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You Are the Guru
6 Messages to Help You Move Through Difficult Times with Certainty and Faith
Written by: Gabrielle Bernstein
Narrated by: Gabrielle Bernstein
Categories: Relationships, Parenting & Personal Development, Personal Development
4.8 out of 5 stars 4.8 (101 ratings)
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Good focus, but repetitive
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Spirit Junkie
A Radical Road to Self-Love and Miracles
Written by: Gabrielle Bernstein, Marianne Williamson
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The spark that lit the fire
Super Attractor
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Ready to turn what you want into the life that you live? The number-one New York Times best-selling author of The Universe Has Your Back shows you how. In Super Attractor, Gabrielle Bernstein lays out the essential methods for manifesting a life beyond your wildest dreams. This book is a journey of remembering where your true power lies. You'll learn how to co-create the life you want. You'll accept that life can flow, that attracting is fun, and that you don't have to work so hard to get what you want.
Get ready to take notes
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Written by: Rha Goddess, Gabrielle Bernstein
Narrated by: Rha Goddess, Gabrielle Bernstein
Are you willing to believe in you? Every single one of us has a calling. For most, it's the thing you have to force yourself not to do. When you try to ignore it, you can't stop thinking about. It is the thing that both terrifies you and brings you the most joy. Already living yours? Great! How do you make the most of it? The Calling will provide listeners with a road map, via three fundamental shifts on how to stay true, get paid, and do good.
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Written by: Jay Shetty
Narrated by: Jay Shetty
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i couldn't stop listening
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Narrated by: Rachel Hollis
When it comes to the "hard seasons" of life - the death of a loved one, divorce, loss of a job - transformation seems impossible when grief and uncertainty dominate your days. Especially when, as Didn't See that Coming reveals, no one asks to have their future completely rearranged for them. But, as Rachel writes, it is up to you how you come through your pain - you can come through changed for the better, having learned and grown, or stuck in place where your identity becomes rooted in what hurt you.
This is one of Rach's Best Books!!
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May Cause Miracles
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The Gifts of Imperfection, 10th Anniversary Edition
Features a New Foreword
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Narrated by: Brené Brown
For more than a decade, Brené Brown has found a special place in our hearts as a gifted mapmaker and a fellow traveler. She is both a social scientist and a kitchen table friend whom you can always count on to tell the truth, make you laugh, and, on occasion, cry with you. And what's now become a movement all started with The Gifts of Imperfection, which has sold more than two million copies in 35 different languages across the globe.
An excellent read!
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Narrated by: Glennon Doyle
5 out of 5 stars 2,199
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Miracles Now
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Let's be real for a sec. Most of us don't have time for an hour of yoga or 30 minutes of meditation every day. We're overwhelmed as it is. Our spiritual practice shouldn't add to that. That's why I've handpicked 108 simple techniques to combat our most common problems - stress, burnout, frustration, jealousy, resentment. The stuff we have to deal with on a daily basis. This audiobook is designed so that you can achieve peace and experience miracles now. Inspired by some of the greatest spiritual teachings, Miracles Now uses practical, moment-to-moment tools to help you eliminate blocks and live with more ease.
Written by: Rhonda Byrne
Narrated by: Rhonda Byrne, Sailor Bob Adamson, Michael Beckwith, and others
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Manifest Your Destiny
The Nine Spiritual Principles for Getting Everything You Want
Written by: Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
Narrated by: Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
Best-selling inspirational author Dr. Wayne Dyer can help you to achieve your highest goals by showing you how to attract your needs and desires into your life. Dr. Dyer's stunning work focuses on the ancient principle of manifesting.
just wow.
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The Untethered Soul Guided Journal
Practices to Journey Beyond Yourself
Written by: Michael A. Singer
Narrated by: Mike Athey
In this beautiful guided journal, you'll find brand-new exercises and prompts paired with original passages from The Untethered Soul. These prompts encourage you to fully relate Michael A. Singer's teachings to your personal experiences, allowing you to dive into the teachings and make them a part of your daily life.
Everything Is Figureoutable
Written by: Marie Forleo
Narrated by: Marie Forleo
If you're having trouble solving a problem or reaching a dream, the problem isn't you. It's that you haven't yet installed the one belief that changes everything. Marie's mom once told her, "Nothing in life is that complicated. You can do whatever you set your mind to if you roll up your sleeves. Everything is figureoutable." Whether you want to leave a dead end job, break an addiction, learn to dance, heal a relationship, or grow a business, Everything is Figureoutable will show you how.
a must!!
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The Secret Language of the Universe
Written by: Laura Lynne Jackson
Narrated by: Laura Lynne Jackson
Laura Lynne Jackson is a psychic medium and the author of the New York Times best seller The Light Between Us. She possesses an incredible gift: the ability to communicate with loved ones who have passed, convey messages of love and healing, and impart a greater understanding of our interconnectedness. Though her abilities are exceptional, they are not unique, and that is the message at the core of this book. Understanding "the secret language of the universe" is a gift available to all.
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Written by: Matthew McConaughey
Narrated by: Matthew McConaughey
I've been in this life for 50 years, been trying to work out its riddle for 42, and been keeping diaries of clues to that riddle for the last 35. Notes about successes and failures, joys and sorrows, things that made me marvel, and things that made me laugh out loud. How to be fair. How to have less stress. How to have fun. How to hurt people less. How to get hurt less. How to be a good man. How to have meaning in life. How to be more me.
Alright Alright Alright
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Written by: Matt Kahn
Narrated by: Matt Kahn
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By Nancy on 2020-04-01
You Are the Guru: 6 Messages to Move You Through Difficult Times with Certainty and Faith
Whether you're having a moment of minor overwhelm or find yourself in a state of panic, you can turn to this Audible Original for solutions and support.
These six messages are simple, reliable, spiritual solutions that will free you from fear and inner turmoil. In order to show up for life and all its challenges, we must be able to regulate our nervous system, calm our mind, and trust our inner wisdom to give us clear direction. This Audible Original will teach you how to guide yourself back to peace at any moment.
Let the number one New York Times best-selling author Gabrielle Bernstein show you how to be your own guide, tapping in to a deeply unifying awareness and empathy you may not realize you possess.
Gabrielle will impart the six simple, memorable messages that will illuminate the spiritual solution inside each of us and guide us through tumultuous times:
See through the lens of love.
Surrender to creative solutions.
Inspired action clears the path.
In stillness, we receive.
Compassion creates connection.
You are the guru.
Filled with personal, illustrative examples and warm, practical encouragement, You Are the Guru is the guide for finding your compass in challenging times.
©2020 Gabrielle Bernstein (P)2020 Audible Originals, LLC.
What listeners say about You Are the Guru
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Love it man!!! Can you tell I'm Jamaican. Lol
I loved the meditation in between as it gave me time to relax as I listened. I felt the audio was very comforting with each meditation. As l learned and loved it all. Bless up to GB
whoa. that is whoa.
as i wipe my face from tears, i thank you. the last mediation before the closing out got me, it got me good. i didnt realize how much i needed to hear all your words Gabby. this one is gonna be on repeat, so much grace and ease is surrounding me now. thank you.
Sarah Gallagher
amazing and helpful as always! 🙌
I love how gabby writes in a way that is easy and approachable even those those who are new to spirituality! 💖I have read almost all her books now and i just love how clearly she communicates and articulates her ideas to her reader and especially how she pairs it the with her own personal experiences. She really offers up easy, logical steps to guide anyone towards a happier, more meaningful and connected life. Shes like the gateway drug to delving into spiritual practices in my opinion 😂because she makes everything simple and straightforward with exercises and examples that are easy to apply to your day to day routine. 10/10 👏👏👏👏👏👏
Kenneth Burke
Very much needed in these times. Thank you for for sharing your stories. I would highly recommend this book. Peace be with you always.
Another amazing book from Gabby
Although there are some concepts from her previous books, they are more profound. I loved the book. <3
jen gordon
I am new to Gabby's work this year and I have voraciously consumed all of her books, this one being my fav so far. I love the empowerment that comes from being your own Guru. She gives such empowering messages and is so honest and vulnerable. I appreciate all of her work. Everyone on a spiritual path or one of self discovery will put this book in their toolbox for sure.
Juan Carlos Kvedaras
Fantastic help guide
Thank you Gabby for always being so positive in this challenging times. Will listen over and over again!
Loved it, and easy to listen to. I had a feeling of hope and love .
Amirchov
As awesome as all of Gabby's work
Enjoyed it very much! easy to follow the chapters and the messages. Very enlightening. recommended!
Evi Spiliotopoulos
Didn't like it at all
Worst of her books Didn't feel spiritual I normally love Gabby and her work so so much; this one a totally disappointment in my view
Political?!
After listening for the first five minutes, my heart sank. I was really hoping to be uplifted from this fog we are all living through, Not interested in hearing about your political views of "social and economic injustices". Tired of feeling guilt tripped for being a white person. We are all just people and everything isn't about race, color or creed. It's about personal responsibility and being the change we wish to see in the world.
Too political
i was really excited to learn more about spiritual guidance and anxiety and fears, but the author kept dwelling into "racial injustice" and how fortunate she is for her "white privilege" (which is a made up concept, by the way). She should stick with her own so called expertise about spirituality instead of acting as if she knows what being black feels like. white apologists are worse and more pretensous and fake than any. A good attempt at brain washing the audience though, no wonder it's free.
S Gavo
great author
your political views are not needed in your books. I am saddened that you have taken this path.
D34DGoth
"White privilege" BS
Wow what a joke of a human being. Talking about BLM and "white privilege" only takes us back into the victim hood mentality and does not offer any true peace within.
Allen Bonebrake
Self esteem is not a political platform
I am so sick and tired of every person with a platform telling me what the Vision of my life should be. People of privilege some of us worked in America the land of opportunity and started from no privileged background. We received blessings based on our efforts not our colors. If you are speaking from a position of love first why would we teach one color is more important than any other. If I am my own Guru I would teach we are spirits sojourning together with different challenges all intended to prepare us for eternity.
White guilt
I wanted a book on meditation, not propaganda. Please keep politics out of this . Thank you
Lisa Billings
"White Privilege"-speak in a self help book??
She lost me in the first chapter when she started talking about how she took her privilege for granted. This kind of negativity has no place in a book like this. I feel like I was listening to the author read a story from from the New York Times. I would rather take guru advice from a Gummy Bear.
Uninspired
False premises right of the gate. I checked out as soon as the social justice BS started.
TheBlogAbroad
A Lightworker
I adore Gabby's inner light and her willingness to put herself out there and navigate new areas to discuss and shed light on. If you're not someone who can handle honest discussions about race and privilege, this might not be for you. But if your level of awareness is more advanced, you'll absolutely love this! In light of Covid-19 and the current climate of racial injustice, it'll both challenge and invite you to approach life with a new lens.
Not a thrill or new
I thought she would have some thought provoking discussion. But for me she re-hashed other authors thoughts. But maybe because I am not new to what she is expressing.
agnieszka nowacka-lejeune
Book For You!!
I Love that Boom do Much!! Recommend to everyone that are Ready for changes. Enjoy


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DETROIT (AP) For the first time since last summer, R.A. Dickey won consecutive starts.
On a day when Dickey couldn't consistently do anything with his knuckleball, his Toronto teammates scored seven runs in the first five innings Wednesday in a 7-2 victory over the Detroit Tigers.
Dickey (4-6) allowed two runs and nine hits in 5 1/3 innings. Combined with Friday's victory at Boston, he won back-to-back outings for the first time since Aug. 28 against Detroit and Sept. 2 versus Cleveland.
Josh Donaldson made that a lot easier. In the first inning, he hit what would have normally been a routine grounder to second, but Ian Kinsler was shifted to the third-base side of the bag, so it went for a single.
Donaldson scored on Justin Smoak's homer, then homered and tripled in his next two at-bats.
Kevin Pillar added a two-run triple as Toronto stopped Detroit's five-game winning streak.
Donaldson needed a double for the cycle, but grounded out in the seventh and was on deck when the Blue Jays made their last out in the ninth.
Jordan Zimmermann (8-3) gave up seven runs and eight hits in 4 2-3 innings - including two triples and two homers. He has allowed seven or more runs twice in his last four outings, and his ERA has risen to 3.30 from 1.10 on May 6.
Nick Castellanos hit his 11th homer for the Tigers.
Smoak and Castellanos had two-run homers in the first, and Donaldson's three-run homer put Toronto ahead for good in the third. Detroit put runners at the corners with one out when Ezequiel Carrera grounded into a 3-6-2 double play started by Jose Iglesias.
Zimmermann couldn't get out of the fifth, when Donaldson and Pillar tripled.
Detroit got a runner to third with one out in the seventh, but Jesse Chavez came in to strike out James McCann and Andrew Romine. Detroit also strained two runners in the eighth.
Blue Jays: SS Troy Tulowitzki (quadriceps) is scheduled to report to extended spring training this weekend. Toronto manager John Gibbons expects him to be activated when eligible Monday.
Tigers: CF Cameron Maybin was out of the starting lineup for a second straight day with soreness in his left wrist. Maybin broke the wrist in spring training and has been bothered by occasional pain. Ausmus said after the game that Maybin, who pinch ran on Tuesday, got a cortisone shot on Monday night and is expected to play Friday in New York.
Tigers DH Victor Martinez got the day off after going 0 for 3 with three strikeouts for the first time in his big league career. The move also allowed Brad Ausmus to shift Miguel Cabrera to DH. Andrew Romine played first base and Justin Upton got a rare home start in centerfield.
Blue Jays: RHP Marcus Stroman (5-2, 4.82 starts Thursday's opener of a four-game series against visiting Baltimore and RHP Tyler Wilson (2-5, 4.39).
Tigers: RHP Mike Pelfrey (1-5, 4.76) is to start Friday's series opener at the New York Yankees, who go with LHP CC Sabathia (3-4, 2.58).


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January 2, 2009 January 3, 2009 by Edward Champion
In Defense of David Denby
Denby, David, Media, Snark, sternbergh-adam, Writing
In an effort to liven things up, New York Magazine has assigned Adam Sternbergh, the snark practitioner who cut his teeth with Fametracker, to review David Denby's Snark: It's Mean, It's Personal, and It's Ruining Our Conversation. I don't believe the subtitle is fair to the arguments contained within the book, but I can understand why some marketing type at Simon & Schuster included it: controversy drums up sales. And controversy, particularly the unthinking and tendentious variety that is on display in Sternbergh's review, drums up attention.
As someone who has actually read Denby's book, and as someone who has indulged in snark from time to time, I find myself in the strange position of defending Denby. Sternbergh's "appropriate response" completely misses the point of Denby's thesis and Sternbergh, in his efforts to persuade us of snark's great glory, unintentionally reenforces Denby's argument.
Denby does not, contrary to Sternbergh's claims, argue that snark is "humor as a vehicle for cruelty." Denby states at the beginning that he's "all in favor of nasty comedy, incessant profanity, trash talk, any kind of satire, and certain kinds of invective." And he concludes his book on the same note, urging readers and writers to commit "vituperation that is insulting, nasty, but, well, clean." If one must be vituperative, Denby hopes for writing along the lines of Gore Vidal's evisceration of Truman Capote in his 1976 essay, "Some Memories of the Glorious Bird and an Earlier Self," in which Vidal's carefully worded insult (labeled here as "high snark") takes into account specific biographical details about Capote. In Denby's view, this follows quite naturally in Juvenal's tradition. And even he cannot resist this.
Nor is Denby "rehashing the arguments mounted against irony." It is indeed irony that Denby is championing. Denby brings up Stephen Colbert's infamous 2006 appearance at the White House Correspondents Dinner, writing:
I don't think the jokes are Colbert's best, yet the event is still a classic of comedy and of citizenly virtue. Why? Because it's not snark. It's irony, an apparent act of kinship with the president that is actually a violent unseating of the president. (121)
But irony alone isn't what Denby's after here. He believes that good satire involves praising "some corresponding set of virtues, even if only by implication." And in Sternbergh's view, it is the "acid-tongued readers" who constantly complain that present "the best fans a culture could hope to produce." While sarcasm and vituperation certainly have their place, and can be exceptionally potent qualities when a writer wishes to pursue a larger truth, I must again side with Denby here. Is it really "passion" that drives a writer or a commentator who is always sour? Or is there really nothing more than bitter resentment? What is the point of nothing more than nimble flayings if you are not fighting for something better?
Sternbergh also takes umbrage about Denby's observation that snark "has too modest a rooting interest in artists actually succeeding at anything," and insists that the contributions to Television Without Pity were "never, ever, disengaged." But "disengagement" is not what Denby is identifying here. One can be sourly "engaged" when one is merely an "acid-tongued reader" too terrified to express anything joyful or marvelous about the universe. Denby's wondering why some writers refuse to offer so much as a positive word. And Sternbergh, in his defense of TWoP, never cites a single example from the website in which its writers wrote something along the lines of, "That episode of Lost was fantastic. And the filmmakers should be commended for an intelligent script and taut direction."
I agree with Sternbergh that Denby doesn't quite identify where snark originated (but he does make a half-decent effort to pinpoint its contemporary roots at Spy Magazine), but the very irony that Sternbergh identifies as "a defense against inheriting a two-faced world" isn't the issue here. Because the best defense in these cases is hardly an effective offense. As Denby observes of Spy's infiltration of Bohemian Grove, "The malicious rug-pulling was fun to watch, but there was also something creepy, parasitic, and fully meaningless about such minor invasions. Spy never did find out how power worked in New York or what deals between political and corporate honchos were struck in Bohemian Grove; it discovered only where power hung out and what its vulgar habits were." While I disagree with Denby's suggestion that pranksterism and tomfoolery fail to loosen minor realities which lead others towards a better understanding of how the world operates (computer hackers, driven by curiosity and mischief, force administrators to enact better security; Sarah Palin is revealed to be woefully unqualified by a Quebec comedy duo), he is right to point to a certain vacuity in many snarky experiments. You can read a website like Television Without Pity and realize that the people who write for it are wasting their talents drinking in nothing but the poisonous tonic of sarcasm. These writers have no desire to understand or properly rebel against the "two-faced world" that's apparently so evil. Indeed, in TWoP's case, NBC Universal snatched it up and this caused others to take umbrage at the distilled results.
This is the precise cycle that Denby identifies in Gawker (citing Vanessa Grigoriadis's "Everybody Sucks"). The real motivations of these young snarky writers are to take the jobs of those within the mainstream. And just as Jessica Coen and Choire Sicha have moved within the gates, so too has TWoP. The "revolters" become the establishment. The founders flee their garret and get good jobs. And then they have friends, such as Adam Sternbergh, defending them at their new vantage point in the parapets. (See an archive of Tara Ariano's articles for New York and an archive of Sarah D. Bunting's articles for New York. Both were founders of TWoP.)
Sternbergh quotes Denby's "lazy generalization" about people in the thirties and the forties being "in the same boat," but he conveniently elides the sentences that follow:
But at the moment, the attitude is that there is no common boat, and that, if there were one, other people should be thrown out of it. Income inequalities and Rovian tactics that exacerbate ethnic and class differences have made for sandpapery relations or blank indifference, and snark serves not to break down the walls of loneliness and fear but to solidify them by servicing communities held together by resentment. This isn't the place for economic and sociological analysis, but everyone knows there's an infinite amount of anger out there.
Now, you could calmly point out Sternbergh's almost total inability to grok historical context or his failure to challenge Denby on how snark "breaks down the walls of loneliness." Or you could respond, "Sternbergh, you dumbass, have you ever read any fucking books about the economic and social conditions during the Great Depression or World War II?" Witness Sternbergh's total disregard for (a) trying to figure out where Denby is coming from and (b) deliberately cutting off his quote so that Denby's larger point about isolation is curtailed.
Denby is certainly not disputing how Peggy Noonan's slip clips away at pores in the wall. His argument rests on how snark fails to puncture it. When Maureen Dowd, who Denby devotes a full chapter to, consistently shifts her messages or fixates on Al Gore's mannerisms (which has nothing to do with political realities), he is pointing out quite clearly that the snarky response is not always the best response and that, without any corresponding set of virtues, it's utterly meaningless to public discourse.
While there may be some truth to Sternbergh's theory that snark may turn its volume down if people say what they actually believe, one is likewise struck by Sternbergh's unwillingness to give Tom Cruise the benefit of the doubt. I'm certainly no Tom Cruise fan, but I'm not such a jaded bastard to view Cruise as a total enemy incarnate (particularly with true scum like Bernard Madoff swindling good people). Cruise has certainly made an ass of himself jumping on Oprah's couch and the like. But like Denby, I've never met the guy. And I probably never will. For all I know, we might get along.
What I can address is Tom Cruise's strengths and failings as an actor. That is within the legitimate realm of public discourse, because that is my relationship with Tom Cruise. I can likewise address, as Sternbergh suggests, the "draconian information control" that prevents Cruise from answering tough questions about his craft and perhaps growing as an actor. But what contribution does describing Cruise as "a smaller, yappy version of Arnold Schwarzenegger as The Terminator" make to public discourse? How does it help us to understand Tom Cruise? It would be just as ignoble if I described Adam Sternbergh as a "third-rate David Caruso with a silly chin" (based on this photo) or Sternbergh describing Denby as "an Internet-age Andy Rooney" in his review. But what merit or thought do such descriptions have when we are considering thoughts and ideas? None whatsoever.
Denby isn't asking us to keep our voices down. He's asking us to reconsider how we use our voices. And unlike previous books that have railed against the Internet (recent volumes from Lee Siegel and Andrew Keen come to mind; Denby, for what its worth, dismisses the former), Denby is not entirely against the Internet's possibilities for expression. And this is what makes his book more nuanced and more interesting.
He rails against anonymous trolls, but his complaints extend more to the anonymity behind the comment. Why go to the trouble to slander someone when you can put your name to it? (Easy. You divest yourself of responsibility.) He bemoans websites and blogs that don't bother to check or corroborate information, but that insist that they're doing a better job than mainstream journalism while they simultaneously declare that they lack the time and the resources to fact-check. (And to demonstrate that Denby is not an enemy of the Internet, he commends Talking Points Memo for its fact-checking.)
He also bravely reveals an excerpt of his own snark, to show that he is not above taking snarky potshots. Indeed, we're all capable of it. That's part of the problem. Do we lob Sternberghian spitballs at those whose arguments we cannot intelligently address? Or do we do so with a corresponding set of virtues in mind? Do we say something positive or constructive every now and then? If we work in media, do we close the gates to those who are just starting out? Or do we give these struggling voices opportunities and include them into the framework? Most importantly, do we siphon our rage into something that involves unexpected revelations about the world we live in? Just about anybody can fire off a cheap shot, but it takes a thoughtful individual with real guts to reveal the full scope of terrible truths. And to give Sternbergh the benefit of the doubt, I hope he reconsiders what pursuing these truths really entails.
October 24, 2008 October 24, 2008 by Edward Champion
David Perel: Fuckhead of the Month
david perel, national enquirer, radar, tmz
Among the many media casualties on this Black Friday was Radar going down. I've been told that Radar staffers were asked to clear their desks by 3:00 PM and likewise asked to sign off on a voluntary layoff form. And as if these developments weren't disgusting enough, editor David Perel announced on the same day just how happy he was to be on board. Perel, moving to Radar from the National Enquirer, had this to say to Mark Paretsky's Cover Awards this afternoon: "I have already been contacted today by some top entertainment and news journalists who want to be part of this new venture. I am looking forward to putting together a new team that is the best of the best. We are hiring now!"
It's possible that Perel is just too much of a fucktard to understand that writers and editors were being unmoored while he spoke these words. But surely even the biggest dunderhead in the media world could understand that any makeover into a TMZ competitor would likely involve laying a few people off. Perel's total insensitivity to the Radar staffers who were let go earns him the rare honor of Fuckhead of the Month — never awarded to anyone in this site's history!
(via Gawker)
March 25, 2008 March 25, 2008 by Edward Champion
The Early Films of Jim Henson
Film, henson-jim, Media, Television
films, jim henson, Media, Television
Before the days of Sesame Street and The Muppet Show, Jim Henson was an independent filmmaker in New York, making experimental films between commercial gigs. It was the mid-sixties. According to John Bell's Strings, Hands, Shadows: A Modern Puppet History, Henson was sharing a workshop space for a few months in the basement of a New York City library with a German sculptor and choreographer named Peter Schumann. Schumann specialized in avant-garde performances, entertaining crowds with masks, puppets, and postmodern dance, often employing these for political demonstrations.
In watching 1965's "Time Piece," seen above and recently unearthed by Metafilter, it's difficult to consider it without Schumann in mind. The film played in New York theaters on a double bill with Claude Lelouch's A Man and a Woman and concerns itself with a man (played by Henson) being examined in a hospital. As the clock ticks away, a grand surrealistic array of experiential memories overtakes his existence. Gorillas bounce on pogo sticks. There is the quiet Kermit-like plea of "Help!" Chickens emerge in strip clubs. And all this is intercut with optically printed pixellated squares.
The film is set to a intermittent drum rhythm that echoes the heartbeat of time. What's particularly intriguing is that, according to David P. Campbell's The Complete Inklings, "Time Piece" so captured Campbell's imagination that the film was shown at an a seminar at the Minnesota Statewide Testing Program annual conference, with Henson's film projected on one screen and the test results of a random individual projected on another. The idea was to show Henson's film, with Campbell announcing to the students, "We should always remember that there is a person behind each of these test scores; to make that point dramatically, here is one person's test scores and here is a product of his considerable imagination."
This permissive cultural climate permitted Henson to make "The Cube" in 1969, a teleplay that independent filmmaker Vincenzo Natali appears to have handily pilfered from.
A protagonist, known only as "The Man in the Cube," is trapped inside a cube of white rectangular panels, with strange individuals who enter and exit through other doors. This premise gave Henson the opportunity to explore a wide variety of topics: racism, sexism, the realm between reality and fantasy. There is even reference to the fourth wall. At one point, a professor addresses the man, pointing out that he is in a television play.
Believe it or not, "The Cube" was commissioned for a television series called Experiment in Television, a now forgotten program that aired on NBC between 1968 and 1971. This series came about because NBC needed filler material to provide late Sunday afternoon programming when the football season had ended. And they decided, quite amazingly, to provide a venue without commercials for documentaries and experimental films.
In the end, it was public television that secured Henson's rise to fame. But today, unless you're as squeaky-clean as Ken Burns, your prospects for national exposure are slim. Now that the first season of Sesame Street has been issued on DVD, it's been issued with a parental advisory reading, "These early 'Sesame Street' episodes are intended for grown-ups, and may not suit the needs of today's preschool child." The idea of children running around an inner city, looking to learning as a way out, is apparently too threatening a concept.
Given this drastic shift in priorities — the unusual idea of commissioning an experimental film for a testing conference, the now antediluvian notion of creating a space on national television where filmmakers can pursue alternative ideas, and the censure on anything slightly offensive to "suit the needs" of children — one is forced to contemplate the current media atmosphere. Certainly, there is YouTube and the Internet. But this online landscape increasingly values views — and thereby advertising revenue — over notions that are not popular or lucrative, and one wonders just how tomorrow's Hensons will thrive. Of course, any artist who feels compelled to create will not let any obstacle stop him. But by hindering the spectrum of expression with our priorities (what sells, what's safe, et al.), I'm wondering if we're closing the floodgates to those who might have new and innovative ways to get a mass audience excited about the world around us.
November 16, 2005 by Edward Champion
Kenneth Tomlinson, Another Neocon Hypocrite
Remember Kenneth Tomlinson? The guy who launched a $10,000 study to look into the purported liberal bias of Now with Bill Moyers. Well, it seems that Tomlinson himself broke federal law by bringing in more conservative voices to tilt PBS's programming to the right, violating the ethical standards set forth by the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967. Apparently, Tomlinson couldn't practice what he preached.
Interestingly enough, Tomlinson resigned as a board member earlier in the month shortly after all this chicanery was unearthed by Corporation for Public Broadcasting Inspector General Kenneth Konz. While there are no criminal penalties for Tomlinson's unethical conduct, if there is any justice in the world, I sincerely hope that Tomlinson will be found working at an Arby's somewhere.
When Televised Photo Ops of "Journalists in the Trenches" Go Awry
Crooks and Liars has this hilarious disparity between a West Coast feed and an East Coast feed pertaining to an NBC News correspondent pertaining to flooding. In the East Coast feed, we see the reporter in a boat, and people walk right on by. In the West Coast feed, the boat has mysteriously disappeared.
August 24, 2005 August 24, 2005 by Edward Champion
Agism Going Down at the Dailies
Advertising, Journalism, Media
There's two extraordinary stories from Romenensko. The first deals with political commentator Jim Witcover, who at 78, had his column at the Baltimore Sun reduced his frequency, with the sun cutting his salary down to a third of its previous rate. When the year on the contract renewed, the Baltimore Sun then sent a termination notice by overnight mail. Could it have been Witcover's anti-Iraq stance or the fact that he was older?
The second item concerns this memo from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, which offers a retirement package to those "who are 50 ages and above as of November 1, 2005."
With both of these stories, there seems to be a clear and resounding message here. If you're a journalist, even a syndicated columnist, getting up in years, don't expect to be respected. Don't even expect to be treated with any polite exit procedure. With newspapers already facing possible threats from major advertisers looking for a "younger, lowbrow" demographic, rather than an "older and elitist one," could it be that newspapers are panicking and taking this attitude too much to heart?
[UPDATE: The Baltimore-based Live by the Foma offers his perspective on Witcover's career and how it ties into the Baltimore Sun's legacy.]
August 23, 2005 by Edward Champion
They Don't Want News; They Want Nonsense
Journalism, Media
Another article deflating Bill Keller's "more elevated" argument from USA Today: "For the first six months of the year, celebrity and gossip magazines such as Us Weekly posted double-digit newsstand gains while newsweeklies such as Time, Newsweek and U.S. News & World Report saw single-copy sales dip 3.4% to 16.6%."
More Emotion-Induced Blindness Please. We're Not Driving.
New Scientist: "The new study by US psychologists found that people shown erotic or gory images frequently fail to process images they see immediately afterwards. And the researchers say some personality types appear to be affected more than others by the phenomenon, known as 'emotion-induced blindness'."
Hooyah!
The Latest Battle Between Old Media and New Media: Coen and Johnson?
Rolling Stone covers the unexpected war between Gawker's Jessica Coen and the New York Post's Page Six. Richard Johnson apparently sees Gawker as a threat after Coen turned Gawker caustic, remarking, "I don't think you've realized how many gossip columns we've buried over the years."
August 7, 2005 August 8, 2005 by Edward Champion
Peter Jennings: The Missing Link
Media, Television
So Peter Jennings is dead. No doubt the paeans will be composed and filed tonight and tomorrow's newspapers will yield the usual uncritical obits. They'll tell you how Jennings was the last active member of the Holy Trinity of Brokaw, Jennings and Rather, about how Jennings was the final remnant of a certain time in television journalism (if one doesn't consider that phrase an oxymoron), and about how Jennings was a decent guy (or at least appeared to be a decent guy).
But for anyone who contemplates shedding a tear or observing a moment of silence, I have to ask an important question: Did Peter Jennings ever ask a tough question in his life? And if he did, did it come during the past twenty years? Because I sure as hell don't recall Jennings giving us much more than somnolent narration not dissimilar from a half-baked nature program.
Perhaps I'm fired up right now because I've just read this week's New Yorker and I found myself horrified by Ken Auletta's article on morning TV talk shows, "The Dawn Patrol" (unavailable online). Aside from that ol' time sophistication, Auletta's article is no different from a People Magazine profile in the way that it fawns over its subjects without blinking even a quasi-skeptical eye. Or maybe it might be my outrage after reading Norman Solomon's new book, War Made Easy, which offers countless examples of how the media has, over the past forty years, repeated the boiler plate of official government memos without deviating, never really daring to doubt or question actions for fear of retaliation, along the lines of what happened to Ray Bonner when he dared to uncover the truth about the El Mozote massacre and found himself pushed out of the New York Times newsroom or when Elizabeth Becker faced resistance when uncovering the truth about Khmer Rouge for the Washington Post and the New York Times (as chronicled in part in Samantha Power's excellent book, A Problem from Hell).
I recall that my mother liked Peter Jennings a great deal. He was, I suppose, a source of comfort — ironically enough, it took a Canadian to lull Middle America. For her and for many other Americans, Jennings' soothing voice conveyed an illusory world that was far less problematic than the real one. And it was all because he was an affable, well-liked man who threw softball questions at his subjects more effectively than a batting cage machine.
But I would argue that one can remain reasonably well-liked and maintain a certain credibility. Let's compare Jennings with, say, Walter Cronkite (incidentally, still quite alive), once considered "the most trusted man in America." Cronkite had the cojones to declare, "There is no way this war can be justified any longer" after touring Vietnam in 1968. In fact, it was Lyndon B. Johnson who once opined, "If I've lost Cronkite, I've lost Middle America."
Jennings was far from a Cronkite. Or even a Walter Winchell. If anchormen can be likened to a recidivist evolutionary chain extending from Walter Cronkite to Matt Lauer, then Jennings was the missing link that took whatever edge that remained in television-based journalism, suffusing it into a safe and inoffensive approach.
He was a calm, telegenic man who read his words from the TelePrompTer with all the care and duty of a dependable savant being asked to play a recital piece in front of a easily assuaged crowd. He was likable. And in being well-liked, who knows how many viewers he led down the rabbit hole?
I don't blame Jennings entirely for this. Ultimately, this problem is endemic of the current system. And I'm sorry that he died of cancer. But at a time when only Karl Rove can get the White House press pool to rake Press Secretary Scott McClellan over the coals, at a time in which Americans are so desperate to find someone to trust that they turn to a comedian like Jon Stewart to get their news, and at a time when an anchor's credentials are judged not by journalistic chops, but by how well-liked, coiffed and curvy they are, it seems to me a disgrace that we prefer to take solace in those who are well-liked rather than the journalists who dare to provoke or tell the truth. In short, celebrating Jennings is, in a strange way, ignoring those who dare to do the work of a journalist, television ratings and focus groups be damned.
August 5, 2005 January 30, 2007 by Edward Champion
Reading Habits, Technology and the Hypothetical Rise of the Short
Media, Reading
It was worth ruining my eyes
To know I could still keep cool,
And deal out the old right hook
To dirty dogs twice my size.
— Philip Larkin, "A Study of Reading Habits
Each person has a different approach to reading. Some folks read in ten minute chunks. Others read in three hour clusters. Some read daily. Others read every week. Some read only nonfiction. Others read only fiction. Some read only on the toilet. Others need to be sitting nude on a mat, preferably in a yoga position for maximum meditation. Make up your own dichotomy and throw it into the pile like a pair of used cufflinks.
The very real question I have, inspired by this anecdotal post at the Shifted Librarian on how game culture has shifted productivity patterns, is whether any approach to reading is wrong, or whether the act of reading itself should even be concerned with something that smacks of schoolmarm etiquette. (These guidelines, for example, suggest that vocalizing or moving lips while one reads is bad. I must therefore conclude that every so often, particularly when I am perusing something that begs to be vocalized, I am a very bad reader indeed.) After all, since we're talking about an act that is largely solitary, my gut feeling is that the only person who should be concerned with the question of the right way to read and the wrong way to read is the reader herself.
Greogry Lamb has suggested that computers have changed the way that people read, but his article dwells more on how people are learning to increase their WPM reading rate (or using reading supplements like highlighting tools, including a site being devised by the Palo Alto Research Center to annotate Hamlet with endless scholarly commentaries). It says little about, say, the nauseating sensation of reading a 100,000 word novel on a computer screen (as opposed to a 2,000 word essay, which is more managable for the eyes and head) — a prospect that is likely to change as displays come closer to resembling paper (both in feel and resolution). (Many of these developments are being chronicled at the excellent Future of the Book blog.)
Since magazines and newspapers are seeing their subscriptions slowly plummet (with even such one-time staples as TV Guide resorting to drastic overhauls), there is the additional question of whether reading, at least as it pertains to magazines and newspapers, has adopted a time-shifting quality that we have been more willing to attribute to TiVo and podcasting, but that we aren't willing to apply to articles. This strange stigma may have something to do with the fact that much of this reading is done on company time, whether through the reader sitting at her work desktop reading an article in its entirety or disguising this malingering through effective one-browser window aggregators such as Bloglines or printing it off using company paper to read it on the subway home. Who wants to mention this when it's legitimate grounds for a grievance?
In other words, technology has enabled a remarkable workforce cluster to read by subterfuge (possibly for short-length articles). Perhaps they read because it's a revolutionary act that, outside of web tracking software, can't be completely gauged — sort of like jerking off on the clock.
Despite these clear advantages, there still remains a remarkable faith in technology which might be out of step with the tactile advantages of reading books, to the point where undergraduate university libraries have pared down their books to a mere 1,000 volumes and it is now inconceivable for today's college students to leave home without an arsenal of technology.
But if libraries and educational institutions become based almost solely around technology, where lies the future of reading? While there are plenty of studies indicating that reading is dropping and there remains some debate over whether this is a "sky is falling" alarmism (which Kevin Smokler and Paul Collins challenge in Bookmark Now) or a problem that needs to be addressed, none of these studies seem to indicate, to me, a much more telling trend: what type of reading are people doing precisely? Do they prefer shorter content such as a 2,000 word essay or a short story? Is there a correllation between a proclivity to read things on the Internet and the drop in "reading literature" announced within NEA's "Reading at Risk" report? Certainly, the ascent in chapbooks such as Harry G. Frankfurt's On Bullshit to the bestsellers list cannot be entirely overlooked.
If shorter reading experiences are the future (in part or in whole), then I would suggest that the short story has a fantastic new life ahead and that The Atlantic Monthly, in dropping short fiction entirely from its pages (and in failing to allow non-subscribers to access their content), is ass-backwards. Big time. Unless of course they see a new market in chapbooks or content siphoned directly to today's tech-savvy reading base.
Google, Media, Technology
So according to CNET:
Google representatives have instituted a policy of not talking with CNET News.com reporters until July 2006 in response to privacy issues raised by a previous story.
The story in question revealed a variety of personal information about Google CEO Eric Schmidt (all findable through Google) and made a point about Google collecting detailed personal information about its users that it doesn't make public.
It seems that Google has a double standard here.
December 27, 2003 August 8, 2005 by DrMabuse
Media, War
According to the Google News algorithm, six American lives are worth more than 20,000 Iranian lives.
The Reluctant Tries to Remain Impartial Too, But…
Language, Media, Pynchon, Thomas, Roundup
The BBC has banned its journalists from writing newspaper and magazine columns pertaining to current affairs. The m.o.? "Impartiality." The ban extends to both staff and freelancers. There is at least some consolation: voicing vitriolic opinions on things like food is considered impartial. Whether such a restriction will trickle over the Atlantic to the "fair and balanced" networks remains to be seen.
Mayor Cleese? (via Tom)
New OED words: "fuckwit," "non-homosexual," "Norman Rockwellish," "no-talent," "cut and shut," "fist-fucker," "gang-bang," "huevos rancheros," and "super-unleaded."
The Illustrated Complete Summary of Gravity's Rainbow (via MeFi)
Mary Shelley's original MS. for Frankenstein has been saved thanks to a grant. The draft, with Shelley's handwritten corrections, can now be found at Oxford's Bodleian library.

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What we can (and can't) learn from the latest Shadow Brokers dump
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Chris Bing
Nov 3, 2016 | CyberScoop
Written by Chris Bing
While the Shadow Brokers' most recent stunt of leaking an old list of supposed NSA staging server may reveal tactics, tools and procedures once used by some of the country's most elite hackers, the newly released evidence can be easily disputed, experts say.
Shortly after Monday's leak, some in the digital forensics community began cross examining the IPs and domains for clues. If legitimate, the 306 domains and 352 IP addresses could offer insight into what computers a group linked to NSA may have effectively targeted between 2000 and 2010.
Computers in a total of 49 countries across the globe were apparently targeted for intrusion, according to the leaked documents. Among the laundry list of owned networks is state-owned Chinese media empire Xinhua news agency, Moscow-based Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics and intergovernmental scientific research organization the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research.
More broadly, the materials leaked by the Shadow Brokers in recent weeks — which also includes a trove of source code used to construct alleged NSA cyber weapons — has shone a light on methods that may be applicable to "other, similar actors, including foreign, hostile governments that may be targeting U.S. businesses," said Travis Farral, Director of Security Strategy at Anomali.
"Examining the types of systems involved and determining commonalities amongst them may yield clues into why these specific systems were used, how they may have been compromised and even what their role may have been in subsequent attacks," he added.
Monday's revelation offers little detail concerning how the supposed computer infections originally occurred. Eight exploits are briefly mentioned in the dump, including those under the codenames incision, jackladder, stoicsurgeon, orangutan and patchicillin.
Notably, the vast majority of affected IPs were running older versions of the Sun Solaris Unix-based operating system during the time of the compromises. The Solaris operating system, developed by Sun Microsystems, was especially popular in the late 1990s and early-to-mid 2000s.
Cybersecurity sales engineers and consultants who spoke with CyberScoop say that they have yet to encounter a single customer who has asked about the latest Shadow Brokers dump and how it may affect their own organization.
"We do not expect any increase in DFIR [Digital Forensics and Incident Response] consulting demand as a result of this dump," said Cylance Director of Consulting Scott Schefermann.
Examining new information that could be tied to old breaches is fairly common, but becomes difficult further out from the time of breach because of the way enterprises store and retain data. Farral told CyberScoop that to look for a possible correlation with internal logs would be extremely difficult because very few private organizations hang on for data that long.
"The general take on this is that the data is only interesting from a purely historical perspective," said Schefermann, "even if you did have network logs that are 10 years old, and even if you did find connections to or from those domains, you wouldn't be able to say [that] 'the NSA was targeting my organization because I've seen this domain' in my history."
Compromised hosts, like those listed in the dump, are used by nation states and hackers alike, explained Cylance Chief Research Officer Jon Miller. A staging server can be used by a hacker to prepare a cyberattack and to obfuscate attribution. When malware is deployed from an infected, outside computer, it can make tracking an attacker more difficult and evidence less conclusive because, as Miller described, multiple actors could be leveraging the broken device.
"Just because it was used at one time by one group doesn't mean that's the only hacking activity it supported. Odds are numerous other attackers used it as well," said Miller, "using this evidence as attribution against the Equation Group is not certain."
"There may still be valuable research implications for this data set that prove interesting and meaningful — especially around which of the mentioned tools was the original Solaris exploit and whether that exploit is yet known or patched. But by and large, this particular dump is about a 1 of out 10 in terms of actionable intelligence data," Schefermann told CyberScoop.
The real story, Miller said, is the leaks are "very likely an act of cyberwar."
"[It] is the first time in history that rival cyberwarfare actors have taken to the public domain to release TTPs in an attempt to hobble a competitor," said Miller, "[though] the fact that the data they're releasing now is over ten years old suggests that's all the data they got."
Other experts who spoke with CyberScoop say they also believe it is the first case of nation-state hackers purposely leaking tools once used by a rival intelligence group.
"I believe this is the first time we have seen such a leak," Brian Martin, director of vulnerability intelligence at Risk Based Security, previously said, "you have an APT that is rumored to have been compromising systems for many years, who had some of their older exploits leaked, now has hundreds of their compromised machines leaked as well."
attribution, industry, leak, National Security Agency (NSA), Shadow Brokers, staging server


The adventures of the New York detective Max Payne will continue in the third instalment of the popular game franchise nearly ten years after the release of Max Payne 2. The launch day is coming soon and this is why Rockstar Games – the publisher of the highly expected third person shooter – has been recently leaking information about the game in an attempt to raise the high interest level of gamers even further.
The latest piece of information on Max Payne 3 coming directly from Rockstar concerns the system requirements gamers need to meet in order to play the game. Unfortunately for some folks with older hardware the third instalment of the Max Payne franchise requires some beefy hardware – to just start the game you will need Windows XP SP3 x86/x64, Windows Vista SP2 x86/x64 or Windows 7 SP1 x86/x64, a dual core Intel processor at 2.4 GHz or a dual core AMD CPU at 2.6 GHz, 2 GB of RAM, GeForce 8600GT 512 MB or Radeon HD 3400 512 MB graphics card, a DirectX 9.0 sound card and whopping 35 GB of free hard drive space. Now if you think these requirements are not too bad take a look at the recommended specs – where you need a Core i7-3930K CPU at 3.06 GHz or one of AMD's latest FX-8150 processors, 16 GB of RAM and a powerful GeForce GTX 680 card with 2 GB of VRAM or a Radeon HD 7970 3 GB video card. Now that's some speedy and expensive hardware!
Rockstar now also offers bonuses to everyone who pre-orders the game. The bonuses include extra playable characters, more weapons and maps and promo credits towards the purchase of Max Payne 2.
Max Payne 3 is expected to debut next month. The game will support Microsoft Windows, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.
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I think proper sidewalks along the south side of the Carretera from Gossips to Colon would make shopping along that section much easier. After all it the main business area and it undoubtedly the worst section of sidewalks in the whole village. I can't even tell you what shops etc are along there other than an old favorite Brunos's restaurant.
Totally agree . I am always looking down to make sure I don't sprain my foot or ankle by walking in a hole because of the uneven sidewalks.
You will get some of those things, when a major population increase of more affluent people (no matter their origin) occurs in and around the Lake. Of course, if that happens there may be nothing but pedestrians, with the nearest parking in Cajititlan and shuttles to Chapala, where zippy little streetcars with be the only option on the carretera. It will be more 'upscale" and prices will match. Just look at what is happening in the current hot spots; especially Playa del Carmen, Cabo San Lucas, etc. Who would actually want to live there? Potential expats are already having second thoughts about the local effects of growth, crowding and the failure of the infrastructure/local government to keep up.
Basically, this place has become a suburb of Guadalajara. As for the local government it appears they are too busy keeping our money to keep up with even the basic services these days.
Being this close to a city of 6 million plus is both a blessing and a curse. It requires a local government that is very vigilant and firm about protecting the character of the community and we sure don't have that.
Yes, they have proven it to be very difficult. A continuing influx of NOBers who demand that the area change to be more like where they came from adds to the challenge.
I'm pretty happy with things as they are. Sure the pot holes, the topes and the inconsistent garbage pick up can be frustrating but it is part of what I signed on for when I chose to retire here. But one thing that I would like to see changed which would likely have a positive affect for everyone is the littering. We have followed cars where the windows are opened up and whole bags of garbage are just tossed out. The bypass is an example where there are piles of garbage here and there but then maybe it is an official dumping area; I don't know. But the one thing that I think was affective NOB many, many years ago and that most of us retired folks remember is the "don't be a litter bug" and similar campaigns that we grew up with. To throw garbage out of a car window or on the ground as I walk along would be unthinkable and it is probably a subconscious norm developed in my earliest days via those long ago efforts NOB to place litter where it belongs: in a container meant for refuse.
When Mexicans, in large numbers, find litter offensive littering will stop and probably not until then. I just don't see them caring very much.
Three professional Guadalajarans, the last one an Orthopedic Surgeon, have told me that the unique appeal of Chapala was its greenery, clear air, and placid Lake. They experience a feeling of relaxation and peace when they visit here. I know the Chapala Ecologico people at City Hall are enforcing tree cutting permits, and are dedicated to keeping everything green, and full of oxygen. So as far as making anything better, just keep up the good work. As far as garbage and cracked streets in Ajijic, maybe that is more of a symptom of many years of defining yourself a "village", an island unto itself, rather than a part of Chapala.
As far as garbage and cracked streets in Ajijic, maybe that is more of a symptom of many years of defining yourself a "village", an island unto itself, rather than a part of Chapala.
Oh for sure. No doubt the folks in Riberas and other parts of the municipio are equally to blame for the lack of services in their communities.
There you have it folks. Just swear fealty to Chapala and your worries are over!
I know someone who lives right across from the large public high school in Las Redes area of Chapala. Never seen any litter there on the streets around there, and the teens put all their litter in a barrel, if the barrel is full, they take the bag out and put in a new one. It is a generational thing, and kids today are programmed "green" in the schools, starting at an early age. This was the same in Canada, beginning in the 1980's. Teaching kids to be proactive about the environment.
when have you ever drank tap water anywhere? MC: the plan to bridge ajijic w/guadalajara has been in place for many years. started w/building the highway. abut 15 years ago there was an artical about what was expected. fast food, parking lots, tour busses, & theme parks. if you had read this you would not have come here. dont understand this mex vs US thing. spent my entire life mall free car free untill i came here. i predict there will not be a village in a few years. most streets will be torn down & apartment buildings as replacements. as ugly as guad.
As long as you brought it up....why did you decide to move here ? There had to be something that you liked. Or did I miss something ?
"when have you ever drank tap water anywhere?"
was here prior to that artical. the theme park thing was vetoed but it will happen. something about bringing 10,000 people & jobs. the newsletter which wrote this is no longer printed. it was saying that people should think twice before coming.
betty are you trying to get this thread closed?
Most of us knew the condition of street, customs, people, and animals (loose cows, horses, dogs)... Thus accepting all the above as a charm of this area. What I have heard most is surprise of theft/crime, due to lack of surveillance.
Expat presence of course brings pros/cons to this area. One pro for residents is a boon to the economy. Maybe some of that could be spent on surveillance in the form of street security cameras.
Footage to back up whom was near a property or crime site, following the report of an incident would be most valuable and a deterrent.
I would change the last word to bearable. The place is an overcrowded, dirty, politically corrupt, boring, noisy and dreadful place to live. Blow it up and start over.
....and you are leaving when???
Well, at least that's a thought provoking suggestion.
Well that certainly was threatening.... goodness.. Sooo why did you decide to live here ?
I'm not buying into this massive development idea, if this were the case "Little" Lake Chapala - Laguna de Cajititlan, just the other side of the mountain, would be overdeveloped. There are some wonderful new developments there, much more history and folklore, and it is at least fifteen minutes closer to Guadalajara. The only thing it "lacks", is small percentage of English only speakers.
".....a major population increase of more affluent people ......"
1.I would like to keep Ajijic clean and authentic..... much larger outdoor fresh produce market (more choices). The Wednesday market is more or less just social spot and hard to move around.. Move it from Revolucion to bigger space and prohibit "gringo" prices. Although, reading this webboard makes me think that people have no kitchens. There is such love for local eateries so maybe not a good idea.
1a. Prohibit American consumer chains of any kind close to the village..
2.Better use of the lake front for people to enjoy, such as floating platforms to sit on and enjoy the fabulous Ajijic sunsets.... no food (no litter, keep it clean).. no blasting music but some classical, jazzy concerts and art displays along the malecon (not plaza).... kids art too and no China made trinkets, plenty of that someplace else. There is still so much talent around. But I feel there is not as much emphasis on that like 20 years ago. Ajijic used to be a cultural center and would be nice to re-establish that rather than slowly change it to a commercial mecca for economic refugees.. Leave that for Chapala. Maybe some collective artist workshop as Moon used to have where you can see how Mexican art (or other) is being made. Bits and pieces can be enjoyed at the Feria but something local without hopping all over the town to peoples houses .LCS organization traditionally supported that .
3.More power and control over village affairs to local government away from Chapala.
4.Get the power lines in the village under control. Its a mess.
5.Restriction on 24 hrs barking dogs would be nice . One per family.
Safer community re break ins/crime.


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Axed Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers has some spare time on his hands now he has been given the boot from the club and is 100/1 to win I'm Celeb, if he enters the jungle.
Louis Walsh is another man with some more free time than he would be accustomed to and is priced at 12/1, having drifted from 8/1 to win.
Recent Celebrity Big Brother winner and Apprentice star James Hill has been thrown into the mix and he is 7/1 to add King of the Jungle to his reality TV accolades. Also on offer at 7/1 are Denise Van Outen and ex footballer Paul Gascoigne.
Craig Charles is the early favourite to win at 6/1, should he return to the jungle after unfortunately pulling out last year due to a family bereavement.
Hollyoaks actress, Stephanie Davis is the most recent name circulating in the media and she has gone in as a 12/1 shot to win should she sign up.
Gemma Collins is also expected to make her return to the jungle, but is a 33/1 shot to take the crown.
Other celebs in the betting are Made In Chelsea's Spencer Matthews (10/1), X Factor winner James Arthur (12/1), model Keely Hazell (16/1), presenter Anne Robinson (20/1) and TV chef Rusty Lee (25/1).
Aoife Heffron, PR Executive at BoyleSports, said: "Stephanie Davis is the most recent rumoured celeb but all eyes have been set on Brendan Rodgers to enter the jungle following his sacking as Liverpool manager.


YY Columbae's star type is pulsating variable star that can be located in the constellation of Columba. The description is based on the spectral class.
YY Columbae is not part of the constellation outline but is within the borders of the constellation.
The star is calculated at being about 4941.87 light years away from us.
HIP27473 is the reference name for the star in the Hipparcos Star Catalogue.
YY Columbae has alternative name(s) :- , YY Col.
The location of the variable star in the night sky is determined by the Right Ascension (R.A.) and Declination (Dec.), these are equivalent to the Longitude and Latitude on the Earth. The Right Ascension is how far expressed in time (hh:mm:ss) the star is along the celestial equator. If the R.A. is positive then its eastwards. The Declination is how far north or south the object is compared to the celestial equator and is expressed in degrees. For YY Columbae, the location is 05h 49m 05.24 and -28° 22` 46.8 .
YY Columbae has a spectral type of K5. This means the star is a orange to red variable star. The star has a B-V Colour Index of 1.63 which means the star's temperature has been calculated using information from Morgans @ Uni.edu at being 3,689 Kelvin.
YY Columbae Radius has been calculated as being 70.98 times bigger than the Sun.The Sun's radius is 695,800km, therefore the star's radius is an estimated 49,384,955.97.km. If you need the diameter of the star, you just need to multiple the radius by 2. The figure is derived at by using the formula from SDSS and has been known to produce widely incorrect figures.
YY Columbae has an apparent magnitude of 8.44 which is how bright we see the star from Earth. Apparent Magnitude is also known as Visual Magnitude. Using the supplied Parallax value, you would get an absolute magnitude of -2.46 Magnitude, whether it be apparent/visual or absolute magnitude is measured by a number, the smaller the number, the brighter the Star is. Our own Sun is the brightest star and therefore has the lowest of all magnitudes, -26.74. A faint star will have a high number.
Using the original Hipparcos data that was released in 1997, the parallax to the star was given as 0.66 which gave the calculated distance to YY Columbae as 4941.87 light years away from Earth or 1515.15 parsecs. It would take a spaceship travelling at the speed of light, 4941.87 years to get there. We don't have the technology or spaceship that can carry people over that distance yet.
The star is a pulsating Semi-Regular Star w variable type which means that its size changes over time. The Variable Type is usually named after the first star of that type to be spotted. YY Columbae brightness ranges from a magnitude of 8.641 to a magnitude of 8.467 over its variable period. The smaller the magnitude, the brighter the star. Its variable/pulsating period lasts for 0.1 days (variability).


Essex: exploring the hidden treasure of "Real Essex".
When I announced, almost seven years ago, that I was relocating to Essex from my native land, there came a plethora of jokes about becoming an "Essex girl". My farewell and good luck cards were adorned with references to white stiletto heels, fake tan and trashy earrings. I must confess, having lived mostly in Northern areas until then, I also harboured some preconceived misconceptions about the unfriendliness of the "Southeast". So, it was with relief and delight, over the coming months and years, that I discovered the real deal and the hidden charms of my new home.
The stereotypical Essex man or woman is well represented on television and the bigger screen. The estuary English of "EastEnders" spreads along the river Thames and creeps Northwards into the county. This mangling of our common language is heard everywhere, but it was on a Norfolk-bound train that I was first treated to the vernacular voice of Essex. The railway announcements were made in a wonderful, warm singsong burr. This soft, country voice, brought to mind the shepherding traditions of old, and the chocolate-box images of pastel-shaded hamlets, dark timbered walls and reed-thatched roofs which can still be found all over the district.
On my first visit to the county, my misconceptions were swept away by the friendliness of staff and fellow diners at a cosy café in which I breakfasted. Unable to afford the more salubrious areas of the South of the County, I made my new home in a more rural corner, near the marshlands where I was to be employed. Here, the ancestral spirituality of the landscape spoke to me of Viking and Saxon, the village society was welcoming and I discovered the magic of this alien land.
Having lived all my life in coastal lands where rolling green hills swept down to craggy coastlines, my first impression of this flat, muddy, wetland was one of emptiness and dearth of colour. Yet as I wandered this terrain daily, with my all-weather canine for company, my eyes were treated to a wonderland of ever changing colours, vast, infinity skies and my ears were captivated by tales of historic smugglers, marshland ghosts and remote, island farmsteads. Birdlife ranged from sentinels of the marshes to majestic harriers. Leggy hares raced away from us, lizards basked on sunny seawalls and the carpets of wildflowers enticed a myriad of butterflies.
In contrast, just a few miles away, suburbia hums noisily. Essex is one of the wealthiest counties in the country. Situated just North-East of the capital, it provides homes to a large commuter population, its busy road and rail network feeding the City daily with those trapped in the metropolis rat-race. Alternatively, many of those with wealth have made their names in local trade. This area fosters an entrepreneurial spirit, labourers thrust through the lanes in shiny-chromed pick-up trucks and the golf and sailing clubs witness builders rubbing shoulders with stockbrokers.
Sporting life is equally varied. The attractions of racing dogs, bikes or cars sit comfortably with the more physically active venues for Olympic level cycling and swimming and the region is regularly interspersed with rivers whose waters provide for those wishing to get afloat, in a seemingly endless variety of vessels. These waters have recently become home to my very own such craft, a Dutch sailing barge, retired to the local waters from a century of haulage. This writer's retreat and the landscape surrounding her has become my daily inspiration and nurtures my sense of well-being.
Those of you reading this who know Essex will ,no doubt, regale me with the county's many attractions not included in this piece. For there are many and various days out on offer, from the beauty of Constable Country on the Suffolk border to the adrenalin rousing Adventure Island in Southend-on-Sea. Real Essex is so much more than you might imagine. But don't take my word for it, come and see this jewel for yourself!
Yes, it is sad the impression that is given of Essex, because my own experience is of beautiful expanses of open sky and land, with water lapping the shore and mists curling slowly across the marsh. So many beautiful places to visit within easy distance, welcome to Essex, Hilary!!
I loved this post. I'm a recent arrival to Essex and had heard the same stories. What I've found is lovely friendly people and a fascinating and contrasting environment of land, sea and sky.
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