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Рудня-Бартоломеевская (Бутрамеевская Рудня) () — деревня в Нисимковичском сельсовете Чечерском районе Гомельской области Беларуси.

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География

Расположение
В 27 км на северо-восток от Чечерска, 62 км от железнодорожной станции Буда-Кошелёвская (на линии Гомель — Жлобин), 92 км от Гомеля.

Гидрография
На реке Покоть (приток реки Сож), на юге мелиоративный канал.

Транспортная сеть
Автодорога соединяет деревню с Чечерском. Планировка состоит из 2 разделённых рекой частей: северной (к небольшой дугообразной, почти широтной улицы присоединяются 2 короткие прямолинейные улицы) и южной (к прямолинейной улице, ориентированной с юго-запада на северо-восток, присоединяются с юга 2 короткие улицы). Застройка двусторонняя, преимущественно деревянная, усадебного типа.

История
Согласно письменным источникам известна с XIX века как селение в Полесской волости Гомельского уезда Могилёвской губернии. В 1881 году работал хлебозапасный магазин. В 1885 году начали работу мельница и сукновальня. Согласно переписи 1897 года действовали школа грамоты, хлебозапасный магазин, 2 ветряные мельницы, водяная мельница, сукновальня, маслобойня. В 1909 году 646 десятин земли, костёл и мельница.

В 1926 году действовали почтовый пункт, школа. С 8 декабря 1926 года до 11 июня 1980 года центр Рудня-Бартоломеевского сельсовета Чечерского, с 25 декабря 1962 года Буда-Кошелёвского, с 6 января 1962 года Чечерского районов Гомельского (до 26 июля 1930 года) округа, с 20 февраля 1938 года Гомельской области. В 1930 году организован колхоз «Волна революции», работала ветряная мельница.

Во время Великой Отечественной войны оккупанты создали в деревне свой опорный пункт, разгромленный партизанами. Каратели убили 95 жителей. 85 жителей погибли на фронте. Согласно переписи 1959 года. С 1960 года действует Рудня-Бартоломеевское лесничество. В составе совхоза «Сож» (центр — деревня Сидоровичи). С 1 июня 2006 года в Нисимковичском сельсовете (до 31 мая 2006 года в Полесском сельсовете). Располагались лесничество, лесопилка, швейная мастерская, 8-летняя школа, клуб, библиотека, фельдшерско-акушерский пункт, отделение связи, 2 магазина, столовая.

Население

Численность
 2004 год — 52 хозяйства, 94 жителя.

Динамика
 1881 год — 50 дворов, 287 жителей.
 1897 год — 68 дворов, 493 жителя (согласно переписи).
 1909 год — 71 двор, 557 жителей.
 1926 год — 126 дворов, 676 жителей.
 1959 год — 609 жителей (согласно переписи).
 2004 год — 52 хозяйства, 94 жителя.

См. также
 Городские посёлки Белоруссии
 Города Белоруссии

Примечания

Литература
 Гарады і вёскі Беларусі: Энцыклапедыя. Т.2, кн.2. Гомельская вобласць/С. В. Марцэлеў; Рэдкалегія: Г. П. Пашкоў (галоўны рэдактар) і інш. — Мн.: БелЭн, 2005. 520с.: іл. Тыраж 4000 экз. ISBN 985-11-0330-6 ISBN 985-11-0302-0

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At the beginning of a new year I take time to do a little personal inventory of my life. I ask myself how things are going in my walk with the Lord, in my family, with my friendships, and in my job. I know I am not alone in this. You may have done something similar.
Personally, I made a list of things to incorporate in my life weekly, monthly, quarterly and yearly. I listed things I am already doing consistently and then added in items that would be helpful. My list revolved around "how to promote peace and endurance in 2019". Peace and endurance have been needed items in my life in 2018 so I decided to focus there. No matter what my focus, or yours, it all centers around a consistent deepening of our relationship with Jesus. All our goals and plans for a new year must find their foundation right there.
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ONE - January brings the launch of the first Women's Mentoring Ministry at CFC.
The Mentoring Ministry of CFC Women's Ministry is a place to respond to the Lord's invitation to draw near, hold fast and stir up along with another mature woman of faith. Enter into a year long relationship with a mentor and one to two meetings a month where you will be encouraged to live out your faith in the Lord in your daily life.
There is a limited number of Mentors so filling out your application must happen today (1/21).
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Why not start 2019 with purpose and determination to deepen your walk with the Lord along with other ladies at CFC? We offer you several levels of time commitments. There is monthly meetings for a year, weekly meetings for 8 weeks and one intense weekend. Visit our Women's Ministry page to register and set your plans for 2019.
Mandy Moore has been leading our Women's Ministry since 2015. She is passionate about helping individuals connect to God through the study of the Bible and in authentic community. She designs Bible studies and events for women where this can happen. Mandy married her high school sweetheart, Brian, and together they have five children.


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RBC Launches Swift Go, A New Way to Make Fast, Secure, Cost-Effective Cross-Border Payments
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"By offering cost-effective, fast and predictable cross-border payments, the introduction of Swift Go will make it easier for Canadian companies to plan their cash flow, forecast their liquidity position and do business globally," said Lisa Lansdowne-Higgins, Senior Vice-President, Business Transformation and Deposits, RBC. "This launch in Canada is one of the many innovative ways in which RBC is collaborating with global leaders in payments innovation, ensuring that our clients have early access to the latest digital payments solutions."
Currently available to clients through the RBC PayEdge™ platform, Swift Go will provide small- and medium-sized enterprises with added flexibility and choice in how they pay suppliers around the world. Key benefits of the new service include:
Speed and convenience: Through Swift Go, companies can make simple, trackable, secure international payments directly from their bank accounts and other funding sources. The capability leverages Swift's global payments innovation (gpi) technology, enabling users to track the exact status of their payments and helps them better plan, predict and optimize their cash flow.
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"We are excited to work with RBC to provide low value cross-border payment services initiated via Swift Go to J.P. Morgan's Xpedite Remit," said Rohit Godara, Global Product Lead (Xpedite Remit), J.P. Morgan. "The solution provides our clients with the ability to make consumer payments using real-time or low value local clearing infrastructure, addressing 75% of global remittance fund flows by 2023."
Rosemary Stone, Chief Business Development Officer, Swift, said: "The consumer and SME segment is among the fastest growing in the cross-border payments industry and Swift Go provides the Swift community with a strong offer in this space. We are delighted to see RBC adopt Swift Go to build on its existing best-in-class banking services by delivering instant, frictionless and low-cost cross-border payments to the Canadian market."
The launch of Swift Go marks the latest step in RBC's ongoing commitment to innovation in digital banking and payments. As an early supporter of Swift's gpi initiative, RBC introduced a new real-time capability that enabled business clients to track their wire payments leveraging gpi technology in 2019. The bank also participated in Swift's international gpi pilot and actively worked with the gpi Vision Group to help streamline correspondent banking and improve payment transparency and traceability.
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Dear God ("caro Dio" in lingua inglese) può riferirsi a:

Cinema
 Strani miracoli (Dear God) – film del 1996 diretto da Garry Marshall

Musica
 Dear God – singolo di Elton John del 1980, dall'album 21 at 33
 Dear God – singolo degli XTC del 1986, dall'album Skylarking
 Dear God – singolo di Midge Ure del 1989, dall'album Answers to Nothing
 Dear God – traccia dell'album Hymn to Life di Timo Tolkki del 2002
 Dear God – singolo degli Avenged Sevenfold del 2008, dall'album omonimo
 Dear God – brano musicale degli FM Static

Televisione
 Dead God – episodio della seconda stagione de Il tocco di un angelo

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Welcome to the Department of Anthropology!
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Dr Mukulika Banerjee
m.banerjee@lse.ac.uk
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Bengali, English, Hindi, Urdu
South Asia, Pakistan, India
D.Phil. Social Anthropology, University of Oxford, 1994; Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Wolfson College, University of Oxford, 1994-96.
University College London, 1996-2009; Joined LSE in September 2009
Dr Mukulika Banerjee 's new monograph Cultivating Democracy: Politics and citizenship in agrarian India ( OUP New York) is published in October 2021. This is an anthropological study of the relationship of formal political democracy and the cultivation of active citizenship in one particular rural setting in West Bengal, studied from 1998 to 2013. It draws on deep ethnographic engagement with the people and social life in two villages both during elections and in the time in between them, to show how these two temporalities connect. It is part of her wider interest in the cultural meanings of democracy in South Asia, especially India, and in political anthropology more generally. Her last book Why India Votes? (Routledge 2014), the outcome of a major ESRC Grant, broke several new grounds both conceptually and methodologically: it examine dthe reasons why despite varying odds, India's voter graph continues to rise, making India the largest electoral democracy in the world. Voters across 13 states were asked the same set of questions, and their responses compared and woven into a socio-politico-anthropological narrative on the sacredness of participative political behaviour in a country marred by extreme income inequality, skewed access to resources, and dystopic infrastructural developments, intensified by an asymmetrical rural-urban divide.
As part of this interest, Mukulika also prepared a BBC Radio 4 documentary on 'Sacred Elections' for the Indian national elections in 2009; and a current grant from the Indo-European Networking Programme in the Social Sciences entitled EECURI (Explanations of Electoral Change in Urban and Rural India) has allowed her to expand this analysis to cover state and Panchayat elections. Her applied knowledge of anthropological methods to political behavior led her to be the founding Series Editor of the hugely successful 'Exploring the Political in South Asia' (Routledge) which is a platform for scholars to publish political-ethnographic studies on India. A complete list of titles published so far is available here.
Interweaving the political into social anthropology to understand human behaviour has been a core component of Mukulika's long-standing academic engagement with South Asia. Her doctoral research, conducted in Pakistan's Khyber-Pakhtoonkhwa (North West Frontier Province), studied the non-violent Pakhtun movement in the 1930s-40s, and the articulation of identity politics alongside assertive political practices against imperial rule. The Pathan Unarmed: Opposition and Memory in the Northwest Frontier (James Currey, 2001) is the first ethnographic history of the transformative potential of the ethic of non-violent political action on the rank-and-file of the 'Khudai Khidmatgars' (Servants of God), who emerged from amongst the notoriously violent Pakhtun-Pathans in modern-day Pakistan.
Mukulika's interests in the social aspect of the modern, engaging and negotiating with identity and its constructions while overcoming the discomfort that traditional anthropologists encounter once they leave their canonical hinterlands, are reflected in two other publications. Drawing on a grant from the British Academy, her collaborative work with Daniel Miller (Professor of Material Culture, UCL) on that quintessential South Asian women's clothing, The Sari (Berg, 2003) explores how a simple piece of wrap-around cloth has survived the challenges of dramatic social change and the vicissitudes of more practical options to emerge as the most vaunted sartorial choice of millions of women across the region, especially in India. Richly reliant on visuals, the book is the first, path-breaking analysis of this singularly iconic attire, explaining how social attitudes and existential realities have determined the fate of what is ultimately 9 yards of unstitched cloth, over seemingly more utilitarian options like the salwaar-kameez and other Western garments.
The other is Muslim Portraits: Everyday Lives in India (Indiana University Press, 2008), an edited volume of essays by renowned scholars, which presents 12 portraits of Muslims in contemporary India, marked by an intimacy that relies on a singular methodological attribute: the absence of jargon. Nuanced, incisive, and often rendered in first person, the essays -- from Uttar Pradesh to Lakshadweep, Kashmir to Tamilnadu, Rajasthan and beyond -- confront the more judgemental corpus of academic and popular writings on Muslims in modern India. In a socio-political climate of prejudice and hostility, the importance of these life-histories lies in the reality of their being ordinary.
Together, Mukulika's engagement with anthropology combines the social and the political, and her varied research and publications testify to the advantages of perforating stereotypical categories for a more textured engagement with anthropology.
She has lectured extensively on her work at various platforms in Berne, Bonn, Chicago, Columbia, Delhi, Duke, Edinburgh, Gottingen, Heidelberg, Illinois, Indiana, Kalyani, Kolkata, London, Madison, Melbourne, New York, North Carolina, Oslo, Oxford, Pavia, Paris, Philadelphia, Princeton, Sussex, and Yale.
Political anthropology; Election cultures; Popular perceptions and democracy; Citizenship and ritual; State and civil society; Anthro-political histories of South Asia
Mukulika has received several prestigious grants and awards for her research. She is currently working on a project entitled 'Explaining Electoral Change in Urban and Rural India' (EECURI) funded by the India-Europe research networking programme of the ESRC, ICSSR and ANR (2012-16). This project brings together a network of scholars at King's, LSE, University of London, Sciences-Po, JNU, BR Ambedkar University (Lucknow) and the NGO Janaagraha to study changing patterns of electoral politics in contemporary India.
Mukulika is directing a series of ethnographic studies of Panchayat and State Assembly elections between 2012-2015, including studies of elections in Delhi, Bihar, Chattisgarh, Gujarat, Jharkhand, Rajasthan and West Bengal. This research as part of a large-scale interdisciplinary research scheme (with partner institutions in Europe and India) that will uncover the reality of democratic governance in contemporary India. Forms of rule and popular responses to them are rapidly changing in liberalising India, yet we have no coherent body of data or theory with which to understand these, even though speculation on what shape they are taking is widespread in the public sphere.
This project will fill this absence with micro-level ethnographic investigation across urban and rural settings. It will also unite the considerable pre-existing intellectual and fieldwork expertise at LSE and colleagues in Europe and India in a genuinely collaborative effort. It will involve primary research, theoretical workshops and training sessions at institutions in India and LSE and hopes to generate a transfer of skills between institutions, new data-sets and academic publications.
Previous grants and awards include:
• ESRC-BA Visiting Fellowship May-Sept (Fellow from India, 2010)
• ESRC grant for 'Sacred Elections: A Comparative Study in India' (2008-10)
• Leverhulme Fellowship (2003-4)
• Principal Investigator for British Academy grant for research on the Sari (2001-2)
• Nuffield Outstanding Social Science Grant (2000-1)
• Department for International Development (DfID) (1998-2000)
Media & outreach
Mukulika is a regular commentator on and participant in a variety of events relating to South Asia, in a range of South Asian languages including English, Hindi and Urdu. Most recently, she has been invited to participate in the Southbank Jaipur Literary Festival; the BBC World and BBC Radio analysis of Indian Elections and other political developments; panel discussions at Asia House, the High Commission of India, and Bagri Foundation.
Other media and cultural engagements include:
A 40-minute documentary entitled 'Sacred Election: Lessons from the biggest democracy in the world' on the 2009 National Elections in India for BBC Radio 4, produced by Culture Wise.
Member of lead cast in feature film 'Life Goes On' (2009) Dir. Sangeeta Datta.
Interviewed as expert for BBC 2 series 'Who do you think you are?', December 2004.
Interviewed on 'Woman's Hour', 'Thinking Allowed' (Radio4), 'Everywoman', 'Outlook' (World Service) and BBC Asian Network.
Invited to be expert 'talking head' anthropologist for TV series on National Geographic Channel on 13-episode series on 'Taboo'.
Interviewed on BBC TV and Indian national Doordarshan television network and 'Newshour' on Star News Channel.
Other Podcasts/Videos
Mukulika offers courses on Anthropological Theory, Political Anthropology, Anthropology of India and South Asia among others. She also welcomes supervision on research proposals dealing with cultures of democracy and democratisation, Islam and Muslim societies, South Asia, and political anthropology more generally.
A complete list of supervisees appears here.
Cultivating Democracy: Politics and Citizenship in Agrarian India
Author(s) Mukulika Banerjee
Why India Votes? Exploring the political in South Asia
The Sari
Author(s) Mukulika Banerjee, Daniel Miller
The Pathan Unarmed: Opposition & Memory in the North West Frontier
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American Radical: The Trials of Norman Finkelstein
Peter Presland
American Radical: The Trials of Norman Finkelstein is the probing documentary portrait of American academic and activist Norman Finkelstein. A devoted son of holocaust survivors, ardent critic of Israeli and US Mid-East policies and author of six provocative books, Finkelstein has been at the center of many intractable controversies. Called a lunatic and a self-hating Jew by some and an inspirational, street-fighting revolutionary by others, Finkelstein is a deeply polarizing figure whose struggles arise from core questions about freedom, identity and nationhood. Following him as he presents his message to audiences around the globe, the film provides an intimate portrait of the man behind the controversy, giving voice to Finkelstein's critics as well as his supporters.
The trailer can be viewed here
But this clip from it is a MUST SEE if you want to understand how and why Finkelstein refuses to be intimidated by the AIPAC and the Zionist lobby generally. Gilad Azmon (another brave Jewish critic of Zionism) titled it "Finkelstein says NO to Crocodile tears" in his latest blog post.
The producers of the film posted the following message on Pirate Bay - The Bit-Torrent download site:
Quote: Hello torrenters. I'm the owner of the film production company that released this film.
We're a tiny operation of four employees working out of a hole in the wall in Seattle. In this current economy, we're really fighting hard just to stay afloat - even big companies like Miramax are dying.
If you want us to be able to continue to deliver quality and controversial films like this one, we have to be able to make enough to survive.
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(As you can see, we can't even afford to hire a web designer.)
Refreshing change from the 'lock-em-up-and-throw-away-the-key' of the mainsteam producers eh?
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"Never believe anything until it has been officially denied"
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A real mensch. Blessings upon his name and work. What he says is very confronting for some who live with the manufactured world view of AIPAC and co.
"The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it." Karl Marx
"He would, wouldn't he?" Mandy Rice-Davies. When asked in court whether she knew that Lord Astor had denied having sex with her.
"I think it would be a good idea" Ghandi, when asked about Western Civilisation.
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a revolutionary career does not lead to banquets and honorary titles, interesting research and professorial wages. It leads to misery, disgrace, ingratitude, prison and a voyage into the unknown, illuminated by only an almost superhuman belief.
This observation by Frankfurt school luminary Max Horkheimer would serve as an epigraph to the new documentary on Norman Finkelstein that opens on February 11th at the Anthology Film Archives Theater in New York. While the trials of Norman Finkelstein are interesting enough in and of themselves to warrant attending this powerful film, what stands out above all is the force of Finkelstein's personality that is captured by co-directors David Ridgen and Nicolas Rossier. In an age of banality and anti-heroes, Finkelstein is virtually Byronesque even if rendered with a Yiddish accent.
I first got a sense of Finkelstein's on-screen charisma in a 2009 documentary titled Defamation that included a scene with Norman at his building out in the Coney Island neighborhood in Brooklyn, where he upbraids the director for suggesting that Norman tone down his rhetoric, especially when it comes to likening Israeli leaders to Hitler. With biting irony, Finkelstein reminds him that all Israeli politicians call each other Nazis when the opportunity arises. But it his facial expressions, hand gestures and ringing voice that make the scene as memorable as his words. If an actor such as Dustin Hoffman auditioned for a role playing Norman Finkelstein, I doubt that he could be half as compelling as the former professor himself.
The question of "going too far" runs like a red thread throughout the new film. Although the directors, veterans of leftwing documentaries, are obviously sympathetic to Norman's views, they make sure to include interviewees who openly question some of his decisions. For example, Noam Chomsky states that it was probably a mistake to focus on Dershowitz's plagiarism rather than the issues of Israel and Palestine. In my view, his decision to pursue this line of attack had a lot to do with his outrage over Dershowitz's much ballyhooed academic reputation, which could only be a painful reminder of his own problems merely getting a tenured position. We learn that in 2001 Norman Finkelstein was only making $18,000 per year at Hunter College in New York. When he came out with "The Holocaust Industry" that year, Hunter demanded that he take a reduced workload and lower pay. After refusing, he took another job at Depaul University in Chicago where pressure from Alan Dershowitz and the Israeli lobby resulted in his being refused tenure, despite the overwhelming vote in favor from the faculty.
The movie fills in just enough biographical detail so that Norman's tendency to stick his neck out becomes understandable. He says that he takes after his mother who, like his father, was a concentration camp survivor and a participant in the Warsaw Ghetto uprising. Unlike many such survivors, the experience left her politically engaged and vehemently anti-war. When the war in Vietnam began, she used to explode at the senselessness and brutality of the war continuously. Her outspokenness obviously had a big impact on Norman who was radicalized during the war.
In 1982, when Israel invaded Lebanon for the first time, the 29-year-old Princeton PhD graduate began demonstrating at the Israeli embassy in New York on a daily basis. You can see a photo of him in the film with a poster likening the invasion to Nazi barbarism, a first sign of the militancy that would turn him into a target of the Zionist movement in the U.S. From this early gut reaction against Israeli aggression, he turned into a scholarly critic of Zionism with a critique of a book by Joan Peters that essentially denied that the Palestinians lived in the land that Israel conquered. Chomsky contacted him at the time and developed a warm and supportive relationship with Norman that lasts until this day. Finkelstein states that Chomsky helped him with the conceptual framework for his Middle East analysis, if not his willingness to speak truth to power.
Although the movie does not spend any time at all on biographical material, except obviously for the role of his parents' experience in Nazi death camps in shaping his worldview, you get a strong sense that his politics are all-consuming, even to the point of fostering a monastic existence. He lives in one of the most untrendy neighborhoods in all of New York, but one that he loves. His life revolves around research and traveling to campuses far and wide, where he gives talks on Israel to audiences that are sure to include people determined to shout him down. Things have reached a point that the Jewish Defense Organization, a crypto-fascist outfit, has plastered leaflets around his building demanding that his landlord evict him.
With his strong Yiddish accent and glowering but affectionate disposition, Finkelstein is a true prophet of the Jewish people. Refusing to bow down to officialdom, he speaks tirelessly on behalf of the Palestinians, who, as they were in the time of the fictions depicted in the Old Testament, are regarded as little more than vermin by the tribe that calls itself "the chosen people".
As a modern day Jeremiah, Finkelstein is reminding Israel of something the prophet said long ago:
For thus hath the LORD of hosts said: hew ye down her trees, and cast up a mound against Jerusalem; this is the city to be punished; everywhere there is oppression in the midst of her. As a cistern welleth with her waters, so she welleth with her wickedness; violence and spoil is heard in her; before Me continually is sickness and wounds. Be thou corrected, O Jerusalem, lest My soul be alienated from thee, lest I make thee desolate, a land not inhabited.
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Wow. These people seem to have no shame whatsoever. Hats off to Finkelstein.
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Plumeria (Japanese: プルメリ Plumeri) is the Admin of Team Skull. She is considered the "big sister" of the team, due to how she runs operations strictly but also cares for her underlings. She specializes in Poison-type Pokémon. She is the only character in the games to have the Trainer class Team Skull Admin (Japanese: スカルだんかんぶ Team Skull Executive).
Plumeria appears in Pokémon Sun, Moon, Ultra Sun, and Ultra Moon as the sole Admin of Team Skull. She is first encountered and battled at the Akala Outskirts before Olivia's grand trial, where she expresses her anger at the player for them having defeated many Team Skull Grunts. Her next appearance is in front of the Aether House on Route 15, where she will also battle the player for the second time. While the player is taking down Team Skull at Po Town, Plumeria returns to the Aether House, taking Lillie and Nebby to Aether Paradise. She makes her final main game appearance at the Ancient Poni Path, first observing the player battling multiple Team Skull Grunts, after which she asks the player to bring Guzma back after he disappeared into an Ultra Wormhole with Lusamine. She also gives them a Poisonium Z as a sign of apology.
Following the disbandment of Team Skull during the post-game, Plumeria is one of the possible Trainers who will challenge the player in a Title Defense battle at the Pokémon League, having been convinced to do so by Nanu and Molayne. In Pokémon Sun and Ultra Sun, she also appears as a Trainer at the Battle Tree.
Plumeria's Pokémon are kept in Ultra Balls.
Plumeria appears in the Battle Tree exclusively in Pokémon Sun and Pokémon Ultra Sun. She uses three of the Pokémon below in Single Battles, four in Double Battles, and two in Multi Battles.
"So, you're the one Gladion was talking about? ...Hmph. You don't look like anything special to me."
"I help keep Team Skull together. I'm like a big sister to all these numskulls. You have realized what idiots all these guys are, right?"
"But don't you think some dummies are cute in their dumbness? You know what I mean, right? You picking on my cute, dumb brothers and sisters is really annoying me!"
"Hmmph! You're pretty strong. I'll give you that. But mess with anyone in Team Skull again, and I'll show you how serious I can get."
"Back so soon, hmm? I wasn't expecting you just yet."
"It takes these dumb Grunts way too long to deal with you kids..."
"So I guess it's my turn now!"
"What? I told you before. Next time you get in our way, I'm not holding anything back!"
"Hmmph! I can't even stand myself right now!"
"Hmmph. Guess you are pretty tough. Now I understand why my Grunts waste so much time battling kids."
"But if you want us to return the Pokémon, then you'll have to come to us. Alone. The boss is dying to meet you, hmmph! See you at our base in Po Town!"
"Not gonna disappear this time, huh? Seems like maybe the tall tales we heard about you were wrong."
"It's fine. There's nothing more for us to take from you."
"Maybe we're not the only ones around here who could be called Pokémon thieves. Is that what you are, huh? A thief?"
"That's enough. No one wants to see a sore loser."
"Hmmph. You, girlie... Lillie, right?"
"You really ready to do this finally?"
"To be honest, I've treated you really badly. Even if I was just doing the work the president told me to do, I shouldn't have done all that. Even if I apologize now, I know it's probably too late for you to forgive me, though."
"See, Guzma... he really likes the president. She's the only adult who ever seemed to see how strong he was."
"You know...deep down, you're kind of like the president. You've gone in a different direction, but I can tell you have the same strength in your convictions."
"Bring Guzma back, if you can. I know you've got no reason to help... but no one can make up for what they've done if they're gone."
"And you, <player>. Looks like you were special after all. You didn't just stand up to Team Skull. You even took on the darkness inside Aether. Looks like you're the real deal. The realest Pokémon Trainer I've seen around. Take good care of our little princess here. This is my way of saying sorry, OK? Take it. It's Poisonium Z."
"Oh yeah... you got your first stone directly from Tapu Koko, didn't you, <player>? You'd better take care of it. That's one special Z-Ring you've got there. A Trainer is only a Trainer because of the Pokémon with them. If you ever forget that, you'll bring the wrath of the tapu down upon yourself. You should be fine, though."
"Those old dudes Molayne and Nanu somehow talked me into doing this. I'm starting from scratch as a Pokémon Trainer and doing it right this time. I've got a Z-Ring and everything, so I might actually be able to live up to their expectations."
"Hunh! I can't even stand myself right now!"
"Even when I give it my all, I'm nothing compared to you! Maybe my Pokémon and I need to go through more together to deepen our friendship. I'm out of here, Champ."
"My team and I are battling for all the Pokémon we took out on our way here!"
"I failed again...like I always do. I promised myself I wouldn't! I told myself I would never fail again! It's all right to feel a little jealous, right? How else am I supposed to get stronger? My team and I really did take out so many Pokémon to make it here!"
"I don't believe that people understand each other if they battle, but I'll face you anyway."
"Yeah, yeah, you win... You're really a big deal!"
"I've got pride, too. I mean, I was in Team Skull."
"Leave her be. I like a girl who's not afraid to stand up for herself."
"I don't know about calling someone a Pokémon thief just 'cause she wanted to help out a Pokémon when it was suffering..."
"You dummies. They're trying to save the boss, so what do you wanna get in their way for?!"
"<Player>... Lillie... I know you've got no reason to help, but... But could you help us save Guzma?"
"That big dummy... I don't think he's even aware of it, but... Alola really means a lot to him. That's why he's doing something so reckless to try to save it. The Poison-type Z-Crystal... Maybe it'll help you somehow."
"I guess giving you this Z-Crystal is also kind of, what did you call it, helping each other? Oh yeah... You got your first stone directly from Tapu Koko, didn't you, <player>? You'd better take care of it. That's one special Z-Power Ring you've got there. A Trainer is only a Trainer because of the Pokémon with them. If you ever forget that, you'll bring the wrath of the tapu down upon yourself. You should be fine, though."
"Those old dudes Molayne and Nanu somehow talked me into doing this. I'm starting from scratch as a Pokémon Trainer and doing it right this time. I've got a Z-Power Ring now, so I might actually be able to live up to their expectations."
"I don't believe that people understand each other if they battle, but I'll face you anyway.
"I'm Plumeria—the Team Skull Admin."
"So you're Sun, huh? Hmmph. I guess you do look like a Trainer who can get things done."
"I got this! Settling the score for my cute little henchmen is part of my job!"
"If you're gonna give him advice, you better tell him how to deal with defeat!"
"You really think you can take out my adorable Pokémon with your Z-Power?"
"Hmmph! I guess I just have to hold that loss."
"What did you say your name was? Sun? You're quite the Trainer! You won't get off so easy next time, though! I hope you're looking forward to the next time we meet!"
Plumeria debuted in That's Some Spicy Island Research!, where she confronted Team Skull Grunts Tupp, Zipp, and Rapp at Poni Beach following their defeat at the hands of Hapu. Plumeria wasn't pleased that they weren't following her orders to capture a group of Oricorio and made them leave with her.
Much like in the games, Plumeria is referred to as "Big Sis" by the grunts.
Plumeria debuts in the Sun, Moon, Ultra Sun & Ultra Moon chapter. She is first seen attacking Gladion after the latter arrived at Po Town for the first time in order to see if he was really skilled enough to be Team Skull's Enforcer. Though Gladion proves to be strong enough for the role, his negative attitude angers Plumeria to the point where she refuses to accept him as a true member of Team Skull.
Later, Po Town is infiltrated by five of Alola's Trial Captains and Hau. Overhearing the commotion the group made when they confronted the Grunts, Plumeria and Guzma revealed themselves demanding to know why their base was being intruded. The Captains' group stated that they only wished to discuss something with Team Skull's Boss. Guzma accepted, but stated that they had to make it to him first. As he said this, a Pheromosa, Celesteela, and Guzzlord appear to attack the Captains' group.
The three Ultra Beasts proceed to rampage, attacking anything in sight. Surprised to see that the Captains' Pokémon survived the battle, Guzma revealed he was in possession of a Cosmog, which he has open two Ultra Wormholes in order to summon more Ultra Beasts. The beasts continue rampaging with no regard for friend or foe, attacking even the Grunts. The Grunts beg Guzma to get the beasts to stop, but Guzma states that he has no control over them and they'll just continue to destroy everything on their own.
Gladion then arrives and reveals his true goal is to destroy the Ultra Beasts. Gladion battles the beasts with his Type: Null, which easily gets the upper hand due to it being created by the Aether Foundation to fight Ultra Beasts. Gladion reveals to everyone that Guzma received Cosmog and the Ultra Beasts from Lusamine, the president of the Aether Foundation. To Plumeria and Guzma's surprise, the Xurkitree Guzma summoned earlier begins attacking them as well. The attack sends Guzma flying while Plumeria is knocked unconscious.
Later, Plumeria arrived at Vast Poni Canyon, where she confronted Faba, demanding that he tell her where Guzma was taken to after the Nihilego he summoned dragged him into an Ultra Wormhole with it. When Faba tried to feign ignorance, Plumeria revealed she had a Cosmoem that evolved from the Cosmog Guzma received from the Aether Foundation. Faba had his Hypno use its powers to twist Plumeria's arm in an attempt to get her to release Cosmoem, only for Plumeria's Salazzle to defeat Hypno with a sneak attack. Immediately after, Moon and Anabel, a member of the International Police, arrived. Faba, worried that his plans could be jeopardized, had the Aether Foundation Employees with him battle Moon and Anabel as a distraction. During the commotion, Cosmoem flew out of Plumeria's hands and into the air, where it encountered Nebby.
While Faba chased after the two Cosmoem, Plumeria, Moon, and Anabel traveled by air and secretly followed his movements. Near the Poni Altar, Faba revealed he knew he was being followed and attacked his pursuers. While Moon and Anabel dealt with the Employees, Faba told Plumeria that he would be perfectly willing to help her find Guzma if she assisted him in taking over the Aether Foundation.
Salazzle is Plumeria's first known Pokémon. It was first used to attack Gladion after he had arrived at Po Town for the first time. Later, at Vast Poni Canyon, it was used to launch a sneak attack on Faba's Hypno, defeating it and releasing its grasp on Plumeria.
Salazzle's known moves are Venom Drench and Dragon Tail.
Golbat is Plumeria's second known Pokémon. It was first used to follow Faba after he escaped from the battle at Vast Poni Canyon.
This Cosmoem evolved from the Cosmog Guzma received from the Aether Foundation. Plumeria tried using it to force Faba to tell her where Guzma was taken to. Later, it flew out of her hands and met with Nebby in the skies above Poni Island.
None of Cosmoem's moves are known.
Plumeria was introduced as a Supporter card in the Pokémon Trading Card Game during the English Sun & Moon Series (the Japanese SM Era). It was first released in the Japanese To Have Seen the Battle Rainbow expansion before debuting in English in the Burning Shadows expansion, with an illustration based on the Ken Sugimori artwork of the character. It was also released as a Full Art card in To Have Seen the Battle Rainbow and Burning Shadows, with an illustration by Sanosuke Sakuma. It allows the player to discard 2 cards from their hand, and discard an Energy from 1 of their opponent's Pokémon.


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I'm in a pretty complicated situation. I've been with a girl for the past few months. She got pregnant unexpectedly and she told me she had also been sleeping with her ex. She's convinced I'm the dad, and if so then I'm totally happy to step up and be a dad. The thing is that we're not seeing each other anymore. She's still seeing her ex and I don't want to be part of it. I'm trying to figure out what to do when the baby is born. I had initially suggested that I could move in with her and we look after the baby together. She owns a house so to me that was a logical thing to do. My plan was then to look for my own place after 6 months or so.
Unfortunately she's still seeing her ex so I'm starting to think that this may not be the best idea. The baby has to be with the mum for the first few months and I want to be there to support them both but I don't really know if it's going to be possible. The final kicker is she's exhibiting some symptoms of a personality disorder which, is making it even more difficult to deal with her. These were before the pregnancy so it's not due to hormones.
What I'm trying to figure out is if there's another way to be a coparent without living with the other person but still being there to help and support.?
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As part of its maintenance program and capital projects, Tennessee American Water has rehabilitated and re-painted two of its water tanks in Hamilton County and installed a new one in Marion County.
In Chattanooga, the tank located on Missionary Ridge dates to 1924, while the "South End" tank was installed in 1962. (The South End tank is on a street off Central Avenue, near Alton Park and St. Elmo).
The tanks have traditionally been painted blue, but recent takeaways from other utilities show that white does not fade as quickly or as drastically. While the tanks were out of service, structural improvements were made and safety upgrades performed.
In Marion County, a new tank has been installed in the Red Hill area. The tank will serve customers in Sequatchie County and northern Marion County when it goes into service around the end of February. The new tank is made of industrial steel and glass and holds 120,000 gallons.
It replaces an aged tank and adds storage capability to the distribution system. A solar panel is being installed to run the remote monitoring software.
The three tanks are part of over 30 tanks in the Tennessee American Water system. The tanks store treated water for distribution to customers.


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In an unbelievable moment of happenstance, Rae Sremmurd performed their chart-topping single "Black Beatles" Thursday on the Late Show's stage, where on that date in 1964, the Beatles themselves made their Ed Sullivan Show debut.
"Fifty-three years ago today, the Beatles made their live American television debut on this stage," Stephen Colbert alerted viewers prior to the rap duo's performance, which was backed by Late Show house band Jon Batiste and Stay Human.
Slim Jimmy and Swae Lee cruised the stage once occupied by the Fab Four to rap about "rockin' John Lennon lenses" and "Black Beatle, me and Paul McCartney related."
(Following the performance, after numerous requests to follow them on Instagram, Swae Lee ended the segment by mispronouncing the host's name, "Thank you, Colbert" with a hard T, like "bert.")
At the height of the Hot 100 reign of "Black Beatles," Rolling Stone talked with Rae Sremmurd about the inspiration of the track, which aimed to capture the "rock and roll lifestyle." "It was a dope phrase. I've always loved John Lennon's swag – I like his glasses," Lee said. "When you've reached a Beatle, it's the ultimate co-sign."
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The eminent historian Patrick J. Geary has written a provocative book, based on lectures delivered at the Historical Society of Israel about the role of language and ideology in the study and history of the early Middle Ages. He includes a fascinating discussion of the rush by nationalist philologists to rediscover the medieval roots of their respective vernaculars, the rivalry between vernacular languages and Latin to act as transmitters of Christian sacred texts and administrative documents, and the rather sloppy and ad hoc emergence in different places of the vernacular as the local administrative idiom. This is a fascinating look at the weakness of language as a force for unity: ideology, church authority, and emerging secular power always trumped language.
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Terrorism in Oslo: The Eternal Mystery
You cannot think of Oslo, Norway, without thinking of magnificent Northern Lights.
Anders Behring Breivik isn´t one of them.
The morning of July 22, 2011, Breivik got out of bed, left the house, and did his thing. A bomb and assortment of guns left 172 victims with 76 people dead, so far.
Readers of The Source of Terrorism: Middle Class Rebellion recognized the pattern immediately. Breivik is a textbook case of a middle class rebel turned terrorist. Among other things, he underwent the typical accumulation of marginal, intermediate, or transitional conditions, e.g., change of country, divorced parents, step brothers and sisters.
Wikipedia´s summary:
Breivik's father, Jens, was a Siviløkonom (Norwegian professional title, literally "civil economist"), who worked as a diplomat for the Royal Norwegian Embassy in London (and later Paris). His father currently lives in France as a pensioner and has had no contact with his son since 1995. His mother, Wenche (née Behring),was a nurse. He has two half-brothers and two half-sisters, from the previous marriages of his parents. His parents divorced when he was one year old and his mother together with him and his half-sister moved from London back to Oslo. Breivik grew up in the affluent west-end of Oslo... In late June or early July 2011, Breivik moved to the small rural town of Rena in Åmot, Hedmark county, about 140 km (86 miles) northeast of Oslo,where he operated a farming sole proprietorship under the name "Breivik Geofarm." To sum up: a small businessman.
You also cannot think of Oslo without thinking of the Nobel Prize. And you cannot think of the Nobel Prize without thinking of Argentinian author Jorge Luis Borges.
Borges never won the prize, a fact that gave rise to The Eternal Mystery of literature: why?
Like snakes, mysteries travel in pairs. What could the unfathomed, incomprehensible Borges nonprize possibly have to do with the Oslo terrorist attack?
Borges wrote in a short story, "Funes el memorioso":
Había aprendido sin esfuerzo en inglés, el francés, el portugués, el latín. Sospecho, sin embargo, que no era muy capaz de pensar. Pensar es olvidar diferencias, es generalizar, abstraer. El el abarrotado mundo de Funes no había sino detalles, casi inmediatos. ("Funes had leaned effortlessly English, French, Portuguese, Latin. I suspect, however, he didn´t know how to think. Thinking is to forget differences and to generalize, to make abstractions. In the filled-up world of Funes, there were only details, mostly immediate ones.")
I would like to address directly the Oslo authorities in charge of the Breivik case:
You are no doubt presently being flooded with visits and advice from American agents from the CIA, FBI, Homeland Security, etc. You are discovering that your foreign colleagues know a lot about certain things.
However, you are also discovering that there are other things they just don´t get. The reason why has to do with the ideology -- which poses as reason and science -- driving and dominating them.
The worst is yet to come. I´ll go ahead and mention the unmentionable: is it possible that your American colleagues are under the spell of the same ideology that creates middle class rebels, that is to say, terrorists? That terrible question is explored in The Source of Terrorism.
Which brings us back to Borges. As mentioned, I suspect that you, Oslo authorities, right now are busy making the acquaintance of Funes II, III, IV, V... To understand them, we might start by asking: what is it, exactly, that your American colleagues know so well?
What American intelligence agents consider worth knowing is only a mouse click away. Enter "CACI" and you will be in touch with a firm that provides personnel to intelligence agencies. Here is a typical job spec for a position "somebody" wants to fill. It is hot off the press. Curious coincidence: it arrived in my mailbox on July 22, Oslo´s day of terror:
INTELLIGENCE OPERATIONS SPECIALIST 2 (57774) Intelligence - Analyst USA-TX-Fort Worth
Security Clearance: TS/SCI Clearance Status: Must be Current Schedule: Full Time Shift Work: No
Type of Travel: Local, Continental US, Outside Continental US Percent of Travel Required: Up to 25%
Description Duties and Responsibilities: Position is used to fill entry level temporary vacancies and is contingent upon successful transfer of clearance, customer approval, and position availability. Temporary position ends July 2012 Provides analytical and database entry support to USNORTHCOM, USSOUTHCOM, USAFRICOM, or USPACOM. Under general supervision, provides counter terrorism support for all-source analysis of terrorist activities and actions against DOD interests. In addition, provide database entry by maintaining particular structured and unstructured databases used by the command.
Database entry and data extraction (using CAPTIVE, iBase Suite, Analyst Notebook, and CT-AVRS Web software) for the use of intelligence products and analysis is a primary function of analysts. Analysts will primarily be responsible for data entry (70%) of thoroughly analyzed and vetted information from DOD record message traffic in accordance with specified procedures and the data extraction (30%) of critical intelligence information to create charts, timelines, and dossiers on targets of interest in support of Combatant Command requirements or other DoD/interagency requirements as appropriate. Database analysis consists of data mining for unknown linkages of existing information to maintain an integrated terrorism database tracking system using link analysis and other software tools.
Analytical support emphasis is on intelligence analysis of specified targets, counter terrorism, political-military; counter threat finance, biological warfare, chemical threats, procurement, behavioral models, logistical infrastructure, and socio-cultural information. Analytical requirements also entail monitoring current intelligence of specified targets, interface with representatives from other government and intelligence organizations, perform resource allocation to identify and accomplish specific tasks, process current and historical data collected, provide source-directed requirements to guide exploitations or accompany exploitation missions, gain subject matter expertise for all intelligence matters dealing with assigned targets, exploitation of various intelligence disciplines, and participation in the DOD targeting process. Conduct all-source and counter terrorism intelligence analysis to incorporate data from various sources using different data stores that include CT-AVRS, iBase, Multi Media Messenger (M3), Pathfinder, WISE, TAC, and special access programs. Produce finished intelligence products derived from a terrorism database to compose graphical Analyst Notebook charts for nodal analysis, written intelligence products, assessments, formal message evaluations, power point presentations, command briefings, and answers various requests for information (RFI) inquiries.
I don´t know about you, but all that looks like Funes to me.
CT-AVRS? Sounds like something the cat dragged in. TAC? I vaguely remember seeing a bottle of the stuff in the Owl Liquor Store. It was on a shelf next to Night Train and Ripple.
Pressing onward through the fog: PATHFINDER? Makes me want to sing along with Fess Parker and Walt Disney, "Davy, Davy Crockett, king of the wild frontier. Born on a mountaintop in Tennessee ..." RFI? My dog wolfed down a pound of Roquefort and that night deposited something on the rug. WISE? I knew a guy named Wise in St. Louis. LIved a few floors down. Hops shoveler at Budweiser. He and his buddies got drunk one Christmas eve and damn near tore the building down. CAPTIVE? Jean Paul Gaultier, if you´re out there I´ve got a terrific name for a new perfume for women. Naturally, I´d like a fair share of the take; your lawyer meets my lawyer, contract, etc. You can market "CAPTIVE" alongside a new cologne for men, "ANTIHERO." I haven´t seen ANTIHERO in any intelligence officer job spec, but there you have it: all action is imperfect.
English, French, Portuguese, Latin ... Funes, Borges claimed, learned them all. IBASE SUITE, CT-AVRS, M3, TAC, PATHFINDER, nodal analysis: sorry, you´re Greek to me.
Great authors like Borges never pick a name at random. "Funes"? Well, there is an expression, "meterse a funes" -- butt in where you don´t belong. Also, "Funes" has the same root as funesto -- sad, fatal, desgraciado, all with a tinge of secrecy.
In case you didn´t catch the drift, Borges gave Funes a first name, Ireneo. Here he seems to let your unconscious string the beads: Ireneo sounds and looks a lot like Erróneo.
Oslo authorities, I think you get the picture. The endless parade through your offices and conference rooms, hotels and restaurants, of Ireneo Funes II, III, IV, V, is, well, puzzling. Looking the latest Funes in the face, a line from Shakespeare may unpardonably pop into your mind: "Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow creeps in this petty pace from day to day..." ("MacBeth," V-5).
Oslo authorities, I think Borges nailed the source of your mounting befuddlement and boredom. M3, TAC, CT-AVRS: you are experiencing an endless string of immediate, separate details. Which means, if you want to think, i.e., to generalize and abstract, you will have to look elsewhere then the Funeses you will meet tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow.
So, why didn´t Jorge Luis Borges win the Nobel Prize? The Nobel Committee is not as pristine as you thought. The 5 members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee that picks the Nobel Peace Prize winner, for example, are named by the Norwegian Parliament. Political appointees, then.
Now you know who awarded the Nobel prize to Obama and Kissinger, two men who are responsible for thousands and thousands of Ireneo Funeses and who ...
Wait a second. Literature teachers and students, did we just solve The Eternal Mystery?
Retire to Ecuador
If you enter the words "Retire to Ecuador" in your favorite Internet search engine, you will see numerous articles on how you can live happily ever after in Ecuador.
95% of the articles are B.S.
In reading their stuff, you will surely see a city you probably never heard of, Cuenca, as a top destination in the world for retirees. Funny thing about that ... I happen to be sitting in Cuenca right now. I am staying with Ecuadorian friends, so the cost to me is minimal. To you, well, do not expect similar treatment.
Ecuador is a marvelous place with many things going for it. Cheap is not one of them. The big change came in 2000, when Ecuador switched to the dollar. As in Europe in 1999, when the euro came in, prices zoomed up and never came down.
You may discover the hard way that many of the Internet sites screaming COME ON DOWN!! belong to gringo real estate sharpies posing as Ecuador experts, desperate to unload property. You do not believe me? Give Mr. and/or Mrs. Ecuador Expert the following test:
(1) Give them the name of a product or two you will want to buy in Ecuador, e.g., level 50 suntan lotion (you will definitely need it). (2) Instruct them to go to the nearest store and photograph the product or products displayed on the shelf. Tell them to make sure the price is clear, easy to read. (3) Assuming Mr. and/or Mrs. Expert follow your instructions, be sure you are sitting down when you turn on your computer. Your mind is going to wobble.
I had better note for the record that I had 3 years of Spanish in high school and 3 years in college. In my twenties, I lived in Mexico with Mexican families for 3 years. I scored 793 on the GRE Spanish test, 800 is perfect. I have a M.A. in Latin American Studies from the University of Florida. All of which leads me to say: Mr and/or Mrs. Ecuador Expert, whom you are blindly listening to, most likely are going to hand you your head in a basket.
My motive for writing these words? As P.T. Barnum put it, "Every crowd has a silver lining." I hate to see people who have worked so hard for so many years be cheated so quickly, so easily, by weasels in tweed suits who speak garbage Spanish and who do not know the difference between Eloy Alfaro and La India Maria.
Dear reader, simply by keeping your eye on your bank account you can help plug up countless weasel holes. You will thereby make the world a better place. Mr. and/or Mrs. Ecuador Expert, you, too, can do your part. You need to stop lying, and most of all, pick up a (GASP!!! SHUDDER!!!) book and learn a thing or two.
Abimael Guzman: Terrorist in Tights
Here is a question you never asked. And you should have. You would have saved thousands of lives.
What do a ballet school and terrorism have in common?
Answer. nothing. Nothing whatsoever. Which is precisely why a ballet school is a perfect hideout for a terrorist.
The beauty of it is that to know that fact, you and I don´t have to do anything special -- connect to satellites, infiltrate terrorist organizations, monitor millions of cellphone conversations and emails, etc. The middle class rebel terrorist, with his consuming obsession to cultivate contradictions, will make the connection.
Abimael Guzman, a.k.a. Presidente Gonzalo, was the leader of the horrific Shining Path movement in Peru. He was on his way to dethroning Hitler and Pol Pot as numbers 1 and 2 in crimes against humanity. Only one thing stopped him: he was captured in 1992, while residing in a ballet studio in a well-off section of Lima. He is in prison for life.
Recently, Guzman smuggled out his memoirs. They were published to the utter chagrin of the Peruvian Government, which for years had successfully maintained a total blackout. I hope to get a copy and analyze it in this blog.
In the meantime, take a good look at the picture of Guzman and his girlfriend in the Wikipedia article. I guarantee that for the first two seconds, you will do a Three-Stooges Double-Take: which one is the guy? Replete with Guzman´s ghastly case of psoriasis, the dynamic duo look like escapees from "Night of The Living Dead." Maybe the inner essence of their genocides comes down to this: they missed their calling.
Or did they? Guzman is undeniably a middle class rebel in the wider sense of the term, i.e., any marginal, intermediate, transitional status or condition. The illegitimate progeny of a well-off merchant who had won the lottery, Guzman spent his early years with Mom. As for middle class in the narrower sense of the term, i.e., the socio-economic class, reliable information is scarce. For now, let me leave it at this. Guzman was a philosophy teacher.
Guzman isn´t the first middle class rebel to come from a wealthy family. The Source of Terrorism: Middle Class Rebellion discusses how that apparent oxymoron can occur. See also this blog´s post of 12-8-2010 on Pol Pot and his henchmen.
In 1990, I spent a week in Lima. Everybody was talking -- or at least thinking about -- The Shining Path. A few weeks before I arrived, they had shelled the hotel in which I stayed. The Lima experience was the source of my observation that terrorism strives to be omnipresent (see The Source of Terrorism: Middle Class Rebellion and my four-part Internet article, "A New Definition of Terrorism"). The Peruvian writer, Mario Vargas Llosa, in his work Lituma en Los Andes conveys superbly that defining quality of terrorism. He portrays the Shining Path directly only in a few pages -- but there it is, playing between every line like background music in a plunging elevator.
In searching for perpetrators of a terrorist attack, instead of spending megabucks on fancy technology and ridiculously-priced D.C. Beltway consultants, governments in less developed countries would do better to (1) take out the phone book. (2) Start with university professors. (3) Work down through lawyers, doctors, accountants, teachers, realtors, and other middle class professionals. (4) Tell them to come downtown. (5) Ask them where they and their sons and daughters were when the terrorist attack occurred. (6) Check their stories out. (7) Arrange for prison cells. You will have your perpetrators inside of 2 months.
P.S. Don´t leave out ballet studios.


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Tuesday, Nov. 9, 2021
Orlee Tatarka Named Head of Production At Wieden+Kennedy Portland
Global creative agency Wieden+Kennedy (W+K) has hired Orlee Tatarka as head of production for the independent network's Portland office. In this role, Tatarka will lead W+K's multidisciplinary production capabilities across Integrated Production, W+K Studios, and Joint. It's the first time one...
Sunday, Sep. 12, 2021
Nike's "You Can't Stop Us" Wins Primetime Commercial Emmy
Nike's "You Can't Stop Us"--directed by Oscar Hudson of Pulse Films for Wieden+Kennedy--won the primetime commercial Emmy on Sunday (9/12) during the third of three Creative Arts Emmy Awards ceremonies held this weekend at LA Live in downtown Los Angeles.
The spot shows how--in the face...
Tuesday, Jul. 13, 2021
Apple Continues Its Run of Primetime Commercial Emmy Nominations
Apple entered the primetime commercial Emmy nominees' circle for the third consecutive year--this time for two spots: AirPods Pro's "Jump" directed by Sam Brown of Imperial Woodpecker for TBWA\Media Arts Lab; and Apple Watch Series 6's "It Already Does That" directed by Craig Gillespie of MJZ....
Wednesday, Jul. 7, 2021
W+K Creative Director Azsa West Joins Where The Buffalo Roam's Directorial Roster
Production company Where The Buffalo Roam (WTBR) has signed director Azsa West who's turned out work for such clients as Nike, Shiseido and Beautiful People, among others. At WTBR, she has already directed a number of shorts for Nike as part of the brand's "Hands On" and "Proof of Concept"...
Friday, Jun. 25, 2021
"#Wombstories" Helps Propel AMV BBDO London To Cannes Lions' Top Agency, Chelsea To Palme d'Or Win
Cannes Lions has unveiled the winners from the Film Lions, Titanium Lions and Sustainable Development Goals Lions, as well as Glass: The Lion for Change, in the final Awards Show of the week. Also revealed were the winners of the Special Awards for 2020/2021 and the Grand Prix for Good.
Thursday, Jun. 17, 2021
Ana and Hermeti Balarin Named ECDs at Wieden+Kennedy Portland
Wieden+Kennedy has appointed Ana and Hermeti Balarin as executive creative directors for the independent agency's Portland shop. They will start at W+K Portland later this year, joining managing director Jess Monsey in leading the largest of the eight office independent network.
The wife...
Thursday, Apr. 1, 2021
Flashback for April 2021
April 5, 2016 Malik Vitthal, whose feature directorial debut Imperial Dreams won the Audience Award at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival, has joined the roster of The Corner Shop for commercials and branded content in the U.S....
Wednesday, Mar. 17, 2021
The Martin Agency's Danny Robinson, W+K's Max Stinson Join The One Club Board of Directors
Danny Robinson, chief creative officer, The Martin Agency, and Max Stinson, creative director, Wieden+Kennedy, have been named to the board of directors at The One Club for Creativity.
Robinson and Stinson were elected by a vote of The One Club membership and will begin their two-year...
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February 15, 2016 For the third consecutive year, Emmanuel "Chivo" Lubezki, ASC, AMC, has won the ASC Award for Outstanding Achievement in Feature Film. This time around, he earned the award on the basis of ...
Friday, Dec. 18, 2020
Agency of The What A Year It Has Been: Wieden+Kennedy
A tale of two Nike spots--one sparse and stark, the other a sophisticated tour de force production. Yet both, despite being executional worlds apart, share a common bond, promoting social action, empowerment, inspiration, the belief that we can and must do better--messages that took on a...
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Lamb of God Drop New Video for "Routes" Featuring Testament's Chuck Billy
Published on: Mar 24, 2021, 10:39 AM
Though the pandemic lockdown's onset coincided tragically with the release of their massive self-titled album, Lamb of God have made solid use of quarantine. The Richmond groove-thrashers have released a new line of coffee, prepared a concert film, and dropped killer new videos for the deluxe edition of Lamb of God. Furthering the latter point, the band have now released a quarantine video for the track "Routes" featuring Testament vocalist Chuck Billy, and fuck, son, this one slays.
The first thing fans will notice watching the "Routes" video is that this track goes fast. While the band often blur the line between thrash and modern groove, this song is a full-on stampede. The tempo only makes the lockdown approach to the video more enthralling, giving fans a short sharp shock full of quick cuts and split-screens; Mark Morton's solo in the middle will make the skin on your face peel off in a single sheet. For his part, Billy is amazing, adding his drawn-out battle cries on top of Randy Blythe's snarled vocals.
"It's always an honor to be asked to perform with Lamb of God, especially on this song," says Billy. "It has such a deep meaning for me personally with my native American heritage. I'm happy Randy included me to get the message out about what is going on with Native Americans in the USA."
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Lamb of God's deluxe version of their self-titled album comes out March 26th on Epic Records, and is available for preorder.
"This album, and in particular, this deluxe edition is something I'm incredibly proud of," says guitarist and coffee fanatic Willie Adler. "Throughout the process of writing, recording, and the subsequent filming of the live stream, I knew we were creating much more than a collection of songs. Much more than a simple streamed performance. This was focused energy. Energy that, to me, is very tangible. And now, more than ever, in an era where human interaction is so limited, art…..be it music, visual, or otherwise, is a human connection point. And we need as much of that as possible! I hope everyone enjoys this deluxe edition as much as we enjoyed creating it. Thank you."
Words by Chris Krovatin
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