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"From the journal of a German Socialist worker": selected chapters from Anton Drexler's 1919 political testament
In the autumn of 1918 Karl Harrer, a sports journalist for the right-leaning newspaper Münchner-Augsburger Abendzeitung, was charged by the Thule Society with forming a völkisch 'Thule Workers' Ring' among the proletariat – part of a wider plan to win workers for nationalism and undermine the socialist forces then dominant within Bavarian politics. Attending a public meeting at Munich's Wagner Hall on 2 October, Harrer was struck by a speech given by a laborer named Anton Drexler (then-head of the Munich branch of the Free Workers' Committee for a Just Peace) calling upon bourgeois and workers to "unite!" Although Drexler's speech was greeted with hostility by the crowd, Harrer saw in it opportunity; he approached Drexler with the offer to assist in forming a 'Political Workers' Circle' to help spread their shared ideas among Drexler's laborer contacts. Drexler, who had attempted in vain to do this himself in the past (both as a prior, dissatisfied Fatherland Party member, and via his own Free Committee), was intrigued by the offer, and so the Political Workers' Circle was formed. By 5 January 1919 the Circle had evolved into the German Workers' Party (Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, DAP), an independent political organization with its own written Guidelines as its conceptual basis. To help propagandize for the new Party and to provide greater intellectual weight to its fairly sparse and unsatisfactory Guidelines, Drexler published a political pamphlet sometime between May and September 1919. Drexler's My Political Awakening: From the Journal of a German Socialist Worker is, like Hitler's later Mein Kampf, a mixture of personal biography and ideological worldview, providing an introduction both to Drexler as a person and to the substance of his National Socialist philosophy. Several selected chapters of Drexler's brochure are provided below as an example, translated by myself from an original 1920 2nd edition. Although this series is called 'National Socialists Before Hitler', and Hitler joined the DAP on 19 October 1919, the content of the 1920 edition does still technically qualify as being "before Hitler". Unlike the later 1923 3rd edition, which was substantially rewritten, the 2nd edition's text is identical to that of the 1919 original, apart from the addition of a second foreword and the rather telling removal of Drexler's original dedication to Harrer as "the founder of the German Workers' Party". The pamphlet's strong focus on workers' issues and on the inadequacies of mainstream (Marxist) socialism are very typical of early National Socialist writing, as is Drexler's positioning of himself as a dissident voice within the broader socialist workers' movement.
My Political Awakening:
From the Journal of a German Socialist Worker
(Selected Chapters)
Written in 1919 by Railway Toolmaker Anton Drexler,
Founder & 2nd Chairman of the German Workers' Party (Bavaria)
Foreword to the First Edition
I must begin by saying that the ideas I have laid down here are purely political as well as trade-unionist in nature, and that with this document I am not presenting myself to the public as a fellow combatant in the World War; I was busy instead with my battleground on the home front. Many a workmate has told me, "it's a pity about me that I'm in the wrong place, that I could accomplish a lot more in the circle of the socialist working-class." Sometimes a feeling comes over me as though these people were right, as if I really have to incorporate my socialist mindset entirely into Social-Democracy. And only with severe internal struggles have I remained loyal to my National Socialism,1 for which I am now grateful to Fate. To portray the storms that surged around me on my lonesome island in the midst of the workers' sea, to communicate the experiences that I have been able to gain in political matters to the working-classes and to every productive worker – that is the purpose of this document. No excuses should be made to my colleagues, I haven't the slightest reason to make them, but I want to make it understandable to them that my political opinion, which is so isolated among workers, has arisen only from concern over the existence of the German worker.
Neither pettiness, nor ambition, nor the idealism of the money-purse have brought me to my political position. As a "neutral" standing outside the fence of the political parties – that is, without having previously absorbed a party catechism myself – I have studied domestic political life and activity, and not without also dedicating my primary focus to matters of foreign-policy.
Allowing themselves to be enveloped in the 'internationalism' of the workers' leaders and pacifists of enemy countries – this myopia on the part of the German workers' leaders and other party men in their assessment of enemy war aims has led Germany and the German working class to where it is today.
As the only Munich worker who was not deceived by the intentions of England and America and who therefore publicly advocated for the attainment of a 'just peace', I not only have the right but also feel I have the obligation within myself to apprise the public of my experiences and impressions since my 'political awakening', all the more so as I also became acquainted with the 'secret powers' that made it possible for our governments, as well as many party leaders to – for the most part unconsciously – work directly for the interests of our destroyers.
I. Interest in Politics
In order to make clear to the reader the development of my political thinking and feeling, I must go back a little. I hope I do not bore him.
I did not concern myself with politics before the War (until say 1910) beyond the normal degree that is customary among thinking workers. Because I was put out of work at age 18 in Berlin by trade unionist terror and almost stumbled onto the unseemly pavement of the big city (as a result of my unemployment I had to make do by playing the zither in a coffeehouse at night), I had a certain resentment against all organizations; for that "if you do not want to be my brother, then…" attitude has left a bad impression in me towards the concept of collegiality.
Under these circumstances it would also be understandable if I had studied few trade unionist newspapers until my 25th birthday. Yes, in reading the daily papers I was interested in scarcely more than staircase and streetcar accidents, in the death and wedding announcements. In a word: I was like most German workers. I had no interest in political world affairs and hence logically no experience.
From the age of 25 I came into a different social environment; I also got to know foreigners. And as happens quite often in these circles, people occupied themselves with discussions about the military capabilities of different countries. There was in particular a friendly, dignified Frenchman, with whom I later became good friends, who already in 1911 was reporting on his countrymen's artillery armaments and was already always saying: France is preparing itself for war with Germany. Since I was just as good a German as my friend was a Frenchman, my interest grew in events outside our national borders. In a short time I was in general only interested in the title pages and the daily papers' latest dispatches, and presently I also realized what chauvinism is and recognized by degrees that the Frenchman had not just been 'blowing smoke' ['aufgeschnitten']. Eventually the incessant compliments and 'servitude' towards England aroused my suspicions, and day by day I saw more and more how the political horizon over Germany darkened. Bethmann-Hollweg's proposed neutrality treaty with England in 1911 confirmed to me that Germany did not feel secure.2 In the meantime, I had developed a perspective on the general world political situation such that I was not even surprised by the English rejection of the offer. When in 1912 the Wehrbeitrag3 was introduced as the German answer to the English rebuff, I realized where we stood. The masses likewise felt that something was in the air. One could already hear in the establishments frequented by the 'Volk': "It can't go on this way, a war must come, otherwise one will gobble up the other." And it was workers in particular who made these remarks. What I think about these utterances today will be discussed later.
XII. World Freemasonry, Workers, and Jews
[At a public meeting towards the end of the Great War…] In the course of the evening a Herr Professor Jaffee (the famous peace talks leader from Switzerland) also came forward as speaker. He, who later became Finance Minister and a candidate of the USPD, recommended the election of Auer instead of Eisner and said, among much deliberate or unintentional nonsense: "The German Volk have to choose between war and peace. War, if we want to retain the House of Hohenzollern; peace, if we demand the abdication of Wilhelm II and the Crown Prince." He displayed an unlimited confidence in Wilson, who would provide the German Volk with a just peace. Did Herr Jaffee speak as a German or as an internationalist? Did he pursue German interests or the 'Jewish ideal' (the pursuit of a capitalist world republic) with these assertions, which have now turned out to be a swindle? Today I am of the conviction that he too belongs to those who consciously and unconsciously became the gravediggers of Germany.4
The expression "gravedigger" originates from a man who himself stands under great suspicion of having been in the forge where pick and spade were sharpened for this grisly business.5
On November 3, 1918, Eisner delivered in the overcrowded Löwenbräukeller, as he himself said: "not an election speech, because I do not believe that it will yet come to an election", but a political "enlightenment (?) speech". He (Eisner) said he certainly knew that when the German Volk takes its destiny into its own hands it receives a peace of rights and justice. Wilson and the Entente were fighting only against Prussian militarism and the autocracy in Germany, not against the German Volk. If the Entente wanted to dictate a forced peace [Gewaltfrieden] against us, he (Eisner) would be the last to tolerate it. In such a circumstance even he would grab a rifle and prefer to die afield rather than perish in poverty and misery. If that were the case, yes, then he too (Eisner) would be for national defense.
Recognizing the danger in such words, one man let out a concerned cry for his Fatherland and his Volk from his deeply-moved German breast. That cry was simply: "Wait and see." Many in the closely-packed hall shot electrified out of their chairs and began looking for the presumptuous fellow, perhaps seeking to lynch him. Eisner, who was well aware what this "waiting" would mean for his cause, shouted out to the heckler with a liveliness such as nobody had so far witnessed in him that evening: "There is nothing now to wait for, now is the time to act." Under the proclamation "when the hour has come, then I call upon the Volk" Eisner 'acted' and made history four days later. He liberated the proletariat from their "monarchical shackles", broke the backbone of the frontline forces and the home front, and delivered over the entire German Volk to the extermination and enslavement of international capitalism.
How could Eisner, the great friend of the people [Volksfreund] as he called himself, the wise and prophetic leader of the proletariat, miscalculate so? How could he, pursuing a utopian idea (the hope of a proletarian world revolution) and not realizing that he was playing into the hands of the capitalist world republic, wreck a country of 70 million people for the sake of a brief period of self-rule? Should he and his Jewish comrades not have been aware of this? Did they, too, embrace the pan-Jewish [alljüdisch] Masonic ideal of "the abolition of all temporal and spiritual thrones" in order to make Mammon-princes and money-barons into the sole rulers of the world? Was Eisner also indebted to international Freemasonry on the great world stage? But enough questions, the answer is "Yes." Whether Eisner and all those so-called workers' leaders have promoted the establishment of a purely materialistic world order through abuse of the 'socialist idea' consciously or unconsciously, out of pure 'idealism' or out of fastidiousness and personal ambition, we are in any event faced with the sorry fact that "workers and all who produce" will in short order be exposed to the most ruthless exploitation by international capitalism.
There is mounting evidence also that 'sacred Bolshevism' and the Spartacist liberation of the slaves are being organized and nourished by international capital.
Regardless of whether the worker is caught in the net of the majority-party,6 the USPD, or the KPD, he is always led solely by a global political central office, and that means: "the capitalist, or in other words golden, international."
It is also interesting to examine 'Bolshevism' in Russia based on these connections. It means nothing other than the "eradication of the middle-class" – who are denoted with the catchword 'bourgeois' – by the lowest strata of society. But gradually the 'dictatorship of the proletariat' has become a dictatorship over the proletariat. Trotskyism, which ruthlessly slaughtered the Russian petite-bourgeoisie and middle-classes – while the real big capitalists in most cases escaped – was followed by Leninism. At the end of April 1919 the Russian Workers' and Soldiers' Soviet passed a resolution in which Lenin demanded: "The bourgeois officials in the factories are guaranteed a high salary. Increased discipline for the working people, introduction of piece-work and the Taylor system. Wages to be adjusted according to factory performance."7
Already in March 1919 Lenin had called upon the 'intellectuals' and on big business to return and assist in the building of 'socialist' Russia, while Trotsky and his accomplices neither are nor were proletarians. Has it ever been the case that a real worker has stood at the head of a council-dictatorship? Have Jews (who are very rarely manual workers) not consistently held the leading positions in the various Soviet republics? Were they not all Jews, those who encouraged the non-Jewish proletariat (there is no Jewish proletariat in Germany) to engage in a terrible bloodshed – socialist against socialist, Christian against Christian, bourgeois against bourgeois? Why did they not call upon their own religious- and racial-comrades to defend the threatened freedom? Where were all the loudmouths who had claimed they would defend the cause of the proletariat "to the last breath"? They had crept away into cupboards and other hiding places, but not within the hut of the proletariat, no; instead of all places they had hidden themselves away in the finest houses of the filthy rich, while the honest worker was bleeding to death for a pipe dream that these people had put into his head.
Do you still not see, poor deceived worker, that your supposed greatest friends are in fact your mortal enemies? That the international capitalists and their henchmen are indifferent as to whether the sea of blood becomes an ocean, whether the mountain of corpses becomes a mountain-range? That they are the ones who keep the class-, culture-, and socialist-struggles perpetually alive in order to hinder the alliance of all producers [Schaffenden], who alone could wrest global domination from international capitalism? The worker should have at last realized this, that the Revolution was not made from below, but from above; that it was made not for his liberation, but for his enslavement; that with it all world events only boil down to the erection of the "Dictatorship of Gold" over labor. 300 Rathenaus desired to rule over all productive mankind.
XIII. Exploiter and Exploited
Destruction of the middle-classes through the worker. That is the goal of the 'golden international', which stands in intimate fellowship with Jewry.
If you still do not understand that, worker, if you still remain under the spell of your party rhetoric, then there is no longer any salvation for you. You must now rouse yourself to accomplish an act of liberation; if you are in agreement, you are strong. You must find the bridge to the bourgeoisie, because workers and soldiers, burghers and peasants all have only one common enemy, the capitalist Jews and their hangers-on. There is a rallying cry that brings you all together, and that is: "Socialism and communism in the spirit of Christ, the most outstanding character in world history."
Only Christian socialism will give you the strength to emerge victorious in the struggle against materialist-Talmudic world-hegemony. We all have to come to the realization: "So long as there are people who pursue politics for the purpose of personal ambition and to seek out vast fortunes (that is, materialistic politics), then ideologues and idealists, scoundrels [Lumpen] and criminals will all be abused again and again by the super-materialists standing above everything." In relation to this, a poem about our modern parliamentarians by our bold Munich poet Dietrich Eckart may be quoted:
How pitiful all that is,
The whole haze of lies and deceit!
It nods to one and waves to one
And everyone thinks: "You scoundrel, you!"
And everyone thinks: "You shiftless loafer!"
And feels: "Others think this, too."
Engaging them all one after the other
Salomon clasps their hands
And leaves them immensely pleased –
Dear Fatherland, may you be at peace.
Nothing is more justified as this satirical poem, nothing is more topical than the anti-Semitism which speaks from this poem, and every day and every hour these sentiments are reinforced in us through practical experience. Every non-Jew has the moral obligation to be an opponent of the Jews [Judengegner] so long as he is aware of just one decision passed by the Central Association of the 'German Citizens of the Jewish Faith' in their General Assembly at the end of February 1911: "Our representatives should organize themselves within the political parties and seek to gain such influence over their political parties that they only nominate those candidates who fully guarantee to provide for parliamentary activity against anti-Semitism." By "anti-Semites" we understand them to mean all those who recognize the corrosive Jewish influence on our national life [Volksleben], all those who fight against it, and all those who resist against the economic strangulation of Jewry! According to this Jewish definition of the term "anti-Semite", is there anything else wiser and more noble than an "anti-Semite"? And then there is the devotion of the socialist worker to his Jewish leaders! He believes in these people, who in many cases live according to a moral law and religious creed (although they usually pretend to be freethinkers) in which it is written:
"All Gentiles are to be ruined!"
"God has given the Jews power over the possessions and blood of all nations."
–Seph. Jp. 92 1. 25. Jalk. Schim. etc.8
They may yet be honest advocates of socialism, recognizing that the Talmud and its disciples are the mortal enemies of true socialism.
German worker, what say you about the remarks of the Jew Montefiore (who together with Cremieux founded the Alliance Israélite) which he made at the 'Sanhedrin', the international High Council of Jewry at Krakow, in 1849? "What nonsense you babble! As long as we do not have the press in our hands, everything that we do is in vain; we have to have influence over the newspapers of the entire world in order to deceive and to sedate the masses [die Völker]."9
Does the worker now grasp why the Jews played themselves up as the benefactors of labor with their founding of socialist newspapers? But of course the idea is still incomprehensible to the average worker that the Jews have misused and defiled socialism, that they have stupefied the workers themselves through their press, which today is 90% Jewish-funded. Perhaps the worker will understand better if I allow a distinguished modern scholar to speak via his paper 'The United Front of the Money Powers'. Professor Dr. E. Jung writes: "This in itself so unnatural alliance of supra-national money-power with the seducers of the working-class perhaps finds its most astonishing expression in the present-day cooperation of the Berliner Tageblatt, the Frankfurter Zeitung, and the Vorwärts against a total German victory; that alliance of the German workers' representatives with the Western plutocratic powers which, according to social-democratic testimony, represent the harshest capitalism in the world."10
Thus poor, hounded worker, everywhere that you look – betrayal, betrayal of yourself, betrayal of your homeland and the entire German Volk. With you the Revolution was made, not to give you freedom, but to provide sole power to money.
With you the Revolution has been made into an unprecedented movement for wages which has brought you nothing, but which has filled the pockets of those who have exploited you until now and has destroyed Germany's competitive position and reduced millions of German workers to emigrants. In this way you are intended to become the cultural fertilizer for Western big business [westliche Großkapital].
XVI. The International
The reader will now understand why even the most honest socialist leaders are powerless. And indeed, that is because they do not have leadership in their hands. It actually helps here that there has been no reformation, no rebuilding, and also no "shake-up of root and branch", as the [social-democratic] party convention had promised. At this point it all must be thoroughly dismantled and new ground for a new foundation must be secured. Temple [i.e. Jewish] 'socialism' was built on mud; we must establish it anew on solid rock at a height that is unreachable by false priests and Pharisees, for we know that they will never travel upon a steep and stony path which can only be traversed through the sweat of one's brow, for they are averse to any self-sacrifice and have no 'head for heights'. Only with the firm determination to tear ourselves free from the present leadership is it possible to make true socialism a reality. And true socialism will also bring 'all producers' to the International, will bring salvation to a hate-filled and tormented humanity. Why could the Proletarian International not become a reality? Only because it was, after all, never intended sincerely, because the proletariat was only the means to control the whole world with Jewish money and the Jewish press. If the Proletarian International had been cultivated with sincerity then the dauntless workers' leaders in these difficult days for Volk and homeland, who for years had preached the concept of the International, who since 9 November had been crying out nothing else other than "The world revolution is marching," – they should now have encouraged those workers who had been made into internationalists to position themselves upon the Rhine (without weapons) and to call out to the comrades on the other side: "Well, brothers, make complete your betrayal and break through this wall of workers, then we will know that the International is lost forever."
Not the slightest attempt towards this was made, and that is because a feeling for the German comrades had actually arisen within the French working-class, as we know today from foreign, non-capitalist newspapers. Not only the French, but also the Irish, Egyptians, and Indians had demanded their "right of self-determination"; they were waiting only on the steadfastness of the German people. All the leaders of the International had to do to eliminate the 'German danger' forever was to drug the German working-class with 'internationalism'. The consciously false theories and hopes that they planted in the working-class and that they never actually wanted to realize have thrust 65 million people into the abyss. All other peoples already languished in the clutches of world capitalism under their capitalist democracies; it was only in Germany, where there was a common understanding between middle-class and labor, that the capitalist world republic was threatened with its greatest risk of destruction through the German Revolution. Thanks to their magnificent organization they were able to shape Germany at their discretion; they have succeeded masterfully. But capitalist internationalism does not yet have the most outrageous dictated peace in world history completely entrenched. Already radical socialists are beginning to recognize the betrayal. Once they have been fully enlightened about everything then they will, in league with all of Germandom, speak a language that will ring harshly in the ears of the 'Israeli Volk' (along with their puppets). "Out of Germany, out of all parties, out of all countries! Off to your homeland Palestine," or, "World-tyrant, you will be crushed."
My ideas do not originate from newspapers or pamphlets, but have emerged from my own experience and from exhaustive study of academic works. But in order to prevent any misunderstandings (since I know the worker's soul well), I am not interested in seeking out or taking on any position, because I cannot mix business and politics. I am content if the warnings laid out in this document are heeded, are trusted, and the necessary conclusions are drawn from them. Working humanity, open your eyes and act on what you have witnessed, otherwise it will go on happening to you forever, and you will remain what you have always been hitherto – 'cheap goods' for super-capitalists and their accomplices and parasites.
Translator's Notes
1. Drexler writes this as National-Sozialismus rather than Nationalsozialismus, the latter of which later became the standard spelling within the NSDAP as National Socialism developed into a more coherent popular ideology. The difference between the two is crucial. The separation of the two terms by hyphen makes it much clearer that Drexler is talking about a national form of socialism, particularly as he is directly contrasting it with Social-Democracy; the inference is that there is some form of relationship between the two. The Sudeten and Austrian National Socialists similarly separated the two terms, as did certain members of the Hitlerian party – usually the economic 'radicals' such as Otto Strasser or Count Reventlow.
2. A reference to Anglo-German negotiations which occurred under Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg's Chancellorship from 1911-12. Germany was hoping to secure a state of détente with Great Britain. The terms would involve Germany accepting Britain's naval superiority and reducing its own naval expansion, in return for which the UK would not interfere in Germany's colonial expansion and would stay neutral in the event of Germany becoming involved in a continental war in which it was not the aggressor. The talks were unsuccessful in large part due to disagreements over exactly how Germany would scale back its naval construction.
3. The Wehrbeitrag ('military contribution') was introduced by Chancellor Bethmann-Hollweg and approved by the Bundesrat (upper house) in 1913. It was an imperial tax intended as a one-off toll on higher wealth and income in order to finance the expansion of the armed forces and military infrastructure.
4. Edgar Jaffee (sometimes spelled Jaffé) was a prominent economics professor who served as Minister of Finance under Eisner's revolutionary government from 1918-1919. Drexler is mistaken about Jaffee being Swiss; he in fact came from a Hamburg Jewish merchant family, and had considerable wealth due to his involvement in his family's cotton business before becoming an academic (he was married to Baroness Else von Richthofen). 'Auer' refers to Erhard Auer, a Majority Social-Democrat and reformist-socialist who was regarded as Kurt Eisner's more moderate rival. Despite this rivalry Auer served as Minister of the Interior in the government of Eisner's 'Free State of Bavaria'.
5. In the 1923 3rd edition of My Political Awakening Drexler clarifies that he is referring to German-National politician Karl Helfferich here. Helfferich had served as Vice Chancellor and Minister of the Interior under Chancellor Bethmann-Hollweg, and was Secretary of the Treasury during the War. It is interesting that Drexler regards him as one of Germany's "gravediggers", despite also acknowledging Helfferich as the originator of the phrase "gravediggers of Germany." After the War Helfferich became one of the Reichstag's most bitter and vocal nationalist opponents of the Weimar Republic; his anti-Semitic polemics and denunciations of Walther Rathenau and Matthias Erzberger saw him leveled with blame for their assassinations in 1921 and 1922.
6. In April 1917 the Social-Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) split over the party's support for the war, with the anti-war faction forming the Independent Social-Democratic Party of Germany (USPD) and the larger, pro-war faction becoming known as the Majority Social-Democratic Party of Germany (MSPD). The split had deeper ideological ramifications beyond just socialist support for the war effort – MSPD members tended more towards a reformist, state-oriented party supportive of certain liberal institutions (such as parliament), while the USPD retained a more overtly radical, class-struggle orientation and favored replacement of parliament with a revolutionary council-system. The KPD is, of course, the Communist Party of Germany.
7. Drexler here is referring to Lenin's report 'The Immediate Tasks of the Soviet Government', first published in Pravda on 28 April 1918. Lenin's report was approved by the Central Committee of the Russian Communist Party and presented to the Soviet government (the "Workers' and Soldiers' Soviet", as Drexler puts it) for ratification. Drexler is paraphrasing segments of Lenin's report rather than making an exact quotation, but his summation of Lenin's points here is not inaccurate, in my opinion.
8. These are references to Rabbinic or Talmudic sources – I could not discover what 'Seph. Jp.' refers to, but 'Jalk. Schim.' is an abbreviation of Yalkut Shimoni (or 'Jalkut Shimoni'), a compliation of commentaries on Jewish scripture which dates back to the medieval era. The Yalkut Shimoni is not yet available in an English translation, and the only German translation is still a work-in-progress and only available in print, so I was not able to check the veracity of Drexler's quotations. In looking into them I found that these quotes still frequently show up on anti-Semitic websites or in anti-Semitic publications; they have an enduring life of their own, regardless of how accurate they might or might not be.
9. Moses Montefiore was a British-Jewish banker and philanthropist who worked as an international advocate for Jewish rights. His French-Jewish friend Adolphe Crémieux was a prominent national politician and activist for French Jews. The Alliance Israélite Universelle was founded by Crémieux to advocate for Jews on the world stage, growing directly out of the combined work of the two men.
10. Erich Jung was a völkisch lawyer and legal philosopher who, by way of the Pan-Germans and the Deutschvölkischer Schutz- und Trutzbund, ended up a member of the NSDAP. The Berliner Tageblatt and Frankfurter Zeitung were two of the most highly-circulated bourgeois, left-liberal newspapers. The Vorwärts was the central party newspaper of the Social-Democrats.
Translated from Anton Drexler's Mein politisches Erwachen: Aus dem Tagebuch eines deutschen sozialistischen Arbeiters, 2nd ed. (1920), Deutscher Volksverlag.
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Waking Nightmares: A Conversation with Jordan Peele
By Andrew Chan
On Film / Interviews — Feb 23, 2017
With his goofy charisma and unerring gift for impersonation, Jordan Peele has spent his past half-decade as a rising comedy star lampooning various strands of contemporary American culture, most notably in his Emmy Award–winning series Key & Peele, which ran on Comedy Central from 2012 to 2015. The fleet-footed satire that earned the show its cult following takes on a starker, more urgent tone in Peele's directorial debut feature, Get Out, a humor-laced foray into horror that wields the tools of the genre to expose racism lurking at the edges of polite, everyday interactions. Weaving together a vast network of societal ills, from racial profiling and cultural appropriation to the legacy of eugenics, the film follows a young African-American photographer named Chris (Daniel Kaluuya) on an anxiety-ridden weekend getaway with his white girlfriend (Allison Williams) to meet her parents in Upstate New York, a trip that—despite the family's proudly flaunted liberal bona fides—takes a turn for the macabre. For a comedian best known for his loveable portrayals of President Obama, Get Out is a startling departure, one whose candid reckoning with our decidedly not postracial moment feels right on time.
A few days before the film's opening, which enjoyed enormous box-office success this weekend, Peele spoke with me about his cinematic influences (several of which are screening in a series he programmed at Brooklyn's BAMcinématek, running through March 1), the fine line between comedy and horror, and his undying love for Rosemary's Baby.
One of the tricks you pull off in both your comedy work and in Get Out is creating a sense of moral discomfort in white viewers while also letting them in on the joke. How conscious are you about striking that balance?
It was important to me that I make a movie for all audiences and that I didn't pick and choose who the movie was for. That being said, I did know that black audiences and people from other disenfranchised groups would pick up on what's going on in the story differently from white audiences. The film isn't meant to alienate white viewers so much as let them see this experience that we've been living through. I started working on the film about eight years ago, and the point was to make us engage with some of the issues we've been neglecting, like the disproportionate incarceration of black men. When I started shooting the movie, in this new moment of increased wokeness, I added a few scenes, including the opening, which alludes to Trayvon Martin with a scenario of a black man walking fearfully through a white neighborhood.
Of course this creates discomfort. I've heard white viewers react somewhat more vocally to certain seemingly innocent interactions, like the scene where an older white guy goes up to Chris and says, "I know Tiger [Woods]." You can hear a sense of recognition from white audiences, like Oh my God, I've done that. I wanted to give the audience the perspective of being hyperaware of race, which is something that, as a black man, you're often accused of.
And just as you're putting us all in the shoes of this black male character navigating a white space, you also capture the fear that white liberals feel of being perceived as racist. How did you decide on that as one of the subjects of your satire?
I wanted the movie to reflect the racism that exists in all of us, so it seemed right to take a look at those who protest too much, as opposed to the easier target of red-state whites who are stereotypically supposed to be racist. It also made the movie tougher to conceptualize, and therefore more fun. I love movies that expose the darker sides of seemingly harmless places and people. That's why I love The Stepford Wives, which reveals the underbelly of this idyllic setting. And in Rosemary's Baby, Sidney Blackmer and Ruth Gordon are villains while also being so quirky and cute and flamboyant. They consistently disarm you, and you can understand why Rosemary would doubt her instincts, which tell her that something sinister is going on.
You've spoken a lot about your love of Rosemary's Baby. How did you discover that film, and how deeply did it influence Get Out?
I was probably eleven when I first saw it. I remember my mother told me about the phenomenon of the Ira Levin book and how everyone in New York in the early seventies was carrying it around. Rosemary's Baby is probably my favorite film. If you can try doing yourself the service of imagining that you don't know where it's going, the movie plays so buttery good. And the visuals are so iconic, and I just adore the world of the movie. It makes me feel nostalgic, because I grew up a couple blocks from the Dakota, on the Upper West Side, where the movie was shot. It's where John Lennon was killed, so it's a building with a lot of dark history.
There were so many little things that I got from Rosemary's Baby. It begins with [sings the creepy music that plays over the opening credits], which showed me that the way to start a horror movie is to give people a hint of where it's going to go. Even if you move away from that menacing tone for a bit, people know it's coming back. There's also a party sequence in Get Out that pays homage to the Japanese character who turns up at the end of Rosemary's Baby. It's a scary turn in that film because when you see that guy, you realize this is not just a group of run-of-the-mill, Upper West Side devil worshippers. It's an international cult.
My mother told me the thing that makes this movie so great is that it may be the only movie that captures the feeling of being pregnant—the insecurity, the fear, the paranoia, the feeling when someone tells you, "Oh, that's just the chemicals and the hormones." That feeling of being placated. It's a film about gender; it's about men making decisions about women's bodies behind their backs.
Ruth Gordon and Sidney Blackmer in Rosemary's Baby
And both Rosemary's Baby and Get Out are about the anxiety that comes when something intrinsic to your identity, that you have no control over, is the very thing that's used to keep you in constant jeopardy.
Exactly. And at the same time, those are the things that give the characters their distinct intuition. Their identities help them navigate those worlds. Rosemary uses her instincts as a new mother to protect herself and her child. On a subtle level, her personality and point of view are helping her out. And it's the same with Chris. His blackness is what allows him to perceive that something sinister is going on.
The tone in this movie is so tricky. Did you find it hard to combine horror and comedy?
Yes, that was the biggest challenge with this film. I knew what the plot would be, but the real question was tone. The subject is too serious to do a parody, but if the film is too heavy, then it would be no fun at all and audiences would be pissed. I set myself the goal of doing a thriller in the mold of Rosemary's Baby and The Stepford Wives, something with an overarching satirical commentary. But I also wanted to have a release valve, which I created with the character of Rod [a TSA officer played by Lil Rel Howery], Chris's friend. He's very funny, but he's not telling jokes. He's a realistic character, saying things that many people in the audience might already be shouting out at the screen. That was something I borrowed from Scream, which is an example of a full-on thriller that has a more grounded sense of reality than what we typically see in horror movies.
You also get a lot of comedic mileage out of just cutting against the grain of our preconceived notions. I'm reminded of one of my favorite Key & Peele sketches, in which two black audience members in a movie theater start heckling, using film-school lingo and dropping mentions of Dogme 95 and Nosferatu.
In comedy, you get this sixth sense about where the audience is and how they'll respond. And you develop a sense of where the laughs will come and how a joke should be timed. That sketch centers on a technique that we used often throughout Key & Peele, and I used a lot in this movie too. Anytime you can predict what the audience is assuming, you can subvert that. In Get Out, there's a moment at the end where the entire audience gasps. I won't spoil it, but basically you think you know what's going to happen, and then we end up going in a different direction. Just within that moment, the movie is teaching the audience what their preconceived notions are. It forces them to ask why their minds went there, and why something rings true. That's a powerful thing. When you have a theater full of people who come from different backgrounds, and you can get everyone to laugh together at the same time, or get scared at the same time, that's a shared experience. So moving forward, when you're finally getting into what the movie is really about, everyone's starting from the same place. That's one of the transformative powers of storytelling.
Andrew Chan is web editor at the Criterion Collection. He is a frequent contributor to Film Comment and 4Columns.
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Stock Insight
10 best performing stocks in the S&P/TSX Composite index
It has been a troubled year for Canadian stocks, with only 87 stocks of the 250 in the index in the green
Ruth Saldanha 2 January, 2019 | 6:00PM
The S&P/TSX Composite Index fell over 10% in 2018, almost 13% on a price return basis. Fewer than 15 stocks in the S&P/TSX 60 closed the year in the green. Of the total of 250 stocks in the Composite index, less than 90 were in the green.
2019 is unlikely to be much better, as some portfolio managers expect challenges to continue.
"We're underweight Canada because of some of the short-term challenges that you alluded to. Some of them have to do with trade, some of them have to do with the dislocation in the energy sector right now and shrinking manufacturing base. So, we just don't see the growth in Canada that we see in other areas", says Ian Riach, senior vice president and portfolio manager of multi-asset solutions at Franklin Templeton Investments.
Despite the volatility of 2018, some stocks managed to give positive returns. Here is a look at the 10 that fared best in 2018 on a total return basis according to Morningstar Direct data.
Name Ticker Total 1-yr Return (%) Industry MStar Rating
Nevsun Resources NSU 94.44 Industrial Metals & Minerals -
Kirkland Lake Gold KL 79.40 Gold -
Oceana Gold Corp OGC 50.44 Gold -
MEG Energy Corp MEG 48.05 Oil & Gas E&P ***
SSR Mining Inc SSRM 45.17 Gold -
Canada Goose Holdings Inc GOOS 43.69 Apparel Manufacturing -
Shopify Inc A SHOP 43.20 Software - Application ***
Great Canadian Gaming Corp GC 41.34 Gambling -
Cameco Corp CCO 31.87 Industrial Metals & Minerals ****
Canopy Growth Corp WEED 25.25 Drug Manufacturers - Specialty & Generic -
Data as of 12/31/2018. Source: Morningstar Direct
The top-performing fund of the year is Vancouver-based Nevsun Resources (NSU), which was up close to 100% in 2018. In the last week of the year, Chinese firm Zijin Mining announced that it would acquire Nevsun at $6 per share, in a deal valued at around $1.86 billion. Earlier in the year, Nevsun had rejected a bid by Toronto-based Lundin Mining Group.
Of the stocks covered by Morningstar analysts, the top performer was Alberta-based MEG Energy Corp (MEG), which was up close to 50% in 2018. However, the stock is likely to be affected negatively by the Alberta-government's planned production cuts, says Morningstar senior equity analyst Joe Gemino, who reduced his fair value estimate for the stock to $7.
"The production cuts are short-term and we see them as a bridge to boost heavy oil prices until pipeline expansion projects are placed into service. We think this move benefits producers who have limited pipeline commitments, such as Cenovus Energy, while hampering producers, who are planning to bring on production during 2019, such as MEG Energy and Suncor Energy," he said.
On Dec. 2, Alberta Premier Rachel Notley announced production cuts of 325 thousand barrels per day of crude oil and bitumen in Alberta. The cuts become effective Jan. 1, 2019 and extend throughout 2019.
Of the top performers, only one is rated 4-stars, indicating that the stock is undervalued. The stock is Cameco (CCO), one of the world's largest Uranium producers and miners. "Amid production cuts, falling producer inventories, and the construction of new reactors, the uranium supply and demand balance will continue to improve, and low-cost producer Cameco remains well positioned for the ongoing uranium market recovery," notes Morningstar equity analyst Kristoffer Inton.
He pegs the stock's fair value at $25.50 per share, and says that the shares look undervalued as the uranium price recovery remains in early stages.
He notes that Cameco warns that long-term contracting has not returned in meaningful quantities, leaving prices too low to restart any production. In addition, a number of financial investors who've acquired uranium as an investment during the downturn will still need to unload their inventory, which will probably weigh on the spot market's recovery for some time. While the ongoing recovery has yet to hit long-term prices and thus Cameco's contracts, more attractive market conditions are yet to come, says Inton.
Securities Mentioned in Article
Cameco Corp 11.60 CAD -0.17
Canada Goose Holdings Inc 45.00 CAD 0.20
Canopy Growth Corp 32.57 CAD 2.84
Great Canadian Gaming Corp 42.97 CAD 1.13
Kirkland Lake Gold Ltd 56.78 CAD -1.41
MEG Energy Corp 7.59 CAD -4.41
OceanaGold Corp 2.45 CAD 0.41
Shopify Inc A 594.57 CAD 1.07
SSR Mining Inc 17.71 USD -0.56
Ruth Saldanha Ruth Saldanha is Senior Editor at Morningstar.ca


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Nobody wants to start a new season off on the wrong foot, but it happens every year. Even though most teams have only played around twelve or so games, below are some batters who haven't gotten out of the gate quickly in 2011. Pitchers (especially starters) haven't had that many appearances yet; we'll track them in a separate column later on.
Michihiro Ogasawara (Yomiuri Giants): His early slash line (AVG/OBP/SLG) reads .128/.209/.154, and Guts has struck out 11 times with only five hits in 30 at-bats. He has tallied only a single extra base hit this season (a double), scored only 2 runs, and has 1 RBI on his ledger. Is age (37) catching up to the normally consistent hitter?
Kazuhiro Wada (Chunichi Dragons): Last year's CL MVP is at .143/.326/.171 so far. His 5-for-35 is poor, but his 10 walks are keeping his OBP respectable. He has only struck out 3 times, so he still has good pitch recognition. Like Ogasawara, he's getting up there in years (38), so age may again be a factor. If you want to see someone move slowly in the outfield, he's your guy. At the plate, however, I'd expect him to break out soon.
Rusty Ryal (Yomiuri Giants): Currently at .161/.188/.194. The newcomer has whiffed 13 times, gone hitless with men in scoring position, and earned a single walk. We'll soon see if he's just slow in adjusting to a new league, or is somewhat of a strikeout machine as his past numbers suggest (eight walks and 67 Ks in 222 plate appearances in 2010 at the MLB level).
Joel Guzman (Chunichi Dragons): Not to pick on the Dragons or the Giants, but here's another new face who is off to a brutal start. .167/.186/.262 is Guzman's early line. He leads the Central League in strikeouts (19), but is the only one of the players mentioned so far who has hit a home run (1). He's only 26 years old, so could it be that he's just not much of a hitter. The Dragons are the 5th franchise (US and Japan) Guzman has played for since 2006.
Yasuyuki Kataoka (Seibu Lions): Kataoka's team is off to as slow of a start (4-8) as he is. His .146 average (.146/.226/.188) is the lowest in the Pacific League for any regular player. After last year's .295 batting average with 59 stolen bases, I expected he would duplicate or come close to matching those results. So far, he's off the pace. Kataoka is hitting .091 with runners in scoring position and has only swiped two bases. Not getting on base very often will have that effect.
Seung-Yeop Lee (ORIX Buffaloes): The once-feared slugger is at .163/.229/.302 over 48 plate appearances, so far. He hit .163 last season in 108 at bats with Yomiuri. Once a productive hitter known for some prodigious blasts, talk of a jump to the major leagues has all but evaporated. His 21 strikeouts are tops in NPB, and his career appears to be in serious decline. ORIX batters haven't performed well in general to this point in the season, but Lee has been especially poor.


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Modernizing the American Soldier through Synthetic Training
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Brig. Gen. William R. Glaser, the director of the Synthetic Training Environment (STE) Cross Functional Team, spoke about modernizing the American Soldier through training during a Warriors Corner presentation on Oct. 12 at the annual Association of the United States Army's conference in Washington, D.C.
"The U.S. Army is at an inflection point and in a state of persistent modernization," said Glaser. "Here at the STE, we're not updating weapons systems, we're attempting to update and improve Soldier performance on the battlefield through training."
As one of the eight Cross Functional Teams assigned to the Army Futures Command, the Synthetic Training Environment is furthering the development of several signature modernization efforts to propel the Army's collective training environment into the future.
"For the last 20 years, our competitors have been watching everything we've been doing on the battlefield, and they've been changing as well," he said. "The legacy training systems that we've had in the past have been excellent at providing top-end training events."
He stated that they weren't easy to use and that more efficient training technologies will allow for more "sets and reps" in the crawl and walk phases so that Soldiers come in at a much higher state of readiness as they enter the live training environment.
"We have great leaders in the United States Army, but they don't have an ample amount of time," Glaser said. "So, the STE's idea of being easy to use is going to be able to leverage some of these big data sets."
The STE has to be able to use artificial learning, machine learning, and artificial intelligence so it can all facilitate an after action review once training is complete.
Glaser says delivering training at the point-of-need is crucial. This is happening with the Reconfigurable Virtual Collective Trainer (RVCT), using embedded and/or appended training capabilities, allowing tank crews to train in a synthetic or virtual environment in their assigned combat vehicles.
"My vision of point-of-need training is when a leader shows up to the motor pool, conducts command maintenance in the morning, grabs lunch, and returns to the motor pool, gets in their vehicle, puts on their AR goggles, flips a switch in their vehicle from operational to training, and is instantly immersed into a synthetic environment where they can train precision gunner skills or collective training with their platoon or company," Glaser said.
None of this is going to happen immediately, Glaser cautioned. It will take time, money, and technology.
"This is where I'd ask for some help," Glaser said. "We need incremental improvement capability over time. Many evolutions over the short term that will result in revolutionary capability over the long term. I need to understand what are the improvements that can be made today that will create revolutionary improvements tomorrow."
Written by Nate Snook, STE Public Affairs
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Timbaland discusses his drug addiction and depression in new interview
by Daniel Johnson
Super-Producer Timbaland Photo Credit: Timbaland Photo Source: Timbaland's personal website www.timbalandmusic.com
One of the most luminous music producers of his generation, Timbaland opened up in a recent interview with Rolling Stone about a particularly rough bout of depression and drug addiction he had after he started taking Oxycontin in his thirties to deal with a gunshot wound he suffered as a teen. Oxycontin is an opioid, which makes it a controlled substance. It is to be used as prescribed and when there is a need for round the clock treatment of pain.
Oxycontin is noted for its high risk of addiction and dependence, and can cause respiratory distress or death when taken in high doses or combined with alcohol or other substances. Timbaland describes respiratory distress and a near-death experience in the interview: "All I can tell you is that there was a light.. .I woke up trying to catch my breath, like I was underwater. But through that whole thing I saw life – I saw where I would be if I don't change, and where I could be if I did… But I thought about Michael Jackson… I didn't want to be old and taking these pills."
During the time that Timbaland was taking Oxycontin, he experienced major life failures, his marriage started to falter and his music did not have the kind of success which defines his career. He recalls sleeping all day and battling with his perception of his self-worth, and he says that Jay-Z at one point told him to not do any more interviews because he was "saying crazy shit."
Timbaland says that he was inspired to speak out about his experiences due to the high profile deaths of Prince and Chris Cornell, a long time collaborator of his. The producer also notes that the landscape of who makes music has undergone a kind of shift from the drug sellers making the music to the drug users making the music, which the producer says is an important point for the hip-hop community to understand as it relates to the prevalence of depression and self-medication within it.
If depression can affect a person of Timbaland's stature and accomplishments, it can affect anyone. And sometimes self-care is not enough to combat the effects that it can have on the psyche. Having friends who will reach out and check on you is vital. Timbaland had Swizz Beats and Pharrell in his corner, popping in to make sure he was okay. Therapy is a great help, although it has traditionally been difficult for Black and working-class people to afford and find.
Living with depression is a community affair, and it is my hope that everyone who is currently experiencing it can find and receive the help they need to manage it.
Culture, Depression, entertainment, mental health, Music, Oxycontin, pills, Prince, Timbaland


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Yiling Chen, Stephen Chong, Ian A. Kash, Tal Moran, and Salil Vadhan. 2013. "Truthful mechanisms for agents that value privacy." In Proceedings of the fourteenth ACM conference on Electronic commerce, Pp. 215-232. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA: ACM. DOI
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Recent work has constructed economic mechanisms that are both truthful and differentially private. In these mechanisms, privacy is treated separately from the truthfulness; it is not incorporated in players' utility functions (and doing so has been shown to lead to non-truthfulness in some cases). In this work, we propose a new, general way of modelling privacy in players' utility functions. Specifically, we only assume that if an outcome o has the property that any report of player i would have led to o with approximately the same probability, then o has small privacy cost to player i. We give three mechanisms that are truthful with respect to our modelling of privacy: for an election between two candidates, for a discrete version of the facility location problem, and for a general social choice problem with discrete utilities (via a VCG-like mechanism). As the number n of players increases, the social welfare achieved by our mechanisms approaches optimal (as a fraction of n).
Acknowledgements: This paper was supported, in part, by Google Inc., Microsoft Research Silicon Valley, and Stanford University.
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The Last Marriage of Space and Time: Image List
Earth Science, Ecstatic Camouflage, The Last Marriage of Space and Time
The Last Marriage of Space and Time
Daniel Chamberlin
Marfa Book Company
August 28 – September 18, 2015
The Last Marriage of Space and Time is a new body of work from Marfa-based artist Daniel Chamberlin. Chamberlin's collaged photographs of crystals and minerals are paired with text taken from J.G. Ballard's The Crystal World (1966), including a line from Percy Bysshe Shelley's Adonais, as quoted in the novel. The Crystal World is set in the riverside jungles of Gabon, and sits among Ballard's natural disaster/apocalypse novels – see also: The Wind From Nowhere (1961), The Drowned World (1962) and The Drought (1964). It tells the story of a doctor traveling to a remote leper colony while contending with an environmental catastrophe in which life on Earth seems to be slowly succumbing to mass crystallization.
Chamberlin's works feature language from the novel, and take inspiration from the designs of William Morris, the text-based work of Ed Ruscha, and the back patch textiles of the metal and punk communities. The wall hangings are printed on linen-cotton canvas; the typeface is Cloister Black, a font that originates in the early 1900s, but was adopted in the '80s and onward by metal bands such as Bathory and Nails.
Prints are on linen-cotton canvas in unlimited edition. Available from Marfa Book Company for $200. Various sizes, approximately 38 x 56 inches. Inquire with MBCo for specific dimensions.
Email: marfabookcompany@gmail.com
15 Apple Magicians by Seven Feathers Rainwater
Earth Science, Flora, Photography, Riparian
15 Apple Magicians
by Seven Feathers Rainwater
released 08 January 2011
Artwork by Daniel Chamberlin. Written, recorded, and mixed by Seven
Feathers Rainwater. Mastered by Michael Biggs. Contributing Musicians:
Stag Hare, Andy Cvar, & Parker Yates.
Seven Feathers Rainwater: Seth Pulver, Nate Simonsen, Taylor Christensen.
Digital: http://sevenfeathersrainwater.bandcamp.com/album/15-apple-magicians
Vinyl: http://site.moondialrecords.com/
Shooting Clouds – Davis Mountains, Texas – 16 April 2010
Earth Science, Mountains, Sky, Texas
On location in the Davis Mountains of Far West Texas with filmmaker Jennifer Lane and David Hollander.
Jennifer Lane's new film, CLOUDS, is screening this Thursday, May 6th, at 9:30 pm under the stars at El Cosmico as part of the Marfa Film Festival.
CLOUDS (8 minutes) is a meditation on the water cycle of planet Earth, with lots of images of our beautiful and unique far West Texas cloud formations.
Check out the festival website for more details
http://marfafilmfestival.org/2010/films/
Tickets are available at the door.
The Sodfather – Altadena, CA – August 2007
Earth Science, Flora, Photography, Writing
Tim Dundon is California's self-proclaimed "Guru of Doo Doo," a visionary compost wizard living in a tropical forest that lies between Los Angeles and the San Gabriel Mountains in the unincorporated community of Altadena. I profiled Dundon — an extremely knowledgeable, endlessly charming and slightly paranoid man — for the December 2007 issue of Arthur Magazine. "The Sodfather" ran with absolutely gorgeous photography by Eden Batki — the above photos are my own.
The original version of the story can be found on the Arthur Magazine website. An earlier draft of the story that includes extra material regarding Dundon's paranoid fantasies regarding the Illuminati, the Moonies, et al, can be found after the jump.
A mountain is a living thing
Earth Science, Flora, Mountains
The National Film Board of Canada was founded in 1939 in part as a way to distribute World War II propaganda throughout the Great White North, but went on to become a bastion for experimental animation, "socially relevant documentaries" and other film projects "which provoke discussion and debate on subjects of interest to Canadian audiences and foreign markets." In particular the NFB is known for producing some of the dreamiest nature documentaries of modern times — it's where Boards of Canada got their name and a lot of their soft-focus naturalist vibes. And now the NFB has started posting their library of films online.
A lot of these docs are wordless montages of natural imagery accompanied by droning Eno/Tangerine Dream-style synthesizer soundtracks — our favorite so far is William Canning's 26-minute short Temples of Time (1971), described by the NFB as follows:
A mountain is a living thing; it has an ecological balance, a process of evolution manifested in slow, subtle ways; but it is also subject to the ravages of human intervention. Filmed in the Canadian Rockies and in Garibaldi Park, this picture brings to the screen magnificent footage of mountain solitudes and the wildlife found there, of natural splendor in all its changing moods. The film carries the implicit warning that all this may pass away if people do not seek to preserve it.
Hook your computer up to your stereo for the full effect of Edward Kalehoff's warbling synth drone soundtrack. Who needs to figure out the whole new digital TV upgrade chip whatever thing when we've got this treasure trove to explore? More to come …
Note: I've cross-posted over at the Arthur Magazine blog along with the embedded video.
Re-Ups: Trona
Earth Science, Photography
Images from several older posts about Trona, Mt. Islip and the Cleveland National Forest disappeared awhile back. I'm in the process now of revising and re-uploading. First up, "Diamonds in the Rough," a story I wrote for the LA Weekly back in 2004. Read it here.
Businessweek: There Will Be Water
Deserts, Earth Science
(The last of the archival stuff from my soon-to-evaporate Uber blogs. This one's from June 12 of 2008.)
Oh isn't it lovely for Businessweek to show us what green entrepreneurship is really probably gonna look like. A voracious corporate raider buying up Texas water rights and building wind farms. Then using his lobbyist pals to create autonomous utility companies that get to try and exercise control Houston's water supply. A future Lord of Thunderdome, as it were.
Read on in Businessweek.
About Into The Green
Words and images by Muncie, IN-based artist and writer
Daniel Chamberlin. Into The Green header lettering by Arik Roper.
Chamberlin is also the host of Inter-Dimensional Music, a weekly broadcast of "heavy mellow, kosmische slop, and void contemplation tactics," heard since 2010 on Marfa Public Radio in Far West Texas and 99.1FM WQRT Indianapolis. His creative practice combines visual art, installation, performance, and audio with mindfulness teaching based on the radical implications of yoga and Zen. His visual art is concerned with uncovering the transcendent and psychedelic aspects of otherwise mundane objects and experiences.
He was previously a resident student at the Indianapolis Zen Center; communications director for Texas arts nonprofit Ballroom Marfa; medic (NREMT-B) with Marfa Emergency Medical Services; contributing editor at Arthur Magazine; and editor-in-chief of URB Magazine. He is a 2017 graduate of Exalt Yoga's 80-hour Yin yoga teacher training program, and holds a BA in psychology and film studies from Indiana University.
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The Negative Effects of Forcing Western Culture on Other Countries When Marketing Products
By Billy Max
Examples of Questionable Marketing Ethics
What Is Considered Illegal Marketing in Other Countries?
Marketing Blunders & Global Culture
Globalization's Impact in Advertising
The Negative Effects of Women's Advertisements
Globalization, particularly through information and communication technologies, has greatly influenced the marketing of products from the West to the rest of the world. Western culture, identified with Europe and North America, is deeply ingrained in business marketing around the world today. However, people in other countries may not be comfortable with certain marketing strategies laced with Western culture. This creates a challenge for businesses, with the potential risk of a drop in sales or outright boycott of their products and services in these countries.
Customer Disconnect
Businesses that use the one-size-fits-all approach to marketing their products abroad, particularly marketing styles and activities that borrow heavily from the Western culture, risk disconnecting from potential customers. The problem is that the message or product may be perceived as insensitive or offensive to the local culture, and the net effect is less profitability for your business or, in extreme cases, an outright ban from operating in the country. Successful business marketing requires that you brand your message appropriately, offer acceptable products and meet the needs of local customers while respecting their values.
Perceived Local Product Inferiority
Business marketing demands that you package your message to directly imply your product is superior to the competition. However, whereas it is normal in the United States to mention your competitor in an ad and state how your product is better, this message may come across as demeaning the local products. Western-designed marketing messages may wrongly be perceived to mean "If it isn't American, it's inferior" to the chagrin of your potential customers. This inadvertently can be assumed to be another case of forcing Western culture on the country, and may cost your business dearly.
Promoting Moral Decadence
To many conservative societies, Western marketing comes off as compromising the moral principles or values that guide youth behavior, especially with such products as music, video games and film. Some countries collectively subscribe to cultural and/or religious beliefs that they hold in high esteem. Marketing messages and activities influence society as a whole, and it is crucial that the eventual relationship between buyer and seller remains ethical. Most countries believe in sustaining their belief system, and because the youth are the most vulnerable to foreign influence, business decisions should place greater recognition to ethical considerations.
Unintended Offense and Backlash
Symbols, images and messages in your marketing campaign that may be considered dissident to the native country's way of life could prompt hostile reactions and backlash, negatively affecting sales. Fashion provides a good example: Marketing clothing considered chic in Western culture might not be received warmly in conservative foreign cultures. Some countries forbid women from exposing their hair and faces, and an ad for beauty products for ladies that includes a model perceived as immodest will offend the local audience.
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Events Announcements TIO Concert Tour: Khalil Fong To Perform In Malaysia In March 2020
TIO Concert Tour: Khalil Fong To Perform In Malaysia In March 2020
Update (13th February):
Khalil Fong's concert has been postponed to 16th May 2020.
Original story follows:
Khalil Fong (方大同) is set to bring his "TIO Concert Tour" (方大同TIO灵心之子巡迴演唱会) to Malaysia next year.
Mark your calendars music lovers cause the Hong Kong-based American singer-songwriter will be performing at Resorts World Genting in March 2020. The last time local fans saw him live was back in 2012.
Source: ESPLANADE
Since his debut in 2005, Fong has released 9 studio albums and 5 live albums. Throughout his career, the artist has also picked up numerous awards including Best Male Vocalist at the 28th Golden Melody Awards.
If you've been to Fong's show before then you'll know that his performances are a fusion of Asian and Western influences. During his concert in Singapore earlier in February, Fong explained that because he's usually quiet and introverted, he tends to wear something bold and loud to balance things out.
No doubt when the performer returns to Malaysia, fans will get to hear a mixture of familiar favourites mixed with some new material.
Brought to you by MIC Entertainment Group, the details to Khalil Fong's "TIO Concert Tour" in Malaysia are as follows:
Date: 7th March 2020 (Saturday) – Postponed to 16th May 2020*
Venue: Arena of Stars, Resorts World Genting
Ticketing: TBA
Stay tuned to this space for more info.
Khalil Fong
Khalil Fong Malaysia
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Don't leave your pets behind when you travel to Grand Teton National Park. More and more travelers are bringing their pets with them, and many lodging properties recognize this unique niche. If you're traveling with pets, discover Grand Teton Wyoming Pet Friendly Hotels and lodging options here. Ask each lodging property about their pet policy before you book.
Your pet will feel at home with a variety of accommodations in Grand Teton National Park ranging from tent or RV camping to lakeside cabins you'll love even more than Fido.


Liverpool forward Sadio Mane has been named the PFA Fans' Player of the Month for March.
Gordon Taylor will leave his role as Professional Footballers' Association (PFA) chief executive after an upcoming review of the union's operations, it has been announced.
Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp has attributed Mohamed Salah's slow start to the new season to the after effects of his shoulder injury.
World Champion N'Golo Kante has today extended his stay at Stamford Bridge by signing a new five-year contract worth £300k per week.
The Disciplinary Committee of FIFA on Friday sanctioned the President of the Palestinian Football Association (PFA), Jibril Rajoub, with a 12-month match suspension and a fine of CHF 20,000.
Investors on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) lost N2.49 trillion or 15.64 per cent between January and July, a development experts attribute to the political uncertainty in the country.
Spain's players "have no doubts" about David de Gea after his error during their opening World Cup match against Portugal, says manager Fernando Hierro.
FIFA opens disciplinary proceedings against Palestinian FA president Jibril Rajoub for urging fans to burn photos of Lionel Messi.
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Running around his grandparents garden on a crisp yet sunny November's day.
Out in his grandparents garden again after his Sunday dinner. He was watching the birdies flying onto the roof of the house. I love his toadstool jumper.
Lying on the living room floor almost falling asleep. I've never seen him so tired, he had to go to bed an hour early!
Laughing at Daddy whilst we were getting our picture taken. I love his face here and how he's tilting his head back, he's so Hollywood.
Sleeping peacefully after a lovely day with his Nana and no nap.
Those curls, I love how long they're getting now. Immersed in the TV after having his dinner.
Swinging in the garden, it's been such a long time since he's been on it. He looks so grown up here, you'd never think he was only 21 months old.
I love my boy, I can't believe he's going to be two so soon.
at 30 November
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Oh my gosh, he is far too adorable! My favorite is the last picture; where did you get his pants?! I love them!
Ow, he is so adorable !
I love Curly children :-)
awww such a lovely cuty pictures Best memories of you life <3
Gorgeous pictures! You have a beautiful child.
Helena Oops 1 December 2014 at 20:23
Alexandra Ioana 1 December 2014 at 21:13
Love the pic of you 2. You're very much alike :D
Coline T. 9 December 2014 at 14:21
Really cute pictures ♥
Erika Seol 21 December 2014 at 14:06
Wow, Your child so handsome and he's very smart, I like cute child ♥♥ ^^~~!!
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CITRIS Day was held on November 1st at the newly-opened UC Santa Cruz Silicon Valley Campus in Santa Clara, where invitees discussed the theme of "The Future of Technology in the Interest of Society." More than 70 representatives of industry, academia, international institutions, and government agencies were in attendance.
This highly-interactive event featured expert panels on the trajectory of technology innovations, their potential to improve quality of life, and the business opportunities they might create in the U.S. and abroad. Presentations included cutting-edge work coming out of CITRIS research groups framed against the meta-trends of connectivity, urbanization, climate change, and global demographic shifts.
The panelists and audience took part in animated debates about how these technologies might shape smarter, more sustainable cities; new paradigms for healthy aging; and automation of agriculture and transportation. The overarching question for the day was how academia and industry can best collaborate to address these complex challenges and opportunities.
The panels included CITRIS and the Banatao Institute's distinguished faculty, entrepreneurs, public sector leaders, and corporate partners. A showcase of active projects and CITRIS research assets capped off the afternoon, followed by a lively networking event for the participants.
Several interesting ideas were seeded at this exciting forum, and we are actively working to implement the highest-impact collaborations with our current and new partners. Learn more about the CITRIS Membership Program and access to upcoming member events including CITRIS Day.
The founder of Building Robotics presents at CITRIS Day 2016.
The interactive project display for the CITRIS Invention Lab.
Moderator and Sustainable Infrastructures Initiative Director, David Culler, leads a panel discussion to a full audience during CITRIS Day.
This year's CITRIS Day, The Future of Technology in the Interest of Society, was held in the newly built UCSC Silicon Valley Campus in Santa Clara.


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The total bet window allows you to increase or decrease your wager accordingly.
When you are happy with your wager you must hit the 'spin' button to set the reels in motion.
In the Fantastic Fireworks slot you can trigger 8 free spins. You must also keep an eye out for the sparkler symbol as this could add extra bonus rounds. Every 10 that land you will be rewarded 4 free spins!
As well as looking good and adding to the impressive gameplay, you can also be set for more winning combinations and multipliers. To activate, you must fill up the rocket meter then you will get 6 different cannons and you must pick 3 of them to reveal cash prizes.
Another one of the interesting features, is the exploding symbol in Fantastic Fireworks slot. They can form a chain reaction across the reels, when chains of 4 or 5 appear then can explode to add more wins. The exploding symbols can then persist and also clone to carry on the winning reaction.
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Action buttons can be configured to generate several different types of actions:
To make it easy for your prospects and customer to share a board with their colleagues, set an action button the the "Share" action. The customer will then be prompted to enter the email address of their colleagues. The Share action will be recorded in the Pulse table.
1. Get Visitor Email – If a known visitor clicks this button, they will see a message saying, "Thanks, we will get in touch with you shortly."
If an anonymous visitor clicks this button, they will first be prompted to enter an email address. This is a helpful way to get contact information from unknown prospects.
2. Send a Message – Clicking this Call to Action (CTA) allows the user to compose an email message to the person in charge of the board. If the visitor is anonymous, she will be prompted to enter an email address.
3. Open a URL – Clicking this CTA takes the viewer to a different web page, either in a new tab (recommended) or in the same tab. Say your board is inviting viewers to a webinar. Your action button could then link to a registration page where they can RSVP.
4. Form – Clicking this CTA opens a form prompting the visitor to enter information such as name, email, company, and more. Visitors are always required to enter their names and email, but the other fields can be set as required, optional, or hidden.
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Apply for your FSA ID. Use your FSA ID to access your personal records and electronically sign federal student aid documents. If you are a dependent student a parent must also obtain a FSA ID to provide their signature on the financial aid application.
Complete the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) and always provide an e-mail account.
Watch your e-mail for your Student Aid Report (SAR).
Contact us, if you need more help.
When combined with free scholarship and other financial aid opportunities, grants can significantly decrease, if not completely cover, your financial needs. Unlike loans, grants do not need to be repaid. Unlike federal work-study there is no labor involved. When you submit a Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA), you are automatically considered for government need-based grants.
CAP Grant: The College Access Program (CAP) grants are awarded to Kentucky residents enrolled in at least six semester hours (half time). To qualify for a CAP Grant, the total Expected Family Contribution (EFC) toward your educational expenses cannot exceed $6,195. CAP Grants are awarded on a first come, first serve basis. You may login to KHEAA and view your account to see if you received the CAP grant or any additional state scholarships. You are not required to pay back a CAP grant.
FSEOG Grant: A Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grant (FSEOG) is for undergraduates with the lowest Expected Family Contribution (EFC). You are not required to pay back an FSEOG after you graduate. Not every eligible student will receive an FSEOG. Students at Big Sandy Community and Technical College will be awarded an FSEOG based on availability of funds.
Based on your financial need, the Federal College Work-Study Program can provide you a job, allowing you to earn money to help pay education expenses. The program encourages community service work and work related to your course of study whenever possible. Most work-study jobs are on-campus, but some jobs are located in private nonprofit organizations or public agencies.
Federal loans are the largest source of student loans available and with more favorable terms than private loans; therefore, you should try to obtain federal loans before private when ever possible.
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Here are all the Components for Rocket Propelled Tortoise CMS - UI

## Install

Via Composer

``` bash
$ composer require rocket/ui
```

## Modules

### Assets
Asset management simplified, integrates with `script`

### Forms
Create form fields easily with a clean and fluid syntax

### Foundation
All views and scripts for the UI Base

### Script
Enqueue javascript to put at the end of the page

### Table
An elegant table helper

### Taxonomy
Taxonomy edition UI

## Testing

``` bash
$ phpunit
```

## Contributing

Please see [CONTRIBUTING](https://github.com/rocket/ui/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md) for details.

## Credits

- [Stéphane Goetz](https://github.com/onigoetz)
- [All Contributors](https://github.com/RocketPropelledTortoise/:package_name/contributors)

## License

The MIT License (MIT). Please see [License File](https://github.com/rocket/ui/blob/master/LICENSE.md) for more information.

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Directed by Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin, the 2018 documentary follows rock climber Alex Honnold's death-defying ascent of El Capitan – a 3,000 foot high vertical rock in Yosemite National Park – with no ropes or safety gear.
'Free Solo' has received glowing reviews from critics, with an outstanding 98% positive rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
To date the film has grossed a record-breaking $17.2 million at the box office. It has received 15 awards and 43 nominations, including Best Documentary Feature at the Academy Awards (to be announced 24 February).
'Free Solo' will be shown on National Geographic in the region in spring 2019.


In the heat of the moment, many opportunists don't count on hidden cameras. And in most cases, they want to take the path of least resistance. Meaning no violence or shots fired, cash quickly surrendered, and a smooth getaway. But the problems with opportunist crime lay in the variables. The things they can't know. Such as if there happen to be witnesses, or a nearby patrol car, or even the presence of simple preventative crime measures like hidden cameras.
They didn't count on Millennium Fire & Security to be guarding this property.
Within a couple of hours, the police had a photo of the of the man who removed his mask. And with the help of the local community, John Doe was arrested before the day was over.
Just the presence of cameras can serve as a deterrent for crime. Even for opportunists, who will likely avoid the business alerting them of "hidden cameras on premises," in favor of a less secured target. And many insurance companies will even lower premiums for business owners who invest in a security system.
So, whether you own a small business, a large business, or something somewhere in-between, there are many benefits to investing in your security.
Every door, every window, even skylights, and don't forget the hidden cameras. Millennium Fire & Security has your back.


With vineyards to the east of Saint-Émilion itself, this chateau has produced a structured, obviously wood-aged wine. It's a wine still in development, bursting with young black-currant and black-plum fruits as well as acidity. The wood is a strong background presence and will soften over the next few years. Drink from 2020.
The Château Boutisse 2014, which includes a dash of Carmènere, has an attractive bouquet with lifted black cherry and cassis fruit that is nicely controlled. There is a pleasant, earthy tincture here. The palate is medium-bodied with crisp acidity, slightly chalky tannin with good precision on the finish. This should be worth seeking out once in bottle. Stylish.


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Do you accept the impossible 3D racing challenge? It starts off easy, you win a few races. Then it gets hard - really really hard. By the time you reach level 6, you will be finding yourself stuck behind your competitors. Just when you think you can win the race - bam - you get knocked back to last place.
Choose your favorite Luxury Super Fast Car. Then choose either the treacherous mountain courses or the flat desert racing courses. You will find the Desert Courses to be a bit easier - you MIGHT be able to complete all of them.
Fun 3D racing environment. Great racing sounds. The opportunity to drift when you race. 16 race track in total. Give it a try, what have you got to loose?
This is the Pro version. It includes super fast cars, with ultra high speed. And no advertisements.
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Q: Automating SQL script I am new to programming world. I have a SQL script which needs to be automated. The automation required is as follows :
1) Script should run every sunday
2) Automatically dump the results in to DUMP_YYYYMMDDHH24MISS.txt
3) Result set is tar gziped
4) upload to SFTP URL with provided username and password.
I am using :
UNIX,
Vertica DB
Can the Gurus here please help ?

A: This is really 4 questions and should probably asked as such. To answer in the current format though:
1) Schedule a Task Automatically - Crontab
In the terminal, type crontab -e.
If you want something every Sunday at 1am, add the following line:
0 1 * * * 0 /path/to/script/script.sh

This will execute the script every Sunday.
2) Setting the output of the command
I'm only familiar with oracle. The format is probably similar.  In order to get the filename as you want it, you'd use the date function as follows. (This is how I would do it in with Oracle):
d=$(date +%Y%M%D%H%M)
var=$(sqlplus -s / as blahblahblah
select * from stuff;
exit
EOF
)

file_name=DUMP_${d}MISS.txt
echo "${var}" >> ${file_name}

Note that your date command is probably different, if you do a man page on date it will tell you which parameters you'd need to get the date formatted as you like.
3) Taring the output
tar -xvf ${file_name}

4) Send over SFTP
You'd have to authenticate the sftp, that is beyond the scope of what anyone can answer without more details. Once you have the machines setup to authenticate, you would do:
sftp username@server<<EOF
put ${file_name}
EOF

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