In the world of Internet Search Marketing, there are two 2 major methods of campaigning for your website. The pay-per-click search advertising or PPC and the organic search engine optimization.
Having merits over the other, SEO and PPC are actually best made use of in complement to each other when doing Internet Search Marketing. Pay-per-click search advertising campaign enables you to quickly get your site in top search engine placements through bidding over keywords related to your website that you would be targeting for. With "natural" SEO, you focus on making good content for your website and garner as many links as possible to point to your site. The links are considered as votes for your site by the search engines and the more links you have pointed to your site, the higher you will rank for your preferred keywords.
Below, I will present the advantages and disadvantages of each of these Internet Search Marketing campaign methods.
1. Greatly more affordable than a PPC advertising campaign. The return of investment is much higher when compared to PPC.
2. As mentioned above, links have a great effect on boosting your rankings in search engine results pages. These will provide you with great visibility in the search engines and a steady flow of traffic for your target keywords. This will be a lasting thing and you could rely on this to serve your website well for a long time to come.
3. According to studies made, users of search engines are much more likely to click on organic search results than on the advertised sites.
4. It takes a lot of time to garner the links and optimize your pages in your website for your target search terms. It could take about 4 months just to start getting a feel for the results of your efforts in your SEO campaign. A greater investment in time.
1. The greatest benefit of a PPC campaign is that it gives you instant results. You will immediately have visitors to your site that are part of your target market which would mean better conversions and instant sales. By instant I mean results within just hours or days. Far shorter waiting than that of an SEO campaign which would take months before you start getting results for your work.
2. You are also able to easily track your conversion rates (may they be sales, subscriptions or leads) allowing you to make adjustments on your website and test different ways to make your site convert better. Also, you could just turn keywords for your site on and off.
You could rely on a PPC campaign to give you quick results which would be ideal if you are still working on your SEO campaign and still have not much progressed too far with it for you to have gained a decent amount of traffic that would bring in revenue. This is to make up for the time that your site is not earning through your SEO. In the long term, you will be depending on SEO for traffic. It is a mix of the short-term and long-term benefits of the PPC and SEO, respectively, that you would make the most out of for best results in your Internet Search Marketing efforts.
Martin Sejas is an Internet marketing consultant based in Sydney with expert knowledge on SEO, PPC and online traffic generation. Register for a free 20 minute consultation.


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I No Longer Enjoy Life, Hope To Leave In Good Faith – Dantata
December 27, 2022 16:28:01 WAT
– dailytrustonline
Elder statesman and renowned business mogul, Aminu Alhassan Dantata, has revealed that he no longer enjoys life and he is hoping to depart this world in good faith.
Dantata, 91, disclose this when he received the Vice Presidential Candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Kashim Shettima.
He said from a youthful age, he had the privilege of meeting many people and had engaged in friendship in all states of Nigeria but could hardly call out 10 who are still alive.
"I have travelled to all the states in Nigeria and I have done things with people across all states, many were friends but sadly, all the people I know, I hardly can call out 10 that are still alive.
"Honestly, as I am right now, I am just waiting for my time. I no longer enjoy life anymore. I hope I depart this world in good faith."I hope I did not offend anyone in life. If I offended anyone, I hope they find it in their hearts to forgive me. If anybody has offended me, I have forgiven them.
"I am now the only one left in my family living with grandchildren."
Dantata, while expressing joy and appreciation for the visit, prayed for Nigeria for everlasting peace and harmony.
"May God not leave us with our efforts alone, we pray for his continued guidance and protection," he added.
Earlier, Shettima, who was on a consultation visit to the state, pointed that the purpose of the visit is largely to reach out to elder statesmen on the ongoing project in the north ahead of the 2023 general elections.
He embarked on the visitation alongside the state governor, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, Musa Gwadabe, General Lawal Jafaru Isah and Tanko Yakasai
He also visited the ongoing project of Kano Cancer Centre which is on the verge of completion before departing to the airport.
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You have dieted and exercised and there are still stubborn areas of fat that will not go away. Your reason for choosing liposuction may be as simple as just wanting to look better in your clothes. While liposuction is not a replacement for a healthy lifestyle, it can make you look and feel better.
Liposuction is performed by Dr. Lowell Hughes for patients in our region to actually remove unwanted localized deposits of fat cells from the body. The procedure is meant for body contouring. It is not a treatment of obesity. A suction tube is inserted through a tiny incision placed in an inconspicuous location on the skin. With a high pressure vacuum, fat cells are extracted through this tube. The result is a resculpting of bulging areas into more attractive contours.
What is the Tumescent Liposuction Technique?
With the Tumescent Technique, large volumes of saline solution, local anesthesia, and adrenaline are infused into the fatty area being treated to cause swelling. This enables our physician to maneuver a small instrument called a cannula, connected to a vacuum machine, superficially under the skin. The cannula is inserted into the fatty tissue through tiny incisions. Your surgeon gently moves it around under your skin and suctions away the unwanted fatty deposits to reveal more attractive contours.
have firm, elastic skin and are in good health.
have tried to eliminate bulges through diet, exercise and weight loss.
have distinct areas of localized fat that are disproportionate to the rest of their bodies.
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What areas can be treated by Liposuction?
The most frequent areas treated by liposuction in men are the "love handles", breasts, abdomen and neckline. In women they include: thighs, hips, buttocks, stomach, knees, lower leg, cheeks, and double chins. Some women elect to have their fat recycled through lipo-augmentation.
Cosmetically speaking, successful liposuction is measured in inches rather than pounds. The weight removed is not as important as the improvement in your body's contour. Most important is our patient's improved self-image and self acceptance.
Is the fat removal from Liposuction permanent?
Yes! It seems that after puberty we do not create new fat cells. When you gain weight, you expand the fat cells that you have. Should you gain weight after liposuction, it goes to the fat cells that remain in your body. The localized fatty deposits that existed prior to liposuction can no longer balloon up out of proportion to the surrounding areas.
Will I need a second Liposuction procedure?
procedure at a future date.
After Dr. Lowell Hughes performs liposuction, dimples, ripples and stretch marks remain unchanged. Your new figure will be similar to what you would expect if you could lose an equal amount of localized fat through diet and exercise alone. The use of smaller cannulas allows the fibrous connections between your skin and body to remain. These connections will contract over time. As a result, excessive skin folds are so rare that many patients avoid the necessity for surgical skin excision by having excellent results with liposuction alone.
What will my recovery after Liposuction be like?
You will go home after the procedure and rest for a few hours, after which you may gradually increase your activity as tolerated. After 2 - 5 days you may resume normal activities. You may need to wear a snug elastic dressing, girdle, or body stocking over the treated area to aid healing.


My lock button would no longer depress unless I applied a large amount of pressure to one side of it. I took my phone apart first, using the guide, to see what exactly was wrong. I was missing the small black button on top of the ribbon cable.
If you don't want to spend the money, you can cut a very small square out of a piece of plastic (extremely small! About the size of a dot of ink from a pen.) and superglue it to the middle of the underside of the actual button. If when screwing on the bracket the button doesn't work, you'll need to shave the piece of plastic down. Business card width might be better. The button will work, but won't be as easy to press as it was.


Adelaide United midfielder, Jordan O'Doherty, says he "had to bide his time" after receiving his first Hyundai A-League start of the season against the Western Sydney Wanderers.
The 20-year-old has struggled for game time this season, featuring in three matches before Wednesday night's clash, but began proceedings from the outset in the 1-1 draw.
He subsequently impressed and provided great energy in the centre of the field.
O'Doherty said it was pleasing to get some minutes under his belt, after waiting patiently on the sidelines.
"It's good on a personal level to get out there and get eighty minutes or so," he told Fox Sports after the match.
"I've had to be patient this season obviously we have had a few good foreigners that have come in this year and they're playing in my position in midfield.
O'Doherty admitted it had been a bit frustrating not being able to play regularly, but stressed patience was key and the team always takes precedence.
"Every footballer wants to play minutes, but like I said I'm here for the team and everyone has to be patient," he said.
O'Doherty also played over a half of football against Perth Glory last Friday, having replaced an injured Daniel Adlung before the break.
Jack Clisby put the Wanderers ahead after half-time with a simple finish before 18-year-old Apostolos Stamatelopoulos, in just his fourth substitute appearance, rifled home a first league goal.
Upon reflection, O'Doherty felt a draw was a fair outcome.
"I think it was pretty even throughout the whole game," he said.
"And to be fair in the first-half we had a couple of chances that we should've put away and so did they.
"But in the end it just came down to falling into AP's (Stamatelopoulos') feet and he put it in the net.
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Home > Jamaica Tours > Montego Bay Tours > Catamaran Cruise from Montego Bay.
Welcome to your Catamaran Cruise from Montego Bay. Experience an unforgettable day of fun and sun aboard one of our spectacular Catamarans. Our driver will pick you up from you location in our fully air-conditioned vehicle to the dock, where our friendly and party ready team gives you a brief welcome and introduction to the cruise and equipment's.
Then let the party begins with some reggae and soca music to set the mood, set sail on the crystal clear blue water to the snorkeling site, you can go for a swim or go snorkeling (Snorkel equipment's provided and for non-swimmers a guide and instructions are given), observe the marine life and exotic corals, this is a sight to behold.
Once that excitement is over, head back to the Catamaran were our bartender awaits to serve you rum and vodka, rum punch, red stripe beer, fruit punch and an assortment of sodas, while you let lose to the latest reggae and soca dance tunes. Wait the party just began, stop over at the Jimmy Buffet Marguaritaville for even more fun, here you ride the slides and bounce on water bounce trampolines, then we cruise along the Montego Bay coast where you and catch a spectacular view of the islands mountains sides and white sand beach.
As we head back to the dock allow our crew show you the latest dance moves that will prepare you for the clubs later, when you dock your driver will be waiting to take you back to your hotel to sit back and reminisce on that spectacular Catamaran cruise adventure experience of a lifetime.
Our Catamaran cruise is safe for the entire family, remember to check out our famous sunset cruise and Montego Bay to Negril cruise, please contact us for private charters.
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Issue: Sep, 1929
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Moving OCEANS INLAND (Sep, 1929)
Moving OCEANS INLAND
by JAMES N. MILLER
The new Nicaragua Canal is to be 134 miles longer than the Panama Canal, now working to capacity. Route will cost a billion dollars and will utilize huge Lake Nicaragua. See the map below.
Details showing how the ocean is to be moved to 400 Great Lakes seaports through the building of the St. Lawrence Deep Seaway! This article summarizes progress on three big seaway projects.
A STAGGERING appropriation of almost two billion dollars may be made soon by our Uncle Samuel for the building of two urgently needed, gigantic canal projects. They are to connect the most strategic commercial waterways in the world. Both plans have immense international interest.
Number one, known as the Nicaraguan canal project, proposes to construct a canal that will make a seaway clear across the little republic of Nicaragua.
Plan number two, possibly the most vitally needed and nationally interesting, would extend the sea base of the mid continent of North America so that the 400 harbors of the Great Lakes, world famous for the enormous tonnage they handle so efficiently, would actually become seaports, available to all ocean carriers. This is the building of the St. Lawrence-Great Lakes Deep Seaway, which would make the ports of the Great Lakes doubly valuable as carriers of America's vast inland commerce and simultaneously as world channels of trade.
A third project, receiving favorable national approbation, is known as the Riker Spillway, of which more later.
The United States' present keen interest ill the proposed Nicaraguan Canal arises from the surprising fact that the far-famed Panama Canal has not lived up to its much advertised expectations. During the last six years its commerce has doubled, and is now close to its capacity tonnage of 50,- 000,000 tons per year, so that there is every indication that the canal will shortly be unable to take care of its traffic requirements, All of which means, of course, that our government must act immediately to remedy the alarming situation.
We are accustomed to think of the Panama Canal in terms of great size. But its distance from coast to coast is 134 miles shy of that which would prevail in the case of the Nicaraguan Canal. Moreover, the estimated cost (not yet accepted as official) for the new canal, is close to a billion dollars, as compared with $386,000,000 for the Panama Canal.
This great expenditure, however, would be well worth while, advocates of the Nicaraguan project believe. They say it would save a day's sailing time from New York to San Francisco and about two days from New Orleans to the Golden Gate— in other words, that the canal would afford great economic advantages as a shorter route between the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of the United States, and also between the Gulf and Pacific ports. Furthermore, it would offer splendid prospects for development of a more profitable trade with Central America. The canal, in fact, would permit a shortened schedule for nearly 80 per cent of the shipping which now goes through the Panama Canal.
From the strictly military point of view it has been pointed out by both Army and Navy experts that such a new waterway (see map) could be effectively defended and would give our naval and merchant fleets the insurance of two means of passage from ocean to ocean.
Curiously enough, the idea for the Nicaraguan Canal turns back the pages of American history 40 years, long before the Panama Canal came into being. It was in 1889 that Congress granted a charter to the Maritime Canal Company for the furtherance of such a project, though it fell through at that time due to pressure on the part of certain South American interests. The first really practical step for the canal's realization was paved back in 1914 during President Wilson's regime when there was signed at Washington a special treaty between Nicaragua and the United States. This country paid $3,000,000 for "the exclusive proprietary rights for the construction and operation of an interoceanic canal by a Nicaraguan route . . . whenever the construction of such canal shall be deemed by the United States as conducive to the interests of the two governments." The World War cut short American development plans.
Concerning today's situation—it is true that thus far Congress hasn't appropriated much money for a thorough investigation of the proposal. The sum of $150,000, granted for the purpose of a survey last March under ex-President Coolidge, is a mere drop in the bucket. Nevertheless many government engineering experts confidently expect that President Hoover with his broad knowledge of national needs will soon see to it that the canal gets a start on a worth-while scale.
National interest in a shipway of sufficient depth to permit ocean shipping from the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean has been widespread for 9 years. Midwestern industrialists and the 40,000,000 inhabitants of the world's bread basket are clamoring for its completion.
In 1920 an international board of engineers was appointed by Canada and the United States to make a survey of the St. Lawrence from Montreal to Lake Ontario in order to discover how best to make the waterway navigable for ocean and lake vessels. In 1921 the experts made a favorable report and in 1924 the two governments appointed another board of engineers to review the earlier board's report. In 1926 the new board's report showed the engineering factors to be very acceptable to both governments.
Also in 1924 the two governments appointed advisory committees to further investigate the economic phases. President Coolidge's committee was the St. Lawrence Commission of the United States with the then Secretary of Commerce, Herbert Hoover, as chairman and Charles P. Craig as executive secretary.
Since then there has been a wide interchange of letters between this country and Canada. The next step, which seems to loom in the near future, is the appointment of an international commissioner or commissioners to phrase a treaty between the two nations.
The five Great Lakes are international waters which form the boundary between the United States and Canada from Minnesota to New York. Considered from the standpoints of their area and commerce they constitute the most important fresh water group in the world. They are directly concerned with the prosperity of over 40,000,000 Americans and afford access to regions notable for the magnitude of their natural and industrial resources.
THEY permit the grain of the western prairies and the Canadian provinces to reach eastern mills and ports of export at substantial savings compared with all-rail routes. They have brought into economic juxtaposition the ores of Minnesota and Wisconsin, and the steel mills of the Lake Michigan, Lake Erie and Pittsburgh districts. And they have enabled the Northwest to secure, at very great savings, the fuel required for the maintenance of its commerce, industry and domestic life.
To further develop these great waterways on a large scale would be a masterly stroke of modern-day engineering genius. Moreover, the deepening of the St. Lawrence would also involve the development of the huge hydro-electric power from the great rapids which now obstruct navigation on the river. This is the largest profitable hydro-electric power development on the North American continent and the dams necessary for further increase of power would create a series of pools in place of the present rapids, which, with the supplement of locks and short canals, would constitute the shipway.
That the interior states, as well as the others, believe they would be affected by the project, is shown by the fact that 23 states have associated together by acts of heir legislatures under the name of the Great Lakes Tidewater Association. Representing close to two fifths of the nation's entire population, the organization is working heroically to accomplish its purpose.
Actual construction will be apportioned between the two countries as follows: as tentatively proposed by Canada and assented to in principle by the United States, the proposed works lying within international waters shall be constructed by the United States, whether lying on the American or Canadian side of the line, and all works within Canadian waters shall be built by Canada. In other words, the United States will bear the expense of deepening the connecting channels between Lake Superior and Lake Erie and construct the proposed works in that portion of the St. Lawrence River from Lake Ontario to the point where it ceases to form the international boundary. Whereas Canada, at its own expense, will complete the new Welland Ship Canal (probably by 1930) and will build the proposed works in that section of the St. Lawrence lying between the international boundary line and the sea.
As to cost, the United States will have to pay in the neighborhood of $123,000,000 while Canada will spend about $200,000,-000. It is expected that the seaway would be open to navigation in seven to eight years from the time that active work had been started.
NOW as to the third project, the Riker Spillway.
Down in the lowest depths of the historic Senate Office Building in Washington, D. C, a gigantic engineering model of the Riker Mississippi Spillway stretching some 75 feet long and about 12 feet wide, serves as a working plan of a waterway expert, Carroll L. Riker, whose age has passed the 80 year milestone.
His model represents a plan designed, after almost a quarter of a century of intensive study, to make a docile infant of the turbulent Mississippi, controlling its treacherous floods, making its vast power far more available to the nation, affording well nigh perfect drainage, irrigation and better climatic and health conditions throughout the valley.
Riker, a kindly, patriarchal man who has spent the best years of his life studying dam construction, explains that as far back as the years immediately preceding the World War, he had succeeded in interesting certain of Uncle Sam's waterway experts in plans for the curbing of the Mississippi and its tributaries. But the war upset these plans to such an extent that not until recent years did government authorities again lend an ear of uninterrupted interest.
Back in 1928, Congress, forced to action by the disastrous floods that had been exacting such a terrific toll of life and property, appropriated $325,000,000 for control of the Mississippi's flood waters. But the scheme thus far hasn't shaped up as hoped for by Congress, particularly since a recent break in the work resulted in virtually desperate efforts to prevent breaks in levees at other points. So Riker, backed up by Senator Lynn J. Frazier of North Dakota, among other prominent persons, is agitating the building of the huge spillway.
Now the term, spillway, as the name implies, means a scientific "spilling", or taking care of flood waters, so that they can do no damage. And in a word, the Riker plan proposes to accomplish this by virtue of the engineering process of quickly disposing of excess waters by deftly sluicing them to one side, though in as straight a line as possible, and then to the point of delivery.
Under the Riker plan, a strip of land from Cairo, 111., to a point 150 miles west of the mouth of the Mississippi, three miles wide, would be confined on each side by an embankment, or levee of great size and width, divided laterally into two halves by a third levee. By such division, one levee could be used for navigation while another could be employed for agricultural purposes. Or it even could be kept dry for years, if emergency occasion so demanded. The land on which the strip is located could be purchased readily by the Federal government from the states which it traversed at a reasonable price.
This wide spillway, running almost in a straight line to the Gulf, proponents of the plan say, would forever do away with the menace of floods. For it would tap the Mississippi near Red River Landing and receive all its excess waters there, and act similarly where it crosses the river above Vicksburg, recrosses it below Memphis, and at a point just below Cairo.
Now comes what certainly are the most unique phases of the Riker project: the inventor claims that his spillway, or Overland Seaway, as some choose to call it, might within a comparatively few years be the greatest man-made navigable deep-waterway in the world, reducing by 50 per cent the water-route distance between the Gulf and Cairo, 111., as compared with the present distance by river alone, and largely supplant the latter for navigation use. The point that almost staggers the imagination in this connection is that not only will there be locks for small vessels, but that the Riker plan also calls for locks more than twice the length of those of the Panama Canal. In other words, the space between the levees would be dredged to a depth sufficient to permit the largest steamships in the world to regularly navigate the river's entire length from Cairo down to the Gulf.
Thus the city of Cairo would be brought to within 48 hours of the Gulf. In fact, Mr. Riker says: "My plan would practically make Cairo a seaport. It provides slack water for navigation, having a minimum depth of over 40 feet over the locks, an entirely ample width clear to the Gulf of Mexico, where there is the finest harbor entrance in the world both as to depth and approach. There is even a rattling good probability that if my scheme were carried out, the commerce of Cairo should, within 50 years' time, become greater than that of any other port in the world.
"The Mississippi Valley, being the geographical center of the United States, is destined to become its primary center of agriculture, industry and commerce. All this should be largely accomplished by my Hood control plan As demands have compelled many of our great industries to undertake their production near areas of consumption, such production designed for export will eventually cause their centralization where the best facilities exist for exportation and for obtaining raw material and labor.
"The point is that the area between the confluence of the Missouri and Ohio Rivers with the Mississippi is the center towards which the natural products of the Mississippi Valley gravitate and from which its manufactured products must largely radi ate. Some of its bulky agricultural and other basic products now seek to find water-borne transportation to foreign markets by the Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence, unnavigable during the winter months; by rail to the harbors of our eastern seaports, whose congested facilities preclude the economical terminal handling of such products; or by the long rail and water route through the Gulf of Mexico."
Still another unique, and even revolutionary phase of the Riker plan is its proposal to construct a series of gigantic monster dams. Explains Mr. Riker: "There would be about 10 reinforced concrete dams crossing the spillway; each would be provided with a continuous series of gates extending full length, and superimposed upon each dam would be a roadbed forming a bridge for railroad and vehicular travel across the spillway. Wherever required for travel there would be built additional bridge crossings made of reinforced concrete and so made as to be uninjured by floods and able to function as eveners of the depth of flood waters passing through the spillway."
THE inventor points out that once the Riker Spillway were completed (granted that Congress eventually gives approval to its construction), work upon the Mississippi, looking to its complete canalization, should begin; first, by the construction of the master dams across the river; one just below the spillway's mouth near Cairo; one just below where the river is crossed near Memphis; one below the recrossing near Vicksburg; and also one below where the river is connected with the spillway near Red River Landing. These master dams, Mr. Riker further explains, should be provided with gated control of the waters passing down the river, with locks for navigation and with plants for the generation of electric power.
As for the cost of this great project, the inventor says: "The canalization of the Mississippi would limit the greatest possible flood height in the river to an average of more than 25 feet below the tops of its present levees, for about a thousand miles of its length. There then would be recovered from overflow along the river, a very large area of most valuable land. All told it should amount to about 4,000,000 acres, soon becoming the most valuable land in the entire valley, as its increased acreage value would be at least $400. Such valuation, amounting to about $1,600,000,000 would be greater than the cost of the spillway and the estimated cost of the river's canalization, including the purchase cost of the land bought from the various states."
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Don says: May 19, 201010:47 am
"In 2004, the Nicaraguan government again proposed a canal through the country—large enough to handle post-Panamax ships of up to 250,000 tons, as compared to the approximately 65,000 tons that the Panama Canal can accommodate. The estimated cost of this scheme may be as much as US$25 billion, 25 times Nicaragua's annual budget. Former President Enrique Bolaños has sought foreign investors to support the project. The scheme has met with strong opposition from environmentalists, who protest the damage that would be done to the rivers and jungle." -Wikipedia
Scott B. says: May 19, 201012:03 pm
It'll be underutilized anyway, once global warming opens up the Northwest Passage permanently to container ship traffic.
StanFlouride says: May 19, 20106:39 pm
Given the rather complicated relationship between the US, United Fruit, and Nicaragua (the latter was occupied by the U.S. almost continuously from 1912 through 1933) it's actually a bit surprising this wasn't built then. Maybe the US enjoyed their canal monopoly and let this plan wither away.
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The Riker Plan was dismissed in technical journals in 1913:
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Sean says: May 20, 20105:44 am
If it hadn't been for several very strange quirks of fate, political chicanery, a persuasive Frenchman, and a coup sponsored by American businessmen, the Canal would have been in Nicaragua. Practically right up to the moment the US government took over the sites of the old French digs in Panama, everyone thought that Nicaragua would be the place.
Longer, and greater elevation changes, but much less miserable territory to work in, a more stable (at the time) government, and better geology.
If you ever have the chance, David McCullough's "The Path Between the Seas" is a fantastic read on a subject that changed the world in many ways.
Scott B. says: May 23, 20104:22 pm
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A monthly jam session for people interested in old time fiddle music.
The Illinois Old Time Fiddlers Association is a non-for-profit organization. Formed in 1966, the association is dedicated to reviving and furthering old time fiddle music, to the preserving of the old time tunes and fiddling techniques, and to the passing on of this traditional form of entertainment to the younger generation. Anyone who agrees with the purposes of the association can become a member of this association.
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Old-time jam @ Lincoln Square Mall behind Common Ground Food Co-op
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Located in the Lincoln Square Mall behind the Common Ground Food Co-op. Lincoln Square Mall is located in downtown Urbana, IL between Race and Vine on Broadway.
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So I know, I know, everyone is totally sick of fairy tale adaptations by now (and we haven't even gotten to the bulk of them yet), but this one may just give people pause.
Filmmaker Sara Driver, who you've probably never heard of but as The Playlist recalls, had a big presence on the indie film scene in the 80s and 90s, recently talked to The Huffington Post about her new project, which, despite being fairy-tale themed, could turn out to be quite a doozy for film fanatics:
It's a European production for children, a series of folk tales to be called Tales from the Hanging Head, and directed by international directors. I'll be doing one; Marjane Satrapi, Emir Kusturica, Michel Gondry, and Alfonso Cuaron will direct others linked by the common thread of metamorphosis… They're from different countries, and the stories are from different countries, and Marjane is going to tie it all together with her incredible animation.
And as if aware of exactly how many Cinderellas and Sleeping Beauties are on their way to American cinemas in the coming months, Driver took her source material from lesser known but no less fantastical Serbian folk tales. With stories titled Laughing Eye and Weeping Eye, The Dragon and the Prince, The Nine Peahens and the Golden Apples and such visionaries behind the cameras, this tale just might turn out to be the fairest of them all.
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Q: Release TextFormField focus on hardware back button press I have a TextFormField in a flutter app and its Focus is important to the functionality of my screen. When the field has focus, I hide some widgets on the page so it looks good when the keyboard is open.
When I press the back button to exit the field, the keyboard is minimized, but the field still maintains focus. So the widgets I hid on the screen are still hidden. As soon as I tap out of focus, the widgets come back, but I know users will get confused at why the back button did not make the widget re-appear. I know I can release the focus by requesting a new focus:
FocusScope.of(context).requestFocus(FocusNode());

But, I don't know where I can invoke this release focus logic. I thought I might be able to create an EventChannel to subscribe to the native activity onBackButtonPressed() and send back button events down the channel, but it looks like an open issue to be able to override this function in a Flutter app.
I know there is a WillPopScope widget that allows you to capture the back button event if it will exit the current ModalRoute, but I'm not sure I can use this to solve my problem because the widget of interest is a TextFormField not a ModalRoute.
Is there a way I can subscribe to the keyboard closing instead?

A: When I got to the end of typing out my problem, I thought of the idea to subscribe to the keyboard closing event... sure enough there is a package for that! https://pub.dev/packages/keyboard_visibility
So, I can solve my problem by using the keyboard_visibility package
import 'package:keyboard_visibility/keyboard_visibility.dart';
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final FocusNode roomIdInputFocusNode = FocusNode();
final roomIdHasFocus = BehaviorSubject<bool>();
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    onChange: (bool visible) {
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            roomIdHasFocus.sink.add(false);
        } else if (visible && roomIdInputFocusNode.hasFocus) {
            roomIdHasFocus.sink.add(true);
        }
    },
);

Unfortunately, this still keeps the focus on the TextFormField, but it is good enough for me because I'm able to unhide the widgets I hid away when the keyboard opened.

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In its four years of existence, Chineke!, Europe's first majority black and minority ethnic (BME) orchestra has transformed the attitude of the classical music business towards race, diversity and inclusion. 'Before Chineke! there was nothing like it,' says founder Chi-chi Nwanoku OBE. 'Today, people of colour are acceptable in the industry, whereas the establishment used to say classical music is not for people like you.'
After what she calls her 'lightbulb moment' (when she saw a well-known white musician talking to BBC cameras at a concert of the Kinshasa Orchestra to which she had not even been invited) she realised it was time for BME musicians to tell their own story. The next day she was on the phone to musical institutions and musicians around the world establishing a group which today has over 80 members from over 30 countries.
Chi-chi has also been working hard to change the demographic of audiences, which has been key to Chineke!'s social mission from its very first concert at the Royal Festival Hall in 2015. 'I looked out and it was like the London I had lived in. There were people of all ages and ethnicities, people who I know had never been to a concert, as they'd been told this was not a place for people like them. And what makes me most happy is that they are now going back again and again, whether we are playing or not.'
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Q: Reinstalling Ubuntu via Wubi, ubuntu/disks for backup? I am about to do a full re-install of Ubuntu via Wubi and want to ensure nothing is lost when I uninstall. I've read that by downloading the entire C:/ubuntu/disks folder on Windows is the proper way of "backing up" Ubuntu with Wubi. But I have a few questions about how this helps me should something go wrong:

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*My main intent is to reinstall Ubuntu then send all the files I had on my old version to the new one. I've never done this before, but I'm fairly certain the disks folder will NOT allow me to recover individual directories I have currently. Is it better to use an external HDD for these files?

*For private SSH keys, similar to the question above, if I were to just copy the containing directory and replace the new OS's copy of it, this wouldn't cause any issues correct?

A: I've never used Wubi, so I'm not aware of the best Wubi-specific way to go.
However, the following will work anyway:

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*You can either use an external HDD, regular file synchronization (e.g. via scp(1) or rsync(1)) or a directory shared with the host (Windows). In either case, if the external resource is not formated with some UNIX/Linux file-system, you should consider using tar(1) to pack whatever you want to backup, in order to preserve ownership and access privilege information.

*No, the key's won't cause any issues. The ~/.ssh/config and ~/.ssh/known_hostsfiles could, although this is most unlikely (only in case your former Ubuntu installation was using a very outdated version of OpenSSH).
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Yet another point to consider: You probably don't want to restore ALL the files in the new Ubuntu installation. Usually, one would only transfer the files in /home and maybe individually selected ones from e.g. /etc and /var - as most of the files outside /home are system-specific. For example, if you want to have some GUI tool from the old system in the new one, you have to install it again instead of copying the files. But you probably knew that already?


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Aesop's Fables – FLNWO #42
https://www.corbettreport.com/mp3/flnwo42.mp3
On this edition of Film, Literature and the New World Order, James examines Aesop's Fables for some of the timeless wisdom that we can still benefit from here in the 21st century.
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kraanik says:
My favorite fable is the fable of dirty johnny
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ch613W6siQg
candlelight says:
kraanik,
As dirty fables go, this one is packed full of morals. Bettie and Veronica are gonna be called on first, hands down, not so much if you're lookin' like dirty Johnny. Moral? Always dress for success.
About Uncle Terry: Moral? – Don't be giving no drugs and guns to the outcast, ostracized, marginalized and demoralized, 'cause it might just bite someone or many more persons in the ass. And for ejaculate, if you're waving it, use the flag, if you must…. Damn.
Now, here's a song with a moral about being someplace you don't belong, whilst thinking the grass is greener where you're not. Yeah, there's some sexual overtones to it, like the House of the Rising Sun, but, I don't think that's the point:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiMtINugia0
Another version for those true Dylan aficionados:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHLfJcuKUK4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrXCInARGpA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uauhxKCMsHU
Joris says:
The video thumbnail is awesome!
It's like the tree in the background is the growing from the book. Was that your intention or is it a very cool coincidence?
Rufus Kohn says:
I could not agree more
tiffany.p says:
I hadn't thought about these fables, but I will try reading them to my daughter. We read every night and I think she'll really enjoy them. Once again, taking seemingly complex ideas and breaking them down so everyone can grasp them. I truly appreciate the work you do.
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A hungry fox stole one day into a vineyard bursting with clusters grapes all ripe and luscious for eating. But they grew on trellises so high that he leaped, and leaped again, until he was worn out and panting. Giving up at last, he stalked away jauntily. " Take them who will," he sniffed. " The grapes are sour!"
¤¤¤ Aesop is supposed to have lived some time after 560 B.C. But the Fables originated in many places and in times much more
remote ¤¤¤ Four Fables. From the " A Treasury of Satire" by Edgar Johnson" Simon & Schuster 1945.
What the moral is? Not provided. Im guessing about Honest work and Universal Incomes inevitable sour harvest.
Duck says:
Generalbottlewasher
I read the moral was that people hate what they cant have/do/become…hence people getting 'sour grapes' and being 'glad' they didnt get the awful promotion or have to put up with the hectic life of the rich and famous or have the anoying number of suitors pretty people get….
cooly says:
Another little gem is the fable (though not attributed to Aesop) The Scorpion And The Frog, which I'm sure most of you know of.
It comes to mind when people keep falling for the voting charade. "Oh, this political candidate is trustworthy, not like the others."
And also with the creation and stockpiling of nuclear weapons, which if, or most likely when, they are deployed may cause a chain reaction of deployments which will not just obliterate the "enemy", but most if not all life on the planet.
'… falling for the voting charade…'
The charade is national politics…which is why its where they keep the drama… you can make a big difference in local politics with just a few people.
People dumb enough to live under housing associations often suffer under a petite tyrant for years when a few dozen votes could kick them out. Agenda 21 and its ilk is mostly implemented by LOCAL authority
manbearpig says:
A fable for internet forums:
"Good-morning, beautiful creature!"
The Crow, her head cocked on one side, watched the Fox suspiciously. But she kept her beak tightly closed on the cheese and did not return his greeting.
"What a charming creature she is!" said the Fox. "How her feathers shine! What a beautiful form and what splendid wings! Such a wonderful Bird should have a very lovely voice, since everything else about her is so perfect. Could she sing just one song, I know I should hail her Queen of Birds."
Listening to these flattering words, the Crow forgot all her suspicion, and also her breakfast. She wanted very much to be called Queen of Birds.
So she opened her beak wide to utter her loudest caw, and down fell the cheese straight into the Fox's open mouth.
"Thank you," said Master Fox sweetly, as he walked off…"
That, in One of my favs….I also liked the one where the dog (or fox) gets water by putting rocks in a jar of water to raise the water levels, so he can reach it to drink…"little by little does the trick"….
Yes, thanks, another good one to bear in mind… especially for impatient creatures of my species, …uh…speciezeses…
mkey says:
I do remember these. I have some of these old books containing wisdom on my shelf, I guess this would be a very fortuitous moment to dust them off. These fables probably offer a better education than the entire 8 years of the schooling system.
jamd says:
Thanks James, I really enjoyed that.
Hopefully there's a bit of wild ass in all of us!
And I loved hearing about Corbett's son and his moral to the story of the dog and the egg. I laughed out loud.
calibrator says:
Makes one think about the future of the Corbett Report, doesn't it…
I am so very glad you pointed out the worth of these tales. They are one of the few things i chose to share as a parent as well(not that they remember at this point)…The other gems i really liked, that now seems impossible to find, is the original "bambi, a life in. the woods"….NOT the horrid disney abomination. It was so deep and thoughtful, (about who really 'above' whom) it captured the imagination …. with questions….I also liked Riki Tiki Tavi, because he was "eaten up from head to toe with curiosity" and so could never be frozen with Fear….these for slightly older children, of course. It is a good strategy to frontload wisdom like this….they will not get it now, but it will come easier, when they are ready….or when they really need it. As a parent that is all you can do…
flammable says:
I prefer this use of the word moral. The moral of the story is often true wisdom. The other use of the word moral such as acting moral is used to control us. Be nice to everyone and don't talk about certain topics because it would upset others. Don't talk about a politician's criminal history because that is not nice. Vote because many people died for the right to vote. Let the real murderer get away with it because their family would prefer to know the killer is already caught.
Its not moral to take the easy path that costs you nothing which is why people take the choices you mention (except for voting… which is at least a little useful sometimes)
Moral is talking about things that effect peoples lives, complaining about politicians and judicial mistakes even when people thin your weird or less socially desirable to be around.
I do want to clarify I think there is legitimate morality in all people. We should be taught to explore our true desires and realize for ourselves that we don't want to harm and control others. Instilling fear and approval seeking to teach right from wrong is just pure manipulation.
For voting I agree with you it was just me generalizing the BIG Presidential vote. Because most people only vote for that. I do vote but only locally.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQBWGo7pef8 good for a grin….
I know a few local political types and its kinda 'surprising' how they get to go on flights to hear famous folks talk about whats 'important'- one was gushing over hearing elon musk talk on an all expenses paid trip.
I'm less optimistic about human nature In our hearts people are SELFISH, and its only by long training OR fear of results that we dont all go around taking what we want like savages.
Pretending that humans are naturally nice leads to boomer thinking about how the government has our best interests at heart….worse is that stupid Dave Grossman's idea that there are wolves and sheep and sheepdogs which in practice works out to be 'the aristocratic elite protects you from the bandits who WANT to be the aristocratic elite…. 'pirates n emperors' lol
Drazen says:
Glad to see that Aesop hasn't been completely forgotten.
JonQ says:
So simple, so succinct. If I was a young father today and happened upon this essay, it would have hit me like a ton of bricks. But I'm neither, although watching this brought back memories of Pink Floyd's (actually Roger Water's) last album, "The Final Cut," last song, "Two Suns…" which I bought at the end of my university days. Existence on this planet for the common man doesn't have to be bleak, if we just wake up!
sherry.a says:
Old traditions and cultures seem to have more wisdom…one of my favorite Iranian adages is:
'There is NO fruit that is not bitter before it is ripe'…..'after ripening, the fruit decays…the seed is put into the earth and the cycle repeats.'
'There is NO fruit that is not bitter before it is ripe'
That phrase has a lot of mileage.
FatKat says:
Cool segment!! Would be nice if someone made some public domain cartoon of the Fables.
andy.m says:
so simple, so true.
Octium says:
Once again, good timing James.
I had been looking into setting up one of those little free/street libraries (As in the link below)
https://streetlibrary.org.au
And was thinking of posing a question for Corbett to ask if you had any recommendations for good "seed" books for a children's section.
I had completely forgotten about Aesop's fables.
Wonderful! I hope you get many recommendations. My contribution for a good seed book is Roald Dahl's "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory", showcasing the incredible spectrum of kids and their parents as they make their way through the mysterious factory. The moral? No matter what, don't be that spoiled rotten, disrespectful, addicted loser! There was nothing admirable about any of them except in little, humble Charlie.
Totally! I preferred of course Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory with the destabilizing Gene Wilder.
For a moment I confused Dahl with Shel Silverstein who wrote "The Giving Tree". I was supposed to read that story to my little brother but I wouldn't 'cause I hated it! I found it to be totally, utterly, painfully depressing! I know, The commendable (ecological?) moral went right over my head… or at least totally unappreciated in the harshness of the narrative…
I much preferred Max who was sent to bed without any supper and his voyage to where the wild things are!
And it all made me think about the album "Free to be You and Me" with Marlo Thomas and Mel Brooks among others (Diana Sands) which for my entourage was kicking in open doors about letting girls and boys be "who they are." But I loved the title song and the stories had fablesque morals and messages.
The link below begins with Grandma (my favorite) and is automatically followed by Dudley Pippen (my second favorite along with Boy Meets Girl which can be found elsewhere on the net.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syt13hCbO_k&list=PLouG2hK3fGjzfavciu0ueYDE4m4Whg1Wg&index=7&t=0s
But the best anthropomorphic story that seemed the most allegorical to me was Watership Down with Hazel, Bigwig and Fiver…
And now it's time to get to work…
My son and i read "the twits" by Dhal several times…..and we laughted
I had a beautiful picture book of these fables for my children, the same one Broc showed at the very beginning of the video (why did I put that book in storage?) I must bring it back out; they're timeless reminders for every phase of life.
The person I was when I read them to my brood is very different from the one I am today, so it was enlightening to hear James' comparisons, ones I totally see now but probably wouldn't have back then.
Someone above mentioned Rikki-Tikki-Tavi. I loved that one! Also, as a very young listener, one of my most favorite, worn records was Disney's presentation of Kipling's "Just So Stories", specifically "The Elephant's Child" read by the lovable voice of Sterling Holloway. Though there must be a moral in that story somewhere (persistence?), it's obscured by a rather odd family of parents, uncles and cousins who have no patience for questions of any sort! I always felt very sorry for the poor elephant, that he had to grow up with such a family. They were worse than the crocodile!
Of Aesop's many fables, it's impossible to pick a favorite but I always did gravitate toward The Lion and the Mouse:
A lion was sleeping in his lair when a mouse, not knowing where he was going, ran over the mighty beast's nose and awakened him. The lion clapped his paw upon the frightened little creature and was about to make an end of him in a moment, when the mouse, in pitiable tone, besought him to spare one who had so unconsciously offended, and not stain his honorable paws with so insignificant a prey. The Lion, smiling at his little prisoner's fright, generously let him go.
Now it happened that a short time later the Lion, while ranging the woods for his prey, fell into the toils of the hunters. Finding himself entangled without hope of escape, he set up a roar that filled the whole forest with its echo.
The mouse, recognizing the voice of his former benefactor, ran to the spot and, without more ado, set to work to nibble the knot in the cord that bound the lion. In a short time the mouse set the noble beast at liberty, thus convincing him that kindness is seldom thrown away and that there is no creature so much below another but that he may have it in his power to return a good favor.
padraig says:
https://www.e-reading.club/chapter.php/71304/6/Milne_-_Winnie-The-Pooh_and_All%2C_All%2C_All.html
i hope this gets it! jeez i giggled myself silly many times whilst reading this chapter to the boys. not aesop. but closer. genius writing indeed. sorry to stray from fables. this tickled me me as a child… and much more so as a dad. a giggling loopner dad a few times…. hahaha slainte!!
Not Aesop but an insightful tale nevertheless….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tS1cJq63b7g
Though this is a truly awful rendition of the story I have often thought that this story, 'The Twany Scrawny Lion' , perfectly describes the inner life of the psychopath… how kids will laugh when they hear of the lion watching the bunnies and wishing that he would get hungry again….but the soup keeps him delightfully full and happy.
He even, I believe, loves the rabbits that feed him stew… though if he felt the need they would no doubt be gobbled up.
Haven't watched the video yet, but your description reminds me of Alex in the movie Madagascar when he discovers his true predatory nature in the wild and starts seeing his closest friends as nice juicy steaks.
I know, I know, I'm so cultivated…
manbearpig
Lol… thats a funny movie.
When people realize that THEY are predators the evil people stop having the magic power of being so alien that we cant see them.
nail says:
My favorite is "The man, the boy, and the donkey". It seems a necessary lesson for the times. And thank you for the refresh…Have you read "little one inch"? It is a Japanese story and there was another the "Weaver of the clouds". I looked them up online for a refresh..Very cute children's story/folktale.
What is interesting to note, is that Aesop's Fables contains many stories involving animals and nature, the environment of the time period. Wild boar were in several of Corbett's tales.
In this age, that wildlife environment is somewhat foreign to many.
Well, unless you visit a golf course in Texas, where this fellow wrestled down a 400 pound wild hog.
https://www.golf.com/news/2019/09/18/massive-wild-hog-400-pounds-golf-course-san-antonio/
www foxsanantonio.com/news/local/massive-400-pound-feral-hog-captured-on-joint-base-san-antonio-property
scpat says:
I enjoy The Story of the Chinese Farmer, as told by Alan Watts.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=byQrdnq7_H0
If we would combine this story with the newstory posted above by HRS we could have a runaway hog come back with some 1.5 tonnes of hog friends. That would surely be good news… maybe?
Definitely lots of bacon.
scpat, Thanks for that.
"The whole process of nature is an integrated process of immense complexity, and it's really impossible to tell whether anything that happens in it is good or bad — because you never know what will be the consequence of the misfortune; or, you never know what will be the consequences of good fortune."
I think I will get the book by Alan Watts "Eastern Wisdom, Modern Life: Collected Talks: 1960-1969".
No problem, HRS. My perspective on life has changed after listening to Alan Watts' talks. He was truly one of a kind.
Here is the fable of the Polarbear and the little bird.
The little bird flew in the wrong direction when winter came. Heading North the cold became so unbareble the she fell from the sky. She landed softly in the belly of a Polarbear. She excused an explained herself and the bear kept het warm under his arm.
After a while the bear got hungry. so as bears do he had a big shit before diving into the ocean. he gave the bird an option to stay in the pile of shit of possibly freeze while the bear went fishing.
choosing option one the bear pushed the little bird up to its head in the shit and dove in the ocean.
After a bit a fox appeares and he said well look what we have here! he picked the little bird from the pile of shit and brushed her off. And with one gulp ate her up.
Moral of this story is: It are are not always your enemies that push you into the shit and it are not always your friends who get you out of the shit.
Pardon any typo's and my French 🙂
I couldn't help but chuckle, especially at your French.
Mintaka says:
Very nice episode James.
An episode about Humanity and Wisdom. Wisdom, on which it should build its foundation.
alexandre says:
James is one of those guys who makes you hopeful. Incredible.
Curiously I was trying to buy a window (the outside part without glass, wood, venezziana etc) and it costs about 500 bucks (Brazilian money) and you have to wait a month (it's made in another state) and then I thought to hell with that and decided to make it myself. Am I incapable of building a simple wooden window? So I went to the wood store, talked to the guy, showed him my plan, he gave me some suggestions and it's gonna cost about 200 bucks. Not only a lot cheaper but made by myself. It was such a great feeling, even if it ends up being shit. It's MY shit. So there was a fable there (can't remember which) that james talks more or less about that, so I went "hurray". Dr Jung built a whole house himself! (The Bollingen tower).
In any case, who, these days, reads Aesop's Fables to the children? James must be a rare individual.
hugo.c says:
I just wanted to say thanks, James.
More to the point would be that inspiration is a wonderful thing, and it is surprising how often children are involved in its arrival.
Midsommar: Initiation into the Ancient Religion of the Future
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gt-DsWO4ks
Apparently, there's this new movie out and it's quite symbolism laden. Seems to be next step toward having unsuspecting public take part in ancient rites.
I haven't finished listening to this (as the video keeps getting blocked by… whatever) but it all makes me feel the same way I felt when as a fairly young person I read the short story by Shirley Jackson entitled "The Lottery".
Besides that, I think Aaron confused carbon dioxide with carbon monoxide at one point…
blavatsky… isn't that name associated with the Mahatma Gandhi?…
theosphists or something like that … can't quite remember… have to check … tomorrow…I mean later on today…
Here's a fable. It's called "An Assoops Fable".
You're minding your own business, trying hard to stay alive. A man in a suit comes and says: "Hi, I'm your government and I want to love you, because I love you so very much". You reply "erm…yes?". "Yes", says the man in the suit. "I'm going to love you very much now if you don't mind". "Not at all", you reply. The man in the suit takes off your clothes, rapes you, takes all your belongings, puts them in his limousine and ties you up naked in a tree, then says: "You do believe I love you so much, don't you? After all, I'm saying so", and you reply "erm…yes, I guess so….if you say so, yes". "Jolly good", replies the man in the suit. "Do you know anybody that wants to be loved so much around here?" he asks. You reply "erm….yes, my neighbor Pablo lives just around the corner… "Jolly good! See you next week for some more loving!" and drives away in his limousine. You hear many laughs from inside the limousine, but you think it's the sound of the birds in the sky.
Moral of the story: We're all idiots.
Hi alexandre
I think another moral to that fable is
"Don't trust anyone wearing an expensive, bespoke costume."
Politicians, MSM talking heads,lawyers, popes.
I hope Pablo caught on in time.
Shoot, I should have said "my friend Pablo". My neighbor, if he's my neighbor, can't live "around the corner". Damn, it
Shoot, I should have said "my friend Pablo". My neighbor, if he's my neighbor, can't live "around the corner". Damn, it is difficult for me, as Manuel used to say.
TheDarkMatters says:
Enjoying one story at a time before bed.
The lamb drinking downstream politely telling the wolf, 'I have no WMDs'.
Various countries, each a lamb.
And a big thanks for the comprehensive and compelling Whistleblowers series.
A Fable by Mark Twain
Once upon a time, an artist who had painted a small and very beautiful picture placed it so that he could see it in the mirror. He said, "This doubles the distance and softens it, and it is twice as lovely as it was before."
The animals out in the woods heard of this through the housecat and they asked what a picture was, and the cat explained.
"It is a flat thing," he said; "wonderfully flat, marvelously flat, enchantingly flat and elegant. And, oh, so beautiful!"
That excited them almost to a frenzy, and they said they would give the world to see it. Then the bear asked:
"What is it that makes it so beautiful?"
"It is the looks of it," said the cat.
This filled them with admiration and uncertainty, and they were more excited than ever. Then the cow asked:
"What is a mirror?"
"It is a hole in the wall," said the cat. "You look in it, and there you see the picture, and it is so dainty and charming and ethereal and inspiring in its unimaginable beauty that your head turns round and round, and you almost swoon with ecstasy."
The ass was calm, and said there was one way to find out: he would go and look in that hole, and come back and tell what he found there.
But he did not know where he ought to stand; and so, through error, he stood between the picture and the mirror. The result was that the picture had no chance, and didn't show up. He returned home and said:
There was nothing in that hole but an ass.
The elephant asked:
"Did you see it good and clear? Were you close to it?"
"I saw it good and clear, O Hathi, King of Beasts. I was so close that I touched noses with it."
"This is very strange," said the elephant; Let another witness try. Go, Baloo, look in the hole, and come and report."
So the bear went. When he came back, he said:
"Both the cat and the ass have lied; there was nothing in the hole but a bear."
Great was the surprise and puzzlement of the animals. Each was now anxious to make the test himself and get at the straight truth. The elephant sent them one at a time.
First, the cow. She found nothing in the hole but a cow.
The tiger found nothing in it but a tiger.
The lion found nothing in it but a lion.
The leopard found nothing in it but a leopard.
The camel found a camel, and nothing more.
MORAL, BY THE CAT
You can find in a text whatever you bring, if you will stand between it and the mirror of your imagination. You may not see your ears, but they will be there.
https://www.thoughtco.com/a-fable-by-mark-twain-1690240
"You can find in a text whatever you bring, if you will stand between it and the mirror of your imagination.
You may not see your ears, but they will be there."
That's beautiful.
This is another grreat Corbett Report Video, although I can't believe James Corbett ignored one of the most famous Aesop's Fables, which is The Tortoise & The Hare. The very few actuallly truthful Alt Media types like James Corbett, Derrick Broze, etc. are like the Tortoise while the many FAKE ALT Media shenanigans like Alex Jones, & all of those Conservative Media scum including Hideous QTards are exactly just like the Hare. The Hares always promote hideous brainwashing LIES that's the Conservative Media Mind Control garbage shove it down the stupid masses as viral as possible while The Tortoises like The Corbett Report, The Conscious Resistance, The Anti-Media, Last American Vagabond, etc. are the only very few outlets that actually tell the truth.
Oh yeah, the whole thing about don't take other people's food is something I've always been so guilty of. Although I'm much more familiar with the classic fairy tales by Charles Perrault, The Brothers Grimm, Hans Christian Anderson, etc. far superior than the BULLSHIT Disney adaptations, we all know how the Drunk Hitler shill Walt Disney ruined great fairy tales like Cinderella, for example. From what I can tell, I sure bet thst Aesop's Fables teach far better morals to kids than the Bible especially the Old Testament, as we all know that those superstitious Judeo-Christian morons love to shove that bible garbage down kids throats as a social engineering tool, esoeciallt by the Catholic Church alongside EVIL Evangelical Christian Zionist churches run by pedophile bigots.
I'm looking forward to read the Aesop's Fables, since that can be very helpful for someone with autism like me, in addition to Self-help books, meditation, etc. Grreat video, James, Keep up the grreeat work, & I wish you could continue the Well Read Anarchist Program with not only more Proudhon, but also Benjamin Tucker, Josiah Warren, Clarence Lee Swartz, Emile Armand, etc. PEACEFUL ANARCHY FTW! One last thing, am I only the autistic anime-loving gamer here in the Corbett Report community? I'm pretty quite curious that's all, cheers!
EmmyA says:
I am exceedingly grateful for your inspiration!! Thank you for the pearls of wisdom you've bestowed, or at very least, reminded us of!
A particular favorite of mine that I think the moral has been lost to society is "The mischievous dog"
"There was once a Dog who used to snap at people and bite them without any provocation, and who was a great nuisance to every one who came to his master's house. So his master fastened a bell round his neck to warn people of his presence. The Dog was very proud of the bell, and strutted about tinkling it with immense satisfaction. But an old dog came up to him and said, 'The fewer airs you give yourself the better my friend. You don't think, do you, that your bell was given you as a reward of merit? On the contrary, it is a badge of disgrace.'
~Notoriety is often mistaken for fame."
Can we tell the difference anymore? :'(
judyanne says:
wonderful podcast….it feels so simple & yet common sense is almost non-existent today…thanks james
sTevo says:
Here is a song by Kurt Elling
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BItxld8tcac
Those Clouds Are Heavy, You Dig?
Moral? When your young heart loses faith, an elder will be there for you.
Funny. I got by email some comments from this post, but I got one from "darla" that looks like some AI text, kind of weird, starting with "Im sorry did nobody else hear what I thought hes saying because Im totally freaked out."
BUT, I can't find any "darla" here. Does someone knows what this is?
Darla has probably been taken care of. To quote an anthological scene:
-Who's Zed?
-Zed's dead, baby. Zed's dead.
Don't know that one.
Was Darla a bot? A Ro-bot?
Alex , it could be from the Youtube comments , or bit-chute. Do you comment TCR outside James's server?
I get comments notification via Gmail of comments that are not to me but to who i commented too earliy. Very confusing. Very goo-tube.
TCR only here at the comments.
I get the notifications too and it is confusing. When you post something, there are the options to get notifications "only to my comment" or whatever comments on this section, so I get notifications for all the convrsations, which is confusing. But to chose "only to my comments" is a bit too egoistic!
Many years ago, I once had a fantastic, adventurous, but brief relationship with a Darla before she moved away. I thought about her the other day when on the Newsletter comment board. Coincidence, I guess, that that name should come up.
Sorry about that, HRS.
Yea. But then you can also see a fantastic, adventurous but brief relationship as a lovely little gift of random chance. A nice memory that you will always have.
The way you have sown your wild oats, a mere coincidence, I'm sure.
I am laughing.
zyxzevn says:
The philosophy of Tao has a lot of elements that are liberating.
Taoism promotes freedom.
In the Te of Piglet there is a story about a fight over apples that are sold on the market. The taoist states that the apples should be free, because the salesman got it for free from the apple tree.
Many philosophies have the truth. We have an abundance of truths, much more than one would need. The problem is not what one reads (or hears), but what one understands, and of course if the ego has a good enough relationship with the self as to let the material go deep and do the transformation down there. As the ego thinks he's God (i.e. nothing else exists but He), he thinks that when he understands something, that's enough, but the material remains only in the brain for a while, then rots like milk in the fridge, and then he goes looking for the truth again. When the ego understands what he is and what his role is, then a simple flower is enough to understand everything. Easier said than done.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHB6muY-6WI
Alex; Sabedoria inestimavel, deves ter 1055 anos !
About. Lost count. "Se me fué la mano", as Cortazar's mother said at her 101th birthday.
Remember the Buddha's sermon of the flower? I was there! I was making the coffee. Ah, I remember, Gautama liked "milkoffeee pleese".
Alex: my fingers hurt watching this guy play like he has 101 fingers on just his left hand. The beautiful Joe Pass
https://youtu.be/p_kUJa1PueM
Good one. And that guitar is a D'Aquisto, which was the most expensive guitar in the world. (I think he got it as a present or something, maybe some endorsement thing). Joe Pass was my first influence. I took many of his solos when I was learning (alone at home). Around 1982 my mom bought me a mono tape recorder and a cassette tape by Joe called "Virtuoso #2" and I took everything I could. But you are correct about the fingers. I had to do a gig some years ago that was solo jazz guitar – I always play with a kitchen section – so it's been long since last I played alone. Boy, did my hands hurt. Very hard to do a whole gig like that. And not only the pain, but in abou 15 minutes your entire repertoire is gone. Horrible gig. Joe was one of the greats. Check out his album "Intercontinental". It's him, bass and drums.
Very true and very well expressed Alexandre. Mark Twain expressed something similar in his fable.
Just finished watching the 2006 French version of the famous fable known as Flowers for Algernon. Devastating. And devastatingly well-acted.
Now back to Operation Dynamo.
Obs – does milk rot in the fridge?
What's Operation Dynamo?
Also known as the Miracle of Dunkirk, it was, apparently, a harrowing evacuation effort during world war two that ushered French, British and some Belgian troops away to England from the Northern French shores of Dunkirk, which was under siege by the Germans. Some 330,000 lives were thus saved, seemingly against all odds.
A short marriage fable…
Marriage – You have two options
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0Bk6fiFwRY
HRS-
Holy shit that's funny. I rewatched that several times and kept laughing. Made my day.
For a bit older children, I would recommend Terry Pratchett.
Books about faith & religions, ridiculous science,
conspiracies, foreign politics, press, police, banks
and death (heavy metal).
Loved it all but… "If an enemy has decided to do you wrong he will ignore any plea no matter how just." Because an enemy is not a just adversary. Take a note Globalists!
Apparently, most humans have either never read the fables OR they have forgotten the real take-away from them. Aesop, whoever he was, was not a fool. His fables are still attempting to teach the real take away info to the willfully ignorant masses.
Roman Fierfas says:
Again, thank you James for excellent inspiration and uplift, here in Poland after another fake election ritual this gem of wisdom is now giving comfort to quite a few of my connections.
We have a very old translation in rhymes of classical poetry, and that finds it's way deeper into the heart and soul, I'm sure there's one in English language too.
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