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Primers are a relatively new makeup product and while they are not necessarily a must, if chosen wisely, they can take your makeup and skincare to the next level.
Although there are many makeup primers these days, for me they fall into just two categories. Primers that only do 1 specific thing and therefore, I would only use in specific parts of the face (like for example oil reduction primers or pore minimisers that I would use on my T-zone) and those that not only enhance makeup but also nourish the skin, and therefore, I would use all over the face and even on the neck.
Most primers out there fall into the first category. They might do something well but they are not known for their nourishing capabilities. It's generally quite rare to find a primer that can be considered skincare worthy, especially as much as the This Works In Transit Camera Mask, Moisturiser & Primer which I highly recommend.
To my surprise though, I recently received the First Aid Beauty Coconut Skin Smoothie Priming Moisturiser and it initially impressed me too. I've now put it through a few weeks on testing and here's the results!
Is the First Aid Beauty Coconut Skin Smoothie Priming Moisturiser as good as the This Works In Transit Camera Mask, Moisturiser & Primer and most importantly, is it worth your time and money? Let's find out.
The This Works In Transit Camera Mask, Moisturiser & Primer is a white cream that gets worked into the skin without changing the skin's colour.
On the other hand, the First Aid Beauty Coconut Skin Smoothie Priming Moisturiser has a pale peachy, light-skin colour but it wasn't enough to change the colour of my skin (I am very pale).
Both primers blur pores a little at the beginning of usage, perhaps due to moisturisation of the skin, but they are not good enough to be considered pore-blurring.
Winner: Equal. The two primers differ in colour but neither had a specific advantage over the other in this category.
The This Works In Transit Camera Mask, Moisturiser & Primer has a thick, creamy consistency but is easy to spread and gets absorbed by the skin fast without leaving any residues behind.
On the other hand, the First Aid Beauty Coconut Skin Smoothie Priming Moisturiser has a thinner cream texture that feels watery and very hydrating on the skin. It is also absorbed quickly and doesn't leave any residues behind.
Winner: Equal. Which texture is best highly depends on your skin type. For my oily skin the This Works is better but on more dry skin the First Aid Beauty primer might feel more hydrating.
The This Works primer has a faint floral/cosmetic smell is pleasant. It is fairly subtle though and you might not even smell it.
It is worth to note that the This Works primer also comes in travel size plastic tubes which expose the product more in air and therefore, change quicker overtime. If your primer has a strong floral scent it might have oxidised or come from a bad batch. I've noticed this with all the travel size tubes I ever had but none of the full size products ever smelled strongly or almost anything at all. I do not recommend buying the travel size of this product, even if it is still sealed.
The First Aid Beauty primer has a much stronger scent that smells like creamy coconut. It's very pleasant but at the same time not too overpowering.
Winner: Due to the slightly nicer coconut scent, which is natural and not from fragrance, the First Aid Beauty Coconut Skin Smoothie Priming Moisturiser takes this category.
The This Works Primer retails for £30 for 40mL whereas the First Aid Beauty for £20.50 for 50mL.
Winner: The First Aid Beauty primer is much cheaper.
Both primers are very practical and easy to use. The This Works primer comes with a pump but the First Aid Beauty one is also very easy to squeeze out of the tube.
In terms of general appearance, the This Works is very simple in its branding and design whereas the First Aid Beauty one is more colourful and stands out.
I personally like the simplicity and elegance of the This Works one a little more, but it is mainly the fact that it comes with a pump that gives it the upper hand. The This Works packaging will protect its ingredients a little better.
It is worth noting that the This Works primer comes with outter cardboard packaging. The pictures in this post show a full size This Works 40mL bottle whereas the First Aid one is a 21.3g travel size because it was temporarily out of stock and couldn't get my hands on one for the pictures! The full size First Aid primer looks exactly the same, just bigger.
Winner: The This Works primer comes with slightly better packaging.
While both primers were nice to use and felt great on the skin, the This Works primer is a better makeup base, enabling makeup to last a little longer.
The First Aid Beauty primer was also worse in controlling oil production and I was a little shiny or dewy when I was wearing it under makeup for 8 hours+. This might not be an issue for you at all if you have dry skin, but it might result in making your foundation stick to the skin a little less.
Winner: Overall, the This Works primer is a better makeup base no matter what skin type you have, giving longer lasting results.
The This Works primer lasts for 6M whereas the First Aid Beauty one for 12M. The This Works primer on the other hand, has won the Elle Best of British Beauty Awards and was a CEW Awards finalist in 2016. It's also my ride-or-die primer for two years now.
"A handbag must have – it's a mask, moisturiser and primer all-in-one, for a long-lasting perfect make-up finish.
"Formulated with Coconut Water and other superfood ingredients, this natural, complexion-enhancing moisturizer instantly brightens, hydrates and smooths in one simple step, while helping blur the appearance of pores and imperfections.
Winner: Equal. The This Works primer is a more recognised product but the First Aid Beauty primer lasts longer.
The This Works primer contains 45 ingredients of which 32 will offer you some skincare benefit, 2 potential negatives and 18 irritants. The First Aid Beauty primer contains 44 ingredients of which 28 will offer you some skincare benefit, 5 potential negatives and 5 irritants.
Overall, the This Works primer has a higher skincare nourishing capability, even though some ingredients are present in very small amounts. Although the First Aid beauty primer is much more nourishing than a lot of primers out there, it is just not as good as the This Works.
Aloe Barbadensis Leaf Extract– Skin conditioner, locks moisture in (=humectant). Some consider it to have anti-flammatory properties and protects against UV-damage. This is not a sunscreen and you still need SPF. Some have reported it to stimulate collage production and therefore, reduce the appearance of wrinkles.
Butyrospermum Parkii Butter (aka Shea butter)– Anti-flammatory, soothes itchy, irritated skin and sunburnt skin, absorbs UV-B, is an anti-oxidant and replenishes the skin. Almost a hero compound.
Caprylic/Caprylic Triglyceride– A skin conditioner and replenisher. Can enhance the delivery of vitamins, pigments and other ingredients.
Chondrus Crispus Extract– Contains of 10% protein, 15% minerals and is rich in iodine and sulfur. Can hold 20-100 times its weight in water so is a good moisturiser. Anti-oxidant, skin conditioner, can protect against UV, enhances the texture of the skin.
Argania Spinosa Kernel Oil (aka Argan oil)– Mixture of compounds including Vitamin E and fatty acids. Essential for healthy skin. Skin conditioner.
Borago Officinalis Seed oil– High (about 24%) in γ-linolenic acid which is an essential fatty acid, omega-6 type. Anti-flammatory, skin soother, anti-oxidant, skin conditioner. believed to have cooling and saline effect on the skin. Reduces redness and soothes damaged skin. Potential anti-ageing compound.
Rosa Damascena Flower Oil– Skin soother and anti-oxidant. Contains a mixture of vitamins and other compounds. Has anti-microbial properties and UV resistance.
Citrus Aurantium Amara Flower oil– Skin conditioner and toner. Some claim it has antiseptic, healing and calming properties.
Euphrasia Officinalis– Anti-microbial, skin conditioner, soother, tonic, astringent (reduces redness and puffiness), anti-flammatory.
Malva Sylvestris Extract– Skin soother, anti-oxidant, skin conditioner.
Tocopherol– Refers to a class of compounds with similar activities to vitamin E. A skin conditioner, anti-oxidant and fragrance agent. Check out: Vitamins C & E – Do they work in skin care?andIs mineral oil in cosmetics safe?
Achillea Millefolium Extract– Reduces skin flakiness and redness. Skin conditioner.
Alchemilla Vulgaris Extract– Astringent (reduces redness), skin conditioner, anti-flammatory, anti-ageing, used in wound healing. Some claim it has beneficial effects on hormonal levels and is used in cases of amenorrhea (absence of menstruation) and menopausal disorders. It is high in salicylic acid which is good against inflammation.
Asparagopsis Armata Extract– Extracted from seaweed. Anti-oxidant, skin protector and enhancer.
Bisabolol– Sweet floral aroma. Perceived to have healing properties. Anti-irritant, anti-flammatory, anti-microbial. Can enhance the absorption of other molecules.
Melissa Officinalis Leaf Extract– Skin conditioner.
Mentha Piperita Leaf Extract– Skin conditioner and tonic.
Primula Veris Extract– High in beta-carotene and vitamin C, calcium, sodium, potassium and salicylates. Anti-oxidant, immune system booster so helps the skin recover faster from damage like acne breakouts, rashes etc. Skin conditioner.
Veronica Officinalis Extract– Skin conditioner, astringent (reduces redness).
Mica– reflects light so it can give the illusion of smoother, softer, more radiant skin.
Sodium Gluconate – Skin conditioner.
Cocos Nucifera (Coconut) Fruit Juice – A skin conditioner and humectant (=locks water in).
Glucose– Skin conditioning and moisturising agent thanks to its ability to bind water.
Maltodextrin– A film former. Some studies suggest it might enhance the anti-ageing activity of weak acids.
Aqua (Water, Eau) – Natural moisturiser.
Cocos Nucifera (Coconut) Fruit Extract – A skin conditioner and humectant (=locks water in).
Selaginella Lepidophylla Extract – Some evidence that it might act as a moisturiser, anti-oxidant, protectant and soother.
Prunus Armeniaca (Apricot) Fruit Extract – A skin conditioner.
Pyrus Malus (Apple) Fruit Extract– Skin conditioner and replenisher.
Vanilla Planifolia Fruit Extract– not only smells nice but is a skin conditioner, skin smoother and can also act as a skin protector. It also contains anti-oxidants.
Hydrolyzed Quinoa – Skin conditioner.
Saccharomyces/Copper Ferment – Skin conditioner and anti-oxidant.
Saccharomyces/Iron Ferment – A skin conditioner and anti-oxidant.
Saccharomyces/Magnesium Ferment – A skin conditioner and anti-oxidant.
Saccharomyces/Silicon Ferment – A skin conditioner and anti-oxidant.
Saccharomyces/Zinc Ferment – A skin conditioner and anti-oxidant.
Camellia Sinensis Leaf Extract – Also known as Green Tea Extract. This ingredient has multiple benefits including: anti-oxidant, fragrance, skin conditioner, UV light absorber, anti-microbial, astringent, skin protecting, tonic and possibly helping the appearance of wrinkles and sagging skin.
Chrysanthemum Parthenium (Feverfew) Extract – Skin conditioner.
Dimethicone Crosspolymer– Can sooth and soften the skin.
Alcohol– There is evidence suggesting that low molecular alcohols (denat. or not) damage and dry the skin. This can in turn enhance the penetration of other compounds into the skin, although sometimes this might not be a negative.
Sodium Hydroxymethyl glycinate– Natural, alternative preservative to parabens. Some controversy on the possibility of breaking down and forming a toxic compound (formaldehyde). However, just because that chemical conversion is possible doesn't mean it happens.
Saccharomyces/Copper Ferment – Some studies state organ system toxicity and enhanced absorption concerns.
Saccharomyces/Iron Ferment – Said to be bioaccumulative in wildlife and humans.
Saccharomyces/Zinc Ferment – Said to be bioaccumulative in wildlife.
Sorbitan Oleate – Suspected carcinogen.
Also check out: What is sensitive skin? What are the causes and what can we do?
Do not use cosmetics on broken or irritated skin.
The following compounds present in This Works In Transit Camera Mask, Moisturiser & Primer have been either proven or claimed by some to be sensitizers, irritants, allergens etc: Butyrospermum Parkii Butter, Chondrus Crispus Extract, Caffeine, Rosa Damascena Flower Oil, Phenoxyethanol, Citrus Aurantium Amara Flower Oil, Ceteareth 20, Euphrasia Officinalis, Benzyl Alcohol, Triethanolamine, Alcohol, Melissa Officinalis Leaf Extract, Mentha Piperita Leaf Extract, Retinyl Palmitate, Tocopheryl Acetate, Iodopropynyl Butylcarbamate, Sodium Hydroxymethyl Glycinate, Chlorophenesin.
The following compounds present in the First Aid Beauty Coconut Skin Smoothie Priming Moisturiser have been either proven or claimed by some to be sensitizers, irritants, allergens etc: Butylene Glycol, Sorbitan Oleate, Phenoxyethanol, Benzyl Alcohol, Sodium Hydroxide.
This Works In Transit Camera Mask, Moisturiser & Primer: Aqua, Glycerin, Cetyl Alcohol, Stearic Acid, Aloe Barbadensis Leaf Extract, Butyrospermum Parkii Butter, Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride, Glyceryl Stearate, Chondrus Crispus Extract, Argania Spinosa Kernel Oil, Borago Officinalis Seed Oil, Caffeine, Sodium Hyaluronate, Sorbitan Stearate, Rosa Damascena Flower Oil, Phenoxyethanol, Citrus Aurantium Amara Flower Oil, Dimethicone, Ceteareth 20, Euphrasia Officinalis, Hydroxypropyl Cellulose, Benzyl Alcohol, Malva Sylvestris Extract, Triethanolamine, Potassium Sorbate, Alcohol, Tocopherol, Achillea Millefolium Extract, Alchemilla Vulgaris Extract, Ascorbyl Palmitate, Asparagopsis Armata Extract, Bisabolol, Melissa Officinalis Leaf Extract, Mentha Piperita Leaf Extract, Phospholipids, Primula Veris Extract, Retinyl Palmitate, Tocopheryl Acetate, Veronica Officinalis Extract, Ci77891, Mica, Iodopropynyl Butylcarbamate, Sodium Gluconate, Sodium Hydroxymethyl Glycinate, Chlorophenesin.
First Aid Beauty Coconut Skin Smoothie Priming Moisturiser: Cocos Nucifera (Coconut) Fruit Juice, Glucose, C12-15 Alkyl Benzoate, Maltodextrin, Aqua (Water, Eau), Cyclopentasiloxane, Butylene Glycol, Glycerin, Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride, Mica, Sodium Acrylate/Sodium Acryloyldimethyl Taurate Copolymer, Cocos Nucifera (Coconut) Fruit Extract, Selaginella Lepidophylla Extract, Prunus Armeniaca (Apricot) Fruit Extract, Pyrus Malus (Apple) Fruit Extract, Vanilla Planifolia Fruit Extract, Hydrolyzed Quinoa, Coffea Arabica (Coffee) Seed Extract, Dipteryx Odorata Seed Extract, Saccharomyces/Copper Ferment, Saccharomyces/Iron Ferment, Saccharomyces/Magnesium Ferment, Saccharomyces/Silicon Ferment, Saccharomyces/Zinc Ferment, Camellia Sinensis Leaf Extract, Chrysanthemum Parthenium (Feverfew) Extract, Glycyrrhiza Glabra (Licorice) Root Extract, Ethylhexylglycerin, Sorbitan Oleate, Dimethicone Crosspolymer, Isohexadecane, Acrylates/C10-30 Alkyl Acrylate Crosspolymer, Polysorbate 80, Lactobacillus Ferment, Leuconostoc/Radish Root Ferment Filtrate, Phenoxyethanol, Disodium EDTA, Tin Oxide, Benzyl Alcohol, Potassium Sorbate, Sodium Benzoate, Sodium Hydroxide, CI 77891 (Titanium Dioxide), CI 77491 (Iron Oxides).
Although the First Aid Beauty Coconut Skin Smoothie Priming Moisturiser is much more skin nourishing than a lot of makeup primers and even some moisturisers out there, it is not as nourishing as the This Works In Transit Camera Mask, Moisturiser & Primer.
Additionally, the This Works product is a better makeup primer, helping makeup last longer and works better for most skin types.
If you have dry skin you can try out the much cheaper First Aid Beauty primer but overall, the one I would still recommend, for all skin types, is the This Works In Transit Camera Mask, Moisturiser & Primer.
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Pyotr Koryugin, an FSB operative, was one of the solicitors of 2 million rubles from a citizen of Azerbaijan, but never confessed to the crime.
The Moscow Garrison Military Court sentenced Pyotr Koryugin, a former FSB officer, to 8-year imprisonment for trying to get a large sum from a vendor with a police operative and several businessmen. In return, they promised the vendor would not be held liable for alleged drug possession. According to Kommersant, the victim's name is as Yusif Khalilaev, an Azerbaijan-born owner of a sales outlet in the Sadovod market. It was Rashad Asadov, his rival from the same country, who had tipped off the solicitors. He envied Khalilaev's luxurious lifestyle and assumed that he must have been involved in drug trade. Asadov got the help of a friend, Rashatdat Agalarov, and contacted Pyotr Koryugin, the Moscow FSB operative officer, who did not mind making extra money.
Koryugin brought two more policemen: police captain Pavel Filatov, who is the Lyublino crime unit head, and his subordinate, lieutenant Pavel Drozdov. Together, they persuaded a friend, Yanina Zhelyabovskaya, to plant drugs on the businessman. The woman agreed and left a bag of white powder under a seat of Khalilaev's car when he was giving her a ride home.
After that, the police detained Khalilaev, took him to the station, where they demanded 6 million rubles ($89.3 thousand) for not initiating a criminal case against him. He replied that he did not have so much money. Rashad Asadov also took part in the bargaining by phone. As a result, the extortionists agreed on 2 million rubles ($29.7 thousand), took a deposit of 500 thousand rubles ($7.4 thousand) from the entrepreneur and sent him to collect the remaining amount. Khalilaev immediately appealed to the Department of Internal Security of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Moscow.
As a result, in August 2017, when transferring the remaining amount, the security forces officers detained all participants in the scheme, except Koryugin. He was captured only six months after the testimony of Asadov.
The actions of the FSB officer were classified under part 5 of Art. 290 of the Criminal Code (Bribe-Taking), part 1 of Art. 286 of the Criminal Code (Exceeding Official Powers), part 3 of Art. 30, part 4 of Art. 159 of the Criminal Code (Swindling). Almost all persons involved in the case were convicted according to a special procedure and received lenient punishments - suspended or short terms.
Later, a count of the attempt to take a bribe on a large scale (Article 30 and Part 5 of Article 290 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) appeared in Koryugin's case. The investigation found that in June 2017, after the arrest of the suspect in drug smuggling, the Captain offered her to call home and warn about the upcoming search for a bribe of 300 thousand rubles ($4.4 thousand).
Koryugin still does not admit his guilt. His lawyer assures that the role of the Chekist was reduced only to the fact that he introduced Agalarov to Filatov, when he said that he needed to expose a drug dealer. The fact of receiving the bribes by his client was also not proven - 100 thousand rubles ($1.4 thousand) out of the 500 thousand rubles ($7.4 thousand) that Yusif Khalilaev handed over to the police before his release. The lawyer has already appealed to the Moscow District Military Court.


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Q: how to loop through an array to hide items i have an html form in which the user clicks on the plus sign and it shows you a list of items, if you click on a minus sign it will hide those items
as follows:

                                        ${categoryGrouping.name}
                                        add
                                        remove

                                            ${user.firstName} ${user.lastName}

${user.emailAddress || 'mock@email.com'}

in type script
async Activate(user: userListModel[], department: any) {
        this.categoryDepartment.forEach(x => {
            x.hideDetails = true;
        });

            this.categoryDepartmentTypes = await this.getTypes(user, department.name);
            department.hideDetails = false;

    }

    async DeActivate(user: userListModel[], department: any) {

        department.hideDetails = true;
    }

this.categoryDepartment stores my array as follows:
0:{hideDetails:true, name:"Hello"}
1:{hideDetails:false,name:"Test"}

so the above looks as the following image

so now for example if i had to click on the "Hello" plus sign while the details for "Test" is open it  would close "Test".
How can i loop through the departments to have it remain open but only when i click the minus then it should close.
I need to pass in the department name to this await this.getTypes(user, department.name); method, so only the item i click on should pass that name in and not all the department names.
does anyone know how i can achieve this?
i tried doing the following
if (this.categoryDepartment.find(x => x.name == department.name)){
            this.categoryDepartmentTypes = await this.getTypes(user, department.name);
            department.hideDetails = false;
        }

but it still does the same thing, it closes on the next item i click on

A: You hide everything in this loop:
    this.categoryDepartment.forEach(x => {
        x.hideDetails = true;
    });

So you can remove it.

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We all need to diligently investigate these claims for ourselves, before giving them any credibility, the same way we all investigated the leaks by Manning and Snowden before coming to any premature conclusions.
That's not because this time the leaks were damaging to Russia. It's just the only right thing to do!
Doug Woodard
Why Trump won:
https://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2016/11/16/13645116/rural-resentment-el...
I expect the same applies to Canada though less strongly. Among other things many of our "rural" areas are doing well from resource extraction (or were when oil was higher), and we don't have the health care desperation that the Americans do.
CIA had Russia's plans to disrupt the election. In typical fashion, Obama refused to go public before the election.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2017/world/national-security/obama-putin-election-hacking/?utm_term=.89480f9e20e4
But postelection surveys, pre-election surveys, voter file data and the actual results all support the main story: The voters who switched from President Obama to Mr. Trump were decisive.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/15/upshot/the-obama-trump-voters-are-real-heres-what-they-think.html?_r=0
(Reply to #555) #556
josh wrote:
When you think about the logic here it starts to crumble. It was decisive. Yes, of course. It was a narrow result. Everything was therefore decisive.
If you focus on elections and people changing their votes and point to a collection of people who changed one and examine their loyalty you can only conclude a lower result is possible. A target group can fracture but once defined, it cannot grow (the number who voted for Obama and Trump cannot ever increase so any less than 100% back is not recovery or any less than 100% to Republicans is less than what Trump had -- of those people).
If you look at the total and see all the movements of voters, and you consider defections from both parties, the conclusions are different. How many Trump voters who voted against Obama might be repulsed by the Trump Administration? Is this group bigger or smaller than the ones Trump (or a later Republican) might retain from the Obama-Trump voters?
As well, many studies only looked at net numbers. These are the numbers of people from a group who voted one way or the other. Voting is also secret so declarations are suspect and can be politically motivated. How many of each side stay home? In fact we have heard that the numbers who stayed home were decisive (see my first comment -- of course they were). And votes migrate in different directions for different reasons at different rates. The only people who speak up are those who want to speak up -- self selecting.
In Canada we have the same issue except more parties. So poeple speak about a migration of votes at times from the NDP to Conservatives ignoring that there may be no such thing. It can look like that if some people migrate from the NDP to the Liberals and from the Liberals to the Conservatives. this can happen while Liberals are moving to the NDP and Conservatives to Liberals at different rates and some people moving from a willingness to be polled to an unwillingnes or a choice to vote or not. In the end a simple statement is made about the net migration wether anyone actually did that migration is not often questioned.
In the US voters register so a little more is known but, small number of people will change registration and not vote in the direction of their registration at the end. A small minority want to speak about it.
Former NSA Official: Dems' Russia Hacking Story Likely Bogus (and vid)
"Bill Binney told Tucker Carlson he has data showing that the Democrats' narrative regarding Russia hacking the DNC annd 2016 election are untrue."
Tucker Carlson? What's the matter, Sean Hannity wouldn't have him?
"Isn't this just another way of saying the DNC gave the election to Trump when they sabotaged Bernie Sanders?"
https://twitter.com/DrJillStein/status/903025805688803332
Did Sanders Voters Tip The 2016 Election To Trump?
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2017/08/sanders-voters-tip-2016-election...
http://www.dailywire.com/news/20503/uh-oh-new-evidence-shows-james-comey...
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NDPP wrote:
This is a fair comment. I think the prevailing view was that Trump could not win and that the battle was between Clinton and Sanders when somethign else was going on.
There is no question that Trump did benefit but I think most Sanders supporters may have seen ther actions as a protest. Very few people thought Trump could win and I think significant numbers of Sanders voters had a context of communities where Trump had no chance, quite likely unaware of the places where Trump was winning over people. I think it remains a shock to many how Trump could get over 4 in 10 voters to support him. In many respects Trump won becuase he was expected not to. If the polls had been accurate it is quite possible that he would not have won as people who may have protested or not voted would have voted to prevent that.
The story is not over either. It is possible that the backlash to Trump and exposing and the clearing out of many who hold such views could bring greater benefit and that those on the left who voted for Trump, may in fact have been correct in their gamble.
I personally know a person who was a Trump supporter as shocking as it was to me. I knew that person would only truly understand the difficulty with that position if he won -- although if I had been in the US I would not have voted for him.
Some social and environmental policy progress which would never have happened under CLinton may be possible after Trump. It is even possible that Trump's legacy may ironically be single payor healthcare for example.
The Russian information attack on the election did not stop with the hacking and leaking of Democratic emails or the fire hose of stories, true, false and in between, that battered Mrs. Clinton on Russian outlets like RT and Sputnik. Far less splashy, and far more difficult to trace, was Russia's experimentation on Facebook and Twitter, the American companies that essentially invented the tools of social media and, in this case, did not stop them from being turned into engines of deception and propaganda.
An investigation by The New York Times, and new research from the cybersecurity firm FireEye, reveals some of the mechanisms by which suspected Russian operators used Twitter and Facebook to spread anti-Clinton messages and promote the hacked material they had leaked. On Wednesday, Facebook officials disclosed that they had shut down several hundred accounts that they believe were created by a Russian company linked to the Kremlin and used to buy $100,000 in ads pushing divisive issues during and after the American election campaign.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/07/us/politics/russia-facebook-twitter-election.html?emc=edit_nn_20170908&nl=morning-briefing&nlid=77748371&te=1
A number of Russian-linked Facebook ads specifically targeted Michigan and Wisconsin, two states crucial to Donald Trump's victory last November, according to four sources with direct knowledge of the situation.
Some of the Russian ads appeared highly sophisticated in their targeting of key demographic groups in areas of the states that turned out to be pivotal, two of the sources said. The ads employed a series of divisive messages aimed at breaking through the clutter of campaign ads online, including promoting anti-Muslim messages, sources said.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/03/politics/russian-facebook-ads-michigan-wisconsin/index.html
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This truly amazing and no Josh I am not being critical of you in any way when you bring this russian thing. I want provide a histrical perpective to this issue. I remember how badly the Americans wanted to broadcast American news into the eastern block. I spent 13 years behind the iron curtain I remember those broadcast from the western euorpe were condsided American propaganda and a threat to the various governments. But ordinary people thought of them a joke rather dimsive. What was not a joke was the people would smuggle in western consumer goods.
The reason that the eastern block fell apart was poor quality consumer goods(compared to western goods, corruption, towards the end economic failure came, it became impossible not use large scale repression to keep things going.) People just lost faith in the system it was not delivering the goods. The eastern block poured so much resources it the military realm. I remember going with my mother to the black market to buy toliet paper, car batteries, jeans. When I talk about a black market, in Canadian terms giant flea markets. The authorites knew about them becasue the state could not produce enough through offical channels, if they were shot down there would riots. The soviet block could man 40,000 tanks, a truly awesome dispaly of military power. But people could not find toilet paper around, or car batteries, or jeans these not exactly not exactly high tech consumer goods. Instead of maintaining those 40,000 tanks why not close some military factories or convert them to producing more toilet paper. Regardless of my experience I think socialism is best way to organize society, but the focus should be to put general welfare and consumer goods rather than playing games of global dominance.
I provided some context for rest of my argument. That was in the past, it reminds of modern usa. In the old days the USA wanted to show case it culture and ideas they believed ideas provide no threat to the American system. Today russian broadcasts are actually consider a threat to american system. Where is the confidence of the cold war, because showing flaws of American capitalism is no longer politicaly correct. This not a reflection of russian info capablites by rather the weakness of the so called American dream. Maybe the American dream was the utilmate propaganda piece or is that more awareness of the problems of american capitalism is being showed to the public. This lack of confidence in the American way of life by the elites is stunning, where is the confidence?
Sheryl Sandberg tells Axios that Facebook owes Americans an apology for allowing foreign interference in a democratic election.
https://twitter.com/TasneemN/status/918466178695286784
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/10/13/twitter-russia-data-deleted-inv...
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SeekingAPoliticalHome wrote:
If the Soviet Union had switched to a consumer economy, it is likely that Hitler and/or the West would have destroyed it sooner.
Why Trump - Obama chose Wall Street over Main Street:
https.www.nakedcapitalism.com/2018/01/thomas-frank-obama-chose-wall-street-mai...
Shortly after 8 p.m. on Election Night, when the unexpected trend — Trump might actually win — seemed confirmed, Don Jr. told a friend that his father, or DJT, as he calls him, looked as if he had seen a ghost. Melania was in tears—and not of joy.
There was, in the space of little more than an hour, in Steve Bannon's not unamused observation, a befuddled Trump morphing into a disbelieving Trump and then into a horrified Trump.
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/01/michael-wolff-fire-and-fury-book-donald-trump.html?utm_source=nym_press
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Seeking wrote:
Today russian broadcasts are actually consider a threat to american system. Where is the confidence of the cold war, because showing flaws of American capitalism is no longer politicaly correct. This not a reflection of russian info capablites by rather the weakness of the so called American dream.
Well, I would distinguish two trains of outrage in the RussiaGate panic.
"OMG, Russia hacked the election and subverted American democracy!"
"Christ almighty, Trump got illegal assisatance from one of our global rivals in winning the election."
The first one, indeed, indicates a sublimated loss of confidence in American stature. "Hacking the election" would only work if American voters were willing to care about the hacked documents in the first place, which would mean that either SoS Hillary really was doing bad stuff, or the voters are obsessed with trivialities. And it's actually impossible to "hack an election" in any event, an election not being a technological device.
But I don't think the second sentiment is neccessarily ridiculous. You know that business about Pearson accepting help from some Kennedy hacks to defeat Diefenbaker in the '63 election? Well, this would be something like that, except imagine that Pearson was alleged to have violated Canadian law in order to contact those guys. And throw in Pearson going on TV and asking the Yanks to release stolen government memos in order to hurt Dief. I would certainly have expected the Tories(not to mention the RCMP) to make an issue of that.
1. Trump didn't want to win the election and won it by accident despite the best efforts of everyone involved, including himself.
2. Trump wanted to win at any cost, so he colluded with Russia to make it happen.
I'm having a tough time reconciling these two. Can anyone help?
Sure. Trump probably didn't think he'd win but wanted to do everything in his power to tar "Crooked Hillary" and to enhance his post-campaign financial positi9n.
Michael Moriarity
This also fits in very well with the hypothesis that the Russians owned Trump long before 2015, when he decided to run for President. I have posted numerous articles detailing this process, which started at least as early as 1984.
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Sure, easily. As is increasingly obvious except to the chumps, it never happened...
If only the chumps would respect and listen to the stable genius!!
No. Check out the TRNN interview with Max Blumenthal on the KremlinGate thread...
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From JKR:
The only stable genius I know is Mr. Ed.
It is also possible that the Russians also did not want Trump to win. They may have wanted to have Clinton elected but so damaged that she woudl be ineffectual and with a GOP Senate and House -- which is what nearly happened.
Trump isn't Another Hitler. He's Another Obama
"...Nobody wants to hear this. The Democrats still want to believe that the sitting president is simultaneously a Nazis, a Kremlin secret agent, an idiot and a lunatic, and Trump supporters want to believe that he's a populist savior fighting to liberate the nation from the claws of the deep state. Because of their partisan blindness they will both find reasons to believe they've got either a savior or a traitor in the White House despite the fact that their country's actual policy and behavior remains more or less the same..."
Bannon is gone from Breitbart.
Steve Bannon leaves Breitbart:
Former White House strategist Steve Bannon stepped down from his position at Breitbart News on Tuesday, less than a week after he excoriated Donald Trump and Donald Trump Jr in book excerpts obtained by the Guardian, and days after he expressed "regret" over those remarks.
...In a statement last week, Trump said: "Steve Bannon has nothing to do with me or my presidency. When he was fired, he not only lost his job, he lost his mind." Not long afterward, he dubbed Bannon "Sloppy Steve" in a series of tweets.
...When Bannon returned to Breitbart, he (Bannon) initially celebrated the reunion. In an interview with the Weekly Standard that month, he said: "Now I'm free. I've got my hands back on my weapons. Someone said, 'it's Bannon the Barbarian.' I am definitely going to crush the opposition. There's no doubt."
...The president also praised his former strategist at the time, tweeting: "Steve Bannon will be a tough and smart new voice at @BreitbartNews … maybe even better than ever before. Fake News needs the competition!"
It strikes me that Trump generates almost no loyalty. All of his toadies appear to be there for their own purposes. More and more like Stalin every day.
It strikes me that Trump generates almost no loyalty.
And to be fair, gives almost none. His whole inner circle is like Reservoir Dogs.
Facebook "embeds," Russia and the Trump campaign's secret weapon
Brad Parscale, digital director for Trump's campaign, was a critical factor in the president's election. Now questions surround how he did it
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/facebook-embeds-russia-and-the-trump-campai...
Democrats Choose CIA Agent For Congressional Nomintion
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/06/14/prim-j14.html
"The Democratic Party continues to select candidates drawn to an extraordinary extent from the national security apparatus - ex CIA, military intelligence and combat commanders, as well as civilian national security officials..."

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A Bartender With a Magic Touch
Dave Cremin has been a bartender at Cronin & Phelan's in Astoria, Queens for 23 years.Credit...Nicole Craine for The New York Times
By Corey Kilgannon
The bartender delivered another round to the couple at the end of the bar, and then laid a small black mat in front of them.
"Come on over," he said, motioning to other patrons. "The more witnesses, the better."
On Tuesday night at Cronin & Phelan's bar and restaurant, on Broadway near Steinway Street in Astoria, Queens, things were in full swing for the bartender, Dave Cremin, 54, who provides both the service and the entertainment, doing bar-top tricks while serving drinks and food.
Lulls between drink orders turn into brief magic shows, and this one began with Mr. Cremin pulling a deck of cards out of his mouth, a dozen at a time.
Somehow the cards were dry. The couple reared back in laughter and amazement.
"Just to see the astonishment on people's faces, that's payoff for me," Mr. Cremin said later. "To make them laugh and say 'wow' at the same time."
Mr. Cremin, a native of Ireland, told them he could find the four aces in the deck with one hand. He shuffled the deck with one hand, calling it "an Irish shuffle."
"What makes it Irish is this," he said, grabbing a bottle of Jameson Irish Whiskey with his free hand and tipping it into his mouth while shuffling. He pulled out the aces, one by one, and then moved on to the dozen other customers at the long bar, pulling drafts, mixing cocktails and pouring shots.
Mr. Cremin works Tuesdays through Saturdays, from 6 p.m. until after the bar closes at 4 a.m.
In his 23 years as a barman at Cronin & Phelan's, Mr. Cremin has gained a loyal following of patrons who come for both his pour and his powers to dazzle with sleight of hand, misdirection, mentalism and other magic techniques.
Mr. Cremin also performs professionally, at private parties, weddings and corporate events. He said constantly doing tricks behind the bar, besides bringing better tips, helps keep him sharp.
"When you're in the bar, you're performing close up, right in their faces," he said. "I try my new stuff late at night because people are drunk. Sometimes when I do a trick, people will say, 'Is there something in the drink? Is it because I'm drunk?'"
On Saturdays at 11 p.m., Mr. Cremin comes out from behind the bar and does a 45-minute performance, including escaping from a straitjacket. He also helps run monthly open-mike events at Cronin & Phelan's, which draw many magician friends.
After doing magic behind a busy bar, he said, performing onstage is a breeze.
"You can focus on the presentation and magic and not worry about anyone waving you down for a drink," said Mr. Cremin, who is married, has two grown daughters and lives in Woodside, Queens.
He grew up in Cork, Ireland, immigrated to New York at age 22 in the 1980s and began bartending. Within a few years, he was learning magic out of books and practicing the tricks on customers while tending bar at Molly Malone's on Third Avenue in Manhattan.
"For Dave, the two things go hand in hand: He loves magic, and he loves being behind the bar," said Rene Clement, a longtime magician friend of Mr. Cremin's who showed up Tuesday night at Cronin & Phelan's.
Mr. Cremin began doing tricks with a metal cup and little red foam ball, for Megan Peterson, 30. He seemed to make the ball appear and disappear, and then began making limes appear under the cup, each time he lifted it again and again.
"He's the best bartender I ever had," Ms. Peterson, who was drinking a Coors Lite, said. "From the first time I was here, he remembered my name and what I drink. The magic is just the cherry on top."
That night Mr. Cremin's card tricks often involved his guessing which card the customer covertly picked and then buried in the deck. He would "find" the right card in his fly, or under a nearby glass of whiskey, or just pop it out of the deck into his other hand.
During one trick, a waiter checked on an order: "Dave, is that chicken or salmon on the salad?"
"Salmon," Mr. Cremin said without pausing. He finished the trick, grabbed the plates and delivered them to his customers.
"You use your peripheral vision, you know the food's coming out and the people at the end of bar who ordered it," said Mr. Cremin, who was doing another trick when a waitress brought him the salads.
"Just drop those there, love," he said, and he completed the trick, then whisked the salads down to the end of the bar and checked on his customers.
"When Dave's working, you'll never see an empty glass," said Tom Bibla, a regular. "I just wish he could make my bar tab disappear."


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Grimsby Town sign Bristol Rovers midfielder Kyle Bennett on season-long loan
The midfielder speaks for the first time since completing his move to Blundell Park on a season-long loan
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Kyle Bennett has joined Grimsby Town on loan from Bristol Rovers (Image: GTFC)
Grimsby Town have confirmed the signing of Bristol Rovers midfielder Kyle Bennett on loan.
The 30-year-old becomes the Mariners' 14th signing of the transfer window, and will remain at Blundell Park for the remainder of the 2020/21 season.
Bennett brings plenty of experience with him to the Mariners, having made 381 appearances in all competitions so far in his career.
Having started out at Bury, the midfielder made the move to Doncaster in 2011, where he also took in loan spells with Crawley and Bradford City.
Kyle Bennett in action for Bristol Rovers (Image: Getty Images)
He made the move to the south coast in 2015 when he joined Portsmouth, and was part of the Pompey side that won promotion from League Two in 2017.
Bennett signed for Rovers in 2018, but with appearances hard to come by, he joined Swindon Town on loan in January 2019, with his second game for the Robins seeing him come up against the Mariners.
He was given the go-ahead to move on from the Memorial Stadium earlier this summer, with Rovers boss Ben Garner admitting Bennett wasn't part of his plans, meaning there could be a potential for the midfielder to make his move to Town permanent.
Speaking for the first time as a Town player, Bennett told Grimsby Live: "I'm happy, it did take a few days to get done but I'm here now and I'm looking forward to getting going and I've met all the boys this morning, it was nice to do that and get my first session in.
"It's been my first session for a while for me so, but I'm here now.
On his chances of starting against Bolton on Saturday, Bennett added: "I don't know about that, I haven't been training for quite a while, I haven't been training with Bristol, so I have got a bit of catching up to do fitness-wise, but it shouldn't take me too long.
"I feel like I'm quite fit anyway naturally, so I don't think it'll take too long to get up to speed.
The lowdown on Kyle Bennett as midfielder edges closer to Grimsby Town loan move
West Brom striker Owen Windsor joins Grimsby Town on loan for the season
"The manager is all for it, he's very passionate about football and passionate about the lads and how you are as a person so he seems like a great manager to work for.
"I know a few of the boys from being around football anyway, Rosey (Danny Rose) is a very good friend of mine, so to have familiar faces is nice to walk into, you don't feel under so much pressure which is great.
"I think for any football player it's all about playing games and by playing games you gain confidence, you gain fitness and anything can stem from that.
"You don't want to promise too much to anybody and tell them things that put pressure on your back, so for me it's all about getting fit first and foremost and seeing where we go from there!"
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All the Women I Know (Sandra, Dani, Roma, Alex) by Christine Hume and Laura Larson
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After Lorna Simpson's Head on Ice series and using language from testimonies of eleven Jane Does in the lawsuit against the handling of their sexual assault cases at Eastern Michigan University. Sandra No woman I know got ready with…
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"Interiors" is very much the product of my fascination with the physicality of the book-object. The way in which this thing can have such strong roots in the 'real world.' In January when I was starting to plan the story, I was reading Grant Maierhofer's Peripatet (Inside the Castle 2019), which is this very enigmatic tome. It has large two-page spreads, text running across the gutter, photo-scans, URLs, etc. All of this incredibly innovative and unique layout. I was really drawn to the style that permeated this object. It felt like a kind of architecture, like something that the reader navigates rather than reads (at least in the traditional sense). This story is kind of a fantasy of how enigmatic a text like that could really be, of what kind of secrets / mysteries could be hiding inside of it.
The process of writing "Interiors" was somewhat strange. I tend to work in a kind of distracted or overstimulated state. I like to play videos in the background, or noise music, jazz, usually something abrasive. I think it adds this potential for chaos and expansion. It allows a story to move in ways that I might not expect it to. It allows for this external input. If I'm watching videos, it might be overhearing a certain sentence that leads me in one direction. Or if its instrumental music, it might be the feeling that a certain sound provokes.
Going into "Interiors" I didn't have a very rigid outline. I knew that I wanted to investigate an anomalous object. I knew I wanted the environment to be controlled and the researcher to be systematic in their approach. But beyond that, I left all possibilities open. I did not map the potential effects of the text, or its layout. Or what anomalies might lie inside. I wanted it all to come out, as if being drawn through me rather than from me. And because of this, the process was very intensive. I started putting the text together on January 31 and finished it on February 2. It was the only thing I was working on over the course of those three days. Most of each day was either spent writing or editing. At the end, "Interiors" came out as you see it now (excluding some edits thanks to the adept insight of the CRAFT editorial team).
John Trefry says, "Books are not places apart from this world. They are impossible places within it." And I very much think that this is the philosophy that guides "Interiors." The book is not a portal to fantasy, it is an object-of-power. It is the thing on the table / desk / shelf in front of you.
MIKE CORRAO is the author of two novels, Man, Oh Man (Orson's Publishing) and Gut Text (11:11 Press); one book of poetry, Two Novels (Orson's Publishing); two plays, Smut-Maker (Inside the Castle) and Andromedusa (forthcoming—Plays Inverse); and two chapbooks, Avian Funeral March (Self-Fuck) and Spelunker (Schism—Neuronics). Along with earning multiple Best of the Net nominations, Mike's work has been featured in publications such as 3:AM, Collagist, Always Crashing, and The Portland Review. He lives in Minneapolis.


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Özel could be accused of exaggeration, but the perception of trauma he describes is very widely felt in Turkey, and it may explain one striking characteristic of Turkish conservative thought that he doesn't mention: the curious premium it places on the idea of huzur, or tranquility.
Yearning for huzur crops up throughout the republican generations. The early twentieth-century novelist, Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar—a writer acutely aware of everything that had been lost as a result of modernization—used it as the title of one of his most famous books. It appeared again in the popular Islamist slogan of the 1970s and 1980s: "huzur İslam'da," or "tranquility is in Islam." Today, a Turkish street would not be complete without at least one building called Huzur Apartmanı. But the full implications of the word, the mix of coziness and familiarity, but also order and purity, are perhaps most obvious in Huzur Sokağı, Tranquility Street, a cult 1970 novel that has now been turned into a hugely successful TV series.
Written by a woman who claims to have introduced Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to his wife, Huzur Sokağı (the second word is pronounced sok-AA-eu), is probably the most famous example of a wave of evangelical conversion novels that became popular in the late 1960s. It was a time when political Islam, with its almost-Marxist rhetoric of injustice and oppression and its vision of the Islamic life, was on the rise.
The book tells a simple story. Wealthy, secular Feyza falls in love with Bilal, the devout son of a widow, and he with her. But Feyza's modern ways mean Bilal cannot bring himself to marry her. Instead, out of duty rather than love, he marries a religious woman who dies giving birth to a son. In the meantime, Feyza has married a wealthy businessman. Then she divorces, dons a headscarf and brings up her daughter as a model Muslim. The next 300 pages describe how the pair somehow contrive not to come together. Then, shortly after Feyza's daughter marries Bilal's son, Feyza is shot dead by one of her ex-husband's criminal accomplices.
But there is another reason for the lack of interiority in Huzur Sokağı: it represents belief almost exclusively as a badge of communal belonging. The emphasis is already there in the title; it is the street that brings tranquility, not any particular character's inner struggle. That idea of a besieged community, depending on solidarity to defend the purity of its way of life from outside contamination, runs through the whole plot. You see it most clearly in the event that sets the plot in motion, the construction of a new five-story luxury apartment in the street.
Built on an empty parcel of land that local children used to play football on, the building goes up right opposite Bilal's window, and it upsets him deeply. The building will "undermine the tranquility" of the street, he tells his mother. Until now, the life of its inhabitants has been characterized by what he calls "the blissfully harmonious tranquility" that comes from Islamic observance. The people he predicts will move into the flats will know nothing of this. For all their wealth, their silver cutlery, their chandeliers and their opulent sitting rooms, their lives will be devoid of huzur. The parties, the laughter, the "madly enjoyable life they lead," all of it will be a mask to hide their inner restlessness, their huzursuzluk.
How does Bilal react? He responds with a call to communal action. He calls his neighbors to the mosque one evening and asks them to swear to defend the purity of the street. And they do. "We swear. We vow. Forty years later, our street will be the same," they say. And when the new owners of the new flats arrive with their removal vans ("Watch out, that table is lacquer, lacquer do you hear?"), all the women of the street have barricaded themselves in the back rooms of their flats so that they will not be tempted by visions of Westernized wealth.
"You mean capitalists, hocam?" asks one of the young men.
For a few minutes more, the screen shuttles from one side to the other of a Turkish social landscape as starkly dualistic as the one in the book. Black Turk, White Turk, devout Turk, irreligious Turk, poor Turk, rich Turk, moral Turk, immoral Turk, huzur, huzursuzluk. But the critics who lambasted the series for its moral reductionism were jumping too fast. The more you watch, the more you realize how much the screenwriters and the director have strayed from the original in order to make it palatable to a contemporary Turkish audience.
There's the whole social side of things, for a start. The book describes real poverty. Despite being the product of a country that is much more economically divided than it was forty years ago, the series presents the inhabitants of Huzur Sokağı as solid, respectable, middle-class—wealthy even—living in the sort of pristine Ottoman villas with clapperboards and overhanging upper stories that you could not buy for love or money in Istanbul today.
And then there is the changing significance of the headscarf. The book was written at a time when wearing one was a real source of social stigma. Only village women wore headscarves. Educated women simply did not, and to put one on was to condemn oneself to a life lived lower down the social ladder. The situation today is different. A headscarf still definitely denotes something and a few jobs (judge, for instance, and deputy) remain barred to women who wear them, but many of the political obstacles have gone. You can wear a headscarf and go to school; you can wear a headscarf and go to university; you can wear a headscarf and be invited to appear on one of the interminable political debates that take up so much screen time on Turkish TV in the evening.
All that background alters the symbolic force of the climactic event in Huzur Sokağı: Feyza's decision to put on a headscarf. In the book, the price she pays is much higher, but the benefit is presented as being much greater. Almost alone, the author implies, that single thin piece of material assures her salvation. "'Can I not have a clean heart without covering my head?'" Feyza asks her old nursemaid just before she makes her decision.
'No, you cannot,' comes the reply.
The normally mild old woman loses her temper. Such people are a fabrication of secular newspapers out to slander the reputations of sincere believers, she says. Much stronger than the almost evangelical Christian idea of being reborn, though, is the emphasis on social acceptability. Donning a headscarf means moving from ignominiousness (kepazelik) to the state of being upright; the word the author uses, mazbut, has connotations of uprightness but also discipline and orderliness. Not to cover your head is to shame yourself in the eyes of the community.
'How much is the carpet hanging on the wall?' asked the businessman.
'Not for sale,' says the shop owner.
The businessman loses his temper: all goods on display are for sale. 'So how much is the woman standing next to you?' ripostes the carpet seller.
There are characters who express very watered-down versions of this sentiment in the TV series, but they are presented as bigots, not paragons. This is the biggest difference between the book and the series. In the book, the headscarf is presented as a fail-safe pass to a community where all is tranquility and regularity and order. In the series, it provides no such guarantee. One of the least sympathetic characters, and the biggest impediment to Feyza and Bilal's love, is the headscarf-wearing wife of Bilal's landlord. She wants her daughter to marry Bilal, and she will do anything to ensure she gets her way. She manipulates Bilal's mother, bullies her daughter, and spits venom at Feyza every time she sees her. She is an embarrassment to her husband and daughter. Her neighbors avoid her in the street for fear of calling down on themselves another of her sarcastic barbs. Huzur Sokağı, in the TV series, is a misnomer: the worm of discord has eaten right in to the heart of the community.
So where is tranquility to be found? For İsmet Özel, back in 1978, the answer was simple. Contradicting the vision of Huzur Sokağı, he said that today Muslims "have become the West and the West has come to us. The world we live in has neither the decor, nor the understanding, nor the conditions of tradition. What traces remain are not enough to prevent us becoming individuals in a capitalist world." The only option was to turn for succor directly to the Qu'ran.
The television series Huzur Sokağı makes no pretense to theological seriousness. But in its depiction of two communities distinguished only by dress codes and one woman's search for individual truth, it comes much closer to the spirit of İsmet Özel's insight than the book it is based on.


SXSW EDU opening keynote with David Brooks, Dan Porterfield, Darius Baxter, and Rev. Lisa Fitzpatrick announced alongside new featured speakers Dan Rather, Jamaal Charles, Priscilla Chan, Jean Chatzy, Mitchell Baker, and more. These thought leaders offer a perspective on everything from learning science and financial literacy to student advocacy and inclusion.
This year's opening keynote, Building Community: Weaving America's Social Fabric, features remarks by David Brooks, Executive Director of Weave: The Social Fabric Project at the Aspen Institute and Op-Ed columnist for The New York Times, who will be joined by Aspen Institute President and CEO Dan Porterfield, GOODProjects President and Chief Engagement Officer Darius Baxter, Aspen Institute Executive Director David Brooks, and Rev. Lisa Fitzpatrick the Co-Founder and Executive Director of APEX Community Advancement, Inc. / APEX Youth Center and Senior Pastor of APEX Ministries United Methodist Church.
Weave: The Social Fabric Project, an initiative of the Aspen Institute, operates with the premise that social fragmentation is the central problem of our time—isolation, alienation, and division. Fortunately, all across the country people are rebuilding communities and creating social capital. Weave seeks to work with these groups to spur a movement to repair the national fabric—to identify and celebrate these groups, synthesize the values that move them, and help forge a common identity.
Betsy Corcoran – (Translating Research into Practice) Elizabeth "Betsy" Corcoran is co-founder and CEO of EdSurge, an award-winning news and information site on education technology that is devoted to exploring the future of learning.
Brooke Stafford-Brizard – (Translating Research into Practice) Dr. Brooke Stafford-Brizard is a Director of Education at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, where she leads work to support a comprehensive, Whole Child approach to learning and development.
Bror Saxberg – (Translating Research into Practice) Dr. Bror Saxberg leads Chan Zuckerberg Initiative's work to support the development of tools and sharing of approaches grounded in the science of learning as Vice President of Learning Science.
Dan Rather – (Young People Win: Rethinking Advocacy in a New Era) With a famed and storied career that has spanned more than six decades, Dan Rather has earned his place as one of the world's best-known journalists.
Drew Willis – (How to Teach Financial Literacy, & Why We Must) Drew Willis is the Creative Director of TIME for Kids, TIME Edge, and Your $, TFK's financial-literacy magazine.
Erika Guerrero – (A Unified Perspective) Special Education Teacher at Alamo Heights High School is an advocate and support system for individuals with disabilities as both a foster parent and an educator.
Jamaal Charles – (A Unified Perspective) Retired NFL running back, Jamaal Charles, excelled as a child in sports getting his first introduction to sports as a Special Olympics Athlete and then as a teenager.
Jean Chatzky – (How to Teach Financial Literacy, & Why We Must) Jean Chatzky, the financial editor of NBC's TODAY show and AARP's personal finance ambassador, is an award-winning personal finance journalist and founder and CEO of HerMoney.
Mitchell Baker – (Hacking the STEM Syllabus) Mitchell Baker co-founded the Mozilla Project to support the open, innovative web and ensure it continues offering opportunities for everyone.
Priscilla Chan – (Translating Research into Practice) Priscilla Chan is co-founder of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI), a philanthropic organization she started with her husband, Mark Zuckerberg, in December 2015.
Tajha Ilerant – (A Unified Perspective) Tajha is a senior at Immokalee High School in Immokalee, Florida where she is Youth Ambassador for Unified Champion Schools as well as a Global Messenger for Special Olympics Florida.
Yoav Schlesinger – (Hacking the STEM Syllabus) Principal for the Tech and Society Solutions Lab at Omidyar Network, Yoav Schlesinger, is focused on building long-term resiliency and maximizing the tech sector's contributions to society.
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Photo (l-r, t-b) Priscilla Chan, Dan Porterfield, David Brooks, Jamaal Charles, Rev. Lisa Fitzpatrick, and Jean Chatzy.