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The so-called 'Düsseldorf Speech' was an attempt by Adolf Hitler to win over Germany's industrialists so that they would support the Nazi Party in what proved to be the last year of Weimar Germany. The Düsseldorf Speech was made on January 27th 1932 in the heart of Germany's industrial zone.
"If today the National Socialist Movement is regarded amongst widespread circles in Germany as being hostile to our business life, I believe the reason for this view is to be found in the fact that we adopted towards the events which determined the development leading to our present position an attitude which differed from that of all the other organizations which are of any importance in our public life. Even now our outlook differs in many points from that of our opponents.
I regard it as of the first importance to break once and for all with the view that our destiny is conditioned by world events. It is not true that our distress has its final cause in a world crisis, in a world catastrophe: the true view is that we have reached a state of general crisis, because from the first certain mistakes were made. I must not say 'According to the general view the Peace Treaty of Versailles is the cause of our misfortune.' What is the Peace Treaty of Versailles but the work of men? It is not a burden which has been imposed or laid upon us by Providence. It is the work of men for which, it goes without saying, once again men with their merits or their failings must be held responsible. If this were not so, how should men ever be able to set aside this work at all? I am of the opinion that there is nothing which has been produced by the will of man which cannot in its turn be altered by another human will.
Both the Peace Treaty of Versailles together with all the consequences of that Treaty have been the result of a policy which perhaps fifteen, fourteen, or thirteen years ago was regarded as the right policy, at least in the enemy States, but which from our point of view was bound to be regarded as fatal when ten or less years ago its true character was disclosed to millions of Germans and now today stands revealed in its utter impossibility. I am bound therefore to assert that there must of necessity have been in Germany, too, some responsibility for these happenings if I am to have any belief that the German people can exercise some influence towards changing these conditions.
It is also in my view false to say that life in Germany today is solely determined by considerations of foreign policy, that the primacy of foreign policy governs today the whole of our domestic life. Certainly a people can reach the point when foreign relations influence and determine completely its domestic life. But let no one say that such a condition is from the first either natural or desirable. Rather the important thing is that a people should create the conditions for a change in this state of affairs.
If anyone says to me that its foreign politics is primarily decisive for the life of a people, then I must first ask: what then is the meaning of the term 'Politics'? There is a whole series of definitions. Frederick the Great said: 'Politics is the art of serving one's State with every means.' Bismarck's explanation was that 'Politics is the art of the Possible,' starting from the conception that advantage should be taken of every possibility to serve the State - and, in the later transformation of the idea of the State into the idea of nationalities, the Nation. Another considers that this service rendered to the people can be effected by military as well as peaceful action: for Clausewitz says that war is the continuation of politics though with different means. Conversely, Clemenceau considers that today peace is nothing but the continuation of war and the pursuing of the war-aim, though again with other means. To put it briefly: politics is nothing else and can be nothing else than the safeguarding of a people's vital interests and the practical waging of its life-battle with every means. Thus it is quite clear that this life-battle from the first has its starting-point in the people itself and that at the same time the people is the object - the real thing of value - which has to be preserved. All functions of this body formed by the people must in the last resort fulfill only one purpose - to secure in the future the maintenance of this body which is the people. I can therefore say neither that foreign policy nor economic policy is of primary significance. Of course, a people needs the business world in order to live. But business is but one of the functions of this body-politic whereby its existence is assured. But primarily the essential thing is the starting-point and that is the people itself.
It is therefore false to say that foreign politics shapes a people: rather, peoples order their relations to the world about them in correspondence with their inborn forces and according to the measure in which their education enables them to bring those forces into play. We may be quite convinced that if in the place of the Germany of today there had stood a different Germany, the attitude towards the rest of the world would also have been different, and then presumably the influences exercised by the rest of the world would have taken a different form. To deny this would mean that Germany's destiny can no longer be changed no matter what Government rules in Germany.
And as against this conception I am the champion of another standpoint: three factors, I hold, essentially determine a people's political life:
First, the inner value of a people which as an inherited sum and possession is transmitted again and again through the generations, a value which suffers any change when the people, the custodian of this inherited possession, changes itself in its inner blood-conditioned composition. It is beyond question that certain traits of character, certain virtues, and certain vices always recur in peoples so long as their inner nature - their blood-conditioned composition - has not essentially altered. I can already trace the virtues and the vices of our German people in the writers of Rome just as clearly as I see them today. This inner value which determines the life of a people can be destroyed by nothing save only through a change in the blood causing a change in substance. Temporarily an illogical form of organization of life or unintelligent education may prejudice it. But in that case, though its effective action may be hindered, the fundamental value in itself is still present as it was before. And it is this value which is the great source of all hopes for a people's revival, it is this which justifies the belief that a people which in the course of thousands of years has furnished countless examples of the highest inner value cannot suddenly have lost overnight this inborn inherited value, but that one day this people will once again bring this value into action. If this were not the case, then the faith of millions of men in a better future - the mystic hope for a new Germany would be incomprehensible. It would be incomprehensible how it was that this German people, at the end of the Thirty Years War, when its population had shrunk from eighteen to thirteen and one-half millions, could ever have once more formed the hope through work, through industry, and capacity to rise again, how in this completely crushed people hundreds of thousands and finally millions should have been seized with the longing for a re-formation of their State.
I said that this value can be destroyed. There are indeed in especial two other closely related factors which we can time and again trace in periods of national decline: the one is that for the conception of the value of personality there is substituted a levelling idea of the supremacy of mere numbers - democracy - and the other is the negation of the value of a people, the denial of any difference in the inborn capacity, the achievement, etc., of individual peoples. Thus both factors condition one another or at least influence each other in the course of their development. Internationalism and democracy are inseparable conceptions. It is but logical that democracy, which within a people denies the special value of the individual and puts in its place a value which represents the sum of all individualities - a purely numerical value - should proceed in precisely the same way in the life of peoples and should in that sphere result in internationalism. Broadly it is maintained: peoples have no inborn values, but, at the most, there can be admitted perhaps temporary differences in education. Between Negroes, Aryans, Mongolians, and Redskins there is no essential difference in value. This view which forms the basis of the whole of the international thought-world of today and in its effects is carried to such lengths that in the end a Negro can sit as president in the sessions of the League of Nations leads necessarily as a further consequence to the point that in a similar way within a people differences in value between the individual members of this people are denied. And thus naturally every special capacity, every fundamental value of a people, can practically be made of no effect. For the greatness of a people is the result not of the sum of all its achievements but in the last resort of the sum of its outstanding achievements. Let no one say that the picture produced as a first impression of human civilization is the impression of its achievement as a whole. This whole edifice of civilization is in its foundations and in all its stones nothing else than the result of the creative capacity, the achievement, the intelligence, the industry, of individuals: in its greatest triumphs it represents the great crowning achievement of individual God-favored geniuses, in its average accomplishment the achievement of men of average capacity, and in its sum doubtless the result of the use of human labor-force in order to turn to account the creations of genius and of talent. So it is only natural that when the capable intelligences of a nation, which are always in a minority, are regarded only as of the same value as all the rest, then genius, capacity, the value of personality are slowly subjected to the majority and this process is then falsely named the rule of the people. For this is not rule of the people, but in reality the rule of stupidity, of mediocrity, of half-heartedness, of cowardice, of weakness, and of inadequacy.
Thus democracy will in practice lead to the destruction of a people's true values. And this also serves to explain how It is that peoples with a great past from the time when they surrender themselves to the unlimited, democratic rule of the masses slowly lose their former position; for the outstanding-achievements of individuals which they still possess or which could be produced in all spheres of life are now rendered practically ineffective through the oppression of mere numbers. And thus in these conditions a people will gradually lose its importance not merely in the cultural and economic spheres but altogether, in a comparatively short time it will no longer, within the setting of the other peoples of the world, maintain its former value.
And to this there must be added a third factor: namely, the view that life in this world, after the denial of the value of personality and of the special value of a people, is not to be maintained through conflict. That is a conception which could perhaps be disregarded if it fixed itself only in the heads of individuals, but yet has appalling consequences because it slowly poisons an entire people. And it is not as if such general changes in men's outlook on the world remained only on the surface or were confined to their effects on men's minds. No, in course of time they exercise a profound influence and affect all expressions of a people's life.
I may cite an example: you maintain, gentlemen, that German business life must be constructed on a basis of private property. Now such a conception as that of private property you can defend only if in some way or another it appears to have a logical foundation. This conception must deduce its ethical justification from an insight into the necessity which Nature dictates. It cannot simply be upheld by saying: 'It has always been so and therefore it must continue to be so.' For in periods of great upheavals within States, of movements of peoples and changes in thought, institutions and systems cannot remain untouched because they have previously been preserved without change. It is the characteristic feature of all really great revolutionary epochs in the history of mankind that they pay astonishingly little regard for forms which are hallowed only by age or which are apparently only so consecrated. It is thus necessary to give such foundations to traditional forms which are to be preserved that they can be regarded as absolutely essential, as logical and right. And then I am bound to say that private property can be morally and ethically justified only if I admit that men's achievements are different. Only on that basis can I assert: since men's achievements are different, the results of those achievements are also different. But if the results of those achievements are different, then it is reasonable to leave to men the administration of those results to a corresponding degree. It would not be logical to entrust the administration of the result of an achievement which was bound up with a personality either to the next best but less capable person or to a community which, through the mere fact that it had not performed the achievement, has proved that it is not capable of administering the result of that achievement. Thus it must be admitted that in the economic sphere, from the start, in all branches men are not of equal value or of equal importance. And once this is admitted it is madness to say: in the economic sphere there are undoubtedly differences in value, but that is not true in the political sphere. It is absurd to build up economic life on the conceptions of achievement, of the value of personality, and therefore in practice on the authority of personality, but in the political sphere to deny the authority of personality and to thrust into its place the law of the greater number - democracy. In that case there must slowly arise a cleavage between the economic and the political point of view, and to bridge that cleavage an attempt will be made to assimilate the former to the latter - indeed the attempt has been made, for this cleavage has not remained bare, pale theory. The conception of the equality of values has already, not only in politics but in economics also, been raised to a system, and that not merely in abstract theory: no! this economic system is alive in gigantic organizations and it has already today inspired a State which rules over immense areas.
But I cannot regard it as possible that the life of a people should in the long run be based upon two fundamental conceptions. If the view is right that there are differences in human achievement, then it must also be true that the value of men in respect of the production of certain achievements is different It is then absurd to allow this principle to hold good only In one sphere - the sphere of economic life and its leadership - and to refuse to acknowledge its validity in the sphere of the whole life-struggle of a people - the sphere of politics. Rather the logical course is that if I recognize without qualification in the economic sphere the fact of special achievements as forming the condition of all higher culture, then in the same way I should recognize special achievement in the sphere of politics, and that means that I am bound to put in the forefront the authority of personality. If, on the contrary, it is asserted - and that, too, by those engaged in business - that in the political sphere special capacities are not necessary but that here an absolute equality in achievement reigns, then one day this same theory will be transferred from politics and applied to economic life. But in the economic sphere communism is analogous to democracy in the political sphere. We find ourselves today in a period in which these two fundamental principles are at grips in all spheres which come into contact with each other; already they are invading economics.
To take an example: Life in practical activity is founded on the importance of personality: but now gradually it is threatened by the supremacy of mere numbers. But in the State there is an organization - the army - which cannot in any way be democratized without surrendering its very existence. But if a Weltanschauung cannot be applied to every sphere of a people's life, that fact in itself is sufficient proof of its weakness. In other words: the army can exist only if it maintains the absolutely undemocratic principle of unconditional authority proceeding downwards and absolute responsibility proceeding upwards, while, in contradistinction to this, democracy means in practice complete dependence proceeding downwards and authority proceeding upwards. But the result is that in a State in which the whole political life - beginning with the parish and ending with the Reichstag - is built up on the conception of democracy, the army is bound gradually to become an alien body and an alien body which must necessarily be felt to be such. It is for democracy an alien world of ideas, an alien Weltanschauung which inspires the life of this body. An internal conflict between the representatives of the democratic principle and the representatives of the principle of authority must be the inevitable consequence, and this conflict we are actually experiencing in Germany.
So in the same way the education to pacifism must of necessity have its effect right through life until it reaches the humblest individual lives. The conception of pacifism is logical if I once admit a general equality amongst peoples and human beings. For in that case what sense is there in conflict? The conception of pacifism translated into practice and applied to all spheres must gradually lead to the destruction of the competitive instinct, to the destruction of the ambition for outstanding achievement. I cannot say: in politics we will be pacifists, we reject the idea of the necessity for life to safeguard itself through conflict - but in economics we want to remain keenly competitive. If I reject the idea of conflict as such, it is of no importance that for the time being that idea is still applied in some single spheres. In the last resort political decisions are decisive and determine achievement in the single sphere.
To sum up the argument: I see two diametrically opposed principles: the principle of democracy which, wherever it is allowed practical effect is the principle of destruction: and the principle of the authority of personality which I would call the principle of achievement, because whatever man in the past has achieved - all human civilizations - is conceivable only if the supremacy of this principle is admitted.
The worth of a people, the character of its internal organization through which this worth of a people may produce its effect, and the character of a people's education - these are the starting-points for political action: these are the foundations for the success of that action.
That the evidences of a crisis should today spread over almost the entire world is comprehensible when one considers that the world has been opened up and mutual relations have been strengthened to an extent which fifty, eighty, or a hundred years ago appeared scarcely possible. And yet, despite this fact, one must not believe that such a state of affairs is conceivable only now, in the year 1932. No, similar conditions have been experienced more than once in the history of the world. Always when relations between peoples produced conditions such as these, the malady affecting these peoples was bound to spread and to influence the position of all.
It is, of course, easy to say: we prefer to wait until there is a change in the general position, but that is impossible. For the position which faces you today is not the consequence of a revelation of God's will, but the result of human weaknesses, of human mistakes, of men's false judgments. It is but natural that there must first be a change in these causes, that men must first be inwardly transformed, before one can count on any alteration in the position.
That conclusion is forced upon us if we look at the world today: we have a number of nations which through their inborn outstanding worth have fashioned for themselves a mode of life which stands in no relation to the life-space - the Lebensraum - which in their thickly populated settlements they inhabit. We have the so-called white race which, since the collapse of ancient civilization, in the course of some thousand years has created for itself a privileged position in the world. But I am quite unable to understand this privileged position, this economic supremacy, of the white race over the rest of the world if I do not bring it into close connection with a political conception of supremacy which has been peculiar to the white race for many centuries and has been regarded as in the nature of things: this conception it has maintained in its dealings with other peoples. Take any single area you like, take for example India. England did not conquer India by the way of justice and of law: she conquered India without regard to the wishes, to the views of the natives, or to their formulations of justice, and, when necessary, she has upheld this supremacy with the most brutal ruthlessness. Just in the same way Cortez or Pizarro annexed Central America and the northern states of South America not on the basis of any claim of right, but from the absolute inborn feeling of the superiority of the white race. The settlement of the North American continent is just as little the consequence of any claim of superior right in any democratic or international sense; it was the consequence of a consciousness of right which was rooted solely in the conviction of the superiority and therefore of the right of the white race. If I think away this attitude of mind which in the course of the last three or four centuries has won the world for the white race, then the destiny of this race would in fact have been no different from that, say, of the Chinese: an immensely congested mass of human beings crowded upon an extraordinarily narrow territory, an over-population with all its unavoidable consequences. If Fate allowed the white race to take a different path, that is only because this white race was convinced that it had the right to organize the rest of the world. It matters not what superficial disguises in individual cases this right may have assumed, in practice it was the exercise."
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Lyndon Nicholas
The power of social media is undeniable. We saw it used as a political tool during the 2008 election, where Obama successfully catalyzed an audience of voters using Facebook as a campaigning tool. More recently, we also saw the power of social media in political organizing when white nationalists used various social platforms to organize an occupation of the Capitol Building in Washington, D.C. In 2019, Facebook users watched in shock as someone livestreamed the shooting of multiple people in a mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand.
To combat the negative, individuals, organizations and even corporations are starting to take a proactive approach to censoring hate speech and violent organizing in social media spaces to protect civil rights online. These instances prove that social media, as a tool, has a great capacity for both positive and negative influence. I had the chance to speak with Roy L. Austin Jr., VP of Civil Rights and Deputy General Counsel at Facebook, who hopes to do just that.
Austin has a long history of civil rights litigation that spans decades. His experience in the field includes time spent as a trial attorney with the criminal section of the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, as a senior assistant U.S. attorney in the civil rights unit of the D.C. U.S. Attorney's Office, as a deputy assistant attorney general in the Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division, and as the deputy assistant to the president for the Office of Urban Affairs.
Roy Austin, VP of Civil Rights and Deputy General Counsel at Facebook
One of his most noteworthy accomplishments was co-authoring a report on Big Data and Civil Rights, where he worked with President Barack Obama's Task Force on 21st Century Policing and helped develop the Police Data Initiative, which has been influential in pushing for data transparency in law enforcement policy nationwide. He was also a member of the president's My Brother's Keeper Task Force and most recently worked as a partner at the law firm of Harris, Wiltshire, & Grannis LLP, specializing in criminal defense and civil rights law.
Equal Footing
When I ask how someone with such an auspicious career got into the field of civil rights, Austin chuckles. "The shallow truth is that my parents, as wonderful as they are, allowed me to watch way too much TV as a kid." He admits, "L.A. Law was the [show] I really fell in love with. The idea of being a stand up attorney was something that I dreamt about as a child." Austin was also watching something else from the comforts of his home in State College, Pennsylvania: the nightly news.
"I grew up as a Black kid in an almost exclusively white community, and [I came to] a realization primarily from the media that my life was very different from other Black kids growing up in the world."
He recounts watching "image after image of young Black kids being shot, killed, arrested," and the impression that had on a child whose biggest problems were finishing his homework and attending college football games.
Austin, whose Vincentian father was a criminologist, sociologist and U.S. ambassador to Trinidad, endeavors to follow a path similar to his dad's. He notes, "A goal and passion of mine is to make sure all kids grow up with all the opportunities that I was afforded." Austin says that his upbringing was deeply rooted in the Caribbean culture of his parents. He relates that his parents "did everything they could to make sure that we understood Caribbean culture and life. It was just a regular part of who we were, from celebrations to food to family to friends."
He reflects, "My entire life was built on my parents' heritage," and he attributes his success to them. "I am grateful for my immigrant roots. [They] gave my parents motivation to make sure that their children were put in the best possible positions because they remember what it was like to grow up in a place where they didn't have material goods and didn't have access to top resources." He connects this to his personal need to strive for better conditions for all people, regardless of identity.
Same ****, Different Day
When it comes to his work, Austin continues to grapple with the concept of civil rights in a digital space. Even though most social media companies have large teams devoted to security and monitoring, these teams predominantly use algorithms that often replicate the biases of the people who create them. Many companies have looked to promote diversity in cybersecurity positions, but according to Austin, this is an area that is still evolving.
"We are dealing with machine learning and algorithms, and that's a space that civil rights law has never really looked at. How do you make sure you are respecting cultural traditions, religious liberty, freedom and respecting all voices?"
It brings up ethical questions that have been part of the broader conversation surrounding the media and free speech for years. "Look, it's social media, so a piece of that is the same kinds of questions that are raised about all media, all conversations. What's appropriate, what's inappropriate, when does language cross the line from poor speech to hate speech or bullying?" He relents, acknowledging that regardless of technology, there are broader questions we have to answer for ourselves as a society.
For Austin, diversity in this arena is a start, but it is not enough to combat the intersecting systemic issues that marginalized people face. Without a focus on equity and justice in the real world, issues of the American political system proliferate on these social media platforms.
According to Austin, one of the events that made this glaringly obvious was the pandemic.
"The pandemic has shone a light on the challenges that the world faces. Those who have [privilege] get access to resources, access to the vaccine, access to quality news." It has shown us that, "Poor Black and Brown communities are still struggling. Again, it's a reflection of where we are as a world, as a country." We as a country have a long way to go in our efforts to fix these issues, and social media mirrors that. Still, we must work toward providing safer spaces that people can inhabit without having to endure virtual, emotional or physical forms of violence and marginalization.
So what's next? "That's the thing about this field," Austin admits, "I have no idea where we are going next. The field of technology is moving so quickly. Virtual reality glasses, the power of self-driving cars — they talk about things that were, for us, science fiction, that I see happening in our lifetime. What is important is that, hopefully, my team and I build an infrastructure for whatever comes next so that people are not discriminated against."
For Austin, it is about taking a structural approach and building out systems that take into account diversity, equity and justice, serving generations to come. Social media will continue to play an integral role in the lives of future generations.
As we close our interview, Austin reflects on his own experiences as a father of two children. I ask how we can teach young people to navigate spaces like social media, where they are at risk of encountering negativity. "I think you instill in your children — especially young Black children — resilience and the ability to take on all that comes to you, the wherewithal to fight back and to stand for yourself. That's what I instill in them and hopefully, whatever the world looks like in 10 or 30 years, they can adapt those lessons wherever they go."
* The original title of this story was Civil Rights in Cyberspace.
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It depends on the complexity and depth of the issue you want to work with. The best analogy for energy work is to think about the energy flow in your system as similar to the water flow in a river. If there are log jams in the river, the flow of water will be impeded. The amount of work that it will take to restore the flow of the river depends on how many logjams there are in the river. I recommend my clients to start by trying three to five sessions spaced one or two weeks apart and then assess the results they have got until them and see how well BodyTalk is working for them. Complex issues like well establish chronic illness patterns may require a year of sessions, other issues may be resolved in just a few sessions. May people elect to use BodyTalk as a system of preventive care, having a session every 6-8 weeks as a way to maintain their system optimally balanced.
Danielle, 33, suffered from panic attacks every day for five years. The attacks lasted all day and into the night, preventing her from sleeping restfully or fully. After four BodyTalk sessions, her panic attacks insomnia had ceased, enabling her to sleep "like a baby."
I learned about BodyTalk from a family member who had heard Suryo talking about BodyTalk on a local radio program. I was at the time nearly completely housebound with chronic fatigue syndrome and MCS, multiple chronic infections and nausea every day.
It took me quite awhile to muster myself to get into the city for a session with Suryo, and one of the things I noticed most was a feeling of gratitude coming from my body that someone was really listening to it. Wonderful!
The next day I woke up refreshed and with no nausea whatsoever and I was sold. I kept going back for more and not only got better, but became intrigued with BodyTalk and how it works.
It took a lot of sessions to work through the laundry list of symptoms I had, and it took time to learn that I wouldn't always get relief from the one I was hoping for at the time, but I got relief from something after each session. And gradually I felt more free, more balanced and more able to get out in the world and do things again.
BodyTalk has really given me back to myself, and better. Thank you Suryo for doing that radio program so long ago. I think there aren't really any coincidences, but I am very grateful that someone I knew was listening to the right radio station that day.
I hope this information proves useful to you in your healing journey. May you be healthy and happy.
BodyTalk does not diagnose nor treat any specific illnesses. It releases the burdens of trauma, stress and other emotional baggage from your body and frees the bodymind energy to heal itself. Please consult your medical practitioner for any health condition. BodyTalk is a perfect complementary treatment that will enhance the results and reduce the side effects of medical approaches.
In one of the BodyTalk sessions I got in my quest to increase my energy and heal from Lyme disease, the practitioner I was working with received by neuromuscular feedback the information that my next healing priority was to receive The Reconnection. I had grown by then to trust both BodyTalk and my practitioner so much that I decided to do it without researching what it was. After The Reconnection, my energy immediately doubled. I had been unable to work with clients for several months, and in the next three weeks I saw 50 clients, which seemed a miracle. I also felt a much deepened sense of trust and confidence in myself, in my inner guidance and a conviction that I was supported and guided in my spirituality- a much greater sense of confidence than the one I had when I was completely healthy. I decided then and there that I wanted to make this deeply healing modality more widely known and available to my clients.
People receiving Reconnective Healing™ report substantial improvements in all kinds of emotional and physical conditions, like trauma, anxiety, chronic pain, chronic illnesses and cancer. It is important to understand that different people can come in with the same symptoms and diagnosis and receive different results. Some people come expecting to heal a physical ailment and end up resolving a long held emotional problem that was an even deeper key to their healing. While many people see results that manifest physically immediately, many do later on, in a few days or a few weeks. And some may not. Most transformations tend to be permanent. The healing you have is yours and remains with you.
Reconnective Healing™ is a form of energy healing in which a practitioner acts as a conduit to deliver high level energy frequencies from the Universe to the client. These new energy frequencies bring the energies in your body up into a higher frequency by entrainment, similar to when two elements are vibrating at different rates, and the one vibrating at the slower frequency shows a tendency to synchronize and match the element of the higher vibration. As Dr. Eric Pearl, the discoverer of Reconnective Healing™ says: "It's not the disease or infirmity that heals, it is the person." The energies keep acting in your body taking it to a healthy vibration level. This process reconnects you to the fullness of who you are and to the fullness of the universe.
During Reconnective Healing™ the practitioner transmits the energies to the client's system through his or her hands, which are held at a distance from the body. The client may feel sensations like warmth, tingling, cold, electricity, throbbing, bobbles, expansion among others. If you observe a person receiving Reconnective Healing™ you will witness different reactions, like rapid eye movements, deepening breath, stomach gurgling, muscle twitching etc. that tells us that the body is responding physiologically to these energies.
While this description may sound similar to other energy healing modalities, such as Reiki (which I also practice), the experience is completely different. My personal experience is that the Reiki feels like a soft drizzle of energy, while Reconnective Healing ™ feels like a fire hose of energy. Reconnective Healing ™ energy is not only more intense, it also contains large amounts of information. An analogy would be the difference between a cable that conducts electricity to your computer screen, which allows us to turn it on, versus the cable that goes from your hard drive to the screen, which carries information and allows you to really use your computer.
While we do not know exactly how or why Reconnective Healing ™ works, clinical experience shows that it is very effective in a large variety of conditions, and receiving these energies allow the person to heal at emotional, mental, spiritual and physical levels.
Reconnective Healing™ triggers significant changes in brain activity (via EEG scans) and heart activity (via ECG scans) of both practitioner and patient during healing sessions. In particular the practitioner's ECG scan affects the patient's EEG scan.
They have also measured changes in levels of gamma radiation absorption during sessions. Normally the body emits a harmless low level of gamma radiation due to the presence of Potassium in the soft tissues.
In Reconnective Healing™ sessions, both the practitioner and the patient absorb it.
Separate research into various systems of bioenergy healing has shown a link between absorption of gamma radiation and healing. .
Another experiment measured the electromagnetic field around the hands of volunteers before and after attending a Reconnective Healing™ seminar and found that the field dramatically increased. Separate research into the mechanisms behind bioenergy healing has found that the high level of electromagnetic energy in the healer's hands brings about the change from a state of disequilibrium (disease) to equilibrium (health).
Other measurement studies confirm that Reconnective Healing™ practitioners can emit and transmit an increased amount of light and other electromagnetic frequencies around their bodies.
Reconnective Healing™ practitioners can turn the frequencies on, increasing the amplitude and oscillation of magnetic frequencies around their bodies. These changes have been measured in the laboratory.
The Reconnective Healing™ frequencies are strong and palpable. They can normally be felt through physical sensation tests and have been proven to be real in double blind, randomized studies.
Kirlian photography and other measuring devices have imaged and corroborated the existence of the Reconnective Healing frequencies.
Many ancient healing traditions, like Traditional Chinese Medicine and Chi Gong, include as healing tools meditations to help the body receive energy from both the earth and the heavens. We live in a sea of different types of energies, but we are not always in a state that allows us to receive and use the energies that surround us. An example of how sometimes we are able to receive these energies is the increase in energy and wellbeing that many people experience when they are in particular areas, like hot springs, desserts and volcanic areas.
During The Reconnection™ your practitioner uses the Reconnective Healing™ energies in over a hundred points in your body to lay down a series of energy lines, similar to the meridian lines, whose function is to connect you at a high level to the energy, light and information available in the Universe. Most people report that The Reconnection™ has been a life changing experience for them.
The Reconnection™ is done in two sessions that need to be spaced at least a day and no more than three days. While Reconnective Healing™ is done to increase your physical, mental or emotional wellbeing, the purpose of The Reconnection™ is to deeply connect you with your sense of purpose and spirituality and to provide the energy and guidance for manifesting your potential and accomplishing your deeper life goals.
After answering any questions you may have, your practitioner will invite you to lay down on a massage table and close your eyes. We recommend that you "let go" and just witness what happens in the session, instead of trying making something happen. Experience shows that sessions are more effective when both client and practitioner let of agendas and expectation.
The practitioner will run energy through you for about half an hour. During the session you may feel bodily sensations like warm, cold, tingling, may perceive images, sounds, smells and tastes, may have spiritual experiences or may simply fall asleep. No experience is better or worse than the other, it is just your experience.
At the end of the session, your practitioner will help you debrief your experience, as awareness of the sensations seems to enhance the work of the energy frequencies.
You will only need one to three sessions of Reconnective Healing™. The effect of the sessions is sometimes immediate, but usually the frequencies keep doing its work on your system for days and weeks after the session. Dr. Pearl, the creator of The Reconnection says "Healings occur in an instant. What takes "time" is for the person to "decide" to accept the healing. If you receive everything you're looking for by your first, second or third session, it's time to let go and allow things to unfold on their own. If you don't receive anything by your third session, Reconnective Healing™ may not be the appropriate way for you to receive what you're looking for at this time in your life. …The only time I might consider a few more sessions is either: a) if a new situation arises for you; or b) if you've been experiencing clear, recognizable, consistent improvement over the first three visits and it looks as if there's a little more to go. …. Reconnective Healing™ is not about regular visits or "touch-ups." You do not need to come in for "weekly" sessions or on any kind of an "ongoing" basis".
Dr. Eric Pearl has a very successful chiropractic practice in Los Angeles for 12 years. In 1993 after receiving an energy healing, his clients started reporting that when patients began reporting that they felt his hands on them—even though he hadn't physically touched them. For the first couple of months his palms blistered and bled. Patients soon reported receiving extraordinary healings from cancers, AIDS-related diseases, chronic fatigue syndrome, birth disfigurements, cerebral palsy, and other serious afflictions. Many reported spiritual experiences. All this occurred when Eric simply held his hands near them. And to this day, it continues.
The Reconnection™ and Reconnective Healing™ do not diagnose nor treat any specific illnesses. They release the burdens of trauma, stress and other emotional baggage from your body and free the bodymind energy to heal itself. Please consult your medical practitioner for any health condition. The Reconnection™ and Reconnective Healing™ are perfect complementary treatment that will enhance the results and reduce the side effects of medical approaches.


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2018 Best of Design Awards winners for Unbuilt - Residential
2018 Best of Design Award for Unbuilt – Residential: Brooklyn Senior Affordable Housing Designer: Only If Location: Brooklyn, New York Located on a former industrial site, the Brooklyn Senior Affordable Housing complex designed by Only If consists of 84 rental apartments and community facilities. The building, configured into several block-like volumes, rests on two wide columns and a circular disk, which contains all of the circulation and services. The middle volume of the building frames a central communal space for its elderly and formerly homeless residents. This double-height loggia is carved out of the building to become a stage elevated above the city. The public living room will serve as a flexible space where residents can gather, linger, interact, and build a sense of community. Various features will be introduced to support the health of the building's residents, including outdoor exercise equipment and a roof garden. A secondary circulation route—composed of an open and relaxed stair system—will be an active alternative to elevators. Honorable Mention Project name: 150 Central Park South penthouse Designer: SPAN Architecture Location: New York Honorable Mention Project name: Courtyard House Architect: Inaba Williams Location: Santa Monica, California
2018 Best of Design Awards winners for Urban Design
2018 Best of Design Award for Urban Design: Triboro Corridor Designers: Only If and One Architecture & Urbanism Location: New York: Brooklyn, Queens, Bronx Conceived by Only If and One Architecture & Urbanism for the Regional Plan Association, the Triboro Corridor project is a proposal for a new passenger train service connecting the Bronx, Brooklyn, and Queens. Making use of existing freight and intercity rail lines, the transportation link would shift New York City's centralized, hub-and-spoke transit system to one with more resilient connectivity between outer boroughs. The Triboro Corridor would also establish concrete links and new spatial relationships among diverse communities, peoples, and job opportunities. While some stations would feature simple platforms, the more complex ones would act as catalysts for the rapid transformation of local communities and bolster the economic, education, healthcare, and manufacturing sectors. Using adjacent spaces, the Triboro Corridor could also serve as a 24-mile-long linear greenway and bicycle superhighway. Honorable Mentions Project Name: Los Angeles River Gateway Designer: AECOM Location: Los Angeles Project Name: North Branch Framework Plan for the Chicago River Designer: Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture Location: Chicago
WORKac, PORT Urbanism, DLANDstudio, and others unveil visions for a resilient tristate area
Last night the Regional Plan Association (RPA) unveiled designs from four teams that address the future of infrastructure and resilience in the tristate area. The nonprofit, boosted by a Rockefeller Foundation grant, asked seven firms across four teams—WORKac; Rafi Segal and DLANDstudio; PORT Urbanism + RANGE; as well as Only If and One Architecture—to show how policymakers, designers, and citizens, could best prepare four geographies within the region for the next quarter-century. (The Architect's Newspaper covered the competition in March when the firms were selected.) The competition asked the groups to zero in on revamping New York City's inner ring suburbs; creating coastal buffers; improving local waterways; and linking the Bronx, Queens, and Brooklyn by passenger rail, respectively. The competition coincides with RPA's fourth regional plan, A Region Transformed, due out later this year. Until then, take a look at their ideas in the gallery above, or if you're at the beach anytime in August or September, go see the designs—and give feedback—at Fort Tilden in the Rockaways. See rpa.org for more details.
2016 Best of Design Award for Interior > Retail/Hospitality: In Situ by Aidlin Darling Design
The Architect's Newspaper (AN)'s inaugural 2013 Best of Design Awards featured six categories. Since then, it's grown to 26 exciting categories. As in years past, jury members (Erik Verboon, Claire Weisz, Karen Stonely, Christopher Leong, Adrianne Weremchuk, and AN's Matt Shaw) were picked for their expertise and high regard in the design community. They based their judgments on evidence of innovation, creative use of new technology, sustainability, strength of presentation, and, most importantly, great design. We want to thank everyone for their continued support and eagerness to submit their work to the Best of Design Awards. We are already looking forward to growing next year's coverage for you. 2016 Best of Design Award for Interior > Retail/Hospitality: In Situ Architect: Aidlin Darling Design Location: San Francisco, CA
Inhabiting a street-front space in the Mario Botta–designed portion of the newly reopened SFMOMA, In Situ stands at the intersection of art, design, food, and community. In support of chef Corey Lee's vision, the design celebrates visibility, accessibility, comfort, and openness by foregrounding the guest's physical experience. Emphasizing tactility and acoustics, the space juxtaposes the rough with the refined, leaving the interior shell of the building relatively raw and exposed while contrasting it with custom lighting, furniture, commissioned art, and a sculptural wood ceiling.
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Honorable Mention, Interior > Retail/Hospitality: Voyager Espresso
Architect: Only If— Location: New York, NY
Located in Manhattan's Fulton Street subway station, Voyager Espresso eschews the typical artisanal aesthetic of contemporary coffee culture for a more futuristic design and material palette, reflecting the client's scientific approach to coffee.
Honorable Mention, Interior > Retail/Hospitality: TurnStyle
Architect: Architecture Outfit Location: New York, NY
In transforming a neglected block-long passageway within the New York City subway system into a vibrant public space for shopping, eating, and gathering, TurnStyle serves as an inspired model for future transit retail in the city.
Futuristic coffee shop, Voyager Espresso, opens in New York's Financial District
Voyager Espresso, a 550-square-foot coffee bar, brings the perks of artisanal coffee to New York's perpetually caffeine craving Financial District in the new Fulton Center. The bar opened in January and was crafted by New York–based design practice Only If, a team of five architects and designers founded in 2013. The clients, a pair of Australians, wanted the space to look distinctly different from the ubiquitous white tile, reclaimed wood, and Edison bulb coffee shop aesthetic and had ambitious plans despite their tight budget. With this in mind, Adam Frampton, principal at Only If, opted for an "inexpensive but futuristic" material palette of aluminum enamel painted oriented strand board, black marble, perforated aluminum and copper, and black rubber. "In such a small and constrained space, our first intuition was to be very pragmatic with the layout and articulate the design through the materials and details. However, we didn't want to simply decorate the space," Frampton said. "It soon became apparent that a more figural gesture—albeit less efficient in terms of quantity of seating—improved ergonomics within the service area and produced a greater identity and hierarchy." Frampton also devised a layout based on two circles: The positive volume, a barista station, allows two baristas to work simultaneously and a negative volume, the "grotto," a seating space carved out of the surrounding walls. Frampton and his team worked through many iterations before landing on this clever configuration. "The method of exhausting all possibilities until the best fit emerges is probably something that came from my experience working at OMA," said Frampton. "What's really interesting about the layout is how it activates different social settings and creates different types of seating." The careful planning paid off: After seven weeks of preparing the design and obtaining the correct permit, drawing, and construction documents, the space was built in about eight weeks. It is now open Monday through Friday, 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. at 110 William Street through the John Street subway entrance.


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Why People Get Away with Being Rude at Work
by Shannon G. Taylor Donald H. Kluemper W. Matthew Bowler Jonathon R. B. Halbesleben
Bad behavior at work can have very real consequences. People who experience workplace rudeness, for example, report lower engagement, suffer more mental and physical health problems, and are more likely to burn out and quit their jobs. And nearly all of us are affected by rudeness and other types of workplace misbehavior, like interrupting and exclusion: Estimates suggest 98% of employees are on the receiving end over the course of a year.
Given bad behavior's prevalence and impact, surely leaders take reports of it seriously, get the facts, and punish offenders, right? Some scholars have noted that, when information about misbehavior surfaces, savvy leaders know better than to blame the messenger. Unfortunately, our research paints a picture that is much bleaker.
We set out to investigate how people in positions of power view victims and perpetrators of workplace misbehavior. We first studied an organization that operates a chain of casual dining restaurants. We gave each employee a list of the names of every other employee who worked in their restaurant, and asked them to report who they were rude to and who was rude to them. We then asked managers to evaluate the behavior of each employee. Across the five restaurants we studied, 149 of the 169 employees (88%) and 13 of the 14 managers (93%) participated. Notably, those employees who reported being victims of rudeness were largely perceived by their managers as perpetrators of rude behavior. And the employees who were reported as being rude to others weren't seen that way by their managers under two conditions: they had a tight relationship with the boss or were high performers.
To determine whether our findings applied outside of this organization, we enlisted the help of our undergraduate students. We asked them to recruit working adults from among their friends and family so that we could survey employees and managers from a wide variety of industries, organizations, and jobs. Employees reported in an online survey how frequently they experienced and engaged in rude behavior at work, and they provided the name and email address of their manager, who then rated the employee's behavior in a separate online survey. We anonymized and tracked 372 leader-follower pairs from an assortment of professions, including office workers, mechanics, dental hygienists, plumbers, nurses, and many others. Sure enough, we found the same results. It seems leaders in all sorts of work settings fall prey to this bias when evaluating their employees' behavior.
These two studies were telling, but they had an important limitation: Because employees who experience rudeness may also be rude themselves, as our earlier research has shown, bosses who blame victims might actually be evaluating these employees accurately. That is, these victims might also be perpetrators. If so, leaders' evaluations might not be biased after all.
To rule out this possibility, we conducted two experiments to separate employees' experiences of rudeness from their acts of rudeness. We recruited working professionals from our MBA courses and from online forums like LinkedIn. We instructed participants to imagine that they had been promoted into a management position and had been asked by their supervisor to assess their subordinates after observing them on the job over the past few weeks. We then presented participants with 10 fictitious employee profiles and asked them to conduct their assessments carefully. Some of the employees to be rated had experienced rudeness and had also behaved rudely. One such profile looked like this:
Chris has been with the organization almost 2 years and has a little more than 5 years of work experience. Chris appears to be a poor performer: sometimes late to work, doesn't always work hard, not very knowledgeable on the job. Chris uses sarcasm that offends others, stares at others disapprovingly, and is cranky and short with coworkers. Coworkers sometimes avoid consulting with Chris when they would normally be expected to, make offensive jokes about Chris, and treat Chris as unimportant.
Other employees had been mistreated but had never mistreated others, like this one:
Alex has been with the company for about 2 years and has 6 years of work experience. Alex appears to be a very good performer at work: never tardy, puts forth a lot of effort, knowledgeable of core job tasks. You have not observed Alex making inappropriate comments toward coworkers, and Alex seems to be polite and courteous toward others when you're around. However, coworkers sometimes intentionally "speak over" Alex, one was found reading Alex's personal email, and others often roll their eyes at Alex.
We also included some profiles where the employee hadn't been mistreated:
Taylor has 6 years of work experience and joined the company about 2 years ago. Taylor seems like an exceptional performer: arrives on schedule, works diligently, knowledgeable on the job. Taylor appears to address others in a professional manner at all times and does not give others hostile looks, stares, or sneers. Coworkers appear to be polite toward Taylor and treat Taylor with dignity and respect.
When we crunched the numbers, we found that participants perceived victims as having engaged in misbehavior. And by presenting participants with clear information that some employees did not behave rudely (like Alex), we were able to demonstrate that victims are blamed for their mistreatment even when they've done nothing wrong.
It gets worse: We also wanted to see if leaders' bias toward victims extended to their assessments of the victims' job performance, even when we provided concrete information about whether the employee was a high performer (like Alex) or a low performer (like Chris). It does: Victims of rudeness were perceived as performing considerably worse on the job than employees who hadn't been mistreated, regardless of the employees' actual performance. As performance ratings often have a substantial impact on compensation and promotion decisions, our results show that victims of workplace mistreatment can be adversely impacted in several other important ways, adding insult to injury.
So, how can leaders combat bias when evaluating employees? We recommend leaders receive training similar to that undergone by judges and arbitrators, who are taught to distinguish between relevant and irrelevant information. Homing in on job-relevant behaviors, whether during interviews or performance appraisals, can effectively reduce subjectivity and enhance decision accuracy. But because unrelated contextual and personal factors can influence the outcome — even among highly skilled judicial decision makers — training should also increase leaders' awareness of the forces that may be influencing their decisions. Organizations might take a page from the Federal Judicial Center, which runs a program — as part of what is affectionately referred to as "baby judge school" — that does just that: It trains new judicial appointees to become more aware of their biases and prevent those biases from affecting their decision making.
Given the central role leaders play as decision makers in the workplace, it's critical that they assess employee behavior fairly and accurately. To our dismay, our study discovered a tendency on the part of managers to blame employees for the mistreatment they experience. For those leaders responsible for evaluating others at work, we hope our research reminds you to be more judicious.
Source: HBR
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By Chris Nutt on	 23rd June 2017 0 Comments
Chris Nutt from national charity Dreams Come True explores how a combination of aspiration and assistive technology can change lives, permanently.
Dreams transform lives. It is not always readily apparent how, but they do. When someone's life is transformed they are no longer the person they were. They can do new things, scale new heights, reach new horizons.
At Dreams Come True we support children and young adults with serious and life-limiting conditions on a day-to-day basis. Our mission is simply to bring them joy by helping them achieve their dreams.
To most of us a dream is a subconscious alternative to reality with all its attendant benefits and characteristics, but it can also be about aspiration. In our world it is the chance to step outside the physical and psychological constraints of a serious, life-limiting condition or more importantly leave them behind. It can be a once-in-a-lifetime trip, a chance to meet an idol or more increasingly much-needed assistive technology. In either event a dream can be an essential part of fulfilling our potential, a sense of attainment and the need to build purpose in our lives and work.
Everyday freedoms
A sense of control, hope, inclusion and normality are generated by the simplest of dreams.
Most of us in the UK do not suffer from a lack of empowerment; we are rarely stigmatised, isolated or dependent. We can enjoy social lives, plan careers and work with relative freedom and reasonable choice. Yet these everyday freedoms are precious.
For children with serious and life-limiting conditions everyday life can sometimes seem like an additional burden of their situation. Dream fulfilment can offer the opportunity to remove the burden and restore normality for child and family. The effects are far from temporary bringing lasting and often life-changing benefits but experience-based dreams in themselves remain a source of relief and respite. When combined with assistive technology the dreams we deliver can be even more powerful.
Despite plenty of anecdotal evidence the impact of dream fulfilment on children and their families has not been fully researched. Dreams Come True is one of the few charities doing essential work in this area.
Since Dreams Come True began in 1988, it has enriched the lives of thousands of children and their families. It is the only UK charity in its sector focused on children and young people between two and 21 years of age and its work occupies a crucial yet neglected place alongside palliative care generating sustainable, life-changing benefits rarely within the scope of medical intervention. A sense of control, hope, inclusion and normality are generated by the simplest of dreams. Such positive perceptions last and are essential to people's sense of self when they can easily feel defined by the impact of their condition.
Dream experiences present opportunities for people to achieve, learn, grow and accomplish in some way. Dreams are also ways in which children's lives can be enriched in a way most appropriate to the child and their condition.
Dr Jayne Galinsky, University of Stirling, Power of Dreams Study.
We work hard at Dreams Come True to understand the longer term needs and aspirations of children and their families. Dr Galinsky's study points to the phenomena of 'post dream blues' — the need for some families to readjust to normality that mirrors the experiences reported by families following discharge from statutory services. These may be especially relevant to our older children and young adults, which is why we maintain a focus on an age range up to 21 when the transition from childhood and family to the world of independence, opportunity and employment beckons.
Dr Galinsky goes on to say that…
A better understanding of this effect is clearly valuable for charities to understand how to optimise the dream process and perhaps find ways that the positive impacts of a dream can be carried over and reinforced.
An obvious solution is the assistive technology dream and whilst our mission is to respond to the needs of our children and families whatever they may be it can be especially fulfilling when a dream is combined with a need for life-changing equipment. It means we can often go further and do something about an underlying cause. We can have a direct impact on the conditions of children and young adults for whom the everyday freedoms most of us take for granted are literally beyond their wildest dreams.
Dream stories
Grace showing the joy of seeing the projector for the first time.
Nine-year-old Grace from Birmingham has severe and profound learning difficulties. She can't communicate easily and so her mum, Emma, wrote to Dreams Come True on her behalf to explain Grace's dream:
Grace recently spent four weeks in hospital and she absolutely loved the sensory equipment. She would love to have her very own bubble tube, fibre optic lights, cushion and projector. It would give Grace a place to go and be calm. She is in chronic pain a lot throughout the day and it would help her to relax.
With support from Dreams Come True, Grace's parents were able to answer her call for help. They spent two months getting her room ready and when it was complete the whole family was delighted:
We've finally completed Grace's bedroom and she now has everything up and running. The photo above shows the joy of seeing the projector for the first time. It's made such a difference, I can't thank you all enough!!
James is another young person who lives with a severe neurological disorder and visual impairment but these do nothing to deter his creativity. James is an aspiring artist, creating amazing pieces using an innovative eye gaze system, which has enabled him to explore his creative side.
James's life has been transformed. The system enables him to control his computer by eye movements alone. After much practice and training James is now empowered and able to complete complex pieces of artwork. He has set up his own bag design company with the proceeds going to support his school.
To be able to produce work independently has been life-changing for James who is reliant on other people for so many aspects of his day-to-day life. The technology has revolutionised his world and given him choices and a positive focus through his art. James' dream was to be able to display his artwork in a gallery and he was delighted when Greenwich Art Gallery agreed to host to an exhibition.
The exhibition has inspired the whole family. The gallery did a brilliant job mounting and displaying James' eye-gaze art and James was just captivated seeing the gallery devoted to his work. The experience has given the whole family an aura of happiness and has enabled us to put aside some of the worries about the progression in his condition and celebrate instead his considerable achievement!
In 2016/17 nearly a third of the dreams fulfilled by Dreams Come True were for assistive technology or equipment. Yet the same life-transforming dreams were only around 10 per cent of the total cost of dreams fulfilled. This cost/benefit ratio may be surprising but reflects the ways in which technology price performance is on a long-term downward trend and a wide range of solutions becoming mainstream. At the same time it illustrates how some comparatively simple investments in equipment and hardware can make a huge and lasting difference.
Yet there is still a huge level of demand outstripping the ability of statutory bodies or charities to support those in need. That is why Dreams Come True relies so heavily on the inspirational work of fundraisers like Chris Astill-Smith. In August 2017 Chris is swimming the English Channel solo aiming to raise £25,000 for Dreams Come True, to fulfil more dreams, and to help more children like Grace and James take life-changing steps.
Chris has no professional swimming background. He has the everyday demands of balancing work and life that we all face and yet he is training hard to take on the 35 kilometres of the English Channel and the busiest shipping lane in the world, an endurance challenge that takes on average 12-14 hours. Twelve to 14 hours that can change a life!
Chris's cross-channel swim will raise money for children like Khalil. Khalil has severe autism and finds public places a challenge. He struggles to communicate past a few words and would love to swim in the deep end but cannot go to public lessons like other children. His dream is simply to have private swimming lessons so that he can enjoy the pool.
More people have made it to the summit of Everest than have swum the English Channel solo. It remains one of the world's toughest endurance challenges. As well as completing the distance the channel throws up a host of hazards. The tides and temperature can be debilitating in the extreme.
This is why we want to recognise Chris's exceptional work. Dreams Come True wants to reach out to, encourage and welcome new business sponsors and donors. Every year more than 50,000 children in the UK require access to palliative care services. This level of demand is reflected in a waiting list some nine months long for those children and families in most need of life-changing experiences and assistive technologies. Our corporate and business partners are essential to our ability to support fundraisers like Chris and children like Grace and James.
At Dreams Come True we work hard to find new ways of working with business partners to support the thousands of children and families who need our help. Backing Chris in his huge challenge is a great opportunity for business supporters to help.
Richard Ashton, CEO, Dreams Come True.
If you or your organisation want to help please get in touch by calling +44(0)1428 726330 and asking for Chris Nutt in the Corporate Fundraising Team. You can also get in touch with the charity here and find out about Chris Astill-Smith's cross-channel challenge here. His determination deserves all our support.
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Wileyfox Swift 2 Plus review
A swift successor
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When the original Swift showed up last year, the sub-£200 smartphone crown was firmly adorning the head of the Moto G.
That hat-full-of-jewels was just too tempting for British phone-making upstart Wileyfox to ignore, though: it quickly became a worthy contender, trouncing both the specs and price of the now, Lenovo-branded phone.
A year has since passed, and the Swift's successor has now flown in. The comparison is, once again, rife against budget phone overlords.
If size and style matter, the Swift 2 Plus could be worthy of your consideration. Read on to find out why.
Wileyfox Swift 2 Plus design: METAL MARVEL
Pick up the Swift 2 and you'll be pleasantly surprised, by both its easy-on-the-eyes look, and its comfortable fit in the hand.
Not feeling cheap seems to be the order of the day here, with a touch of premium quality about it from the outset. It really doesn't ooze 'budget'.
That said, much of this could be said about the Moto G4 Plus – a comparison we're not going to shy away from here. They sit in the same price bracket, after all, so you'll surely be comparing them, too.
They both share similar qualities: a great design, curved, chamfered corners and curvaceous rears. As its name suggests, though, there's been swift progress with the Wileyfox phone to reach this, instead of four stages of gradual improvement.
Moto still believes plastic is fantastic and has remained with that philosophy for the rear of the G4 Plus, which lets it down a bit. The plastic back from the first Swift has been retired here for an aviation grade aluminium rear, making it feel more durable.
There's a new, nice looking 2.5D, slightly curved, 5in glossy screen prettifying the front too.
Auld Swifty here looks premium quality and it even gives off an HTC 10 vibe, only at a fraction of that vibe's cost. But let's not judge a book entirely by its cover.
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Wileyfox Swift 2 Plus performance
The Swift 2 comes in two flavours, regular and Plus, but that plus doesn't refer to screen size. Instead of the names being changed to protect the innocent, the specs have been changed to protect the price.
We reviewed the Plus version, with its 16-megapixel camera, 32GB of storage and 3GB of RAM for £189. Whereas the standard Swift 2 sports a 13MP snapper, a 16GB ROM and 2GB RAM, costing £30 less.
They're both rocking Qualcomm Snapdragon 430s – 64-bit, Octa-core chips, with a microSD slot that doubles as a second SIM card tray; a rear fingerprint scanner and a Quick Charge 3.0, non-removable 2,2700mAh battery.
The CPU is nippy enough, and a good fit for the phone. Coupled with the Adreno 505 GPU, it offered decent gaming on the likes of Asphalt Xtreme and Real Racing 3, for whiling away those commuting hours.
With emails constantly coming in from two accounts, a few hours a day of Facebook and Twitter usage, the Swift 2 lasted a good day and a half before needing to be recharged. Decent enough for a cheaper phone.
You can get a 25% of a full battery within 15 minutes, thanks to the quick charging through the reversible USB-C connector. Another welcome addition at this price.
That's true of the fingerprint sensor, too. It's not lightning-fast, but it's handy to have. As is NFC, for turning your phone into a digital wallet.
We have some niggles though, such as only 24GB of accessible storage. So much for 32GB.
We also found the volume rocker couldn't really be felt when it placed in its phone case, and as a result, it was difficult to gauge the sound level: these are minor foibles, but worth noting.
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Wileyfox Swift 2 Plus screen: THE WEAKEST LINK
Even I, with my meat cleavers for mits, found the Moto G4 Plus a wee bit of a struggle. The Swift 2's smaller screen makes for a more comfortable fit.
The 5in IPS display is only 720p, though, which is a bit of a let-down. The G4 Plus and its 5.5in, 1080p screen lends itself more to Netflix box-set binging.
It'll be fine for the likes of web surfing, social media and Netflix, but don't expect to see great, high quality video.
Still, the slightly curved 2.5D panel is attractive, glossy and a pleasure to hold. It's free from the smudges we'd normally see in more wallet-friendly phones, too.
The display is bright and fairly sharp, with good viewing angles. It offers up great colour representation for such a cheap phone, avoiding the overly saturated hues seen on a lot of other budget detritus doing the rounds.
Another quality of the cheaper phones is that the display can be a tad recessed, showing a gap between the screen and the actual display, which is distracting.
Thankfully, this isn't present here, with the display that closely matching flagship phones only a few years ago.
That said, the 720p quality does let it down a little, but for £40 less that the Moto G4 Plus this could be expected. And with that cost saving, it could pay for eight months of a 1GB SIM Only contract – just think about that.
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Wileyfox Swift 2 Plus camera: SNAP HAPPY
This Swift 2 Plus does take a decent picture, when push comes to shove. The 16-megapixel camera actually uses a Samsung sensor, so the end result is usually punching above its weight for the price.
Snaps can be reasonably sharp in decent light, but poor lighting conditions show up its limitations, as it does with the 8MP front facing snapper.
This wasn't all the time, but it was noticeable – just as the lag seen when moving the camera around before a shot was. At least you can shoot at speed, with fairly quick focussing. Still, we did find some issues every now and then, on really close-up subjects where the focus took a little longer than expected.
There is a good range of feature effects for shots, but big hitters like HDR are buried in the menus – and once you find them, aren't all that great anyway.
The bottom line, though? It can take a decent picture, even with fast-moving objects. Just don't expect to be blown away by your snaps.
Wileyfox Swift 2 Plus software: LOCK STOCK
What's this, a popular low-cost phone maker has picked Cyanogen OS as its Android tweak of choice? Stop the presses!
OK, so Wileyfox isn't exactly breaking the mould here, but Cyanogen is still miles better than a lot of the other custom UI "upgrades" doing the rounds.
It's got more ways to customise and personalise the 2 Plus than you can shake a stick at.
Android 6.0.1 Marshmallow is still running underneath, but don't get too comfortable with Cyanogen 13.1 – there will soon be a move to replace it with a vanilla version of Android 7.0 Nougat.
This is a little bit of a shame, as we had such fun turning the phone's theme to ape an S7, LG G5 or HTC device, all without spending a few more hundred pounds.
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Wileyfox Swift 2 Plus verdict
The Swift 2 is a great successor to Wileyfox's original phone, ticking all the right boxes to qualify it as an all-round winner of an upgrade.
However, beating the Moto G3 last year doesn't make it eligible to take the crown again, as it has been let down in some key areas: screen and camera.
The G4 Plus does have a bigger battery, faster processor, and bigger screen with higher resolution – only it's much bigger and less of a more comfortable fit in the hand, with less of a premium look.
Let's not forget this is a budget phone and is a worthy of consideration on those merits alone.
It is all going to be about personal preference, and what's best for the wallet.
Buy the Wileyfox Swift 2 Plus here from Amazon for £149.99 for a limited time
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SCREEN 5in, 1280×720 IPS LCD
CPU Qualcomm Snapdragon octa-core
CAMERA 16MP rear w/ dual-LED flash, 8MP front
STORAGE 32GB onboard, microSD card expansion
OPERATING SYSTEM Android 6.0.1 w/ Cyanogen 13.1
BATTERY 2700mAh
DIMENSIONS 143×71.9×8.6 mm, 155g
A metal body, Android mobile with a not-so-budget look or specs, but a firm budget price.
720p display
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New Abstract Painting - "Casting Out"
Fly tying is like that. The fly can be an incredibly beautiful hand-made object, and it's easy to forget that it's reason for existence is to lure and kill.
This is wild! I love it! It looks 3 dimensional.
You have wonderful brushwork. I cant help but to stare at your art. What are your thought behind this one?