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After the remarkably bad Thanksgiving Thunder event…
Ole Anderson was fired as his six months in charge saw the "chosen one", Sting, bomb at the box office. Couple that with a plethora of old guys being signed on the cheap at the expense of other younger, higher paid talent. Perhaps the coup de grace was making the top heel THE BLACK SCORPION, despite having no idea who was actually going to play the role for the pay-off.
WCW had to turn to Ric Flair in desperation and meet his demands to become World champion again in order to put on the cloak.
Tom Zenk pinned Arn Anderson to end his 11-month reign as TV champion. The title was largely on the backburner with Arn holding it anyway (he was in the middle of a tag team feud with DOOM). Zenk doing a number of high profile squash losses to Stan Hansen and Vader in recent months certainly makes his title win look auspicious in hindsight. The title win wouldn't be acknowledged until it was shown on TV in late December.
Stampede Wrestling musclehead Larry Cameron made a number of appearances headlining house shows as a substitute for Ron Simmons in DOOM vs. Horsemen tag matches.
The Minotaur (Steve Disolvo) debuted to add another useless roid monkey to the mix.
Owen Hart was pursued to be on Team Canada at the PPV, but a deal couldn't be made.
Pat O'Connor's widow was upset that Sam Muchnick was being used at the same PPV that was holding a memorial for her husband. Pat had been upset that Sam didn't help his wrestling group after Sam retired.
The Nasty Boys are done and heading to the WWF. The Iron Sheik will also be gone soon and inexplicably will be given a headline run in the WWF. AWA World Champion Larry Zbyszko has signed on with WCW.
Several house shows in the days before Starcade drew under 1,000 fans. The promotion was clearly on fire heading into its biggest show of the year.
Starrcade 90: Collision Course
Sam Muchnick opens the show and thanks a litany of WCW executives and puts over the fans. WCW paid him a tad under $10,000 for this. A nice nod to the past, but not a savvy business move for a company bleeding money. They could have paid a number of stars from Japan or a star from the past to work a match and maybe draw some money for the promotion.
Tom Zenk vs. "Beautiful" Bobby Eaton
They claim Zenk is on a 35 match win streak. Zenk looks freaky good physically. No wellness testing here. Z-man out wrestles Eaton and topples him with a pair of flying crossbody presses. They blow a spot as Zenk drops his head and preps for a leapfrog or backdrop and Eaton just runs into him and Tom falls over. They then stare at each other and Eaton actually says, "What was that?"
Eaton takes over with technical and roughhouse moves until Zenk manages to suplex him onto the ramp. Zenk then delivers a flying crossbody onto the ramp.
Eaton rallies with a bulldog and delivers an "Alabama Jam" top rope legdrop. He fails to attempt the pin for some reason and crotches himself during a charge instead. Eaton tries another highflying move and crash lands into a sketchy looking superkick. Zenk misses a flying dropkick and is small packaged for the pin. So much for that win streak. This was under whelming considering the participants.
Dick the Bruiser cuts a promo promising that he will make sure Sting has a fair chance in tonight's main event.
Random models carry each country's flag for the members of tonight's international tag team tournament. It should be noted each woman is white, which is a small oversight since technically a woman from each country should have carried their own flag.
Tag Tournament Round 1: The Steiner Brothers vs. Col. Deklerk and Sgt. Kruger
The US tag champs are representing America, appropriately enough. The heels are Rocco Rock and Ray "Babyface Doink" Apollo. Rick eats a belly to belly to start but then delivers a series of Steinerlines on both heels. Rocco knocks Rick to the floor with a spin wheel kick and tries a plancha – Rick fails to catch him. Ouch. Scott nails a tilt a whirl slam and Frankensteiner to win it quickly thereafter. Rocco was definitely trying to earn a job here. Should have hit the roids based on other recent WCW signings.
Tag Tournament Round 1: Chris Adams and Norman Smiley vs. Rey Mistero Sr. and Konnan
Adams gets a nice pop from the knowledgeable St. Louis fanbase. WCW's crack production staff misspell Rey's name so for the sake of historical (in)accuracy I'll do the same. Konnan looks like he'd fail a wellness test.
Smiley flips both Mexicans head over heels. Adams does some flips of his own and nails a superkick to a big pop. Konnan and Smiley grapple. Norman nails a fisherman suplex but Konnan is able to flip him across the ring. Rey charges Smiley and ends up flying through the ropes and landing on the steps.
Konnan is superkicked right into a bridging German suplex. Konnan hits Smiley with a reverse suplex. Norman had no idea what Konnan was going for, and that looked like a bit of an awkward spot. Konnan rolls him up for the win. Fun match – the Brits did enough to earn a contract that was not to be actually forthcoming.
JR introduces Missy Hyatt: "I hope she isn't wearing an atom bomb dress – you know, 50% fall-out." Michael Wallstreet promises to beat Terry Taylor in under 9 minutes. Yawn.
Tag Tournament Round 1: Jack Victory and Rip Morgan vs. Masa Saito and The Great Muta
The fans pop for Muta. Muta kicks Victory to the ramp and flies into him. Saito tosses Morgan around and tries to break Victory's arm with a kimura of sorts. Muta flies into Morgan and then tags Saito in for the kill.
The New Zealanders cheat to fend him off ultimately sending him into the ringpost. Victory misses an elbow and all four men scramble in the ring. Muta hits a bridging suplex for the win. The Japan squad clearly out classed their foes here.
Tag Tournament Round 1: Bull Johnson and Troy Montour vs. Victor Zangiev & Salman Hashimikov
I'm shocked to see Danny "Bullwhip" Johnson etched out a solid little career for himself and isn't just some jobber WCW gimmicked up for this show. He was a 15-year vet by this point. Troy Montour has an Indian gimmick here but seems to have absolutely no real info on his career online. Even wrestlingdata.com has no profile on him and they are as complete as it gets. Huh. Zangiev and Hashimikov are legit Greco-Roman wrestlers who were pushed hard in a New Japan a few months earlier.
The announcers try and push the Russians as nice fellows but the crowd is still in a "Cold War" mentality. Zangiev looks like an insurance salesman. He quickly ties up the Indian into a knot to shut me up. Victor shows off his dexterity by bridging out of a head scissors and then belly to belly suplexes Montour on his face. Salman stalks Johnson and delivers a belly-to-belly suplex and barely holds Johnson down for the 3 count. Team Canada argues about the finish. Brief, and not very pretty.
Terry Taylor vs. Michael Wallstreet
The "York Foundation" theme – a "Dallas" rip-off- is great. Taylor out wrestles Wallstreet, so Mike takes a break to check his spreadsheets. The computer apparently tells Wallstreet to try "extended arm locks" based on his follow up offense. The usual Rotunda offense follows as we get elbows, a suplex and an abdominal stretch.
Taylor rooster's up and unloads on Mike. A flying forearm gets a near fall. Wallstreet manages to nail a stun gun and a fall-away slam for the pin. Technically sound but vanilla as possible.
The Motor City Madman and "The Big Cat" Curtis Hughes vs. Sid Vicious and Dan Spivey
This is a one night only reunion of the Skyscrapers. Sid and Spivey blitz through both heels and deliver a spike power bomb on the Madman to win in under a minute. The crowd goes bonkers, so of course they never team up again. WCW everyone.
The Skyscrapers cut a babyface promo afterwards, even roughing up Paul E. Dangerously a bit. With DOOM about to drop the titles…
Tommy Rich and Ricky Morton vs. Jimmy "Jam" Garvin and Michael "P.S." Hayes
Robert Gibson joins the faces at ringside on crutches. Morton whips both heels by himself and the 'Birds hibernate for a bit. Morton delivers a low blow to Hayes and tries to post him. Hayes blocks it, turns around and laughs in Morton's face over his cunning avoidance. Awesome. Gibson smacks Hayes, which allows Morton to then properly post him.
The faces lock on dual figure four leglocks onto both 'Birds back in the ring. Richard Marley tries to interfere, so Rich spanks him. Hayes eats some big blows and bails into Garvin's warm embrace. Hayes is flipped out of a DDT attempt and both heels noggins are knocked together.
Hayes cheats to gain control and orders Marley to jump off the top and onto Morton's leg – but Gibson uses his crutch to put an end to that plan. Garvin chokes Marley for blowing the scheme and Rich rolls Garvin up for the pin. The 'Birds beat down Marley after the match and then knock Gibson down when Rich and Morton are distracted with checking on Marley. With nothing settled here, I expect more southern justice laid out in this feud.
Tag Tournament Round 2: The Steiner Brothers vs. Rey Mistero Sr. and Konnan
Rick toys with Konnan, being too friendly to his fellow babyface and it costs him as Konnan leg picks him and locks his knee up. Scott tags in and Konnan takes a hard power slam and a top rope bulldog. That is somehow not the finish. Mistero tags in and is power bombed by Rick for the pin. Almost a squash.
Tag Tournament Round 2: Victor Zangiev & Salman Hashimikov vs. Masa Saito and The Great Muta
Muta out wrestles Zangiev on the mat to start, and that seems fairly absurd given Muta is not a "grappler" and Zangiev is a legit 3 time World champion. Saito tries his luck but Zangiev entraps his arm. Salman tags in and scores a takedown and tries a Moscow Crab, but Muta saves the day. Zangiev is back in and Saito locks on a Sasori-gatame (Scorpion Death Lock) on him. Both men tag out and that leads to the much larger Hashimikov sending Muta flying overhead with a belly-to-belly suplex. Salman delivers another wicked back suplex and both men tag off.
Saito nearly beheads Zangiev with a clothesline, then disappointed in his failure to maim Soda Popinski, Saito executes him with a nasty back suplex and holds him down long enough to earn the pin. This was more stiff goodness. I want a 20-minute Steiners vs. Zangiev/Hashimikov match NOW. JR and Paul E mocking Pro Wrasslin' Russian gimmicks of the past was a fun bonus here.
Bullrope United States Title match: Stan "The Lariat" Hansen vs. Lex Luger
Hansen spews tobacco on the audience on his way down to the ring. Hansen is the reigning All-Japan Triple Crown champion as well. I find it a bit surprising that Giant Baba would let his top guy come to America to do a high profile job.
Hansen takes over where he left off at Halloween Havoc and starts to maul Lex. Luger unloads with a plethora of punches, which Hansen gleefully responds to with his own clubbing blows. Hansen throttles Lex on the floor and whacks him with a chair.
Lex catches Hansen with a big clothesline and unloads with more punches. He tries to drag the "Bad man from Borger, Texas" around to each turnbuckle but Hansen manages to back suplex him and then kicks The Total Package in the face. Hansen wraps Luger's neck with the rope and hangs him over the top rope.
Hansen starts to drag Luger to each turnbuckle, and that allows Lex time to recover and he pounces on Stan. Luger takes it to the floor, where Hansen is tossed into the ring edge and the steel post.
Luger hog ties Hansen's wrists and drags him to all four corners – he accidentally knocks the ref out while lunging at the fourth corner. The crowd is pissed. A second ref runs down. Hansen wraps Luger's neck and body with the rope and drags Luger around to the turnbuckles. Stan delivers a lariat and wins the match…BUT the first ref wakes up and awards the match to Luger. Good stuff as one would expect from Hansen.
World tag team title match – held under street fight rules: DOOM vs. Barry Windham and Arn Anderson
Windham is replacing Flair, who was mauled by DOOM earlier in the week:
Four-way slugfest to start. All the men are wearing jeans and T-shirts. Arn and Simmons trade shots with a weight belt. Windham is posted by Reed and is bleeding very early on. Butch uses the buckle to open Barry's wound further. Simmons is battered with a chair by Anderson on his knee and head. Reed whacks Windham with a chair and that sends him right into a Simmons spinebuster for a very convincing near fall. Windham rallies as he manages to superplex Reed. Simmons drives a flying shoulderblock into The Enforcer from the top rope.
Anderson is busted open by a chair shot. Windham drills Reed with a big DDT but Reed guts through the pain and brutalizes Barry with a piledriver. Chaos ensues as all four men go at it in the ring Simmons pins Arn at the same time Windham pins Reed. Ref Nick Patrick looks confused and the men just keep brawling all the way to the back. Fast paced and wild affair that easily stole the show so far. I'm not a fan of the fuck finish.
Finals for the Pat O' Connor Memorial International Tag Team Tournament, Winner is to be awarded a trophy and will be known as the "Tag team champions of the Universe.": The Steiner Brothers vs. The Great Muta and Masa Saito
Muta and Scott start. Muta catches him with an enziguiri, so Scott grabs his ankle and rolls through into a half-crab. Rick tries his luck and eats a spin kick from Muta. He shakes that off and Steinerlines Muta. Masa Saito eats one too and Muta tries to sneak in and Rick low blows him on the ropes.
Team Japan regroups and Muta manages to choke Scott and hit his patented handspring elbow. Scott delivers a belly to belly as JR makes light of Saito's prison time.
Rick delivers his best shots to Saito but Masa manages to dump him with a side suplex. The men then collide mid-ring and Muta is tagged in. Muta sends Rick to the floor so Saito can drive him into the corner post. Muta furthers the trauma by nailing a stiff clothesline on the floor. Rick absorbs abuse for several minutes until he manages to Steinerline Muta and tag in Scott.
The future Big Bad Booty Daddy Tiger Bombs Muta, but Muta manages to tag Saito in the ring. Masa dumps Scott with a back suplex and then has Muta help him deliver a spike pikedriver. Saito locks on a sleeper, but Scott makes a blind tag to Rick and he sunset flips Saito from the top rope for the win! Good, solid match.
Pat O' Conner's widow is given a shout out. Then Evil Jim Herd comes out to put over the workers and the fans. Scott gives a pro-troops promo.
Steel Cage World title match: Sting vs. The Black Scorpion
Dick the Bruiser waddles out to be the ref. Four Black Scorpions come down to ringside. A strange chamber drops from the ceiling and another Scorpion emerges from that.
Sting and The Real Scorpion have a long staredown. They go through a feeling out process of lock ups and headlocks, and this is not really emitting "blood feud". Scorpion nails a big clothesline and a side suplex. Scorpion tries to use the ropes to steal the pin but Bruiser catches the ruse.
Scorpion whips Sting back and forth across the ring and locks on a headlock. Very lethargic match so far. Bruiser and Scorpion have more issues with blatant cheating from the demon incarnate. Sting fires up and press slams the Scorpion. Sting then makes a flying charge and crashes into the unforgiving steel. Scorpion and Bruiser have more words as Scorpion chokes away on the champ right in front of the elderly ref.
Sting starts to choke his nemesis, so Scorpion rakes at his eyes and whips him into the steel several times. They go through an awkward bit where they seem to not know what they want to do but it ends up with Sting flying into the steel in a contrived fashion.
Sting fires up and nails a Stinger Splash. He locks on a Scorpion Death Lock to a stunningly tepid response from the audience. The Black Scorpion fights his way to the ropes.
Sting smashes him into the cage and unmasks him to reveal…another mask. They brawl on top of the cage and Sting is sent crashing to the mat. The Scorpion then falls on his balls in another contrived looking spot. Scorpion is sent into the cage several times and the masked man blades. Sting tries an Irish whip and the Scorpion won't go for it for some reason, so Sting uses a hip toss in what ends up as another sloppy/blown spot. Sting connects on a flying crossbody to end this mess.
The Scorpions who came out earlier all charge the ring and Dick and Sting fight them off and start to unmask them – revealing a parade of jobbers. Arn and Windham charge the cage and batter Sting. Dick is whacked with a chair and then Sting is DDT'd on that same chair.
The jobber Scorpions hold on to the Bruiser as Arn, Windham and The Real Scorpion assault Sting with a chair. Ricky Morton and The Z-man run down and attempt to scale the cage to save the day but the Horsemen fight them off. Terry Taylor tries to no avail as well. Crowd chants for "Luger" as The Steiners run down with bolt cutters and break into the cage. Sting takes advantage of the Horsemen being distracted and unmasks the Real Scorpion as Ric Flair (now with his long locks cut off). The heels run away as the PPV comes to a close.
Final thoughts:
Only a few months earlier JYD, El Gigante and Lex Luger were on Sting's side in a war with the Horsemen, and all 3 managed to not be there when he needed them the most.
This PPV was actually pretty decent but it could have been tweaked to have been great. WCW had a pretty massive roster at this point and yet much of it went unused in order to bring in unknown talents and other one off guys for a tournament that probably netted little interest for the promotion in the long run. Where was Pillman, Vader, Gigante, JYD etc etc?? Even Barry Windham was off the card until the PPV kicked off!
WCW had seemingly 15 teams on their roster at this point and almost none of them managed to make it on this show. Perhaps the horrid Clash before this should have been home to Round 1 of an 8 team WCW based tournament, with all 8 teams qualifying in TV matches leading up to that event. Then Starrcade could show the semis and finals of this tourney and the winners awarded a shot at the World tag titles at the next Clash or PPV. If nothing else you can bring in the Russians and Team Japan to try and show the title shot has sparked international interest. DOOM can still war with the Horsemen as this all unfolds.
As far as why the main event was such a stinker: For one, Flair tried to not do all his usual spots, so he worked a slow, disjointed style. Two, the fans had crapped on this goofiness already for the most part, and the big Scorpion finale saw a "monster" heel who was quite smaller than the valiant champion. That killed the illusion of danger. Three, poor Sting just can't beat a major heel with his finisher. Hulk Hogan made EVERYBODY lose to his legdrop, meanwhile Flair and Sid both were pinned in very fluky manners in Sting's prior PPV matches and here again the heel escapes the dreaded Scorpion Death Lock.
Can you imagine had the ending been tweaked a bit, and as the Horsemen laid a beating down to Sting, The Skyscrapers come down as JR melodramatically declares the end of Sting is upon us, and then instead Sid and Spivey wipe out the Horsemen? With the pops they were getting as heels the prior year and tonight again, there was hot iron to strike there. The Horsemen can add Eaton, Zbyszko or whoever else to become four again and go after Taylor, Zenk, Morton, etc. for their meddling here, until Sid, Sting, Spivey and…Pillman(?) step up and challenge them to WAR GAMES at the Wrestle War PPV coming in February.
So anyway, an interesting card, some good wrestling and a lot of missed chances. Next time is the January 1991 Clash!!!


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TA1: Theoretical Solid State Physics – Overview
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Time and placeTue 12-14h, Theresienstr. 37, A 449
Thurs 16-18h, Theresienstr. 37, A 449
- Here are the results of the final exam. You can inspect the exams on March 18,2015, 2-4pm. Certificates can be picked up at the sectetrary's office, provided you handed in the "Schein".
- Here are the results of the midterm exam. If you want to take a look at your graded exam, please see me during my office hours or after one of the lectures.
Lecturer: Priv. Doz. Dr. F. Heidrich-Meisner
Room: A401
Phone: 089 / 2180-4594
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Sommerfeld theory of metals, Electrons in a periodic potential, Bloch theorem, Semiclassical theory of electron dynamics, Transport and Boltzmann equation, 2nd quantization, Hartree-Fock approximation, Fermi liquid theory, Phonons, Superconductivity, Magnetism
Useful literature
- Ashcroft-Mermin: Solid State Physics
- Kittel: Quantum theory of solids
- Landau, Lifshitz: Statistical Physics Part 2, Volume 9
- Bellac, Mortessagne, Batrouni: Equilibrium and Non-equilibrium Statistical Thermodynamics
- Additional literature will be announced later
Crediting of the course
The course will be credited by a written exam. Details will be announced in due time
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Foundations of Research Inquiry
4 Graduate credits
January 11, 2010
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Graduation requirements this course fulfills
This course introduces students to the assumptions, theories, and processes of qualitative and quantitative business research methods. It requires students to develop a preliminary prospectus for their doctoral research project, identifying a practice-anchored research problem, a brief literature review, and an appropriate research methodology.
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- Learn from and contribute to the value of this educational experience for your classmates by engaging in substantive, spirited debate and providing balanced, honest feedback.
- Demonstrate ability to summarize, present, and promote discussion on research topics
- Demonstrate an understanding of the design and execution of business research studies.
- Demonstrate awareness of ethical issues related to business research and successfully complete the CitiCourse in the Protection of Human Research Subjects.
- Produce a research prospectus including a literature review.
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PayPal may not have pioneered online payments, but it certainly made it more accessible to the masses. Founded in 1998, PayPal has made significant strides over the years. Though there are quite a handful of other online payment solutions or gateways around, none have truly beaten PayPal to its game. In other words, PayPal is still the de facto king of online payment gateways.
There are different ways in which you can transfer money between PayPal accounts or from a PayPal account to a bank account. The actual time it takes would depend on the source of funds and the recipient and also the payment method. Let's take a look at the common PayPal payment options and the time they take.
PayPal Standard
When money travels between two PayPal accounts, the funds almost instantly show up in the recipient's PayPal account. This is provided the money originated from the sender's PayPal account balance or the debit or credit card linked to the PayPal account.
Once the recipient withdraws the received funds into their PayPal-linked bank account, it could take anywhere between a day or two or just shy of a week for the funds to reflect in the bank account. The actual time period is usually dependent on the day of the week the transaction has been carried out.
For instance, if the recipient receives money in their PayPal account on a Monday and they withdraw the funds to their bank account right away, the money should show in their bank account the next day or by Wednesday. If Monday or Tuesday is a bank holiday, the funds would surface a day or two later.
If the money is received on a Friday and it's transferred on the same day to the linked bank account, the funds could show up in the recipient's bank account the next Monday or Tuesday. The actual time it takes could also vary based on the bank.
PayPal Instant Transfer
If you want the money from your PayPal account to be instantly transferred to your bank account, you may use the PayPal Instant Transfer service. If your PayPal account is based in the UK and you are transferring the money to a UK bank account, the service would cost you nothing. However, outside the United Kingdom, such as the United States, a 1 percent service fee is levied on the total sum transferred. The fee is capped at $10.
The "instant transfer" should ideally happen within a day. In actuality, it usually takes less than 30 minutes. If time is of the essence, PayPal Instant Transfer is a great tool to use. In certain cases, however, the transfer may take more than 24 hours. Such situations are usually rare and happen due to some error at the account holder's side.
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You can also request cheque payments from PayPal if for some reason you dislike electronic transfers. The requested cheque would be mailed to the recipient. This method, without a doubt, would take the longest time to send funds from a PayPal account. If the cheque request is for a recipient within the UK, it should take a week or two for the cheque to reach its destination. If it's outside the UK, the transit could take anywhere between four and six weeks.


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BYOD: Bane of IT departments or cost-saving productivity driver?
By Gabriella Griffith
IT professionals up and down the country are pulling their hair out and Apple is to blame. Well, maybe that's a bit strong but as the company often cited as the catalyst for the consumerisation of IT, the roots of the BYOD phenomenon were planted by devices such as the iPhone and the iPad. BYOD has been a massive buzz word in the corporate world for some time now, reaching way beyond the realms of technology departments.
In case you have had your head firmly stuck in the silicon over the past two years, BYOD stands for Bring Your Own Device and it refers to the trend of employees wanting to use their own consumer devices for work and potentially accessing emails and other work related data on these devices outside of work.
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RHoK Durban
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Friday, December 5, 2014 at 5:00 PM - Saturday, December 6, 2014 at 5:00 PM (SAST)
Event Details
Random Hacks of Kindness (RHoK) is a joint initiative between Microsoft Google,Yahoo!,NASA,and the World Bank. The objective is to bring together subject matter experts around disaster management and crisis response with volunteer software developers and designers.
RHoK comes to Durban this December in the form a hackathon for the social good. This hackathon seeks to connect the local developer, entrepreneur and philanthropy community and hack solutions for the social good, featuring products that make real change for people and organisations that have no access to technologies and a skills set to make their organisations grow.
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Lady Fatimah (AS) in Sahih Bukhari & Muslim
The Lady of Light, Fatimah Zahra (AS) -the daughter of the prophet Muhammad (PBUH) and the wife of Imam Ali (AS) -was martyred when she was only 18 and 75 days. The Prophet (PBUH) taught lady Fatimah (AS) great knowledge and endowed her with superior intellectual brilliance, so much so that she realized the real meaning of piety, faith, and the truth of Islam. This video is regarding the life of the lady Fatima (AS) and the secrets that surround her holy life.
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Graffiti Friday #40
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Haring Eggs
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Protests shake IMF and World Bank
Rage at the heart of the beast
HASSAN MAHAMDALLIE reports from the anti-capitalist protests in Washington
"THIS IS what democracy looks like." That was the chant that rippled through the tens of thousands of protesters who took over the streets of Washington DC on Sunday. Organisers estimated that 35,000 people took part in two protests which converged in the centre of the city.
The Washington Post said some delegates to the IMF/World Bank meeting had to get to it through the grounds of the White House. "I love all this. Everyone is united to fight for the cause," said Pittsburgh receptionist and trade unionist Robin Pearson, as the march against the World Bank and the IMF began.
The anti-capitalist protesters were young and old, trade unionists, steel workers, machinists, environmentalists and students. They had been out blocking off the major roads and intersections around the World Bank Headquarters from 4am. The police were also out in force in their "robocop" gear. They deployed armoured vans, teargas and pepper gas, billy-clubs and guns. Police cars escorted the 2,000-plus finance ministers and free market economists into the World Bank building.
They eventually succeeded in starting the meeting a few hours behind schedule. As protest organiser Han Shan said, "We have put their institutions under siege. "They had to militarise the capital city of the USA to get those delegates through. This just shows what the IMF and the World Bank are like. They choose to partner with the police and the military across the world. Against the masses."
Protesters blocked the roads well into the day. Police waded in with clubs and pepper spray against the peaceful protesters. The previous evening police had carried out a mass arrest of 600 protesters. They raided the protesters' "convergence centre"-the organising hub of the anti-capitalist protest.
None of this dissuaded the tens of thousands who took over the city on Sunday. They forced street democracy onto the capitalist "heart of the beast". All the main symbols of capitalist and corporate tyranny were targeted-the World Bank, the IMF, the Bank of America and the US Treasury. The route to the White House was cordoned off. It was a carnival of revolt against the rule of capital.
On the streets at 7am was steel worker Carol Ford-Duncan. Carol told Socialist Worker, "I'm very proud of all these people," pointing to direct action protesters chained together on Pennsylvania Avenue.
"It's our future that's at stake. Too many people are dying because of the World Bank and corporate rule. The drive of the capitalist system is taking us back to the 19th century. It has got to stop. "There are no borders when it comes to this. I'm with my brothers and sisters everywhere. "We have got a goal now. We're all anti-capitalist." Protester Don McIntosh said, "We don't believe we can reform this system. It's like a cancerous tumour-the only thing you can do is remove it." As a young woman student said, "The world is becoming more corporate. We've got to keep doing stuff like today."
Questioning the system
PROTESTS, TEACH-INS, rallies and demonstrations took place every day in the week running up to the main demonstration against the IMF and World Bank on Sunday.
HASSAN MAHAMDALLIE asked protesters what had brought them to Washington.
"This US government cannot be changed," said school student Chris, who was thrown out of school for putting up a pro-choice poster. "All these institutions-the World Bank, the IMF, the WTO-they're all laughing in the face of humanity."
People flooded into Washington from across the US. The umbrella group Mobilisation for Global Justice encompasses hundreds of organisations, many of which flowered in the aftermath of last year's protest in Seattle. Volunteers worked tirelessly to organise the events. One of them was Bob Hamburg, from a small town in West Virginia: "I was a young man in 1968, but I didn't really get involved in the anti Vietnam War movement, apart from burning my draft card. Recently I decided to get active. I became part of a concerned citizens' group to stop the building of pulp mills in my area. We sent two people to Seattle. They came back enthused. Now I'm getting involved in direct action."
On Thursday demonstrators targeted high street shopping chains that exploit workers. The chief executive of Gap clothing, Millard Drexler, made $47 million in 1998-$24,000 an hour. Workers turning out his goods in Third World countries are paid as little as 50 cents an hour. Chie Abad represents sweatshop workers on an island in the Pacific. He said, "We have no right to organise. We work 12 hours a day, seven days a week. We live in squalid, insanitary barracks, surrounded by barbed wire. "Women get fired if they are pregnant. We have no ventilation inside the factory. We have to drink rainwater. "
Neal Gorfinkle from the SEIU public sector union in New Jersey was also on the picket. Neal stayed for the week's protests after he attended a rally called by trade union leaders against the entry of China into the World Trade Organisation. Workers in the US fear that their jobs will move to China as the multinationals open up China's markets.
Neal told Socialist Worker, "It was a big rally. The focus unfortunately was China-bashing, which I'm against. I have nothing against workers in China. It's the multinational corporations I hate. But I think the motion of the labour movement is generally in the right direction. The union federation, the AFL-CIO, endorsed Sunday's rally against the IMF and World Bank. Seattle was a shot of adrenaline into the labour movement."
Some 1,500 people listened to 23 speakers at a massive 13 hour teach-in on Friday. International student activist Colin Rajah told the audience, "The World Bank oppresses the masses for an elite of powerful people. "We can feel it in the USA and around the world. It is race and class based, and reinforced by the military and the police. California spends more on prisons than young people's education. Indonesia spends more on the military than education. We are struggling to redefine the social and economic structure."
There were academics and activists from all over the world at the teach-in, which was held in the church where Bill Clinton goes to repent.
Njoki Njoroge Njehu from Kenya told the teach-in, "The consensus is that the IMF and World Bank cannot be reformed. They have to be abolished. "The oppression is global-the resistance and solidarity has to be global. The enemy is not fellow workers around the world. The enemy are the owners of capital."
Chris Crews, from the Student Alliance to Reform Corporations, argued that the protests against capitalism had to deepen. He said, "We are calling into question the system-capitalism. Free market economics has failed us. We feel that students and workers have lost control over the means of production to corporate control. We want to reach workers, but we don't know how. Some people want to stop at reforms. I think you get to the point where if you're going for revolution you have to go further forward."
'We must demonstrate if we want democracy'
TRADE unionists mingled at a "permitted" legal rally in the Ellipse Park next to the White House. Black steel worker Abe Adams listened intently to the environmentalists and union leaders who spoke from the rally platform. "The way these corporate powers operate today reminds me when I was oppressed as I was growing up in Alabama in the 1950s and 1960s. When I was sent to Vietnam I was told it was for democracy. What democracy do you see today? If we want democracy, this is what we must do. We've got to start by scrapping the World Bank and the IMF. I'm with the students on that."
As Abe spoke the secretary of the AFL/CIO union federation was addressing a cheering crowd. Richard Trumka announced, "Brothers and sisters, it will soon be time for us to stop talking and start walking, and let the IMF and the WTO and the World Bank know that we are together and we mean business." The sheer colour and inventiveness of the mass demonstration struck onlookers. Trade unionists and sweatshop workers, students and environmentalists held the lead banner.
Behind them were a myriad of homemade placards, and puppets of Clinton and the World Bank leaders. Trade unionists chanted, "The people united will never be defeated." Students chanted, "The workers united will never be defeated," and, "Whose streets? Our streets!"
The fat cats and the corporate suits are likely to feel the anti-capitalist heat wherever they meet to cut their dirty deals. As machinist union member Tom Dunne said, "This is working America waking up. People are starting to realise this is a class war-an understanding we haven't had for a long time."
Times are changing
"THE BEST thing is that the whole movement is moving to the left again. All this is brand new. I hope it keeps growing. Trade unionists in the US didn't really take part in the struggles of the 1960s, but we're here now. This is going to change the US. I can feel it."
- Locked out steel worker DON KEGLEY
Police defend multinationals
POLICE AND National Guardsmen cordoned off the main streets of Washington DC on Monday to make sure delegates to the World Bank and the IMF met. Police officers took their revenge on the protesters. They arrested over 600. That put the total arrest figure for the week's protests at about 1,200. The police used tear gas and pepper spray.
Medical volunteers washed blood and tear gas off clothes and told of police brutality. One protester was pepper sprayed and then hit full in the face with a baton. "Will this dissuade us? No. It makes our point more apparent," said student protester Joanna Hellmuth.


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Anime is a form of art that's been known to anthropomorphize and personify such non-people things as naval ships, guns, and even old Sega gaming systems. So hey, giving the same treatment to human cellular biology seems downright reasonable in comparison! It could even be...*gasp*...educational???
Day 8 of the 12 Days of Anime 2018
Cells at Work! had the benefit of sheer novelty in its favor this year. Not only did it promise to be the sort of Osmosis Jones-cum-Magic School Bus anime that 90's kids never knew they pined for, but David Production—a.k.a. the anime studio responsible for cerebral prestige drama JoJo's Bizarre Adventure—inexplicably got the job to bring it to life. It wasn't certain what would come of this, but at the very least, surely it would be bananas.
I've not actually seen it all as of right now (maybe that needs to be fixed), but it's definitely been entertaining! I've even kind of learned some things! To wit:
- Our bodies undergo catastrophic urban devastation almost constantly, to an extent that would shock even Evangelion.
- White blood cells frequently wear the blood of their enemies.
- Please do not—under ANY circumstances—fuck with the macrophage. Don't do it, man, I'm serious, no, BAD IDEA
- According to the Law of Big Numbers, it is almost a statistical certainty that at least one of our red blood cells will possess the voice of Kana Hanazawa acting like the biggest gigantic scenery-chewing ham possible.
- Allergies happen when everybody in the human body becomes a collective bunch of morons.
- Something called the NK Cell literally has powers straight from JoJo.
- Turns out that cells are totally shippable! They can even have childhood backstories. Main Red Blood Cell-chan and Main White Blood Cell-kun seem like they'd make a cute pairing, for example.
- It also turns out that it's possible to be horny for cellular biology! This Eosinophil can exterminate my parasites all she wants.
- But of course, because anime eternally continues to be A Mistake™, according to my fiancée after she went on a Cells at Work! doujin excursion, everybody else apparently just wants to fuck the little platelets. Why am I not even surprised.
...these are all things I was supposed to pick up on...Right??


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President Trump took heat from both sides of the aisle on Thursday for saying he trusts that Kim Jong Un was not responsible for the death of Otto Warmbier, an ...Read More »
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After bilking corporations out of millions of dollars for "insight" into his client, failing to pay his taxes, trying to entrap his client, and pleading guilty to lying to Congress, ...Read More »
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In his testimony Wednesday before the House Oversight Committee, Michael Cohen faced an obvious challenge as a convicted perjurer who was not just disbarred the day before but soon will ...Read More »
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President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's second summit ended without any agreement Thursday. "The two leaders discussed various ways to advance denuclearization and economic driven concepts," White ...Read More »
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President Donald Trump — already facing opposition on his national emergency declaration from House Democrats and a collection of state attorneys general — will on Monday have to contend with ...Read More »
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Peace is within us, each and every moment. Let's gather as a community for an embodied experience that restores vitality, clarity, and peace through movement, visualization, and breath. Qigong (chee-gung) is a simple practice of moving energy intentionally through your body and beyond, and requires no previous experience. In peace qigong, you will sense
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Social Media Advertising For Dispensaries. Can Dispensaries Advertise on Facebook and Instagram?
Can dispensaries advertise on Facebook and Instagram?
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We all know that Google Ads, Bing Ads, and Facebook/Instagram Ads don't allow cannabis companies, medical and recreational dispensaries, and/or vape shops to advertise medical cannabis or recreational marijuana on their platforms, yet. But that doesn't mean it isn't possible!
We've actually been able to advertise medical marijuana on Facebook in 2017 and 2018. To learn how we were able to get approved to advertise on Facebook, using cannabis imagery and the words "medical marijuana", read the case study.
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Last February we participated in a simulcast titled "Stepping Up – A Call to Courageous Manhood". In this simulcast Dennis Rainey and other presenters shared what biblical manhood looks like and what it means to be a godly, courageous man in today's world. They helped us begin to understand what it means to lead at home, at work, and in the community. During this retreat we announced that this fall we would be offering the men at FBC an opportunity to go through the 10-week video series based on Dennis Rainey's book by the same title – Stepping Up: A Call to Courageous Living.
In this series, Dennis Rainey, along with Matt Chandler, Bill Bennett, Tony Dungy, Robert Lewis, Voddie Baucham, Stu Weber, Mark Driscoll, James MacDonald, Joshua Harris, Eric Metaxas, Crawford Loritts, and 10 other ministry leaders will take us deeper into what it means to step up and live a courageous life. Through engaging stories, expert teaching, humorous vignettes, man-on-the-street interviews, and personal insights, these men's ministry leaders call every man to become courageous leaders in their own lives, marriages, churches, and communities. Accompanied by small-group discussion and individual follow-up exercises, men of every age will learn action tools for gospel-centered living to empower them to be true heroes in their families and communities.
Here is a breakdown of the ten sessions:
Each session will last one hour. We will be hosting a group on Tuesday mornings from 6:00 to 7:00 and on Saturday mornings from 8:00 to 9:00. The first Tuesday session will be held on September 17th and the first Saturday session will be held on September 21st. Each participant will receive Denis Rainey's book and a workbook for a cost of only $5.
This is an amazing opportunity for the men in our church to come together and explore what it means to be godly men.
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New Jersey-based Coffee Bean Direct LLC, an online seller of green and roasted coffees, yesterday lost a second domain name dispute case (a.k.a. a UDRP) to CoffeeDirect.com, which sold coffees online from the 1990s to 2006.
Coffee Bean Direct, which says it now roasts more than 1 million pounds of coffee after years of continuous growth since its founding in 2004, has recently been using the Coffee Direct name on its website, packaging and marketing materials, but the company has been unable to secure the coffeedirect.com domain, which currently leads to a broken link.
In its second UDRP complaint in the past three years, president Andrew Esserman and other representatives of Coffee Bean Direct outline unsuccessful attempts to negotiate for the sale of the domain name directly with directcoffee.com owner Claude Pope, and they suggest Pope has acted in bad faith by continuing to re-register the domain, despite his admissions that he was no longer in the coffee business. Pope has also listed the domain as for sale, the complainants said.
This, of course, is bad for business, especially when your business is online coffee sales that rely on SEO. From the Coffee Bean Direct complaint:
The Respondent is still actively disrupting Complainant's business by continuing to cause its long inactive COFFEEDIRECT.COM website to resolve to a "broken link". The broken link disrupts consumer online purchasing of Complainant's products—the very heart of its business. A consumer viewing the Complainant's actual products bearing the "Coffee Direct" trademarks or Complainant's active pages with Coffee Direct as the identifier for its Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and Pinterest social media sites cannot order products from Complainant by keystroking COFFEEDIRECT.COM in a web browser or search engine on the Web. In contrast, a consumer easily finds the Complainant when searching social media sites where the Complainant has active pages with Coffee Direct as the identifier.
It's worth noting that Pope, the respondent in the claim, made no formal response, yet still managed to win the case, as decided by a Czech arbitration panel. How? Andrew Allemann, editor of Domain Name Wire, an online news source for lawyers and others dealing in the domain industry, provides a lengthy (and somewhat technical) explanation of how the case went down.
Allemann also poses an important question in this case: "Hmm. Why would you hold on to a valuable domain you used to use for your business rather than let it expire? Maybe because it's valuable."
Nick Brown
Nick Brown is the editor of Daily Coffee News by Roast Magazine. Feedback and story ideas are welcome at publisher (at) dailycoffeenews.com, or see the "About Us" page for contact information.


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Jadestone delays Vietnamese gas project 'in light of current market conditions'
Jadestone Energy has decided to delay its gas development project offshore Vietnam due to the current market situation and as a result of a decision to reduce its 2020 capital expenditure guidance.
In light of current market conditions, and in order to continue to maintain the company's strong balance sheet in these uncertain times, Jadestone said on Thursday it was reviewing its 2020 capital program.
In the absence of the receipt of the Vietnamese Government approvals of the field development plan (FDP) for the Nam Du and U Minh gas field developments, Jadestone has decided to delay this project.
The Nam Du discovery is located within the Block 46/07 PSC on the north-eastern margin of the Malay-Tho Chu Basin, approximately 200 kilometers offshore Vietnam in a water depth of 47.9 meters.
Back in February 2020, Jadestone was expecting the approval for the Vietnamese project to happen shortly, but that has not happened.
Jadestone said on Thursday it would remove substantially all capital spending which had been planned for the project in 2020, resulting in a 50%, or circa $90m reduction to its 2020 capex guidance for the year, which is now expected to be $80-95m.
This decision is not just a recognition of the impact of new measures to conserve the company's capital resources but focuses on the largest and longest element of the company's 2020 capital program, and one which would not have contributed cash flow before 4Q 2021. This had assumed receipt of Vietnamese Government approvals in 1Q 2020, and as this has not been forthcoming, the expected first gas date for the project will be no earlier than late 2022.
Remaining capital reserved for Australian ops
The remaining 2020 capital program largely comprises infill drilling at Montara and Stag in Australia and remains entirely discretionary. The company will continue to evaluate all capital investments, including potential inorganic growth opportunities, based on anticipated accretive value add for shareholders while maintaining balance sheet strength.
As of January 31, 2020, Jadestone had an unaudited cash balance of $116 m, including restricted cash of $10m and gross outstanding interest-bearing debt of $50.1m. The company expects to remain operating cash flow positive even at oil prices below $30/bbl, owing largely to downside price protection through hedging and significant pricing premia on oil from its producing assets in Australia. The mark-to-market value of the hedge as at February 28, 2020, was over $18m in favor of the company.
Paul Blakeley, President and CEO commented: "We are committed to maintaining capital discipline through the current uncertain environment. While the level of economic turmoil is unprecedented, I am pleased that we retain substantial flexibility and will remain nimble, and course-correct as necessary, to ensure ongoing value add to our shareholders.
"Nam Du and U Minh are an important domestic gas resource for Vietnam, which will ultimately contribute to generating clean power and essential fertilizer for the ongoing development of the Southwest Vietnam economy. But, with ongoing Vietnamese Government delays to the FDP approval process, there is a short-term option for us to defer our spending commitments on the project, which we've decided to take.
"Vietnam currently has the potential to take temporarily cheap competitor piped gas, which is oil price linked and benefitting from the current market dislocation, and the Nam Du and U Minh fields can be developed when investment conditions improve."
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Member of Parliament for South Leicestershire, Alberto Costa, has officially opened Saffron Dynamo FC's brand-new flood lit third generation artificial grass pitch at the club's ground in Cosby following investment from the Premier League, The FA and the Government's Football Foundation.
At the ceremony last Sunday (1st September), Alberto joined players, coaches and representatives from Saffron Dynamo to formally open the state-of-the-art pitch at Cambridge Road in Cosby. After securing a £373,599 grant from the Football Foundation, work on the new pitch begin in February earlier this year replacing a grass pitch to support their 15 teams across different age ranges.
The new artificial grass pitch will help the club develop an additional six teams over the new five years, leading to over 130 additional people participating in football in the local area.
Alberto said, "I was honoured to join coaches, players and parents at Saffron Dynamo FC to formally unveil their brand new, state of the art all weather football pitch on Sunday. All those associated with the club do a tremendous amount of work, and dedicate a lot of their time, to their local community in running such a fantastic club in Cosby and this new pitch will only help the club develop further for the benefit of football players and fans in Cosby and the wider community".
Mr Paul Thorogood, Chief Executive of the Football Foundation, added, "The support of the Premier League, The FA and government enables the Football Foundation to help improve community sports facilities like this one across the country. Their funding has played a key role in delivering this new 3G AGP in Leicestershire and I am delighted for everyone associated with Saffron Dynamo FC".
Cllr Les Phillimore, Blaby District Councillor for Cosby with South Whetstone, said, "This was a fantastic day celebrating the official opening of the brand new 3G all-weather pitch at Saffron Dynamo. Already a highly successful club, the addition of this pitch will ensure that come rain or shine, the great sporting traditions of Saffron Dynamo will go from strength to strength and demonstrating what can be achieved when volunteers, club officials and the Football Association have a joint vision to provide top class facilities. Congratulations to all those involved in developing and delivering this project".
Alberto concluded, "I am delighted that the club's vision for this new pitch has been realised thanks to a most generous grant from the excellent Football Foundation. I am very grateful to them, the Premier League and the FA for continuing to invest in grassroots football and widen participation in South Leicestershire. I really look forward to watching Saffron Dynamo continue to grow and develop, much to the benefit of their local community".
Picture above shows Alberto with Blaby District Councillor for Cosby and South Whetstone, Les Phillimore (R) and representatives from Saffron Dynamo FC.


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Getting Involved in Global Development
The challenge for most firms and individuals desperate to participate in development activities is in understanding the intricacies with the process to secure involvement. Activities through agencies such as the Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID), the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank, are usually let through a public, competitive tendering process. Increasing this matter is the fact that in almost all cases, the process is different for every agency.
Myth - that the development marketplace is different.
Well of course it is, as are all industries - different clients, different products, different channels to promote, different cultures, different environments, different risks etc.
What makes it the same is the need to ensure client needs are met, if not exceeded, and that services are as desired/needed, not imposed.
So how would you become involved? Is it luck? It is skill? Is it people, services or products?
All and more I am certain.
A key step often required may be the need to demonstrate experience, understanding, value, sustainability of strategies etc to those assessing a tender.
Reality Check - Successful tenders must be compliant to the requirements of the request, must be price competitive, and need to find the balance between the technical requirements of the response and the selling nature of the process.
One of the most basic aspects of development initiatives is their ability to produce sustainable outcomes into the communities within which the activities take place. Consequently, learning from past activities assists to shape the appearance of future initiatives. For firms or individuals seeking participation, understanding how such learning could modify development approaches is a critical step in determining the type and level of involvement to target.
Fact - gaining knowledge from past activities is constantly on the shape future interventions.
The Development Market Today
The following points are a few key observations concerning the directions [approaches] being taken in the supply of development assistance. These directions have the potential to impact on any strategy organisations and individuals might adopt to enter, maintain, or increase their involvement:
• Funds are being diverted from government aid agencies to other government departments for sector-specific programs
• There is a continuing trend to devolve more decision making towards the offshore post of the donor country, out of the 'central' headquarters
• An rise in donor co-ordination and collaboration where, for example, the USA [through USAID] and Australia [through AusAID] might align program approaches in order to avoid duplication and other associated impediments, into a sector- wide approach
• A trend seeing more assistance being aligned to foreign policy where, for example, security and regional stability could influence aid disbursement
• Bilateral donors are opening their markets, allowing for individuals and organisations to compete for once closed opportunities
• There is an increasing trend for a move to larger activities, for example sector-wide approaches, instead of specific project interventions
• Scale and global reach is likely to be an essential criteria in winning and managing major programs
• Relationships and networks in country with donor representatives, recipient governments, local organisations and development professionals have become increasingly important.
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The current issue of Planet Mindful magazine opens with my article about escalating consumption in the so-called 'wellness marketplace'.
Read a free pdf of the article here.
(The type is rather small, so you'll need to zoom in to read. If you prefer to read an IRL copy of the magazine, it's on shelves now in WHSmith, major supermarkets, and even Barnes & Noble in the US.)
From $15,000 yoga mats (yes, really) to electronic meditation pebbles to dubious 'earthing' technologies: there have never been so many ways to get ripped off while looking for inner peace. I look at how things went wrong, and consider how to be a more mindful consumer.
I'm not out to take away anyone's enjoyment of their high-end yoga mat or crystal doodads. Precious talismans, carefully chosen and cherished, will always have their place. But investing in such objects should be a symbol of our intentions, not the whole of the effort. As I write in the piece, "Spending money on our wellbeing is not the problem. But buying into a system where spending = soothing, where acquiring stuff has become a proxy for the real work of self-care: it's not healthy."
Not healthy for us, and not healthy for the planet. In particular, wellness products which are derived from nature – I'm thinking about all those rose quartz crystals and essential oils – have a false halo effect: we feel as though they must be essentially benign by virtue of being 'natural', and we forget to ask whether they got to us by ethical and sustainable routes. The fantasy of 'nature's bounty' obscures the reality of underpaid, marginalised human beings at the sharp end of the supply chain. And even after we accept that 'organic' doesn't imply 'sustainable' and 'naturally-sourced' is not equal to 'ethically sourced', it can be hard to know which sources of information to trust. There wasn't room to go into it in this Planet Mindful commission, and the topic deserves its own article – rest assured, I'm working on it.


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Imbolo Mbue- Behold The Dreamers
"Behold the Dreamers is an exploration of marriage and also what it means to be American. These dual t hemes reverberate off each other in surprising ways and there were moments when Mbue's words struck me right in the heart." -Consuelo
Lawrence Wright – The Terror Years: From Al-Qaeda to the Islamic State
"Lawrence Wright is the master of investigative journalism. The Looming Tower, Going Clear, Thirteen Days, etc..all incredible pieces of insight. Here, he takes pieces previously written for The New Yorker and stitches them all together for a fresh look into the FBI, Syria, Al Queda…all of it…all ugly and debilitating…all enlightening…the world is a mess…" – Jason
Caleb Carr – Surrender, New York
Trajan Jones is a former NYPD police officer who finds himself whittling away his days teaching a less than thrilling online criminal justice course. But when several local kids are found dead under suspicious circumstances, Jones is suddenly thrust back into the line of duty. As Jones and his colleagues delve deeper into their investigation, they attract the dangerous attention of the murder
Han Kang – Vegetarian (paperback)
"It all started with the nightmare. In the midst of Kim Yeong-hye and her husband's mediocre, middle-class marriage, the dream about blood and meat and carnage. To make the dream stop, Yeong-hye stops eating meat. Then all food. Eventually, she becomes more plant-like than animal to those around her. This book is about transformation: birthmarks bloom into flowers, trees alight with flames, arms stretch out into roots, a bird speaks with a mother's voice, a piece of art transcends the piece itself to shatter several lives. Yeong-hye's violent dreams are a product of a lifetime of internalized aggressions, microaggressions, and passive erasure. This book is about the violence that women hold onto inside themselves and the only way to let it go is to let go of the entire world. A reader might balk at Yeong-hye's lack of voice throughout the story, considering that she is the subject. But for anyone who has watched someone make the decision to destroy themselves, we know that at a certain point, satisfying answers are never forthcoming. Recommended pairing with Young-ha Kim's I Have The Right to Destroy Myself." – Jan
Gloria Steinem – My Life on the Road (paperback)
Internationally renowned journalist and activist Gloria Steinem recounts for us how her lifetime spent on the road help to shape her approach to the world. From cross country road trips with her father to Bobby Kennedy's campaign trail and joining social activists in India, Steinem paints a vivid picture of a lifetime on the move, and emphasizes the importance of listening and learning along the way. Now in paperback!
Michelle Cuevas, Erin E. Stead – The Uncorcker of Ocean Bottles
This beautiful picture book, written by Michelle Cuevas (MASTERWORK OF A PAINTING ELEPHANT) and illustrated by Erin E. Stead (IF YOU WANT TO SEE A WHALE) is all about the joy of receiving mail! On an island far away, a man uncorks messages in bottles and sends them off to their intended recipient. But what happens when he finds a message addressed just to him? Truly wonderful!
James Ponti – Framed! A T.O.A.S.T. Mystery
From the mastermind behind the DEAD CITY novels comes a middle-school mystery perfect for any aspiring gumshoe. Florian Bates is a top-notch private eye with a theory…a Theory of All Small Things (TOAST, for short). Everything is connected, even the most minute of details. But what happens when he and his new best friend uncover a mystery that is anything but small? Find out in this delightful book.
Kate Milford – The Left-Handed Fate
Last year, Topher (school outreach director and BookPeople's very own booktalk guru) fell in love with THE GREENGLASS HOUSE by Kate Milford. This year she brings us THE LEFT-HANDED FATE, another Nagspeake adventure. Lucy and Max seek to end a terrible naval war between England and France. While searching for three hidden pieces of a mysterious engine, they are captured by American pirate Oliver, who is only twelve years old. Chock full of action and adventure
Kelly DiPucchio, Greg Pizzoli – Dragon was Terrible
Thanks to Kelly DiPucchio (EVERYONE LOVES BACON) and Greg Pizzoli (THE WATERMELON SEED) we have a new favorite book about dragons! Dragon is terrible in so many ways: He scribbles in books. He steals candy from baby unicorns. He even burps in church. How rude! Who can tame Dragon? Time for a hero to rise to the occasion!