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Nikolai M. Karamzin; Establishing Russian Enlightenment Ideas
Russian Studies in Philosophy. 2017. Vol. 55. No. 6. P. 422-430.
Besschetnova E.
In this article, the author considers the main milestones in the development of Russian Enlightenment ideas, using Nikolai Karamzin's creative output as an example. Karamzin undoubtedly represented a new type of
Russian enculturated person, who had traveled a long path to understanding what it means not only to consider oneself an enlightened individual but actually to be one.
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Keywords: Russian EnlightenmentKaramzin
Publication based on the results of: Исследование русско-европейского интеллектуального диалога(2017)
Kant e l'ortodossia russa. Accademie ecclesiastiche e filosofia in Russia tra XVIII e XIX secolo [Kant and Russian Orthodoxy. Ecclesiastical Academies and philosophy in Russia between the XVIII and XIX century]
Pozzi V. Firenze University Press, 2017.
The book focuses on the early spread of Kantianism (especially the Critique of Pure Reason) in the Russian Empire. This reception is analysed in the specific intellectual environment of the Ecclesiastical Academies – a wide analysis of their features, both historical and philosophical, is provided. The history and the sources belonging to the phenomenon of philosophising at Ecclesiastical Academiesare also investigated here through case studies: in responding to Kant's Copernican revolution, the authors examined proved to be fully aware of the necessity of confronting the Criticism. The book contains an addendum with a wide-ranging review of the philosophical historiography of the reception of Kantianism in Russia up to 2015.
History of Russian state as personal project: Vasily Tatischev and Nikolay Kаramzin
Kiseleva M. Russian Studies in Philosophy. 2017. Vol. 55. No. 6. P. 396-409.
This article analyzes the individual projects of Tatishchev and Karamzin 5 as Russian historians. Vasily N. Tatishchev (1686–1750), a civil servant during the Petrine era, spent thirty years creating his Russian History as a set of commentaries on "chronicle records." Nikolai M. Karamzin (1766–1826) gained entrance to European intellectual culture through his travels around Europe, which served as a source for his Letters of a 10 Russian Traveler and later publication of his journal Vestnik Evropy (1802–1803). The exposure to European intellectual life stimulated Karamzin's project, the twelve-volume History of the Russian State. This article examines the similarities and differences in the thinkers' methodologies for constructing history, which relied on European histor- 15 iography and a substantially different set of personal experiences: one the builder of Empire under Peter, and the other an intellectual educator, writer, creator of the Russian literary language, and professional historiographer in the court of Emperor Alexander I.
Liberty before Liberalism in Russia
Kaploun V. Центр RES PUBLICA. Res. Европейский университет в Санкт-Петербурге, 2014. No. 1.
The paper analyses the concept of liberty (svoboda) in the context of certain forms of Russian political, social, and ethical thought that were characteristic of the Russian Enlightenment intellectual movement (early l770s – late 1820s). Liberty belongs to the spectrum of concepts (alongside "society", "civil society", "nation", etc.) that have laid foundation for the modern Russian political language, as well as for the thought style of Russian hommes de lettres of the period. The paper aims at demonstrating that this Enlightenment thought style is a constituent part of the European intellectual tradition of civic republicanism, integrating as it does its key topics.
Карамзин: сотворение русского европейца
Кантор В. К. Вестник Европы - XXI век. 2016. Т. XLVI– XLVII. С. 5-16.
Н.М. Карамзин - рыцарь русского Просвещения
Бессчетнова Е. В. В кн.: Николай Карамзин и исторические судьбы России. К 250-летию со дня рождения. М.: Аквилон, 2016. Гл. 11. С. 198-210.
In the article the author examines on the example of Karamzin's works the main phases of the development of Russian enlightener's ideas. Nikolay Karamzin, no doubt, has created a new type of Russian cultural person, which made a long way to understand what means to be an enlightened individual. He was the first Russian traveler who went to the West not to learn, but to observe, he was the reformer of the Russian language, combining Russian identity with European words, and the first Russian historian, Russian "Tacitus".
Some Rules of Historiographical Method: The Concepts of "Enlightenment" and "Society" as Applied to the Russian Intellectual History of the late 18th - early 19th Centuries
Kaploun V. In bk.: Vestigia Idearum Historica. Beiträge zur Ideengechichte Europas.. Vol. 2: Formen der Ideengeschichte. Muenster: Mentis, 2014. P. 191-215.
The paper proposes an original research methodology in the field of intellectual history based on the theoretical achievements of the tradition of philosophy of language and philosophy of action, as well as the "pragmatic turn" in social sciences. The paper develops the concept of "thought style" as describing a possible object of historical research. As an illustration of this historical method, the paper analyzes the concepts of "Enlightenment" and "society" as applied to the Russian intellectual history of the late 18th - early 19th centuries.
Карамзин: самопознание, или Сотворение европейской России
Кантор В. К. Вопросы философии. 2016. № 12. С. 123-128.
Author examines one of the most important spiritual issues of growing Russian culture. Peter the Great has returned Russia to Europe as a military and political force. This cultural hero was a military and political builder. Needed was a second cultural hero – Russian builder of spiritual meanings. Incredible effort Karamzin, who gave Russian self-awareness and self-knowledge, which approved the European values in Russia meant that the second was a cultural hero – a creator of spiritual meanings. It can rightly be called a European Russian, paves the way for the development of a great culture.


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Jews, Christians, and Israel: Some Recent Developments
Posted on March 16, 2007 by Richard Bartholomew
As John Hagee regales AIPAC with his views on why Christians should back Israel, the Knesset considers a new anti-missionary bill. Y-Net reports:
A war on missionaries was declared Tuesday when Shas faction head MK Yakov Margi proposed a bill stating that Israel's laws against proselytism should be aggravated.
Backed by six other faction members and in concordance with Shas' spiritual leader, Rabbi Ovadia Yosef's instructions, Margi proposed the sentence for preaching conversion should be one year imprisonment.
…Currently, Israeli law deals with conversion on two levels. Firstly, anyone offering money or material products in exchange for conversion faces five years in prison or a monetary fine. The person on the accepting end of the offer also faces a certain punishment.
On the second level, regarding minors, anyone acting in favor of or conducting a conversion ceremony on a minor, faces six month in jail.
Israeli officialdom has also sought to discourage Jewish-Israelis from converting to Islam. Y-Net links to another report, which it published last year:
…In the past, the Religious Affairs and Interior Ministries made it very difficult for Jews to convert to Islam. "They are giving me the runaround, sending me back and forth from office to office. They made me see a psychiatrist, to 'make sure I wasn't brainwashed.' They did everything so that I would despair and return to Judaism," one convert related.
Shas argues that the proposed bill is not discriminatory as it also "applies to Jewish sects bringing Muslims from the Old City to convert to Judaism". Margi is a big fan of banning things – last year he wrote an opinion piece against the proposed gay pride march in Jerusalem ("Social perversions should be kept in the dark, not put on display for all to see"). Ovadia Yosef, meanwhile, has featured on this blog before, and his many surprising statements have brought him international notoriety (that hurricane Katrina was caused by "blacks" failing to read the Torah is probably his best-known).
Margi's call comes as the harassment of Jewish converts to Christianity continues. The Baptist Press reports:
BEER SHEVA, Israel (BP)–The arrest of a Messianic Jewish evangelist in Israel reflects the strife that often confronts Messianic Jews despite Israel's guarantees of religious liberty and without any repercussion from law enforcement officials, the leader of a Messianic congregation told Baptist Press.
Messianic evangelist Eddie Beckford was arrested outside his business, the Chess and Bible Shop in Arad, after a mob of ultra-Orthodox Haradim Jews surrounded his van in the parking lot and beat him Feb. 25.
…Jim Sibley, director of the Pasche Institute for Jewish Studies at Criswell College in Dallas, told Baptist Press the word needs to get out about the harassment of Messianic Jews in Israel.
"It really is intolerable, and I think a lot more attention needs to be given to it," Sibley said. "That's the only way that the Israeli government is going to really do anything to protect the rights of believers."
I covered the situation in Beersheeva in December 2005. The Messianic leader there, Howard Bass, is now taking legal action, although he warns that "It is not to be used in any way to foment or promote anti-Israel or anti-Jewish actions or reactions".
As it happens, the JTA has just reported on conversions to Christianity among Ethiopian immigrants:
…Recent Ethiopian olim [immigrants] are easy prey for Christian missionaries. They come to Israel with little knowledge of Judaism; some have Christian roots. Most practiced some form of Christianity in Ethiopia before filing their aliyah petitions and moving to the Ethiopian cities of Gondar and Addis Ababa.
Some veteran Ethiopian Israeli leaders are warning that the ongoing Ethiopian aliyah is making matters worse, bringing to Israel many Christians who either are married to Ethiopians of Jewish origin or fraudulently claim to be related to Jews.
"Today the aliyah of the Falash Mura has turned into a business," said Rabbi Yitzhak Zagay, an Ethiopian Israeli rabbi in Rehovot and director of the National Committee of Ethiopian Jews, formed recently to combat missionary activity.
…"This aliyah is causing irreversible damage to the State of Israel," one Ethiopian Israeli leader in Jerusalem told JTA. "These people aren't Jewish. It is tearing apart the Ethiopian and Israeli community…"
Similar complaints have long been made against Russian immigrants, who have been described by Shas as "hundreds of thousands of Gentiles flooding the land with pork, prostitution, impurity and filth" (a fringe of these immigrants has responded in kind, forming the neo-Nazi "White Israeli Union"). Of course, such mass migrations must particularly upsetting to Palestinian refugees, who have long been told that their return to Israel proper would undermine the Jewish character of Israel, and that therefore anyone who supports them must be anti-Semitic.
The consequences of mass immigration were the subject of a 1999 academic article by Ian Lustick, entitled "Israel as a non-Arab State". Roger Owen briefly summarized the findings in Al-Ahram in 2000. Among them:
…First, no meaningful debate on the question of the Jewishness of the Russian immigrants can be carried on without raising the whole notion of the Right of Return and so, by extension, one of the main rationales for the Zionist project in the twentieth century. Second, given the demographic struggle between Israeli Jews and the Palestinians, the Jewish Israelis would be unhappy about any diminution in the numbers they claim for their side. This also makes sense if one considers that the non-Jewish Russians are just as likely to be anti-Palestinian as their Jewish compatriots.
Seen from this point of view, the construction of Russian Orthodox churches in the communities where there is a heavy concentration of Russian immigrants makes perfect sense. So too does the increasing unwillingness to question people's religion and ethnic origins. According to Lustick, the 1995 census was the first in Israeli history not to ask questions about what is obviously becoming an increasingly contentious, but also increasingly blurred, situation regarding individual religious and ethnic identity.
Meanwhile, far away in the USA, the alliance of Israel and the Christian right continues to grow. The JTA reports on John Hagee's recent speech at AIPAC:
…The popular TV preacher went straight for the heart, and if there were doubts that an evangelical could cast aside concerns about proselytizing and make his case based simply on love of Israel, they were quickly dispersed.
"What we have in common is far greater than the things that have separated us over the years," Hagee said to applause.
"We must stop Iran's nuclear threat, and stop it now, and stand boldly with Israel!" he said to even greater applause.
…"There will never be another Holocaust, not on our watch and never again!" Hagee continued.
Unless, of course, the Jews annoy God, which is why Hagee believes the Holocaust occurred. Although he had the good sense not say this at AIPAC, Max Blumenthal notes that Hagee's book Jerusalem Countdown (which I blogged here) contains the following:
It was the disobedience and rebellion of the Jews, God's chosen people, to their covenantal responsibility to serve only the one true God, Jehovah, that gave rise to the opposition and persecution that they experienced beginning in Canaan and continuing to this very day…(pp. 92-93)
Hagee has also railed against international bankers and the "Illuminati" in ways that obviously recall anti-Jewish conspiracy theories. This video, which is also from Blumenthal's page, consists of a Hagee sermon with some interesting images and music added. I'm sceptical that the video is an official Hagee production, but the words are his own, and the pictures do seem to fit. The resulting production borders on the camp.
(Some links from Christianity Today Weblog and Talk to Action)

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The Booker Surprise
C. Max Magee October 19, 2004 | 7 books mentioned 2 min read
You may have heard. In a surprise upset, the Booker Prize was awarded to Alan Hollinghurst for Line of Beauty. Oddsmakers, literary professionals, and speculating bloggers all considered David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas to be a lock, but the Booker, as is so often the case, proved too wily to predict. The award will lead to many newspaper write-ups (NYT reg req'd), and a big boost in sales, although, from the looks of things, I would expect relatively modest Vernon God Little numbers rather than blockbuster best seller list Life of Pi numbers. With the Booker overwith, all eyes turn towards the National Book Awards, which will be announced on November 17th. A look at the non-fiction finalists.
Bookspotting on the El
I meant to link to this post from Conversational Reading a while ago as it really captures the particular afflictions of many book lovers. His first question caught my eye: "Do you surreptitiously observe what people are reading on public transit?" Anyone who has read this blog for a while knows that I have the odd habit of posting about the books I spot people reading during the course of my day. (Bookspotting I call it.) Some might find this odd, but I think it's fascinating, and better than any newspaper article or bestseller list at seeing what books people are interested in. Sure you lots of people reading the bestsellers, but you also see a delightfully random sampling of the books that our fellow citizens bury their noses in each day. Some my find this to be an odd hobby, but I it manages to affirm my faith in civilization. Here are the three books that I noticed from my seat on the Red Line today: Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison (Morrison is an essential of American lit), The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson (I'd wager that this book has been a huge seller here in Chicago), and Love's Labour's Lost by William Shakespeare (I love seeing people casually reading Shakespeare on their way to work).
C. Max Magee created The Millions and is its publisher. He and his family live in New Jersey.
2008's Pulitzer Winners
C. Max Magee April 7, 2008 | 7 books mentioned 1
More Rooster Fun!
Edan Lepucki March 19, 2008 | 7 books mentioned 4
Mark Sarvas is the next to weigh in on this year's Tournament of Books, deciding between Denis Johnson's Tree of Smoke and Vendela Vida's Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name. He spends much of the review lamenting the early loss of Robert Bolano's The Savage Detectives (as Garth did here), but he's able to momentarily put his chagrin aside to judge the two novels at hand. Since I haven't read any of these three books, I can't agree or disagree with Sarvas' assessment. I was most interested, though, in the commentary by Kevin Guilfoile and John Warner. Guilfole wonders if Sarvas' description of Vida's novel as "effective if slight" is really praise at all. He goes on to say:To be fair to Mark, I'm now going well beyond what I think is either his conscious or even subconscious intention, but the "slight" business in this case strikes me as vaguely sexist as well, as though a book about a young woman literally searching for her identity, no matter how skillfully it is rendered, could live up to the grand (at least judging by physical size) ambitions of either Bolano's or Johnson's opuses.Guilfoile admits he might be reading too much into Sarvas' commentary because he loved Vida's novel so much, bit it did get me wondering: Was Sarvas correct in advancing Denis Johnson's novel because it is, in his words, the "Big Literary Book"?There's also some interesting commentary, mainly by John Warner, about how Sarvas, with the publication of his debut book, Harry, Revised, is "about to make the complicated transition from critic to novelist." A sticky (and exhilarating) situation to be in, for sure.
Edan Lepucki | 7 books mentioned 4
Tourney Time
C. Max Magee March 6, 2006 | 7 books mentioned
It's that time of year again – the time of year when various orginizations and institutions take the cue from the NCAA basketball tournament to create their own contest in which various products are placed into brackets so that, via head to head competition, the best of the best can be determined. Usually this sort of thing is reserved for beer commercials, and it's hard for anyone to pay that much attention to it, but, as they proved last year, The Morning News has taken the March Madness ripoff to a new level with its Tournament of Books. It was good fun for basketball fans and book fans alike last year and it promises to be good fun this time around to. To play along, meet the judges and download your bracket (pdf). Anyone want to start a pool?
Hilary Mantel Takes Home Her Second Booker Prize
Bring Up the Bodies author Hilary Mantel, Ladbrokes's 6/4 favorite for this year's award, has won her second Man Booker Prize in three years. This is the third time in eight years that the favorite has won the award (Wolf Hall was one of the others).
In our Most Anticipated Books post for the first half of 2012, Sonya Chung said of Bring Up the Bodies:
Those of us who gobbled up Hilary Mantel's Booker Prize-winning Wolf Hall eagerly await the release of its sequel, the ominously-titled Bring Up the Bodies. In Wolf Hall, we saw the operatic parallel rise of both Thomas Cromwell and Anne Boleyn in the court of Henry VIII. In Bring Up the Bodies, Anne's failure to produce a male heir, and Henry's eternally wandering attentions, present Cromwell with the challenge of his career: protecting the King, eliminating Anne, and preserving his own power base. How we loved to hate Anne in Wolf Hall; will her destruction at the hands of the king and his chief minister win our sympathies? If anyone can effect such a complication of emotional investment, Mantel can.
Mantel was also recently profiled by Larissa MacFarquhar for The New Yorker, and you can read multiple excerpts from her latest work online thanks to the New York Review of Books, Parade, Macmillan, and The Telegraph. Also, you can check out reviews and excerpts from the five other titles on the Booker shortlist over here.
National Book Critics Circle Award Finalists Announced
Carolyn Quimby January 22, 2019 | 7 books mentioned 2 min read
Underdog Enright Lands the 2007 Booker
C. Max Magee October 16, 2007 | 7 books mentioned
From across the pond comes word that Anne Enright has won the 2007 Booker Prize for her novel The Gathering, beating out bookies' favorite Mr. Pip by Lloyd Jones and On Chesil Beach by household name Ian McEwan. The Independent's review of The Gathering sets the scene:brings together fragments of the past, real and imagined, all filtered through the consciousness of Anne Enright's narrator, Veronica Hegarty.Veronica is a middle-aged, newly middle-class Irish mother of two, with a Tudor-redbrick-Queen-Anne house, a nice Saab and an incredibly long-suffering husband. She is endowed with vast numbers of siblings, one of whom, when the novel opens, has just walked into the sea and drowned himself in Brighton.For a second and third opinion, the Guardian offers a pair of raves from A.L. Kennedy and Adam Mars-Jones. Enright hails from Ireland and has three prior novels to her name The Wig My Father Wore, What Are You Like?, and The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch. The curious can also read an excerpt from The Gathering.How We Got Here: the longlist, the shortlist
Goon Squad Takes the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
C. Max Magee April 18, 2011 | 7 books mentioned 2
2017 National Book Critics Circle Award Winners
Editor March 15, 2018 | 7 books mentioned


Photograph album [graphic] / Albert Hatch.
Wilson, Edward L. (Edward Livingston), 1838-1903, photographer.
Album of photographs compiled and some possibly taken by Albert Hatch showing city and landscape views and family views and portraits. Photographs depict Atlantic City; Fairmount Park, including the water works and the Wissahickon Creek; Schooley family residences, landmarks, and the 1888 reunion in Luzerne County, Pa., including the residence of Joanna Schooley (West Pittston), the "Old Homestead" (Wyoming), the residence of H. N. Schooley before and after renovations in 1888, and the Schooley Breaker (Sturmerville) and Mill (Luzerne); lighthouses at Sandy Hook, N.J. and Neversink, N.Y.; and the White Mountains, N.H. Images also show the 500 block of North Twenty-Fifth Street, including Hatch's residence; the Girard Avenue Bridge and tunnel; the Old Red Bridge and Thorps Lane Bridge (Wissahickon), and "Old Smithy", a view by John Moran of a "smith" in front of his stone cabin shop in the woods. Also contains unidentified landscape views by Moran, and frontispiece photographs removed from late 1880s editions of "The Philadelphia Photographer," including views of South Africa and "The Kiosk of Isis" (Bed of Pharoah) at Philae Island.
Insert: Permission card issued to Mr. Albert Hatch, No. 577 N. 25 St. Recto contains stamps: Albert Hatch 190 Lambert St., Phila, Pa.; Albert Hatch 1616 Montgomery Ave. Verso printed: Permission has been granted to you to take Photographic Views in the Park during 1885. Good until revoked by the Committee on superintendance [use?] J. M. Dougherty, Secretary.
Contains pasted label on back cover: Howard Album. Interchangeable Cards, Scovill Mf'g Co., N. Y. Patented and Label Registered.
Photographers include George Hanmer Croughton; Lulu Farini; John Moran; and E. L. Wilson.
Several of the photographs identified from captions below the images.
Names of photographers from inscriptions below the images.
Brown leather binding stamped: Photographs.
Albert Hatch, son of Massachusetts-born, real estate broker Edward Hatch, was an amateur photographer who worked as a clerk at the U.S. Post Office from the late 1880s into the early 20th century. He was married in 1886 to Alice C. Schooley, who was from a family active in the milling and mining industry in and near Wyoming, Pa, including her brother Henry N. and Aunt Joanna. The couple had two children, including Augusta Hatch (b. 1868), who married James Kelly in 1890.
Hatch, Albert 1833-1910 -- Homes and haunts.
Schooley, Henry N. 1842-1901 -- Homes and haunts.
Schooley, Joanna b. 1823 -- Homes and haunts.
Schooley Family -- Homes and haunts.
Bridges -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Lighthouses -- New York (State).
Reunions -- Pennsylvania -- Luzerne County.


A balanced approach to openness can yield extraordinary results.
Last year was a big year for open source. As Wired put it, 2015 was the year open source software "went nuclear". More people than ever seem to realize the power of open—not just as a programming methodology, but as a better way to accomplish just about anything.
Of course, as the term "open" gains popularity, its meaning shifts. Sometimes, it shifts so much that we risk overlooking precisely what's making it incredibly important today. If you want to help your organization leverage the power of open, it may be helpful if everyone understands and appreciates what makes the open source way so special.
In my mind, something is open when it emphasizes in equal measure the qualities of sharing, collaboration, and transparency.
Sharing something (like a line of software code, your favorite recipe, or an idea) is a prerequisite for making it open. A group of people working together will always produce a better result than any one person working in isolation. To work together, groups must share their ideas, insights, suggestions, and failures.
While this may sound obvious, it's also very difficult to do, especially in an economic and cultural climate that tends to promote individual ownership and celebrate singular creators. People tend to fear that sharing will somehow diminish their own power or authority. "Why should I share," they think, "when I could benefit from controlling access to something valuable?"
Maybe they guard their recipes and only share finished dishes. Maybe they license their software restrictively or keep its source code secret. Whatever the means, people seem reluctant to share, and they worry they'll lose something by doing so.
Open source communities have taught us that this just isn't true. Sharing something often increases its value, because sharing allows more and more smart, creative people to get their hands on it. The value actually increases as you remove restrictions to sharing—if you share as much as you can with as many people as you can. That means sharing your instructions, your recipe, your source code, and opening it up to everyone, not limiting access to certain persons, groups, or "fields of endeavor," as the Open Source Initiative puts it.
But as important as sharing is, sharing alone is not enough to make something open. I've watched some people claim they're sharing simply by giving an already-finished product away for free. You sometimes see this with various open education initiatives, where content creators share courses by making them available for public consumption online. While this certainly is a nice gesture, these initiatives don't necessarily encourage or even allow others to reuse, modify, or share the materials in turn.
That's why, when it comes to being open, sharing and collaboration go hand in hand.
Openness is a surefire path to better and faster innovation. But innovation, by definition, involves change. Innovation occurs only when people feel a certain freedom to manipulate, experiment, and tinker. Something is open not only if it's shared or available, but also when it's collaborative or manipulable.
At its core, collaboration involves joint work. It's undertaking something together with the understanding that working this way will produce superior results. Collaboration also implies a certain attitude toward failure—"openness" to it, you might say. When we collaborate, we open not only our products to continual revision and refinement, but also ourselves to feedback and critique. Open source communities' ability to rapidly prototype, for example, wouldn't be possible without this spirit of collaborative openness.
When you share without collaborating, you're missing something important. It's the intent and mindset behind an act of sharing that fosters openness. Think about it this way: Are you sharing something just because you want other people to accept, embrace, or adopt it in its final form? Or are you sharing it because you're inviting them to work on it with you? To remix it? To modify, adapt, repurpose, or grow it? The content might be open in the sense that it's freely shared or distributed. But we've all seen examples where a creator's attitude is clearly closed to the possibility of others using that content as the basis for further innovation.
I call this an "attitude" specifically to point out that openness is more than a licensing issue. It's a cultural issue, something that can be rooted in an individual's mindset and an organization's DNA. People can try to make something open by sharing it widely—yet, at the same time, they can be reluctant to allow others to modify, adapt, or build on what they're sharing. They aren't "open" to that.
Yet even combining sharing and collaboration still doesn't fully capture the power of open. Transparency is essential, too.
Something is transparent when anyone can view its inner workings. In the software world, transparency is at work when people publish the source code for their programs so others can see exactly how those programs operate, then learn from them and scrutinize them for insecurities or inefficiencies. But transparency is obviously crucial outside the domain of software, too.
The open government movement, for example, emphasizes transparency of decision-making practices, the idea that everyone should be aware of the processes by which something important gets implemented or altered. So something is open if it's transparent (if everyone can see how it works, how it's put together, and how it came to be the way it is).
For this reason especially, transparency is closely related to accountability. When something is transparent, anyone can tell who's responsible for it. At Red Hat, we care deeply about accountability. In fact, it's one of our core values. Quite simply, transparency helps keep people honest. It ensures that people in an organization own their decisions and actions. And it's integral to openness because without it people don't have the knowledge they need to make the impact they're trying to make, or they're not able to fully contribute to the best of their abilities.
It's important to realize, though, that transparency doesn't guarantee much on its own. People can be utterly transparent about decisions or ideas even while they're forcing them on others. They can make their rationale clear without any inclination that they're open to changing their minds about it.
Likewise, leaders can claim to value transparency—and even act on those claims—without feeling any obligation to let it affect them. In The Open Organization, I critique the "suggestion box" approach to transparency, where leaders invite others to openly (that is, transparently) submit their comments, questions, and suggestions about ways an organization can improve. I understand and appreciate the spirit of the gesture, but nothing about it guarantees leaders will actually read, let alone act on, those suggestions.
While each of these qualities is important, none in isolation is adequate for completely encapsulating the power of open. You must consider them all collectively, as a unit. Essentially, we might say that all are necessary for openness, but none, by itself, is sufficient to create openness.
When you promote transparency in the absence of collaboration or sharing, you get a suggestion box. People are clear on what you're doing, but they aren't invited to participate in shaping what you're doing (so it's less valuable to everyone).
Sharing without transparency or collaboration is possible, too. Think of a situation where people work on software projects in secret, then "throw them over the wall" to an unsuspecting community that's completely unprepared to receive them. Not much value there, either.
And collaboration without sharing or transparency occurs when leaders invite others to work on part of a project while withholding key information about that project (maybe even the reasons they're working on the project in the first place).
I don't consider any of these situations to be truly open—and I'm honestly not sure they create the most value for anyone involved.
Open is more than a simple synonym for sharing, collaboration, and transparency. Open encompasses the power of all three forces working together in tandem.
Combined with our mindset and our actions, it yields extraordinary results.
I read your article on the qualities of sharing, collaborating, and being transparent with much interest.
One thing I've been struggling with the past few days is how the value created is shared after all the hard work of exchanging information and collaborating on a given project is successfully completed.
With that thought, I started thinking about the expectations of each member within the team that is working on a given project.
Imagine five types of individuals that may impact on the success of a project, whether it be software development or any innovation for that matter.
#1 – Employee: This person is working on the project because he was assigned it by his superior in the company, or he proposed this project and management gave him the go-ahead. He of course is a salaried employee and is in the organization chart.
#2 – Vendor employee: This is an individual from an outside company that has certain expertise that is not within the company. This expertise is only for the one specific task, so the company would rather out-source it, than try to do it all in-house. A formal agreement is written up as to what is to be achieved by him (or his company) and what the compensation is.
#3 – Freelancer: This is an individual that is self-employed. He has a certain expertise and offers it for some direct compensation or incentives.
#4 – Volunteer: He does have valued expertise, but is really not so interested in direct compensation for this project. The value to him is more indirect. It might be a general belief in the cause. It might be for his own growth and learning. It might be to build a network of collaborators with specific expertise. It might be for image, status or testimonials for a different cause. Right now, this is pretty much where I am.
#5 – Intruder: The above four are the key contributors to the project. (Although there may be more that I have missed.) All other individuals I am calling the "Intruders", as these people have no interest in the project and/or have none of the expertise required that could contribute to the project's success. They may be there for image only. If they are in the group, they could greatly weaken it. They should be politely asked out if need be.
With a clear understanding of what each member wants to gain from being part of the project (as well as what each can contribute), I think the desire to share, collaborate and be transparent will greatly be enhanced.
I'd love to have your thoughts on this.
I agree. If members of a project can be transparent with their motives for participating, and have a window into the motives of other participates, that allows a foundation from which trust and understanding can be built. If there is trust and understanding, sharing info, collaborating, being transparent, and creating value are much easier.
Sometimes I think it's about dialing up and down each type of "open" to get the right mix for the particular situation... so for example, sometimes you'll want to turn transparency and sharing way up, say, by asking all communication to happen on publicly visible places... and that could help offset having to dial down collaboration a bit (say, when you have thousands of people who want to collaborate but there are many different equally good paths you could take, and it's mostly a matter of choosing one and getting the work done).
There may be other ways to think about "open" too, like receptiveness to other ideas, or flexibility throughout the process.


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During the first three weeks the lecture Operating Systems / Systemarchitecture will take place in the evening.
From November 11, 2013 the lecture will take place in the morning.
On 02/04, the lecture will take place in the "Eiermann-Hörsaal" (room 101, bldg. 20.40). That lecture hall is in the same building as the "HS37", just one floor up.
The course "Betriebssysteme" (Operating Systems) teaches fundamental concepts in operating system design. The syllabus includes processes and threads, CPU scheduling, synchronization and deadlocks, memory management and virtual memory, as well as file systems and the management of mass storage.
Additionally to the classes there will be weekly tutorials in small groups. Either a theoretical or a practical assignment will be handed out every week. It must be turned in within 14 days. The solutions are discussed in an accompanying lecture. You must earn a tutorial certificate to pass the module. The certificate will be handed out if you earn enough points in the assignments.
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, parfois orthographié Emiko Yakumo, est une actrice japonaise née le  et morte le . Son vrai nom est .

Biographie
Emiko Yagumo a tourné dans 110 films entre 1926 et 1937.

Filmographie sélective

Années 1920

 1926 :  de Heinosuke Gosho
 1926 :  de Yasujirō Shimazu : Suzuko
 1926 :  de Heinosuke Gosho
 1926 :  de Shigeyoshi Suzuki
 1926 :  de Shigeyoshi Suzuki
 1926 :  de Heinosuke Gosho
 1926 :  de Heinosuke Gosho
 1926 :  de Shigeyoshi Suzuki et Torajirō Saitō
 1926 :  de Yasujirō Shimazu
 1926 :  de Heinosuke Gosho
 1927 :  de Hiroshi Shimizu
 1927 :  de Heinosuke Gosho
 1927 :  de Hiroshi Shimizu : Yoko Kitamura
 1927 :  de Hiroshi Shimizu : Reiko Okawa
 1927 :  de Hiroshi Shimizu
 1927 :  de Heinosuke Gosho
 1928 :  de Heinosuke Gosho : Oshizu
 1928 :  de Yoshinobu Ikeda
 1928 :  de Kiyohiko Ushihara
 1928 :  de Hōtei Nomura
 1928 :  de Kiyohiko Ushihara
 1928 :  de Kiyohiko Ushihara : Hidematsu
 1929 :  de Heinosuke Gosho
 1929 :  de Hiroshi Shimizu : Toshie Mizuno

Années 1930

 1930 :  de Yasujirō Shimazu : Ruriko Shiratori
 1930 :  de Yasujirō Shimazu : Yuriko
 1930 :  de Yasujirō Ozu : Mayumi Hashizume
 1930 :  de Hiroshi Shimizu
 1931 :  de Hiroshi Shimizu : Michiko
 1931 :  de Hōtei Nomura
 1931 :  de Yasujirō Ozu : la femme d'Okajima
 1932 :  de Heinosuke Gosho
 1932 :  de Teinosuke Kinugasa
 1932 :  de Teinosuke Kinugasa
 1933 :  de Kazunobu Shigemune
 1933 :  de Keisuke Sasaki
 1933 :  de Hōtei Nomura
 1933 :  de Kazunobu Shigemune
 1933 :  de Hōtei Nomura
 1934 :  de Yasujirō Ozu : Otaka
 1935 :  de Yoshinobu Ikeda
 1935 :  de Yoshinobu Ikeda
 1936 :  de Yasushi Sasaki
 1936 :  de Keisuke Sasaki
 1936 :  de Hiroshi Shimizu
 1936 :  de Keisuke Sasaki
 1937 :  de Seiichi Ina
 1937 :  de Yasujirō Shimazu

Notes et références

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Actrice japonaise
Actrice japonaise du muet
Naissance en août 1903
Naissance à Osaka
Décès en janvier 1979
Décès à 75 ans
Nom de scène

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and said, "I am your Lord All-Highest!"
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فَقَالَ أَنَا۠ رَبُّكُمُ ٱلۡأَعۡلَىٰ ۝٢٤
faqāla anā rabbukumu l-aʿl
Then he said, "I am your Lord, the Most High."
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'I am your supreme Lord', he said.
"I am your Rabb, the most supreme!" (Pharaoh, who had attained the ancient knowledge of the reality, chose to use this in favor of his bodily existence and bodily pursuits rather than using it to observe the comprehensiveness of consciousness upon existence, and thus fell to the state of the inciting self. This is why, rather than conveying the knowledge of the reality to him and calling him to believe in Allah, Moses warns him by calling him to believe in the 'Rabb of the worlds.' In other words, he invites him to believe in the Names, which are manifest throughout, and administer the entire existence, rather than experiencing his understanding of this unity through his corporeality.)
Torres Al Haneef (partial translation)
"'I, (Pharaoh), am your Lord, the Most High!'"
And said: I am your Lord, Most High
He said: "I am your lord supreme"
then said, "I am your top most fosterer."
Then he said, "I am your Lord, the Most High.
Faqala ana rabbukumu al-aAAla


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This module evaluates and classifies data sets into four classes regarding their suitability for different purposes of modelling. Weighting of inputs and variables can be set from the aspect of any modelling platform, as the software allows users to adjust weights (importance) according to their specific requirements.
This module collects scenario details. Scenarios are derived from societal challenges for application in models. Using a subset of models, problems are analysed which allow results to be compared. In order to do this, it is required to develop story-lines that address the challenges of adaptation and mitigation.
The model repository module provides a common interface that allows all models to be described in detail. This module was built by consolidating all of the information returned from each theme's model inventories. Those who submitted the initial details of their models will be asked to use this module to provide any missing details (which were collected by the other two themes, and but are now included here).


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Q: Why does Terraform fail to provision google_cloudfunctions_function_iam_member? While I am able to provision a single HTTP-triggered GCP cloud function and call it publicly, I can't seem to provision my second function to be called publicly as well.
I have the editor role assigned to my Terraform service account.
google_cloudfunctions_function_iam_member.v2invoker: Creating...
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│ Error: Error applying IAM policy for cloudfunctions cloudfunction "projects/myproject/locations/us-central1/functions/v2": Error setting IAM policy for cloudfunctions cloudfunction "projects/myproject/locations/us-central1/functions/v2": googleapi: Error 403: Permission 'cloudfunctions.functions.setIamPolicy' denied on resource 'projects/myproject/locations/us-central1/functions/v2' (or resource may not exist).
│
│   with google_cloudfunctions_function_iam_member.v2invoker,
│   on main.tf line 460, in resource "google_cloudfunctions_function_iam_member" "v2invoker":
│  460: resource "google_cloudfunctions_function_iam_member" "v2invoker" {

Clarification - the function resource itself is provisioned correctly, only the iam_member resource isn't.
My Terraform config:
resource "google_cloudfunctions_function" "v2" {
  name                  = "v2"
  runtime               = "nodejs12"
  available_memory_mb   = 128
  source_archive_bucket = google_storage_bucket.functions.name
  source_archive_object = google_storage_bucket_object.nodejs_functions.name
  entry_point           = "v2"

  trigger_http = true
}

resource "google_cloudfunctions_function_iam_member" "v2invoker" {
  project        = google_cloudfunctions_function.v2.project
  region         = google_cloudfunctions_function.v2.region
  cloud_function = google_cloudfunctions_function.v2.name

  role   = "roles/cloudfunctions.invoker"
  member = "allUsers"
}

output "function-v2" {
  value = google_cloudfunctions_function.v2.https_trigger_url
}

Added the terraform config for the first (successful) function:
resource "google_cloudfunctions_function" "helloWorld" {
  name                  = "helloWorld"
  runtime               = "nodejs12"
  available_memory_mb   = 128
  source_archive_bucket = google_storage_bucket.functions.name
  source_archive_object = google_storage_bucket_object.nodejs_functions.name
  entry_point           = "helloWorld"

  trigger_http = true
}

# IAM entry so all users can invoke the function
resource "google_cloudfunctions_function_iam_member" "invoker" {
  project        = google_cloudfunctions_function.helloWorld.project
  region         = google_cloudfunctions_function.helloWorld.region
  cloud_function = google_cloudfunctions_function.helloWorld.name

  role   = "roles/cloudfunctions.invoker"
  member = "allUsers"
}

output "function-helloWorld" {
  value = google_cloudfunctions_function.helloWorld.https_trigger_url
}

The current service account used by terraform is one I created with "Editor" role.

A: According to GCP IAM documentation:

Note: The Editor role contains permissions to create and delete resources for most Google Cloud services. However, it does not contain permissions to perform all actions for all services. See the section above for more information on how to check if a role has the permissions that you need.

Your editor role definitely doesn't have access to perform the cloudfunctions.functions.setIamPolicy action on the cloud function (as the error message mentions).
Assign the Cloud Functions Admin role (roles/cloudfunctions.admin) to the service account.
It should definitely have all permissions required for anything cloud function-related, including but not limited to setting IAM policies on functions.

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As the title sounds, this past Thursday, Microsoft organized an event to introduce Windows 10 to the market while making few other important announcements. Considering it's 2015 now, expectations already went high. Read further to find out what exciting projects and stuff Microsoft rolled out for this year.
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These days every single person from teenager to old-adults are so much busy in their daily routine and need something to let them know the limit of time by using countdown. As you know this is the modern age of technology and internet, you can find so many online timers which can help you to tackle with your time related problems. Just by searching on search engines such as Google you can find so many online and downloadable free timers. The confusion in this is that which one of them are Reliable timer or not.
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These Former 'Bachelor' Contestants Are "Done" With The Franchise — For Now
By Loretta Donelan
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It seems like a lot of the contestants on The Bachelor and The Bachelorette can't get enough of the franchise. Nick Viall, next season's Bachelor, has already been on on The Bachelorette twice and Bachelor in Paradise once. However, some former contestants seem totally done with the Bachelor franchise, as they've made clear through their words and actions. As fans know, each new season of a Bachelor show typically functions by picking from the previous seasons' pool of contestants. One of the frontrunners from The Bachelor often becomes the next Bachelorette and vice versa, while Bachelor in Paradise is made up of those who were on The Bachelor or The Bachelorette. Occasionally, those who don't find love on one season will even return for a later season on the same show, like Viall. But there are also people who choose not to return at all after appearing on a show.
The most obvious candidates for Bachelor retirement are those contestants who've found their life partner on the show, and thus have no reason to return, but true Bachelor fans know that these successful matches are few and far between. Others have found love after their turns on the show, expressed some kind of reservation about the franchise, or outgrown that reality TV life. The former Bachelor contestants below have said that they're not returning to the franchise, but hey, only time will tell if they're for real.
1. Jared Haibon
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Haibon appeared on Bachelor in Paradise twice, but he insisted after this summer's season that he was totally done. "As much as I would love to just do it every year hopefully I will be in a loving relationship by the next time Bachelor in Paradise airs," he told ABC News in August. "I've hit my ceiling. There's no more. No mas for Jared. This is my last one."
2. Clare Crawley
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When Crawley was sent home from Bachelor in Paradise in 2015, she made it clear she wasn't happy with the franchise. "If they would have just chosen me for The Bachelorette, I wouldn't have to be here," she said in her exit video. "I would have found my husband....This is my retirement from Bachelor in Paradise."
3. Luke Pell
Pell was a front-runner to be the next Bachelor, but he's since revealed he will not appear in future seasons. "At this point, I really don't want to go back into working on and in this franchise," Pell told Entertainment Tonight in September, mentioning that he was left with a "bitter taste in [his] mouth about the whole process."
4. Chris Bukowski
Bukowski was on five different Bachelor franchise shows, but he retired in 2015, announcing in a letter that he had become "obsessed with being on TV."
5. Kelsey Poe
Poe didn't officially retire from the franchise, but her Facebook post calling out the show's editing techniques makes it look pretty unlikely.
6. Graham Bunn
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Bunn participated in The Bachelor franchise for seven years, but he called it quits in 2015, according to US Weekly. At the time, the magazine reported that he had started dating a "a very lovely lady" that he likes "very much," and he figured that viewers had seen enough of him.
These all seem like pretty good reasons to me, but I'll believe it when the entire franchise has ended (if it ever does) and none of these alums have volunteered to participate in Senior Bachelors In Florida.


Here we have the first photo of Paul and Denny Laine taken together since Feburary 1981!, this was taken backstage at a UB40 concert on December the 8th 2007, i like seeing bridges being mended.
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Wooow! Denny is the king of musicians I'd love to see Paul working with, great performer, big names and so much talent and history behind them! Mates from the british invasion days!
That's great! And I hope Denny's getting a nice big paycheck from "The McCartney Years" DVD.


JENNI: I began singing at the ripe age of 3 with my identical twin sister Amanda Jo, the guys in the band, Aaron and Josh, also got started very early. We were raised very religiously and sang our first time on stage in church. I feel like I was born to sing. Since I can remember, I have begged my mother to let me sing. My twin and I participated in many musical groups growing up and started with greater gresham kids choir from 3-12 years old. Then, choirs ensemble groups and eventually, our first band, a punk skaw mashup with live horns called "Lucky Pond". We would endeavour in a barber shop quartet in our late teens and "Acoustic Minds" came to fruition in 2001. It was just a trio of voices and acoustic guitars. Many years later, in 2010, is when we linked with Aaron and Josh and it was not until 2012 that we started pushing for a more eclectic sound. We wanted big bass, synths and a more EDM dance vibe, but still wanted to incorporate our songwriting and soulful vocals into these new eclectic songs.
JENNI: This song was inspired by a young man named Devonte Hart. He was photographed at a protest rally in Portland after the Ferguson incident occurred. Having known the Hart family for years in the tight family music community in Portland, we were very touched by this family, especially Devonte. Here was this 12 year old with the biggest heart and hopes for the world. Understanding from a young age his role in this big world, wanting nothing, but to share love and spread hope and light to all who crossed his path. He oozed positivity and love for mankind. He was the direct inspiration for this song and music video idea.
JENNI: The band was rehearsing at Aaron's for a TV performance coming up later that month in December of last year. We were feeling good about the rehearsal and decided to write something near the end. The song came very quickly, Aaron on piano, humming some melodies, and me hearing the hook and writing furiously on my iphone lyrics that were jumping onto the page. We knew after about 20 minutes we had something very special. I remember saying to Aaron and my sis Amanda : "Let's write something darker like Sia would, with a sprinkle of light and hope." We all laughed, but in the end, it really does sound like something Sia would sing, and that is something we are very proud of.
JOSH: You can expect our music to be different, that is for sure. With four people putting in input, it leads for things to be very diverse. We all have different styles, but similar tastes in music. We strive to make something that has not been heard before, while maintaining a sense of familiarity for the listener. We realized we cannot make the most abstract music known to man and expect the masses to enjoy it. All the while, we hope that the listener can relate with our lyrics. We are just like everyone else, we just want to share and speak about our feelings.
JENNI: Well, three of us were born and raised in Portland since Joshy is a transplant, although we do not hold it against him! The music scene in Portland is very eclectic. On any given night, you can hear rock, country, folk, bluegrass, metal and what are calling our sound as soul/womp or soul-tronic. On any giver night, you can cruise downtown, whether that is for a dance party in Chinatown, a rock show in SW, or some yummy food in SE. Portland has so much to offer, there are fun themed parties all around. Plus, if you are into nature or outdoors events, we have several park concerts and larger music events, like MusicfestNW, the Blues Festival, Rose Festival, The Brewfest, The Bite of Oregon. The Band likes to have dinner parties, like a lot!! Which includes good food, company and music. We tend to lay low when we are not performing so these get togethers are a nice way to unwind, catch up with pals and most fo the time get pretty rowdy.
JENNI: I think the music business is somewhat of a rat race to be heard. If you make the right connections or are in the right place at the right time, I truly believe anything is possible. But without those connections, you can feel a bit sidelined not knowing how far your music is being felt and if the music will ever be heard by the masses.
AMANDA: Many judgements and loss of many close friends are the main cons since this business can be brutal and it takes a toll on your relationships and spirit, as most of us have heard "it is lonely on the top". This is very true for the music in general. You have a lot of connections in life and you should hold on to them as best as you can, but in all fairness, being a musician is like an extreme sport. Only the strong survive and talent, hard work and determination do not always land where you want to go.
AMANDA: Staying true to the music and trying to have each others back no matter what.
JOSH: Social media is a love/hate kind of relationship, It is great for being able to reach a huge amount of people from a laptop or a phone. It is nice to be able to spread our music all around the world in minutes. On the other end, it is exhausting. Keeping up with the current trends and competition is really hard. Constantly posting to keep people engaged, having what seems like huge amounts of support one minute, then feeling completely alone the next. It really is a complicated situation. We try not to fall victim to getting attached to the ideas of being socially "accepted/famous", but when you are forced to constantly check up on likes and comments, looking for the next follower, posting selfies is really complicated. Funny thing, we are in the process of writing a song about this.
JOSH: Over the time, we have collected a very large amount of stock pile of music. This is a very relevant topic for every art its. Singles? Albums? It is really hard to decide on how to handle this. On one end, singles are fun and you get the immediate gratification of feedback. On the other end, albums are extremely rewarding as well. it feels good to create a congruent piece of work that reflects how we have felt over the years. It will forever be a balance of both, but ultimately, we are really excited for the day that we release our next full length album.
JENNI: Beyonce! That is easy! She is a huge inspiration and I admire her tenacity as a woman in the industry, taking care of her own and being relevant and demanding her voice to be heard. She steps out of the norm every single record and brings something new and hyphy to her songs. If it was not her, it would be Sia. I have been inspired by Sia since 2001, when she first started. I heard her perform in Portland at the Roseland with Zero 7. She was young and so powerful, but we instantly knew she was a star. Fast forward 15 years later and she is taking over the industry with her badass songs. I feel like she pushes the envelop and brings the unique vocal changes that the world needs and loves to hear!
JOSH: There is definitely a fine line here. It is very important for us to pay attention to being current or trendy. That is the nature of the business. We fear that if we do not pay attention to this, we will not be successful. After all, this is a business whether we like it or not. At the same time, it is something we enjoy to forget as well. This is our passion, our love and our blood and tears. It will always be most important to stay true to ourselves. None of us would be doing this is we could not do or create what we want. All in all, it is all about balance.
JOSH: Putting all my eggs into the basket of music and having them all break. I am afraid of being left without anymore eggs. But at this point, it is all worth it and I will continue to push on.
JENNI: not being heard. That all this music and hard work will not pay off. I know in my heart of hearts, this music deserves a larger platform, but that does not mean doors automatically open for anyone. It is a fine line of pumping yourself up and hoping in the end the music speaks for itself.
AMANDA: Booking a 10 week tour across the U.S. and completing it without wanting to come home. We toured through 36 states and played 80 shows in 10 weeks. It was hard and the music we performed touched so many, it was incredible to play a different city every night and it was exhausting as well. It is a huge country and traveling it by truck you realize you need some days in between to make it to each city with enough time to get to the gig. it took 6 months to book it, but in the end, we made connections for life with the artists and fans we met along the way. Also, we are really proud of us for changing our genre and not giving up on each other in the process. There are so many vultures out there that want a piece of you, of your music and of your spirit. To be able to create music with people that want the best for the overall is priceless.
JENNI: To be heard and to get our music out there and see how it affects the world and to be relevant. It would also be to strive to surpass my dreams and passions, and at the end of the day, to be able to pay the bills while doing so. It is such a pay off to move other people with our music, that is really what we do this for.
1) Continuing to learn about our music and try to stand out as something different and unique.
2) Keeping good attitude while going through the ups and downs of the industry.
3) Absorbing as much inspiration from everything possible. Paying attention in life and thinking deeply about feelings, relationships, politics, the world, the environment and what it means to be human.


Luke and Lindsey had a great Day 1 at our worksite.
and appreciative if our help.
All of the work we are doing is on the exterior of the house.
We are finishing up some vinyl siding and installing soffets.
and problem solving obstacles that came up along the way.
ourselves doing things we didn't know we could do.
day on the worksite and at the ASP center.
We will check in again at the end of Day 2.


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