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Anatoly Karpov Speaks Out in BigThink.com Video
As the editorial chairman of BigThink.com, I've personally conducted video interviews with many interesting thought leaders, including evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins , New Yorker cartoon editor Bob Mankoff, and novelist John Irving. Now I've had the honor of interviewing the first chess player for Big Think, grandmaster Anatoly Karpov. The interview was posted today on Big Think. Here's the blog post that went up on Big Think when the interview went live:
"Anatoly Karpov, the twelfth world chess champion, is one of the most successful chess players in the history of the game. The Russian grandmaster was the world champion for a decade, from 1975 to 1985, and he held the No. 1 position on the international chess rating list for 90 months, second only to his archrival, Garry Kasparov.
"In his video interview with Big Think, Karpov shares the secret of his success: his fighting spirit, which serves him well not just at the chessboard but in the rest of his life, too. Karpov also reveals his prime weakness as a player—his laziness in studying chess opening-move theory—and how he had to turn that into a strength, by learning to play the inferior positions he sometimes achieved owing to his lack of theoretical knowledge. He also dissects Kasparov's strengths and flaws, and says that Kasparov can be blinded by fear when his king is in danger.
"Karpov is still a strong tournament competitor, but these days he is focused on chess politics and is fighting to succeed Kirsan Ilyumzhinov as the president of FIDE, the world chess federation. Karpov and his team have accused Ilyumzhinov—who famously claimed to have been whisked aboard a spaceship by yellow-robed aliens—of corruption and mental instability. But madness—and accusations of madness—are nothing new to chess. The only two Americans to reach the No. 1 spot in the chess world, Bobby Fischer in the early 1970s and Paul Morphy in the late 1850s, were both crazy and paranoid. Karpov himself emphatically told Big Think that you don't have to be mad to play strong chess and he shares his impressions of Fischer."
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"I'm a Terror to Teachers"
In King's Gambit: A Son, A Father, and the World's Most Dangerous Game, I wrote about my losses (expected but painful nonetheless) in simultaneous chess exhibitions to Bent Larsen and Garry Kasparov. On Friday, I had the opportunity to be on the other side of the table when I played 24 kids at once at the chess club in my son's elementary school. I now appreciate the stamina that simuls require. I was nearly dizzy when it was all over and dropped a bishop in a twenty-fifth game, against the sole adult who crashed the gathering.
Later that evening, the chess club held a bake sale at Poetry Night at the school. A couple hundred people showed up to hear the kids read verse that they had composed. My eight-year-old was one of the readers. He wouldn't tell me in advance what he was going to read. His classmates recited nice, sentimental ditties about the beauty of sunsets, deer, and swans. Not my kid. He's a little Jack Nicholson. He brought down the house with a poem that began: "I'm a terror to teachers/ a stingray to substitutes/ I can make the clock hand go to 3:30/ when it's only been two seconds of math."
Tags:chess, Kasparov, King's Gambit, Larsen
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Two World Chess Champions Face Confinement
Two former world chess champions were in the news this week, and for reasons that have nothing to do with the royal game.
Garry Kasparov was arrested on Saturday in Moscow for leading an anti-Putin rally. He was sentenced to five days in prison and is now confined to "Petrovka 38," a criminal facility in Moscow. He has not been allowed visitors since his imprisonment and has been prohibited from speaking on the phone. The rally was peaceful.
His arrest—only a week before parliamentary elections—was planned in advance by the authorities. "Of course we are very worried," Kasparov's wife, Dasha, told the press, "especially after hearing the police at the court say they had been ordered in advance to arrest Garry specifically. Who knows what they have planned for him? And why can't we visit him? We are asking everyone to get this story out and to let Putin know that the world is watching and that he will be responsible if any further harm comes to Garry." The Web site of Other Russia, the pro-democracy movement that Kasparov leads, will have updates on his situation as news becomes available.
The word is out that Bobby Fischer, the pride and embarrassment of American chess, has been hospitalized in Iceland for kidney and perhaps mental problems. The details in the press and blogosphere are frustratingly scarce. Mig Greengard's Daily Dirt gives the best summary of what's known about Fischer's condition.
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Why Chess Makes Kasparov Qualified to Lead Russia
I am of course familiar with the stereotype of the chess player as madman. And in King's Gambit I portray individual chess games as passionate, operatic encounters.
Thus I am always amused by the reverse stereotype: chess playing presented as sterile, as an activity as tedious as waiting for paint to dry. Last night a correspondent on "Anderson Cooper 360" briefly discussed Garry Kasparov's candidacy for the presidency of Russia and said (and I apologize if I may have gotten an inconsequential word or two wrong; I was wearing my dozing-off cap, not my journalist hat): "He might make a very good president because he has a lot of experience sitting around with old guys where nothing much happens."
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Kasparov on Aggression
I'm reading Garry Kasparov's new book, How Life Imitates Chess, and am intrigued by his remarks about aggression. (Aggressive is a word often used to describe not only Kasparov's playing style but his personality, too.) Kasparov, arguably the greatest player in the history of chess, writes about a trip abroad, at the age of seventeen, when he was a member of the Soviet Olympiad Chess team. On a stopover in Rome, his teammates–who were on average twice his age–visited the Vatican while young Kasparov went instead to watch a movie that wasn't showing back in the Soviet Union, namely "The Empire Strikes Back." Kasparov writes that he didn't exactly agree with Yoda's warning Luke Skywalker that "anger, fear, aggression; the dark side of the Force are they."
Kasparov's points out the double standard we have about aggression. In chess and football, we praise decisive, attacking play, but in political and social life we condemn it. Moreover, in some domains, whether we praise or condemn such behavior depends on a person's rank: "We praise a CEO's management style as aggressive, but the average employee could be fired for being 'aggressive.'"
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Two Views on Kasparov's Bravery
When Garry Kasparov retired from chess to go into Russian politics and oppose Vladimir Putin's turning away from democracy and a free market economy, Kasparov's family and friends feared for his safety. Indeed, in the subsequent months, Kasparov was bashed over the head with a chessboard, detained by the authorities, and his associates were beat up and arrested–apparent warning shots from Moscow to show him that they could squash him at any moment of their choosing.
And yet the chess community is divided on the issue of his safety. Vladimir Kramnik, Kasparov's younger countryman who displaced him as world champion, believes that the older, outspoken Russian has nothing to fear from the Kremlin. He told the British magazine Chess (in an article called "When Lev met Vlad," issue No. 4, 2007) that he didn't believe that Kasparov's life was in danger and that Russia was not the totalitarian state portrayed in Kasparov's interviews in the West.
Contrast this with the attitude of New in Chess, the Dutch magazine that is a must-read for the grandmaster set and other fans of the royal game. Kasparov writes a chess column for New in Chess, and in issue No. 4 an editorial note marvels that this was the first time the 13th world chess champion had failed to turn in his column, owing to the rigors and dangers of his campaigning for an open Russia. "[Putin] likes to present the Russian opposition as an insignificant small group of disgruntled people," New in Chess said. "But if the group is so insignificant then why does he send thousands of militiamen into the streets to keep this small group from uttering their protests?"
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David Blaine Meets Fabiano Caruana
Happy birthday, Fabiano Caruana. The country's youngest grandmaster* ever turns 15 today. I have fond memories of a chess event, when Fabiano was 10, where he almost abandoned the game. I write about the event in King's Gambit: A Son, a Father, and the World's Most Dangerous Game.
In December 2002, Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov, who had perhaps the bitterest rivalry in the history of chess, came together for old time's sake for a two-day match in the ABC Studios in Times Square. The two veterans played two games of rapid chess a day, at the brisk time control of twenty-five minutes apiece with ten seconds added for each move.
The organizer of the match had asked me to help him with the staging of the match. He asked me if I knew a celebrity who understood enough about the game to be able to make the honorary first move. (The first move is, in fact, chosen by the player with White, but you still want someone who can perform it without, say, pushing the king pawn an extra square or making a knight hop in the shape of a V instead of an L.)
I am friends with David Blaine, the magician and endurance artist—we've played chess together—and I thought he'd enjoy meeting Kasparov. "Chess is like magic," David once told me. "You always have to stay one step ahead of your opponent—or your audience." The television cameras were rolling when Kasparov and Karpov swaggered up to the board and watched David pick up a White pawn. With an agonizing expression on his face, David grunted and squeezed the pawn, like the strongman at a carnival, until he'd crushed it into a cloud of dust. The match arbiter started berating David on camera because the pawn he destroyed was irreplaceable. Like each of the other chessmen, it was uniquely equipped with a microchip so that the electronic circuitry in the chessboard could sense what square the pawn was on and broadcast the full game position over the Internet to hundreds of thousands of chess fans around the world. The arbiter was angry, but the champions were laughing—a rare display of levity for them at the start of one of their matches. Needless to say, David made the crushed pawn rematerialize and the match, and Internet transmission, began without a hitch.
David asked me which kid in the audience was particularly talented in chess, and I directed him to Fabiano. He did some card magic for the ten-year-old, who was then small for his age. The future grandmaster was bedazzled and asked David to perform trick after trick. He paid much more attention to the knaves in David's deck than to the knights on Kasparov's chessboard. Later, Fabiano asked me how much work it took to be a magician; he said he wanted to master David's tricks. When I explained that it required even more prepration and practice than chess, he dedided to stick to the royal game.
*He is really a grandmaster elect because the title must still be approved by FIDE, the world chess federation.
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Let Me Dream: King's Gambit the Movie
My over-active imagination has been fueled by a caller from Hollywood who inquired about film rights to my book. And so I've come up with a fantasy cast for King's Gambit the movie:
The Cast (in order of appearance)
Johnny Depp as Paul Morphy
Rosie O'Donnell as Morphy's mother
James Gandolfini as my father (because Rodney Dangerfield, Jackie Gleason, John Belushi, and John Candy are unfortunately unavailable)
George Clooney as me
Angela Landsbury as Mrs. Perrutz (my kindly therapist when I was three)
Jake Gyllenhaal as Pascal Charbonneau
Natalie Portman as Irina Krush
David Blaine as David Blaine
Scarlett Johanssen as Jennifer Shahade
Reese Witherspoon as Susan Polgar
Phillip Seymour Hoffman as Garry Kasparov
Jim Carey as Nigel Short
Ben Kingsley as Bruce Pandolfini
Anthony Hopkins as Claude Bloodggod
Mel Gibson (behaving like he did when he encountered the trooper) as Bobby Fischer
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Chess Nut
Garry Kasparov's How Life Imitates Chess, scheduled to be published here in the States in the fall, has some entertaining stories. Like Boris Spassky, the tenth world champion, advising Kasparov, the thirteenth world champion, that the way to defeat Tigran Petrosian, the ninth world champion, was not to attack the hell out of him (Petrosian was an expert at repelling sharp thrusts) but rather to press him continuously and methodically:
"He counseled me that the key was to apply pressure, but just a little, steadily. 'Squeeze his balls,' he told me in an unforgettable turn of phrase. 'But just squeeze one, not both!'"
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Vladimir Kramnik, the reigning world chess champion, celebrated his thirty-second birthday yesterday by doing, in his own words, something "unfortunately pretty boring"–preparing for today's opponent in the elite Dortmund tournament. When Kramnik, whose play has sometimes been described, perhaps unfairly, as "unfortunately pretty boring," defended his crown last year, he earned the sympathy of fellow chess pros and fans when he was forced to explain his hydration and evacuation habits after challenger Veselin Topalov exaggerated the number of times (50!, he said) that "Krapnik" had visited the bathroom (Topalov was insinuating that the world champion was cheating on the toilet by consulting chess-playing software). Kramnik managed to win the match despite Topalov's assault on his dignity and bladder.
Dortmund is the last tournament in which Kramnik will participate before September's world championship in Mexico City. This weekend, FIDE, the world chess federation, released a byzantine set of rules on who will be playing whom in world-tile matches after Mexico City. When asked on his birthday about what he thought of the new labyrinthine rules, Kramnik said he'd need to study them in order to understand them!
"I think there are more people who don't understand the system than who understand," Kramnik remarked. "I don't know if the people who have invented it fully understand the system but it seems to be very complicated." And this coming from a man who has mastered the intricacies of the Semi-Slav Variation and other esoteric chess openings. Pity us mere mortals who try to make sense of the new rules for world-championship succession. Fortunately, chessbase and chessninja have taken a stab at deciphering the rules for us.
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Nat Microbiol. 2019 Jul 8. doi: 10.1038/s41564-019-0484-8. [Epub ahead of print]
CYRI/FAM49B negatively regulates RAC1-driven cytoskeletal remodelling and protects against bacterial infection.
Yuki KE1,2, Marei H3, Fiskin E3, Eva MM1,2, Gopal AA2,4, Schwartzentruber JA1, Majewski J1, Cellier M5, Mandl JN2,4, Vidal SM1,2, Malo D6,7,8, Dikic I9,10.
Department of Human Genetics, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
McGill University Research Centre on Complex Traits, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Institute of Biochemistry II, Faculty of Medicine, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
Department of Physiology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Institut Armand-Frappier, Centre INRS, Laval, Quebec, Canada.
Department of Human Genetics, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. danielle.malo@mcgill.ca.
McGill University Research Centre on Complex Traits, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. danielle.malo@mcgill.ca.
Department of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. danielle.malo@mcgill.ca.
Institute of Biochemistry II, Faculty of Medicine, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany. dikic@biochem2.uni-frankfurt.de.
Buchmann Institute for Molecular Life Sciences, Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany. dikic@biochem2.uni-frankfurt.de.
Salmonella presents a global public health concern. Central to Salmonella pathogenicity is an ability to subvert host defences through strategically targeting host proteins implicated in restricting infection. Therefore, to gain insight into the host-pathogen interactions governing Salmonella infection, we performed an in vivo genome-wide mutagenesis screen to uncover key host defence proteins. This revealed an uncharacterized role of CYRI (FAM49B) in conferring host resistance to Salmonella infection. We show that CYRI binds to the small GTPase RAC1 through a conserved domain present in CYFIP proteins, which are known RAC1 effectors that stimulate actin polymerization. However, unlike CYFIP proteins, CYRI negatively regulates RAC1 signalling, thereby attenuating processes such as macropinocytosis, phagocytosis and cell migration. This enables CYRI to counteract Salmonella at various stages of infection, including bacterial entry into non-phagocytic and phagocytic cells as well as phagocyte-mediated bacterial dissemination. Intriguingly, to dampen its effects, the bacterial effector SopE, a RAC1 activator, selectively targets CYRI following infection. Together, this outlines an intricate host-pathogen signalling interplay that is crucial for determining bacterial fate. Notably, our study also outlines a role for CYRI in restricting infection mediated by Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Listeria monocytogenes. This provides evidence implicating CYRI cellular functions in host defence beyond Salmonella infection.

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KTFC Update Vol. 10 Issue 1
Dear KTFC Members & Friends:
The COVID relief bill passed shortly before Christmas contained some much-needed financial assistance for various transportation purposes.
PennDOT has confirmed that Pennsylvania will receive $410 million in federal funds, helping to avert a financial crisis that would likely have led to hundreds of layoffs of construction workers and public transportation employees.
Congress approved nearly $4 billion in supplemental transportation funding, above and beyond the $62 billion previously authorized for highway, public transportation and airport capital programs. The measure also reauthorized marine transportation construction programs.
In total, the package contained $45 billion in transportation spending and operational assistance. Specifically, the money will be distributed as follows:
$16 billion for airline and airline contractor payroll support.
$14 billion for public transportation agencies.
$10 billion for state departments of transportation.
$2 billion for airports.
$2 billion for private motor coach.
$1 billion for Amtrak.
PennDOT says the federal stimulus money solves a short-term cash crisis, enabling the department to fund existing projects and resume project contract bidding totaling $3.8 billion for 2020 and 2021.
TRANSPORTATION ISSUE UPDATE
The Turnpike toll increases approved in July went into effect on Jan. 3, boosting E-ZPass rates by 6% and cash rates by 45%.
Amtrak has reduced the number of Keystone Service trips due to ridership dropping to one-fifth of pre-pandemic levels.
A long-awaited Montgomery County highway extension project is expected to attract new economic opportunities in Norristown.
Capital Area Transit and York's RabbitTransit announced merger plans, creating the Susquehanna Regional Transportation Authority.
The Morning Call reported that the Automated Speed Enforcement Program has processed nearly 192,000 violations since the program began eight months ago.
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Published on October 24th, 2013 | by George X.
It's not everyday you stumble upon a promising sandbox MMORPG. Forged Chaos just started a kickstarter campaign asking for $750k in order to complete their previously cancelled sandbox game. Long story short, Trials of Ascension development started a long time ago. Publishers and investors asked the team to make the game easier and more casual friendly but the game developers prefered to not compromise and brought their game to kickstarter.
One other interesting feature is the promise of a 24/7 game master that will be throwing events and stuff arround the game world, changing the gaming world every day.
A classless skill system, open PvP, player buildings, settlements and dynamic spawning are all there promising a great sandbox experience.


Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE:WFC), the fourth largest bank in the United States, said on Tuesday it could lose about $2.6 billion due to demand for repurchase of more bad mortgage loans from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
The repurchase requests pertain to loans made between the period from 2006 and 2008 when the country was going through a housing bubble, that led to inflated housing prices. When the bubble burst, house owners found themselves holding real estate that could not fetch them the investments they had made in it.
The company has already set aside reserves to cater to these requests. At the end of the June quarter reserves to cover these repurchase requests stood at $1.8 billion, compared to $1.4 billion at the end of the March quarter.
The estimate of possible losses on top of those reserves is "reasonably possible" but does not represent a "probable loss," the bank said in its quarterly filing.
The news sent the shares of Wells Fargo sliding 12 percent to $33.96 at the end of trading on Tuesday.
State-owned mortgagers Federal National Mortgage Association(OTC:FNMA) and Freddie Mac were at the receiving end of the housing bubble which burst in 2008 following the sub-prime lending crises when it was found that the mortgagers had taken on loan portfolios with a high percentage of risky borrowers.
These two entities now wants banks, from whom it had bought mortgages earlier, to buy them back as it tries to reduce losses for taxpayers.
Bank of America Corp(NYSE:BAC), the country's second largest bank, is facing the prospect of buying back loans worth $15.9 billion from plus an additional $5 billion.
The future of Fannie Mae rests on the shoulders of the public. Has the perception of the housing market finally shifted to a more positive one? If the answer is yes, then there is a chance that Fannie Mae will more profit moving forward. However, if the answer no I think that Fannie Mae will eventually and unfortunately dissolve.


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The 11th hour accusations of misconduct by Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh occurring 36 years ago when he was in high school should not be surprising. His opponents have shown a willingness to stop at nothing to derail his confirmation. The timing is perfect, oh so convenient. The allegations are sufficiently lurid, if considerably attenuated, to call his character into question, and are probably impossible to disprove to everyone's satisfaction.
It is not surprising also that the judiciary committee member who chose to reveal it at this time is Dianne Feinstein. Ms. Feinstein, as an experienced senator, probably does not really fear that Kavanaugh will provide the vote to overturn Roe vs. Wade. What she really fears is that Kavanaugh will not vote to overturn District of Columbia v. Heller. Her crusade has been against the right of individuals to keep and bear arms for quite some time. Ideally, and if she were an absolute monarch, she would decree that no one, other than her military and bodyguards, could possess firearms.
Proving a negative is close to impossible most of the time. That is why both our criminal and civil justice systems require that the accuser, prosecutor, or plaintiff has the burden of proof. In criminal cases the standard for proof is that of beyond a reasonable doubt. In most civil cases it is preponderance of the evidence; that is, "more likely than not." Important civil cases in which certain rights or interests are at stake, the standard is clear and convincing evidence. The latter standard should apply in this case. If Christine Ford or her supporters cannot provide such evidence, this accusation must be dismissed and Kavanaugh confirmed forthwith. Because Feinstein and others have had this information for over four months, there should not be any delay.
The reverse standard, which was that of the Spanish Inquisition, and other authoritarian and totalitarian systems, was abrogated in this country centuries ago. It has even been discredited in its places of origin. A number of egregious examples where mere accusation caused injustice include the Dreyfus affair in France a century and a quarter ago. Journalist and author Emile Zola penned and published the famous J'accuse essay, for which he was run out of France for a while. Zola's writing stirred up questions that ultimately resulted in Dreyfuss' exoneration, but only after he spent a number of years in the French penal colony on Devil's Island. More to the present point, the fictional character of Tom Robinson, who stands in the place of real life accused, but innocent, rapists, is the paradigm of one convicted solely on the uncorroborated accusation of an alleged victim. In the Kavanaugh matter, likewise, the proponents of the accusation have an agenda. In Robinson case it was the fear of eroding the white supremacy order; in Kavanaugh it is the fear of halting, or really slowing, the advance to a overreaching, all intrusive government that benefits only the self-defined elites.
Mr. Kavanaugh now stands in Alford Dreyfuss' shoes and those of the ones represented by Robinson's character. Tomas Toquemeda and Bob Ewell would be proud? Maybe not. both are on the ash heap of history. Let's hope they stay there.
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It makes me wonder how many men today engaged in what they thought at the time was consensual activity while they were in high school, yet, according to the repressed memories of the women involved is now framed as sexual assault. According to the letter in question, Kavanaugh was on top of the woman and was groping her. The letter doesn't even say he touched her breasts or genitals. She was allegedly pushing him off of her. According to the narrative, Kavanaugh's friend was on top of the pile at one point, and the two boys fell on the floor and started wrestling with each other, giving her the opportunity to escape. She says the door was locked, but it was locked from the inside, meaning she was not locked in or confined with no means of escape. Other's were locked out. There is no allegation that he touched her in manner designed to arouse her. In fact, her use of the word "inadvertent" seems to show that Kavanaugh lacked the intent to hurt her. By her own words, if he had hurt her, it would have been an accident or careless behavior. Rather, it sounds like a drunken wrestling match. Assuming everything in the letter is true, it appears that Kavanaugh was a minor, and if he had been accused and found guilty as a juvenile, his record would be hidden behind closed doors. Are we now saying that juveniles will now lose their anonymity if their childhood victim comes forward years later and reveals the identify of a juvenile abuser? If an abused child can now reveal the identity of an abuser who was a minor at he committed the abuse, then what is the point of keeping juvenile records behind closed doors? While we're on the subject, let us not forget that there are women out there who abused young boys as minors. I heard locker room stories of boys being molested by their female baby sitters when I was young. At the time, the boys saw it as a pleasurable right of passage, but perhaps today, there are counselors who are willing to tell the boys that their present day relationship problems stem from unresolved conflicts related to what was actually an abuse of power by those older babysitters. Are those women ready to be exposed? I suspect there are a lot of women who are not involved in this debate because they know they were complicit in abusing younger boys when they were acting as trusted babysitters.


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Assists with the planning, coordinating, development and implementation of all marketing and business development strategies and initiatives. Develops and nurtures strategic relationships with people in our communities, business organizations & entities to further enhance the Capstone Concepts brand and the Brands we franchise.  To increase awareness and Increase Company's profitability by tracking sales data; maintaining promotional materials inventory; planning meetings and LSM events; maintaining databases; preparing and creating reports and making decisions based on factual data, best practices, and trends.
With formal training or studies, 1 - 3 years experience as a marketing intern/assistant or three years with no formal training.  Must possess excellent communication and interpersonal skills.  Proficient in Microsoft; PowerPoint, Word, and Excel.
1.	Assists in the negotiation and implementation of marketing and advertising campaigns based on budget, market trends, competition, and general economic outlook with approved advertising strategies based on objectives.
2.	Plans and organizes promotional presentations and reports.
3.	Creates and Updates calendars for marketing initiatives that is shared with GM's for operational effectiveness during campaigns.
4.	Assembles and analyzes campaigns with sales forecasts; preparing marketing and advertising strategies, plans, and objectives; planning and organizing promotional presentations; updating calendars.
5.	Leverages and nurtures existing relationships and contacts.
6.	Develops new and meaningful relationships in our communities we serve.
7.	Responsible for helping maintain and improve the current image and reputation the company currently enjoys.
8.	Responsible for all Social media plans, implementation & regular updates.
9.	Monitors, answers and communicates any social media reviews either positive or negative.
10.	Creates and implements agreed to strategies in business development and public relations.
11.	Coordinates the efforts of our public relations, marketing, and consulting firms.
12.	Helps to develop comprehensive customer and prospects lists, managing the database, and coordinating efforts with store managers, to the benefit of the company.
13.	We have a goal to be viewed as the "Brand of choice" for the customer profile of our specific brands. And for business and community leaders to feel that same way regardless of the customer profile. This position would help facilitate that image.
14.	Increase brand awareness in the markets in which we currently do business amongst all of our brands.
15.	Assist in creating and implementing plans for new market openings.
16.	Helps Promote Capstone Concepts, LLC as a brand of choice for the restaurant industry.
17.	Track how campaigns are working as compared to others and the costs associated with the campaign.
18.	Prepares marketing reports by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing sales data.
19.	Keeps promotional materials ready by coordinating requirements with graphics department; inventorying stock; placing orders; and verifying receipt.
20.	Supports restaurants by providing trend information, market trends, forecasts, account analyses, new product information; relaying customer service issues.
21.	Researches best practices for the new wave of marketing and advertising for all generations and our core customer profile, and shares with the team.
22.	Plans meetings and events in local markets by assembling and coordinating requirements; establishing contacts; developing schedules and assignments; coordinating mailing lists.
23.	Monitors budgets by comparing and analyzing actual results with plans and forecasts.
24.	Updates job knowledge by participating in educational opportunities; reading trade publications and makes recommendations based on acquired knowledge and experience on how to move Capstone forward in a forward thinking and strategic way.
25.	Accomplishes organization goals by accepting ownership for accomplishing new and different requests; exploring opportunities to add value to job accomplishments.
1.	Attend meetings with other members of the team when necessary. Take Notes and Assemble data as necessary.
2.	Oversight of all Social networking activities.
3.	Assist in the approval of all costs associated with marketing and advertising including coupons and ads.
4.	Verifying all coupons and ads are operational in the POS systems.
5.	Oversee the implementation of First Watch, Mr.Gattis, and The Egg and I LSM plans.
6.	Ensure that all restaurant managers are implementing marketing plans and are following up on marketing assignments and marketing goals.
7.	Conduct site visits to ensure that all restaurants implement company culture on a daily basis specifically as it relates to branding and materials.
8.	Track and report on all promotional programs to determine if they are cost effective.
9.	Assist in creating e and implementing new unit Opening PR and Marketing plan.
10.	Participate in all new unit opening strategies and activities.
11.	Attend functions and events that help cultivate our culture as community leaders and manage all corporate donations and sponsorships with the approval of the Vice President.
12.	Responsible for inputting information into the current monthly newsletter, Capstone Ketchup, and the distribution, ideation, creation and best practices going forward.
13.	Participate in all Corporate communications with First Watch, Mr. Gattis, and The Egg and I as it pertains to marketing, branding, and advertising.
14.	Review all customer Feedback surveys and respond accordingly.
15.	Adhere to brand standards when conducting any marketing or advertising Including but not limited to online advertising, print, radio, out of home, LSM, etc..
16.	Research other marketing strategies employed by other First Watch, Mr. Gatti's or Egg and I restaurants or Franchisees.
17.	Help with Increasing the number of Loyalty Members associated with each brand we represent and franchise.
18.	Maintain and confirm all online information regarding Capstone Concepts, LLC or any new restaurant is accurate and available.
19.	Maintains and Updates Company website as needed.
20.	Maintains and communicates any social media calendar and email.
21.	Answers all donation and sponsorship requests at every level, then gets restaurants involved if and when it makes sense.
22.	Manage the LSM events and activities spreadsheet for cost allocation.
23.	Assist in researching and facilitating video creation for internal and external communications and identity.


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A$AP Rocky: 10 Things to Know | Highsnobiety
10 Things You Should Know About A$AP Rocky
6 years ago in MusicWords By Nico Amarca
Highsnobiety / Thomas Welch
Whether it's tripping in music videos, releasing cryptic Instagram messages or making feature film debuts, A$AP Rocky has certainly been making headlines these days. With his second studio album - At.Long.Last.A$AP - the Mob frontman has been dished out details on how he's been coping with the death of his longtime friend, A$AP Yams.
Fishing through the many interviews Lord Flacko has given over the past few months, we've compiled a list of 10 interesting facts we learned about the Harlem-bred MC, from the surprising to the downright absurd.
He finds LSD to be therapeutic
Not many celebrities will openly profess their admiration for consuming recreational drugs. But according to Rocky, tripping on acid is something that coincides with his artistry. In last month's interview with Billboard, he admits, "It helps me cope with life, I've been doing this stuff since I got into the industry. People are scared to talk about it...It's trippy. My art, my visuals. Very trippy."
Watch Rocky enter the void in his latest video.
He thinks celebrities ruined fashion
If there's one thing that Rocky hates, it's a poseur. Especially when it comes to fashion. In an interview with Fast Company, the rapper states, "Celebrities ruined fashion for me. I used to put a lot of thought into what I was wearing and then...all my favorite brands were being bought and worn by the biggest poseurs and celebrities with terrible taste." Well over the hype, Rocky goes on to say that he's "over it" and how he's "just not into the whole name brand thing so much."
He loves women and "bitches"
An undisputed ladies man, a large source of inspiration for Rocky derives from his love of women...and bitches. He tells Complex, "I'm passionate about women. I look for ways to manifest that into my music. If they don't get the message, then I'll make something special for them...I love women. And I love the bitches." How does Rocky differentiate the two? Well, "...'women' got they shit together. 'Bitches' is just out here, all burnt out with they heads cut off. Chickenheads. But somebody gotta love these hoes."
He compares himself to Allah
Rappers sure aren't shy to boast about how remarkable they are. That's Kanye's whole schtick after all. But comparing yourself to God? That's a bit excessive. When talking to GQ about his latest album, he boasts,"Look at it: At.Long.Last.A$AP. A-L-L-A. Like slang for 'Allah.' It's the return of the god MC...I'm named after Rakim, and I'm finally facing what it means: I was born to do this shit." All hail the Me$$iah.
Being stylish is a struggle, just like the Civil Rights Movement
Growing up in Harlem, Rocky got a lot of flack for his unique sense of style. So much flack, that he compares the struggle to that of African Americans during their fight for equal rights in the 1950s and '60s. He tells New York Mag, "I can say that I've been scrutinized for my fashion since I was about 15 years old...I feel like I had to go through the whole Civil Rights Movement just to be comfortable, to make other people comfortable, to be able to wear what they want to wear, and a lot of dudes are just claiming to have it without having to have that sacrifice or suffering through all that kind of shit." Fair, but not so sure if Martin Luther King, Jr. would exactly equate the two.
He's a bona fide Harry Potter fan
When it comes to fashion, Lord Flacko Jodye prefers to let it come naturally. Comparing the craft to everyone's favorite boy wizard, he states, "Your wand has to choose you, as opposed to you choosing your wand. That's what fashion is like, man. You gotta let it take control of you. You don't know, sometimes it is stepping out of your own comfort zone, but it is what it is."
He's got mega love for Kanye
Putting competition aside, A$AP Rocky's got mega love for Yeezy and his contributions to fashion and rap music. He tells #CRWN, "I think that Kanye had a rough time in the fashion industry, but I think it's all starting to pay off. He and Pharrell paved the way for artists like myself. I wouldn't be here. I would be full of shit if I told you that as a teen I wasn't inspired by Kanye West."
He's just a regular guy, or so he wants us to believe
Hardly an average Joe, the Mob frontman assures us that despite his rock-star lifestyle, he's actually pretty normal. "You know what I hate hearing? 'He's in a movie, he's handsome, he's (with) this chick.' It's like...all the hype," he tells USA TODAY. "I don't need the attention of being a celebrity. I'm a regular (guy), man." We'll trade with you Flacko.
Friends helped him cope over the death of A$AP Yams
It goes without saying that the loss of A$AP Yams took a toll on Rocky and the rest of A$AP Mob. Though time heals all, Rocky claims that having close friends around helped the rapper cope with the loss. "I got good people around. And seriously, it's not like I took a loss. We took a loss," he tells #CRWN. "When you're hurt, there are people you can really go to that know exactly what you're talking about and feeling. That feels good, man."
He's not into girls who wear make-up
We're sure Rocky gets a fair amount of dolled-up vixens eager to flaunt their derrières and sing his praises just to land a selfie with the rap star. But when it comes down to it, he prefers the "au naturel" look over pounds of makeup. He reveals to The Coveteur, "You can't help it, but make-up is the worst thing you can do to your skin...I'm used to normal. I'm used to real. Like yeah, your shit is going to stink, you're real, you know? You piss, you bleed, you laugh, you cry - you're human. So makeup is just like an artificial expression if you ask me."
One pet peeve of his? Red lipstick. "I like red lips, it's fine. I'm going to be real, though: it's bad for making out, because it gets on the guys."
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Merging Man and Machine: Singularity vs. Humanity
TOPICS:Brandon Turbeville
In a testament to just how fast the coming cyberization of mankind has progressed, a new report published by the Daily Mail entitled, "Hitler would have loved The Singularity: Mind-blowing benefits of merging human brains and computers," reaffirms most of what I have been writing about for the better part of a year. Namely, that the merging of man and machine is much closer than the average person is willing to believe.
In the news report, Ian Morris, Professor of Classics and History at Stanford University and author of Why The West Rules – For Now, briefly overviews years of mainstream history involving the development and implementation of Singularity-related technologies.
Before going much further, however, it is important for the reader to understand just what is meant when the term "Singularity" is used. Defined by TIME, "Singularity" is "The moment when technological change becomes so rapid and profound, it represents a rupture in the fabric of human history." Simply put, Singularity is the moment when man and machine merge to create a new type of human – a singular entity that contains property of both machines and humans.
If the concept of Singularity is new to you, I suggest reading my article "The Singularity Movement, Immortality, and Removing the Ghost in the Machine." In this article, I discuss the premise behind the movement, and some of the implications it holds for basic human freedom, dignity, and even our own existence.
Unfortunately, Singularity is not a fringe movement as some might at first believe; it has a great number of followers, many of whom are in powerful positions. For instance, the Singularity University is a three-year-old institution that offers inter-disciplinary courses for both executives and graduate students. It is hosted by NASA, a notorious front for secretive projects conducted by the government and the military-industrial complex. Not only that, but Google, which is yet another corporate front for intelligence agencies, was a founding sponsor of the University as well.
It is this context in which Ian Morris writes his own article about the coming merger of human brains and computers.
Morris prefaces his commentary on Singularity by pointing out some mainstream (even if not well-known) facts regarding the development of technology that he, and many others who are informed on the subject, believes will allow for actually sending human thoughts over the Internet. All of this, of course, will take place after human brains are chipped, or otherwise linked to computers.
Morris writes:
Ten years ago, the US National Science Foundation predicted 'network-enhanced telepathy' – sending thoughts over the internet – would be practical by the 2020s.
And thanks to neuroscientists at the University of California, we seem to be on schedule.
Last September, they asked volunteers to watch Hollywood film trailers and then reconstructed the clips by scanning their subjects' brain activity.
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Last week, the scientists boldly went further still. They charted the electrical activity in the brains of volunteers who were listening to human speech and then they fed the results into computers which translated the signals back into language.
The technique remains crude, and has so far made out only five distinct words, but humanity has crossed a threshold.
The threshold that Morris refers to is the moment where the merging of man and machine are announced to the general public, not necessarily the moment when it becomes possible. Indeed, we know that any research or development announced to the general public is, in reality, much further behind the true capabilities of the technology. For instance, the ability to control brain function via computers or for brains to control computers by thought has been available for many years. Only the crude forms of this technology have been introduced for mass consumption. Even so, the introduction came a great many years after the actual development.
Yet, after pointing out some of the positive aspects that this technology might present to humanity, such as providing speech to those impaired by neurodegenerative diseases, or movement to those suffering from paralysis, Morris points out some other rather disturbing directions this rapidly developing technology might take. Disturbing, that is, if one is not part of the Singularity cult.
Nevertheless, Morris moves through some innocuous and unquestionably beneficial developments such as eyeglasses and ear trumpets, which show the lengths to which technology has progressed and the relatively short time scale it has taken to do so. These devices have either become a normal part of life, or have given way to other more advanced technologies. These more advanced devices such as hearing aids, dialysis machines, and pacemakers have all become normal and accepted machine additions as well.
However, as Morris writes:
By the second decade of the 21st Century, we have become used to organs grown in laboratories, genetic surgery and designer babies.
In 2002, medical researchers used enzymes and DNA to build the first molecular computers, and in 2004 improved versions were being injected into people's veins to fight cancer
By 2020 we may be able to put even cleverer nanocomputers into our brains to speed up synaptic links, give ourselves perfect memory and perhaps cure dementia.
If nanocomputers implanted in our brains would indeed increase these functions of the human brain, making then possible the furthering of other related technological and other biotechnological advancements, then it is realistic to believe (as many in the Singularity movement do) that the human being as we know it will cease to exist. The old man will be replaced by the new. That which was made imperfect would be made perfect.
This is exactly the future which Singularity promoters like Juan Enriquez have been foreseeing. Enriquez's long resume affirms the fact that those in prominent positions hold fast to what is essentially a modern version of eugenics based on more than just mere ethnicity. Enriquez himself states that humanity, by virtue of Singularity, will develop into an entirely different species. He writes:
The new human species is one that begins to engineer the evolution of viruses, plants, animals, and itself. As we do that, Darwin's rules get bent, and sometimes even broken. By taking direct and deliberate control over our evolution, we are living in a world where we are modifying stuff according to our desires. . . . Eventually, we get to the point where evolution is guided by what we're engineering. That's a big deal. Today's plastic surgery is going to seem tame compared to what's coming.
Enriquez also admits that, as a result of this emerging technology, a "new ethics" must be developed to go along with the opportunities for eugenics that now present themselves. He says:
The issue of [genetic variation] is a really uncomfortable question, one that for good reason, we have been avoiding since the 1930s and '40s. A lot of the research behind the eugenics movement came out of elite universities in the U.S. It was disastrously misapplied. But you do have to ask, if there are fundamental differences in species like dogs and horses and birds, is it true that there are no significant differences in humans? We are going to have an answer to that question very quickly. If we do, we need to think through an ethical, moral framework to think about questions that go way beyond science.
Of course, the open promoters of Singularity such as Juan Enriquez and Ray Kurzweil are not the root of the movement. As Morris points out, the funding of projects related to the merging of the human brain with that of the computer has been funded mostly by DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency).
After all, as Morris points out, it was DARPA that produced the Internet (called ARPANET in the 1970s) and it was DARPA's Brain Interface Project that was the first voyage in molecular computing. As I mentioned earlier, however, one should be aware that even these projects that been announced and revealed to the general public are actually far behind in the true time scale of development. DARPA's research and discoveries are years or decades ahead of anything they introduce, even retroactively, to the scientific community at large, much less the general public.
This is why programs such as, Silent Talk, are exploring mind reading technology by virtue of reading the electrical signals inside the brains of soldiers, then broadcasting them for two-way communication with soldiers over the Internet. As Morris writes:
With these implants, entire armies will be able to talk without radios. Orders will leap instantly into soldiers' heads and commanders' wishes will become the wishes of their men.
Add this to the fact that "mind reading" technology is already being rolled out in Western airports, and one can easily see an agenda at work. A very crude version of the neuron-scanning technology discussed by Morris, these "Emotion Detectors" use video cameras and facial cues, as well as thermal imaging technology, to detect emotions that are unacceptable to "authorities."
However, the technology Morris writes about is much more advanced than emotion scanners. Even the definition of "mind reading" in terms of the new interface programs tends to be more dynamic.
Consider how Morris describes Ray Kurzweil's prediction of where mind reading programs will go in the future. He writes,
Since the Sixties, computer chips have been doubling their speed and halving their cost every 18 months or so.
If the trend continues, the inventor and predictor Ray Kurzweil has pointed out that by 2029 we will have computers powerful enough to run programs reproducing the 10,000 trillion electrical signals that flash around your skull every second.
They will also have enough memory to store the ten trillion recollections that make you who you are.
And they will also be powerful enough to scan, neuron by neuron, every contour and wrinkle of your brain.
What this means is that if the trends of the past 50 years continue, in 17 years' time we will be able to upload an electronic replica of your mind on to a machine.
There will be two of you – one a flesh-and-blood animal, the other inside a computer's circuits.
And if the trends hold fast beyond that, Kurzweil adds, by 2045 we will have a computer that is powerful enough to host every one of the eight billion minds on earth.
Carbon and silicon-based intelligence will merge to form a single global consciousness.
The world being described here is not much different than the one presented in movies like The Matrix or Ghost in the Shell; a world where humans have been physically altered in order to be linked with the Internet. In both movies, there is a version of the "single global consciousness" where cyberized humans are fully merged into the virtual world.
Yet, although such technology has been portrayed as science fiction for years, the fact is that the Singularity is now a very real possibility. As US Col. Thomas Adams stated, technology "is rapidly taking us to a place where we may not want to go, but probably are unable to avoid." He should know — Western militaries have been preparing for the Singularity for some time. In this context, where war becomes literally ingrained, the dystopic vision of dark science fiction becomes promoted as a real-world solution.
Although Col. Adams is right to suggest that we are heading in a direction that we do not wish to go, he is wrong to suggest that we are unable to avoid it. As we stand currently, the ability to avoid losing our own humanity in a fog of computer circuits and switchboards is still well within our grasp.
Admittedly, because of the incremental approach taken by movements such as Singularity, there is added difficulty in resistance.
However, it is time the people of the world decide exactly what their line in the sand will be, and it is time for them to draw that line. While our own humanity may be at stake, we can save it by uttering one solitary word:
Please read other articles by Brandon Turbeville here.
Brandon Turbeville is an author out of Mullins, South Carolina. He has a Bachelor's Degree from Francis Marion University and is the author of three books, Codex Alimentarius — The End of Health Freedom, 7 Real Conspiracies, and Five Sense Solutions. Turbeville has published over one hundred articles dealing with a wide variety of subjects including health, economics, government corruption, and civil liberties. Brandon Turbeville is available for podcast, radio, and TV interviews. Please contact us at activistpost (at) gmail.com.
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Although these establishments offer quick loans, it does come with a price. There are pawn shop loans that have at least 300% annual percentage rates, depending on the state's usury law.
Although it varies from shop to shop, most pawn shops generally hold onto the items within 30 days before they sell them. But there are a few cases where pawn shops still offer a grace period after 30 days if their customers fail to pay back the loan on time.
Expect that you will not be getting a loan that will be the same market value of the item. There are even a few cases where borrowers will be lucky enough to get 25% of the item's current retail price. But you can always work your way around through proper negotiation. You can get a better loan rate if you try to negotiate with the pawn shop. But if you still could not agree on anything, then selling it might be a better option for you.
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Mike and Sulley are dropping in from MU to scare up fun all summer long. Some of the monstrous surprises in store include all-new, collegiate settings in which to meet your favorite aspiring scarers. On the Backlot at Disney's Hollywood Studios, you'll find the Monsters University Student Union, complete with a view of the campus. Meanwhile, when Sulley and Mike step through the door to Disney California Adventure park, you'll find them right outside the university dorms, recreated in Hollywood Land.
Also at Disney California Adventure park, Mike and Sulley show their MU spirit as they lead daily performances of the Pixar Play Parade, and at Magic Kingdom Park, you'll chuckle along with the gang at the Monsters, Inc. Laugh Floor, where they've been studying new jokes and are ready to graduate to new comedic bits in honor of their alma mater.
It may be summer vacation, but Monsters University will be in session all season at the Disneyland and Walt Disney World Resorts! The fun starts on May 24th!
Will there be an Annual Pass holder special event?
This was the first Disney movie our daughter, now 12, loved. She called Sulley "Monkey" and would ask to watch "Monkey" when she was little. When I told her that she was going to get to meet him this summer she was so excited. Thanks for this update so we can plan for this during our visit to WDW in June!
Kimberly – All the Monsters University entertainment mentioned in this post, as well as the 24-hour Monstrous Summer All-Nighter event, are included with regular park admission.
I'm anxiously waiting for "Monsters U," and this sounds awesome. I'm not entirely familiar with the "seasons" at the parks, though. When you say "all summer long," does that include Labor Day Weekend? I'd love to see this!
Robyn – The Monsters University enhancements are expected to run from May 24 through the Labor Day weekend. Entertainment schedules are subject to change, however, so I would recommend checking Disneyland.com closer to your visit.
Just where in Hollywood land would be the University dorms?
Alyxandria – The Monsters University dorms set is being created at the end of Hollywood Blvd and to the left, just before the Hollywood Pictures Backlot arch that leads toward the Mad Arcade.
When can we expect to see these new locations open?
Timothy – Sorry that information wasn't in the original posting last night. We've added it now. Everything is set to debut May 24 to kick off Monstrous Summer.
That back area of Hollywood Land is a great place for a Monsters University meet and greet backdrop.


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Anticipating The Right-Side-Up World Through Imagination
By S. D. Smith • January 24, 2013
An old man kneels by a fire, telling imaginative tales to eager children. They hang on his every word, transported from their world to another. Their world is beautiful, but broken. He speaks into their hearts words that string together to form new worlds, anticipating the one which will surely come. These are the seeds of the unseen world.
N.T. Wright, in a lecture on the impact of the Resurrection of Jesus, has said this:
"Art is love creating new worlds; justice is love rolling up its sleeves to heal the old one."
This is the hope of the artist with holy imagination. To work, and by her work, to serve. To plant a seed that may, in time, grow into a new world. A world that reflects, with eager anticipation, the bursting resurrection of the life to come.
Is our art truthful? I don't mean 'Is it a vehicle to carry truthful sayings?' But is it truthful? J.R.R. Tolkien famously described The Lord of the Rings as a true story. But how can it be true? It didn't really happen. Tolkien argued that it need not have happened to be true. The parable of the prodigal son almost certainly didn't happen, but it is nonetheless true. Penetrating and true.
Likewise, the Prophet Nathan's tale to the adulterer, King David, is a true one. It was not something that happened, but it first moved David to anger by it's power, then entirely undid him in its climax. "You are that man."
Are our tales true? This need not mean they will be safe and never bother us. This is not a call to create more bright and shiny "Christian" shlock. The world is broken, so our tales must deal with this. There is darkness to be contrasted against. But there is an important point to be made about reveling in the gritty, depraved, and horrific. I'll try to make it this way.
There is goodness in, having discovered that your beloved wife's wedding ring is lost in the septic tank, digging through it to find your treasure. On the other hand, going for a swim in the septic tank because it's so "real" and "edgy," would constitute a sort of perversion. A delight in wickedness. Both men swam in the septic tank, but their stories are different.
No. We need not bathe in excrement for delight. We need construction, not elaborate and artful celebrations of destruction. But you will say we must be honest about the fallen world. Yes, I agree. We need to depict and represent the destructive, broken, wounded world as it is. But let us wince at it.
Rebellion is the story of our era and the sad, selfish theme of so much art. To celebrate rebellion is to cheer on cancer, to send money to human traffickers, to inspire racism. Christians—and this includes Christians in the arts, even with electric guitars—are, by definition, submissive followers of King Jesus. How do we rebel against rebellion?
"Construction is the best way to rebel against the established rebellion."
Zach Franzen
We must construct. There are people constructing and many more who would love to. Do you feel called to construction? Maybe you feel called to support people who have their hard hats on and are going to work. That's good. Do it.
Children see everywhere an upside-down world. Holy imagination is a crucial capacity to help them see it right-side-up. To help them appreciate the wonder and magic of the world that is and anticipate the almost entirely unimaginable glory of the world as it shall be.
Sometimes artful work can be that window into wonder, that little seed of unseen worlds.
Let's warm our hands and start building.
This post first appeared at Story Warren. Image by Gina G. Smith.
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@andrew January 24, 2013 at 11:36 am
Thanks, Samwise. That was good for me today.
Josh Bishop
Thanks for this, S.D. Good stuff. We so often need to be reminded that a truthful story is not "a vehicle to carry truthful sayings," don't we? Yesterday I read an essay, "In Praise of Stories," by Daniel Taylor. In it, he writes of the incarnational truth of stories:
"A composer once played a very difficult piano piece and was asked what it meant. His answer was to sit down and play the piece again. Similarly, stories are incarnational. They say to us, 'Do you want to know what love is, or courage or greed or petulance or laughter or compassion. Let me tell you a story.' And the truth of that story will be found in every sentence, but in no one sentence by itself."
Incarnational, rather than propositional, truth. This is the beauty of stories—and of Christ.
@russramsey January 24, 2013 at 12:44 pm
"But let us wince at it."
Great post, Sam. Thank you.
Lindsey Murphy
I love this- as the mother of little ones who see monkeys waving to them in the trees at the park and hear bears and dragons in parking garages, this is music to my heart. I've wondered what to do with our cultural obsession with darkness- without denying that it's part of life. I love the septic tank metaphor. It's necessary and at times heroic to deal in such things, but not to revel in them. Wonderful thoughts!
For more musing on this, read Tim O'Brien's TERRIFFIC novel "The Things They Carried." In it, he argues that "story-truth" is truer than "happening-truth." I was just paging through the book trying to pick another quote to add here, but there are simply too many…it's a beautiful book.
Excellent thoughts, sir. The septic tank example is great. Going to remember that one.
Renie Moss
You put into words so beautifully what I have painfully grappled with for several years now as a mother, wife, just as a human being. How to sow beauty and imagination into a broken world to show hope for the future? How to show and encourage in our little boy hope and joy in the face of a potentially life threatening illness? How to be real, honest, but show that we are set apart, different, chosen, and in that there is such grace joy?
Thank you for the encouragement to surround myself and my family with intentional living to seek out ways to wince at the brokenness in the world and in our own souls, and to focus our lives and hearts on holy imagination of what is promised to us.
BONNIE BUCKINGHAM
put a link on FB….. so good!
Thank you! Ever since I graduated from a secular liberal arts college, and was struck between the eyes by my Maker, I've been struggling to rediscover my identity as an artist. You cup the light of Truth here beautifully, and you make me want to get my hands busy making something.
Thank you for that encouragement to grow those artful seeds as we work towards that right-side-up world
S. D. Smith
@sdsmith January 25, 2013 at 11:05 am
Anjew Pooterson (my 3yo son's pronunciation): I'm happy to hear that. Thank you.
Josh Bishop: I love that. Dan Taylor has been a guide for which I am very grateful. Thank you.
Russ: Thank you, brother.
Lindsey: Thanks. I like how your kids see. I'm working through that dilemma all the time. I know people disagree on level of toxicity one should expose oneself to (and no one wants to be the prude), but I find constant exposure to grotesque violence etc. has a deadening impact on my soul.
Dan: Thanks for the recommendation.
Caleb: Thanks. I speak of that which I know. Note: It's tough to manage a septic tank on land with rock just below the grass. 🙂
Renie: I appreciate you saying that and I'm glad to hear about others struggling to see through the dim gloom to the bright horizon.
Bonnie: Great. Thank you.
Jaclyn: Thank you. That's pretty exciting. God bless you in your work.
Holly: God bless you as you do. Thanks!
Thank you yet again, sir.
How appropriate that this was posted on a Thursday.
sallie kate
' humbly putting on my hard hat. Thanks.