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The People's Vote: What is It and Could it Actually Happen?
Tom September 28, 2018
The Labour Conference took place this week in Liverpool, and while a number of political hot potatoes were discussed one of the most notable was clearly the so-called People's Vote.
This would, essentially, be a second referendum on Brexit, presented to the public with a more 'transparent' overview of the costs, both social and financial, of the UK leaving the European Union.
And after much debate, which initially suggested that voters would not be able to ballot for Remain, Labour's shadow Brexit secretary Keir Starmer confirmed at the conference that might not be the case.
"Nobody is ruling out remain as an option," he told Labour delegates.
It was an announcement that got a warm welcome from those gathered, unsurprisingly given that 90% of Labour members are of the Remain persuasion, and you wonder how the British public would view the possibility of Brexit being voted on again and even reversed if that was the will of the people.
But how close is the People's Vote to actually being a reality?
The People's Vote: Everything You Need to Know
A campaign group, featuring a number of MPs from all parties as well as public figures, including old Jean-Luc Picard himself, Sir Patrick Stewart, was launched in April 2018 to get the People's Vote off the ground.
Senior political figures, including Labour MP Chuka Umunna, the Conservative Anna Soubry, Caroline Lucas, the Green Party's first ever elected representative, and Jo Swinson, a Liberal Democrat, are also involved, with Umunna on record as saying "in our democracy, it is vital that the people get their say on Brexit, rather than their elected representatives in Parliament being reduced to some rubber stamp for whatever plan Boris Johnson, Jacob Rees-Mogg and Michael Gove have been putting together behind closed doors."
It is, despite many reports to the contrary, a platform that wants the British public to have a say on the terms of the final Brexit deal; NOT an underhand way for a second referendum on Leave or Remain, as is the misconception of many of its critics.
The possibility of such a referendum has been presented by Starmer and others, but there would be no legal precedence for the original Leave vote to be quashed without significant evidence to suggest voters had been misled in some way.
The marketing blurb for the People's Vote campaign reads 'whatever your opinion on Brexit, no one would disagree that it's a big deal. And not a done deal.' It taps into the psychology that is very much prevalent at the moment; that is, our elected representatives are making an absolute horror-show of the divorce bill negotiations.
The spectre of a No Deal looms – something confirmed to be potentially disastrous for UK businesses, and that is what the People's Vote aims to stop from happening, or at least minimise the damage of such an eventuality.
"The People's Vote campaign seeks to ensure that the government's Brexit deal is put before the country in a public vote, so that we can decide if a decision that will affect our lives for generations makes the country better or worse off," is the sales pitch.
The Lib Dem leader, Vince Cable, is another known supporter of the People's Vote. Talking about the two years that have passed since the original referendum, he said that 'the situation has changed, the facts have changed'.
"We were all told the British Government was going to save vast amounts of money.
"We now know that's not the case: there's the £40 billion divorce settlement, the economy's slowing down, there's less money for the NHS.
"We were told it was simple – it's actually proving unbelievably complicated."
Critics of the People's Vote
It would be fair to say that the vast majority of the Great British public believes in democracy, and so by that token the slightly sinister side of the People's Vote – to secure a second Leave vs Remain referendum – should be shot down.
Like it or not, we as a populous voted Leave – albeit with a 51.9% majority, and so we know have to deal with the fall out.
Theresa May has continually refused to give in to calls for a second referendum, calling it a 'gross betrayal of our democracy'. For once, she has a point.
We elect our MPs to get these jobs done on our behalf; maybe it's time to let them get on with it, for better or worse.
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There's no magic. No loophole. Just simple math.
Suppose you live in Seattle, making $60k a year, and putting away $5k a year in savings.
Now suppose you move to Guatemala for a year. You can scale back to making $30k a year, saving $5k, and live like a king.
Here's the interesting bit: When you were making $60k you paid around $15k in taxes. But on $30k, you only pay $6 in taxes.
So at the end of the year, you still have the $5k you saved, but you've done $39k less work. Basically, the tax system is incentivising you to work less, spend less and save equally.


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[ Lecture: S-2428: 19th August, 1911 | Munich | GA0129 | LennD ]
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Wonders of the World: Lecture 2
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ESTERDAY I tried to give you some idea of the way the Greeks thought about the relationship between the human soul and our Earth evolution, laying special emphasis upon two things. I said the Greeks were conscious that in primeval times the soul had been gifted with clairvoyance, and they regarded Persephone, the daughter of Demeter, as the ruler of those clairvoyant powers which played into men's souls from the cosmos. On the other hand I showed how the entire intellectual civilisation of mankind can be traced back to the stream associated with the names of Odysseus, Menelaus and Agamemnon. I tried to make you feel that this civilisation calls for a continual sacrifice. Thus the finest feelings and sentiments of which the human soul is capable, when it comes under the influence of this intellectual civilisation, were offered up to a kind of religious sacerdotal-ism, and the sacrifice of Iphigenia expresses this thought for us. Such views enable us to realise that the tradition, and to a certain extent the actual knowledge, of what we are now endeavouring to regain through Spiritual Science was still very much alive in ancient Greece. We draw attention to the fact that in primeval times the soul had clairvoyant capacities. You can read in my Occult Science — An Outline how in Atlantis men saw into the spiritual world and how cosmic forces appeared to them as actual forms or figures; so that men did not then speak of abstract forces, but of real Beings. Such a figure as Persephone is a relic of this consciousness. Through Spiritual Science we are struggling gradually to come to know again from our modern viewpoint the same living reality in the spiritual world which was familiar to men in primeval times, the same living Beings who lay hid behind the figures of Greek mythology.
The more deeply one goes into Greek mythology, the greater is one's respect, one's admiration, for the profound cosmic wisdom which lies behind it. To give you some idea of this, let me just mention one thing. I said yesterday that Greek mythology draws attention to two different trends — to the intellectual civilisation associated with the names of Menelaus, Agamemnon and Odysseus, and so beautifully exemplified in the sacrifice of Iphigenia, and to the other culture associated with Persephone and her mother Demeter. Now a thoughtful person will naturally reflect that such movements do not take their course in complete independence. Despite their apparent separation there must have been a point of contact somewhere. How does Greek mythology express this profound truth? We know that modern scholarship has nothing but a few abstract ideas to offer in this connection. But Greek mythology traces the ancestry of Agamemnon back to a representative of human soul-forces whom we may call Tantalus. According to the Greek legend Tantalus wantonly offered his own son to the gods as food. We know too that the gods recognised the impious nature of this act, and only one — a goddess — partook of a shoulder-blade. That goddess was Demeter. In this remarkable touch of symbolism — Demeter's eating of the shoulder-blade of the son of Tantalus — we find an indication that there is a connection between the two streams. It confirms that Demeter forces enter into the entire modern civilisation associated with the names of Agamemnon, Menelaus and Odysseus. Thus every item of Greek mythology has its correspondence in what we are bringing to light again in the form of modern spiritual wisdom. It is worth while to call attention now and again to such deeply significant features. It brings home to us the fact that the way man looks at the wonders of Nature changes in course of time. Our natural science is proud of its interpretation of Nature. There seems little ground for this pride when we reflect that by representing the force hidden in the depths of Nature as the female ruler of the wonders of Nature, the Greek system of divinities showed a far deeper wisdom than the science of today has any inkling of, or will so much as guess at until Spiritual Science is allowed to penetrate into our civilisation. It can give a considerable spur to our own knowledge, to the knowledge which we have acquired in the course of years, to consider it in relation to the depths of wisdom in Greek mythology.
One feature of The Mystery of Eleusis draws attention to an important natural wonder. What is really the crucial event of the drama? Persephone, who represents the ancient clairvoyant forces of the human soul, is carried off by Pluto, the god of the underworld. The whole wondrous action comes alive for you in the Pluto scene of the reconstructed drama; once more we have it before our very eyes ... what does it mean, when we apply what Greek mythology and the Mystery of Eleusis thus express to the nature of man himself? What in terms of Spiritual Science has happened to the old clairvoyant faculty of the human soul? This rape of Persephone has in fact been going on from the earliest times right up to our own day; the old clairvoyant culture has vanished. But nothing in the world ever really disappears, things are really only transformed. Whither, then, has Persephone gone? What is the Regent of the old clairvoyant forces doing today in human nature? In the opening chapters of a little book [ 1 ] now on the verge of publication, and which virtually reproduces the contents of my recent lectures in Copenhagen, you can read that the human soul encompasses far more than what it knows by way of intellect, by way of reason. A more comprehensive soul-life, a subconscious soul-life, is at work in us — it is better to call it subconscious rather than unconscious—a soul-life which in most modern men does not emerge into consciousness at all. In this subconscious life which is at work today in the human being without his being able to give a reasoned account of it, is Persephone; that is where the suppressed clairvoyant forces have gone. Whereas in primeval times they worked in such a way that the soul could see into spiritual worlds, today they work in the depths of the human soul. They assist in the development and formation of the ego principle, making it firmer and firmer. Whereas in primeval times these forces were dedicated to the task of making man clairvoyant, today they devote themselves to the establishing to the consolidation of our ego. Thus these Persephone forces have been drawn down into the human subconscious, they have been embraced, have so to say been raped, by the depths of the human soul. Thus in the course of the historical development of humanity, the rape of Persephone has been brought about by soul-forces which lie deep in the subconscious, forces which in outer Nature are represented as Pluto. According to Greek mythology Pluto is the ruler of the underworld, of the interior of the earth. But the Greek was also aware that the same forces which are at work in the depths of the earth are also at work in the depths of the human soul. Just as Persephone was carried off by Pluto, in the same way, in the course of human development, the soul was robbed of its ancient clairvoyant capacity through Pluto's intervention.
Now Persephone is Demeter's daughter, and so we infer that in Demeter we have a still older ruler, both of the forces of external Nature and of the forces of the human soul. I said yesterday that Demeter is a figure of Greek mythology whom we associate with the kind of clairvoyant vision which belongs to the very oldest endowment of wisdom of Atlantean humanity — for it is in Atlantis that Demeter is really to be found. When an Atlantean man gazed into the spiritual world, he saw Demeter; she really came to meet him. When, out of this spiritual world, this whirling world of constant movement and changing forms, the archetypal mother of the human soul and of the fruitful forces of Nature appeared to him, what did he say? He said to himself, not in full consciousness, but as it were in the unconscious, 'I myself have done nothing, I have gone through no inner development, as later ages will do, in order to see into the spiritual world. The same forces of Nature which have given me my eyes, my brain, my organism, and are active in me, these very same forces give me also the power of clairvoyance; just as I breathe, so also I have clairvoyant sight.' Just as man went through no special development to produce breathing, so at that time he did not form his own clairvoyant faculty, but both these things were given to him by the powers of Nature, by divine Beings. When man turned his attention to what was outside him, to what existed all around him, and along with the sensible received the spiritual, he consciously felt: 'I absorb into myself the substance of the plant kingdom in the world around me (a plant kingdom quite different from our present one), I absorb from outside everything that is growing, but with the substances I take in also the forces active in them.' The man of that time was not so hopelessly limited in his outlook as to believe that what he took in as food was only physical substance, only something which could be analysed by the chemist; he knew that with the substances he took in the inner configuration of the forces which are active in them, and that it is these forces which construct him, which build up his body again. Atlantean man said to himself: 'Outside in Nature, forces are at work; through my breathing and through the food I eat they enter into me. What they are outside me is under the control of the great Demeter. But Demeter sends these forces into the human soul, there they are worked upon and transformed into the faculty of clairvoyance.' (We may call these forces the process of digestion, but the digestion was then a spiritual one.) 'Through the forces under the control of Demeter, the fecundating goddess of the whole world, the clairvoyant capacity represented by Persephone is born in the human organisation.' Thus Atlantean man feels that he too has his place among the wonders of Nature. He feels this clairvoyant capacity born in him as the birth of Persephone, he feels that he owes this birth to Demeter, who spreads abroad in the wide cosmos the very same forces which in man develop into the faculty of clairvoyance.
Thus the man of old looked up to the great Demeter, and in ancient Greece man was still aware that it had once been so. But you will have already realised from this that the human organism, the entire bodily constitution, has changed since those ancient times. The human body of today, with its organisation of muscle and bone, is substantially denser, more compact, than the bodies of those men who were still able to give birth to Persephone within themselves, since they still had the faculty of clairvoyance. And because this organism of ours has become denser, it can also hold fast the clairvoyant forces in the sub-earthly realm of the soul. The imprisonment of the clairvoyant forces within human nature comes about as a result of the densification of the human body. And when the ancient Greek feels the old, more delicate, rarefied body becoming denser, it is because he is taking in forces which are active in the inner earth, whereas formerly he had been more under the sway of forces connected with the surrounding air, which rendered him in consequence softer, more supple. And what is active in the sub-earthly realm, the realm governed by Pluto, obtained a greater and greater influence on the human body, so that we may say that Pluto obtained an ever increasing hold over man; he densified the human body and in doing so abducted Persephone. This densification went on right into the physical body. For even in the earlier postAtlantean times the human organisation appeared very different from what it does today. It is very shortsighted to think that the human being was always formed as he is today.
Thus we see that the rape of Persephone and man's connection with Demeter are really expressions of the wonders of Nature within man himself. They show us how Greek mythology was dominated by the consciousness that man is a microcosm, an expression of the macrocosm, the great cosmos. As Demeter works without in the powerful forces of all that brings forth fruit from the Earth, so also is what comes from Demeter active within us. As the forces represented in Greek mythology by Pluto are active within the Earth and not on the Earth's surface, so does Pluto work in man's own organism. We must be able to blot out entirely the usual way of looking at things today, our own habits and customs, if we want to understand the completely different habit of thought even of people as recent as the Greeks. When the modern man wants to make laws he looks to the government, he looks to his parliaments. This is of course, not a criticism, it is merely a comment. That is where our laws come from today, and a man would probably be considered a fool if he were to put forward the theory that cosmic forces pass through the heads of the sitting members! We will not pursue this any further; it is sufficient that the man of today would find such an idea grotesque.
It was not so in prehistoric times, it was not even so in ancient Greece. In those times there was prevalent an idea so wonderful, so impressive, that modern man can scarcely believe it. Think of all that I have told you about the development of the Greek gods. I pointed out how Demeter worked in ancient times, how she instilled her forces into human nature — her forces which were active in the plants and caused her child to be born in that human nature. That is what Demeter did in ancient times. Now there were also other gods working in like fashion both with the forces of Nature and the wonders of Nature. How did they work? Well, when the human being ate and when he breathed, he knew that the forces which he took in from the air and from the plants came from Demeter, and he knew that it was Demeter who gave him his clairvoyant consciousness, but he knew too that it was she who taught him how he had to behave in the world. There were at that time no laws in the later meaning of the term, there were no commandments outwardly expressed, but since man was clairvoyant, it dawned in him clairvoyantly how he ought to behave, what was right, what was good. Thus in those very remote times he saw Demeter, who gave him his food, also as the cosmic power of Nature who, when he took in foodstuffs, so transformed their forces within him that they gave him his morality, his rule of conduct. And the man of old said to himself: 'I gaze upwards to the great Demeter, and whenever I accomplish something in the world, I do so because forces active in the plant world without are sent into my brain.' This Demeter of old was a law-giver, giving law which did not flash up into consciousness, but which was self-evident, impelling the soul. And it was the same with other gods. In nourishing human beings, in causing them to breathe, in prompting in them impulses to walk and to stand, they at the same time gave men the impulse for morality, for the whole of their outer conduct. When the gods assumed the forms they had later and of which we have spoken ... when Demeter saw her child Persephone lost in man's nature, saw her raped as it were by the now denser human body so that these clairvoyant forces could henceforth only be used for coarser bodily nutrition. ... When at that point she so to say gave up imparting the moral law directly, what did she do? She instituted a Mystery, thereby providing a substitute, a new form of law, for the old law which worked through the forces of Nature. Thus the gods withdrew from the forces of Nature into the Mysteries, and gave moral precepts to men who no longer possessed a morality drawn from the activity of Nature within them.
This was the essence of Greek thought in the matter, that originally the gods bestowed morality upon men along with the forces of Nature; then the forces of Nature more or less withdrew, and later the gods substituted a moral law in a more abstract form through their messengers in the Mysteries. When man became estranged from Nature he needed a more abstract, a more intellectual morality, hence the Greeks looked to their Mysteries for guidance in their moral life, and in the Mysteries they saw the activity of the gods, as previously they had seen their activity in the forces of Nature. For this reason the earliest Greek period attributed the moral law to the same gods who were at the back of the forces of Nature. When the Greeks spoke of the origin of their earliest laws they did not refer to a parliament, but to gods who had come down to men and who had in the Mysteries given them the laws which continue to live in human morality.
But as the human body became denser and denser, as it became transformed, what happened to the original Demeter forces? If I may use a very rough illustration, you all know that one cannot do with ice what one can do with water, because ice is in another form. In the same way one cannot do with the solid human body what it was once possible, out of the forces of Nature, to do with the finer body. Into this more rarefied body Demeter had been able to instil, with the products of Nature, the spiritual forces which were in them and thereby to develop clairvoyant forces.
What became of the Demeter forces as a result of the solidifying of the human body, or to use the language of Greek mythology, through the rape of Persephone by Pluto? They had to take a back place in the organisation of the human body, they had to become less active; man had to be alienated from the direct influence of Demeter, to become subject to other forces, forces to which I called attention yesterday. What is it that makes the denser human body fresh and healthy? Just as of old it was Demeter, now it is Eros, it is what is represented in the Nature-forces by Eros, who brings this about. If Eros were not working upon the human body, if Demeter had continued to work, the body would be shrivelled and wrinkled throughout life. Today, Demeter forces are not to be found in youthful bodies, in chubby rosy cheeks; they are in the body just when it eliminates the Eros forces, as it does when it becomes older, when it becomes shrivelled and wrinkled. This profound truth is actually portrayed in The Mystery of Eleusis. After the rape of Persephone, Demeter appears before us denuded of her original forces. She is transformed by Hecate, so transformed that she now bears the forces of decline. The rape of Persephone also represents the withdrawal of Demeter from the bodily organisation in the course of the historical development of humanity. How splendidly those ancient wonders of Nature are expressed in the figures of the ancient gods! When in old age Eros begins to withdraw from the human body, then the influence of Demeter begins again. Then Demeter can, once again in a way, enter the body, then forces of fruitful chastity can predominate, while the Eros forces fall into the background. We are touching upon a tremendous mystery in human growth, human development, when we speak of old age, when we speak of the metamorphosis of Eros into Demeter forces. Secrets such as this were hidden deep within the Eleusinian drama, so deeply hidden that no doubt anyone with the usual education of today would regard everything I have just said as fantasy. In fact, however, it is the pronouncements of materialistic science about these things that are fantastic, that is where all the dreaming and the superstition really lie!
What is it then that, between the time of Atlantis and our own time, has really changed in human nature? It is that part of man in which his essential being is ensheathed. His essential being is enclosed in three bodily sheaths; it is enclosed in the physical body, the ether body and the astral body; our innermost, our ego, is hidden within these three sheaths. These three have all become different in the course of evolution from the age of Atlantis up to our own time. What is the essential drive which makes these sheaths different? We have to look for this impulse primarily in the ether body. It is the ether body which is the energising influence, which is the really impelling factor. It is the ether body which has made the physical body denser, and which has also transformed the astral body. For these three bodies are not like the rind of a fruit, or the layers of an onion, one outside the other, but their forces mutually interpenetrate, they are in living interplay with one another. The sheath which plays the most important part in this process of transformation, in this historical development of the human being, is the ether body. Let us make a diagram of the three bodies to illustrate this. I will draw them simply as three layers lying one under the other.
Diagram 1
We have to look for the real forces, the effectual forces, especially those of Eros and Demeter here in the ether body; from the etheric they are sent upwards into the astral body, and downwards into the physical body; that is to say, the ether body has an influence both on the astral and upon the physical bodies. During the period I have referred to the ether body makes the physical body definitely denser, more compact; it so transforms the astral body that it no longer develops forces of clairvoyance, but only the intellectual forces of human nature. Because man has been transformed in this way, because the ether body has brought about a transformation in all three bodies, important and fundamental changes have taken place. They have all three been changed. The Atlantean body, even a post-Atlantean body of the first period, was utterly different from a body of the present day. All the relationships and conditions of life were quite different, everything has changed.
If we look at the physical body as it develops from the earliest times right up to the present day, we see that through having become denser it has come more under the influence of its physical environment whereas the delicate physical body of old was more subject to the spiritual conditions of existence. Hence certain characteristics of the physical body which did not exist earlier in a similar form have been enhanced; the causes of disease, of illness, in the physical body in particular have become quite different. In olden times what we call sickness and health were due to quite other causes. In those times human health was directly dependent upon conditions in the spiritual world. Today the physical body is bound up with external physical conditions and therefore dependent upon them; today we have to look for the requisite conditions for health more to the external physical environment. Thus, to use the language of Greek mythology, because of the rape of Persephone by Pluto and her captivity in the nether world of human nature, man in his inmost being has become subject, so far as sickness and health are concerned, to external conditions. That is one of the things which has happened to humanity.
The second thing has to do with the ether body itself. Besides being the source of the forces of metamorphosis, the ether body has also changed in itself. In primeval times this ether body was so organised that the human being did not get to know the world in the way he does today; but when through the old Persephone clairvoyance he gazed into the spiritual world he saw pictures of spiritual Beings. Man saw around him a world of images. Of course it was the forces of the astral body which called forth these images, but the astral body would not have been able to see them if it had depended upon itself alone. The astral body does not of itself see images. Just as a man does not see himself advancing unless a mirror confronts him, so the astral body would not see the images it produces if its activity were not so to say reflected back by the ether body. Thus it is the ether body which brings to the point of vision, to perception, the images called forth by the astral body. What man perceives of the goings-on in his own astral body is what is mirrored for him by his ether body. If all our inner astral processes were not reflected by our ether bodies we should of course still have the astral body's activity within us, but we should not be aware of it, we should not perceive it. Hence the whole picture of the world which the human being makes, the total content of his consciousness is a reflection of his ether body. Whether a man knows anything of the world depends upon his ether body. This was so in the old clairvoyant days, and it is still so today.
What is the secret of the ether body? Its secret is that it is the key to knowledge of the world. What the world brings about in the astral body would not open the door to knowledge of the world were it not for the ether body. The ether body contains all that I have referred to in certain passages of the two Mystery Plays [ 2 ] of mine which you have just seen performed. The Plays mention the labyrinth of thought, the threads which have to weave our knowledge of the world. We do not come to know the world merely by looking at it. Either, as in the old clairvoyance, we move from picture to picture, or as in modern intellectualism, we move from thought to thought as if through a labyrinth. This association too is brought about by the activity of the ether body. Thus what we may call the key and what we may call the threads which connect the single images of our consciousness when we acquire knowledge of the world have both undergone a change. Thus you see what is dependent on the forces of the ether body and what has to be changed in these forces.
Let us now consider the third member, the astral body itself. This is the element in us which is subject to the influences of the world and in which the forces and the skills are formed which are then reflected by the ether body. Knowledge is kindled in the astral body; it is brought to consciousness through the ether body. A thought, an image, is kindled in the astral body; we have these in us because we have astral bodies. But these thoughts and images become conscious in us because we have ether bodies; they would still be in us even if we had no ether bodies, but we should not be aware of them. The torch of knowledge is kindled in the astral body; this torch is reflected as conscious knowledge in the ether body. This torch of knowledge which is kindled in the astral body has changed in the course of the historical development of mankind; in ancient times man had clairvoyant or imaginal knowledge; today he has intellectual or rational knowledge. That is the change which has come about in the astral body.
Thus during the course of the historical development of man forces have been at work in his nature which have changed his whole relationship with Demeter. Out of the human body, once so rarefied, Demeter was so to say driven. She was driven out of the astral body with its lost clairvoyant capacities and Eros took her place. In return, as I have shown you today, certain different Eros-free forces in human nature came more under the sway of Demeter. Thus during this period from the time of Atlantis up to the present day a force has been working on the development of human nature in three ways: there is a triple kind of development, of transformation, a triple kind of metamorphosis, emanating from the ether body and working upon the physical body, upon the ether body itself, and upon the astral body. This force of genetic change has been and still is in human nature. It changes us from youth to age by leading over the forces of Eros into those of Demeter. There is in our organisation this threefold development which in the physical body brings about changes in the conditions affecting sickness and health, which causes the ether body to reflect knowledge in a different way, and which transmutes the torch of knowledge in the astral body. How wonderful it is to find these genetic forces represented in Greek mythology, forces which are active in all of us, forces which transform our astral bodies and therefore the nature of Demeter herself. These human etheric forces which work upon the physical body, upon the ether body itself and upon the astral body are represented by the threefold Hecate. Whereas today we say that forces of metamorphosis emanate from the ether body in a threefold way, the Greek spoke of the threefold Hecate.
One of Nature's wonders in the genesis of the human organisation is expressed in this threefold Hecate. We there get a glimpse into immense wisdom. You can still see the statue of this 'triple Hecate' in Rome today. [ 3 ] It reveals how one of her aspects has to do with the conditions determining sickness and health, being furnished with the symbols of the #8224 and the serpent (this latter symbol was also assigned to Aesculapius as the representative of medicine). The #8224 represents the external destructive influences upon the human organism. The endowment of one aspect of the threefold Hecate with these emblems indicates forces which act upon the ether body in its development. The second aspect of Hecate had to indicate that in the ether body itself the key to knowledge of the world had changed; what are the symbols shown by this second form? They are the key and the coil of rope, typifying the labyrinth of thought. The third Hecate carries a torch—the torch of knowledge developed in the astral body. We cannot help feeling that the way in which this profoundly meaningful figure is regarded in our materialistic age is one great mass of superstition. What new life such profound and impressive symbols as that of the threefold Hecate will acquire when we know once more what they mean! When the soul steeped in Spiritual Science stands before such a statue, ancient Greece will arise anew in her thought, all the knowledge of the spiritual nature of man mysteriously hidden in such a statue will stream into her again. We should not take these things in an abstract way. Of course we can only express them by clothing them in abstract thought, but all this can become for us living feeling if we permeate ourselves with the consciousness that Hecate has only changed the manner of her activity, that she is in us even today, is at work in every single one of us.
The ancient Greek said that not only humanity as a whole but every individual is subject in his development to the forces of Hecate, in the changes undergone by physical, etheric and astral bodies. Hecate works in man in a threefold way. But what was communicated to the soul at that time in pictorial form can also be learnt again today. How is this expressed by the pupil of Spiritual Science, who no longer speaks in this pictorial way? He says that in the course of the development of the individual from birth to maturity his sheaths undergo changes. In the first seven years the physical body is changed, in the second seven years the ether body, in the third seven years the astral body. The forces which you find described in my little book Education of the Child [ 4 ] without the use of pictures, work in the human organisation in a threefold way. They are the Hecate forces. When Spiritual Science describes for you how up to the change of teeth the human being develops primarily his physical body, it is saying that one form of Hecate is working in him. There we are saying in a modern way what the Greek meant when he represented one part of Hecate with #8224 and serpent; and the second seven years of transformation, when the ether body works upon itself, is represented in the key and the coil of rope; and the third seven years, during which changes take place in the astral body, is represented in the emblem of the torch. Thus long ago I said in modern form what was expressed in the ancient Greek Mysteries by the figure of Hecate.
That is also the meaning of the development of our European civilisation. Going back to Greek times, we find in the tradition of Greek mysticism, of Greek mythology, the powerful pictures which were placed before the pupils in order to awaken in them the knowledge which man at that time needed. In a different way the figure of the threefold Hecate awakened the knowledge which we today absorb when we grasp the doctrine of the threefold change which takes place between birth and about the age of twenty. And when we understand such teaching, then we grasp correctly the course which human civilisation has to take. The old clairvoyant form of knowledge had to be buried in the Plutonic region of the human soul, and for a period, from the time of Socrates right up to our own day, men had to remain more or less in ignorance about all these things. Men had to build up, to consolidate, their egos. But under the surface the old knowledge, the knowledge aroused by those impressive pictorial images of the Greeks, still remained. It was buried as it were under the load of intellectual culture. Now it is emerging again from the dark depths of the spirit. What was submerged in the depths of the soul is coming to the surface again for the life of today in the form of Spiritual Science. Today we are again beginning in the way I have described in Education of the Child to recognise the threefold Hecate in a more abstract way. This is preparing the human soul for a future clairvoyance which is already in sight, notwithstanding our intellectualism.
The triple Hecate, Demeter, Persephone, and all those other figures of whom Greek mythology tells us, were not in Greek times abstractions as the credulous scholars of today imagine. No, they were living figures of Greek seership! All these figures will appear again to clairvoyant vision, which in the future will press more and more urgently upon man from the spiritual world. And the force which penetrates into human souls in order to lead them up again to clairvoyance — or I could also say in order to bring down clairvoyance to them — is the force which was first prepared as conscious thought in the old Jahve civilisation, and then reached its full development through the coming of the Christ Being, who will become ever better understood by men. And when among the adherents of genuine Spiritual Science it is said that this clairvoyant vision of the Christ, who has been united with the Earth since the Mystery of Golgotha, is already beginning in this twentieth century, it is also made clear that this return of Christ will certainly not be in a physical body, but will come about for etheric vision, as it did for Paul at Damascus. [ 5 ] The power of the Christ provides all the impulses to enable human nature to rise again and to see all that has been buried in the depths of the soul — such as for instance, the figures of the Greek gods. That will be the greatest event for the future history of the human soul. It is the event for which Spiritual Science must prepare, so that the soul may become capable of acquiring the etheric vision. In the next three thousand years it will lay hold of more and more souls, the next three thousand years will be devoted to kindling the forces in the human soul which will make it aware of the etheric wonders of Nature around it. It will begin to happen in our own century that one here and one there will see with their etheric souls the reappearing Christ, and within the next three thousand years more and more men will see Him. Then will come the fulfilment of the true oriental tradition, a tradition with which all true occultism is in agreement. At the end of three thousand years the Maitreya Buddha will descend, and will speak to humanity in a form which every human soul will understand, and will mediate the Christ-nature to man. That is the secret guarded by oriental mysticism, that about three thousand years after our time the Maitreya Buddha will appear. What can be added as the contribution of western culture is that the cosmic Individuality who has only once appeared in a human body will become ever more visible to the etheric vision of man; you will find this again emphasised in my Mystery Play, The Soul's Probation. The Soul's Probation. Thereby He will become a trusted friend of the human soul. Just as two thousand years ago the Buddha spoke of what was natural to the best human souls of his time, so in words which will thrill the soul, the Maitreya Buddha will be able to proclaim everywhere what today cannot be proclaimed publicly: the vision of the Christ in the etheric world which is to come. That is the greatest event of the twentieth century, this upward development of human nature towards what we may call the recurrence of the vision of St. Paul. In the vision at Damascus it came to one person only; in the future it will come little by little to all humanity, beginning in our own century. Whoever has faith in the progress of human nature, whoever believes that the soul will develop ever higher and higher powers, knows that it was necessary for the soul which had sunk to the uttermost depths of the physical plane, that the Christ too should appear once in a physical body. It was necessary because at that time the soul could only see the Godhead in a body which was visible to the physical eye, to physical organs. But because, after the old Hebrew civilisation had paved the way for it, this event did take place, the soul is being led to ever higher capacities. The soul's heightened capacities will show themselves in that man will learn to see the Christ even when He no longer walks among men in a physical body, when He shows Himself as He is among us now, as He has been since the Mystery of Golgotha, visible of course only for clairvoyant sight. Christ is here, He is united with the ether body of the Earth. What matters is that the soul should develop so as to be able to see Him.
Herein lies the great advance in the evolution of the human soul. Anyone who believes in this progress, who believes that Spiritual Science has a mission to fulfil in regard to it, will understand that the powers of the soul must become ever higher, and that it would mean stagnation if in our time the soul were obliged to see the Christ in the same physical form in which He was once seen. He will know that there is a sublime meaning in the old Rosicrucian formula about God the Son, who once, and once only, incarnated in a human body, but Who, beginning from our own century, will become visible as an etheric Being to human souls to an ever increasing extent. This is confirmed by prophecy as well as by our own knowledge. Anyone who believes in human progress believes in this Second Coming of the Christ, who will be visible to those endowed with etheric sight. Those who refuse to believe in this progress may well believe that the powers of the soul remain stationary, and still today need to see the Christ in the same form in which He was seen when humanity was plunged in the uttermost depths of matter. They are the ones who can believe in a Second Coming of Christ in a physical body.
1. The Spiritual Guidance of Man and of Mankind. (Anthroposophic Press Inc., New York, 1950).
2. Die Pforte der Einweihung and Die Priifung der Seele, the first two of four Mystery Plays by Rudolf Steiner. Translated as The Portal of Initiation and The Soul's Probation in the first volume of Four Mystery Plays. The references are to be found in Scene 2 of The Portal of Initiation and Scene 2 of The Soul's Probation. See 1983 edition of the Four Mystery Plays, translated by Adam Bittleston, published by Rudolf Steiner Press, London.
3. The triple Hecate. A bronze statuette in the Capitoline Museum.
4. Translated by Mary and George Adams (Rudolf Steiner Publishing Co.).
5. See The true Nature of the Second Coming. Two lectures by Rudolf Steiner (1910) (Anthroposophical Publishing Co.).

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Why Burger King Spain Came Under Fire For Its Holy Week Ads
By Erich Barganier/April 20, 2022 12:11 pm EST
Fast food has a long history of flirting with controversial advertising campaigns. According to Twisted, McDonald's drew criticism from fans after it ran a 2014 ad comparing french fries to "tall, blonde and gorgeous" women. Similarly, Burger King pushed a 2009 campaign in Singapore that equated a sandwich to a sex act, and Carl's Jr. used the U.S.-Mexican border wall and bikini-clad women in a commercial to promote its burgers. While these publicity campaigns ruffled some feathers, they may not be as widely remembered as when Jack in the Box made an off-color ad in the wake of the #MeToo movement (via CBS), or when McDonald's evoked the loss of a parent in order to sell its products, per The Washington Post.
Burger King in Spain has now jumped on the bad taste bandwagon after rolling out some very controversial advertisements during this past Holy Week. Catholic Sentinel reports that the brand repurposed some of the last words of Jesus in order to sell vegetarian burgers, and the Catholic community has taken up arms against the chain.
How Burger King angered Catholics
According to Catholic Sentinel, Burger King sparked the trending hashtag #BoicotBurgerKing after posting print advertisements reading, "Take all of you and eat of it. Which doesn't have meat. 100% vegetarian. 100% flavor. Big King Vegetable," and "Flesh of my flesh," with "flesh" redacted to show the word "vegetable." The text takes inspiration the Last Supper, when Jesus consecrated bread, and is being used to sell the brand's plant-based burger. Petitions have since emerged, calling for the boycott of the brand due to the sacrilegious nature of the ad.
Crux reports that Burger King has since apologized on Twitter, stating that it never meant to offend anyone and has since made the decision to remove the print advertisements. Despite the apology, many practicing Catholics have continued to express outrage, claiming that the brand would never have had the gall to launch a campaign making fun of Islam or Judaism. As of now, several religious leaders have joined in to denounce the restaurant, putting even more pressure on the chain, per Fox News. Though the backlash may blow over eventually, this PR debacle will almost certainly be remembered among other fast food advertising moments that embraced poor taste in order to sell food.


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ServiceNow Research Shows That Despite Increase in Cybersecurity Spending, Breaches Increased in 2019
According to respondents, 60% of breaches in 2019 involved vulnerabilities where available patches were not applied
October 29, 2019 08:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time
SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--ServiceNow (NYSE: NOW), the leading digital workflow company making work, work better for people, today released its second sponsored study on cybersecurity vulnerability and patch management, conducted with the Ponemon Institute. The study, "Costs and Consequences of Gaps in Vulnerability Response," found that despite a 24% average increase in annual spending on prevention, detection and remediation in 2019 compared with 2018, patching is delayed an average of 12 days due to data silos and poor organizational coordination. Looking specifically at the most critical vulnerabilities, the average timeline to patch is 16 days.
At the same time, the risk is increasing. According to the findings, there was a 17% increase in cyberattacks over the past year, and 60% of breaches were linked to a vulnerability where a patch was available, but not applied. The study surveyed almost 3,000 security professionals in nine countries to understand how organizations are responding to vulnerabilities. In this report, ServiceNow presents the consolidated findings and comparisons to its 2018 study, Today's State of Vulnerability Response: Patch Work Requires Attention.
The survey results reinforce a need for organizations to prioritize more effective and efficient security vulnerability management:
34% increase in weekly costs spent on patching compared to 2018.
30% more downtime vs. 2018, due to delays in patching vulnerabilities.
69% of respondents plan to hire an average of five staff members dedicated to patching in the next year, at an average cost of $650,000 annually for each organization.
88% of respondents said they must engage with other departments across their organizations, which results in coordination issues that delay patching by an average of 12 days.
The findings also indicate a persistent cybercriminal environment, underscoring the need to act quickly:
17% increase in the volume of cyberattacks in the last 12 months compared to the same timeframe in 2018.
Nearly 27% increase in cyberattack severity compared to 2018.
The report points to other factors beyond staffing that contribute to delays in vulnerability patching:
76% of respondents noted the lack of a common view of applications and assets across security and IT teams.
74% of respondents said they cannot take critical applications and systems offline to patch them quickly.
72% of respondents said it is difficult to prioritize what needs to be patched.
According to the findings, automation delivers a significant payoff in terms of being able to respond quickly and effectively to vulnerabilities. 80% of respondents who employ automation techniques say they respond to vulnerabilities in a shorter timeframe through automation.
"This study shows the vulnerability gap that has been a growing pain point for CIOs and CISOs," said Sean Convery, general manager, ServiceNow Security and Risk. "Companies saw a 30% increase in downtime due to patching of vulnerabilities, which hurts customers, employees and brands. Many organizations have the motivation to address this challenge but struggle to effectively leverage their resources for more impactful vulnerability management. Teams that invest in automation and maturing their IT and security team interactions will strengthen the security posture across their organizations."
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Vulnerability Response is part of ServiceNow Security Operations, a security orchestration, automation and response engine built on the Now Platform. Designed to help security teams respond faster and more efficiently to incidents and vulnerabilities, Security Operations uses intelligent workflows, automation and a deep connection with IT to streamline security response.
Report: Cost and Consequences of Gaps in Vulnerability Response
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ServiceNow commissioned the Ponemon Institute to survey nearly 3,000 IT security professionals in summer 2019. Respondents are based in Australia, France, Germany, Japan, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Singapore, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Founded in 2002, the Ponemon Institute is a research center specializing in privacy, data protection, and information security policy. The report presents the consolidated findings and comparisons to the 2018 study, Today's State of Vulnerability Response: Patch Work Requires Attention.
Survey findings are available for these countries, major industries, small vs. large organizations, and immature vs. mature organizations. Contact ServiceNow for a custom briefing.
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ServiceNow today released its second sponsored study on cybersecurity vulnerability and patch management, conducted with the Ponemon Institute.


An aged salty Gouda and a peppery Zinfandel pair well together, like Sea Level Rise and Dutch Hydrological Engineering, or Dutch Skunk and Stroopwafels. Welcome to my seventh blog about three of my passions, event planning, sustainability, and fine food and beverages.
As you may have guessed, this blog takes us to Amsterdam. But before we dive into some heady conversation, let's hop on our Yellow Bikes, and ride over to The Get Down To It cafe near the Leidseplein, so you can steep in a little Amsterdam coffeeshop culture.
But the effect is wasted on me. Today I'll hang with a friend I can be myself with, a rich and thirst-quenching dark blonde IPA from Brouwerij 't IJ, one of the many outstanding microbreweries inundating this town in recent years.
Settled in? Here's a question – have you ever really thought about the The Commons? Quite a construct if you think about. The commons are things we have a fundamental right to share, like clean air, water, and land. We all have a responsibility to protect them, so we all may enjoy them. We, the users, are all in this together.
Dancing houses on the Amstel River. The houses were built on stilts and have tilted over time.
The Dutch have been into sustaining the commons for hundreds of years. Well before the electric motor, the first hydrological engineers of Amsterdam designed a wind-powered and gravity-based system of canals and catch basins to regulate water levels; preventing flooding and allowing for boat passage. For centuries, the Netherlands has claimed land from the sea, using windmills and other engineering know-how to pump water out of low-lying coastal marshes. Today, with sea level rise a major concern around the globe, many urban planners in flood prone areas are looking to the Dutch for their expertise.
Amsterdam made creating a bicycle-friendly infrastructure a priority in the 1970's, and today the city boasts 2.5 bicycles per capita. Getting to work or school by bike is the norm, creating a greener city and healthier population. Could a green event planner get any more excited about a location?
Yes she can. Our conference took place at The Amsterdam RAI convention center. From a sustainability standpoint, The RAI is at the top of their game.
The RAI has achieved a 100% recycling rate, meaning all waste is diverted from landfills. We were able to recycle all our green conference signage and catering waste.
The RAI donated our leftover food and other conference materials to organizations who need them.
The RAI complies with ISO-9001 (quality), ISO-14001 (environmental) standards, and recently received ISO-20121 and OHSAS-18001 certificates.
The RAI earned the Sustainability Award at the 22th Association of Exhibition Organisers Excellence Awards.
We were in excellent hands with the RAI event services staff. Edith Van Driel in particular was our rock and our rock star, and our team still talks about her with love in their hearts and fondness for her wicked sense of humor. If she ever doesn't want to work in events, she would be an excellent delivery room nurse.
The event we produced at The RAI was an Open Source tech conference. What is Open Source? It is akin to the idea of the commons. Open Source projects, products, or initiatives embrace and celebrate principles of open exchange, collaborative participation, rapid prototyping, transparency, meritocracy, and community-oriented development.(OpenSource.com). Wikipedia is a great example of an open source project. How can it be so comprehensively broad, deep, remarkably up to date and relevant? Because it's created by us, the users, a global community of volunteers who contribute and monitor the content.
Open Source projects and open source software tools are critical part of analyzing complex systemic issues like climate change. Today there are many open source projects in the Netherlands addressing environmental issues, such as the Pollutant Release and Transfer Register and the Coastal Water Simulation – both curated by the Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment. These projects collect data in a way only made possible by the collaboration of a wide, open network of individuals and organizations.
Like open source projects, most large scale events take a village to produce. Here's a couple shout outs to some folks who made our green event possible.
Ecodrukkers – experts in green printing, did a fantastic work printing our program guide.
Daan Van de Kamp – formerly with ITB Holland – did a süper job showing us an array of special event venues, including Air nightclub at Rembrandt Square, Jimmy Woo bar, The Heineken Experience and The Harbor Club. Most interesting is the Westergasfabriek, a former industrial brownbelt complex recently transformed into a greenbelt cultural park with many restaurants and event spaces.
Speaking of restaurants, are you getting hungry about now? Let's pedal over to La Perla in the Jordaan, where you will enjoy the best pizza in your life, the one with the wood-fired crispy thin crust, the one you will still be talking about, like me, years from now.
Until next time – Proost!


The Biggest Myths About Organic Farming.
I refuse to eat or buy anything with an "organic" label. It's just stupid, Gwyneth Paltrow stupid. Well, I have smoked some organic weed, but only when the good stuff wasn't available and, anyway, I didn't inhale it - and it didn't make me stupid enough to want Ben & Jerry's.
While the nutritional profiles may be the same, the chances of organic produce tasting better, are in my experience, much better than those of regular produce. Organic potatoes are almost always amazingly better in particular, but all root vegetables, as well as eggplant, cauliflower, broccoli, and many others are usually simply tastier.
With a blind tasting of the same plant?
Yeah, it sounds like someone is not controlling for variety.
I eat organic tomatoes and cucumbers in the summer. Mostly because I have to do something with those leaves and grass clippings and then need to clear out the bin in the Spring. I grow tomatoes because I can grow delicate heirloom varieties that taste better. And I grow cucumbers because there is little better than a cool cucumber right off the vine in the hot sun. Later, they aren't as good.
I know the organic labels are BS because the fruit and vegetables aren't full of bugs.
I have a couple of truly organic plum trees out back. You can tell they are organic because almost every plum has at least one worm in it.
I'm thinking of spraying this fall and again after they flower next spring so my family, not the worms, get to eat plums.
In all honesty, no. I have done some side-by-sides, but mostly it's of the "the eggplant is so much better this week" kind of thing. With potatoes, it's extremely noticeable.
And, of course, the vagaries of season, age, soil, etc. means there will be plenty of exceptions. I've also noticed that when a fruit or vegetable is in its peek season, there is much less of a difference.
I grow my own potatoes. Don't need to use anything on them to keep them pest-free, so I am raising them organically just by accident. The potatoes I grew in my own yard (red potatoes, russetts and yukon golds) tasted no differently to me than the ones I've bought from the store (non-organic always...I don't have enough extra $ to spend on pricey organic foods). So, sorry, but I don't believe you could tell the difference between organic or non-organic potatoes.
Oh, there was ONE difference...freshness. My homegrown potatoes were definitely fresher than the ones I get at the store (firmer and with more moisture inside). But is that any surprise? Mine traveled from my garden to my kitchen in one day.
Okay, that was informative. I find the idea that organic pesticides being automatically safer than synthetic is... broken. There are some very nasty "all natural" elements that I'd rather not ingest.
So does this apply to "organic" milk? Is my "knowledge" of the effects of hormones & antibiotics feed to cattle in need of adjustment?
On a slightly related topic, I will note that my distaste for GMO crops was never to do with safety, it has to do with how Patents are enforced in ag, and the simple fact that there is no way to control the propagation, there for possibly infecting someone's land who didn't want it - and should have the choice. An example would be some Oregon "Non-GMO" growers who export where to places where GMO is not legal, or requires explicit labeling; got GMO volunteers (which isn't supposed to happen - yet it does) - infecting their crop spoiling the entire harvest for export purposes.
Land owners should have a choice - if they want to grow organic - no pesticides, then I view it as the neighbors responsibility to not overspray on to the "organic" crops. Same thing with GMO - you plant it - you figure out how to keep it on your property (good luck with that).
For what it's worth the various food producers from farmers to middlemen to the chain food stores send the better produce to the high end buyers and consumers. There is some really good produce grown on large farms especially fruit and citrus but it gets sent off to the big money buyers many of them overseas. A fair comparison between organic produce and non-organic produce should be between the best from both sources. But if you buy your potatoes or apples from the local grocery store it won't, usually, be the best of the non-organic crop.


Portuguese pianist Ana Telles has pursued musical studies in Lisbon, New York and Paris, with Yvonne Loriod-Messiaen, Sara Buechner e Nina Svetlanova (Piano), among others. She has graduated from Escola Superior de Música de Lisboa («Bacharelato»), Manhattan School of Music (Bachelor's Degree in Piano Performance) and New York University (Master's Degree in Piano Performance). She holds a doctoral degree in Music History and Musicology from the Paris IV University (Sorbonne) and the University of Évora (Portugal), where her research studies were directed by Danièle Pistone and Rui Nery; her thesis on Portuguese composer Luís de Freitas Branco's piano music was distinguished with the highest classification. Ana Telles plays regularly in Portugal, Germany, United Kingdom, France, Italy, Ireland, Denmark, Cuba, Brasil, Taiwan, Canada and the United States, as a soloist or integrated in chamber music groups. She performed in prestigious venues, such as: the "Salle Cortot" (Paris), the Auditorium of Dijon (France), Borden Auditorium (New York), Sophiensaele (Berlin), the Great Auditorium of Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, the Great Auditorium of Culturgest Foundation, the Small Auditorium of Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and the Small Auditorium of Belém Cultural Center (Lisbon), etc. She played as a soloist with the National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra, the Nuova Amadeus Orchestra (Rome, Italy), the Gulbenkian Orchestra, Lisbon Metropolitan Orchestra, the Classical Orchestra of Madeira, the "Filarmonia das Beiras" Orchestra and the OrchestrUtopica, as well as the Symphonic Band of the National Republicain Guard (Portugal), the "Orchestre de flûtes français", the Tutti Orchestra of Levallois and the "Rouvres en Musique" Festival Orchestra (France). Ana Telles teaches at the University of Évora's Music Department; she develops research projects in the fields of Music of the 20th and 21st centuries, Portuguese modern and contemporary music, Piano music.


The second stop of HTC's Aria Android phone release party came to Seattle and gave reps and the general public a chance to see what this little phone had in store. Some 300 RSVP's signed up for the event and everyone who showed up got drinks, food, decent music and free Aria phones given away to a few lucky drawing individuals. Smooth DJ sounds, monitors showing Aria presentations and multiple HTC stands showcased the event. Three HTC stands for the public on the main floor and one for the VIP reps in the lounge, each holding four Aria's to examine.
Getting right to it, the Aria sported nothing new in the way of OS but made up for it in performance. The phone comes well equipped for such a small, tight jean pocket size and folks looking for a smartphone that really don't care for much of a screen size will love this phone. Running on bread and butter HTC sense, the UI didn't seem much different than what most OS users of this kind are used to. It was very smooth and responsive however, when navigating and opening apps and getting from one app to another worked fluidly, without any stalling. A plus considering there has been some questions about grounded touch responsiveness with recent HTC phones. The phone sports a 5MP rear facing camera and the smooth, yet hardened casing around the phone ensures that it'll take a few drops unlike some of the bigger phones.
Overall, if your looking for all the bells and whistles of a big Android phone, but want to do without the bulk, this is the phone that has it and perhaps the smallest Android device on the market. Here's some pics of the party and some of the Aria with other popular HTC Android phones.


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See also
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02031035180 SCAM Calls Or Very Bad Public Relations by the Halifax?
Brit's up and down the land are being plagued by calls from 0203 103 5180, whilst most take the form of nuisance silent calls, however many people have been reporting that the caller proports to be calling on the behalf of a major UK Bank, The Halifax (Bank of Scotland) and proceeds to ask for personal banking and circumstance information.
With people wondering if the surge in calls across the phone network is somehow related to the loss of child benefit data on the whole country by the government , as the majority of the calls ask to speak to the homemaker i.e. who would tend to be the recipient of child benefit so we dug a little deeper to get to find out who is actually behind these calls.
After more than 20 attempts at calling the number back, many of which end with a silent answering machine, I finally resulted with the message that you were contacted by " FirstAssist Halifax bank of scotland and we will try to contact you again shortly".
Having enquired with Halifax Customer Relations I was informed that they are aware of FirstAssist and that they were undertaking a marketing campaign for the Halifax, and may be attempting to sell insurance, hence a call centre service and therefore the 02031035180 is not the originating number but rather a routing number.
Unfortunately being subscribed to the Telephone Preference Service (TPS) is not preventing hundreds of thousands if not millions of people from getting these nuisance calls from the Halifax. People who repeatedly receive calls should complain directly to the Halifax, despite First Assist not being part of the Halifax BOS group.
Telephone Preferance Service customers are legally allowed to be called by companies like FA as it is not classed as cold calls to be fair.
So its acceptable for First Assist to make thousands of silent nuisance calls without any consquences ?
0845 076 0132. it took me ages at track them down after getting at least 2 silent calls every day.


Third NCI-EORTC Sympmposium on new drugs in Cancer therapy, Institut Bordet, Bruxelles, 1981.
ABSTRACT: Based on the differential template activity exhibited by DNA isolated from cancerous and healthy human or animal tissues, the Oncotest is an accurate and rapid assay for the screening of carcinogenic compounds. Thus, in the presence of all necessary components for radioactive DNA synthesis by DNA polymerase, carcinogenic compounds, antimitotic drugs (and miscellaneous compounds), at given concentrations strongly stimulate the synthesis of DNA isolated from different cancer tissues, but only slightly enhance that of DNA from healthy tissues. Those carcinogens which cannot be characterized as mutagens in the Salmonella assay system, behave as carcinogens in the Oncotest. Carcinogenic potential of steroids can be shown by using the DNA from steroid hormone target tissue. There exists a common molecular mechanism through which carcinogens stimulate cancer DNA in vitro synthesis. Cancer DNAs are destabilized and in the presence of carcinogenic substances there is further DNA strand separation which accounts for the enhanced DNA synthesis. A correlation between in vitro cancer DNA synthesis, DNA strand separation and in vivo multiplication of cancerous cells can be demonstrated. Our assay system allows to detect those substances which selectively inhibit cancer DNA synthesis without affecting, in an appreciably way, that of DNA from healthy tissues.


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Published on January 19th, 2015 | by Gerry Galipault
Your Music Book Store (Jan. 20 and beyond)
CARL DIXON (former member of The Guess Who and April Wine)
"Strange Way to Live: A Story of Rock 'n' Roll Resurrection" (Paperback; Dundurn, Jan. 24)
CHARLIE GRACE
"Rock & Roll's Hidden Giant: The Story of Rock Pioneer Charlie Gracie" (Paperback; co-author: John A. Jackson; Alfred Publishing)
"No Simple Highway: A Cultural History of the Grateful Dead" (Hardcover; author: Peter Richardson; Kindle; St. Martin's Press)
"George Harrison: Behind the Locked Door" (Hardcover; author: Graeme Thomson; Overlook Hardcover, Jan. 22)
BEN YAGODA
"The B-Side: The Death of Tin Pan Alley and the Rebirth of the Great American Song" (Hardcover; Kindle; Riverhead Hardcover, Jan. 22)
MARION JACOBSON
"Squeeze This! A Cultural History of the Accordion in America" (Paperback; University of Illinois Press, Jan. 30)
"Austin Mahone: Just How It Happened: My Official Story" (Kindle; Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
PAT MORGAN
"Motown Artist By Artist" (a compilation of 100 Motown artists; Hardcover; G2 Entertainment, Jan. 26)
"Lou Reed: The Last Interview and Other Conversations" (Hardcover; Kindle; Melville House)
"African Rhythms: The Autobiography of Randy Weston " (Paperback; Duke University Press Books, Jan. 30)
DEBORAH VOIGT (operatic soprano)
"Call Me Debbie: True Confessions of a Down-To-Earth Diva" (Hardcover; Kindle; Harper)
"Respect Yourself: Stax Records and the Soul Explosion" (Paperback; foreword by Booker T. Jones; Bloomsbury USA)
ANDREW GRANT JACKSON
"1965: The Most Revolutionary Year in Music" (Hardcover; Kindle; Thomas Dunne Books)
"Wings Over New Orleans: Unseen Photos of Paul and Linda McCartney, 1975" (Hardcover; author: John Taylor; Pelican Publishing, Feb. 1)
"Stevie Nicks: Visions, Dreams & Rumours" (Hardcover; author: Zöe Street Howe; Overlook Hardcover, Feb. 5)
MICHELE PRIMI
"Tragedies and Mysteries of Rock 'n' Roll" (Hardcover; White Star Publishers)
"The Concise Guide to Hip-Hop Music: A Fresh Look at the Art of Hip Hop, from Old-School Beats to Freestyle Rap" (Paperback; Kindle; St. Martin's Griffin)
MIKE RUTHERFORD
"The Living Years: The First Genesis Memoir" (Hardcover; Kindle; Thomas Dunne Books)
TONY DUNSBEE
"GATHERED FROM COINCIDENCE: A singular history of Sixties' pop" (Kindle; M-Y Books Ltd., Feb. 20)
"Buried Country: The Story of Aboriginal Country Music" (Paperback; foreword by Paul Kelly; Verse Chorus Press)
"One Way Out: The Inside History of the Allman Brothers Band" (Paperback; author: Alan Paul; St. Martin's Griffin)
"Louis Armstrong: Master of Modernism" (Paperback; author: Thomas Brothers; W.W. Norton & Company, Feb. 23)
"A Man Called Destruction: The Life and Music of Alex Chilton, From Box Tops to Big Star to Backdoor Man" (Paperback; author: Holly George-Warren; Penguin Books)
ROBERT CHRISTGAU
"Going into the City: Portrait of a Critic as a Young Man – A Memoir" (Hardcover; Kindle; Dey Street Books)
"Girl in a Band: A Memoir" (Hardcover; Kindle; Dey Street Books)
"How I Left The National Grid: A Post-Punk Novel" (Paperback; Roundfire Books, Feb. 27)
MICHAEL PILHOFER, MM, and HOLLY DAY
"Music Theory For Dummies" (Paperback; For Dummies)
RUBY ELZY
"Black Diva of the Thirties: The Life of Ruby Elzy" (Paperback; University Press of Mississippi, March 1)
DAVE LAING
"One Chord Wonders: Power and Meaning in Punk Rock" (Paperback; PM Press, March 1)
MARIO LANZA
"Mario Lanza: Singing to the Gods" (Paperback; author: Derek Mannering; University Press of Mississippi, March 1)
"Selena's Secret: The Revealing Story Behind Her Tragic Death" (Kindle; author: María Celeste Arrarás; Atria Books)
"Motherless Child: The Definitive Biography of Eric Clapton" (Hardcover; author: Paul Scott; Paperback; Kindle; Headline Book Publishing, March 12)
ZOE CORMIER
"Sex, Drugs, and Rock 'n' Roll: The Science of Hedonism and the Hedonism of Science" (Hardcover; Kindle; Da Capo Press)
SEAN MADIGAN HOEN
"Songs Only You Know: A Memoir" (Paperback; Read here; Kindle; Soho Press)
TONY BARRELL
"Born to Drum: The Truth About the World's Greatest Drummers–from John Bonham and Keith Moon to Sheila E. and Dave Grohl" (Hardcover; Kindle; Dey Street Books)
ADAM NERGAL DARSKI (of Behemoth)
"Confessions of a Heretic: The Sacred and the Profane: Behemoth And Beyond" (Paperback; co-author: Mark Eglinton; Jawbone Press, March 19)
"Unruly: The Highs and Lows of Becoming a Man" (Paperback; Amistad)
"A Broken Hallelujah: Rock and Roll, Redemption, and the Life of Leonard Cohen" (Paperback; author: Liel Leibovitz; W.W. Norton & Company, March 23)
"The Hippest Trip in America: Soul Train and the Evolution of Culture and Style" (Paperback; Hardcover; Kindle; William Morrow Paperbacks)
"AC/DC FAQ: All That's Left to Know About the World's True Rock 'n' Roll Band" (Paperback; author: Susan Masino; Backbeat Books)
PHILIP BAILEY
"Shining Star: Braving the Elements of Earth, Wind & Fire" (Paperback; Plume)
TRAVIS BARKER (of Blink-182)
"Can I Say: Living Large, Cheating Death, and Drums, Drums, Drums" (Hardcover; co-author: Gavin Edwards; Atlantic Publishing / Croxley Green)
"The Beatles: Then There Was Music" (Hardcover; author: Tim Hill; William Morrow, March 28)
TERRY BURROWS
"The British Invasion: The 1960's Music Revolution Day by Day" (Hardcover; Chartbeat Books, April 1)
"Billie Holiday: A Musical Biography" (Hardcover; author: John Szwed; Kindle; Viking Adult)
"Beale Street Dynasty: Sex, Song, and the Struggle for the Soul of Memphis" (Hardcover; Kindle; W.W. Norton & Company, March 30)
"I Found My Friends: The Oral History of Nirvana" (Paperback; author: Nick Soulsby; Kindle; St. Martin's Griffin)
"The Rolling Stones FAQ: All That's Left to Know About the Bad Boys of Rock" (Paperback; author: Gary J. Jucha; Backbeat Books)
REV. GARY DAVIS
"Say No to the Devil: The Life and Musical Genius of Rev. Gary Davis" (Hardcover; author: Ian Zack; University of Chicago Press, April 6)
"Words Without Music: A Memoir" (Hardcover; Kindle; Liveright, April 6)
LES McCANN
"Invitation To Openness: The Jazz & Soul Photography of Les McCann 1960-1980" (Hardcover; Fantagraphics, April 5)
"Torment Saint: The Life of Elliott Smith" (Paperback; author: William Todd Schultz; Bloomsbury USA)
"There Goes Gravity: A Life in Rock and Roll" (Paperback; Riverhead Trade)
BERT BERNS
"Here Comes the Night: The Dark Soul of Bert Berns and the Dirty Business of Rhythm and Blues" (Paperback; author: Joel Selvin; Counterpoint)
"Black Sabbath: Symptom of the Universe" (Kindle; author: Mick Wall; St. Martin's Press)
"Bread: A Sweet Surrender – The Musical Journey of David Gates, James Griffin & Co." (Paperback; author: Malcolm Searles; Helter Skelter Publishing)
RIKKI ERCOLI
"Legends of Punk: Photos from the Vault" (Paperback; Manic D Press, Inc.)
"Linda McCartney: Life in Photographs" (Hardcover; Taschen, April 15)
"Calling Me Home: Gram Parsons and the Roots of Country Rock" (Paperback; author: Bob Kealing; University Press of Florida)
ROGER STEFFENS and PETER SIMON
"Reggae Scrapbook" (Paperback; Insight Editions)
"Unbreak My Heart: A Memoir" (Paperback; Dey Street Books)
BRAD "SCARFACE" JORDAN
"Diary of a Madman: The Geto Boys, Life, Death, and the Roots of Southern Rap" (Hardcover; co-author: Benjamin Meadows Ingram; Kindle; Dey Street Books)
"Bob Dylan: NYC 1961-1964" (Hardcover; author: Ted Russell; Rizzoli)
"So Many Roads: The Life and Times of the Grateful Dead" (Hardcover; author: David Browne; Kindle; Da Capo Press)
TOM HINGLEY
"Carpet Burns: My Life with Inspiral Carpets" (Paperback; Route Publishing, May 1)
"Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock 'n' Roll Music: Sixth Edition" (Paperback; Kindle; Plume)
MICHAELANGELO MATOS
"The Underground Is Massive: How Electronic Dance Music Conquered America" (Hardcover; Kindle; Dey Street Books)
"On the Road with The Oak Ridge Boys: Forty Years of Untold Stories and Adventures" (Paperback; author: Joseph S. Bonsall; Harvest House Publishers, May 1)
BRYAN RAY TURCOTTE
"It All Dies Anyway: L.A., Jabberjaw, and the End of an Era" (Hardcover; Rizzoli)
BILL KREUTZMANN
"Deal: My Three Decades of Drumming, Dreams, and Drugs with the Grateful Dead" (Hardcover; co-author: Benjy Eisen; St. Martin's Press)
"It's a Long Story: My Life" (Hardcover; co-author: David Ritz; Kindle; Little, Brown and Company)
"Stand Up Straight and Sing!" (Paperback; Mariner Books)
"The First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic" (Paperback; Featherproof Books)
"How to Be a Man (and other illusions)" (Hardcover; Da Capo Press)
DAVID NICHOLS
"Dig: Australian Rock and Popular Music, 1960-85" (Paperback; Verse Chorus Press)
VARIOUS WRITERS
"Now Is the Time To Invent! Reports from the Indie-Rock Revolution, 1985-2000" (Paperback; Verse Chorus Press)
BOB MERSEREAU
"The History of Canadian Rock 'n' Roll" (Paperback; Backbeat Books)
JON FINE
"Your Band Sucks: What I Saw at Indie Rock's Failed Revolution (But Can No Longer Hear)" (Hardcover; Kindle; Viking Adult)
"Graham Bonnet: The Story Behind the Shades" (Paperback; author: Steve Wright; Easy on the Eye Books, May 28)
"I Got a Name: The Jim Croce Story" (Paperback; authors: Ingrid Croce, Jimmy Rock; Da Capo Press)
"The Dylanologists: Adventures in the Land of Bob" (Hardcover; author: David Kinney; Simon & Schuster)
"Morrissey FAQ: All That's Left to Know About This Charming Man" (Paperback; author: D. McKinney; Backbeat Books)
MARK RIBOWSKY
"Dreams to Remember: Otis Redding, Stax Records, and the Transformation of Southern Soul" (Kindle; Hardcover; Liveright, May 25)
"27: A History of the 27 Club through the Lives of Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Kurt Cobain, and Amy Winehouse" (Paperback; Da Capo Press)
"Boom Boom, Boom Boom: American Rhythm & Blues in England 1962-1966" (Paperback; Easy on the Eye Books, May 28)
"Willin': The Story of Little Feat" (Paperback; author: Ben Fong-Torres; Da Capo Press)
MAURICE WHITE
"Keep Your Head to the Sky: My Life with Earth, Wind & Fire" (Hardcover; co-author: Herb Powell; Kindle; Amistad)
"18 and Life on Skid Row" (Hardcover; Kindle; Dey Street Books)
DENNIS DUNAWAY
"Snakes! Guillotines! Electric Chairs! My Adventures in The Alice Cooper Group" (Hardcover; co-author: Chris Hodenfield; Kindle; Thomas Dunne Books)
AMANDA PETRUSICH
"Do Not Sell At Any Price: The Wild, Obsessive Hunt for the World's Rarest 78rpm Records" (Paperback; Scribner)
"Rock Atlas U2" (Paperback; authors: Dave Griffith, David Roberts; Clarksdale)
"Living Like a Runaway: A Memoir" (Hardcover; Kindle; Dey Street Books)
STEPHEN WITT
"How Music Got Free: The End of an Industry, the Turn of the Century, and the Patient Zero of Piracy" (Hardcover; Kindle; Viking Adult)
CAROLYN ABBATE and ROGER PARKER
"A History of Opera" (Paperback; W.W. Norton & Company, June 22)
"The Beat of My Own Drum: A Memoir" (Paperback; Atria Books)
DAVID POGUE and SCOTT SPECK
"Classic Music For Dummies" (Paperback; For Dummies, June 29)
"You're Making Me Hate You: An Uncommon Guide to Common Sense" (Hardcover; Da Capo Press)
"I Am Charlie Wilson" (Hardcover; Kindle; Atria Books / 37 Ink)
MICHAEL RUFFINO (of Unband)
"Adios, Motherfucker: A Gentleman's Progress Through Rock and Roll" (Paperback; ABEcco)
"The Youngs: The Brothers Who Built AC/DC" (Paperback; author: Jesse Fink; Black and White Publishing, July 15)
"Dylan Goes Electric! Newport, Seeger, Dylan, and the Night that Split the Sixties" (Hardcover; author: Elijah Wald; Kindle; Dey Street Books)
DAVID STUBBS
"Future Days: Krautrock and the Building of Modern Germany" (Hardcover; Melville House)
LUKE CAMPBELL
"The Book of Luke: My Fight for Truth, Justice, and Liberty City" (Hardcover; co-author: Tanner Colby; Kindle; Amistad)
"Americana: The Kinks, the Riff, the Road: The Story" (Paperback; Sterling)
TRACEY LAIRD, BRANDON LAIRD, SCOTT NEWTON
"Austin City Limits: Forty Years of Legendary Music" (Hardcover; Insight Editions)
Tags: Carl Dixon, Charlie Grace, George Harrison, Grateful Dead, music books, new releases
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Bradley waste receptacle. Cabinet is 22 gauge stainless steel with exposed surfaces in architectural satin finish. Door is 18 gauge stainless steel. Product has push flap door. One-piece seamless construction. Door is secured to cabinet with a tumbler lock keyed like other Bradley units. Recess mounted. 9.2 gallon capacity. Includes leakproof molded plastic liner.


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// Copyright © 2010-2016 The CefSharp Authors. All rights reserved.
//
// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be found in the LICENSE file.

using System;
using System.Threading.Tasks;

namespace CefSharp.Example
{
    public class BoundObject
    {
        public int MyProperty { get; set; }

        public string MyReadOnlyProperty { get; internal set; }
        public Type MyUnconvertibleProperty { get; set; }
        public SubBoundObject SubObject { get; set; }
        public ExceptionTestBoundObject ExceptionTestObject { get; set; }

        public uint[] MyUintArray
        {
            get { return new uint[] { 7, 8 }; }
        }

        public int[] MyIntArray
        {
            get { return new [] { 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 }; }
        }

        public Array MyArray
        {
            get { return new short[] { 1, 2, 3 }; }
        }

        public byte[] MyBytes
        {
            get { return new byte[] { 3, 4, 5 }; }
        }

        public BoundObject()
        {
            MyProperty = 42;
            MyReadOnlyProperty = "I'm immutable!";
            IgnoredProperty = "I am an Ignored Property";
            MyUnconvertibleProperty = GetType();
            SubObject = new SubBoundObject();
            ExceptionTestObject = new ExceptionTestBoundObject();
        }

        public void TestCallback(IJavascriptCallback javascriptCallback)
        {
            const int taskDelay = 1500;

            Task.Run(async () =>
            {
                await Task.Delay(taskDelay);

                using (javascriptCallback)
                {
                    //NOTE: Classes are not supported, simple structs are
                    var response = new CallbackResponseStruct("This callback from C# was delayed " + taskDelay + "ms");
                    await javascriptCallback.ExecuteAsync(response);
                }
            });
        }

        public int EchoMyProperty()
        {
            return MyProperty;
        }

        public string Repeat(string str, int n)
        {
            string result = String.Empty;
            for (int i = 0; i < n; i++)
            {
                result += str;
            }
            return result;
        }

        public string EchoParamOrDefault(string param = "This is the default value")
        {
            return param;
        }

        public void EchoVoid()
        {
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        public Boolean EchoBoolean(Boolean arg0)
        {
            return arg0;
        }

        public Boolean? EchoNullableBoolean(Boolean? arg0)
        {
            return arg0;
        }

        public SByte EchoSByte(SByte arg0)
        {
            return arg0;
        }

        public SByte? EchoNullableSByte(SByte? arg0)
        {
            return arg0;
        }

        public Int16 EchoInt16(Int16 arg0)
        {
            return arg0;
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        public Int16? EchoNullableInt16(Int16? arg0)
        {
            return arg0;
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        public Int32 EchoInt32(Int32 arg0)
        {
            return arg0;
        }

        public Int32? EchoNullableInt32(Int32? arg0)
        {
            return arg0;
        }

        public Int64 EchoInt64(Int64 arg0)
        {
            return arg0;
        }

        public Int64? EchoNullableInt64(Int64? arg0)
        {
            return arg0;
        }

        public Byte EchoByte(Byte arg0)
        {
            return arg0;
        }

        public Byte? EchoNullableByte(Byte? arg0)
        {
            return arg0;
        }

        public UInt16 EchoUInt16(UInt16 arg0)
        {
            return arg0;
        }

        public UInt16? EchoNullableUInt16(UInt16? arg0)
        {
            return arg0;
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        public UInt32 EchoUInt32(UInt32 arg0)
        {
            return arg0;
        }

        public UInt32? EchoNullableUInt32(UInt32? arg0)
        {
            return arg0;
        }

        public UInt64 EchoUInt64(UInt64 arg0)
        {
            return arg0;
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            return arg0;
        }

        public Single EchoSingle(Single arg0)
        {
            return arg0;
        }

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        {
            return arg0;
        }

        public Double EchoDouble(Double arg0)
        {
            return arg0;
        }

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            return arg0;
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            return arg0;
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            return arg0;
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        public Decimal EchoDecimal(Decimal arg0)
        {
            return arg0;
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        public Decimal? EchoNullableDecimal(Decimal? arg0)
        {
            return arg0;
        }

        public String EchoString(String arg0)
        {
            return arg0;
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        //{
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        public String lowercaseMethod()
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            return "lowercase";
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        public string ReturnJsonEmployeeList()
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