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Quantum Eschatology
Part 7: The Emerging Church - Circa 1970*
"...[I]f you look at the metaphysical situation, there is a continental drift... the metaphysical center of the earth today... [is] India.
"North America... is moving towards the Far East. You see that not only in the California phenomenon, but in the new religious movements in America -- enchantment with all kids of Far Eastern practices -- the idea of developing the two sides of the brain simultaneously which has for many years been obvious to the Easterners....
"Well, what then could be a transformed society? We are very impressed. We have links with people who are looking at these areas.... We have established...contact with people who are thinking about a transformed society and they are exemplified by the Stanford Research Institute where there is a little group that's called the Social Science Research Unit and its led by a man you have in your prospectus here, Willis Harman. He is an engineer and he thinks about the future image of man so he's looking at some very fundamental changes.... I don't say that science would become the new god. It would be the thing that man looked at for the future.... I'm back to the California school... man wants to be... at the center. He wants to have a renewed image of himself. And the California school feels that the next 30 years or hundred years is going to be a period in which we'll restore this balance of inward man and outward man.... What we now must do is to try and look at the science paradigm that is deep in our system... and try and harness inward man to outward man."
- E.V. Newland, Evangelicals Face the Future**
"...[W]e must think new thoughts about the eternal gospel. I don't want to get in trouble in suggesting that we change the gospel, but that we ask ourselves: How can the old, old story be told in new, new ways to face the new, new realities?...
"I think we need to wrestle, in the light of what Mr. Newland has said tonight, with a new theology that takes in the whole person.... And I find myself more and more...believing that one of the great untouched frontiers of theology are the first two chapters of the book of Genesis....
"Christians ought to be on the frontier of discovering that may help us in the work of God to recover some of the things that human beings were capable of before sin entered the world.... Is there something in E.S.P.?"
- Gordon MacDonald's Response to E.V. Newland, Evangelicals Face the Future***
The Spiritualization of Science
The futurists of the 1960s and 1970s were characterized by their zeal to create "alternative future scenarios." They had their own eschatology – mankind could rewrite its destiny. Science and technology could save man from his own certain destruction. And they believed that the formation of a global system of governance, using state-of-the-art technological, psychological and sociological methods of human control, could create a better planetary society.[19] They began to work hard at shifting the paradigm; shifting the focus from reason to relationships, from rational thinking to mysticism, from science to metaphysics. They also began to imagine that they could create a better man.
The New Age movement was directly connected to these early futurists. Marilyn Ferguson described this fact in her 1980 book The Aquarian Conspiracy: Personal and Social Transformation in the 1980s (J.P. Tarcher). She suggested that altered states of consciousness would provide the vehicle with which to re-mold beliefs and shape new values. There were mystical ways to facilitate the collective "emergence" of "a new mind" (p. 45), she wrote. Mysticism would enable people to be more easily anesthetized to accept change, i.e., "transformation." But mysticism needed to become "science." Willis Harman,[20] a leading futurist who was working in this arena, described it this way:
This emerging trans-modern worldview, involves a shift in the locus of authority from external to 'inner knowing.' It has basically turned away from the older scientific view that ultimate reality is "fundamental particles," and trusts perceptions of the wholeness and spiritual aspect of organisms, ecosystems, Gaia and Cosmos. This implies a spiritual reality, and ultimate trust in the authority of the whole. It amounts to a reconciliation of scientific inquiry with the "perennial wisdom" at the core of the world's spiritual traditions. It continues to involve a confidence in scientific inquiry, but an inquiry whose metaphysical base has shifted from the reductionist, objectivist, positivist base of the 19th- and 20th-century science to a more holistic and transcendental metaphysical foundation. [21]
The early futurists began reinventing science so that it would become a sort of spiritual alchemy. They experimented with the human brain and psychedelic drugs in their drive to alter human consciousness in hopes that it would further the evolution of the species. Willis Harman was even "involved in researching the cognitive and societal effects of LSD consumption."[22] This may explain a strange comment by modern Emergent Phyllis Tickle: "There is a clear tragectory from Timothy Leary straight to the Great Emergence and our current disorientation about what exactly consciousness is and we are" (p. 98)
Pastor DeWaay delves into the pseudo-scientific philosophical foundation of the Emergent movement in Chapter 9 of his book The Emergent Church: Undefining Christianity, where he discusses Ken Wilbur and his "integral movement." It is beyond the purview of this brief report to examine the Emergent revival of metaphysics in detail, but it is a fact that many New Age leaders have been attempting to create a "quantum spirituality"[23] for some time. And, there has been significant crossover into the evangelical realm for decades, especially via the activities of John Marks Templeton.[24] This drive for a new science is inextricably connected with the concept of evolution and eschatology. De Waay succinctly describes this heresy:
Evolution is Spirit manifesting itself in emerging levels of complexity and awareness. The reason evolution makes sense in this scheme is that either God is in the creation (panentheism) or that creation is a manifestation of God (pantheism). (p. 185)
New Age leader Barbara Marx Hubbard was an early futurist who articulated a similar view of quantum evolution in her 1993 book The Revelation. This book is her own rendition of a "new order of the future" (p. 63) in which "science and technology are a vital part of the [Teilhardian] noösphere" and the "planet itself is evolving toward a quantum leap" towards "conscious evolution."[25] Supplanting the Bible's book of Revelation, she spoke in her book of "Revelation" of a coming "Quantum Instant" of "Quantum Transformation," which will be "an evolutionary selection process based on your qualifications for co-creative power," and which would create "A New Heaven and a New Earth."[26] There would be no Armageddon, just a "Planetary Pentecost"—a "great Instant of Cooperation." She claimed that the "prophecy of John [in Revelation] can be avoided altogether."[27] This would be the "gentle Second Coming of Christ through rapid evolution."[28] This is not unlike Emergent leader Brian McLaren's eschewal of what he terms the "jihadist Jesus" of the "Second Coming."[29] Furthermore, in Hubbard's utopian future there would be an integration of science and technology with this metaphysical evolution. She claimed that there are "evolutionary capabilities of the human race – space exploration, genetics, longevity research, psychic powers, artificial intelligence, nanotechnology, atomic power… co-operating with God to build a New Earth, and New Heavens."[30] In brief, Hubbard's utopian future bears a striking similarity to the eschatology of the Emerging Church of today, a fact which raises serious questions.
Evangelicals Face the Future
At the top of today's post are several quotations that come from the first "Consultation on Future Evangelical Concerns" held in Atlanta, Georgia late in 1977. The references to the "California Group" and the "Stanford Research Institute" pertain directly to Willis Harman. There was a subsequent Consultation held a year later in Overland Park, Kansas where Willis Harman was actually invited to make a presentation on the topic of "A Utopian Perspective on the Future." The papers presented at these two consultations were published in two books.[31] These Consultations were attended by mainstream evangelical leaders of high repute, and they were sponsored by the Billy Graham Center at Wheaton College.
Willis Harman's presentation to the evangelical leaders called for a "new" science, which he had termed "noetic" science, a Gnostic science, based on his research into the paranormal and the human brain. He listed such things as hypnosis, remote viewing, precognition, psychokinesis and psychic phenomena. He called for more scientific research into the "the world of inner experience," meaning psychic phenomena. All this could create a future utopia:
This new "noetic" science would eliminate the apparent contradiction between the experiential understanding of Hindu, Moslem, and Christian. For the first time in history we see emerging a growing, progressively funded body of empirically established experience about man's inner life – particularly about the perennial wisdom of the great religious traditions and Gnostic groups. For the first time there is hope that this knowledge can become… the living heritage of all mankind. [32]
Man's mind and his spiritual "inner life," were being connected to the "experiential understanding" of Eastern religions, "perennial wisdom" and Gnosticism. The remarks at the beginning of this post indicate that certain evangelical leaders were already adopting this worldview, and were even suggesting that theology needed to be reformulated to accommodate this "noetic" science. Willis Harman's remarks to evangelical leaders were basically left unchallenged. In the years to come, many of the evangelical leaders who attended these Consultations would go on to work on inventing new theologies. They initiated projects that would re-shape Christian theology into these futuristic and esoteric images of man and his destiny. It is no wonder that Emergent leaders today, such as Phyllis Tickle, can boldly announce that the paradigm has now shifted, that evangelicals are standing at the threshold of "The Great Emergence" – which is nothing less than an evangelical convergence with New Age spirituality.
This brief article just barely skims the surface of many substantial research topics pertaining to the Emergent movement's history and theology. In the months to come the Discernment Research Group will be writing on these topics. Pastor Larry DeBruyn is currently publishing a scholarly theological refutation of the "quantum spirituality" concept which will be distributed via Discernment Ministries.
To understand more of the history and theology of the Emerging Church movement, Pastor Bob DeWaay's book The Emergent Church: Undefining Christianity is a useful resource. We are particularly pleased with its references to Dr. Francis Schaeffer—the book analyzes the Emergent movement within the context of the postmodern existential "escape from reason." DeWaay has taken care to defend the Gospel against these heresies at every juncture. The book is scholarly, well-organized and easy to read.
"And a stranger will they not follow, but will flee from him: for they know not the voice of strangers." (Luke 10:5)
*Part 7 of this ongoing series on the history of the Emerging Church movement is the final excerpt from the Discernment Newsletter, July/August 2009 (Vol. 20, No. 4) posted at http://discernment-ministries.org/content/volume-20-no-4-julyaugust-2009. This Herescope article contains paragraphs of additional documentary material, and has amended the original article with links and quotations.
**Evangelicals Face the Future: Scenarios, Addresses, and Responses from the "Consultation on Future Evangelical Concerns" held in Atlanta, Georgia, December 14-17, 1977, Edited by Donald Hoke (William Carey Library, 1978). E.V. Newland's Address to the Consultation was "Social Relations and Alternative Future Paths," pp. 75-83. Emphasis added. The comments about the "California school" refer directly to Willis Harman and his activities.
***Gordon MacDonald's formal Response to Newland at the Consultation, Ibid., pp. 84-90. Emphasis added. The reference to E.S.P. is Extra Sensory Perception, which was an area Willis Harman was researching in his "mind" research. One can see in these remarks the rudiments of the Emerging utopian eschatology that holds that man can reverse the effects of the Fall, thereby bypassing the Armageddon scenario and Judgment Day and restore Paradise on Earth.
19. See Ervin Laszlo's A Strategy for the Future: The Systems Approach to World Order (George Braziller, 1974). Also see this post: http://herescope.blogspot.com/2005/10/peter-drucker-early-futurist.html
20. Willis Harman was invited to speak as a presenter at the second Evangelical Consultation on the Future in the late 1970s. A series of Herescope posts in September and October 2005 covered this topic in detail (follow links). Harman's esoteric viewpoints were not refuted; in fact the second consultation was set up in such a way as to prohibit this. See footnote 31.
21. This quote appears in a Herescope post published May 20, 2009 http://herescope.blogspot.com/2009/05/spiritualization-of-science.html summarizing a paper published by Dr. Martin Erdmann that provides substantial historical documentation for this topic. It is entitled "The Spiritualization of Science, Technology, and Education in a One-World Society" and is published in the European Journal of Nanomedicine (2009 Vol. 2:31-38) http://www.clinam.org/journal/index.php/NanoJournal/article/view/.7/33
22. Abstract, ibid. To understand the full context of the brief remarks in this article pertaining to this topic of Willis Harman, see Dr. Erdmann's complete article. Also see Herescope posts September and October 2005 which discuss in detail Willis Harman's influence over evangelical leaders in the late 1970s, including his advocacy of a new metaphysical science paradigm. See footnote 31.
23. Emergent leader Leonard Sweet authored an intellectually incomprehensible book called Quantum Spirituality: A Postmodern Apologetic (SpiritVenture, 1991), which exemplifies the Emergent heretical beliefs being talked about in this article. Note that Bob DeWaay warns that "I find that Emergent Church leaders do their best not to be understood, suggesting that being clever, coy, contradictory, or even provocative is a better way to help people emerge from old categories of thought into new, synthetic ones" (p. 10).
24. The enormous weight of facts backing this statement will be the topic of future Herescope posts, Lord willing.
25. Barbara Marx Hubbard, The Revelation: Our Crisis is a Birth (Foundation for Conscious Evolution, 1993), p. 30, 31, 43. Warren Smith, in his book Reinventing Jesus Christ: The New Gospel (Conscience Press, 2002), first exposed this woman's crossover New Age/New Spirituality agenda, her frightening "selection process," and her futuristic "Armageddon Alternative."
26. Ibid, p. 101, 103, 111.
27. Ibid, p. 147, 162.
29. See these two Herescope posts: http://herescope.blogspot.com/2008/03/brian-mclaren-to-speak-at-world-future.html & http://herescope.blogspot.com/2008/11/coming-kingdom.html. McLaren wrote in his book Everything Must Change (p. 146) that: "The Jesus of one reading of the Apocalypse brings us to a grim resignation: the world will get worse and worse, and finally this jihadist Jesus will return to use force, domination, violence, and even torture - the ultimate imperial tools - to vanquish evil and bring peace."
31. Evangelicals Face the Future: Scenarios, Addresses, and Responses from the "Consultation on Future Evangelical Concerns" held in Atlanta, Georgia, December 14-17, 1977, Edited by Donald Hoke (William Carey Library, 1978). An Evangelical Agenda: 1984 and Beyond: Addresses, and Responses from the "Consultation on Future Evangelical Concerns" held in Overland Park, Kansas, December 11-14, 1979 (William Carey Library, 1979). The Discernment Research Group first broke this story in September 2005 in a series of posts that ran into October 2005. One can look through the posts to read more details about these consultations. http://herescope.blogspot.com/2005_09_01_archive.html and http://herescope.blogspot.com/2005_10_01_archive.html
32. An Evangelical Agenda: 1984 and Beyond, Willis Harman, "A Utopian Perspective on the Future, "pp. 27-37.
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Some of them were cited in the Panama Papers (see our article: Panama Papers Revelations: US Department of Justice Investigating Corruption and Blood Money). Now, most have been covered in what is known as Paradise Papers (see here).
While activities of stashing money in fiscal paradises may not be illegal in several instances, some African dictators hide behind a legal framework with the main purpose of money laundering. Also, even if the process may be legal, it may mean "that we're not investing as much as we should in schools, in making college more affordable, in putting people back to work rebuilding our roads, our bridges, our infrastructure, creating more opportunities for our children, " as former US President Obama put it; it may be a matter of life or death in Africa.
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The Paradise Papers show that: "Emmanuel Ndahiro became a director of British Virgin Islands company Debden Investments Limited in September 1998, the same year in which Ndahiro regularly appeared in international news as a spokesman of the Rwandan army. Debden reportedly owned a jet aircraft. At the time of his appointment, Ndahiro's listed address was a building in a commercial section of a West London neighborhood. Hatari Sekoko, a former soldier with the Rwandan Patriotic Front and now a major business executive, was the company's owner. The company was deactivated in 2010."
After Panama Papers, Paradise Papers have brought into the open what some African leaders hide behind a smokescreen of public relations.


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"Emerald Baroque is a dynamic ensemble focusing on enchanting music inspired by Ireland. The group performs Celtic Baroque music led by Bridget Cunningham on the harpsichord with Laura Justice (recorders), Farran Scott (baroque violin), Jennifer Bullock (viol, baroque cello), Eleanor Harrison (baroque violin) and Breda McKinney (soprano) They have recently recorded 'Ireland's Enchantment', featuring early Irish tunes and new compositions and arrangements, in a modern approach performed on baroque instruments. Music includes folk songs, new pieces, harpsichord music, instrumental music as well as baroque music by composers such as O'Carolan and his contemporaries.
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"Since its formation in 2006, multi award-winning Ensemble Meridiana has established itself as one of Europe's finest Baroque ensembles of it's generation. The five members of Ensemble Meridiana come from four different countries and met during their studies at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in Basel, Switzerland where they specialised in early music.
In March 2007 Ensemble Meridiana won the first prize and the audience prize in the 4th International Telemann Competition in Magdeburg, Germany and in July 2009, Meridiana won the York International Young Artists Competition. Most recently, the ensemble won their third international competition: the Göttinger Reihe Historischer Musik der Internationalen Händel-Gesellschaft in 2011. Meridiana has performed concerts in prestigious international festivals, such as the Händel Festspiele Göttingen, the Arols Baroque Festival, the Magdeburg Telemann Festival, the Leipzig Bach Archive Summer Concerts, J.S. Bach's house in Eisenach, a tour of Romania in 2008 and concerts at the National Centre for Early Music in York and King's Place, London.
Meridiana has performed on radio throughout Europe, on stations such as BBC Radio 3, MDR FIGARO, RSR Espace 2, Bayrischer Rundfunk and on TV Romania. Their debut CD supported by the NCEM and the Fidelio Charitable trust was released by Linn Records in April 2011.
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"Ensemble Telemania takes its name from the German baroque composer, Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767) and is a baroque chamber music ensemble specialising in the performance of 17th and 18th century repertoire on period instruments.
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(UK) ensembleF2
"With so much to play, it's hard to know where to begin. But the truth is that we began ensembleF2 in the spring of 2009 with concerts up and down the country performing great works of Haydn and Mozart. The focus of these performances was our two Wigmore Hall concerts in London. Playing to delighted audiences ensembleF2 launched with large and small ensemble pieces from two giants of the music world.
We play music we love and want to do that on the instruments which seem to suit the repertoire best. It involves a lot of research, trying out, listening and reflecting but we think it's worth it and makes our job so much more interesting. Assembling and Ensembling with friends and deeply respected colleagues allows us to constantly learn from each other and we relish the journey ahead.
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(UK) Etesian Ensemble
" The formation of the Etesian Ensemble in 1999 brought together five musicians committed to performing the great wealth of chamber music from the classical and romantic periods for fortepiano, oboe, clarinet, horn and bassoon. Performances of this exciting repertoire are rarely heard on today's concert platform, therefore the Etesian Ensemble set out to bring their vibrant, explorative interpretation of such works to a wider audience.
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Recent years have seen a major increase in Ex Cathedra's national and international reputation thanks to its trail-blazing performances of Early Music – in particular the French and Latin American Baroque – and its role as a leading exponent of choral training and vocal skills education. " Visit website for more information. (ed.)
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"Flat Pavan is one of the most successful youth music groups in Britain. Based in Glasgow, Flat Pavan performs popular Traditional and Early Music (400 year old songs and dances which you can download and listen to from the website). The group have played in venues all over Britain and 8 Schools Proms. They were also one of only 6 performing groups from Britain invited to join 50 others at the 1994 Biennial ISME (international Society for Music Education) conference in Florida. The group have also played in Italy (including over an hour impromptu to the Pope). .." Visit website for more information. (ed.)
(UK) Fleuri Ensemble
"The dynamic ensemble, Fleuri, formed in 2002 after graduating from the Royal College of Music in London, where they were the winners of the Century Fund Prize for Early Music. Specialising in repertoire of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, they share a passion for the music of Handel's London and folk-inspired baroque music from around the British Isles and Eire. A distinctive feature of some of their performances is the wearing of sumptuous eighteenth century costume designed and made especially for the ensemble, adding to the visual spectacle and enriching the concert experience for audience and performers alike. …"
(UK) Florilegium
"Since its formation in 1991, Florilegium has established a reputation for stylish and exciting interpretations of music from the baroque era to the early romantic revolution. Among the numerous Residencies Florilegium has held over the years was the coveted post of Ensemble in Residence at London's Wigmore Hall, a position they enjoyed for three seasons from 1998 to 2000. During that time they performed several series of concerts each year and became actively involved in the Hall's education work. Their last season as Ensemble in Residence featured a six-concert series marking the 250th anniversary of J.S.Bach's death.
Concert engagements have taken Florilegium throughout Eastern and Western Europe and to North and South America, Canada, China, Hong Kong, Australia, Israel and Turkey. The group receives numerous invitations to perform at major international festivals each season and recent concert venues have included the Sydney Opera House, Frick Collection in New York, Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires, The Concertgebauw in Amsterdam, The Vienna Konzerthaus in Austria, Beethoven Haus in Bonn, Handelhaus in Halle, and Théâtre Grevin in Paris."
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"The Gabrieli Consort & Players were founded by Paul McCreesh in 1982 and have just celebrated their 25th anniversary season. Initially recognised for their mould-breaking reconstructions of music for historical occasions, they have gone on to captivate audiences worldwide with their bold readings of the masterworks of the baroque and renaissance. They are regularly heard at major festivals and concert halls throughout Europe and the USA. In partnership with Martin Randall Music Management, they have pioneered new areas of 'cultural tourism' in creating festivals of music in historic centres, including Venice, Rome, Naples, Leipzig, and northern Spain. September 2007 saw the ensemble's largest residency to date as part of the Wratislavia Cantans Festival in Wrocław, Poland, where Paul McCreesh became Artistic Director in 2006. " Visit website for more information. (ed.)
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You might as well say I'm a succar for 70's TV. I have to admit that I loved it. Back in the day, I would watch as much TV as I could and I thoroughly enjoyed every one of the shows that I devoured. Sunday nights were no exception. This was before we had cable. All we had was our aerial antenna and we got three channels, all out of Chattanooga. CBS, ABC, and NBC. You could get PBS on a clear day and if you turned the antenna south you'd get a grainy picture from the Atlanta stations; so we stuck to the ones we got the best.
I digress. Sunday nights were good for TV back then. Especially the shows that made the leap from the 70's into the 80's. I remember the Sunday night CBS lineup well. All In The Family, One Day At A Time, The Jeffersons, and Alice. Alice was one of my favorites. It had Flo and she was the life of the party. Until she got her own spin-off, and I won't go there, but this was when TV shows had those great theme songs and I knew the ones to my favorites by heart. I can still song most of them! Alice had a great theme and it was fitting for a great show. Linda Lavin, Vic Tayback, Beth Howland, Philip McKeon, Diane Ladd, Celia Weston, and of course Polly Holiday. How could you not love a cast that included, at one time or another, the folks who graced this one.
So this is one of the ones that I can still sing happily and hit every note. Ha ha. By the miracle of You Tube, consider it shared. Enjoy.


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Kat Von D Departs + Sells Ownership Shares Of Kat Von D Beauty To Pursue Vegan Shoe Line And Music Tour — KENDO BRANDS Acquires Remaining Stake, Renames KVD Vegan Beauty
On: January 16, 2020 By: admin
After 12 years of partnership , KENDO becomes the sole driving force of the vegan beauty brand
The brand remains committed to high-performance, vegan, cruelty- free makeup
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 16, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Kat Von D Beauty announced today that founder Kat Von D has made a full departure from the brand to focus on other artistic endeavors (namely, her vegan shoe line and upcoming album), thus making KENDO the sole owner and force behind the beauty line. Effective immediately, the brand will now be called KVD Vegan Beauty.
Experience the interactive Multichannel News Release here: https://www.multivu.com/players/English/8664451-kat-von-d-departs-from-namesake-brand-kendo-kvd-vegan-beauty/
The company will continue offering its current product lineup, as well as creating new, innovative high-performance, vegan, and cruelty-free makeup for consumers all over the world. KVD Vegan Beauty continues to value self-expression and compassion, and be an early adopter of buzz-worthy collaborations with entertainers, brands, arts organizations and animal charities. The development of the KVD Vegan Beauty brand and its iconic products have been the result of a twelve-year partnership between Kat Von D and KENDO.
David Suliteanu , CEO, KENDO stated:
"I want to thank Kat for helping to change the beauty industry with us. The products we created together have stood the test of time and become icons. KENDO, along with our global retail partner, SEPHORA, look forward to the continued growth of KVD Vegan Beauty under KENDO's leadership, ownership, and direction. We are fully positioned to continue the brand's growth and development in both product and marketing. We have developed a very strong product pipeline for 2020 and beyond. The same KENDO team that made history with KVD Vegan Beauty is ready to do it again. "
Kat Von D , Founder and Artist explained:
"This past year has been one of great change for me. As many of you know, I gave birth to my beautiful baby boy, launched my vegan shoe line, and am now busy prepping to release my long-awaited album in the Spring, followed by an international tour! As much as I wish I could balance all of this, on top of continuing my makeup line, it has become clear to me that I just can't do everything at the maximum capacity.
With that said, I've decided to step down as founder (and from all other capacities) of Kat Von D Beauty, and sell my shares of the brand, turning it all over to KENDO, my partners for the past 12 years. This was not an easy decision, but after careful consideration, I decided I wanted the makeup line to continue to thrive and grow, and KENDO is primed to do just that."
The brand launched in 2008 with four red lipsticks. Today, KVD Vegan Beauty has more than 250 innovative products in almost every beauty category. It is sold globally, in every major market, in 36 countries around the world, primarily at SEPHORAs and kvdveganbeauty.com. Since its inception, KVD Vegan Beauty has won extensive awards, nationally and internationally, for innovative and best-in-class product formulas, packaging and marketing. Thus, resulting in long list of time-tested, best-sellers, including but not limited to:
Tattoo Liner, a worldwide icon and our #1 product
Everlasting Liquid Lipsticks, sparked the liquid lipstick revolution
Shade + Light Contour Palette, led the contour craze
Go Big or Go Home Mascara, a volumizing vegan mascara powered by plant-based fats
True Portrait Foundation, a truly lightweight, liquid-to-powder, high-performance vegan foundation
Lolita, the universal, beloved, chestnut-rose shade sold in lipsticks, eye and lip liners, and eye- shadow palettes
ABOUT KVD VEGAN BEAUTY
KVD VEGAN BEAUTY is an iconic, global, high-performance, vegan and cruelty-free beauty brand that's disrupted the industry since the brand's debut in 2008 — with 4 high-pigment, long-wear, cruelty-free red lipsticks. In 2010, we created our #1 award-winning eyeliner—Tattoo Liner—and it remains the uncontested holy grail of liquid eyeliner. After pioneering the liquid lipstick craze, we changed the beauty industry again in 2016 when we reformulated our entire line to be 100% vegan, without sacrificing the performance we're known for. Today, we have more than 250 innovative products in every category, hundreds of awards and we're distributed in 36 countries around the world exclusively at, Sephora, Sephora inside JC Penney and Debenhams in the UK and Ireland and www.kvdveganbeauty.com // Follow us @kvdveganbeauty
ABOUT KENDO BRANDS
KENDO BRANDS solely owns and operates KVD VEGAN BEAUTY. KENDO is an innovative beauty brand incubator that creates and acquires beauty brands and turns them into global powerhouses: FENTY Beauty by Rihanna, Ole Henriksen Skin Care, Marc Jacobs Beauty, Bite Beauty, Lip Lab Stores, and KVD Vegan Beauty. KENDO offices are in San Francisco, Paris, Dubai, London, Sydney and Singapore.
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"Goodnight Sir." Sal greeted as Ise got off the SUV at his front door.
"Yeah goodnight Sal, I'm not to be disturbed until noon tomorrow by anything short of the world coming to an end, okay?." Ise instructed his driver and personal security.
"Evening." Ise replied him as he went into his house. Idris always brought in his things from the car every evening when he returned. His laptop bag and whatever else he might have in the car.
Ise was tired. What he needed was rest, he'd not really had any reasonable sleep since he'd returned from his last trip. He was so tired he'd not bothered with wearing his suit jacket, the darn things felt just too heavy even when they really were not, maybe it was of a mind thing or something. Most of the time he liked to take it off, roll up his shirt sleeves and get down to work. He was more of a casual person but the importance of his work had him dressing sharply all the time.
He'd had a hectic day, the toughest of which had been the first one in the morning with the VILDE Group. He couldn't help the smile as he recalled the events, they'd spent so much time going back and forth until Kite had come to the rescue. She had shocked the hell out of him when she'd come up with that magnificent idea, but being the boss he'd had to get over that shock as quickly as possible. With just a few words she'd solved an issue that had seriously been disturbing them for a while now not only with VILDE but with a few other customers who had offices in remote locations.
Who was the girl? There was definitely more to her than met the eye, she just kept surprising him and he was sure she would continue to, what he didn't get was what had really gone down between her and Princess later when everyone had left the conference room. Princess had accused her of downing the contents of her teacup on her while Kite had denied the allegation saying she hadn't seen princess coming and had poured it on her by mistake.
He hadn't known who to believe, he knew Kite to be a liar but he was sure she'd only do something like that when seriously pushed and knowing Princess, he wouldn't be surprised if she'd said something annoying to her. She'd been known to insult staff before but it was no excuse though, Kite needed to curb that temper of hers or it was bound to put her in serious trouble one of these days.
He'd still been reeling with gratitude at her input that morning and had kind of taken her side against Princess saying no one had been in the room to corroborate either one's story so he didn't know who to believe but he'd turned on Kite and warned her that if she did indeed do it, she was lucky this was going away really easily for her.
Princess had been so visibly angry that he'd not dared to show even the tiniest amusement at her appearance. She hadn't found it funny and knowing Princess prided herself on her looks, he'd had to seriously hold back the laugh that wanted to break out from the look of her wet weave which sort or resembled a mop after being drenched in tea. Now that he thought about it really well, he was sure Kite had done it. The girl just acted without thinking when she was angry.
Princess had declined attending the two other meetings and had a secretary take her pace instead. Kite had been there but whenever his eyes had wandered to her corner, she was always seriously engrossed in her typing. So beauty and brains she was. He should have known, she couldn't be a good trickster without being smart to pull her tricks off.
He missed her already, seeing her always got his heart fluttering. He really did like her but he wasn't one to dwell on someone who didn't return his feelings and had preferred her undependable boyfriend to him. He really did hope she knew what she was doing and she didn't get hurt in the end.
Bringing his thoughts back to the present, he decided he needed a shower for his tired body before he had a light dinner. Thoughts of Kite, her issues and work would just have to wait till later.
Twenty minutes later he was done and feeling better actually. He made his way down the stairs to the dining to see his sister Jeje already helping herself to the dinner which had been laid out for him.
"Hey brother mine, welcome back." She said as she forked off a portion of the baked tilapia that had been set for him.
He shook his head as he picked up a dish "Don't ask." He replied.
"That bad?" She asked as she helped herself to some vegetable stir fry, picking one thinly sliced carrot and popping in her mouth.
She nodded "Great. Have you gotten my gift yet?" She asked and he smiled.
She narrowed her eyes "Forming elusive now, are we?" She asked and he shrugged. She shook her head "What did you get me?" She asked.
She shrugged "If you could call it that." Her words brought back his memory on when he'd asked Kite same and she'd replied with that same answer. He smiled a bit,maybe these women were kind of alike after all?
"Care to spill?" He asked.
"Ice can really be pushy." She replied.
"Hmmmm" Ise hummed, he'd been guilty of that with Izy. He'd planned their entire future together without caring to hear her view.
"Yeah, but he's been calling, I know if I give him a sign we'll get back together but I'm…." She stopped.
"I'm….kinda… seeing someone else." She told him not looking at him.
"There's nothing wrong in seeing someone else." He said trying to allay her obvious discomfort at telling him.
"Ummm…no, I don't think so." She shook her head vehemently.
Good! As long as it was none of his friends he was okay.
"Jeje, just follow your heart and then use your head a bit too, you're an intelligent young lady, I'm sure you can make good decisions." He told her.
"I'm twelve years older than you, Jeje, Twelve years is not beans, don't forget that. I can still spank you if I wanted." He warned moving into the living room, she following behind.
He knew first hand how his mom could be. She'd all but panned he and Izy's wedding too. "I get it, my lips are sealed." He said taking a forkful of vegetables.
"But Ise, what exactly happened between you and Izy?" Jeje asked.
Ise who'd been about swallowing his food hesitated and got pepper in the wrong part of his throat. He began coughing.
"Sorry." Jeje was by his side patting his back while he took a gulp of water which help clear his throat.
"What?!" Jeje screeched and then clamped a hand over her mouth.
"She never said." He replied but he had a strong suspicion it was someone whom he knew.
"Wow," she said "Wow, Izy cheated?" she said more to herself.
"Nothing happened, she's …." A friend? Not exactly, an employee? Why would an employee spend the night at his house.
"So I heard." He replied. He didn't plan on being there, he had other things to do.
"I'm just saying." She shrugged.
She smiled "Okay o, I hope you find her in this lifetime." She said cheekily and he raised a brow at her.
Kite knew Izu was keeping something from her, she knew him like the back of her hand and wondered why he even bothered hiding things from her. From the corners of her eyes, she could feel him watching her when he thought she didn't notice. He watched her like that when he wanted to tell her something but couldn't muster up the courage.
Back then in the university, hundred level before they'd become friends, he'd always watched her. Kind of creepy but she'd liked it, it had been obvious he'd wanted to talk to her but hadn't been able to muster the courage to approach her. Like her, he could be shy sometimes and she liked the quality about him. Big Izu that got shy when he wanted to talk to her. In the end, she'd approached him and she still recalled how he'd stammered as he'd tried answering her questions. They'd become friends and he'd overcome his shyness of her after a while and then they'd fallen for each other.
She loved him, sincerely but it seemed he doubted it or didn't know just how much she did. He didn't need to hide anything from her. Whatever the problem was she would be glad to hear it and even offer help if he needed it.
It was her turn to watch him as he drove her back to the office. They'd been spending quite a lot of time together, he'd picked her up last night after work and they'd had dinner. Afterwhich she'd gone with him to his new apartment in Wuye, she'd asked how he'd been able to afford such a place. Abuja houses were really expensive and this apartment looked like it would have cost a lot to rent.
He was presently dealing in supplying and installing security equipment like biometric doors, CCTV cameras and others in private residences and corporate organisations. Business was doing really well and she was happy for him, for them, they could finally leave their former way of living behind and focus on legitimate things. She was currently making a sizable income from this job and with his earnings she was sure they would be fine, maybe get married? She smiled, well he had to propose first but before all that she had to know what exactly he was keeping from her.
"Yes hon?" He replied not taking his eyes off the road.
"Are you okay?" She asked and he glanced at her.
"No , I'm not in any trouble." He snapped at her.
"You need to have more faith in me Kite." He told her taking another glance at her.
"Really Kite, sometimes you annoy the crap out of me. I'm not in trouble, okay? Infact I'm doing really well so all I need is for you to be happy that we've found each other again and revel in that fact, okay?" He said condescendingly.
"Don't talk to me like I'm a kid, Izuoma . I know you've been preoccupied lately and you know I know you like the back of my palm, you can keep it from me, fine! But don't you dare put me in a position like you did the last time because I tell you, no amount of begging would make me forgive you." She told him matter of factly.
He drove through the gates of the company and parked in the parking lot, both of them fuming.
'what in the world had just happened? Kite had asked her boyfriend whom she loved with all her heart a simple question and it had blown up this way.
Still sulking she opened the door and made a move to get down when he held her hand back. She looked at his hand holding hers then up at his face. He looked repentant but she didn't care, he'd over reacted and he needed to apologise.
"Alright", she nodded accepting his apology.
"Sure " she replied with a slight smile as she suddenly sat forward, put her hand around his neck and pull him forward to meet her. She kissed him, softly and lightly on the lips. Nothing too much, just a small kiss reassuring him that she was here for him whenever he needed her.
Pulling away, she saw the smile on his face. She was also smiling when she looked and saw Ise standing in front of their car, eyes behind dark police shades. He paused for all of two seconds which seemed like a lifetime to her, his mouth set in stone before moving on.
'Damnit!' She thought, Now he would dress her down for kissing her boyfriend in his parking lot or whatever.
"Wasn't that your boss?" Izu asked.
"Yes it was, I have to go." She began getting out when he held her back again.
"yeah." He released her hand.
She got down and hurriedly made her way into the building not sure what awaited her in there.
I don't like Eve. She's so shallow-minded.


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Адо́льфо О́рта Марти́нес (; 3 октября 1957, Сантьяго-де-Куба — 28 ноября 2016) — кубинский боксёр лёгких весовых категорий, выступал за сборную Кубы во второй половине 1970-х — первой половине 1980-х годов. Серебряный призёр летних Олимпийских игр в Москве (1980), трёхкратный чемпион мира, двукратный чемпион Панамериканских игр, победитель многих международных турниров и национальных первенств.

Биография
Родился в деревне Сан-Лоренсо, провинция Сантьяго-де-Куба, детство провёл в городе Камагуэй. Активно заниматься боксом начал в возрасте двенадцати лет, неоднократно становился чемпионом страны среди юниоров, а в 1974 году перешёл на взрослый уровень, стал получать приглашения в основной состав национальной сборной. Два года спустя впервые выиграл чемпионат Кубы, победив всех конкурентов по команде в легчайшем весе (впоследствии повторил это достижение ещё восемь раз), кроме того, был лучшим на чемпионате Центральной Америки и Карибского бассейна. В 1978 году на чемпионате мира в Белграде выиграл золотую медаль.

В 1979 году перешел в лёгкую весовую категорию, после чего удачно выступил на Панамериканских играх в Сан-Хуане, где вновь выиграл медаль самой высшей пробы. Благодаря череде удачных выступлений удостоился права защищать честь страны на летних Олимпийских играх 1980 года в Москве — сумел дойти до финала, но в решающем матче со счётом 1:4 уступил представителю ГДР Руди Финку. Несмотря на поражение, кубинец остался в мировой боксёрской элите и через год одержал уверенную победу на Кубке мира в  Монреале.

На мировом первенстве 1982 года в Мюнхене выступал в полулёгкой весовой категории, победив всех соперников и поднявшись на верхнюю ступень пьедестала. В следующем сезоне выиграл золото на Панамериканских играх в Каракасе. Должен был представлять страну на летних Олимпийских играх 1984 года в Лос-Анджелесе, однако Куба бойкотировала эти соревнования, и вместо этого он принял участие в турнире стран социалистического лагеря «Дружба-84», где завоевал очередное золото.

В 1986 году Адольфо Орта выиграл третью на своём счету золотую награду чемпионата мира, на соревнованиях в американском городе Рино он вновь был лучшим, выступая в лёгком весе. Вскоре после этих соревнований принял решение покинуть сборную и завершил карьеру спортсмена, всего в любительском олимпийском боксе провёл 346 боёв, из них 319 окончил победой. После окончания спортивной карьеры работал тренером, долгое время проживал в Мексике, где занимался подготовкой молодых перспективных боксёров.

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 Adolfo HORTA MARTÍNEZ — статистика выступлений на крупнейших турнирах

Боксёры Кубы
Боксёры 1970-х годов
Боксёры 1980-х годов
Боксёры легчайшей весовой категории
Боксёры полулёгкой весовой категории
Боксёры лёгкой весовой категории
Боксёры на летних Олимпийских играх 1980 года
Серебряные призёры летних Олимпийских игр 1980 года
Чемпионы мира по боксу
Чемпионы Панамериканских игр по боксу

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Diary of artist Susan Shie. Outsider artist with an MFA, painter, writer, social commentator. Art Quilts of my life and others' and world events. Politics, my Kitchen Tarot, astrology, healing the Earth, family and friends. Visit my site www.turtlemoon.com. Study with me at my home studio or away. See my pre-blog Turtle Trax Diary from August, 1997 to July, 2007, at http://www.turtlemoon.com/trax/diary1.htm.
Here are the nine little drawings I made when I was in Girona, Spain, in July. I kept meaning to scan and put them here, but got all caught up in making the big art quilt about Girona, which is now done. It's called "Dragon Sushi: 9 of Pyrex Cups in the Kitchen Tarot," and you can read my big statement about it in my website's 2012 gallery. But there are no pictures of it there, as I can't risk showing any, in case they migrate to somewhere else on the internet and wreck my chances of having this work be accepted for Quilt National '13. It is their rule, and I can't see any way to control keeping my images only on my site, so I'm just not putting any up til it's safe.
I think that's what has made me so restless to get something else up about Spain, and thus now it's time to finally show these little 4 x 6" ink, crayon, and colored pencil drawings on paper.
We got to Spain on July 3, but I didn't get around to drawing much til July 5. So I went back and worked on my first impression: Denise and me walking from the Peninsular Hotel to the Palau, across town, starting with walking over the Pont de Pedra, the Stone Bridge. I threw in the Cathedral, since that had made a huge impression on me right away! You can see it from everywhere in that part of the city.
On July 6 I made up my story of how the Cathedral came to be there and why there's a Sushi Bar in Girona. Having slewn the dragon, St Jordi then invented Sushi, had the Cathedral built on the spot where the slaying happened, and then they put the Sushi Bar across the river, where you can sit and eat sushi and admire the Cathedral. The Eiffel Bridge is really a bit downstream from the Sushi Bar, but I wanted to show it, because it's my favorite bridge. anywhere!
There were Spanish and I guess Catalan lessons going on for us with the girls from Girona Quilt Art, and Olga told me to say VALE instead of Bueno. Marta explained that "vale" actually has three meanings: that something is a bargain, the actual object for bargains: the coupon, and the expression of "Vale! Vale!" or "Vale! Vale! Vale!" which means "cool." Or "OK." Or "Good." I just now realize that I forgot to write "Vale! Vale! Vale!" somewhere on the big piece, like where Olga is, or where the group of Girona Quilt Art women are. What can be done? ratz!
I made the Fish Chick of Girona to be the water goddess there. I think it's really Marta, who lives with Vlady in one of those lovely tall houses squished together right on the riverfront.
In my second version of the Fish Chick, I gave her an aqua colored Moped, since she'd be that cool, and there are so many Moped riding women in Girona. And I took a little license and put the Cathedral across the Eiffel Bridge from the church of St Feliu. That is so silly, really, but it looks nice for balance here. Vale!
Here I combined the girl Giganto with La Leona, who is very close to the church of St Feliu. I stuck in the Pont de Eiffel again, because I love it so much, and you'll see it again, right away in the next piece, too! This drawing is just about all the images I love best in Girona!
Denise cut my hair on July 11, but after I numbered these, I realized this was really #8, not #7. So it's a flaw, but that's how it's staying. I numbered them with ink, so forget it. Olga gave me the Spanish word "Peluquera" for hair dresser. And a beauty parlor is a peluqueria. Our hair chopping episodes took place in Girona Quilt Art though, and after my cliff, Olga got hers really, really cut short by Denise and Marta. Butch cut. It looks great, too!
This adventure is from July 9, but I drew it on the 11th. Denise had been up to the Cathedral and the Old City Wall last year, but this was my first trip to Girona. So she took me on July 9. We met some really cool people, but the coolest was Perro Lunar, the guy really named Marc Pao, who was playing a hang drum in a little stone alcove of the Cathedral's outer wall. We had never heard one of these before, so I got really ambitious and made a little video, the only one I made in Spain.
Then we walked up a lot more stone steps, even though we'd walked up tons of them just to get to the Cathedral. In the hot sun, we walked on that ancient wall, and the view was stunning, looking down on the city and the river. Later we cooled off with gelato, a home remedy for heat exhaustion we indulged in about 4 times during my stay there. It works!
I didn't make a drawing about our trip to Barcelona on July 10 on the train, which was an adventure we had with Carine and Marcel from Belgium. But the last day, we met Alise and Alpha. She's from Brazil and he's from Cote d'Ivoire, and there we were in her little wine store and restaurant, discussing world politics and peace with them in Spain. It was a very magical experience, as were most of the things that happened in Girona. I wish I could show you the art quilt, coz it's full of stories and images of all the new friends I have there now.
I have tons of pictures, actual photographs, of my trip to Girona, on my Facebook page, so go see them, if you haven't already. Spain part 1 and Spain part 2 are albums I've given links for here, that will work even if you're not on Facebook.
The first quilted piece I made about Girona is called "La Leona" and is a small piece that I started in the second class I taught at INTERQUILT 2012 in July. I have a Facebook album about it that you can access, even if you're not on Facebook, so you can see a bunch of in-progress and detail shots and a photo of the actual Leona statue. This piece is 19.25"h x 21.5"w, and is mainly about when Irene showed me the Leona in the first place, on a lovely evening walk in Girona.
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CULVER CITY, Calif. (June 16, 2014) – Sony Pictures Classics' visually poetic love story from Director Jim Jarmusch (Broken Flowers), ONLY LOVERS LEFT ALIVE, will debut on Blu-ray™, DVD and Digital HD Aug. 19 from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. The film is the apotheosis of American independent film and underground music, full of Jarmusch's laconic sense of humor. ONLY LOVERS LEFT ALIVE stars Oscar winner® Tilda Swinton (Michael Clayton, 2008, Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role) and Tom Hiddleston (The Avengers), alongside co-stars Mia Wasikowska (Lawless), Anton Yelchin (Star Trek Into Darkness) and John Hurt (Harry Potter). Set against the romantic desolation of Detroit and Tangier, this critically well-received fan-favorite puts an original spin on a well-worn genre – these vampires are mature, highbrow and charmingly ultra-cool. ONLY LOVERS LEFT ALIVE was selected for official competition at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival and enjoyed critical acclaim at various film festivals worldwide, including the Toronto International Film Festival, SXSW, and New York Film Festival. It was also chosen as an official selection at this year's Sundance Film Festival.
Special features on the film's Blu-ray and DVD release include never-before-seen deleted and extended scenes, as well as an extended version of Yasmine Hamdan performing "Hal." Also included is the"Traveling at Night with Jim Jarmusch" documentary, taking fans behind the scenes for a portrait of the director at work on his latest film.
Only Lovers Left Alive is the tale of two fragile and sensitive vampires, Adam (Hiddleston) and Eve (Swinton). Both are cultured intellectuals with an all-embracing passion for music, literature and science, who have evolved to a level where they no longer kill for sustenance, but still retain their innate wildness. Their love story has endured several centuries but their debauched idyll is threatened by the uninvited arrival of Eve's carefree little sister Ava (Wasikowska) who hasn't yet learned to tame her wilder instincts. Driven by sensual photography, trance-like music, and droll humor, Jarmusch's Only Lovers Left Alive is a meditation on art, science, and the mysteries of everlasting love.
· Yasmine Hamdan "Hal" Music Video – An extended version of Yasmine Hamdan performing "Hal."
Only Lovers Left Alive has a runtime of approximately 123 minutes and is rated R for sexual content, language, drug use and brief violence.
For more information about Sony Pictures Classics films and DVDs, please visit www.sonyclassics.com. The website features trailers of upcoming SPC films, high-resolution images, a DVD archive and a special "Press Only" section where press members can access materials for SPC's expansive library of films and DVDs.


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Liminal Grounds
Natasha Majewski Embracing Uncertainty from Life's In-between Spaces
Keith Basso
In-Betweeny Geographers
April 21, 2015 Natasha Majewski Leave a comment
The power of in-between places has been studied by many earth explorers. Here are a few that really delve into those abstract identities of what makes a place a place.
John Kirtland Wright: In the 1940s, John Kirtland Wright pioneered concepts of human perception as an important factor to geographical understanding, writing about how the feel of a place was as important as the actual material composition. Wright called to fellow geographers to embrace rather than disregard their perceptions of the world, allowing their own siren call of the imagination to lead them, and their aesthetic subjectivity, with creativity as its guide, to direct world discoveries (Wright, 1947).
Wright, J. K. (1947). Terrae incognitae: The place of the imagination in geography. Annals for the Association of American Geographers, 37(1), 1-15.
Edward Casey: Humanistic and philosophical geographer Edward Casey explores multiple concepts of place, with perception as an important part of the process of understanding the world around us, to which he called us placelings. Casey writes:
"Minimally places gather things in their midst — where "things connote various animate and inanimate entities. Places also gather experiences and histories, even languages and thoughts. Think only of what it means to go back to a place you know, finding it full of memories and expectations, old things and new things, the familiar and the strange, and much more besides…(this) power belongs to place itself, and it is a power of gathering." (1996, p. 24-25)
Casey, E. S. (1996). How to get from space to place in a fairly short stretch of time: Phenomenological prolegomena. In S. a. B. Feld, K.H. (Ed.), Senses of place (pp. 13-52). Santa Fe, New Mexico: School of American Research Press.
Keith Basso: An anthropologist by training, Keith Basso's work incorporates a philosophical search for place meaning beyond Western thought. In his investigation of Apache people's connections to landscape, Basso concludes that "sense of place" is experienced in both the "heart and mind" (1996, p. 54). Basso scribes an elder's poetic expression of his homeland, inspiring the title of his 1996 work Wisdom Sits in Places:
"Wisdom sits in places. It's like water that never dries up. You need to drink water to stay alive, don't you? Well you also need to drink from places. You must remember everything about them. You must learn their names. You must remember what happened at them long ago. You must think about it and keep on thinking about it." (A passage told by Apache elder Dudley Patterson, p. 70).
Basso, K. H. (1996). Wisdom sits in places:Notes of a Western Apache landscape. In S. B. Feld, K.H. (Ed.), Senses of place (pp. 53-90). Santa Fe, New Mexico School of American Research Press.
Yi-Fu Tuan: A paramount figure in the formation of humanistic geography, Yi-Fu Tuan explored phenomenology and existentialism in the landscape, delving into ideas of sense and feeling of place, including how we bond to our environments emotionally. Tuan relates the fundamental importance of connecting an individual's intimate relationships to places, writing:
"The feel of the pavement, the smell of the evening air, and the color of autumn foliage become, through long acquaintance, extensions of ourselves-not just a stage but supporting actors in the human drama" (1974, p. 452).
Tuan, Y.-F. (1974). Topophilia: A study of environmental perception, attitudes, and values (Morningside Edition 1990 ed.). New York: Colombia University Press. rs.
Doreen Massey: Social geographer Doreen Massey investigates construction of place, arguing that human activity plays a large role in the constant shifting expression of place identity. Massey focuses on the complexities making-up individual identities which transfer to place-making identities writing " conflict between interests and views of what the area is and what it ought to become." (1991, p. 276). Massey writes:
"Localities are constructions out of the intersections and interactions of concrete social relations and social processes in a situation of copresence…It is people, not places in themselves, which arereactionary or progressive. (1991, p. 278)
Massey, D. (1991). The political place of locality studies. Environment and Planning A, 23(2), 267-281.
Who are your favorite in-betweenies?
Natasha Majewski
I am a traveler, geographer, and life experiencer of in-between territories. I learn from what's written across/ inside physical, cultural, and emotional landscapes and write and photograph their stories. Mountains, deserts, labyrinths, airports, neighborhoods, the human heart. All territories riddled in story. All spaces interlaced with the liminal realm.
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Come join us as we close out our Dallas shop!
As we previously announced we are closing our quilt shop. Our last day will be October 22, and we are selling everything in the store. We will still sell and service vintage sewing machines, and we will maintain our parts and accessories sales in our online store.
As of Monday, October 3rd almost everything in the store will be at least 30 percent off, with some items 50 percent and some up to 75 percent off! This includes all notions, patterns, kits, books, and of course fabric. All precuts will be 30 percent, and off the bolt yardage will be at least 30 percent off with one yard minimum.
Join us for cake and coffee all afternoon, while we laugh and share our favorite quilt shop stories.
If you are not in the Dallas area, be sure to watch our web site after we close for any leftover bargains, as well as news about Quilters Connection moving forward.


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New Adele Song 'Hold On' Soundtracks Amazon Holiday Ad
The new Adele track 'Hold On,' which will appear on the singer's upcoming '30' album, debuted in a new Amazon holiday ad.
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With just 10 days to go before Adele drops her anticipated fourth album, 30, one of the tracks from the collection made its debut in a new holiday ad from Amazon on Sunday. The spot features the swelling ballad "Hold On" playing in the background as the soundtrack to a story of a lonely college student whose day is brightened when a neighbor lights up her holiday season with a thoughtful gift.
The track featuring a marching band-style snare drum counterpoint to a warm piano base, finds Adele lamenting the struggle to stay positive amidst challenges. "Right now I truly hate being me/ Every day feels like the road I'm on/ Might just open up and swallow me whole," Adele croons as a voiceover describes the rise in cases of anxiety among young adults caused by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
Adele's 'Easy on Me' Tops Billboard Global Charts For Third Week
In a Vogue profile last month, the song was described as a "joyous anthem" that features a chorus of the singer's friends singing, "Just hold on/ Just hold on." The spare track picks up near the end of the ad, with the addition of the martial drums and a gospel chorus of backing vocalists swelling behind the singer. "The thing that they're all singing is what my friends used to say to me," Adele told the magazine. "That's why I wanted them to sing it, rather than an actual choir."
Ahead of the Nov. 19 release, the first official single from 30, "Easy On Me," topped the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart for a third week.
"Easy on Me," released Oct. 14 on Columbia Records, drew 70 million radio airplay audience impressions (up 12%) and 25.8 million U.S. streams (down 19%) and sold 15,800 downloads (down 32%) in the Oct. 29-Nov. 4 tracking week, according to MRC Data. The ballad also continued its run as the biggest song in the world with ah third week at No. 1 on both the Billboard Global 200 and Billboard Global Excl. U.S. charts (dated Nov. 13).
Listen to "Hold On" in the ad below.


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Peter's extensive career in banking, finance and corporate treasury, brings specialist skills in treasury risk management, strategic treasury management and treasury administration. He has successfully managed global debt, investment and capital markets portfolios encompassing domestic and major international financial markets.
Peter provides ongoing treasury advice to a large number of diverse clients and contributes to one-off project work devising governance, policy control and reporting formats.
Peter is a Certified Treasury Professional member of the Institute of Finance Professionals New Zealand Inc.
Peter's primary responsibility involves providing specialist treasury advice within New Zealand's export, infrastructural, primary and local authority sectors.


Compliance Management and Training: Drug Testing – Save Your Money! Part II "What Happens At Collection Sites"
Let's assume, after reading last month's article, that you took the necessary steps to enroll your driver(s) in a random drug and alcohol testing program. Then, one day, you receive notice that our friend, "Joe Schmo" has been selected for a random drug and alcohol test.
Because Joe was selected for both tests, the alcohol test requires that you notify him while he is either performing a safety-sensitive job function, is just about to perform, or has just finished performing this function, (see the Drug Testing -- Save Your Money article for the definition of a safety sensitive job.) If he had been selected for just a drug test you could notify him at any time, even if he is off duty, as long as the test is accomplished before the next random selection.
Once Joe has been notified, as his employer you must ensure that he proceeds directly to the test site, he cannot pass "GO," and he may not collect $200.00, (sorry). It is a good idea to work with your collection sites, to ensure that there are no large gaps of time, from driver notification to the actual collection time. You might also choose to familiarize yourself with the amount of time it takes to travel to the site, and ask the collector to notify you if the driver has not arrived in a "reasonable" amount of time.
Make certain that Joe knows whether he will be tested for drugs, alcohol, or both. Most service agents of large consortiums will provide a written notice to send with the driver. The correct test is imperative because it impacts the required testing percentages of the pool. If the driver takes the wrong test, he/she will be required to take the correct test selected. Knowing which test is required will save you time and money.
Okay, Joe arrived at the collection site on time. Because he was selected for both drug and alcohol testing, it is recommended, in the regulations, that the alcohol test be conducted first.
The Breath Alcohol Technician, (BAT) selects, or allows Joe to select a sealed mouthpiece, and inserts the mouthpiece into the testing device. Then the BAT instructs Joe to blow steadily and forcefully into the mouthpiece for at least six seconds. The BAT will show Joe the test results displayed on the testing device. The results will be recorded, and typically the testing device will print out the results. Joe will receive the printout and must give it to you, once he has returned from testing.
Because Joe was also selected for a controlled substance test, he will be required to provide a urine specimen. The person attending Joe is called the collector. The collector's job is to ensure that Joe removes any outer clothing; jacket, coat, hat, etc. that could be used to conceal items or substances that could be used to tamper with a specimen. He will also be asked to empty his pockets so the collector can inspect the items to ensure that nothing could be used to adulterate the specimen. Once the pocket items have been checked, they can go back into Joe's pocket. He will also be required to check any personal belongings, like a briefcase, lunch box, or purse – huh? Tell Joe not to take this as a personal attack on his character, this is just the regulated procedure. If Joe refuses these requests, the collector will notify him that his refusal will constitute a refusal to test. All refusals to test are treated as positives, (more on positives next month).
Next, the collector will instruct Joe to wash and dry his hands. Joe will either break the seal on the collection container, or watch the collector do this. He will be sent into the room used for urination and must provide at least 45mL of urine; he must not flush the toilet. During this process, the collector will be noting the amount of time it takes Joe.
The collector checks the container to ensure it has at least 45mL of urine, that the temperature is with a normal range, that the color and odor are consistent with urine, and that there is no presence of foreign objects or any tampering. The collector must prepare the specimen for testing in Joe's presence. The preparation includes completing the Custody Control Form (CCF), pouring the urine from the collection container into the split specimen containers, and sealing the shipping envelope.
Occasionally, collectors make errors in the preparation process. If this occurs, the Lab will attempt to get the error corrected. If a correction is not possible, the Lab will cancel the test. If this happens, Joe will have to go through the collection process again, (with a different collector). In this situation, make sure that the clinic does not charge you for the collection process they screwed up!
Barring any delays, due to errors or further testing, the Lab sends their findings to the Medical Review Officer, (MRO) who in turn reports the results to you, the Designated Employee Representative, (DER) – or if you use a service agent, they receive the results from the MRO and report them to you.
In Joe's case, let's assume his results were negative. Next month we'll discuss what happens when the test results are positive. Until then, take it one load at a time!


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Affordability of tertiary education to students
Average affordability for domestic students relatively stable in 2017
Average affordability of tertiary education at universities, polytechnics and wānanga has remained relatively stable between 2015 and 2017. Before this, average affordability had generally been decreasing since 2003.
At universities and wānanga, average affordability for domestic students remained unchanged from 2016 to 2017, while it decreased slightly at polytechnics.
Date Updated: December 2018
Indicator Description
The ratio of average domestic tuition fees to the average weekly earnings for a full-time employed person. If average tuition fees increase faster than average earnings, this will cause the ratio to increase, reflecting that affordability has declined. When the ratio decreases, this means that affordability has improved. This indicator also looks at changes in the median annual amount borrowed by students and the median student loan leaving balance.
Ratio of domestic tuition fees to weekly earnings relatively stable
From 2015 to 2017, average domestic tuition fees were 4.7 times the average weekly earnings for a full-time employed person. In 2017, the combined average cost of fees for domestic students in universities, polytechnics and wānanga was estimated at $5,410 for one equivalent full-time year of study.
Relative to average earnings, the tuition costs of attending university were highest, and the tuition costs of attending wānanga were lowest.
Figure 1: Average domestic fee as a ratio of average weekly earnings for a full-time employed person
Source: Ministry of Education and Statistics New Zealand.
Since 2003, the average affordability of tertiary education has decreased in universities. At polytechnics, average affordability decreased from 2003 to 2011 and, since then, it has generally improved. Average affordability has remained relatively stable in wānanga.
Overall, the 2017 ratio of average domestic fee to average weekly earnings remains below that in 2000, when the average cost of domestic student fees was equal to 5.5 times the average weekly earnings for an employed person.
There was a large increase in affordability from 2000 to 2003 and this was most pronounced at wānanga. The most dramatic improvement occurred in 2001 through the introduction of zero-fees policies for many courses in wānanga. In addition, between 2001 and 2003 the government introduced a fee stabilisation policy which allocated additional funding for providers that agreed to freeze their fees. While fee increases have been restricted by government regulation since 2004, since then average affordability has decreased overall.
These results must be interpreted in light of the fact that in New Zealand, highly subsidised government student loans enable eligible students to borrow the full amount of their fees. In 2017, 80 percent of full-time students and 37 percent of part-time students used the Student Loan Scheme. Income is also supplemented for those low-income students and their families who are eligible for student allowances.
In 2017, the median amount borrowed by each student was $8,270 (excluding administration fees). In 2016, the median amount borrowed was $8,090. Between 2000 and 2005, the median amount borrowed was about $5,400, but since then it has followed an upward trend.
The median leaving balance has also increased in recent years. From 2006 to 2016, the median leaving balance increased by 83% to $18,700.
As the government's fees-free policy was only introduced at the start of 2018, this is yet to impact on the affordability and student loan borrowing data presented here.
Figure 2: Median annual amount borrowed and median student loan leaving balance
Source: Ministry of Education, Ministry of Social Development, Statistics New Zealand IDI and Ministry of Education Student Loans Integrated Model.
Ministry of Education (2018) Profile & Trends 2016: Tertiary Education Sector and Student Support, Part 5, Wellington: Ministry of Education.
Ministry of Education (2018) Student Loan Scheme Annual Report 2017/18, Wellington: Ministry of Education.
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I've had Muracci's a few times, but I've never been into the restaurant until recently. It's quite a trek from my office, so I usually had a friend pick it up for me. ☺ Muracci's is famous for its curry dishes, specifically the katsu curry that was on the 7×7 list 2 years in a row.
There's really only room for 4 people to sit in this restaurant. It's more of a order-to-go type of place. I usually order the food and take it over to Crocker Galleria to eat. Get here early because there can be a long wait during peak lunch time.
I've tried the salmon curry over rice and the curry ramen. Both are filling and rich, so pace yourself!
Grilled Salmon Curry w/brown rice – My gut would've ordered the katsu curry, but I had to watch out for my poor body that's been taking a toll on this food blog. So, I contently purchased the salmon curry for $9.25. Crazy expensive for Japanese curry. I have to admit the size of the fish looked pretty pathetic sitting on top of the rice. It was so small! I poured the container of curry over my meal and dug in. The curry was spicy, velvety and rich. I don't believe I had any chunks of carrots or beef in my curry, which is usually added at other Japanese curry spots. The curry was definitely delicious, but I think the curry at Hotei on Irving is very much comparable at a total cost of only $6.95.
Overall, I think Muracci's serves up great curry. I just don't think it's worth the price for what you get.
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Climate: Fresh doubt over global warming 'pause'
A study that found there has been no slowdown in global warming has been supported by new research. Many researchers had accepted that the rate of global warming had slowed in the first 15 years of this century. But new analysis replicates findings that scientists have underestimated ocean temperatures over the past two decades.
With the revised data the apparent pause in temperature rises between 1998 and 2014 disappears. The idea of a pause had gained support in recent years with even the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reporting in 2013 that the global surface temperature "has shown a much smaller increasing linear trend over the past 15 years than over the past 30 to 60 years".
But that consensus was brought into question by a number of studies, of which a report by the the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa) published in Science last year was the most significant.
Researchers from Noaa suggested that the temperatures of the oceans were being consistently underestimated by the main global climate models.
The authors showed that the ocean buoys used to measure sea temperatures tend to report slightly cooler temperatures than the older ship-based systems.
Back in the 1990s, ship measurements made up the vast majority of the data, whereas now the more accurate and consistent buoys account for 85% of measurements.