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The World Was an Ocean
By Helena Sorensen • December 14, 2021
I'm feeling a little lost these days, as though I've awakened from a troubling dream to find that nothing is where it was or as it was. I've entered my forties during a nationwide cultural and religious shift, during a global pandemic, and a future that once presented a hazy but recognizable profile has become a blank. The energy that carried me through other seasons of difficulty has run out. I am groping for the familiar on an alien planet.
Without meaning to, I'd slipped into the assumption that the world would go on pretty much as it always had. I picked up the phone and made a call with the certainty that the person I loved would be waiting on the other end of the line. I was sure of what I'd find behind the doors of the homes, businesses, and churches with which I was well acquainted. My interior world was recognizable, if not always comfortable. I knew what I believed. At the very least, I could identify which people, which institutions were sturdy enough to lean on. That's the trouble with illusions, isn't it? You don't know you have them until they're taken away.
Some weeks ago, I stumbled on an old recording of A Horse and His Boy's "And the World Was an Ocean." It's a song I found compelling from my first introduction to it. Its heartbreaking simplicity begs the listener to sing along. Hearing it again surprised me out of a profound silence, and I joined Seth Harper without thought, as if by muscle memory.
One day I woke up and the world was an ocean
The sun ran in circles to keep me confused
My bed was my lifeboat as I was its captain
My wits not about me, my spirit diffused.
—"And the World Was an Ocean," A Horse and His Boy
Harper's image of desolation perfectly reflected my reality. I woke one morning to find myself scanning the surface of a vast oceanic void, searching for shorelines. "I am lost in the current," I sang, "I'm lost in the blue / I am lost without a compass / I am lost without you." I didn't know how lost until the singing stirred my grief, didn't recognize the truth until my tears told me so.
Suddenly, the water was everywhere. I found it in my Instagram feed, when a sample of Scott Erickson's iconography caught my attention. In the image, a hermit crab struggles in a tiny, cramped shell. Erickson is talking about the challenges and gifts of transformation, urging the viewer to recognize that the shell provides only an illusion of safety. His words brought me back to the lifeboat, a small thing in the frame of my mind, a fragile wooden shell pitted against the fury, the mystery, the sheer breathless expanse of the ocean.
And then in the course of an ordinary day, as I washed dishes or folded laundry (you know how it is with these things), I remembered a sermon I heard more than a decade ago in which the preacher referred to the fall of mankind as "The Great Gasp." We were made to live inside the love of God, he said; that love, that water, was the air we were meant to breathe. In turning away from the true face of God, we cast ourselves on dry land, into an environment for which we were entirely unsuited, to gasp and struggle. To die.
I pulled up Audrey Assad and Fernando Ortega's "O the Deep, Deep Love of Jesus" and set it to play on repeat. "O the deep, deep love of Jesus / Vast, unmeasured, boundless, free / Rolling as a mighty ocean in its fullness over me / Underneath me, all around me / Is the current of his love." I want that love to flow around me and through me. I want to abandon myself to it. But apart from the principle of the thing—the abstract theological imperative—I don't know how. I have dipped my toe in the water and come away changed, but if I fell in, all the way, I would die. That's my feeling on the subject. The love of God is infinite and fathomless and it will kill me. It's the kind of fear you don't acknowledge on a Sunday morning.
I am not so much lost as I am exploring a Welcome more expansive than I ever dreamed possible. It is calling me out of my flimsy boat into the staggering embrace of home.
Helena Sorensen
Over the last eighteen months, I've led several groups in a study of Robin McKinley's Beauty. The novel is deceivingly simple, with a rich story buried beneath the familiar elements of plot and character, and it's the only retelling of "Beauty and the Beast" in which the Beast's love transforms Beauty, and not the other way around. I'm moved by their early encounters, the ones defined by Beauty's fear. Faced with a gigantic, hairy creature whose motives are unclear, and imagining herself in danger of imminent death, Beauty reacts as anyone would. She tries to protect herself. Her amygdala kicks into gear. She vacillates between freezing and fleeing, with an occasional fight. This in spite of the fact that McKinley's Beast does nothing to cause her fear. Unlike his Disney counterpart, his faults are a matter of the past; during all Beauty's sojourn in the castle, he is gentle and undemanding. He defers to her, makes himself vulnerable to her, offering a genuine love that Beauty cannot receive. Why? McKinley doesn't make the reason explicit, but I learned not long before I began the study that when the amygdala is activated, the pre-frontal cortex is offline. In other words, when a person is in the midst of a fear reaction, the parts of the brain that allow for relational connection are shut down. You cannot be afraid and receive love at the same time. You might say that fear casts out love (as love casts out fear). It's one or the other.
How, then, do we overcome fear and receive love? How do we fall into the ocean when our fingers are biting into the wood of the lifeboat? Those deeply buried fear responses were formed before we understood what was happening to us; they're intrinsic. Often we are not even aware they exist. As a child, I did not have words to say that the God I was introduced to was a beast. I did not know I was afraid. Someone painted a picture of the Eye of Sauron and called it Holiness. Someone told stories of violence and retribution and called it Love. Someone used "his ways are higher than our ways" as a panacea to justify all manner of horrors and then pointed my young heart toward the monster and said, "This way lies hope."
That these conflicting messages were wrapped in earnestness, in fine clothing and stained glass, in lofty language and lovely music, only complicated the matter. My exterior confidence belied the fundamental reality that, when presented with the Person(s) of God, I was no more than a frightened little girl. Was? Am? I don't know how to define the overlap of was and is, the layers of truth in my one subjective experience, the past selves I carry with me and those I am and will be. I only know that Beauty eventually uncurled her fingers from the banister where she cowered and stepped up to the Beast and saw him and knew him. In the same way, I am uncurling my fingers from the side of the boat, maybe because it is leaking and doomed, but maybe also because the ocean is beginning to look a little less terrifying.
I found the water again in a passage near the end of one of my favorite fantasy novels.
Could there be candle flames burning under the water? There could. I knew that, when I was in the ocean, and I even knew how. I understood it just as I understood Dark Matter, the material of the universe that makes up everything that must be there but we cannot find. I found myself thinking of an ocean running beneath the whole universe, like the dark seawater that laps beneath the wooden boards of an old pier: an ocean that stretches from forever to forever and is still small enough to fit inside a bucket, if you have Old Mrs. Hempstock to help you get it in there, and you ask nicely.
—Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane
Gaiman, it seems, has a sense of the ocean that surrounds and undergirds us; he knows how terrible it looks from the outside, how peaceful from within. Like the old preacher, he grasps the unnerving truth that the ocean is more our home than dry land, that we were made, so to speak, to breathe water.
I would like to close, Reader, by tossing you an anchor, but I cannot. I am drifting. The nature of my journey is as mysterious as these strange new surroundings. Don't fear for me, though. I am not so much lost as I am exploring a Welcome more expansive than I ever dreamed possible. It is calling me out of my flimsy boat into the staggering embrace of home.
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Oh my….. thank you Helena for taking us on the journey with you into uncharted seas. Beautiful and pensive both and an echo for me just this morning as I pondered the word 'surface', as in, what lies below is more real than what we see.
this really encouraged me. thank you.
Shigé Clark
@s-clark December 14, 2021 at 1:09 pm
Thank you, Helena. Beautiful and powerful (you and this piece). Also, "The love of God is infinite and fathomless and it will kill me. It's the kind of fear you don't acknowledge on a Sunday morning." rocked me. Yeah to all that. Keep exploring, thanks for sharing as you map it out.
Andrew M Ecker
This describes exactly where I am in this season. It's just helpful to realize that. And not try to control things I cannot change.
Emily Wismer
@emilywismergmail-com December 14, 2021 at 10:32 pm
Beautiful imagery.
Jen Rose Yokel
@jroseyokel December 15, 2021 at 10:27 pm
Jonathan Rogers
@jonathanrogers December 16, 2021 at 1:36 pm
Thank you for this, Helena. Your courage and honesty give other people courage.
Gary R Hook
Wow. I have no other words.
David Dickerson
@daviddickerson December 20, 2021 at 10:33 am
Thank you dearly for this; it was very encouraging to another soul who's found himself in a long period of uncertainty.
This Pilgrim Way was my favorite album in the year I discovered it—2009, I think? It's fallen off my radar the last few years. Looks like it's time to give it another listen (or 20).
Thank you for, in beautiful and brave vulnerability, creating space for others to also find the courage to push deeper into Infinite Love's Welcome.


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The 50th Annual Regatta del Sol al Sol started at the Saint Petersburg Yacht Club in St. Petersburg, Florida and finished on the beautiful island in the Mexican Caribbean, Isla Mujeres, just off the coast of Cancun. 30 Boats were on the scratch sheet, I was aboard SKY, a custom Vaudery Miller 57 owned by my friends Johannes 'Jopie' Helsen and his partner Heidi Trilsch. Jopie, 50 years prior, raced in the first Regatta del Sol al Sol in 1969.
The race started on a blue-sky Friday morning with winds at 10kts out of the west. After passing under the Sunshine Skyway there was nothing but open water ahead for 456 NM! We had a rather motley crew of experienced sailors, including Charlie Ball, Linwood Gilbert, Karan Park, Dan Driscoll with Doyle Sails, Herb McCormick senior editor of Cruising World Magazine, and our videographer Chris Gourley.
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With winds shifting more out of the north at 15 knots, we opted to split from Wasabi and head south, cutting across the Gulf Stream and trying to avoid as much as possible the strongest of the current between Mexico and Cuba, all the while knowing at some point we'd have to cross it.
Just after 2 days into the race, the first boat crossed the finish line, Merlin, the legendary Bill Lee custom that's been prowling races since launched in 1977. A true sled of a boat! Merlin was followed closely by Sgt. Reckless a Tripp 75, of the Warrior Sailing organization, and crewed by wounded warriors. An incredible group of sailors! Meanwhile, shortly after their finish, we encountered our first set back. Off watch and sound asleep in my berth directly under the starboard quarter I was awoken by a loud SNAP, followed by a string of words from the cockpit that you'd expect from sailors under those circumstances. The halyard on the spinnaker chaffed through and the sail was now dragging along the hull. All-hands-on-deck and we had the massive sail lashed down and a new kite up in under 20 minutes.
Under the second spinnaker, we made our way about 35 NM off the coast of Cuba before heading west just before our third sunset at sea, to cross the Gulf Stream.
With north-northeast winds at about 14 knots and 4.9 knots at its strongest of opposing current, the seas stacked up and gave us quite the ride for the next 12 hours. It was an incredible night of sailing and the boat and crew handled it well.
As we made our way south for the final leg, Wasabi rejoined us about 4 NM off our bow, finishing just 30 minutes ahead of us. We crossed the finish line just after4AM on Monday morning.
The entire island of Isla Mujeres welcomed the crews and celebrated our arrival with several events hosted throughout the week. Most of the boats gathered at the El Milagro Marina but the sailors found their way to their favorite watering holes, such as the Soggy Paso where I dutifully left my hat pinned to the wall like so many others before me.
SKY took 1st in the Cruisers-A Class and 2nd overall, a spectacular finish! Also, in our class were two boats sold by David Walters Yachts some years back, a Hylas 54 named Split Decision and a Hylas 49 named It's Only Money, whose crew I had the pleasure to catch up with after the race.


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Malala's Autobiography in Kannada: Nobel Peace Prize co-winner for 2014 from Pakistan (along with India's Prakash Satiyarthi) Malala Yusufzai's autobiography 'I am Malala' has been translated in Kannada by Jaya Prakash Narain on October 19. Titled 'Nanu Malala', it was released by noted Kannada litterateur Dr. Siddaliangaiah. Kannada writer Mohammed Kunhi spoke at the occasion.
Nahid Hassan Wrests Kairana seat: Nahid Hassan, Samajwadi Party candidate wrested the Kairana Assembly seat from BJP in the byelection held along with those in Maharashtra and Haryana Assembly on Oct. 13. He defeated the BJP candidate Anil Singh Chauhan by around 1,000 votes. The seat was consistently won by BJP's Hukum Singh during the last four Assembly election. He vacated the seat after getting elected to Lok Sabha in May last. Curiously, Nahid Hassan's uncle Arshad Hassan too contested the election but trailed far behind his nephew. Kairana falls under the Muzaffarnagar region which was rocked with communal riots in 2013.
Syed Mudassir has been appointed Estate Officer for the Tipu Shaheed Waqf Estate Development Committee at Srirangapatnam by the Karnataka State Board of Wakfs. He being the Waqf Officer of the Mandya District Wakf Advisory Committee, will hold additional charge of the Tipu Waqf Estate.
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Died: Maulvi Iftikhar Hussain Ansari, senior leader of the People's Democratic Party and noted Shia leader from Jammu and Kashmir died after prolonged illness on September 30 in Srinagar. Ansari represented Patan constituency in the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly. He was president of the Jammu and Kashmir Shia Association and Chairman of the Imam Hussain Hospital located in the Hamdania Colony. He escaped three attempts on his life during the militancy in the State. He was buried in Jaddi Bal graveyard.


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Apple becomes first U.S. company to reach $1…
Apple becomes first U.S. company to reach $1 trillion market cap
Apple CEO Tim Cook kicks off the event for a new product announcement at the Steve Jobs Theater on the new Apple campus on Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2017, in Cupertino, Calif. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)
By Seung Lee | slee@bayareanewsgroup.com | Bay Area News Group
PUBLISHED: August 2, 2018 at 12:05 pm | UPDATED: August 2, 2018 at 3:42 pm
CUPERTINO — Silicon Valley technology giant Apple on Thursday became the first public company in U.S. history to reach a $1 trillion market value, ahead of rapidly rising Seattle-based Amazon, after another strong quarterly earnings report and revenue outlook that lifted Apple's shares.
Apple first reached its trillion-dollar market capitalization when its share price topped $207.05 shortly before 9 a.m. PDT Thursday. Analysts calculated Apple's market capitalization by multiplying the share price with the outstanding share count — or how many shares are currently in the market.
Apple shares later surged above the $207.05 share price that put its market value at the $1 trillion level, given the company's new outstanding share count released Wednesday.
Apple's outstanding share count was at 4,829,926,000 as of July 20, according to the company's 10-Q filing to the Securities and Exchanges Commission on Wednesday.
By around 11:08 a.m. PDT, Apple shares traded at $208.14, up about 3.3 percent on the day.
The milestone is the culmination of Apple's persistent growth and continued delivery of products that at times have been revolutionary and other times evolutionary, but nevertheless popular worldwide with consumers. From the early days of the Macintosh computer in the 1980s to later, more portable innovations such as the iPod, iPad, iPhone and Apple Watch — offering platforms for app-based services — Apple's products and vision have lifted the company to new heights for a U.S. public company.
Experts pointed to the leadership shown by Apple's late co-founder Steve Jobs and current CEO Tim Cook as pivotal to the company's enduring success.
"Symbolically, it's an important milestone which speaks to how transformational, successful and unparalleled the Apple ecosystem is that Jobs and Cook have created in succession," said Dan Ives, GBH Insights' head of technology research. "It just speaks to how revolutionary the iPhone's been."
While Wall Street and the world watched for Apple to reach the $1 trillion market capitalization early Thursday, the company apparently managed to get a little ahead of itself in marking the milestone. Apple's own Stocks app inadvertently reported Apple hitting a $1 trillion market cap before its shares actually reached the $207.05 level that made that historic market value a reality. The cause of the glitch reportedly was that the app didn't reflect the latest company filing showing that Apple had bought back more of its shares, which meant its stock price had to hit a higher share-price threshold than was necessary under the previously reported count of outstanding shares. Apple's Stocks app, which is built in to the company's iPhones, reportedly pulls data from Yahoo Finance as its source of stock price information.
Although Apple did get to the $1 trillion market value soon afterward, it wasn't the first corporation worldwide to reach that market capitalization. Chinese oil giant PetroChina Co. did it first in 2007. But PetroChina's trillion-dollar market capitalization was short-lived, and it's now trading at a market value of around $214 billion, Forbes reported Wednesday.
Unlike PetroChina's speculative explosion that propelled the oil company to the trillion-dollar pinnacle, Apple's climb has been a slow, steady advance built on consecutive quarters of solid growth. The final push followed Apple's strong fiscal third-quarter earnings and good revenue guidance for the fourth quarter on Tuesday.
Apple has paved the way for other technology companies, like Amazon, to reach the summit, according to analysts.
"Silicon Valley wouldn't be what it is today without Apple," said Ives. Ives also forecast Amazon — currently still shy of a $900 billion market cap — could join Apple in the trillion-dollar club in 2019.
After its $38 billion one-time tax payment to the United States government in January under the new tax reform, Apple announced a $100 billion stock buyback plan to reduce the share count in the market.
Cupertino-based Apple reported Tuesday that sales of its iPhones only increased 1 percent in its fiscal third quarter from the same period a year earlier, but because of the popularity of its pricier smartphone models like iPhone X driving sales, total revenue from iPhone sales jumped 20 percent from the same period a year ago.
As iPhone revenues continued to jump, Apple's most lucrative revenue growth came from services like Apple Music and Apple Pay and wearables like AirPod earphones and Apple Watch.
"They extracted more revenue and more profit from the most incentivized customers in the market," said KeyBanc Capital Markets analyst Andy Hargreaves. "As for the wearables, after early stumbles and not knowing quite what to do, Apple hit its stride. They added increments of growth surrounding the iPhone."
However, geopolitical risks in the near term have the potential to derail some of Apple's momentum. A looming trade war between the United States and China could possibly result in China slapping tariffs onto Apple products such as the Apple Watch.
In a conference call with analysts Tuesday, Cook said he hoped that "calm heads will prevail" in both Washington and Beijing.
Depending upon how it unfolds, the China-U.S. trade dispute could be particularly painful for Apple as mainland China remains a huge consumer base and the hub of most of its manufacturing, Hargreaves said.
But Creative Strategies' consumer technology analyst Carolina Milanesi said the "impact of new tariffs on phones has been short-lived" in the past.
"My proof points are South Korea and their increase in tax of a few years ago and Russia, where there was a crackdown on import duties between 2010 and 2012," said Milanesi. "In both occasions, prices grew, and the market slowed down for a few quarters before picking back up."
Analysts suggested Apple's new U.S. market cap record will have almost no impact on the company's day-to-day operations or its consumers. Furthermore, they said they don't expect the milestone to galvanize investors to sell or buy more Apple shares.
"From a day-to-day perspective I am sure it is business as usual (for Apple)," said Milanesi. "Does it matter for Apple? Sure, it proves that investors believe in the path they are on, especially given some of the bets they made with iPhone X pricing and the focus on services."
But analysts noted that Apple reaching the trillion-dollar market capitalization does have some significance.
"I'd be a fool to say there is literally no importance to it," said Hargreaves. "It is a notable moment. It just doesn't mean much in a practical sense. Like, is turning 50 (years old) any different than turning 49?"
Staff reporter Rex Crum contributed to this article.
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package com.upscale.front;

import com.upscale.front.config.Constants;
import com.upscale.front.config.DefaultProfileUtil;
import com.upscale.front.config.JHipsterProperties;
import com.upscale.front.service.util.DownloadCredentials;

import org.slf4j.Logger;
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
import org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication;
import org.springframework.boot.actuate.autoconfigure.*;
import org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.EnableAutoConfiguration;
import org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.hazelcast.HazelcastAutoConfiguration;
import org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.liquibase.LiquibaseProperties;
import org.springframework.boot.context.properties.EnableConfigurationProperties;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.ComponentScan;
import org.springframework.core.env.Environment;

import javax.annotation.PostConstruct;
import javax.inject.Inject;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.net.InetAddress;
import java.net.UnknownHostException;
import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.Collection;

@ComponentScan
@EnableAutoConfiguration(exclude = { MetricFilterAutoConfiguration.class, MetricRepositoryAutoConfiguration.class, HazelcastAutoConfiguration.class })
@EnableConfigurationProperties({ JHipsterProperties.class, LiquibaseProperties.class })
public class FrontendApp {

    private static final Logger log = LoggerFactory.getLogger(FrontendApp.class);

    @Inject
    private Environment env;

    /**
     * Initializes frontend.
     *

     * Spring profiles can be configured with a program arguments --spring.profiles.active=your-active-profile
     *

     * You can find more information on how profiles work with JHipster on http://jhipster.github.io/profiles/.
     * @throws IOException
     */
    @PostConstruct
    public void initApplication() throws IOException {
        log.info("Running with Spring profile(s) : {}", Arrays.toString(env.getActiveProfiles()));
        Collection<String> activeProfiles = Arrays.asList(env.getActiveProfiles());
        if (activeProfiles.contains(Constants.SPRING_PROFILE_DEVELOPMENT) && activeProfiles.contains(Constants.SPRING_PROFILE_PRODUCTION)) {
            log.error("You have misconfigured your application! It should not run " +
                "with both the 'dev' and 'prod' profiles at the same time.");
        }
        if (activeProfiles.contains(Constants.SPRING_PROFILE_DEVELOPMENT) && activeProfiles.contains(Constants.SPRING_PROFILE_CLOUD)) {
            log.error("You have misconfigured your application! It should not" +
                "run with both the 'dev' and 'cloud' profiles at the same time.");
        }
        if(activeProfiles.contains(Constants.SPRING_PROFILE_CLOUD)){
        	log.info("Google credentials downloaded");
        	DownloadCredentials download = new DownloadCredentials();
        	download.downloadFile(Constants.GOOGLE_CREDENTIALS_URL, Constants.GOOGLE_CREDENTIALS_DOWNLOAD_PATH);
        }
    }

    /**
     * Main method, used to run the application.
     *
     * @param args the command line arguments
     * @throws UnknownHostException if the local host name could not be resolved into an address
     */
    public static void main(String[] args) throws UnknownHostException {
        SpringApplication app = new SpringApplication(FrontendApp.class);
        DefaultProfileUtil.addDefaultProfile(app);
        Environment env = app.run(args).getEnvironment();
        log.info("\n----------------------------------------------------------\n\t" +
                "Application '{}' is running! Access URLs:\n\t" +
                "Local: \t\thttp://127.0.0.1:{}\n\t" +
                "External: \thttp://{}:{}\n----------------------------------------------------------",
            env.getProperty("spring.application.name"),
            env.getProperty("server.port"),
            InetAddress.getLocalHost().getHostAddress(),
            env.getProperty("server.port"));

    }

}


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The highlight of the trip should have been a look at Paradise, the farm at the far end of Lake Wakatipu, where much of the filming took place through spring and early summer.
That is where the shots of Arwen riding and the Nazgul taking a smoko break come from, as far as I know. The actors and crews were gone already, I'd read in the local paper, but it might be possible to check the area out still.
I drove north from Te Anau, passed Queenstown again and went on to Glenorchy, the nearest town to Paradise. The road still relied on precarious temporary cures for the destructive floods the month before. On the side of a hill overlooking the approach to Glenorchy, somebody had written 'Hollywood' in big white letters across the grass.
All pretty promising, until I got to the motor camp where I was staying. It was as graceless, mingy and penny-pinching an establishment as you will find anywhere. Considering that its main customers are the trampers heading out on three or four of New Zealand's 'Great Walks,' it's incredible that they have no facilities to dry packs, boots and raincoats, and seemed to find the idea irrelevant. They have a near-monopoly on backpacker accommodation and access to the trailheads, you'd think they'd be coining money, yet the facilities were as ugly and minimal as possible.
After spending days living in, on, and around dirt and mud, it's odd that a bare concrete showerblock smelling of disinfectant (and sloughed-off skin-cells) should fill me with a greater horror of germs; not only that but it had the architecture of a de-lousing chamber which made me hesitate with superstitious horror before turning on the taps.
I dumped my bags and drove out to Paradise. The famous signs pointing to 'Jamboree' were posted along the dirt roads, and I found it with no trouble. There wasn't anything to be seen except a road going up a bank into a light forest. The owners lived not far from the entrance to the set. Right by the access road was a caravan and a surly security guard. We had a three-sentence conversation and I couldn't see any point hanging round any longer. Bet he was on the phone to the security chief the minute I left.
I had my own stuff to do, a four-day walk up one river and down another.
I had noticed before that some of the official website concept art showed rivers with that peculiar blue-green tinge that glacial water has, so I took a few photos of what I saw in the region so you can see it for yourself, as well as some of the beech-forest that's going to be the backdrop to a lot of scenes. Well, not the same bit of beech-forest, since I didn't get into Paradise. The extra I talked to said they mainly used one clearing there and one bit of forest, but they had a lot of fake trees and bushes that they could move around to make it look different.
The flat plain of the Rees river looked to me like the sort of grassy fields that Rohan might have at the feet of the mountains, and there were places that could have been the borders of Fangorn. Since then we've heard that there's some action going on with horses and riders near Gore, which is nowhere nearby.
And I'll chuck in a picture that could stand in for the Deeping Comb that winds its way between the mountains to Helm's Deep. Though as I say, the film crews could have found a hundred similar places to this one.
Four days later I followed the Dart River down past the Paradise farm again. The caravan was gone and so too were any signs of the filming, I expect. It didn't seem worth pestering the owners for a look, especially knowing the pictures and eyewitness accounts that were available online already.
Back at Glenorchy I talked to the locals and found some people that had a contract to supply the film company with as much scrap possum-fur as they could provide, but they weren't allowed to say what for. They'd made a fur-lined oilskin jacket for one of the LOTR producers too but it was the wrong size, so that was still hanging around. Looked nice. Suit somebody quite big.
I drove off to the West Coast for the fun of it, and ended up two days later in a place called Karamea, a deadend road on the northern end of the Coast.
This place is near a whole lot of places with names taken out of Tolkien, so that there are creeks named for Celeborn, Galadriel, Nenya, Narya and Vilya, and a Nimrodel Creek, all dyed tea-coloured with the tannin of a million fallen leaves.
I've always wanted to see it. It's wild limestone country, always good for surprises. There is a natural archway called Moria Gate.
Well, that's nice, but not much use for Moria, what with all that burgeoning rainforest everywhere. It'd be a nice place for an Ent to hang out, though.
Back at the (absolutely fabulous) hostel in Karamea, a party developed involving guests, visitors, locals, the owners and their friends and relatives. I mentioned LOTR and somebody said they'd flown a helicopter for some Rings locations scouts. They wanted to look at some limestone formations further up the river in the area that's forbidden to the public because people keep nicking off with fossils there. Some people thought they'd said they'd be back to film there, others said they hadn't heard any more and that was that.
They also told me about the stained-glass craftsman further down the Coast who was contracted to make things for the film. Much later I wondered if their work was going to fit into the delicate art-nouveau woodwork bits of set that somebody got a shot of, which we're guessing will be in Lothlorien.
The last thing I did was go and look at the Mirror Tarn near Moria Gate, not because it would be any use but because it sounded interesting. It was such a perfect mirror that I nearly stood in it before I saw it. It's not important, it's just there, looking totally magical without CGI or special lighting of any kind. Effortlessly being Middle-earth whether anyone's there to film it or not.
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Livingston, and gambler George Knowlton's cold-blooded shooting of Black Hills-bound miner David Rauck. He was subjected to an inquiry into his conduct at the battle of Chickamauga and while he was cleared of all charges, he was relived of command and spent the remainder of the war handling relatively minor assignments. This biography, focusing especially on McCook's Civil War service, fills out the full picture of a proud if clouded career. Although he was forced to deal with criticism and accusations all his postwar life, McCook was able to look back on a lifetime of proud service. Each month we count on your subscriptions or contributions. Powell masterfully rectifies this oversight with The Chickamauga Campaign—A Mad Irregular Battle: From the Crossing of the Tennessee River Through the Second Day, August 22 — September 19, 1863.
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Published in April 2015: SCH51, Christianity and Religious Plurality
The latest volume of Studies in Church History, Christianity and Religious Plurality, is now available. Comprising papers and communications presented at the annual conferences of the Ecclesiastical History Society in 2013-2014, the volume focuses on exploring on the practical experience of Christians, who have often existed in a world of manifold belief systems and religious practices. Three main areas of engagement emerge: contexts where Christianity was a minority faith, whether in the earliest years of the church, in the Mongol empire of the thirteenth century or under Ottoman rule in the fifteenth, or in contemporary Iraq, Egypt and Indonesia; responses to religious minorities in predominantly Christian societies, such as early modern Malta or nineteenth- and twentieth-century London; and finally, Christian encounters with other religions in situations where no one tradition was obviously dominant. Offering an unusual perspective on Christian encounters with other faiths, this volume will interested students of religious studies and those interested in the cultural contexts in which Christianity has existed – and indeed continues to exist.
To whet your appetite, here's a list of contents.
GUY STROUMSA, From Qumran to Qur'ān: the Religious Worlds of Ancient Christianity
A. D. R. HAYES, Justin's Christian Philosophy: New Possibilities for Relations between Jews, Graeco-Romans and Christians
JAMES T. PALMER, The Otherness of Non-Christians in the early Middle Ages
ARIANA PATEY, Asserting Difference in Plurality: The Case of the Martyrs of Córdoba
CHRISTINE WALSH, Baptized but not Converted: The Vikings in Tenth-Century Francia
BERNARD HAMILTON, Western Christian Contacts with Buddhism, c.1050–1350
JONATHAN PHILLIPS, The Third Crusade in Context: Contradiction, Curiosity and Survival
AMANDA POWER, Encounters in the Ruins: Latin Captives, Franciscan Friars and the Dangers of Religious Plurality in the early Mongol Empire
KONSTANTINOS PAPASTATHIS, Christian-Muslim Encounters: George of Trebizond and the 'Inversion' of Eastern Discourse regarding Islam in the Fifteenth Century
ANGELIKI ZIAKA, Rearticulating a Christian-Muslim Understanding: Gennadius Scholarios and George Amiroutzes on Islam
CHARLOTTE METHUEN, 'And our Mohammed goes with the Archangel Gabriel to Choir': Sixteenth-Century German Accounts of Life under the Turks
NABIL MATAR, England and Religious Plurality: Henry Stubbe, John Locke and Islam
FRANS CIAPPARA, Christians and Muslims on Malta in the Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries
GARETH ATKINS, William Jowett's Christian Researches: British Protestants and Religious Plurality in the Mediterranean, Syria and the Holy Land, 1815–30
JOHN WOLFFE, Plurality in the Capital: The Christian Response to London's Religious Minorities since 1800 (Presidential Address)
W. M. JACOB, Anglican Clergy Responses to Jewish Migration in late Nineteenth-Century London
STUART MEWS, Rama or ahimsa? Terror or Passive Resistance? Revolutionary Methods of Hindu Students from London University and the Christian Response, 1909–17
ANGELA BERLIS, Sympathy for Mussulmans, Love for Jews: Emily Loyson-Meriman (1833–1909), Hyacinthe Loyson (1827–1912) and their Efforts towards Interreligious Encounter
MARION BOWMAN, Christianity, Plurality and Vernacular Religion in early Twentieth-Century Glastonbury: A Sign of Things to Come?
MARTIN WELLINGS, 'An extremely dangerous book'? James Hope Moulton's Religions and Religion (1913)
CLYDE BINFIELD, Jerusalem's Empire State? The Context and Symbolism of a Twentieth-Century Building
TODD M. THOMPSON, Charles Malik and the Origins of a Christian Critique of Orientalism in Lebanon and Britain
KRISTIAN GIRLING, 'To live within Islam': The Chaldean Catholic Church in modern Iraq, 1958–2003
PETER WEBSTER, Race, Religion and National Identity in Sixties Britain: Michael Ramsey, Archbishop of Canterbury, and his Encounter with other Faiths
JOHN MAIDEN, 'What could be more Christian than to allow the Sikhs to use it?' Church Redundancy and Minority Religion in Bedford, 1977–8
BRIAN STANLEY, Christians, Muslims and the State in Twentieth-Century Egypt and Indonesia
MONA SIDDIQUI, Diatribe, Discourse and Dialogue: Reflections on Jesus in the History of Christian-Muslim Encounters
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Regular readers of this blog will know that I have engaged in a sustained collaborative interaction with Sinthome from Larval Subjects for some time. The two blogs are criss-crossed with mutual references, trackbacks, and links – the material traces of the threads of our conversations over the past year. And, even when public discussion has grown momentarily quiet, Sinthome's questions and comments often lie just beneath the surface of what I write. Hopefully Sinthome won't object if I reflect on some of those questions and comments in this post – at least as a placeholder for discussion at a later time.
The question that is currently echoing in my thoughts concerns the role of the terms "negation" and "contradiction" in my theoretical work. Sinthome has wondered whether these terms might toss readers into a thoughtspace that sits in tension with some of the other ways that I describe the work of critique. I generally describe critique, for example, as a process of exploring and rendering explicit potentials for practice that have been constituted within a determinate situation, but that contain the potential to react back on that situation itself. Sinthome has suggested that this is not how most readers will hear or understand a theoretical system that deploys terms like "contradiction" or "negation" – that these terms are historically and currently associated with a very different, perhaps more proscriptive, or perhaps more abstract, vision of the work of critique. Do I really need these terms – or are these just layers from an earlier theoretical training, which should be discarded for greater clarity in what I am currently trying to express?
I'll place my reflections on these questions below the fold. I'm unfortunately still in recovery mode – from a complex term and from some rather intense sleep deprivation during the past couple of weeks – and, while I want to capture my fragmentary thoughts while they are still fresh, I don't believe that the resultant discussion will be quite ready for prime time. Hopefully I'll be able to pick up these fragments in a more adequate way some time soon.
I should note at the outset that I am never particularly focussed on vocabulary, but on the concepts that vocabulary seeks to express – if I can find a better way to express those concepts, I'll happily trade in my existing terms. The question is whether the terms "contradiction" and "negation" fall into this category: are these terms that I am using in an unconventional and therefore misleading way? Regardless of whether my meaning is standard, do I need these terms? Do they best communicate what I am trying to say?
I'll discuss the two concepts – contradiction and negation – separately. I also won't discuss either concept comprehensively: this will be the first "serious" post I've written in close to a month, and I'm still in recovery mode from a period of very draining, very non-intellectual, work – I'm aiming for placeholders and notes at this point, with the hope of developing these points more carefully and clearly in subsequent work.
On the concept of "contradiction": my first impulse was to respond by saying that I use the term only to express that contemporary society is not, to use the Frankfurt School term, "one dimensional" – to express that we are living in a society that generates more than simply tendencies toward its own reproduction, but also determinate tendencies toward its own transformation. By unfolding a theory of such a contradictory social context – by theorising the context in such a way that both potentials for reproduction and for transformation are grasped as integral moments of the operation of the social context – a critical theory can account for itself, for the emergence of the forms of critical subjectivity that express themselves in critical and transformative political practice, self-reflexively, as a possibility immanent to the world the theory seeks to understand.
The concept of social contradiction in this broad sense aims to avoid the problem caused by "asymmetrical" theories that offer, for example, a good account of social reproduction, but leave unclear how critical forms of subjectivity would ever arise immanently. Asymmetrical theories then need to reach for an "outside" – for something not in a determinate relationship with the context being theorised – in order to account for the emergence of critical forms of subjectivity and for transformative political movements. By contrast, a theory that can successfully thematise the social context as internally contradictory need not reach for an "outside": it can instead seek to explore specific ways that the current context generates potentials that serve as irritants and as means to forge something that transcends the conditions under which these potentials were produced. By understanding social context as multidimensional, and as intrinsically generative of potentials that suggest the possibility for freedoms that present forms of social organisation constrain, critical theory becomes self-reflexive in a way that links directly with targets for political practice.
All well and good. But is this what most theorists mean, when they talk about a "social contradiction"? In classical Marxism, the central social contradiction involved the forces and relations of production. The relations of production (private property and the market mode of distribution) were understood to constrain the full development and realisation of the forces of production (the proletariat and the socialised means of production). In this understanding of social contradiction, capitalism was driving inexorably toward the socialisation of the means of production and the growth of the proletarian class. These historical trends increasingly revealed the irrationality of a mode of distribution predicated on the market and private property. This contradiction was thus understood to generate both the material and ideal conditions for the overcoming of capitalism and the inauguration of socialism – in the form of the abolition of the market and private property and the consolidation of production under centralised planning. Other variants of Marxist theory located the essential social contradiction in something more like a psychological tension induced by a system that simultaneously requires conflicting dispositions from members of the working classes – for example, a requirement that individuals develop a high capacity for personal autonomy, while also functioning as appendages or cogs in a productive apparatus (in some ways, Habermas' work could be seen as a mediated version of this vision of social contradiction).
Neither of these approaches to the concept of contradiction quite captures either the way I conceptualise capitalism, or the decentred and distributed character of how I visualise potentials for transformation – points that I won't develop fully here. Having come to this realisation, however, I then had to wonder whether I could jettison the term "contradiction" and use something else to express the notion of a social context that was not fully identical with itself, of a social context that generated multivalent potentials.
Then I remembered (can you tell I'm still groggy from the term?) that there is actually a quite central sense in which I do view capitalism as literally contradictory: I tend to use a working definition of capitalism as a dynamic social system whose historical development generates contradictory pressures to displace and reconstitute the need for the expenditure of labour – whose temporal dynamic generates both pressures to displace labour through productivity increases, and diverse pressures to reconstitute the need to expend labour in new forms of production. The direct causes and forms of institutionalisation of these pressures are complex – and vary over time. So long as these pressures are produced as effects of collective practice, however, there is a meaningful sense in which the context remains capitalist, in and through quite dramatic transformations of concrete social institutions and practices. The "instrumental" character of capitalism – the sense of a system oriented to production for production's sake, the sense of a means that has become an end – derives from the experience of these contradictory pressures. So I do use a concept of contradiction – it's just that, in comparison with the notions of contradiction to which I gestured above, I don't align critique as directly with one of the contradictory poles, but instead (and I can't develop this point here) provide a fairly mediated analysis of the ways in which the operation of the contradiction tends to result in a series of tacit and indirect side effects that point beyond both poles of the contradictory social form.
So, in my current plodding state, I seem to have trundled my way back to a notion that I do require a concept of contradiction – and will therefore have to be clearer what I mean by this term. I may want to choose a different term for the "broad" sense of contradiction I mentioned above – for situations in which I am only trying to express the notion of a context that is not fully identical with itself – and reserve the term "contradiction" for the more narrowly contradictory dimensions of the large-scale temporal dynamic that characterises capitalist history.
Moving right along… Sinthome also questioned the use of the term "negation", suggesting that a theory that understands critique as the identification of potentials might not be well-served by the terminology of negation. Here the issue is somewhat complex: my position would be that I do need to retain the term "negation" – or at least some close equivalent – but that I don't intend this term as a descriptor of what I am doing when speaking in my own voice. One of the central theoretical problems I'm am trying to resolve is how it should come to be the case that certain things that I believe I can thematise as determinate, immanent, potentials generated by collective human practices specific to our social context, should instead come to be viewed in some other traditions as negatives – as nothing – as what is left behind when all positive determinations have been stripped away. This task is made more complicated by the fact that I am trying to offer an immanent theory – which means, among other things, that my own approach doesn't give me privileged access to an "outside" from which I can criticise competing positions as "objectively" wrong. Instead, critique has to take the form of demonstrating the plausibility of competing positions – explaining why the forms of subjectivity expressed in competing theoretical approaches plausibly exist in the social world I am analysing – while also demonstrating these positions to be partial and criticisable, when viewed from other collectively-available perspectives (again, a highly abbreviated comment that I can't develop fully here).
When I mention potentials that are perceived to express what remains when all positive determinations have been stripped away, I have in mind affirmative notions of scientific objectivity or neutrality, but also many critical perspectives – for example, approaches that see critique as a standpoint that expresses a form of subjectivity that results from some sort of total exclusion from society, or a critical perspective that arises from an abstraction to a mere biological existence, or a critical ideal that relates to some sort of vision of an underlying human nature: I believe that I can show how such positions, that understand themselves as expressive of a perspective devoid of arbitrary social determinations – that thematise critique quintessentially in terms of the criticism of arbitrary determinations – instead express determinate sensibilities that relate to identifiable forms of collective practice that are specific to capitalist society. What other approaches might see as an undetermined remainder, I think I can grasp as a determinate potential – a potential whose specific qualitative characteristics I can link back to interrelated forms of practice and shapes of consciousness that are generated as moments of a capitalist society – but that can also point beyond the circumstances in which they have arisen.
A key element to this kind of critique is that it does not function to unmask and debunk the forms of thought or practice to which it draws attention. The core point is not to demonstrate that competing understandings of critique are "wrong", but rather to show how they deflect attention away from specific dimensions of social practice that are generative of the forms of critical sensibility associated with "negation", while channelling critical attention in a one-sided way toward what I tend to call concrete social relations. As a consequence (and I am painfully aware of how undeveloped and unsubstantiated this point will be, raised in this way), these forms of critique can tend to focus attention on potentials to transform institutions whose existence is already constituted as radically contingent within capitalism, while obscuring and thus shielding from critique other key dimensions of a capitalist context. In Benjaminian terms, such forms of critique don't allow history – our history, our constituted present – to become "citable in all its moments". The consequences can range from inappropriate pessimism due to the perception that the social context is more impervious to transformation than it actually is, all the way through to catastrophic failures of utopian revolutionary movements. I am trying to develop a better theoretical scaffolding for making sense of how such consequences become likely – and how we might possibly prevent them.
Within this framework, I am developing a critique of negation: I am attempting to understand why some forms of critical sensibility seem to have difficulties understanding their own imbrication in the world they criticise, and therefore perceive themselves as existing in a purely or abstractly negative, rather than a determinate, relationship with their object of critique – to understand why the object of critique is often easily thematised as artificial and socially determined, while critique itself is not so easily conceptualised in its particular constituted social determinacy. This isn't, of course, at all to claim that I'm the only person doing offering this kind of analysis. I'm just trying to clarify that, when I'm talking about "negation", I am specifically positioning my work in relation to approaches – critical or affirmative, tacit or explicit – that understand themselves to be criticising the "artificial", while tacitly or explicitly treating the standpoint of their own critique as somehow less artificial or more "real" than what they are criticising. My position is that critique does not operate by opposing artificial to real, but by exploring and unfolding the implications of specific constituted potentials, relative to other constituted potentials – and that understanding the determinate processes through which we constitute potentials for both reproduction and transcendence is an integral element of this exploration.
This said (and said unclearly at that…), I have recently been expressing these sorts of concepts with the Hegelian loan term "determinate negation" – mainly because the term strikes me as a sort of historical precursor for the concept I'm fumbling toward – an attempt to capture the notion that there is an actual substantive content to negation – that, in Hegel's inimitable formulation:
The completeness of the forms of unreal consciousness will be brought about precisely through the necessity of the advance and the necessity of their connection with one another. To make this comprehensible we may remark, by way of preliminary, that the exposition of untrue consciousness in its untruth is not a merely negative process. Such a one-sided view of it is what the natural consciousness generally adopts; and a knowledge, which makes this one-sidedness its essence, is one of those shapes assumed by incomplete consciousness which falls into the course of the inquiry itself and will come before us there. For this view is scepticism, which always sees in the result only pure nothingness, and abstracts from the fact that this nothing is determinate, is the nothing of that out of which it comes as a result. Nothing, however, is only, in fact, the true result, when taken as the nothing of what it comes from; it is thus itself a determinate nothing, and has a content. The scepticism which ends with the abstraction "nothing" or "emptiness" can advance from this not a step farther, but must wait and see whether there is possibly anything new offered, and what that is – in order to cast it into some abysmal void. When once, on the other hand, the result is apprehended, as it truly is, as determinate negation, a new form has thereby immediately arisen; and in the negation the transition is made by which the progress through the complete succession of forms comes about of itself. (79)
Whether this is a good idea, as a terminological choice, I'm not sure. I like the concepts that mingle together in the term. I'll have to decide over time whether, in spite of this, the term gets in the way of what I'm trying to say.
All of this, of course, remains solely within the boundaries of a social analysis, which is the context within which these categories of contradiction and negation have arisen.
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Crafting Confessions: My Mojo Saviour!
What a winter wonderland of a weekend! We've just had a load of snow today and it's definitely helping me get into the festive spirit!
Whilst I'd love to have been frolicking in the snow, I was paying the price for being so very unorganised this Christmas! I've been trapped away making lots of cards - I swear I'm gonna start in January for Christmas 2010!
...I couldn't resist adding that bit of bling - just hope it still requires a small postage stamp LOL!
Seeing as this was a pretty simple design, I decided to make two more for recipients who appreciate the tradition Christmas colours!
That's all I've got that I can upload for now - I've really gotta get these cards in the post! It's the deadline tomorrow for guaranteed Christmas delivery - best wrap up warm because there's no chance I'm driving in the snow. I'll suggest it as a romantic winter stroll to Chris so I've got some company ;D!
Thanks so much for stopping by during the chaotic Christmas season!
Aimes, these are fab! I love the colors and bling you added! I'm seriously thinking of doing New Year's cards next year...what do you think?
I'm so jealous of everyone with snow - it's like a summer's day here! We've had the odd flurry but nothing that's stuck. I'd give anything for a great big dump [of snow] right now!
Wowser - Stunning, that's all I can say! My fave is the aqua/blush combo - just so purty! Hmm must make more use of sketches - it might just be my NY resolution!
Thanks so much for that lovely card you sent - it's in pride of place on the mantel. Just beautiful sith your colouring. I never thought of using that Tilda for xmas!
Love these cards Aimes, just fab! Think my favourite is the Aqua Mist/Sweet Blush one, such an unexpected colour combo for this time of year but it really works!


Boat Cottage in the active village of Llangynidr is a three hundred year old, traditional stone cottage, with two bedrooms and an old fashioned range which can still be used. The cottage is set in a pretty country garden with glorious views, and just a two minute walk across the lane to The Coach and Horses with a garden and an enclosed Children's Play area. Alongside the cottage is The Brecon and Monmouth Canal with its many narrow boats, there is also a Lock which is always interesting in the summer with boats passing to and fro. There is a second village pub up the lane The Red Lion and a village shop for newspapers and bottles of wine.
By Owners Request. Unsuitable for children under the age of 10 due to the VERY steep drop and wall on one side of the garden.
The kitchen with an electric cooker, microwave, fridge, a washing machine and a small freezer in a lock-up shed.
A cosy living room with an old fashioned range with open fire and three ovens and a dining table and chairs, sofa and chairs and some original ancient beams and a flag stone floor. A flight of original stone stairs now not used are a feature. TV with freeview and DVD. Windows look out across the garden and down the valley to The River Usk below and to the Brecon & Monmouthshire Canal on the other side of the lane.
Bathroom: Downstairs with a bath with a shower over, hand basin and toilet.
* Parking for one car - another one on the lane.
* Welcome pack on arrival which includes home cure bacon and a loaf of bread for bacon butties - Guests can pre order lamb, duck, chicken, sausages etc with the owner who rears ducks, chickens, sheep and pigs for the table all produced on the farm less than a mile away with anything else sourced locally.
* A very pretty and well kept garden enclosed but with a wall and a very steep drop.Garden table and chairs & BBQ.
*Unsuitable for children under the age of 10 due to steep drop on one side of the garden.
Boat Cottage is a simple traditional cottage, situated on the edge of the pretty and popular village of Llangynidr just across the lane to the Brecon and Monmouthshire Canal where there is the canal tow path and the lock where you can sit and watch the boats pass through.A great property for traffic free access to the Brecon Beacons, Taff Trail cycle network, with lockable bike storage etc. There is also the ever popular Coach and Horses pub offering good value meals only a couple of minutes' walk and down the end of the lane is the village shop - selling the basics. This a great place to stay combining the pretty traditional stone cottage and lovely garden with all the benefits of village life.


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Kobe Bryant, Over Time
June 18, 2013 by Darius Soriano
(h/t to Matt Burd for the video)
Kobe has dubbed his comeback from a torn achilles tendon "the last chapter" of his career. In the video above, however, we see that all the chapters which have come before have been pretty special.
For Lakers' fans, the slogan he's adopted in his comeback a reminder that Kobe is near the end of his career. But we can only hope he has a few more moments like the ones that have made him into the special player he's been for the 17 previous years.
1st of all..great video man…nice job.
Kobe, Kobe, Kobe….WOW….time does fly man, and I'm glad I grew up watching you play the greatest game in sports and you have shown how to achieve the ultimate goal even when times are tough…much respect to the one of the GREATEST player EVER. The best part is…THE JOURNEY CONTINUES….
Tra says
As the saying goes, 'Funny how time flies when you're having fun.'
Looking forward to the beginning of "The Last Chapter."
Robert says
Kobe Alert: This guy is good.
C.Hearn says
Watching LeBron struggle to score in these finals due to lack of offensive moves makes me appreciate Mr Bryant even more. Funny how every one malignant Howard for his lack of development but LeBron has not gotten better exponentially on offense. He still relies on bullying his way to the basket. Give me the artistry of Vino any day.


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On behalf of Buting, Williams & Stilling, S.C. posted in Internet Crimes on Friday, December 23, 2016.
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Internet sex crimes charges can be the result of police entrapment
On behalf of Buting, Williams & Stilling, S.C. posted in Internet Crimes on Wednesday, December 3, 2014.
Since it first came into widespread use, the Internet has been an invaluable tool as well as a liability. Few could have predicted just how vast the Internet would become and what impact it would have on individuals, businesses and governments.
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Man charged with cyberstalking a lesson for Milwaukee residents
On behalf of Buting, Williams & Stilling, S.C. posted in Internet Crimes on Thursday, May 2, 2013.
The Internet has made it easier for people in Milwaukee and elsewhere to learn personal information about others. However, the Internet has also carved out new criminal offenses that penalize individuals for wrongly using the Internet. One of these possible criminal offenses is cyberstalking. Recently, a man has been charged with cyberstalking.
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WI sheriff's deputy assists in man's arrest for child pornography
On behalf of Buting, Williams & Stilling, S.C. posted in Internet Crimes on Thursday, April 25, 2013.
Criminal offenses involving children are severely punished in Milwaukee and elsewhere. Some of these crimes may involve police Internet sting operations which target defendants who would not have possessed child pornography had it not been for these circumstances. For some defendants facing an Internet criminal offense, entrapment may be a viable defense. Recently, a Wisconsin county sheriff's deputy assisted in arresting a man for possession of child pornography.
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Milwaukee teacher faces child pornography charges
On behalf of Buting, Williams & Stilling, S.C. posted in Internet Crimes on Monday, January 28, 2013.
What are the penalties do people face if they are convicted of possessing child pornography? What are the present and long term consequences of being convicted of an Internet crime? How do penalties as a convicted sex offender differ from penalties as an individual convicted of child pornography? A Milwaukee teacher who was recently charged with possession of child pornography may be asking these and other similar questions.
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Milwaukee man faces child pornography charges
On behalf of Buting, Williams & Stilling, S.C. posted in Internet Crimes on Wednesday, December 26, 2012.
In Milwaukee and elsewhere, Internet crimes are taken seriously and carry significant penalties. Defendants charged with an Internet offense like possession and distribution of child pornography face the same penalties as individuals who commit sex crimes unrelated to the Internet. Defendants should be aware of the possible defenses that may apply to their case; certain defenses may reduce penalties associated with an Internet crime. Recently, a Milwaukee man faces severe penalties after being charged with possession of child pornography.
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Milwaukee man pleads guilty to six counts of child pornography
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In cases in which those accused of serious crimes face mounting evidence, a meaningful strategic plan may be used as a way to obtain a lesser punishment. Sometimes, it may be to the defendant's advantage to plead guilty to an offense if he or she is offered a plea agreement that will reduce the possible penalties associated with the offense. Recently, a Milwaukee man pled guilty to Internet crime charges in court.
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