Gonzalo Higuain has left Juventus and joined AC Milan on an initial season-long loan for €18 million, with a clause to make the move permanent next summer for an additional €36m. Italy defender Caldara also joined team from Milan, while Leonardo Bonucci return to Juve after a year away.
Argentina striker Higuain scored 16 Serie A goals last season, but after Cristiano Ronaldo joined to club from Turin, seems that there is no place for Gonzalo Higuain.
The Argentinean international players, who appeared in three games at the World Cup, set a Serie A scoring record with 36 goals for Napoli in 2015-16. After that he moved to Turin and became one of the most loved player in Juventus.
There were some rumors that he could move to Chelsea, but he has decided to continue his career in Serie A.
Leonardo Bonucci will return in Juventus on a five-year deal under 2023, after only one season in AC Milan. He successfully played for Juve and helped them win six successive Serie A titles.


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Ian Perrin to lead new breed Clemenger media agency, Speed
By Rosie Baker | 22 August 2016
Ian Perrin and Robert Morgan
Clemenger BBDO is launching a new breed media agency called Speed, led by former ZenithOptimedia CEO Ian Perrin.
Speed has been designed to take on 'slow, predictable and non-transparent' practices of media agencies and bring media and creative closer together. It will "merge media and message" applying real-time data, adaptive planning techniques and flexible investment strategies.
As Clemenger is part owned by Omnicom Group, Speed will have access to global media tools and services through agencies such as PHD and OMD but it eschews the old media model of "aggregating client spend, developing annual deals with traditional media companies, taking kick-backs and enforcing owned technology on clients".
That model, according to Speed, is "dead". It's not the first time Perrin has been part of an agency that aimed to take on the status quo. Perrin worked alongside Mat Baxter, Mike Wilson and Adam Ferrier, the original founders of Naked Australia, in the agency's heyday.
The complexity now facing clients means that the traditional approach media agencies have operated under for 20 years doesn't deliver, according to the new shop. Speed calls itself a "solutions company" based on agility, utiliy and simplicity.
Inspired by the pace at which businesses such as Google, Uber and Airbnb disrupted entire categories and grew to the scale that previously would have taken decades, its model goes beyond "the paradigm" of paid media.
Perrin says: "Technology has fundamentally changed the way brands are built, and because of this marketer need a genuinely different approach to communications. We are therefore creating an agency built on agility, utility and simplicity that will deliver faster results than legacy models. Faster creative integration, faster digital transformation and faster procedural automation."
Clemenger chairman Robert Morgan is a long-time proponent of creative agencies getting back to how they were before media split out, and a more integrated way of working. Morgan says Speed will "do something in the market that no one else is" adding that it's important for agencies to continually evolve to meet clients' needs.
"Plenty have talked about merging channel planning inside an ad agency, but no one has done it with a media agency. This is not about re-bundling, it's about creating new models," he says.
It's also aiming to tackle some of the major gripes circling media agencies with four pledges under its 'Faster when Better' approach. It promises the founders will be involved in every piece of business and it will limit itself to four major clients so that it doesn't over-stretch its capacity – which has hamstrung startups before. It is also pledging to pay more than the going rate so that it can make sure it has the best people, and will work with clients on remuneration models that are based on brand performance.
As part of its mantra to be "simple", it will make sure everyone involved in the process on the client side has a one-page summary that sets out exactly what is required, by whom, and by when, as part of its 'Learn, Activate, Model' (LAM) proccess.
Because "the fastest way to get from A to B is a straight line" the agency is pushing a D2M (direct to media) approach that could include deals with sales teams, in-house programmatic or helping clients trade directly with media owners.
The agency will also tackle any client brief within 24 hours to prove that it thinks differently.
Its philosophy for the challenge marketers are facing, and the need to think differently is summed up by the quote: "Remember, if you feel in control, you are not going fast enough" from Mario Andretti, the 1960s racing driver.
The agency is 100% owned by its employees and Clemenger Group, but beyond Perrin it's not clear who else is involved in the launch.
Perrin stepped down from ZenithOptimedia in October, and Matt James took over the reins, becoming CEO of the entire Publicis Media group when it was restructured shortly afterwards
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Black Life is More
December 9, 2014 February 3, 2015 by Kris Manjapra
Our students, who have participated in and led protests at Tufts and in Boston over the past two weeks, are an inspiration. By marching, chanting, and staging 'die-ins,' they refuse to accept the grand jury decisions to exonerate the policemen who killed Michael Brown and Eric Garner. We cannot accept these grand jury decisions in the way we would helplessly accept a natural disaster or the loss of a loved one to a terminal illness.
After all, if it is an illness that continues to kill black men and youth, it is an unnatural one. It is a long-standing social illness that combines anti-black racism, cultural pro-whiteness, militarized masculinist US nationalism, settler colonial logics of extermination, 'ethnic cleansing,' and gentrification. This unnatural illness seeks to kill off the physical, emotional, and intellectual embodiments; the life potentials; and the family bonds of black people, symbolized by the innocent corpses of Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, and Eric Garner.
The protesters from Tufts, who are playing a leading role in public actions in the wider Boston area, are teaching others as they walk and chant together, and as they resist unnatural disasters with righteous anger and with articulate and thoughtful language and concepts. Education does not only take place in the classroom. If education is about developing a deeper understanding of the world by learning the difference between what is illusory and what is factual—thereby moving from ignorance to greater clarity—then Tufts protesters are playing an important clarifying role in our local and Boston-wide community.
There is nothing natural about the way race works out in the gross expressions of violence by a militarized police, or in the more subtle psychic, cultural, and intellectual forms of de-prioritization, silencing, and coercion that people of color know from everyday experience. In the United States, the largest jailer in the world, though blacks make up 15 percent of the national population, they account for 40 percent of the prison population. In Canada, where I am from, native peoples make up 25 percent of the prison population, while they account for 5 percent of the current-day general population. This suggests the ways that black, Afro-Latino, and indigenous bodies are systemically devalued, de-prioritized, and brutalized through a discourse about 'law enforcement' and the preservation of the peace. But one can hardly also miss the ways that the talk of 'preserving homeland security' is employed to mark, monitor, imprison, displace and exterminate other colored bodies abroad, through the use of drones and boots on the ground.
To those students overcome by a sense of anger and helplessness given the current events: seek out leaders among the Tufts protesters and benefit from their teaching. Seek out faculty members at the university who teach about the unnatural disasters of race, gendered and sexual violence, militarized nationalism, and colonialism. Education can open up space for thinking of race beyond its commonplace presentation as a social relationship between white individuals and black individuals, or as part of a national narrative about 'racial progress.'
Race relates to a set of reproducing compulsions and historical logics that seek to normalize and perpetuate the domination of cultural whiteness through the ritualized 'demonization,' punishment, and killing off of blackness. It is not only that 'black life matters,' but that black bodies exist, live, and love beyond the projections, phantasms, and constructs imposed by dominant pro-white discourse and institutions.
Black lives matter because they are grounded in histories, communities, cultures, families, fields of intimacy, and friendships that structural racism and settler colonialism are vested to erase. Black life is more, in that it cannot be exhausted by the normative, pro-white, nationalist, gendered, militarized, colonial terms of the state. There is great power available in imagining and articulating all that is encompassed but hidden in that 'more.'
Civic breakdowns, as have occurred over the past weeks, are given to us in order to transform our understanding of our world, and to decipher the distinction between the illusory and the factual, and between what dominant discourses present as normal and natural and what our lived experience and our histories tell us is actually true about the condition of society today.
Kris Manjapra is an associate professor of history and the program director of Colonialism Studies at Tufts University.
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Anatomy of Error
A surgeon remembers his mistakes.
By Joshua Rothman
Bicycling to the hospital, Henry Marsh writes, he is oppressed by "a feeling of doom."
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For the schoolteacher, the changes had come slowly. First, his walking had grown unsteady; then his hearing had worsened. He had become stooped, and had begun walking with a cane, even though he was only in his late fifties. Now he sat with his wife and son in the consulting room of Henry Marsh, a London neurosurgeon, looking at a scan of his brain, which showed a tumor growing near the base of his skull. The question was whether it could, or should, be removed. Marsh, who had been practicing neurosurgery for only a few years, was unsure. The tumor was massive—he was startled by its size—and it was situated in the brain stem, a vital area. Left to itself, it would destroy the schoolteacher's hearing, rob him of his ability to walk, and, eventually, kill him. But, Marsh explained, surgery could leave him paralyzed, or worse. The family faced a difficult choice, between the certainty of a slow, predictable decline and the possibility of an immediate cure—or catastrophe.
They decided to seek a second opinion from an older, eminent neurosurgeon. A few days later, the surgeon phoned Marsh. "It's a young man's operation," he said. "I've told them you should do it." Flattered, Marsh agreed to go ahead. The surgery began at nine in the morning and continued late into the night. Brain surgery is slow and dangerous, and removing a tumor can be like defusing a bomb. Often, surgeons look through a microscope and use long-handled, fine-tipped instruments to pull the tumor away from the brain before removing it with a sucker. A quarter of the body's blood courses through the veins and arteries of the brain; if one of them is torn, bleeding and stroke can result. It's also possible to remove important parts of the brain by accident, because brain tissue and tumor tissue look pretty much the same. Unlike the rest of the body, the brain and the spinal cord rarely heal. If a neurosurgeon makes a mistake, the damage is often permanent.
By midnight, Marsh and his team had removed almost all of the tumor. The atmosphere in the operating theatre was relaxed and celebratory; the surgical team paused for cigarette breaks and listened to Abba and Bach. "I should have stopped at that point, and left the last piece of tumor behind," Marsh writes in his memoir, "Do No Harm" (Thomas Dunne). Instead, he ventured further—he wanted to be able to say that he had taken it all out. "As I started to remove the last part of the tumor," Marsh writes, "I tore a small perforating branch off the basilar artery, a vessel the width of a thick pin. A narrow jet of bright red arterial blood started to pump upwards." The basilar artery carries blood to the brain stem, which regulates the rest of the brain. Marsh quickly stopped the bleeding, but the oxygen deprivation was enough to irreparably damage the man's brain stem, and he never regained consciousness.
Marsh, who is now sixty-five, is one of Britain's foremost neurosurgeons. He is a senior consultant at St. George's Hospital, in London, and he helped to pioneer a kind of surgery in which patients are kept awake, under local anesthesia, so that they can converse with their surgeons while they operate, allowing them to avoid damaging what neurosurgeons call "eloquent," or useful, parts of the brain. Marsh has been the subject of two documentary films. Still, he writes, "As I approach the end of my career I feel an increasing obligation to bear witness to past mistakes I have made." A few years ago, he prepared a lecture called "All My Worst Mistakes." For months, he lay awake in the mornings, remembering the patients he had failed. "The more I thought about the past," he recalls in his book, "the more mistakes rose to the surface, like poisonous methane stirred up from a stagnant pond."
There's a tradition of physicians writing about their errors. "When the Air Hits Your Brain," a neurosurgical memoir by Frank Vertosick, Jr., begins with a scene in which a resident, while drilling a hole in a man's skull, accidentally goes too far, plunging the drill bit into the brain. "Oh, shit!" he exclaims. (An older doctor reassures him: "It's just the lateral hemisphere.") Physician writers usually view such errors with a generous spirit. They point out that medicine is built on mistakes, because doctors, like the rest of us, learn by screwing up.
Marsh isn't interested in the usefulness of error. He is the Knausgaard of neurosurgery: he writes about his errors because he wants to confess them, and because he's interested in his inner life and how it's been changed, over time, by the making of mistakes. As an epigraph to "Do No Harm," he quotes the French doctor René Leriche: "Every surgeon carries within himself a small cemetery, where from time to time he goes to pray." Marsh knows there's something unprofessional about this inwardness—a surgeon's emotions are supposed to be beside the point compared with his patients' suffering—but he is drawn to "reckless honesty." (When he delivered "All My Worst Mistakes" to an audience of neurosurgical colleagues, he writes, "it was met by a stunned silence and no questions were asked.") "Do No Harm" is an act of atonement, an anatomy of error, and an attempt to answer, from the inside, a startling question: How can someone spend decades cutting into people's brains and emerge whole?
Marsh became a neurosurgeon almost by accident. Midway through his undergraduate years, at Oxford, he fell in unrequited love and, inspired by the Jack Nicholson movie "Five Easy Pieces," fled to Newcastle, in the rugged northeast of England, to nurse his broken heart. There, he wrote bad poetry, worked as a hospital porter, and saw his first surgery. "I found its controlled and altruistic violence deeply appealing," he writes. After he finished his degree, in 1973, he entered the Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine. Students weren't allowed into the neurosurgical theatres, but one day Marsh caught a glimpse through a round porthole in a closed door—"a naked woman, anaesthetized, her head completely shaven, sitting bolt upright on a special operating table." The image stayed in his mind, and struck him as "a scene from a horror film."
Marsh married, and qualified as a doctor. Not long afterward, his three-month-old son, William, developed a tumor in the center of his brain and successfully underwent surgery to remove it. Marsh feels now that he didn't fully appreciate the risks: he writes that, much later, "I watched a child bleed to death in the very same operating theatre where my son had been treated, as my boss—the very surgeon who had saved my son's life—now failed with a similar tumor." Soon after his son's surgery, while working in intensive care, Marsh observed an aneurysm operation. The surgeon had to make his way deep into the brain, exposing the small, deadly balloon of arterial blood so that, without rupturing it, he could seal it off using a miniature metal clip. It "was more like a blood sport than a calm and dispassionate technical exercise," Marsh writes. It also "involved the brain, the mysterious substrate of all thought and feeling. . . . The operation was elegant, delicate, dangerous, and full of profound meaning. What could be finer, I thought, than to be a neurosurgeon?" Neurosurgery—strange, brutal, and miraculous—had seduced him, and he started the training as soon as he could.
Marsh is fascinated by the brain. He loves looking at it through his counterbalanced surgical microscope, which "leans out over the patient's head like an inquisitive, thoughtful crane." To Marsh, the view is beautiful. At the center of the brain, he writes, the internal cerebral veins are like "the great arches of a cathedral roof"; the Great Vein of Galen can be seen "dark blue and glittering in the light of the microscope." It is "a very private view," "clearer, sharper and more brilliant than the world outside," and "made all the more intense and mysterious by my anxiety."
That anxiety begins long before surgery, with the decision to operate in the first place, which could easily be wrong. (A brain scan is mute on the all-important question of how tightly a tumor will cling to the brain.) It continues through a series of meetings in which Marsh must try to explain that uncertainty without alarming his patients. (It's tempting to be reassuring, he writes, but after failed operations he has "bitterly regretted having been too optimistic.") Bicycling to the hospital, Marsh is oppressed by dread—"almost a feeling of doom"—and, before surgery, he is often seized by panic, which is swept away, at the last moment, by "fierce and happy concentration."
Brain surgery itself, Marsh writes, is "something I hate doing." Beforehand, patients are depersonalized—their heads are shaved, and they are covered in sterile drapes—although you can't entirely depersonalize the brain. Often, there's a question about how far to go: if an aneurysm clip is not quite perfectly positioned, should Marsh take the risk of repositioning it? To do so, he must struggle against the "urge to finish the operation and escape the fear of causing a catastrophic haemorrhage." Eventually, he writes, "I decide at some unconscious place within myself, where all the ghosts have assembled to watch me."
"I've made my fortune, and now it's time for me to run for office and consolidate it."
Neurosurgical disasters can be cruel. A patient can wake up and appear healthy only to die, a few days later, of a stroke or a hemorrhage that's related, in "some unknowable way," to the operation. And patients can live on despite severe brain damage—an outcome that's a particular source of fear for Marsh. He tells a colleague, "Nobody, nobody other than a neurosurgeon, understands what it is like to have to drag yourself up to the ward and see, every day—sometimes for months on end—somebody one has destroyed and face the anxious and angry family at the bedside." The schoolteacher lived on in just this way. Seven years after that failed surgery, Marsh was visiting a home for vegetative patients when he looked into a room and "saw his grey curled-up body in its bed." Of the feelings such experiences produce in him, Marsh writes, "I will not describe the pain."
In his decades of medical practice, Marsh has been a witness or a party to almost every kind of mistake. There are errors of commission (the hubristic removal of too much tumor) and of omission (the missed diagnosis). There are errors that go unreported (after a successful surgery, Marsh might decide not to tell a patient about a close call) and errors for which Marsh is held accountable. (He writes that, after one operation, "I told them to sue me. I told them I had made a terrible mistake.") There are errors of delegation—as when Marsh allows a resident to perform a simple spinal surgery, and the patient is left with a paralyzed foot—and historical errors: at a mental hospital, Marsh encounters victims of lobotomy. One morning, Marsh operates after having a petty argument with another surgeon, and the operation paralyzes half the patient's face. He writes, "Perhaps this was going to happen anyway—it is called a 'recognized complication' of that particular operation—but I know that I was not in the right state of mind to carry out such dangerous and delicate surgery, and when I saw the patient on the ward round in the days afterwards, and saw his paralyzed face, paralyzed and disfigured, I felt a deep sense of shame."
In a 1976 essay, the philosopher Bernard Williams explored a concept that he called "moral luck." Often, he observed, we are morally responsible for actions that contain an element of chance. Imagine two people who drink too much at the same party, and who both drive home drunk; suppose that one of them hits a pedestrian. The driver in the accident is morally responsible for this outcome, and yet only chance distinguishes him from the other driver. Much of moral life, Williams thought, contains a similar element of luck. We happen to find ourselves in situations that bring judgment upon us. Yet this doesn't absolve us of responsibility for what we do. It underscores an unsettling fact about moral life—that the distribution of moral fault in the world depends, in many ways, on good and bad luck.
A soldier's life is deeply shaped by such moral luck. So, it turns out, is a neurosurgeon's. "As I become more and more experienced it seems that luck becomes ever more important," Marsh writes. Even so, he will be blamed for what goes wrong and praised for what goes right—treated as a murderer in the morning, by one family, and as a savior in the afternoon, by another. People who are regularly exposed to moral luck often find it helpful to have some standard other than morality by which to judge themselves—a code, more or less. Marsh's code has to do with his own emotions. If he can't control how a surgery turns out, he will control how he feels. He tries not to let his feelings add to his patients' fear and unhappiness; at the same time, he tries never to lie. He yearns, therefore, for feelings that are strong but realistic, fully voiced yet even-keeled. In one of the book's most moving passages, he is called to the bedside of a favorite patient, David, a warm, accomplished, and intelligent man, whom he has known for twelve years. Marsh has fought David's tumor in three surgeries, but now it has reached a deeper, fatal stratum of the brain. Marsh explains, with great sadness, that a fourth operation won't do any good; David says that he's suspected as much. Marsh holds David's hand, is embraced by his wife, and says, "It's been an honor to look after you."
Given the circumstances, it's an ideal meeting. And yet, afterward, Marsh's emotions rebel. Leaving the hospital, he writes,
I quickly became stuck in the rush-hour traffic, and furiously cursed the cars and their drivers as though it was their fault that this good and noble man should die and leave his wife a widow and his young children fatherless. I shouted and cried and stupidly hit the steering wheel with my fists. And I felt shame, not at my failure to save his life—his treatment had been as good as it could be—but at my loss of professional detachment and what felt like the vulgarity of my distress compared to his composure and his family's suffering, to which I could only bear impotent witness.
In writing "Do No Harm," Marsh has seemingly violated his code: he expresses many of the feelings that he's worked very hard to keep hidden. But codes, by their nature, exclude the complexities of inner and moral life, and Marsh wants to understand himself—and wants us to know him—in the light of those complexities.
Marsh writes like a novelist—he thinks in terms of scenes, patterns, and contrasts—and, reading "Do No Harm," I thought of another Henry: Henry Perowne, the neurosurgeon protagonist of Ian McEwan's novel "Saturday." (In writing his book, McEwan shadowed a younger English neurosurgeon, Neil Kitchen.) The two Henrys could not be more different. Perowne, who is in his late forties, is confident and optimistic. In his surgeries, he says, he can "control outcomes"; he experiences "the pleasure of knowing precisely what he's doing." He admires the impersonality of scientific knowledge. He enjoys "the relief of the relatives when he comes down from the operating room like a god, an angel with the glad tidings—life, not death." Most of his patients survive, and even, McEwan writes, "thrive." Presumably, the same is true of Marsh's patients. The difference is one of temperament. "It's not the successes I remember," Marsh writes, "but the failures."
Years ago, when I read "Saturday," I was in awe of Perowne. Now that I've read Marsh's memoir, the character comes across as curiously unburdened by his work. (The novel imagines Perowne humbled, but by forces—time, evil, history—that lie outside the surgical theatre.) Perowne has, apparently, never done what Marsh did to the schoolteacher, whose story Marsh tells in a chapter called "Hubris." That experience changed Marsh, professionally and spiritually. He no longer operates for so long at a stretch. He has become wary of his own optimism and talent, and suspicious of the exhilarations of surgery. ("I can no longer bear to listen to music while operating," Marsh writes; Perowne listens to the Goldberg Variations.)
The Henry Marsh of "Do No Harm" is a character, too. In 2007, the documentarian Geoffrey Smith made a film about Marsh, titled "The English Surgeon." It seems to star a slightly different man. In the film, Marsh is goofy; he's very tall, and wears bold, perfectly round glasses. When he talks about medical equipment, he becomes boyish. At a frozen lake—the documentary takes place in Ukraine, where Marsh has been doing pro-bono brain surgery for decades—he slides across the ice with ease. If he's nervous before an operation, his voice rises and he grabs his head. He smiles regularly. When he delivers bad news, his eyes fill with tears: "Life can be very cruel," he says, "I'm sorry." It's obvious that he's an emotional man—the sort who might leave school to nurse a broken heart. At one point, Marsh visits Katya, the mother of a young girl whose life he tried to save. Marsh describes the scene in "Do No Harm": sitting at her dinner table, surrounded by her family, "I was so intensely moved to see Katya again that I could scarcely talk," he writes. It's remarkable that such a sensitive man has become a brain surgeon. There, too, age may play a role: "I became hardened in the way that doctors have to become hardened," Marsh writes, but "now that I am reaching the end of my career this detachment has started to fade."
In Kiev, Marsh works with a neurosurgeon named Igor Kurilets to perform state-of-the-art procedures with second-hand surgical equipment. In "Do No Harm," Marsh writes about the terror of operating in a strange place, with substandard equipment, but he can't quite bring himself to describe his work there accurately. (It's heroic.) His self-portrait, in short, leaves something out. Marsh writes that, when speaking with patients, he struggles to find the balance between "hope and reality," "optimism and realism," "detachment and compassion." He also struggles to find that balance in writing about himself.
Why should that be? The darkness of Marsh's book isn't a kind of false modesty; his self-abnegation isn't disguised self-regard. Instead, his desire for atonement seems to darken his recollections—faced with the irrevocability of his patients' suffering, he is unable to escape from its shadow. And the memoir's final chapter suggests a further possibility. Marsh writes about a woman who comes to see him in his clinic. Twenty years earlier, she had a benign brain tumor removed; even as the operation saved her life, it severed one of her facial nerves. Surgeons call this kind of trade a "sacrifice." In most people, the result of this sacrifice would be a numbness of the face, with which they come to terms. Only a few, Marsh writes, are, like the woman, "driven mad by the numbness." The Latin name for this, he says, is "anaesthesia dolorosa—painful loss of feeling"; the final chapter is named for that condition. Marsh, I think, is afraid of anaesthesia dolorosa. He can't bear the thought of going numb. He is determined to feel as much as he can. ♦
Joshua Rothman, the ideas editor of newyorker.com, has been a writer and an editor at the magazine since 2012.
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Because of the measures put in place to prevent the spread of COVID19, we aren't able to meet together – and one of the things we miss is singing together! We are currently working on a project, but in the meantime, we hope these videos help inspire you to keep singing!
Sing and Be Happy
Written by: John H. Sammis
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"When we walk with the Lord in the light of his word,
what a glory he sheds on our way!
When we do his good will, he abodes with us still,
and with all who will trust and obey.
Trust and obey, for there's no other way
to be happy in Jesus, but to trust and obey."
The Story Behind the Song:
This is such a familiar song for so many of us, especially those of us who grew up in the church and sang this song Sunday, after Sunday. We have sang this song countless times following a great message at the end of worship service, and continued humming this song throughout the following week as a reminder of the message provided by the preacher that day. Most of us can sing this song without reading any sheet music or lyrics, but how many of us have stopped to really understand the power embedded in the words of this song? This song has very powerful lyrics, and you should feel goosebumps, and your heart should truly be filled with gladness as you sing these words.
Some sources suggest that the author, John H. Sammis, referenced 1 John 1:7 while writing this song.
"But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all sin." 1 John 1:7 (NIV)
Hymnologist Kenneth W. Osbeck cites 1 Samuel 15:22:
"But Samuel replied:
"Does the Lord delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices
as much as in obeying the Lord?
To obey is better than sacrifice,
and to heed is better than the fat of rams."
1 Samuel 15:22 (NIV)
Dr. Hawn, a professor of sacred music at Perkins School of Theology explains that, "this hymn was inspired in 1886 when the composer of the music, Daniel B. Towner (1850-1919), was the music leader during one of Dwight L. Moody's famous revivals. Towner provided the following account cited by Moody's musical partner, Ira D. Sankey, in his biography, My Life and the Story of the Gospel Hymns:
"Mr. Moody was conducting a series of meetings in Brockton, Massachusetts, and I had the pleasure of singing for him there. One night a young man rose in a testimony meeting and said, 'I am not quite sure—but I am going to trust, and I am going to obey.' I just jotted that sentence down, and sent it with a little story to the Rev. J. H. Sammis, a Presbyterian minister. He wrote the hymn, and the tune was born.""
It is believed that Sammis wrote the words of the chorus upon receiving the letter:
"Trust and obey—for there's no other way
These words stood to serve as a theme for this song, and each verse was carefully written to support this theme. The text and tune first appeared in the 1887 collection, Hymns Old and New, and the hymn continues to be included in hymn books around the globe to this day.
This hymn is concerned with the rewards of trusting God's word and obeying God's will.
The ultimate reward, appears in the last verse of this song when we sing: "in fellowship sweet we will sit at his feet."
(Hawn, 2020)
Which line in this song really resonates with you? Think about this as we sing…
C.M. Hawn, 2020, History of hymns: "Trust and obey", Discipleship Ministries of The United Methodist Church, April 30, 2020, <https://www.umcdiscipleship.org/resources/history-of-hymns-trust-and-obey>


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import java.text.MessageFormat;

import de.unioninvestment.eai.portal.support.vaadin.PortletUtils;
import de.unioninvestment.eai.portal.support.vaadin.context.Context;

/**
 * Scripting-Fehler.
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 * @author max.hartmann
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	private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
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Michael Heuser (* 1954 in Weimar) ist ein deutscher Schauspieler.

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Über das Leben des in 1954 in Weimar geborenen Michael Heuser sind nur lückenhafte Informationen vorhanden. In den 1970er Jahren hatte er an der Staatlichen Schauspielschule in Berlin studiert. Anschließend hatte er ein Engagement am Theater der Jungen Generation in Dresden. Als an den Landesbühnen Sachsen mit Hauptsitz in Radebeul 1987 ein Ersatz für einen weggegangenen Kollegen gesucht wurde, füllte Michael Heuser die entstandene Lücke und blieb bis zu seiner Abschiedsvorstellung 2019, mit den Sonny Boys, dem bekannten Reisetheater verbunden. Damit hatte er sein 40-jähriges Bühnenjubiläum erreicht. Vor der Kamera stand er nur für wenige Aufnahmen des Fernsehens der DDR. Ein wichtiges Anliegen waren ihm die Lesungen, mit denen er durch das Land zog.

Auch gesellschaftlich engagiert sich Michael Heuser, so als Mitglied im Verein Radebeuler Kultur e.V.

Filmografie
 1990: Polizeiruf 110: Tödliche Träume (Fernsehreihe)
 1990: Polizeiruf 110: Allianz für Knete
 1998: In aller Freundschaft (Fernsehserie, 1 Episode)

Theater
 1979: Peter Hacks: Der arme Ritter – Regie: Axel Richter (Theater der Jungen Generation Dresden)
 1983: Jewgeni Schwarz: Der nackte König – Regie: Jochen Kretschmer/Wilfried Weschke (Theater der Jungen Generation Dresden)
 1984: Peter Hacks: Kinder (Zeus) – Regie: Helfried Schöbel (Theater der Jungen Generation Dresden)
 1984: Friedrich Schiller nach Carlo Gozzi: Turandot, Prinzessin von China – Regie: Wilfried Weschke (Theater der Jungen Generation Dresden)
 1985: Manuel Schöbel: Aus dem Leben eines Tauglichen – Regie: Wilfried Weschke (Theater der Jungen Generation Dresden)
 1987: Ulrich Plenzdorf: Legende vom Glück ohne Ende – Regie: Aljoscha Westermann (Landesbühnen Sachsen Radebeul)
 1987: Max Frisch: Biedermann und die Brandstifter – Regie: Günter Falkenau (Landesbühnen Sachsen Radebeul)
 1988: Brian Friel: Philadelphia, ich komme! – Regie: Anne Eicke (Landesbühnen Sachsen Radebeul)
 1991: Heinrich Spoerl: Die Feuerzangenbowle (Johannes Pfeiffer) – Regie: Anne Eicke (Landesbühnen Sachsen Radebeul)
 1992: Marlene (mehrere Rollen) – Regie: Janos Mrsan (Landesbühnen Sachsen Radebeul)
 1993: Ariel Dorfman: Der Tod und das Mädchen – Regie: Holger Böhme (Landesbühnen Sachsen Radebeul)
 1996: Joe Masteroff/John Kander: Cabaret – Regie: Andreas Knaup (Landesbühnen Sachsen Radebeul)
 1998: Bertolt Brecht: Herr Puntila und sein Knecht Matti – Regie: Horst Schönemann (Landesbühnen Sachsen Radebeul)
 1999: Molière: Tartuffe – Regie: Horst Schönemann (Landesbühnen Sachsen Radebeul)
 2006: Katharina Gericke: Mont Klamott – Regie: Arne Retzlaff (Landesbühnen Sachsen Radebeul)
 2006: Peter Shaffer: Amadeus (Graf Johann Kilian von Strack) – Regie: Arne Retzlaff (Landesbühnen Sachsen Radebeul)
 2009: Marius von Mayenburg: Der Häßliche – Regie: Michael Mienert (Landesbühnen Sachsen Radebeul)
 2012: Peter Quilter: Glorius (Bayfield) – Regie: Tom Quaas (Landesbühnen Sachsen Radebeul)
 2014: Sibylle Berg: Hund, Frau, Mann (Mann) – Regie: Renat Saffiulin (Landesbühnen Sachsen Radebeul)
 2014: Friedrich Dürrenmatt: Frank der Fünfte – Regie: Arne Retzlaff (Landesbühnen Sachsen Radebeul)
 2015: Kay Pollack: Wie im Himmel – Regie: Stefan Wolfram (Landesbühnen Sachsen Radebeul)
 2015: Peter Dehler nach Victor Hugo: Glöckner von Notre-Dame (Clopin) – Regie: Peter Kube (Landesbühnen Sachsen Radebeul – Felsenbühne Rathen)
 2015: Peter Ensikat nach Brüder Grimm: Hase und Igel – Regie: Olaf Hais (Landesbühnen Sachsen Radebeul)
 2016: Katrin Lange: Das Geheimnis der Blauen Schwerter (Pabst von Ohain) – Regie: Michael Funke (Landesbühnen Sachsen Radebeul)
 2017: Bertolt Brecht: Der aufhaltsame Aufstieg des Arturo Ui (Dullfeet) – Regie: Peter Kube (Landesbühnen Sachsen Radebeul)
 2018: William Shakespeare: Ein Sommernachtstraum (Egeus) – Regie: Peter Kube (Landesbühnen Sachsen Radebeul)
 2019: Oliver Bukowski: Wer seid ihr (Martin Heuser) – Regie: Tom Quaas (Landesbühnen Sachsen Radebeul)
 2019: Neil Simon: Sonny Boys (Willie Clark) – Regie: Michael Funke (Landesbühnen Sachsen Radebeul)

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Why the Metaverse Needs to Augment Reality—Not Replace It
What can dead alien Metaverses teach us about our own, and how can humanity build a good one.
The Milky Way.
The galaxy, not the candy.
It's home to up to 400 billion stars. To our knowledge, only one of them features a planet that's teeming with life. Where's everybody else? Shouldn't there be tens of thousands of alien civilizations?
This is called the Fermi paradox, and it has many possible solutions.
Besides the simple ones, from nuclear war to an unlucky asteroid hit, there are exotic ways to explain the paradox. Perhaps our galaxy is like a dark forest, with stealth alien civilizations hunting each other with interstellar spears, while silently expanding outwards.
Or maybe...
Maybe it's in the nature of intelligent life to expand inwards.
Is the Galaxy a Graveyard of Alien Metaverses?
In the last century, we went from cathode rays to quantum dots, from vacuum tubes to silicon chips, from copper wires to hyperopic fibers. From programming with physical punch cards to having AI coding assistants.
In the last century, we've went a long way, us silly humans, with our shiny tools and goofy trinkets.
It seems that this explosion of tech is leading to the same place from many directions. From augmented reality to artificial intelligence, all emerging technologies seem to be meeting at a single point: the Metaverse.
All roads lead to a digital Rome.
Does all technological progress lead to the Metaverse on a galactic scale? If relentless technological advancement is what intelligent civilizations always do, is it reasonable to assume they all inevitably create alien Metaverses?
And if they do... where are they? Could this be the solution to the Fermi paradox?
Is our galaxy filled with countless technological tombs, long devoid of life as their creators got lost in an alternate reality of ones and zeroes? What happens when there's nobody left outside to tend to the machines?
Is the fate of all life to create digital universes—and then perish within them?
Are We Going to Get Fermie'd, Too?
It's unclear if humanity building a Metaverse equals our slow decline or even ultimate extinction, but the data we've got so far might give us a clue.
On average, internet users worldwide spent 415 minutes every day online in 2021.
That's close to seven hours each day. The average person is awake for around 16 hours per day, meaning that humanity is spending close to half of our waking time in the primordial version of the Metaverse: the Internet.
This trend is likely to continue until all of our time is spent online. In the next decade, the Internet will go from the smartphones in our pockets to smart glasses on our faces. In thirty, maybe forty years, it will go directly to our brains, via neural laces—making the Metaverse indistinguishable from reality.
In 8 years, the Metaverse will be already worth over $5 trillion. If there's money to be made, humanity is pretty darn good at figuring stuff out, making the Metaverse inevitable.
For all its faults, the human species is currently the best bet life and thought have for spreading throughout the Galaxy. With some luck, we'll be able to overcome our tribal nature and venture onto the stars—shepherding, spreading, and protecting Earth-based life along the way.
We are a race of explorers, adventurers, and wanderers, and it'd be tragic if our story ended in a slow decay into digital realms.
Why would anyone want to explore the Universe, if they can be a god-like being in their own?
That's where the Metaverse is ultimately heading, as computing power and AI meet brain-to-computer interfaces.
Will the future Metaverse lead to our decline, or even eventual demise?
A better question might be: can we do something about it?
How to Build a Good Metaverse
01. Evolve corporations into DAOs
Let's start with a question—who's building the primordial Metaverse of today?
On one side, you've got corporations, from Meta to Nvidia.
Left to their own devices, these legacy organizations are going to build a nightmarish dystopia at best, with a few hundred trillionaires enjoying the real world, and billions of everybody else spending most of their time in fantasy worlds designed to pacify them.
At worst, a Metaverse built only by corporations might end our species.
On the other side, there's the new kids in the block: the Decentralands and Yuga Labs of the world, which are somewhere between startups and fully-formed DAOs.
At worst, blockchain-based organizations like this might give people a choice between corporate, sterile virtual worlds, and crypto-anarchist ones. At best, and with time, they might hammer down the final nails in coffin of corporate organizations of yore, forever changing dominant mode of capitalism towards one that optimizes not only for profit, but for purpose as well.
With this in mind, it's safe to say one thing: we should pressure corporations to evolve into DAOs—or wipe them from existence. We can simply vote with our wallets, buying products and services from corporations that do good, like adopting decentralized governance or open-sourcing their hardware, and ignoring those that do bad, like implementing annoying in-metaverse ads or user data monetization.
02. Use soulbound tokens
A couple of decades from now, a team of three neurosurgeons from across the world—one in Finland, one from Japan, and the third one from a tiny island in the Caribbean—could operate on a single person in Brazil.
The tech behind this goes from satelite Internet constellations like Starlink to enable low latency needed for remote surgery, to advanced AI, mixed reality, and robotics.
The nifty trick? All the surgeons are pseudo-anonymous, represented only by soulbound tokens carrying their past accomplishments, like education and employment history.
Soulbound tokens are the latest addition to the core blockchain concepts and technologies that also include NFTs, cryptocurrencies, and DAOs. In the coming decades, soulbound tokens might completely revolutionize society, from the way we work and places where we live, to how much we pollute and the ways we govern ourselves.
Crucially, they allow for completely decentralized identities connected to the real world, and open the possibility of avoiding the current authoritarian, monopolistic nature of web2 from taking over web3 as well.
If we want the Metaverse to be good, we need it to be as decentralized as possible—and as closely integrated with the real world as possible.
03. Merge realities
The very fabric of the Metaverse needs to be intertwined with the real world.
We're taking experimental, baby steps in this direction at Holoframe, with a simple web app that enables people to see and record their NFTs in augmented reality. There is profound value in placing digital objects in real, 3d space. In a way, it makes those objects more real—creating a bond between the realm of code, the realm of physics, and perhaps most importantly, the subjective, emotional realm that only lives in our thoughts, memories, and dreams.
Actions in the Metaverse can impact the real world in a direct way, like environmentally with carbon-credit backed NFTs pioneered by MyMetaverse, or culturally and socially like experiences hosted by Passage. It goes the other way as well, from apps like Stepn that help you translate physical activity into cryptocurrency, to projects like Forestcoin that enable you to earn crypto by planting trees. This trend of mixing virtual and real will continue, especially once mixed reality becomes ubiquitous: think about how easy it would be to use machine learning to both verify and help someone plant a tree, if they had a mixed reality headset on.
VR and AR hardware are already becoming one and the same; we can see mixed reality in action already, with Meta Quest Pro, and with Apple to soon follow. Mixed reality headsets, once as omnipresent as smartphones, will go through a cycle of miniaturization, from smart glasses to retinal lasers.
The synergy of mixed reality and blockchain might be the key to merging the Metaverse with the real world in every possible way, from social and cultural, to technological and practical.
The Web3 Journey
Along the way to a feature-complete Metaverse, those of us that are building it, and those of us experiencing it, need to be mindful of it's potential downsides, from potent addictiveness to possible centralization of power. We can try everything from simply talking about it like in this article, to creating entire philosophical frameworks for the Metaverse.
In the far future, perhaps we'll find a good middle ground: maybe we can enjoy the Metaverse and colonize and explore the galaxy at the same time.
Why not spend a couple of months as a dragon-riding knight, while you're physically in a colossal spaceship racing at 50% the speed of light towards Alpha Centauri, with all your pets and plants on board—as well as tens of thousands of other humans?
Maybe we can bring the Metaverse with us, on our way to the stars.
The Web3 Journey: Is Reddit Working on a 3d Metaverse?
What's next for Reddit NFTs? Is Reddit's new Developer Platform going to take subreddits from text—to 3d worlds?
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Stepping off a flight to Kathmandu presents an exhilarating feast for the senses, which will stay with you for the duration of your trip. The capital of Nepal is also its most populous, with more than 2.5 million people calling it home. So on your visit, expect the city's streets to be a frenetic scene.
However, amid the chaos, there's charisma. Kathmandu has several awe-inspiring attractions, including elaborate temples dating back to the 5th century and ancient palaces that once housed the country's monarchy. A misty mountain backdrop adds to the city's allure.
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Be charmed by Kathmandu, home to ancient temples, impressive palaces and a tradition as old as the hills.
If your trip to Kathmandu is motivated by a desire to see its famed temples, then you'll be spoiled for choice. Start with Swayambhunath, the oldest and holiest temple in Nepal. It has earned the nickname "Monkey Temple" due to the hundreds of revered monkeys that have taken up residence in this hilltop religious complex.
Your effort to climb 365 steps to the top of the hill will be rewarded with a splendid view of the city. In the complex, you'll also find a 2,500-year-old Buddhist stupa, which is a place for meditation. Around 30 minutes' drive from Swayambhunath is an even bigger stupa, the Boudhanath, which attracts thousands of pilgrims from across the Himalayan region every year.
Also find time to visit the Durbar Squares: Patan, Kathmandu and Bhaktapur. All three plazas have earned World Heritage Site status, together with Swayambhunath and Boudhanath. The squares feature remnants of the old city, including palaces, museums and more temples.
Other must-sees include the Hindu temple of Pashupatinath and the sanctuary of Kaiser Mahal, also known as the Garden of Dreams. Narayanhiti Palace Museum will add some cultural and historical depth to your trip.
One of the joys of a trip to Kathmandu is simply wandering among the many sights and soaking up the atmosphere of the streets. There are also plenty of opportunities for leisure activities and sports, including one of the most picturesque rounds of golf you'll ever play. Rock climbing and mountain biking in the Kathmandu Valley is also possible.
Birdwatching is a special part of many trips to the city, as there are more than 500 species of bird living in Kathmandu Valley. Outside the city, hiking is a popular activity, while helicopter tours offer unrivalled views.
If relaxation is on your agenda, there are several resorts in the city that offer Ayurvedic therapies, to help you find your balance.
Kathmandu is a great place to sample Nepalese cuisine. Rice and curry dishes are popular staples in the city, as are fried or steamed momo dumplings. In addition to the many traditional eateries, there are plenty of high-quality restaurants serving dishes that appeal to a more global palate.
Nepalese cuisine has been inspired by its neighbours. You'll find elements of Indian, Tibetan and Thai traditions in many dishes, most of which are on the spicy side.
Travel to Kathmandu is highly recommended for anyone with an interest in rare books (particularly spiritual ones), as there are many English-language bookshops in the city.
Typical souvenirs include an assortment of local crafts, pieces of jewellery and traditional clothing. The markets are also a good place to pick up meditation aids, such as singing bowls and authentic incense. However, before buying incense, check first with your country's customs whether it is included in the list of prohibited or restricted imports.
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