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"Why we love bad writing" -- Follow up on the recent Docx article
Posted by John Dishon on December 17, 2010 at 2:22pm in The Main Bar
http://www.salon.com/books/laura_miller/2010/12/14/docx
Thought this was interesting. I think the article is on the right track, but doesn't explore the issue enough.
Permalink Reply by I. J. Parker on December 18, 2010 at 1:12am
Nice to hear from you again John D.
Also a nice article, though I don't buy the title altogether. She doesn't really group herself with those who love bad writing. She is right about style, but many so-called literary novels aren't particularly good at style either. She is right about cliches. Cliches are a sort of shorthand to get on with it. "His blood ran cold" gets the business of fear out of the way in four words. Analyzing precisely what constitutes extreme fear would take considerably longer. Genre writing rarely ever uses a novel metaphor or simile (or hesitates to explore emotions), though some of its most praised authors make serious attempts in that direction. Most genre novels do get on with the plot and pay the greatest attention to page-turning cliff hangers and to plot twists designed to amaze and to grand finales that are meant to stupefy. They have a lot in common with box-office successes in the movie world.
Yes, a fast read is satisfying and takes little effort. But like the flowing water (perhaps "gushing" is a better word) it washes past and is gone.
Permalink Reply by John Dishon on December 18, 2010 at 12:07pm
Thanks. I've been checking in from time to time.
I wish more genre writers would experiment with style. Some of the more popular writers actually do, such as Ken Bruen and Lee Child. Two distinct voices there. I happen to not like either style, but I respect them for telling their story different. The generic writing so common in this genre is my biggest turn off.
Permalink Reply by Caroline Trippe on December 18, 2010 at 3:17am
. Most people who read a lot also read to satisfy a wide spectrum of moods and hankerings, and sometimes trash (provided it's sufficiently engaging) is just the ticket.
The above is a quote from that article, and I agree. I haven't read the Da Vinci Code, but I have read all 3 Larsson novels. It was the plot and the resolution that kept me going. The writing was adequate ---but it was, after all a translation. Still, it wasn't so bad that I could stop. (I think someone once said that about second-rate chocolate). :) I actually don't "love" bad writing OR bad chocolate--but I can forgive an occasional cliche when I'm reading for "entertainment."
Permalink Reply by Dana King on December 18, 2010 at 4:39am
Long time, no see, John. Welcome back.
Thanks for the link to Miller's article. I think she's pretty well hit it on the head, though Idiffer with her definition of "flow." As a recovering musician, I think theparallels between music and literature are too often overlooked. Contemporary "literary" writers run the risk of succumbing to the same situation as their musical brethren have for the past hundred years: writing solely for their peers. As a trained musician, I love listening to Stravinsky, Bartok, Mahler, and Ives, but they rarely sell out a concert hall, as their music too foten makes too many demands on the listener. I lament the move of even major orchestras to an increasing level of "pops" concerts, but that's how it is. I'm among the outliers here.
Same thing with literary fiction. When I on rare occasion wander to the literary field, I can often ap[preciate the writing without liking it, or caring to read more of it, and I'm someone who reads much more for style and voice than plot. No writer or musician is owed an audience. If literary writers want to be read more, they should stop writing for only their enlightened peers. If they want to be taken as "serious" artists in the novel form, then they should stop complaining about sales, or worrying who gets read more than they do.
John McFetridge has chimed in on this discussion in a couple of venues; he thinks it's an "art vs. Entertainment" discussion, which is, to some extent, apples and oranges. Art can be entertaining, and entertainment can rise to the level of art. When that happens, great. But if it doesn't , the creator should be be content to have met his original goal, whichever it was.
Yes. I'm thinking of John Banfield. I don't really like his novels, but by God, he makes the language sing. Or if you prefer a comparison to visual arts: he makes it shine.
Thanks for the welcome.
Your last paragraph is how I feel about it too. I like reading all kinds of stuff. Just finished Outer Dark by Cormac McCarthy and now I'm starting The Cold Dish by Craig Johnson. Just like a like to watch a lot of different kinds of movies.
Permalink Reply by John McFetridge on December 19, 2010 at 1:01pm
Yes, welcome back. As Dana said, I've been seeing this more of an 'art or entertainment' issue lately and I think the difference between those two can be most easily seen as insight. Art - literary or sci fi or fantasy or western or mystery or whatever (even my most hated of genres, the 'college professor mid-life crisis') - has at its core insight into the characters, often the kind of honest insight that can be uncomfortable (and I might add that those characters are most often of the everyday and non-extraordinary type).
Entertainment - and again it can be any genre, including literary - doesn't have much insight into the characters - they act in ways that mostly serve the plot (sometimes because honest, uncomfortable insight is feared to be offensive to some people and could potentially hurt sales). And characters in entertainment are often of the extraordinary type, rare characters - serial killers, conjoined twins - that kind of thing (the rare character has been showing up a lot lately in 'literary' fiction, too).
Yes, that seems true to me also, though we are at extreme ends of the spectrum. I would, for example, call Bruen's Jack Taylor series insightful, and it features an ordinary guy. So there are crossovers. There are probably crossovers from the literary to the mass market type also. I just read one of those, listed for the Booker prize but with the sort of scurrilous plot that belongs in a thriller.
Art -... - has at its core insight into the characters, often the kind of honest insight that can be uncomfortable...
John, I'd also agree with this. I'd also say that what true "art" of any kind has is depth. Insight into character is surely one aspect of depth,particularly in fiction. (But we could be talking about painting, or music or the visual arts just as well. ) The Beatles, Bob Dylan and Paul Simon are all examples of "popular" musicians who were/are also true artists--they had ideas. They helped us define ourselves, even when it made us uncomfortable. On some level art SHOULD be unsettling.
But back to writing: beauty and/or economy or precision of language is another. An imaginative or original "vision" of life and the world, another. Some "genre" works possess depth---in varying degrees to be sure---and some rather highly acclaimed works aspiring to the literary level don't make it because they get bogged down in the effort of seeming "artful." Anyone can call anything art these days. Praise comes easy.


Many people argue that these strict voting laws are primarily being enacted to help suppress a group of people who typically vote Democrat from being able to vote. I bet the Republicans never thought these new laws would keep a former Speaker-of-the-House from getting his voter's ID, too.
Texas has some of the most restrictive laws put into place recently. Jim Wright, 90, who served in Congress as a Democratic rep for Texas for 34 years, until resigning in 1989, told the newspaper he realized last week that he didn't have a valid ID to vote in Tuesday's elections. He said he was refused a voter ID card because his driver's license expired in 2010 and his faculty ID from Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, where he teaches, doesn't meet requirements under the state law enacted in 2011.
Texas passed some of the most restrictive voter ID rules in the nation, which have been allowed by recent U.S. Supreme Court rulings invalidating part of the Voting Rights Act. A voter must have proof of citizenship — a passport or certified copy of a birth certificate — and two other pieces of identification such as a driver license expired less than two years, a voter registration card, school records, military records or a Social Security card, to receive an ID valid for voting.
When I saw this tidbit come across Facebook a few hours ago, I did a Google search for more information. What's interesting is that the sites which came up in the search are all the more liberal, progressive sites. Nothing posted, as of yet, from any of the "main stream media" owned and ran by the Oligarchs. Sure, Google search "learns" what sites are favored, but the MSM sites take priority, such as CNN, Washington Post, NY Times, and so on. Nada from them.
At his age, many people don't have the required ID cause they no longer drive or travel outside the country, and may have never had a birth certificate. School and military records might be long gone. So I hope he has his voter ID or SS card. I know older folks tend to take voting seriously so I hope they're aware of the new requirements.
Thing is, he's gone his whole life without a problem voting – especially since voting has always been so encouraged and supported. Now, someone who used to help run the country can't vote due to some stupid new law that was never necessary in the hundreds of years prior.
At that point I had to turn it off or chuck something at the TV.
That's pretty pathetic. But I'll bet the powers that be in Texas aren't particularly concerned about it since he's a Democrat.
Probably not. I thought about that, too.
But hell hath no fury than a Republican scorned by his own party!
Probably not but, I'm sure there are many older Republicans who'll be shut out by these requirements too.


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Biografia
Amerigo Guasti, nasce il 3 marzo 1872 a Montespertoli in provincia di Firenze, figlio di Alessandro e di Antonietta Baroncelli. A tredici anni s'imbarco a bordo del Celestino, un brigantino a palo da trasporto del dipartimento marittimo di Palermo comandato dal siracusano capitano Melchiorre Greco, rimanendoci per due anni e mezzo come marinaio.
Terminata l'esperienza come marittimo, s'iscrisse alla Regia Scuola di Recitazione "Tommaso Salvini" di Firenze, istituto diretto da Luigi Rasi, ed esordendo nel teatro nel 1890.

Tra le sue rappresentazioni teatrali di maggior successo sono ricordati: Il piccolo caffè di Tristan Bernard, La pace in famiglia di Georges Courteline, Il Re e ne L'asino di Buridano di Robert de Flers e Gaston Arman de Caillavet, Le campane di San Lucio di Giovacchino Forzano, La morte degli amanti di Luigi Chiarelli, Un letto di rose di Giuseppe Adami.

Tra il 1905-1906, fondò con l'attrice Dina Galli, una sua compagnia teatrale che dovette sciogliersi dopo la sua morte.

I suoi ruoli furono soprattutto dei personaggi brillanti, che Guasti li interpretò con una sobrietà piuttosto rara negli attori dello stesso genere di quel periodo.

Ebbe anche alcune esperienze cinematografiche, tra cui si ricorda L'ammiraglia (1914), con la regia di Nino Oxilia e in Le nozze di Vittoria (1917), con la regia di Ugo Falena.

Muore il 15 marzo 1926 dopo un ricovero nell'Ospedale Civile di Busto Arsizio di cancro allo stomaco, nello stesso giorno in cui usciva a Milano il suo libro Dal buco del sipario.

Nel Comune di Roma, nel quartiere della Serpentara, esiste una via dedicata a Guasti.

Bibliografia
 Augusto De Angelis, Dina Galli ed Amerigo Guasti: vent'anni di vita teatrale italiana (1923)
 Amerigo Guasti, Dal buco del sipario (1926) - Mondadori

Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni

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GPU SG appears before TRRC
Saikou Jammeh, the secretary general of The Gambia Press Union (GPU), yesterday appeared before the Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission (TRRC), chaired by Dr. Lamin J. Sise to give account of series of human rights violations; such as death and disappearance of journalists under Ex-president Yahya Jammeh.
Mr. Jammeh told the Commission that Ex-president Yahya Jammeh and the media fraternity were in constant loggerheads from 1994 to January 2017.
Saikou Jammeh was born on 2 August, 1985 and started his career as a journalist in 2001 and had worked with The Gambia Daily, The Standard Newspaper, Daily News and host of other newspapers.
The GPU SG gave a detailed analysis of the history and evolution of Gambia Press Union, dating back to the 1930s and when it was first registered in 1979.
He told the Commission that the GPU was involved in the capacity building of its members, adding that it focuses on labour rights and advocacy of its members.
He described the GPU as the only man left standing in the Jammeh's regime and cited instances where GPU stood for journalists who had issues with the Jammeh's regime.
He revealed that from July 1994 to January 2017, it was challenging for journalists in The Gambia, adding that The Gambia was ranked above Equatorial Guinea and Eritrea in terms of press freedom.
Mr. Jammeh said that Yahya Jammeh established tactics to suppress dissents, keep Gambians in the dark, called journalists derogatory names and even threatened them. He told the Commission that Yahya Jammeh was no respecter of a journalist and he waged a war against journalists and he used the courts to get journalists where he wanted them.
The witness further told the Commission that Jammeh became violent against journalists, citing instances where journalists and media houses were attacked.
He mentioned the killing of Deyda Hydara in December, 2004, the killing of Omar Barrow, a reporter with Sud FM Radio Station and a Red Cross Volunteer in 2000 April Student protest.
He revealed that Deyda Hydara was killed two days after he made pronouncement that he was going to challenge the increment in the bond from D50,000 to D500,000.
He told the Commission that Sana Manjang and Kawsu Camara were named as prime suspects for the killing of Deyda Hydara, adding that the ECOWAS Court of Justice ordered Jammeh government to pay the sum of $50,000 and investigate the death of Deyda Hydara properly which it's refused.
He revealed that GPU instituted a suit against Jammeh government before the ECOWAS Court of Justice on the disappearance of Late Chief Ebrima Manneh. He explained that Pa Malick Faye and the late Sarja Taal former managing directors of Daily Observer were allegedly involved in Chief Manneh imbroglio.
Mr. Jammeh told the Commission that Jammeh government had always given inconsistent and conflicting stories about what happened to Chief Ebrima Manneh.
He further told the Commission that the ECOWAS Court of Justice ordered Jammeh government to pay the sum of $100.000 to the family of Chief Ebrima Manneh.
He disclosed that four journalists were arrested in connection with the Freedom online Newspaper saga.
He revealed the ordeal of Dodou Sanneh, a journalist who eventually died after he was paralysed as a result of the torture meted on him.
He told the Commission the arrest and detention and subsequent trial of Lamin Fatty who was convicted and fined D50,000 by the then trial Magistrate Buba Jawo.
The GPU SG told the Commission the arrest and detention of Abdoulie Ceesay of Terranga FM Station, the arrest and trial of Alagie Jobe, deputy editor-in-chief of Daily Observer, the arrest and detention of Omar Bah, journalist working for the Daily Observer Newspaper Company.
Author: Bruce Asemota
Source: Picture: Saikou Jammeh

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Korea's export prices slightly rise in Dec.
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LACMA, Part III: The Way Forward
February 16, 2020 • By Joseph Giovannini
WITHHOLDING INFORMATION. Issuing false statements. Spinning facts. Working outside procurement protocols. Malfeasance. Cost overruns. Time overruns. Failed oversight. Arrogance. Privatization of a public project. Disregard for the public good. Unacceptable architectural standards. Rigged meetings. Demolition without cause.
We're inured to all the lies coming out of Washington, but we would prefer not to believe that similar deceptions are emerging from an internationally famous museum, an institution we presume to be scrupulously honest, down to the authenticity of a brushstroke. But calling black white is no longer just a DC disease; it has also infected the LACMA stretch of the Miracle Mile. In a recent piece in the Los Angeles Times, art critic Christopher Knight pointed out that Michael Govan, its director, is ethically challenged because he wears multiple hats as a director of a nonprofit moonlighting for a commercial gallery and other art projects. As Knight wrote,
A commercial exhibition conceived and assembled by a nonprofit museum director who is the head of a county department subsidized by taxpayers […] creates an ethical swamp of considerable depth. Neither LACMA's board of trustees nor the L.A. County Board of Supervisors should stand for it.
Knight didn't need to look outside LACMA to commercial galleries to find a swamp where anything goes and nothing matters. One deceptive pronouncement about the Zumthor project followed another in a stream of distortions and untruths that became the Ponzi scheme on which this failed project is founded.
Perhaps the most flagrant deception in LACMA's long trail is Govan's claim that the museum has gained lots of square footage on his watch, which cancels out the loss of square footage in the Zumthor building. But if you count the 260,000-square-foot May Company building that Govan, pressed to meet his bills, lost to a fire-sale lease to the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures (along with the fact that Broad Pavilion was initiated and funded by his predecessor), and if you then factor in the reduced square footage of the Zumthor building, you find that LACMA will have lost a whopping 364,000 square feet during Govan's tenure. The graph of lost square footage shows red ink gushing beneath the water line.
Regardless of what you think of the Zumthor design as architecture, the way that LACMA has managed itself and developed its proposal for a new campus over 12 years amounts to an abuse of public trust perpetrated by the very agents who should be protecting it: LACMA's Board of Trustees, the LA County Board of Supervisors, and the city councilpersons. Guardians of the public good have willfully overlooked the proposal's failure to protect the collections, accommodate museum functions, and respect its historical legacy. The result is a public project privatized by a wealthy, out-of-touch board that has overlooked the public good, public opinion, and public pride. Twelve years of opacity have blocked the disinfectant of sunlight. The museum cannot in good faith say it has operated in good faith when it hasn't even made public the plan of the main gallery floor. The museum is blatantly hiding critical information necessary to inform the public.
Last week, Michael Govan denied all this in a LACMA memorandum:
I would like to assure you that we have completed the entire public process appropriately and with extensive community outreach. As you know, there were opportunities for broad public participation at every step throughout the environmental review process. Working closely with County and City leaders and with their guidance, LACMA has met and continues to meet with neighbors and other stakeholders to provide information and solicit comments on the project.
However, Eduardo Agurcia, a concerned Angeleno who canceled his LACMA membership in protest, recalls the supposed outreach differently:
LACMA announced several meetings to encourage input from LACMA members and the general public. Two if I recall correctly. I went to both. They took place in the Resnick Pavilion. Seats were set up. Govan was introduced. He screened a short video. Then he spoke. Then he exited without taking any questions. The public was told to go over to about seven tables manned by LACMA employees to answer questions.
At the second meeting the same thing happened. Govan was announced. He spoke about 15 minutes. Then he quickly began to exit without taking questions. At this point several people stood up and began to shout questions at him. In response he increased his speed without looking back, and literally ran away. "Who is going to pay for this?" someone yelled. A number of furious, exasperated people were left open mouthed and frustrated, including me. Again the audience members were directed to the seven tables manned by LACMA employees to ask questions. Each table was designated for a specific subject.
The whole thing was a grotesque parody. It was clear that the meetings had been staged so that LACMA could claim that its members' and the public's input had been solicited. It was all a sham, a Potemkin village event.
I followed up with e-mails to Govan complaining and requesting that he call a public meeting on a weekend in Bing Auditorium, requesting that he and the LACMA trustees sit on stage and take questions from the audience. LACMA members, the general public, the press, relevant constituencies and architectural critics should be invited, with each person being allowed to ask a question or make a three-minute statement. I never heard from him or his staff.
In the context of today's national debates in Washington, Alexander Hamilton's words come to mind — that an abuse of the public trust is an impeachable offense.
The Zumthor design should be impeached and shelved because LACMA has exhibited bad faith developing a project that has resulted in cost overruns and dysfunction that the museum hides. The project wastes massive amounts of money to shrink, and it wastes a large amount of land, also to shrink. Worst of all, this building devastates the collections that form the soul of LACMA.
Even in the 11th hour of this ill-advised scheme, as workmen finish performing abatement on the interiors, there are three corrective measures that can be undertaken now, and each would prove a better solution for fulfilling LACMA's promise as one of the United States's great museum.
First, the existing buildings can be restored for adaptive reuse. If LACMA simply completes the process of asbestos removal now ongoing, the museum can proceed with a seismic upgrade of buildings — the whole reason Govan started the project. This upgrade in no way necessitates the demolition of the buildings or the construction of a new building. Govan used the upgrade as an excuse to build his avant-garde Taj Mahal, arguing that, for a little more money, you can get a new, state-of-the-art building. However, the Taj he is proposing is costing three or four times more than the $250 million cost of a seismic upgrade he once quoted to me in conversation, while the design yields only a quarter the number of galleries and no offices to replace a whole floor of offices. Govan's recent assertion on KCRW that the buildings cannot be salvaged and upgraded into a state-of-the-art museum is yet another deception in LACMA's cascade of disinformation. The buildings are only 50 years old, and they were built to last.
In the face of this insane waste, the adaptive reuse of renovated and seismically upgraded structures is sensible, feasible, and preferable, especially for environmental reasons: reusing the existing buildings conserves their already embodied energy and obviates new expenditures of energy on materials and construction. Though few people have liked the exteriors of the Pereira and Pfeiffer buildings, the facades can be upgraded. But the great overlooked feature of the existing buildings is their spatial infrastructure: the interiors have high ceilings, generous volumes, and noble proportions, making them the ideal gallery spaces they have always been. Just keeping the existing buildings gains the museum some 143,000 square feet over the Zumthor proposal, and it would retain the entire floor of offices on the first level, along with the auditoria and their 716 seats. The Dia-like art warehouse that Govan is forcing onto the Wilshire campus can be built in one of the warehouses he has identified elsewhere in Los Angeles. The Resnick is already the kind of Kunsthalle Govan wants, so another is redundant anyway.
The solution to all this is actually in plain sight. Renzo Piano's 2003 master plan for the LACMA campus could be resurrected as the armature for linking the Broad and Resnick pavilions and the Academy Museum into some version of the existing buildings on the East Campus. LACMA could be saved from the Zumthor project with a simple call to Piano: "Renzo, remember that plan you did 15 years ago?" Piano's master plan makes far more sense than the plan currently on the table.
A second eminently viable possibility is that after seismic upgrading, the four buildings can be expanded. Perhaps the simplest way would be to link the buildings into a unified whole by filling in the gaps between them with galleries and turning what is now the outdoor plaza into an interior atrium fitted with stairways or ramps inviting visitors to the upper floors. This simple schematic plan, already published in LARB, would result in a museum of approximately 500,000 square feet, with the built-in gaps alone exceeding the entire square footage of Zumthor's gallery floor. The price of this solution promises to be competitive with the Zumthor project and would result in a museum more than twice as large.
A third possibility is a completely new design that replaces the existing structures on the East Campus, but with a new building that, unlike the Zumthor, actually works and might prove more inspirational than his deeply compromised design. The Page Museum recently held a smoothly run competition that resulted in a brilliant scheme by the New York firm of Weiss/Manfredi. The whole process, conducted with exemplary transparency and efficiency, lasted less than a year, with the public kept abreast of developments at all stages. Contrary to Govan's unfounded theory that a museum should be on a single floor, the winning design at the Page shows how an inventively ramped circulation system can invite visitors to all levels of a multi-story museum. The Page's process of how to run a competition stands as a role model and object lesson for LACMA.
The conventional thinking about where LACMA now stands is that plans have gone too far, that demolition is inevitable and the process irreversible, that we have to accept the inescapable conclusion, the Zumthor scheme. That may be what Govan wants you to think. It's not true. When the abatement concludes, the museum will simply find itself at a stopping point, a time during which the museum can press pause, regain its sanity, do the books, and recalibrate the whole venture.
There is no reason to go forward with what we already know will be a failure, a building that will be hated — the building that killed LACMA. This ocean liner can be turned around.
Joseph Giovannini is a critic, architect, and teacher based in New York. Trained at Harvard's Graduate School of Design, he has written for The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, New York Magazine, Architect Magazine, and Architectural Record, and has taught at Columbia, Harvard, UCLA, USC, and SCI-Arc.
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A Pulitzer nominee in criticism who trained in architecture at Harvard, Joseph Giovannini has led a career that has spanned three decades and two coasts. He has served as the architecture critic for New York Magazine and the Los Angeles Herald Examiner, and was long a staff writer on design and architecture for The New York Times. On a contractual or freelance basis, he has contributed to many other publications, including The New Yorker, Architectural Record, Architectural Digest, Art in America, Art Forum, Architecture Magazine, Architect Magazine, Industrial Design Magazine, and Interior Design.
A prominent figure in American architecture, he has been an activist critic with a record of discovering emerging talent for major mainstream publications and professional journals. He coined the term Deconstructivism during articles he wrote announcing the movement. Giovannini has written literally thousands of articles for periodicals, and he has also authored numerous essays for books and monographs. As a critic, he has won awards, grants and honors, from the Art World Magazine/Manufacturer's Hanover Trust for distinguished newspaper architectural criticism, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Graham Foundation, the Los Angeles Chapter of the AIA and the California Council of the AIA.
He has put theory into practice in his own architectural practice. Mr. Giovannini heads Giovannini Associates, which has recently completed the conversion of a large trucking warehouse into a community of lofts in Los Angeles, and a 19th-century commercial building, also into lofts. A bicoastal designer, he is currently working on several apartments in New York and lofts in Los Angeles. His lofts, apartments, galleries and additions have appeared in Architectural Digest, Los Angeles Times Magazine, A + U, Domus, House and Garden, GA Houses, Architekur und Wohnen, Sites, and Interior Design.
He has taught advanced and graduate design studios at Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, UCLA's Graduate School of Architecture and Urban Planning, the University of Southern California's School of Architecture, and at the University of Innsbruck. He holds a Master in Architecture from Harvard's Graduate School of Design. He did his B.A. in English at Yale University, and an M.A in French Language and Literature from Middlebury College for work done at La Sorbonne, Paris.
LACMA, Part II: Spamming the Public
Joseph Giovannini continues his analysis of Michael Govan's plans for LACMA....
LACMA, Part I: Going Rogue
Joseph Giovannini on Michael Govan's plans for LACMA, which are even worse than you think....
LACMA: Suicide by Architecture
Joseph Giovannini scrutinizes LACMA director Michael Govan's failures and deceptions surrounding the museum's renovations....
In the Dead of Late August . . . Zumthor's LACMA Folly Continues
Distinguished architecture critic Joseph Giovannini on Zumthor's LACMA folly still going on…....
Inconvenient Truths at LACMA: Sweeping Debt, Dealmaking, and Dubious Design under the Red Carpet
IT'S SMELLING LIKE DENMARK over at LACMA these days. Not a month after its glamorous 50th anniversary gala on April 18, attended by le tout Hollywood, the Los Angeles Times and ProPublica jointly reported on Sony emails hacked by the ...


A specific shamanic initiation allowed governing elite or medicine men to communicate with nature deities.
Banned by evangelic oppression as a satanic witchcraft, the shamanic ritual became a secret cult or disappeared.
It was only briefly mentioned in indian chronicles, unwilling to draw attention of the powerful Inquisition.
- the Vision Serpent embodied by the Feathered Serpent guide.
This series upon Aztec, Maya and Toltec shamanism aim to faithfully summarize the available literature and information about ancien prehispanic rituals rituals (in Mexico, Peru, Bolivia, Guatemala...).
Contemporary testimonies of surviving shamanism in the Amazon rainforest will also help to understand old concepts.
This second book of the series is devoted to the non-animal spirits appearing in pre-Columbian art (sculpture or paintings).
These supernatural spirits also depends on plants consumed, and on his own animal-Guardian Spirit.
On maya bas-reliefs, governors are sometimes depicted facing a supernatural monster head, symbolizing the entrance to the Underworld.


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Happy New Year 2016: Lots of Greetings, Messages, Quotes for Use
A Very Happy New Year 2016! It is time to welcome the new year 2016 with a broad smile and cheer and the race begins to show how talented you are and how you can express your love and best wishes with your dear ones, friends and family members and relatives. Here are some selective quotes which stand out for ...
Watch: Ranbir-Deepika Starrer Tamasha's Trailer Launched
Much awaited movie of the popular Bollywood on-screen pair Deepika Padukone and Ranbir Kapoor's Tamasha's trailer is out. The duo will be seen romancing together after Yeh Jawani Hai Deewani. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDsRDWR-yoM] Recently, the makers of the movie released the first poster in which Ranbir and Deepika seem to be in a fun mode. With an interesting tagline, "Why always ...
Much Awaited 'Tamasha' Poster Out: Ranbir-Deepika Looks Promising
After Yeh Jawani Hai Deewani, popular Bollywood on-screen pair Deepika Padukone and Ranbir Kapoor will be seen together romancing in 'Tamasha.' Recently, the makers of the movie released the first poster in which Ranbir and Deepika seem to be in a fun mode. With an interesting tagline, "Why always the same story?" which suggest that this romantic comedy flick is ...
Not in Hurry for Next Film: Farah Khan
January 29, 2015	Leave a comment
Mumbai: Choreographer-filmmaker Farah Khan, whose "Happy New Year" starring Shah Rukh Khan, Deepika Padukone, Boman Irani among others was one of the biggest blockbusters of 2014, says she is not in a hurry to start her next film. "This year I'm taking rest. I've three children..I'm taking them on vacations. I'm enjoying their football matches and spending time with my family….enjoying ...
'Happy New Year' Box Office India Collections Finally Cross Rs.200 Crore
The much-awaited success of Shah Rukh Khan's film "Happy New Year" made a bang on the opening with highest gross collections but faded fast into the struggling mode to cross Rs.200 crore after full 15 days. Directed by Farah Khan, the film crossed the Rs.200-crore mark in the domestic box office but the film overall did well with more than ...
'Happy New Year' 19 Days Box-Office Collections Fall Rs. 25 Lakh Short of Rs.200-Crore
With the 3rd week turning into a dull one for Shahrukh Khan's 'Happy New Year, the film failed to collect decent box office collections even after two weeks, as reported earlier. HNY third Monday collections stood at Rs.75 lakhs on its 18th day, falling short of Rs.1.25 crore away from reaching Rs.200-crore club, forget about SRK's dream to join the ...
HNY Struggles to Cross Rs.200 Crore in 2nd Week, Nets 180-Cr in 10 Days
Shahrukh Khan was over-confident that his film "Happy New Year" would certainly cross Rs.600 crore easily and made it a point to stress that Bollywood should aim at Hollywood and target Rs.600 crore-club, not Rs.100-crore club. But the star attraction in HNY is not going well with the Indian audience that the film, which minted Rs.44.9 crore on its opening ...
Shahrukh Khan Enters 50s: How SRK's Face Changed in 25 Years? (Photos, Videos)
Born on November 2, 1965, in New Delhi to Taj Mohammed Khan and Lateef Fatima, he was raised in Mangalore initially till he reached five years of age and surprisngly, he left Mangalore just before another Bollywood celebrity Aishwarya Rai Bachchan was born in 1973. And both their birthdays are just one day part and Being Scorpions, they are bent ...
SRK-owned Red Chillies Upbeat on 'Happy New Year' Record First Week Box Office Earnings
Shahrukh Khan's Red Chillies Entertainment Pvt Ltd said the box-office collection of 'Happy New Year' after its first week stood at Rs 157.57 crore in domestic market and it was a record in the company's history too. Venky Mysore, Red Chillies CEO said, "As a production house, it is very gratifying for us that Happy New Year has beaten the ...
Shahrukh Khan Never Reads Movie Reviews Unless They're 'Funny'
In his first reaction to majority of reviews of his latest film "Happy New Year", the Bollywood badshah said he rarely reads reviews unless they catch his attention being funny. Shah Rukh Khan, known for his liking of Tom & Jerry cartoons, said, "I don't read reviews. I have a sense of humour and most of the time my sense ...
Shahrukh Khan, 'Happy New Year' Team To Rock Kolkata Today
Shah Rukh Khan and other cast members of "Happy New Year" (HNY) arrived in Kolkata for a special performance this evening to celebrate the success of their latest movie that has already minted Rs.230 crore at box office but sliding down bit early than expected. The Farah Khan-directed "Happy New Year", which was released on Oct 24, has turned out ...
'Happy New Year' Box Office Collections Cross Rs.230.85 Crore in 4 Days But Fall by 50% on 5th day
October 29, 2014	1 Comment
Shah Rukh Khan's 'Happy New Year', riding on a box office collection that crossed Rs.200 crore and racing towards Rs.300 crore this weekend, has been roaring with success that the HNY team came together to release another dance to the song "Sharabi" that went viral but removed alter on allegations of copyrights violation. With virtually no competition in Bollywood to ...
HNY Highlight: SRK More Than happy to Show Off his 3rd Son AbRam
Shah Rukh Khan, whose latest film 'Happy New Year' making box office hit again says the highlight of the film that shows his third son AbRam during the titles at the end , says he is happy because it is his youngest son AbRam's first film too! AbRam, who was born through surrogacy last year, made his first big screen ...
Farah Khan Secret on 'Happy New Year' Success: Better than Man Making Masala Movies
Farah Khan is one of the few female directors who has broken the myth that a woman can't helm masala movies. The director, who has churned out blockbusters like "Main Hoon Naa" and "Om Shanti Om", says in a "sexist country" she has proved that a woman can do it better. Her latest film "Happy New Year", starring Shah Rukh ...
'Happy New Year' First Week Box Office Collections Drop as Tamil, Telugu Versions Fail
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Shahrukh Khan-Starrer 'Happy New year' Mints Rs.44.97 crore on First Day
As expected Shah Rukh Khan-starrer "Happy New Year" created a deja-vu of sorts repeating last year's "Chennai Express" box office record with Rs.44.97 crore on the first day with more than 4,500 screens showing the film since its release on Friday. Though major newspaper reviews were negative about the movie, it has opened to a fantastic rush riding high on ...
'Happy New Year' Movie Reviews Roundup: Negative Media Reviews Overwhelm Positive Push by Some
October 24, 2014	2 Comments
The verdict is emerging after a grueling day of wait for the Shahrukh Khan and Farah Khan film "Happy New Year" made with a huge budget of Rs.170 crore with more Hollywood-like scenes and car chases in Dubai. To begin with 'The Hindu' gave out the first review of the film with a tongue-in-cheek remark that HNY "could steal your ...
'Happy New Year' Movie Review: Song, Dance and Drama Before Heist
Rating: **** Cast: Shah Rukh Khan, Abhishek Bachchan, Deepika Padukone, Boman Irani, Sonu Sood, Vivaan Shah, Jackie Shroff, and Anupam Kher. Director: Farah Khan Storyline: A bunch of losers come together to steal diamonds and qualify for the world dance championship. Gripping, hilarious but lacks a strong theme. 'Happy New Year' is another heist-centric Hollywood-style film after series of Don ...
'Happy New Year' to Run Housefull on Opening Week Riding High on Advance Booking
'Happy New Year' all set to be released in more than 4,000 screens today, Friday October 24 and the seat occupancy is assured at 100% on its opening day going by the huge rush to booking in advance in theatres and multiplexes, coinciding with the Balipadyami Holiday and the weekend rush. Shah Rukh Khan's HNY is likely to exceed last ...
Happy New Year: Time for HNY team to Disperse; Farah, Deepika Seen in Tears
After almost one-year of gruelling shooting schedule in Dubai and elsewhere, it was an emotional moment for "Happy New Year" director Farah Khan and its lead actress Deepika Padukone, who broke into tears at the last promo event in Dubai on Wednesday. "Happy New Year", which stars Shah Rukh Khan, Deepika, Abhishek Bachchan, Boman Irani, Jackie Shroff, Sonu Sood, and ...


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Court Denies Injunctive Relief, Plaintiffs Will Appeal in NY Medical Exemption Lawsuit
Court won't allow unvaccinated medically fragile children to even participate in online learning pending the lawsuit's outcome.
Children's Health Defense Team
On Oct. 22, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York denied injunctive relief to the families challenging the state's overly narrow medical exemption regulation in Jane Doe, et. al v. Howard Zucker et. al.
The court refused to allow medically fragile children, whose licensed medical providers have submitted certifications stating that they are at risk of serious harm or death from a vaccine, to participate even in online learning pending this litigation's outcome. Some plaintiffs have already lost one or more family members to death from proven adverse vaccine reactions. Many have suffered severe, documented vaccine injuries.
The court would not consider these facts or U.S. Supreme Court jurisprudence defining the unconstitutionality of the practices challenged. Plaintiffs' attorneys intend to appeal.
As plaintiffs' briefs and arguments repeatedly emphasized, a medical exemption to an otherwise permissible health regulation is a constitutional guarantee for those at risk. That guarantee doesn't just implicate liberty — it goes to the very right to life itself. The U.S. Supreme Court has recognized this right for more than 115 years.
Even in the landmark 1905 case of Jacobson v. Massachusetts, which defendants rely on, the Supreme Court held that while the state may have a right to mandate vaccination during an emergency, this right does not extend to requiring individuals at risk of harm to submit. The court recognized that where an individual has a medical condition making vaccination dangerous, the court has a duty to independently review those claims to protect the individual.
Subsequent case law has defined the circumstances under which a state may burden medical exemptions. Fifty years ago, in Doe v. Bolton, the Supreme Court expressly recognized that people have a fundamental right to a medical exemption even from otherwise lawful health regulations. According to the Supreme Court, if any state-licensed physician certifies that a medical exemption is necessary, the state cannot require more — additional corroboration, a review process or limitations on the physician's judgment. The Supreme Court sympathized with the state's reasons for wanting to protect its compelling interests but ultimately decided that the patient's right to decide with her chosen physician, free from state interference, takes precedence so long as the state has licensed the physician. The U.S. Supreme Court decided: "If a physician is licensed by the state, he is recognized by the state as capable of exercising clinical judgment."
New York's statutory medical exemption reached what Doe allows by stating that if any physician licensed in New York State certifies that an exemption may be detrimental to a child's health, that child must be exempt from vaccination. Defendants' decision to craft a regulation and policies to undercut medical exemptions cannot stand.
Specifically, plaintiffs challenge the state regulation that attempts to predefine what a doctor can consider in deciding that a vaccine "may cause harm" to those contraindications and precautions that the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) endorses. The CDC itself acknowledges that these guidelines cannot serve as an exhaustive list or define valid medical exemption limits. Worse, the regulation empowers school principals to overrule treating physicians with or without consulting medical professionals if they believe the child's condition does not fall under the complex guidelines.
The court sidestepped this analysis by stating that families have the alternative of homeschooling. The court reasoned that an education is not a "fundamental right," and so the state can burden it in this way. The judge asserted that the case is not likely to succeed and thus decided not to issue a preliminary injunction.
Since Brown v. Board of Education, even though a state may or may not have an absolute responsibility to provide public education, once provided, a state cannot arbitrarily take it away from protected subgroups, such as medically fragile children. Moreover, it is well-recognized that a state cannot condition public benefits on people giving up other constitutionally protected rights, such as the right to a medical exemption.
Plaintiffs' attorneys will file an appeal shortly.
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Hey everyone, I'm too much worried about my infertility. It's now getting more and more frustrating for me. I got married three years ago. Everything was happening great in her my life. I got pregnant very soon. But soon, everything got changed for me. I was in my 5th month when I meet a fatal accident. Unfortunately, I miscarried the child. The doctor removed my womb too because it was all about life and death at that time. The miscarriage was devastating for me. But after hearing the news of my infertility, it was life taking for me. Well, I'm TTC for such a long time now. I have almost tried every way of having a child but nothing worked for me. My friend told me about the surrogacy treatment recently. There are many clinics in India providing surrogacy. But I'm not satisfied with them. I don't want to take the risk anymore. Well, I have read so much about Europe clinics. Even one of them is providing a guarantee for the success. So I want your kind opinion. Kindly guide me which clinic would be suitable for me in this regard?
Hi, I felt sad to know about your situation. I had gone through the same issue. I have lost 2 children. But I waited for 3 years. After 3 years I went to Europe for IVF. I heard many success stories of IVF in Europe. As my good luck, it worked for me. Now I have cute baby boy.there are many popular clinics over there and provide the guaranteed result. I suggest to go there and must try for once. May it will be good for you. Now recently one of my colleagues went there yeah she got a positive result. I suggest you too. Please let try it for once. I hope it will be good for you. Because clinics over there are enjoying a good reputation. Infertility is a big issue so you don't need to waste your time. Somehow please go there and get experience. Wish you good luck.
Hey, hope you are doing well. I am so sorry to hear about you. You must be anxious and worried. Let me tell you about a clinic in ukraine. Its biotexcom clinic. Its is the best clinic i swear. I am undergoing my surrogacy here. and this clinic is the best. It has the higher success rate. It has the best and most humble staff. The procedures are so reliable and reasonable. The doctors are so experienced and professional yet so humble and kind. And the best thing about the clinic is they hire surrogates and egg donors on their own. You must visit the clinic. It is the best clinic i have ever visited. You should visit the clinic for sure. I am sure you will never regret visiting them. You can email them to get details even. they reply within few hours. Plus they treat their client so humbly.
Hi Marina J I hope you are fine and doing good. Sorry to know about your infertility. You are not the only one in this boat. There are so many women out there in this boat with you. Infertility is not doubted very difficult phase of women life. It is very hard to bear. According to the survey, one out of every sixth woman faces infertility. This is the very much worrying situation for us. I have seen so many people giving up in these hard times which really made me sad. Science has provided us with the solution of infertility in the shape of IVF and surrogacy. Surrogacy is like the last hope for the infertile couple. In this process, a third woman, a surrogate mother, gives birth to the child to intended parents. This is so amazing. I will request ladies to please don't lose hope. Be brave and go for these treatments.
Hi dear. I am sorry for your loss. I know it is a very painful situation for you. I can feel your pain. Because I am also the infertile lady. But you should be strong to face this situation. You must try the alternate procedure. Because that is the only hope you. You should not give up like this. I will suggest to you any clinic in Eastern Europe. They have the best procedures. I am also confused between IVF and surrogacy. That's why I can suggest you this. But I can suggest you the best place. They are reasonable as well. Many infertile couples completed their families from there. Best of luck. Be strong. Take care.
hi i hope you are doing well. this is such a sad story. i guarantee you that if you dont lose hope, you will be rewarded. My neighbour had to go through so much. she was infertile. then she got scammed so many times by clinics. she was rejected by so many adoption agencies. it was very hard for her. then she researched and found an amazing clinic. she got surrogacy and now she is a happy mother. You shouldnt lose hope. I was diagnosed as infertile too. But now ive started my treatment. I have been receiving positive news. I urge you to research and invest in good clinics. I hope that everything works out for you.
Ohh! you really spent a tough time. Miscarriage is so hard to overcome. Seriously, the grief is unforgettable. But never lose hope. Such ups and downs are the part of life. Now certain alternate ways have developed like surrogacy or IVF. I think that's a great step to get rid of it. I think you should go for it. But be careful while choosing the clinic. Always choose the well-reputed clinic for yourself. Even in abroad, there are certain clinics that are specialized for such treatments. Even I had my surrogacy abroad. It was the best experience ever. Their facilities are so good and have experienced and skilled doctors. I hope you will be satisfied with them.
My dear, going through the wall I just read your story. It is really very heartbreaking. I am really feeling very sorry for you. My dear, don't lose hope and stay positive. A miracle happens every day. Soon you are going to have your own babies. One of my friends had a baby through surrogacy. And also the success chances of surrogacy are far higher than success chances of IVF. So I think it will be the right choice for you. Hope so you will consider my words.
Hey Marina! You have really been through a tough time. The grief of miscarriage is unforgettable. You are such a strong girl. But I think surrogacy is a great step to get rid of this infertility. A lot of infertile couples are getting so much help from such charismatic methods. Then why don't you? I think that's a great option to avail of it. But be careful while choosing the clinic. I would recommend you to go abroad. Such methods are complicated and I do not want you to put it in some unskilled hands. Always choose the well-reputed clinic. Also, consult with such forums for the approval. I hope you would be guided by a better opinion.
Hi Marina. How are you doing? Hope so you are doing fine. Well, my dear, I am really feeling very sorry for what you are going through. It is the very difficult thing for you to get rid off. Infertility nowadays has become a depression for women. But my dear, it will get worse if you do not think about it calmly. Dear, don't lose hope and stay strong. Things will be in your favour soon. Your decision about going for surrogacy is very good. I think you should go for it. Wish you the best of luck.
Hey Marina, hope you are doing well. I am Amelia from Ireland. I am so sorry to hear about your loss. I can understand that it is not easy to loose a child. I can relate to your situation. I got pregnant twice. But I had to abort my child. Because it was an ectpoic pregnancy. It was a a very tough time for me to bear that loss. I can understand what you are going through. Well I guess the only option for you is surrogacy. Surrogacy is a wonder treatment. It has worked for many. I have no idea about clinics. I wish that you find a worthy clinic soon.
Hi Marina J, hope you are doing good. Your post made me so emotional. I am literally in tears. It must have been so difficult to face this harsh reality. I have no words to console you. I can feel your pain. Being an infertile I know what a child means. I am also looking forward to find a good and reliable clinic. As I had tried IVF twice. But it failed both times. I am also considering surrogacy now. As soon as I ll find one. I ll definitely share with you. Please take good care of your self. Good luck to you. I hope you find your happiness soon.
Hope you are doing good. I came to tears just by reading your post. It must have been difficult few years for you. I do not know how to console you. I understand your pain. As an infertile I know how important a child is. I too am looking to find a good and reliable clinic. As I had tried IVF twice. But both times i was unlucky. Now i have finally decided to go for surrogacy. I ll definitely share with you the clinic and details of them as soon as i find one. I wish and will pray for your good luck and happiness. I hope you find your happiness soon.
Hey Marina J, Hope you are doing good. Your story made me so much emotional. I don't know how to help you. The only thing I can do is pray. I pray for you. Only the person who is facing such conditions can feel that pain. I also have faced these circumstances. It was a very bad time. But my husband and mother supported me. I advise you keep struggling and don't lose hope. Infertility is not a big issue in India anymore. There are many clinics which are offering many procedures like IVF and Surrogacy. You must consult any well-known clinic for this. Sending you best wishes and prayers. Stay happy dear.


A small section of George Fox's 1656 letter written from Launceston Gaol is frequently quoted by Friends with its reference to being 'patterns and examples' and 'answering that of God in everyone'. To understand what Fox is trying to communicate with these words, it is important to place them within the context of the whole letter. In this blog post, I have produced a modern English paraphrase of the epistle which is set out below followed by the original text.
The letter is strongly missional in tone, encouraging Friends to maintain the vigorous global preaching campaign that had been launched a few years earlier. This was a strong call to Quaker evangelism. However, consistent with the Pentecostal/new covenant understanding of early Quakers, Fox was not telling Friends to convert people to a particular creed or doctrine or bring them into a human institution. Rather, he was calling them to help people to turn to Christ Jesus as their inward teacher. What mattered was that people entered into an intimate, inward relationship with God in Spirit so that their hearts could be circumcised and God's Law could be written within them. This was the process by which people would be brought into right relationship with God, within themselves, with other humans, with other creatures and with the whole of creation. This was the process that would bring the kingdom of heaven to earth.
"This is the word of the Lord God to you all, a charge to you all in the presence of the living God; be patterns, be examples in all countries, places, islands, nations, wherever you come; that your life and conduct may preach among all sorts of people, and to them. Then you will come to walk cheerfully over the world, answering that of God in every one; whereby in them ye may be a blessing, and make the witness of God in them to bless you: then to the Lord God you shall be a sweet savour, and a blessing."
"The living God has sent me to give you this message. Let the way you live and the things you say and do, communicate the way of God to others. Be visible examples and a source of inspiration to all people across the world. Rise above and overcome the ways of the world and help people turn to the Spirit of God that dwells within them. Then you will be a blessing to others, they will be a blessing to you and God will bless you too. By doing this, you will be a source of great pleasure to God."
Respect God as the source of all things and live your lives guided by divine wisdom and power. Follow this wisdom and power so that it becomes visible to those who are opposed to the way of God. This will encourage them to turn to God too. Try to help others understand what you have experienced of the Truth, get them to respond, oppose their resistance, turn as many people as possible away from darkness and help gather them into a right relationship with God, which is a covenant of light and peace. Proclaim this to the whole world by what you write and what you say. Don't place limits on where you go, what you say and what you write but make sure that in all this you are doing what God has called you to do. Show great courage and conviction in spreading the message about the true way of God and defeat everything that is opposed to the way of God. You have been given the gift of God's power so do not misuse it. You have been given the gift of God presence and strength, attend to it. You have been given the gift of God's wisdom, make sure that the way you live your life reveals God's glory.
Maintain your intimate relationship with God. By attending to God's power and purposes, allow God to protect you from all deceitfulness at all times and in all places. Live under the reign and rule of Christ whose power is above all things and whose kingdom is everlasting. This is God's message for you at this time, "make sure that you remain attentive to God's guidance". God's power is spreading across the earth. This is the life force of the whole creation. God's power and wisdom is pure and heavenly, not violent or destructive. Salvation is coming for the people of God and this will put the world to rights. We should help turn all people to God's spirit that is within them so that they turn away from human ideas and delusions. Human power and knowledge is nothing compared to the power and wisdom of God which you have received. Do not abuse that power, remain humble and avoid the ever-changing fashions and way of the world.
Encourage others to experience the true worship of God. Help them to become like fertile ground, bring out the best in them and gather them under the rule of Christ who existed before the world was created. Disobedience has disrupted the human relationship with God. Those who overcome this disobedience and follow God's guidance are reunited with God. The only true worship involves turning to the Spirit of God within and overcoming disobedience. Everyone has to allow God's Spirit to reveal their darkness and cultivate the divine seed so that it can grow within them.
Those of us who are living in the Spirit of Christ must work to liberate this Spirit where it is imprisoned in other people, so that they can live in right relationship with God and with others and come to fulfil the true meaning of the Scriptures. The living God has sent me to give you this message. Let the way you live and the things you say and do, communicate the way of God to others. Be visible examples and a source of inspiration to all people across the world. Rise above and overcome the ways of the world and help people turn to the Spirit of God that dwells within them. Then you will be a blessing to others, they will be a blessing to you and God will bless you too. By doing this, you will be a source of great pleasure to God.
Don't allow the deceitful ways of the world to get a hold of you and keep away from corrupting human ideas whether spoken or written. If you keep yourself clean in this way, you will keep your place in God's kingdom. You will then receive God's blessings and the Lord will protect you from the idolatrous ways of the world, especially all forms of false worship. Encourage people to turn to the living God and, with divine assistance, help them to turn away from false human teachings, churches and worship practices. All this must be replaced by the Spirit of Christ who inspired the writing of the Scriptures. Those who live in the guidance of this Spirit are liberated from all these false ways and practices. This is the right way to worship God because, through it, God's will is done and people are brought into the true church of God and the true way of the Lord. God is acting now to overcome all darkness and evil.
God says 'I will arise to overcome all the darkness and evil that has dominated and corrupted the earth for so long. Everyone will recognise my glory'. May God in all his strength and power work in you so that you might encourage everyone else in the world to turn to God's Spirit dwelling within them. Proclaim that the God who is acting now to establish his kingdom should be worshipped in spirit and in truth (John 4:24). Make sure that you follow the way of God so that all the earth's people who are in darkness are touched by God's Spirit and come to respect God's power and majesty. Walk in the ways of God to the glory of God and don't let anything guide or lead you other than the life and power of God. Then you will be sustained and kept safe by this life and power.
The Spirit is calling all people out of sin and darkness, out of all false worship and false gods, out of all delusions and dead practices so that they can serve the living God. God is calling everyone to reject the old ways and enter a new way of living so that righteousness and justice might be established throughout the world.
Therefore, those who have already experienced this transformation, and who are living in Christ the Lamb of God, get to work. Do God's work with faithfulness and in the strength and power of the Lord and follow his guidance with obedience. This will safeguard you from unreasonable people and protect you from the ways of the world. In this way, you will live in the power of God's eternal kingdom and experience its glory and life.
In the power of life and wisdom, and dread of the Lord God of life, and heaven and earth, dwell; that in the wisdom of God over all ye may be preserved, and be a terror to all the adversaries of God, and a dread, answering that of God in them all, spreading the truth abroad, awakening the witness, confounding the deceit, gathering up out of transgression into the life, the covenant of light and peace with God. Let all nations hear the sound by word or writing. Spare no place, spare no tongue, nor pen; but be obedient to the Lord God: go through the work; be valiant for the truth upon earth; tread and trample upon all that is contrary. Ye have the power, do not abuse it; and strength and presence of the Lord; eye it, and the wisdom; that with it you may all be ordered to the glory of the Lord God.
Keep in the dominion; keep in the power over all deceit; tread over them in that which lets you see to the world's end, and the utmost parts of the earth. Reign and rule with Christ, whose sceptre and throne are now set up, whose dominion is over all to the ends of the earth; whose dominion is an everlasting dominion, his throne an everlasting throne, his kingdom an everlasting kingdom, his power above all powers.
Therefore this is the word of the Lord to you all, "Keep in the wisdom of God," that spreads over all the earth; the wisdom of the creation, that is pure from above, not destructive. For now shall salvation go out of Zion, to judge the mount of Esau; now shall the law go forth from Jerusalem, to answer the principle of God in all; to hew down all inventors and inventions. For all the princes of the earth are but as air to the power of the Lord God, which you are in, and have tasted of; therefore live in it, that is the word of the Lord God to you all; do not abuse it; keep down and low; and take heed of false joys, that will change.
Bring all into the worship of God. Plough up the fallow ground. Thresh and get out the corn; that the seed, the wheat, may be gathered into the barn: that to the beginning all people may come; to Christ, who was before the world was made. For the chaff is come upon the wheat by transgression. He that treads it out is out of transgression, fathoms transgression, puts a difference between the precious and the vile, can pick out the wheat from the tares, and gather into the garner; so brings to the lively hope the immortal soul, into God out of which it came. None worship God but who come to the principle of God, which they have transgressed. None are ploughed up but he who comes to the principle of God in him, that he hath transgressed. Then he doth service to God; then is the planting, watering, and increase from God.
Spare no deceit. Lay the sword upon it; go over it. Keep yourselves clear of the blood of all men, either by word or writing, and keep yourselves clean, that you may stand in your throne, and every one have his lot and stand in the lot in the ancient of days. The blessing of the Lord be with you, and keep you over all the idolatrous worships and worshippers.
Let them know the living God; for teachings, churches, worships must be thrown down with the power of the Lord God, set up by man's earthly understanding, knowledge, and will. All this must be thrown down with that which gave forth the scripture; and who are in that, reign over it all. That is the word of the Lord God to you all. In that is God worshipped, that brings to declare his will, and brings to the church in God, the ground and pillar of truth: for now is the mighty day of the Lord appeared, and the arrows of the Almighty gone forth; which shall stick in the hearts of the wicked.
Now will I arise, saith the Lord God Almighty, to trample and thunder down deceit, which hath long reigned and stained the earth. Now will I have my glory out of every one. The Lord God Almighty over all in his strength and power keep you to his glory, that you may come to answer that of God in every one in the world. Proclaim the mighty day of the Lord of fire and sword, who will be worshipped in spirit and in truth; and keep in the life and power of the Lord God, that the inhabitants of the earth may tremble before you: that God's power and majesty may be admired among hypocrites and heathen, and ye in the wisdom, dread, life, terror, and dominion preserved to his glory; that nothing may rule or reign but power and life itself, and in the wisdom of God ye may be preserved in it. This is the word of the Lord God to you all. The call is now out of transgression, the spirit bids, come. The call is now from all false worships and gods, from all inventions and dead works, to serve the living God. The call is to repentance, to amendment of life, whereby righteousness may be brought forth, which shall go throughout the earth.
Therefore ye that be chosen and faithful, who are with the Lamb, go through your work faithfully in the strength and power of the Lord, and be obedient to the power; for that will save you out of the hands of unreasonable men, and preserve you over the world to himself. Hereby you may live in the kingdom that stands in power, which hath no end; where glory and life is.
From The Works of George Fox, Volume 1, pages 287-289.
Fox's words are fully relevant and applicable today. Christ's power and wisdom are available to bring our own human spirit and that of others into obedient response to God, our rightful place and privilege. This is the essential thing, and that which should be first sought and known. So much of what passes for Quakerism today is distraction from the one thing needful that Fox holds up before us like a banner in the sun.
Thank you for your comment. I think you point to a very simple but challenging truth. If the Quaker way is founded on the experience of an on-going inward baptism, feeding on the Bread of Life and drinking from the fruit of the one true vine, how can it sustain itself when that kind of divine intimacy is lost?
I foresaw the Lord always before my face, for he is on my right hand, that I should not be moved: Therefore did my heart rejoice, and my tongue was glad; moreover also my flesh shall rest in hope: Because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell, neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption. Thou hast made known to me the ways of life; Thou shalt make me full of joy with thy countenance (Acts 2:25-28).
Thank you Pat, I agree that Pentecost is key!
Nice translation, Stuart. Thank you.
Thanks for both the translation and the original, Stuart. Glorious passionate language.
Thanks Fred. Yes, it's well worth reading the whole letter. I suspect that reading it aloud to others is the best way to appreciate its full impact.


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The startup has made a simple widget that gets embedded just below the article on the webpage of any publisher. It contextually recommends relevant articles from their archive to a user such that it forms a timeline around the theme of the article. Publishers benefits from its widget by providing their end-users with better user experience, which in turn results in higher user retention rate, and higher average time-spend per user on their website.
For users, ParallelDots works as a data miner. "With so much data being generated on a daily basis on Internet, users have already started facing issues of information overload and it often gets difficult to keep track of any event and how it has evolved over years," said Angam Parashar, one of the three co-founders at ParallelDots. Their algorithm automatically calculates a user interest in the publishers' archive and generates timelines across those themes – on the publishers' web page itself. So every time a user reads an article, ParallelDots generates the timeline of the main themes of the article on the fly.
In long run, the team foresees their product as a one stop content discovery platform for the new as well as the old content, given that the market size for such a product is huge.
Print Media is already on a decline in west and all the publishers are focusing on the digital content. In India as well, online news reading has seen a huge surge lately. This industry is growing at the rate of 7% annually and is expected to reach $11 billion USD by the end of 2016.
Launched in January, the startup is currently working as a part of Times Internet's TLabs. Ghumakkar.com and NewsInShorts are the first few publishers the startup is working with. The team claims that their widget is generating the click through rate of more than 10% and driving a lot more traffic on the old articles for its beta users.
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When classically trained pianist Cynthia Yih Shih decided to pursue a career in music, she needed a snappier stage name. So she rechristened herself as Vienna Teng, conceived her folk-fluttery sound while studying computer science at Stanford, and self-produced her "Waking Hour" debut while working as a software engineer at Cisco Systems. Backing her new "Inland Territory" album, the recent New York transplant returns to town Sunday for two shows with her percussionist partner Alex Wong.
Why did you ever leave the Bay Area? Well, I'd lived there all my life, and I knew if I didn't make a conscious decision to try living somewhere else, I was never going to leave. And in a way, I left to get a better sense of appreciation for it, because while I was in San Francisco, I thought, 'Oh, I live here, that's fine, that's cool.' But I didn't really have a perspective on it. Now I'm like, 'S.F. — cool!' I remember all the stuff I took for granted — the weather, the skyline, the history of it.
You've come a long way from Stanford, no? When I went to Stanford, I actually had this whole plan. I was going to be a surgeon who wrote piano concertos at night. I would have a clinic in Southeast Asia and be volunteering all over the world, but I'd also be a
composer. But college really shook me up and made me question a lot of things I'd made assumptions about in my life.
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