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Artist Feature: Spyros Procopiou
Art Writing, Artist Feature
tiffmapos September 20, 2020 September 21, 2020
Spyros Procopiou is a visual artist who practices between the US and Cyprus. As of recently, he is also one of the four artists represented on peri-Tēchnes. He received his Bachelor's degree from the Aristotle University, Greece (2016), and his Master of Fine Arts, with a focus on drawing and printmaking, from the New York Academy of Art (2019). Procopiou's practice is diverse and has grown in the latest years to include engraving, sculpture, painting, digitally edited work, and installation. I, personally, came to know him initially for his paintings, drawings, and sculpture. It is about his paintings and drawings, that we got together to discuss, on the occasion of such works of his featured on his artist's page.
Procopiou's work is primarily anthropo-centric. The artist begins from the human form, as one familiar to all viewers. In doing so, he creates works through which he aims to better communicate and connect with them. The human form connects everyone universally, and by incorporating it within his work, Procopiou communicates what he intends to while simultaneously leaving room to the viewers to draw their own conclusions.
South Beach on Sat. 10 am, 30.5 x 24 in. (128.27 x 60.96 cm.), pencil on paper, 2019. Image courtesy of the artist.©Spyros Procopiou 2020
More specifically, Procopiou uses the body to allude to aspects of the human condition. Innocence, eroticism, decay, corruption, and death are prevalent themes in his work. They are present throughout his entire practice and across all media. The artist is fascinated by the delicate boundary between death and eroticism that spurs him into the exploration of the human stance toward illness, deformation, and an instinctive repulsion towards imperfection. He is fascinated by the almost innate aversion society demonstrates towards a deformed or imperfect form. As a result, Procopiou combines and layers bodies or multiple motions of a body on a single plane. The end result calls the eye to trace the movement, trapping it in a loop of discerning one, clear, single form. In this way, Procopiou creates a magnetic allure in paintings and drawings.
The primary materials the artist uses to draw are pencil, chalk, and charcoal. Through the misty grey shadow that he creates on the canvas or paper, his layered forms unite in an almost illusory way. Thus, Procopiou creates a mystery behind the bodies he portrays and overlaps in his works.
Influenced by Damien Hirst's approach towards the representation of death, and Aleah Chapin's approach to the nude, Procopiou, in turn, combines different human bodies or body parts. The painstaking realism in which he renders these parts can be observed alongside work by Jenny Saville. In her last exhibition at Gagosian, we had the opportunity to see the ease with which she too layers bodies, oscillating between cubism and renaissance-level realism. Saville had noted that blurring the boundaries between her layered forms connects them to the point where they appear as one. This, she said, allows her to draw the viewer in and to question what they see and how they understand it. She gives room to contemplate what memory is alluded to in her painting, leading to the question of who that memory belongs to.
Procopiou, in turn, by blurring and joining body parts on his canvas, calls the viewer to question what they see. He challenges them to observe the human condition alongside decay and the loss of innocence—the two main elements of the tragedy and vitality of human life. As a result, we see all the contradictory states of existence, common within everyone, in his works.
Teratogenic Me, 70.86×78.74 in. (180 x 200 cm), pencil and acrylic on canvas, 2016. Image courtesy of the artist.
©Spyros Procopiou 2020
On that subject, the prevalence of concepts of decay and corruption in Procopiou's work nudges toward works by Marlene Dumas, Cecily Brown, and Sarah Lucas. One more aspect of his work, however, which brings the mind to Cecily Brown's paintings specifically is how both artists layer bodies.
Layering in both their work allows the viewer to almost track the artists' thought patterns or explorations on the canvas while giving a sense of the work being unfinished. In the exhibition Cecily Brown: Rehearsal at The Drawing Center in 2016, Brown's drawings allow one to see the exact areas she revisited and how often. Simultaneously it allows for mapping the gestural movements that interested her in the originals she was drawing from. As a result, Brown's drawings demonstrate a dynamic character that is non-finite. Procopiou's bodies, layered over each other in rapid gestural strokes give a similar sense of dynamism, as though the work is alive, and still in progress. Observing the gestural strokes of pencil or charcoal additionally allow a peek into his process, and where the artist focused or transitioned.
Apotyposis, 24 x 16 in., pencil, charcoal and acrylic on canvas, 2020. Image courtesy of the artist.
Nevertheless, through his work, Procopiou has launched an effort to record his own evidence and to clarify his personal concerns around the body and the human condition. His exploration of the body is more conceptual and less practical. It is not a study of the human form either independently or as it appears in historical works. Rather, it is a study of the body as the vessel within which a being lives, a vessel that can be imperfect, or sub-par by any societal standards that have prevailed since antiquity. This exploration of self places the artist's work on the border between utterly personal yet simultaneously universal. It is a vulnerable practice, on his part, that grants him further freedom to connect with the viewer while also connecting with his own being. Procopiou's work is truly a testament to the age-old belief that art unites.
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sudo add-apt-repository ppa:hanipouspilot/rtlwifi
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install rtlwifi-new-dkms

When that didn't work I followed this guide:
git clone git://github.com/lwfinger/rtl8188eu
cd rtl8188eu
make
sudo make install
sudo cp -v ~/RTL8188EU/rtl8188eu/rtl8188eufw.bin /lib/firmware/rtlwifi/
sudo depmod -a
sudo update-initramfs -u
sudo modprobe 8188eu

But it gave me 'modprobe 8188eu - Exec' format error on the last command. I've also tried using dkms, but that does not seem to work either.
sudo apt-get install git dkms
git clone https://github.com/lwfinger/rtl8188eu.git
sudo dkms add ./rtl8188eu
sudo dkms install 8188eu/1.0

I'm running: Linux version 4.4.0-116-generic (buildd@lgw01-amd64-021) (gcc version 5.4.0 20160609 (Ubuntu 5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.9) ) #140-Ubuntu SMP
Right now the device is not recognised in any way after connecting it to USB port. How can I make it running?

A: I have the official tplink page, but I haven't tried it.
The driver source can be downloaded on
driver folder.
A pdf installation instruction can be found on this link.
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When Kelli heads west on the orphan train as a helper, she expects to return to the orphanage and live her life there as an old maid, but once she sees the town of Emporia, she desires to stay. After overhearing a cowboy telling the general store owner that he is looking for a mail order bride, Kelli rushes forward to offer herself.
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PCE, a national, non-profit think tank, will provide expertise and research on improving the criminal justice system, emerging issues and other policy matters relevant to prosecutors.
The announcement was made this week at the National District Attorneys Association's summer conference in Chicago.
Hamann, the founder and executive director of PCE, has spearheaded the best practices movement that continues to grow as prosecutors around the country develop statewide best practices committees. These non-partisan committees represent all regions of each respective state, and are dedicated to positive change and improvements in the current criminal justice system.
As of July 2015, prosecutors in 20 states have formed a Best Practices Committee: Arizona, California, Colorado, Delaware, Idaho, Illinois, Kansas, Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Utah, Virginia and Washington. More are under consideration.
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Art Student to Artist
by Patrick | Dec 11, 2016 | 4 comments
I was asked the other day about the transition from being an art student to establishing my own practice as an artist. The individual asking was working in a major public collection looking after the works in the museum gallery, but had trained as a fine artist. This is for those of you out there who similarly left the sustaining environment of a college to the cold uncaring world, struggling to find a place and a meaning for your own art practice in your life.
Firstly, let me be clear – there is no shame in not practicing. In the 1970's the Council for National Academic Awards as it was then (when will civil servants stop buggering around with the systems?) did a large survey of college leavers. In those halcyon days, only 17% of school leavers went to college, and the numbers in art and design were similarly small. There were only just over 2,000 art students on degree courses. My own college, reputed to be the 'Cambridge of the art world' had just 254 students in total across the three years of four degree courses
We worked in year groups of about 16, and split down into groups of eight, each allocated their own studio space. Mine was probably about 10' by 12', not much smaller than my current studio which is just 16' x 12'. We had tutorial contact available for 33 hours a week, and the studios were open 24/7. The location was rural, beautiful and concentration on our art was total and intense. I think it would probably be referred to today as a 'hot house' environment. I loved it, and would do it again tomorrow.
There is then a considerable shock on leaving such a creative 'womb' into the 'real' world. The CNAA survey established that 40% of fine art students went into teaching. It also found 10% were 'untraceable'. I know from my own college cohort of instances where breakdown or death were a visited on individuals within a couple of years. Others became researchers in Universities, assistant to artists like Anthony Caro, or moved abroad. Another still paints after a career in the civil service. Another has famously written 10 books! One is achieving international recognition as a printmaker. For all though, the shock of the outside world will have been a douche of cold water, as it was for me when I sobered up. Surviving this shower to establish a practice and a studio is sometimes impossible, and the shower can become a bleak torrent when competing against finding employment, marriage etc..
1976 Studio in the front bedroom
There is no dishonour in stopping painting, you will still be that artist inside. For I believe that if you have taken art into your heart it is always there. Like the Jesuitical saying of "give me the boy and we will create the man" (attributed to St Francis Xavier) I believe that the kind of intensive art experience I had at college changes your soul and view of the world. You are always better for this and will take it with you wherever and whatever you do. Once an artist always an artist, even if not practicing.
I made sustaining my practice a central part of how I was to live, and looked for employment that gave me time to work on my own art. Two problems must be faced – where and when? Where to work was not easy. I worked very small for a long time, producing paintings that were around a foot square, on a table in the corner of my rented bedsit. I worked as a freelance screen printer initially and the days of no work became my painting time.
1976 Darwen Tower. Acrylic on board. Clear affinity with some of the wave collages from this and last year
A chance meeting led to me taking over running a bar. Starting work at 10.30 until about 3, then again at 7 until about midnight, I took those hours in the middle of the day as painting time. I joined a squat in an empty building that we used as studio space. I left college in 1970 and in 1973 had my first show. From then until 1981 I showed steadily, sometimes 3 shows a year. Showing itself requires work to be produced so acts as a spur.
I realised living in the south of England I would never afford my own property so bought a house in an impoverished northern town 'for nowt' as they say. No plumbing, no heating, outside toilet but a 10'x12' bedroom to use as a studio, the other bedroom to sleep in, a kitchen and a living room. I flourished, initially working as a dustman. Again, hours suited artistic practice – early starts, early finishes, and it came with a bonus token for the public baths at the end of each shift (such a compassionate employer….) My house was furnished by my dustman colleagues who sourced chairs, a dining table, a kitchen cabinet from a house being demolished and so on. But the real treasure was the 4 to 5 productive hours every day in the studio.
1999 carpet design for the award winning Celtic Manor hotel
So, what lessons can you draw from this to further your own art practice? "How can I nurture my creativity" I was asked. Thomas Alva Edison said "Genius is one percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration." and further expanded by saying, "I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident. They came by work." Have in your mind all the time that you are an artist, and making your art as a priority, and work at it. I lost my way in my 30's, pursuing a career in design instead, believing this would be a satisfactory creative alternative, and that would allow me to paint. That was a mistake, for it sucked my creative energy into building a business.
'TINA' was the cry in the 1990's – There Is No Alternative. There really isn't. If you find it difficult to work, or search for inspiration, then go into your studio. On days of inertia I will tidy the studio. Inside 30 minutes I am working, maybe crab like coming at a problem sideways, but coming to realise some time later I have been in the studio working for two hours or more. I write too, and do a little design work from time to time, but they are often different ways of tackling the same issue. Often, I need to overcome a fear – that what I'm doing isn't working/is crap/wrong scale and so on. Fear can be disabling if you let it but again the answer is the same – just work.
Painted in 2003, 4'6″x3′ these Fuchsias remind me of Van Gogh's painting of dancing Flemish peasant women
I found my way back to painting, partly through writing, partly through photography. I never totally left painting, and my visual training coloured everything I did. The photography helped the visual gradually take over again, my life changed and painting became central to it once more. Now once again I am exhibiting every year, and my work gains in depth and strength as I progress ideas. Exhibiting is, for me at any rate, both a spur and a necessity. The deadline of having a show is the spur, the audience is a necessity for after all as the saying has it, if a tree falls in the forest and no-one sees it fall does the event happen? Selling too is an affirmation, but don't make art to sell, make it for what your heart and soul tell you is important for you to say through your work.
Red Poppy Acrylic on Canvas 36″ x 36″ 2016
It helps if you have a partner who believes in you and your work. The support of my partner now is a source of encouragement and an enabler, for as John Donne said 'no man is an island'. But above all believe in yourself. Self-doubt is destructive and will kill creativity – but making the work will take you through the bad spells every artist suffers from. No need to remove an ear.
Above all to establish your practice as an artist you simply must do it. For your own sake. In all those years I was in college the best advice I had was on leaving, from tutor Michael Kidner, who simply said "Two hours a day. At least. Every day. That's what you need to do".
L.S. Lowry was a rent collector. I emptied dust bins. But both of us made paintings. For at least two hours a day.
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jacqui boyd	on December 12, 2016 at 4:34 pm
Great post Patrick. Not much I can add. Seems to me that you went to BAA in its halcyon days. I don't remember getting very much support and seeing a tutor in a studio was a rarity apart from Micheal Kidner. He always made an effort, even going so far convening an emergency meeting with Michael Simpson and Colin Crumplin in my last year because he was so concerned about me. A visiting tutor in my last year, was the person who made the most difference for me, Victor Willing. Unfortunately it was too late by then. I went out of BAA as ignorant of the art world as I came in although with a great love of Art History due to Adrian Hicken. So I would say to an aspiring artist chose your art school wisely as if you do not know how it works, once you have finished, all the teaching in the world won't help.
Passion is also a great gift. If you can keep that passion alive, even if you don't succeed in becoming a full time artist, you have achieved something which will sustain you through the fallow times. Drive is the the most basic attribute. The successful artists have followed their passion and pursued it relentlessly. They entered all the competitions they can, they will go to all the gallery showings they can but above they work hard. They make connections. Art is first and foremost in their minds. Like any profession, you have be little selfish to succeed even in a small way.
I think you are a perfect example of an artist who strives to succeed despite all the obstacles in your way. Okay, you got waylaid mid way through life but that passion was always there and is still there.
Patrick	on December 12, 2016 at 5:59 pm
Thanks Jacqui. Mike Kidner was one of the good guys unlike Simpson. I guess I was lucky to have Kidner and Heath as tutors alongside Willy Tillyer and the indecipherable Malcolm Hughes, who never used one word when 17 would do the job…
Viv Martin	on December 11, 2016 at 3:04 pm
Just keep making whatever art feels important to you and try to keep a place in your week where it is the priority. Choose work that keeps you, gives you time to work and makes you feel OK about what you do. I found myself working in universities, in Business Schools doing project management and personal development (what we did in art college but without the labels). I went to conferences in the hotel where Paddy (Patrick Goff) had designed the interiors!
Viv is an established artist and printmaker, and has had ten books published. so a busy person who has maintained her art practice
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Geekinthecockpit: Ahhh who needs all that fancy FMS stuff?
Ahhh who needs all that fancy FMS stuff?
Same trip as last week. Still not an easy trip.
Started off with the rest of my crew abandoning me! They all called in sick!
I was the only line holder, the rest were reserves. Departed on time. The plane had a lot of MEL's including the FMS. This meant we would be navigating the "old fashioned way".
Well not too old fashioned. I didn't have to break out a sundial and star map. We had to use navigational radios.
Flying "green needles" with ground based navigation is a little more relaxed than FMS. Not crazy RNAV GPS departure...simply takeoff and track a radial outbound. Easy enough.
Since I started the last trip, I had the Captain (even though he's not my line Captain) start this trip.
Easy enough first leg. The approach controller left us really high due to a few general aviation planes flying around west of the airport. Steep descent and done.
My next leg was mostly uneventful. ATC kept offering us "direct tos" but we had to decline if it wasn't a VOR we could tune in. A little annoying...took a few minutes longer....but I'm paid by the minute right?
Third leg of the day involved a plane swap. Different terminal. Just 40 minutes between when we were scheduled to arrive and scheduled to depart.
I stopped by a place to grab some food. Took longer than I planned. I arrived at my gate 22 minutes before departure. Boarding started as soon as I placed my bags in the plane and turned the power on.
Ten minutes to departure I had the preflight done, FMS set up and ready to go. Then it happened. My cabin crew stated there was a seat back that wouldn't stay up. We had a few open seats, but the seat needed to be upright. Mechanic called.
Delayed. Ten minutes AFTER departure the mechanic arrived. He started banging around on the seat then came up and said we would have to deplane for him to finish the job. Ugh.
Everybody off. He then had it fixed in 2 minutes. The REAL reason he wanted everyone off was he didn't want them to get the wrong idea about his repair and all the banging. The banging was needed to release the gears so he could lock the seat in an upright position. Fine. Reboarded. Left an hour late.
Smooth flight. Calm wind at the outstation. We were arriving from the south but they were landing south. I hoped to land north and save a few minutes.
I briefed a visual to the north and backed up by the ILS.
Cleared for the visual to runway 2. Coming in from the southeast on about a 320 heading. Night time. It "looked" like I was fine altitude wise. The ILS was turned on for ILS 20...so no help there.
I quickly loaded up the GPS approach to runway 2. This gave me an artificial glide slope. I was really high.
Dirtied up and steep descent. I turned final at about 1100 feet AGL. Right on the VASI. Slight 6 knot tailwind. Floated a bit. Decent landing. Done.
Day 2 started fine. Nice ride to the airport....sunny day.
My cabin crew includes one new flight attendant. She told me she worked as a FA elsewhere, but was new here. She seems really new though...very slow in getting things done and doesn't keep an eye on departure time.
The distance between the gate and the runway was maybe 100 yards. Short taxi. We advised her of the short taxi.
We ran the checklist and taxi'd really slowly. We then held short for about 4 minutes while they finished the safety demo. Thankfully there was no one behind us.
Captain took the first two legs. We were in the same plane as yesterday, but all the MEL's were restored...as in fixed. The plane stayed the night in a maintenance base.
Fairly easy day. All flights on time. The last leg to the overnight was mine.
The overnight had weather coming in. It was supposed to be gone before we arrived. We had an alternate just in case.
About 35 minutes out the weather over the airport was gone....but there was still weather in the area.
The enroute controller was issuing commands non-stop. We were headed to a fairly small airport. The controller was primarily giving instructions to planes inbound to a much larger airport.
I had the VNAV setup to be level at 10,000 AGL 30 miles from the airport. My normal setting.
We were level at FL370. I watched the required rate increase from 500 feet per minute, to 1500 feet per minute, to 3500 feet per minute....all without being given a descent. Reason was twofold...traffic and weather.
Finally clear of traffic....but not the weather. I gave up trying to cross 30 miles out at 10,000 feet as the required descent rate was 5500 feet per minute. I just wanted to hustle down through the weather.
It was rough. Heavy rain and lightening all around. I was using the RADAR to deviate around the worse parts of the weather the best I could. We were cleared direct to the airport when able. Given a descent down to 10,000 MSL . Airport elevation is 1000 feet MSL. We were just 6 miles away from the FAF while passing through 9000 MSL.
Finally thought I had it made as we were in clear skies so I began a steep descent. Being given vectors for the ILS to runway 2. Problem...there was another RJ inbound. The controller asked if we could take a turn to final. Unable...we were simply too high. To make matters worse we were flying around inside a small area surrounded by weather.
It seemed like the controller couldn't see the weather as we were being flown toward squall lines and thunderclouds at every turn. I had the autopilot turned off and was deviating the best I could. The Captain asked if we could get a left 360 to stay clear of the weather. Approved but we had to stay above 4500 MSL as the other RJ was at 2500 MSL inbound to land. Fine. I could see the airport clearly during the turn.
Here's a shot of the actual RADAR and our flight path (the green line). The dashed blue line was our filed flight path. We fell off RADAR tracking by flightaware (source of the image) probably around 5000 feet AGL.
Lots of bumps. I was on the ball keeping a tight turn while descending. Finally cleared for the visual.....number 2.
The other RJ was 3 1/2 miles ahead. I quickly slowed up and made a small S turn for spacing.
Winds at the airport were 310@18G30....landing runway 2. At 2000 AGL the winds were a screaming 330@45 knots.
The descent was bumpy all the way till about 200 feet when the wind started to die off.
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Same hotel room as the night prior. Happy to be done.
Day 3 was mostly easy. We had to deal with weather again on the 2nd leg. Lots of scud making a visual approach hard. The approach controller said some aircraft could pick up the runway 6 miles out while others could not. I looked hard....no joy. Cleared for the ILS.
The last leg was mine. Ready to be done.
Gusty winds on takeoff. Long flight.
During the flight I told the Captain how happy I was to have 4 days off. He wished he had that. He is a very junior Captain. He was on day 3 of 6. Sure enough he had more flying to do once we got back. He flew each day.
I forgot how bad reserve can be. Not sure I'm looking forward to it when I upgrade to Captain (which MIGHT happen in the next 12 months or so). It's a big step up in pay while a huge drop in quality of life.
I will go from having 18+ days off, nice schedules and top picks on vacation to 11 days off, unpredictable schedules and crappy vacation. Eh.
For now I'm happy to be relaxing. I do the same trip again this week. Next week though will be different.
Thanks for another great post. I'm surprised that the FMS can be MEL'd, but I don't make the rules . WHen it is your turn to upgrade, gofoit! The reduction in QOL won't last long. Best wishes. -C.
I agree with Cedarglen (hi C!)...it's always better in the left seat. Best wishes from me too.


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As an American Jew whose family suffered in the Holocaust, I am especially wary of the growing hatred we see in the United States today. We would do well to remember that the Holocaust started not at Auschwitz but in the pervasive bigotry in words and deed in German society that was fueled by the Nazi government starting as soon as it took office in 1933.
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A cousin, age 18, made it to America in 1938, but he could not raise the funds to rescue his parents and siblings, and by then getting out of Europe was nearly impossible anyway. They perished in the Holocaust. A few relatives did survive, some hidden by a Czech farmer, who was later honored as a Righteous Gentile at Yad Vashem.
My grandfather came to America in 1904, and when he returned to Europe in 1919 and 1930, he brought many relatives back with him. But not all. Those who remained in Dynov, his shtetl in Galicia, were rounded up in September 1939, when the Germans invaded Poland, and like our Litvak relatives, murdered then and there. The grand synagogue in Dynov was burned to the ground.
My wife's family, from Vienna, faced the same peril. Some survived by hiding somewhat like Anne Frank, but in Brussels, not Amsterdam, but others were not so fortunate. My wife's uncle made it to Crete, and translated from German to English for the British troops, but when Crete was overrun by the Germans, he was captured and executed. Her uncle and two of her great-aunts were caught by the Gestapo in Belgium and sent east to concentration camps and their deaths. To escape from Vienna after Anschluss of March, 1938, my father-in-law was aided in the line to seek a visa by a "good German," a policeman who seeing him turned away every morning, took pity on him and ushered his way into the line where he could obtain the necessary visas for himself and his wife to Zurich. From there, to America in 1940, where family was waiting.
My interest in the Holocaust has never wavered, and I have read many books on the subject. When I learned of the new exhibit on Auschwitz at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York, I made plans to visit.
My recent visit left me very disturbed, but not so much by the artifacts of the killing factory —the electrified barbed wire, the Zyklon B, etc. — but rather by the evidence of the desire for racial purity, real or imagined, that lay behind the killing. I will call it Aryan supremacy. In our country, America, in the 21st century, we have seen the rise of a white supremacist movement. The connection could not be more stark or clear.
The exhibit included many documents, letters and photographs claiming Aryan racial superiority. In one frame, three photos of Aryan children were set on one side, three of Jewish children on the other, with the text calling to include the first three in Germany, and to exclude the others.
I am very uncomfortable with any comparisons to the Holocaust. It was a singular crime against the Jewish people. In addition, no one here today is proposing gas chambers for a perceived enemy. Nevertheless, the Holocaust did not start with poison gas and guns. Rather, it started with words and pictures. And today, in our country, we have seen a rise in the display, on social media and at public rallies, of the hatred of perceived racially inferior groups in words and pictures.
The government ban on immigrants from Muslim nations is not aimed at the religion of Islam, nor is Trump's desire to build a wall to keep out Central Americans from seeking refuge here based on their religion or nation of origin. Rather, it's based on a perceived notion of white superiority, of white racial purity. And what I saw in words and pictures at the Museum's Auschwitz exhibit, I unfortunately observe right here in the United States of America in the year 2019.
Equally disturbing is the president of the United States giving sanction and support to the white supremacists, finding "good people" in Charlottesville, Virginia, who are shouting, "Jew will not replace us" and other racist slogans steeped in the idea of racial purity. His reference to "shithole" nations of Haiti and sub-Saharan African countries is another example of the president's racist views, because again, his views are based on nothing more than the idea of white supremacy and imagined racial purity.
Our country has experienced racial hatred before, starting with the genocidal war waged on the Cherokee, Lakota Sioux, Apache and all the other tribes from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Over 20,000 American Nazis gathered in Madison Square Garden in 1939 in support of German racial policies. The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 prohibited the immigration of Chinese laborers. The anti-immigration act of 1924 was aimed specifically at southern and eastern European countries and more specifically at their Jewish residents. And of course our history of slavery and Jim Crow laws, as much or more than anything else, reflects a sense of racial superiority by much of the ruling white American population.
Just as we have confronted racial hatred and the issue of imagined racial superiority in the past, we must do so now. We must now powerfully oppose racists who use public platforms, such as at Charlottesville, and we must oppose at the ballot box politicians who espouse racist views. We must work to elect leaders who believe that all men and women are created equal. We need to make sure that it can't happen here, to Jews or to anyone else.
David Broida is co-founder of Democratic Jewish Outreach PA, a federally registered PAC (Political Action Committee).
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End date 31 October 2005
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Women and Affairs in the Real World, and How to Protect Your Relationship and Marriage
A reader shares some shockingly revealing ads from real women looking for real men, as well a man who targets them, and Gentlemen, you really need to understand this…
There are several of you who have moved out of incompatible, irreconcilable marriages who are now dating who send me examples that are useful to those of us who are still married, especially ads by married women looking for thrills and the men who target them. Rick, a very astute reader and now friend, has contributed in the past, and every time he does, it's an eye-opener, just like today. Check him out:
As usual, the above newsletter is true to its hard-hitting form. Please allow me to provide (yet more) proof that what you say is the truth. I was on my online site earlier this evening when I saw this married woman had looked at my profile. Check out how she describes herself:
"I am a recently separated, and soon to be divorced, fun lady. I do not have any children and am ready to sew my wild oats (since I never had the chance before). I want to find someone who is only interested in having a good time. I'm not ready for a relationship so if that is what you want, do not reply. Am interested in some physical love. Husband could not satisfy my needs and I need someone who can."
Now look at what she wants:
"I just need someone who is willing to go out with me and have a good time. I want you to show me what I have been missing all of these years - out on the town and in the bedroom. If this sounds like something for you, please respond."
Another textbook example of how boredom, left unchecked, can doom a marriage. Gentlemen, please buy David's book so that you don't become another statistic! Do it for YOU.
David, Let me say for the record, that I have not, nor will I ever get involved with a married woman. However, there are plenty of men who will! Take a look at this Personal Trainer's confession:
I'm a lonely wife's dream, and hubby's worst nightmare.
In 30 years in the training business, I've probably had affairs with more than 40 married women. Most of them were in their 30s, married eight to 10 years, with kids, and their husbands weren't paying attention to them. They felt neglected. They didn't feel attractive. Their husbands had become preoccupied with work.
In the beginning, I was scared about having sex with my clients. I was a shy, overweight kid and didn't go to the prom, so I didn't have much confidence at first. Then I got this physique and I discovered that I had this ability to charm women, and I made up for lost time. When I was 17, I put my first ad in a small paper, saying I was looking for clients to train. I had just won Mr. Bodybuilding Teenage New York State, and in my ad I was looking lean and ripped.
The first day a woman called me and said, "Do you really look like this?" She asked what my girlfriend thought of my being a trainer, which I thought was strange. (I now know that when a client starts asking what my girlfriend thinks of my training, she wants to know if I'm available.) She told me she was married, that her husband traveled a lot for work and was never home. She said she found that being so sedentary had made her put on some weight.
The next day I went to her house. I'd spent a lot of my savings and gotten some help from my mom to buy a really nice dark blue warm-up suit and brand-new white Adidas sneakers so I would look like a professional trainer. When the woman opened the door, she was wearing a black negligee. I went home and told my mother and father, and they forbade me to go back. My parents canceled my ad and said, "This will probably be a problem the rest of your life."
It happens all the time now. The wives today feel they have just as much right, and drive, to have a playmate as their husbands do. It's natural to want to have sex with your trainer. Remember that training is very hands-on. I'm touching them, motivating them, encouraging them, listening to them, relieving their stress and channeling their energy in a more positive way. Just as their husbands used to do at the beginning of their marriage. I'm trained to get inside their heads and push the buttons that will motivate them. But I'm also in their heads in other ways. They connect with me emotionally. It's very important for a trainer to be a good listener.
I once had an interior-designer client who was very beautiful. Like every client, she started opening up about her life; women do the same thing with their hairdressers and trainers. "My husband isn't attentive to me, he used to be so passionate," she explained. It was her birthday and her husband had forgotten. I suggested we have lunch, and she said, "How about dinner?" And that's where I went wrong. For a couple of months after that, we would work out, go back to my place and have sex. I would whisper sexy thoughts to her when I was spotting her at the gym. And then it ended. We got caught by the husband. He wound up calling me up and crying like a baby, asking me to stay away from her.
I don't feel bad about having had affairs with married women, because they were feeling neglected and they just wanted to be loved. One woman said to me her husband had never looked into her eyes when they made love. He couldn't have been that smart, because women love the eye contact. I come from a very passionate, Italian family. When I make love to a woman, I like to have spontaneous sex. I like to do it in the elevator, on the beach, underneath the table in the restaurant. I like to make them feel young, mischievous, alive. If they can have a taste of it again, they can realize they haven't lost it.
I'm 47 now, and over the years I've learned to watch out. I realized I couldn't be sleeping with everyone's wife in town. Number one, you start sleeping with them and they want to stop paying, and I make $150 an hour. I was never paid for sex. I would never do it for that. Because for me it would ruin it. I like to make love to please someone. When they say, "I feel like a real woman again," it's the same thing as when I train them and they tell me how terrific they feel because they fit in clothes they haven't worn for 10 years. The high of training is the same high as making love. I've written a screenplay about it all, called "The Trainer." It's "Shampoo" for the 21st century.
That was pretty self-explanatory.
Rick's right. That is indeed painfully self-explanatory. If you're not being a good husband, there are others standing in line, or waiting in the wings, or crouched in the bushes waiting to pounce, to have all the benefits of being married to your wife but none of the risk, responsibility or drama. And once a woman hits an intolerable level of boredom, she will come unglued with the same lack of inhibition that you feel when you get too aroused to say, "No," to sex or to stop when she says, "No," to you.
Make no mistake. This reaction is primal, biological, and has nothing whatsoever to do with love or the lack thereof, and if you're not giving your wife a reason to enjoy being with you, somebody else is or soon will be giving her a reason to enjoy being with him. Period.
There is no emotion, logic, or "morality" that will interrupt this process once it has started because it is chemical, and if you knowingly allow it to start, you have nobody to blame for it but yourself when it is complete and at best, your wife is confessing and asking you to work things out with her and get your marriage back on track, or at worst, she's announcing that she's leaving you for him, and taking everything you own with her as punishment for putting her through the trouble.
So what do you do to prevent it? Be a man! And be a husband. A real husband, one who makes her feel alive, engaged, challenged, understood, and appreciated, as she tries to make you feel, not some guy who goes to work and sits with a remote control and a beer in front of the television all evening while she tends the kids and spends the rest of the evening in some Internet chat room – being hit on by these other guys! Get a clue!
And believe it or not, you're a lot more likely to need much more than a clue to know what being a man and a husband are really all about. Even if you're lucky enough to grow up with a good role model, which most of us weren't because our fathers didn't grow up with a good role model either, the examples we are barraged with daily – bungling, wussy beta pseudomales who somehow trip over themselves and fall into the arms of success by complete accident if at all – are there in your face constantly to confound and corrupt any legitimate concept you may have. But you still have a chance…
There are a few of us around who have not succumbed to all this wussy crap that's been shoveled at us since the 1970's, or have succumbed but learned from our mistakes and awakened from that wussy slumber, who can be that role model for you. A very few of us even have the writing, teaching, and training skills to help. One of us that I know of has even researched what seemed to be the right formula, tested it on hundreds of women and couples, and has made it available for you with little more than a few mouse clicks. Ummm, that would be me. ;-) You even have direct access to many of us on our forum, http://forum.makingherhappy.com/, and you really should join us.
It's called "THE Man's Guide to Great Relationships and Marriage," and it's all that, and more. Go to http://www.makingherhappy.com/ and download your copy and see for yourself. Rick did, as did many others, and now they own their lives; join them.
In the meantime, live well, be well, and have a wonderful day!
Posted by David Cunningham
Labels: Affairs, attraction, authority, Bad Influences, Boredom, Cheating, Fantasies, Growing Apart, How to Please a Woman, How Women Behave, Romance, seduction, Sweeping Her Off Her Feet, What Women Want
Author of "THE Man's Guide to Great Relationships and Marriage" and happily married for over twelve years. Successful international corporate consultant, successful currency and futures trader, ex-military, grew up on a farm in a very rural part of the country and learned to earn and appreciate the finer things in life.
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Kahaani 2
This sequel directed by Sujoy Ghosh after a gap of four years is a whodunit that definitely serves up intrigue, but fails to keep a tight grip on proceedings throughout its duration. So unlike the first part, that hit the ground running and set a benchmark in the genre, this one lacks the shark-bite. But you do invest in Vidya Sinha, a harrowed, working mum from Chandan Nagar in West Bengal and her handicapped teenage daughter, who like most middle-class people overcome hurdles to go through the daily grind. So much so, that when Mini goes missing and Vidya meets an accident, there is a sense of void. Enter, Indrajit(Arjun Rampal), the cop-on-the-case, who is the first one to discover that the woman in a coma resembles Durga(Vidya Balan again!), a school clerk from Kalimpong, who is a fugitive-on-the-run.
Here it is important to say that the film works because Vidya the mother or Durga the murderer are both believable and solid characters. As is the cop piecing the mystery together. And, to give out anything more about the plot is unfair.
Shot majorly at night and on real locations, the film has the authentic texture. If you fell in love with Kolkata in the 2012 outing, you will love Kalimpong here. The background score gives stomach-knots (as it must) and the camera work is good.
Vidya, shorn of make-up and glamour breezes through her dual role in autopilot mode. Arjun impresses as the cop hankering for a promotion and is believable as the husband. If you have an appetite for thrillers (albeit, with some flaws) give this one a try.
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Vidya Sinha (Vidya Balan) has only one obsession in life. She wants to see her teenage daughter Mini, who is paralysed waist-downwards, walk again. But, is this scenario as obvious as it seems? Or is Vidya an impersonator of Durga Rani Singh from Kalimpong, who is wanted for kidnapping and murder?
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NEW DELHI: A US law, which imposes sanctions on Russia and Iran, is proving to be a stumbling block for India as it tries to strengthen its military partnership with Russia and improve trade ties with Afghanistan via the Chabahar Port.
Last year, US President Donald Trump had signed a law, 'The Countering America's Adversaries Through Sanctions Act', CAATSA, imposing sanctions on Russia, Iran and North Korea. The Section 231 of CAATSA mandates secondary sanctions on those who conduct significant transactions with the Russian defence and intelligence sectors.
The possible impact of the sanctions will be one of the main agendas of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's informal summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
that China is developing while overwhelming the capabilities of Pakistan.
The air defence system is not the only worry for India, which has a history of close military ties with Russia. A large chunk of Indian military hardware traces its roots to Russian-based firms.
Russian hardware represented 62 per cent of the country's total weapons imports during the past five years, compared with 79 per cent in 2008-2012, the Stockholm Peace Research Institute said in a report last month. Russian parts, supplies and maintenance are vital for the Indian security infrastructure.
The issue is crucial to the Indian military because a sanction on procuring military trade with Russia is likely to serve a severe dent to India's security prospects in the region.
As Russia shares a tumultuous relationship with the west, India's efforts to forge a strategic partnership with the latter, including the United States, has further complicated the situation.
is Congressionally-mandated and the administration's hands may be tied in terms of waivers if India goes in for new purchases.
However, there is a ray of hop for India. The US administration could declare that imposing sanctions on India, a major defence partner, would hurt US national security interests. That would allow a waiver permitting India to do business with Russia.
Chabahar is among a number of projects of transport and energy networks projects designed to boost Afghanistan's trade and lay the foundations for a mining industry capable of exploiting its billions of dollars in untapped mineral reserves.
The port will also offer an opportunity to India to exploit export iron ore from two tracts at the Hajigak iron mine in central Afghanistan that it won the rights to exploit.
"The only way to get India more involved" in Afghanistan's economic development "is through Chabahar," said Barnett Rubin, an expert with New York University's Center for International Cooperation and a former adviser to the State Department and the United Nations.
But President Trump's decision to re-impose sanctions on Iran and penalise financial institutions for doing business with Tehran is clouding Chabahar's viability as banks, nervous they could be hit with crippling penalties, pull back from financing.
expert, Uday Shankar said, "Chabahar is supposed to enable India to be able to access Afghanistan bypassing Pakistan. When the American sanctions are in place, importing equipment to Iran for a joint project would be a problem."
"More importantly, India has invested almost half a billion dollars in Chabahar Port creating their infrastructure. It is a relatively nascent stage. Chabahar is a work in progress. But, it has long-term implications. In terms of India, it is having a co-hold in a very crucial maritime part of the region," he added.
The Iran nuclear deal was signed between six countries in 2015 - Iran, the US, Britain, Germany, Russia, France, and China for lifting economic sanctions on Tehran in exchange for limitations to the country's nuclear programme.
Earlier this month, President Trump had announced the US withdrawal from the Iran deal or the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), calling it as an "embarrassment" and "defective at its core" and citing that the deal has failed to protect America's national security interest.
Other world powers have vowed to uphold the landmark deal. The deal places restrictions on Iran's nuclear programme.