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Excuses are the Tools of the Incompetent
Last night my daughter came downstairs. She was doing her laundry and on top of her laundry basket she had a picture and she handed it to me in a sort of, hey, what do you think? Sort of way. She didn't say, what do you think? But she handed it to me. And immediately when I took it into my hands, I saw that it was this really delicate painting she had created. My daughter's 14 and on the piece of paper was this really beautifully intricate, watercolor painting of flowers and vines. And I don't say beautiful, intricate just cause she's my daughter. It really truly was this delicate painting of flowers and vines and flowers that were purple and flowers that were red and flowers that had, the the center of the flower. I forget what it's called. It's a pist or stamen something like that, that were yellow and these different colors. And she said, Hey, you know, huh?
I said to her, this is really beautiful. She said, yeah, it's kind of like childlike.
And she started putting the work down and I said, no, no, no wait, wait. First of all, a child doesn't work in watercolors. This, this depthly and delicately, anybody who has ever worked in watercolors, and I'm by no means of visual artists, but anybody who has worked in water colors, we'll know that water colors is one of the most challenging mediums in painting to work with because when you mess something up, it just, it's messed up. There's no getting around it. And so I began to tell her, look, no, no, no, you did this. Look at these details here and how delicately you did this and how the colors are complementary and how every single flower in a different way, shape and form and size has these details in it. And then she did this sort of, in order to cover the negative space around what she was doing. She did this sort of, you know, when you flick your paintbrush with your finger and you pulled the bristles back and then you let them flip forward in the paint flies onto the canvas. Or she did that, but she didn't overdo it and it was gorgeous.
It really, it really was lovely. And she brought it down to me to show me and to, you know, the, the sort of, the reason why, one of the reasons why any way behind her bringing it down was to get some encouragement to get my approval.
And I noticed something and I told her, I'm like, hey, you're onto something here. This is really great because a few weeks before she brought down this other watercolor painting that she had did, which was this picture of the sky, but it was of the sky as though you were laying on the ground on your back and looking up and above. You are these telephone wires stretching across and you see the pole and there's the telephone wires and the clouds are these patchy clouds that you can see. I shouldn't say they're patchy clouds, but you can see blue sky through the clouds. It's one sort of cloud mass. It has these openings in it where you can see the blue sky through the clouds. I said to her, this, this is gorgeous when I saw it. And she really does have the more than the beginnings of great ability in visual arts.
And so when she brought it down to me, she just was like, no, I don't think it's really that great. Oh, it's childlike. And she started making all these excuses and it brought to mind a phrase that my father told me when I was younger and has told me he's so great at coming up with these phrases and it's used them all throughout his career. My father was chief of police in Atlanta for many, for five years, I believe, five or six years. And he was a police officer in Atlanta for 33 years. And he's still very much active in the political scene there. And he has run and been a part of one of the most challenging jobs, being a police chief in a major urban area, major city. And one of the things he told me was this, excuses are tools of the incompetent. Excuses are tools or excuses are the tools of the incompetent. I understood that as best I could when I was younger and I would make excuses as to why some homework wasn't done or why didn't do this or why I didn't do that. But it really hasn't struck me until I become an adult and, and I really didn't delve into, wait a minute, what incompetent means. I thought incompetent means you just can't do something. You're just not able to do something. But when I looked at the definition of what the word incompetent means, it's this incompetent means not having or showing the necessary skills to do something successfully. Interesting. I always thought you just couldn't do something. You're incompetant. And persons incompetent, they are unable, they just can't do it. There's no way around it. But really incompetent means not having or showing the necessary skills to do something successfully. And it's easy to slough that off and say, Oh yes, it's..You can't do something. You just don't have the skills. But how that relates to what we do as artists and performers. Don't we don't we all the time, don't you recognize or can you recognize? Can you think of a time? Probably recently when we've worked really hard, we've studied, we've worked to create something, be it a performance or a piece of art, whether it's in the visual, the, the or the, the, the stage medium or, or in vocal arts or in the, the dance, the movement arts. We've worked hard and we studied to create this thing and before we even begin to show it, whether it's for our friends or our family or actual people who we want to get a job from, how many times have we made excuses before we even begin? Well, you know, this is just something that I threw together or you know, I didn't really have, a lot of time I didn't this, I didn't know. Yeah, haven't you done that? I know I have. Or just equally as damning, I guess. You know, haven't we done and or shown our piece of work and when we look to see what people's reactions are, we make a face like, Ooh, like, sorry, was that any good? I'm not sure. Oh, that felt really bad. I'm not sure. I know I have and in essence. What we are doing is we're putting ourselves down before or after.
We've, we've put out are, are, are a piece of ourselves to the world and look, I understand. Believe me, there is a severe vulnerability. There is, there's something to be said and the reason, one of the things about being an artist is that we are these open creatures who have to put our hearts, our minds, our bodies, our souls out there in a way that someone who's sitting behind a desk and bless them. Nothing wrong with that, but someone who's sitting behind a desk and he just has to do a set amount of work in a set amount of time, doesn't necessarily have to put out their heart, soul, mind, body in the way that we do. There are plenty of Joby jobs where people have to be creative and have to put themselves out there. I'm not putting that down, but when it comes to the arts, we have opportunity after opportunity after opportunity. And the people who are the most successful are the people who do put their hearts, their minds and their spirits and their souls out there for everyone to see. So I get it. I understand why we make excuses and make faces and just but think about it. Excuses are tools of the incompetent. If we believe that, if we take that into heart, that it doesn't make sense to make excuses unless we do not have or show, the necessary skills to create a successful or to do something.
Create a successful performance. And I would challenge you to say that many of us have worked very hard, studied very hard for years, sometimes decades to develop the skills we have them. And if we don't have them, we have the opportunity every single day till grow and learn and develop our skills. But there is a certain amount of skills that we have, period. So the excuses need to stop. I would challenge you to stop making excuses for yourself because really, at the end of the day, what's behind all of that? The intense fear. One of the things that's behind that, but I would say the root of it for me at least is the intense fear that here I have put my soul by heart, my mind, my everything out there and it's going to be rejected. That people aren't going to like it and then people aren't going to value it in the way that I do. And that rejection, that devaluation of my spirit, heart, mind, soul is then going to affect me in a way that lessens my own self worth. Now that may not be exactly what it is for you, but I feel like it's, it's there. That's a facet of it, at least for a lot of artists cause we're sensitive about our stuff. You know, that's part of the beauty of art. And like I said in the podcast before this, you know, there's a unique interpretation of life. Each one of us has, and like our fingerprints, they're all different. Yes we will. We, the majority of us rather have fingers and hands that's similar, right?
But that, those details, the swirls and the lines of our fingerprints are all unique. There's no one else in the world literally that has the fingerprint pattern that you do.
And the same thing applies for our art. 1,000 people can walk into an audition room give an audition performance for the same 16 bar cut and you will get a thousand different performances. Some will be similar, but none of them will be exactly the same. And so the fear of rejection, the fear of devaluation causes us to make excuses and to put ourselves down before we even put our work out there. And now imagine in any other circumstance, you know, if you go into an audition, you in essence are selling your goods to the people on the other side of the table. And that audition is a sales pitch and you want them to buy. We'll imagine you were going out to buy a car and the car salesman comes up to you and when you walk onto the lot and you're, you're looking at, you know, uh, this sports car or whatever kind of car you want to get. And the salesman walks up to you, says, hey, how are you doing today? I see you are looking at this car. Let me tell you, it's not really that great for gas mileage and you know, this paint could be a better color.
And the, you know, the Interior, oh man. You know, we really, we, we the, the manufacturers, they put it together pretty quickly. But you know what, let me tell you, you're going to love it. This is, this is a really good car. I mean, it could be better. It could be, but, but you know what? I think you should buy this car, gas mileage. It's, it's, it's okay. You know, but we worked, we worked really hard to make the gas mileage good. But then I'm not really sure about it. Would you buy that car? Most likely not. So why are you going to sell yourself the same way?
Why are you going to shape people's opinions about what it is that you're doing before you even put the work out there? That's what you're doing when you make those faces. Are you, uh, and hem and haw before you do something, you are setting people up to feel the way you feel in that moment, which is kind of crappy or less than before you even begin. And then when you do it after make those faces and like, oh that wasn't, you know, instead of giving you the praise or notes or whatever, that person has to babysit you in essence and be like, oh no, no, no. Hey, it was good it was great. No, no, no, I, yeah, and then you become their, you know, you, you, you, you become there. Someone that they have to take care of. I want to say their problem. That's not necessarily what I mean, but like your, you're diverting the energy that they could be giving you in terms of helping to either make your performance better with notes or to really just enjoy and embrace and, and just love and praise what it is that you do or have done rather. And instead they got an, Oh my God, what are they going to take care of you?
And I understand, again, look, it really stinks to be rejected. It really stinks to have our art not land and not make people feel the way we feel while we are doing it are while we are creating it and for our vision of success to not align with what happens in reality. So what I would encourage you to do is stop making excuses. Even if you want to make excuses at the beginning or at the end or in the middle, or if you make a mistake, stop. I know it's much easier said than done, but if you go back to one of the podcasts that I put out earlier that says, own every mistake, I think that's what it is. It's been a while. If you truly own every mistake, A, most people won't even notice that you're making a mistake and B, if they do notice you're making a mistake, they'll be like, oh, it's great. They might not think about it consciously, but subconsciously they'll be like, oh, that was a mistake. But you know, they're just, they just glossed right over it. Okay, no big deal. They just, they know they made the mistake with a, they moved on and it didn't affect the rest of their performance. And that gives me hope and courage to know that if they're on stage or if I booked them for this job or whatever it is, that they're not going to fall apart when they make a mistake because everybody makes mistakes all the time and begin to really think about the phrase, excuses are tools of the incompetent. Every time you want to make an excuse, every time you want to put yourself down, every time you want to do that hemming and hawing before or after you put yourself out there. Think about this phrase. Excuses are tools of the incompetent, incompetent meaning not having or showing the necessary skills to do something successfully. And guess what? There are plenty of times why i actually have been incompetent because I did not,
Learn or earn the necessary skills to do what it is that I was doing successfully or because I was afraid or lazy or whatever it was. I did not show the skills that I had learned and earned to do something successfully. So if you mess something up, if you are in fact, in the moment or in the process incompetent, it does not mean that you cannot do something. It just means that you need to gain the necessary skills or mindsets or you need to show the necessary skills or mindsets in order to do that thing successfully. My dogs here and he wants to go out, so I'm going to take him out, but that's all I got for you. Remember, excuses are the tools of the incompetent. Don't be incompetent. Stop making excuses and put yourself out there and own what it is that you do. Own every single mistake that you make, own every single success that you have.
Stop making excuses and own it because you've worked hard for it and it's like a muscle. It's like a muscle. The more you work at, the bigger it gets.
Justin Guarini February 27, 2019
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This New Documentary About Gilda Radnor Shows A Little-Known Side Of The Iconic Comedian
By Tatiana Tenreyro
This year has been a big one for documentaries of influential film and TV figures, including Robin Williams and Fred Rogers. Now iconic comedian Gilda Radner has her own documentary, Love, Gilda, in theaters now and on demand. The film shows how the SNL alum, who passed away in 1989 from ovarian cancer, became one of the show's most iconic female comedians. But it also looks into aspects of her personal life that even Radner's biggest fans might not know about.
In the exclusive clip below, the focus is on Radner's romances, pre-fame. Her childhood friend Judy Levy and her brother Michael look through a scrapbook of pictures from their teenage years, discussing many of Radner's first loves — even finding a picture of a mysterious naked man in the shower, whose identity both Levy and Michael question. Michael then explains that Radner had "quite a few boyfriends," followed with the late comedian herself explaining via recording that her "biggest motivation has always been love."
Radner goes on to explain that falling in love impeded her from graduating from the University of Michigan, after falling in love with a Canadian sculptor named Jeffrey Rubinoff, making her ready to leave behind her life and become his wife. Even though they didn't marry, she played the role of homemaker upon moving with him to Canada. But one downside of their relationship was that Rubinoff disliked Radner's humorous talents. "Jeff couldn't handle if I was ever funny and it was very frustrating," explains Radner. "There was just a part of me that wasn't being used."
The romance might not have been solid, but Radner's move to Toronto was. In her memoir It's Always Something, released the year of her death, Radner explained that she had her first professional acting experience in a 1972 production of Godspell, starring alongside future boyfriend Martin Short, Eugene Levy, Paul Shaffer, and other notable comedians. This led to her joining Toronto's The Second City comedy troupe, kickstarting her career.
Three years later, Radner became one of the first SNL cast members, remaining on the show until 1980. These days, Radner's work is often cited as influencing current female comedians because of her immense talent. She created iconic characters such as Roseanne Roseannadanna, Barbara Walters parody Baba Wawa, and Emily Litella, shaping the opportunities given to future female SNL cast members.
Vanity Fair reports that at the premiere of the documentary at the Tribeca Film Festival, Tina Fey teared up while taking the stage to explain the impact of Radner's legacy. "She was not a piece of casting. She was who she was on the TV," said Fey. "We all saw that and said, 'I want to do that. And it's possible because I see her doing that.'"
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Radner didn't just influence female comedians. At the premiere, Keegan-Michael Key also expressed how much Radner played a role in him becoming a comedian. "When I was a kid, I was just like, 'That lady.' Her and John [Belushi] seemed to have the most electric, largest, broadest energy. So that's what drew me in, and it's affected how I do my comedy throughout the years — I try to be as physical and as large," said Key to Vanity Fair.
It's been two decades since Radner's death, but her legacy lives on. With this documentary emerging, those who might not be completely familiar with the SNL's pioneer's work will have a better understanding of how powerful Radner's comedy was.


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Five times John Cena wrestled the match of the night
Date: June 25, 2017Author: Jeremy Walker 0 Comments
As we prepare to welcome 'Free Agent' John Cena back to WWE this 4th of July, questions are raised about who he will be working with leading into the biggest show of the summer, SummerSlam, in August. With his part time schedule, combined with his new free agent status, it is clear WWE will be using John Cena across both brands, pitting him against opponents that will present the best opportunity for a quality match. It will also be Cena's responsibility to elevate some of the younger talent, as veterans like Kurt Angle and The Undertaker did for him during his early career.
Some question whether Cena is capable of this role; chants of "You can't wrestle" have followed him throughout his career and he is often criticised for having a limited moveset, relying mostly on repetition of his 5 moves of doom to get through matches. The denigration John Cena receives, though, is in my opinion, completely unwarranted. Anybody who looks back on his times in WWE objectively will have to recognise the body of work that Cena has produced. In this article, I review five times in John Cena's illustrious career that he has wrestled the match of the night. These are not just the best matches of his career but the best matches on that particular show, period.
It is worth mentioning that this article is not about the times that John Cena was solely responsible for having a great match, instead recognising both WWE Superstars in the contest; it takes two to tango after all. Speaking of two, we have set this number as the maximum competitors in a match so you won't be seeing any Triple Threats, Elimination Chambers or Royal Rumbles in the list. These matches are in no particular order and are all available to watch on the WWE Network.
vs. Cesaro – WWE RAW, February 17, 2014
Building towards their appearance in the following Sunday's Elimination Chamber match, John Cena and Cesaro squared off in a rare non-televised classic. After an initial lockup and display of chain wrestling, Cesaro regroups outside of the ring with his compatriots Jack Swagger and Zeb Colter. When Cesaro returns to the ring, he gains the upper hand with a beautiful tilt-a-whirl counter, driving Cena into his knee. Cesaro builds upon this advantage with quick nearfalls, punishing submissions, a diving elbow, a toss into the guardrail and a whip off the top rope. Cesaro is dominating as RAW goes into a commercial break.
The onslaught continues as RAW returns with Cesaro maintaining his relentless attack, wearing down John Cena with a series of sleeper holds. Cena attempts to regain control of the match but is met with a punishing European Uppercut from the Swiss Superman. This process is repeated with further impact when, after being able to plant Cesaro with a DDT, Cena takes to the top rope only to be sent crashing to the outside from another powerful European Uppercut.
Cesaro brings John Cena back into the ring with a Superplex and delivers the big swing but, still, Cesaro is unable to put John Cena away. Frustration begins to show on the face of Cesaro as he attempts the Gotch Neutraliser. Cesaro is unable to execute the move, instead kicking Cena in the face. Rather than secure victory, Cesaro hits the ropes, allowing John Cena to hit the Attitude Adjustment (after a very impressive fireman's carry roll-through manoeuvre) and pick up the 1-2-3.
vs. Edge (TLC Match) – Unforgiven 2006
A visibly emotional Edge rolls into "Bizzaroworld" to defend his WWE Championship in a Tables, Ladders and Chairs match in Toronto, Canada. To the backdrop of a 'Cena Fears Workrate' sign in the crowd, John Cena shows everything but fear as the two Superstars get off to a quick start, exchanging strikes and holds. To the delight of the partisan Canadian crowd, Edge gains the advantage in the match after introducing steel chairs and Reverse DDTing Cena through them. The Rated 'R' Superstar maintains this momentum making good use of ladders, drop kicking one into the face of Cena before being hip-tossed on top of a ladder balanced from a middle turnbuckle.
Following this, John Cena regains control of the match, fighting to avoid being powerbombed through a table from the top rope but ultimately being powerslammed through the table by a faster Edge. Rolling from the ring in an attempt to escape, Cena is again subjected to Edge's onslaught after he uses the previously mentioned balanced ladder to springboard over the ropes into Cena's unsuspecting body below. It is only when Edge fails to scramble Cena's brains with a Con-chair-to that he is finally able to regain momentum. Retaliating with strikes from the ladder, Cena displays a mean streak towards Edge, FUing a ladder onto a prone Edge and punctuating it with a Five Knuckle Shuffle from the top of a ladder.
After a period of rest, Edge spears his way back into contention, taking down John Cena as he begins to climb the ladder for the first time in the match. After throwing Edge into the side of a ladder, Cena again begins to climb the ladder. Just as it looks as if victory belongs to Cena, Lita makes her way to the ring and tips the ladder over, sending him crashing hellaciously through a table outside of the ring. Cena returns the favour sending Edge through a table near the ramp, despite being struck across the back of the head by a Lita-wielded steel chair. Moments later, John Cena is able to secure his third WWE Championship but not before FUing Edge from the top of a ladder, sending him crashing through a stack of two tables.
vs. JBL (I Quit) – Judgment Day 2005
With his freshly minted 'spinner' WWE Championship belt in hand, John Cena gets a special entrance on the back of a semi-truck for the first I Quit match for over 5 years. The match begins fairly traditionally with each man exchanging holds and getting in some stiff strikes. The match soon heads outside of the ring and into the crowd where JBL floors Cena with a Swinging Neckbreaker before tossing Cena back over the guard rail. After unsuccessfully requesting that Cena quit, JBL goes to work brutalising the champ. Cena is tossed into the ring steps and choked against the ringpost and JBL asks for submission again, setting Cena up for a powerbomb on the announce table as he does so. John Cena refuses to quit, instead suggesting Bradshaw apply his lips to his posterior and back-body drops his opponent through the announce table.
JBL continues to ask Cena to quit and steps up the abuse in an attempt to achieve this. Following a steel chair shot, Cena is busted open and the bleeding is further exacerbated by a soild strike from the ring steps. Cena continues to bleed over the ring canvas as Layfield exclaims "I told you you'd bleed… now quit". Despite wearing a crimson mask, Cena refuses to give up and rallies, executing his signature moves in quick succession. In retreat, JBL escapes the ring and walks up the ramp towards the entranceway.
Cena pursues and the fighting continues on JBL's limousine and in the technical area. Whilst being choked with a power cable, Cena is able to counter and drives JBL through a big CRT television and the window of his car. Blood begins to ooze from Bradshaw's forehead and the fighting moves to the truck Cena arrived on. JBL chokes Cena with cable for the second time in the match before the WWE Champion yanks Bradshaw down from the speaker system he's standing on and through a table. JBL flees and Cena breaks a smoke stack from the truck before pursuing. Realising that Cena intends to hit him with the smoke stack, JBL declares that he quits, ending the match. The brutality doesn't end there, though, as Cena hits JBL with the smoke stack anyway, sending him smashing through a glassed area of the stage. Cena celebrates with fireworks as the PPV ends.
vs. Rob Van Dam (Extreme Rules) – ECW One Night Stand 2006
Rather than 'If Cena wins, we riot', I've chosen the more sensible 'If Cena wins, we write about it respectfully years later'. John Cena enters hostile territory with the WWE Championship to an anticipated chorus of boos. The ECW faithful are so keen to show their disdain for the Champ that when he throws his t-shirt into the crowd, it is returned to him several times. This animosity reaches its height with chants of "F*** you, Cena" as the opening bell sounds. Attempting to prove that he can, in fact, wrestle, Cena engages in a series of chain holds and locks with Van Dan before confidently squaring up to the ECW favourite. Van Dam goes for a gut kick but his leg is caught by Cena. Undeterred, RVD spins through and connects with the opposite leg squarely in Cena's chest, sending him reeling out of the ring. The match slowly descends into a brawl as the two competitors take the fight outside of the ring.
After Cena bounces Van Dam's head off a table, he begins to gain control of the match. Despite a brief reprieve, hitting a moonsault from the apron, RVD is tossed around by Cena, at one point pushing RVD off a guard rail and into a man in the crowd. As Cena attempts to come back to ringside, Van Dam retaliates with several strikes that lead to a spinning kick across the back of a guard rail balanced Cena. RVD returns Cena to the ring but not before taking the wind out of him with a leg drop on the ring apron. The contest begins to live up to its Extreme Rules billing as RVD collects a chair and dropkicks it into the WWE Champion's face, following it up with a Rolling Thunder with the chair laid across Cena. Attempting to maintain momentum, RVD again places the chair on Cena's body and attempts a Split-Legged Moonsault but this time John is able to counter, raising the chair up into the body of Van Dam. Cena delivers a hard DDT on to the chair and goes for the cover, using the bottom rope for extra leverage.
Showing that the aggressive crowd is not getting to him, Cena unleashes the Sitout Powerbomb and Five Knuckle Shuffle. While Cena has RVD up for the FU, Van Dam escapes and stops Cena with a Spinning Wheel Kick. Rob Van Dam leaps to the top rope for the Five Star Frog Splash but is thrown back into the centre of the ring by Cena. The crowd chant "You still suck" at Cena, perhaps acknowledging while they don't like him, he is wrestling a great match. Van Dam introduces a table to the ring and sets it up in the corner but he is locked in the STFU before he can use it. RVD drags himself to the bottom rope. Despite the Extreme Rules stipulation, the official forces Cena to break the hold, physically pulling the champion from the challenger. Cena rightfully confronts the official about his decision and after being shoved, Cena knocks the referee down hard.
RVD climbs the ropes and is again brought down hard by Cena, this time with a Superplex. The WWE Champion brings the steps into the ring and nails RVD in the face with them. WWE official Nick Patrick comes to the ring and registers a two-count on RVD. John Cena again brings Van Dam up for the FU but is forced to throw him out of the ring when RVD grabs the top rope. As Cena turns back around, he is speared through the table in the corner by a man in a trenchcoat and a motorcycle helmet, who then strikes down Nick Patrick before revealing himself to be Edge. Rob Van Dam re-enters the ring, surveys the damage and finally executes the Five Star Frog Splash. Referee Nick Patrick cannot be roused so Paul Heyman waddles to the ring, counting the 3 count and awarding RVD the WWE Championship.
vs. Randy Orton (Falls Count Anywhere Ironman Match) – Bragging Rights 2009
There are many fantastic matches between John Cena and Randy Orton but this one is amongst the best (and the rest of the Pay Per View is dire!). The match begins with the traditional collar and elbow tie-up and the two trade takedowns before whipping each other off the turnbuckles. Orton gains the best of this and starts to systematically target areas of John Cena's body. As he does so, Cena quickly brings Orton down with a drop toe hold and locks in the STF. Orton immediately taps out with 56:05 remaining, perhaps to avoid receiving too much damage from the hold. 1-0 Cena.
After the 30 second rest period, Orton resumes his attack on Cena, stalking him and striking impactfully. Orton locks in a sleeper hold to weaken Cena but he is able to wrest his way out of the Viper's grip. After the top rope Leg Drop, Cena attempts to complete a Five Knuckle Shuffle but Randy hits the RKO out of nowhere and picks up his first fall at 51:00 remaining. 1-1.
Cena fails to reach his feet during the 30 second rest period and Orton again goes on the offensive. The contest spills into the announce area as Orton picks up a monitor and nails Cena in the head with it. Back in the ring, Orton busts Cena open with a microphone and picks up a nearfall. The ringside doctor tried to stop the match to tend to Cena's wound but, because the rules don't apply to the top guy, Cena ignored the officials and attacked Orton, tossing him over the top rope with authority. The Viper is able to take back control as a result of Cena's wound and tosses him back into the ring. Hard strikes to the head open the cut further. Despite this, Cena rallies back and sets Orton up for the Attitude Adjustment but on the way down, Orton turns the manouever into an RKO. With both men's shoulders down, the official counts both men out, bringing the score to 2-2 at 43:14 remaining.
Cena's wound is tended to during the 30 second rest and the next period ends quickly with 40:37 remaining, after Cena brings Orton from the top rope with an AA. With the score now 3-2 Cena, Legacy (Cody Rhodes and Ted DiBiase Jr) run to the ring and attack Cena. With the damage done, the pair drag Orton on top of Cena to tie to score at 3 with 39:18 left in the contest. Kofi Kingston rushes the ring with a steel chair and chases off Legacy.
The fatigue of both men is clear as the next period begins. Cena takes down Orton and the fight spills out of the ring and up the entrance ramp. The match reaches the pyrotechnic desk and an explosion is set off by Orton slamming Cena's head off the control panel. Sparks fly as Orton picks Cena up, tosses him through the staging and picks up his 4th pinfall. The score is now 4-3 Orton with 34:38 remaining.
During the rest period, The Viper returns to the pyro desk and starts pushing buttons. He works out where the pyro for each button is coming from and drags Cena into that position. He returns to push the button but is delayed by the technician and referee. Thanks to this, Cena is able to roll out of the way of the explosion. Orton slowly beats Cena back to ringside and continues the punishment with various weapons. Orton rolls John Cena back into the ring and Cena sneakily rolls his opponent up to collect a cheeky pinfall with 27:16 remaining. The score is again tied; 4-4.
Orton seethes during the rest period and slowly drags Cena out of the ring by the head. The Viper executes his Hanging DDT from the apron and pins Cena outside of the ring at 24:55 still to go. It is 5-4 for the WWE Champion, Randy Orton. Back in the ring, the systematic destruction of John Cena continues, picking him up to knock him back down again. After Cena gets a punch in on Orton, The Viper retreats to the stage and begins to defend his lead by wasting as much time as possible. Randy Orton runs back to the ring but John Cena is tired and does not pursue quickly. The Champion again escapes his challenger, this time going through the crowd and up the stairs. This time, Cena is able to give chase and catches Orton, driving him back towards the ring. Cena's retaliatory attack at ringside cuminates in Orton being driven through the guard rail, being hit in the head with the ring stairs and receiving an Attitude Adjustment through the announce table. Following this, Cena ties the score at 5 with 9:10 left in the match.
With Orton virtually lifeless, John Cena sets up a table in the ring and places Orton on top of it. Cena climbs the top turnbuckle, leaps from it and The Viper, inevitably, moves out of the way. Both men slowly climb to their feet and exchange strikes as the final minutes tick away. In going for a flying shoulder on Orton, John Cena accidentally takes down the referee. Orton nails and RKO but the delay in getting a second official means that Cena is able to kick out. Two minutes remain as Orton intentionally knocks down the second referee.
Orton scowls around the ring angrily as the first official regains consciousness. As soon as he is on his feet and with 55 second remaining, John Cena drops down the WWE Champion and locks in the STF. Randy Orton holds on for as long as he can but eventually submits with 6 second remaining. Time expires during the rest period and John Cena is declared the new WWE Champion.
Join me next time as I review 5 more matches in which John Cena wrestled the match of the night in WWE.
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Written by Victor Alagbe
Feb 21, 2020 8:30:00 AM
Insights on Challenger Brand Marketing Strategies that Work
In July 2019, the Interactive Advertising Bureau revealed that 48% of all U.S. consumers shop from direct-to-consumer brands. Challenger brands are underdogs in the business arena. Also, they usually enjoy massive public goodwill in their attempts to take on incumbents or monopolies.
Psychologists have conducted many studies trying to understand why people love underdogs. The works of psychologist Nadav Goldschmied suggests that people have a natural tendency to seek out, support, unexpected successes. Also, challenger brands enjoy goodwill because they are often seen to be fighting to protect consumers from greedy brands.
Beyond the goodwill that disruptor brands enjoy as underdogs, their success against bigger brands can also be attributed to ingenious challenger brand marketing strategies coupled with strong tactical execution.
In this blog post, we examine the strategy and behaviors of challenger brands on social media. The goal is to provide valuable insights and learnings for any brand that wants to remain relevant and competitive in the long term.
Here's what challenger brands do differently
Being a challenger brand is more of an action-driven mindset than mere nomenclature. Below are some things that challenger brands do differently to get an advantage over the established legacy brands. At the very least, changing the status quo gives them a fighting chance to secure a foothold in their industry.
Data-driven actions
Challenger brands have an urgency to show results to maintain investor confidence or secure more funding. Such brands don't invest significant budgets into general awareness campaigns. Rather, they focus on tactical campaigns that bring tangible results, such as sales or new customers. These are campaigns on which they can calculate return on spend within a 12-month period. The marketing decisions are rooted in hypotheses, testing assumptions, and acting on the data.
Challenger brands that succeed understand that data is the lifeblood of their business. The right data will help them define their audience. The data tells them how, where, and when to reach the audience. The data helps them to optimize for the best possible ROAS, conversions, and other metrics.
Brand spotlight: Pura Vida uses data-driven ads to double sales
In 2019, artisanal jewelry company Pura Vida decided to double the number of new customers that it adds between Black Friday and Cyber Monday. To build a data-driven ad campaign, the brand based its hypothesis on the demographics of its current customers to target US females aged 13–54.
The targeting also excluded all its recent online customers and website visitors. It also served the ads to a value-based lookalike audience of male customers. It also served the ads to people who bought stuff during the Black Friday to Cyber Monday of 2018. Last-minute shoppers who bought stuff online in the previous 24 hours also got to see the ads.
At the end of the campaign, Pura Vida recorded a 2.8X lift in ROAS, a 2X increase in sales, and a 28% year-over-year increase in average order value.
Nimble social media engagement
Another challenger brand marketing strategy is that they are intentional about finding witty ways to insert their brands into online conversations. They are fast in engaging with users and jumping on trending topics. 83% of global users expect brands to respond within 24 hours and as much as 46% expect a response within the hour.
For many legacy brands, every piece of communication must be screened across many layers of approval. This vetting includes Instagram posts and tweets. Challenger brands, however, run very lean structures where they make decisions on the go. So, challenger brands are usually nimble and action-driven across their online presence and social media engagement.
Brand spotlight: Casper isn't afraid to use humor
Casper brands itself as "The Sleep Company". It optimizes its social media presence across Instagram and Twitter to meet the sleeping and waking needs of its users no matter what time it is. Casper uses self-deprecating humor, risque posts, snarky remarks and lightning-fast responses to provide its audience with an endless supply of entertainment.
Casper's nimble social media presence made it into Buzzfeed's 32 Tweets About Sleep that will make you laugh out loud. Its posts also got into the 28 Tweets About Dieting that will make you laugh out loud listicle.
Personalized engagement
Consumers don't want to be seen and treated as faceless beings that only add to a business's bottom line. They want to be known, understood, and valued. And no, merely sending them emails on a first-name basis is not enough. 75% of consumers expect brands to understand their individual needs and this is where challenger brands shine.
Challenger brands leverage data from every touchpoint of the customer's interaction. The data then helps to deliver a personalized engagement that drives increased sales, retention, and loyalty.
Brand Spotlight: Stitch Fix provides a personalized touch across all platforms
Stitch Fix is a challenger brand in the retail fashion industry. Stitch Fix provides a personalized online styling service and shopping experience for its users. It's users fill out a Style Profile and a Personal Stylist will handpick pieces to fit their tastes, needs, and budget. The end game is to curate a unique styling that is then shipped right to their door.
Stitch Fix also maintains the personalization ideal of its brand in how it relates to users. Its communications, customer service, and social media voice all convey a personal touch. In the Instagram post below, a user posted a review of the personalized service she received from the brand's customer service.
Challenger Brands Marketing Problems and Tips for Success
Challenger brands challenge the status quo through their products/services. They also challenge the status quo in how they engage with customers. Yet, going against the natural order of things also comes with some element of risk. Such risks, when not properly managed, can trigger a PR disaster that could wound a fledgling brand.
Managing negativity in public channels
Many legacy firms provide customer service through private methods such as emails and phone calls. Challenger brands are taking the bold step to provide first-line customer service publicly via social media. However, customers don't think twice about calling out brands on social media for real or perceived shortcomings. Unfortunately for challenger brands, negative stories are 63% more likely to be clicked on than positive stories. The worst part is that it takes as much as 40 positive customer stories to undo the damage of a negative review.
Purple is an example of a challenger brand that has perfected how to transform negative comments into an overall win. In the screenshot below, a user was frustrated with a damaged delivery, mistakes in discounts, and a delay in getting a response from the customer service team. The user then went ahead to express their dissatisfaction under Purple's Christmas post. Purple responded with a comment acknowledging the frustration, it explained how the customer care team has a large number of requests during the holiday season and it provided a channel for resolution.
Staying on top of the volumes of engagement with fast responses
Challenger brands use social media to connect and engage with prospects and customers. As a challenger brand continues to grow its social following, it can become hard to manage the high volumes of engagement across social in an efficient, fast and scalable way. Apart from the leading social platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube. Challenger brands also have to think about engaging in emerging social platforms such as TikTok in response to generational shift changes in the social media landscape.
Away is an example of a challenger brand staying on top of the volumes of engagement across many social platforms. The brand rethinks the standards of modern travel with products that speak to different personal travel styles and needs. Away has built a reputation for responding fast and at scale on Instagram and on Twitter.
Communicating values and mission clearly
Being a challenger brand is not necessarily about challenging legacy companies. At the fundamental level, challenger brands challenge the status quo, ideologies, and cultural norms. The aim is to give consumers the power to choose an alternative. However, the common challenger brand narrative usually positions them as pro-consumer and anti-monopoly. However, such a positioning comes with the inherent risk that the brand will be seen as a "traitor" when its business outgrows its startup phase.
Challenger brands such as Virgin that position themselves to challenge ideas rather than other brands often manage to retain their foundational goodwill even when they've grown to become global behemoths. For more than five decades, Virgin has grown into more than 60 businesses serving about 53 million customers globally. Yet, the brand has remained one of the most respected brands in the world.
Being a challenger brand is not necessarily a function of company size or marketing budget. Challenger brands dare to do the impossible to ultimately make life better for their customers.
However, challenger brands are held to a different standard than legacy brands and have more to prove. They work harder to win the trust of their customers, as the market expects them to be more in touch with their needs and feelings compared to bigger brands. Brands in this space must be intentional about deploying challenger marketing strategies that work and they must be proactive about constantly refining their approach.
Sometimes, challenger brands may need to forego all rules and make their own rules. In fact, breaking the rules set by larger competitors may help you discover the limitations of their strategies so that you can corner significant market share from them without going into a full-blown marketing war with them.
At BrandBastion we provide challenger brands with a range of engagement management solutions. Would you like to know more about how you can manage customer engagement?
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I bought a boat when I left my marriage, 20 years ago. It was a creaky, soggy Delta River Boat. My kids, ages 16 and 7, and I lived on it for a year and a half. Which means two winters. The dock we were on was wobbly. It was sea worm food. Many people that lived on our dock were often struggling to get food of their own. Our lives were shaky – literally and figuratively.
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This night, rain pounded the world like it was the end of it. It sounded like a thousand casks of nails were being flung down upon us and our ancient boat community. I was out in an anorak capturing water from the bilge with the can and tossing it to the wind. It was so cold my hands were blue. It was late. It was also very scary.
And then it got scarier.
There was a terrible crack and a terrible boom. The dock was tearing away from the shore and the one official houseboat that was moored to the start of the dock leaned into the dark and fell over. There was the thundering of pounding feet as a dozen of the dock's strong men appeared out of the black night with ropes as thick as your arm. My little family sat down in our tiny galley and huddled together. Waiting for the next scary moment. I started to cry. The our little drama went like this:
"Mommy, why are you crying? It'll be all right," said our little one.
"I'm crying because I brought us here so I could start our lives over. Make things better. And now this! I didn't want my children to have to go through something like THIS." I waved my hand around at the dark, the flashing emergency lights outside and the rage of this icy, wet night.
"Mommy," my little boy said. "Wherever you are that's home for me." He leaned against me and I could feel the softness of his curly head catching my tears.
My daughter was more sanguine about it, "Look Ma, we gotta remember that more than half of the world doesn't live this good."
And there it was. She was so young and so sage. We had each other. We had food, clothing and shelter, such as it was. We had neighbors strong enough and knowledgeable enough and ready at the helm to keep our community from becoming a sinking vessel. We were living pretty well.
I repeated my daughter's observation in my mind. Most of the world really "doesn't have it this good." Out of the mouths of babes.
Today, right this minute, 1.6 billion people across this earth are living in "inadequate housing" No water, no bathroom, no heat. 100 Million are homeless. (1) These are horrifying facts. Millions and now billions are living lives of desperation. To change this horror, the World Cup Soccer Organization developed a partnership with the UN to find out how bad the situation was worldwide. Then these soccer heroes started to reach out to youth in many desperate countries and neighborhoods to create new teams and to teach life skills and new directions through soccer clubs. These youthful athletes are passionate leaders guiding other youth worldwide to create new lives for themselves. These athletes do more than teach soccer. They are guiding these desperate youth out of the slums showing them skills not only in athletics but methods of succeeding. Through this help of young adult friendships they are mentoring the rising generation to the paths and new connections to succeed in the larger world.
Why are these young athletes so passionate about their efforts? Here's why:
Venezuela: 90% of its people are living in poverty and 3.4 million have left the country in the last 3 years.
Mexico: 16 million live in shacks; half of all teens (21 million youths) live in poverty.
South Africa: 79% of the population lives under the poverty line.
Russia: The UN estimates 5 million are currently homeless.
Italy: Out of 60 million people, 5 million are living in poverty.
India: 1.8 million people are homeless and 7.3 million live in shacks. (2)
And the US? Close to 600,000 are homeless and 40 million are living in poverty. (3)
People – educated and caring people – are beginning to notice this. I feel a wave of change and I hope you do too. More honest leadership, working to make our lives more joyful and less worrisome. Less pollution, reversing climate change and creating national and state budgets that salute decent work and support decent schools. All these changes would be a good start. But housing that people can afford has to be at the top of the list. The best way to assure this is to see that everyone can work for a decent wage and there is truly health care for all workers and their families. It's a mouthful. But it's got to be said. And implemented.
In this stagnant and worrisome season, let us Americans think of how we could use this time to plan to make this world better. Not just for us but for everyone. We of the privileged, educated classes have time— while sheltered in our home offices— to think and make plans for each and all of us to create a movement to do better. In this time, we have the opportunity to create and push for REAL change. For everyone. We could start right now!
Let's change empty fair grounds and vacant malls into neighborhoods. Start with tents right away. Then bring in RVs and eventually, construct tiny houses. We don't need all that empty space that's used only two weeks a year. Besides lavatories and toilets, carefully tended to, let's have medical care on site. Let's have portable libraries and craft supplies. Small classrooms where people can learn new skills. Offices where bureaucratic issues can be attended to. Why leave all those empty lots barren when people are desperate for shelter and care?
"Tis the season to be jolly" could be changed to "Tis the season to be caring, as if our world depended on it." Because it does.
(1) https://yaleglobal.yale.edu/content/cities-grow-so-do-numbers-homeless
(2)https://www.google.com/search?q=global+homelessness+statistics+2019&rlz=1C5CHFA_enUS783US783&oq=GLOBAL+homelessness+statistics+2019&aqs=chrome.0.69i59.18812j0j9&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
(3) https://www.google.com/search?q=global+homelessness+statistics+2019&rlz=1C5CHFA_enUS783US783&oq=GLOBAL+homelessness+statistics+2019&aqs=chrome.0.69i59.18812j0j9&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
Mary Ann Maggiore
Mary Ann Maggiore is a former Mayor of Fairfax elected on an environmental platform and founder of the Affordable Housing initiative and Youth Advisory there. At the same time Mary Ann served as the Executive Director of Girl Scouts Save the Bay serving 55,000 girls. Mary Ann's work has been honored by the CA Senate, CA Assembly, Working Solutions Community Innovator Award and the City of San Francisco. Today Mary Ann continues her commitment to youth as ED of LAUNCH!, Guiding Young People 18 to 30 to Meaningful Work.
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Yvonne Roberts 28 Jul 2021 Reply
Beautiful, touching. Thank you for pointing out actions that we need to start taking. We all need a wake up call and you are just the right person to make that call. We can't keep looking the other way and hoping somebody is going to do some thing.
Dr. Veronica Hunnicutt 29 Jul 2021 Reply
Mary Ann,
Your words have touched my heart. Your experiences are heart wrenching! Praise God that you and your family are all right! You have outlined issues that we need to resolve without delay. Yet, not enough is being done to move forward, to take care of business on behalf of people who are unable to find solutions, and to make things better for people and their families.
Your suggestions make sense! However, who is coordinating a response to these issues? Who is coordinating a response that will result in immediate change? Who really cares enough to put in the time and work to lobby legislators, to fundraise, to contact other city agencies and non-profit organizations to find out what has been done to date, and to find individuals who can assist those who are most at risk and provide them with resources and support.
People are suffering! They need homes, jobs, and opportunities for success. Something must be done. Your essay is a good start in letting individuals know what is at stake for us, for other people, for our country, and for the world.
Dr. Veronica Hunnicutt
Doug Humes 31 Jul 2021 Reply
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The organizers would like to thank you all, -artists, audience, volunteers, partners and collaborators for an incredible Stockholm Sangeet Festival 2018. Each and everyone of you is invaluable for this festival to continue to live on in the way it does. We had three days full of concerts, workshops, childrens activities and finished with the popular Open Stage. Please get in touch with any ideas of how to improve the festival for 2019. Leave a message through facebook, instagram or email info@stockholmsangeet.se and we will try our best to create the festival you want.
Thank you all for Stockholm Sangeet Festival 2018 and we hope to see you all again next year!
Stockholm Sangeet Festival 2018 was organized by Stockholm Sangeet in collaboration with Södra Teatern, Länsmusiken i Stockholm/Musikaliska, Farhang Förening, Odissi Dansproduktion, Scenkonst Västernorrland, Movement in Exile, Stallet Världens musik, Kulturskolan Stockholm and SearchIndie with support from Kulturrådet, Stockholms Stads Kulturförvaltning, Stockholms Läns Landsting, Statens Musikverk,Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR) and Indian Embassy of Sweden and Latvia.
Family theatre "Draupadis Eld" with Maria Magdolna Beky Winnerstam, dancing and miming inspired by Indian classical dance and Hip Hop. Stian Grimstad -sitar, Moa Danielson -santoor and percussion. There will also be a workshop on Indian dance for children. Suitable for 4 year olds and up. Entrance for children 60 SEK, adults 100 SEK. Tickets: www.musikaliska.se. All in one hour.
The Indian music and dance of tomorrow with students from Kulturskolan Stockholm, Saraswathy Kalakendra Institution of Fine Arts, Indisk Dansakademi and Suranjana Ghosh. Free entrance. 1,5 hours.
The festivals main concert day at Södra Teatern, Mosebacke Torg.
Mingle with other lovers of Indian classical music and enjoy the Indian dances by students of Saraswathy Kalakendra Institution of Fine Arts, directed by Usha Balasundaram, before heading to the main stage.
Inauguration of the festival with conferencier Kalle Lotta Mossige-Norheim.
Odissi dance performance by Nandini Ghosal, accompanied by Kishore Ghosh (pakhawaj), Dinesh Paul (vocal), Stian Grimstad (sitar), Moa Danielson (santoor), Ulrika Larsen (Odissi dance).
Hindusthani sitar recital by Rabindra Narayan Goswami accompanied by his student K.G. Westman (sitar), Suranjana Ghosh (tabla) and Katarina Dahlbeck (tanpuri).
Dhrupad vocal recital by Dr. Madhu Bhatt Tailang accompanied by Praveen Kumar Arya (pakhawaj), Ravi Shanker Bhatt Tailang (violin), Neetu Sharma (tanpura), and Laxmi Sharma (tanpura).
Dr Madhu Bhatt Tailang, renowned dhrupad exponent from Rajasthan will in this one hour workshop, provide anyone interested an insight into this ancient musical style of India. Free entrance! Stallet, Stallgatan 7.
Open Stage at Stallet has an Indian theme during Stockholm Sangeet Festival. Food and drinks are available from 18:00, Performances start 19:00. This is the place to be for a fun an spontaneous finish of this year´s festival! Conferencier is Hugo Widén.
Pandit Rabindra Narayan Goswami is recognized as a senior master musician living in the holy city of Varanasi, U.P, India. He has been a professional musician for over 40 years and is a sought after artist and teacher in the field of Indian classical music, both in his beloved hometown and the rest of the world. Goswamiji is known for his big knowledge of ragas and talas, allowing him to go deep into both commonly performed ragas, as well as the very rare ones. He has learnt instrumental and vocal music from different gharanas and styles, and perform in sitar as well as in surbahar.
Nandini Ghosal has undergone extensive training in Kathak before losing herself to the overpowering beauty and subtlety of Odissi. After an initial training in Odissi under Smt.Poushali Mukherjee, she came under tutelage of the maestro Guru Kelucharan Mahapatra – the father of present day Odissi. Nandini has mastered the intricacies of Odissi under the legendary Guru for sixteen years and is one of his most prominent disciples.
Kishore Ghosh is one of the most experienced exponents of pakhawaj . With a total experience of 44 years in professional percussion, he has distinguished himself by balancing his depth in both Pakhawaj as well as Tabla. He mastered the respective arts from two world renowned maestros namely Guru Kelucharan Mohapatra and Guru Swapan Chaudhuri.
Dinesh Paul is a well known vocalist practicing Indian classical music for the past 25 years. Born into a family of musicians he has trained under Guru Sandip Nag and Guru Golam Akbar Khan. He is a regular accompanist in the field of Kathak and Odissi dance. He also sings as a soloist , Hindustani classical, songs of Tagore and Nazrul as well as modern Bengali songs. He is a regular accompanist of Odissi dance at the Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata.
Dr. Madhu Bhatt Tailang is a potent follower of her Guru and father Pt. Laxman Bhatt Tailang, a well known Dhrupad singer and Guru of the dhrupad tradition of Rajasthan. She has received several national and International awards and honours like Woman of 2003 awards and honorary membership of the Women Advisory Board 2000 of the Biographical Society, U.S.A. and Excellence Awards given by East Indian Music Academy, New York in 2011.
K.G. Westman is one of Europe´s foremost sitar players in the field of north Indian classical and semi classical music. As a senior diciple of Pandit Rabindra Narayan Goswami he has performed in India, Sri Lanka, Europe, USA and Russia as well as for radio and T.V. He has also leant sitar from Stian Grimstad and Anil Singh. Due to training in both Indian and western music, he also makes an excellent teacher and conductor of workshops regardless of the background of the participants.
Stian Grimstad (sitar, sur bahar) started his sitarstudies in 1996 and have since then continued his studies through frequent visits to India. After the initial training from the late Sambonath Bhattacharya he continued under the guidance of Khursid Ali Khan, a former student of Ustad Vilayat Khan, and since 2005 also from Gaurav Mazumdar, a senior student of Pandit Ravi Shankar.
Moa Danielson Grimstad, santoor. Percussionist educated at the Royal college of music in Stockholm and Norway Music Academy. Moa studied tabla, pajkhawaj and santoor in Varanasi, India with Sudip Kumar Bhattacharya, Kishore Kumar Mishra och Shivaji Kevale. Moa has been working as a freelance musician for more than 15 years among others with Lele Lele Orchestra and Poorva Express. (www.poorvaexpress.se). Moa is also the artistic director of Stockholm Sangeet Festival, (www.stockholmsangeet.se) and EPOS (www.epos.nu).
Ulrika Larsen is one of Sweden´s leading exponents of Odissi- East Indian classical dance. She has a rigorous training in India as an ICCR scholar from eminent Gurus like Ramani Ranjana Jena, Aruna Mohanty, Sujata Mohapatra and at Nrityagram. Ulrika is a professional dancer, choreographer, teacher and producer and holds a Master degree diploma in Directing and Dramaturgy for Movements based Arts from Stockholm University of the Arts. As the Artistic Director of Odissi Dansproduktion and the platform Movement in exile Ulrika performs and promotes classical Odissi and also explores Indian Classical Dance within contemporary contexts and in many collaborative works with dancers, visual artists and musicians.
He is well known Violin player as well as classical singer stood a special place amongst senior Violin players of India. Borned in Jaipur, Ravi is inherited from illustrious Bhatt Musical family of Jaipur (Rajasthan) has maintained five hundred years Dhruvpad Sankeertan Tradition. His grand-father Pt. Gopal ji and Pt. Gokul Chandra Ji Bhatt was great Saint Singers of Haveli Sangeet. He received deep taleem of classical vocal and violin from his father renowned dhruvpad singer Pt. Laxman Bhatt Tailang. Qualified first class M.Mus degree in both Vocal and Instrumental Music (Violin), he is approved high graded Radio and Doordarshan Artist.
Well known Pakhawaj player Pt. Praven Kumar Arya has learnt Pakhawaj under guidance of renowned Pakhawaj Mastero Pt. Raja Chattrapati Singh Ju Dev of Bijna State (M.P.). He is 'A' graded Radio and Doordarshan Artist being regularly performing Solo and Accompaniment with renowned Dhruvpad singers, Veena players and Kathak Dancers in many reputed festivals of India and Abroad. Since last 30 years. He has honored by many more National awards and received national Scholarship to specialized the subject given by Ustad Allaudin Khan Academy, Bhopal. He has qualified Doctorate Degree in Music awarded by University of Rajasthan, Jaipur (India).
Qualified first class Master's Degree in Classical Vocal from University of Rajasthan and receiving Training of Classical Music under guidance of Dr. Madhu Bhatt Tailang since last 12 years.
Katarina Dahlbeck (BA Japanese) has lived during extensive periods at an ashram in the US where she studied sitar and meditation under her teacher, the late Acharya Roop Verma (-17). She is now continuing her studies with his son, the California based sitarist, Arjun Verma. Katarina has been offering yoga classes since 2005 and has been accompanying her teachers as well as other artists on tamboura on various occasions.


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Death of Abu Bakr - Passing away of Abu Bakr
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Illness of Abu Bakr. On the 7th of Jamadi-ui-Akhir of the 1 3th A H. corresponding to the 8th of August 634 C.E, Abu Bakr fell sick, and out of this sickness he never recovered. There are two accounts about the sickness of Abu Bakr. One account is that the 8th of August 634 was a cold day, when Abu Bakr took a bath and caught a chill. Another account is that about a year ago, along with some other companions Harith bin Kaladah, and Attab bin Usaid he had eaten some food which was poisoned, and which was to have its effect after a year. Harith b. Kaladah and Attab b Usaid died on the same day as Abu Bakr, and that lends support to the theory that the death of Abu Bakr was because of the effect of poison.
The physician. Abu Bakr developed high fever, and was confined to bed. His illness prolonged, and when his condition worsened, he felt that his end was near. Some companions called on him to inquire about his welfare. They said, "O Vicegerent of the Apostle of God, may we call a physician to examine you". He said that the physician had already visited him. They inquired as to what had the physician said. Abu Bakr said that the physician had said that he would do what he would do.
Refund of the amount drawn from the treasury. When Abu Bakr felt that his end was near, he wanted to know what amount he had drawn from the State treasury as allowance for the office of the Caliph. He was told that this amount was six thousand dirhams. He directed that the plot of land which belonged to him should be sold, and from the sale proceeds, the amount of six thousand dirhams should be paid to the State treasury. He next took stock of the personal fortune that he had acquired since becoming the Caliph. These assets included a slave, a camel, and some cloth. He directed that these assets should be handed over to the new Caliph. When in pursuance of the will of Abu Bakr, the amount of six thousand dirhams and other assets were handed over to the new Caliph, Umar, the new Caliph wept and said, "O Abu Bakr, may God bless you; you have made the task of your successor most difficult."
Property bequeathed to Ayesha. Abu Bakr had bequeathed some property to Ayesha. Now that he was on deathbed he desired that the property should be divided among her two brothers and three sisters in accordance with the Islamic Law. Ayesha said that they were two sisters, Asma and herself, and inquired as to who was the third sister? Abu Bakr said that his wife Habiba was pregnant, and he had a feeling that the child would be a girl. Indeed after the death of Abu Bakr, a girl was born to Habiba, who was named Umm Kulthum. Ayesha complied with the wish of her father and released the property in her charge for distribution among her brothers and sisters.
The Coffin. Abu Bakr next asked Ayesha as to how many pieces of cloth were used for the coffin of the Holy Prophet. Ayesha said that three pieces had been used in the coffin of the Holy Prophet. Abu Bakr thereupon desired that for his coffin as well, three pieces should be used. He wanted that the two sheets that he was wearing should be washed and used for his coffin, while the third piece might be purchased. Ayesha said that they were not so poor as not to afford to purchase all the three pieces required for the coffin. Abu Bakr said, "No, the new material will be of more use to the living than the dead. The cloth for the dead body is merely meant to absorb blood and pus, and it is not necessary that the cloth should be new."
The day of death. Abu Bakr inquired of Ayesha as to what was the day on which the Holy Prophet had died. She replied that the day was Monday. Abu Bakr next inquired as to what was the day that day. She said that it was Monday. Abu Bakr said that in that case he would die that day. He desired that if he died that day, he should be buried the same day.
Last moments of Abu Bakr. As Abu Bakr lay on the deathbed, Ayesha wailed: "And one so unsullied in honor that the cloud draws moisture from his face; the protection of orphans. the defense of widows." Abu Bakr said, "No, this encomium must be reserved for the Holy Prophet alone". Ayesha said: "Wealth is of no avail to a man; on the day when the death-rattle is in his throat, and his breast is contracted by it." Abu Bakr uncovered his face and said, "It is not so, Say that the agony of death shall come in truth; this, O man, is what you sought to avoid." He swooned, and on regaining consciousness, he recited the verse of the Holy Quran: "Lord, let me die a true believer: And join me with the blessed ones on high who are virtuous."
With these words of the Holy Quran on his lips, Abu Bakr expired. From God he had come and to God he returned. It was 22nd of Jamadi-ul-Akhir of 13 A.H. corresponding to 23rd of August, 534 C.E. The day was Monday. His death took place between the hours of the Maghrib and Isha prayers. He was 63 years at the time of his death. That was the exact age at which the Holy Prophet had died.
Burial. According to the will of Abu Bakr, his dead body was prepared for burial by his wife Asma b Umas. She was helped by his son Abdul Rahman. The funeral prayer was led by Umar. He was buried the same night in the house of Ayesha by the side of the grave of the Holy Prophet. In life, Abu Bakr had the honor of being a bosom companion of the Holy Prophet, after death he had also the honor of resting by the side of the Master.
Abu Qahafa. When Abu Bakr died, his father Abu Qahafa was at Makkah. It is reported that when Abu Bakr died, the city of Makkah was convulsed by an earthquake. Abu Qahafa said that the earthquake was indicative of some calamity. Soon the sad news arrived of the death of Abu Bakr. Abu Qahafa mourned the death of his son. Abu Qahafa died six months later at the age of ninety-seven.


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