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On a quiet, tree-lined street in the Astoria district of New York City, the mysterious shapes of giant steel domes appear, piercing through the monotony of flat tarred roofs with their soft, round shapes evoking in the passer-by images of the Middle East and the glory that was Byzantium. The quiet greenery of that street belies its proximity to the hustle-bustle of the Manhattan skyscrapers just a "stone's throw" across the river. The stillness is only broken by the occasional sound of an Amtrak train passing overhead on its aqueduct shaped bridge.
Before reconstruction of the new building began, there stood a little house-church which had for 30- years served as home to a pious portion of the Greek Orthodox community. Like the Pilgrim Fathers in Massachusetts, these particular Greeks had come to America to find religious freedom in the face of fierce, often violent, persecution of their faith in Greece. Ironically, they are not members of a small sect. By a quirk of history the government of Greece, in 1924, outlawed the 2,000-year old traditional Orthodox church in favour of a modernized Greek Orthodox State Church. Anyone opposing the beliefs of the State Church was branded as "uncanonical," and "schismatic" and—as the persecution reached a pitched fervour in the 1950's—the traditionalists were condemned in the secular Greek press as "enemies of the Greek people. . .those who seek to shatter our ethnic unity." Under the leadership of monks from Mount Athos the traditionalists, or "Old Calendarists" as they were labeled by the modernists, went underground in Greece until a recent revision of the law allowed them to publicly exercise their religious preference.
One such Athonite monk was sent to America to assist the emigrant believers. In 1952, Father Petros Astyfides, from St. Anne's Skete, settled in New York and began serving Divine Liturgy at the Old Calendarist Cathedral of St. Nicholas (near the WTC). In 1954 he started services for a small flock in a house-church on 26th Street in the Astoria district. He was latter joined by a deacon and some nuns from Greece who helped to establish a Greek school. With the passage of time, the small community was able to acquire several attached homes on the block which became a church, rectory, monastery, convent, and classrooms. The whole thing was named for a child-martyr, Saint Markella of the island of Chios.
In other cities of the U.S. other traditionalist churches were coming into existence as well. Eventually Fr. Petros was ordained to the episcopate and became Bishop of Astoria. He was appointed "Exarch of America" by the Holy Synod in Greece to serve the traditionalist communities all over the country. The little house-church in Astoria had become a cathedral—de facto—and the national center of the traditionalist "Old Calendar" Greek Orthodox in America (the State Church also has its own headquarters in Manhattan.) On the national level the diocese continued to grow—churches and schools, a radio program in Florida, a TV program on Greek cable, newspapers—even a small convent on Long Island were established. At the same time, the congregation in Astoria was "bursting the walls" of the old cathedral, the diocesan offices were in the attic, the school in the basement.
Finally, necessity forced the issue. It was decided to build a new cathedral. The style, of course, had to be traditional. The building needed to be large, but the desire was to preserve the atmosphere which the small old church had had.
The inspiration for the design of the new cathedral was taken from the Church of the Saviour in Hora. This Byzantine church was originally built as monastery "in the Country-side" (Chora) just outside the walls of Constantinople. The Roman Emperor Constantine the Great had resolved to move the Imperial Capitol from Old Rome on the Tiber (with its pagan legacy chiseled on the walls of its temples) to a "New" Rome which he had built on the Bosporus. Constantine's new city (Constantinople) was built throughout with Christian churches and monasteries. The Church in Chora was one of them.
Prior to commencing the new church in New York, a daily cycle of services had been running without interruption for nearly thirty years. When construction began, it was decided that the services must not be halted. Thus, the project became complex for the engineers as they had to build the new church around, over, and under the old one. Only when the new building was capable of being used for services was the old structure demolished and removed from the interior of the new one.
The political strictures imposed upon the traditional believers in Greece led many to aceed to the will of the State Church, some for economic reasons, others for fear of consequences to their children. Thus it is that members of the traditional church are often from the lower economic strata. These are the people who built the new cathedral. The engineering complications caused the construction time and cost to double, so that the basic steel and cement structure cost over $2 million when finally completed. The iconography, carved veneration-stands, chandeliers, episcopal throne, carved chairs, standing candelabras, and interior finishing work and the rest of what constitutes a traditional "Byzantine" style Greek Orthodox Church ended up costing millions. But, to the average member of the Church, it is well worth it. "For my kid's sake, I gotta do it" says one old woman in New York. "Hey, we're in America now, a free country," says a man in Detroit, "the cathedral is our national center—it has to be a symbol of our faith we can look to." One priest in Chicago said, "The Cathedral is the mother church of our diocese. We hope that it will continue to be productive in the salvation of souls, so that—according to God's will—her daughters (our parish churches) will prosper spiritually from her spiritual success."
In July of 1995, when the Cathedral was nearly completed, the Cathedral suffered from a serious fire. The fire started in the altar and did much damage there though the clergy were able to get the Holy objects out of harm's way. The iconostasis was completely destroyed and all the icons thereupon were seriously damaged or completely consumed by the flames and immense heat. No trace of several of them was ever found. A large brass free-standing candleabra was completely melted away, no trace of it was ever found.
After the firemen left, the clergy noticed that sitting face-up on the mass of burnt and water-damaged rubble was the icon of St. Markella. The icon was completely undamaged. The backing that the icon was mounted on was charred black though the icon itself and all the precious offerings hanging on it were untouched. The Old Calendar believers struggled to raise the funds to repair the Cathedral and today the results speak for themselves. There is a new carved iconostasis, a new marble floor, several new free-standing brass oil-lamp stands an immense polyeleos (Chandelier), and several smaller ones. There is a new carved episcopal throne, several carved veneration-stands, hundreds of carved chairs, and two new candle-selling stands (pangaria) and carved sand-boxes. The Cathedral is currently seeking donations to pay for these beautiful and traditional items.
In 1997, after struggling to preserve the Genuine Orthodox Faith for his entire life, Metropolitan Petros reposed in the Lord. Geronda Petros suffered greatly at the hands of the "official church" for his adherence to Genuine Greek Orthodoxy. He never wavered in his belief and confession of the Genuine Orthodox Faith. It is the same confession of the Holy Fathers and the same confession of all Old Calendarists.
In 1998 the Holy Synod of the Genuine Greek Orthodox Church of Greece elevated the Archdiocese of Astoria to the Holy Metropolis of North and South America. This was done in conjunction with the consecration of Archimandrite Pavlos of Astoria to the Episcopacy with the rank of Metropolitan of North and South America.
A Synodal Gathering of the Church of the Genuine Orthodox Christians of Greece at the Port Authority of Piræus
Keynote Presentation on the Sunday of Orthodoxy: February 16/March 1, 2015 by His Grace, Bishop Klemes of Gardikion, Secretary of the Holy Synod
Ecumenism in the Homestretch and the Orthodox Witness of a Contemporary Saint and Confessor
Ἡ Τελικὴ Εὐθεῖα τοῦ Οἰκουμενισμοῦ καὶ ἡ Ὀρθόδοξη Μαρτυρία Συγχρόνου Ὁμολογητοῦ Ἁγίου
St. John of Kronstadt Orthodox Church began as a mission parish in the year 2000, in a home chapel in Palm Coast, FL – a small town on Florida's northeast coast located between St. Augustine and Daytona Beach. After two years, it became necessary to have services in area community centers, rented for Sundays and other Holy Days. Read more...
Q. Are the prayers in the blue prayer book [A Prayerbook for Orthodox Christians by the Holy Transfiguration Monastery —ed.] compulsory for everyone? I mean their morning prayers and the service of Small Compline. My confessor gave me a special rule but wasn't clear about whether this replaced the book prayers or was in addition to them. Read more...


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Motown legend Marvin Gaye released his landmark single What's Going On in January 1971. Everyone knows the smooth report of Gaye's voice, but most won't recognize the voices in the background. And they wouldn't be expected to. Gaye enlisted two unknowns, his friends and former Detroit Lions players: Lem Barney and Mel Farr. The year before, Gaye began training in hopes to try out for the Lions. Never playing organized sports before in his life, he bulked up almost 30 pounds, aiming to play wide receiver. However, the Lions' head coach Joe Schmidt rejected Gaye over fear of putting him in harms way, stating that, "If I could sing like you, I certainly wouldn't want to play football." But everything seemed to work out fine for the legendary Gaye in the long run.
Yet the same can't be said for the Lions, who have been far from legendary for more than 50 years. The franchise began in 1929 as the Portsmouth Spartans. They moved to the Motor City in 1934 and changed their name because, according to a team spokesperson at the time, "the lion is the monarch of the jungle, and we hope to be the monarch of the league." The Lions attempted to merit this title, creating the Thanksgiving Day football game their first year in Detroit. But the Lions have yet to come close to the team's early ambition.
Some call it "The Curse of Bobby Layne:" after trading Layne in 1958, he allegedly cursed the team, saying they would "not win for 50 years." Prior to his trade, Layne brought the Lions three NFL Championships. During those 50 years, the Lions had the worst winning percentage in the NFL. But now, Layne's curse has become an understatement. It's been 53 years now without an appearance by the Lions in the Super Bowl, reaching no closer than a 41-10 blowout in the NFC Conference Championship in 1991. And more recently, in 2008, the Lions became laughing stock of the league by becoming the first team in NFL history to go a perfect 0-16 in the regular season, losing every one of their games. Other teams have experienced prolonged periods of failure: the Cubs haven't won a World Series since 1908. Yet, to their fans, they've become known as the "loveable losers." The Lions, on the other hand, would be better named Detroit's "hateable losers."
Nobody wanted to be a Lions fan after 2008. This may be changing. The Lions are currently undefeated and a hot pick amongst some observers to contend for the Super Bowl. I can't see it this way just yet. The history of my family and the Lions tells me to be on my guard.
Back when my grandfather began watching the Lions, I don't think he could've imagined the train wreck the Lions would become. He witnessed what one could call their "Golden Age," watching the Lions win three NFL Championships. But his children weren't so lucky.
"That's it. I'm finished. I'm done. I will never watch these bums again." Those were the defeated words of my Uncle Jimbo following the 1980 Thanksgiving Day game. After watching the Lions collapse and surrender the lead late in the 4th quarter, he stayed true to these words, never watching or supporting the Lions again until he passed away.
His younger brothers had long since given up on the Lions: Ron hopped on the Miami Dolphins bandwagon in the '70s and John has been a fan of the Rams since they played in Los Angeles. Likewise, my Aunt Judi began following the Minnesota Vikings in the '60s, citing their "toughness and defense" but more so the fact that "they always beat the Lions." For her the decision was simple: "If you live in Detroit, you always gotta have a backup."
My father, on the other hand, doesn't have a backup: he has always stood by the Lions. He lived through the mediocre '70s and '80s, sharing in the defeat of that 1980 Thanksgiving Day. In the '90s, he saw the greatest years in recent Lions history: the Barry years. Arguably the greatest running back of all time, Barry Sanders carried the Lions to five playoff appearances in the '90s. Barry brought the Lions their only playoff victory since winning the 1957 NFL Championship: a satisfying blowout of the Cowboys in the opening round, 38-6. But these successes only made the subsequent failures hurt more; unable to carry the Lions to the Super Bowl, Barry retired in 1998 saying, "the culture of losing in the Lions organization was too much to deal with."
When I came into the picture, I gave my father a companion in misery as we watched arguably the worst decade for any team in any sport. From 2001 to 2010, the Lions had no winning seasons, with an overall record of 39-121. Through 2001 to 2003, the Lions lost 24 consecutive road games and surpassed their own record in 2010, with 26 consecutive road losses. From 2002 to 2006, they had six first round draft choices, five in the top ten overall. But none of these picks are still on the team, and only a few are still in the NFL.
Through all this, I've watched my father whip numerous items at the television – hats, stuffed animals, etc. – out of disgust for the Lions. My family bought him a set of small foam footballs, for the T.V.'s sake. Needless to say, they're used every Sunday. And it's not just fans that the Lions curse, it's anyone that gets close to the franchise: no Lions head coach has ever gone on to be a head coach again. Horrifically, the Lions have even been morbid: late wide receiver Chuck Hughes is the only player in NFL history to have died on the field and two Lions players have been paralyzed on the turf, Mike Utley and Reggie Brown.
During these years of failure, my father and I haven't questioned our dedication to the Lions. We dream of a Super Bowl victory, but he doesn't think the team will ever win one in his lifetime. I'll ask him what he would do if this ever happens. He always answers: "I'd run up and down the street naked."
And this season, things seem to be different. The Lions are winning, on the cusp of a 5-0 start, all of the misery of the last 53 years seems to be in the distant past to fans and sports analysts. They've ignored the Lion's history, predicting a playoff berth and, in some cases, a trip to the Super Bowl. As diehard fans our entire lives, it's been funny to watch. We've been trained to expect the worst, even when the Lions are winning. Yet the other day, we talked about the Lions optimistically for what must have been the first time in my life. Our team hosts the Packers – division rivals and defending Super Bowl Champions – on Thanksgiving Day this year. Both teams could be battling for the division title, if the Lions continue to win. He said that, since he was a child, the joy of Thanksgiving Day hinged on the Lions: turkey just doesn't taste as good when they lose. The turkey might taste good this year. But even with these four wins, we're not letting our hopes get too high. Nothing came of a 4-0 start in 1980. We're just happy the Lions have already won one game: at least there won't be another winless season.
Nick Catoni '14 bleeds Honolulu Blue and Silver.

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Tuesday 12 September 1939
|Hitler continues his tour of the front, 12 September 1939.
After the heroic Polish counterattack at Kałuszyn near Mińsk Mazowiecki, the Germans retake the town.
The Polish Army of Poznan advances to the rear and takes the German 8th Army in its flank. Thus begins the Battle of the Bzura River.
Polish troops recapture Lowicz. They evacuate Gdynia.
The Luftwaffe inexplicably bombs Krzemieniec (Kremenets), which has been declared an open village for the temporary housing of evacuated Warsaw diplomats.
German radio announces that German troops have wiped out Polish troop concentrations west of the Vistula and captured their equipment. The German forces are consolidating at Modlin on the north bank of the Vistula, 15 miles from Warsaw.
Western Front: Operation Saar reaches its maximum penetration into German territory, occupying roughly 45 square miles. The French continue to maintain that the operation has drawn off six German divisions from Poland. The French never make contact with the Siegfried Line and contact with the Wehrmacht is minimal despite their overwhelming firepower. General Gamelin declares victory and ends the operation, content to occupy useless territory pursuant to the wishes of the Supreme War Council (see below).
Battle of the Atlantic: Four British cargo vessels - Inverliffey, Firby, Blairlogie, and Gartavon - are reported sunk. The Finnish merchant ship Olivebank sinks after hitting a mine.
In a very touchy maneuver, a German U-boat stops and searches the American freighter Wacosta near Ireland.
Anglo-French War Council: The Council has its first meeting at Abbeville, France. British Prime Minister Chamberlain and Lord Chatfield meet with their French counterparts. They agree to postpone military operations for the time being as they beef up their forces.
British Government: The Duke and Duchess of Windsor return to England after an extended stay in France.
Germany: The government confiscates all rubber tires in the country and restricts the sale of gasoline to those holding special permits.
Foreign Minister Ribbentrop issues an ultimatum to the Romanian Government not to offer asylum to Poles crossing the border: if they do, Germany will consider it an act of war.
Canada: Minister of National Revenue James Lorimer Ilsley announced a new 20% surtax on personal income, including tax increases on alcohol, tea, coffee, and cigarettes.
Czech Exile Government: The Czechs form an army-in-exile.
British Homefront: Due to reports of numerous violations of the blackout rules, the home office opens an inquiry.
US Navy: Neutrality patrols begin along the Eastern seaboard of the United States and in the Caribbean.
War Crimes: Wehrmacht soldiers massacred the Jewish population of the Polish town of Konskie on September 12, 1939.
September 1939September 1, 1939: Invasion of Poland
September 2, 1939: Danzig Annexed
September 3, 1939: France, Great Britain Declare War
September 4, 1939: First RAF Raid
September 5, 1939: The US Stays Out
September 6, 1939: Battle of Barking Creek
September 7, 1939: Polish HQ Bugs Out
September 8, 1939: War Crimes in Poland
September 9, 1939: The Empire Strikes Back
September 10, 1939: The Germans Break Out
September 11, 1939: Battle of Kałuszyn
September 12, 1939: The French Chicken Out
September 13, 1939: The Battle of Modlin
September 14, 1939: Germany Captures Gdynia
September 15, 1939: Warsaw Surrounded
September 16, 1939: Battle of Jaworów
September 17, 1939: Soviets Invade Poland
September 18, 1939: Lublin Falls
September 19, 1939: Germans, Soviets Hook Up
September 20, 1939: the Kraków Army Surrenders
September 21, 1939: Romania Convulses
September 22, 1939: Joint Soviet-German Military Parade
September 23, 1939: The Panama Conference
September 24, 1939: The Luftwaffe Bombs Warsaw
September 25, 1939: Black Monday for Warsaw
September 26, 1939: Warsaw on the Ropes
September 27, 1939: Hitler Decides to Invade France
September 28, 1939: Warsaw Capitulates
September 29, 1939: Modlin Fortress Falls
September 30, 1939: Graf Spee on the Loose


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I always wanted to be a Lawyer. Since I was a child I played standing up a court with my friends. I hold a Degree and a Masters in Law from the Lusiada University and an Advanced Management Program from the Nova School of Business and Economics. Since my graduation, in 2003, I work in the legal business as a lawyer, in two law firms, and as in-house lawyer at three big companies with different core business.
2.What do you do for a living right now?
I am the Head of Legal & Compliance at McDonald´s Portugal.
In my current role I am responsible to provide leadership and ensure efficient and effective management of staff resources in the legal department, develop and maintain a structure to support the effective provision of legal advice and legal services that support business decision making, drive legal risk identification and the provision of legal advice that incorporates legislative and regulatory changes, provide legal oversight on major litigation (class actions) and high risk legal matters, review and advise management on legal implications of internal policies and procedures, manage the external law firms which collaborate with the Company.
Apart from that I am also the Compliance Local Leader.
Prior to joining McDonald's in 2014, I worked for BP (the British multinational oil and gas company) as a Legal Counsel, based in Lisbon, for almost two years and directly to the Global Supply Chain & Technology Team (based in London), for six months.
Previous from that I worked six years as a Legal Counsel in Mundicenter Group, a Portuguese company that manage shopping centers. I also have two experiences in Law Firms, as a Lawyer, for five years.
3.What has been your greatest triumph and your greatest success in the legal services field and what did you learn from each?
My greatest triumph is to serve all my clients. Internally, my colleagues at McDonald's from different departments and externally our Franchisees that help the Company grow every day.
In life the success is the sum of small efforts, every day we must do our best. So, my greatest success is always the "next meeting", the "next agreement".
Personally, in 2015, I received the "Rookie of the Year" Award, which recognizes the best "new-joiner" Counsel of the Year (worldwide) at McDonald's.


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A familiar theme continues to pan out in financial markets. By looking at the charts, and represented in the table above, we can clearly see how the environment remains aggressively USD negative. The next wave of selling has finally produced an inflection point in the macro flows as depicted by the downward slope in the 125-HMA (5-DMA). From a market structure standpoint, the selling in the DXY has opened up further downside after achieving a successful rotation lower.
The USD weakness is also manifested via lower US yields and a much higher Gold, closing at nearly $1,340.00. As part of this excess of USD supply, US equities keep pushing higher, which is obviously helping the likes of the beta currencies such as the Aussie, the Kiwi, the Loonie. As part of this context, even the Euro or the Pound have also made significant gains following the strength in the Chinese Yuan.
The outlook for the Euro in the next 24h is unambiguously bullish. The dashboard above represents the positive outlook, with both technicals and intermarket flows converging to expect further demand imbalances. What's also important is to acknowledge that in the scenario that the EUR/USD trend really takes off, we are just coming out of a macro trend as per the prolonged downward slope of the 5-DMA (125-HMA), which means that from a risk-reward perspective, this could be a potentially attractive period to build long positions in order to capitalize on the broad-based USD weakness. The chart, from a technical perspective, is a thing of beauty. We've validated a new swing high by finding acceptance above 1.1330, which means we can now draw an ascending trendline. Besides, most of the volume transacted in the last 24 (POC) has been trapped behind the close. Talking about the close, the currency pair has finished at the very high, which speaks volumes of the lack of supply. Allow me to also remark that the 125-HMA slope has finally tued north, while the German vs US yield spread, which has been playing a greater role in the carving of the bottom, did spike yesterday. Overall, this is a market that has all the credence for buy-side strategies to do well.
The outlook for the Pound looks quite bright. The move in the Pound has been by far the most aggressive in the last 24h, which puts us in a difficult position to find good opportunities to engage in buy-side action unless your strategy is based upon momentum or some type of scalping that gets you in and out of the market fairly quickly. The reason I am saying that is because we are quite overstretched by any measure you deploy. We've run over 300 pips to the upside in just 3 days, so with such an average of 100p/day, it's difficult to find value. The technicals and intermaket flows are definitely in alignment for further upside, but I personally think that some air must first come out of the GBP balloon before considering to buy and hold strategies. Anything can happen, and the combination of positive Brexit headlines alongside the Yuan strength story dragging on can further expand the momentum, but when all things considered, this market needs some type of correction before the risk-reward becomes relatively attractive. Just my 2 cents.
If you are looking to be a buyer on this market, extreme caution is be required, as the broad-based USD weakness has resulted in both the DXY and long-dated US yields trending lower from both a micro and macro flows standpoint. In the vast majority of cases, unless aggressive buy-side action is seen in equities to offset this negative input, any USD/JPY recovery should be met with grateful sellers at what would be perceived as discounted prices. If the scenario doesn't play out, note that the renewed dovish commitment by BOJ Kuroda may be an extra layer of short-term weakness for the Yen one must account for. The greater the base money in an economy via the expansion of a Central Bank's balance sheet, the more detrimental for the currency on excessive supply in circulation. That said, the Yen is still very much a risk-on/risk-off & DXY/US yields story, so as the picture stands, don't hold your breath for the upside to be as exploitable as other G10 FX vs USD.
If you revisit yesterday's dashboard, you'd notice the short-term flows were in complete alignment for the Aussie to be a buy on weakness market. Fast forward to today's price action, and we are still presented with an even improved picture as technicals and intermarket flows stay in agreement. The dashboard above is an absolute sea of green, and while anything can happen intraday that may alter this view, the way I can only go about these analyses is to take the 5pm NY close as reference, and the chart is giving us all types of hints that the path of least resistance should be higher. The validation of the new leg higher in prices allows us to draw an ascending trendline, which should serve us well as a visual representation of the constructive outlook for this market. Judging by the close in highly correlated instruments such as the Yuan or equities, don't be surprised if strategies look to exploit this market via shallow pullbacks. A retest of the 25-HMA as guide would be an ideal starting point, with other discretionary elements based on one's own preferences to be applied before entry.
Analogous to what we are seeing in the Aussie market, although not as intense the imbalance, the Canadian Dollar is also flying higher against a battered US Dollar. Based on technicals and intermarket flows, there is only one way I'd personally be playing this market if the idea is to get the most bang for one's buck, and that's to the downside. Look to short from areas that make technical sense to you and if you are looking to engage in buy-side action with you trade duration short-term, be aware that you'd be swimming upstream against strong currents as Oil continues to fly higher and the DXY is dethroned from the best-performing currency just days ago to outright selling. On the latter, that's a testament of how short-term flow driven these markets are, the USD can go through a stellar 2-week bull run only to revert and sell-off quite aggressively for days.
If there is a market that expresses like no other the depressed state of affairs in the performance of the USD, look no further, Gold is the answer. The yellow metal has been catapulted to fresh yearly highs, capitalizing like no other asset class the weakness in the USD. Even yesterday I mentioned that the run higher on Monday felt overstretched based on the lagging DXY/US 2yr yields. Notwithstanding we find ourselves with a much more elevated gold valuation, the impulsive nature of the bear run in the US yields alongside the DXY has managed to build up an awful lot of momentum that is dangerous to fight. Testament of that is the extension of gains in Asia as I type. This market is a buy on weakness as the intermarket flows stand but as in the case of the Pound, we should be aware that the expansion in prices is not likely to be sustainable as the demand is likely to dry up under normal circumstances. If you are an intraday momentum trader, I can understand why you'd be inclined to potentially exploit this market at every opportunity you spot.
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@shoutingryan It's actually 35 years old and born in the USA. Those are the requirements. ;)
@shoutingryan Watch it, as it has that exact premise... Darn good movie, & one of Robin Williams' better roles.
@shoutingryan Ever see 'Man of the Year'?
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I closely follow the American coverage of the political crisis in Israel, in which Israeli generals have issued historic critiques of the government as fascistic and reminiscent of Nazi Germany, because some pro-Israeli American journalists have historically been less than honest when "reporting" news from that region. How are they going to do with Israel's latest black eye?
The results haven't been very encouraging so far. The New York Times has portrayed the crisis fatuously as a "changing of the guard." Max Boot in Commentary tells us that the battle is "complex and interesting" and only shores up Israel's reputation as the most moral army in the world. Bret Stephens is essentially a mouthpiece for Benjamin Netanyahu in the Wall Street Journal, saying that the military establishment should shut up and let the "people" rule. While Jeffrey Goldberg, the most important journalist on the subject, has had nothing to say, afraid to condemn Netanyahu too soon lest the Prime Minister demonstrates real staying power.
Reading these articles must be what it was like reading Pravda in the former Soviet Union: You just can't believe a line. No matter what is going on, apparatchiks are going to spin it in the most positive way, and the reader knows that he or she will only learn the truth by finding samizdat, illegally-circulated reports. If not for Haaretz, the leading Israeli newspaper, no one in America would have any idea what is really going on in Israel.
Now here is the latest and surely the lamest effort of all: Eli Lake's report on the crisis in Bloomberg, "Netanyahu loses his allies, but keeps his grip on power." From start to finish this article has one goal: obfuscation about the depth of the crisis in Israel.
The article began with what seems to be an innocent statement.
For most elected leaders, the speech Moshe Ya'alon gave last week at the annual Herzliya conference in Israel would have been devastating. Here Ya'alon, the former defense minister, accused his onetime patron Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of deliberately scaring Israelis in order to stay in power.
Notice that Mr Lake refuses to share with the reader what Netanyahu was "scaring" them with. You need to read Haaretz. Because among the things Ya'alon is accusing Netanyahu of is cheapening the Holocaust to use it for political purposes and "Hitlerization" of regional disputes. Call me anti-semitic, but perhaps Eli Lake doesn't want to call attention to the part Mr. Lake and other Netanyahu-firsters played in helping Netanyahu do some "scaring" here in the United States last year about the Iran nuclear program.
Some of this can be chalked up to egos.
Egos– not a fight over ideas and policy.
But Ya'alon's remarks were particularly brutal. "Israel must remain being a Jewish, democratic state, and part of the family of peoples.."
Again, a misrepresentation. The "brutal" part of what Yaalon said– and former PM Ehud Barak, too — is deliberately left out of this article.
But Netanyahu is not like most Western leaders. His office issued a terse response, and the prime minister went on with the dreary work of running the world's only Jewish state.
Poor Netanyahu, just trying to serve the Jewish people.
In this respect, Ya'alon's defection is part of a larger pattern. Ehud Barak, the former Labor prime minister who joined Netanyahu's coalition government (to the consternation of his own party) is now openly calling Netanyahu a fascist….
Ah, nothing to see here. It is all normal politics. And about all the fascism talk that some of his readers might have heard about elsewhere?
One [Netanyahu loyalist] told me… "This is Israel; they call you a fascist if the garbage isn't picked up on time".
Eli Lake mocks the faith his readers place in him by doing worse than giving them nonsense; he is actively trying to deceive his readers as to what's going on in Israel. The reason Netanyahu has been linked to fascism, by men who once worked for him, is that he is the head of a government that publicly supported the uniformed executioner of a prone and helpless Palestinian; and Netanyahu called the killer's parents in sympathy and publicly described him as one of "our children" — which is very hard to confuse with "taking out the garbage."
Two of the prime minister's former chiefs of staff, Naftali Bennett and Avigdor Lieberman, broke with Netanyahu and formed their own political parties. The same is true for Moshe Kahlon. While all three today participate in the coalition government under Netanyahu, they campaigned against their former boss bitterly before doing so…
"He is a very lonely man who has the toughest job in the world in the toughest neighborhood in the world," [Michael] Oren told me last week.
What's happening now happens all the time. Don't take the name calling seriously. People who say bad things about Benjamin Netanyahu even join him later. "Lonely man toughest neighborhood." Yada yada yada.
Part of Netanyahu's success is that he is very good at campaigning and going around the mainstream media. The media is not always his best friend:
Lake sells Netanyahu short. Not only is he a good campaigner; he is a great campaigner! Look how he bypassed the media and went straight to the people last year with this little gem of a campaign slogan: "Arabs are coming out in droves," Netanyahu warned Jews in a speech on election day in March 2015.
"I think a lot of the people who've come up against Netanyahu, who were his former proteges and allies, are the JV squad," [Lahav Harkov of Jerusalem Post told me]
The people love Netanyahu; no one else is leadership material.
"He has done a lot of good things for Israel," [Yair Lapid] said. "The only problem is that the machine has stopped." Lapid, like many Israeli politicians, believes Netanyahu has been in power for too long.
"The machine has stopped" Whatever that means, that is the only problem with Netanyahu. And thus the article's brave conclusion:
this gets to the riddle of Netanyahu. He has served more years than any prime minister besides David Ben Gurion, the first man to hold that job. But most Israelis would scoff at comparing him to the father of their nation. Ben Gurion ruled Israel as a visionary. Netanyahu rules Israel today by default.
Bottom line: There might be a couple of legitimate critiques but he is the best man for the job right now.
And that is Eli Lake's article on what's going on is Israel today: Where the Jewish citizenry and the prime minister rally behind a medic who kills a Palestinian lying incapacitated in the street, and a top general says this is reminiscent of Nazi Germany, and the prime minister reprimands him, and the defense minister quits his job and warns that "fascism" is on the march in the country, and a former Prime Minister says that rightwing zealots have taken the prime minister hostage and he has performed "Hitlerization" of all of Israel's opponents, including Iran, which poses no real threat to Israel, while others say that Netanyahu has started "superfluous" wars and there could even be a military coup.
The reader finishes this article having been lied to and deceived. Do journalists have tenure? Why would Lake not get fired for this disinformation? And how long will Americans put up with being fed this propagandistic pablum?


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Hillary Rodham Clinton has twisted herself into a pretzel on the subject of terrorism and its connection to Islam. Like many Democrats, she says that we must choose our words carefully to avoid scapegoating peaceful Muslims or driving them into the terrorists' arms. But the words she has chosen won't help achieve our foreign-policy goals or help peaceful Muslims — because they make no sense.
In a Nov. 19 speech on how to combat ISIL, Clinton argued that our rhetoric is part of our strategy: "Islam is not our adversary. Muslims are peaceful and tolerant people, and have nothing whatsoever to do with terrorism. The obsession in some quarters with a clash of civilization, or repeating the specific words 'radical Islamic terrorism' isn't just a distraction, it gives these criminals, these murderers more standing than they deserve. It actually plays into their hands by alienating partners we need by our side."
These were prepared remarks. One might be tempted to give Clinton the benefit of the doubt anyway and assume she meant to imply that "most" Muslims are as swell as she says. Surely, she doesn't mean to deny that some Muslims leave something to be desired in the peaceful-and-tolerant department.
But other Democratic foreign-policy luminaries are saying similarly far-fetched things. John Kerry, Clinton's successor as secretary of state, said a few days before her speech that ISIL's barbarism "has nothing to do with Islam; it has everything to do with criminality, with terror, with abuse, with psychopathism — I mean, you name it."
Nothing to do with Islam? Does anyone think we're going to find professed atheists among these psychopaths? Kerry obviously wanted to condemn ISIL and its allies while not lumping in most Muslims with them. He could have simply noted that most Muslims reject terrorism, that many call it a perversion of Islam, and that he hopes this view prevails among more and more of them. Unlike what he actually said, none of that would have been absurd.
Clinton also spoke for others in rejecting the phrase "radical Islamic terrorism." Liberal pundits say it's "ugly." The Democratic Party is running an ad alleging that it equates all Muslims with terrorists and incites fear. But to invoke "radical Islamic terrorists" logically implies that it is possible to be other Islamic things: for example, a kindhearted Islamic scholar. So it wasn't bigoted when Clinton, in 2005, gave a speech criticizing "radical Islamist extremists."
It's possible that some Muslims who hear that phrase will wrongly conclude that the speaker is expressing enmity toward all Muslims. But some misunderstandings are inevitable — and, in any case, Clinton's preferred terminology does nothing to reduce their likelihood.
At the most recent Democratic debate, Clinton condemned "radical jihadist ideology" in her opening statement. She used versions of "jihad" five other times that night. Everyone knows the religion with which jihad is associated. She didn't call it a "radical Crusaderist ideology." She's talking about a subset of Muslims, just as the Republicans who talk about "radical Islamic terrorists" are.
If using the word "Islam" in the vicinity of "terrorism" is a bad idea, then so is using the word "jihadism" to mean, well, Islamic terrorism. So it isn't surprising that the J-word has run into the same criticism. In 2009, John Brennan, then an adviser to President Obama and now head of the CIA, said the administration disavowed the term "jihadism" for pretty much the same reasons Clinton dislikes "radical Islamic terrorism": It "risks giving these murderers the religious legitimacy they desperately seek" and "it risks reinforcing the idea that the United States is somehow at war with Islam itself."
All of this tortured diction is pointless. We're at war with people who believe that Islam justifies mass murder. There's no way to conduct that war without giving some people the impression that we're at war with Islam, period. And there is such a thing as going too far to try to avoid giving that impression. When that imperative leads officials to say things that can't be believed, it sends the opposite message from what they intend: It suggests that our leaders are expressing obvious untruths because they can't acknowledge that Islam really is our enemy.
I suspect, in other words, that the nothing-to-see-here denial of any link between Islam and terrorism has a symbiotic relationship with anti-Muslim prejudice. If you insist that the alternative to distrusting Muslims in general is to pretend that there's no such thing as Islamist terrorism, then some people will figure that distrust is safer.
They'll also figure that they can't believe anything you have to say on related subjects. The latest Washington Post/ABC poll shows that 54 percent of the public opposes taking in Syrian refugees. Maybe the majority is right and maybe it's wrong, but I can't help thinking that the number would be lower if the people calling for letting the refugees come here weren't the same people who say that "Islam has nothing to do with terrorism."
Ramesh Ponnuru is a senior editor for National Review and a visiting fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.


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How free-to-play has evolved game marketing
Understanding release timing, consumer behavior and analytics has become key, says Crucial Path Media's Dirk Metzger
The gaming industry is in an interesting transition right now, not just in terms of business models, distribution platforms and products, but also in terms of how those products are promoted and marketed. There have been substantial changes to contend with, regardless of whether you're a traditional publisher/developer that focuses on retail, or if you're already deeply immersed in free-to play. Either way, the challenges around marketing and product positioning have evolved dramatically in recent years-and continue to do so at pace.
There are, in essence, several separate factions operating within the gaming industry, but their approaches are vastly different. For the traditional guys, aspects of free-to-play are highly relevant for things like DLC, game patches and continuous support channels, but the finer points of the model can remain something of an anomaly, and there's often a perception that it hasn't proven itself to be sustainable just yet. On the other side, there are folks in free-to-play who don't know what an FSDU, a gold master or first party submission deadline is. Nor will they ever need to.
The challenge for many traditional publishers moving into the free-to-play space is adapting their marketing strategies along with the changing business model. What used to make sense for a box retail title doesn't for an online free-to-play game. Many of the golden rules of what is good marketing practice no longer apply. And regardless of which side of the fence you're on, free-to-play consumer expectations are bleeding over into retail game consumption.
There are a few key areas that have seen the most substantial changes.
Lead Time and Release Beats: Anyone in the industry knows we all love a good game announcement; the developers are proud, the publisher has locked in the forecast, and PR will further boost the pre-sale numbers. Not so with a free-to-play title. There are a few key points to consider:
- The further out you announce, the less likely that people who read the announce release will play your product. You lose players instead of gaining them.
- The market is oversaturated with products, with literally hundreds of games announced daily, and it's hard to make an announcement that's newsworthy and noteworthy to gamers. Your content needs to be structured and engaging.
- In retail, once the box is purchased you already have a strong platform for promoting future DLC. In free-to-play, a player's commitment to your product is likely to be much looser.
- Building consumer trust and loyalty inform how you position the product. Selling it as something it isn't will only negatively impact conversion and retention.
- The majority of PR and marketing activities should focus on converting a touch-point to a player. If you announce 6 months out you're not doing your players or your product performance any favours. Users primarily want access.
Another important change is the long-term strategy planning for post-release. Publishers need to have solid content roll-out plans and strategies lined up for literally as long as the game is live, which could be years. Based on this, communication plans and PR can be structured from announcement to release and beyond without losing interest or momentum.
"You need to roll out information piece by piece to sustain the attention all the way up to the actual live date"
The other element to consider when announcing is that you need to have a content roll-out plan for PR and Community before you announce anything. It's the classic symptom of creating a band at high school-no one has written a song yet, but everyone has an awesome idea for the T-shirt. You need the content before you can create demand for it.
You also need to ensure you have a plan for what you're announcing beyond your release statement. If you announce your title is coming but don't say anything else up to release, interest will continue to fade. You need to roll out information piece by piece to sustain the attention all the way up to the actual live date. An isolated release statement on its own is nothing but a bit of chest beating.
KPIs (key performance indicators): One of the hardest things with free-to-play is balancing your return on investment with your marketing budget. Back in the retail dominant days, when you had retailers taking inventory, you could estimate what percentage of the forecast could be put towards marketing. In a free-to-play environment, without any pre-orders, it's hard to judge the purchase intent. You can spend hours and days forecasting, but as soon as you get your first set of real numbers all that is out the window anyway. It's best to map out several scenarios such as high, medium and low and then make sure you re-forecast with the first set of real data you get.
Just as with PR and Marketing, your other departments need a long-term strategy and sustainable setups. So the other large challenge around KPIs and goals is making sure you have the following in place:
- Feasible tools to track the data: Data will accumulate over time, people leave and new people join. Proper tools and setups guarantee easy transition, growth and analysis.
- A common understanding amongst teams and management on what key definitions mean: This is one of the most common issues in not only the free-to-play industry, but nearly any business that handles data. A glossary is a start, but as the business grows departments and teams will need workshops and regular updates.
- The process and ability to react to the numbers and iterate quickly to improve: There's no point gathering the data if you can't interpret it and optimise. This may seem obvious, but many companies gather lots of data that they don't iterate on because the right feedback loop isn't in place.
Often, terms like "retention" and "acquisition" are used, but it varies from company to company how these are defined and sometimes even from product to product. Some measure retention by day, others by weeks or months. Maybe all three are separate data points that need to be measured. Similarly, with acquisition, companies must decide if it is defined by a sign-up, an active player or a download. All these data points need to be agreed. Clearly, making sure you have a glossary of terms and a common understanding internally is critical in building a common language and working towards the same goals.
A good example for looking at definitions is tracking the user funnel from acquisition through retention and monetization. In free-to-play the funnel becomes more of a loop. You want to activate users, convert to paying users and increase your daily active user rate while minimising churn. These are all clear goals, but it also needs to be clear where you determine those data-points are logged and how you measure them.
"Pre-release, the focus should be on community building and PR activity, and post release your media budget should kick in"
There is no wrong or right, it depends on your business model, product and long-term strategy. But what is important for all is that your people understand your KPIs and definitions.
Timing and front-loaded marketing: Another substantial change from the traditional marketing model is how and when the marketing budget is spent. As with PR, it's not only redundant to front-load your marketing with a teaser campaign, it's also not cost effective. Pre-release, the focus should be on community building and PR activity, and post release your media budget should kick in. If you're on a limited budget the best approach is to focus on CPA (cost per acquisition). Work with trusted vendors that will deliver quality traffic and have independent measurement and tracking in place that lets you verify the conversion rate.
The marketing budget should be primarily weighted towards acquiring users vs. brand building. If you can afford to do both that's great, but when trying to establish a new title the first step should be to focus on building your player base. Other elements in the budget should be influencer marketing, PR and community focused activity to grow the core player-base.
There are many continuously moving pieces in marketing a free-to-play product throughout its lifecycle. Therefore, having data that helps you understand your product's performance is a critical element in improving it and causing a positive uplift in numbers. If you can't track what you're doing, you're essentially operating blind. The biggest shift in marketing is definitely that it has become more analytical, and more than ever it's important to understand changing consumer behaviours and adjust your strategy on timings and positioning accordingly.
Dirk (@dirkmetzger) is founder and director of Crucial Path Media, an independent consultancy servicing the online games industry and consumer focused digital businesses.


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By Abel Franklin
When I first saw this movie, I assumed that it would be about a bunch of young people partying and living it up in Miami Beach. Being single in South Beach, you think of partying, sipping drinks and forgetting about all of your worries. You picture sun tanned young hot women. "Single in South Beach" has all of that, but it's what you wouldn't usually find that makes this movie worth watching.
Amy (Haley Webb) is a struggling real estate agent and aspiring dancer. She enjoys shopping, dining at the finest restaurants, drinking expensive wines, and partying at the most popular night clubs. Her main issue with that is that she can't exactly afford to finance these expensive habits. In comes Nick (Michael Erwin), a student studying in hopes of becoming an architect. Sandra (Tinsel Korey), a long time mutual friend of the two, introduces Nick and Amy. He becomes immediately infatuated with her vivacious energy and warm spirit.
Their relationship begins like every other one. They're spending all of their time together and enjoying the perks of being in a new relationship. Nice dates, long walks, and a person that you can confide in. All of that comes into question when the couple goes on a pair of double dates in which Amy insists that Nick loosen his wallet. He believes that she is becoming materialistic and shouldn't be so worried about spending a lot of money every time they go out.
While out at an event, Amy is then introduced to Sam (Kevin Sorbo) by a fellow real estate agent. Sam is a high profile celebrity agent looking for an apartment in South Beach that he can enjoy on his travels from New York. He has everything Amy wants in a man. Amy begins to show Sam the best apartment's money can buy until he finds the perfect one. Having spent so much time together, Amy and Sam have begun to have feelings for each other. It doesn't take long for the two to begin a relationship. But, it can go no further than physical because Sam is already a married man.
With Sam living in two states, Amy is often left in the cold. She takes residence in the expensive apartment and receives all of the financial perks. After another cancelled excursion, Amy runs into Robert (Carlos Ponce), a college professor whom she had a huge crush on. Does she continue to see Sam, who has been funding her lavish lifestyle and she still has feelings for, or does she give Robert a chance?


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4 more Sleeps….
December 21st, 2010
Not long to go now folks! Christmas is nearly here! I have not had a great deal of time to spend in the garden and what time there has been has been spent doing mini missions or cleaning outdoor furniture, sweeping etc. I am hoping that some of my Christmas guests will take a moment to look out my window, now that it is clean enough to do so, and perhaps comment, 'Gosh, you don't have any cobwebs under the porch roof and how wonderfully clean all your outdoor furniture is.' But, of course, they would only comment if I didn't remove all the cobwebs or if they sat on the outdoor chairs and got dusty bottoms.
Windows I think are for looking through at the garden, not really looking at to see if they are clean. But, when they get to the stage of inhibiting the view from their dust, well, I guess it is time to do something. I did that something yesterday and yes, I am feeling quite pleased with them now that they are done. In Melbourne, at the moment it is much too wet to do much gardening as such, but cleaning windows can be done under the cover and at least it got me outdoors.
So, the tree is up, presents are under, windows washed, cobwebs removed, shortbread cooked, bring it on!!~ Mind you, I think I might have acted just a little hasty with the cooking of the shortbread, it is disapearing quicker than I had planned, might have to make another batch.
Anyway, I am off into the garden before the next lot of rain to plant out some dahlias, happy gardening!
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Bernie Says:
December 21st, 2010 at 11:13 am
Sounds like you've done a great job getting everything ready for Christmas, so sit back and enjoy the next few days! Have a fabulous festive season and I do hope it's filled with lots of good cheer surrounded by those you love! Merry Christmas, Mandy!
Mandy Says:
December 22nd, 2010 at 9:37 am
Hi there Bernie, Thanks for the comment and Chrismas greeting. Merry Christmas to you and your family and may 2011 bring you many good things and fun filled days!


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This week, popular alternative rock group, Modest Mouse announced plans for extending their current tour. The rockers are currently on the road touring to some of the biggest venues in the United States. After a successful first leg of their tour, the rockers revealed that they will kick off the second lego f their tour on July 11th. This portion of the tour will officially kick off in Saugerties, New York. According to the announcement, the group will have 15 additional stops along their tour schedule that will take them to several cities across North America. Stops along the outing include shows in Montreal, Kansas City, Boise and Queens, New York. During this tour, fans can expect to hear some of the band's biggest hits to date as well as some of their new singles. During the tour, the band will be joined on stage by one of the three different 'special guests.' There is a rotating line up of performers that include Kevin Drew, Mimicking Birds and Brand New. Tickets are on sale for these newly added shows for fans looking to see the group live.
In other rock group news, The Black Keys made their own announcement this week, revealing that they will be filling out their North American outing, supporting their latest album "Turn Blue." The rock duo, which is made up of Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney, recently revealed their plans to tour throughout the summer and now they will be adding another five stops along the way during their tour. This includes a show on June 29th in Pilton, UA at the Glastonbury Festival. Other major additions to the team's tour schedule include shows in Ottawa, Ontario; Oakland, California and Inglewood, California.
The official North American leg of the tour kicks off on September 5th in Columbus, Ohio and will visit 45 different cities, before it wraps up in Kansas City, Mo on December 21st. The band will have a variety of different opening acts join them on tour including Cage the Elephant for shows from September 5th-September 27th, Jake Bugg until October 24th and St. Vincent from November 16th through the end of the tour. For other Tickets for this tour go on sale this month. Will you be getting tickets to see the Black Keys live?
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Archive for March, 2008
Condolence Meeting for His Grace Dr. Thomas Mar Makarios
March 6, 2008 Leave a comment
|The Malayalee Community of Staten Island, New York is hosting a condolence meeting to pay homage to His Grace Dr. Thomas Mar Makarios at the parish hall of St. Mary's Orthodox Church, 130 Park Avenue, Staten Island on Sunday March 9th at 5 PM.
All are invited to attend irrespective of religion and denomination.
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March 3, 2008 Leave a comment
The webcast of Makarios Thirumeni's funeral was unavailable on the Malankara Orthodox Church website.
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Makarios Thirumeni – funeral
March 2, 2008 Leave a comment
On Friday, 29 March, services were conducted for His Grace Mar Markarios Thirumeni. The service was attended by Malalayees of United States, UK, and Germany.
Markarios Thirumeni was the founder of the American Diocese as well as the UK, Canadian and European Diocese. He is a shepherd of the Church.
Thirumeni's body will be brought to Devalokam for final services.
Photos from the Services conducted in London parish
More information about the London service
Continue to pray for Thirumeni.
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