It is a privilege for me, as a Jewish woman, to address this fasting dinner in honor of the Muslim season of Ramadan at one of the region's leading Catholic institutions. While the interfaith character of this occasion is notable, it is not all that unusual in a pluralistic democratic society. Let us enjoy being together and rejoice in the fact that we live in a society that makes such a phenomenon possible. And at the same time let us mourn the fact that it is most unusual, I would say even inconceivable, in many places in the world. Unfortunately there are not so many places in the world where people have both the desire and the opportunity to gather together in common cause—people of many different faiths and even people of no faith. What we are fortunate enough to share is the right to live in a place where we are free to believe whatever our own hearts and minds and our own traditions want us to believe—without fear.
"May the Children of the Stock of Abraham, who dwell in this land, continue to merit and enjoy the good will of the other inhabitants, while every one shall sit in safety under his own vine and fig tree, and there shall be none to make him afraid." If my limited knowledge of religion serves me well, I think we Jews, Christians and Muslims all consider ourselves to be of the "stock of Abraham." As we rejoice in Washington's world view, which was very advanced and reflected the hopes and dreams of this very young democratic nation, we must also mourn the fact that all too few people in this world practice their religions in an atmosphere in which "there shall be none to make (them) afraid." How much have we learned about tolerance and respect for those who are very different from us in the past 208 years? Why are we still fighting against each other? Why do nations continue to fight each other, not only on religious issues, but on economic and political issues as well? Alas, I can't think of any good reasons that even wise men and women see war as the only option that they have and wonder why they do not accept diplomacy and constructive compromise as valid solutions to their problems. I wish I could say that religion is a neutral or a positive force in support of peace in the world, but we know that it is not always the case.
Yet diversity and interdependence are inherent in and essential to the very nature of life. They are the natural order of things—the formula for success and sustainability. Environmentalists understand that better than the rest of us. The world is diverse—it is the balances and interactions of the diverse elements in the natural world that comprise an ecologically sound environment. And, as we look into the social, economic, political and religious spheres we find, too, that it is the diversity and the interaction of the various elements in our community, our nation and our world that make for a dynamic, creative and yes, sustainable environment.
Are we ready, in this most interdependent of eras, to agree to celebrate at once our differences and our uniqueness? The revolution in information and communication technologies gives us creatures of the 21st century an unprecedented opportunity for choosing a future of promise—and the promise, of course, is freedom and justice for all the world's people. This opportunity brings with it challenges and responsibilities, because commitment goes beyond proclamations and rhetoric—though both are important. But we must have actions as well. We must enter into the world of civic engagement and belief that our hard work-work that will never end—to make the world better—is the way we make good on our dream of liberty and justice for all. Whatever our particular religious faith may be, we must work together, motivated by our faith in the human potential for living together peacefully on this planet. Interdependence is both good and bad. It can be threatening to our physical, psychological and economic well being; it can be disturbing to our social equilibrium in that it presents the challenges that have plagued human beings throughout our history—but to a much greater extent. Challenges that were threatening even at the local level now claim our attention at the global level. It is daunting to learn that our slightest actions can have repercussions half way around the globe. In this new world, which requires our bravery and our ingenuity, what can we do and what will we do to choose a future of promise?
When I reflect on such matters I ask myself two questions—and I will now ask them of you. What kind of society are we? And what kind of society do we aspire to be? Because we live in a free society, we have the right to ask these questions, because we citizens are the agents of change that will drive our political and economic engines to meet our needs and desires, and our hopes. My answers to the questions are as follows. We are a society that is a pluralistic democracy that has high ideals and access to change through the law. What kind of society we aspire to be is not so easy to answer. There are some who want to have their own freedoms but are not interested in the well being of others—witness the perilously widening gap between rich and poor; there are religious fundamentalists who are not tolerant of those who do not agree with their beliefs; there are neighbors who cannot accept neighbors who have different skin colors, different religions, different sexual preferences and such. How do we handle these serious problems?
I propose that we institute or where it exists, increase substantially, education for tolerance and for citizenship—and I mean 21st century global citizenship– in all our institutions. We have to cultivate the will to move forward in offering the possibility of liberty and justice for all, and we have to develop the skills to do that as well. The American motto, as many of you know, is E Pluribus Unum. From many, one. Isn't that a good motto for the planet? We are individuals, yes—and what we can attain as such has gone and will continue to go further than we might ever have imagined. But we are also here with and for each other—and we have gone a relatively short distance by comparison; but we can go considerably further if we develop in our population—and in particular our young people– the will and the skills to build a global civil society.
We need interfaith understanding, and inter-ethnic understanding and inter-gender understanding and inter-class understanding—international understanding and even interplanetary understanding. For now we just need to get on that path. Our interdependence is a given. It's up to us to acknowledge it and live morally and civically, according to its guidance.
From what I know of Marywood, and we are witness to it this evening, it is an institution that balances its particularity with its universality— though grounded in history and an important set of traditions, understands the global challenges that we have the privilege to address in this interdependent 21st century world. It is at once Catholic (upper case) in its religious commitment and catholic (lower case)—in its commitment to all human beings. That's why we are here tonight celebrating the healthy diversity of our world. May we live in harmony with our particular faiths and at the same time demonstrate our collective faith in our capacity to bring the freedoms, rights and responsibilities that we enjoy to all the world's people.


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Il principato di Sealand (in inglese Principality of Sealand, "terra del mare") è una micronazione situata a poche miglia dalla costa inglese. Si tratta di una struttura artificiale creata dal governo del Regno Unito durante la seconda guerra mondiale, occupata fin dal 1967 dalla famiglia di Paddy Roy Bates e dai loro compagni, che la proclamarono "principato con sovranità indipendente".

Anche se i componenti della famiglia di Bates, suoi custodi, la dichiarano essere una micronazione indipendente, Sealand in realtà non è riconosciuta come stato sovrano da nessuno Stato del mondo.

Storia

La seconda guerra mondiale e Fort Roughs

Nel 1942, durante la seconda guerra mondiale, vennero progettate e costruite alcune fortificazioni, dette fortezze marittime Maunsell, tra le quali ve ne era una denominata HM Fort Roughs (anche detta Roughs Tower o Fort Rough, per via delle secche su cui era appoggiata). Quest'ultima comprendeva una grande piattaforma (zattera) galleggiante con una sovrastruttura di due torri unite da un ponte sul quale potevano essere aggiunte altre strutture. La piattaforma venne trainata fino al banco di sabbia Rough Sands dove venne intenzionalmente allagata, in modo che lo scafo affondasse e si appoggiasse sul fondo. Le colonne, rimaste emerse, e la piattaforma superiore costituiscono la sovrastruttura del vascello rimasta in vista.

La struttura venne occupata da 150-300 membri della Royal Navy per tutta la durata del conflitto e la loro funzione era quella di difesa antiaerea. Al termine del conflitto mondiale, tutto il personale venne evacuato e la piattaforma fu abbandonata.

L'occupazione di Bates e la proclamazione

La vigilia di Natale del 1966, il forte venne occupato da Paddy Roy Bates, un cittadino britannico ed ex militare che aveva avuto problemi legali a causa di una stazione radio, "Radio Essex". Egli dopo aver discusso coi suoi avvocati su come fare per mantenere la sua radio attiva decise di proclamare la piattaforma uno Stato indipendente.

Nel 1968 Michael Bates (figlio di Roy) venne convocato a giudizio a causa di un incidente in cui vennero anche sparati alcuni colpi da una fregata della marina inglese nella vicinanze di Sealand. Secondo alcuni rapporti, gli occupanti del vascello intendevano espellere Bates dalla fortezza, mentre per altri stavano semplicemente tentando di riparare una vicina boa nautica. Il 25 novembre 1968 la corte affermò che, poiché l'incidente era avvenuto al di fuori delle acque territoriali inglesi, essa non aveva alcuna giurisdizione sull'avvenuto.

Nel 1978, mentre Roy Bates era assente, il "primo ministro" che egli aveva incaricato, il professor Alexander Achenbach, e diversi cittadini dei Paesi Bassi organizzarono la cattura di Roughs Tower, trattenendo Michael, figlio di Bates, come ostaggio, prima di rilasciarlo diversi giorni dopo nei Paesi Bassi.

Bates arruolò dei mercenari e con un elicottero d'assalto riprese la fortezza. Tenne quindi prigionieri gli invasori reclamandoli come prigionieri di guerra. I cittadini dei Paesi Bassi partecipanti all'invasione furono rimpatriati alla cessazione della "guerra"; invece Achenbach, di cittadinanza tedesca, venne accusato di "tradimento contro Sealand" e imprigionato indefinitamente. I governi dei Paesi Bassi e della Germania avanzarono una petizione al governo britannico per il suo rilascio, ma la Gran Bretagna disconobbe ogni responsabilità, citando la decisione della corte del 1968.

La Germania inviò allora un diplomatico a Roughs Tower per negoziare il rilascio di Achenbach e dopo diverse settimane Roy Bates cedette, affermando successivamente che, a suo dire, la visita diplomatica costituiva il riconoscimento de facto di Sealand da parte della Germania (la Germania non ha confermato questa interpretazione personale di Bates).

In seguito al suo rimpatrio, il professor Achenbach stabilì un "Governo in esilio" in Germania, in opposizione a quello di Roy Bates, assumendo il titolo di "Segretario del Concilio Privato". Alle dimissioni di Achenbach per ragioni di salute nell'agosto 1989 il "Ministro per la Cooperazione Economica" del governo ribelle, Johannes Seiger, assunse il controllo con la posizione di "Primo Ministro e Segretario del Concilio Privato". Seiger continua ad affermare di essere l'autorità legittima di governo di Sealand.

A partire dagli anni novanta, per un certo periodo, Sealand produsse anche passaporti. A causa della quantità massiccia di passaporti in circolazione (stimata in circa 150 000 unità), nel 1997, la famiglia Bates revocò tutti i passaporti di Sealand che aveva essa stessa emesso nei precedenti 30 anni.

Gli anni 2000 e la messa in vendita

Nel 2000 la polizia spagnola ha scoperto un gruppo criminale che vendeva passaporti di Sealand (dichiarati come falsi da Sealand); si sospettò che il gruppo fosse coinvolto in molti crimini di alto profilo, incluso l'omicidio di Gianni Versace.

Intorno al 2000, Sealand si fece conoscere da molti appassionati di informatica, proponendosi dapprima di ospitare siti web ritenuti di dubbia legalità nei paesi di origine, poi offrendo asilo a Napster. Nel 2007 Sealand è stato messo in vendita da Michael Bates. Il prezzo stimato nel 2007 era di 750 milioni di euro. Il 9 gennaio 2007, il sito The Pirate Bay, uno dei più famosi tracker per BitTorrent, ha annunciato di voler acquistare Sealand raccogliendo fondi attraverso libere donazioni versate su conto Paypal. Tuttavia ha rinunciato, dopo solo due settimane, a causa del disinteresse per la vendita mostrato da Bates.

La vendita è poi sfumata del tutto a seguito della chiusura dell'agenzia immobiliare spagnola che se ne occupava, Inmonaranja, nel 2008.

Il 9 ottobre del 2012, Roy Bates è deceduto per cause naturali a 91 anni. Il titolo di "principe", per diritto ereditario, è andato a Michael Bates (coniugato con Lorraine Wheeler), figlio primogenito che dal 1999 serviva come "reggente", essendo il padre affetto dalla malattia di Alzheimer. Suo erede è James, il secondogenito nato nel 1986. Il 10 marzo 2016 è deceduta in una casa di riposo anche Joan Bates, all'età di 86 anni.

Tra il 2018 ed il 2019 a causa dell'uscita del Regno Unito dall'Unione europea con la Brexit, il principato è stato oggetto di richieste di cittadinanza da parte di britannici contrari alla Brexit.

Geografia

La struttura si trova a circa 10 km al largo della costa del Suffolk (Inghilterra), alle coordinate 51° 53' 40" N e 1° 28' 57" E. Sulla struttura artificiale abitano cinque persone, su una superficie di circa 0,004 km².

Per la sua costruzione, una chiatta della Royal Navy venne rimorchiata sopra la secca marittima di Rough Sands, nel Mare del Nord, e affondata intenzionalmente.

Status legale

Nel diritto internazionale, le scuole di pensiero più comuni per la creazione di uno Stato sono le teorie costitutive e dichiarative della creazione dello Stato. La teoria costitutiva è il modello standard ottocentesco della statualità e la teoria dichiarativa è stata sviluppata nel XX secolo per ovviare alle carenze della teoria costitutiva. Nella teoria costitutiva, esiste uno Stato esclusivamente tramite il riconoscimento da parte di altri stati. La teoria si divide se questo riconoscimento richiede 'riconoscimento diplomatico' o semplicemente 'il riconoscimento dell'esistenza'. Sealand non ha ricevuto alcun riconoscimento ufficiale, ma è stato sostenuto da Bates che i negoziati condotti dalla Germania a seguito di un breve episodio di ostaggi costituisca 'il riconoscimento dell'esistenza' (e, dato che il governo tedesco secondo come riferito ha inviato un ambasciatore alla torre, riconoscimento diplomatico). Nella teoria dichiarativa di statualità, un'entità diventa uno Stato non appena soddisfa i criteri minimi per la statualità. Pertanto, il riconoscimento da parte di altri Stati è puramente 'dichiarativo' e non è necessario per l'esistenza dello Stato stesso.

Sulla statualità di Sealand e sul suo status internazionale sono stati prodotti due diversi pareri legali in tempi diversi da parte di due docenti universitari: il primo nel 1978 da parte di Béla Vitàny dell'università di Nimega, il secondo nel 2017 da parte di Jacobo Rios Rodriguez dell'Università di Perpignano Via Domitia, tesi a dimostrarne la statualità e la legittima sovranità del principato.

Governo e politica
A prescindere dal suo status giuridico, Sealand è gestito dalla famiglia Bates come se fosse un'entità sovrana riconosciuta e venisse trasmesso agli eredi di famiglia. Roy Bates si è designato come 'il principe Roy' e la sua vedova come 'principessa Joan'. Il loro figlio è chiamato nella piattaforma "sua altezza reale il principe Michael" ed è stato indicato come il 'Principe Reggente' della famiglia Bates dal 1999. In questo ruolo, egli sarebbe 'Capo dello Stato' e anche 'Capo di Governo '. In una conferenza sulle micronazioni, ospitate dall'Università di Sunderland nel 2004, Sealand fu rappresentata da Michael Bates. L'impianto è ora occupato da uno o più bidelli rappresentanti di Michael Bates, il quale risiede in Essex, Inghilterra.

La Costituzione di Sealand è stata scritta nel 1974. Si compone di un preambolo e sette articoli. Il preambolo afferma l'indipendenza del Sealand, mentre gli articoli variamente trattano lo Stato di Sealand come una monarchia costituzionale, il potenziamento degli uffici di governo, il ruolo di un nominato, Senato consultivo, le funzioni di una nomina, di consulenza tribunale legale, il divieto di portare armi, se non per i membri di una designata 'Sealand Guard', il diritto esclusivo del sovrano di formulare la politica estera e modificare la costituzione e la patrilineare successione ereditaria della monarchia. Il sistema giudiziario di Sealand afferma di seguire la common law britannica e gli statuti assumono la forma di decreti emanati dal sovrano. Sealand ha rilasciato passaporti di "fantasia" (come definito dal Consiglio dell'Unione europea), che ovviamente non sono validi per i viaggi internazionali e detiene il Guinness World Record per 'la più piccola area che rivendica lo status di nazione'. Il motto di Sealand è E Mare Libertas (Dal mare, Libertà). Appare sugli oggetti Sealandic - come francobolli, passaporti e monete - ed è il titolo dell'inno: Sealandic. L'inno è stato composto dal londinese Basil Simonenko; essendo un inno strumentale, non ha parole. Nel 2005, l'inno è stato registrato dalla Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra e pubblicato nel loro CD "Inni Nazionali del Mondo", vol. 7: Qatar - Siria.

Sport
Il 22 maggio 2013 l'alpinista Kenton Cool posiziona una bandiera di Sealand sulla sommità del monte Everest.
Per la stagione calcistica 2003-2004, Sealand può vantare perfino una propria nazionale di calcio, grazie a un accordo pattuito dal principe Michael con la squadra danese Vestbjerg Vintage, volto a dar maggior prestigio alla nazione.
Sempre nel 2003, l'atleta canadese Darren Blackburn rappresenta il principato del Sealand nella disciplina della maratona.

Bandiera

La bandiera è stata disegnata nell'estate del 1967 da Roy Bates, Joan Bates sua moglie, Michael Bates e Penny Bates, i loro figli, che avevano rispettivamente 14 e 16 anni; ed è stata innalzata il 2 settembre dello stesso anno.

Il rosso rappresenta Paddy Roy Bates, il fondatore e primo "sovrano" della micronazione. Il bianco rappresenta i valori della virtù e della purezza percorsi dai Principi di Sealand. Infine, il nero rappresenta il periodo in cui Roy Bates gestiva la radio pirata, che lo ha portato a fondare la micronazione.

La bandiera di Sealand è simile alle bandiere nazionali del Congo, della RD Congo, della Namibia, di St. Kitts e Nevis, delle Isole Salomone e della Tanzania. Difatti, ognuna ha una fascia che si estende dal basso a sinistra in alto a destra, dividendo così la bandiera in tre parti distinte. Tuttavia, la bandiera del Principato è più vecchia di tutte le altre, tranne quelle del Congo e della Tanzania.

Araldica e titoli nobiliari
Il titolo di nobiltà del principato è di possibile ottenimento, attraverso una lettera di titolo acquisito firmato dal principe reggente; indipendentemente dalla cittadinanza posseduta, un attestato, approvato con nulla osta dalla famiglia reale, che conferisce il titolo di "lord", "barone", "conte", "duca" (oppure anche di "lady", "baronessa" o "contessa" o "duchessa") di Sealand; nel 2013 è stato ideato anche il titolo di "cavaliere" dell'ordine di Sealand. I certificati sono ovviamente riconosciuti all'interno del solo principato e permettono di essere invitati come consiglieri del "principe", partecipare a banchetti e manifestazioni che si possono tenere nel principato stesso o anche in sede estera.
L'uso in altri stati dei titoli di Sealand è possibile compatibilmente con le normative in vigore negli stati stessi. In Italia, ai sensi della XIV disposizione transitoria della Costituzione per cui "i titoli nobiliari non sono riconosciuti", non hanno alcuna rilevanza giuridica, il loro utilizzo è pertanto pienamente libero nell'ambito del diritto privato. Sealand rilascia inoltre stemmi araldici.

Elenco dei principi

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Mamrie Hart
Mamrie Lillian Hart (/ˈmeɪmri/; born September 22, 1983) is an American comedian, actress, writer, and performer.[1] She gained popularity in 2011 through her YouTube show You Deserve A Drink, for which she has won two Streamy Awards: in 2014 for Actress in a Comedy[2] and in 2015 for Writing.[3] As of March 2019[update], she has over 1.1 million YouTube subscribers and her main channel has over 93 million views. She also co-wrote, co-produced, and co-starred in the 2014 film Camp Takota and the 2016 film Dirty 30.
Hart at the #NoFilter show in Portland, Oregon, December 2013.
Mamrie Lillian Hart
Andover, New Jersey
Internet personality, comedian, actress, and author
YouTube information
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1.1M+ Subscribers
93+ million views
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100,000 subscribers 2013
1,000,000 subscribers 2015
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (BA)
Updated 13 March 2019
Hart was born in New Jersey and went to high school in Boonville, North Carolina.[4] Her father is actor David Hart[4] and her mother, Caroline Mayhall, is a high school English teacher. She has a brother named David and a sister named Annie.[5] Her parents divorced when she was nine years old.[4][6] Hart's first name is a tribute to her great grandmother, Lillian Mamrie. Hart earned her Bachelor of Arts in drama and communications from UNC-Chapel Hill.[4][7] Upon graduation, she moved to New York City to pursue "serious acting," where she worked as a bartender as a source of income.[7][8]
Cudzoo and the FaggettesEdit
Hart joined forces with Erin 'E-Bomb' McCarson and Jessica 'J-Train' Bartley and formed a band called Cudzoo & the Faggettes.[9] The band is known for its humorous, innuendo-laden lyrical content and live shows.[10] They came up with Cudzoo in reference to the kudzu vines that are prevalent in the South where all three women came from.[11] They refer to their own style as a mixture between dirty doo wop and vintage rock. They often perform in New York, although the band is currently on a hiatus because Hart now resides in Los Angeles. They have released two albums, The Prettiest Girls With The Filthiest Mouths (2009) and Daddy Issues (2012).[12] The most notable singles are "Daddy Issues" and "New York Girls".
Upright Citizens BrigadeEdit
Hart wrote and performed sketches with the Upright Citizens Brigade at the Chelsea location in New York City, both live and in online shorts.[1] One recurring collaboration with Stephen Soroka under the title BOF (short for best of friends, pronounced "boaf")[13][14] was nominated for Best Sketch Group at the 2010 and 2011 ECNY Awards.[1] She also wrote and starred with fellow alums Gabe Liedman and Jim Santangeli on the Cooking Channel's online sketch comedy show, Fodder.[15]
YouTubeEdit
Hart joined YouTube on June 20, 2009. She began her main channel, You Deserve A Drink, on March 13, 2011, where she primarily posts weekly instructional mixology videos, with a unique cocktail presented in each.[7] This combines her past work experience as a bartender with performing.[16] The videos contain pop culture references, sexual innuendo, and numerous puns, and occasionally she makes drinks for celebrities that she feels deserve a drink.[7][17] Once the drink is finished, Hart encourages viewers to make the cocktail themselves and then rewatch the video, using it as a drinking game wherein the participant takes a drink each time she makes a pun. Her favorite drink is a gin gimlet, straight up.[18]
Hart periodically collaborates with other YouTube personalities, such as Grace Helbig, Tyler Oakley, Hannah Hart (no relation), and Flula Borg. She has also performed in videos on other YouTube channels like Rainn Wilson's Soul Pancake,[19] Sing-A-Gram on My Damn Channel,[20] and Multi-break Up with The Fine Brothers.[21]
On May 7, 2013, Hart introduced her second YouTube channel, Mametown, on her Tumblr page. Prior to this, the account did not contain any videos despite being created in 2009. Hart uploads videos here that are unrelated to You Deserve a Drink. She initially requested viewers to recommend what she should post on the channel.[22] Since then she has uploaded many unique videos that range from performing as wacky characters to introducing her dog, Beanz, to vlogging.[23] Hart was also involved in YouTube's Comedy Week program which began on May 19, 2013.
Hart appearing in a Vlogbrothers video in 2016.
On July 1, 2014, Hart and Grace Helbig premiered footage of their travel web show #HeyUSA on the YouTube channel Astronauts Wanted.[24] On October 15, 2014, eight full-length episodes were posted to Conde Nast Entertainment's digital platform The Scene. A second season of #HeyUSA was released April 16, 2015, this time with special guest hosts instead of Grace Helbig. Viewers selected the following cohosts: Colleen Ballinger, Flula Borg, Kingsley, Jenna Marbles, and Tyler Oakley. Helbig selected the location to which Hart and her co-host traveled for each episode.[25]
On May 18, 2016, Hart guest starred in Season 5 of the YouTube series Epic Rap Battles of History, playing the role of Julia Child and rapping opposite Lloyd Ahlquist playing the role of Gordon Ramsay.[26] In 2016, she also moderated a panel that included Jake Paul and Alfie Deyes on the legacy of social media for Web Summit in Lisbon, Portugal.[27]
Starting in March 2018, Hart and Grace Helbig began hosting a new YouTube show together called This Might Get... on a dedicated channel of the same name.[28][29] The show was named after their long-running live stand-up show, This Might Get Weird, Y'all.[30] Each episode focused on a different topic, meme, or pop culture event.[29] It was executive produced by Michael Goldfine, who worked with the on-screen duo on Camp Takota and Dirty 30.[29] The show ran for 151 episodes before being cancelled in October 2018.[30][31]
#NoFilter live showEdit
Grace Helbig and Hannah Hart onstage with Mamrie at No Filter in Portland, Oregon, in December 2013
In 2012, Grace Helbig, Hannah Hart, and Mamrie Hart put together a live variety show which they named #NoFilter with comedy sketches, improv, giveaways, and songs.[18] In contrast with many live performances, they encourage documentation of the show by the audience.[32] They have also re-enacted fan fiction written by Tumblr users which includes all three women. She also appeared in a similar series of sketches called FANtasies that adapted a soap opera style. The premiere was called "Paging Dr. Hart".[33]
While at UNC, Hart played a bisexual girl named Erin on General College, a student-run soap opera.[34][35] She later co-hosted the web series Luxor Race Through the Pyramid at the Luxor Las Vegas, which aired on MySpace in 2013.[36]
She appeared in an episode of Don't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23 in the show's second season in 2014 in the episode "Ocupado," as Theresa.
Hart had thirteen appearances on Comedy Central quiz show @midnight throughout all four seasons from 2014 through 2017.[37] She was the winner in five of her appearances (episodes 80, 171, 355, 415, and 493). Hart also appeared in the pilot episode of The Grace Helbig Show on E! on April 3, 2015.[38] She had a recurring role in Oscar's Hotel for Fantastical Creatures in 2015, where she portrayed a pink gigantic octopus named Octochef who is the titular hotel's residential chef.[39]
Hart has also appeared in several television commercials, including a campaign for La-Z-Boy featuring Brooke Shields.[7][40]
On August 2, 2013, Hart announced on the main stage at VidCon 2013 that she would be starring in her first feature film alongside friends Grace Helbig and Hannah Hart.[41] Hart co-wrote the script with Lydia Genner. Camp Takota stars Helbig as a young woman who is forced to leave her big city job and head back to her old summer camp where she is reunited with old friends played by Hannah and Mamrie. The film, directed by Chris and Nick Riedell, began shooting in California on August 12, 2013.[42] The film's official trailer was released on December 24, 2013 on Hart's, Helbig's and Hannah's respective main YouTube channels, as well as on the film's official website.[42][43][44][45] On February 5, 2014, an extended trailer was released on Helbig's it'sGrace channel and on the Camp Takota website.[42][46] Camp Takota was released via digital download on February 14, 2014.[47][48]
On October 28, 2015, Hart and her Camp Takota co-stars Grace Helbig and Hannah Hart announced pre-production on a new feature film titled Dirty 30.[49] The film was released on September 23, 2016, in select theatres and on digital HD. Mamrie Hart won a Streamy Award in 2017 for her performance in Dirty 30 for Acting In a Comedy.[50]
BooksEdit
You Deserve a DrinkEdit
Hart landed a book deal with Plume Books in early January 2014.[51] The book, titled You Deserve a Drink: Boozy Misadventures and Tales of Debauchery was released on May 26, 2015.[52]
About her book, Hart said:
Each chapter will have its own recipe, so in an ideal world, when you are reading about that time I fell in love with the half-snake, half-man guy and ran off with him to work in the carnival for a summer, you will make the cotton candy martini to drink while you read. Side note: That isn't actually one of my stories. The half-snake, half-man guy was way too good for me.[51]
As to the style, she stated:
My whole brand of humor is self-deprecation — about owning your flaws and saying 'Fuck you' to anyone who doesn't like it," she says. "Hopefully that feeling will come across in [this book]. To where if you have a really embarrassing story, embrace it... Every story that I'll tell will lead up to why I am why I am.[53]
I've Got This Round: More Tales of DebaucheryEdit
Hart's second book, I've Got This Round: More Tales of Debauchery, was released on February 6, 2018.[54] She launched a U.S. tour for the release in February, 2018.[55]
PodcastEdit
Hart and Grace Helbig started a podcast, This Might Get Weird, following the cancellation of their YouTube talk show This Might Get... in October 2018.[30][56] The pair have also begun broadcasting their podcast in video format on the original show's YouTube channel.[28] The podcast consists of them discussing random stories from their daily life and pop culture nonsense.[57][58]
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Joby's new "Swing" and "Spin" motion control tools for smartphone creators won't break the bank
Feb 2, 2022 by John Aldred 1 Comment
This seemed to slip below the radar the other day when Joby announced a whole new range of Wavo microphones, but Joby has also announced a couple of new tools specifically for smartphone content creators. The two new products are called Joby Spin, which is a motion controlled Bluetooth 360° pan head, and Joby Swing, a Bluetooth mini sort-of-slider. Both of them are designed for smartphones with a focus on size, weight and easy of use.
The new Spin and Swing produts work with both iOS and Android devices with the Joby Motion app, and allow users to create more advanced camera moves with minimal gear at a much lower cost than they might with other brands. Spin, for example, was a collaboration between Joby and Syrp Lab (both of whom are owned by Vitec) but comes in at a much lower cost than any Manfrotto-branded-Syrp product.
First up, let's look at Joby Spin. The Spin is a tiny 130g 360° panhead that you can use for a variety of tasks including the obvious pan shot, panning timelapses or a series of panoramic stills. Even though designed for smartphones, it can take a payload of up to 750g, so you could potentially put a lightweight mirrorless camera and lens on there, too – although that's my assertion, not something Joby has suggested, although their video above does suggest you can use it as something of a turntable for product shots.
You can also join two Joby Spin devices up together using the Pan Tilt bracket to create two axis tvideos and timelapses with both pan and tilt movement and control them both from your smartphone. Naturally, this control is provided over Bluetooth using a dedicated Joby Motion app (for both iOS and Android) that allows you to switch between video, timelapse and panoramic still and control the settings of your sequence.
The Joby Spin is available to buy now for $89.95 each (or $99.95 bundled with the GripTite PRO smartphone mount) and the Pan Tilt Bracket is available to buy now for $29.95. I told you it was cheaper than Syrp. If you buy one Spin bundle with the smartphone bracket, a second Spin on its own for the other axis and the Pan Tilt bracket, you're only paying just under $220 for the full kit. It would be nice to see Joby offer two Spins and bracket together as a single bundle deal at some point, just to make buying life easier.
Now let's look at the Joby Swing. This is a slider, yet it's not. It offers the same type of movement as your standard slider, although there's no carriage sliding along a pair of rails. It uses a pair of arms in a sort of scissor motion to move the ends of the bars in a straight line from each other. Just watch the video above and it'll make sense. We've seen this technology in a couple of other sliders before and it seems to work pretty well, and results in a much smaller slider than you might otherwise need. The Swing, for example offers 15″ of travel but is only around 8″ long.
Like the Joby Swing is operated via the dedicated smartphone app over Bluetooth. It's the same Joby Motion app as the Joby Spin above. But while you can connect two Spin units together with the Pan Tilt bracket and control them both in the app simultaneously, there doesn't seem to be an option to control a Spin sitting on top of a Swing. So, if you wanted to slide your camera past a subject while panning the camera to keep it centred in the shot, you might be out of luck. With a phone, the Swing should hypothetically be able to handle the weight of your smartphone and Swing mounted on the end, so hopefully we might see this ability might come in future app and firmware updates.
The Joby Swing is available to buy now for $129.95 on its own, or in a bundle with a ballhead and GripTite ONE smartphone mount for $149.95. Or, there's a complete kit which includes the smartphone mount, ball head and a GorillaPod 3K for $179.95.
In both of the videos above with the Joby Motion app, which is available for both iOS and Android, I did notice a distinct lack of any kind of manual exposure control or video resolution and frame rate settings. These are things I'd definitely like to see come to the app in the future, even if they're hidden away in a "Pro Mode" section. I think many photographers and filmmakers who would want to shoot behind the scenes clips for social media would pick these up if they had a bit more control over those.
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America. Her specialty is Mesoamerican iconography, religion, and mythology. She recently published "Parallels: Mesoamerican and Ancient Middle Eastern Traditions". She is unique among LDS scholars, in that she traveled with the late Mayan scholar Linda Schele and studied under archaeologist David Stuart of Harvard University.
I have had an interest in Mesoamerica for over 30 years, and it's always exciting to come across art and archaeological evidence that supports voyages from the Old World to the Americas long before Columbus because this, in turn, supports the Book of Mormon.
New discoveries in the past 30 years increasingly sustain Mesoamerica as the land where the Jaredites, Nephites, Lamanites and Mulekites lived on this continent. The things that I will be discussing include continued information about research done by myself and other LDS scholars.
The Book of Mormon is a lineage history of a people namely the Nephites. What we don't have is an account of the more numerous Mulekites, Lamanites, and any other groups that were in the land. Similar to Old Testament writings, other cultures, for the most part, are ignored in the record of the Book of Mormon. You won't find a history of Egypt or of Canaan in the Old Testament. You read the history of Israel, and it is same with the Book of Mormon Nephite writers.
One of the theories of our time in the field of archaeology and anthropology is the theory of diffusion, which happens to be an unpopular theory except for Latter-day Saints and several small research groups. But this theory is gaining support among several scholars from universities.
Most prefer to believe that the Old and New Worlds developed in isolation, and any similarities between them are merely coincidental. They believe that people came from Siberia through the Bering Strait and filtered down through the Americas.
But when we talk about diffusion and of world races, we speak of a scattering of races, a circulation of peoples over the continents and an expansion of cultural traits. It is the opinion of those who support the theory of diffusion that ancient people came to the Americas not only across the Bering Strait from Asia but also by way of the sea, from both the east and the west. This theory will take time to grow and develop, and it is getting stronger every year.
Here you can see the ocean currents that lead to the Americas. Now, I am going to show you some slides of sculptures of men from pre-Columbian times discovered in Mexico and Central America. The first is a typical Maya Indian, but the others do not look like members of the Native American race.
I know a few hundred of these pictures and sculptures, and I can only show a few here. The last one is the first Maya king of Palenque in Mexico. Some of the more obvious characteristics of a Middle Eastern man that can be readily agreed upon would be a large nose and a beard. Except for a few sparse hairs, Indians simply cannot grow full beards. Have you ever seen an Indian with a beard?
This is an important dignitary in Guatemala, He's on the cover of my current book alongside the typical Maya Indians for comparison. Most people would see him as a Middle Easterner, but both these artifacts are from Mesoamerica.
This is a line drawing of a bas relief discovered in Mexico. This bas relief, a carving of stone, is now in the National Museum of Anthropology and Archaeology in Mexico City. It is a beautiful portrayal of a Classic period Maya Indian dating to approximately 600 A.D.
Here we see the typical hook nose of a Near Easterner. He wears a lavish headdress that some researchers suggest may be of a papyrus reed boat. If you view the headdress from the top looking down, you would see two holes that could support a mast. For those of you who have read some of Thor Heyerdahl's work, you may be familiar with some voyages made in a reed boat. While reed was not the most popular material for building boats in early times, a voyage could have been made, but we simply don't know if this headdress represents a boat. So that is just a possibility. In the large earring of this dignitary, we see what could be the Star of David floating on the waters, a circle by a rope, which is also another nautical sign, so perhaps the symbols portrayed in the sculpture stand not only for a man but for a race of people. This type of bearded man in ancient America adds strong evidence towards proving our theory of transoceanic voyages made by the Old World peoples to the New World.
The Book of Mormon speaks of three groups coming from the Old World. One at the time of the Tower of Babel, one around 600 B.C., and another shortly thereafter. I will be mentioning these three groups of people and exactly where they fit into pre-Columbian races as recorded in ancient Indian lore, writings of the early Spanish chroniclers, symbols portrayed on ancient buildings and monuments, and pre-Columbian codices. It was so wonderful when we had an example of a codex yesterday. Now, for those of you who have visited Mexico and Central America, not all, but most of the sites tourists see are on the surface and do not date to the period in which the Book of Mormon took place. Palenque, showed here as an example (which is a popular tourist site in Chiapas, Mexico) flourished from about 400 to 800 A.D. Anything earlier is buried under newer structures, and you cannot see them from the ground level.
The last two years have given scholars many opportunities to study the pre-Classic era, especially those sites dating between 500 B.C. to 200 A.D., which is the prime time for the Book of Mormon cultures. For example, until recently, the oldest murals discovered were from Bonampak in the Yucatán, painted in 796 A.D., but a spectacular discovery has been made in Guatemala with the earliest mural ever found. The San Bartolo murals date to approximately 100 B.C. to 100 A.D. These murals depict scenes from the Popol Vuh creation account, which further corroborates that record. They are presently being studied with great interest.
Today Kaminaljuyú in Guatemala is roped off for underground viewing, and all you can see are the green hills covering the pyramids. John Sorenson proposes Kaminaljuyú as a possible location for the city of Nephi. The ruins of Kaminaljuyú are located where Guatemala City stands. In this part, where mounds cover ancient buildings, the land is being sought by land developers. Fortunately, the Guatemala government has given permission to BYU and other institutions to dig. This ancient Mesoamerican city first rose to power between 500 to 200 B.C., so there is an urgency to dig while they can. The Guatemalan government hasn't decided what to do with this site. El Mirador, is another pre- Classic site that is really exceptional because these buildings are pristine, and they have not been covered over under newer buildings with newer superimposed structures, as others have.
East, too. The most popular site that commenced during Book of Mormon times is Teotihuacán, 30 miles from Mexico City. Some structures, like the Pyramid of the Sun, have not been covered over by newer buildings. The Pyramid of the Moon, has had several structures.
Now that we have shown plausible evidence of men coming from across the sea in ancient America, let's look at some Book of Mormon cultures and see if we can find their presence in America's pre-Columbian past, as recorded in both history and rock.
The oldest culture referred to in the Book of Mormon is the Jaredites. They took their leave from the Old World at the time of instruction of the Lord following the Tower of Babel incident. Now, these sculptures [displayed on the screen] are typical of the Olmec, and they are also the ones who carved these huge heads, which were heads of the kings. So the Olmec civilization dates to approximately 1500 to 300 B.C., which period is consistent with the Jaredite period. There were also other people that were there, but the Olmec were the largest civilization.
One of the earliest carvings that we have of a Semitic-type man in the New World has been dated to around 600 B.C. Here is a line drawing that is a little easier to see.
The National Geographic Society entitled the stela, "The Uncle Sam Stela," because the man clearly has a beard and a hook nose not unlike our own Uncle Sam. Two races of man are portrayed on this stela. The figures above in the air and the man to the left are clearly different than the Uncle Sam personage to the right, who has Semitic features. The man at the left and those above him have small noses and no beards and appear to be in an attitude of greeting our bearded friend.
Some LDS archaeologists believe this scene may record a meeting between the Jaredites and the Mulekites. In fact, I think it was John Sorenson who was the first to come up with this idea. The Mulekite would be the one with the beard. Floating persons in Mesoamerican art often represent deceased ancestors, so could this be Coriantumr describing to a bearded Mulekite the story of their wars and the end of the Jaredite nation?
The historian Ixtlilxochitl was a 16th Century Toltec of royal lineage mixed with a Spanish heritage from his father, whom I will be referring to from time to time. He wrote extensively on the origin of his people in ancient Mexico, and like the Book of Mormon, Ixtlilxochitl claimed three different groups of people came from across the ocean to populate the land. The first group, he referred to simply as the Ancient Ones.
Ixtlilxochitl claimed the first people who came to Mexico, the Ancient Ones, came from a land where a high tower was constructed to reach the heavens. Their building the tower angered the Gods and resulted with the confusion of languages and a dispersal of peoples over the earth. Now, this may have been included in Ixtlilxochitl's account after he read Genesis in the Old Testament, and it may be considered a Christian gloss. We simply don't know.
This is an artist's conception of the Tower of Babel. If we compare the architecture of the Tower of Babel as archaeologists believed it looked with Mesoamerican or Central American temples, such as the one in Tikal in Guatemala, we find a nearly identical style. The Tower of Babel was a stepped temple tower of brick with a platform at the top, and this style must not be confused with the Egyptian pyramid, which has smooth sides and a pointed top. The earliest Egyptian pyramids such as this one at Sakkara, were stepped pyramids. Some of the earliest Mesoamerican pyramids were designed after mountains and volcanoes, followed by step pyramids resembling those of Babylon. This style continued in Mesoamerica for over 2,000 years, up until the time of the Spanish Conquest.
We do not have a great deal of information on the Jaredites, as the record is contained in only a small portion of the Book of Mormon, but we do know that these people eventually destroyed their own culture through war, just as Ixtlilxochitl claimed was the fate of the Ancient Ones, who brought the first great culture in early times to Mesoamerica.
According to the Book of Mormon, a second group of people called the Nephites and Lamanites, under the leadership of the prophet Lehi, took their leave of Jerusalem around 600 B.C. for a Promised Land. Lehi was a descendant of Manasseh, who was a son of Joseph, one of the Twelve Tribes of Israel. The bulk of the Book of Mormon deals with some of the escendants of this Tribe of Joseph, and we will look at unusual similarities between this group of people and natives of Mesoamerica.
Before Lehi and his people left Jerusalem, Lehi had a unique dream of the Tree of Life, and this dream must have been retold many times throughout several generations. There are two schools of opinion among LDS scholars. Some do not believe that this stela had any relation to Lehi's dream, but others, including myself, believe that the story may have been recorded in stone.
I was fortunate enough to see Stela 5 at Izapa, Chiapas, Mexico, in 1984 on a FARM-sponsored trip. They were going to have more FARMS trips, but that was the only one they ever had, and this was with John Sorenson and Jack Welch, along with Joe Allen and several others. John Sorenson is one of those who do not support this theory, as well as John Clark of BYU. I believe everyone is entitled to their opinion as long as they study all the evidence.
Stela 5 was found in 1939 and dates to approximately 200 B.C. This stela appears to contain all the major elements of Lehi's Vision, plus many other useful bits of information. I wish I had a zoom lens, but I don't. If you look in The Book of Mormon Reference Companion, Garth Norman has an article that has an updated version of this illustration.
In the center is the tree, and there are little balls on the tops, so that is the fruit. Of course, the fruit is very appealing because it represented eternal life and the love of God, which is ultimately given to us as a result of the Savior's sacrifice. Lehi spoke of a river of water running near the tree, and the river represented the love of God. But the depths of the river symbolized the depths of Hell. I don't know if you can see it, but there are little dots within this river motif, and in Mesoamerica, dots in water represent very deep water. In fact, it is often used to symbolize the waters of the underworld, which is comparable to our hell.
Lehi also spoke of a rod of iron extending along the bank. The rod of iron was interpreted as "the word of God" (1 Nephi 11:25), for if one holds on to the rod of iron (or the word of God), he cannot fall into the murky depths of hell.
At the bottom of the stela, we see a story in itself. We see a group of people seated at the base of the tree. In the first at the left, there is a woman with Egyptian style headdress, and this may be the wife of Lehi, Sariah. In front of her sits a bearded old man, who may be Lehi wearing a pointed cap or turban, which is very typical of Semitic men in the Near East during the same time period in which we are concerned with. The left one is a Mesoamerican priest, and the right one is King Jehu of Israel. There are two seated figures on either side of the tree. Their backs are facing the tree, and they may represent the two rebellious sons of Lehi named Laman and Lemuel. To the right of the tree, we see a man holding what appears to be a stylus, which is an engraving tool in his hand. He appears to be listening to the account of the old man and is prepared to make a record of the account. A plate or tablet can be seen directly under the stylus, and with an outstretched hand, the scribe, who would be Nephi, listens and records the vision of his father.
In Jacob 1:13 of the Book of Mormon, Jacob, the brother of Nephi, wrote in approximately 543 B.C., that seven tribes, or lineages, evolved from the family that came from Jerusalem to the New World. The scripture reads, "Now the people which were not Lamanites were Nephites; nevertheless, they were called Nephites, Jacobites, Josephites, Zoramites, Lamanites, Lemuelites, and Ishmaelites." I believe that I have located pre-Columbian illustrations that display these tribes, and I was asked to read a paper on the subject at an SEHA symposium at BYU years ago. The information is also discussed in my book, A Challenge to the Critics.
Let me explain what I found regarding the seven tribes in Mesoamerican symbolism, as well as Egyptian symbolism. The damp enclosure of a cave, or of mother's womb, and the interior of a boat are all related. They all constitute a protective enclosure associated with water, and this symbol is shaped like a "U". This designates the place of emergence, that we hear so often among Indian lore, even Northern Indian lore. Many Indian tribes even today claim that their ancestors came from seven caves. I am just showing two, but there are many illustrations.
This illustration is entitled Chicomoztoc, which represents the seven caves and place of origin. In fact the word Chicomoztoc has a literal translation of a female womb. Each petal of the flower-shape design represents a tribe enclosed in a cave. Sahagún, an early Spanish Friar, stated that the Indians believed that these caves referred to a ship or ships from which their seven ancestral tribes disembarked. At the lower right you can see a bearded man. These men are the Toltecs, who later went to Chichén Itzá in Tulum. They claimed their ancestors came from seven tribes, and they were followers of the bearded god Quetzalcoatl, who we will discuss shortly.
At this point, let us be reminded that the Nephites were promised that their seed would not be utterly destroyed. That is in 2 Nephi 9:53 and D&C 3:16-17. As a result of the Nephite and Lamanite wars, the nation of the Nephites was destroyed, but not all of their people. For example, those who denied Christ were spared by the Lamanites, and of course, this occurred at approximately 385 A.D. By the time the Spanish arrived, there were no full-bearded Indians, only those with sparse, short beards. Therefore, any people with Nephite lineage were in the minority. By the time that the Spanish came in 1519, there was a great intermingling of tribes and intermarriage, so that may account for the lack of full-bearded men at the time of the Conquest.
Before we leave the Nephites, there are some things alluded to in their records that warrant our attention, and they are the metal plates containing the abridgment of their history, and the subject of stone boxes and wheels. Since the death of Joseph Smith, several metal plates have been found in the old world.
The subject of "wheels" is always mentioned by those who do not support voyages to the Americas before Columbus. Once again, since Joseph Smith's day, numerous wheeled objects have been found.
In most books, they call these small clay vehicles "toys." But toys are not interred with adults, and many were found in graves of both children and adults.
Similar objects have been found in Phoenician and Babylonian graves, and they were regarded as vehicles for the dead in that part of the Old World. These are from Suza in Mesopotamia.They believed these vehicles carried the deceased through the underworld to be reborn like the sun in the east. Almost all the animals on wheels from Mesoamerica are related to the sun. Many of them have a sun rosette design on their wheels, which is very similar to the sun rosette designs of the Middle East.
But what is most interesting about the Mesoamerica wheeled objects is that they reveal that Mesoamericans have knowledge of five ways to attach an axle, so they most definitely had knowledge of a working wheel. My guess is that Mesoamerica cultures decided to discontinue making the wheel because the shape itself was considered a sacred symbol of the sun, and was no longer allowed to be used as a functional object. That is still the case in, for example, in Ollantaytambo, Peru, so I think wheel funerary objects were symbolic of vehicles to carry their deceased to their resurrection, the same as was believed in the Old World.
Now, going back in time to about 200 B.C., a Nephite scouting party came across a group of people in the land called Zarahemla. It was learned that these people arrived in the Americas shortly after Lehi's landing, but to a land further north. They told their history to the Nephites the best they could because they had no written records. You all know the story of a child named Mulek who was the son of a Zedekiah. After Mulek's father was assassinated, he was rescued by a group concerned with his welfare, and arrangements were made to escape out of the city.
Now, because the Phoenicians were of such great service to the Hebrew nation in ancient times, and because they were the most skilled seafarers of the day, it has been suggested by some Book of Mormon scholars that the Mulekites came to the New World in Phoenician ships. Another good possibility may have been that they came in Egyptian ships or even ships from Israel. As for the Mulekites themselves, the Uncle Sam stela that you saw before, may be a meeting of Coriantumr, who was the last king of the Jaredites, and a bearded Mulekite.
Something happened on the Western Hemisphere that left a great lasting impression on these early Americans. As a result, archaeologists are aware of an unexplained period of peace during the first two centuries after Christ, or at least until 150 A.D. Through the Book of Mormon, we read of this great event, when Jesus Christ came to visit the lost sheep of the House of Israel in the Americas.
Many LDS researchers, including myself, have spoken of Quetzalcoatl as being one and the same as Jesus Christ. In 1882, the Church president, John Taylor, said he believed Quetzalcoatl was Jesus Christ. Quetzalcoatl is a most interesting deity because his attributes fit right alongside our descriptions of Jesus Christ and the things that he did. But there are other myths and legends about a hero that are way off the mark, describing him as a drunkard and a warmonger.
One of the major problems with the Quetzalcoatl myth is that there were more than one Quetzalcoatl. Hundreds of years later, after the close of the Book of Mormon, the Toltecs and others adopted Quetzalcoatl to justify their divine kingship. Mesoamerican leaders took upon themselves the name of Quetzalcoatl, just as followers of Muhammad do today. This one (below) is from Chichén Itzá, dating to around the 12th Century A.D.
Another problem with Quetzalcoatl legends are that some are written after the Spanish arrived, and some have what is called a Christian gloss. That is, that early Spanish collaborators chose to mix Indian myths with Christianity on purpose.
in the days of ancient Tula.
Tula was the beloved city of the Toltecs, the ancestors of the Aztecs. So here we have the Aztecs, descendants of the Lamanites, who basically borrowed their religion from the Toltecs, who worshipped the bearded god Quetzalcoatl.
Let's take a closer look at the Aztec Empire, which fell abruptly around 1500 A.D. Cortez came in 1519 and conquered the Aztecs in 1521.
This is Tenochtitlán, now covered over by Mexico City. Archaeologists have uncovered portions of it. Cortés came with 700 conquistadors and conquered the Aztec Empire of over 2 million people. It is easy to understand such a massacre when you realize that the Aztecs thought Cortés was the bearded God Quetzalcoatl, the bearded God who promised to return. Now, this may have referred to one of the many men named Quetzalcoatl, who said they would return, or it was the god Quetzalcoatl, in other words, Jesus Christ, or perhaps, both.
Mesoamericans traditionally recorded events from the past and put them in their present history. Now, you have heard Allen Christenson when he was talking about the Popol Vuh, when they retold the story? They told it at night, and it was as though the past was brought into the present, and this was very common in Mesoamerica.
We have records after the Spanish arrived, as well as symbols of Quetzalcoatl, discovered in the surviving codex manuscripts, as well as symbols carved in pyramids and monuments that help us piece together the story of Quetzalcoatl, and I am going to explain some of these symbols.
Of the symbolic name, we can see that the feathers represent a heavenly origin, and the serpent an earthly one. Quetzalcoatl was considered to be both man of the earth as well as God of the heavens, just as Jesus Christ was born of an earthly mother and a Heavenly Father. Now, here are some examples of the feathered serpent.
This is a line drawing of a rock carving, at Xochicalco, Mexico.
Around 250-200 A.D., something happened in Mesoamerica, especially at Teotihuacán. A temple dedicated to Quetzalcoatl was built with 200 sacrificial victims buried at the base. Archaeologists say that at this time in their history, there were some drastic changes being made. It is not any surprise to us that this coincides with the beginning of apostasy in the Book of Mormon.
It is now known that when one warring faction conquered another in Mesoamerica, the conqueror adopted the god of the vanquished as their god. From this point in time, we see two views of Quetzalcoatl. On the one hand he is associated with war, and on the other hand there remained the legends of the benevolent god of their ancestors.
But as Moroni warned against the practice of baptizing little children, this is exactly what the Maya did, as witnessed by the Spanish. According to the Book of Mormon, rivers and lakes were used for this ordinance. It was to be done by immersion, not by sprinkling. Sprinkling is the way that the Maya performed baptism.
In relation to baptism, shells are an important symbol. They believed that just as a snail comes out of a shell in the water, so to, man emerges from the interior-like shell, or womb, being born again.
This is a picture of Quetzalcoatl with a shell motif as a pendant. Here is another illustration of Quetzalcoatl showing not only the shell symbol, but that of the serpent. He also wears what is called the wind mask, from which he blows the breath of life into living creatures in his aspect of the God of creation.
Repentance was another religious act that the Spanish Catholic priests found already established in the New World. Indians confessed to priests, which was usually done like death bed repentance when they were sick. That's just another part of their apostate practices.
Here you see a woman performing self-sacrifice by running a cord of thorns through her tongue to draw blood. Blood sacrifice was only required of one being, and that was the Son of God, our Savior, but the apostate Mesoamericans frequently performed blood sacrifices.
Probably one of the more remarkable stories of Quetzalcoatl, and one that deals with an aspect of the life of Christ, is the deity's descent to the underworld, or Hell. Quetzalcoatl sacrificed himself and sprinkled the bones of the deceased with this blood. As a result, the bones of men are born again and became alive. (above) In this skeleton, there is a living heart.
This poem may reflect that these ancient Americans once had the true gospel, and there is much in Mesoamerican studies to enhance our understanding and appreciation of the world of the Book of Mormon and its message for our time.


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Joan "Maude" Kendall Miller Olsen Aug. 1, 1924 - Sept. 5, 2019
Joan "Maude" Kendall Miller Olsen, of Rutherford Island / South Bristol, passed away peacefully in her sleep on Sept. 5, 2019, a month and four days after her 95th birthday. Born in Manila, Philippines on Aug. 1, 1924, she was the first born daughter of Charles Horace Kendall Miller and Margaret Stetson Kendall Miller.
She is survived by her five loving children: Kenneth Thompson (Maine), Lynne Thompson (Maine), Greg Thompson (Maine), Eric Thompson (Virginia), and Christopher Kendall Olsen (Maine). She is also survived by nine grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren, with her eighth great-grandchild on the way. All of her loving grandchildren and great-grandchildren live throughout Maine, New Hampshire, Virginia, Florida, Illinois, Montana, and Washington.
This is indicative of her prolific, creative and adventurous life that started in the Philippines and continued through Peking, China and other parts of Asia as her father's career grew as a high ranking officer in the U.S. Navy. As a young child, her father and family were stationed initially in the Boston area, and then were transferred around the United States including California, Washington, and in her high school years Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Hawaii. Her father was transferred in 1940 back to the Boston area where she graduated high school from Newton High School in 1941. Her family was one of the lucky ones to leave before the attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941.
And that was just the tip of the iceberg so to speak. Maude would go on to Penn State University and graduate in 1944 earning a BA with a major in entomology, and a minor in art. She even helped illustrate her bug professor's new textbook! She was only 20 when she graduated, having skipped two grades in grammar school. Her deep appreciation for nature was a contributing factor in her whimsically organic approach to her art forms.
Over her lifetime, she would belong to many art associations and earn one of the first teaching positions at the Farnsworth Art Museum in Rockland from 1980 through 2001. She had studied with accomplished painters at the NYC National Academy and was elected to the American Artists Professional League, Life Fellow, and the Miniature Painters, Sculptors and Gravers Society of Washington, D.C. Her work was shown in several Worldwide Exhibitions of Miniature Art, including at The Smithsonian in 2004.
Maude was treasurer of the Pemaquid Art Gallery, Pemaquid Point, for several years, and her work is now exhibited in The Saltwater Artists Gallery in New Harbor. She was also active with Archipelago in Rockland and The Maine Art Gallery in Wiscasset. Maude was an enthusiastic teacher of watercolor, calligraphy and drawing for many years up to the recent present in the Maine midcoast area.
In her earlier years, while she was married to her first husband, Ken Thompson, she painted under the name of Kendall Thompson, and specialized in portraits in oil. She changed to her current professional name of Maude in the 1960s when she married her second husband, and switched her medium primarily to watercolor. She had become quite a fan of Andrew Wyeth, hence her being drawn to Maine. Maude, and her photographer husband, William Randolph Olsen moved to Friendship in 1974, and then later to South Bristol in 1986. They had their own business entity called Maude Randolph Graphic Enterprises.
There is so much more to Maude's life, but there is only so much space! We, her family, would like to invite all of you to a celebration of her life on Sunday, Sept. 29, at 2 p.m. at the Union Congregational Church in South Bristol. Please come and share a sweet memory of your own about our beloved Maude.
Arrangements are under the direction and care of the Strong-Hancock Funeral Home, 612 Main St, Damariscotta. Condolences, and messages for her family, may be expressed by visiting StrongHancock.com.
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Exhibition of Black-and-White Photographs by Raymond Smith Opens April 7 at Bruce Museum
By: greenwichfreepress | March 4, 2018
On April 7, 2018, the Bruce Museum will open In Time We Shall
Know Ourselves, an exhibition of black-and- white photographs by New Haven photographer Raymond Smith. The exhibition will be on display in the Museum's Bantle Lecture Gallery through June 3, 2018.
The Bruce Museum will host a reception and artist talk for the exhibition on Sunday, April 15, 3 – 5 pm.
At 3:30 pm, Raymond Smith will present a lecture titled, "I Am a Camera," which will be followed by a Q&A and book signing. The reception is free for Museum members and students (with valid ID); non-members $15. Advance registration is required, as seating is limited. To reserve your seat, please visit brucemuseum.org and click "Reservations," or call 203-869- 0376.
Raymond Smith (American, born 1942) Rural Highway, Southern Georgia, after Rainstorm, 1974
Inspired by the photographs taken in the American South in the 1930s by Walker Evans, a teacher and mentor of Smith at Yale University, as well as by Robert Frank's The Americans (1958), in the summer of 1974 Smith embarked on a photographic expedition of his own. Smith traveled with his friend Suzanne Boyd in an aging Volkswagen from New England through the South and into the Midwest, camping and photographing people and places he encountered during the three-month journey.
Intending to write a Ph.D. thesis in American Studies, Smith instead channeled his intense curiosity about his country and its inhabitants into a moving suite of portraits, works that are at once down-to-earth, melancholy, and filled with surprise.
The exhibition features 52 photographs, most of which are vintage prints. Smith also has produced a book, In Time We Shall Know Ourselves, which features perceptive essays on Smith's photography by Alexander Nemerov, Professor of Art History at Stanford University, and Richard H. King, Professor Emeritus American Intellectual History at the University of Nottingham.
Raymond Smith (American, born 1942) Fotomat Girl, Louisville, Kentucky, 1974
In the book Smith explains where he got the title. Driving south toward New Orleans and on the outskirts of Hattiesburg, Miss., midway through his trip he saw this sign: "In time we shall know ourselves/ Even as also we are known/ As we ourselves are known."
For decades, Raymond Smith's photographs remained unknown. After mounting two small exhibitions locally, in 1974 and 1975, Smith pursued a career as a seller of rare books on art, architecture, design and photography, through R.W. Smith Bookseller, the New Haven business he continues to operate.
In 2009, a curator of photography at the Yale University Art Gallery encouraged him to publish his work, a project that in turn led to an exhibition in 2014 at the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts in Alabama.
After traveling to six other major museums in the South, Smith's exhibition of road trip photographs is finally coming to the Northeast.
"The work that was hidden away for all those years is now seeing the light," Smith said to Randall Beach, a writer for the New Haven Register in a 2017 article. "I thought, 'If this has the power to move somebody …' That was always my dream and I thought it would hold. I've kept this dream alive all these years."
Smith's work may have been inspired by Walker Evans and Robert Frank, but In Time We Shall Know Ourselves stands as an independent statement about America and about photography in Smith's times and places. Through the exhibition In Time We Shall Know Ourselves, these vivid short stories blossom into an epic travel narrative, a great American novel set in the 1970s but with its culmination in the exhibition now traveling the country. The photographs serve not only as windows through which we see an earlier age, but also as mirrors in which, in time, we may learn something of ourselves.
In Time We Shall Know Ourselves is organized and circulated by the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts in Montgomery, Alabama. The exhibition is generously supported by The Charles M. and Deborah G. Royce Exhibition Fund, with support from the Connecticut Office of the Arts.
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In hip-hop, integrity is important. The stories a rapper tells must come from the heart, or else the disconnect is very easily heard. Hopsin tells it all in No Shame, revealing the darkest moments of his past in harrowing detail.
No Shame takes no time to get real. Opening track 'Hotel In Sydney' sets the stage for the entire record, explaining what caused most of Hopsin's suffering: his bride cheating on him with her personal trainer, while pregnant with he can only hope is his child. While it feels like a less intense version of Eminem's 'Kim,' Hopsin's story is less violent and based on true events (not just his inner demons, as 'Kim' is). Hopsin draws upon the story established in 'Hotel In Sydney' throughout the album, straight to the end in tracks like 'Ill Mind Of Hopsin 9' where he raps a letter to his son who he never got to meet (as he explains in the opening track, he was kicked out of Australia for pushing his bride in frustration).
No Shame is more than just an album about misfortune. There's quite a few bangers on the record, like 'Right Here' and 'Twisted' which both have dark beats and great hooks with catchy and memorable melodies. There are some interesting moments on the record, such as the entirety of 'Happy Ending,' which is just hilariously strange. Usually skits are boring and weaken the album, yet they actually add context on No Shame. 'No Words 2' is just hilarious, as well, as he mocks the more popular rappers. The record ends on 'Witch Doctor' with African vibes giving his heritage a shoutout, leaving the album off on a dark and funky note.
Hopsin tells it all in No Shame, revealing everything he believes in and the biggest, darkest moments of his life that inspired his music. It keeps things interesting with strong melodies and catchy, dark beats while revealing a lot about who Hopsin is. It's a personal record, and still a very catchy one.


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Swaroop Sampat (3 de noviembre de 1958) es una actriz india. Ha formado parte del elenco de películas de lengua hindi como Naram Garam. En 1979 ganó el concurso de Miss India y ese mismo año representó a India en el certamen de Miss Universo.

Primeros años
Swaroop obtuvo un doctorado en Educación por la Universidad de Worcester. En su tesis doctoral utilizó el teatro para realzar las aptitudes básicas de niños con trastorno de aprendizaje.

Carrera como actriz
Swaroop Sampat saltó a la fama con el popular programa televisivo de comedia Yeh Jo Hai Zindagi, donde interpretaba a la esposa de Shafi Inamdar. Se ha conocido que rehusó participar en otro popular programa televisivo en ese mismo momento debido a que encontró el guion de Yeh Jo Hai Zindagi conmovedor y fácil para conectar con la gente, mostrando actividades cotidianas y una vida sencilla.

Swaroop ha trabajado como modelo para Shringar. También ha sido profesora de drama de niños discapacitados.

Otras actividades
Es entrenadora y ha recorrido India para impartir talleres a profesores para compartir sus conocimientos en beneficio de niños.

Fue seleccionada por el primer ministro de Gujarat, Narendra Modi para encabezar un programa educativo para niños.

Vida personal
Swaroop está casado con el actor Paresh Rawal. Dirige y actúa en varias representaciones protagonizadas por su marido. Tienen dos hijos, Aniruddh y Aditya.

Filmografía

Televisión

Referencias

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