enough, with nobody countering them or anything. It’s natural, if you hear something said enough, you don’t question it. I myself am that way. I was told that we should go into Iraq because there was weapons of mass destruction. I didn’t hear anybody saying anything differently. So I believed it. Well, that turned out to be a lie. It’s just natural that if you don’t hear anything to counter something, you’re going to believe that the only thing being said is the truth. And that certainly has increased over time…through the years. Democrats Feel Like They’re Talking to a Wall; They’re Talking to the Weary. It is not that these lies weren’t countered; they were…by progressives and Democrats…and the few, the brave of commentators. In later years, MSNBC emerged and could be counted on for straight talk. Comedy Central became the “real news” for the young educated for being willing to throw light, albeit hiding behind the built-in denial mechanism of a comic façade, on the inanities of the Wingnuts and Well-Funded. But that has not been the reality touching the lives of ordinary Americans. What I observed is that the great majority of pundits weren’t any help in clarifying things for people. Journalists would say, “Ok, Mr. Democrat, what do you have to say about that?” And The Democrat would respond with a reasoned argument, laying out all these things that made perfect sense if you’re familiar with the issue. And pundits wouldn’t delve into their argument, tease out its elements so as to enlighten. And keep in mind that now more than ever people need that. We have people listening to this who are working two jobs, tired, overworked, worried about their health care, stressed. They’re not going to be able to follow an argument very well. In fact they’re going to forget what all those words meant and how they all fit together. So after a while a lot of these folks are going to say…I’m sure you’ve heard them, they’re Republicans and the ones who vote for Republicans…they would say, “Aw geez , that’s just a bunch of words, it don’t mean anything.” But what the hell does that mean? Confused People Retreat Into the Stupid. Well, it means that all these words can’t be remembered, they can’t take root in their mind after the lies they’re always hearing from the other side. They are surrounded by the organized disciplined ongoing assault against them by the Republicans. They are filled up with talking points benefiting the wealthy comprised of simplistic simple-minded irrational mantra…irrational, repetitive, simple slogans. So, the result is that Democrats don’t end up having a lot of power; they don’t get elected. I saw it happen in presidential election after presidential election. I saw Reagan saying simplistic things, getting all the people pissed off about poor people and about the Soviets. From the other side, I heard his appealing to the worst in people countered by reason, by sensible explanations and realistic proposals of a Dukakis, a Carter, and a Mondale. And then at the end it was…. it didn’t mean a damn thing. Because people just felt more comfortable around somebody who kept things simple, who said simple words, and seemed angry like they were. Not that Reagan said anything indicating any of his policies were going to benefit average folks. No, actually he screwed them, but they still liked him! Because Reagan, like other Republicans, are able to confuse people into thinking that any screwing up, of any time, must have been done by Democrats. They will tell you your poverty now is caused by Democratic policies of the past which actually got us out of depressions, recessions, and created surpluses. They will tell you your lousy health care now is caused by money going to the Medicare that you like. They will tell you that the financial squeeze you feel is because of the “penny” going to a poor person not the bundles of loot they are taking. And Burdened People Become Confused People—That’s Their Plan So, the electorate is swimming in these simple irrational things that have been made to sound reasonable. And they are unable to see through them because they have been kept in this situation of increasing pressure to produce, produce, produce; of less leisure time and no time to think; of worries, medical care, all kinds of things you have to put out money for. They can hardly see through the swindle since they are distracted by the threat to their lives from insurance companies–those folks who may or may not pay you if you need it though you have faithfully paid them. We’ll Insure You, Up to the Time You Need It It’s gotten to the point where you have insurance but you dare not ever make a claim. You live with the risk of unexpected loss to your home at any time that you can not cover, because if you make a claim you may not get it next time. You risk losing home insurance and threatening your home. What the hell kind of insurance is that? You are insured but they can deny you? They can deny your claim, or as it happens all the time, you have one or two claims, and you no longer have an insurance company. So if your payments are not making them a profit, if you are one of those few who are costing them more to be a member or to be covered by that insurance company, if you’re costing them more, they’re not going to take it out of the profits of all those who are costing them less, so, you’re eliminated. So why do we even have insurance companies? Most people have insurance just in the hope that they’ll be covered. Rational Thought Replaced With Slogans … How Can Anyone Know the Truth? How Can Folks Unite Against Injustices Hidden From Them Who has the time to think clearly or reason confronted by all this other uncertainty, this other insanity? So we have all these pressures and then there’s these slogans put out and people are not able to follow rational arguments. How this expresses itself came out in a discussion yesterday on Facebook. One rational type was trying to reason with a supporter of Mitt Romney, who was convinced everyone knew all the “true facts,” EVERYONE knew about all the “failed” and horrible things Obama had done…as she’d learned from Glenn Beck among others. My earnest and reasonable friend finally threw in the towel saying, “It’s like talking to a random thought generator. What do you think about foreign policy? Cheese.” That is the result of factoids, “obvious truths,” replacing reason in burdened and confused minds. So how could these people possibly, without being able to see clearly, how could folks like this ever be united against the REAL injustices against them…which they don’t even realize are happening…their minds filled with the fake stuff? How Can Folks Protect Themselves From “Wizards” Hiding “Behind the Curtain”? People do not even know who the perpetrators are, for the pundits won’t tell them. Folks cannot figure it out for themselves; and the pundits absolutely refuse to point out who’s responsible for the things that add misery to their lives. Media types say they cannot do that because they say it has to do with, something about equal time. But that was supposed to be for elections. And, as I pointed out earlier, equal time turned into something where, no matter what lie is put out there or would be put out, no matter what truth is put out there, the media will find somebody, they could find anybody, who would be willing to say a lie and sound reasonable for the purpose of confusing things. With all this, how can anybody know what the truth is? A Rising Tide Lifts All Yachts … The Rich Are Getting Richer and the Workers Are Getting Humiliated Increasing Humiliation of Working People, the Rich Get Richer at Our Expense Obvious “Truth”: A rising (economic) tide lifts all boats . Real Truth – The Rich Get Richer at Our Expense. Life Has Gotten Harder – Real Truth So we have this increasing deterioration of our prosperity, of our standard of living, of our joy of life. Life becomes more and more of a struggle, and who benefits? Well we see who benefits. We now have a new super rich class which is above even the very rich. It’s called the filthy rich, as I’ve pointed out. Real Truth – Our Suffering Has Paid for Even Greater Obscenities by the Wealthy. And to create this super-rich class where did that money come from? Well, it’s come at the cost of average people like us. And I can tell you this because I lived through it all. I’m old enough to have seen the changes. I was born in 1950. I’ve been there to know, things are much harder than they used to be. And our rights and our freedoms have changed. Because of their successes in the Culture War/Class War, because of Reagan and Bush, the Patriot Act, the neo-con takeover, and everything, our rights to speak out and to live without harassment have been diluted. Out of all the civilized countries in the world we have the greatest percentage of our people in jails. So what does that say? Humiliation…Increasing Humiliation of Working People We have these huge corporations taking over and it’s humiliating to people. I mean in times past we had the small retailer, perhaps this person had a small coin shop, bakery, drugstore and pharmacy, shoe shop, maybe a corner grocery store. Now, there aren’t any small stores like that. And where does that person end up making a living? Well, he worked in retail so maybe he even ends up working for the same department store hat pushed him out of business. So what does that do to your self-esteem? There’s example after example of people like that in recent years; it’s something that went into high gear under Bush. There are ever more people who are losing their jobs, well paying jobs, because they’re being sent overseas; and they are sometimes actually forced to train the people who are taking their jobs. I can say I feel fortunate to have lived many years in an America quite different from what most people in America being younger than me have been growing up with. Hippies, Yippies, Yuppies … How the 1% Diluted the Progressive Movement by Slandering Boomers to Foster Culture War Between Them and Gen Xers and to Distract from Their Own Looting The Yuppies Were Hardly Boomers … But This Idea Supports a Right-Wing Agenda by Pitting Progressives Against Each Other … Try the Red Pill Instead Yuppies are former hippies. “Flower children” abandoned their idealism and became greedy careerists focused on money. Former young radicals saw the error of their ways and became more conservative politically as they got older. The “Me” Generation is the Sixties Generation Sixties youth turned from free love and a sexual revolution to conservative sexual values and evangelical religion. “My Generation” gave up their idealism as everyone does with greater age and maturity. The Woodstock generation turned from pot and visionary thinking to booze, cocaine, and disco dancing a decade later The “free love” generation settled down and focused on family and jobs, centered around monogamy. “My Generation” is currently filling up the suburbs and feverishly maximizing their portfolios, at any and all cost. Real Truth – All the Above Are Lies … Propaganda to Further the Motives of the 1%, the Filthy Rich I watched in the early Eighties the lies about a “Me Generation” coming out. Republicans brought that out to beat people down with. The idea was planted that people who wanted anything for themselves were selfish, for after all only the wealthy should ever benefit. And it’s funny too, how they were able to use their own spawn to make this case. You could look around and see a new cadre of young folks—Gen X Yuppies—who had bought into the WWII values, who had been deluded by the untruths the 1% of that WWII generation had been using against the masses. The rich elite had succeeded in convincing those younger of mind that the wealthy folks interests where actually their own. The 1% of the WWII Generation’s response to Sixties activism on campus, as I showed earlier, led to their taking over the universities in the early Seventies and turning them away from the humanities and social sciences and into career mills; I was there and observed it first hand. The success of this is what created the Yuppies in the Eighties–young upwardly mobile professionals–who were the first batch of Generation X—who are those born 1961 to 1981, who therefore left high school beginning in 1978. [Footnote 1] So these Gen X Yuppies were coming onto the scene in the early Eighties, when the first of them were leaving the universities. The turnaround in education, away from free thinking and towards conservative careerist values, was in full swing by the time they reached college in 1978 on. And its effect on them was patent when they began coming of age. They were what the WWII Generation wanted: money-oriented and compliant…greed had been made “good” again. Standouts of this generation today are Sarah Palin (born 1964), Eric Cantor (born 1963), Rand Paul (born 1963), and Paul Ryan (born 1970). So then the WWII Generation, fully in charge of society, could point to these yuppie spawn as examples of the obscenity of greed, thus deflecting attention away from their own, WWII Generation, me-spiritedness. To further their ends, they also claimed the origins of this unseemly greed lie in the failed, unrealistic values of the Sixties generation and their idealism. This was one of their most amazing feats. They were able to take their values of greed and conformity, sow them in another generation, point to those values and criticize them, blame them on the hippies, all the while hiding their own espousal of those values. They perpetrated, denied, criticized, scapegoated, distracted, and obfuscated all together! They thoroughly convinced Americans that the Me Generation and Yuppies were those who formerly were flower children. Whereas this actual Me Generation, these Yuppies, were predominantly a bunch of reactionary young people who said to hell with this idealistic stuff, and of helping out, and kumbaya, and all that stuff. They said, we’re for money, to hell with any one else. And somehow the WWII-Generation-owned media, assisted by a Fifties Generation now in their prime, convinced folks that these careerists out only for themselves were the one-time visionaries. Of course they only pulled this off because they owned or controlled all the major organs of expression in America—the newspapers, magazines, TV, radio, education, book publishing. I’ve delineated how they did this in one of the earliest all-out assaults, after their initial setbacks in the Sixties, of the Culture War/Class War they have been waging on the 99% since that time. The media flooded American minds with the idea that the Me Generation was My Generation (I’m “talkin’ bout my generation” here) in the Eighties. They had prepared the ground for that lie, as there had been constant slander of my generation in the press since the beginnings of our activism in the Sixties, exactly like they are now putting out against the Millennials and those in the Occupy movement today. Beginning in the Seventies, owning the publishing and media industries, they concocted the lie that there was a conservative backlash going on. (See Chapter Two: Matrix Aroused, the Sixties and The Big Lie About Yuppies Being Hippies.) This supposed conservative backlash was merely a continuation of Nixon’s laughable claim that he was supported by a “Silent Majority,” which he had used since the beginnings of his term in 1969 and which was obviously false, as demonstrations grew in size and support swung away from him throughout this period; and eventually he was forced to resign. But Republicans always claim there are a majority of real folks out there—“real Americans” as Palin and her kind say today—who support them but are doing it secretly. (btw, lol!) Anyway, by the Eighties the powers-that-be were able to place this idea of a selfish “Me Generation” of Sixties youth, which they had been saying for a while, as being the ones on the campus at the time or recently out, the Yuppies. It fit their narrative. But it was a lie, and virtually all my generation knew it and thought it laughable. We stopped laughing after a while as over the years, it became clearer they had done such a good job of preparing the ground and repeating the lie that it stuck in the minds of those other than my generation—the Fifties Generation ahead of us and Gen X behind us—and the right wing, who of course saw this as red meat to further their causes. The media controlled by the 1% said the Sixties generation had gone from idealism to just wanting money, thereby discrediting their opponents, us who were consistently representing the 99%. At the same time they gave credibility to their claim of the superior veracity of their own values of greed, materialism, ruthless pragmatism, ego above all, and even me-spiritedness. Also, it validated, even glorified their personal traits of conformity, hard-headedness, cynicism, compliance, and even mean-spiritedness . The Lies About Jerry Rubin They could only give one example, Jerry Rubin; and even about him they lied and slandered. First off, neither Jerry Rubin, or Abbie Hoffman for that matter, were Boomers or Sixties Generation members. They were Fifties Generation, born in 1938 and 1936 respectively. Boomers were born in the post-WWII baby boom from 1946 through 1960. So that is enough to discredit what they said about “my generation.” But taking it as an attack aimed at the counterculture, let’s examine it: They said Jerry Rubin was engaged in trying to make money. And they never mentioned what he was trying to make money on… but God forbid anyone but them should try to make money anyway. You see, what the 1% do is drive people into lowered standards of living and poverty where they experience desperation for money at times. Then they can point to that grasping to survive as proof that their values of money above all else are legitimate and that it is not possible for humans to have any other values higher than that. They create the conditions that they can use to support and validate themselves…how convenient. But telling the whole truth would never allow them to do that. They didn’t mention about Jerry Rubin that he was engaged in selling health supplements; he was trying to help people out with their health. He was involved in multilevel marketing. He was an early investor in Apple Corporation, helping to foster the cybernetic revolution that progressives depend on today and which has strengthened our movement incredibly with Facebook and Twitter aiding us in overthrowing dictators in the Mideast and joining us in support of the Occupy and Wisconsin union movements. He traveled with Abbie Hoffman in doing “Yippie versus Yuppie” debates, that is true. Since it did not fit the narrative of their discrediting their opponents in the Sixties generation, they never understood or at least never mentioned that in using those terms for their “debates” they were continuing their tradition of fucking with their opponents’ minds by flaunting the terms that had been used against them. Critics don’t get and opponents conveniently overlook the heavily ironic and playful way my generation, and Yippies in particular, present themselves. “Yippie versus Yuppie” is supposed to make you think; it is a hook; and it is funny to those of us in the know. Believe me, I have the same problem with people sometimes misunderstanding my intent for the opposite of what I believe because of the amusingly ironic titles I sometimes give my writings. But Rubin’s position in this “debate”—which was actually a discussion of different ways the Sixties values might succeed, not be overturned—was that the POOR COULD BE HELPED by promoting programs to create wealth in their communities. I quote: Rubin’s argument in the debates was that activism was hard work and that the abuse of drugs, sex, and private property had made the counter-culture “a scary society in itself.” He maintained that “wealth creation is the real American revolution. What we need is an infusion of capital into the depressed areas of our country.” Someone who knew him well, Stew Albert, said this of Jerry in eulogizing him. Jerry was always a rebel, but then he was always a rebel within the rebellion. He was always sort of rebelling against the norms of the rebellion. Jerry changed costumes, and he changed rhetoric, but he never changed his heart. Does that sound like someone promoting the interests of the 1%? Or like someone just out for himself, as Yuppies really are? Remember that at the time, militant, even violent revolution had been in the air for a while—with the Weather Underground, the Black Panthers, and the Symbionese Liberation Army and such. So “Yippie vs. Yuppie” was a leftist debate about tactics. Today it would be considered a discussion of liberal vs. progressive views…hardly conservative, Yuppie, or Republican views. And Jerry Rubin’s putting on a suit made him about as conservative as it made Bob Dylan a conservative when he picked up an electric guitar at the Newport Festival of 1965. Dylan got booed for what was only considered unusual alongside some very high, and strict, expectations about purism in music having nothing to do with political ideology or musical quality but simply technology. Rubin’s wearing a suit was the same kind of thing at the time he did it…and it had nothing to do with ideology but simply tactics—i.e., revolutionary technology. Also, at the same time as Rubin was doing all this and supposedly a Yuppie, he was running a legal and civil rights office in an artsy/alternative part of L.A., Echo Park, where he also lived. When he died he was on his way to dinner in the company of Fred Branfman of the Making a Difference project, whose purpose was to bring money into poor communities by helping inner-city youth learn how to start their own businesses. Does that sound like a Wall Street careerist? Does that sound like he turned over his ideals and bowed to the god of money? So, lies, lies, lies. And these lies become instituted and they’re not challenged after a while, after you hear them for decade after decade after decade…. You have to be older to know that it wasn’t always the way they tell you it is. It helps to have lived in different times and places and to have seen things with your own eyes to be able to see through these inane “obvious truths” that people take as absolute truths. It helps to have had experience with the things they are talking about to know what are actual facts and what are complete fabrications. Setting the Record Straight on Boomers Boomer-Generation X Culture War A friend who supports the Occupy movement, and who happens to be a Gen Xer, recently shared this with me, As a Gen Xer, I have to say we were outnumbered as a Generation with half the numbers of the boomers and the previous traditional generations. …the boomers cut taxes on the wealthy and wages for the middle class to create the world’s largest debt, our dependence on dirty foreign oil grew as our manufacturing base got shipped over seas. You Boomers call Gen X a slacker generation while doing all that? It is the boomers who are the dead beat generation now. If this person were correct, then why have the Boomers voted consistently Democratic? [Footnote 2] The Gen X/Yuppie—Fifties Generation alliance was responsible for getting Reagan, Bush I, and Bush II elected. Boomers voted against Republicans, especially these; it’s all in the public record. Reagan, Bush I, and Bush II are the ones who did the tax cuts. Whereas Clinton—a Boomer and a Democrat—raised taxes on the 1% and balanced a budget for the first time. Indeed, all Democratic candidates and Presidents going back to Roosevelt at least, with the one small exception of Kennedy favored and fought for raising taxes on the 1%, not cutting them, so as to relieve the burden on the 99%. The right likes to use Kennedy as an example of a Democrat seeing the wisdom of cutting taxes to improve the economy, but Kennedy’s proposed tax cut for the 1% was when the marginal rate was 91% range, not at 35% as today, and the country was prosperous. (See The Myth of JFK as a Supply Side Tax Cutter.) Also it was not instituted until Johnson began his term … which was incidentally when the huge deficits began. So Kennedy’s tax cut had nothing at all to do with the prosperity we enjoyed during his term, indeed its institution marked the beginning of increasing deficits. Even today, it is Democrats—supported heavily by Boomers—who are opposed to tax cuts and favor reining in the greed of the 1%. This includes Obama, who incidentally is a Gen X-Boomer cusper, born 1961. Note that he has surrounded himself with Boomers—Biden, Clinton, et al. And they are engaged in that same Democratic struggle of decades past of trying to get the 1% to pay their fair share in taxes. Meanwhile Republicans supported by that Fifties Generation (the Koch Brothers, John McCain, Dick Cheney, Mitch McConnell, et al) – Gen X/Yuppie (Palin, Cantor, Ryan, Rand Paul) alliance oppose Boomer-Democratic tax and other progressive initiatives at every turn. So to accuse Boomers, who voted predominantly for these Democrats and their policies, of cutting taxes is grossly misinformed or a lie. And for a Gen Xer to do this blaming is either ignorant, a denial, or delusional…but is in any case a product of that misinformation I’ve been talking about. For to address that Gen Xer’s charges of Boomer’s causing the dependence on dirty foreign oil, the Sixties Generation started the environmental movement. I know a little about this; as I explained previously, I was one of those who helped bring nuclear plant construction to a halt in America, which we did in Springfield, Oregon, in the early Eighties. We, Boomers…I was born in 1950…supported Democrats who fought for environmental legislation, alternative energies, and reduced dependence on dirty energies against Republicans, supported by the Fifties-Gen X alliance, who watered down those policies and legislated a rape of our natural resources and our environment to benefit big business, Big Oil, Big Nuke, Big Coal, and the 1%. As for the accusation that Boomers sent our manufacturing base overseas and caused a lowering of middle class wages, how can that possibly be true alongside the more than obvious knowledge that Democrats are the ones who consistently push for and favor raising the minimum wage and are the union supporters? Can this OWS person not be aware of the parallel Wisconsin union movement which has Democrats and union folks up against Republicans and Gen X/Fifties Gen Koch-supporters? Or is he somehow unaware of the fact that Boomers have consistently voted in greater numbers for Democrats than Republicans over all these decades? [Footnote 2] Well, this shows the amount of success the WWII Generation and Fifties Generation enjoyed in shifting the blame for their policies and their theft of the national wealth. And, by the way, it was the WWII Generation that had the greatest retirement wealth per person and who instituted Social Security and other benefit programs for themselves … making themselves the wealthiest as well as the “Greatest Generation.” Probably with the tax cuts, the current Fifties Generation who in their retirement years are raping the wealth of the country to fatten themselves, are bettering them. Whereas the Sixties Generation, scapegoated again, is facing cuts in Social Security, Medicare, and other benefits at the exact time as they need it and are facing or entering retirement—being beaten down, harassed, and scapegoated by the Gen X-Fifties Generation alliance again. You think this is ancient information and is irrelevant to what is happening today? Remember that the comment I quoted above from my Gen X friend and fellow Occupier was from only last week. He has his sights set on my generation as the perpetrators of the problems; these ideas have caused a split between Gen X and Boomer Progressives. I can tell you that his comment is not atypical from others I hear from Gen X in their attitudes toward Boomers. Similarly, to some extent the Millennials believe Boomers are at fault also—this is what they have been taught. They are simply misinformed and so are not so committed to the lies as the Gen Xers. The Millennials are open to the fact they have been deceived. After all their Boomer parents are models of the fact that these “facts” are actually lies. The Millennials have been made to believe, simply, that their own parents and those of their friends are somehow just different from those “bad Boomers” out there who are really the selfish and tax-cutter ones. Lies and toxic misinformation are not healthy, at all, for a movement that is predominantly an alliance of Millennials and Boomers, with some Gen Xers (notably, few Fifties Generation folks). After all, how do you think a progressive Boomer feels, after fighting his entire life with his generational cohort for the changes that we are still fighting for with the OWS and Wisconsin union movements, and after hearing his entire life the made up lies, the slander, the scapegoating about himself, his generation, and his beliefs? How do you think she feels seeing those same lies being pulled out again and thrown against OWS supporters, for example, continuing therefore to throw salt into old wounds? And finally how do you think she feels to hear from her friends and allies in the movement that she has been the problem all this time, not the solution? It is disheartening, to say the least. In this antagonism against Boomers, the other side—the WWII-Fifties Gen alliance, supportive of the 1% and their Tea Party sycophants—have won again. [Footnote 3] For these WWII-Fifties Gen lies have thrown discord into progressive ranks. And they have thrown off the aim of our movements as to who the perpetrators are, giving the 1% a convenient fog of confusion behind which they can continue unfettered their actions against us. Finally a most visible example of the right-wing/Republican Fifties Generation – Gen X alliance was shown in the last presidential election with a Fifties Gen, McCain, matched with a Gen X – Palin, born in 1964, coming smack in the middle of the Yuppies (1961 through 1970). This is the generational alliance and the generational values we should be targeting, not Boomers, and Progressives would do better to know that. The “Truth Dividend” of Having Been Around So, in understanding what might be the truth and what are obviously lies, it helps to be older, for you can know that it wasn’t always the way they tell you it is or has to be. It helps to have lived in different times and places and to have seen things with your own eyes to be able to see through these inane “obvious truths” that people take as absolute truths. It helps to have had experience with the things they are talking about to know what are actual facts and what are complete fabrications. And with that seeing comes the knowledge that over the course of the last fifty years America descended into a deep slumber of untruth from which it could not awaken…regardless of all the righteous efforts of many true-seeing progressive activists who did their best to sound alarms. Continue With Culture War, Class War, Chapter Sixteen: The Fall of “Obvious Truths” Return to Culture War, Class War, Chapter Fourteen: Better Off Than Fifty Years Ago? The Rise and Fall of “Obvious Truths,” Part Three – an Audio Reading by SillyMickel Adzema Here is an audio of the author’s impassioned reading of this part. Though it is of the first, unedited and unpolished version, and it does not contain all the detail of its current form, it does capture the flavor of it all. I offer it here for your listening pleasure. For the reading of this part, “The Rise and Fall of ‘Obvious Truths,’ Part Three,” click on the link to the audio site above or click the link to the audio player below. http://ecdn0.hark.com/swfs/player.swf?1305835355 1. A lot of confusion about Boomers, Yuppies, And Generation X has been generated by the Census Bureau and main stream media. A generation, see below, is defined as a cohort of people occurring roughly every twenty years who share some common viewpoint and experiences. This is what a generation actually is: Defining a generation Strauss and Howe define a social generation as the aggregate of all people born over a span of roughly twenty years, or about the length of one phase of life: childhood, young adulthood, midlife, and old age. Particular generations are identified (from first birthyear to last) by looking for cohort groups of this length that share three criteria. First, members of a generation share what the authors call an age location in history: they encounter key historical events and social trends while occupying the same phase of life. Because members of a generation are shaped in lasting ways by the eras they encounter as children and young adults, they also tend to share certain common beliefs and behaviors. Aware of the experiences and traits that they share with their peers, members of a generation also tend to share a sense of common perceived membership in that generation.[16] For example, in a 2007 Harvard Institute of Politics survey, Americans born 1982 to 1989 (whom Strauss and Howe define as the first-wave cohorts of the Millennial Generation) identified themselves as belonging to a “unique and distinct” generation, with an outlook different from people in their 30s or older.[17] Surveys show that Boomers also strongly identify with their own age cohort.[18] Strauss and Howe base their definition of a generation on the work of diverse writers and social thinkers, from ancient writers such as Polybius and Ibn Khaldun to modern social theorists like José Ortega y Gasset, Karl Mannheim, John Stuart Mill, Émile Littré, Auguste Comte, and François Mentré.[19] From Strauss-Howe generational theory Meanwhile, the U.S. Census Bureau definition of Boomers is different. See Baby boomer. Why would it be different? That is the crucial question. The Census Bureau’s definitions of Boomers and Generation X is as follows: The Baby Boom Generation is the generation that was born following World War II, from 1946 up to 1964, a time that was marked by an increase in birth rates.[10] The baby boom has been described variously as a “shockwave”[11] and as “the pig in the python.”[12] By the sheer force of its numbers, the boomers were a demographic bulge which remodeled society as it passed through it. In general, baby boomers are associated with a rejection or redefinition of traditional values; however, many commentators have disputed the extent of that rejection, noting the widespread continuity of values with older and younger generations. In Europe and North America boomers are widely associated with privilege, as many grew up in a time of affluence.[11] One of the features of Boomers was that they tended to think of themselves as a special generation, very different from those that had come before them. In the 1960s, as the relatively large numbers of young people became teenagers and young adults, they, and those around them, created a very specific rhetoric around their cohort, and the change they were bringing about.[13] Generation X (also known as the 13th Generation and the Baby Busters)[14] is the generation generally defined as those born after the baby boom ended from 1965 to 1981. [15] The term generally includes people born during all or part of the 1960s: According to Strauss-Howe generational theory, 1961 is the starting point, though other sources, including the U.S. Census Bureau, consider it to have started in the mid-1960s.[16][17] It ends in late 1970s to early 1980s, usually not later than 1981[18][19][20][21] or 1982.[22][23][15][24] The term has also been used in different times and places for a number of different subcultures or countercultures since the 1950s.[25] From Generation in Wikipedia. So why are those born 1961 through 1964 considered part of the Boomer Generation by the Census Bureau, which has informed much of the discussion on this? Why is the Census Bureau attributing only 17 years to Generation X but 19 years to Boomers, when in fact the Boomers were born in a World War II “baby boom” that had them being born in a distinctly shorter period. Whereas Generation X was born of the Fifties Generation during a more languorous, hence longer period? Why is the Census Bureaus including as Boomers those born at those end years of 1961 through 1964 when the number of births was decreasing, not “booming”? I don’t know the answer, but I do know this decision by the Census Bureau has served pundits and right wing commentators in giving more weight to their positions by diluting the distinctly liberal voting record of actual Boomers. As I have been stating above, there was a concerted effort to scapegoat Boomers and to confuse them with Yuppie-Gen Xers. This confused definition by the Census Bureau is part of that. It has allowed pundits to slander the Sixties Generation, as I said, by attributing qualities to them that were actually a part of the WWII Generation’s Culture War Attack of creating a generation different from and more compliant than the Sixties Generation/ Boomers. At any rate, that is why we have the discrepancy shown in this description of the Pew Report findings on “Boomer” voting patterns. Let’s look at a few relevant findings: Of greatest interest to BTS are the Pew Research Center survey findings about Boomers. In recent years Boomers increasingly call themselves conservatives. They voted for Republican candidates in 2010, but are still on the fence for the 2012 Presidential Election. Older Boomers tilt Democratic while younger Boomers tilt Republican. When asked to name the best President during their lifetime, Boomers were evenly divided between Clinton and Reagan. Younger Boomers and Generation Xers have been one of the most reliable Republican voting groups. From The Baby Boomer Voting Bloc This supports what I’m saying about generational voting patterns. The difference lies in that this author has to differentiate between late Boomers and early Boomers. They are opposite in their voting patterns. This person wouldn’t be so confused if he placed the generational divide where it belongs, at 1961, not 1965. Boomers were born between 1946 and 1960, as shown in the chart below, which also shows Generation X beginning in 1961. The Boom Generation defined by Howe and Strauss, as shown in the chart above, born 1946 thru 1960 are the ones who vote consistently Democratic. They are the ones who shared common events and experiences growing up and were shaped by them, notably the Vietnam War; the JFK, RFK, and MLK assasinations in 1968; the sexual revolution; the explosion of the use of LSD and pot as drugs, and the counterculture. These events were not on the cultural map that faced the ones born 1961 through 1964, for they were too young. Yet how can one define a Boomer-Sixties Generation that does not include these as formative experiences? So this discrepancy is an example of what I’m talking about in this article. For it continues the confusion about Boomers and contributes to the scapegoating and the denigration of Boomers as being a Me Generation and Yuppies being former hippies by simply getting confusing results by including some from Gen X—some actual Yuppies. To include those born between the four years, 1961 through 1964, you end up getting the confused results this author gets. You are including the likes of Sarah Palin and Eric Cantor, fer Chrissakes! I’ve never heard anyone mistake them for my generation. It would have Barack Obama, born 1961, categorized as a Boomer, as if there is not an obvious generational difference between him and some the notable Boomers in his administration, like Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton. But by seeing that Obama is a Yuppie-Gen Xer, it helps explain the differences between him and the actual Boomer president, Bill Clinton. For more on this, see Generation Jones, which is the term given for those born 1954 through 1964. They are seen to be very different from the Boomers. They did not confront the same social realities as did Boomers. They even came of age after the Vietnam War. They missed the counterculture movement. It is ludicrous for generationalists to include these with Baby Boomers as especially the second half of these have an entirely opposite world view from Boomers. Their stalwarts include Rick Santorum (born 1958), Sarah Palin (born 1964) and Eric Cantor (born 1963)…hardly Boomers. Notice that it also includes Rand Paul (born 1963), who as expected is the son of a Fifties Generation parent with whom he is allied, Ron Paul (born 1935). See also the write up on Generation X in Wikipedia, which addresses this confusion as to where the dividing line between Boomers and Gen X is as well. Finally, see Baby boomer, which discusses this confusion and adds two important considerations: The person who coined the term “baby boomer” described them as those born between 1943 and 1960. So why did the Census Bureau change it? The second point discussed is that many theorists have two distinct generations during this supposed period of Census Bureau Boomers—Boomers and Generation Jones, which are said to be those born 1956 through 1964. So this latter group is not included with Boomers. Is all this not confusing enough? Does it not play into the right wing agenda to dilute their opponents power by confusing their opponents profile, so they can lob any charge against them? Or attribute any self-congratulatory trait to them, as they wish? Most of all, this strikes me as devious in that it allows right wingers to blame Boomers for the cadre of youth, the Yuppies, who were actually their creation—that of the 1% and those reactionary culture war forces—and were in no way influenced by, so should hardly be included in, “my generation” of Boomers, the Sixties Generation. 2. BLAM!! From the site, Gallup Politics, of May 8, 2009. Even though continuing the misinformation that Boomers were born up till 1964, going with the Census Bureau definition, Gallup Poll data still solidly support the premise that Boomers are predominantly Democrats, as well as the fact that Millennials are as well. Democrats Do Best Among Generation Y and Baby Boomers Republicans do better among Generation X by Frank Newport PRINCETON, NJ — Although Democrats currently enjoy a party identification advantage over Republicans among Americans at every age between 18 to 85, the Democrats’ greatest advantages come among those in their 20s and baby boomers in their late 40s and 50s. Republicans, on the other hand, come closest to parity with Democrats among Generation Xers in their late 30s and early 40s and among seniors in their late 60s…. Demographers and social observers have made attempts over the years to classify Americans into generational groups based on the social, political, economic, and cultural environment of the years in which they grew up and “came of age.” The most clearly delineated such group is the baby boomers, generally agreed to be those born between 1946 and 1964 — or roughly ages 45 to 63 today. Generation X follows the baby boom and is generally considered to be those born between 1965 and 1979 — or roughly between ages 30 and 44. Those younger than Generation X have been labeled Generation Y or the “Millennials,” who are 18 to 29 today. There are various ways of grouping those who preceded the baby boom generation, including the famous sobriquet “The Greatest Generation” used by Tom Brokaw in his book of the same name, but it is convenient to label those who today are 64 and older as seniors (even though some in this group would no doubt resist that label). From Democrats Do Best Among Generation Y and Baby Boomers. Notice here that not only are arbitrary birth figures used to stipulate Boomers and Generation Xers, but everyone older than a Boomer is classified as part of the World War Two Generation—”The Greatest Generation.” So they would have everyone born in the forty-five year period from 1901 through 1945 to be WWII Gen even though some were born during the war and had their coming of age after the war and in the decade of the Fifties—those born 1925 through 1945. Elsewhere this generation has been termed the Silent Generation or the Eisenhower-Presley-McCarthy Generation…I’m calling them the Fifties Generation for convenience sake. Still, the study does find Democratic tendencies among Boomers, however wrongly defined, and Millennials. And it finds Republican leanings among Generation Xers, however wrongly defined, and the Fifties Generation, however wrongly defined again, as shown by the graph below: The current data suggest that political party identification in the United States today follows these generational patterns to a perhaps surprising degree. · Generation Y (18 to 29) clearly is skewed fairly strongly in the direction of being either independent or Democratic in political orientation. This group constitutes a significant weakness for the Republican Party. · Generation X (30 to 44) includes some of the strongest support for Republicans. For whatever reasons, the Democratic over Republican gap among Generation Xers, particularly those ages 37 to 43 at the heart of this generation, is on a relative basis much closer to parity than for any other age group with the exception of those in their late 60s. · Baby Boomers (45 to 63) skew Democratic in their political orientation, with the Democratic advantage reaching a peak at ages 58 and 59. · Seniors have a more mixed pattern of party identification, with Republicans gaining on a relative basis among those in their late 60s, but with Democrats doing better as Americans age into their 70s and early 80s. Democrats have a significant advantage over Republicans today in terms of overall party identification, and the data reviewed here show that this advantage holds at every age between 18 and 85. At the same time, there are clear ebbs and flows in the degree of this Democratic advantage across the age spectrum. Democrats have the greatest advantage vis a vis Republicans among Americans at the very youngest voting age and also among members of the fabled baby boom, particularly those in their late 50s. Republicans do relatively better among those who are in Generation X, including in particular those in their late 30s and early 40s. Republicans also show greater support among older Americans in their late 60s…. There is…the hypothesis that the differences are explained by the unique circumstances that surrounded the coming of age of the generations. Baby boomers, as is well known, grew up in the tumultuous age of civil rights, Vietnam, Woodstock, and Watergate. It is certainly possible that these events have marked this generation in a more Democratic or liberal direction for life. Many Generation Xers came of age during the Reagan-Bush years (1980 to 1992) or the “Republican Revolution” marked by the 1994 midterm elections. Today’s Generation Y has reached maturity in a time period largely marked by the administration of George W. Bush, and certainly for many the nascent Obama administration is a major formative factor in their political orientation…. Now contrast what above is said in the Gallup Poll about Boomers with what is said here about “late Boomers,” or who Howe and Strauss and other social scientists would call Generation X, and I would call Gen X-Yuppies: the 1980-1988 run where young Late Boomers broke heavily for Republicans in the three Presidential landslides of that decade. When that generation grew to political maturity, it resulted in by far the most Republican-identifying generation in over half a century, the 1994 Republican landslide, and the general sense of creeping conservatism the country experienced through the 1990’s and first half of our current decade From The Importance of Generation Y. The article above also describes the Democratic voting patterns of the Millennials, or what they call Generation Y. On the idea that the Millennials being the sons and daughters of the Sixties Generation/Boomers, as I continually point out, I offer the following definition of Millennials from WhatIs.com Millennials, an abbreviation for millennial generation, is a term used by demographers to describe a segment of the population born between 1980 and 2000 (approximately). Sometimes referred to in the media as “Generation Y,” millennials are the children of the post-WWII baby boomer generation. A few things about millennials: According the U.S. census bureau, around forty percent of the millennial generation is African American, Latino, Asian or of a racially-mixed background. There are about 76 million millennials in the United States (based on research using the years 1978-2000). Millennials are the last generation born in the 20th century. Twenty percent have at least one immigrant parent. A number of studies, including one by the Center for American Progress, anticipate that millennials will be the first American generation to do less well economically than their parents. Millennials are also sometimes called the Net generation because (at least according to some people) they don’t remember a time when there was no Internet. As a result of growing up with the Internet and associated devices, millennials are often said to be the most technologically savvy generation to date. 3. There is some scapegoating done by Millennials out of this misinformation. The following was published a few days ago, on June 17, 2012. It is further validation of the antagonism against Boomers regarding the issues of the movement—OWS and Wisconsin union: The War on Boomers 9/11 and the “war on terror” became part of common jargon. Recently, the “war on women” and the “war on religion” are hot political topics. Now, I’m thinking there is a “war on boomers”…. I was sitting at a reception party table politely nibbling on a too-sweet slice of wedding cake chased with lukewarm burnt coffee when a recent graduate seated at the table started whining about how unfairly life was treating him. First, he believed that four years of (sheltered) college life entitled him to a first-class ticket to affluence with a side-trip on a guaranteed career path. And, now there were no job tickets to be had and (worse) he was expected to pay back all the money he borrowed to get in on this total sham. Life was so unfair! His debt should be forgiven – because it was only fair to be compensated for this bait-and-switch. He continued his tirade. Boomers should be retiring to make room for all the recent grads that deserve jobs now. It’s only right. On top of this, these boomers with all of their massive wealth were actually going to bankrupt Social Security – a heartless action since they don’t actually need it. The injustices just keep piling for the new graduates with their superior skills and up-to-date knowledge. Down the road he had nothing to look forward to — once he finally got that plum job that he had a right to based on his attendance at an institution of higher learning – except huge national debt and no Social Security or Medicare, an unwanted and unwarranted gift from self-centered boomers. And, now I’m starting to pay attention to what seemed idle conversation. I glance at the Count who gives me a look that says, “Don’t go there –– please!” I concentrate on my cake that is now too dry to choke down without more lukewarm burnt coffee; and wonder if Clueless thinks those seated at the table are in our 30s (or perhaps our 80s!) and am amazed at how he can find it acceptable to disparage all boomers while sitting among them. Generously, I wonder if maybe he just has a sarcastic sense of humor. However, Clueless continues. I smolder some and then catch the Count’s glance again. He slyly places his thumb and first finger on either side of his mouth pulling a smile into place – and I reluctantly accept his wisdom. But, the Count did get an earful on the way home. I think about Julie, a single mother, who helped two kids through college while working 40 hours per work as an administrative assistant, selling Avon after work hours, and running a food concession stand at weekend events during the summer. Julie has little in her nest-egg, but her children do have a chance at the American dream – although it will always require some effort. I suspect that John, another co-worker, was on track to fund his retirement. Unfortunately, at about the same time the 2008 financial crisis cratered his retirement savings his father was diagnosed with Alzheimers. John knew he should avoid using his tax-deferred savings at the bottom of the financial market, but his father’s healthcare bills had to be paid. John’s plan to retire at 62 is a dream lost to reality. I bumped into Mary Beth at the greenhouse when we were buying our bedding plants. She pointed us to the “spikes” that the Count insists on adding to the geranium-filled pots on the patio. As we caught up on gossip about former neighbors, she confided that plants have always been her hobby and that this “green” job was perfect. This temporary part-time job was crucial to replacing the family income lost when Jerry was laid off from his welding job – months ago. And, she laughed when she acknowledged that, in fact, “work” was a respite from a house now over-crowded since her daughter and family are living in the basement. I’m pretty certain that Jerry and Mary Beth — both boomers, planners, and savers – no longer have the luxury of maximizing their tax-deferred retirement savings accounts (or even the ability to set aside savings) as they approach the age they used to believe would be the end of their full-time working careers. With investment portfolios and home values shrinking, medical expenses and LTC costs rising, financial worries for some boomers are dire. A May 2010 Pew Research survey found that 60% of Americans age 50 to 61 believe they may need to delay retirement because of the recession. Plus, the highest percentage of any generation, 57% of boomers, said that their household finances have deteriorated in the past few years. In 2010 the ERBI reported that only 13% of workers age 55 or older are “very confident” that have enough money to live comfortably in retirement. Some have labeled the boomer generation the “sandwich generation”, a group dealing with healthcare issues of their elderly parents at the same time they are backstopping the impact of the stagnant economy on their boomerang grown children. Aiming fingers and lobbing blame doesn’t solve anything. We are all in this together since our generations are linked in complex ways. We are all fighting the same war of financial and economic uncertainty, just not at on the same battlefield – as determined by our stage of life. A war on anyone does nothing but divide us – when the ultimate victory is prosperity for everyone. 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__label__cc	0.542706	0.457294	Home Travel & Courses New Veteran Golf Travel site: Free lifetime memberships available New Veteran Golf Travel site: Free lifetime memberships available THE people at Go Golfing Travel have become increasingly involved in the veteran golfing scene in recent years and have upped the ante with a new dedicated service for veteran golf travellers. Go Golfing, who say they are Australia’s biggest and most awarded golf travel company, were initially involved as an organising partner with the 2017 Australian Veteran Golfers Union (AVGU) National Championship on the Gold Coast and backed it up last year with the national vets championship in Port Stephens in NSW. This year they are again working with the AVGU and will help deliver the 2019 edition of the championships slated for Launceston in Tasmania in November. Go Golfing has now decided to further develop their involvement with the veteran golfing community by launching their Veteran Golf Travel website. Go Golfing’s founder Peter McCarthy – who hundreds of national championship attending vets now know from his very amusing tournament speeches and “emceeing” – says he is excited to launch Veteran Golf Travel in conjunction with the veteran golf community. “Veteran golfers deserve to be pampered” Go Golfing founder Peter McCarthy at the 2018 AVGU National Championships presentation dinner “As a company Go Golfing has sponsored a number of veteran golf tournaments around the country for more than 10 years and in a much bigger way with the AVGU Championships for the last 3 years,” Peter says. “Veteran Golf Travel is an opportunity to build on the strong connection we already have with the veteran golf community to deliver more well-priced and well-run events, tours and holidays exclusively for veteran golfers.” “Listening to veteran golfers, we know they want a great deal and that’s exactly what Veteran Golf Travel’s events and tours will deliver. We also make sure they never carry their luggage, are transported everywhere, and when they arrive at golf courses their clubs are already there. Veteran golfers deserve to be pampered.” Veteran Golf Travel currently hosts three enticing tournaments, starting with a week-long tournament at Sanctuary Cove in August, 2019 on the Gold Coast. In November veteran golfers can enjoy the AVGU National Championships in Launceston and building on the success of the 2018 Championships in Port Stephens, an annual event has been confirmed for April 2020. Fully escorted tours, for groups of 20 to 30 veteran golfers, are on sale right now to Adelaide and the Barossa Valley, Las Vegas and there’s a luxury tour playing Sydney’s top ranking private courses plus VIP opening night seats to the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo stadium spectacular on 17 October. “Popular with couples, there’s also a growing number of singles and widows and widowers joining in,” Peter says. “And who wouldn’t want to join a club that delivers great value, a touch of the good life, friendly competition and a bunch of fun. Veteran Golf Travel comes with a full-service travel agency and can get you the best deals on flights, cruises, accommodation, insurance and everything else for your holiday.” Sign up to Veteran Golf Travel before 30 March 2019 and you will receive a lifetime membership for free, a saving of $49 a year. Plus save $50 every time you book with Veteran Golf Travel and there are other bonuses and perks involved. Part of the Go Golfing team at the 2018 National Veteran Golfers Championships at Port Stephens For full details visit Veteran Golf Travel avgu national championships Previous articleLarry Canning: My Take on the new Rules of Golf Next articleGolf Swing Instruction: Hip and Shoulder Rotation: Getting into an ideal impact position	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line10526
__label__wiki	0.974745	0.974745	McLaren Looks To Asia And Hybrid Cars To Stay On Track McLaren plans to open dealerships in Vietnam and the Philippines with plans to also set shop in Russia and India \| Published: 09-Dec-19 04:30 PM British exotic sports car maker McLaren Automotive will bank on expanded sales in Asia and a new generation of hybrid cars as it steers toward a potential public offering, the company's chief executive said on Tuesday. "We need to put more cars into Asia," McLaren CEO Mike Flewitt said in a meeting with reporters in Detroit. Sales of McLaren's carbon fibre and aluminium sports cars, which start at about $200,000 in the United States, have fallen in the United Kingdom, its largest market. Flewitt said that reflects uncertainty over Brexit. Demand in the United States and in Asian markets outside of China remains strong, he said. McLaren plans to open dealerships in Vietnam and the Philippines, Flewitt said. "The next big ones are India and Russia. We're not in either and probably should be." Flewitt has said in the past that the owners of the McLaren Group, led by Bahrain's sovereign wealth fund, are considering an initial public offering by 2025. An IPO will likely come after all parts of the group, including McLaren Racing and a unit that markets technology, are generating cash, he said on Tuesday. Exotic sports car makers have a mixed record on public markets. Ferrari NV has been one of the auto sector's best-performing stocks, up 68% this year. However, British premium sports car maker Aston Martin Lagonda Global Holdings has suffered a 59% decline. McLaren sold about 4,800 cars in 2018, and is on track for a slightly lower number in 2019, Flewitt said. An important piece of McLaren's expansion strategy will be unveiled next spring - a hybrid car with a new architecture under the skin. However, McLaren does not plan to follow its rivals into the SUV market. "We couldn't afford to do it," Flewitt said, adding, "it just doesn't fit the brand." By 2024, McLaren will have additional production capacity coming online to increase sales to 6,000 cars a year - if the company can hit that volume without sacrificing profit margins, Flewitt said. Profitability plays a role in McLaren's decision, so far, not to develop an all-electric car, Flewitt said. Eventually, the super car niche will go electric, but for McLaren that will have to wait for lighter, lower-cost, solid-state batteries to be ready for commercial use, he said. "Nobody is out there making money with electric cars," he said. "We can do what we need to do with hybrids." (This story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.) For the latest auto news and reviews, follow CarandBike on Twitter, Facebook, and subscribe to our YouTube channel. ₹ 4.09 - 5.43 Lakh * ₹ 11.3 - 19.38 Lakh * ₹ 5.47 - 7.4 Lakh * ₹ 14.47 - 20.16 Lakh * ₹ 7.46 - 13.16 Lakh * Over 1.5+ Lakhs subscribers Thank you for Subscribing to Us Hero Splendor Plus is gaining popularity. Find all the details here. JAWA Perak is gaining popularity. Find all the details here. Yamaha FZ S V3.0 FI is gaining popularity. Find all the details here.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line10527
__label__cc	0.709044	0.290956	Bionic Bug, One of the Year’s Best Thrillers By Mishka Rao on August 28, 2019 in Mystery Books, New Book Releases, Techno Thriller Books, Thriller Book Reviews, Thriller Reviews The Bottom Line: A funny, vibrant, high-tech detective novel. One of the year’s best thrillers. Set nearly a decade in the future, Bionic Bug begins as struggling private investigator Lara Kingsley and her partner and best friend, Sully, are hanging out at their favorite local haunt. Lara notices something odd about his appearance, but he doesn’t want to talk about it. Days later, the pair arrive separately to a Washington Nationals baseball game. Only Lara leaves the game alive. Does Sully’s death have anything to do with the swarm of drones that descended upon the stadium? What was the gadget he held at the stadium? And did his death have anything to do with a terrorist attack he helped the FBI prevent? As Lara begins the investigation into Sully’s death, she learns that the FBI was actually keeping him under surveillance. Her quest to find out what Sully was involved in and who killed him lead her to a world where gene editing is increasingly threatening, the dark web is alive and well, and the stakes for humanity are higher than she ever imagined. While Natasha Bajema’s twisty plot is well-crafted and filled with plenty of surprises, what sets the novel apart from the crowd is Lara, easily one of the most personable and empathetic characters this year. As a business owner, she’s an utter failure, but not because she isn’t smart. The brilliant surveillance expert has even joined Mensa as an alternative to online dating, and her observations, whether professional or personal, are often effortlessly hilarious. We look forward to riding along as she fights for love and justice in an increasingly frightening world. Readers will want to get in on the ground floor of this vibrant sci-fi detective series. Mishka Rao The Bullhead Murders, a Spectacular Crime Thriller by Michael Allan Scott Blood-Red Mist, One of the Year’s Best Thrillers Killer Deal, a Ripped-from-the-Headlines Legal Thriller by Karen S. Gordon Terror Machine, an Awe-Inspiring Terrorism Thriller by Denison Hatch When I Was You, an Engrossing Psychological Thriller by Minka Kent Natasha Bajema Hide and Seek, a First-Rate FBI Thriller by Mary Burton Jihadi Bride, an Edge-of-Your Seat Terrorism Thriller by Alastair Luft	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line10532
__label__wiki	0.772764	0.772764	Browse the Papers Documents Journals Administrative Records Revelations and Translations Histories Legal, Business, and Financial Records Other Contemporary Papers People Places Events Glossary Calendar of Documents Works Cited Featured Topics Lesson Plans Videos Photographs Illustrations Charts Maps Podcast Current News Archive Newsletter Subscribe About the Project Joseph Smith and His Papers Awards Endorsements Reviews Editorial Method Note on Transcriptions Note on Images of People and Places Referencing the Project Citing This Website Project Team Contact Us City of Nauvoo v. Davis for Slander of JS–A, Nauvoo, IL, Municipal Court, 10 March 1842 Introduction to City of Nauvoo v. Davis for Slander of JS–A Complaint, 10 March 1842 [City of Nauvoo v. Davis for Slander of JS–A] Warrant, 10 March 1842 [City of Nauvoo v. Davis for Slander of JS–A] Subpoena, 10 March 1842 [City of Nauvoo v. 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Son of Alexander Sloan and Anne. Married Mary Magill. Baptized into Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Ordained an elder, ... ; CHL. See Introduction to City of Nauvoo v. Davis for Slander of JS–A. Hide editing marks Vs.) Amos Davis Ca. 20 Sept. 1813–22 Mar. 1872. Merchant, farmer, postmaster, tavernkeeper. Born in New Hampshire or Vermont. Son of Wells Davis and Mary. Moved to Commerce (later Nauvoo), Hancock Co., Illinois, ca. fall 1836. Married first Elvira Hibard, 1 Jan. 1837, in... Municipal Court March 10th. 1842. Six oClock P. M. The complaint in this Cause was made by Joseph Smith, before John C. Bennett 3 Aug. 1804–5 Aug. 1867. Physician, minister, poultry breeder. Born at Fairhaven, Bristol Co., Massachusetts. Son of John Bennett and Abigail Cook. Moved to Marietta, Washington Co., Ohio, 1808; to Massachusetts, 1812; and back to Marietta, 1822. Married ... , Mayor, upon Oath, & is for the breach of an Ordinance, entitled, “an Ordinance Concerning Vagrants & disorderly Persons.” Sworn Mar 10th, 1842 March 10th. 1842. Warrant issued to arrest the Deft. , & was executed by the 26 May 1808–1 Feb. 1879. Farmer, blacksmith, shoemaker, constable, coroner, deputy sheriff, Indian interpreter. Born at Watertown, Jefferson Co., New York. Son of William Huntington and Zina Baker. Married Fannie Maria Allen, 28 Apr. 1830. Baptized into Church... pro tem. & returned by him, endorsed, “I have served the within Writ, by bringing the forthwith, fees 31Cts.— Also Summoned Six Aldermen, fees 87½cts, & the Recorder 13Cts,— making $1,31.— D[imick] B. Huntington , Marshal. Same day. Subpoena issued for R[obert] D. Foster 14 Mar. 1811–1 Feb. 1878. Physician, land speculator. Born in Braunston, Northamptonshire, England. Son of John Foster and Jane Knibb. Married Sarah Phinney, 18 July 1837, at Medina Co., Ohio. Baptized into Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, before... & Lady, Davison Hibbard 20 Aug. 1788–11 Sept. 1854. Farmer. Born in Brookfield, Orange Co., Vermont. Son of Roger Hibbard and Sarah Davidson. Married Sarah Tilton, 1816, in Maine. Lived at Morgan Co., Illinois, by 2 Aug. 1824. Commissioned captain in Twenty-First Regiment of Illinois... & Lady, & s Woman Servant, & was returned, endorsed, “ R. D. Foster and Lady. D. Hibbard & Lady, Girl, duly served by reading March 10th. 1842. D. B. Huntington City Marshal. Same day.— Summons issued for twelve Jurors, & was returned, endorsed, for serving the within Writ Mar. 10th. 1842, City Marshal, fees 50Cts..— Mayor, Aldermen Samuel H. Smith 13 Mar. 1808–30 July 1844. Farmer, logger, scribe, builder, tavern operator. Born at Tunbridge, Orange Co., Vermont. Son of Joseph Smith Sr. and Lucy Mack. Moved to Royalton, Windsor Co., Vermont, by Mar. 1810; to Lebanon, Grafton Co., New Hampshire, 1811... William Marks 15 Nov. 1792–22 May 1872. Farmer, printer, publisher, postmaster. Born at Rutland, Rutland Co., Vermont. Son of Cornell (Cornwall) Marks and Sarah Goodrich. Married first Rosannah R. Robinson, 2 May 1813. Lived at Portage, Allegany Co., New York, where he... Gustavus Hills 29 Jan. 1804–18 Oct. 1846. Music teacher, engraver, jeweler, newspaper editor, judge. Born in Chatham, Middlesex Co., Connecticut. Son of Lebbeus Hills and Mary Gibson. Married Elizabeth Mansfield, 25 Dec. 1827, in Middletown, Middlesex Co. Moved to Warren... Orson Spencer 14 Mar./13 May 1802–15 Oct. 1855. Teacher, minister, university professor and chancellor. Born in West Stockbridge, Berkshire Co., Massachusetts. Son of Daniel Spencer and Chloe Wilson. Moved to Lenox, Berkshire Co., 1817; to Schenectady, Schenectady Co.,... Hiram Kimball 31 May 1806–27 Apr. 1863. Merchant, iron foundry operator, mail carrier. Born in West Fairlee, Orange Co., Vermont. Son of Phineas Kimball and Abigail. Moved to Commerce (later Nauvoo), Hancock Co., Illinois, 1833, and established several stores. Married ... N[ewel] K. Whitney 3/5 Feb. 1795–23 Sept. 1850. Trader, merchant. Born at Marlborough, Windham Co., Vermont. Son of Samuel Whitney and Susanna Kimball. Moved to Fairfield, Herkimer Co., New York, 1803. Merchant at Plattsburg, Clinton Co., New York, 1814. Mercantile clerk for... Jurors Sworn.— James Allred 22 Jan. 1784–10 Jan. 1876. Farmer. Born in Randolph Co., North Carolina. Son of William Allred and Elizabeth Thrasher. Married Elizabeth Warren. Moved to Missouri, before Sept. 1832. Baptized into Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints by George M. Hinkle... Reynolds Cahoon 30 Apr. 1790–29 Apr. 1861. Farmer, tanner, builder. Born at Cambridge, Washington Co., New York. Son of William Cahoon Jr. and Mehitable Hodges. Married Thirza Stiles, 11 Dec. 1810. Moved to northeastern Ohio, 1811. Located at Harpersfield, Ashtabula Co.,... , Graham Coltrin, David Sessions, Perrygreen [Perregrine] Sessions, Leonard Soby Ca. 1810–14 Dec. 1892. Tobacco merchant. Born in Pennsylvania. Son of David Soby. Married Helen. Baptized into Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, by 1840. Moved to Nauvoo, Hancock Co., Illinois, by June 1840. Received elder’s license, 6 Dec. 1840... Joseph W. Coolidge 31 May 1814–13 Jan. 1871. Carpenter, miller, merchant. Born in Bangor, Hancock Co., Maine. Son of John Kittridge Coolidge and Rebecca Stone Wellington. Moved to Cincinnati, by 1817. Moved to area of Mackinaw, Tazewell Co., Illinois, 1834. Married Elizabeth... , John G. Luce, Jesse D. Hunter, 17 July 1814–4 Dec. 1879. Bookkeeper, clerk. Born at Charnock Moss, Penwortham, Lancashire, England. Son of Thomas Clayton and Ann Critchley. Married Ruth Moon, 9 Oct. 1836, at Penwortham. Baptized into Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints by Heber... , James Rodeback and C[harles] D. Barnum. Witnesses Sworn. Robt. D. Foster , & Wife, Taylor, [blank] Jinks, Joseph Smith, & 24 June 1804–11 Mar. 1854. Teacher, lecturer, doctor, clerk, printer, editor, postmaster. Born at Hopkinton, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts. Son of Joseph Richards and Rhoda Howe. Moved to Richmond, Berkshire Co., Massachusetts, 1813; to Chatham, Columbia Co... George P. Stiles 18 July 1816–Sept. 1885. Attorney, judge, politician. Born in Watertown, Jefferson Co., New York. Son of John Stiles and Persis Cole. Moved to Le Ray, Jefferson Co., by 1820. Moved to Pamela, Jefferson Co., by 1830. Married first Julian Mackemer, 7 Nov. 1841... Council for the City.— Sylvester Emmons 28 Feb. 1808–15 Nov. 1881. Lawyer, newspaper publisher. Born in Readington Township, Hunterdon Co., New Jersey. Son of Abraham Emmons and Margaret Vlerebome. Moved to Philadelphia, 1831. Moved to Illinois, 1840. Admitted to bar in Hancock Co., Illinois, May... Col. for The Witnesses were respectively examined, crossexamined, and interrogated by the Court. The Jury returned the following Verdict, to wit “We the Jury find the guilty of the charge contained in the Affidavit upon which this Suit is founded. March 10th. 1842.— R. Cahoon .— Foreman.— Whereupon. The Judgment of the Court is, that the give Security of One hundred Dollars, to keep the Peace for Six Months, & indemnify the Corporation. [p. 4] Dimick B. Huntington Robert D. Foster Newel K. Whitney , James Rodeback and Charles D. Barnum. View entire transcript \| Related Case Documents Editorial Title Handwriting on This Page Contact Us FAQ Follow Us on Facebook Do you know of any Joseph Smith documents that we might not have heard about? Tell us The Church Historian’s Press is an imprint of the Church History Department of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City, Utah, and a trademark of Intellectual Reserve, Inc. © 2019 by Intellectual Reserve, Inc. 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__label__wiki	0.754387	0.754387	5 Life-Changing Family Vacations to Take With Your Kids Now by Wendy Altschuler November 14, 2017 Life, as all parents know and feel, moves fast. Too fast. How many mothers and fathers have exclaimed, “They grow up so quickly!”? Yes, it’s cliché but true: The days are long but the years are short. One way to really make the most of the free time we have with our family is to unplug from the digital universe, leave the hustle and hubbub in our dust, and go on an intrepid adventure. Travel helps us bond with our family in a way that proves difficult when bogged down by day-to-day life, full of to-do lists, careers, school, and activities. When out exploring, away from our normal lives, we create memories, we learn about other cultures and ways of life, and we enjoy simply being together. Have we sparked your familial wanderlust yet? For some travel inspiration, check out these global destinations, chosen by families who decided it was high time for their next great adventure. Three Cities in Spain Jim and Jennifer Lahti, from Winnetka, are big believers in family travel — they visited Spain with their four children (ages 14, 12, 11 and 9). It was the first time they would be leaving the country together as a family, and they looked to Stacey Loftus Cohen from Royal Travel & Tours in Winnetka — a premier family agency in operation since 1972 — to help them book an adventure of a lifetime that included visits to Barcelona, Marbella, and Madrid. Photo courtesy of the Lahti family. “It was important to understand the priorities for this family and to put together a trip with the itinerary to achieve it,” says Loftus Cohen. “For example, I knew that their daughter Charlotte wanted a cooking class for her birthday and knowing that she did not like chocolate, I worked with the chef to ensure that her special birthday treat was a vanilla-based cake.” In Barcelona, the Lahtis stayed at Hotel Arts and enjoyed the benefits of the Club Level, which included breakfast and snacks throughout the day — an insider’s tip for a good value for big families and a great place to decompress after a long day touring the city. Highlights in Barcelona included a Gaudi architecture tour, a visit to the Gothic Quarter in Barcelona, and the aforementioned cooking class. Imagine walking around a traditional market — seeing fish and hung meat for sale, smelling local flavors — and then going to a cooking school for a hands-on experience preparing traditional Spanish foods like croquettes, calamari, and pintxos. “The guide really connected with the kids and was so knowledgeable!” says Jennifer Lahti. “We all learned quite a bit.” In Marbella, the Lahtis stayed at the Marbella Beach Club, right on the Mediterranean, which was a relaxing retreat from the busy urban bustle of Barcelona. Two days were spent soaking up the sun, relaxing on the beach, and enjoying some of the best seafood they’d ever had. They also enjoyed a day included for an excursion to Rhonda “The drive itself was very pretty, we had to go up into the mountains and it was neat to see the African coastline off in the distance,” says Lahti. After a private tour of the city, the Lahtis went to see a bullfighting ring, including a tour of the grandstands and bull pens, a high point for the kids. The museum attached to the ring was an excellent place to absorb the history of the sport. The Lahtis then traveled by high-speed train to magical Madrid, where they stayed at the Hotel Ritz, a lovely traditional hotel in an excellent walkable location. While in Madrid, the family spent two days touring with the same informative guide — they visited and learned about the Prado, the Royal Palace and Toledo. “Our guide was able to bring us into buildings we never would have been able to get into on our own,” says Lahti. “We also went to a flamenco show, which was fun and well worth it!” The family says Royal Travel’s seamless arrangement of their itinerary helped make this most memorable of trips. Jennifer says the personalized tours with the guides completely made the trip, and the fact that all of the details were taken care of — including pre-arranged porter services to assist with baggage and transportation — meant that the Lahtis could focus on enjoying the trip instead of stressing out over the logistics. “There is no way I could have ever planned a trip like this on our own,” says Lahti. “It was great for our family as it was such an adventure! It definitely made us closer as a family.” Chicagoans Trisha and Kenji Muro visited Africa this past April with their two children (ages 14 and 11). The Muros wanted to make this journey because they decided focusing on experiences was more important that buying more things. They wanted to get their children out of their comfort zones, to try new things, and meet new people, and Africa was one of the many places they wanted to go to together as a family. Photo courtesy of the Muro family. If you ask the Muros what their trip to Africa was like, they’ll tell you it was nothing short of remarkable. “Since we come from a fairly northern latitude, the difference in sunlight intensity is stunning,” says Trisha Muro. “Twilights are fast, and of course the entire landscape is just plain awesome, grand and expansive.” Of course, you can see some stunning animals at the zoo, but for the Muros, seeing animals in their natural habitat in Kenya was an experience like no other. The Muro family witnessed incredible animal life — and death — something that Trisha says was awe-inspiring. They saw a newborn giraffe take its first steps to drink its mother’s milk, a trip highlight, and they also saw a lion gnawing on a zebra it had just caught in its claws. “In Africa, you wake up to bird songs like you’ll never hear in Chicago, and middle-of-the-night conversations between hippos, hyenas, and lions,” says Trisha. The family’s full-time guide was invaluable to their enriching experience — he traveled, navigated, and educated the Muro family and proved to be quite the comfort in such an unfamiliar locale. Their guide taught them about the many different animal species, including some of the less popular ones like hyrax, Thomson’s gazelles, and dik-diks. “We might have been able to see Kenya without him, but doing so would’ve been a far paler visit — he made all the difference in the world,” says Trisha. Accommodations on the trip, which was planned by San Francisco-based travel company GeoEx (Geographic Expedition), were rustic-chic, taking into consideration the landscape. The Muros stayed in a variety of places, including semi-permanent tents — a new experience for the family. “The people who welcomed us were warm, highly knowledgeable, friendly, and generous,” says Trisha. “A tribal woman welcomed us into her hut so that we could see how native people build their homes, and Maasai men accompanied us on walks to share with us their incredible knowledge and skill.” Visiting an elephant orphanage in Nairobi, learning about the wildlife rangers who protect rhinos, and attending a school in Laikipia were, as Trisha puts it, “beautiful moments of connecting with people making a difference in their communities!” Transformative Travel Jessica Silber, who oversees Africa and Middle East travel at GeoEx, notes Africa’s richness in lessons for families, especially children, who often return with confidence and a newfound adventurous spirit after the experience of sleeping in a tented camp, meeting local conservation heroes, and connecting with kids in local schools. “We have arranged for families to be greeted at their camp by a group of Maasai warriors, coordinated private safaris on exquisitely remote islands in the Okavango Delta, and surprised families with aerial views of the Great Migration in a charter flight over the Serengeti,” says Silber. “We are lucky to have such great friends in Africa as camp managers, drivers, and guides who welcome our guests immediately as part of the GeoEx family.” Silber says GeoEx helps to enhance families’ African adventures by maximizing the time spent on safari and minimizing the time spent in a 4 x 4, with activities like swimming excursions in Kenya, meerkat encounters in Botswana, and rides on camels to special campfire dinners. Travel experts can also schedule special excursions in the community like a trip to a local school or a pickup game of soccer. Silber also says it’s important to choose guides carefully — the really good guides will not only entertain and educate, but they will also share enlightening stories about their own lives or unscripted stories about the animals they’ve encountered. She also notes that timing is key: The U.S. summer falls during the safari high season when it’s cool and dry in sub-Saharan Africa, while arriving in December or April may afford viewers a chance to see colorful birds and baby animals. As part of their involvement with Tides (formerly known as the Thoreau Center for Sustainability), GeoEx delivers on a promise to promote energy conservation, recycling, and environmental sustainability. One initiative that GeoEx has undertaken is to provide guests with water-filtration bottles instead of single-use plastic bottles, which are damaging to the environment and global resources. A Multigenerational Venture in Montana What if you want to travel with your entire extended family? You’ll want a destination that combines accessibility with entertainment and enjoyment for family members of every age. Take the Ost family from Saint Charles, for example — they traveled to Montana with four sets of families, totaling 18 members, to get a slice of the cowboy culture out west. “Our client wanted to put together a memorable multigenerational family trip to help celebrate his mother and father’s anniversary,” says Bonnie Minutillo, travel expert at Andrew Harper Travel, a luxury boutique travel company based in Westmont. “Mr. Ost wanted a destination that would offer activities for the various age groups — from ages 5 to 72 — and he wanted to stay in the United States.” Minutillo and her client together decided that a luxury ranch experience would be just the thing to celebrate the big anniversary, and Ranch at Rock Creek in Montana fit the bill perfectly. “They offer so many different activities, have luxurious accommodations, and the staff and service are truly exceptional,” says Minutillo. The concierge at Ranch at Rock Creek, with Minutillo’s guidance, assisted the Ost family in setting up special activities. Andrew Harper Travel was able to assist the family with their air travel from Chicago and get them all on nonstop flights, making the experience easy as a slice of Montana pie. Jennifer Ost says that the privately-owned ranch, nestled along either side of Rock Creek, southeast of Missoula, was relaxed but high end, with something to do for everyone. The family was able to see an abundance of nature — deer, moose, vast mountain ranges, Aspen trees, and even shooting stars at night. And the log cabin accommodations, with private porches, daily housekeeping, and full kitchens, were luxurious but also full of Montana country charm. Photo courtesy of the Ost family. Bikes were also available for the guests to use at will, making it easy for everyone to get around the property. “A bike wrangler brings the bike back to your house if you decide you do not want to ride bikes back from an activity,” says Jennifer Ost. “My mother-in-law was given a golf cart to ride around in all week because she was recovering from a knee replacement surgery — she loved it.” Each family member received a custom itinerary for the week — wagon rides, horseback riding, geocaching, ropes courses, range shooting, hiking, fly fishing, archery, barn dancing — and then they met up each night as a group to talk about the day and all the different experiences they enjoyed. Each night after dinner, the Ost extended family spent time together at the main lodge or in the game room where they bowled and played chess and pool and sat by the fireplace. “One night, Sam, a concierge at the ranch, taught a group of us how to play Texas Hold’Em, which none of us ever played before — we are hooked now and planning poker nights together now that we are home,” says Ost. The kids’ programs included crafts, playing games, and eating meals at the Kids’ Club. The ranch also brought in a rodeo, with professional riders from all over the state, to entertain guests. A highlight for Jennifer was the inclusive locally sourced gourmet meals. “Some were home-style ranch meals cooked outside as a picnic buffet and others were fancy high-end five-course chef tasting menus at the main restaurant,” says Ost. Andrew Harper Travel also coordinated with the ranch to help the Ost family arrange a special off-ranch activity. “My father-in-law, Larry Ost, is a survivor of the 1959 earthquake in Montana near Yellowstone in which 29 people died,” says Ost. “We rented a large private bus for a day trip to the Quake Lake Visitors Center and to West Yellowstone. This day trip was a highlight for our family because many of the children in our group learned about our family history and connected with their grandfather’s experiences by visiting the site and hearing his stories.” It’s All About the Journey, Not the Destination Sometimes it not about where in the world you should go and more about making the effort to simply leave home. Just ask Gil Dowd from the Bay Area — he’s traveled with his kids (ages 18 to 24) to Belize, Greece, and the Galapagos Islands with REI, an adventure company that focuses on family travel and specialty nature-infused active trips. In 2018, REI will celebrate their 10th year of planning stellar family vacations across the globe. “REI’s Family Adventures are the perfect escape from the mobile age of distraction,” says Janel Jensen, REI Adventures program manager. “It’s device-free time to help multigenerational families connect more deeply in the outdoors.” Photo courtesy of the Dowd family. Gil’s daughter Annalise has gotten a lot out of the trips because of the in-country educated guides. “One of my favorite things about the REI Adventure trips is having local tour guides who were able to provide a much more authentic experience than if we were traveling on our own,” says Annalise Dowd. “They are able to take us to the local shops and restaurants that are often overlooked by the average tourist, and they had tremendous knowledge about the culture, past and present.” In 2007, the Dowd family went to Belize — staying on lighthouse reef. Gil and his three adventurer kids snorkeled in warm azure waters, body surfed, went sailing at the Blue Hole, and spent a lot of time relaxing and connecting on the beach. The Dowds even caught barracuda with fishing line and their bare hands, instead of a rod and reel. Nighttime was spent playing games, swimming, and sleeping in two-person tents on the beach, for an inimitable experience. “I decided to try an adventure trip with REI and couldn’t believe how refreshing it was for me as the parent,” Dowd says. “Since I didn’t make up the itinerary, the kids never once complained or asked to do other things.” Amazon Basin/Galapagos In 2012, the intrepid Dowds journeyed to the Amazon Basin and Galapagos Islands, where hiking, rafting, snorkeling, sea kayaking, and biking were on the must-do list. That, and a very special 50th birthday celebration, which was spent whooping and hollering on a rafting expedition. “This was another great trip with very different geography,” says Dowd. “The Amazon Basin was lush with many plants, rivers, and bugs.” After the Amazon Basin, the Dowds explored two of the islands in the Galapagos, where they saw iguanas, tortoises, sea lions, blue-footed boobies, and more sea life — and even took a kayaking trip to search for sharks. “REI trip leaders take care of all the day-to-day decisions and logistics so adults can truly immerse [themselves] in the activities with their youngsters,” says Jensen. Annalise says that she not only loves spending time with her family, but also getting to know different people from around the world. Plus, the activities and adventures that REI plans get Annalise excited to keep exploring and learning more. “There is such an excitement about waking up to a new and unexpected adventure each day and going to bed exhausted and happy,” says Dowd. Greece isn’t just for couples on romantic vacations; it’s also a destination for thrilling adventure. In 2014, the Dowds were at it again, visiting Europe for the first time by hiking and kayaking their way through Athens, Mykonos, Santorini, and Oia. They visited the top sites with a knowledgeable guide and learned about the history, culture, and food, which is part of what makes Greece such a wonderful destination for families. “The cafes, churches, and labyrinth streets were amazing,” says Dowd. “One day we hiked 10 miles from Santorini to Oia to enjoy the fabulous sunset, fine food, and great wine.” As Down explains, REI puts the main focus on the locations and active experiences and then builds the trip around that, instead of picking out a fabulous hotel first and then planning the activities. “We will be on another REI Adventure vacation in the near future,” he says. Asia: From Elephants to Sushi in Thailand and Japan Shawna Huffman Owen, president and CEO at Chicago-based Huffman Travel Ltd., a trusted family-owned-and-operated luxury travel agency, booked an educational spring break travel experience for the Cole family from Lincoln Park. “The Cole family defines what it means to ‘educate through travel’,” says Huffman Owen. “They give their kids the gift of wanderlust and believe that by doing and experiencing you learn — I knew we’d be able to take advantage of all that Japan and Thailand have to offer.” One of the trip’s highlights included a visit to the Elephant Life Experience boutique elephant camp at Maetaman Valley north of Chiang Mai in Thailand. The Coles watched the elephants bathe in the river, learned basic verbal commands, participated in the animal care, and watched the elephants paint a picture with their trunks. “The highlight of the trip by far was the Elephant Experience,” says Elizabeth Cole. “We had a blast riding them and then giving them a bath in the river where they were so playful and fun — it was like nothing I have ever seen in my life.” Photo courtesy of the Cole family. Other experiences that Huffman Travel Ltd. planned for the Coles included biking through rice paddies in Chiang Mai, dressing up in traditional Kimonos, riding the bullet train, boating through the national parks off Koh Samui, and visiting the famous Tokyo Fish Market. “Their oldest, Brendan, who never liked sushi before, is a convert — he loves it now!” says Huffman Owen. A cooking class, Thai Secret Cooking School, was a favorite activity for mom, Elizabeth, a health and wellness expert. She was fascinated by the visit to the organic garden because she wanted to learn about the Eastern medicine approach and also loved seeing her children take pride in what they made. Of her children’s newly adventurous palates she says, “Our kids are now quite sophisticated sushi eaters — no California rolls for them anymore.” More from Make It Better: 4 Under-the-Radar Wine Vacations in North America 17 Podcasts and Audiobooks That Will Make Family Road Trips Fly By 5 Reasons to Try a River Cruise — And How to Choose the Best One For You Wendy Altschuler is a seasoned travel and lifestyle writer with more than a decade of clips in various publications: MSN, Delta Sky, Modern Luxury, Sun-Times Media, Tribune Brand Copy, Parents Magazine, Yoga Magazine, The Daily Meal, Spafinder, Red Tricycle, Eluxe Magazine and many more. She is happiest when out exploring and adventuring or on a trail with her family and pup. Follow her on social @wendyaltschuler or visit her website: wendyaltschuler.com Wendy is a big fan of volunteering with her kids and The Honeycomb Project, a sort of nonprofit aggregator that sets up family-friendly service projects for all ages. “We can sign up for community events around Chicago that help protect animals and the environment; fight hunger, poverty and homelessness; and offer joy and support to those in need. Doing good feels good,” Wendy says. Africaasiaentertainmentfamily travelMontanaSpaintravelvacation The Ultimate Guide to Chicago Museums — 2019 Edition 9 Biggest Reveals at Star Wars Celebration 2019: Episode IX, Galaxy’s Edge, The Mandalorian, and More Spring Fashion: 12 Ready-to-Wear Pieces in the Season’s Hottest Pantone Colors ‘Black Panther’ Star Danai Gurira Talks Growing Up in Zimbabwe, Finding Her Passion, and the Drive to ‘Do More’	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line10534
__label__cc	0.586522	0.413478	Tag Archives: myrtles nursery The Haunted Myrtles Plantation, Natchez Mississippi, New Orleans, and Cemeteries Galore – The Big Séance Podcast: My Paranormal World #36 Are you brave enough to stay the night at the haunted Myrtles Plantation? I did. Join me as I talk about the exciting stops on my summer vacation through the south, here in the US. Other paranormal spots included the King’s Tavern in Natchez, MS, Oak Alley Plantation, and the Lalaurie Mansion in New Orleans. The haunted Myrtles Plantation in St. Francisville, LA. In this episode: A quick summary of this episode! :38 Leaving St. Louis for Lamberts Cafe in Sikeston, MO 1:54 Stayed the night at the Hilton Memphis (Sorry, Elvis) 2:49 We arrived in the beautiful and historic Natchez, MS. View the photos I took around the city in my Natchez album on Flickr. 3:14 King’s Tavern — Featured on Ghost Adventures in Season 7, episode 18 from 2013. Kings Tavern is the oldest standing building in the Mississippi Territory and Natchez and its history goes all the way back to 1769. 3:36 Plan B and stumbling into a beautiful surprise! 4:17 Dinner at the historic Bowie’s Tavern — We talked to some residents who recommended we have dinner at Bowie’s Tavern, which is on Broadway in Natchez. And they made a great choice for us. Good food and really nice people. The historic building overlooks the Mississippi river and was originally a cotton warehouse. They also proudly display a mahogany bar that was built around 1880. They also have lodging on the upper floor with a view of the river! 5:04 Natchez City Cemetery Spending the morning in the beautiful Natchez City Cemetery for some photography. Check out that photo album on Flickr. 6:03 The mysterious and unique grave of Florence Irene Ford (Sept 3, 1861 – Oct 30, 1871), who died of yellow fever at the age of 10. This grave was constructed with a set of open concrete stairs that descend next to what would be the head of Florence’s body, with the headstone above. Learn more about this grave at GhostInMySuitcase.com. 8:05 Monmouth Mansion Before leaving Natchez, we toured the Monmouth Mansion (built in 1818) and the beautiful gardens and small cemetery that surrounds it. Check out my Monmouth Mansion photo album on Flickr. 10:03 The Myrtles Plantation (built circa. 1796) in St. Francisville, LA — If you are as big of a paranerd as I am, you’ve probably seen the Ghost Hunters investigation of Myrtles from way back in 2005, episode 1 of their 2nd season. You’ve also probably seen the The Ghost Adventures crew investigate the place just last year in season 9, episode 2. 10:46 The lovely Miss Hester 11:33 Some audio with a little bit of the atmosphere of the haunted Myrtles Plantation. 12:25 The Myrtles Plantation Tour 14:15 Some of the legends of the Myrtles Plantation 16:18 The Haunted Mirror 17:01 The ghost of Chloe — Probably the biggest legend of the Myrtles. Chloe was supposedly the slave closest to the Woodruff family, who purchased the home in 1820 and remodeled it. Was she Mr. Woodruff’s mistress? Did she poison Mrs. Woodruff, along with Cornelia and James, two of the children? Was one of her ears cut off? And was she hung from a nearby tree? 19:03 The nursery, or the “Ruffin Stirling Room”, which is where we stayed for the night. The two children, Cornelia and James Woodruff, were apparently taken to this room, where they later died. 21:26 Kate, Cleo, Voodoo, and other deaths at the Myrtles. 21:47 More about the “terrifying” bed shaking experiences that have been reported in the nursery/Ruffin Stirling Room. 22:34 Before bed we tried to reach out to any of the spirits of the Myrtles by conducting an EVP, Spirit Box, and Ouija session in the nursery. 23:06 Who changed the track on my recorder while we were sleeping? 26:23 More audio of me touring the grounds of the Myrtles, including the pond and cabins around the back of the property. 28:26 View my Myrtles Plantation photo album on Flickr. Grace Cemetery, St. Francisville, LA Our visit to Grace Cemetery and the Grace Episcopal Church in St. Francisville, LA. You can find the Grace Cemetery photo album on Flickr. 30:18 The beautiful and reportedly haunted Oak Alley Plantation in Vacherie, LA. It’s one of the more popular plantations. In fact, you’ve probably seen it in photos or even as the Hollywood backdrop of a movie or two. It was featured in Season 4, episode 19 of Ghost Hunters in 2008. The rows of 300 year old oak trees are breath taking. Check out my Oak Alley Plantation album on Flickr. 32:36 French Quarter in New Orleans Heading to New Orleans and the overwhelming heaviness or anxiety that I was feeling. 33:45 Our stay at the Hotel St. Marie in the French Quarter, and its connection to American Horror Story: Coven. 34:25 Bourbon Street 35:15 Our spectacular dinner and experience at the Oceana Grill 35:30 Incense, sage, tarot cards, and my mom’s visit to the Voodoo shops (Marie Laveau’s House of Voodoo and Reverend Zombie’s House of Voodoo)! 35:43 Cafe Beignet for lunch 36:20 Dinner and my delicious Po’boy at the Vacherie Restaurant at the Hotel St. Marie. 36:32 On the way out the French Quarter, mom dropped me off at the Lalaurie Mansion. Hopefully you remember my interview with Victoria Cosner Love, who authored the book on Madame Delphine Lalaurie, the real life murderess portrayed in American Horror Story: Coven. If not, you can check out episode 7 of the podcast from August 6, 2014. 36:47 Metairie Cemetery in New Orleans Metairie Cemetery in New Orleans. Those photos can be found in an album on Flickr. 37:35 Long Beach, MS What’s the opposite of the French Quarter in New Orleans? Long Beach, MS, which was the last leg of our trip. Long Beach is not far from Gulf Port, MS. We stayed at the Holiday Inn Express for a few nights. 38:28 On our first night we had dinner at Shaggy’s right on the beach near Gulfport. 39:26 The White Cap Seafood Restaurant in Gulfport. 39:41 The Papa Johns delivery guy in Long Beach is a fellow podcast nerd! 39:49 Shout Outs! Thanks, StevenXm and American Ghoul for your iTunes reviews, and Tracy for the spooctacular photo and the e-mail! 40:47 What’s coming up next week? 42:30 This week’s blooper — a visit from my four-legged son Meril, who was apparently very thirsty! 44:32 Don’t forget to tweet me @BigSeance! Psst… Are you looking for the SpeakPipe link? The Big Seance Podcast can be found right here, on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, TuneIn Radio, Stitcher, Google Play Music, and iHeart Radio. Please subscribe, submit a rating, or share with a fellow paranerd! Do you have any comments or feedback? Please contact me at Patrick@BigSeance.com. Consider recording your voice feedback directly from your device on my SpeakPipe page! You can also call the show and leave feedback at (775) 583-5563 (or 7755-TELL-ME). I would love to include your voice feedback in a future show. The candles are already lit, so come on in and join the séance! 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__label__wiki	0.980046	0.980046	"I know who you are." "It's about time." "Yes, it is. Everything with you is about time, isn't it? The past, the present, the future. You know all of it, right? And you know everything about me! About Joe! About Wally! And Iris! You know our strengths. You know our fears. You know how much we love each other, and you know how to use that love against us. All this time, we thought that we couldn't stop you because you were one step ahead, but that's not it! You don't just know what's gonna happen to us. You were there, you lived it, you remember... when you were me." "Like I told you from the beginning... I am the Future Flash." —Barry and Savitar "I Know Who You Are" Bronwen Clark Joshua V. Gilbert Hanelle M. Culpepper "The Once and Future Flash" "Cause and Effect" "I Know Who You Are" is the twentieth episode of the third season of The Flash, and the sixty-sixth episode overall. It aired on May 2, 2017. Barry and the team meet Tracy Brand, a scientist, who may be the key to stopping Savitar. Unfortunately, Killer Frost is also after Tracy so Team Flash must battle their old friend, which proves to be particularly difficult for Cisco. Joe and Cecille’s relationship takes a big turn.[1] Grant Gustin as Barry Allen/The Flash/Savitar Danielle Panabaker as Killer Frost Carlos Valdes as Cisco Ramon/Vibe Tom Cavanagh as H.R. Wells Special appearance by Tom Felton as Julian Albert Anne Dudek as Tracy Brand Danielle Nicolet as Cecile Horton Andre Tricoteux as Savitar Tobin Bell as Savitar (voice) H.R. refers to Julian as "Romeo and Juliet" after he expresses concern over Caitlin. This is a reference to the tragedy by William Shakespeare. Dr. Hersch is mentioned to be a faculty member at Central City University. In the comics, David Hersch is the civilian identity of Cicada, an enemy of The Flash and cult leader. Cicada would become the main antagonist in the fifth season. Tracy likens herself to Sarah Connor from the 1984 film The Terminator. Cisco and H.R. disagree, comparing her instead to Miles Dyson. Tracy refers to Killer Frost as "Jack Frost's sister" and "the White Witch" which is likely a reference to the villainess from the Chronicles of Narnia series. Tracy's favorite drink at Jitters is a secret item called "Zoom." At CCU, after Cisco takes the lighter from Tracy, she removes her wielding helmet. However, in the next shot, Tracy is still wearing the helmet and takes it off after a couple seconds. The Flash 3x20 Promo "I Know Who You Are" (HD) Season 3 Episode 20 Promo The Flash I Know Who You Are Trailer The CW The Flash I Know Who You Are Scene The CW The Flash Inside The Flash I Know Who You Are The CW ↑ The Flash Spoilers: "I Know Who You Are" - FlashTVNews "Flashpoint" • "Paradox" • "Magenta" • "The New Rogues" • "Monster" • "Shade" • "Killer Frost" • "Invasion!" • "The Present" • "Borrowing Problems from the Future" • "Dead or Alive" • "Untouchable" • "Attack on Gorilla City" • "Attack on Central City" • "The Wrath of Savitar" • "Into the Speed Force" • "Duet" • "Abra Kadabra" • "The Once and Future Flash" • "I Know Who You Are" • "Cause and Effect" • "Infantino Street" • "Finish Line" Retrieved from "https://arrow.fandom.com/wiki/I_Know_Who_You_Are?oldid=612825"	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line10546
__label__wiki	0.728441	0.728441	Posts Tagged ‘Barbara Kasten Photogenic Painting Exhibition: ‘Shape of Light: 100 Years of Photography and Abstract Art’ at Tate Modern, London Categories: American, american photographers, beauty, black and white photography, colour photography, digital photography, drawing, Edward Steichen, English artist, exhibition, gallery website, installation art, light, painting, photographic series, photography, printmaking, psychological, reality, sculpture, space, time and works on paper Tags: 100 Years of Photography and Abstract Art, 74V11, A Rock Is A River, A Rock is a River (META CARROTS), A Rock is a River (META RIVER), abstract art, abstract painting, abstract photographs, abstract photography, Abstraction Bowls, acques Mahé de la Villeglé, acques Mahé de la Villeglé Jazzmen, affiches lacérées, Aleksandr Rodchenko Radio Station Power, alvin langdon coburn, Alvin Langdon Coburn Vortograph, Anatomies, Antony Cairns, Antony Cairns LDN5_051, Barbara Kasten, Barbara Kasten Photogenic Painting, Barbara Kasten Untitled 74/13, Bauhaus, brett weston, Brett Weston Mud Cracks, cameraless photography, Circular Chromatic Spaces, collage, Collective Realities, Composition of Forms, Constantin Brancusi, Constantin Brancusi Maïastra, Construction, Daisuke Yokota, Daisuke Yokota Untitled 2014, Des Réalités collectives, drawing with light, Edward Ruscha, Edward Ruscha Gilmore Drive-In Theater, Edward Steichen, Edward Steichen Bird in Space, Edward Steichen L'Oiseau dans l'espace, El Lissitzky, El Lissitzky Proun in Material, El Lissitzky Proun in Material (Proun 83), Gilmore Drive-In Theater, Gregorio Vardanega, Gregorio Vardanega Circular Chromatic Spaces, Guy Bourdin, Guy Bourdin Untitled 1952, Homage to de Falla, Interpretation Picasso, Interpretation Picasso The Railway, jackson pollock, Jackson Pollock Number 23, Jacques Mahé de la Villeglé, Jacques Mahé de la Villeglé Jazzmen, James Welling, James Welling Untitled 1986, Jazzmen, Joan Miró, Joan Miró Painting, John Divola, John Divola 74V11, K VII, kinetic art, Konstruktion, L'Oiseau dans l'espace, László Moholy-Nagy Xanti Schawinsky on the balcony of the Bauhaus, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy Photogram, László Moholy-Nagy, László Moholy-Nagy K VII, LDN5_051, Light Tapestry, Loi du 29 juillet 1881 ou le lyrisme à la sauvette, Luigi Veronesi, Luigi Veronesi Construction, Luigi Veronesi Photo n.145, Luigi Veronesi Photo n.152, Luminogram II, Luo Bonian, Luo Bonian Untitled 1930s, Maïastra, Man Ray, Man Ray Anatomies, Man Ray Rayograph, Man Ray Unconcerned Photograph, Marta Hoepffner, Marta Hoepffner Homage to de Falla, Maya Rochat, Maya Rochat A Rock is a River (META CARROTS), Maya Rochat A Rock is a River (META RIVER), MoMA The Sense of Abstraction., Mud Cracks, Nathan Lerner, Nathan Lerner Light Tapestry, new perceptual approaches to reality, Nouveau Réalisme, Nouveaux Réalistes, Number 23, Op Art, Otto Steinert, Otto Steinert Composition of Forms, Otto Steinert Luminogram II, paul strand, Paul Strand Abstraction Bowls, perspectives on photography, Peter Keetman, Peter Keetman Steel Pipes Maximilian Smelter, Photo n.145, Photo n.152, Photogenic Painting, photogram, photography, Photography and Abstract Art, Pierre Dubreuil, Pierre Dubreuil Interpretation Picasso, process of photography, Proun in Material (Proun 83), Radio Station Power, rayograph, sculpture, Shape of Light, Shape of Light: 100 Years of Photography and Abstract Art, Sigmar Polke Untitled (Uranium Green), Sigmar Polke's Untitled Uranium Green, Steel Pipes, Steel Pipes Maximilian Smelter, Subjektive Fotografie, Swinging, technocratic Utopianism, The Jazzmen, The Sense of Abstraction, Unconcerned Photograph, Untitled (Uranium Green), Untitled 74/13, Uranium Green, Vortograph, wassily kandinsky, Wassily Kandinsky Swinging, Workshop, Wyndham Lewis, Wyndham Lewis Workshop, Xanti Schawinsky, Xanti Schawinsky on the balcony of the Bauhaus Exhibition dates: 2nd May – 14th October 2018 Curators: Simon Baker, Senior Curator, International Art (Photography) and Shoair Mavlian, Assistant Curator, Tate Modern, with Emmanuelle de l’Ecotais, Curator for Photographs Pierre Dubreuil (1872-1944) Interpretation Picasso, The Railway Gelatin silver print on paper Centre Pompidou, Paris Musée National d’Art Moderne / Centre de Création Industrielle An interesting premise – “a premise is an assumption that something is true. In logic, an argument requires a set of (at least) two declarative sentences (or “propositions”) known as the premises or premisses along with another declarative sentence (or “proposition”) known as the conclusion” (Wikipedia) – that the stories (the declarative sentences) of abstract art and abstract photography are intertwined (the conclusion). The two premises and one conclusion forms the basic argumentative structure of the exhibition. Unfortunately in this exhibition, the abstract art and abstract photographs (declarations), seem to add up to less than the sum of its parts (conclusion). Why is this so? The reason these two bedfellows sit so uncomfortably together is that they are of a completely different order, one to the other. Take painting for example. There is that ultimate linkage between brain, eye and hand as the artist “reaches out” into the unknown, and conjures an abstract representation from his imagination. This has a quality beyond my recognition. The closest that photography gets to this intuition is the cameraless Photogram, as the artist paints with light, from his imagination, onto the paper surface, the physical presence of the print. Conversely, we grapple with the dual nature of photography, its relation to reality, to the real, and its interpretation of that reality through a physical, mechanical process – light entering a camera (metal, glass, digital chips, plastic film) to be developed in chemicals or on the computer, stored as a physical piece of paper or in binary code – but then we LOOK and FEEL what else a photograph can be. What it is, and what else it can be. Initially, to take a photograph is to recognise something physical in the world which can then be abstracted. Here is a tree, a Platonic ideal, now here is the bark of the tree, or cracks in dried mud, or Aaron Siskind’s Pleasures and Terrors of Levitation in which, in our imagination, the body is no longer human. This archaeology of photography is a learnt behaviour (from the world, from abstract paintings) where ones learns to turn over the truth to something else, a recognition of something else. Where one digs a clod of earth, inspects it, and then turns it over to see what else it can be. We can look at something in the world just for what it is and take a photograph of it, but then we can look at the same object for what else it can be (for example, Man Ray’s image Dust Breeding (1920), which is actually dust motes on the top of Duchamp’s Large Glass). Photographers love these possibilities within the physicality of the medium, its processes and outcomes. Photographers love changing scale, perspective, distortion using their intuition to perhaps uncover spiritual truths. Here I are not talking about making doodles – whoopee look what I can make as a photographer! it’s important because I can do it and show it and I said it’s important because I am an artist! the problem with lots of contemporary photography – it is something entirely different. It is the integrity of the emotional and intellectual process. Not a reaching out through the arm and hand, but an unearthing (a reaching in?) of the possibilities of what else photography can be (other than a recording process). As Stieglitz understood in his Equivalents, and so Minor White espoused through his art and in one of his three canons: When the image mirrors the man And the man mirrors the subject Something might take over And that revelation is something completely different from the revelation of abstract art. Many thankx to the Tate Modern for allowing me to publish the art work in the posting. Please click on the photographs for a larger version of the image. For the first time, Tate Modern tells the intertwined stories of photography and abstract art. The birth of abstract art and the invention of photography were both defining moments in modern visual culture, but these two stories are often told separately. Shape of Light is the first major exhibition to explore the relationship between the two, spanning the century from the 1910s to the present day. It brings to life the innovation and originality of photographers over this period, and shows how they responded and contributed to the development of abstraction. Key photographs are brought together from pioneers including Man Ray and Alfred Stieglitz, major contemporary artists such as Barbara Kasten and Thomas Ruff, right up to exciting new work by Antony Cairns, Maya Rochat and Daisuke Yokota, made especially for the exhibition. “Despite its roll call of stellar names, the show’s adrenaline soon slumps. A rhythm sets in, as each gallery offers perhaps a single non photographic work and dozens of medium format black and white abstracts arranged on an allied theme: extreme close ups, engineered structures, worms’ and birds’ eye views, moving light, the human body, urban fabric. Individually each photograph is quite wonderful, but they echo each other so closely in their authors’ attraction to diagonal arrangements, rich surface textures, dramatic shadows, odd perspectives and close cropping, that the same ‘point’ is being made a dozen times with little to distinguish between the variants. … By the present day, abstract photography has given in to its already Ouroboros-like tendencies, and swallowed itself whole, offering abstract photographs about the process of photography, and the action of light on its materials. This is a gesture I relished in Wolfgang Tillmans’s show in the same space this time last year, when it was broken up by a plethora of other ideas and perspectives on photography. Here it feels like another level of earnest self-absorption with a century-long backstory.” Hettie Judah. ‘By halfway round I actually felt faint’ on the iNews website May 5th 2018 [Online] Cited 14/07/2018 Tate Curator, Simon Baker, meets Caroline von Courten from leading photography Magazine, Foam. Together they explore the exhibition Shape of Light: 100 Years of Photography and Abstract Art at Tate Modern. Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957) c. 1914-5 © Wyndham Lewis and the estate of Mrs G A Wyndham Lewis by kind permission of the Wyndham Lewis Memorial Trust (a registered charity) Paul Strand (1890-1976) Abstraction Bowls, Twin Lakes, Connecticut Alvin Langdon Coburn (1882-1966) Vortograph Courtesy of the George Eastman Museum NY © The Universal Order Installation view of the exhibition Shape of Light: 100 Years of Photography and Abstract Art at Tate Modern, London showing László Moholy-Nagy’s K VII at centre. Photo: © Tate / Andrew Dunkley. László Moholy-Nagy (1895-1946) K VII Oil paint and graphite on canvas Frame: 1308 x 1512 x 80 mm The ‘K’ in the title of K VII stands for the German word Konstruktion (‘construction’), and the painting’s ordered, geometrical forms are typical of Moholy-Nagy’s technocratic Utopianism. The year after it was painted, he was appointed to teach the one year-preliminary course at the recently founded Bauhaus in Weimar. Moholy-Nagy’s appointment signalled a major shift in the school’s philosophy away from its earlier crafts ethos towards a closer alignment with the demands of modern industry, and a programme of simple design and unadorned functionalism. Gallery label, April 2012 Man Ray (1890-1976) Rayograph © Man Ray Trust/ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2018 El Lissitzky (1890-1941) Proun in Material (Proun 83) © Imogen Cunningham Trust. All rights reserved Photo: Jack Kirkland Collection, Nottingham Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944) Oil paint on board Edward Steichen (1879-1973) Bird in Space [L’Oiseau dans l’espace] Bequest of Constantin Brancusi, 1957 Installation view of the exhibition Shape of Light: 100 Years of Photography and Abstract Art at Tate Modern, London showing at centre, Constantin Brancusi’s bronze and stone sculpture Maiastra (1911). Photo: © Tate / Andrew Dunkley. Imogen Cunningham (1883-1976) 1928, printed 1947-60 Pierre Brahm Joan Miró (1893-1983) Tempera and oil paint on canvas © Succession Miro/ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2018 Anatomies Photo: © Man Ray Trust/ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2016 Aleksandr Rodchenko (1891-1956) Radio Station Power Lent by Jack Kirkland Collection, Nottingham © A. Rodchenko and V. Stepanova Archive. DACS, RAO 2018 Xanti Schawinsky on the balcony of the Bauhaus Luo Bonian (1911-2002) Courtesy The Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Beijing © Luo Bonian Marta Hoepffner (1912–2000) Homage to de Falla Stadtmuseum Hofheim am Taunus © Estate Marta Hoepffner Nathan Lerner (1913-1997) Light Tapestry Gift of Mrs Kiyoko Lerner, 2014 Photo: Nathan Lerner/© ARS, NY and DACS, London Luigi Veronesi (1908-1998) Accepted under the Cultural Gifts Scheme by HM Government from Massimo Prelz Oltramonti and allocated to Tate 2015 Photo n.145 1940, printed 1970s A major new exhibition at Tate Modern will reveal the intertwined stories of photography and abstract art. Shape of Light: 100 Years of Photography and Abstract Art will be the first show of this scale to explore photography in relation to the development of abstraction, from the early experiments of the 1910s to the digital innovations of the 21st century. Featuring over 300 works by more than 100 artists, the exhibition will explore the history of abstract photography side-by-side with iconic paintings and sculptures. Shape of Light will place moments of radical innovation in photography within the wider context of abstract art, such as Alvin Langdon Coburn’s pioneering ‘vortographs’ from 1917. This relationship between media will be explored through the juxtaposition of works by painters and photographers, such as cubist works by George Braque and Pierre Dubreuil or the abstract expressionism of Jackson Pollock and Otto Steinert’s ‘luminograms’. Abstractions from the human body associated with surrealism will include André Kertesz’s Distorsions, Imogen Cunningham’s Triangles and Bill Brandt’s Baie des Anges, Frances 1958, exhibited together with a major painting by Joan Miró. Elsewhere the focus will be on artists whose practice spans diverse media, such as László Moholy-Nagy and Man Ray. The exhibition will also acknowledge the impact of MoMA’s landmark photography exhibition of 1960, The Sense of Abstraction. Installation photographs of this pioneering show will be displayed with some of the works originally featured in the exhibition, including important works by Edward Weston, Aaron Siskind and a series by Man Ray that has not been exhibited since the MoMA show, 58 years ago. The connections between breakthroughs in photography and new techniques in painting will be examined, with rooms devoted to Op Art and Kinetic Art from the 1960s, featuring striking paintings by Bridget Riley and installations of key photographic works from the era by artists including Floris Neussis and Gottfried Jaeger. Rooms will also be dedicated to the minimal and conceptual practices of the 1970s and 80s. The exhibition will culminate in a series of new works by contemporary artists, Tony Cairns, Maya Rochat and Daisuke Yokota, exploring photography and abstraction today. Shape of Light is curated by Simon Baker, Senior Curator, International Art (Photography) and Shoair Mavlian, Assistant Curator, Tate Modern, with Emmanuelle de l’Ecotais, Curator for Photographs, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris. The exhibition will be accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue from Tate Publishing and a programme of talks and events in the gallery. Press release from Tate Modern Jackson Pollock (1912-1956) Enamel on gesso on paper Tate: Presented by the Friends of the Tate Gallery (purchased out of funds provided by Mr and Mrs H.J. Heinz II and H.J. Heinz Co. Ltd) 1960 © ARS, NY and DACS, London 2018 Otto Steinert (1915-1978) Composition of Forms Jack Kirkland Collection, Nottingham Guy Bourdin (1928-1991) Purchased with funds provided by the Photography Acquisitions Committee 2015 © The Guy Bourdin Estate c. 1950s Untitled c.1950s is a black and white photograph by the French photographer Guy Bourdin. The entirety of the frame is taken up by a close-up of peeling paint. The paint sections fragment the image into uneven geometric shapes, which are interrupted by a strip of the dark surface beneath that winds from the top to the bottom of the frame. There is little sense of scale or contextual detail, resulting in a near-abstract composition. Bourdin is best known for his experimental colour fashion photography produced while working for French Vogue between 1955 and 1977. This photograph belongs to an earlier period of experimentation, before he began to use colour and work in fashion. Taken outside the studio, it shows Bourdin’s sensitivity to the natural world and his attempt to transform the everyday into abstract compositions, bridging the gap between surrealism and subjective photography. Bourdin’s early work was heavily influenced by surrealism, as well as by pioneers of photography as a fine art such as Edward Weston, Paul Strand and Bill Brandt. His surrealist aesthetic can be attributed to his close relationship with Man Ray, who wrote the foreword to the catalogue for Bourdin’s first solo exhibition of black and white photographs at Galerie 29, Paris, in 1952. This and other early works in Tate’s collection (such as Untitled (Sotteville, Normandy) c. 1950s, Tate P81205, and Solange 1957, Tate P81216) are typical of Subjektive Fotografie (‘subjective photography’), a tendency in the medium in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Led by the German photographer and teacher Otto Steinert, who organised three exhibitions under the title Subjektive Fotografie in 1951, 1954 and 1958, the movement advocated artistic self-expression – in the form of the artist’s creative approach to composition, processing and developing – above factual representation. Subjektive Fotografie’s emphasis on, and encouragement of, individual perspectives invited both the photographer and the viewer to interpret and reflect on the world through images. Bourdin’s interest in this can be seen in his early use of texture and abstraction, evident in close-up studies of cracked paint peeling off an external wall or a piece of torn fabric. These still lives were often dark in subject matter and tone, highlighting Bourdin’s interest in surrealist compositions and the intersection between death and sexuality. The works made use of the photographer’s urban environment, with deep black and high contrast printing techniques employed to create a sombre mood. This approach was also important for Bourdin’s early portraiture, which anticipated his subsequent work in fashion. The subject of his portraits – often Solange Gèze, to whom the artist was married from 1961 until her death in 1971 – is usually framed subtly, rarely appearing in the centre or as the main focus of the image. In these works the figure is secondary, showing how Bourdin let the natural or urban environment frame the subject and integrate the body into its immediate surroundings. Bourdin was meticulous about the creative process from start to finish, sketching out images on paper and then recreating them in the landscape, using the natural environment as a stage set for his work. Shoair Mavlian Installation view of the exhibition Shape of Light: 100 Years of Photography and Abstract Art at Tate Modern, London showing Jackson Pollock’s Number 23 at left. Photo: © Tate / Sepharina Neville. Installation view of the exhibition Shape of Light: 100 Years of Photography and Abstract Art at Tate Modern, London showing Nathan Lerner’s Light Tapestry top left, and Otto Steinert’s Luminogram II centre right. Photo: © Tate / Sepharina Neville. Luminogram II Jack Kirkland Collection Nottingham © Estate Otto Steinert, Museum Folkwang, Essen Brett Weston (1911-1993) Mud Cracks Lent by the Tate Americas Foundation, courtesy of Christian Keesee Collection 2013 © The Brett Weston Archive/CORBIS Peter Keetman (1916-2005) Steel Pipes, Maximilian Smelter F.C. Gundlach Foundation Unconcerned Photograph Jacques Mahé de la Villeglé (b. 1926) Jazzmen Printed papers on canvas Presented by the Friends of the Tate Gallery 2000 © Jacques Mahé de la Villeglé The Jazzmen is a section of what Jacques Villeglé termed affiches lacérées, posters torn down from the walls of Paris. These particular ones were taken on 10 December 1961. Following his established practice, Villeglé removed the section from a billboard and, having mounted it on canvas, presented it as a work of art. In ‘Des Réalités collectives’ of 1958 (‘Collective Realities’, reprinted in 1960: Les Nouveaux Réalistes, pp. 259-60) he acknowledged that he occasionally tore the surface of the posters himself, although he subsequently restricted interventions to repairs during the mounting process. The large blue and green advertisements for Radinola (at the top right and lower left) provide the main visible surface for The Jazzmen. These establish a compositional unity for the accumulated layers. Overlaid are fragmentary music posters and fly-posters, some dated to September 1961, including the images of the red guitarists that lend the work its title. The artist’s records give the source as rue de Tolbiac, a thoroughfare in the 13th arrondissement in south-east Paris. Villeglé usually uses the street as his title, but has suggested (interview with the author, February 2000) that the title The Jazzmen may have been invented for the work’s inclusion in the exhibition L’Art du jazz (Musée Galliera, Paris 1967). Villeglé worked together with Raymond Hains (b. 1926) in presenting torn posters as works of art. They collaborated on such works as Ach Alma Manetro, 1949 (Musée nationale d’art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris), in which typography dominates the composition. They first showed their affiches lacérées in May 1957 at the Galerie Colette Allendy, Paris, in a joint exhibition named Loi du 29 juillet 1881 ou le lyrisme à la sauvette (The Law of 29 July 1881 or Lyricism through Salvage) in reference to the law forbidding fly-posting. Villeglé sees a social complexity in the developments in the style, typography and subject of the source posters. He also considers the processes of the overlaying and the pealing of the posters by passers-by to be a manifestation of a liberated art of the street. Both aspects are implicitly political. As Villeglé points out, anonymity differentiates the torn posters from the collages of the Cubists or of the German artist Kurt Schwitters. In ‘Des Réalités collectives’ Villeglé wrote: ‘To collages, which originate in the interplay of many possible attitudes, the affiches lacérées, as a spontaneous manifestation, oppose their immediate vivacity’. He saw the results as extending the conceptual basis of Marcel Duchamp’s readymades, whereby an object selected by an artist is declared as art. However, this reduction of the artist’s traditional role brought an end to Villeglé’s collaboration with Hains, who held more orthodox views of creative invention. In 1960 Villeglé, Hains and François Dufrêne (1930-82), who also used torn posters, joined the Nouveaux Réalistes group gathered by the critic Pierre Restany (b.1930). Distinguished by the use of very disparate materials and techniques, the Nouveaux Réalistes – who also included Arman (b.1928), Yves Klein (1928-62) and Jean Tinguely (1925-91) – were united by what Villeglé has called their ‘distance from the act of painting’ as characterised by the dominant abstraction of the period (interview February 2000). In this way, Klein’s monochrome paintings (see Tate T01513) and Villeglé’s affiches lacérées conform to the group’s joint declaration of 27 October 1960: ‘The Nouveaux Réalistes have become aware of their collective singularity. Nouveau Réalisme = new perceptual approaches to reality.’ The Jazzmen, of the following year, embodies Villeglé’s understanding of his ‘singularity’ as a conduit for anonymous public expression. Matthew Gale Edward Ruscha (b.1937) Gilmore Drive-In Theater – 6201 W. Third St. Gelatin silver prints on paper Courtesy Ed Ruscha and Gagosian Gallery © Ed Ruscha Installation view of the exhibition Shape of Light: 100 Years of Photography and Abstract Art at Tate Modern, London. Photo: © Tate / Andrew Dunkley. Installation view of the exhibition Shape of Light: 100 Years of Photography and Abstract Art at Tate Modern, London showing Gregorio Vardanega’s Circular Chromatic Spaces 1967. Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris. Photo: © Tate / Andrew Dunkley. John Divola (b. 1949) © John Divola Barbara Kasten (b.1936) Photogenic Painting, Untitled 74/13 (ID187) Salted paper print Courtesy the artist, Thomas Dane Gallery and Bortolami Gallery, New York © Barbara Kasten James Welling (b. 1951) C-print on paper © James Welling. Courtesy the artist and David Zwirner, New York/London/Hong Kong and Maureen Paley, London Installation view of the exhibition Shape of Light: 100 Years of Photography and Abstract Art at Tate Modern, London showing Sigmar Polke’s Untitled (Uranium Green) 1992. Hans Georg Näder © The Estate of Sigmar Polke / VG Bild-Kunst Bonn and DACS London, 2018. Photo: © Tate / Seraphina Neville. Sigmar Polke (1941-1910) Untitled (Uranium Green) (detail) 10 Photographs, C-print on paper Image, each: 610 x 508 mm The Estate of Sigmar Polke / VG Bild-Kunst Bonn 2017 Photo: Adam Reich/The Estate of Sigmar Polke / VG Bild-Kunst Bonn and DACS London, 2018 Daisuke Yokota (b. 1983) from Abstracts series © Daisuke Yokota Courtesy of the artist and Jean-Kenta Gauthier Gallery Process is at the core of Yokota’s photographs. For his black-and-white work, such as the series Linger or Site/Cloud, Yokota sifts through an archive of more than 10 years of photographs in his Tokyo apartment. When he finds something that speaks to him – a nude figure, a chair, a building, a grove of trees – he makes a digital image of it, develops it, and rephotographs the image up to 15 times, until it becomes increasingly degraded. He develops the film in ways that are intentionally “incorrect,” allowing light to leak in, or singeing the negatives, using boiling water, or acetic acid. The purported subject fades, and shadows, textures, spots and other sorts of visual noise emerge. For his recent colour work, trippy, sensual abstractions, the process is similar, except that it is cameraless; he doesn’t start with a preexisting image. “I wanted to focus on the emulsion, on the different textures, more than on a subject being photographed,” says Yokota. Daisuke Yokota By Jean Dykstra Antony Cairns (b. 1980) LDN5_051 Courtesy of the artist © Antony Cairns Installation view of the exhibition Shape of Light: 100 Years of Photography and Abstract Art at Tate Modern, London showing the installation A Rock Is A River, 2018 by the aritst Maya Rochat. Courtesy Lily Robert and VITRINE, London \| Basel © Maya Rochat. Photo: © Tate / Sepharina Neville. Maya Rochat (b.1985) A Rock is a River (META CARROTS) Courtesy Lily Robert © Maya Rochat A Rock is a River (META RIVER) London SE1 9TG Sunday – Thursday 10.00 – 18.00 Friday – Saturday 10.00 – 22.00 Tate Modern website LIKE ART BLART ON FACEBOOK Exhibition: 'Brancusi, Rosso, Man Ray - Framing Sculpture' at Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line10547
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__label__cc	0.61814	0.38186	Home/About/Solfeggio (Zobet) frequencies Solfeggio (Zobet) frequenciesEeshi-Ra (formerly Ashera)2017-05-12T15:08:21+01:00 The frequencies show geometry via the K.I.S.S. laser! © Copyright Judy Lynne Cole of Healing Partnerships In about 1994, I looked at humanity and asked myself what is the most common problem on the planet, and to me it’s the simple fact that people are more in their heads than their bodies, and so we live life in a more stressful mode than in a loving one. This has a knock-on effect in every area of our lives affecting not only our relationship with ourselves and our bodies but also with our friends, family, partner, business colleagues and our environment etc. The Hopi Native American Indians talk about the end of times, where humanity is right now, and in one of their ancient drawings related directly to the sacred Hopi Prophecy Rock, they reveal a time when humanity will be living a life with two hearts. A two-hearted person is one who thinks with their head rather than their heart. Currently modern man is out of balance because we live in a left brained-dominated society. The Hopi Prophecy Rock shows a crossroads where the two-hearted people will have to make a choice of choosing to either start thinking with their hearts, or continue to think only with their heads. If they choose the latter, it will lead to self-destruction. If they choose to think with their hearts, they will gradually return to a natural way of living in harmony with the Earth and ensure their own survival. The elders as shown through the power of symbol, reveal that there are two major helpers for humanity during that time. One of those is the sacred sonic codes of the Zobet. These sacred numbers converted into sound embody the Fibonacci sequence found everywhere in nature, and they can help tune your body’s vibration to the natural vibrations of the Earth, reconnecting and grounding you on a deeper level. Does this remind you of anything? Copyright Judy Lynne Cole So then I asked myself, what is a good way to sort that problem out and the answer was sound. For me, sound is a fast track to helping us reconnect with our ability to feel, and so that can have a beneficial effect on sensing where we’re not breathing correctly, or perhaps we need to get more sleep, instead of pushing ourselves for another 3 hours working, or really choosing to pay attention to that headache and responding with a few glasses of water rather than taking just another pill! If we are naturally in tune with ourselves, then we can be our true loving selves, which is a peace-full and grounded state. In 2001, I created my debut sound healing CD, “In our Mother’s Tongue” and was asking “is there a sound or sounds that can help sort this problem out? Whilst I was recording, I received a very profound dream that told me that the answer was all about the Ra maths of the body. Immediately after that met Randy Masters who inspired me to choose sound frequencies that are based on universal truths, that embody Ra maths (Pi and Phi), rather than the piano scale, and so my journey with the Zobet began (where the solfeggio frequencies come from). The frequencies of the Zobet (which translated means ‘house of the Lord/God’) are, in fact, frequencies derived from divine/Vedic mathematics (see Dr Peter Plichta’s book “God’s Secret Formula” for more information or the movie “Contact” with Jodie Foster) and sacred geometry which is the universal mathe-magical language of our creator. These codes also embody the Fibonacci sequence which is found everywhere you look in nature, and since your whole body is made up of this divine proportion, or more commonly known as the Phi ratio, that some of you may know from the movie ‘The Da Vinci Code’, the frequencies of the Zobet are the perfect tool to help your body reconnect to its natural, universal and divine origins. Since your body’s whole proportion (e.g. the bones in our fingers) and the DNA, which is present in every cell of your body, is also comprised of the Phi ratio, the Zobet frequencies can also help activate your DNA to its full potential. In fact recent scientific discovery has shown that some of the number codes are even embedded in the genetic code (not to be confused with the genome). There’s even children being born now with 24 codons. Who would we be without our programming? Hypercube and Star! It was previously thought that these codes were originally used in ancient gregorian chants, such as the great hymn to St. John the Baptist but on deeper research, there’s no historical record to prove this to be the case. What is, however, interesting, is the connection to St John the Baptist & St John’s Ambulance. This series of sacred sonic ascension codes are however, found encoded in the Book of Numbers in the Bible and were rediscovered by Dr. Joseph Puleo as described in the book “Healing Codes for the Biological Apocalypse” by Dr Joseph Puleo and Dr Len Horowitz. They are also mentioned in the Keys of Enoch (Key 305 v.46 (p. 391)) written by J. J. Hurtak. These frequencies are the real Da Vinci Code in sound!!! As the vibration of the planet shifted in 2012, concluding the end of this 26,000 year Kali Yuga cycle, it makes sense for us to shift with it in order for the transition and ascension process (which is ongoing) to be as harmonious as possible. It is my belief that these sacred sonic keys are the antidote to where we hold fear/separation consciousness in the body and they will enable us to fully align with our highest spiritual potential. When we can release the contracting and limiting vibrations of the old paradigm from our body, we can then expand and dissolve all boundaries in our body, and so activate our full light body to embody the divine in every cell of our body. In this way, we will reconnect with the unity within our body and so to the unity of the whole Universe! These sacred numbers are a divine mathematical language and in 2006, I made the discovery of the frequencies in relation to that and this is mentioned in Jason O’Hara’s book “The Blueprint of Creation” where he talks about how these number codes relate at an atomic level. Jason O’Hara, a trained artist and shamanic practitioner, journeyed into nature’s myriad patterns to form a deep understanding of the sacred mathematical/geometric universe. He has made unique discoveries that directly relate to the Zobet within the world of sacred geometry – from the blueprint of atomic structure to the patterns of planetary motion. This book is now in eBook format and available as a Kindle eBook through Amazon here. “The Blueprint of Creation” – Jason O’Hara For those of you who would like to find out more, there are now 5 DVD’s available as video downloads on this fascinating subject here. For all Zobet (solfeggio) sound healing audio downloads and CD’s please check out the products section here and get tuned in and blissed out today!!!	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line10550
__label__wiki	0.586926	0.586926	The Jewish roots of ‘Takfiri’ culture Posted on April 8, 2016 May 7, 2016 by Dr. Ashraf Ezzat This tribal intolerance of any creed other than the one accepted and embraced by the tribe (be that Israelite or Islamist) is what we could safely identify as one of the characteristics of ancient Arabian culture. By Dr. Ashraf Ezzat It all started after the chaotic and unanticipated shockwaves of protests in the Middle East, otherwise known as the Arab Spring. Even those who saw the Arab Spring coming never thought it would lead to war and destruction of such frightening scale. It is mind boggling; where all those fanatic (Muslim) warriors have been hiding? They surely did not pop out of nowhere. Where did all those ‘Takfiri’ terrorists come from and what are the historical and cultural grounds that helped carve their (morbid) dogma and intolerance. Is this culture of anathematizing anyone who subscribe to a different faith a new phenomenon or could we historically trace back its cultural/geographical roots? Equally unanticipated began one of the biggest series of immigration in the wake of the lingering wars in Iraq, Libya and Syria. Massive waves of immigrants set off on a perilous journey to Europe. Why specifically Europe? Because there was no other place safe in the Middle East while Europe was economically stable and practically next door. Let’s be honest, wasn’t it Europe and its NATO (in coalition with the US) who started these shockwaves of destabilization and wars in the Middle East. After bombarding Libya and Iraq to the ground, it was not long before all hell broke loose in Syria. You could look upon the fighting in Syria as a proxy war between different international powers. That would pass as a sound assessment, but make no mistake there is no end in sight for the Syrian war, simply because it is a war that is fueled/funded by ‘Takfiri’ culture. I’m aware that many alternative media outlets view DAESH warriors as pawns remotely controlled by foreign intelligence. In reality undercover agents, even if they were pawns, don’t sign up for suicidal missions. Their top command figures don’t get assassinated by drone attacks Professional intelligence officers don’t dig heels in and blow themselves up; only religious fanatics will most willingly do so. Simply because they believe in a faith/dogma more lethal than air-to ground missiles; it is called ‘Takfir’. Blindly following the ‘alternative’ view won’t make you ‘different’ from the rest of the herd, but putting your brain cells to good use will. European Politicians thought they could get away with their destruction of the Middle East, but the current crisis of Immigration certainly proved them not only wrong but also short sighted. Historically, it may not be that frequent but when it takes place mass migration will often cause serious historical changes. History speaks of not only a change of demographics but also cultural and religious changes as well. How on earth do you think a Jewish enclave had been established in (the predominantly Pagan) Palestine a couple of centuries before the tale of Christ took center stage? The migration of thousands of Arabian Jews from Ancient Yemen and South Arabia to the land of Palestine and Syria is an obviously blatant example from the region’s ancient history. It was a gradual migration that started as early as 4th century BC. Revisiting the ancient history that led up to this migration will help us deconstruct the myth of viewing Palestine as the homeland of the early Israelites. Like the Syrian Muslims of today are fleeing war and insecurity, the Arabian Jews and Pagans from Ancient South Arabia migrated from their native land; Yemen. Yes, that’s right; Ancient Yemen is the original homeland of Judaism and the Israelites. What good history is if we don’t learn from it? And by history I don’t mean the distorted books you learned in school, nor the misleading Hollywood films you watched in your teens. As a matter of fact the whole western academic narrative about the history of the Ancient Near East (including the so called Biblical History) is so screwed up it needs a paradigm shift regarding its geographical premises. The history of Ancient Arabia and Yemen has long been neglected (and somehow underrated) by western academia. However, in the late Nineteenth Century and during the first decades of the Twentieth Century began some fervent archeological excavations in Yemen. Those archeological expeditions stepped up their work in Yemen as the Zionist Movement was getting closer to realizing its political dream of a homeland for (European) Jews. It is not that Yemen was the spot the Zionists were eyeing as their new homeland, but because the Rabbinical Authorities knew they needed some historical evidences to back their unlawful usurping of Palestine. The elders of the Zionist Movement knew damn well that only in Yemen could they dig out some (genuine) Jewish archeological finds. Yemenite Jews transferred to Israel in 1949-1950 ‘Magic Carpet’ operation. In Yemen they had dug and in Yemen they discovered extremely important Jewish finds. All of the (Jewish) archeological finds were then secretly transferred from Yemen to Israel, just as more than 50000 Yemenite Jews were secretly transferred to Tel Aviv back in 1949. Fadel El Rubaie, the renowned Iraqi anthropologist and mythologist, speaks of the Yemenite island of Kamran as the original burial place of the Dead Sea scrolls. Also through his field work in Yemen, El Rubaie has frequently pointed to the fact that many ancient Jewish sites, like that of Or Salem (Yemenite Jerusalem) and Zion Mountain were plundered earlier in the first half of the Twentieth century. In a Mossad operation dubbed ‘The Magic Carpet’, thousands of Yemenite Jews were airlifted to Israel by some 380 (secret) air flights which were made possible by the help of American and British planes. And by the same British and American support, the Israeli overtake of Palestine was facilitated. Misinterpreting geography in the Jewish Scripture “And David and all Israel went to Jerusalem–the same is Jebus–and the Jebusites, the inhabitants of the land, were there” 1 Chronicles 11: 4 In that verse (whose geographical context often pass unnoticed) from the Chronicles (of the Yemenite Jews) it is unequivocally clear that the (real) land of Jerusalem was originally called (Jebus) as it was inhabited by the ‘Jebusites’. This bit of historical information is completely alien to modern day ‘Jeusalem’ In Palestine/Israel, whereas we could easily find the ancient fort city of ‘Yebos/Jebus’ in Yemen today. You can’t miss it, as it is now the UNESCO Heritage Site of Beit Bos (Jebus) to the South of Sanaa. Also if you employed some critical thinking you will find the following verse particularly interesting. “So the LORD smote the Ethiopians before Asa, and before Judah; and the Ethiopians fled” 2 Chronicles 14: 12 Why would the Lord (of the Israelites) bother and smite (destroy) the Ethiopians if his chosen people were up in Palestine? Separated by thousands of miles of land and waters, Ethiopia seemed quite an impossible foe to the Israelites. But it would not be that far-fetched notion if we interpreted the whole (Biblical) stories inside its original geography; Yemen. If you are not familiar with the geography of the Ancient Near East, Yemen would be as near to Ethiopia as Arizona to Mexico, whereas Palestine would be as far from Ethiopia as Canada form Mexico. If that was the case, then why the Zionist Movement did not shift focus and chose ‘Yemen’ as their new homeland. Well, it was geopolitically out of the question if not impossible. Besides historically speaking Yemen (like Afghanistan) is one of the hardest places on earth to be conquered. Many have tried to control it throughout history, and they all failed. Armies of Alexander the Great swept through the whole Near Eastern territories, but never thought they could subjugate Yemen. The same thing happened with the Romans. What is historically referred to as the ‘Jewish-Roman Wars’ that kicked off in 167 BC by the Maccabees had actually taken place in ancient Arabia and Yemen. The cruel landscape, augmented by a continuous tribal conflict, especially after the decline of the Ancient Incense Trade Route have turned the tribesmen of Ancient Yemen into militants and warriors. Along with the Ancient Silk Road, the Incense Road (that cut across Ancient Yemen and the west coast of Ancient Arabia) had been the main international commercial high roads of the ancient world. The incense road carried textile, spices, gold, ivory and of course incense from the south shores of Yemen. After months in the Arabian Desert the camel caravans would have transported their valuable cargos to Egypt in the West and Mesopotamia in the East. The ancient caravan trade was such a lucrative business that it was frequently plundered by Arabian militants. Even the Babylonians and the Assyrians tried to secure that vital trade route against the Arabian militancy and frequent plundering. When the military raids proved inefficient to control the Yemenite Arabs, and amongst them were the Jews, the Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar thought that the only way he could control those Arabian militants was by population transfer. Hence in 587 BC began one of the earliest massive transfers of the Arabian population in south Arabia and North Yemen to Babylon, known in Jewish literature as the Babylonian Captivity. If you come to think of it, the Babylonians must have been so desperate to proceed with such arduous and costly undertaking. Transferring thousands of Arabian and Yemenite tribesmen all the way from the South-Western territories to the North-Eastern side of the Arabian Peninsula meant one thing. The warriors from Arabia and Yemen were posing a constant threat to the economic interests of actually both the Babylonians and the Egyptians. Most of the Ancient Egyptian military raids were also focused on controlling the Arabian/Hebrew frequent rebellion along the western coast of the Arabian Peninsula all the way down to Yemen. And just as Babylon was not the Homeland of the Jews back then, Palestine is obviously not their current one. Yemen and South Arabia have always been that lost homeland of the Israelites and the ancient (Arabian) Hebrew tribes. In his highly acclaimed research and book ‘Bible came from Arabia’ Kamal Salibi, the late prominent historian at the American University in Lebanon elaborated on his new and paradigm shifting findings. If his work is built upon by serious and non-biased archeological excavations, Slaibi’s theory could drastically change the whole Biblical history as we know it. But make no mistake; by these new revelations we don’t condone the validity of any (future) historical claims made by Modern Jews to the land of Yemen. When we talk about Yemen as the homeland of the early Israelites we have to bear in mind that the Israelites as an ancient (Arabian) Yemenite Tribe has long gone extinct. The Yemenite Jews of modern times are the descendants of converts to Judaism when Yemen re-embraced Judaism under the rule of Dhu Nuwas back in 520 AD. The DAESH-like mentality of Ancient Hebrews Dhu Nuwas should not be historically identified as a Yemenite King, but rather a Yemenite warlord and head of a militant group of warriors, if not terrorists. If we want to draw a modern parallel we could safely compare Dhu Nuwas’ militants to those of ISIL or DAESH. In that sense El Baghdadi would be the modern equivalent of Dhu Nuwas. By that comparison we are not trying to defame any historical figures, rather we are trying to reveal one of the inherent characteristics of the Arabian/Hebrew culture; namely religious intolerance and violence. This lingering culture of militancy is still equally demonstrable in the violent nature of Islamist groups like Al Qaeda and ISIL, as is the case with Orthodox Jewish groups of ‘Haredi’ in modern day Israel (many of whom are of Mizrahi -Arabic and Yemenite- origin by the way). Over many decades, clouded with Bible-geared mindset, countless Western Orientalists have kind of erroneously decoded the history of the Ancient Near East. In their so called ‘academic’ scholarship they set off not to unearth the historical truth but to verify their (distorted) Biblical narrative. Before Du Nuawas seized the rule in 522 AD, Yemen was controlled by the Akusmites (Ethiopians … sound familiar?), a Christian kingdom stretching over modern day Eritrea and Ethiopia. After his Military rebellion, Du Nuawas and his Jewish warriors promptly began to destroy all the Christian Churches in Yemen. Could you discern the striking similarities here with DAESH and their persecution/elimination of Iraqi and Syrian Christians, and the destructions of their churches? A painting depicting the Martyrs of Najran and below is an image of ISIL’s brutal beheading of innocent civilians He then moved against Najrān, a Christian and Aksumite stronghold at the western South of Arabia. After accepting the city’s capitulation, Du Nuwas massacred those (Christian) locals who would not renounce Christianity. Actually the Arabian historical records speak of a horrible pogrom in which thousands of Christians were ‘beheaded‘ and burnt alive for refusing to convert to the ‘Judaism’ Du Nuwas professed by the edge of the sword. Estimates of the death toll from this ancient ‘Holocaust’ range up to 20,000 in some sources. The brutal massacre perpetrated by the (Yemenite) Jewish Dhu Nuwas had actually created shockwaves of fear that reached as far as the Roman palace in Constantinople. A recent feature article by the title ‘Before Islam: When Saudi Arabia Was a Jewish Kingdom’ was published in the Israeli newspaper, Haaretz. As ancient ‘Arabian’ inscriptions referring to the Jewish massacre of the Christians of ‘Najran’ have recently been discovered by a French archeological expedition in South of Saudi Arabia, the (Israeli) author was left wondering whether those Jewish militants headed by Dhu Nuwas were real Jews. The fact of the matter is that those earlier ruthless warriors (with their culture of unbending belligerence and intolerance) are the genuine Jews. The Haartez Journalist, as well as most of the modern Israeli settlers who are occupying Palestine, are actually the unreal ones. In the view of modern scholars of the Late Antiquity History, Dhu Nuwas’s decision to compel conversion to Judaism on pain of death can only be explained in terms of his deep religious and cultural convictions. In other words; the Arabian and Yemenite Tribal culture of ‘Takfir’. Maybe it has eluded many of us but when you come to think of it you would be amazed to find out that the greatest chunk of the Hebrew Bible is all about brutal raids and genocidal massacres. This is what life in Ancient Arabia was like; a non-stop cycle of tribal conflict and raids. Story after story of tribal deadly raids, be that of Saul, David or Joshua, that left nothing behind but destruction and carnage. But to soften the blow, those stories were sold to us as Holy Wars of the Israelites. And by inserting the Holy card in the narrative, we feel (unconsciously) prompted to turn off our critical thinking, if we ever had any. Likewise, modern day Zionism has engulfed Palestine by striking the same holy and religious cord. Millions of (gullible Western) believers would allow any madness to take form over Palestinian Land for the sake of realizing their distorted dream of the Second Coming of Christ. The same rationale (of a second coming of a warrior savior) is currently employed by Daesh/ISIL in their Holy War against Infidels (Kafir). Followers of DAESH really believe they are fighting against apostates who deserve to be killed (slaughtered) in cold blood. And only after their defeat of the widespread apostasy could the new Islamic Caliphate (Kingdom of God) prevail over all nations. Have you managed to discern the cultural parallel here or is too subtle to notice? The very (dangerous) idea of Takfir (accusing followers of a different Sect or faith with apostasy punishable by brutal death) is not (as we have exposed) exclusively Islamic, but it goes a long way back to ancient Arabia and its Jewish tribes. We are once again not defaming any religion or their followers but we are digging deeper into the cultural roots of (religious) extremism and intolerance in both Judaism and Islam. In other words we are exposing the Arabian cultural and geographical origins of both Islam and Judaism. We do so while consciously throwing the cold ice in the face of Western Orientalists; who through their (distorted and biased) interpretation of the Biblical history have mislead generations of gullible and deluded believers. By believers I mean the millions who (blindly) bought into the Orientalists’ fake narrative, and who are still doing so till this very moment. If you want to renounce falsehood and discover the true (Arabian) history of the Israelites and that of Ancient Egypt, you could read my book (Egypt knew no Pharaohs nor Israelites). Available now on Amazon. Tags: Ancient Yemen, Ashraf Ezzat, Babylonian captivity, Dhu Nuwas, Dr. Ashraf Ezzat, Egypt knew no Pharaohs nor Israelites, Fadel el rubaie, Kamal Salibi, Najran massacre, Takfir, Takfiri culture, Yeminte IsraelitesCategories: Faith, History 31 thoughts on “The Jewish roots of ‘Takfiri’ culture” Pingback: The Jewish roots of ‘Takfiri’ culture – The Truth Lives Here Buddy Silver says: Yo Bro, People believe in gods, like children believe in Santa! Abo Kareem says: I can not stop reading your articles. I would like here to mention only 2 verses from Quran contradict with the classical fairy tale that the zionists always mention and as we learned when we were children that Moses and Israelites were in Egypt and so on ….all know the end of fairy tale.. the first verse: وَإِذْ قَالَ مُوسَىٰ لِقَوْمِهِ يَا قَوْمِ اذْكُرُوا نِعْمَةَ اللَّهِ عَلَيْكُمْ إِذْ جَعَلَ فِيكُمْ أَنبِيَاءَ وَجَعَلَكُم مُّلُوكًا وَآتَاكُم مَّا لَمْ يُؤْتِ أَحَدًا مِّنَ الْعَالَمِينَ (20) “Remember Moses said to his people: “O my people! Call in remembrance the favour of Allah unto you, when He produced prophets among you, made you kings, and gave you what He had not given to any other among the peoples.” 5:20 I want to stop here on the words “made you kings” as all know according to classical story the Israelites never were kings before Moses, but slaves in Egypt. The quran here unearth another story of Israelites that they were kings before Moses and this means they had a kingdom before Moses, which contradicts with interpretation of orientalists to Torah .Here the Quran points out that there was a kingdom for Israelites before Moses time and no one (of jews) can prove or say that there was a kingdom for Israelites in Egypt or Palestine before Moses time. here the Quran unearth a hidden story. وَأَوْحَيْنَا إِلَىٰ مُوسَىٰ أَنْ أَسْرِ بِعِبَادِي إِنَّكُم مُّتَّبَعُونَ (52) فَأَرْسَلَ فِرْعَوْنُ فِي الْمَدَائِنِ حَاشِرِينَ (53) إِنَّ هَٰؤُلَاءِ لَشِرْذِمَةٌ قَلِيلُونَ (54) وَإِنَّهُمْ لَنَا لَغَائِظُونَ (55) وَإِنَّا لَجَمِيعٌ حَاذِرُونَ (56) فَأَخْرَجْنَاهُم مِّن جَنَّاتٍ وَعُيُونٍ (57) وَكُنُوزٍ وَمَقَامٍ كَرِيمٍ (58) كَذَٰلِكَ وَأَوْرَثْنَاهَا بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ 52. “And We revealed unto Moses (saying): ‘Go you forth with My servants by night, for verily you will be pursued’.” 53. “Then Pharaoh sent heralds into the cites.” 54. “Verily these (Israelites) are only a small group,” 55. “And verily they have enraged us.” 56. “And verily we are a host on our guard.” 57. “So We expelled them from the gardens and the springs,” 58. “And treasures and a goodly dwelling,” 59. “Thus (did We drown them) and We made the Children of Israel the inheritors to them.”26:52-59 Here the Israelites inherited the land of Pharaoh , and of course no one can say according to the classical fairy tale that Isralites inherited Egypt after Exodus, which means the Quran asserts there is another hidden story and asserts the idea that “Misr” Pharaoh is not Egypt. and there are many other verses but it will take a long time to expalin. ABO KAREEM, Don’t be a silly boy! Muhammad saw himself as the last of the HEBREW/ISRAELITE Prophets: THE ZIONIST ARABIAN PROPHET: This must be the most bizarre title you have ever seen. To the Arabs & Muslims, this is tantamount to BLASPHEMY! But is it? Has humanity been deceived for the last 700 years into accepting Arab & Muslim propaganda regarding Palestine as FACT? Let us explore this issue based entirely upon Muhammad’s Quran and no other. Anyone who has read the Quran let alone studied it would know the following: The chapters of the Quran are not written in the order of their alleged revelations to Muhammad. For example, the first verse of the Quran is actually in Sura 96 and not one or two! Sura Al Alaq 96:1 “Proclaim! (or Read!) in the name of thy Lord and Cherisher Who created…” The verses and story lines are boringly repetitive. The names of the Hebrew Biblical characters appear all of a sudden, without any indication as to which country they lived, in which era and in what context. Without references to the Hebrew Bible, no reader of the otherwise incoherent Quran could possibly know the full story of any and ALL of the Hebrew Biblical characters mentioned therein. Moreover, their stories in the Quran are based upon Rabbinic & Apocryphal traditions and not upon their originals in the Torah. The Quran as a whole has no beginning, no middle and no ending, totally unlike the Hebrew Bible. The stories in the chapters of the Quran, jump from one Hebrew Biblical character in one verse, to a completely different and unrelated character in a completely different era in the next verse, without rhyme, reason or logic. To compile the story of what we are about to reveal to you, we have had to ferret out all the relevant verses, scattered over many chapters of the Quran, and put them in a coherent order as faithful to the original story in the Hebrew Bible as possible. And that is why over the last 1400 years, no follower of Muhammad who has not read the Hebrew Bible, could possibly understand, let alone know, the whole story in a consistent manner. Before revealing the Quran’s Zionism, it is very important of course, to explain what Zionism means and is NOT according to Arab and Muslim distorted propaganda, but to facts. Believers and Unbelieving Kuffar, please be aware, that the immense majority of the followers of Muhammad, recognize the words Zionist and Zionism, but have absolutely no understanding of either the meaning or the concept of these words. In Hebrew, Zion is pronounced Tsion, a term that most often designates the Land of Israel and its capital, Jerusalem. The word is found in texts dating back almost three millennia. Originally, it was the name of a Canaanite fortress on top of Mount Tsion, which is near Jerusalem, which was captured by King David. David made it a royal residence to start with, and his son Solomon, built the first Temple on top of it. Henceforth, the whole hill was named Tsion. Thereafter, the name of the hill and the city of Jerusalem became synonymous. In many Hebrew Biblical verses, the Israelites were called the people, sons or daughters of Zion. The word Zionism is derived from, & associated with, the word Tsion or Zion. Zionism is actually the national revival movement for the return of the Jewish Diaspora to their homeland of Judea & Samaria, and the resumption of Jewish sovereignty in the Land of Israel, the Promised Land, their birth place. Zionism was self-consciously the Jewish analogue of European national liberation movements of the nineteenth century. In the modern world it manifests itself as support for the principle and absolute right of the Jews to live securely in their own homeland Israel as they did over a millennia in ancient times as well as on and off over the centuries ever since. I shall begin with the most important example of Zionism in the Quran, which is the Quran’s version of the Exodus story starting with Allah’s instruction to Moses and Aaron to go to Pharaoh asking him to release the tribes of Israel from bondage. I shall recite only the relevant verses from the chapters in such a way as to make the storyline similar in manner to its original in the Torah. I shall jump over verses that are either repetitive or not relevant to the flow of the story. Please pay particular attention as to how – without our collation in a coherent sequence – the relevant verses of the Quran actually jump from one chapter to a completely different one, since they are scattered all over the chapters of the Quran and hence, by themselves do not make a coherent tale. Those who want the complete verses can read them in the Quran as I shall be giving you chapter & verse where to find them. Sura Ta Ha 20: 47 “So go ye both to him (Pharaoh) and say `Verily we are apostles sent by thy Lord: send forth therefore the Children of Israel with us and afflict them not: with a Sign indeed have we come from thy Lord! And peace to all who follow guidance! Sura Al Aaraf 7: 104 “Moses said: “O Pharaoh! I am an apostle from the Lord of the worlds. Sura Al Aaraf 7:130 “We punished the people of Pharaoh with years (of drought) and shortness of crops; that they might receive admonition. 132 They said (to Moses): “whatever be the signs thou bringest to work there with the sorcery on us, we shall never believe in thee.” 133 So We sent (plagues) on them, Wholesale Death, Locusts, Lice, Frogs and Blood: signs openly Self-explained; but they were steeped in arrogance a people given to sin. 134 Every time the penalty fell on them they said: “O Moses! On our behalf, call on thy Lord in virtue of his promise to thee: if thou wilt remove the penalty from us, we shall truly believe in thee and we shall send away the Children of Israel with thee. 135 But every time We removed the penalty from them, according to a fixed term which they had to fulfill, Behold! they broke their word! 136 So We exacted retribution from them: We drowned them in the sea because they rejected Our signs and failed to take warning from them. * Anyone who has read the Hebrew Biblical original, would know, that what was allegedly revealed to Muhammad by the angel Gabriel, is completely different both in sequence and context * “We sent an inspiration to Moses: “Travel by night with my servants ( the Israelites) and strike a dry path for them through the (Red) sea without fear of being overtaken (by Pharaoh) and without (any other) fear.” 78 Then Pharaoh pursued them with his forces but the waters completely overwhelmed them and covered them up. 79 Pharaoh led his people astray instead of leading them aright. “We took the Children of Israel (with safety) across the sea… * To recap the story thus far: By Allah’s instructions, Moses & Aaron requested the release of the Israelite Tribes from bondage. Pharaoh refused. Allah punished him with a plague. Pharaoh recanted & asked forgiveness BUT when the plague was lifted he again disobeyed Allah. This continued until TEN plagues were visited upon Pharaoh and Egypt. Finally Pharaoh allowed the Israelites to leave, but he regretted his decision and pursued them into the Red Sea where Pharaoh & his troops were drowned by Allah thus saving Moses & the Israelites. So far, the storyline of the EXODUS, as we have rearranged it from the different chapters of the Quran, is relatively faithful to that of the Torah Sura Ta Ha 20:80 : “O ye Children of Israel! We delivered you from your enemy and We made a Covenant with you on the side of Mount (Sinai) and We sent down to you Manna and quails: Sura Al Israa 17: 2: “We gave Moses the Book (Torah) and made it a Guide to the Children of Israel (commanding): “Take not other than Me as Disposer of (your) affairs.” Sura Al Aaraf 7: 137: “And We made a people (Israelites) considered weak (and of no account) inheritors of lands in both east and west lands, where on We sent down our blessings. The fair promise of the Lord was fulfilled for the Children of Israel, because they had patience and constancy and We leveled to the ground the great works and fine buildings which Pharaoh and his people erected (with such pride). ” inheritors of lands in both east and west lands” is actually the Promised Land of the Israelites on BOTH sides of the Jordan River Sura Al Israa 17: 104 “And We said thereafter to the Children of Israel “Dwell securely in the land (of promise)”: but when the second of the warnings came to pass We gathered you together in a mingled crowd. * Allah, in very clear Arabic, asserts that he fulfilled his promise to reward the People of Israel with the Promised Land, the same land that the later conquering hordes of Muslim Arabs claim as exclusively theirs CONTRARY to their own Quran * Sura Al Maida 5: 12 “Allah did aforetime take a Covenant from the Children of Israel, and We appointed twelve captains among them and Allah said: “I am with you: if ye establish regular prayers, practice regular charity, believe in My apostles, honor and assist them, and loan to Allah a beautiful loan, verily I shall wipe out from you your evils and admit you to gardens with rivers flowing beneath; but if any of you after this resists faith he hath truly wandered from the path of rectitude.” * Once again, does the Quran assert the close relationship between Allah, the People of Israel and his promise for the Land * Sura Yunus 10: 93 “We settled the Children of Israel in a beautiful dwelling-place (the Promised Land) and provided for them sustenance of the best: it was after knowledge had been granted to them that they fell into schisms. Verily Allah will judge between them as to the schisms amongst them on the Day of Judgment. 94 If thou wert in doubt as to what We have revealed unto thee, then ask those who have been reading the Book (Torah) from before thee: the Truth hath indeed come to thee from thy Lord: so be in nowise of those in doubt. * Allah is clearly instructing the followers of Muhammad that if they were in doubt about the veracity of what Muhammad was revealing to them, and then they should ask the Jews who read the Torah that Allah revealed to Moses. This SINGULAR verse, DESTROYS and NEGATES all the LIES and DECEPTIONS by the LATER followers of Muhammad regarding the authenticity and DIVINE origin of the Torah since had it been ALTERED or tampered with by the Jews, Allah would NOT have used it as a WITNESS to the veracity of the Quran* Sura Al Baqara 2: 40 “O Children of Israel! call to mind the (special) favor which I bestowed upon you and fulfill your covenant with Me as I fulfill My covenant with you and fear none but Me” Al Baqara 2: 47 “O Children of Israel! call to mind the (special) favor which I bestowed upon You and that 50 And remember, We divided the (Red) sea for you and saved you and drowned Pharaoh’s people within your very sight. 51 And remember, We appointed forty nights for Moses and in his absence you took the calf (for worship) and ye did grievous wrong. 52 Even then, We did forgive you; there was a chance for you to be grateful” * Without a shadow of a doubt, the Quran in clear Arabic asserts that it was Allah who CHOSE the Israelites above all other nations and made a mutual covenant with them. Furthermore, verse 2:52 is remarkable in its assertion that Allah also FORGAVE their transgression. This verse in particular, ABROGATES, Overturns and overrides the LIES and PERVERSIONS by the followers of Muhammad, that tell Arabic IGNORAMOUS peoples that Allah had NOT forgiven the sin of the People of Israel * Sura Al Baqara 2: 122 “O Children of Israel! call to mind the special favor which I bestowed upon you and that I preferred you above the whole world! * Once more in this verse does Allah assert that the Israelites are his CHOSEN PEOPLE* Sura Al Sajda 32: 23 We did indeed aforetime give the Book (Torah) to Moses: be not then in doubt of its reaching (thee): and We made it a guide to the Children of Israel” * Allah is telling the followers of Muhammad that he gave the Torah ONLY to the People of Israel as a guide * Sura Al Mu’min 40: 53 “We did a foretime give Moses the (Book of) Guidance and We gave the Book (Torah) in inheritance to the Children of Israel” * “We gave the Book (Torah) in inheritance to the Children of Israel” means to them and their generations AFTER them * Sura Al Dukhan 44: 30 “We did deliver a foretime the Children of Israel from humiliating Punishment 31 Inflicted by Pharaoh for he was arrogant (even) among inordinate transgressors. 32 And We chose them aforetime above all the nations knowingly Sura Al Jathiyah 45: 16 “We did a foretime grant to the Children of Israel the Book (Torah), the Power of Command and Prophethood; We gave them for Sustenance things good and pure; and We favored them above all the nations” Believers and Unbelievers, please be aware, that the Quran, in verse after verse, repeatedly and unambiguously asserts, that it was Allah and ONLY Allah who did the Choosing, contrary to the Hatemongering declarations by Muslims, that it is the RACIST and ARROGANT Israelites and Jews who declare themselves the Chosen People Sura Al Ahqaf 46: 12 “And before this was the Book (Torah) of Moses as a guide and a mercy; and this Book (Quran) confirms (it) in the Arabic tongue; to admonish the unjust and as Glad Tidings to those who do right. “We did indeed aforetime give the Book (Torah) to Moses: be not then in doubt of its reaching (thee): and We made it a guide to the Children of Israel. Sura Al Maida 5:44 “It was We who revealed the law (Torah to Moses); therein was guidance and light. By its standard have been judged the Jews by the Prophet who bowed (as in Islam) to Allah’s will by the Rabbis and the doctors of Law: for to them was entrusted the protection of Allah’s Book (Torah) and they were witnesses thereto: Sura Al Saffat 37: 114 “Again! We bestowed Our favor on Moses and Aaron. 115 And We delivered them and their people from (their) Great Calamity; 116 And We helped them so they overcame (their troubles); 117 And We gave them the Book (Torah) which helps to make things clear; 118 And We guided them to the Straight Way. 119 And We left (this blessing) for them among generations (to come) in later times: 120 “Peace and salutation to Moses and Aaron!” * It should be pointed out that not once in these very important verses did Allah instruct the Children of Israel to pass on his Book (the Torah) to any other human group CONTRATY to the Malicious accusations that the Israelites hid the Torah from other peoples*** And last but not least ‘ icing on the cake’ verse: “O my people! enter the holy land (al Arth al Muqaddassah) which Allah hath assigned unto you and turn not back ignominiously for then will ye be overthrown to your own ruin.” Based upon all what we have revealed, how can any sane person accept the wild and unsubstantiated claims, that the loose leaf and arbitrary collection of the Quran is CORRECT, whereas the older Hebrew Book, the Torah, whose pages, chapters and verses are in correct order and upon which the Quran’s foundations are rooted, is not? It is obvious that Muhammad did not realize that his loose-leaf notes had fully captured and preserved – though somewhat scrambled up from the more ancient accounts – actually verified with detailed accounts, that the Israelites and the Jews had lived many centuries before him, settled and made their homeland as a nation in the very state of modern Israel & territories that have since been restored. These are the very lands that his followers absurdly deny had ever previously belonged to anyone else but themselves? In conclusion, based upon all the above, it is crystal clear, that contrary to the untested beliefs of hundreds of millions of Muslims in the world today, their Quran in fact, fully supports and verifies the claims of the Jews for the Land of Israel as their ancient and rightful home and nation. JUDAISM – CHRISTENDOM – ISLAM are the 3 Abrahamic Cults of Death, which have drenched the earth with the blood of their victims Charles N. Pope says: When we finally realize that religions were created in ancient times by the one ruling family and for the purpose of maintaining control, such arguments become unnecessary. The royal family favored certain tribal groups and religions in certain areas and at certain times. The royal family claimed to be acting in the place of god (or the gods) in doing so. The royal family often put one group in conflict with another, but generally ruled over both sides. It mattered very little which side prevailed in any given battle and such outcomes were usually predetermined. Yes, the one royal family made a “covenant” with the Jews and this covenant was broken and renewed as they saw fit. It was famously renewed by the Ptolemies only to be rejected by the Romans! Check out this description of how Ptolemy IV put the Jews of Egypt in their place: http://www.domainofman.com/boards/index.php?topic=145.0 The Roman leadership required Jews to accept a messiah of their own making, and when they refused, this became justification for the diaspora and perpetual persecution of Jews. Christianity, after a suitable period of “incubation” (providing it with martyrs and organic culture) was established as a Roman state religion. However, only about 300 years later, the Roman Emperor Heraclius considered replacing Christianity with Islam, not only in Arabia but also in Constantinople and Europe. The father of Heraclius had been the Byzantine Governor of Egypt, and Heraclius decided it was time for Christianity and its petty theological disputes to be ended. Ultimately, Heraclius did not get his way and the slightly older religion (Christianity) persisted alongside the new one (Islam). It became a conscious royal decision to preserve this rather awkward balance in the centuries that followed. For extremely long stretches, both Christianity and Islam was controlled by a single family. The Abbasid, Seljuk and Ottoman movements were deliberate renewals of Islam and orchestrated by the very same people that held power in the Byzantine Empire. (Have you ever wondered why the Abbasid Caliphate was established at the very time that Iconoclasm was gripping Constantinople? Think about it!) The one ruling family was simultaneously Christian and Islamic. They supplied the champions for both groups. Until that aspect of history is recognized there can be no peace on Earth and fundamentalism will persist. If we are going to move beyond a tribal mentality in the world, then we have to better understand the “Royal Age” and how the practices of that Age have led to our current state of confusion. The vicious cycle of hatred and violence has to be broken with the knowledge or our shared domination by a ruling elite. Of course, there is still the chance that genuine peace attempts will be crushed by a new ruling elite, but transcending the “dark ages” of intolerance is achievable. The royal family was proud of their “full-spectrum” dominance over the Earth and carefully documented how they did it. All we have to do is read it for what it is. Education is the key. future reading cards says: Fantastic post, I’m looking forward to hear more from you!! como investir no tesouro direto says: http://answers.ontraport.com/users/525995/stuarthort/ Pingback: Jakarta’s Christian governor in court for insulting Islam \| Rehmat's World This is all extremely interesting! Where can I buy your book in Cairo? It is not my book, it is Ashraf Ezzat’s book. And he is Egyptian. He is I think based in Cairo.I just re-blogged it from his site which is here:https://ashraf62.wordpress.com/essential-reading/ I would not say I subscribe to your thinking here, although many good points are taken. Years ago I did not know I was a Jew, until I had a dream that told me my father ancients father Jews, where in the dream I had a coin I called, “My Fathers ancient gold coin”. This coin had a Jewish 7 branch Menorah on it. Well my fathers are from the Dominican Republic, and this is all we knew. No oral or written history of ever being Jews. Because of this I only had DNA to test if my dream was true. Lo and behold the results came in and they were Haplogroup J1, all of my genetic relatives were Ashkenazi Jews, from Poland/Ukraine/Russia. But, what I find interesting involving this topic is that my fathers YDNA is J1c3d in Haplogroup J1, and this DNA originates from Yemen with most of the current population 95%+ J1c3d. So very interesting to say the least. Obviously more research must be done to prove your theory correct. In another dream I saw the Ark of the Covenant in a dream, it had flat walls and the molding on the top was of twisted rope design. Well the Egyptians had Arks and they would surround the name of a deity with twisted rope. So I see an Egyptian connection in this dream. Even so, nice work. Torki Amin AlAreed says: There is no archaeological evidence to prove that the Jews ever ruled Palestine. This is after almost 70 years of hard excavations. Nor there is any shred of evidence to relate them to Sinai or Egypt. However, many geographical names mentioned in Tourah are still in existence and carry the same names. The history of Ashkenazi Jews is relatively recent and they have nothing to do with the Arab world but in occupying part of it to serve Western powers. Correct, This is distorted history. Khazars 80 % of jews have nothing to do in Palestine. Isralites and Moses they even did not hear about Egypt nor Palestine. They were Yemenites. Tons of evidences. The truth unearthed BASED ON JEWISH TALMUD, MOST JEWS ARE VICTIMS OF INCEST: “THE JEWISH TALMUD IS ONE OF THE WONDERS OF THE WORLD”! The official unabridged Soncino Edition of the Talmud published in 1935 was “Translated into English with Notes, Glossary and Indices” by such eminent Talmudic scholars as Rabbi Dr. I. Epstein, Rabbi Dr. Samuel Daiches, Rabbi Dr. Israel W. Slotki, M.A., Litt.D., The Reverend Dr. A. Cohen, M.A.’, Ph.D., Maurice Simon, M.A., and the Very Reverend The Chief Rabbi Dr. J.H. Hertz wrote the “Foreword” for the Soncino Edition of the Talmud. The Very Reverend Rabbi Hertz was at the time the Chief Rabbi of England. The world’s leading authorities on the Talmud confirm that the official unabridged Soncino Edition of the Talmud translated into English follows the original texts with great exactness. It is almost a word-for-word translation of the original texts. In his famous classic “The History of the Talmud,” Michael Rodkinson, the leading authority on the Talmud, in collaboration with the celebrated Reverend Dr. Isaac M. Wise states: “THE TALMUD IS ONE OF THE WONDERS OF THE WORLD. During the twenty centuries of its existence…IT SURVIVED IN ITS ENTIRETY, and not only has the power of its foes FAILED TO DESTROY EVEN A SINGLE LINE, but it has not even been able materially to weaken its influence for any length of time. IT STILL DOMINATES THE MINDS OF A WHOLE PEOPLE, WHO VENERATE ITS CONTENTS AS DIVINE TRUTH…” SANHEDRIN, 55b-55a: “What is meant by this? – Rab said: Pederasty with a child below nine years of age is not deemed as pederasty with a child above that. Samuel said: Pederasty with a child below three years is not treated as with a child above that (2) What is the basis of their dispute? – Rab maintains that only he who is able to engage in sexual intercourse, may, as the passive subject of pederasty throw guilt (upon the actual offender); whilst he who is unable to engage in sexual intercourse cannot be a passive subject of pederasty (in that respect) (3). But Samuel maintains: Scriptures writes, (And thou shalt not lie with mankind) as with the lyings of a woman (4). It has been taught in accordance with Rab: Pederasty at the age of nine years and a day; (55a) (he) who commits bestiality, whether naturally or unnaturally: or a woman who causes herself to be bestiality abused, whether naturally or unnaturally, is liable to punishment (5).” KETHUBOTH, 11a-11b. “Rabba said, It means (5) this: When a grown up man has intercourse with a little girl it is nothing, for when the girl is less than this (6), it is as if one puts the finger in the eye (7), but when a small boy has intercourse with a grown up woman, he makes her as a girl who is injured by a piece of wood' ". (footnotes) "(5). Lit.,says’. (6) Lit., `here’, that is, less than three years old. (7) Tears come to the eyes again and again, so does virginity come back to the little girl under three years.” KETHUBOTH, 11a-11b. “Rab Judah said that Rab said: A small boy who has intercourse with a grown up woman makes her (as though she were ) injured by a piece of wood (1). Although the intercourse of a small boy is not regarded as a sexual act, nevertheless the woman is injured by it as by a piece of wood(a dildo).” (footnotes) “(1) Although the intercourse of a small boy is not regarded as a sexual act, nevertheless the woman is injured by it as by a piece of wood.” ABODAH ZARAH, 36b-37a. “R. Naham b. Isaac said: They decreed in connection with a heathen child that it would cause defilement by seminal emission (2) so that an Israelite child should not become accustomed to commit pederasty with it…From what age does a heathen child cause defilement by seminal emission? From the age of nine years and one day. (37a) for inasmuch as he is then capable of the sexual act he likewise defiles by emission. Rabina said: It is therefore to be concluded that a heathen girl (communicates defilement) from the age of three years and one day, for inasmuch as she is then capable of the sexual act she likewise defiles by a flux. SOTAH, 26b. “R. Papa said: It excludes an animal, because there is not adultery in connection with an animal (4). Raba of Parazika (5) asked R. Ashi, Whence is the statement which the Rabbis made that there is no adultery in connection with an animal? Because it is written, Thou shalt not bring the hire of a harlot or the wages of a dog etc.; (6) and it has been taught: The hire of a dog (7) and the wages of a harlot (8) are permissible, as it is said, Even both of these (9) – the two (specified texts are abominations) but not four (10)…As lying with mankind. (12) But, said Raba, it excludes the case where he warned her against contact of the bodies (13). Abaye said to him, That is merely an obscene act (and not adultery), and did the All-Merciful prohibit (a wife to her husband) for an obscene act?” SANHEDRIN, 55b: “A maiden three years and a day may be acquired in marriage by coition, and if her deceased husband’s brother cohabits with her, she becomes his. The penalty of adultery may be incurred through her; (if a niddah) she defiles him who has connection with her, so that he in turn defiles that upon which he lies, as a garment which has lain upon (a person afflicted with gonorrhea).” (footnotes) “(2) His wife derives no pleasure from this, and hence there is no cleaving. (3) A variant reading of this passage is: Is there anything permitted to a Jew which is forbidden to a heathen. Unnatural connection is permitted to a Jew. (4) By taking the two in conjunction, the latter as illustrating the former, we learn that the guilt of violating the injunction `to his wife but not to his neighbor’s wife’ is incurred only for natural but not for unnatural intercourse.” Of the “sacred” Talmudic teachings of the “Sages,” preserved since 500 A.D. and taught more widely today than ever before in Talmud-Torah schools in the U.S.A., perhaps nothing better illustrates “fools” with “reprobate minds” than the teaching in the Talmud book of Yebamoth that spittle on the top of the bed curtain proves that a wife has been guilty of adultery, as only lying down face upwards could she have spit up on it. Spitting several feet straight up! The Talmud states: “When a peddler leaves a house and the woman within is fastening her sinnar [breech-cloth] … . If spittle is found on the upper part of the curtained bed she must, said Rabbi, go.” Footnote: “Even if there were no witnesses that misconduct took place.” Further footnote: “Only the woman lying face upwards could have spat on the spot. Intercourse may, therefore, be suspected.” Derdekea says: What role, if any, did the Jewish-Rabbinical infiltration of the Church have upon what is called the Spanish Inquistion & is there also some correlation between the Qabalist Rabbis of Spain & said “Spanish” Inquisition? This is very good question. The reply could be a long one. To put it in a nutshell, the ‘Inquisition’ in its core is ‘Jewish’ dogma (based on Arabian culture) that had long infiltrated the Catholic Church. It was one of those instances where the (Jewish in nature) magic/dogma turned against the magician. Shamir Mrimmoy says: Mr. Ashraf Ezzat…..Does that mean this whole Muhammad, ISLAM, Hajj & Allah is a madeup Agreed upon Lies….???? Coz you know Judaism is very similar to ISLAM……… If you’re Right then Koran is 100% Wrong…..Please do answer. Thank you Seraphim for the nice comment, and indeed the work of Prof. Kamal Salibi deserves to be continued and built upon. One thing I have to make clear though, my research doesn’t by any means point towards championing one particular faith over another. The historical truth is what I’m trying to unearth and reveal. Seraphim says: Dr. Ezzat, We can’t thank you enough for continuing the work initiated by Kamal Salibi and which is forced into oblivion (you can find his book The Bible… on the net at prohibitive prices) and dismissed as crackpot theory both by Jews and Arabians. Perhaps we should follow him more closely and extend the area of ancient Israel to the southern Hejaz and ‘Asir, from Ta’if down to the border with Yemen. Perhaps including Palestine also. I am sure that the later presence in Palestine is due to the Persians who installed them there as a garrison. They treated the local population with their usual ferocity. We should also take into consideration the massive forced conversion of the Edomites by the Maccabees. On the other hand, I think that it is time to renounce to include Christianity in the so-called “Abrahamic religions”. We find infinitely more analogies for Christianity in the Egyptian religion. The Jews never recognized Jesus as a descendant of Abraham: “Then answered the Jews, and said unto him, Say we not well that thou art a Samaritan, and hast a devil? … Art thou greater than our father Abraham, which is dead? and the prophets are dead: whom makest thou thyself? 54 Jesus answered, If I honour myself, my honour is nothing: it is my Father that honoureth me; of whom ye say, that he is your God: 55 Yet ye have not known him; but I know him: and if I should say, I know him not, I shall be a liar like unto you: but I know him, and keep his saying. 56 Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day: and he saw it, and was glad. 57 Then said the Jews unto him, Thou art not yet fifty years old, and hast thou seen Abraham? 58 Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am. 59 Then took they up stones to cast at him: but Jesus hid himself, and went out of the temple, going through the midst of them, and so passed by.” The “Abrahamic brothers” Judaism and Islam alike killed Christians with the same gusto as the present takfiris. From The Persian Conquest Of Jerusalem, by Meir Loewenberg (convenient short essay about a long story furiously denied by Jewish historians, taken intentionally from a Jewish magazine): “When the Persians started the war against Byzance in 602 “Jews everywhere were eager to aid and abet the Persian army. When they heard the news that Jewish soldiers had joined the Persian forces, they fully expected that a miracle would soon occur. The Jews of Antioch rioted and killed the Christian Patriarch. In Yemen the Jews also rioted and killed the Christian clergy…. Prior to embarking on the invasion of Palestine, King Khosrau made a treaty with the Reish Galuta, the head of Babylonian Jewry. Even though many historians doubt whether there actually was such a treaty, it was widely believed both at the time and in later centuries that this treaty called upon the Jews to provide 20,000 soldiers for the Persian army. In return for joining the Persian army, these Jewish soldiers were given permission to participate in the capture of Jerusalem – which they did in 614…. Subsequent to the conquest of Jerusalem, the local Jews assisted the Persian troops in putting down a revolt of the Christian population against their new rulers… One of the conditions for the enlistment of twenty thousand Jewish soldiers was a formal promise that a Jewish governor would be appointed to rule over Persian Jerusalem. Once the city was captured, Nehemiah ben Hushiel was appointed governor of Jerusalem. There are reports that he was a strong young man, handsome and adorned in royal robes, but actually we know very little about his reign because no contemporary accounts have survived. There are reports that he had Messianic pretensions. Soon after his appointment the new governor reestablished the sacrificial service on the Temple Mount – something that had not occurred in over five hundred years. He began to make arrangements for the rebuilding of the Temple. At the same time, he tried to clarify the genealogies of the priests in order to appoint a new High Priest. … According to Antiochus Strategos, a 7th century monk who witnessed the Persian conquest of Jerusalem, an “unprecedented looting and sacrilege” occurred shortly after the Persian army entered Jerusalem. “Church after church [among them The beautiful basilica of Fishes and Loaves in Tabgha, recently burnt by Jewish fanatics], was burned down alongside the innumerable Christian artifacts, which were stolen or damaged by the ensuing arson… Antiochus Strategos also claimed that many Christians were captured and held for ransom. Jews offered to help them escape if they “become Jews and deny Christ”. The Christian captives refused this offer. The Jews then purchased the Christians from the Persians and massacred them. He claimed that the total Christian death toll was 66,509.” But immediately after the reconquest of Jerusalem in 628, the Jews offered their services to the Arabs. The Armenian historian Ghewond (7th-8th Century), a contemporary, wrote in his History of Armenia: “Once Heraclius’ son had come to rule in his father’s stead, the Lord awakened the spirits of malevolent men so that through them the blood of Christians would be shed in vengeance, because we had sinned before the Lord God. [The Arabs] began to form brigades and mass troops against Constantine’s realm, against Judaea and Asorestan, having for support the command of their law-giver, that sower of darnel, to “Go against the countries and put them under your rule, for the plenty of the world has been given to us for our enjoyment. Eat the meat of the select ones of the countries, and drink the blood of the mighty.” The Jews were their supporters and leaders, having gone to the camp at Madiam and told them: “God promised Abraham that He would deliver up the inhabitants of the world in service [to him]; and we are his heirs and sons of the patriarch. Because of our wickedness, God became disgusted with us and lifted the scepter of kingship from us, subjecting us to the servitude of slavery. But you, too, are children of Abraham and sons of the patriarch. Arise with us and save us from service to the emperor of the Byzantines, and together we shall hold our realm.” [The Arabs] were encouraged further hearing this, and went against Judaea.” That’s why after the capitulation of Jerusalem to ‘Omar in 635 (A.H 14), that Khalif caused a mosque to be built on what was considered to be the ancient site of the Temple (or Masjid) of David. The traditional position of this site, ‘Omar (as it is stated) verified, by the re-discovery of the Rock concealed under a dunghill from the description that had been given to him, ‘Omar, by the Prophet, of the place where he had made his prayer prostrations in Jerusalem on the occasion of his Night-Journey. Chris Williams says: Along with the article by Dr Ezzat, this is also a really fascinating post. To the extent that Jesus sought to uphold the Mosaic law, one has to conclude there is something which can be called a Judeo-Christian tradition but equally clearly, Jesus’ teachings represented a full frontal challenge to the Pharisees, and to their emerging trend towards Rabbinic authority and interpretation taking precedence over the Mosaic law. Professor Bart Ehrman argues that early Christians sought to tie Christianity to Judaism because the older religion gave the new religion greater authenticity and gravitas. Whether this is true or whether Christianity was effectively co-opted by the Jews themselves who saw the notion of a ‘Judeo-Christian’ link a useful notion once the Roman Empire became Christianized, the fact is that beneath the veneer of this tradition, the Rabbinic Judaism that Jesus repudiated morphed into the secretive anti-Mosaic religion of Talmudism. It is interesting to speculate why this came about. My own assumption has been that the Jews effectively rejected their own God when it appeared to them that in fact Christianity was triumphant. Dr Ezzat’s research seems to suggest to me however that I may have been seeking too convenient an explanation and that in fact the roots of Talmudism are indeed far deeper and found in earlier past in the Arab peninsular. Whatever the causes for this anti-Jesus religiosity clearly many Christians throughout history have bought into the idea of a link, and it has been this link to the dogmas and hatreds of the old Testament which has been the source of inspiration for so much Christian violence throughout history and which we see today in the deluded ravings of Evangelical Christians who support Israel’s crimes against the Palestinians and other Arab peoples. The real cause of the “anti-Jesus religiosity” is the refusal to understand Christianity on its own terms. Christianity known from its original scriptures is something entirely different from the one known from the writings of Prof. Ehrman or many other learned Jewish professors. Christianity is NOT Judaism dressed up in the mottled rags of “pagan myths” by the departments of religious propaganda of politically astute emperors and kings in order to deceive the Gentiles and make them more obedient. Jesus is NOT the Messiah expected (and still expected) by the Jews. Christians did NOT sought to tie Christianity to Judaism because the older religion gave the new religion greater authenticity and gravitas, but because the Scriptures of the Old Testament were speaking about HIM. The root of the permanent misunderstanding is the rejection of the historical truth of “Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumblingblock, and unto the Greeks foolishness” and of his Resurrection from the dead. “Now if Christ be preached that he rose from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead? But if there be no resurrection of the dead, then is Christ not risen: And if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain”. When talking about the the original Jews, the Arab Jews, one need to look them as normal Arabs,embarrassed the same values and culture of the rest of their fellow Arabs. Like many, they also immigrated to the north or by crossing the red sea, escaping droughts and starvations. Fadel Al Roubai’i, the Iraqi scholar, added significant contributions to the works started by Kamal Al Salibi. JEWISH RABBI ABU BAKR CREATED ISLAM JEWISHENCYCLOPEDIA SCHWARZ, JOSEPH: Palestinian geographer; born at Flosz, Bavaria, Oct. 22, 1804; died at Jerusalem Feb. 5, 1865. When he was seventeen years old he graduated as teacher from the Königliches Schullehrerseminar of Colberg, after which he joined his brother Israel at the University of Würzburg, where for five years he devoted himself to the history and geography of the Holy Land, and published a map of Palestine (1829; republished at Vienna, 1831, and Triest, 1832). It was his ardent desire, however, to study in Palestine itself the physical history and geography of the Holy Land, where his knowledge of Talmudic sources and early Jewish writers would be of more service. Accordingly he decided to settle in Jerusalem, whither he went in 1833. Schwarz then began a series of journeys and explorations in various parts of Palestine, to which he devoted about fifteen years. The results of his investigations and researches into the history, geography, geology, fauna, and flora of that country have placed him in the front rank of Palestinian explorers and geographers. HE IS THE GREATEST JEWISH AUTHORITY ON PALESTINIAN MATTERS SINCE ESTORI FARHI (1282-1357), the author of “Kaftor wa-Feraḥ.” (Be sure to Google this article: HISTORY OF PALESTINE 614-1096 C.E. From the Accession of the Mahomedans to that of the Europeans. By Rabbi Joseph Schwarz, 1850 Rabbi Shallum, son of the then Resh Gelutha, in Babel, aka Abu Bachr al Chaliva al Zadik. Abu Bakr, became the first Caliph, and was in fact son of the then Resh Gelutha, in Babel, who perceiving a dreadful predicament, sent Rabbi Shallum to Mahomed, and told him to offer his submission, friendship, and services, and endeavour to enter with him into a friendly compact. Mahomed accepted Rabbi Shallum’s proposition with pleasure, conceived a great affection for him, and took his daughter, Aisha, a handsome young child, for wife; he made him also a general in his army, and gave him the name of Abu Bachr al Chaliva al Zadik, literally: The father of the maiden, the descendant of the righteous; this means, that of all his wives, who were either widows or divorced women, this one was the only one who had never been married before, and then she was the granddaughter of the celebrated chief of the captivity; therefore, the descendant of the righteous. This occurrence induced Mahomed to give up his terrible intention to destroy the Jews in his country, and thus did Rabbi Shallum save his people. Rabbi Shallum aka Abu Bakr and Umer had Muhammad poisoned by their two daughters, Aisha and Hafsa, wives of Muhammad. Rabbi Shallum became the first Caliph and authorized the first Quran. He was the one who instructed that apostates should be killed. He abused Fatimah and refused to give her what her father had bequeathed to her. Umar attacked the home of Ali and Fatimah and kicked the door on top of Fatimah, causing her to miscarry the grandchild of Muhammad. She died from the results of the assault. Whereas no one knows where Fatimah is buried, the two murderers of Muhammad are buried next to Muhammad. This has got to be a sick joke! The Quran is full of material from the Jewish Oral Tradition aka the Jewish Talmud. ATTACK ON THE HOUSE OF FATIMAH BY UMAR AND ABU BAKR I have seen in a topic that said “As for Bibi Fatima (ra) getting injured by Hazrat Umar (ra), it’s only in Shia books,” This is about the injuring of Fatima by Umar according to Sunni books. It happened because Abu bakr and Umar wanted Ali to swear allegiance to Abu Bakr: but Ali didn’t: Al-Bukhari narrated: Umar said: “And no doubt after the death of the Prophet we were informed that the Ansar disagreed with us and gathered in the shed of Bani Sa’da. ‘Ali and Zubair and whoever was with them, opposed us, while the emigrants gathered with Abu Bakr.” Sunni Reference: Sahih al-Bukhari, Arabic-English, v8, Tradition #817 So Abu Bakr sent Umar and supporters to bring them to swear allegiance to the Caliph, Abu Bakr! Now let us see what Umar ibn Khattab did. Sunni historians reported that: When Umar came to the door of the house of Fatimah, he said: “By Allah, I shall burn down (the house) over you unless you come out and give the oath of allegiance (to Abu Bakr).” Sunni Books References: – History of Tabari (Arabic), v1, pp 1118-1120 – History of Ibn Athir, v2, p325 – al-Isti’ab, by Ibn Abd al-Barr, v3, p975 – Tarikh al-Kulafa, by Ibn Qutaybah, v1, p20 – al-Imamah wal-Siyasah, by Ibn Qutaybah, v1, pp 19-20 Some Ahlussunah scholars mention that: Umar went to Fatimah and Umar said: “O’ daughter of the Prophet! I didn’t love anyone as much as I loved your father, nor anyone after him is more loving to me as you are. But I swear by Allah that if these people assemble here with you, then this love of mine would not prevent me from setting your house on fire.” Ahl Sunnah references: – History of Tabari, in the events of the year 11 AH – al-Imamah wa al-Siyasah by Ibn Qutaybah, v1, beginning of the book, and pp 19-20 – Izalatul Khilafa, by Shah Waliullah Muhaddith Dehlavi, v2, p362 – Iqd al-Farid, by Ibn Abd Rabbah al-Malik, v2, chapter of Saqifah Also it is reported that: Umar said to Fatimah (who was behind the door of her house): “I know that the Prophet of God did not love any one more than you, but this will not stop me to carry out my decision. If these people stay in your house, I will burn the door in front of you.” Ahl Sunnah book reference: Kanz al-Ummal, v3, p140 Abu Bakr said (on his death bed): “I wish I had not searched for Fatimah’s house, and had not sent men to harass her, though it would have caused a war if her house would have continued to be used as a shelter.” – History of Ya’qubi, v2, pp 115-116 – Ansab Ashraf, by al-Baladhuri, v1, pp 582,586 The historian named the following people among those who attacked the house of Fatimah to disperse people who sheltered there: – Umar Ibn al-Khattab – Khalid Ibn Walid – Abdurrahman Ibn Ouf – Thabit Ibn Shammas – Ziad Ibn Labid – Muhammad Ibn Maslamah – Salamah Ibn Salem Ibn Waqash – Salamah Ibn Aslam – Usaid Ibn Hozair – Zaid Ibn Thabit Umar asked for wood, and told those people inside the house: “I swear by Allah who has my soul in his hand, that if you do not come out, I will burn the house.” Someone told Umar that Fatimah was inside the house. Umar said: “So what! It doesn’t matter to me who is in the house.” Sunni reference: al-Imamah wa al-Siyasah by Ibn Qutaybah, v1, pp 3,19-20 Also Jouhari in his book said: “Umar and a few Muslims went to the house of Fatimah to burn it down and to burn those who were in opposition.” Ibn Shahna said the same statement adding “to burn the house and inhabitants”. Furthermore, it is reported that: Ali and Abbas were sitting inside the house of Fatimah, Abu Bakr told Umar: “Go and bring them; if they refuse, kill them.” Umar brought fire to burn the house. Fatimah came near the door and said: “O son of Khattab, have you come to burn our house on me and my children?” Umar replied: “Yes I will, by Allah, until they come out and pay allegiance to the Prophet’s Caliph.” Sunni reference: – Iqd al-Fareed, by Ibn Abd Rabb, Part 3, Pg. 63 – al-Ghurar, by Ibn Khazaben, related from Zayd Ibn Aslam We read on Sahih Bukhari that: Aisha said: … Fatimah became angry with Abu Bakr and kept away from him, and did not talk to him till she died. She remained alive for six months after the death of the Prophet. When she died, her husband ‘Ali, buried her at night without informing Abu Bakr and he said the funeral prayer by Sunni references: – Sahih al-Bukhari, Chapter of “The battle of Khaibar”, Arabic-English, v5, tradition #546, pp 381-383, also v4, Tradition #325 Take note that Fatimah was who that Prophet Muhammad had frequently said: “Fatimah is a part of me. Whoever makes her angry, makes me angry.” – Sahih al-Bukhari, Arabic-English, v5, Traditions #61 and #111 – Sahih Muslim, section of virtues of Fatimah, v4, pp 1904-5 Thank you Wayne Hill, A very interesting and insightful commentary. You are absolutely spot on in your observations about ancient civilizations and their tolerance. The only exception of course is the ancient Arabian culture . Wayne Hill says: A very interesting article, and I must thank Dr. Ezzat for yet another pleasurable “read.” I don’t know what it is, exactly, about (some of) the Semites and their intolerance, but the so-called Jews have it as well. If I remember correctly (getting old!) the language of “the black land,” Khemet, was related to Akkadian and is a product of a Semitic root language too. But here the relationship ends. Khemet (“Ancient Egypt”) was an incredibly tolerant society, both religiously and socially. I recently read, for example, an article where two men were interred in a tomb at Sakkara, with tomb inscriptions showing them in a “traditional marriage” type of format. So, apparently, such relationships were tolerated, even in ancient times, there. Homosexuality is prominent, so I’m told, in Arabia; though they of course deny it. Lately they even want to punish practitioners with beheading. “Allah is merciful, forgiving…” they say. Well; they certainly fail to resemble their God in this characteristic. With the exception of the Arabians and what we now know as Jews, no one in the ancient world cared a feather for what you thought or believed. Everything was tolerated. The Greeks even “recognized” some of their own Gods in the Egyptian pantheon – the apex of which was Serapis; a sort of Greek God wearing Egyptian clothing, and representing a synthesis of the two cultures. This never happened with the Jews, or the Arabians, and to a large degree with the Christians as well. Why are all the ancient temples of Greece in ruins? Answer; the Christians destroyed them, deeming them “Satanic.” The ancient Hebrews were of a similar mind… as are the “militant Islamists” of today. Remember the ancient Buddha statues in Afghanistan they destroyed, about 1998 or so? Not to mention what “ISIS” or whatever their real name is have done all over the middle east. Nothing has changed. All told, the Abrahamic religions are a curse on mankind, and have caused so many deaths that no one knows how many there were. Somewhere in the Pentateuch it says to “bash their babies’ heads against the wall.” – referring to what should happen when “The Chosen” capture a Canaanite city or something. “Religion of Love” indeed! They are also utterly racist in the sense that their religion claims their genes or physiognomy are somehow “Godlike” and everyone else is a kaffir, an infidel, a sub-human. Conclusion: Exterminate them. The Mayans had a calendar, based on hundreds of years of observation, of the phases of Venus, which they venerated, that was so accurate it was not superseded until the advent of modern computers. Despite that, the “converted Jews” (what I call Christians) utterly destroyed everything they could get their hands on that belonged to those talented and admirable people – as with the Aztecs. Such people are the “original Nazis” – the German National Socialists pale in insignificance to the two thousand years of carnage with which the “Abrahamic Religions” have besmirched the world. Jews, Christians and Muslims: their religions are essentially the same, their spirit is similar, and it is they who have exterminated untold millions, while speaking of “love” and “tolerance.” Though the Jews and Christians are seemingly “tolerant” now… (translation: weak; except in Israel)… I maintain that the root psychological underpinnings of all three faiths are the same… and, given power and lack of restraint, they all act the same way. Why else did Phillip II of Spain want to destroy England and murder Elizabeth? They all are seemingly driven by the same pathology. Islam may yet have its day in Europe, and beyond. The Europeans are decadent, weak-willed petunias who have lost their manhood. I hope not, but that is what seems to be in the cards. The Abrahamic “berserker” pathos may yet conquer. Hope I’m gone by then! George Rizk says: The concept of intolerance is typically found when people are arrogant. People become arrogant after they are empowered by the media, by their numbers, and or their force or terrorism tactics. The intolerance and hate for others in our contemporary culture stems from teaching of hate? As we know you cannot teach hate if you are not supported and empowered by the establishment. Hence, we can see routinely hate theology commonly practiced in mosques and Synagogs, which are typically protected from criticisms. An Egyptian journalist by the name of Ibrahim Issa puts it exactly as I do; he uses terms like “tribal”, or “desert culture” to identify the Wahhabi hate cult. I would like to add to Ibrahim’s observations that the Talmudic hate cult is very similar to the Ibn Timiah hate cult with only one exception; the Talmudic haters do not go in the streets pounding their chest with pride that they are neandethal haters – they secretly hate. To this end, I think Dr. Ezzat has done a great job linking the Stone Age culture of desert dwellers. These desert barbarians now occupy major position of power in the West, and are gradually pulling down the Western culture. Nahim says: Parce que vous les occidentaux vous n’avez pas fait de la haine et des massacres ,? Les guerres du Moyen Âge jidsz la seconde guerres mondiales entre pays européens parce que vous vous haïssez . Les deux bombes d’Hiroshima, les deux grandes guerres mondiales, la guerre du Viêtnam, la guerre de Corée, la guerre froide entre l’Occident et l’ex union soviétique ? Vous oubliez les massacres fait par l’église chrétienne ? Les croisades ? Le colonialismes ? Les conquêtes et massacre des indiens? Le génocides des aborigènes d’Australie. Les guerres coloniales? Le nazisme? Le fascisme? L’eugénisme ? Les théories des races supérieurs aux autres. L’Occident a commis plus de crime plus que tous les peuples de la terre réunie. Quant l’Occident était a l’âge de pierre, au Yémen ils avait déjà un barrage, le barrage de mirhib. Quant z monsieur Ezzat , il fait de la propagande anti arabe, musulmane et juif. Pas une seule fois il a parlé du masacre fait par les chrétiens : croisades, colonialisme, inquisition. Il devrait aussi vois dire sue Jésus est un israélien, un arabe aussi. Pour moi son travail est politique et ‘on scientifique.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line10552
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__label__wiki	0.579453	0.579453	I'm a visual artist obsessed with optimism. Originally from California, now living in New York. This is a space where I think through and share notes on art, art worlds, transparency, positive psychology, and my process. Learn more about me and see my work at ChristineWongYap.com. 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From Drawn & Quarterly Press, by way of @qplnyc .. College Ave, Pendragon books, Moe's Books on Telegraph, The Alley on Grand, Juan's. Wow. Place, memory, belonging. Places that are still there, and some now gone... .. #Oakland #berkeley Here’s something to think about: longevity and art practice generally. Vija Celmins, at age 26, painted this lamp (image 1). Fifteen years later, this painting was in her first museum retrospective. Every month when I open my storage unit bill, a tiny part of me wonders if or when the work inside will be exhibited. So I imagined 15 years of storage unit bills, and how back then it must have been validating to have a retrospective. But look now! Fifty years later, how lucky are we as viewers to be able to view this work in the Met Breuer. How important it was for Celmins to persevere, to believe in herself, and for others to believe in her, so this work was preserved, cared for, and lent back to the museum, now. .. Here’s something else to think about: longevity and looking… Back in undergrad, my printmaking professor Ken Rignall (rest in power) took a class to @oaklandmuseumca and had us spend some time looking at this painting of a fan (image 2). In his own work, Ken painted in grays and blacks, and so he taught us to see beyond the seeming neutralness, to understand that ALL COLORS can make up grays and blacks. I returned to this painting over the years on my visits to OMCA, but only at the Met (20+ years after first encountering this work) did I realize it was by Vija Celmins. .. One more thing: the longevity of a practice... I love Vija Celmin’s work, it’s startling in is realism. At the retrospective, it’s also impressive how constant she has been in her career. And I love seeing the work of a contemporary female artist, who worked in modest scales, celebrated like this. .. Vija Celmins at the Met Breuer (@metmuseum) closes January 12. It is truly amazing. Highly recommended. .. Image descriptions. Image 1: A realistic painting of a double lamp, with the goosenecks turning the bulbs toward the viewer, rendered in warm grays. Image 2: A realistic painting of a vintage electric metal fan, on a flat dark grey background. Image 3: A realistic graphite drawing of clouds, seen from below, with sunlight. I just finished notebook number 44: 250 pages in 2 months with #calligraphy practice ✍️🎀, notes on #positivepsychology 🤓, #sketches for projects to make 🧵🎨🖌️ at the @lmcc_nyc Workspace studio. .. I love a #dotgrid. .. #leuchtturm1917 On Be(com)ing an Artist, Citizen and Arts Community member, by Christine Wong Yap Meta-Practice Art Competition Odds Make Things (Happen) Tag Archives: The Shop Points of Reference: Irrational Exuberance: Artists’ shops May 21, 2010 cwongyapAl's Cafe, Allan Ruppersberg, Andy Warhol, artists' shops, artists' stores, Ben Birillo, Billy Apple, Cady Noland, Cary Leibowitz, Claes Oldenberg, garage sale, George Brecht, Gordon Matta-Clark, Haim Steinbach, Harrell Fletcher, Irrational Exuberance (Asst. Colors), Jon Rubin, Keith Haring, La Cédille qui sourit, Louis Vuitton, Martha Rosler, Paul Bianchini, Pop Life, Pop Shop, Robert Filliou, Roy Lichtenstein, Sarah Lucas, Sight School, storefronts, Takashi Murakami, Tate Modern, The American Supermarket, The Shop, Tracey Emin Leave a comment A partial selection of artist’s shops and shop-like installations informing Irrational Exuberance (Asst. Colors), on view at Sight School through June 12: Claes Oldenberg’s The Store, (Ray Gun Mfg. Co.), 1961 107 East 2nd Street, New York, NY, USA Claes Oldenburg, The Store. 1961. Letterpress, composition: 26 5/8 x 20 7/16" (67.6 x 51.9 cm); sheet: 28 3/8 x 22 1/8" (72.1 x 56.2 cm). Mary Ellen Meehan Fund. © 2010 Claes Oldenburg. Source: Moma.org/collection Read MOMA’s gallery label text for this poster. Claes Oldenburg’s The Store (1961), photographed by Robert R. McElroy. Source: Artnet.com In 1961, Claes Oldenburg began working on The Store, a storefront on the Lower East Side of Manhattan where he made and sold his work. He presented himself as both a shopkeeper and a manufacturer, cramming the store windows with brightly painted objects he made by layering plaster-soaked muslin over chicken-wire armatures. These items, including Bride Mannikin, constitute non-wearable clothes and inedible food displayed for sale. Putting into question each object’s function, Oldenburg sought to blur the line between sculpture and commodity, viewer and consumer, and art and life. (moca.org) Michael Lüthy wrote about Claes Oldenburg’s “The Store” for Shopping. A Century of Art and Consumer Culture, ed. by Max Hollein and Christoph Grunenberg (a catalog for an exhibition at Tate Liverpool, Ostfildern-Ruit, 2002, p. 148-53). You can read an excerpt on Lüthy’s archive. You can see a large selection of sculptures from Oldenburg’s “The Store,” including “Bride Mannikin,” in Collection: MOCA’s First Thirty Years, at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles thru July 12. Various artists, The American Supermarket, organized by Ben Birillo and Paul Bianchini, 1964 Bianchini Gallery, Upper East Side, New York, NY, USA American Supermarket Exhibition 1964. From Life magazine. Source: Timelines.com Roy Lichtenstein, Turkey Shopping Bag, 1964, Screenprint on shopping bag with handles, Composition: 7 1/2 x 9" (19.1 x 22.8cm); sheet (irreg.): 19 5/16 x 16 15/16" (49 x 43cm). Publisher: Bianchini Gallery, New York. Printer: Ben Birillo, New York. Edition: approx. 125. Source: MOMA.org, collection section A collaboration between the great names of Pop Art including Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Richard Artschwager, Robert Watts, Tom Wesselman and others, the exhibition is an evocation of an ordinary 1964 supermarket – complete with meat, cheese and fruit counters, neon signs and jaunty background musak. In the installation’s “aisles,” real foods are mixed together with iconic Pop works such as Warhol’s stacks of Campbell’s Soup cans and Robert Watts’ alluring chrome fruits and multi-colored wax eggs. …With its Pop Art proprietors The American Supermarket celebrated the spectacle of consumption with a happening-like event in which shopping was elevated to an art form and serious art collectors were turned into ordinary supermarket customers. (from a press release from The Andy Warhol Museum, May 20, 2003 More info on The American Supermarket can be found in Shopping. A Century of Art and Consumer Culture, ed. by Max Hollein and Christoph Grunenberg (a catalog for an exhibition at Tate Liverpool, Ostfildern-Ruit, 2002 George Brecht and Robert Filliou, La Cédille qui Sourit (The Cedilla that Smiles), 1965-8 Villefranche-sur-Mer, in the south of France George Brecht with Robert Filliou at La Cédille qui sourit, rue des May, Villefranche-sur-mer, 1965-1968. Source: Flux Fest: Fluxus & Happening The shop was intended to explore ideas about the ‘obtuse relationship(s) to the institution of language'[35] but instead ushered in what he described cheerfully as “accelerated creative inactivity” (Brecht’s obit from the Independent, as quoted in en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Brecht) Allan Ruppersburg’s Al’s Cafe, 1969 1913 West Sixth Street, Los Angeles, CA, USA Allen Ruppersberg, Al's Cafe, 1969-1995. Source: x-traonline.org Allan Ruppersburg, Als Cafe, 1969 Installation, 1913 West Sixth Street, Los Angeles, CA. Source: Air de Paris website, Artists, Allan Ruppersberg, Kunsthalle Dusseldorf page The Cafe was intended to be a limited-run restaurant, staged once a week—Thursday nights from eight to eleven—in a rented location in downtown Los Angeles. It was to function socially as a meeting place for friends, members of the art world, and anyone else who wanted to drop by. In direct opposition to what one might have expected from a young [Minimalist/Post-Minimalist/Conceptualist] artist at the time, the decor was familiar to the point of strangeness: hyperfamiliar, you might say today…. It was a place where any American would have felt at home. It was exorbitantly familiar…. …[Ruppersberg] was determined to emphasize culture at every turn, to demonstrate that we are wholly defined by it in every act of … of representation of any kind…. In my memory, it was Al who reminded our troubled generation that simple, normal, everyday rituals of human commerce (horrors!) contained a significant complement of decency and joy that needed to be recognized and appreciated—not in spite of, but along with whatever else might have been wrong with the world in those especially uneasy years. (Allan McCollum, “Allen Ruppersberg: What One Loves About Life Are the Things That Fade,” from “Al Ruppersberg: Books, Inc.,” Frac Limousin, France, 2001) Gordon Matta-Clark, Food, 1971 Corner of Prince and Wooster Streets, New York, NY, USA Promotion for Food, a restaurant by Gordon Matta-Clark and other artists. Photo: Richard Landry, alteration by Gordon Matta-Clark. Source: New York Times. Artists were also invited weekly to serve as guest chefs, and the whole dinner was considered a performance art piece. One of the most fabled, costing $4, was Matta-Clark’s “bone dinner,” which featured oxtail soup, roasted marrow bones and frogs’ legs, among other bony entrees. After the plates were cleared, the bones were scrubbed and strung together so that diners could wear their leftovers home. (Randy Kennedy, “When Meals Played the Muse,” New York Times, Feb. 21, 2007.) Martha Rosler’s Garage Sale, 1973 / London Garage Sale, 2005 University of California at San Diego art gallery, CA, USA / Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, UK Martha Rosler, Garage Sale, California, 1973, image courtesy of the artist. Source: e-flux.com Martha Rosler, Garage Sale, 1973, Art Gallery of the University of California, San Diego. Source: ica.org.uk In 2005 Martha Rosler restaged her piece from 1973, Garage Sale. The exhibition offered a piece of institutional critique on object festishism, the act of buying and selling, and the notion of an ‘art exhibition’. However, Rosler was now a known entity, an institution in herself. Is all critique eventually undone, institutionalised, aestheticised? Or did the restaging prove the persistent validity of such a project? Art into Society: Society into Art (ICA, 1974) brought together the greatest agent provocateurs of their day – Hans Haacke, Gustav Metzger and Joseph Beuys. Are such attempts at undoing the binary oppositions suggested by that exhibition title still pertinent? Was truly anti-institutional exhibition-making simply channelled into live art and happenings, events and music, leaving the exhibition the place for historicised critique? Did we stop chewing the fat of Beuys’s critique when we started preserving it? (London ICA’s website, description for event: Institutional Critique held on October 29, 2008.) Haim Steinbach’s installations and sculptures, 1970s-current Haim Steinbach, six feet under, 2004, plastic laminated wood shelf; plasitc frog; plastic feet; ceramic pig; wooden clogs 38 x 69 1/4 x 19 “ (96.5 x 175.9 x 48.3 cm). Source: haimsteinbach.net Haim Steinbach (born Rehovot, Israel, 1944 and living in New York City since 1957) has been an influential exponent of art based on already existing objects. Since the late 1970’s Steinbach’s art has been focused on the selection and arrangement of objects, above all everyday objects. In order to enhance their interplay and resonance, he has been conceiving structures and framing devices for them. Steinbach presents objects ranging from the natural to the ordinary, the artistic to the ethnographic, giving form to art works that underscore their identities and inherent meanings. Exploring the psychological, aesthetic, cultural and ritualistic aspects of objects as well as their context, Steinbach has radically redefined the status of the object in art. (from the artist’s website) Keith Haring’s Pop Shop, 1986-2005 292 Lafayette Street, New York, NY, USA A close-up shot of the awning and signage of the recently closed Pop Shop, posted October 9, 2005, on Global Graphica, blog of Visual Culture. Ivan Corsa Photo. Installation view of the re-creation of Keith Haring’s Pop Shop (1986), featuring original Pop Shop ephemera, "Pop Life: Art in a Material World," Tate Modern, 2009. © Tate Photography. Source: ArtInfo.com/modernpainters Haring’s Pop Shop was recreated for Pop Life: Art in a Material World at the Tate Modern. You can read more about it in the catalog (purchase it from tate.org.uk or find it in the nearest library collection on worldcat.org), or visit the exhibition as it travels to the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa from June 11–September 19, 2010. The Keith Haring Foundation maintains an online Pop Shop. Cady Noland’s installations and sculptures, late 1980s-1990s Cady Noland, Trashed Mailbox, 1989. Source: Artnet.com Cady Noland American, born 1956 This piece doesn't have a title yet 1989 Beer cans, scaffolding, cloth and vinyl flags, hand tools. Source: Mattress Factory Noland, not Barney, Hirst, or Gonzalez-Torres, is the crucial link between late-1980s commodity art and much that has followed; she is the portal through which enormous amounts of appropriational, political, and compositional notions pass. So mercurial, fierce, and originally poetic is she that I think of her as our Rimbaud. (Jerry Saltz, “Invasion of the Sculpture Snatchers,” Village Voice, May 9, 2006) Tracy Emin’s and Sarah Lucas’ The Shop, 1993 103 Bethnal Green Road, London, UK Sarah Lucas (L) and Tracey Emin (R) at The Shop. Bethnel Green, London, UK. Photo by Carl Freedman. Source: Artnet.com Read Tracy Emin’s reflections on The Shop in the Times (“Tracey Emin on her previous life as a shop girl,” Sept. 26, 2009). Or, listen to a podcast of the artist’s talk at Tate (Tate Events podcast, 08-12-2009 Tracey Emin discusses ‘The Shop,’ released 4/6/10, 1:18:03.) Harrell Fletcher, Jon Rubin, and neighborhood participants, Gallery HERE, 1993-1995 College Avenue, Oakland, CA, USA Jon Rubin, Harrell Fletcher and neighborhood collaborators, Gallery Here, garage sale, 1993-1995, Jon Rubin and I started Gallery Here while we were still in Grad School at CCAC. We borrowed a vacant retail building that was in the neighborhood where we lived. For a year and a half until the building was rented we put on a series of shows about people and places in the neighborhood. … For another show we had people’s garage sales in the gallery and put story tags on all of the stuff that was for sale. (Harrell Fletcher’s website: projects: Gallery Here.) Cary Leibowitz (aka Candyass) Carnival installations, early 1990s Cary Leibowitz, Art Forum Berlin, 2007. A re-creation of Leibowitz’ iconic Candy Ass Carnival installations from the early 1990s. Source: Alexander Gray Associates Cary Leibowitz’s Tondo Schmondo Fran Drescher Fan Club and Sad Rainbow, Happy Rainbow at Alexander Gray Associates. Source: Artnet.com Cary Leibowitz mixes Jewish identity, kitsch, modernist critique, Queer politics, and design culture into dryly witty multiples and paintings. (Contemporary Jewish Museum) Watch a short video on the installation at Art Forum Berlin on Vernissage TV. Or watch Cary Leibowitz’ artist’s talk in conversation with Glen Helfand at the Jewish Contemporary Museum in San Francisco on March 28, 2010. Takashi Murakami’s Louis Vuitton shop in ©MURAKAMI, 2008 Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA Murakami at MOCA (Glenn Koenig / Los Angeles Times) A fully operational, fully staffed Louis Vuitton boutique, with merchandise designed by Murakami, sits above the show. Source: LATimes.com, Arts & Culture, Murakami at Moca Watch extensive videos of Murakami discussing his works in the ©MURAKAMI exhibition at MOCA. One gets spat out of the Murakami’s wonderland not through a volcano, but through a fully operational Louis Vuitton boutique. And if the Vuitton bag exceeds the budget the true Murakami experience can yet be attained through a shopping splurge in the Murakami-equipped museum store. Without a clear boundary between them, exhibition visit and shopping blend together to a borderless state of full satisfaction or, as Murakami likes to call it an ‘ongoing study in meaninglessness.’ (from Anna Gritz’ review of the exhibition in Frieze Magazine. July 9, 2009 cwongyapAmanda Curreri, artist's multiples, David Horvitz, Involved Socially, Jessica Williams, Mark McKnight, Michelle Blade, Silverman Gallery, The Shop, Triple Base Gallery Leave a comment The Silverman Gallery in San Francisco is launching an exhibition called The Shop, which is a curated exhibition/ pop up shop featuring artist editions, prints and other ephemera. In the spirit of Fluxus, DIY and punk, THE SHOP explores the ongoing dialogue between printed culture and artistic production, tracing the ways in which self-produced multiples blur the divide between art and commerce…. Featured artists: Ari Marcopolous, Bozidar Brazda, Matt Keegan, Tammy Rae Carland, Ryan Foerster, Malik Gaines and Alexandro Segade, Christina McPhee, Job Piston, Joseph Akel, BLAND, Aaron Krach, Luke Fishbeck, Marc Arthur, Neil Ledoux, Susan Silton, Yuval Pudik and many more!!! I love artist’s editions and multiples — I’ve been making them for some time now, and it’s an odd corner of the art world to operate in, because it acknowledges both that artists should be paid for their work and art can be affordable. I’m really excited about the show, and will definitely make it at some point to see it — but I won’t be there on the opening, because it coincides with the opening of Involved, Socially, at Triple Base Gallery, and if I may shamelessly self-promote it, it’s an exhibition curated by Michelle Blade featuring the works by Amanda Curreri, David Horvitz, Mark McKnight, Jessica Williams and Christine Wong Yap. August 6–September 6, 2009 Opening Reception: August 7, 7–10pm Triple Base Gallery 3041 24th Street, San Francisco, CA gallery hours: Thu-Sun 12-5pm I’ll be showing a new installation and my first curatorial project — an international mail art swap among multi-disciplinary and conceptual artists. I find the practices of invited artists completely intriguing and hope you will too.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line10558
__label__cc	0.518314	0.481686	The Long, Dismal History of Software Project Failure From the IEEE article Why Software Fails: Last October, for instance, the giant British food retailer J Sainsbury had to write off its US $526 million investment in an automated supply-chain management system. Merchandise was stuck in the company's depots and warehouses and was not getting through to many of its stores. Sainsbury was forced to hire about 3000 additional clerks to stock its shelves manually. This is only one of the latest in a long, dismal history of [software] projects gone awry. Most IT experts agree that such failures occur far more often than they should. What's more, the failures are universally unprejudiced: they happen in every country; to large companies and small; in commercial, nonprofit, and governmental organizations; and without regard to status or reputation. The business and societal costs of these failures -- in terms of wasted taxpayer and shareholder dollars as well as investments that can't be made -- are now well into the billions of dollars a year. The problem only gets worse as IT grows ubiquitous. This year, organizations and governments will spend an estimated $1 trillion on IT hardware, software, and services worldwide. Of the IT projects that are initiated, from 5 to 15 percent will be abandoned before or shortly after delivery as hopelessly inadequate. Many others will arrive late and over budget or require massive reworking. Few IT projects, in other words, truly succeed. From Rapid Development: If Las Vegas sounds too tame for you, software might just be the right gamble. Software projects include a glut of risks that would give Vegas oddsmakers nightmares. The odds of a large project finishing on time are close to zero. The odds of a large project being canceled are an even-money bet (Jones 1991). In 1998, Peat Marwick found that about 35 percent of 600 firms surveyed had at least one runaway software project (Rothfeder 1988). The damage done by runaway software projects makes the Las Vegas prize fights look as tame as having high tea with the queen. Allstate set out in 1982 to automate all of its office operations. They set a 5-year timetable and an $8 million budget. Six years and $15 million later, Allstate set a new deadline and readjusted its sights on a new budget of $100 million. In 1988, Westpac Banking Corporation decided to redefine its information systems. It set out on a 5-year, $85 million project. Three years later, after spending $150 million with little to show for it, Westpac cut its losses, canceled the project, and eliminated 500 development jobs (Glass 1992). Even Vegas prize fights don't get this bloody. The history of software development is a tremendous success. Just look around you for evidence of that. But that success has a long, dark shadow that we don't talk about very much: it's littered with colossal failures. What's particularly disturbing is that the colossal failures keep recurring year after year. The names and dollar amounts may change, but the story is otherwise the same. Two recent examples are the Canadian gun registry and the FBI's Virtual Case File system. If you're looking for more examples of colossal software project failure, you don't have to look very far: Software Hall of Shame (from IEEE article Why Software Fails) History's Worst Software Bugs (Wired) Software Horror Stories (Nachum Deshowitz, Tel Aviv University) Forum on Computer Risks (ACM moderated mailing list) Failure Rate (collection of failure rate statistics from IT surveys) You'd think that the software development industry would have matured over the last ten years. And it has: The 10th edition of the annual CHAOS report from The Standish Group, which researches the reasons for IT project failure in the United States, indicates that project success rates have increased to 34 percent of all projects. That's more than a 100-percent improvement from the success rate found in the first study in 1994. Asked for the chief reasons project success rates have improved, Standish Chairman Jim Johnson says, "The primary reason is the projects have gotten a lot smaller. Doing projects with iterative processing as opposed to the waterfall method, which called for all project requirements to be defined up front, is a major step forward." The Standish Group has studied over 40,000 projects in 10 years to reach the findings. Project failures have declined to 15 percent of all projects, a vast improvement over the 31-percent failure rate reported in 1994. Projects meeting the "challenged" description -- meaning that they are over time, over budget and/or lacking critical features and requirements -- total 51 percent of all projects in the current survey. Failing is OK. Failing can even be desirable. But you must learn from your failures, and that requires concerted postmortem introspection and analysis. I'd like to think that a large part of the statistical improvement cited above is attributable to sharp project managers and savvy developers who studied the first CHAOS report. Once you know what the common pitfalls are, it's easier to avoid them. Localhost HTTP debugging with Fiddler Egoless Programming: You Are Not Your Job	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line10559
__label__cc	0.66397	0.33603	Start having the impact and influence you dream of. Join 12,000+ other leaders in tech. Start leading from where you are with our free 7-day Leadership Mindsets email course. Get past what's holding you back with 4 powerful mindsets to lead — even when you don't have authority. Get the first leadership mindset now Free Sample Chapter Gain the Confidence and Knowledge You Need to Lead Stop waiting for the right opportunity, and learn from a circle of inspiring mentors from our upcoming book, The Engineering Leader Within. Get sample chapter Building Alignment: How to Create the Impact and Influence You Want as a Leader in Tech Break through team friction, get on the same page, and create a high-trust and high-performance team. Join our online course or in-person leadership experiences. Design Your Work Relationships as Alliances Start investing in the infrastructure of your relationships with Co Leadership's Guide to Designing Powerful Alliances. Download the free guide Retrospectives: The Most Important Meeting You Can Run for Your Team Edmond Lau, Jean Hsu Edmond Lau Co-founder of Co Leadership. Author of The Effective Engineer. More posts by Edmond Lau. Jean Hsu Co-founder of Co Leadership, engineering leadership coach. Previously engineering at Medium, Pulse News, Google. More posts by Jean Hsu. At the end of every month, we run a retrospective. It's the single most important recurring conversation that we have. We always leave them feeling re-energized and re-motivated for our work, and that continuous rebuilding of energy is critical for any long-term endeavor. We have the retrospective even when there are other urgent things to get done. The goal of our retrospectives is to create the space to reflect on and celebrate how we're doing, so that we can increase our success and performance for what's ahead. After months of tuning, we've designed our retrospectives to now consist of five parts: happiest moments, big wins, assessments of progress, lessons learned, and gratitudes. In this post, we'll explain why we've designed our retrospectives this way as well as how you might adopt this format for your team. Isn't this retrospective structure overly positive? If you're an engineer like us, an initial skepticism toward this structure might be that it seems to skew positive. Many teams often view retrospectives almost as post-mortems. They value excellence and quality and believe that the best use of a retrospective is to spend the vast majority of time pointing out what went wrong and what could be improved. We might have felt similarly many years ago. However, one thing we've learned is that people in general, and engineers in particular, tend to focus on mistakes and areas of improvement, rather than celebrating what's going right. Think about how much positive feedback you give or receive relative to negative feedback. For most people, it skews negative. And think about how tragic it would be if people stopped doing the activities that you valued because those activities weren't explicitly being celebrated and known to be good. Moreover, our bias actually leads us to underestimate the impact that leaving a retrospective feeling positive and excited can actually have on team performance and motivation. Decades of research in positive psychology have shown what author Shawn Achor calls the “happiness advantage.” Retraining our brains to capitalize on positivity can actually improve our productivity and performance. [1] In one study, students told to think about the happiest day of their lives outperformed their peers on a standardized math test. [2] In another study, doctors who were primed with happy thoughts were able to come to correct diagnoses twice as fast as a control group. They were also more creative — they made half as many “anchoring” errors where they inflexibly stuck to an initial diagnosis. [3] In a third study, students primed for positivity were able to see everything in the background in a series of images, whereas students put into a negative mood missed substantial parts. [4] These benefits show the value of designing a retrospective structure that actually leaves the team feeling happier, re-energized, and re-motivated about what things are going well. If say, 80% of the time, things are actually going really well, spending less than 80% of the retrospective celebrating what went right can actually create an inaccurate reflection of reality. Without taking the time to celebrate, it's easy for a team to feel like they're never good enough and constantly falling short. At worst, that can have a negative impact on the team. At best, it leads to a missed opportunity to boost team motivation and productivity. How to Adopt this Retrospective Format for Your Team To adopt this format, schedule a recurring time for your team — it could be weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly. Here are the five parts, the prompts we use, and the goal of each part: Happiest Moments. What were your happiest moments at work this month? Happiest Moments is our favorite part of the retrospective. We celebrate and share the most delightful parts from our last month. They could be conversations, activities, or things we shipped. Big Wins. What wins and accomplishments do we want to celebrate this month? The goal is to review and celebrate what we've done. We always leave this part amazed at how productive we've been (even if one of us has been traveling or on vacation). The fact that we're amazed only points to how easy to just focus on the day-to-day and lose sight of the bigger picture. Assessment of Progress. How did we do relative to what we scoped out for the month? What are we doing relative to the goals that we set out to do at the beginning of the year? The goal is to perform an honest assessment of where are, based on our top priorities. For us, those priorities include growth, revenue, and content. In reviewing progress, it helps to have defined the metrics that you care about for each. Lessons Learned. What could we have done better on? What do we want to do differently going forward? We believe strongly in real-time feedback and bias toward that during our normal work. But sometimes, it takes a retrospective to provide the breathing room to zoom out to the bigger picture. The goal is to identify the broader trends that we've identified and articulate how we want to shift our behavior going forward. Gratitudes. What are we grateful for? Gratitude is a core driver of well-being, and countless studies show that gratitude leads to higher energy, more emotional intelligence, and more happiness. [5] The goal is to take the time to appreciate what we have and share what people have done for us, knowing that the gratitude will actually lead to higher team performance. Gratitude can also help build a culture of positive feedback. Doing all five parts lasts us anywhere from an hour to a few hours. For larger teams who want to do it in less time, we'd recommend: Focus on three segments: happiest moments (which can include big wins), lessons learned, and gratitudes. For each segment, go around the room and have each person share one thing. We used to not do our retrospectives initially. But we found that it was too easy to fall into the trap of being heads-down on getting things done and not making time to talk about important things. Now we're committed to doing them. And it leaves us feeling great about doing the work we're doing. We want the same for your team. Get effective leadership frameworks & tools in your inbox Learn the most valuable frameworks and tools for effective leadership that we're teaching hundreds of tech leads, managers, directors, engineering VPs, and CTOs in our coaching and leadership experiences. Achor, Shawn. The Happiness Advantage: How a Positive Brain Fuels Success in Work and Life (p. 61). The Crown Publishing Group. Kindle Edition. ↩︎ Ibid. p. 46. ↩︎ Ibid. p. 47 ↩︎ Asking Questions to Trees: The Power of Mindsets A few months ago, I started working with a coach. I had seen her masterful coaching in one of the coach training courses I took, and I was blown away by the ease Finding My Fierce Heart: My Journey in Leadership When I left my full-time tech job as an engineering manager a year and a few months ago, I had crafted a lovely narrative on why I was going into coaching. When people Co Leadership Co Leadership © 2020	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line10560
__label__cc	0.650935	0.349065	Continental Currency Exchange Versus TD Exchange Rate Continental Staff Business and Currency, Continental Connection January 14, 2020 Why You Should Take A Sisters Vacation Continental Staff Travel January 7, 2020 The Most Counterfeit-Proof Non-Polymer Currencies Continental Staff Business and Currency December 27, 2019 The Difference Between the Scottish and British Pound Brexit, the GBP, and the Impacts of Britain’s Exit From the EU Beat the Cold with Continental Currency Exchange Continental Staff Travel December 10, 2019 The 5 Weakest Currencies in the World Continental Staff Business and Currency December 5, 2019 Business and Currency Continental Connection Jordan Currency Spotlight In Business and Currency by Continental Staff October 14, 2016 Leave a Comment Delve into the history, design, and value of the Jordanian dinar with our in-depth look! Want to learn more about Jordan? History and Culture \| Travel Guide Currency of Jordan: Jordanian dinar Jordan Currency Code: JOD JOD Symbol: No official symbol JOD Informal Symbol: JD JOD Subunits: 1/10 dirham; 1/100 qirsh (or piastre); 1/1000 fils JOD Notes: 1, 5, 10, 20, 50 dinars JOD Coins: ½ qirsh, 1 qirsh, 2 ½, 5, 10, piastres, ¼, ½ 1 dinar Jordanian Central Bank: Central Bank of Jordan Jordanian GDP (nominal): $38.2 billion Pegged To: USD Pegged Rate: USD = 0.708 JOD (buy); USD = 0.710 (sell) Prior to gaining independence on 25 May 1946, Jordan was part of the Transjordan Emirate (albeit with semi-autonomous local administration) which also included Palestine. Following the British Mandate for Palestine (in which the League of Nations charged Britain with the task of ruling Palestine, which had been the possession of the defeated Ottoman Empire) which came into effect in 1923, Transjordan used both the Ottoman lira and the Egyptian pound. This lasted until 1927 when the British introduced the Palestinian pound on par with the British pound sterling. After Jordan’s independence in 1946 the country remained on the Palestinian pound, but calls to introduce a national currency grew louder. In 1948 the British Mandate ended and the area controlled under the mandate was split into Israel, the Hashemite Kingdom of Transjordan, the Jordanian occupied West Bank and the Egyptian controlled Gaza strip. A year later in 1949 the country passed the Provisional Act No. 35 which created the Jordanian Currency Board (based in London) which then introduced the new currency in 1950. Initially coins were denominated differently in English and Arabic. Arabic coins used fils, qirsh, dirham and dinar, while English coins were only issued in fils and dinar. In 1992 this was changed, removing the fils and dirham from Arabic coins, and issuing English denominations in dinar and either qirsh or piastres. Value Series Obverse Reverse Year Minted ½ qirsh Fifth Series Hussein bin Talal (King of Jordan from 1952-1999) Lattice and Arabic numerals 1996 1 qirsh/piastre Sixth Series Abdullah II (King of Jordan from 1999-Present) Lattice and Arabic numerals 2000 2 ½ qirsh Fifth Series Hussein bin Talal Lattice and Arabic numerals 1992 5 qirsh/piastre Sixth Series Abdullah II Lattice and Arabic numerals 2000 10 qirsh/piastres Sixth Series Abdullah II Lattice and Arabic numerals 200- ¼ dinar Sixth Series Abdullah II Leaf design and Arabic numerals 2004 ½ dinar Sixth Series Abdullah II Leaf and Arabic numerals 2000 1 dinar Fifth Series Hussein bin Talal Leaf and Arabic Numerals 1996 & 1998 (1996 coins are larger and heptagonal) The first series of notes in 1949 came in ½, 1, 5, 10, and 50 dinars, but now come in 1, 5, 10, 20 and 50 dinars. The Central Bank of Jordan took over note printing responsibility in 1959. Value Obverse Reverse Colour 1 dinar Sharif Hussein bin Ali (Hashemite Arab leader who led the Arab revolt against the Ottoman Empire) Great Arab Revolt Lime and green 5 dinars Abdullah I bin al-Hussein (first King of Jordan) Ma’an Palaces (an intended palace in Jerusalem never completed, but still owned by the Hashemite Kingdom) Brick orange 10 dinars Talal bin Abdullah (Second king of Jordan, forced to resign due to health) First Jordanian Parliament building Blue 20 dinars Hussein bin Talal Dome of the Rock (one of the holiest sites in Islam) Cyan 50 dinars King Abdullah II Raghadan Palace (palace in Amman, Jordan) Pink and brown Since 1995 the Jordanian dinar has been pegged to the IMF’s SDR (special drawing rights). SDR is not a real currency, it is a reserve asset issued by the IMF to supplement existing official reserves and provide greater monetary stability. The SDR is made up of the world’s four most used currencies. In effect this means that the JOD is pegged to the USD, however over the last 12 months the SDR has fallen 10% against the USD to a rate of 1 SDR to 1.3873 USD due to the USD strength against the other currencies which make up the SDR. Year USD Exchange 1980 0.29 JOD USD to 1 JOD over the past 5 years (courtesy of Rate Watch) CAD to 1 JOD over the past 5 years (courtesy of Rate Watch) Jordan’s economy has been on a wild ride since independence. The country’s economy rose 351% in the 70’s, fell 30% in the 1980’s and rose 36% in the 1990’s. Pegging the JOD gave the country greater monetary stability in the 1990’s. King Abdullah’s rule (beginning in 1999) has been characterised by economic liberalisation which has resulted in a healthy growth rate of about 7% per year until 2008. Jordan has free trade deals with the US, Canada, EU and many regional neighbours. Unfortunately the country is hugely dependent on oil imports for energy, only 10% of its land is arable, and there is limited water supply. However the country is one of the most stable and wealthy in the region, with a well governed liberal market economy based on phosphates, potash, tourism, remittances and foreign aid. In the last few years growth has fallen to about 2% due to global financial issues and regional instability. The current refugee crisis caused by the conflict in Syria has cost Jordan about 6% of GDP annually, causing the country to be increasingly reliant on foreign aid. Despite regional instability, global economic uncertainty, and expensive refugee crisis, Jordan has managed to hang on politically and economically. As long as the situation does not worsen drastically Jordan’s economy will remain strong. A looming interest rate hike for the USD combined with uncertainty in the post-Brexit UK and EU means that the JOD could lose some strength against the USD over time, but it will not come as a sudden spike or drop thanks to the mechanisms behind the SDR. Learn all about Jordan with our Country Profile and Travel Guide! Stay informed. Stay Current. 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__label__cc	0.547177	0.452823	Optimal Benefit: Talking to Heather Boushey How might cleverly crafted research experiments help us devise more egalitarian economic policy? How might increasingly rigorous empirical data help persuade a broad range of Americans that more equal economic distribution benefits us all? When I want to ask such questions, I pose them to Heather Boushey. This present conversation focuses on Boushey’s book Unbound: How Economic Inequality Constricts Our Economy and What We Can Do About It. Boushey is the president and CEO of the Washington Center for Equitable Growth. She is also the author of Finding Time: The Economics of Work-Life Conflict, and the co-editor of After Piketty: The Agenda for Economics and Inequality. Politico has twice named Boushey one of the top 50 “thinkers, doers and visionaries transforming American politics.” She writes regularly for venues including The New York Times, The Atlantic, and Democracy Journal, and makes frequent television appearances on Bloomberg, MSNBC, CNBC, and PBS. Boushey previously served as chief economist for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential transition team, and as an economist for the Center for American Progress, the Joint Economic Committee of the US Congress, the Center for Economic and Policy Research, and the Economic Policy Institute. ANDY FITCH: Your book opens by introducing “a new generation of economists” prioritizing not just growth, but more equitable and sustainable growth. So first, could you sketch a preceding generation’s rationale for assuming that some basic trade-off does exist between pursuing optimized efficient economic growth and fair / equitable distribution? And then how might today’s emerging consensus both retain and reject which aspects of the aggregating JFK-era assumption that “a rising tide lifts all boats”? HEATHER BOUSHEY: Well, one thing that makes economics so interesting to so many of us is this set of models presenting clear answers to really big and complex questions about production, distribution, and the market transactions that can meet people’s needs and desires. And in the early-20th century, when economics solidified its preeminent place among academic fields for the policymaking community, models often showed that if you can make a series of assumptions about how markets work, and if you then can leave markets to their own devices, then you’ll get optimal outcomes. The research often confirmed the efficacy of these models. Every intro-level economics student encounters these basic assumptions about fair, efficient, optimal competition — involving an infinite number of infinitesimally small firms, with no one able to fix prices or have decision-making power over anyone else (and based on a whole series of related assumptions). You can apply these assumptions both to product markets and to labor markets, right? And early researchers could find situations in which these theoretical ideas seemed to play out in practice. If you go to the local farmers’ market with two stands selling strawberries, and if the quality looks about the same, you’ll select the stand with the lower price. And if the price starts going up more generally on strawberries, then demand will start going down. So 20th-century economists in the United States and among its Cold War allies began to build consensus around the argument that once you start interfering with this market you create inefficiencies. Arthur Okun, for example, a member of Lyndon Johnson’s Council of Economic Advisers, and the author of Equality and Efficiency: The Big Tradeoff, made the argument that even when policymakers intervene to try to help people, they often end up creating new costs and inefficiencies. The policymaker, in this model, persistently needs to weigh the fact that the market delivers optimal outcomes — meaning that when you go in and tax people in order to redistribute income, you create impediments and distortions. As economists gradually put together more sophisticated data, they started to provide more precise measurements and more precise claims about how to optimize growth. This new data and evidence happened to come about at a time when we had a much more equal society. So this evidence seemed to indicate that aggregate national income and aggregate gross domestic product could tell us something really true and valuable about our economy and its presumed impact on everyday Americans. Again, economic research findings seemed to back up these basic claims through the 1970s. Then for what most distinctly characterizes the generation of economists that Unbound tracks, could you sketch the role of contemporary data-driven approaches to resolving longstanding debates, reopening long-held assumptions, and / or pinpointing new salient questions to ask? Could you describe how this “data revolution” actually has played out? I’ll start with my first labor-economics class, in grad school in the early 1990s. My professor, David Gordon, sounded so excited talking about new research by these two young hotshot economists named David Card and Alan Krueger. Their research focused on an important policy topic, the minimum wage — but even more significantly for the field, Card and Krueger had marshaled new kinds of evidence economists hadn’t traditionally used. They did a survey of fast-food restaurants after New Jersey raised its minimum wage and neighboring states did not, to offer a fresh perspective on a longstanding debate in labor economics: whether raising the minimum wage leads to a decline in employment. They brought to the fore this new method of tracking the states comparatively, and following this natural experiment. Today, going out into the field to study this kind of real-life experiment might sound like an obvious approach to economic research. But at the time it felt revolutionary. And lo and behold, Card and Krueger found that the predicted effect did not occur. Raising the minimum wage did not bring about this commensurate decline in employment. Even as economists still debate this policy, Card and Krueger’s research methods were the cutting edge of dramatic changes in economics. In the later-20th century, the US government started conducting surveys of income and employment and hourly earnings and wages, and only in the 1970s did economists really start to have access to this data and start using computers for research purposes. So when Card and Krueger came along with this natural experiment, most of their colleagues still considered those large government surveys a relatively fresh set of data. But Card and Krueger said: “Hey, there’s also all this other data we could access to study natural experiments.” In terms of the combined application of copious empirical data and intricately crafted research experiment, could we consider Janet Currie’s work arguing that preceding equality-minded economists had overemphasized later-stage education, whereas a proactive push for prenatal care, paid family leave, pro-family workplace regulations, and early-childhood education would provide a much more dynamic return on collective social investments? How does a “credibility revolution” here happen — perhaps particularly in terms of Currie figuring out how to demonstrate causality, and amid this particularly vulnerable group of research subjects? Janet has done so many fascinating papers, but one example is her study of what it means to have one’s skills rewarded in the labor market. She wanted to examine how human capital (the skills and training an individual accumulates) gets developed by a person and then utilized in the economy. Janet started to get especially interested in research showing that children’s birthweights actually correlate to lifelong consequences. For children born at a low birthweight, you can trace health outcomes across the course of their lives, compared to similar children born at an average birthweight. So Janet wondered how someone’s condition as an infant might likewise shape their potential for human-capital development. She and a colleague, Hannes Schwandt, did this really interesting study considering both low birthweight and the effects of pollution (an indicator of inequality). They researched people who got exposed to pollution in utero, and found them much more likely to grow up in low-income neighborhoods, near highways and the like. They used the natural experiment of the 9-11 terrorist attack in New York City, which had all of this pollution on September 12th that hadn’t been there on September 10th. They compared children from the same parents and said: “Okay, were the infants born shortly after 9-11 pollution likely to have a lower birthweight?” Their results confirmed this hypothesis. They then combined these results with Janet’s preceding research showing that early-childhood and even prenatal conditions can have lifelong consequences not only for health but also for employment and earnings. So again you see economics research that takes a real-life natural experiment that happens to some groups, and compares the results to what happens with otherwise identical control groups, and finds these complex implications for how something difficult to measure (here human capital) develops. Alongside these innovative research methods, your book tracks an emergent argumentative consensus confounding, say, reductive mid-20th-century takes on Adam Smith’s invisible-hand metaphor (through which market competition steers private, self-interested pursuits towards a vectored yet broadly positive public outcome, bringing about a flexible and dynamic internal order for efficient market provisioning). Here could we start to outline 21st-century accounts of how, in fact, inequality thwarts possibilities for such idealized market processes to take place — by transforming economic clout into social and political power, so that simply “getting out of the way” and letting the market function “naturally” would mean abetting preexisting disparities as they further distort market operations? That gets to the real challenges we face in trying to measure and understand the effects of concentrated inequality. We might intuitively understand that if some people have resources and others don’t, then those without resources will also lack opportunity. And Americans find it relatively easy to have this conversation. We can say: “Okay, we need to open up opportunity for all.” Though then we of course can get stuck on questions of what it really would mean to have equal opportunity, how intergenerational differences in wealth and social capital might get in the way, how much a student from a non-wealthy family receiving a loan or grant for college tuition can offset these dynamics and create a more level playing field. One of the main things I’ve learned doing research for this book and running the Washington Center for Equitable Growth for the past six years involves not just recognizing the extent to which wealth has congealed among a smaller and smaller number of families (with a vast disproportion of white families), but how that agglomeration of financial resources has translated into social and political power. Economists think about taxes and revenue. But we need to think much more about intersections between society making certain tax decisions, and which specific policymakers make those particular revenue decisions, and why they make them. And for all of these questions, we really do need to bring in other disciplines. This book cites, for example, some striking research on very wealthy Chicago residents. The researchers interviewed Chicago elites in the top one percent of income earners, and found that close to half of them have personally connected with their US senators. And of course the vast majority of us are like: “Talking to our senator?” Most Americans, especially in big states such as California or New York, never even share the same physical space as their senators. And Illinois itself is no small state. Right! And yet this very small group of individuals has gained access to power in ways that really help set the agenda. I mean, look at something like the lobbying around the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act passed in December 2017. We saw just enormous spending on that PR campaign by corporate interests, by wealthy elites, essentially for a massive tax cut for themselves that will lead to the long-term under-funding of any initiatives we could ever hope to help equalize opportunity — such as investments in universal child care or in college education or job training. When you look at that full cycle of where potential tax dollars go, and who shapes those decisions, you see how concentrated wealth can have a subversive effect on our whole economy. Beyond basic questions of fairness (exemplified, over the past few months, by news stories of wealthy parents literally buying their children’s admission into college, undermining the meritocracy that we supposedly live in), you see our political process failing more broadly to provide sufficient resources to build the human capital we need for future economic growth. Still on these complexities of trying to assess intergenerational transfers of wealth, earning potential, and corresponding political clout, could you also bring in how Raj Chetty’s “applied microeconomic” approach might help to clarify precisely which particular interventions will have the most constructive impact on which specific people — for instance through Chetty’s data-driven (yet nonetheless quite personalized) findings on “environmental exposure to innovation”? Sure. My colleagues actually laugh about my personal-favorite example of Chetty’s work, because economists have some ambivalences about the societal value of patents. But Chetty’s research with Alex Bell and a whole host of colleagues shows how compelling the study of patent holders can be, and how relevant to so many of the questions we’ve already discussed. Here Chetty and his colleagues gathered data on certain children, and on whether or not these individuals applied for and received patents as adults, and their income as adults. Chetty’s team matched that data to these individuals’ third-grade standardized test scores (specifically math scores), and to their families’ income at that time. So first, it’s just impressive that these economists could gather and synthesize all of this wide-ranging data, and could show empirically that those kids who scored well on these third-grade math tests were more likely to get a patent when they grew up. But then Chetty’s team also could ask: “Okay, so among those kids who scored highest in third grade, what can we say about family income?” And they found the children in the highest income group four times as likely as other children with the same test scores to get a patent. So here again, Chetty’s team figured out how to create a kind of natural experiment, this time with long-term retrospective data. They also figured out a clever way to track how exposure to innovators often makes the difference for those smart third graders who themselves end up innovators as adults. Raj and I discussed this research when it came out, and he emphasized building evidence around the value of mentorship. He stressed the importance of children seeing and connecting with scientists and innovators as really important role models. Related research, by Claudia Goldin at Harvard and Tatyana Avilova at Columbia, also hit really, really close to home for me. They looked at gender equity in the field of economics. The economics profession does not have many women — with women more likely to go into math or other STEM fields. So Claudia and Tatyana wanted to better understand why more women don’t go into economics. They started this program trying to get more women to major in economics as undergrads. They then compared what happened in schools that did and did not have these programs. And they found, as with Chetty’s work, that what makes the biggest difference as to whether a young woman might choose economics as an undergraduate major and beyond is whether she’s exposed to women economists. So even just having an 18-year-old girl meet a woman like myself with an economics PhD can still have this strong impact much further down the pipeline. And again, figuring out how to track these complex institutional and social and psychological phenomena takes us to the cutting edge of economics today. So these studies by Card and Krueger, Currie, Chetty, Goldin and Avilova, might point to a revolution in research methodologies and foundational disciplinary assumptions — but, as you’ve also hinted, they actually sound like just “common sense” to me. Does this impression simply suggest that my partisan bubble overlaps with yours (obviously with me at the less-sophisticated side of the conversational spectrum)? Or could you unravel a bit the puzzling entwinement of theoretical abstraction / reductionism, of apparent indifference to rigorous empiricism, of apparent intellectual / professional inertia regarding inherited truisms [Laughter], that would have allowed a broader economics field to fend off such insights for so long? I’m laughing because it’s a harsh question, but somebody actually asked me that exact same question on Twitter a few months ago. Here I would start from the very real fact that we just didn’t have this data, or have adequate access to it, even just a decade ago. I mean, heck: I can probably do things on my phone today that I couldn’t even do at my school’s computer center during grad school. Yeah, and we all have better ideas about how to use data today than we had a few years ago. Exactly. And alongside this new access and new approach to data, I would point again to the importance of the historical context in which we forged many of our 20th-century ideas about economics. We developed the national income and product accounts (NIPA for short), from which we still get our GDP numbers, in the 1930s. We’ve maintained the same basic approach here since the 1940s. Similarly, we implemented the income tax in the 1910s, gradually giving us our first glimpses into more detailed data about the US economy, particularly during a mid-century period of historically low inequality and historically strong growth. None of that had anything to do with economists deliberately cherry-picking the data. All of that (including, of course, the strong growth path for ourselves and eventually our Cold War allies following the destruction of World War Two) made it possible to build consensus around a relatively benign conception of aggregate growth, with such growth even seeming to make inequality itself just magically decline. From the perspective of seeking to build social and political consensus, if markets truly can deliver these optimal outcomes, if we really can just let the market work its magic and don’t need to engage in tough decisions about distribution, then it seems all the more fair and equitable to just prioritize and support those meritocratic outcomes, right? I mean, of course, when you look back at it now, it all sounds utopian — this whole way of getting around political conflict and the messiness of debate and of power. Today we might see better why, when we dismantle institutions constraining the market, the market itself stops working right. But in a moment of relative income equality, it maybe wasn’t so ridiculous to conclude: “Let’s let the market do its work.” Still, why did it take so long for us to see that many of these assumptions no longer applied? Inequality started rising in the 1980s. We started to see a disconnect between productivity growth and what workers’ families received, a gap which wouldn’t make sense in a perfectly competitive market. And here I’d point back to David Card and Alan Krueger’s work. When Card and Krueger re-released their book Myth and Measurement: The New Economics of the Minimum Wage several years ago, they came to the Washington Center for Equitable Growth to discuss it, and David described the harsh academic response that their research received in the 1990s. The famous, most telling criticism, from University of Chicago economist James Heckman, basically argued: “This empirical evidence doesn’t work, because it doesn’t fit with our theory.” I quote Emmanuel Saez in this book making the seemingly more reasonable claim that when the theory doesn’t fit the evidence, you have to change the theory. But we should still think of this as a methodological shift — and an exciting shift away from certain 20th-century paradigms. So how else has this gathering of empirical evidence strengthened arguments for thinking of high inequality less as a necessary (perhaps unfortunate) consequence of economic growth, and more as a corrosive force obstructing and subverting and distorting economic growth — increasing both the frequency and the severity (particularly for lower income-earners) of economic downturns? Amazingly, we still do get confronted all the time with the argument that we just need to lower taxes to free up capital, and make sure this money gets used for productive investment (already a big assumption), and everything else will take care of itself. I mean, I just testified before the House Budget Committee, and we had that same conversation, just as we did for the 2017 tax cut. Wealthy investors supposedly will see a great potential to bring out new goods and services, which will spur economic growth. But in a highly unequal society, with demand constrained especially further down the income ladder, this freed-up money might instead just sit in the hands of the few, who don’t see much incentive to invest, given the limited potential for sales. In our economy, everybody is attached in complex ways to all of these relationships of buying and selling goods and services and time and labor. When we don’t have enough people pursuing consumer demands, every part of this economy eventually gets strained. If you decide to make cupcakes and go out on the corner and sell them, and if nobody wants to buy cupcakes with gluten anymore, then you’re stuck, right? Economies cannot just work from one side of this equation. So if you build an economy that just works for rich people, and that doesn’t broaden the base for demand, can you then expect growth and stability? Does anybody across the income spectrum get optimal benefit from that kind of arrangement? Here I find the accumulation of data especially powerful, since the rich of course might go the longest without feeling such an economy fail them. But statistically now, with data from all over the world, we do see that high inequality both slows down an economy’s long-term growth and makes that economy less stable, more prone to financial crises, more vulnerable to drops in consumer demand. And here I want to make a clear distinction from the moral argument that admission to the best schools, and employment in the best jobs, should go to those who work hard and show the most merit — regardless of how much their parents make. At the same time, those meritocratic norms certainly did play a crucial role in providing the United States with one of the richest and most productive economies the world has ever seen. We developed such a rich economy because we did allow talent to rise to the top. We did value the contributions of workers up and down the income ladder. We did give people all along the production line a sense of social value and a wage commensurate with their contribution. Of course that wasn’t true in all cases — particularly for many workers of color and for many women. We can and should fix those omissions. But even more broadly, if we let go of basic claims to equity now, we also risk losing the forward-looking, innovative, productive drives that made us so successful in the first place. For one acute case of how concentrated inequalities can produce and exacerbate much broader economic instability, could you trace a recent historical arc in which increased disparities (with, on average, one trillion dollars shifting to a small wealthy class of Americans every year since 1974) led to substantial savings increases among this one group (alongside diminished possibility for sturdier middle-class-consumer driven growth cycles), leading to searches for less obvious profit-making opportunities, particularly through (in its most respectable guise) exploitative credit-providing and (in its most conspicuously problematic spin-off) sustained predatory-lending campaigns? Could you point to the damage that would have been done even if this bubble somehow had not popped in such dramatic fashion — as this rent-seeking class continued to skim off those most in need? Could you point to how this credit bubble did make broader economic crisis much more likely? And could you point to how the distorted (supposedly “natural”) market in which such dynamics played out again proves, by comparison, the superior merits of us all starting from a more egalitarian baseline? I really do consider this the story for our times. I trained as a labor economist, and spent the early part of the 2000s looking at changes in family economic well-being. Over the 1960s and 70s, as families struggled with wages flat-lining or even falling for workers down the income ladder, you first saw some families increase their labor supply, right? Over those decades, we saw the rising participation of women, of mothers, of caregivers — with their additional earnings not offering any one-to-one correlation with families’ needs, but with these increased labor-force hours making all the difference between family income falling or not. But of course families eventually reached a limit to how much additional time they could put into the labor market. And as families reached those limits, we saw the next generation develop this coping strategy of taking on debt. So here, already, we should think of this accumulating debt as not the start of the story. The finance economist Atif Mian, for example, in his research with Amir Sufi, shows quite convincingly that all these individual families didn’t just suddenly decide that they wanted a house in a better neighborhood, or wanted to send their kids to better schools. Mian and Sufi’s research clarifies a more complex sequence of trends, in which first concentrated wealth begins to rise in a limited number of households. This increase in wealth leads to an increase in savings. But this increased wealth and savings do not lead to a commensurate increase in investment. Instead, these trends eventually lead to an increase in the credit supply, and to the financialization of our economy. This money starts flowing through the economy, which Mian and Sufi’s research then ties to the deregulation of lending standards, and to an increased number of ways to lend money especially to households. Their research helps to document that new financial instruments ultimately emerge in response to this newly concentrated wealth needing someplace to go. We see this supply-side story play out in quite destructive ways in different communities across the country. And here Mian and Sufi’s research also traces the extent to which this home-mortgage refinancing happened in lower-income neighborhoods, where families saw their homes’ market value rise (temporarily, it turned out), and could extract some much-needed money. Again, the overabundance of available credit made this all possible. So then when this housing bubble collapsed, as bubbles do, that collapse hit these low-net-worth communities especially hard. Spending contracted sharply, and then of course consumption and consumer demand contracted sharply. So, finally, these distortionary market effects hit the economy much more broadly. Then returning to your training as a labor economist, and starting to hone in on your calls for fostering increased competition, for combating both consumer-market monopoly and labor-market monopsony: how might breaking up concentrated power not just among a class of wealthy individuals, but likewise among singularly dominant firms, help to promote greater equality of pay throughout a corporation, while also incentivizing innovation and investment in new technologies? How and why should a revitalized antitrust approach, particularly in an era of share-grabbing platform firms and subcontracted “fissured” workplaces, focus on protecting the interests not just of consumers, but of workers? We economists have this bad habit of coming up with words difficult to pronounce. But “monopsony” basically describes a situation in which only one buyer exists. Monopoly means only one party selling something. Monopsony flips that around, whether for supply chains or for labor markets. Amid the current General Motors strike, for example, a lot of Detroit-based suppliers pretty much only sell to GM. They make specific parts for specific automobiles. In US labor markets, with the recent rise in economic concentration within a lot of different industries, a worker might change jobs but ultimately still end up with the same employer. A nurse may live within commuting distance of four or five different hospitals, but one single corporation might own all of these hospitals. So she finds herself in a monopsony labor market. And if she thinks that her employer does a poor job with safety procedures, or doesn’t pay well, or provide enough vacation or whatever, she doesn’t have much choice. So monopsony significantly decreases worker bargaining power (both in the individual and the aggregate sense), just as it does for suppliers of goods and services. Regulators enforcing antitrust rules traditionally have focused on concentrated monopolies, rather than concentrated monopsonies, when deciding whether a merger could go through. But today many economists, especially labor economists, will say: “Hey, we need to watch out for both of these.” Look at the new labor-market data coming out. Unemployment is still going down, but the pace of wage growth has slowed. A lot of people will ask: “Why haven’t wages gone up more, given how low the unemployment rate has been for so long?” Well, when you widen the aperture, when you consider increases in labor-market concentration, and how that affects bargaining power, you see why we need to start investigating these trends quite seriously. And then the idea of the fissured workplace comes from the economist David Weil. David’s research shows how these monopsony-like dynamics play out in workers’ daily lives. When you stay in a hotel these days, many workers you encounter might not actually work for that hotel brand. The people cleaning your room, or the people at the front desk, or the restaurant, might work for subcontractors selling their services to the hotel chain. This branded hotel makes its profits by providing its core competency (the customer’s hotel experience), and then everything else can get fissured off. So that creates a different kind of monopsony. This hotel’s restaurant workers might have the option to switch which hotel brand they work in, but not end up switching the subcontracted company they work for. They also won’t have much opportunity to advance at any given hotel. We used to have this adage about the employee who starts off stocking the shelves… Or sweeping the floors. Right. That person basically has a zero-percent chance of moving up within this hotel chain. That person literally doesn’t work for this hotel chain. And similarly, just as this worker has no chance for vertical advancement, this worker has little chance of pushing her fellow workers to call for collective-bargaining rights. Most other staff in the hotel might work for a completely separate company. And these subcontracting firms themselves often can’t squeeze much out of the broader profitability of the branded hotel. These subcontractors have to run on such small profit margins for the branded chains to hire them. So if the big hotel brand starts making a lot of money, well the workers at this hotel can’t take advantage of that, and even their subcontractor employers don’t do much better. These kinds of institutional constraints and structures now set the terms for how workers bargain over wages — and for why they often can’t win in the same way they could a few decades ago. In terms of these broader society-wide trends (promoting stifling market environments, benefiting only a select few participants), does “the evidence accumulated by scholars” concerning monopoly and monopsony alarm conservative or classically liberal economists just as much progressive economists — or even more, given neoclassical models’ reliance on virtuous cycles of competition driving broad-based economic growth? Or where might they contest or read differently the data that your book presents? Well I would say that the divides you see in economics today often have more to do with methodology than with ideology. The research this book cites comes from the top journals in the field right now, or from the National Bureau of Economic Research, an institute at Harvard that operates by invitation only, and seeks to bring together many of the best and brightest minds in the profession. In both cases, you see economists committed to following the research evidence, and to looking at all of this new data and all of these empirical studies now available to us, and to posing different types of questions. Where fault-lines exist in the field today, they probably trace differences between these recent empirical approaches and more traditional theory-based approaches. And I find it just fascinating to watch how this availability of new data and evidence continues changing the way people think. This especially is what makes economics so exciting right now, and so fun. I mean, as a researcher, you get to dig in, test out an hypothesis, work your way to an evidence-based conclusion, and then debate with others about their own research methods and corresponding discoveries. So here again, I personally find quite persuasive and quite powerful your bridging of macroeconomic analysis and more micro-focused inequality studies, your calls for systematically tracking what happens up and down the income distribution, in which communities, attached to which industries, in which regions across the country. I appreciate your reformulated prompt for public conversations on economic developments: pivoting away from “Did America’s GDP go up?” or even “Did we have any jobs gains?” to “What is happening right now to family economic well-being?” Where do you see such discussions picking up momentum at present? How can we encourage them to spread? And what, beyond simple generational attrition, will most proactively push our political leaders to factor such conversations into crucial policy decisions? I actually just received an invitation to testify before Congress’s bicameral Joint Economic Committee, on rethinking how we should look at national income. So again it’s exciting to see those kinds of changes hopefully coming down the pipeline, and to see Congress taking this very seriously. For over half a century, each quarter, when the Bureau of Economic Analysis releases GDP numbers, we’ve told ourselves that these numbers tell us something important about how well the economy is performing for all of us. Or when you watch the news and find out whether the stock market went up or down today, that seems to tell you something crucial about business performance. When you read a headline about how the economy “only” grew by two percent, you apparently learn whether or not we have met our national expectations. Again, these very broad types of measurements marked a great improvement in helping us to understand and to support the mid-20th-century economy. But especially today, with our economic growth so unevenly concentrated, when you try to articulate what national income looks like across the income distribution, or across geographical boundaries, or among different demographic groups, you just can’t find any simple straightforward way to say: “Here’s how the economy’s performing.” And it really does shift policy discussions dramatically when we give up on even trying for that kind of single-sentence description. That’s why I find it so encouraging to see Congress move toward allocating funds to make this broader institutional adjustment real, hopefully in this year’s budget. That would be just a remarkable step forward. Numerical data never will tell us everything. But we need to measure much more methodically how the economic landscape has shifted, how we’ve entered this new terrain of high inequality in income and wealth and market concentration. We have to track this shift and make sense of what it means for monetary policy, for antitrust enforcement, for how we think about unions organizing. We have to ask all of those questions, and I think we’ll come to a whole new range of policy answers, because our world has changed in such profound ways. Photo Credit: Mark Silva	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line10566
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Somali-Canadian journalist Hodan Naleyeh dies in Somalia extremist attack Al-Shabaab did claim responsibility for the attack in a statement. "A suicide vehicle targeted the Cas-casey hotel this evening". Officials said the death toll could rise as fighting continues between hotel security and the extremist gunmen. Cardi B Fires Back At Jermaine Dupri Over Female Rapper Comments Then he dissed Cardi , as well as Nicki Minaj , 36, and up and comer Meghan Thee Stallion , 24, when asked how he felt about them. As a result, she said listeners shouldn't "blame that s-t on us when y'all are the ones not supporting them". 'Life-Threatening' Tropical Storm Barry Grinds Toward Louisiana National Hurricane Center Director Ken Graham said pockets of Louisiana could have as much as 25 inches (63 centimeters) of rain. Tropical Storm Barry continues to become better organized as it tracks slowly toward the west at 3 miles per hour . 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A magnitude-4.6 quake that struck outside Seattle has reportedly been felt as far north as the Vancouver area. Mom jailed after sharing viral video of her daughter licking tongue depressor The incident comes amid a rash of similar cases that have gone viral on social media. "I'm sorry for anyone that it's offended. Video surfaced online showing Ward's daughter at All About Kids and Families Medical Center. Thousands in Maui evacuated after brush fire rages in Hawaii It was able to quickly spread after "feeding" on large areas of fallow, former sugar cane fields, and dry brush, officials said. No injuries or damage to structures were reported, but some farm equipment had burned, HawaiiNewsNow reported. 400,000 people have joined a Facebook event pledging to raid Area 51 Many are still curious why it was shrouded in secrecy for so long, and why so many UFOs have reportedly been spotted in the area. Over 350,000 individuals have signed on to storm the classified military base Area 51 during an event in September. What does tie-dye taste like? Find out with Starbucks' new Frappuccino Starbucks is also launching a Donut Frappuccino with donut crumbles , but it's only available to consumers in the UK. When considering the taste and end look of the Tie-Dye Frappucino, we wouldn't recommend getting this drink.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line10582
__label__cc	0.669289	0.330711	BOLDreg Quality Dateless Number Plates Mon to Sun - 9am to 9pm Purveyor of the finest and most prestigious registration numbers Home Buying Selling Auctions Questions Gallery Contact / About SAZ 330 £1,195 + £80 Transfer Fee For further information on SAZ 330, please complete the form below and we will contact you as soon as possible. VAT (20%) may be applicable on SAZ 330. We will confirm availability and total cost before you buy. We will give you a clear total - No hidden fees or charges. Payment Method: Bank Transfer American Express Debit Card Credit Card Other Any Comments: I agree to be contacted under the marketing terms. Please note, we will never pass your details to a 3rd party. Our website uses HTTPS for added internet security. Bold Registrations are PCI DSS compliant meaning our systems are secure. (Includes GDPR Best Practice) Quick Sale Terms Commission Sale Terms Marketing Policy i) The Terms and Conditions apply to all business transactions carried out by Bold Registrations Limited, hereinafter referred to as the 'Company'. ii) The person applying for the rights to display a vehicle registration mark from the Company and/or the recipient of the registration mark is hereinafter referred to as the 'Purchaser'. 1. It is the sole responsibility of the Purchaser to ensure that all the correct details are entered onto Company Internet forms and submitted or given to the Company's representative at the time of purchase. The Company's representative shall use standard phonetics to refer to combinations requested by the Purchaser. 2. Under the Distance Selling Regulations the Company must notify you that the service we provide begins as soon as the registration mark is reserved on your behalf, subsequently there is no 'cooling off period', the transaction cannot be reversed and no refund can be given. 3. Under no circumstances shall the Company be made responsible for any failed transfers or disappointments. In such cases any payment made shall be refunded in full, provided that the failure is through no fault of the Purchaser. The Company's liability is strictly limited to a full refund only. No claims for damages; interest on monies paid or any other expenses shall be entertained. 4. In the event that the Company is unable to submit the necessary paperwork to the DVLA within 12 weeks from receipt of all Purchaser documents, and provided that the Purchaser is not responsible for the failure, the Company will refund payment in full. 5. The Purchaser agrees to send the recipient vehicle documents as requested by the Company within 7 days, unless otherwise arranged and documented within our system. In the event that the recipient vehicle is not made available, the Company may elect to place the registration onto retention and in doing so any costs shall be borne by the Purchaser. 6. Retention Certificates or Certificates of Entitlement displaying the 'grantee/purchaser' as Bold Registrations Limited or the Purchaser shall be released upon receiving a signed authority to do so from the Purchaser. 7. A vehicle registered in Northern Ireland is subject to the same DVLA terms and conditions. 8. In the unlikely event that the donor vehicle fails to meet the requirements of the Department for Transport, a full refund shall be made to the Purchaser. 9. Whilst every attempt is made to ensure the fastest possible transfer, the Company cannot guarantee any specific time period for the entire transfer. 10. The Company cannot accept responsibility for delays or errors caused by the postal system, electronic mail, the Department for Transport, the DVLA, any unforeseen circumstances or any failure or delay on the part of the donor or the recipient vehicles. 11. All prices given exclude the Department for Transport transfer fee and in some instances VAT (20%), unless otherwise confirmed in writing. 12. If final payment is not honoured within 7 days from the date of purchase then the Company reserves the right to cancel this agreement. The date of purchase is indicated by the date on which the part payment was first taken. In the event that the client fails to honour the purchase the Company reserve the right to retain the part payment to cover administration and advertising costs. 13. By entering and submitting your details to us, you agree that we can, from time to time, send you information regarding our services via email, sms or phone, to stop receiving information from us you can email [email protected] at anytime including the/your details to be removed from our mailing list. 14. Acrylic number plates are the Purchaser's own responsibility and should not be manufactured or displayed until the Purchaser has received the new V5C logbook. 15. Registration numbers must be displayed correctly. To mis-space or mis-represent your letters and numbers in a way is an offence under the Road Vehicles (Registration and Licensing) Regulations 1971. Subsequently all registration marks sold by the Company are sold on the understanding that they will be displayed in accordance with Section 17 of the Road Vehicles Regulations Act 1971. 16. The Purchaser agrees to comply with the DVLA 'Cherished Transfer Scheme'. 17. In the event that the Purchaser fails to respond to Company correspondence with regards to the pending lapse of any form of certificate, the Company reserve the right to apply for an extension at our own cost, assume ownership of the mark and consider the purchase void. In such circumstances the failure to complete shall be the responsibility of the Purchaser and no refund shall be made. 18. Registration numbers cannot be used to make vehicles look younger than they actually are, this applies to all year related registration marks, not dateless marks. A Dateless mark for example ABC 123 or 123 ABC can be assigned to any age of vehicle. 19. If the registration mark you are purchasing is a previously 'un-issued number'; the assignment fee and VAT (20%)are payable at the time of purchase. 20. If the registration mark you are purchasing is a previously 'un-issued number'; the registration mark must be assigned before the expiry date. If the registration mark is not assigned within this period, the right shall lapse. The purchase price may not be refunded. If the registration mark you are purchasing is a previously 'un-issued number'; the name of the person or company in whose name the vehicle is to be registered shall be the 'nominee'. These details can be added to or changed at a later date. See Clause 16. 21. The company may agree to pay a 3rd party a commission for selling a registration mark for the company. Commission must be agreed by a director of the company. Commission will be paid on any agreed sale that is completed within 60 days of the commission agreement date or the date that the company purchased the registration mark, whichever is the latter. The sale is completed only and not before the date that full and final cleared funds have been received by the company. The agreed commission will be paid by the company to the 3rd party within 7 days of completion. It is the sole responsibility of the 3rd party to pay any tax or duties on the commission received. Commission agreement forms are available on request. 22. The company auction buying service begins upon acceptance to bid on behalf of a purchaser. The service fee is paid to the company prior to the auction and is not refundable if for any reason the purchaser changes or withdraws the agreement. If the agreed bid price is exceeded by another bidder the company service fee is refunded to the purchaser. 23. No verbal conditions or guarantees expressed or implied shall have effect on these terms and conditions unless written and signed by a director of the Company. 24. If any term, provision, covenant or condition of this agreement is held by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, void or unenforceable, the remaining provisions of this agreement shall remain in full force and effect and shall not be affected, impaired or invalidated. 25. These Terms and Conditions constitute the entire agreement between the parties in respect of the purchase. 26. This agreement shall be governed and constructed in accordance with English Law each party thereto submits to the jurisdiction of the English Courts. Quick Sale Terms and Conditions i) The person selling the registration mark shall hereafter be known as 'the Donor'. ii) The vehicle registration number referred to on the front of the agreement shall hereafter be known as 'the Registration Mark'. 1. Payment shall be made in full after the transfer procedure has been completed and all documents have been acquired from the DVLA. Completion is indicated by notification to Bold Registrations of the replacement mark for the donor vehicle. Payment will be made upon receipt of a copy (by scan/fax or post) of your new V5C (Log Book). Where the mark is held on a certificate, payment will be made when the number has been assigned to the recipient vehicle and proof of the same has been acquired from the DVLA. It is the donor's responsibility to supply correct bank details. Bold Registrations accept no liability for payments that are lost because incorrect bank details have been supplied. 2. The donor vehicle must be both taxed and tested (where of an appropriate age) to qualify for cherished transfer (with the exception of those which qualify under Section 8 of the Department for Transport rules, see 11). The donor shall provide Bold Registrations with necessary vehicle documents when requested. Documents should be supplied immediately to facilitate a speedy transfer but in any event no later than 7 days from the date they were first requested. The donor shall deliver his/her vehicle for inspection by the appropriate authority at the specified time if and when requested. (Details are available upon request). Bold Registrations shall be responsible for paying the appropriate transfer fees. Once this purchase has been agreed and you have signed the 'Outright Purchase Contract', Bold Registrations shall start the transfer procedure for the vehicle registration and commence marketing the number as a stock item. If the donor fails to comply with the agreement it is understood that he/she shall be liable for Bold Registrations charges which shall be 10% of the purchase price or £120 sterling, whichever is the greater amount. The agreement is deemed to be entered into at Bold Registration's premises. 3. Disclaimer. Bold Registrations will not accept liability for any losses incurred by the donor arising for delays caused by the postal system, electronic mail, the Department for Transport, the DVLA, any unforeseen circumstances or any failure to conclude the transaction in any way. 4. The Cherished Transfer Scheme enables an assigned registration number to be moved directly from one vehicle to another. Only the registered keeper of a vehicle is entitled to apply to transfer its number. Application form V317 Transfer of Registration Mark must be completed and the fee for a transfer is £80 sterling (at time of publication). 5. The Retention Scheme enables a number to be held apart from the vehicle it has been assigned to, for a 10 year period pending its re-assignment to another vehicle. Only the registered keeper of a vehicle is entitled to apply for a right of retention. Application form V317 Retention of a Vehicle Registration Mark must be completed and the application fee is £80 sterling, (at time of publication). Online Retention applications can be made in most cases. Successful applicants are issued with a V778 Retention Document, valid for 10 years, which records details of the registration number, the registered vehicle keeper (the applicant), and nominee details where supplied in the application. If, after you have received your document, you wish to add or change nominee details, you will need to apply to the DVLA, returning your document. 6. Only the registered vehicle keeper can apply to have the retained registration number assigned, and it can only be assigned to a vehicle which is registered to the registered vehicle keeper, or to the nominee shown on the retention document. In order that the number may be purchased and retained in the name of Bold Registrations you understand that additional owners shall be acquired on the V5C registration document. Obviously by retaining a copy of this contract you may confirm to future purchasers of the vehicle (if applicable) that additional owners were incurred as a result of this transfer. Only the keeper is entitled to apply for further retention or transfer of the number and hence this minor inconvenience is unavoidable. 7. You Must Check whether the registration document states that the registration number is non-transferable. If it does, then the number cannot be transferred or retained. Subsequently the registration mark does not comply with these terms and conditions. Please also ensure that the following conditions for the transfer and retention schemes can be complied with. These conditions are as follows: Vehicles must be available for inspection. The inspection helps to verify entitlement to the registration number being transferred / retained. Both the donor (the vehicle giving up the number) and the recipient (the vehicle receiving the number) may be called for inspection. * Vehicles must be subject to MOT / HGV test. Non-testable vehicles such as agricultural tractors and milk floats, for example, are outside the scope of the schemes. Only testable vehicles can participate in transfers and retentions and valid test certificates must be sent with applications. * Vehicles must be currently licensed, or in the process of being licensed. The application will still be considered, however, where the last licence expired within six months of the date of application. If the licence has been voluntarily surrendered for refund, the six-month concession does not normally apply. 8. Replacement tax disc(s) will be issued (not after October 2014) and MOT certificates (not after March 2015) - where applicable - will be endorsed to show that the vehicle's number has changed. As of the aforementioned dates the DVLA no longer prints paper tax discs and/or MOT certificates. Registration document(s) showing the changed registration number(s) will be sent out from DVLA to the keeper(s). IMPORTANT: DO NOT dispose of the vehicle until the application has been fully completed and you have received the amended registration document(s). If you dispose of the vehicle too soon, you may lose entitlement to the cherished mark. REMEMBER: Once the transfer / retention has been successfully completed, tell your insurers that the vehicle's registration number has changed. Section 8 states that where you were the registered keeper of the vehicle at the time when the MOT was valid, you have up to six months from the expired date of the MOT provided your road tax is either valid at the time of transfer or expired naturally (i.e. was not refunded). If you have any further queries please telephone Bold Registrations on Local Call 08448 123 000 or 01543 433 455. Commission Sale Terms and Conditions 1. Bold Registrations shall advertise and handle the entire transfer legalities and all paperwork involved in the transfer FREE OF CHARGE, provided the donor complies with his/her obligations as set out in these terms and conditions. 2. The donor may cancel this agreement at any time giving 7 days notice in writing by recorded delivery to: Bold Registrations Ltd, Ventura House, Ventura Park Road, Tamworth, B78 3HL or by electronic mail to [email protected] please note cancellations must be made prior to Bold Registrations finding a buyer for the registration mark. 3. We consider the price given to be an accurate market valuation, however, on receipt of the quotation, you may increase or reduce the price indicated and initial the amendment if you disagree with the amount shown. Subject to market conditions Bold Registrations may contact you to discuss close offers made by a third party if appropriate. Payment shall be made in full after the transfer procedure has been completed and all documents have been acquired from the DVLA. Completion is indicated by notification to Bold Registrations of the replacement mark for the donor vehicle. Payment will be made upon receipt of a copy (by scan/fax or post) of your new V5C (Log Book). Where the mark is held on a certificate, payment will be made when the number has been assigned to the recipient vehicle and proof of the same has been acquired from the DVLA. 4. The donor vehicle must be both taxed and tested (where of an appropriate age) to qualify for a cherished transfer (with the exception of those which qualify under Section 8 of the Department for Transport rules, see 14). The donor undertakes to provide Bold Registrations with necessary vehicle documents when requested. Documents should be supplied immediately to facilitate a swift transfer but in any event no later than 7 days from the date they were first requested. The donor undertakes to deliver his/her vehicle for inspection to the appropriate authority at the specified time if and when requested. (Details are available upon request). 5. It is the responsibility of the donor to inform Bold Registrations in writing or electronic mail if the registration mark is no longer available for sale. The donor must make it known if he/she wishes to withdraw the registration mark from sale, or if the vehicle or the registration mark is sold or stolen before it is sold by Bold Registrations (recorded delivery postage is required as proof of notification). Bold Registrations must be informed of any information change to avoid showing out of date or inaccurate information. Bold Registrations strive to keep information up to date. If your registration mark is shown on the Bold Registrations website and you wish it to be removed or if you believe a registration mark on the website is sold, withdrawn or unavailable call Local Call 08448 123 000 / 01543 433 455 or email [email protected] Disclaimer. Bold Registrations liability is limited to removing registrations from the website as soon as possible upon owner contact and ownership proof. 6. The agreement is deemed to be entered into at Bold Registration's premises. 7. Outright Cash purchases. Bold Registrations may consider an outright cash purchase for the registration mark. Usually the outright purchase price is one third of the price agreed for an agency-based sale. To discuss accurate outright purchase information please telephone Local Call 08448 123 000 or 01543 433 455. 8. Disclaimer. Bold Registrations will not accept liability for any losses incurred by the donor arising from delays caused by the slow arrival of documents from the buyer or the failure of the buyer to conclude the transaction. 9. You Must Check whether the registration document states that the registration number is non-transferable. If it does, then the number cannot be transferred or retained. Subsequently the registration mark does not comply with these terms and conditions. 10. Please also ensure that the following conditions for the transfer and retention schemes can be complied with. These conditions are as follows: * Vehicles must be available for inspection. The inspection helps to verify entitlement to the registration number being transferred / retained. Both the donor (the vehicle giving up the number) and the recipient (the vehicle receiving the number) may be called for inspection. * Vehicles must be subject to MOT / HGV test. Non-testable vehicles such as agricultural tractors and milk floats, for example, are outside the scope of the schemes. Only testable vehicles can participate in transfers and retentions and valid test certificates must be sent with applications. * Vehicles must be currently licensed, or be in the process of being licensed. The application will still be considered, where the last licence (tax) expired within six months of the date of application. If the licence has been voluntarily surrendered for refund, the six-month concession does not normally apply. 11. Replacement tax disc(s) will be issued (not after October 2014) and MOT certificates (not after March 2015) - where applicable - will be endorsed to show that the vehicle's number has changed. As of the aforementioned dates the DVLA no longer prints paper tax discs and/or MOT certificates. Registration document(s) showing the changed registration number(s) will be sent out from DVLA to the keeper(s). If the donor fails to comply with the aforementioned terms and conditions it is understood that he/she shall be liable for Bold Registrations charges which shall be 10% of the acceptable full payment or £120 sterling, whichever is the greater amount. Bold Registrations Ltd is committed to protecting your privacy. 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__label__cc	0.716051	0.283949	Education Week's blogs > The Startup Blog: Ed Tech From the Ground Up See more Opinion Will Morris Benjamin Levy Betty Hsu Betty Hsu is a co-founder of online vocabulary improvement company ProfessorWord. Benjamin Levy, a former teacher, is founder of video delivery platform eduCanon. Will Morris is the CEO of teacher-coaching company EdConnective. All three authors are striving to launch and sustain successful ed-tech startups. « Nine Strategies to Help Startups Improve Writing Productivity \| Main \| Three Lessons Ed-Tech Startups Can Learn From Innovator Sal Khan » Choosing Ed-Tech Tools by Balancing Data and Teacher Intuition By Michelle Davis on January 28, 2016 12:53 PM \| No comments Guest post by Sidharth Kakkar, co-founder and CEO of Front Row Making a decision about what technology to use with your students can be difficult for educators. Most startup companies in the ed-tech space have to rely on teacher intuition—what they believe will ultimately help increase student learner outcomes. It's nearly impossible for young companies to provide scientific data backing up the results they have seen firsthand, and thus these gut feelings are critical to moving a startup forward. Yet demand for hard data is growing among school and district administrators. Earlier today my company, Front Row, released our first research study in partnership with WestEd, a nonpartisan, nonprofit research agency, demonstrating the impact Front Row has on elementary school students. The study found students using the technology increased their end of year MAP test scores nearly 10 percentage points over those who did not. While we're thrilled to have validation of something we could only claim anecdotally prior, it's important to consider how we got here. We relied on teachers and their intuition in making the decision to move forward with Front Row. They used their gut, along with word-of-mouth results, to take a chance on a startup. This has been critical to our success, and to many others innovating in the ed-tech space. Back in the Spring of 2013, my co-founder Alex Kurilin and I were two technologists desperate to apply our skills to a field we were passionate about, but had little exposure to: education. We weren't interested in making yet another social network to update status, or software to get grandma to click on more ads. We wanted to do something meaningful. We connected with two educators who invited us into their schools and classrooms, which we visited every day for over a month. During our time with these students, we saw how they were using our barely-developed software, and at night we'd go home and apply the information we collected to create an even better version of Front Row for students to work from the following day. That was our feedback loop; we could instantly see the difference our software was making in the classroom, and understand intimately how it impacted learner outcomes. Since those initial development days, Front Row has grown from those two teachers to hundreds of thousands; from 60 students to over three million. Even with this growth, we still solicit immediate and direct feedback, asking every teacher what they think. However, these conversations alone weren't good enough. In addition to teachers, we started working with educators outside the classroom too—curriculum coaches, school leaders, district leaders, and others with the responsibility to help students succeed—as they looked to implement technology across schools and districts. While these individuals are all critical to how schools operate, they don't see first-hand the impact technology is having on student outcomes. We want to make it easier for these stakeholders to understand how technology is truly having an effect on students, and one of the best ways to do this is to provide scientific evidence, which we are now able to do. We wouldn't have gotten here without the trust of those teachers before we had this hard data, and despite the fact it essentially proves the technology increases learner outcomes, I still argue that it's not the only thing at which educators should look. If a tool helps a classroom teacher do the best for their students, the research shouldn't be the only thing that matters. If it prompts students to ask if they can skip recess to learn a complex and sometimes dry math topic or helps a teacher know and understand each student better, it's worthy of attention. We're believers that teachers know best and if they believe a tool helps them, they deserve to be able to use it. If we obsess over research studies that are nearly impossible to do for a new company or product, we won't give amazing innovative tools a chance—we are squashing innovation. So while we can now point to this study in our hands, we don't believe it provides any more valuable information than you could get from talking to any teacher using our program. If we only focused on this scientific research, we are eliminating an incredible valuable source of information, which will only incentivize developers to opt out of jumping into education, and settle for creating yet another social network. 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__label__wiki	0.617808	0.617808	The LSE US Centre’s daily blog on American Politics and Policy Contributors A-C Contributors D-F Contributors G-I Contributors J-L Contributors M-O Contributors P-R Contributors S-U Contributors V-Z Get USAPP by email The Ballpark US Centre The second presidential debate: USAPP expert reaction and commentary On Sunday night, the second 2016 presidential debate was held in St Louis. We asked some of USAPP’s regular contributors for their thoughts and analysis. Read reaction to the first debate here. Trump did what he needed to do to preserve the support from his base, but he’s no more likely to win: Dan Cassino – Fairleigh Dickinson University Gender issues occupy center stage at the second presidential debate: Newly Paul – Appalachian State University Trump attempts to restore his image: Jenny Tatsak – Walsh College Trump only slowed the bleeding of support from his now-doomed candidacy: Brian Klaas – LSE Government An extraordinary debate in a landmark election: Inderjeet Parmar – City University of London Trump did what he needed to do to preserve the support from his base, but he’s no more likely to win. Dan Cassino – Fairleigh Dickinson University Despite the shock with which some of his comments at the debate were received, Republican candidate Donald Trump did what he needed to do on Sunday night, but that doesn’t mean that he’s any more likely to win next month’s Presidential election. In the second Presidential debate, Trump was widely criticized in the media for, among other things, saying that as President, he would order the Justice Department to investigate his Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton, and said that if he were in office, she “would be in jail.” This was a slightly subtler version of his rally chant of “lock her up,” but commentators were shocked to see him express it so explicitly: jailing political opponents is a practice more common to autocracies than the world’s oldest Republic. Trump also attempted to move past the controversy over the newly-released 2005 recording in which he brags about sexual assault and his attempts to seduce married women, saying that he can get away with such things because of his celebrity and wealth. He apologized for having made the comments, claimed that he had never actually engaged in the behaviors discussed, claimed that Bill Clinton had done much worse, and said that the issue was a distraction from the real issues, like the fight with ISIS. To put it mildly, these comments, and more like them, were not well received in the media: but they did likely appeal to his Republican base. Prior to the debate, Trump was hemorrhaging support among Republican office-holders, and losing ground among traditional Republican constituencies. His base thinks Hillary Clinton belongs in jail; they have a deep revulsion to Bill Clinton’s sexual misconduct while he was President. His positions during the debate didn’t seem to do anything to expand his support, but by relying on positions that work at his rallies, he was giving his base a reason to keep supporting him. All of the evidence suggests that such support isn’t enough to win the Presidency, but his performance may ensure that he at least preserves the support he has. Gender issues occupy center stage at the second presidential debate Newly Paul – Appalachian State University The second presidential debate in St. Louis, Missouri, occurred against a backdrop where gender issues and rhetoric were prominent. Over the weekend, the Washington Post broke a story about Donald Trump making lewd statements about women and condoning sexual assault in a 2005 conversation with television host Billy Bush. The tape generated a firestorm of controversy. Though Trump has made several demeaning comments about women and other groups such as immigrants, Latinos, Muslims, and prisoners of wars earlier in the campaign, the tape earned him widespread scorn from his own family and party members, particularly white Republican women. Trump’s strategy of countering the fallout from the tapes was to attack Clinton for supporting her husband and denouncing women who had accused him of sexual misconduct. About an hour before the debate, Trump hosted a panel with four such women, and even brought them to participate as audience members in the debate. Some media commenters saw such tactics as an example of sexism where men and women are held to different political standards. They argued that Hillary Clinton should not have to pay a greater price for her husband’s affairs than he did, and that she should be evaluated independently of her husband’s records. On stage, Trump’s gendered rhetoric and body language gathered a lot of attention. To moderator Anderson Cooper’s question about whether he had sexually assaulted women, he repeatedly insisted that he had not, and that the conversation was just “locker room talk.” During the debate, he interrupted Clinton and the moderators several times, went over his allotted time limit, and used nonverbal expressions—such as pacing around the stage, scowling, pointing at Clinton as he attacked her, and positioning himself directly behind her as she spoke—to draw attention away from Clinton, portray her as smaller (and weaker), and assert his dominance on the stage. Following this performance, some media commentators have advised Clinton to assert her dominance through body language and tone of voice in the next debate. That might be useful advice, given that recent research on gender and politics indicates that voters do not rely on gender stereotypes to cast their votes. Instead, they use partisanship cues. Thus, by asserting her toughness and adopting an attack approach toward Trump—both examples of gender-bending behavior—Clinton would not be at a risk of alienating voters. Trump attempts to restore his image Jenny Tatsak – Walsh College Amidst a salacious backdrop more akin to the absurdity of soap operas than even the dirtiest of political campaigns, Sunday’s highly-anticipated presidential debate was must-see television. Only 48 hours before, a 12 year old tape of a boastful Donald Trump surfaced. He described, in graphic detail, groping women as a benefit of celebrity. The media firestorm was intense. Many staunch supporters denounced Trump’s candidacy. Others suggested his running mate, Mike Pence, should take his place on the ticket. William Benoit, organizational communication scholar, identifies several strategies for image restoration, including the three most evident in Donald Trump’s debate performance: attacking, differentiation and minimization. Trump’s attacks began before the debate. A few short hours before start time, Donald Trump hosted a press conference for five women accusing Bill and Hillary Clinton of wrongdoing involving various types of sexual misdeeds. These same accusers attended the debate as Donald Trump’s guests. By attacking Hillary Clinton’s credibility, Trump attempted to reduce the perceived severity of his wrongdoing. Trump continued the attacks of Clinton’s deletion of classified emails as deceptive, evidence of poor judgment and worthy of investigation by a special prosecutor Trump would appoint if elected. Trump’s attacks persisted in describing Clinton as “the devil.” The unrelenting attacks attempted to shift blame from Trump and onto Clinton. These attacks differentiated Trump’s transgressions from what he depicted as Clinton’s more severe offences. This differentiation is intended to minimize consequences for Trump. He further minimized his lewd comments as “locker room talk.” Sunday’s debate reflected the dramatics of the campaign with unprecedented negativity. Trump used attacks to differentiate his much publicized vulgarities of late from Hillary Clinton’s vulnerabilities. Election Day will be the ultimate indicator of the success of Donald Trump’s image restoration. Trump only slowed the bleeding of support from his now-doomed candidacy Brian Klaas – LSE Government Donald Trump stopped the bleeding on Sunday night’s debate…for about 90 minutes. His performance in the debate surpassed the low bar he set for himself in the first debate, but his collapse in the polls did not end on stage in St. Louis. Instead, he continues to lose support from the crucial swing demographic of white women, who have abandoned his candidacy en masse as more and more revelations emerge about his record of misogyny. The Trump Tapes, as they are being called, were potentially a knockout blow to his candidacy. On Sunday, he had the opportunity to show true contrition and remorse; instead, he attempted to deflect blame to Bill Clinton (who is not running for president) and spent less than thirty seconds speaking about the tapes before pivoting to discussing ISIS. Consequently, Trump received another big blow on Monday as Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R-WI) said that he would no longer defend the GOP presidential candidate in public, provoking a major rupture within the Republican Party that is sure to exacerbate the electoral damage for both Trump and the Republican bid to retain control of the House of Representatives. Hillary Clinton faced potentially politically damaging fallout from the Wikileaks release of hacked e-mails that show Clinton in a less-than-flattering light, but those revelations have been grossly overshadowed by Trump’s isolation by his own party in the wake of boasting about sexual assault of women in 2005. As it stands, the third debate is currently little more than a Hail Mary attempt to revive what has become an almost certainly doomed candidacy. Polls that took the Trump Tapes into account showed Clinton with a large lead, from seven percentage points to a stratospheric 14-point lead. While that latter figure may be likely to tighten, it is certainly the case that Trump is in a worse position than at any point in his candidacy. That is a major problem for him, because many people have already begun voting (and 35 percent of American voters are expected to cast ballots before November 8th). Moreover, Clinton’s ground game advantage (insider campaign jargon for field operations that identify likely voters and encourage them to vote) is substantial and growing larger as the Republican National Committee redirects money to down-ballot races to protect vulnerable seats in the House and Senate. All in all, Trump performed much better than his dismal performance in the first debate, but it was only enough to slow the bleeding rather than stop it. An extraordinary debate in a landmark election Inderjeet Parmar – City, University of London The second presidential debate reminded us what an extraordinary election cycle this is. Two forces squaring up – the status quo, represented by Democratic Hillary Clinton, who symbolises the political establishment, against the Republican Donald Trump, who argues that he is a change candidate. The race started off with an extraordinary primary season, where Hillary Clinton defeated the ‘socialist’ Bernie Sanders after he secured over 13 million votes in the Democratic primaries; the debating season is matching that unprecedented character. Trump’s attempt to win back Republican voters turned off by his xenophobia and misogyny failed. Yet, he did hit home with several points that show why this race is as close as it is: Clinton’s role as an establishment politician, with powerful links with the past and with Big Money, the disasters of the Iraq war and of the financial meltdown of 2008-09, of the chaos in post-US intervention for regime change in Libya. Trump also scored with criticism of Clinton’s private email server as secretary of state and with the Wikileaked transcripts of Clinton’s espousal of sympathy with Wall St and on the efficacy of maintaining public and private positions on key political questions, and her sympathy for a policy she has publicly repudiated – the Trans-Pacific Partnership. Hillary Clinton’s credibility, level of public trust and disapproval is only slightly lower than the same for Donald Trump. But Trump’s message stands for a reversal of the historic 1960s and 1970s rights revolution, where women and African Americans and many other minorities won rights, and reversion to the 1950s. Barack Obama’s election in 2008, and now the prospect of a woman president in 2016, signalled great danger conservative opponents of the rights revolution. The level of vitriol against civil and women’s rights has reached a high point, sustaining Trump’s core support. Yet, his popularity still puts him near the lower end of support achieved in previous election campaigns. We could see something similar to Republican contender Barry Goldwater’s spectacular defeat in 1964. Goldwater is said to have lost the election but won the future – a victory that resonates with the anti-rights appeals of Donald Trump. But 2016 is not 1964 and the demographic future of America is against the Trump tide. Featured image credit: DonkeyHotey (Flickr, CC-BY-SA-2.0) Note: This article gives the views of the author, and not the position of USAPP – American Politics and Policy, nor the London School of Economics, nor the authors’ institutions. Shortened URL for this post: http://bit.ly/2dMZZxk Dan Cassino is an associate professor of Political Science at Fairleigh Dickinson University in Madison, New Jersey, who studies political psychology and polling. His most recent book, “Fox News and American Politics,” will be released in April. Newly Paul is Assistant Professor in Communication at Appalachian State University. Her research focuses on political advertising, political communication, and race and gender in politics. Her website is newlypaul.weebly.com. Jenny Tatsak is Chair and Professor of Business Communication at Walsh College. Her fields of interest include persuasive campaigns and strategic communication. She worked in a number of capacities on political statewide, regional, and national campaigns, including campaign manager and primary spokesperson. Dr. Brian Klaas is a Fellow in Comparative Politics at the LSE. He focuses on democracy, global politics, political violence, voting, and elections. 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__label__cc	0.626455	0.373545	Home » Blogs » Narcissism Meets Normalcy » 1 Weird Thing All Narcissists Do Meets Normalcy with Lenora Thompson 1 Weird Thing All Narcissists Do By Lenora Thompson It would be funny, if it weren’t so tragic. It would be amusing, if it weren’t so maddening. In my experience, all narcissists do one weird thing: they believe themselves to have a skill they don’t actually possess and pursue it doggedly. Dare to tell them the truth and watch them double-down, entrench, deny, bluster…and then prove they can do XYZ by doing it again…with even more tragic results. The Juggler? On the “lite” end of the scale, I know a narcissist who can’t juggle. But it doesn’t deter them in the slightest. Most weekends will find them on their back patio, solemnly engaging in some form of juggling…balls falling everywhere in a blur of hands, grabbing and throwing and missing and missing and missing. As Jane Austen put it, “What do we live for but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn.” But this narcissist sees nothing funny about. They’re a juggler, by George! Not a comedian! Their neighbors would beg to differ. The Opera Singer? Have you seen the 2016 movie Florence Foster Jenkins. If you haven’t, find it! Watch it! It’s brilliant and heart-rending! Florence Foster Jenkins was renowned in the opera circles of the early 1900s for one reason and one reason only: she was THAT spectacularly BAD but it didn’t deter her from “singing”in the slightest. I first heard of Florence Foster Jenkins years ago when Minnesota Public Radio aired a scratchy 1940s recording she paid to have made and then distributed to her friends, bless her heart! She warbled, shrieked and screeched all over the place. As Wikipedia says: “The historian Stephen Pile ranked her ‘the world’s worst opera singer … No one, before or since, has succeeded in liberating themselves quite so completely from the shackles of musical notation.’ ” This did not dissuade her in the slightest, in fact, Meryl Streep as Florence Foster Jenkins remains steadfastly deaf and willfully blind to her operatic badness. There are moments of doubt but her sycophants, pitying her syphilitic state, lie to buoy her ego and she dies happy. Bless her heart. The Writer? What is it about narcissists that draws them to the written word? What is it about narcissists who cannot write that convinces them they’re the next Shakespeare? I could earn a pretty penny as The-Editor-to-Narcissists-Who-Can’t-Write if I weren’t so traumatized from having done it already in my twenties. You don’t so much edit as completely rewrite ergo you’re actually their ghost writer. On second thought, no one would hire me. Most narcissists are so self-deluded that they fancy themselves not only gifted writers but so brilliant that they don’t need an editor. Rule #1 of Writing: Everyone needs an editor. I need an editor. I haven’t got one, but I need one. Narcissists are no exception. The narcissists I’ve had the great misfortune to edit should be jailed for crimes against the English language. Shhhh. You hear that? It’s George Bernard Shaw rolling in his grave. One narc author insisted on modifying each noun with no less than three adjectives, all beginning with the same letter of the alphabet as the noun they modify. Gag me with a participle! The worst part is that it must be genetic. I catch myself doing it too! Another narc author wrote exactly as she spoke: incoherently. No, no, no. I think her writing was worse. You could kinda dope out what she was trying to say but not what she was writing about. Yet another narc author self-published a novel that was without exaggeration horrendous in every way. The worst part is that this so-called author teaches writing to young, impressionable minds. Yeah, tell me about it! Running on for almost four hundred pages, this, this…no, I cannot bring myself to use the word “author.” Let’s go with dreamer. Yeah, dreamer is good. As I was saying, for almost four hundred pages this dreamer narrates for us the sordid soap opera unfolding in their fevered imagination. It’s like reading the storyboard of a very bad, very slow, B movie with glaring plot holes and a storyline that makes about as much sense as The Big Sleep. Delete 25% of the words in this so-called book and it’ll improve about 5%. Then suddenly, in the final chapter, all the loose ends (and they are legion!) are brutally tied up in a neat, little bow…that makes no earthly sense. I lost tooth enamel I was grinding so hard while reading this, this, this…thing. Don’t even get me started on the punctuation! Just because you know the grammatical use of a semicolon, does not mean they should be sprinkled throughout each and every page. Frau Riley, my dear grammar and German teacher, taught us that semicolons, like mustard, should be used delicately. A soupçon here and there. But again, the victim of this narcissist taking up their quill is adjectives. Fancying themselves so advanced that they can shake off the shackles of logical adjective/noun pairings, the dreamer tortures, tortures, us by using the wrong modifier with the wrong noun. For four hundred freakin’ pages! And In Conclusion… Our modern culture tells children, “You can do anything you want to do. You can be anyone you want to be.” And the millenials, bless their hearts, are something of a narcissistic trainwreck because of it. Sorry, Honey, but no. You can’t do anything you want to do. You have certain strengths, certain skills, certain talents. Play to them; not against them. You may want to write as I want to paint, but that just ain’t happenin’! The Good Lord did not see fit to put an artistic bone in my body and I’m okay with that! I accept it, graciously, and compensate by buying way too much art at thrift stores. Where does one go to buy more wall space? The Good Lord did not give Michael the gift of writing. He can speak eloquently but somehow it gets terribly garbled when he tries to write it down. So he doesn’t try. He accepts his lack of the gift of writing gracefully and plays to his strengths, solder iron in hand. The man is a savant when it comes to electronics, especially vintage electronics. But he can’t write any more than I can solder. In my experience, it is a trait of narcissists that they stubbornly believe they posses a skill the Good Lord did not see fit to give them and insist on wielding that non-existent talent to the misery and torture of themselves and everyone around them. But what about the talents they do possess? The world is poorer for narcissists ignoring their real skills, forgotten like a Matchbox truck half-buried in a sandbox. What a slap in God’s face! How much nicer the world would be if narcissists with verbal eloquence would leave off trying to paint and help negotiate World Peace. How much richer the world would be if narcissists with the gift for economics would give up on writing the Next Great American Novel and instead tackle the National Debt. Dear Narcissists! Please play to your strengths…not against them. We will all be the happier for it. Thank you for reading! If you like what you read, please check out my newest blog, Reluctant Cook Cheap Foodie where we explore the art and science of cooking from my perspective, that of a very unwilling cook! Lenora Thompson Lenora Thompson is a syndicated Huffington Post freelance writer and food blogger. Her readers call her the "Edward Snowden" and "Wikileaks" of narcissism because of her no-holds-barred-take-no-prisoners approach to writing about narcissism. “Narcissism Meets Normalcy” is the real-life, ongoing story of her healing journey from being held “hostage” by a multi-generational, cult-like narcissistic family. It's gritty and real, bloody and bruised, humorous and sarcastic. Lenora Thompson considers herself a “whistleblower,” shining a spotlight on narcissistic abuse so others can also claim their freedom and experience healing. To learn more about Lenora, her husband Michael's heroic battle with Pulmonary Alveolar Proteinosis and to read her writings about food, please visit www.lenorathompsonwriter.com. Thank you! Thompson, L. (2019). 1 Weird Thing All Narcissists Do. Psych Central. Retrieved on January 20, 2020, from https://blogs.psychcentral.com/narcissism/2019/11/1-weird-thing-all-narcissists-do/ Are You Addicted to Drama, Drama, Drama? Sex, Narcissists, Virtue Signalling and Hand-Me-Down Projection David: I really enjoyed this article and the view point from the child being a victim of a parent that perpetrated... David CRV: can you relate it tobthe picture you refeer from start? i found this tolic very ibteresting explore in... Maxine Gibson: Excellent article! You explain the concept of emotional incest so well: “the child walks on... Lenora Thompson: So proud of you! Let us know what transpires. Huldah: Completely unrelated to this post, but: I sent my No Contact letter today!	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line10594
__label__wiki	0.575	0.575	Running Features Celestial Pictures' Shaw Brothers Universe Articles Firestorm (2014) Director: Alan Yuen Notable Cast: Andy Lau, Yao Chen, Gordon Lam, Hu Jun, Ray Lui, Phillip Keung, Kenny Wong, Oscar Leung, Michael Tong The reach of John Woo has been pretty massive. Whether it’s in Hollywood or Hong Kong, his style of taking mediocre scripts and making them massively entertaining films has been a foundational move for action filmmaking. Going into a film like Firestorm (and no, this not the film with Howie Long), you almost have to assume that it’s going to be John Woo-ish. Which, of course, Firestorm is most definitely inspired by the gun fu, bullet ballet focus. Like many films that pull that direction Firestorm is hindered by a messy script, but the resulting cops n’ robbers entertainment that it presents is a blast to watch still. Lui Ming-chit (Andy Lau) has spent a good portion of his career in Hong Kong trying to bring down the crime lord Cao (Hu Jun). After a vicious armored truck heist though, he might have the edge to get into the loop of the crime syndicate. How far will he go to take down his nemesis though? Will he risk everything he stands for? "I have a mask and an uzi...do I look like I'm robbing anything?" The structure of Firestorm is the film’s biggest obstacle on itself. To put it plainly, there’s too much going on. In essence, one is following two separate storylines. One for our police officer hellbent on bringing down the criminals and one for a recently released member of said criminal organization who has to figure out what his future holds. Both are intriguing, but both are too much for one film to handle. Each one has some solid emotional punches for their characters (although the subplot with Andy Lau and his ex-criminal friend and his daughter was impactful, it could have been emotionally devastating with a bit more time to embellish it), but the film has trouble balancing the two and still making a film that explodes with action. Director Alan Yuen does an admirable job with a majority of the film, but it’s simply too much script, too many characters, and not enough time for it to work with the intertwining stories like it could have. Outside of that, Firestorm is a fucking blast. Alan Yuen does an admirable job with the action set pieces (although his transitions seriously need work) and the film is populated with strong charismatic actors to pull it off in what little time they have. The film is appropriately diverse in its action too. It has gravity defying fist fights on a platform between buildings, heists, cat and mouse chases, car stunts, and a massive Heat inspired finale with enough explosions and artistic bullet work to make the obvious inspiration, John Woo, blush. "Cough it up, crook!" Although I have seen better action cop thrillers this year with better scripts and more impactful writing, Firestorm is still a massively entertaining John Woo inspired romp. It has all the elements of a winning film, it just can’t quite get them to work together in a more cohesive way. If you’re looking for a solid gun fu film though, it’s hard not to recommend Firestorm even with its flaws. Written By Matt Reifschneider Posted by DarkReif at 12:41 PM Labels: Action / Adventure, Suspense / Thriller, Well Go USA Mystery Road (2014) Director: Ivan Sen Notable Cast: Aaron Pedersen, Hugo Weaving, Ryan Kwanten, Tony Barry, Jack Thompson One has to admire a person that damn near does all of the major pieces for a film. If I am not mistaken, Ivan Sen might as well have acted all the roles in the film as he not only write and directed Mystery Road, but he was also the editor, cinematographer, and composer for the film. Considering the high-end execution of this subtle and slow burning drama thriller, I have to commend this film for those looking for a rather atmospheric flick... even if the writing comes off as a bit predictable and it leaves some of the subtle subplots feeling unfinished. Jay (Pedersen) returns to the small Outback town he grew up in as a detective with a new outlook on life. He doesn’t return under the best circumstances as he begins to investigate the death of a young girl left in a ditch. The locals seem hesitant to let him back into their affairs though and once he starts to dig; he uncovers a much bigger crime that might leave him buried in his birthplace. Outbackin' it up. One thing I do have to recommend about Mystery Road, it’s that the film certainly sticks with you long after the film is done. The story is fairly simple and Sen plays it with even less complication as he focuses on adding in more subtlety than explosive moments. This does hinder the film from reaching the heights of other crime dramas like Gone Baby Gone or Mystic River which feature those kinds of explosive performances and emotionally devastating endings, but the resulting execution for the film is pretty impressive. In fact, a lot of the plot is so subtle that minute details feel like they might play bigger roles later in the film like a forensic phone call that details about the weird genetics of the dog bite on the victim…which is more or less dropped to being visual cues later on. The attention to the small details of the dialogue did keep my attention front and center on the plot and it made the slow burn tempo still a riveting watch. Partnered with some stellar performances all the way around, particularly from Hugo Weaving whose shady police character devours scenes whole, Mystery Road does have a lot going for it. The biggest issue that remains for the film though is the shaky third act. Not to give too much away, but the action oriented finale feels a bit out of the blue and many of these subtle characters are left without much of an emotional punch. The father-daughter storyline felt terribly underplayed and the finale made the missed opportunity even greater as the film plays up her ‘disappearance’ as something much bigger than it turned out to be. It simply plays out in the most predictable ways with far too many characters left to the wolves as the plot attempted to wrap itself up nicely. Eye on the prize! All in all though, I was particularly impressed with the sheer execution of the acting and meticulous attention to detail in Mystery Road. Sen has an eye from some subtle and impactful visuals and his character work is top notch, but the script could have used a few more drafts to flesh out more of the emotional aspects of the film. This is a director to keep an eye out for in the underground genre world as this film felt more like a test than a true attack on the art form he was attempting. Mystery Road might be flawed, but in many ways it’s these flaws that make the great aspects so appealing. Posted by DarkReif at 7:23 AM Labels: Drama, Suspense / Thriller, Well Go USA Adventures of Zatoichi (1964) Director: Kimiyoshi Yasuda Notable Cast: Shintaro Katsu, Eiko Taki, Miwa Takada, Mikijiro Hira, Kichijiro Ueda, Akatake Kono, Koichi Mizuhara, Ikuko Mori “It’s not that I’m strong. It’s that they’re weak.” –Zatoichi Considering that the Zatoichi franchise kicked off in 1962 and the ninth entry of the series dropped in 1964 (the fourth film in the series just that year actually), you just have to assume that there are going to be some lackluster entries. Not that Adventures of Zatoichi is a bad film overall, this series has yet to truly have a terrible film, but it is one that definitely plays it safe. For fans of Zatoichi it’s still a fine entry that contains all the elements we have come to love from these films, but the overall quality is a big step down. Zatoichi (Shintaro Katsu)has decided to visit a small village for New Year’s day, but on the way there he is asked by a stranger to deliver a note to a young woman in one of the inns. He accomplishes the task, but when he arrives he finds the town in dire tension from a corrupt magistrate. He also becomes involved in a murder mystery from another young woman who is looking for her father, the head of a village nearby that disappeared when coming to take to the magistrate. What Zatoichi will find is a conspiracy that digs deeper and weaves all of these issues together. Long walks is how he gets all the girls. Truthfully there are many things to like about Adventures of Zatoichi, but few things to love about the film. The plot is an intriguing intertwining of separate threads that build into one massive mystery, but its fairly predictable through. The fight sequences might be impactful and well choreographed, but they are a bit sparse and the director fails to capitalize on making them as memorable as they could be including the finale with the soft falling snow at night. There is intriguing subtext about fathers and their sons, but the film misses some of the stronger emotional beats for it – particularly when we start to believe that perhaps the local drunk might be Zatoichi’s father. So as you can see there is a lot of opportunity for this film to build on its basics, but it misses a lot of the punches it needed to rise about being mediocre. Perhaps the biggest issue that I have with Adventures of Zatoichi though is the lacking antagonist for the film. Most of the other films feature a somewhat memorable and divisive ronin for Zatoichi to square off against in the finale. In this film, they tease a big rivalry between a new ronin Gounosuke (played with a vicious subtlety by Mikijiro Hira of Three Outlaw Samurai and more recently 13 Assassins) and each of their meetings is lightning dynamic…but alas, like all of the examples from above, it’s too rare. Even their battle at the end misses a bit of emotional punch from being too brief. With the two phenomenal actors in these roles, this is easily one of the biggest missed opportunities. The father/son theme runs deep in this film. For casual Zatoichi fans, Adventures is a safe and unoffensive bet. It’s certainly not as terrible as what many other reviewers and fans seem to say it is, but it’s definitely one of the weaker entries thus far in the series. At its core, Adventures really just lacks a distinct voice like many of the other entries do and unfortunately it undermines many of the better elements. It’s a decent flick, but hardly the best. Labels: Action / Adventure, Drama, Martial Arts, Samurai Films, Zatoichi Franchise Tekken 2: Kazuya's Revenge (2014) Director: Wych Kaos Notable Cast: Kane Kosugi, Gary Daniels, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Rade Serbedzija, Kelly Wenham, Paige Lindquist When it comes to video game adaptations, fighting games seem to be the most popular to be translated over and, generally speaking, most of them suck. For my favorite fighting game franchise, Tekken, the first live action film was a massive let down. The cheese and terrible acting hindered a potentially fun and action packed film and lead me thinking that it killed any potential for a film franchise from one of my favorite game series. I was wrong. Out of the blue comes Tekken 2: Kazuya’s Revenge (also known as Tekken: A Man Called X – whatever the hell that means) and I was actually excited again. Kane Kosugi as Kazuya? Gary Daniels? A less is more kind of plot synopsis? I was stoked to see what they low budget actioner could bring to this franchise. As it turns out, this film is actually worse than the first one. Worse. Way worse. Enough that I have to say it’s the worst action film I’ve seen this year and that’s saying something. Kazuya (Kosugi) wakes up in a hotel room. His memory is wiped and a police unit is after him…on top of that he’s “saved” by Rhona (Wenham) and taken to The Minister (Serbedzija). The Minister enlists his service as an assassin in the city, but Kazuya is just starting to unravel his past…to discover what his future holds. I'd pretend to have amnesia too if I signed on to do this movie. I’m guessing that this film wasn’t written to be a Tekken film initially. The premise of a man suffering from amnesia being used as an assassin isn’t all that original…and the way that Tekken 2 goes about using it is about as generic as possible. So what if they named a few of the characters after the game fighters? It’s still a very basic story. The terrible storytelling doesn’t sell the entire concept either. We are introduced to a pseudo-post apocalyptic world with ‘districts’ and…stuff. Kosugi is given an amnesiac assassin where he rarely is given much to get emotional over outside of some awkward flashbacks and an ill conceived romantic subplot that features one of the worst performances from an actress all year. He sort of wanders around confused and gets involved with other characters that we don’t give two shits about. Gary Daniels returns as his character Bryan Fury from the first Tekken, not that you would recognize him as he doesn’t even look like the same guy, and he shows up for a paycheck and disappears after a couple of minutes of worthless story. Even at its basic foundations, Tekken 2 is a terrible film: uninspired and lazy. It’s not like every straight to DVD action flick needs a great story and great acting to pull off an entertaining film though. Most of them don’t. Even in the execution though, Tekken 2 feels utterly tired and insipid. Director Wych Kaos (whom you might know as the director of the eye-gouging bad Ballistic: Ecks Vs Sever) has no idea how to pace the film or give it the depth needed to even begin to sell its terrible script. The fight choreography might be just a tad better than the first film, but the lacking action in the finale, the disappointing match between Daniels and Kosugi, and the super serious tone of the film make sure that none of the action is enjoyable. I didn’t even have fun during this movie. He's fighting in a generic set with generic baddies. Yawn. As an avid Tekken and action film fan, I can’t recommend Tekken 2 to ANYONE. At least the first film had the sad ability to be unintentionally entertaining with its ridiculous concepts and silly fight sequences. Tekken 2 is a sad excuse for an action film that has no character work, a nonsensical and poorly structured script, and action that has no meaning or depth. Even if you remotely liked the first film, I will just throw it out there to skip this one. It’s not worth the time or effort. Posted by DarkReif at 6:31 PM Labels: Action / Adventure, Martial Arts, Video Game Falcon Rising (2014) Director: Ernie Barbarash Notable Cast: Michael Jai White, Neal McDonough, Laila Ali, Lateef Crowder, Millie Ruperto, Jimmy Navarro, Masashi Odate “God has nothing to do with this. You made your own choices.” Michael Jai White has been dealing with TV and other bit acting parts for far too long. They’ve tried to give him franchises (Black Dynamite, Spawn) but continually they get shoved onto the back burner by studios. Luckily, someone seems to have their head on straight by attempting to give him one more franchise, but this time it’s a low budget old school actioner that wouldn’t require gimmicks or big bank rolls to get going. This film is Falcon Rising. While it’s not going to be winning any awards for its relatively basic plot line and old school 80s concepts, Falcon Rising is quite the entertaining flick hinged on some solid action set pieces that will have action fans clamoring for more. John Chapman (Michael Jai White) can’t seem to cope with heading back to civilian life after his experiences in war. He struggles with purpose in his life and even though his sister (Laila Ali) tries to help, she’s so busy helping in the favelas of Brazil to always be there. When she is brutally attacked and left in a coma though, John takes it onto his shoulders to head down there and find out just who and why she was attacked. With the help of an old friend in the government (McDonough) he might just uncover a larger conspiracy at play. "I'm here for some pain medication." There can be a beauty to low budget straight to home video action films like Falcon Rising. Sure the budget obviously hurts the film in a lot of ways, particularly a film that tries to be as ambitious as this one, but the creativity in play with the execution and old school approach to its action lends itself to playing to its audience with a fair amount of confidence. At the foundation, sure the script is a bit cliché with Chapman looking to uncover what happened and having to essentially kick his ass to the top and a bit too much thought into the ‘conspiracy’ will unveil quite a few plot holes, but the approach is heartfelt and ultimately charismatic if that counts for anything. Perhaps the biggest issue that Falcon Rising faces is just how serious it takes itself. It touches on a lot of bigger issues with its in-the-basics plot including police corruption, poverty, drug influence, and PTSD. At times the film wants to be a little bit First Blood and it doesn’t quite have the cast or script to pull it off. Chapman is a pretty strong character to build a franchise on (as indicated by its open ending and even the title Falcon Rising) and while it lacks some of the fun that Michael Jai White usually brings to these kind of films – the latter half gets much better and even has him dropping a few one liners – this debut for the character is a great kick off for all intensive purposes. Ass kicking brought you by the letter "O" - as in, "Oh, shit." As for the action, Falcon Rising delivers that in spades on all fronts. Director Ernie Barbarash is going to be one of those directors to be ranked up there with Florentine as one of the greats of underground action cinema (both Assassination Games and 6 Bullets rock hard) and the combination of hand to hand combat and gun work is pretty top notch for a low budget actioner. I do wish that Michael Jai White would have gone one on one a bit longer with Lateef Crowder (who played in both Undisputed 3 and Tekken as a highlight for throw-away roles), but the finale is still a blast. Falcon Rising is not a perfect film and its writing can be a bit of a burden on all of the great aspects of the film, but the combination of Michael Jai White’s screen charisma, the action direction of Barbarash, and a focus on building a franchise make it one of the gems in action for the year. It’s not a film for everyone, but action fans will delight in all of its old school fist and gun glory. Here’s to hoping for a long lasting series! Posted by DarkReif at 11:42 AM Labels: Action / Adventure TOP TEN: Godzilla Films Godzilla: King of the Monsters...and franchises! With the home release of Legendary’s Godzilla reboot on the horizon, we felt it was high time to build another Blood Brothers top ten list for one of our favorite franchise of all time. Prior to the release of the latest installment (and second American attempt at kick starting a US franchise for Big G), I blasted through all of the Godzilla films in an attempt to relive my youth and refresh my memory. As I went through the films, I ranked each one to create this top ten list. Included with each entry is a brief explanation of why it deserves to make the list and the best Godzilla WTF Moment of the film. I hope that our readers enjoy this list as it was a hard one to finalize for me due to my life long relationship with the King of the Monsters. If you agree or disagree, feel free to spit some blood in the comments section below with your bloody two-cents. Until then, enjoy Blood Brothers’ Top Ten Godzilla Films! 10. GODZILLA AGAINST MECHAGODZILLA (2002) Perhaps my favorite era of Godzilla is the 2000s series, where continuity finally seemed to matter, the special effects were top notch, and the series decided to push a few boundaries by moving Godzilla away from being a full on good guy or villain as a character. After the disappointing previous entry, the series returns to one of its other iconic characters with Mechagodzilla for another epic showdown. While the concept of this one is fairly ridiculous, the focus on stronger character depth adds a more humane aspect to the kaiju proceedings…of which the final act is pretty awesome anyway. 09. GODZILLA: TOKYO S.O.S. (2003) This direct sequel to Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla (and various other Toho films like Mothra) actually improves on many elements of the previous entry as it pulls further from some of the comic book lead characters and adds a bit more drama to the mix. Not to mention it’s always awesome to have Mothra involved again as a hero of sorts. The final act is ridiculously epic and worth the price of purchase alone. 08. KING KONG VS. GODZILLA (1962) Say what you will about the cheesy elements of King Kong Vs. Godzilla, but this film is a fucking riot from minute one. While I have only seen some shitty versions of the original Japanese cut of the film, even the American version (complete with the most watered down newscaster cut scenes known to man) is a blast to watch. Rarely does this film make sense thanks to some issues with the script and obvious attempts at just being outrageous, but this one has some of the most iconic moments of the series…even if that includes Kong being airlifted by weather balloons while drunk on berry juice. Not to mention you get to see Godzilla punch his way out of an iceberg. 07. GODZILLA: FINAL WARS (2004) This is easily the most controversial choice from the series to make my top ten list for the Godzilla franchise, but I’ll be damned if I don’t have a blast watching Godzilla: Final Wars time and time again. It throws in everything into the mix. Relentless kaiju battles for the last half, all of the iconic Toho monsters and freak plot progressions, martial arts fight sequences, motorcycle chases, aliens, enemies that morph into different forms, and super cheesy CGI mixed with the rubber suit vs model madness. It’s crazy eclectic, but it succeeds in a B-grade film sort of way to be so entertaining that it rarely pulls off of the gas pedal. For that, it ends up being one of my favorites and one of the most interesting entries into this franchise. 06. GHIDRAH: THE THREE-HEADED MONSTER (1964) AKA INVASION OF ASTRO MONSTER I love the look and arch-nemesis status of Ghidorah from the original series, but too often he was thrown in with not enough back story or as a filler enemy in later entries. For his debut though, Ghidorah is treated as a truly vicious and world ending threat for humanity and thusly, kaiju all over. This film also succeeds in its structure as we see other iconic monsters (Rodan and Mothra) having to team together to defeat this latest threat in the final act. It’s almost like the film plays out as a morality tale about putting aside differences for the betterment of our world and despite its somewhat silly ‘alien’ plot thread, works impressively as a science fiction tale. 05. GODZILLA (2014) While the reviews originally came out mixed for this newest slab of kaiju destruction at the hands of Big G, I loved it. It teases with the audience and really brings Godzilla bravely into a modern era, throwing in just enough references to previous entries for the fans and adding in some new material for the young folks unfamiliar with the franchise. While it’s the only full CGI Godzilla flick to make this list, director Edwards knows how to shoot an action sequence with kaiju for this day and age and the film has one of the best fights in the last act. Critics can bitch about all the writing issues they want, but I'm guessing that they haven't seen many of the other films to see how it fits into the franchise. I'm guess none of them really remember the horrid Godzilla Vs. Megalon. 04. GODZILLA VS. DESTROYAH (1995) For this entry, the series takes a darker and almost Lovecraftian turn. Destroyah might be one of Godzilla’s most vicious foes as he shifts and splits into various forms as unrelenting ass kicking. Not only that, but Godzilla is threatening to go all nuclear meltdown on us (giving him a smoky orange glow) and his now grown son – a story thread from the last few – is going to have to help him take out the new monster. The stakes are super high, the human element is one marked with panic, and the top notch costuming make this one a must see. This is one of the few Godzilla entries that even has a bit of a horror streak to it. 03. MOTHRA VS. GODZILLA (1964) I’m not entirely sold on the original Godzilla series that lasted through the 70s, as one can see from this list, as that series focused more on making Godzilla a protector of Earth and heavily focused on science fiction aspects, but pitting Big G versus the ‘real’ protector of nature Mothra was an awesome idea. Mothra might have some hard to swallow fantasy aspects to it, but the resulting multi-tiered battles in the film make this one instantly memorable and well balanced with a human stance that would quickly get lost in the shuffle in later entries. It can be a bit cheesy, but the resulting mix of thematic moral lessons and kaiju throwdowns is worth it. 02. GODZILLA, MOTHRA, AND KING GHIDORAH: GIANT MONSTERS ALL-OUT ATTACK (2001) Coming off strong from his 90s trilogy of Gamera films, director Shusuke Kaneko takes his entry into the Godzilla franchise in wholly new directions. For Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack (often shortened to GMK,) he establishes Godzilla as the ultimate bad guy – powered by the ghosts of those killed in WWII nonetheless – and humanity must awaken the three protectors of Earth to stop him from annihilating all of Japan. This entry is substantially darker, more violent, and heavier than almost any of the previous entries as Godzilla is fucking ruthless (pure white eyes and all) to the point that you’re not sure who will win at the end. [Spoiler] Particularly when Godzilla fucking executes Baragon at the mid waypoint. Nothing is safe in this film and the resulting flick is awesome kaiju ecstasy through and through. The obvious choice for the best Godzilla film to be made thus far, the original Godzilla still reigns supreme as king of the monsters. With remarkably little screen time to actually destroy things, Godzilla remains a heavy presence through the strong character actions and interactions as the symbolism of Japan’s fear about the aftermath of the nuclear destruction in WWII. Godzilla is less of a monster and more of a symbol in this film and it works in spades to deliver a thoughtful film that parallels reality with a giant monster film onscreen. It also has a very memorable city destruction sequence for those looking for some kaiju action. Agree or disagree with this list? Spit some blood below and let us know which films you think should have made the Top Ten Godzilla Films list! Labels: Action / Adventure, Godzilla Stompathon, Kaiju, Science Fiction, Top Ten Replacement Killers, The (1998) Director: Antoine Fuqua Notable Cast: Chow Yun Fat, Mira Sorvino, Michael Rooker, Kenneth Tsang, Jurgen Prochnow, Til Schweiger, Danny Trejo, Clifton Collins Jr With the upcoming release of The Equalizer, I felt it was high time to revisit director Antoine Fuqua’s debut feature film The Replacement Killers. As a young man just discovering the brilliance of Hong Kong cinema in the late 90s and early 00s I was obsessed with this film. The combination of flashy American action style and the badassness of Chow Yun Fat really hit the spot. Rewatching the film as an adult has lead me to a few conclusions: firstly, the film is not as great as memory would indicate and secondly, the film is still utterly badass in many ways. Sure it’s a pretty simple film and it lacks some cohesive narrative at times, but I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I still was massively entertained by the entire thing. It might not be as classic as other Chow Yun Fat action vehicles like Hard Boiled or The Killer, but it’s still a blast. John Lee (Chow Yun Fat) is indebted to Mr. Wei and he owes him three assassinations. The first ones are easy, rival gangsters in the US that don’t sport any threat to the gun fu talents of his double wielding handguns. The third however is a kill he cannot bring himself to finish and Mr. Wei is not happy with that. Now John Lee must get help from a rogue forger (Sorvino) to get out of the country before his replacement killers find him and make sure he stays…permanently. Having Chow Yun Fat at your side means you're already winning. Antoine Fuqua’s debut is, generally speaking, a mixed effort. The script is rather plain and there isn’t a lot of back story to build on for the various characters to have the emotional impact that they could have. Chow Yun Fat plays the vicious hitman with a heart…again. Mira Sorvino plays an edgy document forger that seemingly never has time to put on a damn shirt under her jacket. Yawn. At its core, this film is a pretty by-the-numbers action thriller that rarely inspires the kind of dedication that it could have with a bit more connection and depth to the various characters to heighten the situational tension. The narrative is predictable too which doesn’t help matter at all. Oh jeez, he has a change of heart and decides he needs to put a stop to the violence. Tell me more, movie. The reason that this film is utterly badass is that it feels like the bastardized child between a 90s music video and a John Woo film. First time film director Antoine Fuqua owes a lot his style to John Woo for this picture (either that or the producers forced his hand towards that direction) and the resulting combination of bullet ballets and the bright colors and quirky side characters is something of the perfect example of 90s style. The film is littered with gun fights, done with the delicate balance of a dance ala Woo and Chow Yun Fat films previous like Hard Boiled, and The Replacement Killers keeps the pacing so quick and dirty that its hard not to just enjoy it for what it is as it vomits style-over-substance right in front of you. This film also has the benefit of having one of the greatest B-cult secondary casts of all time featuring the likes of Michael Rooker as the main cop and a set of villains that includes Kenneth Tsang, Jurgen Prochnow, Til Schweiger, and the ever awesome Danny Trejo. Trejo and Chow Yun Fat have a great gun battle on a fire escape in the final act that makes The Replacement Killers worth the watch just by itself. Michael Rooker is always awesome...gun or not. While The Replacement Killers is not a perfect film with its cliché writing and often muddled script, it does have the benefit of feeling like a music video version of a John Woo film. It’s littered with fun and charming B-grade elements (seeing Chow Yun Fat stop himself from sliding in a car wash with the barrels of his duel handguns for example) and for those looking for a solid enough revenge action thriller it’s a decent choice. It still gets a big old recommendation from me. Labels: Action / Adventure, Suspense / Thriller November Man, The (2014) Director: Roger Donaldson Notable Cast: Pierce Brosnan, Luke Bracey, Olga Kurylenko, Bill Smitrovich, Amila Terzimehic, Lazar Ristovski, Mediha Musliovic "This is my scenario." Since leaving the world of James Bond after Die Another Day, Pierce Brosnan’s career has been a roller coaster one where he has refused to be cornered into doing Bond knock offs. When the trailer for The November Man hit online, I was shocked to see a Bond-esque film featuring the enigmatic Brosnan drop…theatrically on top of it. Don’t let those adverts fool you though; The November Man is NOT a Bond knock off. In fact, it’s relatively far from it. This film is a throwback style spy thriller that earns its ‘R’ rating with violence and some darker thematic material. It’s plot and character heavy and it came as a complete and utter pleasant surprise. Devereaux (Brosnan) has been out of the game for five years or so living comfortably in solitude in Europe. When his ex-handler comes out to give him an op at the request of a Russian woman, he can’t say no. Unfortunately, the job is massively complicated and Devereaux is quick to find out that he might just be a pawn in a much bigger game. Now he’s on the hunt for a woman who knows information about an upcoming Russian President elect and he’s being hunted by his own protégé (Bracey). Shit has, quite frankly, hit the fan. Bullets kill people. So does Devereaux. The best part of The November Man – and perhaps the most surprising – is how much of an anti-hero Brosnan plays in the role of Devereaux. Seriously, this guy is charming, as Brosnan always is on screen, but he’s a cold son of a bitch at times and it’s a delightful role that Brosnan seems to revel in with the film. Whether he’s dropping f-bombs, brashly party crashing on a strip club, or holding his protégé’s girlfriend hostage (the latter resulting in some of the best intense moments of the film), Brosnan is wholly up for the entire gig and plays the balance between cold killer and thoughtful hero with remarkable ease. If only his later Bond films would have utilized this more serious side of his acting abilities then perhaps he wouldn’t have been such a Roger Moore clone in the end. Luckily, this film makes up for a lot of it. From there The November Man, like many of the newer throwback thrillers in the vein of Jack Reacher or Dead Man Down, caters heavily to a twisting plot painted with darker content. At times I was wishing that they would slow it down just a tad to give a bit more character work for the slew of characters in the film (his protégé Mason, despite the focus on him in the advertisements, tends to be one of the weaker characters overall), but the film moves at such a quick pace that rarely did I have time to notice the small things until well after the film had ended. The November Man does throw in plenty of action-oriented sequences to keep that pacing up and they work ridiculously well in the cat-n-mouse chase aspect of the film. Director Donaldson seems to know what it takes to make an old school written thriller like this appeal to a modern audience and he injects just enough pizzazz to keep the film a high-octane entertainer. There is even a pretty impressive fistfight between teacher and student in the final act that impressed the action fan in me. Say cheese. The November Man is the kind of film that probably won’t attract a lot of massive attention from mainstream moviegoers, but it should. It’s a well-crafted action thriller that earns its merits from great characters and a relentless pacing punctuated with some action set pieces. While I’m sure Brosnan won’t see the Neeson bump that Taken gave him, but The November Man remains one of the biggest surprise of 2014 and one that hopefully earn Brosnan another franchise. Fight, Zatoichi, Fight (1964) Director:Kenji Misumi Notable Cast: Shintaro Katsu, Gen Kimura, Shosaku Sugiyama, Hizuro Takachiho, Nobuo Kaneko, Ikuko Mori “You call yourselves human beings? So long as you can fill your own purses, you don’t give a damn what it might mean to someone else. Not even to an innocent child.” When it comes down to it and your franchise is sliding in quality at a decent rate like Zatoichi had been for the last couple of films then go back to basics and find your footing. That is exactly what Fight, Zatoichi, Fight does. Despite its silly grindhouse sounding title, the franchise whips back to have Kenji Misumi, director of the first film, to helm this eighth entry and it reverts the style back into the character driven dramatic territory. It might not be the thrill n’ kill style that fans will have gotten used to with the last few films, but the thoughtful writing and impact is a welcome change of pace. Zatoichi (Shintaro Katsu) continues to wander his way around Japan, desperately avoiding assassins at every turn. When a young woman traveling with her young baby son is killed by ronin who mistake her carriage for Zatoichi’s, Zatoichi takes it upon himself to deliver the baby to his father come hell or high water. Dark alleyways will not help against a blind man. When I first read that Fight, Zatoichi, Fight would essentially throw in the gimmick that our heroic blind swordsman would be hindered by a baby, I was skeptical. I figured it would end up much like the previous entry with its comedic focus and silly fight sequences. This is not the case with this film though. Misumi decidedly takes a far more dramatic tone for the film focusing more on how the baby affects Zatoichi’s character than using it as a gimmick for entertainment. It’s shockingly effective. Katsu once again owns these various scenes milking them for those long dramatic beats and tugs on the viewer’s heartstrings as he makes a connection with another human being like we have never seen before. The addition of a ‘nanny’ – a thief hired by Zatoichi to help him – adds to the emotional impact too in the end of the film as this rag tag family fights their way to deliver this child. That being said, the biggest thing that does suffer from the new focus on characters and interactions is the finale. While the film does move briskly with plenty of fighting throughout, the last few films have really set a new standard for an exciting last act and this is where Fight, Zatoichi, Fight struggles the most. While the film has a lot of emotional impact in the last 20 minutes, the actual final battle seems a bit brief and lacks some of the creative spectacle that the previous films had. I mean, outside of Zatoichi having to battle while partially on fire. A patchwork family. While Fight, Zatoichi, Fight might not be the most exciting of films as it lacks a bit of the thrill n’ kill style of the more grind oriented entries, the return to character driven dramatic beats is a welcome change of pace and ultimately makes this eighth entry better than the last few. The emotions run stronger, Katsu delivers another memorable performance, and the film is paced damn near perfectly. Had the finale been a bit more intense, then this one might have ranked up there with the best. As is, Fight, Zatoichi, Fight is a strong entry moving in the right direction. Labels: Drama, Martial Arts, Samurai Films, Zatoichi Franchise Director: Scott Waugh Notable Cast: Aaron Paul, Dominic Cooper, Imogen Poots, Michael Keaton, Scott Mescudi, Ramon Rodriguez, Rami Malek, Harrison Gilbertson, Dakota Johnson When it comes to film adaptations of videogames, I can’t say I necessarily have high expectations. When it’s an adaptation of a racing game, then color my expectations even lower than normal. These expectations might be the reason I was so pleasantly surprised with the quality of Need For Speed. It’s definitely not a perfect film, but when your core basis is a game where you simply outrace others and run from cops then most things are going to be an upgrade in quality. The film does tend to be a mixed bag at times as it blends the various aspects of race, drama, and action, but overall it does hold it’s own. Tobey (Paul) has had trouble making ends meet for his garage and the late night races don’t quite do it. When an old nemesis Dino (Cooper) wants him to work on the a dream car for big money, he can’t say no…but things spiral out of control and it leaves Tobey convicted of a crime he didn’t commit. To prove his innocence when he gets out, he looks to challenge Dino to a race he can’t refuse…but he’s got a long way to go and a short time to do it in. "Oh yeah, I'm in a video game movie." I think the key to the success of Need For Speed lies in the hands of director Scott Waugh. As a former stuntman and stunt coordinator, he simply gets it when it comes to a film like this. Right away in the opening race sequence, it’s obvious that he has a knack for filming and owning action sequences with the night color palettes and smart camera work. None of that quick edit bullshit, he shows us objects moving through space and paces it perfectly. He does this consistently throughout the film, owning the car stunts throughout (explosions too!) no matter how ridiculous the script seems to get. By the finale, the biggest nod the namesake game franchise, I felt like he might be one of the best directors to hit the action scene in quite some time. From there though, the film is a bit more hit or miss. Aaron Paul is given a character that’s almost too subtle with his under brow stares and lacking dialogue and many of the dramatic beats are a bit forced – particularly when it comes to his rivalry with Domic Cooper’s character Dino which includes a really awkward old girlfriend subplot that doesn’t really work. Luckily, Need For Speed seemingly knows this and doesn’t spend too much time with extensive character moments and keeps the pacing fast and furious (see what I did there?). The chemistry between Paul and Poots is fun and works much better than I would have ever expected and a silly running commentary from Michael Keaton’s reclusive racing host is B-grade hilarity. Where the film doesn’t succeed in deep thoughtful dramatic moments, it makes up for in fun charismatic streaks. It's a car. It's a plane...nope, it's just a car. While Need For Speed isn’t an Oscar contender, for a video game adaptation it’s one of the best. 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__label__cc	0.744189	0.255811	← Leaving Tennessee in the rear view mirror… Get ‘yer drinking game ready! → … and turning towards South Carolina. First thoughts on Georgia – South Carolina, or, as I like to refer to it, the “hasn’t seen” game. As in, Georgia hasn’t seen as good a defense this year as the Gamecocks’ D. As in, South Carolina hasn’t seen an offense remotely in the same class as Georgia’s. As in, the Dawgs haven’t seen a running back of the caliber of Marcus Lattimore. As in, the ‘Cocks haven’t seen as good a quarterback as Aaron Murray. As in… I think you get my point. Anyway, a few specifics: Very different challenge for Georgia’s defense this week. Gone is the scary downfield passing attack, to be replaced by a quarterback who’s been as efficient as Murray throwing the ball and is also an effective runner. Not to mention a tough son of a gun. Oh, yeah. There’s that Marcus Lattimore fellow. He’s not bad. Matt Hinton had a good piece about Lattimore that he posted before the Kentucky game in which he pointed out that Lattimore hasn’t been dominating South Carolina’s offensive numbers this season because Spurrier hasn’t needed him to. Cue the Kentucky game – the ‘Cocks are down 17-7 at the half and what does the OBC do? He dials up a heavy dose of his stud running back (10 carries for 61 yards in an 81-yard touchdown drive in the third quarter that put South Carolina up 28-17) to fuel a 31-point run and an easy win. Basically what Spurrier’s done is keep Lattimore in second-game shape even though the season’s five weeks old now. So what does that mean for Grantham? Well, for one thing, he won’t have his safeties lined up halfway to Watkinsville this week. For another, unlike the last two seasons, he’ll have a full quiver to shoot from, with no players out due to suspension or injury. The goal this week will be containment – controlling the zone read play and the intermediate passing game which Shaw has executed well. Another thing to keep an eye on is that South Carolina ran out of the I-formation a good bit against Kentucky. It’s a smart way both to protect Shaw’s shoulder and to pound on the defensive front to wear it out to enable Lattimore to control the fourth quarter in the way we’re all too sadly familiar with. In other words, it’s a big test for the new strength and conditioning regime. Also, I hope Grantham backs off from playing Jenkins and Geathers together so much; keeping them fresh for the inevitable strikes me as a good strategy. What is Bobo going to do about those defensive ends? Throw the kitchen sink at ’em, I expect, in hopes of keeping them off-balance. One thing I know is that he can’t expect Theus to handle Devin Taylor by himself all game. I do think the Dawgs will have some success moving the ball on the ground, but I’m scared to death of a couple of Murray turnovers coming by way of a fierce pass rush. Aaron’s got to be smart about not holding the ball too long. Also, expect lots and lots of max protect. Which may be fine, as I’m not as impressed with the ‘Cocks secondary as I am with their front seven. And I’m not forgetting that Georgia moved the ball on these guys throughout last year’s game. I’m not sure I really want to talk about special teams. Moving Mitchell out of punt return duty should help, but we can’t be sure until we see McGowan in action. I keep thinking that a game is going to come along where the extra point adventure is going to come back and bite Georgia in the butt. It wouldn’t surprise me in the slightest if this week’s game proved to be that point. On the other hand, I keep thinking Ace Sanders on punt returns is a turnover waiting to happen if the right guy times the right hit. Oh, and that silly Spurrier tiff with Ron Morris? I’ve seen someone suggest it’s the Evil Genius’ brilliant strategy for taking attention away from the game. (Question not addressed: why would he care about that?) Andy Staples thinks it was a distraction in the Kentucky game. Me, I just think Spurrier is a little bored. His team is functioning well and is in a post-Garcia era with no real major distractions. He’s got no players who need messing with, so the media makes a convenient target. Will any of that make a difference Saturday night? I don’t think so. 74 responses to “… and turning towards South Carolina.” In regards to their defensive ends, I’m wondering if we can iron out the kinks in that fly sweep we were running against Tennessee. Forcing them to keep contain on that might slow them getting up the field a bit. I bet we’ll see more two back and some chipping at them too. My main hope is that when they do whip their blocker our guys don’t nut up and make a bad situation worse… Tenn put on a clinic on negating a big pass rush last week. In addition to running laterally, we could learn from them. They killed us on that shovel pass to the RB several times when we brought the house. Their max protect package (and uncalled holding penalties) were also very effective agains J Jones and company. And their Oline played a brilliant overall game. It only fell apart late when Bray held the ball too long and / or succumbed to the late game pressure to perform in a heroic manner. I hope our coaches and team didn’t wait until Tuesday to leave UT in the rear view mirror and turn to SC. Might make for a long night. I was much more confident about this game a week ago. Now i am terrified – mainly of those ends and something “new” from SOS. We rolled up 436 yards of offense on those ends with Ellis Johnson calling the D last year. Averaged 4.9 yards per carry. Threw for 248 yards and 4 TDs and average 8.9 yards per attempt. Murray posted a 178 passer rating. While their defense gets some credit for cashing in our three gifts into TDs, in the end, we beat ourselves. I believe Bobo and Murray know how to attack this defense and with a better stable of running backs and receivers this year, I like our chances. Listened to sports radio driving through SC recently. Gosh, this should be pumped into the locker room sound system everytime the Dawgs are in there. Those clowns are ridiculous. It’s funny, I guess, but they’re collective memory of relevant past games is, in a word, short. No statements like, “reminds me of 1998 against WTF U..”. They have no relevant past! What has been said before about Florida now applies well to USCe… “The arrogance of Notre Dame and the tradition of Wake Forest” Wellll… games like this are why we love it. Not the Buffalo or FAU’s. This is going to be a real test. May the best team win, and all that jazz. Hope it’s the Dawgs. And if the Dawgs aren’t the best team, may they win anyways. Yeah, we are owed one from last year. Folks, you can daydream all you want to; waste energy telling yourself Steve Spurrier is a dick, etc, etc. South Carolina is a good football team, balanced on offense, ferocious on defense. I suffered through all that blabber about winning national championships and playing Bama in the dome last week. You see what happens when you challenge the Kharmic Bitches and wear the cloak of dark hubris? What happens is turnovers, goofy special teams and a doze off by the defense during the second quarter. I see this as a very even game between two good teams with good coaching staffs. The Bitches slapped us around and we still managed to win. But that won’t be Derek Dooley on the sidelines in the Parking Lot from Hell on Saddy nite, and it won’t be Rajion Neal running the football for South Carolina. Please folks, hunker down….this is going to be an Old Man Football war. Our way of life against their way of life, the biggest game Georgia has played in the regular season since…..South Carolina in 1980?….oh, and Lattimore don’t fumble much. We got a chance, but we can’t tempt the Bitches. Biggest regular season game since 1980? I think the 2002 team would disagree with you.. 8-0 heading the Florida knowing if you win you’re in the NC. I stand by my statement. “knowing if you win you’re in the NC.” I don’t think this was a given. Miami and OSU were both undefeated as well, and back then giving the SEC team priority in such a situation wasn’t assumed like it is now. And besides, we still had to get through Auburn, which was no cake walk. It makes me very nervous to say this, but based on results, I stand by my statement. Actually SJ,III now that I have had a chance to think about it I agree with you on this issue. In 2002 I remember that the table was set for us to jump to at least 2 if we beat Florida. Many unbeatens went down that day. Nobody is, Scorp. Looks to me like everyone thinks it’s going to be a war. Actually, though, you DO realize that nothing any of us says, thinks, expects, hopes for, writes about or bloviates about has one iota of influence on how these things play out, don’t you? (rhetorical question, don’t be offended) If everyone on here is in total agreement on how the game should be approached, planned and played, guess what? It don’t make Jack Shit. I’m nervous too, but I’d rather be a field-goal underdog to the cluckers at home than to be fifty point favorites against FAU in Athens. Competition is what the players want. That’s why they play. That’s why I watch. It’s fun. Of course, I realize you’re hyperbole (at least I think that’s what it is) is a balm for the fear of being dissapointed….as in “well, I was pretty much sure we would lose anyway”. I’m that way myself. But it’s more fun to say “I told y’all we were going to win”. So have some watered down coolaid…or can someone tell me what flavor goes best with rum? Dear Mr. Ugly….I have had this discussion before, maybe you missed it. Prove this to be true. Nothing I cans say, think, expect, hope for, write or bloviate about will have one iota of influence in proving it to be true. So I must be wrong. Don’t be stupid boys. We all know it’s the hat and shirt you wear game day that matters. Ug-anything fruity goes with rum. You can use juice also. Did I tell you that I met Jack Shitt once? Cool guy, but the best part was being able to answer “Yes!” when anyone asked if I know Jack Shitt. Cojones and Scorpio Jones III, my favorite tag team on the WWF “Blutarsky Sessions.” And I mean that. 🙂 Junkyard Dawg '00 here here, I hereby am changing my handle from Junkyard Dawg ’00 to Big Ones III in their honor. Senator, please note the change as one of respect and not of puppetry! Big Ones III Keep it up Fellows! Awwwww….does this mean we’re….like….going steady? But have you met Shit from Shinola? Dat’s da little conah back we tried to recruit two years ago, right? He ended up going to Awbun, now he is the only one who does. 1) How’s 29’s groin? 2) We’ll need to utilize the screen game (Murray needs to be practicing a little touch on those heat seeking missiles he has been throwing to the backs) 3) I’d like to see us move the pocket with Murray a good bit. Well # 2 will doom us because the screens and the wheel routes are not in AM’s playbook. He is awful throwing screens and as you said throws the swing pass too damn hard. I see total turnover city if AM throws screen passes. I hope this post is Scorpio approved. 69 I ain’t blind, either so you git no argument from this corner of the room. Couldn’t agree more. I can see Clowney or the other end jumping up to defend a screen and making very bad things happen. I’d prefer AM cut them up with 10-15 yard throws. If 3 and 4 can get some holes from the OL, it will keep the Cocks’ front 7 honest enough to play the run so that they can’t pin their ears back. And if AM can hit his receivers (and they catch the ball), it will keep the safeties from moving up into run support too fast. The past few years, we just haven’t run the ball well against these guys (unless I’m forgetting something). I think we’d all like to see 10-15 yd throws, the whole point is he might not have time to. I think they will bring up their safeties to stop the run and make us prove we can block their line. I keep thinking about how good Crowell looked against them last year. With 2 (or 3) backs able to perform like that, I like our chances. But freshmen ball security, playing against a grown man defense for the first time, gives me pause. It’s an equal point/counter point like every other freakin’ matchup in this game. I really think it’ll come down to if we protect the ball or not. We have a better qb and more skill guys. We’ll have better odds of scoring more points than them if we don’t turn it over. It’s cliche, but it looks to be true this week. I overheard SC fans talking on the Bill King show this morning that Aaron Murray is not as good as Conner Shaw because he has not beaten a ranked team, evah. They also basically called our defense out… calling them a overated. In fact, they said Aaron, our defense, and Coach Richt were all overated. two things surprise me by this… 1) their fans were smart enough to be able to recall the correct phone number to the show and 2) their fat fingers didn’t prevent them from dialing in… USCe football, a 2010 dynasty… won the coin toss in the SEC championship game! While I don’t necessarily agree w/ them, that’s a fair statement. AM hasn’t beaten a major opponent in a big game. When he’s been in such a position, he’s often been the reason we lost. He has the potential to be the best college QB this season, though. As for defense, I can’t say that I’ve seen any game that would suggest we’re not overrated. We played well against Mizzou and Vandy. We played poorly against Tenn (second half), Buff (first half), and the entire Fl. Atl. was completely uninspiring. Given the preseason hype, I’d say we’re definitely looking overrated. However, we have the potential to be the best D in college football. Now that all hats are present and the rust presumably shaken off, we have the opportunity to give South Carolina hell. Calling CMR overrated is absurd. He’s one of the winningest coaches in NCAA but has still been on the hotseat the past few years. I don’t think anybody is overhyping CMR. I think this is going to be an ugly game. SC’s front seven is going to expose our young o-line’s weaknesses. I think our offense will give up at least 1 defensive touchdown. While Spurrier has been keeping Lattimore fresh, I don’t see that happening this game. I think he’s going to run the dog shit out of Lattimore. It’s been a proven recipe for success against UGA. While Shaw is good, I think we have the personnel to cause him to screw up and exploit it. Lattimore is simply dominant, though. Quite simply, I don’t see Shaw carving up our defense this week. I think our keys for success are the following: (1) Win the field position battle. Our offense doesn’t have to score every drive, and I’ll be shocked if they do. However, our offense cannot make costly turnovers ON OUR HALF of the field. More importantly, we cannot have poor decisions made by the return man in PR and KOR. (2) We need a big game from our defense. Defensive touchdowns would be great, but we need to keep SC in 3rd and long situtations. In big games, Jarvis Jones tends to play his best. See UF last season; Mizzou this season. If our defense can keep our offense in decent field position, we will eventually score. Gurshall is capable of taking it to the house on any given play. Our receiving corps is always dangerous . . . if they have enough time for the play to develop down field. (3) Big blocking from the TEs. Big crack blocks from the wideouts. We’re not going to be able to spread it out against this pass rush. We have to win w/ tough runs and play action. It is obvious that AM must make sound decisions at all points of the game. There are going to be LOTS of ugly plays on offense. There’s nothing wrong with punting it away, but there is w/ trying to do too much, getting careless w/ the pearl, and turning a bad play into a catastrophe. This is really the biggest key, but if AM doesn’t bring his “A” game, all else fails. As I think about how USC’s offense works, I’m thinking that we’ll see a whole bunch of that Ogletree-Herrera combo that Grantham was testing out against UT. Tree could have a big impact in this game. Glad he’s back. Except the Will which says to them: “Hold on” Awright, but the Will gets penalized 10 yds every damned time! I thought that rule change was bullshit….Will has to learn to keep his hands inside the shoulders. Another thought… How do you think Sakerlina feels about playing us? You know they gotta have a little discomfort at how our offense is doing. And you know, they keep expecting the real defense to show up at any time. They remember last year too. If we hold off on the fumble sauce and the pick six pickles, we’ll make a club sandwich out of the chickens. I’m going to go with the Chic-fil-a motto: Eat mor chicken! I agree. How Is 29’s Groin.?. The Dawgs need him healthy. Both teams will try to run the ball & set up Play Action Passes. Hope our Tight Ends are ready to block & then run pass routes. Our best against their best (O & D) Is A Wash.. Other players must play their best game for the Dawgs to win. Finally, I believe Fla. & Tenn. are both better than they have been credited for. The win over Tenn. was a big deal. GO DAWGS. GATA . I want everyone to understand that if Connor Shaw runs that read option of theirs the entire game he will not play the whole game. The QB will go down and he will go down hard. Had a child at USC for several years and never before had this much difficulty finding a hotel room. On that little bit of info I think this is going to be a big one. I’m working on the premise that we just got last years South Carolina game out of our system last week and we’ll hopefully bring our Vanderbilt game. GATA yurdle SOS is going to have his bag of tricks ready on Saturday. The biggest thing I want to see is our defense tackle soundly. Solid hits on Shaw. Wrap up and gang tackle on Lattimore. Hold on and holler in the secondary. They’ll get their inevitable sacks. We’ll get out inevitable points. Assuming that those two factors don’t completely decide the game, the chance for winning is in making USC sustain drives. They didn’t score on a drive longer than 50 yards against Missouri. Agreed. And I wouldn’t put it past Bobo to have a few things in his bag of tricks, either. We gave them the game last year with turnovers and special teams implosions. And we still kept it close. If we protect the ball and have a sound day on special teams we win by two touchdowns. We’re the better team hands down we just need to play like it. No one will want to admit the accuracy of your point, but it is both succint and correct. We were the better team last year and dominated them on the field but gifted the game to them. Very similar to the other night against TN except the result was different. We have 10 players back from that 5th rated defense, and have improved on offense. Only negatives are the Kicker, and they are at home. There are no excuses, we are better and this team needs to step up and bring the W home. Our guys on offense should be angry about giving the game away last year, and our defense should be angry about getting ridiculed about last week’s performance. The coaching staff needs to motivate the team to break this mini streak and shut the delusional chicken fans, along with their whiney coach up. It is enough they get to the easier schedule of having Arky (a 10 point underdog0 rather than Auburn as their annual rival. Have had this advantage every year they have been in the league. Mac, this is one area we may disagree on….It is my contention the best team ALWAYS wins…the only folks who think this is not true are them whose team lost the game. The best team in that game was the one who won the game. To accept anything else is just coulda, woulda, shudda. Yeah, we will always disagree on that, I think that is nuts. The only thing you can say for sure is they were the best team for that 3 hour period based on how the game played out. Do you really think their is no such thing as an upset? Or a blown call that changed the outcome? No need arguing the point, I understand the score is all that matters regarding the record, but I see no validity is stating that the one with the most point is the best….only the winner. Who would win 4-5 of 7 is more the way I determine that, and you are right, there is no way to ever know. That is one of the reasons I I like having a legit playoff,k to detrmine the champion, because we will never know who was best. I think that might be the real reason why we have the internet. rugbydawg79 Get Fired up MAC—I Love it—get ready to Hunker Down Boys !! I ask ya, Mac, was Middle better than Tech? There is an awful lot of your reasoning on the Tech boards….looked to me like the best team won, but don’t look that way to the Techies. gamecock man I know I’m probably asking for it by getting involved in this conversation the week before the game, but your argument would carry more weight if there was more evidence suggesting that USC’s win last year was a true upset. That is, if UGA was definitely the better team for the rest of the year. But you weren’t. You can split the remainder of the season in various ways, but at the end of the day, we finished 11-2 and you finished 10-4. Hard to say there was too much difference in terms of how these teams performed over the course of the year. It’s not like we’re talking about a 7-5 team upsetting one with ten wins. This isn’t Kentucky beating LSU in 2007. Also, we were slightly favored by Vegas in the game (as we are again this year), suggesting that unbiased observers figured that we were evenly matched teams. That is, that if we played ten times, we’d probably end up with a pretty even record. You can say that if that game was played again, Murray might not make the same mistakes, but we could easily say that our secondary wouldn’t make the same mistakes the second time around, and we’d have good reason for saying that, because our secondary played worse than usual against you guys, although that certainly had a lot to do with your offense. In any event, the past is passed, and we’re back to where we started. Unbiased observers see these as evenly matched teams. I hope mine wins, but I won’t be shocked if it doesn’t. We’re about to see what happens. Good luck, gentlemen. No one will ever know, but I am very certain of UGA being the better team. UGA’s dominance of SC and AU are the two best indicators, and the season record of 10-2 each where UGA won more SEC games serving as a pretty good tie breaker. Just an opinion, same as yours. None of this influences Saturday’s game but UGA has the better offense, defense looks close with a slight edge to UGA on talent, and an edge to SC on STs. Add the home field edge for SC and intangibles being pretty equal and it could be very close. I won’t wish you good luck, Lord knows you had enough of that already, but I do hope the game is exciting and no players suffer a significant injury. I’ll give you credit for sticking to your guns. I think you’re being selective with your evidence, but you know that already. As far as this weekend goes, defensive advantage based on play on the field so far goes to USC. I’ll give you that UGA seems much more talented than the results it’s been getting, though, and that maybe you play better this weekend. Offensive advantage def. goes to UGA, although USC’s offense is trending in a positive direction as Shaw and Lattimore recover from injuries. Lattimore looked close to 100% last weekend vs. UK. Should be a good game. Gamecock man….. Lattimore’s knee will never be 100%. Ligaments are not like a broken bone that gets stronger at the break point. You can compensate for the injury build up the muscles to strengthen and support but it ain’t ever the same. That being said Lattimore gets a certain number of miles on that knee this season. Ride him to victory against the Dawgs? You just might. However, given the next two consecutive games are against two of the better Ds in the SEC the ride stops. You may take one of the three games and that one may well be against the Dawgs…… but you lose the other two. I think the Dawgs can go the SECC whether they beat your gamecocks or not. You’re right about ligaments, but Lattimore has looked much better the last two games. He’s probably as close to 100% as he’ll be this year. He’s also very fresh and hasn’t had any of those 40-carry games he had while Garcia was around. As far as what happens after Georgia, we’ll see. OK same song … different verse. He will never be 100%. You fudged a little with the “Lattimore has looked much better the last two games” meme. He had more yards receiving than running against the Zou. WR and RB respond/recover from ACL surgery differently. OK? Neither of your studs (qb, RB) are 100% healthy. I hope they force SOS into running Lattimore early and often. I hope Shaw has to be mobile and run the ball. That’s my plan. Pound on your studs rotate the Georgia LBs and keep them fresh. From one armchair qb to another. 😉 I agree that SC gets the edge on what we have seen on the field so I get your rationale. I am thinking that team with the #5 defense a year ago that returns 10 players is better than what the stats say, so I may be naive to think it will surface this weekend in a big, hyped game, but that is what I think will happen. Several of these guys have draft potential, this week’s performance on a huge stage is “showtime” for them. We will all see who has analyzed this correctly Saturday night, until then it is just two fans calling it form a biased perspective. May be better than “good”, looking like one the Top 3 SEC games of the year. Yeah, I can see your point. Usually I would say that five games in, what we’ve seen on the field is who these teams are. However, it stands to reason that UGA hasn’t been able to settle in yet on defense due to the suspensions. Maybe that happens this weekend, maybe not. Glad to see, while you are gettin all snuggly with the enemy, that you acknowledge the existence of luck…which by any name is the Kharmic Bitches….there is hope for you reality folks. The scotch is strong is this one. Well said. I, too, think that is the biggest reason to support a playoff. It is ridiculous for pollsters to attempt to guess which team is the “best” for purposes of post-season pairing. College football needs to get over this idea. In Giants v. Pats Pt. I, I don’t think anybody could have said that the Giants were the “better” team. However, it is undisputable that–within the rules of the game–they were the champions. I hope that this is USC’s blackout game, where they don’t focus during the week and are too amped up. As always, the key to beating Spurrier is get up by more than one possession, because Lattimore or not, he WILL get impatient, and hit the QB on every single play. I strongly agree with the last thing you said. One of the keys to this game is who takes the early lead. If USC leads midway through the third, we’ll likely be able to ride Lattimore out to the win. If UGA leads, particularly by more than one score, I’m not sure if the USC offense is built to make a comeback in that situation. gamecock man, UGA’s offense is geared to allow your team to make a comeback, down more than one score late in game. We have regrettably seen versions of that on numerous occasions, including last year against SC. True, but I’m not going to make any assumptions about turnovers until it happens. And we were never down by more than a score last year, anyways. I am not sure that comparing last years USC D to this years USC D is such a good thing. Ward dials up the blitz a lot more than the previous DC did. Will be interesting to see how CMB deals with that. Let’s cut through the “blah, blah, blah” (h/t The Senator’s greatest post ever)… Murray > Shaw Gurshal > Lattimore UGA Recievers > USCe’s UGA D backfield > USCe’s D lines/front 7 even…maybe edge to UGA O line… Edge to USCe (unless Theus comes of age) Special teams…USCe Coaching staffs even Karma…USCe. But Karma can be a bitch! I’m taking the Dogs on the road and the points. GATA Whoa, sample size too small there. Lattimore is money and has proven it repeately. Gurshal have played in 3 meaningful college games. Is anybody up for some score predictions? I don’t see that much offense in this game. I think the total points scored may be in the low 40s, both defenses seem to be holding the cards, maybe something along the lines of 26-17. But in these days of scoring in CFB that may be two planets off, just don’t think so in this game. Seems more like the usual UGA/SC battles. I agree, but I think there will be defensive TDs or special teams TDs. At the least, I think there will be offensive TDs scored off a short field b/c of a combiation of outstanding defensive play coupled w/ sloppy offensive play. Both defenses have serious playmakers who will exploit the mistakes. I would love, though, to see a dramatic, low-scoring game. I think there will be a higher point total, but I don’t think either side will have much more than 320 yds. You are right, STs and TOs/defensive scores could bloat the total well beyond my expectations. I think both teams play this one close the the vest so it should keep the turnovers down. Going to be fun to watch. Hey Senator, the game is between Georgia and SC. Don’t you think it would be more appropriate to coin it the “ain’t seen” game I would slightly disagree with the “ain’t seen” premise because, unlike many of my learned colleagues, the Tennessee team I saw was clearly a better team the day Georgia played them than any of the other teams either Georgia or South Carolina has played. Whether this will have any impact on the cosmic transparency of the Georgia-South Carolina game, who knows?	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line10598
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__label__wiki	0.505076	0.505076	FREE SHIPPING on US orders $25 or more! Books - Patches, Pins and Bags Organizers and Calendars Greeting Cards and Postcards Home › Books › Tomboy Survival Guide Tomboy Survival Guide by Ivan Coyote 10/18/2016, paperback Ivan Coyote is a celebrated storyteller and the author of ten previous books, including Gender Failure (with Rae Spoon) and One in Every Crowd, a collection for LGBT youth. Tomboy Survival Guide is a funny and moving memoir told in stories, in which Ivan recounts the pleasures and difficulties of growing up a tomboy in Canada's Yukon, and how they learned to embrace their tomboy past while carving out a space for those of us who don't fit neatly into boxes or identities or labels. Ivan writes movingly about many firsts: the first time they were mistaken for a boy; the first time they purposely discarded their bikini top so they could join the boys at the local swimming pool; and the first time they were chastised for using the women's washroom. Ivan also explores their years as a young butch, dealing with new infatuations and old baggage, and life as a gender-box-defying adult, in which they offer advice to young people while seeking guidance from others. (And for tomboys in training, there are even directions on building your very own unicorn trap.) Tomboy Survival Guide warmly recounts Ivan's adventures and mishaps as a diffident yet free-spirited tomboy, and maps their journey through treacherous gender landscapes and a maze of labels that don't quite stick, to a place of self-acceptance and an authentic and personal strength. These heartfelt, funny, and moving stories are about the culture of difference--a "guide" to being true to one's self. Ivan Coyote is the award-winning author of eleven books, and the creator of four short films as well as three CDs that combine storytelling with music. Ivan is a seasoned stage performer and long-time road dog, and over the last eighteen years has become an audience favorite at storytelling, literary, film, and folk music festivals from Anchorage to Amsterdam. Copyright © 2020, Burning Books. POS and Ecommerce by Shopify	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line10616
__label__wiki	0.682225	0.682225	Essays & PapersSalesforce Brings Artificial Intelligence to CRM With Einstein Salesforce Brings Artificial Intelligence to CRM With Einstein The near future of artificial intelligence (AI) won't be defined by ushering in a race of sentient machines. While we're inching closer to the goal of , the next era of AI will be more about imbuing the software and applications we use every day with deep learning, machine learning, predictive analytics and natural language processing (NLP). Those capabilities will run under the surface, along with serving as tools upon which to build. It's about making AI a given rather than a novelty. (CRM) giant Salesforce unveiled its plan for more accessible, natively integrated AI for businesses today with the announcement of Salesforce Einstein, its "AI for CRM" technology. Einstein will be deployed across the Salesforce cloud to analyze the mountain of automated data the platform collects — activity data, sales, email, e-commerce and calendar, social data streams and Internet of Things (IoT) data — and run machine learning and algorithms, NLP and what the company calls "smart data discovery" to offer data insights and recommendations across different business use cases within the platform. Many of the capabilities will also be offered as developer tools to build AI applications on Salesforce. "Think of Einstein as the intelligence layer between the data and the actual apps," said John Ball, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Content for Salesforce, during a press briefing. "The best AI is when the user doesn't necessarily notice it. We surface lead and opportunity insights, and we've baked AI throughout the platform and the user experience so that, over time, the user won't even think of it as an AI-powered feature; it's just part of the platform." In the main , Einstein shows itself in a couple of ways. A feature called Predictive Lead Scoring, where a machine learning model analyzes industry and engagement data, is designed to help sales reps focus on the most promising lead.You can also use predictive scoring in other areas of the Salesforce Marketing Cloud, such as gauging prospective customer response to an campaign. In that scenario, Einstein could return results based on common customer behaviors and deliver advice like automated send-time optimization based on when subscribers have been historically most engaged. Another CRM AI feature called Opportunity Insights analyzes customer interactions such as inbound emails to alert sales reps to which way a deal is trending. In Service Cloud, Einstein doing a lot of automated work around case classification and suggested responses. In the Commerce Cloud it's doing product recommendations and personalized predictive search, meaning product search results modeled off their individual profile. On the question of customer privacy with all the data Einstein is analyzing, Ball avoided specifics but said Salesforce's best practices around privacy and trust apply to Einstein. "Trust is our number one value. Everything we do is trusted. Einstein is no difernent," said Ball. "The entire process is automated. We're automatically building these models, so no data scientists are looking at the data. It's a machine learning process, so no data is being shared between customers." Einstein's impact continues in the Salesforce Community Cloud where it provides computer vision analysis of images in the Social Studio. You'll also find it in the Analytics Cloud where it delivers Predictive Wave Apps and automated analytics for folks using business process management (BPM). It also provides predictive scoring and automation for the Salesforce Internet of Things (IoT) Cloud. Ball described it like having a data scientist in every part of the platform. "The whole reason we built Einstein is there aren't enough data scientists in the world to go out and build predictive models for every company," said Ball. "We're democratizing AI so customers get the benefits without having to hire data scientists. The platform also enables developers at different skill levels to train their own classifiers with zero deep learning expertise." Where business apps meet deep learning Another core aspect of Einstein is AI-powered app creation. Einstein will be available in the Salesforce App Cloud and as a set of tools that allow developers to train AI apps by using deep learning tools. Richard Socher, Chief Scientist at Salesforce, was on-hand during the briefing to discuss the new Salesforce Research Group, a team of data scientists and researchers focusing on deep learning, NLP and computer vision innovation. As with Google's open-source , Socher explained how Einstein's developer tools are aimed at making deep learning more accessible using the Predictive Vision image analysis in Social Studio as an example. "You can train your image classifiers to do anything you want," said Socher. "This is one of the first deep learning-based developer tools that will allow you to drag and drop inside an interface in Salesforce to make smart automated decision-making. It will allow you to do all sorts of new things, like go through millions of images and classify them to find your company logo or where your company is mentioned." Salesforce will be giving a keynote on Einstein at its Dreamforce conference in early October, and will begin rolling out Einstein features across the Salesforce cloud in the company's Winter '17 release scheduled for October. Ball didn't reveal much in the way of pricing for Einstein, only that "some capabilities will be bundled into existing editions and licenses, and others will require an extra charge." From a market perspective, Salesforce is essentially using AI techniques such as machine learning and predictive analytics the same way as Google, Facebook and others do for consumers, only for its vast quantities of sales and business data. Brandon Purcell, Senior Analyst at Forrester Research said an AI layer such as Einstein between its data and apps gives Salesforce an opportunity to leverage its business data on that same scale. "In order for artificially intelligent systems to work, they need to be trained on massive amounts of data," said Purcell. 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__label__wiki	0.560698	0.560698	Can Leta Austin Foster make the ‘room in a box’ concept work online? digital disruptors \| Jan 22, 2019 \| By Fred Nicolaus Now you can order Leta Austin Foster to go. Last week, the veteran Palm Beach designer announced the debut of a new business: PREtty FABulous Rooms (get it?), an online service whereby clients can order all the components of a Foster-designed room and have them delivered and installed for a fixed price—anywhere in the continental United States. Leta Austin Foster The venture is launching with four living/dining room options and two bedrooms that feel of a piece stylistically with Foster’s classic Palm Beach work, where sisal, rattan, pale blues and corals make for a cheerful spin on traditional. This is no accident: The designer is working exclusively with her favorite local vendors for the project. “The problem with most of the web is that it’s cheap quality,” Foster tells Business of Home. “We’re offering our quality at a lower price.” That lower price is relative, of course—this is still a designer-driven enterprise. The PREtty FABulous rooms will range in price from $35,000 for a smaller bedroom to $48,000 for the living/dining room designs (not including shipping). They’ll include fabrics by Sister Parish Design and Quadrille, and furniture by David Francis and Oomph, among others. Foster says she was able to get prices below wholesale for the venture, allowing the company to make a profit while still passing on a designer-level discount to customers. Her workrooms also agreed to a special deal for PREtty FABulous. “I went to my different vendors and asked if they’d be interested in working for less money, if they could do more of it,” says Foster. “The workrooms live in feast or famine, and they were willing to give us really good prices in exchange for stability.” Though PREtty FABulous is an online business, Foster isn’t hoping to create the next mega-platform—or even to fully digitize the process. Instead, the company will retain some of the old-school trappings of an interior design firm that have proven notoriously tricky to scale. For example, Foster’s team will look at customers’ photos and help them strategize a floor plan and suggest paint colors. Workroom-made product will be inspected by her team before it ships. They’ll also dispatch a staff member to help movers install the drapes properly. This makes PREtty FABulous a bit of a hybrid—somewhere between the full interior design experience and the digital-only transactions on platforms like Modsy or Havenly. A detail from the Harbour Island Living/Dining RoomCarmel Brantley of Brantley Photography With a value-oriented approach comes some limitations. Customers will be required to purchase the entirety of the room, with only minimal customization. “You’ll be allowed to add, but you won’t be allowed to take away,” Foster says. “For instance you could make the six-foot sofa a seven-foot sofa with a minimal upcharge.” Art, linens, mattresses, tabletop and decorative objects also won’t be included (though customers can purchase pictured accessories through Foster's shop in Palm Beach). Other designers have gone down the digital “room in a box” road before—most notably last year, when Los Angeles–based Kathryn Ireland launched “The Perfect Room,” which operates on a similar principal to PREtty FABulous. Ireland’s site, however, is a more expansive enterprise, with multiple designers listing multiple rooms, an e-commerce marketplace, and a bevy of consultation packages. Foster is content to keep it simple, at least for now: “If it really takes off, we’ll have to change the business model. The only thing I won’t do is move production over to China.” She hopes the venture will reach new clients who don’t have access to the traditional designer experience, either for financial or geographic reasons (“They don’t have a design center in Ames, Iowa,” she quips). Initially, the room designs will be limited to a run of 100, striking a balance between scaling style and ubiquity. If all goes well, Foster’s sisals could be sliding into rooms all across the country. There are, however, lines to be drawn. “If two people on the same street end up ordering the same blue living room, I’ll say no,” says Foster. “That wouldn’t be right.” Homepage photo: Carmel Brantley, Brantley Photography Can a new platform make e-design more valuable? Why a traditionalist is embracing 3-D printing Here’s why these former Homepolish designers are banding together Instagram is phasing out likes. Should designers care? DecoratorsBest dragged fabric makers online. Now the site is their biggest customer Data is king as the DFA looks ahead	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line10620
__label__cc	0.568501	0.431499	Itai Rusike Itai Rusike said : "The only sad thing is that his resignation is coming at a time when the doctors are fragmented and divided by the formation of a splinter doctors' association that has weakened their negotiating and bargaining power," bulawayo24 Wednesday, January 15, 2020 10:48:00 AM EAT Itai Rusike said : "We have been facilitating dialogue for the past two weeks only to wake up to this. How do you negotiate for dialogue when on the other hand you are holding a knobkerrie? The government is not sincere and its attitude is uncalled for and unnecessary," "This intimidatory attitude is not the way to go. The Constitution gives them the right to withdraw their labour and firing the doctors in a country with poor health standards will not improve the situation" bulawayo24 Saturday, November 9, 2019 1:34:00 PM EAT Itai Rusike said : “We have been facilitating dialogue for the past two weeks only to wake up to this. How do you negotiate for dialogue when on the other hand you are holding a knobkerrie? The government is not sincere and its attitude is uncalled for and unnecessary,” “This intimidatory attitude is not the way to go. The Constitution gives them the right to withdraw their labour and firing the doctors in a country with poor health standards will not improve the situation” newsday Saturday, November 9, 2019 10:18:00 AM EAT Itai Rusike said : "CWGH has learnt with great concern the dismissal of the doctors that are currently affected by incapacitation. We strongly urge the government to find amicable ways of dealing with the doctors' incapacitation crisis without sacrificing the health of the masses," bulawayo24 Thursday, November 7, 2019 9:26:00 AM EAT Itai Rusike said : "We implore the HSB to reconsider its decision and fully take advantage of the dialogue process being facilitated by CWGH," Itai Rusike said : "Both parties should bear in mind that more than 90% of the Zimbabwe population depends on the underfunded and understaffed public health system," bulawayo24 Tuesday, November 5, 2019 4:01:00 PM EAT Itai Rusike said : "We also would like to see the leadership from the HSB to ensure speedy resolution of this crisis. The general public would like to be furnished with concrete steps, including timelines the government is committing to address the current dispute," Itai Rusike said : “Both parties should bear in mind that more than 90% of the Zimbabwe population depends on the underfunded and understaffed public health system,” newsday Tuesday, November 5, 2019 9:53:00 AM EAT Itai Rusike said : “We also would like to see the leadership from the HSB to ensure speedy resolution of this crisis. The general public would like to be furnished with concrete steps, including timelines the government is committing to address the current dispute,” Itai Rusike said : “Government spends a relatively small share of its gross domestic product (GDP) on health care and the lower levels of per capita health expenditure indicate that health expenditure in the country is insufficient to guarantee adequate access and quality of healthcare,” “Per capita health allocation stands at about US$41 in 2019 up from US$31 in 2018, while per capita health spending is US$650 in South Africa, US$90 in Zambia and US$200 in Angola, and the inadequate public financing of health has resulted in an overreliance on out-of-pocket and external financing, which is highly unsustainable,” newsday Monday, October 21, 2019 7:17:00 AM EAT Itai Rusike said : “The right to health must address mental health as well as other modalities of psychosocial support. The health situation as widely reported at Ngomahuru is sad, deplorable and totally unacceptable,” thestandard-zw Sunday, October 13, 2019 9:46:00 AM EAT Itai Rusike said : "There is need for thorough investigations. It is sad and painful that she died while giving birth unattended at Parirenyatwa Hospital, one of the country's largest referral institutions, which is supposed to be the shining beacon of professionalism in the health sector," bulawayo24 Saturday, September 14, 2019 12:52:00 AM EAT Itai Rusike said : "This is unacceptable. No woman should die while giving life. The Community Working Group on Health would like to call upon the responsible authorities to urgently institute thorough investigations into this disturbing case, which could have been avoided," Itai Rusike added : "The nursing profession is a calling and we cannot allow that noble profession to be tainted by rogue and mercenary individuals who vent their frustrations on innocent patients. Nurses and doctors are known to have hearts; hearts to love, to be patient and to save lives," Itai Rusike said : "CWGH is worried by the high number of maternal deaths in the country. It is disturbing that over 200 women have died while giving birth since the beginning of this year. This number is unacceptably high. In other countries, a single maternal death will result into a major inquiry and the outcomes will be made public," Itai Rusike said : “There is need for thorough investigations. It is sad and painful that she died while giving birth unattended at Parirenyatwa Hospital, one of the country’s largest referral institutions, which is supposed to be the shining beacon of professionalism in the health sector,” newsday Friday, September 13, 2019 6:13:00 PM EAT Itai Rusike said : “This is unacceptable. No woman should die while giving life. The Community Working Group on Health would like to call upon the responsible authorities to urgently institute thorough investigations into this disturbing case, which could have been avoided,” Itai Rusike added : “The nursing profession is a calling and we cannot allow that noble profession to be tainted by rogue and mercenary individuals who vent their frustrations on innocent patients. Nurses and doctors are known to have hearts; hearts to love, to be patient and to save lives,” Itai Rusike said : “CWGH is worried by the high number of maternal deaths in the country. It is disturbing that over 200 women have died while giving birth since the beginning of this year. This number is unacceptably high. In other countries, a single maternal death will result into a major inquiry and the outcomes will be made public,” Itai Rusike said : “We would like to know whether the Ministry of Finance has any guide in its allocations of a level of per capita funding of health services that constitutes the ‘bottom line’ in terms of the rights or needs of citizens,” “The supplementary budget allocation for the health sector is inadequate in the face of rising disease and mortality levels,” newsday Monday, August 5, 2019 12:03:00 PM EAT Itai Rusike said : "There are general complaints of ART shortages right across the country. We are having repeated scenarios where people are getting refills for a week or two or shorter periods compared to supplies for three months. This in turn increases their out of pocket costs in bus fares as they will have to visit the health facility more frequently to collect their medication given the hard economic environment we are living in," "The CWGH is also concerned that the El Nino induced drought might reverse all the gains Zimbabwe had made over the years as food insecurities have serious repercussions on people living with HIV/Aids. We therefore urge Government to ensure that people living with HIV have enough food to enable them to take their medication" bulawayo24 Tuesday, July 30, 2019 10:00:00 AM EAT Itai Rusike said : “Why is it taking forever to reconstitute the NAC board and appoint a substantive CEO?” newsday Thursday, July 11, 2019 9:03:00 AM EAT Itai Rusike said : “With less than 10 percent of the country’s population on medical insurance, unemployment rate of over 85 percent and a majority of those that are employed earning less than $1 000, this means very few people will afford these consultation fees by physicians. Ultimately, people will die at home,” thezimbabwemail Saturday, June 29, 2019 6:33:00 PM EAT herald Saturday, June 29, 2019 6:47:00 AM EAT Itai Rusike said : "Such groups have difficulty taking medication when they do not have adequate food to eat. While much attention is focused on the devastating impact of the cyclone, there is also need to distribute items such as bed nets and resources for spraying to prevent malaria outbreak in the affected areas," bulawayo24 Monday, April 1, 2019 8:48:00 AM EAT Itai Rusike said : “Such groups have difficulty taking medication when they do not have adequate food to eat. While much attention is focused on the devastating impact of the cyclone, there is also need to distribute items such as bed nets and resources for spraying to prevent malaria outbreak in the affected areas,” newsday Monday, April 1, 2019 7:31:00 AM EAT Itai Rusike said : “If the country’s National Budget cannot adequately fund health, then there is need to find other innovative health financing strategies to domestically fund this important sector. This brings us to the issue of the health levy, which must be used to purchase medicines and sundries for the smooth running of the country’s health sector,” “If there are no drugs, equipment and sundries in hospitals; where is the money collected under the health levy going? This fund must be used correctly, transparently and for its intended purpose” zimeye Saturday, March 16, 2019 12:23:00 PM EAT newsday Friday, March 15, 2019 8:28:00 PM EAT Itai Rusike said : ”The Community Working Group on Health (CWGH) fears that this industrial action, which could have been avoided if there was political will from the government in addressing the challenges in the health system that has been in decline for over 2 decades resulting in systematic decrease in the coverage of most basic services. “If not handled with the care and urgency it deserves, this strike could degenerate into a national disaster with other health practitioners joining, not only in sympathy but because they experience the same challenges. ” zimeye Friday, March 15, 2019 1:22:00 AM EAT Itai Rusike said : “The few pharmacies that are still accepting bond notes or RTGS have since increased their prices which are beyond the reach of ordinary Zimbabweans. This comes at a time when 90 percent of Zimbabweans do not have medical aid insurance cover which means some with chronic illnesses have not been taking their medication since the introduction of the three tier pricing system due to the very high costs of medicines,” zimeye Thursday, February 14, 2019 1:16:00 PM EAT Itai Rusike said : “Some patients are now resorting to taking cheaper alternative drugs from the unregulated black markets thereby risking their lives. Government should therefore prioritise allocation of foreign currency to the pharmaceutical companies to enable them to import the required medicines. In the medium to long-term, the Government needs to capacitate the local pharmaceutical manufacturing companies such as Caps, Varichem and Datlabs to make sure that the country does not rely on expensive imports,” Itai Rusike said : "Some need rentals, food and now schools have just opened, they need fees for their children and seeing that this strike is not taking them anywhere, others might give up slowly," bulawayo24 Wednesday, January 9, 2019 2:40:00 PM EAT Itai Rusike said : "The doctors must appreciate the economic situation. It is not all about monetary issues; they should consider other non-monetary incentives which Government can offer," Itai Rusike said : “Some need rentals, food and now schools have just opened, they need fees for their children and seeing that this strike is not taking them anywhere, others might give up slowly,” herald Wednesday, January 9, 2019 3:02:00 AM EAT Itai Rusike said : “The doctors must appreciate the economic situation. It is not all about monetary issues; they should consider other non-monetary incentives which Government can offer,” Itai Rusike said : “We are in this health crisis, minister, because your predecessor used to behave the same way: burying his head in the sand than tackling the issue head-on,” zimeye Sunday, December 9, 2018 9:36:00 AM EAT thestandard-zw Sunday, December 9, 2018 6:42:00 AM EAT Itai Rusike said : "The country's health sector is operating in an environment that is characterised by shortages of essential medicines, typhoid and cholera outbreaks, disgruntled health workers, poorly equipped hospitals and unacceptably high maternal mortality and catastrophic health expenditures," "The increasing levels of unemployment and poverty in the country have also exacerbated the plight of the poor in accessing health care services," bulawayo24 Monday, November 27, 2017 9:42:00 AM EAT Itai Rusike said : "It has been noted that the recurrent outbreaks of typhoid in Harare are being caused by erratic supply of clean water, supply of contaminated drinking water, burst sewer pipes and poor hygiene," bulawayo24 Saturday, October 28, 2017 10:29:00 AM EAT Itai Rusike said : “It has been noted that the recurrent outbreaks of typhoid in Harare are being caused by erratic supply of clean water, supply of contaminated drinking water, burst sewer pipes and poor hygiene,” zimeye Saturday, October 28, 2017 7:31:00 AM EAT newsday Saturday, October 28, 2017 5:31:00 AM EAT Itai Rusike said : "Treatment for HIV is threatened when ARV drugs are not available, undermining treatment compliance," bulawayo24 Wednesday, August 23, 2017 8:30:00 AM EAT Itai Rusike argued : "In all of this we urge the affected local authorities to bring people back into the centre of focus and to involve communities in their deliberations and plans on the way forward. We urge the Multi-Sectoral Ministerial Committee to intervene in a way that addresses our wider public health crisis, including in our public sector health system, and that you involve communities and health civil society in your planning on this," bulawayo24 Wednesday, January 11, 2017 3:13:00 PM EAT Itai Rusike said : "The fundamental health issues that were supposed to have been attended to from the earlier crisis have not been attended to," "Authorities are taking advantage of the outdated Public Health Act that we are using, enacted in 1924. Public health trends have changed [since then]. This is why you find that it is easier for the city of Harare to pollute our water bodies and pay the fine, [a] very small fine" voanews Thursday, January 5, 2017 2:44:00 AM EAT Itai Rusike said : “The last one is that there is need for health education and promotion on personal hygiene where they are educated about the need to boil water and use aqua tablets on tap water. There should be continuous health education particularly during the rainy season,” herald Friday, December 30, 2016 4:05:00 AM EAT Itai Rusike said : "The proposal to introduce earmarked sin taxes to fund health need to be followed through," allafrica Tuesday, November 22, 2016 11:42:00 AM EAT Itai Rusike said : "Reaching the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) targets requires a sustainable momentum in financing our health care system. While progress has been made in improving our health indicators, there is need to sustain the momentum in domestic health financing," Itai Rusike said : “The proposal to introduce earmarked sin taxes to fund health need to be followed through,” herald Tuesday, November 22, 2016 8:38:00 AM EAT Itai Rusike said : “Reaching the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) targets requires a sustainable momentum in financing our health care system. While progress has been made in improving our health indicators, there is need to sustain the momentum in domestic health financing,” Itai Rusike said : "The shortage of drugs and equipment at central hospitals has reached crisis proportions, with patients going for days without proper treatment," iol Thursday, September 22, 2016 11:09:00 AM EAT Itai Rusike said : "get their treatment in the private sector or abroad," Itai Rusike said : "As the world convenes in Durban for the 21st International Aids Conference, what scares me is not how much things change, but how much it stays the same from one international conference to the other," allafrica Tuesday, July 19, 2016 11:13:00 AM EAT Itai Rusike said : “The relationship between government and civil society during the conference must also cascade to lower levels in our nation,” thestandard-zw Sunday, July 10, 2016 5:25:00 AM EAT Itai Rusike said ( about Matabeleland South ) : "The general public is concerned at why some medical aid societies are paying obscene salaries to their senior managers yet they are failing to pay doctors. Doctors must also have a human face as there are some doctors who are overcharging patients hence we have seen an increase in medical tourism to such countries as South Africa, India etc. as their charges are much lower even when you include air fare, accommodation and food," allafrica Thursday, June 30, 2016 5:51:00 PM EAT Itai Rusike said : "Prevention and management of malaria also depends on early detection and treatment. Communities are primarily using the clinics as their first point of treatment for malaria (public and private), so effective malaria management depends first on the resources at this level," allafrica Thursday, June 2, 2016 1:40:00 PM EAT Itai Rusike said : "Outreach resources are not only limited with respect to malaria spraying. A number of communities do not have a village health worker (VHW) due to the limited numbers of the trained VHWs thereby reducing the interface between the communities and this important cadre who provides the basic care at community level," Itai Rusike told : “While residents may contribute to one-off clean-up campaigns to assist with removing waste, this should not replace the HCC’s core obligation,” dailynews-co-zw Sunday, May 22, 2016 12:57:00 PM EAT Itai Rusike said : "The situation is even worse in resettlement areas as some of the village health workers are made to travel very long distances to see clients instead of just covering their village," allafrica Monday, February 9, 2015 12:11:00 AM EAT Itai Rusike added : "Whilst communities cite low morale due to lack of incentives as the major setback, the village health workers point to lack of incentives and supporting resources and protective equipment as a major barrier to their performance" Itai Rusike said : "They played a central role in closing the gap between public health services and communities at local levels as well as bringing health services to communities, and facilitating community roles in the health delivery system," director 54.55% EN 10/28/201728/10/2017 executive director 27.27% EN 10/26/201726/10/2017 health executive director 13.64% EN 10/26/201726/10/2017 chief executive officer 4.55% EN 11/20/200520/11/2005 Itai Rusike EN 100.00% Association 12.40% Zimbabwe Hospital 8.66% Obadiah Moyo 8.46% Medical Association 7.28% Emmerson Mnangagwa 6.50% Robert Mugabe 6.50% Apex Council 5.51% David Parirenyatwa 1.57% National Aids Council 1.57% City Council 1.38% World Health Organization 1.38% Services Board 1.38% Warren Park 1.18% Mthuli Ncube 1.18% Finance Ministry 1.18% Health Ministry 1.18% Elias Mudzuri 0.98% James Maridadi 0.98% Prosper Chonzi 0.98% National Health 0.98% ZANU PF 0.98% Human Rights Watch 0.98% Harare City Council 0.79% Zimbabwe government 0.79% Nationale Vergadering 0.79% House 0.59% Oliver Mandipaka 0.59% Мэри Джеймс 0.59% Priscilla Misihairabwi-Mushonga 0.59% Albert Manenji 0.0652 Calvin Fambirai 0.0484 Zimbabwe Hospital 0.0439 Obadiah Moyo 0.0431 Medical Association 0.0355 Robert Mugabe 0.0324 Emmerson Mnangagwa 0.0299 Apex Council 0.0279 Martha Tholanah 0.0278 Warren Park 0.0101 Portia Manangazira 0.0096 Association 0.0092 Morgan Femai 0.0086 David Parirenyatwa 0.008 National Aids Council 0.0079 Prosper Chonzi 0.0077 Services Board 0.0068 Mthuli Ncube 0.0059 Health Ministry 0.0056 Elias Mudzuri 0.005 National Health 0.0049 James Maridadi 0.0048 ZANU PF 0.0047 Finance Ministry 0.0045 Oliver Mandipaka 0.0042 Michael Chideme 0.0042 Harare City Council 0.004 Zimbabwe government 0.004 City Council 0.0037 Nunurai Jena 0.0034	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line10626
__label__cc	0.740811	0.259189	Lindsay Deifik By Kharrington DeBose Lindsay Deifik2018-10-222020-01-15https://charlottestreet.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/csf-header-logo-white2.pngCharlotte Street Foundationhttps://charlottestreet.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/802393.jpg200px200px Studio Resident (2012 - 2013) Illustration, Mixed Media, Printmaking As Americans, we consume mass-produced objects that seem to act as building blocks of unique identities, accumulated into disparate forms. I explore personal identity as organized schemas and assembled personas. In a reinterpretation of the portrait, I describe subjects via objects they own. Beyond consumption, I want to delve further into the construction materials of the self. How do personal relationships, nostalgia, or simply a fleeting image play into this alchemy of identity? These details of personal histories do not build in a chronological way; they surface, drown, calcify and erode with daily repetition. I look forward to integrating these facets into my work. Mine is a methodology to search for what in us is veiled, revealed, constructed and naturally occurring- and to find the flashes of understanding that are found between these things. Justin Gainan Michael Rees Kharrington DeBose Skye Livingston	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line10629
__label__cc	0.52947	0.47053	-PvP- Completely broken for some classes and I mean broken going from both sides of the spectrum, from classes destroying everyone, to classes that can't even kill another player. It's fairly common for a weak class to lose to a powerful class even if the weak class outgears them by 50+ ilvls. That's how broken PvP is and Blizzard doesn't seem to know what to do to fix it other than do blanket damage nerfs/buffs as those are the only changes we've seen. Since it's like a premium version and it's not modifying game files it gets by somehow. I personally hate Zygor's guides and always have, it's just personal honestly. I understand some people like his guides and have no problem paying for them but I personally hate the idea of charging someone for an addon that - as this post points out - has plenty of bugs in it. These were fixed last week and if I'm paying cash for an addon I want that addon bug free and not causing a hassle and taking my time away when I could be doing a better job without an addon at all. Azeroth paid a terrible price to end the apocalyptic march of the Legion’s crusade—but even as the world’s wounds are tended, it is the shattered trust between the Alliance and Horde that may prove hardest to mend. As the fires of war continue to roar, take the battle to both new and familiar lands with the Tides of Vengeance update, and join your allies to champion your faction’s cause. If you love running old content for transmog items, you'll love the new legacy loot system. Whenever a player enters a dungeon or raid where they are 10 or more levels above the content, the dungeon or raid bosses drop an amount of loot equivalent to what would have dropped for a full group when the content was current. That means players could earn loot for five people in dungeons and loot for 20 people after soloing a raid. The legacy loot system also drops other gear types, like cloth dropping for a plate wearer. It's now much easier to get the transmog gear you want, and you can also collect gear for your alts on the same run. Players’ relationships with the NPCs around them have been hit-and-miss over the years. One of the original issues with Thrall, the Horde’s original Warchief, is that players began to refer to him as “green Jesus,” because of how infinitely powerful and infallible he was. But he’s been gone since the Warlord of Draenor expansion, and with the death of Varian Wrynn and Vol’Jin at the start of Legion, the old guard hasn’t been there to guide players the same way as it used to be. Anyway both got to 110 at around 50h played. I messed up with my Pal by going to Legion once I hit 100 instead of finishing treasures and bonuses in WoD. All in all, if I picked the best zones and was only trying to level as fast as I could, I would probably could have done it in roughly 40h. Note that it would have a been A LOT faster with a Monk as both Ret and Rogues don't really have a decent AoE until 40+ (45 for Ret and 63 for Rogue I believe). The daily also helps a lot. I know that leveling my Monk before the pre-patch was insanely fast. Might be slower with the changes to FoF, however. Just like player item levels, the game's professions have become pretty bloated over time. Blizzard has made some updates to the leveling process before but Battle for Azeroth features a skill squish that should smooth things out considerably. Instead of having to level hundreds of points before you can start crafting Battle for Azeroth items, each expansion will have its own separate skill tier. In other words, you can start crafting Battle for Azeroth content right away, while the gear and items from other expansions will each feature their own separate counters. Your first Battle for Azeroth item will put you at 1/150 on the counter for the new expansion, no more grinding needed. As you're leveling, I generally recommend you just follow the natural flow of the progression through each zone. They're laid out fairly reasonably. But don't be afraid to hop around, especially if you're near a quest objective. You shouldn't actually need ALL of the zones listed to reach 62. Pick the ones you like best. It's much more important to simply be as focused as possible and flow from one quest to the next. DoTs: Assuming that the mob is going to live for certain periods of time, it is worth it to place DoTs up. If the mob lives for at least five seconds, cast Pain. If it lives at least seven seconds, cast VT. The ideal time to cast DoTs is when it would be replacing Flay, but you can substitute Blast if the mob will live longer. Make sure to cast Bolt on cd though! Once you reach an Alchemy skill of 475, you may begin a quest to learn one of three specializations: Potions,Elixirs or Transmutations. Being specialized gives you a chance to create an extra 1 to 4 (for a total 5) items while crafting in the field you have selected. For example, a Master of Potions may be able to craft more than one [Super Mana Potion] for the same material cost as one. What is World of Warcraft? It’s an online game where people from around the globe explore a mysterious world, filled with magic and incredible adventures. It’s a world where everyone can be a hero. Do you want more information? Then be sure to download the Dugi Guides by Dave Farrell, following the link at the bottom of the page. These books will help you master WoW in a very short time. This page will also help you understand a World of Warcraft. So what kind of game is this? World of Warcraft –it’s a global multiplayer role-playing online game. World of Warcraft, along with other games of the same genre, is usually referred to as MMORPG, i.e. global multiplayer role-playing online games. Stormheim is the zone you want to start it. For some reason Legion treasures are not worth any experience like they are in WoD...except in Stormheim. I haven't been able to find out any reason for this, and it's possible it may get fixed/nerfed at a later date. But for the time being you REALLY want to jump from treasure to treasure to augment your quest experience. But the system offers a painful and mindless grind. At worst, it feels like a cheap and artificial wall blocking you from playing your character to its full potential. Levels of your heart come fast at first, but the costs become prohibitive when you get up into level 20 or so. This wouldn’t be an issue if the most powerful Azerite gear didn’t require reaching level 22 to unlock even 75 percent of their full damage, leaving players left out of features from gear they’ve already collected. This means more grinding. Get your item level as high as possible. Having the best gear is always going to help you when clearing content, so upgrading your individual pieces of armor will be important in the first few days after the expansion’s release. If you’re looking to get ready for Uldir, then you’ll want to be around item level 350 by the time that raid is released on Sept. 4. XP Potions: The Elixir of Rapid Mind and Elixir of Ancient Knowledge no longer drop. They can be bought on the AH still but are way to expensive for it to be worth it. The Excess Potion of Accelerated learning is available from your garrison quartermaster but only works for level 91 to 99. As of Patch 8.1 you can also buy the 10% XP Potion Draught of Ten Lands. The world quests aren’t necessarily bad, but they aren’t good either. I wouldn’t mind killing five of a type of monster or fighting one particular boss a few times, but after seven or eight, it starts to wear pretty thin. But going from levels in the mid-20s can take nearly 30,000 AP, so you’ll need more than world quests if you want to get your heart up in a reasonable time. World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth is the seventh expansion for World of Warcraft revealed at BlizzCon 2017 and announced for release on August 14, 2018.[1] The Alliance, led by King Anduin and Genn Greymane, attacked Lordaeron, Warchief Sylvanas' base at Undercity, in response to the Horde burning down Teldrassil. The factions are at war. Between the Alliance-controlled Eastern Kingdoms and the Horde-controlled Kalimdor is the Great Sea. It is in this Sea that a majority of the expansion will take place. Players who were around during Mists of Pandaria might recall a dungeon mode called Scenarios, which involved teams of three players instead of the traditional five. Island Expeditions bring a similar feel, with groups being tasked with plundering treasure off various islands. Your team faces off against other players or AI-controlled characters from the opposing faction and whoever can collect the most treasure, or "Azerite," wins. Azerite equipment is currently balanced around being able to unlock the outermost, earliest tier of power immediately upon acquisition, while delaying further advancement until the Heart has been further empowered. For example, the first piece of Azerite equipment, gained shortly after the Heart itself, is fully empowered once the Heart of Azeroth has reached level 3. A character at 120 (the maximum for the expansion) may find a piece whose first tier requires the Heart to have grown to level 12 or greater. A dungeon should take about half an hour to 45 minutes, that is reasonable. What did we do to Maw of Souls because it was by far the fastest dungeon to spam run for AP? Nerfed its yield. Same happened to dungeons. Except instead of nerfing the XP, they adjusted the clear speed to justify the experience a bit more. Is it perfect? Nah, a lot of dungeons aren't even that long with updates. At most a clear takes 5 mins more. the guides work great for leveling almost in autopilot, also the zygor guides work great, the only problem is that this 2 companies moved to a monthtly fee payment model for BFA, not worth the money that you are paying if you ended up paying almost the same as the game monthtly subscription. Recently there is a new free addon for leveling in curse addons webpage that do this without the payment, is not as advanced like the pay ones but works. i will leave the link below. We need to support this kind of free addons. Vol’Dun is the hardest and most tedious of the Horde Zones in Battle for Azeroth. It’s also probably the one that makes the most sense. Each sections of quests leads directly to the one you should do next. For all of these reasons it’s going to be best to get this one done early. Thanks to any legendary items you might have collected in Legion, you’ll be strongest in the leveling process before 115 and weaker after — because that’s when the legendary effects stop working. Spoiler: A lot has changed. It can feel daunting to jump into a huge world of which you know very little, and World of Warcraft is gigantic. You will feel overwhelmed if you just rush in. As a returning player who used to write for the freakin’ World of Warcraft magazine (RIP), even I find it hard to figure out exactly where to get started adventuring if I haven’t played the game for a while. ":" - Any time a step ends in a ":" instead of a "." means that the next step is part of the current step you are on. This generally means the next step should be done while working on the current step. This means every "start working on" or "continue working on" will end in a ":". But this is used with other occasions as well, so keep this in mind. As a hero of the mighty Alliance, journey to the seafaring kingdom of Kul Tiras, home of Jaina Proudmoore. Untangle a web of betrayal and dark magic as you encounter power-hungry pirates, witches wielding death magic, mystical sea priests, and more. Explore the stony peaks of Tiragarde Sound, trek across Drustvar’s high plains and red forests, and navigate the intricate inland canals of Stormsong Valley as you convince this fractured kingdom to join your cause. Then 8.0 came along and turned everything on its head. Most of the techniques and shortcuts discovered, after 7.3.5 introduced scaling, were nerfed into oblivion. Many of the old techniques were confirmed by myself, first hand, to no longer work. I'm hoping that this thread can serve a similar purpose as the old thread, and gather as much data as possible on the fastest methods under the new system, and facilitate as many different perspectives and opinions on speed leveling with constructive discussion. I've just finished leveling to 110 under 8.1 with the exp curve. Darkmoon Faire: The Darkmoon Faire comes around once a month and provides two ways of bonus XP. You can ride the carousel to get the “Whee!” buff (10% bonus XP for one hour). You can also get the Darkmoon Top Hat by playing a few games, which gives you 10% bonus XP but only works during the Darkmoon Faire. Both of these are generally not worth it for the most part, as you spend more time running to get the buff than you gain in XP when leveling. Plus, I am a pet collector, and there are plenty of pets to collect in the new dungeon. Completing the dungeon’s challenge mode grants players a Mini Spider Tank battle pet. Continue playing on a weekly basis to earn currency towards items like the Unopened Gnomeregan Supply Box, Mechanical Cockroach, Schematic: Mechantula, Leper Rat Tail, and Rechargeable Alarm-O-Dog Battery. Level with a pet if you can because it will help keep you safe. If your pet is tanking all of the damage from the enemies you’re fighting, you won’t have to. The other reason is that pets are easier and cheaper to heal than you are. If you don’t have a pet, make sure you know how to use your defensive abilities. You can’t level quickly if you are dying all the time. Level 120 comes and goes. Island Expeditions have unlocked, but it turns out they’re not much fun, and the most rewarding versions are only accessible to premade groups. You turn to Warfronts only to realize they’re not available this week. Fine. You can always grind out better gear. Except as you do, you notice your new gear has higher Azerite requirements than your old gear, which means your shiny new items have fewer unlocked traits than what they replaced. Discouraged, you decide to roll as one of the cool new Allied Races. Except you can’t because they’re all locked behind reputation grinds. Prepare the Horde for war by recruiting the ancient empire of Zandalar. In this troll-dominated territory, ancient evil waits to be unleashed on the world as you battle crazed blood-troll worshippers, gargantuan dinosaurs, and titan constructs. Discover Zuldazar, the oldest city in Azeroth; unveil the bleak swamps of Nazmir; and traverse the deadly deserts of Vol'dun. War Mode: War Mode can be turned on at level 30 through your talent window, and will give you 10% bonus XP. You will, however, be attackable by players of the opposing faction, but changes have been made so that all players have a fair shot in a fight and even low-level players can kill much higher level players, and at least not get ganked and one shotted. Note: As of patch 8.1, you can get an additional call to arms bonus with war mode on if your faction is underepresented. Powered By EzWebSolution.ca Contact us at webmaster@cheers4game.com \| Sitemap xml \| Sitemap txt \| Sitemap	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line10633

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