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Q: Dump SSIS USER variable name and value in SQL Server table Purpose: Fetch all the user variables that are in the SSIS package and write the variable name and their values in a SQL Server 2008 table.
What have I tried: I got a small "Script Task" working to Display the variable name and their value. The script is as follows.
using System;
using System.Data;
using Microsoft.SqlServer.Dts.Runtime;
using System.Windows.Forms;
namespace ST_81ec2398155247148a7dad513f3be99d.csproj
{
    [System.AddIn.AddIn("ScriptMain", Version = "1.0", Publisher = "", Description = "")]
    public partial class ScriptMain : Microsoft.SqlServer.Dts.Tasks.ScriptTask.VSTARTScriptObjectModelBase
    {

        #region VSTA generated code
        enum ScriptResults
        {
            Success = Microsoft.SqlServer.Dts.Runtime.DTSExecResult.Success,
            Failure = Microsoft.SqlServer.Dts.Runtime.DTSExecResult.Failure
        };
        #endregion

    public void Main()
    {

        Microsoft.SqlServer.Dts.Runtime.Application app = new Microsoft.SqlServer.Dts.Runtime.Application();
        Package pkg = app.LoadPackage(
          @"C:\package.dtsx",
          null);
        Variables pkgVars = pkg.Variables;

        foreach (Variable pkgVar in pkgVars)
        {
            if (pkgVar.Namespace.ToString() == "User")
            {
                MessageBox.Show(pkgVar.Name);
                MessageBox.Show(pkgVar.Value.ToString());
            }
        }
        Console.Read();
    }
    }

    }

What needs to be done: I need to take this and dump the values to a database table. I am trying to work on a script component for this, but due to lack of knowledge of .net scripting, I havent gotten anywhere close to the finish line. This is what I have done on the component side.
using System;
using System.Data;
using Microsoft.SqlServer.Dts.Pipeline.Wrapper;
using Microsoft.SqlServer.Dts.Runtime.Wrapper;
using Microsoft.SqlServer.Dts;
using System.Windows.Forms;

[Microsoft.SqlServer.Dts.Pipeline.SSISScriptComponentEntryPointAttribute]
public class ScriptMain : UserComponent
{

   public override void CreateNewOutputRows()
    {

        #region Class Variables
        IDTSVariables100 variables;
        #endregion

        variables = null;

        this.VariableDispenser.GetVariables(out variables);
        foreach(Variable myVar in variables)
        {
            MessageBox.Show(myVar.Value.ToString());
            if (myVar.Namespace == "User")
            {
                Output0Buffer.ColumnName = myVar.Value.ToString();
            }
        }
    }

}

A: I can think of 2 ways of solving this issue right now .

*

*Use the same script task to insert the values into the Database

*using Foreach loop to enumerate the ssis package variables ( as you have asked )

Table Script for inserting the variable name and value is
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[SSISVariables]
(
[Name] [varchar](50) NULL,
[Value] [varchar](50) NULL
)

1.Use Script task and write the below code
[System.AddIn.AddIn("ScriptMain", Version = "1.0", Publisher = "", Description = "")]
public partial class ScriptMain : Microsoft.SqlServer.Dts.Tasks.ScriptTask.VSTARTScriptObjectModelBase
{
    private static string m_connectionString = @"Data Source=Server Name;
    Initial Catalog=Practice;Integrated Security=True";
   public void Main()
    {
       List<SSISVariable> _coll = new List<SSISVariable>();
        Microsoft.SqlServer.Dts.Runtime.Application app = new Microsoft.SqlServer.Dts.Runtime.Application();
        Package pkg = app.LoadPackage(PackageLocation,Null);
                   Variables pkgVars = pkg.Variables;

        foreach (Variable pkgVar in pkgVars)
        {
            if (pkgVar.Namespace.ToString() == "User")
            {
                _coll.Add(new SSISVariable ()
                {
                 Name =pkgVar.Name.ToString(),
                 Val =pkgVar .Value.ToString ()
                });
           }
        }
        InsertIntoTable(_coll);
        Dts.TaskResult = (int)ScriptResults.Success;
    }

    public void InsertIntoTable(List<SSISVariable> _collDetails)
    {
       using (SqlConnection conn = new SqlConnection(m_connectionString))
        {
            conn.Open();
            foreach (var item in _collDetails )
            {
             SqlCommand command = new SqlCommand("Insert into SSISVariables values (@name,@value)", conn);
             command.Parameters.Add("@name", SqlDbType.VarChar).Value = item.Name ;

             command.Parameters.Add("@value", SqlDbType.VarChar).Value = item.Val ;
             command.ExecuteNonQuery();
            }
        }
     }
  }

   public class SSISVariable
   {
    public string Name { get; set; }
    public string Val { get; set; }
   }

Explanation:In this ,i'm creating a class which has properties Name and Val . Retrieve the package variables and their value using your code and store them in a collection List<SSISVariable> .Then pass this collection to a method (InsertIntoTable) which simply inserts the value into the database by enumerating through the collection .
Note :
There is a performance issue with the above code ,as for every variable
im hitting the database and inserting the value.You can use
[TVP][1]( SQL Server 2008)   or stored procedure which takes
 xml( sql server 2005) as input.

2.Using ForEach Loop
Design

Step 1: create a Variable VariableCollection which is of type System.Object and another
        variable Item which is of type String to store the result from Foreach loop
Step 2: For the 1st script task .
VariableCollection is used to store the Variable name and its value

Step 3: Inside the script task Main Method write the following code
  public void Main()
   {
     ArrayList _coll = new ArrayList();

        Microsoft.SqlServer.Dts.Runtime.Application app = new Microsoft.SqlServer.Dts.Runtime.Application();
        Package pkg = app.LoadPackage(Your Package Location,null);

        Variables pkgVars = pkg.Variables;
        foreach (Variable pkgVar in pkgVars)
        {
            if (pkgVar.Namespace.ToString() == "User")
            {
                _coll.Add(string.Concat ( pkgVar.Name,',',pkgVar.Value ));
            }
        }
        Dts.Variables["User::VariableCollection"].Value = _coll;
        // TODO: Add your code here
        Dts.TaskResult = (int)ScriptResults.Success;
    }

Step 4: Drag a Foreach loop and in the expression use Foreach from Variable Enumerator

Step 5:Foreach loop enumerates the value and stores it in a variable User::Item

Step 6:Inside the  foreach loop drag a script task and select the variable
readonly variables   User::Item

step 7: Write the below code in the main method
   public void Main()
    {
      string name = string.Empty;
      string[] variableCollection;
      variableCollection = Dts.Variables["User::Item"].Value.ToString().Split(',');
      using (SqlConnection conn = new SqlConnection(m_connectionString))
        {
            conn.Open();
            SqlCommand command = new SqlCommand("Insert into SSISVariables values (@name,@value)", conn);
            command.Parameters.Add("@name", SqlDbType.VarChar).Value = variableCollection[0];

            command.Parameters.Add("@value", SqlDbType.VarChar).Value = variableCollection[1];

            command.ExecuteNonQuery();
        }
        // TODO: Add your code here
        Dts.TaskResult = (int)ScriptResults.Success;
    }

Explanation : In the Foreach loop ,i can only enumerate one variable .So the logic is, i need to somehow pass the variable name and its value into one variable .And for this ,i have concatenated name and value
 string.Concat ( pkgVar.Name,',',pkgVar.Value )

Script task in the foreach loop simply splits the variable and stores it into a array of string and then u can access the name and value using array index and store it in the database


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Video: Jordan Ayew nets brace in Crystal Palace pre-season friendly win against Charlton Athletic
in Football, Ghana, Players Abroad, Videos
Ghana star Jordan Ayew bagged a brace for Crystal Palace in their friendly 3-0 win over League One side Charlton Athletic on Saturday.
The Ghanaian international struck twice in the second half before being substituted for JK Gordon in the 83rd minute.
The Eagles last season's top scorer opened the scoring in the 63rd minute after a goalless first half.
Ayew finished his brace four minutes later when he tapped home from close range before Zaha wrapped up a 3-0 win for Palace two minutes from stoppage time.
Meanwhile, his compatriots Jefferey Schlupp and Malachi Boateng were introduced into the game to replace Eze and McArthur in the 46th and 76th minutes respectively.
Watch Ayew's brace in the video below:
https://twitter.com/CPFC/status/1299719080820211713
Olele was better goalkeeper than Manuel Neuer - Mutawakilu Seidu declares

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Vince Gill, Emmylou Harris & The Grand Opry Honored by the National Music Council at the 33RD ANNUAL AMERICAN EAGLE AWARDS
Brad Paisley, Randy Travis, Vince Gill, Alan Jackson & Others Sing the Christian Hymns
Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt, and Emmylou Harris Are Releasing "The Complete Trio Collection"
Emmylou Harris Working on Her Second Duet Album with Rodney Crowell
Various Artists "The Song Album" (Music From & Inspired by the Motion Picture)" Album Review
Emmylou Harris "Wrecking Ball Reissue" Album Review
Emmylou Harris Readies 3-Disc Wrecking Ball Reissue
Mia Fieldes On How She Became a Songwriter for Hillsong, Kari Jobe, Michael W. Smith and Others


I have always been a staunch Bible skeptic but not a Christ-mythicist. I maintained that Jesus probably existed but had fantastic stories foisted upon the memory of his earthly yet iconoclastic life.
After exhaustive research for my first book, I began to perceive both the light and darkness from history. I discovered that many prominent Christian fathers believed with all pious sincerity that their savior never came to Earth or that if he did, he was a Star-Trekian character who beamed down pre-haloed and full-grown, sans transvaginal egress. And I discovered other startling bombshells.
An exercise that struck me as meritorious, even today singular, involved reviving research into Jesus-era writers who should have recorded Christ tales but did not. John Remsburg enumerated forty-one "silent" historians in The Christ (1909). To this end, I spent many hours bivouacked in university libraries, the Library of Congress, and on the Internet. I terminated that foray upon tripling Remsburg's count: in my book, I offer 126 writers who should have but did not write about Jesus (see the box on p. 57). Perhaps the most bewildering "silent one" is the super-Savior himself. Jesus is a phantom of a wisp of a personage who never wrote anything. So, add one more: 127.
Perhaps none of these writers is more fascinating than Apollonius Tyanus, saintly first-century adventurer and noble paladin. Apollonius was a magic-man of divine birth who cured the sick and blind, cleansed entire cities of plague, foretold the future, and fed the masses. He was worshiped as a god and as a son of a god. Despite such nonsense claims, Apollonius was a real man recorded by reliable sources.
Because Jesus ostensibly performed miracles of global expanse (such as in Matthew 27), his words going "unto the ends of the whole world" (Rom. 10), one would expect virtually every literate person to have recorded those events. A Jesus contemporary such as Apollonius would have done so, as well as those who wrote of Apollonius.
Such is not the case. In Philostratus's third-century chronicle Vita Apollonii, there is no hint of Jesus. Nor does Jesus appear in the works of other Apollonius epistolarians and scriveners: Emperor Titus, Cassius Dio, Maximus, Moeragenes, Lucian, Soterichus Oasites, Euphrates, Marcus Aurelius, or Damis of Hierapolis. It seems that none of these first- to third-century writers ever heard of Jesus, his miracles and alleged worldwide fame be damned.
Another bewildering author is Philo of Alexandria. He spent his first-century life in the Levant and even traversed Jesus-land. Philo chronicled contemporaries of Jesus—Bassus, Pilate, Tiberius, Sejanus, Caligula—yet knew nothing of the storied prophet and rabble-rouser enveloped in glory and astral marvels.
The Bible venerates the artist formerly known as Saul of Tarsus, but he was a man essentially oblivious to his savior. Paul was unaware of the virgin mother and ignorant of Jesus's nativity, parentage, life events, ministry, miracles, apostles, betrayal, trial, and harrowing passion. Paul didn't know where or when Jesus lived and considered the crucifixion metaphorical (Gal. 2:19–20). Unlike what is claimed in the Gospels, Paul never indicated that Jesus had come to Earth. And the "five hundred witnesses" claim (1 Cor. 15) is a forgery.
Qumran, hidey-hole for the Dead Sea Scrolls, lies twelve miles from Bethlehem. The scroll writers, coeval and abutting the holiest of hamlets one jaunty jog eastward, never heard of Jesus. Christianity still had that new-cult smell in the second century, but Christian presbyter Marcion of Pontus in 144 CE denied any virgin birth or childhood for Christ. Jesus's infant circumcision (Luke 2:21) was thus a lie, as well as the crucifixion! Marcion claimed that Luke was corrupted; Christ self-spawned in omnipresence, esprit sans corps.
I read the works of second-century Christian father Athenagoras and never encountered the word Jesus—Athenagoras was unacquainted with the name of his savior! This floored me. Had I missed something? No; Athenagoras was another pious early Christian who was unaware of Jesus.
The original Mark ended at 16:8, with later forgers adding the fanciful resurrection tale. John 21 also describes post-death Jesus tales, another forgery. Millions should have heard of the crucifixion with its astral enchantments: zombie armies and meteorological marvels (Matt. 27) recorded not by any historian but only in the dubitable scriptures scribbled decades later by superstitious folks. The Jesus saga is further deflated by Nazareth, a town without piety and in fact having no settlement until after the war of 70 CE—suspiciously, just around the time the Gospels were concocted.
When I consider those 126 writers, all of whom should have heard of Jesus but did not—and Paul and Marcion and Athenagoras and Matthew with a tetralogy of opposing Christs, the silence from Qumran and Nazareth and Bethlehem, conflicting Bible stories, and so many other mysteries and omissions—I must conclude that Christ is a mythical character. Jesus of Nazareth was nothing more than an urban (or desert) legend, likely an agglomeration of several evangelic and deluded rabbis who might have existed.
I also include in my book similarities of Jesus to earlier God-sons such as Sandan and Mithra and Horus and Attis, too striking to disregard. The Oxford Classical Dictionary and Catholic Encyclopedia, as well as many others, corroborate.
Thus, today I side with Remsburg—and with Frank Zindler, John M. Allegro, Godfrey Higgins, Robert M. Price, Salomon Reinach, Samuel Lublinski, Charles-François Dupuis, Allard Pierson, Rudolf Steck, Arthur Drews, Prosper Alfaric, Georges Ory, Tom Harpur, Michael Martin, John Mackinnon Robertson, Alvar Ellegård, David Fitzgerald, Richard Carrier, René Salm, Timothy Freke, Peter Gandy, Barbara Walker, Michael Martin, D.M. Murdock, Thomas Brodie, Earl Doherty, Thomas L. Thompson, Bruno Bauer, and others—heretics and iconoclasts and freethinking dunces all, it would seem.
If all the evidence and nonevidence including 126 (127?) silent writers cannot convince, I'll wager that we will uncover much more. Yet this is but a tiny tip of the mythical-Jesus iceberg: nothing adds up for the fable of the Christ.
Michael Paulkovich is an aerospace engineer and freelance writer, a frequent contributor to Free Inquiry and Humanist Perspectives magazines, a contributing editor at The American Rationalist, and a columnist for American Atheist. His book No Meek Messiah was pusblished in 2013 by Spillix.
Michael Paulkovich is a NASA engineer and freelance writer, a contributor to Free Inquiry and Humanist Perspective magazines, and an author of the series "Dogma Watch" for American Atheist.


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Tag Archive | Good Neighbor Policy
by mcenaney
in American Studies, Article, Chican@/Latin@ Studies, Diasporic Sound, From Mercury to Mars, History, Listening, Place and Space, Race, Radio, Sound Studies, Technology, Voice
Hello, Americans: Orson Welles, Latin America, and the Sounds of the "Good Neighbor"
And now, we interrupt this broadcast for a message from Guest Editor Neil Verma: At 9:00 pm on July 11, 1938, the Columbia Broadcasting System unfurled a plush Tchaikovsky concerto to welcome 23 year-old wunderkind Orson Welles and his Mercury Theater troupe to national airwaves for a show destined to become the most famous dramatic radio anthology ever aired.
The Mercury Theater on the Air came with hype. Welles was fresh off a streak of innovative stage adaptations of Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar," Shaw's "Heartbreak House," and Marlowe's "Doctor Faustus," pledging in a New York Times article to "treat radio with the intelligence and respect such a beautiful and powerful medium deserves." A jab at his rivals? Maybe. Legends tell of 17-hour writing sessions, of rows minutes before airtime between Welles, producer John Houseman and composer Bernard Herrmann, of sound men abusing baskets, watermelons, toilets, lawnmowers to make audio. Time described Mercury's ambition as "bounded north and south by hope, east and west by nerve."
https://soundstudies.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/merc-intro.mp3
Welles was by then a radio veteran, the hero of The Shadow and impersonator of newsmakers from Sigmund Freud to Fiorello laGuardia on The March of Time. Hundreds of extant recordings link Welles to rousing Norman Corwin pageants, Columbia Workshop experiments, strident war shows like Ceiling Unlimited, buffoon turns on the Jack Benny and Fred Allen Shows, picaresque Harry Lime adventures, dense thrillers on Suspense, romances on Lux Radio Theater, diplomacy on Hello Americans, and on and on. Welles gave radio new forms, as radio informed his filmmaking profoundly – the sound of Citizen Kane (1941) the characters in Mr. Arkadin (1955), the vocals in Touch of Evil (1958) the theme of F is for Fake (1974). Welles invented a cinema that is, among other things, a kind of radio play you can see.
Mercury (and the Campbell Playhouse it became) undertook plays like "Dracula," "Treasure Island," "The 39 Steps," "Rebecca," "Jane Eyre," and "The Magnificent Ambersons" and dozens of others. But none would be remembered were it not for the "War of the Worlds," adapted from H.G. Wells's novel by Howard Koch. In October of 1938, WOTW aired to six million listeners, hundreds of thousands of whom misheard it as news. The "Panic Broadcast" became a series of fables: listeners treated for shock in Newark; families on Boston rooftops watching the fires of New York in the distance; an Indianapolis church service interrupted by a parishioner telling congregants "you might as well go home to die;" bomb threats and a police raid on CBS headquarters. Three quarters of a century later many agree with the New York Tribune's Dorothy Thompson, who declared the Invasion "one of the most fascinating and important events of all time," but the meaning of that event also feels unclear, growing more ambiguous with time. Today, the alien invasion is itself increasingly alien.
To confront that issue and to open Mercury to new kinds of critical practices in sound studies, Sounding Out! is partnering with Antenna over the next six months to bring you a 12-part series entitled From Mercury to Mars: Orson Welles on Radio after 75 Years. I'm honored to serve as Sounding Out!'s Guest Editor. We'll be bringing you authors who engage aesthetic, historical and political aspects of Welles' radio work with a depth and intensity unusual in Welles studies.
That's especially true of this inaugural post by Cornell Comparative Literature Professor and SO! contributor Tom McEnaney, who has been working on a book project involving radio and the "neighborhood" of the Americas. I'm thrilled welcome Tom's nuanced and provocative take on Welles's adaptation of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness and his Hello, Americans program, and I hope it will encourage you to stay with us as the series unfolds.
Like Welles, we've got a few tricks up our sleeve. Stay tuned. — nv
When WNYC's Radiolab aired their live celebration of War of the Worlds five years ago, the odd laugh line was reserved for a moment at the start of the radio play when an announcer interjects "now we return to the music of Ramón Raquello and his orchestra."
https://soundstudies.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/ramon-raquello-clip.mp3
Raquello, as the Radiolab team makes clear, didn't exist, and his "orchestra" was just an anonymous phonograph recording of the famous tango "La cumparsita." Welles apparently chose the song for its "tedium," hoping it would make believable the lunacy to come. That the music of the Southern Cone set up listeners in the United States for the greatest hoax in history might have been yet another of the inside jokes Welles left us to listen for.
The sounds of Ramón Raquello and the settings of some of Welles's most famous films—The Lady From Shanghai (1947); Touch of Evil (1958)—remind us how Latin America, and its relationship to the United States, fascinated Welles in the late 30s and 40s. Five years after War of the Worlds, he began the final episode of his CBS program Hello Americans by recalling the show's mission: "It is important for the people of this hemisphere to get better acquainted, and the Mercury [Theater] has been given the job of helping out with the introductions."
https://soundstudies.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/12-clip-1-orson-welles-pan-americanism.mp3
An artful propagandist, Welles told Nelson A. Rockefeller, FDR's head of Inter-American Affairs and Welles's boss at RKO studios, that radio and film were the best way "to sell South America to North America." Between 1938 and 1943 his technical innovations in film and radio, in addition to a 1942 stint as a "good will ambassador" to Latin America, created for him by Rockefeller, were meant to convince U.S. audiences of FDR's claim in his first inaugural that the United States should follow the policy of the "Good Neighbor." Whether listening, watching, or reading his work during World War II, Welles's U.S. audiences were constantly reminded that they were residents of the Americas, rather than an exceptional and isolated America.
To assess the aesthetics and politics of Welles's engagement with Latin America, it's worth returning to the October 30, 1938 broadcast of War of the Worlds. Presented as a live news report of an alien invasion on the East Coast of the United States, War of the Worlds sent its mass audience into hysterics, proving to Marshal McLuhan that radio was "a tribal drum," capable of calling forth the "archaic forces" of "the resonating Africa within" (301). The primitivist and racist logic in McLuhan's Understanding Media (1964) sought to explain away the irrationality he (and his Frankfurt School forebears) identified as the enlightenment's dialectical twin by exiling it to Africa. In this, he might have merely followed Welles's Mercury Theater, which aired a production of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness a week after War of the Worlds, thus linking an allegory about fascism (and radio's dangerous complicity with irrational politics) to a Conrad adaptation that critic Michael Denning calls "a fascist parable" exalting "power for power's sake" (376).
Yet these radio works concern themselves with fascism from very different narrative and social positions. While War of the Worlds depicts an alien invasion, his Heart of Darkness describes a journey towards the alien racial Other, presenting listeners with what had become by 1938 the more mundane miracle of radio—to bring them close enough to hear Kurtz's haunting repetition: "the horror, the horror."
https://soundstudies.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/orson-welles-hod-horror-horror.mp3
Welles, who plays both Kurtz and Marlow in the conversation that leads up to these climactic lines, depicts here the seductive power of his own voice, able to encapsulate the story's most important characters, and, as Kurtz, to impress even himself, as Marlow.
https://soundstudies.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/orson-welles-hod-convo-w-kurtz.mp3
"Mr. Kurtz," Marlow / Welles says with awe, "is a remarkable man." Repeating a line heard throughout the play, Marlow's words are slyly deflated when they are echoed, with a tone of critical distance, in the voice of one of the ivory company's employees, a voice that stands in for the listening audience, and encourages their own distrust of Marlow's naïve faith in Kurtz's lust for power.
https://soundstudies.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/orson-welles-hod-remarkable-man.mp3
Meanwhile, the play tells a complimentary story of proximity and distance: as the boat moves back down the river, the music shifts from tribal drums to spiritual laments to a meandering jazz saxophone, tracing, in basic and exoticist fashion, a capsule history of African diasporic music.
One year later, Welles also attempted to adapt Heart of Darkness as his cinematic directorial debut for RKO, shifting the frame narrative to New York City, while planning to shoot on location in Panama, where expansion had begun that year on the Panama Canal to allow for the transportation of US warships. For this project, Welles planned a first-person camera technique, mimicking his radio work with first person address. The Mercury Theater's program, originally named "First Person Singular," placed listeners on the scene. In film the technique became even more immersive, plunging the audience into uneasy, inescapable identification with Marlow's point of view.
The first person in Welles's screenplay combines Heart of Darkness' journey into alien territory with War of the Worlds' alien invasion—the sense that the audience was under attack. Forced to look out through the eyes of the imperialist adventurer Marlow, the audience surprisingly became the object that everyone in the film watches. The technique could prove threatening to the predominantly white and male movie audiences in the United States of 1940, as Welles planned to enlist 3,000 African American actors to play the so-called natives on the shores of the river—2500 more black extras than worked in Hollywood at the time. When the audience fell under the black gaze in the Canal Zone, where African American men increasingly worked as part of the defense industries, the story's imperialist theme would have pointed back to the United States' own racist working conditions, revealing the nation's complicity and subordination to the imperialist pursuit whose destiny is the primitivist conditions it creates.
RKO rejected Welles's screenplay, as they did his later documentary project, It's All True, which sought to transform his 1942 trip throughout Latin America into a tale that fused "the story of samba" with "the story of jazz" to situate African American and Afro-Brazilian musical cultures at the heart of Pan-American culture. Welles soon repurposed the material from It's All True for a radio program entitled "Hello Americans" that attempted to complete the shift in representation towards a more lateral and dialogic notion of adjacency, positioning U.S. and Latin American culture on the same plane. The means to make these introductions included interviews with and recordings by musicians from Cuba, Brazil, and Mexico, historical tales about Montezuma, Toussaint L'Ouverture, Benito Juárez, Atahualpa and others.
In the show's most experimental section, Welles simultaneously reinforces and mocks the idea that radio's ability to collapse distances and transcend borders makes it the medium to communicate the idea of neighborliness.
Transporting his audience to "a clay hut somewhere in South America," Welles introduces a small family in which the son, Juan, builds radios at a new factory, and his father, José, listens to the device. Once the broadcast begins, the listening audience within the frame—Juan, José and his mother—share the same space as the audience listening to "Hello Americans." All listen together as a broadcast voice introduces Roosevelt's inaugural address, then Roosevelt's recorded voice announces his policy of the Good Neighbor, and finally static interrupts Roosevelt's voice, and a German accented voice takes over to complain about "the republic of the Jew Franklin Roosevelt." When José comments that the broadcast seems strange, his son Juan answers, "Oh no, they're all like that. Señor Schmidt at the factory told us it's uh, it's because we're closer to Germany." Then, a musical curtain falls and Welles returns to reassure his audience that "Juan has learned. Today he works in another factory and he's a member of the Latin American Confederation of Workers."
The passage distinguishes between voices—José, Juan, the US broadcaster, Roosevelt, and the German propagandist—and reflects the imagined proximity implicit in Roosevelt's idea of the Good Neighbor. But the technique also reveals how "Señor Schmidt" and his countrymen take advantage of the geographical confusion made possible by radio's transcendence of borders to imply that Germany is actually more of a "neighbor" than the United States. These types of confusion between imagination and reality had once launched listeners into panic, but now Welles steps in to calmly and condescendingly reassure the audience that Juan "has learned." Learned, that is, to join the left leaning Confederation: an untenable statement on US radio less than a decade later.
And yet, the unnamed obstacle impeding both foreign transmissions is language itself. Because everything filters through English, with accents marking the space between Spanish and German, Hello Americans imagines Pan-Americanism through one language alone. Radio's monolingualism highlights one of the medium's limitations. Whereas It's All True could employ subtitles, and allow audiences to listen to a subject's voice while reading what they said, radio faltered on its most medium-specific component – words.
Furthermore, while Welles imagines a "neighborhood" for all Americans, listeners lose the more radical racial politics he had once placed at the center of his Haitian Macbeth (1936), Heart of Darkness (1938), his theatrical production of Richard Wright's Native Son (1941) and It's All True (1942). Together these works place the African diaspora at the center of U.S., Pan-American, and world culture. They insist that the attack on fascism abroad must include a change in race relations at home. More ambivalently, they reveal Welles participating in acts of love and theft – a New Deal Kurtz, he draws the power to criticize fascist power from exoticized images of Afro-Caribbean, Afro-Brazilian, and African American cultures, supporting and appropriating the art and struggles of the African diaspora to bill himself as the cultural leader of, not just the ambassador for, Pan-Americanism.
Orson Welles as Othello (1952)
Tom McEnaney is an Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at Cornell University. His work focuses on the connections between the novel and various sound recording and transmission technologies in Argentina, Cuba, and the United States. He is currently at work on a manuscript tentatively titled "Acoustic Properties: Radio, Narrative, and the New Neighborhood of the Americas."
DIANE… The Personal Voice Recorder in Twin Peaks—Tom McEnaney
On the Lower Frequencies: Norman Corwin, Colorblindness, and the "Golden Age" of U.S. Radio–J. Stoever-Ackerman
The Sound of Radiolab: Exploring the "Corwinesque" in 21st Century Public Radio— Alex Russo


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Your Hour-by-Hour Guide to Maximum Willpower
Learn how to conquer any temptation.
By Dean Stattmann
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Much like a car can only go so far on a tank of gas, research suggests that willpower and motivation—the fuel that powers your drive to lose weight, get back in shape, or otherwise stay out of trouble—is a limited resource. You start each day with only so much. It can be squandered quickly or, if you learn a few tricks, it can be conserved and even refreshed.
"Willpower may be finite for the day, but it's a self-perpetuating renewable resource," says Susan Rose, a Los Angeles productivity coach.
Here's how to design your day in order to make sure you stay fit, keep your job, never gain weight, and avoid bringing anyone named Fifi LaRue home to meet mom.
Do NOT hit the snooze button
When you buy yourself an extra 10 minutes (which always feels like 30 seconds anyway), you're setting a precedent for the day—that any goal can be compromised. "As soon as you hit snooze, you're renegotiating a commitment with yourself," says Natalie Houston, a personal productivity coach. So don't do it. Alarm goes off. You get up.
Do 10 push-ups
When it comes to motivation, your brain is wired a bit backwards. It prioritizes avoiding defeat over achieving success. Committing to starting the day with exercise turns that thinking around. By leading off with a workout – however brief – you're adjusting your mind to view inaction as defeat.
"There's tons of research on loss aversion, but the gist of it is pretty simple," explains Kyle Kirchhoff, co-founder of Spar, a mobile app that builds healthy habits by debiting bank accounts for missed challenges. "Losing sucks, and people will work hard to avoid it."
Make a 12-hour promise
Building willpower doesn't just help with building abs. It can be used to improve relationships, too, says Paul Hokemeyer, Ph.D., a relationship and family therapist in Telluride, CO. Say your partner is always complaining she's under-appreciated. So instead of making some vague commitment to tell her she is, set a specific 12-hour period to do so. Kiss her goodbye, text her during the day, and take her out for dinner at night. Then later in the week or even next, set yourself another 12-hour goal to do the same. Eventually, says Hokemeyer, "you'll see significant changes in your behavior [and hers]." Works with kids, co-workers, bosses … anyone.
Take a bite of your Kryptonite
There is research showing that if you have a little bit of your guilty pleasure in the morning for breakfast (chocolate in particular) you'll be less likely to go hog wild on it during the day. It's a willpower trick.
Decide to act on one thing
Stop rehearsing your argument for a promotion/raise in the shower or during your commute to work and make this the day you finally ask for one. Visualization is a powerful tool, but doing it for too long how long is too long? without taking action can sabotage your goals. "Research shows that the more people fantasize and daydream about a desired future, the less successful they are [at realizing it]," says Gabriele Oettingen, Ph.D., professor of psychology at New York University. Visualization takes energy, which over time can actually sap your willpower to act on your dreams. Last line correct?
Stop tracking #fitspo, #eatclean, #crushingit, etc.
Essentially what you're doing is comparing yourself to others and that can get depressing when you're standing in line at Chipotle wondering if you're the only person on earth not having an organic kale salad for lunch. "Reduce external pressure to have better self-control," says Liad Uziel, Ph.D., of the department of psychology at Bar-Ilan University in Israel.
This trick works in another way, too. Thinking you're low in self-control can become self-fulfilling. A study in the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin found that, regardless of whether subjects' baseline level of willpower was low or high, when it came to completing a task that required self control, those who wished for more motivation were less able to complete the activity.
Ask yourself why 3 to 5 times
Repeatedly doing this will help you drill down to the core reason you want to make a behavior change, says Houston. And that core reason will be the most motivational – guaranteed. Here's an example: Let's say you have a sweet tooth and are trying to muster the willpower to cut down on sugar.
Why? #1: To avoid diabetes
Why? #2: To lose weight
Why? #3: To look fitter
Why? #4: To get a date with Svetlana in HR
See how that works? By repeatedly asking yourself "why?" you progress from the very general to the very specific and, therefore, get to the most inspirational. All of a sudden, avoiding the vending machine mid-afternoon becomes a whole lot easier, because you're directly associating it with your happiness.
'Pre-order' drinks and meals
Instead of waiting until you arrive at the brewpub after work and risking making a poor choice, "pre-order" mentally on the drive over. For example, if your goal is to reduce calories from alcohol, tell yourself, "I will order a lighter session beer instead of my usual imperial IPA." Likewise, pre-commit to getting the chicken romaine salad instead of the chicken fried steak.
"Things that are normally hard to deal with can become surprisingly easy if you automate the decision-making through pre-programming," says Martin Ford Ph.D., a professor of education at George Mason University, who specializes in motivation and self-regulation.
Dress yourself before bed
Lay out your clothes for the next day the night before. Even better, pre-prep your breakfast and lunch, too. "Remove uncertainty about what you might do," suggests Ford. Decision-making saps willpower, and the longer you spend agonizing about a decision—even a seemingly inconsequential one—the more you wear down those stores. Bonus: You'll cut your risk of walking into work with mismatched socks and a box of cereal.
Congratulate yourself on 3 things
At the end of the day, most guys beat themselves up over their failures. You skipped a workout. You splurged at lunch. Instead, try acknowledging those times when you had the willpower to resist temptation, however small. It's a simple trick for staying positive, maintaining momentum, and getting off to a strong start the following day.
"The brain has a natural bias to pay more attention to the negative or painful, because it wants to protect you from those things," says Houston. "Focusing on three successes at the end of the day primes your brain for achieving success again."
The advice to get 8 hours of sleep nightly is so ubiquitous it's actually sleep inducing. But that's because there's lots of great research supporting it. For example, you're more likely to make regrettable food choices after a night of abbreviated sleep. A recent study in the journal Sleep found that, like the active ingredient in marijuana, sleep loss raises the body's endocannabinoid levels, so you wake up with the equivalent of the munchies. As anyone who went to a liberal arts college knows, you lose that battle nine times out of 10.
"Respect your body's need for deep, sustained sleep," says Ford. "It's a rejuvenating source of willpower, not a waste of time."
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Coronavirus death toll reaches 47,527 as daily cases hit 6,493
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Turkey's confirmed cases of the coronavirus increased by 6,493 as the daily patients increase by 596 in the past 24 hours, and 122 more people have died, taking the death toll to 47,527, the Health Ministry announced on May 31.
Turkey's total number of confirmed cases reached 5,249,404 according to the infographic.
Some 9,582 patients recovered in the last 24 hours, the ministry said.
The total number of recovered cases stood at 5,114,624.
The ministry said 219,461 tests were conducted over the past day, with the overall number of tests reaching 54,139,309.
It also added that while the rate of pneumonia in COVID-19 patients is 2.8 percent, the number of seriously ill patients is 1,339.
CHP slams gov't over handling of pandemic
COVID turns obesity into 'pandemic' in Turkey: Report


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Tough, but good, says Louzanne about marathons
05 June 2019 | Story Ruan Bruwer
Athlete Louzanne Coetzee with the trophy of the Free State Sports Association for the Physically Disabled as Sports Star of the Year.
Although challenging, very exciting and a new journey, says Louzanne Coetzee about the athletics year for which she has been recognised.
The 26-year-old, who is doing her master's in Social Cohesion and Reconciliation Studies at the University of the Free State, won the Free State Sports Association for the Physically Disabled (FSSAPD) Sports Star of the Year award for a fourth consecutive time. This was for the period June 2018 to April 2019.
In that time, she set a world record, an Africa record, and ran two marathons in which she came amazingly close to a second world record.
Only in her second marathon at the Berlin Marathon in September, the Paralympian fell 26 seconds short of the T11 (totally blind) world record time. She met the qualifying time for the 2020 Paralympic Games in Tokyo during the London Marathon in April.
"Marathons are definitely challenging and a new field for me, but I would say it has been a good 12 months. My aim is now set on next year's Paralympic Games, where I would like to compete in the marathon and the 1 500 m."
"I hope to run a good time in the 1 500 m at the World Para Athletics Championships in November."
At the SASAPD National Championships for physically disabled and visually impaired athletes in April 2019, Coetzee won three gold medals and set a record in the 1 500 m.
Others from the UFS also honoured
Coetzee has received several awards in her career, but says it is always special to be rewarded by her own federation (FSSAPD).
Danie Breitenbach (T11) was also honoured as the Senior Male Sports Star. He bagged two gold medals and one silver and set a SA record in both the 800 m and 1 500 m at the nationals. Another Kovsie, Dineo Mokhosoa (F36 – coordination impairments), received a merit award for her gold medal in shot-put and silver in the discus at the national champs.
UFS signs memorandum of understanding with the University of Ghent
A video conference during which a memorandum of understanding was signed between the University of the Free State (UFS) and the University of Ghent in Belgium was recently held on the Main Campus in Bloemfontein. The signing of the agreement formed part of a week long programme, Accenta, of which Bloemfontein and the Free State were guests of honour. Academics from the UFS delivered papers during one of the forums that formed part of the Accenta programme in Ghent. Not all the papers were delivered in Ghent. Papers on bridging the digital divide were presented during the video conference by academics from Bloemfontein and Ghent and broadcast on the internet. At the video conference broadcast from the UFS Main Campus were, from the left: Prof. Janse Tolmie (Departmental Chairperson of the UFS Department of Computer Science and Informatics), Prof. Hendri Kroukamp (Programme Director of Public Management at the UFS) , Prof. Herman van Schalkwyk (Dean of the UFS Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences) and Prof. Pieter Blignaut (Professor at the UFS Department of Computer Science and Informatics and co-ordinator of the video conference).
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The Vickers R.E.P. Type Monoplanes were a series of single-engined monoplane aircraft built by Vickers prior to the outbreak of the First World War. They were developed from a French design for which Vickers had purchased a license, with eight being built.

Design and development

On 1 January 1911 Vickers, Sons and Maxim (which would be renamed Vickers Limited later that year), entered into a license agreement to build aircraft and aero-engines designed by the Frenchman Robert Esnault-Pelterie (hence R.E.P.), and sell them in Britain and its Empire. Following the agreement, Vickers purchased a French-built R.E.P. monoplane for use as a demonstrator together with an R.E.P.-built rear fuselage.

The design was redrawn from metric to imperial measurements by Vickers, while the first example was built at the Vickers factory at Erith, Kent (now part of Greater London), using the French-built rear fuselage and a French-built engine, but was otherwise the rest of the components were Vickers-built. It made its maiden flight from Vickers' new airfield at Joyce Green, near Dartford in July 1911, piloted by Captain Herbert F. Wood, the manager of Vickers' aviation department.

The aircraft was a shoulder-winged monoplane, with a deep but narrow fuselage of fabric-covered steel-tube construction, accommodating two people in tandem. A single five-cylinder air-cooled R.E.P. "fan" (or "semi-radial") engine rated at 60 horsepower (45 kW) driving a two-bladed propeller was fitted in the aircraft's nose, while the aircraft had a conventional landing gear, with both wheels and skids. The wings were of wood and steel construction, with lateral control by wing-warping, with the pilot operating a joystick.

The first five monoplanes were basically similar, and were powered by R.E.P engines, with the fifth one having a deeper fuselage. The sixth aircraft, built for the 1912 British Military Aeroplane Competition was noticeably different, with side-by-side seating for its two crew, a shorter wingspan (35 ft (10.67 m) rather than 47 ft 6 in (14.5 m) for the earlier aircraft), while a 70 hp (52 kW) Viale radial engine was fitted.

The seventh aircraft reverted to the tandem layout and longer wingspan of the first five aircraft, but replaced the R.E.P. engine with a 100 hp (75 kW) Gnome rotary engine, while the eighth, and final example, was similar to the sixth aircraft, with a 70–80 hp Gnome rotary.

Operational history

Great Britain

The major role for the other aircraft was as trainers at the Vickers Flying School established at Brooklands, Surrey in 1912. In this role they proved underpowered, and were difficult to fly as they lacked inherent stability.

Antarctica

The second monoplane was sold to the Australian explorer Douglas Mawson for the Australasian Antarctic Expedition of 1911. It was badly damaged in a crash landing at Adelaide in October 1911, however, so it was taken to Antarctica without its wings to use as a tractor for sledges. It proved unsuccessful in this role as the low temperatures caused lubricating oil to solidify and the engine to seize. The airframe was abandoned at the Cape Denison base of the expedition, with parts of the aircraft being discovered in 2010.

Specifications (Nos. 1 to 3)

Notes

References

 Andrews, C.F. and E.B. Morgan. Vickers Aircraft since 1908. London:Putnam, 1988. .
 "British Notes of the Week: Vickers, Ltd. and the R.E.P". Flight, 15 April 1911, p. 336.
 "British Notes of the Week: The South Pole Monoplane". Flight, 29 July 1911, p. 663.
 Bruce, J.M. The Aeroplanes of the Royal Flying Corps (Military Wing). London:Putnam, 1982. .
 "The Olympia Exhibition: First Impressions". Flight, 22 February 1913, pp. 210–230.
 "The Vickers Monoplane". Flight, 26 August 1911, pp. 734–736.
 "The Vickers Monoplane". Flight, 24 August 1912, pp. 774–775.

1910s British civil trainer aircraft
R.E.P. Monoplane
Aircraft first flown in 1911

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Over 430 representatives from public bodies and government departments today attended the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI) public sector conference at UCD in an effort to advance energy efficiency.
This is the second national conference focussed specifically on driving the public sector towards the Government's energy efficiency target of 33% by 2020. The most recent annual report on the energy efficiency performance of public bodies published by SEAI last year showed that the public sector saved €133 million through improved energy efficiency in 2016 and is now 20% more energy efficient.
The public sector improved its energy efficiency by 20% equating to €133 million in avoided energy spend as well as 520,000 fewer tonnes of CO2 emissions in 2016 alone. Energy efficiency in the public sector is hugely important in terms of overall climate action and public sector reform. So as public servants we have to do more and to show tangible leadership in energy efficiency. The public sector spends €1,000 per minute on energy every year. This is the public's money so we must be accountable and demonstrate leadership with action. The financial savings that each public body and department makes through cutting energy use can now be reinvested into vital public services within their own sector. This is a government decision and my message and incentive to public bodies is to cut your energy use so you can 'keep the change' and reinvest this money achieved through energy savings into much needed frontline public services.
• Waterford IT has secured ISO50001 certification for its five campuses and installed 40kW of solar PV on site.
We need a focused effort from all public organisations to reach our 33% energy saving target by 2020 and this conference aims to assist them on their journey. At SEAI, we are working across the entire public sector to help make it more energy efficient and to use cleaner energy. Through this activity, hundreds of millions of euro can ultimately be re-directed to important front-line public services and capital infrastructure. In the last year, SEAI has invested €5.75million of government money in building and school upgrades, primarily through collaborations with OPW and Department of Education and Skills. We hope to extend this model to other interested public bodies, creating a strong project pipeline and evidence base, as we continue to assist organisations as they progress energy saving projects in the coming year.
The public sector spent €536 million on energy in 2016 and accounts for 6% of Ireland's overall primary energy use. The Government is committed to achieving the 33% target as detailed in the National Energy Efficiency Action Plan and the Public Sector Energy Strategy.
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YouTuber Gabbie Hanna Turns Her Haters Into Motivators
Tom Ward Contributor
Gabbie Hanna is a YouTuber, a poet, a writer, a singer, a comedian and an actress but she's probably best known for her funny storytelling ability.
Last month she was awarded a Streamy (an award for social media stars) for "Best Storyteller." When I asked her what makes her such a great storyteller, she said, "I think what makes me good at it is that I'm naturally so dramatic. People always ask, 'How does all of this crazy stuff happen to you?' But if you break it down, it's not really crazy. I'm just dramatic. Like, I did a story about cancelling a gym membership. If that happened to you, you'd just say, 'The lady was really mean and I had to call corporate.' But when I tell it, I get overly dramatic about it. That's what makes it funny."
Hanna came from extremely humble beginnings and could have never imagined the success she now has. As a kid, her family was sometimes unable to pay the bills. She had to worry about her electricity being turned off. Because of that, she values a dollar and lives well below her means. She pulled up to our interview in a Toyota Corolla, a far cry to the Lambos and Mercedes that many YouTubers flaunt.
"I just don't care about cars. Maybe if I reach Jeffree Star (a rich YouTuber) status, I'll get a new Corolla," Hanna joked.
Hanna first made a name for herself on Vine and achieved rapid success on the platform. During that time she worked for a marketing company, that sold novelty products inside of Sam's Clubs. She quickly became the number one salesperson in the country, but after she discovered it was essentially a pyramid scheme, she left.
She made the transition to YouTube, around this time, despite not owning a computer. She remembered, "I always wanted to be a YouTuber but I couldn't because I was poor and didn't have a computer. I also didn't have the time to make videos, so it wasn't reasonable to expect it to happen. My first YouTube videos were shot and edited by a friend because I didn't have the equipment."
Hanna brought her massive Vine following over to YouTube, which gave her an advantage because she started with large subscriber base. She said, "People ask me for tips and advice on how to start a YouTube channel and I really don't know. I didn't start a YouTube channel from scratch. And for anyone that did, like Emma Chamberlain and Shane Dawson, I don't know how they did it."
Always evolving, Hanna began a serious music career a couple of years ago. In the DIY spirit of YouTube, she decided to do it herself. She said, "I'm an independent artist. I own my own masters and no one can tell me what to do, which is nice. But there are a couple labels I would love to work with. If Fueled By Ramen called me, I'd definitely be interested!"
Many YouTube stars have released songs and some have had moderate success because they have a built in fan base. What makes Hanna different is that she releases legitimate music, not just a beef track, and has downloads and streams that far exceeds her following: Her single "Out Loud" has 24 million streams on Spotify and 24 million views on YouTube.
When I asked Hanna what motivates her to take on all of these projects, she said, "I hate to admit this, but a lot of it is trying to prove the haters wrong. It's like, 'Make your haters your motivators.' So when someone tells you that you can't do something, it makes you want to do it more."
Despite her positive outlook, the negative comments still hurt. She said, "I'm really sensitive and get upset by hate comments and probably always will. But I always tell myself that people don't leave negative comments if they don't feel bad about themselves. There was this one girl who posted, 'You're so full of yourself. How many more pictures of you do we need on Instagram?' And then I went to her page and it was literally her in a bra and underwear, in the same bathroom selfie, four times. She was clearly just an insecure girl."
Studies are finding that excessive social media use can cause certain mental health issues; a topic that Hanna is very aware of. She said, "I actually did a whole video on the psychology of YouTube. When you get immediate attention and reward, your brain actually changes. It's operant conditioning. Like, 'I do this and people like me. I do that and people like me.' And if your numbers start to drop, that affects your self-esteem. You think 'People like me less now because I didn't get as many likes as before.'"
In addition to being open about some of the struggles she faces online, Hanna has been honest about her struggles with body image, anxiety and depression. While many YouTubers use their platforms to only sell products to their fans, she is using her voice to help her audience deal with issues that affect us all.
Gabbie Hanna is someone who can make you laugh, make you cry and most importantly make you think. She's much more than just another funny YouTuber.
This interview has been edited for length and clarity.
I host the Under The Influence YouTube channel and podcast, where I interview the biggest influencers in the world


Last week we took a quick honeymoon in Arkansas with my parents. No matter how tight the finances, Mom and Dad always traveled somewhere, even if it was just a day trip. Let's follow along for a few years and enjoy some of the photos they took.
In 1952 my parents took their first summer vacation. They traveled to San Antonio, a place I've been to with them many times and which continues to be a favorite of mine to this day. They made it all the way to the Smoky Mountains in 1953.
By 1954, my grandfather was ill and they spent their vacation money traveling to and fro between, Little Rock AR where Dad was stationed and McKinney TX, where Mom's parents still lived. We lost my grandfather in October of 1954, just months before I would make my appearance.
Nineteen-fifty-five, the year I came along, Mom and Dad still managed short trips to Hot Springs and Petit Jean Mountain, but finances were very tight. Not only did they have a new baby, but they had helped with the expenses of my grandfather's hospital bills and his funeral.
The newly weds were caught up in the challenges all new parents face and spent most of their time hosting my grandmother and my doting aunts. I turned five in 1960 and dad had been transferred back to Mckinney. Our little family took a trip to South Texas, affectionately referred to as The Valley in many travel magazines. Mom was pregnant with my little sister, but I doubt I had much cognizance of it. When I was older Mom told me stories of choking back morning sickness and suffering the sweltering humidity, all so we could have a vacation.
My little sister was born in McKinney and shortly thereafter we moved to Dublin GA. Our travels changed then. Every time they could afford to, we were on the road back to Texas to spend time with family. Usually Dad traveled with us, but I remember one year the only way we could get to Texas was for Mom, my sister and me to ride with another family – three adults in the front, four kids in the back. Obviously, bench seats were still in vogue for the family sedan and seat belts weren't required.
By 1966 Dad's job had moved us to Augusta GA. and we took our summer vacation in Texas, as always, but we also visited Myrtle Beach SC where our next door neighbor's family had a beach house. We made several trips to the beach with our neighbors, the Lides, during the years we lived in Augusta. Their family beach house became one of my mom's favorite places on earth (outside Texas) and Mrs. Lide was her very best friend until Mom's very last day.
At the beach house, wishing I was just a little bit older.
I particularly remember that trip to Texas, because it was my first visit to Six Flags and my first taste of Tex-Mex at El Fenix's downtown Dallas location. (Well, the first taste I can remember. When I was small, my parents frequented a little Mexican cafe in Little Rock and they swore I loved it.) Oddly however, I can find no photographic record of the trip.
While we were in Texas, Dad visited some of his fellow Canteen Officers and heard wind of some canteens in the state which would be going through personnel changes. On the way back to Augusta, Dad stopped in Atlanta, the Canteen Service regional offices, to check out the rumors he'd heard. There was joy aplenty when he returned to the car and reported we'd be moving to Dallas, TX.
Our family travels changed once again when we were finally home in Texas and didn't make the mad dash there at every opportunity. What's ironic is that in just a few years, my parents would start making an annual pilgrimage to Myrtle Beach to visit the Lides. Goes to show that wherever most of us are, we think we want to be someplace else. We'll quit zipping through the decades now and slow down to appreciate the miracles of my mother's travel planning. Next week we'll head out for El Paso TX and Carlsbad Caverns in New Mexico.


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Of the many photographs taken during construction of Oklahoma City's streetcar system, one of the most telling is of two workers in hard hats, on their hands and knees, with a flashlight and measuring tape, checking the gap between a boarding platform and streetcar.
Precision to the 16th of an inch has been a necessity, as streets are torn up and rebuilt, rail is laid, overhead wire is strung and electric substations are powered up.
After 18 months, the end of construction is within sight. Attention is turning to how Oklahoma City will adapt to streetcars, generations after dismantling the former trolley system.


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MN DNR announces four new critical habitat license plates
DNR announces four new critical habitat license plates (May 15, 2009)
The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) revealed four new critical habitat license plate designs today during a ceremony at the Hennepin County deputy registrar�s office in Minnetonka.
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The new designs feature a showy lady�s-slipper, a northern Minnesota fishing scene, a majestic white-tailed buck and a black-capped chickadee. These are the first new critical habitat license plate design options available to Minnesota motorists in seven years.
The four new license plates are now available at all deputy registrar offices statewide, as are the existing loon and white-tailed deer plates, which will continue to be offered.
Motorists who purchase a critical habitat plate make a minimum contribution of $30 to the Reinvest in Minnesota (RIM) program. They are also required to make a minimum contribution of $30 each year to renew the plate. Every dollar generated through the sale of the license plate is matched with private donations of cash or land.
�It has been a long time since we issued a new plate, so to rev up the RIM program, we are giving motorists more ways to show their conservation colors and individual identity,� said DNR Commissioner Mark Holsten.
More than 29,000 people participated in two surveys conducted by the DNR earlier this year to gather citizen and stakeholder input about favorite designs. Holsten and Department of Public Safety Commissioner Michael Campion weighed the survey results and accompanying comments when selecting these four designs.
The critical habitat license plate program was created in 1995 to provide additional opportunity for Minnesotans to contribute to conservation. The plates have generated more than $25 million toward the purchase of 7,700 acres of critical habitat, and have helped fund nongame research and surveys, habitat enhancement and educational programs.
To order plates over the phone, or for questions about ordering the critical habitat license plate, call the Department of Public Safety - Driver and Vehicle Services at 651-297-3304.
More information about the new license plates is available online.


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(U) TAJIK MINISTRY OF INTERIOR OFFICIALS EVICT RESIDENTS, TAKE OVER BUILDING: (Source: AMEMBASSY DUSHANBE 00643, 30 Apr 07) On April 26 Ministry of Interior officials forcefully evicted residents who illegally occupied a rundown 52-unit building in Dushanbe. When PolOff arrived on the scene, at least 30 police officers had surrounded the area, and one fire truck and an ambulance were poised and ready for emergencies. Women and children, blankets and carpets were scattered cross the area surrounding the building. Despite residents'' protests, officials removed all belongings from their apartments and loaded them along with the residents onto open-top trucks. According to a colonel who was in charge of the eviction, the government will relocate residents to their hometowns as indicated on their internal passports. Most residents originally came from the south, but some will be sent back to as far away as the Gorno-Badakhshan region. The residents were internally displaced persons who arrived in Dushanbe after the end of the civil war to find jobs.


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MSU unit changes name,emphasizes sustainability
MISSISSIPPI STATE – A Mississippi State University department has been renamed to reflect the renewable, natural and sustainable resources used in the industry.
The MSU Department of Forest Products is now the Department of Sustainable Bioproducts.
Department head Rubin Shmulsky said that over the last few decades, the profession has grown and evolved to include both wood and other bioproducts, including agricultural residues, natural fibers and adhesives. He said the name change reflects the focus on renewable, sustainable products that are already part of the MSU program.
"Across the U.S., university-level wood science and forest products programs have evolved to include a broadened focus on sustainability, conservation, renewable resources and environmental stewardship," Shmulsky said. "While these concepts have always been included in the MSU program, it is important that the department name reflects this effort."
Established in 1964, the department is a national leader in the development of wood durability and preservation technologies, the conversion of woody biomass into liquid fuels, the use of small diameter and low-value trees, and the testing of engineered wood products in furniture.
The department currently offers graduate degrees only. Faculty and administrators are developing a new sustainable bioproducts undergraduate curriculum.
"The department's research contributes significantly to the Mississippi economy," said George Hopper, dean of the MSU College of Forest Resources and Forest and Wildlife Research Center. "This name change better reflects the departmental mission and goals for research and education."
Forestry and forest product industries contribute $10.38 billion annually to the state's economy and employ more than 63,000 people. Timber is the second-largest agricultural commodity in 2013, with a preliminary year-end harvest value estimated at $1.17 billion.
The department name change was approved this fall by the Mississippi Institutions of Higher Learning.
MSU workshop offers new manufacturing program
Research finds promising use for sweetgum lumber
Wood products impact daily life
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Program Helps Forest Products Grads Land MS Jobs
https://extension.msstate.edu/news/feature-story/2013/msu-unit-changes-nameemphasizes-sustainability


So far, life in Peachville has been tough for Harper Madison. She's survived attacks on her life, learned how to control her magic, and met the most gorgeous boy — who also happens to be a demon. After her latest stunt at Brighton Hospital, the Order of Shadows is determined to tighten their control on her life. So when a future Prima from a nearby demon gate comes to town, she and Harper decide to use magic to switch places at a party. All Harper wants is to have a little fun.
And Harper will find out the attack was meant for her..
She is strong, beautiful and has a snarky attitude. Lea is a liberator who holds fast to her beliefs. This Shadow Demon is going places and isn't one to give up on what she believes is right.
We find out the extent of Claire's love for Harper. She made so many sacrifices for her daughter's happiness and they all come to light. Sadly, we also discover all the betrayals that had to be endured. My heart breaks for Claire and she is definitely at the tippy top of that list. All mom's should be as awesome as Claire.
4.75 Un-putta-downable Obsidian filled stars! I cannot recommend this book enough! Go buy it! Go read it now!! Then tell me what you think!


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New drink driving penalties come into effect ahead of Bank Holiday weekend
Longford Leader Reporter
New drink driving penalties come in at midnight tonight ahead of the busy Bank Holiday weekend.
The legal limits for drink driving are not changing but anyone caught over the limit now faces an automatic disqualification.
A driver caught drink driving with between 50 mgs and 80 mgs alcohol per 100 mls of blood, 107 mgs of alcohol per 100 mls of urine or 35 mgs of alcohol per 100 mls of breath faces a mandatory disqualification of three months as well as receiving a fixed charge penalty of €200 and risk a criminal record if they choose to go to court and lose.
This means that anyone caught over these limits, which were previously in place, now faces automatic disqualification from the road.
Transport Minister Shane Ross announced the new penalties. READ MORE BELOW
"There are few more irresponsible and dangerous things people can do in everyday life than drink and drive. It was always wrong to give people the mild slap on the wrist of three penalty points for such potentially lethal behaviour, and it is great satisfaction to know that in future people who behave this way will face a disqualification from driving for three months.
"People will be aware that this Act was passed with widespread support in both Houses of the Oireachtas, despite the efforts by a few to delay it by playing irresponsible parliamentary games. They failed, and the Irish public at large will be the winners. Let me be clear – we are not interested in punishing people, what we want is for people to behave responsibly. If they do not, the consequences must be serious, and I think it is overwhelmingly in the public interest that people who drink and drive should face disqualification from driving," he said.
The Bill was passed in July but delayed several months after strong opposition from a number of TD's.
Also read: Employee accused of misappropriating thousands from Longford cash and carry business


Re: Setting up your own publishing company and record label.
You should join a performing rights organization like ASCAP or BMI. Why? Someday you might get airplay and they will collect royalties for you. Ya, right. But still, it's a good idea to join. Before you name your publishing company and get a business license, get some ASCAP forms . They'll ask you to submit three possible names for your publishing company. You can't have the same name as somebody else. They'll let you know if you can use your first, second or third choice. You can become kind of a member-in-waiting until you actually release your CD. With that, your publishing company has actually published something and can be considered bona-fide and you have the priveledge of giving ASCAP $50 a year to be a publisher member.
You can be just a writer member of ASCAP, but you have to have something published. ASCAP splits the performance royalties it collects between the publisher and the composer. If you're both the publisher and the composer, hey, you get all the royalties and not just half.
So why also have a record label? The record label owns the recording; the publisher owns the song. What about the copyright? Well, that properly belongs to the composer. If you wrote the song, then you inherently have the right to make copies and sell them. Used to be, that meant sheet music. Used to be, you needed a publisher--who had a press and a distribution system--to go anywhere with that. Hence, a composer would assign his or her copyright to a publisher for a 50 percent share of the proceeds, less the publisher's expenses and whatever else the publisher could come up with to screw the composer. So the publisher holds the copyright and issues a license to record the song to the record label for which the record label must pay a per-copy-made-&-distributed fee.
As composer, publisher AND record label, you own the whole shebang and don't have to split nothing with nobody. You can sell your CD, pay yourself the license fee (mechanical royalty) and split it with yourself. And, if you get lucky and somebody else wants to cover one of your songs, you get the royalties.


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Subtitle C. Navy and Marine Corps
Part IV. GENERAL ADMINISTRATION
Chapter 863. NAVAL VESSELS
Section 8687. Status of Government rights in the designs of vessels, boats, and craft, and components thereof
10 U.S. Code § 8687 - Status of Government rights in the designs of vessels, boats, and craft, and components thereof
(a) In General.—Government rights in the design of a vessel, boat, or craft, and its components, including the hull, decks, superstructure, and all shipboard equipment and systems, shall be determined solely as follows:
In the case of a vessel, boat, craft, or component procured through a contract, in accordance with the provisions of section 2320 of this title.
In the case of a vessel, boat, craft, or component procured through an instrument not governed by section 2320 of this title, by the terms of the instrument (other than a contract) under which the design for such vessel, boat, craft, or component, as applicable, was developed for the Government.
(b) Construction of Superseding Authorities.—
This section may be modified or superseded by a provision of statute only if such provision expressly refers to this section in modifying or superseding this section.
(Added Pub. L. 110–417, [div. A], title VIII, § 825(a), Oct. 14, 2008, 122 Stat. 4534, § 7317; renumbered § 8687, Pub. L. 115–232, div. A, title VIII, § 807(d)(2), Aug. 13, 2018, 132 Stat. 1836.)
A prior section 8687, acts Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 536; Sept. 2, 1958, Pub. L. 85–861, § 1(188), 72 Stat. 1534; Sept. 7, 1962, Pub. L. 87–649, § 6(d), 76 Stat. 494, related to compensation for members of Air Force other than Regular Air Force prior to repeal by Pub. L. 99–661, div. A, title VI, § 604(f)(1)(A), Nov. 14, 1986, 100 Stat. 3877.


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She rediscovered her childhood gift of animal communication
Nicole Kidman, in a past lifetime, had been on stage when Lincoln was fatally shot.
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Former Deputy Sheriff in Bailey, Colorado, Karen Anderson experienced heightened awareness honing her intuitive skills on the force dealing with life-threatening situations while on patrol. During this time she rediscovered her childhood gift of animal communication and has been helping others to bridge the divide and understand the mind of animals. "You'd be surprised what the animals can tell you... and animals don't lie," Anderson said. Animals can send messages in the flash of an image and read our minds, though they do not understand certain human concepts, she explained. Pets can provide detailed intelligence about their humans, including information related to upcoming surgeries, job changes, and relationship issues, Anderson added.
"I actually hear the animals, I can hear them speaking to me," she revealed, pointing out how the eyes of the animals play a critical role in the communication. Anderson spoke about pets assisting investigations during her days as a law enforcement officer. She shared details about one case in which the client's brother had been murdered. His cats communicated the initials of the primary suspect as well as specifics on his physical appearance, she reported. Anderson also commented on speaking to deceased animals. "They're actually easier for me to connect with than those that are here and alive... [because] they are pure energy," she said.
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We have Diana Taurasi and you don't ... When I was in Project Pegasus, I took the teleporter from 1971 to 1973, the stargate from 1972 to 2045, and the advanced chronovisor from 1971 to 2013... In a sessions with Kevin Ryerson, Ahtun Re confirmed that Charlie Christian reincarnated as Jimi Hendrix and that in a prior incarnation, he was Chavalier de Saint-George.
Billy Carson is an expert on the secret space program and a highly respected Martian anomaly finder. He joined Jimmy Church in the first half to discuss his new tech company that is developing engines and propulsion systems for space travel. A few years ago, Carson was granted "approved vendor" status for NASA which allows his company to bid on space technology projects He is now involved in a project to create a device that reduces the weight of anything in its field of influence. Carson used references from ancient texts such as the Mahabharata to develop a machine that uses a spinning "donut" of mercury under tremendous pressure, which Carson claims creates an "antigravity bubble," which can "be made to any size."
He mentioned that his company, the "First Class Space Agency," is also attempting to develop the elusive "perpetual motion" machine and receive a patent for it, which is historically "extremely difficult to get." The idea involves "perpetual motion generation" with two large "counterrotating magnets." Carson believes that what we have been told about oil and it's source is untrue, and it is in reality the "blood of the Earth" which is produced naturally by the planet and access to which is carefully controlled though a campaign of propaganda about the scarcity of fossil fuels. He says that the philosophy of his company with regard to the laws of physics is that "some laws are made to bent, and some are made to be broken."


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Moebius: Empire Rising (o solo Moebius in alcune presentazioni) è un videogioco di tipo avventura grafica della software house Pinkerton Road fondata da Jane Jensen, uscito il 15 aprile 2014 per Windows e macOS e successivamente per Linux.
Si tratta di un thriller metafisico nello stile di Dante's Equation e Gabriel Knight, di cui è, secondo le stesse parole della Jensen, l'erede spirituale.
Le musiche sono dirette da Robert Holmes. Il gioco è stato finanziato mediante progetto Kickstarter e scelto dagli stessi sostenitori, preferendolo ad altri due giochi proposti: Gray Matter 2 e Anglophile Adventure.

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Malachi Rector è un antiquario alla continua caccia di manufatti in tutto il mondo. Dopo aver perso tutto in un incendio, viene ingaggiato da un milionario di Manhattan per indagare su una serie di eventi e raccogliere indizi con il suo meticoloso metodo. Ma Malachi si rende conto ben presto che gli eventi oggetto della sua investigazione hanno uno strano significato, che sconvolgerà la sua esistenza e il suo stesso modo di concepire il mondo.

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The roar of the crowd echoes through the stadium as the players take their mark with palpable anticipation. The speed, the passion, the thrill of the chase, every moment is unpredictable. Sports photography illustrates the win or lose, the failures and the photo-finishes, it's not just the champions we celebrate, but the beauty of the game. Step onto the touchline and prepare for victory.
A responsive DSLR that keeps up with the action, this camera has a shooting rate of 7 fps with a 24.2 MP sensor and high-performance AF system to react instinctively to fast movement, even under floodlights. With customisable controls and stunning movie quality, it's the perfect all-round camera for creative minds interested in both stills and film.
This DSLR is built for speed. Shoot fleeting moments at 10 fps with an advanced 65-point autofocus, bringing fast-moving subjects to life. Responsive handling means you'll capture every tackle and every save, tracking subjects as they move around the frame.
A versatile, telephoto zoom with a lightweight build that gets you closer. Shoot rugby fixtures from the side-lines with this compact and easy-to-use lens. Image Stabilizer technology helps prevent blur from camera movement, so you can zoom in for distant team exchanges.
Showcase the magic as if you were part of the team. From the winning serve to on-pitch celebrations, this high-quality zoom with innovative lens display and Nano USM technology is an affordable solution designed to capture distant subjects with fast, near-silent focussing.
Capture game-defining moments with a travelling photographer's favourite zoom lens. Standing pitch side or up in the stands, this telephoto lens is built with 3-mode IS technology to guard against image blur, for handheld fast-reaction shooting.
Celebrate split-second record-breakers and savour the moment as you see it in stunning 4K at 14 fps for professional image quality. With outstanding ISO capabilities, 20.2 MP sensor and our most advanced tracking technology, sports photographers can shoot the split-second strokes of a swimmer or fast-paced throw of a rugby ball, for images so sharp you'll be able to feel the excitement.
A professional-quality L-series lens with a reputation among professional photographers as being the go-to zoom. Offering sharp optics and a fast f/2.8 aperture throughout the zoom range, it's perfect for close ups of fleeting facial expressions.
This fast-aperture L-series telephoto zoom lens is a favourite with professional photographers. From winning smiles to distant grimaces, shoot under floodlights or before you're rained-off with this durable and versatile lens delivering sharp images in the most challenging environments.
Get up-close to the action without stepping foot on the pitch. This lightweight L-series telephoto has advanced five-stop Image Stabilizer and fingertip controls, so you can continue to shoot the sharpest images without taking your eye from the camera. It's so lightweight, that you could shoot handheld when the moment takes you.
This pocket-sized, compact travel zoom features huge 40x optical zoom and 4K movie resolution for incredible results at impressive distances. The responsive 10 fps with Zoom Framing Assist and Hybrid Auto lets you point and shoot at your subjects, whether they're running, jumping or swimming - you'll have sharp, clear results at the click of a button.
With a 65x zoom, this all-in-one camera offers versatile, enhanced features with the look of a DSLR but weight and flexibility of a fixed-lens. From wide angle to extreme close-up, film Sports Day from the side-lines in stunning 4K, with Bluetooth® and Wi-Fi to share moments as they happen.
Combining the versatility of a 25x zoom lens with the imaging performance of a 1.0-type sensor, this durable PowerShot camera delivers crisp, clear shots at both indoor and outdoor sporting events. Thanks to its optical Image Stabilizer, you can automatically adapt to movement and changes of pace - even at full zoom or handheld in low light.
A more affordable solution; get 8x closer to the starting line without compromising on image quality. Comfortable and easy to carry, take these intelligent binoculars to every rugby game or football match and enjoy the sights from the top tiers.
With precision optics and Powered Image Stabilizer to counteract movement, follow the race to victory at a stable 10x view. Enjoy bright, handheld detail and comfortable identification, the handheld tracking delivers clear and accurate visibility of the most distant action.


We love this easy family friendly walk because it can be done any day any time. Far from the hustle and bustle of the Crans-Montana resort, this shady path takes you through a forest to the pretty little lake Miriouges. An easy family walk and best of it all it is push chair friendly.
As it is a rather shady walk because the Bisse des Miriouges flows within the forest, be prepared to bring an extra jacket during the cooler months.
From the point where you join the Bisse des Miriouges at the beginning of your family friendly walk, the path guides you through a quiet neighbourhood. Now this is your chance to be a bit nosey. Most of these houses seem to be holiday homes as every time we have walked it there is just nobody around.
You will pass a house with a large white elephant in the garden (see map I have marked the location ) looking down over the beautiful Rhone Valley. A photo opportunity in its own right. The path through these housing areas is the only part where you will have a view over the Rhone valley on this family friendly walk. Enjoy it!
Once you reach the forest you will surely see a squirrel leap from one branch to the other over your heads and maybe you hear the knocking of a woodpecker. The flat path continues through the forest before it reaches the beautiful small lake of Miriouges. Hidden in the middle of the forest it is tinted with changing colours depending on the time of the year you visit and on the light. We love the autumnal shades along this whole family friendly walk.
When you arrive by the Miriouges Lake you can find yourselves by a little oasis. Take the time and observe the environment in silence, if this is possible with your kids 🙂 You are likely to see some fish jumping out of the water. At the lakeshore the combination of stones and water for our kids equals only one thing: all the stones having to be thrown into the water..
If you wish to continue on your walk follow the trail around the lake to reach a playground with additional bbq areas on the other side. Some passages around the lake are a bit difficult to follow with a pushchair, but until the lake you will not encounter any issues, just be aware of it.
Grills and picnic tables have been installed at the edge of the water when you exit the forest, which allows you and your family to fully enjoy this quiet and peaceful place with a nice BBQ.
There is special section for fishing on the left-hand side of the lake. If you do spot any fishermen, please try to be quiet, because you also may be able to see some special creatures around this nature section. Be aware that for fishing you need a permit.
For the return, take the same path back through the forest and alongside the chalets.
If you never been there it can take you some time to find the start. So you're in luck as I will explain to you exactly where to park and how you can find the start of this family friendly walk along the Bisse des Miriouges.
Walk up the road and take the set of stairs on your right which brings you on to the upper road called "Route du Golf". The first path that goes away to the right is your path. From here simply follow the Bisse des Miriouges until you reach the lake.
Length:: 1.4 km to the lake / The complete loop (round trip and lake tour) is 4 km.
Good to know:: The path is suitable for push-chairs and those with reduced mobility. there is no restaurant by the lake.
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Covid-19, Light at the End of the Tunnel
People's will to weather the coronavirus storm and get back to normal life has vied with the surge of record-breaking infection rates around the globe. People are tired of hearing about the pandemic but it grips and does not let go, spreading and striking. Yet, we can find the stamina to navigate the crisis when we realize that the solution is in our hands.
If we help each other take on the mindset of the good of all, our hearts will be cleansed of egoistic and alienating attitudes and all the parts of nature will recover balance. The common concern for the well-being of others will create solutions for every possible situation, building a shield that will protect us from all predicaments.
"For the first time in history, nearly every scientist in the world is focused on the same problem… this is starting to pay real dividends," say academics from Harvard who highlight the new era of cooperation we have entered to mitigate the impact of the pandemic on every realm of our lives: the economy, health, education, culture. Millions of people worldwide are stressed out over the variables that predict what awaits us in the future. What will happen in the upcoming winter in terms of COVID cases? How many more people will be unemployed?
The uncertainty shapes our collective consciousness and prepares it for a sharp turn. Precisely this kind of change of perspective — from a narrow-minded, egoistic perspective to a comprehensive, broad approach to solving our common challenges — is what will help us to reach a solution to the crisis at the deepest root of the problem: our dysfunctional human relations, rather than approaching it only from a scientific, economic or political perspective.
The Silver Lining Is Between Us
From a world where a person sees only himself, we need to transition to a world where people consider one another. From a world where we no longer stop to consider whether or not to wear a mask or keep social distance to avoid the transmission of a harmful virus to those near us, we need to attain a reality in which we consciously do whatever it takes to protect others, in the same way as we would like others to take care of the health of our children.
Our current sense of helplessness is making us more sensitive to the relationships between us. Without improving our human relations, we will be unable to secure a good future. Instead, we will only waste precious energy and resources on wars and conflicts of interest. Even if a cure for COVID-19 is found, it will not cure the social phenomenon of excessive egoism, the state that causes people not to feel the needs of others but only their own selfish demands.
The ultimate vaccine against all pathogens targets the healing of the hearts, neutralizes venomous criticism and corrects our exploitative attitude towards others. Nature is not blind and nothing happens by chance. The engine of evolution produces what we perceive as negative events so we will react and make connections that move us in the opposite direction toward alignment with nature. This is the formula for the evolution of life, and the times require everyone to realize this. The world we have built is completely interconnected, but our hearts remain far apart. This incompatibility is exactly what we are required to fix so we will function as an integral system in mutual consideration and harmony.
If we help each other take on the mindset of the good of all, our hearts will be cleansed of egoistic and alienating attitudes and all the parts of nature will recover balance. The common concern for the well-being of others will create solutions for every possible situation, building a shield that will protect us from all predicaments. Then we will discover that there is nothing threatening in nature, and that the coronavirus was just the means for curing the world from hatred and excessive consumerism.
The bottom line of this formula for security and prosperity is simple: without connection of the hearts we will all suffer, but mutual support will build a sensation of paradise. We are like a family stuck together in a tunnel. We will be able to see the light at the end of the tunnel only with the power of love.
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