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Why Multiculture Will Always Fail
Nicolai Sennels' latest guest-essay concerns a topic that has greatly preoccupied Western European leaders in recent months: the failure of Multiculturalism.
by Dr. Nicolai Sennels
Several leading European politicians have now declared the multicultural project dead and impossible to implement. German Chancellor Angela Merkel has concluded that the "so-called 'multikulti' concept — where people would 'live side-by-side' happily — did not work" (BBC, 17. October 2010). Merkel said straight out that the attempt to build a multicultural society has "utterly failed". British prime minister David Cameron (BBC, 5 Feb 2011) and French president Nicolas Sarkozy (The Telegraph, 11 Feb 2011) quickly followed suit and declared multiculturalism a "failed" effort. Cameron added that the "UK needed a stronger national identity" and Sarkozy argued that "We have been too concerned about the identity of the person who was arriving and not enough about the identity of the country that was receiving him."
As a psychologist who has had hundreds of immigrants as clients, my conclusion is that the multicultural society will always fail because it is contrary to the fundamental psychological principles that are needed for building healthy communities. This basic psychological principle concerns identity — national identity. As quoted above, Cameron and Sarkozy reached the same conclusion.
For a society to succeed, its citizens must be able to unite around common core values. The most fundamental values are national identity and a wish for fellowship with one's countrymen. National identity means that you feel like a Dane if you live in Denmark. Fellowship means that similarities — first of all the fact that you live in the same country — means more than differences, for example religion, color, or country of origin.
National identity and the feeling of fellowship increase work morale, taxpaying morale, morale in relation to social services, and respect for the country's laws in general. People who experience themselves as part of the community will feel that they harm themselves if they harm the community. National identity is also important for respect towards the nation's authorities.
The sense of community is crucial to the quality of life for us "pack" animals, and common core values are the foundation of the mutual trust and mutual helpfulness, openness, understanding and respect among the population. People who are deeply divided on core values and who want the community to evolve in completely different directions simply feel less fellowship with one another.
When people identify with a culture whose values are not rooted in the nation's indigenous culture, this identification happens at the expense of identification with the greater community. The step towards acting in violation of the community's interest is therefore shorter, which is one of the reasons for the dramatic over-representation of certain immigrant groups in crime and unemployment statistics.
Multiculturalization of a society, therefore, leads to an increased need for control, prohibitions, police, and tougher sentences in order to prevent internal factions from cheating or committing crimes against the community. Multicultural societies thus move easily towards a less democratic and more fascistic condition. The former German chancellor Helmut Schmidt concludes in hindsight: "The concept of multiculturalism is actually incompatible with a democratic society. … If one asks, where in the world are multicultural societies functioning, he quickly comes to the conclusion, that multiculturalism can only exist peacefully within strong authoritarian states." (Hamburger Abendblatt, 24 Nov 2004).
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Fortunately, immigrants from almost all over the world have been able to accept and identify with our basic Western values. There are a few problems with organized crime and demographic clumping among immigrants from Asia and Eastern Europe but it has never became a threat to society.
Despite certain success stories and role models, one culture has proved impossible to integrate sufficiently, namely the Islamic one. Muslim culture and religion have demonstrated some inherent self-protective mechanisms which makes Muslim immigrants resistant to external influences from the host culture.
What we are dealing with here is a culture that in the most important areas — including true democracy, free speech, equality of women, and tolerance towards other faiths — has changed very little or not at all since it first appeared in a medieval clan society 1,400 years ago. It is almost unbelievable, given how much the rest of the world has changed during that time. The unfortunate combination of excessive Western tolerance and a lack of flexibility from the Muslim culture's side has resulted in a kind of cultural osmosis, where Western values have not yet been able to penetrate the Islamic world while Islamization diffuses from the Muslim community into non-Muslim societies.
In multicultures which includes Muslim culture, the problems arising from lack of national identity and sense of community are therefore proportionately larger. Hence today the term "multiculture" is equivalent to societies where both Muslim and non-Muslim cultures exists. A more precise term would therefore be "bi-culture". Instead of integrating into the common society, parallel societies appears, where benefit fraud and tax evasion are highly prevalent and where lawlessness and hostility against non-Islamic authorities are extreme and often violent.
According to police, Denmark has 25 to 30 "sensitive areas" with many immigrants, where police and fire departments can not work without risking being attacked (Midtjyllands Avis, August 7th, 2010). One among many examples is the Facebook page "Ishoj Ghetto", which encourages its 650 members with the following battle cry: "My brothers. We shall destroy all the police cars approaching Ishoj. It is our city." (Ekstrabladet, August 3rd, 2010). Holland, France, Britain, Belgium, Germany and most other Western European countries have cities and ghettos with similar problems. A study in Taastrup (city in Denmark) shows that immigrants and their descendants are behind 75 percent of all benefit fraud cases — although the proportion of immigrants is only 21 percent (Jyllands-Posten, August 31st, 2010).
Across Western Europe, there are parallel Muslim societies that have reached a stage so advanced that they have built their own political, economic and legal infrastructure. The executive, legislative and judicial power lies with the imams, police-like Muslim father patrol groups, homemade Sharia Courts and Islamic mediation meetings. The economy is characterized by the fact that Muslims prefer to buy goods and services from other Muslims, and the Islamic Havala banking (a system of private money transfers outside of authorities and banks) has largely replaced the normal ways of conducting financial transactions. It is too short a jump from this well-developed Islamic infrastructure and aggressive attitude toward the non-Islamic environment to the demands for autonomy and secession. Such demands have been made by Muslims throughout Islamic history, and in today's China, Russia, Thailand, Africa, and the Balkans Muslims use guerrilla warfare, terrorism, kidnappings and threats to achieve this end.
Common sense and mature life experience could have prevented us from making the mistake to begin with. A couple of decades too late — always being the last to admit a mistake — our politicians finally admit the obvious problems (but only after opinion polls proved that the majority of voters do not want multiculture). But what will they do about it?
Three obvious solutions
The first and most basic solution is to stop immigration from countries that are not Western-oriented, which primarily applies to the Islamic world. As the Americans says: "If you find yourself in a hole, stop digging."
Secondly, we need to do as Angela Merkel, David Cameron, and Nicolas Sarkozy recommend: We must strengthen the national identity both among immigrants and the indigenous population. This is done primarily by making our educational institutions and public service media focus more on our countries' history, culture and values. Moreover, we must force immigrants to integrate by making language proficiency, knowledge about our culture and history, adherence to the law and tax payment for e.g. 10 years a condition for receiving social benefits. Problematic demographic developments can partly be solved by limiting the state's economic child support to the country's average amount of children per mother (2 children). We do that in Denmark and it prevents immigrants from moving to Denmark, having/bringing a lot of kids and living on the money that the family get from the state for each child.
Thirdly, we must stop diluting and challenging our own culture and national identity through Islamization and parallel societies. The influential mosques and Islamic cultural centers makes Muslims stay in a very rigid version of their original culture. Dominant symbols like minarets, Halal food in public institutions, closure of public taxpayer-funded sports facilities in order to make Muslim women able to use them, state-supported Koranic schools, prayer rooms in public workplaces, hospitals, etc. are also harmful to the development of national identity among both immigrants and the rest of us. Islamization and parallel societies make it possible to live from cradle to grave in non-Muslim countries without ever leaving the circle of Muslim culture. It is contradictory and counterproductive to want national identity among immigrants when the government simultaneously allows and even supports Islamization.
Muslim parallel societies in the West produce tens of thousands of alienated citizens with very low or no national identity and loyalty — every year. These parallel communities must be dissolved by all means possible. This includes zero tolerance towards any breach of the law. Tax authorities, Social Services and the police play a crucial role in this context.
I would like to add that after working as a prison psychologist for years, my conclusion is that the only thing criminal immigrants really fear is being deported. We also need to do as the Danish Municipality of Aarhus does: Send female social workers or midwives into the homes of non-Western immigrants to meet with the women (without participation of male family members) to ensure that they and their daughters are safe, free and know their rights to divorce, and about family planning, contraception, women's shelters and repatriation (state-paid emigration to the family's country of origin).
In order to stop multiculture and challenge the rigid traditionalistic, unassimilable and widespread version of Muslim culture, the women have to be freed to choose their sexual partners, number of children, clothing style, and religion. As the Danish Muslim activist Kristina Khader, initiator of the women's advisory centre Project New Hymen, told me in an interview: "The social control of women aims to preserve the core of the Muslim culture. A big part of the Muslim culture's core is about female sexuality." (JP-blog "Kulturkloeften", November 2, 2009).
In general multiculture must be fought by making the inability or unwillingness to integrate so practically difficult and economically unprofitable that repatriation the only attractive option.
This is a long list of necessary demands and consequences, but the carrot is equally big: Participation on equal footing in the world's freest, richest and best functioning culture — the West.
Nicolai Sennels is a psychologist and the author of "Among Criminal Muslims: A Psychologist's experiences with the Copenhagen Municipality".
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Pat H. said...
Yes, multiculturalism is a complete failure.
It's why Muslims can't fit Western Culture.
It's why Zionist Jews can't fit Western Culture either.
Do you think Nicolai Sennels would object if I translated this article into German?
M.A. said...
Multiculti is doing just fine in Singapore.
Enforced there by government mandate.
Government requires a mix of Chinese, Indian, and Malay-Muslim in every school and apartment block.
The three groups don't love each other, but they have been living together without troubles for half a century.
So, why does multiculti work in Singapore, but not in The West?
Manfred --
I think it will be fine with him, provided that you credit him and include a link to this post. Thanks for asking.
@ M.A.
Forgive my ignorance, but it begs the question: What is the penalty for failure to abide by the government mandate?
M.A. asks: So, why does multiculti work in Singapore, but not in The West?
The answer illustrates Dr. Sennels' point about multiculti leading to increased social control by authorities. Singapore is so strict, people get flogged for writing graffiti. Chewing gum in public is forbidden. No wonder everyone gets along, they're shaking in their boots, thinking of what will happen if they don't!
Nicolai Sennels said...
Latté island:
You are absolutely right. And: is it a succesfull multicultural society when every ethnic groups lives separated from the others?
"The most fundamental values are national identity and a wish for fellowship with one's countrymen."
While national identity and a wish for fellowship with one's countrymen are important, I disagree with the general premise, if that's all he's saying there is to it. Multiculturalism doesn't work if it doesn't go both ways but there's more to it than that. All fundamental values are based on motivational goals; self-direction, stimulation, hedonism, achievement, power, security, conformity, tradition, benevolence, and universalism. By Universalism I mean an understanding, appreciation, tolerance and protection for the welfare of all people and nature. The subject of multiculturalism is intimately tied to religion in Europe and America which is why I dislike multiculturalism. The argument always comes down to religion, in my view. Islamic doctrine runs counter to the US Constitution, as does I must mention, does Christian doctrine by fundamentalists who insist that Creationism be taught as a science in America's public schools. If Muslims or Christians wish to teach their own children 4th century beliefs, they may do so in private but not at the public's expense. If they live in a democratic country and wish to implement barbaric laws based on their religion, they may not do so as long as they are living in a democracy.
syntec said...
I believe we are all missing the big picture by a very long way.
It isn't just the presence of Muslims albeit they being the most prominent and pernicious threat right at this point in time, it's also all non-White Third World peoples and their respective cultures collectively that will eventually bury Western civilization and the indigenous peoples of Europe and their descendants elsewhere along with it.
The problem is, firstly, the ruling ideology of Marxist Liberalism and its extensive tentacles across the whole of the political, judicial and general societal areas of life.
The second is the imposition of the man-made unnatural legislation called Human Rights and Affirmative Action edicts upon all of Western society.
The third stumbling block is, of course, the enablement and aiding and abetting of by the Marxists, of mass non-White Third World immigration and asylum whether supposed legal or clearly illegal.
These are the three killer road blocks indigenous European peoples will first have to demolish and I have no doubt, they will indeed succeed.
JS123 said...
The major mistake in this piece lies in this passage: "For a society to succeed, its citizens must be able to unite around common core values. The most fundamental values are national identity and a wish for fellowship with one's countrymen."
National identity isn't a value, or a set of values. It is the perception of one possessing a shared history with others. It has nothing to do with the possession of a set of values.
Just one example of the success of refusing to adapt the multiculturalism paradigm:
Earthquake Ravaged Japanese Highway Rebuilt in Three Days
Contrast and compare to any society infused with the debilitations of Islam and shariah.
EJGB said...
I could be entirely out of my depth on this, but it would appear to me that in any culture where there is an influx of Islamic zealots, there soon follows discord.
Someone correct if I am off base on this.
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@ Pat H
Please explain your statement "It's why Zionist Jews can't fit Western Culture either."
This idea was explored in quite practical terms by Queen Margrethe in her autobiography. That was our introduction to modern Danish thinking and it was most congenial to our own ideas.
That woman has such common sense it makes one weep for Queen Elisabeth.
"The unfortunate combination of excessive Western tolerance and a lack of flexibility from the Muslim culture's side has resulted in a kind of cultural osmosis, where Western values have not yet been able to penetrate the Islamic world..[..]"
The social engineering mentality is seeping through here.. Add that to the part that starts with "Secondly..", a paragraph amounting to a typical progressivist mandate for the welfare state to use its power in order to create compliant Muslims and, here we go again, "liberate" Muslim women (something that even hard-core Soviet bureaucrats failed to accomplish), and what do you have? More power to the state, exactly how progressives, now enabling Islam, like it. Part of this article thus contributes to the fierce debate among progressives how to save the modern liberal welfare state, while also laying just another brick in the vast wall of PC MC that surrounds us.
The part about deportation could have been more in line with the realization that both Islam and practising Muslims cannot be "reformed" along "laiciste" lines, certainly not by using state coercion.
The other quote that effectively ruins this otherwise wonderful article for me:
"we need to do as Angela Merkel, David Cameron, and Nicolas Sarkozy recommend"
The short answer: never.
But seriously, one couldn't have wished for more sincerity about the true nature of this kind of CJ theorizing, for when combined with the call for strengthening the "national identity" quo modo Sarkozy et al, the actual progressivist colours of this scheme really begin to shine. State worshipping Socialists of the past (in the US most notably the Bellamy nephews) called themselves Nationalists. I think some caution about watered-down variants emerging in progressivist anti-Islam policy recommendations, is warranted.
Sagunto wrote:
"The social engineering mentality is seeping through here.. Add that to the part that starts with "Secondly..", a paragraph amounting to a typical progressivist mandate for the welfare state to use its power in order to create compliant Muslims and, here we go again, "liberate" Muslim women..."
I agree. Proposals such as this (and they are rather common even from within the anti-Islam movement) reflect an inability to grasp the full nature and dimensions of the horror and terror of Islam and of all Muslims.
Were we talking about any other immigrant group from any other Third World region, Sennels' drift would be more or less cogent and sensible. Muslims, however, are a unique, and the danger they embody and promote is uniquely pernicious, wicked and deadly.
Michael Servetus said...
Western politicians saying multiculturalsim has failed amounts to the local imam saying Islam is a religion of peace. In both cases the practical effet will be that they will both try harder to eliminate that which is in the way.
Michael Servetus -
I think you're right. But even if there was just a hint, a nano-bit of sincerity in the statements of these late-to-the-stage opportunists, they should be damned to whatever ugly place for having tried to make multiculturalism work.
Values are never enough. Country's like the USA are places people come to in order to abandon their culture in favour of a new life and culture. That may be okay for the USA - which, for the most part, accepts its duty as a nation of immigrants but it won't work elsewhere. Europe, for example, will never accept becoming a "United States of Europe".
In Europe people don't want to abandon their culture - or be put into a position where their ethnic majority status is threatened. I think the notion of "Europe" where there is only a handful of ethnic Europeans - is meaningless. Europe will already be dead - because values can (and do) change as quick as the weather.
People are just wrong when they say race and ethnicity mean nothing. They are a source of stability - which Europeans are now removing. All peoples have a natural sense of race and ethnicity - accepting this in no way entitles people to become racist, supremicist or hate anyone because of their race... but to deny it is to avoid reality.
People naturally depend on the security and stability of race and ethnicity - especially in times of threat, problems and strife.
The reason Europe is becomig less stable is because our politicians have undermined our Europe's ethnic and racial foundations - and now hey are faced with the problem that they have communities which have nothing in common.
Values are never enough to hold a nation together. I don't even believe he USA will hold itself together. Values are inherently prone to shifting and instability.
A society based on values is just kidding itself.
@Hesperado
Good to see you again, and, of course, you're absolutely right. All of this pussyfooting around is not going to solve the problem.
It's time to start talking about immediate mass deportation. If the Muslims riot because they want to stay and feed off the government teat and continue spreading their poison, then that's why every country has (or should have) police and armies.
Marriage between Muslims and non-Muslims (or even between Muslims and Muslims) should NOT be considered legal in any non-Muslim country, given the fact that Islam allows polygamy. Instead, it should be considered just another form of chattel slavery, and not be given any legal protection whatsoever. Just sayin'.
Reply to MA.
"Multiculti is doing just fine in Singapore.
So, why does multiculti work in Singapore, but not in The West?".
Singapore is also a Police state, has a totalitarian Govt. and little freedom to criticise (bound by PC).
Singapore is a multi-racial state but with limited multiculturalism. Of course there is alot of affirmative action but the Chinese and Western cultures are dominant. The Singaporean Govt. does not see Indian or Malay culture as equal, do they?
Also Singapore is nowhere as racially mixed as most Western nations. Try adding some Somali refugees, Muslims from Central Asia and Arabs. Let's see how cohesive the nanny state of Singapore becomes?
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Measurement results depend on the observer
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In today's arXiv appeared a nice paper by Časlav Brukner, my former PhD supervisor. Its central claim is that one cannot have observer-independent measurement results in quantum mechanics, which I bet you disagree with. But if you think a bit more about it, you shouldn't: which interpretation, after all, allows one to have observer-independent measurement results? Old-style Copenhagen definitely allows that1If any definite claim at all can be made about old-style Copenhagen, this is it., but it's hard to find a living defender of old-style Copenhagen. Bohmian mechanics also allows that, and actually has living defenders, but it is a minority interpretation, and always appealed more to philosophers than to physicists. Collapse models also allow that, but they are on the verge on being experimentally falsified, and were never popular to start with.
What about the mainstream interpretations, then? In Časlav's neo-Copenhagen interpretation the measurement results are observer-dependent (otherwise this would be a rather schizophrenic paper). In QBism they are explicitly subjective2One should be careful, though, to not confuse observer-dependent with subjective: the speed of a star depends on the reference frame of the observer, but is perfectly objective. What is subjective is whether you like that star. But if something is subjective, then a fortiori it is observer-dependent., as almost everything else. In Many-Worlds there isn't a single observer after a measurement, but several of them, each with their own measurement result.
How can this be? Časlav's argument is as simple as it gets in quantum foundations: Bell's theorem. In its simple version, Bell's theorem dashes the old hope that quantum mechanics could be made deterministic: if the result of a spin measurement were pre-determined, then you wouldn't be able to win the CHSH game with probability higher than $3/4$, unless some hidden action-at-a-distance was going on. But let's suppose you did the measurement. Surely now the weirdness is over, right? You left the quantum realm, where everything is fuzzy and complicated, and entered the classical realm, where everything is solid and clear. So solid and clear that if somebody else does a measurement on you, their measurement result will be pre-determined, right?
Well, if it were pre-determined, than people doing measurements on people doing measurements wouldn't be able to win the CHSH game with probability higher than $3/4$, unless some hidden action-at-a-distance was going on. But if quantum mechanics holds at every scale, then again one can win it with probability $\frac{2+\sqrt{2}}{4}$.
This highlights the fundamental confusion in Frauchiger and Renner's argument, where they consider which outcome some observer thinks that another observer will experience, but are not careful to distinguish the different copies of an observer that will experience different outcomes. I've reformulated their argument to make this point explicit here, and it works fine, but undermines their conclusion that in single-world but not many-world theories observers will make contradictory assertions about which outcomes other observers will experience. Well, yes, but the point is that this contradiction is resolved in many-world theories by allowing different copies of an observer to experience different outcomes, and this recourse is not available in single-world theories.
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Ruth Kastner says:
9th October 2019 at 06:22
Just a note that not all collapse models are ad hoc versions that depart from standard QM, like GRW. The Transactional Interpretation is a collapse model that is empirically equivalent to 'standard' QM (except that, unlike unitary-only QM, it predicts that measurements have results). It can do this because it's based on the direct-action theory of fields. For quantitative details, see for example: https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.09367 and for an explicit derivation of the Born Rule in TI, see https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.04501
Daniel Tung says:
29th July 2021 at 06:23
Would love to know your opinion of this paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.05712
It shows how, if there are ontic states beneath quantum states, such states must be relative to observers.
So this together with the recent Nature paper (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-020-0990-x), which is in the same vein as Brukner of your blogpost, says that reality is in some sense observer dependent, whether it is observable or non-observable (ontic states).
Mateus Araújo says:
I'm not a fan of your paper. The informal conclusion in the abstract is clearly false. Clearly Wigner and his Friend can assign the same ontic state to the physical systems in the lab, namely the quantum state $\frac1{\sqrt2}(\ket{+}\ket{F_+}+\ket{-}\ket{F_-})$. You exclude that by assumption in the setup, demanding the Friend to assign an ontic state to either $\ket{+}$ or $\ket{-}$. Why would the Friend to that? It clearly contradicts the quantum mechanical description of the setup.
More generally, I don't think reality is in any sense observer dependent. Measurement results are, as defended by Brukner and Bong et al., but reality is not made of measurement results. Reality is made of quantum states, and these are objective and observer independent.
Hi Mateus, thanks for the comment!
The paper works within the ontological model framework, where quantum states are epistemic states over an ontic state space.
The usual argument of the Wigner's friend scenario is that since the friend only sees one outcome, she will assign either $\ket{+}_S\ket{F_+}$ or $\ket{-}_S\ket{F_-}$ to the lab (IF she can assign a quantum state to herself, which is not true for some interpretations).
In such cases the no-go result is obvious.
The paper shows that the no-go result is true even when the friend does not assign a quantum state to herself (but she still has an ontic state), only to the system she measures. This is the standard and common application of quantum theory to the scenario, just like Wigner's original treatment.
Therefore, the paper does not refute MWI, where the friend assigns the same pure state to the lab as Wigner, as mentioned in your comment.
But I have a question for MWI: which pure state the friend should assign to the lab, if she does not contact to anyone outside the lab? Infinitely many pure states of the lab are consistent with her observations, which differs by a phase between the two terms $\ket{+}_S\ket{F_+}$ and $\ket{-}_S\ket{F_-}$. All such states seem applicable.
Similarly, how do we know which pure state is the true universal pure state in MWI?
3rd August 2021 at 13:29
I don't think interpretations that forbid you from assigning a quantum state to yourself are worth talking about.
As for your question, usually one assumes that the initial quantum state and the dynamics are known in the Wigner's friend scenario, so one should assign that quantum state. More generally, if you make a single measurement of a quantum state, the only thing that you know about it is that it was not orthogonal to the projector you measured. This is true for any interpretation.
As for the true universal pure state, there is no hope finding that out, for pretty much the same reasons you'll never find out the state of the entire universe even in classsical GR.
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Before I painted the pumpkin I wanted to sketch it out first. I took another paper dish and marked out the edges of the pumpkin so I knew how large I could go…not going too close to the edge of the pillow (probably about 1.5″) Well once I did that I began to sketch out the pumpkin. I copied the PB image the best I could…if you are not great at hand drawing finding a stencil could help. I think what is important about the pumpkin here is that it has 3D shape to it so try your best at creating the 3D look. Once I finished sketching I darkened the areas of the pumpkin using the pencil (that were dark in the photo) So I knew right away where to start my contrast with the paint.
Adding shadow and contrast to the areas that the picture has and highlight (white) where the photo shows, using your acrylic paint. Once again having the water there helps to avoid too many mistakes since you can apply lightly and add as you go.
And that's all! It was a fun project to do and I have not painted a "picture" in a long time so it was a really relaxing craft. No pressure is the best way to go about this. Knowing that the pillow cover was only $4.99 helped and if all else failed I would not have to do this post haha. I think if I can pull this off so can you….you know your artistic abilities and you don't have to be a great artist to pull this one off. Having the "home made" look is what this pillow is about and could even be a great craft to have your kids do if you did not want to take this one seriously.
Perfect! It's as good as the original and in your colors! Love it!
Oh Thank you so much Lynda! I feel like I should take up painting after doing this…it was so fun!
Wow! This is beautiful. Great job!
I love the pillow and the neutral colors! You did such a great job! Do you have a template of the pumpkin you could share?
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Beautiful!! I love the colors in your pillow. I have been painting some seasonal words on pillows with acrylic paint. I did not use the textile medium in paint since I did not plan to wash the pillow. I also did not use acrylic fabric paint. Did you use the textile medium or fabric paint? I am asking because I didn't know if the paint went on easier with the textile medium or fabric pattern. I have not painted enough fabric to know if it made a difference.
Thank you for asking! I just used basic acrylic paint from apple barrel that I purchased at Michaels. I watered down the paint so that really helped with keeping control of the paint and I did not have a problem with the color showing up even with the water mixed in. This is honestly the second pillow I've painted with this (decoration only) and I have no problem with it showing up. I probably would do more research on acrylic paints if I was going to sell the product. I hope that helps!
$4.99 at Hobby Lobby (so wish we had one here) was a no brainer for sure! Your knock off is just as pretty as the Pottery Barn version and I like yours better because it is neutral. Very pretty!
Wow, $4.99 for a pillow cover! Definitely a no brainer there. Your pumpkin looks great. I've come over from Your Turn To Shine.
That is so beautiful! I'm partial to the softer tones of fall and the pillow is the perfect touch. Found your lovely blog from Your Inspired Design. All best!
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So pretty! I actually like yours better with the soft colors.
Thank you for linking up to Your Inspired Design!
These pillows are my favorite fall decoration that I have seen this year! I love how you changed the color to a more neutral color.
Deb, I am loving your version so much more! I am just loving neutrals this fall season and your pumpkin is so calming and relaxed. I can't wait to try the DIY. Thanks for sharing.
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Love the neutral twist you gave it! Beautiful vignette!
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Amaze-balls!!! I had no idea that HL had these inexpensive canvas pillow covers! I can't wait to do something like this! Stopping by from Your Inspired Design!
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You did a lovely job with this pumpkin pillow. I like the fact that you stayed with neutral colors because it will look terrific anywhere you place it. I saw your link at Courtney's Feathered Nest Friday Party.
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The 'heavy burden' of ISIS detainees in Kurdish jails
Kurdish authorities in north-eastern Syria repeatedly said they would not have trials for any foreign fighters.
Alexanda Amon Kotey, left, and El Shafee Elsheikh, who were allegedly among four British jihadis who made up an Islamic State cell dubbed "The Beatles," at a security center in Kobani, Syria, Friday, March 30, 2018. (AP)
QAMISHLI, Syria - Syria's Kurds are holding hundreds of alleged foreign fighters from the Islamic State (ISIS) but say they will not put them on trial and urged their home countries to repatriate them.
Kurdish forces who have been fighting ISIS in Syria with backing from the US-led coalition said they hold about 900 of the organisation's foreign jihadists from 44 countries.
The best-known captives include Alexanda Amon Kotey and El Shafee Elsheikh, two survivors of the ISIS kidnapping quartet dubbed "the Beatles" due to their British accents. The group was notorious for videotaping beheadings.
Among the detained French jihadists is Adrien Guihal, who is said to have claimed a truck-ramming attack in the French city of Nice in which 86 people were killed in 2016.
Kurdish Foreign Affairs official Abdel Karim Omar said Syrian Kurds also hold 550 women and approximately 1,200 children from the families of ISIS members. "Some of the women have four children, each from a different father and each father from a different country," he said.
Many of the detainees do not have identity papers, Omar said.
Alleged fighters are usually detained in jails, while women and children are held separately in camps.
ISIS once occupied large parts of Syria and Iraq but forces from those countries, with international help, virtually eliminated the self-proclaimed "caliphate." Iraq has since sentenced dozens of foreigners to death or life in jail over belonging to ISIS but Kurdish authorities in north-eastern Syria have repeatedly said they woul not put foreign fighters on trial.
"We try the local Syrian ISIS mercenaries but we won't try the foreigners," Omar said. "There are too many of them. It's a heavy burden we can't carry on our own."
"We don't have any laws for capital punishment. If we did try them and their jail sentence ended, then where would they go?" he asked.
The Kurds were trying to exert "pressure on the international community and countries that have nationals in our region," Omar said. "We are trying by all means for those countries to take back their nationals."
Russia, Indonesia and Sudan have agreed to take some nationals -- mostly women and children -- back, Omar said but Western countries, reeling from attacks claimed by ISIS on home soil, have been reluctant.
US Marines Corps General Joseph Dunford, chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, on October 23 said the delay in repatriating the foreign captives for prosecution was due to "political considerations and inconsistent legal frameworks."
Concerns included "how we identify, prosecute, deradicalise and reintegrate foreign fighters," he said.
Two Americans -- a man and a woman -- were transferred to the United States in July to be tried.
France has insisted any French adults held by Kurdish authorities should be tried where they are, so long as they face a "fair trial."
Britain has reportedly stripped Kotey and Sheikh of their citizenship and made no efforts to repatriate them. American media reported in August that the US administration was considering sending them to Guantanamo Bay.
Omar said the Kurds "have been in touch with the Danish, Dutch and Canadian governments" but so far without results.
"After advancing past many stages, the Canadian government halted everything," he said. Canadian official Stefano Maron said that "any information on an understanding towards repatriating Canadian citizens from Syria was unfounded."
Beyond those three countries, the Kurds appear to be showing more leniency with two key member states of the anti-ISIS coalition.
In recent months, the Kurds have selected several captives for interviews with the international media but a Kurdish military commander, who asked to remain anonymous, said an agreement had been reached so "no French or American ISIS fighters were brought out in front of the media to avoid pressure" on those governments.
(Agence France-Presse)


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WRTI Spotlight
Watch and Listen: Grammy-Winning Choir, The Crossing, Sings in the WRTI Performance Studio
WRTI Your Classical and Jazz Source | By Susan Lewis
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The Crossing@Christmas in 2016
Praised as "champions of new music" by The New York Times, and now with a third consecutive Grammy nomination, The Crossing performs highlights of a new work by composer Gavin Bryars in our performance studio ahead of concerts on December 14th and 16th. WRTI's Susan Lewis is host.
The Crossing at WRTI
Watch the broadcast recorded LIVE on WRTI's Facebook page.
The Crossing @ Christmas features the world premiere of Gavin Bryars' new work A Native Hill on December 14th at 8 PM at Church of the Holy Trinity on Rittenhouse Square, presented by Annenberg Center Live, and on December 16th at the Presbyterian Church of Chestnut Hill.
The work is based on texts by esteemed naturalist Wendell Berry and is the follow up to Gavin's The Fifth Century, The Crossing's Grammy-winning album.
PROGRAM for Broadcast:
Edie Hill: Poem for 2084 (1996)
Judith Weir: Vertue (2005)
Gavin Bryars: from A Native Hill (2018)
Conducted by Donald Nally, The Crossing is committed to presenting and recording new, substantial works, most of which address social issues, and has presented over 70 world premieres since its founding in 2005.
The Crossing was the American Composers Forums' 2017 Champion of New Music. The Crossing's 2014 commission Sound from The Bench by Ted Hearne was named a 2018 Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Music. They are the recipient of the 2015 Margaret Hillis Award for Choral Excellence, three ASCAP Awards for Adventurous Programming, as well as the Dale Warland Singers Commission Award (with composer Joel Puckett) from Chorus America.
The Crossing has released 14 recordings, and has received its' third consecutive Grammy nomination for Lansing McLoskey's Zealot Canticles. The ensemble won a Grammy Award for Best Choral Performance in 2018 for Gavin Bryars: The Fifth Century, and was nominated the year before for its recording of Thomas Lloyd's, Bonhoeffer.
Donald Nally is artistic director of The Crossing and the John W. Beattie Chair of Music at Northwestern University. He has served as chorus master at Lyric Opera of Chicago, Welsh National Opera, Opera Philadelphia, and, for many seasons, at the Spoleto Festival in Italy. He's the recipient of the 2017 Michael Korn Founders Award and the 2012 Louis Botto Award from Chorus America. His ensembles have twice won Margaret Hillis Award for Excellence in Choral Music: in 2002 with the Choral Arts Society of Philadelphia and in 2015 with The Crossing. This season he is a Resident Visiting Artist at the Park Avenue Armory.
WRTI Spotlight Donald NallyThe CrossingChristmasGavin BryarsChoral MusicEdie HillAnnenberg Center LiveSingingChurch of the Holy TrinityPresbyterian Church of Chestnut HillJudith Weir
Susan Lewis
Susan writes and produces stories about music and the arts. She's host and producer of WRTI's TIME IN online interview series, and contributes weekly intermission interviews for The Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert series. She's also been a regular host of WRTI's Live from the Performance Studio sessions.
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This Choral Recording by The Crossing, ZEALOT CANTICLES, Won a 2019 GRAMMY Award
In their 2018 CD, The Crossing sings Lansing McLoskey's oratorio, Zealot Canticles: A Musical Plea for Tolerance. WRTI's Susan Lewis talks with The…


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HOUSTON, June 14, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — WaterBridge Resources LLC ("WaterBridge" or the "Company") announced that its subsidiary WaterBridge Operating LLC has entered into a $200 million revolving credit facility (the "Credit Facility") led by SunTrust Bank with a syndicate of nine financial institutions. The Credit Facility will be used for general corporate purposes and to support WaterBridge's investments in water infrastructure in the Permian Basin in west Texas and the Arkoma Basin in southeast Oklahoma. Upon closing, WaterBridge and its affiliates have more than $700 million in committed capital, including $500 million from Five Point Energy LLC, to fund ongoing growth and expansion efforts in multiple domestic basins.
The closing of the Credit Facility coincides with the Company's fifth acquisition in 2018. Through organic development and acquisitions, WaterBridge has built a premier water midstream system in the southern Delaware region of the Permian Basin. The Company's Permian Basin infrastructure supports multiple blue-chip upstream operators in Reeves and Ward counties and includes 19 salt water disposal facilities, more than 70 miles of produced water pipelines and over 500 MBbls/d of disposal capacity.
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Shamrock tattoos and stickers on cheeks, leprechaun top hats with black buckles, a pair of green oval glasses, a long green scarf declaring Happy St Patrick's Day in bold font, and a couple who dyed their hair green. 'Oh I tell you, I am on the green today,' one woman tells her friend. Many, it would seem, had come to the National Concert Hall in Dublin for the RTÉ NSO's St Patrick's Day Celebration after a day of merriment.
A selection from the score to the legendary film Mise Éire opened the festive performance. In the beginning of this music by Seán Ó Riada, a leaping, legato horn playing 'Róisín Dubh' soared over a tremolo in the strings. The evening's principal hornist, Liam Duffy, whom one heard practising the solo before the concert began, executed the difficult part masterfully. Highly evocative imagery could easily recall quintessential pastoral scenes in Ireland, although the work, like much film music, suffered from an overdramatic theatricality that one felt most acutely in the grand, ultimate return of the opening theme. Brophy exhibited professional poise throughout and enabled the best parts of this music to sing.
Traditional roots shone in the second piece on the programme, the world premiere of Concerto for Concertina and Orchestra by the composer/performer Niall Vallely. Layering of materials functioned as a recurring structural device in the work. In the first movement, for instance, low strings laid down a baseline, syncopated jabs in the trumpets and horns added a zesty taste, snippets in the violins etched melodic filigree, and the concertina unravelled a tune that connected with the snippets like Lego. This process created a mellifluous bonhomie. Intimate dialogue featured in the interplay between the soloist and orchestra such as when Vallely traded a spirited tune with the violins before playing the same tune with the orchestra. The melodies in this movement seemed highly characteristic of Vallely's output because of their relative quickness and apparent rhythmic asymmetry.
Vallely's second movement left the most memorable impression. The movement began with a foundational sostenuto in the low strings over which the upper strings bled held notes that slowly shaded different orchestral colours. At one point, a biting dissonance stuck out from the inner strings, contributing an effective variety to what was generally a more harmonically reserved soundworld. After this introduction, the concertina unwound a long line consisting of four notes, each of which swelled. An oboe joined the texture, responding to the concertina in canon, and a harp plucked high above, playing off the soloist as well. These components constructed an appealing tenderness in the music. The concerto ended with a rolling, energetic finale in which Vallely used one main tune with punchy and lively rhythms. The concertina player traversed the various terrains of his concerto with his typical virtuosity, expanding slow tunes lyrically and phrasing vigorous passages skilfully.
The last act, Moxie, a five-man Sligo band, played most grippingly when they engaged more closely with traditional music. One example was 'Girl from Space,' which blended traditional elements, such as a whirling, attractive tune on button accordion and picked flurries on guitar, and rock's cymbal crashes and bass drum accents. Conversely, 'Mr and Mrs Kaki,' for which the singer Julia Spanu joined the group, sounded the least compelling because of its greater indie leanings. Throughout their show, Moxie, heavily amplified and at the front of the stage, overpowered the orchestra, which fulfilled a supportive, less important role.
As a whole, the programme showed how artists in Ireland have developed traditional music in many different directions. The musical diversity, from an orchestral arrangement of traditional elements by Ó Riada to the newly composed tunes by Vallely to the fusion of Moxie, illustrates an eclecticism that casts aside notions of purity, singularity and stability in Irish folk music. Tradition changes continuously. The RTÉ NSO chose an opportune moment to demonstrate that.


Cuomo signs bill permitting horse racing/parimutuel wagering in New York state on Palm Sunday. Ban dates to 1973 when Sunday racing 1st ok.
That a law prohibiting New Yorkers from wagering on horse racing–in the state or outside it–is absurd enough; the level of absurdity increased in recent years when the casino adjoining Aqueduct could legally blithely carry on its business, while the racetrack was forced to shutter.
Hamilton asked me whether there would be much of an appetite for horse racing on Palm Sunday. We'll find out on March 20th, when finally an archaic law with uncomfortable religiously hegemonic overtones is put to bed.


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