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The Great White Way
So here I find myself at Friday, the end of the first long work week after my return from a fantastic vacation.
I'm a little tired, a little stressed, a little melancholy. A week ago today The Good Man and I were walking the High Line in Chelsea and feeling relaxed and happy.
Today I'm sitting at a desk feeling anything but relaxed and happy.
And so to curate the memories from my time off just a little while longer, I've decided to write a review column.
While in New York, The Good Man and I took in three Broadway shows. Below are my reviews of the three shows, presented in the chronological order in which they were viewed.
And away we go:
The Anarchist
The Good Man and I arrived in New York in the early evening on Saturday and so we simply had some good food and slept. Sunday we started exploring, and late in the afternoon, decided to hop over to the TKTS booth to see what sort of Broadway tickets we might scare up.
Most of the shows were already sold out, but The Anarchist still had seats available. The show was still in previews and the opening wasn't until the following Saturday. The play was written and directed by David Mamet, he of the Glengarry Glen Ross fame and a well known and well respected playwright.
In addition, the play starred Patti LuPone and Debra Winger, two notably amazing actors.
Basically, we reasoned to ourselves, a new Mamet play with two amazing performers should, by all accounts, be worth seeing.
So we plunked down the cash and went to the show.
I knew going in that any Mamet show was going to have a lot of talking and not a lot of doing. Oh dear god. I had no idea what was in store for me.
Here I'll borrow someone else's words to set the background:
The play is set in a prison. LuPone is Cathy, an anarchist who had shot police officers and has been in prison for 35 years. Winger's role, as Ann, is less clear. She is probably a prison psychiatrist. Ann asks questions and Cathy answers, philosophizing about religion, the meaning of life and redemption.
Naturally, Cathy wants out. She wants to see her father before he dies and argues that she has served her time.
Ann keeps asking her where one of her accomplices is, and Cathy says she does not know. Ann asks her about redemption and about being born a Jew who has been reborn a Christian in prison. They talk about it and then talk some more.
The show began as most Mamet works do, right in the middle of the conversation. You as an audience member have no context. You just gotta run, hop on and don't ask too many questions.
The freight train sped along for just seventy minutes then abruptly stopped.
We in the audience applauded because the performers did the best they could with the material.
Then when we stopped clapping, we all looked at each other like "what the hell just happened?"
My biggest fear at that moment was that The Good Man was going to turn to me and say "wasn't that great!?!?!"
He did not.
Afterwards, over an egg cream, we talked about the show. At first I felt really disappointed in the whole thing, then I got a little mad.
Mr. Mamet has always been massively self-indulgent in his works, but this went beyond the pale. And that he forced two fine actors to rattle through his haphazard script is pretty much a crime.
Basically, this whole thing left a really bad taste in my mouth. Isn't Broadway supposed to be the best of live theatre?
(A final note: Just this week, in the wake of the official opening on December 1, the show has received awful reviews and will close December 16th after just 17 regular performances. Seems it wasn't only The Good Man and I that were put off the show.)
Image from backstage.com
Two days after the disaster on 45th street, The Good Man and I dove back into the fray.
We visited the TKTS booth again and this time picked up tickets to the show Nice Work If You Can Get It.
This combined two happy elements for us. The book is inspired by some of the works of PG Wodehouse, he of Jeeves and Wooster fame and author of hundreds of hilariously funny books, and the music and lyrics of Gershwin.
Oh, and it stars Matthew Broderick.
As an aside, as we were stepping up to the ticket taker at the very doors of the theatre, he said to me "hang on a moment" and from behind the door came Mr. Broderick's wife, Sarah Jessica Parker. She was extraordinarily nice to everyone, thanked the man taking tickets, said excuse me to us and made her way out. She must have stopped by for a quick pre-show "break a leg" to the hubby.
As she walked away, The Good Man commented, "wow, she's really cute in person" and I totally agreed. She is actually quite adorable in real life and very sweet. I think the camera does her little justice, actually.
After the star sighting, we found out seats. As the curtain went up, both The Good Man and I had very high expectations for the show.
Very, very high expectations.
And not only were these skyscraper high expectations met, but also blown right past. (< - terrible grammar, and yet I don't care) Set in Prohibition era New York, the show had a zany story line that roughly centers around a rich guy on the eve of his third marriage who, stumbling home sauced after his bachelor party, bumps into a sassy bootlegging girl, and is a bit taken with her. Through a series of funny events, the bootleggers end up hiding their gin in the basement of the rich man's Long Island home ("I never go there"). When the man and his new wacky wife show up to honeymoon at the same home, they end up surprising the bootleggers. Lots of singing, tons of dancing and a lot of hilarity ensues. The cast is amazingly talented and the show just flowed beautifully from start to finish. Mr. Broderick really can do anything, can't he? Sing, dance, act, theater, television, movies. All of it. And while Mr. Broderick was the most well known actor in the cast, really Kelli O'Hara is the star of the show. She is luminous and definitely enchanting. Hell, by the end of the show I was ready to marry her! What a great show and what a great way to regain my trust in the quality of the shows on Broadway.
Image from Entertainment Weekly
We had seen War Horse here in San Francisco and it really resonated with me on a very deep level.
In fact, The Good Man and I had been talking for a long time about a trip to New York, and it was my desire to see War Horse on Broadway that became the motivating factor.
I didn't want no TKTS who knows what seats we'll get scenario. I insisted The Good Man buy tickets early and get the best seats he could.
Oh boy did he. Second row. From start to finish we were right in the middle of the action.
Since New York's Lincoln Center has a pretty big stage, the production was a little different than in San Francisco and in many ways the performance was far better.
Whereas when I saw the show at The Curran in San Francisco, we sat quite a bit back and I was very into the storyline of the horses, meaning I stared at them the whole time and the actors were secondary.
Being so up close this time, the puppet horses simply integrated into the scenes and I was all up in the middle of the characters and their story. Being able to see facial expressions and quite literally sit in the middle of the action was a profoundly different experience.
As with the last time, I was completely engaged in every moment of the show and when "the big sad part" came along I did again cry my eyes out, but it was so much more real this second time. When the lights came up I had dried up my eyes, then immediately started crying again. Then I stifled it and went to the restroom to clean up. And so I cried again.
All of this crying occurred even knowing what was going to happen and when. And knowing how the situation resolved itself.
There is really something about the crucial scene when Joey, our lead horse, is caught in the barb wire on the battlefield that about does me in. I should probably hire a qualified therapist and figure that out. It just demolishes me. (and that's good theatre, folks!)
As The Good Man hugged me while I wailed like a baby, I said to him, "I don't think I can do this again."
My goal after seeing the show in San Francisco was to see it again in New York, then see it a final time in London. But have mercy, I don't think I can go through that again.
What an amazing show. For anyone reading this who may say, "Oh, just watch the movie" I say no. Absolutely not. The magic of this show is the amazing puppetry of the animals. This play is the story of World War I told from the view of a horse which makes it groundbreaking. It's the puppetry of the horses that makes it exceptional, and there is no way a movie using real horses can even come close.
Whew, just thinking about it again gets the tears burning at the sides of my eyes. It is just so profoundly good.
Our original plan after the show was to go to Rockefeller Center to watch the tree lighting. No way that was going to happen as I was a soppy mess, so we tucked into a family run pizza joint and noshed and kibitzed with the owner and watched the lighting on TV.
Yeah, pretty much among the top five most amazing days of my life.
Image from performingarts.about.com
Ok, well there you have it. What I wouldn't give to have the kind of time and money to go back to New York and see every single show on Broadway. I'd love every single ding dang minute of it.
Well that's that, and my lunch hour is over. Back to the salt mines.
Oh, I see I have eight new emails from the Boss Man. How fun.
Willing Suspension of Disbelief
"An actor struggles to die onstage, but a puppet has to struggle to live. And in a way that's a metaphor for life." – Handspring Puppet Company, creator of puppets for the stage show "War Horse"
Over the weekend I had the great pleasure of joining two very dear friends and The Good Man for a night out on the town. We started at a little French restaurant for both dinner and great conversation. We lingered a bit over our food, but skipped dessert as we had tickets to the theater, and it was nearing showtime.
While I have seen quite a few stage productions in my life, I am not what one would call a "theatre geek." All three of the other talented people at the table self-describe themselves as such, so obviously I learn a lot from them every time we are together.
On that beautiful night in San Francisco, we found ourselves at the venerable old Curran Theater with tickets in hand to see "War Horse."
This show first came to my attention at the 2011 Tony Awards (where it picked up five awards). The brief yet enchanting moment when the puppet horse came on stage sent a jolt to my soul. I turned to The Good Man and said, "Let's fly to New York to see it!" and he smiled, as The Good Man does, and inserted reason into my life. "I bet it will come to San Francisco. Let's see."
Of course he was right.
Life almost got in the way, because this past weekend was the closing of the San Francisco run of the show. Whew! I owe The Good Man so much for pulling this one together.
Now, while I love the quirky old Curran, she also makes me tired. It's small, short on bathrooms, the seats are massively uncomfortable and it's stifling hot inside. And yet I keep going back there because they stage some of the best shows in the world.
I went into this production with extraordinarily high expectations. They were all beat. Hand's down.
This is the most magical and profound show I have ever witnessed.
It's no secret that I am a horse person. I have spent time among horses. I've studied them. I was trained to ride by a protégé of Monty Roberts (the inspiration for "The Horse Whisperer") and she taught us in his style.
Which is to say one must listen to a horse. You must note the posture of their ears. Understand why a foot stamp. Realize that a deep inhale or a deep exhale actually means something.
I've spent hours simply watching a horse so that I could hear what it was telling me.
So you know I was going to have an extraordinarily critical eye when it came to the puppetry in this show.
I'll cut to the chase…they nailed it. I don't know how they did it, but they did. From simple ear flicks, to a shivering coat when brushed, to head posture. At one point, there was a long dialogue between two human characters while two horses stood off to the side. The horses sighed, tipped a front hoof on edge, stamped, and shifted weight from side to side. If you've ever made a horse stand still you've seen all of those. It wasn't affected, just simply natural.
These bits of metal and canvas transformed into actual horses in my eyes. It was absolutely magical.
And then woven around this astounding feat of puppetry was a really difficult story set during World War I.
A boy's father wins a young horse at auction and the boy and horse embark on a deep friendship. Albert trains the horse, Joey, with ease and understanding. They have that special bond that only a horse owner can know. But when England goes to war, Joey is sold into service for the cavalry by Albert's father. Quickly, our young Albert lies about his age and enlists so that he can find his horse and keep him safe.
It is an extraordinary journey through history, exploring many notable events of WWI.
I've often been told in crafting stories that there are no new plots and it is the job of the writer to find a way to bring a new perspective to a known story. In this play, the underlying story is one we know. War is awful. Ravaging. And it irrevocably changes those who were sent to the front lines.
We know that story, but when you add the majestic layer of these well wrought puppet animals, it becomes something almost cinematic. How they staged such an ambitious production on the Curran's small stage is still a miracle to me.
From light cues to small movements to the amazing work of the puppeteers, this show transcends theatre. You willingly suspend your disbelief and don't want it back for a single moment.
It was perhaps one of the most profound moments of live theatre I've ever experienced.
Now I'm sad that I waited so long to see it because I want to see it again. This despite the fact that I totally ugly cried right there in the theatre. I mean cried so hard I was afraid I couldn't get my composure back. Thankfully I was in good company, most of the patrons shed a couple tears, too.
We were all that engaged in the story.
Driving home, The Good Man and I talked about the show. I wanted to know what he thought about it from a theatrical perspective. He wanted to know what I thought about the accuracy of the portrayal of the animals. Together we decided it was unlike anything we'd ever seen.
Whew. I was so emotionally done-in that I slept like a rock that night. Over Sunday breakfast The Good Man and I again idly discussed the show. Just trying to speak about one of the more powerful scenes in the show brought tears to the corners of my eyes.
It's rare and beautiful to find a piece of creative work, be it a book, movie or play, that gets inside the cellular walls of your soul and hangs on. "War Horse" is that, for me.
I will be thinking about that show for a very long time and trying to find a way to see it again.
Hey Good Man, I think it's still playing on Broadway. How 'bout a road trip?
Hard to believe these mechanical devices become real horses, but they do
Image from AlEtmanski.com


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Ignite is not your everyday fitness studio. We are a dance based fitness studio that incorporates all elements of movement, as well as many aspects of wellness to encourage you to find harmony between your MIND, BODY, and SOUL. We know all too well the stresses of every day life and how easy it is to get bogged down and forget about YOU. Whether you are searching for fitness, a girls night out, or some dance therapy to wash off the day, we will support you as you take the time to IGNITE what sets your SOUL on FIRE! Meet us on the dance floor and join the Ignite Tribe ... you can always dance with us!!!
Gina Velazquez is a forever soul searcher, coffee enthusiast and lover of all things DANCE . As a mother of 3 amazing kids, She dedicated it all to them but was ready to do something for her. It was seven years ago when she woke up one morning and realized she didn't recognize the girl in the mirror and at THAT point her soul journey began.
One day a friend had asked her to take a Zumba class, but Gina hesitatingly said yes because in her head, dancers didn't do Zumba! But This was more than just Zumba - it brought this stay at home mom back to life. It reignited her passion for dance, made her realize how important her "me time' is, and introduced her to a tribe of women she never even knew she needed.
Soon, merely taking classes was not enough. Gina became Zumba licensed in 2015, certified in the Vixen Workout in 2017, and Fly Girl certified in 2020. She got back to her passion full time and realized her "fire" was about so much more than just dance. It was about the community; the connection with the other women and men on the dance floor. The warm "hello's" and exchanges, the sweaty smiles and the "HEY'S".
Gina took her passion and opened IGNITE Mind Body Soul in March of 2020. Her vision is to provide a judgement free Dance Floor that men and women of all skill levels can come and let it all go. It's so much more than dance and fitness, it's about the marriage of your Mind Body and Soul.
Gina hopes to inspire others both on and off the dance floor to "unbecome" all they think they are supposed to be and embrace who they are meant to be. When you step onto the dance floor with her you know it's time to IGNITE the FIRE inside of YOU!
Meet Frankie
Frankie Perez is the other important piece of Ignite. He is a natural born entertainer, DJ Emcee and proud owner of One of A Kind Events. . Frankie is extremely passionate about what he does and is known to be one of the most dynamic and dedicated entertainers due to his passion, attention to detail and commitment to reading the crowd.
When not working events, he trains as a professional Mixed Martial Arts fighter. At 22 years old he made his professional MMA debut and in 2015 he made his UFC debut. Frankie came from a small town in NJ and always had a vision of doing more with himself,. HIs Mixed Martial Arts training from his teenage years is what contributed to molding him in to the powerhouse he is today.
Frankie has taken that training combined with his entertainment background and put his passion now into Ignite. When he is not DJ'ing classes to add that fire to the dance floor, he is teaching a HIIT workout to our clients and keeping everyone positive and smiling.
Ignite would not be what it is today without the commitment of Frankie and his collaborative partnership with Gina.
Melissa has been studying the art of dance since the young age of 3 years old. At age fourteen Melissa received her first Professional job starring as a dancer on the show "I am a Celebrity". This opportunity started Melissa's successful career.
She has performed on Broadway and with several record labels.
At the end of Melissa's professional career as a performer she continued to educate aspiring dancers throughout the tri-state area, which ultimately became her main focus along with marrying her love for fitness and dance. Melissa moved to Ocean County with her husband back in 2012 and opened a successful dance and fitness studio, offering classes such as dance, dance fitness, Zumba, Pilates, barre, yoga, boot camp and more. After enduring several injuries from years of dance and fitness Melissa suffered from severe shin splints, stress fractures and eventually under went a cervical spinal fusion. She was told that she may not be able to teach dance/fitness the same ever again. Melissa made it her goal to defeat that prognoses and after months of physical therapy she got back into training her competitive Dance Company that she has now owned for the past 7 years and is also a Co-Founder and director of RISE Talent Convention.
"If I can inspire just one person through movement, then I feel I have accomplished what I am meant to do".
Krista started her dance career at age 4. She is classically trained in ballet, jazz, tap and musical theatre, minoring in dance in college. She has performed in many dance ensembles and has been teaching dance for the last 12 yrs. In 2008 she got certified by Tanya Beardsley to teach Zumba which has been a huge drive and passion for her. She started taking Barre classes in 2018 and absolutely became addicted to the workout. She has subbed many Barre classes and got certified through ABT to teach the Barre technique. Her background in ballet and dance has helped her develop a fun, creative and safe Barre class. But out of all her accomplishments, her 3 amazing daughters are her favorite and her biggest motivators.
Tara Romano is a fitness instructor with over 15 years' experience in the fitness industry. She has helped people change their lives by making healthy choices and creating new healthy habits. She is an inspirational speaker for women empowerment, serial entrepreneur, and YouTube star with over five million views of her internationally renowned fitness videos featuring her original choreography and love of dance. Tara has a genuine love for connecting with people through teaching Group Exercise and Dance. She is the creative director and owner of Tone and Tease ® which is a fitness program incorporating cardio and toning with easy-to-follow dance moves. She has traveled globally teaching Zumba Master Classes and Tone and Tease ® classes.
Tara loves working with clients of all levels. Her goal as an instructor is not only to teach clients techniques and assist them in attaining their health goals but to tap into their inner strength and mindset as well. Tara believes that health and fitness are parallel with our lives and that it is important for her to get that across in her teaching style.
Meet Diane
Diane Ferrara is a dancer, fitness instructor, and Creator & Founder of The MoveMeant. She grew up in a dance studio, trained professionally, and from a young age always knew she wanted to be an instructor. After 17 years of teaching dance to kids and teens, she started to explore the world of fitness and began her fitness career in NYC. There she found a love for classes that were high energy, played good music, and got straight to the point- the BURN!
When she left her NYC fitness career in February 2020, she created her own class called TONE!, featured on her mindset & fitness app called "The MoveMeant". This class takes everything that Diane loves about fitness and working the body, combines it with her background of dance , and leaves out the burpess (and all the other things she doesn't enjoy doing). TONE! is low impact, high BURN, and so much fun!
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Dancing is Miriam's Happy Place since she was a young girl. For the last 12 years Zumba has played a huge part in her day-to-day life. As well as it being her number one workout choice, it was also her therapy from the stresses of daily life. Miriam is a professional make up artist and a mom of three and puts love and passion into everything she does. Miriam took her passion for dance and became certified as a Zumba instructor four years ago.
She is famously known for her infectious smile and energy that she brings to her Zumba classes and anywhere she goes and she looks forward to sharing her Happy Place with You.
Karen is our studio "MOM-ager"! She takes care of all things Ignite ... Ignite people, places, and things. Karen is the mirror we all sometimes need to look into to see who we truly are, She reminds us daily and will always greet you with a warm welcoming smile.
"In the end we only regret the chances we didn't take" - by Karen Uzzolino
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Next up in the Bagley Wright Lecture Series is writer Judy Halebsky discussing the roll haiku plays in her poetic practice. Canadian-born Ms. Halebsky has for years studied Japanese language and, even having travelled to Japan to do so, butoh dance—an art form which, she writes, "seeks to reject social time and the separation between the worlds of the living and the dead." Her approach to poetry is largely informed by the gaps found between languages. This event takes place at the Hugo House, where Open Books will be offering copies of her books, Sky=Empty; Space/Gap/Interval/Distance; and Tree Line, for purchase before and after the lecture.


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Can you think of anything the market pays more attention to than the federal reserve talking about interest rates? Well, they finally raised 'em. Now what? For traders, the work has just begun.
The Fed's rate decisions can reverberate through the global economy, and the gossip usually centers around Federal Open Market Committee meetings. Here, the chair and governors hash out how best to meet the Fed's dual mandate—maximizing sustainable employment while maintaining price stability. When they release meeting minutes weeks later, the market dissects every sentence for clues about whether the Fed might raise, lower, or keep rates the same. How can that information be useful to you?
You can in fact react to, and approach, Fed decisions in four different arenas.
Officially, the Fed sets the discount rate. That's the rate banks pay to borrow money from the Fed. But the Federal Reserve impacts interest rates most dramatically through the Fed funds rate, for which targets must be set. Banks need to hold a certain amount of cash on hand to run their businesses. That amount, the "reserve requirement," is set by the Federal Reserve. Big banks (think Citigroup or JP Morgan) use the Fed funds rate to charge each other for overnight loans.
The Fed also uses open market operations, whereby the Fed buys and sells Treasury bonds and notes, and sets the interest it pays on bank reserves held at one of the regional Federal Reserve banks to push Fed funds to its target. To see the Fed funds rate, look at the /ZQ future. The rate is 100 minus the futures price. See Figure 1 below.
To calculate the Fed funds rate, subtract the futures price (yellow circle above) from 100. Source: thinkorswim® from TD Ameritrade. For illustrative purposes only.
As a bank's cash moves in and out through borrowing and lending, it may find at the end of any given day it's cash short to meet its reserve requirement. No problem. It locates a bank with a cash-reserve excess for that day and arranges an overnight loan. These Fed fund loans are "unsecured," meaning they don't require collateral. This is in part why the Fed funds rate is more influential than the discount rate. When a bank borrows money from the Fed at a discount, the loan has to be collateralized. The discount rate is also usually higher than the Fed funds rate, which is why big banks prefer working with Fed funds.
HOW TO PROCEED: Banks and financial companies hold lots of cash on which they earn interest. When rates are higher, banks earn more interest on that cash, and likewise earn more on loans. That's why higher interest rates can be bullish for bank stocks. And why the world pays attention to those boring committee meetings. If you think rates might rise and lift bank stocks, consider strategies like covered calls or short puts.
When it comes to bonds, interest rates get all the love. All things being equal, when interest rates rise, bond prices fall. When rates fall, bond prices rise. Rate and bond prices move opposite to one another. Remember that.
But here's the deal: a rate change doesn't affect all bonds equally. Bond prices with varying maturities react differently to rate changes. That unique sensitivity is called "duration." A bond's duration indicates how much its price changes if its yield (rate) changes 1%. For most investors, it's not important to know a bond's calculated duration. But you should know the more time to maturity a bond has, the higher its duration, and thus its sensitivity to rate changes.
For example, if we look at the price of Treasury notes and bonds with 5 years, 10 years, and 30 years to maturity, and expect rates will rise 1% for each of them, the price of the 30-year bond will drop the most, the 10-year note will drop less than the 30-year bond, and the 5-year note will drop the least. They'll all drop in price, but by different amounts. This also suggests the 30-year Treasury is more volatile than the 10-year, which is more volatile than the 5-year.
Now, rates don't usually change uniformly for Treasuries across the various maturities. The relationship between bond rates, or yields, and time to maturity is known as the "term structure." But that's a topic for another day.
HOW TO PROCEED: By way of example, if you think interest rates might rise, and Treasury prices might fall, keep in mind the 30-year Treasury future (/ZB)** could drop more, or be more volatile, than the 10-year Treasury future (/ZN), which could drop more, or be more volatile, than the 5-year Treasury future (/ZF). Work to align how bearish you want to be with a product's sensitivity. If you have the appropriate approvals, you can trade options in all these futures, so bearish option strategies like short call spreads, or long put spreads, offer you ways to speculate on rate changes by leveraging defined risk.
As the name implies, this scenario occurs when a company buys back its own stock. When a company issues stock, shares are sold to individual investors or institutions. The number of shares issued is referred to as "shares outstanding." A company can have tens of millions of outstanding shares. To calculate the company's market value, multiply the number of shares outstanding by the stock price. So, what does that have to do with interest rates?
When rates are low, a company can borrow, and not spend as much on interest payments. On the other hand, a company holding a lot of cash earns less interest on that cash when rates are low. If a company thinks its share price is low, it can either borrow money or spend cash, to buy back from investors some of its outstanding shares. With fewer shares on the open market, the earnings per share increases, causing the stock price to increase in most cases. A company's overall market value doesn't change because of the buyback. But with fewer shares outstanding, you need to multiply those shares by a higher stock price to keep the company's market price the same.
HOW TO PROCEED: In recent years, a large number of buybacks is one reason the market has rallied. And a threat of higher interest rates can mean buybacks become less attractive. If you think higher rates will slow buybacks and remove some of the market's upward bias, you might consider a short call spread in the S&P 500 as a way to do this using a defined-risk strategy.
Under capitalism, money flows to higher returns. And money thinks globally, cherry - picking which country has better returns. In practice, what does this mean?
Most industrialized countries have central banks that offer guarantees on interest and principal on certain investments like Treasury bills. These banks set or influence short-term rates in their countries. Rates can differ widely, and some guarantees are more sound than others. Germany, for instance, is more stable these days than Greece. All things being equal, the safer the investment is considered, the lower the interest rate. That's why German short-term rates tend to be lower than Greek short-term rates. In general, investors balance higher potential returns with risk, and invest in countries they feel offer the best risk-adjusted return.
To do that, you have to buy an interest-rate product in a country's own currency. When you convert your native currency, in effect you are selling your currency and buying the other. That activity pushes down the price of your currency relative to the other. In this way, higher domestic interest rates tend to mean a stronger currency. So, when the Fed signals higher U.S. rates, the dollar tends to move higher, relative to foreign currencies.
Think of the Fed like a bear waking up from a long slumber. With the Fed potentially in rate-hike mode now after nine years with a flat interest rate at zero, it might be time to adjust your trading strategies if you're trying to capitalize on rising rates. When, or ultimately how much, rates change is anybody's guess. But if rates move higher, having a strategy in place like the four discussed here might help position you to keep pace with potentially deep market shifts and emerging opportunities.
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Q: Cassandra write performance vs Releational Databases I am trying to grasp some performance differences between Cassandra and relational databases.
From what I have read, Cassandra's write performance remains constant regardless of data volume. By write performance, I am assuming this implies both new rows being added as well as existing rows being replaced on a key match (like an update in the relational world). Is that assumption correct?
Also, from what I understand about relational databases updates get slower when tables/partitions become larger. This is because a full table scan must be performed to locate the row, or an index lookup needs to be performed and both of these things will take longer as the table or partition grows. So updates take perpetually longer based on the data volume of the table/partition?
When new data is inserted to a relational database, I know any indexes need to to have the new data but there is no lookup involved correct? So will inserts also become perpetually slower as data volume increases or stay constant with relational databases?
Thanks for any tips

A: They will become slower if the table has indexes. Not only the data must be written, but the index must be updated too. Inserting in a table that has no indexes and no constraints is lightning fast, because no checks need to be done. The record can just be written at the end of the table space.

A: On the relational DB side, I've been doing load testing on our RDBMS where I can see that the performance drops exponentially as data is added to the DB.

I'm still working on a Cassandra setup to be able to realize a comparable test. In the meantime, this Cassandra presentation gives some info on Cassandra compared to MySQL:
http://www.slideshare.net/Eweaver/cassandra-presentation-at-nosql

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Цветопись - передача цвета языком художественного произведения. С помощью цветописи писатель может передать чувства не напрямую, а как бы мелкими штрихами, наполняя своё художественное произведение.

Обычно цветопись выражается с помощью прилагательных, однако цветопись может выражаться и в существительных, и в других частях речи.

Персидские мотивы(отрывок)

Воздух прозрачный и синий,

Выйду в цветочные чащи.

Путник, в лазурь уходящий,

Ты не дойдешь до пустыни.

Воздух прозрачный и синий.

С.Есенин.

Курсивом выделены лишь те прилагательные которые видны с первого взгляда. Но если прочитать отрывок из этого произведения несколько раз, то станет понятно, что цветовые оттенки содержатся в каждой строке.

Кроме этого у А.П.Журавлева в книге "Смысл и звук" представлена теория о звуко-цветовых соответствиях. Он считает, что гласные звуки соотносятся с определенными цветами и смыслом.
Звуко-цветовые соответствия:
 А — ярко-красный,
 О — яркий, светло-желтый или белый,
 И — светло-синий,
 Э — светлый желто-зеленый,
 У — темный сине-зеленый,
 Ы — тусклый темно-коричневый или черный.

Примечания

Тропы

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Perhaps the most notorious line in the Lennon-penned Beatles song "Glass Onion" is "Well, here's another clue for you all… the walrus was Paul". The lyric is considered a smoking gun confession in the deep state "Paul McCartney is dead" conspiracy theory, a well-known, ludicrous, and ultimately very entertaining fictional plot line that has permeated a particularly obsessive subset of Beatles fans since the mid-60's. So it would makes sense if Rian Johnson reverse engineered the entire plot of Glass Onion from the notion of that single line, and paid the ultimate homage in naming the film after the song. If that seems far-fetched then you probably haven't seen the movie yet. Johnson's follow up to Knives Out is working on a much larger scale, and never misses an opportunity for easter eggs and references to pop music, detective literature, noir cinema, and of course, offers a plurality of clues to the mystery at its center.
It's almost impossible to discuss the plot of this movie without spoiling any one of the many joyful surprises that happen throughout. I don't think I've ever seen a movie with quite so many stunt cameos littered throughout, each giving the film a comedic jolt and a reminder of the larger playing field that Glass Onion has compared to its predecessor, thanks it part to a big Netflix payday after Knives Out's massive box office success. Glass Onion completely resets the template, replacing the entire cast with the sole exception of Daniel Craig's Benoit Blanc, the suave detective with the deep fried country accent and a preternatural talent for observation and deduction. Like the greatest detectives of cinema and literature, Blanc seems to have a knack for stumbling upon the kind of murderous situations that will eventually require his services. This time it's a secluded island off the coast of Greece named Glass Onion.
Glass Onion is a palatial estate owned by tech billionaire Miles Bron (Edward Norton, at his empty scumbag best), a vainglorious man whose obscene wealth has garnered him a level of power and influence which allows him to manipulate many, including his varied group of close friends who all find themselves depending on him in various ways. This includes Connecticut governor Claire (Kathryn Hahn) whose campaign for the US Senate is fully funded by Miles. There's also Birdie Jay (Kate Hudson), a former fashion model turned designer whose career is continually derailed by chronic foot-in-mouth disease, but whose clothing line gets Miles' healthy investment. Lionel (Leslie Odom Jr.) is one of the top scientists at Alpha, Miles' monolithic company, and also the person tasked with okaying Miles' more controversial plans. Duke (Dave Bautista) is a men's rights YouTuber gaining media influence thanks to… you guessed it.
Miles invites all of them to spend a weekend at Glass Onion for a "murder mystery party", an elaborately constructed and strenuously planned game of wits meant to last the whole weekend. It's more a showcase of ego and stature than a low stakes competition between friends, but out of financial and social obligation, they all come. Some, like Birdie and Duke, are more than happy to soak in Miles' opulent excess, while Lionel and Clare know that they are playing along against their better judgment. Birdie brings her put-upon personal assistant, Peg (Jessica Henwick), and Duke brings his girlfriend and YouTube co-star, Whiskey (Madelyn Cline). They're all surprised to learn that Benoit Blanc has been invited as well, chalking it up to a particularly ostentatious touch by Miles, inviting the world's most famous detective to his "murder". But the most shocking arrival is Andi (a phenomenal Janelle Monáe), the co-founder of Alpha with Miles who was only recently forced out through aggressive litigation.
But Blanc is not the most shocking arrival. That's Andi (a phenomenal Janelle Monáe), the co-founder of Alpha who's recently been forced out of the company through aggressive litigation. The court case made Andi an outsider among the friend group, and her presence gives the proceedings a touch of tension, a sign that the weekend is not exactly what it seems. Like Knives Out, Glass Onion performs a narrative slight of hand, which has become something of Rian Johnson's specialty. That he's done it so successfully (and uniquely) for two films in a row is impressive. Stalking the perimeter of the estate, Blanc obseves the friends – or frenemies – and things become clear: Miles has filled his house with people who all have proper motive to actually murder him. Are his suspicions warranted or is he another person falling for for Miles' gauche parlor games? When, as you might expect, an actual murder finally does occur, things spiral further out of control.
One of the delightful surprises of the first Knives Out is that Craig's outlandish Benoit Blanc becomes a sideshow, while Ana De Armas' nurse gets foregrounded within the intrigue. Glass Onion plays out in a similar vein, and an hour into the movie you'll be surprised by who the film's protagonist actually is. Watching Johnson's screenplay unfold is most of the fun, so I'll refrain from further elaboration here. The tautness of the first Knives Out's script was remarkable, a level of narrative precision that pays proper homage to mystery masters Dashiell Hammett and Agatha Christie. Glass Onion, getting hearty laughs and crowd-pleasing bombast, lacks that same level of precision. Many plot points will feel contrived because (well) they are, and the only way they can make sense is because (well) the script needs them to be in order to move forward. Johnson falls short of Knives Out's brilliance with Glass Onion but he doesn't short change you on spectacle.
One could CinemaSins this movie to exhaustion is they wanted to, but that would be willingly avoiding everything else that's fun about it. Mainly, the ensemble cast's incredible, hilarious chemistry. Hudson is given the kind of comedic opportunity that she's desperately needed for years, while Bautista continues to prove that his screen presence and timing are no fluke. Odom Jr. and Hahn's workmanlike performances bring more than you might initially perceive, and Norton, as the megalomaniac billionaire, feels frighteningly cohabitant with current events. This brings me to Janelle Monáe, Glass Onion's wild card and skeleton key. This is certainly the biggest spotlight she's ever received and she delivers a star-quality performance with a character that carries the film's biggest narrative burden. She stands out amongst a solid ensemble that still includes Craig's indelible Benoit Blanc. No easy feat.
Glass Onion is among the the more fun movies I saw in 2022. That it sacrifices some of the first film's intelligence for a broader commercial appeal is keeping in line with most Hollywood sequels, but Glass Onion still has an auteurist's identity, and still feels closer to art than your every day franchise film. Rian Johnson has worked within some of our biggest franchises (still the director of the best Star Wars film, in my view), and he understands how to leave his stamp while still giving the audience what they've paid for. There isn't a frame of Glass Onion that doesn't include some sort of cultural flashpoint or sight gag. Each detail is as meticulous as Miles' ornate glass mansion. It's the perfect holiday season movie, a clever script that leaves no audience member out of the loop. It's also a Netflix film, which gives it that whiff of illegitimacy that even Martin Scorsese couldn't overcome. Here's to Glass Onion reaching the audience it deserves, on whatever screen they can find.
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Пантелеймо́нов Гео́ргій Миха́йлович ( 30 грудня 1883 —  21 жовтня 1934) — військовий діяч, полковник з України часів Російської імперії, спортсмен — срібний призер Олімпійських ігор 1912 року, учасник Білого руху під час Громадянської війни.

Біографія
Народився 30 грудня 1883 (за іншими даними 1885) в Балті (тепер Одеська область, Україна). Закінчив Київський кадетський корпус і Олександрівське військове училище. 9 серпня 1904 року вийшов у лейб-гвардії Московський полк.

У складі спортивної делегації Російської імперії брав участь у змаганні зі стрільби з дуельних однозарядних пістолетів. У змаганні зі стрільби на 30 метрів на Олімпіаді 1912 року в Стокгольмі завоював срібну медаль. Також срібними призерами стали Амос де Каш, хорунжий Зведеного козачого полку Павло Войлошніков та ще один виходець з України — киянин Микола Мельницький

Після початку Першої світової війни виступив з полком на фронт командиром кулеметної команди. Георгіївський кавалер — за доблесть у знаменитому бою у Тарнавки 26 серпня 1914 г.

У 1917 р. — полковник і командир батальйону. Після революції та розвалу фронту пробирався з Петрограду на південь і в 1918 р. прийняв роту Лейб-гвардії Московського полку Добровольчої армії. Був направлений в Північну Таврію навесні 1919 р. і тут обіймав посаду начальника оборони Токмацького району. Під час боїв на Ак-Манайських позиціях в травні-червні 1919 р — помічник командира полку з господарської частини. Брав участь у військових діях полку влітку 1918 р. в Україні і 29 листопада 1919 прийняв 1-й Московський батальйон при відступі від Києва. У складі зведеного полку 2-ї гвардійської дивізії відійшов до Одеси.

У січні 1920 р. вступив до командування зведено-гвардійським полком, був відрізаний від Одеси; зі своїм полком пробився до станції Роздільна і тут увійшов до складу групи військ генерал-лейтенанта М. Бредова. Брав участь у Бредовському поході по Дністру до з'єднання з Польською армією.

2 лютого 1920 в бою під Дубосарами був поранений осколком снаряду в обличчя, але не здав командування полком. Разом з групою генерала Бредова був інтернований до Польської республіки. Пізніше повернувся з полком до Криму, де за наказом генерала П. Врангеля прийняв 2-й батальйон зведено-гвардійського полку і відразу ж зайняв оборону по Дніпру у міста Олешки. З боями здійснив відступ до Севастополя, евакуювався з армією генерала Врангеля і зупинився в Галліполі.

З переїздом до Королівства Югославії оселився в Белграді, де очолив місцеву групу Об'єднання лейб-гвардії Московського полку.

Помер в Белграді 31 жовтня 1934 року. Похований з відданням військових почестей на Новому кладовищі.

Джерела
 Чому олімпійський дебют Росії назвали «Спортивної Цусімою»?
 Georgy Panteleymonov

Російські військовики Першої світової війни
Народились 30 грудня
Померли 1934
Уродженці Балти
Уродженці Балтського повіту
Померли в Белграді
Випускники Олександрівського військового училища
Срібні призери літніх Олімпійських ігор 1912
Стрільці на літніх Олімпійських іграх 1912
Українські срібні олімпійські медалісти
Полковники (Російська імперія)
Кавалери ордена Святого Георгія 4 ступеня


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December 15, 2020Articles , Selena
Some viewers may not be loving Christian Serratos in "Selena: The Series," but the slain Tejano star's brother has her back.
Speaking to TMZ, A.B. Quintanilla dismissed some of the complaints about the "Walking Dead" star's portrayal of his sister in the new Netflix show.
"You have people that will critique something that say 'Her lip syncing was off,' " he said. "Well, that was done on purpose because Selena's lip syncing was also a learning process."
The 23-year-old Grammy-winning singer — who performed under just her first name — was poised for crossover success when she was fatally shot in 1995 by her fan club president and friend Yolanda Saldívar.
The series was made in cooperation with the late singer's family, who serve as executive producers.
Her brother noted that there were also complaints about Jennifer Lopez portraying his sister in the 1997 "Selena" film, something he also dismissed.
Quintanilla said he felt like he was watching Selena with Serratos' performance and had some thoughts on what his sister may have felt.
"If Selena could have seen this series I think … she would be ecstatic and as happy as I am and my whole family," he said.


The prices of cancer drugs in Japan and abroad have been skyrocketing, according to analyses conducted by doctors in Japan and the United States.
In Japan, the prices of newly-approved cancer drugs have been rising sharply since the 2000s, with the development and introduction of "molecular targeted drugs" that are designed to attack specific cancer cells. In the United States as well, cancer drug prices jumped about five-fold to about US$10,000 per patient per month in 2010-14 from the levels before 2000. Furthermore, newly released drugs -- new types of cancer drugs that use effects of immune mechanisms -- are also helping push up cancer drug prices.
Yasushi Goto, a doctor at the National Cancer Center, calculated monthly prices of lung cancer drugs used by Japanese men with an average physique in Japan. The monthly prices of most of the anticancer drugs such as "Cisplatin" which was approved in 1983 that kill cancer cells by inhibiting their growth were found to be less than 100,000 yen per person. But since 2002 when "Gefitinib" (trade name Iressa), a molecular-targeted drug for lung cancer, came into the market, the monthly prices of anticancer drugs have risen to several hundred thousand yen per person, with some of them rising to about 700,000 to 800,000 yen in the last two to three years.
A new type of anticancer drug called "Nivolumab," commonly known as "Opdivo" with a price tag of more than 3 million yen per month, began to be used in Japan in 2015. In Japan, there is the so-called "high cost illness insurance system" that sets limits on patients' out-of-pocket medical costs depending on their income. Therefore, a patient below the age of 70 (with their spouse and one child) is required to pay 35,400 yen to about 252,600 yen per month. The remaining costs shall be shouldered by the members of the insurance system.
A team at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City compared prices of newly-approved cancer drugs every five years since 1975. The team found that monthly prices of such drugs stood at about US$130 per person in the 1975-79 period, but they rose to US$1,770 in the 1995-99 period when 30 kinds of new drugs became available. The prices of such drugs kept increasing thereafter to US$4,716 per person in the 2000-04 period. The prices of such drugs rose rapidly to US$9,905 per person in the 2010-14 period.
The prices of anticancer drugs have been getting higher due in part to the fact that rates of success in developing new types of anticancer drug are low, as well as it takes a long time and much funds to develop such drugs. Because the number of patients who are subject to the use of molecular targeted drugs is small, the prices of such drugs tend to go high.


As someone who has pursued their own weight loss journey(s), I was really looking forward to today's interview with Melissa Ronda. The path to losing weight is both deeply personal and something that is publicly visible. There are common principles that anyone can benefit from to beat excessive weight, but putting them into practice is a topic to really dive into.
To learn more about Melissa Ronda and her coaching program, check out her website at www.thehonestweigh.com.


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Stromfront: Home of the Pedophile
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[It is absolutely jaw-droppingly astonishing and horrifying that Stormfront refuses to disassociate itself from admitted pedophile Kevin Strom. VNN cannot recommend too strongly that any honest, sexually normal White Nationalists still remaining withdraw from Stormfront and pedophile Kevin Strom's group National Vanguard in haste. These sickos and sicko-defenders are going down, and they are going to take many with them. Get out now.]
Stormfront Will Eat Itself
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Commentary — I've been watching the developments in the National Vanguard – child molestation ring case very closely, and I've seen a lot the past few days that very sincerely disgusts me — and for good reason. There are a lot of pedophiles in the Stormfront / National Vanguard camp whom the FBI has not yet put into prison, and they are all making a last minute push to try to win white nationalism over to Kevin Strom's defense. They are arguing with the passion, intensity, and irrationality of men about to be executed — and I think, at least in a sense, many of them are.
For those who lack a background in white nationalist political trivia, Kevin Alfred Strom has been a creepy but unfortunately not peripheral movement figure for a long time. Allied with David Duke, Don Black, Jamie Kelso, and many other sexually questionable individuals, he was a liason between that camp and Dr William Pierce, who disliked the Duke-Black set, for many years, and, after Pierce's death, attempted to bring all of them in for a takeover of the National Alliance. While he was fighting with Eric Gliebe, Alex Linder and I, working with Billy Roper, Fred Streed, Bob DeMarais and Kitty Molz, tried to overthrow all of them, and we failed. DeMarais is now back in the Stormfront camp; Strees is still on VNN Forum; I haven't heard from Molz in a while; and Roper has pretty much fallen from public view, though he still leads a few folk in White Revolution.
Before Pierce died, Strom dedicated most of his life to back stabbing Alex Linder and I. It was during that period that I learned about Kevin's "smear machine". This is a group of activists, associated with Kevin and with Don Black, who got their start "raiding" and "storming" UseNet groups back in the early 1990s, way before the internet revolution and the level of internet pervasiveness that exists today. These guys develop a team that would go into UseNet groups and group-argue with posters, eventually expanding it into harassment in and outside the group, including posting of private information, contact info, making prank phone calls, et cetera. They were the original 7Chan of white nationalism, and people still, to this day, fear them. They are kinda like the white nationalist computer mafia.
When teamed up with David Duke's immense and impressive marketing operation, Strom, Black, Duke and company have dominated white nationalism. They have enough market presence with their media that they can — almost — make or kill white nationalist projects at will. They raise probably three quarters of all the money present in the movement outside of Willis Carto's operation, and they run people in and out of the movement like the mafia. What's worse is that none of them give a crap about white people. Both Duke and Black have been linked to organized crime and all sorts of scams since the early 1980s, and all of them seem to take this money they make and use it primarily to buy drugs, indulge themselves sexually, and gamble. They are all sick and evil men.
So, when Strom was arrested, and I saw what was coming out on Stormfront and VNN Forum, I saw the smear machine switching into gear. I've felt it — Strom and his supporters have made threatening phone calls to members of my family, they've published bogus "reports" claiming I'm a homosexual, they've spread the rumor I'm a "federal informer" and part of a "COINTELPRO" operation, they've accused me of being involved in all sorts of ridiculous plots to "frame" them for various crimes, and generally published all sorts of lunacy that it took, when it first came out, about a year to properly abate, and which I continue to have to address time and time again.
What I have always found frustrating, though, is how many dopes are out there in the white nationalist movement who have not been able to see through this. I mean, with 4.6 million readers last year, Overthrow.com is probably the most widely read anti-Jewish publication on the internet, and I certainly have a large base of supporters who are not in the least interested in Kevin Strom, but I know a lot of people who are decent guys, many of whom I've known, through the movement, for five or six years or more, who have told me, from time to time, I should lay off Strom and company, and I'm always meeting people who tell me about how they've heard bad things about me from Strom and Stormfront. I am fortunate that, unlike most movement freaks, I'm a pretty nice guy with only minor flaws, and most of the folk who meet me tend to disregard the nonsense that has been said — but I have to admit that Strom and Stormfront's influence has been always out there. Because of that, I am very glad to see it breaking.
What I see right now is that the Strom-ophiles are becoming more and more desperate and more and more angry as it is becoming harder and harder to conceal the fact that their leader, if not they themselves, have been running a child porn ring instead of a white nationalist organization. No rational person right now belives that documents are being faked or that Strom is innocent. Even some of Strom's friends don't believe it. And that is making the Strom-ophiles more and more irrational, and their propaganda less and less effective.
First, there is the intensive smear effort against Elisha Strom. The Stromites initially circulated the story, falsely, that Elisha Strom was "sealed witness A" against Kevin. Only this website questioned that. Elish has now said that she is not "sealed witness A". Instead of dwelling on the implications of that, the Stromites have moved on to another, more irrational, argument.
They are now saying that Elisha, who produced a photograph of a document, signed by Strom, stating that he will seek counseling for concerns about pedophilia — a document signed shortly after a search warrant was executed on his home — is fake. Alternately, they argue that the document doesn't mean anything. Both arguments are silly and irrational, and I believe then only ones who believe it are the ones on their IM list.
This kind of organized and pathetic behavior strikes most white activists as irrational, but we have to realize that these people have been deceiving the movement with organized lies of this type, spread in this way, for decades. They really believe that they can tell and spread any lie and get away with it. The shame is that they have had so many suckers for so long, their belief is not without basis.
The next thing we're seeing, sort of a last-gasp-bastion, is widespread argument in favor of pedophilia. The arguments being made — that viewing child porn is okay, that sexual attraction to twelve year old girls is okay, et cetera, are sickening and irrational. They are turning many people's stomachs. And I can only believe that those arguments are being made by pedophiles associated with Strom, because, having been the person whose job is to come up with crazy excuses for the irrational behavior of other people I represent, I would never, in a million years, try to win people over with such a dumb argument.
This, however, is where the Stromites fail, and this is where the ir part of the movement is going to break off, tip over, and sink. They've gone too far, and not only have they gone too far, but they have gone so far they cannot save themselves.
The arrest of Michael Downing, National Vanguard Boston leader, I think is one of the most telling elements of the case. His arrest in what appears to be a very organized operation to lure teen and pre-teen girls into prostitution smacks of a lot more than "one photo on a computer". And it is also clearly not politically motivated, as neither the police nor the reporter who covered it seem to have been aware he was the local National Vanguard unit leader. I have seen very little effort to defend Downing.
Let me tell everyone where this thing is going, and I am only holding back names because this is so serious an issue that even I am not going to go out on a limb and name people before they are formally or credibly accused. Much of the leadership of National Vanguard — though not all — has been engaged in inappropriate sexual behavior. Many of them are pedophiles. One, in particular, who has not yet been implicated. I know is a pornographer who may have recently graduated into "pimp." Many of these people engaged in illicit sexual activities are linked to the people on David Duke's staff who have been caught engaged in illicit sexual activity over the years. And there is at least one prominent member of Stormfront that I was tipped off today is likely linked to Strom's pedophilic activities — and those of you who listen to Stormfront radio can probably name him. Some of you call him "the Gerbil".
It is very likely that there are going to be more Stormfront and National Vanguard activists taken down on pedophilia charges in the near future. There are many more who are afraid, because they had knowledge of this and have had knowledge of this for quite a long time, that they are going to be taken down. These people — the ones who collaborated with Strom in running this child porn ring or who feel guilty because of their associations with it — are the ones making the "child porn is okay" arguments on VNN and Stormfront.
Additionally, there is another aspect of this case which has not been explored at all, which is the relationship between this child porn ring and Prussian Blue. There is no question that Lamba and Lynx Gaede were promoted by National Vanguard, and Resistance Records before that, because of the pedophilic inclinations of Strom and others — what I mean by that is that, because Strom and others have sexual feelings towards little girls, they helped the career of Prussian Blue. I do not think April Gaede is in any way implicated in this, and I honestly believe she may have been too dense to see it happening around her, but if I were her I would ask the girls if Strom or others ever had inappropriate contact with them. I have been sent a number of Prussian Blue photos lately, taken reportedly at the advice or insistence of Strom, that, while not normally sexual, when put in context could certainly be seen that way.
Right now, the arguments being advanced in favor of Strom are repulsing and driving out of Stormfront and National Vanguard normal white activists. The Stromites are defending the indefensible, and, finally, they are going to get what they deserve and be absolutely rejected by the sexually normal segment of the movement. Don Black and his faithful assistant Jack Ass have certainly been cracking down on dissident posters on Stormfront, and reviewing it may make on think that Strom is being defended, but I have had seven people banned from Stormfront because of that thread alread come to me with details — and the details are that the situation for Black and Ass does not look pretty.
In addition to driving the sexually normal out of the movement, this group has also largely put itself in prison, and are really just sheep waiting for the slaughter. The deletion of Kevin Storm's entire support base from the movement is not going to be a small boost for those of us honestly striving for National Socialism. I have gotten a ton of mail from people who are coming back to the site after three years in the Strom wilderness, and all of them are welcome. I am not holding grudges — as I told a state leader last night, "you have to let the sinner into the church" (you just can't make him preacher).
What I see, as the evidence mounts and Stormfront refuses to do the sensible thing — publicly break with Strom and begin distancing itself from everyone implicated — is that Stormfront will eat itself. Its own lies, and its year and decades of success in telling them, have left it morally unable to react to a situation so clear that no amount of lies and smears can cover it up. And that means that, in the end, Stormfront is doomed as a power in the white nationalist seen.
I, for one, am not sad to see it go. Its destruction frees all white activists from its tyranny.
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New America Says:
A fascinating theme has developed from antagonistes, wold, and bryan o'driscoll.
It just might be that Kevin has a chance to rebuild his life from zero, into something rather more substantial, by admitting to himself that, outside STROMfront, he has nothing to go back to.
He might admit his dreams of a "Movement" belong in the realm of Fantasy, for now, and devote his efforts towards being an honest STUDENT of WN ideas, and a Voice to defend those ideas in larger forums.
If I could ascribe his downfall – and "downfall" is an understatement! – to anything, it might be the pursuit of "the paste jewel of middle-class respectability."
Well, for Kevin Alfred Strom, those days are OVER!
He literally has nothing left – nothing, and nothing to lose, absent the possibility of incarceration for a LONG time.
And, even if he pulls big time, then what?
He does have a CHOICE; remember, anyone who knows him will never trust him, on anything.
He can finally do what has been in his heart, which is to read, write, and comment on the issues facing us as a RACE.
Freed up from responsibilities which seemed rather inappropriate to him, he can follow in the footsteps of others, and help build a pathway to RACIAL greatness.
One thing is sure – he's going to have a lot of time on his hands, one way or another.
He might as well invest it in a Grand Purpose, and what greater Purpose can there be, than enhancing the growth of your RACE?
And, as for "the paste jewel of middle-class respectability?"
We see what a horrific price he has paid for that illusion.
Now, so does he.
An Idea Whose Time Is HERE!
Wolfie,
Excellent psychoanalysis of Bill "Whacky White" White!
-JC Says:
AIDS SECRETS: What the Government and the Media Don't Want You to Know
by Kevin Alfred Strom
(a speech given by Mr. Strom on the nationwide radio program, AMERICAN DISSIDENT VOICES, July 10th, 1993)
WHAT I AM GOING TO SAY will shock you. It will disturb your sleep. It will make you worry for your loved ones. It will give you nightmares of disaster, plague, and horrible death. It will make you rethink the priorities of your life. It will change the way you look at yourself and the world. There is a killer loose in the land. This killer cuts down all whom he touches. If he touches you, you will die. If he touches your child, your child will die. His victims die a slow, horrible death. They waste away. They drown in their own body fluids. They lose control of their bowels. They lose their memories. They become demented. They die in agony. There is nothing that can be done to save them.
The killer's name is the Human Immunodeficiency Virus, or HIV for short. When he starts to kill you, it is said that you have AIDS, or Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. This killer emerged into our world over a decade ago, rising like an angel of death out of the oozing rivers of body fluids that spilled like fetid waterfalls into the streets of America from the sick and sleazy pleasure houses of the "liberated" homosexuals.
When a killer like HIV is stalking the landscape, one would assume that the guardians of the public health would be galvanized into action, taking any and all measures to protect the uninfected from coming into contact with this killer.
But the medical establishment and the public health authorities are not taking such action. In fact, most of their efforts are directed toward protecting the so-called "confidentiality" of the infected rather than toward isolating and preventing the further transmission of the virus. They withhold vital information about AIDS which could save millions of lives. By their acts of omission and commission they have become, in effect, the protectors and guardians of this killer virus. And as such, they may well become your murderers. Or your child's murderers.
Why are we being betrayed and lied to by those who are paid with our tax money to protect us? It has been well-documented, on this program and elsewhere, that the tremendous power of organized homosexuals (which reaches even into the White House, as President Clinton's appointments and policies make clear) holds most of our craven and criminal politicians in thrall. And it should be obvious to Americans still capable of thinking for themselves that the homosexuals have been greatly aided by the controlled media. In the eyes of the powerful minority which controls the U.S. media, homosexuals are one among the many "oppressed minorities," criticism of which is forbidden, on pain of losing one's job or character assassination. (Look what happened to Andy Rooney when he mildly criticized perverts, or what happened to Jimmy the Greek when he speculated on the reasons for Black athletic success.)
Yes, the power of organized perversion is a factor in the suppression of the truth about AIDS. And it is certainly a fact that the darling deviants are a part of the media's push to destroy America. But there's more to it than that. If the uncensored truth about AIDS were released to the American public, it would have the potential of permanently derailing the plan to submerge America into a multicultural New World Order. It would have the potential of waking up the sleeping American people — and our masters in Washington, New York and Tel Aviv cannot allow that to happen.
AIDS is Transmissible via All Body Fluids
Listening to the establishment media one could easily get the impression that about the only ways that one can get infected with the AIDS virus are to share IV needles with, or have unprotected sex with someone who is already infected. Those who believe that lie are at risk of becoming tomorrow's AIDS statistics.
First, there is no such thing as "safe sex" with a person who is HIV-positive. The condoms available in your local pharmacy or handed to twelve-year-olds at public schools offer little protection from the virus. Dr. C. M. Roland, Editor of Rubber Chemistry and Technology for the Naval Research Laboratory, states: "The 12 per cent failure rate of condoms in the prevention of pregnancy alone argues against their use for AIDS prevention. However, because the AIDS virus is orders of magnitude smaller than sperm, the situation is actually worse." Dr. Roland goes on to point out that the AIDS virus is 0.1 micron in size, while typical holes in condoms, invisible to the naked eye, are 50 to 500 times larger, easily allowing passage of the virus. And according to Surgical Practice News of August, 1988, even surgical gloves, which are manufactured to a higher standard than condoms, may have holes nearly ten microns in diameter, or 100 times larger than the virus.
Thousands have died because they, or doctors they trusted, believed the government's and the media's lies about AIDS. A startling example of this is the criminal negligence regarding AIDS-tainted blood in the blood banks.
In 1983, we were told that the blood supply was safe. We were told that there were no documented cases of transmission via blood transfusion. When some individuals at the FDA and the Centers for Disease Control suggested that blood bankers could eliminate 80% of the AIDS-infected blood by testing all donated blood for Hepatitis-B, with which 80% of homosexual males are infected due to their filthy practices, and rejecting all the blood that tested positive, the higher-ups at both agencies declined to make that a requirement. Tens of thousands were sentenced to death by that decision. Why? Because homosexuals don't want to be tested, they don't want to be identified, and they don't want their twisted sexual appetites restricted in even the slightest way. Homosexuals and powerful forces friendly to the homosexualization of America have successfully blocked this and many other common-sense proposals to protect the rest of us from AIDS.
Later we were told that the chances of infection from blood transfusions were about one in 1 million. A few years down the road, the official story was that the chances were less than one in 100,000.
Finally, in May 1985, a test became available that tested for the antibodies that the body produces in response to HIV infection. Just prior to that, the official story had changed again. Now supposedly the chances for HIV infection from a transfusion were one in 50,000 or less. When the blood supplies finally were able to be tested, albeit indirectly, for AIDS, the shocking truth became known.
An investigation into the voluntary donor blood bank in San Francisco revealed that the risk there prior to 1985 was not one in a million. It was not even one in 50,000. It was one in one hundred.
The same people who lied to you for years about the safety of the blood supply now tell you that the supply really is safe. Well, after the body count had become astronomical, public health officials were forced to adopt testing for the antibodies to HIV, and all blood which tests positive is supposed to be thrown out. So the blood supply certainly is safer than it was a few years ago. But there is a period of time after a person becomes infected with the AIDS virus, before his immune system responds by producing antibodies. This period of time is six weeks to six months in most people, but in some cases it can be as long as three years before antibodies are produced. During this time interval, the individual will be carrying the virus in his blood, but will test HIV-negative. This period of time is called the "negative window.
If an HIV-infected person donates blood during this six-week to three-year "negative window," his blood will not be screened out by the test presently in use. Anyone receiving a blood transfusion from blood bank inventory blood is therefore still at risk. Using your own blood, or that of a designated donor known to be HIV-free, is far safer. And you should also know that factions of radical homosexuals have publicly threatened to purposely donate infected blood if certain of their demands are not met. The "negative window" effect means that these threats should be taken seriously.
You should also reflect seriously on the fact that, despite the availability of an HIV antibody test (and even its mandatory use in some situations such as blood bank donations), contact tracing of an infected individual's sex partners is not being done in most instances. Infected individuals, even if they work as dentists or doctors or in other occupations where they could easily pass on the virus to others, are not required to notify anyone of their HIV-positive status. The AIDS virus is the only virus that has "civil rights." Innocents must die, so that the sick sex games of the pervert minority can continue. The normal public health measures that always have been applied to other infectious diseases are not being applied to AIDS. The imposition of universal testing and quarantine where appropriate would end the anal fun, you see, and we can't — we simply can't have that. They — the infected — have all the rights. And we — the uninfected — have none. A complete inversion of what the public health system is supposed to be all about!
We are repeatedly told by the controlled media that the AIDS virus is fragile, and that it does not survive well outside the body. But that simply isn't true. The prestigious British medical journal, Lancet, for September 28, 1985, states that the virus can survive in dried body fluids for as long as seven days. It survives twice as long in a moist environment. The HIV virus easily survives freezing. It survives being placed under running alcohol for twenty minutes. It can pass through intact mucous membranes. It can pass through intact skin. It is present not only in blood, but in urine, feces, sweat, vaginal secretions, semen, tears, mother's milk, and saliva. It has been transmitted by kissing. It has been transmitted through contact sports. In short, wherever and whenever body fluids can be exchanged between individuals, the HIV virus can also be transmitted.
The government "experts" will tell you again and again that their studies "have not shown" transmission by these means. In many cases that merely means that studies have not been done. In some cases, studies have been stopped, apparently because they might have come to an "unapproved" conclusion if they were allowed to continue. Dr. Gus Sermos of the Centers for Disease Control was studying the possibility of mosquito transmission of the AIDS virus in semi-tropical Belle Glade, Florida, where an unusually high incidence of AIDS among low-risk individuals coincided with a large mosquito population. That study was stopped in its tracks, and there have been many other similar instances. The CDC stopped studying household transmission of AIDS after most such studies had been carried out for one year or less. They did this with full knowledge of the fact that it often takes six months and sometimes takes three years for an individual to develop antibodies to the virus. Now they point to these studies to claim that household transmission is insignificant.
Racial Differences in AIDS Infection
So far, the hidden facts about this disease that I have pointed out are hidden at least partly at the behest of organized perversion, which is very powerful, and which has powerful friends in the controlled media and even in the White House. But I want you to realize that the liars of the media are lying not only to protect the so-called "human rights" of homosexuals. They are also lying to protect their one-world, multicultural agenda.
Now I'm going to let you in on the AIDS statistics that the media masters are the most desperate to keep from you. Most of you are not IV drug users, nor are you homosexuals, nor are you recipients of tainted blood. Most of you fall into the category of people whose greatest chance of contracting AIDS is via normal heterosexual sex. What are your risk factors? By what routes does this killer virus make its way into the bloodstreams of normal heterosexuals?
When looking at the data for heterosexuals with AIDS, the one fact that is the most striking is that Blacks are between 14 and 20 times more likely to be infected than are Whites. Fourteen to twenty times more likely! In fact, even though Blacks account for only about 12% of the US population, they account for fully 90% of all AIDS infections in this country which were acquired through heterosexual means.
Among straight White Americans who acquired an AIDS infection heterosexually, the risk category of the greatest relevance to most of us, and also the risk category that is never mentioned in the controlled media, the sources of infection estimates break down as follows (based on "Epidemiology and Evolution of Heterosexually Acquired AIDS — US" Stockholm, 1988; and R.M. Selik, American J. of Public Health v.78, #12):
•	— 3% of straight White Americans with AIDS got it by having sex with partners who had received tainted blood from a transfusion.
— 13% of straight White Americans with AIDS, in this case all women, got it by having sex with bisexual men.
— 42% of straight White Americans with AIDS got it by having sex with IV drug users.
— And 42% of straight White Americans with AIDS got it by having sex with non-Whites.
In other countries the figures are even more startling. In a study entitled "Patterns of Heterosexual HIV Infection in Brussels," published by the Division of Infectious Diseases at St. Pierre University Hospital, 250 heterosexual AIDS patients were studied. Astoundingly, in the very White country of Belgium, fully 83% of these cases were Black African immigrants. Most of the White males with AIDS lived in or travelled regularly to Central Africa. 70% of these men with AIDS had had sex with Black women in Africa. Of the White women with AIDS, all lived exclusively in Belgium, but 83% of them had had sex with Africans or sex with men returning from Africa.
Our young people need to be informed of these facts. These are the real-life risks that they face in this sorry world that we have made for them. It is criminal, it is homicidal, to deny them these facts just because the conclusions one might draw from them are at variance with the multicultural, one-world agenda that the forces behind Liberalism are ramming down our throats. We must shout the truth about AIDS from the housetops.
Protect Yourself and Your Loved Ones
What can you do to save your family and your country from this deadly epidemic? There's a lot you can do.
Avoid all contact with known homosexuals. If there is a known homosexual district in your area, do not go there. Avoid the "trendy," "fashionable" part of town, whenever possible. This is often where the highest percentage of homosexuals are to be found. Particularly avoid using public rest rooms or eating in restaurants in such areas.
If you live in a rural area or small town that has preserved traditional American values, stay there. If you live in an area where such values have disappeared, where "Gay Pride" parades have replaced Independence Day parades and where the Third World invasion is in full swing, carefully consider your options. Moving into a racially, culturally, and medically healthier area should be considered.
Carefully choose who you socially and professionally associate with. Even if you must sacrifice status or money to do it, it is wise to avoid repeated close contact with those in high-risk groups, including Blacks, Third World immigrants, homosexuals, and drug users. Do not allow your children to associate with individuals in these groups when it can be avoided. Plan your travels to skirt around areas where such groups form a high percentage of the population, even if it takes extra time and gasoline to do so. Remember, any body fluid can transmit the virus, and it is impossible to predict the occurrence of auto accidents, altercations, the need to use unsanitary toilet facilities, or emergencies in which you may be placed in a hospital environment in a highly infected zone, possibly right next to a terminal AIDS patient.
Be aware that certain metropolitan areas, especially San Francisco, Los Angeles, and New York, have populations which are particularly heavily infected.
Here's perhaps a leader emerging:
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As I said above, Pete Peters spoke on this and, now, Kevin MacDonald: http://theoccidentalobserver.net/tooblog/?p=1946
Kevin MacDonald: Elena Kagan on the Jewish radical tradition in American politics
Kevin MacDonald: JudicialWatch.org has some important material on Elena Kagan. Judicial Watch President Thomas Fitton notes the "most disturbing" parts of her senior thesis at Princeton are the following:
…Through its own internal feuding, then, the SP [Socialist Party] exhausted itself forever and further reduced labor radicalism…to the position of marginality and insignificance from which it has never recovered. The story is a sad but also a chastening one for those who, more than half a century after socialism's decline, still wish to change America.
…if the history of Local New York shows anything, it is that American radicals cannot afford to become their own worst enemies. In unity lies their only hope.
As Fitton says, "Do we really need a Supreme Court Justice who once lamented the lack of unity on the part of the Socialist Party?"
Judicial Watch had a link to Kagan's thesis but it doesn't work as of today. Her senior thesis is consistent with other historical studies in showing that the Socialist Party in New York in the early 20th century was a Jewish phenomenon. She notes that Jews were the backbone of the Socialist Party and that other ethnic groups, such as the Irish and Italians, could not be motivated to join even though they were in a similar economic situation.
Not only were Jews the backbone of the Socialist Party, socialism was very mainstream within the Jewish community. Her account parallels those of other historians who describe the Jewish community from 1890 to 1920 as "one big radical debating society" (see here, p. 71ff).
From [1886] on Jewish districts in New York and elsewhere were famous for their radical voting habits. The Lower East Side repeatedly picked as its congressman Meyer London, the only New York Socialist ever to be elected to Congress. And many Socialists went to the State Assembly in Albany from Jewish districts. In the 1917 mayoralty campaign in New York City, the Socialist and anti-war candidacy of Morris Hillquit was supported by the most authoritative voices of the Jewish Lower East Side: The United Hebrew Trades, the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, and most importantly, the very popular Yiddish Daily Forward. This was the period in which extreme radicals—like Alexander Berkman and Emma Goldman—were giants in the Jewish community, and when almost all the Jewish giants—among them Abraham Cahan, Morris Hillquit, and the young Morris R. Cohen—were radicals. Even Samuel Gompers, when speaking before Jewish audiences, felt it necessary to use radical phrases.
The result was a radical mainstream Jewish culture that persisted in New York and elsewhere into the 1960s and beyond. With the success of the Bolshevik Revolution, many Jews opted out of the Socialist Party, resulting in a Jewish Communist subculture that was also entirely mainstream within the Jewish community.
Kagan's comments in her thesis suggest a sympathy with this radical Jewish culture — even a desire to carry it to fruition. Everything we know about her indicates that she continues to be immersed in a Jewish culture whose attitudes are well to the left of the American mainstream–a subculture that was hostile to the traditional people and culture of the US and has now become a hostile elite.
This fits well with Kagan's childhood in New York's Upper West Side — described by Dan Freedman as "as conservative's worst nightmare." During her college years she wrote, "Where I grew up _ on Manhattan's Upper West Side _ nobody ever admitted to voting for Republicans."
Elena Kagan and many of this culture's children emerged from the Upper West Side political cauldron as committed to making the world a better place for all, mindful that everyday people can affect change as teachers, doctors, lawyers _ and, yes, even journalists _ and make government work for the common good.
There is no indication that Kagan has changed her views, and there's not much doubt that indeed she will be a judicial activist on the left. Fitton quotes from her Oxford thesis:
As men and as participants in American life, judges will have opinions, prejudices, values. Perhaps most important, judges will have goals. And because this is so, judges will often try to mold and steer the law in order to promote certain ethical values and achieve certain social ends. Such activity is not necessarily wrong or invalid.
Well, at least we know what we can expect when Kagan gets on the court.
Rescue Slavic Women Says:
This is the inherent genetic difference between white anglo saxons and slavic people. In Slavic culture, no matter how much judeo commie terrorism was forced on them, they still know what is right and healthy and you cannot even mention pedophilia or child pornography to Slavic people without their first impulse being to grab a wooden stake and shove it up your ass. Slavic people are healthy human beings. I've always considered white anglo saxons to be perverse just as bad as they jews and that's why the jews have been able to dominate the english over the Slavs. Slavis are healthy people and they should dominate the world. Sick fuckers you anglos and jews. You should die out.
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