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To do list[edit]
Anything to be done? Please add!
- Create a page for the new Disney's Festival of Fantasy parade in the Magic Kingdom park, as no one has created one yet.
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Disney/to do/Disney films
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Disney/to do/Disneytoon films
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Disney/to do/Pixar films
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Disney/to do/Pixar short films
- Help turn these Disney Princess articles, Snow White, Cinderella, Aurora, Jasmine, Pocahontas, and Tiana into good articles.
- Get Demi Lovato to featured article status.
- Help complete List of Disney theme park albums (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) to build a comprehensive list of theme park albums.
- Help complete The Walt Disney Company (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views), and get it to good article status or higher.
Help revise Walt Disney Animation Studios (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) at Talk:Walt Disney Animation Studios/rewrite
- Get Walt Disney Animation Studios (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) to FA status.
- The Princess and the Frog needs to be carefully monitored against users using "original research" to staple the article with racial prejudice.
- Get The Little Mermaid (1989 film) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) to good article status or higher
- Get Hannah Montana 3 to good article status, if it occurs this will be the first Disney album to enter in that class.
- Princess protection program (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) needs More info
- Get Walt Disney (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) to good article status.
- Get Virtual Magic Kingdom (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) to good, or even featured article status.
- I just added a stub for the Mickey Mouse Club serial: Walt Disney Presents: Annette, needs expansion if I don't get there first. Also, the Spin and Marty stub could use some work.
- Expand Go.com - Reality is that Disney renamed it's site, but would this now be a new link in light of settlement with owner of Go.com, Disney version is now: http://home.disney.go.com/lite/index The "Go" name is now used as Disney.Go under Disney.com link redirect similar to Wiki Redirection of links. Are these two related should be linked? Both are short and the first Go.com had no name recognition other than having the name first and similar logo.Kidsheaven 22:30, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
- Add the correct infobox (currently Template:Infobox_Disney_ride) to all attraction pages. Currently most of the pages are using this infobox, but some don't have an infobox at all.
- Add information or article(s) about park area music
- Apply infobox to all park attractions - and move related park specific details to the infobox.
- Organize, normalize, and coordinate between various lists of Disney theme park attractions found in Category:Lists_of_Disney_attractions.
Make pages for The Prince and the Pauper and a page for Laugh-O-Grams, as well as update the Alice Comedies page.
- Fix up the Disney character articles (see the List of Disney characters); a lot of them are too in-universe, lack sources, and need to be cleaned up and/or copy-edited.
- Clean up/consolidate/standardize/merge/fix all the associated Disney film lists (List of Disney animated shorts,
List of Disney featurettes, List of Disney feature films, List of Disney live-action films, List of Disney direct-to-video films, List of Disney theatrical animated features, etc. etc.) Tons of duplication, and fails WP:NOT (a collection of lists). See Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Disney/Animated Film Article Cleanup#Lists cleanup for an updated status.
- Create a barnstar for this WikiProject.
- Help organize class and importance levels on the new template.
- Correct the Disney categories to ensure that they are all associated with the master Category:Disney as opposed to being standalone. See Category:Disney parades as an example. That is, by including an article in Disney Parades, it should automatically be listed when viewing the master Disney category somehow/somewhere AND/OR have "Disney" category listed as well. Perhaps even as a subcat for Disney Parks or other tree branch.
- Rename/Modify the generic Magic Kingdom Parade article appropriately as either "Share a Dream Come True Parade" or "Dreams Come True Parade" or whatever the currently no-snowglobe version of the parade is right now.
- Clean-up the Pocahontas (1995 film) article.
- Make a comprehensive guide to the Mickey-Mouse short films, I could probably help, but I'll need some, well, help.
- Improve the Hercules (1997 film) article. The Production section (including its subsections) contains next to nothing about the actual production of the film, plus the Release section is in dire need of more information.
- Find sources and correct information in facts section for Pirates of the Caribbean (theme park ride). See this for explanation. JBFrenchhorn (talk) 20:27, 10 April 2009 (UTC)
- Make articles for every Disney cartoon that exsists, and make pages for the Walt Disney's Fun-to-Read Library books.
- Clean up/Reorganize the articles for Disney Interactive, Disney Interactive Studios, and Disney Consumer Products to reflect their actual hierarchy. May include making a new article for Disney Consumer Products and Interactive Media.
Things you can do[edit]
- Requested articles: Frank Armitage, Walt Disney's Fun-to-Read Library, More...
- Stubs: Work on stubs in articles in Disney stubs.
- Attention: See Category:Disney articles needing attention for any articles which may require attention.
- Cleanup: A cleanup listing for this project is available. See also the list by category, the tool's wiki page and the index of WikiProjects.
- Infobox: See Category:Disney articles needing infoboxes for any articles which may require an infobox.
- Article alerts subpage - Monitor article alerts, for more information see Wikipedia:Article alerts
- Tag the talk pages of Disney-related articles with the {{WikiProject Disney}} banner.
- Rate the Unassessed Disney articles and Unknown-importance Disney articles.
- Notability: Articles with notability concerns, listed at WikiProject Notability


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 ==General external body cleaning==
 I use Windex on a soft bristled toothbrush. NEVER allow any lens cleaner or glass cleaner containing ammonia (like Windex) to come into contact with the lens. This especially applies to lens coatings made prior to the mid 70s and to naturally bloomed lenses. The coatings back then were soft and were not fused to the glass (they hadn't yet learned to bake them) and the ammonia may eat up your lens coating.

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 ==Leather==
 A mild soapy water solution applied with a soft-bristled toothbrush, followed by saddle soap follwed by a silicone-based leather protectant, followed by shoe cream. Don't let the leather get too wet and soak through or the glue or shellac that attaches it to the camera may let go. If the leather is snagged (little bits of leather sticking up), I'll attempt to stick the snags back down with a 50/50 solution of bookbinder's glue and water, sparingly applied with a toothpick.

 ==For leather and leatherette that is scuffed==
 I use a slightly thinned solution of black leather dye, followed by a sealant. If it has a few really small bits missing, a black lacquer pen can be used to fill in the missing bits. If necessary, layers are built up until it looks natural.

 ==For leather and leatherette that are beyond salvage or missing==
 Replacement leather, composite leather, and leatherette can be purchased at [http://www.cameraleather.com/ CameraLeather.com] This comes in self-sticking sheets and can be bought in uncut sheets, or precut to fit your camera.

 ==Bellows==
 If you have pinholes, replacement is your best option. It is the ONLY permanent one. Bellows can be patched, but the patch will always be weak and will eventually start leaking light again. The best patching material I know of is bookbinder's glue mixed with lampblack. If you can't find bookbinder's glue, mix one drop of liquid soap with a bottlecap of Elmer's glue and add the lampblack. The dish soap makes the glue more flexible and so it will last a little longer. Black acrylic paint is also reported to work well, and remain flexible.

 ==Aluminum==
 Never-Dull metal polish. If the aluminum has oxidation stains, Alumabrite (sold in marine hardware stores) will sometimes get them out (keep it well away from the glass). If not, you'll have to resort to #0000 steel wool.

 ==Missing lettering==
 [http://www.micro-tools.com/ Micro Tools] sells paint pens that are used to fill in missing paint from recessed lettering.

 ==Brass==
 Never-dull metal polish. A chemical polish like Tarn-X can be used for especially stubborn stains on brass. Keep all chemical polishes away from the glass (most contain acids that can etch glass or eat away the balsam cements used in mounting them).

 ==Chrome or nickle plating==
 If an automotive chrome polish won't get it out, the only things you can do are learn to live with it, remove the chrome (and go to a brass finish) or get the part re-chromed. If you opt to go for the brass finish, a coat of clear lacquer will help you avoid having to polish the brass every two weeks or so.

 ==Steel==
 This is mostly for Ciroflex cameras. Naval Jelly will remove rust. If the rust has pitted the metal, you'll have to fill the pits. Be aware that you'll need to repaint or the steel will rust again.

 ==Paint chips and repainting==
 The aforementioned paint pens from Micro Tools will sometimes work. [http://www.micro-tools.com/ Micro Tools.] Most times you will still be able to see a very clear delineation between new and old paint though. If so, you'll have to strip all the paint off, prime, and repaint. Micro Tools also sells a "camera paint" that matches most original finishes. As a side note, Krylon Ultra Flat Black spray paint is good for replacing the flat black paint on the inside of the camera. Spray some into a can and apply it with a brush. An alternative is a flat black paint called "stove paint" that is found in most hardware stores. If you are going to completely repaint your camera, and if you have used an enamel paint, you'll want to bake it afterward, to harden the paint. No, you don't put your camera in the oven. When the paint is dry, you put it in a box with a 100-watt lightbulb for about an hour.

 ==Lenses==
 There are a variety of methods for cleaning lenses. This is the one I use, because I think it poses the least risk of scratching the lens. In the photography forum, I've been seeing some threads on lens cleaning that recommend lens tissues. This is a cheap and convenient way to do it, but it is also risky. Tissues trap dust and grit between lens and tissue and it is all too easy to scratch the lenses. Some lens tissues, meant for eyeglasses, are actually mildly abrasive and can scratch coated lenses with no help from trapped grit. Microfiber lens cloths are safer, but still not 100% safe. So how do you do it?

 Well, first you go over it with a blower and lens brush, to remove as much grit as possible.

 Next you are going to need some solvents. Commonly used solvents used in camera restoration (and lens cleaning) are:
 *Denatured alcohol, used to remove tar (from cigarettes, or pine pollen) and detriorated light seal material (sometimes found stuck to rear lens elements). Do NOT use rubbing alcohol; it will work, but it is not a benign solvent and it can attack some balsam cements used to glue lens elements together.
 *Naphtha (Ronsonol lighter fluid), used to remove grease and oils (naphtha is REALLY good for fingerprints).
 *Distilled water, used to remove everything else.

 '''These are all benign and won't harm your camera if you just keep them out of the electronics and don't actually SOAK the camera in them.'''

 *One other special solvent: a 50/50 mix of hydrogen peroxide and ammonia, used to kill and remove lens fungus.

 Then you get a big box of Q-tip cotton swabs. Dampen a swab with your solvent of choice, and start in the center of the lens, working outward. A little solvent goes a long way, so you want your swab to be damp, not wet. Use gentle pressure, not much more than the weight of the Q-tip. Don't scrub, but let the solvent do the work. Twist the swab as you go, so that a fresh surface is kept in contact with the lens and any grit is lifted away from the glass, not rubbed against it. You'll go through quite a few Q-tips. I generally go over my lenses two or three times with each solvent.

 When you use the naphtha, you may notice a haze forming on your lens as it dries. Don't panic; this is a GOOD thing. The haze is oil and grease that has been hydrolyzed (made water soluble). The naphtha itself leaves no residue. When you go over it with the distilled water, it will remove the haze.

 ==Fungus==
 Yes, there really is a type of fungus that can grow on lens coatings. The fungus secretes an acid that can, in time, etch the underlying glass. If it hasn't etched the glass, fungus and mildew can be killed and removed with a 50/50 mix of hydrogen peroxide and ammonia. There are several methods of cleaning up lens fungus, but this one is the best I know of for killing the spores, so it doesn't come back. At the same time, you need to give the camera a very thorough overall cleaning and replace the light seals, so you get the spores hiding elsewhere in the camera.

 ==Mildew==
 Mildew in a leather camera case cannot be killed short of soaking it in bleach (which would damage the case). You can knock it back in any of several ways, but it always comes back. It is best to just get a new case. Mildew can sometimes be found in bellows too. Replacement is your best option. "New old stock" Kodak and Zeiss bellows occasionally come up for auction on ebay, and these will fit most cameras. For those who REALLY don't want to do this, or who can't afford it, you can try "painting" the bellows (inside and out) in the aforementioned 50/50 solution of hydrogen peroxide and ammonia. This is not really a good idea (the glue may come loose that attaches the inner liner), but you have little to lose. I've also heard some people say that Listerine mouthwash will kill it, and they say they've had good results, but I haven't tried this one yet and can't vouch for it.

 ==Viewfinder glass==
 These are not high precision optics, but are just plain plate glass. Windex or other commercial glass cleaner on a Q-tip will do fine.

 A note of '''warning''' -- If you are cleaning the focusing screen on a TLR or a view camera, be aware that the framing guidelines on some cameras will wash off! An extra fine point Sharpie marker will put them back if you haven't washed them totally away.

 Now a word about the viewfinders on box cameras and those little pyramidal viewfinders on folding cameras: Again, these are not precision optics. Basically, they just show you where the camera is pointed. An old watchmaker's trick, used for brightening and removing scuffs from watch crystals, is to rub it with a little toothpaste on your finger. This will remove crud from a viewfinder that you didn't even know was there. It works especially well for brightening the plastic viewfinder lenses on box cameras. It will work on glass too, but it takes longer. Do NOT try this on the taking lens though, because that IS a precision lens, and toothpaste is abrasive.

 ==Now for inside the camera==

 First blow the loose crud out with a can of compressed air or a blower. DON'T use the kind of compressed air that comes in a spray can from the photo shop. I am talking about the kind you refill yourself with an air pump. Don't let the nozzle get too close to any semisilvered mirrors (what you would find in a rangefinder camera) or you risk blowing the silvering off. This should get rid of most of the loose crud. For bits of deteriorated tar-like light seal material, a Q-tip cotton swab dampened with denatured alcohol (found in hardware stores) will remove them. Use naphtha (Ronsonol lighter fluid) to remove hardened lubricant and the crud stuck in it. If you are going to relubricate, use a synthetic gun oil or sewing machine oil and be very sparing with it. Oil tends to spread to other parts (where you don't want it to go) and that is why you are having to clean it up. A very little goes a long way in a camera and too much can cause far more problems than too little. You should use no more than you can lift on the point of a needle, and only apply it to friction surfaces. The only places you might use more is on the focusing rod of some TLRs (the Ciroflex, for example) and on the focusing helical of an SLR (which uses lithium or silicone grease, is in the lens, and doesn't really belong here in an article on cleaning and lubing cameras)

 ==Focusing screens==
 '''the one that is the most fraught with peril'''
 Focusing screens in SLRs are plastic Fresnel lenses more often than not. They are pretty delicate and are easily scratched (the plastic is not particularly hard). DON'T use anything that is harder than the plastic screen to clean them. This includes brushes with plastic bristles. DON'T use anything that will rub grit against the screen (like a cloth or lens paper). I use an artist's brush I found at an art supply store. The handle is made of plastic. I heated it with a butane lighter and bent the handle at a right angle, near the tip, so I can get at the focusing screen with it better. First I gently brush at it for a while (dry) to loosen and remove any grit. Then I dampen the brush with distilled water (just damp, NOT wet) and go over it several times. Just gently brush at it, don't scrub, cleaning your brush every so often, until it is clean.

 ==Mirrors==
 There are several kinds. (A) Semisilvered mirrors: For semisilvered mirrors (ones you can see through, like in a rangefinder), the only thing that should ever touch them is a puff of air. If you touch them, the silvering WILL come off. It is very delicate and will stick to your fingers better than it will to the glass. (B) Front silvered mirrors: The mirrors in some cameras are front silvered (the silvering is on the front of the glass instead of the back). If you don't know, always assume the mirror is front silvered. Although these are not as fragile as the semisilvered mirrors, you REALLY don't want to scrub at them, because the silvering is a lot softer than the glass and can be easily damaged. I use Q-tips and a solvent (after blowing them with compressed air) and I let the solvent do the work, with little more pressure than the weight of the swab. I twist the swab as I go, in order to lift grit away from the mirror and keep a clean surface against the glass (I go through a LOT of swabs). The solvents I use are distilled water (for dust and dirt) and denatured alcohol or naphtha (for removing bits of crumbled light seal material). (C) Reverse silvered mirrors: Reverse silvered mirrors have the silvering on the back of the glass. These can be cleaned in the same way that you clean a lens.

 ==Shutter Blades==
 There are three methods.
 *The best is to disassemble the shutter and clean every part individually, then reassemble. However, that is well beyond the skill level of most people.
 *The next best method is to remove just the glass and then submerge it in a solvent in a vibrator cleaner. It is important to remove the glass first because vibrating cleaners are known to cause micro-fractures of the surface of the glass. Most people don't have access to a vibrating cleaner though and so they won't be able to use this method either.
 *Use a lens spanner wrench to remove the rear lens element, so you can see the aperture iris and the shutter blades. Set the aperture on it's widest setting and clean the back of the blades with a cotton swab dampened with naphtha (Ronsonol lighter fluid). Work the shutter a few times, get a new swab, and clean it again. Alternate between moist swabs and dry swabs, mopping up the lighter fluid (and dissolved oil) with the dry swabs. Keep doing this until there is no hint of oil or grease left on the blades. The blades working together will transfer any grease or oil from the front of the blades (that you can't reach) to the backs of others (which you CAN reach), so you should be able to eventually get it all. It takes a while. As long as you're at it, do the aperture blades too. When done, '''DO NOT LUBRICATE THE BLADES!!!!!''' Leaf shutters are designed to run dry (no lubricant). The blades will stick together and the shutter won't work if they are lubricated.

 ==Electronics==
 Circuit board cleaner (sold at Radio Shack) can be used to clean most electronics (bushes and variable resistors, for example). Always remove the battery first. The circuit board cleaner may be non-conductive, but the crud you're cleaning up (and that is suspended in it) probably isn't.

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The Happiness Equation: Want Nothing + Do Anything = Have Everything
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Countries with postmaterialist values ' where people know that they have enough ' tend to be happier than countries with materialist values ' where people always want more, regardless of how much they actually have.
According to the 2016 World Happiness Report, the happiest countries in the world are: 1. Denmark 2. Switzerland 3. Iceland 4. Norway 5. Finland 6. Canada 7. Netherlands 8. New Zealand 9. Australia 10. Sweden.
And according to the World Values Survey, the countries with the most postmaterialist values in the world are 1. Sweden 2. Denmark 3. Norway 4. Iceland 5. Australia 6. Netherlands 7. Andorra 8. Finland 9. Canada 10. Switzerland.
'Know that you have enough ' the one thing many billionaires want that they cannot have' ' is one of the many valid pieces of advice in Neil Pasricha's The Happiness Equation.
Our own Prime Minister Justin Trudeau echoes Pasricha when he asserts that 'a positive, optimistic, hopeful vision isn't a na�ve dream, it can be a powerful force for change.'
Pasricha points out that the single biggest reason it's so hard to be happy, is that human life was mostly short, brutal and highly competitive over the two hundred thousand years our species has existed on this planet. And our brains are evolutionarily adapted for this short, brutal and highly competitive world, where the constant focus was on 'food and safety ' or death.' So as Daniel Kahneman observes in his brilliant book Thinking Fast and Slow, the 95% of the mind that is unconscious ('system 1') is automatically more focused on averting loss than on acquiring gains.
Nonetheless, the 5% of the mind that is conscious ('system 2') can have a huge effect on your level of happiness.
According to research by University of California psychology professor Sonja Lyubomirsky, only 10% of our happiness is based on our actual life circumstances. Fifty percent is genetically determined (based on twin studies), but a full 40% our happiness is based on our values and attitudes, on how we see the world.
Other than knowing that you have enough, other useful advice Pasricha offers includes:
- Do not expect that great work and big success will bring happiness. Be happy first, because happiness will bring great work and big success
- Engage in physical exercise at least three times a week (this can be as simple as a half-hour of brisk walking)
- Write down positive experiences and things for which you are grateful (this acts as a positive reminder)
- Commit random acts of kindness. In his book Flourish professor Martin Seligman says that scientists have found that doing a kindness produces the single most reliable momentary increase in wellbeing of anything that they have tested
- Periodically allow yourself a 'complete unplug' from technology and stress (cf. Carl Honore's excellent book In Praise of Slow)
- 'Hit Flow'. When you're completely absorbed with what you're doing, it means you're being challenged and demonstrating skill at the same time. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi describes this moment as being completely involved in an activity for its own sake. The ego falls away. Time flies. Every action, movement and thought follows inevitably from the previous one, like playing jazz. Your whole being is involved, and you're using your skills to the utmost
- Engage in meditation (cf. the insightful book Love 2.0 by professor Barbara Fredrickson)
- Have internal, postmaterialist motivations ('Do it for you'), rather than external, materialist motivations (doing it to impress others).
The Happiness Equation is a very quick read, a light and pleasant book. For those who want more in-depth studies on happiness, other good books include Daniel Gilbert's Stumbling on Happiness and Sonja Lyubomirsky's The How of Happiness.
Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right
by Jane Mayer
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Countless polls indicate that a vast majority of North Americans want a much greater focus on clean energy sources, especially solar, versus dirty energy sources such as coal and oil. And as Naomi Klein points out in her book This Changes Everything, Mark J. Jacobson, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Stanford University, and Mark A. Delucci, a research scientist, have already authored a ground-breaking, detailed roadmap for how 100 percent of the world's energy, for all purposes, could be supplied by wind, water and solar resources, by as early as 2030 (Scientific American, November 2009). Nonetheless, the rapid adoption of clean energy seems to face barriers at every turn. How is it possible that widely popular technologies that may save humanity from catastrophic climate chaos are being blocked?
Jane Mayer a New York Times bestselling author, answers this question in Dark Money. A few years ago she published a shocking article in the New Yorker on the billionaire Koch brothers ("Covert Operations"), outlining their unrelenting attack on President Obama, on any measures to protect the environment, and on progressive values in general. In Dark Money she tells the full story of these anti-Elon Musks.
"Among the better-known financiers who participated or sent representatives to Koch donor summits during Obama's first term were Steven A. Cohen, Paul Singer and Stephen Schwarzman… Cohen's spectacularly successful hedge fund, SAC Capital Advisors, was at the time the focus of an intense criminal investigation into insider trading. Prosecutors described his firm as 'a veritable magnet for market cheaters'. Forbes valued Cohen's fortune at one point at $10.3 billion… Paul Singer, whose fortune Forbes estimated at $1.9 billion, ran the hugely lucrative hedge fund Elliott Management. Dubbed a vulture fund by critics, it was controversial for buying distressed debt in economically failing countries at a discount and then taking aggressive legal action to force the strapped nations to pay him back at a profit…
The hedge fund run by another of the Kochs' major investors, Robert Mercer, seemed a possible government target. The IRS was investigating whether his firm improperly avoided paying billions of dollars in taxes, a charge the firm denied. Ken Langone, the billionaire co-founder of Home Depot was enmeshed in a prolonged legal fight over his decision as chairman of the compensation committee of the New York Stock Exchange to pay his friend, Dick Grasso, the head of the exchange, $139.5 million. Philip Anschutz, a founder of Qwest Communications, whom Fortune magazine dubbed America's 'greediest executive' was fighting an uphill battle on a tax matter… Anschutz, a conservative Christian who bankrolled movies with biblical themes. had a fortune Forbes estimated at $11.8 billion as of 2015… Richard DeVos, co-founder of Amway, had pleaded guilty to a criminal scheme in which he had defrauded the Canadian government of $22 million in customs duties. Forbes estimated his fortune at $5.7 billion… Energy magnates were heavily represented in the Koch network. One prominent member was Corbin Robertson Jr., whose family had built a billion-dollar oil company. Robertson had bet big on coal, so big he reportedly owned what Forbes called the 'largest private hoard in the nation – 21 billion tons of reserves… Another coal magnate active in the Kochs' donor network was Richard Gilliam, head of Cumberland Resources… Among the 'frackers' in the group were J. Larry Nichols, co-founder of Devon Energy, and Harold Hamm. As Hamm, a sharecropper's son took his place as the 37th richest person in America with a fortune estimated at $8.2 billion as of 2015, and campaigned to preserve tax loopholes for oil producers, his company gained notoriety for a growing record of environmental and workplace safety violations…
It was in fact striking how many members of the Koch network had serious past or ongoing legal problems. Sheldon Adelson, founding chairman of the Las Vegas Sands Corporation, whose fortune Forbes estimated at $31.4 billion, was facing a bribery investigation by the Justice Department… The legal problems of Richard Farmer, the chairman of Cintas Corporation, included an employee's gruesome death. Farmer too ranked among the Koch group's billionaire donors, with a fortune that Forbes estimated at $2 billion… Given the participants' unanimous espousal of free-market self-reliance, the network also included a surprising number of major government contractors, such as Stephen Bechtel Jr. whose personal fortune Forbes estimated at $2.8 billion… etc. etc. ad nauseam.
Despite the ugly reality portrayed in Dark Money, it should be kept in mind that a few billionaires actually use their power to encourage progressive causes, most notably Elon Musk, Tom Steyer and Li Hejun, and they are supported by other postmaterialist leaders such as President Barack Obama and his cabinet minister Julian Castro, as well as our own Prime Minister Trudeau and his cabinet minister Melanie Joly.
Nonetheless, Mayer proves that the challenge for progressives is daunting. For anyone who wants to understand the true nature of power in our era, this book is a must-read.
Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World
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A paean to counter-cultural thinking
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Dr. Adam Grant is a professor at the Wharton School, and an up-and-coming public intellectual. Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World features endorsements from no less than 3 billionaires on the book's cover (Sheryl Sandberg of Facebook, Richard Branson of Virgin Group, and Peter Thiel of Palantir Technologies).
Indeed, this book received an extraordinary level of buzz, including a long excerpt in the New York Times. So is there anything to it?
Happily, there is. In a series of fascinating chapters, Grant debunks common myths about the nature of originality – that it is only the young who are creative; that people's first spontaneous ideas are the most original; that there is an early adopter profile that is common to creative thinkers; that originals follow their gut instincts, etc.
He illustrates that being a non-conformist is a lot harder than it may seem. As Dr. Ronald Inglehart and the World Values Survey demonstrate, the drive to be a conformist, to re-present past habits and traditions, and to re-present what we have learned from others is deeply ingrained. From an evolutionary point of view, it increases our chances of survival to learn from past successes and mistakes, as they have been communicated to us by our parents, our ancestors and other members of our local community. So if we are told by our elders that a number of people who ate pork died, and that we should abstain from pork, the prudent reaction is to avoid pork. And if we are told that a member of our tribe was killed by a member of a different tribe, then it makes sense to avoid strangers and to marry within one's own tribe. Moreover, as Nietzsche observes:
"An important species of pleasure, and thus an important source of custom, originates in habit. One does what is habitual better and more easily and thus prefers to do it, one derives a sense of pleasure from it and knows from experience that the habitual has proved itself and is thus useful; a custom one can live with is demonstrated as salutary, beneficial, in contrast to all novel experimentations that have not yet proved themselves. Custom is consequently the union of the pleasant and the useful, and in addition it demands no cogitation. As soon as man is in a position to exercise compulsion he exercises it to introduce and impose his customs, for to him they are demonstrated practical wisdom. A community of individuals likewise compels each separate individual to observe the same custom. Here there is the false conclusion: because one feels happy with a custom, or at least can preserve one's existence by means of it, this custom is necessary, for it counts as the sole condition under which one can feel happy; a happy life seems to derive from this custom alone. This conception of the customary as a condition of existence is conveyed into the minutest particulars of custom… one sees to it with superstitious fear that everything continues on in the way it has always gone; even when custom is hard, rigorous, burdensome it is preserved on account of its apparent supreme utility. One does not know that the same degree of wellbeing can also exist under other customs or that even higher degrees are attainable. But one does not perceive that all customs, even the harshest, grow milder and more pleasant in course of time, and that even the strictest mode of life can become habitual and thus a source of pleasure."
Therefore it is only with the recent advent of postmaterialist, creative economies that having new ideas has been widely celebrated and rewarded. Now instead of merely re-presenting the Old and the Same, we value presenting the New and the Different.
In his overview, Grant provides both psychological and sociological observations on the nature of originals. Though historically creativity was often conceived as an individual psychological phenomenon "inside" the brains of exceptional geniuses, recent theories have shifted the emphasis from the individual to the sociological conditions of possibility of originality. Richard Florida talks about the "3 T's" of creative cities - Talent, Technology and Tolerance; Frans Johansson talks about growing creativity happening at the "Intersection" of ideas, concepts and cultures as the result of the movement of people; the convergence of scientific disciplines; and the leap in computational power (both computers and the Internet). Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi talks about the relationships among Domains, Fields and Persons that result in originality.
And in perhaps the most advanced theory to date, Dr. Richard Ogle talks about creativity as being a result of the "Smart World" in which we live. He suggests that it makes little sense to think about originality as the result of individual genius, because in fact the mind is not merely about neurons in the head, but has rather been `extended' into the artefacts and tools we have created for ourselves (e.g. libraries, Google).
The chapters in Originals read like a collection of loosely-related (though interesting) magazine articles, and it can be challenging to digest all of the observations and insights Grant offers. Fortunately at the end of the book he summarizes several of his key points:
Question the default: Instead of taking the status quo for granted, ask why it exists in the first place. Conformity to "common sense" is the enemy of original thinking.
Triple the number of ideas you generate: The best way to boost your originality is to produce more ideas.
Immerse yourself in a new domain: Originality increases when you broaden your frame of reference.
Don't try to calm down. It's easier to turn anxiety into intense positive emotions like interest and enthusiasm.
Realize you're not alone. Even having a single ally is enough to dramatically increase your will to act.
Remember that if you don't take the initiative, the status quo will persist.
Hire not on cultural fit, but on cultural contribution. Originality comes not from people who match the culture, but rather from a non-conformist counter-culture.
by Michel Houellebecq
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Michel Houellebecq is the most widely translated French author in the world. He won the Prix Goncourt, the most prestigious literary award in France, with his previous novel The Map and the Territory. His work is characterized by a critique of Enlightenment liberalism, and his portrayals of the values of our era expose the misery of individuals who have been "freed" of the traditions of the past that gave life meaning.
Always original, Houellebecq's style is cold and clinical, with an acute sense of reality, long intelligent and insightful dialogues, and dark humour.
Submission is the translation of the word "Islam." The novel is about the submission of women to men, and of men to God, as dictated by Islam and also by the other monotheisms: "But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God" (1 Corinthians, 11:3).
In an interview with the Paris Review, Houellebecq says that he is "hostile to Enlightenment philosophy. Today atheism is dead, secularism is dead. In terms of values, there is a deeper opposition between a Muslim and an atheist than between a Muslim and a Catholic... I tried to place myself in the shoes of a Muslim, and I realized that they are in a totally schizophrenic situation. Obviously they are extremely distant from the Left and even further from environmentalists, for example on gay marriage, but they are distant on everything. And it is not clear why they would vote for the Right or even less for the Extreme Right which rejects them utterly. So in my opinion an Islamic political party is an obvious option for them." This is the starting point for Submission.
The central character in the novel, Francois, is a university professor who specializes in Huysmans (a naturalist writer who converted to Catholicism at the end of the 19th century) who is ill at ease in today's world.
In the French presidential election of 2022, the Socialists and the UMP/Republicans are both totally discredited, as well as an electoral system that has become nothing more than the sharing of power between two rival gangs. Only the National Front (Front National) is left, and is expected to win following a disastrous second term of Francois Hollande.
And, as predicted, the Front National of Marine Le Pen wins the first round of the presidential election.
However, the other parties are so opposed to allowing the FN to win, that in the final round the party is beaten by a candidate from a new party, the Muslim Brotherhood. The party's program, negotiated secretly with Manuel Valls, ensures that each French child should have the opportunity for an Islamic education.
Mohamed Ben Abbes becomes the new president of France, a moderate Muslim who comes across like a friendly Tunisian grocer, but who is in fact the most savvy statesman in France in decades. His vision: nothing less than rebuilding an Islamic version of the Roman Empire.
The inequality of men and women is institutionalized. This, combined with boosted family allowances, results in women leaving the workforce, consequently reducing the unemployment rate. In troubled neighbourhoods, the crime rates decline.
Teachers and professors are compelled to convert to Islam. Robert Rediger, a newly-converted Muslim, is the president of the new Islamic Sorbonne. Thanks to Saudi Arabia, professors' salaries are tripled compared to what secular universities paid.
The hero of the novel, Francois, is attracted by the new law permitting polygamy for men, as well as by the offer of a lucrative university chair, so he goes with the flow and converts to Islam. He believes that he can accommodate himself comfortably to the new situation – a sentiment reminiscent of the collaborators with the Nazis in World War II.
The philosopher Michel Foucault predicted that "One day, perhaps, the century will be Deleuzian." But here a different, darker possibility is expressed, that perhaps the century will be Houellebecquian.
It's difficult to disagree with Houellebecq's criticism of Enlightenment philosophy, which is based on a misunderstanding of the nature and the clarity of the human mind. The most recent research in social psychology shows that all of the decisions of the conscious mind (5 percent of the mind, which Daniel Kahneman calls "system 2"), even those that appear clear and reasonable, are in large part based on the unconscious (95 percent of the mind, which Daniel Kahneman calls "system 1"). Therefore the idea of the autonomous and free individual is largely illusory.
That having been said, according to Ronald Inglehart and the World Values Survey, secularisation, the liberation of women and gays, and the environmental movement are all very real phenomena. In each society, whether it is Saudi Arabia at the extreme of traditional values, or Sweden at the leading edge of postmaterialist values, there is a mix of traditionalists, of modern materialists, and of secular postmaterialists such as Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, Michel Onfray, Djemila Benhabib and Naomi Klein.
Even if Houellebecq and large numbers of traditionalists and modern materialists are complacently resigned to a return to theocracy, there will certainly be a strong resistance on the part of postmaterialists, as Charlie Hebdo demonstrated with courage.
Overall Submission is a provocative and insightful reflection on some of the most fundamental questions of our era.
How You Were Born
by Kate Cayley
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An impressive understanding of the nuances of human psychology
Oct. 7 2015
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Kate Cayley leaped onto the radar of many people when this collection of short stories beat the favourite Margaret Atwood for the Trillium Prize for the best fiction in Ontario this year. As amazing as it may seem, this was no fluke.
These brilliant stories demonstrate an incredible range in voice, sensibility and subject matter. What unifies them is an impressive understanding of the fine nuances of human psychology - for better and for worse. Recommended!
Fifteen Dogs
by Andre Alexis
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Thought-provoking and entertaining - a great combination!
Sept. 29 2015
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Fifteen Dogs is an extremely entertaining but also deeply philosophical story. It is strong from the first page to the last.
It opens with the gods Apollo and Hermes making a bet over a beer in a bar in Toronto. "Humans, said Apollo, have no special merit, though they think themselves superior. Hermes took the opposing view, arguing that, for one thing, the human way of creating and using symbols, is more interesting than, say, the complex dancing done by bees."
"I'll wager a year's servitude, said Apollo, that animals - any animal you choose - would be even more unhappy than humans are, if they had human intelligence."
Hermes accepts the wager, which sets in motion the story of Fifteen Dogs.
Alexis is not the first to meditate on the double-edged sword of human consciousness. Most recently, Daniel Kahneman has done so in his magistral Thinking Fast and Slow, and Nietzsche observed a century ago that "Consciousness is the last and latest development of the organic and hence also what is most unfinished and weak. Consciousness gives rise to countless errors that lead an animal or man to perish sooner than necessary, 'exceeding destiny,' as Homer puts it. If the conserving association of the instincts were not so very much more powerful, and if it did not serve on the whole as a regulator, humanity would have to perish of its misjudgements and its fantasies with open eyes, of its lack of thoroughness and its credulity - in short of its consciousness; rather, without the former, humanity would long have disappeared.
Before a function is fully developed and mature it constitutes a danger for the organism, and it is good if during the interval it is subjected to some tyranny. Thus consciousness is tyrannized - not least by our pride in it. One thinks that it constitutes the kernel of man; what is abiding, eternal, ultimate, and most original in him. One takes consciousness for a determinate magnitude. One denies its growth and its intermittences. One takes it for the 'unity of the organism.'
This ridiculous over-estimation and misunderstanding of consciousness has the very useful consequence that it prevents an all-too-fast development of consciousness. Believing that they possess consciousness, men have not exerted themselves very much to acquire it; and things haven't changed much in this respect. To this day the task of incorporating knowledge and making it instinctive is only beginning to dawn on the human eye..."
"Man, like every living being, thinks continually without knowing it; the thinking that rises to consciousness is only the smallest part of all this - the most superficial and worst part - for only this conscious thinking takes the form of words."
The Fifteen Dogs of Andre Alexis react to their newfound consciousness in different ways that we also see among human beings - savouring it, pretending that it's not there, using it to increase coordination among the group, and of course using it to dominate others.
A thought-provoking and entertaining novel - a great combination!
Outline: A Novel
by Rachel Cusk
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Drifting passively with an observant eye
Sept. 25 2015
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Rachel Cook is an extremely talented writer, and Outline is an intriguing book that is perhaps better described as experimental fiction than as a novel, an expression of passive nihilism. The narrator recounts a series of events, but what is missing in this series is precisely… a narrative.
The philosopher Nietzsche, often accused of nihilism himself, made a nuanced diagnosis of four types of nihilism: the negative nihilism of belief in a God and an afterlife where things are better, thus denigrating this life, our one and only life; the reactive nihilism of humanism or socialism, which place an unattainable ideal of "Humanity" in the place formerly attributed to "God", but still denigrating life in comparison with the unattainable ideal; the active nihilism of Nietzsche himself (as well as Foucault and Deleuze), which iconoclastically destroys these ideals/ idols; and the passive nihilism that realizes that ideals are unattainable, and consequently lacks any motivation for doing anything more than drifting. Outline falls in this last category.
This fine book is an exercise in style, in tone, and a semi-autobiographical account which has the reader witnessing the emptiness of someone who has basically given up on agency in her life, going with the flow, believing "more and more in the virtues of passivity, and of living a life as unmarked by self-will as possible." In additional to being an accomplished writer, Cusk has a perspicacious, almost clinical perspective on human behaviour and social relations. Impressive!
Undermajordomo Minor
by Patrick deWitt
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A dark but joyful fairy tale
Sept. 22 2015
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Undermajordomo Minor is not only the story of Lucien (Lucy) Minor, but also of the bizarre and fascinating characters who inhabit his world. At the age of 17 he goes to work in the castle of a mysterious baron, as an "undermajordomo". The oneiric adventures that ensue remind one of both Kafka and of Beckett.
Indeed, Patrick DeWitt falls into the category of what philosopher Gilles Deleuze calls "minor literature", subverting a major language (in this case English) to the point at which it reveals itself as a strange wonder, not re-presentative of anything, but evocative of unconscious affects and conscious emotions. Exhilarating!
Close to Hugh
by Marina Endicott
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The Importance of Being Close to Hugh
Sept. 20 2015
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The psychologist Brian P. Meier demonstrates that on an unconscious level, verticality is a pervasive metaphor that structures how we think about morality, power and social relations – what the philosopher Gilles Deleuze calls the arborescent model, as opposed to the horizontal rhizomatic model. In Marina Endicott's Close to Hugh these images of verticality are everywhere: flights of stairs and ladders which people are literally climbing or descending, or in a pivotal moment, from which they are falling.
Hugh Argylle is an art gallery owner in his 50s in a fictionalized Peterborough, Ontario. The people around him are also figuratively climbing or descending, with his aging mother Mimi in the latter category. Though the themes are serious, there is also a lot of humour in the book, which alludes to Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest and his appreciation of puns.
Martin John
by Anakana Schofield
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A fascinating look inside the mind of a troubled individual
Sept. 18 2015
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Martin John is the disjointed but exhilarating tale of Martin John Gaffney, a mentally-unhinged serial molester exiled from Ireland to London by his mother in a vain effort to protect him from himself.
Anakana Schofield's masterful writing, redolent of Beckett, has the reader inside the head of this troubled individual on a long spiral downward. Despite the dark theme, there are several moments of laugh out loud humour in the novel, adding levity to an otherwise bleak reality. Fascinating!
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Noninvasive Monitoring of Respiratory Viruses in Wild Chimpanzees
- Sophie KöndgenAffiliated withRobert Koch-Institut
- , Svenja SchenkAffiliated withRobert Koch-InstitutDepartment of Primatology, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
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To diagnose respiratory disease among wild great apes, there is a need for noninvasive diagnostic methods. Therefore, we analyzed fecal samples from habituated chimpanzees from Taï National Park, Côte d'Ivoire. Samples had been collected during four distinct outbreaks: two with known aetiology (March 2004 and February 2006) and two with unknown aetiology (October 2004 and August 2005). Fecal samples were screened by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) for the presence of human metapneumovirus (HMPV) and human respiratory syncytial virus (HRSV), two paramyxoviruses previously found in lung tissue of chimpanzees that died due to respiratory disease. In the March 2004 outbreak, 72% of the tested individuals were positive for HMPV, and during the 2006 epidemic, 25% tested HRSV-positive. In the outbreaks where no causative pathogen was previously known, fecal samples tested positive for either HRSV or HMPV, showing that reinfection occurred. Virus sequences were generated and compared with sequences previously found in tissue; nearly identical virus sequences in both tissue and fecal samples were found. These results demonstrate that fecal samples collected during outbreak times can be used for the diagnostic and phylogenetic analysis of HMPV and HRSV. Using such diagnostic tools, systematic noninvasive disease investigation of respiratory outbreaks in wild great apes becomes possible. The methods presented here may also be applied for the investigation of further acute diseases in great apes and other species.
Keywordsrespiratory disease chimpanzees great apes noninvasive detection PCR feces
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- Title
- Noninvasive Monitoring of Respiratory Viruses in Wild Chimpanzees
- Journal
Volume 7, Issue 3 , pp 332-341
- Cover Date
- 2010-09
- 10.1007/s10393-010-0340-z
- Print ISSN
- 1612-9202
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- 1612-9210
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- Springer-Verlag
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- Keywords
- respiratory disease
- chimpanzees
- great apes
- noninvasive detection
- feces
- Authors
- Sophie Köndgen (1)
- Svenja Schenk (1) (2)
- Georg Pauli (1)
- Christophe Boesch (2)
- Fabian H. Leendertz (1)
- Author Affiliations
- 1. Robert Koch-Institut, Nordufer 20, 13353, Berlin, Germany
- 2. Department of Primatology, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Deutscher Platz 6, 04103, Leipzig, Germany


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Nice editable theme through child themes. Would love to see more theme options than just two tabs with few options. And maybe some translation options for the "Read more" and "Search" words.
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My OC Mae Reed.
I'm having way too much fun experimenting.. This started off as a sketch a while ago and I decided to finish it today!
I'm having way too much fun experimenting.. This started off as a sketch a while ago and I decided to finish it today!
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Mae Reed Bio
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Name: Mae Reed
Age: 15 [new generation introduction age]
[However, we see her grow from a young child to an adult]
Hometown: Littleroot
Region: Hoenn
Mae is from a town called Littleroot. She has grown up there since birth. Everyone from the town knows her because of this- however, many other kids made fun of her. Mae was never interested in Pokemon. Her parents were successful and important "business" people. They would trade off Pokemon for a profit. They also ran several businesses across the region. Since her parents always had a busy schedule, Mae was mainly taken care of by her grandparents. She had a very, very close relationship with them-unlike the relationship she had with her parents. They would tell her stories of Pokemon and taught her to love
I love this coloring <3
I love this drawing, the colors are beautiful
This is lovely!
Pikachu coffee mug...oh man that's just precious... I LIKE IT!
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The unmistakable landscape of Flims was formed by a natural disaster known as the Flims Rockslide. It is a very attractive destination, especially for families. Kids can go on an expedition with Ami Sabi, a magical friend of the animals and the forest, to learn all about the beauty of nature. The perfect place for anyone who enjoys exercise and breathtaking natural scenery.
Whether you're looking for action on Europe's longest flow country trail or relaxation by Lake Cauma, you're sure to find it here. Mountain bike routes, hiking and themed walking trails, the «Pinut» via ferrata, the high-rope course and golf make for holidays full of variety for the whole family. A special highlight is river rafting in the «Swiss Grand Canyon».
The ski resort of LAAX is easy to reach from Flims. 29 facilities and more than 235 km of pistes offer everything that beginners, freestylers and skiing enthusiasts could wish for. Voted Switzerland's best skiing area on several occasions, LAAX is Europe's leading freestyle resort, with guaranteed snow and a special highlight in the shape of the world's biggest halfpipe.
- Ruinaulta Rhine gorge – rugged and romantic natural scenery in the so-called «Swiss Grand Canyon» with river rafting facilities.
- Lakes Cauma, Laax and Cresta – the deep blue and turquoise mountain lakes of Flims Laax Falera are perfect for relaxation, bathing and barbecues.
- Tectonic Arena Sardona, UNESCO World Heritage Site – the only mountain formation of its kind in the world.
- Paradise for bikers – 330 kilometres of mountain bike routes for families and freeriders alike.
- «Trutg dil Flem» water trail – an award-winning hiking trail through the rockslide area with unique gorge landscapes and seven bridges by famous Graubünden bridge builders.
- «Pinut» via ferrata – Switzerland's oldest fixed-rope route can be used by visitors as young as 12 with the right equipment.
- Ami Sabi Summer Wonderland – children from 4 to 10 join the «king of the Alps» to discover Flims and its stunning natural setting.
Principais Eventos
- rocksresort Summer Market – culinary specialities, traditional crafts and stories with and about Ami Sabi in Laax-Murschetg (June).
- Traditional Alpine descent – more than 100 magnificently decorated cows make their way down from the pasture to the valley each year (September).