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Taylor Swift SLAMS Kanye West and Kim Kardashian in new single
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Taylor Swift seems to slam Kanye West and Kim Kardashian in her new single.
Look What You Made Me Do has the lyrics "I don't like your little games/ I don't like your tilted stage."
This makes direct reference to Kanye's Saint Pablo tour where he used a tilted stage.
It's been just over a year since Kim Kardashian released a video of the singer giving Kanye permission to use her name in a song.
A post shared by Taylor Swift (@taylorswift) on Aug 23, 2017 at 9:39am PDT
Since then she has been branded a "snake" by everyone.
But this song is her fighting anthem, in the middle of the song the singer says, "I'm sorry, but the old Taylor can't come to the phone right now. Why? Oh, 'cause she's dead."
"Honey, I rose up from the dead I do it all the time/I got a list of names and yours is in red, underlined I check it once/Then I check it twice."
Fans think that Taylor on the phone is a reference to the infamous call where Taylor gave Kanye permission to use a line about her in his song.
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Strongman Eddie Hall Just Lifted a Kettlebell With His Dick and Balls. Yes, Really.
It should go without saying, but: do NOT try this at home.
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When you're one of the strongest guys on the planet, lifting weights the old-fashioned way can get tiresome. So Eddie Hall, who won the title of World's Strongest Man in 2017 and who is known for pushing himself to the limits, came up with a novel new way to train. During a recent gym session, Hall challenged his friend, British television presenter Paddy McGuinness, to a contest of lifting weights with their privates.
"A month ago I started the World Bollock Lifting Championship," he said. "I've completed the World's Strongest Man, what's the next one up from that? It's lifting weights with your balls."
"If you're gonna throw a challenge down here, you might have bitten off more than you can chew, literally," said McGuinness, "because I'm 46 years of age, my testicles are already round my knees. I've already got a slight advantage on you, I don't have to lift them up as much." He also joked that the (highly dangerous move) wasn't likely to cause any more damage, as he'd recently had a vasectomy.
The rules were simple: Hall and McGuinness both each tied the cord around their penis and balls under their workout clothes, then looped the other end around a kettlebell. Then, starting from a low crouch, they each began to stand upright to see who could take the most weight hanging from their genitals.
Hall won the challenge, and managed to hold a six kilogram kettlebell using just the strength of his... ahem, muscle. That might just be a world record, and we beg you not to try to best him. Honestly, even for the World's Strongest Man, this shit is wild.
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This post is for those of you struggling through the fantasy challenge, or just looking for a good recommendation.
All excerpts taken from Goodreads.
The Crescent Moon Kingdoms, land of djenn and ghuls, Khalifs and killers, is on the brink of civil war. To make things worse, a series of brutal supernatural murders strikes at the heart of the Kingdoms. And it's up to Doctor Adoulla Makhslood to solve them.
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For Durzo Blint, assassination is an art-and he is the city's most accomplished artist.
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But to be accepted, Azoth must turn his back on his old life and embrace a new identity and name. As Kylar Stern, he must learn to navigate the assassins' world of dangerous politics and strange magics – and cultivate a flair for death.
Xanth was the enchanted land where magic ruled–where every citizen had a special spell only he could cast. That is, except for Bink of North Village. He was sure he possessed no magic, and knew that if he didn't find some soon, he would be exiled. According to the Good Magician Humpfrey, the charts said that Bink was as powerful as the King or even the Evil Magician Trent. Unfortunately, no one could determine its form. Meanwhile, Bink was in despair. If he didn't find his magic soon, he would be forced to leave….
Eight of the nine provinces of the Peninsula of the Palm, on a world with two moons, have fallen to the warrior sorcerers Brandin of Ygrath and Alberico of Barbadior. Brandin's younger son is slain in a battle with the principality of Tigana, which the grief-stricken sorcerer then destroys. After sweeping down and destroying the remnants of their army, burning their books and destroying their architecture and statuary, he makes it so that no one not born in that province can even hear its name. Years later, a small band of survivors, led by Alessan, last prince of Tigana's royal house, wages psychological warfare, planting seeds for the overthrow of the two tyrants. At the center of these activities are Devin, a gifted young singer; Catriana, a young woman pursued by suspicions of her family's guilt; and Duke Sandre d'Astibar, a wily resistance leader thought dead. Meanwhile, at Brandin's court, Dianora, his favorite concubine and–unknown to anyone, another survivor of Tigana–struggles between her growing love for the often gentle tyrant and her desire for vengeance. Gradually the scene is set for both conquerors to destroy each other and free a land.
I hope everyone's challenges are going better than mine!
But not in black. It's too hot to wear black. Seriously, I feel like I'm swimming in an active volcano. On Mercury.
I've been a terrible book challenge host. The only excuse I really have is that I got really busy and had to give a few things up. Like blogging and reading ( That hurt. A lot). I do plan on writing more posts now that I can breath again, mostly fantasy and sci-fi book recommendations. And since it's a new year, I've been contemplating do a new series of YA Recommends because there have been some amazing books that've been released. I've been planning and scheming on a few more sekrit projects that will definitely make up for my absence.
So, on that note, has anyone read any good books lately? What about music? What is everyone listening to at the moment?
I've been listening to a lot of K-pop. I know, I know, K-pop. But a lot of it is really quite good, better than most American pop. I fell in love with it like you fall asleep; slowly, and then all at once*.
*Thank you, John Green for one of the bestest quotes ever.
Ah, the cultivation of food. What would we be without it?
Ahem. Right. Where was I?
Agriculture is a huge part of society, because you know, it deals with food and how we get it. In fact, I would say it is the most important part of civilization.
There are many theories as to why we started to grow delicious food crops, which is likely due to our inherent laziness*, but I'm not going to get into that. I'm not even going to talk about the cultural, environmental, and societal impacts agriculture has had on us. I'm going to talk about how it pertains to you. Or more specifically your book. Or even more specifically, your characters.
In every fictional society, whether one set in Ancient Egypt or a futuristic colony on Pluto, your characters need to eat. And the food they eat will vary depending on where (and when) they are. For instance, in your futuristic Plutonian colony, why do they eat the foods they do? Why does one crop grow better than another? Is it the mineral and PH make-up of the soil, the accessibility of water, the hardiness of the plant? Have they been genetically modified to survive in the alien environment?
Not only that, but how do they cultivate their food? Is it in above ground greenhouses with special glass to absorb the weak sunlight, or are they underground with artificial lamps? Why did they choose to do it one way over the other. Weather, environment, and technology play a huge role in deciding these questions.
Anyways, food. It's important. And so isn't how your characters get it.
Ulster is a province in Northern Ireland.
The Fomorians were the first to settle Ireland. They were semi-divine beings that preceded the gods, and represented chaos and nature, much like the Titans. In some accounts, they are said to have the head of a goat, but other accounts say they are very beautiful (at least some of them).
The Tuatha De Danann are a race of people who settled Ireland during the bronze age. According to Irish mythology, they were divine; the Irish equivalent of the Olympians. They came to Ireland led by their king, Nuada Airgetlam, bring with them four magical treasures– The Sword of Light of Nuada, The Stone of Fal, The Spear of Lugh, and the Cauldron of Dagda. After being defeated by the Milesians, the Tuatha went underground into the fairy mound, or Sidhe, and later became the Dione Sidhe of Irish and Scottish mythology.
The Dagda is the "father figure" god is Irish mythology, and was a high king of Ireland after Nuada's death. He is said to have great power, but is ugly, crude, and extremely well endowed. When the Dagda had an affair with Boand, he made the sun stand still for nine months to hide their affair. Their son, Oengus was therefore conceived, gestated, and born in one "day".
The Morrigan is the goddess of war and strife, and sometimes appears as a crow, a wolf, or a cow. She was the granddaughter of Nuada, and appears later in the Ulster Cycle with Cu Chulainn.
Cu Chulainn is a famous hero in the Ulster Cycle, who is often compared to Achilles (he has a similar prophesy attached to him about great deeds, everlasting fame, and a short life). He is the son of Lugh, who was half Tuatha, half Fomorian, and Deichtine, sister to the Ulster king Concobar. He got his moniker, which means Culann's dog, by defeating Culann's ferocious guard dog in self-defense when he was little. At the age of seventeen, he defended Ulster against queen Medb of Connacht by himself in the Cattle Raid of Cooley.
The Thracians inhabited much of central and southeastern Europe. They were a series of tribes, with the mountainous people being wilder than their low lying neighbors. In the Trojan war, they fought alongside the Trojans.
In the 5th century BCE, the Thracian tribes were united under king Teres. He formed the Odrysian kingdom, which is in modern day Bulgaria.
Their contemporaries saw them as barbaric, namely the Greeks and Romans, who seem to have seen everyone other than themselves as savage. Herodotus writes that "they sell their children and let their maidens commerce with whatever men they please." They are also described as having red hair.
The Dii, a Thracian tribe, were extremely vicious, and committed terrible savageries in the Peloponnesian War. They killed every single man, woman, child, and dog in the cities they fought against, and would impale the heads of Romans on their spears.
Spartacus, the leader of the Third Servile War against the Romans, was Thracian.
The slavic people are an Indo-European group of Eastern Europe with many mythic beliefs similar to other Indo-European cultures.
The most popular creature in Slavic folklore is the Vampire. The Slavs believe that a person could become a vampire by being a magician or an extremely immoral person. Improper burial rites could also cause a person to come back as one. I talked more about vampires here.
Baba Yaga is a haggish creature in Slavic folklore. She flies around on a giant mortar and pestle and kidnaps small children. Probably to eat them. She lives in a hut that stands on chicken legs.
There is also Koschei, an nefarious immortal man who was often the antagonist in many folktales. He is often represented as being old and ugly. Koschei can't be killed by conventional means. He can only be destroyed by going after his soul, which is inside a needle, in an egg, which is in a duck that is in a hare locked in an iron chest and buried under a green oak tree. A person will be able to control Koschei if they possess his egg, and he will weaken and lose his magic. The egg also acts similar to a voodoo doll that if you toss it about, so won't his body.
The Firebird is a magical bird that is typically the object of desire in a difficult quest. The bird is described as having fiery plumage that do not stop glowing, even after being removed. The Firebird is usually both a blessing and a bringer of doom to its captor.
Ah, the Romans. I'm not going to get into the mythology, because, well, they basically copied everything from the Greeks.
According to myth, Rome was founded by the twins Romulus and Remus, descendants of the Trojan prince Aeneas. Their grandfather, Numitor was deposed by his brother Amulius. Their mother Rhea Silvia was raped by the god Mars (Ares) and gave birth to the twins. Amulius feared the twins, so he ordered them to be drowned, but a she-wolf (or a shepherd woman, depending on the accounts) rescued and raised them.
In time, they went on to found their own city. Romulus ended up killing Remus in a quarrel about where they were going to set up their new kingdom. To bring in citizens, Rome became a sanctuary for the exiled and unwanted. However, this led to a population with very few women. Romulus tried to secure marriage rights with neighboring towns and tribes, but no one wanted to marry their daughters to outcasts. Desperate, Romulus invited the Sabines to a festival, and stole their unmarried daughters.
Rome was a kingdom then a republic before finally settling on the title of empire. Rome was a republic for just over 500 years, before Julius Caesar was declared perpetual dictator and his adopted son, Octavius (later, Augustus Caesar) became the first emperor of the Roman Empire. Julius took part in the Egyptian civil war between Cleopatra VII and her brother Ptolemy XIV. He sided with Cleopatra, and helped her overthrow her brother, the pharaoh. After Julius' death, Augustus formed the Second Triumvirate with Mark Antony and Lepidus.
Later, the empire split into two, forming the Western Empire, governed through Rome, and the Eastern Empire, governed through Byzantium (later Constantinople and now Istanbul). The Eastern Empire lasted for another 900 years after the Western Empire crumbled.
And that's all I'm writing on the Romans. Because there is a lot, and I need to get moving on other things. Like the rest of the challenge.
Caitlin has read 16 books toward her goal of 100 books.


Undergraduates do research in every division and department at UC Santa Cruz. Since UCSC is a research university, active participation in research should be an integral part of your education. For examples of UR in each division, see student profiles.
To get involved in UR, you need to be well prepared. The following suggestions apply to all students. A handout version of this page is here. For information specifically for transfer students, click here.
If you are transfering to UCSC STEM field, consider attending WEST. Workshops for Engineering & Science Transfers (WEST) is designed to give students transferring from other institutions a jump-start on entering UCSC science and engineering majors.
Many programs have a GPA requirement.
Take advantage of academic support programs, like Learning Support Services.
Start to read the professional materials for your discipline.
Go to office hours regularly.
Ask questions about the class or the instructor's research or career path.
You need to build relationships so that you can learn about opportunities and get good reference letters.
Find professors who are doing research that interests you and talk to them now. Look at department webpages to learn about professors' research topics.
Email the professors or go to office hours and ask the professors about their research and what they look for in an undergraduate research assistant.
Take advantage of campus services.
Meet with your the adviser for your major and your college adviser.
Visit the Career Center. They can help you choose a major.
Start researching summer opportunities the previous fall and winter. Many summer programs have application deadlines November-February.
You need time to learn about the program and prepare your application.
Summer mentors can provide a reference letter.
Clubs provide a community of like-minded peers.
You can learn about many research opportunities from friends.


Statism can range from FDR's vision, to Hitler, to Stalin, to Trump. Either way, it's a belief that government power is needed to make things happen - and the appeal would be that alternatives are weak.
Anyway, though, some cons to this thinking would be the rise of a Big Brother State (George Orwell's 1984) and also the fact many of these systems have smashed worse than crash dummy.
I think statism is defined as market economies with large amounts of government intervention, regulation or influence over a market or mixed-market economy. But I am not sure that's the case with the United States because they are a free market economy- but really they say we are a muddled variety of the statist economy. We probably have the worst features of both systems being anarchism and statism in America though.
I'm glad to see you present a range rather than treating statism as a monolithic thing!
There is a pretty good book entitled American Amnesia by Jacob S. Hacker that is relevant here, among others. Hacker details how we are a mixed market economy perhaps a little more than we realize. I pretty much agree with that assessment. A lot of discussion about politics and statism derails into just talk about socialism, but it's more complex than that.
I tend to come from a center-right perspective, and think there is a happy medium. Government should have a monopoly on things like massively destructive weapons. At other points, the government probably should step back as much as possible and let the free market work, only stepping in when there are failures or major issues that the market won't always address.
One of the things I caution people to think about is how will the power be used when my adversary gets into office? No system of government will operate indefinitely it seems, but I think our Founders gave us about the best around here in the US. However, every system is ultimately dependent upon benevolent rulers - elites - who exercise prudent government and restraint.


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Q: Sass variable not working in for I have a problem converting a string to a variable, because it generates an error
I have tried in several ways to convert this variable into a line, in order to obtain the colors in the classes
c-gray + $i

SASS
$c-gray1: #666;
$c-gray2: #979797;
$c-gray3: #4c4c4c;
$c-gray4: #b9c6d1;
$c-gray5: #f7f8f9;

@for $i from 1 through 5 {

  $colorsGrays: c-gray + $i;
  $count: 1;
  @each $color in $colorsGrays {
    .gBgcGray#{$i} {
      background-color: $color;
    }

    .gCGray#{$i} {
      color: $color;
    }

    .g-bc--gray#{$i} {
      border-color: $color;
    }

    $count: $count + 1;
  }
}

OUTPUT:
.gBgcGray1 {
  background-color: c-gray1;
}

.gCGray1 {
  color: c-gray1;
}

.g-bc--gray1 {
  border-color: c-gray1;
}

.gBgcGray2 {
  background-color: c-gray2;
}

.gCGray2 {
  color: c-gray2;
}

.g-bc--gray2 {
  border-color: c-gray2;
}

.gBgcGray3 {
  background-color: c-gray3;
}

.gCGray3 {
  color: c-gray3;
}

.g-bc--gray3 {
  border-color: c-gray3;
}

.gBgcGray4 {
  background-color: c-gray4;
}

.gCGray4 {
  color: c-gray4;
}

.g-bc--gray4 {
  border-color: c-gray4;
}

.gBgcGray5 {
  background-color: c-gray5;
}

.gCGray5 {
  color: c-gray5;
}

.g-bc--gray5 {
  border-color: c-gray5;
}

TEST: https://sass.js.org/
There is some way to generate a code with the correct one to get the values in the SASS and the OUTPUT

A: Sass can't resolve variables in this way, but you can use either list or map and resolve colors:
Using list:
$c-gray: #666 #979797 #4c4c4c #b9c6d1 #f7f8f9;
@for $i from 1 through 5 {
  $colorsGrays: nth($c-gray, $i);
}

Using map:
$colors: (
  c-gray1: #666,
  c-gray2: #979797,
  c-gray3: #4c4c4c,
  c-gray4: #b9c6d1,
  c-gray5: #f7f8f9,
);

@for $i from 1 through 5 {
  $colorsGrays: map-get($colors, c-gray + $i);
}

Moreover in these cases you can use @each $colorGrays in $colors instead of @for

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WASHINGTON The commander of Chinas air force, Lt. Gen. Liu Shunyao, and the nation's president, Jiang Zemin, have both said this month that the air service will change from a relatively immobile, short-range force, dedicated to defending the air space around its major bases, to a modern military arm capable of projecting power across borders and oceans.
LONDON The "New BAe," to be created this week when British Aerospace and Marconi Electronic Systems complete their merger, employs an innovative management model intended to avoid the pitfalls experienced by U.S. companies. The four-part structure, with two chief operating officers, was decided upon following a study of mergers outside of the aerospace and defense sector, as well as those megamergers within the sector.
BAIKONUR COSMODROME, KAZAKHSTAN After successfully completing six flights in its first year of operations, the French-Russian Starsem joint venture plans to expand the capabilities of its Soyuz launcher. Those efforts are critical as Starsem tries to attract new customers that have been slow to materialize.
LOS ANGELES NASA'S Mars Polar Lander (MPL) is scheduled to arrive at Mars this week, making the space agency's fourth Martian landing and what would be its first lander mission in a polar region of the planet. The spacecraft is scheduled to land Dec. 3 in a broad area of sedimentary ice and dust called the Martian Polar Layered Deposits, located about 800 km. (500 mi.) from the south pole.
LONDON The U.K. Ministry of Defense has awarded contracts to British Aerospace and Thomson-CSF for studies to define its future large-deck carriers, and designated Marconi Electronic Systems—set to merge with BAe this week— as prime contractor for new Type 45 air defense destroyers.
Paris India and France plan to develop, build and launch a small scientific satellite intended to enhance the understanding of tropical weather and climate systems. The mission, dubbed Megha Tropiques, was given preliminary approval on Nov. 21 by French space minister Claude Allegre and Vasundhara Raje, India's minister for small-scale industry.
Perth, Australia The long-awaited competition to replace Australia's 71 F/A-18A/Bs, 21 F-111C and 14 F-111G strike aircraft has been unofficially launched at the country's recent Control of the Air Conference in Canberra. "They've blown the whistle and the game has started," Air Commodore Garry Bates said in describing the launch to reequip the frontline aircraft of the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF).
Cape Canaveral A Lockheed Martin/International Launch Services Atlas IIA booster climbs into orbit from Pad 36B here in a time exposure of the Nov. 22 night launch of the Hughes/Navy UHF F1O spacecraft. It was the 45th straight success for the Atlas-Centaur.
SEATTLE Boeing is building a computer-based training system for F-22 pilots and maintenance technicians aimed at providing effective and efficient instruction without going overboard on cost. Thorough training is critical to the F-22 program, as no two-seat version of the USAF air superiority fighter is being built.


Ron Paul said US assistance to the French intervention in Mali is a sign that the Obama administration is creeping into another war – especially since questions about the extent of US involvement remain largely unanswered.
The recently retired congressman outlined his fears in his weekly column, "Texas Straight Talk". Paul said that while the US has only announced its transport and intelligence assistance to the French initiative, "this is clearly developing into another war".
Paul believes that unanswered questions about possible US involvement on African soil further indicates that Obama has been more active in the conflict than he admits, and that Congress has been kept out of the loop.
Earlier this month, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said that US assistance in Mali is a good example of future military assistance it might provide to its allies and that the US would not bring its own troops into the conflict. The US first became involved by airlifting French soldiers and equipment to Mali with its C-17 transport planes, but gradually expanded its roles in Africa.
In response to a French request, the US on Saturday agreed to fly tankers to refuel French jet fighters and bombers who are located primarily in the conflict zone in northern Mali. An unnamed US defense official told The Guardian that the KC-135 tankers would be involved in the operation for months, or as long as needed.
The US on Monday signed an agreement with the West African country of Niger that would allow it to increase its US military presence and create a hub near the Malian border from which American drones could monitor al-Qaeda militants in northern Mali. The hub could be used as a launching pad for strikes and intelligence gathering, but the government has still remained mute about the extent of its contributions to the French military campaign.
Although the Obama administration has hesitated at the thought of entering another war, officials have no ruled out the use of armed drones or special-operations units to go after al-Qaeda militants in Mali.
The US involvement in Mali has sparked concern among war-weary Americans.
Paul fears that similarly to the Libya conflict, the Obama administration will intervene in Mali without consulting Congress, and that keeping legislators out of crucial decisions will spiral the US into further African conflicts.


Yesterday and today; a collection of verse (mostly modern) designed for the average person of nine to nineteen and possibly higher, arranged and selected by L. Untermeyer ... with many delectable drawings as well as linoleum blocks by Edna Reindel.
"Who's who among the poets": p. 315-348.
xvi, 383 p. incl. front., illus. 21 cm.


The AFM is "On Beat" with Soup Fest this Culture Days!
The Aurora Farmers' Market and Artisan Fair will be celebrating Culture Days with their popular "Soup Fest" which has become a much-anticipated annual tradition.
On Saturday, September 29, five Market chefs will create delicious soups from fresh, local ingredients sourced at the Market. The Soup Fest will begin at 9:30 am with each chef having up to 30 minutes to finish preparing and serving samples of their soup to the public. The last demonstration will be at 11:30 am.
This year's Culture Days theme "On Beat" challenged chefs to incorporate the theme into their culinary creations. And our Market chefs were definitely up for the challenge!
Cathy of "Catharina's Kitchen" perhaps best embraced the thematic challenge with her decision to create a "Beet It" soup, inspired by Michael Jackson's "Thriller". Cathy likes to work in her kitchen while listening to heavy rock music.
Sarah Joy of "Sarah Joy Sweets" likes listening to Jared Lutes and country music. The former head baker at Grand Oak Market in Niagara will be making a harvest soup, "Zucchini with Rosemary".
Chef Gabriel of "Catering By Gabriel" says that he likes to listen to the music played at the Music in the Park concerts on Wednesday nights. When asked about his soup, he replied that he is making a "Mexican Jumping Bean" soup. I think that we're in for a surprise that will definitely have us jumping to the beat!
Jan of "Jan's Country Pantry" has chosen to make a "Curried Cauliflower Soup" to celebrate the fall season. Although Jan likes a wide variety of music genres, her favourite choice in the house as well as in the car is classical music.
Pascal of "La Brehandaise Catering" has not yet decided which soup he will be creating, but he'll likely be getting his inspiration listening to French music.
For our entertainment, we are excited to announce that the wonderful, Juno nominated musician, Glenn Marais, will be performing at the Bandshell starting at 10 am. Glenn's musical diversity features a blues, rock and reggae mix that he says will leave you humming "I Feel Good". Glenn will be bringing a percussionist so there will be a rhythmic element to the performance as well as a touch of djembe drum action. Glenn recently finished second in a Toronto Blues Society Talent Contest and is currently at work recording a new Delta Blues CD. His goal is to combine music with social activism while engaging the community at the same time.
Start your Culture Days experience at the AFM with a sampling of the many aromas, textures and flavours created by Market chefs. The AFM is located at Town Park, 49 Wells Street and is open from 8:00 am – 1 pm. To learn more, visit theaurorafarmersmarket.com.
Culture Days is a collaborative movement that welcomes your participation. Look for your Culture Days passport in the Auroran, visit any of the participating venues to have your passport stamped and be eligible to win great prizes.


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King, Jessie M.
Jessie M. King
Name Variant(s): Jessie Marion King
Jessie M. King is widely known for her pen and ink lines that follow the art nouveau concepts, but she worked extensively as a muralist, book illustator, and designer of fabric, jewelry, costume and book covers.
Jessie Marion King was born in Bearsden, Scotland, a suburb of Glasgow, on March 20, 1875. Her father, the Reverend James King, was a minister and her mother was the daughter of a banker. The King children numbered five, with four girls, of whom Jessie was the youngest. Their formative years were spent largely in the care of Mary McNab, a housekeeper and governess, whom King came to regard as a second mother.
As part of her formal education, King studied at the Glascow School of Art, which became the center of the uniquely Scottish form of the "Art Noveau" movement that Europe recognized as the "Glascow style." Despite concerns that she was an unsuccessful student, her originality secured her a scholarship to study in France and Italy. In 1898, she won the silver medal in the South Kensington annual competition for her "Light of Asia" drawings. After completing her course in 1899, King taught on a part-time basis at the School and initiated her success as a book illustrator through a series of commissions for German publishers.
In 1902, the first international exhibition of decorative art was held in Turin and King, who earned first prize, established herself as the preeminent book illustrator in the Glascow movement. Her popularity brought additional commissions for cover designs, illustrations, and exhibitions, as well as work in jewelry and fabric design. Among the earlier commissions was her work for Sebastian Evan's translation of the "High History of
In 1902, the first international exhibition of decorative art was held in Turin and King, who earned first prize, established herself as the preeminent book illustrator in the Glascow movement. Her popularity brought additional commissions for cover designs, illustrations, and exhibitions, as well as work in jewelry and fabric design. Among the earlier commissions was her work for Sebastian Evan's translation of the "High History of the Holy Graal", followed by a commission to illustrate The Defence of Guenevere by William Morris. During this period King visited the artist E. A. Hornel in Kirkcudbright, Scotland, where she purchased an eighteenth-century home named "Greengate."
In 1908, King married Earnest Archibald Taylor, also a a student and lecturer at the Glascow School, and the couple moved to Salford. The following year, Merle, their first and only child, was born and Mary McNab moved in so that King could continue her career. In 1910, Earnest was offered a position as the Paris correspondent for The Studio and the household moved on to eventually open their own school of art in Paris.
King and Taylor ran the Shealing Atelier for Fine Art in Paris from 1911 to 1913. After tensions accelerated in Europe and war was declared, the couple returned to Kirkcudbright. In the years that followed, the couple became active in charity fund-raising events that allowed them to pursue their interest in theater and costume design. Earnest returned to work in Paris after the war had ended, without re-opening the school; and King worked in applied arts in Kirkcudbright. At this time, she was introduced to the Javanese art form, batik, by an American student named Frank Simmerer. This form inspired her to write and illustrate "How Cinderella Was Able to Go to the Ball" in 1924. Shortly thereafter, King embarked on her work in ceramic decoration, and the couple later worked jointly on a number of decorative murals for different schools.
The onset of World War II hostilities again diminished artistic pursuits, and the Taylor's School remained closed until the war ended. In 1949, King was commissioned to design a cover for "The Parish of New Kilpatrick," the place of her father's ministry. In July of that year, the artist suffered a heart attack and died on August 4th. Her ashes were distributed over the grave of Mary McNab, and those of King's husband were added two years later.
A Chronology of Books Written, Illustrated or Decorated by Jessie M. King
The Light of Asia, Arnold (1898)
Jeptha, G. Buchanan (1902)
The High History of the Holy Graal, trans. by S. Evans (1903)
The Defence of Guenevere, William Morris (1904)
Comus, A Masque, John Milton (1906)
Poems of Spenser, intro by W.B. Yeats, (n.d.)
A Budding Life: A Book of Drawings (1906)
Poems of Shelley (1907)
The Heroes of the Greek Fairy Tales (1907)
Everyman, A Morality Play, Gowan's & Gray (1907)
The Legend of Flowers, P. Mantegazza (1908)
Dwellings of an Old World Town (1909)
The Grey City of the North (1910)
The City of the West (1911)
The Book of Bridges, E. Ancambeau (1911)
Ponts de Paris, E. Ancambeau (1912)
Songs and Poems of the Ettrick Shepherd, James Hogg (1912)
Memories, R.L. Stevenson (1912)
The Poems of Lindsay Gordon (1913)
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (1913)
Isabella and The Pot of Basil, John Keats (1914)
A House of Pomegranates, Oscar Wilde (1915)
Our Trees and How to Know Them (1916)
The Little White Town of Never-Weary (1917)
Corners of Grey Old Gardens, T.N. Foulis (1917)
Good King Wenceslas (1919)
L'Habitation Forcée, Rudyard Kipling (1921)
Book of Sundials, Launcelot Cross (1922)
The Grey City of the North - Edinburgh (1922)
The Interlude of Youth, intro by Hohn Drinkwater (1922)
How Cinderella Was Able To Go To The Ball (1924)
Mummy's Bedtime Story Book (1929)
Whose London (c.1930)
The Gods Throw Incense, Katharine T. Rae, (1932)
Our Lady's Garland, Arthur Corder (1934)
Kirkcudbright: A Royal Burgh (1934)
The Fringes of Paradise, Florence Drummond (1935)
Book of Scottish Verse, G. Burnett (1930's)
The Enchanted Capital of Scotland, I. Steele (1945)
The Parish of New Kilpatrick, J. McCardel (1949)
Captain Cook's Voyages, Routledge (n.d.)
Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales (n.d.)
The Pilgrim's Progress, John Bunyan (n.d.)
Wood's Illustrated Natural History (n.d.)
Biography written by: Katherine Marsh
Dumfries & Galloway Museums Service. The Greengate Gallery. "Jessie M. King" located at http://www.greengate-gallery.org.uk/jmk.html, 3/29/01.
Houfe, Simon. The Dictionary of 19th Century British Book Illustrators and Caricaturists. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Antique Collectors' Club, 1996.
MacSporran, Archie. "Jessie M. King" located at http://www.archiemacsporran.com/Jessi.htm, 3/29/01.
Peppin, Brigid and Lucy Micklethwait.Book Illustrators of the Twentieth Century. New York: Arco Publishing, Inc., 1984.
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Banks with operations in the brokered mortgage, secured lending and debt management markets are being urged to adopt a universal format for sharing and accepting customer data.
Senior industry figures acknowledge that banks have become better at sharing affordability data, but are frustrated that banks' broker systems will not accept underwriting data in formats generated by other parts of the same bank.
It means that when a broker conducts an affordability assessment with a bank, they are able to obtain the information quickly. But when they attempt to pass this information to a different division of the same bank, the banks request the original bank statements. This is adding significant time to new lending and debt management applications, according to industry experts.
In an interview with Open Banking Expo, Susan Rann, chief executive officer of Paylink Solutions, said that banks should be applauded for their Open Banking efforts this far, but suggested it is now time for lenders to ensure their processes and practices are common throughout their organisations.
"In terms of the banks being open to the integration of open banking, we have seen good uptake on that. Where we are having some difficulty is we are talking to brokers to package cases. They will use an affordability tool with a consumer and send that information back to lender.
Rann said she is currently working with a large UK brokerage and other industry stakeholders to consider how best banks could resolve the issue.
Market analysts are the big four consultancy firms continue to review the future of the intermediated lending markets, and recognise the issues highlighted by Rann.
At the start of the summer, KPMG published a report on the future of mortgages. Speaking to Open Banking Expo, Chris Monaghan, a partner in the company's Financial Services Advisory practice, said that banks will have to make notable improvements to their intermediated systems.


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Acer 2016 Lineup: Sleek Curved Monitors and a $180 Chromebook
J.R. Nelson January 4, 2016
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Acer's new 2016 lineup of products features a couple of gorgeous new monitors – the R1 super thin while the XR342CK is super wide and curved – an updated TravelMate, integrated 3D cameras, and doubling down on Chrome OS.
Acer TravelMate P648
Acer updated their TravelMate commercial notebook lineup this week with the new TravelMate P648, targeting business users who need a sturdy notebook on the road. You'll be able to order the P648 in a number of configurations, but options include a selection of Intel's Skylake vPro processors, 1080p IPS displays, an NVIDIA GeForce 940M GPU, up to 20GB of memory and a 512GB SSD.
Acer tries to set the TravelMate apart by engineering a number of security features inside: there's pre-boot authentication and drive encryption options, and a fingerprint reader built into the trackpad buttons helps secure the laptop thanks to the TPM chip.
You can order one of the new TravelMate P648 laptops from this April, with prices starting at $800.
Acer Chromebook 11
Acer's updated Chromebook 11 features a stylish new slab design; it eschews the tapered look of most contemporary laptops in favor of something that feels a bit more modern. The light-colored aluminum cover adds to the premium feel as well as build quality; Acer says that the new Chromebook 11 can handle up to 132 pounds of force pressing down on the top, making it an attractive option for book-filled backpacks. Despite the sturdy build quality, it manages to weigh just 2.42 pounds. The 11.6-inch display features a 1366×768 resolution, and comes in packages with 2GB or 4GB of memory, as well as either 16GB or 32GB of storage. All models come with speedy 802.11ac Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, HDMI, USB 3.0, and an SD card slot. There's also a quad-core Celeron CPU inside – so while it's still a lower-end processor, it should be more than speedy enough to avoid the slowness that has plagued Chromebooks in the past.
You'll be able to snag one of these updated Chromebooks starting next month for just $180.
Acer Chromebase 24
The new Chromebook 11 isn't the only new Chrome OS device that Acer is unveiling this week; also on display is the new Acer Chromebase 24 (which, as an aside, seems to be the new name for all-in-one PCs that run Chrome OS). The Chromebase 24 wraps a 23.8-inch IPS display, with a 1920×1080 resolution, inside of a decidedly iMac-esque frame. Acer's Chromebase 24 is powered by unnamed Intel Core processors, and while we know it'll ship with up to 8GB of RAM, it's hard to know much else. All models will ship with 802.11ac Wi-Fi, however, as well as USB 3.0 ports, a webcam with four noise-cancelling mics, and an SD card reader. It'll ship later this year for an as-yet-undetermined amount of money.
Acer R1, Acer H7, and Acer XR342CK Monitors
Acer rolled out a trio of new monitor lineups this week, each of which has its own special set of features.
Acer R1 Monitor Series
The R1 line of computer displays are designed to look good on any desk, with very thin bezels and a frame that is largely just 7mm thick – about the same thickness as a recent iPhone. They call it the "ZeroFrame." Acer has built in its Flicker-less (which has to do with smoothing out the output of a display's LED backlight) and Blue Light Filter to keep your eyes a bit less sressted. Each monitor in the lineup will come with a Full HD 1080p resolution, and you'll be able to snag them in 21.5-, 23-, 23.8-, 25-, and 27-inch form factors. They ship sometime in the first quarter and start at $130.
Acer H7 Monitor Series
The H7 monitor lineup adds to the design-centric R1 monitors by adding in premium build materials like a brushed metal stand. It also comes with a USB-C port that lets you connect both data and power – you'll be able to charge your smartphone or laptop at the same time as you display its video on the H7 displays. Coming in both 25- and 27-inch sizes, both displays feature a 2560×1440 resolution. They also have built in speakers mapped with Acer's custom EQ software. Finally, both H7 monitors display fully 100% of the sRGB color gamut, making them a good option for design-oriented users.
The Acer H7 monitors roll out next month, with a starting price of $500.
Acer XR342CK Curved Gaming Monitor
Acer isn't new to the UltraWide display game (n.b.: most computer displays today have a 16:9 aspect ratio; UltraWides have an aspect ratio of 21:9), but previous displays have suffered from QC issues. The new monitor offers 100% of the sRGB gamut, like the H7 lineup, but also builds in AMD's FreeSync technology for tear-free gaming. There's no price or release date set for the XR in the US, but based on the EMEA price, you can expect it to run between $1100 and $1300.
Intel 3D Cameras and a New Acer Liquid Jade Smartphone
Acer also took the time to announce integration with Intel's line of RealSense cameras into their flagship Black Edition Aspire V Nitro notebooks. Coming on both 15- and 17-inch models, the cameras enable Microsoft's Windows 10 facial login system as well as all sorts of new gesture controls. Models featuring the new camera system will be available in February, starting at $1100. Acer also showed off the new Acer Liquid Jade Primo smartphone. Although currently there aren't plans to bring the Jade Primo to the U.S., it's so rare to see non-Microsoft Windows Phone devices these days that it's hard not to write about it. With a 5.5-inch, 1080p, AMOLED display, the Liquid Jade offers a curved back to make it comfortable in hand. Inside is a Qualcomm Snapdragon 808 processor and 3GB of RAM as well as high-speed LTE and 802.11ac Wi-Fi. The rear-facing camera delivers 21MP images with an f/2.2 auto-focus lens and 4K video, while the front-facing camera uses a wide-angle lens partnered with an 8MP sensor capable of 1080p video recording.
While the Liquid Jade Primo will be rolling out in Europe and elsewhere next month, potential US pricing might see something like $500 – $600.
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Who is Beano the clown ?
He is Bernard Sabran. He is french ;-)
He trained as an actor in London in the 80s, at the Citly Lit and at the East15 Acting School, and works in the theatre and on television. He started clowning in 1993, while working at the National Theatre.
He decided to explore the art of clowning and to develop his clown in 1996, after seeing the Snow Show, performed by Slava Polunin and Angela de Castro. Since then, he has been learning about the clown in workshops with Gerry Flanagan, Slava Polunin, Angela de Castro, and Philippe Gaulier. He studied mime with John Mowat, magic with Michael Dow, balloon modeling with Michael Decker and David Grist, and Commedia d'el Arte with Paola Cavallin.
He has created his theatre show, "Les Reves", which featured at the Edinburgh Festival in 2001 and 2002 and is touring the UK.
Eventually, he wants to "do everything a clown does": in children parties, in corporate work, in the theatre, in the circus, in the street and in hospitals; and he wants to bridge the gap between these different areas in his work.
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Thank you for the opportunity to testify on a problem I've seen blossom from a regional to international issue. 27 years ago I saw the devastation in my school district caused by an unknown disease affecting staff and students. To educate myself and fellow school board members, I had to contact a nearby naval base, although many of my enquiries were returned with, that's classified.
The past 20 years, I've traveled the country, 15 as president of the all-volunteer national non-profit Lyme Disease Association, listening to patients, scientists, doctors, and government officials. Through the perspective of Lyme, I've found some individuals charged with public welfare have lost their focus; instead of solving the problems of humanity, some have abrogated their responsibilities, affecting people worldwide.
Over time, I have heard Lyme called a housewife's disease, a Yuppie disease, hard to catch, easy to cure; heard patients referred to as hysterical, faking, crazy, paranoid, even antibiotic seeking; and heard Lyme advocates portrayed as crazed-know-nothings responsible for mass hysteria over Lyme. Many US Lyme organizations and others have been victimized in peer review by noted researchers who do not agree that Lyme doctors should be permitted to use clinical judgment in treating Lyme, attacking those who are working tirelessly to raise research and education funds for Lyme disease advocates and patients. Many patients confide to me they would rather have cancer.
CDC and NIH have awarded grants to many of the same people, some for studies that rely on the strict CDC surveillance criteria for inclusion, including the use of faulty tests. Thousands of patients have questioned this practice and ask for studies which can provide solutions to their dilemmas as chronic Lyme patients: My doctor won't treat me when I'm sick, No one believes my children and I are sick. A common refrain is, why isn't the government doing anything about Lyme?
NIH funded several treatment studies, and the broad brushed conclusions put a nail in the coffin of Lyme patients. One could possibly conclude from the studies that specific treatments used by study participants over the length of the study were not effective for the restrictive population chosen for research purposes. Instead, conclusions became "no long-term treatment is effective for anyone with Lyme." Many doctors in mainstream medicine who had treat to date, now turned a blind eye and deaf ear to patients with Lyme.
The CDC Lyme surveillance system is in shambles. CDC criteria have become stricter, reducing the patient pool for reported cases. Lyme surveillance is very labor intensive, including calling doctors to verify data. Human resources have been cut, forcing states to institute cost savings measures involving changing case reporting methods, affecting national and regional numbers.
Officials continue to declare there is " no Lyme in the South/Midwest." Reasons given for that stance range from: there are no deer ticks in the South; if there are deer ticks there, they are not infected with Lyme because there are no reservoir hosts in the South (those are small mammals that carry Lyme bacteria and transmit it to ticks who infect people); deer ticks in the South feed on lizards which do not transmit Lyme bacteria to ticks; deer ticks in the South behave differently; and deer ticks in the South do not bite people. Scientific studies do not support those conclusions, yet many physicians still refuse to diagnose and treat Lyme in the South, forcing patients to seek medical treatment in endemic areas of the country, adding to already overburdened medical practices.
Compounding the problem, the very strict Lyme definitions meant for surveillance only are abused by mainstream medicine, insurance companies, pharmacists, and even public officials who are charging moms with Munchausen's by Proxy and taking away their children. Their crime? Having a licensed doctor prescribe antibiotics for their children's Lyme.
On its website, CDC disclaims any responsibility , stating its criteria are for surveillance only. Its actions belie that position. CDC openly endorses the IDSA guidelines , featured on its website, guidelines written by researchers, not clinicians who care about patient outcomes. For example, IDSA guidelines recommend against any long term treatment with antibiotics, recommend against any alternatives, and recommend against supplements for Lyme patients. Patients have no treatment options open to them under these guidelines, even if they can find a doctor still willing to treat under the threat of license removal for exercising clinical judgment in treating Lyme.
characterized complications of Lyme disease," leaving only one death record standing as Lyme disease, a conclusion reached without even conducting medical chart reviews.
Researchers have concluded that Lyme causes more pain and suffering than osteoarthritis, myocardial infarction, and type II diabetes, but they still have not left patients any recourse, denying any clinical judgment in patients who otherwise have no treatment options. Since Lyme often affects more than one family member and those at the highest risk are the most defenseless, children ages 5-9, mothers often forgo their own treatment to save their children.
These same moms may find themselves accused of Munchausen's by Proxy, a controversial diagnosis which blames parents for making their own children sick. I've advocated for parents and children whose schools accuse them of faking illness, despite reputable research showing a drop in IQ of 22 points in children with Lyme, rectified by antibiotic treatment. I have mourned with those families whose children committed suicide after leaving notes which said no one believed them to be sick, and they could not bear the pain of the disease and of the rejection.
This hearing provides a public forum for Lyme issues to be discussed before an impartial audience with the ability to initiate and implement changes. Whatever our differing viewpoints today, we all came to testify and be part of the solution. I came today as a grandmother of 4, trying to protect my granddaughters and others against the agonies of Lyme experienced by 2 of my daughters.
Yet, as I look around the room, I notice the absence of key players in Lyme, CDC, NIH, IDSA, who were invited to be part of the solution and instead chose to remain part of the problem, at the least, abrogating their responsibilities, at the worst, violating a basic tenant of medicine, first do no harm. They need to be brought to the table with patients, advocates, and treating physicians who have heretofore been locked out of the process, so that patients who suffer from Lyme can find treatment and the millions of potential victims worldwide can be spared the medical and political debacle we call Lyme disease. Thank you.


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Third World Welfare Recipients to Protest 'Evil' Capitalism
by Luis R. Miranda
The Real Agenda
What do the elites meeting in Davos, Switzerland have in common with the welfare state recipients in the third world nations? At least a couple of things. Both have immensely benefited from capitalism, yet both groups point to it as an evil system, responsible for things such as inequality and social injustice. Neither of the two groups say what kind of Capitalism they are referring to; Corporate Capitalism or real free market Capitalism. As we reported last week, elitists in Davos are circulating the idea that Capitalism is obsolete and that only a new system managed by their corporations and banks can bring the world back from its current slide into a second Great Depression. Over the weekend, thousands of attendants at the World Social Forum held in the city of Porto Alegre Brazil concluded that Capitalism is the greatest evil ever created and plan to protest against it next June.
Having lived in a third world nation for the first 20 years of my life helps me have a very good idea of the goods and evils that the welfare state is capable of creating. After living in a first world country for ten years, helps balance my view of both the welfare state and the closest example to free market Capitalism. My analysis concludes that the welfare state causes greater harm than good to people. Take a look at the Latin American nations whose people benefit from welfare. Both democratic and non-democratic nations create entitlement programs to supposedly benefit those who cannot help themselves. This welfare system is managed by the State, which taxes the middle class and to a lesser state the upper middle class and small segment of rich people to pay for the welfare programs.
Although many could argue that without those welfare programs millions of people would be left to die of hunger and disease, the truth is that government contribution to the poor is insignificant when compared to monies collected through taxation. Take for example the country of Costa Rica, one of the most stable nations in Latin America. There, the central government debt accounts for 30% of the government's total revenues. Meantime, the country only invests 17.3 percent of its GDP in public health, education, and social welfare combined. So while the bureaucracy eats a third of the government's income, the poor and dependent have to share half of that amount. The Costa Rican economy has gone from a self-sufficient one to a service economy, where multinationals are allowed to install their factories tax free, but pay miserable salaries to the local workers. Costa Rica now depends heavily on tourism and the production of electronics and electronic components. Both activities are likely to slow down as the global economic crisis expands out of control. What does the lack of government leadership in Costa Rica result in? Poverty. Poor and once middle class neighborhoods such as Hatillo, San Sebastian, Sagrada Familia and even downtown San Jose have witnessed an an exponential increase in slums, crime and social unrest. Another example, Brazil, perhaps the fastest growing country in the developing world and one of the most socialist nations in America. The government headed by Dilma Rousseff has a total GDP of 2.9 trillion dollars. From that amount, the central government's debt amounts to 54 percent of the GDP, while only investing a fraction in social programs. The tax burden in Brazil easily gets to 33 percent, much of it, as seen before, goes to finance of the most corrupt regimes in the planet. In this South American country, most people have to resort to the so-called underground economy (collecting cans and plastic bottles, selling fake brand merchandise and so on) to survive. High taxation together with little investment in infrastructure, for example, makes Brazil one of the most troublesome options for local and foreign investors. The gap between the rich and the poor in Brazil continues to grow, while the middle class is being stretched thinner and thinner.
But perhaps the greatest harm caused by the welfare state is not that it gives too little to the poor, but that makes them believe that such state of affairs is the only alternative to their lack of opportunities to grow as individuals. Since the poor classes become absolutely dependent on the bureaucracy to survive, that fact gives the State, in the eyes of the bureaucrats and the welfare recipients- an almost unlimited legitimacy to govern employing the Robin Hood plan: take from the rich and give to the poor. But as we pointed out before, much of the money taxed from the middle class is kept in the coffers of the central governments, as supposed to going to aid the poor.
As seen in developed nations, a smaller government and less taxation for individuals and entrepreneurs is the only combination of policies that spurs economic growth. The liberty to spend their money as they see it fit is what empowers people to grow and forge their own destinies. Personal and social growth derives from having the power to decide what is it that one as a person wants to do while accepting full responsibility for one's decisions, both in the personal and social settings. The short-lived 20th century real free market Capitalism that derived from societies composed by free people is the only system that spurred ingenuity and development. Receiving a free welfare check once a month while sitting around waiting for someone else to take responsibility for one's decisions, achieves exactly the opposite.
But according to the elites and many members of the World Social Forum, the world needs to be governed by a central entity that promotes and enforce a social and "green economy," with priority being given to eradicating hunger. This initiative intends to put pressure on bureaucrats who will take part in the UN conference on sustainable development scheduled for June 20-22 in Rio de Janeiro. This meeting will be the fourth attempt by the globalist organization to convince third world nations that it is necessary to create a central entity with the power to demand for money from the middle classes in the developed world to give it to rich people in the third world. Previous attempts have failed due to revelations that the United Nations' proposals to create a worldwide welfare system intends to erase the sovereignty of all signing participants.
How could it be that the elite of the world and the popular movements, that allegedly fight against those very same elite's impoverishing policies actually agree on a way to solve the problems; namely end with Capitalism and install a global socialist system of governance? As The Real Agenda informed in 2010, movements like the World Social Forum are controlled dissidence, in other words, financed and managed by the very same elite who they claim to be fighting against. According to author Michel Chossudovsky, "the mechanisms of "manufacturing dissent" require a manipulative environment, a process of arm-twisting and subtle cooptation of individuals within progressive organizations, including anti-war coalitions, environmentalists and the anti-globalization movement. The inner objective is to "manufacture dissent" and establish the boundaries of a "politically correct" opposition. In turn, many NGOs are infiltrated by informants often acting on behalf of western intelligence agencies. Moreover, an increasingly large segment of the progressive alternative news media on the internet has become dependent on funding from corporate foundations and charities."
in his article "Manufacturing Dissent": The Corporate Financing of the Protest Movement, Mr. Chossudovsky explains it is impossible to achieve a real mass movement of dissent, when those organizations that claim to support popular demands are heavily financed by the elite. He says regarding the World Economic Forum:
The people's movement has been hijacked. Selected intellectuals, trade union executives, and the leaders of civil society organizations (including Oxfam, Amnesty International, Greenpeace) are routinely invited to the Davos World Economic Forum, where they mingle with the World's most powerful economic and political actors. This mingling of the World's corporate elites with hand-picked "progressives" is part of the ritual underlying the process of "manufacturing dissent". The ploy is to selectively handpick civil society leaders "whom we can trust" and integrate them into a "dialogue", cut them off from their rank and file, make them feel that they are "global citizens" acting on behalf of their fellow workers but make them act in a way which serves the interests of the corporate establishment: "The participation of NGOs in the Annual Meeting in Davos is evidence of the fact that [we] purposely seek to integrate a broad spectrum of the major stakeholders in society in … defining and advancing the global agenda … We believe the [Davos] World Economic Forum provides the business community with the ideal framework for engaging in collaborative efforts with the other principal stakeholders [NGOs] of the global economy to "improve the state of the world," which is the Forum's mission. (World Economic Forum, Press Release 5 January 2001).The WEF does not represent the broader business community. It is an elitist gathering: Its members are giant global corporations (with a minimum $5 billion annual turnover). The selected non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are viewed as partner "stakeholders" as well as a convenient "mouthpiece for the voiceless who are often left out of decision-making processes." (World Economic Forum – Non-Governmental Organizations, 2010).
And about the World Social Forum:
From the outset in 2001, the WSF was supported by core funding from the Ford Foundation, which is known to have ties to the CIA going back to the 1950s: "The CIA uses philanthropic foundations as the most effective conduit to channel large sums of money to Agency projects without alerting the recipients to their source." (James Petras, The Ford Foundation and the CIA, Global Research, September 18, 2002). The same procedure of donor funded counter-summits or people's summits which characterized the 1990s People's Summits was embodied in the World Social Forum (WSF): "… other WSF funders (or `partners', as they are referred to in WSF terminology) included the Ford Foundation, — suffice it to say here that it has always operated in the closest collaboration with the US Central Intelligence Agency and US overall strategic interests; the Heinrich Boll Foundation, which is controlled by the German Greens party, a partner in the present [2003] German government and a supporter of the wars on Yugoslavia and Afghanistan (its leader Joschka Fischer is the [former] German foreign minister); and major funding agencies such as Oxfam (UK), Novib (Netherlands), ActionAid (UK), and so on.
According to Breitbart, this year's World Social Forum opened its doors to members of several other anti-government movements such as Arab Spring, Spain's "Indignant" movement, Occupy Wall Street, and students from Chile. All of these popular movements have criticized the globalist concept of "a green economy" because it is designed to give multinationals the largest profits by being in control of the so anxiously sought centralized global social government. Ironically, the Occupy Wall Street Movement is one of those groups that is coopted by globalist organizations and foundations.
Some of the speakers are the World Social Forum made it clear that their fight is a battle to convince 98 percent of the world's population that there is a group composed by 1 percent that refuses to embrace the collectivist concept of social justice. This concept is based on the the belief that it doesn't matter how people achieve success, economic or otherwise; they must give part of their property and income to a large group of self entitled conformists who need to get their checks on a monthly basis.
"The political and economic elites are the one percent who control the world and we are the one percent seeking to change it. Where are the (other) 98 percent?" said Chico Whitaker, one of the Forum's founders. "There are many who are happy because each time they get more consumer goods, but many are concerned and unsatisfied. The challenge for us is to speak with them." "If we do not raise the issue of inequality, we won't solve the problems," said Venezuelan sociologist Edgardo Lander. "If the system is not capable of redistributing and deal with inequality, we have to do it ourselves," agreed Sam Halvorsen, of the Occupy London movement.
What these alleged leaders do not say is that nations governed by socialist or communist regimes are always less free, less successful, less equal and less independent. How long has there been Socialism and Communism? What have been their key contributions to ending poverty and misery, especially in third world countries? This is a questions that has probably never been asked in meetings like the World Economic Forum or the World Social Forum, however both movements and their supporters insist this is the way to go. Aren't Socialism and Communism as outdated as Corporate Capitalism? On the other hand, what did real free market Capitalism achieved while it was allowed to work as an economic model?
Socialists and Communists like to answer to this question saying that their agenda is not intended to promote consumerism, and that free market societies are bound to become large groups of individuals possessed by the desire to have more and more. A possible answer to that idea is that only free market Capitalism has the power to 'naturally' end consumerism as market forces define what is needed and what there's too much of. As we have now learnt, all artificially created bubbles tend to explode, unless they are artificially maintained (i.e. the financial bubble, the housing bubble and the derivatives bubble. All of them created by the globalist elite.). What has the World Economic Forum or the World Social Forum said about those bubbles? Nothing. No investigations on the real causes of the current economic crisis, no official investigation on who benefited from the impoverishment of millions in both the developed and underdeveloped nations.
It doesn't matter that there is a credibility and morality gap, as Klaus Schwab, founder of the annual World Economic Forum, said last week in Davos. The elite and their controlled dissidents will continue to push for a change for the worst; a globalist socialist system where it will be OK to rob from the productive to give to the unproductive. The push is to drive the corporate welfare system and the social welfare system as the models for a world where the elite will have complete control of the resources, production, and the welfare checks.
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In their own words: "Banks are Government Sponsored Entities"
Big banks like Bank of America Corp and Citigroup Inc should be reclassified as government-sponsored entities and have their activities restricted, a senior Fed official said on Tuesday.
The 2008 bank bailouts at the height of the financial crisis and other implicit guarantees effectively make the largest U.S. banks government-guaranteed enterprises, like mortgage finance companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, said Kansas City Fed President Thomas Hoenig.
Banks are feeding like parasites from taxpayer money.
"That's what they are," Hoenig said at the National Association of Attorneys General 2011 conference.
He said these lenders should be restricted to commercial banking activities, advocating a policy that existed for decades barring banks from engaging in investment banking activities.
"You're a public utility, for crying out loud," he said.
The Kansas City Fed president has been a vocal critic of rescuing the biggest banks rather than allowing them to fail. He has criticized the Fed's easy money policies in the wake of the crisis.
There are slim chances his proposal to classify banks as government-guaranteed enterprises would be adopted. Eighteen out of the 19 biggest U.S. banks have repaid 2008 bailout aid, removing most government investment over the last 18 months.
In a later session, Bank of America Chief Executive Brian Moynihan rejected the notion that the largest banks should divorce their commercial and investment banking operations.
"I think customers want it together," said Moynihan, noting he sees the combination as necessary to effectively serve large American companies with global operations.
The longest serving Fed bank president, Hoenig began his career in the Fed system in 1973 as an economist in the bank supervision group. The anti-inflation hawk will step down as president of the Kansas City Fed in October.
Hoenig's experiences shuttering banks during the savings and loan crisis of the 1980s, when over-investment in real estate caused hundreds of bank failures and necessitated a massive government bailout, shaped his views about how to emerge from the most recent crisis.
Hoenig also said banks are still not adequately prepared for the next financial crisis, despite new capital rules requiring lenders to raise billions of dollars to buttress against future losses.
Hoenig said the proposed Basel III capital requirements — which demand as much as 8 percent core capital ratio — will not be enough to weather catastrophic losses.
"That is far too little capital with this complexity and this risk profile," he said.
Filed under World Tagged with 2008 bailout, Bank of America Corp, Banks, Citigroup, corporate colonialism, corporatism, Fannie Mae, financial crisis, Freddie Mac, governments, JP Morgan, Kansas City Fed president, kansas fed chief Hoenig
Welcome to Poor America. 43 Million and counting
History repeats itself as corporate colonialism claims another nation-state. The United States is a prisoner on its knees waiting to be shot on the head.
One in seven Americans is living in poverty, the highest number in the half-century that the government has kept such statistics, the Census Bureau announced Thursday.
Last year was the third consecutive year that the poverty rate climbed, in part because of the recession, rising from 13.2 percent in 2008 to 14.3 percent, or 43.6 million people, last year.
Asians were the only ethnic group whose poverty rate did not change substantially; every other race and Hispanics experienced increases in poverty rates.
In addition, 51 million Americans were uninsured, as the number of people with health insurance dropped from 255 million to less than 254 million — the first decrease since the government started keeping track in 1987. The number would have been worse because 6.5 million fewer people got insurance through their jobs, but it was offset by a leap in government-backed health insurance. More than 30 percent of Americans now get coverage from the government.
"Given all the unemployment we saw, it's the government safety net that's keeping people above the poverty line," Douglas Besharov, a University of Maryland public policy professor and former scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, told the Associated Press.
The grim statistics reflect the depth of the recession that began almost three years ago and could have an impact on midterm elections less than two months away.
"These numbers should be a wake-up call," said Peter Edelman, a Georgetown University professor and co-director of the Georgetown Center on Poverty, Inequality and Public Policy. "These are deeply disturbing numbers."
At organizations where the unemployed come to get help finding a job or seek food, the numbers were no surprise.
"In the decade I've been doing this work, this is a low point," said Jason Perkins-Cohen, executive director of the Job Opportunities Task Force in Baltimore. "We're getting a real feeling of desperation. For sheer numbers, it's a new, unhappy world."
At the nonprofit Action Though Service in Prince William County late Thursday morning, the shelves of the agency's pantry were starting to empty, as the line for help snaked out the door with a few dozen people seeking assistance.
Prince William resident Carol Williams said she has come to the shelter once a month since January, when she was laid off from her job at United Medical Center due to budget woes.
"I worked since I was 15, and, now, for the first time I don't have a job and I can't feed my family," said Williams, 55. "I have a degree; doesn't matter. The jobs aren't there."
Williams said she has been applying for dozens of jobs a week and had about 20 interviews since January. "I think people are scared to hire someone who is not working," she said, adding there also is just a lot more competition because of the high unemployment rate.
A single mother, Williams has five mouths to feed — children and grandchildren– ranging in age from 17 months to 28. Williams said she was able to raise three sons on her own, but she now turns to the food pantry at ACTS and her father and friends for help.
"We had no bread, no nothing last Friday because the pantry was closed," she said. "Luckily a friend helped me or we would have had no food for the weekend."
Advocates said they're seeing a lot more people like Williams.
"We have definitely seen many more individuals who are very well-educated, with high degrees, where it's the first time to ever be in a situation to ever have to ask for help for food or shelter," said Vickie Koth, executive director of Good Shepherd Alliance in Loudoun County.
Koth recalls one family of four in particular, where both parents were highly educated — the mother was a lawyer, and the father was a mortgage broker. "They were in the business of buying and selling homes, and they had three foreclosures within the same span of time and were homeless for the first time.
"We're full all the time and we turn people away every day, and that's always been true. But the types of people that call have changed," Koth said. "Time after time I've heard individuals say, 'I've given to shelters, I've volunteered at food pantries. I've never thought I'd be here myself.' "
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