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Who is Glenn Greenwald? Edward Snowden journo says trans people reducing lesbian numbers, dubbed 'transphobic'
Twitter users slammed Greenwald for claiming that masculine girls are now encouraged to identify as trans, causing a decrease in the lesbian population
By Smita M
Updated On : 17:10 PST, Feb 24, 2021
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Journalist Glenn Greenwald claims that identifying as trans was resulting in a decrease in the lesbian population (Getty Images)
A recent Gallup poll about lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender identification stated that an increase of 5.6% has been noted when it comes to Americans identifying under these categories. Linking to the poll, American investigative journalist and former Guardian columnist Glenn Greenwald posted a series of tweets with snapshots of the statistics, which has raised hackles within the queer community and among allies.
In his first tweet, he wrote: "There's been a huge explosion in the number of Americans identifying as LGBT. Close to 1 out of every 5 Gen Z so identifies (17%). That's more than a 4-fold increase from Gen X (4%). But almost all of the increase comes from those identifying as bi or trans, not gay or lesbian." In the same tweet thread, he said: "Of Americans now claiming "bi" identity, the vast majority of them in long-term relationships are in opposite-sex relationships (33%) rather than same-sex ones (3.7%). So 10 times more people who identify as "bi" live in hetero-appearing relationships than gay/lesbian ones." The final and most incendiary tweet was his last one: "Finally, as famed lesbian @kittypurrzog notes, there are now -- among Millennials and Gen Z -- more people identifying as trans than lesbian. She has previously argued that masculine girls are now encouraged to identify as trans, causing a decrease in the lesbian population."
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There's been a huge explosion in the number of Americans identifying as LGBT. Close to 1 out of every 5 Gen Z so identifies (17%). That's more than a 4-fold increase from Gen X (4%).
But almost all of the increase comes from those identifying as bi or trans, not gay or lesbian: pic.twitter.com/LpVeOO9vg4
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) February 24, 2021
Of Americans now claiming "bi" identity, the vast majority of them in long-term relationships are in opposite-sex relationships (33%) rather than same-sex ones (3.7%).
So 10 times more people who identify as "bi" live in hetero-appearing relationships than gay/lesbian ones: pic.twitter.com/iOIM0tv2ON
Finally, as famed lesbian @kittypurrzog notes, there are now -- among Millennials and Gen Z -- more people identifying as trans than lesbian. She has previously argued that masculine girls are now encouraged to identify as trans, causing a decrease in the lesbian population: pic.twitter.com/stFNHQtLoq
His flawed interpretations of the data was called out on Twitter for its transphobic and bi-phobic slant. "the chart showed the number of lesbians had actually almost doubled from 0.8% to 1.4%," pointed out one user, that directly contradicted Greenwald's claim that somehow identifying as trans was resulting in the decrease in the "lesbian population".
American LGBTQ+ activist and writer Charlotte Chymer tweeted: "Cis lesbians who present as masc are found EVERYWHERE in queer spaces. Everywhere. Greenwald lives inside his own head on trans issues and just comes up with this shit to explain his own discomfort, and it's truly, truly embarrassing to witness" and added that: "Go to a lesbian bar or queer women space in pre-COVID times, and you'd just see a bunch of lesbians and queer women, cis and trans and non-binary, masc and femme and everyone in between, just hanging out and enjoying each other's company. His conspiracy nonsense is mortifying."
A lesbian couple hold hands during the annual Gay Pride rally, on June 8, 2007 (Getty Images)
Also the chart showed the number of lesbians had actually almost doubled from 0.8% to 1.4%. pic.twitter.com/nKrRHry0HK
— #Doomberg A.K.A. Dr. Discourtesy⌬ (@delmoi) February 24, 2021
Cis lesbians who present as masc are found EVERYWHERE in queer spaces. Everywhere. Greenwald lives inside his own head on trans issues and just comes up with this shit to explain his own discomfort, and it's truly, truly embarrassing to witness.
— Charlotte Clymer 🏳🌈 (@cmclymer) February 24, 2021
Go to a lesbian bar or queer women space in pre-COVID times, and you'd just see a bunch of lesbians and queer women, cis and trans and non-binary, masc and femme and everyone in between, just hanging out and enjoying each other's company. His conspiracy nonsense is mortifying.
Others also chided Greenwald for not understanding the specific issues of discrimination that trans people face. "For a lesbian to pretend to be a trans man to avoid stigma and find belonging would be an out of frying pan into fire sort of scenario. That's a lot of work and body impact that would feel unwelcome, with nothing to gain in terms of acceptance," said one user replying on Chymer's tweet thread attacking Greenwald. Sarah Thyre, voice artist and writer, also gave her two cents saying: "Why doesn't everyone butt out and stfu and let people be who they are, that's my evergreen question."
For a lesbian to pretend to be a trans man to avoid stigma and find belonging would be an out of frying pan into fire sort of scenario. That's a lot of work and body impact that would feel unwelcome, with nothing to gain in terms of acceptance.
— Shannon Garrison (@JoanSGarrison) February 24, 2021
Why doesn't everyone butt out and stfu and let people be who they are, that's my evergreen question.
— Sarah Thyre (@SarahThyre) February 24, 2021
A woman holds a sign in support of her transgender son at the #ResistMarch during the 47th annual LA Pride Festival on June 11, 2017 (Getty Images)
Twitter users identifying as trans also came out with their own experiences that directly contradicted Greenwald's claim. "It's absolutely the opposite. I was always told how many feminine attributes I had, so I couldn't be trans! I had to kindly remind my psychiatrist and endocrinologist that not every cis man is a hetero lumberjack stereotype. Endo was an older trans woman too... Ugh!" said one tweet.
In another sarcastic tweet thread, one user said, "It's fun to be a parent of a trans kid, too! Clearly I planned all along to have a child, raise them as one gender for 11 years, and then do the ol' switcheroo. I LOVE having strangers tell me I'm an abusive monster and that my child is an abomination! So cool!" to which another user added: "Plus that giant bump in salary what with all the extra employment opps, healthcare access & ppl willing to date you"
It's absolutely the opposite. I was always told how many feminine attributes I had, so I couldn't be trans! I had to kindly remind my psychiatrist and endocrinologist that not every cis man is a hetero lumberjack stereotype. Endo was an older trans woman too... Ugh!
— Logan Wolfrhamn ✒📚 (@tsukiseries) February 24, 2021
It's fun to be a parent of a trans kid, too! Clearly I planned all along to have a child, raise them as one gender for 11 years, and then do the ol' switcheroo. I LOVE having strangers tell me I'm an abusive monster and that my child is an abomination! So cool!
— Julia Blough (@juliablough) February 25, 2021
Plus that giant bump in salary what with all the extra employment opps, healthcare access & ppl willing to date you
— DianeAndersonMinshal (@DeliciousDiane) February 24, 2021
Who is Glenn Greenwald?
Greenwald worked as a corporate lawyer, before founding his own civil rights and constitutional law firm in 1996. He started blogging about national security issues in October 2005 as he grew increasingly worried about the Bush administration's attack on civil liberties post 9/11. In June 2013, while working for the US edition of the Guardian, he began publishing a series of reports detailing previously unknown information about American and British global surveillance programs based on classified documents provided by former Intelligence Community officer and whistleblower Edward Snowden.
Along with other reporters, Greenwald won both a George Polk Award and a Pulitzer Prize for the reporting. He has also written best-selling books including 'No Place to Hide'. In 2014, he, Laura Poitras and Jeremy Scahill, launched The Intercept, for which he was co-founding editor until he resigned in October 2020. While with Intercept, he and his team blew open the Operation Car Wash cover-up in Brazil, causing considerable problems for the Jair Bolsonaro regime.
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A Classic Tale of a House and a Carpenter
May 4, 2016 frcadmin
Nestled upon a rather large stretch of beach on the Atlantic Coastline sat an attractive house. Its precious two story frame, covered in elegant windows faced the white sandy beach with a sort of false confidence. Your house was painted to near perfection and all indications pointed to its construction being flawless. Every window was placed with an intention, every door positioned right, every porch had a meaning, and every angle correctly set so the sun would cast immaculate shadows. It was and is the envy of all the other houses on that particular strip of beach. Although they would not openly admit such a thing, but their jealous exteriors were exceptionally easy to perceive.
The interior was just as perfect, actually it absolutely was even more beautiful. The layout was grand, as if it demanded the minds of a thousand architects. The walls led in an elegant fashion passing souls in and out of spacious, luxurious rooms. Expensive furniture and fixtures adorned every square inch, items so rare they cannot be purchased any store. The paint coordinated and pleased all moods, allowing for smiles every 2nd, every day. No other house compared, no house would ever compare.
One day, per day that was no more special than other, a humble, modest carpenter traveled across the sands toward the house. No one knows why he was walking such a path that day, but non-e the less his footprints do not lie. The carpenter had an easy method about himself, not specially great at any skill attributed to the typical handyman. Nevertheless , his work was of the very important kind and often went unnoticed with the sting that only comes with a not enough appreciation. Most would inform you the carpenter is naive, foolish if you will, but he knew what was going on, he knew to well what was going on. The carpenter often wished the phrase, "ignorance is bliss" would drape it self upon him. He wasn't that lucky, or maybe that he was that lucky. Luckily and especially for this house, he understood his duty was more important that any gratitude. So , that he continued to travel the lands, letting an unseen force guide the path of his worn feet.
He was taken aback by the angelic qualities found inside the house. Such work he had never seen before or at least in this complete form. Glimpses and pieces, yes he had seen before, but never assembled in such a way as this. The carpenter had to simply take his time exploring the interior for there were so many crowded around. Some were conversing, other relaxing, and a great many were dancing. People who were dancing had audacious looks in their eyes, which went well with the sparkle of their wine glasses. It took the carpenter hrs to fully enjoy every aspect of your home. At times he was very nearly pushed out the door, for the partying nearly drove him to start his travels once again. But such a house is so rare; it was worth enduring such trivial annoyances to experience this house.
After several walkthroughs, the house stumbled on accept the presence of the carpenter. Even though he was indeed an oddity among the other inhabitants, he found a warm spot in the house's heart, that no-one else would find. Naturally being a man of skill with timber and tools, he could not help but notice certain specifics that composed the house. As noted before, the outside and interior were constructed with near perfection. But the carpenter noticed some things that few had the courage speak on. The inspiration of the house was made of materials so foreign to all man, but not strange to the carpenter. The carpenter had never actually seen this kind of thing before, but that he knew of it. That he knew such items could only have come from a heavenly source. A power greater than all, derived from a power even greater. The house's base to the trained soul made the remainder of its features merely average amongst the pursuit of perfection. With all that being said, the carpenter noticed something else certainly not unusual. The beams, the cement, the nails, and the construction itself were constructed poorly. It was a wonder how the house was standing, much less able to support the vast number of occupants that danced upon its floors. The house had everything except the proper craftsmanship, which could only be sought from the earthly realms it sat upon.
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"It is difficult in life to find the Feminine Realm. The drawing of the water, the gathering of the grains no longer are performed under an open sky. ...The sense of her task as consecrated and necessary to the cosmos is gone. And I fear for women yet to come. For under the pressures of modern life, time has become compressed. The feminine sense of time has all but disappeared.
Yet woman cannot exist with only a linear awareness of time, for her sense of sacred Kairos time is the precious essence of life. There must be time enough for her to experience the sacredness within each moment and within herself...."
According to Duerk, we have modeled ourselves on the masculine way, but the heroic task and journey of the masculine cannot provide what a woman needs to complete the journey of the conscious and developed feminine...we need a Feminine way.
"When a woman uses her energy only to reinforce what is outside of herself, she becomes cut off from her depths. Her own feelings and life values become inaccessible to her. She molds herself to external standards and loses touch with her individuality. She is cut off from all that is uniquely her own that could nourish her and those around her, cut off from the creative new answers so badly needed in the world today.… And her depths become enraged!
The whole wellspring of womanly creativity within her is furious for not being tapped."
Have you experienced this battle inside? A part of you that judges yourself harshly, strives to compete, be prepared, be on time, get things done, and runs steamroller over your own feelings or tiredness, your need for quiet time? Makes you feel guilty for needing down-time, playtime or rest? A force that keeps you primed to perform even at the expense of your own health.
Reading Duerk's book, I felt a tear trickle down my cheek; yes, my body was saying, you have been tricked into this harsh attitude of performance and perfectionism, and you whip yourself harder because you have no faith in your own feelings or emotions, the heart side.
Focused on doing instead of being, the body resists, and by way of a message, my neck acts up. Freezes, cramps and gets so sore, that I have to quit working and rest....Ah, rest. I allow myself 30 minutes to lie on the lounge chair outside, in the last few sunny days of summer. I put down the book I am reviewing, and let myself nap. Get back in touch with my fatigue, my body's wisdom, and dream my own thoughts.....a woman dreaming the conscious feminine way.
I invite you to find a short space for yourself to rest in today, even if for a brief 5-10 minutes of closing your eyes at your desk, resting your eyes in the palms of your hands. Or a short walk at lunchtime out in the sun. Don't try and do it all without rest. Your children, your co-workers and friends, your parents and students will all benefit from a rested, calm, replenished and present, you.
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During hypnosis, a person is said to have heightened focus and concentration. The person can concentrate intensely on a specific thought or memory, while blocking out sources of distraction. Hypnotised subjects are said to show an increased response to suggestions. Hypnosis is usually induced by a procedure known as a hypnotic induction involving a series of preliminary instructions and suggestion. The use of hypnotism for therapeutic purposes is referred to as "hypnotherapy", while its use as a form of entertainment for an audience is known as "stage hypnosis". Stage hypnosis is often performed by mentalists practicing the art form of mentalism.
Hypnosis is not a dangerous procedure. It is not mind control or brainwashing. A therapist cannot make a person do something embarrassing or that the person doesn't want to do. The greatest risk, as discussed above, is that false memories can potentially be created and that it may be less effective than pursuing other, more established and traditional psychiatric treatments.
People who practice hypnotism in a clinical setting have long argued that the hypnotized patient enters an altered state of consciousness. Even if you've never undergone hypnotherapy, chances are you've experienced this state yourself. "It's like getting so caught up in a good movie that you forget you're watching a movie, and you enter the imagined world," said Dr. David Spiegel, a psychiatrist and the medical director of Stanford University's Center for Integrative Medicine.
Before long, hypnotism started finding its way into the world of modern medicine. The use of hypnotism in the medical field was made popular by surgeons and physicians like Elliotson and James Esdaille and researchers like James Braid who helped to reveal the biological and physical benefits of hypnotism. According to his writings, Braid began to hear reports concerning various Oriental meditative practices soon after the release of his first publication on hypnotism, Neurypnology (1843). He first discussed some of these oriental practices in a series of articles entitled Magic, Mesmerism, Hypnotism, etc., Historically & Physiologically Considered. He drew analogies between his own practice of hypnotism and various forms of Hindu yoga meditation and other ancient spiritual practices, especially those involving voluntary burial and apparent human hibernation. Braid's interest in these practices stems from his studies of the Dabistān-i Mazāhib, the "School of Religions", an ancient Persian text describing a wide variety of Oriental religious rituals, beliefs, and practices.
Contemporary hypnotism uses a variety of suggestion forms including direct verbal suggestions, "indirect" verbal suggestions such as requests or insinuations, metaphors and other rhetorical figures of speech, and non-verbal suggestion in the form of mental imagery, voice tonality, and physical manipulation. A distinction is commonly made between suggestions delivered "permissively" and those delivered in a more "authoritarian" manner. Harvard hypnotherapist Deirdre Barrett writes that most modern research suggestions are designed to bring about immediate responses, whereas hypnotherapeutic suggestions are usually post-hypnotic ones that are intended to trigger responses affecting behaviour for periods ranging from days to a lifetime in duration. The hypnotherapeutic ones are often repeated in multiple sessions before they achieve peak effectiveness.
I've been "hypnotized" and it's fake - but there's something interesting about it too. Even though i "played along" with the hypnotist in order to put on a good show, I strangely remember feeling no embarrassment, and really calm (if you knew me at 16 I was a really shy person and would never act like a moron intentionally in front of my entire school - but I did). Let me explain.
We experience trance states every day of our lives. When you are day-dreaming, in deep thought, or even watching television, you are in a trance. When you are going to sleep at night, you are in a trance. Trance states are observed in science by brainwave activity. These waves change when a person's brain becomes relaxed. A trance can be light, or very deep like deep sleep.
The main theorist who pioneered the influential role-taking theory of hypnotism was Theodore Sarbin. Sarbin argued that hypnotic responses were motivated attempts to fulfill the socially constructed roles of hypnotic subjects. This has led to the misconception that hypnotic subjects are simply "faking". However, Sarbin emphasised the difference between faking, in which there is little subjective identification with the role in question, and role-taking, in which the subject not only acts externally in accord with the role but also subjectively identifies with it to some degree, acting, thinking, and feeling "as if" they are hypnotised. Sarbin drew analogies between role-taking in hypnosis and role-taking in other areas such as method acting, mental illness, and shamanic possession, etc. This interpretation of hypnosis is particularly relevant to understanding stage hypnosis, in which there is clearly strong peer pressure to comply with a socially constructed role by performing accordingly on a theatrical stage.
In Test 1 Mendelsohn and colleagues found that people in the PHA group (who could experience PHA) forgot more details from the movie than people in the non-PHA group (who could not experience PHA). But in Test 2, after the suggestion was cancelled, this memory loss was reversed. People in the PHA group correctly recognized just as many details from the movie as people in the non-PHA group. Somewhat surprisingly, however, the suggestion to forget was selective in its impact. Although people in the PHA group had difficulty remembering the content of the movie following the forget suggestion, they had no difficulty remembering the context in which they saw the movie.
For several decades Braid's work became more influential abroad than in his own country, except for a handful of followers, most notably Dr. John Milne Bramwell. The eminent neurologist Dr. George Miller Beard took Braid's theories to America. Meanwhile, his works were translated into German by William Thierry Preyer, Professor of Physiology at Jena University. The psychiatrist Albert Moll subsequently continued German research, publishing Hypnotism in 1889. France became the focal point for the study of Braid's ideas after the eminent neurologist Dr. Étienne Eugène Azam translated Braid's last manuscript (On Hypnotism, 1860) into French and presented Braid's research to the French Academy of Sciences. At the request of Azam, Paul Broca, and others, the French Academy of Science, which had investigated Mesmerism in 1784, examined Braid's writings shortly after his death.
Before people subject themselves to hypnotherapy they are advised to learn as much about the process and about the chosen therapist as is necessary to feel comfortable. Rapport and trust are two key ingredients in making a potential hypnotherapy patient comfortable. Therapists should be open and willing to answer all questions regarding qualifications, expertise, and methods used. A well-qualified professional will not undertake the use of hypnosis without interviewing the patient to ascertain their level of understanding of the process. This is very important for two reasons. First, it allows the patient the opportunity to have questions answered and to develop some rapport with the therapist. Second, it is important for the therapist to know the patient's expectations since meeting these expectations will enhance the likelihood of success.
An approach loosely based on information theory uses a brain-as-computer model. In adaptive systems, feedback increases the signal-to-noise ratio, which may converge towards a steady state. Increasing the signal-to-noise ratio enables messages to be more clearly received. The hypnotist's object is to use techniques to reduce interference and increase the receptability of specific messages (suggestions).
"How long will I spend in therapy?", is like asking, "How long is a piece of string?" Everyone is different and everyone's individual needs and circumstances vary. There is no definitive answer. However, while some talking therapies can require commitments of a year or more, hypnotherapy tends to be a much faster solution. The average length of time I spend with a client is around 4-6 weekly sessions, to create sustainable changes which some have been trying to implement for years.
The earliest definition of hypnosis was given by Braid[contradictory], who coined the term "hypnotism" as an abbreviation for "neuro-hypnotism", or nervous sleep, which he contrasted with normal sleep, and defined as: "a peculiar condition of the nervous system, induced by a fixed and abstracted attention of the mental and visual eye, on one object, not of an exciting nature."
We also wonder how the suppression mechanism in PHA relates to the vast array of forgetting in the laboratory and in the world? Whereas some forgetting is seen as strategic, effortful and conscious (say, suppression), other forgetting is seen as automatic, effortless and unconscious (say, repression). Having mapped the common features of PHA and functional amnesia, we now need to explore and compare in greater detail their common processes (such as strategy use, motivation, level of awareness).


French Ambassador to the United Nations François Delattre.
Is America Retreating Into Uni-solationism?
Recent Trump administration foreign-policy decisions 'a strange mix of unilateralism and isolationism,' one French diplomat says.
François Delattre is a French diplomat, but he knows the U.S. well, having served as France's ambassador to the U.S. and consul general in New York before taking his current job as its ambassador to the United Nations.
So it is worth sitting up and taking notice when he says that what he sees now in American foreign policy spells trouble, for America's relations with its allies, and even, potentially, for peace in the world.
The U.S., he says, has moved into a "Jacksonian moment," a throwback to the populist attitudes of President Andrew Jackson. Recent Trump administration foreign-policy decisions—including the imposition of tariffs on imports and retreat from the Iranian nuclear deal—illustrate "a strange mix of unilateralism and isolationism that I would name 'uni-solationism,'" he says.
For Academic Citation: "Is America Retreating Into Uni-solationism?." The Wall Street Journal, June 25, 2018.


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Rescuing Moldy Photographs
In April, the Preservation Office of Emory Libraries received photographic items to be treated for mold from the African American Collection of the Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library. These photographs included sixteen studio prints, four tintypes, three ambrotypes, and two larger convex photographs. Mold covered the images due to moisture…
The Emory University Photograph Collection is Reopened with Greater Access
Emory University Archives is pleased to announce the reopening of the Emory University photograph collection (Series 111). The collection recently underwent reprocessing, during which the collection's organizational structure was streamlined and simplified and descriptive resources, such as the online finding aid, were produced. The aim of the reprocessing project was to increase the accessibility and…
Southern Seaside Fun in the Early 20th Century!
by Randy Gue, Curator of Modern Political and Historical Collections, MARBL Palm Beach Fishing Pier, 1908,from the Photo Album of Mrs. C.G. Talcott,African American Photograph Collection Let me ask you a question: What did you do on your last vacation? Did you journey to Florida and sit on the beach? Did you play a round…
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by Ryan Taylor, Project Archivist, MARBL "Working for Freedom: Documenting Civil Rights Organizations" is a collaborative project between Emory University's Manuscript, Archives and Rare Book Library, The Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History, The Amistad Research Center at Tulane University, and The Robert W. Woodruff Library of Atlanta University Center…
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Overlooking Damage
Art, Display, and Loss in Times of Crisis
Jonah Siegel
Literary Studies / European
Literary Studies / General Criticism and Theory
Art / History
What does it mean to look? How does looking relate to damage? These are the fundamental questions addressed in Overlooking Damage. From the Roman triumph to the iconoclasm of ISIS and the Taliban to the aerial views of looted landscapes and destroyed temples visible on Google, the relationship between beauty and violence is far more intimate than we sometimes acknowledge.
Jonah Siegel makes the daring argument that a thoughtful reaction to images of damage need not stop at melancholy, but can lead us to a new reckoning. Would the objects we admire be more beautiful if they were not injured or displaced, if they did not remind us of unbearable violence? Siegel takes up writers from the time of the French Revolution to today who have reacted to the depredations of revolutionary iconoclasm, imperial looting, and industrial capitalism, and proposes that in these authors we may find resources with which to navigate our contemporary situation.
Deftly bringing the methods of literary studies to bear on important debates in the study of heritage, archaeology, and visual culture, Overlooking Damage reflects on the ways in which concepts of beauty intersect with periods of epochal violence in an attempt to resist the separation of broken things from the worlds in which they have come to be embedded.
Jonah Siegel is Distinguished Professor of English at Rutgers University. He is the author, most recently, of Material Inspirations: The Interests of the Art Object in the Nineteenth Century and After (2020).
"In its aesthetic reach and ethical pressure, Overlooking Damage is dazzling and dizzying by turns. By the end you don't know whether the hum you hear is the music of the spheres or the wild spinning of your own moral compass."
—Elaine Scarry, Harvard University
"With extraordinary erudition, Siegel acts as an archaeologist of our cultural imaginary of ruin itself. Overlooking Damage asks us to meditate on how art and culture thrive on the destruction of worlds."
—Dominique Poulot, University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
"Overlooking Damage is a tour de force. This is a book we'll be reading and wrestling with for years to come."
—Paul Saint-Amour, University of Pennsylvania
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Q: Azure Application Insights for Service Fabric I have multiple services running on Service Fabric. I would like to add Application Insight for logging. I'm just wondering whether I have to add an Application Insight resource for each microservice or only one is common for all. What is the best practice?

A: There is no such thing a the best practice for this. It really depends. Some considerations:

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*Pricing: depending on the level (basic or enterprise) you will get an amount of data for free / included in the base price. See the docs. So in some cases, depending on the amount of traffic you can reduce costs by having a dedicated AI resource per service. AI resources for services that send data below the threshold of the AI pricing plan are then (almost) free.

*Querying: if you split up services per AI resource getting an overview of the whole system is difficult since at the moment you cannot create queries spanning multiple AI resources.

*Responsibility: If you have multiple teams working on multiple services it might be an option to have an AI resource per team so they have a good insight in only the parts they are responsible for.

If you do decide to use a shared AI resource there are options like custom telemetry initializers to include custom data that further identify which ASF application or service is sending the data if it is not included by default.
See also Add Application Insight to a existing Azure Service Fabric cluster for more info about how to integrate AI.
Now, when it comes to bring data together you do have some additional options that may or may not need additional services or configuration. For example:

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*PowerBi: You can visualize data of AI resources using dashboards, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/application-insights/app-insights-export-power-bi

*OMS: Operation Management Suite, See https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/msoms/2016/09/26/application-insights-connector-in-oms/. As Jesse mentions you can link multiple AI Resources

*Custom dashboards: Using the rest api you can create your own solution that displays data for one or more AI resources.

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Show option prices when line items pricing hidden?
Forum › Forums › SIX › Reporting › Show option prices when line items pricing hidden?
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So, when generating a proposal report, un-checking 'show item price' so that only section totals are given results in no pricing being shown for optional/alternative options – which isn't very helpful…. Any ideas?


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A Chinese Intellectual's Journey: Lin Shen's adaptation of Daoban Fushide (The Pirated Faust 1999)
MA_Thesis_Lin_Zhou.pdf (1.164Mb)
Zhou, Lin
This thesis has as its focus Daoban Fushide 盗版浮士德 (The Pirated Faust), a Chinese staging of Goethe's Faust I and II, which premiered in Beijing in 1999. The research questions of the study are how the adaptation remains true and differs from Goethe's original and how it addresses the expectations and cultural sensitivities of modern Chinese society. The first and second chapters provide a general context of the discussion. Chapter one reviews Faust reception in China, including the Chinese publication of Faust in translation, critical assessments of Faust by Chinese scholars, and theatre productions adapted from Goethe's original. Chapter two outlines the history of Chinese theatre from the ancient rituals to traditional Chinese theatre as it survives in modern times. With the influence of western culture a new theatrical form, spoken drama, emerged in the early 20th century. The Pirated Faust is an example of modern Chinese experimental theatre. Chapter three, the main part of the study, provides a systematic analysis of this Chinese Faust adaptation from numerous perspectives, including an explanation and discussion of the title, storylines, a structural comparison to Goethe's original, and an analysis of the adaptation's use of language, themes, characters, and settings. My study demonstrates that this Chinese adaptation is a recodification of Goethe's classic in the context of Chinese modern society, deeply rooted in Chinese cultural and historical background. However, it still maintains the thematic thrust of Goethe's original. Another accomplishment of this study is a complete English translation of the Chinese text of the adaptation, the only in existence, which is appended to the thesis. It provides the opportunity for non-Chinese readers who have an interest in Faust in China and The Pirated Faust to do further research.
Germanic and Slavic Studies
Lin Zhou (2010). A Chinese Intellectual's Journey: Lin Shen's adaptation of Daoban Fushide (The Pirated Faust 1999). UWSpace. http://hdl.handle.net/10012/5086


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Soda Stereo es el nombre del álbum debut de estudio homónimo grabado por el grupo argentino Soda Stereo. Fue lanzado al mercado bajo el sello discográfico CBS Discos el 27 de agosto de 1984. La producción de este álbum debut estuvo a cargo de Federico Moura, vocalista y líder de Virus.

El álbum en sí es único dentro de la carrera de Soda Stereo. Las letras presentan un estilo humorístico e irónico, a tono con el movimiento de la música divertida que había irrumpido en la escena musical argentina a inicios de los '80 y que tuvo a los propios Soda Stereo como protagonistas junto a Los Twist, Viuda e Hijas de Roque Enroll, Virus y Suéter, entre otros. Por tanto, Soda Stereo es un álbum con un sonido y aire marcadamente distinto al del resto de su discografía, los trabajos posteriores de Soda abandonarían el humor y tendrían un estilo complejo. Musicalmente, en el álbum también es clara la influencia de las bandas británicas de new wave y ska, teniendo como referentes a The Specials, Madness, Men at Work y fundamentalmente The Police, los cuales también influyeron en su imagen estética.

El álbum fue presentado el 1 de octubre de 1984 en el subsuelo del local de Pumper Nic, una empresa de comida rápida que monopolizaba ese tipo negocio hasta la llegada de McDonald's, en el centro de Buenos Aires. Fue muy exitoso en la escena de discotecas y fiestas en Argentina, varios de los temas se convirtieron en hits bolicheros, como «Dietético», «Te hacen falta vitaminas», «¿Por qué no puedo ser del Jet-Set?», «Tele-Ka», «Sobredosis de TV» y «Trátame suavemente».

Por este álbum, Soda Stereo obtuvo disco de platino en Argentina, y doble disco de platino en Perú y Chile a los pocos meses. Fue el primer paso en popularidad del grupo, que llegaría a ser uno de las más populares de Latinoamérica. De este álbum, el ranking de las 100 mejores canciones del rock argentino por el sitio Rock.com.ar en el año 2007 premió «Te hacen falta vitaminas» (73°), mientras que el de las 500 mejores canciones del rock iberoamericano por Al Borde en el 2006 premió «Un misil en mi placard» (444°) y su versión de «Trátame suavemente» (417°).

Portada
La tapa del álbum muestra un dibujo de cada uno de los tres integrantes del grupo ubicados en diagonal, de modo que al más cercano se le ve solo la cara, mientras que al más lejano se le ve medio cuerpo. Las imágenes de los músicos están atravesadas por rayas que cortan toda la tapa. Zeta Bosio comentó sobre el asunto:

Reediciones
El álbum se reeditó en disco compacto por primera vez recién en 1991, al igual que su sucesor Nada personal del año 1985. Fue precedido en ese formato por Signos de 1986. El 19 de agosto de 2013, la holandesa MusicOnVinyl produjo la primera reedición de este álbum en disco de vinilo desde el 1995. El lanzamiento fue realizado en vinilo de 180 gramos, e incluyó un inserto con fotografías del grupo.

Lista de canciones

Personal
Soda Stereo
 Gustavo Cerati: Voz principal y guitarra eléctrica.
 Zeta Bosio: Bajo eléctrico y coros.
 Charly Alberti: Batería y coros.
Músicos invitados
 Daniel Melero.
 Federico Moura.
 Gonzalo Palacios.

Véase también
 Anexo:Discografía de Soda Stereo
 En la ciudad de la furia
 De música ligera
 Persiana americana
 Ella usó mi cabeza como un revólver

Referencias

Álbumes debut de 1984
Álbumes de 1984
Álbumes de Soda Stereo
Álbumes en español
Álbumes de CBS Discos
Álbumes de rock en español
Álbumes de pop-rock
Álbumes de rock de Argentina

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So I've been wanting to write on this for a while now, as I've been trying to "hack" my life in terms of productivity. It's a topic I'm very interested in since I always have this desire to do more or at the very least, do what I need to do more efficiently.
I read an article recently entitled "The 80/20 Rule and Listening to Your Inner Procrastinator" which had some very intriguing insights into the idea of productivity. It is from Entrepreneur so it has a bit of that focus but the points it makes are still poignant and valid.
My personal favorite is the idea of flipping your to-do list. You always are going to have that one thing you just don't want to do for the day, and you'll do everything else to rip off that metaphorical bandage. You might go do your dishes, vacuum your entire apartment, all instead of doing what needs to be done. The author recommends flipping it, doing the worst thing first and gliding through the rest of the day. Even if you don't get everything else done, you got a big, nasty behemoth of procrastination out of the way.
Also, I've noted recently my admiration for the Lumosity app for fun brain games. I usually play them on my iPhone when I wake up but I've noticed a difference in my scores on an important variable; whether or not I've eaten breakfast yet. This simple change is a lesson we should all take in about the most important meal of the day (there is some argument here whether or not it is the MOST important, but that might be another blog post). Getting the day off to the right start, eating well, and getting enough rest to begin with are all important aspects to how productive we'll be throughout the day. If you eat a bunch of sugary confections and a gallon of coffee every morning because you need it to wake up since you didn't sleep enough the night before, the day is already spiraling out of control! Break the cycle; get to bed early, detox off the bad breakfast foods (or start eating anything at all), and go all beast mode on your to-do list!


Cleveland stadium is a great place to look at a football recreation. Teams will often have "special formations" which they solely use in obvious passing conditions, short yardage or goaline situations, or formations they've developed for that individual sport simply to confuse the protection.
Most individuals, yes, even football players are lazy. Lifting heavy weights and dealing like a mad man in an effort to get sooner for football is fairly daunting compared to strapping your self to some silly parachute and running round hoping for the wind to blow in simply the appropriate direction.
She or he should know when to cross the ball to another participant that is higher positioned to attain the aim. The primary football recreation in school football historical past was then played in 1869 between Princeton and Rutgers with Rutgers as the victor thus producing football historical past.
Football, soccer, swimming, hockey, golf, operating, horse driving, gymnastics, chess, automobile racing, and skating are some examples of sports. The ability to "turn on" all your muscle tissue directly is invaluable to any athlete, especially football gamers.


Background: In lung cancer, the efficacy of conventional chemotherapy is limited due to poor drug accumulation in tumors and nonspecific cytotoxicity. Resolving these issues will increase therapeutic efficacy.
Methods: GNR-Dox-Tf-NPs (gold nanorod-doxorubicin-transferrin-nanoparticles) were prepared by different chemical approaches. The efficacy of these nanoparticles was carried out by cell viability in lung cancer and primary coronary artery smooth muscle cells. The receptor-mediated endocytosis studies were done with human transferrin and desferrioxamine preincubation. The GNR-Dox-Tf nanoparticles induced apoptosis, and DNA damage studies were done by Western blot, H2AX foci, and comet assay.
Results: We developed and tested a gold nanorod-based multifunctional nanoparticle system (GNR-Dox-Tf-NP) that carries Dox conjugated to a pH-sensitive linker and is targeted to the transferrin receptor overexpressed in human lung cancer (A549, HCC827) cells. GNR-Dox-Tf-NP underwent physicochemical characterization, specificity assays, tumor uptake studies, and hyperspectral imaging. Biological studies demonstrated that transferrin receptor-mediated uptake of the GNR-Dox-Tf-NP by A549 and HCC827 cells produced increased DNA damage, apoptosis, and cell killing compared with nontargeted GNR-Dox-NP. GNR-Dox-Tf-NP-mediated cytotoxicity was greater (48% A549, 46% HCC827) than GNR-Dox-NP-mediated cytotoxicity (36% A549, 39% HCC827). Further, GNR-Dox-Tf-NP markedly reduced cytotoxicity in normal human coronary artery smooth muscle cells compared with free Dox.
Conclusion: Thus, GNR-Dox-Tf nanoparticles can selectively target and deliver Dox to lung tumor cells and alleviate free Dox-mediated toxicity to normal cells.


A team of six runners took on the Brighton Marathon in memory of Teddy, a boy who died of a little-known medical condition, just hours after he was born.
Teddy's dad Adam Howman, from Northgate, told the Crawley Observer that are raising money for two good causes, but they also hope to raise awareness of parvovirus B19, which causes 'slapped cheek' syndrome.
Slapped cheek symptoms are usually minor - similar to a cold - but can be serious in some cases. Teddy contracted the disease in the womb, leading to fetal hydrops - a build up of fluid around his heart and brain and in his abdomen - and severe anaemia.
They were referred to Professor Kypros Nicolaides, an expert in fetal medicine, at King's College Hospital.
The only option was a fetal blood transfusion - an injection of blood into the place where the umbilical cord meets the placenta.
Teddy was born at 29 weeks, by emergency Caesarian section at the Trevor Mann Baby Unit in Brighton on June 3 last year. Despite the best efforts of staff at the unit, he died nine hours later.
"If it wasn't for the specialist skills and treatment we received from 'the prof' and his team at the Harris birthright centre at Kings hospital we wouldn't have had any hope so we will be forever grateful that they made it possible for us to meet our son," Adam says.
They set up Teddy's Tribe to raise money for the Fetal Medicine Foundation, which supports Professor Nicolaides' work, and for Rockinghorse, which supports the Trevor Mann Baby Unit.
Adam ran the Brighton Marathon with two of his friends, his brother-in-law, his wife's cousin, and one of his wife's friends.
As of Monday, he said they had raised £3,800, and were hopeful of reaching £4,000.


Civil trial was set to begin Monday in a lawsuit over the 2010 police raid in which the 7-year-old girl was shot to death.
The family of Aiyana Stanley-Jones agreed to an $8.25 million settlement Thursday with the city of Detroit over the girl's shooting death in a police raid nine years ago.
A police Special Response Team led by Weekley entered the family's flat on Lillibridge Street on Detroit's east side while searching for a suspect in the murder of 17-year-old Je'Rean Blake outside a convenience store days earlier.
Weekley said that seconds after entering the home, Aiyana's grandmother, Mertilla Jones, slapped at his MP-5 sub-machine gun, causing it to fire a bullet that killed Aiyana. The child had been sleeping on a couch in the living room with her grandmother.
Fieger said the family was not making any comments about the settlement Thursday.
Weekley was officially restored to active duty with the Detroit Police Department in April 2015. He was transferred out of the Special Response Team to the department's Criminal Investigations Bureau.
Weekley was charged in Aiyana's death, with his first trial ending in with a hung jury in June 2013.
During a second trial, Wayne Circuit Judge Cynthia Gray Hathaway threw out a manslaughter charge against Weekley, but the jury failed to reach a verdict on a misdemeanor charge of reckless discharge of a firearm in October 2014. The Wayne County Prosecutor's Office declined to try Weekley a third time.


Low paydays in the first trimester of the year have prompted scammers in the sextortion email business to switch to new tricks to restore the revenue stream of the not too distant past. Between August 30 and October 5 last year, operators of the 'Aaron Smith' sextortion email campaigns made almost 150,000 in bitcoin (~23 BTC) from victims. Since the beginning of 2019, profits decreased to about $17,000 (~3.5 BTC).
Greenville, N.C. knocked offline by ransomware.


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Ted Cruz Defends Gina Carano, Gets Everything Wrong About Star Wars
by Simon Delott at February 12, 2021 11:47 am . Updated at February 12, 2021 12:03 pm .
There are a lot of things that Ted Cruz doesn't understand: right and wrong, the Constitution, how much soup a human buys at a time.
We can now confidently add Star Wars to the list.
This week, Lucasfilm confirmed that notorious bigot Gina Carano was fired from The Mandalorian and all future Star Wars projects, calling her behavior "abhorrent."
The Texas Senator spoke up to defend her ... but, as usual, only proved his own ignorance.
On Wednesday, February 10, Lucasfilm not only shared that Gina Carano was not returning to Star Wars, they publicly disavowed her actions.
Gina had -- as The Mandalorian fans on social media had pointed out for months -- dedicated much of her social media activity to, well, being awkward.
From racist dogwhistles to ridiculing the trans community to spreading anti-mask nonsense and "voter fraud" conspiracy theories, Gina did it all. And then came this:
Gina compared social accountability that conservatives may face to, and we wish that we were joking, violence faced by the Jewish community during and leading up to the Holocaust.
There's a good guideline for Holocaust comparisons: you probably shouldn't make them.
After the justified moral outcry over yet another abhorrent post, Lucasfilm and Disney stepped in.
Reports say that Gina was being prepared for her own spinoff series on Disney+ that would have followed her as Cara Dune on further adventures.
PR experts familiar with the entertainment industry speculate that, for the press release to call her statements "abhorrent," Gina's firing was only partially to prevent a boycott.
It is speculated that there was righteous anger among upper management for PR to take such a firm, unsubtle stance.
With the exception of a handful of YouTube grifters who film rage-bait vlogs, most people mustered little to no sympathy for a woman who sabotaged her own career by being awful.
But Texas Senator and unsuccessful human-impersonator Ted Cruz, of course, rushed to Gina's defense.
(Where was that energy after disgraced former president Donald Trump insulted Ted's wife, we wonder)
"Texan Gina Carano broke barriers in the Star Wars universe: not a princess, not a victim, not some emotionally tortured Jedi," Ted claimed incorrectly in a tweet.
"She played a woman who kicked ass & who girls looked up to," he wrote.
"She was instrumental in making Star Wars fun again," Ted mischaracterized. "Of course Disney canceled her."
Obviously, Ted is doing what's called malice signaling -- reminding everyone that he's a bad person by voicing his unwavering support for fellow bad people.
There is an undercurrent within American conservatism that rejects any calls for accountability.
These "persecution" allegations are, from Ted Cruz and from Gina Carano, always false. You post dumb things about the Holocaust in 2021, you don't get your own Disney show. That's life.
But we just have to emphasize how thoroughly and totally wrong Ted Cruz is about Star Wars, also.
I'm not suggesting that anyone engage him in a Twitter debate over it -- just as I also wouldn't try to argue with Casey Anthony over The Elder Scrolls lore.
It's simply important to note that Ted is, as is his habit, almost comically incorrect.
Leia Organa was a princess before she was a Galactic Senator, a New Republic Senator, or a Resistance General.
To say that she was a victim because she was arrested, detained, and captured during the original Star Wars trilogy is a mischaracterization.
In fact, the late great Carrie Fisher noted with pride at the time that the films premiered that Leia was such a strong, independent character who did not fit the "damsel" profile.
It is likely that Cruz's jab about an "emotionally tortured Jedi" was a jab at a frequent target of ridicule by awful men, Rey Palpatine.
For all of the flaws of the Sequel films -- if not too many to count, certainly too many to deliniate here -- Rey was a standout character.
In his short-sightedness and ignorance, he clearly forgot about the Prequel trilogy.
Padme Amidala was never a princess, was rarely a "victim," and was certainly not a Jedi.
Padme -- elected Queen of Naboo at just 14 and swiftly moving on to a position within the Galactic Senate -- was a shrewd and passionate politian.
She would regularly put herself in harm's way to see justice done, on the Senate floor, on the streets of Coruscant, or on distant worlds on the Outer Rim.
Rogue One also gave us a heroine who met Cruz's description: Jyn Erso.
But we have to remember that he was speaking in bad faith.
Like virtually all of Gina Carano's fans, he likely only cared about Cara Dune at all after learning that her actress was a diehard conservative.
Let's be honest -- most Star Wars fans know that the best content within canon isn't found in any of the nine films of the Skywalker Saga, and not even in the one-off movies.
If Ted Cruz were actually interested in the women of Star Wars, he would be talking about Hera Syndulla or Ahsoka Tano.
Or Sabine Wren or Asajj Ventress or Sister Merrin or Doctor Aphra or Bo Katan Kryze or Mother Talzin or maybe even Halle Burtoni.
There are too many amazing women in Star Wars to name ... but again, Cruz's point was to show solidarity with a famous bigot. Betraying his ignorance about Star Wars was just a side effect.
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The Harvesters documents late 1950's farm labor conditions in California's fields when 14 to 16 hour days paid workers at eighty-five cents to a dollar per hour. Featuring photography of many different crops grown throughout the state, it exposes how the bracero program imported Mexican nationals to work at wages lower than the subminimum rates available to American workers. This film was used by the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee (AWOC) and the United Packinghouse Workers Union as an organizing film. When Harvey Richards photographed the fields of California's rich agricultural valleys in the years from 1958 to1960, in conjunction with union organizers active in the valley, farm workers still faced bracero labor competition which limited their power to win the right to unionize. In the fields, hand labor was loosing ground to mechanized methods of harvesting while packing operations were moving from the packing houses to the fields. The Harvesters tackled these two great obstacles to farm worker unionization, braceros and mechanization, while pointing out the great similarities between to factory labor where the right to form a union was protected by the National Labor Relations Act, from which farm workers were excluded.
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Bill Dudley's Noble Lie
Written by Ron Paul
Former Federal Reserve official Bill Dudley's recent op-ed calling for the Federal Reserve to implement policies that will damage President Trump's reelection campaign states that such action would be unprecedented. Dudley claims the Federal Reserve bases its policies solely on an objective evaluation of economic conditions. This is an example of a so-called noble lie — a fiction told by elites to the masses supposedly for the people's own good, but really designed to maintain popular support for policies that benefit the elites. Dudley's noble lie is designed to bolster a rapidly (and deservedly) eroding trust in the Federal Reserve. The truth is the Federal Reserve has always been influenced by, and has always tried to influence, politics.
President George H.W. Bush and other members of his administration blamed his 1992 defeat on then-Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan's refusal to reduce interest rates. Greenspan was more cooperative with Bush's successor, Bill Clinton. Lloyd Bentsen, Clinton's first Treasury secretary, wrote in his autobiography that the Clinton administration and the Federal Reserve had a "gentleman's agreement" regarding support for each other's policies. Greenspan also boosted President George W. Bush's "ownership society" agenda by lowering interest rates after 9-11 and the collapse of the tech bubble, thus creating a housing bubble.
Ben Bernanke, Greenspan's successor, facilitated both Bush W. Bush and Barack Obama's bailouts, "stimulus" spending, and massive welfare-warfare spending with record-low interest rates and quantitative easing. Speculation that the Fed was keeping interest rates low during the 2016 presidential campaign in order to help Hillary Clinton was fueled by the revelation that a Federal Reserve governor donated to Clinton's campaign.
Presidents have always tried to influence the Fed — usually pushing for lower rates to (temporally) boost the economy. President Richard Nixon was recorded joking with then-Fed Chair Arthur Burns about Fed independence. President Lyndon Johnson shoved Fed Chair William Martin against a wall after an interest rate increase. Johnson's frustration may have been because he realized that the success or failure of his guns and butter policies was largely out of Johnson's control. The success or failure of presidents' agendas is often determined by a secretive central bank's manipulations of the money supply. No wonder presidents spend so much time trying to influence the Fed.
The Fed's history of influencing, and being influenced by, presidents is one more reason why Congress should pass the Audit the Fed bill. Auditing the Fed is supported by almost 75 percent of Americans across the political spectrum, including such leading progressives as Bernie Sanders and Tulsi Gabbard.
My Campaign for Liberty is leading a major push to get a majority of Congress members to cosponsor Audit the Fed in order to pressure House and Senate leadership to hold a vote on the bill. The American people have had enough of noble lies about the Federal Reserve. It is time for truth; it is time to audit the Fed.
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Up to twenty percent of working musicians get struck by focal dystonia at some point. So do writers, athletes, craftspeople … an estimated 300,000 North Americans. The underlying problem? Normal brain plasticity gone rogue.
An estimated ten percent of Canadians struggle with depression, flashbacks and panic attacks associated with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). So do 14,000 Canadian veterans. Locked brain circuits may be to blame.
Insomniacs are more than just lonely. Their brains are less flexible. A good night's sleep re-wires grey matter and sheds chemical waste, boosting healthy brain activity in the day.
A joint training project between the Departments of Psychiatry at the Universities of Toronto and Addis Ababa are turning out some of Africa's most skilled practitioners.


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World Rally champion Sebastien Ogier had admitted he came close to giving up on his efforts to keep his M-Sport Ford in Rally Turkey.
Ogier's Fiesta suffered front-right damage in a heavy landing on Saturday's second stage, just after taking the lead when his WRC title rival Thierry Neuville retired.
He and co-driver Julien Ingrassia worked on the car before the morning's final test and made it into SS10 six minutes late, incurring a 60-second penalty that drops Ogier from first to fourth.
Astonishingly, with a wishbone held in place by a cable-tie, Ogier then went 6.4s faster than anybody else through the 12-mile stage.
"It was pure bad luck what happened to me," Ogier told Autosport.
" I was already backing off and not even pushing [after Neuville's exit]. Then I came over a small crest, we jumped and landed on something - I think it was a hole. It was a huge impact on the front-right. This broke the wishbone, but fortunately we only had to drive two kilometres to the finish."
"When we were working on it, it was not easy and I was very close to giving up when we could not fit the new part in."
Eventually Ogier managed to fit the new wishbone, but the closeness of the sumpguard meant it was not possible to get one of the bolts in, forcing him to use a cable-tie to keep it in place.
While working to fix the wishbone, the driveshaft came out of its housing - leaving Ogier fearing he would only have rear-wheel drive.
"I was missing part of the driveshaft, I didn't expect us to have it [four-wheel drive], but we did it," he said.
"It's a shame we were late to the next stage, but it's a relief to be here and to know we did not fight for nothing."
Ogier was advised by his M-Sport team-mates Elfyn Evans and Dan Barritt, and veteran privateer Henning Solberg and co-driver Ilka Minor, who all stopped at the scene but were unable to offer physical help under the regulations.
M-Sport team principal Malcolm Wilson said he was amazed by what Ogier and Ingrassia achieved.
"What they did was amazing, it's just incredible. To do the time he did in the next stage, obviously he had some drive from that wheel, but it wouldn't have been perfect.
"This is why Seb and Julien are world champions."
M-Sport changed the complete front end of the Fiesta WRC in service, minus the engine but including the gearbox as a precaution in case the damaged shaft caused problems in the front differential.
Evans serviced his own crew as his crew was deployed to help the work on Ogier's.
Ogier starts the afternoon in fourth place, 46.1s off leader Andreas Mikkelsen.


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Sacking the Subcontinent Part 2 TAIMUR
By Parvez Mahmood
parvezmahmood53@gmail.com
The Return of Queen Yesubai
FARMAN-BADI THE ZENITH OF THE SHINDE-SHAHI
PATWARDHANS - THE SWORD ARM OF THE PESHWAI PART 3
How the Indian National Army Contributed to India`s Independence
Pakistan`s LOST INDIAN Heritage - Part 1
LIFE STORY of VEER SAVARKAR - Part 1
KANHOJI ANGRE was India`s first naval commander
PATWARDHANS - Sword Arm of the Peshwai PART 2
Hindu resistance to Islamic conquests - How Rajputs won and lost
FAMINES during British Rule
Ahom Queen SATI JOYMATI
Karnataka Goddess of Courage - KITTUR RANI CHENNAMMA
Hindu resistance to the Islamic conquest of North India - The Battle of Bahraich
HADI RANI - Her story and Dance drama
PATWARDHANS - the Sword arm of the Peshwai
Was India Always a Poor Country
The Battle of SARAGARHI
Hindu resistance to the Islamic conquest of Sindh, Punjab and Kabul
THE STORY OF THANJAVUR`s MARATHA KINGS
ISHTUR PHAKDA - The Story of Captain James Stuart.
The real butchers of Punjab were Khalistanis and not KPS Gill
History of Indian Fashion
VANDE MATARAM - Birth and Journey of the Mantra
The Battle of CHAMKAUR
The Story of Indian History - Introduction
Names of the Days of the Week
BATTLES FOR DELHI DILLI KAREEB AST
The Battle of ASSAYE
Background to the Battle of ASSAYE
Warrior Queens Rani Durgawati and Naikidevi
The Saka Lands Linking India and Europe
THE STORY OF GHASHIRAM KOTWAL - A PROVOST OF PUNE
NANASAHEB PESHWA - THE ARCHITECT OF AN EMPIRE AND A CITY
THE THIRD ANGLO-MARATHA WAR PART 3 - END OF THE MARATHA RAJ
THE THREE AND A HALF WISE MEN OF THE PESHWA PERIOD
BAJIRAO PESHWA - THE EMPIRE BUILDER
TIPU as HE REALLY WAS
Was Article 370 promised when the Instrument of Accession was signed
All you wanted to know about Jammu and Kashmir Accession to India
CHHATRAPATI SHIVAJI - THE KING WHO CARED FOR HIS PEOPLE Part 3
History of how BSF was born after CRPF defeated Pakistani soldiers in 1965
Rajput Victories in Indian history
The diamond that was stolen twice
History of the word Dalit
The British Plunder of Bengal
Sacking the Subcontinent Part 4 Ahmed Shah Abdali
THE THIRD ANGLO MARATHA WAR Part 2 - Khadki to Koregaon
Sacking the Subcontinent Part 3 NADIR SHAH
Sacking the Subcontinent Part 1
The Extraordinary Exploits of CHIMAJI APPA
Marathas wanted to liberate Hindu holy sites
THIRD BATTLE OF PANIPAT 14 January 1761
Sir Syed and India s Islamic surgery
Bajirao Peshwa`s dash to Delhi 1737
The Ghadar Party
How the Khalistan Movement was defeated in Punjab
Rani Padmini and Alauddin Khilji
What were the events that lead to Operation Blue Star
No Peace, only Pieces - The Sufi Mission in Kashmir
How the British divided Punjab into Hindu and Sikh
The International Linkages of Gujarat
How The British Sowed The Seeds For Khalistani Movement Before Indians Took Over
The Indian Army Museum Leh needs to go global
HINDU-PAD-PADASHAHI
How California Gurudwaras have cemented Hindu Sikh divide created by the British
Contribution of Travancore rulers to the advancement of Education in Kerala
History of Sikhs
Ancient Legacy of Kashmir
The Kashmir Conundrum is like Abhimanyu`s Chakravyuh
Everything you wanted to know about the Jammu & Kashmir Problem
The Fort of Jalore
Re-examining history-The making of the Taj
Stolen Wealth of India
Islam in India
Civil Disobedience in the Indian Tradition
And you thought only modern India was a republic
Shivaji and the rebirth of a nation
Freedom did not come at midnight
Jainism in Karnataka
Forts & Palaces of Maharashtra
The Jodhpur Story
Who was responsible for Partition
The Status of Women in India
Why did Buddhism vanish from India
Indian Science & Technology in the 18th century
Indigeneous Education in the 18th century
Rediscovering India by Dharampal
Adi Devta Arya Devta
Aligarh Movement
Basavanna & Vir Shaivism Lingayat Movement
Debunking the Aryan Invasion theory
History of Jammu and Kashmir
Khilafat Movement
Maratha Supremacy in the 18th century
Taj Mahal a architects point of view
Taj Mahal a Shiv Temple
Teachings of Arya Samaj
The Story of the Vivekananda Rock Memorial
Wahabhi Movement and Muhammad Iqbal
How the British created the dowry system in Punjab
The Unbreakable Hindu Sikh bond
Why did the Portuguese want to discover India
Why has Asceticism led to the weakening of Bharat
Why India is a poor country
Are Hinduism and Sikhism different Religions
Why was Gandhi killed (full)
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Why was the first son made a Sikh
Ashok Joshi
Benoy K Behl
Col Anil Athale
Col Jaibans Singh
Commander Pratap Singh Mehta
Dharampal
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Dr S. Srikanta Sastri
Dr. Arvind S. Godbole
Dr. David Frawley
Gagandeep Bakshi
Gajanan Bhaskar Mehendale
Katie Dubey
Khushwant Singh
Lt Gen H S Panag
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N A Ramachandra Pai
Nikhil Nayak
Nithin Sridhar
P N Oak
Parvez Mahmood
Polly Rajkhowa
Prof Dr Shashibala
Prof Dr. Shyam Singh Tanwar
Professor Marvin H. Mills
R K Ohri
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Ram Lingam
S. Jayakumar
Sandhya Jain
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Subhash Kak
Uday S. Kulkarni
Uma Maheswari
V. D. Savarkar
Vimla Patil
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Of all the sobriquets and noms de guerre assigned to him, none describes Emir Timur better than the one he reportedly chose for himself, in the tradition of Attila the Hun and others: 'the scourge of God'. Indeed we can say with certainty about Timur that he brought death, destruction and untold grief to a large part of the world.
Throughout his life, year after year, Timur campaigned against some part of the known world around his capital city of Samarkand. He swept across the Mongol Khanates; first demolishing the Chagatai states up to the lower Siberia in the Lake Balkhash region and then the Kipchak states across the Urals and the Don River to eastern Ukraine and Crimea. He then turned south to devastate Delhi, Baghdad, Damascus and Aleppo, and defeated the Ottomans, the Mamluks and the Christian Knights Hospitallers amongst others.
It is estimated that his military campaigns caused the death of some 17 million people, amounting to about 5% of the world population at the time. He also carried hundreds of thousand artisans, women and children as slaves to Samarkand, in addition to untold riches. Here I will only narrate his Indian campaign of 1398-99.
Timur found time amidst his constant nonstop campaigning to write his own history, the Tuzuk-i-Timuri, in which he justified massacres in Muslim lands as 'killing bad Muslims' and in non-Muslim lands as 'slaying infidels'. In this autobiography, he admits rather proudly the crimes that he committed in his Indian campaign. I have relied mainly on his writings for this article.
As a prelude to this campaign, he states that, "About the year 800 A.H. (1398 A.D.), there arose in my heart the desire to lead an expedition against the infidels and to become a Champion of the Faith, for it had reached my ears that the slayer of infidels is a Champion and that, if he is slain, he becomes a martyr." He states that he was undecided whether to attack China or India. He had already ravaged Persia but was yet to invade the Levant, Turkey, Georgia and Armenia. And this was well before he attempted the conquest of Ming China near the end of his life, in 1405.
Clearly Timur was playing with the facts. He had heard of civil wars in the weakened Tughlaq Sultanate of Delhi and wanted to pillage it so that he could finance his future wars. This is confirmed by the fact that by then, his grandson Prince Mohammad Jahangir, who was entrusted with the rule of Kabul-Kandahar, had already besieged Multan but could not break through on his own. On receiving a letter from the prince about his activities in the Punjab, Timur collected his army and began his march, which was to leave a trail of blood and rubble in his wake.
Dividing his force into two parts, Timur himself crossed the Hindu Kush Mountains and proceeded to pillage the Bajaur-Chitral-Swat-Buner area. He writes that, "The people (in this area) eat swine's flesh, and cattle and sheep abound in the country. Most of the inhabitants are idolaters; they are men of a powerful frame and fair complexion."
He crossed the high snow-covered mountains with great courage and determination, and having subdued an important fort, he writes that, "I obtained a booty of many sheep and some other things here, and ordered my soldiers to set fire to the houses and buildings of the city, in the midst of which the fort was built, and to level it to the ground." Continuing his march against stiff resistance, he then killed some men that he had taken prisoner: an atrocity that he was to perpetuate later at a much larger scale. He then writes that, "I ordered my troops to attack on all four sides at once, to force their way into the defiles, and to kill the men, imprison the women and children, and plunder and lay waste their property. In obedience to these orders, my nobles and troops put the remnant of the infidels to the sword, after which they made prisoners of their women and children and secured an enormous booty. I directed towers of the skulls of those obstinate unbelievers to be built on the mountain."
These acts of slaying, plunder, destruction and enslavement are the story of Timur's career. After crossing the Indus, he entered Punjab on the 24th of September 1398. Many villages and towns were razed to the ground. Destroying several habitations, taking prisoners and collecting plunder, Timur and his army marched towards Panipat. He states that local people on the route of his approach were deserting their habitations. Obviously they must have heard the news of his pillaging, murdering and enslaving practices. Halting five miles from Delhi and having sent out armed parties with instructions to plunder, destroy and kill, he records that, "They (his forces) plundered every village and place they came to, killed the men, and carried off all the valuables and cattle, securing much booty; after which they returned, bringing with them a number of Hindu prisoners, both male and female."
Finding poor pasture for his horses on the east side of River Yamuna during the winter months, Timur crossed over and attacked the historic fort of Loni where he could find fodder. Many of the Rajputs in the area placed their wives and children in their houses and burned them. Timur's forces once again destroyed the buildings in this town, killing all its male inhabitants and enslaving the women and children.
Timur was now ready to re-cross the river Yamuna again, to invest Delhi itself. He was faced with the Tughlaq forces that fared well on the first day of the battle. Timur was carrying a hundred thousand prisoners that he had captured during the course of his march to Delhi. These prisoners, in his words, had rejoiced at the good fight put up by the Indian forces. Timur called in his council and it was decided that these prisoners couldn't be trusted on the eve of the battle the next day.
What followed was, perhaps, the worst cold-blooded massacre in history. Timur ordered that all prisoners be put to sword. In the words of Timur, "… and I immediately directed the commanders to proclaim throughout the camp that every man who had infidel prisoners was to put them to death, and that whoever neglected to do so, should himself be executed and his property given to the informer. When this order became known to the champions of Islam, they drew their swords and put their prisoners to death. One hundred thousand infidels, impious idolaters, were slain on that day." Even the sheikh/maulana accompanying the troops, who had never killed a man in his life, slew fifteen prisoners. In reality, the massacred persons included Muslims as well. The dead were left as carrion, to rot or to be consumed by the scavengers. Delhi, indeed the Subcontinent, had not witnessed this scale of savagery in the course of its long existence.
Timur had piled up so much booty that before the battle, he deputed some 10% of his force for guarding the 'property, horses and cattle'. Pillaging of Delhi, Meerut and Hardiwar was still to come. Timur then went into battle against Delhi's force of some 10,000 cavalry and 40,000 infantry.
The ill-prepared and strife-stricken Tughlaq army was no match for the battle hardened Turks. Timur took the city on the 17th of December 1398 and set up his camp on the banks of Hauz-e-Khas, the water tank for Delhi's water supply. The Tughlaq Sultan with his close associates fled towards Udaipur. Timur sent a contingent after them, killing some and driving away the others. His troops collected a vast amount of booty.
A city taken by force is at the mercy of the invading army. Even if the victor grants peace, the terms of this mercy are at his whims. The slightest protestation or objection of the populace draws the grim wrath of the occupiers. This is what happened to Delhi.
Timur writes that he granted peace to the city and held the sheikhs, sayyids and scholars in high esteem. He spent several days of pleasure in the city, "holding feasts, listening to music and singing" and was served with wine, sherbet and meat of all kinds. His troops needed rest and merriment after the long strenuous campaign. He also let some of his troops loose in the city to gather ransom money from the city inhabitants, which is not surprising given that it is always the vanquished that pays for the war expenditure of the victor.
After ten days of rest, Timur was ready for the return journey. However, the city was still standing intact. On the 26th of December, due to some opposition from the city's inhabitants on the rough treatment being meted out to them by the ransom collectors, Timur records the events leading to the sack of the city. He absolves himself of any blame and puts it on his troops in the city. However, he did nothing to stop the plundering of the city. On Thursday, 15,000 of his troops were engaged in slaying, plundering and destroying the city. On Friday, he says that his entire army was out of his control and went into the city to collect their booty.
The city was pillaged for five days. He writes that, "…spoil being so great that each man secured from fifty to a hundred prisoners, men, women, and children, while no soldier took less than twenty. There was likewise an immense booty in rubies, diamonds, garnets, pearls, and other gems; jewels of gold and silver; gold and silver money of the celebrated Alai coinage; vessels of gold and silver; and brocades and silks of great value. Gold and silver ornaments of the Hindu women were obtained in such quantities as to exceed all account."
He laments that the pen of fate had written down this destiny for the people of this city, and though he was desirous of sparing them, he could not succeed, for it was the will of God that this calamity should befall the city. Of course, the agent of God's wrath had come a long way to deliver this destined calamity!
He goes on to proclaim that, by the will of God, and by no wish or direction of his, all the three cities of Delhi – Siri, Jahanpanah, and Old Delhi – had been plundered.
In between his campaigns, Timur would build Samarkand, his capital city. He had gathered artisans from the conquered lands and brought them to this city. Accordingly, he ordered that all the artisans and clever mechanics who were masters of their respective crafts should be selected from among the prisoners captured in Delhi and set aside. Thousands of craftsmen were distributed among the princes and emirs to build a Friday Mosque in Samarkand. He wanted the seat of his empire to be without a rival in any country.
For his return to Samarkand, Timur opted for a northerly route along the base of the Himalayas. Before he set out on his pillaging campaign, he had heard about, and wanted to investigate, gold dust at the several sacred ghats in the holy city of Hardiwar, on the banks of the River Ganges as it leaves the hills and enters the plains.
Timur crossed the Yamuna, laden with plunder and prisoners, and made slow progress to Meerut. This region lying between the Yamuna and the Ganges, and joined by scores of smaller tributaries, offered the most promising source of sustenance for his troops, horses and prisoners. He was also apprehensive of being harassed along the more populous regions in the Punjab.
His first stop was in Meerut which he pillaged and destroyed completely, carrying out a frightful slaughter of its inhabitants. He looted the area around Hardiwar, Kangra and Jammu. He then continued his march to Samarkand, sparing not a soul that he found on his route.
Timur's conquests of India brought untold devastation to the country. Thousands of villages were burnt and destroyed completely. The cities with riches were extensively plundered. The towns of Jahanpanah and Siri in Delhi were completely demolished by him.
The invasion of India led to the destruction of the agricultural fields, plunder of granaries and interruption of commerce. There was a terrible famine in Delhi after the war. The suburbs of towns became infectious due to the rotting bodies of the dead. The north-western provinces were ravaged and laid to waste. The Tughlaq Empire was completely liquidated. Delhi lost its richness, its glory, its people and its rule. All builders, stone-masons and craftsmen were taken as prisoners to build Timur's capital of Samarkand. It is said that Delhi took almost a century to recover and emerge again from this great loss.
Timur remains greatest of all the world's conquerors, never losing a battle in his in his three decades of warfare. His invasion of India should serve us with a reminder that civil strife and poor governance invite barbarians who sweep away everything before them.
About Author: Parvez Mahmood retired as a Group Captain from PAF and is now a software engineer. He lives in Islamabad.
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Focus on the Family — американская общественная евангельская христианская организация. Штаб-квартира расположена в городе Колорадо-Спрингс, штат Колорадо. Деятельность FotF направлена на «воспитание и защиту Богом установленного института семьи и продвижение библейской истины во всем мире». Она заключается, главным образом, в выпуске радиопередач, журналов, видео и аудио записей.

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Lost - The Life & Death of Jeremy Benthem (5x07)
This episode only really provided a few surprises for me. For the most part, it filled in some blurry spots (but ones we could have guessed).
Here is what we kind of already knew:
1) There have been lots of suspicions that John Locke would be revived or resurrected when he returned the island. Not sure if this is because he is some sort of chosen one by the island, so it revives him. We have seen it happen, sort of, to Christian Shepherd. But we have also seen Locke healed numerous times, from being paralyzed to falling and cracking bones to a receiving a gun shot wound. It doesn't completely shock me to see him alive (especially after the promo last week for this episode).
2) Locke's visits to the O6 (give or take). Everyone is surprised to see him, but no one is really shocked. Sayid is just kind of "whatever" about it. Hurley is convinced he is crazy, again (he never has been crazy, right?). Kate is firm but over it. Jack is angry.
3) Walt does need to return to the island, like the rest. It was nice to see Walt, but we knew we would because Walt told Hurley last season that Jeremy Benthem had been to see him, too. However, something must have upset him that he would then fly to Santa Rosa visit Hurley. I am still really hoping that Walt was somehow on that flight in coach.
New things revealed:
1) Abbadon DOES work for Widmore. There has been speculation about that. I am so glad that Hurley yelled at Locke for trusting him. Locke recognizes him from the hospital and goes with him anyway. I find it quite creepy. I am glad that Abbadon acknowledged that Locke recognized him. What is also new is that Ben kills Abbadon, but I don't think that Ben was trying to kill Locke at that time.
2) Locke kept his promise to Jin and didn't visit Sun. Nor did he send Ben to do his dirty work. Ben came up with that on his own.
3) Widmore remembers Locke from 50 years previous, while it has been only 4 days for Locke. This was a fun meet-up. Widmore reveals that Ben is, of course, the bad guy. That Widmore was forced to leave the island by Ben and he has never gotten back. I can see why Locke would choose to believe Widmore over Ben, given their awful history. But I just wish Locke would step up and stop listening to anyone else. If he is truly the chosen one, he should manage to get the job done on his own.
4) There is a war coming. Widmore tells this to Locke. I found this to be interesting, and while not completely shocking, a kind of interesting revelation as Widmore told Locke that being on the Island would keep him out of the war. You would think being on the island would put one smack dab in the middle of such war.
5) Ben kills Locke, but only after talking him out of killing himself. Why bother? This was certainly a disturbing but not surprising turn of events. It was really actually quite sad. Watching Locke trying to kill himself (and about to succeed) was just really sad. But it was a huge (scary) step of faith he was willing to take. Locke is often compared to Jesus lately, so who does that make Ben?
Some questions:
1) Which island are the Ajira flight survivors on? What is the room/office where Cesar is set up?
2) Why did some of the O6 flash back to wherever Jin is and some crash in the plane. We know Lapidis crashed in the plane and another woman (probably Sun) because they took off.
3) Why did Ben decide to kill Locke himself only after Locke mentioned Eloise Hawking. What about this knowledge meant that Locke needed to be die. I have a theory but I am still wrapping my head around it and working it out.
4) Except for Juliet, the Others don't move with the flashes. So I can believe Ben wouldn't have. He was all beat up, but that may have been partially from the crash as he was beat up so bad when they took off. What is going to happen next?
5) Locke realized who Christian's son was on his own. It was this revelation that got Jack on a plane (the one before the bridge-jumping experience where he found the obit for Jeremy Benthem)
Other thoughts:
I am glad the writers didn't spend more than one episode on the Jeremy Benthem visits. It would have been too drawn out. I like how Locke is so completely truthful to this Ajira crash crew, and he is just so matter-of-fact about dying, wearing those clothes to be buried, being killed by Ben. His faith is confirmed so he isn't really afraid of anything.
The conversation between Kate and Locke was sad. He realized how he screwed up the one thing he loved in life: his relationship with Helen. And Kate was rather mean to him about it. But it turns out Helen is dead. Locke has a number of regrets about Helen and he shares them here. His obsession with his dad was NEVER worth that loss and he knows it now.
I had a dream about Lost last night. In it, the Losties all flash-jumped to the 40s and were fighting in the war. And Ben was a big ol' Nazi. Then they jumped again and they were in Star Wars. They were all wearing robes and fighting with light sabers. Do you think either of these have any merit as theories...?
I wondered to my husband last night if maybe current Ben is responsible for 50-years-ago Widmore leaving the island. He might have trusted him back then, because Ben would have been a long-time resident of the island and we know he is quite the manipulator. The age difference makes one wonder when a younger Ben would have eliminated Widmore from the island, otherwise.
Maybe I'm just not smart enough but at this point I've given up trying to remember all the ins and outs of Lost and what it all means. It's become way too complicated for me and too supernatural for my taste. I'm just along for the ride and waiting to find out how it ends.
Stella Louise said...
Interesting theory. I like the Nazi tie-in. Not so sure about the light sabers.
Although Ben would make an excellent Darth Vader. And then there's Jacob as Obi Wan Kenobi: "Use the force, Locke!"
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