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2046-05-19 Fallen Shadows
From X-Factor
Date Posted 2016/05/20
Location Irene's House
Participants Irene, Vega
Summary Irene explains what happened to Mikhail the best she can.
Related Logs 2046-05-19 Luck Whispers
Earlier, in the afternoon, Vega received a quick update from Irene regarding the Mikhail situation. It was brief and to the point.
Irene: Caruthers contacted me. Sounds like he found a place for Mikhail to go for a bit. I'm going to help them pack.
Irene: Should be fine. Will call if anything gets fishy.
It's late into the evening when Irene follows up her earlier message, later than would be expected, maybe, though she isn't always the most prompt with messages.
Irene: I was wrong.
Irene: Everything got fucked up.
Irene: I'm fine.
Irene: This is probably not news you want in a text though.
Vega: Are you okay?
Vega: Fuck. I will be there shortly.
Short is relative. It still takes Vega some time to commute from Manhattan to Irene's house across town, even by a mix of subway and the air which cuts dramatically down on traffic. She doesn't overly bother with subtle as late as it is, dropping down into the shadows close to the house and tugging her hood free of her pink hair. Her stride is quick as she takes the short steps up to the door in twos and knocks.
Short is relative. But the time is such that Irene can anticipate about when Vega will arrive once she sees the response to her messages. So she is waiting nearby the door when there is a knock, opening it only seconds later. Instead of letting her friend inside, she steps out onto the small, covered stoop in front of her house and closes the door behind her. There is already the slight, acrid scent of cigarettes wafting off of her as she steps past Vega into the night air.
It's still a little warm outside, though it's cooled considerably by now, and still damp from the rain. It's fitting. Irene takes a breath of the cooler air, staring into the dark of the night for a moment before turning even darker eyes on Vega. As straight as she stands, as careful as her movements are, there is still something unsteady in her expression, like her stability belies a failing of structure integrity beneath. "Hey." Her hair is still a little damp from a shower and she has changed from what she wore earlier today, though she's still in a t-shirt and jeans. A different t-shirt and jeans. Ones that haven't been cut and stained.
"Hey," Vega answers, her voice soft as her gaze takes over Irene. She shifts slightly on the steps as the other woman moves past her to step outside. Palms lifting, she presses her hands against Irene's shoulders as if some of the unsteadiness in her expression could be bolstered by a physical support or just to confirm that she is okay for herself. "You okay?" Her own dark eyes slide over night blackened eyes with concern.
Irene's chin tilts up just a little when those hands press against her shoulders, but she doesn't shrug off the contact. "I'm okay," she says, with a soft snort of air that's a little too bitter to be a laugh. She smiles briefly, a poor showing of reassurance. "I'm always okay." That's not what Vega means, though.
Vega nods slowly, a frowning pulling at her features as she regards Irene with concern. That isn't what she means at all. She doesn't contradict her friend, giving her broad shoulders a squeeze before releasing her. "What happened?"
Taking a deep breath, Irene lets it out heavily and unsteadily, turning away from Vega once she's released. It takes her a moment to recollect her thoughts, the action subtly visible on her face with thinning lips and a tic in her jaw as she shifts it. Ultimately she begins with the thing that weighs most heavily on her mind. "Mikhail is dead." She doesn't soften her words, blunt and brutal and covering a raw mix of anger and sorrow.
Hand fall to her sides, curling into fists and pressing into the line of her thighs, as Vega watches Irene turn away. It takes a moment for her friend to collect her thoughts. Meanwhile, her own tension is held in the nervous tremor of her fingers and caught tight against her palms. A hitch of breath greets the news, teeth clenching sharply. "How did it happen?" They were just moving him out…
Irene clenches her jaw with a visible flex of muscle and an audible crack. "Ugly," she answers between her teeth and then sighs deeply. It's not really the answer. Or at least it isn't all of the answer. She moves to sit on the steps, maybe not trusting herself to keep standing through this conversation. Maybe that's smart. Her hands shake briefly as she digs a cigarette and a lighter out of a pocket, lighting it and blowing out smoke on another heavy sigh before continuing.
"I was helping him pack. Apartment was a fucking mess." It's always the odd things that minds end up fixated on. "Guy kicked the door down and stabbed him. Just...out of fucking nowhere." Irene pauses briefly for a breath, this one not smoke-filled. "I'm fast, but I'm just-I wasn't...I was farther into the apartment. I just...I couldn't get there in time."
Closing her eyes for a moment, Vega resists the urge to wince at Irene's answers, her features drawn tight and composed as if of stone. /Ugly/. They've seen a lot over their years as cops and it is not a word used lightly. She waits a beat before joining Irene in her seat on the step, legs folding slowly under her in a gesture that is almost too smooth. The mix of mechanics and martial arts adding an unearthly grace in the shadows, the edges of her hoodie hanging long over the pale tips of her fingers as she folds them across her knees. Her gaze never slides free of her friend, mouth still to let her speak. Not even the cigarette gets a comment.
"Fuck," she breathes, smoke ringing her head. It casts her the pale pink of her hair in a haze, dark eyes sharp beneath the shock of her bangs. "You can't… fuck. I am sorry. It happens, but I am so, so sorry Irene." She pauses, collecting her words. "Ambulance didn't show?" There's an edge of bitterness there for Mutant Town. Some of the worst response rates in the city.
The smoke drifts upwards and fades into the dark and drizzle. Irene hardly even sees it, hardly even seems to see anything around her for a moment. She makes a quiet noise of aching agreement as Vega curses, taking another slow drag of the cigarette. The apology isn't acknowledged beyond the haunted look in her eyes. With her other hand she scrubs at her face, the depth of her weariness visible in the action instead of bruises and lines. "They came," she says, breath rasping. "They could have-" She breaks off, pressing her lips together and shaking her head.
"It was too late?" The words aren't much louder than a whisper, curling in Irene's ear. Vega's hand slides along her shoulder, gently rubbing her back as she scrubs at her eyes.
"We were too late. I should have-" There are so many options visible in hindsight, so many should haves, Irene can't settle on just one. She swallows them all instead, holds them inside, where they claw at her mind. What if... "Shit," she hisses, bowing her head and pressing the heel of her hand against her forehead, the line of her jaw sharp and jutted.
That hand continues its slow path up and down Irene's back, silently consoling as Vega watches her friend with worry written into her features. There is nothing she can say to soothe that pain. Not really. But she tries. "You can't… You know that. You can't go back and save everyone," she says lowly.
"I let it happen." Irene shudders, hands clenching against shaking, even with the cigarette still held in one. "I /stood/ there and-He just fucking /murdered/ Mikhail!" The anger that had been simmering beneath the surface suddenly erupts, her voice strained and raw with the violence of the statement. Her lungs shudder as she takes a breath. Her whole body shudders as if there's a battle raging inside her.
There is a curl of fingers over the cap of Irene's shoulder as Vega takes a moment to breath. The slow slide of information spooling through her mind as she tries to gather her words, her hand anchoring her friend's shuddering body. "I've never known you to just stand." It's not something Irene does. "He had a knife, Irene." There is only so much one person can do.
Irene has slipped past the point of being able to tell the story coherently, with all the details in the right place and everything in the right order. She can't keep her distance from it anymore. She's had too much time to run through everything, over and over again, with all the possibilities and blame and guilt. "I thought-I thought he was going to heal him. I /knew/ it was a bad idea. But he was bleeding out and-" She spits all of that out in a near ramble until she can't, visions of blood and shadows filling her thoughts, making her choke on her words. "Fuck. Fuck!" The cigarette is crushed in her hand for lack of anything more significant nearby to destroy.
There too much to be told. There is only so much that Vega can do to anchor Irene in his moment, the heat and weight of her hand against her friend's shoulder. Her jaw clenches as her friend speaks, trying to work out the words to say. A dark line creasing her brow. Reaching across the ash, she gently collects Irene's palm to brush away the still warm cinders. "Hey…" It's just a soft note of sound. "Who was going to heal him, Irene? The medics?" What happened? It's a question she still hasn't answered.
There's nothing soft about Irene now. All of that is buried under layers of tense muscles and hard anger. She pulls her still partially ashy hand away from Vega, clutching it into a fist hard enough that her knuckles stand out white. It's into the night she stares for the space of several heartbeats, but it's not the dark street she sees. It's a different kind of darkness, unforgettable and still leaving damage in its wake. In the space of these beats she is silent, except for quick, shallow breaths. "Luka," she begins, biting the name out with a slight pause between first and last, "Zdravkovic." Her voice rasps with raw anger, throat tight. "He murdered him. He /murdered/ Mikhail," she chokes out on a sob.
Vega doesn't fight for the possession of that hand, letting her own fall between her knees again. Her fingertips are caught between shadows, the same ones that burrowing beneath her bangs under the porch light over head, leaving her eyes all the darker as she tracks the darkness in Irene's features. As if any motion, however subtle, may help her comfort her friend. The darkness of the street is familiar. The streetlights illuminate its concrete edges in pockets of warmth, the mosquitos and insects buzz distantly, more distant still is the call of sirens across the city that never sleeps. The name spoken finally is also familiar, but wholly alien in its intonation. It drops heavily, falling through her stomach to crash unsettlingly. Lifting a hand, she presses it against her lips, eyes wide with horror. "...what?" The escapes on an unthought breath, shivering in the air. "Oh fuck. What?" She heard it. She can't quite comprehend it.
"I could have killed him for it." Irene looks like she might still want to, talking to herself more than Vega as she says it. And for a bit, that's all she can manage to say, expression crimping tightly as she shakes her head. It's not so easy to dispel what she saw, what she knows. And it's not easy to explain, either.
"Oh fuck." The words are muffled by the curl of Vega's hand over her mouth, dark eyes wide with shock as she tries to wrap her mind around what Irene is saying. The ends of her fingertips press sharply into her cheeks. "Oh fuck. Oh." Exhaling shakily, breath hitching with each shift of her ribs, she doesn't quite succeed in that wrapping of mind over reality. "He /killed/ him?"
Finally, Irene uncurls her fists, so she can put her face in her hands, fingertips pressing hard against her eyes. It doesn't matter how hard she presses. No mark is left. No pain is felt. She breathes, short and ragged, quick along with the fast pace of her heart. And she nods. Yes. He killed him.
It's as if those ragged breaths wear at Vega's own breathing, tearing it to shreds as her shoulders shake in shock. Lifting a trembling hand she wraps it slowly around Irene's shoulders, leaning into her friend. Her own body shivers with repressed emotion, dark eyes hot and damp as she tugs her close. "Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. I'm sorry," she mutters, words whispering against her hair.
Vega mostly succeeds in tugging herself closer to Irene. The older woman might as well be a statue, except for the way her figure shudders with each breath, pulse thrumming rapidly beneath warm skin. Desperately, she fights back the panic attack creeping up her spine. "Yeah...," she whispers, breath hitching. It feels like she might go on for a moment, but she doesn't. She can't. She's staring into the distance again, back in time, seeing shadows. No tears spill from dry eyes, too spent for such a spilling of emotions.
If Irene will not be moved, Vega will shift closer to her, clutching her tight against her tight against her side. Her cheek leans into the older woman's shoulder, dampened by her still wet hair, fingers biting into the curve of her shoulder. "Fuck," she murmurs again. There aren't words. It is too fresh to her for panic to set in, a dull but intense ripple of emotion pooling inside of her. The stones throw to begin a tsunami. "I didn't… We couldn't. You couldn't have known. /I/ didn't know," she says slowly, frantically.
You couldn't have known. Irene twitches at the words as if struck by a blow. I didn't know. She laughs once, short and bitter. "I knew..." Her hands shake. She balls them into fists and tucks her arms in tightly against herself. It's less like a hug and more like she's bracing herself. "I saw...evil." She still sees it.
"You didn't," Vega reminds, voice urgent but soft. "We all thought… I thought he only healed. Dangerous, addictive… but not destructive. You didn't know." She reminds her. She reminds herself. She doesn't shift her hold around Irene. "What do you mean?" Shadows cross her features, brow drawing low over her eyes.
"He's a /fucking vampire/, Vega," Irene snaps, looking over at her friend with a gaze made of ghosts and fire. "I saw him /suck the life/ right out of Mikhail. He-he...pulled all the shadows in the room to him. His eyes were so dark...so hungry..." The fires in her eyes die down for a moment, leaving only the ghosts. "Jiangshi...he murdered that boy and then he /laughed/ about it." Fear wars with anger across her features, but in the end she just looks defeated. "I failed. I can't even save his soul now."
Irene's voice cracks at the air and Vega can almost feel the heat of the flame, flickering with ghosts in the shadows. Her arm slips slowly from around her friend, features flinching as if struck. There is no fight in her, mouth opening as if to protest. There are no words. "I…" Her hand doesn't fully fall away, sliding down Irene's back before her features harden. "Whatever it was, whatever /he/ was… he is just a man and a mutant, Irene. That boy's soul isn't his."
"No he fucking /is not/." Irene slams a fist onto the step she's sitting on, not quite hard enough to crack it. Then she's on her feet, pulling away from Vega, braving the dampness of the night a pace away. "He's a /monster/!" She shouts, pacing a short distance, expression briefly hurt before hardening with anger again. "He's /evil/."
Drawing her hands back, Vega crosses them across her chest as Irene pulls away. Her dark eyes track her steps into the night's damp, jaw set hard and tight as her teeth crack together. "Of course he's a /fucking monster/ he /killed/ a kid," she bites back, white knuckled hands biting into her sides.
"I know! I was there, watching, and he just-" Irene breaks off again, pressing fingertips to burning eyes. Her legs threaten to give out on her, so she sinks to her knees on the sidewalk path to her house with a short breath.
"Fuck." Jumping to her feet as Irene sinks to her knees, Vega doesn't waste time in rushing over to her friend's side. "Hey," she whispers, bending down next to her and brushing a hand over her shoulder. "Hey. Come on. Let's get you inside."
"Fuck." Irene echoes Vega, but she does so quietly, sounding a little hoarse. For a moment it seems like the suggestion to go inside isn't even heard, then she slowly pushes herself up from the ground to stand again. "I need a drink. Cigarettes aren't doing a fucking thing." Because /that/ is the problem.
"Well, the alcohol is living in a very large bottle inside your house," Vega says, drawing a hand around Irene's waist to help her up. She'll help whether her former partner likes it or not. "We'll get you a drink." It won't solve the problem, but it won't hurt. "You've fucking earned one."
Irene is too emotionally wrung out at this point to really put up a protest beyond a deep sigh that may not even have anything to do with Vega at all. "Not today I didn't," she denies with a shape of her head and a far-away look before she moves towards the house. "But I'll take one anyway."
"I'm pouring you one regardless," Vega decides despite any denials. Arm wrapped around Irene, she'll usher her friend inside and see her imbibed and put to bed before heading home. "Come on."
"You too." They head indoors again. Irene walks with a firmer step than might be expected, though her muscles are all still tensed. The emotions haven't gone away. She's just forced them down again, pushed them aside, clawing her way back to being steady and stable. Even when she's still fractured underneath.
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Agrarian Reform Secretary John Castriciones urged farmers here on Tuesday to avail of a government credit facility for small farmers through the state-owned Landbank of the Philippines.
Castriciones described the credit facility, which President Rodrigo Duterte launched in a recent visit to Nueva Vizcaya this July, as "accessible, sustainable, and very simple to avail of".
The small loan program allows an individual farmer to avail of a maximum of PHP50,000 loan, payable in a year at an annual interest rate of six percent or only about PHP3,000.
The credit facility, Castriciones said, could lift the farmers' financial condition.
Meanwhile, Castriciones told the Benguet farmers that his department has formed a task force to identify idle government lots that could be subjected to agrarian reform for distribution.
He said the act is in line with the President's directive to give to farmers government-owned lots that have been idle for 30 years or over for agricultural production.
He said the government is eyeing about 400,000 hectares more under this program for distribution to farmers.
This, he pointed out, is aside from the 500,000 hectares covered in the past under the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program.
The Secretary also relayed that President Duterte might issue an Executive Order converting idle government lots into agricultural to serve as legal basis for the distribution.
Castriciones said the President had ordered his department to draft a bill that would further extend the life of the agrarian reform program, and include a more extensive protection and promotion of the welfare of the agricultural sector in the country.
He said about 70 percent of Filipinos are into farming and agriculture still needs to be fully supported.


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Home News F&B Networking Hub by SIAL Middle East Virtual Platform to kick off this week with international sector specialists
F&B Networking Hub by SIAL Middle East Virtual Platform to kick off this week with international sector specialists
on: November 22, 2020 In: News
ADNEC Group is continuing to prepare for the leading virtual conference for the food, beverage, and hospitality sector, the F&B Networking Hub by SIAL Middle East – E-summit and Meetings. The virtual event will be held as part of the SIAL ME brand, in collaboration with Compexposium. It will run in conjunction with the Abu Dhabi Date Palm Virtual Platform under the supervision of the Khalifa International Award for Date Palm and Agricultural Innovation, on 23 November 2020.
The unique format of the event was developed by ADNEC and contains virtual sessions, held from 1:00pm to 3:00pm. The event will allow international exhibitors specialised in the food, beverage, hospitality and the dates industry to meet virtually and conduct business. The event was introduced as a response to ongoing global measures to limit the spread of COVID-19.
Participants will focus on the challenges facing the global food, beverage, hospitality and dates industry following the pandemic, as well as the opportunities for the sector over the upcoming 24 months. Discussions will focus on ongoing strategies and policies to meet the priorities of the National Food Security Strategy 2051.
Her Excellency Mariam bint Mohammed Saeed Hareb AlMheiri, Minister of State for Food and Water Security, will deliver a welcoming speech, discussing 'The Role of UAE in Supporting the Food Security Sector'. Subsequently, the opening session will include His Excellency Saeed Al Bahri Salem Al Ameri, Director General of Abu Dhabi Agriculture and Food Safety Authority (ADAFSA), who will be discussing food control and ADAFSA's strategy; His Excellency Mohamed bin Obaid Al Mazrooei, President and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Arab Authority for Agricultural Investment and Development (AAAID) will discuss 'Agri-food Investment in the Arab World'; and His Excellency Rashid Abdul Karim Al Balooshi, Undersecretary of Abu Dhabi Department of Economic Development (ADDED), will be speaking on 'The Role of ADDED in Supporting the Agriculture and Food International Investors'.
The event will include nine live sessions. During the first session, His Excellency Salmeen Al Ameri, CEO of Al Dahra Agriculture Company, and Mansoor Al Marar, Acting Director of Commercial Zone Development at Khalifa Industrial Zone Abu Dhabi (KIZAD), will discuss 'Agri-food Growth and Entrepreneurship in the UAE'. His Excellency Eng. Jamal Salem Al Dhaheri, CEO of Silal Food and Technology, and Mohamed Jouan Al Dhaheri, Chairman of RainMKRS Capital Investment LLC, will lead the second session, discussing technology-enabled food supply and production.
His Excellency Mohamed Helal Al-Muhairi, Director General of Abu Dhabi Chamber, will chair the third session. His Excellency will discuss 'Virtual Connections to Expand Trade Channels and Support Growing New Businesses'. Subsequently, in the fourth session, His Excellency Dr. Abdelouahhab Zaid, Secretary General of the Khalifa International Award for Date Palm and Agricultural Innovation, will discuss 'Date Production and Export: from Local Traditions to Worldwide Expertise'.
In the fifth session, Mubarak Al Ameri, Executive Director of the Outreach Sector at the Khalifa Fund for Enterprise Development, will discuss 'Entrepreneurship and Develop Thriving and Competitive SMEs in the UAE'. Dr. Heiko Borchert, Managing Director of Borchert Consulting and Research AG, will speak on food security and geoeconomic assertiveness during the sixth session.
Nicolas Trentesaux, the CEO of the SIAL Global Network, will then discuss with participants 'Predicting Food and Beverage Trends: The Role of Food Exhibitions in Supporting the Agri-Food Sector', in the seventh session. The eighth session will discuss the hospitality sector, led by Jonathan Dowse, Executive Director at Capital Hospitality.
In the final session, Yusuff Ali, Chairman and Managing Director of LuLu Group International, and Katarzyna Rzeźniczek, First Counsellor and Representative of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development at the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Abu Dhabi, will speak about the topic 'From Field to Fork – Maintaining Sustainability and the Highest Food & Drink Quality Standards in the Supply Chain'.
Derar Al Manaseer, Director of Strategy Management & Excellence, Abu Dhabi National Exhibitions Company (ADNEC), will deliver the closing remarks.
Alongside the event, ADNEC will host a private virtual platform for five days, starting from 23 November. The platform will facilitate live meetings between sellers and buyers, allowing them to do business with one another.
Commenting on the event, Humaid Matar Al Dhaheri, Managing Director and Group CEO of ADNEC, said: "At ADNEC, we are keen on supporting our partners' and stakeholders' business performance. To enable that, we have placed strategic investments in our technological infrastructure and our dynamic facilities. The result is an event which brings together decision makers from the food, beverage, and hospitality sectors, helping strengthen international co-operation in the industry: critical as we plan for life after the pandemic.
"Through this event, we continue to be committed to the goals of the National Food Security Strategy. In addition, ADNEC continues to seek to transfer and localise knowledge, attracting global expertise.
Saeed Bin Khadim Al Mansoori, Executive Director of SIAL Middle East Exhibition, said: "We are proud of having created an exceptional event that will bring together distinguished experts, helping to build a more robust local and international industry. With over 15 speakers from the global food and beverage industry, our platform will host over 900 virtual meetings during the event. We are anticipating over 500 participants to attend, with representatives from over 80 selling companies and 60 buying companies during the five days."
The strategic partners of F&B Networking Hub by SIAL Middle East – E-summit & Meetings are the Abu Dhabi Agriculture and Food Safety Authority and the Khalifa International Award for Date Palm and Agricultural Innovation. Abu Dhabi Chamber will be the host sponsor, IMLO International will be the Diamond sponsor, and Lulu Group International will be the event's retail partner.
For more information on the F&B Networking Hub by SIAL Middle East – E-summit & Meetings, please visit https://www.sialme.com/fnb-networkinghub/
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Q: How to Navigate to a screen not displayed in BottomTabNavigator or DrawerNavigator Use Case:
From a FlatList, click an item go to a Details Page.
Long Winded Explanation:
I have a screen I don't want to appear in my Tab or Drawer menus (No need to have an Item on my navigation bars), but unless I add Item to my Drawer or Tab Navigators, I can't navigate to the Item page.
If I do add them to the Tab or Drawer Navigator(s) then that path works.
from Items.js
export default class Items extends React.Component {
  state = {
    loading: false,
    data: json_data.features,
    error: null,
  }

Navigate_To_Item = (item) => {
  // This works without Navigator present
  console.log(item)
  // This only works if I have Item in my Drawer or Tab Nav
  this.props.navigation.navigate('Item', {item});
}

render() {
  return (
   <SafeAreaView style={styles.container}>
     <Text style={styles.headline}>List of Items</Text>
       <FlatList
         data={this.state.data}
         renderItem={({ item }) =>
           <TouchableWithoutFeedback
             onPress={() => this.Navigate_To_Item(item)} >
               <View style={styles.listContainer}>
                 <Text style={styles.item}>{item.properties.name</Text>
                 <Text style={styles.land}>{item.properties.descrption}</Text>
               </View>
             </TouchableWithoutFeedback>
           }
         />
   </SafeAreaView>
   )
  }
}

I can share my Drawer and Tab Navigators but again, they work fine, if I add Item, but I don't want Item to show up in my Menus.
Spent a few hours on this and I'm stumped. Thanks for the assist!

A: In your
Navigate_To_Item = (item) => {
  // This works without Navigator present
  console.log(item)
  // This only works if I have Item in my Drawer or Tab Nav
  this.props.navigation.navigate('Item', {item});
}

Which route does navigation point to? You could have a Stacknavigator which has 2 screens - your tab/drawer navigator and your Itemscreen. You can send navigator with screenProps so you can still access the Stacknavigator inside Tab/Drawer navigator.
check the answer in SO-thread, and you might understand what I mean.

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This article is a follow-up to Is the Earth a Superorganism?, Humanity as Part of the Superorganism, and to a lesser extent The Role of the Citizen in a Spiritual Society, and develops their theme. The question to be addressed here is whether the aims and ideals of the European Union could be considered a step in this direction.
Since those articles I have published some blogposts (for a list with links, see Blog Index under Politics) which give some background information about the EU, in order to prepare the ground. For the benefit of those readers who have not, or who do not wish to, read them, here is a summary of my conclusions :
a) The European Union is imposing its vision upon the people of Europe against their will, when this is allowed to be expressed. The effect, whether intended or not, of the European project is to remove national sovereignty and democracy.
b) The European Union, and British politicians indulge in lies in order to advance the European project.
c) The European Union is run by an unelected élite, not accountable to the people, and impossible to remove by democratic means.
d) Remain campaigners are sometimes equally guilty of the things of which they accuse Leavers.
e) The European Union may not be as altruistic as it claims; it may favour the rich business-class, and ignore the needs of the working-class.
Turning now to my main theme, some people believe that the EU is indeed a move towards the superorganism; I know someone who sincerely believes that humanity is a family, and that the Brexit decision was a regressive move inspired by nationalism and racism. I believe that it goes too far to say that these were the only factors, and that there were not other positive reasons for voting Leave. At the same time, it would be foolish to deny that these elements did contribute to the result. How should we respond?
Even if we put the best possible spin on the EU, and say that its leaders are sincerely operating from altruistic motives, the problem remains that you have to take the people with you. The EU's vision cannot be imposed against the will of the people. In spiritual language we might say that there has not been the necessary transformation of consciousness. We are now experiencing the reaction, the growth and popularity of right wing and far-right movements:
1) the Front National under the leadership of Marine Le Pen in France, more popular than the incumbent socialist François Hollande in last year's presidential election
2) a significant gain for a) the right-wing Alternative für Deutschland, which sent shockwaves across Europe by becoming Germany's third biggest political force in the September 2017 election. Their success seems to have been, at least in part, a reaction to Angela Merkel's humanitarian gesture of offering asylum to a million Syrian refugees.
b) Geert Wilders's Partij voor de Vrijheid (Party for Freedom), which finished second in the March 2017 Dutch general election, having increased its number of seats from twelve to twenty – Holland is supposed to be a liberal country.
3) The right-wing president of Hungary, Viktor Orbán, was re-elected following a resounding victory in the recent general election. He was already in conflict with the EU's policy on immigration, having had erected a fence capable of delivering electric shocks across its southern border. Voters quoted on radio interviews were saying "We want to be Hungarian".
Soon after the British referendum the philosopher John Gray commented: "Ominous rumblings in European politics have been written off as signs of backwardness, that would fade away as the new order was put in place" (1). What is happening now is far more than mere ominous rumblings; the rise of right-wing "populism" is now beginning to threaten the status quo, and is definitely not fading away. The EU is alarmed about such developments and criticises them, yet it is directly responsible for them because, I repeat, it has tried to impose its vision against the will of the peoples, who clearly are not yet ready for the EU's vision, whether or not it is a good idea (2).
Is the goal of the EU actually to create a family of nations? It may superficially appear to be doing so, but there is no real suggestion that there is any spiritual perspective, the goals seeming rather to be economic and political. Since the people, when consulted, tend to reject the EU, it is reasonable to ask, what is it that actually brings people closer together? The answer is not difficult to ascertain; it is something stronger than politics, a sense of group identity, whether of a nation or of a class, a shared language, culture and customs. The EU, in its attempt to create economic unification, has attempted to suppress the national loyalties of the European people, who are now fighting back.
Is it possible to believe in and aspire to the superorganism idea, the human family, and yet still want to retain diversity, national differences? It may seem paradoxical, but that is exactly what spiritually oriented thinkers and cutting-edge scientists believe.
I have already mentioned in a previous article the thoughts of Arthur M. Young: "However noble the surrender of personality… this sacrifice can only be authentic after personality has been fully achieved". "Merging into a superorganism, if it occurs at all, can occur only after the individuation has been completed… (which) would see the end of individuation and the reunion of the self with the group…' (3). He is talking here about individuals, but I believe we can apply the same idea to a nation (4).
Ervin Laszlo is a distinguished physicist, who discusses the evolution from ego-bound to transpersonal consciousness (5). He says that "the system of nation-states would transform into a more inclusive and coordinated system with due respect for diversity and the right of all peoples and cultures to self-determination. Economic systems would remain diversified but not fragmented; they would combine local autonomy with global coordination and pursue goals that serve all the peoples and countries of the world…"
Alex Evans is not exactly a spiritual figure, but he is deeply committed to resolving the global environmental crisis. In his book The Myth Gap (6) he discusses the ideas of Robert Wright and his book NonZero: History, Evolution, and Human Cooperation (7). I'll mention two significant observations:
1) Non-zero-sum games, those in which "everyone's interests are aligned, so that everyone wins or loses together", tend to win out in the long run (p42).
2) There has been "the expansion over time of the size of the we with whom we empathize" (p43).
So the movement towards the superorganism is the issue in question. Evans then goes on to discuss the ideas of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, who calls this movement planetization, saying that he "believed that this process of convergence and planetization, of becoming part of an ever larger us, doesn't eradicate what makes individuals or cultures unique". He then quotes Teilhard, but here I will add a little more from the same passage: "In any domain – whether it be the cells of a body, the members of a society or the elements of a spiritual synthesis – union differentiates. In every organised whole, the parts perfect themselves and fulfil themselves… The grains of consciousness do not tend to lose their outlines and blend, but, on the contrary, to accentuate the depth and incommunicability of their egos. The more other they become in conjunction, the more they find themselves as 'self' " (8).
And here is the crowning glory. Peter Russell, whose book The Awakening Earth has been a major source of inspiration for my previous articles on the superorganism, says the following: "Being in tune with each other, humanity and the rest of the environment does not mean that we would all become similar, either in behaviour or needs. The cells in your body do not have to become similar in order for you to be a healthy organism; the oneness is at a far deeper level. In a high synergy society, there would be just as rich a diversity of people and interests as there are now. Indeed, freed from the psychological need to belong and conform to a norm, people would be at greater liberty to express their individuality. …diversity would increase. It would be seen as a healthy and productive aspect of an evolving organic society.
"Similarly, there would be no loss of diversity at the national level. If anything groups would become more in touch with their particular ethnic and cultural heritages" (9).
As I said above, it may seem paradoxical to suggest that in order to achieve a coming together, we need to become more deeply steeped in our individuality, as persons and as nations. This is not something that can be proved, but it feels right. I would prefer to listen to the opinions of these spiritual heavyweights than the unelected bureaucrats of the European Union. Their attempt to impose their vision is not the answer.
To put it mildly, I am not a big fan of Margaret Thatcher. However, one thing she got completely right was her attitude to the European Union, as outlined in her famous Bruges speech, 20/9/1988: "My first guiding principle is this: willing and active co-operation between independent sovereign states is the best way to build a successful European Community. To try to suppress nationhood and concentrate power at the centre of a European conglomerate would be highly damaging and would jeopardise the objectives we seek to achieve. Europe will be stronger precisely because it has France as France, Spain as Spain, Britain as Britain, each with its own customs, traditions and identity. It would be folly to try to fit them into some sort of identikit European personality".
(1) BBC Radio4, Point of View, July 12th 2016
(2) Several years ago I heard a political journalist on the radio quote an (unnamed) Conservative Member of Parliament say "There are bigots out there and they need representing". That's an interesting idea. You could criticise him for saying this – at the time I remember thinking "You could also say they need educating" – but, at the very least, his viewpoint had the merit of being in tune with the state of consciousness of his electorate. It may be desirable to "educate" such people, but in general it's very hard to persuade other people that what they think is wrong, and that they should change their views.
(3) The Reflexive Universe, Robert Briggs Associates, 1976, pp195, 196
(4) I am thinking here of a human being as a microcosm, or one level of Arthur Koestler's holon idea, for an explanation of which see my article The Role of the Citizen in a Spiritual Society.
(5) Science and the Akashic Field, Inner Traditions, 2004. See chapter 8, the quote is from pp152-3.
(6) Transworld Publishers, 2017, chapter 6
(7) Abacus, 2001
(8) The Phenomenon of Man, Harper Colophon, 1975, p262
(9) Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1982, pp183-4. In order not to be accused of taking a quote out of context, I should add that Russell goes on to say: "This trend towards increasing diversity in no way contradicts the complementary trend to greater collectivity, and the formation and expansion of trans-national groups such as the EEC". He would seem to look favourably on the European project, therefore. I would merely add that he was writing a long time ago, and was referring to the forerunner of the EU. He might have changed his mind, given subsequent developments.


Begin with freshly roasted pumpkins (or canned) and add creamy coconut milk, crunchy cashews, and curry for a super special soup that will make your taste buds dance with joy.
I eat soup for dinner at least once every week (here's why) and there are quite a lot of recipes on my blog. That said, it's been a while since featuring my favorite supper. Enter today's dish, which was originally created during a marathon cooking day when I was preparing several different varieties to send my sister for the holidays ("the gift of soup"). While roasted squash soup of any kind is delicious on its own, when it gets together with fabulous Thai ingredients the result is a luscious meal that's loaded in nutrition and filling enough to warrant the starring role at your supper. Below is the how-to and some notes on why it's so good for you.
This is a great starter soup for those new to curries, since it only uses dried curry powder thus is quite mild. Do note that any kind of squash could be used in this soup if you don't want to use pumpkin—although it's really fun to roast them, and here's how. And don't forget to toast the seeds (try my spicy-sweet pepitas)!
The soup is similar in style to my Vietnamese noodle soup, so if you like this dish it's worth looking at that post because you'll see the recipes are in fact different: the Vietnamese soup brings in several more traditional ingredients such as lemongrass, lime juice, tamarind, and red curry paste. Finally, do keep in mind that depending on what squash(es) you use, you might need a touch of sweetener for balance. After my soup sat for a few hours, I retasted it and added a little honey to complete the dish (agave is also fine for a vegan version); it really was needed since pumpkins are less sweet than, say, butternut squash.
Whatever squashes you choose and whichever of the recipes you use to bring the tantalizing taste of Southeast Asia to you table, playing around with these fantastic spices—the key to great cooking—is sure to bring a lot of joy into your next soup.
2015 Update: When I recently remade this soup for Thanksgiving, I changed it up a bit to give it an Indian twist. The recipe is almost the same as the video but: I added minced red habanero to the vegetable mix for heat, and I added cumin powder, mustard powder, garam masala, and a bit of coriander, as well as honey. I also used a hand blender to create a homogeneous texture. The final soup was superb—better than the original, I'd say, although I like bold spices. And, true to Indian cooking, a dollop of yogurt made a fabulous accompaniment.


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Victoria Webb's background as a painter, and in particular her interest in abstraction and early avant-garde animation and film, has influenced all her subsequent design, broadcast and interactive work. Several of her videos have appeared in festivals, including Atlanta's Image Film and Video Festival. She has shot on Hi8, DV and Super8 film, using elements in both commercial and independent work.
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She began her commercial design career at The Weather Channel in Atlanta, following with work for Design Efx, the early dynamic and diversified design group for Crawford Post. Working with Atlanta's Olympic Broadcasting Group, she helped create a total design package that 175 broadcasters from around the world used in their live programming during the 1996 Olympics.
At ZDTV's first interactive cable channel in San Francisco, she helped found and manage the graphics team, developing the twelve pilots that earned ZDTV its initial cable carriage and carried it through to its next incarnation as TechTV.
Active in the Broadcast Design Association since 1984, she has served as a judge for the annual Awards Conference since 1999. She was recently awarded a Silver Telly for work she produced at QVC. In 1998 she was profiled in Diem, BDA's magazine, in an article that discussed her fine arts contribution to broadcast design. She has won numerous awards from the Broadcast Design Association, The International Monitor Awards, Cable Advertising and Promotions and artists grants.
She was Broadcast Graphics Manager for QVC's corporate headquarters in West Chester, PA from 2004-2008. In 2005 Webb proposed unifying QVC's visual identity, no overall strategic brand effort having been made in over twenty years. She was part of the senior focus team that worked over two years to identify and build the new brand and visuals. The result that launched in fall of 2007, is a more identifiable and consistent look for QVC, as well as having updated promotional messaging.
Webb has editing and art in her blood. Her father Robert A. Webb, was an editor for MetroGoldwynMayer and 20th Century Fox in Hollywood's early days. After moving to the east coast in the early 1950's, he worked commercially in Washington, DC, Princeton, NJ and NYC. She developed her artistic sensibility as a child, watching her mother paint and later studied extensively with the Chatovs, prominent portrait painters in Atlanta.
She exhibited regularly in Atlanta from 1981 to 1997. Since then she has shown in various museum and group shows, in NYC, PA and Italy.