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The Reading Plan
One of my favorite passages of Scripture has always been Jeremiah 29:11-13. As those verses read, God has a purpose and plan for every person and that should give each of us hope for our future. I firmly hold on to that truth, but I’ve recently discovered an unhealthy fixation on verse 11 and a tendency to overlook verses 12-13.
I was recently challenged in rereading these verses with what I believe is the heart of of the passage… spending time with God. God’s plans and purposes and the hope for our future begin and end with seeking Him.
Picture yourself camping in the woods on a cloudy night and your sole source of light is a Coleman lamp on a picnic table. The further you venture away from the lamp, the less you are able to see. If you intend to leave the campsite, the only way to know where you are going is to hang on to the light.
The future is dark and unknown and is only illuminated by staying close to the source of light and knowledge. God’s Word is described as a “lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path.”
It’s not about the path… it’s about the light. To invest in your future, you must invest in the Word.
The 29plans daily guide is divided into four actions… Read, Listen, Pray, and Obey. Each is unique but united by the theme of the Scripture. It works like this:
R = Read. The reading plan is chronological with no more than sixty verses per day. We concentrate on key chapters in the Old Testament including a weekly chapter in Psalms and Proverbs. The New Testament story is told in unique chronological fashion – reading the four gospels as ONE for a complete linear storyline (no repeat stories) and tying in the Epistles to Paul’s missionary journeys in Acts. Find out more…
L = Listen. The suggested song is tied to the reading. We try to span a variety of genres and artists, both Indie and signed. Support the artist by buying the track, use Spotify/YouTube to listen to it, or just use your own song.
P = Pray. There’s a suggested prayer focus related to the day’s theme. The prayer focus rotates between personal growth, the lost/hurting, friends, family, your world and your community in a weekly cycle.
O = Obey. A suggested response to the day’s theme and reading. It rotates between journaling, a call to action, self reflection, and memorizing one verse a week.
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Is Yahoo Going the Way of AOL?
Yahoo hired former Googler Marissa Mayer as its new CEO to turn the company around. The company is headed towards stormy waters again, which could leave only the ship’s hull. Yahoo could sell its main operating business and all that would be left is Yahoo Japan, Alibaba shares, and $5 billion in cash. Mayer would then get the boot, says South China Morning Post in the article, “Yahoo Destined For Tech Graveyard Due To Poor Choice In Chief Executive Officer.”
Yahoo has gone through five CEOs in the past decade and its current shares are trading well below value, making the company only worth at an estimated $2 billion.
Yahoo’s current problems began when the company was formed. Founders Jerry Yang and David Filo were great inventors, but they were inexperienced running a company. Yahoo failed to accept Microsoft’s offer and while it floundered, Google stole the search market.
“Determining the right kind of chief executive for a tech company at a particular stage of development represents the most frustrating and critical issue. The weakness of chief executives with a tech start-up or product background like Mayer is that they try to invent and innovate a large corporation out of a problem and into a breakthrough strategy.”
The article explains that Yahoo needed to be knocked down and then rebuilt from the ground up. A huge movement like that requires more from a tech manager who is only used to positive growth, praise, and giving huge benefits to staff.
This points out that people with different talents are needed to manage a company as well as the importance of a diverse team with varied experience. Some people are meant to invent and work in the tech field, others are meant to be business leaders.
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Swipe Konnect 5.0 Android Phone Review
Swipe is a brand known in India for the budget-range smartphones, with a decent build quality. The company recently started a new series, named Konnect and under this, the first device was the Swipe Konnect 5.0 which was priced at Rs. 8,999. While there are smartphones which are currently even better than this one in that price bracket, the Swipe Konnect 5.0 isn’t really bad. It is decent enough for those who don’t give an importance to the brand, and are happy with a device which offers a good performance. Let us check out how the device fares!
Swipe may have set the tone right with the pricing initially, but the entry of the phones such as Micromax Unite 2, Motorola Moto E and Lava Iris X1 at a little lesser price but a latest OS version would make the users think a lot before choosing one. The Swipe Konnect 5.0 comes in two color variants, black and white, and the white one easily looks better. But overall, the design is not so great and you won’t be able to flaunt with the device in hand, because there are some better looking devices in the budget range, while Swipe hasn’t done really well here.
The phone has a 5-inch display on the front, and above it there is the set of proximity and ambient light sensors, and on the left of the earpiece there is the front facing camera. Below the display, there are three touch based buttons – Options, Home and Back. The phone looks quite thin from the sides because of the curving down from center on the back. The MicroUSB port as well as the headset jack are on the top, while the power key and volume rocker keys are on the right and left side respectively. The polycarbonate back is non slippery and there is a large camera lens on the back along with LED flash, while the speaker grill takes its place in the bottom with the Konnect 5.0 logo.
The back cover of Swipe Konnect 5.0 is removable, and you get the access to battery, SIM and MicroSD card slots but after removing the back panel, its hard to fit it back in place because of the thin edges and it was quite hard to press and ensure that it is closed on all sides. The camera is surrounded by a circular rim for the protection, and the glass of the lens isn’t at the same level as the rim, and thus you would see some protection for the camera.
The good thing about the physical aspect of the device is the 8.9mm thickness and weight of 135gm. Thus overall, you don’t really see anything impressive but the curvy design at least makes the phone look thin and the button placement is standard.
Check the specifications of Swipe Konnect 5.0 before getting into further review.
Specification Swipe Konnect 5.0
Screen 5-inch capacitive touchscreen
Display qHD display, 960 x 540 pixels resolution
Processor Quad-core, 1.3 GHz
Storage 8GB internal, expandable to 32GB (MicroSD)
Rear camera 8-megapixel, LED Flash
Front camera 3.2-megapixel
OS Android 4.2 Jelly Bean
Connectivity – Network 2G / 3G (Dual SIM)
Connectivity – Wireless Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth 4.0
Connectivity – Wired USB 2.0
The qHD resolution display of the Konnect 5.0 is an IPS type, and due to that the viewing angles are good. The display is quite better than the WVGA and FWVGA displays that are available in the devices in this price range. The brightness was really not much under bright sunlight, but the 5-inch display does put out the content well under normal conditions, and the size is good enough to play even 720p content quite well.
There’s no protection to the display, and thus it is prone to scratching and you will have to keep it safe with the screenguard as well as the flip cover.
Performance & OS
Upon doing the benchmark tests on the Swipe Konnect 5.0 smartphone, the results were quite brilliant for a device of this price range and for the amount of internal powering provided. The score in AnTuTu benchmark was 17327, while in the Quadrant Standard, it got a score of 7091. The graphics output measured with the Nenamark2 was measured at 51.8 fps.
When testing the actual performance on daily usage, the Swipe Konnect 5.0 does a pretty decent job. It isn’t bad at all, and the Mediatek MT6582 quad-core chipset isn’t doing anything bad or disappointing. There are noticeable lags though, when shifting between the apps and that is more when you try to switch between some actual hardware-using apps such as camera and games. But overall, it isn’t bad at all, given that you aren’t trying it with some heavy usage.
The Android OS is the original stock ROM with no extra additions or unnecessary load, and it runs the Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean version. It isn’t the KitKat version and that should disappoint many who expect that version because there are even cheaper devices (read Moto E, Lava Iris X1) which run the latest OS, while Swipe has told us that the Android KitKat rollout is starting soon, so we would be updating it here whenever we see an OTA update for the smartphone.
All the Google Play services apps which you see on a standard Android phone are present on this – Gmail, Maps, Google, Youtube, Google Plus, Photos. For the extra pre-installed apps, there’s Automatic Call Recorder, Backup and Restore, Easy Installer, Flash Transfer, File Manager, FM radio, LED flashlight, MX Player, a series of apps from Next (Next Calendar, Next Contact Widget, Next Music, Next Switch Widget), OOBE, SuperBeam, Swipe Assist, System Updates and a ToDo app. Once it looks like there are quite a lot of apps loaded into the device, because we won’t really find a proper use in daily life.
The 8-megapixel camera comes with the Omnivision sensor, and it does quite a decent job in capturing pictures. There are a few modes available in the camera app, and they actually come good. There are some issues which are easy to notice while capturing – hard to focus when using the macro mode, and here, the touch to focus too needs a few attempts before the object gets focused. There was a lot noise when trying to capture some low-light condition photos, but on natural and artificial lights, the captures are pretty much appreciable.
The camera can be accessed directly from the lock screen, and the interface is no different from that in the other Android 4.2 devices running the stock ROM. The left bar has a list of options – Normal, HDR, Beauty Face, Panorama, Multi Angle View image, Scene Mode, Auto capture when smile is detected. The settings gives options for changing the color effect, scene mode, white balance and exposure. For the image capture, there are options such as zero shutter delay, voice capture, face detection, self time, continuous shot, picture aspect ratio and size and ISO. The video recording options include EIS, Microphone, Audio Mode, Time lapse interval, Video quality.
Photo capture size on 8MP: 3264 x 2448 pixels. The camera samples below are scaled down to 1200×900 pixels.
On turning the Flash On, it evenly spread on the objects.
Low light capture – there is some noise, but quite decent.
This is a capture on natural light.
Captured in Artificial light conditions. Some distortion noticed.
The video capture is pretty good with the output resolution possible to 1080p Full HD. The colors are shown pretty well, and there is no much noise in natural light, but the focusing does take a hit because when there are multiple objects in front, you have to manually focus on the particular object or else it is entirely a distorted image.
The front 3.2-megapixel camera of the phone is quite decent and it does a good job for video calling.
Call, Media and Speaker
The speaker is placed on the back, and it is a thin area from where the sound doesn’t come out that well. There is a sharp disturbance that one can notice when the volume is full and music is being played. The call quality is good, with the Swipe Konnect 5.0 having a good signal reception. The lack of a secondary mic does give a lot of disturbing noise when a video is captured using the rear camera of the device.
Storage and Battery
The internal storage provided in the Swipe Konnect 5.0 is 8GB, which it is divided into Internal Storage and Phone Storage. The internal storage is about 1 GB and rest is the phone storage. Swipe has given the option to change the preferred install location, where you can set it to Internal device storage, phone storage or let the phone itself decide which one to use. The provision of a MicroSD card slot can help in giving you the extra space for the media and large app files.
The 1950 mAh battery in the smartphone lasts for not more than 16-18 hours on normal usage, and this is when the Wi-Fi network is on. On 3G data connectivity turned on, while you really don’t use it, the phone doesn’t survive for more than half a day. Swipe hasn’t given any option using which one can try to extend the battery life.
For a lesser known brand it is, Swipe hasn’t done a bad job with the Swipe Konnect 5.0. It has a 5-inch display which isn’t really bad although one might even complain about the resolution. For that pricing, both the cameras are good and the performance is also very decent. If we are to compare the phone with other devices which don’t have a similar screen size, both the Lava Iris X1 and Moto E from Motorola can be brought into the scene, where each one has its own advantage over the other. The Konnect 5.0 is a Dual SIM device with the 3G connectivity, and you get the basic apps which Indian users love to use, i.e. FM radio, ToDo, MX Player, etc.
Lava Iris X1 Review – The Best Competitor Moto E Could Get!
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Chief Olusegun Obasanjo's speech on the finale of PDP Campaign
Written by Chief Olusegun Obasanjo
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Chief Olusegun Obasanjo's speech
"Mr President, we are here because we believe in what I call Nigerian dream. Mr President, we from the South West we were the first to collectively stick out our head to say this is the way, and what is the way? "The way of Goodluck Jonathan for Nigeria. A Nigerian dream entails collective aspiration, collective hope, collective objective, collective target and collective fulfilment . It also entails our communality. And what is our communality in Nigeria? What is the communality between me and my brother from Sokoto? What is the communality between me and even my brother from Yenagoa? What is the Communality between me and my brother from Maiduguri? What is the communality between me and my brother from Badagry or even from Ekiti? It is Nigerian identity. Nigerian Identity! That is our communality.
"If you say the communality is that we belong to the human race, so do the Europeans, so the Americans, so the Asians. But we are one communality, one identity, Nigerian identity. If we have a common identity, then we can have a common Nigerian dream.
For me I see a Nigeria dream of land of unity in diversity. For me, I see the Nigerian dream in equal opportunities for all Nigerians; land of freedom and choices; land of prosperity, fairness, peace and justice; land of love, care, harmony among its people; land respected internationally and playing its rightful role within the comity of nations and land where no one is oppressed, discriminated against, enslaved or disadvantaged.
"For instance, let me go to an element of one of the aspects of the dream. When I was a young man, leaving secondary school, there was only one University in Nigeria. The opportunity for young men to go to university in Nigeria was then limited. Today there are 117 Universities in Nigeria expanded and enhanced opportunities. We have to match that with opportunity to access to employment and to good living standard. Your excellencies, this I believe is attainable and as a political party we in PDP have dreams. "We have set about actualizing our Nigerian dream. You will see this in the formation of PDP. The history of the PDP speaks for its self. The constitution of PDP, the manifesto of our party and the performance of our party so far. We have set our hands on the plough and there is no looking back for PDP.
"Drawing from our national Constitution which upholds Federal Character, we are the only political party that enshrines Federal Character in our Constitution through zoning and rotation.
And we should be proud of that. For us and for the foreseeable future that remains sacrosanct, I am an apostle of Federal Character under Murtala/Obasanjo administration and I cannot now preach anything different. The accident of history of the recent past must be understood for what it is, an unexpected situation and PDP as a party has addressed that issue.
Governor Adebayo Alao-Akala of Oyo State, President Goodluck Johnathan, former President Olusegun Obasanjo, vice President Nnamdi Sambo and PDP Ag. National Chairman, Alhaji Bello Mohammed at the PDP South West Rally in Ibadan.
"At the last meeting of BoT of our party last Saturday, the issue was tabled by the president as it was raised by three distinguished members of our party a day before that BoT meeting with the President. I was mandated to take up the position of the party with the three distinguished members of our party who raised the issue. They are General Ibrahim Babangida, General Aliyu Muhammed and Alhaji Abubakar Atiku.
The following day, that was last Sunday, I took up the matter with General Ibrahim Babangida who expressed to me that the issue is not the accident of history but rather it is the issue of perception in some quarter that Federal Character, zoning and rotation as established and practiced by PDP have been jettisoned and permanently cancelled.
"I on behalf of the BoT allay the fear and I promised a public report while he briefs the other two party members with whom we saw the president on the eve of the BoT meeting.
"What am I saying? What am saying simply is that Federal Character, zoning and rotation in our party is alive and kicking. I personally see the practice of Federal Character, zoning and rotation of key political and governmental positions and offices by the PDP, if it will continue to be the ruling party in Nigeria, I see that position beyond my life time. It will only happen when unity, stability and democracy have been established with full confidence and trust by every body in the system and within the polity and among the participants for factors of competence, performance and track record to become predominant. PDP should be praised for being the only party that enshrined Federal Character, zoning and rotation in its constitution and also practicing it.
"PDP has brought stability and substantial predictability to the polity and to the system. I do not know who will be the President of Nigeria after Dr. Goodluck Jonathan. That is in the hand of God. But with the PDP policy and practice, I can reasonably guess from where in terms of section of the country from where the successor to President Goodluck Jonathan will come and no internal democracy or competition will be hereby destroyed.
"The recent resort to sentiments and emotions of religion and regionalism is self serving, unpatriotic and mischievous to say the least. It is also playing on dangerous emotive issues that ignite uncontrollable passion and can destabilize if not destroy our country. It is oblivious of the sacrifices others have made in the past for unity stability and democracy in Nigeria in giving out their lives, shedding their blood and in going to prison. I personally have done two out of these three sacrifices and I am ready to do the third if it will serve the best interest of Nigerian dream.
"Let me appeal to those who have embarked on those dangerous roles to desist from taking us on a perishable journey. A common identity as Nigerians there is more that binds us than separate us.
"I am a Nigerian born a Yoruba man and I am proud of those identities, as they are for me complimentary. Our duties, responsibilities and obligations to our country and citizens and indeed as leaders must go side by side in our likes and demands. There must be certain values and virtues that would go concomitantly with our dream.
"Thomas Payne said and I quote " my country is a world." For me my country I hold dear. On two occasions I have had the opportunity, thanks to God and thanks to the people of Nigeria, to work for my successors in the government of Nigeria. On both occasions, I never took the easy and destabilizing route of ethnic, regional or religious consideration rather I took the enduring route of national, uniting and stabilizing route. I worked for both President Shagari and President Yar'Adua to succeed me. Not just because they are Muslims, northerners or Hausa /Fulani, but because they could strengthen the unity, stability and democracy of Nigeria. We of course, with all the displeasure of ethnic chauvinists for doing what is right for our country, that is in the nature of the burden of leadership. A leader must lead no matter whose ox is gored.
"In the present circumstance, let me reiterate what I have said on a number of occasions, electing Dr Goodluck Ebele Jonathan in his own right and on its own merit which is there to be seen as the President of Nigeria will enhance and strengthen our unity, stability and democracy and it will lead us towards achievement of the Nigerian dream.
"We are impressed with the report that Dr Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has already taken a unique and unprecedented step of declaring that he would only want to be a one term President. If so whether he knows it or not, that is a sacrifice and it is statesmanly. Rather than vilify him and pull him down, we as a party should applaud and commend him and Nigerians should reward and venerate him. He has taken the first good step, let us encourage him to take more good steps to achieve what we need to achieve for this country by voting for him in landslide victory as the first elected president of Nigeria on basis of our common Nigerian identity and for the purpose of actualizing the Nigerian dream. God bless you all."
FORMER president and chairman, Board of Trustees, BoT, of the Peoples Democratic Party, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo speaking in Abuja during the campaign 2011 grand finale of the President Jonathan/ Vice -President Namadi Sambo ticket. Theme of the speech was on the calling on Nigerians to vote the PDP presidential ticket, Nigerian dream and zoning.
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Kraa! The Sea Monster
1998 | Color | 69 min.
Starring: Michael Guerin, Jerry Lentz, Jon Simanton, R.L. McMurry, Teal Merchande, Robert Garcia, Robert J. Ferrelli, Jeff Rector, Jeffery Meyer, Leon W. Grant, David Wall, Deborah Hatch, Stephen Martines (as Colton Scott), Candida Tolentino, Alison Lohman, Anthony Furlong, John Paul Fedele, J.W. Perra, and Steve Blum (uncredited voice).
Directed By: Aaron Osbourne and Dave Parker
Bored with being stuck deep beneath the surface of his cold, dead planet, the dastardly, skull-faced Lord Doom (Michael Guerin, Jerry Lentz voice) decides it’s time for a new conquest. On the advice of his undersized advisor, Chamberlain (Jon Simanton), he sets his sights on planet Earth. To carry out his plans of interstellar world domination, Lord Doom employs the services of Kraa, the giant, “intergalactic world wrecker for hire,” to destroy Earth’s civilization for reasons that are never fully explained. Hey, if your name is Lord Doom, I guess you have to live up to it, right?
He came to Earth for a rousing game of peek-a-boo.
Standing in this bargain-bin Skeletor’s way are four members of the intergalactic police force known as the Planet Patrol. Unfortunately for our heroes (which includes a very young Alison Lohman, star of Drag Me To Hell, in her first movie role), their attempts to thwart Lord Doom’s plans are immediately stopped when the vinyl-clad overlord blasts their space base (which strongly resembles the Death Star) with a killshot laser beam thingy, rendering them essentially useless for the rest of the film.
I think our captain is well on his way to his own #MeToo moment…
With their ship out of action, our less-than-heroic heroes are forced to call upon the services of the only Planet Patrol agent near Earth at the time, Mogyar (voiced by J.W. Perra). Despite being a member of the galaxy’s most elite police force, Mogyar is essentially a barely-mobile, semi-aquatic snail. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t doubt his prowess as an officer. I’m sure he would be very effective were he assigned to a planet inhabited by sentient hordes of malevolent vegetation. He would no doubt excel at a mission involving the complete ruination of Lord Doom’s backyard tomato garden. Unfortunately for us, he’s headed to Earth.
“Oh, sweet. My copy of Intergalactic Mollusk Quarterly is here.”
Once on Earth, he meets up with a burly, philosophical biker named Bobby (R.L. McMurry) and a sassy diner owner named Alma (Teal Marchande). After teaching Mogyar to speak English (he meant to land in Italy but made a wrong turn at Austria before crash-landing in Jersey), Alma and Bobby team up with the little crime-fighting space-mollusk to cobble together a weapon to defeat the gigantic, rampaging fish monster. Eventually, with the help of the disabled Planet Patrol crew and the galaxy’s fastest laser (it travels 24 light years in about 10 seconds), they are able to defeat Kraa (thanks in large part to Kraa’s decision to be a bro by waiting patiently in front of the kill laser to give the good guys enough time to blow him the hell up) and save Earth from total annihilation.
“For the last time, you are not the Lizard King!”
Kraa! The Sea Monster is a pretty bad film, even by the loosened standards of kaiju. The three different storylines (Planet Patrol, Mogyar and friends, and the footage of Kraa destroying things) never feel connected at all. The total lack of integration between the different plotlines, coupled with Planet Patrol and Lord Doom’s derivative costumes make Kraa! The Sea Monster feel more like an extended episode of Power Rangers than a fully fleshed out giant monster flick.
“Now I will show you a trick I learned in prison.”
To be fair, the movie does have a few things going for it. Kraa’s monster suit does look pretty cool, if a bit goofy, and it has a better range of movement than a lot of other monster suits in similar films. The highlight of the film is definitely Mogyar. The character is definitely original (I’ve seen a lot of bad movies and this is the first extraterrestrial, paramilitary escargot I have ever encountered) and manages to be genuinely entertaining throughout. Mogyar aside, Kraa! The Sea Monster is a rather forgettable giant monster romp. Probably worth a watch for some, but it certainly won’t appear in anyone’s top ten list.
Reviewed By Derek! “The Space-Mollusk” Miller
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Wim Van der Straeten on December 9, 2018
This type of movie should be left to the Japanese. They excel at it.
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Magic comes in three flavors, of which only two are widely known IC.
Shamanism: Shamanism is based on core principles of harmony, of knowledge and understanding. To practice shamanism is to subsume oneself, becoming other; the shaman must first change himself before he may affect anything else around him. A shaman does not seek to make something happen, but to bring two disparate things into alignment, so that the goals and needs of one are also those of the other. A major risk of shamanic disciplines is the possibility of losing one's identity, never returning from the immersed state.
Witchcraft: Witchcraft operates on the principles of order, ritual, control. To practice witchcraft is to bend the world to one's will, producing an outcome upon command. It is also a reductionist practice, in a sense, teasing out individual features of interest rather than the collective whole.
Artificing: Artificing is a hidden discipline which exists mostly as a plot tool, is not currently playable, and may or may not be revealed to players at a later date. It allows magic to be blended into mundane things, resulting in anything from enchanted items to magical creatures. Essentially, the purpose of Artificing is to enable the use of magical items, structures, and creatures as plot devices. Though these should be used sparingly, so that their impact isn't diluted.
Shamanic Disciplines
Invocation: The most basic and essential of shamanic disciplines, an Invoker takes traits of another into himself. For example, a shaman who Invokes a wolf takes on the identity of wolf, thinking and feeling and perceiving the world as a wolf does. As his proficiency increases, he can take it further and physically change into a wolf, along with thinking like one. Invocation can also be used for medical treatments and purification, with the shaman acting as a bridge between the patient and a medicine or poison; essentially, the shaman 'becomes' both the medicine/poison and the patient, and as such may influence the distribution of medicine/poison within the patient. Another application is in firewalking and similar resistance to the environment. Invocation is always focused in application; it applies to a discrete concept, such as 'a wolf' or 'an herb' or 'a fire' or 'that person'; and it requires the central involvement of the shaman himself.
Dreamwalking: Name possibly not final. The ability to deliberately and purposefully engage with someone else's Dreamscape, and at higher levels the Soulscape. Applications range from mental therapies to information gathering to exploring personal connections and past lives.
Ghostbinding: Raising, communing with, and exorcising the dead. Ghostbinders may create imbued items from physical remnants of the dead.
Unity: The big-picture cousin of Invocation, Unity has more to do with systems, dependencies, connections. They can examine how people connect to one another, impressions people leave with objects, and weigh the balance of interactions across families, settlements, ecosystems. Unity is also about forging links; a sufficiently proficient practitioner of Unity can connect two beings such that they share goals, emotions, or even identity.
Witchcraft Disciplines
Evocation: Evocation is the 'calling out' of characteristic traits from a thing. A witch may Evoke the teeth of a wolf, for example, or the claws of a cat; this also extends to things like Evoking the color brown from makeup so that the practitioner takes on brown-toned skin, Evoking a medicinal/poisonous trait from an herb, etc. Unlike shamanic Invocation, no other baggage comes with the Evoked trait, but the scope of Evocation is comparatively limited. An Evoker can only 'call out' a specific discrete trait, where an Invoker takes the holistic approach.
I am still contemplating limits of Evocation. I think it will require physical things to Evoke from, and the process will consume the thing while it's active. Thus, there is an automatic time limit on every Evocation.
Charmcrafting: This discipline essentially tethers an Evocation into a token (e.g. a wooden tile) such that it only goes into effect when the token is broken. These can be bought and sold, and used by anyone, although there will be limits on PCs buying them. I also have a thought of there being 'memory' charms, where one can do something like put a glass globe out in sunlight, then later evoke the globe's "memory" of that time such that it re-emits the light it was exposed to. All charms are single-use only.
Spellworking: Name possibly not final. This is the discipline through which witches effect larger-scale results, e.g. causing rain. Working a spell is a ritual act which is highly symbolic, requires ingredients specific to the situation, takes a lot of time, and may require multiple witches acting together. I imagine this as mostly having 'environmental' effects — rain, heat, fog, encouraging crops, etc. It's slow, but powerful in proportion to the people involved.
Webweaving: Name possibly not final. Soulweaving allows a witch to 'spin out' a portion of their soul as an intangible thread and 'connect' it to another soul. The thread acts as a conduit for specific, defined information; for example, a witch can tag someone with a thread that monitors whether they're alive, or use one to watch through an animal's eyes. A physical anchor may be required, i.e. the magic is effected by constructing a physical 'web' (similar to a dreamcatcher), which may be decorated with herbs, feathers, beads, etc. with symbolic significance for the weaver's purpose. The connection then remains in effect so long as its physical counterpart is intact. I imagine higher proficiencies have limited capacity to influence the linked soul, maybe through impressions/emotions or limited physical effects like making one trip, though I'm still thinking about that. (This discipline takes some inspiration from Norse seidr, its connection with weaving/spinning, and the idea that such weaving could affect battles.) Woven ties also show up on the soulscape and can be followed or affected by Dreamwalking shamans of sufficient proficiency.
Artificing Disciplines
Still a work in progress. There might need to be a fourth discipline for symmetry.
Enchantment: Laying magic on premade items.
Synthesis: Constructing items with intrinsic magic, of which an extreme example is Tamilur Tower (space, mind, and earth at minimum; possibly six or all seven elements involved).
Augmentation: Working magic into biological entities. An extreme example would be the Elyani shapeshifters (space, mind). Can possibly be divided into two disciplines, for temporary (Augmentation) and permanent (Imbuement) workings.
All applications of Artificing depend on unusual, inherently magical materials whose place in the world still needs fleshing out. I'm tentatively thinking these will be sourced from monsters, which makes getting them a high-risk endeavor, and also justifies creating dangerous creatures with odd abilities. I imagine these materials as having essentially elemental affinities (earth, water, fire, air, time, space, and mind), and producing a given effect requires material of an appropriate element. For example, an Artificer using Synthesis can create a flaming sword with the fire element, or a sentient sword with the mind element.
Artificing is also unique among magics in requiring extensive supporting skill and/or knowledge for most applications. For example, applying Synthesis requires one have the skill to make the item being imbued in the first place. Any use of Augmentation requires considerable familiarity with anatomy and the workings of biological systems. Essentially, one must be Exceptional at something else before one can even do serious Artificing. Enchantment is a bit of a hack discipline — you only need enough skill to make key modifications to the item in question — but it's also more limited than other disciplines.
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HYMN SITES
What modern hymn links the Great Commandment with the Great Commission?
November 1, 2018 By Pam McAllister
PAM’S THOUGHTS ON THE HYMN TEXT
Window in St. Patrick’s Cathedral, El Paso, TX
As Matthew tells it at the very end of his book, after Mary Magdalene and “the other Mary” encountered the risen Jesus on Easter morning, they ran to tell the disciples. Astonished, the men made their way up a mountain in Galilee, where Jesus gave them the Great Commission — to spread his teachings to all the nations.
In 1978, British-American Jeffery Rowthorn wrote a hymn text to fit the tune ABBOT’S LEIGH — “LORD, YOU GIVE THE GREAT COMMISSION.” The words make clear that the mission of the church is to build a just society, one of mercy and love. Each of the five verses ends with the prayer, “With the Spirit’s gifts empower us / For the work of ministry.”
GREAT COMMISSION + GREAT COMMANDMENT
As I write this, U.S. citizens are preparing for another election deemed “crucial.” Once again, Christians seem to be split between those who stress the Great Commission (to evangelize — make disciples, baptize, preach) and those who emphasize the Great Commandment (to serve — love God and love your neighbor as yourself). Our attitude about these two strongly influences our faith perspective.
In a magazine interview (linked below), Dr. Diana Butler Bass, scholar of American religion and a leading voice for progressive Christianity, explained the problem of excluding one or the other:
The Great Commission without the Great Command is intolerance, militarism, and crusades. The Great Command to love God and love your neighbor, without the Great Commission, on the other hand, can wind up being kind of self-centered, but at least it’s a loving, isolated reality.
Bishop Jeffery Rowthorn neatly folds the commandment into the commission in this hymn text, written expressly for the tune ABBOT’S LEIGH. Born in Wales in 1934, Rowthorn studied at Cambridge, Oxford, and Union Theological Seminary, served as both priest and professor on both sides of the Atlantic, and was a founding faculty member of the Institute of Sacred Music at Yale in 1973. He was named Bishop in Charge of the Convocation of American Churches in Europe in 1994.
DEANNA’S NOTES ON THE HYMN TUNE
British composer and Anglican priest Cyril Taylor (1907-1991) wrote the tune ABBOT’S LEIGH in 1941 during World War II. Taylor was working at the time as the BBC’s producer of religious broadcasting. “Abbot’s Leigh” is the name of a village near Bristol where the BBC was based during the war.
While “Lord, You Give the Great Commission” is a much-loved text paired with ABBOT’S LEIGH, the reason that the tune came into being had its roots in another text, “Glorious Things of Thee are Spoken.” Apparently the BBC was receiving complaints during the war regarding its broadcasting “Glorious Things” as sung to the tune AUSTRIA (the melody of the Austrian national anthem). Taylor penned ABBOT’S LEIGH to be an alternative tune to be sung with “Glorious Things.”
ABBOT’S LEIGH first appeared in several early hymnals from the 1950s, including the BBC Hymn Book (the BBC has a hymn book! This is cool!). This hymn tune is a 20th century staple in many modern hymnals. It’s also the only non-public domain tune on my trio recording, Makes the Heart to Sing: Jazz Hymns.
TO GO DEEPER
Words and music on the Hymnary website
“Hopeful Discontent: Tracing Spirituality in Christian History with Diana Butler Bass” Interview with Joelle Chase, Spectrum Magazine, September, 2014
A People’s History of Christianity: The Other Side of the Story by Diana Butler Bass, HarperCollins, 2009. My favorite of Bass’s books, this is the story of our faith told in the same spirit as Howard Zinn’s 1980 classic text The People’s History of the United States.
BBC Hymn Book
Audio track of ABBOT’S LEIGH from Makes the Heart to Sing: Jazz Hymns
Sheet music of Deanna’s arrangement of ABBOT’S LEIGH
Pam McAllister info@AskHerAboutHymn.com
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Ben Aldin
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Philosophical Terms
Dialectics Explained Simply
In Marxism the concept of dialectics is often complicated and mystified. It needs stating simply.
Dialectical theory describes and explains the development of systems which exist in the world. Here I will try to explain dialectics as a conceptual tool for understanding society.
What society is: a sketch map
To start, we have to answer another question: what is society? For Marxists – and indeed most other sociologists – society is conceived as a system made up of a complex network of interactive causes and effects. A change in any one element in the social system affects the others. For instance, a rise in unemployment causes an increase crime, which in turn changes the role of police, which has further effects, and so on.
If society is thought of as containing all the causes of change in society, then it follows that change originates from within the social system itself. In other words, at any given point, society contains within itself tensions and pressures (often called contradictions) which are the cause of social change. And when a new situation has established itself, there are yet again new tensions and pressures which lead to further social change, and so on.
A metaphor for understanding all of this is to see society as a huge piece of fungus, constantly changing over time because of developments from within.
The traditional explanation of dialectical change (thesis, antithesis, synthesis) is only a linguistic re-organisation of the points above. The argument is like this. Everything in a social system at any point in time is either a something (i.e. a thesis) or not that thing (i.e. its antitheses). As a result of the interaction of thesis and antithesis a new situation in society (i.e. synthesis) emerges for which the original thesis and antithesis have interacted and merged.
I think, however, that the theory of dialectics is better thought of as a summary or abstraction of the rules for understanding change in a social system. Dialectical analysis identifies pairs of social elements which co-exist, are dependent on one another and which interact with each other. Let us take an example.
Human beings and nature. We can clearly conceptualise everything that exists as either human beings or as nature minus human beings. We cannot imagine society without people, nor could we have a society without things (food, cupboards, water, etc). Nature affects us and we affect nature through building dams, houses, etc. Thus, it is said that the relationship between human beings and nature is dialectical.
Marxists in their analysis do not identify dialectical pairs (i.e. theses and antitheses) on an arbitrary basis, nor do they see the direction of historical change as entirely arbitrary or accidental, but what drives history forward is beyond the scope of this discussion.
To sum up, a dialectical analysis of society recognises that social change comes from tensions or pressures within the existing state of things. And when a new state of affairs has been created, then that too is subject to change for the same reason. When explained like this, dialectical theory can be seen as something which is almost certainly correct, but if not linked to other theories and observations, it is not very revealing.
Why dialectics is a dirty word
The theory of dialectics provides a number of valuable observations about the functioning of a any living system - be it the social system, or of the cosmos itself. But during the years of historical communism 1917-89, and particularly during the years of Joseph Stalin’s rule from the end of the 1920s till his death in 1953, dialectics was misused to explain and justify the decisions and dogmas of the Communist Parties in the World. After that the dialectical baby was thrown out with the Stalinist bathwater and people were reluctant to use the term.
In many instances, to avoid summoning up prejudice unnecessarily, the use of the term interaction will effectively substitute for dialectical; and, in addition, it is more easily understood. Of course they are not quite the same: dialectics implies a whole theory, whereas interaction merely means that X affects Y and vice versa.
Posted by Ben Aldin on 07:10
Labels: dialectical materialism, Marxism, political concepts
Here's another try at explaining dialectics simply.
Dialectics is the name of an advanced kind of thinking.
It is a kind of thinking that goes beyond the EITHER/OR absolute rigidity [never BOTH/AND] of formal-logic thinking.
Dialectics is a kind of thinking that the plurality of humanity will need to master before becoming capable of advancing from the state-capitalist, totalitarian, humanocidal dictatorship into which capitalisms converge, to equitarian political-economic democracy -- i.e., if humanity is to, first, survive, and then to thrive.
Call dialectic the kind of thinking that emerges in "the dialectical operations stage of adult human cognitive development", after the "formal operations stage of adult cognitive development" is surpassed.
The best way to briefly express the core principle of dialectic is via the Seldonian -- purely qualitative -- category notation.
A kind of thing category, call it "a", interacts with itself, or 'intra-acts', because of its internal strife -- in the internal mind, or in the external world, or in both.
[using "a^2" to stand for " acts on a", "a interacts with a", "a squared", "a in the 2nd degree", "a times itself", or "a OF a"] --
a^2 = a x a = a + b
-- where "b" names a 'contra-category' to category "a".
The self-negation of "a", modeled by its self-multiplication, produces "a" again, but also produces its opposite ["a", "plus" its opposite, "b", like apples "plus" oranges].
For example, "a" might stand for the "primitive communal" kind of society, with which humanity began.
Then, "b" might stand for its historical successor and opposite kind of society, class self-divided society.
The "formal operations stage of adult cognitive development" stops its kind of thinking with the "eternal" opposition of a and b, and demands the complete dominance of one, and the complete obliteration of the other.
But the "dialectical operations stage" thought-process expects to see negation again of that first negation --
a^3 = a x ( a x a) = a x (a + b) = a + b + C(a,b)
-- where C(a,b) stands for the combination, "complex unity", or "dialectical synthesis" of the erstwhile opposites a and b.
Note: This "category combinatorics" can continue beyond the third term, C(a,b).
But the simplest "image" of dialectics I know of is:
a ---> a(a(a)) = ~(~(a)) = a + b + C(a,b).
5 June 2013 at 04:40:00 CEST
Ben Aldin said...
There is much of interest in what you write, though I doubt whether a beginner coming to subject for the first time would be able to understand much of what you have written. I prefer to keep explanations as simple as possible.
Just one comment on the content of your contribution: You locate dialectics in thought – i.e. in concepts. That is undoubtedly correct, but I would say that the external world – or what one can call things-in-themselves – also have a dialectical character. And it is simpler to start with explaining the characteristics of “what is” before considering how we know that which is.
Thank you for your substantive feedback!!
I think that you are right -- my "simple explanation" of dialectics would only work for beginners who have familiarity with abstract algebras, or, at least, who are not intimidated by formulas, as so many are today.
I also agree with you that the dialectic pattern applies not only to movements of human thought, but to movements in the objective world of pre-human/extra-human nature as well.
I erred in not writing this viewpoint, which I share with you, into my explanation more clearly.
My seventh sentence should have read something more like:
"The reality that we represent by a kind-of-thing category, call it "a", interacts with itself, or 'intra-acts', because of its internal strife -- in the internal mind, or in the external world, or in both concurrently, and the same, generic category-notation can capture the dynamics for both idea-objects-only categories, and for categories of physical things."
In any case, the Seldonians, avoiding this mistake, have applied this category-notation to formulate dialectical models -- e.g., of the historical evolution of the social forces of production, of the historical evolution of the social relations of production, and of the historical evolution of human-social formations -- models that consist of MANY more than three categories in series.
Given that you are clearly NOT a beginner in the subject of dialectics, you might enjoy all seven of the Seldonians' "psychohistorical dialectical equations", including the three that I just mentioned --
http://www.dialectics.org/dialectics/Welcome.html
http://www.dialectics.org/dialectics/Aoristoss_Blog/Entries/2012/5/19_The_F.E.D._Psychohistorical_Equations.html
i find your notes simple and easy to understand . i am a first year law student . please can you help me in explaining what is maxism theory of class struggle, dictatorship of proletariat state by karl marx . i find it confusing.
actually i have exam on tuesday
so please help me
8 December 2013 at 06:37:00 CET
If you are a law student, I imagine that you only have to know about social theory in outline.
For a general overview of Marxism see:
http://benaldin.blogspot.hu/2011/10/historical-materialism-short-working.html
In a word, the Marxist theory of class struggle is the idea that in modern developed society there are two main classes: the capitalists (or bourgeoisie) who own money and business, and the proletariat (i.e. ordinary working people) who live on wages by selling their labour time to the capitalists. The theory of class struggle is that the interests of the capitalists and proletarians are contradictory, so there is political, social and economic struggle between the two classes.
But there is plenty of stuff on the net for you to consult: just Google the terms, or go to Wikipedia.
Good luck in your test.
Rosa Lichtenstein said...
Thesis, anti-thesis, synthesis is in fact Fichte's method, not Hegel's:
http://anti-dialectics.co.uk/Thesis_Anti-Thesis_Synthesis.htm
Independently of this, I have completely demolished this theory from a Marxist angle, including the a priori dogmatics evidenced by Miguel's contributions to this page, here:
http://anti-dialectics.co.uk/index.htm
22 February 2014 at 05:10:00 CET
Yes, the triad of thesis, antithesis and synthesis is from Fichte. Even if these terms are unhelpful and confuse the concept, the terminology remains in nearly every explanation of dialectics, thanks to the work of Engels and his successors. What I have done in my contribution is to give a pencil sketch of dialectics first and then try to relate that sketch to the triad of terms.
Ok, fair enough, but you perhaps need to read these comments from Hegel expert, Terry Pinkard:
"This myth was started by Heinrich Moritz Chalybäus. It appears in a history he wrote of recent German philosophy (published in the 1840s), in which he said, roughly, that Fichte's philosophy followed the model of thesis/antithesis/synthesis, but Hegel went further and cosmologized that notion, extending it to the entire universe. The book was widely read (apparently the young Marx was one of its readers), and the idea stuck. It's still touted in a lot of short encyclopedia entries about Hegel. Like many little encapsulations of thought, it has the virtue of being easy to understand and easy to summarize. It's just not very helpful in understanding Hegel's thought. It has also contributed to the lack of appreciation of Hegel in Anglophone philosophy. It's not too hard to point out all the places where it doesn't apply, dismiss it as a kind of dialectical trick, and then just go on to conclude that Hegel isn't worth reading at all.
"Both ideas (Hegel as cosmological idealist, Hegel as seeing the development of this Great Mind as progressing from thesis to antithesis to synthesis) represent a falsification of Hegel's thought, and their ongoing popularity surely has to do with their sound bite quality. You can sum up Hegel quickly, get the impression you understand him, and also dismiss him just as quickly. Looking at the real Hegel is harder but more rewarding...."
Moreover, both Lenin and Plekhanov criticised this triad for its misrepresentation of Hegel.
8 March 2014 at 12:25:00 CET
Max Alexandrin said...
Dear Ben Aldin,
Thank you for your comprehensive and easy-to-read explanation. I've stumbled upon your blog due to my dealing with Dominick LaCapra's book "Writing History, Writing Trauma" in which he states:
„And, especially in poststructuralism and deconstruction, there has been a tendency to conflate perfomativity with variants of acting-out and even to celebrate excess, transgression, unreadability, simulated madness, or the repetition compulsion as forces that disrupt and disorient dialectical totalization.“
In the remainder of his book LaCapra continuously criticizes the "conflation" of history/culture and trauma and thus also views it as a negative aspect in terms of performativity.
Now, since LaCapra wrote various texts treating Sartre's works, I assume that with "dialectical totalization" he refers to Sartre's concept of dialectical and anti-dialectical totalisation but I can't quite grasp the meaning of it despite understanding the notion of "totalization" - I suppose the somewhat ambiguous meaning of "dialectical" hinders my thought processes. So I kindly ask for your feedback.
22 May 2016 at 23:41:00 CEST
PS: What might help help are these statements which directly follow the ones stated above:
"Those taking this tack touch on some real problems that should not be avoided, including the questionable dimensions of the attempt to totalize. But these problems should be situated in the more general context of the interaction between excess and limits, including the problem of meaning and the forces that exceed, undercut, or question it - both blocking absolute or totalizing closure and stimulating quests for viable articulations and institutional changes in the broader framework of an open dialectic or dialogic relation of contending forces."
Here the use of "dialogic" almost seems syonymous to "dialectic" which makes LaCapras intimations a tad more confusing. In this 2014 preface to his book he does apply quite general terms to discuss larg-scale issues treated in his previously published book.
Dear Max,
Thank you for your comments, but I don’t think I can help you very much. I am not familiar with the book you cite, and in the two passages you quote there are too many terms I simply don’t understand. Understanding the terminology is a prerequisite for understanding the text. Non comprehensible terms and phrases (for me) in bold:
“And, especially in poststructuralism and deconstruction, there has been a tendency to conflate perfomativity with variants of acting-out and even to celebrate excess, transgression, unreadability, simulated madness, or the repetition compulsion as forces that disrupt and disorient dialectical totalization.“ (The whole sentence is meaningless to me)
I believe there is a duty on writers to write clearly, and this seems to be lacking in this particular author.
That's no problem - I absolutely concur and thank you for your time. The remaining text in that preface does not really become much more explicit except for a few (also quite general) examples given.
Paul O'Doherty said...
......Bravo..you are indeed a smart person...but the beginner like me is lost from the start
23 August 2016 at 15:53:00 CEST
Adam Spencer said...
Paul's unfortunate position of being lost and Ben's call for clear writing presents an interesting pedagogical debate. What form of writing is considered to be 'clear' what should be assumed of the reader.
30 March 2017 at 17:10:00 CEST
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Current national and global events.
That’s What He Is, All Right
Friday, January 3, 2020 Saturday, January 4, 2020 ~ Ben S. Pollock ~ Leave a comment
Official White House photos of President Donald J. Trump and Vice President Mike Pence
From Friday, Jan. 20, 2017, to Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2019, neither spoken nor written have I ever used the phrase President Trump or any variation. That is I did not adjoin the word “president” and the word “Trump.” Or “president” and “Donald J. Trump,” etc. I called the man by his names, and I liked DJT. Also said “the president.
Why haven’t I called Trump president? It’s not because he didn’t win the office. I think he did. He, the Republican Party in general and his campaign managers figured out how to game the Electoral Collage, which states to focus on.
You can’t win a big competition just by being the best campaigner. It’s more key to slam any rivals. Somehow negativity sticks with us humans better than positivity. Turns out that creating doubt isn’t hard. Making it stick takes more strategic effort.
Republicans figured out how to slander the Democratic nominee Hillary Rodham Clinton so effectively that even most of her supporters said something to the effect of, “Yeah, maybe she is (whatever), but she’s best we’ve got for 2016 and better than him.”
The GOP got there first and hit hardest. The more Democrats stamped and hollered about Trump, oddly, the more firmly his followers back him. Why? He owned most of the allegations, turned them around by bragging. That’s why calling Trump a liar is weird. At the least expected times, the habitual liar tells the truth.
It’s not that the Trump Republicans practiced “you can fool some of the people some of the time,” but engaged in “you can fool enough of the people.”
Truth in the Stars
Saturday, March 30, 2019 Sunday, March 31, 2019 ~ Ben S. Pollock ~ 1 Comment
The symbolism of the four blue stars on Arkansas flag is explained.
It’s been embarrassing.
The state flag of Arkansas includes an explicit reference to the Confederacy. The overall design can be seen as having similarities to the Confederate battle flag of the American Civil War. The early 20th-century legislation establishing the banner sets four large blue stars within a diamond to refer to the nations to which Arkansas has belonged: a triangle indicating Spain, France and the United States, and separately and uppermost the Confederacy.
During the 2019 General Session of the Arkansas Legislature, a Democratic Little Rock representative proposed dropping the Confederate reference and making a star symbolize the indigenous tribes that dwelled here before the European conquests. It was twice defeated in committee.
Why take the state’s word on such a matter? Why not as citizens proclaim the four blue stars be both inclusive and accurate? This detail might not make a sanctioned state history textbook, but a nongovernmental group could promote an alternative symbolism in defiance of accepted and prejudicial dogma.
Local 965 of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees approved such a resolution March 28, 2019. I wrote the text, being a union member, sitting on the board as recording secretary and communications director. [A similar post is on the 965 website.] The rationale is that nearly all Local members are directly and indirectly workers in education. A modern flag is a teaching device, presenting facts and concepts. Educators have a vested interest in symbols that we use to impart knowledge and values.
Star Crossed: A Symbolic Act of Civil Disobedience
That Local 965, AFSCME, promote a fair and historically accurate representation of the official Arkansas State Flag.
Since 1923, the Arkansas Legislature has held that its fourth, separate blue star signifies the state’s membership in the Confederacy, the other three blue stars in place from 1913 representing the nations having held the territory from which Arkansas was carved — Spain, France and since 1803 the United States. (Reference)
The four-year Confederacy being considered a sovereign state comparable to the Republic, not to mention European nations, pales in comparison to how indigenous tribes dwelled in the region for centuries before, primarily the Quapaw, Osage and Caddo. (Reference)
Sunday, January 27, 2019 Monday, January 28, 2019 ~ Ben S. Pollock
Main photo NBC News, inset photo Snopes.com
This is my Facebook profile photo and cover photo for Sunday. Can’t stomach it for more than that nor wish others to deal with it longer either.
“Revulsion” is not an impeachable offense for Donald J. Trump, but these snapshots should convey revulsion and the facts behind DJT’s unfitness for office. These photos should imply the extent of who he is, was and will be.
The balance of power has moved away from DJT and the Republic Party and its leadership, with the Democratic Party majority in the House of Representatives. That leaves the GOP, which dares not utter opposition publicly to the president, his policies or administration, controlling the Executive Branch, the Senate and increasingly the Judiciary Branch.
We’re probably stable as a nation until a huge calamity — a natural disaster bigger than the worst hurricanes of this century OR a terrorism attack greater than 9/11.
I fear the Democrats will feel they have no choice, in such circumstances, to give the current administration whatever it wants, comparable to 2001-02.
Let’s pray and think good thoughts, shall we? Simultaneously we citizens can further restore the balance of power in the nation’s capital and state capitals.
Any updates to the post will identified as such.
Consent Degree
Friday, November 17, 2017 Friday, November 17, 2017 ~ Ben S. Pollock
Bullies surround us. Always. All of us, 100 percent. Accept it, you know it’s true, and choose your battles. Making dark jokes helps. Also, they’re not always on the prowl.
Credit: StockSnap
This isn’t about bobcats or coyotes. Although like humans, kitty cats and puppy dogs if the predator instinct remains strong and they’re given the chance play with their prey. Sometimes human bullies feel a need for something their victims have, but often enough it’s more gratuitous. While compulsion is strong, humans have more power of choice than other animals.
This is not to say all of us are victims AND all of us are bullies — maybe just latently cruel or maybe just sometimes. I don’t see that in myself and others. Some people are bullies, and the majority of us have to deal with that.
But 100 percent of us can do ugly things.
Among bullies, some are lifers. Sickos keep at it year after year. Others bully a few times or within a span of a few years — late childhood or early adulthood — then seem to retire from it.
Louis C.K.’s stand-up never has done much for me. The routines (culture, family, relationships) are more provoking than funny. But I relished his sitcom Louie. With overlapping plots and major and minor characters, he covered much of the same ground, with greater impact. Thus, I hope to someday see I Love You, Daddy, his film satire whose release got scuttled with his expose.
The hashtag #metoo has been a digital key this fall inspired by journalism reports of sexual assault, sexual harassment and sexual threats by famous or successful people. The victims in these cases often are not typical victims in terms of helplessness but at times ambitious and with early successes in their own right. What these victims have done best is bring the type of bullying that beset them — sexual — to light. Light, air, candor, specifics.
I read in social media the #metoo’s of people I know. If every person could in full confidence post #metoo, it’d be 100 percent. Surely every girl gets the talk from someone: Be careful with men. The threat’s universal. Continue reading →
Q: WTF? A: Hi-dee Hi-dee Hi-dee Ho
Sunday, August 13, 2017 Sunday, August 13, 2017 ~ Ben S. Pollock
“Anthony Scaramucci, the short-lived White House communications director, is making the rounds on TV next week. Scaramucci will be interviewed by George Stephanopoulos on ABC’s This Week on Sunday. Then he’ll appear on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” on CBS on Monday.” — CNN.com
Folks, here’s a story about Tony the Moocha’
He was the red-hot Scaramucc(a)
The roughest, toughest gym-ripped male
Ain’t no way is he gonna end up in jail
(Call and response chorus)
Hi-dee hi-dee hi-dee hi (hi-dee hi-dee hi-dee hi)
Whoa-a-a-a-ah (whoa-a-a-a-ah)
Hee-dee-hee-dee-hee-dee-hee (hee-dee-hee-dee-hee-dee-hee)
He-e-e-e-e-e-e-y (he-e-e-e-e-e-e-y)
Anthony Scaramucci, Wikimedia Commons
Mooch took the call, sold stocks, his wife just gone
Fame’s ahead — what could go wrong
Left the Street named Wall for an Office that’s Oval
Won’t bury Caesar, but he packed a shovel
(Similar scat improv for lines 3 and 4) Continue reading →
An Ajar Letter to Arkansas Electors
Friday, November 25, 2016 Monday, December 12, 2016 ~ Ben S. Pollock
To the Honorable (Arkansas elector)
Dear M-. _______,
I am a native of our state, now living in Northwest Arkansas. This letter is to request you vote for any presidential candidate besides Donald J. Trump when the state’s electors meet Monday, Dec. 19.
This request does not come from partisanship but from consideration of the man Mr. Trump has shown himself to be personally and professionally through his adult life, since he declared his candidacy 17 months ago and, especially, the two weeks before and two weeks since the Nov. 8 general election.
Of the last period in particular, Mr. Trump
Has dropped promises he repeatedly and consistently made to woo voters
Continues or allows subordinates to engage in business that profits from his federal standing
Nominated individuals to top Executive Branch positions who lack sufficient competence in the areas they are to lead (yes, some seem OK)
Displays a lack of shrewdness and self-control when reacting on social and news media to mere criticism
Exhibits other serious character flaws as reported in reputable journalism organizations, so well covered that you don’t need me to further list
None of us has a crystal ball, but Mr. Trump will need far less than the four-year term as Commander in Chief to — at the least — bring shame to the people of the United States of America. Indeed, it is reasonable to foresee domestically economic turmoil or internationally greater risk of military or terroristic upheaval during his administration. Greater risk, that is, than with any of the other top candidates of either major party.
This is not a plea to vote for the Democratic Clinton-Kaine ticket. By your helping to drop Mr. Trump’s electoral total below the 270 simple-majority votes — by choosing anyone else or abstaining — you will prove your patriotism. Please let the Constitution guide the next steps, in Congress.
You were selected as an Arkansas elector because you are a longtime loyal Republican. You may find “disruptive” or “overwhelming” — as the Democrat-Gazette quoted two electors Nov. 20 in “State GOP Electors: Changing Trump Vote Out of the Question” — citizens contacting you about the Electoral College. Perhaps this is because you were appointed by your party, not by the state nor by voters. But by the Constitution, U.S. Code and state law, you do help select the president of this democracy.
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Ras Baalbeck eager to expel Daesh
A Lebanese army vehicle drives past a cross set in Ras Baalbek, Monday, July 31, 2017. (The Daily Star/Hasan Shaaban)
Nazih Osseiran| The Daily Star
A version of this article appeared in the print edition of The Daily Star on August 01, 2017, on page 3.
Dureid Rahhal
Nusra Front
Far from apprehensive, Ras Baalbeck's residents seemed eager for the Lebanese Army's offensive against militants entrenched on the town's outskirts to begin, with locals telling The Daily Star Monday that if called on, they too would join the fight.
"We are used to this, we are not scared anymore and we know how to deal with Daesh [ISIS]".
Standing outside of a local corner shop, his handgun barely concealed at his waist, he seemed casual, almost bored at the prospect of a fight.
Nonetheless, locals anticipated the start of the battle and were making preparations.
Rahhal said that the locals were "impatient" for the battle to begin, assuring The Daily Star that every single Ras Baalbeck resident had confidence in the Army and its capabilities.
However, Rahhal pointed out that a battle is not inevitable, explaining that the possibility of reaching a deal is still on the table.
Negotiations or not, the military is gearing up for a fight, making full use of the arms and the training offered to them by the international community, mainly the United States. Rahhal estimated that between 8,000 to 10,000 troops will be taking part in the battle.
More from Nazih Osseiran
Authorities calm fears after terror warnings
Cabinet sets stage for 2018 general elections
Hariri urges end to bickering ahead of soldiers’ funerals
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Anybody who has ever had intercourse while just a little high can tell you that things just feel better. Ladies particularly appear to reap the benefits of a slightly stoned sack session. Of us report lower inhibitions, easier orgasms, and an total larger experience when you have intercourse with just a slight buzz. But for certain firms, the objective is to skip the head high all together, and get right to the cash shot.
"Nobody likes having sex too high," says Kiana Reeves, managing director of Foria, a wellness company that focuses on CBD and THC-infused equipment for sex. She’s proper about that—which is why Foria focuses on putting CBD and THC right where you should use it. The brand has a line of CBD and THC-infused lubricants and suppositories to assist people expertise maximum pleasure throughout sex. And while much of the intercourse accessories trade focuses on male pleasure, Foria is, surprisingly, vagina-focused (perhaps all of the more shocking considering the brand was founded by a guy).
Hashish lube
Foria is the brainchild of Mathew Gerson, who comes from a background in sexual wellness. After starting the condom firm Sir Richards, a one-for-one mannequin that donated condoms to areas with out entry to affordable birth control, Gerson began to explore the world of cannabis oil. "Popping out of the intercourse trade, the word ‘oil’ just meant ‘lube,’ to him," Reeves says of Gerson’s preliminary context for hashish oil. So he started researching, and found that cannabis has an extended history of use in obstetrics, gynecology, and as a cure for menstrual pain. His analysis also opened his eyes to the fact that females had been underserved in the sex market — a market that had dozens of pills for erectile dysfunction, however very few products that have been geared toward women.
That’s the place his pursuits converged. "Trying on the endocannabinoid system, we’re able to see that females have a large amount of receptors in their pelvis," Reeves says. And thus, Foria was born. The company aims to offer folks with vaginas higher access to orgasms, increased sensation, and decreased pain. Gerson truly mixed up the first batch of what would turn into the model’s THC-infused lube, called Pleasure, in his kitchen and gave it to his girlfriend to try. She was, wantless to say, extremely happy.
The company now has a range of products, from suppositories to pens. Their lubes are their hottest, however. Pleasure is infused with THC, so it’s solely available in markets where leisure marijuana is legal. Awaken, nonetheless, was developed to reach a worldwide viewers, since it incorporates CBD plus a mixture of botanicals to imitate the impact of THC. Reeves assures us that they work basically the identical method, so whichever model you select is totally about preference.
CBD and intercourse
Since Foria came on the scene, the market for CBD and THC Lube [more info here]-infused sex equipment has skyrocketed in current years. Manufacturers like Quim and Kush Queen have rolled out their own variations of infused lubricants, while dosist offers pens akin to Passion and Arouse which are specifically formulated to get you within the mood. Reeves credits this uptick in merchandise to a change in the best way we think about sexuality. "The eyes and the gaze of our culture is more centered on feminine sexuality than it has been earlier than," Reeves says. "In that dialog and liberation and reclamation, there’s been more permission to explore."
Since this is a newer discovery, there isn't any hard-and-fast scientific research on how or why cannabis works in such particular, intimate applications. The corporate is currently engaged on analysis into how, precisely, CBD and THC work in your genitals. But Reeves says that by way of studies on how CBD and THC are effective, along with Foria’s personal case research, the company has a fairly good idea of how the merchandise do their thing. "THC is a vasodilator," she explains. "What we consider is, by way of the vasodilation from the THC, you’re growing blood circulation to all of those erectile tissue beds." Elevated blood circulate leads to elevated pleasure and lubrication, which lead to higher sex. CBD, then again, is an anti-inflammatory. The corporate believes that this helps to relax the soft muscle tissue in the vagina, leading to more arousal.
The consensus, because the testimonials on Foria’s website element, is that this stuff works—and never just for people with vaginas who're hoping to achieve orgasm. "We get emails from individuals who use the merchandise for anal intercourse, too, as well as people for whom it helps with pain management," Reeves says. "Individuals have also emailed us letting us know that it helps with menopause, and with menstrual pain." Pleasurable sex shouldn’t be a privilege—and corporations like Foria are harnessing cannabis to make sure more democratic sex lives, for anybody and everyone.
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A Belfast-based online service offers a selection of 50,000 videos posted free to anywhere in the world.
Imagine having a video shop nearby with 50,000 titles in stock. It’ll track down the videos you want to buy and deliver them direct to your home at no extra charge.
That, more or less, is the service on offer from an upstart and fast-growing online video store in Belfast (www.blackstar.co.uk). Except, of course, its marketplace is not the greater Belfast area, but ranges far afield from its street address at the Ravenhill Road, taking in Australia, America, New Zealand, Asia, Africa, all of Europe and just about anywhere else between.
Black Star video, which launched in March 1998 bills itself as “the UK’s biggest video store” and claims to have customers in 76 countries and a British customer base of 20,000 registered users. This accounts for about half its total customer base. Another 18 per cent or so are in North America, 25 per cent in Europe and 10 per cent elsewhere. With the average high-street video shop carrying 2,000 to 3,000 titles, it’s not hard to see where online video retailers find an audience. Add free postage to anywhere in the world – a feature few online video stores offer – and Black Star becomes a very attractive source for videos indeed, says co-founder Mr Jeremy Glover, one of the firm’s three co-founders who serves as marketing and publicity contact.
On the other hand, the Black Star website lists Mr Glover’s job title as “creator”, while co-founders Tony Bowden and Darryl Collins go, respectively, by “destroyer” and “preserver”.
It may sound a bit like Zen and the Art of Video Selling but actually, the quirkiness is part of what sets Black Star apart from online conglomerates like Virgin. com. For example, all 20 employees get a Web page on which they can give their own mini-biography and each then lists his or her 10 favourite films (Mr Glover’s include LA Confidential, Pulp Fiction, Diva, Hear My Song and The Graduate). Mr Bowden eschews any personal information for a snippet of anonymous verse.
“We put that human touch in because at the end of the day, you buy from humans, not from a computer,” says Mr Glover. Nonetheless, the data-crunching power of computers give Black Star the edge on bricks-and-mortar stores that keep customers coming back. Some regular buyers pick up several videos a week have spent more than £1,500 he says. And although one of the co-founders has a background in film – Mr Collins has directed many television adverts and produced the award-winning film Korea – Black Star could just as easily be an online bookstore or music store, or even, Mr Glover admits sheepishly, an online wedding services site.
The three, with combined backgrounds in marketing, film and technology, had already decided in 1997 that the Web was the place to start a new business.
Video won out for a range of reasons – besides Mr Collins background. First, the company needed to finance itself as it was built, so an online retail site fitted the bill. In addition, the extensive British databases on film and video already existed, so Black Star could get plenty of ready-made content for the site, everything from the cover shot of the video to reviewers’ comments and list prices. “With music and books, those databases don’t exist in the UK,” notes Mr Glover. And, he says, “to a large extent, videos are presold” – customers come to the site knowing what they want. For example, video buyers can search not just by title but by director, actor, distributor, catalogue number, genre, price or language. However, if they know what they want – and most come for the massive back catalogue or for more obscure films, not current hit releases like Titanic, which Black Star offers for £9.99 – buyers then tend to browse and pick up another title or two on a visit. The average purchase is £30, says Mr Glover, or about 2 and a half videos. The special Titanic offer has helped the company draw new customers, it has nearly doubled its registered customer base, and has also got some industry notice. “It was a loss leader at £9.99, but over 50 per cent who bought it got something else as well, and 70 per cent came back for additional purchases,” he says.
In addition, after they put the title on sale the marketing director of Titanic’s distribution company contacted them, asking who Black Star was and what it did. Apparently, says Mr Glover, he’d been besieged by calls from other traditional video retailers demanding to know if the company had cut a special distribution deal with Black Star. “Certainly, traditional high street retailers are waking up to the threat that online retailers are going to present,” says Mr Glover.
But if Black Star offers free postage woldwide – and that’s for airmail – and also offers regular discounts on titles, doesn’t that make its profit margins painfully tight? “It was squeezing us a lot harder at the beginning,” he admits. “But it was a decision we made based on customer desires.”
He notes that the typical shopping experience for an online shopper goes pear-shaped at the point the purchase cost is totalled and postage and handling has to be calculated. “They’ve gone through the buying process and suddenly their hit with all these extra charges,” he says. “Now you’ve totally mislead a customer.” He figures they lose 13 to 15 per cent of the cost sale by paying for the postage but says the effect of doing so has been enormous, generating repeat customers from all over the world for whom Black Star becomes a cheaper source of videos than the neighbourhood shop.
While growth initially ran at a very healthy 40 per cent a month, it has settled now into a comfortable 25 per cent month-on-month. Mr Glover realises he is sitting on a company which will likely prove an attractive acquisition as the European Internet market develops. “I have no doubt the offers will come,” he says. But for now he is more interested in running and building the company.
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2,000-year-old 'computer' rebuilt:
A new working model of the mysterious 2,100-year-old astronomical calculator/computer, known as the Antikythera Device, has been unveiled.
The device, pieces of which were found in a shipwreck a century ago, is often described as the world's first computer, although it is seen by many experts as the first calculator because while it can add, subtract and multiply, it cannot program.
The new Antikythera Device has been demonstrated by creator Michael Wright, who had previously demonstrated an earlier version of the device (video below).
The updated details and precision of the new model are based on ongoing research by the The Antikythera Mechanism Research Project. This is a joint effort by researchers from Greece and the UK.
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About CHIQUE INTERNATIONAL
SASSOON PARTNER
SPRING | SUMMER 12 COLLECTION
Fashion and sport have been entwined for decades and tend to meet on the street. Trainer wars and logo-mania are swept to the side, however, as the Olympics draw near. Here we have real athletes in the pursuit of perfection – and very modern glamour can be found in the row upon row of athletic bodies all unified in the quest to be the very best.
"A VERY MODERN GLAMOUR CAN BE FOUND IN THE ROW UPON ROW OF ATHLETIC BODIES"
With this in mind, hair is working at peak performance this season as Sassoon presents a modern take on iconic Olympian symbols. The interlocking circles of the Olympic flag, first unveiled in Paris in 1914, provide the touchstone for a perfect blend of wearable cuts and personalised colour with a sophisticated palette inspired by the victors’ medals of gold, silver and bronze. Concise colours come courtesy of Sassoon Professional. Chromatology is a range with unlimited inter-mixing possibilities and, when applied with our refined techniques, works seamlessly together with the body showing the grace and fluidity of the hair and cut in motion.
This is SASSOON. This is hair design.
SASSOONS OLYMPIC RECORD
Whether it's the running track or the yoga mat, the SASSOON hair philosophy is a perfect fit with the world of sport. Vidal SASSOON was the first hairdresser to realise that hair was organic material that had to be treated as such - it should be able to move yet stay in shape. SASSOON believed that optimum hair health was linked to diet, exercise and fitness, a philosophy that was well ached of its time.
SASSOON's hair mix of fashion made it the obvious choice for hair consultant at the Olympic Games, a relationship that was first forged at the 1976 Winter Olympics held in Innsbruck, Austria. It was here that Dorothy Hamill won the Women's Figure Skating Gold Medal with an aerodynamic wedge by Suga at SASSOON. Hamill's cut became a global showcase for the SASSOON philosophy of dynamic movement, healthy shine and the eminent suitability of the perfect cut. As Vidal put it, "the hair became part of her act."
"A MIX OF FASHION AND FUNCTION MADE SASSOON AN OBVIOUS CHOICE FOR STYLING HAIR AT THE OLYMPIC GAMES"
In 1984 Vidal SASSOON was chosen as the official hair care consultant to the athletes of the Los Angeles Olympics. SASSOON and his international team had conducted months of research with 100 athletes to determine how haircuts best performed during different sporting activities. After observing the natural movement of hair in action a collection of haircuts was developed that maximised function, movement and comfort for every sport during the Games. A huge campus salon was set up in the City of Angels to cut and care for the hair of 2,500 athletes using the new techniques which had been developed - style had truly altered sports and fitness became a total concept.
Today's athletes can now look good before, during and after their sporting performances, as SASSOON cuts and colours lend themselves well to any physical activity. They're precise, easy to wear and care for - and that's always a winning combination.
THE MAKING OF THE ATHLETICA COLLECTION
The spark that ignites the fire of every SASSOON collection begins with an idea which can come from a myriad of sources. This season it's the Olympics and the intriguing relationship between women, sport and hair. One of the unique features of SASSOON is that the journey of every collection takes the same route as that of high fashion - SASSOON's distinctive "couture for the head" parallels the conceptual and experimental work created by the world's finest catwalk designers.
"This season it's all about ease and wearability, so the first drawings show how honed and athletic models with modern streamlined or techno styling" says Mark.
"THIS SEASON IT'S ALL ABOUT EASE AND WEARABILITY"
Mark Hayes - SASSOON International Creative Director
"We wanted to concentrate on cuts that work with athletic movement. Clearly defined cuts and colours that are easy to care for and work with today's demanding lifestyle." These evocative sketches form part of the brief that is given by Mark Hayes to all involved with the shoot. - the photographer, stylist, make-up artist and, of course, the International Team. As in fashion, after the theme of a collection is decided upon by International Creative Director Mark Hayes, fashion drawings are created in order to evoke his vision and the fascinating as they are the first indication of the new cut and colour techniques that will be launched with the collection.
BACKSTAGE AT THE ATHLETICA COLLECTION
As in fashion, SASSOON's couture approach to hair is about creating the best of the best using the highest quality products and the most accomplished craft and design techniques. Each hair cut and colour on every model is thought through and its design developed after much consultation between Mark, Bruce Masefield, UK Creative Director and the dynamic colour partnership of Peter Dawson, European Colour Director and Edward Darley, UK Colour Director. The looks couldn't be more exclusive designed with the personality, bone structure and lifestyle of the model in mind, a philosophy that comes through in the SASSOON salon experience where every cut and colour is designed to meet the needs of each individual client.
"THIS IS ATHLETICA - THIS COUTURE HAIR IN MOTION"
It's in the photographic studio where the ideas come to life, animated by the accomplished hands of the International Team. The bright lights on set and the glaringly whit theme in a contemporary and conceptual way studio space throw every hair into sharp relief so all has to be perfect. Stylist, Cathy Edwards creates the shapes on set, sculpting clothes by hand to fit each model and convey the Athletica theme in a contemporary and conceptual way. The result: sculptural body armour that plays with transparency and layering to create an imaginary set of sporting archetypes without reverting to the more obvious route of decking each model out in today's branded sportswear. As each model steps on set to be photographed by the expert lens of John Akehurst they balance in series of poses inspired by the stances taken by athletic bodies in motion. Make-up is fresh, dewy and minimal with defined brows and nude lips - it's not about over-emphasis this season. Styling is white in contrast to the dynamic colour and dramatic cuts that come courtesy of SASSOON.
This is Athletica - this is couture hair in motion.
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Why do we still listen to the rentier impostors?
Posted on August 13, 2019 August 13, 2019 by bob
“The first man who enclosed a piece of ground, bethought himself of saying ‘This is mine’, and found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society. From how many crimes and murders, from how many horrors and misfortunes might not anyone have saved mankind, by pulling up the stakes, or filling up the ditch, and crying to his fellows, ‘Beware of listening to this impostor, you are undone if you once forget that the fruits of the earth belong to us all, and the earth itself to nobody.”
280,000 people in Scotland living in the private rented sector live in poverty. (in a so called welfare state) And how many are children and how many are malnourished, living in fear of the next exploitative bill, how many will be physiologically impacted; become a statistic of the criminal justice system, turn to mood altering drugs and alcohol, be isolated from their families and the wider society. Shelter is a primal need for survival, like air, like water. That is why housing is a basic human right and we fail as human beings unless we recognise this. And we fail as citizens by not demanding it. Money may insulate us from poverty but it can not protect us from the conflicts of our own humanity, nor the threat of changing circumstances that may affect anyone in any given time in a precarious world.
Rent is the most insidious weapon in the neoliberal project, it seeps into and controls everything, it sanitises our communities to the zero sum game of afford, it isolates people, creates fear of the future, destroys creativity and innovation and ultimately violates and criminalises the poor.
280,000 people living in poverty. Is that the legacy we want to leave our kids, our grand kids? Or do we need to listen to something different?
Living Rent
Living Rent, Scotland’s tenants’ union, fighting for decent and affordable housing for all.
Living Rent Facebook
From LA to Glasgow (Event)
A book launch for City of Segregation
100 Years of Struggle for Housing in Los Angeles
“We must fight these racist ideologies for a different vision of housing, and justice at the soul of our cities.”
Economics, Events
City Strolls “Enough already” walk
Posted on June 16, 2016 by bob
With their 1994 battle cry, “Ya basta!” (“Enough already!”) Mexico’s Zapatista uprising became the spearhead of two convergent movements: Mexico’s movement for indigenous rights and the international movement against corporate globalization.
‘I think we have to start by admitting that we don’t have the answers. The fact that we think that taking state power is the wrong way to go does not mean that we know the right way. Probably we have to think of advancing through experiments and questions: “preguntando caminamos” — “walking we ask questions” — as the Zapatistas put it. To think of moving forward through questions rather than answers means a different sort of politics, a different sort of organization. If nobody has the answers, then we have to think not of hierarchical structures of leadership, but horizontal structures that involve everyone as much as possible.’ John Holloway
Join us on an “Enough already”, walk. Meet at Govan underground and come on a walk into town, taking in the landscape and discuss the changing social dynamic and ways we can move forward. Or just come for the stroll. All ages welcome.
Saturday 18th June. Meet 12:00 Govan Underground. Walk around two hours. Finnish with tea at the Electron Club CCA Suchiehall street.
Blog, Events, Learning
January Reshuffle 09 Events
Just starting to work on this. If you your group wants to be included or you know others who would be interested. Let me know. I will have more details up soon. Ideas welcome. Bob.
This year “THE ART OF NOISE” Pearce Institute Saturday 31 January 12 – 6 pm
What is the Reshuffle
Pearce Institute Map
FAQ+ Help out
May 08 program(Will be updated) How to stand-up Shout-up and shout out for your community. As well as a workshop on community journalism, making a news-sheet – Sunny Govan Radio will be there, you will be treated to the Electron clubs (subtle) Noise Orchestra; a voice workshop to encourage your confidence, a community consultation wall, a media workshop that will record and film the days events and what folk are saying. GalGael will be there to remind you of the beauty of hand skills and heritage – the cardboard club will be industrious and dynamic, films from document 6, the RIB bookfair + videotheque and more…
SOLIDARITY SUPPORT
This years reshuffle will have an emphasis on solidarity and support – about finding out what ordinary people are thinking – about how to organise, how best to spend our time – and of course having a good time
A mixture of workshops and activities will be continuous through out the day. Timed events/talks will be published nearer the date + evening stuff – if any.
COMMUNITY CONSULTATION (Wall of noise)
We will setting up a wall at the event where folk can add community information, comments, events, ideas, happenings, concerns – with pictures clippings text drawings. With the possibility of compiling into a Reshuffle newsletter. See also media workshop.
Defending and improving our community facilities (Communicating) 2pm – 3pm
Round table discussion on creating networks for discussion and coordinated action, on defending our community our institutions and Common Good.There is much discussion on “joined up thinking” “networks” “coalitions” “associations” but very little actually happening. Lets make a start then. It is short notice to Saturday – but there is a community centre given up to the topic of communication and making our own media – Come and have a chat see what we can come up with. Please forward to any interested parties and campaigns you know of.
COMMUNITY JOURNALISM
This reshuffle you will have a chance to make the news and be the news. There will be an opportunity to tell your story on video, or audio:
The Radical Independent Book-fair project
Look through the books, leaflets, videos there is a whole world of information and issues of importance – not the nullification of televisions plastic people. Real people doing real things. Events in history perpetrated by ordinary people that you can be proud of. Pick up some free information, free stickers and look at books written for a free world.
Get a camera, bring a camera, borrow a camera and join the media team – learn to get the right kind of picture – How to use the web to to post your video, pictures and sound. Find out about free software that works on old computers. Get your own website/blog and tell the world what your thinking. Help to record the days events for the newsletter
PERIPHERACTIONS A project exploring sense of place (Drumchapel)
Sensing the City
Around the world, the neo-liberal city pushes active citizenship to the margins; questions of citizens’ rights to make use of urban space are now an issue on the agenda of public discourse. Gentrification, privatisation, zonification; there is no room left for the citizen, except consumer space. But we can fight back, reclaim lost territories.
May Day is but one day, but it’s our day! 3-4pm
Is there not a better time to be re-energising our traditions that celebrate achievement, hope, progress in building a vision for working people? That’s what May Day used to stand for. Not just a day to go shopping – and spending more money to entertain the kids. If you are interested in organising activities for May Day 09, come to this meeting and help to think about what we want from the workers weekend.
Glasgow City Council, like many councils though out the country have put a stop to all advertising in newspapers. From now on the only way you will have of knowing which issues the council are discussing, what plans they have for your area and your town in general is by looking it up on the internet. Are they planning to shut schools, start charging for museum entry or build flats in our city’s parks – you will now have to log on to the council’s own website to find out. It is your basic right as a citizen to know what is happening in your area. This is being eroded. Not everyone has access to the web – If you are in hospital, if you can’t afford a computer, many elderly people don’t find it easy to use computers. The council’s argument is that if you don’t have access to the web, then you will be able to see the information on posters in the local library or council buildings. But if you live in an isolated community, you won’t have this access either. What with censorship issues, lack of consultation, withdrawal of advertising from independent media outlets concerning important Governmental information at both the national and local level. Is there a better time for communities to implement their own news sheets, radio programs and information sharing outlets?
This year the reshuffle will look at some of the issues
NEWS-LETTER WORKSHOP
Learn how to lay out your news-sheet and get your information across from newsletter publishers and professional journalists. Get your news out there on news-sheets, leaflets, zines posters – get straight to the point on your fliers and be noticed
SOUND CONFIDENT – Voice Workshop Time: between 2- 4pm
Ever felt tongue tied, lost for words, know what you want to say, but feel it often fails to come across clearly? Then this workshop is for you – an opportunity to realize to your vocal potential by connecting to your body and breath. We will explore a range of exercises to integrate your body, voice and text allowing your unique and authentic voice to be clearly heard.
Steampunk is the rebellion against the mass produced, rejecting the ubiquitous beige PC, refusing the black HiFi, avoiding the silver laptop. It is the anachronistic use of mixed technologies, appearing to hark to a 21st century victorian world of lady/gentlemen amateur scientists/engineers. It is a deep-retro nostalgia for beautiful handmade objects without relinquishing the conveniences of modern life.
Steampunk is Victoriana. It is steamwork. It is clockwork. It is Sci-Fi. It is fantasy. It is a design movement, a literary movement, a fashion statement. It is for everyone. It is for nerds. It is found objects. It is elegant and custom-made. It is often one-off. It is not mass-produced.
Brass is its badge, clockwork its slogan and Jules Verne its prophet.At the Reshuffle I will offer the public the opportunity to send each other messages and make statements on a Steampunk Magical-movable-type Public Prestidigital Communicator (aka offline mechanical blog).
OPEN SOURCE HARDWARE PROJECT
Group aims to promote and establish an open source hardware movement. And possibly also create an open database for designs etc. to be stored
CARDBOARD CLUB
Watch the kids (and there parents) create there own cardboard community. Tiny tots to mums and dads grannies and grandpas, are all drawn by the magic of cardboard.
Dance Cardboard Glass walk
GALGAEL
Too often, in today’s world, work has become mere waged labour, where drudgery has replaced joy. What’s more, work is hived off in business parks and industrial estates. Is it any wonder that the work ethic has been so easily extinguished and is so hard to rekindle? GalGael is trying its best to turn this situation around by re-rooting work in the heart of the community at its workshop in Govan, in Glasgow.
Here, the method is simple; give folk a place to work, tools both attitudinal and practical and some basic respect and the rest comes naturally
SCIENCE FOR WEANS (and big yins)
56 kids learned how to solder wires and build electrical circuits at the last Reshuffle and experimented with a variety of simple scientific projects
GLASGOW 2014 GAMES MONITOR
There is a new group formed dealing with the impact of the Commonwealth Games in our city. Glasgow 2014 Games Monitor The main concern being what do local people gain through these big events. The website will be a partner to the Games Monitor, which is a network of people raising awareness about issues within the London Olympic development processes.
http://www.gamesmonitor.org.uk/
The Commonwealth Orchard
The Orchards we plant are for everyone to benefit from regardless of age or any other factor. We have learned from experience that if you involve children in planting these orchard, not only do they love it, and look after it, but they bring the whole of the community with them – parents, grandparents, friends, and they bring fantastic and fresh ideas with them. And it is today’s children that will harvest the fruit in years to come, with their children.TCO is looking for people to put their thinking caps on and to feed in ideas about the Commonwealth – and the Commonwealth Orchard – and what that could mean to ordinary people across Scotland and Glasgow too. The Commonwealth Orchard is a project put forward to the Scottish Government by the Children’s Orchard – with the idea being to create a more fruitful Scotland.
GLASGOW SOCIAL CENTRE
Glasgow Social Centre aims to create a safe and healthy space, open to all members of the community, that will operate as a network or hub for a variety of community and social groups in Glasgow. Working on principles of mutual aid, solidarity and co-operation, we will strive to provide a space which promotes and educates around issues of environmental and social justice.
At the reshuffle you could help decide on what a social center means
use the social space, board with info and space for people to add thoughts/ideas/comments – build a cardboard ‘social space’ with kids, and decorate it, -get people to write what they want from a social space, and stick it on wall, or on cardboard space. ‘public consultation’ ask people if they want a social space and what they would want it to be for them: See cardboard club
COMMON GOOD GAMES
Common Good Games will be at hand if you feel energetic. New games wanted – make them up yourself – all ages – games are for doing not watching on television.
THE BRIDGE PROJECT
The Bridge project will act as a portal for collecting information from a variety of sources groups and activities in order to organise joint ventures, share resources, socialise work and organise event space
It is helpful to tell us if you want to be involved doing workshops, helping out and so on. There will be leaflets to design, and deliver
If anyone has info, interest, or would like to help be good to hear from them, but help is always appreciated on the day.
VENUE: PEARCE INSTITUTE
The PI as it is called has figured in the imagination of not only Govan but the whole of Glasgow (and beyond). Most amateur and professionals alike over the decades have warm recollections of performing and rehearsing at the PI. It has been the home to countless groups and experiments in social activities over the years. There has been tv programs and films made there. The pearce has had a lively theatrical life both amateur and professional (and a theatre). It has been home to a diversity of interests from the Free University to ballroom dancing, clubs, sports – has a beautiful snooker room and in its past life was kitted out with cookery demonstration rooms and has housed a myriad of practical, educational tools for community life.
One of the most important aspect of the PI is it is very much a part of the Govan psyche and for a long time has been the nucleus of Govan culture. The other is the people it draws together. The Reshuffle event is about drawing on that culture and celebrating its ideas.
RESHUFFLE ON THE ROAD
It has always been the intention to take the Reshuffle/RIB events to other parts of the city. Particularly to the East End. In the time before the next Reshuffle folk will be invited from different groups, and interests,to the next event to see what is on with the view to creating their own gig in their own community. There is the possibility of doing an events in Drumchapel, Shettleston, Easterhouse Bridgeton. The Reshuffle invites folk from these areas (or if you know anyone who would be interested) with a view to organising there own event with the help of the Reshuffle crew.
SUNNY GOVAN COMMUNITY RADIO
Sunny Govan is a unique grassroots radio station, encouraging volunteering, training & development through the medium of community radio, and aims to encourage and support local creative talent, fostering local traditions and providing services for the benefit, entertainment, education and development of our community. Sunny Govan do song-writing workshops, learn folk to be radio presenters and will help you get your message to your audience.
The Electron Club
The Electron Club is where you can learn about computer software and electronic stuff, building thing with old bits of computers, writing code and so on.The club will be doing a wee workshop on Audacity (free open source software for audio editing) It is pretty easy to learn and can work on Linux, Mac and Windows, or just have a Linux machine sitting there for people to look at. People could maybe record and edit short bits for Sunny Govan to broadcast. The beauty about open source software is you don’t need a fancy new computer with loads of memory to run it. All the computers at the club were found on the streets, in skips, or donated . Find out more here.
Unity centre
“After lunch I went to the Unity office and my neighbour arrived there soon after me – I’d given him the address that morning. He was carrying the baby and I was about to fly into a rage at them taking the mother when she walked in behind him. Hooray! They had only detained her for a short time. All of that show of strength and time and money to give her one piece of paper! We organised a lawyer for them. Thank yous and hugs. I burst into tears when they walked out the door. The strain and relief all at the same time” Unity Diary. Find out about the work UNITY does at the Reshuffle
Two Films from Document6
Document 6 Roma Programme
@ January Reshuffle – The Art of Noise
2pm Sat 31/1/09 Pearce Institute
840 – 860 Govan Road, Govan
Roma of Govanhill
Janos Kovacs, Janos Joka Daroczi
Hungary | 2008 | 20 mins
Since the industrial revolution, Glasgow, like Liverpool or London, is a city whose identity has largely been forged by successive waves of immigration, from the Gaels of the 19th Century fleeing the Clearances to the Polish visitors of the present day.The neighbourhood of Govanhill on the South Side of Glasgow has historically played host to many new cultures arriving in the city, from the Irish to the Jewish communities, and later to Asian families from India and Pakistan. Post-EU Accession, the most recent of these
have been Slovakian citizens of the Romani people. Made by Roma Magazine for Magyar TV in Hungary, this film sets out to show life in Govanhill today as experienced by the Roma and others in this mixed neighbourhood.I Have Dreamt Of Working As A Hairdresser
Lidija Mirkovic
Serbia 2007 / 85 Mins
Iva, a young Roma hairdresser from Serbia, hopes to remain in Germany with her family. They stay on illegally. They get caught and deported back to Belgrade.From now on they must live by exploiting the waste on the landfill, collecting paper, scavenging in the streets, polishing shoes or
selling in the flea market. Living in the slums on the margins of society is unhealthy and often dangerous. School children become victims of violent rightwing criminals. The young Roma go to work as street musicians, beggars or prostitutes. There is little hope for better.
Keep in touch through the new Strolls/BRIDGE website and updates for other RIB bookstall, film, Doc, and activity events, through out 2008. Watch this space. Reshuffle has no affiliations with any political party.
The Big R is coming your way
The idea of the Reshuffle is that the answers and skills to resolve most of the communities needs, desires and problems, lies within the community itself. “We only need to ‘reshuffle’ our priorities to learn where the answers lie”.
The question we are asking this year is. What would you reshuffle given the chance? Our big “R” is going to be going round the community engaging people in the questions. Looking at our community infrastructure. How can we motivate ourselves and others to think more about taking part in things, finding out what is going on and coming up with solutions to solving our own problems.
We could also maybe look at the possibilities around us. What do we already have. How could it be improved on. What skills do we have to offer and what do we want to learn. How do we make our community and things in it visible to more people.
After we collect some ideas and things we have a shared interest in we will look at places where we can gather to talk about these things. Using our community facilities and institutions, gardens centre’s, libraries and local resources.
We will of course need to make this work interesting, creative, educational and use a whole variety of media to explore ideas. We will also need to socialise the work, make it fun if the task is boring. We will also need to think about how to engage different age groups from kids to older folk in working together.
But that’s for later. First we must identify some issues, trains of thought, germinating ideas to get us going. We would like to bring the big R to where you R and get started on discussing a few ideas. make recordings and film things.
More info: Click email below or pop into Sunny Govan or Pearce Institute or Dinner nights PI Tuesday from 6:30 for more info or lookout for the big “R” around Govan and beyond. Updates soon, this part of the project is new.
The Reshuffle Event
The Reshuffle was conceived as a yearly event that groups individuals projects campaigns and the like could share what they are doing, look for the like minded, create solidarity, discussion, connections, educate, around common themes and issues.
Go right to Crisis of community on-going discussions
Go right to planning next year 2013
We also take our fun very seriously and as a tool for exploration. We like to feed people, show them how to make bread and grow their own food. We show films and present spaces for people to have their say and listen to others. We talk about the things that are going on in our community and invite others from other communities to do the same.
We present a convivial environment in this beautiful and spacious community centre where parents kids young and old and from far flung countries of the world can chill from the rigours of daily life for a chat and a cup.
Who are we? We are you. Anything that happens at the Reshuffle is what you bring to it. So long as it is legal, nonpartisan, and participatory. If you want to help out before or on the days with general dogsbody stuff, have an idea, need clarity, information etc, drop an email.
The Community garden dinner nights held at the Pearce Institute every Tuesday 6:30 are a good opportunity to talk about Reshuffle activity (and other activities)
2012 theme is “Critical Connections”. How do we get communities to start talking to each other about every day problems and relate them to the bigger ones.
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Bad Boy Mike Synopsis
When you're the biggest star on the planet the only way to beat the odds is to be a Bad Boy. Sabah and Michael are engaged to be married and Michael is more than ready to start the family he's always wanted. At 30 years old, he is at the top of his game. He [...]
Bad Boy V: Preview To Good to be True
"I'm going to cut my hair." Michael made his disapproval known, Sabah could see it clearly on his face, in his reflection in the mirror. "No, I told you don't do that. I like it the way it is." "I am. I need a new look when I go to Rome."
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Look at what a lovely angel from Ontario
Bad Boy Mike IV Preview: Road Trip
Occasionally the car jostled when it hit a bump in the road but for the most part the interior of the car was whisper quiet. The sound of music filling the air waves, combined with the rolling motion of the car effectively put everyone to sleep. Sabah's head was nestled in the crook under Michael's [...]
Preview of Bad Boy Mike Act 2
Traveling all over the world with the sexiest man alive when you happen to be his fiance is any girls dream come true but watching women of all ages scream and swoon over him isn't exactly Sabah Graham's idea of a good time. The year is 1987. From the screaming female fans to the tabloid [...]
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"Michael: "I had to stop at Chapter 3, seriously. I was in shock!" I've got a challenge for our newcomers and an invitation for our veterans. Shamone, follow me . . .
Why Cowboy Mike had to End . . . . .
farewell COWBOY MIKE introducing BAD BOY MIKE Okay, so you wanna know Why Cowboy Mike had to end:
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Sabah hung up the phone with a deep, gut wrenching sigh. "Is everything okay, Ms. Graham?" It was the young purposeful security guard who had been assigned to her when she was kept prisoner at the hideout. He was smiling at her and holding the car door open, the car Michael sent for her. [...]
Sabah’s Jewelry
I just thought everyone would have a good time drooling over the beautiful jewelry Michael gave Sabah -- what's your favorite?
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The car pulled into the parking lot and Sabah hiked up her tight, dark skirt, careful not to rip the inch split in the back. As she stepped out of the car she caught a flash of gold in her peripheral vision. She didn't know what made her notice it or what made her stop [...]
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