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Abbey Road Head of Audio Products, Mirek Stiles, writes about what spatial audio means for actual recording.
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Pushing aside all the exotic post-production manipulation software, Binaural rendering options and the awesome VR/AR headsets, I thought it might be good to focus on what Spatial Audio means for actual recording.
The good news is it can mean that not much changes in terms of your usual workflow. You will still need great spot and room microphone techniques, the ones that you have been developing to marvellous effect. In fact, you could just record everything as normal and use various post-production mixing software to create your 3D world. Having said that, there is room to expand the recording process – and come on, who doesn't just love the idea of further complicating the recording process.
There are two areas for consideration when recording for SA. The first of which is ambisonic microphones, which have been around since the mid-'70s. Abbey Road still has some early examples of the Calrec Soundfield microphone that former Abbey Road engineerJohn Kurlander requested and told me he loved using. Unfortunately, today these Carlecs are in bad shape and I wouldn't trust using them as a talkback microphone, let alone trying to capture some crazy spherical ambience to impress my colleagues with. Fortunately, thanks to the growing SA trend, a new generation of fancy microphones are emerging onto the market. Ambisonic microphones come in different flavours (you didn't think this was going to be simple did you?), the most basic are FOA (First Order Ambisonic) microphones. These consist of four capsules in a tetrahedral arrangement that encodes into four channels = omni, left and right, front and back, up and down.
There are HOA microphones (Higher Order Ambisonics), which in a nutshell mean more channels; more channels means more spatial resolution and more resolution probably means better localisation/recordings (in theory – it actually opens up a whole host of other challenges and question marks, but again, for another article). It is worth noting that Ambisonics have two different channel order standards, Furse-Malham (FuMa) and Ambix. Again, not going into detail here, but my advice is to stick to Ambix whenever you can, and always keep track of conversion workflow – you don't want to get your FuMa and Ambix mixed up. Ambisonic microphones can be an awesome tool in your microphone arsenal. I tend to find when placing them too far or high in a room, they don't really work to great effect, but when in the mid and near field, once decoded, can sound stunning. For example, I recorded a solo acoustic guitar/vocal performance with the usual close mics and a nice stereo pair to pick up some room. In between the close and distant mics, I placed an FOA microphone. Once decoded and blended into the final mix it created a beautiful sense of depth and space. This would have been very challenging (if not impossible) to create using standard mics and processing. The same can be said for close micing. For example, an FOA microphone on a harp or piano sounds stunning – the ambisonic microphone has the ability to pick a large spread of detail from all around in every direction. A midfield ambisonic microphone can also act as a sort of directional glue between close mics and ambient microphones.
The other side of the coin includes spatial multi-channel microphone arrays (MMAs), which I believe pick up much more useful information for reflections and room than ambisonic microphones do. Most spatial arrays, beyond the Decca Tree, were alien to me before taking part in a joint experimental recording session with Gavin Kearney, from the University of York and Hyunkook Lee, from the University of Huddersfield a couple of years back. The session in question was conducted in Studio Three as part of then student, now Abbey Road Red employee, Hashim Riaz's final Masters' degree. The concept was capturing a live band for an immersive virtual reality experience. On this session, we had all sorts of spatial (MMAs) arrays out on the floor (around 80 channels worth to be precise). As explained, ambisonic microphones can provide spatial glue. Obviously close micing gives you definition but what do you need to create a sense of magical externalisation? As far as I am concerned it's a Hamasaki Cube or an Equal Segment Microphone Array.
Hamasaki Cube
The Hamasaki Square was designed to capture the ambient and diffused sounds of a concert hall with surround sound in mind. As we are now in the world of 3D sound, we add another layer to capture some height – hence the Hamasaki Cube. The cube consists of eight fig.8 microphones placed 1m apart from each other. For the bottom layer, the null of the fig.8 pattern is pointing towards the sound source, so we can reduce the direct sound and increase the diffuse sound captured by the array. The top layer has the null pointing towards the sides, so we capture the diffused sound from above and below. The overall array should be placed as far and high from sound source as to capture some exciting room reflections.
Equal Segment Microphone Array:
The Equal Segment Microphone Array (or ESMA as I like to call it) is another 8-channel configuration, this time consisting of the humble cardioid pattern. The idea is to capture sound in a 360-degree azimuth plane positioned in a square arrangement (angle of 90 degrees between each mic) with 50cm between each capsule to minimise inter-channel crosstalk. This is then augmented by another four upward facing cardioids to capture, some height.
Once the eight channels of each array are processed via an object or ambisonic panner, the result can be extremely lush Once blended in with close and ambisonic microphones they really help create an overall immersive audio scene.
This is just an intro to the sort of recording workflow that's clicked for me so far. It will most likely change, but it's a good start. I genuinely think that fully immersive audio is key and crucial to playing a significant role in the future of entertainment, not only for film and VR but music in general. It vastly expands the sonic landscape for artists to present their work. It's in the best interest of Abbey Road Studios and all audio professionals to explore this technology and create the best sounding content we can.
I hope this inspires you to explore – have fun.
This is an edited version of an article that originally feature in Resolution Magazine V17.2 | March 2018


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OP-ED | Children Deserve Better Than An Underfunded, Dangerous DCF
by Susan Bigelow June 27, 2014, 11:20 am January 21, 2021, 6:04 pm
Sometime on Tuesday, June 24, a 16-year-old transgender girl in DCF care finally left the adult women's prison where she'd been kept for close to two months. "Jane Doe" has never been charged with a crime, and her detention provoked a national uproar. But her release isn't nearly the end of the troubled agency's woes.
Earlier in the month the Office of the Child Advocate released a statement saying they would be investigating nine of the 11 deaths of children under DCF care. DCF later said that six of those deaths, all of which have occurred since the beginning of 2014, involve allegations of maltreatment.
What is going on at DCF?
Frustratingly, that's not always easy to know. The Office of the Child Advocate investigates cases of child deaths, but there are very few that are easily available on their website. A report about 2013 deaths is forthcoming, but it may be a while before we know anything else about what's happened this year.
The Jane Doe situation is unique in that it actually showed up on our radar. But there's still pieces of her story that remain unresolved. In her affidavit, she alleged that she had been sexually assaulted by a staff member at Connecticut Children's Place and by a staff member at a private Massachusetts facility where she had been placed by DCF.
Unfortunately, a lot of this isn't totally surprising, given the agency's troubled history and funding woes. DCF has been operating under court supervision since a 1989 class-action lawsuit alleging their predecessor agency was broadly failing to protect children in the state. The agency has struggled to stay within compliance, and has managed to meet some benchmarks for release from court supervision while missing others.
To make matters worse, DCF has suffered worsening staffing levels; a report from the agency's court monitor in January 2014 found that the number of DCF front-line caseload-carrying social workers dropped by a shocking 29 percent since 2011.
And yet DCF found the funds to build and open a new locked treatment facility for girls in Middletown. This facility, the Pueblo Unit, is where Jane Doe is residing temporarily before being moved to a more permanent placement in Massachusetts. Pueblo was built because DCF had run out of space in Journey House, the other locked facility for girls.
The reason they ran out of space at Journey House, however, was in part because girls were not being cycled out of there quickly enough. Other options and placements for them were simply not available; budget cuts meant the loss of facilities and services across the state.
In Jane Doe's case, the agency flailed around trying to find some sort of appropriate placement for her, even considering housing her in boys' facilities despite having respected her gender identity up until that point, before deciding to send her to York. It's telling that she is being sent out of state from here.
All of this paints a picture of an agency that does not have the resources to do what it needs to do.
The agency and the legislature need to answer some tough questions. First, are the problems at DCF merely the result of being strapped for cash? Or are Commissioner Joette Katz's priorities, which advocates claim are trending toward more incarceration instead of treatment, the wrong ones?
Second, how far will we go in this state to protect the most vulnerable? How could this latest rash of child deaths have been prevented? Are we willing to accept more Jane Does suffering through systems that can't figure out what to do with them?
What are we really willing to do to keep children safe?
The answers so far are not encouraging. It seems that we're willing to risk the safety and well-being of children, to the point of throwing our hands up and putting them in adult prisons, instead of spending the money we need to spend and demanding accountability. We must do better.
More Juvenile Justice News & Analysis
New Criminal Justice Policies Go Into Effect on Saturday
A batch of new Connecticut laws will take effect on Saturday including changes to how minors are handled by the criminal justice system and a requirement that police quickly notify the family of a deceased person. Keep reading
by Hugh McQuaid September 28, 2022, 5:00 am December 7, 2022, 3:35 pm
CT Justice Alliance to Revisit #InvestInMe Campaign With Events The Week of Juneteenth
The executive director of the Connecticut Justice Alliance said she was disappointed with recently-passed legislation that changes the way the state's criminal justice system handles young offenders, as she said it doesn't address root causes such as housing and economic insecurity and trauma.
by Julie Martin Banks June 6, 2022, 5:00 am June 6, 2022, 1:43 am
Advocates Celebrate New Limits on Solitary Confinement
Members of Stop Solitary CT celebrated a delayed victory Monday as Gov. Ned Lamont signaled his intent to sign a piece of legislation that will limit the use of solitary confinement in the state's prisons. At a state Capitol press conference, members of the advocacy group Stop Solitary CT spoke about the impact of solitary… Keep reading
by Katie Cerulle May 2, 2022, 4:33 pm May 15, 2022, 4:52 pm
Juvenile Justice Advocates Seek To Squash Compromise
Advocates are asking Democratic lawmakers to reject a bill that would give prosecutors greater latitude to send more teens to adult courts and adult prisons. Keep reading
by Lisa Backus April 25, 2022, 5:00 am April 24, 2022, 9:59 pm
Chemical Agents Still In Use On Teens At Manson
Despite an increased emphasis on more programming to avoid conflicts, the number of times chemical agents were used on juveniles at Manson Youth Institution has remained steady or increased, according to figures released by the state Department of Correction and state Child Advocate. Keep reading
by Lisa Backus March 21, 2022, 5:00 am March 21, 2022, 12:54 am
New Data Shows Youth Car Thefts Declining In Connecticut
Car thefts and juvenile arrests for car thefts declined in 2021, according to researchers and the Judicial Branch. Preliminary figures compiled by Kenneth Barone, the associate director of the Institute for Municipal and Regional Policy, indicate a 4% to 6% decrease in the number of reported auto thefts in 2021 compared to 2020. The Judicial… Keep reading
by Lisa Backus March 17, 2022, 4:52 pm March 17, 2022, 8:11 pm

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Want to Join a Red Wine Club?
If you love red wine, you may want to join a red wine club. Despite the recent explosion of wine clubs in recent years, the the ones for red wine are actually one of the most popular types of wine clubs.
The popularity of wine clubs focusing only on red wines may be a result of recent news of the health benefits of red wine. Another reason that red-only wine clubs may be so popular is that red wine is considered to be the wine drinker's wine.
Red wine is much more popular than white wine overall that many people choose to explore the possibilities with the reds than the whites. However, it is important to note that many wine novices may simply prefer the lighter, more refreshing white wines. If you are a white wine drinker hoping to broaden your horizons and learn a little more about red wine appreciation, a red wine club is definitely a step in the right direction.
If you are familiar with wine clubs in general, you know that they involve a membership and either monthly or quarterly shipments of wine. A red wine club works just like any other wine club, but it focuses just on the red wine varietals. This means that members will not receive any white or blush wines. A red wine club, depending on the club or the member's preferences, may feature wines from a particular region or all over the world.
When you join a red wine club, you are guaranteeing exclusive exposure to red wines. If you are new to red wines in general, you may want to join a red wine club that focuses on red wines of the world rather than just a single wine making region. This will allow you the opportunity to taste and experience wines from other parts of the world, perhaps some that you may not have previously had the chance to try. As a red wine novice, this also allows you the opportunity to truly figure out what you like. You may end up loving a Shiraz from Australia but despising red wines from the Burgundy region of France.
As with any wine club, a good red wine club will do all the research for you. Each shipment will include a bottle (or two, depending on your membership details) of the selection for the month, information about that particular wine, and additional supplemental materials. An ideal red wine club will offer selections chosen carefully by a panel of wine experts.
With monthly or quarterly exposure to red wines, a red wine club will allow you the discovery of an exciting new world of wines. If you have only had experience with white wines, joining a red wine club will let you experience a whole new way of tasting and experiencing wine. If you are already a red wine fan, you will have the chance to build your red wine collection or perhaps start a new cellar.
Either way, joining a red wine club will open the door of opportunity to education, experience, and fun!


CALGARY, ALBERTA, September 14, 2010—British Columbia Investment Management Corporation (bcIMC) is pleased to announce the grand opening of Jamieson Place at 308, 4th Avenue SW, Calgary. Jamieson Place is a 38-storey, 880,000 square foot "AAA" office complex owned by bcIMC. It was developed by Bentall LP, designed by Gibbs Gage Architects and constructed by EllisDon. The project is managed by Bentall LP on behalf of bcIMC.
The grand opening of Jamieson Place will be marked by a reception for media and invited guests on September 23 from 12:00p.m. to 3:00 p.m. in the Jamieson Place Winter Garden on the second floor of the building (in the Plus 15 area). Speeches and presentations by Alderman Drew Farrell and Mr. John Marrotta, Senior Vice President (Western Region) for Bentall LP, beginning at 12:30 p.m., will address the building's unique architectural aspects, its target LEEDTM Gold certification and the project's historical influences.
The Jamieson Place Winter Garden is a unique amenity for a downtown Calgary office building. Jamieson Place also features an innovative biowall at its west end and a monument dedicated to the "Alberta Champions," six important figures who contributed to the early development of Calgary and the province of Alberta.
As part of bcIMC's commitment to public art and the community at large, Jamieson Place features two significant original pieces of public art, one by Dale Chihuly in the Winter Garden and the other by Dennis Oppenheim in the main lobby.
Jamieson Place is named after Calgary Judge Alice Jane Jamieson, who was the first female judge in the British Empire, a magistrate of the women's court of Calgary from 1916 to 1931 and instrumental as an early advocate for women's rights and issues in Calgary.
Since the inception of its real estate program, bcIMC has invested in properties that are energy efficient and environmentally and tenant friendly. Jamieson Place is designed to reduce energy and water use, minimize waste and contribute to overall health and well-being. Tenants include ARC Resources, TAQA North, Peters & Company, Jennings Capital and Statoil.
Green and LEEDTM certification. bcIMC invests on behalf of public sector pension plans, public trusts, and the provincial government. For more information, visit www.bcimc.com.
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The nurses are very professional and very helpful to explain things. But for their help, I would not be getting along as well. The wound care really helped heal up a mess I had been dealing with on my own for almost 2 years. The in-home INRs have been a real God send and have kept me out of the doctor's office.


According to some that must know, Mr. Humm is currently one of the best cooks in the world. At least I can say, the dinner was a high light.
Book well in advance and you pay when you book. Great for non US persons - there is no fight for tips etc. Tips are officially not allowed. I assume therefore the personell is accuratly paid.
Speaking of personell - never experience such attentive personell before. It was almost as they knew what I wanted before even I did. Very impressive - good job.


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Q: Finding all integer solutions for $x^2 - 2y^2 =2 $ I'd love your help with finding all the integer solutions to the following equation:
$x^2 - 2y^2 =2 $. I want to use Pell's theorem so I changed the equation to $-\frac{1}{2}x^2+ y^2 =-1$, Can I use Pell's Theorem now? I got a private solution for $-\frac{1}{2}x^2+ y^2 =1$  $y=3, x=4$, so form Pell I get that $\alpha= (4+3\sqrt{2})^n$ for every integer $n$, and a private solution for $-\frac{1}{2}x^2+ y^2 =-1$  is  $y=1, x=2$, so the total solution is $\alpha= (1+\sqrt{2}) \cdot  (+/- (4+3\sqrt{2})^n)$. Are all these steps correct? and if not- how should I solve this one?
Thank you!

A: The standard way is to find one solution to $x^2-2y^2=2$, e.g., $x=2$, $y=1$, and find the fundamental solution to $x^2-2y^2=1$, which is $x=3$, $y=2$, and then go $(2+\sqrt2)(3+2\sqrt2)^n$, etc., etc.

A: Pell's Theorem is only valid for integer coefficients - so no.

A: Another way is to note that $x$ has to be even. Hence if $x=2x_1$, we get that
$$2x_1^2-y^2 = 1 \implies y^2 - 2x_1^2 = -1 \implies \left(y + \sqrt2 x_1\right)\left(y - \sqrt2 x_1\right) = -1$$
Now clearly, one solution is $(x_1,y) = (1,1)$.
Raise both sides to any odd power, i.e.,
$$\left(y + \sqrt2 x_1\right)^{2n-1}\left(y - \sqrt2 x_1\right)^{2n-1} = (-1)^{2n-1} = -1$$
and note that
$$\left(y + \sqrt2 x_1\right)^{2n-1} = Y_n(y,x_1) + \sqrt2 X_n(y,x_1)$$
$$\left(y - \sqrt2 x_1\right)^{2n-1} = Y_n(y,x_1) - \sqrt2 X_n(y,x_1)$$
which in turn gives us infinite other solutions since
$$Y_n^2 -2 X_n^2 = -1$$

A: Let's say $\alpha_n$ and $\beta_n$ the $n$-solution of the equation $x^2 - 2y^2 = 2$. We have: $$\left\{\begin{matrix}
\alpha_0 = 2
\\\beta_0 = 1
\end{matrix}\right.
\land \left\{\begin{matrix}
\alpha_1 = 10
\\\beta_1 = 7
\end{matrix}\right.
\land \left\{\begin{matrix}
\alpha_2 = 58
\\\beta_2 = 41
\end{matrix}\right.$$
From here, you can deduce the recoursive relation:
$$\left\{\begin{matrix}
\alpha_{n} = 3\alpha_{n-1}+4\beta_{n-1}
\\\beta_{n} = 2\alpha_{n-1}+3\beta_{n-1}
\end{matrix}\right.$$
This is the list of the values of $\alpha_n$ and $\beta_n$:

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Looking back I have had quiet a busy 2014. I don't feel like this year has gone to plan but I do have some amazing memories. I have done so many great things this year and I'm proud of my achievements. Im looking forward for 2015 now as I will be going on a family skiing trip, back to Ibiza (hopefully), graduating university, getting my first 'real job' and hopefully spending christmas in South Africa with my family. Hope you have all had an amazing 2014, Thank you for following my blog and continuing to support and read about my life. This year my blog has grown so so much and I just hope I can improve even more in to this next year.
Had an amazing week in Ibiza with my boyf.


While back I wrote how you can hook up your computer to your TV. That is one way to get Netflix, Hulu and other online content on the big screen TV.
Roku is a much easier way to accomplish the same goal. Roku boxes used to cost $100 when they came out (if I recall right).
Right now you can get the Roku 2 HD box on sale for $47.99 with free shipping.
I don't own one and haven't used it but they have pretty high reviews.


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6 Studies Showing Why Children Don't Need — and Shouldn't Get — a COVID Vaccine
November 9, 2021 Tom Cox 0
We now have a major crisis as the race is on to vaccinate our 5- to 11-year-old children who bring no risk to the table, with a vaccine that has been shown to be sub-optimal and potentially harmful.
Paul Elias Alexander, Ph.D.
When it comes to COVID, public health officials have consistently downplayed and/or ignored natural immunity.
Yet these public health experts and many doctors and scientists know that no vaccine can confer the type of robust, full, sterilizing and life-long immunity to COVID that natural-exposure immunity confers.
Officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and National Institutes of Health (NIH) know anyone exposed, infected and recovered from SARS-CoV-2 has acquired cellular immunity.
They know how natural immunity works, yet they continue to deceive the public on this issue by falsely insisting vaccines are the only answer to "ending the pandemic."
The authors of a 2008 study on the 1918 pandemic virus showed how potent and long-lived natural immunity is, and how the immune system generates new antibodies if and when needed (re-exposed).
The researchers wrote:
"A study of the blood of older people who survived the 1918 influenza pandemic reveals that antibodies to the strain have lasted a lifetime and can perhaps be engineered to protect future generations against similar strains … the group collected blood samples from 32 pandemic survivors aged 91 to 101 … the people recruited for the study were 2 to 12 years old in 1918 and many recalled sick family members in their households, which suggests they were directly exposed to the virus … The group found that 100% of the subjects had serum-neutralizing activity against the 1918 virus and 94% showed serologic reactivity to the 1918 hemagglutinin.
"The investigators generated B lymphoblastic cell lines from the peripheral blood mononuclear cells of eight subjects. Transformed cells from the blood of 7 of the 8 donors yielded secreting antibodies that bound the 1918 hemagglutinin.
" … here we show that of the 32 individuals tested that were born in or before 1915, each showed sero-reactivity with the 1918 virus, nearly 90 years after the pandemic. Seven of the eight donor samples tested had circulating B cells that secreted antibodies that bound the 1918 HA. We isolated B cells from subjects and generated five monoclonal antibodies that showed potent neutralizing activity against 1918 virus from three separate donors. These antibodies also cross-reacted with the genetically similar HA of a 1930 swine H1N1 influenza strain."
The very same CDC that fights against COVID natural immunity, argues just the opposite when it comes to chickenpox.
Guidance on the CDC website, "Chickenpox Vaccination: What Everyone Should Know," states: "People 13 years of age and older who have never had chickenpox or received chickenpox vaccine should get two doses, at least 28 days apart."
In this reasonable guidance, the CDC says you need the chickenpox jab if you "have never had chickenpox." If you have had it, then you do not need the vaccine.
The CDC goes even further, stating: "You do not need to get the chickenpox vaccine if you have evidence of immunity against the disease." So if someone has had chickenpox and recovered, and can demonstrate that via a laboratory test, they don't need the vaccine.
Again, this makes sense. All parents know this, and have for generations. You do not need a vaccine for measles, if you already had measles and cleared the rash and recovered. Natural, beautiful robust immunity, typically lasts for the rest of a person's life.
The same goes for the CDC's guidance for the measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine (MMR). The CDC clearly states no MMR vaccine is needed if "You have laboratory confirmation of past infection or had blood tests that show you are immune to measles, mumps, and rubella."
So, what is different for COVID-19? Is something other than science at play here?
We now have a major crisis as the race is on to vaccinate our 5- to 11-year-old children who bring no risk to the table, with a vaccine that has been shown to be sub-optimal and carrying risks.
We even have one of the FDA advisory committee members, Dr. Eric Rubin, who is also lead editor of the New England Journal of Medicine, stating: "We're never gonna learn about how safe the vaccine is until we start giving it."
This is a shocking statement by someone who played a role in the decision-making, and should lead us to examine if Rubin and others on that committee were conflicted in terms of relationships to the vaccine developers.
Rubin further stated: "The data show that the vaccine works and it's pretty safe … we're worried about a side effect that we can't measure yet," he said, referring to a heart condition called myocarditis.
So then why would Rubin and others agree to expose our children to potential harm from a vaccine for an illness that poses little risk to children, if they have serious concerns and admit they have not and cannot yet measure the safety?
This depth of uncertainty should never exist in any drug or vaccine that the FDA regulates, much less a drug officials propose to administer to 28 million children. Something is very wrong here.
It is clear that children are at very low risk of spreading the infection to other children, of spreading to adults as seen in household transmission studies, or of taking it home or becoming ill, or dying — this is settled scientific global evidence ((references 1, 2, 3, 4).
An April 2021 study in the Journal of Infection (April 2021) examined household transmission rates in children and adults. The authors reported there was "no transmission from an index-person < 18 years (child) to a household contact < 18 years (child) (0/7), but 26 transmissions from adult index-cases to household contacts < 18 years (child) (26/71, SAR 0=37)."
These findings add to the stable existing evidence that children are not spreading the virus to children but rather that adults are spreading it to children.
Why vaccinate our children for this mild and typically non-consequential virus when they bring protective innate immunity towards this SARS-VoV-2, other coronaviruses and other respiratory viruses?
Why push to vaccinate our children who may well be immune due to prior exposure (asymptomatic or mild illness) and cross-reactivity/cross-protection? Why not consider assessing their immune status?
Dr. Geert Vanden Bossche writes that children's innate immunity:
"… normally/ naturally largely protects them and provides a kind of herd immunity in that it dilutes infectious CoV pressure at the level of the population, whereas mass vaccination turns them into shedders of more infectious variants. Children/ youngsters who get the disease mostly develop mild to moderate disease and as a result continue to contribute to herd immunity by developing broad and long-lived immunity."
Here are six studies that make the case for not vaccinating children:
1. A 2020 Yale University report indicates children and adults display very diverse and different immune system responses to SARS-CoV-2 infection which explains why they have far less illness or mortality from COVID.
According to the study:
"Since the earliest days of the COVID-19 outbreak, scientists have observed that children infected with the virus tend to fare much better than adults … researchers reported that levels of two immune system molecules — interleukin 17A (IL-17A), which helps mobilize immune system response during early infection, and interferon gamma (INF-g), which combats viral replication — were strongly linked to the age of the patients. The younger the patient, the higher the levels of IL-17A and INF-g, the analysis showed…these two molecules are part of the innate immune system, a more primitive, non-specific type of response activated early after infection."
2. Studies by Ankit B. Patel and Dr. Supinda Bunyavanich show the virus uses the ACE 2 receptor to gain entry to the host cell, and the ACE 2 receptor has limited (less) expression and presence in the nasal epithelium in young children (potentially in upper respiratory airways).
This partly explains why children are less likely to be infected in the first place, or spread it to other children or adults, or even get severely ill. The biological molecular apparatus is simply not there in the nasopharynx of children. By bypassing this natural protection (limited nasal ACE 2 receptors in young children) and entering the shoulder deltoid, this could release vaccine, its mRNA and LNP content (e.g. PEG), and generated spike into the circulation that could then damage the endothelial lining of the blood vessels (vasculature) and cause severe allergic reactions (e.g., here, here, here, here, here).
3. William Briggs reported on the n=542 children who died (0-17 years (crude rate of 0.00007 per 100 and under 1 year old n=132, CDC data) since January 2020 with a diagnosis of COVID linked to their death. This does not indicate whether, as Johns Hopkins' Dr. Marty Makary has been clamoring, the death was "causal or incidental." That said, from January 2020, 1,043 children 0-17 have died of pneumonia.
Briggs reported:
"There is no good vaccine for pneumonia. But it could be avoided by keeping kids socially distanced from each other — permanently. If one death is "too many," then you must not allow kids to be within contact of any human being who has a disease that may be passed to them, from which they may acquire pneumonia. They must also not be allowed in any car … in one year, just about 3,091 kids 0-17 died in car crashes (435 from 0-4, 847 from 5-14, and 30% of 6,031 from 15-24). Multiply these 3,000 deaths in cars by about 1.75, since the COVID deaths are over a 21-month period. That makes about 5,250 kids dying in car crashes in the same period — 10 times as many as Covid."
Briggs concluded: "there exists no justification based on any available evidence for mandatory vaccines for kids."
4. Weisberg and Farber et al. suggest (and building on research work by Kumar and Faber) that the reason children can more easily neutralize the virus is that their T cells are relatively naïve. They argue that since children's T cells are mostly untrained, they can thus immunologically respond (optimally differentiate) more rapidly and nimbly to novel viruses such as SARS-CoV-2 for an effective robust response.
5. Research published in August 2021 by J. Loske deepens our understanding of this natural type biological/molecular protection even further by showing that "pre-activated (primed) antiviral innate immunity in the upper airways of children work to control early SARS-CoV-2 infection … the airway immune cells in children are primed for virus sensing…resulting in a stronger early innate antiviral response to SARS-CoV-2 infection than in adults."
6. When one is vaccinated or becomes infected naturally, this drives the formation, tissue distribution and clonal evolution of B cells, which is key to encoding humoral immune memory.
Research published in May 2021 showed that blood examined from children retrieved prior to COVID-19 pandemic have memory B cells that can bind to SARS-CoV-2, suggestive of the potent role of early childhood exposure to common cold coronaviruses (coronaviruses). This is supported by Mateus et al. who reported on T cell memory to prior coronaviruses that cause the common cold (cross-reactivity/cross-protection).
There is no data or evidence or science to justify any of the COVID-19 injections in children. Can the content of these vaccines cross the blood-brain barrier in children? We don't know because it wasn't studied.
There is no proper safety data. The focus rather has to be on early treatment and testing (sero antibody or T-cell) to establish who is a credible candidate for these injections, as it is dangerous to layer inoculation on top of existing COVID-recovered, naturally acquired immunity.
There is no benefit and only potential harm/adverse effects (here, here, here).
Source: childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/vaccinate-children-covid-natural-exposure-immunity/
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Wilbert Paulissen of the Joint Investigation Team (JIT) at the press conference of the JIT on the ongoing investigation of the Malaysia Airlines MH17 crash in 2014, in Nieuwegein, The Netherlands, 19 June 2019. EPA-EFE/ROBIN VAN LONKHUIJSEN
Surviving relatives speak to the press at the press conference of the Joint Investigation Team (JIT) on the ongoing investigation of the Malaysia Airlines MH17 crash in 2014, in Nieuwegein, The Netherlands, June 19, 2019. EPA-EFE/ROBIN VAN LONKHUIJSEN
Mohamad Hanafiah bin Zakaria, Frederix van Leeuw, Yuriy Lutsenko, Peter Crozier, Fred Westerbeke en Wilbert Paulissen of the Joint Investigation Team (JIT) at the press conference of the JIT on the ongoing investigation of the Malaysia Airlines MH17 crash in 2014, in Nieuwegein, The Netherlands, June 19, 2019. EPA-EFE/ROBIN VAN LONKHUIJSEN
Moscow has Wednesday denied involvement in the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 as three Russians and one Ukrainian face murder charges over the tragedy.
All 298 passengers and crew aboard the flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur were killed when it was hit by a Buk surface to air missile as the craft flew above a conflict zone in eastern Ukraine on July 17, 2014.
Three Russian nationals and one Ukrainian allegedly involved in the incident over a rebel-held region near Donetsk have been charged with murder, with a trial due to take place in the Netherlands, a Joint Investigation Team (JIT) said.
The suspects were named as Igor Girkin, Sergey Dubinsky, Oleg Pulatov and Leonid Karchenko, by Dutch National Police chief Wilbert Paulissen at a press conference in Nieuwegein.
"We have decided to prosecute four suspects for downing flight MH17," lead JIT investigator Fred Westerbeke said.
"This is the start of the Dutch criminal proceedings."
Girkin was the so-called Donetsk People Republic's defense minister when flight MH17 was downed, Dubinsky was his deputy and a former member of Russia's GRU intelligence service, Pulatov was head of the DPR's intel service and Karchenko, who has no military background on record, commanded a unit in Donetsk.
The four are now the subject of an international arrest warrant.
The first three are of Russian nationality and probably reside in Russia, the JIT said, while Karchenko is of Ukrainian nationality and is presumed to live in eastern Ukraine, where the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic and Luhansk People's Republic are still at war with the central Ukrainian government.
Russia's Defense Ministry has rejected all the accusations and described them as "completely unfounded."
It said in an online statement that none of its air defense missile systems had ever crossed the border between Russia and Ukraine.
"You know our attitude towards this investigation. Russia had no opportunity to take part in it even though it showed initiative from the very first days of this tragedy," government spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Wednesday.
According to open-source investigative website Bellingcat, which has collaborated closely with the investigation, Dubinsky received the Buk missile from Russia, Pulatov escorted it and Karchenko assured its passage back across the border into Russia.
The JIT, which brings together experts from Australia, the Netherlands, Belgium, Malaysia and Ukraine, has previously presented evidence that claims the Buk missile used in the downing of MH17 belonged to the Russian military and had been brought across the border into the insurgent-held areas of east Ukraine.
It was fired from an agricultural area not far from the town of Pervomaiskiy before being returned to the Russian Federation.
The investigation into the downing of the passenger plane has been hampered by the fact the team had not been granted sufficient access to the key areas of interest, many of which remain behind the frontlines of the ongoing conflict in eastern Ukraine, the JIT said.
It added that the trial against the four men will begin on Mar. 9, 2020 at the Justice Complex Schipol.
The JIT appealed to the suspects to attend court on that date but said the trial will take place in their absence if they do not.
Eastern Ukraine descended into violence in 2014 when pro-Russian insurgents grabbed power as the country reeled from a pro-European revolution that ousted the former Russophile president, Viktor Yanukovych.
The unrest, which according to the United Nations has claimed more than 10,000 lives, came after Russia's annexation of Crimea.
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Chinese recycling magnate Chen Guangbiao sings "We are the World" to approximately 200 homeless people, whom he treated to lunch at the Boat House in New York City's Central Park last week.
The Mogul Takes Manhattan
China's Most Eccentric Tycoon Organizes Lunch for Homeless—and Sings and Does Magic Tricks
This article was first published by Tea Leaf Nation.
Lunch at Central Park's Loeb Boathouse is an elegant affair, popular among well-heeled tourists and alumni networking associations for its lakeside view and excellent service. But on Wednesday, June 25, the restaurant hosted hundreds of homeless people, dozens of journalists, several bodyguards watching over a silver case most likely filled with hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash, two badly disfigured survivors of self-immolation, and one Chen Guangbiao. A 45-year-old recycling tycoon and self-proclaimed "China's Top Philanthropist," Chen was in Manhattan to stage a charity event. What he ended up creating was something more like theater of the absurd—think of it as Samuel Beckett with Chinese characteristics.
While megaphone-wielding protestors standing across the street called for the downfall of the Chinese Communist Party, inside the swank boathouse hundreds of homeless people bused in from a shelter picked at sesame-seed-encrusted tuna and expensive cuts of beef, and clapped politely as Chen belted out "We Are the World"—awkwardly, as Chen speaks almost no English.
"My way of doing things got a lot of criticism in China, but I hope what I'm doing here will get cheered on in the United States," he said, to mild applause. "Homeless friends of America! What I am giving you is not a fish, but a fishpole." He then quoted Chairman Mao Zedong, sang a communist song about the selfless hero Lei Feng, and performed elementary-school-level magic tricks.
Earlier in June, Chen had taken out a massive ad in The New York Times—a paper he unsuccessfully tried to buy in January—promising to host a charity luncheon for 1,000 "poor and destitute Americans," each of whom would receive $300 dollars.
Not surprisingly, in the days leading up to the event, Chen received a lot of coverage. "He smashed his own Mercedes to encourage people to ride bikes," wrote CBS. "He sold canned air to call attention to China's air pollution problem. He's been known to hand out red envelopes of cash to the poor. And now, he's in America."
At 10 a.m., two hours before the Wednesday lunch, dozens of homeless people milled around in the park outside the restaurant, staring suspiciously at the fresh-faced Chinese volunteers, most of whom were incongruously dressed in the green uniforms of the 1950s People's Liberation Army. Chen had promised tickets and cash to 1,000 homeless people, but it seemed that only a few hundred, organized by the shelter New York City Rescue Mission, would be allowed in.
"He's a Chinese billionaire who was going to sing for us, and give us a free meal and $300, and now he's not," said 63-year-old Frank Guiliani, who had come to the park hoping to get the free money and lunch, but who was stuck watching outside. "I had shit to do today."
Despite the tens if not hundreds of thousands of dollars spent on the event, the lunch felt very disorganized, as if it all had been thrown together recently. Which, indeed, it had: In his speech, Chen boasted that he organized the entire event in just a few days, after his original plans—which he didn't elaborate on—fell through.
The waitstaff looked offended, the audio quality was reminiscent of a high-school auditorium, and there were dozens of plates of wasted food.One of the employees at the shelter complained about the dessert choice. "I suggested chocolate cake for dessert. Many of the homeless are fighting addictions, and the sugar helps with that. But they wanted to serve berries instead." Chen's musical accompaniment for "We Are the World," a group named Audible Chocolate, had only been found the day before, when one of Chen's employees saw them busking. "We're NYC people, and we're down with homeless people," said Lo Anderson, the group's singer. "It seems like it was for a good cause."
Chen is an easy target for ridicule, not unlike Donald Trump, that American avatar of craven self-promotion. His English-language business card proclaims that he's the "Most Charismatic Philanthropist of China," and he seems in desperate need of validation. But like many Chinese of his generation, he comes from extreme poverty, and has something to prove.
In 1966, Chairman Mao Zedong launched the Cultural Revolution, a massive and maddening campaign to reassert control over the government that ushered in a decade of anarchy. Mao raised an army of millions of students, exhorting them to upend the traditional order and, like Lei Feng, to "serve the people."Chen was born in 1968 in a rural county in the eastern province of Jiangsu; in 1972, his brother and sister died of hunger, a fact he sometimes mentions in interviews. Chen himself "almost starved to death in a time of famine," reads promotional material for the 2011 hagiographic book China's Top Philanthropist Chen Guangbiao.
He sold popsicles in high school and a contraption he claimed cured diseases after college, but it wasn't until he discovered the recycling business in the mid-1990s that he found success. In the years since, he has accumulated hundreds of millions of dollars of wealth, building up a successful empire and donating, by his own estimate, tens of millions of dollars. In his office in Nanjing, he displays "4,000 honorable certificates, 20,000 hada (silk scarves presented by Tibetans to respected people), and 3,000 banners," according to the Hong Kong newspaper South China Morning Post.
Chen burst into fame by personally leading 120 workers to help rescue victims of the May 2008 Sichuan earthquake, which killed roughly 70,000 people. "I carried more than 200 bodies," he told a reporter from the U.S. business magazine Fast Company.
"I was covered in blood. When I couldn't cradle them, I hauled them. When I couldn't haul them, I lifted them. To this day, I still have a back problem from it."
I first met Chen in February 2011, in the midst of the U.S. financial crisis, while I was a Beijing-based correspondent for Newsweek. Chen was holding court at an expensive and ostentatious restaurant in Beijing with a group of Taiwanese and Chinese journalists. He had just returned from a high-profile trip to Taiwan, where he held a "donation ceremony" and handed out red envelopes stuffed with cash. But altruism alone isn't quite Chen's bag: "I think helping poor people is an experience worthy of promotion," he told me. Dreams of a political legacy also flitted through his mind. "I would donate all of my money" to build a bridge from the mainland to the small Taiwanese island of Jingmen, he said. But he stressed that he's not representing the Chinese Communist Party. "I don't hook myself up to the government," said Chen.
Inspired by the philanthropist billionaires Bill Gates and Warren Buffet, Chen pledged to donate all of his money after he dies. But while he's alive, he thrills at the idea of personally distributing it himself.
As we lunched in Beijing, he became animated about the idea of giving money to laid-off Wall Street bankers at the depths of the financial crisis. "You can recommend one," he told me. "I'll give him $5,000. This banker, after receiving my red envelope, he won't be able to sleep. He'll be thinking about his life. You can recommend 10 out-of-work bankers, and I'll give each of them $5,000." (I never provided him a list; Chen called me a few weeks later, at 11:30 p.m., and said he was nixing the plan because his company wasn't doing well.)
That didn't crush his dreams of bringing his unique brand of philanthropy to the United States. "I've already surveyed American people, and they're happy to receive an envelope full of money," he told me.
Standing on stage in an elegant Central Park restaurant and handing out cash to Americans, however, will have to remain a dream. At the end of his June 25 event, Chen learned that charity in the United States might be even more complicated than his largesse back at home. It's unclear exactly what transpired. But it seems like although Chen had promised in his New York Times advertisement to hand out $300 to each homeless person at the lunch, Craig Mayes, the executive director of New York City Rescue Mission, refused to allow him to do so, causing a ripple of anger to spread through the crowd.
"I'm not going to allow them to distribute cash to the homeless," he reiterated to a mass of reporters who had gathered to see why several homeless people were shouting and waving their hands in the direction of Chen and Mayes. Someone knocked over a vase of roses. Chen, who doesn't speak English, looked confused at the angry scrum Mayes' remarks had produced. "If you give cash to homeless, some of them are going to go out and buy drugs," Mayes said.
Chen then tried to placate the crowd. "My homeless friends: I have heard that you have the highest quality of class of any homeless people in the world," a remark that the translator helpfully ignored. Trust in me and the mission, Chen offered, saying that he would give out the money later. (Chen later said he donated the money to the shelter.) Ernest St. Pierre, a 54-year-old nattily dressed homeless man who had told me earlier he was "smooth as butter" was angry. "Fuck this country," he said. "You lied to people."
The crowd of homeless people shuffled back to their bus. "So everyone is furious, that's the takeaway," muttered a reporter from The New York Post.
Chen, however, seemed unfazed. As he made his exit, I asked him what he thought of the event. "I'm very satisfied," he said with a smile. "China is rich, and America is rich, and this was very successful in development of my U.S. philanthropy." His next plan, he told me, was to do an event distributing money somewhere in Africa.
And Chen wasn't the only one who left feeling satisfied. To Audible Chocolate, the charity was appreciated. "They paid us decent, and it came at a great time," said Anderson. "He made it rain."
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About the marriage between Communist Manifesto author Karl Marx and Jenny von Westphalen, history of life after the wedding.
Happily Ever After: Unfortunately, their happiness didn't last. The privations were worse than either of them had foreseen. Jenny stayed by Marx's side, as Bauer had predicted, first in the romantic little flat in Paris (where the long-admired Heine paid eloquent tribute to her charm and wit), and later in progressively less romantic flats in the Chelsea, Soho, and Haverstock Hill areas of London. The socialist movement evolved, but at bitter personal cost. Child followed child, and the family was gradually reduced from straitened circumstances to abject poverty. Jenny's family marriage dowry, a silver dinner service bearing the crest of the Scottish House of Argyll, was pawned, retrieved, pawned again, and finally sold outright. Still there was never enough to keep bread on the table, or to buy medicine for an ailing baby, or a coffin for a dying one.
Their single servant, the loyal bondsmaid Lenchen, who had been with Jenny's family since childhood, cooked, cleaned, marketed, made their clothes, carried the coal, lit the fires, did the washing, and nursed them through endless illnesses. In the middle of it all (that is, in a two-room flat already housing a family of seven), she also bore Marx a son, to his great embarrassment (not because of any moral scruples, but because of the obvious implication that he had taken advantage of a member of the proletariat). It was a blow from which Jenny, too, never quite recovered, for until then she had trusted her husband implicitly, ennobling him as the heroic champion of the poor and dispossessed; that he should have deceived her with her beloved Lenchen seemed inexcusable. The parentage of the child was carefully concealed, and it is possible that he never knew who his father was. Ironically, he was the only one of Marx's children to live to see the advent of the Russian Revolution.
Although Marx dominated Jenny even from those early days in Trier, he was always immensely proud of her and depended on her emotionally throughout their marriage. Once when revisiting Trier, he wrote back to her in London: "Almost everyone I meet asks me for news of 'the prettiest girl in Trier,' for tidings of 'the queen of the ballroom.' It cannot but tickle a man to find that in the fancy of a whole township his wife is enshrined as a 'fairy princess.'"
In his own way, he always saw her so.


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Li Edelkoort has seen the future, and it's … mushrooms. Their subtle, earthy colors. Their curvaceous, snuggly shapes. Their trippy, hallucinogenic side effects. If she could choose a soundtrack for late next year, Edelkoort says, it would be "White Rabbit," Gracie Slick's anthem to psychedelic fungi.
Don't underestimate her ability to sneak dangerous ideas across international borders. The Dutch-born Edelkoort, 58, is the oracle behind Trend Union, the go-to source for trend forecasting for the fashion, beauty, retail, automotive, consumer-electronics, and interior-design industries. She counts Philips Electronics, Nissan, Virgin, Roche Pharmaceuticals, Estée Lauder, Wella, Camper, Donna Karan, Jean Patou, Lancôme, and L'Oréal among her 1,500-plus international clients. Emmanuelle Linard, who runs Edelkoort's New York office, says U.S. companies form about one-third of Trend Union's client list, though most choose to keep their relationship with the firm confidential.
The globe-trotting Edelkoort, whom Time magazine named one of the world's "25 Most Influential People in Fashion," has agents on five continents feeding trend information back to the company's mother ship in Paris. Although she's little known beyond the most elite design circles, her influence can be seen in every American mall.
"At Old Navy, we jumped on her prediction of the return of folklorica and craft, and did a lot of hand-embellishing and beading," says Ivy Ross, who was EVP of design and product development before being appointed EVP of marketing at the Gap. In earlier jobs, Ross had used Edelkoort's insight to launch a line of dolls with wash-off faces for Mattel. And while at Coach, she drew from Edelkoort's advice to explore materials beyond leather for handbags.
On this day in May, Edelkoort is on stage at Parsons the New School for Design before an army of fashionistas desperately scribbling down her predictions for the trends that will shape fall-winter 2009 – 2010. Wearing a lustrous gold-silk kimono, a flowing Ikat scarf, shiny gold sneakers, and bright red lipstick, Edelkoort looks like somebody's very hip granny — one who might just slip a little hash into the brownies. If you see acid-flashback fashion spreads a year from now, you can trace them to this peripatetic cool hunter.
But channeling the zeitgeist is only part of Edelkoort's work. She publishes a fleet of expensive trend magazines, consults for design firms, and runs a nonprofit to help artisans market their wares. As if that wasn't enough, for 10 years she also has been head of the Design Academy Eindhoven, the premier Dutch school of design, a post she'll leave in December.
Does she ever. Between presentations at Parsons, Edelkoort laid out her ideas — some extremely insightful, some frankly baffling — about how we'll work, live, and eat in the years to come.
I was struck by how optimistic you are. That's a pretty radical departure from the national mood here in the United States.
You see how important this whole voting thing is when you see how it has affected this country. There has been a terrible arrest of anything moving. If you go to L.A., it looks like it hasn't changed from the 1980s. No new brands, no new shops, no retail ideas. Nothing.
Why do you think we've been so stuck?
We've been living 20 years in fear. The '90s started with AIDS and a huge economic and ecological crisis, then the [tech] bubble that burst, followed by Ebola, and the millennium bug. Then in 2001, it started really big-time.
So how has all that played out in the marketplace?
For one thing, in these 20 years, we've all been dressed in dresses. And I think there's an interesting correlation between the dress and fear because, as an animal, when man is fearful, he immediately wants to procreate. So the dress is used as the feather. And now that we will have less fear, we will have less dresses.
What will we wear that's less fearful?
Separates. Like those worn in the '70s and '80s.
How do fashion and architectural trends relate?
In fashion we've been working with the idea of veiling and covering ourselves up. We'll go into hiding much more, which will make our lives more exciting and decadent. Burlesque and the cabaret will come back. In architecture, we see this new building by Ben van Berkel called "the Burka," because it looks like it's wrapped in black ribbon. For him it's a statement against all the openness, all the glass.
What do you see happening in housing?
Contrary to many architectural predictions, we don't believe fluid, boatlike lines will continue. There's going to be a return of the box. Man is a very fearful animal and needs to be confined; we need organization. We will live like chickens.
In Milan, the whole city was buzzing about the Dutch. Why is this such a Dutch moment in design?
The Dutch mentality fits very well with this kind of make-do time. It's sober, yet it has humor. It's very generous. We're peculiar in the sense that we're extremely rooted with our feet on the floor, yet have our head in the clouds. By ourselves, we attach sky and earth, with the energy going through us.
We're starting a program in the Netherlands to bring 15 scientists and 15 creatives together to study and do research. We know that designers are more interested in science, and scientists are more open to the arts and design. In the first half of this century, we think everything that we have always seen as opposites will merge into new hybrids.
Years ago, the Dutch architect Winy Maas came up with the idea of a vertical farm called Pig City. Do you think its time has come?
Now it's not just the Dutch. A researcher at Columbia University said vertical farming is on its way. You could do four hectares on each floor. No insects, no diseases. You could go to your next-door building and it will be a fresh market. If you want to check out of your current lifestyle, or invest, you should buy the farm.
The Dutch understood globalization before the rest of the world. Is your history giving you a leg up?
We became rich with global marketing. Amsterdam is built from spices. But recently the government has decided that the future of our country is in the creative industries.
It sounds like you've all been reading The Rise of the Creative Class.
Richard Florida [the book's author] is taken very seriously in the Netherlands. There's an enormous fight going on between Amsterdam, Rotterdam, and Eindhoven because everybody wants to be the first city in the creative industries. Film. Advertising. Architecture. Design.
What could Americans learn from the Dutch?
To be free. I think you have lost your freedom: to the state, to the federal. You've lost your freedom of voice, of economy, of expression. It's very monotonous. And your history learns us that you're not that.
If the U.S. were your client, what would you advise?
For one thing, it's an American misconception that everything should be big and in numbers. I went to Crate & Barrel and wanted some stuff for my new apartment, and everything was too big. Every bowl was like a salad bowl, every mug like a vase, every wineglass like a pitcher. It's unappealing. Also, if America wants to solve its economic and electricity problems, you should just stop serving ice in everything. Your drink gets watered down. It's not really good for your brain. It's just a habit. Americans should go in rehab for all these habits. That would do it.
With an election on the horizon, many things may soon change. What do you see in our future?


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Disney completes its $71 billion buy of Fox entertainment assets
Disney has closed its $71 billion acquisition of Fox's entertainment business, putting "Cinderella," "The Simpsons," "Star Wars" and "Dr. Strange" under one corporate roof. The deal is likely to shake up the media landscape. Among other things, it paves the way for Disney to launch its streaming service, Disney Plus, due out later this year.
It will also likely lead to layoffs in the thousands, thanks to duplication in Fox and Disney film-production staff.
By buying the studios behind "The Simpsons" and X-Men, Disney aims to better compete with technology companies such as Amazon and Netflix for viewers' attention – and dollars.
Disney needs compelling TV shows and movies to persuade viewers to sign up and pay for yet another streaming service. It already has classic Disney cartoons, "Star Wars," Pixar, the Muppets and some of the Marvel characters. With Fox, Disney could add Marvel's X-Men and Deadpool, along with programs shown on such Fox channels as FX Networks and National Geographic. Fox's productions also include "The Americans," "This Is Us" and "Modern Family."
The deal helps Disney further control TV shows and movies from start to finish – from creating the programs to distributing them though television channels, movie theaters, streaming services and other ways people watch entertainment. Disney would get valuable data on customers and their entertainment-viewing habits, which it can then use to sell advertising.
Disney CEO Bob Iger said in an earnings call in February that Disney Plus and other direct-to-consumer businesses are Disney's "No. 1 priority."
Cable and telecom companies have been buying the companies that make TV shows and movies to compete in a changing media landscape. Although internet providers like AT&T and Comcast directly control their customers' access to the internet in a way that Amazon, YouTube and Netflix do not, they still face threats as those streaming services gain in popularity.
AT&T bought Time Warner last year for $81 billion and has already launched its own streaming service, Watch TV, with Time Warner channels such as TBS and TNT, among other networks, for $15 a month.
In addition to boosting the Disney streaming service, expected to debut next year, the deal paves the way for Marvel's X-Men and the Avengers to reunite in future movies. Though Disney owns Marvel Studios, some characters, including the X-Men, had already been licensed to Fox.
Disney also gets a controlling stake in the existing streaming service Hulu, which it plans to keep operating as a home for more general programming. Family-friendly shows and movies will head to Disney Plus.
Disney won a bidding war with Comcast over Fox, and Hulu was seen as a key prize in that battle.
Hulu, which was founded in 2007, is benefiting from a host of trends including the growing numbers of subscribers who either are quitting their pay-TV service (cord-cutters) or paring it back (cord-shavers).
No pricing has been disclosed for Disney Plus. The streaming service will feature five categories of material: Disney, Pixar, Marvel, Star Wars and National Geographic. Disney charges $5 a month for ESPN Plus, a service that offers programming distinct from the ESPN cable channel.
Meanwhile, Fox Corp. – the parts of 21st Century Fox that are not part of the deal, including Fox News, Fox Sports and Fox Broadcasting – started trading on the Nasdaq under the "FOX" and "FOXA" tickers Tuesday.
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45 Years Of Spooks And Happy Haunts At The Haunted Mansion (Magic Kingdom)
45 years at the Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World on this date: October 1st, 2016 and it's surreal and on how much of this milestone and achievement in the course of the park's history in how far it has came. As many Disney fans like myself that we know all this is the happiest place on earth but, they are a few opening day attractions that opened up on the official date of October 1st, 1971 and one of them is the Haunted Mansion.
In this post we are going to be focusing on the Haunted Mansion and not because it's my favorite attraction that I am truly passionate about but, some historical background attraction information and my personal thoughts in how I became attached towards this truly Imagineering classic at Liberty Square at the Magic Kingdom.
Roy O. Disney dedicating the opening of Walt Disney World at the Magic Kingdom towards his brother Walt of the Magic Kingdom in October 1971.
Before we dive in we need to go back in time towards the original Haunted Mansion at Disneyland in Anaheim, California. As many of us know this where the idea and this original creation kick started all of the other Mansions worldwide even at Walt Disney World. Walt Disney himself was the driving force and all hands on deck for making the Mansion come to life. By the time attraction opened up August 1969 because the project was on hold because of the 1964 New York's World Fair and left the facade and show building just standing on a hill. Walt Disney didn't see the opening of it because of his passing in December 1966 and the company was defiantly at a stop and didn't know where to continue since the lost of Walt was the lead man and direction of making the Haunted Mansion come to life.
A early photo taken at Disneyland on August 1969 of the Haunted Mansion two years prior towards the Magic Kingdom Mansion in 1971.
So this brought the question towards the rest of "WED" team before it became Walt Disney Imagineering for the Florida project to built the next Mansion in Orlando, Florida. Now I am not going to mention all of the history of the Haunted Mansion at the Magic Kingdom but, some brief historical background of the attraction.
Walt Disney showing off his next plans for the "Florida Project" in this famous photo for where it was going to be located in Orlando, Florida. However his vision never came to life because of his passing in December 1966 but, Walt's employees kept towards his word to finish the Florida park.
Now for some brief historical background of the Haunted Mansion in how this all got started to bring the Magic Kingdom Mansion at Walt Disney World to life. According towards author and former Disney Imagineer, Jason Surrell in his novel of "The Haunted Mansion: Imagineering a Disney Classic" in his section passage of his novel of "From A Disneyland Original To The Magic Kingdoms" that predated the opening day of the Magic Kingdom in October 1971 for the origins of the attraction as quoted by the following:
"By the time the attraction began to gain some momentum in 1967, earth already had begun to move in the swampland outside Orlando, Florida, for Walt Disney World (or Project X, as it was known within WED). The East Coast resort was slated to open in October 1971 and the desicion was made early on to include the Haunted Mansion at Magic Kingdom Park at Walt Disney World." (pg. 36)
"Since the two attractions were scheduled to open within less than two years of each other, Imagineers decided to make two of everything from the start. The duplicate interiors were constructed simultaneously, with one set going straight to Disneyland and the other put into storage until the show building in Florida was ready to receive it. However, once again there was the question of where the building would land on the map." (pg. 36)
Now what separates the two Mansions between the West and East coast resorts is the architectural style and outer facade of the buildings and outdoor queue lines. The original Mansion in New Orleans Square was more focused on Southern plantations houses in the Antebellum-Era and gain inspirations such as the Shipley-Lydecker House in Baltimore, Maryland in which the Imagineers owe there respects to gain inspiration for building the Mansion at Walt Disney World. It has been claimed that the Imagineers gained there inspiration from the Harry Packer Mansion which is a Dutch Gothic, Victorian-Era which serves as a AAA Diamond Hotel according towards Doombuggies.com.
The Harry Packer House in Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania built in 1874 which serves as a AAA Diamond Hotel.
Since Liberty Square was focusing on the themes of America's original thirteen colonies and areas of settlers in the lower Hudson Valley part of New York with settlers like English, Dutch, and, German and according towards Jason Surrell's novel about the design and influence for the Magic Kingdom Mansion that:
"The final design incorporated a number of strong Gothic design elements typical of per-Revolutionary New York's lower Hudson River Valley, including arches thrusting upward into the stone and brickwork common to the English Tudor Style. This particular style of architecture is referred as Perpendicular Style of its use of strong vertical lines, which enhance the sense that the Mansion is towering above you, tall and forbidding." (pg. 37)
Also another difference that separates the two Mansions on both coasts is the queue lines and part inside of the show building. Magic Kingdom's Mansion is kept quite the same like Disneyland's but, the only difference was the endless staircase in the Magic Kingdom Mansion and the interactive queue line through the graveyard that was built in 2011 and Disneyland doesn't have a interactive queue. It was built to hold more guest capacity of the attraction and also something to interact for more a immersive and cohesive experience before riding on the Mansion at the Magic Kingdom park.
So that's some of the historical knowledge in where the Mansion is today in Walt Disney World at the Magic Kingdom. Now transitioning towards my personal thoughts of how I became attached towards the Mansion still towards today.
Walt Disney was when I first visited in 2005 and heard about this attraction called the Haunted Mansion and was intrigue and interested about it. Since I was still young and from the look of the building that it scared me and didn't go on it. The more braver and tougher souls when they got off the ride and I heard that it had ghosts, a bride ghost with a axe, and things popping up at you. As years progress and I frequently visited Walt Disney World more often and was a bit older that myself decided to give it another shot.
When I did I became absolute immersed and fell in love it and it wasn't bad at all from my younger self telling me it was. I was in a different world, something that step outside from the realms of time and inside of a building that was captivating and telling me a story of what going on and trying to solve the puzzle and mystery behind the Mansion and wanted to know more.
This photo of me when I visited the parks back in 2012 and a background shot of the Haunted Mansion near Liberty Square/Frontierland.
Later on, my inner obsession grew about the Haunted Mansion fandom culture, researching about the Disney urban legend of the Hatbox Ghost, and what the Mansion meant towards Walt's vision meant to me and becoming more involved with it. From researching and looking more about the attraction's history and finding out that Walt did have a bit of a dark side inside of him because of the dark themes from his past animated films Sleeping Beauty's Maleficent, Snow White, and so on.
Now here is why I am truly attached towards the Haunted Mansion for this innovated and artistic original attraction. My family several years ago was going through a tough time some years ago because my mom's brother, father, and mother, passed away. This was a tough time for us and was a transition period that ended up cleaning up and preparing my grandfather's house up for sale on the market. My mom took it the hardest with her dad and for myself who was semi-close with my grandfather at the time. The universal meanings of life and death in our lives are defined by our own personal thoughts and opinions that are entitled towards you and this is where it applies for the Haunted Mansion.
The statue busts that were designed by Blaine Gibson in the interactive queue that was built in 2011, one year later when I was there in 2012.
The Haunted Mansion no matter Disney park I am in either Disneyland or Walt Disney World plays that important factor of my moods of the times when I am sad and happy. This is where I believe that the Mansion reflects our times when we miss our departed friends or relatives who we really miss and cherish deeply in our lives that are in afterlife. Then again we embrace and keep those thoughts and memories because of the good and happy times when they were around in our lives.
The Mansion isn't just some old attraction that some enjoy but, a canvas of life that the people we miss that they are part of happy haunts in our minds and hearts with us. Thus this is why I am personally attached towards the Mansion and you may call me a "foolish mortal" but, a mortal with pride, happiness, and thought that I see in my end with a beautiful creation that Walt and "WED" has created for everyone to enjoy.
Outer facade of The Haunted Mansion in where I mention early of that type of architectural style of "Perpendicular Style" to give that feel it's towering over you.
So here's to you Magic Kingdom and the Haunted Mansion, 45 years later and bringing other foolish mortals happy haunts and ready to materialize. These days attractions come and go in being replaced or updated but, nothing can be like the Haunted Mansion that was way ahead in it's time between the 1960s and 1970s that influenced many other Disney attractions that we live and enjoy. The Disney magic will always be with me and I will be sure to "hurry back" for more.
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NCAA Tournament: Breaking down the South Region
COLUMBIA, S.C. (WSPA)-University of SC students were excited Monday about the men's basketball team's upcoming NCAA tournament game in Greenville Friday. New Orleans (-1.5) and Kansas State vs. Wake Forest (-1) scheduled for Tuesday, and North Carolina Central (-4) vs. UC Davis and USC (-3) vs. Providence on Wednesday. Syracuse has always been slotted in as a six-seed in the Lexington region on ESPN's projections.
Villanova, the overall No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament, is No. 1 in the final Associated Press college basketball poll of the season.
Gamblers are clearly putting their money on Duke after the Blue Devils (27-8) became the first team to win four games in four days at the ACC Tournament.
Perhaps the biggest surprise of the region though was the fact that Maryland, which has been considered one of the top teams in the nation all season, received a No. 3 seed.
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If the Cats want to make their first Final Four in program history, they will need to get through Belmont first in the first round. This year's final four and national championship game will be played at American Airlines Center in Dallas. SWAC Freshman of the Year Demontrae Jefferson (14.9 points per game, 3.3 assists per game).
After a long week of waiting, a 21-10 record, a top four finish in conference play, and a trip to the SEC Tournament semifinals, the Kentucky Hoops team found out their destination for the NCAA Tournament earlier this evening. I'm not going to say it's not fair. Notre Dame, Baylor and SC join UConn on the 1-seed line, while Duke is a No. 2 seed. The Lady Longhorns, vanquished in regional play by UConn in the Huskies' last two tournament runs, were granted a reprieve this season.
The Lady Toppers, regenerated under the direction of fifth-year coach Michelle Clark-Heard, are back in the Big Dance for the third time in four seasons after winning Conference USA regular season and tournament championships. No. 9 seed games as close to a tossup - as you would expect - in the East Region it gives No. 8 Wisconsin a 79 percent chance of beating No. 9 Virginia Tech. The University of Oklahoma, a No. 6 seed, is also in the region. The highest-ranked member in this year's Dance from the Big 10 is fourth-seeded Purdue (25-7), who is 30-to-1 to raise the championship hardware in April.
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Alice S. Hartman passed away on December 27, 2018 in Taylor, Texas. Alice was born September 24, 1921 to Albert and Annie (Haverland) Gaskamp; she was preceded in death by her parents, and loving husband of 41 years Earl Hartman three brother's and three sisters ,and one great-Grandchild; Alyssa Castillo. She is survived by her sons David and wife Judy Hartman and Robert and wife Estelle Hartman, her brother Monroe Gaskamp, Sister in law Barbara Gaskamp, two granddaughters Carrie Waters and Amy Castillo and great grandchildren Bayleigh Waters, Melanie Waters, Adrianna Wilson, Anthony Lara, and Brittany Wagner.
I can remember visiting the Hartmans when I was a child at their dairy. Alice and my Dad were cousins. Alice was a hard-working lady all her life. I know she will be greatly missed.
Going to miss seeing her out and about in her yard. Praying for peace and comfort.
Greatest sympathy. You are in our thoughts and prayers.