Galatians 6:8/ Whoever sows to please their flesh, from the flesh will reap destruction; whoever sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life.
This verse has been sitting on me pretty heavy lately. You've probably heard it before, "you reap what you sow." You're probably wondering what "Golden Goose" has to do with a truth about farming and I promise I'll get to that, but first I want to share something that's been so heavy on my heart. So in my short Christian life through the process of learning more about Christ and growing in faith, it's been extremely tough to find that balance of how God's grace and forgiveness works. For the longest time I struggled with thinking that I had to earn His forgiveness and grace so I tried to be perfect. Of course, I fell short every time so when I failed I felt unworthy of Him. Then on the other side of it, once I started to understand that Jesus' blood covers my sins and by God's amazing grace and mercy I'm forgiven but then I started to look at my moments of sin as, "well it's no big deal, I'll ask God to forgive me after I do this one little sin and the grace of Christ will cover me." Both sides are completely wrong and both lead to heartache and the wrong idea about what Jesus has done for us and the forgiveness that allows us to stand before God. The balance is so tough because on one end you sin and feel unworthy, weak, like a failure. On the other end, it's like saying Jesus died on the cross and took my sin so I can sin?? Like I said, this Christian life is such a process and learning the balance of grace has been quite the journey.
So what does this have to do with sowing and reaping, and golden gooses, here it is. I've always heard this verse and it's made sense but not in the terms of Gods grace. If Jesus has already taken care of our sins, why would we care about what we reap and sow? It's like someone living like hell 6 days out of the week then coming to church on Sunday expected a big ole harvest. That makes no sense but the sad part is I've lived like that so much of my life and watched other Christians do the same. What gets me is since Jesus took care of our sins, paid the debt that we couldn't pay, then there's nothing really that bad that could happen if we did sin right? Well this verse from Galatians explains it perfectly, when we sow out of pleasing our flesh, whether saved or not, we reap a harvest of destruction. Something I've overlooked for so long is the fact that Jesus has taken care of my sins, He's washed me white as snow but there is still consequences for our actions and decisions we make in this life. Yes if you're a follower of Christ you have been forgiven, will always be forgiven, you have eternal life, but when you sin and mess up there is still consequences.
I heard it said like this that made a lot of sense, if a guy gets drunk and decides to drive. Then he gets in a wreck that causes him to lose his arm. Will God forgive him? Yes sir! Will he grow that arm back. Nope! Whether we can see the consequences or not from our sin, they are there. The awesome thing about the grace of Christ is when we are forgiven of our sins, His grace allows us to come to Him, seek Him, open our eyes to see where we messed up. His grace is not just forgiving grace, its life transforming grace. Jesus didn't make the sacrifice He made on the cross so we could make a one-time confession of faith and of our sins then keep living in whatever way pleases us the most, or living like the world around us. When we realize the power of transformation in His grace we realize a lot about our sowing and reaping game. He allows us to see where we need to stop sowing, where we need to put more time into, when we reap a bad harvest how we can learn from our failure and focus on getting better the next crop.
To take it a level deeper on how important sowing good spiritual things allows us to reap good things, eternal life. Had a friend tell me one time "your mind is like a golden goose that lays golden eggs. It's so priceless, so to make sure you protect your goose and keep receiving those golden eggs. You have to pay attention and protect your goose by constantly putting good stuff in, then your goose will keep producing golden eggs and just like the good stuff goes in, the good stuff goes out." It's crazy how much we take fore granted the root of why our harvest is so bad. Our mind. Jesus' grace is powerful enough to renew our mind daily but a lot of the time we decide to pour in a whole bunch of crap that leads us to living in ways that pleases us, like the world, no golden egg harvest. This made me take a lot of inventory on what I feed myself or what I sow into my mind. Even to the point of looking at what I spend most of my time doing. Now don't get me wrong, I love Netflix but how many shows on Netflix really pour some good Godly stuff into you? Not that many. How much does watching tv or the news really pour some good positive Godly encouragement into your life? Not too much. The news these days is so negative and I'm not saying to not watch tv or the news cause you gotta know what's going on. I constantly find myself wondering why my goose isn't laying golden eggs and my harvest is so negative or filled with bad thoughts, decisions and actions. When I look at what I put in majority of the time, that's the problem. If we pour in negative, lustful, evil things into us then we gotta expect that's what's coming out.
It's been such a blessing to realize the power of God's grace and forgiveness, how important it is to focus on my sowing game and protect my golden goose. I constantly ask myself why I sin the way I do or act the way I do, it comes down to how we spend our time, what we're putting in front of our eyes, what our ears hear, the people we associate with. Our reaping is a product of where and what we spend our time doing. On the other end of grace, this doesn't mean we have to read our Bible, go through Christian books or devotionals like crazy, because we can't work ourselves into renewing our minds or changing what our harvest looks like. It's His grace, the more we trust in Christ and trust in His grace to make us a little bit better each day. When we realize how much He truly loves us and how He so faithfully and constantly fights for us to move from the sin and despair we get so caught up in then we sow out of faith, love for Who He is. Only He can help us sow good Godly things into ourselves and only He can produce a harvest of righteousness that leads to eternal life. Honestly for me to see these truths in how powerful they truly are, I had to see the consequences. I had to get mad at the way I've looked at my sin saying it's no big deal, I'll still get to heaven and God will forgive me. It's so much bigger than that. It's so much bigger than us. Just think about it, the harvest you reap and golden eggs you lay when you live under His powerful grace, focus in on your sowing game, it won't just change your life. That harvest that Christ produces changes everything and everyone around you. Kind of makes me feel selfish to have already wasted so much time sowing what pleased me instead of what glorifies Christ. Sow God, reap God. Grace of Jesus changes your world then changed the world. Oh yeah and PROTECT THAT GOLDEN GOOSE!!!!


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Newly Ordained Fr. Kevin Spends All Of Mass Playing "Flappy Bird" On Phone
Jesuits September 7, 2017 The New England Classic
CONTE FORUM — During Boston College's annual Mass of the Holy Spirit, newly ordained, and self-proclaimed "hip, young Jesuit" Fr. Kevin, S.J., spent the entirety of...
CONTE FORUM — During Boston College's annual Mass of the Holy Spirit, newly ordained, and self-proclaimed "hip, young Jesuit" Fr. Kevin, S.J., spent the entirety of the service playing "Flappy Bird" on his iPhone 6.
The traditional "opening ceremony" for the academic year dates back to the Middle Ages, when Jesuits commemorated the new season of learning with a special mass. While most members of the Boston College Jesuit community participated dutifully in the service, Fr. Kevin, an ambitious twenty-eight-and-a-half-year-old with a gold hoop earring, expressed his boredom with "those old fuddy-duddies who don't know how to just chill out."
The youthful priest, who serves as Resident Minister for the freshmen in Fitzaga Hall, has been known to prop his door open, playing mid-2000's pop hits from his portable bluetooth speaker.
"I'm one of the few Jesuits that these college kids can really relate to," claimed Fr. Kevin, twiddling a fidget spinner in his left hand. "In order to do that, I need to devote a lot of time to researching the hot trends that these youths are into, like 'Flappy Bird,' the smart phone game with that tiny yellow bird. Man I love that little guy!"
Not everyone in the Jesuit community shares the young priest's enthusiasm for youth culture. According to Fr. Raymond Duncan, S.J., a member of the Society of Jesus for nearly fifty years, "Fr. Kevin needs to stop acting like such a goofball and pay attention during mass. I really shouldn't have to teach this guy how to act like an adult."
When pressed for comment, Fr. Kevin asserted "I just want to make sure everyone is having a good time! Come on guys, let's make a 'Harlem Shake' video with all the Jesuits! Wouldn't that be fun?"
Fr. Kevin was last spotted in Fitzaga asking residents if they would like to play Wii Fit with him.
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I have several 'New Years Resolutions' for crafting - one of them includes learning how to crochet. I've done a little crochet - mostly as picot or other edging in knitting patterns. I relied heavily on YouTube and the LYS to help me through it. So, last week I had my first crochet class at Needlework Unlimited. I had a blast and learned 3 stitches during the first class. I have high hopes for my crocheting future - granny squares, flowers, and afgans. More to come later . . .
On a separate note, look what a lucky girl I was this Valentine's Day. No, they aren't from Will, they're from the other special guy in my life - my dad. Thanks - I love you!


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I am a woman who has made a lot of mistakes. Yup. Just ask my family.
I remember thinking, Priorities? She doesn't know me. I have it all figured out. Why would she talk to me that way?
Well, clearly, I did not have it all figured out and obviously she was speaking to me in love because I miss her to this day.
So what is it in us that bucks correction? Why do we quickly respond, "Oh, I already know that"? When we respond this way, what have we shut off? What have we just missed out on?
In that moment with my English teacher, what would have happened if I had said, "Help me understand how to do that" rather than responding so defensively? What mistakes could I have avoided if I had changed that moment?
But what does it mean to honor your parents? What does it mean to be "teachable"?
I think I asked three times exactly what that meant. She would use different explanations, but she would always end with that statement, "You just want it to fit like a glove." I could hear the frustration growing in her voice.
Nama did not live close enough to just come over and demonstrate what she meant, but my mother, who had helped her on a few occasions, was with me. The only way we were able to finally cover my couch was my mother's memory of the times she had gone through the steps with Nama. So after a while, "newspaper" and "fit like a glove" began to make sense to my mother.
I know there are many pictures out there to prove our success. But in this one, you can see that at the very least, we did something. If it had not been for my mother's willingness to listen as she had worked with her mother all those years ago, we would never have been able to complete this project.
Honestly, by actually listening to my mother's translation of Nama's instructions and watching what she did to create the pattern Nama had described, I began to see what I had missed by just using what I already knew. I already recognized my mother as incredibly talented, but that day her abilities reached new heights in my own view.
Not only was she able to figure the project out, she was patient enough to talk me through it. And for me, this is still one of my favorite memories. Here I was an adult — finally realizing the value of listening to my parents! I was actually letting my mother direct me.
In a homeschooling community, I see the absence of a teachable spirit frequently in children.
I love to see children get excited about something. I love to see them share what they know. But even more than that, I love to see them ask questions. Sometimes, when children tell an adult everything they know about a subject, they don't hear what anyone else has to say... then they miss out on something the adult wants to share from personal experience.
Peter warned his followers about this when he wrote, "You who are younger, be subject to the elders. Clothe yourselves, all of you, with humility toward one another, for 'God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.'" (I Peter 5:5, ESV) He was not telling them to be ignorant, he was merely warning the younger believers to allow the elders to teach them some of the things they had experienced rather than assuming they were "Super Christians" who already knew everything.
The conversation was much longer than this because it took several discussions like this over the course of several months to help them to understand the goal.
Do you know why it took several discussions? Not only was I trying to nurture their writing skills, but I also wanted to encourage a teachable spirit.
**This process might have been much less painful for me if I had fully understood what a teachable spirit is and how to nurture it.
The absence of a teachable spirit is obvious. Think about the last time you heard a sermon on The Prodigal Son. The pastor read through the verses in Luke and you quietly thought to yourself, Oh, I've heard this before. Then your mind began to wander and you can't remember anything about that sermon.
What did you miss out on? What new revelation was the Holy Spirit hoping you would hear through that message?
The heaviest responsibility we have as teachers is making sure that what we are offering lines up with and is filtered through scripture. What could I offer that would drive my students to look at what I was teaching them as preparation and not a personal attack against their creativity, their ideas, or their opinions?
The questions my students asked that day led me to fully understand this responsibility. What happened next required me to let God teach ME so that I could begin to nurture this spirit in my students. I've tried to replay those steps in my mind and I want to share them with you.
Nurturing a teachable spirit cannot be done in "10 easy steps." If those steps are out there, I hope someone will share them with me. But I can tell you what began to change in the way I taught my students.


Philadelphia, PA — This week, Pennsylvania state Attorney General Josh Shapiro announced that no charges will be filed against Officer Richard Nicoletti, who was seen on video executing an unarmed father of three by shooting him in the head at point blank range as he was surrounded by police.
Jeffrey Dennis, 36, was gunned down in broad daylight by Nicoletti, a 29-year-veteran assigned to the Narcotics Field Unit of the Philadelphia police department. Police were preparing to serve a search warrant on Dennis' home over alleged drug dealing when they found him on the road and murdered him.
Shapiro launched an investigation into Dennis' killing in August just after it took place.
The family is heartbroken that the officer who needlessly killed their son/father/fiance will not face charges.
Dennis was a father to three children — ages 7, 11, and 17 — and had just been engaged to be married. After he was killed, his family demanded that Nicoletti be fired and charged, but this will not happen.
The incident took place on August 20th, around 4:15 p.m. As police were preparing to serve a search warrant on Dennis' home, they found him driving his Toyota Camry on Hegerman Street nearby.
As the video shows, Dennis is driving down the street when an unmarked black car turns up the street, going the wrong way. Dennis tried to back up, but then realized another unmarked car was behind him. As he tries to get away from what he likely thought was a mob hit, the cars collide and Dennis stops temporarily.
At this point, a half dozen plainclothes cops — with no clothes identifying themselves as police officers — jump out and surround the vehicle. One of the plainclothes cops runs to the driver's side of the vehicle and smashes out the window of the vehicle. The only person with any identifying clothing on was in the back of the vehicle in Dennis' blind spot.
The smashing out of his window appeared to scare Dennis even more, who then tried once more to drive away. At no time in the video did Dennis appear to target police or run them down and most of the officers appeared to understand that they were not in danger.
However, less than one minute after confronting Dennis, Nicolletti is seen in a gray t-shirt and shorts, walking up to the driver's side window and dumping multiple shots into the head and arm of Dennis.
Dennis was pronounced dead at the scene.
But Shapiro said violations of police procedures do not always rise to the level of criminal charges.
"Whether the Philadelphia Police Department procedure was followed during this incident was not in the scope of our investigation, and will be addressed by Commissioner Ross and the department," Shapiro said.
According to Shaun King, who claims he is in contact with the family, and Lee Merritt, the attorney representing the family of Dennis, multiple witnesses described a horrific scene in which they thought Dennis was the subject of a mafia hit.
When witnesses in the neighborhood saw this, they literally thought they were witnessing an assassination or mob hit of some kind. Family and friends believe Jeffrey thought the same thing. Alarmed, he tried to pull away, when older white men in regular clothes got out of their cars, pointed their guns, and NEVER identified themselves.
Not one time did they announce that they were police officers. SEVERAL WITNESSES have each confirmed this. Suddenly, one of the men gets a large iron weapon from the trunk of his car and aggressively shatters the glass in the driver's side window in Jeffrey's face, cutting his face severely.
Confused and disoriented, literally with glass in his eyes, Jeffey tries to drive away, when one of the officers walks right up to Jeffrey at 0:58 in this video, puts the gun in Jeffreys face, and fires his gun over and over again right in Jeffrey's face, killing him instantly. This is murder. It is illegal. It violates the law and violates city policy.
The Free Thought Project could not confirm the witness accounts. However, when watching the video below, a similar scene to what is described above appears to play out.
Dennis was not suspected of child trafficking, or murder, or theft, or property damage, or any other crime that involved an actual victim. He was suspected of selling willing customers a substance they voluntarily wanted to pay him for. And for this, a father of three, beloved fiance, son, and football coach was murdered.
Below is a video which shows why the war on drugs must be brought to its knees, not a year from now, not 6 months from now, but today.


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Mark Fisher (Leicester, 11 de juliol de 1968 - Felixstowe, 13 de gener de 2017), també conegut com k-punk, va ser un escriptor, crític i teòric de la cultura anglès. Va treballar com a professor al departament de Cultures Visuals al Goldsmiths College de la Universitat de Londres. Va adquirir notorietat per les entrades al seu blog signades amb l'àlies k-punk al començament de segle XXI i pels seus escrits referits a la política radical, música i cultura popular.

Fisher va publicar diversos llibres, incloent l'exitós Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?, i va escriure en publicacions com The Wire, Fact, New Statesman i Sight & Sound. Va ser cofundador de l'editorial Zero Books i, més tard, de Repeater Books. Va suïcidar-se el 2017 poc abans de la publicació de The Weird and the Eerie. Alguns dels seus treballs han estat inclosos en diverses compilacions sobre acceleracionisme, tant en castellà com en anglès.

Biografia
De jove, Fisher va ser influït per la premsa musical post-punk de finals de la dècada del 1970, especialment per diaris com NME en el qual es barrejava la música amb la política, el cinema i la ficció. El 1989, Fisher va fer estudis d'Humanitats, Literatura Anglesa i Filosofia a la Universitat de Hull, acabant doctorat-se en Filosofia a la Universitat de Warwick el 1999 amb la tesi titulada Flatline Constructs: Gothic materialism and Cybernetic Theory-Fiction. Durant aquesta etapa va ser membre fundador del col·lectiu interdisciplinari conegut com Cybernetic Cultural Research Unit, el qual era afí al pensament polític acceleracionista i a l'obra dels filòsofs Sadie Plant i Nick Land. Allà va fer amistat amb el productor Kode9 (nom artístic de Steve Goodman), qui més tard fundaria el webzine i segell discogràfic Hyperdub. En els primers anys de la dècada del 1990 va formar part del grup de techno D-Generation, autors del 12" Entropy in the UK.

Fisher va començar a escriure el seu blog k-punk el 2003, el qual ha estat considerat «un dels weblogs més reeixits sobre teoria cultural». El crític musical Simon Reynolds el va descriure com «una revista feta per una sola persona superior a la majoria de revistes de la Gran Bretanya» i com el nucli central d'una «constel·lació de blogs» en els quals cultura popular, música, cinema, política i teoria crítica són debatuts conjuntament per periodistes, filòsofs i col·legues. La revista Vice més tard descriuria la seva escriptura a k-punk com «lúcida i reveladora, analitzant la literatura, la música i el cinema que ens són familiars per a revelar els seus secrets interiors». Fisher també va cofundar el fòrum Dissensus amb l'escriptor Mate Ingram.

Més tard, Fisher va ser professor visitant de l'assignatura de Cultura Visual i Sonora al Goldsmiths College i membre dels consells editorials de la publicació Interference: A Journal of Audio Culture i de la sèrie de llibres editats per la Universitat d'Edimburg sobre Realisme Especulatiu, així com editor adjunt suplent a la revista The Wire. El 2009, Fisher va editar The resistible Demise of Michael Jackson, una col·lecció d'assajos crítics sobre la carrera i mort de Michael Jackson, i Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?, una anàlisi dels efectes ideològics del neoliberalisme en la cultura contemporània. Fisher també va ser un crític primerenc de la «cultura de la indignació» (reconeixible amb facilitat en les polèmiques que tenen lloc en xarxes socials com Twitter), publicant el 2013 el polèmic assaig Exiting the Vampire Castle. En ell, Fisher critica que aquesta «cultura de la indignació» ha creat un espai «on la solidaritat és impossible, però la culpa i la por són omnipresents». Així mateix, assenyala que aital cultura redueix cada problema polític a una crítica de les conductes individuals en lloc de tractar els assumptes polítics a través de l'acció col·lectiva. El 2014, Fisher va publicar Ghosts of My Life: Writings on Depression, Hauntology and Lost Futures, una col·lecció d'assaigs sobre temes similars analitzats a través dels prismes de la música, el cinema i l'hauntologia. El 2016, Fisher va coeditar una antologia crítica sobre l'era postpunk amb Kodwo Eshun i Gavin Butt titulada Post-Punk Then and Now, publicada per Repeater Books.

Mort
Fisher va morir el 13 de gener de 2017 a l'edat de 48 anys, poc abans de la publicació del seu últim llibre, The Weird and the Eerie. La seva esposa va confirmar que s'havia suïcidat. La lluita contra la depressió va ser narrada pel mateix Fisher en diversos articles i a Capitalist Realism, on argumentava que «la pandèmia d'angoixa mental que afligeix els nostres temps no pot ser correctament entesa, o curada, si és vista com un problema personal patit per individus malmesos».

Poc abans de morir Fisher tenia planejada la publicació d'un nou llibre, Acid Communism, fragments del qual apareixen en l'antologia k-punk: The Collected and Unpublished Writings of Mark Fisher (2004-2016) publicada el 2018.

Pensament

Realisme capitalista
A la fi de la dècada del 2000, Fisher va redefinir el terme «realisme capitalista» per a descriure «la sensació generalitzada que el capitalisme no només és l'únic sistema polític i econòmic viable, sinó que, ara, és impossible, fins i tot, imaginar una alternativa coherent». En el llibre de 2009 Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?, expandeix aquest concepte argumentant que és el terme que millor descriu la situació ideològica existent des de la caiguda de la Unió Soviètica, en la qual les lògiques del capitalisme han vingut per delinear els límits de la vida política i social, amb efectes significatius en l'educació, la malaltia mental, la cultura i els mètodes de resistència. El resultat és una situació en la qual resulta «més fàcil imaginar la fi del món que la fi del capitalisme». El realisme capitalista tal com jo l'entenc no pot estar limitat a l'art o a la manera quasi propagandística segons la qual funciona la publicitat. És més com una atmosfera dominant que condiciona no sols la producció de cultura sinó també el control de la feina i l'educació i que actua com una mena de barrera invisible que constreny el pensament i l'acció.Com a concepte filosòfic, el realisme capitalista està influït pel concepte althusserià d'ideologia, així com per les obres de Fredric Jameson i Slavoj Žižek. Fisher proposa que dins d'un marc capitalista no hi ha espai per a concebre formes alternatives per a les estructures socials, afegint que a les generacions més joves ni tan sols els preocupa reconèixer aquestes alternatives. D'acord amb la seva formulació, la crisi financera global del 2008-2012 ha agreujat aquesta situació: més que catalitzar el desig de buscar alternatives per al model existent, la resposta a la crisi ha reforçat la idea que les modificacions han de ser fetes dins el sistema existent. Fisher argumenta que el realisme capitalista ha propagat l'«ontologia empresarial» que conclou que tot hauria de ser gestionat com si fos un negoci, incloent els camps de l'educació i la salut. Seguint el treball de Fisher, el terme ha estat recollit per altres crítics literaris.

Hauntologia
Fisher va popularitzar l'ús del concepte hauntologia de Jacques Derrida per descriure la sensació dominant segons la qual la cultura contemporània està encisada pels "futurs perduts" de la modernitat, la qual ha fracassat o ha estat cancel·lada per la postmodernitat i el neoliberalisme. Fisher i altres autors han prestat atenció a la transició cap a una economia postfordista a finals de la dècada del 1970 que ha "privat gradualment i sistemàticament als artistes dels recursos necessaris per a produir el nou". En contrast amb la nostàlgia i el pastitx irònic de la cultura postmoderna, Fisher ha definit l'art hauntològic com una exploració d'aquests punts morts o impasses i com una representació d'una "negativa a renunciar al desig de futur".En un temps de reacció política i restauració, quan la innovació cultural s'ha detingut i fins i tot ha retrocedit, quan «el poder opera tant predictivament com retrospectiva» (Eshun 2003: 289), una funció de l'hauntologia és continuar insistint en què hi ha futurs més enllà del temps terminal de la postmodernitat. Quan el present ha renunciat al futur, hem d'escoltar les relíquies del futur en les potencialitats no activades del passat.Així, el concepte d'hauntologia ha estat descrit com el «desig d'un futur que mai no va tenir lloc» expressat com una posada en primer pla d'aquestes disjuncions històriques i ontològiques. El llibre de Fisher de 2014, Ghosts of My Life: Writings on Depression, Hauntology and Lost Futures, examina aquestes idees a través de fonts culturals com la música de Burial, Joy Division i el segell Ghost Box, la sèrie de televisió Sapphire & Steel, les pel·lícules de Stanley Kubrick i Christopher Nolan, i les novel·les de David Peace i John Le Carré.

El Rar i l'Esgarrifós
El llibre pòstum de Fisher, The Weird and the Eerie, explora els conceptes d'«el rar» i «l'esgarrifós» a través de diverses obres d'art, definint aquests com maneres narratives radicals o moments de «xoc transcendental» que funcionen descentrant el subjecte humà, desnaturalitzant la realitat social i exposant les forces arbitràries que la modelen. Resumint les caracterizacions de Fisher, Yohann Koshy ha establert que «la raresa (weirdness) abunda a la frontera entre mons i el fantasmal (eerienes) es transmet des de les ruïnes dels mons perduts». El llibre inclou una discussió sobre la ciència-ficció i els orígens de l'horror com l'obra d'H.P. Lovecraft, la novel·la Picnic at Hanging Rock de Joan Lindsay (1967), i pel·lícules basades en obres de Philip K. Dick com Inland Empire de David Lynch (2006) i Under the Skin de Jonathan Glazer (2013), així com la música de la banda de post-punk The Fall i del músic Brian Eno.

Obra
 The Resistible Demise of Michael Jackson (editor). Winchester: Zero Books, 2009.
 Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?. Winchester: Zero Books, 2009.
 Ghosts of My Life: Writings on Depression, Hauntology and Lost Futures. Winchester: Zero Books, 2014.
 Post-Punk Then and Now (editor, con Gavin Butt y Kodwo Eshun). Repeater Books, 2016.
 The Weird and the Eerie. Repeater Libros, 2017.
 k-punk: The Collected and Unpublished Writings of Mark Fisher (2004–2016) (editado por Darren Ambrose, prólogo por Simon Reynolds). Repeater Books, 2018.
 Postcapitalist Desire: The Final Lectures (edited and with an introduction by Matt Colquhoun). London: Repeater Books, 2020.

Referències

Enllaços externs
 k-punk. Bloc de Mark Fisher
 «Los ensayos espectrales». Article de Peio Aguirre sobre l'obra de Mark Fisher a ctxt.es

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Deutschmeister may refer to:

 a high dignitary of the Teutonic Knights, Landmeister of the bailiwicks in the Holy Roman Empire, see Teutonic Order#Landmeister
 service members of the Lower Austrian Infantry Regiment No. 4 in the Austro-Hungarian Army
 , a 1955 film by Ernst Marischka starring Romy Schneider

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As I sit here now, smelling the disheartening stench of burnt chocolate chip cookies, I have decided to forgo that plan.
If you haven't noticed, I am in no condition to write about cooking. And the fact that I'm making chocolate chip cookies also indicates I'm probably not the best for health/fitness advice either.
After crossing these two topics off the list, I am currently doubting whether I even should have started a blog in the first place.
But as I look down at my outfit, which in my opinion is a pretty superb composition of Denim, stripes and gangster-esq gold bling, I remember exactly why I made Lyonsfeel.
The fashion, man, the fashion!
In what other way could I possibly explain the absurdity of my day to day outfits? Or provide evidence as to how they actually are on trend? Only here, on Lyons Feel.
So I, Courtney Lyons, at the eleventh hour (literally) on May the second of two thousand fourteen, have decided to reconstruct the purpose of Lyons Feel.


We are consistently rated 10/10 for cleanliness. Haven on the Park has been described by one of our guests as the cleanest accommodation that they have ever stayed in.
Enjoy our enviable location, minutes from the city in Perth's smallest suburb Highgate. Renowned for its street art, uber cool bars, restaurants, shops and cafes.
Our free undercover parking is right at the door and under 24-hour video surveillance.
A luxurious bed and breakfast destination moments from the heart of Perth, it offers a quiet retreat from the bustling world around us. Created by celebrated local artist Ken Sealey, Haven On The Park provides so much more than well-appointed rooms, private suites, beautiful bathrooms and outdoor courtyards. You'll find a warm, welcoming space to retreat to at the end of a busy day.
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I've really enjoyed my stay. Your place is unique and wonderful.


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Around 50 people fell into Sanvordem river at Curchorem village in Goa on Thursday evening as a dilapidated Portuguese-era bridge collapsed.
Some of them managed to swim ashore, he added.
The fire and emergency services personnel have started searching for others. Further details are awaited.


I qualified (BChD) from the University of Leeds in 2006 and have been working as a general dental practitioner in the area since. I enjoy all aspects of dentistry especially restorative dentistry including root canal treatment and crown work. I am also particularly keen on paedodontics (childrens dentistry). I am currently working towards qualification for membership of the Royal College of Surgeons Dental Faculty (MJDF RCS).
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There are only 4 national non-genetic inheritors of purple sand! Do you know who it is?
As the saying goes: a good horse with a good saddle. For Chinese who love tea, it is natural to have a good teapot.
As a handmade clay handicraft unique to the Han people in China, purple clay pots skillfully integrate use value and ornamental value.
In the hundreds of years of purple sand development history in China, there are many famous grandmasters, such as Ming and Qing dynasties, such as Chunchun and Shi Dabin, and modern times
Ren Ganting, Pei Shimin, Wu Yungen, Wang Yinchun, Zhu Kexin, Gu Jingzhou, Jiang Rong, these seven purple sand old artists.
Seven elders of purple sand
For contemporary times, there are also many pot makers who bear the title of purple sand master. However, the China Intangible Cultural Heritage Network shows that
Today, there are only the following four national non-genetic inheritors of Yixing purple clay pottery making skills
Next, let's get closer to the masters and learn about their work styles and masterpieces.
Image source: China Intangible Cultural Heritage Network
Xu Xiutang
Xu Xiutang was born in a family of purple clay pottery and studied under Ren Ganting, one of the "Seven Elders of Purple Sand".
Mr. Xu Xiutang not only has a deep artistic attainment in purple clay craft, but also studies Chinese painting and calligraphy, and integrates it into purple clay craft creation.
Mr. Xu Xiutang's works have won awards in many exhibitions at home and abroad.
It has been collected by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Victoria Museum and British Museum, Royal Museum of Belgium and the Palace Museum in China, Nanjing Museum, Shanghai Museum, etc.
What is even more interesting is that his brother Xu Hantang is also a "master of Chinese arts and crafts", and two national arts and crafts masters have appeared, not only the purple sand circle looks at the entire art world is also extremely rare.
Price of "Leopard" realised: 195,500 yuan (2016)
The sale price of "Divine Bird" was 149,500 yuan (2012)
"Straw Hat" sale price: 218,500 yuan (2013)
The sale price of "Silver Bridge" was $172,500 (2019)
Lu Yaochen
A native of Yixing, Jiangsu, a master of Chinese arts and crafts,
Under the guidance of Wu Yungen, a master of pot art, and later under the guidance of masters such as Zhu Kexin and Gu Jingzhou, he formed the "Lü's pot art" with distinctive characteristics.
The "Lü's clay grinding" technique opened by teacher Lv Yaochen, which changed the original connotation and form of purple clay pottery.
He is known as the "pot magician" and "Picasso the pot art".
His "Human Body Series" works "Rong Tian", "Sumo", "Concubine", "Lust for Love", "Fuxi", "Want to Release"… The perfect combination of traditional purple clay art and body art has become an important representative work of Lü Pai pot art.
The sale price of "The Concubine Out of the Bathtub" was RMB138,000 (2021)
"Panda Pot" sale price: 920,000 yuan (2016)
The sale price of "Fuxi Ti Liang Jug" was 321,338 yuan (2017)
The sale price of "The Outer Heavenly Kettle" was $264,500 (2013)
Zhou Guizhen
Born in Dingshu Town, Yixing,
Zeng worshiped Wang Yinchun and Gu Jingzhou in the "Seven Elders of Purple Sand" to learn art,
He has successively won the titles of Senior Arts and Crafts Artist, Jiangsu Province Arts and Crafts Master, Chinese Ceramic Art Master, and Chinese Arts and Crafts Master.
Teacher Zhou Guizhen's purple clay works are atmospheric, open-minded and free-spirited, and also contain the beauty and harmony of women.
Not only is the shape beautiful and moderate, but the production art is also rigorous and simple.
Modern art masters such as Liu Haisu, Zhu Qizhan, Feng Qiyong, etc. have inscribed poems and painted on the pot of teacher Zhou Guizhen.
The National Museum of China, the China Arts and Crafts Museum, the Nanjing Museum Institute, the Hong Kong Tea Ware Museum, and the Taiwan Museum of History have successively collected Zhou Guizhen's purple clay works.
The sale price of "Flat Bamboo Lifting Beam" was $276,000 (2013)
Earth Kettle sale price: $224,000 (2011)
The sale price of "Green Clay Tao Ling" was $124,200 (2021)
The price of "Green Clay Monk's Hat" realised: 368,000 yuan (2011)
Wang Yinxian
Born in Dingnan Village, Dingshan Mountain, Yixing, Jiangsu, he is a master of Chinese arts and crafts.
He has successively studied under the "Seven Elders of Zisha" Wu Yungen, Jiang Rong, Zhu Kexin, Fei Shimin and others.
At 9:28 on February 28, 2018, he died of ineffective medical treatment at the age of 75.
Mr. Wang Yinxian's attitude towards pot-making is meticulous, cautious and rigorous, and he has long been deeply observing and refining the subject matter for artistic refinement, so that the works show the beauty of image, charm and temperament.
His works have been collected by the Palace Museum, Shanghai Museum, Hong Kong Song County Cultural Relics Museum, Nanjing Museum, Taiwan Museum of History, and his works have been exhibited in more than 20 countries and regions such as Japan and the United States.
Become a competitive collector's item for pot art lovers.
The sale price of "Cicada Clothes and Bamboo Lifting Beams" was RMB1,150,000 (2019)
The sale price of "Big Bend Plum Pile Pot" was $575,000 (2019)
The sale price of "Quju" was 2,875,000 yuan (2019)
The sale price of "The Divine Bird Out of the Forest" was $368,000 (2011)
As the saying goes, "how to take the jewelry in the world, it is like a pill of mud", the works of the masters are really hard to find now. Xiao Zhi wants to ask everyone, if you are lucky enough to get one of them, will you really use it to make tea?
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The researchers Jacques L. Michaud (CHU Ste-Justine), Jacek Mejewski (Université McGill) and Guy A. Rouleau (CHU Ste-Justine) have discovered mutations in TMEM231 causing Joubert syndrome, a rare desease in French Canadian population.
The 2012 Prix du Québec Marie-Victorin in natural science and engineering was awarded to Pr. Louis Bernatchez from Université Laval, considered by many as a world leader in the study of molecular ecology.


Producer, Bobbi Peacock, found a beautiful space for the shoot, and helped pull together a fabulous crew. We spent an enjoyable afternoon in a sun-filled Minneapolis loft. One our models, Tyler, also works as a yoga instructor, and made the time pass as just one smooth class, transitioning from pose to pose and assisting our models into proper form. Afterward, I spent some time capturing conversation among the models, highlighting the levity in spirit that naturally follows a yoga session. I greatly appreciate the time and talent brought to this project by our crew, and I am pleased to add these images to my portfolio.
Talent: Lauren L. (Wehmann), Lauren W. (Ford), Tyler K.


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Roger's back from the Southland, and shares a look into some of his favorites from the world of music as found on his wall of compact discs!
Roger Colton
Okay, back from the Southland. I'm saving the trip report for next week. You're safe till then…
First a quick commercial. Saturday, October 18, I'm offering a one-day Private Railroad Car Excursion from Oakland to Bakersfield and back to Oakland. We'll be recreating the classic days of passenger travel aboard the Santa Fe's "Golden Gate" trains that used to make the same trip down the San Joaquin Valley before Amtrak. Using two (and maybe three) former Santa Fe passenger cars, our staff will be at the ready for a full day of travel. The fare includes an all-day buffet with beverages. The first ten people to pay in full will also receive a commemorative gift. The Private Car Service web page has more info. If you've wanted to see what this kind of trip is all about, this is a great chance to do just that. Think of a cruise on land instead of at sea, and you're on the right track — literally.
Enjoy the open platform business car "Tamalpias" and the Dome lounge "Plaza Santa Fe"
both seen in this photo by Nathan Holmes.
Now the Disney connection. If you've enjoyed your copy of Michael Broggie's "Walt Disney's Railroad Story", then you'll recall the trip Walt Disney and Ward Kimball made from Los Angeles to Chicago to visit the 1949 Railroad Fair. That trip was aboard the Santa Fe's famed "Super Chief". The Dome lounge car we will be using for this excursion was built for the "Super Chief". It featured the Turquoise Room — the only private dining room aboard a train at that time. While I can't promise the beef stew Ward Kimball wanted to enjoy aboard the dining car or even the fine steaks Walt ordered for them, I can offer a great trip with service in the style of those days gone by with our uniformed staff at the ready to meet your every need.
Hope you can join us for what should be another great excursion.
And now, today's column…
Well, despite best intentions, things change.
(That's the title of one of my favorite films, a small classic starring Don Ameche with some great moments at Lake Tahoe.)
I've bashed this column about three or four times. Started out as a trip report, then a glimpse into some activities of note at the Disneyland resort. Then another thoughtful piece. Saving all for another time, and doing this one instead… Just felt better about it.
One of the pleasures of last weekend was some great music in Downtown Disney. Some interesting musicians playing everything from jazz at Ralph Brennan's Jazz Kitchen to blues, Latin jazz and some great violin pieces. We bought some CD's from the folks and enjoyed them along the way.
So, how about some musical selections? Don't worry, I'm not going to start singing Disney tunes, although I have been known to break into an occasional Sinatra song after a cocktail or two. And I did my bit in local church choirs, high school choirs and musical productions (Damn Yankees and The Sound of Music) once upon a time. But that's all well behind me, so you're still safe!
My musical history also included piano lessons way back when in both grammar school and high school, and I did my band stint during as well with the tuba and sousaphone for concert and marching band. So with all of that, there should be little surprise that my musical tastes run all over the place.
When it comes to Compact Discs, I have a good-sized collection. Movie soundtracks tend to make up a good percentage of it followed by Disney discs of all flavors. Big band and jazz come next along with a growing group of Hawaiian titles. I still have a turntable with a bunch of 33 rpm LP's and then about a hundred or so old 78's. Throw in a few 45's left over from the KSFO experience, too.
My very first compact disc was a copy of the Beatles "Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band" and then the Beach Boys "Pet Sounds". Still two of my all time favorite albums of any genre…
Personally, I've been somewhat excited about some of the great developments in personal electronics and music — Apple's iPod and iTunes in particular. While I'm decidedly a Mac person, I am happy to see that the Windoze crowd has the opportunity to enjoy both the iPod now and then iTunes later this fall. The price is right for the downloads of individual songs at 99 cents and then complete albums at $9.99. And now Real Networks has upped the ante with it's pricing of songs for 79 cents each. (Here's a link to a story on that price war in the making.) I'll admit to having downloaded a few songs from Apple and hope for a more expanded selection as the summer goes along.
So? How about some other highlights from what seems like the wall of discs in my front room?
If you watched the episode of "ER" that featured the death of Dr. Mark Greene (Anthony Edwards) then you were probably taken by the version of the "Somewhere Over the Rainbow/Wonderful World" medley heard in the closing moments. That's Israel Kamakawio'ole and the track is from his album "Facing Future". It was also used on the soundtrack of "Meet Joe Black". Check out his web pages. I picked up this disc at Island Charters in Downtown Disney. They got me by playing this disc as I walked into the shop. Lots of good music for sale here, all with an island flavor — Pacific and Caribbean as well!
While having dinner at Naples on Saturday night, we were seated on the patio. From across the way, we were treated to the sounds of some great violin music. That was provided by Drew Tretick. His rendition of the theme from "Somewhere in Time" (another favorite film of mine) was especially enchanting. Like all of the artists we encountered that night, he had CD's for sale, and I picked up a copy of his album "Serenata", which he was more than happy to autograph. Here are his web pages.
What would a visit to Disneyland be without taking a while to enjoy the strains of Rod Miller at the piano at the Coca Cola Corner? Glad to say that Rod was back at the old stand doing what he does best last weekend. His "Ragtime" album has become a standard part of any private car excursion I run, as it simply sets a classic mood. Rebekah Mosely has a fine page devoted to Rod. According to her notes, "It was at 'Rod's Table' that I met and later accepted the proposal of my husband, Doobie." Rod has made a lot of memories for thousands of Disneyland guests, and I'm hoping he keeps playing there for some time to come!
Way back when, it was the sounds of the Firehouse Five Plus Two entertaining folks at Disneyland. Led by Ward Kimball (he owned the fire truck), Danny Alguire, George Probert, Frank Thomas, *** Roberts, Ed Penner, Jim MacDonald, Harper Goff, Monte Mountjoy, Ralph Ball, George Bruns, Eddie Forrest, Don Kinch, K.O. Eckland, and Bill Newman all did their parts to bring some classic jazz tunes back to life for their own as well as the audiences enjoyment. They could easily be credited with reviving the Dixieland craze outside of New Orleans. Their "Firehouse Five Plus Two At Disneyland" album features a night at the Golden Horseshoe theater. Amazon has all ten of their albums from Fantasy Records on the Good Time Jazz label — again both new and used.
Among all of those soundtracks, one favorite is that from "Toys". Now while this film may be one of Robin Williams less than classics (and we know there have been several, don't we?) the soundtrack has a great mix of genres to bring a smile to my face. From the great MTV parody ("The Mirror Song") performed by Thomas Dolby with Robin Williams and Joan Cusack as "Steve and Yolanda" to the hopeful anthem of "The Closing of the Year", this one gets my vote for five stars. It's available new and used on Amazon.
GNP Crescendo has done its part to keep soundtracks going as they have offered a good selection of titles from the various "Star Trek" franchises. My favorite on their label was the soundtrack compilation they did for the series "Quantum Leap". Star Scott Bakula got his musical training early and even earned a Tony nomination for his performance in "Romance, Romance". Even Dean Stockwell gets into the act with his "Alphabet Rap". The scores by Velton Ray Bunch (now doing scores for "Enterprise" again with Bakula — who knows? He may sing on that show yet!) and Mike Post were favorites of fans of this show.
Capitol Records dug into the vaults and came up with some great oldies but goodies with the "Ultra Lounge" series of discs. Some rare gems and some classic keep the mix fresh, bringing back days of swinging bachelor pads and smart cocktails with the Rat Pack on the Strip in Vegas. Yeah, Baby! And how about the trio of soundtracks from the Austin Powers franchise? As a child of the Sixties and Seventies, there is just something about these that appeals to me.
Now when it comes to bands, the one that always gets my vote is the Leland Stanford Junior University Marching Band. Now even though I have a definite Cardinal bias, (my maternal grandfather played football here from 1925 to 1928 and went to two Rose Bowl games — 1927 and 1928 — as quarterback), but these folks just know how to have a good time. In days gone by, the breakfast of band champions was beer and donuts. Not to say that they have gone teetotaling (see some of the links about trips and alcohol! Woo!)… Still their album "Mirth Control" is a classic with some of their standard game tunes including the anthem; "It's All Right Now". The band is an experience (not an official school organization, like at other universities!) and they even have marched in their own fashion at Disneyland when Stanford appeared in the Rose Bowl games in 1971, 1972 and 2000. What's not to like about a group who has a tree as their mascot?
So have I dipped into an eclectic enough variety so far? There is a whole lot more from Jack Kerouac reading selected works including my personal fave, "October in the Railroad Earth" (that tale from his days railroading with the Southern Pacific out of San Francisco) to the compositions of Tom Lehrer (who could ever forget that classic "Poisoning Pigeons In The Park"?) to any of the Disney soundtracks or park discs, including a handbell parade from Tokyo Disneyland and the "Ce' Magique" disc from the show done during the opening of Euro Disneyland.
And I'll admit to putting more than a few songs together in some interesting compilations for my own amusement. Ain't technology grand?
It is said that music soothes the savage beast. Although I can't recall what music Cruiser really likes. We've caught him watching television on occasion (the "Fireflash" episode of "Thunderbirds" on Tech TV was the most recent), but who knows? He's not telling…
Using the Amazon links below, many of the titles can be yours! Help support the efforts at Jim Hill Media making your purchases here!
Thanks to those who made a donation to Roger's Amazon Honor System Paybox. Your help is appreciated in keeping him plugging along at the keyboard. To quote Homer Simpson, "Oooooh, how convenient." As for next week, there is still the trip report for the long Memorial Day weekend. Some amusing tales to be sure. Stay tuned…


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Donation helps blind people listen to the news
Macclesfield Talking Newspaper for the Blind has received £1,000 to fund new equipment so that more blind people in Macclesfield can access the news.
The donation was provided by the Santander Foundation which offers grants to UK registered charities for projects that help disadvantaged people in local communities.
Macclesfield Talking Newspaper provides a weekly news bulletin for local blind or partially sighted people. The grant will be used to purchase two new MP3 players to enable more listeners to receive the service.
Chairman Colin Turner at the Talking Newspaper said: "The Talking Newspaper receives no government funding and relies on donations and bequests so we are very grateful to the Santander Foundation for their generous gift which will allow more people to access our services and feel more involved in the world around them."
Jarrod Roberts-Dinsley, Branch Manager at Santander's Macclesfield branch said: "The Santander Foundation makes hundreds of donations every year to good causes throughout the UK. Our branch is committed to playing a key part in the community and we are delighted to be supporting Macclesfield Talking Newspaper for the Blind, and hope the donation makes a real difference to local blind people."
In 2014 the Santander Foundation donated £5 million to charities across the UK.
Sarah Webster at Santander Tel: 020 7756 5533
About Macclesfield Talking Newspaper for the Blind
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Q: Chrome extension addEventListener not working correct My extension has a popup window with one button. When this button clicked, extension create a new tab. But when I clicked on browser-action button, new tab is creating without opening a popup window.
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"version": "0.1",
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A: Try replacing this:
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With this:
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Hope this works!

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Palomares singled to center field; Soria advanced to second.
Pilpil singled to third base; Palomares advanced to second; Soria advanced to third.
Wisdom out at first 2b to 1b, RBI; Pilpil advanced to second; Palomares advanced to third; Soria scored.
Jennings doubled to right field, RBI; Pilpil advanced to third; Palomares scored.
Kane singled to left field, RBI; Jennings advanced to third; Pilpil scored.
Laban to p for Lambertson.
Boser singled, out at first c to 2b, 2 RBI; Kane scored; Jennings scored.
Sechrest doubled to right center, 2 RBI; Sheffler scored; Turang scored.
Mario doubled to center field; Jacob advanced to third.
Mario advanced to third; Jacob out at home c to 3b to c.
Palomares singled to second base.
Pilpil doubled to left center; Palomares advanced to third.
Ybarra singled to right field; Carter advanced to third.
Rubio pinch ran for Ybarra.
Crawford singled to shortstop, RBI; Rubio advanced to third; Carter scored.
Pingree to p for Collins.
Sheffler reached on a fielder's choice to shortstop.
Ybarra to dp for Rubio.
Palomares singled up the middle.
Ybarra doubled to left field.
Crawford doubled to left center, RBI; Ybarra scored.
Jennings homered to right field, 2 RBI; Wisdom scored.
Mario singled up the middle.
Harris singled to left field; Mario advanced to third.
Tsuchiyama flied out to cf, SF, RBI; Mario scored.
Soria scored on an error by p, unearned.
Sheffler singled to left field; Crawford advanced to second.
Mario singled to left field, RBI; Sheffler advanced to second; Crawford scored.


Want to explore the U.S. Virgin Islands for less? Spirit Airlines has announced non-stop flights via Orlando (MCO) and St. Thomas, USVI (STT) starting 11/08/18.
It should come as no surprise that I'm super excited to share that Orlando, Florida now has non-stop flights to St. Thomas! Let's face it–we love to travel and even more so when we can get a non-stop flight from our hometown of Orlando.
Jon and I had the opportunity to attend a reception last night with The U.S. Virgin Islands Department of Tourism and Spirit Airlines. Spirit Airlines announced that they will now be servicing non-stop flights, 3 times a week, to St. Thomas. As well as non-stop flights from Fort Lauderdale (FLL) to St. Croix (STX), three times a week. Flying to the USVI just got a whole lot easier and much more affordable thanks to Spirit Airlines.
St. Thomas has always held a special place in our heart. Jon proposed to me on Magen's Bay in the heart of St. Thomas back in 2007. Magen's Bay has been named one of the top 10 beaches in the world. It truly is–it's tranquil, calm, and the perfect place to lay under a mangrove tree and enjoy the tanzanite blue waters.
Then we found out our baby boy's test results while on our babymoon in 2013. Strolling that same portion of Magens Bay. Happy tears of joy when we heard he was healthy and he did not receive my mutated Fragile X chromosome. Hence his middle name of "Thomas" (part family and partly from the island).
Fast-forward 2.5 years from that day that we found out that great news and we got to bring him to our favorite island and our little slice of heaven, Magen's Bay.
We've yet to bring our youngest, but that's about to change.
We also have NEVER flown and stayed in St. Thomas. We have only ever cruised to St. Thomas. Now that Spirit has a non-stop flight, we are already looking at when we should travel with the kids to St. Thomas. Heck–we see an adult's only weekend in our near future.
Is it safe to visit St. Thomas?
Of course, many people have asked what is the current status of the U.S. Virgin Islands since last year's devastating hurricanes. Yes, it's absolutely safe to visit St. Thomas. Here is a little word from the tourism department.
This summer the U.S. Virgin Islands Department of Tourism launched Purpose in Paradise. Here is a brief synopsis of what they are all about. If you want to not only vacation but also lend some of your time and talents they have a wide-variety of ways you can assist!
Purpose in Paradise is a comprehensive program that enhances the Territory's broad network of community-based philanthropic activities and strengthens our ability to attract visitors in search of purpose-driven travel opportunities. The initiative pairs visitors who are interested in helping the Territory's recovery efforts with local nonprofit organizations in need of assistance with specific projects such as rebuilding a vegetable garden, coral restoration, helping to measure seedlings in mangroves or collaborating on student literacy.
So, if your looking to travel in the coming year, the U.S. Virgin Islands are definitely open for business. Thanks to Spirit Airlines, they are making it more affordable then ever to travel to paradise. Even better, you don't need a passport to visit the U.S. Virgin Islands. So what are you waiting for? You can book flights all the way up to May 2019!
Disclaimer: We were not compensated for this post. We simply love the U.S. Virgin Islands and want to help spread the word about new travel offerings (hello affordable airfare thanks to Spirit Airlines), information, and ways you can volunteer while still seeing the island!


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March 3, 1998 Angela 1997-1998 Environmental Articles (while traveling in Vietnam, China, Hong Kong, Japan, Taiwan) 0
By Tooker Gomberg and Angela Bischoff, Hong Kong.
An interview with energy guru Amory Lovins.
It's hard to imagine our lives without electricity. It's the invisible stuff of "civilization" keeping our buildings cool, our spaces illuminated, and the motors of industry turning.
In Hong Kong, a two-company oligopoly has provided consistent and reliable supply for almost 100 years. Their approach has been to build more to meet ever-increasing demand.
Yet, on a finite planet, infinite growth cannot go on forever. Over the last two decades, a revolution in thinking has been taking place and, increasingly, utilities around the world are providing electricity services rather than more and more megawatts.
Kong Kong Electric has requested permission to increase the capacity of its Lamma power station by 60%, and possibly also add a waste-to-energy incinerator as well. At the recent Designing Hong Kong symposium in late February, we had the chance to speak with Amory Lovins, probably the world's best-known and most-respected expert on energy efficiency. With his wife Hunter, he founded the Rocky Mountain Institute, a think tank devoted to helping utilities improve efficiency, save energy and make profit. Mr. Lovins is a prolific speaker and writer, and the Wall Street Journal, in their Centennial Issue, named him among 28 people most likely to change the course of business in the 1990's.
Here's what we discussed:
Gomberg and Bischoff (G&B): We just missed you in Kyoto (at the U.N. Climate Summit) a couple of months ago, where there was a lot of gnashing of teeth and anxiety about how could we possibly meet a 6% cut in greenhouse gases. What was your take on what happened there?
Amory Lovins: You were probably inadvertently listening to one of the 169 lobbyists from something called the Global Climate Coalition spearheaded by the coal industry to try to pretend that either there isn't a problem or, if there is, it's too expensive to solve it.
They forgot a rather important point though: it's cheaper to save fuel than to buy it, therefore protecting the climate by using fossil fuel a lot more efficiently is not costly but profitable. And since it's profitable, it can be done in the marketplace through things that are rather good for us – like innovation, competitive advantage, and economic opportunity. It's really about profits, not costs.
That message is starting slowly to sink in and we get calls from a lot of industries – major chemical companies and so on – saying: "Gee, now that there will be a trading scheme (whose framework was agreed to at Kyoto) to reward people to emit less carbon, how can our company make money off that?" And I think the race to a more efficient and climatically-benign economy is definitely off and running.
G&B: To bring it back to Hong Kong, we had a tour recently of the power plant on Lamma Island, a huge power plant that burns 3.5 million tonnes of coal every year. They (Hong Kong Electric) maintained that it's not profitable for them to be doing those energy-efficiency measures, that it's more profitable to project 4 or 5 % growth and to build more power plants.
Lovins: That was largely true under the previous regulatory arrangement called the Scheme of Control. However, they have negotiated a new agreement that lets them actually get rewarded for saving energy not only for selling more. I think this will gradually move more and more in the direction of letting the utility keep some of the savings it creates for the customers whenever it can save electricity cheaper than making it. That's a very sensible arrangement because it means whatever gives you lower bills will give them more profits, so your interests are aligned instead of opposite. That sounds like a good idea. We've done it in about eight of the United States and it does have a miraculous effect on a utility's behaviour.
G&B: You're talking about a change in culture also, because they're so used to building more power plants and selling more and more.
Lovins: They have a lot more than they need. They're just getting used to the idea that it's cheaper not to run the ones they have than to run them, and if so then they shouldn't run them, no matter how many they've got.
G&B: So are you saying that, today, it's cheaper for Hong Kong Electric, or China Light and Power, to be selling efficiency measures rather than selling more kilowatt hours?
Lovins: Very much so. It's a lot cheaper to sell, or even give away efficiency than even to run existing power stations even if building them costs nothing. Of course if you design buildings properly in the first place, then they save 3/4, 4/5, or even more of their electricity. Even 90% in some cases. But they cost less to build because you don't need all that expensive mechanical equipment to keep them comfortable when they're more efficient in the first place.
G&B: You're saying these things, yet they don't seem to be part of the "conventional wisdom" so to speak.
Lovins: Well, we have some pretty perverse incentives in place. Architects and engineers here, as elsewhere, are paid for what they spend, not for what they save. Utilities are rewarded for selling you more electricity and penalized for cutting your bill. People are very good at responding to exactly the incentives you give them. So if you reward the opposite of what you want you get the opposite of what you want.
Governments are slowly waking up to this and starting to get the incentives right and then it gets a whole lot easier. We did a paper for the Kyoto conference called: Making Sense and Making Money which codified about sixty obstacles to using energy in a way that saves money and then showed how to turn each obstacle into a business opportunity, each stumbling-block into a stepping-stone
G&B: But do you see that new buildings going up in Hong Kong are meeting these kind of energy-efficiency standards that you're talking about?
Lovins: New buildings here are not yet efficient, but I think they will get more so because the market downturn actually focuses developers' attention on things they hadn't thought about before. Operating costs are starting to become important when before they weren't. People were just building so fast and flipping the property to some other owner that they didn't care what it would cost someone else to run it later. Now they do because the market is starting to become more particular about that as people trim their costs.
G&B: Is it cost effective to go back to all these old buildings and fix them up, make them more energy efficient?
Lovins: (Licks his lips and smiles) There are some high quality properties – we're standing in one of them now (Pacific Place) – that are really quite energy-inefficient and it would be very profitable to fix them up to save most of their energy. We've actually got experience of this in quite a few U.S. cases with broadly similar buildings and in rather similar climates. It's not unusual to save 3/4 of the energy with a payback time of just a few years. Which is a lot better return than you can get any other way.
G&B: One of the big energy users in Hong Kong is air conditioning. Can you talk about some of the innovations or changes that have happened for more efficient air conditioning?
Lovins: We recently saved 97% of the air conditioning energy fixing up a California office and made it more comfortable. Instead of thinking of this as an air conditioning problem, let's think of it as a comfort problem. And you can extend the range of conditions in which people feel comfortable through, for example, better windows that let in light but block radiant heat called super-windows which are not yet made in Hong Kong but are made now in Thailand. A friend of mine used them in his house and saved 90% of his air conditioning energy with no extra cost.
G&B: Just by changing the windows?
Lovins: That was a new house, but it turned out that the extra cost of the windows and other efficiency measures was balanced by the value of avoiding 90% of the air conditioning capacity. So it worked out the same and it's much more comfortable. Then with, for example, new kinds of office chairs where, for example, you sit on a ventilative net or mesh instead of insulating upholstery you keep your backside several degrees cooler. Ceiling fans can give you five Celsius degrees of extra comfort range. When you start adding it up you find it actually works pretty well. You get more comfortable.
Then you can reduce the unwanted heat coming into the space with better windows and shading, more efficient lights, and office equipment that releases less heat into the space. By those means, for example, we've eliminated cooling equipment entirely in California houses at temperatures up to 46 . And the house is more comfortable but costs less to build. Now that's not a very humid climate like Hong Kong, but it's still a good indication.
Then if you do have refrigerative air conditioning, which is common here, it can be made several times more efficient than it now is just by designing it better. The capital cost of doing that is less than the way it's done now. And then you can improve controls. But better to design the kind of buildings so it doesn't don't need fancy controls – it just keeps you comfortable by itself.
G&B: When we went to visit Hong Kong Electric last week we talked with them about burning all this coal and the problems of acid rain, they maintained that volcanoes are a bigger concern. Have you heard that one before?
Lovins: Yes. (Pause) There's no accounting for what some people think. However, there isn't much we can do about volcanoes. There's a lot we can do about burning coal. It's cheaper not to.
G&B: If cities were serious about reducing their energy use, and profitability was put in the proper place, what levels of reductions could be achieved with today's technology?
Lovins: It's pretty straightforward to save half the energy easily and over time more like 3/4 of the energy with very attractive economics. As you gradually replace old with new buildings, the savings get up around 90% and the capital costs go down. In all cases, the buildings get more pleasant, and comfortable to be in. And similar savings will gradually come about in our other uses of energy, industry and transportation.
In the United States, we've already cut $150 or 200 billion (U.S.) dollars a year off the energy bill, but we're still wasting $300 billion a year. And the more we save the more exploitable waste we find because we learn more; the technologies get better. You can save twice as much now as you could five years ago at just a third the cost. And that statement has been continuously true for at least the past fifteen years.
The real surprise lately is we've discovered that you can make big savings cost less than small savings. We call this tunneling through the cost barrier.
I'll give you a simple example from a carpet factory recently built in Shanghai by the American firm Interface. I introduced the Dutch engineer who was designing it to some art learned from a friend in Singapore, Mr. Lee, who's the efficiency wizard. A pumping system in this factory had supposedly been "optimized" by the top western firm but when the Dutch engineer got through re-engineering it, it was using a twelfth as much energy. The pumping and motor equipment were twelve times smaller.
How did he do this? Well he used big pipes, which have a lot less friction, and small pumps instead of small pipes and big pumps. You save a lot more money making the pumps and motors smaller than you pay extra paying for the fatter pipe in which the friction goes down, it's almost the fifth power of diameter. So that's a good deal. The other thing we did was lay out the pipes first, then the equipment so the pipes are short and straight instead of long and crooked. And they have less friction. Now this is not rocket science, this is good Victorian engineering. But it was a 92% energy saving at less capital cost and it all works better.
Very similar opportunities are available throughout industries and buildings just by using a better design mentality. It's changing the "mindware" that's really the challenge today. And as we discover in writing our new book "Natural Capitalism", with Paul Hawkin, how these opportunities just pervade society. We're ever more astonished by the opening of the efficiency cornucopia. I guess you could call me a neo-cornucopian.
The opportunity to do more and better with much, much less is greater than any of us would have dreamed possible even a few years ago. And that's a good thing because we've been, for a hundred odd years now, making people in various industrial revolutions about a hundred times more productive than they were. And that made sense when we didn't have many people, we didn't have much technology, and pollution-absorbing capacity seemed to be abundant. But now that nature is scarcer and people are more abundant, we should keep using the economic logic that you economize on your scarcest resource. Because that's what limits your progress.
Applied to new conditions of scarcity, it now makes sense to fire the unproductive tonnes, litres, and kilowatt hours and keep the people with more and better work to do. The way to do that is advanced resource-efficiency. Wring a lot more work – ten or a hundred times more work – out of the resources we've got. And that's going to give us better lives and a stronger economy as well as a sounder environment.
G&B: Sounds like a good deal.
Lovins: Thank you.


When the film producer Simon Nasht approached me about taking part in a documentary on climate change for ABC TV, I was just a little sceptical.
While I trusted Simon, this was the ABC, not renowned for its balance on this subject. And he wanted to pit me, a grey-haired, late-50s conservative male, against an attractive, articulate, 20-something female. Was it a set-up?
Simon was persuasive, and since I was about to leave Parliament, I figured I had nothing to lose. Importantly, it might be an opportunity for opinions not normally aired on the ABC to get a run.
So began an odyssey involving 10 cities in 21 days with four film crew - to Perth, Heron Island, the Flinders Ranges, the whole time with a camera recording my every action and utterance. I look back on the experience with affection, and I congratulate the production team on the finished product, and the ABC for broadcasting it.
Click source to see FULL TV Documentary from ABC, "I Can Change Your Mind About Climate"
T'S the taxpayer-funded TV journey which set out to change opinions on the climate change debate - and ends with little ground being made by either protagonist.