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Radon and Vapor Intrusion in Your Chattanooga Tennessee Home
Many residents of the south, including many residents of Chattanooga, Tennessee, believe that radon and vapor intrusion are only problems for those who live in the northeast part of the country. The truth is that residents of Chattanooga, Tennessee are at risk, and that means they need to have their homes and businesses tested by a qualified radon mitigation specialist.
If you have not yet had your Chattanooga, Tennessee area home or business tested for radon and vapor intrusion, the time to do so is now. One of the things that makes radon gas so dangerous is that its health impact is cumulative. That means that the longer your Chattanooga, Tennessee area home is exposed to radon the more serious the damage to your health can be. And since radon is the second leading cause of lung cancer in the Chattanooga, Tennessee area, those health impacts can be great indeed.
Get Radon Mitigation for your Chattanooga Tennessee Home
Only a qualified Chattanooga, Tennessee area radon mitigation company can determine if your home or business does have high levels of this dangerous gas. A radon mitigation company licensed to do business in the Chattanooga, Tennessee area will have the equipment and the expertise necessary to deal effectively with both radon gas and vapor intrusion. Testing for radon requires specialized equipment, and it is important to choose the right company.
When you interview Chattanooga, Tennessee area radon mitigation companies, it is important to check their qualifications and expertise carefully. Hiring the wrong Chattanooga, Tennessee radon mitigation company could end up doing more harm than good, so it is vital that you choose the right company. Asking lots of questions about the company and its expertise in the Chattanooga, Tennessee area is important, since every part of the country has a different issue when it comes to radon and vapor intrusion.
Every Vapor Intrusion Mitigation Plan is Unique in Chattanooga Tennessee
In some cases radon seeps into Chattanooga, Tennessee area homes through a contaminated well, or the ground water itself. A qualified radon mitigation contractor will be able to develop a plan to address that threat and resolve it quickly.
In other cases radon and vapor intrusion come from the soil surrounding those Chattanooga, Tennessee area homes. If that is the case, the radon mitigation company can work with the owner of the home or business to stop the gas from coming in. Since radon can seep into even the tiniest of cracks, mitigating radon or vapor intrusion often involves equalizing the pressure inside and outside the Chattanooga, Tennessee area home or business.
No matter what the ultimate radon mitigation plan, the first step is to have your Chattanooga, Tennessee area home or business tested for contamination. Until you have your Chattanooga, Tennessee area home or business tested, you will never know whether or not your home and family are at risk of vapor intrusion.
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A giant two-story café in shape of a vintage German Rolleiflex film camera is what springs up from nowhere, when dreamers follow their passion. Park Sung-Hwan and his wife Kwak Myung-Hee, both former army pilots built this absolutely stunning, oversized camera café just next to their house in South Korea's Yangpyeong County, about 50 miles East of Seoul.
From the outside the two large bay windows on each floor make up the dual lenses of the camera. Inside you'll encounter a collection of vintage cameras from miniature toys to real antique versions. The initial idea behind this construction was to build a place where people could share their stories and help each other to achieve their dreams. Since the café's final opening in 2013, their little dream went viral, having attracted numerous fans all over the world. However, both do admit that most visitors are merely interested in seeing the camera café, while the main intention was to create a space for dreamers who want to share their story.
Location: 341-13, Jung-won-ri, Yongmun-myeon, Yangpyeong-gun, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea.
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- Development of games for PC and XBox including 2003 game of the year
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
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to create ingame characters
- Can work with vague guidelines and produce quality finished assets
- Worked directly with talented industry 3D modelers including Kolby Jukes,
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Sentinel Labs while learning the Unreal Editor.
- Wolfenstein (XBox 360, PC): Lead character texture artist. Worked
hands-on with the 3D modelers. Responsible for painting skins for the
majority of the in-game characters and creatures, plus a few in-view guns
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PC and creature textures. Helped redesign Scholar Ling's costume.
- Neverwinter Nights: Hordes of the Underdark (PC): Worked hands-on
with the art director to create character portraits and textures. Created
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and textured Walrusman. Created numerous NPC, PC and creature textures
including the Krayt Dragon. Worked with fellow colleague to create 100+
weapons, items, clothes, armor and creature variations.
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IBSA Manufacturing was in Darwin recently to conduct a consultation and engagement program.
The NT engagement process covered a detailed update on training package development and the opportunity to discuss the Industry Skills Forecast and emerging skills needs within the areas of:
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IBSA visited Chartair in Darwin to discuss the aeroskills needs in the Northern Territory.
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Walter Mazzarri was pleased with the Inter performance and content enough with the point against Juventus.
Mauro Icardi opened the scoring, but Arturo Vidal equalised less than two minutes later for a 1-1 draw at San Siro.
"We played on a par with a consolidated team, especially in the first half. After the break we even pushed for the victory, which is a big leap in such a short space of time together," the Coach told Sky Sport Italia.
"I was interested in seeing this Inter. We had done very well against Genoa and Catania, but with all due respect they are not Juventus and I wanted to see how we'd approach this game.
"You could see we were a little tense in the first half, but the lads gave me an important response and I am proud of how they are playing at this stage of the year."
Antonio Conte said this performance shows Inter can challenge for the Scudetto.
"I was telling Massimo Moratti that all you need is two games that go wrong and immediately everyone says you need reinforcements. It's too early to discuss this sort of thing. We are growing, but we started from scratch and are so far above and beyond expectations."
However, there were some issues that Mazzarri highlighted, as Juventus took just 80 seconds to equalise and almost went in front soon after.
"We need to talk, because after the goal we were convinced that we'd already won. We even risked losing a few minutes later, so we should've kept pushing."
Asked about the referee, Mazzarri was irritated at the line of questioning.
"Vidal looked like he handled the ball on that incident, while Stephan Lichtsteiner should've received a second yellow card. I have decided not to talk about referees, anyway."
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Movies and TV
"Starry Eyes" : A Movie About the Occult Hollywood Elite – and How it Truly Works
Starry Eyes is a horror movie about a struggling actress getting mixed up with the Hollywood elite. Through the metamorphosis of the main character, the movie describes how the entertainment world actually works: via rituals, blood sacrifice, and occult initiation.
Warning: This article deals with subject matters that might be disturbing to some. Also, colossal spoilers ahead!
Starry Eyes is a typical horror flick: scary, bloody and disgusting. But the most disturbing part of this movie is not the gore and the violence: It is the fact that there is truth in it, a dark truth that many of us would rather ignore. The movie puts it all there, however, right in our faces, as it graphically describes all of the horrific implications. Starry Eyes puts on screen the dark and depraved side of the entertainment industry and the sick motivations of the people who rule it. It exposes the viewers to the elite's obsession with sexual exploitation, blood sacrifices, and satanic rituals as they bask in wealth and social admiration.
While many perceive Starry Eyes as a purely fictional film commenting on the desperation of starving artists, those "in the know" realize that a lot of the horror is based on fact. The movie describes rather accurately the process of what happens at the higher levels of the entertainment industry where abuse, exploitation, mind control, occult rituals, and blood sacrifices turn aspiring artists into traumatized sock puppets. Let's look at Starry Eyes and how it portrays the movie industry.
A Waitress Tired of Waiting
Sarah Walker is your typical struggling actress living in Los Angeles looking to become a big-time Hollywood star. In order to pay the bills, she waits tables at a local restaurant – a job she clearly hates.
Much to the dismay of her boss, Sarah is not focused on her job but is constantly on her phone looking for callbacks from production companies. At home, Sarah finds an intriguing casting call online.
At the audition, the aspiring actresses trying out for the lead role are all treated like garbage, and most of them leave in tears. Although she gave it her all, Sarah also fails to impress the auditioners who proceed to make her feel like a talentless nobody. Sarah then rushes to the nearest bathroom where she completely loses it.
As she comes out of the bathroom stall, Sarah is met by one of the auditioners who was impressed by this disturbing display of rage and self-mutilation. She is brought back to the audition room – but she is not asked to read lines. They want to see her have that violent fit again. Although Sarah is reluctant to pull her hair for the viewing pleasure of strangers, she is told: "You've got my attention" and is reminded about the fact that a million other girls could easily take her place. Throughout the movie, Sarah is constantly reminded that a million girls are waiting in line for her spot and that any attention from the all-mighty producers, no matter how strange or degrading their requests, is a rare privilege. At this point, the auditioners only want to see her pull her hair out, and nothing else. So Sarah does it.
The audition quickly stops being about a role in a movie and turns into a spectacle of extreme degradation and submission, a prelude to the ordeal she must go through to be an initiate of the occult elite. Although the audition ended with her convulsing on the ground under the cold eyes of the auditioners, Sarah leaves the building feeling happy: She got the company's attention. She gets a callback and the process of transformation truly begins.
Second Audition
Although she is treated with utter contempt by the production company, Sarah is excited to get a second audition. She is told that the only reason she got a second audition was because of her hair-pulling display – and nothing else. Once again, they are emphasizing the fact that it is not about talent but what she is ready to do to be a star.
At the second audition, Sarah wears a dress of pale color, which symbolizes her state of purity/innocence. We will later see that the movie follows the exact color code we see in other music videos and movies analyzed on Vigilant Citizen: White (or a pale color) symbolizes purity/innocence, red stands for transformation/sacrifice, and black for initiation. Countless females artists have appeared in videos that symbolically tell the "good girl gone bad" narrative and they all go through this succession of colors. Starry Eyes is somewhat of a behind-the-scenes look at what truly happens during that metamorphosis.
When Sarah enters the dark room at the second audition, she is immediately told to strip naked – although the role does not require nudity. Once again, it is not about the role, it is about something way beyond that. It is about turning a girl towards the dark side.
She is told:
"Let your inhibitions go. If you can't fully let yourself go, how can you ever transform into something else?"
The light then starts flashing and Sarah appears to undergo a process akin to mind control and demon possession. Each time the light flashes, we see Sarah either making a demonic face or feeling physical pleasure.
At the end of the process, Sarah appears completely consumed. She then notices the pendant worn by one of the auditioners.
In short, this was not an audition, it was a hypnotic mind control session intermixed with an occult ritual. Welcome to Astraeus Pictures.
Astraeus Pictures
When Sarah tells her friends that she auditioned for Astreus Pictures, she is told that "they're legit" and "the real deal". In other words, it is one of the few "big time" production companies that produces blockbuster hits. The symbolism associated with Astraeus Pictures subtly tells us about the true forces behind the movie business.
First, Astraeus is the name of a Titan god of Greek mythology and is mostly known for being the god of the dusk. As you might know, dusk is what immediately precedes the darkness of the night … the same way this production company brings darkness to the world.
The logo of Astraeus is also quite telling: It is the top half of a unicursal hexagram.
The unicursal hexagram is an important symbol in ritual magic and occult secret societies. It is also the main symbol associated with Aleister Crowley's philosophy: Thelema.
The unicursal hexagram is so-called because it can be drawn unicursally– that is, in one continuous movement. This is significant when forming figures in ritual magick, where a continuous line is preferred to an interrupted movement.
The symbol was devised by the Golden Dawn, and later adapted by Aleister Crowley as a device of personal significance. It is often worn by Thelemites as a sign of religious identification and recognition.
– Symbol Dictionary, Unicursal Hexagram
Today, the Thelema is taught by a secret society that is extremely influential in the entertainment industry: the Ordo Templi Orientis (O.T.O.). It is one of the main forces behind the occult, ritualistic side of Hollywood. The O.T.O is also subtly referred to in another "eye-opening" movie, Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut (read my series of articles about it here).
An important part of the O.T.O's teachings is sex magick – and we definitely witness some of it in Starry Eyes.
The Metamorphosis
After a successful second audition (which was about her standing naked and being exposed to an evil force), Sarah gets the ultimate privilege: A meeting with the producer. Before leaving her apartment, the movie emphasizes the red dress she is wearing: All of her friends comment on it, one of them even adds that "it is a bit much".
At the meeting, the producer of Astraeus Pictures tells Sarah what all producers tell young, impressionable girls when they want to lure them into a soul-selling contract:
"We audition a lot of young women in this building, but very few ever make it to this room. Some pretty big names went through here, going way back".
This implies that the Hollywood elite's way of functioning has been going on for decades.
"The role of Celeste is a really big deal for a young actress with no other credits to her name. Your face will be on a poster, a poster on a wall, a wall in the lobby, a lobby in a movie theater, a theater with a marquee."
For a girl working at Big Taters, hearing these words is what she's been waiting for her entire life – and the producer knows it. He then touches her inappropriately, and things get real.
When Sarah tries to make him stop by asking him if he wants her to read some lines, he replies:
"Sarah, THIS is the audition. You are at the gates. All you need is for me to open them for you".
Once again, nobody is interested in Sarah showcasing her acting talents. The "audition" is once again about her being degraded into giving up her body. Sarah refuses the advances and storms out of the room.
Her return to reality is however extremely difficult. She must beg to get her job back at Big Taters and, coincidentally, she is also told that about a million girls would love to have her steady waitressing job. She then regrets walking out of the producer's room and begins rationalizing doing the unthinkable:
"I kind of feel I'm selling my soul already. So it might as well be for something I love."
The Initiation
Under the influence of drugs and, since the second audition, with something evil burgeoning inside of her, Sarah decides to go back to see the producer. For that meeting, she wears another symbolic dress.
When Sarah gets face-to-face with the producer, she realizes that it is not simply about "sleeping with him" for his personal perverted pleasure. There is a metaphysical dimension to the process. It is about submission and initiation to an occult order through ritual. When Sarah falls to her knees before the producer, he says:
"Would you forgo your eyes for a new pair of eyes, eyes that can see with our vision? Would you give up your body to become a vessel for our voice, my voice? Will you give your old life away for a glorious new life?"
Within this oath is the summed up the entire transformation process that turns a regular artist into a full-blown "Illuminati puppet". By "forgoing" her eyes for a new pair, Sarah gives up her ability to perceive reality in order to only see what "they" want her to see. Is this why all industry pawns constantly hide one of their eyes in photoshoots? (See my Symbolic Pics of the Month articles for hundreds of examples.) By giving up her body to become a vessel to their "voice", she voluntarily gives up any kind of core values and artistic integrity she might have had to become nothing more than an empty shell pushing the messages of the elite. Finally, by giving her old life away, she completely erases her past self to turn into a new alter persona, an artificial creation that is completely programmed by the elite.
To all of that, Sarah answers "yes". She then proceeds to pleasure the producer … and things get weirder.
Looking at the skies with a crazy look in his eyes, the producer says :
"The gateway is opened Sarah. All you have to do is be willing to step inside. Kill your old self, Sarah".
The word "gateway" has a spiritual connotation as Sarah also opens herself to what will appear to be demonic possession.
The Sacrifice
The days after the disturbing ritual are extremely painful for Sarah. She keeps convulsing violently and feels as is she was dying. She also constantly loses hair which, as stated earlier, represent her true self.
While in pain and dying inside and out, Sarah is visited by someone from Astraeus, who shows her a vision.
When that vision vanishes, she is still in pain and looking uglier than ever. She then gets a phone call from the producer who says:
"You can go into the ground and be forgotten forever or you can be reborn. Did you expect it to be painless, that it would be easy, that you'd simply wake up one morning with everything you ever wanted laid out before you? I told you Sarah, dreams require sacrifice. And so do we."
Sarah does not only need to sacrifice her own soul to become "one of them". They require a blood sacrifice. Sarah, therefore, proceeds to kill all of her friends in an extremely violent matter. When the bloody deed is accomplished, men in robes immediately appear and lead her to the final ritual.
The Rebirth
After the blood sacrifice, a bunch of rich Hollywood elite people gathers for the ritual celebrating Sarah's rebirth.
The concept of symbolic death and rebirth is of extreme importance in occult secret societies. In most esoteric circles since antiquity, candidates for initiation are made to go through a period of "symbolic death" where they are kept in darkness to then be "born again". This concept is also central to Christianity as Jesus Christ resurrected from dead after three days in the tomb. The story of Jonah emerging from the great whale is also a part of Jewish and Islamic literature. However, in the case of Astraeus Pictures, the initiate is not on the brink of a great spiritual awakening, she is a mere puppet lured into a Satanic ritual for the profit and the pleasure of her handlers. The elite thrives on tapping into ancient and powerful archetypes and corrupting them for their own nefarious purposes.
At the end of the ritual, the producers yell "She is ready to transform!". The next day, Sarah is reborn.
The roommate notices that Sarah's eyes have changed – she now has the new pair of eyes that see only the elite's vision. Sarah tells her roommate "Things are changing for me" and proceeds to kill her – the last remnant of her past life. Sarah then opens her birthday gift from Astraeus.
In Conclusion
If you've read past articles on Vigilant Citizen, you probably realized that Starry Eyes basically encompasses everything that has ever been discussed on this site. By describing Sarah's transformation at the hands of the Hollywood elite, the movie puts on screen the true nature of those who control the entertainment industry … and the world. By clearly conveying the elite's total disdain for the common person and its obsession with corrupted rituals, exploitation, degradation and blood sacrifice, the movie exposes the "true self" of the industry, the same way Sarah exposes her true self to the producers.
If you still believe this is all fiction and that what is said here is all a crazy conspiracy, you might have an acute case of … starry eyes.
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I have lived in southern California for almost 8 years, and I have never liked driving past Los Angeles, let alone visit it. I've been to Hollywood Blvd once to see a few museums, but I always felt on edge and nervous. The pulse of that city – the connotation once gets while there – is so negatively charged, I can't believe people don't run away from it screaming. LA feels like lost dreams and lost innocence. Even before I started reading the articles on this page, I have felt this way about it. I just don't get why more people don't tap into their intuition? Are their big time dreams really THAT important? Get over yourselves! Be good moms. Be good dads or doctors or teachers. Those professions matter, not acting.
Yes, I live in San Diego. L.A. is a whole different world.. – different vibe. different people. different everything..
We H8 LA.
(San Diego has Many Crosses, on Many Mountains.. through out the county.. -blessed)
I lived in HollyWierd for a couple of years and met many landsharks
Los Angeles means The Angels…. which angels do they mean, it will be good to know
It's official name (in english, translated from its spanish origins) is "City of LOST angels."
Highly appropriate, don't you think?
Doesn't "Los" mean "The"?
Yes. Los is the plural form of the article La. La angel (the angel) Los Angeles (the angles).
Lady Ga Ga underwent a 'very very heavy 'birth initiation' the night of the Grammy Awards. 'very very heavy birtation tonight'
Did you see Lady Gaga in American Horror Story?
Noticed that all the Big ones seem to have HAIR problems…..Gaga, Beyonche, etc etc….and the WIGS & WEAVES….well nothing is natural…..seems like a recruiting movie they put out for the fluoridated 'starry eyed'…….blantantly obvious …..
this is insane and the craziest part about illuminati and the entertainment idustry is that everything is in your face. they don't even try to hide it and most people are in denial of it all cuz if they admit to it, it will shatter their world and make the world seem super sad. well denial is not a way to go about it!!! i am kind of glad things like this come out, that way we know more about how these people work, we get more information on all things them. so this is sort of good in a way. so creepy and so scary but knowing more is power.
5:45 min, she walks into a room and a note pinned to the wall behind her has the words "RIP Scarlet Johansson" scribbled on it…
It is truly disturbing what is going on in this world because of secret societies and their plots against the people. The entertainment industry that they control is at the forefront for most of the destruction of society with their satanic movies, music, and TV shows which has completely brainwashed millions of people into believing that evil is good and good is evil. There is only one way to survive this satanic indoctrination that has been used against the public and that is to give your life to Jesus Christ for he is really the way,the truth, and the life which can free people from the demonic influences that has been put in place by these satanic societies.
God Bless you VC for informing the people with truth! Stay Vigilant
I would like to put my 2 cents, when I was lil girl, I dreamed about being a s famous, like marilyn monroe. I would pray to GOD about it and I always make a wish to the stars. I'm so glad that my eyes are open but also heart broken, that my wish and dreams will not come true, because I will not to do this type of satanic s--t. I'm not perfect, but I will always be on GOD side. Now I'm studying to be fashion designer, and guess what have of the famous designers also sold out. Sad, I'm not going to let the devil take my dreams away, I will be a fashion designer and an actress, no I may not be hugely famous but I'll be happy with the lil money I have because I'm with God. I feel like Vivica fox is the only person who hasn't sold out.
too late ; shes sold out too
Ew, just ordered one from her line of wigs….Will report if I feel creepy.
I had the same dream my whole life. However the day I got saved was the happiest day of my life. I love Jesus and always want to be the daughter he intended me to be.
Lord knows what's happening between the kardashians/jenners
The last time Hollywood released a realistic depiction of true horror was back in the early 1980s, in a tv movie called THE DAY AFTER. It depicted the results of a nuclear strike on America. It has only ever aired on network television once (but I believe it has since aired on cable tv). The public outcry (more than 100,000 people called in for evacuation info during the movie), caused the powers that be to decide it wasn't in the government's best interests to expose the public to any more glimpses of what happens after the mushroom cloud. A movie like that should be more worrisome to the public than trash like STARRY EYES, which made the indy/horror film festival circuit last fall, then went straight to VOD in the US & DVD in Europe. Because it was just a crappy little horror flick that didn't even get a proper theatrical release! In my experience, the movies that people need to worry about, that have real satanic forces behind them — the TWILIGHT franchise, all those zombie/undead flicks, forays into sexual deviancy like 50 SHADES OF GREY — tend to make LOTS of $$ at the box office. Because Satan… Read more »
You are correct, but hold your horses.
Of course the "bigger problems" are Twilight, True Blood , 50 shades… etc, ALL the s--t that comes from tv 24/7.
But this happens to be an article and interesting/disturbing analysis about "Starry Eyes" – an occult movie that has an agenda similar to one VC has been talking about for years. Damn:D
Best comment here. but you didn't quote the bible. Reading the comments here I am curious about how much the audience for VC(long followed, very rarely comment), seems to have become a bible discussion group. Yes I understand the connection…but also the comments in the past have lead to greater discovery and learning….and new ideas…now it's all blending into the same. My favourite commenters…the regular contributors have been D d d, blu boy and eli Se / asparilla (spelling?) I know I will be hated for this comment! I don't mean harm or Ill will, but I miss the variety and scope of comments and insights of old
This was a Djinn Rebirth. Basically the victim releases their soul and the Djinn then take possession of the body as if it were a vessel. All avatars are Djinn. Djinn Reborn!
C'mon VC, I bet the director of this little indie horror is smiling right now because it's obviously based off of the whole conspiracy of selling your soul to the devil in Hollywood. I would not be surprised at all if inspiration was pulled from this site for the ideas that take place in this movie. I watched it a month or so ago because finally someone made this idea into a movie and I wanted to see how well they pulled it off. And up until a certain point, it's done pretty realistically. Casting calls do work like that and the second audition, which is the one scene that could be interpreted as possible mind control is pretty creepy. Right around the hour mark is when it goes off the rails though. Up until that point Starry Eyes was grounded in reality. But as soon as she meets up with the producer for the second time the film turns into a fantasy rather then really using any real life theories or diving into the idea of Monarch related stuff. I don't know why some thought the acting of the lead actress was bad, she was actually excellent in this… Read more »
This article is well articulated. Thank you for taking the time to put this together. May God bless you and protect you in this ministry.This scenario hits very close to home for me. – too close. I was almost this girl three years ago only I wasn't seeking fame and fortune. I was rejected, abandoned and broken. Two Satanic men sought me out and tried to sacrifice me. I called to Jesus in my distress and He rescued me (Psalm 18) He saved me, healed me, restored and transformed me. It truly is disturbing the lengths these people go through for a ANY soul. But nothing compares to the length Jesus went through for ALL of our souls. Unfortunately , these men/woman are NOT just in Hollywood, these cults are local and close to home. They are as close to you as your local bar/car shop. Here is my testimony- God Bless , remain vigilant (1 Peter 5:8) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRO6P66ioOk&s…
I just really love your comment. May God bless you!
Yes! It's just like the movie 'They Live', only the title should be modified to: 'They DIE!' *They* are everywhere (satanists) in all walks of life and the fact that the LEGIT ones HIDE their lives and acts PROVE that THEY KNOW they are ILLICIT in the eyes of God. Their time is short indeed. Soon, they will cry for the rocks to fall on them! Ohhghh, wellll……(rhymes with HELL)…..
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Are you kidding me? Where's that testimony, just a dead youtube link!!!
It shocks me how satanism is spread these days. Like it was the most cheesy thing. No wonder when the later days come most people will embrace all satanic imagery and the Antichrist persona because over the years, they have been brainwashed with these kind of movies, pop music and so many other things that seem to be normal today.
I am really worried about kiddos… and youngsters. Perhaps we older guys (35) are aware of all the evil stuff that is going on nowadays, but the young ones are naive and with their minds open like a blank book ready to be taught anything these evil masses want. I hope parents will be alert about all this, so that many souls can be saved after all this evil rottenness passes by.
I can't and don't believe that younger people can watch any number of blatant films like this (or the many subtle, hidden message ones that VC has covered) and not at least sort of understand that something is very amiss. I think they do know, but themes and pictures of unreality is so prominent in everything they read and watch that it all will look like innocent fantasy to them.
I wish and hope more will be able to resist that and see the things behind it that are real and evil. Pretty grim chance of it though, the force to convince them it's all no big deal is a strong one. *sigh*
I totally agree. I am a mom and I have always been cautious of what my daughter sees on TV or otherwise, even before I read VC or got saved by JC. As my daughter got older she got exposed to a lot more at school and by friends or family. I started reading this site & watching videos exposing the illuminati & satanic symbolism I started being more vigilant to monitor what my daughter watched but it became so nerve racking when I could see blatant symbols being used and all the subliminal messages. I decided since she was old enough I would show my daughter a video exposing Disney movie's hidden symbolism & now my daughter will point out symbols to me & knows to be cautious of one-eye, devil horns, 666, upside down crosses, pentagram, lightning bolts etc.
That is so awesome!
Yea it is a huge relief that she can use critical thinking for herself and differentiate between good & bad a lot better than most of her peers.
Yes, more parents need to educate their children on these matters. I want to volunteer at a church and spread the message to kids in youth groups, show them YouTube videos breaking it down about their favorite celebrities. But was advised against it because these truths are not something "the flock" want to accept, its "too scary and unsettling"
Why don't you volunteer in a synagogue instead?
I take it u r referring to the synagogues of satan.
Go away Kevin….far far away.
For those who advise against spreading the truth, this is a perfect bible verse that describes their mindset.
Isaiah 30:9-10
9 That this is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not heare the Law of the Lord:
10 Which say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophecie not vnto vs right things: speake vnto vs smooth things, prophecie deceits.
Well said.
you are right on how we should all be worried for the younger generation since they are very much naive but you should understand that not all the younger ones are as ignorant as you think they are, and i know this because i'm almost 20 years younger than you, I am a firm believer in GOD, Christianity is not just a religion to me but a life style and i always try to stay alert with certain situations, whether it has to do with the media, the news, though at times it can be extremely boring and depressing to watch, etc.
we're not all brain washed by what the media sells us.
i know i'm not a 100% informed on these types of subjects but i always try to learn and understand more about the world we live in and to be quite frank its extremely scary and disturbing to know the direction our world is leading to and the outcome it may have on our future.
also the fact that people consider movies like this entertainment is very sad and sickening
i am very much scared of what is to come in the future if things don't change
Something in your comment, and this post, made me recall a b-horror movie I saw many years ago called Slashers. The creator came up with the idea before "reality" TV caught on, though the movie didn't come to fruition until sometime after Survivor blew up.
The premise is Slashers is a Japanese reality game show where contestants go through a maze and rooms, anything goes, and they have to avoid or kill actual serial killers who are also actors (of sorts. Its hard to determine wtf they are. They kill people, but they appear to be recurring "characters", they get paid and are hired by the studio…)
Even back in the early 2000s when I first saw the movie, i thought "this is what TV is turning into. One day this very well could be real." Then Fear Factor and Dexter came along. (Though I confess, Dexter is addictive. I have mixed feelings on him.) Not quite Slashers, but heading that way…
IT'S FICTION STORYS ABOUT DEMONIC POSSESION HAVE BEEN AROUND LONG BEFORE HOLLYWOOD!!! [EX: Gothes Faust, picture of Dorian Gray]
being the older generation does nothing about it it does not matter about age.
this has been happening for decades if not centuries where people are brainwashed to suit an agenda.
if you want to wake up, do something about it. otherwise your still regarded to be asleep.
do you actively promote? or do you have the odd conversation with friends?
spread awareness on a mass scale. put yourself out there, have some balls.
thats what i do, this whole corrupt pyramid around us completely consumes my life trying to expose it.
its time we humans unite against the serpent followers, and make a change for good.
otherwise we will all be chipped and fighting even more wars.
dont support the troops! they dont know what they are fighting for. stop them from going to war.
change the culture. dont vote on elections, each party has the same agenda.
its a flase sense of freedom of choice when in reality we dont have one.
revolution is the only way forward, not violent! but dont do what they want us to do. we live to serve.
lets stop serving
You sound like me 😀
Hi Chris,
I have come across your comments many times and I feel that sometimes I have written those comments. Like you, I have found VC site by coincidence while researching 'Black Swan' which lead me to read very valuable information. I am a loyal 90's kid and as much as I was fascinated by some of the imagery in cartoons and music video clips which were somehow aesthetically attractive, it is very disappointing to discover the wicked minds hiding behind it and that those are not simply figments of imagination. Eventually, it makes you feel depressed that nothing nowadays is achieved by talent, skill or hard work like it was in the past. It is by simply selling yourself and paying a tremendously high cost for fame.
I'm 47 now and first started enlightening my children to all this two decades ago,when I thought they would be old enough to understand. My daughter is now begining to pass on appropriate information to my Grandaughter. The young are not as blinkered as some think
Just watched this movie the other day. So sick smh
And if anybody at this point can still deny the existence of Satan, you're only fooling and deceiving yourself.
So does this happen to all successful Hollywood actresses?
Do some escape the negative side of the industry?
I can imagine this kind of thing happening to people like Miley Cyrus, Britney Spears, Kristin Stewart, Emma Stone etc… but not for people like Jennifer Aniston, Sandra Bullock and Reese Witherspoon… or am I just naive?
I mean, has every big actress or musician experienced this kind of negativity? Or is it possible to bypass this?
Just wondering…
Good point. Some don't 'seem' so tainted and trashy.
Just because we have eyes it does it mean that we can see. We must have knowledge to see what others cant. Even though they make it seem like this is not real or just a joke and they try to desensitize us by showing things like this more often, this is the sad truth. We must stay vigilant.
We have an elephant in the room but since we suffer from Stockholm syndrome we won't bother to look at it..
I just wonder, if this movie is so close revealing the truth, don't you think 'they' might do something, such as not permitting this movie to be watch, or even exist? Deleting anything that can 'shows' how 'they' work, and such. Or 'they' are so powerful that 'they' don't care if this movie somehow have impact to people?
I thought the same thing, how do they let this be shown? Unless they don't care….which seems plausible.
Clearly you guys are new to this. It's imperative to have it out in the open. It doesn't matter if films like this get a direct-to-DVD release or that few people see them, the fact is, it's out there, and there are countless others on the same subject, Rosemary's Baby for example which I saw recently and for some reason it made me feel sick in my mind like very few other films have no matter how gory (not that I really like gory films) and if you look at how that woman in the films who was also Polanski's wife was ritually sacrificed by Charles Manson Gang about a YEAR after that film came out – THEN how the guy has fled the US after being found guilty of at least one case of raping a thirteen year old… and this is just one guy in the industry… well that's not all a coincidence. "Hidden in Plain Sight" is a very important part of the hubris and arrogance of secret societies and occultists, it's PART of the religion to constantly disclose. Once you're aware of it it's everywhere, not only within government but politics is all occult Common Purpose,… Read more »
Most people are in the occult or just don't care. Then you have us a very very small % of the population who do care. They show us to flaunt how much control they have. Just like the blatant symbology everywhere.
It's finally on Netflix guys! I can finally watch the film.
Wow, that really is too much. It makes me feel scared but at least I'm not alone, we have to be there for each other and help each other with kindness and love.


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- AnonymousOctober 15, 2015 at 1:49 PM
Crown Princess Victoria should take some rest. She looks too tired and all of a sudden she has started to look quite old. Don't like the dress!ReplyDeleteReplies
- AnonymousOctober 15, 2015 at 2:27 PM
I don't think she looks tired,old etc.she is pregnant and this is not an illness.Delete
I appreciate Victoria,a very active princess who will be a stunning Queen.
- AnonymousOctober 15, 2015 at 4:44 PM
The Crown Princess Victoria and Princess Madeline (Sofia) do women proud.Delete
(Only middleton-cambridge feel pregnancy is an illness to avoid duties).
Congratulations to both Prince/Princess Carl Philip! 2016 will be fun the watch the SRF babies under one year (3-Prince Nicolas).
And congrats to Carl Phjilip and Sofia with their first baby. We have seen the belly for a while, good she can let it out now.ReplyDelete
P Sofia pregnant!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousOctober 15, 2015 at 3:27 PM
Wow, happy news, there will be two Swedish royal babies next year! Can't wait.ReplyDelete
Finally a ponytail! Victoria looks so much younger here. I love the dress! She is so active, even in pregnancy. Well done Vic!ReplyDelete
About this that she looks old and tired, I also thought that first BUT she is pregnant and as we know her skin gets bad when she's pregnant. So I guess that's all :-) still she looks great!ReplyDelete
She not only looks great, she is great - a Crown Princess Sweden should be proud of. I'd like to see more of her an less of a certain other "princess" who loves the cameras. Anyway congratulation to her and her husband HRH Prince Carl Philip.ReplyDelete
who is this anonymous ????i want to know how beautiful you are that you can just give comments just like that.ReplyDelete
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I get a lot of people coming up to me for a chat when I'm with my daughter, so it wasn't a surprise when we were sat in the cafe and a woman, perhaps in her sixties, wandered over to us. Her opening gambit was to stare at my daughter in a mildly unnerving manner, which worried me a little, but when she started talking to me it was the usual questions "what's her name?", "how old is she?" and so on. This woman had a tendency to repeat herself, and her memory seemed like it might to be starting to go a little, but it wasn't the difficult conversation with the crazy stranger I had been concerned it might be.
A few minutes later, a man she was with, a little younger, wandered over too, his conversational skills consisting mainly of non-sequiters like "we've been to Derby on holiday", but he was pleasant enough, and my daughter happily munched away on her croissant while I chatted with these strangers. Presently the man wandered off, and the woman seemed as if she was going to leave too, but changed her mind. She started to talk about the man, it becoming apparent he was her son. "He has that Aspergers, have you heard of it?" "It was hard, because they didn't know for a long time" "It was hard", she kept repeating.
She took a couple of photos out of her wallet, dating back perhaps to the Seventies. Her son 3 or 4, blond, angelic and as cute as any child that age, her in her twenties looking beautiful, short black bob, blue dress that would be much in demand in a modern day vintage store. I could easily have been looking at a picture of my wife or one of her friends, the styles, as is there way, having come round again in more recent times.
I'm not sure why this woman had chosen to talk to me about all this. It felt like she didn't get to have too many conversations with anyone but her son, but of course I don't really know. Whatever she was trying to say, I took it as "my life wasn't always like this, I used to be young, beautiful and full of hope. I never expected to end up old, memory shot, taking my autistic, middle-aged son round a department store being the highlight of my weekend". I felt bad for initially having dismissed her as a crazy person, and I'm glad I spared ten minutes of my life to chat to her, rather than following that instinct many of us have, to avoid conversations with strangers that might turn out to be difficult.
Later that same week, and I'm listening to Mount Eerie's album 'A Crow Looked at Me', an album written and recorded by singer-songwriter Phil Elverum after losing his wife to pancreatic cancer. In 2015, when this occurred, his wife was 35, meaning his wife was the same age as mine. He also has a daughter, coincidentally also the same age as mine. I find it difficult to even think about what life would be like if I lost my wife. This album lays it out with excruciating honesty The little details like the mail still arriving in her name, and her toothbrush still in the bathroom. The larger worries like not knowing how much it's to talk about his wife to his friends and family, and most of all, how to bring up his daughter alone.
It's impossible to listen to this album and not put myself in Elverum's position, and it makes it so, so hard to hear. I have no idea how I would cope with bringing up our daughter myself, even though cope I would have to. I can't imagine not having my wife by my side, even in the often imagined far future, past our golden and diamond wedding anniversaries
One week, two glimpses of ways a life can unravel. The first, the slow unravelling of hopes, the possibilities of life limited by illness and unexpected responsibility. The second, the sudden unravelling caused by the death of someone expected to always be there. There are so many ways a life can unravel, and this week has made me want to wake up every morning and shout about how lucky I am that none of them have happened to me yet. Lucky that my problems are minor, lucky that my family are happy, healthy and close, and lucky my life as I know it is intact, for now.


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Following Trump's "Muslim Ban" the issue about the refugee vetting process has reached a fevered pitch.
But few of the arguments (so far) have been constructive.
What we do know is that the vetting process is already very thorough [1], [2], [3] and, statistically, very effective, which is just one reason why so many were so angered by President Trump's illogical blanket ban that, among many other glaring shortcomings, didn't include a number of countries with well-established ties to terror.
Fears of admitting Muslim Extremists to the US have been pitted against fears that any type of drastic pivot to a harsher vetting process would only seek to harm America's image on the world's stage.
Opponents of current vetting procedures cite a laundry list of terror attacks that have occurred on US soil such as the San Bernardino Attack or the Boston Marathon Bombing (among others) as examples of why we need better vetting for immigrants and refugees to the US. There certainly are improvements to be made to the process, but everyone should be open to discussions that will keep it a fluid and dynamic system. It must continue to adapt to needs of the US and the world over time by becoming more lax or more restrictive as needed.
In the place of reasonable discussion, however, we're met with a wild mix of equal parts erroneous conjecture, ignorance of the facts, and utter lack of long-term thinking. I haven't heard any good arguments about reforming the vetting process, only that it "needs" it, which is quite obviously coming from a place of fear. I'm all for a re-examination of the process so long as: specific deficiencies in our current system are highlighted, solutions to those deficiencies are proposed, and a strong case can be made that these solutions will result in a net-positive impact for the United States. As I see it, there are two major problems facing the United States at present regarding discussions about its policies on terror and immigration:
Problem 1: Conflating the Issues
While it's entirely true that the US has been the target of both lone-wolf and directed terror attacks on its own soil, people are too quick to single out the vetting process as the culprit.
Most of the perpetrators of US based terror attacks have been young men who are citizens or residents of the US who immigrated with their families, often when they were young. The vetting process, by definition, does not screen for future radicalization; it is not a "pre-crime" unit, nor should that be expected of it.
Rizwan Farook, one of the perpetrators of the San Bernardino attacks, was born and raised in the United States.[4] Of the Tsarnaev brothers who conducted the Boston Marathon Bombings, one was a naturalized US citizen and both were raised in the United States.[5] Omar Mateen, perpetrator of the Pulse Nightclub Shooting, was a US citizen born and raised in the US.[6] Najibullah Zazi, an Afghan-American, immigrated to the US at a young age and would later be implicated in a plot to conduct suicide bombings in New York City. [7] In all of these cases, these terrorists are survived by (or have left behind) members of their families that have passed US vetting procedures and have assimilated into American society without committing any terrorist acts. Curious.
Based on the facts, it appears to me that the the pressing threat to American security (as it indirectly relates to vetting) is not direct terror or subterfuge from foreign migrants, but instead home-grown terrorism and the radicalization of first and second generation immigrants and refugees with no connections – initially or otherwise – to established terror networks. Some of the other more frightening commonalities between these acts is that these are young, impressionable, and oftentimes disturbed men who may seek out violent ideologies that are in-line with their own thoughts. What is more frightening still are the similarities between young men like these and other non-Muslim, American, mass-murderers. It all comes full circle when we realize that we can't readily stop, or even predict, when the next young male – Muslim, citizen, or otherwise – will decide to enact violence on a mass scale. The only true variable in these despicable occurrences is which misguided ideology the perpetrator will choose to justify their actions.
Problem 2: No Long Term Solution
If we accept that radicalization is an important issue, then perhaps our vetting process shouldn't be our primary concern. There are certainly issues involving our screening procedures, but in many cases these failures are not intelligence gathering, but failures of action on the part of domestic counter-terror units. [8], [9] We should also re-evaluate the effectiveness and potential harm of domestic terror sting operations and dragnets conducted by US Intelligence Agencies. [10]
We need to consider the effect of heavy-handed and punitive immigration policies on the radicalization of Muslim individuals both at home and abroad. Is wise for us to communicate a distrust of Muslims in general through legislation and executive power? Should we continue to engage in interventions in the Middle East that cause massive collateral damage and further radicalize local populations? Surely not. Instead the United States needs to consider the proper balance between maintaining its security from foreign threats, properly assimilating migrants and immigrants, and supporting (and not hindering) grass-roots reform in the Islamic world. We're already engaged in a vicious cycle of tit-for-tat, reactionary policies, and we have the opportunity to work on ending it if we act intelligently. Perhaps in four or maybe eight years we'll have the chance to get started in earnest.
Nonetheless, foreign terror is a very real threat and cannot be ignored. I think every American knows that it is only a matter of time before we experience another attack orchestrated by a terror network. Our interventions abroad, however, need to be far more measured than they have been in years past. Likewise, a "take-all-comers" policy for immigration where a few countries unprepared for a massive influx of immigrants bear the brunt of a refugee crisis is a recipe for disaster. Europe is a prime example of the folly of a too-broad refugee effort without appropriate supports, even if their humanitarian spirit is admirable. If we are unable to present a compromise of policy that appeals to those who are already wary of immigrants – specifically Muslim immigrants – we risk the further rightward radicalization of our own constituency which, frankly, frightens me more than nearly anything else.


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Outfit of the Week: Michelle Obama
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THESE BOOTS. Balenciaga. And they were trending on Twitter yesterday and almost sold out now. What other outfit could be the Outfit of the Week? Duana and I dedicated over an hour to Michelle Obama's Becoming on this week's episode of Show Your Work Full Story
Sex and the City: The Instagram Years
In honour of the Emmys, Vogue posted this throwback photo. A good choice, right? Sarah Jessica Parker "liked" it. When this photo was taken in 1999, HBO was the be-all and end-all of prestige TV. Sex and the City was provocative and a cause for panic (like the Who Needs a Husband? Time Magazine cover Full Story
Sarah Jessica Parker: Best Met Royalty
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I'm mad now. I went to google how long SJP and Andy Cohen had been friends and got sucked into a long chain of Plead The Fifth segments (which I am going to make all of our friends play next time we're all together) and wasted an obscene amount of time because it's the middle of the night and nothing seems real. Full Story
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I totally forgot, or maybe didn't even know in the first place, that Blake Lively and Anna Kendrick are in a movie together called A Simple Favour. They announced it last year when Paul Feig was confirmed to direct. It's about two friends, Emily and Stephanie; Stephanie (Anna) is a mommy blogger and Emily goes missing and it sounds like, while trying to find her, Stephanie gets dark and twisty. Full Story
SJP "never responded"
I wrote yesterday about Sarah Jessica Parker on the cover of the new issue of PEOPLE promoting her new GAP collaboration. PEOPLE's initial post about SJP was focused on her kids and her marriage, a piece to butter up the MiniVan Majority. Full Story
SJP covers PEOPLE
How fortuitous…and at the same time …not? Sarah Jessica Parker covers this week's issue of PEOPLE Magazine. It's an interview that seems like it would have been scheduled ahead of time. Divorce is on HBO right now. And, as PEOPLE notes, she's launching a limited-edition children's collection with the GAP that's available on March 1. Full Story
Kim Cattrall, Kathy Griffin, SJP, and Andy Cohen
As I wrote yesterday in my post about Kim Cattrall's Instagram message to Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim is in a lot of pain, because of the death of her brother, of course, but also because, for 20 years, she feels she was meangirled by SJP who hasn't really ever stood up for Kim whenever people tried to blame her for being too demanding and negotiating a fair deal for herself on the show and when they were making the movies. Full Story
SJP is not Kim Cattrall's friend
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Those are Kim Cattrall's words, not mine. So a quick recap: Kim Cattrall's brother passed away last week. It's obviously a terrible time for her and her family. A few days ago she posted a message of appreciation to her Sex And The City colleagues for reaching out. Full Story
Hugh Grant, Globes 'Paddington' Presenter
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I am fond of hyperbole but I am not exaggerating when I tell you that I cried laughing when Seth introduced 'from Divorce, Sarah Jessica Parker, and from Paddington Bear 2, Hugh Grant!' It was a belated Christmas present I didn't know I needed. Full Story
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About three weeks ago, the biggest story in entertainment was the drama surrounding the Sex and the City franchise. There were accusations of toxicity and egotistical behaviour. Full Story
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My friend, professor, writer and activist Jennifer Kwon Dobbs was on 1:48 Voices from within the Korean Diaspora. From the website:
Featured guest : Jennifer Kwon Dobbs – author of "Paper Pavilion," currently working on second book, guest editor of the 3rd edition of JKAS and assistant professor of English at St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota
Reporting by: kim thompson
*** Jennifer Kwon Dobbs' bio:
"Jennifer Kwon Dobbs received the New England Poetry Club's Shelia Motton Book Award for her debut collection of poetry, Paper Pavilion (White Pine Press 2007). Currently assistant professor of English at St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota, Kwon Dobbs is working on an essay collection about the political geographies of overseas Korean adoptee birth searches and a second book of poetry."
Blog and info about Paper Pavilion: http://www.jkwondobbs.com
About the show:
About 1:48
This is a report that will air once every 3 weeks and will feature korean adoptees who are artists, activists, and philosophers.
I (kim thompson) will do the reporting and through the suggestions of others as well as my own contacts bring on different voices from within the adoptee community who live both in Seoul and abroad. For the time being it will air as a regular report that is featured on the "Steve Hatherly Show"
The reason that I've named the report thus is due to this fact (which I extracted from an article by Jane Jeong Trenka )
"since 1953 about 200,000 korean children have been sent to the west for adoption. with korea having a population of approximately 48 million this means one in every 48 korean citizens is affected by adoption. this show will feature some of those 200,000 who have returned home."
Click here to listen to Jennifer Kwon Dobbs.
Autumn is in full swing in Urbana-Champaign, and I am under house arrest for two weeks because of my specialty field exam. Today I stepped out to grab some lunch, and although the sun was hidden behind a blanket of grey, I was struck by the beauty of the trees and leaves and nature all around. I love Autumn. There's nothing more beautiful than watching the entire world change around you, not just one time, but four times every year.
Lately, I've been thinking about my role models: children's youth advocates, pastors and their wives, politicians, politicians' wives, etc. Specifically, three of my role models are Laura Bush, Audrey Hepburn and Jackie Kennedy. Aside from other problems inflicted by the Bush administration, Laura Bush invests a lot of time and money in librarianship. Her tenure as First Lady has significantly altered the landscape of and attention to libraries in this country. Hopefully whoever comes next will not drop us from her agenda. Hepburn, whose childhood was anything but comfortable, spent many years working with children and lobbying for children's rights in other countries. She didn't just give money; she gave her heart and her hands. Jackie O instilled pride in Americans at a time when Americans weren't feeling very proud. Also, she was an avid reader and writer througout her life. With the exception of the "gypsy" comment, I really like this poem:
I love the Autumn,
And yet I cannot say
All the thoughts and things
That make me feel this way.
I love walking on the angry shore,
To watch the angry sea;
Where summer people were before,
But now there's only me.
I love wood fires at night
That had a ruddy glow.
I stare at the flames
And think of long ago.
I love the feeling down inside me
That says to run away
To come and be a gypsy
And laugh the gypsy way.
The tangy taste of apples,
The snowy mist at morn,
The wanderlust inside you
When you hear the huntsman's horn.
Nostalgia – that's the Autumn,
Dreaming through September
Just a million lovely things
I always will remember.
-Jacqueline Bouvier
Last night I had a conversation with a friend about the types of books we like to read. We mentioned novels, biographies, short stories, poetry etc. I was sad that we both didn't have much time for leisure reading, so last night before I went to bed I flipped through one of my favorite collections of poetry: A Family of Poems, compiled by Caroline Kennedy for children. I was fixated on "Keep a Poem in Your Pocket." The words may appear simple, but they're rich with meaning. They really speak to the value of what a poem can do for your soul: "you'll never feel lonely." That's what words are to us. Words give meaning to life. Words comfort us. Words feed our souls. Words are our friends.
Keep a Poem in Your Pocket
Keep a poem in your pocket
and a picture in your head
and you'll never feel lonely
at night when you're in bed.
The little poem will sing to you
the little picture bring to you
a dozen dreams to dance to you
at night when you're in bed.
Keep a picture in your pocket
and a poem in your head
and you'll never feel lonely
at night when you're in bed.
– Beatrice Schenk de Regniers
Quoted from A Family of Poems: My Favorite Poetry for Children, collected by Caroline Kennedy


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Historical Terms
With more than half the semester already behind us, it's important to start preparing for exams early. For those of you too lazy to pick up your history book, here's a guide to some of the trickier terms you might encounter.
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Ryan Brown
Only Knowing Life with Essential Tremor
Ryan Brown's school, Sherman Oaks, held a walk-a-thon on May 26, 2011. The school was raising money for the American Cancer Society for the third year in a row. "As important a health concern as cancer is, Ryan didn't have a personal connection to it," says his mother Angela. "So together we decided to raise money for something important to him: essential tremor."
Ryan was diagnosed with essential tremor (ET) right after his fourth birthday. He began having tremor in his right hand at the age of two. Now 7-years-old, Ryan asked his friends and relatives to donate to IETF to support him in this year's walk-a-thon. He did a total of 14 laps and raised a total of $225.
Angela and her husband Eric felt mixed emotions in response to the news of their son's ET diagnosis. "Having a diagnosis and learning his condition had different treatment options brought a sense of relief," says Brown. "The reality of our child living his life with ET also brought about feelings of grief, fear, and uncertainty about what his future would be like."
Ryan's parents kept their conversations private so he wouldn't overhear and begin feeling what they did. "We didn't want him to have our emotions attached to ET," says Brown. To be honest, we still have a bit of anxiety and fear about how Ryan's condition will progress and how it will affect his life. It's something we can't control."
Having information, meeting others with ET, and knowing Ryan's receiving wonderful medical care has helped both Ryan and his parents. They chose to be honest and open about Ryan having ET with friends, relatives, and school. The knowledge made the family's acceptance easier. "It's not something we hide or are ashamed of," says Brown.
Ryan's pediatric neurologist requested occupational therapy as treatment. As a result, he saw an OT hand specialist once a month for nine sessions. Brown says "she worked with him on strengthening his neck and arm muscles. She asked us to sign him up for swimming lessons to work on his neck and arm alignment and strength."
When Ryan went to kindergarten, his parents requested a meeting with the principal and his teachers. They met with the school staff during the first week of school, shared information with them on ET, and drafted a 504 plan. This plan is similar to an individualized education plan. Named after the civil rights law Section 504 that prohibits discrimination against individuals with disabilities, a 504 plan ensures that the child with a disability has equal access to an education.
"At school and at home he uses a slanted desk when writing to keep his neck straighter and steady his hand," says Brown. "He also uses straws on a regular basis and thick pencils. He takes breaks when his hands hurt from writing to rest."
During his kindergarten year, tremor also began in Ryan's left hand. Although he now has tremor on both sides of his body, he does not yet use medication to control his tremor. Faced with a neurological condition that affects 10 million Americans, often much older, this young boy maintains a positive spirit and the life of an active youth. "Ryan only knows life with tremor," says his mother. "He is athletic and enjoys music, art, and reading."
His father Eric is believed to be the genetic carrier, though he has no symptoms yet. Eric's mother has developed mild tremor in her hands in recent years. Ryan's younger siblings, 3-year-old Garrett and 11-month-old Drew do not have tremor.
The family became members of the IETF after Ryan was diagnosed in 2009 with ET. "We are truly thankful for the resources and education we have received through the organization," says Brown. "I attended an information meeting sponsored by IETF a year ago in the Bay area and was awed to be in the presence of so many others affected by ET."


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A role-playing game (RPG) is a genre of video game where the gamer controls a fictional character (or characters) that undertakes a quest in an imaginary world. Defining RPGs is very challenging due to the range of hybrid genres that have RPG elements. Traditional role-playing video games shared three basic elements:
Modern and hybrid RPGs do not necessarily have all of these elements, but usually feature one or two in combination with elements from another genre.
Video game RPGs have their origins in the paper and pen role-playing games pioneered by Dungeons & Dragons. These were defined games with clear rules. The video game RPGs started out very similar to paper-and-pen games, minus the dice and with the addition of animated battles, but with the turn-based menu combat intact. Since then, the genre has been broadened to include:
The popularity of the role-playing concept – becoming someone else, somewhere else – assures that many more variations on the theme have yet to emerge.
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Box, the file sharing and data storage startup founded seven years ago by Mercer Island High School grads Aaron Levie and Dylan Smith, has reeled in a whopping $125 million venture round led by General Atlantic.
The financing follows an $81 million deal that the Los Altos, California company raised last fall, building a substantial arsenal for the company as it competes with the likes of Dropbox, Microsoft and Amazon's Simple Storage Service. Total funding at Box, which has doubled staff to more than 500 people in the past year, stands at $287 million.
Last week, The Wall Street Journal reported that the new round of cash was being raised at a $1.2 billion valuation, coming on the heels of the company turning down a $700 million buyout offer from Citrix.
"The confluence of cloud, mobile and social technology is transforming how every enterprise and individual manages information today," said Levie in a statement. "This new funding allows us to invest aggressively in the talent, technology and global expansion efforts required for Box to sit at the center of this shift and define the next generation of enterprise software." The company did not disclose its growth plans for the coming year.
Despite growing up in Microsoft's backyard, Levie and crew are anything but supporters of the software giant. In fact, Levie has routinely criticized Microsoft, suggesting that the company has lost its innovative edge. That's creating an opening for companies like Box, he says.
When Box raised cash last fall, Levie noted:
"Businesses of all sizes are moving their information and collaboration to the cloud, and with this new capital we'll support their transition by continuing to aggressively out-innovate legacy players like Microsoft."
Today's press release doesn't include any Microsoft references. But Levie has continued to reference Microsoft in his popular Twitter stream, just yesterday writing:
Microsoft's challenges are simple. They put a computer on every desk and in every home but forgot to put one in everyone's hand.
Box has continued to add enterprise customers at the expense of Microsoft, but also winning customers from another Seattle tech titan: Amazon.com. Though it didn't disclose revenue figures, Box's enterprise sales are growing by more than 200 percent year-over-year.
In addition to General Atlantic, other participants in the round include Bessemer Venture Partners, DFJ Growth, New Enterprise Associates, SAP Ventures and Scale Venture Partners. New investor Social+Capital Partnership also participated. As a result of the financing, General Atlantic's Gary Reiner has joined the board.
Given Box's connections to the Seattle area, I've often referred to the company as the "one that got away." Levie and Smith moved the company to Silicon Valley in 2006 shortly after it was founded, choosing the Bay Area because it had entrepreneurial buzz for young tech founders.
Editor's note: Box CEO Aaron Levie will be one of the keynote speakers at GeekWire's Startup Day on September 22. Details and tickets here.