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After this Lucullus went away, and Pompey having placed his whole navy in guard upon the seas betwixt Phoenicia and Bosporus, himself marched against Mithridates, who had a phalanx of thirty thousand foot, with two thousand horse, yet durst not bid him battle. He had encamped upon a strong mountain where it would have been hard to attack him, but abandoned it in no long time, as destitute of water. No sooner was he gone but Pompey occupied it, and observing the plants that were thriving there, together with the hollows which he found in several places, conjectured that such a plot could not be without springs, and therefore ordered his men to sink wells in every corner. After which there was, in a little time, great plenty of water throughout all the camp, insomuch that he wondered how it was possible for Mithridates to be ignorant of this, during all that time of his encampment there. After this Pompey followed him to his next camp, and there drawing lines round about him, shut him in. But he, after having endured a siege of forty-five days, made his escape secretly, and fled away with all the best part of his army, having first put to death all the sick and unserviceable. Not long after Pompey overtook him again near the banks of the river Euphrates, and encamped close by him; but fearing lest he should pass over the river and give him the slip there too, he drew up his army to attack him at midnight. And at that very time Mithridates, it is said, saw a vision in his dream foreshowing what should come to pass. For he seemed to be under sail in the Euxine Sea with a prosperous gale, and just in view of Bosporus, discoursing pleasantly with the ship's company, as one overjoyed for his past danger and present security, when on a sudden he found himself deserted of all, and floating upon a broken plank of the ship at the mercy of the sea. Whilst he was thus laboring under these passions and phantasms, his friends came and awaked him with the news of Pompey's approach; who was now indeed so near at hand, that the fight must be for the camp itself, and the commanders accordingly drew up the forces in battle array. Pompey perceiving how ready they were and well prepared for defense, began to doubt with himself whether he should put it to the hazard of a fight in the dark, judging it more prudent to encompass them only at present, lest they should fly, and to give them battle with the advantage of numbers the next day. But his oldest officers were of another opinion, and by entreaties and encouragements obtained permission that they might charge them immediately. Neither was the night so very dark, but that, though the moon was going down, it yet gave light enough to discern a body. And indeed this was one especial disadvantage to the king's army. For the Romans coming upon them with the moon on their backs, the moon, being very low, and just upon setting, cast the shadows a long way before their bodies, reaching almost to the enemy, whose eyes were thus so much deceived that not exactly discerning the distance, but imagining them to be near at hand, they threw their darts at the shadows, without the least execution. The Romans therefore perceiving this, ran in upon them with a great shout; but the barbarians, all in a panic, unable to endure the charge, turned and fled, and were put to great slaughter, above ten thousand being slain; the camp also was taken. As for Mithridates himself, he at the beginning of the onset, with a body of eight hundred horse charged through the Roman army, and made his escape. But before long all the rest dispersed, some one way, some another, and he was left only with three persons, among whom was his concubine, Hypsicratia, a girl always of a manly and daring spirit, and the king called her on that account Hypsicrates. She being attired and mounted like a Persian horseman, accompanied the king in all his flight, never weary even in the longest journey, nor ever failing to attend the king in person, and look after his horse too, until they came to Inora, a castle of the king's, well stored with gold and treasure. From thence Mithridates took his richest apparel, and gave it among those that had resorted to him in their flight; and to every one of his friends he gave a deadly poison, that they might not fall into the power of the enemy against their wills. From thence he designed to have gone to Tigranes in Armenia, but being prohibited by Tigranes, who put out a proclamation with a reward of one hundred talents to any one that should apprehend him, he passed by the head-waters of the river Euphrates, and fled through the country of Colchis.
Pompey in the meantime made an invasion into Armenia, upon the invitation of young Tigranes, who was now in rebellion against his father, and gave Pompey a meeting about the river Araxes, which rises near the head of Euphrates, but turning its course and bending towards the east, falls into the Caspian Sea. They two, therefore, marched together through the country, taking in all the cities by the way, and receiving their submission. But king Tigranes, having lately suffered much in the war with Lucullus, and understanding that Pompey was of a kind and gentle disposition, admitted Roman troops into his royal palaces, and taking along with him his friends and relations, went in person to surrender himself into the hands of Pompey. He came as far as the trenches on horseback, but there he was met by two of Pompey's lictors, who commanded him to alight and walk on foot, for no man ever was seen on horseback within a Roman camp. Tigranes submitted to this immediately, and not only so, but loosing his sword, delivered up that too; and last of all, as soon as he appeared before Pompey, he pulled off his royal turban, and attempted to have laid it at his feet. Nay, worst of all, even he himself had fallen prostrate as an humble suppliant at his knees, had not Pompey prevented it, taking him by the hand and placing him near him, Tigranes himself on one side of him and his son upon the other. Pompey now told him that the rest of his losses were chargeable upon Lucullus, by whom he had been dispossessed of Syria, Phoenicia, Cilicia, Galatia, and Sophene; but all that he had preserved to himself entire till that time he should peaceably enjoy, paying the sum of six thousand talents as a fine or penalty for injuries done to the Romans, and that his son should have the kingdom of Sophene. Tigranes himself was well pleased with these conditions of peace, and when the Romans saluted him king, seemed to be overjoyed, and promised to every common soldier half a mina of silver, to every centurion ten minas, and to every tribune a talent; but the son was displeased, insomuch that when he was invited to supper, he replied, that he did not stand in need of Pompey for that sort of honor, for he would find out some other Roman to sup with. Upon this he was put into close arrest, and reserved for the triumph.
Not long after this Phraates, king of Parthia, sent to Pompey, and demanded to have young Tigranes, as his son-in-law, given up to him, and that the river Euphrates should be the boundary of the empires. Pompey replied, that for Tigranes, he belonged more to his own natural father than his father-in-law, and for the boundaries, he would take care that they should be according to right and justice.
So Pompey, leaving Armenia in the custody of Afranius, went himself in chase of Mithridates; to do which he was forced of necessity to march through several nations inhabiting about Mount Caucasus. Of these the Albanians and Iberians were the two chiefest. The Iberians stretch out as far as the Moschian mountains and the Pontus; the Albanians lie more eastwardly, and towards the Caspian Sea. These Albanians at first permitted Pompey, upon his request, to pass through the country; but when winter had stolen upon the Romans whilst they were still in the country, and they were busy celebrating the festival of Saturn, they mustered a body of no less than forty thousand fighting men, and set upon them, having passed over the river Cyrnus, which rising from the mountains of Iberia, and receiving the river Araxes in its course from Armenia, discharges itself by twelve mouths into the Caspian. Or, according to others, the Araxes does not fall into it, but they flow near one another, and so discharge themselves as neighbors into the same sea. It was in the power of Pompey to have obstructed the enemy's passage over the river, but he suffered them to pass over quietly; and then leading on his forces and giving battle, he routed them, and slew great numbers of them in the field. The king sent ambassadors with his submission, and Pompey upon his supplication pardoned the offense, and making a treaty with him, he marched directly against the Iberians, a nation no less in number than the other, but much more warlike, and extremely desirous of gratifying Mithridates, and driving out Pompey. These Iberians were never subject to the Medes or Persians, and they happened likewise to escape the dominion of the Macedonians, because Alexander was so quick in his march through Hyrcania. But these also Pompey subdued in a great battle, where there were slain nine thousand upon the spot, and more than ten thousand taken prisoners. From thence he entered into the country of Colchis, where Servilius met him by the river Phasis, bringing the fleet with which he was guarding the Pontus.
The pursuit of Mithridates, who had thrown himself among the tribes inhabiting Bosporus and the shores of the Maeotian Sea, presented great difficulties. News was also brought to Pompey that the Albanians had again revolted. This made him turn back, out of anger and determination not to be beaten by them, and with difficulty and great danger he passed back over the Cyrnus, which the barbarous people had fortified a great way down the banks with palisadoes. And after this, having a tedious march to make through a waterless and difficult country, he ordered ten thousand skins to be filled with water, and so advanced towards the enemy; whom he found drawn up in order of battle near the river Abas, to the number of sixty thousand horse, and twelve thousand foot, ill armed generally, and most of them covered only with the skins of wild beasts. Their general was Cosis, the king's brother, who as soon as the battle was begun, singled out Pompey, and rushing in upon him, darted his javelin into the joints of his breastplate; while Pompey, in return, struck him through the body with his lance, and slew him. It is related that in this battle there were Amazons fighting as auxiliaries with the barbarians, and that they came down from the mountains by the river Thermodon. For that after the battle, when the Romans were taking the spoil and plunder of the field, they met with several targets and buskins of the Amazons; but no woman's body was found among the dead. They inhabit the parts of Mount Caucasus that reach down to the Hyrcanian Sea, not immediately bordering upon the Albanians, for the Gelae and the Leges lie betwixt; and they keep company with these people yearly, for two months only, near the river Thermodon; after which they retire to their own habitations, and live alone all the rest of the year.
After this engagement, Pompey was eager to advance with his forces upon the Hyrcanian and Caspian Sea, but was forced to retreat at a distance of three days' march from it, by the number of venomous serpents, and so he retreated into Armenia the Less. Whilst he was there, kings of the Elymaeans and Medes sent ambassadors to him, to whom he gave friendly answer by letter; and sent against the king of Parthia, who had made incursions upon Gordyene, and despoiled the subjects of Tigranes, an army under the command of Afranius, who put him to the rout, and followed him in chase as far as the district of Arbela.
Of the concubines of king Mithridates that were brought before Pompey, he took none to himself, but sent them all away to their parents and relations; most of them being either the daughters or wives of princes and great commanders. Stratonice, however, who had the greatest power and influence with him, and to whom he had committed the custody of his best and richest fortress, had been, it seems, the daughter of a musician, an old man, and of no great fortune, and happening to sing one night before Mithridates at a banquet, she struck his fancy so, that immediately he took her with him, and sent away the old man much dissatisfied, the king having not so much as said one kind word to himself. But when he rose in the morning, and saw tables in his house richly covered with gold and silver plate, a great retinue of servants, eunuchs, and pages, bringing him rich garments, and a horse standing before the door richly caparisoned, in all respects as was usual with the king's favorites, he looked upon it all as a piece of mockery, and thinking himself trifled with, attempted to make off and run away. But the servants laying hold upon him, and informing him really that the king had bestowed on him the house and furniture of a rich man lately deceased, and that these were but the first-fruits or earnests of greater riches and possessions that were to come, he was persuaded at last with much difficulty to believe them. And so putting on his purple robes, and mounting his horse, he rode through the city, crying out, "All this is mine;" and to those that laughed at him, he said, there was no such wonder in this, but it was a wonder rather that he did not throw stones at all he met, he was so transported with joy. Such was the parentage and blood of Stratonice. She now delivered up this castle into the hands of Pompey, and offered him many presents of great value, of which he accepted only such as he thought might serve to adorn the temples of the gods, and add to the splendor of his triumph; the rest he left to Stratonice's disposal, bidding her please herself in the enjoyment of them.
And in the same manner he dealt with the presents offered him by the king of Iberia, who sent him a bedstead, table, and a chair of state, all of gold, desiring him to accept of them; but he delivered them all into the custody of the public treasurers, for the use of the Commonwealth.
In another castle called Caenum, Pompey found and read with pleasure several secret writings of Mithridates, containing much that threw light on his character. For there were memoirs by which it appeared that besides others, he had made away with his son Ariarathes by poison, as also with Alcaeus the Sardian, for having robbed him of the first honors in a horse-race. There were several judgments upon the interpretation of dreams, which either he himself or some of his mistresses had had; and besides these, there was a series of wanton letters to and from his concubine Monime. Theophanes tells us that there was found also an address by Rutilius, in which he attempted to exasperate him to the laughter of all the Romans in Asia; though most men justly conjecture this to be a malicious invention of Theophanes, who probably hated Rutilius because he was a man in nothing like himself; or perhaps it might be to gratify Pompey, whose father is described by Rutilius in his history, as the vilest man alive.
From thence Pompey came to the city of Amisus, where his passion for glory put him into a position which might be called a punishment on himself. For whereas he had often sharply reproached Lucullus, in that while the enemy was still living, he had taken upon him to issue decrees, and distribute rewards and honors, as conquerors usually do only when the war is brought to an end, yet now was he himself, while Mithridates was paramount in the kingdom of Bosporus, and at the head of a powerful army, as if all were ended, just doing the same thing, regulating the provinces, and distributing rewards, many great commanders and princes having flocked to him, together with no less than twelve barbarian kings; insomuch that to gratify these other kings, when he wrote to the king of Parthia, he would not condescend, as others used to do, in the superscription of his letter, to give him his title of king of kings.
Moreover, he had a great desire and emulation to occupy Syria, and to march through Arabia to the Red Sea, that he might thus extend his conquests every way to the great ocean that encompasses the habitable earth; as in Africa he was the first Roman that advanced his victories to the ocean; and again in Spain he made the Atlantic Sea the limit of the empire; and then thirdly, in his late pursuit of the Albanians, he had wanted but little of reaching the Hyrcanian Sea. Accordingly he raised his camp, designing to bring the Red Sea within the circuit of his expedition, especially as he saw how difficult it was to hunt after Mithridates with an army, and that he would prove a worse enemy flying than fighting. But yet he declared, that he would leave a sharper enemy behind him than himself, namely, famine; and therefore he appointed a guard of ships to lie in wait for the merchants that sailed to Bosporus, death being the penalty for any who should attempt to carry provisions thither.
Then he set forward with the greatest part of his army, and in his march casually fell in with several dead bodies still uninterred, of those soldiers who were slain with Triarius in his unfortunate engagement with Mithridates; these he buried splendidly and honorably. The neglect of whom, it is thought, caused, as much as anything, the hatred that was felt against Lucullus, and alienated the affections of the soldiers from him. Pompey having now by his forces under the command of Afranius, subdued the Arabians about the mountain Amanus, himself entered Syria, and finding it destitute of any natural and lawful prince, reduced it into the form of a province, as a possession of the people of Rome. He conquered also Judaea, and took its king, Aristobulus, captive. Some cities he built anew, and to others he gave their liberty, chastising their tyrants. Most part of the time that he spent there was employed in the administration of justice, In deciding controversies of kings and States; and where he himself could not be present in person, he gave commissions to his friends, and sent them. Thus when there arose a difference betwixt the Armenians and Parthians about some territory, and the judgment was referred to him, he gave a power by commission to three judges and arbiters to hear and determine the controversy. For the reputation of his power was great; nor was the fame of his justice and clemency inferior to that of his power, and served indeed as a veil for a multitude of faults committed by his friends and familiars. For although it was not in his nature to check or chastise wrongdoers, yet he himself always treated those that had to do with him in such a manner, that they submitted to endure with patience the acts of covetousness and oppression done by others.
Among these friends of his, there was one Demetrius who had the greatest influence with him of all; he was a freed slave, a youth of good understanding, but somewhat too insolent in his good fortune, of whom there goes this story. Cato, the philosopher, being as yet a very young man, but of great repute and a noble mind, took a journey of pleasure to Antioch, at a time when Pompey was not there, having a great desire to see the city. He, as his custom was, walked on foot, and his friends accompanied him on horseback; and seeing before the gates of the city a multitude dressed in white, the young men on one side of the road, and the boys on the other, he was somewhat offended at it, imagining that it was officiously done in honor of him, which was more than he had any wish for. However, he desired his companions to alight and walk with him; but when they drew near, the master of the ceremonies in this procession came out with a garland and a rod in his hand, and met them, inquiring, where they had left Demetrius, and when he would come? Upon which Cato's companions burst out into laughter, but Cato said only, "Alas, poor city!" and passed by without any other answer. However, Pompey rendered Demetrius less odious to others by enduring his presumption and impertinence to himself. For it is reported how that Pompey, when he had invited his friends to an entertainment, would be very ceremonious in waiting, till they all came and were placed, while Demetrius would be already stretched upon the couch as if he cared for no one, with his dress over his ears, hanging down from his head. Before his return into Italy, he had purchased the pleasantest country-seat about Rome, with the finest walks and places for exercise, and there were sumptuous gardens, called by the name of Demetrius, while Pompey his master, up to his third triumph, was contented with an ordinary and simple habitation. Afterwards, it is true, when he had erected his famous and stately theater for the people of Rome, he built as a sort of appendix to it, a house for himself, much more splendid than his former, and yet no object even this to excite men's envy, since he who came to be master of it after Pompey could not but express wonder and inquire where Pompey the Great used to sup. Such is the story told us.
The king of the Arabs near Petra, who had hitherto despised the power of the Romans, now began to be in great alarm at it, and sent letters to him promising to be at his commands, and to do whatever he should see fit to order. However, Pompey having a desire to confirm and keep him in the same mind, marched forwards for Petra, an expedition not altogether irreprehensible in the opinion of many; who thought it a mere running away from their proper duty, the pursuit of Mithridates, Rome's ancient and inveterate enemy, who was now rekindling the war once more, and making preparations, it was reported, to lead his army through Scythia and Paeonia, into Italy. Pompey, on the other side, judging it easier to destroy his forces in battle, than to seize his person in flight, resolved not to tire himself out in a vain pursuit, but rather to spend his leisure upon another enemy, as a sort of digression in the meanwhile. But fortune resolved the doubt; for when he was now not far from Petra, and had pitched his tents and encamped for that day, as he was talking exercise with his horse outside the camp, couriers came riding up from Pontus, bringing good news, as was known at once by the heads of their javelins, which it is the custom to carry crowned with branches of laurel. The soldiers, as soon as they saw them, flocked immediately to Pompey, who notwithstanding was minded to finish his exercise; but when they began to be clamorous and importunate, he alighted from his horse, and taking the letters went before them into the camp. Now there being no tribunal erected there, not even that military substitute for one which they make by cutting up thick turfs of earth and piling them one upon another, they, through eagerness and impatience, heaped up a pile of pack-saddles, and Pompey standing upon that, told them the news of Mithridates's death, how that he had himself put an end to his life upon the revolt of his son Pharnaces, and that Pharnaces had taken all things there into his hands and possession, which he did, his letters said, in right of himself and the Romans. Upon this news, the whole army expressing their joy, as was to be expected, fell to sacrificing to the gods, and feasting, as if in the person of Mithridates alone there had died many thousands of their enemies.
Pompey by this event having brought this war to its completion, with much more ease than was expected, departed forthwith out of Arabia, and passing rapidly through the intermediate provinces, he came at length to the city Amisus. There he received many presents brought from Pharnaces, with several dead bodies of the royal blood, and the corpse of Mithridates himself, which was not easy to be known by the face, for the physicians that embalmed him had not dried up his brain, but those who were curious to see him knew him by the scars there. Pompey himself would not endure to see him, but to deprecate the divine jealousy, sent it away to the city of Sinope. He admired the richness of his robes, no less than the size and splendor of his armor. His swordbelt, however, which had cost four hundred talents, was stolen by Publius, and sold to Ariarathes; his tiara also, a piece of admirable workmanship, Gaius, the roster brother of Mithridates, gave secretly to Faustus, the son of Sylla, at his request. All which Pompey was ignorant of, but afterwards, when Pharnaces came to understand it, he severely punished those that embezzled them.
Pompey now having ordered all things, and established that province, took his journey homewards in greater pomp and with more festivity. For when he came to Mitylene, he gave the city their freedom upon the intercession of Theophanes, and was present at the contest, there periodically held, of the poets, who took at that time no other theme or subject than the actions of Pompey. He was extremely pleased with the theater itself, and had a model of it taken, intending to erect one in Rome on the same design, but larger and more magnificent. When he came to Rhodes, he attended the lectures of all the philosophers there, and gave to every one of them a talent. Posidonius has published the disputation which he held before him against Hermagoras the rhetorician, upon the subject of Invention in general. At Athens, also, he showed similar, munificence to the philosophers, and gave fifty talents towards the repairing and beautifying the city. So that now by all these acts he well hoped to return into Italy in the greatest splendor and glory possible to man, and find his family as desirous to see him, as he felt himself to come home to them. But that supernatural agency, whose province and charge it is always to mix some ingredient of evil with the greatest and most glorious goods of fortune, had for some time back been busy in his household, preparing him a sad welcome. For Mucia during his absence had dishonored his bed. Whilst he was abroad at a distance, he had refused all credence to the report; but when he drew nearer to Italy, where his thoughts were more at leisure to give consideration to the charge, he sent her a bill of divorce; but neither then in writing, nor afterwards by word of mouth, did he ever give a reason why he discharged her; the cause of it is mentioned in Cicero's epistles.
Rumors of every kind were scattered abroad about Pompey, and were carried to Rome before him, so that there was a great tumult and stir, as if he designed forthwith to march with his army into the city, and establish himself securely as sole ruler. Crassus withdrew himself, together with his children and property, out of the city, either that he was really afraid, or that he counterfeited rather, as is most probable, to give credit to the calumny and exasperate the jealousy of the people. Pompey, therefore, as soon as he entered Italy, called a general muster of the army; and having made a suitable address and exchanged a kind farewell with his soldiers, he commanded them to depart every man to his country and place of habitation, only taking care that they should not fail to meet again at his triumph. Thus the army being disbanded, and the news commonly reported, a wonderful result ensued. For when the cities saw Pompey the Great passing through the country unarmed, and with a small train of familiar friends only, as if he was returning from a journey of pleasure, not from his conquests, they came pouring out to display their affection for him, attending and conducting him to Rome with far greater forces than he disbanded; insomuch that if he had designed any movement or innovation in the State, he might have done it without his army.
Now, because the law permitted no commander to enter into the city before his triumph, he sent to the senate, entreating them as a favor to him to prorogue the election of consuls, that thus he might be able to attend and give countenance to Piso, one of the candidates. The request was resisted by Cato, and met with a refusal. However, Pompey could not but admire the liberty and boldness of speech which Cato alone had dared to use in the maintenance of law and justice. He therefore had a great desire to win him over, and purchase his friendship at any rate; and to that end, Cato having two nieces, Pompey asked for one in marriage for himself, the other for his son. But Cato looked unfavorably on the proposal, regarding it as a design for undermining his honesty, and in a manner bribing him by a family alliance; much to the displeasure of his wife and sister, who were indignant that he should reject a connection with Pompey the Great. About that time Pompey having a design of setting up Afranius for the consulship, gave a sum of money among the tribes for their votes, and people came and received it in his own gardens a proceeding which, when it came to be generally known, excited great disapprobation, that he should thus for the sake of men who could not obtain the honor by their own merits, make merchandise of an office which had been given to himself as the highest reward of his services. "Now," said Cato to his wife and sister, "had we contracted an alliance with Pompey, we had been allied to this dishonor too;" and this they could not but acknowledge, and allow his judgment of what was right and fitting to have been wiser and better than theirs.
The splendor and magnificence of Pompey's triumph was such that though it took up the space of two days, yet they were extremely straitened in time, so that of what was prepared for that pageantry, there was as much withdrawn as would have set out and adorned another triumph. In the first place, there were tables carried, inscribed with the names and titles of the nations over whom he triumphed, Pontus, Armenia, Cappadocia, Paphlagonia, Media, Colchis, the Iberians, the Albanians, Syria, Cilicia, and Mesopotamia, together with Phoenicia and Palestine, Judaea, Arabia, and all the power of the pirates subdued by sea and land. And in these different countries there appeared the capture of no less than one thousand fortified places, nor much less than nine hundred cities, together with eight hundred ships of the pirates, and the foundation of thirty-nine towns. Besides, there was set forth in these tables an account of all the tributes throughout the empire, and how that before these conquests the revenue amounted but to fifty millions, whereas from his acquisitions they had a revenue of eighty-five millions; and that in present payment he was bringing into the common treasury ready money, and gold and silver plate, and ornaments, to the value of twenty thousand talents, over and above what had been distributed among the soldiers, of whom he that had least had fifteen hundred drachmas for his share. The prisoners of war that were led in triumph, besides the chief pirates, were the son of Tigranes, king of Armenia, with his wife and daughter; as also Zosime, wife of king Tigranes himself, and Aristobulus, king of Judaea, the sister of king Mithridates and her five sons, and some Scythian women. There were likewise the hostages of the Albanians and Iberians, and of the king of Commagene, besides a vast number of trophies, one for every battle in which he was conqueror, either himself in person, or by his lieutenants. But that which seemed to be his greatest glory, being one which no other Roman ever attained to, was this, that he made his third triumph over the third division of the world. For others among the Romans had the honor of triumphing thrice, but his first triumph was over Africa, his second, over Europe, and this last, over Asia; so that he seemed in these three triumphs to have led the whole world captive.
As for his age, those who affect to make the parallel exact in all things betwixt him and Alexander the Great, do not allow him to have been quite thirty-four, whereas in truth at that time he was near forty. And well had it been for him had he terminated his life at this date, while he still enjoyed Alexander's fortune, since all his aftertime served only either to bring him prosperity that made him odious, or calamities too great to be retrieved. For that great authority which he had gained in the city by his merits, he made use of only in patronizing the iniquities of others, so that by advancing their fortunes, he detracted from his own glory, till at last he was overthrown even by the force and greatness of his own power. And as the strongest citadel or fort in a town, when it is taken by an enemy, does then afford the same strength to the foe, as it had done to friends before; so Caesar, after Pompey's aid had made him strong enough to defy his country, ruined and overthrew at last the power which had availed him against the rest. The course of things was as follows. Lucullus, when he returned out of Asia, where he had been treated with insult by Pompey, was received by the senate with great honor, which was yet increased when Pompey came home; to check whose ambition they encouraged him to assume the administration of the government, whereas he was now grown cold and disinclined to business, having given himself over to the pleasures of ease and the enjoyment of a splendid fortune. However, he began for the time to exert himself against Pompey, attacked him sharply, and succeeded in having his own acts and decrees, which were repealed by Pompey, reestablished, and with the assistance of Cato, gained the superiority in the senate. Pompey having fallen from his hopes in such an unworthy repulse, was forced to fly to the tribunes of the people for refuge, and to attach himself to the young men, among whom was Clodius, the vilest and most impudent wretch alive, who took him about, and exposed him as a tool to the people, carrying him up and down among the throngs in the market-place, to countenance those laws and speeches which he made to cajole the people and ingratiate himself. And at last for his reward, he demanded of Pompey, as if he had not disgraced, but done him great kindness, that he should forsake (as in the end he did forsake) Cicero, his friend, who on many public occasions had done him the greatest service. And so when Cicero was in danger, and implored his aid, he would not admit him into his presence, but shutting up his gates against those that came to mediate for him, slips out at a back door, whereupon Cicero fearing the result of his trial, departed privately from Rome.
About that time Caesar, returning from military service, started a course of policy which brought him great present favor, and much increased his power for the future, and proved extremely destructive both to Pompey and the commonwealth. For now he stood candidate for his first consulship, and well observing the enmity betwixt Pompey and Crassus, and finding that by joining with one he should make the other his enemy, he endeavored by all means to reconcile them, an object in itself honorable and tending to the public good, but as he undertook it, a mischievous and subtle intrigue. For he well knew that opposite parties or factions in a commonwealth, like passengers in a boat, serve to trim and balance the unready motions of power there; whereas if they combine and come all over to one side, they cause a shock which will be sure to overset the vessel and carry down everything. And therefore Cato wisely told those who charged all the calamities of Rome upon the disagreement betwixt Pompey and Caesar, that they were in error in charging all the crime upon the last cause; for it was not their discord and enmity, but their unanimity and I friendship, that gave the first and greatest blow to the commonwealth.
Caesar being thus elected consul, began at once to make an interest with the poor and meaner sort, by preferring and establishing laws for planting colonies and dividing lands, lowering the dignity of his office, and turning his consulship into a sort of tribuneship rather. And when Bibulus, his colleague, opposed him, and Cato was prepared to second Bibulus, and assist him vigorously, Caesar brought Pompey upon the hustings, and addressing him in the sight of the people, demanded his opinion upon the laws that were proposed. Pompey gave his approbation. "Then," said Caesar, "in case any man should offer violence to these laws, will you be reedy to give assistance to the people?" "Yes," replied Pompey, "I shall be ready, and against those that threaten the sword, I will appear with sword and buckler." Nothing ever was said or done by Pompey up to that day, that seemed more insolent or overbearing; so that his friends endeavored to apologize for it as a word spoken inadvertently; but by his actions afterwards it appeared plainly that he was totally devoted to Caesar's service. For on a sudden, contrary to all expectation, he married Julia, the daughter of Caesar, who had been affianced before and was to be married within a few days to Caepio. And to appease Caepio's wrath, he gave him his own daughter in marriage, who had been espoused before to Faustus, the son of Sylla. Caesar himself married Calpurnia, the daughter of Piso.
Upon this Pompey, filling the city with soldiers, carried all things by force as he pleased. As Bibulus, the consul, was going to the forum, accompanied by Lucullus and Cato, they fell upon him on a sudden and broke his rods; and somebody threw a vessel of ordure upon the head of Bibulus himself; and two tribunes of the people, who escorted him, were desperately wounded in the fray. And thus having cleared the forum of all their adversaries, they got their bill for the division of lands established and passed into an act; and not only so, but the whole populace being taken with this bait, became totally at their devotion, inquiring into nothing and without a word giving their suffrages to whatever they propounded. Thus they confirmed all those acts and decrees of Pompey, which were questioned and contested by Lucullus; and to Caesar they granted the provinces of Gaul, both within and without the Alps, together with Illyricum, for five years, and likewise an army of four entire legions; then they created consuls for the year ensuing, Piso, the father-in-law of Caesar, and Gabinius, the most extravagant of Pompey's flatterers.
During all these transactions, Bibulus kept close within doors, nor did he appear publicly in person for the space of eight months together, notwithstanding he was consul, but sent out proclamations full of bitter invectives and accusations against them both. Cato turned prophet, and, as if he had been possessed with a spirit of divination, did nothing else in the senate but foretell what evils should befall the Commonwealth and Pompey. Lucullus pleaded old age, and retired to take his ease, as superannuated for affairs of State; which gave occasion to the saying of Pompey, that the fatigues of luxury were not more seasonable for an old man than those of government. Which in truth proved a reflection upon himself; for he not long after let his fondness for his young wife seduce him also into effeminate habits. He gave all his time to her, and passed his days in her company in country-houses and gardens, paying no heed to what was going on in the forum. Insomuch that Clodius, who was then tribune of the people, began to despise him, and engage in the most audacious attempts. For when he had banished Cicero, and sent away Cato into Cyprus under pretence of military duty, and when Caesar was gone upon his expedition to Gaul, finding the populace now looking to him as the leader who did everything according to their pleasure, he attempted forthwith to repeal some of Pompey's decrees; he took Tigranes, the captive, out of prison, and kept him about him as his companion; and commenced actions against several of Pompey's friends, thus designing to try the extent of his power. At last, upon a time when Pompey was present at the hearing of a certain cause, Clodius, accompanied with a crowd of profligate and impudent ruffians, standing up in a place above the rest, put questions to the populace as follows: "Who is the dissolute general? who is the man that seeks another man? who scratches his head with one finger?" and the rabble, upon the signal of his shaking his gown, with a great shout to every question, like singers making, responses in a chorus, made answer, "Pompey."
This indeed was no small annoyance to Pompey, who was quite unaccustomed to hear anything ill of himself, and unexperienced altogether in such encounters; and he was yet more vexed, when he saw that the senate rejoiced at this foul usage, and regarded it as a just punishment upon him for his treachery to Cicero. But when it came even to blows and wounds in the forum, and that one of Clodius's bondslaves was apprehended, creeping through the crowd towards Pompey with a sword in his hand, Pompey laid hold of this pretence, though perhaps otherwise apprehensive of Clodius's insolence and bad language, and never appeared again in the forum during all the time he was tribune, but kept close at home, and passed his time in consulting with his friends, by what means he might best allay the displeasure of the senate and nobles against him. Among other expedients, Culleo advised the divorce of Julia, and to abandon Caesar's friendship to gain that of the senate; this he would not hearken to. Others again advised him to call home Cicero from banishment, a man who was always the great adversary of Clodius, and as great a favorite of the senate; to this he was easily persuaded. And therefore he brought Cicero's brother into the forum, attended with a strong party, to petition for his return; where, after a warm dispute, in which several were wounded and some slain, he got the victory over Clodius. No sooner was Cicero returned home upon this decree, but immediately he used his efforts to reconcile the senate to Pompey; and by speaking in favor of the law upon the importation of corn, did again, in effect, make Pompey sovereign lord of all the Roman possessions by sea and land. For by that law, there were placed under his control all ports, markets, and storehouses, and in short, all the concerns both of the merchants and the husbandmen; which gave occasion to the charge brought against it by Clodius, that the law was not made because of the scarcity of corn, but the scarcity of corn was made, that they might pass a law, whereby that power of his, which was now grown feeble and consumptive, might be revived again, and Pompey reinstated in a new empire. Others look upon it as a politic device of Spinther, the consul, whose design it was to secure Pompey in a greater authority, that he himself might be sent in assistance to king Ptolemy. However, it is certain that Canidius, the tribune, preferred a law to dispatch Pompey in the character of an ambassador, without an army, attended only with two lictors, as a mediator betwixt the king and his subjects of Alexandria. Neither did this proposal seem unacceptable to Pompey, though the senate cast it out upon the specious pretence, that they were unwilling to hazard his person. However, there were found several writings scattered about the forum and near the senate-house, intimating how grateful it would be to Ptolemy to have Pompey appointed for his general instead of Spinther. And Timagenes even asserts that Ptolemy went away and left Egypt, not out of necessity, but purely upon the persuasion of Theophanes, who was anxious to give Pompey the opportunity for holding a new command, and gaining further wealth. But Theophanes's want of honesty does not go so far to make this story credible as does Pompey's own nature, which was averse, with all its ambition, to such base and disingenuous acts, to render it improbable.
Thus Pompey being appointed chief purveyor, and having within his administration and management all the corn trade, sent abroad his factors and agents into all quarters, and he himself sailing into Sicily, Sardinia, and Africa, collected vast stores of corn. He was just ready to set sail upon his voyage home, when a great storm arose upon the sea, and the ships' commanders doubted whether it were safe. Upon which Pompey himself went first aboard, and bid the mariners weigh anchor, declaring with a loud voice, that there was a necessity to sail, but no necessity to live. So that with this spirit and courage, and having met with favorable fortune, he made a prosperous return, and filled the markets with corn, and the sea with ships. So much so that this great plenty and abundance of provisions yielded a sufficient supply, not only to the city of Rome, but even to other places too, dispersing itself; like waters from a spring, into all quarters.
Meantime Caesar grew great and famous with his wars in Gaul, and while in appearance he seemed far distant from Rome, entangled in the affairs of the Belgians, Suevians, and Britons, in truth he was working craftily by secret practices in the midst of the people, and countermining Pompey in all political matters of most importance. He himself with his army close about him, as if it had been his own body, not with mere views of conquest over the barbarians, but as though his contests with them were but mere sports and exercises of the chase, did his utmost with this training and discipline to make it invincible and alarming. And in the meantime his gold and silver and other spoils and treasure which he took from the enemy in his conquests, he sent to Rome in presents, tempting people with his gifts, and aiding aediles, praetors, and consuls, as also their wives, in their expenses, and thus purchasing himself numerous friends. Insomuch, that when he passed back again over the Alps, and took up his winter quarters in the city of Luca, there flocked to him an infinite number of men and women, striving who should get first to him, two hundred senators included, among whom were Pompey and Crassus; so that there were to be seen at once before Caesar's door no less than six score rods of proconsuls and praetors. The rest of his addressers he sent all away full fraught with hopes and money; but with Crassus and Pompey, he entered into special articles of agreement, that they should stand candidates for the consulship next year; that Caesar on his part should send a number of his soldiers to give their votes at the election; that as soon as they were elected, they should use their interest to have the command of some provinces and legions assigned to themselves, and that Caesar should have his present charge confirmed to him for five years more. When these arrangements came to be generally known, great indignation was excited among the chief men in Rome; and Marcellinus, in an open assembly of the people, demanded of them both, whether they designed to sue for the consulship or no. And being urged by the people for their answer, Pompey spoke first, and told them, perhaps he would sue for it, perhaps he would not. Crassus was more temperate, and said, that he would do what should be judged most agreeable with the interest of the Commonwealth; and when Marcellinus persisted in his attack on Pompey, and spoke, as it was thought, with some vehemence, Pompey remarked that Marcellinus was certainly the unfairest of men, to show him no gratitude for having thus made him an orator out of a mute, and converted him from a hungry starveling into a man so full-fed that he could not contain himself.
Most of the candidates nevertheless abandoned their canvass for the consulship; Cato alone persuaded and encouraged Lucius Domitius not to desist, "since," said he, "the contest now is not for office, but for liberty against tyrants and usurpers." Therefore those of Pompey's party, fearing this inflexible constancy in Cato, by which he kept with him the whole senate, lest by this he should likewise pervert and draw after him all the well-affected part of the commonalty, resolved to withstand Domitius at once, and to prevent his entrance into the forum. To this end, therefore, they sent in a band of armed men, who slew the torchbearer of Domitius, as he was leading the way before him, and put all the rest to flight; last of all, Cato himself retired, having received a wound in his right arm while defending Domitius. Thus by these means and practices they obtained the consulship; neither did they behave themselves with more decency in their further proceedings; but in the first place, when the people were choosing Cato praetor, and just ready with their votes for the poll, Pompey broke up the assembly, upon a pretext of some inauspicious appearance, and having gained the tribes by money, they publicly proclaimed Vatinius praetor. Then, in pursuance of their covenants with Caesar, they introduced several laws by Trebonius, the tribune, continuing Caesar's commission to another five years' charge of his province; to Crassus there were appointed Syria, and the Parthian war; and to Pompey himself, all Africa, together with both Spains, and four legions of soldiers, two of which he lent to Caesar upon his request, for the wars in Gaul.
Crassus, upon the expiration of his consulship, departed forthwith into his province; but Pompey spent some time in Rome, upon the opening or dedication of his theater, where he treated the people with all sorts of games, shows, and exercises, in gymnastics alike and in music. There was likewise the hunting or baiting of wild beasts, and combats with them, in which five hundred lions were slain; but above all, the battle of elephants was a spectacle full of horror and amazement.
These entertainments brought him great honor and popularity; but on the other side he created no less envy to himself, in that he committed the government of his provinces and legions into the hands of friends as his lieutenants, whilst he himself was going about and spending his time with his wife in all the places of amusement in Italy; whether it were he was so fond of her himself, or she so fond of him, and he unable to distress her by going away, for this also is stated. And the love displayed by this young wife for her elderly husband was a matter of general note, to be attributed, it would seem, to his constancy in married life, and to his dignity of manner, which in familiar intercourse was tempered with grace and gentleness, and was particularly attractive to women, as even Flora, the courtesan, may be thought good enough evidence to prove. It once happened in a public assembly, as they were at an election of the aediles, that the people came to blows, and several about Pompey were slain, so that he, finding himself all bloody, ordered a change of apparel; but the servants who brought home his clothes, making a great bustle and hurry about the house, it chanced that the young lady, who was then with child, saw his gown all stained with blood; upon which she dropped immediately into a swoon, and was hardly brought to life again; however, what with her fright and suffering, she fell into labor and miscarried; even those who chiefly censured Pompey for his friendship to Caesar, could not reprove him for his affection to so attached a wife. Afterwards she was great again, and brought to bed of a daughter, but died in childbed; neither did the infant outlive her mother many days. Pompey had prepared all things for the interment of her corpse at his house near Alba, but the people seized upon it by force, and performed the solemnities in the field of Mars, rather in compassion for the young lady, than in favor either for Pompey or Caesar; and yet of these two, the people seemed at that time to pay Caesar a greater share of honor in his absence, than to Pompey, though he was present.
For the city now at once began to roll and swell, so to say, with the stir of the coming storm. Things everywhere were in a state of agitation, and everybody's discourse tended to division, now that death had put an end to that relation which hitherto had been a disguise rather than restraint to the ambition of these men. Besides, not long after came messengers from Parthia with intelligence of the death of Crassus there, by which another safeguard against civil war was removed, since both Caesar and Pompey kept their eyes on Crassus, and awe of him held them together more or less within the bounds of fair-dealing all his lifetime. But when fortune had taken away this second, whose province it might have been to revenge the quarrel of the conquered, you might then say with the comic poet,
The combatants are waiting to begin, Smearing their hands with dust and oiling each his skin.
So inconsiderable a thing is fortune in respect of human nature, and so insufficient to give content to a covetous mind, that an empire of that mighty extent and sway could not satisfy the ambition of two men; and though they knew and had read, that
The gods, when they divided out 'twixt three, This massive universe, heaven, hell, and sea, Each one sat down contented on his throne, And undisturbed each god enjoys his own,
yet they thought the whole Roman empire not sufficient to contain them, though they were but two.
Pompey once in an oration to the people, told them, that he had always come into office before he expected he should, and that he had always left it sooner than they expected he would; and, indeed, the disbanding of all his armies witnessed as much. Yet when he perceived that Caesar would not so willingly discharge his forces, he endeavored to strengthen himself against him by offices and commands in the city; but beyond this he showed no desire for any change, and would not seem to distrust, but rather to disregard and contemn him. And when he saw how they bestowed the places of government quite contrary to his wishes, because the citizens were bribed in their elections, he let things take their course, and allowed the city to be left without any government at all. Hereupon there was mention straightaway made of appointing a dictator. Lucilius, a tribune of the people, was the man who first adventured to propose it, urging the people to make Pompey dictator. But the tribune was in danger of being turned out of his office, by the opposition that Cato made against it. And for Pompey, many of his friends appeared and excused him, alleging that he never was desirous of that government, neither would he accept of it. And when Cato therefore made a speech in commendation of Pompey, and exhorted him to support the cause of good order in the Commonwealth, he could not for shame but yield to it, and so for the present Domitius and Messala were elected consuls. But shortly afterwards, when there was another anarchy, or vacancy in the government, and the talk of a dictator was much louder and more general than before, those of Cato's party, fearing lest they should be forced to appoint Pompey, thought it policy to keep him from that arbitrary and tyrannical power, by giving him an office of more legal authority. Bibulus himself, who was Pompey's enemy, first gave his vote in the senate, that Pompey should be created consul alone; alleging, that by these means either the Commonwealth would be freed from its present confusion, or that its bondage should be lessened by serving the worthiest. This was looked upon as a very strange opinion, considering the man that spoke it; and therefore on Cato's standing up, everybody expected that he would have opposed it; but after silence made, he said that he would never have been the author of that advice himself, but since it was propounded by another, his advice was to follow it, adding, that any form of government was better than none at all; and that in a time so full of distraction, he thought no man fitter to govern than Pompey. This counsel was unanimously approved of, and a decree passed that Pompey should be made sole consul, with this clause, that if he thought it necessary to have a colleague, he might choose whom he pleased, provided it were not till after two months expired.
Thus was Pompey created and declared sole consul by Sulpicius, regent in this vacancy; upon which he made very cordial acknowledgments to Cato, professing himself much his debtor, and requesting his good advice in conducting the government; to this Cato replied, that Pompey had no reason to thank him, for all that he had said was for the service of the commonwealth, not of Pompey; but that he would be always ready to give his advice privately, if he were asked for it; and if not, he should not fail to say what he thought in public. Such was Cato's conduct on all occasions.
On his return into the city Pompey married Cornelia, the daughter of Metellus Scipio, not a maiden, but lately left a widow by Publius, the son of Crassus, her first husband, who had been killed in Parthia. The young lady had other attractions besides those of youth and beauty; for she was highly educated, played well upon the lute, understood geometry, and had been accustomed to listen with profit to lectures on philosophy; all this, too, without in any degree becoming unamiable or pretentious, as sometimes young women do when they pursue such studies. Nor could any fault be found either with her father's family or reputation. The disparity of their ages was however not liked by everybody; Cornelia being in this respect a fitter match for Pompey's son. And wiser judges thought it rather a slight upon the commonwealth when he, to whom alone they had committed their broken fortunes, and from whom alone, as from their physician, they expected a cure to these distractions, went about crowned with garlands and celebrating his nuptial feasts; never considering, that his very consulship was a public calamity, which would never have been given him, contrary to the rules of law, had his country been in a flourishing state. Afterwards, however, he took cognizance of the cases of those that had obtained offices by gifts and bribery, and enacted laws and ordinances, setting forth the rules of judgment by which they should be arraigned; and regulating all things with gravity and justice, he restored security, order, and silence to their courts of judicature, himself giving his presence there with a band of soldiers. But when his father-in-law Scipio was accused, he sent for the three hundred and sixty judges to his house, and entreated them to be favorable to him; whereupon his accuser, seeing Scipio come into the court, accompanied by the judges themselves, withdrew the prosecution. Upon this Pompey was very ill spoken of, and much worse in the case of Plancus; for whereas he himself had made a law, putting a stop to the practice of making speeches in praise of persons under trial, yet notwithstanding this prohibition, he came into court, and spoke openly in commendation of Plancus, insomuch that Cato, who happened to be one of the judges at that time, stopping his ears with his hands, told him, he could not in conscience listen to commendations contrary to law. Cato upon this was refused, and set aside from being a judge, before sentence was given, but Plancus was condemned by the rest of the judges, to Pompey's dishonor. Shortly after, Hypsaeus, a man of consular dignity, who was under accusation, waited for Pompey's return from his bath to his supper, and falling down at his feet, implored his favor; but he disdainfully passed him by, saying, that he did nothing else but spoil his supper. Such partiality was looked upon as a great fault in Pompey, and highly condemned; however, he managed all things else discreetly, and having put the government in very good order, he chose his father-in-law to be his colleague in the consulship for the last five months. His provinces were continued to him for the term of four years longer, with a commission to take one thousand talents yearly out of the treasury for the payment of his army.
This gave occasion to some of Caesar's friends to think it reasonable, that some consideration should be had of him too, who had done such signal services in war, and fought so many battles for the empire, alleging, that he deserved at least a second consulship, or to have the government of his province continued, that so he might command and enjoy in peace what he had obtained in war, and no successor come in to reap the fruits of his labor, and carry off the glory of his actions. There arising some debate about this matter, Pompey took upon him, as it were out of kindness to Caesar, to plead his cause, and allay any jealousy that was conceived against him, telling them, that he had letters from Caesar, expressing his desire for a successor, and his own discharge from the command; but it would be only right that they should give him leave to stand for the consulship though in his absence. But those of Cato's party withstood this, saying, that if he expected any favor from the citizens, he ought to leave his army, and come in a private capacity to canvas for it. And Pompey's making no rejoinder, but letting it pass as a matter in which he was overruled, increased the suspicion of his real feelings towards Caesar. Presently, also, under presence of a war with Parthia, he sent for his two legions which he had lent him. However, Caesar, though he well knew why they were asked for, sent them home very liberally rewarded.
About that time Pompey recovered of a dangerous fit of sickness which seized him at Naples, where the whole city, upon the suggestion of Praxagoras, made sacrifices of thanksgiving to the gods for his recovery. The neighboring towns likewise happening to follow their example, the thing then went its course throughout all Italy, so that there was not a city either great or small, that did not feast and rejoice for many days together. And the company of those that came from all parts to meet him was so numerous, that no place was able to contain them, but the villages, seaport towns, and the very highways, were all full of people, feasting and sacrificing to the gods. Nay, many went to meet him with garlands on their heads, and flambeaux in their hands, casting flowers and nosegays upon him as he went along; so that this progress of his, and reception, was one of the noblest and most glorious sights imaginable. And yet it is thought that this very thing was not one of the least causes and occasions of the civil war. For Pompey, yielding to a feeling of exultation, which in the greatness of the present display of joy lost sight of more solid grounds of consideration, and abandoning that prudent temper which had guided him hitherto to a safe use of all his good fortune and his successes, gave himself up to an extravagant confidence in his own, and contempt of Caesar's power; insomuch that he thought neither force of arms nor care necessary against him, but that he could pull him down much easier than he had set him up. Besides this, Appius, under whose command those legions which Pompey lent to Caesar were returned, coming lately out of Gaul, spoke slightingly of Caesar's actions there, and spread scandalous reports about him, at the same time telling Pompey, that he was unacquainted with his own strength and reputation, if he made use of any other forces against Caesar than Caesar's own; for such was the soldiers' hatred to Caesar, and their love to Pompey so great, that they would all come over to him upon his first appearance. By these flatteries Pompey was so puffed up, and led on into such a careless security, that he could not choose but laugh at those who seemed to fear a war; and when some were saying, that if Caesar should march against the city, they could not see what forces there were to resist him, he replied with a smile, bidding them be in no concern, "for," said he, "whenever I stamp with my foot in any part of Italy, there will rise up forces enough in an instant, both horse and foot."
Caesar, on the other side, was more and more vigorous in his proceedings, himself always at hand about the frontiers of Italy, and sending his soldiers continually into the city to attend all elections with their votes. Besides, he corrupted several of the magistrates, and kept them in his pay; among others, Paulus, the consul, who was brought over by a bribe of one thousand and five hundred talents; and Curio, tribune of the people, by a discharge of the debts with which he was overwhelmed; together with Mark Antony, who, out of friendship to Curio, had become bound with him in the same obligations for them all. And it was stated as a fact, that a centurion of Caesar's waiting at the senate-house, and hearing that the senate refused to give him a longer term of his government, clapped his hand upon his sword, and said, "But this shall give it." And indeed all his practices and preparations seemed to bear this appearance. Curio's demands, however, and requests in favor of Caesar, were more popular in appearance; for he desired one of these two things, either that Pompey also should be called upon to resign his army, or that Caesar's should not be taken away from him; for if both of them became private persons, both would be satisfied with simple justice; or if both retained their present power, each being a match for the other, they would be contented with what they already had; but he that weakens one, does at the same time strengthen the other, and so doubles that very strength and power which he stood in fear of before. Marcellus, the consul, replied nothing to all this, but that Caesar was a robber, and should be proclaimed an enemy to the state, if he did not disband his army. However, Curio, with the assistance of Antony and Piso, prevailed, that the matter in debate should be put to the question, and decided by vote in the senate. So that it being ordered upon the question for those to withdraw, who were of opinion that Caesar only should lay down his army and Pompey command, the majority withdrew. But when it was ordered again for those to withdraw, whose vote was that both should lay down their arms and neither command, there were but twenty-two for Pompey, all the rest remained on Curio's side. Whereupon he, as one proud of his conquest, leaped out in triumph among the people, who received him with as great tokens of joy, clapping their hands, and crowning him with garlands and flowers. Pompey was not then present in the senate, because it is not lawful for generals in command of an army to come into the city. But Marcellus rising up, said, that he would not sit there hearing speeches, when he saw ten legions already passing the Alps on their march toward the city, but on his own authority would send someone to oppose them in defense of the country.
Upon this the city went into mourning, as in a public calamity, and Marcellus, accompanied by the senate, went solemnly through the forum to meet Pompey, and made him this address. "I hereby give you orders, O Pompey, to defend your country, to employ the troops you now command, and to levy more." Lentulus, consul elect for the year following, spoke to the same purpose. Antony, however, contrary to the will of the senate, having in a public assembly read a letter of Caesar's, containing various plausible overtures such as were likely to gain the common people, proposing, namely, that both Pompey and he quitting their governments, and dismissing their armies, should submit to the judgment of the people, and give an account of their actions before them, the consequence was that when Pompey began to make his levies, he found himself disappointed in his expectations. Some few, indeed, came in, but those very unwillingly; others would not answer to their names, and the generality cried out for peace. Lentulus, notwithstanding he was now entered upon his consulship, would not assemble the senate; but Cicero, who was lately returned from Cilicia, labored for a reconciliation, proposing that Caesar should leave his province of Gaul and army, reserving two legions only, together with the government of Illyricum, and should thus be put in nomination for a second consulship. Pompey disliking this motion, Caesar's friends were contented that he should surrender one of the two; but Lentulus still opposing, and Cato crying out that Pompey did ill to be deceived again, the reconciliation did not take effect.
In the meantime, news was brought that Caesar had occupied Ariminum, a great city in Italy, and was marching directly towards Rome with all his forces. But this latter was altogether false, for he had no more with him at that time than three hundred horse and five thousand foot; and he did not mean to tarry for the body of his army, which lay beyond the Alps, choosing rather to fall in on a sudden upon his enemies, while they were in confusion, and did not expect him, than to give them time, and fight them after they had made preparations. For when he came to the banks of the Rubicon, a river that made the bounds of his province, there he made a halt, pausing a little, and considering, we may suppose, with himself the greatness of the enterprise which he had undertaken; then, at last, like men that are throwing themselves headlong from some precipice into a vast abyss, having shut, as it were, his mind's eyes and put away from his sight the idea of danger, he merely uttered to those near him in Greek the words, "Anerriphtho kubos," (let the die be cast,) and led his army through it. No sooner was the news arrived, but there was an uproar throughout all the city, and a consternation in the people even to astonishment, such as never was known in Rome before; all the senate ran immediately to Pompey, and the magistrates followed. And when Tullus made inquiry about his legions and forces, Pompey seemed to pause a little, and answered with some hesitation, that he had those two legions ready that Caesar sent back, and that out of the men who had been previously enrolled he believed he could shortly make up a body of thirty thousand men. On which Tullus crying out aloud, "O Pompey, you have deceived us," gave his advice to send off a deputation to Caesar. Favonius, a man of fair character, except that he used to suppose his own petulance and abusive talking a copy of Cato's straight-forwardness, bade Pompey stamp upon the ground, and call forth the forces he had promised. But Pompey bore patiently with this unseasonable raillery; and on Cato putting him in mind of what he had foretold from the very beginning about Caesar, made this answer only, that Cato indeed had spoken more like a prophet, but he had acted more like a friend. Cato then advised them to choose Pompey general with absolute power and authority, saying that the same men who do great evils, know best how to cure them. He himself went his way forthwith into Sicily, the province that was allotted him, and all the rest of the senators likewise departed every one to his respective government.
Thus all Italy in a manner being up in arms, no one could say what was best to be done. For those that were without, came from all parts flocking into the city; and they who were within, seeing the confusion and disorder so great there, all good things impotent, and disobedience and insubordination grown too strong to be controlled by the magistrates, were quitting it as fast as the others came in. Nay, it was so far from being possible to allay their fears, that they would not suffer Pompey to follow out his own judgment, but every man pressed and urged him according to his particular fancy, whether it proceeded from doubt, fear, grief, or any meaner passion; so that even in the same day quite contrary counsels were acted upon. Then, again, it was as impossible to have any good intelligence of the enemy; for what each man heard by chance upon a flying rumor, he would report for truth, and exclaim against Pompey if he did not believe it. Pompey, at length, seeing such a confusion in Rome, determined with himself to put an end to their clamors by his departure, and therefore commanding all the senate to follow him, and declaring, that whosoever tarried behind, should be judged a confederate of Caesar's, about the dusk of the evening he went out and left the city. The consuls also followed after in a hurry, without offering the sacrifices to the gods, usual before a war. But in all this, Pompey himself had the glory, that in the midst of such calamities, he had so much of men's love and good-will. For though many found fault with the conduct of the war, yet no man hated the general; and there were more to be found of those that went out of Rome, because that they could not forsake Pompey, than of those that fled for love of liberty.
Some few days after Pompey was gone out, Caesar came into the city, and made himself master of it, treating everyone with a great deal of courtesy, and appeasing their fears, except only Metellus, one of the tribunes; on whose refusing to let him take any money out of the treasury, Caesar threatened him with death, adding words yet harsher than the threat, that it was far easier for him to do it than say it. By this means removing Metellus, and taking what moneys were of use for his occasions, he set forwards in pursuit of Pompey, endeavoring with all speed to drive him out of Italy before his army, that was in Spain, could join him.
But Pompey arriving at Brundusium, and having plenty of ships there, bade the two consuls embark immediately, and with them shipped thirty cohorts of foot, bound before him for Dyrrhachium. He sent likewise his father-in-law Scipio, and Cnaeus his son, into Syria, to provide and fit out a fleet there; himself in the meantime having blocked up the gates, placed his lightest soldiers as guards upon the walls; and giving express orders that the citizens should keep within doors, he dug up all the ground inside the city, cutting trenches, and fixing stakes and palisades throughout all the streets of the city, except only two that led down to the sea-side. Thus in three days space having with ease put all the rest of his army on shipboard, he suddenly gave the signal to those that guarded the walls, who nimbly repairing to the ships, were received on board and carried off. Caesar meantime perceiving their departure by seeing the walls unguarded, hastened after, and in the heat of pursuit was all but entangled himself among the stakes and trenches. But the Brundusians discovering the danger to him, and showing him the way, he wheeled about, and taking a circuit round the city, made towards the haven, where he found all the ships on their way, excepting only two vessels that had but a few soldiers aboard.
Most are of opinion, that this departure of Pompey's is to be counted among the best of his military performances, but Caesar himself could not but wonder that he, who was thus ingarrisoned in a city well fortified, who was in expectation of his forces from Spain, and was master of the sea besides, should leave and abandon Italy. Cicero accuses him of imitating the conduct of Themistocles, rather than of Pericles, when the circumstances were more like those of Pericles than they were like those of Themistocles. However, it appeared plainly, and Caesar showed it by his actions, that he was in great fear of delay, for when he had taken Numerius, a friend of Pompey's, prisoner, he sent him as an ambassador to Brundusium, with offers of peace and reconciliation upon equal terms; but Numerius sailed away with Pompey. And now Caesar having become master of all Italy in sixty days, without a drop of blood shed, had a great desire forthwith to follow Pompey; but being destitute of shipping, he was forced to divert his course, and march into Spain, designing to bring over Pompey's forces there to his own.
In the meantime Pompey raised a mighty army both by sea and land. As for his navy, it was irresistible. For there were five hundred men of war, besides an infinite company of light vessels, Liburnians, and others; and for his land forces, the cavalry made up a body of seven thousand horse, the very flower of Rome and Italy, men of family, wealth, and high spirit; but the infantry was a mixture of unexperienced soldiers drawn from different quarters, and these he exercised and trained near Beroea, where he quartered his army; himself noways slothful, but performing all his exercises as if he had been in the flower of his youth, conduct which raised the spirits of his soldiers extremely. For it was no small encouragement for them to see Pompey the Great, sixty years of age wanting two, at one time handling his arms among the foot, then again mounted among the horse, drawing out his sword with ease in full career, and sheathing it up as easily; and in darting the javelin, showing not only skill and dexterity in hitting the mark, but also strength and activity in throwing it so far that few of the young men went beyond him.
Several kings and princes of nations came thither to him, and there was a concourse of Roman citizens who had held the magistracies, so numerous that they made up a complete senate. Labienus forsook his old friend Caesar, whom he had served throughout all his wars in Gaul, and came over to Pompey; and Brutus, son to that Brutus that was put to death in Gaul, a man of a high spirit, and one that to that day had never so much as saluted or spoke to Pompey, looking upon him as the murderer of his father, came then and submitted himself to him as the defender of their liberty. Cicero likewise, though he had written and advised otherwise, yet was ashamed not to be accounted in the number of those that would hazard their lives and fortunes for the safeguard of their country. There came to him also into Macedonia, Tidius Sextius, a man extremely old, and lame of one leg; so that others indeed mocked and laughed at the spectacle, but Pompey, as soon as he saw him, rose and ran to meet him, esteeming it no small testimony in his favor, when men of such age and infirmities should rather choose to be with him in danger, than in safety at home. Afterwards in a meeting of their senate they passed a decree, on the motion of Cato, that no Roman citizen should be put to death but in battle, and that they should not sack or plunder any city that was subject to the Roman empire, a resolution which gained Pompey's party still greater reputation, insomuch that those who were noways at all concerned in the war, either because they dwelt afar off, or were thought incapable of giving help, were yet, in their good wishes, upon his side, and in all their words, so far as that went, supported the good or just cause, as they called it; esteeming those as enemies to the gods and men, that wished not victory to Pompey.
Neither was Pompey's clemency such, but that Caesar likewise showed himself as merciful a conqueror; for when he had taken and overthrown all Pompey's forces in Spain, he gave them easy terms, leaving the commanders at their liberty, and taking the common soldiers into his own pay. Then repassing the Alps, and making a running march through Italy, he came to Brundusium about the winter solstice, and crossing the sea there, landed at the port of Oricum. And having Jubius, an intimate friend of Pompey's, with him as his prisoner, he dispatched him to Pompey with an invitation, that they, meeting together in a conference, should disband both their armies within three days, and renewing their former friendship with solemn oaths, should return together into Italy. Pompey looked upon this again as some new stratagem, and therefore marching down in all haste to the sea-coast, possessed himself of all forts and places of strength suitable to encamp in, and to secure his laud forces, as likewise of all ports and harbors commodious to receive any that came by sea, so that what wind soever blew, it must needs in some way or other be favorable to him, bringing in either provision, men, or money; while Caesar, on the contrary, was so hemmed in both by sea and land, that he was forced to desire battle, daily provoking the enemy, and assailing them in their very forts; and in these light skirmishes for the most part had the better. Once only he was dangerously overthrown, and was within a little of losing his whole army, Pompey having fought nobly, routing the whole force, and killing two thousand on the spot. But either he was not able, or was afraid, to go on and force his way into their camp with them, so that Caesar made the remark, that "Today the victory had been the enemy's, had there been anyone among them to gain it." Pompey's soldiers were so encouraged by this victory that they were eager now to have all put to the decision of a battle; but Pompey himself, though he wrote to distant kings, generals, and states in confederacy with him, as a conqueror, yet was afraid to hazard the success of a battle, choosing rather by delays, and distress of provisions, to tire out a body of men, who had never yet been conquered by force of arms, and had long been used to fight and conquer together; while their time of life, now an advanced one, which made them quickly weary of those other hardships of war, such as were long marches, and frequent decampings, making trenches, and building fortifications, made them eager to come to close combat and venture a battle with all speed.
Pompey had all along hitherto by his persuasions pretty well quieted his soldiers; but after this last engagement, when Caesar for want of provisions was forced to raise his camp, and passed through Athamania into Thessaly, it was impossible to curb or allay the heat of their spirits any longer. For all crying out with a general voice, that Caesar was fled, some were for pursuing and pressing upon him, others for returning into Italy; some there were that sent their friends and servants beforehand to Rome, to hire houses near the forum, that they might be in readiness to sue for offices; several of their own motion sailed off at once to Lesbos to carry to Cornelia, (whom Pompey had conveyed thither to be in safety,) the joyful news, that the war was ended. And a senate being called, and the matter being under debate, Afranius was of opinion, that Italy should first be regained, for that it was the grand prize and crown of all the war; and they who were masters of that, would quickly have at their devotion all the provinces of Sicily, Sardinia, Corsica, Spain, and Gaul; but what was of greatest weight and moment to Pompey, it was his own native country that lay near, reaching out her hand for his help; and certainly it could not be consistent with his honor to leave her thus exposed to all indignities, and in bondage under slaves and the flatterers of a tyrant. But Pompey himself, on the contrary, thought it neither honorable to fly a second time before Caesar, and be pursued, when fortune had given him the advantage of a pursuit; nor indeed lawful before the gods to forsake Scipio and divers other men of consular dignity dispersed throughout Greece and Thessaly, who must necessarily fall into Caesar's hands, together with large sums of money and numerous forces; and as to his care for the city of Rome, that would most eminently appear, by removing the scene of war to a greater distance, and leaving her, without feeling the distress or even hearing the sound of these evils, to await in peace the return of whichever should be the victor.
With this determination, Pompey marched forwards in pursuit of Caesar, firmly resolved with himself not to give him battle, but rather to besiege and distress him, by keeping close at his heels, and cutting him short. There were other reasons that made him continue this resolution, but especially because a saying that was current among the Romans serving in the cavalry came to his ear, to the effect, that they ought to beat Caesar as soon as possible, and then humble Pompey too. And some report, it was for this reason that Pompey never employed Cato in any matter of consequence during the whole war, but now when he pursued Caesar, left him to guard his baggage by sea, fearing lest, if Caesar should be taken off, he himself also by Cato's means not long after should be forced to give up his power.
Whilst he was thus slowly attending the motions of the enemy, he was exposed on all sides to outcries, and imputations of using his generalship to defeat, not Caesar, but his country and the senate, that he might always continue in authority, and never cease to keep those for his guards and servants, who themselves claimed to govern the world. Domitius Aenobarbus, continually calling him Agamemnon, and king of kings, excited jealousy against him; and Favonius, by his unseasonable raillery, did him no less injury than those who openly attacked him, as when he cried out, "Good friends, you must not expect to gather any figs in Tusculum this year." But Lucius Afranius, who had lain under an imputation of treachery for the loss of the army in Spain, when he saw Pompey purposely declining an engagement, declared openly, that he could not but admire, why those who were so ready to accuse him, did not go themselves and fight this buyer and seller of their provinces.
With these and many such speeches they wrought upon Pompey, who never could bear reproach, or resist the expectations of his friends; and thus they forced him to break his measures, so that he forsook his own prudent resolution to follow their vain hopes and desires: weakness that would have been blamable ill the pilot of a ship, how much more in the sovereign commander of such an army, and so many nations. But he, though he had often commended those physicians who did not comply with the capricious appetites of their patients, yet himself could not but yield to the malady and disease of his companions and advisers in the war, rather than use some severity in their cure. Truly who could have said that health was not disordered and a cure not required in the case of men who went up and down the camp, suing already for the consulship and office of praetor, while Spinther, Domitius, and Scipio made friends, raised factions, and quarrelled among themselves, who should succeed Caesar in the dignity of his high-priesthood, esteeming all as lightly, as if they were to engage only with Tigranes, king of Armenia, or some petty Nabathaean king, not with that Caesar and his army that had stormed a thousand towns, and subdued more than three hundred several nations; that had fought innumerable battles with the Germans and Gauls, and always carried the victory; that had taken a million of men prisoners, and slain as many upon the spot in pitched battles?
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Ever see one of those people who is always happy and wonder what they are doing different that seems to bring everything they want into their life? The people will the big smile, the positive energy and a willingness to go along with whatever seems to come their way, as though it was exactly what was supposed to happen? If you ever sit down and talk to them, you’ll uncover some very surprising things about how they engage the world that seem to open closed doors and create a better life at every moment.
Having a great life is simply a matter of finding out and doing what they do so this greatness is within the realm of possibility for most of us. Below are 6 things that you can start doing today that will improve your experience this summer and beyond.
1) Create goals and look at them every morning when you wake-up and every night before you go to bed. You need to know where you are going in order to get there and your goals are the best predictor of your future, if you focus on achieving them. “Book ending” your day with a quick review of your goals primes your brain to work on them while you are awake and while you sleep. In fact, without priming your brain with problems to solve, you cannot expect to achieve anything that you haven’t already experienced. Take 10 minutes to read your goals at the beginning and end of your day to think and feel what it will be like to achieve them. Creating the emotional sense of accomplishment can alter how your process the world and this can present the pathway to everything that you want.
2) Do 4 hours of intense exercise per week. 4 hours is a critical amount, and having your heart rate elevated is key. This minimum amount of exercise will help improve body composition, improve blood circulation and get your body functioning more efficiently. It’s going to reduce stress, improve sleep and help you look and feel great. Good health is often considered one of the top 3 things needed to have a happy life, so dedicating 4 hours out of 168 that are available per week to move you towards a better life is a small time investment.
3) Eat food that you can identify as food and that will rot in a few days without refrigeration. Food is the only thing that actually becomes you. Every cell that you are is made-up of participles that were outside your body until you ate them. Higher quality food is going to supply more and higher quality nutrient so buy the best quality food that you can afford. The food you eat should be identifiable – that is, you should have some idea from where on the farm it came– and when left at room temperature, it should spoil fairly quickly. Things that have an indefinite shelf life or come from a factory tend to be much lower or void of nutrition. Eat as little of these food-like products as you can in favor of whole foods.
4) Be grateful. It is impossible to be unhappy when you are grateful. You may feel many emotions, but sadness will not be one of them. Being grateful creates a sense of connectedness to others that can eliminate feelings of isolation. It will also alter the way you view the entire world as gratitude tends to have a cascading effect on perception – if you process things from a place of gratitude, you will see more and more things in the world to be grateful for, which will make you happier.
5) Surround yourself with people who are living a great life and get their help in making your life better. This is a matter of doing what they do to achieve what they have achieved. Copy those who have blazed the trail and get the same outcome. Ask them for help and follow their advice. They’ll save you a lot of trial and error and boost the chances of you achieving your goal.
6) Remain open or childlike! Very often life is not going to go the way you want or plan. Embrace this fact and realize that the things that are unfamiliar actually create more joy in the long run than the things that are predictable. Accept that every lesson grew out of something you didn’t know before. Being wrong is the best way we have of eventually being right, but only when we accept and remain open to making mistakes. If you want to make an extraordinary life for yourself, you need to learn some extraordinary things thought the making of some extraordinary mistakes. Be childlike with your mistakes, be open to making them, learn from them and discard any sense of shame they created.
That’s it, 6 simple things you can start doing that will being to transform your experience of life into the realm of greatness. Begin to do one a week until all 6 of them are a habit and be curious and pleased to see the impact they have on your life!
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This is the sound of doubt. Ignore it. Im big. Disregard that shit.
The smallest change in the way you look and images might have the essential drastic effect on just how many babes your complement with on Tinder.
Im perhaps not attending tell you to head out indeed there and perform what used to do. Everybody is able to enhance their styles in their method. Exactly what used to do had been that I dating an island girl found photos of designs whom bring a lot of suits on Tinder by looking around on the internet, then I modeled my very own brushing and appearance after theirs.
If they are sporting a leather-jacket to provide just a bit of an awful kid looks, I did the exact same. If they got a jacket without any shirt on, thus did I. are they wear aviator glasses? I dressed in aviator sunglasses.
The important thing thing about this might be that it is a screening processes and you should maybe not feel all the way down or depressed if a specific image didnt meet your needs.
It is really not your your ladies on Tinder include rejecting if they swipe kept you. Really YOUR VISUALIZE WHICH YOU TOOK that babes are rejecting.
By taking a blurry picture that makes you look like crap, you think shes gonna swipe directly on that? No.
Heres the kicker though for a rubbish picture and EVEN one of your own pics in your Tinder visibility is rubbish pic your ex should stick to the secure side and simply swipe remaining for you.
So you have to make sure that each and every pic on your visibility has been analyzed individually and is a winner.
This can be comparable to just how internet marketers split examination webpages to determine which their particular audience may perhaps be to convert ideal from. The only way to learn which page changes better will be test, examination, and test until they will have a winner. Entrepreneurs dont bring refused if a person of the pages doesnt convert so just why could you be getting upset over a crummy pic that didnt become suits?
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John Hancock, prominent merchant, first signer of the Declaration of Independence, and first governor of Massachusetts under the state constitution, lived on Beacon Hill. In fact, a wing of the Massachusetts State House occupies what used to be his pasture. The Hancock Mansion has been gone for a long time but the front door remains and can be seen in Boston today.
Thomas Hancock’s Estate
Thomas Hancock, a wealthy Boston merchant, built his mansion—the first house to go up on the top of Beacon Hill—between 1734 and 1737. Back then, Beacon Hill was the boonies—farmland and woods in the country far from downtown Boston. Thomas Hancock didn’t acquire a neighbor until 1768, when the painter John Singleton Copley built a house further down the hill’s western slope.
Mr. Hancock owned a large tract that extended from today’s Joy Street on the west to Park Street on the east and from Beacon Street on the south almost to Derne Street on the north. Beacon Hill rose to its full height then and the farm went up its side to where the State House annex now stands.
The Georgian House
Joshua Blanchard built the three-story center-entry structure in the Georgian style from Quincy surface granite that was squared off and hammered. When completed, it was the first granite house in Boston. The façade stretched 56 feet long facing Beacon Street and a balcony projected over the entrance door, providing shelter from the elements.
The balcony door sported a pediment that ended in baroque volutes. Quoins of Braintree stone ornamented both corners and window openings..
A carved railing marked the edges of the mansion’s tiled gambrel roof. Three dormer windows projected from the roof. Both the balcony and the dormer windows offered a panoramic view of Boston Common—then still common pastureland—and out to Boston Harbor.
The Nephew Inherits
The John Hancock mansion was quite a sight in those days—easily the finest house in Boston—and it would still be a Freedom Trail attraction now, like the North End’s Paul Revere House. What happened to it?
Although Thomas and Lydia Hancock had no children of their own, they took in Thomas’s seven-year-old nephew, John, in 1744 after Thomas’s brother died. The boy moved from Braintree to Boston and lived in the Beacon Hill mansion while he attended Boston Latin School (1750) and Harvard College (1754).
Upon his graduation from Harvard, John Hancock joined his uncle’s merchant firm and took it over when Thomas Hancock died in 1764. He also inherited the house and estate, where he lived for the rest of his life.
When John Hancock died in 1793, the city had expanded westward and the Beacon Hill neighborhood was becoming gentrified. The family sold off portions of the estate, including the land on which Charles Bulfinch built the new State House. Other parcels were sold for new homes as the State House attracted residents to Beacon Hill.
The house remained in the Hancock family, passing from his widow, Dorothy Hancock, to another nephew named John Hancock until his death in 1859. At that time, Governor Nathaniel Banks proposed that the city purchase the still-elegant mansion as the governor’s mansion.
A Failure to Act
Boston could have purchased the beautiful house from the Hancock heirs for $100,000—about $2,883,222 today.
But no. The rural districts in the Legislature opposed this expenditure. Another suggestion from the Hancock heirs to turn it into a museum also failed. With no action from the state, the heirs sold the house and land for $125,000 on February 13, 1863. The Hancock Mansion served as a museum of sorts for a few months while yet another scheme to relocate it across the street to Boston Common also went down to defeat. This time, the legislature worried about putting a structure in a public park and would not allocate $12,000 to cover the historic dwelling’s transfer. That’s about $252,570 today.
The Beginning of the End
It was the beginning of the end. In June of the same year, the house went up for sale at public auction and was purchased by William Dalrymple for $230, just $4,841 in today’s money. Mr. Dalrymple had 10 days to clean it out. Despite an enormous public outcry, the two men who had purchased the land demolished the Hancock Mansion in a matter of days.
Bostonians sought souvenirs of the structure, either purchasing them at auction, receiving them as gifts, or scavenging them even as the house was demolished. Pieces of the old structure were dispersed and disappeared. Some became part of museum collections around New England while others went into private hands.
The Hancock Mansion’s Front Door
The manor’s front door joined the collection of the Boston Museum on Tremont Street. The museum put the12-panel door, made of solid eastern white pine into storage and gave it to the Old State House in 1899.
In 2018, the Bostonian Society commissioned students from the North Bennet Street School to restore the door. The students also built a full-scale reproduction of the surrounding entryway, using only old photographs and illustrations for guidance. The entryway includes hand-carved brackets, wallpaper, wood columns, and timber frames.
The door knocker on the outside of the door was separated from its home of 126 years when it was given to Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, who used it on his own front entry. Returned to its rightful place, it now ornaments the Hancock Door once again.
Visiting the Hancock Door
Imagine the people who opened that door to enter the John Hancock Mansion in its heyday: The Sons of Liberty, the Marquis de Lafayette, George Washington, John Singleton Copley, French Admiral Charles d’Estaing, and British General Henry Clinton, among them.
You can see the Hancock Door in its restored glory in the Old State House Museum. Thanks to the inspired work of the North Bennet School Students, it’s easy to imagine yourself walking through it and standing in the company of those historical figures.
(The front steps are also still extant, but that is another blog post.)
A Faithful Reproduction
To see the entire house, you can visit a replica built in Ticonderoga, NY based on careful measurements and exact drawings made by Architect John Hubbard Sturgis. The structure contains John Hancock’s dining table and serves as the library and museum of the Ticonderoga Historical Society. The THS features it on the front page of their web site.
That makes for an interesting thought. Boston turned its back on a house of great historic significance, allowing it to be demolished for lack of the will to preserve it. A prominent nineteenth-century Boston architect worked to keep the dimensions safe for future use. But the Hancock Mansion never rose again in Boston. Instead, the replica resides in northern New York State on the border of Vermont. We only have the door. What a sad commentary.
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Since I was trying bullet journal weekly spreads for a month, I also opted to try it for lists, blog post planning, monthly planning and travel planning!
Travel planning in a bullet journal
Instead of using structured planning pages (printables), I created the spreads ‘freehand’
First I started with a timeline which was much easier to do with the dot grid pages. I used to be very ‘I don’t like dot grid pages’ but after having used dot grid for a while I can see why it’s growing so popular. The design doesn’t end up busy and the dots are close enough together that you can keep you’re writing straight and not crooked.
I used the frixion erasable pens to easily make changes to the itinerary. I kept the timeline as just an overview – where we would be on each day without going into too much detail. Since I was planning a 10 day New Zealand road trip there wasn’t that much detail as there’s usually only 1 thing each day e.g. Hooker Valley track then drive to the next destination. However, I don’t think I could plan this way for a bigger trip.
I get very paranoid when booking anything (especially accommodation) that I’m going to get the dates muddled up and make a booking on the wrong date. So I write out the check in and check out dates to refer to when booking.
Next I noted the tours I wanted to book and drew a checkbox to tick off once I’d booked it. I ended up adding the dates of each tour after I’d finished finalising the itinerary.
I also noted the pickup and drop off dates for the hire car and listed the car company’s to get quotes from.
Lastly I set up a simple budget page. I added an extra column to tick off when I’d paid for it (which also helped to work as a master overview trip planning check).
Would I plan this way again?
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Assessing investment using an environmental, social and governance (ESG) lens gives you a much “fuller” image, according to former US vice-president Al Gore.
Using light as his analogy, Gore explained how mainstream investors focus value: a narrow part of the spectrum. According to Bloomberg, he told 200 delegates at the fourth annual US-India Energy Partnership Summit in Washington that mainstream accounting was therefore equivalent to visible light – which makes up just 2% of the complete electromagnetic spectrum but is all that our eyes can see.
Gore, who is famous among environmental circles for his 2006 documentary film An Inconvenient Truth, explained how his firm Generation Investment Management operated using ESG criteria as an attempt to widen the percentage of light visible within the spectrum. He calls the approach ‘sustainable capitalism’.
“If you take the rest of the sustainability factors into account, you can get a fuller and more realistic image, and that’s what we try to do”, said Gore during his talk.
He added that when the firm started out, it invested in BP. But after BP’s 2005 Texas refinery fire and its 2006 oil pipeline spill in Alaska, Generation “looked at the safety culture and found that it had not been pushed into the American acquisitions. So we got out of BP – before the Deepwater Horizon.”
In a speech in March, which he referred to as his “most important talk” ever, Gore expressed the pros and cons of capitalism, outlining how its side-effects could be mitigated by factoring in sustainability.
The former US vice-president has previously criticised chancellor of the exchequer George Osborne, calling him “seriously misinformed” about sustainable business.
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The final action in HBR Study is the change that you have to make. The HBR Case Study is a device that helps you discover if the adjustment that you require to make is necessary or otherwise.
In the long run, you will only see what the advantages that you are going to get from the study that you have actually done and also the actions that you have to absorb order to apply those benefits. This will help you find out if there is an actual demand for the change that you are mosting likely to make. It will aid you identify if the modifications that you are mosting likely to make are mosting likely to be worthwhile and if they are mosting likely to bring your business up to par with the competition.
HBR Ciba Geigy Agricultural Division Case Study aids in the growth of your company by providing you with the evidence that your service requires to have. After completing your research study, you can after that act and execute the changes that you want to make in your service. for the enhancements of your company.
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The Ciba Geigy Agricultural Division Study Service Alternatives or Case Study Analysis is the most popular of all the Harvard Service College Study Solutions. It is essential to point out that the study is an essential part of any kind of successful firm. Its research study as well as its evaluation are vital to one's very own study to find out about their own market placement, the total atmosphere in which they run, etc. It holds true Study Analysis that allows you to understand your weaknesses and also enhance your toughness as well as adapt to these as necessary.
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In the B Quality Trainees, you will discover Case Study Analysis that gives you with study solutions that can aid you with this trouble. In this case the Study Analysis supplies you with a well-structured research study for you to check out.
In the B Grade Trainees, there is a Study Analysis that offers you with a case study remedy that can aid you with this trouble. It is this Case Study Evaluation that allows you to understand your own weaknesses as well as identify exactly how you can be far better suited for the future. You will likewise discover this is a handy device in your research.
In the B Quality Students, there is a Study Analysis that supplies you with a case study solution that can help you with this issue. It is this Case Study Evaluation that permits you to know your very own weaknesses and identify exactly how you can be far better suited for the future.
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The HBR Ciba Geigy Agricultural Division Instance Service is an outstanding option for all financial evaluation questions, also for those that are advanced. It can provide you a big advantage when using the HBR Case Analysis for monetary preparation for your very own monetary demands. You may discover that this solution functions very well for your business or personal demands.
With that said being claimed, we're going to cover a few points to help you plan for the future with brand-new economic evaluation services that you will find with this new innovation. What you will certainly discover in the world of financial evaluation is a selection of techniques and also several approaches for handling evaluation.
One preferred method is called Study Analysis. In this technique, you perform a case study to help answer a few of the concern that emerge from economic analysis questions. The key to this approach is real understanding of the market and also the general scenarios. Yet you must recognize that you are constantly obtaining one-step closer to how to arrive.
We're not against this approach but it has its drawbacks. As is the case with a lot of things, Case Study Analysis does not always reveal the worth in the result. As you adhere to the action in a study, the likelihood of success boosts.
This economic evaluation remedy was created by William G. Bowen and also David E. Shaw. They made sure to cover all angles of the market consisting of regional markets and international markets. It includes concepts that aid you make educated decisions that are both cost-effective as well as economic.
The HBR Ciba Geigy Agricultural Division Instance Service checks out both the regional and also worldwide markets. It offers you a holistic view of the sector. To make certain that you make sound choices, this remedy is excellent to check your trading activities. Furthermore, it provides you afinancial toolkit so that you understand just how to analyze info swiftly as well as keep yourself educated of the entire market.
It has been popular amongst all the firms that utilize monetary evaluation in their analyses. Several firms began to make use of this solution because of its effectiveness. Among the biggest benefits is that you do not need to go through a case study to start to utilize this service.
HBR Instance Analysis can offer you a superb possibility to see what the ordinary cost of supplies will certainly be prior to you buy or offer supplies. You can obtain an insight of the marketplace overview. It gives you a clear concept on whether you need to purchase a particular stock.
A HBR Ciba Geigy Agricultural Division Instance Solution can function as a recommendation overview. You can examine if the costs are typical or otherwise. You can additionally contrast these costs with the asking price.
It has been shown to be effective due to its simplicity and the fact that it does not utilize challenging approaches. This type of service is made use of by capitalists. Financiers locate this type of evaluation helpful in saving a lot of time since they can use this kind of evaluation as opposed to utilizing a broker's services.
One more thing to note is that there are some downsides to this analysis solution. While it works well with the existing economic climate, it might not work for the future.
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When you are about to carry out an HBR Study Remedy, do not think of HBR Ciba Geigy Agricultural Division Study Analysis. That is not an easy task since it takes substantial quantity of time to assess every information of business situation in which you are working.
While executing a HBR Study Remedy, it is very essential to examine every element of the case, making sure that you have actually assessed all your alternatives and that you have actually identified which choice is the very best for you to address your trouble. It is very important to state right here that every entrepreneur is different.
The capacity to adapt to the changing fad of the marketplace might differ from one business owner to one more. You need to constantly keep in mind that your entire service approach as well as objectives need to be defined by you, so that you are able to react to any modification out there trends.
In your effort to execute your HBR Study Solution, it is important to consider the sort of company you are dealing with. It can consist of anything from a micro organisation to a huge empire.
Before you choose Ciba Geigy Agricultural Division a study remedy, it is essential to determine your particular niche and product before deciding the sort of organisation you will be handling. For instance, if you are marketing medications in a vast area, you ought to try to assess the state of health of the people who pertain to your store.
All physicians are bound to suggest their medicines when they are not satisfied with the outcomes. If you have been recommended to use a certain trademark name of medications, see to it that you have thought about all the information concerning the efficacy of that brand.
A choice making procedure does not start up until you have obtained some expertise about the industry. Start by looking at all the variables that are involved in the purchase of a product, like need, competitors, rates, track record, etc
. When you have actually identified which service you are into, it is vital to discover just how you will certainly generate brand-new earnings for your company. There are various manner ins which you can do this.
One good concept is to offer a service or product to your clients directly. This way, you are assured that you are offering value for money due to the fact that you will certainly be able to generate revenue through purchase instead of simply a sale.
Among the best methods to create earnings for your service is to be proactive concerning market pressures. If your organisation is stagnant, you may not be able to make any progression and also might only wind up being stagnant.
Market pressures are the trick to success. Consequently, it is necessary to make a comprehensive evaluation of your market and recognize exactly what will aid you produce new income.
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If you have actually researched any kind of elements of Human Resource Management, after that you have actually probably discovered Ciba Geigy Agricultural Division Case Study Analysis. Study Evaluation is the procedure in which a Human Resource Supervisor analyzes the best practices as well as strategies utilized by a company device to produce the requirement of excellence that is taken into consideration effective in all locations of their procedure.
Human Resource Monitoring is an integral part of company and also is just one of the best aspects of company to be shown in programs. Due to this, it is a vital aspect to discover how to do this appropriately.
This type of Case Study Evaluation can be conveniently done by just taking the steps required to begin a company or by starting your own business. Both of these choices enable you to have a dependable means to end up being knowledgeable about the business procedures required to guarantee the firm remains effective. Ciba Geigy Agricultural Division Case Study Analysis will supply you with the details you require to do this.
Along with utilizing a Case Study Evaluation, you will certainly likewise wish to create a situation plan to assist you with the plan. A Situation Strategy is created to lead the remainder of the service by researching on patterns that might influence the company.
In this case, it is simpler to just utilize Case Study Solution. These are based on genuine, working instances of firms that have succeeded in the exact same location the company desires to operate in.
All these elements are necessary in the process of Case Study Evaluation, so it is good to get every little thing created at once. This enables the entire process to run efficiently.
Using Study Option is not restricted to companies. It is excellent to do a Study Analysis for any kind of company to see what jobs best to accomplish a successful outcome.
After producing the Case Study Analysis, you will now wish to ask yourself whether the issue has been resolved. You will wish to examine the outcomes and establish what requires to be altered to get the end result you prefer.
The Case Study Option that is developed will certainly give you the tools you need to assess the efficiency of the personnel monitoring methods you presently have in place. It will certainly additionally offer you with an opportunity to identify what can be enhanced.
Making Use Of Study Option to figure out your next actions is an exceptional method to stop future issues from taking place. They permit you to examine the result you desire in a much more objective and also thorough fashion.
Ciba Geigy Agricultural Division Case Study Remedy is easy to use as well as apply. It can be beneficial in almost any kind of situation where a Human Resource Supervisor will certainly need to do research on the outcomes of their organisation to help them come to an option.
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Today's Crucial Assuming educator, expect that students will certainly be provided a possibility to pick up from a case study option by utilizing a Study in an introduction to an important reasoning activity. Case Studies offer a great possibility for pupils to be able to find out as well as utilize problem solving as a crucial part of their knowing procedure. A Case Study has actually proven to be an effective method of giving trainees with their very first exposure to crucial reasoning and the abilities needed to make use of trouble resolving in their daily lives. This technique has helped many pupils to obtain an exceptional critical believing structure.
For the trainees taking this case study and also introducing it to their course, it will certainly be necessary to clarify their assumptions for the pupils initially of the lesson to aid construct self-confidence in the students beforehand. Additionally, since the Study exists to trainees in the form of a learning activity, it is important that it be described to the students in an open as well as unemotional manner in which does not make them really feel that they are wrong or inadequate at all.
The pupil will need to sit down as well as offer themselves time to consider the Ciba Geigy Agricultural Division Case Study. They require to take a look at the real life troubles and also conditions that the trainees experience today and also use those problems in the class. After trainees have actually had an opportunity to assess and also consider what is being presented in case research, it is essential to help them identify how the solutions to the problems can assist their own lives as well as address their issues.
There are many pertinent principles, information, experiences, and also decisions that can be used to assist pupils as they begin their lessons. Students are generally educated to ask inquiries, pick up from instances, and also interact in energetic ways with their teachers.Ciba Geigy Agricultural Division A study can help them practice these skills and enhance them to make sure that they will come to be extra positive and also responsive to the ideas provided in the case study.
The concerns that pupils are asked to address will certainly help them to believe critically regarding the concerns existing in the SWOT Analysis. This is an extremely powerful tool for teaching pupils to consider present occasions and existing problems by utilizing a SWOT Analysis. It is very important that pupils ask and also address the inquiries very carefully so that they can put together the best approaches for taking care of the issues existing.
While a lot of pupils will take an introductory program in SWOT Evaluation, there are also numerous teachers that will certainly present trainees to the SWOT Analysis before they teach the Vital Assuming tasks. As a matter of fact, the professor may only introduce pupils to the SWOT Evaluation for those pupils that are currently efficient in this sort of reasoning. The teacher may have trainees complete a detailed task for a class task, then provide the SWOT Evaluation to students to help them find out how to use this concept in their very own every day lives. These activities are generally called a SWOT Analysis Task.
These jobs are normally multi-subjects that permit pupils to exercise various strategies in managing different troubles. Students discover to discover and also how to assess the info and solutions. They get a chance to use strategies and learn exactly how to identify locations where they may have voids in their knowledge.
The Case Study that pupils will be dealing with in the very first half of the lesson will give them the chance to use the SWOT Evaluation principle. The trainee will require to consider the usages and staminas of a problem that they can see with the remedy. This can likewise be valuable in developing the trainees' abilities to choose in between 2 feasible services to a trouble.
Students will certainly need to have a range of various viewpoints as well as views on the issue to get a good sense of the family member strengths as well as weak points of the problems presented. The trainee must be able to find a combination of positions that stand for a sensible range of point of views. At this moment, students will certainly have the ability to compare the various viewpoints and also choose the one that finest fits their experience.
The pupils can after that apply this knowledge as well as details by thinking about the staminas as well as weaknesses of the options. They will be able to choose which of the options best fits their very own needs. as well as abilities and also preferences in the remainder of the lesson.
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In this option, you will be getting an overview of all the elements of Ciba Geigy Agricultural Division study evaluation. You will be finding out exactly how to succeed with it and also lastly, you will likewise be gaining from it.
It is very crucial to get the services of HBR Remedy because it offers you a complete explanation of the subject of case study evaluation. You will certainly be able to examine the staminas and also weaknesses of your company from a different angle.
Furthermore, you will certainly discover the factors involved in study evaluation. It will certainly give you an insight on exactly how to manage your company for better outcomes.
The HBR Ciba Geigy Agricultural Division Case Study Option will certainly be likewise valuable for your staff members, you will be obtaining a review of exactly how you can motivate them. You will certainly additionally find out just how to motivate them in order to enhance the productivity degree.
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The HBR Study Option will certainly help you evaluate the influence of your decisions and activities on your business. You will be able to figure out the course of your company and also to figure out whether it is heading towards success or failing.
If you have some problems with the employees, this study remedy will aid you understand exactly how you can keep them encouraged. You will certainly have the ability to find out the right steps to take to ensure that they will certainly work hard for you.
With the HBR Study Remedy, you will likewise have the ability to see the benefits of having a team-based method to the process of handling the business. You will additionally have the ability to see the significance of effective interaction between the monitoring as well as the employees.
The HBR Case Study Solution will certainly help you review the procedure of building a group for your organisation. It will certainly assist you analyze the appropriate strategies that you need to carry out to construct such a team.
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The reality that Ciba Geigy Agricultural Division Study Remedy can be used on virtually any kind of subject must be one of the primary reasons that it ought to be considered by students. By making use of Case Study Solution, pupils will be able to accomplish the goals that they have set for themselves. Not only will pupils be better gotten ready for the classroom as well as to examine, however they will certainly have the ability to enjoy the process.
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The Sum of the Perimeters of Three Subtriangles
Let ABC be a triangle. Let A'A'', B'B'', and C'C'' be tangents to the incircle of ABC and parallel to BC, AC, and AB, respectively. Let be the perimeter of ABC and , and be the perimeters of AA'A'', BB'B'', and CC'C'', respectively. Then . Also, opposite sides of the hexagon A'A''B'B''C'C'' are equal, that is, A'A'' = C'B'', B'B'' = A'C'', and C'C'' = A''B'.
The statement of the theorem is in Problem 141. Triangle, Incircle, Tangent and parallel to side, Perimeter.
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September 15th, 2014 12:13 pm ET - Blog Administrator
The generation that brought us the Internet, the civil rights movement, tie-dye and classic rock, is turning 65. It is estimated that nearly 7,000 baby boomers turn 65 every day, and by the year 2030 most of the baby boomers will be entering their elderly years. As the largest generation prepares for retirement and senior living, we must consider how to prepare this population for disasters.
Older adults may have a more difficult time preparing for or reacting in an emergency, especially those who live alone, have limited mobility or rely on a caregiver. If you or someone you love is part of this growing population of older adults, we have tips to help you be ready for an emergency or disaster.
Nearly 28 percent of all older adults live alone, and close to half of older women live alone. It is important for all older adults, but especially those who do live alone, to have a support network they can rely on in case of an emergency. Your support network should consist of close friends, family members, caregivers or neighbors, who can provide assistance and ensure you are alright before, during and after a disaster. Make a plan with the people in your support network and let them know important information about your medical and mobility needs. Consider sharing an extra house key with neighbors so they can check on you during a disaster and let them know where you keep emergency supplies and medication. It is important to be able to contact your support network during a disaster to let them know you are alright or if you need help. Know how you would get in contact with them if the power went out, and practice contacting them in this way.
When making an emergency kit include medications, medical devices, and instructions on special assistance you need. Keep a list of important doctors’ names and phone numbers, medical documents, medications, prescriptions and instructions in a waterproof container to protect against damage and ensure easy access. When determining what medications and medical supplies to include in your kit, think about what you would need over the span of a week if you had to evacuate or shelter in place. Consider personal needs such as eyeglasses, hearing aids, wheelchairs, batteries, and oxygen. Make sure your emergency kit has all the essential items you need in addition to the basics; water, food, flashlight and a first aid kit.
Update Important Documents
Make sure during an emergency you have access to the most up-to-date information. Take time to update important documents including medical records, wills, deeds, financial information, and insurance cards. In addition, make sure to have updated lists of doctors’ names and phone numbers and your medications and dosages in your emergency kit. Having all your medical and financial information up-to-date and in a secure location can help during and after an emergency to ensure you get the help you need.
During an emergency, electricity and phone lines may not work properly. Older adults should learn alternative methods to communicate with their support network and loved ones during emergencies, as well as be familiar with resources that can provide important disaster alerts and updates. Texting can be a good alternative way to communicate during a disaster if phone lines and cell service is compromised or limited. Make sure you know how to text before an emergency and practice contacting your family and support network. Also, consider receiving cell phone alerts that notify you of serve weather or disaster in your area. Be sure you recognize what these alerts look like and know how to properly respond.
For a real life example of the importance of support networks and preparing older adults for disaters, read Donna’s story. Donna, a blind elderly woman living alone in Iowa, did not realize it when her house started to flood.
For more information for older adults on preparing for an emergency visit: Healthy Aging.
How have you prepared the older adults in your life for emergencies?
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Have you been reading about environmental problems and are concerned about the climatic change? Do the decreasing monsoon in India and the uneven temperature affect you? Do you want to contribute to the environmental conservation but do not get time to do so? Does your fast and materialistic lifestyle have taken up your space with […]
Have you been reading about environmental problems and are concerned about the climatic change? Do the decreasing monsoon in India and the uneven temperature affect you? Do you want to contribute to the environmental conservation but do not get time to do so? Does your fast and materialistic lifestyle have taken up your space with nature? Probably you are too busy to find space to plant a tree and take care of it.
Well, it is the right time to bring a change in your lifestyle and try to save the ailing planet. The little change in your lifestyle has the ability to create wonders for the environment and for the planet at the same time.
The pace of development and progress has covered the need to pay attention to the rising planet of temperature. I am sure that you can buy an Air Conditioner this summer and use it infinitely without caring for the electricity bill, but are you sure that the environment can afford the large quantity of carbon dioxide released by your AC? I am sure a large car fits your budget and the rising petrol costs do not bother you, but are you not bothered by the greenhouse gases released by your car?
The running tap, while you are brushing, may not affect you. But it does affect millions of people who suffer due to lack of water. The orange peel or the toffee wrapper you just threw on the ground is not a big deal for you, but when it attracts flies or chokes the whole drain, it should matter. When you do not switch off the engine at red light, it should matter. It should matter to you, when any of your activities bring harm to the nature.
Many people keep their house neat and clean but do not care about the dirty neighborhood. It is the time to bring a change in your attitude. The whole planet is your home, and your ancestors are living on it for thousands of years and for many years, your grandchildren will continue to live on the same planet.
One thing which was in our ancestors but unfortunately lacks in most of us is the respect for nature. There are proofs which hint at the worship of nature by the early man. They were aware that they must respect the nature, which fulfills all of their needs. They understood the importance of conservation of nature and followed it accordingly.
But here are we, completely neglecting the needs of the nature. Being selfish and greedy may not be a very good idea at the end. Being hypocrites is worse. You may post the picture with caption- SAVE PLANET, but if you do not act, it does not help. Tweeting about Saving Water may not help if you do not value each and every drop of water. Even writing about afforestation is futile, if I do not go and plant a tree.
Is saving the planet too difficult? Does it require too much of time and energy? No. Rather, the need is to alter some of our habits. The need is to nurture respect for the planet in our heart. Once we do realize the need for environment, we will automatically start caring for it.
One of the best ways of realizing the worth of nature would be a visit to some beautiful places on the earth. A visit to Kashmir or Kerala or to a forest or a village would make your day. Life can be truly amazing in the shade of nature. And you’ll understand the worth of this heavenly earth.
Once you start taking steps to conserve environment, you will find them dissolving in your lifestyle. We give more importance to money, but it is not rocket science to understand that the planet is more valuable than any other materialistic thing. So, start making a habit which will lead to the benefit of environment, and will ultimately benefit you. Believe me, the greener the area is, the better will be the lives of the people living in the area. Less diseases, controlled climatic variations, more oxygen, less pollution, healthier world would be the result.
Rather than blaming each other, it is the time to take the blame on ourselves and try to improve. These little changes make a difference. Last but not the least, the utmost important step you can take today, to save environment is to change your attitude towards environment and to change your lifestyle according to it. Have a green day 🙂
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Saint Xavier University senior place-kicker Tom Lynch is the recipient of the 2011 Fred Mitchell Award. The Award is provided to the nation’s top place-kicker in FCS, Division II, Division III, NAIA and NJCAA for excellence on the football field and in the community. Over 750 place-kickers are eligible.
The Award is named for Fred Mitchell, the All-American place-kicker from Wittenberg University and longtime sports columnist for the Chicago Tribune. Mitchell said, “I am pleased to congratulate Tom Lynch as the recipient of the 2011 Fred Mitchell Award, which is particularly impressive since he also received this Award after the 2010 season. With more than 750 place-kickers to choose from, we are extremely proud to recognize Tom in this fashion. He scored more points than each of these 750 place-kickers in 2011, he is extremely accurate and he has been instrumental to the continued success of the Cougars. I am equally proud of Lynch’s sincere commitment to school and community service, which helps set him apart from an incredibly strong field of finalists in the eyes of our Selection Committee.”
“Winning the Fred Mitchell award for the second time puts me at a complete loss for words,” said Lynch. “I was so thankful to be the recipient of this award last year and now winning it again leaves me with an indescribable feeling. I truly believe that without God in my life, I wouldn’t be the person I am today, not only on the football field but also in my everyday life. Winning this award this week and then playing for a national championship this Saturday, I could not have scripted a better ending for my college career.”
Lynch participates in the school’s annual service day where students do community service projects, he volunteers at Misericordia which maximizes the potential of people with mild or profound developmental disabilities, he provides complimentary maintenance services and volunteers at the South Bridge Community Church summer day camp, he volunteers at the Kids Enjoy Exercise Now program to support a not-for-profit volunteer-led organization that provides one-on-one recreational opportunities for children and young adults with mental and physical disabilities and he is a place-kicking tutor at his high school alma mater (Lincoln Way East).
“What a tremendous honor for Tom to win such a prestigious award two years in a row,” said Saint Xavier University football coach Mike Feminis. “He’s had an outstanding career and is very deserving. What better way is there to end your career than to be playing on the biggest stage possible? I am really happy for Tom and I know he’ll save his best game for the one in Rome, Georgia, on December 17!”
The Award’s Selection Committee Chairman, Chris Kearney, said, “There were dozens of terrific candidates for this Award. In fact, 44 place-kickers were nominated by their schools for consideration. Tom was on the Award’s Watch List in August and we recognized him during the season for stellar performance. The voting results were extremely close this year, and we are looking forward to honoring Tom on February 20, 2012 at Halas Hall during the National Football Foundation Chicago Metro Chapter Awards Ceremony.”
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Assistant Professor of Economics
Andrew Kosenko is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the School of Management. He received his PhD in economics from Columbia in 2018, after undergraduate work at New York University. Prior to coming to Marist, he was a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Pittsburgh, where he taught undergraduate, MBA, and PhD courses. During the summer of 2019, he was an Associate in Business at the Columbia Business School. Dr. Kosenko’s research interests are in information economics (strategic communication and the value of information) and behavioral economics (models of memory and learning). He greatly enjoys reading fiction and biography, and listening to new (so-called “creative”) music that explores the space between composed and improvised musics. He was born in Kharkiv, Ukraine and grew up in Brooklyn, New York.
PhD, Economics, Columbia University, 2018
MPhil, Economics, Columbia University, 2015
MA, Economics, Columbia University, 2014
BA, Economics, New York University, 2008
BA, European Studies, New York University, 2008
Research Interests / Areas of Focus
My research interests are in game theory and microeconomic theory, mainly in information economics (strategic communication and information design), as well as the implications of memory and rationality, broadly understood, on strategic behavior. Aside from that, I am interested in repeated games, experimental economics, and the neuroscience of learning and memory.
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A wordbrain policeman is an East African policeman who is part of a network of wordbrain policemen.
“A wordbrain” is a word used to describe someone who is very intelligent, capable of word learning and writing.
This makes them the perfect complement to the wordbrain officer.
They can also use their intelligence to solve puzzles, read books, and play music.
The wordbrain officers are paid by the government and are given extra police powers in the event of an emergency.
According to the Ministry of Justice, there are more than 700,000 wordbrain police in the country.
It’s the most important job in the African continent, but the job is not easy for the officers, with many of them being unemployed.
More than 100,000 of them are illiterate.
For the wordbank officer, the work is stressful and exhausting, and they need to be able to do the work without leaving home, their wife and children behind.
These officers are also part of an organised crime network, which includes drug dealers, gun dealers, armed robbers and other criminals.
Read more about the word bank officer here: https://www.thenewbigfuture.com/features/how-to-get-a-word-brain-officer/
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The world can be a scary place. This is a view exacerbated by popular media, which tends to focus attention on sources of violence and despair in disproportion to their prevalence. No surprise there – these things translate into ad revenue more readily than a cold assessment of reality. So it is that polls have the public rating ISIS and North Korea as greater threats than climate change. An exceedingly large portion of Americans also see their own government as a top threat.
There are some good reasons for this. Foremost among them is the loss of legitimacy brought about as private interests seize more and more of the public domain, bending government action toward narrow aims and away from the public interest. The U.S. government has grown exceedingly expensive and unwieldy over the years, even as it has grown less and less capable of acting in the interests of the majority. A desire to rein it in is not misplaced.
However, disguised beyond all this concern over ISIS and North Korea and the U.S. government is a more fundamental threat to the American way of life. That it is so poorly recognized, despite being so well evidenced, is both depressing and disturbing. Because the fact of the matter is that there are forces working to reshape American democracy in a manner most citizens would likely find objectionable. And to significant extent, they are succeeding.
Currently, a cadre of wealthy Americans and right wing intellectuals is working to transform the United States into something rather twisted. Their core motivating principle is that the accumulation of capital takes precedence over all other values. Indeed, it is in their view the ultimate arbiter of value. To them, human worth scales with earnings.
Given the preeminence of wealth in their worldview, it is little surprise that the architects of the modern conservative agenda evince open disdain for the principles of democratic self-governance*. Fanatical ideologues, these people hue to a perverse and extreme doctrine, wherein any effort by the majority to put common interests ahead of personal wealth is viewed as an act of tyranny. Their allegiance to community and nation ends where those entities cease to serve as instruments furthering the accumulation of wealth and power. Less there remain any ambiguity: these people pose a massive threat to post-Great Depression democracy in the United States. Their goal is to return the U.S. to the Gilded Age – a time of massive economic inequality, rampant corruption, and widespread disenfranchisement.
They have set for themselves the explicit goal of turning government to their will, eliminating all barriers to the accumulation of profit, simultaneously turning every element of the public sector into a new avenue for the generation of wealth. To this end, they have captured the Republican Party and bent it into a tool of radical greed. Gone are the principles of traditional conservatism. No more reverence for tradition as the grounding force for social order. No principled commitments to self-determination or limited government. In their place stands a single-minded passion for unfettered self-interest.
This all reads like some kind of hard-boiled conspiracy theory. But it’s not. It is ice-cold, brutal reality, uncovered by the diligence of intrepid journalists and documented in the written words of the ideological fanatics themselves. These people have built a network of shadowy 501(c)(3) and 501(c)(4) organizations to conceal their machinations. They have seized control of the GOP by demanding fealty in exchange for political self-preservation. Republican congress people with the courage and integrity to dissent have been branded as Cucks and RINOs and primaried out of office, replaced by rabid ideologues and lick-spittles more amendable to an extremist, anti-democratic cause.
History of the Cause
The history of the radical libertarian movement, as documented in Nancy Maclean’s exhaustively researched and deeply admirable book Democracy in Chains, is itself damning. As a political movement, modern American libertarianism – the philosophical lifeblood of radical conservatism – traces its roots back to John C. Calhoun, a savage bigot and fierce defender of slavery. Calhoun correctly saw in democratic governance a potential threat to property rights and therein his right to accumulate wealth by owning people as property. He recognized that in a contest of values there were significant domains in which property rights and human rights might conflict, and set about dreaming up a body of political theory compatible with his personal sympathies (spoiler: Calhoun favored property rights over human rights).
In Calhoun’s view, the majority had no legitimate right to inflict its will on a minority, for any reason. This meant that an electorate enlightened enough to recognize chattel slavery as a repugnant moral abomination had no right to impose their views on a minority who found slavery a righteous engine of personal profit. In this light, Calhoun dreamt up the right of interposition – a state’s right to veto federal authority.
This self-serving view carried on through history, festering in the stew of racial tensions and class conflict that has long characterized the American South. When Brown vs. the Board of Education placed the weight of federal law behind school integration, the regressive elements of the old aristocratic order in the South used the doctrine of interposition as an instrument of rebellion. When that failed, they became enthusiastic advocates for school privatization. In Virginia, school voucher programs were first instituted as a way around integration – dropping public funding for public schools in some majority black counties and offering white students special scholarships to attend private all white schools.
In this crucible of social upheaval, acolytes of what came to be known as the Austrian school of economics began to recast developments in terms of Calhoun’s old contest between individual rights and communitarian values. This is how they framed things, but it’s worth noting at the outset that it is a thorough misrepresentation of their true values. The only individual right they cared about protecting was a person’s right to acquire and dispense wealth as they saw fit. In order to protect it, they were willing – and have only grown more so – to strangle any other individual right that inconvenienced this aim.
Over time, this movement has only grown, gaining as allies radical billionaires like Charles Koch. Today, they work to influence policy at every level of government, staffing and funding so-called “think-tanks” (really sophisticated propaganda outlets, given their a priori intellectual constraints and vicious intolerance for dissent) like the Heritage Foundation and the Cato Institute. In order to sway policy, they operate a network of putative “charity” organizations that dump huge sums of money into political campaigns at every level of government.
Their strategy – from their own writings and personal communications – is to “crab-walk” American democracy into a system of restraints that cripple collective action. It begins by working to incrementally erode confidence in public institutions. As outlined by James Buchanan, one of the movement’s chief architects, it begins with disingenuous expressions of concern. Ideologically sympathetic – and, frequently enough, directly coached – politicians express concern over the future of some program like Social Security, wondering whether it will be there for them and their families in the future and what they can do to fix it.
From there, they secure support from the most vulnerable, promising those 5 or 10 years out from retirement that Social Security will still be there for them. Thereby heading off their most vocal opponents, they proceed to encourage further doubt in the program’s viability and stoke frustration over its performance. They push the age of eligibility back a few years and work to sew discontent among the young by planting questions about why they pay into an entitlement scheme that will probably have collapsed by the time they come of age. Further public ire is generated through the very suggestion of means-based welfare redistribution – naively favored by progressives.
It all paves the way for privatization, which does more than turn the targeted program into an engine of profit for the already wealthy. Every instance of privatization works to corrode public confidence and interest in government, as it begins to steadily play less and less of a role in their lives. By the time they realize what has happened – if they realize it – it is too late. The public is left adrift to fend for themselves in a cutthroat system of corporate feudalism and economic coercion.
This is why the Republican Party is willing to engage in dangerous brinksmanship like shutting down the government or stealing a Supreme Court seat. Their ideological needs are met either way. Either they decrease government spending and capture a branch of government through nefarious means or they decrease public confidence in democratic institutions and amplify the perception that the government is irredeemably broken. It’s a win-win for people so fanatically devoted to a perverse ideology that they are willing to pay any cost to see it enacted.
The Fanaticism of the Radical Libertarian/Conservative Movement
If one is going to tar a belief system as dangerously fanatical, it’s probably best to explain why. The short answer is this: the libertarian/conservative movement currently working to drastically reorder the American political sphere is entirely divorced from empirical reality. It is based on a theory of human behavior that has been repeatedly refuted by scientific studies from a variety of disciplines. That’s a long way of saying it is false. Despite this, the proponents of the movement – the radical right – are willing to abandon fundamental American values and cause untold suffering to see their beliefs put into practice. Someone who holds a belief in disproportion to the available evidence is a fool. Someone who is so passionately dedicated to that belief that they are willing to hurt people to see it manifest is a fanatic. And a dangerous one at that.
It would be unfair to cast the motivating concerns of modern libertarianism as entirely unfounded. Like all radical social movements, it starts with a seed of legitimate grievance. In this case, the problem is what has been called “rent seeking” behavior. Rent seeking occurs anytime a person or organization extracts a benefit disproportionate to their contribution, be it economic or social. In the realm of government, the famous libertarian economist Milton Freidman called this the problem of distributed costs and concentrated benefits. Despite the protestations of the most ardent leftists, it is real.
It all boils down to this. Politicians have it in their interests to meet the demands of voters, however they might be conceived. Libertarians couch this in the language of “public choice” theory – which we’ll return to shortly – and describe it all as a matter of rational self-interest. There’s no reason to be so reductive (and even less reason to think rational actor theory is a robust model of human behavior) but the analysis still stands. Maybe politicians want to address public concerns as matter of civic duty, maybe they want to do it is a way of securing re-election. Presumably there are instances where both are true. In this regard, it is critical to note that strains of corporate welfare are forms of costly rent seeking as well. It’s not just a problem of poor people asking for more than their “fair share”.
In any event, the outcome is the same. Groups of like-minded voters or powerful interests work to pressure politicians into granting them political favors. There’s no need to frame it in terms of seedy back room dealings. This can all be very innocuous. Indeed, most of the targets of libertarian outrage are either inoffensive or objectively beneficial, like arts programs, public schools, and environmental protections. This is, in fact, precisely how democracies should work.
However, it can become problematic over time, because the benefits these initiatives secure almost always come with some cost, distributed in tiny increments among the tax base. Over time, successful campaigns that benefit narrow interest groups – at a cost virtually invisible to any given tax payer – can pile up. Widespread costs accrue gradually, eventually leading to a big, expensive government.
From this, hardcore libertarians contend that majority rule is inherently oppressive and that minorities should always have the right to defect from the popular will. This, as James Madison – the primary author of the U.S. Constitution – argued during the founding of the United States, would effectively neuter representative government and abolish democratic rule. It also paves the way for corporate tyranny, as powerful minority groups maintain unchecked power to coerce and exploit the less wealthy while laying waste to public goods. By allowing corporate agents to escape the costs of externalities (unforeseen costs that aren’t factored into the prices of products) it allows new forms of rent seeking behavior.
What we have here is a fanatical overreaction to a real problem. One would have to be an oblivious milquetoast to look at the spending of the modern U.S. government and not spot at least a handful of programs they find completely frivolous. The solution is to find ways to more effectively evaluate the costs and benefits of special interest programs – and do so continuously – so government can periodically clean house by getting rid of programs that no longer do much good. Abolishing government entirely and reducing the domain of public action to free-market spending, as libertarians and hard-line conservatives advocate, is a recipe for widespread misery (a point the libertarian movement’s intellectual architects cheerily accept).
Inasmuch as the libertarian response to the burden of taxation is an overreaction, the intellectual tradition that leads them to posit pure capitalist anarchy as the foundation for an ideal society is riddled with fallacious reasoning. To describe modern academic libertarianism as intellectually stillborn is probably unjust. Ideas are judged according to their performance in tests against empirical reality. In this domain, the hard line libertarian enterprise has faced countless rebukes and been reduced to a program of pure, self-interested propaganda.
Libertarianism – and free-market fundamentalism, writ large – takes many of its philosophical cues from the Austrian school of economics, a school dependent on an obscure line of reasoning called “praxeology”. Succinctly put, praxeology contends that the study of human action and behavior can be purely deductive. This is a rather curious position, in no small-part because it holds itself as immune to refutation. One can simply start with a few premises about the nature of human action and work out how humans ought to behave as a result.
As a logical proposition, that is all well and good. Premises lead ineluctably to conclusions and boom, there you have it, a prescription for human action. Problems arise, however, when the premises you use as a launch pad for your reasoning are false. In the school of praxeology, as in the more widely recognized domain of public choice theory, many of the starting assumptions have been repeatedly proven to be thoroughly erroneous.
Take just two of their founding tenets: that humans are entirely rational and infinitely selfish. Both have been disproved, again and again, by experiments with ultimatum and dictator games. In an ultimatum game, two players are matched up and charged with distributing a given sum of money. One is given the role of “the proposer” and one is given the role of “the responder”. The proposer offers a certain amount and the responder decides whether or not to accept it. If the responder accepts, both players take home their allotted share. If the responder refuses, both players get nothing. The dictator game is pretty much the same thing, except the responder is completely passive – they get whatever the proposer gives them.
If human are rational and selfish, this yields pretty firm predictions about what ought to occur. In the ultimatum game, the proposer should offer the lowest possible sum and the responder should accept it. It doesn’t matter if it seems unfair. That is an irrational consideration. If the proposer divides a $100 pot 99:1, the responder should still say yes because they leave $1 dollar richer than they would have otherwise. But this never happens. The experimental subjects that come closest to realizing the libertarian fantasy are economics students who have been educated (or perhaps indoctrinated) with the principles of rational choice theory. Everywhere else, subjects consistently offer bids that exceed rational utility optimization and reject those that seem unfair. This is true even in the dictator game, where the proposer has the option to keep the entire pot for himself.
The implications are clear. Humans are bad at rationally maximizing their payoffs and are innately predisposed toward fairness.
Even within the confines of rational actor theory, the free-market fundamentalism seems to collapse. Some degree of third-party enforcement is essential solve problems associated with incomplete contract and public goods dilemmas. One of the principle assumption behind market rationality is that participants in exchange have all of the information they need to make the best possible decision. Rarely is this the case in the real world, but is convenient fiction for modelling. Interestingly, if we take the notion of rational self-interest, we should expect agents to regularly conceal things from one another. Deception should be common place, as those offering goods seek to hide their possible detriments and exaggerate their benefits. The fossil fuel industry, for example, should work to obfuscate the damage caused by their product. That’s hypothetical of course – they would never actually do that, say, by hiring the marketing sharps who worked to mislead the public about the dangers of smoking cigarettes.
So many of the assumptions that motivate the entire free-market fundamentalism are either false or mutually self-defeating that is difficult to see why so many people take it seriously. Alas, such is the power of motivated reasoning. If human behavior were simply a matter of selfish rationality, a belief that the unfettered pursuit of wealth is a sound basis for sociopolitical order would be considerably more justifiable. Libertarians have reached the right conclusion from their founding axioms. It just happens that those axioms are fundamentally wrong.
This doesn’t seem to affect their enthusiasm much. Amity Shlaes, a devotee of the libertarian pioneer James Buchanan and author of The Forgotten Man, claims that “public choice theory explain(s) everything.” An impressive feat. It is also, as it happens, the feature of Marxism that led Karl Popper to reject it as a scientific discipline. Public choice theory and praxeology are nonsense on stilts (to borrow Jeremy Benthem’s phrase) precisely because their application is limited only by their practitioner’s imagination. They are irrefutable because they are endlessly plastic.
In science, the most robust system we humans have ever devised for assigning confidence in our beliefs, the proper use of deductive reasoning is as an instrument of refutation. One takes a body of theory and uses it to derive predictions (i.e. hypotheses) about what the actual world should be like. Ideally, the relationship between theory and hypothesis is axiomatic – meaning if theory X is true then we should see Y. If we don’t see Y, theory X is false. Scientists then perform experiments or observations and look at how closely the results match predictions. If the results look nothing like the predictions yielded by theory, then scientists start to suspect the theory in question suffers from serious flaws.
Of course, in any social science, things tend to be a lot trickier than that. But it is still considered bad science to continue to build theories – much less large scale policy prescriptions – around disproved premises. Public choice theory, like Marxism, is more akin to a body of religious dogma than a serious scientific or intellectual framework.
Paradise, for an ideological zealot like Charles Koch, is an alien world. Plenty of people feel the sting of their tax bill and reasonably think they could do with a lighter load. They might even have specific public services in mind as targets for reduction or eradication. Few, however, actively dream of the world proposed by the hardcore libertarian. In the utopia envisioned by the radical right, government only exists to protect property rights. It serves no other purpose.
This is a perverse vision. The architects of the campaign are well aware of this. Many of them are, after all, pretty sharp people. Charles Koch himself holds a number of engineering degrees from MIT. Koch and his allies recognize that few people would freely elect to live in the world they are trying to build, which is precisely why their campaign is so secretive. They do not want to expose their dreams to an open trial in the marketplace of ideas, because they have strong reasons to think it will likely fail that test.
So what is that world actually like? Cutthroat, myopic, and fraught with suffering. Now, it is important to recognize that, while Charles Koch and the intellectuals on his payroll would choose to describe things in more rosy terms, they have no fundamental disagreements with what I am about to describe.
In the libertarian utopia envisioned by the radical right, inequality – already at record levels in the United States – is radically worse. The U.S. of libertarian dreams looks considerably more like a third-world country, complete with slums where people who can’t make it in the mainstream market live in shacks built from tar paper and corrugated tin and scrape by on their own. Clean water is a commodity for people with the means to buy it. Public health crises like the lead contamination that plagued Flint, Michigan are far more common. There is no Center for Disease Control or National Institute of Health working to cure diseases or prevent the outbreak of devastating epidemics. If you don’t save enough to retire, you’re on your own, condemned to old age poverty. This is true even if you saved prudently and happened to have a personal health crisis that drained your savings account years short of retirement – because there sure as hell isn’t any room for government assistance with medical care in a free market paradise.
Unsurprisingly, radical libertarians see no room for environmental regulation or public lands. Land belongs to whoever values it the most, which will tend to be very rich individuals or corporations who can afford to transform large swaths of it into profitable enterprises like mining or logging. There will, in short, be no spaces left over for the common folk to camp or hunt or hike on.
Public schools will be gone, virtually guaranteeing that patterns of intergenerational inequality will be cemented in place and carried on in perpetuity. The prospects of children will be shackled to the economic performance of their parents. This will also have the effect of paralyzing discourse and intellectual progress, as the ideologically inclined can opt to send their children to indoctrination academies that will reinforce their preferred brand of nonsense. The children of fundamentalist Christians will learn that the earn is 6000 years old and the children of postmodern liberals will learn that their subjective feelings take precedence over any strain of established fact.
Of course, you could take some solace in the fact that you won’t have much of tax bill any more. That would be a mistake. First, the libertarian vision will actually demand a massive police state. While drugs and prostitution will be legal, police will still be necessary to stifle the communitarian uprisings that are sure to crop up from time to time, threatening the property rights of the moneyed classes. Likewise, there will still be a strong military for enforcing the spirit of righteous, unfettered capitalism throughout the rest of the world. So you’ll still have a tax bill. But a lot of your tax savings will be consumed paying to drive on private toll roads, send your kid to the best private school you can afford, forking out for fire department services (if you’re into having someone help you put out a house fire – or can afford a house), and paying market value for clean water.
This is the world Charles Koch and his pawns in the Republican Party are working to build. Those with the intelligence to recognize the likely consequences of their vision openly are on board with all of this. They see the obvious costs as a worthy price for economic liberty. In their view, it is all ethically justifiable because people always succeed or fail according to their inherent value. If you are poor, it is because you are lazy and stupid. If you are rich, it is because you are intelligent and ambitious. An inability to secure clean drinking water or pay a private security detail to keep your house safe from the upstarts who sneak out of the slums at night is a sign of personal failure. In this world, you can only ever be a victim of self-sabotage.
If you think that seems extreme, you are right. But it is a natural conclusion to reach if you start from blatantly fallacious premises like “humans are rational, self-interested, utility maximizing machines.” The radical libertarian architects of campaign to reshape America don’t care about the suffering and chaos that would be caused by a pure victory of their ideology. In fact, suffering, in their worldview, would be a signal of righteous victory. Those who can’t make it in a libertarian utopia are victims of self-sabotage and personal ineptitude. Libertarianism, for them, represents a world in which everyone gets what they deserve.
It is worth taking a moment to pause and reflect on this view. This version of “the cream will always rise up to the top” socioeconomic theory is rooted in a meaningless tautology, entirely immune to external evaluation. The problem is that economic success, like biological fitness, is a what is called a “supervenient” property. In layman’s terms, that means it is not reducible to a single, universally relevant set of causes. In the world of evolutionary biology, there is not one feature that causes fitness. Rather, fitness can be understood in one of two ways: as a description of the number of offspring an organism produced or as a probabilistic estimate of the number of offspring an organism might produce, given its characteristics within a given environment.
That’s all rather esoteric, but the long and short of it is that you can’t say fitness is all about being strong or fast or pretty. Sometimes it’s about those things. Sometimes it’s about others. Sometimes it’s just about luck. Likewise, success is only probabilistically associated with the features we colloquially attribute to successful people. We have folk theories of success that say it’s a matter of intelligence, skill, competence, ambition, and hard work. True, in the social/economic/political world, intelligence and ambition are enormously useful. They play a role in success that exceeds what would be expected by pure chance. But it is perfectly possible to gain success without them (say, through inheritance or dumb luck) or possess them in abundance and go nowhere.
In the libertarian vision, is the smart, hard working person who simply has a life riddled with bad luck just an unfortunate cost of liberty? Maybe. What of a person who is born with a very low IQ to poor parents who can’t afford a good education? Do they deserve a life of poverty and suffering? The libertarian position here, is – quite explicitly – “yes”. Some people are going to eat shit and die and communitarian efforts – expressed through majority will in open, democratic elections – to alleviate that suffering through taxation and welfare are considered a form of tyranny.
The End Game
“He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster.” One could find a modicum of irony in this bit of wisdom, considering its source. Friedrich Nietzche believed that one of the core impulses behind human behavior was a will to power – a desire to exceed social or ethical confines and an ambition to exercise control. This is an ambition radical libertarians would not find entirely alien.
Nietzsche produced a lot of garbage (the concept of “eternal return”, anyone?) but the sagacity of the aforementioned quote is hard to dispute. In combating any evil, one should be vigilant of the potential risks. The Austrian school of economics was spawned in the wake of World War II, at a time when brutal despots – men like Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin – had seized control of Germany and the Soviet Union. Friedrich Hayek, one of the founding thinkers of the Austrian school, perceived a direct line between communitarian values and tyranny.
This connection has not been born out as matter of social law or historical fact. Most modern Western countries engage in some mixed strategy of social democracy and capitalism. It is only with considerable effort that one can look at Germany, Denmark, Norway, Canada, or even the United States and see a world of tyranny and oppression. But at the time, the argument didn’t look nearly as frail. Radical leftist ideologues, deeply motivated by an extreme commitment to communitarian values – above and beyond any consideration for individual rights – had recently captured control of huge swaths of Europe and Asia in the form of the Soviet Union. Very shortly, China would also fall to the fanatical leftist ideology of political communism. It looked very much like there might be a direct road from the communitarian ethos behind public education and infrastructure projects to authoritarianism.
Hayek and his intellectual kin saw the injustice and oppression sired by a virulent strain of ideological fanaticism and set about building a body of political theory to combat it. Thus was born their fire and brimstone devotion to individual economic liberty and absolute, inalienable property rights. History and science have since revealed the body of socioeconomic theory they constructed as a rather fevered overreaction, empirically unsupportable in theory and ethically disastrous in practice.
Yet the modern devotees of that tradition still herald it as a utopian vision. Belligerently indifferent to the vast flaws in their intellectual framework, they have set themselves the task of reshaping the United States of America to better match their fanatical aspirations. In this, men like Charles Koch directly mirror Mao Zedong, Vladimir Lenin, Pol Pot, and Joseph Stalin. They are so convinced that their vision of the world is true and righteous that they are willing to go to almost any lengths to see it put into practice. No amount of human suffering seems too high a cost. Their dreams of a glittering utopia for commerce and personal ambition are worth any toll.
The similarities run deeper still. Political operatives in the Koch organization advise new recruits to study Vladimir Lenin’s playbook for revolution. The parallels are truly disconcerting. An extreme ideology, largely divorced from the findings of serious scientific or historical research. A passion to put that ideology into practice that trivializes the suffering it will cause. A plan of operation that involves deliberate deceit and misdirection. A disdain for democracy.
It is partially ironic, that people so fearful of the threat of one extreme ideology would champion an equally extreme remedy. But it is not surprising. This is what happens anytime anyone begins to put their beliefs about the way the world ought to be ahead of the way the world actually is. Ideology poisons reason. It has happened on the Regressive Left, where a nasty brew of identity politics, postmodern subjectivism, and neoMarxism is motivating savage anti-democratic behavior and a disturbing embrace of authoritarianism. The radical right is no different. They have taken concerns about the burden of taxation and regulation – reasonable targets for open debate – and turned them into justifications for a fanatical campaign with a dangerously anti-democratic endgame in mind. The difference here is that the Regressive Left is presently just an obnoxious fringe group. The radical right, on the other hand, is calling the shots for one of only two major political parties in the United States – and it happens to be the one with majority control in both houses of congress, ideological control of the Supreme Court, and a megalomaniacal imbecile ripe for manipulation in the White House.
The ultimate goal of the radical right is wholesale constitutional reform. In this, they have made considerable progress. They have captured the majority of state legislatures and used that authority to redraw congressional districts to disenfranchise liberal and independent voters. Likewise, they have instituted a huge number of voter suppression laws – ostensibly to prevent voter fraud, a virtually nonexistent problem. The real purpose of those laws – as their architects have occasionally let slip – is to rob people who don’t agree with them of their political voice. In the Senate, they effectively stole a Supreme Court seat. Some argue this was done in principled defense of traditional conservative interests like gun rights and abortion. Those people are fools. This was done to protect Citizens United and McCutcheon vs. FEC – Supreme Court rulings that undermine one-person, one-vote democracy by allowing unlimited, undisclosed political spending by wealthy individuals and corporations – from judicial review.
None of this is surprising to anyone who understands the motivating ethos of the radical right. The only value they cherish is wealth – the ability to accumulate more of it, the ability to protect, the ability to spend it however they wish. As I have stressed repeatedly, this would be fine if two things were true. First, if the socioeconomic theory they endorse were not flagrantly indifferent to the actual working of reality. Second, if they were not so secretive in their dealings. Instead, they are secretly working to refashion the U.S. Constitution into an instrument of a fanatical ideology.
Consider, in this regard, that they revere the regime of Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet as an example of the successful implementation of their ideology. Pinochet stole power in a brutal coup, torturing and murdering members of the opposition. Thereafter, the Pinochet regime embarked on a campaign of neoliberal reform that included significantly curtailing the electorate’s capacity to influence their government through majority vote. To be fair, the economy of Chile performed well in the succeeding decades. Corruption and exploitation was rampant in privatized industries (privatized social security, for instance, took 30% of the funds people invested as fees) and income inequality rose sharply, but GDP looked healthy.
Pinochet was supported by the likes of free market fundamentalist Friedrich Hayek. In undertaking constitutional reform, his government was advised by James Buchanan, a principle designer of the Koch network’s plan of constitutional restructuring in the United States. Their views on the outcome are telling. Pinochet murdered his opposition and ruled as dictator. He deliberately worked to erode the average citizen’s capacity to shape political outcomes. The Pinochet regime’s programs reduced real wages for many and increased income inequality substantially. They did, however, likely contribute to prosperity for some and overall increases in GDP. The implication is clear: the people on the radical right are willing to sanction brutality and oppression, forsake democracy, and increase economic suffering if doing so makes it generally easy for some people – the most skilled, intelligent, and ambitious, in their view – the get very rich.
In all of this, nothing is more damning that radical right’s commitment to secrecy. One arm of their political machine, the State Policy Network, currently funds efforts to mislead the public into keeping the sources of political spending secret. In New Mexico, they run ads on social media that suggest campaign transparency laws will lead to harassment. This is an outrageous lie in service of deliberate fear-mongering. The law in question only demands disclosure for donors who spend more than $1000 dollars. As of 2016, only 0.52% of donors give more than $200. The State Policy Network’s real goal is to keep the political machinations of the Koch network hidden from public scrutiny.
This is a thoroughly anti-democratic stance. Democracy is impotent if the electorate is uninformed. One of the most important pieces of information they can have is what interests are providing the financial backing for political candidates. This is true across the board. But this anti-democratic stance is now dogma in the bought-out GOP, openly promoted by the likes of Mitch McConnell and Ted Cruz. The libertarian fanatics and hard-line conservatives on the radical right are working to erode the foundations of democracy and institute a system of oligarchic rule invincible to public rebuke. This campaign is being enacted behind a smoke-screen of unctuous patriot rhetoric and cruel misinformation. They are doing so because they believe their fanatical ideology will not survive a public hearing. Few people want what they want. They don’t care. Their chief political aim is the establishment of a governing system built to ratify their will.
In all of this, there are real items of pressing public concern. They should be subject to open debate, not pressed through clandestine dealings and cynical political manipulation. The United States has plenty of problems. They should be addressed through the action of an informed electorate. Contrary to the political strategy and policy initiatives of the Koch network and modern Republican Party, this means more transparency and better public education.
There is a tradition in political discourse of couching debate in terms of the views held by the Founding Fathers. Personally, I consider this tradition mostly nonsensical, based in a breed of fallacious reasoning that holds that people in the past were somehow wiser or more intelligent that people today. Good arguments, of course, stand independent of their originators. But in deference to said tradition, it is worth pointing out that men like George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and James Madison were fierce advocates of government transparency and all favored some breed of public education. John Adams, for instance, wrote:
Laws for the liberal education of youth, especially of the lower class of people, are so extremely wise and useful, that, to a humane and generous mind, no expense for this purpose would be thought extravagant.
Insofar as we take defection from the views of the Founders as an indication of treasonous intent or anti-democratic spirit, the implication here is obvious. The Koch network and the modern Republic Party are open foes of democracy. Their devotion to secrecy and opposition to public education rob them of any right to claim to be acting in best interests of the American electorate, writ large.
By all means, include policy ideas derived from recalcitrant, hard-line conservatism and radical libertarian philosophy as items of debate in the endless contest over how best to accomplish the aims outlined in the U.S. Constitution and Declaration of Independence. No idea should be off the table and no rational person should ever expect the best solutions solutions to every problem will fall under one ideological umbrella. Those who argue otherwise are blinkered ideological fanatics and we should be wary of their influence. But those who would work in secret to undermine democracy in service of ideological fanaticism are something far worse: they are enemies of liberty, of the right to free expression and the tools of self-governance. They, more than anything, pose the most immediate threat to the American way of life.
*It is worth noting, given the amount of space dedicated in this essay to a defense of majority rule, that this system is not without out its problems. As Christopher Achens and Larry Bartels outline in their excellent book, Democracy for Realists, a lot of voting behavior can be boiled down to myopic retrospection and tribalism. Voters tend to align according to political identity (am I a Liberal or a Conservative?) or choose candidates based on a shallow reading of well they have fared over the months directly preceding an election, regardless of how much their fortunes were actually impacted by the policies of the candidates under consideration.
Likewise, as critics of Nancy MacLean’s book have pointed out, ending institutionalized segregation would have been a longer battle – perhaps still underway – if matters had been left entirely to majority rule. In my view, all of this speaks well of the checks and balances the Founding Fathers built into the U.S. Constitution. It also argues strongly in favor of transparency and public education. I don’t see it as an argument in favor of abolishing majority rule in favor absolute sovereignty of property rights.
As a point of pure fantasy, I am partial to a system that weights votes according to competency. That is, everyone still gets a vote, but those who take the time to educate themselves above and beyond the average should get more of say. In practice, however, this also looks problematic. First, it’s easy to imagine such a system being gamed for partisan advantage. Indeed, a fair test that asked questions like “How old is the planet earth?” or “What is the scientific consensus on the causes of current patterns of climate change?” would be instantly smeared by some critics as biased, because the correct answers to those questions run contrary to popular opinion in conservative circles. Second, voter competency might not be a good measure of a voter’s capacity to fairly judge candidates and policy – it would only be a measure of how much they know about them. Thanks to motivated reasoning, people are perfectly capable of drawing contradictory conclusions from the same body of evidence, according to existing biases.
In a roundabout sense, this essay is a review of MacLean’s Democracy in Chains. I think that her book was very good and well worth reading. Worth noting, however, is that she injects a distinct editorial voice into her history. Based purely on the policy measures they support, her portrayal of the radical right – and Charles Koch, in particular – rings true. Some have taken exception to her portrayal of James Buchanan. It is certainly colored to the left, but I’m not sure it is wholly inaccurate.
She also dedicates a little space to an economist named Tyler Cowen. I wasn’t familiar with him before reading MacLean’s book and am only faintly familiar with him now. That said, nothing I have been able to uncover supports her characterization of him. In Democracy in Chains, he reads like a foaming ideologue. Everything else I’ve uncovered paints him as a libertarian, but a relatively moderate one.
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Traditional African entertainment makes use of a wide variety of musical instruments, all made out of materials present in nature. Up for some after-darkish, nighttime entertainment? Dining out, dancing, and going to live shows, gala’s, and movies are all accessible options. Within the Central Valley, you will see that excellent eateries serving among the most scrumptious meals at very inexpensive costs. You can have Costa Rican meals, Peruvian meals, Italian food, French food, Chinese meals, and Mexican food. Plus, you’ve a 100% chance of finding the massive American restaurant chains right here like T.G.I. Friday’s, Tony Roma’s, McDonald’s, and so on. And an actual live Hagen Daz for the sweet tooth is out there in Escazu.
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The leader of German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s party is rejecting calls for an overhaul of the accord underpinning Merkel’s often-fractious coalition government.
Merkel’s center-right Union bloc leads an alliance with the center-left Social Democrats. Halfway through the parliamentary term, the Social Democrats are choosing a new leadership and are expected to decide next month whether to stay in the coalition.
One Social Democratic leadership contender has advocated an overhaul of the coalition accord drawn up last year, as has a prominent lawmaker in Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union.
But CDU leader Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer has made clear ahead of a party conference this week that she’s not interested. Kramp-Karrenbauer told Sunday’s edition of the Welt am Sonntag newspaper: “The coalition agreement is valid, and it most certainly will not be renegotiated.”
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Has investing in your dream home become a distant thought? Have your expectations never matched any realty in the industry? The UAE is now home to one of the biggest real estate giants in the region. Metrical Real Estate Developments have created a niche in the market. From conceptualising on-time handover to serving as a paradigm shift, the company is growing massively in progressive and luxurious housing, keeping in line with the community wellbeing and future sustainability.
The boutique developer shot to the limelight after Royal Park, a flagship project, was shortlisted for several awards and with a tag of it being-fully sold before the completion of the project.
Metrical Real Estate Developments has become the first real estate to win seven International Property Awards for outstanding architecture, development and property show homes. The luxurious developer was awarded the Best Residential Development Dubai, Best Residential Property Dubai, Best Architecture Single Residence Dubai, Best Residential Interior Show Home Dubai and Best Architecture Multiple Residence Dubai. Furthermore, it went on to win international awards for Best Residential Interior Show Home Arabia and Best Architecture Multiple Residence Arabia.
In the last two years, the company has received several and created a niche in the realty market. Royal Park Residence and Haven Residence part of Metrical Real Estate Developments has strengthened its product offerings in line with the consumer shift towards more innovation and luxurious living.
Metrical Developments, ended the year 2021 on a high after receiving recognition by the Dubai Land Developments – top 10 projects in the region for Speed of Construction for their flagship project Royal Park in November 2021. Another jewel to the crown was The Haven Residence, which was bestowed upon the best apartment/condominium award by the Arabian and African Property Awards for the year 2021.
Metrical Real Estate Developments is highly acclaimed for its sustainable and exemplary business practices, which is the first company to achieve this feat so quickly.
Why Investing in the UAE is profitable?
The UAE is an ever-growing region and has been one of the top destinations for tourism, real estate, agritech, technology, trading and hospitality, thus making this a melting pot of cultures and an exchange of ideas for the future of mankind. Investment in an ever-growing country should ideally be an investor’s dream destination. With its world-famous skyline and premium property on offer, Dubai has been ranked as the city with the best infrastructure and quality of living in the Middle East. The country is open to 100% business ownership. Investing in the UAE is open to all nationalities that lobby’s well for trading and more liquid asset availability. A good real estate investment could offer a high return of about 10 per cent. The Real Estate sector is ever-growing and opportunities for growth are plenty within the country.
To understand one such growing sector, let’s have a look at value for money locations in the Emirate.
Metrical Real Estate Developments have excelled in building a home from the heart.
Royal Park Jumeirah Park- Creating a niche in the market for luxurious living, this community is a high-end luxury-oriented residential community at Jumeirah Park in Dubai that primarily features three and four-bedroom properties with modern facilities.
The Haven Residences Jumeirah Village Circle- If you fancy the European art of living, then this residence boasts of all things quality. Located in Jumeriah Village Circle, the residence is at equidistance from the quiet and the hustle and bustle of the city life. It houses studio, 1 bedroom apartments and even two-bedroom apartments with all the essential facilities, swimming pool, gym and swimming kids’ area.
The Royal Park South Jumeirah Village Circle- Royal Park South Villas by Metrical Developments at Jumeirah Village Circle in Dubai primarily features 4 Bedroom properties with modern facilities. These villas are a definition of style and status quotient.
The Ivy Jumeirah Village Triangle- If the Dubai skyline attracts you, Ivy is a perfect blend of everything your home could offer, technologically advanced spaces, securely crafted homes and a perfect view of Dubai for socio satisfaction. The completion is targeted at May 2024, The IVY is expected to house up to 223 units ranging from Studio, 1 bedroom with normal & high raised ceiling.
Metrical Real Estate Developments are here to stay and wish all their residents a happy new year, looking forward to a brighter tomorrow with great news – April 2022, the giants are organizing an open house for rentals to all their tenants and well-wishers who are keen on investing in the property and calling it home.
For more such details visit https://www.metricaldevelopments.com/
‘It’s time we make your dream a reality’- Metrical Real Estate Developments
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Dell OptiPlex 7080 SFF
The Dell OptiPlex 7080 SFF (small form factor) has a small but powerful design to keep your business efficient and run. The best thing about a small form factor personal computer is that you can easily place it anywhere you want without an issue. In addition, it does not take any space and can easily be hidden anywhere.
You have the option of purchasing the Dell OptiPlex 7080 SFF (small form factor) with either Ubuntu or Windows 10 pro. Do note that the windows ten pro models are eligible for a free upgrade to Windows 11. The RAM on the system is 8GB out of the box. IRIX gives you the option of upgrading the RAM up to 128GB DDR4. You can always count on IRIX to provide you with the best prices for parts and the systems.
Storage on the Dell OptiPlex 7080 SFF
The internal capacity on the OptiPlex 7080 SFF out of the box comes with 1TB (terabyte) of HDD (Hard Disk Drive) at 7200rpm (rate per minute of disk cycling) SATA serial advanced technology attachment.
You have the option of upgrading the internal storage of the Dell OptiPlex 7080 SFF through IRIX. So you can always count on the best prices and premium quality.
The Front Ports of the Dell OptiPlex 7080 SFF
|The front of the OptiPlex 7080 SFF comes with rich ports to keep you productive and free of dongles.|
Here is the list of the full ports on the OptiPlex 7080 SFF
|1||A power button that comes with a light blinker to indicate if it is running or not.|
|2||An optional SD card reader (smart card reader) to transfer files more quickly and efficiently.|
|3||Hard Drive process light. You can easily see if the internal storage of the OptiPlex 3080 SFF is functioning without needing to disassemble the body kit.|
|4||Hard Drive process light. You can easily see if the internal storage of the OptiPlex 3080 SFF is functioning without needing to disassemble the body kit.|
|5||Audio Jack port that supports audio in and out.|
|Wait, there is more!|
|6||USB 2.0 type A port that will enable you to share data and information. Dell even makes it easier to use a feature such as power delivery which lets you charge and transmit data more efficiently.|
|7||Additional usb 2.0 port that also enables you to transfer files and charge your devices.|
|8||The long-awaited USB 3.2 generation 2 type C port to get things done in a matter of seconds. Charge it and transfer it on time.|
|9||Additional USB 3.2 generation 2 type A port in case having one usb type C port is not enough.|
|10||The old and the bold optical disk drive that we can’t all let go of. The OptiPlex 7080 SFF keeps up with the tradition by keeping it.|
The Back Ports of the Dell OptiPlex 7080 SFF
|1||There is an additional audio port on the back of the dell OptiPlex 7080 SFF if having one port on the front is not enough for you.|
|2||Two Display 1.4 ports enable you to connect to an ultimate high definition monitor to allow you to get crisp and delicate images and videos for your viewing pleasure.|
|3||You can connect a VGA cable if you don’t have the HDMI-ready monitors readily available (psst! you can purchase one here).|
|4||Don’t have a keyboard that supports a USB port? No worries, the system also comes with a PS/2 port, so you can hook that old grandpa cable and call it a day.|
|5||Backport also has the option of a USB 3.2 Generation 2 Type-A port.|
More Ports on the back!
|6||You can also enjoy other USB 2.0 ports with power-on feature support.|
|7||Want to plug in a graphics card, faster storage devices, Wi-Fi cards, and other useful hardware? Worry no more; there is a PCIe Generation 3 port.|
|8||A standard PC power cable|
|9||A blinking light to indicate if the system is powered on and working|
|10||An optional padlock loop to protect your data and files.|
|11||Antenna module slot in order to connect WIFI antennas and other connectivity connectors|
Wait it doesn’t end here!
|12||Ethernet port (RJ-45) for faster internet speeds up to 10/100/1000 Mbps|
|13||Additional three USB 3.2 generation 1 type A ports if you don’t have enough space for hardware.|
|14||Kingston security cable slot in order to keep your data locked and private.|
|15||Another boomer port to keep you more connected in the old fashion way. Connect an old classic mouse that you have lying around with the PS/2 slot port.|
|16||Here are optional ports you can enjoy VGA/HDMI2.0/DP++1.4/Type-C w/DP-Alt mode.|
|17||The release latch for you to get inside of the system easily.|
OptiPlex 7080 SFF Specifications
|Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-10500 (6 Cores/12MB/12T/3.1GHz to 4.5GHz/65W)|
|Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-10700 (8 Cores/16MB/16T/2.9GHz to 4.8GHz/65W)|
|RAM||8GB (1x8GB) DDR4 non-ECC Memory (out of the box)|
|Internal Storage||3.5″ 1TB 7200rpm SATA Hard Disk Drive (out of the box)|
|OS||Windows 10 Pro 64bit English or
Ubuntu Linux 18.04
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I have been doing video blogs for quite a few years now and a while back it occurred to me that some of the videos I’ve previously posted focus on timeless topics that deserve to be revisited and not buried way back in the video blog archive. For this reason, I decided to occasionally feature a “classic” video blog from my blog archive and today I am sharing the fourth one–”Networking Faux Pas: Not Following Up”
In this video, I talk about the faux pas which I see happen most out of all the faux pas which can possibly occur in the world of networking. It also happens to be the faux pas which frustrates me the most (Seriously–it drives me crazy!)–it’s when you give a networking partner a referral and they drop the ball and don’t follow up on it.
Remember, if you aren’t following up when your referral partners call you and/or aren’t following up on the referrals you’re given, you’re not just losing business . . . you’re also losing your credibility and that’s something which is extremely difficult to earn back. So, for those of us in parts of the world who are currently starting a brand new year, why not make a vow right now to make following up our number one networking priority this year? I guarantee it will pay off in big ways.
Have you had an experience where you gave a referral to someone and they didn’t follow up on it? If so, will you continue to give that person referrals? Or, have you dropped the ball on following up on a referral before? If the answer is yes, did you learn a lesson from it? Please share your experiences in the comment forum below. Thanks!
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I have a rule for my work desk. A couple of items only. The ones that really need to be there. The important stuff. Ones that make a difference and is useful. Especially since I practice minimalism (as much as a tech enthusiast can), whenever there is one too many things that begin to pile up on the table, I tend to go a little crazy and maniacally think about the things that really ought to be there. To make space. To make space for the important things. Better yet, to make space for nothing. Leave it empty. Because “nothing” is good. It’s plain. It simplifies things. It removes the clutter and the noise.
The same goes with the to-do lists. There’s always a bunch of things on it regardless of how important they actually are. Sometimes we fill it in just so it doesn’t feel empty. Just so we can show people that we have things going on, just as we pile things on the desk to show people we own things. But having things on it doesn’t necessarily make it better. Instead, I would argue exactly the opposite. Make space for the important things when they come by. Or make space for nothing. Because sometimes “nothing” is good.
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I recently witnessed a field of fireflies flashing their lights; it was a most beautiful site. It looked like chaos, but if you know anything about fireflies you know that their blinking lights are their way of attracting mates. As the fireflies glide through the air they are sending a very clear signal to anyone who is willing to listen. They are saying, “Hey, I’m friendly, why not come hangout with me.” The problem with this is that when there are several thousand blinking lights in one field, all trying to get your attention, how do you choose which one to follow? And once you choose one, how do you focus on that one when there are so many other just as beautiful lights to distract you. It becomes easy to give up and just admire them all from afar, never allowing yourself to know the joy you might have had from following just one of them and seeing where that little light may have led you.
Many people, and in fact I think most people, choose to admire the fireflies from afar. Choosing to admire them from afar does produce a sense of joy and excitement, it creates a moment when they stop and look and admire. They may even convince some of the people around them to do the same thing by pointing out the site of thousands of little lights dancing through the air. But after only a few moments they will all return to whatever they had been doing and soon forget about the fireflies.
Some people stay longer and attempt to follow the same little light as it navigates the sea of flashing beauty, but they will inevitably lose track of that little light and most likely tire of guessing where the lights will appear and move on to seemingly more exciting things, eventually forgetting about the fireflies until the next time their paths cross.
Others choose to capture one of the fireflies and take it home to care for it, hoping that they can keep the light going forever. This tactic typically ends with the death of the firefly because its captor will likely forget about it and forget to feed it or give it air. The firefly was meant to use its light to bring joy and friendships to others, not be a captive in a little jar for one person’s amusement.
Some people, although admittedly very few, go amongst the fireflies. They do not do this in order to capture them, but to experience them up close. When a person goes into the field, amongst the fireflies it becomes easier to choose one to follow. The onlooker can not only see their chosen firefly when it is lit up, but also in the darkness, because it is right in front of them and it’s pure beauty is the focus of their attention. That firefly may lead that person through a field of brambles or it may lead them through a patch of wild flowers, but because the blinking light is so encapsulating the person will not care, they are simply focused on not losing site of that little light and the joy it is bringing them.
Discerning a relationship with God or which path God wishes a person to follow, is much like looking at a field of fireflies. There are potentially thousands of paths, but how does a person know which one is right? You could view God from afar, and simply admire the beauty of creation. You could choose which path to follow, but how will you remain focused on that path and not lose sight of it? You could keep God in a box on your shelf, but He will likely die, just like the firefly. Or you could go out into creation, with God at your side, and see where He takes you.
There are no definitive answers when it comes to understanding what God is calling you to do and because of this I think that many people choose to distantly admire God. They may go to church every week, participate in the liturgy because that is what they have been socialized to do, but in actuality may feel and perhaps even believe nothing. This particular kind of participation may create a sense of joy and excitement in the short term, but by the time you return home those feelings will have most likely dissipated and you will return to your normal, godless routine. I myself have chosen this path at certain times in my life. I have gone to church because that is what I did; it had no meaning beyond being something that I did. I was a distant admirer and nothing more.
Some people choose to focus their attention on one aspect of God. Over time I became this person. My focus was on worshipping through ritual. I sang in the choir and I served at the altar almost weekly and through that I thought that I had found God and that I understood what it is to be a Christian. However, over a long period of time, it became apparent that I had lost sight of God and strayed from the path, if I had ever been on it in the first place. I got bored and was not interested in looking for the path anymore, so I stopped looking and returned to being a distant admirer.
Some people choose to call upon God when it is convenient or when they need something. They think that they can keep God locked up in a jar and on their shelf and when they need a favor they can take Him down, open the jar and He will fix everything. In a way it is like treating God as a genie. He lives in the lamp and is at your beck and call, but if you don’t need him you can just forget about him. I am also guilty of viewing God in this way. When I was a distant admirer I only prayed, if I ever did pray, when I wanted something.
Some people attempt to walk with God in the world and follow the path that they think he was putting before them. I did this for several years. I began to become disillusioned with focusing my attention on ritual, I realized that it was not enough and that it was not a real relationship with God. I thought that I was heading down a path with God, but when I got to the garden gate I was too afraid to open it, what I now know is that I was allowing the ritual of going to church and doing all of things I had always done fool me into thinking that I was walking with God in creation. While he may have been with me, I was not listening. Now I am left in a state of emptiness. The things that used to fill me with joy that I associated with God no longer fill that void, but I do not know how to find God. I do not know how to stand amongst the fireflies and focus on the one little light that will lead me in the right direction.
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Beacon® White Impatiens
Impatiens walleriana 'PAS1357832'
Beacon® White Impatiens flowers
(Photo courtesy of NetPS Plant Finder)
Height: 15 inches
Spacing: 8 inches
Hardiness Zone: (annual)
Other Names: Busy Lizzie, Busy Lizzy
Group/Class: Beacon Series
Brand: PanAmerican Seed
This series features impressive, high quality blooms on vigorous plants that have a high degree of disease resistance; pure white flowers on upright, mounded plants; perfect for shaded beds, borders, and patio containers
Beacon® White Impatiens is covered in stunning white round flowers at the ends of the stems from mid spring to late summer. Its pointy leaves remain green in color throughout the season. The fruit is not ornamentally significant.
Beacon® White Impatiens is a dense herbaceous annual with a mounded form. Its medium texture blends into the garden, but can always be balanced by a couple of finer or coarser plants for an effective composition.
This plant will require occasional maintenance and upkeep, and should not require much pruning, except when necessary, such as to remove dieback. It has no significant negative characteristics.
Beacon® White Impatiens is recommended for the following landscape applications;
- Mass Planting
- Border Edging
- General Garden Use
- Container Planting
- Hanging Baskets
Planting & Growing
Beacon® White Impatiens will grow to be about 15 inches tall at maturity, with a spread of 12 inches. When grown in masses or used as a bedding plant, individual plants should be spaced approximately 8 inches apart. Its foliage tends to remain dense right to the ground, not requiring facer plants in front. This fast-growing annual will normally live for one full growing season, needing replacement the following year.
This plant does best in partial shade to shade. It does best in average to evenly moist conditions, but will not tolerate standing water. It is not particular as to soil type or pH. It is highly tolerant of urban pollution and will even thrive in inner city environments. This is a selected variety of a species not originally from North America. It can be propagated by cuttings; however, as a cultivated variety, be aware that it may be subject to certain restrictions or prohibitions on propagation.
Beacon® White Impatiens is a fine choice for the garden, but it is also a good selection for planting in outdoor containers and hanging baskets. It is often used as a 'filler' in the 'spiller-thriller-filler' container combination, providing a mass of flowers against which the thriller plants stand out. Note that when growing plants in outdoor containers and baskets, they may require more frequent waterings than they would in the yard or garden.
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A press release I received just now:
Black Conservatives Rally to Urge Mike Huckabee to Stay in Presidential Race
Monday, February 4, 2008
National Press Club
529 14th Street NW, DC
(DC) – A broad coalition of black conservatives from across the country are holding a press conference to urge former Governor Mike Huckabee to stay in the presidential race for the Republican nomination until the Convention.
“Governor Huckabee should not be intimidated to stop his bid for the republican nomination,” states Don Scoggins, veteran GOP activist and among other conservatives hosting the press conference. “The momentum of the grassroots that propelled this party into victory is behind Mike and will not stop fighting for him regardless of his bank account,” also states Scoggins, president of Republicans for Black Empowerment, a DC based national grassroots organization.
The concern of the group is the pressure that is mounting by republican talking heads to push governor Huckabee out of the race. The consensus is that Huckabee’s campaign was deliberately sabotaged by Fred Thompson in South Carolina to hone out a two man race between McCain and Romney in Florida. Polls still show Huckabee leading in many southern states, and competitive in others even with limited resources.
“Inside-the-beltway Republicans have lost touch with the increasing seriousness with which heartland conservatives relate to the traditional values agenda,” states Star Parker, a nationally syndicated columnist and conservative activist. “More and more folks are feeling personally assaulted by the meaninglessness that is gripping our culture and believe that Mike Huckabee is the only republican candidate that embodies the moral clarity of the GOP ideals. The groundswell generating support for Huckabee’s candidacy understand that moral and economic health go hand in hand and should not be underestimated.”
Numerous African American conservatives, many also veteran Republican Party activists, are scheduled to speak at the one hour press conference.
When: Monday, February 4, 2008 – 9:45 AM
Where: National Press Club (Murrow Room)
Who: Black Conservatives for Mike Huckabee
Talk about the Lone Rangers; already black and Republican but too conservative for their own party. I’m not making fun of them. Really. I’m just figuring they must be frustrated as hell.
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Amid cheers, elation and applause, the Indonesian House of Representatives passed a new immigration law on Thursday that introduced sweeping changes for foreign spouses and children of mixed marriages.
Fahri Hamzah, deputy chairman of House Commission III overseeing legal affairs, spoke of a “breakthrough” as the gavel was banged passing the bill.
House Deputy Speaker Priyo Budi Santoso called the new law “monumental,” while Justice and Human Rights Minister Patrialis Akbar said the law was aimed at taking good care of citizens’ foreign spouses and children.
“We want to give protection to Indonesian citizens and their foreign relatives,” Patrialis said. “They are the children of Indonesia. Their [foreign] wives and husbands are part of our big family.”
The law, among other things, grants permanent residency to foreigners married to Indonesians and to their children, and allows foreign spouses to work in the country without sponsorship.
Patrialis said the law would officially become effective when ratified by the president — “30 days at the latest.”
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Juba, December 17, 2019 (SSNA) — The meeting between South Sudan’s rival leaders President Salva Kiir and the main opposition leader Dr. Riek Machar has ended without a resolution, a senior official of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-In Opposition (SPLM-IO) who was a part of the armed opposition delegation and who asked for anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to the media told the South Sudan News Agency (SSNA) today.
The official explains that Kiir and Machar discussed a lot of peace-related issues but failed to reach a deal.
“Salva wants unity government formed by February 15 next year when the 100-day time they agreed on last month in Uganda ended,” says the SPLM-IO official.
“Dr. Machar and President Kiir did not agree to form a government in February. Kiir wants a government to be formed by the end of the 100 days while he doesn’t want to resolve the issue of the number of States and boundaries including security arrangements,” the official explains.
It appears the President and the SPLM-IO leader are not on the same page.
“We agreed that after 100 days, we have to form the government. If there are things that are not done, we will work on them so that they are implemented,” Kiir said at a news conference after the meeting.
On his part, the opposition leader echoes his party’s views on the talks.
“We have talked about the number of states and boundaries but we didn’t reach a deal on the states,” Dr. Machar asserted.
The South Sudan News Agency was also told by the same source that the two leaders will conduct another face-to-face meeting. The official, however, did not specify when the meeting will take place.
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11 January 2019
Commenting on the Gatwick Master Plan 2018 consultation, which closed yesterday, Cllr Jonathan Essex said that the master plan makes three misleading claims about its climate impact, and underestimates the carbon emissions which would be caused by a proposed second runway - by 55 times.
"By excluding the carbon emissions of flights (only take-offs and landings are counted) and surface access for passengers and freight, the airport underestimates carbon emissions by some 55 times, compared with calculations completed by the government’s Airports Commission.
“The scale of Gatwick Airport’s massive understatement of its climate impact is scandalous - and this alone should render this consultation null and void.
"In addition, the master plan glosses over the air pollution, noise and other impacts that an additional runway at Gatwick will cause. If we can’t trust Gatwick Airport to be truthful on its biggest impact, do its other claims stack up too?"
Find the full response to the consultation here.
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The kind of home you live in and its special requirements regarding basement flooding will help determine what type of sump pump you should get. Two types are used in most homes; one is called a submersible pump, and the other is a pedestal pump. As the names suggest, a submersible pump can operate under the water while a pedestal pump is positioned out of the water. The size of the basin or sump pit in your basement is another factor that helps to determine which type of pump is best. Your Ross Plumbing technician will help you decide during the initial visit.
Does My Sump Pump Need Repairs?
The risk of basement flooding is what prompts homeowners to get a sump pump, but a broken pump is no better than having none at all. The pump uses electricity to operate, so any issues with your electric panel could cause the pump not to work. The pump itself can get clogged and congested with leaves and debris during use, so keeping it clean is crucial. Any loud noises during operation or unusual odors should be addressed, as should cycling on and off without warning. The key is to have it in good working order for the next big storm, which could hit at any time.
Regular Maintenance is Key
The best way to ensure your sump pump is ready for action at all times is to have periodic maintenance performed when it seems to be working well. By having a technician look it over and make any minor repairs or adjustments, you will be able to have peace of mind, knowing it won’t fail you when you need it most. If you have a sump pump, schedule maintenance at least once during the year, and your pump will run better and last longer.
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Come back, come back! Tell me what you think of these '40s PJs. May 5, 2010 07:01
Oh, wrenching pain in my heart. My stats have been tumbling. You don't love me anymore. Therefore . . . sigh . . . I have forced myself from my bed to post. Sure, it's difficult. Sure, I have to keep my wounded arm as close to my side as possible while I type. But. . . . Sob. Sniffle. Pass the Puffs, please. . . . Where was I? Oh, yes. But. I can't lose you, my dear readers. I must try to win you back.
So, while spending this last week in His Bertness's jammies, I have spent some time thinking about what I would wear in a perfect world. Never mind that in a perfect world I wouldn't sever my labrum. In a perfect world my shoulder would be perfect. Perfect! My labrum would be strong. Invincible.
But back to my point . . . please bear with me, beloved readers, the Percocet is causing my mind to drift here and there like a puppy on a leash for the first time . . . in that mythical perfect world, I would wear View B from Butterick 3306. The button-front design allows easy access to protect my shoulder. And the stitching is so very attractive. I think I'd like an alternate version lengthened a bit as a nightdress.
Oh. What's that sound? It's my bed calling. And a Bernie Rhodenbarr book. So, dear readers, I'll say ta ta for now. Don't desert me. Please. Think of me. Suffering. No yoga. No Pilates. Where are those Puffs?
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I had a review of Alfred Hitchcock’s Stage Fright scheduled for today, but after hearing the news of Roger Ebert’s passing last night, I knew I had to pay tribute to him. Before starting this blog and discovering all of your wonderful blogs to add to my weekly reading list, the only reviewer I read on a regular basis was Roger Ebert.
He was an inspiration to me, and it was reading his reviews that planted the seed of entertainment writing in my brain. He inspired me to start writing reviews of my own for the school newspaper when I was in high school. When I got to college and realized there was no room for a reviewer at the campus publication, I started writing an entertainment column called “The Limelight” for a now-defunct local news website. A while after that website closed up shop, I started this blog. TMP would not exist without the influence that Ebert’s writing had on me.
Ebert was an inspiration to many people during his nearly fifty years as a Chicago Sun-Times staffer. April 1, 2013 was the 46th anniversary of Ebert becoming the paper’s film critic. He also published books, appeared on television, won a Pulitzer (the first win for a film critic) and got his very own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. His mix of wit and contemplative analysis in each review made him an absolute delight to read, even if you disagreed with his opinion on a particular film. He was a wonderful man with an enormous passion for movies, and he will be greatly missed.
“Many readers have informed me that it is a tragic and dreary business to go into death without faith. I don’t feel that way. ‘Faith’ is neutral. All depends on what is believed in. I have no desire to live forever. The concept frightens me. I am 69, have had cancer, will die sooner than most of those reading this. That is in the nature of things. In my plans for life after death, I say, again with Whitman:
I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love,
If you want me again look for me under your boot-soles.”
-Roger Ebert, “Life Itself: A Memoir”
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For some reason, last week every time I went to the market, I thought I needed more eggs, leaving me with 3 dozen eggs sitting in my fridge, taking up space. Annoying. But sometimes a silly mistake like that is all it takes for a recipe to be born. This is my take on what the Spaniards call a tortilla and the Italians call a frittata. Call it what you like. It was delicious.
The one tricky part to this recipe is the whole flipping nonsense which cooks the top of the tortilla. But fear not. If you just don’t have it in you to attempt this daring feat, you can always stick the pan under the broiler for a couple minutes to finish cooking the top layer. Just make sure you use an oven-proof frying pan if you choose to go that route.
This dish is equally at home on the breakfast table, as part of a fancy brunch spread or even for family night dinner (accompanied by a fresh green salad preferably). It really is anytime food.
1/4 cup olive oil
1 pound baby white potatoes, halved or quartered depending on size
1 small yellow onion, finely chopped
3 ears corn, kernals cut from cobs
Pinch of dried oregano
Salt and freshly cracked black pepper to taste
6 large eggs
Salsa, to serve
- In a medium frying pan, heat the oil over low heat. Add the potato and onion and stir to coat. Cover and cook for 10 to 12 minutes, until potatoes are cooked through, stirring once or twice. When the potatoes and onions are almost softened, add the corn and oregano and stir to coat. Cover until corn is tender. Season with salt and pepper.
- Remove from the heat and, using a slotted spoon, transfer the vegetables to a colander in the sink to drain excess oil.
- Meanwhile, in a large bowl, using a fork, break up the egg yolks. Add the cooked and drained vegetables to the eggs and stir vigorously to incorporate. Season again with salt and pepper.
- Place the same frying pan back over medium-low heat. Pour the egg mixture in and, using a fork, push the edges of the batter into the center, letting the liquidy center drain toward the edges. Then, reduce the heat to low and leave it alone to cook for 8 to 10 minutes, until the bottom is set and the top is still slightly wet. Take a dinner plate and place it upside down on top of the pan. Gently flip the pan over so that the tortilla falls onto the plate. Then, slide the tortilla back into the pan, this time with the wet top facing down. Return to the heat to set the bottom, 2 to 3 minutes. Remove from the pan, let sit 5 minutes then slice up to serve warm or at room temperature with dollops of tomato salsa on top.
Nutritional analysis based on 6 servings (does not include salt and pepper to taste or salsa to serve):
Calories 237, Fat 14g, Sodium 76mg, Carbohydrate 21g, Fiber 3g, Sugar 2g, Protein 9g
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Lagos APPEALS project targets 1,465 businesses (DailyTrust)
The Lagos State government will spend over N1.2b on farmers under the Agro-Processing, Productivity Enhancement and Livelihood Improvement Support (APPEALS) project for the 2021 project year, it has been revealed.
The APPEALS project is a comprehensive six-year World Bank Assisted project aimed at supporting farmers’ productivity and their linkage to markets.
Besides no fewer than 1,465 businesses under the Women and Youth Empowerment Programme (WYEP) would be created in 2021.
So far the project has supported 10,917 farmers surpassing the target of 10,000 for the project with over N912.9m spent on various projects under the three identified value chains of rice, aquaculture and poultry. Read more
LASG issues immediate stop on land extension, reclamation on Banana Island, Osborne Foreshore (Guardian)
The Lagos State Government has issued an order for the immediate suspension of all approvals of land extensions into the lagoon at the Banana Island and Osborne Foreshore axis of Ikoyi, Lagos.
The government also said all construction and dredging activities on the axis must stop, as erring firms stood the risk of prosecution and losing their equipment.
The suspension order is contained in a statement by Mr Mukaila Sanusi, Assistant Director, Public Affairs, Ministry of Physical Planning and Urban Development and issued to newsmen on Sunday.
He said the order was in a joint declaration of the ministry and that of the Waterfront Infrastructure Development.
“Government hereby suspends all existing, pending and subsequent approvals in respect of all land extensions into the lagoon at the Banana Island and Osborne Foreshore, Ikoyi. Read more
Ensure free-flow of traffic in lagos metropolis – Traffic Mayor Commandant (Independent)
Lagos- In its bid towards ensuring free flow of traffic in Lagos and its environs, the Lagos State Special Traffic Mayor Commandant, Othman Adesina, has enjoined all Special Traffic Mayors to focus on their primary responsibility across Lagos and environs by ensuring and concentrating on free flow of traffic across the metropolis in tandem with the present administration of Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu’s THEMES Agenda.
Adesina gave the charge at the weekend during the induction and inauguration of the new Special Traffic Mayor Corps, Abule – Egba Command, which was held at Silver Club, Iyana Ipaja – Agege, Lagos.
The commandant maintained that rather than allowing the enforcement of the law to generate traffic gridlock on the highways, they should instead allow the traffic offenders to go so as not to defeat the purpose for which the agency was established. Read more
PDP members, others to join APC in Lagos (Guardian)
The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Lagos says some members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and others have indicated interest to join the party in the ongoing membership registration and revalidation.
Alhaji Tunde Balogun, Lagos APC Caretaker Chairman, disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos.
Balogun said the APC was prepared to register all members of opposition parties who had shown willingness to join it.
“Our doors are open to all members of political parties who want to join us. We expect some PDP members, who really are willing to join us in developing Lagos to do so.
“Many of them have been showing interest and we are prepared to register them from the PDP to the AA and others. We are happy to accept them into the progressives,” Balogun said. Read more
Anxiety as Dubai declares Nigerians must travel directly from Nigeria effective Monday (Tribune)
This may not be the best of times for Nigeria and its citizens around the world as the latest information reaching Tribune Online has indicated that the Dubai authorities have tactically banned airlines from carrying Nigerian passengers into the United Arab Emirates effective from Monday, 1st February, 2020.
According to a circular which emanated from the Dubai Airport Operations Control Center, titled ‘Dubai Travel Protocol Update -Travel From Nigeria’ and dated, Friday, January 29, 2021, the Dubai authorities had declared:”Kindly be advised that effective from 01 February 2021, the following conditions must be met for travel from Nigeria.
“Departing from Nigeria to Dubai, all passengers are required to obtain a negative COVID-19 certificate. The PCR should be conducted within 72 hours of the date of departure.
“All passengers are required to conduct a rapid COVID-19 test and obtain a negative result within four hours of their departure time. Read more
Why Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine is delayed – FG (Vanguard)
Nigeria says the first batch of 100,000 doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine against COVID-19 is delayed because of “politics and logistics due to no fault of Nigeria.”
The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, who disclosed this in Abuja on Sunday, said the issue of vaccine was a serious one to government which had put every needed infrastructure in place for its storage.
Speaking with Newsmen the minister said: “The fact that these vaccines will now come in February is not due to Nigeria’s fault.
“We are very ready to receive the 100,00 doses and we have the infrastructure, even when it is going to be preserved at about -70 Degree Celsius,’’ he said. Read more
7 arrested for abduction, sexual abuse, child pornography (Nation)
The police have arrested five members of a kidnap for ransom gang, which specialises in the abduction of women and girl children, sexually abusing them and obtaining ransom from their families before their release.
Two other persons were also arrested for child pornography.
Investigations revealed the suspects are members of a trans-border/international child porn syndicate, which sexual abuse and take undue advantage of underage girls and disseminate the video recordings of the illicit sexual act on an international social media Whatsapp group chat known as “Pervertidos” owned and managed by a Brazilian called Adriana.
Force Public Relations Officer, CP Frank Mba, disclosed these in a statement on Sunday. Read more
FG to transport petroleum products by rail system (DailyTrust)
Operation Controller, Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR), Benin field office, Ebi Ogiowo, has said that the federal government is considering transportation of petroleum products to various part of the country through the rail system.
Ogiowo said this at the weekend while speaking with journalists on the sideline of the 2020 annual meeting with petroleum products and gas marketers in Edo and Delta states organised by DPR.
New service chiefs arrive Maiduguri to tackle insurgency
Zulum appoints new Shehu of Dikwa
“Like you know, oil and gas industry in Nigeria is more than 50 years and some of the pipelines are equally that old, while some of them are not functional,”
According to him, there are depots in some eastern and northern states of the country that are not functional because the integrity of the pipelines had been compromised. Read more
Minister commissions 50MT yam storage facility in Nasarawa (Tribune)
The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Alhaji Muhammad Sabo Nanono has commissioned the yam storage facility at the faculty of Agriculture, Nasarawa State University, Keffi-Shabu- Lafia.
The yam storage facility would store 45–50 Metric tonnes of Yam seed and is estimated to cover 16 hectares of land when planted.
Speaking during the Commissioning Ceremony over the weekend, Alhaji Sabo Nanono noted that the huge output of using clean seed yam will boost production, increase earnings of yam farmers and enhance the export of yam from Nasarawa state.
The Minister said the location of the facility inside the university will immensely add value in teaching, research and income generation for the farmers in the State, adding that the facility will generate about 200 jobs to the value chain. Read more
India’s Modi lashes out at protesting farmers (DW)
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has slammed farmers protesting his government’s agriculture reforms. This week’s demonstrations turned violent after farmers broke into the historic Red Fort and clashed with police.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his Sunday radio address criticized protesters that stormed Delhi’s historic Red Fort on the country’s Republic Day.
Tens of thousands of farmers have camped on the outskirts of the capital Delhi for more than two months, demanding a repeal of new agricultural laws that they say benefit private corporations.
“The country was saddened by the insult to the Tricolor (Indian flag) on the 26th of January in Delhi,” Modi said in his first public comments on a monthslong farmers’ agitation. Read more
Mass orgy with 100 people raided by police as 3 arrested (Metro)
Police have raided a mass orgy with 100 people at a warehouse in France. The event was interrupted at around 9pm in the Paris suburb of Collegien – three hours after France’s 6pm coronavirus curfew. A group of three people, believed to be the organisers, were arrested and up to 100 people were fined for flouting restrictions. Officers also confiscated sound and lighting equipment and alcohol after local magistrates sitting in on an emergency session authorised this action. Read more
92-year-old woman and son found dead in luxury NYC apartment (NYPost)
A 92-year-old woman and her 64-year-old son were found dead in a luxury apartment in Chelsea on Saturday afternoon, police sources said.
Cops went to 535 W. 23rd St. to check on the apartment at around 3 p.m. after the woman’s daughter reported she couldn’t get a hold of anyone inside, police sources told The Post.
When cops entered the apartment, they found the mother and son dead in separate bedrooms. Sources said they don’t believe the deaths were the result of foul play.
“We’re just here to be on the safe side,” one source said. “We think they were sick.”
The mother appeared to have died before her son, who had been dead for several days, the sources said. Read more
Iran’s Zarif calls for ‘inclusive government’ in Taliban talks (AlJazeera)
Iran will only support an “inclusive” government in neighbouring Afghanistan, Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif told a top Taliban delegation.
In a Sunday meeting with the group led by senior Taliban figure Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, Iran’s top diplomat emphasised a multilateral approach while offering to facilitate talks between the Taliban and the Afghan government and cautioning reliance on the United States.
“Political decisions can’t occur in a vacuum. Forming an all-inclusive government must be done in a participatory process that considers structures, entities and fundamental rules like the constitution,” a foreign ministry statement said. Read more
Millions of COVID-19 survivors have lost the sense of smell and taste (USAToday)
Edelmira Rivera was lying on her bed with her husband and 16-month-old son selecting a movie when she heard a loud bang outside their home in Waco, Texas.
Then her sister screamed, “Fire!”
“I dropped everything and just grabbed my son and his blanket,” said Rivera, 22. “I could not smell anything. I was so shocked to see the fire at the front door.”
Rivera tested positive for COVID-19 and lost her sense of smell on Jan. 14. Early the next morning, a fire broke out on the other side of her bedroom wall, less than a foot from where she was lying. But Rivera couldn’t smell it, nor could the family of four who was staying with them. Read more
Coronavirus: Germany open to Chinese and Russian vaccines amid delays (DW)
Health Minister Jens Spahn says there is no obstacle to the use of the Sputnik V and Sinopharm vaccines if they receive EU approval. Chancellor Angela Merkel is due to hold a summit Monday to overcome a vaccine shortage.
Germany’s Federal Health Minister Jens Spahn has hinted that coronavirus vaccines from China and Russia could be used in Europe to overcome the current deficit of doses.
“Regardless of the country in which a vaccine is manufactured, if they are safe and effective, they can help cope with the pandemic,” Spahn told the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung newspaper on Sunday, adding that they must be approved by the European Medicines Agency (EMA).
The minister said he sees no fundamental obstacle to the use of Chinese and Russian COVID vaccines. Read more
Elon Musk’s SpaceX reportedly violated terms of FAA license (NYPost)
Elon Musk’s SpaceX rocket crashed and burned trying to come down from its first high-altitude flight — and now the billionaire is in hot water with the federal government for violating the terms of his test license, The Verge reported.
The Federal Aviation Administration launched an investigation shortly after the Dec. 9 launch of the Starship spacecraft, focusing on both the disastrous landing and SpaceX’s compliance with the license terms, two people familiar with the matter told Verge. They didn’t specify what terms were violated.
An FAA spokesperson refused to tell The Post whether SpaceX had violated the license terms, but stressed the agency will evaluate Musk’s application to modify his launch license but won’t act if the modification compromised public safety. Read more
Eze seals victory for Crystal Palace against Wolves (Nation)
Crystal Palace got back to winning ways against Wolves thanks to Eberechi Eze’s second-half strike.
The summer signing struck for the third time since his move from QPR to lift spirits at the club after a run of one win in 10 matches across all competitions.
It was also Palace’s first triumph over Wolves in five attempts and increased the woes of Nuno Espirito Santo, who has not seen his players taste success in the Premier League for six weeks with this another toothless showing.
In wet and windy conditions at Selhurst Park, the long wait for an effort on target ended in the 56th minute when new Wolves signing Willian Jose tested Vicente Guaita in the home goal with a fine strike on the turn following’s Daniel Podence’s cross. Read more
Tuchel claims first win as Chelsea boss (BBC)
Emphatic finishes from Cesar Azpilicueta and Marcos Alonso gave Thomas Tuchel his first victory as Chelsea head coach against a below-par Burnley.
Captain Azpilicueta – the longest-serving player in the team – drilled Callum Hudson-Odoi’s lay-off high past Nick Pope just before half-time in the Premier League encounter at Stamford Bridge.
Azpilicueta’s fellow Spanish defender Alonso added a classy second late on, skilfully controlling a Christian Pulisic cross before lashing a volley over Pope at his near post.
The impressive Hudson-Odoi was unlucky not to score in between with a shot that was deflected on to a post by Burnley defender Erik Pieters.
Chelsea comfortably registered a second successive clean sheet under Tuchel, whose first game was the midweek goalless draw with Wolves, as Burnley did not manage a shot on target. Read more
Daytona 500 to host largest sporting event in US since COVID-19 hit (USAToday)
Daytona International Speedway President Chip Wile said Saturday he expects around 30,000 fans at next month’s Daytona 500.
“It’s going to be the largest sporting event that happens in the United States since COVID hit,” Wile said.
The Speedway announced in December that the number of fans allowed to attend the Daytona 500 would be limited because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
While the Speedway, which holds 101,500 spectators, doesn’t announce attendance numbers, there were an estimated 25,000 fans at last August’s Coke Zero Sugar 400. Read more
Barcelona to sue over claims Messi contract worth 555 million euros (Guardian)
Barcelona will take legal action against the Spanish newspaper El Mundo after it published details on Sunday of Lionel Messi’s current contract, which it says is worth up to 555 million euros ($674 million) over four years.
Barca responded by also insisting they were not responsible for the leak, although the club did not deny the details of the report.
El Mundo say the deal signed by Messi in 2017 is the “largest in the history of sport” and called it the “colossal contract that ruins Barcelona”.
The 33-year-old could end up collecting a maximum of 555,237,619 euros before it expires on June 30 this year, if all conditions were met. Read more
Damian Lillard stars as Portland Trail Blazers beat Chicago Bulls (BBC)
Damian Lillard hit two late three-pointers, including one on the buzzer, to give the Portland Trail Blazers a 123-122 NBA win over the Chicago Bulls.
Lillard finished with a game-high 44 points, including eight three-pointers.
One of those, with 8.9 seconds left, put the Trail Blazers within two points of the hosts.
And after Portland won a jump ball, it came to Lillard, whose shot went over the outstretched arms of Bulls forward Lauri Markkanen to seal victory.
Enes Kanter scored 22 points and took 11 rebounds for Portland, who lost to the Bulls earlier in the season. Read more
Most Australian Open participants clear quarantine (NewTelegraph)
The Australian Open quarantine facilities are still holding 15 people, including one player and two others who tested positive for COVID-19 earlier in their lockdown, Melbourne health authorities said on Sunday.
The vast majority of the more than 1,000 players and their entourages undergoing 14 days of isolation in Melbourne and Adelaide were released by midnight on Saturday and have started preparing for the Grand Slam, reports Reuters.
Spain’s Paula Badosa was the only player to have confirmed that she tested positive for COVID-19 in Melbourne, restarting the clock on her mandatory period of isolation.
Victoria on Sunday reported no local transmission of the virus for the 29th straight day and Australian Open tournament chief Craig Tiley said the priority for his organisation remained the health of the local community.“No one is coming out of quarantine unless it is absolutely proved that they are not incubating the virus,” he said on ABC TV on Sunday. Read more
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Old Town Theater District in Chicago
Since the 1950s, the Old Town neighborhood has been a center for culture and counterculture. From this came a focus on arts and entertainment in the community. Today, Old Town is home to three theaters: A Red Orchid Theatre, The Second City, and Zanies Comedy Club. Each bring its own style of theater and offer Chicago many ways to enjoy the arts.
A Red Orchid Theatre
1531 N Wells Street
In 1993, Michael Shannon, Guy Van Swearingen IV and Lawrence Grimm founded A Red Orchid Theatre, offering powerful and intimate productions by their ensemble of actors. Their ensemble of dedicated artists presents new plays from around the world and revives insightful past works that offer new insight in today’s world.
Their 2019-2020 season will consist of the world premiere of “Grey House” by ensemble member Levi Holloway, the Chicago premiere of “Do You Feel Anger” by Mara Nelson-Greenberg, and the Chicago premiere of “The Moors” by Jen Silverman.
The Second City
1616 N Wells Street
The Second City opened its doors in 1959, ushering in a new era of comedy. Co-founded by Bernie Sahlins, Howard Alk, and Paul Sills, The Second City has became a worldwide comedy empire. The Second City has entertained audiences with live shows featuring Chicago-influenced sketch and improve comedy, and has trained comics on how to develop their voice. Alumni of their programs, like Tina Fey, Bill Murray and Stephen Colbert, have gone on to perform on Saturday Night Live and have illustrious comedy careers.
Zanies Comedy Club
1548 N Wells Street
In 1978, Rick Uchwat opened Zanies Comedy Club in Chicago and today it’s the city’s longest-running comedy club, and fourth-oldest in the nation, with national touring headliners every night. It is known for unique standup in an intimate venue. Stars like Lewis Black, Chris Rock, Dave Chappelle and Kevin Hart have all performed at Zanies.
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Why Has My Mouse Stopped Moving?
There are many reasons as to why your mouse suddenly stops moving. This is one problem where merely shutting down your computer will not work. Here is some reason why this may happen:
- Your mouse may not be appropriately connected to the computer or laptop.
- If using a Bluetooth mouse, your mouse may have lost connectivity or the switch might have turned off.
- You might have pressed the function key which automatically disabled the trackpad without your knowledge.
- The device settings may have been changed.
Your laptop is one of the most used items in your day-to-day lives. Without a mouse, however, it becomes exceptionally impossible to get any work done on your computer. When you notice that your mouse has stopped working, you have to act as soon as possible.
While your mouse not working correctly is a generalized problem, certain issues require different approaches.
I have come up with some simple troubleshooting solutions to most of the mouse problems you will face using your laptop.
How to Fix a Mouse That Suddenly Stopped Working
When you need to fix a mouse that stops working all of a sudden, there are few things you will have to check. The main things to look for are:
- Check for physical causes such as a loose connection or the loss of Bluetooth connectivity.
- Press the Fn key on your keyboard and then press one of the touchpad keys. This should take care of the problem by enabling the trackpad.
- Make changes in the mouse properties by press it on the windows key on your keypad.
- Update the mouse driver in device manager.
- Run the System File Checker scan.
Mouse Cursor Stuck On the Screen
When your cursor freezes, it is one of the most annoying things that can happen. Here’s what you have to do to get it working again:
- Go to Settings: On the settings, check if the trackpad has been disabled, here’s how:
- Click Start, then type ‘mouse’ on the search bar and then select ‘touchpad’ from the list.
- Click on the tab to make sure it is enabled.
- Take help from Drivers: If all the other options feel it is time to take help from the drivers. You will simply have to visit the manufacturer’s website and download the drivers. Then run the setup and install it on your computer.
Mouse Stuck In the Corner of the Screen
This problem is mostly seen in touchscreen laptops. They generally have a touch screen pws driver in the HD compliant driver. This driver is light sensitive and hence reacts to it, and the cursor jumps to the top of the screen.
Here’s how to resolve this:
- Press the Windows key on your keypad.
- Look for the device manager option.
- Select Human Interface Devices.
- Select on the HID-compliant pen option.
- On the top toolbar click on the ‘X’ which will remove the driver.
- Or, you can click on the arrow that is facing downwards to disable this option.
Mouse Stuck In The Middle Of the Screen
In order to fix a mouse stuck on the middle of your screen, you will have to run the System File Checker scan.
This is what you have to do:
- Press on Start and look for MSConfig.
- From the results, click on System Configuration.
- Once this opens, on the service tab, click on Hide all Microsoft services and then click on the Disable all option.
- Then on the Startup tab, you will find a Task Manager option, click on it to open it.
- On each of these tabs click on each item and disable them.
- Again on the Startup tab, click on OK and then restart your laptop or computer.
Mouse Stuck In the Bottom Left Corner Of the Screen
There are many ways this problem may have started, but to get your mouse working again, you will have to follow these steps:
- Visit the control panel and click on the option that says “Hardware and Sound”.
- On this option you will find a “Mouse and Touchpad”, click on that.
- Now select the “Additional mouse options”.
- This will open the windows with Mouse Properties, click on your mouse now.
- Check if your device has been set to the enabled option. Otherwise, select “Enable Device”.
- Exit the screen.
Mouse Stuck In the Bottom Right Corner of the Screen
If you see that your mouse keeps getting stuck in the bottom right corner of your screen, try the following:
- Try a different USB port for your mouse.
- Reboot your computer and see if it helps.
- For a wireless mouse, check, for its battery levels.
- In case of a Bluetooth mouse, connect again with your device.
Mouse Not Moving Windows 10
If your mouse simply does not move even after trying various methods in Windows 10, you will have to try something completely novel.
Here is what you have to do:
- Open the Task Manager by pressing Ctrl+Alt+Del.
- From here, go to the services tab.
- Look for ETD Service, and then you will have to enable it.
- Now simply restart your computer and see if the problem has been fixed.
Why is my Mouse not moving smoothly?
One of the main reasons why the mouse is may start behaving erratically is when it is dirty or not connected properly. Here are a few things you can do to solve this problem:
- Clean your mouse thoroughly and see if the issue is resolved.
- If the optical portion of the mouse is blocked, you will need to clean this part.
- Check whether you have a smooth surface below the mouse.
- In case of a wireless mouse check for connection and whether there are any issues with the battery for connectivity.
- Disconnect and reconnect your mouse to the device.
- If there are other external input devices plugged in, disconnect them.
Mouse Not Moving Between Dual Monitors
The main reason why your mouse may not be moving between dual monitors is that the monitors are not correctly set up to communicate with each other.
This is how you can troubleshoot a mouse not moving between dual monitors:
- Press the Windows key+X on your keypad to open the control panel.
- Click on the Appearance and Personalization option and then select Display.
- Now select the Resolution or Adjust Resolution option that will display your monitors as numbered icons.
- Now click on Identify, which will display the numbers for each monitor. This shows how the operating system has arranged the respective monitors.
- Now drag the monitor icons to match the physical location of the monitors
- Click OK to save the settings.
How to Fix a mouse not moving on MacBook pro
When the mouse stops moving on your MacBook Pro, you need to act on it as soon as possible. Here are some of the things that you can try to get the mouse moving again:
- Free the RAM: This is an advance procedure that you have to follow by following the given steps:
- Press on the command and space key together.
- Double-click on the unresponsive process.
- After this press quit.
- Restart the MacBook.
- Reset SMC.
- Try force quitting apps: This is a relatively simple process. Here’s how you can do it:
- Press on the command, escape and option keys together.
- This will get the job done, and you will simply have to restart your device after this.
Logitech mouse has stopped moving
When you have issues moving your Logitech mouse, you will want to check the warranty for the mouse and see if you can get it exchanged. However, before that, you are a few things you can do:
- Check the USB cable and the USB port for any problems. You can insert a different mouse and see if it is working in the same port.
- Try to clean the mouse and use it on a better surface.
- Restart your computer or laptop to see if the problem has resolved.
While all these solutions to the problems have been tested time and again by various other people, you have to find the one that works for you.
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Welcome to my Brko Banks review. You may know him from his large Youtube channel (112K+ Subscribers), where he talks about affiliate marketing and making money online.
All of his content over there is free to watch, but he does promote two of his courses using his channel, and they cost money. The golden question is, are they worth it, or is Brko Banks a scam?
Let me point out that I’m not affiliated with his courses in any way, so I won’t be offering a thousand low-quality bonus ebooks for joining through my links, because there aren’t any.
This UNBIASED review will show you everything that you can expect to get inside his courses. By the time you’re done here, you will know if they can really help you or not.
Ready? Let’s get started…
Brko Banks Review Summary
Product Names: Easy Affiliate Bucks & Youtube Course
Products Owner: Brko Banks
Products Type: Courses on Making Money Online With Affiliate Marketing & Youtube
Products Price: Easy Affiliate Bucks is $1,200 & Youtube Mastery Course is $236.40
Overall Score: 30/100
Summary: Brko Banks has some great Youtube videos that can show you how to get started as an affiliate marketer, but the headlines are really hyped up.
Most of them start with ”Make Easy $250/Day On Autopilot” or something similar, and there is a good reason for that.
Clickbaity videos are what get’s people’s attention nowadays, and it’s probably one of the main reasons why Brko Banks has so many subscribers.
Nevertheless, his FREE videos have some value to beginners that are interested in learning how to make money online, but his PAID courses are not worth it, in my opinion.
Easy Affiliate Bucks is a basic course that teaches you how to get started as a ClickBank affiliate marketer.
It has value, but most of the things inside can already be found for free online, and paying so much for something like that, is just not my cup of tea.
His Youtube Course may be worth considering, but with enough research, you can find all of the info that’s inside for free on the web too.
Learn affiliate marketing with this cost-effective alternative below.
- Brko Banks Review Summary
- Who is Brko Banks?
- Is Brko Banks and His Courses a Scam?
- What’s Inside Easy Affiliate Bucks? (Review)
- Module One – Introduction
- Module Two – How to Promote Products
- Module Three – Free Methods
- Module Four – Tools
- Module Five – Creating Content
- Module Six – Create the Best Converting Landing Page
- Module Seven – Creating Your First Advertisement (Easy Way)
- Module Eight – Let’s Work Together, Your First Affiliate Marketing Opportunity
- How Much Does Easy Affiliate Bucks Cost?
- Can You Get a Refund on Easy Affiliate Bucks?
- What’s Inside Youtube Mastery? (Review)
- What I Like About Brko Banks and His Courses
- What I Don’t Like About Brko Banks and His Courses
- My Recommendation
Who is Brko Banks?
Brko Banks is a Youtuber with a big following. He started his channel back in 2017 and has learned how to monetize it by offering affiliate links in his description on some videos, and by promoting his paid courses.
By the looks of it, all his videos are with hyped up headlines to attract more viewers, likes, and followers. Many Youtuber implement this tactic to get more viewership. He has a couple of courses that are hosted on teachable and links out to them in his video descriptions
As you can see, Brko Banks has a ton of videos, and all of them promote fast and easy money, which reminds me a lot of the many get rich quick schemes that are out there, like My Commission Bootcamp.
It is possible for people to make money online, but you can’t just copy and paste your way to $250+ a day as a beginner, and anyone telling you otherwise, is just feeding into your inner desire to earn easy cash online.
There is a way to get to a point where you are making a lot, but it takes hard work and dedication. Think about all the overpromising, hyped-up software tools, and programs that you’ve bought, and ask yourself, did any of them actually lived up to the hype?
If you are one of the lucky few, that haven’t experienced this, then save yourself the nuisance, and learn a REAL way of generating income online.
Is Brko Banks and His Courses a Scam?
Brko Banks is not a scam, neither are his courses, but I won’t recommend that you spend your money on them either.
I’m saying this because most of what’s covered inside can already be found for free, and going as far as paying $1,200 for a simple affiliate marketing course is not worth it.
We live in the informational age, where there is an answer to everything, just one search away.
Some people seem to think that expensive equals high quality, but that’s NOT always the case, and Brko Banks’s courses are a live example of that.
What’s Inside Easy Affiliate Bucks? (Review)
Inside Easy Affiliate Bucks you will get access to an affiliate marketing training course that introduces ClickBank.
A platform where product vendors and those interested in promoting them (affiliates) can collaborate.
There’s a ton of different products, and services inside in all sorts of niche markets, so if you want to become a promoter, and earn commissions from that, you can explore the ClickBank marketplace.
Keep in mind that this is not the only marketplace that’s out there. JvZoo, WarriorPlus, and ClickBetter are a few examples of ClickBank’s competitors.
Easy Affiliate Bucks consists of 8 modules. Let’s breakdown each one of them so that you know what they are all about, without having to spend anything.
Module One – Introduction
There are 4 training videos inside. All together they are about 20 minutes long and they cover things like navigating inside the training, where to contact Brko Banks, and more. Let’s start by breaking down the first lesson and go from there:
– Watch Before You Open Course. This is the navigational video, where he explains what you will learn inside Easy Affiliate Bucks.
– Introduction To ClickBank & Affiliate Marketing. This is a five-minute lesson, where you get familiar with the affiliate business model, and how to leverage ClickBank to make money online.
– Signing Up For a ClickBank Account & How to Get Paid. This is pretty self-explanatory. By the time you are done with this lesson, you will know how to set up your CB account and how the process of getting paid from that website looks like.
– Terms & Basics You Need to Know. Here, Brko Banks will discuss all the basic essentials that you need in order to make this business model work for you, and how to follow ClickBank’s guidelines so that you don’t get banned.
Module Two – How to Promote Products
This module is all about showing you how to promote products, and how to choose the right ones. There are 3 lessons inside, with a combined watch time of 41 minutes and 45 seconds. Here’s what get’s covered in module two:
– Analyze The Traffic. Here, you will learn how to identify products from ClickBank that are worth promoting.
This can be done by analyzing them using Alexa and Similar Web. There are specific stats that you need to look for.
They will help you figure out if the affiliate product of your choice has enough traffic (web visitors), and attention.
If it’s not popular enough, you should move on to the next one, until you find something that gets enough traffic.
– How To Promote ClickBank Products. Once you’ve found your winning products, it’s time to start promoting them. This 26-minute video lesson will show you how to do that.
Brko Banks will teach you how to promote your affiliate products using Facebook groups and forum websites, and how to find the right communities that will be interested in what you have to offer.
In other words, you need to pick a niche market and focus on that. If you are promoting gym equipment, for example, it only makes sense to target people that are interested in that.
– Traffic Sources. Apart from forum marketing, you will get familiar with all the other, additional ways that you can get traffic to your offers. There are paid, and ree sources, and you will get to learn about both.
Module Three – Free Methods
This module has three free traffic generation methods inside, with a combined watch time of 59 minutes and 35 seconds.
All of these techniques are focused on leveraging Youtube in different ways, as follows:
– Free Method #1. In this lesson, you will learn how to create video reviews and post them on Youtube, adding your affiliate links in the description.
You are taught to use link shorteners such as bit.ly but that’s not always perceived well by Youtube’s algorithms.
This means that your links can get flagged as being spam, and then removed from your video description.
– Free Method #2. This technique shows you how to slap your affiliate links in the comment section of other Youtube videos.
It’s important to understand that this can also lead to getting flagged down as a spammer, and if you do get a warning from Youtube, and choose to ignore it, you could get banned from commenting.
On top of that, most YouTubers don’t appreciate it when someone is using their videos to promote their own stuff, which means that there is a higher risk of getting your comments manually removed by the video creators.
– Free Method #3. The last tactic that you will be shown is how to do motivational video content, and post relevant affiliate links in your description.
This method is not for those that don’t want to film themselves or have their face seen by a lot of people. There are ways to go around it, but they are usually not as effective.
Module Four – Tools
This is a short, one video lesson that is 6 minutes and 15 seconds long. It’s called ”Tools for Creating Videos” and it introduces you to an expensive video editing software called Camtasia ($249).
There are a ton of other free tools that can be used, but Brko Banks doesn’t even mention them in his training.
Here’s what you need to realize. Camtasia has an affiliate structure in place through TechSmith that offers a 12% commission for each sale that you can generate.
This means that if Brko manages to convince you to pay for that video editing software tool, he will make about $30 bucks give or take.
Module Five – Creating Content
There are two video lessons available here, with a total watch time of 15 minutes and 33 seconds.
The two-part video series is called Example Content, and they cover basic tips for creating video content as a ClickBank affiliate, and that’s about all there is to it.
Module Six – Create the Best Converting Landing Page
Again, this module consists of only two video lessons, with a total watch time of 17 minutes and 21 seconds. There are a lot more things that can be discussed when creating the best converting landing page, and these lessons cover only the basics:
– Hosting & Domain. Learn how to register a domain name and hosting with Hostgator. This will serve as your ”digital property” that’s all yours. It’s where you will create your landing page.
– Best Converting Landing Page. This lesson will show you how to create a landing page, and optimize it for maximum conversion rates.
Module Seven – Creating Your First Advertisement (Easy Way)
Only two lessons here, and they cover the basic fundamentals of using paid ads. The total watch time here is 29 minutes and 19 seconds, and covers the following:
– Creating Your First Advertisement. Brko Banks teaches you how to set up a Google Adwords campaign. If you take a look at Google’s Skillshop, you can find training that shows you how to do that plus a lot more, for free.
– Part Two. This covers the same thing as the above-mentioned training but goes slightly more in-depth.
Module Eight – Let’s Work Together, Your First Affiliate Marketing Opportunity
This is a 3 minute and 37 seconds long video that doesn’t teach you anything at all. Instead, Brko Banks invites you to become an affiliate of Easy Affiliate Bucks, and earn commissions for promoting his product.
Since I’m not a big fan of promoting low-quality products and services, I would advise against becoming a promoter of this course.
How Much Does Easy Affiliate Bucks Cost?
Brko Banks’s course comes with a whopping price tag of $1,200.
Can You Get a Refund on Easy Affiliate Bucks?
Yes, you can, but you need to ask for your money back within 14 days of your purchase.
If you watch more than 20% of the content inside, you lose the right to a refund, so keep that in mind.
What’s Inside Youtube Mastery? (Review)
Youtube Mastery will show you the exact steps that Brko Banks took to achieve a Youtube following of over 112K subscribers.
He says that he has been doing this since 2013, and his Youtube channel has been alive since 2017.
It’s safe to say that you shouldn’t expect to get instant results and wake up to thousands of followers the morning after you get this course.
However, if you are a beginner, with zero experience you will probably learn a thing or two from the Youtube Mastery course by Brko Banks.
This course doesn’t have any modules. There is only one section with an introduction, 15 lessons, and a bonus one. The combined watch time for the entire course is a bit over 1 hour and 5 minutes long. Here’s what will get covered inside:
– How to Create Your Youtube Channel. These are pretty basic stuff, that can be found anywhere for free.
– How to Pick the Right Niche for Your Channel. It’s important to choose a single niche for your channel and to not deviate too much from that. If you post a video about basketball, stick to that topic. Needless to say, that you should think long and hard before you decide on your niche.
– How to Create Content for Your Youtube Channel. Even if you don’t want to show your face or record videos, you can reupload Creative Commons (CC) content, without worrying about copyright infringement and things of that nature.
– How to Upload Your Videos the Right Way.
– How to Optimize Your Videos to Rank on Youtube to Get Views. You will learn about keyword optimization and different methods that can boost your rankings at the top of the search.
– How to Grow Your Youtube Channel. Tips and tricks to get more subscribers.
– How to Create Amazing Thumbnails. That’s the snipped or the picture that you see before you click on a Youtube video. Yep, you can adjust the thumbnail and create something that people would want to click on.
– How to 10x Your CPM. Cost Per Mile (CPM) is the price for a thousand unique impressions. Youtube can pay you for every thousand impressions that the ads on your videos get.
– Which Software I Use to Create Content. If you’ve gone through the entire post, then you already know what that tool is because it was revealed in Brko Banks’ Easy Affiliate Bucks. If you’ve missed that part, there is no need to scroll up to see what I’m talking about. The video creation tool is called Camtasia and it costs $249.
– How to Build 4 Streams of Income Through Youtube. A couple of them surely are affiliate marketing and Youtube ads.
– Bonus #1. You will get access to Brko Banks and his email address. You can reach him over there, and ask all kinds of questions.
– Bonus #2. Private Facebook group access. Over there you can interact with other like-minded people and members of the course. Keep in mind that Brko reserves his right to kick out anyone that is misbehaving inside this group.
– Bonus #3. Lifetime access, to the course and all future updates.
This course and it’s content is similar to what is being taught inside Youtube For Bosses, which is how to grow a profitable Youtube channel with organic search rankings.
How Much Does Youtube Mastery Cost?
If you get it through one of Brko’s videos, you will get a 40% discount which means that you will pay $197. Without that widely spread discount, the price is $236.40.
Is There a Youtube Mastery Refund?
Yes, you have a 30-day money-back guarantee, but you need to have watched less than 10% of the content inside, otherwise, you don’t qualify for a refund. Brko Banks has a way to track these things, so he will know if you’ve seen more than that.
What I Like About Brko Banks and His Courses
1. Youtube Mastery May be Worthwhile. If you want all of the information that’s needed to create a profitable Youtube channel in one place, then MAYBE you can make use of what’s being taught inside. Keep in mind that most if not all of this stuff can be found for free online.
2. Refund Guarantee. There is a money-back option with both Youtube Mastery and Easy Affiliate Bucks, which means that as long as you don’t end up going over the watch time threshold, you can ask for your money back, within the given timeframe.
What I Don’t Like About Brko Banks and His Courses
1. Easy Affiliate Buck is Too Generic. It’s a high ticket course that costs over a thousand bucks, so you should expect the quality of it to be something different than what you are actually getting.
2. His Youtube Channel is Clickbaity. Most of Brko’s videos have hyped up titles that overpromise and underdeliver. Even if there is some sort of value with his Youtube videos, most of them are promoting fast and easy money, and that is something that doesn’t happen with beginners.
3. Too Expensive. Both of Brko Banks’ courses are expensive, especially Easy Affiliate Bucks, and for the amount of money that he is asking, he does not provide enough quality or value, in my opinion.
I would suggest that you don’t fall for shiny promises or courses that promise to make you a lot of money fast and easy.
We all want to make easy money online, but the reality is that a lot of ”content creators” pry on the inner desire for people to get rewarded, without putting in any effort.
Any experienced internet marketer, and make money online person knows that in order to become successful, you have to put in the work.
Brko Banks has been involved with internet marketing for 4 years before he started his Youtube channel, and it took him more than 3 years to grow it to over 112K subscribers.
These things take time, and if you are expecting instant results, just because his courses cost a ton of money, then you are mistaken.
Easy Affiliate Bucks costs $1,200 and it offers very little value for that huge price tag. Youtube Mastery is a bit better because it doesn’t cost 4 figures, but I wouldn’t recommend buying either of these courses.
If you want to learn how to make money online with affiliate marketing, and without having to invest anything upfront, then you should see how these people are banking profits.
They use a simple yet incredibly effective blueprint that most people neglect, and lose out because of that. Don’t be like most people.
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Around this time of year, people scramble around in both stores and on the internet, looking for gifts for friends and family. Whether it be Christmas, Hanukkah or whatever else is being celebrated, this time of year is generally about holidays and gift giving. For those of you who are enthusiasts or have enthusiasts in your life that you’d like to give gifts to, EngravedBluePrintArt has an excellent gift for car enthusiasts.
What Engrave Colorado makes, that gear-heads will love, is blueprint engravings. These are engraved blueprint portraits of cars and the engines that power them. Trust me, that description doesn’t do their work justice. These are very detailed engravings of blueprints of your favorite cars and they can do any car you’d like.
To get the engraving you want, you simply give them some information about the desired car, such as year, make, model, body style and the VIN number. Being that you provide the VIN, the blueprint is of that exact vehicle, with all of the information you could possibly desire. This is excellent for someone who has a car that means a lot to them, as it gives them a memento of that exact vehicle. You can also have the engraving customized to reflect a car with aftermarket wheels, aerodynamics or other parts. So your engraving will be as accurate and detailed as possible.
These engraved blueprints can be made out of either Alder wood, for an old-school look, Anodized Aluminum, for a more modern look, or Acrylic, which comes in either black or white. Regardless of which you choose, each blueprint comes framed and ready to hang on your wall, so you do none of the heavy lifting.
For example, if you have an E30 BMW M3 that means quite a bit to you (of course it does, it’s an E30 BMW M3), you can get an exact blueprint of the legendary car. This blueprint will provide the exact dimensions of the car from every angle, have multiple diagrams of the body and even have a diagram, with details and specifications, of the engine. It’s an amazing way to look at the inner workings of one of your favorite cars. It can even come in different styles, such as a Standard Landscape style, Poster Landscape style and a Standard Portrait style.
These sort of personalized, custom-designed engraved blueprints can make the perfect gift for the enthusiast in your life, even if that enthusiast is you. It allows fans to have something about their car, not just a car and that’s something special.
Here are a couple of links about the process of creating the artwork and some BMW-related examples:
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SHOULD THE FILIPINO NATION rejoice over the conviction of former First Lady and Ilocos Norte Congresswoman Imelda Marcos (89) to at least 77 years in jail for 11 counts of graft while she was a member of the Batasang Pambansa, Metro Manila governor and minister of Human Settlements?
Using Swiss foundations, the Marcoses were said to have funneled some US$200-M (about P 11-Billion) in illegally acquired wealth which was way above their reported legal income from 1968 to 1981.
Although the Supreme Court has yet to rule with finality, the Sandiganbayan conviction shatters the shameless defense of the Marcoses that accusations for corruption against them were fictitious and without basis. But it has been earlier shattered likewise even before this ruling.
First, a Hawaiian court foreclosed US$2-Billion (P108-Billion) of the Marcos Estate to compensate 9,000 human rights victims during the Marcos despotic rule in the country.
Second, even back in July 2003, the Supreme Court had already ruled as ill-gotten US$683-Million (P37-Billion) in Swiss deposits, which were way above the Marcos’ declared income of US$304,000 from 1966 to 1986, the year People Power forced the Marcos family into exile.
Thirdly, the Presidential Commission on Good Government had already recovered P 170-Billion of the estimated $5-$10- Billion allegedly plundered by the Marcoses.
It has been told in the news that the Marcoses had reportedly promised to return a huge part of their wealth abroad to the Philippines in exchange for immunity from suit for graft – to the Duterte government.
All of the above proves that the Marcos illegal Wealth does exist because they have been proven to exist because as science tells us “matter is something that occupies space and has weight.”Their dollar and other currencies loot and the so-called Marcos gold bars do have such properties.
Besides, as what you can tell even grade school students today- you cannot contest in court what is NOT yours nor promise to return what is NOT in your possession. Logic 101, Senyores.
The Marcos plunder story had become so huge globally that new terminologies emerged: Kleptocracy ( a disease-desire to steal for reasons way above the usual human needs), Imeldific ( to be ostentatious) and “To do a Marcos” (to con or deceive). They were also called “The Conjugal Dictatorship”.
Yet, up to this day and age, denials coming from the family continue.
In fact, the Marcoses are hankering to come back into power. There is former senator Bongbong Marcos contesting the win of Vice President Leni Robredo with the background that President Duterte would “resign” if Bongbong Marcos will succeed him legally.
There is Governor Imee Marcos who is running for the Senate exchanging places with her mother Imelda who will run for Governor of Ilocos Norte.
Once back into power, surely the whole Marcos Episode and the Dark Days of Martial Law will be whitewashed int oblivion- all legal cases stopped and all textbooks will be rewritten to glorify the “golden days” of Martial Law.
Does it, therefore, mean that the Sadiganbayan conviction of Imelda Marcos means that justice in the Philippines -at least within a time frame of an agonizing 30 years- actually still does work? Not necessarily.
Without finality in judgment, Imelda can still run to the Supreme Court which has a bad record of exonerating the guilty. For instance, former senator Juan Ponce Enrile, convicted and jailed for “plunder” was freed on bail for “humanitarian reasons” and because the Sandiganbayan did a grave abuse of discretion jailing him without considering the: “fragile health and advance age” of Enrile who was then 91 only in 2015.
Now, the 94-year wily coyote is gunning for the Senate- all health fragility and old age infirmity and senility apparently erased by the “stem cell” surgery Enrile was supposed to have undergone? The party-list group Akbayan argues that with Enrile’s new-found “agility”- he should be sent back to prison.
Imelda can do the same Enrile Escape Route and skip jail time as well for the same reason.
Since the conviction is without finality -Imelda can still become Governor Imelda Marcos of Ilocos Norte by May next year instead of serving the first of her 77 years jail term inside the prison cell.
Does one now have a basis to have full faith in the Philippine justice system? Stay a minute.
The Sandiganbayan also recently ordered the temporary release of former senator Jinggoy Estrada from plunder charges since it cannot be proven that he was the principal beneficiary of the Napoles PDAF Scandal (but Janet only herself) and the same argument could be used in order to free another jailbird in former senator Bong Revilla.
From our passable appreciation of the law, in a “syndicated estafa” as it would seem in the Napoles PDAF Scam, the crime of one is a crime of all. So, why are the rest being freed except Napoles?
Wasn’t it a big joke at the time of the PDAF investigation in the Senate, that Napoles reportedly replied when asked whether it is true that she owned 28 houses, that she answered: “Actually 30- I own two other houses- the Lower and the Upper Houses.” (Laughter).
It is not fair for two former presidents like Joseph Estrada who was in house arrest at Tanay until he was legally freed when pardoned by his successor Gloria Arroyo, who herself served her arrest (including hospital stays) until freed by the Supreme Court in this administration’s time.
This tired argument just does not hold water. That, since the Aquino Sandiganbayan was biased in just jailing three opposition senators while the others (non-oppositionists) were scot-free, then the three convicted senators should, therefore, be”not guilty”.
And the really funny thing is that all three: Enrile, Estrada, and Revilla are running again for the Senate, the very platform they are accused of using in executing their alleged acts of plunder.
What if two or all three of them get to be elected senators again in May- is there a law that erases their potential final conviction because they were reelected to the post they were deposed from?
In sum, what is the final answer to the question as to what the conviction of Imelda Marcos to 77 years in jail mean? It means nothing.
Nothing, until with finality, the guilty parties in this country -are permanently locked in jail to serve the just punishment for arrogating unto own’s personal selfish use those funds that clearly belong to an impoverished nation- especially those needing public service.
Postpone, breaking open the champagne, Gentlemen.
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The business park provides a rural setting for residents with excellent access, extensive parking and space to be creative.
With peaceful grounds to enjoy a brisk lunchtime walk, or simply an outdoor lunch in the sunshine.
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Secundino F. Sepulveda, 86, passed away peacefully on January 9, 2020 in Mesa, AZ. Known as “Cunino” by most, he lived a very happy and music filled life with family and friends. Cunino is survived by his wife, Placida; children, Annie, Diane, Connie, Joey, Leonard, 13 grandchildren, and 24+ great grandchildren. He will be remembered most for his generous spirit of sharing food and laughs with all he met.
The Visitation will be at 2PM followed by the funeral service at 3PM on Mon, January 13, 2020 at Bunker’s Garden Chapel, 33 N Centennial Way, Mesa, AZ 85201.
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Higher commodity prices, alongside additionally negative sentiment towards the end of the December quarter due to Omicron, are expected to hurt profitability, as well as revenues of domestic capital goods companies, on a year-on-year (YoY) basis, said brokerages.
“Demand witnessed a healthy pick-up in October- November 2021, while December experienced lower growth due to the rising spread of Omicron and increasing Covid caseloads. During the third quarter (Q3) of 2021-22 (FY22), the industry is likely to have witnessed lower volumes due to weak festival season and muted rural demand,” said a Reliance Securities report.
Larsen & Toubro (L&T), Thermax, KEC International, and Siemens, among others, are some of the capital goods companies in the domestic market.
“We expect Thermax's revenue growth momentum to continue and see a 20 per cent YoY rise to Rs 1,693 crore. However, we expect the earnings before interest, tax, depreciation, and amortisation (Ebitda) margin to be under pressure and fall 300 basis points (bps) to 7.5 per cent YoY on account of rising raw material prices,” said a Nirmal Bang report.
KEC International is likely to post revenue of Rs 3,750 crore, up 14 per cent YoY, led by execution of a strong order book. Ebitda margin is likely to fall 160 bps YoY to 7.5 per cent on account of rising commodity costs, which will affect margins in the fixed-price international contracts. “We expect 14.6 per cent YoY decline in net profit at Rs 124 crore,” said the report.
In terms of order inflows, the sector is expected to have witnessed weakness in the period under review.
After a good ordering activity in the first half of FY22 (up more than 20 per cent YoY), order inflows weakened in the first two months of Q3FY22. Inflows were down 20-30 per cent, largely due to significantly high order inflows for high-speed rail last year. Although there were orders in the rail and Metro segments, they were much smaller in size, said Emkay Research.
“L&T has announced orders worth Rs 30,000 crore in the December quarter. It has a 250,000-strong workforce at all sites during the quarter and labour availability was more or less stable. A minor execution impact is expected due to supply-chain bottlenecks and delayed exports during the period,” said a Reliance Securities report.
Overall, order inflows are expected to remain respectable, with some project deferrals across key segments to the fourth quarter of FY22, said ICICI Direct.
Ordering activity has picked up, led by higher government spending in railways, roads, Metro, power transmission/distribution, and oil and gas. Private-sector capital expenditure (capex), on the other hand, was muted and is expected to pick up over the next few quarters, led by various government initiatives, such as the production-linked incentive, said brokerages.
Alongside, the capital goods sector continues to face challenges, such as steep rise in commodity prices, higher transportation costs (both overseas ocean freight and domestic transport), and shortage of imported components due to global shipping challenges.
Going ahead, recovery in the capex cycle, order inflows, and adverse impact on working capital will be keenly monitored for the capital goods sector, said Nirmal Bang.
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Can the way you eat make a substantial difference in your health? The answer is definitively yes and new research provides insight into how and why. A team of researchers from Boston, Cambridge and New York have found that 45 per cent of all deaths in the United States due to heart disease, stroke and […]Polio Lasted 50 Years. Will Coronavirus?
April 26, 2020 will mark the 66th anniversary of the massive polio vaccine trial on thousands of schoolchildren. Considering what is happening in the world right now, it is a good time to reflect on the challenges our predecessors faced not that long ago. We are lucky enough to not give polio a second thought […]
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The success of a business (and subsequently, its CEO) tends to be judged on the basis of hard facts and numbers such as revenue, investment, product development, and innovation. These are certainly critical metrics – but if achieving success were really that simple, every business with the right assets on paper would experience exponential growth. That’s simply not the case.
As Patrick Lencioni describes in his book, The Advantage, what can truly differentiate a company and fuel extraordinary growth is Organisational Health. And the backbone of a healthy organisation is its culture. If your employees aren’t happy and fulfilled in their jobs, they can’t perform at their best. The likelihood of job turnover at an organisation with a rich organisational culture is 13.9%, compared to the 48.4% turnover in a poor company culture, according to Columbia University.
Establishing, nurturing, and protecting the right culture that both suits the business and inspires every member of the organisation, is a challenging task that requires continuous investment and energy – especially if you have a distributed workforce like we do. Done right, however, culture pays off and can have a real effect on overall business performance.
Culture is about more than perks
An office environment offering on-site playgrounds, petting zoos, and Prosecco on tap, can make anyone wish they could experience the same kinds of perks. Although ‘cool offices’ and regular social events are important for talent recruitment and retention, research has shown that employees would not necessarily prioritise these over benefits, work flexibility, and work-life balance.
This is because culture is about people, and people value things that make a real difference in their lives and the lives of those they care about, both inside and outside the office. People value purpose and alignment between their personal values and of those of the environment around them. Their jobs are often an important part of that.
Creating a collaborative, people-first culture is especially important when you have a distributed workforce. Remote work has benefits for both companies and employees, and gives people the freedom and autonomy they need, whether it’s for dropping kids off at school or going to a doctor’s appointment. But for employees to appreciate this freedom, you must have a baked-in culture to support it and consistently take measures to ensure everyone knows they are all on the same team. If not, your global workforce will feel isolated, and struggle with collaboration, productive conflict resolution, commitment, and accountability. Without these, the organisation will struggle to deliver good results.
How to create your company culture
Every company develops a culture eventually. It’s up to you to shape that culture and thoughtfully maintain it as your company grows. There are a few steps I recommend for CEOs embarking on this journey:
- Decide what your company should stand for: The first step is to be clear about what you want your company culture to be. It starts with the founders and with the mission that inspired the adventure of building a company. Codify these early on, and conduct company culture audits frequently to help identify positive behaviours that you can build upon, and destructive ones that need to be eliminated.
- Build a culture that scales: Defining a common culture and set of values gets more challenging as organisations grow and become more geographically dispersed, and as work patterns change to accommodate the ‘new mobile worker’. It’s up to leadership to ensure their vision is inclusive enough to unite different people across different parts of the world. Ultimately, regardless of cultural norms, people value working in a respectful environment, and this should be a priority. Weave your values into everything you do: talent management, resolving conflicts, awards and recognition, promotions, communications, dealing with customers, etc. Actions will speak louder than words.
- Be present and accountable: Nothing puts employees off more than having a CEO who is never around, or is too busy to listen to their ideas or concerns. Your employees are your most important asset. Make sure you give them the time they deserve and allow them to ask difficult questions regularly. For example, make yourself and your senior leadership team available for AMA (Ask Me Anything) sessions. You are the embodiment of company values, so practice what you preach.
- Encourage employees to get together: As CEO, you must continually evaluate whether employees have the right set of tools to thrive. This includes not only technology, but also opportunities for face-to-face communication. Consider hosting regular company-wide video meetings, or even further, an annual in-person gathering for team-building and collaboration.
Don’t be afraid of problems
As business leaders, we value stability and long-term planning. We are naturally biased toward avoiding challenges. But challenges and problems are the fuel for growth and maturity. Like working out muscles and bones at the gym, organisations become more robust when they encounter new challenges: a lost customer, an outage, a bug. Company culture will help you navigate these obstacles as the company evolves and becomes a better version of itself. Nurture and cultivate your culture, and challenge yourself to replace things that are no longer working. Your people – and your profits – depend on it.
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While most surrounding schools have a day off on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Cheshire Academy is different.
The school has a long standing tradition of holding special workshops and presentations on MLK Day in order to pay homage to King and his message of equality.
This year, the events began in the Gideon Welles Dining Hall with former Cheshire Academy student Aleesha Grier-Rogers, who remembered her senior year at Cheshire Academy — 1990 — when she and her classmates held peaceful sit-in protests on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, as a way to urge Cheshire Academy leadership to honor King and his message.
That year served as the catalyst for Cheshire Academy’s continued rememberance on MLK Day.
“That day, which we now call ‘MLK 1’ changed my life forever,” Rogers remembered. ”We all must see this day as an opportunity to learn and listen.”
After Rogers, singer/songwriter Lytasha Blackwell took to the podium in order to perform a few of her poems and talk to the audience of students about her experiences as a black woman. Some of Blackwell’s poems included samples of songs by recording artists such as Ashanti, Coolio, and R. Kelly. Blackwell’s poems not only talk about her personal experiences, but shine a light on how oppression can impact communities as a whole.
Dr. Maysa Akbar was the keynote speaker for Monday’s event. Akbar is a board-certified adolescent and child clinical psychologist and is an assistant clinical professor at Yale School of Medicine Child Study Center. Despite a few minor technical difficulties, Akbar began her presentation by asking the audience a question.
“Do you think Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream was achieved?” she asked. While most students answer was no, she asked the group to think more broadly. “Dr. King’s message to us was not about completion of a goal … Progress, not perfection is the goal … It’s about progress, and we have made that.”
Akbar then gave the audience a peek into her personal story, beginning with her move from the Dominican Repubic to the United States at the age of 5. When she moved to the United States, she knew very little English and because of that, she claims, she was held back and placed in special education classes.
“Here I am, at 5 years old, classified with a learning disability. And that sticks with me throughout most of my academic career … What does that sound like to you?” she asked the audience.
Because of Akbar’s personal experience with racism as a young girl, she believes she can share King’s message of triumph with groups of young students, in hopes that her story can impact others.
Akbar spoke to the audience about how, for most of Kings life, he grew up with many of the same anxieties and challenges Akbar did, due to his racial difference.
“There are a lot of connections [these kids] can make with their lives right now and Dr. King’s early life,” Akbar remarked. “So much of what happens in your early life will impact you for the rest of your life, and what happened to me in my early life ultimately led me to do the work that I do now.”
After Akbar’s presentation the students were dismissed into teams assigned workshop, including ones labeled “Emotional Health and Regulation,” “Everyone’s Dream,” “Women in Leadership,” and “The Service Learning Lifestyle,” so that the groups of students could further discuss the key elements of the lessons taught during the morning session.
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Same Day, Next Day & Economy UK Courier Delivery Service.
Professional & Reliable Service with over 25 yrs of Commercial Vehicle driving experience.
Competitive Pricing and Collection / Delivery Flexibility.
Large 13 cubic meter Load Capacity Vehicle with 1.5 tonne payload.
Full Courier Insured, including £25k Goods-In Transit & £2,000,000 Public Liability Cover.
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When you take a look at the Suns, it’s easy to get caught up in the big names – Nash and Amar’e or even Hill and Richardson. But, one of the keys to their success in the regular season and the playoffs has been the performance of their reserve players. The Suns go a legitimate 10 deep and the 5 players that make up their bench are strong contributors that are heavily relied upon to cut deficits, increase leads, and continue the style of play that the Suns’ starters impose on opponents. If you haven’t done so already, go check out the great scouting report that is up at Land O’ Lakers that provides a breakdown of all the Suns players (including their bench guys). Those tidbits of information will surely be on the minds of the Lakers as how they match up with this group of guys will go a long way in determining the outcome of this series.
I think it’s fair to say that the Suns bench is one of their advantages over this Lakers team. As I mentioned, there are 5 guys – Dragic, Barbosa, Dudley, Amundson, Frye – that have been brought along and nurtured to the point that they are confident and reliable players that play the style of game the Suns want. And while on an individual level they may not be extremely talented, they mesh well as a group and play off each other as well or better than any second unit in the league. The whole is greater than the sum of it’s parts with this group and if the Lakers are going to match up with them, they’ll not only need to adhere to the scouting reports but they’ll also need to find a way to match up with these players in a way that limits their individual effectiveness and thus throw off that unit’s dynamic.
At this point, I think we should explore who from the Lakers second unit is likely to see time in this series. We all know that the key Lakers’ reserves are the trio of Odom, Farmar, and Brown. These players have been in the rotation all season and will be important players in this series as well. However, these aren’t the only capable Lakers substitutes. Against Utah, Luke Walton got some burn and showed well in the minutes that he received. His passing, post up game, and ability to initiate the Lakers sets may have added value against a Suns team that the Lakers want to slow the pace against and punish with inside play and precise execution. And then there’s Sasha who will likely be healthy enough to play in this series after being out for nearly a month with his sprained left ankle. If fully recovered, Sasha’s potential as a shooter and irritant on defense could also come in handy against a perimeter oriented team where he can pressure ball handlers on defense while trying to space the floor for the Lakers post players on offense.
After comparing these sets of players, it’s pretty obvious that the Suns have the better group. The best player from either side is Odom, but after him I’d say that at least 3 (and maybe 4) of the next best players come from the Suns side (I’d take Barbosa, Dragic, Frye over our guys and maybe even Amundson – though I like Brown/Farmar/Walton as much in the roles that they play for us). So, how will the Lakers match up with this group? I think the answer to that question will come in how each of the teams units has been deployed during the playoffs.
Stylistically, we should understand that Phil doesn’t substitute in mass and rarely has more than 3 bench players (including Odom, who plays starter minutes) on the floor at one time. And while Phoenix deploys their substitutes in much the same way (with Nash and Amar’e playing heavy minutes and one of Hill/Richardson being the third starter on the floor a lot), the Suns do trot out more units where multiple combinations of bench players are playing together. For example, the Suns 4th ranked unit (in terms of minutes played) is the unit with all 5 bench players together on the court. Also understand that 5 of the Suns’ 8 most frequently used units feature either Amundson or Dudley at PF. Will these units (the all 5 bench players or the Dudley/Amundson at PF) be able to stay with the size of the units that the Lakers are likely to trot out considering that two of Bynum/Gasol/Odom will be on the court at all times? This is where the contrast begins and where Phoenix’s advantage in their talented reserves will be tested.
We should also note that Phil is not beyond going to specific match ups to see if the presence of one (or more) of our bench players can be used to shut down a specific player from the other team. I mean, earlier this season Phil deployed Sasha on Dragic for nearly every minute that Goran played. Remember, both Sasha and Dragic are from Slovenia and there is a familiarity that Phil would like to try and tap into. Also, in the past Phil has loved to use Odom on players that have Frye’s skill set as LO’s mobility to chase big men around the perimeter and run them off the three point line (ala how Phil used Odom against Okur in last seasons’ playoff series vs. Utah). These are just two examples, but I would not doubt if Phil finds a pet match up or two that he tries to go to in order to limit specific players and get them out of their game. As I mentioned earlier, this group is one that meshes well and plays very well together. If you can weaken a link in that chain, you can go a long way in disrupting the entire group dynamic.
While series’ are usually won and lost on the backs of the starters (and more specifically the star players), the benches will have their say in determining the winner of the WCF. And as we’ve seen over the past few seasons (as well as in the last series in Korver) a great performance off the bench can easily turn a game around or give a team an extra boost on any given night. The Suns have some explosive bench players that have been doing it for years (Barbosa, Frye) and others that have really stepped up this season to become real threats (Dragic, Dudley). Will the Lakers bench be able to match them? Or will the presence of starters on every “bench” unit help the Lakers against a team that likes to trot out its reserves by the handful? Which match ups do you think will be most important in these units? Let me know in the comments.
Tomorrow, we continue our series by taking a look at the Suns when they have the ball.
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Harmon is one of the nicest athletes I've ever had the chance to meet. He was friendly and always smiling. He took the time to chat with everyone who got his auto and even those who just wanted to say hi or grab a quick picture. I go to induction weekend every year and Harmon is the nicest HOFer I have ever met. Induction weekend wont be the same without him. He also has one of the best autos ever in my opinion.
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This tooth wipes consist of 30 individual sachet of wipe. It used high pressure and high temperature steam sterilization. Production according to quasi-drug standard.
Ingredients: 100% pure water without additives, preservatives and chemicals. Safe to use in baby's mouth.
It is made from Benizee(TM) mesh fabric material which is made from cottonseed fluffy yarn. It is longer and thinner than regular cotton. So no residue will leave in baby's mouth.
- Before using oral wipe, please wash your hands thoroughly.
- Roll oral wipe on your index finger.
- Wipe around all surfaces of the gums, teeth, tongue and cheeks.
- Use oral wipe immediately after opening sachet.
- Dispose oral wipe after one use.
- Some breastfeeding mummies found it helpful for wiping around the nipples before or after a feed.
- Some adults use this tooth wipes for themselves.
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Lab Tests and Why They Are Important
Before you start treatment with HIV medicine (called antiretroviral therapy or ART), your health care provider will order several baseline lab tests. You may start treatment or be referred for treatment before the test results are in.
Your lab test results, along with your physical exam and other information you provide, will help you and your provider work together to manage your HIV care.
Your health care provider will repeat some of these lab tests as part of your ongoing HIV care to see how well your HIV medicine is working so that you can get the virus under control, protect your health, and prevent transmitting the virus to others.
Viral Load Test
One important test is your HIV viral load test. It’s a lab test that measures how many HIV particles are in a sample of your blood. This is called your viral load. You want your viral load to be low. The higher your viral load, the greater your risk of becoming ill because of HIV and the more likely you are to transmit HIV. The viral load is highest during the acute (early) phase of HIV, and when a person is without treatment.
Why it’s important: Taking HIV medicine can make your viral load very low--so low that the virus can’t be detected by a viral load test. This is known as having an undetectable viral load. People with HIV who take HIV medicine as prescribed and get and keep an undetectable viral load can live long, healthy lives and have effectively no risk of sexually transmitting HIV to their HIV-negative partners. An undetectable viral load does not mean there is no HIV in your body. It means that the amount of HIV in your blood is too low to be measured in a standard viral load test. HIV is still in your body and will rebound to detectable if you stop taking HIV medicine.
CD4 Cell Count
A CD4 cell count measures how many CD4 cells are in your blood. CD4 cells are infection-fighting cells of the immune system. As HIV disease advances, your CD4 count drops. The higher your CD4 cell count, the healthier your immune system. The CD4 count of an adult/adolescent who is generally in good health ranges from 500 to 1,200 cells/mm3. In contrast, if a person has a CD4 count of fewer than 200/mm3, they are considered to have progressed to stage 3 (AIDS), the most advanced stage of HIV.
Why it’s important: A CD4 cell count is a good measure of how well your immune system is working and your risk of opportunistic infections. Treatment with ART is recommended for everyone with HIV, no matter how high or low their CD4 count is.
Once you’ve started HIV treatment, CD4 cell count and viral load tests are used to monitor whether your HIV medicines are working effectively to control your HIV. If the test indicates your medicines aren’t working, your doctor can prescribe different ones that may work better.
Other Important Lab Tests
There are other lab tests that will help your health care provider get important information about your health and work with you to choose the right HIV medications for you.
Blood Chemistry Tests: This group of tests measures several different chemicals in your blood to help monitor the health of your organs, especially your heart, liver, and kidneys. Health care providers use these tests to look for side effects caused by HIV medicines.
CD4 Percentage: This is a measurement of how many of your white blood cells are actually CD4 cells. CD4 cell counts are typically used to assess a person’s immune function, but a CD4 percentage can also be used. A CD4 percentage is less likely to vary in between blood tests than CD4 counts, which can vary from month to month or day to day.
Complete Blood Count (CBC): This test measures the concentration of red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets in a sample of your blood. A CBC is one of the most commonly ordered blood tests. It helps your health care provider keep track of your overall health and spot infections or other potential medical problems.
Drug Resistance Tests: HIV can change form, making it resistant to some HIV medicines. A drug resistance test helps your health care provider identify which, if any, HIV medicines will not be effective against the strain of HIV you have and choose which HIV medicines are most likely to work for you.
Fasting Glucose (Blood Sugar) Test: This test measures your blood sugar levels. Some HIV medications can affect blood sugar levels, potentially leading to complications like diabetes. It’s important to get a glucose test when you start HIV treatment to help guide the choice of HIV medications and then to get repeat tests to monitor possible increases in your blood glucose. (Read more about diabetes and people living with HIV.)
Fasting Lipid Panel (Cholesterol and Triglycerides): Lipids are fat or fat-like substances found in the blood and body tissues. These tests measure your lipid levels, including cholesterol and triglycerides. That’s important because some HIV medications can affect your cholesterol levels and the way your body processes and stores fat. High lipids can make you prone to other medical problems, including heart problems. It’s important to know what your lipids are when you start treatment to help guide the choice of medications and to treat high lipids to avoid other serious health problems.
Hepatitis A, B, and C Tests: Some people with HIV also have viral hepatitis. These blood tests check for current or past infection with Hepatitis A, B, or C. Checking you for hepatitis A, B, and C infection can help your provider to determine if you need to be treated, or if you are a candidate for one of the existing hepatitis A or B vaccines. (Read more about how hepatitis affects people living with HIV.)
PAP Test (Cervical and Anal): A cervical Pap test (or Pap smear) looks for cancers and precancers in a woman’s cervix—the lower part of a woman’s uterus (womb), which opens into the vagina. The test involves using a swab to take cell samples directly from the cervix. An anal Pap test can be done on a male or female; it involves a swab to take a cell sample from the anal canal. For women living with HIV, abnormal cell growth in the cervix is common, and abnormal anal cells are common for both men and women with HIV. These abnormal cells may become cancerous if they aren’t treated.
Pregnancy Test: This test shows whether a woman is pregnant or not. If you have HIV and you are pregnant, you can greatly lower your risk of passing HIV to your baby and protect your own health by taking ART during pregnancy, labor, and delivery.
Sexually Transmitted Disease (STD) Screening: These screening tests check for syphilis, gonorrhea and chlamydia. STDs can cause serious health problems if not treated. Having an STD also can increase your risk of transmitting HIV to others.
Tuberculosis (TB) Test: This blood test checks for TB infection, an infection usually spread by breathing in air that has been contaminated by someone with TB of the lungs. If a TB blood test is not available, a TB skin test is typically performed. This test is important because untreated TB can be a deadly disease for people with HIV. Early screening and treatment will help limit your risk of severe illness, as well as lower your chances of transmitting TB to others if you do have it.
Toxoplasmosis Screening: This test checks for past exposure to a parasite that can cause severe damage to the brain, eyes, and other organs in people with weakened immune systems. Toxoplasmosis can be a deadly opportunistic infection for people with HIV. Your health care provider needs to know if you have been exposed to the parasite that causes toxoplasmosis or are at risk for exposure. This will help your provider to decide if you need preventive treatment. If your CD4 count falls below 100/mm3, you will probably need to do another screening, even if your earlier screens were negative.
Frequency and Timing of Testing
After you start HIV treatment, not all lab tests will be conducted at every medical visit. Some will occur every few months. Others will depend on whether you are stable on HIV treatment and doing well. View this chart about the timing of various tests and talk to your provider about what is recommended for you.
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The commission has issued a proposed fine to UPS of $71,700 for what it called "willful" and "serious" violations.
"UPS respectfully disagrees with this citation and has served notice it will contest every aspect of this citation," UPS said in a statement.
Last August, a UPS employee was electrocuted at the site while trying to get a package that had fallen under a conveyor chute. He touched a large piece of machinery called a Mobile Distribution Unit (MDU) while lying on the ground to retrieve the package.
The MDU's grounding system was not working, and Hills' body provided the path to ground for the energized MDU, according to the UOSHA report.
But before investigators could properly investigate the accident, UPS removed and/or altered equipment, materials or other evidence related to the accident, according to the report. Not until the second day of the investigation did UPS disclose it had removed key evidence, according to the report. The tampering made it impossible to duplicate conditions relating to the accident, investigators said.
UPS disputes the tampering charge, stating that it was simply a "misunderstanding" and lack of communication over what to do with the equipment. Confusion and panic caused UPS management to be "unfamiliar with appropriate legal actions to take regarding a fatality," the report stated.
UPS said it immediately investigated possible causes of the accident after it happened, according to the UPS statement.
UOSHA proposed a fine of $70,000 for illegally removing equipment. An additional $1,700 fine was proposed for UPS having an unprotected flexible cord.
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Emigrant Reflections, Charlestown in Co. Mayo
Many stories are written about emigration and their effects on the local community.
Mostly they are sad tales of hardship, poverty and journeys into the unknown. Young people of to-day's Ireland do not understand how hard it was to exist back in the 1950's and 1960's. After they finished National School, most boys and girls had to go to the United States or Britain to find work. Those lucky enough to have Secondary or Vocational education might be able to find work in Ireland, otherwise they too would have to emigrate.
All the doors open to the youth of to-day, were not open then. It was very difficult for the young but alas it was a very sad and harrowing experience for their parents.
One such parents were Jack and Mary Duffy (nee Halligan) from Madogue near Charlestown. The following is a short account of two members of their family, namely Margaret and Paddy.
Margaret emigrated in 1962 and studied very hard in America. She graduated Magna cum laude from Fordham University with a BS in accounting. She joined Arthur Andersen in 1972, and was admitted to the partnership in 1981. Arthur Anderson is one of the leading providers of accounting services. She was the first female audit partner of that firm. The company employs more than sixty-two thousand people in seventy-two countries, including Ireland.
Margaret was responsible for audit and business advisory services to major Multi-national clients in numerous industries, ranging from consumer products to advertising. She is married to Eugene Gaughan and was a member of the Taoiseach's Ireland American Economic Advisory Board and the American Ireland Fund, New York Dinner Committee.
Paddy Duffy's story of his leaving home, is a story of what many other young people experienced and he tells it very well.
August 7th 1957.
A date indelibly imprinted on my mind, the date I left home to go to the farmers in England. My belongings were packed, all my wordly possessions were in one suitcase with plenty of space to spare. A good fried breakfast was prepared by my mother, who kept encouraging me to eat plenty as I might not get another opportunity to eat before I got to Dublin. Soon it was time to go and catch the bus at the Half-way-bush, a well known locally recognised bus stop, approximately a half mile from my home.
My Dad had preceded me to the bus stop, my suitcase across his bicycle. There was the customary handshake with my brothers and sisters, a kiss from my tearful mother, then it was time to walk the half-mile to the bus stop. My many neighbours came out to bid me farewell and placed some silver coins into my hand as "Luck Money".
On arriving at the Half-way-bush where my Dad was waiting, I hoped that the bus would be late. I needed more time with him, but alas, within minutes, the bus came into view. So with a quick handshake, an embrace, and tears in our eyes, we said goodbye.
I was on my way to England with three five-pound notes in my newly acquired wallet and a pocketful of "Luck Money" in half-crowns and two-shilling pieces. I glanced with nostalgia into the playground of Corthoon School, where I had spent ten happy care-free years, Sonnagh river where I had poached many fine Salmon and Sonnagh road where I did my first spot of courting. Very soon we were leaving Charlestown behind and on towards Dublin. I was now travelling through strange country, though less than twenty miles from home. I thought how small my world had been until that moment and I felt alone and insecure.
Well Paddy was on his way and eventually arrived in England. Some of the people he met there were of great help to the new emigrant, they were: Tom, Jim and Frank Burns, Tom McIntyre and Paddy Goldrick. Later on he met his cousins John and Paddy. Also Hughie Higgins from Killeen, and John Harrington from Carn. After some months his Uncle John helped him find work with Grant Lyon. He was a general foreman with the company. That particular job had both civil and railway engineering content, since it involved the rebuilding of the Quay side on the Manchester ship canal docks.
Paddy acquired a good knowledge and the technical skills to undertake many tasks with a minimum of supervision. In 1964 he was given his first management position as Area Manager of the Midlands. By 1980 he was in the position of Regional Manager. This involved handling many high profile projects. It was the era of the building of numerous Railway systems, such as: The Docklands Light Railway in east London, The Channel Tunnel and many major City centre Metro systems.
In December 1990, Grant Lyon was bought out by the powerful PLC British Steel. He was invited to take over the position of UK Contracts Manager with a responsibility for all the UK sites. He was the first Irish person to hold this position in the history of the company.
Paddy is now enjoying a happy retirement, a proud man in the knowledge of his achievements and a credit to his tearful parents, Jack and Mary.
© Cathal Henry 2005
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Carey Price will start in goal for Canada on Sunday in its Group B showdown with Finland (12 p.m. ET, USA, CBC), Hockey Canada announced.
Price played in Canada's first game at the 2014 Sochi Olympics, a 3-1 victory against Norway on Thursday. Roberto Luongo got the call against Austria and was perfect in a 6-0 shutout Friday, but will serve as the backup against Finland.
Defenseman Dan Hamhuis and forward Patrick Sharp will return to the lineup for Canada, replacing defenseman P.K. Subban and forward Martin St. Louis.
The winner of the Canada-Finland game will finish first in the group and earn a bye into the quarterfinals Wednesday. A regulation victory would give the winner the No. 1 seed.
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By Vidas Pinkevicius
What does the typical articulation of an average organist look like?
Soprano is more pronounced, with more space between the notes while others - especially the middle parts sound more or less legato.
More or less? Probably more.
It's not that middle parts need more articulation. They need more attention without which they can all sound easily muddled like a painting standing in a dark room.
If you can't articulate clearly and evenly all the voices, your listeners will have a hard time to appreciate the intricacies of the musical texture you're producing.
If they can't understand the piece, chances of them getting the most of it are slim.
But if you do the homework of showing the ornate palace of polyphony by making sure your articulation in the alto, tenor, and bass is on par with soprano, then some of your listeners might come to you after the performance and tell you how deeply moved they were with your playing.
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Legendary Pictures has released a "360 video inspired by the Warcraft movie" offering a high-above, all-around view of the city of Stormwind, seen from the back of a soaringgryphon. Created by the famed Industrial Light and Magic, the results are pretty cool—although the seam directly behind the gryphon is very visible. It also requires Google's Chrome browser in order to operate; Kotaku says it "looks busted and broken" on other browsers, but on Firefox (at least, my Firefox) it just flat-out doesn't work. Don't have Chrome? Here you go.
While you're here, have a look at the pair of movie posters released at the San Diego Comic Con and served up by Screen Rant, one featuring Sir Anduin Lothar, the knight in command of the human army, and the other, the great Orc chieftain Durotan. They both have the look of guys who'd rather be doing just about anything else, and as the site notes, there's an expectation that the film will forgo a simple good guy/bad guy narrative in favor of digging into the moral and political complexities of the Warcraft setting.
Director Duncan Jones stated late last week that, close to ten years after production first began, the Warcraft film is "pretty much a finished movie." It's slated to hit screens in June of 2016.
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Perhaps the only thing that could irk our patriarchal society more than seeing women unapologetically reclaim their sexuality is seeing not one but two Black women do so. The exploitation and fetishization of Black female bodies is rooted in colonialism, and free of both literal and metaphorical shackles, Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion spearheaded a new wave of female empowerment with the release of their first collaborative anthem, "WAP".
As the title (an acronym for "wet ass p*ssy") became the subject of many a conversation, the video amassed more than 60 million views just four days after its debut in August 2020. Put simply, "WAP" is an unadulterated feast of fantasy costuming, twerking wall fixtures, and dance moves akin to a pliability and flexibility test. The pinnacle, however, is the openness in which female sexual pleasure is discussed and presented without the all-assuming male gaze. From her initial verse, Cardi obliterates the traditional housewife archetype with "I don't cook, I don't clean/But let me tell you how I got this ring," setting the tone that there is no bandwidth for stereotypical gender constructs.
As Cardi and Megan bask in their Blackness, while steering the sexual conversation in custom leopard and white tiger outfits, we are reminded of what Black women have endured in a society that has silenced and taken ownership of their bodies.
As Cardi and Megan explore the "WAP" playhouse, we're led into gloriously designed lairs as they tell us, in no uncertain terms, exactly what it is they want. Their explicit verses perfectly balance as Cardi takes a more submissive role, whereas Megan is undoubtedly more dominant. Their rampant sexiness is reinforced with the repetition of various animal prints that historically have become layered with various connotations, pivoting on the axis of classy and trashy, depending on the body that it adorns. A motif that has transcended socioeconomic status, before animal prints were fashion statements, the real furs that came before them were symbols of power, status, and wealth. Rooted in African aristocracy, they later became laced with sexual and erotic connotations as the link to the continent suggested a woman wearing animal print was savage, wild, and exotic — words that have plagued Black women since their fetishization by European colonizers. As Cardi and Megan bask in their Blackness, while steering the sexual conversation in custom leopard and white tiger outfits, we are reminded of what Black women have endured in a society that has silenced and taken ownership of their bodies.
Criticism of the song was rife despite the video's undeniable success. Republican politicians
took to Twitter to express their disdain after the video's release, although one would imagine they would have had much more pressing subject matters to focus on. In a since-deleted tweet, former congressional candidate DeAnna Lorraine wrote, "Cardi B & Megan Thee Stallion just set the entire female gender back by 100 years with their disgusting & vile 'WAP' song." Similarly, James P. Bradley, who is running for a Senate seat in California, tweeted, "Cardi B & Megan Thee Stallion are what happens when children are raised without God and without a strong father figure. Their new 'song' The #WAP (which i heard accidentally) made me want to pour holy water in my ears and I feel sorry for future girls if this is their role model!"
As we struggle to understand how he listened "accidentally," we are privy, once again, to the insufferable irony that the former president can claim that it's OK to "grab 'em by the p*ssy" but two women cannot discuss the moistness of their own.
It's the repeated hypocrisy that sex is taboo when women, particularly Black women, are steering the conversation.
It's the repeated hypocrisy that sex is taboo when women, particularly Black women, are steering the conversation. In the overwhelmingly male-dominated music industry, men have repeatedly rhymed, rapped, and cussed about how they intend to aggressively beat, blow up, or break a vagina, but it's a rarity that women so freely discuss their own sexual appetite with such authority. In many world cultures and religions, there is an unwavering fear toward female sexual pleasure. For many such cultures, it remains a deep-seated belief that women do not have the right to own their sexuality. This thought is not only stifling, it can lead to fatal consequences in the case of female genital mutilation.
There is a pervasive narrative that we're taught to be virtuous, good girls, but this notion of womanhood and femininity often means disempowered, quiet, and submissive. We have a right to seek and demand pleasure, too. The echo of fake orgasms is deafening as women are still unaware that sex is supposed to be an enjoyable act, one we should be encouraged to be active subjects in rather than merely passive objects. Our bodies are hypersexualized and plastered everywhere, and yet society still has a tight grip on the extent it wants us to discuss sex. The delicate balance of being sexy enough to attract male attention but not overtly so, at risk of being labeled a derogatory slur, perpetuates the ideology that a woman should be a "lady in the streets and a freak in the sheets." Frankly, it's 2021 and we will behave however we want, wherever we want. Cardi, Megan, et al. show us (again and again I might add) that we can be sexually liberated beings without having to censor ourselves.
With women in hip-hop often pitted against each other, Cardi exemplifies the notion of women supporting women by opening up the stage to lesser-known musical talent. The inclusion of Normani, Rosalía, Rubi Rose, Mulatto, and Sukihana sets the tone for what the future of any industry could be like, let alone the music industry, in which women aren't made to feel like competition. As Cardi publicly beamed with an almost maternal pride for these women, we were reminded that, with Kylie Jenner and Sukihana, there are in fact three mothers in the video who all embrace their hypersexuality, which is an image society often prefers to ignore. Known as the Madonna-wh*re dichotomy, the Freudian theory suggests that being nurturing and being sexual are mutually exclusive and therefore a heightened amount of sexiness and sensuality would correlate with being a lesser mother. This damaging patriarchal construct demands women separate their sexuality from motherhood, despite the fact you cannot have one without the other. If there was any possibility that being a mother had somehow squandered Cardi's sexual abilities, she reminds us that she does "Kegels while it's inside."
Predictably, several commenters have suggested "WAP" panders to the male gaze, and while there may be some truth to that, what could be more liberating than capitalizing on the same construct built to suppress you? Profiting off male desires as she unashamedly spits her own, Cardi B is very clearly the driving force behind this work of art that sits proudly in the feminist canon. As we strive for intersectional feminism and an understanding that we are all empowered and liberated by different things, surely the epitome of modern feminism is women rapping about the self-lubricating prowess of their vaginas. Quite frankly, who else should dare to comment?
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On the latest PRmoment-Hill+Knowlton Friday Zone series, we discuss how the 'Great Resignation' has affected India.
Dealing with ‘The Great Resignation’
US labour data shows an unprecedented rise in resignations. Experts say this is part of a generational shift in how employees view work and life. From networth, the current generation is more focused on ‘net freedom’- How should the C-suite respond to this challenge?
Great Resignation or Great Opportunity?
Interestingly, Vishpala Reddy, CHRO at Philips Indian Subcontinent said that in India the attrition is more of a case of increased demand and supply dynamics, and this trend is being observed all across the hierarchy. In the US, the resignations have been observed mostly among mid-tier professionals.
Shubhreet Kaur, director, Creative Services, Hill and Knowlton Strategies, India concurred saying, " \We are seeing a lot of companies facing high attrition rates and trying to actually just hold on to it and not let it increase further. We can see in industries like tech where every person has at least four to five job offers at hand."
Suniet Bezbaroowa, India marketing director, BCG, "As leaders navigate the future of work, I think there are two challenges. How to address the operational challenges, even if you're getting people back to work, how do you do that? And second, find out innovative ways to engage the talent or retain talent, even if there is an attrition happening."
Prashant Nanda, senior journalist reporting on the education-workforce ecosystem, said, "If you look at Indian economy, which is a large economy and a large market, it is a reality in India, it is playing out in sectors which have seen huge traction due to the pandemic. For example, in IT segments, BFSI, the education sector, the healthcare is where we are seeing attrition. And look at the big players in the technology space. That attrition rate is in 12% to 33%. That means one out of every three people is going out. That's insane. Look at the ihe Microsoft 2020 Work Trend Index, is saying that 41% of global workforce are considering resigning this year so there is it must be going somewhere I'm sure they're not resigning and staying at home. And the salary increase in the compensation survey by a leading consultancy company says that India is facing an attrition rate of almost 20% across board and is one of the highest in five to six years."
Do watch the full discussion here:
Friday Zone is powered by Hill+Knowlton Strategies India
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BA, Purdue University; MA, Ph.D., Boston University
In the News
November 3, 2021
RIT alumnus studies the intersection of technology and the liberal arts
Though he graduated with a computer science degree, Muhammad Aurangzeb Ahmad ’06 spent much of his time at RIT in the College of Liberal Arts. He is a firm believer that inserting humanities and the liberal arts into science and technology curricula is imperative. Ahmad will return to RIT Nov. 4 as this fall’s Stan McKenzie Salon speaker for a virtual conversation with his former professor, Evan Selinger.
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Earth Day was earlier this week, and I think it’s safe to say that all runners share a love of our planet. If we didn’t like to be outside, we probably wouldn’t be runners. For some of us, running might be the only time we are able to get outside and connect with nature. Doesn’t matter if you’re on the pavement or a dirt trail, being outdoors is medicine for our tired souls.
Plogging has taken off, and we get it. Picking up litter on a run is something easy we can do, and we’re making an impact when we do it. By doing household stuff like reducing consumption, gardening, and decreasing our individual carbon emissions, for example, we collectively make a difference. We need to continue to do all we can to reduce our personal household carbon footprint. But the honest truth is, these actions won’t get us where we need to be.
It is imperative our government act now with urgency and conviction. Instead, they have failed to craft, or adhere to, climate policies that protect our future. 72% of Americans think climate change is real. 73% say it’s important to them personally. 69% say they are worried about it. And I would guess that nearly 100% of us feel like we can’t make a significant difference in tackling this global crisis.
But we can. We have to step up our game, though. Nearly three-quarters of us understand this is not a drill, and three-quarters of us is plenty to make a big impact. If we make an individual commitment to do some of the actions I’ve listed below, collectively we will change the conversation on climate change in our government. These next level actions do take effort and research, but if we expect our leaders to act with urgency, we must show them our demand for action is urgent, too, and fueled by fury and perseverance.
Hardcore Climate Actions
- Understand your Reps positions on climate issues and policy. If you don’t agree, tell them so.
- Let them know your position on climate issues and policy.
- Support the Energy Innovation and Carbon Dividend Act of 2018, learn how it works here
- Ask your Reps to support the Energy Innovation and Carbon Dividend Act of 2018
- Support the Climate Action Now Act
- Tell your reps to support the Climate Action Now Act (it’s being reviewed in the House this week or next).
- Don’t support candidates who take money from the fossil fuel industry
- Instead, support candidates who support science.
- Stay informed on your city and county’s environmental planning and policy meetings. Attend if possible, ask questions, tell your officials what you want them to do. Be Vocal.
- Stay informed on your state’s environmental planning and policy meetings. Attend if possible, ask questions, tell your officials what you want them to do. Be Vocal.
The talking heads are already predicting that climate change will be an important issue for the next election. Let’s make them understand just how much our votes depend on how well they address this critical issue. Get engaged. Get vocal. Be unladylike if needed. Now is your chance!
At my day job, I am a sustainability and corporate social responsibility coordinator with a background in business sustainability management.
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Britain’s Princess Beatrice shared a bottle of champagne with England soccer player Frank Lampard at an exclusive London nightclub on Wednesday (25.06.08).
The 19-year-old princess enjoyed a £350 bottle of Cristal champagne with the sportsman at the Whisky Mist and appeared to be in a “flirty mood”.
An onlooker revealed, “[Princess] Beatrice ordered in a £350 bottle of Cristal. She wore a cute mini-dress and was in a flirty mood.”
[Princess] Beatrice, who was the daughter of Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York, seems to be a fan of the London nightspot, which charges £550 a year for membership, having been there two nights in a row.
An onlooker added, “The princess appeared to have enjoyed her night but was eager to get away and it wasn’t that late when she left. She’s been enjoying the club a lot recently and no wonder, it’s the place to be seen right now.”
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The event planning industry has been growing steadily for the past five years, and it is expected to grow even further. With new business opportunities, you can also expect an increase in competition. It is always important to stay on top of your game and adapt to the changing environment to make the most of new opportunities and remain relevant in the marketplace.
Diversification is Key
When businesses want to expand, diversification of the services offered plays a key role in making it successful. When you decided to be an event planner, you might have just wanted to focus on weddings and anniversaries. Although this might have been successful over the years, the event planning business doesn’t have to stop there.
Take a good look at the business environment in your area and see what opportunities exist. There might be prospects of partnering with a marketing firm to engage in brand launch parties or even corporate meetings. Further, if there is a high concentration of corporations in the area, it will be a good idea to target these companies to add corporate events to your portfolio. Your knowledge and experience will give you the necessary confidence to plan an event regardless of the nature of the event.
If you have been doing corporate events, it would be a great idea to also cater to weddings and other personalized events. There are so many opportunities out there like graduation parties, educational seminars, workshops, conferences, and brand promotion, to name a few. Building clientele in various industries will not only make your business more profitable, but it will also give you a chance to do a lot of cross-promotion.
Engage your Target Audience
If you haven’t already, join your local Chamber of Commerce and attend their meetings and events. It will be a great way to network with people from different industries. Engaging with your audience regularly can only help to open up new event planning opportunities.
Get online, check your website, is it engaging? If it isn’t, there is no time like the present to revamp the website to make it more inviting and easy for people to make inquiries. If you are not actively blogging, it’s time to catch up! By using the right keywords, blogs, and social media can help you be at the forefront of the industry.
Twitter hashtags created for the events you’re working on are a great way to not only promote your business but also to get a feel for the crowd’s reaction. Along with intelligent social media management, you can engage your audience without spending any money.
Never Stop Promoting
In a crowded business environment, everyone is fighting to be heard. So, promote your business as much as possible to stay competitive. Engaging elements of social media like hashtags and blogs will also help promote your business at no extra cost.
If you haven’t checked your digital footprint lately, it is time to see exactly where you stand. Digital marketing is a great tool to help you become an industry leader. It’s a good idea to hire a digital marketing agency to handle components like social media marketing, organic search, content marketing, and clientele lead development. But if you can’t afford it right now, you can always start learning how to do these marketing methods one by one.
If you are already blogging, you almost have content marketing covered. With a little bit of search engine optimization, you can start directing traffic (potential clients) to your website. Each experience has to be fresh and relevant to the readers, so keep updating your blog often and regularly. Further, it wouldn’t hurt to add a promotional video on YouTube to promote your business.
Invest in email campaigns to target corporate clients; it will be money well spent if you get access to the right database. You never know who will be checking their email after a morning meeting about planning a large conference. Being at the right place at the right time, even if it’s through email, can only turn into an opportunity.
The Bottom Line
All this may seem overwhelming if you are a small business without much full-time staff to manage everything. However, once you get a little experience adapting and diversifying, you will realize that it is easier than you originally thought and can be easily added to your daily routine.
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LIHUE — Democratic voters in Kauai have an opportunity to show their patriotic spirit when they cast votes for their party favorite Saturday as part of the presidential preference poll.
Nine presidential polling places will be open across the island beginning at 1 p.m. The private ballots will help determine the winner of Kauai’s Democratic delegates in the presidential election, said Judith Fernandez, co-captain for Precinct 14 for the Democratic Party in Kapaa.
“I think everybody expects a good turnout; there’s lots of excitement this year,” Fernandez said Tuesday.
Last time, a few hundred local Democrats participated in the poll and officials are expecting an even larger turnout Saturday.
“You’re not picking a president, but you’re being an important part of the Democratic process,” Fernandez said.
Hawaii has 34 Democratic delegates and two alternatives.
Because of his outspoken opposition to the genetically modified organisms (GMOs) movement, Fernandez said local Democrats believe Bernie Sanders will have a strong showing at the polls against opponent front-runner Hillary Clinton.
“He’s got a very well-organized campaign on the island and a strong following,” Fernandez said. “He is expected to do very well.”
When voters arrive at the polls on Saturday, they will be required to verify themselves as a registered voter and member of the Democratic Party. Volunteers will be on hand to help voters with on-site registration.
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81% of University of New Hampshire 2020 graduates participated in at least one internship over the course of their college career. The Student Experience Survey helps Career and Professional Success learn more about these experiences or barriers to obtain one. Responses may be used to improve access to opportunities and promote student success.
If you are a current University of New Hampshire student we want to hear from you! If you did climate research in Alaska or work at the local bagel shop, we want to know. Complete this survey by October 1st and you are automatically entered to win a pair of Apple AirPods! This survey takes 1-2 minutes.
1 Pair of Apple Airpods
$50 Amazon Gift Cards
Thank you to our prize sponsor
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Fox Knives Mojo 3.54" Olive Wood Folding Knife with Leather Pouch - Ansø Design FX-306 OL
This product is currently sold out.
Fox Knives Mojo designed by Jens Ansø. Features a N690Co blade with lockback mechanism and unique olive wood handles. Includes premium snap lock leather belt loop pouch.
N690Co satin finished stainless steel blade.
Hardness HRC 58-60.
Blade length: 3.54”.
Overall length: 8.26”.
Handle: Olive wood.
Weight: 5.65 oz.
Made in Maniago, Italy
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We serve students and their families with the highest level of customer service in the billing and collection of student accounts, campus-based loans, processing of payments, and disbursement of Financial Aid.
We are here to provide students and families with accurate and timely information concerning student account questions in a professional and courteous manner. We are partners, working in association with other College offices, to maintain accurate financial records and communicate information to our constituents.
All billing correspondence is directed to the student only at their Ursinus College e-mail account and the home address on file. It is expected that students check their e-mail frequently and share important student account information with their parents/persons responsible for bill payment.
The student may grant access to a third-party through the student self-service page via the Grizzly Gateway. In order to access a student’s account information or to make a payment via phone or email, the inquirer must supply the student’s school ID number and/or the last four digits of the student’s social security number and date of birth.
Feel free to contact our office with any questions.
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What to watch Thursday as college football kicks off big weekend
Last Saturday’s soft launch to the college football season at least allowed fans to see some live action. But the slate largely lacked for drama, and Thursday night's kickoff to the first full weekend is similarly unlikely to feature close finishes.
Still, there are reasons to watch, especially for those of us who’ve missed the game since January.
Here are a couple of highlights:
No. 2 Ohio State at Indiana
8 p.m. ET, ESPN
This gets the distinction of being the season’s first conference game. That is unusual for the Big Ten, which generally doesn’t open league play until late September. But it will also offer a first look at one of the top playoff contenders. Specifically, observers will be curious to see how the Buckeyes’ retooled offense performs.
One thing hasn’t changed, as veteran J.T. Barrett will still be at the controls. As an added subplot, it is former Hoosiers’ head coach Kevin Wilson now coordinating that unit for OSU. Indiana’s defensive personnel figures to be overmatched regardless, but it might take the Buckeyes a possession or two to find its rhythm.
Hoosiers’ QB Richard Lagow provides a veteran presence both on and off the field, and he has a superb deep target in the person of WR Nick Westbrook. But they will have their hands full with the OSU defense, with all-star talent at every level.
Tulsa at No. 11 Oklahoma State
7:30 p.m. ET, Fox Sports 1
This one might be closer longer. The Cowboys, after all, hail from the Big 12 where defense is sometimes optional. The Golden Hurricane will have a new starter at QB, most likely junior Chad President, but should still find ways to score with a veteran line paving the way for talented TB D’Angelo Brewer.
But QB Mason Rudolph, RB Justice Hill and WR James Washington lead a loaded Oklahoma State attack that should post a very big score.
Buffalo at Minnesota
7 p.m. ET, Big Ten Network
The debut of P.J. Fleck at Minnesota.
Fleck coached Western Michigan to a historic season last year, 13-1, the only loss came to Wisconsin in the Cotton Bowl. That big success earned him a shot in the Power Five. And after all the talking and hype, Fleck's boat set sail against a former MAC rival.
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Network Security Solutions – Build a Secure & Seamless Network with Cisco Meraki Solutions
Network Security Solutions – With the continuous and fast growth of the worldwide web’s viability , it is immensely important that a company must build secure, efficient, and seamless network connections to keep up with the volume of works that need to be processed and completed within a specified timeframe. A company should focus on efficiency, intuitiveness, stability, cost, and integrity.
Network Security Solutions Essentials
Today, almost everything is relying on the digital world. Most of the transactions are digitized, which makes essential information and confidential data to be susceptible to online perpetrators except if you have secure and stable network security solutions.
So, with the increase reliance on technology, it is becoming significantly more important to secure and protect every aspect of online data and information, and highly designed network security solutions can help you with this quest.
What Exactly Is Network Security?
To put it in a layman’s term, network security is a shield against online attackers. So, it is a form of online protection against unauthorized access, hacking, and misuse of clients’ valuable files and the company’s directories in a computer network system. Some of the most common online threats to a network include adware, identity theft, malware, spyware, viruses, and worms.
One of the most significant features in a computer network system is the multiple layers of security. In order to get a complete protection against every online threat, your company’s network is to set up reliable network security solutions that offer comprehensive features to provide impeccable security protection.
How to Find the Most Cost-Effective Network Security Solutions
Finding the most cost-effective solutions in network security requires an utmost understanding of what you should be looking for in network security solutions. With this, here’s a list of factors and features that you should consider and look for network security solutions that include the following enumerated below.
- Smooth network security solutions
- Secure entire computer network system
- Comprehensive network security protection
- Highly Optimized and Extremely up to the par
- Meticulously well-structured and designed
With the vastness and rampant growth of the online world, there have been numerous providers of network security and web hosting management solutions. So, finding the best one will be quite a complex and rigorous process. Although one significant name leaves a strong mark in this industry, Cisco Meraki Solutions is among the best network security solutions you can take refuge online.
Why Cisco Meraki Solutions?
Cisco Meraki Solutions has worked on the security of several companies such as law firms. The company takes pride with its easy management and IT cost reduction, and reliability. Moreover, the Meraki configured remote office smoothly over the net with no on-site IT, and firmly secure employee network skillfully inaccessible from the Internet-only guest network. Thus, Cisco Meraki Solutions provides stern and smart network security solutions.
Aside from the aforementioned highlights of the Meraki, law firms experienced seamless roaming all throughout the wireless network without undesirable congestion on the communication line. Apart from this, Meraki also built acloud-based dashboard for online remote offices for various law and accounting firms as well asautomatic site-to-site VPN which enables secure and stable secure connectivity between branches in just two clicks.
Lastly, Cisco Meraki Solutions also shapes the network security traffic to prioritize important assignment on critical web applications.
What Are the Important Network Security Solutions Structure?
So, you might be wondering what a basic network security solutions structure includes, and what Cisco Meraki Solutions offers and delivers.The basic network security basics include the following listed below.
This network security helps you protect your network from online threats. It functions through locking down unutilized open ports and filtering the influx traffic into your network. It comes in two types, software, and hardware.
It allows remote access and mobile users to log on to the network through encrypted tunnels. It provides employees the same type of security protection effectively like the local users.
- Intrusion Protection Systems
The IPS technology features a higher level of network security through identification of potential threats and warnings as well as responding to them proactively, deterring or preventing these online threats to get through the network system.
- Content Security
The content security includes email and web security to protect computer network system from any threats such as spam, virus, and other continuously changing online perpetrators.
- Identity Management
This network security feature refers to setting up network controls who and what can access the network. It designates rights and restrictions with each identity.
- Secure Wireless Networks
Almost everything today is accessible through the wireless network connection. The network security protects wireless networks for unauthorized access to the company’s network computer system.
The above-mentioned features are the basic structure of network security, and Cisco Meraki Solutions can provide your company’s specific needs, and prioritize them accordingly.
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The Women’s Development Dialogue (WDD) series is a program concluded in October 26th with a breakfast meeting. The program, sponsored by the United States Embassy sought to empower established professionals and up-and-coming younger women. Through monthly meetings and mentor-mentee pairings, it created a platform where women from various sectors can network and build unity, thereby planting seeds of women empowerment in Bulawayo..
The first breakfast meeting was held at a local hotel under the theme “Personal and Professional Growth”. Speakers spoke about mentorship, goal setting and making personal and professional plans. Among them, was United States Ambassador Harry K. Thomas, Jr. and his wife Mithi Aquino Thomas. In his remarks Ambassador Thomas Jr. said his government was a strong supporter of the global effort to promote gender equality.
“My team in Harare works to support and enhance the contributions of Zimbabwean women in this society, and our partnership on the Women’s Development Dialogue series is one of several engagements that we have undertaken.” He also spoke the first WDD series which was successfully conducted in Harare in 2015, with over 40 women from fields as diverse as health and medicine, academia, the arts, civil society, government and business. The success of the Harare WDD inspired the U.S. Embassy to launch a similar dialogue series in Bulawayo.
Bulawayo WDD participants also learnt about other United States State Department sponsored initiatives, most of which had benefitted women. These include the African Women Entrepreneurship Program (AWEP), the Fortune/State Department Global Women’s Mentoring program and the TechWomen program. These programs have enabled more than thirty Zimbabwean women to travel to the U.S. to interact with professionals in their sectors, learn best practices and build their networks.
Participants of the dialogue series in Bulawayo hailed the program and paid tribute to mentors who volunteered their time and expertise to develop young professional women.
“The WDD programme as a whole and the mentoring has been a great experience,” Said Yolanda Dube, a young entrepreneur. “There are certain goals I desired to achieve, but I never knew how. My mentor has given me inspiration, insight and direction as to how to achieve those goals,” added Yolanda, who is founder of the YD Bridal.
Another mentee, Margaret Chemwayi said her mentor was a change- maker. “I started this program with her when I was ready to make a change in my career,” she sahred. “She has been a great pillar for me and helped me grow both on a personal and professional level. I am ready to tackle whatever professional opportunity I get with a different view, different expectations and with more knowledge on finances, balancing work and social life and growing in my field as a researcher and policy analyst.”
But equally mentors said they learnt from their mentees creating a platform for enhanced business and other partnerships. Eunice Dlamini, director of M&M Joyous Events and WDD mentor says “I realised mentorship is a two-way process. Both mentee and mentor learn from each other. It is a journey to success, when mentee succeeds, the mentor also inevitably succeeds. It also gives a sense of worth and responsibility raises self-esteem, confidence and satisfaction. It also sharpens leadership skills as well as interpersonal skills.”
Many of the world’s most famous entrepreneurs have mentors. “They understand that success is not a one-person show and that mentors can help keep their businesses innovative and relevant.” Three famous billionaires were asked about their experiences and thoughts on mentorship. This is what they had to say:
“A small amount of time invested on your part to share your expertise can open up a new world for someone else.” – Mark Zuckerberg
“As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.” – Bill Gates
“If you ask any successful businessperson, they will always (say they) have had a great mentor at some point along the road.” – Richard Branson
“Going it alone is an admirable, but foolhardy and highly flawed approach to taking on the world.” – Richard Branson
So does mentoring matter? It does indeed. The benefits are endless for both mentors and mentees.- ZimPAS © November 3rd 2016
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4726 SW 75 Ave
Diaspora Vibe Cultural Arts Incubator commitment to artists of Caribbean and diverse cultures ensures they receive validation, visibility and professional opportunities. Our artists break boundaries of traditional forms and work outside of institutionalized systems, they often must create new systems and infrastructures to sustain their practice. We promote, nurture and exhibit the diverse talents of emerging artists from the Latin and Caribbean Diasporas through an artist-in-residence program, international exchanges, community arts events and a dynamic exhibition program collaborating with art spaces and inhabiting the virtual landscape.
Formerly known as Diaspora Vibe Gallery
DVCAI is listed in these Business Categories:
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Momoko is the only child of the Kuzuryuu clan, a family with fearsome martial arts powers and inhuman strength. Even so, her father believes that a woman will never have enough strength to lead, so he encourages her to seek out and marry her betrothed, the only son of the mighty Inuzuka clan, so that she might produce a suitable heir.
Unfortunately Koushi is neither strong nor tough...
I picked this book up on a whim at Minami. I'd scanned the energetic artwork and found myself laughing at one particular fight where a bear attempts to claw off our heroine's face, only to have his claws fall off. That pretty much sets the tone for this massively OTT comedy.
As with all the best comedies, Sumomomo's driving force is the insane antics of one lead character and the sheer disbelief of another. Koushi and Momoko make a fearsomely funny partnership, and across 3 volumes I've not been bored once. It's engrossing stuff.
With Momomoko's inhuman feats of strength showing up everyone from love rivals to the school gym teacher, it's not long before more, equally strong, equally insane characters show up for a throw down. It's not unlike Ranma 1/2 with it's constant brawling, bizarre characters and twisted logic.
The artwork is simple but stunningly effective. Muscular male characters are fantastically expressive, with some of the best comedy being drawn from their facial expressions alone. The artwork perfectly captures the diminutive Momoko as she squares off against numerous man-mountain types (until cuter, more size appropriate enemies show up at least).
The dialogue is also very well crafted, especially the disparity between Koushi's world-weary outlook and Momoko's earnest and enthusiastic character. Her attempts to bed her future hubby, which always end in disappointment, are also laugh out loud hilarious, as she shyly states her intentions only to be thrown out on her butt by an exasperated Koushi.
If there's one drawback, it's that Momoko looks entirely too young in some of the sexier scenes, which just makes it look wrong, in the worst possible way. It's certainly not a book you want to read on the train. Not that there's any actual sex, but the suggestive nature for such a young girl could easily be taken the wrong way by the PC crowd (though to be honest the inappropriate nature is quite funny in itself).
This has to stand as one of the best books I've read in quite some time, and if you get the chance to track it down, do so. It's a properly bonkers, brawling, breezy comedy and it really deserves a chance to fight for a spot on your shelf.
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The Raven Hyperbole or Metaphor??greenspun.com : LUSENET : The Work of Edgar Allan Poe : One Thread
Hey guys, i would greatly appreciate if i can get this tonite,..im lookin to see if their is any examples of metaphors or hyperboles in the Raven..thanks for your help
-- Anonymous, February 04, 2003
hyperbole=exagerration. As he proceeds to terrify himself, diving into the strange terror of the raven, he engages in hyperbole to intensify and dramatize the experience so that he fancies that his monologue is a two way conversation. "dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before"- intentional hyperbole to excite himself further. "allmy soul within me burning" and finally loses it by conferring real personification upon his fancy "Prophet" "thing of evil". Yet nothing except his internal ideas are exagerrated.
The metaphor of a dreaming demon(messenger spirit) is also one superimposed by the musing narrator- not Poe speaking from outside the story. In other words here is a story of a man trapped in his own metaphor and utterly crushed by it even though he knew the raven was incapable of changing his vocab. A symbol of inescapable and unhealed memory of his forever lost Lenore.
-- Anonymous, February 05, 2003
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Ginger Powder - Originating from Southeast Asia, ginger was thought to be first adapted for use by the Austronesian peoples. It was used by the ancient Greeks and Romans, and it is one of the first spices that was ever exported from Asia in the spice trade.
Used widely in cooking, ginger can be added to curries, marinades, and gravy as a spice. It can be used in pastries and many baked goods. It is a main ingredient in gingerbread, and in ginger tea. It is also used medicinally, and was grown in pots on Chinese ships and used to prevent sailors from getting scurvy.
Ginger powder smells spicy, woody, and floral.
Also known as: Zingiber officinale - زنجبيل
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Applicaster supports the use of DFP interstitials to provide full-screen display advertising experiences and revenue-generating opportunities.
Customers who use Applicaster2 as a datasource can achieve content segmentation by configuring different interstitial ad units for different categories of content. Whether or not a customer uses Applicaster2 as a data source, we support a home screen "splash" interstitial for all apps. This document outlines how to use this functionality using the Applicaster2 CMS.
Creating a Google DFP In-App Interstitial:
You can find Google's documentation on how to create in-app interstitials here
Note that when configuring the interstitials, there is an option in DFP to "Allow to Scale" and "Allow to Stretch". As device sizes vary, this can help prevent black background space, but this functionality (managed by Google's SDK) works better on Android than iOS.
For more complex implementations (such as universally full-screen implementations), Google supports custom creatives.
Configuring the Interstitial your App:
By Default, the Applicaster2 CMS looks first to see if you have an interstitial configured on a Category Level.
That would be configured via the "Admin --> Extensions" section in the CMS.
i- Zoom out so that you can open the folders which hold Applicaster “Categories” of content
ii- Categories will make up the rows, whereas types of ad units will make up the columns. Where a row correlates with a category associated with a screen and an ad unit is associated with interstitials, the device will pull an ad unit from here.
Extensions cannot be used for the Home Screen, however, an interstitial ad unit for the home screen can be put under the "Admin --> Advertiser" section of the Applicaster2 CMS, in the relevant fields for iOS and Android:
Extensions required for promoting Interstitial in the HomeScreen (Android only):
When promoting an Interstitial in Android, you are required to add the relevant extensions to the Admin --> Advertiser section in the Applicaster2 CMS, and select the Checkbox to Enable Interstitials.
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Beautifully furnished, this Moonlight Mountain Home features four bedrooms and four and a half baths, making it the perfect mountain getaway or family retreat. Large expansive decks take in views of the Spanish Peaks, while a wood burning fireplace in the living room is just what’s needed on cold winter nights. Finishes include stainless steel appliances, granite slab counter tops, hardwood floors, large picture windows and slate and marble baths. In addition, enjoy close proximity to the Moonlight Lodge and all of its amenities and perfect ski-in, ski-out access. Enjoy the privileges that a Moonlight Basin membership offers. A Moonlight Basin Membership is optional and available for an additional charge.
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Imagine that it’s the end of the first day of school. You’re home now, maybe sitting outside, reflecting on how your day went. What will your end-of-day story be?
Your End-of-Day Story
“Ahh, today was a good day! It actually went better than I planned. I really like my students. I can tell this is going to be a great year, and I’m already looking forward to tomorrow. I am really glad that…”
Visualization is a form of mindfulness, a practice that calms the mind, increases awareness, and allows a person to be “present” in the moment. By visualizing yourself being successful in your classroom, it will help you set goals for the first day, the first week, and even the entire school year.
Now is the time to decide what your end-of-day story will be for the first day of school. As you begin to envision your end-of-day story, avoid forcing specific outcomes. The unexpected will definitely happen, and everything won’t go exactly as planned, but having an end-of-day story will help you focus on your big goals before the everyday distractions begin.
A great way to establish a good first day is to set a simple good-day intention. Before you leave the house in the morning, tell yourself something like:
“This morning, I want to feel prepared, ready, and eager. I want to hear warm hellos from the people with whom I cross paths, and I want to see smiling colleagues and students. I want my students to feel happy to be in my classroom.”
Do you see how this simple act sets you up to be in a good mood and to expect positive outcomes? Try setting good-day intentions for different segments throughout the day. Here are a couple of examples:
Before a lesson: Your good-day intention before a lesson may sound like: “For this lesson, I want to be an effective and engaging teacher. I want to hear my students say things that help me gauge their understanding, and I want to see them helping one another and looking confident while they are doing the activity. I want them to feel comfortable and empowered to ask questions.”
End of the school day: Your good-day intention when you are at the end of the school day may sound something like this:“I want to feel stable and organized as this day comes to a close. I want to be able to let go of any negative feelings and to see my students cooperating. I want things to run as smoothly as possible. I want my students to feel satisfied and content. I want to feel relaxed.”
This year, instead of making broad resolutions that are easily broken, consider making SMART goals. SMART goals are Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic, and Time-bound objectives that will provide you with a direct path to achieve… Read more »
Read More about SMART Goals to Enrich Your Teaching Practices and Your Life
Formula for Good-Day Intentions
Try setting a good-day intention now, for the first day of school. The formula for doing so consists of any variation of the following 3 components:
- I want to feel _________
- I want to see/hear _________
- I want my students to feel _________
At the end of the first day of school, reflect on how your end-of-day story and your good-day intentions helped to set you up for success. You will most likely be pleasantly surprised by how positive you feel. You may even find yourself repeating this process the next day… and the next!
Here’s to having a great first day!
For more strategies for bringing mindfulness to your teaching practice, check out our course Staying Present: Mindfulness for Better Teaching and Learning. What are your end-of-day stories and good-day intentions? Share on our Facebook page!
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OFF AND ON: Find info at the bottom.
AG here on this fine 45-days-before-we-burn afternoon… and may I just say that Nevada was the PLACE TO BE this July 4 weekend for this burning girl. I got to see some of my favorite DPW faces, take a drive on the playa to the spot where the Man will stand, and sort through some of our team’s dusty supplies in anticipation of our desert operation. The Man is already built, believe it or not – crafted with love by some of the most enthusiastic hands to ever wield a nailgun. And the desert is just glorious right now! That cracked lakebed surface we know and love is currently hard-packed, so dust out on the playa was minimal (remember, though, it can all change without warning, so we make you no promises or guarantees about the dust this year. We’re Jack Rabbits, not Mothers Nature 😛 ). It was hot and breezy and quiet and inspiring and wonderful and I can’t wait to get back and start building the city!
I returned home on Saturday night to an inbox just chock full of JRS information…so much that we’re peeling off a separate JRS this week for events. Don’t miss it; it’s got great info on the upcoming FLAMBÉ LOUNGE, the DESERT ART PREVIEW, Chicken John’s ROCK THE BOAT, all the upcoming REGIONAL INFO, and some THEME CAMP FUNDRAISERS that will thrill and delight you!
Meanwhile all the Burning Man news you need, below: We’re trying to find a FOGHORN FOR THE MAN’S LIGHTHOUSE. Plus, the answer to the big question BRC: WHEN CAN I SHOW UP? Find out if it’s ok to arrive early (it’s not). There is also important news for getting to BRC: read some TRAVEL INFO ABOUT HOOVER DAM, and be aware of potential RENTAL CAR/TRUCK HASSLES. Also, DA RAT IN RENO IS OUT OF BIKES until further notice. There’s a PLEA FROM THE PODS OF L2K. And for airborne fun on the playa, we’ve heard about a KITEFEST AT BURNING MAN. Hook up with a great volunteer opportunity: GREETER TRAINING IN SF AND RENO, or be a GUARDIAN ANGEL FOR THE TEMPLE OF JOY, or come learn a new skill at the SIGN SHOP WORK WEEKENDS in SF.
And finally a word from little old me about ITEMS FOR POSTING IN THE JRS.
Ahoy! (I had to say that at least once this year.)
TABLE OF CONTENTS
FLAMBÉ LOUNGE: OUR FINAL GATHERING BEFORE THE PLAYA!
BRC WELCOMES YOU STARTING AUGUST 26TH!
APPROACHING BRC: IMPORTANT TRAVEL CAVEAT!
RENTING A VEHICLE TO GET TO BRC? THE EYES HAVE IT
THE BURNING MAN SEEKS A FOGHORN
ONE LESS PLACE TO GET A BIKE
L2K: A PLEA FOR PODS
DATE SET FOR KITEFEST ON THE PLAYA
GREETER TRAINING: SAN FRANCISCO, RENO
THE TEMPLE OF JOY IS Calling All Angels!!!!
SIGN SHOP WORK WEEKEND IN SF – LEARN TO MAKE SIGNS!
A “JACK RABBIT SPEAKS” NOTE ABOUT…WELL, “THE JACK RABBIT SPEAKS”
ADMIN ON AND OFF
Burning Man Flambé Lounge Presents:
NO SPECTATORS DAY & The S.S. BLACK ROCK LAUNCH PARTY
A full day of PARKticipation & Floating World art and community!
Sunday, July 21st
2pm-6pm Esprit Park: Free and all ages!
6pm-2am Club Cocomo: $10 seaworthy attire; $15 street wear, 21+
Please refer to the upcoming ALL EVENTS JRS for full info, or click the Flambé page at http://bmpublishing.wpengine.com/blackrockcity_yearround/special-events/flambe/ (if the info isn’t there, it will be soon, so check back!)
Click http://home.earthlink.net/~eggchairsteve/launchparty.html to view the invitation!
We’ve searched high and low, and so far we’ve not been able to turn up a foghorn for the lighthouse structure that will form the Burning Man’s base. We’re seeking a classically toned electronically operated foghorn to fully complete the transformation of its pedestal into a lighthouse in the Floating World.
In our search, we’ve turned up ship’s horns, hand-crank foghorns, and other such findings, but none so far have had the true, foghorny quality we seek.
Got a resource? Got an idea? Write us at jackrabbitspeaks(at)burningman(dot)com.
A message from the Department of Public Works –
Q: When can I arrive at Burning Man? Can I come early?
A: Our gates open on Monday, August 26th. Theme camps placed in Center Camp or the Esplanade and registered artists will be allowed to arrive on the Saturday before our gates open (August 24th.) All other early arrivals are *not* allowed – because we’re not ready for you!
We know you’re eager, but we are still making our city roads and infrastucture and cranking in high gear to finish safely and on time. Any extra body not working toward this effort is just in the way. Arrivals before August 26th tax our infrastructure, increase safety risks and cost the event money. The area used for Burning Man is closed until our event begins.
Please work with us by waiting until Black Rock City is ready for you. See you on the playa on Monday, August 26th.
Hoover Dam is CLOSED to most BM traffic (RVs and tightly packed cars)
Gary Taylor, our AZ Regional RockStar writes:
“Some of you go across Hoover Dam and then up the western side of Nevada by way of Las Vegas to get to Black Rock City. Since 9-11 Hoover Dam has been closed to trucks, vehicles with trailers and RVs. This also includes cars, pickups and SUV’s that are so tightly packed that the police can’t tell what is in it when you stop at the road block. Don’t think that they *might* let you across. They wont, so don’t be tempted. If you try, it will add an hour of frustration to your drive when they turn you back. Save yourself the hassle by going to the bridge across the Colorado River at Laughlin. There are two ways over the river. One is across Davis Dam and the other is a bridge about a mile south of it. This bridge is not shown on some maps. Don’t worry, it is there. Davis Dam is closed just like Hoover. Just follow the signs.
So here is how you do it. Once you come to Kingman Az., you take Highway 68 to Laughlin-Bullhead City. This is a straight shot out of Kingman to Nevada. Once you Exit from I-40 at Kingman onto Highway 68, just follow the highway signs to Bullhead City-Laughlin and the bridge. After you are across it, take Highway 163 a few miles to Highway 95 then north to Searchlight and Henderson. This route is not that bad and is well marked. The road is two lane at 65 mph. It is further than going across Hoover. But before 9-11 it was faster during the day because of the tourist traffic at Hoover Dam. There is a negative side to this route. During the day this road has a lot of traffic. The speed limit is 65 but don’t expect to do over 55 because of all the motor homes and slow poke drivers. However, if you take this road late at night or early in the morning, traffic is very light. Driving late at night in the desert this time of year is much easier on your vehicle and tires anyway. Not to mention how much better it is if you don’t have air conditioning.”
If you are renting a car to drive to Burning Man then beware: technology is a double-edged sword.
We have received a report of a participant taking a rental car to Burning Man and being stuck with a $2600.00 surcharge when she turned the vehicle in. The vehicle was cleaned inside and out before she returned it. They allegedly charged her for abuse and mileage because she went to Black Rock Desert. She had told them she was going on a camping vacation, but failed to tell them it was in Black Rock City Nevada. Her mileage was less than allowed by the contract for the week she had it, but since she drove into Nevada they hit her for out of state mileage (at $1/mile for the whole trip). Then they said there was a surcharge for repairs that “might” be needed because she drove it off road. They also charged her $180.00 because she exceeded the speed limit three times on her trip! It seems the GPS was on the whole time.
More on this topic at: http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/azstar/20020706/lo/rental_car_tracking_spurs_suit_1.html
Burners are fired up and planning! Following last week’s mention in the JRS, Nevada’s Da Rat saw all 110 of his bikes reserved, in less than a week! (I stopped by and took mine for a spin on the way to the desert. It’s red, of course!) So – no more bikes are available through Da Rat, but we will keep a bunny ear to the ground for opportunities for other burners to pick up a bike on the way to the playa.
L2K (the ring of lights around the Man) is a computer controlled wonder. You have seen the lights running patterns for the last several years. This is a big project and Burning Man now maintains all of the components, pods and wiring. This year plans are to have more interactivity right there at the Man.
But like any major project, L2K can use some help. There is some final pod and harness testing to be done before the event. L2K needs some other help as well during the event as well such as installation. If you are interested in getting involved in this project contact tim(at)astronomynv(dot)org. Plans are to have 1 day of testing at the Nevada Work Ranch the end of July or the beginning of August. This is simple work and requires little effort (i.e. it is a sit down job). This will be the final work before the event. This is simple work, involving only sitting with a battery pack testing pods. It’s the *location* of the work that’s fun!
In previous years the ring suffered the most damage the night of the burn. Pods are taken as souvenirs and broken when driven on by bikes and cars. The obelisks and battery get tagged, pissed on and banged around. Everyone is encouraged to help by spreading the word: enjoy L2K but leave it there when you go. The pods take time and money to create. Don’t take the pods and please don’t drive over them. The Obelisks are not urinals or repositories for graffiti. They are fun to hang around and look at. If people help in these areas, L2k will be easier to maintain and less costly for Burning Man, ensuring its return for the next year.
The Black Rock City Department of Tethered Aviation will be sponsoring the 3rd Annual Black Rock City International Kite Festival on Thursday August 29th at 4:20pm.
The BRCIKF has twice been nominated for the Best Kite Festival of the Year at the Kite Trade Association’s annual convention.
In keeping with this year’s Burning Man theme, we are asking all of you to bring out your fish, octopi, boat, and other marine theme kites. Our goal for 2002 is to have over 1,000 kites in the air and to finally win that award.
If you need a kite please visit your local kite shop or go to www.paintthesky.com. You can also shop by telephone at 1-800-KITELUST.
See you all on the Playa!
BRC Dept. of Tethered Aviation
When : Saturday 7-13-02 at Noon to 2 p.m.
Where : SF Offices at 1900 3rd
http://www.burningman.com/office.directions.html (watch out for construction)
Why : We will be Greeting on Playa in less than 2 months!!
Bring a bag of chips and a six pack and lots of questions. Let’s get out to the playa this year and make last year downright dull! Bring in your H.A.P.P.Y. face and get the latest and the greatest in Greeting at Burning Man in 2002. For those that have attended a training meeting, we would love your assistance at this one.
Greeter Training Meeting in Reno
When : Saturday 7-27-02 from 3 p .m. to 5 p.m.
Where : Bruka Theatre
99 N. Virginia St
Why : Kick-ass good training for Greeters
Please join us in Reno at the Bruka Theatre for a wild show called Greeter Training. If you have Greeted before or not, this meeting is for you!
The artist David Best is creating another Temple to follow in the wake of the beauty of his “Temple of Tears ” from 2001. He is gracing this new temple with the Title of “The Temple of Joy”…a place of Reflection. David is in serious need of a Legion of “Guardian Angel ” Protectors to quard and protect this 3-story masterpiece of architectural design, 24 hours a day. The purpose is to warn people from climbing upon the structure, to prevent injury to themselves and others. The desire to climb is natural, but the delicacy of this structure will not handle the weight and the new height would make climbing quite dangerous. You’ll also help keep an eye out for any misguided attempts to conflagrate the piece before its time.
If there is a calling inside of you to stand guard one of the world’s most ephemeral cathedrals, whilst witnessing the profound communion of people placing their thoughts gently upon its walls…to ignite into brillant transformational flame Sunday evening… email the Arch Angel Termeh in charge of heading up this masterful Legion at goodoos(at)earthlink(dot)net. Headquarters shall be on the playa in the Lamplighter camp.
The DPW sign shop creates all the street signs and other signage in BRC. This hardworking team is having work weekends in the Burning Man San Francisco office on the following Saturdays and Sundays:
We’ll start at 10 am and go until around 4, except on July 21st, when we’ll stop at 2 PM so everyone can go enjoy Flambe Lounge.
Come and have some fun and make signs for Black Rock City! Office location: http://www.burningman.com/officedirections
E. mail honneyman(at)burningman(dot)com with your contact information and availability.
Please check the upcoming EVENTS ONLY JRS for regional info! Stay tuned for JRS V6-27a…but one more thing before we go:
The JRS has a distribution of roughly 30,000 addresses. We get a LOT of post requests these days for events, and it’s becoming a time-consuming quandary for us to decide which events are/are not coming from within the Burning Man community, which theme camp benefits are sizeable enough that folks might fly to a city to catch them, who is going to make money off a party’s ticket sales, whether it’s a commercial party, etc.
Since the primary purpose of this newsletter is *news about Burning Man*, we thought it might be a good time to reexamine some guidelines for postings that will go into the JRS. In many cities, we’ve got a regional contact with an active announcement list who would just LOVE to post your local event to the Burning Man community. It may be that your announcement should be sent to several regional contacts – for example, if you have a theme camp benefit in Chicago, you might send a note to the Missouri, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Ohio contacts in addition to the [email protected] alias, for their announce lists. Likewise, be sure to make use of the excellent regional calendars, linked from each region’s page found at http://www.burningman.com/blackrockcity_yearround/contacts/regional_contacts.html.
In order to keep the JRS relevant to the event, we’re asking you to aim in the direction of the local regional contacts when posting your local happenings. If you live in an area where there are lots of events happening but there’s just NOT a regional anywhere remotely nearby to help announce it, fire us an email at jackrabbitspeaks(at)burningman(dot)com and let us know.
Another really valuable resource for finding and promoting events is the year round calendar at http://www.burningman.com/calendar/yearround/month.php. Find events in your area and add one of your own. We strongly encourage you to use this tool! If you’ll be traveling through a region for business or pleasure, check it – you might find other like-minded family to meet.
And yes, we will continue to post the information for things Burning Man: regional burns (events to which one might choose to travel to experience!), volunteer trainings, Flambé Lounges, film screenings, etc., but we’ll be devoting less column space to those smaller events such as theme camp benefits, meetings, and those kinda-but-not-really-directly-Burning-Man-related gatherings that people are always sending us. The hope is that this resource will be kept useful for the burner from Japan, the burner from Idaho, the burner from Ireland, and the burner from San Francisco to obtain information about Burning Man. Sometimes (like today) we’ve got so many of these items that we’ll move them to a seperate, events-only JRS.
Please don’t be insulted if your item is not posted in the JRS. The announce lists and year-round calendars on http://www.burningman.com have been greatly improved recently to make them useful for finding ways to connect with like-minded people in your area.
Another note – due to the deadlines and schedules and rhythms of the office this time of year, the JRS will now come to you on Thursdays instead of Wednesdays. (Rabbit factoid: it takes between 8 and 12 hours for the JRS team to compile and write and edit each newsletter.)
The Jack Rabbit retains the right to post what the Jack Rabbit will, to have a cheesy sense of humor, and to make gloriously bad puns with absolutely no warning.
If you have questions, just ask! jackrabbitspeaks(at)burningman(dot)com.
[Soundtrack to this JRS: the “Kids” soundtrack; Elliot Smith.]
ADMIN ON & OFF
PLEASE do NOT hit reply to this newsletter. It will probably never be seen!
jackrabbitspeaks(at)burningman(dot)com (for questions and post requests)
old rabbits: www.burningman.com/blackrockcity_yearround/jrs/
You’ll get an email to which you must respond to complete the request.
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Al Foster Memorial Trail
The Al Foster Memorial Trail is located near the intersection of Grand Ave. and Washington Ave. in the Glencoe Community. View our facility page for a location map. (225 Grand Avenue)
The current trail length is five (5) miles (three (3) miles to Sherman Beach and another two (2) miles to Castlewood State Park).
The trail is eight (8) foot wide and made of crushed stone. It is available for use by walkers, runners, and bicyclists. The trail generally follows the Meramec River from the Al Foster Trailhead in Glencoe to the east through Sherman Beach and into Castlewood State Park. It provides scenic views of bluffs forest, areas, and the Meramec River. View a map of the trail (PDF).
Parking is available at the Al Foster Memorial Trailhead (225 Grand Ave.) and Glencoe City Park (505 Washington).
Restrooms, picnic tables, pavilions, and trash receptacles are available at the Al Foster Memorial Trailhead. There is no potable water at this location.
Hours of operation are one-half hour before dawn to one-half hour after dusk.
Al Foster Memorial Trailhead
The Al Foster Memorial Trailhead is located just north of the Al Foster Memorial Trail. Currently there are restrooms, picnic tables, pavilions, trash receptacles and a parking lot. Please note, water is not available.
Glencoe City Park
Glencoe City Park is located 0.2 miles north of the Al Foster Memorial Trailhead (505 Washington). This park includes a playground facility, picnic amenities, a vault restroom facility and parking. Please note, water is not available.
WF&P Miniature Railroad
WF&P Miniature Railroad is located in close proximity to the trail and trailhead. This railroad system is a great way to experience and explore the area trail system.
- Bluff View Trail (12.7 miles in length)
- Hamilton Carr Trail (1.5 miles in length)
- Rock Hollow Trail (2.3 miles in length)
- Numerous single track trail opportunities off of the Al Foster Trail in Castlewood State Park.
A future connection is planned to Route 66 State Park to the south and beyond Castlewood State Park to the east. When completed, the Al Foster Trail will become an official segment of the Ozark Trail which will extend from the confluence of the Meramec and Mississippi Rivers to the Arkansas/Missouri border.
- Missouri Department of Natural Resources
- St. Louis County Department of Parks and Recreation
- Great Rivers Greenway (GRG)
- City of Wildwood
Visit the Al Foster Trail photo gallery.
Report a Concern
The Al Foster Memorial Trail is maintained by Missouri State Parks, please contact them if you have a concern on the trail. Park Office: (636) 227-4433 https://mostateparks.com/park/castlewood-state-park
The Al Foster Memorial Trailhead is maintained by the City of Wildwood, please contact the City of Wildwood if you have a concern at the trailhead. Department of Planning and Parks (636) 458-0440 or [email protected]
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Families across Texas are hoping to get a bill moving forward that would expand the state’s medical marijuana program. Former Dallas Cowboy Jay Novacek and his wife, Amy Novacek, have been advocating for the bill on behalf of their son who they say can better manage his seizures thanks […]
Families across Texas are hoping to get a bill moving forward that would expand the state’s medical marijuana program.
Former Dallas Cowboy Jay Novacek and his wife, Amy Novacek, have been advocating for the bill on behalf of their son who they say can better manage his seizures thanks to medical marijuana.
House Bill 1535 creates a medical cannabis research program and raises the cap on THC from 0.5% to 5%.
But the family says it’s not about increasing the amount of drugs but making improvements to the current medical marijuana program and helping some patients manage side effects.
"This is not about people getting high," Amy said. "This is not about anything but the medicinal use of it prescribed by a doctor."
Amy and Jay’s son, Blake, has been dealing with a multitude of health issues, including seizures and migraines from a traumatic head injury in 2015. The family says Blake has up to 15 seizures a day.
"He still struggles with chronic migraines and body pain," Amy said. "When he seizes and falls, he’s had some injuries. He’s broken his nose. He’s had some shoulder and other bodily injuries."
After trying different medications. the family found medicinal marijuana helped Blake significantly reduce his seizures and manage his pain.
"We were not in support of it, really," Amy admitted. "But then the more we saw our kid coming back to us and the normalcy it gave him, we absolutely supported it and still do to this day."
According to the bill's authors, about 5,000 patients currently benefit from the state’s compassionate use program with medicine that is oil-based.
But advocates say current restrictions cause side effects for some patients because of the amount they need to ingest.
Families like the Novaceks want to raise the cap on THC from .5% to 5% so less oil becomes more effective.
"The amount [of medicine] he’s going to be taking a day is exactly the same. It’s just the oil," Jay explained. "The carrier oil he has to drink would be dramatically reduced."
The bill already passed the Texas House with bipartisan support. But so far, it has not moved in the Senate.
The family is urging others to contact their state senators and the lieutenant governor to take action.
"We’re not going to load him up on THC," Jay said. "We’re giving him the same amount."
Advocates say if there is no movement on the bill within the next few days, it will likely not pass this session.
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Milk is back on the menu.
Stepping outside in a sideways ice blast to get those milk bottles is as far as I’m reaching today.
Dog print pyjamas, bobble hat and complete the outfit with some fluffy socks. A passer-by scurries on past either oblivious or terrified at the sweary mess of a women trying to keep her glasses on and picking up milk bottles with hair writhing in the cold wind like the wicked witch of the morning.
Where is my coffee?
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The district Guinardó climbs through the foothills of the central hills of the city, where the slopes of the plain of Barcelona began to grow, just before they become open in the mountains. Its expansion is a tissue midway between the power of the Eixample Cerdà, which is one of the more robust images of Barcelona, and the smaller scale of the settlements on its banks. Separated from the core of Guinardó the Hospital de Sant Pau, this small extension is a piece of city with strong ties to eastern district of Gracia. It is a place with parameters, where urban character is not inconsistent with the more extensive tempo of activities and where interventions should respond to the needs that are defined by this highly limited.
As in much of the city of Barcelona, creating new public spaces here is possible only after the demolition of disused buildings. In this case, the garden could be constructed after demolishing, almost entirely, a former military barracks. There is only one wing. The rest of the field allowed the opening of a new road and also to give rise to public space, was established as a reserve for the construction of new facilities.
The duality of space-age equipment is what gives this piece a nuclear character, a catalyst for the activities of an industry which happens to constitute a central element. The measures of land intended for public space, about 2 ha-dovetail well with the scale of the territory to which to respond, and typological resolution was adopted, a garden with a large central plaza and collected some spaces around-must help meet the different types of activities that involves such a context.
The landscaping is generated from the wooded area that constitute the central courtyard of the barracks. This was a horizontal surface in a square surrounded by some bananas that have been in the time of demolition. Taking this surface and those bananas, has created a vast expanse of “Saul” bigger than the original space and which are possible all kinds of group activities, both public events and games that require large spaces.
This large central plaza is built by incorporating various elements. The most important of these is undoubtedly a sheet of water reflecting the surrounding vegetation allowing children to play. With a depth of 50 cm and an area of 1,900 m2, this mirror offers a changing play of light and reflection that is a focal point from inside the garden as their perception from the neighborhood around it. In your environment, pine groups qualify differently the various parts of the esplanade and, without restricting the use for group activities designed to provide excellent area light and shadow, and differentiating living areas and game. A number of banks and various lighting columns equipped with the esplanade.
The gap that occurs between the central space horizontal and sloping streets of the environment is saved by a series of terraces and shrub beds that resemble the traditional practice of the terraces. But the elements constructed here has a purely functional, with no expressive value, for the vegetation to hide behind it and leave the spotlight. The image of the garden is given by the natural elements and the elements constructed to serve only those acquire their maximum expression.
Each group of terraces is planted with a plant species itself, so that the whole is perceived as a series of large volumes of bloom and color characteristics specific to punctuate it throughout the year. This treatment of the vegetation and the fact that the area it is more than 7,000 m2 convert the garden into a living space and variable, both for the users and the environment for residents who can enjoy the changing landscape from windows. The time is present and alter the perception of space as it goes.
These masses shrub is a series of wooden platforms with benches and trees that are small islands of peace in which to forget the environment. To get there by road straight, also of wood, saving level differences through vegetation. Indirect lighting, distinct from the central plaza, also at night allows the character of these spaces hidden in the vegetation is more intimate than the central area.
But the garden, in addition to adequately articulate a variety of spaces that help to meet the needs that is confronted, it must also have a correct relationship with the environment if you want to become a meeting point for the neighborhood. Therefore, the Navy and Lepanto streets connect with the great central esplanade through four ramps that are located across the street and Rosalia de Castro Carolina. Thanks to them it is possible to continue the street grid of the area and enhance the pedestrian flow between the various sectors of the district crosses the public space. The fact that, in addition, the ramps are in front of what will be the new equipment to build the other side of Lepanto Street strengthens its nodal nature within the urban fabric.
These ramps are the only elements that deliberately express condition of constructed elements. With the concrete wall and the granite pavement, acquire a clarity that highlights both sides of the central platform and expressively emphasize how far the creation of an urban space is not only a problem of shaping the land available but also build the city through it.
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It’s a bright and shiny new year, with goals to set and countless opportunities to take on fresh challenges. Should your tastes lean toward speed, heights or physical exertion, why not put one of these out-of-the ordinary experiences on your to-do list for 2022?
Although the phrases “for your future travels” or “when it’s safe to travel again” may have become common refrains while writing about European destinations, we can’t help but continue to dream and make plans for where we want to travel.
Breathtaking and otherworldly, that is how it feels to step out of the stone tunnel and into the historical town of Monemvasia, Greece. This car-free town is located on the Peloponnese, about a four-hour drive from Athens and was built carved into the rock facing the sea.
Romania has long been a hidden treasure in Eastern Europe. With majestic mountain ranges, glass-like lakes and villages that appear to be straight out of a fairy tale, it’s no wonder this spectacular country is emerging as a must-visit destination.
Austria is undeniably a beautiful country to visit no matter the time of year. However, once snow falls on the Alps, Christmas markets adorn enchanting cities and warm drinks enter your stomach, winter in Austria will be one of your favorite things.
Umpteen centuries ago, travelers heading east along the Neckar River would have reached a small, rather unremarkable settlement. At this juncture, two major trade routes diverged, and our wanderers would have needed to decide which way to go.
As the beginning of a new year rapidly approaches, the days are often filled with last-minute shopping, crowds and the yearning to get one more quick trip in before the close of the year. Straddling the border of France and Germany in the heart of the Alsace wine region is Strasbourg.
With the last-minute shopping frenzy to find the perfect holiday gift in full swing, area Christmas markets are sure to be crowded. Escape the crowds and take a stroll through the illuminated landscape of the Berlin Botanical Garden.
There are many benefits of taking the train during holiday travel. Ride along and visit with family and friends without having to coordinate cars or navigate crowded roads. Enjoy the beautiful scenery. Tend to infants and toddlers without frequent pit stops.
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Tom Spurgeon has an interesting interview with Will Pfeifer, writer of the much-maligned Amazons Attack. Honestly, Amazons is not representative of Pfeifer's work at all. His HERO was one of my favorite books before it concluded its run, and his Catwoman has been one of the best ongoing DC comics over the past couple of years. His use of a genuine emotional subtext with Catwoman's baby, and his incorporation of "classic" DC villains (like Triangle Man!) has made it a real treat. Pfeifer also does a three-minute dvd bit on the new Around Comics podcast every Monday, and the guy has excellent taste in his recommendations.
Pfeifer references my Morrison book in the interview, which is pretty cool of him, and pretty cool of Tom Spurgeon for linking to book's Amazon page. So, thanks Will and Tom!
Anyway, check out the interview--it's a good one: Spurgeon does Pfeifer.
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“The average citizen remains confused as the health authorities flip flop directions concerning the wearing of masks.”
I have seen virus outbreaks my entire life, they are normal in any society. Usually the warnings given are, if sick stay at home. Then again, we have our health authorizes advice if things change, such as the WHO, CDC or Health Canada—these are the type of groups that only speak when they have gathered all the documentation, and once sure, they share their advice with the public. This suggests that they are reliable and trusted sources. Unfortunately, the past few months have showed, it is not that easy to trust and rely on any one group.
One of the problems is that information has been constantly changing, which makes it very hard for people to count on decision-making authorities and experts. One of the examples is the World Health Organization, whose recommendation has changed over time. “There is no specific evidence to suggest that the wearing of masks by the mass population has any potential benefit. In fact, there’s some evidence to suggest the opposite in the misuse of wearing a mask properly or fitting it properly,” said Dr. Mike Ryan, executive director of the WHO health emergencies program in March. Only two months later, at the beginning of June, the WHO changed its advice and claimed that facial masks should be worn in public where social distancing is not possible. The WHO is not alone in recommendation of face masks, in fact many medical and political leaders support wearing them.
Yet questions arise regarding the effectiveness of face masks, especially cloth and other homemade masks. According to the online report Effectiveness of Cloth Masks for Protection Against Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2, “the filtration effectiveness of cloth masks is generally lower than that of medical masks and respirators; however, cloth masks may provide some protection if well designed and used correctly.” Also the Government of Canada warns that “homemade masks are not medical devices and (…) may not be effective in blocking virus particles that may be transmitted by coughing, sneezing or certain medical procedures.” On their website they also claim that wearing a mask alone will not prevent the spread of COVID-19. This has been the concern of many public health groups as face masks could provide a false sense of security. Experts feared the masks could lead to more touching of the face or contamination in case the mask has been put down on an unclean surface. As experience shows, this fear has its grounds.
Up and down and all around, the average citizen remains confused as the health authorities flip flop directions concerning the wearing of masks, and most don’t have a clue to the kinds of masks worn, no matter their effectiveness.
Inconsistencies are not the biggest concerns, safety and health, on the other hand, are. A British medical study, based on a randomized trial compared the efficacy of cloth masks to medical masks in healthcare workers (HCWs). The hypothesis was that there is no difference between medical masks and cloth masks though the trial proved otherwise. Results showed that the rates of all infection outcomes were highest in the cloth masks. Penetration of cloth masks by particles was almost 97% and medical masks 44%. The results caution against the use of cloth masks and suggest further research. However, as a precautionary measure, cloth masks should not be recommended for HCWs, particularly in high-risk situations, and guidelines need to be updated.
Unfortunately, this is not where it all ends. Many medical experts claim that wearing face masks is harmful to the wearer. It means that not only do face masks not protect you, but they can limit your oxygen and even redirect harmful pathogens that you may be carrying back into your airway. According to a recent video of Dr. Margarite Griesz-Brisson MD, PhD (a Consultant Neurologist and Neurophysiologist with a PhD in Pharmacology, with special interest in neurotoxicology, environmental medicine, neuroregeneration and neuroplasticity), masks and their effects on our brains could be much more serious than we thought.
“The re-breathing of our exhaled air will without a doubt create oxygen deficiency and a flooding of carbon dioxide. We know that the human brain is very sensitive to oxygen deprivation. There are nerve cells for example in the hippocampus, that can’t be longer than 3 minutes without oxygen – they cannot survive.
The acute warning symptoms are headaches, drowsiness, dizziness, issues in concentration, slowing down of the reaction time – reactions of the cognitive system.
However, when you have chronic oxygen deprivation, all of those symptoms disappear, because you get used to it. But your efficiency will remain impaired, as the undersupply of oxygen in your brain continues to progress.”
Dr. Griesz-Brisson is definitely not the only one warning us, other medical experts—like virus expert Judy Mikovits—say as well that masks can cause harm to wearers. According to Weblyf.com, in social media posts she has written: “Do you not know how unhealthy it is to keep inhaling your carbon dioxide and restricting proper oxygen flow? … The body requires AMPLE amounts of oxygen for optimal immune health. Proper oxygenation of your cells and blood is ESSENTIAL for the body to function as it needs to in order to fight off any illness. Masks will hamper oxygen intake.”
Other experts have also warned the public against wearing facemasks as the virus can get trapped in the material and cause infection when the wearer breathes in. “By wearing a mask, the exhaled viruses will not be able to escape and will concentrate in the nasal passages, enter the olfactory nerves and travel into the brain” says board-certified neurosurgeon Dr. Russell Blaylock.
One of our most important tasks is to be able to navigate among different types of contradictory information, question the questionable and remember what the long-known facts and logic tells us. We should also be aware of our actions and their long-term consequences because our health and future could be determined by them.
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Team Novo Nordisk, the world’s first all-diabetes professional cycling team, is set to host its annual talent identification camps virtually due to COVID-19 travel restrictions. In its eighth year, the talent identification (Talent ID) camps serve as a key recruiting tool for Team Novo Nordisk to develop athletes for the men’s professional squad. Currently, 66 young athletes with type 1 diabetes from 25 different countries are slated to attend the virtual camp, which will be held from July10-20.
“Since the team’s inception, we knew locating and developing athletes with type 1 diabetes was essential for the long-term success and sustainability of the project,” said Team Novo Nordisk CEO and co-founder Phil Southerland. “This is the eighth year we’ve held talent identification camps, and they serve as a vital recruitment tool for our pipeline of talented athletes with type 1 diabetes. The strength and depth of our project have grown enormously thanks to these camps, but we are always searching for the next superstar who is living with diabetes.”
The Sufferfest training platform, which is part of Wahoo Fitness’ training ecosystem, will be at the core of the 2020 Talent ID Camp. Participants will complete The Sufferfest’s Half Monty Advanced Ramp Test before the camp to set and evaluate baseline values for FTP (functional threshold power), MAP (maximal aerobic power), and to refine their estimated NM (neuromuscular power) and AC (anaerobic capacity).
During camp, athletes will complete daily structured workouts on The Sufferfest app, including both cycling-specific workouts and cross-training. All athletes will complete The Sufferfest 4DP Full Frontal fitness test to get precise values across all four performance metrics (MAP, FTP, NM, and AC) and to help team management evaluate athletes. At the end of the camp participants will complete the Half Monty again to track improvement.
“Performance metrics are an important aspect of what makes young athletes suitable for a professional racing team,” said The Sufferfest founder David McQuillen. “The advanced fitness tests in The Sufferfest allow coaches and athletes to get deep insight into their strengths and areas for improvement. We’re proud to be able to partner with Team Novo Nordisk on their first-ever virtual Talent ID camp and help them as they work to set their 2021 roster.”
Since 2013, Team Novo Nordisk’s Talent ID camps have been held during the summer on the University of Georgia campus, which is Southerland’s alma mater. While this year’s Talent ID has shifted to a digital experience, the goals remain the same. Team Novo Nordisk is actively looking to find the next big talent to race for the world’s first all-diabetes professional cycling team.
“For nearly a decade, we get to watch the children attending these camps achieving one of their earliest dreams. It is an absolute honor to be a part of that milestone, and we don’t take it lightly that we are helping to create the next generation of heroes with diabetes,” said Southerland. “Through camp, children with diabetes are connected to their role models and given tools to empower their journey of living and thriving with diabetes. It gives me great pleasure that we expanded the 2020 camp to so many more athletes and I’m eager to meet all these future champions.”
The campers will race and train together on The Sufferfest alongside Team Novo Nordisk’s professional, development and junior riders while also working closely with licensed health care professionals to learn more about sports and diabetes management. The camps are open to young, active, endurance athletes ages 15-23 with type 1 diabetes.
What makes this year’s Talent ID camp unique is that the digital format allows for the Talent ID campers to ride alongside Team Novo Nordisk professional athletes. Historically the camps have been limited to about 25 athletes, but this year Team Novo Nordisk has expanded to nearly 70 campers.
Team Novo Nordisk, whose mission is to inspire, educate and empower everyone affected by diabetes, has nearly 40 members across its development and professional teams and ambassador program. To find out more about joining Team Novo Nordisk’s junior or development squads or to apply for a future Talent ID camp, visit www.teamnovonordisk.com.
Team Novo Nordisk is a global all-diabetes sports team of cyclists spearheaded by the world’s first all-diabetes professional cycling team. In 2012, Phil Southerland, co-founder and CEO of the team, and global healthcare company Novo Nordisk, came together to create Team Novo Nordisk, based on a shared vision to inspire, educate and empower people around the world affected by diabetes. For more information, go to www.teamnovonordisk.com.
About Wahoo Fitness
Located in Atlanta, GA, Wahoo Fitness has created a full ecosystem of sensors and devices for runners, cyclists, and general fitness enthusiasts. Wahoo’s award-winning line of products include the KICKR family of smart indoor riding equipment and accessories, the ELEMNT family of bike computers, the TICKR family of heart rate monitors, as well as Speedplay dual-sided pedals and The Sufferfest structured training software to help you become the most complete cyclist. Learn more about Wahoo’s full line of products and apps at wahoofitness.com.
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