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I Am Yet Still Full of Languid Ennui, And Who Better to Express Languid Ennui Than Bryan Ferry?
November 12, 2008 November 12, 2008 John Scalzi37 Comments
Given the choice between Anna Nicole Smith and a game of solitaire, he chooses solitaire. Now that’s ennui, my friends.
My Lack of Interestingness Continues Unabated, So Here’s an Exceptionally Lossy Video of an Obscure 80s Band
Having Abandoned Any Thought of Writing Anything of Substance Here Today, I Send You Off With a Woefully Underappreciated Australian Band
37 thoughts on “I Am Yet Still Full of Languid Ennui, And Who Better to Express Languid Ennui Than Bryan Ferry?”
Is it really? I mean, if it were some captivating, intelligent woman who possessed true beauty rather than the artificially shellacked version, perhaps it might be.
Well, maybe she’s playing one of those in the video, KIA.
Nicole TWN says:
You… DO remember she’s dead, right? I would also take solitaire over keeping company with someone dead. They tend to not be great conversationalists, no matter what “Pushing Daisies” says.
She was alive when they made the video, though. Also, solitaire sucks.
Ian M. says:
Go to your 360, download Braid from XBLA, and play. If you’re going to get all emo, you might as well do with a clever platformer.
Jeff S. says:
In answer to Brian’s question,
“Not if you keep ignoring me to play solitaire, you twit.”
This was supposed to be an angst ridden misogynistic melodrama right?
By the way, I don’t think anyone in the world doesn’t know that she’s dead. She was on the news for months after her OD. Between the OD coverage and the multiple dads lining up to take of “our” daughter, it got nauseous.
I ended up actually feeling sorry for a women that became a caricature, mostly through her own doing.
Dangrgirl says:
Oh, now I have to go listen to Slave To Love. Which will inevitably lead to The Cure somehow.
Are you feeling post-election letdown?
No, just lazy.
Mmmmm…languid ennui. Goes well with a light cream-based sauce and a dry white.
John said: “Well, maybe she’s playing one of those in the video, KIA.”
Nevermind me. I’ve been accused of being a curmudgeon. In truth, it’s a title I feel I must accept. Harrumph.
Skellig says:
He is far too young for her.
Greg London says:
I keep hearing you’re concerned about my happiness, but all that thought you’re giving me is conscience, I guess if I were walking in your shoes I wouldn’t worry none. While you and your friends are worrying ’bout me, I’m having lots of fun counting flowers on the wall (that don’t bother me at all), playing solitaire till dawn with a deck of 51, smoking cigarettes and watching Captain Kangaroo. So don’t tell me I’ve nothing to do.
KenS says:
A good helping of Beatles music on my MP3 usually snaps me out of my funk. Journey should do it for you.
eviljwinter says:
Um… Could we have some grunge? I mean you came of age in the early nineties, John. Surely something more aggressive played by guys in flannel shirts?
And they have pills for when your ennui is languid. Consult your physician if languidity does not return after four hours as this could be a sign of a serious medical condition.
Or just a reason to brag.
Wow. You really are boring today.
I’ll take Dylan anytime
While some on principles baptized
To strict party platform ties
Social clubs in drag disguise
Outsiders they can freely criticize
Tell nothing except who to idolize
And then say God bless him.
While one who sings with his tongue on fire
Gargles in the rat race choir
Bent out of shape from society’s pliers
Cares not to come up any higher
But rather get you down in the hole
That he’s in.
But I mean no harm nor put fault
On anyone that lives in a vault
But it’s alright, Ma, if I can’t please him.
Greg: It sounds like you’re speaking in 80s song titles.
My iPod just blew up. Ferry led to The Cure, which lead to the Pretty in Pink soundtrack. And now I’m Running Up That Hill with Kate Bush.
And it’s all Scalzi’s fault.
GVDub says:
The Bryan Ferry that does it for me is his version of “The In Crowd”, which he deconstructs to show the inherent fascist undertones of the song. A friend of mine once referred to it as ‘Nuremberg Rock’.
Dr. Phil says:
She keeps disappearing in the opening of the video. I think she may have some sort of phasing problem, intersecting with a parallel dimension. That cuts down on the dating prospects, methinks.
JerolJ says:
I prefer the early glam Roxy, with Ferry languishing against the rise and fall of a wall of guitars and Eno/Jobson’s angular textures. That music was so exhilarating. And then there were the…ahem, album covers. Had to buy an export to get the Country Life cover – it was worth it.
Please let this place be Anna Nicole free. For some reason my wife now feels emotionally invested in her daughter because of the nonstop barrage of coverage of the kid on ET and I really need the rest of the world to be free of ANS.
DG Lewis says:
If loving Ferry’s cover of “Like a Hurricane” better than the original is wrong, I don’t wanna be right.
That’s not ennui–that’s just good sense.
Sub-Odeon says:
Some of you act as if there is something wrong with shellacked, fake-blonde bimbos with big fake boobs? I have two words for you: Sheyla Hershey! Ahhhhhhh, my crushing despair lifts at the sight of Sheyla’s empty-headed, Brazilian bombshellness.
Now, as far as ennui goes, I thought Robert Smith patented the damn stuff and sold it as aftershave? I mean, “Wish” alone has enough ennui in it for ten regular pop albums.
thisisendless says:
Ahh how I love Bryan Ferry/Roxy Music. His voice is just so remarkably soothing.
I think If we pressure Greg London @ 12 he’ll come clean and admit he is directly quoting an old Statler Brothers song from around “66
You can look here.
The Chorus started at “Counting flowers on the wall…”
OK, I’m old enough to remember the 60’s.
MarkHB says:
I feel his question’s entirely inappropriate to my social sphere. If the question isn’t a bland “will you still love me tomorrow”. That’s so passive. It has no qualifications. Love songs for the discerning 21st Century Geek will have lyrics like :
“will you whack me over the back of the head with you MA-5 when stick a plasma ‘nade to me and run off giggling tomorrrow”
or “will you watch a back-episode of Babylon 5 with me tomorow”
or “will you still think that the nonlinear absorbtion of energy through a scattering medium is interesting tomorrow”
or “When we re-read Mars Phoenix’s last tweet, will you still cry a tear with me?”
Geeks don’t give their love away on hyperpneumatic boobs or trowel-applied make-up. We give our love where it counts.
*sniff* 192.168.0.1 is the loneliest number…
Oh I so loused that first one up. “Will you still whack me over the back of your head with your MA-5 then stick a plasma ‘nade to me and run off giggling tomorrow” was what I meant to say.
I so ruined a romantic moment there.
Oh I give up.
“Solitaire sucks…”
So did Anna Nicole…but only if you were really old, and really rich.
WendyB_09 says:
Jeff S @24 –
I’m feeling your pain about being old enough to remember the 60’s. And with another birthday coming up this week, really feeling it, although actually I’m a 23 year old disguised in a 53 year old body!
Andy W says:
Do what I do Wendy and count birthdays in hexadecimal (base 16) – that way you’ll only be 35.
(Or go the whole hog and use base 25 – then you really will be 23……….)
And on that subject, a joke that Mark at least will appreciate:
Why couldn’t the programmer tell the difference between Halloween and Christmas?
Because OCT31 = DEC25
(Ummm – feeling a bit random ATM)
Yeah, but when you say you’re 2A, people give you funny looks.
Dangrgirl@16, not titles, just the lyrics from a single song.
It’s a weird mix of really depressing lyrics sung in a happy, upbeat tempo. non-languid ennui?
oh, and you heard a clip of it if you happened to see the movie “Pulp Fiction”. Bruce Willis is listening to it on the radio in his car.
WendyB_09 @29
I probably wouldn’t be worrying about it as I am but I turned 50 this year and received an AARP card in the mail.
The discounts are all well and good but having that card has all sorts of negative connotations that I have to deal with.
Which I’m obviously not doing very well at the moment…
I’m planning on joining the CDF at age 75, turn green, live a probably short and dangerous life. Oh wait, That’s fiction?
Damn, that means I still have to deal with the AARP card thing.
J.D. Finch says:
I think one might characterize Mr. Ferry’s performance here as “limp.” On multiple levels.
Angie Cox says:
Well the Solitaire was a better conversationalist .
JJBrannon says:
Having been introduced to this video by this Whatever entry four years ago, I caught it again via YouTube last night and finally realized that Smith & Ferry are not in the penthouse apartment together — they’re only vividly thinking of each other at the same time in the same mindspace while being physically apart, thus the telephone sequence.
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Black Oppression: In Living Color
C. C. Saunders January 5, 2018 January 9, 2018 Pop Culture
A college friend reached out to me over the recent New York City snowstorm to vent about the new Bruno Mars and Cardi B video. His concern was that the video, starring two racially ambiguous stars, sullied a prevalent portion of black culture–gateway sitcom In Living Color. His assertions are definitively astute– marking a troubling pattern seen in white and racially ambiguous entertainers who appropriate what blacks made great, to further their brand and fester the wound of white supremacy.
I’ll be honest with you, In Living Color was not good for the black collective. The show, like most media platforms, proved a means for blacks to become spectators and gawk at their own disenfranchisement. It also birthed The Wayans, a family that would resurrect caricatures of blackness that function to beat the black mind into mental subjugation years after the physical chains had been cut. Television, like music, sports, etc are deliberate means of escapism, serving a similar function to drugs in issuing the systemically disenfranchised a temperate high they seek to recreate with each additional use. In Living Color, also placed Bronx born Latina Jennifer Lopez in the spotlight, who like Cardi B and Bruno Mars, gained fame and fortune for her proximity to blackness, but maintained prominence and versatility because she was not black.
Just as Lopez’s assets would be disregarded if she were black, Bruno’s sound would be deemed cliche and generic if he were a black man, Cardi’s “personality,” deemed “charming” and “real” by most consumers would easily be rendered gauche and aligned with the “welfare queen” caricature if she were a black woman. Perhaps most importantly, neither Bruno Mars or Cardi would garner mainstream appeal if black. If black, the perception of their celebrated attributes would circumscribe their appeal, if not negate their opportunity for visibility all-together.
The irony of it all is that Bruno Mars and Cardi B exist in “living color.” They have “color” in the sense that they are not white, but they are not colored with what the white world still regards as the detriment of blackness. Although deviants of what author Alice Walker called the “black black woman” stolen from the shores of Africa, Bruno and Cardi stand on this illusive black black woman in their distant past to assume a position above blacks but below whites.
Cardi literally stands on Nicki Minaj’s back as an obvious duplicate of Minaj’s caricature. Cardi B’s resurrection from reality television to the top of popular culture illustrates that the Nicki Minaj image was never intended for the black female body. She illustrates that Nicki Minaj was a test, a test expected to fail. In her conventional success, Minaj now serves a doorstopper to allow the entry of non-black versions of a caricature first seen with lil’ kim, but gradually lightened over the decade that separates the pop/hip-hold meld attempted with Kim and perfected with Minaj. This is not to say that Minaj is in any way better than Kim, but that her lighter skin, finer features and crossover sound assumes a space Kim could not quite master with her brown skin, full features and conventionally “hard” lyrics. Just as Kim became a mark that Minaj was designed to exceed, Nicki now exists as a mark that the racially ambiguous Minaj must exceed.
Iggy’s ability to appropriate Nicki’s look, but not her personality could not quite carry the torch of appropriation terrorism. In short, Iggy was largely unlikeable and overtly unrealistic. Yes, Nicki sometimes resembles a candy land character, but she is easily the girl next door, or bad-girl turned good.. Blacks historically mastered code switching as a means of survival, as a black female caricature, Iggy’s investors could pay for her assets but could not buy this survival technique.
Cardi, however, a Nicki clone, lighter and seemingly more embedded in the “hood”- functions as a deliberate means to imply that their are non-black people who incur a “blacker” existence than black people. Cardi B, a former stripper who had to choose whether to eat or strive for an education, functions to declare Hispanics as the new black. Despite her voluntary presence in the United States, the white media functions to illustrate Cardi B, as they do the LBGT community, those of Mexican ancestry and those of Muslim faith– as bearing a subjugation far worse that any black person– deeming the reference groups more worthy of central placement than black bodies.
This of course is a smokescreen for the reality that the white media is far more comfortable with non-black persons of color than blacks, as their voluntary presence in the blood-stained North American continent, proves a symbolic profit to those who built bridges with the bones of the dead and signed checks in the blood of the murdered and defiled. For it is far easier to celebrate the conventional “greatness” of those who proved victorious in conjunction with America, rather than those who rose in spite of its evils.
For many exhausted with the 808 sound of contemporary music, it is hard not to like Bruno Mars. It’s hard not to like his doo-wop soul sound that is a reminiscent of a young Frankie Lymon and men who used to sing on trains and street corners. But Frankie Lymon and all the other soul singers like Otis Redding and Sam Cooke who died prematurely and suspiciously, died to make room for Bruno Mars. So while Cardi B exists to illustrate the black experience as detached from black people, Bruno Mars functions as a brown version of Robin Thicke or Justin Timberlake—seeking to illustrate the “soul” or the “black sound” as detached from black people.
Furthermore, images like these depict a reality many are still unwilling to accept– that we as a collective remain under attack. Cardi B, Bruno Mars amongst numerous other racially ambiguous acts forced down the collective throats of black people, illustrate acts and tools of mentacide, or “the deliberate and systematic destruction of a person’s or group’s mind” as gradually becoming darker and darker, unveiling our most lethal adversaries as literally “in living color.”
Black Power ❤
#brunomars, #cardib, #inlivingcolor
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SouthernGrl says:
This entire argyment is based on the fact that Carsi B is not black. Yes she is black domican. Her hair and facial featires say so. You do us all a disservice when you aren’t factual in your write ups. Everything you said was based on a fallacy.
Happy New Year and Thank you for your comment.
As seen in the provided link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-Z-_5KEWW0
Cardi does not identify as a black women. She even states dating black men who do not date black women… As mentioned in the article, Cardi obviously descends from an abuducted black black woman (as Alice Walker calls it), but it has only a selective bearing on her identity and function. So while she may be a “diasporic” African to those familiar with the transatlantic African “disbursement,” Cardi does not claim black, or compartmentalize herself as such. Furthermore, it is the black collective that does a disservice to themselves and their people in claiming those who do not claim us.
As black people, we also need to be especially weary of those whose popularity and celebration functions to fester our subjugation. Cardi is a violent figure to the black collective, a violence enabled by those within the collective who embrace her with open arms assuming an affiliation to blackness she has appropriated not articulated.
Ryon J. Cobb says:
Cardi B is an Afro-Latina. Rosie Perez, who helped choreograph the dance moves on In Living Color, is Puerto Rican. Nicki Minaj, like Cardi B, is Trinidadian.
Obari cartman says:
Omg. Incredible reply.
Great response C. C.!
Very well said SiStar. When will we ever understand the dynamic that the jim crow one drop rule has dissipated! With the census bureau came the option to choose other than black…and even though these folks have some characteristics, they don’t have enough to be a threat…in fact their blandness is sought in propaganda media because they can be easily whitewashed and manipulated.
And why do our people continue to love to claim these people who do not claim us?! Jim Crow one drop is dead people!!
Thank you for your enlightened comment Miriam!
Andres Santana says:
Honestly I just think Cardi b isnt articulate enough. Im black and My family considers themselves black, even though ethnically we are Dominican like my parents were born there all they know is DR. You do make a lot of valid points, but I don’t even think Cardi really knows what she’s saying like especially after watching the video for myself I was like, yeah she doesn’t know much or how to express herself well enough. You can see her frustration when trying to even come up with what to say. The question I pose out of curiosity, because I too I guess struggle with identity when seeing post like this is; if Cardi did claim her blackness would this be a conversation about solely Bruno, or just in regards to colorism itself.
J L-Z says:
I hope you saw the comment that just bodied you! I would think twice next time before popping off at the keyboard.
Chimira M Wirlich says:
This is a good article
Chris Robin says:
Cardi B does in fact identify as Black and this piece contributes to erasure of Latinx’s of African descent. I think the reality is that colorism has always been pervasive in pop culture. As much as we worship artists like Prince and Michael Jackson, they achieved greater acclaim because of their complexion, unlike their predecessors James Brown and Stevie Wonder. Hell, this is why Beyonce is more famous than Kelly Rowland!
Also, if we follow your logic Cardi B should only be allowed to perform salsa or merengue and we shouldnt celebrate Black artists who are accomplished opera singers or classical musicians because certain art forms “belong” to certain ethnic groups.
As seen here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-Z-_5KEWW0
Cardi distinguishes between “black” and “Spanish.” The culturally enlightened understand that”Spanish” is not a race and that “Spanish” and “Black” are not mutually exclusive, but to the culturally unenlightened this line of demarcation is a building block in their identity. But while Cardi’s distance from blackness in identity but appropriation of a black platform to accrue wealth and fame is a problem–her function or fluidity, as manipulated by whites, is far more problematic
It’s funny you bring up Salsa and Meringue, as neither sound is, nor could be dominated by black, American displaced singers. Bruno and Cardi, while they may face adversity in their American born status, could assume a position like the late Selena. But what black person could successfully appropriate Chicano, or latino music? None. Even in acting, Zoe Saldana played a black sorority girl in Drumline, Bernie Mac’s black daughter in Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner and a Columbian orphan in Columbiana. She even beat out black actresses to play Nina Simone. We all know Viola, Lupita, Tika, or even Angela Bassett would not be first in line to play Celia Cruz–although they are all “black.”
So while I get that there is blackness “there,” privilege is “there” as well.
In her autobiography, Assata Shakur recalls desiring to board a ride in a segregated amusement park. She is initially denied because of her skin color, but when her mother approaches the park guards speaking in Spanish they are allowed to board the ride.
Her language didn’t change her blackness, but proved a means to further the “othering” of blacks displaced in North America.This is similar what we see with Cardi B, Bruno Mars, and others.
Thank you for this opportunity of intellectual exchange.
Black Power.
Wow! That comment was a nuclear bomb!!!😲
Royal Quran says:
Wow! Nuclear bomb indeed!! Just as the article and your other replies. So powerful… And on point!
Shut em down!
“It’s funny you bring up Salsa and Meringue, as neither sound is, nor could be dominated by black, American displaced singers.”
Celia Cruz was an Afro-Latina. Which means she was black. and regarded as the QUEEN of Salsa.
I had to just come up here and let you know that, since you obviously don’t know what the hell you’re talking about.
http://americanhistory.si.edu/blog/2012/05/celia-cruz-queen-of-salsa.html
and I already know you’ll attempt to weasel your way out of that by pointing out the fact that you said “black, AMERICAN” so I’ll leave you with another example, tho a simple google search would produce DOZENS more
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_Juan_(reggaeton_musician)
Black and Latinos are basically the same in a lot of ways. You are no different from a white supremacist to me. You further divide people. You probably jumped Spanish girls in high school because they had better hair than you. *shrugs*
Excellent Response!
I would really recommend that we be sure that we completely understand C.C.’s argument before disagreeing…
I think C.C’s argument is actually based on a fundamental understanding of how privilege works: It is not a function of one’s desire; it is an advantage granted you by no “merit” of your own.
What is interesting here is that *language is understood as privileged within larger critical conversations about race (or “Black-(North) Americaness”) in the USA.
The Melanin Man says:
Man, I used to like the Wayans Bros. show a lot. Comedy has it’s place, but it’s overemphasis amongst the Black entertainment realm has been extremely detrimental I agree. As I’ve gotten older that’s what I’m beginning to realize. Good observation 👍👍👍
Sharra Rasheed says:
I dislike that so much of Black entertainment is in or has been in comedy, seemed to me, all to often, all we were shown was Black clowns, and not anything like reality.
Long time love for those like Richard Pryor, but was well aware how much of what he said was “laughing to keep from crying”… Things are somewhat improved now, but find a lot of that seems to be in TV and movies made outside of the U S.
As for Bruno Mars, because of my personal experience in the islands of the Pacific, I like him and his music and style as a reminder of the talent of all the island mixes. I miss our diversity and the way we were all together.
Anna Marie hsrold says:
To a blue eyes person she they are black or mixed race not pure white
I love this article it’s on point !
V.Page says:
This is a great article. So strange, I was thinking about this, this morning. Not so much
in your context, but on another level. Music. As a baby-boomer, I love and reminisce with
soul, jazz and R&B from back-in-the-day…”Say it Loud..I’m Black and Proud”. As I see the
change in music with and of Black Americans who migrated from the South, it’s obvious we no
longer have control. Yes, our music is being changed and used by all people of color and
less by American Blacks…which is a problem. We no longer have black female groups or
black male groups that dominated the airwaves or concert halls, which propel many to become
soloist, still identifying with Soul music. Unfortunately, we have to put blame where it
belongs, many new black generations are not embracing our black-in-the-day, but creating
their own style. So when you have Bruno embracing black-in-the-day, it gives black Americans
a good feeling. Hopefully other black Americans who ancestors migrated from the South will
update and add some Aretha Franklin, some James Brown, some Smokey, some Betty Wright, some
Glady Knight, some Teddy Pendergrass, some Barry White some Temptations…and many more into their music or add collaboration with some artists that are still alive
theladyonthelake says:
Reblogged this on theladyonthelake's Blog and commented:
This is so well said
This was ignorant. Completely. They simply aren’t “black enough” for the author.
Charlie P says:
They aren’t black at all is what the author was stating.
A Minor says:
James L says:
I agree with you naming colorism, and how that shows up in white media. But your assessment of where latinx people are is off base.To say that folks from the diaspora in the Caribbean are here voluntarily in the US ignores the scale of imperialism and colonialism. More specifically, you ignore the opression black people outside of the US mainland face.
Light skin and racially ambiguous people have more privilege, no doubt. But If you feel that way about cardi and Bruno and their music, im curious about how this applies to artists like Prince, who also benefited
Prince has openly identified as a black man. That’s the difference champ.
Its a difference, but I dont know if its THE difference. Self identification isn’t a sole idicator of power dynamics. Jesse Williams identifies as black as well, but his message is arguably more palatable to white people because of his proximity to whiteness.
My point is that I think there is a way to lift up how the media consumes black culture and uses colorism to divide in a way that doesn’t pit afro-latinx people against mainland black folk.
Cardi not identifying as such is a consequence of colonialism and anti-blackness, but it doesn’t negate her experience and oppression as a black latina in an anti-black community.
How does OJ simpson apply to your rule if hes like “I’m not black, I’m OJ?”
thepoeticactivist says:
This was a TERRIBLE article, if we can even call it that. Disappointing.
joshua Williams says:
Great article! Being a teacher and an african american historian I do agree with certain points made in this article. Great job of starting the discussion!
This was brilliant. Thank you. And your replies are on point as well.
williamgarcia1987 says:
Afrolatinos are under attack. This article is trying to take down Afrolatinos by making it seem like Afrolatinos are being used as a form of anti-black and (colorism-based) multicultural-neoliberalist marketing move. Lol “yeah right”. What y’all thought, that once we gained visibility, these nativists were gonna share the limelight.
Angel Rodriguez says:
More division within the division. It would be comical if it wasn’t sad.
Great article CC! Keep dropping those truth bombs! Don’t pay any attention to the naysayers. I’ve learned over the years that truth always offends people. But it can’t be denied. Keep it up 👍🏿
Thank you for your support Prince! I could have never anticipated the response I received. I suppose my post was a stone thrown at a pack of dogs, and these comments depict “who” got hit ;’/
Yeah you got a huge response! I see on your page it’s been shared over 10,000 times on Fakebook…I mean Facebook.lol So you better expect a lot more traffic. You’ll probably get more hateful trolls. That happened to me a few years ago. Some guy shared by Boule post on YouTube and over 20,000 people watched the video. It’s a blessing and a curse. You get silly trolls but also your blog can get more popular in the process. But I’m not worried,I know you can handle them. And yes you’re correct, the only dogs that yelp are the ones that get hit. LOL!!!!
Article is very disingenuous.You keep posting a youtube video to an interview where Cardi says “she isnt black” to try and validate your claim of misappropriation.Its obvious that Cardi has a limited understanding of race/ethnicity so its sad that somebody educated would attempt to twist her already twisted words.She clearly states in the video that as a spanish/hispanic,they have European/African etc in them but it doesnt matter because Whites view “us” all the same anyways.So its very clear she isnt trying to separate herself from blackness in the manner that you want people to believe.
Women like Cardi,Jenny,etc grew up on blocks and hung with people that you probably wouldnt even set foot on or around.You nor your colleagues are not in any kind of position in the black community to be decertifying anybody’s blackness,especially those who are actually doing for our hip hop culture.Cardi is very “good in the hood”.When is the last time you’ve been there?
Cardi decertified her own blackness as you watched in the video. Accept it. She isn’t black! White people do not view us all the same.
E Gordon says:
It’s ironic that as much as you try to advance the idea of a collective, there is little evidence of what that would look like or who its arbiters would be. Who gets to be in this collective? What are its parameters? Am I Black enough? Do you need receipts proving I’m not a deviant plotting appropriation terrorism? Because as long as we fail to articulate what we are fighing for, we just continue to fight what we’re against.
That said, you writing is incisive, enlightening and unapologetic. I’m all in.
EducatedAfroLatino says:
You need to do more research on Afro-Latinos. As both an Afro-Latino and Afro-American, this article is quite disrespectful to the Afro-Latinx experience.
Your article is so on point. It is enlightening, factual and thought provoking. Your statement’s on truth’s about us AA and how we’re perceived in Hollywood that try to eliminate our contributions and presence. Thank you for keeping us aware.
Shaniqua Deslandes says:
awesome article so many afro latinos dont identify with black people but love the culture, a woman who is famous for her r&b said they want our music and our ways but dont want us, paul moony said this which is what your article said in more of an elegant and intelligent way “everyone wants to be a nigga but dont no one wants to be a nigga.”
Russ smith says:
I entered these comments on the reposted link, but felt I had something worthy of the author’s attention.
Harsh criticism for sure. I think that these two artists represent the future of America, like it or not. This comment about ambiguous racial identity strikes of colorism….and I think unfairly. Both of their “island origins involved stopping points for the slave ships from africa….we as a people need to focus on where we all originated, not where our ancestors landed (paraphrasing John Henrick Clarke). Whether the music performances are authentic soul is up to the consumer. I don’t listen to either with any expectations that they will cross into musical genius. They are pop musicians, and the center weight of their audience…and purchasers of their music…Is young, loves pop, probably ignorant of authentic soul, and probably white. As the racial blending continues…physical blending, cultural blending, artistic blending will continue. This is just the beginning.
New after reading other comments: we seem to be in a new era of identifying or supporting degrees of blackness that is unprecedented. Sure it’s an easy call to question a person with almost 0% recent racial contact as one who is not black (like Rachel Dolezal). It’s less a call for those who share mixed parentage…Halle Berry, Obama. Most self identify as black…mostly because they look black. People from the carribbean islands try to deny their African ancestry when clearly they have the appearances indicating non-European blending. I think we can embrace them as black … if that is important…regardless of their self identity or ambiguousness.
I grew up in Detroit, and love Motown era music. But some say that wasn’t soulful enough. So pop music never really satisfies the deep roots of the African experience in America. But these artists are not creating museum pieces… they’re trying to turn a buck.
Looks like more grand theft to me.
https://kushiteprince.wordpress.com/2017/12/06/grand-theft-cultureyou-are-being-replaced/
Hey CC,did you see this video clip? It’s from Love and Hip Hop. Listen to the exchange between Amara La Negra and this guy. It proves the racism in Latin countries. It’s undeniable they have a problem with blackness. But I’m proud that Amara stood up for herself and put this clown in his place. This correlates exactly with this post. Let me know what you think.
Thanks for the video and the support!’
I love Amara!
Lol exactly, he doesn’t even see her as Spanish or whatever. Any black woman who has gone to the Dominican salon knows how they treat you differently based on your “look” and “hair type!” I wish you were in new York! I’d love to vent and trade stories lol
I know right?? That video is so telling but not surprising. The anti-blackness is through the roof with some of these afro-latinos.. I have met some that were cool though. I went to school with some students from the Dominican Republic,Columbia and Belize. A few of them dated African Americans and were cool with us. I dated a girl in high school from Honduras. She was kind of like a Zoe Saldana type. But her family was real nice to me. But it kind of depends on the type you meet. And even some of the Afro-Latinas will date black men but still have a disdain for Black American women. I do not like that crap! I will put them in their place real quick! They don’t understand that they are not better than black Americans. The only reason I’m attracted to Afro Latinas in the first place is because they look black. Some of them can’t seem to grasp that concept.
I’ve never been to NY. I’ve been wanting to go forever. I’ve been to Virginia,Maryland,Philly,North Carolina,Oklahoma,Florida,Atlanta and Texas. But I want to go to NY if possible. If I do I’ll give you a heads up. Yeah we would be trading stories forever.lol
bwillis12 says:
“But while Cardi’s distance from blackness in identity but appropriation of a black platform to accrue wealth and fame is a problem–her function or fluidity, as manipulated by whites, is far more problematic”
The latter part of your reply here is spot on and could’ve been a more appropriate focal point in your criticisms of Cardi B. Because, while she may have a problematic view of Blackness, she has indeed claimed her Blackness. The video that you continue to reference shows this problematic perception but doesn’t speak to all the other times, whether explicitly or implicitly, she has claimed to be Black. You can’t snatch someone’s Blackness away from them because they did a terrible job one time expressing said Blackness.
There is something to be said about how she is perceived and accepted by society, and her response to both of these phenomenons. You pretty much say it here or allude to it, and I agree with these points. But we gotta take a more nuanced approach when it comes to Cardi’s identity because her expression of it is complex. We do a disservice to her when we simplify that expression and relegate her as other, instead of bringing her in and asking her to do better.
Expressing said blackness???
When did she express blackness?
I understand the point of view presented in this article better from reading the authors responses, that it’s not really about those artists but the entertainment industries exploitation of our differences within the diaspora, and who eventually becomes successful with the white audience. However, I think it’s off that In Living Color is the target. In Living Color was a representation of NY street culture, that is not and has never been exclusively Afro-American. Hip Hop was definitely created by Afro Latinos and Afro Americanos together… and the contributions of Filipinos to B-boy culture are immense. So really Cardi and Bruno fit right in that world.
RedLam Ani says:
Marisol, I didn’t see in any of the author’s responses where she released responsibility of appropriation and/or exploitation of Black culture from the artist. Cardi B. is not a victim here. The WHOLE issue with Cardi B. is that not only does she not identify as Black; she has made incredibly offensive remarks soaked in denial and colorism towards Black women. Her “otherness”, or delusion of otherness and distance from Blackness, is completely voluntary. No one is kicking her out of the club. She decided she is not a member. However, proceeds to profit from her watered down, pop version of music she learned from her proximity to club members. Look at other ambiguous Black women such as Zendaya, Amandla, and Paula Patton (sp) in the business who embrace their Blackness.
As for this,
“In Living Color was a representation of NY street culture, that is not and has never been exclusively Afro-American. Hip Hop was definitely created by Afro Latinos and Afro Americanos together…”
Hip-hop was exclusively created by peoples of African descent. Full stop. That would include Latinos, Caribbeans, and all others where African music and ideologies were passed down to them from their ancestors. There is no need to differentiate these people by national origin. I have NO idea what “Filipino B Boy” culture is or how this branch, twig, or leaf of Hip Hop culture worship would be any different from the “immense” contributions to Hip Hop made by other nationalities, including other Asians. Some of these contributions are awesome immulations and celebrations of Hip Hop culture but they are not at the root nor building blocks of a culture that was well-framed before their “immense” contributions. That is foolish.
Very articulate response!
oldschool1blog says:
well said Nubian queen as a Afro Latino pioneer of hip hop culture from the 70s I totally agree….d.martinez original member of the legendary rock steady crew 1977″…shalom queen
I do agree somewhat with your comment. Young cc is a lioness of Judah..i was present when hip hop was founded.i am afro Latino from Havana Cuba born and raised in the hip hop culture as a pioneering member of the legendary rock steady crew..we black and brown people the Rican’s did build Hip Hop culture together..we lived side by side with each other and shared the same struggles which were immense at the time..youtube 1970s nyc south bx and you will see what I mean..i however do understand were cc the young lioness is coming from..if your willing to go to war with my people then as and Afrolatinos are together on this…i am Derrick”D Rock” Martinez original founding member of the legendary rock steady crew formed in the summer of hell in the burning fires of the South Bronx in 1977″..shalom to you again cc young lionesses of Judah and shalom to you as well my Nubian queen..
elevateandtransform says:
Good article. I’m curious as to how Cardi would be interpreted if she said she was Black. Would she still be understood as means to further the othering of Black people in America?
Yes, of course! I actually think the scenario you presented would make her function worse. Like a Clarence Thomas who knows he’s black but only uses it when he feels individually attacked.
The scenario I was setting up was of an Afro-Latina who identifies as Black, not one who uses it for convenience. We know that light-skinned Black people in the US have enjoyed a privilege not granted to darker Blacks and this privilege is a function of white supremacy, to not only maintain racial oppression but to be utilized as a divide-and-conquer strategy amongst Black people.
Acknowledging this, as well as how Afro-Latinx identity is often used similarly, I’m personally less likely to place blame on folks who have not verbally distanced themselves from Blackness (unlike Clarence Thomas) while calling out how white supremacy is showing up.
IMO, Cardi claimed Latinx identity which she said included African. That’s not saying, “I’m not Black.” And if she did say she wasn’t Black we’d have to ask her to qualify that, as some folks I know from the Caribbean associate the word solely with Black Americans and are not denying African-ness with that statement.
This piece was brilliant but I do have concern that it in some ways perpetuates the divide-and-conquer strategy of white supremacy.
I think it’s important to acknowledge that admitting African ancestry is different than saying you’re black. Jessica Alba’s kids have African ancestry because their father has a black parent-in the future their acknowledgement of a black grandparent is not the same as saying they are black.
I have no contest to the observation of the divide and conquer technique, but displacing the technique as implemented by me a black Woman—who is a victim of said technique—and not the whites who maintain their placement at the top of the hierarchical structure for creating said division, is not only ignorant but cowardly.
I think it’s disingenuous to use Cardi’s garbled response about why she chooses to use the n-word as proof that she does not see herself as Black. It’s reaching, IMO.
Making the suggestion that your argument could perpetuate the divide-and-conquer tactics of white supremacy is not mutually inclusive to suggesting that white people are not to blame for racial oppression or intra-racial division.
We always have to be willing to de-colonize and question where and how we may be perpetuating the things that we loathe.
Hasani Obatala says:
The moderator is a best. I’ve BEEN saying this about Cardi B….. She’s not Black. SHE said she’s not Black.
The moderator is a beast. I’ve BEEN saying this about Cardi B….. She’s not Black. SHE said she’s not Black.
marcusrob2010 says:
This was a good article (as a huge Bruno Mars supporter, I do have to agree with mostly everything stated). I’m very glad we have people who share this level of awareness when it comes to the industry’s (and the elites’) attempts to appropriate blackness onto the acts/artists that seem to stay in our orbit (again, through the industry’s top dollar promotion of them on our channels, radios, social media, etc.).
With that said, in Bruno Mars’ case ( a guy who has vocally/consistently tried to be as genuine about his passion for our style as much as possible), I’m lost on what more he can do in order to steer free of the criticism. Probably nothing, but I simply CANNOT equate him to Justin Timberlake. I don’t really see any TRUE genuineness in Timberlake “brand” at all, nor legit SOUL. I DO see that with Bruno Mars. If he didn’t have a fat label contract, I feel like he’d legitimately still be singing/writing/performing the same type of music. I’ve never felt this would be the case at all with Justin.
Bitch, You sound STUPID AF! You are a disgrace to the culture. Ever heard of Afro-Latinos? Diaspora? Walk into a room, black or Latina, we are all the same. Stupid Bitch!
jerseytjej says:
Excellent article. I wish I had the ability to express myself so eloquently and succinctly! Mainstream America and world always applauds knock off’s of Black, because the real thing is less desirable in their eyes. Any attempt to retain ownership of our abilities is labeled as divisive or racist.
Tet Ndeti says:
Some questions I’d like to pose in light of this conversation. How would one characterize artists like AWB, Bobby Caldwell, Teena Marie, and more recently Amy Winehouse. Where does appropriation end and appreciation begin. Back in the day, the first two artist, were never known to be black until many of us saw them on Soul Train in my youth.
Without the benefit of a 24/7 onslaught of a visual medium as well as social media back then, not everyone knew. I’m pre-mtv…and black radio played soul music from other artists like David Bowie, Michael McDonald and Gino Vannelli and so on. The revelations were always eye-opening, yet appreciated.
I feel the term “cultural appropriation” really came to more popular use in the music video generation of the 80’s (and no I haven’t forgotten about the earlier misgivings of Elvis). People really began to put a face and a persona to the artist(s). Other than that, all than that mattered was musics ability to move you.
I’m not always a “stay-in-your-lane” kinda person. To a degree, I think we are all influenced by a variety of things outside of our culture and filter them through our own experiences. It can be applied whether it’s in music, fine art, dance architecture, etc. In the end how does it move me.
Ultimately I look at today’s media as a virtual accelerant for information lacking context. I’m not saying your statement lacks credibility, but sometimes one size does not fit all.
Thank you for opening this discussion.
Sick and Tired of Colorism says:
I’m just wondering if black girls normally call darker skinned black girls roaches, because Cardi B has called many dark skinned girls Roaches… You have to understand the colorism in Latin America to have a perspective.. Some PRs talk about “whitening their race” and MANY of them discriminate against people from DR, because they, as opposed to Cardi B, are considered BLACK to Latinos, and dont let them start talking about Hatians, you will hear a lot of jokes then. The 1 drop rule has been dead for Latinos for DECADES if not CENTURIES… don’t let that girl fool you… Also we don’t need anymore whoremodels, let’s call her Latino, AA black women are the ish, I dont know any PR counterparts to Oprah, or Michelle Obama, or Ursula Burns, or Mellody Hobson…
Luna Peace says:
Reblogged this on Luna Peace and commented:
Personally I feel that is sad that we have to analyze everything this way but it is necessary. They want the hip hop sound and all the good things we create but they don’t want it from us. They want it from a lighter shade.
Agreed,
JuJu says:
It’s crazy to me how the points are going right over people’s heads in these comments. Like some Black commenters (or I’m assuming that they are Black) are advocating for people who haven’t explicitly identified as Black and those who are Black with “light skinned” privilege. And there is nothing wrong with pointing out those privileges to reference the main points the author is creating the space for (intelligent and informed) dialogue and critical thinking. Then there are clearly butt hurt Latinx person in the comments very defensive about being exposed for the white supremacy they comply with and benefit from. They big mad we see how they consciously and deliberately exploit their black adjacency.
She said what she said.
Thank you very much for this articulate and enlightened comment! ❤
aem says:
“Then there are clearly butt hurt Latinx person in the comments very defensive about being exposed for the white supremacy they comply with and benefit from. They big mad we see how they consciously and deliberately exploit their black adjacency.”
^^THIS RIGHT HERE!!
And thanks to the author for creating this conversation!
Why are you so angry? You should be able to express yourself and state your point of view without hurling insults at anyone. This is meant to be a debate, an exchange of opinion. Thanks.
This was meant to be a reply to this comment, WordPress messed it up.
nineteenthharmony says:
Interesting read. In addition to calling out cultural appropriation, we should also hold Black artists accountable for abandoning our sound. Can’t blame Bruno for flourishing with throwback R&B when our own artists abandoned it for Euro, electro or auto-tune. I imagine if Usher had Bruno’s current route, he’d still be at the top of his game.
diamondlaine says:
And whoever checkin for lit black women and girls on the mic I recommend Kash Doll, Kia K and Poca Dinero aka Pronto…and much hate as she gets I believe azalia banks to be someone who gets bit a lot while her music is overshadowed by controversy
This was a really well thought out article. I feel very conflicted because I am biracial (half black and half white) and both Bruno and Cardi look more “black” than I do — especially Cardi — in the way the choose to present themselves in interviews and through their music. It’s really confusing that Cardi B. (and many Dominicans) do not identify as black, especially considering that where I live, for example, most Dominican people I meet assume I am also from The DR because of how I look. I don’t want to speak for an experience that is not mine, but I do think it’s important to consider the history of anti-blackness (Trujillo) and things like The Parsley Massacre between The DR/Haiti.
On a slightly different note, one of the main dancers featured in the video teaches frequently in NYC and LA. To my knowledge, she does not identify as black/identifies as Dominican. I took her class once and a woman was wearing a Black Lives Matter shirt, and she quite literally replied “Latinas too, my nigga.”
Being a talented artist of color shouldn’t be an excuse to perpetuate anti-blackness. Still, I wonder what would happen if the media we place so much value in actually created space for more than just a “black” or “not black” identity.🤔
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billiambloom says:
Interesting article to say the least…. has anyone ever wondered why carnival was so important???? My theory is that it was disguised to intentionally mixed down the African numbers in Brazil and surrounding areas. Any thoughts on this?
knowledgefullcircle says:
Sista this was a good post. I agree with many of the sentiments you were talking about in this article. You pretty much points out what I have been talking about, but broke it down in more details and hits it right on the head.
Thanks for the positive energy! Black power!
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In Search of The Way
by Flora E. Wood
Preface to the Seventh Edition
Mrs Flora E. Wood, the Master's representative in Britain, was born and lived in India for many years and learned of the teachings of the saints as a young woman in the early 1940s.
She was initiated by Maharaj Sawan Singh Ji and had the unusual opportunity to experience a close, personal association with both her own Master and, in the 1960s, Maharaj Charan Singh Ji. Back in those days-the 1940s and the early '60s-there were relatively few satsang is in the West, compared with the thousands who have been initiated since then. And of that small number, only a handful were able to spend time at the Dera. This book gives a first-hand account of those times when Mrs Wood and a small group of companions spent considerable time with the Master in informal discussions of Sant Mat and shared with him many intimate moments. In conveying her experiences, Mrs Wood communicates not only the teachings of the saints but also a little of how the Masters teach their disciples through the example of their own purity and love for God.
Mrs Wood has slightly revised this edition and has added an epilogue placing her account in a spiritual context from the vantage point of some thirty-two years later. With the growth of the sangat all over the world, the intimacy of those earlier days is no longer possible. But we also know that the true intimacy occurs spiritually, when we meet our Master's Radiant Form inside. His physical form is a means to that end.
In this account of a disciple's personal association with her Master, we share her joy in his presence. It may remind us of the union we all seek with our own Master, and how to go about making that union a reality.
The river Beas, with its four companions-the rivers Jhelum, Chenab, Ravi and Sutlej-gives the Punjab its name (panch aab, five rivers) as a province of northern India. The Beas has held a significant place in the annals of India, both spiritually and politically. Early in the sixteenth century Guru Nanak, one of the greatest saints that India has produced, preached his message of Sant Mat, the Teachings of the Saints. Born at Talwandi, now known as Nankana Sahib, he settled and preached at Kartarpur Bedian, which lies on the west bank of river Ravi at a distance of about fifty miles from the present Radha Soami Colony on the bank of the river Beas, which will figure so largely in the following pages.
Over two hundred years before the birth of Christ, Alexander the Great, at the head of his hitherto victorious hosts, came to the banks of this waterway. Heavy clouds were gathering, and, before he could ford the shrunken stream, the monsoon broke in a great storm of lightning and rain, beating on the parched countryside and on the Himalayan heights nearby. The water from a thousand hills and streams filled the river basin and overflowed into the surrounding plain Alexander's tired foot soldiers could not move in the thick clay morass, and this, aggravated by their long-standing homesickness and discontent, led to mutiny. Alexander, that great conqueror, had been out generalled by a river-the Beas. He turned back and a year later died on his journey homeward.
On the banks of this same river in the last years of the nineteenth century, Baba Jaimal Singh, the disciple of a well-known and loved saint, Soami Ji of Agra, had chosen, after thirty-four years as a devoted follower of his Guru, to serve his novitiate of mastership. In those days the countryside was sparsely populated and farmed by widely spaced villages, whilst the area around the river itself was a wilderness of scrub broken up by clefts of eroded clay. Undisturbed, he sat meditating for long hours at a time, as do all true Masters before taking up their great responsibilities. In the tree above him, he had secreted a bundle of chapatis and at long intervals he would arise and, taking one of the sun-dried unleavened cakes, would soak it in water, eat it and return at once to his devotions. It is said that he foresaw this spot becoming the nucleus of a spiritual activity which would radiate across the world.
He built a rough shelter from the rain and it was not long before he had a growing band of disciples. A well was sunk and buildings commenced in a modest way. The colony we know had started its course.
Subsequent to this, his successor Baba Sawan Singh Ji, after his accession to mastership, improved the colony to house the ever-growing number of his devotees. At his death in 1948,.Sardar Bahadur Jagat Singh Ji, who followed him, and later Maharaj Charan Singh Ji, continued to alter and enlarge the existing site to cater to the periodic influx of literally thousands of disciples who come for instruction in Sant Mat-the philosophy they teach.
During my last visit to the colony, the idea occurred to me that a record written at the time and whilst events were fresh in the mind, might be of interest to the other British and Indian members of our party from England Other satsangis who had not visited Beas might also share with us, vicariously, the blissful days we spent in our benign Master's company.
Since that time it was suggested that I enlarge this account to include earlier reminiscences: of how I met the Great Master, Maharaj Sawan Singh Ji, who initiated me; of how I was attracted by his teaching; and of the Dera in the days when I first studied Sant Mat.
The observations in the following pages are naturally inadequate reactions, of a purely personal nature, to rare and precious moments in the company of our beloved Satgurus Here I am reminded of a story about a little boy who, in the garden of his cottage home, was playing with an old copper jug. It was a brilliant spring morning, fragrant and dewy, full of vital colour and sound, the drone of insects and the wild sweetness of bird song He sat for a long moment with a singing heart gazing into the sun-filled golden depths of his jug and thought with the unformulated loving thoughts of childhood, of his mother lying ill in the cottage in a comparatively dark room, and his heart suddenly ached to be able to convey some of the peace and beauty of the garden to her, for her comfort. He lay in the grass and thought: "If I leave the jug with its lid open for a little while, it will be full to the brim with sunlight." After some time he closed the lid and carried it carefully indoors to his mother and said: "I've brought you in some sunshine." But when he opened the jug, all was dark and cold within it, and sadness filled his heart.
Please give me your indulgence if my jug seems empty and inadequate.
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Aiming high: Preparing health for future collaboration
Our last two blogs have focussed on how clinicians can benefit fully from ubiquitous NHSmail services, and the role of co-design in delivering digital health services with patients at the helm. Now it’s time to look at the future and start building the platform to help propel health and care towards stellar collaboration.
The UK health sector faces unprecedented demand, with a limited workforce. There are some fantastic transformation programmes delivering innovative new care delivery models and empowering patients to take more preventative steps to stay well. The health system must also maintain a focus on delivering digital services that empower the workforce and provide more seamless collaboration experiences. Organisations, globally, are seeing the benefits in employer brand, workforce retention and productivity.
Here’s what I think will power future collaboration experiences:
Next generation user interfaces: today’s type- and click-based user interfaces will become a thing of the past. Instead, technologies such as voice-based user interfaces and augmented reality will drive more seamless ways of interacting with technology. Instead of the user having to know how to interact with technology, the technology will adapt to user needs. The barrier to adoption will therefore be lowered by reducing the required level of digital literacy. Take, for example, the recent work our London Liquid Studio completed in elder care to support service users in their home.
Prevalence of omni-channel models: engagement models will become channel-agnostic, enabling the breakdown of artificial collaboration walls. This will enable greater choice for both service users and clinicians in terms of the channels that work for the specific task they’re doing, as opposed to current workflows, where users are forced to use a specific tool for a specific task. This evolution will be underpinned by foundational capabilities like messaging, security, and API management, and micro-services leveraging those capabilities to deliver experiences across multiple channels. Take, for example, how Open Banking is disrupting Banking. As health services embrace a similar transformation, we must learn from other industries and manage the re-distribution of demand placed on individuals and services from adoption of new channels.
Human+Machine - augmenting and empowering people: the explosion of Artificial Intelligence (AI) will deliver more personalised collaboration experiences, elevate the user and reduce burden. This will empower users to be more productive by increasing information accessibility, surfacing insight and automating repetitive tasks based on the context they’re working in. As more health services become digitally-enabled and information sources become richer, clinicians will have the tools to work more efficiently. A GP could receive guidance based on patient notes, directing them along the appropriate pathway, collating the required information for a referral automatically and suggesting experts they could consult via video call. At each point, insight would be gathered to fuel still more intelligent automation.
The recent NHSmail developments, enabling access to Office 365 services, will provide the foundations to make these experiences a reality. Opportunities will be opened up to improve collaboration, automate communications workflows and deliver chatbot interaction experiences by pairing existing and new services.
The NHS is a unique network of organisations, made up of one of the most diverse workforces in the world, serving the broadest range of “customers” one can imagine. I believe we’re heading towards an inflexion point: we will have the opportunity to re-think how professionals collaborate with each other, and with their service users. Emerging technology will deliver new experiences that improve accessibility, productivity and effectiveness of services. If you’ve got any comments or questions, feel free to give me a shout.
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1982, 08 - present: Professor, Comparative Politics, University of Bergen (leave of absence 2006-2008)
2006 - present: Professor, Comparative Social Policy, Hertie School of Governance (on reduced contract since 2009)
1998, 07 - 1999, 02: Jean Monnet Fellow, European Forum, European University Institute, Florence
1988, 01 - 1994, 12: Research Director, Programme on Welfare State Research, Norwegian Res. Council for Applied Social Sciences
1987, 03 - 1987, 09: Professor, Stiftungsgastprofessur "West-Europa, University of Mannheim
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1977: Post-Doctoral Ford Fellow, Ford Foundation
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Devolution blues
Challenges in the Supreme Court over devolution and rows about salaries for MPs and teachers give the new government plenty to think about
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The long, long vote count
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Rise of the professionals
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UAE: Human Rights Defender Ahmed Mansoor Arrested by Security Forces
On 22 March 2017, Alkarama solicited the urgent intervention of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders, Michel Forst, (SRHRD) regarding the case of Ahmed Mansoor, prominent Emirati human rights defender, who was arrested at around 3 am on 20 March from his home in Ajman by security forces.
In the early morning of 20 March 2017, twelve State security officers raided Ahmed Mansoor’s home in Ajman and confiscated his computer and cell phones, as well as those of his family, without providing any warrant authorizing their action. They then took Ahmed Mansoor to an unknown location, where he remains until today. He is therefore outside the protection of the law, and besides being denied contact to his family or access to legal counsel, we fear that he might be exposed to torture and ill-treatment during investigation.
Ahmed Mansoor has been arrested many times due his activism in the past and has continuously been harassed by the Emirati security forces for his peaceful human rights activism. His outspokenness on the human rights situation in the Emirates and the Middle East, as well as his participation in various conferences and talks leads us to believe that this arrest is a direct consequence of his peaceful activism as a human rights defender.
We recall that after a gradual crackdown on human rights defenders in the United Arab Emirates in the recent years, Ahmed Mansoor remained the only active human rights defender operating from within the country. His arrest signifies the authority’s intention to fully silence civil society, critical of their policies. For his continued efforts in promoting human rights, Ahmed Mansoor was awarded the Martin Ennals Award for Human Rights Defenders in 2015.
Alkarama urged the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders (SRHRD) to request the Emirati authorities to immediately release Ahmad Mansoor and to refrain from any future harassment for his peaceful human rights activism.
For more information or an interview, please contact media@alkarama.org (Dir: +41 22 734 1008).
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Gibson guitars files for bankruptcy
Nicole Rork
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Gibson Brands, Inc., the rock-n-roll archetype of guitar manufacturing formerly known as Gibson Guitar Corp., announced on Tuesday that it's filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, according to a report from Rolling Stone.
Read more: Guitar Center fires 100+ employees
Confirming previous rumors of a looming bankruptcy, Gibson will enter a period of “re-focusing, reorganizing and restructuring,” the legendary guitar maker attempting to shake the cultural downslide it's seen in recent years.
The news follows last week's revelation that Gibson's reportedly facing a $50 million lawsuit from technology firm Tronical over disputes about the guitar brand's use of the company's auto-tuning technologies on instruments.
“Over the past 12 months, we have made substantial strides through an operational restructuring,” said Gibson CEO Henry Juszkiewicz. “We have sold non-core brands, increased earnings, and reduced working capital demands.”
One of those “non-core brands,” according to RS, is an audio and home entertainment business Gibson bought from Phillips in 2014 to test the waters of the recorded music and streaming market. It will now “be wound down.”
The company hopes to “emerge from Chapter 11 with working capital financing, materially less debt, and a leaner and stronger musical instruments-focused platform,” per a Gibson press release received by CNNMoney.
“The Gibson name is synonymous with quality,” Juszkiewicz added, “and today's actions will allow future generations to experience the unrivaled sound, design and craftsmanship that our employees put into each Gibson product.”
Gibson was founded in 1902 as a mandolin manufacturer in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Now based in Nashville, the long-standing guitar company is one of the most iconic instruments brands in the world of rock music and beyond.
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Oligodendrocytes Seem to Imprint Specific Alter Ego on α-Synuclein
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You can take the protein out of the oligodendrocyte, but you can’t take the oligodendrocyte out of the protein. In the May 9 Nature, researchers led by Virginia Lee at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, make the claim that cell type determines which sort of toxic strain α-synuclein will become. The scientists compared neuronal α-synuclein aggregates found in Lewy body diseases such as Parkinson’s to those in the glial cytoplasmic inclusions (GCIs) found in multiple system atrophy (MSA). They confirmed that they represent two distinct conformations of α-synuclein, with the GCI strain being much more potent at coaxing normal α-synuclein to adopt a malevolent alter ego. While neurons and oligodendrocytes could take up either strain equally well, oligodendrocytes turned both Lewy body and synthetic α-synuclein into the GCI strain. On the other hand, GCI α-synuclein passaged through neurons maintained its identity. The findings suggest that the oligodendrocyte milieu somehow gives rise to the aggressive pathology found in MSA. MSA worsens more rapidly than PD.
α-Synuclein deposits from oligodendrocytes are more pathogenic than those from neurons.
When passaged through oligodendrocytes, neuronal α-synuclein aggregates take on these toxic properties.
The data suggest something in oligodendrocytes controls the formation of the aggressive strain.
“This is extremely exciting, because it takes this notion of ‘strain’ to a new level,” Patrik Brundin of the Van Andel Research Institute in Grand Rapids, Michigan, told Alzforum. He said the data offer surprising answers to key questions about strain formation. They also raise a new one—what is it about oligodendrocytes that makes α-synuclein assemblies shift into a particularly pathogenic conformation?
Others agreed it will be important to find the answer. “Identification of the cell-specific factors that impel α-synuclein to aggregate into the MSA strain could reveal ways to treat this debilitating and ultimately fatal brain disorder,” wrote Lary Walker of Emory University, Atlanta, in an accompanying editorial.
Previous work from Lee’s and other labs had shown the existence of distinct α-synuclein strains (Jul 2013 news; Bousset et al., 2013; Jun 2015 news). Stanley Prusiner of the University of California, San Francisco, reported that aggregates from MSA patients behave unlike those from PD patients, with only the former seeding aggregation in transgenic mice, and both differing from synthetic α-synuclein fibrils (Sep 2015 news; Woerman et al., 2018).
Different Strains. α-Synuclein deposits from MSA patients (middle) induce far more aggregated α-synuclein (red) in cultured oligodendrocytes than do synthetic fibrils (left) or synuclein from Lewy bodies (right). Nuclei stained blue. [Courtesy of Peng et al., Nature.]
Lee and colleagues dug deeper to compare GCI to Lewy body aggregates. First author Chao Peng isolated insoluble α-synuclein from postmortem brain samples from patients with MSA, PD, or dementia with Lewy bodies. The MSA strain was less phosphorylated at serine 129, better resisted proteinase K digestion, and bound more strongly to the antibody Syn7015, which primarily recognizes synthetic α-synuclein but in this study served to distinguish between GCI and LB forms of α-syn aggregate. The GCI material more aggressively seeded aggregation, with 30 picograms triggering as much α-synuclein fibrillization in oligodendrocyte cultures as did 30 nanograms of LB α-synuclein. GCI synuclein was also 1,000 times more potent than synthetic α-synuclein fibrils. The authors could not obtain enough purified aggregate to structurally characterize the two strains, although they plan to try.
Because GCIs are found in oligodendrocytes in people with MSA, the authors hypothesized that these deposits would preferentially seed aggregation in this cell type, while Lewy body aggregates might preferentially seed aggregation in neurons. To their surprise, however, the two types of aggregate showed no cell-type preference. In neurons, GCI strains triggered α-synuclein aggregation 1,000 times more potently than did LB strains, just as they did in oligodendrocytes, and the same thing happened in a human kidney cell line that expressed α-synuclein. All told, it seemed that the strain of aggregated α-synuclein in GCIs was more virulent and could propagate itself through any cell type.
Would this hold up in vivo? Peng and colleagues injected human α-synuclein taken postmortem from GCIs or Lewy bodies into wild-type mouse striatum. Three months later, LB α-synuclein had triggered no aggregates, while the GCI material had seeded numerous neuronal inclusions, though curiously none in oligodendrocytes, the type of cell in which the strain originated. Lee and colleagues suggest this might be because human and mouse oligodendrocytes normally express very little α-synuclein (Koga and Dickson, 2018). To confirm that the GCI strain can propagate faithfully through neurons, the authors added human GCI extracts to mouse primary neuron cultures. Newly seeded aggregates maintained the properties of GCI α-synuclein with regard to seeding and proteinase K digestion, even when passaged twice more through new neuronal cultures.
Why then, does the GCI strain arise in oligodendrocytes to begin with? Peng and colleagues hypothesized that something about the intracellular environment might bring it about. To test this, they crossed α-synuclein knockout mice with M2 mice that overexpressed human α-synuclein only in oligodendrocytes. They injected GCI or LB α-synuclein into the thalami of the offspring at three months of age. Both types of aggregate seeded oligodendrocyte inclusions, although GCI material worked faster, with inclusions peaking by three months, versus six months for LB material. Intriguingly, the inclusions seeded by LB α-synuclein reacted with Syn7015, hinting they had assumed a GCI conformation. In other words, when expression of synuclein was artificially high, oligodendrocytes apparently converted LB aggregates into GCI aggregates. Both types of starting material seeded pathology in identical subcellular localization.
To gather more hints that oligodendrocytes force α-synuclein aggregates to assume a more virulent conformation, the authors turned again to cell cultures. They added synthetic α-synuclein fibrils, which are only weakly pathogenic, to cultured oligodendrocytes, neurons, or the kidney cell line. Again, the aggregates that formed in oligodendrocytes were highly pathogenic in seeding assays, suggesting they had adopted the GCI conformation. “To me, this was the most provocative experiment. Oligodendrocytes induce this potent conformation of synuclein pathology,” Lee said.
What about oligodendrocytes gives rise to this toxic strain? As a first step toward dissecting this, Peng and colleagues mixed synthetic α-synuclein fibrils with lysates from oligodendrocytes or neurons. The oligodendrocyte lysates stimulated formation of GCI-like material, suggesting that soluble factors were at play. The authors are now fractionating the oligodendrocyte lysates to narrow down the factors responsible. Lee noted that protease treatment blocks the effect, suggesting the crucial factor might be a protein.
Considering alternative explanations, Ole Isacson of Harvard Medical School’s McLean Hospital, Belmont, Massachusetts, wondered if lipids might promote the aggressive GCI strain. He noted that oligodendrocytes are particularly rich in lipid content. “It’s evident from our clinical brain samples that lipid-dependent cellular stresses are likely pathological triggers in PD and maybe MSA,” Isacson told Alzforum. Researchers in Switzerland and the Netherlands recently reported that Lewy bodies consist mostly of undigested vesicles, membranes, and other lipids, far outweighing the amount of α-synuclein and other proteins. A preprint of that paper has been posted to bioRχiv.
Isacson also noted that it remains to be seen how the data relate to disease, since the α-synuclein phosphorylation and misfolding used as readouts for the different strains may not mirror neurodegeneration seen in PD and MSA. Cells may even clear these strains through normal recycling processes. “They found that in specific mice directly injected into the brain with GCI synuclein strains, there was less misfolded α-synuclein present six months after injection than at three months after injection,” Isacson wrote. “Our data suggest that in the absence of lipid, metabolic, and autophagic problems, the abnormal proteins are eventually cleared by the cell.”
Another key question is how GCIs form in oligodendrocytes in the first place, given the low levels of α-synuclein in these cells. Perhaps some environmental insult such as infection or toxin exposure upregulates α-synuclein expression, Brundin suggested. A majority of the risk for PD and MSA appears to be environmental, rather than genetic, Brundin added. Some researchers have found evidence that cells release α-synuclein in response to infections, and this helps the animal survive (May 2017 news; Jul 2017 news).
Beyond these mechanistic questions, researchers see therapeutic implications. “Immunotherapies may have to be specific to the disease; one that works for PD may not work for MSA,” Brundin suggested. He wondered if clinical subtypes of Parkinson’s might also be characterized by distinct protein strains. For example, mutations in the gene encoding glucocerebrosidase typically cause a fast-progressing form of PD. Finding the answers to these questions could lead to more precise targeting of therapies to individual patients, Brundin said.—Madolyn Bowman Rogers
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An Extra Strain on the Brain—α-Synuclein Seeds Tau Aggregation 8 Jul 2013
Shape of α-Synuclein Aggregates Influences Pathology 12 Jun 2015
α-Synuclein from Multiple System Atrophy Acts Like Prion in Mice 18 Sep 2015
Olfactory System Model Explores Antimicrobial Role for α-Synuclein 12 May 2017
Put ’Em Up: Does α-Synuclein Help Fight Microbes in the Gut? 1 Jul 2017
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Woerman AL, Kazmi SA, Patel S, Aoyagi A, Oehler A, Widjaja K, Mordes DA, Olson SH, Prusiner SB. Familial Parkinson's point mutation abolishes multiple system atrophy prion replication. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2018 Jan 9;115(2):409-414. Epub 2017 Dec 26 PubMed.
Koga S, Dickson DW. Recent advances in neuropathology, biomarkers and therapeutic approach of multiple system atrophy. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 2018 Feb;89(2):175-184. Epub 2017 Aug 31 PubMed.
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Astrocytes, In Addition to Neural Networks, May Stoke Synuclein Pathology 1 Jun 2017
Electron Microscope Yields Finer Structure of α-Synuclein, Aβ Fibrils 17 Sep 2015
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Peng C, Gathagan RJ, Covell DJ, Medellin C, Stieber A, Robinson JL, Zhang B, Pitkin RM, Olufemi MF, Luk KC, Trojanowski JQ, Lee VM. Cellular milieu imparts distinct pathological α-synuclein strains in α-synucleinopathies. Nature. 2018 May;557(7706):558-563. Epub 2018 May 9 PubMed.
Walker LC. Sabotage by the brain's supporting cells helps fuel neurodegeneration. Nature. 2018 May;557(7706):499-500. PubMed.
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Discovery and Viacom in talks to join Apple’s TV service
by Roshan • March 19, 2015 March 19, 2015 in Popular
The news of Apple’s standalone streaming service is getting hotter hour by hour. As The Wall Street Journal now reports, Discovery and Viacom are currently in talks with Apple to bring their channels to the service as well.
The Discovery group owns The Discovery Channel, Animal Planet and TLC while Viacom rules over MTV, Comedy Central, TV Land, WH1, CMT and Nickelodeon. And if the reported talks turn around as we hope them to, these popular channels will become a part of the 25+ channels already lining up for the Apple Web TV.
As we reported earlier, Apple is developing a $30-$40 streaming package which lets you select a set of channels to view on the Apple TV. The service is expected to include a “skinny bundle” of channels with the likes of Fox, Disney, ESPN and more, and will launch in September this year.
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Adding additional channels would also make Apple’s service more likely to succeed. Currently, Sling TV offers live streaming of 17 networks at $20 per month, while Apple is supposedly going to offer 25 networks at $30 to $40 each month. The math just doesn’t add up for the service to be double the cost of Sling TV but only offer eight additional channels.
It is worth noting that HBO NOW streaming service is coming to the Apple TV next month and that NBC is bringing a standalone channel later this year. And with the new pricing of just $69 (or just $67.87 on Amazon), there has never been a better time to cut the cord and get an Apple TV.
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A winning mentality
2 min. 24/03/2016 22:46 Traduccions: Cat Eng
651x366 Cruyff amb la Pilota d'Or l'any 1973. / EFE Cruyff amb la Pilota d'Or l'any 1973. / EFE
Johan Cruyff is gone, but we will continue to see his football every week and we will go on to enjoy it for a long time to come. He was the creator of Barça’s current style of play, which has made them a winning team. Cruyff put an end to the club’s trademark conformity, its victim mentality and its time-honored, unfulfilled urge to win. First as a player and later, above all, as a manager, he put Barça on the world map with his Dream Team.
Cruyff's contribution, however, goes far beyond football, because his personality became a reference for Catalonia, above and beyond any differences in color or sporting allegiance. By changing Barça, he also contributed to changing the Catalan character. His great achievement was to open our eyes and show us that we could win, not only in sport, but also as a nation. His winning mentality spread through the whole of Catalan society. But, at the same time, he showed that this is achieved by working, through effort, tenacity, and audacity. Success is never free, but the result of hard work. And all this with a sense of enjoyment, of going out to play and enjoying yourself --so healthy in many respects. The values evident in his sporting career and personal life are widely shared by Catalan society, which today also has its eyes set on ambitious goals.
Cruyff’s stint coaching Catalonia’s national football team —a gesture that honors him— ultimately proved his commitment to the nation that had welcomed him. His example serves to expose those who never want anything to change, those who say that there is nothing that can be done, those whose motto remains "tomorrow is another day". Instead, now we always aim to win, true to his legacy. And this applies to all aspects of life. He overcame a heart attack, swapped cigarettes for lollipops, and fought cancer to the bitter end. Cruyff has died, but he hasn't lost because his image will always be associated with victory.
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Master Limited Partnerships (MLPs)
Master Limited Partnerships, or MLPs, are publicly traded partnerships in the natural resources, commodity or real estate industries.
MLPs are a corporate structure with a different tax treatment. Those businesses can include different types of energy assets, each of which has different levels of volatility, risk, and cash-flow stability.
MLPs have been perennial favorites of individual investors, thanks to their unique tax structure and high income. Indeed, until last year they had outperformed the Standard & Poor's 500 for a dozen years in a row. Last year, however, the Alerian MLP Index returned less than 5%, to the broad market's 16%.
Top dividend stocks for the next decade
The smartest investors know that dividend stocks simply crush their non-dividend paying counterparts over the long term. That’s beyond dispute. They also know that a well-constructed dividend portfolio creates wealth steadily, while still allowing you to sleep like a baby.
MLPs have attracted investor attention for their generous dividends. There are 75 master limited partnerships listed on U.S. exchanges with market capitalization of $500 million or more.
The most common MLPs are companies that transport and store oil and gas, which gives them reliable cash flow. These pipeline and storage companies typically charge a steady fee for their service, regardless of commodity prices. But the MLP landscape has changed dramatically in 2012.
For starters, there has been an explosion in U.S. drilling for crude oil and natural gas, which should funnel an estimated $250 billion into the U.S. energy infrastructure over the next 25 years. In October 2012, the Internal Revenue Service expanded the types of energy assets that can qualify for MLP status.
Calumet (CLMT), with a dividend yield above 8 percent, is a fast-growing processor of oil into a variety of fuels and other products such as solvents and waxes. It made four acquisitions in 2012 and raised its dividend four times.
Access Midstream (ACMP); Gas gathering/processing; Contracted volumes and prices should mean 15% distribution growth.
MarkWest Energy (MWE) ; Gas gathering/processing; Significant growth opportunity in Marcellus, Utica shales.
Genesis Energy (GEL); Crude oil logistics; One of the few pure-play MLPs in crude oil logistics.
Tesoro Logistics (TLLP) ; Crude oil logistics; Young MLP. With asset additions, likely to produce 12%-15% growth.
Delek Logistics (DKL); Crude oil logistics; Pricing power as fee-based contracts renew; underleveraged balance sheet.
Oiltanking Partners (OILT); Crude oil logistics; Gulf Coast storage expansion could result in two years of 16% total returns.
Western Gas (WES); Gathering/processing; More assets added by parent mean 16% distribution growth in 2013.
Targa Resources (NGLS); Gathering/processing; More fee-based business should produce 17% total returns in next year.
Alerian MLP Index ($AMZ); Benchmark of 50 largest; Market cap weighted.
Natural Resource Partners (NRP), an MLP that owns and manages coal properties, has been hurt by the downturn that has affected the coal industry. Revenue and profit growth stalled in 2012 and dividends were held steady. NRP's yield is 12.5 percent.
Oneok Partners (OKS). It operates pipelines that gather, process, and transport natural-gas liquids. It could grow distributions 13% in 2013 and 2014. Its 4.7% yield is lower than the sector average, but this is one of the best organic-growth stories. It has $7 billion in projects that should help generate a 17% total return over 12 months.
Northern Tier Energy (ticker: NTI); refinery and gas-station operator
Linn Energy (LINE)
Inergy (NRGY), a more established MLP that stores and supplies natural gas and propane.
PetroLogistics (PDH); operates a dehydrogenation plant
ClearBridge Energy MLP Fund (ticker: CEM), the ClearBridge Energy MLP Opportunity Fund (EMO), and the newer ClearBridge Energy MLP Total Return Fund (CTR)
ALPS Alerian MLP ETF (AMLP) and the JPMorgan Alerian MLP ETN (AMJ)
Exchange traded products for master limited partnerships include:
Global X MLP & Energy Infrastructure ETF (MLPX) (https://www.globalxfunds.com/funds/mlpx/)
ALPS Alerian MLP ETF (NYSEArca: AMLP)
JPMorgan Alerian MLP Index ETN (NYSEArca: AMJ)
Exchange Traded Concepts Yorkville High Income MLP ETF (NYSEArca:YMLP)
First Trust North American Energy Infrastructure Fund (NYSEArca:EMLP)
Global X MLP ETF (NYSEArca: MLPA) (https://www.globalxfunds.com/funds/mlpa/)
Global X YieldCo Index ETF (YLCO) (https://www.globalxfunds.com/funds/ylco/)
Credit Suisse Cushing 30 MLP Index ETN (NYSEArca: MLPN)
Morgan Stanley Cushing MLP High Income Index ETN (NYSEArca: MLPY)
UBS E-TRACS Alerian MLP Infrastructure Index (NYSEArca: MLPI)
UBS E-TRACS 2x Leveraged Long Alerian MLP Infrastructure Index (NYSEArca: MLPL)
UBS E-TRACS Wells Fargo MLP Index (NYSEArca: MLPW)
UBS E-TRACS Alerian Natural Gas MLP Index (NYSEArca: MLPG)
ALPS Ale
Company / Ticker Recent Price 12 Mo. Chg Yield Industry Comment
Access Midstream / ACMP $37.30 30% 4.80% Gas gathering/processing Contracted volumes and prices should mean 15% distribution growth.
MarkWest Energy / MWE 57.41 -3 5.7 Gas gathering/processing Significant growth opportunity in Marcellus, Utica shales.
Genesis Energy / GEL 44.3 47 4.4 Crude oil logistics One of the few pure-play MLPs in crude oil logistics.
Tesoro Logistics / TLLP 48.91 34 3.9 Crude oil logistics Young MLP. With asset additions, likely to produce 12%-15% growth.
Delek Logistics / DKL 28.36 36* 3.2* Crude oil logistics Pricing power as fee-based contracts renew; underleveraged balance sheet.
*Since Nov. 1, 2012 IPO.
Index / Ticker
Alerian MLP Index / AMZ $431.65 6% 5.5% Benchmark of 50 largest Market cap weighted.
More info on MLPs:
Nearly 100 energy companies are structured as MLPs, which allows them to avoid corporate taxation. They pay out the vast majority of their cash flow to partners (i.e., shareholders). This encourages high payouts -- today on the order of 5.5% -- and creates an advantageous, albeit complicated, tax structure for investors as well.
For starters, there has been an explosion in U.S. drilling for crude oil and natural gas, which should funnel an estimated $250 billion into the U.S. energy infrastructure over the next 25 years. In October, the Internal Revenue Service expanded the types of energy assets that can qualify for MLP status.
MLPs pass on 80% to 90% of cash flows to investors, and retain a little bit for internal purposes. Since they distribute virtually all their cash, growth, such as buying or building an asset, is typically financed by issuing new shares or debt.
Over the past 10 years, MLP growth was driven by energy corporations, typically pipeline companies selling assets into MLPs, a strategy known as a drop-down. Today, the explosive growth in the production of crude oil, natural gas, and natural-gas liquids like ethane and propane has resulted in a massive build-out of new energy infrastructure, including new pipelines, processing plants, and storage facilities, which will drive the sector's growth.
The second change in the MLP landscape is the recent creation of MLPs with atypical assets. These new, riskier MLP offerings have garnered a lot of attention, and some have done well, but they make up less than 5% of the sector's market value.
Many are nontraditional assets. They're refiners, fertilizers, frac sand [a material used in hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, a process of extracting oil, natural gas, and natural-gas liquids from rock]. Most of these companies have a "variable distribution policy," not the traditional policy of stable, growing distributions.
In the Alerian MLP Index of 50 names at the end of last year, the spread between the lowest and the highest yielder was 10.3 percentage points. That reflects the growth, risk, and volatility of the assets in these nontraditional MLPs. Some nontraditional MLPs that are not in the index have yields as high as 20%.
How is an MLP's distribution taxed. Investors receive distributions that reflect their share of an MLP's cash flow. Their K-1 tax form reflects their share of the business' taxable profits. An MLP's assets—such as pipelines—produce cash and have a long life, but can be depreciated over a shorter period, reducing the amount of profit that is taxable. Taxable profits are typically about 20% of the cash distribution an MLP pays out annually. That's why sometimes you hear "MLP distributions are 80% tax-deferred."
Most MLP investors are maniacally focused on yield as the only valuation metric. But they should also consider the yield's growth. The total return of an MLP is the yield plus the growth rate of that yield over time. In the past three years, stocks in the Alerian MLP Index that grew distributions up to 3% annually generated an annualized total return of 8.5%. Those that grew distributions by more than 10% every year generated a 27.7% annualized return.
*** ALPS Alerian MLP ETF (NYSEArca: AMLP) ***
ALPS Alerian MLP ETF (NYSEArca: AMLP) holds $4.3 billion in total net assets. The ETF has gathered more than $2.5 billion of inflows the past year.
Morningstar issued a caution flag related to a complicated tax issue associated with MLPs, which are companies involved with the storage and transportation of commodities such as oil or natural gas.
The Investment Company Act of 1940 forbids open-end mutual funds from having more than 25% of their portfolio in MLPs.
“To get around this issue, AMLP is actually structured as a corporation that pays income tax: Before return is passed on to the investor, it must be taxed at the corporate level,” says Morningstar analyst Abby Woodham. “Although AMLP’s prospectus expense ratio is 0.85%, its gross expense ratio (which accounts for these tax liabilities) is almost 5% as of September.”
AMLP’s prospectus discloses that the ETF’s structure as a “C” corporation means the fund accrues deferred tax liability associated with the capital appreciation of its MLP investments and distributions. The ETF’s accrued deferred tax liability is reflected each day in the fund’s net asset value.
An oil tanker is docked at the Kinder Morgan terminal in Carteret, N.J., on Sept. 8, 2008. Kinder Morgan Energy Partners operates pipelines and terminals for oil and natural gas.
======= MLPs Boom As Low-Tax, High-Dividend Energy Plays
Master limited partnerships, formerly an obscure business structure, have boomed in recent years as low-tax, high-yield ways to cash in on America's energy revival.
MLPs are largely, but not exclusively, energy-related.
They do not pay corporate taxes as long as they pass profits to investors, much like real estate investment trusts.
But there are drawbacks.
Some 45 MLPs were formed from 2010 to September 2013, according to PwC. That's near half of the 111 MLPs at the end of last year. The U.S. needs roughly $200 billion invested in natural gas infrastructure to meet growing and shifting energy demands over the next 20 years, according to the Interstate Natural Gas Association of America.
Plains GP Holdings (PAGP) raised $2.82 billion in its October IPO, the biggest new issue of 2013. Plains GP owns a big stake in another MLP: Plains All American Pipeline (PAA) .
The Kinder Morgan Inc. (KMI) corporate structure is more complex. It serves as general partner for several other listed companies, including Kinder Morgan Energy Partners (KMP) and El Paso Pipeline Partners (EPB).
Kinder Morgan Inc. and El Paso Pipeline late Wednesday reported lower earnings, missing estimates. Kinder Morgan Energy EPS rose 3%, topping views.
Apache Oil was the first MLP, in 1981. Enjoying the liquidity of publicly traded securities along with the tax benefits of limited partnerships, MLPs rapidly expanded beyond energy — including Burger King, Motel 6 and even the Boston Celtics.
Energy ... And Private Equity
Concerned that corporations would become MLPs en masse to avoid taxes, Congress in 1987 restricted them to companies earning at least 90% of their income from specific sources, primarily energy development.
In 2008, Congress expanded MLPs to include alternative fuels such as ethanol and biodiesel. Some would like to see MLPs expanded to renewable energy projects so they don't have to rely on uncertain tax credits.
Today, most MLPs are energy-related. But several private equity firms, including Blackstone (BX) and KKR (KKR), have used a loophole in recent years to list as MLPs. Icahn Enterprises (IEP) invests in a diverse set of holdings from metals and energy to home fashion and rail cars.
With interest rates at historic lows, making borrowing cheaper and lowering the cost of capital investment, coupled with the shale oil and gas boom, MLPs have become more prominent. Certain integrated energy companies spun off assets such as pipelines to MLPs to focus on their primary businesses as well as accruing some of the tax benefits.
MLP assets grew from $1.5 billion in 2004 to $40.6 billion last year, according to Thomson Reuters' Lipper.
Live, Die By The Yield
Now for the downside.
The tax reporting complexities are "certainly much more of a hassle than what investors typically have to deal with," said James Shelton, chief investment officer of Kanaly Trust, a Houston-based wealth management and financial planning company.
MLP investors must file a K-1 with their income tax returns, and the tax rules governing such vehicles tend to be complex.
MLP dividends are particularly attractive, paying up to 5.5%. But as with all investments that promote higher yields, including REITs and equity income funds, rising rates are a concern.
"Income-oriented investors, particularly when interest rates are so low, have found that to be a particularly appealing feature," said Mary Lyman, executive director of National Association of Publicly Traded Partnerships, an MLP trade group.
The Federal Reserve taper could push rates higher in 2014.
"Anytime you get a rise in interest rates, you get people walking away from equitylike yields to bondlike yields," said Tom Roseen, a senior analyst at Lipper.
MLPs also face heavy pressure to increase revenue and yields. When they do cut back on dividends, "their share prices have really suffered," Lyman said.
El Paso Pipeline Partners dived 10% on Dec. 4 after saying it intended to cut distributions by 2% in 2014. El Paso, which confirmed that payout plan Wednesday, has continued to drift lower.
MLPs rarely lower their distributions — even during downturns such as the Great Recession. Those MLPs that reduced distributions saw their unit prices drop in excess of 80%, according to a Standard & Poor's study last year.
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Shamanism is a practice that involves a practitioner reaching altered states of consciousness in order to perceive and interact with what they believe to be a spirit world and channel these transcendental energies into this world.[1]
Beliefs and practices that have been categorized as "shamanic" have attracted the interest of scholars from a wide variety of disciplines, including anthropologists, archaeologists, historians, religious studies scholars, philosophers and psychologists. Hundreds of books and academic papers on the subject have been produced, with a peer-reviewed academic journal being devoted to the study of shamanism. In the 20th century, many Westerners involved in counter-cultural movements have created modern magico-religious practices influenced by their ideas of indigenous religions from across the world, creating what has been termed neoshamanism or the neoshamanic movement.[2] It has affected the development of many neopagan practices, as well as faced a backlash and accusations of cultural appropriation,[3] exploitation and misrepresentation when outside observers have tried to represent cultures to which they do not belong.[4][5]
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1 Terminology
1.1 Etymology
1.2 Definitions
3 Initiation and learning
4 Roles
5 Ecological aspect
6 Economics
7 Beliefs
7.1 Soul and spirit concepts
8 Practice
8.1 Entheogens
8.2 Music and songs
8.3 Other practices
8.4 Paraphernalia
9 Academic study
9.1 Cognitive and evolutionary approaches
9.2 Ecological approaches and systems theory
9.3 Historical origins
9.4 Semiotic and hermeneutic approaches
10 Decline and revitalization and tradition-preserving movements
11 Regional variations
12 Criticism of the term
13 See also
14 Notes
15 References
16 Further reading
The earliest known depiction of a Siberian shaman, by the Dutch Nicolaes Witsen, 17th century. Witsen called him a "priest of the Devil" and drew clawed feet for the supposed demonic qualities.[6]
The word shamanism probably derives from the Manchu-Tungus word šaman, meaning "one who knows".[7] The word shaman may also have originated from the Evenki word šamán, most likely from the southwestern dialect spoken by the Sym Evenki peoples.[8] The Tungusic term was subsequently adopted by Russians interacting with the indigenous peoples in Siberia. It is found in the memoirs of the exiled Russian churchman Avvakum.[9]
The word was brought to Western Europe in the late 17th century by the Dutch traveler Nicolaes Witsen, who reported his stay and journeys among the Tungusic- and Samoyedic-speaking indigenous peoples of Siberia in his book Noord en Oost Tataryen (1692).[10] Adam Brand, a merchant from Lübeck, published in 1698 his account of a Russian embassy to China; a translation of his book, published the same year, introduced the word shaman to English speakers.[11]
The etymology of the Evenki word is sometimes connected to a Tungus root ša- "to know".[12][13] This has been questioned on linguistic grounds: "The possibility cannot be completely rejected, but neither should it be accepted without reservation since the assumed derivational relationship is phonologically irregular (note especially the vowel quantities)."[14] Other scholars assert that the word comes directly from the Manchu language, and as such would be the only commonly used English word that is a loan from this language.[15]
However, Mircea Eliade noted that the Sanskrit word śramaṇa, designating a wandering monastic or holy figure, has spread to many Central Asian languages along with Buddhism and could be the ultimate origin of the Tungusic word.[16] This proposal has been thoroughly critiqued since 1917. Ethnolinguist Juha Janhunen regards it as an "anachronism" and an "impossibility" that is nothing more than a "far-fetched etymology".[17]
Twenty-first century anthropologist and archeologist Silvia Tomaskova argues that by the mid-1600s, many Europeans applied the Arabic term shaitan (meaning "devil") to the non-Christian practices and beliefs of indigenous peoples beyond the Ural Mountains.[18] She suggests that shaman may have entered the various Tungus dialects as a corruption of this term, and then been told to Christian missionaries, explorers, soldiers and colonial administrators with whom the people had increasing contact for centuries.
A shamaness (female shaman) is sometimes called a shamanka, which is not an actual indigenous term but simply shaman plus the Russian suffix -ka (for feminine nouns).[19]
A female shaman, probably Khakas, Russian Empire, 1908[20]
There is no single agreed-upon definition for the word "shamanism" among anthropologists. The English historian Ronald Hutton noted that by the dawn of the 21st century, there were four separate definitions of the term which appeared to be in use. The first of these uses the term to refer to "anybody who contacts a spirit world while in an altered state of consciousness." The second definition limits the term to refer to those who contact a spirit world while in an altered state of consciousness at the behest of others. The third definition attempts to distinguish shamans from other magico-religious specialists who are believed to contact spirits, such as "mediums", "witch doctors", "spiritual healers" or "prophets," by claiming that shamans undertake some particular technique not used by the others. Problematically, scholars advocating the third view have failed to agree on what the defining technique should be. The fourth definition identified by Hutton uses "shamanism" to refer to the indigenous religions of Siberia and neighboring parts of Asia.[21] According to the Golomt Center for Shamanic Studies, a Mongolian organisation of shamans, the Evenk word shaman would more accurately be translated as "priest".[22]
The term "shamanism" was first applied by Western anthropologists as outside observers of the ancient religion of the Turks and Mongols, as well as those of the neighbouring Tungusic- and Samoyedic-speaking peoples. Upon observing more religious traditions across the world, some Western anthropologists began to also use the term in a very broad sense. The term was used to describe unrelated magico-religious practices found within the ethnic religions of other parts of Asia, Africa, Australasia and even completely unrelated parts of the Americas, as they believed these practices to be similar to one another.[23]
Mircea Eliade writes, "A first definition of this complex phenomenon, and perhaps the least hazardous, will be: shamanism = 'technique of religious ecstasy'."[24] Shamanism encompasses the premise that shamans are intermediaries or messengers between the human world and the spirit worlds. Shamans are said to treat ailments and illness by mending the soul. Alleviating traumas affecting the soul or spirit are believed to restore the physical body of the individual to balance and wholeness. Shamans also claim to enter supernatural realms or dimensions to obtain solutions to problems afflicting the community. Shamans claim to visit other worlds or dimensions to bring guidance to misguided souls and to ameliorate illnesses of the human soul caused by foreign elements. Shamans operate primarily within the spiritual world, which, they believe, in turn affects the human world. The restoration of balance is said to result in the elimination of the ailment.[24]
A shaman (/ˈʃɑːmən/ SHAH-men, /ˈʃæmən/ or /ˈʃeɪmən/)[25] is someone who is regarded as having access to, and influence in, the world of benevolent and malevolent spirits, who typically enters into a trance state during a ritual, and practices divination and healing.[1][25] The word "shaman" probably originates from the Tungusic Evenki language of North Asia. According to ethnolinguist Juha Janhunen, "the word is attested in all of the Tungusic idioms" such as Negidal, Lamut, Udehe/Orochi, Nanai, Ilcha, Orok, Manchu and Ulcha, and "nothing seems to contradict the assumption that the meaning 'shaman' also derives from Proto-Tungusic" and may have roots that extend back in time at least two millennia.[26] The term was introduced to the west after Russian forces conquered the shamanistic Khanate of Kazan in 1552.
Shamanism is a system of religious practice.[27] Historically, it is often associated with indigenous and tribal societies, and involves belief that shamans, with a connection to the otherworld, have the power to heal the sick, communicate with spirits, and escort souls of the dead to the afterlife. Shamanism is especially associated with the native peoples of Siberia in northern Asia, where shamanic practice has been noted for centuries by Asian and Western visitors.[28] It is an ideology that used to be widely practiced in Europe, Asia, Tibet, North and South America, and Africa. It centered on the belief in supernatural phenomenon such as the world of gods, demons, and ancestral spirits.[29]
Belief in Shamanism has declined and only a few remote tribes still retain its practices. One such tribe is the Inuit people of the Canadian Arctic.[30] Another can be found in the nomadic Tuvan (with an estimated population of just 3000 people surviving from this tribe).[31] Tuva is one of the most isolated tribes in Russia where the art of shamanism has been preserved until today due to its isolated existence, allowing it to be free from the influences of other major religions.[32]
Initiation and learning
Shamans often claim to have been called through dreams or signs. However, some say their powers are inherited. In traditional societies shamanic training varies in length, but generally takes years.
Turner and colleagues[33] mention a phenomenon called "shamanistic initiatory crisis", a rite of passage for shamans-to-be, commonly involving physical illness or psychological crisis. The significant role of initiatory illnesses in the calling of a shaman can be found in the detailed case history of Chuonnasuan, who was the last master shaman among the Tungus peoples in Northeast China.[34]
The wounded healer is an archetype for a shamanic trial and journey. This process is important to young shamans. They undergo a type of sickness that pushes them to the brink of death. This is said to happen for two reasons:
The shaman crosses over to the underworld. This happens so the shaman can venture to its depths to bring back vital information for the sick and the tribe.
The shaman must become sick to understand sickness. When the shaman overcomes their own sickness, they believe that they will hold the cure to heal all that suffer.[35]
South Moluccan shaman in an exorcism ritual involving children, Buru, Indonesia (1920)
Shamans claim to gain knowledge and the power to heal in the spiritual world or dimension. Most shamans have dreams or visions that convey certain messages. Shamans may claim to have or have acquired many spirit guides, who they believe guide and direct them in their travels in the spirit world. These spirit guides are always thought to be present within the shaman, although others are said to encounter them only when the shaman is in a trance. The spirit guide energizes the shamans, enabling them to enter the spiritual dimension. Shamans claim to heal within the spiritual dimension by returning lost parts of the human soul from wherever they have gone. Shamans also claim to cleanse excess negative energies, which are said to confuse or pollute the soul.
Shamans act as mediators in their cultures.[36][37] Shamans claim to communicate with the spirits on behalf of the community, including the spirits of the deceased. Shamans believe they can communicate with both living and dead to alleviate unrest, unsettled issues, and to deliver gifts to the spirits.
Among the Selkups, the sea duck is a spirit animal. Ducks fly in the air and dive in the water and are thus believed to belong to both the upper world and the world below.[38] Among other Siberian peoples, these characteristics are attributed to water fowl in general.[39] The upper world is the afterlife primarily associated with deceased humans and is believed to be accessed by soul journeying through a portal in the sky. The lower world or "world below" is the afterlife primarily associated with animals and is believed to be accessed by soul journeying through a portal in the earth.[40] In shamanic cultures, many animals are regarded as spirit animals.
Shamans perform a variety of functions depending upon their respective cultures;[41] healing,[42][43] leading a sacrifice,[44] preserving traditions by storytelling and songs,[45] fortune-telling,[46] and acting as a psychopomp ("guide of souls").[47] A single shaman may fulfill several of these functions.[41]
The functions of a shaman may include either guiding to their proper abode the souls of the dead (which may be guided either one-at-a-time or in a group, depending on culture), and the curing of ailments. The ailments may be either purely physical afflictions—such as disease, which are claimed to be cured by gifting, flattering, threatening, or wrestling the disease-spirit (sometimes trying all these, sequentially), and which may be completed by displaying a supposedly extracted token of the disease-spirit (displaying this, even if "fraudulent", is supposed to impress the disease-spirit that it has been, or is in the process of being, defeated, so that it will retreat and stay out of the patient's body), or else mental (including psychosomatic) afflictions—such as persistent terror, which is likewise believed to be cured by similar methods. In most languages a different term other than the one translated "shaman" is usually applied to a religious official leading sacrificial rites ("priest"), or to a raconteur ("sage") of traditional lore; there may be more of an overlap in functions (with that of a shaman), however, in the case of an interpreter of omens or of dreams.
There are distinct types of shaman who perform more specialized functions. For example, among the Nani people, a distinct kind of shaman acts as a psychopomp.[48] Other specialized shamans may be distinguished according to the type of spirits, or realms of the spirit world, with which the shaman most commonly interacts. These roles vary among the Nenets, Enets, and Selkup shamans.[49][50]
The assistant of an Oroqen shaman (called jardalanin, or "second spirit") knows many things about the associated beliefs. He or she accompanies the rituals and interprets the behaviors of the shaman.[51] Despite these functions, the jardalanin is not a shaman. For this interpretative assistant, it would be unwelcome to fall into a trance.[52]
Ecological aspect
Among the Tucano people, a sophisticated system exists for environmental resources management and for avoiding resource depletion through overhunting. This system is conceptualized mythologically and symbolically by the belief that breaking hunting restrictions may cause illness. As the primary teacher of tribal symbolism, the shaman may have a leading role in this ecological management, actively restricting hunting and fishing. The shaman is able to "release" game animals, or their souls, from their hidden abodes.[53][54] The Piaroa people have ecological concerns related to shamanism.[55] Among the Inuit, shamans fetch the souls of game from remote places,[56][57] or soul travel to ask for game from mythological beings like the Sea Woman.[58]
The way shamans get sustenance and take part in everyday life varies across cultures. In many Inuit groups, they provide services for the community and get a "due payment",[who?] and believe the payment is given to the helping spirits.[59] An account states that the gifts and payments that a shaman receives are given by his partner spirit. Since it obliges the shaman to use his gift and to work regularly in this capacity, the spirit rewards him with the goods that it receives.[60] These goods, however, are only "welcome addenda". They are not enough to enable a full-time shaman. Shamans live like any other member of the group, as a hunter or housewife. Due to the popularity of ayahuasca tourism in South America, there are practitioners in areas frequented by backpackers who make a living from leading ceremonies.[61][59]
There are many variations of shamanism throughout the world, but several common beliefs are shared by all forms of shamanism. Common beliefs identified by Eliade (1972)[24] are the following:
Spirits exist and they play important roles both in individual lives and in human society
The shaman can communicate with the spirit world
Spirits can be benevolent or malevolent
The shaman can treat sickness caused by malevolent spirits
The shaman can employ trances inducing techniques to incite visionary ecstasy and go on vision quests
The shaman's spirit can leave the body to enter the supernatural world to search for answers
The shaman evokes animal images as spirit guides, omens, and message-bearers
The shaman can perform other varied forms of divination, scry, throw bones or runes, and sometimes foretell of future events
Shamanism is based on the premise that the visible world is pervaded by invisible forces or spirits which affect the lives of the living.[62] Although the causes of disease lie in the spiritual realm, inspired by malicious spirits, both spiritual and physical methods are used to heal. Commonly, a shaman "enters the body" of the patient to confront the spiritual infirmity and heals by banishing the infectious spirit.
Many shamans have expert knowledge of medicinal plants native to their area, and an herbal treatment is often prescribed. In many places shamans learn directly from the plants, harnessing their effects and healing properties, after obtaining permission from the indwelling or patron spirits. In the Peruvian Amazon Basin, shamans and curanderos use medicine songs called icaros to evoke spirits. Before a spirit can be summoned it must teach the shaman its song.[62] The use of totemic items such as rocks with special powers and an animating spirit is common.
Such practices are presumably very ancient. Plato wrote in his Phaedrus that the "first prophecies were the words of an oak", and that those who lived at that time found it rewarding enough to "listen to an oak or a stone, so long as it was telling the truth".
Belief in witchcraft and sorcery, known as brujería in Latin America, exists in many societies. Other societies assert all shamans have the power to both cure and kill. Those with shamanic knowledge usually enjoy great power and prestige in the community, but they may also be regarded suspiciously or fearfully as potentially harmful to others.[63]
By engaging in their work, a shaman is exposed to significant personal risk as shamanic plant materials can be toxic or fatal if misused. Spells are commonly used in an attempt to protect against these dangers, and the use of more dangerous plants is often very highly ritualized.
Soul and spirit concepts
See also: Soul dualism
This concept can generally explain more, seemingly unassociated phenomena in shamanism:[64][65][66]
This concept may be based closely on the soul concepts of the belief system of the people served by the shaman.[42] It may consist of the supposed retrieving the lost soul of the ill person.[67] See also the soul dualism concept.
Scarcity of hunted game
This problem can be solved by "releasing" the souls of the animals from their hidden abodes. Besides that, many taboos may prescribe the behavior of people towards game, so that the souls of the animals do not feel angry or hurt, or the pleased soul of the already killed prey can tell the other, still living animals, that they can allow themselves to be caught and killed.[68][69]
Infertility of women
This problem is thought to be cured by obtaining the soul of the expected child
Spirits are invisible entities that only shamans can see. They are seen as persons that can assume a human or animal body.[70] Some animals in their physical forms are also seen as spirits such as the case of the eagle, snake, jaguar, and rat.[70] Beliefs related to spirits can explain many different phenomena.[71] For example, the importance of storytelling, or acting as a singer, can be understood better if the whole belief system is examined. A person who can memorize long texts or songs, and play an instrument, may be regarded as the beneficiary of contact with the spirits (e.g. Khanty people).[72]
See also: Religious ecstasy
Generally, shamans traverse the axis mundi and enter the "spirit world" by effecting a transition of consciousness, entering into an ecstatic trance, either autohypnotically or through the use of entheogens or ritual performances.[73][74] The methods employed are diverse, and are often used together.
Flowering San Pedro, an entheogenic cactus that has been used for over 3,000 years.[75] Today the vast majority of extracted mescaline is from columnar cacti, not vulnerable peyote.[76]
An entheogen ("generating the divine within")[77] is a psychoactive substance used in a religious, shamanic, or spiritual context.[78] Entheogens have been used in a ritualized context for thousands of years; their religious significance is well established in anthropological and modern evidences. Examples of traditional entheogens include: peyote,[79] psilocybin and Amanita muscaria (fly agaric) mushrooms,[80] uncured tobacco,[81] cannabis,[82] ayahuasca,[83] Salvia divinorum,[84] iboga,[85] and Mexican morning glory.
Some shamans observe dietary or customary restrictions particular to their tradition. These restrictions are more than just cultural. For example, the diet followed by shamans and apprentices prior to participating in an ayahuasca ceremony includes foods rich in tryptophan (a biosynthetic precursor to serotonin) as well as avoiding foods rich in tyramine, which could induce hypertensive crisis if ingested with MAOIs such as are found in ayahuasca brews as well as abstinence from alcohol or sex.[62]
See also: Shamanic music and Imitation of sounds in shamanism
Just like shamanism itself,[12] music and songs related to it in various cultures are diverse. In several instances, songs related to shamanism are intended to imitate natural sounds, via onomatopoeia.[86]
Sound mimesis in various cultures may serve other functions not necessarily related to shamanism: practical goals such as luring game in the hunt;[87] or entertainment (Inuit throat singing).[87][88]
Ecstatic dancing
Icaros / medicine songs[62]
Vigils
Sweat lodges
Vision quests
Raven rattle, 19th century, Brooklyn Museum
Shamans may have various kinds of paraphernalia in different cultures.
Goldes shaman priest in his regalia
Drum – The drum is used by shamans of several peoples in Siberia, and many other cultures all over the world,[89][90] The beating of the drum allows the shaman to achieve an altered state of consciousness or to travel on a journey between the physical and spiritual worlds. Much fascination surrounds the role that the acoustics of the drum play to the shaman. Shaman drums are generally constructed of an animal-skin stretched over a bent wooden hoop, with a handle across the hoop.
Sámi noaidi with his drum
Cognitive and evolutionary approaches
There are two major frameworks among cognitive and evolutionary scientists for explaining shamanism. The first, proposed by anthropologist Michael Winkelman, is known as the "neurotheological theory".[91][92] According to Winkelman, shamanism develops reliably in human societies because it provides valuable benefits to the practitioner, their group, and individual clients. In particular, the trance states induced by dancing, hallucinogens, and other triggers are hypothesized to have an "integrative" effect on cognition, allowing communication among mental systems that specialize in theory of mind, social intelligence, and natural history.[93] With this cognitive integration, the shaman can better predict the movement of animals, resolve group conflicts, plan migrations, and provide other useful services.
The neurotheological theory contrasts with the "by-product" or "subjective" model of shamanism developed by Harvard anthropologist Manvir Singh.[1][94][95] According to Singh, shamanism is a cultural technology that adapts to (or hacks) our psychological biases to convince us that a specialist can influence important but uncontrollable outcomes.[96] Citing work on the psychology of magic and superstition, Singh argues that humans search for ways of influencing uncertain events, such as healing illness, controlling rain, or attracting animals. As specialists compete to help their clients control these outcomes, they drive the evolution of psychologically compelling magic, producing traditions adapted to people's cognitive biases. Shamanism, Singh argues, is the culmination of this cultural evolutionary process—a psychologically appealing method for controlling uncertainty. For example, some shamanic practices exploit our intuitions about humanness: Practitioners use trance and dramatic initiations to seemingly become entities distinct from normal humans and thus more apparently capable of interacting with the invisible forces believed to oversee important outcomes. Influential cognitive and anthropological scientists such as Pascal Boyer and Nicholas Humphrey have endorsed Singh's approach,[97][98] although other researchers have criticized Singh's dismissal of individual- and group-level benefits.[99]
David Lewis-Williams explains the origins of shamanic practice, and some of its precise forms, through aspects of human consciousness evinced in cave art and LSD experiments alike.[100]
Ecological approaches and systems theory
Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff relates these concepts to developments in the ways that modern science (systems theory, ecology, new approaches in anthropology and archeology) treats causality in a less linear fashion.[53] He also suggests a cooperation of modern science and indigenous lore.[101]
Historical origins
Shamanic practices may originate as early as the Paleolithic, predating all organized religions,[102][103] and certainly as early as the Neolithic period.[103] The earliest known undisputed burial of a shaman (and by extension the earliest undisputed evidence of shamans and shamanic practices) dates back to the early Upper Paleolithic era (c. 30,000 BP) in what is now the Czech Republic.[104]
Sanskrit scholar and comparative mythologist Michael Witzel proposes that all of the world's mythologies, and also the concepts and practices of shamans, can be traced to the migrations of two prehistoric populations: the "Gondwana" type (of circa 65,000 years ago) and the "Laurasian" type (of circa 40,000 years ago).[105]
In November 2008, researchers from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem announced the discovery of a 12,000-year-old site in Israel that is perceived as one of the earliest-known shaman burials. The elderly woman had been arranged on her side, with her legs apart and folded inward at the knee. Ten large stones were placed on the head, pelvis and arms. Among her unusual grave goods were 50 complete tortoise shells, a human foot, and certain body parts from animals such as a cow tail and eagle wings. Other animal remains came from a boar, leopard, and two martens. "It seems that the woman … was perceived as being in a close relationship with these animal spirits", researchers noted. The grave was one of at least 28 graves at the site, located in a cave in lower Galilee and belonging to the Natufian culture, but is said to be unlike any other among the Epipaleolithic Natufians or in the Paleolithic period.[106]
Semiotic and hermeneutic approaches
A debated etymology of the word "shaman" is "one who knows",[13][107] implying, among other things, that the shaman is an expert in keeping together the multiple codes of the society, and that to be effective, shamans must maintain a comprehensive view in their mind which gives them certainty of knowledge.[12] According to this view, the shaman uses (and the audience understands) multiple codes, expressing meanings in many ways: verbally, musically, artistically, and in dance. Meanings may be manifested in objects such as amulets.[107] If the shaman knows the culture of their community well,[37][108][109] and acts accordingly, their audience will know the used symbols and meanings and therefore trust the shamanic worker.[109][110]
There are also semiotic, theoretical approaches to shamanism,[111][112][113] and examples of "mutually opposing symbols" in academic studies of Siberian lore, distinguishing a "white" shaman who contacts sky spirits for good aims by day, from a "black" shaman who contacts evil spirits for bad aims by night.[114] (Series of such opposing symbols referred to a world-view behind them. Analogously to the way grammar arranges words to express meanings and convey a world, also this formed a cognitive map).[12][115] Shaman's lore is rooted in the folklore of the community, which provides a "mythological mental map".[116][117] Juha Pentikäinen uses the concept "grammar of mind".[117][118]
Armin Geertz coined and introduced the hermeneutics,[119] or "ethnohermeneutics",[115] interpretation. Hoppál extended the term to include not only the interpretation of oral and written texts, but that of "visual texts as well (including motions, gestures and more complex rituals, and ceremonies performed, for instance, by shamans)".[120] Revealing the animistic views in shamanism, but also their relevance to the contemporary world, where ecological problems have validated paradigms of balance and protection.[117]
Decline and revitalization and tradition-preserving movements
Shamanism is believed to be declining around the world, possibly due to other organised religious influences, like Christianity, that want people who practice shamanism to convert to their own system and doctrine. Another reason is Western views of shamanism as primitive, superstitious, backward and outdated. Whalers who frequently interact with Inuit tribes are one source of this decline in that region.[121]
A shaman doctor of Kyzyl, 2005. Attempts are being made to preserve and revitalize Tuvan shamanism:[122] former authentic shamans have begun to practice again, and young apprentices are being educated in an organized way.[123]
In many areas, former shamans ceased to fulfill the functions in the community they used to, as they felt mocked by their own community,[124] or regarded their own past as deprecated and were unwilling to talk about it to ethnographers.[125]
Moreover, besides personal communications of former shamans, folklore texts may narrate directly about a deterioration process. For example, a Buryat epic text details the wonderful deeds of the ancient "first shaman" Kara-Gürgän:[126] he could even compete with God, create life, steal back the soul of the sick from God without his consent. A subsequent text laments that shamans of older times were stronger, possessing capabilities like omnividence,[127] fortune-telling even for decades in the future, moving as fast as a bullet.[128]
In most affected areas, shamanic practices ceased to exist, with authentic shamans dying and their personal experiences dying with them. The loss of memories is not always lessened by the fact the shaman is not always the only person in a community who knows the beliefs and motives related to the local shaman-hood.[51][52] Although the shaman is often believed and trusted precisely because he or she "accommodates" to the beliefs of the community,[109] several parts of the knowledge related to the local shamanhood consist of personal experiences of the shaman, or root in his or her family life,[129] thus, those are lost with his or her death. Besides that, in many cultures, the entire traditional belief system has become endangered (often together with a partial or total language shift), with the other people of the community remembering the associated beliefs and practices (or the language at all) grew old or died, many folklore memories songs, and texts were forgotten—which may threaten even such peoples who could preserve their isolation until the middle of the 20th century, like the Nganasan.[130]
Some areas could enjoy a prolonged resistance due to their remoteness.
Variants of shamanism among Inuit peoples were once a widespread (and very diverse) phenomenon, but today are rarely practiced, as well as already having been in decline among many groups, even while the first major ethnological research was being done,[131] e.g. among Polar Inuit, at the end of the 19th century, Sagloq, the last shaman who was believed to be able to travel to the sky and under the sea died—and many other former shamanic capacities were lost during that time as well, like ventriloquism and sleight of hand.[132]
The isolated location of Nganasan people allowed shamanism to be a living phenomenon among them even at the beginning of the 20th century,[133] the last notable Nganasan shaman's ceremonies were recorded on film in the 1970s.[134]
After exemplifying the general decline even in the most remote areas, there are revitalizations or tradition-preserving efforts as a response. Besides collecting the memories,[135] there are also tradition-preserving[136] and even revitalization efforts,[137] led by authentic former shamans (for example among the Sakha people[138] and Tuvans).[123] However, according to Richard L. Allen, research and policy analyst for the Cherokee Nation, they are overwhelmed with fraudulent shamans ("plastic medicine people").[139] "One may assume that anyone claiming to be a Cherokee 'shaman, spiritual healer, or pipe-carrier', is equivalent to a modern day medicine show and snake-oil vendor."[140] One indicator of a plastic shaman might be someone who discusses "Native American spirituality" but does not mention any specific Native American tribe.[141]
Besides tradition-preserving efforts, there are also neoshamanistic movements, these may differ from many traditional shamanistic practice and beliefs in several points.[142] Admittedly,[according to whom?] several traditional beliefs systems indeed have ecological considerations (for example, many Inuit peoples), and among Tucano people, the shaman indeed has direct resource-protecting roles.
Today, shamanism survives primarily among indigenous peoples. Shamanic practices continue today in the tundras, jungles, deserts, and other rural areas, and even in cities, towns, suburbs, and shantytowns all over the world. This is especially true for Africa and South America, where "mestizo shamanism" is widespread.
Regional variations
Main article: Regional forms of shamanism
Map of shamanism across the world
Criticism of the term
Further information: Medicine man
A tableau presenting figures of various cultures filling in mediator-like roles, often being termed as "shaman" in the literature. The tableau presents the diversity of this concept.
The anthropologist Alice Kehoe criticizes the term "shaman" in her book Shamans and Religion: An Anthropological Exploration in Critical Thinking. Part of this criticism involves the notion of cultural appropriation.[3] This includes criticism of New Age and modern Western forms of shamanism, which, according to Kehoe, misrepresent or dilute indigenous practices. Kehoe also believes that the term reinforces racist ideas such as the noble savage.
Kehoe is highly critical of Mircea Eliade's work on shamanism as an invention synthesized from various sources unsupported by more direct research. To Kehoe, citing that ritualistic practices (most notably drumming, trance, chanting, entheogens and hallucinogens, spirit communication and healing) as being definitive of shamanism is poor practice. Such citations ignore the fact that those practices exist outside of what is defined as shamanism and play similar roles even in non-shamanic cultures (such as the role of chanting in Judeo-Christian and Islamic rituals) and that in their expression are unique to each culture that uses them. Such practices cannot be generalized easily, accurately, or usefully into a global religion of shamanism. Because of this, Kehoe is also highly critical of the hypothesis that shamanism is an ancient, unchanged, and surviving religion from the Paleolithic period.[3]
Anthropologist Mihály Hoppál also discusses whether the term "shamanism" is appropriate. He notes that for many readers, "-ism" implies a particular dogma, like Buddhism or Judaism. He recommends using the term "shamanhood"[143] or "shamanship"[144] (a term used in old Russian and German ethnographic reports at the beginning of the 20th century) for stressing the diversity and the specific features of the discussed cultures. He believes that this places more stress on the local variations[12] and emphasizes that shamanism is not a religion of sacred dogmas, but linked to the everyday life in a practical way.[145] Following similar thoughts, he also conjectures a contemporary paradigm shift.[143] Piers Vitebsky also mentions that, despite really astonishing similarities, there is no unity in shamanism. The various, fragmented shamanistic practices and beliefs coexist with other beliefs everywhere. There is no record of pure shamanistic societies (although their existence is not impossible).[146] Norwegian social anthropologist Hakan Rydving has likewise argued for the abandonment of the terms "shaman" and "shamanism" as "scientific illusions."[147]
Dulam Bumochir has affirmed the above critiques of "shamanism" as a Western construct created for comparative purposes and, in an extensive article, has documented the role of Mongols themselves, particularly "the partnership of scholars and shamans in the reconstruction of shamanism" in post-1990/post-communist Mongolia.[148] This process has also been documented by Swiss anthropologist Judith Hangartner in her landmark study of Darhad shamans in Mongolia.[149] Historian Karena Kollmar-Polenz argues that the social construction and reification of shamanism as a religious "other" actually began with the 18th-century writings of Tibetan Buddhist monks in Mongolia and later "probably influenced the formation of European discourse on Shamanism".[150]
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^ Singh, Manvir. "Modern shamans: Financial managers, political pundits and others who help tame life's uncertainty". The Conversation. Retrieved 2019-05-02.
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^ Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff: A View from the Headwaters. The Ecologist, Vol. 29 No. 4, July 1999.
^ Jean Clottes. "Shamanism in Prehistory". Bradshaw foundation. Archived from the original on 2008-04-30. Retrieved 2008-03-11.
^ a b Karl J. Narr. "Prehistoric religion". Britannica online encyclopedia 2008. Archived from the original on 2008-04-09. Retrieved 2008-03-28.
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Barüske, Heinz (1969). Eskimo Märchen. Die Märchen der Weltliteratur (in German). Düsseldorf • Köln: Eugen Diederichs Verlag. The title means: "Eskimo tales", the series means: "The tales of world literature".
Boglár, Lajos (2001). A kultúra arcai. Mozaikok a kulturális antropológia köreiből. TÁRStudomány (in Hungarian). Budapest: Napvilág Kiadó. ISBN 978-963-9082-94-6. The title means "The faces of culture. Mosaics from the area of cultural anthropology".
Czaplicka, M.A. (1914). "Types of shaman". Shamanism in Siberia. Aboriginal Siberia. A study in social anthropology. preface by Marett, R.R. Somerville College, University of Oxford, Clarendon Press. ISBN 978-1-60506-060-6.
Deschênes, Bruno (2002). "Inuit Throat-Singing". Musical Traditions. The Magazine for Traditional Music Throughout the World.
Diószegi, Vilmos (1968). Tracing shamans in Siberia. The story of an ethnographical research expedition. Translated from Hungarian by Anita Rajkay Babó. Oosterhout: Anthropological Publications.
Diószegi, Vilmos (1962). Samanizmus. Élet és Tudomány Kiskönyvtár (in Hungarian). Budapest: Gondolat. ISBN 978-963-9147-13-3. The title means: "Shamanism".
Diószegi, Vilmos (1998) [1958]. A sámánhit emlékei a magyar népi műveltségben (in Hungarian) (first reprint ed.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó. ISBN 978-963-05-7542-3. The title means: "Remnants of shamanistic beliefs in Hungarian folklore".
Fienup-Riordan, Ann (1994). Boundaries and Passages: Rule and Ritual in Yup'ik Eskimo Oral Tradition. Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press. ISBN 978-0-585-12190-1.
Fock, Niels (1963). Waiwai. Religion and society of an Amazonian tribe. Nationalmuseets skrifter, Etnografisk Række (Ethnographical series), VIII. Copenhagen: The National Museum of Denmark.
Freuchen, Peter (1961). Book of the Eskimos. Cleveland • New York: The World Publishing Company. ISBN 978-0-449-30802-8.
Hajdú, Péter (1975). "A rokonság nyelvi háttere". In Hajdú, Péter (ed.). Uráli népek. Nyelvrokonaink kultúrája és hagyományai (in Hungarian). Budapest: Corvina Kiadó. ISBN 978-963-13-0900-3. The title means: "Uralic peoples. Culture and traditions of our linguistic relatives"; the chapter means "Linguistical background of the relationship".
Hoppál, Mihály (1994). Sámánok, lelkek és jelképek (in Hungarian). Budapest: Helikon Kiadó. ISBN 978-963-208-298-1. The title means "Shamans, souls and symbols".
Hoppál, Mihály (1998). "A honfoglalók hitvilága és a magyar samanizmus". Folklór és közösség (in Hungarian). Budapest: Széphalom Könyvműhely. pp. 40–45. ISBN 978-963-9028-14-2. The title means "The belief system of Hungarians when they entered the Pannonian Basin, and their shamanism".
Hoppál, Mihály (2005). Sámánok Eurázsiában (in Hungarian). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó. ISBN 978-963-05-8295-7. The title means "Shamans in Eurasia", the book is published also in German, Estonian and Finnish. Site of publisher with short description on the book (in Hungarian).
Hoppál, Mihály (2006a). "Sámánok, kultúrák és kutatók az ezredfordulón". In Hoppál, Mihály; Szathmári, Botond; Takács, András (eds.). Sámánok és kultúrák. Budapest: Gondolat. pp. 9–25. ISBN 978-963-9450-28-8. The chapter title means "Shamans, cultures and researchers in the millenary", the book title means "Shamans and cultures".
Hoppál, Mihály (2007b). "Is Shamanism a Folk Religion?". Shamans and Traditions (Vol. 13). Bibliotheca Shamanistica. Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó. pp. 11–16. ISBN 978-963-05-8521-7.
Hoppál, Mihály (2007c). "Eco-Animism of Siberian Shamanhood". Shamans and Traditions (Vol 13). Bibliotheca Shamanistica. Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó. pp. 17–26. ISBN 978-963-05-8521-7.
Janhunen, Juha. Siberian shamanistic terminology. Memoires de la Societe finno-ougrienne, 1986, 194: 97–117.
Hugh-Jones, Christine (1980). From the Milk River: Spatial and Temporal Processes in Northwest Amazonia. Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-22544-1.
Hugh-Jones, Stephen (1980). The Palm and the Pleiades. Initiation and Cosmology in Northwest Amazonia. Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-21952-5.
Kleivan, Inge; B. Sonne (1985). Eskimos: Greenland and Canada. Iconography of religions, section VIII, "Arctic Peoples", fascicle 2. Leiden, The Netherlands: Institute of Religious Iconography • State University Groningen. E.J. Brill. ISBN 978-90-04-07160-5.
Lupa. New Paths to Animal Totems. Woodbury, MN: Llewellyn Worldwide, 2012. ISBN 978-0-7387-3337-1.
Menovščikov, G.A. (= Г. А. Меновщиков) (1968). "Popular Conceptions, Religious Beliefs and Rites of the Asiatic Eskimoes". In Diószegi, Vilmos (ed.). Popular beliefs and folklore tradition in Siberia. Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó.
Nagy, Beáta Boglárka (1998). "Az északi szamojédok". In Csepregi, Márta (ed.). Finnugor kalauz. Panoráma (in Hungarian). Budapest: Medicina Könyvkiadó. pp. 221–34. ISBN 978-963-243-813-9. The chapter means "Northern Samoyedic peoples", the title means Finno-Ugric guide.
Nattiez, Jean Jacques. Inuit Games and Songs / Chants et Jeux des Inuit. Musiques & musiciens du monde / Musics & musicians of the world. Montreal: Research Group in Musical Semiotics, Faculty of Music, University of Montreal. . The songs are available online, on the ethnopoetics website curated by Jerome Rothenberg.
Noll, Richard; Shi, Kun (2004). "Chuonnasuan (Meng Jin Fu), The Last Shaman of the Oroqen of Northeast China" (PDF). 韓國宗敎硏究 (Journal of Korean Religions). 6. Seoul KR: 西江大學校. 宗教硏究所 (Sŏgang Taehakkyo. Chonggyo Yŏnʾguso.). pp. 135–62. Retrieved 2008-07-30. . It describes the life of Chuonnasuan, the last shaman of the Oroqen of Northeast China.
Reinhard, Johan (1976) "Shamanism and Spirit Possession: The Definition Problem." In Spirit Possession in the Nepal Himalayas, J. Hitchcock & R. Jones (eds.), New Delhi: Vikas Publishing House, pp. 12–20.
Shimamura, Ippei The roots Seekers: Shamanism and Ethnicity Among the Mongol Buryats. Yokohama, Japan: Shumpusha, 2014.
Singh, Manvir (2018). "The cultural evolution of shamanism". Behavioral & Brain Sciences. 41: e66, 1–61. doi:10.1017/S0140525X17001893. PMID 28679454. Summary of the cultural evolutionary and cognitive foundations of shamanism; published with commentaries by 25 scholars (including anthropologists, philosophers, and psychologists).
Turner, Robert P.; Lukoff, David; Barnhouse, Ruth Tiffany & Lu, Francis G. (1995) Religious or Spiritual Problem. A Culturally Sensitive Diagnostic Category in the DSM-IV. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, Vol.183, No. 7, pp. 435–44
Voigt, Miklós (2000). "Sámán – a szó és értelme". Világnak kezdetétől fogva. Történeti folklorisztikai tanulmányok (in Hungarian). Budapest: Universitas Könyvkiadó. pp. 41–45. ISBN 978-963-9104-39-6. The chapter discusses the etymology and meaning of word "shaman".
Winkelman, Michael (2000). Shamanism: The neural ecology of consciousness and healing. Westport, CT: Bergen & Gavey. ISBN 978-963-9104-39-6. Major work on the evolutionary and psychological origins of shamanism.
Witzel, Michael (2011). "Shamanism in Northern and Southern Eurasia: their distinctive methods and change of consciousness" (PDF). Social Science Information. 50 (1): 39–61. doi:10.1177/0539018410391044.
Joseph Campbell, The Masks of God: Primitive Mythology. 1959; reprint, New York and London: Penguin Books, 1976. ISBN 0-14-019443-6
Harner, Michael, The Way of the Shaman: A Guide to Power and Healing, Harper & Row Publishers, NY 1980
Richard de Mille, ed. The Don Juan Papers: Further Castaneda Controversies. Santa Barbara, California: Ross-Erikson, 1980.
George Devereux, "Shamans as Neurotics", American Anthropologist, New Series, Vol. 63, No. 5, Part 1. (Oct. 1961), pp. 1088–90.
Jay Courtney Fikes, Carlos Castaneda: Academic Opportunism and the Psychedelic Sixties, Millennia Press, Canada, 1993 ISBN 0-9696960-0-0
Åke Hultkrantz (Honorary Editor in Chief): Shaman. Journal of the International Society for Shamanistic Research
Philip Jenkins, Dream Catchers: How Mainstream America Discovered Native Spirituality. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. ISBN 0-19-516115-7
Alice Kehoe, Shamans and Religion: An Anthropological Exploration in Critical Thinking. 2000. London: Waveland Press. ISBN 1-57766-162-1
David Charles Manners, In the Shadow of Crows. (contains first-hand accounts of the Nepalese jhankri tradition) Oxford: Signal Books, 2011. ISBN 1-904955-92-4.
Jordan D. Paper, The Spirits are Drunk: Comparative Approaches to Chinese Religion, Albany, New York: State University of New York Press, 1995. ISBN 0-7914-2315-8.
Smith, Frederick M. (2006). The Self Possessed: Deity and Spirit Possession in South Asian Literature. Columbia University Press, ISBN 0-231-13748-6. pp. 195–202.
Barbara Tedlock, Time and the Highland Maya, U. of New Mexico Press, 1992. ISBN 0-8263-1358-2
Silvia Tomášková, Wayward Shamans: the prehistory of an idea, University of California Press, 2013. ISBN 978-0-520-27532-4
Michel Weber, « Shamanism and proto-consciousness », in René Lebrun, Julien De Vos et É. Van Quickelberghe (éds), Deus Unicus. Actes du colloque « Aux origines du monothéisme et du scepticisme religieux » organisé à Louvain-la-Neuve les 7 et 8 juin 2013 par le Centre d'histoire des Religions Cardinal Julien Ries [Cardinalis Julien Ries et Pierre Bordreuil in memoriam], Turnhout, Brepols, coll. Homo Religiosus série II, 14, 2015, pp. 247–60.
Andrei Znamenski, Shamanism in Siberia: Russian Records of Siberian Spirituality. Dordrech and Boston: Kluwer/Springer, 2003. ISBN 1-4020-1740-5
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Sky and Stars
World Mythology
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The table below provides links to similar gods and goddesses in the Greek and Roman pantheons.
Amphitrite Amphitrite
Andromeda Andromeda
Apollo Apollo
Callisto Callisto
Cassiopeia Cassiopeia
Cepheus Cepheus
Diana Artemis
Faunus
Gaea Gaea
Galatea Galatea
Ganymede Ganymede
The Nemean Lion
The Lernaean Hydra
The Dragon Heracles
Hyades Hyades
Io Io
Jupiter Zeus
Leda Leda
Mercury Hermes
Aphrodite and Ares
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Jermain Defoe or Rafa van der Vaart?
Follow me on Twitter – @WindyCOYS.
“Yes, it does seem to be a problem. Rafa can’t run back and chase the full-back. Against the better teams it is a problem.
Rafa’s best position is in the middle, playing just behind the front man. The only problem is that Jermain Defoe plays there too and Jermain is playing very, very well at the moment.
So, I guess I have got a decision to make, haven’t I? I suppose it’s now between Rafa and Jermain over who plays in the team.
Rafa is a terrific footballer. He has great skill. But if you’re in the team and asked to do a job, really, you should just do it.”
There were Harry Redknapp’s comments this week in The Sun, after van der Vaart had questioned the logic of playing him on the right.
Of course football is a squad game, and players rarely play in every match anymore. It is also great to have these sorts of selections dilemmas – a player as good as Sandro would not be on many benches (he’d be in my starting XI nine times out of ten!), and Defoe would be a regular in the majority of Premier League teams.
Assuming that Adebayor is a mainstay in the side (and he certainly should be at the moment), Redknapp has two options when picking his strongest eleven – if he wants to play Defoe, he can play van der Vaart on the right, as against Arsenal. If he decides, as he seems to have in the comments above, that this not appropriate, he needs to choose between the two for the second striker role.
In this article I will compare van der Vaart and Defoe, but first I would like to look at van der Vaart’s performance against Arsenal.
1. Rafael van der Vaart play on the right in a 4-4-2
Against Arsenal we almost played a combination of 4-4-2 and 4-2-3-1, but with Parker and Modric as the two “holding players”. Clearly Modric is not a disciplined holder (and we wouldn’t want him to be), so Parker was left doing a lot of the leg-work in midfield. Van der Vaart drifted from his starting position of right midfield (as we expected that he would), and did it to good effect in the attacking third – scoring once, feeding Parker for a one-on-one chance, and also being heavily involved in Adebayor’s excellent one-on-one chance.
Defensively, though, he has been questioned by many. In my Analysis of the goal conceded against Arsenal (02/10) I point out that he is slow to close Song down. However, this goal essentially stemmed from a corner, and then our failure to re-organise as a team – van der Vaart actually chases Song from the other side of the penalty area, whilst no other players react or try to get close to him. To say, then, that this goal came about due to the nature of the formation is incredibly harsh. What is fair, though, is that Arsenal had a lot of possession, and could have used the ball better down our right, with Walker having little protection ahead of him.
My solution (and I pointed this out pre-match), would have been to play Sandro and Parker holding, as per the Wigan game. With Modric, Bale and van der Vaart inter-changing ahead of them we have plenty of offensive options, whilst with two dedicated holders, we are able to cover the central areas whilst also able to cover the full-back areas where necessary – this is often the case in 4-2-3-1 formations, where full-backs push forward to provide width. However, this would have involved dropping Defoe, which takes me on to my second point.
2. Defoe or van der Vaart?
Redknapp states that Defoe is playing “very, very well” at the moment. This could be a classic case of a manager talking up a player to help build his confidence, but it could be that Redknapp genuinely thinks that Defoe is in red hot form (as many fans also seem to think).
Looking at Defoe’s contribution this season, it’s firstly important to note that he has already scored two league goals – half of his contribution last season. It is good to see him scoring again, and long may it continue.
The minutes per goal or assist for Adebayor, van der Vaart and Defoe, however, is interesting:
Emmanuel Adebayor 355 total mins 3 goals 2 assists – 71.00
Rafael van der Vaart 367 total mins 2 goals 2 assists – 91.75
Jermain Defoe 390 total mins 2 goals 1 assist 130.0
The minutes per goal, where many would suspect that Defoe would have better stats, is also interesting:
Emmanuel Adebayor 355 total mins 3 goals 118.3
Rafael Van Der Vaart 367 total mins 2 goals 183.5
Jermain Defoe 390 total mins 2 goals 195.0
Obviously it is early days, but this follows the pattern from last year, where Defoe’s “productivity” (to put it crudely) was well below that of van der Vaart and Pavlyuchenko.
In contrast to Redknapp’s “very, very good” I have regularly been tweeting that Defoe has been on the periphery of games, albeit working hard to pressurise defenders (which should be a bear minimum). I thought it would be interesting to look at his involvement in our play in our league games so far – thanks to WhoScored.com there are stats available on the number of touches each player has in games.
Against Manchester United, Defoe had the least number of touches of any player (from either team). NB: Walker and Corluka played 45 minutes each, so I combined their touches.
Against Wolverhampton Wanderers, Defoe also had the least number of touches of any player (35 – the next least for Spurs was Friedel with 58).
Against Liverpool, only Kranjcar (28) had less touches than Defoe (34), and he had 40 fewer minutes on the pitch.
And finally, against Arsenal, Defoe had the least touches of the ball (36) of all of our outfield players (including van der Vaart (39), who played 26 minutes less).
I will not try to suggest that touches of the ball show the impact that a player has in a match, but it is certainly a valid criteria on which one can judge a player’s involvement. A striker cannot always be expected to have constant involvement, but van der Vaart managed 81 touches in his 81 minutes against Wigan, playing just a little deeper than Defoe did against Arsenal (see image below). Clearly Arsenal and Wigan are very different teams, but 81 touches is more than twice Defoe’s maximum number of touches in a game so far – van der Vaart gets far more involved when he plays the second striker role.
Average positions vs Wigan at the top, average positions vs Arsenal below.
Taking into account all of the stats – goals, assists and involvement in play – Redknapp’s summation makes me wonder – if Defoe is playing “very, very well”, how does he think van der Vaart is doing?
Many will argue that it is too early in the season to start judging any of our players. I would therefore add that last year, when partnered with far inferior strikers to Adebayor, van der Vaart managed 13 goals and 8 assists in 28 starts in his first season in the Premier League.
Defoe has only bettered that Premier League goal tally once in his entire career, when he scored 18 goals two years ago (of course eight of those goals were scored in two games – against Wigan and Hull). He got 8 assists in 2002/3 his most in the last five years is 4.
Defoe certainly has a place in some games, but in games where we need to select our best eleven players it’s a no-brainer for me – van der Vaart scores as many (or at least nearly as many), gets more assists, and has more influence on our play. He doesn’t always have the stamina to last 90 minutes, and he isn’t the most mobile but in my opinion he should be one of the first names on the team sheet.
Anonymous9th October 2011 at 15:28
Defoe everytime. Rafa's pony, and clearly wants out. Get rid ASAP.
Jermaine Defoe every time for me ... He is a real natural goalscorer who fits into the 4-4-2 so much easier and who has added more to his game.
Storm25th August 2014 at 06:13
This is an arctile that makes you think "never thought of that!"
propecia buy18th February 2015 at 18:30
It's a real pleasure to find someone who can think like that
Although Defoe lacked goals last season, it was down to Harry not giving him a long run in the side. No good for his confidence. He could give us 15-20 goals on a long run
Has to be Defoe, not VDV
Spang9th October 2011 at 15:43
Compelling argument - and I too long for us to play three attacking midfielders in front of Parker/sandro. Not sure bale would fit in at this point, mind.
You must be (subconciously) cherry picking some stats here though otherwise Harry would have to be a complete idiot, and he isn't... What are you (and I) missing?
Joel Kara9th October 2011 at 15:43
I wonder how this will change once Ade's loan spell comes to an end next year.
Look at the actualities: JD never or very rarely scores against the top sides, why? bescuse he is so predictable and easy to mark. He hardly ever gives assissts becasue he is one dimensional and very selfish. He drifts offside to much. Raffa offers a lot more than JD. JD would be a better impact sub than Raffa.
TMWNN9th October 2011 at 15:53
Not a dilemma at all. VdV's twice the player Defoe is. If Defoe took most of his chances, then you could forgive his lack of involvement, but he doesn't.
Ben9th October 2011 at 16:05
This is a very well written and well researched article. You should send it to HR. VdV acts like a spoiled brat, but he is clearly much better player. JD flatters to deceive season after season - I like him and will always support him in a Spurs shirt but he is simply not good enough.
The answer is simple, play 12, and hope no one notices.
Windy9th October 2011 at 16:45
Anon @ 16:28 - Rafa's pony?! I presume that's sarcasm!
Anon @ 16:39 - Really? What do you think he offers that VDV doesn't (given my comments about Defoe only have beaten VDV's tally of last year once in his career)?
Anon @ 16:42 - It went back to before last season tbh so I'm not sure it was just down to a lack of run. What makes you think he can get 15-20? He has only managed 15+ league goals once in his career!
Spang - I probably am without meaning to - I guess Redknapp would argue that Defoe pressures defenders, offers more mobility, and runs the channels. I'd argue that we don't need him to do that now that we have Adebayor.
Joel - I'm praying that we'll have snared Leandro Damiao by then...
Anon @ 16:50 - I agree with all of that!
TMWNN - Sums it up nicely I think.
Ben - Cheers, that's really kind of you. I agree with you - not good enough for where we are now (but a good enough impact sub). I think we have 14 or 15 better players than Defoe, personally.
Anon @ 17:11 - love it. So: Friedel, Walker, Dawson, King, Assou-Ekotto, Lennon, Modric, Parker, Sandro, Bale, VDV, Adebayor?
Best option. Play VDV first 60 mins. Then bring Defoe in for last 30 mins.His fresh legs and pace should trouble the defence more at that time.
play neither and paly lennon. Have we all forgotten him? Gives the side lovely balance and covers the full back.
Bale Sandro Modric Parker Lennon.
VDV all the way. Never seen Defoe chased by a top club, he's a good player, but a level below VDV.
vdv everytime. He is a much better player he scores and assists in goals. Jd is there only to score which he doesnt do enough.
VDV is the better player. Defoe can only score goals , he never gets his head up and can't track back any better than VDV. Probably better to play Defoe wide right if you play both because he is quicker. We should be forgetting about 4-4-2 and playing 4-2-3-1 like all the other top teams. With Sandro and Parker holding and Bale Modric and A.N Other supporting Adebayor.
VAN DE MAN ANYTIME
ant_smith19th October 2011 at 18:15
Have a feeling some of these 'Anonymous' comments are from the same Defoe loving person. Nice article...VDV everytime!! Too much of a class act to leave out of the side. Modric-Sandro-Parker-Bale and VDV-Ade is one beautiful midfield/attack. Then with the option of Defoe/Lennon coming on to freshen things up - can't go wrong!
Also, if one of Defoe/VDV has to compromise to play on the right...why can't it be Defoe? He has proved he is more than able to track back, runs at players well, and will score if given the chance? Just a thought.
SPUR19509th October 2011 at 19:33
I SEE THE MODRIC BAITERS/OUT BRigade ARE BACK
HAVE ANY OF YOU ANONYMOUS PEOPLE READ THE SAID ARTICLE VERY MUCH DOUBT IT.
AND ARRY LOOKING AT STATS U ARE AVIN A LAUGH .WE ALREADY KNOW HE DONT DO TATICS [BUT IF HE COULD!!!!!]its a crouch thing with defoe now i will play him no matter what ,i brought him so there!!ITS been said by pros,papers HARRY is biased towards players he buys !!!
Did ever see him slag of Keane,Defoe,Crouch especially the way he did BENT an now PAV[plays 1 in 5games]if lucky
Harry will pick DEFOE over VDV if he can ,because he is blatantly biased and does care about us ,he cares about his England prospects!!!
Yeah well pav is rubbish , should have been sold. Can't pass, can't control the ball, no vision, all he has is a decent shot
VDV every time and you don't need to have stats to prove it. Also, I don't think he is spoilt and too much is made of his comments: he gets asked questions and answers in a forthright Dutch manner. Defoe, frankly, does my head in: every bloody year there's some new training scheme that he has embarked upon to no obvious effect; every year he manages to get himself caught offside on a metronomic basis; every year he tells us how he has become more subtle, but then leathers the balls at a nice height for the goalkeeper as if he thinks he's from Planet Krypton. He should start on the bench and VDV should play as second striker behind Adebayor. With a midfield of Bale, Modric, Parker and Sandro and those two upfront as well as the present rearguard (Dawson's injury a blessing in disguise), I think that we will be threatening the top three. And I'm teetotal.
Sweetsman
deejbah9th October 2011 at 23:34
Playing with the 4-4-2 against Arsenal also decreased the involvement of Modric, so it's not just a simple case of vdV vs. Defoe and who is the better player but which set up allows the most effective use of our players overall. Having both Sandro and Parker on allows the front four more freedom and less opportunity for the opposition to double mark Modric out of the game.
Anonymous10th October 2011 at 02:25
Lots of Spurs fans still delusional about JD. JD is useless never scores against the top sides. He is rubbish and should never be picked ahead of VDV personally I would never pick him, doesnt link play up cant control the ball always offside the list goes on. But he his HR lovechild so will continue to be picked. This has been a no brainer for years we dont play the same quality football when JD plays we just dont was he even on the pitch against the goons?. I would sell him myself but sure hey I aint the manager.
Good points in column. Against better sides, the 4-2-3-1 with Bale, Modric and VdV across the top is probably our best side, especially as Sandro and Parker both get forward from time to time. Against weaker or slower teams, I'd expect 'Arry's biological fondness for width and 'getting behind the defense' with a tall guy and a short guy to be hard for the manager to resist.
I actually don't think this is the real issue. For me, the key issues are a)how can we start scoring from dead ball settings; b)where can we find cover for Ade if he goes down and c)when will Gallas be fit to provide cover for Ledders.
COYS
no competition.vdv has much more to offer.but its highly likely that vdv will not be with us come january.never been a fan of defoe.so hope for some new blood.podolsky of the german league would be a improvement..
LemonadeMoney10th October 2011 at 08:34
Windy,
I think you nailed it it your initial summary, 'Defoe would be a regular in the majority of Premier League teams' i.e. but not a top four one.
As said before, it's the HR lovechild business that gets in the way.
More of this please Windy, very good!
Windy, great article and i agreed with you on Twitter regarding this. I cant believe that anyone would ever pick Defoe over VDV. LemonadeMoney was bang on, he isnt a top four striker, otherwise he would surely be picked for England above average players like Zamora. VDV is a class footballer, who always wants the ball and makes things happen. Defoe, when he isnt offside, seems to think the best tactic is to try and shoot from anywhere on the pitch. Also rather than look where the goalkeeper is to try and get the ball past him to score, he just tries to hit it as hard as he can straight at him. I think he is a great option to come off the bench for the last 15 minutes or so but VDV must be number one choice. We must look to buy back up in January though as Pav is the worst striker i have seen down the Lane since the days off Colin Lee and Ian Moores.
is this the perfect post ?? - - honestly Windy, this is fracking genius mate, spot on, calm, rational and backed up by stats, even the most rabid of defoettes couldn't proffer an argument here. Climb a tall building, get on its roof and start reading very very loudly, i salute you.
It certainly is a no-brainer, and not because of number of touches etc etc. I am not a "Defoette" (nice word that) but I was impressed with his hard work in the NLD. He was continually dropping back to defend and help out. He also had a good shot on target that was saved and in the closing minutes he was unlucky with an angled chip to the far post that showed some vision. BUT his basically straightforward game and pace just cannot even be compared with the guile, control, vision and wit of Van der Vaart. The Dutchman for me every time.
bonse10th October 2011 at 12:14
I think the days where fielding the same 11 men in the same formation week in week out are long gone, having the right people available at the right time is now the managers main concern.
Just because I like to push alternative points of view to understand them: Defoe shouldnt play because he doesnt score against big teams... some skewed stats to say otherwise.
Season 08/09
Man Utd vs teams that finished in the bottom half 58/60 points (97%)
Spurs vs teams that finished in the bottom half 24/60 points (40%)
Man Utd vs teams that finished in the top 4 5/18 points (28%)
Spurs vs teams that finished in the top 4 10/24 points (42%)
Moral of story: Flat track bullies win you leagues (would still prefer to see vdV turn out if it were a cup final)
Just to add, my only real criticism of VDV is that sometimes he plays too deep, i find he gets the ball from behind the DM line and is looking to pass on the counter but theres no one in space because the person who should be filling that roll is him, where as Defoe is the opposite, if I ever hear the phrase 'late run from defoe' on commentary i stand to win a tenner, it's been two years now.
Lawrie10th October 2011 at 17:16
I think VdV's number of touches is misleading. Many times, especially when coming in from the right, he demands the ball from a central midfielder and then makes a short pass to someone slightly further over or slightly further forward. If he had not 'demanded' the ball, the central midfielder would most probably have made that pass himself.
onetottenham10th October 2011 at 22:44
Top draw as always Windy,
I for one, have always been a fan of JD. However the fact of the matter is that he is only considered to have had a good game when he scores. That one point being the problem. As previously stated above, his goal count is poor, and even when he does score and the crowd sing "He's a Yiddo" I always ask myself, apart from the goal, what has he contributed to the match. This may sound a little harsh and yes he did produce 18 league goals in the 09/10 season, but if I remember correctly 5 of those were against Wigan in the 9-1 drumming and a hat-trick against Hull City. He has scored a couple of goals in big games - anyone remember the overhead kick against Man Utd? Probably not as we lost 3-1!
The fact of the matter is that VDV produces more in every game he plays, he has a knack for scoring, making decisive passes and yes I know he is as slow as Charlie Corluka but at least that means he will never be caught offside.
For me its an easy decision for VDV to start ahead of JD in most games. He is pure class and Yes I have had my doubts regarding the system meaning an isolated striker in front of him but Bale and Modric should be supporting the forwards.
If fans need facts to prove each players worth. I like the following:
JD vs Woolwich Scum = 1 goal
VDV vs Woolwich Scum = 4 goals
Im a strong believer in playing two holding midfielders as have previously mentioned http://onetottenham.com/2011/09/04/talking-tactics/
Keep up the good work Windy!
Spurs are still blinded by the desire to prove that Pav and Gio are up to scratch so we end up realistically with one compulsory (Ade) and only two choices (Rafa/JD) as strike options.
Is a half fit VDV vs streaky Defoe really a good enough choice for a team aiming for the CL?
Worse than this we are up the creek with no paddle if Ade becomes injured and that is assuming he can be consistent all season even if he avoids injury.
Regarding the VDV vs Defoe question I would choose Defoe as he looks to have a better partnership so far with Ade and it is worth pursuing.
[email protected]13th October 2011 at 12:05
Harry saying that JD's playing "very, very well" is just an escape mechanism for when he chooses to bench VDV. From what we've seen, the man does not like to be benched.
If I had to choose, VDV is definitely miles ahead of Defoe. I love JD, but even the stats you highlighted above prove it.
Great post Windy!
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Your Act campaign update (23 November 2017)
Following the launch of the National Assembly for Wales’ consultation on Paul Davies AM’s proposed Autism (Wales) Bill, we launched our Your Act campaign, aiming to ensure that your voice was heard.
The consultation closed on the 20 November but not before our members and supporters throughout Wales had their say on what should be included in an Autism Act.
As well as discussing the consultation at the Cross Party Autism Group in Bangor, at the North Wales Autism Conference and with our members and supporters on Facebook and Twitter, The National Autistic Society Cymru also hosted specific stakeholder events across Wales, along with Paul Davies, to hear what could be done to improve support and services.
We met in Merthyr Tydfil with members from our local branch, together with the Chair of our Caerphilly branch. We met with Bridgend and District branch members in Cefn Cribwr and with our Blaenau Gwent branch in Blaina.
We also had a great meeting with a range of stakeholders in Wrexham, including representatives from our Wrexham branch, Your Space and The Autistic Women’s Empowerment Project.
Particularly helpful was input from autistic individuals supported by The National Autistic Society Cymru, providing views shaped by their own experiences of accessing services in Wales.
Our External Affairs Manager Meleri Thomas said:
"Our Your Act campaign provided a great opportunity for our members and supporters to help influence the future support for autistic people and their families in Wales. It was clear across the country that many gaps remain, particularly around diagnosis, training and access to services.
"Thank you to all those individuals and organisations who contributed to the consultation and to our Your Act campaign, which set out to ensure that Your Act works for you. It’s now crucial that your responses help to shape autism legislation that meets the needs of autistic people and their families in Wales."
Paul Davies AM will now consider the responses received and draft the Autism (Wales) Bill, expected to be published for further consultation in the New Year.
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AutoNation Embarks on New Parts Path
Written by Gary Ledoux
Tom Calloway, Vice President of Customer Care and Corporate Operations for AutoNation
The current dynamic for the collision repair industry is that parts have always been sourced from separate OEM & aftermarket providers.
As a result of growing utilization of aftermarket parts, franchise dealers may have seen erosion of their OEM parts sales. “When an OE dealer’s parts department receives a collision parts order from a body shop, they only get 50 to 60 percent of what that car needs for replacement parts. The rest of the order, and the parts profit it generates, goes to the aftermarket or salvage,” said Tom Calloway, Vice President of Customer Care and Corporate Operations for AutoNation in a recent interview with Autobody News.
AutoNation wanted to capture a greater share of the wholesale collision parts market, so it embarked with a new vision and business model to serve the collision repair industry. The goal: leverage its scale and expertise to deepen its market share by complementing the current OEM collision parts offering with aftermarket parts as well.
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In early 2018, AutoNation launched its expanded aftermarket parts distribution network in Washington, Northern California, Phoenix, Memphis, Dallas-Fort Worth and Orlando, with more markets scheduled for 2019. They also integrated into the industry’s top electronic ordering platforms.
Along with the two-pronged offering of OE and aftermarket parts, AutoNation is supporting the new offering with single, consolidated deliveries. Although there are myriad logistics playing out behind the scenes, they will all be invisible to the shop ordering the parts. All they will see is the AutoNation truck delivering both their OE and aftermarket parts. Calloway explained that this will have a positive effect on a shop’s cycle time and margin improvement.
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Home » News » Car News » Hyundai Verna: Old vs New
Hyundai Verna: Old vs New
By Tushaar Singh Gill | on August 6, 2017
After showcasing how the new third generation Hyundai Verna looks like, let's find out what major changes the sedan will undergo during its generation switch.
Hyundai is on the verge of launching the next generation Verna in India. This will be the third model to fall under the Verna badge on our shores.
The current generation Hyundai Verna was launched in 2011 and became a strong seller at launch. However, over time the competition toughened with the new Honda City, especially with the launch of the diesel variant in 2014, and Maruti Suzuki Ciaz coming in. A facelift was introduced in 2015, but it did not do much to save the plummeting sales.
On top of it, as a part of the ongoing SUV frenzy, Hyundai launched the Creta – which is technically a segment above the Verna but it did manage to eat into the sedan's sales – as we all know how much we, Indians, love SUVs.
While the new car looks unmistakably Hyundai and will carry forward a few bits from the outgoing model, a lot has changed as the Korean manufacturer has worked towards making the Verna the complete mid-sized saloon. Let’s have a look at what will make the new Verna stand out from the old model.
On the outside
The previous Verna lost its characteristic hexagonal grille after its 2015 facelift. Thankfully, that is coming back in the new Verna, however, this time around – it will be based on Hyundai’s new Fluidic Sculpture 2.0 design language. So, the new grille has that ‘cascading’ effect which recently is seen on its newer models.
The car’s overall profile, however, looks more in line with the bigger Elantra – the tail lamps and the long under-eye LED DRLs make this pretty clear. Also, the 2017 Hyundai Verna sits on a 30mm longer wheelbase than its predecessor.
On the inside
This is an area where things have taken a big leap. The cockpit of the 2017 Hyundai Verna reflects a lot of design elements from its bigger siblings – Creta and Elantra. The third generation sedan now sports a new 7-inch infotainment system, which supports both Android Auto and Apple CarPlay. The outgoing Verna has good interior plastics overall, but the new model is expected to take it a notch above.
Also, given the fact that the new Hyundai Verna will sport larger dimensions, expect the interior space to be a lot more roomier, especially for the rear passengers. The new City and Ciaz have really spacious back seats, and Hyundai has to up its game in order to lure the chauffeured audience.
The outgoing Hyundai Verna has the most comprehensive list powertrain options in the mid-size saloon segment. However, with the new Verna, Hyundai had decided to give the 1.4-litre engines a miss, and will only launch the bigger 1.6-litre engines – at least initially.
The 1.6-litre petrol and diesel powertrains produce 121bhp and 126bhp respectively and come mated to a 6-speed manual transmission. Hyundai will also offer automatic transmission option with both the motors. This time, thankfully, the company had decided to replace the outgoing car's dated 4-speed with a more modern 6-speed torque converter – similar to the one found on Creta.
Bells and Whistles
Hyundai cars, in general, are better-equipped in their respective segments – and we expect the 2017 Verna to be no different. As mentioned before, the car will house an infotainment system with all modern connectivity options. Other features like LED DRLs, cruise control, rain sensing wipers, automatic headlamps, keyless entry with push button start, auto folding mirrors, cooled glove box and leather upholstery – are all expected to be present at least in the top-spec trim. The top variant also comes equipped with handsfree boot opening and ventilated front seats – a first for this segment.
Also, with car safety in India receiving a substantial push recently, we expect ABS with EBD, alongside dual front airbags to be standard starting from the base trim on the 2017 Hyundai Verna. Hyundai has given the top-end trim a total of 6 airbags.
How much cash?
In order to compete with the segment best sellers, and counter the SUV craze – the pricing will play a key role in the new Verna’s success. Whether Hyundai will be able to compete with the excellent value-for-money Maruti Suzuki Ciaz on the price front is yet to be seen. However, expect Hyundai to price the new Verna at par with Honda City. The Verna’s price will also, most certainly, undercut that of its SUV sibling – the Creta.
When can you get the new one?
The car will launch in India on August 22, 2017. We've had a chance to take the all new 2017 Hyundai Verna for a short spin.
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AWB seeking employers who showcase excellence and best practices for awards
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Live music being played at last year's Evening of Excellence Awards at Benaroya Hall in Downtown Seattle.
(Photo by Brian Mittge/AWB)
Washington is home to some of the most innovate, environmentally mindful and community-focused employers in the nation, and each year AWB is privileged to help honor the best of the best.
AWB provides opportunities for member companies to showcase excellence and best practices through two awards programs: The Evening of Excellence awards in November and Manufacturing Excellence awards in October.
Nominations are now open and the application deadline for both awards programs is June 30.
The Evening of Excellence awards is a black-tie event hosted at one of downtown Seattle’s most renowned venues, Benaroya Hall.
The award categories are:
Washington Achieve Award – Recognizing a business who has excelled in creating, implementing or supporting a high-caliber education and/or workforce development system aligned with closing the employment gap.
Washington Connect Award – Recognizing a business whose products and/or services have positively impacted the way in which Washington employers and communities are connected to each other and the world.
Leading Environmental Practices – Recognizing a business that has put a priority on environmental improvement, education or outreach to their business sector and/or community.
Washington Advance Award – Recognizing a business who has had a significant impact in their sector, contributing to the advancement of their community and/or statewide economy.
Entrepreneur of the year – Given to an entrepreneur who’s business is less than 5 years old and has made a significant impact in their industry.
Employer of the Year – Recognizing an employer who has implemented innovative job retention, creation, benefits, and/or compensation plans that fosters a thriving work environment.
Last year’s winners were: D.A. Davidson (Washington Achieve Award), The Seattle Symphony (Washington Connect Award), Banfield Pet Hospital (Leading Environmental Practices), The International Air and Hospitality Academy (Washington Advance Award), M3 Biotechnology (Entrepreneur of the Year), and Energy Northwest (Employer of the Year).
Winners and finalists for last year’s inaugural Evening of Excellence awards were featured in the cover story in Washington Business magazine’s winter 2017 edition.
The Manufacturing Excellence awards, which will be presented during October’s Manufacturing Summit, has four categories:
Green Manufacturing Award — Given to a business that has maximized energy efficiency levels, gone above and beyond regulatory requirements, minimized waste from the production process and reduced its carbon footprint.
Operational Excellence Award — Recognizing a company that has a distinctive manufacturing process, including continuous improvement, innovations, lean and six sigma and/or application of high technology.
Innovation Award — Recognizing a company that has maintained a competitive advantage by utilizing innovation while remaining responsive to market demands.
Manufacturer of the Year Award — This premier award recognizes a company that has a commitment to business excellence, has found creative solutions to challenges that raise or enhance the industry standard, as well as involvement in state and/or local public policy issues that affect manufacturers.
The 2016 Manufacturing Excellence award winners were: Earth Friendly Products (Green Manufacturing), Rite in the Rain (Innovation), SGL Automotive Carbon Fibers (Operational Excellence), G. Loomis (Operational Excellence) and Nucor Steel Seattle (Manufacturer of the Year).
All awards are peer-reviewed by AWB member companies with expertise in the related award categories.
AWB has photo galleries of last year’s events and the 2016 Manufacturing Summit highlights video on its website.
To learn more about these awards and to download an application, visit the AWB awards page or contact Kelli Schueler at 360.943.1600.
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Posted in | Biofuels
Biofuel from Promising Feedstock can Enable Aircraft to Fly for Longer
Written by AZoCleantechSep 12 2017
One gallon of jet fuel is burnt by a Boeing 747 every second. A new analysis from Researchers at the University of Illinois estimate that this aircraft could fly for 10 hours on bio-jet fuel created on 54 acres of specially engineered sugarcane.
Deepak Kumar, a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Illinois, and Vijay Singh, Director of the Integrated Bioprocessing Research Laboratory, led work to show the economic viability of a promising new feedback to produce sustainable bio-jet fuel. (Credit - Claire Benjamin/University of Illinois)
Plants Engineered to Replace Oil in Sugarcane and Sweet Sorghum (PETROSS), funded by the Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E), has grown sugarcane that is capable of producing oil, called lipidcane that can be changed into biodiesel or jet fuel instead of sugar that is at present used for ethanol production. With 20% oil – the hypothetical limit – all of the sugar in the plant would be substituted by oil.
Oil-to-Jet is one of the direct and efficient routes to convert bio-based feedstocks to jet fuel. Reducing the feedstock cost is critical to improving process economics of producing bio-jet fuel. Lipidcane allows us to reduce feedstock cost.
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This research tested the economic viability of crops with varying levels of oil. Lipidcane with 5% oil generates four times more jet fuel (1,577 liters, or 416 gallons) per hectare than soybeans. Sugarcane with 20% oil creates over 15 times more jet fuel (6,307 liters, or 1,666 gallons) per hectare than soybeans.
“PETROSS sugarcane is also being engineered to be more cold tolerant, potentially enabling it to be grown on an estimated 23 million acres of marginal land in the Southeastern U.S.,” said PETROSS Director Stephen Long, Gutgsell Endowed Professor of Plant Biology and Crop Sciences at the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology at the University of Illinois. “If all of this acreage was used to produce renewable jet fuel from lipid-cane, it could replace about 65% of national jet fuel consumption.”
We estimate that this biofuel would cost the airline industry $5.31/gallon, which is less than most of the reported prices of renewable jet fuel produced from other oil crops or algae.
Deepak Kumar, Leader of the analysis and Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Illinois
This crop also creates lucrative co-products: A hydrocarbon fuel is created together with biodiesel or bio-jet fuel that can be used to create a variety of bioproducts. The remaining sugar (for plants with less than 20% oil) could be sold or used to create ethanol. Furthermore, biorefineries could use lipidcane bagasse to create steam and electricity to become self-sustainable for their energy requirements and provide extra electricity, providing environmental advantages by displacing electricity formed with fossil fuels.
Greg Vezina says:
Follow the money... Without subsidies and with the REAL life cycle costs included in the price NO BIO FUEL can compete with ammonia made from waste, or even renewable or fossil energy for any fuel use including AIRCRAFT for everything except long distance over seas use.
Comprehensive Evaluation of NH3 Production and Utilization Options for Clean Energy Applications
http://www.nh3fuel.com/images/documents/2017-03-25%20-%20MITACS-Final-Report-P3-IT08015.pdf
The opinions expressed here are the views of the writer and do not necessarily reflect the views and opinions of AZoCleantech.com.
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BHS Principal takes action in wake of gun activity
By Tracey Taylor March 28, 2011, 1:55 p.m. May 6, 2017
Berkeley High cafeteria
By Frances Dinkelspiel and Tracey Taylor
There were two on-campus gun incidents at Berkeley High last week, and police discovered an Oakland youth outside BHS on Friday afternoon carrying a gun, but Principal Pasquale Scuderi does not think gang activity or an intra-school beef is the reason for the recent spate of gun activity.
The three gun-related incidents last week appear to be unrelated, said Scuderi. Kids might be bringing guns to school because of the glamorous role guns have in our society, he said.
“I don’t buy that the only reason kids are carrying guns is for personal protection. I think there is some sort of fascination, a cultural fixation with firearms,” he said.
Pasquale Scuderi
On Friday, at about 4:15 p.m., police shut down the sidewalks on Milvia Street and closed the school’s east gates after a BHS teacher walking to his car noticed four youths gathered around the open trunk of a white Buick Park Avenue, according to Sgt. Mary Kusmiss of the Berkeley Police Department. The teacher then spotted what looked like a black semi-automatic handgun in the trunk and called 911.
When police arrived, they detained the four youths, three of whom were Berkeley High students, said Sgt. Kusmiss. They found an unloaded gun and a full magazine clip in the jacket of a 17-year old who was a student at Oakland Technical High School, along with $450 and marijuana that appeared to be for sale, she said. The youth, who told police he had a brother at Berkeley High, was arrested and booked on two felony counts, including carrying a gun near a school and intention to sell marijuana, she said. The three other youths, two boys and a girl, were questioned and released. The 17-year old told police that he had been hanging out and the three youths had come over to his car to say hello.
“The city of Berkeley Police Department does not have any specific information or intelligence that suggests there is a rivalry going on between schools,” said Sgt. Kusmiss.
Scuderi will be talking to parents about the gun situation at BHS tonight and what measures are being taken to improve safety at the school. The forum-style meeting is at 6:30 p.m. at the Berkeley High School Community Theater.
In the six days since two guns were discovered on campus, one of which was fired, Scuderi has been re-examining the school’s policy towards weapons and working with staff to craft a more comprehensive and effective approach to the problem.
In addition to bringing in more security staff, and talking to all the students about guns and the consequences of having them on campus, he is taking the following measures:
He has talked with Chief Michael Meehan of the Berkeley Police Department which is due to present a set of recommendations to the school on Wednesday.
He is conferring with his security staff to review school policy and practice. (There are about 12 security officers at BHS and one Berkeley police officer on campus four days a week.)
He met with staff on Thursday to review the protocol of responding to reports of a weapon. As a direct result of the meeting, the BHS teacher who spotted the gun in a car trunk on Friday called 911. In contrast, on Tuesday there was a delay before police responded because BHS staff called their supervisors before alerting security.
He has called for a meeting with other high-school principals, including some from Oakland, to find out how they deal with this problem.
He is working with student services to add additional supervision for students who are currently on probation.
He has spoken with Matthew Gold, the Alameda County Assistant District Attorney in charge of juvenile cases about better to identify kids who might cause trouble.
He has contacted Bay Area Peacekeepers, a group that has extensive experience dealing with conflicts and at-risk teenagers. Scuderi is hoping to have the organization hold focus groups with students.
Scuderi added that after the gun incidents, many parents called the school asking that metal detectors be considered at BHS. Scuderi said the school district plans to examine that option, as well as the idea of banning the wearing of gang colors, but that more information needs to be gathered. He needs to know how effective metal detectors are and how they impact the school environment.
“We are talking about a decision that would radically alter the logistics and culture of the school,” he said.
The school administration has talked to about half the student body so far about the fact that guns are not allowed on campus, and has spelled out the implications of bringing them in to school. Even though this has long been a school policy, Scuderi said he thinks teenagers need to hear this message repeatedly. At their age, some things that adults think are obvious may not be so clear to teenagers, he said.
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Driver rams U-Haul truck into Berkeley Apple store in burglary attempt
By Emilie Raguso Dec. 13, 2018, 11:07 a.m. December 13, 2018
BPD is looking into a burglary attempt at the Berkeley Apple store. Photo: BPD
A driver rammed a U-Haul truck into the front window of the Berkeley Apple store early Thursday morning, shattering the glass but failing to get inside, authorities report.
Scroll down for updates
Officer Byron White, Berkeley Police spokesman, said officers responded to 1823 Fourth St. just after 3:20 a.m. after getting alerts about burglar alarm activations there. Officers who arrived found an abandoned U-Haul truck with its engine still running.
BPD is looking into a burglary attempt at the Berkeley Apple store. Photos: BPD
The truck “had been driven into the glass front doors” of the business, White said. But an inner metal security gate was still intact, he added, “and it does not appear the suspect(s) were able to gain entry.”
Berkeley resident Russ Mitchell was at the shop Thursday morning at 10 and said customers were being told they could not pick up their orders. The storefront window was being replaced and workers inside were cleaning up.
Workers told Mitchell an “incident” had occurred but referred other questions to law enforcement.
Repairs are underway at the Berkeley Apple store Thursday after a burglary attempt. Photo: Russ Mitchell
A man who identified himself as the store manager, Ryan Caruth, told Mitchell the shop’s point-of-sale system was down so there was no way to do business.
As of 11:05 a.m., an automated message was greeting callers to the shop’s phone number: “Due to unforeseen circumstances, the Apple store is currently closed. We apologize for the inconvenience and look forward to reopening soon.”
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According to police radio traffic, two people ran from the truck after the crash. Berkeleyside has asked BPD for confirmation and about the status of the investigation.
The shop has been targeted repeatedly in the past by thieves and burglars. In 2014, thieves drove through the shop’s front window during a 3 a.m. smash-and-grab burglary. Several items were stolen.
Berkeleyside has asked BPD about other recent incidents at the shop. This story will be updated if that is provided.
Update, 1:05 p.m. BPD shared several photos of the burglary attempt but said no further information could be provided at this time.
Workers making repairs inside the Apple store Thursday afternoon. Photo: John Holland
Update, 3:55 p.m. BPD spokesman White told Berkeleyside there have been at least eight reported crimes at the Apple store this year: four grand thefts and two petty thefts, one fraud case and Thursday’s attempted burglary.
[This story was updated shortly after publication to include a link to the 2014 burglary. ]
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William Lundquist
William Lundquist is an intern at Berkeleyside for the summer of 2019. He is a Berkeley native and a third-year student pursuing a BA in English at UW-Madison. William writes for the arts section of Madison's student newspaper The Badger Herald and is an avid windsurfer, rugby player and musician.
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New picnic area, upgraded amphitheater anticipated for John Hinkel Park
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Susan O’Malley’s legacy lives on with art installation in downtown Berkeley
If you've been walking through Civic Center Park, you might have looked up and wondered about the three messages spelled out in bold capital letters on colorful panels perched atop an apartment building one block over.
Hip Hop For Change aims to empower and inspire
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Update: ‘Manhole’ will be ‘maintenance hole’ as city changes municipal code
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Berkeley to consider prohibiting natural gas in new buildings
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Leroy Moore is on a mission to showcase African disabled musicians
Through his Krip-Hop Nation organization, Moore brings a plethora of artists to the Ed Roberts Campus and other local venues with the Disabled African Musicians festival, starting Tuesday.
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East Bay fire agencies call for public self-defense: ‘It’s not if a fire occurs, but when’
After the most destructive year for wildfires in California history, local agencies urged residents to take simple preventative measures.
Berkeley animal shelter fills up as canine influenza spreads throughout Oakland shelters
Since the shelter is full, this would be an excellent — and helpful — time to adopt or foster a dog.
Rattlesnakes more active with warmer weather, naturalist warns
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The It List: Five things to do in Berkeley this weekend, June 14-16 (Thursday too!)
See a great concert film on an outdoor screen, celebrate 50 years of Pegasus Books, or renew your appreciation for the beauty of the bay. All this and more this weekend.
Berkeley High’s Ultimate Frisbee team takes home national title
It was the club's first appearance at the national championships and the players defeated the first seed to take the title.
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By: Donnielle Carter, Gary M. Douglas
Narrated by: Donnielle Carter
Categories: Health & Personal Development, Health & Fitness
By: Donnielle Carter,Gary M. Douglas
Money Isn't the Problem, You Are
By: Dain Heer, Gary M. Douglas
Narrated by: Connor Hill
This audiobook offers you out-of-the-box concepts with money. Money Isn't the Problem, You Are is written for people who live in a constant state of difficulty around money, whether it's spending too much, not having enough, or having too much. In Money Isn't the Problem, You Are, Gary Douglas and Dain Heer share processes, tools, and points of view that you can use to change the way money flows into your life.
Some good points, let down by ridiculous claims
By: Dr. Dain Heer, Gary M. Douglas
Narrated by: Megan Hill
What does money mean to you? Have you decided that money is more valuable than you? "Money is never the problem in our lives," says Gary Douglas. "It's about what we're willing to receive. And what we're willing to receive is just a choice." What are you choosing to receive? Are you choosing to have money in your life? What if generating money and having money was fun and joyful? What if, in having fun and joy with money, you receive more of it? What would that be like? Money follows joy; joy does not follow money.
Being You, Changing the World
By: Dr. Dain Heer
Narrated by: Dr. Dain Heer
This is a very different book: It is written for the dreamers of this world - the people who KNOW that something different is possible - but who have never had the tools before.... This is a Handbook for Generating Infinite Possibilities and Dynamic Change. For you. And the world. Ten years ago, Dr. Dain Heer started as a chiropractor in California, USA. Seemingly successful and happy, Dain Heer was on the verge of suicide when he came across Access Consciousness. With this modality, based on question and choice, Dr. Heer's life began to expand and grow with more ease and speed than even he could have imagined possible.
Life changer for sure
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How to Become Money Workbook
By: Gary M. Douglas
Access Consciousness founder Gary Douglas gives you information about how you can obtain greater clarity about money. Discover simple steps to get clarity, and learn how you can receive more money.
Must read for spiritually awakened
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Narrated by: Sul Wynne-Jones
Most people operate from a fixed idea or concept of how things are supposed to be, rather functioning in the moment, where they can change anything as needed to accomplish and create more. This creates a tremendous limitation. We use conceptual constructs to create a purpose and a sense of rightness. Relationship, sex, sexuality, family, and the future are examples of conceptual constructs. Society is a construct. Culture, religion, and reputation are constructs. These things are not actually real; they are conceptual realities that have been dropped into our existence.
Getting Out of Debt Joyfully
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Narrated by: Simone Milasas
Simone Milasas was $187,000 in debt when she realized she needed to make a big change. With the help of the tools featured in this audiobook, she was totally out of debt within two years. Simone's point of view - No one should have a money problem. This audiobook will support you in creating massive amounts of change and invite you to create massive amounts of money. Getting Out of Debt Joyfully is the beginning of a totally different possibility.
Who'd imagine anything with Debt could be Joyful?!
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Talk to the Entities
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Narrated by: Max Zoulek
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Amazing inspiring stories but not so practical
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Narrated by: Suzy Godsey
alk to the Animals by Gary M. Douglas & Dr. Dain Heer gives you pragmatic tools and techniques to actually talk to the animals and contribute to the earth! What if peace was a natural state for animals? When you create or tap into a place of peace for your horse, dog or cat, then everything becomes calm, cool and collected...you're in the zone. Did you know that every animal, plant and structure on this planet has consciousness and desires to gift to you? If you are unwilling to receive, then you miss out on what they wish to give you. You also limit your ability to receive in every area of life...the money you can have, what you can experience and what is possible for you! Did you know animals can talk? It's interesting to observe animals misbehaving when we don't listen to them.
Would You Teach a Fish to Climb a Tree?
A Different Take on Kids with ADD, ADHD, OCD, and Autism
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Narrated by: Anne Maxwell
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This is not a helpful book.
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What if BUSINESS was JOYFUL and FUN? What if it was so much more than you ever perceived possible? If you were creating your business from the JOY of it - what would you choose? What would you change? What would you choose if you knew you could not fail? Business is JOY, it's creation, it's generative. It can be the adventure of LIVING. Australia's Simone Milasas is a dynamic business leader with a difference. She is the worldwide coordinator of Access Consciousness (www.accessconsciousness.com), the founder of Good Vibes For You (www.goodvibesforyou.com), and the creative spark that ignited The Joy of Business.
I got this book 2 days ago and I am truly amazed
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Narrated by: Gary M. Douglas
As Jake Rayne travels through Idahaho in his classic '57 Thunderbird, a devastating accident is the catalyst for a journey he isn't expecting. Alone in the deep forest, with his body battered and broken, Jake calls out for help. And the help he finds changes not only his life but his whole reality.
Fantastic story but very poorly read.
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The Lies of Money: Who Are You Being?
By: Dr. Lisa Cooney
Narrated by: Dr. Lisa Cooney
The Lies of Money: Who are you Being? is dedicated to all of you out there struggling with money. To all of you feeling like the debt or financial worry you are in is a big black hole that you will never climb out of or get beyond. You can have the living you desire. You can create the money, cash, currencies, investments, and vacations you like.
Radically Alive: Beyond Abuse
Would you like to know how to transition from abuse and trauma into radical aliveness? This audiobook by number-one international best seller Dr. Lisa Cooney will allow you to not only overcome an abusive past but also propel you beyond anything that has stopped you from full-out living thus far. You will get a glimpse into the change that can actually help you move through your limitations and into creation, possibility, and hope. Your life may never be the same.
Living from a Place of Surrender
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By: Michael A. Singer
Narrated by: Michael A. Singer
In 2017, Sounds True launched the first-ever online course with Michael A. Singer, the best-selling author of The Untethered Soul and The Surrender Experiment. The program features eight profound and inspiring all-new sessions drawn from Singer’s 50 years as a spiritual teacher (and a highly successful business entrepreneur). Living from a Place of Surrender brings you the same perspective-shifting, spiritually liberating teaching sessions for letting go of stress and fear and aligning with the flow of life in the moment.
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By: Dr. Sue Morter DC, Jill Bolte Taylor PhD - foreword
Narrated by: Dr. Sue Morter DC
Transform your life with this revolutionary and accessible seven-step guide - grounded in energy medicine, neurobiology, and quantum physics - to awaken your true health and potential through energy healing.
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It's Not Your Money
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By: Tosha Silver
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Tosha Silver, internationally beloved spiritual guide, has created a practical and powerful financial audiobook unlike any other. Leading you through a deeply transformative eight-week process, she shares the mental, emotional, and spiritual steps that anyone can take to learn to fully receive and prosper. Her step-by-step guidance is filled with prayers, meditations, and stories to help you find and heal the source of these fears and unworthiness.
Brilliant. A must read.
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Zero Limits
The Secret Hawaiian System for Wealth, Health, Peace, and More
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Narrated by: Joe Vitale, Ihaleakala Hew Len
If it seems like you work hard but never get anywhere, maybe the problem is something within you. Maybe the limitations holding you back come from inside you, not from the outside world. Zero Limits presents a proven way to break through those self-imposed limitations to achieve more in life than you ever dreamed.
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By: Dawson Church
Narrated by: Dawson Church
The idea that “thoughts become things” has become a meme in popular culture. It’s held as a firm proposition in metaphysics, and some spiritual teachers ascribe infinite powers to the mind. But are these claims scientifically accurate? What does the scientific evidence tell us about the scope of the human mind to transform thoughts into reality?
By VS on 03-09-18
What would it be like to begin enjoying your body no matter what size, shape, age, or fitness? Isn't it time to stop the patterns and habits with your body that keep you stuck? Is your body an ease or burden? This is a very different perspective about bodies and your ability to change yours. It might all be easier than you ever knew was possible!
©2012 Donnielle Carter & Gary M. Douglas (P)2018 Donnielle Carter
Loved it totally
I love every word of this... this makes a lot of sense and stuff in it is practical and make sense..
Passion for Books
Very interesting and insightful book.
I love the part about money and your body. The chapter on repetitive patterns was very interesting and enlightening too!
Adriana R Goldman
Your body your buddy !
So many insights , so my wonderful tools!
Narrator awesome!
Blow away!!!
So grateful seriously!
I’m returning, the narrator’s raspy, creaky voice is not a good match for me. I will read the book, it has helped so may of my friends.
Refresh my body and me
I enjoyed listening to this book very much, which gives a new strength and energy to my body. Additional, I know more about the relationship of my body and me. That is I really know who am I, and I truly love myself.
brilliant work.
I absolutely loved this book and will continue to use the clearing statements. Thank you
I will be rereading this book and creating clearing loops from it. Hugely valuable! It was difficult at first to listen to the narrator's voice, but the subject matter is amazing, and I was able to move past it.
Amazing contents, a variety of tools, and great narration. Donielle offers a powerful experience of this amazing Gary M. Douglas book.
I just love this book
every time I listen to this book I hear new things :) i learn from it every time. thank you so much.
Scott larson
Very good ! Listen more than once!
A great "outside the box" look at your relationship with your body! I highly recommend listening more than once!
Brainwashing form of healing
Very repetitive, as the ideas are few and superficially developed. This book is part of a larger energy clearing system "pod poc .... shorts boys and beyond..." etc. If it works for you than this applies that system to living more in tne with your body.
I found some ideas helpful. I did listen through the very few, long, retellings of personal anecdotal evidence and have not been able to finnish the last 3 hours of the book.
Very eye opening!
I love this book. I resonate with all the things said. I don’t believe in diets and I think our bodies are our creation. I started using some of the tools suggested in the book and it is eye opening to see how much wisdom my body has, and how my body’s requirements defer from what my mind things should be done. It’s liberating! I don’t need to worry about doing the “right thing”. All I need to do is listen to my body. It knows what to do!
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Witch World
By: Andre Norton
Narrated by: Nick Podehl
Series: Witch World, Book 1
Categories: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Classic Sci-Fi
Debt of Bones
By: Terry Goodkind
Narrated by: Sam Tsoutsouvas
A milestone of storytelling set in the world of The Sword of Truth, Debt of Bones is the story of young Abby's struggle to win the aid of the wizard Zedd Zorander, the most important man alive. Abby is trapped, not only between both sides of the war, but in a mortal conflict between two powerful men. For Zedd, who commands power most men can only imagine, granting Abby's request would mean forsaking his sacred duty. With the storm of the final battle about to save the life of a child....
By StuartJAtkinson on 04-07-15
By: Raymond E. Feist
Narrated by: Peter Joyce
Here starts an adventure that will span lifetimes and worlds. Discover where the story begins. Raymond E. Feist is an internationally best-selling author. My name is Pug. I was once an orphaned kitchen boy, with no family and no prospects, but I am destined to become a master magician…War is coming to the Kingdom of the Isles from another world, bringing with it chaos and destruction.
A classic fantasy adventure
By Simon on 26-08-15
New Spring
A Wheel of Time Prequel
By: Robert Jordan
Narrated by: Kate Reading, Michael Kramer
For three days battle has raged in the snow around the great city of Tar Valon. In the city, a foretelling of the future is uttered. On the slopes of Dragonmount, the immense mountain that looms over the city, a child is born, an infant prophesied to change the world. That child must be found before he can be killed by the forces of the Shadow.
The beginning of the wheel's turn
By Rp Trelfa on 21-06-11
Wandfasted
By: Laurie Forest
Narrated by: Jesse Vilinsky
Magic, romance, and adventure collide in Wandfasted, the irresistible prequel to The Black Witch: When they painted Heretics on our barn and set fire to it, I thought that was the worst it could get. Until they sent the dragons. But they didn't count on us having dragons of our own. And they certainly didn't count on Her. Our Great Mage. The Bringer of Fire. The Storm of Death. The Crow Sorceress. Our Deliverance. The Black Witch.
Romancing the Inventor
A Supernatural Society Novella
By: Gail Carriger
Narrated by: Emma Newman
Imogene Hale is a lowly parlor maid with a soul-crushing secret. Seeking solace, she takes work at a local hive, only to fall desperately in love with the amazing lady inventor the vampires are keeping in the potting shed. Genevieve Lefoux is heartsick, lonely, and French. With culture, class, and the lady herself set against the match, can Imogene and her duster overcome all odds and win Genevieve's heart, or will the vampires suck both of them dry?
An excellent short story
By Claire on 05-08-18
Book One of The Custard Protocol
Narrated by: Moira Quirk
On behalf of queen, country...and the perfect pot of tea. When Prudence Alessandra Maccon Akeldama (Rue to her friends) is given an unexpected dirigible, she does what any sensible female would under similar circumstances - names it the Spotted Crumpet and floats to India in pursuit of the perfect cup of tea. But India has more than just tea on offer. Rue stumbles upon a plot involving local dissidents, a kidnapped brigadier's wife, and some awfully familiar Scottish werewolves.
great continuation
By Mathias on 01-05-15
By: Theodora Goss
Narrated by: Kate Reading
Mary Jekyll, alone and penniless following her parents' deaths, is curious about the secrets of her father's mysterious past. One clue in particular hints that Edward Hyde, her father's former friend and a murderer, may be nearby, and there is a reward for information leading to his capture...a reward that would solve all of her immediate financial woes. But her hunt leads her to Hyde's daughter, Diana, a feral child left to be raised by nuns.
By elly gausden on 09-11-17
Valdemar: Family Spies, Book 1
By: Mercedes Lackey
In this new series, set in the bestselling world of Valdemar, Heralds Mags and Amily must continue to protect the realm of Valdemar while raising their children and preparing them to follow in their footsteps.
Mags, Herald Spy of Valdemar, and his wife, Amily, the King’s Own Herald, are happily married with three kids. The oldest, Peregrine, has the Gift of Animal Mindspeech—he can talk to animals and persuade them to act as he wishes. Perry's dream is to follow in his father's footsteps as a Herald Spy, but he has yet to be Chosen by a Companion.
I love these books!<br />
By Vanessa on 13-12-19
The Riven Gates, Book 1
By: Michael G. Manning
Narrated by: Alex Wyndham
Years have passed since the last of the Dark Gods was defeated, and Lothion has entered an age of peace and prosperity. Mordecai’s oldest children have already begun to make a place for themselves, and his youngest are on the cusp of adulthood. By every outward measure, his life has been a success; he has earned his reward. However, Tyrion, the first wizard and brutal liberator of mankind, has returned with an agenda of his own, and dark things continue to stir at the edges of civilization, threatening to undo Mordecai’s accomplishments.
This narrator and this writer are perfect!
By Kristen Herburger on 30-08-18
Dragonsong: Harper Hall Trilogy, Volume 1
By: Anne McCaffrey
Narrated by: Sally Darling
Dragonsong is the spellbinding tale of Menolly of Half Circle Hold, a brave young girl who flees her seaside village and discovers the legendary fire lizards of Pern. All her life, Menolly has longed to learn the ancient secrets of the Harpers, the master musicians of Harper Hall. When her stern father denies her the chance to make her dream come true, Menolly runs away from home. Hiding in a cave by the sea, she finds nine magical fire lizards who join her on a breathtaking journey to Harper Hall.
Terrible Narration
By Mrs S on 28-07-14
The Crown Tower
The Riyria Chronicles, Book 1
By: Michael J. Sullivan
Narrated by: Tim Gerard Reynolds
Michael J. Sullivan garnered critical raves and a massive readership for his Riyria Revelations series. The first book in his highly anticipated Riyria Chronicles series of prequels, The Crown Tower brings together warrior Hadrian Blackwater with thieving assassin Royce Melborn. The two form a less-than-friendly pairing, but the quest before them has a rare prize indeed, and if they can breach the supposedly impregnable walls of the Crown Tower, their names will be legend.
I'm too old to enjoy this, but I did...
By Chris Payne on 27-01-19
The Christmas Hirelings
By: Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Narrated by: Jennifer Saunders
A heartwarming festive tale of redemption and cheer, The Christmas Hirelings is the story of a lonely widower who reluctantly invites a group of children to his manor for Christmas. It showcases the benefits of opening your doors and hearts during the holiday season.
Loved it! What a wonderful Christmas tale.
By Helen SJ on 17-12-18
Andre Norton enthralled readers for decades with thrilling tales of people challenged to the limits of their endurance in epic battles of good against evil. None are more memorable than her Witch World novels.
Simon Tregarth, a man from our own world, escapes his doom through the gates to the Witch World. There he aids the witch Jaelithe's escape from the hounds of Alizon, only to find himself embroiled in a deeper war against an even deadlier foe: the Kolder.
©1986 Andre Norton (P)2010 Brilliance Audio, Inc.
The Time Traders
Web of the Witch World
The Sixth Strand
Fate of the Fallen
Nile_Etland
Good, but could have been better.
Andre Norton was a writer with tremendous powers of invention. The performance wasn't bad, but it could have been better; many of the readers of audio books have a tendency to rush the narrative - as is the case here.
In addition I found the pronunciation of some of the names a bit weird, Yle is unpronounceable - lacking guidance from Ms Norton I'd guess that the first letter could be pronounced 'Yee' or something similar, but Wily?? It made me think of the road-runner and Wily Coyote - beep beep!
love a witch world series hope they will make more audiobooks some day. guy performing is a bit dull tho
witch world read and read
What made the experience of listening to Witch World the most enjoyable?
I had, many years ago, been an avid reader of Andre Norton and this was the first I read. It was fascinating to listen to another's way of reading the book. It was as exciting as I remember and it is a good once only read.
The story was an old favourite but it was nice to be read too.
Which character – as performed by Nick Podehl – was your favourite?
Tho' the accent was not as my mind had immagined, it was the way Nick narrated the whole book that made the story relive in my mind.
Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?
My intention was to listen in small sessions, whilst driving but the style of reading ensured that I listened to the complete book much faster than I intended!!
It has confirmed my wish to buy the other books in the series and the other books by the author.
Lo-o-o-ove Andre Norton
I was introduced to Andre Norton a few months ago, and this has reopened my love for old-fashioned sci-fi... The twists, the imagination - wow... Love the different style that Andre Norton adopts.
I love driving, but now I love the audio books that go with the trip :) This is simply a "must-have" for your audio library...
I had read the Witch World books many years ago and enjoyed them at that time. The enjoyment of the series has been rekindled with this audio version. It was enjoyable to be reintroduced to Simon Tregarath and the Witches of Estcarp. I hope that a number of the other books are brought out. The narrator does a wonderful job with reading the book.
12 of 13 people found this review helpful
Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?
I am so thrilled to find that Audiobooks has the first three books in the Witch World series!!!! I owned the collection years ago, and just dearly loved the stories. However, time passes, and I no longer have the collection (my bad). Thank you, Thank you, Audible, for carrying these awesome stories!!! I am soooo looking forward to hearing my old friends spring back to life!
What other book might you compare Witch World to and why?
There is no comparison. Andre Norton ROCKS!!!
I just could not tell you. From the aeries to the runes to the ancient places of power, the adventures the characters go on enthrall me and hold me spell-bound.
Sure wish these books would be made into movies. They would be AWESOME!!! Harry Potter has NOTHING on Witch World!!!
Witch World on audio!
Andre Norton's Witch World series is one of my favorites. I have enjoyed her books for over 40 years and was very happy to see the first three books of the Witch World series show up on audio. I'd be thrilled if more of her books came to Audible. (Note to Audible: Please release more of Andre's books. : ) I read a lot of her books, and it was wonderful to return to this world via audio.
The Witch World is a mix of fantasy and science fiction. It has magic and technology, travel between worlds, and good versus evil. It has strong male AND female characters-this was NOT a common occurrence in 1963 when this book was written. #GoodVsEvil #MagicSystems #PortalFantasy #Magical #HappyEnding #Tagsgiving #Sweepstakes
A sci-fi classic or is that sci-fantasy?
With the benefit of 20-20 hindsight it is easy to say how could anyone not know author Andre Norton was a woman? There is a lyricism to the prose and a subtle focus upon issues of control and power that only a woman of Norton's era (or perhaps any era) could fully appreciate and covertly address. The story is straightforward adventure without many big surprises, but this classic conflict of magic versus a mechanistic society still endures and intrigues, setting the stage for a franchise that only gets better as it goes.
Amy I. Browning
Classic Andre Norton - superb
Engaging with Norton's sweeping and detailed style of storytelling. Very well read. Captivates the imagination.
Which World?
I know I read this book when I was a child, but I don’t remember anything about it. So everything is new to me as I listen to the book. I’m about 2 hours in & I’m not going to be able to finish. 1st, there are too many weird(invented) place & people names that I can’t remember very well when I’m only hearing the names rather than reading the text. They just go in 1 ear & out the other. And the 2nd major thing is, the world Simon escapes to is at war. There is no build up or even any explanation of why they are at war, they just are. Plus there are time jumps that are not adequately accounted for. Just all of a sudden, it’s 7 years later. Maybe I wasn’t so critical as a child, but I just can’t listen to the rest.
I just couldn't keep listening
What could have made this a 4 or 5-star listening experience for you?
I think the best thing that could have been done would be to change the narrator. I just couldn't listen to this narration. It was very irritating and grating and quite monotone. I listen to LOTS of audiobooks and love them but I only made it to Chapter 6 and I just couldn't listen anymore.
What do you think your next listen will be?
Another Patrick Rothfuss....I was very impressed.
What didn’t you like about Nick Podehl’s performance?
monotone, no real emotion, grating and irritating
What reaction did this book spark in you? Anger, sadness, disappointment?
annoyance and disappointment that I had wasted money on it.
favorite book for years<br />
I I read this book many years ago when I was pretty young and it became one of my favorite books and gave me a lifelong love of Science Fiction. bring up in a time where women were expected to fit in very strict guidelines and the Andre Norton books were the first books that taught me that we could be whatever we wanted to be she writes with a beautiful and gentle Magic.
My favorite fanrasy series
Witch World is my favorite fantasy series and one of the best series of Andre Norton.
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Wait Till Next Year
A Memoir
By: Doris Kearns Goodwin
Narrated by: Doris Kearns Goodwin
Categories: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs
4.5 out of 5 stars 4.4 (59 ratings)
No Ordinary Time
Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II
Narrated by: Nelson Runger
No Ordinary Time describes how the isolationist and divided United States of 1940 was unified under the extraordinary leadership of Franklin Roosevelt to become the preeminent economic and military power in the world.
Great at 1.5 speed
By Brett on 01-04-13
Narrated by: Beau Bridges, David Morse, Jay O. Sanders, and others
Are leaders born or made? Where does ambition come from? How does adversity affect the growth of leadership? Does the man make the times or do the times make the man? In Leadership, Goodwin draws upon four of the presidents she has studied most closely - Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Lyndon B. Johnson (in civil rights) - to show how they first recognized leadership qualities within themselves, and were recognized by others as leaders.
What makes a president great?
By tru britty on 09-25-18
Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream
The Most Revealing Portrait of a President and Presidential Power Ever Written
Narrated by: Gabra Zackman, Jim Frangione
Doris Kearns Goodwin's classic life of Lyndon Johnson, who presided over the Great Society, the Vietnam War, and other defining moments in the tumultuous 1960s, is a monument in political biography. From the moment the author, then a young woman from Harvard, first encountered President Johnson at a White House dance in the spring of 1967, she became fascinated by the man - his character, his enormous energy and drive, and his manner of wielding these gifts in an endless pursuit of power.
Unfortunately simple slant.
By Lynda Rands on 01-22-17
Team of Rivals
The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
On May 18, 1860, William H. Seward, Salmon P. Chase, Edward Bates, and Abraham Lincoln waited in their hometowns for the results from the Republican National Convention in Chicago. When Lincoln emerged as the victor, his rivals were dismayed and angry. Throughout the turbulent 1850s, each had energetically sought the presidency as the conflict over slavery was leading inexorably to secession and civil war.
Lincoln Comes Alive Through His Realtionships
By Wolfpacker on 06-22-15
Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism
Narrated by: Edward Herrmann
Goodwin describes the broken friendship between Teddy Roosevelt and his chosen successor, William Howard Taft. With the help of the "muckraking" press, Roosevelt had wielded the Bully Pulpit to challenge and triumph over abusive monopolies, political bosses, and corrupting money brokers. Roosevelt led a revolution that he bequeathed to Taft only to see it compromised as Taft surrendered to money men and big business. The rupture led Roosevelt to run against Taft for president, an ultimately futile race that gave power away to the Democrats.
Wow! Patience Rewarded!
By Carole T. on 01-22-14
The Fifties
By: David Halberstam
The Fifties is a sweeping social, political, economic, and cultural history of the 10 years that Halberstam regards as seminal in determining what our nation is today. Halberstam offers portraits of not only the titans of the age: Eisenhower, Dulles, Oppenheimer, MacArthur, Hoover, and Nixon; but also of Harley Earl, who put fins on cars; Dick and Mac McDonald and Ray Kroc, who mass-produced the American hamburger; Kemmons Wilson, who placed his Holiday Inns along the nation's roadsides; and more.
one of the very best
By Portsman on 09-25-18
The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West
By: David McCullough
Narrated by: John Bedford Lloyd
Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David McCullough rediscovers an important and dramatic chapter in the American story - the settling of the Northwest Territory by dauntless pioneers who overcame incredible hardships to build a community based on ideals that would come to define our country.
Left me wanting more!
By Sandra on 05-16-19
The American Story
Conversations with Master Historians
By: David M. Rubenstein, Carla Hayden - foreword
Narrated by: David M. Rubenstein, David McCullough, Walter Isaacson, and others
Through his popular program The David Rubenstein Show, David Rubenstein has established himself as one of today’s most thoughtful interviewers. Now, in The American Story, David shares almost a dozen interviews that capture the brilliance of today’s most esteemed historians, as well as the souls of their subjects. The audiobook presents archival recordings of these interviews and features new introductions by Rubenstein as well as a foreword by Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden, the first woman and the first African American to lead our national library.
The audiobook is missing important conversations.
By Heather on 11-07-19
Life Isn't Everything
Mike Nichols, as Remembered by 150 of His Closest Friends
By: Ash Carter, Sam Kashner
Narrated by: Stephen Bel Davies, Suzanne Toren
The work of Mike Nichols pervades American cultural consciousness - from The Graduate and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? to Angels in America, The Birdcage, Working Girl, and Primary Colors, not to mention his string of hit plays, including Barefoot in the Park and The Odd Couple. Over a career that spanned half a century, Mike Nichols changed Hollywood, Broadway, and comedy forever. Here, for the first time, Ash Carter and Sam Kashner offer an intimate look behind the scenes of Nichols' life.
Best audiobook in recent memory
By Cat on 01-10-20
Triumphs and Tragedies at the Founding of the Republic
By: Joseph J. Ellis
Narrated by: John H. Mayer
From the first shots fired at Lexington to the signing of the Declaration of Independence to the negotiations for the Louisiana Purchase, Joseph J. Ellis guides us through the decisive issues of the nation's founding, and illuminates the emerging philosophies, shifting alliances, and personal and political foibles of our now iconic leaders: Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Hamilton, and Adams.
Good But Not Quite There
By Slide01 on 06-02-13
Songs of America
Patriotism, Protest, and the Music That Made a Nation
By: Jon Meacham, Tim McGraw
Narrated by: Jon Meacham, Tim McGraw
From “The Star-Spangled Banner” to “Born in the USA”, Jon Meacham and Tim McGraw take listeners on a moving and insightful journey through eras in American history and the songs and performers that inspired us. Meacham chronicles our history, exploring the stories behind the songs, and Tim McGraw reflects on them as an artist and performer. Their perspectives combine to create a unique view of the role music has played in uniting and shaping a nation.
Great Book & Storytelling, Wish Songs Were Sung
By Caitlin Rabideau on 06-13-19
By: Sarah M. Broom
Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
In 1961, Sarah M. Broom’s mother Ivory Mae bought a shotgun house in the then-promising neighborhood of New Orleans East and built her world inside of it. It was the height of the Space Race and the neighborhood was home to a major NASA plant - the postwar optimism seemed assured. A book of great ambition, Sarah M. Broom’s The Yellow House tells a hundred years of her family and their relationship to home in a neglected area of one of America’s most mythologized cities.
By: Max Byrd
Narrated by: Natasha Soudek
Can a young war correspondent find herself and follow her heart? In this work of historical fiction, 20-something Annabella “Annie” March arrives in France in 1944 intending to write about the war. Soon, however, Annie begins to distance herself from her sometimes-mentor, sometimes-rival - the great Martha Gellhorn - and Gellhorn’s larger-than-life husband, the novelist Ernest Hemingway. She turns to photography in the hopes of making her own name and, to her delight, discovers that images come more easily than words.
good story, lousy narration
By Rosalind on 12-13-19
The Soul of America
The Battle for Our Better Angels
By: Jon Meacham
Narrated by: Fred Sanders, Jon Meacham
Our current climate of partisan fury is not new, and in The Soul of America Meacham shows us how what Abraham Lincoln called the “better angels of our nature” have repeatedly won the day. Painting surprising portraits of Lincoln and other presidents, including Ulysses S. Grant, Theodore Roosevelt, and LBJ, and illuminating the courage of influential citizen activists and civil rights pioneers, Meacham brings vividly to life turning points in American history. Each of these dramatic hours have been shaped by the contest to lead the country to look forward rather than back.
He takes the long view, displays pattern,Hopeful
By zachary on 07-04-18
By: Simon Rich
Narrated by: Scott Aiello, Beck Bennett
Before he was “Babe” or “The Sultan of Swat” or “The Great Bambino”, George Herman Ruth was just another teenage misfit at St. Mary’s School for Boys. But Ruth has something the other boys don’t, and when Baltimore Orioles manager Jack Dunn watches him throw a baseball over a building, Ruth gets the chance to punch his ticket out of the orphanage. All he has to do now is make the team.
Well that was horrible
By Erik_L on 07-06-19
Franklin and Winston
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill were the greatest leaders of "the Greatest Generation." Jon Meacham explores the fascinating relationship between the two men who piloted the free world to victory in World War II. It was a crucial friendship, and a unique one: a president and a prime minister spending enormous amounts of time together and exchanging nearly two thousand messages.
Franklin and Winston Review
By Ronald Hull on 01-29-04
By: Hillary Rodham Clinton, Chelsea Clinton
Narrated by: Hillary Rodham Clinton, Chelsea Clinton
Hillary Rodham Clinton and her daughter, Chelsea, share the stories of the gutsy women who have inspired them - women with the courage to stand up to the status quo, ask hard questions, and get the job done.
Great Book...so many gutsy women
By Pam S on 10-21-19
The Big Fella
Babe Ruth and the World He Created
By: Jane Leavy
Narrated by: Jane Leavy, Fred Sanders
After hitting his 60th home run in September 1927, Ruth embarked on the mother of all barnstorming tours, a three-week victory lap across America, accompanied by Yankee teammate Lou Gehrig. In The Big Fella, acclaimed biographer Jane Leavy recreates that 21-day circus and in so doing captures the romp and the pathos that defined Ruth’s life and times. Drawing from more than 250 interviews, a trove of previously untapped documents, and Ruth family records, Leavy breaks through the mythology that has obscured the legend and delivers the man.
Babe Ruth and American History
By A. L. Katz on 10-21-18
Set in the suburbs of New York in the 1950s, Wait Till Next Year is Doris Kearns Goodwin's touching memoir of growing up in love with her family and baseball. She re-creates the postwar era, when the corner store was a place to share stories and neighborhoods were equally divided between Dodger, Giant, and Yankee fans.
We meet the people who most influenced Goodwin's early life: her mother, who taught her the joy of reading but whose debilitating illness left her housebound, and her father, who taught her the joy of baseball and to root for the Dodgers of Jackie Robinson, Roy Campanella, Pee Wee Reese, Duke Snider, and Gil Hodges. Goodwin describes with eloquence how the Dodgers' departure from Brooklyn in 1957, and the death of her mother soon after, marked both the end of an era and, for her, the end of childhood.
Catch all of our baseball titles.
©1997 by Blithedale Productions Inc. All Rights Reserved, including the right of reproduction in whole or in part in any form (P)1997 Simon and Schuster Inc. All Rights Reserved
"Ms. Goodwin has...made familiar events seem fresh again, as if they were happening for the first time only a couple of days ago." (The New York Times)
"A poignant memoir...marvelous...Goodwin shifts gracefully between a child's recollection and an adult's overview." (San Francisco Chronicle Book Review)
Wait Til Next Year
Great story, especially if you loved baseball as a kid.
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Herbal cannabis charges dropped against mechanic
Ballymena Courthouse. INBT02-213AC
Published: 10:02 Sunday 02 April 2017
A mechanic accused of a link to a £300,000 15-kilo cannabis haul seized in a lorry in Co Antrim has had the two charges he faced withdrawn.
25-year-old James Daniel Kennedy, of Adelaide Road in the Kensington area of Liverpool, had been charged with supplying herbal cannabis and being concerned in the supply of herbal cannabis on May 7 last year.
At Ballymena Magistrates Court on Thursday a prosecutor said they were offering no evidence and were withdrawing the charges.
The accused was not present in court as he had previously been excused from attending.
Kennedy was released on bail at Belfast High Court in January after being remanded in custody at his first court hearing in Ballymena on Saturday January 14.
On January 14, Ballymena Magistrates Court heard £2 million worth of drugs has been seized from an organised crime gang in England suspected of supplying Northern Irish lorry drivers with herbal cannabis to bring across the Irish Sea and then move it into the Republic of Ireland.
The comment was made by a police officer when Kennedy was refused bail in relation to the discovery of £300,000 worth of herbal cannabis found at Moorfields Road between Larne and Ballymena last May.
Police arrested Kennedy in January this year after he flew into Manchester Airport from Barcelona and he was taken to Northern Ireland for questioning.
Opposing bail on January 14 the officer said police believe an “organised crime gang in England is supplying lorry drivers from Northern Ireland with herbal cannabis. They are bringing it in to Northern Ireland and supplying it to the Republic of Ireland.”
She said three arrests had been made in connection with seizures of £2 million worth of drugs.
The officer said a Northern Ireland lorry driver was stopped at Moorfields Road last year and £300,000 worth of cannabis was recovered in a box and claimed investigations forensically linked Kennedy with a “fingerprint to the box”.
On January 14, a defence solicitor said the Moorfields Road herbal cannabis was in sealed bags and there was none of his client’s DNA on them but the police officer alleged Kennedy was linked by his fingerprint on an outer box.
Kennedy’s solicitor told the January court his client “gave an innocent explanation” that he handled boxes during his work as a car mechanic.
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About Banff
Housing in Banff
Future Housing Developments
Landlord and Tenant Information
Need-to-Reside Criteria
Community Housing Strategy
Homeless to Housing Coalition
Renting in Banff
Ti'nu Affordable Apartment Complex
Ti'nu is an affordable apartment complex on Coyote Lane operated by the Banff Housing Corporation. Occupancy was July 1, 2018. Rental applications are available.
Learn more about the Ti'nu Affordable Apartment Complex
Links to Rental Listings
Banff/Canmore Kijiji
Advertisements in the two locals papers, the Rocky Mountain Outlook and the Bow Valley Crag and Canyon.
Property management companies like Peka and Asset West will rent properties, or have a waiting list of prospective renters.
Bow Valley Home Finder on Facebook
In a small town like Banff, word-of-mouth is still one of the best ways to find a place. Tell everyone you meet you're looking to rent, and have them spread the word. Some landlords won't advertise their rentals, preferring instead to rent to someone they know, or someone recommended to them.
Some real estate agents in Banff also manage rental properties, and it's worth it to check with each if they have anything available, or if they maintain a waiting list. You'll be asked to show proof of employment in Banff to ensure you meet the need-to-reside, and many require references from past landlords before showing properties. To ensure a smooth process, have contact information from past landlords available when you're looking for an apartment.
Many businesses in town have housing available for staff, and this is generally the best way to find a place to live when you're new to town. They're often less expensive than renting on your own and most staff accommodations are already furnished. When applying for a job, ask about the availability of staff housing.
Job Resource Centre Staff Housing Guide
Banff’s next affordable housing development will be a price-restricted home ownership project on Banff Avenue. Council directed administration to prepare a detailed scope of work report on the construction of about 29 entry-level units at 338/340 Banff Avenue.
Learn more about the Banff Avenue Affordable Housing Development
Housing is a council priority. Supplying a mix of affordable housing options to ensure those working in Banff live in Banff is part of The Banff Community Plan. Sign up to receive updates about housing projects.
Banff Housing Corporation
The Banff Housing Corporation (BHC) is an arm's length, non-profit organization of the Town of Banff. Its mission is to help the town maintain a healthy and balanced community by offering both price restricted and equity share home ownership.
In order to buy a BHC home, you must first be on the Registered Resale List. The list awards points to potential buyers and those with the most points are contacted first when a property becomes available. A non-refundable administrative fee of $50 must be paid when submitting your application.
There are several Banff-based real estate agents who can help you find listings on the open market. Banff Lake Louise Tourism maintains a list of real estate agents in Banff.
Real Estate Agents in Banff
Landlord and tenant rights in Alberta can differ from other provinces and countries. As a tenant, you should educate yourself on your rights and responsibilities when renting a home or apartment.
Residential Tenancy Act of Alberta (PDF)
Tip sheet for tenants from Service Alberta (PDF)
Renting info and tenancy disputes/offences information from Service Alberta
Types of rental agreements
Innkeepers Act (PDF)
Checklist for Tenants (PDF)
Leases and Agreements
Landlord Tips
Eight Rules for Smart Landlords (PDF)
Roommate and Subletting Agreements
Roommates and Subletting
Sample Roommate Agreement (PDF)
Sample Living with your Landlord Agreement (PDF)
There are a number of health and safety standards for housing in Alberta. The following are from Alberta Health Services to educate both tenants and landlords as to their rights and responsibilities.
Minimum Housing and Health Standards (PDF)
Rental Housing and Health in Alberta (PDF)
Bedbugs brochure (PDF)
Emergency Egress (PDF)
In order to live in Banff, you need to work in Banff. It's a Parks Canada regulation to make sure housing is available to the people who work in the community, so it isn't used as vacation properties or second homes.
According to the National Parks Lease and License of Occupation Regulations an eligible resident is defined as:
(a) an individual whose primary employment is in the park,
(b) an individual who operates a business in the park and whose presence at the place of business is necessary for the day-to-day operation of the business,
(c) a retired individual who resides in the park and who, for five consecutive years immediately prior to retirement,
(i) was employed primarily in that park, or
(ii) operated a business in that park and whose presence at the place of business was necessary for the day-to-day operation of the business,
(d) a retired individual who resided in the park at the time of the individual's retirement and who resided in that park on July 30, 1981,
(e) an individual who is a student in full-time attendance at an educational institution that is located within the park and registered under the Income Tax Act or applicable provincial legislation relating to education,
(f) an individual who is a lessee of public lands in the park and who
(i) was the lessee of those public lands prior to May 19, 1911, or
(ii) is a descendant, by blood or adoption, of an individual who was the lessee of those public lands prior to May 19, 1911, or
(g) the spouse or common-law partner or a dependent of an individual referred to in any of paragraphs (a) to (f).
Parks Canada's Need to Reside Regulation
In October 2014, Banff town council adopted the Community Housing Strategy. The document recommends many actions be taken over the next several years to help address housing issues in the community. Some actions are already underway, and can be reviewed in the full document.
Community Housing Strategy (PDF)
Housing Strategy Committee Terms of Reference (PDF)
Progress Report Year One (PDF)
Progress Report Year Two (PDF)
Progress Report Year Three (PDF)
Progress Report Year Four (PDF)
Ti'nu Update
On June 24, 2019, Banff town council received an update on the success of the Tin'nu Apartment Complex housing.
Ti'nu Affordable Housing Project Update (PDF)
The Bow Valley Homeless to Housing Coalition, (H2HC) is a dynamic group of agency partners across the Bow Valley. Their vision is to ensure that the supports to help individuals who are in housing crisis are in place within the Bow Valley.
H2HC has been conducting surveys to better understand the nature and extent of homelessness in the Bow Valley so they can take steps towards their vision. Agency partners have been seeking out homeless individuals in the community to complete surveys.
Bow Valley Spring 2018 Homelessness Estimation Count (PDF)
If you require more information, please call Tara at 403.678.7130 or Sachiho at 403.760.3200.
Sharon Oakley
Manager, Housing Sustainability
Email Sharon Oakley
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Banff, AB T1L 1A1
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Tuesday, Jan 21st 2020
UK opposition Labour Party to kick off election campaign
Thursday, Oct 31st 2019 (05:02 PM)
Britain's Labour Party leader is set to kick off the party's election campaign, focusing on economic and social issues rather than Brexit.
Jeremy Corbyn, during a Thursday speech in London, is expected to say that Labour plans to take on the "vested interests" by targeting tax dodgers, dodgy landlords, bad bosses and big polluters.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson sought the Dec. 12 election to break the parliamentary deadlock over Britain's plans to withdraw from the European Union. Johnson blames Corbyn for blocking his Brexit deal and says a Labour victory would lead to further delay.
Labour says that if it wins the election the party will negotiate a better withdrawal agreement with the European Union then call a referendum where voters will be able to choose between that deal and remaining in the bloc.
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Arsenal Home
Arsenal selling Van Persie & Song was 'a big mistake', says Eduardo
By David Ornstein
Arsenal have made a "big mistake" by selling Robin van Persie and Alex Song but still have the quality to challenge for silverware this season, according to former Gunners striker Eduardo.
Van Persie and Song are the latest high-profile names to leave the club, whose last trophy was the 2005 FA Cup.
"It's a big mistake to sell them - they were the most important players last season," Eduardo, 29, told BBC Sport.
"But they have other quality players to stay as a big club at the top."
Key Arsenal business
Lukas Podolski (Cologne) - £10.9m
Olivier Giroud (Montpellier) - £12m
Santi Cazorla (Malaga) - £15m
Robin van Persie (Manchester United) - £24m
Alex Song (Barcelona) - £15m
The departures of and came a year after Arsenal lost and
Fabregas and Van Persie were both captaining the side when they left, while Nasri and Song were regulars in midfield.
"Every player comes to Arsenal as a simple player and Arsenal make them into a big player," said Eduardo, who joined Arsenal from Dinamo Zagreb in 2007 and was sold to Shakhtar Donetsk in 2010.
"But they can't keep everyone together to fight for titles. Every year it's similar - they lose players, buy players, make them class players and the next year they sell again. They are always in the same place."
Arsenal finished third in the Premier League last season, 19 points adrift of both champions City and runners-up United.
Van Persie scored 37 league goals and contributed 13 assists - the latter bettered at Arsenal only by Song on 16 assists.
Eduardo's story
Born in Rio, Brazil, 25 February 1983
Joined Dinamo Zagreb in 1998
Granted Croatian citizenship in 2002
Signed by Arsenal for £7.5m in 2007
Suffered broken leg at Birmingham in February 2008
Scored 22 goals in 67 games
Sold to Shakhtar Donetsk for £6m in 2010
Won Ukrainian Premier League in 2011 and 2012
Made three appearances for Croatia at Euro 2012
Arsenal, who have signed forward striker and midfielder started the new campaign with a goalless draw at home to Sunderland.
"Van Persie and Song were the key players last season," Eduardo continued. "They held the team. When you lose two players like that, your chance of finishing in the top four is less.
"But Arsenal still have a good team and I'm confident they will do well. Last year when they lost Nasri and Fabregas, everyone thought they would not finish in the top four but they did.
"When the season finishes, we'll see if it was a mistake or not. It's very sad to lose two big players like that but we must respect the new players and believe they can keep Arsenal at the top."
Eduardo has two years left on his contract with Ukrainian champions Shakhtar and is unaware of reported interest from Fulham.
But he would like to return to the Premier League at some point and feels Arsenal are currently in need of a player with his attributes.
"It would be nice if they wanted me to join again, but it's not the kind of thing I'm thinking about," added Eduardo, scorer of 22 goals in 67 games of an Arsenal career hampered by a broken leg.
"If I played for Arsenal now I could score some important goals from nothing - in games like Sunderland, when it's 0-0 and you score the only goal. My studying of the game is like that.
"I can give you a lot of important points. I think Arsenal are missing some players like that. You never know.
"When you've played in the Premier League, you sometimes miss the atmosphere in the stadiums and the playing style. I miss this and hope one day I will come back."
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Schumer plots immediate counterpunch after losing first impeachment battle to McConnell
January 13, 2020 | Tom Tillison | Print Article
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Speaker Nancy Pelosi insists House Democrats made a strong case for impeaching President Donald Trump, but the push for additional witnesses in the coming Senate trial betrays this assessment.
Despite the California Democrat’s efforts to dictate proceeding in the upper chamber, the gamesmanship she is counting on will now be left to Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., who doesn’t fare too well in going up against his Republican counterpart, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.
That doesn’t mean the top Senate Democrat isn’t scheming, though.
“Schumer will force a series of votes designed to squeeze vulnerable Republicans and harm them on the campaign trail if they side with Trump,” Politico reported Monday.
The reporters behind the story inform readers that McConnell “has locked up enough Republican votes to ignore demands for a bipartisan framework for President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial.”
(Surely, they recoiled over the Democrats’ one-sided secret House proceedings that took place in the basement of the U.S. Capitol.)
The tactic Schumer will employ is said to center on motions to hear new evidence and witness testimony.
More from Politico:
Democrats argue the half-dozen at-risk GOP senators will need some daylight between them and Trump to get reelected. And if they vote against Schumer’s motions to hear new evidence and witness testimony, they’ll be seen as Trump sycophants — undermining their bids and boosting Schumer’s odds of becoming majority leader.
Support for obtaining new documents at the trial is “even stronger than we thought, with large numbers of Republicans supporting it,” Schumer (D-N.Y.) said in an interview. “And when you go against what the American people feel strongly about, on an issue they’re paying attention to, it’s not a good idea.”
Ironically, Sen. Susan Collins, the liberal weak-kneed Republican from Maine, is being billed in the article as working to “blunt Schumer’s tactics.”
How so? By delivering what Democrats want under the GOP banner.
We’re told Collins is “working with a handful of Republicans to keep a pathway open for witnesses, flashing some independence from Trump and McConnell.”
“I am hopeful that we can reach an agreement on how to proceed with the trial that will allow the opportunity for witnesses for both the House managers and the president’s counsel if they choose,” she told Politico in a statement. “It is unfortunate that Chuck Schumer — who voted against witnesses in the Clinton trial and prejudged its outcome — and his allies are seeking to politicize this process.”
Meanwhile, McConnell is believed to have the votes necessary to begin a trial without guaranteeing testimony, as he pursues a strategy of following the precedent of former President Bill Clinton’s impeachment trial, where a decision on witnesses came later.
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, had the best quote on Schumer.
“Everybody believes Sen. Schumer’s going to play a game with impeachment to try and get back the Senate,” he said. “He wakes up every day trying to be the majority leader.”
Those who claim they made the case against Trump are saying the Senate process is a “sham” if additional witnesses aren’t allowed.
“If McConnell succeeds in making this trial a trial without witnesses, that’s not a fair trial — that’s a sham,” House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif., said Sunday on CBS’ “Face the Nation.”
Pelosi intimated on Sunday that if House Democrats don’t like the Senate outcome — an acquittal is very likely, given that 20 Republicans will be needed to convict — they may start the whole process over with new articles of impeachment against Trump.
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Dennis Prager: Newsweek changed its article about me. But ...
January 14, 2020 | Dennis Prager | Print Article
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Op-ed views and opinions expressed are solely those of the author.
In my last column, “Newsweek Hits a New Low,” I wrote about Newsweek’s dishonest description of what I had said on one of my weekly PragerU “Fireside Chats.” A viewer had asked me to respond to a statement Anne Frank made in her epic Holocaust diary. Frank said, “Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart.”
The Newsweek headline, “Conservative Radio Host Ridicules Anne Frank,” was simply a lie. In order for readers to appreciate the level of mendacity, I had my entire response transcribed and placed it in the column.
A few days later I received a message from Nancy Cooper, global editor-in-chief of Newsweek. She emailed me her personal cellphone number and asked me to call her. I did, and we had a good conversation. She agreed that what Newsweek published mischaracterized my remarks and corrected both the headline and the article, written by deputy editor Benjamin Fearnow.
She changed the headline to “Conservative Radio Host Counters Anne Frank’s View That People Are ‘Good at Heart.'”
In addition, she deleted Fearnow’s sentence characterizing me as having mocked Anne Frank. And she deleted another Fearnow falsehood: “He also brings up Nazi comparisons frequently on his radio program, The Dennis Prager Show, to criticize modern Democrats and liberals.”
I told Cooper that in 37 years of radio, I have never compared Democrats or liberals to Nazis; Fearnow had made that up out of whole cloth.
In its place, she wrote the truth: “He also brings up Nazi comparisons on his radio program, The Dennis Prager Show, saying the left ‘cheapens’ Nazi evil by using the term to dismiss political opponents or that liberals focus on Nazism while failing to acknowledge the horrors wrought by Communism.”
The following notice now appears at the end of the article: “Update 1/8, 4:45 p.m. ET: The original headline on this story misrepresented Prager’s comments; the headline and story have been edited to reflect that Prager did not ‘ridicule’ or ‘mock’ Anne Frank but took issue with her view.”
As I wrote to Cooper, “Your attention to this says a lot about you and your hopes for Newsweek. Thank you.”
First, has Newsweek disciplined Fearnow in any way? (I never heard from Fearnow.)
Second, and more important, the original lie about me has taken on a life of its own. It was conveyed on numerous left-wing sites.
Wonkette, under the sarcastic headline “Dennis Prager Will Not Be Bullied by Anne Frank,” wrote a deceit-filled article about my comments about Anne Frank. At this writing, the column is followed by 654 reader comments — virtually every one of them repeating the lie started by Newsweek and continued by Wonkette.
There has not been a word on Wonkette about Newsweek’s correction.
The Daily Dot — “conceived as the Internet’s ‘hometown newspaper,’ focuses on topics such as streaming entertainment, geek culture, memes, gadgets and social issues, such as LGBT, gender and race,” as Wikipedia describes — reprinted the original Newsweek charge.
There has not been a word on The Daily Dot about Newsweek’s correction.
Under the headline “Dennis Prager on Anne Frank: ‘I Don’t Get My Wisdom from Teenagers,'” the Patheos website’s Friendly Atheist page wrote, “Leave it to right-wing commentator Dennis Prager, founder of a fake online ‘university’ … to dismiss Frank’s comment … because she was a child and therefore too dumb to understand anything.”
There has not been a word on Patheos about Newsweek’s correction.
Inquisitr, which claims 40 million readers a month, headlined its disparaging article “Conservative Pundit Dennis Prager Ridicules Anne Frank.”
There has not been a word on Inquistr about Newsweek’s correction.
Democratic Undergound’s headline read, “Conservative Radio Host Dennis Prager Ridicules Anne Frank.” It features a tweet from @Kokomothegreat that has 499 retweets.
There has not been a word on Democratic Underground or from Koko about Newsweek’s correction.
I note all of this to make three points.
First, as I have said for decades: While truth is a conservative value and a liberal value, it has never been a left-wing value.
Second, the left’s primary response to those with whom it differs is to smear.
Third, smears cannot be undone.
This was brilliantly brought home to me in a famous Jewish story I first heard when I was a student in yeshiva.
The tale is told of a Jew in Eastern Europe who had slandered his rabbi but soon regretted it. So, he went to his rabbi, told him what he had done, sincerely apologized and asked the rabbi’s forgiveness.
“Bring me two feather pillows,” the rabbi responded.
The man did.
“Am I now forgiven?” he asked.
“Now cut open the pillows,” the rabbi responded.
The man had no idea why the rabbi made these requests, but deeply wanting the rabbi’s forgiveness, he did as he was told.
“Am I now forgiven?” the man asked.
“Now let the feathers fly away,” the rabbi responded.
Once again, the man did as the rabbi requested.
“Am I now forgiven?” the exasperated man asked.
“Just do one more thing,” the rabbi responded. “Bring back the feathers.”
Benjamin Fearnow and the left-wing websites cannot bring back the feathers. Nor, apparently, do they want to.
Dennis Prager is a nationally syndicated radio talk-show host and columnist. His latest book, published by Regnery in May 2019, is “The Rational Bible,” a commentary on the book of Genesis. His film, “No Safe Spaces,” came to theaters fall 2019. He is the founder of Prager University and may be contacted at dennisprager.com.
Dennis Prager, one of America's most respected radio talk show hosts, has been broadcasting in Los Angeles since 1982. Dennis Prager's popular show became nationally syndicated in 1999 and airs live, Monday through Friday, 9am to 12pm (Pacific Time), 12pm to 3pm (Eastern) from his home station, KRLA.
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Police Chief Threatens Lawsuit To Stop Clean Water Advocates From Criticizing Him
A husband and wife featured in a previous BGA story criticized the cop about his ties to a quarry owner whom the state is prosecuting.
By Brett Chase
Aug 14, 2018 12:30 PM Updated: Aug 14, 2018 @ 4:30 PM
Wendy and Terry Greenrod of Sheridan said they were shocked to receive a letter from their police chief threatening to sue the couple. (Brett Chase/BGA)
Terry and Wendy Greenrod for years warned about how two quarries near their home in downstate Sheridan might be contaminating local drinking water and they openly criticized local officials for not doing enough to stop it.
More recently, Terry Greenrod focused his criticism on the police chief, whose duties in the village of Sheridan about 60 miles southwest of Chicago also include being the local zoning enforcement officer.
That means he’s responsible for inspecting the quarries. At a village board meeting in June, Greenrod said Chief Charles Bergeron was “compromised” because the chief was too chummy with the quarries’ operator.
Then in late July, the Greenrods opened their mail and found a letter from an attorney hired by Bergeron. It warned the couple to “cease and desist” their “unlawful defamation” of the police chief’s character.
“I was shocked, but I knew we didn’t do anything wrong,” Wendy Greenrod said in an interview.
Sheridan police chief Charles Bergeron. (via Facebook)
The move by Bergeron is an unusual one for a public official, whose jobs inherently come with criticism. One advocate for citizens’ rights said the letter could be viewed as an intimidation tactic because of the often insurmountable legal bar for proving defamation of public officials.
“Typically, a public official will try this and it really is just an effort to chill their speech,” said Ben Silver, a community lawyer for Citizen Advocacy Center of Elmhurst. “This is pretty outrageous … As a public official, you have to have thicker skin than that. It’s not defamation just because it’s criticism.”
In the letter, Bergeron doesn’t mention that he’s both the police chief and the existing zoning enforcement officer, two posts he’s filled for years.
“Charles Bergeron is a respected professional in the community and has done nothing except simply be nominated by the mayor as Sheridan’s zoning enforcement officer,” the letter read.
The Greenrods and quarry operator Branko Vardijan were featured in a Better Government Association story in June about so-called clean fill quarries, which are supposed to be free of pollutants that can contaminate local drinking water. The quarries have been shut down since July following a lawsuit from Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan over threats to the water supply. The Illinois Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday denied Vardijan permit renewals, meaning both quarries will remain closed indefinitely.
Clean Dumps May Not Be So Clean, State Suit Charges
Following the story’s publication, Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan’s office filed two lawsuits against the quarries’ owners, two corporate entities managed by Vardijan. Her office alleged dozens of violations of law, including that the quarries illegaly accepted banned items — metal, plastics, painted wood — that can potentially contaminate groundwater and the source of the community’s drinking water.
It was a victory for the Greenrods and two of their neighbors, Ken Thompson and Don McNelis, who have also raised concerns about groundwater contamination in Sheridan. But the celebration was short lived. The Bergeron letter, dated July 25, arrived at the Greenrods’ home the day after the court decision.
“We just got the attorney general to get the quarries shut down,” Wendy Greenrod said. “Our village is going to beat us up now over this? It was a huge letdown.”
One public official praised the Greenrods for their determination.
“This bad actor would not have been shut down if it was not for the advocacy for this group,” said state Sen. Sue Rezin, R-Morris, referring to the Greenrods, Thompson and McNelis.
At the June meeting, the Greenrods explained they felt the police chief was compromised to inspect the quarries because he hunted on land near one of the sites, on property held by quarry operator Branko Vardijan’s family. Terry Greenrod, who unsuccessfully ran for village president in 2013 and village trustee in 2015, also said at the meeting that the police chief uses land adjacent to the other quarry site for a shooting range.
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At the same June meeting, Village President Shelly Figgins, who is often referred to as the mayor, acknowledged Bergeron hunted on the grounds and said the entire Sheridan police force uses the other land for a shooting range, according to a recording of the meeting.
Contacted by the BGA, both Bergeron and his lawyer Kendall Hodges of Ottawa declined to comment.
In the letter to the Greenrods signed by Hodges, the lawyer accuses the couple of “spreading false, destructive and defamatory rumors,” about Bergeron. The letter demands the couple “immediately cease and desist your unlawful defamation of Charles Bergeron.”
The police chief’s threats resonated in different ways with village officials.
“As far as I’m concerned it’s a personal matter,” Figgins said. “It doesn’t affect his job.”
Figgins was a trustee candidate in 2015, the same year Terry Greenrod ran for trustee. Greenrod placed last in a field of five candidates to fill three trustee seats, election records show.
Richard Burton, an Ottawa lawyer and the Sheridan village attorney, said he would not recommend the police chief sue residents for defamation.
“I would not advise this,” Burton said in an interview.
No public funds would be used to help Bergeron pay his legal bills, Burton assured.
“That would be just ridiculous,” he said.
Environmental reporting at the BGA is supported by Joel M. Friedman, President of The Alvin H. Baum Family Fund.
August 14, 4:30 p.m.: The story was updated to note that the Illinois EPA has denied quarry operator Branko Vardijan permit renewals.
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Schönbrunn means ‘Beautiful Spring’ and that’s basically why this palace is where it is. Back in the 1700's, the Habsburg court used to come here to hunt and take the waters from an artesian well. Pretty soon, they decided to stay for longer, and it became their full-time residence.
The building work was completed in 1780 during Maria Theresa’s reign. Plenty has happened here since. After the Second World War it became the Headquarters for the British Military Garrison. And in 1961, it hosted the historical meeting between President Kennedy and Soviet leader, Nikita Khruschev.
The glorious Gloriette
If you get the feeling that something’s looking down on you, that’s just the Gloriette. The gardens point towards a 60-metre (197-foot) high hill, with the Gloriette monument located right on the very top. Built from stone left over from the demolition of another palace, the Gloriette was restored 3 times in the 20th century.
Stroll around the gardens and you’ll come across Roman ruins. Only they’re not. Built in 1778 when the fashion for romantic ruin garden features was at its zenith, you can’t help but see the symbolism - these buildings symbolise the decline of great empires and powers. Rather like the poor old Habsburgs when you come to think of it.
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With his passion for this special genre Chris Conz represents the authentic jazz, boogie-woogie and blues of the 30's live - as piano soloist or with his award-winning Chris Conz Trio at international concerts, private performances and festivals.
The "International Boogie Nights by Chris Conz" is one of the biggest genre platforms in the world and also broadcasts videos, boogie rarities, sessions, info and news about world-famous boogie woogie pianists, entertainers and musicians via Facebook, Instagram and Youtube. International Boogie Nights" also scouts talented young boogie artists and puts them in front of the curtain.
The festival of the same name is dedicated to piano boogie woogie, blues and swing jazz and will take place for the ninth time in 2019 in Uster and Thun. Also this year internationally known pianists and boogie legends are expected.
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"Boogie-woogie has almost magical power. Even a reserved audience thaws at the latest after the first chorus. Piano music can hardly be more contagious. Boogie mood is created by the unique mixture of power, swing, freshness and blues, very rhythmic, directed forward and sharply accentuated, dreamy in between - melancholic, but never kitschy or sentimental".
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Some Kind of Art Installation Is Unfolding on a Boston Skyscraper
The John Hancock Tower—sorry, 200 Clarendon—is now sporting an evolving photorealistic mural by French artist JR on its west facade.
By Olga Khvan· 9/23/2015, 2:12 p.m.
Photo by Sarah Fisher
Update, September 24, 11:40 a.m.
Bryan Koop, Senior Vice President and Regional Manager at Boston Properties, which owns 200 Clarendon, announced on Twitter that the evolving image on the building’s facade is a work by a French artist known as JR.
We are thrilled to have @JRart use the building as a canvas for his iconic work #bostonart #200clarendon pic.twitter.com/QVBDStNoGx
— Bryan Koop (@koop_bjk) September 24, 2015
The artist is known for installing massive photorealistic murals on urban surfaces around the world. In April, he created an illustration for the cover of New York Times Magazine‘s “Walking New York” issue.
In August, he collaborated with Brazilian brothers Otavio and Gustavo Pandolfo—known collectively as Os Gemeos—on an image that resembles their playful mural on Stuart Street in Boston. Os Gemeos is also behind the very first Dewey Square mural on the Rose Kennedy Greenway.
Once completed, JR’s work at 200 Clarendon will be 150 feet wide and 86 feet tall, covering space between the 44th and 50th floor of the building, according to the Boston Globe.
Previously: Earlier this afternoon, curious Boston citizens took to Twitter to share photographs of what appears to be a black-and-white image of a man emblazoned on the west facade of the building formerly known as the John Hancock Tower.
Pretty sure this is an art installation but any details? #johnhancocktower @universalhub @ pic.twitter.com/mbzOptKvr0 — sarah wilson (@spomeroy83) September 23, 2015
Seen on my drive to work… An image on the #JohnHancockTower. Is that @Pontifex?! pic.twitter.com/V28Hbb2nNK — susantran (@susantran) September 23, 2015
A spokesperson for Boston Properties, the real estate investment trust that owns the skyscraper—renamed 200 Clarendon a few months ago—confirmed to WBZ-TV that it’s an art installation, but did not share any details. The station also took a closer look at the image from its helicopter:
Closer shot of art installation on #hancocktower (via WBZ Chopper). working on getting more info. standby! pic.twitter.com/p6FlT5TIhZ — AndreaWBZ (@AndreaWBZ) September 23, 2015
While it may be the first art installation to take place on the skyscraper, it’s not the first to use the building as a venue. A few months ago, the lobby received a colorful facelift with murals by an artist known as MOMO. It’s the first of three temporary installations planned for the ground floor by independent curator Pedro Alonzo.
It’s not immediately clear whether or not the facade installation was also planned by Alonzo.
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Established in 2000, Telford Homes Plc, a Trammell Crow Company developer, has grown to be one of London’s largest residential developers and is dedicated to developing the homes and creating the places that London needs. Its customers include institutional investors, housing associations and individuals. Telford Homes is a developer of residential-led, mixed-use sites in locations across London, where the need for homes far exceeds supply. In recent years Telford Homes has undertaken a strategic shift to focus on the growing build-to-rent/multifamily market and is now working with a number of established investors.
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CBRE Group, Inc. (NYSE:CBRE) has announced that it has completed the previously announced acquisition of Telford Homes Plc, a leading developer of multifamily residential properties in London.
Telford Homes, which is focused on middle-market, build-to-rent properties, will operate as part of Trammell Crow Company, CBRE’s wholly owned real estate development subsidiary. The acquisition expands Trammell Crow Company’s highly successful US development business into the UK market.
Build-to-rent is a fast-growing sector of the London housing market. This growth is being fueled by changing attitudes about renting versus ownership, greater affordability relative to for-sale housing and limited supply.
“We are excited about the opportunities that Telford Homes affords us,” said Bob Sulentic, president and chief executive officer of CBRE. “The UK is in the early stages of a secular shift toward institutionally owned urban rental housing and Telford Homes’ talented team positions us to lead this trend.”
“The alignment of our business models, people and culture – along with our shared commitment to partners, clients and local communities – makes this a natural fit,” said Jon Di-Stefano, chief executive officer of Telford Homes. “We now have enhanced capabilities to raise capital, acquire the best sites and deliver high-quality properties that meet rising demand for rental housing.”
Mr. Di-Stefano will continue to lead the Telford Homes business. Financial performance for Telford Homes will be reported within CBRE’s Real Estate Investments business segment.
Telford Homes Plc has chosen, with the help of Savills, Invesco Real Estate and M&G Real Estate as the long term strategic build to rent partners for forward fund transactions.
M&G will be the Group’s priority partner for schemes including up to 200 build to rent homes and Invesco will have priority for more than 200.
In capital value terms, 200 homes is likely to represent between £75 million and £100 million. Whilst both M&G and Invesco operate across a wider spectrum, the split at 200 homes fits well with their existing portfolios, ideal investment scale preferences and, in the case of M&G, the schemes we have undertaken with them to date. Both partners can step in to schemes should the other decide not to take an opportunity further.
Both Invesco and M&G have signed partnership agreements with Telford Homes for an initial three year period but with an expectation from all parties that the relationships will continue beyond this.
Jon Di-Stefano, Chief Executive Officer of Telford Homes, commented: “We have been consistent in highlighting our desire to significantly increase our build to rent pipeline over the next few years. It is, therefore, a major step forward for us to announce that we have attracted these two extremely well-respected, experienced and ambitious institutional investors as long term partners. Furthermore, it underlines our reputation as one of the build to rent developers of choice in London.
“Rental demand is increasing in London but the supply of new homes is still constrained. New generations are demanding better quality amenities, a better level of service and more flexible tenancies, all of which are offered by the growing institutionally owned build to rent sector. These compelling market fundamentals and the opportunity to de-risk our future pipeline with reduced capital investment give us confidence that these partnerships will help accelerate our aim to deliver a significant increase in our output of build to rent homes across London.”
Alex Greaves, Head of Residential Investment at M&G Real Estate, said: “We are delighted to formally cement what has been an excellent working relationship with Telford over the last three years. Commercialising the production of homes to rent at scale with a likeminded, high quality developer of rental stock, is another step closer to fulfilling M&G’s residential investment strategy. Telford Homes has been an early adopter of the sector and this is another example of how it adjusts its model today to focus on tomorrow’s customers and occupiers.”
John German, Managing Director of Residential Investments at Invesco Real Estate, added: “We are delighted that Telford Homes has chosen Invesco as a strategic investment partner for their projects in excess of 200 build to rent units across London. The alignment of our respective strategic objectives to both develop the UK build to rent sector and to seek to redress the supply/demand imbalance that exists today, makes for an exciting collaboration and we look forward to working closely with the Telford Homes team to deliver market leading projects. Our global institutional investors continue to believe in the fundamentals of the UK build to rent market and we still see an increasing appetite for the sector both in London and the wider UK market as it provides a key investment opportunity for a diversified investment portfolio.”
Andrew Brentnall, Head of Savills UK Residential Capital Markets, commented: “It is a great pleasure to be able to support Telford’s growth ambitions in this sector as their corporate build to rent advisor. Unsurprisingly for a partner of Telford’s quality, we received considerable investor appetite from around the world, yet again demonstrating the significant capital capacity for supporting the delivery of much-needed homes across London. We will continue to support Telford Homes, M&G and Invesco, to aid the success of the partnerships for the long term.”
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A small town in Jalisco is home to Martin Ibarra. He lives across the street from the town’s sixteenth century church whose lofty wall surrounds the colonial structure. Often you will see colorful balls, earthenware virgenes, engraved with geometric designs, drying in the air on top of the wall. The pieces are the art of Martin Ibarra who supports a family of elders and youngsters from the damp clay of the surrounding hills.
Martin’s style is distinctly different from that of his now deceased father, Sixto. Martin has had big shoes to fill following in his father’s footsteps. Sixto died in 2001 and had worked with clay over 40 years, after discovering an ancient cenotaph in the foothills near his home. The workmanship and whimsical nature of the pre-conquest pottery found at the burial site inspired young Sixto to begin experimenting with the medium. His father Sixto is a local legend and it may take another two decades before Ibarra becomes as revered as his father. He has a lot to live up to as far as his neighbors are concerned.
Sixto trained his son, Martin, a highly sought-after artist in his own right, to carry on the tradition of creating his folk art in clay. Martin fabricates decorative hollow clay balls and eggs – all of which he covers with intricate motifs sketched on the surface by hand. No two pieces are exactly alike, each being formed and molded by whatever inspiration strikes him at the moment. Martin knows that a healthy sense of humor is essential for an artist working with the sometimes-capricious natural clay. During the rainy season, pieces can take two to three days longer to dry, and once his creations are hardened, he cannot be sure they will survive the firing process of the home-built wood-fired kiln.
Shrugging his shoulders when asked if he is proud that one of his burnished clay virgins adorns the home of Mexican President Fox, Martin says, “It’s nice. But what is really gratifying is knowing the person and his attitude toward the piece; that he sees it as a work of art and values it as one.”
“Competition helps me surpass myself . . .When my rivals get to the next step, we’re already two, three or more steps ahead.” He was recently called one of the three or four best artists of his genre in Mexico by Bernardo Colunga and has had his name mentioned in the same breath as regional pottery legends Jorge Wilmot and Jose Bernabe. Martin is a true folk art artist who exemplifies the best in Mexican handicrafts.
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Cruel Shoes and Vintage Sexism in Japan
by CarterJMRN
Following close on the heels of this blog’s recent May 21 post about Japan’s ongoing gender gap and workplace sexism, let’s get into how women’s footwear may inspire both males and females in the country to step up and give the #MeToo movement in this country some serious traction.
The #kutoo movement
The story involves what’s been dubbed the #KuToo movement—a play on kutsu, the Japanese word for shoes, and kutsuu, the word for pain, politicians with feet firmly placed in mouths, men slipping into high heels, and the kind of vintage sexism Japan is far too known for.
A young actress and writer named Yumi Ishikawa, who also works at a funeral parlor, inadvertently sparked the #KuToo movement. The funeral parlor requires female employees to wear heels between five and seven centimeters high. Male employees, however, can wear comfortable shoes. When Ishikawa tweeted about the pain of wearing heels and the dress code discrepancy in January, people responded in droves. She came up with the #KuToo hashtag and got tens of thousands of people to sign a petition to quash rules that force women to wear heels at work, submitting it to the Health, Labour and Welfare Ministry in June.
Japan’s labor minister put his foot in his mouth
Cue the standard-issue clueless politician. At a subsequent Diet committee session, Labor Minister Takumi Nemoto stated, “It’s generally accepted by society that (wearing high heels) is necessary and reasonable in workplaces.” Deputy Prime Minister Taro Aso last year said sexual harassment was not a crime. Clearly, the patriarchy remains dominant enough in Japan for even high-ranking officials to continue spouting the sexist nonsense that belies Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s declared notion that Japan is destined to become a society in which “all women shine.”
Here’s a contrast for you: In 2017, South Korea’s president, Moon Jae-in, promised full government action against sex offenders in the workplace and gender violence. Perhaps Japan should take notes from its near neighbor and frequent rival on this issue?
Come to heel
For a lot of guys—unless you’re a time traveler from a past age when men wore heels or a survivor of the disco era when platform shoes were at their height—this issue might seem frivolous. How bad could wearing heels be?
In late May, Change.org put on an event in Tokyo to give the #KuToo movement a boost, offering guys a chance to try on heels up to 27 centimeters tall. The men who stepped up found out just how painful, awkward and even dangerous wearing pumps can be (It’s also been called a legitimate workplace safety issue). That was just before the new job-hunting season in June, by the way, when potential new hires have to make a favorable impression. For women, heels are an expected part of the ensemble.
This issue provides a shoehorn to get into more serious workplace problems such as power harassment, sexual harassment and sexual violence. Japan’s version of the #MeToo movement reflects the country’s deep group-oriented culture: #WeToo. That name is also a protective measure, because the women who have come forward on their own have suffered some truly horrific shaming and abuse in addition to what they’ve already experienced. One was journalist Shiori Ito, who in May 2017 accused Noriyuki Yamaguchi—a former Washington bureau chief for TBS TV and a biographer for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe—of rape. The case was dropped, however, and Ito began receiving death threats. She left Japan for the UK.
The resistance is here
Social media element is a powerful lever in this hostile, victim-blaming arena, and WeToo Japan—an organization that Shiori Ito helped to create to follow up on the #MeToo theme—is a promising development. WeToo Japan is intent on developing a society that does not allow sexual violence or sexual or power harassment, rescues those who have been abused, and supports them when they make a claim.
There’s a lot of work to do. A crowdfunded survey WeToo Japan carried out on sexual harassment found that 70 percent of women have been targeted in some way in public, including 48 percent who reported unwanted touching.
WeToo Japan is being proactive as well. It recognizes businesses that institute zero-harassment policies, offers guidance and resources for those harassed to pursue, and runs its own consultation counter. What’s most encouraging is that this group has several men on board, many of them prominently displayed on the website. The organization also has a Facebook page to keep track of developments. Let’s hope the movement grows.
Beyond wearing flats or running shoes to work, #KuToo is primarily about showing just how absurd gender inequality can be in this country, and how far Japan has to go to overcome the mindset and the complacency that have made that inequality—and the harassment that often follows—socially acceptable. The #WeToo movement is tackling a grittier reality that Japan will have to address if it expects to keep the peace in the workplace.
Companies just got to do better
So fair warning to every company out there, whether you’re foreign or domestic: Ensure that your workplace policies treat all employees equally, and avoid gender-based rules and regs that might cost you talented staff or even get you dragged off to court to fight a lawsuit. Enlightened workplaces are also likelier to attract female workers who want to focus on doing great things and not on dodging abuse. Businesses that can craft workplace policies and environments should be on the prowl for opportunities to help companies that have seen the light work out their gender inequality kinks.
As one of four Japanese societal macro trends monitored regularly by CarterJMRN (along with Women Power, Generational Dynamics, and Internationalization), the Changing World of Work impacts consumer behavior across many age groups as attitudes toward work continue to evolve in relation to lifestyle, including availability and use of personal and leisure time.
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Hearts and Mines
With the Marines in al Anbar—A Story of Psychological Warfare in Iraq
Russell Snyder
This is a true story of war, the story of one man's transformation as he retraces the mine-strewn roads of a land itself transformed by mankind's most shockingly inhuman practice. Transcribed from by the author's personal wartime journal, it is a story of introspection and the psychological effects of war.
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This is a true story of war, the story of one man’s transformation as he retraces the mine-strewn roads of a land itself transformed by mankind’s most shockingly inhuman practice. It is the firsthand account of a member of one of the United States Army’s three-man Tactical Psychological Operations Teams, groups of men tasked with winning the hearts and minds of Iraq’s civilian population through leaflets, loudspeakers, conversation, and bribery. Transcribed from and inspired by the author’s personal wartime journal, it is a story of introspection. It relates how the feelings of eagerness and uncertainty in a young man unfamiliar with war were replaced with the dread knowledge that, buried within his soul, beneath a facade of goodwill and morality, lurked the capacity to kill his fellow men.
There are scenes of battle retold within the pages of Hearts and Mines. There are descriptions of the feelings of seeing once-familiar human bodies destroyed beyond recognition. Some days are described as being full of hope and appreciation for the beauty of the world, others with despair for the omnipresent cruelty and destruction which has a habit of consuming men when they feel unaccountable for their actions. It captures the sensory experience of living in a singular environment full of strange plants and animals, friends true and false, and determined enemies, encapsulating the existential fear of mortar and rocket attacks, and the ever-present threat of IEDs, as well as the ridiculousness of military bureaucracy, such as was demonstrated by a sergeant major’s decision to punish graffiti artists by removing the doors of all the camp’s toilets.
In late 2001 Russell Snyder joined the United States Army as a psychological operations specialist. As a member of the 9th PSYOP Battalion, the army’s only active-duty, tactical psychological operations unit he deployed to Iraq, the experience that inspired him to write Hearts and Mines. Subsequently he was deployed twice more to Iraq. He is a recipient of various military awards including the Bronze Star medal. Now a civilian, he lives in Raleigh, North Carolina.
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CAQ passes bill on Hydro-Québec rates by invoking closure
Members of the National Assembly spent their Saturday debating Bill 34, which will freeze Hydro-Québec electricity rates in 2020 and raise them to meet the inflation rate for the four years after that.
Opposition parties united against the bill, saying it won't save customers money
Verity Stevenson · CBC News · Posted: Dec 07, 2019 7:47 AM ET | Last Updated: December 8, 2019
Energy Minister Jonatan Julien responds to the opposition during question period, Saturday, Dec. 7, 2019. For the third time since taking power last year, the Legault government used closure to push a law through the National Assembly. (Jacques Boissinot/The Canadian Press)
The Coalition Avenir Québec government has fast-tracked the adoption of Bill 34, which will set Hydro-Québec's rates for the next five years.
Members of the National Assembly spent their Saturday debating the bill, which will freeze Hydro rates in 2020 and raise them to meet the inflation rate for the four years after that.
The bill passed just after midnight Sunday. The CAQ invoked closure, which allows the government to suspend certain parliamentary rules in order to limit debate, to pass the controversial legislation.
Energy Minister Jonatan Julien says the goal is to save Hydro customers $500 million — down from the $1.5 billion his government initially promised when discussing the proposed law.
Julien said the savings will mean about $60 per residential Hydro bill for 2020.
But Liberal Opposition Leader Pierre Arcand says consumers will end up spending more in the long run because until now Hydro rates have only been raised through an artificial inflation rate of less than two per cent.
In October, Quebec's three opposition parties voted against the bill. They say the bill was poorly thought-out and will have the opposite effect of saving customers' money.
Arcand and other members of the three opposition parties also argue the bill isn't necessary to reimburse customers, and believe the government sees an advantage in increasing Hydro rates to finance other government sectors.
"The government is doing about the opposite of what it promised," Arcand said.
'The opposite of what it promised'
The bill will also end the yearly evaluation the province's energy board conducted on rates. Instead, the board will assess rates every five years.
The opposition parties say the energy board was already doing the job of controlling the rates and that the new mechanism for measuring them will increase them more than before.
The CAQ government invoked closure to pass a controversial Hydro-Québec bill some say will have the effect of increasing rates faster in the long run. (Ivanoh Demers/Radio-Canada)
The parties, as well as a number of interest groups and businesses who've spoken out against Bill 34, also say moving the energy board's rate evaluation to every five years reduces its power and subjects Hydro-Québec to less oversight.
The CAQ presented the bill, saying Hydro customers had paid $1.5 billion more than they should have between 2008 and 2016. It said Bill 34 would make things even.
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Arcand says that's false and that the government hasn't been clear about the reason for the change in amounts, from $1.5 billion to $500 million in savings it is now promising.
Premier François Legault says the rest of the money is being invested in other programs, such as reducing daycare rates and school taxes, and increasing family benefits.
Liberal Opposition Leader Pierre Arcand says Bill 34 won't save customers money like the CAQ government promised. (Radio-Canada)
The CAQ has invoked closure twice before — to pass Bill 9, intended to reduce delays in Quebec's immigration system, and Bill 21, the religious symbols law.
Legault defended invoking closure once again, saying the parties have already debated on Bill 34 for about 100 cumulative hours in the National Assembly.
"One hundred hours, it's enough," he said. "How much is democracy? One thousand hours? Two thousand hours? I think after 100 hours, the people around the table have said what they have to say."
Next up for the premier is a four-day economic mission in California, where he will discuss the carbon market and try to attract other investments.
With files from Cathy Senay and Radio-Canada
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Cassidy-Graham’s Dramatic Funding Cliff Not Required by Budget Rules and Would Have Lasting, Negative Impact
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David Kamin[1] and Richard Kogan
Senators Bill Cassidy and Lindsey Graham, along with co-sponsors Dean Heller and Ron Johnson, recently introduced a revised version of their legislation to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and are pushing to enact it by the end of the month. The bill block-grants and sharply cuts funding for health coverage starting in 2020 and those cuts grow dramatically in 2027. Their bill block-grants and sharply cuts funding for health coverage starting in 2020,[2] and those cuts, already large, grow dramatically in 2027, when the block grant ends entirely.[3] The result, at that point, is larger cuts than in the previous bill adopting a “repeal-without-replace” approach — a bill that would ultimately cause 32 million more Americans to be uninsured, according to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO).
The bill’s sponsors have made two claims in defending the 2027 cliff. First, they have suggested that the cliff is necessary due to the reconciliation budget procedure they are trying to use to enact the legislation. Second, they have suggested that the cliff is unimportant since it is not their intended result and policymakers will reverse it in a later reauthorization. The first claim is false, the second highly misleading:
There are no procedural barriers to making the block grant in Cassidy-Graham permanent. Reconciliation procedures require only that the legislation not add to the deficit after the end of the budget window in 2026, relative to existing law. Cassidy-Graham meets that requirement, since its cuts to health care funding are deeper than its tax cuts, whether or not the block grant continues.
The uncertainty created by the cliff would likely affect health coverage and quality of care before 2027. Even if the 2027 cliff were eventually reversed, the substantial uncertainty it would create would likely affect states, as well as millions of Americans’ choice of health plans and their costs, as 2027 approached. Some states would likely be deterred from implementing new coverage expansion programs and instead use block grant funds for other health care purposes (or keep them very restrictive) due to the looming end of the block grant. Moreover, as we are finding now, uncertainty in insurance markets can cause insurers to raise prices or drop out. With the default level of block-grant funding set at zero starting in 2027, insurance markets for individuals would likely have fewer participating insurers and higher costs for consumers in the years before then, simply due to the massive uncertainty of what would happen starting in 2027. Health care providers, too, may hold back on hiring and investment until they know whether many patients could afford care in the future, undermining the quality of care in the present.
The cliff could constrain later congressional action and lead to much lower funding (if any is provided). Finally, the 2027 cliff would very likely result in a budget baseline that has no funding for the ACA’s health coverage expansion going forward. If the baseline had no funding whatsoever for the expansion, legislation to continue funding for the block grant would appear in budget estimates as an entirely new cost that would need to be entirely offset under budget rules. However, it would not be a new cost. Further, the ACA already more than fully paid for the costs of the coverage expansions on a permanent basis — and Cassidy-Graham maintains most of the savings and tax increases from the ACA.
Even if the baseline assumed that the block grant continues after 2026, the amount in the baseline would be frozen in nominal dollars. That means baseline funding would grow increasingly inadequate due to growth in health costs and population. Legislation increasing the block grant in line with these factors would appear in budget estimates as a large cost increase that would need to be offset — again, even though the ACA more than paid for the coverage expansions the block-grant funding would replace.
Either outcome would likely have a lasting, negative impact on the adequacy of health funding. Given that the drafters of the legislation could easily have not made the block grant temporary, it is reasonable to conclude that they preferred to set the default as they did — with funding ending altogether and future policymakers forced to come up with hundreds of billions each year to extend it, likely leading to large cuts in block-grant funding and/or other coverage programs like Medicaid (on top of the cuts Cassidy-Graham already makes).
Finally, the funding cliff’s effect on the baseline means future budget projections would show significantly lower deficits for 2027 and thereafter, which could help justify the tax cuts that many Republicans now advocate. In this way, policymakers could essentially use health cuts to finance tax cuts, even if they are not packaged together in the same bill.
Significant Cuts Leading to Cliff
Several elements in Cassidy-Graham cut funding for health coverage:
Starting in 2020, it would repeal the ACA’s marketplace subsidies and the Medicaid expansion and replace them with an inadequate block grant lasting only seven years, through 2026.
It would convert Medicaid’s current federal-state financial partnership to a per capita cap, which would cap and cut federal Medicaid per-beneficiary funding for seniors, people with disabilities, and families with children.
Figure 1 shows the combined effect of these two elements on funding, relative to existing law. Through 2026, they would cut funding by $418 billion. Then the cut would balloon to nearly $300 billion in 2027 alone. This is a larger cut than in the “repeal-without-replace” bill that Congress considered earlier and that CBO said would result in 32 million Americans losing coverage; that’s because Cassidy-Graham not only eliminates funding for the ACA’s health care expansion but also cuts the underlying Medicaid program through its per capita cap.
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Cliff Not Required by Reconciliation Procedure
Cassidy-Graham’s sponsors have suggested that the cliff in 2027 is necessary due to the procedural requirements of the budget reconciliation process, which the Senate intends to use to give the legislation fast-track protection. However, there are in fact no such procedural barriers to providing permanent block-grant funding. And many other provisions in Cassidy-Graham — including its tax cuts and its per capita cap reducing funding for the underlying Medicaid program — are permanent.
Reconciliation requires that no reconciliation bill add to the deficit after the end of the budget window (in this case, 2026), relative to existing law — or else any senator can raise a point of order against the legislation. However, while no official CBO score is yet available, the bill’s spending cuts likely are substantially larger than its tax cuts. Thus, continuing the block grant after 2026 would still result in a bill that reduces the deficit after that point.
The sponsors of the legislation appear to be analogizing to tax cuts like those in 2001, which were enacted via reconciliation and made temporary in part due to the requirement that the bill not increase the deficit relative to existing law. But those 2001 tax cuts would have added considerably to the deficit outside the budget window (that is, after 2010) if they had continued. That’s not the case here. Cassidy-Graham would reduce projected deficits substantially even if the block grant were permanent, and much more so with the block grant expiring.
Less Coverage and Choice, Higher Prices, Lower Quality of Care Even Before 2027
The cliff’s effects would likely be felt in the years leading up to 2027. Many states would likely react to the uncertainty by restricting coverage expansions in a number of ways, knowing that the block-grant funding could disappear in six years. For instance, some states would likely establish highly restrictive programs (with enrollment caps and sharply limited eligibility and assistance) so that it would be easier to eliminate the programs in 2027. Other states would likely be encouraged to instead use the block-grant funding for other, non-coverage health purposes.
In addition, private insurers that provide coverage in the ACA’s health care exchanges would be less willing to invest resources needed to participate and compete in new exchanges if the long-term viability of those exchanges were in question.
Insurers do not make decisions on a purely year-by-year basis, as business models are often forward looking. When the ACA was created, some investors formed new insurance companies specifically to sell policies on the exchanges, and already established companies invested resources to compete. The massive uncertainty due to a default of zero funding for the block grants starting in 2027 would discourage these kinds of investments.
Providers, too, will make decisions in the coming years on investments and hiring that would likely be affected by the uncertainty that the 2027 cliff would create. Providers would not know how many people would be able to afford health care services in the future, and that would affect the kinds of decisions that affect the quality of care now.
The likely result would be a combination of less coverage, fewer insurers in insurance markets, higher prices from insurers remaining in the markets, and lower quality of care — all before 2027.
Treatment of Funding in Budget Baseline Would Inhibit Funding Extension
Cassidy-Graham’s sponsors have also suggested that policymakers will simply revisit the funding cliff later and reauthorize the block grant. But even if they do provide more funding, it could be at a much lower level. The treatment of health care expansion funding in the budget baseline could significantly constrain future funding decisions.
Specifically, the cliff means there are two bad possibilities for how the baseline treats this funding after 2026: Most likely is that Congress and the Administration assume the block grant is temporary, as the statutory language indicates. In that case, the baseline would have no further funding after 2026. Alternatively, they could assume that funding continues in the baseline but is frozen in nominal dollars at the 2026 level. Any funding extension in either scenario, however, would require further congressional action.
When it comes to expiring spending programs, the official baseline has special rules regarding the treatment of the programs that have sunset dates. Those rules state that, if an expiring mandatory spending program costs more than $50 million per year (as the Cassidy-Graham block grant would), the budget committees and the Office and Management and Budget (OMB) are to consult and jointly decide on whether to assume that the program is permanent or temporary in the baseline. Either way, Congress would need to pass a new bill at a later time in order for funding to continue. But the choice of baseline has a large effect on the estimated costs of the program at the time it is enacted and at the time Congress is trying to continue the program.
If the budget committees and OMB decided that the block grant should be treated as temporary in the baseline (given that it clearly expires as a matter of law), this would have several key implications:
Further extension would be treated as an entirely new cost — despite having already been fully paid for. That’s because Cassidy-Graham, when enacted, would have been understood to eliminate the block-grant funding stream. This could make it very hard for policymakers to later provide adequate funding to continue the block grant after its expiration.
For instance, statutory and Senate pay-as-you-go (PAYGO) rules would require that funding to continue the block grant at any level be fully paid for with either entitlement cuts or revenue increases, even though the health funding that the block grant replaces was already more than paid for as part of the ACA. Health care expansion funding would essentially be separated from the measures enacted in the ACA to finance the expansion, and the official budget estimates would make it appear as if any continuation would be a major new budget commitment with nothing to pay for it. The House CUTGO rule is even more restrictive than the statutory and Senate PAYGO rules; the House rule would require offsetting any continuation of the block grant after its expiration at any level by other entitlement cuts; revenue increases would not be an acceptable offset.
Cassidy-Graham’s large cuts to health funding would result in much lower projected deficits, which could make it easier to pass tax cuts. If the baseline treats the block grant as disappearing in 2027, policymakers could essentially use the lower projected deficits for 2027 and thereafter to help justify the tax cuts that many Republicans now advocate. Tax cuts would essentially eat up the fiscal room previously reserved for health expansion funding. In this way, policymakers could use health cuts to finance tax cuts, even if they are not packaged together in the same bill.
Alternatively, if Congress and the administration treated the block grant as permanent in the baseline despite the expiration, it would be frozen at the 2026 nominal level. That is because Cassidy-Graham simply provides fixed dollar amounts, and 2026 is the last year of funding. The effects of a frozen nominal baseline would be similar to a baseline with zero funding, though not as dramatic. Any additional funding above the frozen 2026 levels needed to keep up with health cost and population growth would appear as a major new cost — even though the ACA coverage expansions that the block grant would replace have been fully paid for in the ACA.
So far, neither Congress nor the Trump Administration has indicated how Cassidy-Graham would be treated in the baseline. Given that the authors of the legislation made the explicit decision to sunset the funding (as clearly indicated in the bill language), it seems likely that they intend the baseline to follow what the law does: zero out funding after 2026. If so, extending the funding past 2026 would be scored as costing hundreds of billions per year.
The Cassidy-Graham cliff represents a policy choice by the bill’s drafters that would create substantial uncertainty, discourage states from using the block grant to provide coverage, and weaken health insurance markets and quality of care even before the block grant expires at the end of 2026. The cliff would also make it very difficult for future policymakers to provide adequate block-grant funding going forward. In the meantime, the appearance of lower deficits due to the cliff could further the enactment of tax cuts or other Republican legislative priorities.
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[1] David Kamin is Professor of Law at New York University School of Law.
[2] Jacob Leibenluft et al., “Like Other ACA Repeal Bills, Cassidy-Graham Plan Would Add Millions to Uninsured, Destabilize Individual Market,” Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, updated September 18, 2017, https://www.cbpp.org/research/health/like-other-aca-repeal-bills-cassidy-graham-plan-would-add-millions-to-uninsured.
[3] Edwin Park and Matt Broaddus, “Cassidy-Graham Plan’s Damaging Cuts to Health Care Funding Would Grow Dramatically in 2027,” Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, updated September 16, 2017, https://www.cbpp.org/research/health/cassidy-graham-plans-damaging-cuts-to-health-care-funding-would-grow-dramatically-in.
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UPDATE: 23-year-old MPD Officer Charles Irvine Jr. killed in squad rollover crash near 76th and Silver Spring
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MILWAUKEE (CBS 58) -- The Milwaukee Police Department is remembering a fallen officer through several tributes Friday morning.
23-year-old Charles Irvine Jr. was killed in a crash near 76th and Silver Spring on Thursday afternoon.
At District 4, a Milwaukee Police squad car was draped in black.
On Friday morning, Governor Scott Walker ordered the U.S. flag and State of Wisconsin flag to be lowered through sunset on the day of internment.
At police headquarters, the flags were already lowered in remembrance of Irvine Jr.
American flag at MPD Headquarters lowered to half-staff in honor of Officer Charles Irvine Jr. who was killed in a car crash yesterday during a pursuit @CBS58pic.twitter.com/n1WvALUzZq
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UPDATE: MILWAUKEE (CBS 58) -- Milwaukee Police Chief Alfonso Morales confirms that 23-year-old Charles Irvine Jr. was killed in a crash near 76th and Silver Spring on Thursday afternoon.
Irvine Jr. has been with the Milwaukee Police Department for four years.
According to the Police Chief, Irvine Jr. and his partner were chasing a suspect when their squad left the road. The squad car was the only vehicle involved in the crash.
Both Irvine Jr. and his partner were taken to a local hospital where Irvine Jr. died from his injuries. His partner, a 36-year-old MPD officer with four years of service, is in stable condition at this time.
"Officer Irvine gave his life for the people of this community. He served this community because he wanted it to be a better community," said Mayor Tom Barrett. "I ask that everyone in this area remember him and his family in their prayers."
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The Chief says Irvine was just starting with the police force. He began his service with the Milwaukee Police Department at the age of 19 and became a police officer at the age of 21.
A procession of police officers followed Irvine's body from the hospital to the Medical Examiner's Office.
UPDATE: MILWAUKEE (CBS 58) -- The Milwaukee County Medical Examiner confirms that one officer has died after an MPD squad car flipped over near 76th and Silver Spring.
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Perceptual Psychoeducation
PARADIGM of the SENSIBLE
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From DBM Faciatherapy to Somatic-psychoeducation : A biographical analysis of the emerging process of new disciplines
(c) C. Ducasse, Grandbois
Danis Bois - Professeur agrégé, Docteur en sciences de l'éducation, Fondateur du CERAP
Professeur cathédratique invité de l'Université Fernando Pessoa, Psychopédagogue de la perception, Chercheur en sciences de l'éducation
Article translated from French to english by Charles and Cécile Kuhn and Hélène Pennel.
I have dedicated thirty years of my career to the practice, study and experimentation of the relationship to the body in the construction of identity, self-presence and interaction with others. It is clear that time has come for me to relate this and to bring to light the experience and knowledge I have accumulated over all these years. All the knowledge produced in this journey - be it practical intervention protocols, formalized models of the internal dynamic processes of the body, or theoretical hypotheses about certain modes of perception or action - appears truly dense as I realize from my published works. It is therefore quite natural that the project for this article focuses on describing my journey as a practitioner and also as a reflective practitioner.
At the beginning of my health practitioner journey, I was influenced by the rational mind that dominates the world of medical research, where only objective elements are taken into consideration. But gradually, I changed my points of view from experience and what I encountered in my practice. Working every day in a relationship with the sensitive chord of the human body, I encountered a rich and generous subjective life in the interiority of the body. This corporeal subjectivity was taking the form of an internal movement and of a variation of inner states that carried meaningful information for the person questioning it. The relationship to this corporeal subjectivity led me to build a different relation to things and beings, a more creative relationship, inviting me to grasp the meaning of existence in another way.
Re-reading my first book, La vie entre les mains (Touching life within), written in 1989, showed me that my posture as a reflective practitioner is already there . I wrote : "From then on, my practice became my field of experience and observation. Every day I explored and investigated the depth of the body. Gradually, a complete human being was appearing to me¨. (Bois, 1989, p.15).
This posture naturally progresses later on in my second book, Une thérapie manuelle de la profondeur (A manual therapy of depth) written in 1990: "The method continues to evolve, and new information is emerging over time ... I now find myself in a mindset in perpetual mutation. Every moment of my practice is the source of new information that constantly clarifies certain mysteries and nourishes the evolution of the theory. In this way, manifestations which were first felt become solid therapeutic tools. Once their effectiveness is tested, their mode of action is conceptualized so that it can be taught¨. (Bois, 1990, 21).
When M-Christine Josso suggested that I narrate my journey of discovery, arguing that it was time to communicate the process of emergence of the method through the eye of its author, I agreed to this new challenge. It is indeed the only courage that is asked of us that we affirm ourselves as subjects through what we do, say and write. I realise that many things have never been exported from my interiority, that they have accummulated within me and in the end clouded some of the main turning points of my journey. Through this narrative, I have the opportunity to revisit the significant moments of my itinerary.
Throughout my writing, I will avoid a form that is too explanatory and conceptual, preferring a descriptive form more in line with the project of getting the reader to penetrate the human issues that revealed themselves during my career. I could have recounted my career in the stance of a practitioner, teacher or researcher. In the end, I chose another option, placing myself as a subject engaged in his human dimension at the heart of his creation. As I write these lines, I realize that my itinerary of discovery is inseparable from the existential issues that I shared with the patients and students I encountered on my path. It is these issues of embodied human interactivity in the mode of the Sensible that I wish to present in order to allow the reader to grasp the sense of depth that presided over the process of emergence of the method. By revealing the process of emergence from DBM Fasciatherapy to Somatic Psychoeducation, I bear witness to a research practice motivated by a quest for sense and meaning: What does it mean to be human? What is the meaning of life? I will let this sense of depth emerge by itself, holding myself closest to a writing that emanates from the roots of my being: "There is only one way. Enter within yourself. Look deep inside yourself for the reason that pushes you to write; examine whether its roots extend to the depths of your heart; admit it to yourself : would being forbidden to write mean dying ? ¨(Rilke, 1997, 8).
Revisiting my journal and my books dating from 1984 to 1995, I feel a certain tenderness towards the seeker that I was then. It is with indulgence that I review my first works, in which I discover myself both audacious in the content and innocent in the discourse. But beyond the immature form, the content was really anchored in an authentic experience. Faced with the phenomena I encountered, I had adopted at the time a phenomenological attitude to question life. “Harvesting presence. Being there. Because presence is not such as I imagine it must be [...], it is about my presence, about our co-presence: being there, belonging, being part of it, finding myself whole through what is happening, implicated in a privileged way as that in which presence can become meaning ”. (Jourde, 2002, p. 36).
The notion of presence usually concerns above all the relation to others and to the environment, but the nature of the presence that is activated in our approach is a presence to oneself, from a conscious contact with the interiority of the body. In this perspective, living and existing are characterized by autopoiesis, that is to say the self-revelation and self-creation of self from the body’s feeling-sense . This nature of presence to life challenges Descartes’ viewpoint, for whom being alive is not a mode of being "one’s own’. The subject contemplates the world according to an absolute exteriority, since, for Descartes, feeling and sensing can only be thought. From this point of view, perception only makes sense from an "already-known". However, this does not apply to the perception activated in relating to the Sensible body, as penetrating the world of bodily interiority is exploring a "wild region", devoid of any known references.
If phenomenology explores the connection between the body and the world from the perspective of the flesh, the perception ‘of’ The Sensible explores specifically the living link between the subject and their own body and involves the development of a peak perceptual modality capable of penetrating the living interiority of the body. I have called perception ‘of’ The Sensible this paroxysmal character of perception, to define the difference between the sensing perception linked to relating to the world through the exteroceptive senses, and the perception ‘of’ The Sensible convened through self-relationship. The emergence of the material that was used in the elaboration of the method was constructed on this perceptual modality of The Sensible.
In my process of discovery, I was led to question aliveness by relying on a phenomenological praxis. How to become alive? How to approach life? It is by taking into account the formative value of being present to the lived experience of the body, that I was able to open the debate around the question: is it possible to accompany someone to establish a greater proximity with their inner self? This self-presence in the experience also led me to question the connection between the mode of feeling specific to art and experience, and the mode of thinking specific to philosophy. But this questioning required that I renew beforehand the usual perspective on the body (anatomical, mechanical, extension ...) and that I consider it as a living body : support of the "perceiving being", the "feeling being" and the "thinking being". This indeed was the body that I was discovering in my practice and it is from this encounter that DBM Fasciatherapy then Somatic Psychoeducation evolved along a timeline split into four sequences: the discovery of a particular quality of touch; the encounter with authentic gestural movement; the activation of a Sensible introspective mobilization process and, finally, the development of verbal expression emerging from the Sensible. I wish to relate here the progress of this process.
The story of a journey : a biography of experiences lived at the heart of a practice
Revisiting La vie entre les mains, I rediscovered a cruel event in my life, that I had forgotten ... I was relating my reaction to the suicide of a loved one : "The seventeen year old teenager that I was became a man in a split second: how was it possible to make such a choice? Here was a sudden rendez-vous with death or, more accurately, with the idea of death. Until then, I had distanced myself from death, but at the same time, I was discovering that I had also distanced myself from life. Being so close to death, I was thinking about Life even before thinking about my own life.”
Innocently, I thought I would find answers in the books that were strewn over the desk of the person who had been so close to me. I discovered one by Sartre; I still remember this character who was observing himself in a mirror. Who was he looking for? Perhaps in each of us hid another unknown and forgotten person who was going towards life and avoiding such ends. Something clicked: I wanted to know this 'other' in me as soon as possible, and went looking for him. My journey had just begun. (Bois, 1989, p.12). This carefree young teenager, strolling through life, was suddenly sucked into the very heart of life. He was realizing that a man has many faces and that he must go on a quest to find the Grail, see what cannot be seen, hear what cannot be heard and reach what cannot be reached. I realize today that this was a founding moment that influenced my entire life’s path.
Another event also cited in La vie entre les mains was going to challenge me. I recount an episode that happened to me in 1973 as I was a young physiotherapist: "I had to take care of a patient in a state of deep coma, who had just arrived in intensive care. I was going to take care of him and noticed on entering that I knew him: 'If you recognize me, shake my hand three times,' I said. He did, tears running down his face. This encounter was overwhelming: what if deep coma left intact some form of perception ? What if there was another perception ? … "(Bois, 1989: 14). I was discovering, stunned, the existence of a consciousness hiding in the shadows, and I suspected the presence of a type of perception that had to be rediscovered by diving into oneself.
In order to penetrate this mystery, I began to familiarize myself with a practice of introspection. Every day, I offered myself a moment of silence where I closed my eyes and experienced inside my body what had been, until then, inaccessible to my consciousness. So, aged twenty-seven, I wrote this in my journal: "A new wind takes me further: the exploration of inner silence - without any oriented techniques or influences of any kind. I sit in an isolated room, in a position of my choice, and close my eyes. There is in these encounters a taste of the unusual. Every moment is a source of new discoveries, which never match any expectations. These ephemeral sensations continue to resonate in my body. » (Diary, 1976).
What I was encountering was stranger than my understanding was able to conceive, which is why I wrote at the time: "I decided to heal my deafness to the inaudible, not by opening my ears but by unbridling the too rational part of myself. (...) I feel at the edge of something new, but an invisible wall separates me from it still."(Diary, 1976). Up to that point, I was experiencing the intimacy of the body by probing myself during my daily face to face with silence.
The practice of physiotherapy was no longer responding to my quest for depth, which is why, in 1975, I began to study osteopathy, a discipline that seemed more in line with my existential quest. With this practice, I was connecting the subjective life but, this time, through the body of others and no longer just through my own body.
The founders of osteopathy, Dr. Still[i] and Dr.Sutherland[ii], are credited with describing an internal movement in the body, seen as an autonomous organic regulatory force. In the early days, I devoted myself to studying the properties of this inner movement because I recognised an experiential connection with my own practice of introspection. I was exploring this internal force everywhere in my patients’ bodies, but more specifically in the fascias[iii], a tissue that is present everywhere in the body, interwoven around and within every anatomical structure to achieve the functional unity of the body. I wrote in La vie entre les mains : "Osteopathy had already prepared me to feel some tissular manifestations beyond the reach of the conventional medical approaches. Manipulations were a part of it, but above all what I retained was the manual feel of the fascias.. But my desire was to go further and discover the deep reality of fascia and rhythm. (...) More than an enveloping tissue, fascia became for me the support on which the force of life was channeled to serve the body. I learned little by little to detect its slightest adhesions and deepest confidences and to penetrate its intimacy which became Ariadne’s threads in my treatments. (Bois, 1989, p.20).
Gradually, I became aware that the parameters of the internal animation that I perceived did not match those described in osteopathy. The more I progressed in my discoveries, the more I withdrew from the osteopathic model, as I clearly related in my journal: "The motions that I perceive do not fit with the model described in osteopathy. My hands grasp an animation of another nature, slower and engaging not only matter, but also the person as a whole. "(Diary, 1980). This movement seemed much slower, deeper and whole than the one described in osteopathy.
Revisiting my writings, I rediscover the thread running through that led me towards what was going to be the starting point of the development of the Sensible, insofar as the model of the Sensible was born precisely from the study of the relationship that a subject establishes with the inner movement: "As I tuned in to the inner movement through my hands times and times again, I finally accepted that it is not only the organ of silent communication of the body, but also the way by which the body of the human species becomes human. "(Diary, 1980).
I began to develop a new therapeutic concept and founded DBM Fasciatherapy
The Emergence of DBM Fasciatherapy
As human beings, throughout our lives, we are touched by events; everything we have seen, heard, perceived, felt or thought has construced within us a particular state, a coloring of our own. In 1980, through DBM Fasciatherapy, I made a first connection with the biographical dimension of the body: "The fascia is truly the mental skeleton of the individual, imprinting within all the physical or emotional stresses encountered. This is reflected at the body level by lasting tensions in the fascia, creating areas of varying intensity that hinder mobility. (Bois, 1989, 85). I discovered a body infused with dormant tonalities, ready to be reactivated through adequate manual intervention. When I placed my hands on a body, they were connecting with stagnant areas, parts that had become dense, knots that seemed to contain a frozen sensation; as if the body consisted of strata, some of which appearing fossilized, gel-like or anesthetized.
With osteopathy, I was treating an organism. With DBM Fasciatherapy, I was treating a person in their bodies-mind unity. I then introduced what constituted the specificity of DBM Fasciatherapy: Relational Touch or Supporting Point, which consisted in achieving a type of "contact" through touch that triggered a strong sense of engagement in the individual.
I was discovering that the inner movement was more than a flow, more than a circulation expressing vitality. It expressed something deeper, more essential ... I was bathing in the atmosphere of slowness of this movement that unfolded in the tissues and that I described in this way in 1989: "The tissue wraps and unfolds itself at will and tells the undisclosed story of the person: the inner movement guides the therapist’s hands towards the 'knots' hidden in the body’s folds. The touch does not direct the movement; its role is merely to meticulously accompany the journey of the fascia, which knows its own discomfort better than anyone. (Bois, 1989, p.85).
Relational Touch relieved physical pain and at the same time allowed the person to become aware of the transformation of their mental state. During the session, states of physical tension gave way to relaxed states, and states of anxiety to states of calm ... This phenomenon caught my attention. I realized that, by way of an internal psychotonic modulation, DBM Fasciatherapy had a simultaneous influence on both somatic and mind levels. The two poles evidently influenced each other in the sense that, as soon as the body was touched in its depth, it was not just the organism that was concerned, but the whole living being
However, I was becoming aware that some patients did not have access to the underlying inner tonality triggered by Relational Touch. They seemed to be suffering from a form of perceptual blindness when faced with this nature of interiority. This was a real challenge for me ! How could people not perceive the inner phenomenas in their bodies that a stranger had access to through Relational Touch?
Realising this led me to shift my therapeutic actions towards developing a method focused on perceptual enrichment. I thought at that time that if people became aware of the contents of their bodily experiencing, the impact of touch on their health would be increased. A number of existential questions animated me: what is the phenomenon that prevents certain people from encountering their interiority? What are the situations that distance people from themselves? How to create the conditions to allow people to learn to experience themselves in their relationship to their bodies? At the source of these questions lay the will to explore a pedagogy that would allow the greatest number to access this quality of interiority through gestural language.
This phase constitutes a great turning point in the evolution of the method. Until then, the patient was passive under the hands of the practitioner and confided his inner language within the intimacy of the tissues – a language not just inaudible but also invisible to the naked eye. I wondered about the visible / invisible dialectic. What is the best way to accompany a person to express, in the visible world, what they encounter in their invisible inner world? In 1991, I associated with Relational Touch a method of learning in action. It stimulated the development of an awareness of oneself in gestural movement, along a gradual process that evolved from the simplest movements to the most elaborate, the most superficial to the deepest, and the most objective to the most subjective.
I advocated slow gestural movement in order to reproduce visibly the characteristics of the inner movement encountered through Relational Touch. Here again, reading my diary gives me precious reference points about the genesis of this pedagogy: "I was very surprised to find a similarity between the inner movement and the gestural movement. Matching the slow speed of the inner movement and the effected gestural movement triggers an inner resonance in the subject who lives it and expresses it. From within gestural movement, a particular kind of presence plays out."(Diary, 1988).
DBM Fasciatherapy, associated with a gestural movement pedagogy, made it possible to establish a new relation to the body, to lived experience and to thought, bringing in its wake an existential transformation of the individual who was aware of experiencing the Sensible. It is with astonishment that the person, when connected to the experience of the Sensible, sense-felt strong sensations that were until then unknown and revealed to them a quality of self-presence. I noticed that this relationship to the body affected the identity of the person.
As I advanced in my search, the dimension of knowing by contrast took shape. The development of a deeper self-perception curiously brought people to becoming aware of their former bodily state or, more specifically, their previous attitude towards their bodies. In this perceptual context, the person's past seemed to reactivate in the present in the form of tonalities that conveyed the hidden memory of an inner state or of a relationship to an event. The dormant tonalities in the body were often linked to traumas that had embedded in the form of stagnant, unsensing and unconscious areas.
At the very moment this immobility was set in motion again and unsensing areas became sensing again, the person sometimes would go through periods of transitional instability that needed to be accompanied. Indeed, more often than not, people who were discovering a relationship to the inner movement were suddenly discovering themselves by contrast as having been until then distant from their lives and absent from themselves. They were realizing that they had not been attentive to their lives and that it had undermined their quality of presence to their own life. Faced with this understanding, people experienced times of transitional instability as they perceived the gap between what they were discovering in the now and the strategies that this revealed in them. It was necessary to help them find coherence in the face of the upheaval generated by these insights.
I certainly knew how to trigger a process of renewal in the body, but I realized that I did not have much expertise in accompanying people facing growth crises related to their process of transformation. I was also aware that this therapy of the depth engaged the biographical body, which explained some of the growth crises experienced by people during their training.
Emergence of Somatic Psychoeducation
The training I had received in physiotherapy, then in osteopathy, was centred on bodily practices with a mechanical aim, but did not prepare me to accompany the growth crises of people during training. Aged 49, I decided to fill this gap by enrolling in a university course on cognitive psychology, then curative psychoeducation and finally sciences of education[iv]. However, I realized with dismay that the teachings in my university curriculum had not really addressed the question of the relationship to the body.
Being an expert in the relationship with the body from the first part of my professional life, and having acquired a new expertise in the art of accompanying people in their growth process, I created in 2000 a new discipline that combined the field of the body and of learning : Somatic Psychoeducation. A year later, I opened a post-graduation in Somatic Psychoeducation at the Modern University of Lisbon, where I received adult learners specialized in the field of health and education. Only two years later, I created in that same university, a master’s degree in Perceptual Psychoeducation with my colleagues, Marc Humpich, Didier Austry and Maria Leao. Without this, such a movement of emergence would only have been an ephemeral glow of intelligibility if it had not been grasped, worked, tested and shared with others.
An (Psycho) Education
With Somatic Psychoeducation, I formulated an (psycho) education that was rooted in the flesh, in tuning in, in touching, and in the subtle setting in motion of the body. In the context of the Sensible, the body was no longer treated for its own sake, but became the chosen mediation to address the patient as a whole, psyche included. Beyond the therapeutic dimension that I had developed until then, I was formulating a phenomenology of the Sensible body particularly suited to the complete elaboration of a body-centred method of teaching.
The term Somatic Psychoeducation was evident, even if that choice may seem broad in its multidisciplinary aspect as it embraced, in a new paradigm, the three dimensions of body, mind and educating. To justify this denomination, I relied on the etymology of the term soma, which carries with it the idea of the unity between the body and the spirit. The notion of psycho refers to perceptual and cognitive activity oriented towards the grasping of mental states and consciousness. Finally, the term education refers to the fact that relating to the body and the meanings that emerge from this can be taught using a particular modus operandi.
With Somatic Psychoeducation appeared a way of learning that linked perception and cognition, and fitted within a phenomenological vision of the body: "From now on, everything is played out in the body, probably. But there remains a difference between the body as one’s own, which is the only concrete and really experienced body, and the mechanical body which is simply represented and that nobody lives in. » (Petit, 1994, p.19).
In the context of Somatic Psychoeducation, the practical instruments which were in DBM Fasciatherapy essentially oriented towards a cure, became the pretext for experiencing the Sensible, from which the subject could question their bodily experience. I described this nature of experience as an "out-of-the-ordinary experience" (Bois, 2005, p.18), because it activates a perceptual and cognitive ability that is unusual for the individual. Through these out-of-the-ordinary experiences, people are led to re-centre and encouraged to approach their bodily subjectivity and observe what appears in their perceptual field.
The method, which until then had been developped around touch and gestural movement, was enriched by a formative dimension aimed at creating a perceptual and cognitive activity capable of grasping and processing the meaning contained in experiencing the Sensible. To emphasize this new pedagogical direction, I introduced the notion of a helping relationship, more adapted to designate this type of body-mediated personal development approach. This when the touch used became relational touch and the gestural practice became relational gestural movement. A new art of observation of somatic experiencing was now being cultivated... The subtlety of the information that appeared in the body required an intense and sustained attention to interiority. The contact with the inner movement continued to produce permanent inner changes, but what interested me then was to understand how people accessed the meanings conveyed by this relationship to the inner movement.
I identified three obstacles to the experience of the Sensible: the perceptual deficiency that prevented and impeded the sensing of bodily subjectivity during the lived experience; the impervious character of the cognitive schema, either in order to preserve ideas set in place, or by refusal or fear of novelty; and a lack of interest for new knowledge or personal growth.
As well as the important theoretical thinking this finding was leading me into, it invited me to reflect pedagogically in the sense that the obstacles, some of them significant, needed to be dealt with in specific ways. That's how I started to develop a comprehensive facilitation framework encompassing three elements: first, to help learners to recognize what emerged during the experience, what they observed and what they felt; secondly, to help them give meaningful value to what they were living; and finally, to help them reflect back on the experience, i.e. to consider what they were going to do with the experience, where it would lead their thinking, etc.
A phenomenology of the Sensible body was taking shape ... The conditions of out-of-the-ordinary experiences allowed people to become subjects observing themselves and grasping a nature of knowledge emerging from the relationship with their bodies. However, I was faced with a question: what was the link between the world of feeling and that of thinking? The dimension of the Sensible was also taking shape. It became the place of emergence of the articulation between perception and thought, in the sense that experiencing the Sensible revealed a meaning that could be grasped in real time and then integrated into existing cognitive schemas, leading to their contours possibly being transformed. I took the view that any formative action that engages bodily experiencing in the transformation process begins with perceptual education. I then introduced in my approach a chronology of interventions that began with a manual body-mind tuning aimed at restoring a relationship with the body, thus integrating it into the person’s awareness. I then proposed a gestural tuning in order to teach the person how to build a new relationship to movement and to give it a meaningful value. Later, as will be discussed further down, I introduced an introspective dimension of the Sensible allowing the subject to observe and analyze mental states and to perceive inner states in all pedagogical situations.
An innovative theoretical field: the Psychotonus and Perceptual-Cognitive Modifiability
At this stage of emergence, my practice was far ahead of the conceptual field. Indeed, though the practical intervention protocoles had matured, developing the theoretical field of this new discipline was still needed. It’s by reflecting back on the practical intervention protocoles that I conceptualised a sensing and instructive subjectivity of the body quite different from the accepted norm which is criticized for being unreliable. This bodily subjectivity conveyed a true body language linked to the mental landscape of the subject.
I then initiated a method facilitating the dialogue between body and mind, between thought and experiencing and between attention and action, in order to recreate a unity most often lost. To achieve this, I used the manual touch already established but, this time, aimed at the tonic architecture of the individual as I had started to notice the appearance of a tonic modulation [v] under my hands at the manual Supporting Point.
I quickly realized that this tonic modulation was not only the unifying place of the mind and the body, but also that it activated attentional resources of another type in people. The attentional mobilization convened by the psychotonus allowed them to develop an activity of self-observation via the Sensible. This nature of profound observation opened access to an inner life of the psyche that was until then unexplored. They learned to listen to their bodies and their thought through the changes in their tonus. I called this psychotonic identity reconstruction " body-mind tuning ». Body-mind tuning thus became the formative action by which the practitioner reestablished a dialogue between the mind and the body. From then on, I was no longer treating the body without engaging the mind or the mind without engaging the body.
In parallel with the modeling of the Psychotonus and its impacts on body-mind unity, I reflected on the cognitive process involved in relating to the Sensible body. This reflection led me to conceptualize the Perceptual-cognitive Modifiability model (Bois, 2005), which answered both theoretical and educative concerns. I chose to place the word perception before that of cognition to emphasize the importance of enriching perceptual and motor representations before renewing the conceptual representational field. Indeed, all my teaching methods mobilized a high degree of perception of a somatic nature inviting the person to grasp the corporeal subjectivity at the heart of the perceptual act. Engaging the subjective experiences that emerged from corporeality, strongly stimulated people in their cognitive activity. I also noticed that enriching perception, which was systematically proposed as first formative intention, influenced the cognitive patterns of people and, consequently, their conceptual representations. I was abandoning then the idea that cognitive mobilization proceeds solely from an active and voluntary stimulation of the intellect. It was in the end the whole trajectory of the subject in transformation which was reformulated through the model of perceptual-cognitive modifiability.
Introspective mobilization via the Sensible
In order to define the nature of the introspective mobilization present in all pedagogical actions in the mode of the Sensible, I chose the term "Introspection of the Sensible". This method furthered introspective methods that existed already. In their time, Maine de Biran (Bégout, 1995) suggested that we "perceive and sense oneself ", Titchener that we « focus on our sensations", and W. James (1924) spoke of "scrutinizing one’s inner states" while A. de la Garanderie (1989) showed the importance of "understanding our mental gestures". Introspection of the Sensible invited us to a very active introspective analysis of the interiority of the body. It constituted a new practical tool in addition to relational touch and relational gestural movement.
I relied on an analysis of the introspective practice that I had applied to myself for fifteen years in order to develop a methodology aiming to investigate the contents of somatic experiences. In questioning how I did this deep within myself, I noted four important chronological steps in my introspective process. The first one concerned the exploration of the auditory sense. I listened to and entered into silence to nurture my presence to myself. The second one stimulated the visual sense. Through closed eyes, I spotted the presence of a colorful atmosphere that permeated my perceptual field. Then I noticed that this colorful atmosphere was animated by a slow, multidirectional, subjective movement. The third step concerned the internal tonalities resuling from the previous steps. I then turned my attention to the effects produced by this colorful and kinetic atmosphere in the depth of my flesh, and I perceived tonalities that made me resonate to myself. Finally, in the fourth stage, I reached a state of alertness of consciousness that gave me access to an immediate emergence of meaning in the form of thoughts that were not thought out - source of a meaning that is then constructed only through reflection (Bourhis, 2008).
Introspective mobilization via the Sensible allowed people to have access, through a particular mode of feeling, to the characteristics of the Sensible that emerged to the awareness of the subject in the form of an internal movement, warmth, internal tonalities reflecting a feeling of depth, wholeness and existence. But Introspection of the Sensible not only developed the mode of feeling, it also stimualted the development of the mode of thinking. I was witnessing the beginning of a perceptual and cognitive mobilization that would subsequently open access to an immediate emergence of meaning related to the somatic experience.
The person is thus placed in a situation of putting their experience to the test of their reflection - descriptive questioning of the lived experience: “what did I really feel?”, became reflective: "What did I learn from what I felt?” In this stance, it wasn’t enough that the person was feeling, they also perceived the impact of their perception on their way of thinking. Thus, mobilizing a reflective activity through the enrichment of perceptual potentialities was setting in motion matter, consciousness, representations and reflection, which gave the experience an obvious value for learning.
By analyzing the characteristics of the Sensible, I felt that I was engaging in the most personal and intimate attributes of the human being. I emphasized the quality of the singular relationship that humans have with their lives, and observed several tonalities of self-perception relating to the Sensible. Each of these represented a way of being that matched each level of penetration of the Sensible. I thus witnessed the emergence of the model of the Processual Development of the Relationship to the Sensible [1] which reveals itself to the subject in the following chronology (Bois, 2007): from warmth comes a state of depth; from depth emerges a state of wholeness, from wholeness rises the state of self-presence, and from self-presence the sense of existence manifests.
Creating a space to verbalise the Sensible
One-on-one verbalisation facilitation
Most of the time people were dismayed to notice the paucity of their testimonies compared to the richness of their experiences. Faced with these difficulties, I became aware of the need to create a space of verbalisation that would allow people to find a place for self-expression. In 2002, I enriched the practical models of Somatic-Psychoeducation with a new pedagogical stance : Informed Directiveness (Bourhis, 2008). This term referred to the form of verbal guidance that allowed me to actively bring out information that was not spontaneously available to the person's reflection.
It was a challenge as the words we were talking about here had to be related to the Sensible with its specific issues. My main concern was indeed to ensure that, between the silent expression of the body’s tissues and the verbal expression, there was no loss in the nature and quality of the precious information arising from the living relationship to the Sensible body. I wondered: how to let authentic words exist, anchored, embodied in the flesh, words that would leave no space between what is perceived in the body and what is said and that ultimately express the content of the state of being until then silent? Words that, to use F. Roustang’s expression (2003), would do nothing but "express the thought imprinted in the sensorial [...], that is to say the thought of human sensitivity". For this psychoanalyst, the notion of "sensorial words" implies "turning" thought towards the body, constantly putting thought back into the body. My investigation had a different focus: I was looking for words that would result from the experiencing of the body and would be born straight from the body's own thought and not from a thought born in the brain to then talk to the body. I speak of a body that delivers its own thought, an embodied subjectivity that slips into words.
To address this fundamental issue , I had to find a methodology that would link sensing and words. My choice first fell on a descriptive testimony of the lived experience as an act of language. I asked people a series of questions during the course of the manual session: "Does the manual pressure exerted match the one you would like? "; "Is this pressure too strong or not enough? “; "Would you like it somewhere else ? "; "Do you perceive the inner movement in your tissues? "... This formative attitude forced the person to actively pay attention to the internal manifestations of their bodies, accessing information that until then had escaped their perception.
I engaged a second formative level when I asked people to explicate what they felt but, this time, after the body-mind tuning. For some people, this delayed description was poor compared to the description in real time of the experience. This phenomenon was explained by the fact that the "thing experienced" was most often new and sprang up from immediacy: the person had indeed perceived the information emanating from their bodies, but had not memorized it or had not given it significant value. Remembering such a subjective experience stimulates people in a type of memory or a field of experience that is unusual to them.
I then added a third formative level by asking people - again after body-mind tuning - to recount not what they felt but the thoughts that were spontaneously rising to their awareness during the session. People were grasping thoughts they had not elaborated, that had sprang up from their bodies, almost without their knowledge: thoughts of all kinds, that sometimes had nothing to do with their current concerns; a form of escape from themselves that emerged from a place of trust. Some thoughts conveyed new meaning for their lives, offered them solutions, intuitions, even deep inspirations. Others seemed to come from the depths of their memories, reviving situations that they had forgetten over time and yet, at that moment, took on a particular meaning. A verbal dialogue then ensued around this rush of thoughts. They were from another time, had another flavour, and would probably never have come to light under other conditions.
The notion of the biographical body was still evolving. In the verbalisation itself, it was no longer the now of the body-mind manual and gestural tuning that was revisited, but the biographical itinerary of the person; this story was evoked through the words coming from the body, with a clear objective to search for sense and meaning – sense in the three meanings of the term (in French the word ‘sens’ has those 3 meanings): to find a new orientation in one's life, to recontact the bodily experiencing linked to life experience, and to extract a clear and / or new meaning out of this experience.
Somatic-Psychoeducation has recently been enriched by a new practice through the creation a group verbalisation space. In the context of the Sensible, « self- practice" calls on the subject to nurture their relationship with the Sensible body in order to learn from it. But, if the encounter with the Sensible favors a nature of « move towards oneself", to use the expression of MC. Josso (1991), I realized that it was also necessary to orient the person in their « move towards others". I will not develop here the verbal dynamics approach (Bourhis, 2008) but I wish, in order to complete my biographical itinerary, to emphasize the specificities and conditions particular to the group verbalisation space offered by Somatic-Psychoeducation.
Indeed, the population that constitutes the group must first have journeyed within a dual formative relationship. Each participant must have gone through all the stages of discovery of the Sensible (manual, gestural, introspective) and have access to an array of sensations, as well as being able to question their experience of the Sensible before integrating a group dynamic.
Then, before inviting people to speak, a body-mind tuning should be done that can take the form of an introspection of the Sensible or gestural tuning. This practice facilitates a quality of internalization and an atmosphere of reciprocity that unifies the group and contributes to the quality of the exchanges. The encounter with the Sensible mobilizes a powerful intellectual activity conducive to receiving the contents of the lived experience and to offering them to others appropriately, authentically and spontaneously.
Finally, before offering up their biographical narrative, people are invited immediately after the tuning to describe the contents of the experience in question. This testimony is then used as the basic material for the dialogue. The somatic subjectivity thus described triggers the development of sense and meaning connected with the person’s life context or their biography.
As a conclusion, I am now able to retrace the major biographical milestones of my career from the creation of DBM Fasciatherapy to Somatic-Psycheducation. When my friend M.Christine Josso suggested, on the occasion of this book’s publication, that I trace my biographical path, I had no idea how involving this exercise would be. The memories were there, hidden away in my body’s memory, nourishing an abundant subjectivity that carried within memories that, from time to time, sprang up from anonymity. I have had a constant strange feeling of having made no effort that would have required me to participate in a retrospective reflection on an obscure and confused past. Yet, there really were fragments of my past that have come to the surface and brought to light moments that I had probably skipped through too quickly.
In this context of strangeness, where the past rubbed elbows with the present and the present flirted with the past while remaining faithful to my current life, my first task – which I felt to be urgent - was to reconstitute the objective temporality of my path of discovery. As far back as I can remember, I have always had a predisposition to forget the dates of my existence. How could I remember the dates of my career path? I strictly used the support of the traces I had left in my writings. It is how I learned in 1966, at the age of seventeen, that I experienced one of the founding moments of my life. I decided to embrace this destiny that had invited me to question the meaning of life and this is how, in 1973, I started training as a physiotherapist, and then in 1975 started studying osteopathy. If I refer to my first book, I place the emergence of DBM Fasciatherapy in the 1980’s. Eleven years later, in 1991, emerged the gestural movement approach that occupied my mind until 2000, which for me marks the time when Somatic-Psychoeducation emerged.
These dates, reunited with my path, represent the victory of memory over oblivion. Then came the time, while writing, to question my subjective temporality. Experiences, sensations, tonalities and smells were rising to my awareness making me revisit moments of my life that I had put aside and that I was rediscovering with the feeling of never having forgotten them. I noticed that I had kept intact the memory of my subjective temporality. I simply had to summon it in a place where my thought was suspended. Then, the fragments of my life were coming back to light. When I thought too much, my pen carried the weight of a cognitive load that stopped it in its momentum. So I rubbed shoulders with my temporality and, curiously, I experienced through writing my reconstituted life, the feeling of freedom of a feather subjected to the wind. I lightened up the cognitive load that weighed on me at the beginning, which, as I unfolded my own story, gave me the feeling of finding a clearer view of the coherence of my creative journey.
What did I see during this time of writing? First, that I was, without knowing it and at all times, a reflective practitioner who questioned his professional practice, but also his existential self-practice. I noticed that this posture went through my entire journey of discovery. Then, that humanity within man was an idea that had possessed me since the very beginning of DBM Fasciatherapy: behind a therapy, there is a therapist and behind a therapist, there is a person. I therefore respected in my writing this commitment that I had uncovered, and decided to place my analysis under the aegis of the interactive relationship I had with the people who accompanied my life, sometimes even fleetingly during a treatment or while I taught. The narration that I undertook taught me how much real impact the embodied nature of the human interaction had on the process of emergence of the disciplines that today constitute the method. Without the challenge of interacting with the patients and the learners that I met successively as a clinical practitioner or teacher, I would never have transcended the limits that I encountered throughout my creative journey.
I had to go beyond many utopias: the one that conveyed the idea that reconnecting with the body would be enough to find a state of health; the one that made me believe that encountering the inner movement was going to solve people’s psychological problems; or the one that made me believe that becoming aware of the contents of lived experience would be enough to change behaviors. I know today, by revisiting them, that these utopias were the driving force that mobilized me to try to respond to the reality that presented itself. I had to constantly regulate by renouncing each of them, then I had to draw on my perceptual and cognitive resources to offer solutions to the problems that I encountered throughout my career. This is how I came across the six main formative pedagogical situations that guided the process of emergence of Somatic-Psychoeducation.
The first of these goes back to the times of DBM Fasciatherapy when I became aware of the perceptual blindness that some people were suffering from, that hindered the discovery of the inner movement in their bodies.
The second refers to the issue of the passivity of the person in a treatment situation. With DBM Fasciatherapy, patients were receiving a treatment and did not participate actively in the development of awareness. I therefore developed a gestural movement practice to stimulate their involvement in their own treatment process.
The third, and certainly the situation that definitively directed DBM Fasciatherapy towards Somatic-Psychoeducation, is the stimulation of the biographical body of the person through the contact with relational touch. By restoring mobility to fragments of life fixed in the dark corners of the person's body, some faced a growth crisis. Touching an organism was one thing, but touching people through the psychotonus engaged them in their biographical bodies. This sometimes resulted in an existential upheaval that I had to learn to accompany. I took the measure of this and decided to train in how to accompany people in their growth process.
The fourth situation is about the grasping of meaning. Some people had access to their bodily sensations, but failed to grasp the meaning conveyed by their experience of the Sensible body. I then introduced the Introspection of the Sensible into my practice.
The fifth situation relates to people’s difficulty in verbalising their experiences. So I decided to introduce a verbal dialogue between the practitioner and the patient, as a special space for expressing the contents of the experience and the resulting production of knowledge.
Finally, the last formative pedagogical situation concerns the aspect of self-learning when interacting with the Sensible. The analysis of the testimonies of people in contact with the Sensible revealed a certain tendency to exploit the relationship to the Sensible body in an essentially egotic aim. The "moving towards oneself" had to be enriched by a "moving towards others". To regulate this issue, I proposed a group space of verbalisation so that people could learn to listen to others and learn from them.
The above analysis led me to refocus on the founding project of my commitment: "Is it possible to accompany people to establish a greater proximity with themself? ". Of course, such questioning only makes sense on the basis of a radical transformation of what embodied self-presence means. . Thus, I had to characterize the elements of the Sensible as they appeared to me in my creative process. This characterization refers, in effect, to an inner reality that breaks with the idea that this term conveys traditionally: usually, perception refers to a sensitivity essentially linked to the the idea of a relationship to the world through the exteroceptive senses, while the Sensible refers to a deep and vibrant relationship from "self to self" as a starting point of acknowledgement of one's presence to life.
It is precisely through this type of relationship with oneself through the body that the experience takes the status of Sensible, becoming at the same time the place of out-of-the-ordinary experiential learning. The issue of sense and meaning of the experience of the Sensible has been at the center of my inquiry, since validating sense-feeling as a true experience not only has worth as a mode of relation of the subject to the world, but as mode of self-relationship. To this end, validating sense-feeling in the mode of the Sensible requires, on the part of the subject, a perceptual and consciential mobilization activated by a particular quality of relational touch, a pedagogy directed towards inhabited embodied gestural movement and an introspective mobilization questioning the contents of lived experience.
When the contents of lived experience are not apprehended at the heart of out-of-the-ordinary experiencing, they are reduced to a set of discrete contents and constitute a sort of inert material for consciousness. The experience of the Sensible, on the contrary, carries with it singular and meaningful contents of lived experience which are motivating for the person experiencing them.
I elaborated the model of Perceptual-cognitive Modifiability precisely to enable people to apprehend the perceptual and cognitive processes at play to master drawing sense and meaning from the Sensible. Indeed, according to this model, the Sensible is first given in the form of sense-feeling through the development of a peak perceptual activity, then in the form of thinking through an introspective mobilization acting on the representational field of the subject.
Today, the process of emergence of DBM Fasciatherapy and Somatic-psychoeducation directs me towards the creation of the paradigm of the Sensible, which questions the modes of sense-feeling and of thinking .
With regards to the mode of sense-feeling, the Sensible offers itself in the form of a moving corporeal subjectivity, internal, embodied in the flesh, that the subject becomes aware of in immediate experiencing. It is endowed with objective value since it expresses how the body reacts to a way of relating from self to self, but also how thought emerges when in contact with the Sensible body. The nature of this subjectivity had such an objective value in my eyes that it was the center of my doctoral research and resulted in the production of knowledge in the form of the modeling of the « Processual development of the relationship to the Sensible » conceptualized precisely to apprehend the chronology of the emergence of the categories of the experience of the Sensible (inner movement, warmth, depth, wholeness, way of being to oneself, and way of being to others). These categories of the Sensible reveal the constitutive parts of the "sense of existence" particular to the experience of the Sensible. In this way they participate in auto-affection: to feel is always to feel oneself.
I also wanted to expand the mode of thinking that is given in the experience of the Sensible. Here again we find a subjective dimension linked to an introspective mobilization that is in adequacy with the objects of the Sensible that are the goals for the subject. This corporeal subjectivity, in this instance, is not confined solely to the world of experienced and perceived sensation, but opens up to a "non-reflective thinking activity" following a dynamic of emergence that does not go through the usual reflective paths. This nature of thought, which has not been previously thought of by the subject, results in an emergence of meaning that is not referenced in the previous schema of the subject. This emergence of meaning has the following characteristics: it is immediate, internal, immanent, non-reflective and conveys intelligible contents of meaning for those who grasp them at the heart of bodily experiencing. The practice of this type of knowing gives us access to a "form of sense-felt thought ", or a "form of thought sense-feeling".
This interweaving of genres constitutes a challenge to the dialectic of feeling / thinking since the sensation conveys the beginnings of a meaningful thought. We are witnessing here a new cogito, the "cogito of the Sensible" which carries with it the idea that sense-feeling, as an embodied motion, and thinking as an immanent knowledge, combine their singularities to give rise to knowledge generated within acts of relating. The emergence of meaning is then picked up by the subject, when s/he develops a reflective activity around the meaning spontaneously offered to their awareness. This cognitive operation leads to the subject making sense of this meaning by reflecting back on the experience passed or in the dynamic of the temporality that is forthcoming…
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Bois D. Josso MC, Humpich M. (Orgs.), (2008) O Sujeito sensivel é renouvação do eu, as contribuçães da Fasciatarapia e da somato-psicopedagogia, Éditions Paulus, centre universitaire de São Camilo du Brésil
[1] Voir l’article suivant dans ce numéro, de Marc Humpich et Géraldine Lefloch
[i]Le docteur américain Andrew T. Still (1828-1917) est le fondateur de l’ostéopathie. Il crée en 1892 l’American School of Osteopathy.
[ii] W.G. Sutherland (1873-1954), élève de Still, fonde en 1895 la cranio-sacral therapy, ou l’ostéopathie crânio-sacrée.
[iii] Le mot latin « fascia » signifie bande, bandelette. En termes médicaux, il recouvre l’ensemble des tissus conjonctifs arrangés en nappe : aponévroses (enveloppes des muscles), membrane dure-mérienne (enveloppes du cerveau et de la moelle épinière), péritoine (enveloppe des viscères) plèvres (enveloppe des poumons) etc. Le fascia est omniprésent dans le corps, étendu sans discontinuité de la tête aux pieds et de la profondeur à la périphérie.
[iv] Ce parcours universitaire se finalisa neuf ans plus tard par une thèse de doctorat en Sciences de l’éducation présentée à l’Université de Séville et dont le thème était en lien avec l’accompagnement du processus de transformation de l’adulte au contact du sensible : Bois D. (2007). Le Corps sensible et la transformation des représentations de l’adulte, Thèse de Doctorat en didactique et organisation des institutions éducatives, Séville : Université de Séville.
[v] Le praticien perçoit, sous sa main, une modulation psycho-tonique qui se manifeste d’abord par un délai d’apparition de la tension tonique suite à un toucher relationnel adéquat. Progressivement, il assiste en direct à une diffusion de cette tension dans l’étendue du corps (contagion tonique). Puis il perçoit l’implication de la personne à travers l’intensité de la réponse tonique qui atteint un seuil maximum traduisant la confrontation entre la force de renouvellement du corps et la force de préservation (moment intense de confrontation perceptivo-cognitive : constructivisme immanent). Enfin, la main perçoit un relâchement tonique donnant lieu à un mouvement interne de résolution de la résistance tissulaire et cognitive.
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Jacqueline X started this petition to Supervising Judge of Family Courts--Erie County Judge Janice M. Rosa and 7 others
This is important for justice of N.G. and regaining relationship, love, and trust with her mother as well as society as a whole. It is also important because it will change the circumstances for thousands of other children and families adversely affected by Judge Bailey's decisions. N.G. has been on supervised visits with her mom since May 2011. There have been no incidents during the visits and in fact mom has been an ideal model parent at visits, and is often asked for new workers to be allowed to observe the visits.
Jacqueline Bontzolakes suffered enormous physical, sexual, mental, and emotional anguish at the hands of her abusive partner. As she tried to separate herself legally from him, he filed no fewer than 30 family court petitions against her, and as is common with victims of domestic violence, she lost custody of her daughter after seven gruelling years of constant petitions. But in a twist too horrific for most of us to fathom, the girl’s father allowed a registered sex offender to be alone with and even sleep in the same room as his daughter, as he worked overnight shifts. As Jacqueline became aware of the situation she voiced her concerns to both a family court judge who had recently awarded father full custody. The judge refused to relieve Ms. Bontzolakes' petition to keep her daughter a safe distance from a sex offender. When Ms. Bontzolakes realized that the judge was not going to assist in protecting the child from grave and eminent danger, she did the only thing she could do ensure the daughter's safety- she "abscounded" with her. Within months of that petition to the judge (even while Ms. Bontzolakes was detained), several more witnesses filed CPS complaints about the child being left alone with the registered sex offender. When that was brought up at the next court date, the same judge refused to protect the daughter again. Finally, nine months later, the father’s "safety plan" included locking her in a bedroom at night. Which was approved by CPS as a legitimate was to protect the child! We are asking for a judicial review of Jacqueline Bontzolakes cases (Federal Docket case # 1:10CR00262-001, and Erie County Family Court Docket # F-04837-03 and any other variations of the docket # or numbers including F-4837-03) as she is about to start her prison sentence related to the kidnapping. Most parents and decent people will agree with me that Jacqueline’s degree of love and devotion to her daughter warrant an award, not a prison sentence. If Jacqueline goes to prison, her daughter will lose the relationship she still has with her mother, making the little girl more vulnerable to the “grooming” process that pedophiles use to ensnare children. This is a recipe for ruining a child’s innocence. We must take a stand to protect children. Jacqueline was convicted of violating the International Kidnapping Law, Federal Court refused to allow in evidence to satisfy the Legal Affirmative Defense. That her actions were justified because the kidnapping was a response to save her daughter from great harm. The laws surrounding kidnapping of children must be enforced, but not at the expense of a fair trial.
Jacqueline deserves an investigation into why the evidence to support her claim that she was protecting her daughter. In addition, her daughter deserves an investigation into the sordid circumstances that precipitated her mom's action and deserves to be safe. In recent Federal trial, father admitted that 'occasionally' he leaves the daughter with his brother-- the sex offender. A judicial review of both these court dockets is the first necessary step in this process.
Call for action. Please remove Judge Bailey from hearing any other petitions that are brought about by Mr. N.E.G. and/or Ms. Jacqueline Bontzolakes. Your actions will save a family from continued damage.
We are HUMBLY requesting a FULL INVESTIGATION of this case from the inception until present order, which states it is a final order. One that Ms. Bontzolakes has recently tried to modified and was instructed by the clerk and the clerks supervisor that she could not file a petition. We want a careful judicial review, as well as a citizens review of every court date. Futhermore we want a a public apology from Judge Bailey, and reunification of the family effective immediately until such investigation is completed.
http://www.change.org/petitions/unity-and-re-unification-we-deserve-a-second-chance
MY EVENT (continuous call to action):
https://m.facebook.com/events/463223360410372?ref=bookmark&__user=684631600
MY SITE to HELP OTHER FAMILIES:
https://m.facebook.com/familysolutioncenter?__user=684631600
Other families also need your help! So I started this page...
https://m.facebook.com/PetitionsInvolvingFamilyCourtInjustices?__user=684631600
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Port Authority working to put together new website
By Gregory Tejeda
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Allison Bergman, an attorney for the Gary Port Authority, studies the prototype of a website she has designed for the authority. (Gregory Tejeda / Post-Tribune)
The arrival of spring has the Gary Port Authority working hard to create a website that will better explain to businesses just what the benefit of a shipping port at Buffington Harbor would be.
The authority’s board has been discussing creation of a website in recent months, with officials saying they’re closer to having such a site up and running.
Board member William Godwin said he believes the Port Authority could have its own website up some time during April, and he said officials have been working with Gary municipal government’s IT department for technical advice on how to go about creating a website.
Officials said they’re still trying to decide whether a Port Authority site would be best off as a separate site, or as a part of the official city website at https://garyin.us.
Allison Bergman, an attorney for the Port Authority, said officials already have obtained access to the web address GaryPortAuthority.com for use during the next three years – in the event it wishes to have a separate address.
Bergman said there likely would be links created on the city website to lead people to the Port Authority website.
Bergman in recent weeks has created a prototype of what a Port Authority website could look like, although she admits her design is based heavily on the designs used for websites by other port districts across the country.
She envisions a site that would put many of the Port Authority’s official documents online, along with reports updated periodically as to the Authority’s activities.
“I’m really excited about this,” Bergman said.
Godwin said he considers creation of a website a priority because he believes many people are not really aware that the city created a Port Authority just over a year ago, and what it has the potential to do for the city.
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“It is a tool that can help promote us among businesses,” Godwin said. “It would tell people who we are, and what we do.”
In other business, economic development coordinator Bo Kemp informed the Port Authority that Indiana General Assembly officials continue to negotiate on bills that, if approved, would relocate the Majestic Star Casino from the Buffington Harbor area – which would clear the way in coming years for development of the area into a full port.
Kemp said he expects the state legislature to be finished with the issue for the year prior to the Port Authority’s next scheduled meeting April 24.
Gregory Tejeda is a freelance reporter for the Post-Tribune.
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Publish Date January 13, 2020
Asciminib Shows Clinical Activity for Pretreated CML in Phase 1 Trial
Asciminib appeared to have clinical activity in a population of heavily pretreated patients with chronic myeloid leukemia, including those with a T315I mutation.
Asciminib appeared to have clinical activity in a population of heavily pretreated patients with chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) who had developed resistance or unacceptable toxicity during treatment from tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs), according to the results of a phase 1 dose-escalation study (ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT02081378). The findings were published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
The trial enrolled 150 patients, of whom 141 had chronic-phase and 9 had accelerated-phase CML. Eligible patients were those who developed resistance to or unacceptable toxicity from prior treatment with at least 2 TKIs. All patients received asciminib monotherapy between May 2014 and September 2017.
Asciminib was given once or twice per day. Patients on a once-daily schedule had 3 possible dose levels (ie, 80 mg [18 patients], 120 mg [22 patients], and 200 mg [12 patients]) and patients on a twice-daily schedule had 7 possible dose levels (ie, 10 mg [1 patient], 20 mg [14 patients], 40 mg [35 patients], 80 mg [12 patients], 150 mg [13 patients], 160 mg [7 patients], and 200 mg [16 patients]).
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The trial population was heavily pretreated, with most patients (70%) having received at least 3 prior TKIs.
All patients had an adverse event of any grade, and 60% had a grade 3/4 adverse event. The most common grade 3/4 adverse events were increased lipase levels (10%), thrombocytopenia (9.3%), and hypertension (9.3%). A total of 5 dose-limiting toxicities occurred for the twice-daily schedule and 3 for the once-daily schedule. A maximum tolerated dose was not identified.
A complete hematologic response rate of 92% (34 of 37 patients) was seen among patients with chronic-phase CML without a T315I mutation at study entry.
Overall, nearly half (48%) of evaluable patients with chronic-phase CML had or maintained a major molecular response by 12 months, which included patients who had developed resistance or unacceptable toxicity during ponatinib treatment. Among the 18 patients with chronic-phase CML who had with a T315I mutation at baseline, 5 (28%) achieved or maintained a major molecular response by 12 months.
The study authors described the clinical activity seen with asciminib as “durable.”
Disclosure: The study was supported Novartis Pharmaceuticals. Some of the authors disclosed financial ties with pharmaceutical and medical device companies. For a full list of disclosures, please refer to the original study.
Hughes TP, Mauro MJ, Cortes JE, et al. Asciminib in chronic myeloid leukemia after ABL kinase inhibitor failure. N Engl J Med. 2019;381(24):2315-2326.
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NDLM Centre opened for Khulewadi slum dwellers
— Sakal Times
National Digital Literacy Mission (NDLM) Centre was launched at Khulewadi slum near Chandan Nagar in Pune. The centre will train underprivileged communities in digital literacy. Cybage Software Pvt Ltd and NASSCOM Foundation have jointly announced the launch at a press conference on Thursday.
Cybage will facilitate the training infrastructure and trainers at the centre. The centre is expected to train 500 people in a year on all digital devices, specifically, computers and mobile phones. Shrikant Sinha, CEO, NASSCOM Foundation, said that digital literacy is the single largest tool for the empowerment of the underserved and rural communities. “Though sending an email might look like a small task, it can play a major role for the underprivileged classes. Like many other success stories we have, digital literacy has helped these participants successfully find a new way to employ themselves and move ahead in life,” added Sinha. He mentioned that the initiative aims to synchronise vocational training with digital literacy to help the underprivileged community.
The training will enable the participants to send emails and network on social media. Digital literacy will help them to use the internet to avail various government services as well. While interacting with the media, Ritu Nathani, Director, Cybage, and Managing Trustee, Cybage Khushboo, the CSR arm of Cybage Software Pvt. Ltd said that Digital Literacy is one of the important pillars of the ‘Digital India’ campaign.
“Cybage-Khushboo is relentlessly engaged in shaping the lives of economically deprived individuals by fulfilling their educational aspirations. It gives us immense pleasure to partner with the Digital Literacy Volunteering Campaign initiated by the NASSCOM Foundation,” said Nathani.
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Brit parents admit have no idea what kids should be eating
PARENTS admit they have no idea what their children should be eating and need more guidance on their little one's nutritional requirements.
Two thirds admitted to being confused about what vitamins and minerals the children should have in their diet, and those that did, were unsure as to the best foods to provide it.
Seven in 10 parents know youngsters should consume five portions of fruit and veg a day – but 29 percent admit they have no idea why.
When it came to knowing where to source certain vitamins, more than 15 percent were clueless how to consume more vitamin C.
A fifth of the 2,000 parents with kids aged 4-16, polled by Boots Kids Vitamins, did not know which foods to eat to boost their vitamin D levels.
The Department of Health recommends that all children, aged six months to five years, are given vitamin supplements containing vitamins A, C and D every day.
But 43 percent of parents are unaware of this and do not know which vitamins their children are advised to take.
Despite this, 66 percent claim to be generally clued-up about vitamins and minerals - with 15 per cent describing themselves as 'very knowledgeable'.
Vitamins expert and Boots Kids Vitamins spokeswoman Parminder Kaur said: "Brits are more conscious than ever about what they put into their bodies.
"However, while sources like the internet have made lots of information available, there is also a lot of disinformation out there which can be hard to filter out.
"So, it's not surprising there is confusion around how much we need of certain types of vitamins, or even where to get them from.
29 percent of parents don't know why their kids should eat 5 portions of fruit and veg per day (Image: GETTY)
"This can be especially difficult for parents, who have to find the balance between what their children will actually eat, and then work out if it's good for them or not."
It also emerged one in five parents mistakenly believe that if they're not getting enough of a certain vitamin, they can just make up the difference by getting more of the other ones.
Only four in 10 were able to currently identify vitamin C as something that helps absorb iron into the body and supports the immune system.
And just a tenth were able to name the recommended daily dose of vitamin D, which is just 10 micrograms.
43 percent of parents don't know which vitamins their children are advised to take (Image: GETTY)
Twice as many people believe the suggested amount is 10 milligrams - which is 1,000 times more than advised.
Vitamin A - also known as retinol - is mainly used in the body to maintain healthy skin and eyes, but millions of us are totally unaware of this.
A tenth think it helps bodies make white blood cells, while others believe vitamin A helps blood clot or maintains blood pressure, according to the OnePoll.com data.
The study also found one quarter of British parents worry about the levels of nutrition their children are getting, with 56 per cent giving their children a vitamin supplement product.
Vitamin A promotes the healthy growth of skin and eyes, but most parents don't know this (Image: GETTY)
But of those that don't, 10 percent worry that supplements contain too much sugar, and another 28 percent aren't even sure which products they would need.
Parminder Kaur added: "All parents would agree it's vitally important to make sure your child grows up eating the right things.
"Whilst children should be able to get all the essential nutrients they need from diet alone, sometimes they can be fussy with their diet, which is where a vitamin supplement can come in handy.
"Even if you think your children get a generally healthy diet, you may wish to consider a general multivitamin as a way of filling in any nutritional gaps they may have."
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China Markets
Chinese stocks make symbolic debut on widely followed index
Published Fri, Jun 1 20182:00 AM EDT Updated Fri, Jun 1 20182:52 AM EDT
Cheang Ming@cheangming
Close to 230 China A shares debuted on MSCI's emerging market benchmark on Friday.
Investors are expecting the move to attract billions to the mainland market.
Still, concerns over market intervention and capital controls lingered.
Qilai Shen | Bloomberg | Getty Images
Close to 230 China A shares debuted on index provider MSCI's emerging markets benchmark on Friday, a move investors expect will attract billions of dollars in inflows to the mainland market.
The partial inclusion of the A shares — yuan-denominated stocks traded on the mainland — to MSCI's Emerging Markets Index takes place in two phases, with the second step only coming in August.
Among the names included were a mix of financials, consumer and developer names such as Kweichow Moutai, which makes premium liquor; BYD, an electric vehicle manufacturer; China's largest lender Industrial and Commercial Bank of China and Ping An Insurance.
ZTE, the telecommunications equipment company currently banned from purchasing U.S. technology, and four other names were not added, MSCI said earlier in the week.
Upon completion of initial A shares inclusion, China's proportion of the index — which currently includes shares of Chinese companies listed in Hong Kong — will stand at 31.3 percent. Full inclusion would see A shares account for 16 percent of the index and China making up 42 percent of the index.
Friday's inclusion, however, failed to buoy sentiment in greater China markets, which slipped in afternoon trade: The declined 0.53 percent and the smaller Shenzhen composite fell 0.9 percent. Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index was lower by 0.17 percent.
The dip came after more than 1 percent gains on benchmarks in Hong Kong and on the mainland in the last session.
Mostly symbolic, for now
The move is seen as an important symbolic one, even though the roughly $22 billion in capital inflows expected to go into A shares is seen as a drop in the bucket compared to the size of China's domestic market.
"The quantum of dollars right now is relatively small ... but what it does is it starts a process that will include China A shares as a bigger and bigger component of this very important benchmark over time," Jon Howie, head of equity index strategy at BlackRock, told CNBC's "Squawk Box."
The pros and cons of China's A-shares MSCI EM inclusion
Although the move will have a limited impact on the A share market, it was still an extremely significant step in the opening-up process of China's capital account, said Haibin Zhu and Karen Li, J.P. Morgan's chief China economist and head of China equity research, respectively.
"China's equity market now officially enters the global space," the J.P. Morgan analysts said in a note.
A full inclusion in the future would also suggest more changes on the horizon for the mainland market.
"Certainly if you get up to full weighting, then it's going to be a very different emerging markets index, but you would think also it's going to be a very different China as well," said Fraser Howie, an independent analyst.
"Ultimately, MSCI is agnostic on the stocks to a large extent, they're looking at them for structure: Can I get my money in and out? Is it safe to invest? Have I got some degree of investor protection? And if you're at 100 percent, then China's really opened up in quite a dramatic way," he added.
Lingering concerns
But even though the event, which was some five years in the making, "could change the face of EM investing," concerns over issues such as market intervention and capital controls have persisted.
"Of course there are some issues remaining. Trading suspension is one of the issues, there is also potentially a CNH (off-shore yuan) issue. But the process is very progressive," said Frank Benzimra, head of Asia equity strategy at Societe Generale.
He added that MSCI's decision to give A shares the thumbs up after three years of rejecting them meant that some efforts to rectify issues had been taken by Chinese regulators and exchanges.
"Liquidity risk and market intervention, unfortunately, would be part and parcel of investing in A shares at this stage," Pruksa Iamthongthong, senior investment manager at Aberdeen Asset Management Asia, told CNBC's "Street Signs."
Still, as more institutional investors participate in the market and as regulators deal with new rules, things could "become more conventional" in the future, Iamthongthong said.
— CNBC's Evelyn Cheng contributed to this report.
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Because of security reasons and peaceful running of the festival, we decided to set certain rules. Every visitor of the festival should behave according to these rules. In case of their violation we will have take the person responsible for their violation out of the festival and deny entry again. In this case any claims to return the entry fee won't be taken into consideration.
It is forbidden to drink or keep any alkoholic drinks within the premises of the festival
It is forbidden to keep or use any toxic material and drugs.
It is forbidden to smoke within inner the premises of the festival.
The visitors have to wear the ticket on their hand in a vissible way. Tickets must not be torn away, such a ticket is invalid and you won't get a new one.
It is forbidden to sit on the floor in the toilet, chat or eat.
Visitors have to throw litter into the bin! They musn't throw litter on the floor.
In case of polluting the premises of the festival, the person resposible for this must clean it up.
It is forbidden to use electric devices within the premises of the festival.
It is forbidden to steal or destroy things that belong to someone else.
Visitors have to follow the orders of the organisers.
Visitors have to behave without any act of rude behaviour and violence.
It is forbidden to run within the premises.
It is only allowed to sleep within rooms kept for sleeping.
From 22:00 until 07:00 it is necessary to keep night silence.
Posters of ani advertisements may be posted in places reserved for this after the approval from the main organiser.
Any form of weapons is forbidden within the premises of the festival, in case of models for cosplays, these weapons have to be registered at the infobooth.
The models of weapons for cosplaying have to be used in such way, which won't hurt anyone. These weapons have to registered at the infobooth right after the entry.
It is allowed to take photos and record videos at the festival only, if they will be submitted also to the organisers of the festival for use on the official website www.animeshow.sk and www.game-expo.sk and facebook. Please be son kind and send us the photos and videos to foto-at-animeshow.sk and foto-at-game-expo.sk.
Organisers reserve their right to change these rules or add new ones.
Tips, tricks and advice:
Behave according to the rules!
All information about the fesival are on the website, program magazine or at the Info Booth
Don't touch and don't do anything with the machines belonging to the festival.
If you break or destroy anything, please let us know! We won't hurt you.
Be kind to others and respect their existence.
Please take all valuables with you and keep good eye on them. We don't take any responsibility for their loss.
Organisers and lecturers are also humans and aren't perfect. So please have som patience please!
Eat! We really mean it! Don't play with your health when you are exhausted.
From time to time have a look at IPA (Information PAnels), all important news, information and changes will be there.
Rooms, workshops, lectures and games have their maximum limit of visitors, so who comes first has better chance to get there.
Never, NEVER dring Tuareg tea after 2:00 am, you will be awake until 6:30 and have too much energy.
Please keep your gender in mind and visit toilets and showers edicated to your gender. If you have any doubts about your gender, we will give you advice at the Info Booth.
Sleap at least 8 hours a day. Otherwise after 3 days you will be really exhausted and look like zombies.
The book of wishes, comments, propousals and complaints will be at the Info Booth.
Visitors aren't animals, so they may enter the festival..
1. What is AnimeSHOW?
AnimeSHOW is an international festival about anime, manga, games and Japanese culture and KPOP + Scifi & Fantasy
2. What is GAME EXPO?
GAME EXPO is an international exposition of computer games, card games and board games.
3. What is IstroCON?
IstroCON is an international festival about sci-fi, fantasy, horror and card & board games.
4. What is Comics SALON?
Comics SALON is an international festival about comics, manga, anime, games and Japanese culture.
5. What is comics?
Comics is a sequence of the pictures that gives the sense, some idea or a story. We distinguish between European comics, American comics and Japanese comics (manga). There are also the different movements within, such as mainstream, underground, artistic etc. All of the aforementioned are comics.
Many people are mistaken and consider only the drawn stories about familiar American super-heroes to be comics.
Comics are all the cartoon stories regardless of difference in genre, drawing style or country of origin.
6. What is manga?
Manga is a Japanese term for comics. It is a sub-group of comics, a comics in its own right.
7. What is anime?
Anime is an animated movie based on comics.
8. How can I buy a ticket?
Please visit our section TICKETS in our menu.
9. Will it be possible to buy a ticket on the spot?
Yes, it will.
10. How can I order an accomodation?
Please visit our section ACCOMODATION in our menu.
11. How does the pre-order process work?
Please visit our section TICKETS and ACCOMODATION in our menu.
12. Why can't I take a dog or another pet to the event?
Considering the amount of visitors, pets are a potential threat to other people and their health.
13. Who do I have to talk with to ask something about the event?
The best way is to contact us through our FaceBook site.
14. Where is the program?
There is an PROGRAM section in the left menu. Click on that icon and you’ll discover an Excel sheet with the program, if it has been released already.
15. Why does your event even exist and what is its goal?
AnimeSHOW wishes to spread and popularize the so called pop-culture of comics, anime, manga, games and Japanese culture. It wants also to dispose of prejudice and intolerance within the general populace and to introduce it to this kind of culture. One of the main goals is the support of Slovak authors and the publicity of their artworks.
16. What does AS have to do with CS and Istrocon?
It is the member of the family IC and CS. It focuses mainly on the goals of CS and is here to make the waiting for next CS and IC more pleasant.
17. Why do the organisers even do these events?
Most likely, they are crazy enough to do this work for free for others in order to amuse them and to help the authors and artists in Slovakia.
18. What do I have to do to cooperate with you?
19. How will I know where which room is?
Please look at the map which is part of the CMGAZINE you got at the entrance or look at our website.
20. When are the game tournaments played?
As specified in the program, right after the registration is finished. Some tournaments are held as bonus on the spot and are not part of the program.
21. What are the prizes for the competitions?
Nice and valuable, for sure. Our partners bring the prizes to the event and we don't know them in advance
22. Where is the map of the festival?
You receive it in the program CMAGAZINE at the entrance, also it is on our website.
23. Are there any additional floors on the festival?
Yes, there are two floors. Look at the map that you got in the CMAGAZINE
24. What will happen if I buy a ticket using pre-order?
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Dr. Lawrence Cheung and the team from GE Global Research are maximizing the power production of clean energy wind farms.
As a clean, renewable energy source, wind power is unbeatable. Research studies show that wind, harnessed effectively, could meet all the world’s energy demands.
But a gap still exists between potential and reality ... a gap that Lawrence Cheung and GE Global Research are working on closing.
“We’re trying to understand what the wind is doing around the turbines, why it might not be getting enough power here or why it’s not efficient there."
Dr. Cheung is a lead mechanical engineer at GE Global Research Center’s Aerothermal discipline. There, he studies wind and noise — elements critical to the design of wind turbines and wind farms.
“The research is so interesting,” Cheung says. “We’re trying to understand what the wind is doing around the turbines, why it might not be getting enough power here or why it’s not efficient there. It’s a process of capturing better clues and filling in missing gaps.”
Cheung calls the science and technology of wind energy a “grand challenge.” For one, wind is almost mythically difficult to track and measure. Not only is it invisible to the naked eye, wind motions vary in scale and their movements change hourly, daily and seasonally.
From a product development standpoint there’s the ongoing challenge of refining turbine blade design for maximum cost efficiency, productivity and noise mitigation.
Then there’s the placement of turbines in relation to one another. Turbines grouped together in a land-based wind farm affect the flow of wind, and thus, energy capture.
“In a wind farm you want to figure out the optimal layout and spacing for each wind turbine to maximize their output,” Cheung says. “To do that we have to get better at predicting the kind of wind that will come in.” And traditional methods such as radar and wind measurement devices don’t provide a comprehensive enough picture of what’s going on around an entire array of turbines.
Answers to all these challenges can be found in one approach — computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations. But the size and scale of the data required to simulate wind movements would translate to months of calculations on anything other than a supercomputer.
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Using their Cray system, Cheung and GE are running predictive simulations of wind farms in a couple of weeks. “Instead of going out there with radar we’ll set up a simulation for that equivalency,” Cheung says.
Cheung and the team are encouraged by what they’ve accomplished so far. “We’ve been able to measure and repeat what we’ve seen in the atmosphere,” he says. “We can see what’s going on in the wind field around the turbine and those learnings will be built into some of the next turbines.”
Supercomputing capability has been critical to that insight. “We’re getting things that can’t ever be reasonably measured in the field. We’re getting information that would be impossible to measure by others means,” Cheung says. And with that, the gap between potential and reality shrinks.
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SILENCE: Light @ Descanso Gardens
Discover SILENCE, a new concert series presenting music and performance unconstrained by genre, at specific sites within Descanso’s “living collection” of horticulture. On Sept. 21, we explore the theme Light with artist Suzanne Ciani. Mia Barcia-Colombo, Yuri Inoo, Cristina Montes Mateo, Vicki Ray, and Diana Wade perform Anna Thorvaldsdottir’s In the Light of Air.
Tickets are $30 for Descanso Gardens members and $37 for non-members. Get your tickets here:
Created by artistic directors Christopher Rountree, the conductor/composer who founded Wild Up, and Anna Bulbrook, the indie-rock musician and founder of Girlschool, SILENCE presents artists at the intersection of experimental popular music and classical new music. SILENCE explores three themes – Ritual (Sept. 7), Light (Sept. 21), and Listening (Sept. 28) – bringing unbounded sounds to the special outdoor space at Descanso Gardens.
Suzanne Ciani | Mia Barcia-Colombo | Yuri Inoo | Cristina Montes Mateo | Vicki Ray | Diana Wade | Anna Thorvaldsdottir, composer
SILENCE: Listening @ Descanso Gardens
SILENCE, a new concert series unconstrained by genre within the Gardens, concludes on Sept. 28 with an exploration of the theme: Listening. L’Rain and Julia Holter perform their own works; Lisa E. Harris performs her pieces alongside the participatory deep listening pieces of Pauline Oliveros; and Gloria Cheng performs selected John Cage’s Sonatas and Interludes for prepared piano.
Created by artistic directors Christopher Rountree, the conductor/composer who founded Wild Up, and Anna Bulbrook, the indie-rock musician and founder of Girlschool, SILENCE presents artists at the intersection of experimental popular music and classical new music. SILENCE explores three themes – Listening (Sept. 7), Light (Sept. 21), and Ritual (Sept. 28) – bringing unbounded sounds to the special outdoor space at Descanso Gardens.
Gloria Cheng | Lisa E. Harris | Julia Holter | L’Rain | John Cage, composer | Pauline Oliveros, composer
wanderPLAY @ Descanso Gardens
Come connect with nature as you wander through the Rose Garden to breathtaking views at sunset. Musicians will be improvising mystical tones a long with other hidden interactive surprises. This is an opportunity for grown-ups to tap into their creative and playful side.
wanderPLAY explores human connection through meditation, dance, and movement. The only goal is to get lost — lost in time, in the moment, in your right brain and in your inner-child.
Tickets are $20 for members, $30 for non-members. Advance registration required. Register online here, in person at the Descanso Gardens Visitor Center or by phone at (818) 949-7980. Please note that this program is non-refundable.
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Carved @ Descanso Gardens
Oct 23 @ 6:30 pm – 10:30 pm
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For five evenings only, 1,000 hand-carved pumpkins—some as large as 100 pounds—will line a path through the Camellia Forest. The one-mile walk features expertly carved real pumpkins and live carving demonstrations. Carved runs from October 23–27, 6:30–10:30pm.
Tickets are $25 each for Descanso Gardens members and $30 each for non-members. Sell out is likely.
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Experience the wonder of Enchanted Forest of Light from November 17 to January 5. New this year is contemporary sculptor Tom Fruin’s magical “stained glass” creation which will grace Descanso’s Mulberry Pond. Popular favorites returning include the Ancient Forest, Flower Power, and “Celestial Shadows” by HYBYCOZO.
Enchanted is a rain-or-shine event. Tickets are non-refundable, have timed entry and must be purchased in advance. See our FAQs about Enchanted here.
Categories: Activity Enchanted Food and Wine Older Children (Over 5) Young Children (Under 5)
Cool Camellia Celebration @ Descanso Gardens
Celebrate our iconic camellia collection during peak blooming season on Saturday and Sunday, January 11 and 12. Enjoy crafting, walks and more among these blooming winter beauties. Included in the price of regular Descanso Gardens admission, no reservations required.
Camellia Crafting
Make your own camellia-inspired craft to take home.
Camellia Demonstrations
Steve Medford demonstrates pruning camellia plants on Saturday, and George Harrison will lead a floral arranging demonstration on Sunday.
Camellia Walks
Join camellia experts from the Southern California Camellia Society for a tour of Descanso’s collection at 2pm on Saturday and Sunday. Dr. Bradford King will lead the walk on Saturday, and James Fitzpatrick will lead the walk on Sunday.
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Review: The Last Guardian
2016-12-05 16:00:00by Chris Carter
Hopefully not the last from Team Ico
How do you really prepare for a review for The Last Guardian? You can't.
I mean, you can try. I replayed ICO and Shadow of the Colossus once Guardian had a firm, really real release date, to try to have a fresh frame of reference, but going into a game from Fumito Ueda, you really need to be ready for anything.
The Last Guardian (PS4 [reviewed on a PS4 Pro])
Developer: SIE Japan Studio
Publisher: Sony Interactive Entertainment
Release: December 6, 2016
[Like Team Ico's other games, it's best if you go in completely blind, so I'll avoid major story spoilers.]
The Last Guardian is framed as an in-medias-res narrative from an old man, recalling his experiences, and strangely, there is very little mystery at first. The narrator notes that "he" (the boy protagonist) has awoken in a jail-like area, has strange tattoos he didn't have before, and is host to a companion in his cell, a creature called "Trico," who is initially hostile. It doesn't leave much room for interpretation, which is a relatively jarring way to start.
Because when it came to Ico and Shadow of the Colossus, I was immediately left wondering what basically...everything was from star to finish. I still am in some ways, years later! It was an early red flag, but that concept of over-explanation was immediately shaken in the first 10 minutes or so. I realized that that initial area was basically serving as a tutorial for people who were maybe turned off by the recondite and mysterious past games. My fears were brief and unfounded. The Last Guardian is real, and it's good.
It's insane how organic Guardian is. It doesn't feel like a cookie-cutter puzzle platformer, and instead delivers on the promise of giving us an actual "adventure." If there's such a thing as the "companion genre," Team Ico has cornered the market. I appreciate that in this era of microtransactions and multiplayer-centric project, there's still room for something like this, tumultuous development cycle or not.
This is not a high-flying, frame-perfect action game for people who want to zip around with air dashes or dash cancels. This is more methodical, reactive. Trico is created to react like an artificial intelligence -- an AI of a mythological creature, even -- and won't always come or act on your command, especially at the start. You can jump, interact, crouch, call, and tackle/throw, all of which elicit actions from the boy, but not Trico. And these actions, mind, are all up to interpretation based on the context. Interaction can mean picking up an object, opening a door, climbing, as well as a dedicated "pet" button (aw). There might be only several actual solutions to a common problem, but with the way it's presented, it feels limitless.
Don't get too excited though, because if you haven't grown up with old-school 3D platformers, prepare to fight the controls a bit. They definitely feel archaic in many ways, like Last Guardian truly is a product of the PS3, or even PS2 era, but the juice is worth the squeeze. I mean, there are barely any options at the start either -- it's basically just some minor camera alterations. You're playing it the way Ueda and his team unabashedly intended it to be played (as an aside, I had no idea I had to mash buttons to turn a seemingly endless load screen into a five second one, so there's a tip for you!).
My only real problem is with the camera, strictly when it comes to the framing during in-game events. It almost ruins some poignant moments because it's so stringent and doesn't allow you to fully view the environment. This is in part due to how large Trico is, which is no doubt a deliberate design choice. But there are many cases where we get a cinematic view that zooms out or centers a bit, so it's just not consistent. This isn't normally an issue with puzzle solving or traversal, just exposition, so it's not a big knock, just something to consider. Same goes for the noticeable pop-in with outdoor areas.
As old as it feels at times, I can see why it took 10 years just based on the animations alone. The boy and Trico are emotive in a way that most developers wouldn't even attempt. If you cried at the end of either Fellowship of the Ring or Return of the King, expect your tear ducts to work overtime. That's not necessarily a take on any big event that happens, just little things that feel genuine.
There's also a tantalizing inherent fear to not having Trico around, if you have to crawl into a cave and part with it for even a moment. As a pet owner for roughly half my life (cats and a dog), I can definitely relate to that separation anxiety. Plus, just like real pets, they'll piss you off from time to time and not listen. It's even more impressive when you see all of the effort that went into making Trico a part of your journey (from a visual and audio perspective), drilling down to minute details like how he'd feasibly cross over into new areas. You're not dragging him along like a chore, he's with you the whole way.
Like Team Ico's past work, talking about The Last Guardian too much inherently drifts into spoiler territory, but we have years to unpack this. For now, I'm confident in saying that although it isn't their best work, there really aren't too many directors out there like Fumito Ueda, and I hope for our sake, he continues making games.
[This review is based on a retail build of the game provided by the publisher.]
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The Last Guardian reviewed by Chris Carter
Impressive effort with a few noticeable problems holding it back. Won't astound everyone, but is worth your time and cash.
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Quartz Crystals Explained Growth Crater through Laser
The Metaphysical Properties of Quartz Crystals
Growth Craters through Laser
There are many viewpoints in the world, and you must sift through them to find your truth. What is right for one person, is not necessarily what is best for another. Also, be aware that a crystal formation may have well documented uses, but others may have discovered new energies and uses. Use this list as a starting point.
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Quartz Type
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Growth Crater See Key.
Growth Interference
Growth Interference crystals have cuts on the sides of the crystal that look they came from a trim saw. The cuts are from nearby growths of calcite crystals interfering with the quartz crystal growth.
Growth Interference are crystals showing the indelible marks of another person's or group's power and growth at your expense, usually not a family member like a Key.
Like a key, a Growth Interference Crystal can show you how you are being dominated. Use this crystal to find the way to free yourself from dominion and abuse by people outside of your immediate family.
Like the Key, the Growth Interference crystal is a key to freedom, a liberator. Use it in mediation to focus your energy on your own needs and to build resistance to the hurtful influences of others.
Carry one as a personal talisman of dignity and self-respect.
Gwindel
Gwindels are stacked, twisted Double Terminated crystals that appear to have a slight to large rotation. Here are some photos of Gwindel Quartz
Gwindel crystals are rare and expensive crystals. They are difficult to acquire, and difficult to use.
They have unusual power and energy, that at times is frustrating and seemingly contrary. Normally they are excellent mediation crystals used when one seeks to understand complex and confusing situations. When they work, they help untangle difficult situations.
Often however, they seem to add confusion to a situation by generating multiple paths to a solution, each of which is flawed.
Gwindel crystals should be used with caution. Experience is required for successful use.
A Harlequin is a crystal included with red and silver specks and/or strings of hematite or Lepidocrocite and titanium. Also called Fire Crystal or Fire Quartz.
Harlequins are single purpose crystals. They are coping crystals.
When we are shattered inside, but still have to put up a solid front and go on, Harlequins are our helpmates, our soothers, and our companions.
These are personal talismans, constant reminders that we can be whole and functional while inside we are torn apart.
A harlequin is very similar in use to a Curved Crystal. They are often used interchangeably. The subtle difference is that a curved crystal is used when adapting to a change in a fundamental part of one's life is necessary.
A harlequin is used when we are emotionally shattered by an event, but just need recovery time to cope with the loss. The loss of a loved one requires the power of Curved crystal, the loss of an opportunity, for instance a contest, requires a Harlequin.
Hematite Quartz
Hematite Quartz has either a coating or included red hematite needles that give the appearance of rust to the quartz. Sometimes this is inappropriately called Strawberry Quartz. Strawberry quartz is a particular kind of hematite included quartz that is is transparent with the included needles of hematite clearly visible.
Hematite Quartz brings the power of hematite and the power of the scarlet ray of influence (the red color is really more scarlet than red). The scarlet color brings this quartz the power to aid you in enjoying the physical pleasures of maturity—in love, in life, and in relationships. These crystal give you the natural sources of energy to enjoy life’s pleasures that extend past the joyfulness of youth. Enjoying life in maturity requires vitality. These crystals bring you the energy and vitality you seek.
Hematite Quartz is reported to helps to sort-out things in ones mind, and can be used for mental attunement, memory enhancement, original thinking and technical knowledge.
It is also reported to help enable one to enter into a loving relationship, and to provide mental clarity while meditating.
Hera Bottom
A Hera Bottom is a crystal with beveled edges and terry cloth texture on a multi-pointed tail See Self Healed.
Hera See Self Healed.
Herkimer Diamonds are distinctive crystals only found in Herkimer Co. NW. They are very transparent, double terminated crystals with a reported hardness of 7.5.
Herkimer Diamonds are the most powerful of all quartz crystals. Being doubly terminated, they have the ability to transmit and receive spiritual energy and to amplify and focus it intently. The are harder than all other quartz giving them the strength, and durability to handle difficult challenges beyond the ability of other quartz crystals.
Never large, these are the mini dynamos of the crystal world. What they lack in physical size, they more than make up for in spirit energy.
Herkimer diamonds are also unusually transparent. They are perfect conduits of the universal life force, and as such offer us virtually perfect spiritual compasses that can clearly point us towards our goals.
Herkimer Shaped
Herkimer shape are crystals, usually Tibetan quartz, that form like a Herkimer diamond. See Double Terminated.
Himalayan Herkimers
Herkimer shaped crystals from Pakistan. See Double Terminated.
Himalayan Ice
Himalayan Ice are pink toned and sometimes green toned quartz crystals from the high Himalayan mountains that are deeply etched. Also known as Ice Quartz, Nirvana Quartz, and Nirvana Chlorite Kullu Himalaya. The green tones are from Chlorite. The pink tones are from titanium.
The Himalayan Ice crystals are usually so pitted and etched as to be translucent, rather than transparent. They have a warm, vibrant, yet unyielding Yin energy. The deep etching and pitting gives them a toughness that is the exterior coating of an internally unyielding energy. Crystal-cure.com tells us "The crystal formation is chunky and irregular - a result of calcite and other mineral deposits having once been attached to the crystal, but dissipating over time. This type of crystal formation is known as 'growth interference crystal' and is generally used to release blocks and limitations imposed by oneself on goals or purposes."
These are personal talismans to use daily to deal with adversity. If you are being bombarded, scratched, and wounded, use this crystal to harden your exterior to deal with your pain, drawing on your inner pure strength.
Himalayan Ice crystals will bring the power and might of the Universal Life Force to your efforts to survive a tough environment.
A tapered, sometimes curving quartz filled geode. A formation of quartz, not a crystal.
Horn of Plenty Quartz has been reported to enhance the healing aspects of other quartz particularly when used on the higher chakras. It has also been reported to aid with self esteem and self worth.
Huaron Quartz Huaron Quartz comes from the Huaron District in Peru. Most material is from the Alimon mine. It has been producing excellent chalcopyrite, sphalerite, pyrite and other attractive minerals for several years. Huaron Quartz usually contains clear quartz with one or more of the above listed minerals.
Huaron Quartz brings a powerful combination of energies. From the clear needle like quartz crystals it brings a loving energy, often seeming to emit a clear white focused light. From the pyrite, Huaron Quartz brings balance to all the energy in the space assuring that equilibrium and harmony is maintained. From the chalcopyrite, Huaron Quartz provides a strong energy field that seems to defeat lethargy and listlessness. The Chalcopyrite adds the power of connectedness to the higher energy realms. In all, Huaron Quartz brings energy, balance, and connection to the Life Force within a room. It is a powerful energizer - put one in a room and you will notice the difference almost immediately.
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In and Out See Penetrator
Included crystals are a class of crystals. Included crystals have the power and attributes of the main crystal and its shape, and the muted powers of the included crystals based on their crystalline structure, chemical composition, and color.
A crystal similar to a bridge in which a small crystal is growing out of a much larger one. The crystal is mostly contained within the larger one with only a small amount of it extruding. If the smaller one is only slightly included within the larger then the crystal formation is a Bridge. If the smaller crystal is completely contained within the larger one, it is Manifestation Crystal. Some inner child formations have a very small crystal growing from a much larger one and the appearance is that of a trigger. These are sometimes called Triggers, they are a form of inner child.
Inner Child Quartz crystals are special crystals used for reminding us that we are both what we were and now what we are.
These are excellent meditation crystals for use in reminding ourselves that the joy and simple pleasure in the world we experienced as a child is still there, we must only see it.
Inter-dimensional
Inter-dimensional crystals have a series of smooth, rounded windows that extend across the intersections between the faces on the termination of the crystal.
Inter-dimensional crystals, while rare, are excellent meditation crystals used for communication with beings of higher energy levels.
These crystals offer several viewpoints and flexibility in facilitation communication.
Some practitioners have found good success using these crystals in divination. Some inter-dimensional crystals seem to offer multiple views of future events allowing for a deeper understanding of coming events.
As healing crystals they have been reported to have been successful in opening the receptiveness of the third eye, allowing patients to see more clearly their true needs and desires.
Ipupiara Quartz
Ipupiara is Quartz mined near Ipupiara, Bahia, Brazil. It is found in a wide variety of shapes and sizes. It is found clear, smoky, included, and with rutile inclusions.
The web site, /www.mountainvalleycenter.com reports to us that "Ipupiara means "Fresh Water Dolphin" in the language of the people in the Ureu-eu-wau-wau, Brazilian Amazon. The crystals are know as the Goddess of Water crystals. This Quartz is very interactive and receptive to awakening the energy within."
Iris See Rainbow.
An Isis crystal has a dominant face which is five sided with a tall sharp point rather like an arrowhead.
Isis is the Egyptian Deity that was worshiped as the Queen Goddess, the mother who gives birth to the Heavens and Earth. Her worship extended far beyond the Egyptian boarders and her worshipers exist to this day.
The Isis crystal is identified by the five-sided face with an elongated side that extends to the apex of the crystal. It is perfectly formed and perfectly symmetrical. The five-sided shape is reflective of the five sided pentagram or pentagon that is traced in the sky by the travels of the Planet Venus. Venus is the Roman Goddess of Love also known as Aphrodite.
These crystals should rightfully be called Goddess Crystals, but the shorter, Isis has become the standard.
Understanding their use, however, means recognizing that they are really Goddess crystals that are used to focus the feminine powers of understanding, love, devotion, and birth. Their use, however is not restricted to use by women.
On the contrary, they are powerful aids to men who both need to understand the women in their lives, and who need to find a balance in their own natures.
These crystals are particularly useful in effort to focus our efforts to be a whole, balanced person when we are out of balance in an aggressive, destructive way.
They are very valuable in healing efforts focused on re centering if the out of balance is an excess of the Yang or male elements and the need is for balance by bringing elements of the Yin to the environment.
Jacare See Elestial.
Japan Law Twin
A crystal in which two single crystals, usually broad flattened prisms, (and one a penetration twin), are joined in the same plane at an angle of about 84 degrees.
Japan Law Twins are very expensive quartz crystals that are used in both meditation and in divination.
These twins hold the unusual energy to see help us see that every problem has more than one angle to its solution. They teach us to look at things from a new angle to see solutions that were not originally visible.
Japan Law Twins are also divination crystals. They help us discern the future of our efforts. We will have unintended consequences from almost any action or plan.
A Japan Law Twin crystal will help you understand the “shadow” of your decision and its consequences.
A key crystal has an indentation in one of its sides that narrows as it penetrates. This indentation is normally 3 sided, but sometimes six sided. Some say it should always have 6 sides, but this view is not widespread.
The Key crystal is the most misunderstood quartz. Keys don't unlock hidden knowledge.
Keys are indelible marks of another family members power and growth at your expense.
A Key crystal shows you how you are being dominated. A key crystal is used to find the way to free yourself from dominion and abuse.
The Key is a key to freedom. Key crystals are the liberator crystals. Use them in mediation to focus our energy on your own needs and to build resistance to the hurtful influences of others.
Carry a Key crystal as a personal talisman of dignity and self respect.
Kullu Rosies See Himalayan Ice
A Laser is a naturally formed long slender crystal that tapers towards termination.
The Laser Wand Quartz is recognized as a long slender crystal with small faces on the termination. The crystal tapers from the base to the termination. The angles of the sides of the crystals are curved, in many instances, rather than straight.
When one holds a laser wand, the energy tends to surround the body, providing for a protective barrier.
Being a form of a Wand, a Laser has the ability to rapidly transmit much of the spectrum of the Life Force. A Laser is much more powerful than a Wand. A Laser is a healing tool. It is not used in mediation or as a talisman. It is not used in Feng Shui. It is only used in physic healing when deep, focused energy releases are necessary.
In physical healing efforts, Lasers are used by trained, experienced practitioners to release harmful elements from internal organs. When used in healing, its uses should be very brief.
A Laser is used in spiritual healing when the need is to ease the release of attachment usually to a lost loved one or friend. The only personal use of a Laser is in special focused efforts to remove an unwanted, harmful habit or attitude. Even then, it should be used sparingly and with caution.
Laser wands should always be pointed away from the user.
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https://www.ctpost.com/local/article/Arrest-made-in-Stratford-shooting-10615266.php
Arrest made in Stratford shooting
By Frank Juliano
Updated 9:45 am EST, Tuesday, November 15, 2016
Rodney Johnson Jr.
Photo: Stratford Police
STRATFORD — Police have arrested a suspect in a shooting Friday night and recovered a .380 caliber handgun and an electronic defense weapon.
A man suffered a non-life threatening gunshot wound Friday night and was found in the area of Bruce Avenue and Hollister Avenue.
Rodney Johnson Jr., 20, was arrested Monday evening at his father’s home in Stamford, Capt. Frank Eannotti said. Stamford police assisted in the arrest, which came after Stratford detectives tracked Johnson to that address, Eannotti said.
The gun recovered from the suspect had been reported stolen about two years ago from Trumbull, the Stratford police spokesman said.
Johnson is being held on a $500,000 bond and charged with first-degree assault, unlawful discharge of a firearm, criminal possession of a firearm, criminal possession of ammunition, carrying a pistol without a permit and two counts of risk of injury to a minor.
He will be arraigned Nov. 22 at Superior Court in Bridgeport.
Johnson was also charged with sixth-degree larceny and illegal transfer of a firearm related to the gun stolen from Trumbull, Eannotti said.
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AimBrain patents process for improving accuracy in biometric authentication
Author:hf security
Biometric Identity as-a-Service (BIDaaS) platform developer AimBrain was awarded a UK patent for its technical process that enables greater accuracy in biometric authentication.
The GB2539705 (A) patent covers a process that allows a user to be authenticated based on the way they look, sound and behave across a wide range of scenarios, by clustering distinctive data and generating a wide range of context-based templates for an individual.
Based on several years’ research and development into deep learning and biometric modelling, the process relates to two specific, entirely automated, sub-processes.
The first sub-process recognizes and classifies various voice, face and behavioural contexts, which could be lighting conditions (for face), noise (for voice) and a range of indicators such as movement (for behavioural).
The second sub-process applies these contexts to an individual, creating a nearly unlimited number of templates against which they can be authenticated.
Alesis Novik, CTO and co-founder of AimBrain, designed the patent as part of the company’s wider patent and technology strategy.
He believes this strategy is what differentiates AimBrain from other processors of biometric data.
“This patent enables AimBrain to develop a more detailed mathematical construct of each user; how they look, sound or behave across a broad range of settings,” Novik said. “This highly specific data is clustered and linked, to build a unique, unbreachable digital identity, so that we can authenticate this person quickly and seamlessly whenever they interact with their bank, in virtually any environment.”
Developed by AimBrain, the process connects detailed clusters of data about an individual, and uses these as a basis for authentication.
As a result, it significantly reduces the instances of false positives (access granted to a bogus user) and false negatives (access denied to a genuine user).
“We know that the consummate goal for financial institutions is finding the delicate balance between security and the customer experience,” Peter Reynolds, chief commercial officer at AimBrain, said. “Figuratively speaking, AimBrain’s technology and processes build a higher resolution picture of a user, to enable faster, more accurate authentication across a range of contextual environments. This precision in authentication is so far unmatched; locking out fraud and improving the customer’s experience with the bank across all channels.”
Last month, AimBrain published a new whitepaper focusing on the benefits of moving authentication from on-device to cloud.
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China Research and Analyses
Senior China adviser: Trump to blame for delays in securing final trade deal, says China has been ‘accommodating’ – USA TODAY
October 12, 2019 by Zettan
Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY
Published 9:35 a.m. ET Oct. 12, 2019 | Updated 10:26 a.m. ET Oct. 12, 2019
President Trump’s ‘America First’ approach has relied on slapping tariffs on countries, such as China and Mexico, which have led to current trade wars. What is a tariff and how do they work? We explain.
Just the FAQs, USA TODAY
RHODES, Greece – A senior adviser to China’s government told USA TODAY on Saturday that multiple delays by the United States and China to reach a final, substantive trade deal are largely because of President Donald Trump’s concerns about the 2020 election.
“Look, Christmas is coming. He wants to be president again. American consumers are not going to accept higher prices on all these goods. He can claim victory any time he wants but that doesn’t mean he’s won or that a deal has actually been reached,” said Huiyao Wang, who spoke to USA TODAY on the sidelines of a geopolitical conference here.
Wang, who is not directly involved in the negotiations, was replying to questions about an emerging trade deal between the United States and China that Trump outlined Friday. Wang was appointed to China’s state council in 2015 by China’s Vice Premier Liu He, the country’s second-in-command who was in Washington Friday for trade negotiations.
Trump has previously said he would insist on a full-blown trade agreement – not a piecemeal deal – that would settle long-running disputes over tariffs, currency rates, technology sharing and intellectual property laws. While a partial agreement could be campaign fodder, there is no indication he has tried to time the negotiations for political benefit.
China: Donald Trump delays next round of China tariffs amid talks on limited trade deal
Trump said the U.S. and China have “agreed in principle” on a preliminary trade agreement. Trump acknowledged that differences remain on major issues on which the two countries are divided, but the White House still decided not to push ahead with a planned increased to tariffs on $250 billion of Chinese goods next week.
The move would have raised those tariffs to 30% from 25%.
“There’s too many factors at play for him to just issue threats to governments, China’s or anybody else’s, to just follow along with what he says,” said Wang, referring to the U.S. president’s previous threats to slap additional penalties on Chinese goods.
Wang avoided a question about whether China’s authorities had any concerns about signing a lasting agreement with Trump given other policy reversals and withdrawals the U.S. president has initiated. These include leaving the climate accord, pulling out of the nuclear deal with Iran and, as Trump’s political critics and allies have both described it, “betraying” Kurds in Syria who have been battling the remnants of the Islamic State group alongside U.S. forces. Trump announced this week he would bring U.S. forces from the region home.
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Wang said Trump’s style of negotiation might work in the business world – “person to person” or “business to business” – but it’s less effective for “state to state” relations.
Trump said Friday that negotiators were working on “phase one” of a deal that would ease the trade war between the two countries. “Phase two” would be a broader agreement involving tougher issues, including the forced technology transfers that China imposes on U.S. businesses.
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Trump met with China’s top trade negotiator Friday after aides discussed the prospects of a temporary deal designed to freeze the ongoing trade war between the world’s two largest economies.
“All would like to see something significant happen!” Trump wrote on Twitter.
The two sides have attacked each other for months for the various delays.
Trump has frequently blamed China for past impasses, claiming they want to maintain what he calls unfair trade practices.
“My team is negotiating with them now, but they always change the deal in the end to their benefit,” he wrote in a July tweet.
Senior Chinese officials rarely speak openly to media. Wang is a member of China’s state council, a lawmaking branch of its central government. He is also the founder of the Center for China and Globalization, a Beijing-based foreign affairs think tank. His appearance at the conference in Greece was in connection with his role at the policy unit.
Ukraine controversy: Ex-Ukraine ambassador Marie Yovanovitch tells lawmakers Trump ‘pressured’ State Department to remove her
Wang insisted that China has been “accommodating” of many of the Trump administration’s central demands related to any final trade agreement, such as what to do about its government’s subsidies for large state companies and industrial trade policies that require foreign firms to share their technology in return for access to China’s enormous markets. Washington considers this policy to be a form of American intellectual property theft.
“Tesla owns 100% of its factory in China,” Wang said, as evidence for China’s flexibility in the trade talks, referring to the Palo Alto, Calif.-based electric-car company. Beijing announced earlier this year that it would scrap its 50% ownership cap on foreign carmakers.
Trump boasted about the deal in a Saturday tweet, “The deal I just made with China is, by far, the greatest and biggest deal ever made for our Great Patriot Farmers in the history of our Country.”
Contributing: David Jackson, USA TODAY
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Christian Video Games for PC
Adam's Venture Trilogy (Good)
Purchase on Amazon or Steam
Platforms: PC, PS3, PS4, Xbox One
Publisher: Vertigo Games, 2009-2016
The Adam Venture games are action/puzzle games in the exploration genre.
Adam's Venture: Episode 1: The Search for the Lost Garden (PC)
Adam's Venture: Episode 2: Solomon's Secret (PC)
Adam's Venture: Episode 3: Revelations (PC)
Adam's Venture: Chronicles (collection of all 3 for PS3)
Adam's Venture: Origins (a remake of the originals for PC, PS4, Xbox One)
Advent (Good)
Publisher: Omega Games, 2015
This is an amateur game made with RPG Maker, but I found it well worth playing this story-driven adventure. You'll play a party of heroes looking to find the truth about the Creator's prophecies and, hopefully, end a war. In the meantime, you'll level up your skills and gear and explore a wide landscape with lots of people to chat with. If you like RPGs, try this one. It's free. It does have magic in it, though, so it might not be suitable for all Christians.
Adventures in Odyssey and the Great Escape (Good)
Publisher: Digital Praise, 2005
The gameplay is fairly simple as you play through a series of activities from the perspective of being in a video game. The story is a great illustration of temptation and our need to resist it with God's help.
Adventures in Odyssey and the Sword of the Spirit (Fair)
This game has a decent story and an animated art style that holds up fairly well. It also has a mix of puzzles, roleplaying, and platforming. Unfortunately, the platforming is rather difficult to control, bringing down the overall gameplay experience.
Adventures in Odyssey and the Treasure of the Incas (Excellent)
Get ready for a treasure hunt as you try to solve the mystery of Eugene's missing parents. You play as Eugene, Connie, and Whit in this puzzle game. There are also plenty of animated cutscenes and the great voice acting fans of the series love to help move the story forward.
The Aetherlight: Chronicles of the Resistance (Excellent)
Play for free on Android or iOS, or purchase for PC and Mac
Platform: PC, Mac, Android, iOS
Publisher: Scarlet City Studios, 2016
Wow! This is an impressive game, and I certainly hope Scarlet City continues the series. Right now, you can play through the first 3 episodes in which you help the Scarlet Man (Jesus) restore The Great Engineer (God the Father) to the throne of this steampunk kingdom. The graphics are great, the gameplay is great, and there is plenty of allegorical content referencing Biblical stories. This is a must-play game for any Christian gamer.
This one's my game, so I'll refrain from rating it ;-)
Check out the game page for more info!
Platforms: PC, Mac, Linux, Android
Publisher: BUD Games, 2018
aMazing Bible (Excellent)
This is a different sort of game that has you moving a red and blue ball simultaneously through different mazes as you walk through the Bible. Each maze is different, and you can do different things to get through them, so you won't get bored easily. It's a fun challenge and a review of major portions of the Bible at the same.
Attack of the Sunday School Zombies (Fair)
Publisher: Sunday Software
There are 8 zombies attending church this morning, and one of them is the pastor! They aren't real zombies, though. They're just all in church with the wrong attitude, and you have to shoot chocolate donuts at them so that you can share some Scripture and advice with them. I love the concept, but the game is very short and is more lesson than gameplay. Still, the insights are valuable, so if you're up for paying the rather high download cost, it's worth a playthrough.
Axys Adventures: Truth Seeker (Good, Review)
Publisher: Rebel Planet Creations, 2007
This is one of the best Christian video games in the Action / RPG genre. The graphics leave a little to be desired (it's a few years old), but the story is intriguing, and the gameplay is phenomenal. You're battling monsters with your sword and figuring out puzzles like you would in the best Action RPG games.
BibleMan: A Fight for the Faith (Good)
Purchase, if you can find it!
Publisher: Covenant Studios, 2005
Based off of the episode of the series, you play as BibleMan and his teammates, defending the city against the Wacky Professor. Is it campy? Yes! That's part of what makes it fun. Also, the cutscenes are from the TV show, which brings back a lot of nostalgia for certain gamers. The only detriment is that gameplay can be a little slow, as you can only defend rather than attack.
Bible Adventures (Fair)
Platforms: NES, Sega Genesis
Publisher: Wisdom Tree, 1991
This retro platformer can still be a lot of fun as you play through the stories of Noah's Ark, Baby Moses, and David and Goliath. Just don't expect too much of a challenge.
Bible Gems (Excellent)
This is a well-done computer game that walks you through Genesis as you play. You'll hear a summary of the stories, accompanied by original illustrations before each level. And each level is different, adding variety to the game.
Break-Out the Bible (Excellent)
Purchase from Amazon, the publisher's website, or itch
Publisher: DivineGames, 2002
Bounce the ball into the pieces to score points and reveal the Bible verse and graphic. There are three difficulty modes that determine the speed of the ball and plenty of levels to provide for extended gameplay.
Catechumen (Excellent)
Publisher: N'Lightning Software, 2000
In this first-person shooter set during the time of Christian persecution under Emperor Marcus Aurelius, you play as a young Christian seeking to rescue your mentor from demon-possessed Roman soldiers. The game is light on story, but it has great gameplay, and the graphics still look pretty good. One plus is that when you defeat a human enemy, they don't die but rather kneel and pray in repentance.
Dance Praise and Dance Praise 2 (Excellent, Review)
Publisher: Digital Praise, 2005, 2007
This game uses dance pads and popular Christian music tracks. Get your exercise and worship on at the same time! Plus, there are plenty of expansion packs that work with both games.
Eternal War: Shadows of Light (Excellent, Review)
Publisher: Two Guys Software, 2003
This first-person shooter focuses on spiritual warfare and has a great storyline.
FIVE: Champions of Canaan (Fair)
Publisher: Kingdom Games, 2016
Your mission: infiltrate the arenas to disrupt the sacrifices to Moloch. The gameplay: repetitive. This is mostly a fighting game. The graphics are great, and the ability to upgrade your gear is a plus, but there's not much to the story. If you simply want some quick-paced fun, Champions of Canaan can hit the spot, but there's not enough depth here to play for an extended period.
FIVE: Guardians of David (Fair)
Play as 5 of David's mighty men as you walk through some of the major events in the famous king's life.
I also worked on this game. Check out the game page!
Purchase on Steam or Itch.io!
Platforms: PC, Mac, Linux
Publisher: God Inspired Games, 2019
Forgiveness: Chapters 1-3 (Fair)
Publisher: Breakthrough Gaming, 2006
This is a very retro-style RPG but has all the classic elements of story, turn-based battles, leveling up, and loot. You play as Jimmy and the friends he gathers in this very Chrisitan adventure. The highlight of the game for me was the battle system, which wasn't very challenging, but it does allow you to aim, and if the enemies are lined up right, you can hit two at once. Still, there are too random many battles to enjoy this combat mechanic for very long. The story itself is fairly interesting if a bit tongue-in-cheek.
Guitar Praise (Excellent)
Play along to some familiar Christian songs, both old anew! You can also get an expansion pack to add more tracks.
Heaven: The Game (Good)
Also known as Journey to Heaven
Purchase on Amazon on the company website
Publisher: Genesis Works, 2009
This is a beautiful game that, unfortunately (but understandably), has received a lot of hate. You play Joshua, an astronaut, who is taken to Heaven after your ship malfunctions. There, you solve puzzles as you progress deeper and deeper into the landscape of Heaven. It is a very Biblically based game. The problem is that your guide shows a little too much cleavage. But one could argue that in Heaven, we'll all be pure of mind and able to appreciate the beauty of the female form as God created it. Either way, it's definitely worth playing through if you can get past this one visual issue.
Interactive Bible Series (Poor)
(Screenshots from James and 1 Timothy)
Purchase games in the series
Publisher: GraceWorks Interactive, 2005-2010
I want to like these games. I just can't. They're exploration/action games that move too slow and really have very little to do with the books of the Bible they're representing.
Gameplay video of Interactive Parables
JamBand (Excellent)
Publisher: Cloud 9 Games, 2009
With this "Rock Band" style game, you can have two instruments and two singers playing at a time. You can also play solo or versus mode, and there's a good variety of 40 popular songs to play. The only downside is that this game never had any expansion packs.
Jesus Christ RPG (Good, DLC Review)
Free to play, with DLCs to purchase
Publisher: Wholetone Games, 2013
Play a variety of characters as you walk through the life of Christ, battling demons and Pharisees. It's a little strange to have Jesus "leveling up" to learn new miracles, but I understand doing it for the sake of the game. I also appreciate all the humor in the game.
Keys of the Kingdom (Good)
Publisher: Inspired Games, 2011
This is a fun one for those who like movement puzzles. You solve the puzzle by blowing up blocks and moving the key to the lock. Sounds simple, but it does make you think. It also displays a new Bible verse every time you defeat a puzzle. The verses are the real Keys of the Kingdom.
King Solomon's Word Challenge (Excellent)
This is a cool 3-in-1 game, with Word Twist, Word Find, and Sling Words. In all three game modes, you're filling in the missing words of a Bible verse, which adds a lot of value to the game. As you complete the levels, you earn resources to build the Temple and can actually see your workers making progress on a fairly detailed animated rendition, which is a nice touch.
Kings of Israel (Excellent)
Publisher: Funhill Games, 2015
Play as the prophets trying to rid Israel of idolatry before the nation is overthrown by the Assyrians! This is a fun game that will get you into and thinking about the time of the kings and prophets in Israel's history. There's also a lot of variety and strategy involved, making it a very solid game. If you like the game, check out the original board game version.
Left Behind Series (Good, Review)
Purchase Eternal Forces or Tribulation Forces
Purchase Rise of the Antichrist or World at War
Publisher: Inspired Media Entertainment and LB Games, 2006-2011
These are cool strategy games that use spiritual weapons as you fight against the Anti-Christ and his forces. You run missions and establish safehouses for the underground church. The graphics are well done, and there's potential for a lot of repeat gameplay. You can also play online with other players.
The second game, Tribulation Forces, is more of an update and expansion of Eternal Forces. Rise of the Antichrist and World at War are true sequels.
Light Rangers: Mending the Maniac Madness (Excellent)
The Light Rangers receive their mission from their mastermind Sunday School teacher and need to save the children of Angeltown from various sinful attitudes caused by the Maniac Brainiac. It's a great game with a good story, fun animation, and plenty of platforming action. There's also just the right amount of Christian teaching. As a bonus, you can play a Christian trivia game.
Noah's Ark: Dash N' Splash (Poor, Review)
Purchase on Android, iOS, and the Microsoft Store
Platform: PC, Android, iOS
Publisher: JustinTime Studios, 2019
This 3D game shows good effort but needs a little more work. You play an intrepid Noah, getting ready for the Flood. You’ll meet his family as well as others in the world as you gather materials, solve puzzles, and explore the landscape.
NIMCOR3 (Poor, Review)
Publisher: Erik Pineda, 2018
This is an RPG Maker game that would be good for the hardcore Christian audience with a few gameplay tweaks.
Nacah (Poor) and Isles of Derek (Fair)
Publisher: Bible Games Company, 2001 and 2003
This is an exploratory puzzle game that doesn't quite hit the mark when it comes to gameplay, though the second game is notably better than the first.
Gameplay of Nacah
Gameplay of Isles of Derek
Ominous Horizons: A Paladin's Calling (Excellent, Review)
This first-person medieval shooter RPG is simply fantastic. Granted, it's a few years old now so the graphics are a little simple, but it's still fun. You're battling demons and Satan's horde to recover pages of Scripture so that it can be printed for the first time.
The Pilgrim's Progress (Good, Review)
Publisher: Scott Cawthorn, 2011
This is a fun game with simple but clean graphics telling the classic Paul Bunyan allegory in an RPG style. It's a good one for engaging action and your spiritual mind at the same time.
Praise Champion and Praise Champion 2 (Excellent)
Previously released as Heavenly Harmony
Publisher: Cloud 9/Left Behind Games, 2011, 2012
If you enjoy singing, you'll enjoy these games. With over 40 songs each and the ability to play with up to 4 people, it should provide a lot of fun for a long time. Each game comes with a microphone and includes a variety of songs. There are also mini-games to help you hone your vocal skills, and you can unlock outfits for your avatar to wear and different venues to sing at.
Praise Champion trailer
Praise Champion 2 trailer
Redemption: Victory at Hebron (Excellent)
Publisher: Brethren Entertainment, 2003
This trading card video game was a real find for me! With a story and 3D exploration to go with it, this is the perfect game for anyone who enjoys card battling. The game still looks and runs great today.
Rionon: The Search for the Stone Statue (Excellent)
Publisher: Disintegration Games, 2014
No, it's not the most technologically advanced game, but the story is very intriguing. You start out on the side of the pagans, looking for your country's stone statue that the Christians supposedly stole. Maybe if you could recover the statue, life in Rionon will turn prosperous again? The gameplay is great, and the whole package is a lot of fun, despite the slightly outdated graphics and development shortcuts.
Saints of Virtue (Fair)
Publisher: Cactus Game Design, 1999
Enter the mind and heart of a young man battling the temptations of the world! Unfortunately, while this game is built on a neat concept, the gameplay is somewhat lacking. The enemies don't present much of a challenge, and the game is fairly short. Still, it's worth playing through once if you're looking for a clean first-person shooter. Your weapon is the Sword of the Spirit, which shoots energy bolts.
Super 3D Noah's Ark (Good, Review)
Platform: DOS, PC, Super Nintendo
This is a first-person shooter, but you're using food to put irate animals back to sleep as they ride the waves on Noah's Ark.
Scripture Solitaire (Excellent)
Publisher: GraceWorks Interactive, 2003
This is an interesting game in which you have to match parts of the verses instead of values on the cards. There are also seven modes of solitaire to explore, so the game doesn't get boring. Memorize Scripture and play a challenging game at the same time!
Sight's Adventure (Poor)
Publisher: Brandon's Gaming Company, 2018
What is going on in this game?! The amateur art style would be charming if I could understand the story. You start walking around your town with no objective of where to go. Along the way, you meet friends and collect different neckties that give you different abilities. At certain points, you have to answer a trivia question based on a Bible verse. I feel like there's the beginnings of something worth playing here, but for now, it's all just a bit too random.
Timothy and Titus (Excellent)
Publisher: White Knight Games, 2006
This is a great (but short) action game in which you control Timothy and Titus seeking to recover Pauls stolen letters. Now, who would want Paul's letters to be lost? That's right, there are enemies to fight in this game, but it's a fairly non-violent game with the human enemies converting to Christianity when you defeat them.
That Dragon, Cancer (Excellent)
Purchase on Steam, Android, or iOS
Publisher: Numinous Games, 2016
While not really a game, this interactive experience will encourage you as you walk through the life of Joel's parents, hearing real conversations that they had during the course of their young son's illness and eventual death.
To Light: Ex Umbra (Excellent, Review)
Publisher: Branch Games, 2019
This is a well-written, story-driven RPG Maker game with the option to either limit the battle mode or enjoy the strategy of combat.
Through the Shadows: The Darkness Revealed (Good)
Publisher: True Light Games, 2014
This is a mysterious, immersive, first-person puzzler/visual novel that finds you all alone in a world seeking to find the truth. This is the first of what was to be a series of games that didn't continue, so, as the creator described it, you can think of it as the first novel in a series. It's still worth playing, but don't expect a completely tidy ending.
The Tomb of Moses (Good)
Publisher: Vidia Entertainment, 2009
This is a puzzle game with still-decent 3D graphics. Archaeologist Professor Fog has gone missing, and it's your job to go find him. Though not quite true to the Biblical understanding of where Moses is buried, the game still gives valuable information about the Exodus story and the man whom God used to accomplish it.
Visions Alpha (Fair, Review)
Publisher: Tiny Zoo, 2012
This game is all about immersion and daily life in the 2nd century.
VeggieTales Dance, Dance, Dance (Excellent)
Dance to all your favorite VeggieTales songs! This game comes with its own dance pad and a CD to play on any computer.
The War in Heaven (Fair)
Publisher: ValuSoft, 1999
This is a fun game to play if you're just looking to slash some enemies. You will pick up pieces of the armor of God to buff you, and you get a little teaching when you do, along with the story setup at the beginning of each level. But mostly, it's you hacking your way through the maps. The gameplay isn't particularly challenging, though, so there's not much replay value. The graphics are still decent considering the time it was released.
One interesting facet of this game is that you can play from a Fallen Angel's perspective, which can raise some questions about what their motives are and were.
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Bringing Brains to Computers
IBM Tries to Bring Brain Power to Computers
IBM Devises Software for its Experimental Brain-Like Chips
Chip-Level Advances That May Change Computing
IBM Brings Brain Power to Experimental Chips
IBM makes chips based on the structure and operation of the human brain
By Agam Shah
IBM has created prototype chips that could mimic brain-like functionality, which the company said is an "unprecedented" step forward in creating intelligent computers that collect, process and understand data quickly.
The prototype chips will give mind-like abilities for computers to make decisions by collating and analyzing immense amounts of data, similar to humans gathering and understanding a series of events, said Dharmendra Modha,project leader for IBM Research. The experimental chips, modeled around neural systems, mimics the brain's structure and operation through silicon circuitry and advanced algorithms.
IBM hopes reverse-engineering the brain into a chip could forge computers that are highly parallel, event-driven and passive on power consumption, Modha said. The machines will be a sharp departure from modern computers, which have scaling limitations and require set programming by humans to generate results.
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"In today's computers, there are some key fundamental limitations that are projected to come to an end," Modha said. "The ever-increasing clock rates are unsustainable. In contrast, the brain is an ultimate computer."
Like the brain, IBM's prototype chips can dynamically rewire to sense, understand and act on information fed via sight, hearing, taste, smell and touch, or through other sources such as weather and water-supply monitors. The chips will help discover patterns based on probabilities and associations, all while rivaling the brain's compact size and low power usage, Modha said.
"We now have the seeds of a new architecture that can allow us to mine the boundary between the physical and the digital world in an ever more efficient way," Modha said.
The chips could help manage water supplies through real-time data analysis and pattern recognition, Modha said. Computers could generate tsunami warnings through a network of sensors monitoring temperature, pressure, wave height and ocean tide. The chips' cognitive features could help grocers identify bad produce and give smartphones features to better interact with the environment.
IBM and its research partners have already generated some results from the project, such as walking through a maze, playing a game of Pong, or recognizing patterns in data. The researchers are gunning for better results that include image recognition in videos.
IBM has made two prototype chips using the 45-nanometer manufacturing process. Based on traditional circuitry, the chips are organized in a way to recreate the phenomena between spiking neurons and synapses in brains with the help of integrated memory, computation and communication features. The chips use the same basic elements of transistors in microprocessors today, but are wired differently, Modha said.
The company has built individual "digital neurons" in the chips as low-power processing units, and synapses to establish connections between neurons. The neurons and synapses are organized in cross-bar arrays and are supported by a communications infrastructure for neurons to exchange data in real time. The neurons remember recent activities, while the synapses remember the neurons they are associated with.
The chips contain 256 "digital neurons" running at slow speeds of 10MHz that are constantly blasting information to each other. One core contains 262,144 programmable synapses, while the other core contains 65,536 "learning" synapses. Like in the brain, the synapse establishes connections between digital neurons, and the more often a signal is sent to a synapse, the stronger the synapse gets.
It is possible to equip modern computers with many low-power processing units for such functionality, Modha said. But the buses separating the processing units could be a bottleneck, and as the data piles up, the cores need to operate at faster clock rates.
"Functionality of the chip can be simulated on today's computers. But since today's computers are unlike the brain, you pay ... magnitudes more on power and volume," Modha said.
The prototype chips incorporate a simplified model of the human brain, which has billions of neurons and trillions of synapses. IBM said the chips are the foundation of what could eventually be a "mammalian-scale system," which will include 10 billion neurons and 100 trillion synapses with the power consumption and size that rivals the human brain. Modha could not provide a time frame within which the computer would be made, but said results from the current research could change the way computers are built.
Brains are also able to think "outside the box" to conduct activity, so how close do the chips actually come in terms of intelligence? Modha said the chip is intended to mimic brain-like functionality, and that digital neurons will be able to pull a wider range of stimuli and environments and respond more robustly to a wide range of situations.
IBM developed the chips along with partners as part of a multiyear research initiative called Systems of Neuromorphic Adaptive Plastic Scalable Electronics (SyNAPSE), which focuses on cognitive computing. IBM and its partners are bringing together the neuroscience, nanotechnology and supercomputing fields to create the new computing platform.
IBM's research partners include Columbia University; Cornell University; University of California, Merced; and University of Wisconsin, Madison. IBM and its university partners also announced on Thursday that they received US$21 million in additional funding for the project from DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency), an agency that is part of the U.S. Department of Defense.
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Citicus first software vendor to deliver ISF Standard of Good Practice 2011
Citicus ONE, the award-winning risk and compliance management system from Citicus, is the first software product to support the Information Security Forum’s (ISF) Standard of Good Practice 2011. This Standard is one of the most comprehensive information security standards available, comprising nearly 3,000 controls, and provides full coverage of ISO27002 and COBIT 4.1 – as well as new security issues.
Citicus welcomes Regency IT Consulting as an implementation partner
UK-based Citicus Limited has entered into a partnership agreement with Regency IT Consulting to help public and private sector clients in the UK and elsewhere to measure and manage information risk using our award-winning Citicus ONE risk management software.
Announcing the partnership, Marco Kapp, co-founder of Citicus Limited says:
Risk management goes mobile
Citicus MOCA for the iPhone, iPad or iPod touch is launched today by Citicus Limited. This premier-quality business app is the first that enables decision-makers to identify the business impact of their organization's assets and processes being disrupted. This is a prerequisite for managing key areas of risk effectively.
Unilever employs Citicus ONE cloud-based solution to manage risk
Unilever has successfully migrated its Citicus ONE risk and compliance management software to a cloud-based, software-as-a-service provided by Citicus Limited. By outsourcing its operation and maintenance, Unilever has reduced the burden of running and maintaining its risk software - whilst ensuring it is securely managed by Citicus team of experts.
Citicus welcomes TeamInfoSec as new implementation partner
UK company Citicus Limited has entered into a partnership agreement with TeamInfoSec Ireland Limited to help organizations in Ireland and other parts of the world to measure and manage information risk and compliance using its award-winning Citicus ONE risk management software.
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Citicus ONE receives five-star value-for-money rating from SC Magazine
Citicus ONE received a very positive overall rating with a striking five-star rating for value for money in SC Magazine's June 2010 review of our award-winning risk and compliance management software.
The magazine's reviewer describes Citicus ONE as:
"a strong business policy, compliance and regulatory risk management tool with great reporting."
New risk management approach for UK’s critical national infrastructure
Citicus has been chosen by the UK Government’s Technology Strategy Board to develop a capability for managing risks to key industrial control systems that support the critical national infrastructure. Citicus will collaborate with RWE npower and other key industry partners to deliver a major advance in the protection and security of critical information infrastructures that underpin the continuous supply of essential utilities and commodities.
Citicus ONE shortlisted for 2010 Best security management software and Innovation Awards
Citicus Limited's flagship Citicus ONE risk and compliance management software has been shortlisted by SC Magazine for two 2010 Europe Awards:
Kraft Foods risk and compliance management program wins coveted EIIA Silver Award, using Citicus ONE
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Scottish Government’s Improvement Service creates new approach to risk management based on Citicus ONE
Citicus’ risk management software has been chosen by The Scottish Government’s Improvement Service (IS), for its Customer First programme, to pilot a standard for identification, recording, management and reporting of risk. As well as reducing the likelihood and impact of threats and incidents, Customer First’s risk, compliance and regulatory obligations can now be managed efficiently - within a central location.
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National Junior A Championship Team Preview: Prince George Spruce Kings (BCHL)
Spruce Kings captured BCHL’s Fred Page Cup & Doyle Cup Pacific Region titles
CALGARY, Alta. – The culmination of the Canadian Junior Hockey League’s 2018-19 campaign will be completed in Brooks, Alta., as they host the Canadian National Junior A Championship, May 11-19, at Centennial Regional Arena.
Here’s a look at the Pacific Region representative, the Prince George Spruce Kings of the British Columbia Hockey League.
HEAD COACH: Adam Maglio
HOW THEY ARRIVED: A successful regular season saw Prince George finish second overall in the 17-team BCHL standings with a solid 39-13-1-5 record.
Heading into the playoffs, the Spruce Kings first met up with the Coquitlam Express where they needed just five games to take that best-of-seven quarter-final match-up.
Up next were the defending NJAC champion Chilliwack Chiefs, who finished in top spot overall in the BCHL, just one point ahead of Prince George.
However, this highly anticipated series was all Spruce Kings as they went on to sweep Chilliwack and punch their ticket to the semifinals.
There Prince George kept it rolling as they brushed aside the Victoria Grizzlies in four games to advance to the BCHL’s Fred Page Cup finals for a second straight year.
After falling to the Wenatchee Wild in 2018, the Spruce Kings were not to be denied this go around as they did not lose once in the final as they swept perennial BCHL power, the Vernon Vipers, to secure their first-ever league championship.
They also won their final 13 games and were an incredible 16-1 in their league playoffs.
DOYLE CUP: With their initial BCHL crown secured, Prince George then went up against the AJHL title holder and NJAC-host side, the Brooks Bandits, in a best-of-seven Pacific Region final.
As Brooks is hosting this year’s National Jr. A event, both clubs entered the series knowing they were already confirmed to be competing in the NJAC.
After the Bandits dropped Game 1 by a 2-0 count at home, Brooks countered with 3-1 and 4-0 victories at Centennial Regional Arena to go up 2-1 before the scene shifted to Prince George for the remainder of the series.
The friendly confines of Rolling Mix Concrete Arena proved to be just the tonic the Spruce Kings needed as they improved to 12-0 on home ice in the postseason by knocking off the No. 1 CJHL-ranked Bandits in three straight contests by scores of 3-1, 4-1 and 4-2 to claim the Doyle Cup.
FORWARDS: Pacing Prince George during the regular season was forward Dustin Manz, who posted 70 points, including 33 goals, to finish fourth-best in BCHL scoring.
Next was Ben Brar, who collected 61 points while leading the squad with 35 tallies, while Patrick Cozzi was third with 58 points.
Ben Poisson led P.G. in the playoffs on 21 points with his 13 markers pacing all BCHL skaters with Cozzi close by with 19 points.
Cozzi collected six points in the Doyle Cup to propel his side while Poisson had four as did Dylan Anhorn to lead the D-corps.
DEFENCE: Rookie Nick Bochen topped the squad offensively among defencemen with 38 points as the University of Michigan NCAA D-I commit scored eight times and dished out 30 helpers.
Meanwhile touted NHL Draft prospect Layton Ahac was next with 32 points. His 17 postseason points led all league blueliners as did his five goals. He’ll play NCAA hockey on scholarship at Ohio State in the Big 10.
GOALTENDERS: Between the pipes, Logan Neaton, saw the bulk of the workload for Prince George during the year as he went 32-8-5 in 47 appearances while leading all BCHL netminders in goals-against average at 1.92. He also tied for fourth in save percentage at .914 while the UMass-Lowell NCAA D-I commitment was tops in shutouts with five.
Neaton was equally fantastic in the BCHL playoffs going 16-1 with a stingy 1.46 GA% and a .940 save mark, with both areas leading the league, while registering a pair of shutouts.
He then went 4-2 vs. Brooks in the Doyle Cup while sporting a 1.84 average along with a .936 save percentage and had one shutout.
SPECIAL TEAMS: Prince George was 11th-best on the power play during the year at 19.7% and fourth on the penalty kill at 82.7%.
They were second on the P.P. in the playoffs at 27.1% and sat ninth on the P.K. at 81.3% while going 11.8% with the man advantage in the Doyle Cup and 78.9% while shorthanded. In all they scored 43 times on the power play and added 10 shorthanded markers.
PRINCE GEORGE POINTS: The Spruce Kings currently have 12 players on their roster who have NCAA D-I commitments. … D-man Layton Ahac was slotted 62nd overall among North American skaters by NHL Central scouting in their final 2019 NHL Draft rankings. … Prince George is an impressive 20-3 so far in the 2019 postseason. … Since January 1st the club boasts a record of 34-6-3. … The Spruce Kings allowed a BCHL-low 120 goals against during the regular season and were 10th in goals for at 181. … They were tops in both categories in the playoffs, scoring 65 times while giving up just 27 enroute to the league championship.
With files from: Jesse Adamson, Communications Coordinator (BCHL); Jason La Rose, Manager, Content Services (Hockey Canada); Spencer Sharkey, Coordinator, Communications (Hockey Canada)
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If you’re lucky enough to own and in a position to purchase a barn or agricultural build suitable for converting CK Architectural design experts will help you with barn conversion. We love the character and of historic country living balanced with modern comforts only a barn can provide. We like to work with the beautiful and traditional characteristics whilst ensuring modern lifestyle comforts are maintained. Enhancing views out, getting light in and making a warm and habitable environment is key to a good design. We can carry out a feasibility study before you get into big application fees and professional reports.
Even though some conversions have had the planning laws relaxed there are still many boxes to tick to allow for open countryside development. In April 2014, the rules for barn conversions were relaxed in England and wales. Changing the use of farm buildings to create homes is now allowed as permitted development (PD). This means express planning permission isn’t needed; although there is a ‘Prior Notification’ procedure to go through. You can only then work within the existing structure and there must be some form of access and infrastructure. The total floorspace of the finished house must not exceed 450m2, for example. And PD status doesn’t extend to listed buildings or designated zones, such as conservation areas and national parks. A sympathetic and sensitive approach to design and construction ensuring the original character remain intact is the right way forward. Other issues need to be in place such as bio diversity reports for bats, owls, newts and some birds.
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Published: June 19, 2017, 1:33 pm
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Newly named Emancipation Avenue unveiled in Third Ward
HOUSTON – A ribbon-cutting ceremony was held Monday for the renaming of Dowling Street to Emancipation Avenue.
In an unanimous vote in January, the Houston City Council approved changing the name.
The street is located in the heart of Houston's historic Third Ward.
Texas Rep. Garnet Coleman started the push for the name change more than a year ago.
"I think it's time, it's been beyond time. We didn't name it (the street) for a person,we named it for the feeling of having change broken,"said Coleman.
Dowling Street was originally named East Broadway but was renamed Dowling Street to honor Lt. Dick Dowling, a prominent military leader of the Confederacy.
VIDEO: Ribbon-cutting ceremony held for newly named Emancipation Avenue
The renaming of Dowling Street to Emancipation Avenue coincides with Juneteenth celebrations and the reopening of the renovated Emancipation Park.
Community members said that we cannot forget the history but we must work toward the future to bring the diverse community together.
"I think this park is a stepping stone in bringing (the) community together. No community is strong without a strong park and I look forward to bridging that gap," City Councilman Dwight Boykins said.
Karen Bennett has lived in Third Ward for more than 50 years. She brought her grandson Deair to the park. She said the gym, the basketball courts and the new name and park are exactly what the community needed.
"We needed this because it was dangerous back then. Hey, God has sent us a blessing," Bennett said.
Several free, public Juneteenth celebrations were scheduled at Emancipation Park over the weekend and Monday.
The ribbon-cutting ceremony was at 3018 Emancipation Ave. at the Elgin Street intersection.
Rep. Garnet F. Coleman, Mayor Sylvester Turner and Vice-Chair of Houston Southeast Management District Robert Muhammad, Ph.D. were all in attendance.
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The 24 games of Christmas! Game #6: Disney Crossy Road
Ho, ho, ho, and Merry Christmas!
Christmas is a wonderful time of year. If you're in the north then you get to enjoy snow, hot drinks, the wonderful colours of decorations and the smell of a freshly-cut Christmas tree. If you're south of the equator, it means blistering hot weather, beer, and the wonderful colours of decorations and the smell of a freshly-cut Christmas tree.
Christmas is a time for good food, family, and friends. It's a time for celebration, and Christmas is the time of year where it's okay to be a kid all over again, and count down the days to gifts and celebrations one day at a time. Each year we get into the spirit of the season ourselves with a countdown of our own; the 24 Games of Christmas!
So please do join in the countdown with us, crack open some great games, and enjoy the season!
Game #6: Disney Crossy Road
(Read our review here)
While many of us would love to dedicate our entire Christmas break to catching up on games, the reality is, of course, that there's a lot of family parties, parties with friends, dates with spouses or partners, and so on. So Christmas isn't always our own time, and there's often a lot of travel involved.
That's where Disney Crossy Road comes in. It's perfect to pass away trips, short and long, and it's the perfect escape when, at a family party, the family's resident racist decides that you really want to hear about the beef he/she has with the Muslims or Asians or whatever (don't worry, you're not alone. Every family has one). Play Disney Crossy Road a bit and hopefully he/she will decide you're busy (or just rude, but it's okay to be rude to these kinds of people), and leave you alone. That way your own Chriostmas won't be ruined.
Worked for me with the original Crossy Road. And Disney Crossy Road is even better.
Title : The 24 games of Christmas! Game #6: Disney Crossy Road
Posted by : Matt S.
Date : 12/06/2016 08:00:00 AM
Labels : 24 games of Christmas, 24 games of Christmas 2016, Disney Crossy Road
Item Reviewed: The 24 games of Christmas! Game #6: Disney Crossy Road 9 out of 10 based on 10 ratings. 9 user reviews.
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Tomi Lahren Criticized Immigrants, Then Someone Pointed Out Some Facts About Her Genealogy
There are some political commentators who make a living out of saying incendiary remarks just to pander to certain audiences in order to maintain a career. Tomi Lahren seems to be one of those commentators.
Despite radically changing her political views, and being shut down time and again, Lahren still gets work.
She has a particular hatred of "snowflakes," even though she displays some snowflake-like behavior herself, if you ask me.
Hold on...didnt you get fired for not agreeing with your boss....
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Lahren is now back at it again, going on a tirade against immigrants who refuse to assimilate into American culture and learn to speak English.
.@TomiLahren: "You don't just come into this country with low skills, low education, not understanding the language and come into our country because someone says it makes them feel nice. That's not what this country is based on." @WattersWorld pic.twitter.com/Dux0cABHar
— Fox News (@FoxNews) May 13, 2018
"You don’t just come into this country with low skills, low education, not understanding the language and come into our country because someone says it makes them feel nice. That’s not what this country is based on. These people need to understand that it’s a privilege to be an American and it’s a privilege that you work toward—it’s not a right."
However Twitter users pointed out that it's just another case of Lahren being hypocritical, because a look into her own family history suggests that she's living in a glass house and throwing lots of stones.
Specifically, Jennifer Mendelsohn, the creator of #resistancegenealogy, a movement designed to show hyper-nationalists and 'Murican "purists" that they're not so "pure" themselves, was the one to serve Lahren up some facts that poked giant holes in her argument.
Except the 1930 census says Tomi's 3x great-grandmother had been here for 41 years and still spoke German.
Her 2nd great-grandmother had been here for 10 yrs. Spoke no English.
Her great-grandfather's 1895 baptism from MN? Recorded in Norwegian.#resistancegenealogy #receipts pic.twitter.com/rIySFu6fvL
— Jennifer Mendelsohn (@CleverTitleTK) May 13, 2018
Turns out Lahren's ancestors were here for 41 and 10 years respectively and allegedly, neither of them ever learned to speak English.
They immigrated from Germany and Norway only to have Lahren, generations later, secure a net worth of $3 million for herself by preaching that other families should be restricted from the same privileges she benefited from.
For Mendelsohn, it's not about "catching" Lahren in an embarrassing moments, it's about making a point that the Americans who immigrated to the United States years ago are seeking the same opportunities that immigrants did years ago.
One last thing before I shut off my phone:
This is not about playing gotcha.
But as long as people like Lahren continue to push a specious agenda that suggests today's immigrants are somehow wholly different from previous ones, I'll keep showing just how alike they really are.
She wants to combat the narrative that the immigrants who came to American years ago were "cut from a different cloth" or had "different intentions" than hopeful immigrants today.
I'll forever be mystified by Joe Schmo twitter user who bemoans how the country is no longer "close nit" and somehow can intuit that ALL the motivations of all current immigrants are bad ("handouts!") while all the prior immigrants' motivations were good.
They faced the same hardships, had the same dreams, and also faced the same prejudices years ago as well. Take for instance, these anti-semitic, racist ads Jewish immigrants had to deal with when coming to America generations earlier.
Source: muftah
Or even the discrimination Irish immigrants faced when they came to America en masse.
Source: thesocietypages
Mendelsohn's point is that America has always been built on immigration and the idea that accepting people from different cultural backgrounds is somehow incompatible with the "American Way of Life" is categorically false.
What I'm trying to show here is that these nativists can't keep trying to back up their argument by saying "the country doesn't work this way" when clearly it does, and has: for their families.
So why do they *really* not want these people here? That's what we need to dig out.
Oh, and it's also worth examining why you might laud your own ancestors’ behavior as pluck or ingenuity – “So he bribed the official to sign the papers and they were able to get on the boat!” – but castigate contemporary immigrants who behave in much the same way.#FoodForThought
Mendelsohn capped her Twitter thread by finding some common ground with Lahren.
Those who’ve followed me for a long time know I’ve shared tons of stuff about my own family. Some of my ancestors never learned English, either. Some never became citizens. There’s nothing shameful in that.
Look, Tomi! We have something in common.
There have been tons of instances where Lahren was caught criticizing behavior she was guilty of or benefited from herself, like when she accused "lazy liberals" or wanting handouts.
But meanwhile, on her own Twitter account...
She's been involved in so many "pot-kettle" moments it's getting hard to keep track.
lmao isn't this you guys pic.twitter.com/5JjhFr3WoJ
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Posted on January 12, 2014 in The Controversy · 3,034 Views · 19 Comments
During the recent Jangchub Lamrim teachings at Sera Monastery (December 25, 2013 to January 3, 2014) in Bylakuppe, the Dalai Lama spoke again on the issue of his banning the practice of Dorje Shugden that he initiated in 1996. It has been over 17 years since the Dalai Lama first shocked the Tibetan Buddhist world by declaring, quite out of the blue, that the ancient deity Dorje Shugden who for over three centuries has been worshipped by a large proportion of the Tibetan population as the wrathful emanation of the Buddha of Wisdom, was henceforth a demon and not to be worshipped anymore.
Transcript of the Dalai Lama’s speech
(Source: http://tibet.net/2013/12/his-holiness-presides-over-geshe-lharampa-degree-award-ceremony-launches-book-on-dholgyal/)
Bylakuppe, Karnataka, India, 28 December 2013: This morning His Holiness the Dalai Lama walked briskly from his car to the teaching venue in the Sera Jey courtyard. He smiled and waved to well-wishers in the crowd, but did not stop. Once the recitation of the Heart Sutra was complete, successful Lharampa Geshe candidates received their certificates and posed in groups for photographs with His Holiness. Before the teaching began, Chairman of the Geluk International Foundation, Lama Chosphel Zotpa addressed the assembly.
Acknowledging His Holiness, Ganden Tri Rinpoche and other honoured guests he announced that his request for a special ceremony had been accepted.
The Dalai Lama holding a copy of “Opening the Eye of Discernment
“With regard to the practice of Dolgyal, which has caused no end of trouble in the monasteries in India, it has been discouraged and the Ganden Tri Rinpoche and others have made it clear that we should put a stop to it. Consequently, we have compiled a book containing all the relevant documents. With due respect I would like to ask His Holiness to launch the book, which is being published by the Geluk International Foundation under the auspices of the Department of Religion & Culture of the Central Tibetan Administration. Ganden Tri Rinpoche is the head of the Geluk International Foundation, which consists of the 11 major Geluk monasteries. It has been set up to look after education in those monasteries and to improve it where we can. For example, at our instance, the Geluk exams will include science from 2014.“This book is called ‘Opening the Eye of Discernment: a Golden Key’ and I invite the Shartse Abbot, Jangchup Choeden, to introduce it.’
Ven Jangchup Choeden stepped forward and explained that the book had been compiled by three bodies among which the Geluk International Foundation (GIF) had played the leading role. It is not a document that has been compiled under His Holiness’s or anyone else’s order, but as a result of decisions made by GIF. As a result of many years of investigation, His Holiness the Dalai Lama has made it clear that the practice of Dolgyal should be stopped. As a result, there are some who say that His Holiness is snatching away their religious freedom. This, Jangchup Choeden said, is untrue. While Buddhism flourished among Tibetans, Dolgyal followers say Dolgyal is an authentic Geluk protector. Others say Guru Padmasambhava bound him by oath and that Tulku Dakpa Gyaltsen was asked to arise as a Geluk protector. These are all false tales. As interest in Buddhism extends around the world, more and more people want to know the truth.
“I’d like to explain how it was compiled,” Ven Jangchup Choeden said. “We investigated all the relevant documents, starting with the 5th Dalai Lama’s statement that Tulku Dakpa Gyaltsen was recognised through the manipulations of his mother Lag Agyal and later arose in the form of a wrathful spirit. We concluded that Dolgyal has not only not been helpful to the Gelugpa tradition, but has actually been harmful to it. This is why it’s important to make clear what the Gelugpa position should be about this in the future. Finally, our teacher and guide His Holiness the Dalai Lama has been giving vast and profound advice about the practice of Dolgyal. We pray that he may live for aeons and aeons for the benefit of sentient beings.”
Chosphel Zotpa asked the Sera Jey abbot to present the book to His Holiness for him to launch it, which he did, unwrapping and presenting it to the assembly and adding his comments:
“I saw a copy of this book in Delhi and glanced over the contents. It seems to have been done thoroughly. It has been claimed that Dolgyal is a protector of Jamgon Lama Tsongkhapa’s tradition and at one time I propitiated it on this basis. When I was at Dromo, the medium of Dolgyal and Dulzin was there while the mediums of Nechung and Gadong were absent. As a follower of Phabongka Rinpoche’s tradition and a student of Trijang Rinpoche, I made a connection with Dolgyal.
“However, after coming into exile, Gyen Pema Gyaltsen and others, including my spiritual abbot, Ling Rinpoche, evinced great reluctance about the practice, which made me pause and look more closely into it. I did a series of tests and examinations culminating in my doing a divination to decide whether I should stop the practice or not. I looked back on Dolgyal’s history, to the works of the 5th Dalai Lama, who was the most influential person to know him. In his biography he wrote starkly about Dolgyal, saying that due to the devious manipulation of Lag Agyal Gekhasa the wrong candidate was recognised as Tulku Dakpa Gyaltsen. He stated clearly that ‘because of distorted prayers he became a perfidious spirit (dam sri) and brought serious harm to sentient beings.’ He also mentioned that when the spirit went to Tashi Lhunpo, he was stopped by the guardians at the gate so he went on to Sakya where, when challenged, he identified himself as a ‘perfidious spirit’.
“In the early part of his life Phabongka Rinpoche was an eclectic non-sectarian. The 13th Dalai Lama admired him. He did a retreat on Tamdin Yang Sang (Hayagriva, a wrathful aspect of Chenresig and a protector of Sera Jey Monastery) when Trijang Rinpoche was a small boy. Rinpoche told me that he remembers the attendants making pills in connection with it. Later, when he openly propitiated Dolgyal, this changed. There are claims that his teacher Tagphu Dorje Chang composed the life entrustment ritual, but there don’t seem to be records of this. Tagphu Dorje Chang was a Gelugpa who also did Nyingma practices. He’s said to have written down a vision he had of the Ka-gye. Trijang Rinpoche had a copy of it. Later, as Phabongka Rinpoche became more sectarian, he stated that Tamdin Yang Sang should not be included in the merit field. By his propitiation of Dolgyal and his propagation of the practice Phabongka Rinpoche upset the 13th Dalai Lama.
“There is a report that one of Phabongka Rinpoche’s disciples, an attendant of Nguru Ta lama, dreamed of Dolgyal in trance. The spirit announced in a high-pitched celebratory tone: “It will be on the 30th after the 9th is finished.” This may be taken to have been a celebratory prediction of the 13th Dalai Lama’s passing away. Was this something to celebrate? Compare it to a dream someone had when Je Sherab Sengey passed away in which Palden Lhamo cried, ‘My brother has passed away.’
“The 13th Dalai Lama had a broad vision for Tibet, but many of those who worked for him didn’t fulfil it. He didn’t give extensive teachings, but he was strict about how monks studied in the monasteries. After the 13th Dalai Lama passed away, Phabongka Rinpoche escalated the practice of Dolgyal. I too became involved in the practice out of ignorance. After I began to speak about stopping the practice Gyen Ugyen Tsetan said to me that between the lama and the protector, in terms of tantra, going against the lama’s word is more serious.
“Many people followed my advice; the abbots told me many people had stopped the practice. And yet there are those who would deceive others by saying that I am still propitiating Dolgyal, showing pictures of me with an image of Dolgyal in the background. In Tibet there are even stories that Tulku Dakpa Gyaltsen is an emanation of Je Rinpoche arisen as a haughty wrathful spirit. When he died, Je Rinpoche merged the mother and child clear light and attained the illusory body. Would such a being arise as a haughty wrathful spirit? The suggestion is just defamatory.”
His Holiness commended people not to dismiss this book which contains facts and true accounts of what happened. He said:
“If you want to dispute what it says, that’s up to you. If, after studying the book, you want to oppose the Dalai Lama, that’s also up to you. To make a mistake out of ignorance is understandable, but to act knowingly is another matter. There are those in the USA and Europe who publicly demonstrate against me over this. People call me an enemy of Buddhism and Je Rinpoche’s tradition. In this connection I quote Khache Phalu: ‘I have given my heart’s advice to you, you can pay heed to me or not as you wish.’ In the USA and here in India I am provided with security protection because of the perceived threat related to this issue.
“The Dolgyal people are quite rough. They killed the Director of the Institute of Buddhist Dialectics by stabbing him and cutting his throat along with two other young scholars. They have threatened people in Mundgod and elsewhere. Because of this we need to be careful.
“Gyen Pema Gyaltsen was strongly opposed to the propitiation of Dolgyal; Trijang Rinpoche and Zong Rinpoche strongly supported it. Ling Rinpoche and others remained quiet about it, but Pema Gyaltsen told me he was very unhappy about it. I stirred up this turbulence where there was calm. Palden Lhamo has a role in this and I’m acting on her behalf. It’s necessary to be clear about what should be known, but once you know you can do what you wish.”
Resuming his reading of the 5th Dalai Lama’s ‘Sacred Words of Manjushri,’ His Holiness remarked that meeting Dharma in this human life happens only once, not over and over again. He remarked that this text contains the entire meaning of the Great Stages of the Path. He also reiterated that all Tibetan Buddhist traditions follow the Nalanda tradition of study and practice and that is something to be proud of. He also read from ‘The Swift Path,’ the Stages of the Path text by Panchen Lobsang Yeshe and from ‘The Southern Lineage,’ the Stages of the Path text by Je Gendun Jamyang, which follows the instructions of ‘The Sacred Words of Manjushri’. Transmission of both of these latter texts His Holiness received from Trijang Rinpoche.
He repeated the story of Dromtonpa’s passing away. Dromtonpa had laid his head in Potowa’s lap, when a tear fell on his cheek and he asked what the matter was. Potowa answered, “Who will I rely on when you’re gone?” and Dromtonpa told him to rely on scripture. His Holiness commended this as very appropriate advice. He concluded the day’s session saying:
“The question is whether we have put our precious human life to any meaningful purpose or not.”
It was the first time in modern history that a religion has been banned and the perpetrator awarded a Nobel Peace Prize. And in the years since the illegal ban was enforced, there have been tremendous upheavals within the Tibetan and Gelug community. Even as the Tibetan people were struggling to establish a life in exile, they now had to contend with either abandoning their faith which for many was all they had, or run afoul of a man who was definitely not to be crossed. Many lives were destroyed which is understandable especially when one takes into account that for most Tibetans, religion is the foundation of their life’s purpose. This is especially true of monks and to ban their Buddha is to remove, with a fell swoop, their purpose for living. For years, the ban ravaged the fabric of Tibetan Buddhism that was very much defined by the devotion of a student for his teacher. And so, when the Dalai Lama proclaimed last year that he would thereafter no longer speak in public and condemn Dorje Shugden and its practitioners, many Tibetans thought that perhaps it was time to allow themselves to hope again.
It is understandably extremely disappointing that the Dalai Lama should so blatantly go back on the promise he made in December last year and resume his assault on the worshippers of Dorje Shugden, setting an unfortunate example that it is acceptable for a monk not only to create disharmony within the community but also to not keep to his word given to others. To add insult to an already serious injury inflicted on the average Tibetan, the substance of what the Dalai Lama said in his most recent diatribe was recognized to be patently untrue. And for the Dalai Lama to commit such an atrocity against the Dharma during the occasion of the teachings of the Jangchup Lamrim, turning a monastery into the site of another witch-hunt, was just obscene.
New Propaganda, Same Attitude
Before the Dalai Lama began to speak once again about Dorje Shugden, he was requested to launch a new book that the Gelug establishment under the Dalai Lama’s control had commissioned. Not surprisingly, it was a book written against the Enlightened Protector the Dalai Lama had illegally banned – yet another in the barrage of government-led propaganda against Dorje Shugden over the years which, in their efforts to twist facts to the sway the peoples’ minds, grossly disfigures the Dharma and historical truths. The Ganden Shartse Abbot, who recently earned himself great infamy and further dishonor by virtue of his failed and disingenuous attempts to lure H.H. Trijang Choktrul Rinpoche back to India (for reasons one can only suspect to be malevolent given the recent attacks on Trijang Ladrang in India during which an 84 years old monk was inflicted with serious injuries), introduced the book ironically titled “Opening The Eye Of Discernment”.
Interestingly, after the teachings, many of the new books by the Tibetan government were discarded by those in attendance
That the Shartse Abbot should introduce a book written against Dorje Shugden is sinister given the fact that he had only recently returned from a visit to the most prominent Dorje Shugden lama of this time, H.H. Trijang Choktrul Rinpoche, under false pretenses of wishing to mend the relationship between Trijang Rinpoche and the Dalai Lama which was wrecked by the ban itself. As the Shartse Khenpo was urging Trijang Rinpoche to reconcile his differences with the Dalai Lama, he was also secretly readying this new book condemning one of Trijang Rinpoche’s heart practices. This is a quality that all who have dealings directly or indirectly with the Shartse Abbot should note.
Protector of the Gelug Tradition
In his address to all present, the Shartse Abbot said that many, including the Dalai Lama, who have researched and studied Dorje Shugden, arrived at the conclusion that Dorje Shugden was not helpful to the Gelug tradition but was in fact harmful to it. And yet, anyone can see clearly that the biggest threat to the Gelugpa tradition since it was founded by Je Tsongkapa has been this very unholy ban that has divided and weakened the Gelugpas, creating far more damage than any “demon” could exact.
Dorje Shugden’s presence in the Gelug sect since the time of the Fifth Dalai Lama has been nothing but an asset, as proven by the crucial assistance the Protector gave the 13th Dalai Lama in the 1930’s which resulted in the successful staving off of impending attacks from foreign forces. Dorje Shugden did so by taking trance, without being requested, to advice the Dalai Lama to urgently restore the Potala Palace and Je Tsongkapa’s Mausoleum as a means of creating collective merits for the Tibetan people not to be conquered then.
Dorje Shugden again demonstrated his loyalty and affection for the Tibetan people by helping the 14th Dalai Lama avoid capture by Chinese forces in 1959. In escaping to India – an escape that succeeded solely due to Dorje Shugden’s protection and assistance – the Dalai Lama carried with him the hopes of all Tibetans and the survival of all Tibetan Buddhist sects including the Gelugs. And even before Dorje Shugden arose as the wrathful Dharma Protector he now is, he had already begun benefitting the Gelugpas and all sentient beings via the virtuous acts of his previous incarnations such as Panchen Sonam Drakpa and Duldzin Drakpa Gyeltsen. To now say that Dorje Shugden is harmful to the Gelugs and to the Dharma as is being suggested by the Shartse Abbot is just an outright lie.
For over 600 years, the holy Gelug lineage grew and produced great masters and scholars, and at no point in the history of the Gelugpas did Dorje Shugden endanger the lineage in any way. On the contrary, it thrived under the Protection of the deity and it was only after the Protector practice was banned that the lineage founded by Lama Tsongkapa was plunged into such virulence.
Religious Freedom? What’s That?
The Shartse Abbot’s statements should be an embarrassment even to himself. On one hand, he claimed that no individual’s religious freedom has been infringed upon by the Gelug leadership. But on the other hand, he finished his speech by saying that the new book’s stance on Dorje Shugden is one which all Gelugpas are obliged to execute, inferring that not to follow would mean not having loyalty towards the Dalai Lama. This has been the ploy of the anti-Shugden camp from the beginning – to force all Shugden loyalists to choose whether to be on the right side or the wrong side of the Dalai Lama, the latter carrying costly repercussions.
For many who outwardly supported the ban, it was never about examining facts and arriving at conclusions based on logic and reason. It was about staying out of trouble, knowing full well that the Dalai Lama’s enforcer, the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) fully endorsed the discriminatory treatment of Dorje Shugden practitioners, who are shunned by the rest of Tibetan society, barred from entering Tibetan-owned stores and not given education, public services, nor even common courtesy up till today. What religious freedom is the Shartse Abbot referring to?
Judging a Book by its Cover?
If the Shartse Abbot’s speech was starved of any truth and filled instead with wild and dangerous charges, it was merely the warm-up act for the Dalai Lama’s speech, whose opening sentence alone is cause for grave concern. The Dalai Lama said that when he was presented with the book, he didn’t read it in detail but instead flipped through the table of contents. And yet, that was quite sufficient for the Dalai Lama to proclaim repeatedly throughout his 27-minute speech that the book was well researched, accurate and well done. In other words, the Dalai Lama was quite happy to endorse all the lies and serious misinformation contained in the book WITHOUT EVEN READING IT, while being fully aware of the consequences it would have on a large section of Tibetan society who still practice Dorje Shugden out of devotion to their teachers. These are not the actions of a spiritual leader cum Nobel laureate who is touted for his all-embracing compassion and love; instead they are the actions of an unreasonable and irresponsible dictator who allows bias to cloud his judgment, as long as the end result serves his purpose.
Another view of the discarded books. There have been reports coming in of the books being found strewn all over the monastery, even ending up in the garbage sometimes
The question that has to be asked is, of all the deities, gods and spirits in the very large pantheon of beings in Tibetan Buddhism, why has such prominence been given or aimed at only one, i.e. Dorje Shugden and not any other? Why has the Gelug establishment and the Dalai Lama invested so much effort and expense to demonize a deity via literature, media and propaganda when it is so much easier and efficacious to exorcise and subdue him with an entire arsenal of pujas and rituals designed specifically for such purposes? Padmasambhava subdued, tamed and conquered all the gods, spirits and demons in Tibet before Buddhism could be propagated there. Why doesn’t the Dalai Lama follow suit if indeed Dorje Shugden is such a danger?
The truth is, when it comes to the Dorje Shugden issue, the Dalai Lama’s actions and speech have never been guided by fact, truth or reason, and instead seem to be fuelled by an unhealthy spite that causes him to abandon logic. And there are a number of instances during his recent speech where this is clearly evident:
1. Guru Devotion is for Others
The Dalai Lama said, “Between the lama and the protector, in terms of tantra, going against the lama’s words is more serious”. He is correct of course. And therefore it is insanely illogical that this is precisely what the Dalai Lama himself has done, going against his own lamas/Gurus and even declaring them to be wrong.
In this interview, the Dalai Lama says clearly that his teachers who practised Dorje Shugden were wrong
In his speech, the Dalai Lama was openly hostile towards H.H. Kyabje Pabongka Rinpoche, accusing him to be sectarian and of making mistakes. This completely contradicts the Dalai Lama’s point about not going against the guru. Kyabje Pabongka Rinpoche was the guru to both the Dalai Lama’s tutors, H.H. Ling Rinpoche and H.H. Trijang Rinpoche. Thus, speaking against Pabongka Rinpoche is tantamount to going against his own gurus.
The Dorje Shugden ban itself is a testament to how much the Dalai Lama IS opposing his own teachers. Dorje Shugden was and still is the heart practice of H.H. Trijang Rinpoche, the Dalai Lama’s Junior Tutor, who composed many texts expounding this important practice. H.H. Ling Rinpoche, the Dalai Lama’s Senior Tutor, was another staunch practitioner who also composed prayers to Dorje Shugden. By instituting the ban on Dorje Shugden, the Dalai Lama is abandoning his Gurus’ teachings and advice and thus doing the opposite of the guru devotion he preaches.
But the Dalai Lama adds even more insult to injury – he would rather follow the advice of Gen. Pema Gyeltsen and Gen. Tongpun to abandon Dorje Shugden’s practice, a practice given to him by H.H. Trijang Rinpoche, than to follow his guru’s instructions. So how can the Dalai Lama lecture about Guru Devotion when he blatantly flouts it in public and coerces all monks to follow suit?
2. Painting a Foul Picture
Quite shockingly, the Dalai Lama also declared openly that all Dorje Shugden people are violent and dangerous, using certain unresolved murders to validate his point.
“The Dolgyal people are quite rough. They killed the Director of the Institute of Buddhist Dialectics by stabbing him and cutting his throat along with two other young scholars. They have threatened people in Mundgod and elsewhere.”
Making a sweeping statement that “Dolgyal people are quite rough” is biased and prejudiced. Regardless of whether the crime was committed by Dorje Shugden worshippers or not, how can one person’s behaviour represent the entire population and faith? If a Christian steals, does that mean all Christians are thieves?
Gen Chonze was attacked by five masked men bearing knives, who did not speak a single word during the attack on December 27, 2013
Gen Chonze sustained several bruises, cuts and a swollen eye during the attack
More recently, an 84-year-old monk in Trijang Ladrang (no doubt identified as the enemy of the Dalai Lama) was attacked by 5 armed and masked men, widely suspected to have been sent on their foul errand by the CTA. Does this mean that all members of the Central Tibetan Administration are violent criminals with a mob mentality?
Anywhere else, such a statement would have been more than adequate grounds for defamation but the consequences of this charge are substantially more serious than the good name and reputation of the Shugden people. This is persecution by mere accusation that would never be allowed in any country that respects the most basic of laws and the rights of its people. Essentially it is designed to provoke a simple-minded people into becoming a lynching mob and this is precisely what Dorje Shugden practitioners have had to suffer as a result of the Dalai Lama’s careless words.
3. Omniscience or Oblivion?
The ban that the Dalai Lama decreed, made his government enforce and manipulated the community to participate in, never did have any real scriptural foundation or logical basis. In his speech, anything that the Dalai Lama could not debate or explain logically to justify his ban on Dorje Shugden were simply dismissed as “mistakes”.
That the 14th Dalai Lama himself practiced Dorje Shugden in the past was a mistake. That H.H. Trijang Rinpche and H.H. Pabongka Rinpoche practiced too were mistakes. That H.H. Ling Rinpoche wrote prayers and praises to Dorje Shugden was a mistake, not to mention Dorje Shugden prayers written by the 14th Dalai Lama and countless other attained masters. That the Dalai Lama’s own role model for the ban, the Great Fifth Dalai Lama, ultimately recognized Dorje Shugden as an enlightened Protector was also a mistake. Even the recognition of Tulku Drakpa Gyaltsen as the incarnation of the irrefutably attained Panchen Sonam Drakpa was a mistake. In other words, any fact that challenged the Dalai Lama’s non-existent logic for the ban was dismissed as a “mistake” and every single one of these highly attained beings was mistaken.
For the Dalai Lama to be right, just about everyone and everything else was sacrificed as a mistake. Is it not significantly more probable that a mistake is being made by the 14th Dalai Lama now and the fact that all those other enlightened beings worshipped and continue to worship Dorje Shugden is proof of the current Dalai Lama’s mistake?
What kind of person forces everyone to be wrong, indeed even the Buddha and the indisputable law of karma, just so that he alone can be right…if not a tyrant?
4. Buddhism on the Altar of Sacrifice
In trying to validate his ban on Dorje Shugden, the Dalai Lama is even willing to casts doubt on the fundamental tenets of Tibetan Buddhism, including the tulku system and the attainments of its highest proponents. In his speech, the Dalai Lama reinforces a false claim made in the new book that Tulku Drakpa Gyaltsen was actually an evil spirit that rose to power through the devious actions of his mother and that he was not the true reincarnation of Sonam Gelek Pelzang. While this statement is clearly trying to invalidate the truth of Dorje Shugden’s enlightened nature by alluding that he was incarnated from an evil spirit, the real casualties of this lie are none other than the tulku system, the Fifth Dalai Lama and the Panchen Lama Lobsang Chokyi Gyaltsen.
In his collected works (sungbum), the 10th Panchen Lama wrote a praise to Dorje Shugden
The Fifth Dalai Lama, himself an enlightened master saw his teacher, the omniscient Panchen Lama Lobsang Chokyi Gyaltsen as the emanation of Amitabha. It was the same Panchen Lama who recognized the young Tulku Drakpa Gyaltsen as the unmistaken incarnation of Sonam Gelek Pelzang and the heir of the Zimkang Gongma (Upper Residence) that Panchen Sonam Drakpa established. To say that Tulku Drakpa Gyaltsen rose to power because of the machinations of his mother would be to say that the Panchen Lama, whose incarnation line traces directly to Lama Tsongkapa’s heart son Khedrub Je, was completely fooled by an evil spirit and in fact had no omniscience whatsoever. In fact, the opposite is correct and the illustrious line of Panchen Lamas have always propitiated Dorje Shugden as none other than an enlightened protector. The great 10th Panchen Rinpoche Lobsang Trinley Lhundrup Gyaltsen even wrote a complete set of works in praise of Dorje Shugden.
Thus, by the Dalai Lama insisting that Tulku Drakpa Gyeltsen was incorrectly recognized, he is in effect saying that Panchen Lobsang Chokyi Gyaltsen was a mere fool. What then, are the implications for those who studied from a “fool” including the Dalai Lama’s own predecessors? The Dalai Lama’s statement would also mean that the tulku system of recognition and training failed and was rendered completely impotent by a single devious woman. This is the bottom line if we are to accept the Dalai Lama’s words.
5. Hiding Inconvenient Truths
Furthermore it is highly suspect that the source of such claims, according to the Dalai Lama’s speech, was derived from the Fifth Dalai Lama’s Autobiography. If anything, the diaries kept by the Great Fifth confirmed that even he himself recognized Tulku Drakpa Gyaltsen as the true incarnation of Panchen Sonam Drakpa:
“…The reincarnation of the gZims-khang-gong-ma having been stricken with a sudden fever from the 25th day [of the fourth month], I was preparing to set out because I had been asked to come to perform an empowerment [rite] to ward off evil when the regent [sent a message] from Lhasa…”
That was the personal entry of the Fifth Dalai Lama himself as it appears in his Autobiography. In fact there are many references in the Fifth Dalai Lama’s Autobiography that reaffirm the fact that he acknowledged Tulku Drakpa Gyatsen’s recognition just as the Panchen Lobsang Chokyi Gyaltsen did. If the “research” done for this new book was genuine and accurate, these facts would have been easily revealed.
Similarly, the Dalai Lama spoke of a prayer that the Fifth Dalai Lama originally wrote to ward off the evil of Dorje Shugden. Remarkably, the tremendously beautiful prayer the Fifth Dalai Lama wrote when he later realized that Dorje Shugden was, in fact, an enlightened Protector and not a spirit, was conveniently ignored.
6. Political Expediency?
The Dalai Lama’s statement that both Shugden practitioners and Chinese protesters stood side by side against him in protest was extremely dangerous and incendiary. The message the Dalai Lama meant to plant in the minds of the people was that Shugden people are, like the Chinese oppressors who have robbed the Tibetans of their home, enemies of the state and should be dealt with that way.
In addition, the Dalai Lama stated clearly how he needed protection both in the US as well as India due to threats from Dorje Shugden worshippers. It was an extremely wicked way to work the Tibetan people’s anger at having lost their country towards Dorje Shugden practitioners and turn them into mobsters to enforce the Dalai Lama’s will. The politics of China and Tibet have nothing to do with Dorje Shugden and yet it was roped into play by the Dalai Lama as a devious strategy of duping the Tibetan people into becoming enforcers of the ban.
The simple reality is that Shugden worshippers also lost their country, just like all Tibetans, and suffered just like all Tibetans, if not more seeing as they are now twice exiled – once from their country by the oppression of a foreign power and again from their own community by the tyranny of the Dalai Lama and his cronies. If anyone within the CTA (formerly known as Tibetan Government-in-Exile headquartered in Dharamsala, India) opposes the Dalai Lama they will be terminated from their job. No dissensions are allowed.
It’s simple – no matter what mask of democracy you would like to label the Tibetan leadership in Dharamsala, it is a dictatorship. A government ruled by the Dalai Lama since the 50′s and no other candidates are allowed. For the last 53 years, the Dalai Lama has ruled and what he says goes. No opposition is allowed, and his power is reminiscent of dictatorships around the world. We did see the so-called ‘elections’ of the new ‘Prime Minister’ Lobsang Sangay but wonder, Prime Minister of what? The name for the leadership of Tibetans in Dharamsala was the Tibetan Government-in-Exile which has now been demoted to Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) as deemed necessary by the Indian Government (since you cannot have two governments on Indian soil). Therefore Sangay is the Prime Minister of what government? The CTA? The CTA is not a government but a body established to administer the Tibetans in exile in India. Clearly Dalai Lama is in charge of CTA. Who do you see on the throne or spotlight at every public gathering representing the Tibetans? Who pulls the strings? The Dalai Lama has been in power for 53 years, and no one else will, could or be allowed to succeed him during his lifetime. His 53 years in office is remnant of other dictators and the longest:
Ferdinand Marcos – 20 years (1966-1986)
Suharto – 31 years (1967-1998)
Saddam Hussein – 24 years (1979-2003)
Nicolae Ceausescu – 25 years (1965-1989)
Kim Jong-Il – 17 years (1994-2011)
Pol Pot – 35 years (1963-1998)
Sayyid Ali Khamenei – 8 years (1981-1989)
Qaddafi – 42 years (1969-2011)
Idi Amin – 8 years (1971-1979)
Hitler – 12 years (1933-1945)
Mussolini – 21 years (1922-1943)
Vladmir Lenin – 7 years (1917-1924)
General Pinochet – 17 years (1973-1990)
Ho Chi Minh – 24 years (1945-1969)
Mao Tse Tung – 27 years (1949-1976)
(Source: Wikipedia)
The Tibetan high lamas, ministers, ruling class and general leadership must please the Dalai Lama or they will be removed from office, disgraced and ostracized. There have been past abbots of Gaden who displeased the Dalai Lama because they would not move forward with the banning of Shugden and thus they were asked to resign which they did. Other famous and senior lamas e.g. Denma Locho Rinpoche were sidelined when he was sent to Tibet to ‘suppress’ the growth of Shugden’s practice in Tibet and although he visited, he did not speak up. The Tibetan people’s focus is not on improving their exiled situation economic or otherwise or the situation in Tibet but to strictly please the Dalai Lama and hope to be in his good books. They wish to have photographic snapshots taken with him, which they then post on their websites or frame in their rooms for guests to take notice which serves to ‘prove’ they are valid and hopefully will receive personal benefits one way or another. This has become prominent. Take notice of many Tibetan Monastic and individual websites. Many lamas have been told, if they want their centers or monasteries to ‘succeed’ they better get in the good books of the Dalai Lama by foreswearing against Shugden, attend all teachings and get the snapshot. Tibetan lamas jostle in hopes of being in the favor with the Dalai Lama or post their photos taken with Dalai Lama prominently on their shrines, temples and centers in hopes of securing sponsorship since they are with the politically correct group. Whatever dharma they are teaching or not teaching or behavior is irrelevant because you have your photo with the Dalai Lama and you are set. Those who are not in the favor of the Dalai Lama are condemned as in the case of the well-known published Buddhist author and teacher of over 1,000 dharma centers world-wide Geshe Kelsang Gyatso. When everyone is out to please a dictator and improving the country is secondary, the country and her welfare will fall into ruin. Whether the Dalai Lama and his government can be classified as such since they are in exile is a point of debate, but if it quacks like a duck, it is as the old adage goes.
The great Denma Locho Rinpoche
Those who do not subject themselves to the Dalai Lama’s will are regarded as cohorts of the “evil” Chinese. How that comes about is a great mystery only the Tibetan leadership can unveil. The Shugden issue has no bearing whatsoever on Sino-Tibetan politics and yet we see clearly how the issue of Dorje Shugden is politicized. There is no talk of autonomy for Tibet or the welfare of the Tibetans in and out of Tibet. Or even to make friends with the all-powerful Chinese government which would benefit Tibetans in and out of Tibet. What happens to the Tibetans in exile (India, Nepal and Bhutan) after the death of the Dalai Lama? Instead the focus for many years of the CTA has been that Dorje Shugden is evil as this would please the Dalai Lama. It would actually benefit the Tibetans if their Dharamsala leadership would make friends with the Chinese government while the Dalai Lama is alive. It is inevitable after the death of the Dalai Lama, so why not now while he is alive? Church and state must be separated and immediately or there will further damage inflicted knowingly and unknowingly.
7. You have a choice. Really.
The Dalai Lama also said that if after reading the book, people should still decide to maintain their practice of Dorje Shugden, it would be up to them. But if the Dalai Lama is genuine about that, then why was there a need for the ban to begin with? Why start a ban that divided the Sangha so damagingly and destroyed so many lives, and now tell the people it is really up to them? Why even approve and launch such a book condemning Dorje Shugden, seeing as the Dalai Lama has already made countless speeches and exhortations for people to abandon Dorje Shugden’s practice? If the Dalai Lama really wanted to give his people a choice, why for the past 17 years has he decreed ostracism and persecutions of Shugden followers and expulsion of Shugden monks? Did the Dalai Lama overreact with the ban or is he being disingenuous now?
What is truly destroying the Gelug lineage and discrediting Tibetan Buddhism is the ongoing deception regarding Dorje Shugden that the Dalai Lama and his cronies have institutionalized into the leadership of the Central Tibetan Administration. At such a crucial time, effort and money ought to be channeled into bringing the people together and repairing the fractures that an unwarranted and underserved ban caused not in printing anti-Shugden books to further division. In fact, time and money would have been even better channeled into the Tibetan fight for independence [or autonomy] instead of wasting valuable resources on the Dalai Lama’s schemes.
The people of Tibet and the world have learned to look past the deceptive controversy that the Dalai Lama created in 1996 to see the truth of Dorje Shugden’s enlightened nature. The position held by those who see Dorje Shugden as he really is, an enlightened protector who is none other than Manjunatha Tsongkapa has never wavered, unlike the position of those who advocate the ban. What began as the Dalai Lama saying that Dorje Shugden is a minor worldly deity has now changed to be the manipulation of a lone woman who single handedly outwitted over 300 years of Buddhist Masters, Bodhisattvas, Mahasiddhas and scholars. Perhaps this is the sign that all Shugden supporters have been waiting for – now that the Dalai Lama and the CTA have reached rock bottom in their attempts to explain and justify a ban that clearly isn’t making sense, perhaps the end of the ban is near?
Kay Beswick
North America Correspondent
Note: Many anti Dorje Shugden publications have been made since the ban was illegally enforced in 1996, some even condoned by the CTA’s Department Of Religion and Culture who attempted to rewrite Gelugpa history through the Dolgyal Research Committee. Ultimately, none of these publications stood up to the test of legitimacy and validity and eventually fell by the wayside. Likewise, this new book “Opening the Eye of Discernment” will suffer the same fate.
We at dorjeshugden.com have consistently and accurately debunked many of the Dalai Lama’s and the CTA’s lies about Dorje Shugden through knowledge, analysis and logic. We have not changed our stance since the ban came into place but will continue to appeal to the public’s intelligence, humanity and innate sense of justice to right this appalling wrong.
Interestingly, after Jangchub Lamrim teachings concluded at Sera Monastery in Bylakuppe, many of these new books were discarded by those in attendance, although the Dalai Lama exhorted them to read, explain and share the contents of the book with others. It goes to show that no matter how much propaganda is generated by the cohorts of the Dalai Lama, people can only be fooled so many times and the truth is finally beginning to shine through.
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Jangchup Chopa
In the video Dalai Lama looks very angry when he says his gurus are wrong.
It’s like his gurus knowledge and investigations cannot match his own. That is strange. All the hundreds and thousands of gurus and monks who practiced Shugden for 300 years are all wrong. Even the previous 10th Panchen Rinpoche is wrong who practices Ds strongly? Everyone is wrong and only the Dalai Lama is right? Does that make sense to anyone?
Abiya S.
The so called leadership or CTA or Exiled Tibetan Government in Dharamsala are so violent. They can attack an old monk like Chonze. What is his crime? So unjust. Amazing brutality. They ask everyone to attend Dalai Lama’s dharma talks for what? To listen to more propaganda against Dorje Shugden? We want dharma not reasons for religious suppression. Why does CTA continue this? Why do they keep repeating the Dorje Shugden issue at every opportunity? It must be to incite the Tibetan public to take action against Shugden people. The CTA wants to remain clean and act innocent, but they are inciting and provoking the Tibetan masses to take violent action against Shugden people. Why is this allowed. Why does the Dalai Lama allow this?
This must be reported to human rights in the United Nations. I will pursue this and send letters out to the United Nations Human Rights and religious department. I will gather some friends and start within two weeks already.
The CTA has no limits to the damage they do to their own people. No wonder they lost their country and will never get it back. The CTA will get their karma back. All the damage they have done will return upon them full force shortly.
Same old ,same old ……….everybody else wrong,Dalai Lama right.Slandering all Dorje Shudgen practitioners as ‘rough’,I see.How sad and pathetic to all be blamed for an unsolved heinous murder.It is the Dalai Lama himself who is causing so much suffering on this issue.
In Tibetan Buddhism, Guru Devotion and Clean Guru Samaya is the most important part of the practices. As a High Lama HHDL mention clearly His Guru is wrong but there is some Tears at His eyes, we really need to Contemplate Deeply. Hence all the lineage High Lama that practice Dorje Shugden all wrong?? How can it be??
CTA please stop all the violence against innocents Shugden practitioners, all proofs are listed above in DorjeShugden.com . Please use ur time wisely to find the proofs to support ur comments or study back the proofs in DorjeShugden.com but Not Create Violence again!!!
Shugden Library
The stakes have never been higher. The Dalai Lama sees exiled Tibetans becoming increasingly vocal with regards his stance on Shugden with new pro-Shugden websites and Youtube channels over the past year; the exiled Tibetan youth have become more nationalistic, and while in the past “big bad Dorje Shugden” may have taking their minds off the “Free Tibet” debate one would hope they won’t be fooled so easily again; and there are some excellent books around that expose various chinks in the Dalai Lama armour including the most recent: The False Dalai Lama.
At the end of the day, the CTA will only do what the Dalai Lama and his family tell them to. To suggest that the Dalai Lama has given up politics would be very naive.
Keep promoting Dorje Shugden, keep exposing the lies behind the ban, karma will change and Dorje Shugden will gain greater power, for all our sakes.
Lin Cassidy
@Shugden Library
Totally agree I have noticed also and noticed the increased qty of vocal questioning online…which is great compared to where things were many years ago?
Awareness IMHO can only bring an Awakening of many minds on all Issues…whether they are freedom of religion, human rights, rights of democracy, rights to access of health, education, freedom of movement for all citizens…All those things swept under the carpet in this debate.
I wonder if the Question? How did we get here? becomes so big and loud from all quarters of Tibetan Society and also the World Community to make transparency and accountability part of the equation.
If it is good for China and Russia big players on the world stage and also countries like Iran and Syria surely it is culpable that CTA/ Free Tibet should also be made to account also…for the many years of financial support and protection / safety of citizens in countries around the world?
How many other people are refugees from War without a safe haven to call home even in the refugee camps they live in? Millions…more than Tibetan In Exiles…Food for Thought.
Create the causes to Free Tibet not more Negative Karma to marginalise / oppress your own Citizens.
Thank you again Admin
D.Bear
Oh what a charade and its so clear that the Dalai Lama’s hand is behind this sham. As the article highlighted, it has been so many years since the ban began. So why is there still a need for the Dalai Lama to justify it still unless there are serious rumblings at ground level that signals to the Dalai Lama that all is not well with his rule. So much untruth in the Dalai Lama’s speech but the bit towards the end where the Dalai Lama quite openly tried to set the Tibetan people against Shugden worshippers by insinuating that they are Chinese friends, is dimly unforgivable.
If there is one act that should be seen as treason, then it must surely be the Dalai Lama’s selection of a Chinese trained and sponsored Karmapa over the Shamarpa’s candidate. Amazing how the Dalai Lama got away with that one while accusing innocent people to be Chinese spies and sympathisers.
For the Dalai Lama and those involved in this ruse, they must really think that all Tibetans are stupid. Clearly not by the looking of things, especially the way the new anti-DS books found their way to be amongst the rubbish pile.
I used to think that the Dalai Lama had a good and noble reason for ordering the ban. I am not so sure now.
Most of the newbie like to follow whatever Dalai Lama said. This is just ensure never goes wrong. After reading the above article, I have different point of view. Sometimes the genius can be wrong also. We should not follow blindly and simply abandon our practice taught by our guru. We should not waste our precious human life, the more we should be prudent in our choice. Whether the ban on Dorje Shudgen is enforced or not should not be an issue to us. You and me always can make our choice. Why must we bother what they said?
Dorje Shugden
Even Avalokiteshvara is a fully enlightened being he has his Spiritual Guide (Amitabha) on his crown out of respect.
How is possible that some people still consider the Dalai Lama and emanation of Avalokiteshvara?
It contradicts logical reasoning
The dirty deed in its illogic attempt of rewriting an authentic lineage absolutely did not garner much support from the monks and the assembly. Hence, the rewritten garbage ended up as rubbish littering the compound at the end of the talk. This strongly indicates the sentiments of the assembly of sanghas. They are unreluctantly dominated by a strong dictatorship to become anti-Shugden by no choice of their own. As it is apparent, most of the sanghas are undercover Shugden practitioners. Externally they have to put up with an appearance of supporting the ban but internally they are quietly practising Shugden. The Dalai Lama and the CTA are certainly fooled by external appearance! What a waste of money and time invested in this dirty deed.
In the world today, who benefits more? HH Dalai Lama or Dorje Shugden? Who has more impact with the general population? Who has the greater ability to spread the Dharma?
You can say Dorje Shugden benefits in mystical ways as a Dharma Protector, but who really has the power to plant the seed of Dharma in people?
And what does Dorje Shugden protect? The Gelug lineage? More people have heard of Tibetan Buddhism, the Gelug lineage, Trijang Rinpoche, Pabongkha Rinpoche and even Dorje Shugden himself through the HH Dalai Lama.
You all may be against HH Dalai Lama, but don’t forget he is the actual person that people can see and hear who helped establish Tibetan Buddhism in exile and throughout the world. It would be best if you all remembered his kindness.
One of the part i find it very amazing is that if you notice the Nobel Prize winner said he only brief saw the Table of Contents of this book as a Nobel Prize winner or as a normal Nobel Prize winner would you simply launched or endorsed a book without even know the details of a book? I won’t do that…
In answer to “two truths”. I would say, that in the long term, certainly Dorje Shugden is more beneficial. By the Dalai Lama’s actions he has done nothing to promote the pure teachings of Buddha, indeed he has publicly stated that Buddha was wrong, and now promotes science ahead of Dharma (Buddha’s teachings). By his actions the Gelug tradition is in disarray, the Kagyu are divided, and he promotes Bon, an ancient tradition of black magic and occult doctrine.
Dorje Shugden is a Buddha, the wrathful aspect of Buddha Manjushri, the Dalai Lama is only a man deluded by a lust for power.
bimbisara
I agree with library. Buddhas are very skilled in helping people. They would never cause the suffering that the Dalai lama has brought to spread Buddhism becouse the ban couse people to doubt about Buddhism it destroys Buddhist reputation. Buddhas would never act like this. They are far more skilled. They do not need to cause suffering to bring benefit. Even if the Dalai lama had this motivation for the ban I do not think so he would be showing that is just an ordinary being with no wisdom.
Solomon Lang
This is interesting, HH the Dalai Lama will be giving the following public talk soon:
Public Talk in Los Angeles, California, USA on February 25: His Holiness will give a public talk on Non-Violence and the Effects of Compassion in the 21st Century in the afternoon at Staples Center organized by The Lourdes Foundation.
CTA made Gaden Shartse Abot and senior sanghas who conspired in the publishing of the anti-Shugden dharma text absolute fools. Gaden Shartse Abot prefers to remain politically correct and be CTA’s puppet by manipulating and twisting a true authentic history and lineage of Dorje Shugden. This is an acute attack on his scholarly logic which Gaden Monastery is world renown. What a shame Gaden Monastery is down-graded through his act and leadership. This is certainly the first ever happening in the history of Gaden.
sam kee
@two truths
Yes, the Dalai Lama did spread Buddhism globally and benefitted many people but he could have done it without slandering his gurus. By doing so he slandered his own lineage, by doing so he started his own lineage, and by doing so he is telling everyone that it is okay to say your gurus are wrong and to do actions that may create harm to your gurus.
I thought Buddhism is the Middle Way without extremism, without politics leading to fights and harm. I thought Buddhism teaches tolerance, compassion, giving, loving kindness, forgiving, patience, gratitude and so on. What the Dalai Lama is doing with the ban on Dorje Shugden is going against all these.
Then, is the Dalai Lama wrong? Yes, the Dalai Lama is wrong.
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Yes, the Dalai Lama is wrong and the king is naked!
I am watching this video with a mind of love & what I see is he is projecting his own insecurities about if HE is authentic onto a deity. His starting point was a divination. He talks about lineages of births of Tulkus being broken at the point where the incorrect child is identified. This was his starting point from which all the other reasonings developed it is at 17 min 44 seconds what the 5th dalai lama said about wrong recognition. I know if I was incorrectly recognised myself this text would become very important to me. I believe thats why he became fixated on this text by the 5th dalai lama
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.…Instead of turning away people who practise Dorje Shugden, we should be kind to them. Give them logic and wisdom without fear, then in time they give up the ‘wrong’ practice. Actually Shugden practitioners are not doing anything wrong. But hypothetically, if they are, wouldn’t it be more Buddhistic to be accepting? So those who have views against Dorje Shugden should contemplate this. Those practicing Dorje Shugden should forbear with extreme patience, fortitude and keep your commitments. The time will come as predicted that Dorje Shugden’s practice and it’s terrific quick benefits will be embraced by the world and it will be a practice of many beings.
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Part I. Growth and maturation of the intestine.
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Part II. Neuro-endocrine function of the intestine.
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The frigid waters of the Antarctic may yield a treatment for a deadly disease that affects populations in some of the hottest places on earth. Current medications for that scourge — malaria — are becoming less effective as drug resistance spreads. But researchers report in ACS’ Journal of Natural Products that a peptide they isolated from an Antarctic sponge shows promise as a lead for new therapies.
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Trailer Tracker: Super 8, Conan and more
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Our featured full-length trailer this week brings you alien-fueled mayhem from the highly anticipated Super 8. This is quality stuff we could only get from two of the most famed sci-fi auteurs, Steven Spielberg and J.J. Abrams. Sans Schwarzenegger, the remake of Conan the Barbarian moves forward with its premier teaser trailer and everyone’s favourite ... The Smurfs get the big screen treatment in this Alvin and the Chipmunks-esque animation/live action hybrid. Two of our finest thespians, Michael Sheen and Mario Bello play grieving parents following a tragic school shooting in Beautiful Boy and finally, as we all expected, Tyler Perry is back in drag in Madea’s Big Happy Family. Zip up that fat suit and pop on that wig, it’s Trailer Tracker.
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After two vague looks at this Spielberg/Abrams collaboration with a Super Bowl spot and an initial teaser, this alien invasion adventure finally sheds its cloak in its first feature clip. More than echoing two of Spielberg’s classic productions with E.T. and Close Encounters of the Third Kind, what is revealed about Super 8 still remains subtle enough to continue carrying a sense of wonder. Kyle Chandler (King Kong, The Day the Earth Stood Still) as the adult lead joins rising star Elle Fanning (Somewhere) as but one of six childhood friends who capture a horrific train crash with their Super 8 camera one fateful night. From there, something otherworldly emerges and strange phenomena begin to materialize in their small town.
As director Abrams does best, the marketing lead-up for this June 10 release has been enticingly mysterious, and now with a great teaser poster (and as I will iterate again, the involvement of Spielberg) my personal excitement is certainly peaking. Not the Cloverfield follow-up many initially thought, this will be an entirely original work scripted by Abrams. Another arresting aspect of the production is the involvement of cinematographer Larry Fong who was worked on films including Hero, and three Zach Snyder offerings with 300, Watchmen and the upcoming Sucker Punch. To be sure, we can expect a stylish effort from this one.
Joining the long parade of remakes nobody asked for, Arnold Schwarzenegger’s feature film debut gets a new look in Conan the Barbarian, a $100 million, 3-D offering starring the little known actor from Stargate Atlantis, Jason Momoa. Check this one off on your list of potential disasters, people. Rose McGowan and Stephen Lang also star under the direction of Marcus Nipsel who has given us two other masterful (hint: sarcasm) remakes with The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Friday the 13th. The trailer (which is the epitome of a teaser) offers little indication about what the film may constitute visually or narrative-wise, but it is set for a late summer opening on Aug. 19. Let’s at least hope it’s rated R.
Holy Smurf, another Smurfing CGI live-action hybrid kidpic! From the genius director of Home Alone 3, Big Mommas House, the “Scooby-Doo” films, Yours, Mine and Ours and Beverly Hills Chihuahua comes, you guessed it, The Smurfs. Even the presence of Neil Patrick Harris and Hank Azaria is unable to quell the rising bile in my throat brought forth by what is quite possibly the worst looking movie I've seen in some time. But I digress, if your idea of a good time is forced slapstick, rampant stereotypes and a script where every other verb is replaced with “Smurf," then bust out that baby blue marker and but a big “S” on Aug. 3 because your day has finally come.
The tragic school shootings that continue to culminate across the world have been the subject of many cinematic outings (many of which are docs), but the trailer for Beautiful Boy is the first I have personally seen that takes the perspective not from a victim, or the victims family per se, but rather the parents of the child who committed the heinous act. The trailer is unfortunately heavily melodramatic and schmaltzy but the inclusion of Maria Bello and Michael Sheen as the shell-shocked couple lends a great deal of hope to the production. Last year’s Academy-nominated Rabbit Hole was praised for its earnest portrayal of grief, so let’s hope Beautiful Boy falls in the same vein.
It just wouldn’t be a complete year at the movies without one (or sometimes two) of Tyler Perry’s hugely popular, though critically-reviled, African-American melodramedies. Perry is back in drag as Madea, the loud-mouthed matriarch of her dysfunctional family. As usual, I have no interest in seeking out this particular film, but the promotional materials for the film (particularly the posters which this year take aim at the just-passed Oscars) are top notch, and if Perry’s entire filmography is any indication, they will conflict badly with the final product.
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Zac Efron, Vanessa Hudgens and Ashley Tisdale Have a Fake High School Musical Reunion
by Corinne Heller | Sat., Jan. 13, 2018 11:24 AM
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Wildcats, take a deep breath and try and process this: We almost had the ultimate, and possibly awkward High School Musical reunion at the 2018 Golden Globes. But we did get a pretty great fake one.
Star Ashley Tisdale posted on Instagram on Saturday, almost a week after the ceremony, a photo someone had expertly photoshopped that shows her, Zac Efron and onscreen love interest and real-life ex Vanessa Hudgens on the red carpet at the event.
"What a great reunion we had (photoshop is getting too real)," Tisdale wrote.
But check this out: This reunion, or a mini-reunion, could have happened in real life last Sunday.
Zac & Vanessa: High School Sweethearts
Efron was the only one of the three who walked the red carpet at Sunday's Golden Globes, as he was a presenter, and the photoshopped pic shows him there. The ceremony took place at the Beverly Hilton Hotel.
Hudgens and Tisdale were not far away.
Efron's ex was photographed with her boyfriend, Austin Butlerat InStyle and Warner Bros.'s Golden Globes party, which was held at the Beverly Hilton's Oasis Courtyard. Her image in the photoshopped pic is taken from a photo of her and her beau at the bash.
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Efron and Hudgens met in 2005 on the set of the Disney Channel movie High School Musical, which saw them play couple Troy and Gabriella, and dated for about four years before splitting in 2010. She and Butler started dating a year later.
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Tisdale's image in the photoshopped pic is taken from a shot of her and husband Christopher French at Amazon Studio's Golden Globes party, which was held at the Beverly Hilton's Stardust Ballroom.
She and Hudgens are good friends. Two years ago, they and other cast members reunited in person for a High School Musical 10th anniversary special, which featured a prerecorded video message from Efron.
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Equiteq was engaged by Paris-based Activeo, a leader in Customer Collaboration Technologies and Customer Experience Consulting, to define and implement a strategic international development plan, where organic growth would be boosted by targeted acquisitions and new ventures. The ultimate objective was to optimize the outcome of an exit strategy to be executed within the next few years. With in-depth expertise and insights in the consulting industry, Equiteq helped Activeo design and execute the strategic plan, first by creating a new unit in Switzerland, then by acquiring a majority shareholding in Kasturi Technology, and a strong minority stake in, Jusfeedback, two Singaporean companies specialized in Unified Communications (UC) and Customer Feedback Management. These moves constituted major steps for Activeo to expand in Asia-Pacific (supplementing its existing bridgehead in India) and build an integrated international network.
These acquisitions are a great step forward for Activeo. The combined skills of Kasturi, Jusfeedback and Activeo will provide a lot of added value for customers in Singapore and beyond in Asia-Pacific. This will greatly enhance the Activeo portfolio and generate strong synergies between customer collaboration and customer experience service offerings. Equiteq has played a key role in helping us define and effectively execute this transformational growth strategy.
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3. Transaction Phase: Equiteq engaged with all potential targets, eliciting interest for discussions and guiding the parties towards a synergistic integration plan. Equiteq then assisted Activeo in the drafting of a Letter of Intent (and at a later stage the final agreements), the conduct of the due diligence process and the design of the post-acquisition integration plan.
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Activeo’s main shareholder, Joseph Kort, wanted to take the company, over a five-year period, from a firm that focused on the French UC market to an international organization with the same industry focus, but with a larger footprint in Europe and Asia. This expansion would result in better coverage of international accounts and optimization of cost structure, doubling the revenues and EBITDA percentage. This strategic plan, however, had to be boosted by targeted acquisitions, to be completed through mostly share deals, whereby the shareholders of the acquired companies would realize the value of their firms through the common exit strategy.
How did this deliver value to the client?
Brought rigour and discipline in the process of exploring the various possible scenarios, with their pros & cons, benefits & concerns.
Translated the scenarios into quantified business plans, with different possible variants - Helped Activeo build the cases that supported negotiations with the ‘targets’, as well as, in some cases, with the banks.
Assisted in the approaches and negotiations, in a relatively complex international, multi-cultural context.
Identifyied and addressed the post-acquisition integration and synergistic issues.
Kept the plan geared towards the optimization of an exit event to be completed in the years to come.
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A Better Developer Experience
For the more than 2,100 developers attending the fourteenth annual Esri Developer Summit (DevSummit), the relaunch of the ArcGIS for Developers program was one of the highlights. The event, held March 5–8, 2019, in Palm Springs, California, drew attendees who came to network, learn about the latest developments in ArcGIS, showcase their work, and interact with the hundreds of Esri development staff at the event.
In brief comments at the opening of the Plenary Session, Esri president Jack Dangermond and DevSummit MC and ArcGIS program manager Jim McKinney lauded the work of developers as both awesome and valuable. Dangermond emphasized Esri’s shift to “focus on developers and making your lives better.” In addition to incorporating developer feedback and constantly improving Esri’s development tools, the ArcGIS for Developers program is more streamlined, flexible, and affordable.
Capabilities Developers Need
The new features of this program were introduced by Euan Cameron, chief technology officer for the Runtime and Applications group at Esri during the Plenary Session. The ArcGIS for Developers program gives developers access to tools for native and web development that target mobile and desktop platforms and devices. These include the ArcGIS Runtime SDKs for Android, iOS, Java, .NET, Qt, and macOS; ArcGIS APIs for JavaScript and Python; and the REST API.
These tools help developers create interactive data visualizations in 2D and 3D using GPU-accelerated rendering and client-side analytics. Of course, geocoding, routing, and search capabilities can be incorporated in apps, as well as smart mapping and data-driven mapping that guide the creation of effective data visualizations. SDKs support apps that can work offline or in conditions of intermittent connectivity.
Data is vital to the success of apps. With any developer plan, developers get access to Esri’s vector and raster basemaps, available in several ready-to-use styles and built with the best authoritative data available from leading providers and the Esri community. Vector maps can be easily customized using the ArcGIS Vector Style Editor.
Esri also hosts a new vector basemap based on OpenStreetMap, which has unlimited map views per month, so there is no extra charge no matter how popular an application is. OpenStreetMap is constantly updated, and those updates are incorporated immediately as the changes are contributed. ArcGIS GeoEnrichment Service lets apps do more by supplying current demographic and business information by location. Data hosting can be handled by the developer or Esri. Esri hosting is private and secure.
Quickly Productive
ArcGIS developer tools let you do less and produce more. Maps and geocoding can be integrated into your app in just a few lines of code. Out-of-the-box widgets and components provide instant functionality, and app builders let you build apps without any coding. ArcGIS DevLabs are focused exercises that teach practical implementations of APIs and SDKs. Samples and open-source projects are available on GitHub.
Affordable and Easy-to-Manage Plans
Existing developer subscriptions have automatically rolled over to the subscriptions in the new program. Free subscriptions become Essentials subscriptions with the same resources as previously. Paid developer plans are now referred to as Builder plans that allow commercial deployment and have pay-as-you-go pricing.
Manage your developer plan through a dashboard that organizes information on your credits and plan and provides access to tokens, keys, and the latest news on releases and learning resources. It can be customized with your preferred APIs and SDKs so relevant suggestions and developer tips are surfaced.
Developers who are new to the program can start for free with the Essentials plan, which lets you build and deploy unlimited, non-revenue-generating apps using any ArcGIS API or SDK and the configurable apps and Web AppBuilder for ArcGIS. Host, query, and analyze your map data and style basemaps with one million basemap and geocode transactions per month. Beyond the 50 free service credits each month, pricing is pay-as-you-go.
With the Builder plan, you get unlimited commercial deployment of your apps, whether through sales or subscription. In addition to everything in the Essentials plan, this plan provides ArcGIS Online apps, ArcGIS Pro, ArcGIS Online, and Esri Technical Support. It can be purchased on a monthly or yearly basis.
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Nina Isabelle is a process-based multidisciplinary artist working with perception, action, language, and phenomena. She builds performative and photographic frameworks as staged inquiries into how sensory perception functions as the impetus for action, reaction, response, and choice-making in art and life practices. These situational inquiry vignettes often combine sculptural objects, natural environments, soundscapes, formed or draped body coverings, and intention within a performance structure to explore the ways sensory experiences form concepts, inform thought progressions, compel action, and the unconscious and conscious impact these variables have on decision-making processes used to construct meaning and worlds.
Isabelle approaches photography as an instrument to identify and inspect sensory inconsistencies and memory schisms by simultaneously displacing perception into three different vantages- the observer, the observed subject or object, and the observer of the observed subject or object. In this way, photographs become a tool to sort and solve sensory perception problems related to sequence and simultaneity, physical location and material, the affability of memory, the complexities of self and others, and the inconsistencies experienced by the observer and experiencer over time.
Isabelle has presented work at The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts in New York City, The Queens Museum as part of Emergency Index Documentation Discussion, ABC No Rio in Exile at Bullet Space in NYC with Feminist Art Group, Para//el Performance Space and The Ear in Brooklyn, NY, Paul McMahon's Mothership social sculpture in Woodstock, NY, as well as at The Judson Memorial Church in NYC as part of The Anarchist Art Festival, and with Anarko Art Lab's Ungovernable Zone at Ft. Tilden, NY. Her work has been presented at Roman Susan in Chicago, IL, The San Diego Art Institute, The New School's exhibition at The Bushwick Collective, CX Silver Gallery in Brattleboro VT, and HiLo in Catskill, NY as well as internationally at The Czong Institute for Contemporary Art in Gimpo, South Korea, The Institute in Catalunya, Spain, Studio Fidlär in Berlin, The Bangkok Underground Film Festival in Thailand, NA Gallery in South Korea.
Project-specific photographs: www.ninaisabelle.com/shapeofafeeling
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TechCARE: meet Lebanon’s NREN
5 June 2018 | Cambridge, UK
In 2016, Lebanon established for the first time access to international R&E connectivity: with support from GÉANT and the Arab States Research and Education Network (ASREN), the American University of Beirut (AUB) allocated 10 Mbps of its existing internet bandwidth to an ASREN link terminating in London, from where it interconnected with GÉANT, thus providing AUB with international R&E connectivity. Driven by demand and with support from the EU-funded EUMEDCONNECT3 project, that link has been progressively upgraded to 1.4 Gbps.
Two years on, Lebanon is now joining the global NREN community: on 28 May, five major Lebanese universities signed the Technology Cooperation Agreement for Research and Education (TechCARE), formally establishing Lebanon’s national research and education network. TechCARE will connect educational institutions within Lebanon and from Lebanon to the world, allowing for enhanced collaboration and improved e-services for the member universities and their communities of researchers and learners.
Representative of the 5 universities at the TechCARE signing ceremony on 28 May 2018 at AUB in Beirut: Father Professor Georges Hobeika, President of Holy Spirit University of Kaslik (USEK); Dr. Amr El-Adawi, President of Beirut Arab University (BAU); Dr. Fadlo Khuri, President of the American University of Beirut (AUB); Prof. Salim Daccache s.j., Rector of Saint Joseph University (USJ); Roy Majdalani, Vice President for Human Resources and University Services of the Lebanese American University (LAU).
From the onset, AUB’s strategy in the NREN debate was clear: focusing on value-added services such as eduroam and eduGAIN and securing the commitment of a critical mass of leading institutions across Lebanon.
“Instead of trying to build the physical network so we can build the services and then collaborate, we decided to start collaborating so that we can build the services, and then we can build the network. We flipped it around.”
Dr. Yousif Asfour, AUB’s Chief Information Officer
“GÉANT welcomes the Technology Cooperation Agreement for Research and Education (TechCARE) among Lebanese research and education institutions and is happy to provide the Lebanese R&E community with the benefits from connectivity and services provided under agreements between GÉANT and AUB. We look forward to a continuing and growing partnership.”
David West, GÉANT’s EUMEDCONNECT3 project manager
Lebanon is a partner in the EU co-funded EUMEDCONNECT3 project which aims to connect Eastern Mediterranean countries to GÉANT, providing a gateway for international R&E collaborations.
GÉANT partners up with regional networking organisation ASREN (Arab States Research and Education Network) to support the creation of regional networks in the Eastern Mediterranean (through the EUMEDCONNECT3 programme) and North Africa (through the AfricaConnect2 project) and their interconnection with the pan-European GÉANT network.
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Barnier takes on Juncker for EU Commission job
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French EU Commissioner Michel Barnier filed his candidacy on Friday (28 February) to become the European People’s Party’s candidate for the European Commission presidency, in a race that will be decided at the EPP congress later this week. EURACTIV France contributed to this report.
Barnier formalised his candidacy on Friday (28 February), the EPP announced in a statement.
The Frenchman secured endorsements from his own party, the Union pour un Mouvement Populaire (UMP), as well as those of the NSi party in Slovenia and the Fidesz party in Hungary.
Barnier currently serves as EU commissioner for the internal market and services. Brussels insiders say he has a good profile for a top position in the EU institutions. But a lack of support in his home country, France, is his greatest weakness as Barnier is unlikely to be nominated as French commissioner by the current Socialist government.
The governing Socialist Party (PS) – and particularly its left wing – has heavily criticised the outgoing EU Commission team’s work. The PS is also eager to get a commissioner from its own party approved.
But even within his own centre-right party Barnier faces criticism: “He is too leftist, too European,” an MEP told EURACTIV France. “But it is his decision [to enter the EPP campaign] – we warned him and he decided against it.”
Jean-François Copé, head of the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP), has supported the French commissioner in public but remained notably quiet in the wake of Barnier’s announcement, last Friday. Barnier is also not heading any electoral lists in France.
Three contenders, one favourite
The French commissioner will compete with fellow centre-right heavyweights to lead the EPP campaign towards the EU elections on 22-25 May. The lead candidate also serves as the political family’s favourite for the presidency of the next EU Commission that will be nominated after the election (see background).
Aside from Barnier, two figures have filed their candidacy for the centre-right top spot. Jean-Claude Juncker, the former Luxembourg prime minister, is in the lead to obtain the party’s nomination, and has won the support of a heavyweight, German chancellor Angela Merkel.
Valdis Dombrovskis, the Latvian former prime minister, announced he would enter the race two weeks ago. “I have dealt with the financial and economic crisis in my own member state and I believe this is an experience which I can bring to the EU level,” Dombrovskis told EURACTIV in an interview.
Centre-right politicians can still file their candidacy up until this Wednesday (5 March). A fourth contender would be a huge surprise: EPP president Joseph Daul told EURACTIV Czech Republic in an interview that these three were quasi confirmed. A fourth contender, Finnish PM Jyrki Katainen, told EURACTIV earlier he would not run.
>> Read: Centre-right candidates asked to step forward
The EPP is holding its electoral congress this week, in Dublin. The party will organise a review of its candidates to the frontrunner spot on Thursday (6 March) and will vote on the candidates on Friday (7 March).
The party will also adopt its election "manifesto", a common programme that serves as a basis for national parties to shape their EU elections campaign.
The EPP is the last of major European parties to kick-off its electoral campaign. The liberal party ALDE adopted its manifesto at a congress in London on 28-30 November and selected its candidate in Brussels on 1 February. The European Greens gathered in Brussels on 21-23 February, and the socialist PES party has just wrapped up their congress in Rome, which was held this weekend (28 February-1 March).
>> Read our LinksDossier: The EU top jobs: Who’s next?
The European elections will be held in all EU countries on 22-25 May. Since the treaty of Lisbon, the European Parliament elects the Commission president on the basis of a proposal made by the European Council “taking into account” the European elections (Article 17.7, TEU).
European Parliament, parties and many others have pushed for these parties to nominate their frontrunners in the election campaigns, which makes the EU elections a de facto race for the Commission president seat. This is the first campaign in which this is the case – although observers are still uncertain on the eventual outcome.
>> More information in our LinksDossiers on the EU elections and on EU top jobs.
5 March: closing of nominations for contenders to lead the EPP’s campaign and serve as candidate for the European Commission presidency.
6 March: EPP discusses the candidates at their electoral congress in Dublin.
7 March: EPP selects its common candidate.
22-25 May: EU elections in all 28 member states.
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Too European is better than not to be so!
Why? Because what we are facing with austerity is not European of solidarity and equality!
We need more democracy and thus will be only possible if we have a strong European voice !
We are facing 6 Years recession due to inequalities , austerities as well not wanting to touch the REAL core of the problems !
However we can can continue with intergovernmental national system but will fail in a matter of time!
This Europe with no strong voice isn’t not that of Winston Churchill as it was signed during the reunification in 1946 !
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Movement inspiration 7/8/14 Otter King
When I was in my early teens we played an awesome game every summer, a game we called otter king. I was the champion of this game, and after each victory I would stand upon the dock and stare down at my vanquished opponents in the water around me and scream, “I will crush your skulls like a clam against my tummy!”.
Ok, so we actually called the game King of the Dock, and while yes I was the champion I never screamed that line; it is actually from an episode of South Park. None the less, it is a great summer game and otter king is a much cooler name for it.
It’s pretty simple: start on a platform elevated above water, wrestle to throw the other guys off the dock, then climb back up and wrestle some more.
In the right circumstance you can mix grappling, swimming, and climbing and possibly other locomotive movement. If you have the base level to feel comfortable with the swimming, grappling, and falling into the water, give it a try. It’s an amazing combination of movement capacities and incredibly fun.
You can of course regress the game by using more limited wrestling, like having set foot positions or not being able to use your hands, and be careful of environmental hazards.
My inspiration for remembering this game was recently watching the all-time kings of this game, small clawed river otters. Below I put together a little edit of the best video I could capture of them doing their thing at Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle. Take some inspiration from it and work towards being able to play in and out of water moving your own body and moving with other people with the same fluidity, grace, and abandon of these beautiful animals.
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Exelon Generation, JAPC Establish Joint Venture to Enhance Nuclear Operational Excellence Worldwide
KENNETT SQUARE, Pa. – Exelon Generation, the largest nuclear operator in the United States, is partnering with the Japan Atomic Power Company (JAPC) to establish a joint venture company, JExel Nuclear, to leverage Exelon’s expertise in operational excellence and safety among international operators using Japanese reactor technologies.
The joint venture company will license and deploy the Exelon Nuclear Management Model (ENMM) in major nuclear power projects around the world. The first client for the joint venture is Horizon Nuclear Power, a Hitachi-owned company in the UK currently developing two advanced nuclear reactors at the Wylfa Newydd site in Wales.
“The Exelon Nuclear Management Model is widely regarded as the gold standard for world-class nuclear power operations,” said Chris Crane, president and CEO, Exelon. “This joint venture is a significant business development opportunity to license our nuclear operations expertise internationally alongside JAPC, which has been in operation for more than half a century. Together we will help other nuclear developers and operators around the globe create a new generation of even safer, more reliable and more efficient nuclear power plants.”
“JAPC has experience successfully operating multiple reactors in Japan built by British, American, and Japanese vendors as well as experience designing the ABWR,” said Mamoru Muramatsu, JAPC President. “We will make an excellent team with Exelon to best support our customers.”
JExel Nuclear will provide advisory, operating and maintenance management services to nuclear power plant developers and operators around the world utilizing Japanese reactor technologies. The new company will provide full implementation of the ENMM or work with project owners to customize the model to their requirements. JExel Nuclear is jointly controlled (50 percent by each company) with two board members each and experts seconded as needed. The four directors for JExel Nuclear will be: Takahiko Hida, Managing Director of JAPC; Toshihiro Komeno, General Manager of JAPC; Mike Pacilio, executive vice president and COO of Exelon Generation; and Ralph Hunter, vice president of Exelon Generation and COO of Exelon Nuclear Partners. Takahiko Hida will serve as the CEO.
About JAPC
The Japan Atomic Power Company (JAPC) was established in November 1957 as a power company solely engaged in nuclear energy in Japan. Since then, the company has continued to play a leading role in the electric power industry as a pioneer in nuclear power generation through various projects, including the construction of the first commercial nuclear power plant in Japan and the construction, operation and decommissioning of power plants. JAPC owns Tokai Power Station (GCR), which is currently under decommissioning, Tokai No.2 Power Station (BWR) and Tsuruga Power Station, which has Unit1 (BWR) and Unit2 (PWR). Also, Advanced-PWRs are currently under construction in its Tsuruga site.
About Exelon Generation
Exelon Generation, a subsidiary of Exelon Corporation (NYSE: EXC), is one of the largest, most efficient clean energy producers in the U.S., with a generating capacity of more than 33,300 megawatts. Exelon Generation operates the largest U.S. fleet of carbon-free nuclear plants with 20,200 megawatts of capacity from 23 reactors at 14 facilities in Illinois, Maryland, New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania. Exelon Generation also operates a diverse mix of wind, solar, landfill gas, hydroelectric, natural gas and oil facilities in 16 states with more than 13,100 megawatts. Exelon Generation has an industry-leading safety record and is an active partner and economic engine in the communities it serves by providing jobs, charitable contributions and tax payments that help towns and regions grow. Follow Exelon Generation on Twitter @ExelonGen and @ExelonNuclear, view the Exelon Generation channel on YouTube, and visit: http://www.exeloncorp.com/companies/exelon-generation.
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Arrival into Podgorica. Your driver and guide will meet you outside of Customs to transfer you to your hotel, the Aman Sveti Stefan.
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Meet your skipper today for a full day motor boat trip to Boka Bay, one of the most scenic in Montenegro. You’ll see the picturesque town of Herceg Novi. The town is situated on a steep hill leading down to the sea with gorgeous piazzas and fortresses to wander, if you like. There are great views here to the Bay of Kotor.
You will also see Perast and visit the island “Lady of the Rocks”. Perast represents the best preserved entity of this part of the Adriatic. Due to the development of maritime and trade in the 17th and 18th centuries, the town grew with many new palaces and churches.
The Lady of the Rock lies about 125 yards northeast of the island of St. George. The stone plateau in the middle of the sea with a church on it is a result of the enduring efforts of generations of mariners to leave there, in the very heart of the Bay of Boka Kotorska, a testimony of their Christian faith and culture. The island was built artificially by scuttling old ships and depositing stones around a small crag. The name of the island derived from the word “skrpjel” an old word for a crag. The sanctuary was dedicated to the Assumption of the Virgin because this cult (Assunzione della Vergine) was greatly venerated by the Venetians.
As you’re cruising today, you can stop where you like for swimming.
As time allows, you will also stop by the town of Kotor. Located at the head of a deep fjord, Kotor’s fortified Old Town was strategically built at the foot of a high cliff and is today protected by UNESCO.
Similar to other Dalmatian towns, Kotor’s history is a succession of foreign occupations: Illyrian, Roman, Venetian, Napoleonic, to name just a few.
Stop in the Catholic Cathedral of St. Triphun, which was originally built in the 11th Century, but was later reconstructed several times due to the damages caused by earthquakes. Its Romanesque-gothic interiors feature 14th Century frescoes, vaulted roofs, and a gilded-silver iconostasis. The remains of St. Triphun—Kotor’s patron saint—are also kept here.
You may also stroll around the Square of Arms, named after the Venetian arsenal building located here, and see the Bell Tower, as well as the former pillory where the convicted were chained and exposed to public condemnation.
Time permitting, you may decide to visit the Orthodox Church of St Luca from 12th Century, or climb the 1,500 steps to Kotor’s old fortress walls on the hills above the town. The fortifications start at the very seafront and continue some 3 miles up the steep cliffs and behind the town.
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Njegusi & Cetinje | Njegusi & Cetinje
This morning meet your guide and driver at 10AM. Today you will head up the steep slopes to Lovcen Mountain. At the top, you will stop in Njegusi, a mountain village known for its tradition of making smoked ham.
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In Njegusi you will have the opportunity for a light snack. A special tasting of the local honey wine, accompanied by homemade cheese and prosciutto has been arranged for you.
Afterward, continue to the town of Cetinje. This is the ancient capital of Montenegro and home to the museum of King Nicola (the only king of Montenegro) and the St Peter Monastery. This town dates to the 15th century and you will find the main street dotted with museums, monasteries and galleries.
Return to the coastline and head back to your resort. The drive downward is a serpentine road and you’ll have ample time to stop at any of the scenic overlooks that you like.
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Lustica | Lustica
This morning meet your driver and guide at noon and head to Lustica village, approximately 45 minutes away from Kotor.
Today you will meet the Moric family, locally famous for their olive oil production. This olive grove is family owned and operated in an area renowned for the quality and complexity of its extraordinary artisan olive oils produced with purity, flavor and character. Today you will be invited to savor the goodness of their Estate grown artisan oils. All of the olives are organically and sustainable farmed and hand-harvested.
You will also have the opportunity to get to know the Moric family, witness how they produce their domestic olive oil and enjoy a homemade meal of Montenegrin specialties.
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Enjoy your day at leisure today until time to meet your driver for your transfer to the airport to catch your flight onwards (cost of flight not included).
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Millie Bobby Brown: The British schoolgirl who has taken Hollywood by storm
WHEN the actor John Simm was asked about his 10-year-old co-star in the BBC series Intruders two years ago he said: “Millie Brown is a superstar. You heard it here first. She’s going to be a superstar.”
By Dominic Midgley
PUBLISHED: 19:50, Thu, Dec 15, 2016 | UPDATED: 09:17, Fri, Dec 16, 2016
GETTY/NETFLIX
With her role on Stranger Things, Millie Bobby Brown has taken Hollywood by storm
How right he was. The British acting prodigy – full name Millie Bobby Brown – was this week nominated for a Screen Actors Guild best actress award for her brilliant performance as Eleven, a young girl with supernatural powers, in Netflix’s 1980s throwback thriller series Stranger Things
It is only the latest in a string of stunning roles that have wowed critics and directors alike and made Millie the most searched for new actor in the course of 2016 on the online movie database IMDB. She also has 1.9 million followers on photo-posting site Instagram and more than 400,000 followers on Twitter.
According to the film industry bible Variety, Millie has “the kind of presence some actors take a lifetime to acquire “and she is now tipped to command £3 million a fi lm at the tender age of 12.
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By all accounts the young actress was destined for great things from a young age
However, such success has not come easily. Her rise is a tale of determination and self sacrifice not just on her own part but on that of her family, too. As Millie herself once put it: “It was very hard. There were lots of tears along the way.”
She was just so natural and she could switch on that creepy side that you need for that character
Daniel Stamm, director
Our story starts in Marbella, Spain, where Millie was born in 2004. Her mother Kelly was pregnant with her when she, her estate agent husband Robert and their two older children, Paige, now 23, and Charlie, 18, relocated to Spain where Robert’s parents ran a restaurant.
It was apparent from a young age, that Millie was no ordinary toddler. “My other children would watch cartoons, but Mill watched musicals – Chicago, Moulin Rouge, Annie and Bugsy Malone,” says Robert. “She’d belt out a tune. She was performing from day one.”
The Browns’ Spanish sojourn proved short-lived. Millie was four when they moved back to the UK and four years later they were on the move again, this time to Orlando in Florida where Robert and Kelly launched a tooth-whitening business.
Millie shot to fame with Netflix's Stranger Things
Actress Millie Bobby Brown in pictures
Stranger Things actress Millie Bobby Brown, the British schoolgirl who has taken Hollywood by storm.
Stranger Things actress Milly Bobby Brown in pictures
It was there that Millie, who had appeared in a string of plays at her school in Bournemouth, began getting more serious about acting. “I was annoying my father one Saturday and he said, ‘We need to find you something fun to do’,” she once recalled.
Robert’s solution was to enroll his precocious younger daughter in a stage school where she spent four hours every Saturday, acting, singing and dancing. At one of the school’s regular showcase events, Millie was spotted by a talent scout who told her parents that “she has instincts you cannot teach”, adding that she could “mix it with the best kids in Hollywood”.
This was enough for Robert and Kelly. Despite the fact they had been in the sunshine state for only six months and had just had another baby, Ava, now four, they upped sticks and drove their children and the family pet, an English mastiff, 2,200 miles cross-country to Los Angeles, home of all the major studios.
Within a week of their arrival Millie had meetings with many of Tinseltown’s top children’s talent agencies and was offered representation by all of them but her parents finally opted for an agent introduced to them by a friend.
She did not quite make the cut for Steven Spielberg's BFG movie
She was the British-born Melanie Greene, a heavyweight Hollywood agent whose clients include David Duchovny, Michael Sheen, Natascha McElhone and Paul Bettany. Greene immediately spotted Millie’s talent. “She’s a natural,” she said.
Millie began doing the rounds of auditions and quickly found small parts in series such as Modern Family and Grey’s Anatomy. In November 2013, she got her first big break as Madison O’Donnell, a disturbed 10-year-old runaway in Intruders. Her performance proved to be a revelation.
“She blew me away,” said the director Daniel Stamm. “She was just so natural and she could switch on that creepy side that you need for that character.”
Even Stephen King, the undisputed master of the horror genre, was impressed. He tweeted: “Millie Brown, the girl in Intruders, is terrific. Is it my imagination or are child actors a lot better than they used to be?”
But, despite this success and making the shortlist for blockbuster movies such as Steven Spielberg’s BFG, lucrative starring roles eluded Millie. With the family income reduced to a trickle, Greene lent the Browns money in a bid to allow them to hang on until their talented daughter landed a careerdefining job but by summer 2015 their situation was so desperate they were forced to return to the UK and stay with an aunt.
Stranger Things attracted an audience of 14 million viewers
“I was devastated. I wasn’t getting work. I thought I was done,” Millie has said of that time.
Ironically it was after a British agent kicked her while she was down that Millie found the inspiration to produce the audition of a lifetime. “She said I was too mature and grown up,” says Millie. “She made me cry.” Later that day, she had her try-out for Stranger Things. “I had to cry in the audition,” she recalls. “My emotions were so raw, I hit it out of the park.”
Millie duly got the part of Eleven – known as “El” to her on-screen friends – the tattooed, shaven-headed orphan, who has escaped from a laboratory where she was being experimented on.
Filming of Stranger Things began in Atlanta in November 2015 and the series was released on Netflix the following July. It was soon attracting 14 million viewers and the critics loved it.
The LA Times said Millie played El with “astonishing power” and Spielberg, the man who had once crushed her dreams of stardom, hailed Stranger Things as the best show of the year. Six weeks after the first series went out, Netflix announced it was renewing it for a second season.
Netflix has already green-lighted a second season of the hit show
Today Millie, a diminutive 4ft10in, has the world at her feet. The media love her English charm; she draws the focus of the cameras on the red carpet, and sits in the front row at fashion shows. “It’s been a four-year overnight success,” she told Stephen Colbert when appearing as the youngest-ever guest on his US talk show. “It’s very overwhelming in the best possible way.”
Amid all the brouhaha it’s easy to forget that Millie is still a 12-year-old girl who has a bedroom nightlight because she is afraid of the dark and professes to hate bungalows – “a house with no stairs? You have no place to escape!” Because of her peripatetic lifestyle, she is home-schooled and her hobbies include Thai boxing and jujitsu. She even has a punchbag in the back garden of the family home.
Stranger Things is her focus for now but it surely won’t be long before she gets a part in a major film. And her success is all the sweeter because it was fought for so hard. One of Millie’s Instagram posts consists of a picture of a wolf overlaid with the words: “Throw me to the wolves and I will return leading the pack.” How true.
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Baseless Oklahoma City Bombing Conspiracy Theory
A viral meme has revived an old, baseless conspiracy theory claiming that Hillary Clinton is linked to the Oklahoma City bombing.
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Video: Countryfile explores feeding biochar to cattle
The UK’s Countryfile TV programme has featured research by the Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience (CAWR) at Coventry University, which is using farm-based trials to study whether feeding biochar (a form of charcoal) to cattle can reduce their emissions of methane and ammonia.
Animal feed, Livestock, Methane, Production efficiency/intensity
Food for all in Africa: sustainable intensification
The book Food for All in Africa: Sustainable Intensification for African Farmers argues that the way forward for African agriculture is to produce greater yields with fewer inputs such as fertilisers and pesticides.
Agricultural innovation, Production efficiency/intensity, Sustainable food security, Sustainable intensification
Productivity growth for sustainable diets
The 2019 edition of the Global Agricultural Productivity Report from Virginia Tech University emphasises the systemic nature of the many challenges facing food, health and environment and calls for increased agricultural productivity as a way of meeting future food demand sustainably.
Consumption and production trends, Production efficiency/intensity, Sustainable food security, Yields
Achieving net zero: Farming’s 2040 goal
This report sets out the plans of the UK’s NFU (National Farmers Union) to make emissions from agriculture in England and Wales net zero by 2040. It calls for collaboration between farmers, government and NGOs to reduce emissions through improved production efficiency, carbon capture through land management, and bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS).
Bioenergy, Climate Smart Agriculture, Industry actions/CSR, Production efficiency/intensity
Transforming agricultural land use through marginal gains
FCRN member Peter Alexander has co-authored this paper, which finds that incremental improvements in several areas of the food system (including production efficiency, reducing food waste and changing diets) could reduce agricultural land use by between 21% and 37%, depending on adoption rates.
Agricultural innovation, Land use and land use change, Production efficiency/intensity, Sustainable healthy diets
Methane emissions from the US ammonia fertiliser industry
Methane emissions from ammonia fertiliser manufacturing plants (which use natural gas as a feedstock and energy source) in the United States are around one hundred times higher than currently reported levels, according to this study. Researchers used a Google Street View car equipped with methane analysers to take measurements downwind of six ammonia fertiliser plants (there are only 23 such plants in the US).
Fertilizer use, GHG emission trends, Methane, Production efficiency/intensity
Efficiency and carbon footprint of German meat supply chain
This paper traces mass, energy flows and emissions in the beef, poultry and pork supply chains in Germany (including all emissions from the animal production stages, and emissions from energy use at subsequent stages). It outlines the potential of different strategies to reduce consumption-based emissions. It finds that the greatest emissions reductions could come from dietary change, i.e. replacing some meat consumption with consumption of soybeans and nuts, or replacing some meat consumption with offal consumption.
Carbon footprint, Meat, Production efficiency/intensity, Supply chains
Agricultural water-use efficiency and nutrient content
This paper assesses the agricultural water use efficiency of different food types based on their nutrient content, instead of the conventional approach of assessing water use in terms of litres used to produce a certain weight of food. The purpose of the study is to determine whether higher intakes of nutrient-rich foods such as fruit, vegetables and seeds might conflict with the aim of minimising agriculture’s water use.
Food nutrients, Production efficiency/intensity, Water footprint/virtual water, Water use/consumption
The livestock sector and planetary boundaries
In this paper, FCRN member Nicholas Bowles of the University of Melbourne reviews existing data on the environmental impacts of the livestock sector and considers these impacts in the context of planetary boundaries. The paper reports that efficiency alone is unlikely to be adequate to shrink livestock’s impacts to a sustainable level, and that dietary shifts will also be necessary.
Environmental impact assessments, Livestock, Production efficiency/intensity, Sustainable healthy diets
FDF's environmental ambition: Progress report 2018
The UK’s Food and Drink Federation (FDF) has published its 2018 environmental progress report. FDF members report a 53% reduction in their greenhouse gas emissions from energy use in manufacturing operations since 1990, and a 39% reduction in water consumption since 2008.
Carbon footprint, Production efficiency/intensity, Standards/certification, Water footprint/virtual water
Climate change and the global dairy cattle sector
This report from Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations and the Global Dairy Platform shows the global dairy sector’s greenhouse gas emissions and outlines the measures the sector could take to contribute to climate change mitigation.
Climate Smart Agriculture, Dairy, GHG impacts and mitigation, Production efficiency/intensity
Transformative innovation in the UK food system
The UK’s Global Food Security programme has published a report on innovation within the UK food systems, focusing particularly on the contribution of data technologies and artificial intelligence to food security.
Agricultural innovation, Food labelling and traceability, Production efficiency/intensity, Sustainable food security
Comment: Electric food – new sci-fi diet could save our planet
In a column for the Guardian, George Monbiot writes about the potential to create food without plants, animals or soil, using instead bacteria that feed on hydrogen (generated by solar-powered electrolysis of water) and carbon dioxide from the air. Monbiot argues that this form of food production could eventually drastically reduce the amount of land needed for the global food supply chain, and suggests that the new foodstuff could be used as an ingredient in processed foods.
Agricultural innovation, Production efficiency/intensity, Protein, Substitutes for meat & dairy
Robotic hydroponic farm unveiled
California agritech startup Iron Ox has unveiled an “autonomous farm”, where robots move plants and transplant them from one stage to the next. Artificial intelligence controls pests and diseases and adjusts growing conditions. The farm is not entirely automated, as humans still sow seedlings and package the harvested crops. The farm produces leafy greens and herbs.
Agricultural innovation, Farm management tools, Production efficiency/intensity, Urban agriculture
Organic agriculture, food security, and the environment
This review paper reports that organic agriculture has lower yields than conventional agriculture, by 19-25% on average across all crops, according to three meta-analyses. Lower yields may be due to the lack of use of synthetic fertilisers - organic systems are often limited by low levels of nitrogen or phosphorus - and higher susceptibility to pest outbreaks. Widespread uptake of organic farming (to produce the same amounts of output as today) would probably require some conversion of natural habitats to farmland, because of this lower land-use efficiency compared to conventional agriculture - an important consideration, as the area of certified organic production has increased from 15 million ha in 2000 to 51 million ha in 2015 (although this is only 1% of agricultural land).
Land footprint, Organic, Production efficiency/intensity, Sustainable food security
Nanotechnology applications in agriculture
FCRN member Waleed Fouad Abobatta of the Agriculture Research Centre, Egypt, has published a paper on the applications of nanotechnology in agriculture. FCRN readers may be particularly interested in the use of nanotechnology to reduce use of fertilisers and pesticides through greater application efficiency.
Agricultural innovation, Fertilizer use, Production efficiency/intensity, Water pollution
Breaking the vicious circle: food, climate and nutrition
Rob Bailey and Bernice Lee of UK think tank Chatham House have written a piece exploring food system trends, including rising food demand, plateauing yields in key crop production regions, global convergence on a diet dependent on calorie-dense but nutrient-poor crops and a lack of genetic diversity in staple crops. The authors conclude that current food system trends are unsustainable, saying, “The continued intensification and expansion of agriculture is a short-term coping strategy that will eventually lead to food-system collapse.” They call for interventions at key leverage points in the food system.
Agricultural biodiversity, Food nutrients, Production efficiency/intensity, Yields
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Fania is pleased to announce the release of HAMMOCK HOUSE: SANTIAGO SESSIONS on August 25, the newest installment in their highly-regarded “Hammock House” remix series, produced and mixed by internationally renowned LA-based producer and DJ, Jose Marquez. The iconic entertainment brand, which has evolved from a legendary NYC-based music label to an innovative and digitally-driven global music, entertainment and lifestyle company, is known worldwide for their work with influential DJs, and one of the best examples is their highly-regarded ‘Hammock House’ series.
Stemming from an idea that originated at the Manana Festival in Santiago de Cuba two years ago, Marquez fuses his love for dynamic Afro-Cuban and Caribbean flavors on SANTIAGO SESSIONS with classic Fania tracks from icons such as Hector Lavoe, Ray Barretto, Tito Puente and Celia Cruz. Standout tracks include “Aguanile,” the iconic song from Fania legends Willie Colon and Hector Lavoe which first appeared on the album El Juicio in 1972, for which Marquez enlisted noted musicians Bobby Wilmore and Lazaro Galarraga, who specialize in Afro-Cuban percussion, to perform on congas and bata drums. Another showstopper on the release is “Herencia Africana,” which was composed by Javier Vazquez and recorded by the legendary Celia Cruz and Sonora Matancera on the album Feliz Encuentro, released in 1982. In the song, Cruz talks about her African Heritage/influence, so Marquez brought in US-based musicians originally from Mali to perform and emphasize the African elements of the song, using a djembe instead of congas and a Balafon which is a traditional African version of a marimba/xylophone.
Fania launched the groundbreaking ‘Hammock House’ series in 2011 with the release of its first acclaimed compilation from the celebrated producer/DJ Joe Claussell entitled ‘Hammock House Africa Caribe.’ With each thematic installment, Fania has teamed up with innovative DJ/producers such as Louie Vega, Toy Selectah and The Whiskey Barons, providing them with access to Fania's treasure vaults and the original multitrack master tapes from recordings by classic artists to create fresh takes on Fania’s musical legacy to introduce to new generations of fans.
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Congas: Bobby Wilmore, Lazaro Galarraga
Bata Drums: Bobby Wilmore, Lazaro Galarraga
2. Ray Barretto - Indestructible (Jose Marquez Remix)
Piano: Claudio Passavanti
Bass: Claudio Passavanti
Congas: Ismel Wignall
Saxophone: Elias Perez
3. Joe Pastrana - Cotique Allstars (Jose Marquez Remix)
Congas: Alberto Lopez
Shekere: Steve Haney
Timbales: Michael Duffy
4. Tito Puente - Africa Linda feat. QVLN (Jose Marquez Remix)
Violin: Quetzal Guerrero
Rhodes Piano: Claudio Passavanti
5. Celia Cruz - Herencia Africana (Jose Marquez Salsafrican Mix)
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Balafon: Balla Kouyaté
6. Hector Lavoe - Aguanile (Jose Marquez Remix)
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A short biography of Joaquin "Joe" Claussell Joaquin "Joe" Claussell born in Brooklyn, where thanks to the deep musical roots of its diverse and large Puerto Rican family, music was his refuge, family, food, comfort and escape. His first encounter with the world of DJs was in their own neighborhood, at parties and meetings of the association of his block. He started collecting vinyl at the age of 15 years, and his passion for music and dancing took him from Disco Inferno to CBGBs, alternative club Mudd Club, the most famous Underground and the legendary Paradise Garage. While living in the East Village in the early 90 fell in love with the record store Dance Tracks, which was chill, but in turn was technologically impressive. He was friends with the owner, beginning with his musical career. Joe became the DJ Store and gave weekly parties that drew a diverse group of devoted music lovers. After the owner's suggestion produced and performed "Over", his first remix, and produced "Awade" his first track, which became an instant classic. Over time he learned about the music business and took over the store. In 1996, on the back of Dance Tracks, Joe founded Spiritual Life Music, eclectic independent record label. At the same time he oversaw the creation of Ibadan Records with his friend, executive producer Jerome Sydenham. Seal Productions are fluid - with African rhythms, Brazilian, Latin and Middle Eastern that cross genres of disco, jazz, house and electronic music. It is intimately involved in every aspect of the production process: music, composition, selection or creation of visual art and graphic design. Under the seals he has promoted and produced novice artists. His first single, "Nothing's Changed" Ten City, followed by parts of Jephthah Guillaume, Mateo & Matos, Slam Mode and Three Generations Walking. His first full-length album itself was Language. The big record companies seek to collaborate with them and remix pieces by artists such as Femi Kuti, Herbie Hancock, Beth Orton, Steward Mathewman (Sade), Cassandra Wilson, Diana Ross, and Manuel Göttschin. His remixes have given life to classics like "Get away," Hector Lavoe and "Sangue De Beirona" Cesaria Evora. The revival of Nina Simone song "Feeling Good" is due to the remix of Joe featured in TV shows such as Sex and the City, which was followed by countless versions. Joe Claussell That year also joined Francois K and Danny Krivit to play the legendary Sunday dance party Body & Soul. For six years, lovers of music and dance of the City of New York and around the world came religiously to form part of the unique musical journey through the classic, world, soul, disco, funk genres, and house. The tracks were elevated to an infinitely higher level thanks to the synergy of artistic live performance of each DJ, and the care and creativity of the crowd. During the last ten years Joe has constantly been playing music all over the world, remixing, producing and diversifying into other genres of art world. New York originated the Sacred Rhythm party, designed to bring together artists house with artists who perform live in an intimate setting. Soon it will air its first radio show on the Internet, entitled An Invitation to Openness, which is based on the freedom to play whatever they please at the time, rather than be at the mercy of the musical whims of an audience. Joe contemplates humanity and trends from a distant prospect but wrapped. Tries to reach spiritual and creative autonomy in their personal lives, and encourages their loved ones using their unique resources to build a society in which art and individuality are encouraged and praised. For those looking to make a musical journey with the soul, Joe's shows are a rare and coveted opportunity to do so. He has the ability to connect with people who share your passion for the rhythms of life through a universal language, which keeps them intrigued and tune while listening, dance and share their philosophy. Joe is currently involved in a wide range of projects, but we can be sure that your heart and soul are tied to each of them, either by participating in Trembling Sensing Space with theater director Lidy Six, or your remix entitled "Africa Caribbean Hammock House" and its production project for Fania / Code. Each project will communicate in their own language, rhythms and ideas that can only be the product of such a creative mind like yours. And everyone will be as interesting as to keep those who think they know intrigued and attentive. Hammock House by Andy Battaglia Joaquin "Joe" Claussell comes from an area of Brooklyn that could be considered that idyllic Brooklyn that is part of the collective imagination. He grew up a few blocks from Fifth Avenue, a busy street that adjoins a cozy neighborhood known as Park Slope. Day and night, virtually unabated, life goes on as it has done for years: the bustle of business is the same as always, cars with loudspeakers exaggerated hear his roar, the elderly walk carefully along the sidewalks, mothers pushing berreantes Strollers their babies, corner delis people who spit drinking grape soda and scrape lottery tickets; robust women out there, guys walking around with impeccable Yankees hats, boys shirts size sails. Black, brown, white, young, old, straight, gay, lazy, cunning, sneaky ... There is life everywhere in a manic and peaceful balance. Joe shows us the place where you bought your first album, a small shop which had told us at lunch the day before. We are a group of three who are following Joe for a few days to see where you live and where does what he does. Lunch was at El Viejo Yayo, a Latin restaurant that frequents Joe since he was a child and which still swear is the best of the whole city of New York. People chatted with cooks at the counter and smiles abounded everywhere. We ordered dishes that were so large they could Glad we fed for days. What was good? Very good: rice and beans was perfect, the baked chicken fell off the bone, and fried bananas ...! The record store was another success, but felt like something from another era, another mentality, and somewhat strange. The shop is called The Record & Tape Center, the owner is the same lifetime, now 73, and has not changed much since Joe bought his first piece of music when he was a boy (actually, the album III, Led Zeppelin). Several CD a few years ago are in the showcase, faded by sun and covered with dust. Abound in old copies of vinyl discs of The Five Saints, The Chi-Lites, Engelbert Humperdinck, The Rolling Stones, and lots of artists whose work lies in the furrows of old records 45. The place is a mess and smells basement Grandfather. Not the kind of establishment run by meticulous collectors or those who have learned to move things online. It's just a big, strange room, and something crazy in Brooklyn, where music has been accumulating for nearly 40 years, and counting. Joe flipping through the merchandise that finger and thumb movement dominated world by DJ scavenging among the drawers. Do not be surprised at anything before we left, but he looks happy to just be there, looking for something in a place where he could find it. It is at home, in the kind of old record store where the masterpieces of Fania Records initially prospered, where sometimes still hide or hibernate or just hang out, waiting for someone to listen again. - "We used to play all that music at home. To be part of this now, look at the labels of Fania discs spin in front of me ... I can not believe I had the opportunity to work on this. It still seems unbelievable. " That's Joe, who talks about the year he spent working on the music part of Hammock House. He talks about it with a little astonished tone reserved for a project which had to listen to her past and literally had to hold history in your hands. Have you ever seen an old tape reel of study? Have you raised, you have marveled at your weight, you've looked at the shiny black plastic around its center? Joe shows us one you have in your office. We have driven over the bridge to Brooklyn to Lower Manhattan, near the area of construction of the World Trade Center, which rents space in Tribeca for Spiritual Life Sacred Rhythm and two record labels who helps run. It is also home to a personal studio where he works and stores preproduction assertion - very convincingly - is a collection of over a million records. A whole wall full of tablets containing countless classics: Miles Davis, Fela Kuti, Jimi Hendrix, a set of recordings NASA landing on the moon, The History of the House Sound of Chicago. But there is something in a battered cardboard box that holds for our inspection. Inside, a reel of metal surrounded by many feet of magnetic tape and a page to crumble a "Report tracks" day any of the 70 different numbered columns are written in pencil: "low", "guitar "" saxophone "," trombone ". Scribbled names appear in the top right corner, with cryptic notes that mark other important parts of what appears to be a hot and complicated Latin melody. It's ... amazing. "When the messenger came with all these boxes and I had a feeling of Indiana Jones when you open the treasure chest and the golden glow of light illuminates his face. This was something miraculous anduviese still out there, and the history of all these things is wonderful. When I opened all the multi-tracks, the pleasure of having an entire string orchestra with which those days really could work ... "That's Joe again, drifting on a thought that can not end with words. He's talking about the amount of archive tapes he got, old tapes Fania catalog tracks with individual sections could be isolated and remastered, you reimagined, recombined. "I listened to those songs and I thought 'what am I going to do with that?'. Many sounded perfect as they were. But the mentality of the people during the 60's and 70's in music, they created as artists, soul, heart. They took for granted a lot of the technical part. Made music without thinking about the different mixtures or someone were to touch his work in the future, so I tried to maintain the integrity of what is there. Fania is sacred to the heritage of Puerto Rico and Cuba and it was important to be put in good hands, "Joe Puerto Rican raised in New York -. Or specifically nuyorican - with all the hot and bubbling concoction of identity that occurs when a boy It grows with nine brothers and sisters (and a shared battery) in the turbulent and working community of Brooklyn. "When I think of my home growing up, there was plenty more music than love. We are bombarded with music 24 hours a day, seven days a week, all types of music: rock, popular hits, African music. We gave it all at once. And Latin music flew everywhere in the neighborhood, from the basement, through the windows, in parks. My mother put us abreast of all Latin songs. " - What you hear in Hammock House are more than simple mixtures. Each issue was addressed and armed differently, each in its own terms. As Joe says, "Some songs were released, others were elongated ... many parts were rewritten ... some parts were recorded over others". Now we are in a recording studio in the Lower East Side of Manhattan. It is dark outside, in a hidden in a rough neighborhood marked by dazzling the ruined Jewish synagogues and trendy boutique bars street. Joe is here to record with his brother Joseph, a famous percussionist who championed many of the parts of the battery in Hammock House. The session looks like a family event, which is apparently the case wherever he goes Joe (even if it is alone with three strangers following him wherever he goes.) Both Claussell have headphones on and congas between his knees. Joseph plays a lively syncope, grunting and humming while playing. Joe sways from side to side, lost in the music as it occurs will fall where the new lines of percussion. Both spend much time with his eyes closed under bright studio lights, but they seem to be able to see each other, or at least listen to each other, while their way into a sound that both learned in his youth. "The cultural aspect of this is the objective of the remix," says Joe. "It is a great privilege to work with the music of others, especially when it has the flavor of the era when music was originally created. Able to play these old tapes and listen to excerpts in which you hear someone say 'first shot' while consuming cocaine or whatever those people do is a blessing. It's deep. " Joe looks down for a moment and looks up again. "How many guys out there on Fifth Avenue in Brooklyn today know what was Fania? Perhaps some of them hear this and like it. So begins the chain reaction. " NOTES TRACKS, COUNTED BY JOE CLAUSSELL Lou Perez, "African Fantasy" I did not know this track before this project, but I immediately liked the idea in the title of an "African Fantasy". The objective of this remix was possible to hear the feeling of walking into a jungle where a new world opens up. Historically, all this music originated in Africa, and through the movement of the slave trade it spread around the world. It was important for me to establish its roots. I used many natural sounds of the forest, jungle and animals to generate the feeling of going somewhere. Then comes the flute and percussion and strongly enter the piano, like a tribal meeting. What kept the original multi-track was a flute and percussion. Everything else reproduced: the sounds of the jungle, more percussion ... The story begins in Africa and across the new world. Click here to listen to Joe Claussell "African Fantasy" remix " Jaidene "Jai" Veda, "Undeniable Love" This song is actually not the old file. The production is completely original. The reason why I suggested that we used it was to give this project a real sense today, something new and something now that fits into the idea of "hammock house". He was working with Jai Veda before starting this project and this is a song that I connected from the start because it has a kind of Latin style that complements the rest. Then it was just a demo; originally had a slower rate hip-hop, so I called my brother Joseph to help me redo it with a Latin beat, and the end result is a two-part story that travels from one another. Jai was thrilled when I said I was going to be part of this. Click here to listen to Joe Claussell "Undeniable Love" remix " Mongo Santamaria "Mambo Mongo" This song fascinates me completely. I used to play the original version all the time for years, but not many people know, so I thought that if this project is a DJ that exposes the world to some lost or hidden music, then had to use it. Initially production was so good we did not really need anything, but in my original attempt to strengthen I added more percussion and Rhodes electric piano lines to complement the original chords Rhodes. The new percussion sounds are my brother playing at the same time as the original parts of Santamaria, who was a great Cuban percussionist. Because this was recorded in the late 60s, many original sections as these were buried in the mix, perhaps because they were produced for listening caseramente. Click here to listen to Joe Claussell "Mambo Mango" remix " Celia Cruz " Chango "Celia Cruz is considered the goddess of Latin and Afro-Cuban music. As a child I remember that everyone admired. The atmosphere around her was profound. My mother loved her. This is a song in Yoruba, the African religious music. The original is very minimalist: just a 6/8 rhythm with Celia singing / reciting over it. I just tried to give a more modern profile, with the addition of the lower and percussion, both produced by my brother, and some sound effects interwoven with bells, whistles and African kaba layers. So I brought a pianist Bennett Paster, who played for a while, talking and responding to the music rhythmically and really complement the melody. It's a monster! Click here to listen to Joe Claussell "Chango" remix " Eddie Palmieri, "Lucumí" Eddie Palmieri ... what you can do to your music? This is an album made in 1976 for Columbia. Everything was there, so I decided to do a more traditional remix with him, as they did in the 70s, when they did remixes manipulating existing tracks of the multi-tracks and reorganized parts that were already there. I added some percussion, but it was enough, and Palmieri had great musicians playing with him. Moreover, it is one of the few Latin artists who used lots of delay and reverb, and tried to give an air of dub. The guitars are echoed. There are a lot of reverb to give more space and what I like to call freakiness. Click here to listen to Joe Claussell "Lucumí" remix " Ray Barretto, "Exodus" Most of this song was recently created, and again my brother Joseph It had much to do with that. Ray Barretto was a very special musician in my family life, as it was in the world of Latin music. This particular song I'm not crazy, unless it be the version of Bob Marley, but there is something about her that made me select it. I wanted to make it a tribute to Ray and created an entirely new introduction. Everything up where chords say "exodus" was created as a tribute. I wanted people to feel the love and appreciation we all feel for this man, and why has such cosmic and spiritual introduction. This is the awakening, and there follows a Yoruba chant, saying "thank you". One person singing is Liliana Santamaria, Mongo's daughter. I could have taken the part of "exodus" and add a kick, cymbals and a keyboard, and make it more type house. But my brother and I tried to turn it into something that more people could appreciate, and something that pleased even the same Ray. Click here to listen to Joe Claussell "Exodus" remix " Mongo Santamaria, "O Mi Shango" This It was the last song we worked on this project. In the old days, when I started doing remixes, I took the original CD track and I made an issue. I enjoyed it and I just wanted to lengthen, and I remember I said then, "I wish I could get the multi-track this and do something with it." I did not realize it was on the Fania catalog when we started Hammock House. Then when we were finished, I heard one day in my iPod on a flight to Japan and thought, "Hmmm, maybe this itself is available!" So I called and asked, and happened to be there, and I went crazy. For this version I took the song from a Latin style to one of more African percussion. Add some wind instruments. And so feels the rhythm house. Click here to listen to Joe Claussell "O My Shango" remix " Eddie Palmieri, "Yoruba Chant" The only part of this song I used was the beginning. Hence he is passing to a type of lounge music with which he could do nothing and re-did the rest. It came to me like a clue in the multi-track from another song he had asked, and when I heard the singing of the thought, "With this I can do something themselves." The rest of the craziness and the African question as he walked elsewhere I thought, "Ok, there must be a kind dance track here." We ended up with a song with a kind of Caribbean feel. Ismael Miranda, "I'm going now" I stumbled upon this topic while researching and listening to all CDs reissued Fania at the beginning of this project. I heard it in the car one afternoon on the way to give an oil change, while driving on Prospect Park West, and I fell for him. It was part of a collection of ballads, and he sings about going to leave his wife. Their excitement is obvious that composed this song for one reason in particular. Really impressed me. The entire production was already a beauty, and I wondered what I could do to take it to another level. The strings were already there, but not heard in the same way as the original, so I created a second part in the composition starts out as three minutes. By using only original strings could create what I like to imagine as a purely production Claussell, just because we try to do something new. Is the perfect ending. Click here to listen to Joe Classuell "I'm now" remix " MIX My goal for the mix CD was the creation of an epic journey that begins in the mother country (Africa) and moved to New York. I wanted to make a futuristic blend, where stories soundscapes and tapestries are created, and where transitions serve as introductions to each story. I wanted to create bridges with different rhythms, and worked with my brother Joseph and other percussionists and musicians in the studio to create pieces that flowed together. I wanted to create the feeling of passing, for example, the idea of "rhythm" in a scene to another scene of "love", where you can feel the real emotion of love. The live mixed with four CD players, effects and touch-tapes, and then took her to the studio and edited some of the levels. I wanted to mix live for a more human feeling, to keep the authenticity of the texture of this music, because I wanted to reflect the process of working on this project. Looking back, I am proud and grateful to have worked with power as historical music, and music that I grew up. A NOTE FROM JOE taking leave, I would like to inform those concerned that there is no way I could have achieved this goal if not for the help of my brother José Claussell, keyboardist Bennett Paster, and last but not least important the engineer Fran Cathcart Eastside Sound in New York. I take my hat off to Michael Rucker for his guidance with this too. Thanks I'm here to thank the following individuals, without which neither the idea needed to design the production of this concept might have been true. Fran Cathcart Pastor Joseph Bennett Cochise Claussell Kanna Masatani Kamati Brian Pinkston Bacchus Dennis Perez Manny Diaz Jaidene Gaspard Red Veda Atsuko Miyazaki (Japan Coordinator) Jonathan Paul Claussell Cochise Jasper Claussell Bakki "Sora" Larry Claussell Claussell Joaquin "Jackie Claussell Dora" Momi "Claussell Joaquin "Papi" Claussell Mario Manuel Claussell Claussell Benny Claussell Claussell Gloria Lynda Zully Claussell Claussell East Side Studios The entire group Sounds of Music Group Code And last but not least, Mr. Michael Rucker, a DJ to another ... you are the best! Thank you for your confidence in my ability to do this with you. With love, respect and gratitude to all rhythm, Joaquin Joe ClaussellHammock House By Andy Battaglia Joaquin "Joe" Claussell hails from a part of Brooklyn that could double as the setting for a fantastical sort of Brooklyn of the mind. He grew up a few blocks from 5th Avenue, a teeming thoroughfare on the edge of a homey neighborhood known as Park Slope. Day and night, pretty much ceaselessly, action happens as it has for ages. Businesses bustle as they did decades ago. Cars with souped-up speakers blare by. Old people shuffle down the sidewalk. Mothers push strollers with wailing babies inside. Corner delis spit out people sipping grape soda and scratching off lottery tickets: fat ladies from the around the way, cruising dudes in crisp new Yankees hats, young kids in T-shirts as big as sails. Black, brown, white, young, old, straight, gay, sketchy, crafty, shifty… There's life everywhere, in manic and tranquil balance. Joe wants to shows us where he bought his first record, a little neighborhood shop he'd told us about at lunch the day before. "We" is a group of three of us following Joe around for a few days, to see where he lives and where he does what he does. Lunch was at El Viejo Yayo, a Latin restaurant that Joe has been going to since he was a kid and continues to swear is the best in all of New York City. Locals sat chatting up the cooks at the counter, with lots of smiles going around. We ordered plates that wound up being big enough to feed each of us for days. Was it good? Very: the rice & beans were perfect, the pollo al horno -- or roast chicken -- fell right off the bone, and the fried plantains! The record shop was a different kind of good, an out-of-time, out-of-mind, bizarro kind of good. The store is called the Record & Tape Center, and it's still run by the same owner, now 73, who hasn't changed much at all since Joe bought his first piece of music there as a kid (a copy of Led Zeppelin's III, incidentally). A handful of CDs from a few years ago sit in the window, faded from the sun and covered with dust. Inside it's mostly old vinyl on display -- records by The Five Satins, The Chi-Lites, Engelbert Humperdinck, The Rolling Stones, and reams of artists whose work resides in the etched grooves of old 45s. The place is a mess and smells like a grandfather's basement. It's not the kind of record store run by meticulous collectors or movers who learn how to price things online. It's just a big, weird, slightly crazy old room in Brooklyn where music has come to accumulate for close to 40 years and counting. Joe flips through the stock, with that impressive finger/thumb motion mastered by crate-digging DJs the world over. He doesn't turn over anything of note before we have to go. But he looks happy simply to be there, searching for he doesn't know what in a place that just might have it. He's near home, in the kind of old record shop where masterpieces of the Fania Records catalog originally thrived -- and where they still sometimes hide or hibernate or just hang out, waiting to be heard again. --- "We used to jam all that music at home. To be part of it now, to watch Fania labels spin on records in front of me… I can't believe I had a chance to mess with this stuff. Even still it blows my mind." That's Joe, talking about the past year or so he spent working on the music that makes up Hammock House. He talks about it with a slightly awed tone reserved for a project for which he listened back to his past and literally held history in his hands. Have you ever seen an old studio-session tape reel? Ever picked one up, marveled at its weight, stared into the gleaming black plastic spooled around its center? Joe shows us one in his office. He's driven us over the Brooklyn Bridge to Lower Manhattan, not far from the sputtering construction at the World Trade Center. He rents space there, in Tribeca, for Sacred Rhythm and Spiritual Life, two labels he helps run. It's also the site of a personal studio where he works on pre-production stuff and stores some of what he claims -- quite convincingly -- is a collection of more than a million records. A whole wall's worth of shelves hold countless classics: Miles Davis, Fela Kuti, Jimi Hendrix, a set of recordings from NASA's landing on the moon, The History of the House Sound of Chicago. But it's something in a battered cardboard box that he's holding out for inspection. Inside is a round metal reel wrapped with many feet of rolled magnetic tape, and a crumbling "Track Report" sheet from some matter-of-fact day in the 1970s. Different numbered columns are written in with pencil: "bass," "guitar," "sax," "conga," "bone" (trombone, it turns out). A scrawl of names appears in the upper right-hand corner, with some cryptic notes marking other important parts of what seems to have been a rather hot and complicated Latin jam. It's kind of… incredible. "When the carrier came to my place with all these boxes, I had an Indiana Jones moment, like when he opens the treasure chest and the glow of gold light shines up on his face. It was miraculous that they were still around, and the history of all this stuff is just amazing. When I opened these multi-tracks up, the pleasure of having a full-on string orchestra from back in the day that you can actually work with…" That's Joe again, drifting off on a thought he can't quite complete with words. He's talking about the many archival tapes he got his hands on -- old multi-track tapes from the Fania catalog with individual parts that could be isolated and then remixed, reimagined, recombined. "I would listen to these songs and think what am I going to do to that?! A lot of them sounded perfect as they were. But the mentality of the '60s and '70s, when it came to music, people were just creating as artists—from the soul, from the heart. They took a lot of the technical stuff for granted. They were making music, not thinking about different mixes or anybody touching their art in the future. So I tried to keep the integrity of what’s there. Fania is very sacred to the Puerto Rican and Cuban heritage, so it was important that it get taken in by the right hands." Joe grew up Puerto Rican in New York -- or more precisely Nuyorican, with all the simmering, sweltering swirl of identity that comes to pass for a kid growing up with nine brothers and sisters (and a shared family drum set) in roiling, toiling Brooklyn. "When I think about my home growing up, more abundant than even love was music. We were bombarded with music 24-7, all kinds: rock, Top 40, African music. We were fed everything at once. And Latin music was flying all around, in the neighborhood, up from the basement, through the windows, in the parks. My mother would turn us on to all the Latin jams." --- What you hear on Hammock House are more than mere remixes. Each track was approached and assembled differently, each on its own terms. As Joe says, "Some songs were edited, some were time-stretched… many parts were re-recorded… some new parts were recorded on top." Now we're sitting in a recording studio on Manhattan's Lower East Side. It's dark out, on a side-street tucked away in a gritty/glitzy neighborhood marked by dilapidated Jewish synagogues and fashionable boutique bars. Joe is here to do some tracking with his brother Jose, a celebrated percussionist in his own right who augmented many of the drum parts on Hammock House. The session feels like a family affair, which seems to be the case wherever Joe goes (even when it's just him alone with three strangers following him around). Both Claussells are wearing headphones, with congas between their knees. Jose lays down some spirited syncopation, grunting and humming while he plays. Joe sways from side to side, lost in music while figuring out where the new drum lines will fit. Both spend much of their time beneath the bright studio lights with their eyes closed, but they seem to be able to see each other -- or at least hear each other as they work their way into a sound they both grew up learning. "The cultural aspect of this is what the entire point of remixing is all about," Joe says. "It's a great privilege to work on someone else's music, especially when it has the vibe from when the music was actually created. To play these old tapes and listen to all the excerpts with sounds of people saying 'Take 1' and snorting cocaine or whatever those guys were doing, you get blessed by that time. It's deep." He looks down for a while, then back up. "How many kids out here on 5th Avenue in Brooklyn now even know what Fania was? Maybe some of them might hear this and get turned on. That’s how the whole chain reaction happens." TRACK NOTES, AS TOLD BY JOE CLAUSSELL Lou Perez, "African Fantasy" I didn't know this track before I started on this project, but I immediately liked the idea in the title of an “African fantasy.” The point of this remix was to give listeners the sense that they were entering a jungle, where a whole new world opens up. Historically, all of this music originated in Africa and then, through the movement of the slave trade, found itself in different parts of the world. It was important to me to establish the root of it. I used a lot of natural forest, jungle, and animal sounds to give it a sense of walking in. Then a flute comes in, and then it goes heavy into percussion and piano -- like at a tribal gathering. What I kept from the original multi-track was the flute, some of the percussion. Everything else I reproduced: the jungle sounds, more percussion… The story begins in Africa and then crosses into the new world. Click here to listen to Joe Claussell "African Fantasy" remix » Jai Veda, "Undeniable Love" This song is actually not from the old archive. I produced it from scratch. My reason for suggesting we use it was to give this project a legitimate sense of today, of something new and something now that fits into the idea of "hammock house." I was working with Jai Veda before I started working on this project, and this is a song that spoke to me at the time I started, because it has a sort of Latin groove that complements the rest. It was just a demo then; it originally had more of a hip-hop rhythm, so I called in my brother Jose to help me revamp it into a more Latin-flavored rhythm, with the end result being a two-part story traveling from one into the other. Jai freaked out when I told her she was going to be on this. Click here to listen to Joe Claussell "Undeniable Love" remix » Mongo Santamaria, "Mambo Mongo" I absolutely love this song. I used to jam the original of this all the time back in the day, but not many people know about it. So I thought, if this project is about a DJ exposing certain lost or undiscovered music to the world, then I have to use this. It was such a great production originally that it really needed nothing. But from my original attempt to beef up the groove, I added more percussion and new Rhodes electric-piano lines to compliment the original Rhodes chords. The new hand-drums are my brother playing alongside the original parts by Santamaria, who was a great percussionist from Cuba. Because this was recorded in the late '60s, a lot of original parts like that were buried in the mix, I guess because they were produced more for home listening. Click here to listen to Joe Claussell "Mambo Mango" remix » Celia Cruz, "Chango " Celia Cruz is considered the goddess of Latin/Afro-Cuban music. As a kid, I remember how everybody really looked up to her. The vibe that surrounded her was really profound. My mother loved her. This is a song sung in Yoruba -- religious African music. The original is very minimal: just some 6/8-groove percussion with Celia singing/chanting over it. I just tried to give it a more modern edge, by adding a bass line and more percussion, both produced by my brother, and some sound effects layered and weaved throughout with bells, whistles, and African kaba. Then I brought in a piano player, Bennett Paster, who jammed for a while, having a rhythmic call-and-response conversation with the music and really complementing the melody. He's a monster! Click here to listen to Joe Claussell "Chango" remix » Eddie Palmieri, "Lucumi " Eddie Palmieri… what can you even do to his music? This is from an album he made in 1976 for Columbia. Everything was already there, so I decided to do a more traditional remix for this, kind of like they did in the '70s, where remixers would manipulate the existing tracks from the multi-tracks and rearrange parts that were already there. I added some percussion, but there was already a lot of percussion there, and Palmieri had such great musicians playing for him. Aside from that, he's one of the few Latin artists who used lots of delay and reverb, so I tried to give the whole thing a dub feel. The guitars are echoing, the horns are echoing. There's a lot of reverb, to give it more space and what I like to call freakiness. Click here to listen to Joe Claussell "Lucumi" remix » Ray Barretto, "Exodus" Most of this song was newly created, and again my brother Jose had a lot to do with it. Ray Barretto was such a special musician in my family life, as well as in the Latin music world. I'm not crazy about this song in particular, unless it's Bob Marley's version, but there was something about this that made me pick it. I wanted to make this a tribute to Ray, so I created a whole new intro. Everything up until the actual "Exodus" chords was created new as a tribute. I wanted people to feel the love and appreciation we all have for this man, so that's why it has such a cosmic, spiritual intro. That's the awakening, and then it goes into a Yoruba chant, saying "thank you." One of the people singing is Liliana Santamaria, who is Mongo Santamaria's daughter. I could have just taken the "Exodus" part and added a kick, a hi-hat, and some keyboards, and housed it up. But both my brother and I tried to make this something that more people could appreciate -- and that Ray himself would be happy with. Click here to listen to Joe Claussell "Exodus" remix » Mongo Santamaria, "O Mi Shango" This was actually the last track we worked on for this project. Back in the old days, when I first started doing remixes, I got this track from the original CD and did an edit of it. I really loved it, so I just wanted to extend it, and I remember saying then, "Man, I really wish I could get the multi-track for this and do something with it." I didn’t realize this was in the Fania catalog when we started on Hammock House. Then, near the end, it came up on my iPod one day on a flight to Japan and I thought, "Hmmm, maybe this is available!" So I called and asked, it turned out it was there, and I flipped out. For this version, I took the song from a Latin groove and gave it more of an Afrobeat feel. We got some horn players involved. And it feels kind of house-y with that four-on-the-floor beat. Click here to listen to Joe Claussell "O Mi Shango" remix » Eddie Palmieri, "Yoruba Chant" The only part of this song that I kept was the beginning. It went into some ballroom-dancing part that I couldn’t do anything with, so we re-did the rest. I came to it as a track that was on the multi-track reel of another song I had asked for, and I heard the chant part of it and thought, "Oh, I can do something with this." With all the rest of the craziness and all the African stuff going on elsewhere, I thought, "OK, we've got to have a dance track here." In the end we ended with a new tune with a Caribbean kind of feel. Ismael Miranda, "Me Voy Ahora" I stumbled upon this track while doing research and listening to all the reissued Fania CDs at the beginning of the project. I heard it in the car, driving down Prospect Park West on my way to get an oil change one afternoon, and I just fell in love with it. It was on a compilation of ballads, and he's singing about how he's leaving his woman. The emotion of it -- it's obvious he did this song for a reason. It really blew me away. The whole production of it was already beautiful, so I wondered what I could do to take it to a different level. The strings were in there already, but you couldn't hear them the same way in the original. So I created a second part to the composition that begins around the 3:00 mark. Using only the original strings, I created what I like to think of as a signature Joe Claussell production, just from us trying to do something new. It's a perfect ending. Click here to listen to Joe Classuell "Me Voy Ahora" remix » THE MIX My goal for the mix-CD was to create an epic journey that begins in the Motherland (Africa) to moves to New York. I wanted to do a futuristic mix, where stories are being created with soundscapes and tapestries, and segues work as introductions to each story. I wanted to create bridges through different rhythms, so I worked with my brother Jose, as well as other percussionists and musicians in the studio, to create parts that flow between. I wanted to create the feeling of moving from, say, the idea of "rhythm" in one scene into another scene of "love," where you can feel the actual emotion of love. I mixed it live, with four CD players, effects, and reel-to-reel, then took it into the studio and tightened up some of the levels through editing. I wanted to mix it live so you get more of a human feel from it, to stay true to the texture of this music. And I really wanted it to reflect on the process of working on this whole project. Looking back, I'm honored and grateful to get to work on such historical music -- and music that I grew up with. A NOTE FROM JOE Upon exiting, I would like for those who are interested to know that there would have been no way I could achieve such a journey if it wasn’t for the help of my brother Jose Claussell, keyboardist Bennett Paster, and, last but not least, engineer Fran Cathcart of Eastside Sound in New York. My hat goes off to Michael Rucker for his guidance with all of this as well. Gratitude I’m here to thank the following individuals to whom without, even the thought needed to conceive the production of this concept would not be realized. Fran Cathcart Jose Cochise Claussell Bennett Pastor Kanna Masatani Kamati Pinkston Brian Bacchus Dennis Perez Gaspard Rojo Manny Diaz Jaidene Veda Atsuko Miyazaki (Japan Coordinator) Jonathan Paul Claussell Cochise Jasper Claussell Bakki “Sora” Claussell Larry Claussell Joaquin “Jackie Claussell Dora “Momi” Claussell Joaquin “Papi” Claussell Manuel Claussell Mario Claussell Benny Claussell Zully Claussell Lynda Claussell Gloria Claussell East Side Sounds Studios The Entire Codigo Music Group And last but not least: Mr. Michael Rucker, from one DJ to another… You are the best! Thank you for your trust in my ability to do this with you. With Love, Respect, Rhythm and Gratitude to All Joaquin Joe Claussell
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Flutterby™! : NET act
NET act
2002-08-21 22:43:15+00 by Dan Lyke 9 comments
Various people seem to be up in arms over the DOJ going after file swappers using the No Electronic Theft (NET) act. Frankly this seems like exactly what they should be doing, exactly the tack the RIAA should be taking.
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#Comment made: 2002-08-22 03:38:05+00 by: Bryant
I would be more phlegmatic about the DOJ going after file swappers if there was a history of the DOJ going after people who make and exchange mix tapes.
#Comment made: 2002-08-22 11:21:39+00 by: Larry Burton
From the way I understand it, swapping mix tapes isn't illegal while sharing the same content over a wire or through fiber is. The inconsistencies are what aggrevates me about this whole mess.
#Comment made: 2002-08-22 15:44:59+00 by: Dan Lyke
My reading of the law has always been that mix tapes are illegal too. My reading of the DOJ press release is that they're targetting the big distributors, which is why unequal enforcement doesn't seem to me to be the problem here.
Possibly, possibly. The comment about parents who let their kids download hundreds of songs is a bit worrisome, but maybe those kids count as big distributors.
#Comment made: 2002-08-22 20:20:05+00 by: Starrfire
But one question I must ask is, if there is so much concern of swapping files, why was a recording device (Tape, CD or otherwise) ever included in the ideas of designs? If I were to say burn a copy of my cd because A) I don't want to take the original with me on a trip, thus lessen the chances of the only copy I have being stolen, warped or scrached beyond repair B) As a means to ensure the cd's I have bought Last (they are not without faults, and don't run cheap to just go out and buy a new one when the ones I have are all scratched up or worn. I think the same then applies to tapes, etc. If I am going to spend 25 dollars on the Lord of the Rings DVD, I'll be damned if I'm going to allow some criminal who decides to pirate (use the Burner or whatever) to make a profit off of their making copies is going to stop me from protecting and thus enjoying what is MINE. I feel that there is no sure way of ensuring that one side does not get hurt. The same thing happened when Napster got sued. I think not only did those using it get angry and thus persued other means to continue what they were doing, but the smaller less fortunate artists who can't afford to get a record label or even have their song played on the radio got royally screwed by RIAA. Being a singer and having the desire to make my own recordings was really hopeful when seeing local band's music being exchanged on the net. It proved that despite the lack of $ a musician's work could still be enjoyed, and possibly catch that one person's attention that could mean their getting a record deal. The music industry is a very hard one to go into, and I understand the desire to make sure the artists aren't losing, but what happens when the record company (those distributing) becomes more vengful as to not even consider the possibility that not everyone thinks that spending 15 or more dollars per cd is really a deal. That's why I go to the Record exchange and get my cd's used. It's no use trying to fight the RIAA...they don't care about the fans. All they care about is getting their money. Their case, and Metallica's is what turned me away from ever pursuing my dream of performing. It used to be about the music...and the right, no the freedom to express yourself artistically. What it's become is a penny fight, and one that will get everyone burned.
#Comment made: 2002-08-22 21:13:47+00 by: Pete
For the NET Act to kick in, you need a bi-directional exchange. Giving away copies does not meet the NET Act description of criminality. So it's not a legal slam dunk that any given unauthorized movement of a copyrighted work across a P2P network is a crime by NET Act standards.
Yeah, Pete, I was just speaking from what I know of copyright law. Although in standard copyright law it's harder to nail someone if the actions are non-commercial.
Starrfire, the points you raise are largely why I support these particular efforts. The RIAA has tried to stop recording devices before, and is trying to do it again now, and we need to slap them every time they try something like that, and encourage them when they go after actual infringers.
#Comment made: 2002-08-22 22:37:22+00 by: Shawn
Dan; I'm not finding this DOJ press release you mention. And I see no reference to the size of the "distributors" being targetted in the story.
I'm a bit concerned by this. I didn't do the Napster thing and have stayed out of file-sharing/p2p systems until about a month ago. Not out of any morality or legality issues, but more because buying a CD was more my style and what I was used to. I just never "caught on" to file sharing.
But recently I've been partaking of the WinMX network. I did so because I was seeking videos of obscure (or not-so-obscure in the right circles) TV shows that I can't find anywhere else. These are shows that are cancelled and not available on TV, VHS or DVD. Yes, somebody owns the copyright on these shows and it is technically illegal to give them to others. But how else can I enjoy some of my favorite shows if those who own their rights are just going to sit on them?
I'm not advocating that there shouldn't be laws against sharing copyrighted material. But I think there should be some reasonable consideration made for extenuating circumstances. I'm not repackaging these videos for sale. I'm just making sure they don't get lost in the rusty cobwebbed Trunk Of Past Media - never to be seen and enjoyed again.
#Comment made: 2002-08-22 22:43:16+00 by: Shawn [edit history]
Forgot to mention...
I was a little taken aback though to find that the Dept. of Justice apparently has Faith-Based and Community Initiatives. I'm actually willing to accept that things like a generic "moment of silence" meet the Separation of Church and State ideal, but this seems a bit blatant.
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‘We created those looks’: BH90210 cast sees today’s 90s-inspired fashion as reflection of their own
By Amy Lieu
Fox TV Stations
Fashion from the 1990s making its way to today’s trends is a centerpiece in the “BH90210” reboot. The cast nostalgically recalled what they wore nearly two decades ago in their original hit series.
BEVERLY HILLS - Fashion from the 1990s making its way to today’s trends is a centerpiece in the “BH90210” reboot, which premieres Wednesday night.
“How to do you explain to them the phenomena of what 90210 was?” said Gabrielle Carteris, who plays Andrea Zuckerman.
The cast nostalgically recalled what they wore nearly two decades ago in their original hit series, “Beverly Hills, 90210.”
“It’s so funny to see all the stores have 90s clothing, and I’m like, ‘Oh my God, we wore that!’” said Tori Spelling, who plays Donna Martin.
“How nostalgic is this?” said Jennie Garth, who plays Kelly Taylor.
“To see our kids being like, ‘Oh this is what’s in right now.’ It’s like we created those looks,” Spelling said.
“My daughters love high-waisted jeans,” Garth said.
WATCH: Gabrielle Carteris talks new series ‘BH90210’
Shannon Doherty, who plays Brenda Walsh, said fashion “always comes back around.”
“Fashion is cycilal anyway,” she said.
Jason Priestley, who plays Brandon Walsh, had mixed feelings about 90’s fashion. “Regretfully, I did know that 90s fashion was going to come back. It was only a matter of time,” he said.
Priestley then referred to his mom jeans.
"The nostalgic part of me is very happy about that," Priestley said. "The part of me that is reluctant to ever put on a pair of mom jeans again is not very happy about that. But we’ll see which side wins out."
Ian Ziering, who plays Steve Sanders. shared the same sentiment.
“Seeing some of the clothes that I wore, it was like, ‘I don’t know, did I not have a friend, did I not have a mirror in my dressing room?’” Ziering said.
WATCH: Brian Austin Green talks new series 'BH90210'
Doherty thinks that people will be dressing like Brian Austin Green now, “because his style is, like, beyond fresh.”
“She was ahead of her time in that time. People look back on the 90s and they want to wear what Shannon was wearing,” said Green, who plays David Silver. “They don’t want to wear what I was wearing because you can’t find that stuff. We made it, and it was horrible.”
Garth said that fashion-wise, she is eager to see what “great twist” they can do to create a look for the show “that’s not 90s, but still a little 90s.”
“I just will definitely have a mirror in my dressing room this time,” Ziering said.
WATCH: Ian Ziering gets choked up talking about friend, co-star Luke Perry
The only original cast member missing is fan-favorite Luke Perry, who died in March after suffering a massive stroke.
The iconic show premiered on FOX on Oct. 4, 1990 and aired for 10 seasons. The series documented the life of a group of friends from high school to college and then early adulthood — all with the backdrop of the Southern California community of Beverly Hills.
The “BH90210” series reboot features six episodes, in which each character will play heightened versions of themselves in a brand-new serialized drama – with a healthy dose of irreverence – that is inspired by their real lives and relationships,” FOX said in February.
“BH90210” premieres on FOX on Aug. 7 at 9 p.m. ET/8 p.m. CT.
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Italy: Infant dies after parents circumcise him at home
FILE. (Photo by China Photos/Getty Images)
ROME - (AP) -- An infant boy in Italy has died as the result of a circumcision performed by his parents at home, according to Italian media reports on Sunday.
The ANSA news agency reported that the 5-month-old baby was brought to a hospital in Bologna by helicopter in cardiac arrest on Friday afternoon and died that night.
The prosecutor's office in the northern province of Reggio Emilia has opened a manslaughter investigation, and the infant will undergo an autopsy.
The tragedy follows a botched home circumcision of a 2-year-old who died of severe blood loss in December in Rome. In that case, his twin brother nearly died, too, but survived following intensive care treatment.
Circumcision is not practiced among Italy's Roman Catholic majority. Many immigrants in Italy are Muslim and practice circumcision for cultural and religious reasons, but sometimes have trouble accessing the practice in hospitals.
For some, the hospital costs are too high. Also, in some Italian hospitals, doctors refuse to perform circumcisions until the boys have reached the age of 4 or even older.
Foad Aodi, the founder of the association of foreign doctors in Italy (AMSI), has appealed to health authorities to allow circumcisions at affordable prices and to lower the age of access to help fight clandestine attempts at circumcisions.
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CMPD searching for suspect accused of assaulting woman in home, stealing car
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Odds slashed on Newcastle relegation following Bruce link
10/07/2019 20/09/2019 Damian K. Betting Tips, Premier League
The odds have been slashed on Newcastle United to be relegated since Steve Bruce became the favourite for the vacant managerial role at St James’ Park – according to bookmaker SportNation.Bet.
The Magpies were tipped for a top eight finish just last month with rumours of a billionaire buying the club but are now just 5/2 to be relegated this season, making them serious contenders to fall through the Premier League trap door for the second time in four years.
Adding Ayoze Perez’s move to Leicester City into the mix, only Brighton (2/1), Aston Villa (8/5), Burnley (8/5), Norwich City (10/11) and Sheffield United (5/7) are now more likely to be relegated.
It would complete the hat-trick for Bruce, who has already suffered relegation to the Championship with Birmingham and the more recent Hull City.
A SportNation.bet spokesperson said: “The pain seems to never end for those diehard Newcastle fans. Just last month there was talk of a reported billionaire takeover and the links with Kylian Mbappe – now Rafa Benitez and Ayoze Perez have left the club and Bruce, who managed their bitter rivals Sunderland, looks set to take over with relegation a real possibility”.
Premier League – To Be Relegated
Sheffield Utd – 5/7
Norwich – 10/11
Burnley – 8/5
Aston Villa – 8/5
Brighton – 2//1
Newcastle – 5/2
Bournemouth – 9/2
Crystal Palace – 9/2
Southampton – 11/2
Watford – 6/1
All odds from SportNation.Bet at the time of writing. All odds are subject too change without prior notice.
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