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B1DEN WORE A W1RE! Q-Debate Commentary w. Sean Morgan, JFK Jr. and October Surprise!
Jay 0:08
Welcome to spiritually raw, we expose and explore controversial truths, myths and theories surrounding the spirit world. Guests include two non experts, investigators, debunkers, and skeptics of the supernatural, unexplained and flat out unimaginable content discussed on the show is not necessarily the opinion of the cast of spiritual raw, and topics quite often are for mature audiences only. This show is not intended to replace any medical, financial or legal advice and is for entertainment purposes only. So sit back, relax for the ride. Hello, everybody, and welcome to spiritually Roth, thank you so much for your energy exchange. Today, we hope you woke to the most Miracle Morning and are having the most fortunate day today also. So as you can see, we have our good friend here, Sean wood, and he's going to be going over the Q corner and what's up what's updating us or to update as I should say, on what's going on the keyboards and also we're going to discuss what happened on the debate a little bit yesterday, too. So we'll rattle around that to corner with Sean Morgan. He's an expert in all things chewing on independent journalist and author of Q anon for beginners. And you could find Sean at q anon FAQ calm, which will have his links on this show for you. And also his channel, so you can check out his content that he has out there. So, Sean? Hello, what's going on? Brother?
Oh, you know, just another day in the Great Awakening. That's right. All right. So
Jay 1:24
listen, you are you are a we've talked about this on multiple shows before, you know, the art of the deal, you know, the art of the clothes, you know, the strategies and everything like that. Was there a strategy that you saw in play yesterday in that particular debate? And I asked that because I think there's a lot of people that don't know what to think. Yeah. Right. As far as what happened. And and so I'd like to get your thoughts on that. As far as you know, what, how you thing how you think that played out, and then we can go from there?
Sure. Well, let's let's back up a little bit to before the debates where the President, President Trump was trying to get an agreement from Biden's team, that he would agree to be inspected for an earpiece
April 2:07
or Yes, yeah.
And at first, at first, they agreed, but then they backed out on that
house so
loud. I know. I don't know how that's allowed. But there was footage of a wire coming out of Biden's shirts. he stuck his hand in his in a saucer. He
was a scratch, there was a little
wire that came down and there tons of anons who pointed it out on Twitter. So we have proof, physical proof that he was using an electronic device. Now why would he do that? Well, let's also talk about the fact that Donald Trump wanted team Biden to agree to a drug test. So but they would not agree to a drug test either. So basically, team Biden apparently is because they won't agree to a drug test. That means he's on drugs. And because they won't agree to the electronic piece. That means they're using electronic piece to feed him information and coaching him the entire time during the debates.
Right. So stay calm, breathe
out. Well, actually, I think it's even more than that. I think they're giving him word for word. Yeah, for sure. There were some times when he would face the camera and speak directly to the audience. Yeah, speak to the audience. Oh, that's exactly if I was his coach, what I would tell him to do at this exact moment. And so Joe Biden ended up performing way better than I assumed he would, because usually when you put them in front of a camera, you know, he says stupid things. He rambles on he stutters a lot. But he performed cognitively, way better than I thought it would. Of course, he he lied a lot. He didn't have a lot of comebacks to win, you know, President Trump said, he said something like, well, your son got 3.5 million from Moscow. And he's just like, No, that's not true. That's the best he's got is to just say, no, it's all a lie. Everything you say is a complete lie. So So in that sense, he didn't have, you know, the best comebacks, but basically, the strategy I saw from Trump was attacked. Go ahead.
Why do you think then? President Trump didn't say something like, Well, you know, before the whole thing, we had requested that the Biden camp, be examined for wires and they denied it.
Right. I guess he was trying to stick to the issues, and he didn't want to seem like a whiny person. You know, he wants to seem like a winner. He wants to seem like the alpha male and alpha males not well, you wouldn't do what I wanted you to. So
it's such a so perhaps that was the strategy. So do you think it's not so much that Trump was off par? It was more that Joe Joe Biden was
more on par. Right, um, was exactly how I expected it, which is he's aggressive. Okay. He He's everything that he says and everything he does has one purpose. It's to beat down the opponent, Joe Biden. So he's personal. It's very personal for Trump. He goes after the opponent, and he's relentless. And so that involves interruptions, that involves always addressing the lies and things that Joe Biden says that aren't true. And the goal, supposedly, perhaps, was to make Joe Biden crack because Joe Biden probably has dementia, dementia patients can be get belligerent when they're when they're feeling, you know, well, they can be become belligerent for no reason. So I think that was the strategy just keep attacking Joe until Joe loses his shit.
Unknown Speaker 5:44
Right. But I think, yeah,
for Joe could lose his shit. THE MODERATOR stepped in and started, you know, defending him. In fact, the moderator was actually debating with President Trump. Yeah, yeah, that's I've never seen that before in a debate. I've never seen the moderator and they're arguing with with the,
and then Trump even said, it looks like I'm debating you now. Yeah. He said it right. From the beginning, it looks like I'm gonna be debating you. So that was pretty obvious. I think a lot of people picked up what
was like Joe Biden had every possible advantage he could have. He had an electronic device and coaching. He had probably had all of the questions in advance. He had a moderator that was on his side. And he had a moderator that stepped in and defended him and had a moderator that actually debated on his behalf. So you know, I think in the end, it was a learning experience of how to go against Biden, in the second debate, you would think there's going to be one shot? I don't know, it's really hard to say I had, I didn't really know if Biden's team would go in for this debate. I was surprised. Yeah, so I think what Donald Trump needs to do the next time around, is he needs to take a few clues on the debate is not just a boxing match, even though that's his strength, even though that could actually work against Joe Biden making him lose his shit. I think that he needs to turn to the camera and speak to the American people show a little bit more compassion. Talk a little bit more to like, for example, there were two questions about the black community. And Trump never spoke to the black community because he has lots of things to say the black community had a whole big proposal, he has a whole platform about how he wants to revitalize inner cities, in power black churches, and all kinds of great things he wants to do for the black community. But he never mentioned any of them. Because he was trying to focus on his strength, which is that he is a law and order candidate. You know, the He is the one who is going to stop all the rioting and put an end to all of the chaos. So that's what he was trying to focus on. When he was trying to focus on that he lost the opportunity to speak directly, especially to the black community. You think he should have less scale
from one to 10? How do you think Trump did?
I don't know an eight. I mean, that's how how I think he spoke well, he said the right things most of the time. I just think that's his strategy of attacking Joe and making him crack didn't work.
Exactly. exe and I thought it would I honestly because he came out like a bulldozer right. You know, like a bull right out of the gates hold on bulldozer Exactly.
His style.
Yep. And I thought, Oh, my God, this is gonna last about five minutes ended up
making Joe Biden look like the calm, collected, compassionate. And the ones speaking using the debate stage, not as an attack place, but as a place to speak to the American people. And this happened The same thing happened with Obama versus McCain. McCain was the aggressor. McCain was emotional, and oh, Biden. I'm sorry, Obama was just the cool calm collected professor. And and that really worked to his advantage. So I think we'll see that Trump pivots or perhaps he'll double down on his strategy and really try to make Joe Biden break. We'll we'll see what happens the second time around, but but can I tell you what, q anon had this Yeah, yeah.
So that was my next question.
Well, q anon. posted some some things before the debates. And he said, he said back in September 10. He said, Biden camp will find excuse or reason to terminate the debate or they will be provided the questions ahead of time or they'll be provided the questions ahead of time and assistance in the form of a special communication device. And then Q said on September 29, the day was that the day of the debates before, he said is going to be option number three. Where Biden camp gets all the questions ahead of time and assistance in the form of a special communication device. And he even has a picture of Biden's communication device. It's a flesh colored earpiece. Hmm. So yeah, q q is really on the money when it comes to these things. It's my God. That's why we use Q as a as an Intel source, because he's always right,
April 10:25
Shawn, I gotta tell you this. I don't know if you got it. But hold on a minute. I'm gonna get my
Jay 10:29
while she's doing that. Shawn, do you think that? So if they do go to the second if they do go to the second debate, okay, it's Chris. is Chris still gonna work? Is he still gonna moderate it? Or they're gonna have different moderators? I don't know.
I'm not sure. I mean, that was actually the the one thing that I think made this whole thing. It wasn't really a loss for Trump, like Trump didn't lose any of his base in this debate. Yeah, I agree might have lost some of those people who were flip flopping in the middle. So and that was the main reason was because the moderator not because of Joe Biden, necessarily. So I don't know who's the who's moderating next. But remember, Trump, Trump's got the best team, you know, coaching him on the best strategy to use and I think that he will use this opportunity to, to learn everything he can from the first debate.
I found that, Shawn, um, you know, if anybody gets, which pretty much everybody gets, Twitter, gets a text from Trump, the Trump team. And I don't know, did you get this yesterday? But But anyway, so yeah, this was yesterday's tweet from the Trump team breaking Joe Biden is begging in capital letters for multiple breaks during the 90 minute debate, check. And this is all capital letters, check Joe's ears with an exclamation point. Now I thought they were referencing as you know, because the whole thing between a human and a clone, it's like, you know, the IRS the giveaway. So that's what I thought that was, but there's more to it. It says Joe Biden refuses in all capital letters to take a drug test and test and declines all capital letters to undergo inspection for electronic earpiece before the debate. Right.
So what would happen if they do see that? So for example, do you think that Do you think there was there anything in the queue saying that they're gonna push these issues again, like, Hey, you know, like, if they get to a second,
I think they're actually letting just let him have the advantages. That's how I think they're playing it. Trump never mentioned anything during the debates. Basically, Trump, the way I'm seeing it, and just is just my gut feeling I don't really have any inside knowledge is that, hey, let them have all the advantage he thinks he has. It's just gonna make them feel comfortable. That's the art of war. The Art of War is like make your enemy feel confident when they shouldn't feel confident. And when they're feeling all overconfident, that's when they make mistakes. So yeah, given the earpiece giving the questions ahead of time, and then just keep attacking, attacking until he loses his cool, and he just freaks out or he loses his mind again, like he always does on TV. So
you think yeah, I mean, was just off in it that you think he should have? Just let it I know, the moderator obviously, you could tell he was he was obviously bias there. But do you think there was anything there that if Trump would have just let Biden kind of finishes thoughts he would have just kept rambling on and he maybe he maybe he interjected too soon about that, too. And a lot of these cases, or do you think he was
I thought I mean, was Joe Biden was was had clarity, I didn't think he was going to ramble off. I think that these personal comments about his son, and everything, it's actually a good strategy because because it's it hurts joe biden's feelings and it gets him emotional and it gets them off his is all feeling racked on that one. You almost cracked on that. Yes. Yeah, exactly. So and the American people do care if his son got $3.5 million from a Russian politicians wife, they've got to it's not true. It's not true. That's all he kept saying, you can keep on repeating it's not true. But the the senate of the United States just discovered it. So doesn't matter how many times you repeat, it's not true. It doesn't make it not true. So I think there's going to be a follow up in the next debates. And he's, I don't think Trump is going to let off on this these personal attacks
now. And you know what, maybe also his strategy was, um, let him feel like you what you're saying confident, super confident this time around, because I will nail you to the friggin wall the next time around. You know what I mean? Because when you build up your confidence, you're like, I got this. I got this.
So what do you think about is there been anything there? Because when they talked about the green New Deal, and then Trump walked in, Trump was out of the water and all of that shit. that Trump was able to back him into some corners and walk them into some things that he needed it that he wanted him to say. I liked
how Trump said two times you just lost the lead. You're just lost a lot. Yeah. Because he forced Biden to say, you believe in law and order and law enforcement. And basically the far left is doesn't want to hear anything about you saying you support law enforcement. And then he, yeah, he's, I believe the second time was regarding the green New Deal. We don't support the New Deal. We usually
just lots of left. Yeah, wow. Yeah. Yeah. You just lost the left. And then he's like, no, and he's like, I'm the candidate He's like, then he's like, comparing the like, basically, he I beat Bernie, he got him to say I beat Bernie. So I wonder what that internal
comms, yeah, he just alienated that the far left contingent, and that's the most vocal group of the Democratic Party. And so they those people don't like hearing joe biden's say anything against Bernie saying anything against the green New Deal. So Joe Biden's playing towards the middle of the road, he's want to get wants to get those, you know, not too far left, not to rights type of prospective voters. And Trump was really playing to his base, once again, just trying to get people who are on the, you know, people who are republicans just to get them to vote. And I think he needs to play more to the middle the next time around.
If they give if they gave her next time around. Do you think Kamala Harris is going to start showing her face and actually be more proactive as far as the front person of this campaign now? Or do you think they're still gonna let him?
Yeah, I mean, they they both said, Harris administration. So there's a reason why both Kamala Harris and Joe Biden accidentally, you know, said that, and I think that it's a possibility, still, that they might declare Joe Biden, you know, medically incapable, or you might get COVID-19, who knows what excuse they might come up with. But it would certainly put Kamala Harris in the spotlight as a possible presidential candidate or being the Vice President for another candidates. But it'll be interesting to see the debate between her and Mike Pence because I can't think of people more different. And their style, or demeanor. And
Mike Pence is pretty good, though. He's got He's good. You know, yeah.
But he's also super, super conservative. Yeah. So he's just speaking a different language, compared to the ultra liberal. What does that debate shot? I think, October 7, I think
October 7.
So when asked me these questions about schedule, I really don't
know. What time's election, when do they fully live? So with that, so as we get closer into this now, he was talking about the riots and things like that they started getting there. As far as having those conversations, and they talked about idi NT as an ideology. Trump was like, No, you kidding me? kind of thing like that. Were for him not? I think that most people right now are realizing that it is an official group, right? Even right or left over people. I
think this is this is an important topic that I really don't know where the normal people stand on this, but it's going to become more and more apparent. Because, you know, this is this is one of those Trump cars that Trump has up his sleeve is the ability to unseal indictments against not only an Tifa operatives, but their democratic controllers, the people who are coordinating with them with an insurrection in our country. So at any time, these Democratic governors, these democratic mayors, these democratic district attorneys, they could be you know, it could be revealed that they are participating with an Tifa operatives in an insurrection in the organized riots and arson attacks all these things. So maybe he's painting Joe Biden into a corner. Yeah, Joe Biden kiss just keep repeating an Tifa is an ideology not an organization keep repeating that until you are proven 100% wrong and everyone remembers how wrong you were. You think from a you know, a political side of things. Do you think that this Trump's base if you would you think a majority of Trumps base actually thought that chris wallace teed these things up for Joe Biden, or do you think that was just a or do you think that was just maybe like some people perspective, you know, got that perspective? perspective, if you I think anyone watching the debate, it doesn't matter who you are, could see that Chris Wallace was acting like the teacher that was trying to punish bad little schoolboy Trump. And that comes off bad when you when you show it when you have a bias towards one candidate. And, in fact, I remember there was one interaction where Or chris wallace said, well, it's really you Trump who's doing most of the interrupting and, and all the bad stuff. And and and Trump was just like, just like a schoolboy, but he did bad stuff, too. He's like, yeah, Biden interrupted, too. So, you know, it was it's it comes off bad because Chris Wallace is supposed to be on the only conservative main news network. Fox News. Yeah. And so it just goes to show, Fox News is compromised. There is no Conservative News Network in our country. That's mainstream and so that, you know, Trump is going up against a stacked deck against him, but he's still got afraid, you know, and, you know, what comes to mind is the last debate against Hillary, where he was like, sniffing real hard. I don't know if you remember that. But that's how I see Trump is he he is in full attack mode, like a bulldog, just like a bulldog would sniff hard. He's like, going after you. You know, and so he is in this to ultimately destroy his opponent. And this was just his first opportunity. And it'll be really exciting to see what he what he not only what he has to say on the debate stage. But what type of bombshells are gonna drop the implicate Joe Biden and his family and the previous administration? I mean, Hunter Biden could end up going to jail between now and the next debates, because the sentence is faster, to ask for a criminal referral from the Department of Justice for this 3.5 million in Russian cash that hunter Biden got. So there, the Senate is asking the Department of Justice to basically arrest hunter Biden, and that could actually happen before the next debates. And then there would be no question about whether it was a lie or whether it wasn't a lie. He wouldn't be arrested. If it was just a lie. You think so they're pushing they're pushing for this arrest right now? Yeah. Wow. Wow. That's one of the October surprises that could be coming out.
All right. What other October surprisingly, other than Halloween,
there are just so many. I mean, what I'll just look at the the cue drop recently, this is one that already dropped, is that Hillary Clinton was trying to design what she called a swift boat project to try to act like Donald Trump and Russia were with each other. And so she concocted this plan. And she was she paid for the the fake dossier, the steel dossier, and they had all this, these lies about Russia and the Trump administration. And so she actually briefed the Obama administration on this stuff. And they were totally cool with this with both projects. So so it just came out that Hillary Obama, Biden, they've all been cooking up this Russia collusion hoax from the very beginning. And so that was one of the bombshells that broke just yesterday. And so what could be coming up is some other really, really powerful things against the clinton crime family, like crimes against humanity, just pure corruption. It was a pay to play scheme, where the Clinton Foundation accepted millions in donations and then they paid off all these lawyers like James commies, brother and Rod Rosen Steen's. Why Fenella it's just it's all these swamp creatures and all their family members are getting money from the Clinton Foundation, and they're donating money to Clinton Foundation. It's just like this cycle of corruption. And so this is the like this document cycle. Yeah, exactly. And so that's one of the October surprises is that the Weiner laptop that has all of her text messages and all of our emails and everything and, and this could just be devastating for the Democratic Party.
And we in our lot laptops, got some serious serious stuff in it. That's where the frazzled drip the satanic rituals, well, the one that was under life insurance on his laptop with with Hillary Clinton and ooba Ahmed Dean, my alma Dean, where they were hacked, they did the satanic ritual in the blood rich on the adrenochrome on the little girl and everything was recorded.
Yeah, so so this is one of those things that hasn't told us exactly what's on that video. But he said that this video is impossible to defend. Oh, boy. Oh, so if you can just imagine the worst of the worst, that's what's on this video. And it's probably one of many and there, there are thousands of emails and communications that will probably show that the previous administration that that Joe Biden was a part of, it was basically this corrupt machine that just sold out our country to the highest bidder. They were selling our state secrets they were selling, selling access to our special access programs. They were trying to purposefully weaken our military. They were, you know, giving away our hard earned tax dollars through the US aid projects and everything. So there are just so many October surprises, and many of them involve Joe Biden and his son. And so it could be that that his son actually gets a criminal referral, it's gonna be really exciting. October, do you think that with the voter ballots and the, you know, the controversy regarding the mail in ballots, everything like that, do you think that's going to stall the actual final result on November 3? And push back on that? Or do you think that though, those are a couple different ways this could go and the way I want it to go is that this is such a landslide election win for Donald Trump, that there's no need to wait 10 additional days or whatever to count all the votes. Because when you have 90% votes for Donald Trump, you don't doesn't matter not expecting with the number of votes that you already have in and the number of votes that you're still expecting. It doesn't matter if 100% of the expected votes come in Joe Biden, he still won't win. That's what I think, is the best thing for our country so that there's no controversy. But the worst case scenario, hey, we've got a new supreme court justices going on. And they are that's the court that will really decide just like they did in the year 2000. With gore versus Bush, the Supreme Court is the one that really calls the shots when it comes to these controversies.
Sean, one last thing for you is, so if they've got a lot of the stuff documented what Hillary Clinton did they have a video there that, you know, it's undisputable about the crime on that one word that's close to the election. And Trump is just bitching and moaning, and really about the the mail and battle ballots, why not drop these bombs now and just put this thing to bed once and for all, and shut these things down? And just boom, let's close through?
Right? This is something that many of us following Q have been saying for actually multiple years. Like why don't you just arrest everyone now. But apparently, that's not the best option. One of the reasons that the Q gave for for not, you know, trying to go too aggressive too early, is that when you drop a whole bunch of information on the public about pedophile ring and crimes against children, that you cause actually mass suffering, and so that they have a plan that involves slowly getting the public information about these crimes, so that it's not some kind of big shock that really disturbs people, because you can have massive, like suicides and horrible type of response to these. Yeah, man. Yeah. So So you've got, you know, 4 million people on Facebook alone, who are falling q anon groups. So that's one of the ways that they've been trying to prime the public and prepare the public for what's coming, is the Q anon operation. And so we've got millions of people who have this knowledge and are spreading it slowly but surely. And what they've done is, is they've done a military precision planning, and this involves what they call Wargaming, where they come up with every single possible way this could go. And they think of ways to respond in every single possible scenario. And what they've decided is the best is to wait until October and and post election to really release most of this stuff. This is not something like Donald Trump's afraid of losing the election, or he might not win, this is really not a worry. Yeah, of course, he's still going to give it his, he's still going to show up to the I am still going to go through the motions. But you have to remember that everything is riding on this election. And they will not leave it up to chance that that this is going to go to the other side. And so I believe that even if Joe Biden somehow stole the election, that there would still be a military coup and the military would still take over the country. So if they would have waited till before the election, then they would always be accusing Trump of Oh, he's only doing this against his political opponents and everything. But if he waits until after the election to release most of this stuff, then they can never accuse him of that. Hmm. So yeah, I believe that this has been the smartest way to go about about it. You know, because look at his approval rating for republicans is over 90% and his approval rating across the country is all time high. 52% is there any
it's probably that's probably low.
Yeah, there be a problem more than likely but is there anything to it? The fact that if with Clintons and Obama's that were part of this, you know, whatever against Trump if he would. And if they are, if they do get indicted, or those are they as that executive level or the president part of it, at least maybe Bill Clinton, Obama, are they immune from prosecution at that point in time? So far as I
love to say, No one is above the law, no one is above the law doesn't matter. If you were king of the world, in the United States, the Constitution is the thing that trumps everything. And
would they be able to strip him of his presidency? title?
I don't know, because this has never been done before. So we don't have any legal precedent. But what I do know is that the President of the United States has to follow the rules, just like everybody else. And the fact that Biden and Obama are no longer in office that just gives them even less legal power. Because I guess, you know, if you were president, you could try to say, Well, I'm pardoning myself or something like that. But But, you know, trying to run a country don't bother Obama and Biden don't have any more authority anymore. They're just citizens, just like you and me. And I don't know how this is going to go down, whether it's going to be civil trial, civilian type of thing, or whether it's going to be a military type of tribunal. So we'll just have to wait and see. But you know, I'm feeling very confident.
Yeah, no, that's, I mean, you and me both. I'm not worried about it at all. But, um, you think always and especially chris wallace all night. Last night, he kept referring about Biden as Mr. Vice President, he's not Mr. Vice President. He's former right
to him that way. I mean,
that is the official, the official protocol is to always call former presidents and vice presidents, we still got to call him that doesn't call them that. But it's a protocol. But But when they asked, they asked him, Well, why didn't you talk to the mayors of Portland until they're calling the National Guard? He said, Well, I'm not the vice president anymore.
So where's that like, step up and do the right thing kind of on the job, so I don't need to do it.
That looks bad on by that day.
Yeah. So I think it'd be good. I think, though, definitely. Um, but like you said, I hope that's what it is. It's Trump's stole delusion. I mean,
oh, yeah, absolutely. And like I said, even if he does lose, we have the military who are going to do whatever it takes to safeguard our country. Because literally, if Joe Biden would win, and we transferred power to Joe Biden, we would see COVID-19 times 1000, they would just do another one of these things. force us all to stay in our homes, try to force vaccinate us, it would be a nightmare. It would be hell on earth. And so and that's exactly what his message was last night. I mean, it was weird, because Joe Biden kept on saying, You shut down the country, and I want to open up the country, but none of his policies, right, but nothing can
happen until we get our head wrapped around the COVID-19. So we can't open the country until we do that.
Know so funny, it's anything when Trump's like, you're wearing the biggest mask I've ever seen.
I know that was that was funny, you know, that was played very well by Trump. Because if Trump comes out and says no masks don't work, well, then all of a sudden, Joe Biden seems like he's the one who's so scientific and so strong and and so Trump was like, Yeah, I wear mass social distance, and you don't need my pocket. Yeah, I got my pockets. So you know it. It's true that Joe Biden has a bad record with the swine flu. It's true that Joe Biden said we shouldn't Close, close off the border with with China early on. So with all the I don't know how, why Joe Biden thinks he's got the best plan in the world when he's really been through all this before. And something Trump said over and over again. You were in power for 47 years. Why didn't you do it back then?
Yeah, you should just run on that. Train alone.
Yeah, I did when 47 months what you didn't do in 47 years?
Yeah. Just keep hammering that over and over and over.
Yeah, yeah, for sure. So, Shawn, you you've been putting out some stuff, and I wanted to get your views on it. Because there's this. There's a lot of conversations going around about JFK Jr. Being around, then you had something that you posted around that I'd like to get your version or views on that.
Sure. You know, my program and my style is pretty journalistic. So I like to stick to the facts and everything, but I'm not afraid to just make some theories, make some guesses and just be honest about the fact that they are just theories and guesses. I'll just tell you what Q anon has said himself. So Q has said that the beginning of the Q operation was a friendship between Donald Trump and JFK Jr. That that was the beginning of the queue operation. So that's very interesting and makes you really wonder what role did JFK Jr. play in this whole plan to save our republic backs? In the 90s, so I don't know for sure. But uh, if you look back at his magazine, George, what he was trying to accomplish, he was trying to, you know, basically bring politics to the mainstream. And he was planning on running against Hillary Clinton in New York as a senator. And so many people are thinking, hey, maybe the clinton crime family put out a hit against JFK, Jr. Because they don't want to run against Kennedy. He's the most handsome charismatic Kennedy ever. And there's no way Hillary would win against him. So they just wanted him gone. And so there's been this theory out there that maybe he staged his death, and the he chose to disappear and play a role behind the scenes this entire time. Now, anons have asked you is JFK Jr. Still alive? And Q said No, he's not still alive. So that's the official answer from Q. Well, you have
to remember but Denise Shawn say, he said that JFK was not alive, not JFK, Jr.
No, I think someone asked is JFK Jr. Still alive? And then Q just said no. So that's what I think it was. So but you have to remember Q is very mysterious. Q doesn't always give you exact dates or exact ideas. You know, and sometimes you have to give misinformation. It's necessary, because who's reading the Q post, it's not just people like you and me, it's the enemy, the enemy is reading the Q post and getting information from it. So if you gave the enemy lots of valuable information, it would be dangerous. So you actually has to and is required to give the enemy misinformation through through these things. So that's something to keep in mind with the cue post is it's not just all 100% fact, 100% of the time. So many people are wondering, is JFK Jr. Still alive? Are there any clues to this? Well, his his grave site is in the shape of a queue. It is that's interesting. So he after he supposedly died, there was a someone from the coast guard who came on the news on the telephone. And, and he and he had the exact same voice as JFK Jr. The person who makes the plan to save the world queueing on video, it's the most watched millions of views on the queue. And on topic, his name is Joe M. We all know that's an alias. It's not a real name, Joe M. And he has the exact same voice as JFK Jr. So there's so there's this guy who calls in to conservative radio shows, and claims to be an insider, and he has the same voice as JFK, Jr. So this voice just keeps on popping up. And so it does make you wonder, is JFK Jr, playing a roll behind the scenes and this entire
are they able to use one of those, you know, like they does, the meters or whatever to track the voice patterns to
know I've ever seen in an official voice analysis on this. But I have to say just with my own ear, it's unmistakable. Really amazing similarity. And then there have been pictures of not only supposedly JFK, but also his wife and his family members in the crowds at Trump rallies, people who are supposedly dead, and this and if you look at them right behind the president, they seem to be still alive. So I don't have any facts. I don't have anything to really rely on to show 100% beyond the shadow of a doubt that JFK Jr. and his wife and his sister in law are actually still alive. But it's something that I'm keeping open. In my mind. I'm open minded to that possibility. And it would be really interesting, because one thing that Q has said is just wait until you find out who's been talking to you. Yeah. What that says to me, is that Q is someone famous. Yeah, someone we all know. So it could it could be Michael Jackson. It could be someone who's not JFK Jr. There. We all know
Kirby Presley for all we know, it's serious.
But they say Elvis is a pastor somewhere not sure. Pastor Bob, you know, Jackie Jr.
has the knowledge he has the abilities. He has the incentive and the motive to do all of these things as he avenge his father's death and who isn't implicated. The Bush crime family was implicated in the death of his father so he's been going against this deep state for a long time and it would not it literally would not surprise me if it turned out the JFK Jr. was alive and that he was a part of Qt
amazing. times ahead, everybody.
Just Wow, what a mystical magical world we live in. And
yes, it is so exciting.
All right, everybody that is Sean Morgan with our buddy couponer stairs. He was here version of the political commentary. So thank you, Sean for helping us do that one. So it was good to see you there. And then we'll have Shawn again, you could check out q&a for beginners that q&a on faq.com. And also we'll have links for Shawn's YouTube channel. So really suggest that if you are checking Tron out for the first time, definitely check it out, because he's got some great content out there. You'll certainly enjoy. So. Thank you everybody, for tuning in. We hope you enjoyed it. And we all enjoyed it. Man, hope you enjoyed on your end.
Thank you, Shawn so much, it's always great seeing you. And together we will turn the universal key to global harmony and create a unified world. Thank you everybody for tuning in. And remember, tune in often. tell all your friends, and most importantly, make all your dreams come true many blessings. We'd like to share our story. Well, it may sound fictional, it's very real and happening right now in front of our very eyes. It's called the Great Awakening. Our sisters and brothers that come on spiritually raw are doing everything to help expand global consciousness, and in many cases, putting everything on the line to share their messages about what's happening around the world for the greater good of humanity, while exposing the truth of the Deep State and the dark forces behind it all.
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I booked my SF trip in October, thinking that I can't possibly be this suay to meet with a winter storm in mid-December which could get my flight cancelled, and yet this was precisely what happened on the day I was supposed to fly out of Chicago.
Chicago was hit with a few days of snow storm and that last day of snow landed exactly on the day I was supposed to fly out. And dear Virgin America did not bother to notify me. I only knew of it when I tried to do online check in the night before.
Which led to me having to rebook my flight for another day, change my dates for my accommodation and upcoming cruise in SF. Thankfully I did not incur any monetary loss. Very thankful to AirBnB for refunding me my first night of stay although I only informed them half a day in advance!
And quickly proceeded for dinner at 1-star Michelin Thai restaurant Kin Khao. Based on my elementary Thai knowledge, I know it means 'eat rice' haha.
Given that I read rave reviews about it on Yelp, I expected it to be mind-blowing. Well, it was pretty good, but it didn't make me extremely satisfied or eager to go back.
All I ordered was beef cheeks in massaman curry (great reviews online, made it sound like it is the best food on earth) and veggies, and it cost about 50 USD already! Sobs.
They definitely tasted good, but I guess the problem with me that I like to compare food I find in the US, to food I ate in their country of origin. Hence I couldn't help thinking that I could eat food of equal standard or of even higher quality at 10% of the price in Thailand.
And then after that, all I did was walk around in Union Square and a nearby shopping mall called Westfield Plaza.
Another problem with living in the US for too long is that, I seem to have lost my sense of wonder here. I remember that I was very excited about Union Square when I visited 6 years ago. But now, because I visit Macy's, Uniqlo and Nordstrom Rack etc all the time in Chicago, naturally I don't feel excited about seeing such stores in SF.
But my second day was considerably better. Woke up early in the morning and walked to Chinatown for breakfast.
Randomly popped into a store and the breakfast there was pretty cheap. The congee was just about 2 USD!
Not super-duper fantastic or anything, but cheap and decent and gave me energy to start my day!
I originally intended to head straight to Pier 33 to board my ferry to Alcatraz right after breakfast, but I realised that I still had about 1.5 hours after my breakfast.
And hence I walked to Lombard Street next to check off another must-do activity off my list!
I just followed google map and passed by North Beach before walking up a slope ( nearly died) and finally seeing the famous crooked street. Well, actually I've seen it before, but it was my first time there with my husband. No harm seeing it together again!
Glad that I went in the morning so there weren't many tourists around and I could snap pics of Lombard Street without random people inside.
And then, I continued walking to Pier 33, which took about 30 minutes! What an active morning I had! So much walking all before 10am!
It was my first time visiting Alcatraz and I originally thought that it might be kind of boring. But I was wrong! My 2 hours there was spent rather fruitfully since I did manage to digest the information ( quite surprising given that I space out easily during 'educational tours') about the prisoners, the condition they lived in, how a few of them tried to escape etc.
The audio tour was pretty well-done and was quite an immersive experience since we got to hear soundbites from the ex-prisoners themselves. And if you hear their voices when you are stepping into the cell, it really offers an added dimension to the experience.
And even after all these activities I did, it was just only lunchtime! So I spent the rest of my day just exploring Fisherman's Wharf as it was quite close to where we landed from the ferry.


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Q: How to understand the failure of Leibniz rule in Lindblad type Heisenberg equation? Dual to the well-known Lindblad master equation for density matrices, the equation for operators (in the sense of Heisenberg equation) is written as
$$ \frac{d}{dt}\hat{A}=i[H,\; \hat{A}]+\sum_i \gamma_i\bigg(M_i^\dagger\,\hat{A}\, M_i-\frac{1}{2}\{ M_i^\dagger M_i,\;\hat{A}\}\bigg), $$
where $H$ is the Hamiltonian, $\gamma_i$ and $M_i$ are coefficients and operators that characterise the Lindblad master equation.
However, due to the presence of Lindblad operators, the above equation does not follow the Leibniz rule, that is
$$ \frac{d}{dt}(\hat{A}\hat{B})\neq \frac{d}{dt}(\hat{A})\,\hat{B}+\hat{A}\frac{d}{dt}(\hat{B}). $$
Actually, it is straightforward to verify that (if my calculation is correct) the left hand side minuses the right hand side is
$$ \frac{d}{dt}(\hat{A}\hat{B})-\frac{d}{dt}(\hat{A})\,\hat{B}-\hat{A}\frac{d}{dt}(\hat{B})=\sum_i\gamma_i\,[M_i^\dagger,\, \hat{A}]\,[\hat{B},\, M_i]. $$
My question is that, what's the consequence of such breakdown of Leibniz rule? I figured out two examples:

*

*Since it doesn't define a derivative, how can we integrate it to obtain $\hat{A}(t)$ from the known $\hat{A}(0)$? In other words, is the Heisenberg picture well-defined here? If not, how can we define correlations in the form of $\langle \hat{A}(t_1)\,\hat{B}(t_2) \rangle$ for an open system?

*If we ignore the failure of defining a derivative and formally integrate it, we can get a $\hat{A}(t)$, but also meet the situation that
$$ AB(t)\neq A(t)\,B(t).$$
How can we understand that? For example, suppose $H=0$, $\hat{A}$ and $\hat{B}$ both anti-commute with $M$ and $M^\dagger$ (we assume there is only one Lindblad operator), we also assume that $M^\dagger M=1$. Then we have $\frac{d}{dt}\hat{A}=-2\gamma\hat{A}$ and $\frac{d}{dt}\hat{B}=-2\gamma\hat{B}$. So both operators decay exponentially. But at the same time we have $\frac{d}{dt}(\hat{A}\hat{B})=0$, i.e., their product is constant.

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Walking through an auto dealership the other day, I couldn't help but be impressed by all the new vehicles on the lot.
Every year, cars and trucks get fancier, sleeker and harder to resist.
When you slide into that new seat with that new car smell and turn the ignition key, it can feel like the lap of luxury. For many auto policies, though, that luxurious feel can be fleeting if you were to be involved in a major accident soon after your new purchase.
Many auto insurance policies insure vehicles on an actual-cash-value basis, which means there is depreciation factored into the claim. So that new car you just purchased might yield thousands of dollars less in an insurance settlement if the vehicle were to be totaled soon after your purchase.
One way to insure against that potential for lost value is to take replacement cost coverage on your new vehicle. With replacement cost coverage, you could be compensated for the full amount of a like make and model vehicle, if you chose to replace the vehicle after a total loss.
For example, we had an insured involved in an accident a couple of years ago in which the vehicle was totaled. Our insured was driving a 2013 Cadillac with replacement cost coverage on it. If the vehicle was insured for just actual cash value, the insured's settlement would have been $30,000. Because, though, there was replacement cost coverage on the vehicle, the insured elected to purchase a brand-new vehicle and received an additional $20,000 toward that purchase.
For insurance carriers that offer replacement cost coverage on new vehicles, the coverage is typically available for a limited period of time from the date of purchase, perhaps a year or so, and then drops off the policy.
With State Auto Insurance, though, one of our agency's main carriers, replacement cost coverage can stay on a vehicle for up to four years from the date of purchase. So, if you bought a new 2016 vehicle and put replacement cost coverage on it, if you unfortunately had an accident three years later that totaled the vehicle, you would have the option on your insurance coverage to replace the vehicle with a like make and model with no depreciation.
With auto replacement cost coverage, you have the choice to recapture that new-car feel if you have an accident that totals your new vehicle.
For many people, that's a coverage that can bring peace of mind.
(Josh Underwood is an agent at Cook, Downing & Underwood Insurance Agency. You can reach him at 270-651-2194).


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Het gouvernement Tver (Russisch: Тверская губерния, Tverskaja goebernija) was een gouvernement (goebernija) van het keizerrijk Rusland. Het gouvernement ontstond uit de gouvernementen Moskou en Jaroslavl en het gebied van het gouvernement ging op in de oblast Kannin. Het gouvernement bestond van  1796 tot 1929. Het gouvernement grensde aan de gouvernementen Vologda, Pskov, Moskou, Smolensk, Jaroslavl en Vladimir. De hoofdstad was Tver.

Het gouvernement ontstond in 1796 uit het gouvernement Sint-Petersburg. In 1803 bestond het gouvernement uit 12 oejazden.  In 1929 werd het gouvernement opgeheven en verdeeld over Moskou en Smolensk. In 1935 werd het gebied rond Tver onderdeel van de oblast Kalinin en na 1990 in de oblast Tver.

Tver
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Digicore Hero dltzk Is So Online It Hurts
Stuck inside the monotony of suburban America, this teenage producer and songwriter finds freedom in their own online universe.
By Cat Zhang
Photography by Angalis Field
The plan was for Zeke to pick me up from a train station in northern New Jersey, just a few minutes from their parents' home. But right before we're supposed to meet, I get a text announcing a slight switch-up. "my mom is gonna be in the car w me bc i dont know how to get there," Zeke reports, ending the message with a sob emoji. Within 10 minutes, a blue Honda Pilot rolls up to the parking lot, with a middle-aged brunette woman beaming in the driver's seat. Zeke is slouched next to her, and as we back out and proceed on the route home, they are mostly silent, except to point out a tree that's fallen in the middle of the road.
The 18-year-old, who doesn't want to share their last name because of privacy concerns, technically lives on campus at a college about an hour away. Still, every weekend they return to their parents' house, where they record and produce all of their music as dltzk ("delete zeke"). Their mom and dad might not know it, but over the past year Zeke has become one of the faces of digicore, a scene of zoomer SoundCloud artists who make agitated, mercurial music usually featuring blown-out production and sullen, Auto-Tuned singing. Listening to some of their songs can feel like blasting through TikTok at supersonic speed, a sensory overload that could very well send your elderly neighbor into cardiac arrest.
Their parents' home feels like a Pinterest-lover's dream: Its three main aesthetics are beachside resort, Buddha, and, on this foggy day in December, Christmas. An elegant tree draped in glittery red and gold ribbon towers above the living room, which is festooned with throw pillows with slogans like "Merry & Bright." The family's three cats, Mr. Jones, Charlie, and Spooky, prowl around the perimeters, yowling to be let outdoors.
As Zeke's parents make small talk, Zeke loiters—politely, timidly—in the background. They are scrawny, with hollowed cheeks and curly hair; their hands are shoved into the pockets of their puffer jacket, which is layered over a Phoebe Bridgers graphic tee. (At one point, about 90 percent of Zeke's closet was made up of artist merch, as they admit later on.) This is Zeke's first in-person interview, and the perceived formality of the arrangement initially creates a hesitant dynamic. When their mom and dad tactfully exit the conversation ("We'll leave you two to it!"), it feels like we're random children paired on a stilted playdate. "Sorry for being awkward," Zeke offers, to break the ice. It's about lunchtime, so we go to the closest restaurant available, Panera.
In between slurps of French onion soup, Zeke confesses their ambivalence toward college, especially now that their music has taken off online. "It's not the worst thing I've done ever, but I could be doing better things," they say, a sentiment they recently shared less diplomatically on Twitter: "the one thing that separates me from hannah montana is that she was never smart enough to consider dropping out." When they were applying to schools a year ago, they had just a few one-off singles and a couple thousand followers; now they have multiple projects out and over 100,000 monthly Spotify streams. Last spring, a concerned high school counselor called Zeke into her office after a classmate wrote a paper about their song "52 Blue Mondays," on which Zeke repeats, "I feel like dying every season." The counselor wanted to check if Zeke was OK.
Still, Zeke doesn't disclose much with the people who surround them in real life, even those who share their DNA: "My twin sister found my Twitter, and she was like, 'Why do you have so many followers?'"
Zeke's music falls roughly within two camps. There's the prankish mixes they put out under other aliases (leroy, DJcoolgirl9), like their "dariacore" mash-up compilations, named after the '90s animated series about a sardonic teenage girl. ("Daria's just, like, cool," they shrug.) The style is something like future bass meets Jersey club meets SoundClown shitposting—sped-up versions of the music Zeke was fascinated by when they were 9. A particularly formative moment from their childhood was getting their mind blown by a Skrillex performance on MTV. "I don't even know how to verbalize it," they recall. "It was just like, 'Whoa.'"
Then there's Zeke's more personal, original dltzk material. Dealing with the disorientation of adolescence and the stultifying sense that they had no real future ahead of them, they released Teen Week last spring. "Go to college, have a shit time/I'll get a job and I won't be happy/But if you ask I'll say I'm fine," they sing on "seventeen." The EP bears the imprint of their EDM obsessions, especially the galactic electronica of their idol, Porter Robinson, and embraces production elements that have been trendy in underground online communities, like breakbeats, stutters, and bitcrushing. Teen Week became a lodestar of SoundCloud's digicore scene, which sprouted from hyperpop. In November came its more mature companion, Frailty, dltzk's full-length debut.
Frailty is still exuberant and kaleidoscopic, but it also includes lo-fi passages reminiscent of the Microphones or Alex G. Zeke found the acoustic guitar featured on the album in a closet at home last year, and started learning how to play. At first, they'd record one string at a time, mimicking the sound of a full chord by layering individual notes on top of each other using production software. "Kind of phony of me," they admit, "but you gotta do what you gotta do." They still don't play the "right" way. Instead, they tuned their guitar so they can simply push their thumb across a single fret and strum. "My hands are really small so it's easier for me," they explain, demonstrating the technique. To record, Zeke would lay their phone on the guitar, record a voice memo, and email the file to their computer to edit.
Zeke's songs are rife with angst: about bad friends and parental disappointment, about crushes on close-minded people who'd probably hate Zeke if they really knew them. Some of their unease comes from feeling alienated from their peers. After being subjected to run-of-the-mill bullying in middle school, they pushed themselves to act more masculine: "I listened to [the rapper] Logic freshman year and started wearing cargo shorts." But they still felt estranged.
Meanwhile, Zeke has also developed an overwhelming, if seemingly abstract, fear of letting their parents down. "Sorry I'm not what you wanted, I know you can't try again," they sing, addressing their dad, on "cartridge." They're aware, though, that these worries may not be totally grounded in reality. "I feel like what I imagine my parents want me to be is different than what my parents actually want me to be," they admit, "like the image that I'm fabricating in my mind is not real."
Zeke is still too sheepish to work on music in their dorm, where their roommate or neighbors might hear. So they jot down ideas and wait to try them out in their childhood bedroom, alone. The space is spartan, with azure blue walls and what looks like standard IKEA furniture: a bed, some shelves, a desk with a monitor. A plain composition notebook that functions as Zeke's "manifestation journal" rests atop a cabinet near their desk. There's not much else to show, so Zeke fires up their computer, and we talk about their favorite artists (Mitski, the rapper Hook) and the bank of "silly little samples" embedded into their recordings—including snippets from the Nickelodeon boy band Big Time Rush and their friend and fellow digicore artist angelus. I ask whether the screams in a few of their songs are their own. "No," they laugh; even in their own room, they're worried about disturbing their family. "Every one is someone else's."
This shy instinct seeps into their singing style. "I record most of the time when my parents are home, and I'm just trying to whisper," they say, sounding defeated. Their bedroom is more secure than their dorm, but it isn't ideal. Once they make enough money through streaming, they plan to buy a car. Maybe that'll give them some independence. Maybe there they could be loud.
When Zeke needs space, they disappear into the woods at the edge of town. We walk there in the afternoon—past quaint, wood-paneled homes with the same plastic nativity set and deflated Santas on the front lawn. "It's a very pretty place, but if I stay for too long, my brain's gonna turn to mush," they say, surveying the neighborhood. For a while, they liked to satirize the locals' obliviousness, like in their 2020 song "what's my age again?," which contains a joke about "curb stomping a Republican." We cut across a barren park with a dirt baseball field and an empty playground en route to an area where the trees are all scraggly and dead.
No one is around, and the privacy makes things feel tranquil and safe. We talk more about their parents and how Zeke characterizes their own sense of humor. "I have a love-hate relationship with the term 'terminally online' just because it's so true that it hurts," they say. At some point, they try to FaceTime their friend, who doesn't pick up. In this secluded spot, most of Zeke's trepidation seems to evaporate.
My feet keep sinking into mud, so we start to head back. On the way, we joke about what I might report in this profile.
"They took me to the forest, and we fell down a hill, and I broke my leg," Zeke riffs.
"They had their mom drive me to an undisclosed location because they couldn't get there," I add.
"Yeah, that's the one-sentence summary."
When it's time for me to head home, Zeke drives their mom's car back to the station.
Pitchfork: Why did you decide to title your album Frailty?
dltzk: I think "frailty" means both weakness in the body and the mind. A lot of the experiences I talked about [on the album] happened during a time when I was physically and mentally not well. Physically in the sense that I got diagnosed with an eating disorder in May 2019. It wasn't that I was forcing myself not to eat. It's just that I got too preoccupied and anxious to eat.
The cover of the album is a grainy image of a house. How did you choose it?
When I was making the album, I was really bored. So I was going on Google Maps, searching random spots in the U.S. for cool stuff to screenshot. There were a couple of highways. There was this place in North Dakota with a bus in the front yard—I was going to use that, but the screenshot was too low quality.
Then I came across that house. I thought it was cool how the people in the photo are looking at the camera. And just the way the house looks. Everything felt ominous, but also familiar—like what I see when I go on my walks just outside of my house. So I took the screenshot and put a bunch of grain and JPEG damage on it. I had the image saved on my computer under its address—300 Locust St., Enid, Oklahoma—but when I went back six months later, I couldn't find it. That's spooky.
What is your songwriting process like?
I usually write everything at once, then the melody comes after. Then I record it, and I listen to it 50 times. And then I'm like, "Wait, this line was actually really corny and I should change it." That's still happening with Frailty, where I think things are corny but I can't change them now. I don't think I'll ever be truly content with my songwriting, but I'm gradually improving.
You've said that you can no longer listen to some of the songs on Teen Week.
That's most of them now. It's not like, "Oh, this is triggering," it's just corny. Like on "seventeen," the opening line: "I hate everything 'cause everything hates me too." I guess what I can give myself credit for is that it's genuine, it's how I was feeling at the time. But if I could rate Teen Week right now, I'd give it a 4 or a 5 out of 10, to be honest. I'll just do a Teen Week (Zeke's Version) five years down the line.
Getting all this attention now, do you feel impostor syndrome?
My imposter syndrome is very real now, and I feel like it's only gonna get worse over time. But I think that just means I'm getting better. I mean, you can't have imposter syndrome and not be somewhat proud of what you make, in my opinion.
I would be lying if I said I didn't doubt Frailty like once a week, thinking, This album is not good enough for coverage whatsoever. That's obviously not true. But I feel like doubting yourself is a very much part of the process. If you make music without doubting yourself, it's not really going to sound good.
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This past week we had both the Grove City College Wolverine Marching Band (almost 200) and The Grove City College "Disney" Jazz Ensemble (Big Band of 19) perform at Walt Disney World in Orlando, FL. One thing that can be learned by the professional staff at Disney is that "Things go smoothly when advanced preparation and constant communications are implemented".
Almost two months in advance we sent the Jazz Ensembles's play list to Disney. They looked it over, sent us a stage plot and we had numerous conversations in the weeks in between with regard to setup, traveling, and overall integration. Many band directors (especially band marching band and jazz directors) don't take the time to needed to detail out the non-musical needs of their concerts and consequently find themselves in a "tizzy" the day of OR a day or two before the concert which leads to anxiety and quite likely… a lesser level of performance.
This year was the first year that I was able to plan Jazz Ensemble, Stage Band, and "Disney" Jazz ensembles programs before the start of the year in their entirety and, WOW, has it made a difference in my ability to spend more time on the "right" literature in the rehearsals. I'm not saying that I didn't plan the programs out in years gone past, but this year I had the time to completely decide on all the show aspects (including the music) before the first day of school. I haven't had that luxury in the past due to my hectic schedules at the college and abroad. This year was different and surely for the better.
I had sent my stage plot to Disney about 7 weeks prior to the show and they were able to provide us with almost everything we needed to perform, including amps, keyboard, direct boxes, microphones, and music stands. We literally showed up for the "gig", jacked in, and GROOVED out!. We had a great time at the Galaxy Palace Theater and so did those in attendance (Hey, I actually did see some of you there! Thanks for coming and talking with me at the shows).
Our second jazz show, at Disney, was at the Grand Floridian in one of their famous "Ball Rooms". For this show we had to bring all the "gear", but we had efficiently packed all of it in one section of the first bus and were able to setup up in under 25 minutes, everyone new what do do and what went where, etc. Wow, is that place gorgeous! This show was also a smashing success.
At both venues, the band was greeted with standing ovations at the end. The students had a great time and in the end the "importance of getting out" and doing things was noted by all (see this article by me). It was all very "magical" and the kids are now "re-energized" with enthusiasm which will no-doubt, carry us for a long while!
The marching band did what the do best, march and play loud! We played three tunes, National Emblem, The Olympic Spirit, and, naturally, the MICKEY MOUSE CLUB MARCH. For a number of the students, it was the first experience at a venue this "great" and they were overwhelmed with emotion and excitement…some even told me they had tears as they rounded the great circle by Cinderella's Castle.
I'm going to post a number of Flickr Photos tomorrow. Stay tuned!


The aim of the project was to assess the potential use of a combination of ground source heat pump (GSHP) systems with photovoltaic (PV) systems for the building sector of Cyprus from an energy, environmental and economic viewpoint, and to explore their potential to contribute to the achievement of nearly zero energy buildings for the country's specific climate conditions.
Agriculture in the Mediterranean region is constrained by limited rain and highly variable climate conditions. Irrigation forms an important means of stabilizing and increasing agricultural production in these environments. Since its independence in 1960, Cyprus has made important investments in the agricultural sector through the establishment of dams and irrigation networks. However, decreasing precipitation trends, rising water prices and a changing climate are posing new challenges. The overall goals of this project were: (1) to provide recommendations for climate change adaptation for the agricultural sector in Cyprus and the wider Mediterranean region; (2) to establish a consortium of excellence in natural resource management research in Cyprus for tackling the challenges imposed by climate change on agriculture in the Mediterranean region. The project documented and analyzed available knowledge and data, filled in critical knowledge gaps and developed the Cyprus green-blue water model to compute sustainable irrigation water supplies, agricultural water use, crop yields and economic indicators.
The European Union adopted ambitious climate policies for the period 2013-2020. These legally binding measures may have significant effects on households, firms and the public sector of Cyprus. Therefore, this project has used innovative economic methods and detailed national data in order to assess the impacts of these policies on the economy of Cyprus. It involved the development of two innovative economic models, one for the production side (for different sectors of the economy of Cyprus) and one for the consumption side, i.e. for households. On the production side, a dynamic factor demand model was developed that enables estimating econometrically the effect of energy price changes on productivity, competitiveness and employment for each economic sector. On the consumption side, an innovative model was specified in order to estimate household demand for energy and other goods and services, taking into account heterogeneity both within composite commodity groups and between households. Τhe effects of the EU energy and climate legislation were simulated with these models up to the year 2020, based on assumptions on the evolution of energy and carbon prices.
This project has focused on optimising water resource management in Cyprus, based on a detailed analysis of water in the agricultural sector of the country, which is the largest water-using sector both in Cyprus and worldwide. For each community of Cyprus and each year of the most recent 15-year period, water needs were calculated using very detailed location-specific data and applying the novel approach of "virtual water". In the absence of official and year-to-year records of agricultural water use, this is the appropriate methodology to estimate actual crop water use. These estimations were then incorporated in a model that optimises water allocation by water source and crop, in order to maximise the net economic benefits of the agricultural sector of the country. Simulations that were carried out with this model demonstrate that - through proper long-term planning and restructuring of the agricultural sector - it is possible to increase the value added of this sector in Cyprus even under worsening water scarcity conditions in the future as foreseen by climate change models.


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20 Best Android Launcher Apps (2020)
When it comes to Android customization and personalization, the first thing that comes to our mind is Nova launcher and even we feel that it is one of the best options. And of course, it deserves that too. However, we are not limited to this launcher alone. There are plenty of more, that is unique and can make your phone even more beautiful. In this list, we share some of the best Android launcher apps for better personalization and customization.
Most of these launchers as free to use, and to get more out of the, you could buy their premium version. Whether you're looking to customize the latest Samsung Galaxy S20 or bored with the stock look of OnePlus 7, these applications won't let you know. Many of these launchers apps are so advanced that most of the User-Interface part is customized. We open for suggestions and compliments, use the comment section to share your thoughts.
List of best Android customization launcher applications
1. Microsoft Launcher
2. O Launcher
3. Nova
4. Smart Launcher 5
5. C-Launcher
6. iLauncher i12
7. Flick Launcher
8. GO Launcher
9. POCO Launcher 2.0
10. Apex
11. Holo Launcher
12. Lawnchair
13. Computer Launcher
14. ASAP Launcher
15. ADW Launcher 2
16. Lucid
17. U Launcher Lite
18. APUS Launcher
19. XOS Launcher
20. Evie Launcher
Microsoft launcher is previously known as "Arrow launcher". It is more resource-intensive and even can able to do tasks like killing background running apps, that can result in a speed up performance.
We bet this cool and powerful designed launcher for Android upgrades the interface of your device and also gives some extra and unique specialties.
It even clubbed with a pinning feature that allows you to pin frequently dialed contacts on your home screen.
There is also a "Gesture customization support", "Continue on a PC feature" and a lot more.
O Launcher is another top contender on the list. We personally like its one-finger control feature that allows the user to control a large screen smartphone with a single swipe.
It also gives you an option to add folders along with personalized wallpapers and pleasant icon gestures that gives your device a new, stylish, and a minimalistic look.
This launcher offers plenty of customization features, widgets and beautiful wallpapers. Also, you can choose from pre-made skins.
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Nova is definitely one of the most popular Android launchers of all time. It is highly compatible and the most customizable Android launcher We have ever used.
Basically, it is available in the both paid and free version, where Nova prime almost costs $2 that unlocks several other extra features like "unread counts badges", new and improved gestures support, hide app functionality scroll effects like "Accordion", "Throw" and a lot more.
However, depending on the size of the display you can even decide how big the icons appear, not just this it also allows you to change how they look.
This is one of the most famous and reputed launchers for an Android smartphone that receives over 10 million downloads on Google Play store. It comes with a nice materialistic design which makes it more convenient, fast, and easy to use.
Another best thing about SL is that it requires low resource which results in saving both battery and RAM. It also offers a ton of free themes, icon packs, skins, widgets for absolutely free of cost.
The most noteworthy feature is its AI-powered search bar that is capable of finding everything from messages, settings to applications.
C launcher is one of the most downloaded (10 miliion+) and highest rated android launcher on the entire PlayStore. So, We think it is enough to show its popularity among people.
It is pretty fast, beautiful, and stable with tons of customization options. However, it also saves the battery and cleans up all the junk files in a single tap.
Additionally, C-Launcher also offers some extra features to their users which allows them to make fully-personalized themes by using DIY innovations.
So these are the main reasons why we included the same on our list.
If you are one who can't able to afford the iPhone but still want to experience the feel, style, and looks of Apple device on your Android phone then this launcher is definitely the best one for you.
Here you can easily customize the android phone to make it more similar look like iPhone powered with iOS 12 or above.
It also comes with some handy features including smart swipe, pattern lock, sliding screen effect, quick touch, and many more.
Flick is another top-rated launcher for Android that heavily relies on gestures which makes it more amazing and differs it from others.
By using this, you can even able to protect the individual application with the help of a fingerprint scanner authentication system, So that means now nobody can able to access your messages and other confidential data without having permission.
Additionally, it also has native support for Android O and above notification dots that is simply great. Another tweak is that you just need to double-tap on the screen to lock it.
GO Launcher comes with a plethora of customization features, that make your smartphone look unique completely. it is surely the most predictive, simple, and interesting launcher for Android handsets.
In terms of functionalities, GO Launcher does offer too much but its basic features still do the best and give your device a new and refreshing look.
However, it is simple and easy to use, you just need to swipe left for exploring the widgets and swipe right for accessing the app list.
One of the most interesting and key features is 3D objects and themes that allow you to get 3D effects and details.
POCO Launcher 2.0 is a smart, unique, and free launcher for Android to enjoy the fast and powerful experience. It comes with an awesome user-interface and versatile functionalities including more than 100000+ free themes.
After using this, users can able to customize their phones any way they want, it also allows them to resize apps based on user preference and liking.
Additionally, Buzz has multi-wallpaper features that give power to the user to apply different wallpapers for each of the screens.
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Apex launcher is perhaps the most stunning and revolutionary android launcher We have seen yet. It's designed with full of simplicity and grace.
Here, you will find a new and innovative home screen even with more customization options. Like Nova launcher, Apex is also available in both pro and a free version that cost almost $4 or Rs 254.
So if you want some other extra specialties like two-finger gestures, enhanced folder support, and unread count notifications then you are forced to enroll in a premium subscription.
Holo launcher mainly focuses on productivity and personalization. Undoubtedly, it is the most popular launcher for Android phones in the year 2020. One thing we really like about Hola is that it is very consistent with its simple and interactive design.
Other than that, the HL is clubbed with the "Power manager" and "Battery Saver" feature that helps in monitoring all the hidden tasks and optimized phones in every aspect.
Basically, offers a look that is very similar to stock Android operating system, i.e full material design. It helps to customize this basic looks with extensive options and make it better.
Lawnchair launcher looks quite similar to Pixel launcher but if you explore the "Settings" section then usually you will find some other cool feature.
This android launcher loaded up with beautiful icon packs, dock customization features, and adaptive icons, There is also an option to make the tray completely transparent.
With lawnchair users can even able to change the colors of icon pixels, It is also well supported with widgets and notification badges.also
So overall it is a pretty good alternative to Apex and others, Don't forget to give it a try.
If you are looking for the computer-style launcher for an Android smartphone then this one is for you, just go and check it out.
It is very user-friendly and interactive, everything has been well managed to make sense on a smaller phone display.
Here users can easily able to add widgets, create new folders, copy, paste, zip/unzip a file, Similarly like what you did on a computer running on Windows operating system.
Another best thing is that it gives you the "Recycle Bin" folder which means whenever you delete any file or folder from your handset then, first of all, it goes to the recycle bin and after this user can able to restore and delete it permanently.
So, that's why it is the most interesting and cool android launcher for the year 2018.
As the name indicates in this launcher, you will get everything "As soon As possible", it is more effective, innovative, and fast.
Apart from this, by swiping right you can access the calendar and the to-do list while swiping left it gives a closer look at the saved contacts and the weather information.
This android launcher mainly focuses on gesture control through which users navigate throughout the entire user-interface.
Anyway if you're someone who likes a simple and minimalistic look then it surely satisfies you.
ADW Launcher 2 looks really great and works very smoothly without facing any lag issues. It offers a much more modern design to your Android handset.
Another best thing is that it is available for free on Google PlayStore which means there is no need to spend a single penny or dollar.
The fast scroll app drawer style, desktop transitions, context menu, and improved app categories make it the best.
If you have a phone with low storage capacity, then sometimes it is very difficult to find the best android launcher that consumes less space and offers great functionalities.
But now there is no need to worry, here is a solution for you.
Simply download a lucid launcher that is lightweight (only 3.1 MB), clean, simple, and unique.
It is loaded with full of customization settings, unlimited widgets, multi-icon theme support, and a lot more.
U Launcher mainly focuses on security and privacy protection, one of my favorite features of this unique launcher is the addition of "Share phone safely" functionality which is quite handy for all of us.
Basically, it creates a separate desktop screen just for the guest users. Here you can also get the benefit of " hide app" feature, lock privacy settings, multi-screen browsing, freeze desktop, and a lot more.
If you need something different to try, then go and download this application.
The next one on the list is Apus launcher, it has a ton more customization feature with support for fresh and stylish mobile themes.
So the level of personalization is simply great and you definitely going to enjoy it the most. This launcher is quite popular on Google PlayStore and receives over 100 million + downloads including a lot of positive reviews.
We especially like its boost feature which automatically cleans up all the junk files and enhances the performance of an Android-running handset.
XOS is another fast, stable, and free launcher for Android smartphones. It helps you to create a customized home screen by adding hundreds of free themes and wallpapers. Not only this it also offers quick navigation, smart folders, and universal search feature.
However, by using it, you can able to search inside all of your apps in a single tap. So, in this way, the XOS launcher becomes very useful for all of us. With an extensive font swap feature, you could change/customized fonts on-the-go.
Do you want to get full control over the customization of your home screen? want to get custom shortcuts and quick navigation on an Android handset? want to get universal search, app drawer, and lock home screen icon features?
If "Yes" then you need to download and install the Evie launcher, it works fast and gives full control over gestures and other additional functionalities. So, what are you waiting for just go, download and install it on our mobile phone!
That ends this round here that gathers the best Android launcher apps for fruitful customization. We hope that readers would find these applications helpful. You can share your thoughts in the comment section below. We would be happy to hear from you!
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If you are a Roman Catholic, you may not be familiar with this feast, which came to the west from the east in the fifteenth century. But if you are an Eastern Rite Catholic, chances are this is an important day in your local church.
Mary entered the Temple with a pure heart.
The feast comes from the ancient story, recorded by St. Jerome in the fourth century, that Mary's parents, Anna and Joachim, brought their three-year old daughter to the Temple in Jerusalem to dedicate her life to God's service.
In the east the day is called "Entrance of the Mother of God into the Temple." Mary will herself become the Temple, the sanctuary where God dwells. Through baptism and the Eucharist, we, too are invited to become temples where God has a home.
Rejoice in this commemoration that falls so near the season of Advent. Mary and Joseph search for a place where God may be born. The search goes on, in each of our hearts and in each of our lives, for a place where God may be born and grow.
Because Mary entered the Temple with a pure heart, consider making this simple, and not too sweet dessert in her honor today. The dessert is called "Snow Hearts," and you'll need either one large heart-shaped mold or several small ones. That's really the only tricky part of the dish.
Prepare the gelatin according to package directions and chill it in a medium-to-large-sized bowl until it is slightly thickened, but not set.
Take the gelatin out of the refrigerator and put it in a pan of ice cubes and water to keep the contents of the bowl cold.
Pour 2 egg whites into the gelatin and whip the mixture with an electric hand beater (on high) until it is fluffy and thick, like whipped cream.
Pour the mixture into the mold(s) and put it back into the refrigerator to set until firm.
When you're ready to serve, dip the mold briefly in hot water (careful not to let any water into the dessert itself) to loosen the contents. Invert over a serving plate. If you have them, garnish the dessert with sliced strawberries or some other fresh fruit.
If you can't bear to waste the 2 egg yolks, you can use them to make a thin custard to pour over the dessert. Or, you can save them in the refrigerator to add to tomorrow morning's breakfast eggs.


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No official word on OIC Foreign Ministers' Kashmir meet, says MEA
New Delhi, Jan 2 : India is not aware of - officially - whether 57-member Organisation of Islamic Cooperation will hold any special meeting of the Foreign Ministers of the member nations on India related matters, MEA spokesman Raveesh Kumar said here on Thursday.
"Pakistan has also not confirmed any such meet of OIC...They have also said envisaged, planned etc. I don't think there has been a statement by Pakistan confirming that such a meeting is happening," Mr Kumar told reporters here fielding questions.
He said the meeting of Foreign Ministers of OIC member nations take place every year and it will happen this year too. "So. Let us see...I am right in saying we have no information so far regarding any India-focused meet of OIC," he said.
There were reports earlier generally quoting Pakistani officials that Saudi Arabia will host a special foreign ministers' meet of the OIC on Kashmir issue. Meanwhile on Thursday, reports from Pakistan quoting Foreign Office Spokesperson Aisha Farooqui said Pakistan would be trying to arrange the next regular session of the OIC in Islamabad.
"The work is underway...Pakistan desires the next regular session of the OIC in Islamabad," she said. Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi last week said that Pakistan wanted an early meeting of the OIC foreign ministers on Kashmir.
The OIC is a 57-member grouping of Muslim majority nations, including Pakistan. India has been communicating with the global community including India's neighbours - other than Pakistan - and major global players that the abrogation of Article 370 since August 2019 was strictly an internal matter. (UNI)


I'm happy to announce that Statie, a newcomer to the field of static site generators written in PHP, received a place where it could promote itself better. Its own website. Though a really simple one; but it's healthy to start with small things, they say.
My own blog is being built with Statie. But why did I choose something with almost no history and with just a few users, when plenty of other possibilities are out there?
Well, if you come from Slovakia or Czech Republic you probably know Nette framework and its awesome Latte templating engine. If you haven't heard about it before I recommend you to take a break and give it a shot to make yourself familiar. It may be useful in the future.
To continue, I consider Latte the most elegant among others and that's the reason I chose Statie. Yep, it's that straightforward. Really, just look at it.
The website runs on Statie, obviously. I just took markdown documentation files, written by the creator Tomas, which were lying on GitHub, covered them with a handful of templates, threw some configuration and voilà.
No custom classes used in above example - look like inline styles but they're not. Building the layout was easy and resulting styles.css is so lean I want to applaud (not sure whether me or Adam).
Even though Statie's learning material isn't very verbose (yet!) a feature one would certainly expect from a documentation site is the possibility to search. I knew I want to use Algolia, widely used in the open-source scene. The setup was a piece of cake and it's working like a charm. Apropos, definitely try their browser plugin adding new functionality to the GitHub search; have could I live without that?
What's left? Source code lives on GitHub, it is built with Travis and hosted on GitHub Pages, while SSL certificate comes from Cloudflare.
And that's it. I hope the site will grow together with Statie and that some of you will pitch in as well.
Contribute now and add your site to the list of projects!


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The Rise Up Tour
This past Friday, I was lucky enough to be invited by @FuelTheUprise to take photos of The Devil Wears Prada, Memphis May Fire, Like Moths to Flames, Something You Whisper, and Dorian Gray at the Opera House while the Rise Up Tour was passing through Toronto.
Fortunate for me, the guys in Something You Whisper are actually personal friends of mine and I was able to hitch a ride in their van insuring I got to the venue extra early to see where I could access for the night. I'm really glad I took this opportunity as I also got to meet a few people I did not anticipate and had some really good conversations with Greg of Like Moths to Flames and Giuseppe, the new drummer for The Devil Wears Prada, in addition to some fellow photographers Johnny Costa and Tim Farmer who were out on the tour with Like Moths to Flames and Memphis May Fire.
I was lucky enough to have some slight amount of stage access which was awesome even in the short amount of time I got to spend up there.
Overall the night went really well with pretty much all of the bands having good lighting. Well I wouldn't say good lightning, but anything that isn't dark or filled with only red lighting, I love it. The band who definitely gave me the biggest challenge was The Devil Wears Prada. They used pretty much all back lightning combined with a lot of strobes, which made it rather difficult to get anything in focus. To combat this I simply had to switch my focus points and switch out of "One Shot" to "servo" settings which made things a lot easier.
I just want to thank Joey Porpiglia, Katelyn Almeda and @FuelTheUprise, and Tom and all the guys in Something You Whisper for letting me come out to the show.
- Logan Reid


There has never been any doubt about our primate's sympathies for the Jewish community. What concerns me is the imbalance in the wider context of the appeal by the Anglican bishop of Jerusalem and his Palestinian people.
Archbishop Hutchison rightly makes the distinction between the policies of the Israeli government and the Jewish communities. One wishes for similar distinction between the Hamas-led Palestinian government and the Palestinian people whose plight Bishop Riah Abu El-Assal has highlighted. I must ask: Who will reassure him and the Palestinian people? And when?
The leadership of llamas in Palestine has assisted well-meaning people and governments, including our own, to strangle the Palestinian people. If wiser counsels do not prevail, Darfur and Ethiopia will pale into insignificance in comparison to the starvation of the Palestinian people in the biblical land of milk and honey that was promised to the children of Abraham.
Comparison of Israel to a serpent is offensive.
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If you live in Phoenix, one of the best things you can do for your home is to hire a landscaper. Some people think landscaping in Arizona is a breeze. "It's just rocks and cacti, after all." Far from it. Desert landscaping poses its own set of unique challenges to manage and overcome. That's why getting a professional landscaper to help you is so important.
At ABC Scapes, we know what a big difference proper landscaping can make. Here are four reasons why hiring a landscaper in Phoenix is a no-brainer.
First of all watering your landscape is a tricky subject. Pour too much H20 into the earth and you'll turn your landscape into a muddy, plant-killing mess. Don't give them enough to drink and soon enough they'll wither away into dry husks. Knowing how much to water can be especially different in our state, because the local fauna have evolved to handle water differently. What might be too much water for your flowers may not be nearly enough for your cacti.
Landscapers understand how the ecosystem out here works. They know just how much water your landscape will need to ensure that all the plants within it thrive. A landscaper appreciates how delicate a balance it is. And they will do what they can to make sure that balance is maintained.
One thing to watch out for in Phoenix is the local wildlife, especially if you live close to the desert or mountains. Scorpions, snakes, and other perilous critters can pop up in the most unlikeliest of places in your backyard. Landscapers in Phoenix are trained to be aware of their surroundings and to pay close attention to any signs of dangerous signs. They can tell if that hole in the ground is a rattlesnake burrow or whether or not your palm tree is a hiding place for a family of scorpions. Your landscaper may not have the background or equipment needed to remove these threats but they are able to detect them and give you the heads-up you need to keep yourself safe.
Good landscaping takes time. It takes LOTS of time and energy. If you have a family and you're working full-time, it can be hard to devote enough time to your landscaping needs. And sometimes you just don't want to: Your free hours are precious and few. Hiring a landscaper ensures that your landscape gets the care it deserves while leaving you free to enjoy your time off.
The number one reason to hire a landscaper in Phoenix? They'll help you beat the heat. It gets scalding hot in the summertime. Spare yourself the hours you'll spend drenched in sweat. Spare yourself the sunburns and spare yourself the weariness by hiring a landscaper. Why suffer through the summer when you can get a professional to help you?
Hence to learn more about how our landscapers can help you transform your landscape into a desert oasis, give ABC Scapes a call at 602-404-0568.


The road signs have already said it, but today it was made official by Princess Anne.
From now on Wootton Bassett will be known as 'Royal' Wootton Bassett after her Majesty's Letters Patent were delivered on behalf of the Queen in front of thousands of people at a ceremony this afternoon.
The Royal prefix was awarded to the town in recognition of the community's role in honouring members of the armed forces as they were repatriated via RAF Lyneham.
And fittingly thousands of local people gathered in the high street to enjoy the day as the Princess Royal praised their involvement, describing Wootton Bassett as 'an example to the nation'.
Those attending also included the Prime Minister David Cameron and new Defence Secretary Philip Hammond.
Photos above by Calyx and Jodie Henderson.
Gallery photos by Deborah Coleman.


For the few who might be interested: OpenDMAP: An open source, ontology-driven concept analysis engine, with applications to capturing knowledge regarding protein transport, protein interactions and cell-type-specific gene expression (PDF).
I worked on an early version of this system.
Millions of people probably get great coffee every morning with a standard home machine and ground coffee from a supermarket. I was starting to worry that, with a process that has as many variables as pulling an espresso, once you're daft enough to go off piste, things get monumentally messy in a way only explicable with chaos theory.
To go off piste is to go off the trail (in cross-country skiing, for example), to do something non-standard. A 'piste' is apparently the name of the area in which a fencing match is held. Perhaps 'fence outside the piste' would be a new metaphor for 'think outside the box'.
I have, so far, emphasized the direct economic costs as well as the opportunity costs—the diversion of funds that could have been used in so many other and better ways. I would be remiss, however, if I did not note that there are other costs: in the long run, the squandering of America's leadership role in the international community, the diversion of attention from critical global issues, including issues like global warming and nuclear proliferation in North Korea—that simply won't go away on their own, and that cannot simply wait to be addressed—may represent the largest and most longstanding legacy of this unfortunate war.
Some have characterized the Iraq War as a "war for oil." If so, we lost this war, too: oil was $25 per barrel before the war, and over $100 per barrel now. Stiglitz conservatively reckons the war accounts for $5-$10 of the increase (though, confusingly, he actually thinks it is much higher).
It should have come as no surprise that, when America's great financial institutions, Citibank and Merrill Lynch, needed money quickly, there were no pools of liquid cash available here. High oil prices and high national savings in China and elsewhere have created huge pools of wealth outside the United States, and it was to these that our financial institutions had to turn. It is, and should be, a cause of concern.
Obama's speech is well worth watching.
A nice Wired Science video on UAVs (unmanned autonomous vehicles), including some video of the UAV helicopter I worked on at NASA. I miss doing that cool stuff. Of course, I like doing the cool stuff I'm working on now. Autonomous flying search engines! Yes, that's the ticket!
Update: Good comments by Fred Clark at slacktivist.
Senator John McCain, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, has been an outspoken opponent of torture, often referring to his own experience as a prisoner of war in Vietnam. In this case he supported the administration's position, arguing as Mr. Bush did Saturday that the legislation would have limited the C.I.A.'s ability to gather intelligence.
In other words, the kinds of horrors practiced at Abu Ghraib.
Should Michigan redo its Democratic primary for president?
I think it was shameful, scandalous and grossly stupid that our Governor Granholm, Senator Levin, and the state Democratic and Republican committees disenfranchised Michigan voters.
Millions of dollars were spent holding a sham election in which the only Democratic front-runner on the ticket was Senator Clinton. Her presence on the ballot was itself a masterful bit of triangulation, allowing her to garner votes while not spending any money on campaigning in Michigan and publicly committing to honor the Democratic National Committee's rules.
The only reasonable course is for Michigan to split its delegates evenly between Senators Obama and Clinton. This at least gets Michigan representation at the national convention, is cost-free, and would roughly represent the opinions of Michigan voters (although I don't know of any polling to support that).
My biggest fear is that Clinton will win the nomination via back-room negotiations using Michigan's 'super-delegates' claiming to represent Michigan; this will be bad for Michigan and bad for the nation. If Granholm deserts the state to join Clinton's cabinet, I will be very disappointed, and our poor state will suffer even more economic and political hardship.
I still stand by my prediction that Clinton will win the nomination and the election, although this is not an outcome I want. When will a real alternative to the Democrats and Republicans appear?