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Things to Do Miami: Best of the Best Reggae Festival at Bayfront Park May 26 – Miami New Times
May 16, 2019 by newtheme
Much of Miami is a patchwork of vibrant Caribbean communities. Over the years, the number of immigrants from the islands has continued to grow. You might not hear a Jamaican sound system in your neighborhood, but know there is one blasting beats onto the streets someplace not far from your front door. And this Memorial Day weekend, downtown Miami will burst with Caribbean vibes and sounds at the 13th-annual Best of the Best Concert.
Founded by Buju Banton’s manager Joseph “Joey Budafuco” Louis and New York City’s Hot 97 DJ Jabba, the festival will take place at its original home of Bayfront Park this year after it was moved inside due to bad weather last year. They’re expecting an enthusiastic crowd to descend upon the city for this massive event.
Budafuco says there isn’t much of a reggae scene in South Florida, so they’re the main attraction for reggae-heads. “You’ll come across a reggae event possibly once a month or once every quarter of the year,” he surmises. The Brooklyn-born promoter moved to Miami for college and found success in events when he launched a South Beach reggae party in 1996 with partner RIP Daddy Saw. Known as Rockers Island, the event went down at South Beach’s iconic hot spot Amnesia, now known as Story Nightclub. Before launching Best of the Best with Jabba, Budafuco also hosted another party, Madhouse, on Virginia Key.
“What we have done as a festival in the past 12 years is to position South Florida as a destination for reggae fans all over the world to participate in a stellar Caribbean festival,” he explains. “The locals’ support gets energized when the participation of our huge international audience arrives to South Florida.”
Jahmiel entertains the masses at Best of the Best 2018. He’ll return to perform at this year’s edition.
David I. Muir Photography
The direction Budafuco and Jabba take when planning the concert is dictated by an island nearby. “Choices we make for Best of the Best Concert primarily come from what’s going on in the music industry in Jamaica.” And this year, they’re adding something for nostalgic Gen-Xers. “We started a new segment incorporating the ’90s era with legends such as Shabba Ranks and the ‘Don Dada’ Super Cat, plus many more great ’90s artists,” Budafuco says. “For 2020, we plan to integrate more Afro beats, dancehall, and soca into our lineup. We want to make the experience more than just reggae.”
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Best of the Best Concert. 2 p.m. Sunday, May 26, at Bayfront Park, 301 Biscayne Blvd., Miami. Tickets cost $50 to $399 via bestofthebestconcert.com. Children under 12 get in free with an adult.
Liz Tracy has written for publications such as the New York Times, the Atlantic, Refinery29, W, Glamour, and, of course, Miami New Times. She was New Times Broward-Palm Beach‘s music editor for three years. Now she plays one mean monster with her 2-year-old son and obsessively watches British mysteries.
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HINDI MEDIUM, a movie that takes a dig at education system - Nursery Admissions Delhi-NCR
The film shows the plight of parents struggling to get a nursery seat for their child.
If you are a parent living in Delhi who has fought a battle of nursery admission or is a parent who would do that in near future, the film Hindi Medium is your story. Having covered the nursery admissions in the last one decade as a journalist and now a parent myself, I can say that getting a nursery seat is a herculean task in Delhi. The film shows the real-life experiences of parents and the problems thousands of them face every year, with a dash of humour.
Illustration: Ashish Asthana
The film, starring Irrfan Khan and Pakistani actress Saba Qamar, shows the plight of parents who aspire to send their daughter to an English medium school. Probably the first film made to highlight the flaws of education system, it points out at the need to reform the education system. It shows that education, which is supposed to be a not-for-profit activity and right of every child, has emerged as a big business opportunity.
While the film will release on May 19, a screening was organized on May 13 for deputy chief minister of Delhi Manish Sisodia, who handles the education portfolio, and the department of education.
The government-run schools across India are in bad shape. Shortage of classrooms, insufficient teachers and low learning levels are some of the problems they have faced over the years. They have been left to decay for a long time. It is because of the poor standards of such schools that parents have shifted to private schools.
More children and less number of good quality private schools; the nursery admission blues has become an annual problem since the private schools got autonomy. And it has become challenging for parents to score a seat for their child in the city.
The film is about a couple who dream to give the best education to their daughter and the problems they face. Irrfan Khan portrays the role of a father with a daunting task in hand. A businessman from Chandni Chowk in central Delhi, he wants his daughter to get admission in areputed school in Delhi. He is ready to do anything. From changing house and moving to a posh neighbourhood in south Delhi to come within the 3 km radius of the school, to bribing the school principal and asking an MLA for help, he leaves no stone unturned. The couple also hire a consultant for this. But still do not manage to get admission. Meanwhile, his worker’s son gets admission in a reputed school under the quota reserved for economically weaker section (EWS). When all other means fail, he decides to take the EWS route.
The film highlights the pressure build up on children to speak in English and how education is creating a divide within the society. It also points out at the increasing ambition of parents from EWS to send their children in English medium schools. The RTE Act mandates reserving 25 percent seats for such children, but corruption and scams act as roadblocks. Manish Sisodia said that the film has shown the reality and that is why the government of Delhi is working hard to solve the problem. He said there is a need to focus on the quality of government school education and the government must develop a strong alternative to private schools. “Improving the system is a complex issue, but the work has already been started.” He added that the stigma attached to the government school will take time to go. “Private schools have become really powerful. They do whatever they wish to. And whenever we pass any regulation, they pressurize and corrupt the system. I don’t think by bringing more strict rules and regulation we can really solve this problem. The solution lies in fixing the problem with government schools. We are working to bring the government schools at par with the private schools by improving their quality. If people are confident about government schools, then only this problem can be solved.” Sisodia said that government schools have been left to decay for around 25 years and thus, cannot be improved overnight. “For the last two years we have been improving the quality of government schools. The confidence of people is increasing now. And it will take some time to change the perception of government schools.” The education minister also said that the government is working to bring strict rules and regulations to ensure there is enough transparency in the system. “There are laws which favor private schools.
Atishi Marlena, advisor to Manish Sisodia, also attended the screening. She said that the film is excellent portrayal of the education crisis in Delhi. “We know the problem when it comes to nursery admission. We know many scams happen in the EWS admission in the private schools. There is a demand and supply problem. There are very few high quality schools. And I think eventually the answer is to improve government schools.” Marlena also said that the government is working to make the process of nursery admission in private schools more transparent, and also improving the quality of government schools is the way ahead.
Source : www.governancenow.com
Read More » | Posted in: Atishi Marlena, Delhi Government, EWS, Hindi Medium, Manish Sisodia, nursery admission 2017-18, Nursery Admissions 2016-2017 Delhi Government, RTE
Delhi govt raises upper age limit for EWS nursery admissions - Nursery Admission Delhi
The Delhi government raised the upper age limit for admission to entry-level classes under the Economically Weaker Section (EWS) and Disadvantaged Group (DG) category, by an year.
The Delhi government on Wednesday raised the upper age limit for admission to entry-level classes under the Economically Weaker Section (EWS) and Disadvantaged Group (DG) category, by an year.
The government had in 2015 fixed upper age limit for admissions to pre-school (nursery), pre-primary (KG) and class I as 4 years, 5 years and 6 years, respectively.
However, now the Directorate of Education (DoE) has raised it to 5 years, 6 years and 7 years, respectively and directed the schools to apply the new age limit for the admissions to 2017-18 academic session as well.
"The age for granting admission to the students at entry level classes for the academic year 2017- 18 under EWS/DG category already selected through draw of lots is raised up to one year," a communication sent to schools by DoE read.
"All the private schools are hereby directed to comply with the order accordingly and grant the admission to all such student selected under EWS/DG through computerised draw of lots in the school allotted to them by May 15," it added.
As the Delhi High Court had in 2016 ordered a stay on the earlier age limit, the government had not announced any upper age limit for the admissions under the two categories for this academic session.
"Since no upper age was fixed for the admission in entry level classes under the two categories, the children older than the minimum age for admission were also selected among these 31,269 children," the DoE communication said.
Delhi High Court had last week ordered the government to raise the upper age limit as an interim measure and proceed with the admissions.
A total of 1,13,991 students applied for the admission in the entry-level classes and 31,269 students got selected through computerised lots of draw.
source: zeenews.india.com
Read More » | Posted in: Delhi Government, EWS, EWS/DG Category, Nursery Admission
400+ seats vacant but locked due to indecisive Delhi Govt!?
HT Delhi : Around 400 nursery seats will remain vacant this year as the Delhi government has decided NOT to hold a second round of lottery for admission in the economically weaker section/disadvantaged (EWS/DG) category for private schools.
In a circular issued by the Directorate of Education (DOE), the government said that 384 seats have remained vacant as there were no applications in these school or the applicants were allotted a school of higher preference.
This year, the DOE had received 1,13,991 online applications for the 31,653 EWS/DG category seats. Through the computerized draw of lots, a total of 31,269 candidates were allotted schools as per their preferences.
In an affidavit filed by the government at the Delhi High Court, the government has stated that out of the 28,135 seats in 1,159 schools more than 19,000 seats have been filled.
(source: http://www.hindustantimes.com/delhi/nursery-admissions-400-ews-seats-vacant-in-private-schools-but-no-second-draw-of-lots/story-VU1MfPmQ3CL3952AVGwNeP.html)
Read More » | Posted in: Admissions Mafia, Admissions Nexus, DOE, DOE Circular, EWS, EWS/DG Category, Nursery Admissions 2017-18 Schedule Points, Nursery Admissions Delhi 2017-18, Seats, unaided private schools
List of selected EWS students released - Nursery Admissions Delhi 2017-18
Nursery Admissions Delhi 2017-18 (EWS/DG Category)
Delhi Government has issued the list of selected EWS candidates for the nursery admissions. The selection list is on the official website.
Read More » | Posted in: EWS, EWS/DG Category, Nursery Admissions Delhi 2017-18, Selection list
Revised nursery admission schedule for EWS/DG category seats in Private Unaided Recognized Schools of Delhi- Nursery Admissions 2017-18
Revised admission schedule at Entry Level Classes(Preschool/Nursery, Pre-primary/KG & Class-I) for EWS/DG. Category seats in Private Unaided Recognized Schools of Delhi for the session 2017-18.
Admission Schedule:- .
Last date of submission of application forms in schools 14/02/2017 (Tuesday)
The date of displaying the first list of selected candidates including waiting list 07/03/2017 (Tuesday)).
The date of displaying the second list of candidates (if any) including waiting list 17/03/2017 (Friday)
Closure of admission process. 31/03/2017 (Fridav)
For more details Read the Circular at DOE site
Read More » | Posted in: EWS, EWS/DG Category, Nursery Admissions Delhi 2017-18, unaided private schools
50 per cent extra seats opened up after abolition of management quota: Arvind Kejriwal
Scrapping of management quota for nursery admissions in private schools has thrown open 50 per cent extra seats for common man, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday said, even as he asserted that the government had no intention of “interfering” into the daily affairs of
the schools.
The chief minister also said that the Delhi government will “think” about online admissions on 75 per cent open seats in the next year.
“The Delhi government has made school admissions totally transparent. Scrapping management quota, which were used to oblige recommendations of politicians, government functionaries and powerful people, has opened nearly 50 per cent extra seats for common man,” Kejriwal said at an interaction with parents seeking admission for their wards.
The government has “cut its own hands” in doing so as the school admission process will now take place in a transparent manner without any recommendations, he said.
“We are not going to benefit from it and the government and the chief minister have rather cut our hands otherwise our volunteers would bring recommendations and we would be doling out seats for admissions,” he said.
Replying to complaints and suggestions of parents seeking admission for their children, Kejriwal said the management quota and 62 criteria for admissions were scrapped as they were not “reasonable, fair and transparent”.
“We believed in schools and allowed them to upload their admission criteria by December 31. But some of the schools betrayed our faith and reserved upto 75 per cent seats through these criteria and various quota like alumni and sibling quota.”
The chief minister said that the admissions on 25 per cent seats under EWS quota were also riddled with irregularities and the government has now made this process online.
“They will have no better government than this one if they want to do good things but they will also not found any worse government if they indulge in irregularities,” he warned.
“Now, the schools will not have their say in it. Those who will not follow guidelines and rules will be decrecognised,” Kejriwal said, adding that his government had no intention of “interfering” in their day to day affairs.
“We will think about online admissions on 75 per cent open seats in the next year,” he said in reply to a suggestion by one of the parents.
The government has decided to focus on education and health in 2016 and is working on it, the Chief Minister said adding that policies should be framed in consultation with public, he said.
Attending the event, Deputy CM and Education minister Manish Sisodia said, “There was tremendous pressure from different quarters including the private schools to maintain the management quota. But we will not bow down to pressure,” he said.
The government has only “ordinary” powers to regulate schools and it needs to have more powers to issue directions and take action against them.
“We have included this power in Delhi Education Act by amending it and sent for approval of Centre so that so that Delhi government and private schools in Delhi could work in a better way,” he said.
Alleging that several schools had turned themselves into “teaching shops” through management quota, Sisodia said that the government was determined to stop them.
“Management quotas were used as a window through which money was taken and recommendations by ministers, bureaucrats and police officials were met,” he said.
The schools are creating “confusion” over admission criteria and ending of management quota, but the parents need not to worry as the government was with them, Sisodia said.
“The schools are doing this wilfully to scare the parents. But they do not need to worry as the government is with them to ensure transparency in admission,” he said.
The Deputy Chief Minister, while criticising the private schools over management quota and admission criteria related irregularities, also acknowledged their role in “maintaining quality of education” at a time when government schools failed to do so.
“They have been told that if they face legal problems in the way of doing good things we will change it.”
He further clarified that the government has accepted the demand of private schools for seats for children of teachers and members of management committees.
Asserting that improvement in education required efforts on all its aspects, Sisodia said that the government will focus on training and quality of education at government schools.
Read More » | Posted in: AAP, arvind kejriwal, Delhi Government, delhi schools, EWS, management quota, Manish Sisodia, Nursery Admissions 2016-2017
Woman Arrested in Delhi Nursery Admission Racket
Tuesday, July 14, 2015 0
Police have arrested the daughter of the alleged kingpin of a scam related to nursery schools in Delhi, who was caught posing as the mother of a child and forged documents to secure an admission at Springdales School in Dhaula Kuan.
The arrest brings the police one step closer to unravelling a racket that has brought several top city schools under the scanner.
The arrested woman, a law student, is the daughter of Gurdeep Singh, who is the alleged mastermind behind the scam and is missing, Police said.
The police have brought in charges of forgery and impersonation against the woman, who is also believed to have been involved in more such admissions.
The scam surfaced last month after the head of one the groups Mukesh Sharma and three others Anil Kumar, Sudama Singh and Dharam Singh were arrested.
Police have since then busted two more groups and arrested in total nine people, leading them to believe that an organized syndicate is involved in the racket. Several school officials, parents, students, touts, principals are being probed for complicity.
The Police say there have been hundreds of such admissions in the last two years, where students are passed off as coming from economically weaker sections, and the number may go up substantially. The accused charged anything between 1 lakh and 5 lakh per admission depending on the school and the income of the parents.
Notices have been served to more than a dozen schools wherein police has sought the list of students admitted under the EWS quota and the documents furnished by them.
Well-known institutions like DPS Mathura Road, Rohini and several other DPS schools are being probed along with Bal Bharati Public School Pitampura, GD Goenka School, Modern School, Ryan International.
Source: http://www.ndtv.com/delhi-news/police-close-in-on-delhi-nursery-school-admissions-scam-kingpin-780016
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String Quartet No. 1 New York Premiere Review
Jack Quartet by Beowulf Sheehan
“Contemporary classical composition is going in so many different directions, that the surprise of JACK Quartet’s Friday night concert at 92Y was the uniformity of the musical language.
What was no surprise at all was JACK’s exceptional playing. The quartet is so fine and so well prepared that they never sound less than masterful. There remains something uncanny about hearing music that is supposed to be challenging to the musicians played with such precision and musicality that it gives the illusion of ease; that skill produces performances that are what the composers envisioned rather than misleading simulacrums.
JACK played three new or recent string quartets by Andreia Pinto Correia (who was in attendance), Sabrina Schroeder, and Zosha di Castri. These all led up to a modern masterpiece that seemed a progenitor of all the preceding music, Ligeti’s String Quartet No. 2.
Each movement was dedicated to one of the musicians—violinists Christopher Otto and Austin Wulliman, violist John Pickford Richards, and cellist Jay Campbell—although none was favored with showy solo moments.
There were bits of extended technique sprinkled in but as a whole this was a statement of modernist language, with a diminished-key lyricism and compressed clusters of notes that went beyond dissonance. The restless sound was a descendant of post-WWI expressionism.
Near 100 years to the day after that war ended, the main of the classical tradition survives in this sound, ones that make tonality plastic and subject it to extremes of compression and expansion. The result in this piece was music that dazzled the mind and punched its way into the heart.”
The New York Classical Review , George Grella
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Endnotes +
Buy ‘An Optimist’s Tour…’
“Sharp and fascinating” – The Wall Street Journal
“…stellar reviews all over the place, and it is certainly one of the most interesting science books I’ve read for a long time … contentious subjects tackled in an approachable way.” – New Statesman
“a rollicking roller-coaster ride around the cutting edge of science with dozens of laugh-out-loud moments. His access to some of the planet’s brainiest scientists might suggest that he himself has a professional reputation of some stature. But having cornered them in the labs, Stevenson is far from star-struck” – The Scotsman
“Out there on the edge of research, Stevenson puts the trends of tomorrow’s world into perspective with a quizzical, fast-paced, quick-witted tour of the scientific horizon.” – The Times
“insightful… entertaining… Stevenson’s restrained and rational enthusiasm makes for optimistic reading” – The Australian
“Stevenson turns out to be an energetic tour guide to the cutting edge of science – like inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil, but without that doomed feeling that can come from hearing Kurzweil’s predictions.” – Washington Post
“[A] grand tour of charismatic technologies and their prophets … Stevenson bags an impressive list of interviewees” – Financial Times
“Essential…illuminating and refreshingly hopeful…an auspicious yet grounded vision” – The Atlantic
“Stevenson describes our future’s possibilities with a journalist’s eye for detail, a teacher’s knack for translating complexities, and a comic’s wry commentary” – Christian Science Monitor
“an ability to express even the most complex scientific problems in terms easily understood by a layperson. His discussion of global warming is a model of cogency” – Sydney Morning Herald
“The Future is here and all around us. It’s just, as William Gibson puts it, not evenly distributed as yet. And why not? This is the book’s killer punch: we have 21st century tech, but our familiar world – from schooling, to work, to our ideas of retirement – hasn’t changed since the industrial revolution. The future cannot happen until we change our minds to meet it” 4 stars. – Henry Gee, Senior editor at Nature, in BBC Focus magazine
“infectiously enthusiastic…Despite the book’s title Stevenson is not a relentlessly wide-eyed optimist. He is alive to the self-puffing of the scientists and engineers he meets, and has a nice eye for the absurd… plenty of material for pub speculation” – Sunday Times
“Stevenson’s journey is a measured effort to take stock of the reasons for hope, and to keep faith with the enlightenment project. You don’t have to find all the people he meets persuasive, or go along with all his judgments of their projects. But he makes a good case for believing that we can have a future worth making an effort to reach.” – The Guardian
“Insightful, humorous and creatively researched, this is a rollicking read and expansive in its open-your-eyes take on the world. Resource crises, climate change, terrorism, the advancement of machine technology, it’s all here – complete with references to Burroughs, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Proust and Einstein. In questioning progress, Stevenson employs science, ethics and philosophy and never fails to be inspirational.” – Mind Food Magazine, Australia
“Humour often cuts something down – it slights or disparages. But while Mark Stevenson finds plenty to chuckle over he never succumbs to cynicism about what might be in store… a refreshing reminder that the future will always belong to the optimists” – New Scientist
Chris Anderson, Curator TED.com
“Blind optimism is the last thing the world needs – a recipe for disappointment. But what about optimism based on careful reasoning? Or digging below the surface for the ideas and the trends that really do add up to something promising? That’s what’s on offer here. Stevenson wears no blindfold. His tools are curiosity, open-mindedness, clarity and reason. That makes his journey intriguing… and ultimately exhilarating.”
Michael Brooks – Author of ’13 Things That Don’t Make Sense’ and ‘Free Radicals’
“Uplifting and liberating. Mark Stevenson is the perfect tour guide: optimistic without being naive, fun but not silly, entertaining but enlightening. By the end I was utterly convinced that, given the opportunity to flourish, human ingenuity can disperse the clouds that hang over us today. This is a book to gladden the gloomiest heart.”
Henry Pollack, Nobel Peace Prize Winner and author of ‘A World Without Ice’
“Mark Stevenson is a futurist endowed with abundant optimism. Where some fear that robotics and artificial intelligence will dehumanize the world, he sees an enhancement of freedom; where some see nanotechnology as an army of submicron Lilliputians taking over, he sees an invisible array of artisans performing miracles in tight spaces. It’s invigorating to be led to the far side by someone who sees the bright side!”
Peter Miller, Author of ‘The Smart Swarm’
“This is a brilliant book, and Mark Stevenson is the perfect guide to a dizzying future that is already here. Genetic innovation. Social robots. Nano factories. The ideas come so quickly, with such great humor—it’s like the smartest dinner party you’ve ever attended.”
Matt Ridley, author of ‘Genome’
“insightful and fresh, but also very well written … the best writing about genes I’ve seen in ages.”
Blogs / book sites
“Stevenson does a great job of delivering all the facts with a sense of wonder and true curiosity. Mix that with a dose of humor and actual understanding of what is being presented to him and you have a very coherent and entertaining journey through the world of future technology. For anyone interested in what the future holds, I highly recommend this book.”
Cory Doctorow @ Boing boing
“Mark Stevenson’s An Optimist’s Tour of the Future is a hilarious and inspiring romp through some of the most promising directions in technology. Stevenson, a former standup comedian, writes with enormous warmth and humor, and he fast-talks his way into the presence of some hard-to-reach scientists and theorists who really represent the cutting edge of their fields [and] does an admirable job of presenting these findings in a lay-friendly way without eliding too much important detail.”
Part trendhunting, part rigorous research, part cultural anthropology, An Optimist’s Tour of the Future may just be our generation’s version of Bill Brysons’s iconic A Short History of Nearly Everything — a bold and entertaining blueprint for a future that’s ours to shape and ours to live.
Bookbag
“Putting the ‘popular’ back in ‘popular science’ this is an absolute winner: entertaining, educational, jaw dropping.Never before have I been so captivated by a piece of non-fiction. There are various good-enough books out there, but this is something else. Covering everything from robots to the environment, space exploration to eternal life, the book tracks Stevenson as he treks around the globe, meeting people on the cutting edge of science, and turning their babble into clear descriptions, ideas and explanations Joe Bloggs can understand.”
Guardian Children’s Books
“…fantastic… funny, smart… Even though it’s a non-fiction book it reminded me slightly of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy”
Forces of Geek
“Stevenson is uniquely suited to the task of making his tour of the future not only extremely informative but accessible and entertaining.”
‘You do too much’ – (Naked Scientist) Kat Arney’s blog
An Optimist’s Tour is a rollercoaster headf**k of a book that leaves you shaking your head and muttering “wow!” You get a real feel for what it’s like to meet these people and get caught up by their energy and ideas. Clever analogies and metaphors, coupled with his easy-going, conversational writing style, make complicated scientific principles pop off the page into graspable reality. …an absolutely cracking read, providing plenty of food for thought and discussion, and I highly recommend it.
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Exhibition featuring new stainless steel sculptures and drawings by Not Vital on view at Sperone Westwater
Installation view.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sperone Westwater announces a Not Vital exhibition featuring new stainless steel sculptures, HEADS, and a series of related drawings. Vital developed this striking sculptural series in his studio in the art district of Caochangdi, Beijing. These seven HEADS, all of a monochromatic palette, ranging from 4.5 to 6.2 feet in height, are pared down to simple contours. Only two of the works, HEAD Self-Portrait (2013) and HEAD Everton (2014), depict specific sitters. The flawlessly smooth, metallic finish, created using cutting-edge technology, establishes an austere and commanding presence. Seemingly both human and machine-like, the sculptures occupy an uneasy middle ground, on occasion ambiguous and disconcerting.
These sculptures suggest Vitals fascination with the fast-paced, highly productive, and raw nature of industrial China today. The abstracted and simplified shapes, however, also recall the earliest forms of sculptural representation, such as the iconic carved Moai statues of Easter Island and the ancient sculptural forms of Asian religious art.
The 18 drawings of Everton are Vitals most recent work. Executed in early 2014 in Rio de Janeiro, these drawings, measuring 17 x 14 inches, are repeated depictions of the same sitter, Everton. All of the drawings are rendered in either oilstick on paper or oilstick and tape on paper. This series becomes a meditation on the same subject, the human face. Although dark and often rendered with rapid strokes, Vitals depictions possess a quiet and potent strength despite the absence of facial details.
Not Vital (b. 1948, Sent, Engadin, Switzerland) studied in Paris and Rome before moving to New York in 1974. Vital currently divides his time between Brazil, Chile, China, Niger and Switzerland. The artists work was featured in Plateau of Humanity at the 49th Venice Biennale, Italy (2001). Vital's major exhibitions have taken place at the Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Germany (2005); The Arts Club of Chicago, Illinois, (2006); KÖR Kunsthalle Wien public space Karlsplatz, Vienna, Austria (2009-2010); Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China (2011); the Cabinet dArts Graphiques, Musées dArt et dHistoire, Geneva, Switzerland (2014); and the Museo darte di Mendrisio, Mendrisio, Switzerland (2014-2015). In 2013, 700 Snowballs, an installation of 700 individual glass balls, was on view on the Isola di San Giorgio Maggiore in Venice, Italy. In autumn 2014, Vitals Tongue will be featured in the Busan Biennale 2014, South Korea. Vital had his first solo show at Sperone Westwater in 1995, and EVERTON will be his seventh solo show at the gallery.
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The Libertarian Party Can’t Even Balance Its Own Budget
Ryan Lau | @RyanLau71R
Since its inception in 1971, the Libertarian Party has pointed out serious flaws in the American political landscape. From criticizing endless war to condemning wasteful budget spending, the LP has certainly taken note of legitimate issues. But would the party of Chair Nick Sarwark come remotely close to solving them, if elected into office?
On the topic of war, it’s hard to say; supposedly antiwar candidates frequently back down on their promises. Barack Obama is an excellent example of this, for his policies led to the creation of several new wars and countless drone attacks against civilians. But he is no indication of the Libertarian Party, so it is unfair to say whether they would keep their antiwar promises. On fiscal issues, though, disturbing evidence seriously calls their ability to manage money into question.
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Essays, News, Opinion July 9, 2018 September 2, 2018
Come And Take It: Inside The 2018 Libertarian National Convention
By Spencer Kellogg | @TheNewTreasury
The flies are out. Buzzing, congealing, strangulating. Everyone wants to meet somebody. The Hyatt booms out of the rusted concrete as pink haired women chatter in front of no-smoking signs. Up the escalator on the third floor is where everything is happening. Eagerly discussing property laws, the failure of public education and a change in party infrastructure, it’s almost the last call for a hundred or so tired travelers. In the morning, there will be more.
Welcome to the 2018 Libertarian National Convention.
– Tim Moen: Leader of The Libertarian Party of Canada
I grab an Uber across town to the hole in the wall hostel I’ve rented for the night. The driver is an old school Louisianian named Gary. He speaks in that slow, cajun drawl that is so completely and undoubtedly bayou. I roll down the window and take a long cigarette drag that accustoms long drives like the 15 hour one I bombed out of Richmond earlier in the day. In the warm, sticky summer air, he asks what I’m doing here. “A libertarian thing.” “Libertarian huh?” “Yeah, I hate war and I hate sitting people in prison for drugs.” “Yeah, me too. It’s just pot. Everybody smokes pot” Libertarians are always around the corner whether they know it or not.
India House is an old mansion with a distinctly French feel and there are a smattering of millennials hanging out front drinking wine at 3AM. At the counter, two desperate men try to book a spare room but the internet is down. They give me a key and walk me through the maze of a hostel. There are “black lives matter” signs and “science is real” posters plastered all over the ugly neon and poorly stenciled walls. As we walk through the kitchen co-op a few older dudes with dreadlocks down to their feet whisper ‘Namaste.’ On the back patio, there are tables filled with sexy, hip youngsters speaking in foreign languages. I wish I wasn’t so tired because I just want to party. I get to my room and there is a dead roach on the floor. The toilet seat is broken and there’s no shower curtain. Just as I had hoped. Unsuitably perfect. My New Orleans.
– India House Hostel, New Orleans
The next day, I stumble over to the Hyatt and find my press pass. I see many familiar faces and run into a few of my favorite people from the New Mexico delegation. Everyone is tired but eager to get the ‘party’ started. James Weeks and the Libertarian Socialist Caucus are handing out “Make Rothbard Left Again” pins and down the hallway, Caryn Ann Harlos is donning her infamous lady liberty hat as she passes out ‘Harlos for Secretary’ pamphlets. At the elevator, I see Blair Dunn. A towering figure with a soft smile, Dunn is running for Attorney General of New Mexico. After engineering his father’s upset win for New Mexico Land Commissioner a few years ago, hopes are high that Dunn could manufacture another big showing this fall in the land of enchantment.
The first major event of the weekend is Bill Weld, speaking in Elite Hall. At 1PM, the room is packed for the much-anticipated speech from the former Governor. I am sitting at a table full of smartly dressed libertarians when Mr. Weld is ushered to an empty table next to mine. Everyone from the table stands up and almost topples over each other at the chance to sit next to the statesman. I feel empathetic for Mr. Weld. What an uncomfortable position to be in. He smiles and takes time to shake each one of their hands. Is this politics?
– Former Massachusetts Governor Bill Weld
All of the big wigs are here. Chair Nicholas Sarwark, New York Governor Candidate Larry Sharpe, and noted Economist Jeffery Tucker. I ask a legislative chairman from Pennsylvania if he’s heard about the Libertarian Mises Caucus Event that is congregating a few blocks away from the elegant ballroom. “I’m a 45-year-old man. I have 0 fucks to give.” At nearly $200 dollars a plate, the room is filled with a smattering of big money donors and semi-important figures from within the movement. I get a front row seat and grab a Corona.
Mr. Sarwark takes the stage. The lighting is harsh. In front of a dark purple backdrop, two lights glare downward on the LNC Chair and it feels like the stage for some strange gangster film with coarse, cutting shadows rippling across the Pheonix Mayor candidate’s face. He grins and announces an apology to the membership – they have so many attendees this year that they have run out of paper to process them. He quickly moves onto the man of the afternoon with a quote from the tall Massachusetts man himself: “I think coercive taxation is theft and government has a duty to keep it at a minimum.” A smattering of polite agreement rallies around.
Weld is a mature and exacting speaker. It’s easy to see why he has driven to the top of the party within a couple quick years. In this room, he dominates the tone with his long, statuesque figure and years of governing experience. In a party full of bold ideas, Weld represents one of the first men to cross their paths that has real, applicable experience in the field of governance and it’s apparent that the room is pleased. A large contingency of the membership believe that it will be this demeanor, pragmatic and statesmanlike, that will help legitimize and propel the Libertarian movement forward. When asked what he can bring to the 2020 ticket, Weld simply states: “publicity.” He can’t hide his contempt for President Trump and suggests the Libertarian Party has as good of a chance to win in 2020 as Trump did before the 2016 election.
I am particularly impressed by Weld’s extensive knowledge of marijuana policy. He rightly suggests that the drug war has been a major burden on race relations in this country, pointing out that “if you are black, you are four times as likely to get arrested for marijuana possession that if you are white.” Weld then launches into a wonderful defense of CBD oil and its medicinal properties. Citing a lack of research on cannabinoids in the United States, Weld suggested there is still much to be learned about the plant’s properties (and he’s right). I leave the prags to it and walk into the sweltering heat of midday New Orleans.
– SmartCash Cryptocurrency
A mile away at the Take Human Action Bash, the energy feels completely different. Gone is the drab, empty ballroom in the basement of the Hyatt. Gone are the over-eager brownnosers begging to be noticed or make their mark on party leadership. Sponsered by the Libertarian Mises Caucus, the room at the Intercontinental hotel is smaller and intimate. It is lit warmly and the CEO of SmartCash is speaking in front of a screen that features the emblems of the cryptocurrencies PIVX, Zencash, Smartcash & Komodo. Attendees are asking questions about the future of blockchain technology and the room is filled with bright, young, casually dressed people. In one world, it feels ‘chill.’
The Libertarian Party is at a bit of a crossroads right now between young and old, pragmatic and radical. Although Gary Johnson/Bill Weld garnered the highest presidential vote total in the history of the LP, many within the party membership felt the two former governors presented a watered down version of libertarian ideology. The contingency at the Intercontinental has come to this year’s convention with one goal in mind – to replace the leadership structure and plot a new course for the modern LP. Many of the speakers and presentations at this event live on the outskirts of the party structure but are seen as some of the most ideologically important members of the movement as a whole. This is the dichotomy that will play itself out on the convention floor over the course of the July 4th weekend in New Orleans. The future of the Libertarian Party lays in the balance.
– Larry Sharpe: Candidate For Governor of New York
New York Governor candidate Larry Sharpe enters through the side and everyone is on the edge of their seat. Where Weld felt prepared and orderly, Sharpe is off-the-cuff and easy going. His self-deprecating humor, outside the box thinking and sharp fit, are a stark contrast to the hollow, banal mood of the Hyatt ballroom. For the first time this weekend, I get the sense that there is a living, breathing element to the Libertarian Party. Beyond the bylaws and manic desperation to network, The Take Human Action Bash has a comfortable sense of ‘home.’ His speech ends to a standing ovation and there is a real, palpable feeling in the room that we could have just watched the 2020 Presidential nominee for the Libertarian Party.
Scott Horton, the editorial director of AntiWar.com takes the stage next. He is effaceable and kind in his opening remarks. The clutch in his truck had blown out in Lafayette, LA last night but the caucus group rallied to make sure he made the event in time – His speech centers on Ron Paul and the movement he helped mobilize in 2008. “He served the Republicans the most bitter pill they could swallow. ‘we started it – not them.’ He created a huge libertarian movement in America.” He is cutting and exact in his condemnation of the politicians who have yet to pay for their interventionalist missteps throughout the world. This sort of demanding, loud, heated rhetoric is exactly what the LPMC believes is missing from the Libertarian Party and after Horton’s huge reception from the audience, I can see why.
– Scott Horton: Editor AntiWar.com
Tom Woods is next and the room is packed. Woods is arguably the most divisive figure alive in the modern Libertarian movement. To his supporters, he is the ideological lynchpin that sets the standard for Libertarian pedagogy. For many in this room, his podcast “The Tom Woods Show” has been an inspirational guideline that provides a historical roadmap to the libertarian movement dating back to the beginning of our country. To his detractors, Woods is a firebrand with a murky past and he received a cold shoulder from the LP leadership who have attacked him in the past for what they perceive to be Woods more conservative philosophies. His speech sets the precedent for what many are considering to be the most chaotic convention in recent history. Much of Woods words are an ideological call to arms that champions the Ron Paul movement of 2008 that brought libertarianism to the public zeitgeist:
“At that moment, something was happening. Every day you could wake up, go to youtube, go to Ron Paul and see the heads he made explode while you were asleep. There is a major slice of the libertarian party that is urging the nomination of a former Massachusetts governor who thinks we need the FED to maximize employment. We need a central planning agency at the heart of government. The FED is the lifeblood of the empire. There has to be some major voice in society willing to call a spade a spade on this. If he’s not going to do that, that’s not helpful. This person also favored perhaps the stupidest war in the history of America – the Iraq War. Why can’t we just say that the bare minimum of the party is anti-fed and anti-war?”
– Tom Woods: The Tom Woods Show
Later in the night, back at the Hyatt, I see Mr. Woods pass through the crowd hoping to remain unnoticed. It’s impossible. People yell out and plead with him to read their email or latest essay. Though Woods and Weld couldn’t be further apart in fervor and message, here they share the same forced upon shameless idolization and I can’t help but feel sorry for both of them equally. What a strange world we live in.
The opening reception is a snoozefest. Naomi Brockwell is speaking and I would usually be all ears but at this stage in the night, the setting is all wrong and I just want to get some food. I catch a cab with some delegates and head to a 105-year-old restaurant on Bourbon Street. We eat seafood and filet mignon while discussing the big event scheduled for tomorrow: the chair debate. No one seems very excited about the prospect of Mr. Sarwark retaining the position but there’s a general consensus that someone else will need to win the room over. Joshua Smith, the major challenger from the State of Washington, is on the tip of all our tongues. How will he perform on the big stage tomorrow night? We eat pecan pie and banana bread before stepping into that never-ending sticky hell that lives on every street corner.
Back at my AirBnB, I’m wired. I chat up a couple of women on Tinder who seem eager to come and show me what New Orleans is all about but it’s raining with that strained downpour that you only find near the gulf coast and my body is aching from the seafood and booze. I get naked and smoke a joint on my patio. The lightning is close. I close my eyes and am adrift in seconds.
Restless nights. Memories of the desert and sand. Memories of that home far away in the coraźon of San Miguel. Xena meets me outside the apartment at 7:30 AM. In a nondescript minivan, she has the looks and charm of a librarian. If there’s one thing I’ve learned about Uber it’s that every single driver is a person with a story. We talk about Katrina, we talk about the heat, but mostly we just talk about voodoo and lost love.
“If you want to put a real curse on someone who has done you wrong, you need a black pillar candle, some Florida water, a piece of hair, and a $100 dollar bill. Tie them all together and think of nine ways that you’d wish pain upon them. In the 90’s Aaron Neville taught me how to do it.”
Adam Kokesh: Candidate For President of The United States
She drops me off in front of the Hyatt and I idly chat with her because she is a real person and love is just like that. I’m just in time to catch Adam Kokesh leading a group of veterans down Loyola with camera crews and a large contingency of young delegates in tow. Of all the more than 1,000 delegates on hand, Kokesh and his crew of merry pranksters are amongst some of the strongest minds and will.
Up the escalator and into the main conference room for the bylaws committee. There is a cordial disorganization amongst the room that finds some delegations fully represented and engaged while others are lingering in the mezzanine, drinking early morning cocktails and watching the World Cup. Russia upset Spain and the cheers flow throughout the small group of disenchanted libertarians who would rather watch nationalist sport than deal with another minute of dull, plodding linguistic exercises.
Former Gary Johnson and John McAfee staffer Christopher Thrasher approaches our delegation table and tries to whip up enough votes to get on the stage at tonight’s debate. At 33, Thrasher looks as young as he is but his experience in the party and his sharp attire convince a few people around me to back him for a spot on the stage. There is a sense in the room that it would be nice to have some more voices and ideas on the stage. I lend Thrasher my personal ballot and off he goes to hustle Colorado for a few more votes.
– Christopher Thrasher Staffers
I run into an old friend wearing beach shorts and a polo. The stark difference between the suit wearing seriousness of certain members and the laid back, ‘this is my vacation’ attitude of others is striking and uniquely libertarian. He spots my “People Before Politics” Gary Johnson pin from when he first ran for Governor of New Mexico. “Hey, I’ve got something for you.” We leave the great hall and head for the elevators. I board the great big clear glass elevator and he hits 27 – the top floor.
I’m scared of heights. I have flown, quite a bit, but I don’t anymore. This is my weakness. Up and up and up and up goes the elevator and New Orleans stretches into the vast swamps of the distance outside the perfectly temperate hotel. I am going to be sick. I close my eyes and hold the rail. I will never lead anyone with this sort of miserable sickness. We get to the very top floor and head for his room.
– View Of New Orleans From 27th Floor
Inside, I am greeted with the sweet smell of cannabis and a gorgeous view of the maddened city that has yet to sleep since I arrived. I haven’t been smoking pot much lately. Where I used to find a kind balance of ego destruction and creative expression, now I only find a stripped anxiety that makes me question all of the decisions of this short but long, long life we each call our own. I get stoned and stretch my body out a bit. Another four hours of tedious party business lay ahead. My mentor from Chicago had told me these are the most important hours at the convention but my mind has been made lazy on a simple cocktail, marijuana and the food that lays half a mile from the comfy convention center.
I’m embarrassed in a way. It’s the pot. It makes me nervous. Do I really know anybody here? Who are these people? Who am I? How did I get here? By the time I get back to the convention room, everyone else has left for lunch. Thank god. A man is handing out fliers in front of our empty delegation table and we jump into one of those easy conversations about UFO’s that feel so magnificently honest and libertarian. We chat about Indiana basketball and the religious experience that was a Bob Knight team. He was never a fan until he saw it live. Where he could see the riddled faces of torment and anguish and could hear the cheers of a thousand Indians bellow around the corporate-less arena. In that way, we’re really talking about the Libertarian Party. How do make your everyday casual, non-member independent into a libertarian? I pledge him my vote and stand for the first time in an hour. The walls are caving in. The floor ripples with the afterglow of a lost earthquake. I must get out of here.
– Joe Buchman: LNC At-Large Candidate
I keep my head down and sneak out the elevator to the ground floor. I’m back on that sticky, nowhere street looking for the closest market. A few blocks up, I duck into a neighborhood spot and pick up a package of gum, deodorant, and clear eyes. I see another Libertarian delegate and think it’s best I take my credentials off. In the bathroom, there are more dead bugs and my sunglasses are filled with the residue of the storm yet to come. I clean up a bit and eat some walnuts. Finally, the high dissipates and I, for the first time this weekend, feel the weight of my tired body.
In Elite Hall, Adam Kokesh is moderating a breakout panel entitled ‘Black Community Outreach’ where former Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney is scheduled to speak. Maj Toure, founder of Black Guns Matter, and Houston’s Latonya Whittingon, a leader in the Reform for Marijuana Laws are also on the bill. This is arguably the single most interesting panel discussion of the weekend if for nothing more than the fact that the speakers are black. Although the platform of the LP would find staunch support in the disenfranchised black communities of America, The Libertarian Party has an overwhelming majority of white men as its base membership and has been poor at reaching out to those areas.
– Cynthia McKinney: Former Congresswoman
McKinney is a joy to watch. Fighting through a cold that rasps her voice, McKinney’s words are measured and strong. As a former congresswoman, McKinney possesses all of the elegant confidence you would expect from someone that has met the swamp of DC head on. She speaks about truth and justice and peace. The crowd is sitting on the edge of their seats and every time I turn around there are another 20 libertarians who have floated into the outshoot panel. You can feel the awkwardness in the room but you can also sense an eager interest in finding paths for our struggles to come together. A former Green Party presidential candidate, McKinney points out that this is her first Libertarian event. In front of a membership that is anti-war, pro-pot and pro-peace, McKinney seems right at home in the Libertarian Party.
Maj Toure is exacting in his frankness regarding the disenfranchisement of black gun owners. When asked about how The Libertarian Party can reach out to the black community, Toure cuts through the thin ice of the room and points to the overhanging elephant in the room – the party needs to be younger and hipper. He’s right. For a movement so crystallized by liberty, there is a current of banality running throughout the entire convention. If I was a young black person at this convention, I might miss the entire point. The messaging is just that poor.
– Maj Toure: Founder of Black Guns Matter
By the end of the hour-long session, there isn’t an open chair in the room. Latonya Whittingon speaks of her experience being arrested for smoking a joint. She is kind, warm and situated, quite obviously, in a world totally unknown to her and the audience. The philosophical goals are the same but we have never met face to face on terms that were sufficient enough to witness that same look of defeated anguish in each other’s spine. In this room is the change we must see in the Libertarian Party but is rarely mentioned throughout the 3-day parliamentary slogfest.
We are hurried out of the room. Time is ticking and with events stacked one after the other the panel is ushered away from the excited and nervous introductions that are taking place after the Q&A. Later, I will hear a young delegate remark about the missed opportunities throughout the long, meandering weekend. In the Black Outreach Panel, there were 100+ attendees ready to run through a brick wall together but we didn’t even have the time to reach out and communicate our ideological goals, let alone build coalitions to strategize fundraising and winning elections. There are over 1,000 libertarians here and most of us will walk away as disorganized as when we got here.
The convention breaks for food before the Chair debate. It is all up for grabs tonight. In my own delegation (and throughout much of the floor) it is apparent that the majority of seated delegates are open to voting for new leadership but are waiting to hear what leading Chair contender Joshua Smith has to say on the stage. Smith, a relative newcomer to the party, has been doing his part by visiting State Conventions throughout the country in the leadup to this weekend and his easy-going, warm personality is at striking odds with the stoic, impersonal attitude of many in party leadership.
– Chair Debate
It’s 7:00 PM and the four candidates for chair are on stage. Matt “the commie” Keuhnel, Christopher Thrasher, Joshua Smith and current Chairman Nicholas Sarwark occupy the four podiums but the lens is directly on Smith and Sarwark. Keuhnel is booed and hissed at by the ‘free thinking’ libertarian membership due to some of his ideas which seem at utter odds with the party’s ideas of personal liberty and property rights. At one point he suggests that “Rent is Theft” and the body loses their collective mind. I clap hysterically in spite. For a group of people so obsessed with the idea of liberty and individuality, there is a collectivist entropy that washes over a marathon event like this. I don’t think many are even listening to ‘the commie,’ they are just happy to throw vegetables at something by this stage.
– Matt Kuehnel: Libertarian Socialist Chair Candidate
Christopher Thrasher, a slick dressed portly man of only 33, has managed his way onto the stage tonight after whipping up enough debate tokens in the hours leading up to the event. If there is one thing that impressed me about the convention it was the ease with which anyone that possesses a modicum of organization and will can access nominations and the debates. Thrasher reads like an over experienced pragmatist who has been in and out of several state delegations in the past decade. He champions his work on both the McAfee and Johnson campaigns of 2016 and from what I can tell, he has some support in the well dressed old guard. He tries to distance himself from the other candidates by touting his ability to organize and fundraise. It all gets lost in the muck and the minutes he is gifted on stage only take away from the real battle between Smith and Sarwark.
The long awaited “battle” ends up being a dud. For all the dissenting energy that Smith capitalized on in the year leading up to this weekend, on the debate stage he pales in the deep glow of the big event. Sarwark lords and looms over him and the entire membership like a monument gazing down on its subjects. Smith speaks with the verve and conviction of someone with something to say but says nothing. Gone is the win-or-lose at any cost energy that was so patently present at the InterContinental the night before. Here, in front of the flashing lights, there is not the ideas or showmanship needed to rally the beleaguered crowd of dislocated freedom activists. He attacks Sarwark but for all the wrong reasons and never lands one clear blow to the Chairman that many believe has watered down the libertarian philosophy while ostracizing key members throughout the national membership.
In the lobby afterward, the faces say it all: Sarwark will carry the vote easily tomorrow. The old guard is ecstatic. I hear members mocking the Mises Caucus and proudly wearing “Stick With Nick” stickers on their pressed suits. I can hear the drinks being poured and glasses clinking with the satisfaction of paralysis. What had happened in there? Where did it all go wrong? What I had seen across town the night before was brazenly empty here. How could those two representations be so far apart? And how can The Libertarian Party expect to win anything when the leading faction of power is either waving dildos around because it’s “radical” or straining to stand due to age? For a party so keen on representing a new voice in American politics, the debate was anthemic of everything that the two-party system has come to represent – staid, manufactured, rudderless, consenting, formulaic, idealess, powerless, collectivist. “My Guy” vs. “Your Guy” nonsense.
– Audacious Caucus Flier
Laying in bed after the debate, I watch ‘Get Me Roger Stone,’ and reflect on the missed opportunity of the Chair debate. Roger Stone would’ve never run Smith. He would’ve found someone who didn’t just talk about messaging, but actually had one in his back pocket. What was Smith’s message? “I’m not with him?” I spoke with delegates from all across this country and it’s apparent that the LP have serious issues with elevating to the next level. Many agree that Sarwark has done a fine job in leading the party to a new level of professionalism and respect but there is an eery suspicion that his reign has plateaued. One delegate drew it out for me on a piece of paper. When Sarwark took over there was a spike upwards in membership and general belief but now that line has flattened off. What will the next two years look like?
The Vice-Chair debate is much more lively and expansive in its ideological width. Although a number of delegates have left to drink or eat in the waning hours of Saturday night, some of the most interesting topics are addressed including messaging and blockchain. Alex Merced, the favorite of many younger delegates keen on change, is speaking a mile a minute and I worry he’s losing the delegation with every jumbled word. Joe Hauptmann is particularly strong on the night and I get the sense that he might have bagged the whole thing with his laconic but piercing style.
– Vice Chair Debate
There is less insipidness here too. Everyone is friendly enough and the only attacks come for current Vice Chair Arvin Vohra who has angered many in the membership with his over the top social media presence. During his time in charge, Vohra has challenged age-of-consent laws, suggested veterans are murderers and joked about shooting up school boards. Of all the candidates on the stage, it’s apparent why he won the thing in the first place. He wears a suit well and he exudes confidence behind every timely placed passage. Looking around the room after the debate, it seems like it is anyone’s race.
I escape downstairs to the smoker’s lounge around the corner. I am greeted with that beautiful smell of cannabis and go looking. After the long day or bylaws and debates, I could use a toke. I find some young delegates from Kentucky who are passing around a joint and they happily share it. “Let’s get out of here.” They take the words right out of my mouth. We catch a Lyft to Frenchman Street and try to let loose a bit. There is a band in every bar and the eager sense that we should see each one. I buy a round of drinks and we chain smoke in that fashion that lends itself to blackened lungs. Inside a dank, hole in the wall, there is a funk band playing. We set aside all discussions and differences and dance in the warmth of another endless night.
– Bourbon Street, New Orleans
There is a real, apparent difference that is living inside this convention. The morning is filled with platform debate regarding the wording of sex work in the LP constitution and everyone must have a say. I have to get out of here. I can feel the fangs of that mundane ideological life I was desperate to leave. I meet a Massachusetts delegate at the smoker’s corner and he passes me a huge joint. I came with the intention of staying sober but in the heat of this long, dull nothing it’s hard to keep clean. The delegate is pissed. Wearing a “Don’t Tread On Me” shirt, this is his first convention and he just can’t understand the plodding, toothache feeling that has swarmed the convention center. “I got treated better when I was in the Republican Party.” These are the type of people the Libertarian Party lose every 4 years. I wonder if the leadership even knows they exist. I imagine if they do, they are happy to see them go.
– Darry Perry: 2016 Presidential Candidate
Darryl Perry is pissed too. Finally, the anarchist presidential candidate has had enough. On the floor, he steps up to the microphone demanding quicker on the ‘money and financial market’ vote. Perry, a radical who must have a say on every single issue, isn’t missing his chance to have his voice heard. Arguments and arguments. Policy and procedure. I am beginning to forget why I became a libertarian.
“The squirrels are chasing nuts… the nuts are winning.”
Relief shoots through the room as lunch is called. I scurry down to Elite Hall to hear Jim Cantrell speak on space and technology. Cantrell is new to the party but he fits like an old glove. An entrepreneur and mechanical engineer, Cantrell discusses the future of space travel and the potent weapons we all possess in our pants pocket – cell phones. “You wonder why we have so many guns in this country? Because we know the British are coming back and we’re going to kick their ass again!” The room breaks into laughter and applause as Cantrell flicks through images of space travel and the planet Mars. He continues: “Our most famous citizen ever will be the first human not born on the earth and it won’t be a government employee.” Later he points to the DOD and NASA as the expansive government agencies that will be the new frontier of our never-ending military-industrial complex. With Trump calling for a “Space Force” as the sixth branch of our Army, Cantrell is dead on.
– Jim Cantrell: Vector Space Systems
It’s after lunch and the delegates are fidgeting. Will we ever get to vote? Every curmudgeon in the room needs to exert their minimal power by delaying the time of the closing remarks. We vote to amend the closing remarks from 10 minutes to 5 minutes. Everyone agrees. But then, somebody wants to reduce it further to only 3 minutes. There are considerable groans in the crowd. Someone on the other side of the room is yelling into the microphone: “This is the most important part of the convention and I am ashamed that we are talking about cutting the time on closing remarks.” Delegates around me roll their eyes. One Wisconsin delegate whirls around in his seat and groans “I think we all picked our candidate last night at the debates.”
Darryl Perry rises again. “We have already spent 25 minutes debating this!” It is a circus of never-ending rebuttals. If there were any anarchists in this room, they have clawed their eyes out and become statists out of spite. This out of control, power steam engine has been made particularly insufferable this year due to the growth of the party and thus convention. A 17-year-old delegate, one of the youngest at the convention, is doodling on his paper. He mutters to himself, “this thing has run off the rails.” I wonder if he’ll join the Republicans or Democrats when he gets home.
On top of the labored system of Robert Rules that enables every microscopic detail to be debated into oblivion by rule book carrying pencil pushers, the voting mechanism for the convention is as old as the membership itself. Everything is done by hand ballot and the hours that transpire while the votes are being counted are filled with drivel that has most in the room searching for the exits. A young delegate from Colorado doesn’t understand why the system hasn’t been updated to meet the technical standards of the 21st century. “I went to YAL (Young Americans for Liberty) Conference and all the votes were done by phone.” I get the sense that the membership actually prefers this outdated methodology. There is a bizarre sense of procedural fetishism inside the convention that is obvious to anyone paying attention.
The votes are in for Chair. Sarwark takes it easy on the first ballot. Smith comes in a distant second and everyone is trying to find the 13 people who voted for the “commie” Matt Keuhnel. I figured there would be more dissent but the delegation seems proud to vote Sarwark in for a 3rd term and after what I’ve seen, I too understand the happy-go-lucky feel on the floor. Sarwark is still the man for the job and the more I watch the proceedings the more I feel like he’s been given a bad rap. He runs a watertight meeting and although he appears at ideological ends with the younger, more radical contingency of the delegation, he has, again and again, offered them the chance to ‘come and take it’ – if they are ready. I get the sense that they weren’t ready this time. Maybe in 2020.
Nicholas Sarwark: Chair of The Libertarian Party
The Vice-Chair votes come later. There is no majority and it will head to a second ballot. Merced is in the lead with Goldstein and Hauptmann splitting the remaining important block of votes. Vohra is in a distant 4th, his reign being robustly overturned by the angered membership. He announces he will run for LNC at large. 71 Republic CEO manages to garner 11 votes on the first ballot and is cut along with Steve Sheetz for not meeting the voting threshold for the next round. The second vote doesn’t reach a majority either and we are on to the 3rd round of balloting. Finally, Merced narrowly captures 50% of the vote and is crowned the new Vice Chair of the Libertarian Party. His kind demeanor, youthful spark, and sharply dressed outfit are all a welcome signal to the part of the membership that was hoping to see some actual change in the makeup of party leadership
The last big race of the weekend is for LNC at large. These five people will each hold a vote on the national committee and are just as powerful as the chair and vice chair when debating and voting on party business. Too many people elect to run. We listen to nominating speeches from more than 40 candidates and halfway through it all it’s hard to differentiate from one speaker to the next. While much of the strategic organization for the Mises Caucus had focused primarily on the Chair and Vice Chair positions, it is here that they could do the most damage. Sadly, the preparation is not there. Almost 20 Mises Caucus members run for LNC at large and I see no one instructing the disorganized caucus delegates on who exactly to vote for. I pick all of them but it feels trivial. This is where the pragmatic caucus, with their money and entrenched allieship sweep the floor to maintain a stranglehold on the power structure going forward.
4 of the 5 seats go to the pragmatists. Smith, now running for at large, skirts into the final 5 and will be the only full-time member of the Mises caucus to be voted onto the LNC. While this isn’t the win they were hoping for, across the internet, Mises caucus members celebrate the victory as proof that their efforts have not fallen on deaf ears. The reality, however, is that most of what was in place before the convention has been maintained and the pragmatic caucus has claimed the weekend as their victory. Division politics seem like an oddity for a third party, but even here it is obvious that there is always a measure of ‘us vs. them’ no matter how small the scale.
None of the insider politickings address the real reason so many libertarians flocked to New Orleans for the weekend. We aren’t winning. Like a five-year-old treading water or a headless snake with no bite, there is a general malaise that dogs the party and movement. We are not having breakthrough moments where our candidates actually win. Outside of these convention walls, there are still marked questions regarding the philosophy and strategies to take us over the hump. I get the sense that the old guard has lost so many times throughout the years that they believe we will never see a major LP candidate win anything anytime soon. As such, many seem pleased to simply sustain where we are at under the current leadership’s reign. Happy enough are they to see their ‘taxation is theft’ buddies at a new hotel in a new city every two years. Resigned are they to believe the mountain is just too big to climb.
I am home in Virginia. A Coroña in one hand and a cigarette in the other, I’m trying to make sense of it all. Miles Davis “Files of Kilimanjaro” is rounding the record player and our pitbull Lady is nestled into my side. What was the result of all of this? Friends, for a start. I met so many incredible, beautiful, shining people from all walks of life. Gun nuts, tax nuts, bitcoin nuts, sex nuts, loveable nuts. I couldn’t imagine representing any other political party.
What is a Libertarian? More than any single collective idea, Libertarians are good natured and honest people on the path to truth in a world that has been built on lies. They are the witnesses to injustices that are perpetrated every day in the name of the all-powerful state. Police killings, endless wars, money stripped of its value, and the constitution treated like a piece of toilet paper. These are the things that Libertarians stand against.
James Weeks: Libertarian Socialist Caucus
In the days after the convention, I watch as the reviews come forward. Across social media, there is an air of accomplishment from all sides and stripes within the LP. The pragmatists have heard the yearning voice of the next generation and the Mises Caucus pick up a couple major new members to the Libertarian Party. Both Tom Woods & comedian Dave Smith join the LP to raucous applause from the membership. Jeffrey Tucker, a noted Bitcoin economist, also throws his hat into the ring and there feels some real momentum for the great forces of ideology and boots on the ground coming together.
It’s on to Austin in 2020 where the convention will nominate its choice for President to run against Donald Trump and whatever dead-man-walking the ‘resist’ Democrats trot out. I am most pleased to see the coming together mentality that spawned over the weekend in New Orleans. What was meant to be the most heated and contentious convention in recent memory had ended as one that felt like a strange sort of communion.
I fall into bed and sleep for what feels like a hundred years. I dream of the country we are supposed to be. One of love, peace, and justice for all and I believe, for a moment, we are the people to lead the way.
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News, Opinion July 5, 2018 March 27, 2019
Tom Woods Joins The Libertarian Party
By Mason Mohon | @mohonofficial
The 2018 Libertarian Party National Convention wrapped up over the weekend in New Orleans. After a weekend of discussion, debate, and parliamentary action, Nick Sarwark remained chairman and Alex Merced was elected to the position of Vice Chair.
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Opinion April 9, 2018 April 9, 2018
#FinallyFreeAmerica – Interview with Adam Kokesh
By John Keller | United States
Adam Kokesh is a libertarian political activist, known for his show Adam vs. The Man. He announced his desire to run for President of the United States in 2020 on July 18th, 2013 and officially filed the paperwork on January 16th, 2018. Adam Kokesh is working to #FinallyFreeAmerica.
Keller: You are a veteran of the war in Iraq and a former marine. What was the moment that you decided you were changing from a marine into a political activist?
Kokesh: Some things are just decided for you! When I got out of the Marines, I moved to DC to study at GWU. While I was there, I came across the website for Iraq Veterans Against the War and I realized that I had to have my name on that list and joined right away. I really fell over backwards into full-time activism because I of the welcoming nature of the organization and the movement behind it. When I realized that the story of my experience in Iraq could be used to save lives, I had no choice.
Keller: You wrote a book titled ‘FREEDOM!’. To you what is the message of freedom all about? Why is Libertarianism better than conservatism or liberalism?
Kokesh: Freedom is what you have when no one is forcing their will on you. That is to say that freedom is a state of harmonious coexistence. Freedom is peace. Freedom is love and respect and appreciation for people. A Libertarian is someone who opposes the initiation of force. Why would you settle for anything less? Conservativism and liberalism are just different flavors of statism. Statism is the incorrect belief that it is ok, positive, or ethical for people to force themselves on others. It’s really that simple!
Keller: Trump has taken credit for the booming ‘success’ of the stock market. Is he right to take this credit?
Kokesh: That’s hard to call and I don’t really care. The stock market is a highly manipulated racket. I’m sure some things he does manipulates it up, some things down. Either way, buy Bitcoin. Invest in innovation. Buy real property that can’t be manipulated by government like the stock market.
Keller: There has been a growing movement, often credited in its growing traction to Ron Paul, to ‘End the Fed’. What does this slogan mean to you?
Kokesh: Ron Paul definitely deserves credit for bringing the crimes of the Federal Reserve System to the attention of the American people and his supporters deserve credit for sloganizing his message into, “End the Fed” at his rallies that I attended going back to his 2008 campaign. The slogan has come to mean something much bigger now. To me, it means end the federal government entirely!
Keller: The #LetRonSpeak Scandal quickly went viral. What was your stance on this issue?
Kokesh: The people with the Libertarian Party who decided to decline to give Dr Paul an opportunity to speak at the 2018 convention, National Chair Nick Sarwark and Convention Chair Daniel Hayes, definitely do not represent the base of the party and I hope they are never in positions to make such an embarrassing mistake ever again.
Keller: Arvin Vohra has been stirring up quite a storm online with comments about rape and school shootings and many speculate his actions are harming the Libertarian Party. Where do you stand on this controversy? Should Vice Chairman Vohra step down?
Kokesh: It’s not so much the controversy about “inflammatory” that concerns me so much as his statements advocating for violations of the nonaggression principle. Those clearly go against what the party stands for. He should and will be replaced at the upcoming national convention.
Keller: Recently you were arrested in Texas, mere hours after official filing candidacy for President of the United States. What was this experience like? What charges did the police have against you?
Kokesh: I’ve been arrested over three dozen times relating to my activism, mostly in civil disobedience. This one was unplanned. I can’t say it was scary, but it was disturbing because, as you can see from the video, the officer who pulled me over was determined to arrest me even though I had not committed a crime. He broke multiple laws and violated police procedure in order to come up with an excuse to arrest me after unlawfully ordering me to stop recording. When he entered my vehicle, the first thing he did was turn off the other camera I had rolling. I was jailed for ten days and have still yet to be presented with any official papers regarding my charges or the police report despite my repeated requests. Welcome to the United Police States of America! Fortunately, with self-driving vehicles on the horizon, most of the excuses that police use to harass people will go away.
Keller: Your campaign is on the philosophy of voluntaryism, with a peaceful and prosperous people without the threat of government. When this idea is depicted it is often, almost exclusively, depicted as chaotic anarchism. What makes your vision different from the media portrayed voluntaryism?
Kokesh: I have no idea what you are talking about. I have NEVER heard anyone say that a voluntary society would be chaotic. It is contrary to the very definition. A voluntary society is one in which all human interactions are free of force, fraud, and coercion. As for my campaign, it is based on the practical policy of localization, the idea that political power should be localized as opposed to centralized. Voluntaryism is the philosophy that leads me to that practical policy.
Keller: Within the Libertarian Party there is a philosophical divide between minarchists and voluntaryists. As a voluntaryist, what do you have to say to the question of minarchism? In essence, how is anarchy preferable to minarchism?
Kokesh: There is no such divide. When you join the party, you take a pledge that says, “ I certify that I oppose the initiation of force to achieve political or social goals. ” That is voluntaryism in pledge form. The people who take that pledge and mean it sometimes identify as minarchists, but they always want whatever the government does to be voluntary. So I’m a minarchist myself in that sense because I’m a voluntaryist. You can have as much government as you want, as long as it’s voluntary! The divide in the party is between people who believe in the Party’s Statement of Principles and take their pledge seriously, and infiltrators like Bob Barr, Gary Johnson, and Bill Weld, who pretend to not understand the pledge they took in order to misrepresent the party. Sadly, many Libertarians are fooled into supporting them, with the obvious disastrous results and negative consequences we saw in the last three election cycles, but the effectiveness of their infiltration would not have been possible without the support of hundreds who infiltrated the delegations of the last three nominating conventions. A big part of my campaign is to encourage people who believe in the principles of the party to be delegates so that isn’t possible again. Frankly, it’s embarrassing that they were able to take so many vacant delegate slots. If I have anything to say about it, they will all be filled with real Libertarians, not infiltrators. So far, our success this year is undeniable. We are halfway through state convention season, and only about a dozen (out of over 1,000) delegate slots are empty.
Keller: You campaign on the peaceful dissolution of the national government. What will that look like in office, how will you accomplish such a goal? What role will Congress play?
Kokesh: On day one, I will sign my one and only executive order declaring the federal government bankrupt and of no authority. I will resign to become “Custodian of the Federal Government” to oversee the process as a bankruptcy agent. The executive order will be as detailed as possible in laying that process out in a clear, legally binding way. Congress will have no authority, but may have some minor role to play in the apportionment of certain agencies and resources. Every federal agency will be either liquidated, localized to the state level, or spun off as a private institution.
Keller: You campaign on dissolving the national government, but often states can be more tyrannical than the national government. As president, what actions would you take against such injustices, if any?
Kokesh: I would have no such authority and will make no promises that I cannot keep. However, the premise of your question needs to be put into perspective. Yes, States can occasionally be more tyrannical than the federal government, but if you added up all the injustices committed by state governments and compared them to the injustices of the federal government, it would be like comparing a schoolyard bully to the mafia! And to be fair, you would first have to subtract all the State injustices made possible by the federal government. More importantly, when people see the benefits of localization, (which they will immediately, because on day one, federal laws will not be enforced) there will be a race among the States to dissolve down to the County level. Then a global race to localize. Eventually, government will be so local that it will be … voluntary.
Keller: Recently, you announced and have been working to implement “Operation Big Easy Book Bomb”. What is this operation and why was it enacted?
Kokesh: We are putting a copy of my book, FREEDOM! in every residential mailbox in New Orleans. 205,000 copies. We want to deliver the message of FREEDOM! directly to the people. Once we show that it can be done there, we will do it in every city in America.
Keller: As of late, the Democratic Party faces a small identity crisis and the Republican Party is losing faith in Donald Trump. What makes you the best candidate for 2020 and what should attract disillusioned voters?
Kokesh: I’m not the best candidate for President. In fact, asking who is the best candidate for President is like asking who would you most want to kick your ass? If your answer is, “NOBODY!” vote for me, because I will resign. I don’t need to attract disillusioned voters. The government is doing a fine job driving them away. We just have to show them that there is an alternative to government: freedom.
Keller: If people are interested in getting involved with joining your campaign, what steps can they take to do so?
Kokesh: Check out KokeshForPresident.com, click on volunteer, and fill out the form. But more importantly, don’t wait for direction and don’t ask permission to spread the message of freedom! Have fun waking people up and do something that you enjoy. Talk to your friends and family about why you care about freedom.
Keller: Do you have an final remarks to the readers, to supporters, and potential voters?
Kokesh: I’m the last President you’ll never need and I approve this message.
I would like to thank Adam Kokesh for his time. Be sure to visit KokeshForPresident.com and be sure to read his book “FREEDOM!”, which you can find here and follow his Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram for all updates.
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News, Opinion February 4, 2018 March 1, 2018
Sarwark Vs. Smith, To Debate Or Not To Debate?
By Ryan Lau | United States
In a new development Sunday, tensions are rising between candidates for the Chairmanship of the Libertarian Party. This July, incumbent Nicholas Sarwark will attempt to defend his seat against Think Liberty founder Joshua Smith. The election will take place at the Libertarian National Convention in New Orleans.
Before the election, Smith hopes that he may be able to debate Sarwark on a number of policy differences. 71 Republic may sponsor this debate. So far, the only slated meeting of the two candidates will take place at a forum in Long Beach, California. Additionally, a debate at the Nebraska Libertarian Party State Convention was planned, but then canceled.
However, it is still possible that a debate between the two may not occur. Despite Smith’s firm advocacy for one to occur, Sarwark has yet to confirm his availability. In the following video obtained from an anonymous source, Smith asked Sarwark to increase the number of debates beyond one. Sarwark replied calmly, stating that “I’ll have to see about scheduling”.
Without a doubt, the ultimate victor of this race may have a huge impact on the future direction of the party. In the above video, Sarwark and 2020 Presidential Candidate Adam Kokesh agreed on the importance of the party’s future. After Kokesh stated he has “a lot of interest in the future of the party”, Sarwark agreed, remarking “that’s good, we all do”.
However, it is possible that voters may not be able to see a debate between the two candidates prior to their critical election if the two cannot reach an agreement on a time and place for such a debate to occur. What are your opinions on the subject? Please add your comments below.
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Kim Kardashian: Why We Must Love Her
BY TAMAR KEVONIAN
“I am Armenian, so of course I am obsessed with laser hair removal! Arms, bikini, legs, underarms…my entire body is hairless.” This is the latest quote from Kim Kardashian who will grace the cover of the September 2010 issue of Allure magazine.
Just in case you just emerged from the jungles of Borneo, Kim Kardashian is the oldest daughter of attorney Robert Kardashian who famously assembled OJ Simpson’s criminal defense team. She was known as Paris Hilton’s sidekick and emerged from Paris’ shadows only when, a few years ago, a sex tape of her with Ray J, an R&B singer, exploded onto the media circuit.
Now, she is the star, along with her sisters Khloe and Kourtney, of “Keeping up with the Kardashians,” a popular reality television program. She is famous for dating African-American men, her feature in Playboy magazine and her full-bodied Armenian “booty” of which she is very proud.
Recently, Kourtney, during an interviewed on “Chelsea Lately” with Kim to promote their upcoming season, revealed that her and her mother, Kris Jenner, had gone on a mission to find Kim an Armenian man. To do this, they made a pilgrimage to Glendale. “She thinks that Glendale is Armenia,” Kourtney says. “‘We’re in the land of your people,” she quotes Kris, to which she responds, “Mom, this is Glendale,” meaning that they were in a city in the United States. The studio audience laughs heartily at the anecdote.
Today, amongst the masses, they are the best known Armenians in the United States. Love them or hate them, everyone has an opinion about the Kardashians, as evidenced by the many “likes” and several comments my recent Facebook (the popular social networking site) posting received when I reproduced the quote from Allure magazine.
“Too funny!!! Love it!” wrote Mary. “BTW [by the way], she forgets the Italian side from her Mom’s side. As I remember, her grandmother Helen was a blond, blue-eyed lady. She didn’t look too hairy to me.”
“Dear Tamar at first my jaw dropped when reading your post, I thought it was your statement. Now that I know it was Kim’s it’s not as shocking,” commented Mark.
“Oh God… is there anything redeeming about that woman being Armenian?” said Mel.
She is perceived as a woman with an off kilter moral compass who is beautiful but without much of a thinking mind.
Still many agree with Mel in that they see Kim’s claiming of her ethnicity as reflecting negatively on the Armenian race as a whole.
And yet, in the popularity contest of mass media, she has taken the mantle away from Cher, our last generation’s Armenian celebrity who also incited strong emotions during her heyday. Cher’s relationship with her Armenian roots was tumultuous and she preferred to claim her Cherokee heritage rather her Armenian one. Still, she claimed it long enough to visit Armenia in the months following the earthquake in 1988 but has never really publicly proclaimed it since nor has she followed up on her altruistic impulse.
In contrast, the Kardashian sisters proudly flaunt their Armenian origins while mostly ignoring their Italian half – the first mass market celebrity to do so – the list of names of those who don’t is far too long to mention here. The sisters are hailed as “resident Armenians” during television appearances, have culled the cultural treasure trove for inspiration for their jewelry line and proudly flaunt the clichéd characteristics of being Armenian.
It is a well know fact that Armenians in general, both men and women, have an overabundance of body hair. It is also a well known secret that those afflicted with this symptom, both men and women, freely partake of the service of their local waxing lady – as evidenced by the public display of perfectly groomed symmetrical eyebrows.
It is also a well know fact that many Armenians live in Glendale and, although we hate to admit it, where our mothers try to find the perfect Armenian mate for us. As a result of their efforts, perfectly matched Armenian couples engage in sexual intercourse and eventual produce children – thus proving that we are not a result of immaculate conception as those very same mothers had us believing during our younger years.
The success of the show, its offshoots, the financial rewards and the garnering of continuous media attention attests to Kim’s intellectual savvy, at the very least she was smart enough to hire a very good advisor.
So what exactly is it that we hate about Kim Kardashian? Is it that she is beautiful, has made the most of her famous curves in a way so many others have failed, has sex and is sexual without repercussion, is wealthy or that she is popular? Are we simply jealous and wish we could be her? Or is it the cultural phenomenon of not helping a fellow Armenian – in extension, pulling them down when they rise above the fray – a trend Hrair from last week’s entry “The Concerned Citizen,” has expressed concern about.
Armenians in the U.S. would gain much by embracing Kim Kardashian. The advantages start with greater awareness of Armenians in general because, as the saying goes, there’s “no such thing as bad publicity,” meaning that, regardless of their opinion, people are still giving their time and attention to a topic. Another is discussing taboo subjects such as body hair and voluptuous body parts, that many in the community spend so much effort shamefully covering up. Finally, it is showing pride in the heritage by simply claiming they are Armenian without excuses, apology or explanation.
Tamar Kevonian
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Hratch Tchaghatzbanian - August 24, 2010 said:
The saying “there is no such thing as bad publicity” is not accurately applied in this article, which is nothing more than a failed attempt and taking an “open-minded” position on a damaging phenomenon. True, there is no such thing as bad publicity for Kim Kardashian, as she is cashing her check everytime her name is mentioned anywhere. But it IS bad publicity for Armenian women who pride themselves on being culturally conscious, well educated and ethical. Kim Kardashian has reduced the role of women in society as being those who look to profit from their sexual appeal (and there is another word for that).
Alex - August 27, 2010 said:
Agreed completely. There is no sense of history anymore. People forget she had sex on camera for the world to see and knowingly sold it for profit and fame. That is the ONLY reason for her celebrity. Now we’re glorifying her and saying that we, Armenians, must love her? for what? what a waste of an article and a degradation to Asbarez’ prupose.
Anoymous - January 16, 2012 said:
“Kim Kardashian has reduced the role of women in society as being those who look to profit from their sexual appeal.”
Really? So when men look to profit from lying, being self-centered politicians or irresponsible financiers, or creating the Playboy magazine and then go on and change women the age of their granddaughters one after the other, they’re glorifying the role of men in society and are constantly hailed in the media, but when a woman profits from her sexual appeal, she’s “reducing” the role of women in society? Talk about hypocrisy and double standards.
This article was very well-written, and especially the last and fourth-from-last paragraph hit the spot. Well done.
josey - August 24, 2010 said:
really? why must we keep discussing this person?
in one article, she’s “proud of my Armenian VOR”.
in another, “I am Armenian, so of course I am obsessed with laser hair removal! Arms, bikini, legs, underarms…my entire body is hairless.”
couple that with the fact that she was dumb enough to make a sex-tape with a celebrity (both of which are likely profiting greatly from) and you’ve got a recipe for a person with no morals, no principal. she’s BANKING on the fact that she’s half Armenian and you people are eating it up.
what a joke. the only thing Armenian about her is her last name. let this abomination disappear into the fog already.
Sammy - August 25, 2010 said:
According to Tamar we should keep discussing this person because she is a “fellow Armenian” and we want to bring her down because we are “jealous” of her. This is how pitiful some Armenians with lousy opinions have become. God help us.
Angie Hartounian - August 24, 2010 said:
Well said.. Wish we had more Kims!! She was invited to the celebrity dinner with President Obama this year. When interviewed about it and what she would like to work on with the President, she said the official recognition of the Armenian Gebocide! Now, regardless of how successful that mission might be, she got the word out.. How many Armenians do we have that get invited to dine with the President?! Let us embrace Kim, and her sisters.. and support them instead of putting them down for reasons I have yet to understand.
Cindy Malakian - August 24, 2010 said:
I didn’t see that show you mentioned with Chelsea Handler where they go to Glendale to find an Armenian guy, but thats highly offensive and racist. I live in NYC and my family came over in 1915. We never have been to Glendale. What I notice about the Kardashians are they play up Armenian steterotypes to the full and exploit them. The thing is their only 50% Armenian. Kim always says she has a big butt, body because shes Armenian and now hairy but if you notice they never talk about their Armenian heritage or culture to the public, the Armenian Genocide. I noticed on April 24th, Kim makes a statement on her blog saying “Its Armenian Genocide Day” with no explanation of what that is, not even any links,,, she has never discussed it,,
It is my personal people that her and her sisters/family cant stand Armenians and are just using it as a marketing tool to sell themselves as different, exotic. If you notice on their show you never see anyone from their Armenian side of the family, always the mom’s side even at Kholes wedding.
They promised to visit Armenia but went to Africa instead.
As far as Armenians being hairy, I disagree, all of the women on my Moms side have no hair. Besides the hairest people tend to be hispanics, have you heard Jennifer Lopez, Penelope Cruz, Eva Longoria say they need laser because of their hispanic heritage? The answer is no.. Because not all hispanics are hairy and they would be playing up the “stereotype”
Dita Von Teese is half Armenian as well but she doesn’t need to name drop her ethnicity to make $$$.Shes a hell of alot better looking than any Kartrashian.
Forgot as well, supermodel Yvette Nelson- half Armenian-
Cyrinda Foxe- Model and Icon of the 70s, 100% Armenian
Mia Tyler- Model- 50% Armenian
All these women did not exploit their ethnicity for attention or fame, If you are going to you better educate the public about things that are most important in Armenian history and culture like the Armenian Genocide, our history, etc,, Not just say “I have a big butt, boobs, and im hairy cause im an Armenian”
Shes a PHONEY!
Oshin Babakhani - August 24, 2010 said:
josey, You are so wrong. She is proud to be Armenian and that is obvious cause if she wasn’t there would be no mention of it EVER…but what do we see?..She always claims being Armenian before anything else, hence, she of it (that goes for her and sis’ and brother). Her being obsessed with laser hair removal cause she is Armenian is an obvious joke…Speaking of which, i have to admit, she IS a boring person…humor is not her thing… Also.. just cause she made a sex tape and it got leaked doesn’t she has no moral or principals. Get real. The Armenians all over LA and wherever (even ARMENIA) that do what they do to make their money illegally have the least of morals and principal off all.. Don’t speak of her cause she is making a living the legit way. …ohhh and she aint banking cause is Armenian.. Being Armenian has nothing to do with it.. She is just a smart business person making the right moves…Might be the face that the one big mistake was her chance to move up quicker, but the fact is when you see a opportunity you take advantage of it… We should be happy that she is bringing the Armenian name up as much as she is… cause if you haven’t seen the map lately, we a spec on it…
Emil - August 24, 2010 said:
Hi Tamar,
Cher is still bigger thank Kim. And she did say she was proud Armenian in a recent interview – see http://www.reporter.am/go/article/2009-04-10-cher-is-proud-to-be-armenian or http://www.reporter.am/pdfs/C0216.pdf for a more detailed story by Paul Chaderjian.
But looking forward to Kim’s trip to Armenia.
teda - August 25, 2010 said:
In my opinion, Kim is not armenian, not italian, she is a typical american girl in showbiz. At least, she doesn’t pretend to be anybody else. About the hair removal – she must be obsessed with it not only being armenian, but first of all being a woman. And i want to remind her about Caesar – well known roman general and emperor who used to remove the hair of his entire body and this happened 2000 years ago.
manooshag - August 25, 2010 said:
Hye Kim, we welcome your participation, your voice, as you join to further our Armenian cause before the world…
Many thanks. Manooshag
monica - August 25, 2010 said:
Kim is actually the second eldest daughter of Robert Kardashian. Kourtney is older.
Deran - August 25, 2010 said:
Bull’s eye, Tamar hit the target dead on. Maybe because we have suffered or have been hated. Armenians love! We love all Armenians, those in the RA, those in the Diaspora, those that can speak the mother tongue, those that can’t, those that are Armenian by marriage or maybe just by acquaintance, those that are just friendly to us and even those that ‘tried to commit suicide by standing near an Armenia’ (similar to a Woody Allen movie). The point is to love all Armenianess, the good, the bad and the ugly, all. It helps our spirit and all our causes. The act of Nobleness cannot be conquered.
Completely agreed. Though it would be nicer to try and make the ugly a bit more beautiful while still loving those who out of choice or not have become that way 😉 And learn Armenian, of course.
Ararat - August 25, 2010 said:
Hratch, I could not have said it any better myself !
First of all, she’s a half breed and a result of a dysfunctional American and NOT an Armenian family. She can call herself Armenian all she wants but is one really an Armenian just because his/her last name ends in an “ian”? You can put lipstick on a pig but it is still a pig. Calling her Armenian therefore equating herself with so many of our Armenian sisters who are ethically conscious, educationally brilliant, and culturally very mature who spent half their lifetime to achieve is a disrespect to all Armenian women.
Secondly, In addition to being a well-known attorney, I heard her father was a strict disciplinarian unlike her non-Armenian mother. Actually, a sorry excuse for a mother, who instead of instilling morality and discipline in her daughters, is in competition with them and thinks she is a teenager with no worries in the world.
Lastly, I have a strong feeling that if her mother was also an Armenian just like her father was she would be a doctor, a surgeon or an attorney and not someone who makes a living selling her body.
erica - September 9, 2010 said:
I agree with you Ararat.
Armen G. - August 26, 2010 said:
The good: She’s definitely the most famous Armenian in the United States. I think even if you are from the jungles of Borneo, you still know who Kim K. is. Just go to Glendale for a couple of hours and every Armenian girl you see looks like a mini Kim. The hair, the clothes, THE HAIR!!!!! I read somewhere that she has the most popular hair style in the United States.
The bad: The most famous Armenian in the United States is a porno star!! Don’t be shocked, but she’s not as dumb as she may look. She has a good head for business and knows how to cash in on controversy. After all, her mentor is Paris Hilton. Yet, just like her mentor, she’s has no real talent and she’s not even famous for her last name. Well, not really. Can’t really compare Hilton to Kardashian!! Again, she’s famous for making an amature porno flick!!
The Question: Do we distance ourselves from her, or embrace the attention she brings to Armenians? Are Armenians that starved for attention that even a porn star will do? Yes we are. So until we find a squeeky clean, talented Armenian who can become a household name In America, we have to settle for a porno star!!!!!
Martin Yernazian - August 26, 2010 said:
This is the stupidest point of view I have ever heard. Why I don’t like her, because she is a dumb, shallow and uncultured product of today’s society! EMBRACE HER???? are you out of your mind???
Is this the only thing we are proud on promoting? seriously are you INSANE or are you as DUMB as KIM Kardashian?
And BTW…. ARMENIANS don’t live only in GLENDALE! We are everywhere! (Myself from Argentina) BRazil, MExico, Colombia ( for crying out load they have have a city named Armenia) Spain, France, etc.
MY Advice to the MORONS that Support this freak of neo-capitalist-nature is: READ, Get educated, become people of culture, be bold, risk it all… get out of the typical stereotype and be YOU.
AND FOR THE LOVE OF GOD. SUPPORT REAL ARTISTS, THIS IS A JOKE ARTICLE!
PS: For the record I’m proud of the things that make me an Armenian, and goes beyond MY HAIR, MY NOSE, ETC but to remove to something else… erases who I’M. What I do is I adapted to my cultures and I bring it forward to the world.
PS 2: To envy something you must want to be that. There is nothing that the world of the Paparazzos and the empty people of the likes of the Kardashians and the Hilton’s can contribute to my persona and to the world more than a brain fart.
Again I think this is the most stupid article I’ve read in your newspaper. I think you need to get out more, specially from Los Angeles.
Ani - August 26, 2010 said:
Embrace Kim? Why??? There is nothing Armenian about an immoral person like that. Just because her father was an Armenian and she has an IAN at the end of her last name does not make her an Armenian!!!!
Ani - April 11, 2012 said:
Ani, lol reality check: yes it does!!!. And don’t judge Kim, or people in general because you are immoral as well, we just don’t know. EVERYONE helped make Kim Kardashian famous and now everyone is jealous. hahhahaha and FYI, Kim and her entire family (especially her mother) are clever, business savvy, and smart for taking advantage of the stupid gossip crazed general public. You can call her all the names you want, but at the end of the day, she still gets the last laugh.
Hen - August 27, 2010 said:
Don’t be chicken, why did you reject my last comment?
Norin Radd - August 27, 2010 said:
And stop filtering comments from nay sayers, if you’re going to shove this topic into the community’s face, then be ready to post responses from ALL sides, not just those that suit your needs.
Don’t touch on controversial topics if you’re not ready to have a full, open, honest discussion Ms. Kevonian, it speaks badly of your journalistic integrity, remember that. If you can’t do this, I suggest you find a new line of work.
I made five comments only one of which got published. I’m surprised they let your last comment post. I said something similar with harsher language but no profanity and still got ignored. This “moderator” of Asbarez whoever they are is obviously is engaged in hiding the truth of our culture and what we deem acceptable and what we deem repulsive. Clearly this article has shown that there are a few Armenians here who will gladly embrace repulsiveness in order to get attention. In the meantime, I hope all of you Armenians who cater to a morally bankrupt so-called “fellow Armenian”, one day find your daughter or sister in the same category as old Kim.
There are literally dozens of other far more deserving Armenian-Americans that could have been highlighted and showcased as potential role models. Physicians, lawyers, Dentists, Architects, Engineers, the list goes on. Why not speak about Armenian-American men or women that actually participated in various causes both Armenian and non Armenian, or Armenian women that saw combat in the Arstakh war of independence? Or how about the multitude of Armenian-American physicians that date back to the early days of the 20th century such as Dr. Varazdat Kazanjian, the first Professor of Plastic Surgery at Harvard University School of Medicine to modern civic Armenian-American physicians and other professionals in the local communities.
All of you misguided “fans” of Ms. Kardashian, if you’re content with your sister, mother, or wife being “just like Kim” then by all means keep brown nosing your support. But if you can’t put your money where your mouths are in person rather than an anonymous Asbarez post, then shut your mouths and accept the fact that Kim Kardashian is a disgrace to our culture, our community, and her own half Armenian heritage, nothing more. Stop all the “politically correct” chatter while pretending to be “open minded”, if your own sister, wife, or daughter was beginning to emulate this low life, you would not be making declarations about how “great she is”.
Sammy - September 1, 2010 said:
I propose Tamar start dating Africans, if she isn’t doing it already. Then slip out a “video” “accidentally”, Perhaps she can “hit it big” like Kim, and we will all be so jealous of her.
The promotion of half-breed Armos in porn flicks with Africans. I never thought I’d see that day sponsored by an “ARF Newspaper”.
Nat - September 2, 2010 said:
You have some very literal-minded readers (getting upset about light joking about Glendale? Wow, that’s a thin — even if hairy — skin). Anyway, I liked this article for its macro-suggestion of embracing a wide range of illustrations of what it means to be Armenian. As these comments show, many people are wedded to a very narrow idea of who is Armenian and who is a sellout/half-breed/you name it. None of these Kardashian girls are interesting to me, and I think their choices are asinine. But I wholly support the notion that we should enjoy and embrace their very public explorations of Armenain identity, and the opening those may reveal about what it means to be Armenian now.
Cesar - September 6, 2010 said:
I saw that same episode, and my family runs Dolcevita Laser Center, here in Glendale. When we saw that episode, we were beside ourselves thinking if only she could have come to our laser clinic. Oh well, her going to one laser clinic is really good for all laser clinics. Good on you Kim!!
LIBERALSAREFULLOFCRAP - September 7, 2010 said:
Monte Melconian is an Armenian American role model and hero not the Kim Kardashian. Kardashians are American buisness women peroid, this is all about attention money and fame . . There are many succesful Armenians in America and in the world who are real role models for our youth, but the most important role models for Armenian youth should be our mothers and fathers. From that point of view the Kardashians as a family are a disgusting (espically Khole who has no morals ethics or values) they are a poor reflection of what Armenians are like to those who have never met an Armenian person.
Reality Tv is rotting the brains of this nation the Kardashians are just cashing in on it while they can they would be fools not too. There are Armenians out in the world who have brains who read went to college or have educated themseleves enough to know what is really going on in the real world. We do not need a writter for Asbarez to tell us to embrace Kim Kardashian as if she was the patron saint of Armenians.
What do you expect from girls whose father probably never dated Armenian. After all he married Kris and she is not of Armenian descent. They are spoiled brats and I wish they would stop talking about how hairy Armenian women are. Im 100% armenian and not hairy. My mother and grandmother was not either.
Jasmine - October 26, 2010 said:
They’re not half Italian. They’re half scottish/dutch, half armenian. They have tiny amounts of italian and native american blood. But Armenian is more ‘exotic’ so of course they’re going to claim that half.
Ani - January 5, 2011 said:
Well known fact, tamar? Maybe u and ur surrounding are hairy but don;t talk for all Armenians, your propaganda is no different than any Georgian, Turkish or Azeri. Neither me or anyone in my surroundings is hairy.
Ani V - April 12, 2012 said:
I agree, I am Armenian 100% and am NOT hairy, never was!! No one in my beautiful family is hairy either and that includes the men (dad and brother) as well.
harry - April 9, 2011 said:
The supporters of this article should be ashamed because you are no different then the enemy itself. Your primitive ideology about your ancestral heritage and culture cause great damage to the Armenian community. It is a form of Cultural Genocide that decimates our ancestral roots and beliefs . Shame on all of you who support that kind of behavior.
olga pillai - June 8, 2011 said:
I like Armenians. They are courageous. Adventurous.
I forgot his name but there was an excellent Armenian writer I used to admire and love.
He was very wellknown
He was very well-known
A.Galstian - June 17, 2013 said:
😀 what’s the use of someone’s(whoever’s) pride to be an armenian for armenian community??????????
John - November 15, 2013 said:
My father was Armenian but he did not marry one. He told me once he first saw my fair skin mother who he described as having the perfect figure, he was in love. He explained to me that he not only loved her green eyes, light brown hair, and her shape, but also noticed learned the fact that she was humble and kind and did not hate people from different ethnic groups like his family did.
He told me that his sisters who claimed to be Christians, were very jealous of her.
ArmIkna - March 22, 2014 said:
This is sad.
I am a feminist. I am Armenian. I do not believe in slut-shaming or bringing down fellow women, yet every time this woman is in the news, I cringe because she represents EVERYTHING wrong with society. She represents greed and narcissism. She represents the lowest form of selling out. Period. Every young girl who looks up to Kim is another young girl who wastes time on subjects like waxing and anal penetration (yes the Kardashian girls’ favorite subject) instead of reading about women who really matter. Our young girls already have to fight the media’s war on women’s bodies. Why perpetuate that by idolizing a woman who was put on the map SOLELY for her body and NOTHING else? Let’s celebrate Armenian women of substance, shall we?
Silva Gaboudikian
Nancy Krikorian
Micheline Aharonian Marcom
Shushanik Kurghinian
Siranush Andriasian
Sona Tatoyan
Diana Der Hovanessian
Arsinée Khanjian
Nancy Agabian
To name a few… All beautiful, inside AND out.
Karine - October 9, 2014 said:
It is SO refreshing to read an intellectually stimulating pro-Kardashian post by someone who has clearly given it a great deal of thought. I get where you’re coming from, and I love your article. But I’m still so, so, so disappointed she is one of Armenia’s biggest brands.
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1Sam 8-12
Israel Demands a King 1When Samuel became old, he made his sons judges over Israel.2The name of his firstborn son was Joel, and the name of his second, Abijah; they were judges in Beer-sheba.3Yet his sons did not follow in his ways, but turned aside after gain; they took bribes and perverted justice.4Then all the elders of Israel gathered together and came to Samuel at Ramah,5and said to him, “You are old and your sons do not follow in your ways; appoint for us, then, a king to govern us, like other nations.”6But the thing displeased Samuel when they said, “Give us a king to govern us.” Samuel prayed to the Lord,7and the Lord said to Samuel, “Listen to the voice of the people in all that they say to you; for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected me from being king over them.8Just as they have done to me, from the day I brought them up out of Egypt to this day, forsaking me and serving other gods, so also they are doing to you.9Now then, listen to their voice; only—you shall solemnly warn them, and show them the ways of the king who shall reign over them.”10So Samuel reported all the words of the Lord to the people who were asking him for a king.11He said, “These will be the ways of the king who will reign over you: he will take your sons and appoint them to his chariots and to be his horsemen, and to run before his chariots;12and he will appoint for himself commanders of thousands and commanders of fifties, and some to plow his ground and to reap his harvest, and to make his implements of war and the equipment of his chariots.13He will take your daughters to be perfumers and cooks and bakers.14He will take the best of your fields and vineyards and olive orchards and give them to his courtiers.15He will take one-tenth of your grain and of your vineyards and give it to his officers and his courtiers.16He will take your male and female slaves, and the best of your cattle and donkeys, and put them to his work.17He will take one-tenth of your flocks, and you shall be his slaves.18And in that day you will cry out because of your king, whom you have chosen for yourselves; but the Lord will not answer you in that day.”Israel's Request for a King Granted 19But the people refused to listen to the voice of Samuel; they said, “No! but we are determined to have a king over us,20so that we also may be like other nations, and that our king may govern us and go out before us and fight our battles.”21When Samuel had heard all the words of the people, he repeated them in the ears of the Lord.22The Lord said to Samuel, “Listen to their voice and set a king over them.” Samuel then said to the people of Israel, “Each of you return home.”Chapter 9Saul Chosen to Be King 1There was a man of Benjamin whose name was Kish son of Abiel son of Zeror son of Becorath son of Aphiah, a Benjaminite, a man of wealth.2He had a son whose name was Saul, a handsome young man. There was not a man among the people of Israel more handsome than he; he stood head and shoulders above everyone else.3Now the donkeys of Kish, Saul's father, had strayed. So Kish said to his son Saul, “Take one of the boys with you; go and look for the donkeys.”4He passed through the hill country of Ephraim and passed through the land of Shalishah, but they did not find them. And they passed through the land of Shaalim, but they were not there. Then he passed through the land of Benjamin, but they did not find them.5When they came to the land of Zuph, Saul said to the boy who was with him, “Let us turn back, or my father will stop worrying about the donkeys and worry about us.”6But he said to him, “There is a man of God in this town; he is a man held in honor. Whatever he says always comes true. Let us go there now; perhaps he will tell us about the journey on which we have set out.”7Then Saul replied to the boy, “But if we go, what can we bring the man? For the bread in our sacks is gone, and there is no present to bring to the man of God. What have we?”8The boy answered Saul again, “Here, I have with me a quarter shekel of silver; I will give it to the man of God, to tell us our way.”9(Formerly in Israel, anyone who went to inquire of God would say, “Come, let us go to the seer”; for the one who is now called a prophet was formerly called a seer.)10Saul said to the boy, “Good; come, let us go.” So they went to the town where the man of God was.11As they went up the hill to the town, they met some girls coming out to draw water, and said to them, “Is the seer here?”12They answered, “Yes, there he is just ahead of you. Hurry; he has come just now to the town, because the people have a sacrifice today at the shrine.13As soon as you enter the town, you will find him, before he goes up to the shrine to eat. For the people will not eat until he comes, since he must bless the sacrifice; afterward those eat who are invited. Now go up, for you will meet him immediately.”14So they went up to the town. As they were entering the town, they saw Samuel coming out toward them on his way up to the shrine.15Now the day before Saul came, the Lord had revealed to Samuel:16“Tomorrow about this time I will send to you a man from the land of Benjamin, and you shall anoint him to be ruler over my people Israel. He shall save my people from the hand of the Philistines; for I have seen the suffering of my people, because their outcry has come to me.”17When Samuel saw Saul, the Lord told him, “Here is the man of whom I spoke to you. He it is who shall rule over my people.”18Then Saul approached Samuel inside the gate, and said, “Tell me, please, where is the house of the seer?”19Samuel answered Saul, “I am the seer; go up before me to the shrine, for today you shall eat with me, and in the morning I will let you go and will tell you all that is on your mind.20As for your donkeys that were lost three days ago, give no further thought to them, for they have been found. And on whom is all Israel's desire fixed, if not on you and on all your ancestral house?”21Saul answered, “I am only a Benjaminite, from the least of the tribes of Israel, and my family is the humblest of all the families of the tribe of Benjamin. Why then have you spoken to me in this way?”22Then Samuel took Saul and his servant-boy and brought them into the hall, and gave them a place at the head of those who had been invited, of whom there were about thirty.23And Samuel said to the cook, “Bring the portion I gave you, the one I asked you to put aside.”24The cook took up the thigh and what went with it and set them before Saul. Samuel said, “See, what was kept is set before you. Eat; for it is set before you at the appointed time, so that you might eat with the guests.” So Saul ate with Samuel that day.25When they came down from the shrine into the town, a bed was spread for Saul on the roof, and he lay down to sleep.26Then at the break of dawn Samuel called to Saul upon the roof, “Get up, so that I may send you on your way.” Saul got up, and both he and Samuel went out into the street.Samuel Anoints Saul 27As they were going down to the outskirts of the town, Samuel said to Saul, “Tell the boy to go on before us, and when he has passed on, stop here yourself for a while, that I may make known to you the word of God.”Chapter 101Samuel took a vial of oil and poured it on his head, and kissed him; he said, “The Lord has anointed you ruler over his people Israel. You shall reign over the people of the Lord and you will save them from the hand of their enemies all around. Now this shall be the sign to you that the Lord has anointed you ruler over his heritage:2When you depart from me today you will meet two men by Rachel's tomb in the territory of Benjamin at Zelzah; they will say to you, ‘The donkeys that you went to seek are found, and now your father has stopped worrying about them and is worrying about you, saying: What shall I do about my son?’3Then you shall go on from there further and come to the oak of Tabor; three men going up to God at Bethel will meet you there, one carrying three kids, another carrying three loaves of bread, and another carrying a skin of wine.4They will greet you and give you two loaves of bread, which you shall accept from them.5After that you shall come to Gibeath-elohim, at the place where the Philistine garrison is; there, as you come to the town, you will meet a band of prophets coming down from the shrine with harp, tambourine, flute, and lyre playing in front of them; they will be in a prophetic frenzy.6Then the spirit of the Lord will possess you, and you will be in a prophetic frenzy along with them and be turned into a different person.7Now when these signs meet you, do whatever you see fit to do, for God is with you.8And you shall go down to Gilgal ahead of me; then I will come down to you to present burnt offerings and offer sacrifices of well-being. Seven days you shall wait, until I come to you and show you what you shall do.”Saul Prophesies 9As he turned away to leave Samuel, God gave him another heart; and all these signs were fulfilled that day.10When they were going from there to Gibeah, a band of prophets met him; and the spirit of God possessed him, and he fell into a prophetic frenzy along with them.11When all who knew him before saw how he prophesied with the prophets, the people said to one another, “What has come over the son of Kish? Is Saul also among the prophets?”12A man of the place answered, “And who is their father?” Therefore it became a proverb, “Is Saul also among the prophets?”13When his prophetic frenzy had ended, he went home.14Saul's uncle said to him and to the boy, “Where did you go?” And he replied, “To seek the donkeys; and when we saw they were not to be found, we went to Samuel.”15Saul's uncle said, “Tell me what Samuel said to you.”16Saul said to his uncle, “He told us that the donkeys had been found.” But about the matter of the kingship, of which Samuel had spoken, he did not tell him anything.Saul Proclaimed King 17Samuel summoned the people to the Lord at Mizpah18and said to them, “Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, ‘I brought up Israel out of Egypt, and I rescued you from the hand of the Egyptians and from the hand of all the kingdoms that were oppressing you.’19But today you have rejected your God, who saves you from all your calamities and your distresses; and you have said, ‘No! but set a king over us.’ Now therefore present yourselves before the Lord by your tribes and by your clans.”20Then Samuel brought all the tribes of Israel near, and the tribe of Benjamin was taken by lot.21He brought the tribe of Benjamin near by its families, and the family of the Matrites was taken by lot. Finally he brought the family of the Matrites near man by man, and Saul the son of Kish was taken by lot. But when they sought him, he could not be found.22So they inquired again of the Lord, “Did the man come here?” and the Lord said, “See, he has hidden himself among the baggage.”23Then they ran and brought him from there. When he took his stand among the people, he was head and shoulders taller than any of them.24Samuel said to all the people, “Do you see the one whom the Lord has chosen? There is no one like him among all the people.” And all the people shouted, “Long live the king!”25Samuel told the people the rights and duties of the kingship; and he wrote them in a book and laid it up before the Lord. Then Samuel sent all the people back to their homes.26Saul also went to his home at Gibeah, and with him went warriors whose hearts God had touched.27But some worthless fellows said, “How can this man save us?” They despised him and brought him no present. But he held his peace. Now Nahash, king of the Ammonites, had been grievously oppressing the Gadites and the Reubenites. He would gouge out the right eye of each of them and would not grant Israel a deliverer. No one was left of the Israelites across the Jordan whose right eye Nahash, king of the Ammonites, had not gouged out. But there were seven thousand men who had escaped from the Ammonites and had entered Jabesh-gilead.Chapter 11Saul Defeats the Ammonites 1About a month later, Nahash the Ammonite went up and besieged Jabesh-gilead; and all the men of Jabesh said to Nahash, “Make a treaty with us, and we will serve you.”2But Nahash the Ammonite said to them, “On this condition I will make a treaty with you, namely that I gouge out everyone's right eye, and thus put disgrace upon all Israel.”3The elders of Jabesh said to him, “Give us seven days' respite that we may send messengers through all the territory of Israel. Then, if there is no one to save us, we will give ourselves up to you.”4When the messengers came to Gibeah of Saul, they reported the matter in the hearing of the people; and all the people wept aloud.5Now Saul was coming from the field behind the oxen; and Saul said, “What is the matter with the people, that they are weeping?” So they told him the message from the inhabitants of Jabesh.6And the spirit of God came upon Saul in power when he heard these words, and his anger was greatly kindled.7He took a yoke of oxen, and cut them in pieces and sent them throughout all the territory of Israel by messengers, saying, “Whoever does not come out after Saul and Samuel, so shall it be done to his oxen!” Then the dread of the Lord fell upon the people, and they came out as one.8When he mustered them at Bezek, those from Israel were three hundred thousand, and those from Judah seventy thousand.9They said to the messengers who had come, “Thus shall you say to the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead: ‘Tomorrow, by the time the sun is hot, you shall have deliverance.’ ” When the messengers came and told the inhabitants of Jabesh, they rejoiced.10So the inhabitants of Jabesh said, “Tomorrow we will give ourselves up to you, and you may do to us whatever seems good to you.”11The next day Saul put the people in three companies. At the morning watch they came into the camp and cut down the Ammonites until the heat of the day; and those who survived were scattered, so that no two of them were left together.12The people said to Samuel, “Who is it that said, ‘Shall Saul reign over us?’ Give them to us so that we may put them to death.”13But Saul said, “No one shall be put to death this day, for today the Lord has brought deliverance to Israel.”14Samuel said to the people, “Come, let us go to Gilgal and there renew the kingship.”15So all the people went to Gilgal, and there they made Saul king before the Lord in Gilgal. There they sacrificed offerings of well-being before the Lord, and there Saul and all the Israelites rejoiced greatly.Chapter 12Samuel's Farewell Address 1Samuel said to all Israel, “I have listened to you in all that you have said to me, and have set a king over you.2See, it is the king who leads you now; I am old and gray, but my sons are with you. I have led you from my youth until this day.3Here I am; testify against me before the Lord and before his anointed. Whose ox have I taken? Or whose donkey have I taken? Or whom have I defrauded? Whom have I oppressed? Or from whose hand have I taken a bribe to blind my eyes with it? Testify against me and I will restore it to you.”4They said, “You have not defrauded us or oppressed us or taken anything from the hand of anyone.”5He said to them, “The Lord is witness against you, and his anointed is witness this day, that you have not found anything in my hand.” And they said, “He is witness.”6Samuel said to the people, “The Lord is witness, who appointed Moses and Aaron and brought your ancestors up out of the land of Egypt.7Now therefore take your stand, so that I may enter into judgment with you before the Lord, and I will declare to you all the saving deeds of the Lord that he performed for you and for your ancestors.8When Jacob went into Egypt and the Egyptians oppressed them, then your ancestors cried to the Lord and the Lord sent Moses and Aaron, who brought forth your ancestors out of Egypt, and settled them in this place.9But they forgot the Lord their God; and he sold them into the hand of Sisera, commander of the army of King Jabin of Hazor, and into the hand of the Philistines, and into the hand of the king of Moab; and they fought against them.10Then they cried to the Lord, and said, ‘We have sinned, because we have forsaken the Lord, and have served the Baals and the Astartes; but now rescue us out of the hand of our enemies, and we will serve you.’11And the Lord sent Jerubbaal and Barak, and Jephthah, and Samson, and rescued you out of the hand of your enemies on every side; and you lived in safety.12But when you saw that King Nahash of the Ammonites came against you, you said to me, ‘No, but a king shall reign over us,’ though the Lord your God was your king.13See, here is the king whom you have chosen, for whom you have asked; see, the Lord has set a king over you.14If you will fear the Lord and serve him and heed his voice and not rebel against the commandment of the Lord, and if both you and the king who reigns over you will follow the Lord your God, it will be well;15but if you will not heed the voice of the Lord, but rebel against the commandment of the Lord, then the hand of the Lord will be against you and your king.16Now therefore take your stand and see this great thing that the Lord will do before your eyes.17Is it not the wheat harvest today? I will call upon the Lord, that he may send thunder and rain; and you shall know and see that the wickedness that you have done in the sight of the Lord is great in demanding a king for yourselves.”18So Samuel called upon the Lord, and the Lord sent thunder and rain that day; and all the people greatly feared the Lord and Samuel.19All the people said to Samuel, “Pray to the Lord your God for your servants, so that we may not die; for we have added to all our sins the evil of demanding a king for ourselves.”20And Samuel said to the people, “Do not be afraid; you have done all this evil, yet do not turn aside from following the Lord, but serve the Lord with all your heart;21and do not turn aside after useless things that cannot profit or save, for they are useless.22For the Lord will not cast away his people, for his great name's sake, because it has pleased the Lord to make you a people for himself.23Moreover as for me, far be it from me that I should sin against the Lord by ceasing to pray for you; and I will instruct you in the good and the right way.24Only fear the Lord, and serve him faithfully with all your heart; for consider what great things he has done for you.25But if you still do wickedly, you shall be swept away, both you and your king.”
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What We've Been Reading: Radical Collaboration Edition
At Charities Review Council, we're still reeling from the innovative, collaborative and disruptive stories we heard at Annual Forum 2015-Philanthropy 2.0: Radical Collaboration. See what we've been reading since to keep our collaborative spirits fueled.
Solving Complex Social Problems Through Collaboration, by Cameron Conaway
This article explores the philanthropic consulting group Geneva Global, an organization that facilitates ‘dumbbell collaboration.’ Traditional collaborative relationships between nonprofits and foundations can be tricky, but Ava Lala, a director at Geneva Global, explains their solution. The group acts as “the handle in the middle that connects the two [weights],” nonprofits and donors, by pairing funders with compatible nonprofits as well as helping to manage donor funds. This directly relates to how Charities Review Council does its work, focusing on the relationship between the donor and nonprofit in order to achieve our mission! What are some non-traditional, maybe even “radical,” ways that you could collaborate with others to solve some of the world’s most pressing issues? Open Source Brainstorm Labs at the Council (Beginning January 2016) anyone?
Cuddle Parties, and Other Tips for Cross-Sector Collaborations, by Nonprofit with Balls
While collaboration between nonprofits is extremely important, we must not forget about the cooperative relationship needed between nonprofits and other sectors. As Le puts it, “Our communities can't afford for business, government, and nonprofits to be so siloed from one another.” This article emphasizes that all hands on deck are essential as we combat societal issues, expressing that “the challenges [are increasing] exponentially [as] resources... remain the same or [are] decreasing.” The article gives some serious tips for accomplishing collaboration, like networking and joining an organization outside of your sector, and some not so serious, but fun tips, like hosting a cross-sector cuddle party or karaoke night to help promote collaboration (we’re in!).
Collective Impact: The Missing Link by Neera Nundy & Ann Paisley Chandler
Implementing collective impact and promoting structured collaboration to solve societal issues is a concept that is positively accepted by most, but an approach that can be difficult to achieve. This article addresses the issue, stating “to make such a structured collaboration not just possible, but also highly probable, we need an environment in which stakeholders can perform their individual roles optimally while also collaborating with each other effectively.” In order to accomplish this collaboration, the author argues that we must build awareness for the issue, build the capacity of stakeholders to help them perform at scale, and nurture a culture where collective impact can flourish. Why is a collective impact important to you and the causes that you believe in?
What have you been reading lately? Let us know if you come across an article or resource that is informative or inspirational. We'd love to hear from you.
Meet Katy Putzker: Our New Nonprofit Services Intern!
Charities Review Council is excited to welcome, Katy Putzker, as our new Nonprofit Services Intern! Katy is currently a junior at the University of Minnesota where she studies Nonprofit Management and Marketing (talk about a perfect fit!). Originally from Montana, Katy moved to the Twin Cities for school, but is no stranger to the state of Minnesota. Katy has family in the area and to her Minnesota is a "home away from home." Katy is passionate about mental health and ending the stigma that surrounds it, especially on college campuses. Having experienced her own journey with mental health concerns after losing her dad unexpectedly a year and a half ago, Katy acts as an advocate for others. Katy is excited to be introduced to the nonprofit sector through Charities Review Council and cannot wait to learn more!
To better get to know our new Council team member, we sat down with Katy to ask her the tough questions: If you could be any superhero who would you be and why? And perhaps more seriously, what's your favorite Accountability Standard®? See what Katy had to say here:
1. What is your favorite Accountability Standard®?
My favorite Accountability Standard® is the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Standard. I think it's really important for nonprofits to be representative and inclusive of the population they serve so as to keep in mind the interests and concerns of that population. This standard allows nonprofits to be directly connected to the communities they serve, to maintain public trust, support organizational sustainability, and foster effectiveness.
2. How have you seen nonprofits have an effect on our community?
Nonprofits have the ability to benefit communities in a way that for-profit organizations cannot. Nonprofits create community and provide support for important causes. Nonprofits lead the way, creating awareness and education on issues that would not likely be discussed otherwise. I have personally seen the benefit that nonprofits provide while volunteering for various organizations.
3. When you're not strengthening the capacity of nonprofit organizations by interning at Charities Review Council, what do you like to do for fun?
I am currently taking an ice-skating course at the UofM, so that is always something I enjoy doing in my free time. I love being around friends whenever possible, even if we're doing absolutely nothing. I also have a slight Netflix addiction. I can watch Gilmore Girls over and over without getting sick of it – such a classic and real show!
4. If you could be a superhero, who would you be? And why?
Not necessarily a superhero, but a superhero in my book, Frozone's wife for the response she gives in the Disney Movie The Incredibles.
When Frozone asks “Where is my super suit? This is the greater good we are talking about!”
She replies “I am your wife, I am the greatest good you are ever gonna get!”
So really, who’s the true hero here?
To watch the clip, click here.
5. What are you most excited about as you begin your journey with Charities Review Council?
To learn more about the nonprofit sector and to help nonprofits go through the Accountability Wizard® review process. I am eager to learn and experience all that I can while working with Charities Review Council!
Katy will be working with us on nonprofit reviews, as well as nonprofit communications and outreach. Join us in welcoming Katy to the Council by reaching out to her on Twitter or LinkedIn.
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Artist of the Week: Arturas Braziunas, A Woman Walks into an Artist’s Studio…
By UGallery.com April 28, 2016
A woman walks into an artist’s studio and asks for a portrait.
“You know I try painting people,” the artist says, “they just always end up as sheep.”
(Line break for laughter)
This was a real (granted, slightly adapted for a pseudo-punchline) exchange between a woman and our Artist of The Week, Arturas Braziunas.
Between his anthropomorphized barn animals, his unifying yellow haze, and tongue-in-cheek titles, Braziunas, has claimed his own comedy corner of the art world – a space which he dubs “Romantic Surrealism Representative” art.
“I create not only an image on the canvas but also a small story. Very often the story is ironic or humoristic,” he says
The titles of these Braziunas stories are often catchy and ironic.
Take (with a recommended grain of salt), The Bodyguard. The painting features a scarecrow, fashioned out of two wooden planks, standing vigilantly on guard in a tattered, yellow robe.
Or, look at I’m Too Late, a portrait of a young romantic as a hapless sheep. The combination of apologetic eyes and dried up rose captures the hilarious irony familiar to any lovesick human.
On I’m Too Late the artist says, “the ending of the story depends of the viewer. Captions, to me, are very important; they are like a key, which I give to the viewer. It’s like the first impulse.”
So you decide, is it too late?
I’m Too Late
Braziunas, a Lithuanian artist, classifies himself as a part of a generation that experienced a national cathartic release of creative energy after years of rigid government occupation and censorship.
“My worldview was formed in the fracture, at a time when the regime changed. I remember that period…the time of idealism, faith in something good and bright” he says.
He attributes the naiveté, romanticism, and bright cleanliness of his paintings to this shifting political state.
He describes his aim as an artist: “I transform reality, creating a unique and artistic world that interacts animals, nature and things.”
See more of Arturas Braziunas’s art on UGallery
April 28, 2016 /UGallery.com
Arturas Braziunas artist, UGallery artist
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UFC on Fox 28‘s Mike Perry: 'Water is Wet. Fire Burns. And I’m Going to Beat Max Griffin.'
Matt Quiggins
UFC Flyweight Champion Demetrious Johnson Needs to Move to Bantamweight
Vince Carey
Bellator 161: Kongo vs. Johnson Preview and Predictions
Sal DeRose
UFC 192 Results: Cormier Edges Gustafsson to Retain Light Heavyweight Title
Events, Results, Spotlight
UFC 210: Cormier vs. Johnson 2 Weigh-in Video and Results
M-1 Challenge 99 Battle of Narts Results: Doskalchuk Defends, Farias Submits Vyazigin
Events, Results, Videos
CXF 10: Fall Brawl Fight Night Photo Gallery
Rear-Naked Choke Radio: A Deeper Look at UFC 189 and Invicta FC 13
Author Mike Pendleton
Mike Pendleton
Mike Pendleton is brand new to the MMA world, as fell in love with MMA after UFC 189. Mike graduated from the Illinois Media School in Chicago and is currently the host of "On The Mic" every Thursday from 6-9 p.m. CT. Mike has previously written for Bleacher Report, FanSided and Full Scale Sports.
PFL 2 Results: Brooks, Foster and Harrison Score Impressive Wins
On Thursday, June 21, the Professional Fighters League continued its 2018 regular season from the Windy City, touching down at the Chicago Theater. In the night's main card action, UFC and Bellator veteran W...
UFC 225: A Spotlight for Izzy Martinez
In the Midwest, particularly the state of Illinois, Izzy Martinez and Izzy Style Wrestling is a household name. Martinez’s accolades in the high school wrestling game are second to none, and he does an incredib...
When Will Amanda Nunes Get the Recognition She Deserves?
Miesha Tate was not only a great fighter. She also grabbed plenty of fame during her MMA career because of her battles with Ronda Rousey. When Holly Holm head-kicked Rousey, she became the first woman ever ...
Bellator 198 Results: Emelianenko Crushes Mir in Under a Minute, Advances in Tournament
On Saturday, April 28, Bellator MMA returned to the Chicago area for its 198th event which took place from the Allstate Arena in Rosemont, Ill. In the night's main event, two of the sport's most decorated he...
Dillon Danis Lives Up to Hype, Submits Kyle Walker in Bellator MMA Debut
Bellator MMA has the perfect problem on its hands following Bellator 198. When Dillon Danis announced his intentions to compete in MMA, everyone expected to see his world-class jiu-jitsu skills on display and h...
Bellator 198’s Frank Mir: Returning to Normal
When Frank Mir steps into the Bellator MMA cage on Saturday, it'll be his first fight since 2016. Mir will not only be returning to the fight game but he'll be making his debut under the Bellator MMA banner. He...
Bellator 198: Fedor vs. Mir Weigh-in Video and Results
On Saturday, April 28, Bellator MMA returns to the Chicago area for its 198th event which takes place from the Allstate Arena in Rosemont, Ill. In the night's main event, two of the sport's most decorated he...
Showing True Appreciation for Justin Gaethje
Who is Justin Gaethje and what has the MMA world done to deserve such an incredibly tough fighter? If you're still wondering who one of the top-ranked lightweight fighters is, you simply don't appreciate the...
The Failure in Promoting the UFC’s Female Champions
“THUG ROSE! THUG ROSE! THUG ROSE!” That's what we heard UFC light heavyweight champion Daniel Cormier, serving as part of the broadcast booth at UFC 217, screaming when Rose Namajunas defeated Joanna Jędrzej...
Curtis Blaydes Deserves a Title-Eliminator Bout When the UFC Visits Chicago
If you're not a fan of Curtis Blaydes, you don't truly appreciate all forms of mixed martial arts. There are plenty who wanted to see the rising Blaydes keep his fight against Mark Hunt standing at UFC 221, and...
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Amazon Holdouts: Not ‘Prime’ Customers
The Wall Street Journal: “Seventeen percent of U.S. primary household shoppers … say they never shop on Amazon … While the percentage has steadily declined over the past five years, roughly 22 million American households didn’t use the retailer this year. Those Amazon holdouts tend to be older than U.S. shoppers overall, with an average age of 57 versus 49, respectively … and they tend to earn less—$45,700 in annual income, compared with $62,800 among all shoppers. They are less likely to have or live with children.”
“For some it was their income or living situation, for others it was simply their preference or convictions … Lack of access to web-enabled devices, or living in places where it is difficult to receive packages, are key reasons people avoid e-commerce … Seanna Tucker, a 26-year-old content strategist in St. Louis, said she had never been a big Amazon shopper, but decided to avoid it on principle a couple of years ago after a dispute between Amazon and publishers over book pricing.”
“In recent years, both Amazon and its competitors, like Wal-Mart Stores Inc., have worked to bring more shoppers online and boost sales with membership programs, like Amazon Prime, which provides perks like video streaming and free, fast shipping for an annual fee of $99 … Meg Hoehn, a mother of two and teacher in Minneapolis, said she and her husband used to have a student membership to Amazon Prime but decided against renewing it, in part to become more financially responsible.” She explains: “We bought a ton of stuff on there … It was too convenient and too easy. We spend less money because we don’t have Prime anymore.”
Author Tim MannersPosted on December 30, 2016 Format AsideCategories Consumer Behavior, Ecommerce, Omnichannel, Prices, Retail, ShoppingLeave a comment on Amazon Holdouts: Not ‘Prime’ Customers
Amazon vs. Fraud: Not Responsible for Fake Goods
Slate: “How much responsibility do companies like Amazon, which are not only retailers but marketplaces for other sellers, have to ensure that the goods on their platforms are the real thing? The answer: Not as much as you probably think.”
“When it comes to its marketplace, the courts usually consider Amazon a facilitator, a platform for consumers to connect with merchants, not unlike how Uber views itself as a platform connecting riders with drivers. Amazon’s legal responsibilities include removing fraudulent listings when they are brought to their attention. As a result, chasing down frauds became a time-consuming and all-but-Sisyphean task for many legitimate sellers and copyright and trademark holders. Proving the fraud was on them, not Amazon.”
“Bringing further insult to legitimate manufacturers: Many fake items are poorly made and fall apart quickly. They cost less because they’re made more cheaply. And because many buyers don’t realize they’ve been the victims of a counterfeiting scam, they blame the company and sometimes post bad reviews online. Fraudsters don’t only cost the copyright-holder sales of the product; they also harm future sales by eroding trust in brands.”
Author Tim MannersPosted on December 30, 2016 Format AsideCategories UncategorizedLeave a comment on Amazon vs. Fraud: Not Responsible for Fake Goods
Beltway Plaza: The Future of Malls?
The Washington Post: “At Beltway Plaza, Spanish rings out from every aisle and the food court is populated by not Taco Bells, but various immigrant cuisines … Mostly, Beltway Plaza has found a niche as a large — and faintly 1980s — urban souk, hawking the necessities, and the oddities, of immigrant life … In a retail landscape that is increasingly bleak, could this be this the future of malls? … It’s the quintessential American mall, once flush with people, now scraping along as national retailers shudder.”
“Local real estate magnate Sidney J. Brown opened Beltway Plaza as an open-air discount mall in 1963 in Greenbelt, one of only three garden-filled towns in America developed for low-income families in the late 1930s under the New Deal … Greenbelt, envisioned as city filled with smartly manicured greenscape, eventually came to look more like a thicket of concrete and strip malls. But the mall, with its awfully affordable S. Klein Department store, a two-screen movie theater and a pizza parlor, was a hit.”
“At Jo-Ann Fabric, the sewing aisle, a beacon of immigrant industriousness, was humming … We trek to Import Cottage, where you can purchase brazen replica Louis Vuitton suitcases, large laundry bags emblazoned with ‘Charm of Africa’ and untarnished Indian costume jewelry … A stroll across the mall’s dated white-tiled corridors takes you past a cookie place that is not Mrs. Fields and a restaurant that is not Panda Express but Jodeem African Cuisine, offering the Nigerian specialties ogbono soup and fufu. There’s an El Taco Rico, about as large as a broom closet and just as dark.”
Author Tim MannersPosted on December 29, 2016 Format AsideCategories Brand Experience, Consumer Behavior, Consumer Insights, Retail, ShoppingLeave a comment on Beltway Plaza: The Future of Malls?
Times Square: Crossroads of Experiential Retail?
The Wall Street Journal: “Times Square’s flashy retail scene is known for its hordes of tourists drawn to Broadway shows, mass-market shopping options and kitsch. But asking rents have been coming down this year as more shopping moves online. That has prompted landlords to seek out more ‘experiential retail,’ such as food and entertainment venues, and more interactive elements in stores.”
“At 20 Times Square, a hotel and retail project at Seventh Avenue and West 47th Street developed by Witkoff and its partners, customers will be greeted by a 40,000-square-foot interactive football exhibit and theater from a venture comprising the National Football League, the NFL Players Association and Cirque du Soleil. Kushner, meanwhile, has signed leases at its retail condominium at a former New York Times building on West 43rd Street to bring an 11,970-square-foot food hall curated by chef Todd English; a 60,000-square-foot interactive exhibit from National Geographic called ENCOUNTER: Ocean Odyssey; and a 49,000-square-foot miniature world called Gulliver’s Gate.”
“Operators of these experiential businesses tend to generate more sales than conventional retailers do … Landlords are seeking a specific mix of tenants to cultivate their properties as destinations not just for tourists. Growing numbers of office workers and residents populating areas near Times Square are seeking out food, cosmetics and affordable fashion.”
Author Tim MannersPosted on December 29, 2016 Format AsideCategories Brand Experience, Ecommerce, Entertainment, Retail, ShoppingLeave a comment on Times Square: Crossroads of Experiential Retail?
Nestlé & The Scientific ‘Garden of Eden’
Quartz: “This is where Peter Brabeck-Letmathe, the outgoing chairman of the world’s large food company, has staked his flag, casting Nestlé—with its $88.8 billion in annual revenue—not as the purveyor of natural foods or conveniently-available snacks, but as the vessel to deliver a new, scientifically engineered Garden of Eden … Brabeck-Letmathe has forged into new territory, carving out a ‘nutrition, health, and wellness’ industry.”
“In Brabeck-Latmathe’s future, people will undergo health testing during varying stages of life to learn more about the genetic material of the microbes—the bacteria, fungi, protozoa, and viruses—living inside their bodies. Each time, the tests would analyze genetics, caloric levels, predisposed illnesses, and more. Such information would allow Nestlé to create products that essentially act as medicine to alleviate known health issues … Nestlé isn’t looking to enter the prescription drug business, but through these partnerships and acquisitions it plans to apply its new scientific knowledge to food products—something that could one day include a frozen pizza that’s healthy and prevents Alzheimer’s disease.”
“As the company incorporates its know-how into hardware, it will further develop its food products, sweeping out more sugars, salts and preservatives, replacing them with micronutrients and potentially with phytonutrients—plant-derived compounds hypothesized to be responsible for much of the disease prevention provided by plants. In theory, if a watch or implant tells you that you need more magnesium in your diet, consumers will be able to go to the grocery store and find products—made by Nestlé—to deliver that nutrient.”
Author Tim MannersPosted on December 28, 2016 Format AsideCategories Brand Experience, Brand Promises, Design, Food & Beverage, Innovation, New Products, Retail, TechnologyLeave a comment on Nestlé & The Scientific ‘Garden of Eden’
Food Trends: Buddha Bowls & Ugly Fruit
The New York Times: “Each December, lists of culinary forecasts pour forth from public relations companies trying to elevate their profiles, food companies looking to sell more food and professional associations hoping to guide chefs as they try to translate the zeitgeist into menu items. Social media wonks have jumped into the pool, too, eager to show off their powerful search analytics.”
“Meals in a bowl are … driven by … yoga, Gwyneth Paltrow, the gluten-free movement, a new appetite for Asian street food and the demand for grab-and-go convenience … It doesn’t hurt that food in bowls can be visually attractive, perfect for an Instagram feed. At Pinterest, which is used by 150 million people a month, Buddha bowls filled with simple vegan or vegetarian ingredients are among the top items that users post. The name evokes the mindfulness with which a monk holds a bowl of food.”
“Lynn Dornblaser, the director of innovation and insight for Mintel, has been trend-spotting for 30 years … The most important development on her list, she said, is the idea that healthful food and drinks are not luxuries … pointing to the growing sales of imperfect fruits and vegetables, often marketed as ‘ugly produce.’ She comments: “People who earn less than $50,000 a year are not buying gourmet olive oil or having Blue Apron delivered. But they’ve got a need for quality products just like everyone else does.”
Author Tim MannersPosted on December 28, 2016 Format AsideCategories Consumer Behavior, Consumer Insights, Food & Beverage, Food Service, Grocery Stores, New Products, Retail, Shopping, StorytellingLeave a comment on Food Trends: Buddha Bowls & Ugly Fruit
GNC Addresses Its Prices Crisis
The Wall Street Journal: “In October, the acting chief executive of GNC Holdings Inc. made a confession: The big vitamin retailer had ‘a badly broken business model.’ Its prices were too confusing and constantly undercut by online competitors. Sales were plunging. Behind the scenes, executives had decided the only way to fix things was to start over. So on Wednesday, GNC will close its 4,400 U.S. stores to overhaul its pricing system, which featured as many as four different prices on some labels.”
“When the stores reopen the next day, labels for GNC’s protein powders, herbal remedies and nutritional supplements will feature just one price. There will still be discounts, but about half of the company’s products will start at lower prices than before, while a quarter of the prices will be higher … While heavy promotions, especially during the holiday period, have become a sophisticated calculus, the nature of setting retail prices has become more complex. Online stores can set algorithms to change prices by the hour and nearly every shopper is armed with a smartphone, making the market transparent.”
“At GNC, executives gathered input from outside consultants, ran tests in 10 markets and had to get the support of outside vendors as well as its franchise owners. The company eliminated gaps between web and store prices, moved to end a discount-card program and determined new prices by comparing products it carried against similar ones at competitors.”
Author Tim MannersPosted on December 28, 2016 Format AsideCategories Brand Experience, Brand Promises, Ecommerce, Prices, Retail, ShoppingLeave a comment on GNC Addresses Its Prices Crisis
Late & Great: Jens Risom
The New York Times: “Jens Risom, the Danish furniture maestro who helped bring midcentury modern design to the United States through his work with Knoll Studio, died on Dec. 9 at his home in New Canaan, Conn. He was 100. Defined by sharp Scandinavian lines and fused with the rustic aura of Shakerism and American arts and crafts, the armless, affordable chair that became Mr. Risom’s signature in 1942 was one of the first mass-produced modernist furniture pieces introduced in the United States and not Europe.”
“Materials were hard to come by during the war, so Mr. Risom designed a chair with simple wooden legs and for upholstery used nothing other than surplus parachute straps. The surprise was that Mr. Risom’s creation — one of 15 pieces he designed for Knoll’s debut collection, and perhaps too humble to ever be described as a masterpiece — was almost comfortable enough to sleep in.”
“What resonates about it is that it’s not fancy,” said Wendy Goodman of New York magazine. “To Ms. Goodman … there was a certain logic to the way Mr. Risom went to the United States and helped remind people there about the beauty of its unfussy design history.” She observes: “Maybe it takes someone coming here to do that, because he romanticized the freedom and the openness of America, and that’s what’s so wonderful about his furniture.”
Author Tim MannersPosted on December 27, 2016 Format AsideCategories Art, Brand Experience, Design, Innovation, ObituariesLeave a comment on Late & Great: Jens Risom
McDonalds & The Founder’s Mentality
The Wall Street Journal: “A study out earlier this year from Bain & Company … shows that over the past 15 years founder-led companies delivered shareholder returns that are three times higher than those of other S&P 500 companies. Such performance can sometimes continue long after a founder leaves … Great founders imbue their companies with three measurable traits that make up what we dubbed “the founder’s mentality.”
“The first is insurgency: The founding team declares war on its industry on behalf of underserved customers.” McDonalds founder Ray Kroc, in The Founder, “a new film starring Michael Keaton … announces in the film that the McDonald brothers’ fast-service approach is akin to revolution … The second trait is an obsession with how customers are treated—an attention to detail that borders on compulsive. In his autobiography, Kroc discusses not only burger patties, but even how high they could be stacked and the amount of wax on the paper slips between them.”
“Third, these companies are steeped in an owner’s mind-set … Kroc was able to create an army of mini-founders by perfecting the franchise model … Bain’s research found that the best companies—the top 20% of performers, founder-led or not—exhibit the three traits … four or five times as often as the bottom performers. The bad news: Only about 7% of companies, founder-led or not, manage to maintain these traits as they grow to scale. Yet those that do create more than 50% of the net value in the stock market in any given year.”
Author Tim MannersPosted on December 27, 2016 Format AsideCategories Brand Experience, Brand Promises, Customer Service, Food Service, Innovation, Organization & CultureLeave a comment on McDonalds & The Founder’s Mentality
Logophobia: When The Croc Bites Back
The Wall Street Journal: “A branding backlash has some people working hard to remove logos and names from their clothes and accessories. Blogs and online discussion forums offer tips on scratching off the Ray-Ban logo from lenses, peeling away the Ralph Lauren emblem from new pairs of leather shoes and using a felt-tip marker to hide the Under Armour symbol on sports gear … For embroidered logos, some brand-phobics use a seam ripper—a small tool for unpicking stitches—but the method is time consuming. Each thread has to be pulled out carefully to keep the underlying fabric pristine.”
“Research shows that mid-tier brands often have the loudest logos because their buyers want to signal wealth. Seasoned luxury shoppers may prefer more subtle branding … Discerning shoppers who can identify a Brooks Brothers shirt from the six-pleat shirring at the cuffs or an Alden loafer from its distinctive stitching are ‘part of your tribe,’ said Jerrod Swanton, age 37, of Springfield, Ohio.”
“Jeff Taxdahl, owner of Thread Logic, a custom logo embroidery company … has a warning for logo tamperers. ‘Unless you’re fairly skilled at it, you would destroy the shirt … and once you get the threads out, the outline of the image may still exist due to the needle holes’ … That is a risk some shoppers are willing to take. “I don’t want to be seen in their stores, let alone wear the moose” says Ian Connel, Abercrombie & Fitch shopper. “He turned the shirt inside out and painstakingly removed each thread. ‘It has a few small holes,’ he said, ‘but it’s still better than having the logo’.”
Author Tim MannersPosted on December 26, 2016 Format AsideCategories Advertising, Art, FashionLeave a comment on Logophobia: When The Croc Bites Back
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How to get ps3 controller to work on ps4
How to get ps3 controller to work on ps4. How to Sync a PS4 Controller 2019-02-13
Tuesday, February 12, 2019 10:53:01 PM Irvin
How to Connect a PS4 Controller to a PS3 System: 5 Steps
A controller adapter not only allows you to use your favourite controller on any console but also saves you bunch of money on buying new controllers. Then click the Close button. If you have any questions, please leave your comment. Your DualShock 4 will now be registered to work on Steam, but that's just the beginning of the fun. . If it is not yet on our computer, the program will prompt us to download it. You just have to be in big picture mode and enable it in the settings.
How To Connect The PS3 And PS4 Controller On PC
It's a great companion for surviving that run or wading through the trove of cool indies you may have picked up during the. If you are able to see an image of the area the camera is pointing at on the screen, then your PlayStation Eye is working properly. Originally posted by :Launch bigpicture mode on steam. Not a gamebreaking problem by any means but kind of annoying. On the other hand, if we have the Xbox we do not need the above application for the Xbox controllers. For more information about how to install the program, you can see the on Cronusmax website.
Check out our guide to the of the season. Moreover, in December 2016 Valve Corporation announced the native support of DualShock 4 controller on the. Read on to find out how to do that. When playing under Uplay during close and open beta, I just had to plug in the controller and launch the game it will work fine. If your post contains spoilers, please give it the appropriate flair.
Can I use my PS3 remote control on my PS4
A joypad controller offers great flexibility when we play platform, sport, racing, and fighting games. Originally posted by :Launch bigpicture mode on steam. You can find different brand controller adapters on line. In the ScpToolkit Monitor shortcut, we have the ability to monitor both the wired connection of the controllers…. You can also pair the PlayStation Move motion controllers with your PlayStation Camera in certain games. But no matter what, the DualShock 4 is one of the best controllers this generation without a doubt. If you have encountered any problems during the installation, leave a comment below.
Easy to Use PS3 Controller on PS4
Some antivirus tools like Norton may report a false positive when you try to install the software. You'll also need to install DualShock 4 drivers and select a DualShock 4 controller instead of a DualShock 3. To get your DualShock 4 set up on Steam, launch the Steam client and click the controller icon at the top right to enter Big Picture Mode, which is Steam's console-like, controller-friendly interface. The process is identical to the installation of the DualShock controllers. You can also create game-specific control schemes by simply launching a game, pressing the PlayStation button and selecting Controller Settings. That should re-pair the controller from scratch. Once the installation finishes, the main installer of the application will appear.
It looks like it should be fine but very quickly your now clearly sensitive muscles just can't cope with unwieldy plastic of yore. ScpToolkit will scan our system to find the prerequisite software. Works for my ps3 controller. This article was co-authored by our trained team of editors and researchers who validated it for accuracy and comprehensiveness. Add the ps4 controller to the steam controller ineterface.
How to Connect a PS3 Controller to a Computer
The DualShock 3 controller was never compatible to work on Windows with official drivers from Sony. Your game process will still run smoothly. Not only should it work after this but you can customize every single controll on it via the steam controller interface. Make sure the room isn't too bright and that there is no light behind the player. If you have any problems when you using the gamepad, please email to contact us first,we will solve the problem at once. Should we already own a PlayStation console, we can use its DualShock controller on Windows.
Compatible controllers for PlayStation Now
You can purchase it on Amazon. This pops it into Bluetooth pairing mode. It has full vibration feedback. I feel dumb for not having tried that already. Want the DualShock 4's touchpad to behave like a mouse? I also see when before starting For Honor, the controller configurations.
How to use my PS3 controller on PS4?
Not only should it work after this but you can customize every single controll on it via the steam controller interface. Windows should automatically install the drivers but we need to do more than that to get it to work. In most cases, this process will entail clicking Install after reading through the terms of use. Nefarius has marked the as the latest stable, but we will install the. They will keep updating the software.
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The Universe Loves a Happy Ending
"Using his own journey of discovery as a backdrop, the author guides us through a complex weave of quantum mechanics, zero-point energy, near-death experiences, compassion, forgiveness, the Maya calendar and ancient wisdom from China and Hawaii. Gradually, we emerge into the light of the coherent theory of energetic healing that is ECOintention."
Hans Andeweg, MSc, is a Dutch biologist who has worked as a researcher in the field of bioorganic agriculture, gardening and forestry, and as a teacher and international organizational consultant. He has studied nature, quantum science, and spiritual wisdom traditions for over 20 years. In 2001 he cofounded Center for ECOintention with Rijk Bols. It offers a four-year vocational training course for those who want to become ECOintention Practitioners. The Center also works on eco-balancing and energy vitalization in over one hundred projects each year. Andeweg lives in Germany.
Read the Hans' blog here:
Everything is Energy, Everything is One, Everything is Possible
OVERVIEW of the book
The Universe Loves a Happy Ending is a new work from Hans Andeweg, the author of In Resonance with Nature. The earlier book became the basis of an instrument-based eco-healing method; this book describes a revolutionary paradigm for energetic healing called ECOintention, a technology-free way of healing life- and ecosystems from a distance.
Using his own journey of discovery as a backdrop, the author guides us through a complex weave of quantum mechanics, zero-point energy, near-death experiences, compassion, forgiveness, the Maya calendar and ancient wisdom from China and Hawaii. Gradually, we emerge into the light of the coherent theory of energetic healing that is ECOintention.
The first principle behind this work is that everything is energy and that everything is connected to everything else. But what does that mean for us personally — in our daily life, in our connections with our fellow humans and our work, and in our relationship with the earth as a whole?
The Universe Loves a Happy Ending answers these questions. It shows how the emerging connections between (quantum) science and universal spiritual laws give us new tools for working with life energy and consciousness as well as for influencing events.
The Universe Loves a Happy Ending summarizes the practical applications of this work in ten Principles of Energetic Guardianship. For those of us who act as custodians or guardians of life, whether we are managers or leaders, community activists or private individuals, regardless of whether we operate on a small or a large scale, these principles show us how to energetically charge, support and guide the life systems and ecosystems that are in our care.
Accessibly written and with numerous color illustrations, The Universe Loves a Happy Ending is an important book for anyone who acknowledges the importance of caring for the planet, the environment and life at every level.
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ERVIN LASZLO: The Self-Actualizing Cosmos
Available on Innertraditions.
The Akasha Revolution in Science and Human Consciousness
by Ervin Laszlo
An exploration of the current revolution in scientific thought and the newest scientific findings in support of the Akashic field
• Explains how the new Akasha paradigm recognizes the interconnection of all things in space and time through the quantum resonance of the Akashic field
• Reveals the cosmos to be a self-actualizing, self-organizing whole, bringing forth life and consciousness in countless universes
• Explores the latest discoveries in the sciences of life, mind, and cosmos
Read more: ERVIN LASZLO: The Self-Actualizing Cosmos
ERVIN LASZLO: Macroshift: Navigating the Transformation to a Sustainable World
by Ervin Laszlo (Author, Preface) , Kay Mikel (Editor) , Arthur C. Clarke (Foreword)
A “macroshift” is a transformation of practically all aspects of life, from individual lifestyles to the global economy. Expert Ervin Laszlo argues that the macroshift now upon the planet is unprecedented in scope, and, reverberating as it does at every level, warrants serious attention. This book describes the dynamics of today’s macroshift, cautioning that the values and behaviors associated with it have the power to either break through or break down world order. Readers learn about the essential dangers and opportunities they face and how they can begin to make informed, responsible choices.
ERVIN LASZLO: WorldShift 2012
WorldShift 2012
Making Green Business, New Politics, and Higher Consciousness Work Together
By (author) Ervin Laszlo
Foreword by Deepak Chopra
Foreword by Mikhail Gorbachev
A handbook for conscious change that could transform the current world crisis into planetary renewal
• Outlines the problems that make today’s world prone to breakdown and suggests actions we must adopt in politics, business, and everyday life
Read more: ERVIN LASZLO: WorldShift 2012
You Can Change the World: The Global Citizen’s Handbook for Living on Planet Earth
You Can Change the World: The Global Citizen’s Handbook for Living on Planet Earth should be required reading for anyone who cares about the future of the planet. Written by renowned scientist, futurist and Club of Budapest founder Ervin Laszlo, You Can Change the World answers two pertinent questions-first, what is at the root of all the conflict and crisis in today’s world? And second, what can actually be done to move toward a world where we can live in peace, without marginalizing and killing each other and destroying the environment?A handbook that urges readers to become global citizens who aspire to live responsibly on this precious but highly exploited and crisis-prone planet, You Can Change the World provides a simple and basic message: in today’s world it is neither wealth nor power, nor the control of territory and technology that make the crucial difference. How we think and act shapes our present and decides our future.
ERVIN LASZLO-IVAN VITANYI: European Culture and World Development
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INSTRUMENTALS FOR YOUR VOCALS
My name is Suzette, I don't find it important where I was born, who my parents are or were....''though, they are sweet.'' I like taking responsibility for who I am.
Like the song.... I remember, and that has given me a choice....
I do my best to live life in a simple an loving way...
starting to perform, play my guitar better, learning how to sing, and write beautiful songs about life/love...
I love being inspired and to inspire others to believe in who they are and that everything is possible. Giving yourself time... and lots of love.
Suzette.
The song, to which Burkhard added some instrumentals to, is a direct inspiration from the movie 'I remember you'', that is why it has the same title. The movie is about men and women. The woman is lost in her work/ in her head and she has lost her self in this way. The man is at a point in his life where he finds success. They meet in a special way.... On the brinck of life and death. They need each other. After this important moment they start to meet, and they remember each other, and because of this, they slowly remember who they are themselves.
I have chosen my words in this song in a way that we can understand this process of remembering who we are. I believe that life is great, pure love..... but it depends on what you would like to believe.
Please listen here
About our collaboration
We, Burkhard Mahler and I, have never personally met each other. I did find it a bit scary to just send my songs to someone I don't personally know..... But it simply felt right to do.
My instinct was right. We communicated through email and telephone. I sent him my song, it wasn't a really good recording... I used a simple Bose recording machine; and he listened to it, liked it, and created background music to it....
This is the end result for now.... Who knows what happens. I am very pleased with Burkhards' patience ant optimism, but also with his will to continue and finish a project. Thank you Burkhard!
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New album from Burkhard Mahler unites world of jazz, rock, and electronica
Boundaries, both stylistic and physical, are busted down on the latest album from Burkhard Mahler. A collaboration with saxophonist/guitarist/pianist Peter Schickling, Best of Fusion unites the worlds of jazz, rock & roll, and electronica for a dazzlingly inventive and futuristic hybrid. Furthermore, like the Roger Waters-commandeered Pink Floyd, Mahler and Schickling seem to have lost their anchor to Earth at times, leaping into extraterrestrial regions that only visionary musicians can reach.
The otherworldly adventures that Mahler and Schickling embark upon are perhaps best exemplified by "The Sax Lounge 2." An icy, disembodied female voice asks, "Do you love me, too?" as Schickling's sax breathes in and out of a synthetic cauldron. It's quite a trip and recalls the consciousness-expanding abilities of the most transcendent psychedelic music. "The Sax Lounge 2" is light years ahead of most contemporary jazz; Mahler is clearly seeking to break new ground here while remaining accessible to casual listeners.
Mahler's utilization of his rock inspirations is not as straightforward as other artists who blend the genre with jazz. For example, "The Other Side" is about as otherworldly as music gets with its interstellar guitars and David Bowie-ish vocals. "The Other Side" is one of the key songs on the record in that it openly expresses Mahler's fascination with the unknown.
On a less experimental note, shimmering melodies illuminate the dark beauty of "Nightpiano". It is here where Mahler and Schickling strike the most indelible moment of Best of Fusion as its union of subtly executed piano jazz and futuristic electronic rhythms achieves a heavenly marriage. Best of Fusion doesn't sound like anything else in a clone-drenched jazz market, and it deserves the widest applause.
Robert Sutton
jazzcorner.com
The Artist I recently checked out the latest CD from German composer/songwriter Burkhard Mahler entitled Chaos and Harmony released in 2011.
The band: The compositions of Mahler are pretty solid across the board. I would say he possess above average writing skills. Timing seems to be spot on within each sonic movement. Mahler clearly has solid melodic instincts via these compositions that match the cult Ambient style of music perfectly. The music melodic, dark, unpredictable, interesting, thought provoking and highly entertaining are just some of the words I would use to describe his music. Musical textures reminiscent of Moby and Prodigy. Anything ambient yet dark thought provoking and deep. If you like those kinds of artists you will no doubt get a kick out of this CD. The songs Above average songs. Very simple yet effective, conservative, highly original and passionate. Chaos and Harmony strikes the prefect balance between Ambient Theatrics and Passionate Orchestration. Mahler is clearly just letting it all hang out as a songwriters and as a result this is what comes out of the other side. My favorite song on the CD is "Ferrari". The vibe: Great vibe. Perfect for late night college parties, coffeehouses, or even magazine shops. The production delivers a lot of musical variety. Honorable mentions go out to amazing production virtuoso of Mahler. I give him high marks for not being afraid to let it all hang out musically. Mahler is not trying to be some catchy Ambient composer striving for mass appeal - he's just being himself. The CD refuses to try to hard - that's what makes it so amazing The good Very likeable, marketable record - amazing songs, dark, highly original. Possesses a very unique signature sound. The bad: Some of the songs run their course and them some. Many pieces drag on for 5+minutes. I literally fund myself hitting the "next" button on my media device. CD is also guilty of being a tad repetitive. The ugly: Their comes a point in time where the song needs to just end already.
The verdict Chaos and Harmony by Burkhard Mahler is a rock solid release. The songwriting is clearly above average. The production gets it's point across well. Again the most amazing thing about this CD is the composition genius of Burkhard Mahler. He's clearly a new premier talent from Germany. Fans of all things ambient will love this CD no doubt.
Markus Druery
Indieshark Music Critic
Burkhard Mahler, Chaos and Harmony
December 5, 2011 by Skope
Most would agree most popular artists out there have something truly special to give to their fans. This goes above the typical attributes like raw talent, amazing songs, nice voice, or even a very marketable look, sound and image. There's something truly infectious at the core of these artists that simply makes us feel good when we listen to them. Whatever "it" is - they all seem to have "it". Today I spun to the latest CD from Germany's own Burkhard Mahler entitled "Chaos and Harmony" released in 2011. Venturing to his website and reading his bio I get the impression he is one ambient composer that is extremely passionate about the songwriting craft - with an extensive catalogue of music available. From start to finish this CD from Mahler presents a type of evil genius flair and mystique. Almost like a modern day Moby or Prodigy or even Beck. It has an Ambient or even Alternative Rock quality to it but should not to be underestimated or easily pinned down. It dabbles in what I would call psychedelic ambient jazz with a techno or Electronica flair. Trust me when I say this artist goes a bit deeper than the next independent artist out there. Any fans of the above artists or musical styles will enjoy this latest release from Mahler. I get the impression Mahler is just rolling with what he knows as a composer within each one of these pieces. In other words he hits the mark remarkably well by just being himself. Favorite track is (Aint' Playin) and (Goin' On). Within each one of these songs Mahler finds his soul and delivers his best musical mojo. He is clearly from another planet and is a force to be reckoned with. The overall vibe of the production is very unpredictable, very original and highly entertaining.
Burkhard Mahler is a fascinating artist. Like I said most famous artists out there have "it" I'm not so sure what it but Burkhard Mahler clearly has whatever "it" may be.
Michael Morrison - Skope
Edited by Cyrus Rhodes
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