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Christ's Knights: Hospitallers and Templars in the Latin East and Beyond
HIST31621
The idea that monks – men who fought the metaphorical battle against the Devil's temptations through prayer and contemplation – should take up the sword and fight in literal battle against the supposed enemies of the faith was a shocking innovation of the twelfth century. The study of the military religious orders, the fighting monks, is the study of a set of paradoxes: care for the sick and slaughter of the infidel; centres of action on the periphery of Europe; Christian lordship of Islamic populations – not to mention the central paradox of the 'fighting monk' himself. We will interrogate these oppositions to grasp what the military religious orders can tell the historian about the nature of medieval society. How could these apparent contradictions be negotiated and reconciled? What did the Hospitallers and the Templars think they were? What did others think they were? Why were so many women drawn to enter what are, at first sight, thoroughly masculine enterprises? Why were the Templars brutally suppressed, but the Hospitallers still survive?
Pre/co-requisites
HIST31621 is restricted to History programmes, Classics and Ancient History programmes, History and American Studies programmes and European Studies programmes (please check your programme regulations for further details).
This module is only available to students on History-owned programmes; Euro Studies programmes; History joint honours programmes owned by other subject areas; and CLAH-owned programmes. Available to students on an Erasmus programme subject to VSO approval.
This course will:
engage students with the histories of religious formations, belief, and social structures in the Middle Ages, by examining religious orders that transgressed accepted boundaries between lay and religious spheres of action
engage students with the close analysis of a wide range of documentary source materials, utilizing interdisciplinary methodologies developed through interaction with literary scholarship and historical theology
explore the epistemological issues inherent in the use and applicability of limited, tendentious, and fragmentary evidence in the construction of historical argument
equip students with the advanced skills in the independent evaluation of primary evidence, the construction of argument on that basis, and the concise presentation of complex ideas in writing, necessary to succeed with the L3 Thesis and at L4
By the end of this course students will be able to:
1+2. Genesis: The Formation of the Military Religious Orders in the Twelfth-Century Latin East
3+4. Identity and Controversy: (a) The Construction of Collective Identity; (b) Controversy and Support in the Latin West
5+6. Lordship, Society, and Warfare: (a) Lordship and Power in the Latin East; (b) Rule in a cultural contact zone
7+8. Coping with Crisis: The Trial of the Templars (and the Hospitaller Survival)
9+10. The Hospitallers and the Teutonic Knights in the Later Middle Ages: (a) Territorial Lordship and State Formation on Rhodes and in Prussia; (b) The Burden of History: the purpose of the Orders in a changed world
Teaching and learning methods
Eleven three-hour workshops, involving short (20-30 minute) lecture-style presentations, group discussions, and oral presentation by students in the form of student-led seminar activities driven by enquiry-based learning principles
All required reading to be made digitally available through Blackboard; all written work to be submitted on Turnitin. A bank of digitized articles from edited collections and book chapters to be constructed on Blackboard to relieve pressure on hard-copy library holdings.
Full-day excursion to London, with tour and study (a) of the Temple Church and (b) of the Museum of the Order of St John at Clerkenwell, with collection of medieval Hospitaller manuscripts and artefacts, to include object-handling seminar (These two sites were the medieval headquarters of the two main military religious orders in England).
understand the context in which the religious military orders emerged in the twelfth century, and why historians have found it so difficult to agree on the processes that gave rise to them ('militarization')
understand why the religious military orders proved repeatedly to be so controversial; and why, as what, and by whom they found acceptance
understand the mechanisms by which collective identity was formed, shaped, and purposefully changed over time in a medieval context
understand how identity and group belonging is contingent (inter alia) upon place, time, social function, and gender
understand the conditions under which organizations survive in radically changing circumstances, or fail to do so
Intellectual skills
question the status of received 'fact' and understand precisely the fragile evidentiary basis, susceptible to multiple interpretation, on which historical argument rests
understand the difficulties inherent in the historical reconstruction of the intangible, such as conceptions of identity, belief, and patterns of thought, and their construction and encapsulation in texts of various types, literary genres, and purposes
critically evaluate the status of historiographical debates through independent assessment of the evidence under contention
understand key paradigms through which modern scholarship approaches the medieval past (e.g. centre v. periphery; mediality; identity; mechanics of power)
analyze challenging primary evidence from a range of textual types and non-textual sources (e.g. art; material culture; architecture), providing students with the confidence to tackle unfamiliar bodies of material
formulate and communicate independent conclusions effectively in writing, at the level required for the graduate-entry employment market
marshal arguments and supporting evidence under pressure, developing flexibility of thought
present and explain issues cogently and concisely in oral presentation, and be able to lead and steer discussion independently
Transferable skills and personal qualities
work in teams in small-group discussion, and present their ideas to each other and to the full workshop group
express complex ideas and intellectually challenging issues with concision and fluency in writing, having full command of their chosen subject of inquiry
analyze raw evidence, assess competing interpretations, and evaluate the usefulness of different frameworks in which to locate the issues under consideration
think critically at the highest level, suitable for progress to postgraduate study or to upper-level graduate-entry employment in cognate fields (e.g. law, consultancy, management)
engage in debate through constructive discussion not hampered by antagonistic or simplistically dismissive assertion
It will push students to expand their cultural and intellectual horizons, and consistently to use and to augment their powers of critical thought and judgement.
It will enable students to become good analysts, and to operate in written and spoken English at the level of professionalism expected for graduate-entry employment.
This course will challenge students to encounter the unfamiliar, engage in independent research to grasp it on its own terms, and secure the confidence to offer their own interpretations based on their understanding of the evidence and modern research and scholarship. It will push students to expand their cultural and intellectual horizons, and consistently to use and to augment their powers of critical thought and judgement.
Written assignment (inc essay) 60%
Oral feedback on student-led seminars - formative.
Written feedback on source analysis, essay and examination - summative
One-to-one feedback on written work in office hours - formative
Malcolm Barber, The Crusader States (London, 2012).
Malcolm Barber, The New Knighthood. A History of the Order of the Temple (Cambridge, 1994).
Adrian Boas, Archaeology of the Military Orders. A Survey of the Urban Centres, Rural Settlement and Castles of the Military Orders in the Latin East (c.1120-1291) (London, 2006).
Jochen Burgtorf et al., eds., The Debate on the Trial of the Templars (1307-1314) (Farnham, 2010).
Alain Demurger, The Last Templar. The Tragedy of Jacques de Molay, Last Grand Master of the Temple, trans. Antonia Nevill (London, 2004).
Robin Griffith-Jones and David Park, ed., The Temple Church in London. History, Architecture, Art (Woodbridge, 2010).
Helen Nicholson, The Knights Hospitaller (Woodbridge, 2001).
Jonathan Riley-Smith, The Knights Hospitaller in the Levant, c. 1070-1309 (Basingstoke, 2012).
Jochen Schenk, Templar Families. Landowning Families and the Order of the Temple in France, c.1120-1307 (Cambridge, 2012).
Fieldwork 5
Stephen Mossman Unit coordinator
Source Analysis: 1500 words, summative, 30%
Essay: 2500 words, summative, 30%
Examination: 2 hours, summative, 40%


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The moss flora of the Yucatan Peninsula has been studied for more than 100 years. The exploration has been sparse and haphazard, with some incidental reports of a few specimens in general floristic studies. Recently, available data on the peninsular mosses were compiled and supplemented with collections from the states of Campeche, Quintana Roo and Yucatán (Delgadillo et al. 1982, Delgadillo & Cárdenas 1982, Delgadillo 1984). From these studies and the Moss Flora of Mexico (Sharp et al. 1994) it is now evident that there are about 70 moss species and varieties within the political subdivisions of the Yucatan Peninsula. Despite up-dated information, no single site is adequately known and further studies are required to identify moss diversity and regional patterns of distribution.
In early October, 2000 the authors collected mosses in El Edén Ecological Reserve. Although a large portion of the site was underwater because of seasonal flooding, specimens recovered from the forest and secondary growth vegetation in the Reserve may be representative of the local moss flora. The list given below contains the names of taxa followed by specimen numbers preceded by the collector's initials. A complete set of specimens has been deposited at MEXU; an additional set will be sent to the University of California at Riverside.
Twenty-two moss were collected in El Edén Ecological Reserve. This small size of the flora may be attributed to human occupation and disturbance in modern and historic times. Fire, agriculture and other forms of interference have apparently resulted in a depauperate moss flora in El Edén and in the entire Yucatan Peninsula. The role of other such factors as topographic uniformity, high near-ground insolation, poor water holding capacity and other features of the substrate cannot be established at this time. The small stature of the vascular plant vegetation, partly as a consequence of human occupation since historic times, may be also responsible for diminished moss habitats.
Most mosses in El Edén grow as epiphytes or as saprophytes on decaying logs. Notable exceptions are Barbula agraria and Neohyophila sprengelii that are apparently obligate saxicolous; Bryum apiculatum usually grows on soil in disturbed habitats, as for instance, around human dwellings. Although frequent, most species have limited growth and biomass in El Edén. This may be due to their life form, but mostly to continued habitat disturbance and the youth of the shrubs in the second growth vegetation. Groutiella tumidula, Leucobryum incurvifolium and Octoblepharum albidum cover the largest substrate surface. The latter two are easily distinguished by their whitish color due to numerous hyaline empty leaf cells.
The number of moss species in El Edén may not be significantly higher even after the inundated areas are visited. The small size of the flora may be advantageous for an in-depth study of the biology of the species, as in the analysis of succession on trees and decaying wood. The sequence of successional events is usually difficult to follow because of the large number of participating species in temperate or tropical ecosystems, but clearly, taxon identification would be comparatively easy in El Edén.
The mosses of El Edén are part of a generalized flora that is well represented throughout the Yucatan Peninsula. Their distribution is now part of a broader analysis that includes their range in Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean Islands.
Acknowledgements. Thanks are extended to Dr. Arturo Gómez-Pompa and field station personnel, for support and for making field work possible in El Edén. Dr. Ronald A. Pursell, Pennsylvania State University, identified various Fissidens specimens.
Delgadillo M., C., A. Cárdenas S. & A.J. Sharp. 1982. Mosses of the Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico. I. Bryologist 85: 253-257.
Delgadillo M., C. & A. Cárdenas S. 1982. Mosses of the Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico. II. Bol. Soc. Bot. Méx. 43: 35-37.
Delgadillo M., C. 1984. Mosses of the Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico. III Phytogeography. Bryologist 87: 12-16.
Sharp, A.J., H. Crum & P.M. Eckel. 1994. The Moss Flora of Mexico. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 69: 1-1113.


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Tag: Huxley
Quote Of The Day: Propaganda | Divide & Conquer | Social Engineering
"The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that the other set of people are human."
– Aldous Huxley
Posted on April 21, 2017 April 22, 2017 Categories Mainstream Media & Propaganda, News, Quote Of The Day, Social EngineeringTags Huxley, Mainstream Media, Propaganda, Quotes, Social EngineeringLeave a comment on Quote Of The Day: Propaganda | Divide & Conquer | Social Engineering
Collective Consciousness – The Individual Is Gone
Source:NoMoreFakeNews.com
"In the middle of all the brain-research going on, from one end of the planet to the other, there is the assumption that the individual doesn't really exist. He's a fiction. There is only the motion of particles in the brain. Therefore, nothing is inviolate, nothing is protected. Make the brain do A, make it do B; it doesn't matter. What matters is harmonizing these tiny particles, in order to build a collective consensus, in order to force a science of behavior." (The Underground, Jon Rappoport)
Individual power. Your power.
It stands as the essence of what the founding documents of the American Republic are all about, once you scratch below the surface a millimeter or so.
Therefore, it stands to reason that colleges and universities would be teaching courses in INDIVIDUAL POWER.
As soon as I write that, though, we all fall down laughing, because we understand the absurdity of such a proposition. Can you imagine Harvard endowing a chair in Individual Power?
Students would tear down the building in which such courses were taught. They've been carefully instructed that the individual is the greatest living threat to the planet.
If you can't see that as mind control, visit your local optometrist and get a prescription for glasses.
So we have this astonishing situation: the very basis of freedom has no reflection in the educational system.
You can say "individual" within certain limited contexts. You can say "power," if you're talking about nuclear plants, or if you're accusing someone of a crime, but if you put "individual" and "power" together and attribute a positive quality to the combination, you're way, way outside the consensus. You're crazy. You're committing some kind of treason.
In order to spot the deepest versions of educational brainwashing, YOU HAVE TO HAVE SOME STANDARD AGAINST WHICH YOU CAN COMPARE WHAT IS COMING DOWN THE PIPELINE INTO THE MINDS OF STUDENTS.
If you lack that standard, you miss most of the action.
If you lack that standard, you have already been worked over by the system.
And in this case, the standard is INDIVIDUAL POWER.
Clean it off, hose off the dirt, polish it, look at it, think about it, remember it.
Then you'll see some Grade-A prime mind control. Everywhere. Because schools either don't mention it, or they discredit it.
Back in the days when I was writing on assignment for newspapers and magazines, I pitched a story about individual power to an editor. I wanted to trace its history as an idea over the past ten years.
He looked at me for a few seconds. He looked at me as if I'd just dropped some cow flop on his desk. He knew I wasn't kidding and I had something I could write and turn in to him, but that made it worse. He began to squirm in his chair.
He laughed nervously.
Then he stopped laughing.
He said, "This isn't what we do."
For him, I was suddenly radioactive.
I had a similar experience with a high-school history teacher in California. We were having lunch in a cafe in Santa Monica, and I said, "You should teach a course in individual power. The positive aspects. No group stuff. Just the individual."
He frowned a deep intellectual frown, as if I'd just opened my jacket and exposed a few sticks of dynamite strapped to my chest. As if he was thinking about which agency of the government to report me to.
Now, for the schizoid part. The movies. Television. Video games. Comics. Graphic novels. They are filled to the brim, they are overflowing with individual heroes who have considerable power. These entertainment businesses bank billions of dollars, because people want to immerse themselves in that universe where the individual is supreme. They want it badly.
But when it comes to "real" life, power stops at the front door and no one answers the bell.
Suddenly, the hero, the person with power is anathema. He's left holding the bag. So he adjusts. He waits. He wonders. He settles for less, far less. He stifles his hopes. He shrinks. He forgets. He develops "problems" and tries to solve them within an impossibly narrow context. He redefines success and victory down to meet limited expectations. He strives for the normal and the average. For his efforts, he receives tidbits, like a dog looking up at his master.
If that isn't mind control, nothing is.
Once we enter a world where the individual no longer has credibility, a world where "greatest good for the greatest number" is the overriding principle, and where that principle is defined by the elite few, the term "mind control" will have a positive connotation. It will be accepted as the obvious strategy for achieving "peace in our time."
At a job interview, a candidate will say, "Yes, I received my PhD in Mind Control at Yale, and then I did three years of post-doc work in Cooperative Learning Studies at MIT. My PhD thesis? It was titled, 'Coordination Strategies in the Classroom for Eliminating the Concept of the Individual.'"
From Wikipedia, "Cooperative Learning": "Students must work in groups to complete tasks collectively toward academic goals. Unlike individual learning, which can be competitive in nature, students learning cooperatively can capitalize on one another's resources and skills…Furthermore, the teacher's role changes from giving information to facilitating students' learning. Everyone succeeds when the group succeeds."
That is a towering assemblage of bullshit.
"Everyone succeeds when the group succeeds." You could use that quote on the back cover of Orwell's 1984 or Huxley's Brave New World. Everyone does not succeed—because the individual never finds out what he can do on his own. That avenue is cut off. He only knows what he can achieve in combination with others. He only knows what he can understand when he borrows from others. He may never glimpse what he truly wants to do in life.
This is a tragic situation, but the tragedy is concealed, because the memory of shifting from individual independence to group dependence is gone. There is no such memory. A child is brought up without independence. Therefore, how can he recall losing it?
He only knows the group and the team and the participation and the praise. He only knows the organizing of his life within a synthetically produced context.
He is taught that this is good and necessary.
So, one day, when a bolt comes out of the blue and he recognizes he is himself, what will he use to grasp that revelation and build on it?
Yes, there are productive groups and teams, and one is always working with others, to some degree. But the core and the starting point is one's self. That is where the insight and the magic begin. That is where the great decisions and commitments are made. That is where the world is born, every day.
I see no end of writing about this magic, because civilization has been turned upside down by treacherous people who have been fabricating a counter-tradition that will sink the ship.
Posted on October 24, 2016 November 13, 2016 Categories Conformity Crisis, Imagination, The Individual & The Artist, NewsTags 1984, Brave New World, Collectivism, Cooperative Learning, Huxley, Individuality, Individuals, Indoctrination, Orwell, The Collective, The IndividualLeave a comment on Collective Consciousness – The Individual Is Gone
The CIA's 'Pokémon Go' App is Doing What the Patriot Act Can't
Source: CorbettReport.com
James Corbett
Privacy advocates (that's establishment speak for "normal human beings") celebrated earlier this week as the House rejected yet another attempt to expand the Patriot Act's snooping provisions. House Resolution 5606, better known by its Orwellian name, the "Anti-terrorism Information Sharing is Strength Act," would have allowed Big Brother to access Americans' financial information based on what the government deems to be "suspicious activity." Given that the DHS has labeled such things as using binoculars, paying with cash, or even "appearing normal" as "possible terrorist activity" in the past (thus making pretty much every human being a possible terrorist), everyone can breathe a sigh of relief that the bill failed.
But don't breathe that sigh too deeply, because exactly as that threat to privacy was being extinguished, another one was rising to take its place. It goes by the name of "Pokémon Go" and it is a so-called "augmented reality" game that allows users to capture, train and battle virtual Pokémon by chasing them around through real world environments with your smart phone.
Full disclosure: Although I live in the land of anime and video games, I have never played any Pokémon games, watched any of the shows, read any of the comics or bought any of the toys associated with the franchise. I don't know anything about it except for the name of that ubiquitous yellow Pikachu character. So if you are an out-of-touch fuddy-duddy like me, you may be surprised to learn that the "Pokémon Go" app, launched just one week ago, is the hottest thing on the planet right now.
To put into perspective just how popular this game is, it topped the App Store's "Top Grossing" category within 24 hours of its release. Now, just one week out, it has been downloaded an estimated 7.5 million times in the US alone and is generating an estimated $1.6 million a day for Nintendo. But here's the truly mind-boggling part: In just the first two trading days after the game's release, Nintendo's market value rose a staggering $7.5 billion. That's right, folks, this is not merely a game, it is a phenomenon.
For those unfamiliar with "augmented reality" gaming, it's a type of game where one tracks virtual characters or objects that appear on their smart phones through real world environments. The Pokémon Go game is prompting scores of people out into the streets to go chasing for wild Pokémon to capture.
It is also prompting heists, violence, hoaxes and hysteria.
On the more innocuous side, some restaurants and businesses are already trying to cash in on their proximity to spots with a lot of in-game activity. On the less innocuous side, robbers are now using "Lures" (which attract Pokémon to a certain spot) to lure gamers in to be mugged. One 19-year-old hunting for water Pokémon in a rural river ended up uncovering a dead body, one IT executive got fired from his job after an online Facebook tirade inspired by frustration at the game, and one YouTuber who was live streaming the game while out Ubering allegedly saw someone get murdered right in front of him…but that turned out to be a hoax.
If you're wondering what's going on here, you're not the only one. It seems the internet is flipping its collective lid over this app as the line between gaming and the real world gets blurrier. But perhaps all of this pales in comparison to the game's terms and conditions.
Firstly, the app requires an excessive amount of permissions on a user's device, including the ability to read your contacts, find accounts on your device, and access your camera. The app even requires full access to a user's Google account, which it can then use to read your emails, send emails from your account, browse your Google Drive documents and photos, etc. But apparently that's just "a mistake" and will be "corrected soon."
Secondly, the game's privacy policy contains such gems as: "We may disclose any information about you (or your authorized child) that is in our possession or control to government or law enforcement officials or private parties." What could go wrong?
But wait, it gets worse!
The maker of the app? Niantic Labs. Never heard of them? That's because until last year they were an internal start-up of none other than Google, the NSA-linked Big Brother company. Even now Google remains one of Niantic's major backers. Niantic was founded by John Hanke, who also founded Keyhole, Inc., the mapping company which was created with seed money from In-Q-Tel, the CIA's venture capital arm, and which was eventually rolled into Google Maps.
So yes, the Pokémon game currently taking the internet by storm (and scooping up all their data, including activities, movements and communications) was created by a CIA-linked businessman who gestated his company at Google.
Feeling safe yet?
As it turns out, the big, bad Big Brother Spies of the NSA and the DHS and the CIA don't really need their Patriot Act powers, after all. All the powers-that-shouldn't-be need to do is create a fun, shiny trinket for the people to play with and they will literally pay for their own surveillance.
Welcome to the "Matrix Economy," where people pay to spy on themselves…and have fun doing it!
Huxley would be proud.
Read More At: CorbettReport.com
Posted on July 15, 2016 Categories Big Brother, CIA, News, Social Engineering, Spying & PrivacyTags Augmented Reality, Big Brother, CIA, Gamers, Huxley, In-Q-Tel, John Hanke, Mass Surveilance, Niantic, PATRIOT Act, Pikachu, Pokémon Go, Privacy, SpyingLeave a comment on The CIA's 'Pokémon Go' App is Doing What the Patriot Act Can't
The Metaphysics of Hollywood Mind Control Magic: Jay Dyer on Truth Frequency
Source: Jay D
Jay Dyer
Chris Geo invited me on Truth Frequency Radio to discuss esoteric symbolism in film. We cover numerous films, including The Truman Show, Dark City, The Matrix, Alias, Toy Soldiers, Minority Report, Close Encounters, Terminator, Logan's Run, Spielberg films and simulacrum predictive programming or pre-scripting, Hollywood "magic," correspondences, and several more. From there, we discuss religions, cults and worldviews, archetypes, gnosticism and esoterica in relation to naming a thing (with a treatment of perception management and the portrayal of gods and goddesses), and how this relates to mind control and mass brainwashing. We also mention hellfire and brimstone preaching as a technique borrowed by Huxley and the megastate for the "war on terror."
For more, head over to: http://www.jaysanalysis.com
Posted on March 1, 2016 March 1, 2016 Categories Mind Control, Social Engineering, MK Ultra & Entrainment Technology, News, Pop Culture, Movies, Entertainment & HollywoodTags Alias, Dark City, Esoterica, Hollywood, Huxley, Metaphysics, Mind Control, Minority Report, Pop Culture, Social Engineering, Terminator, The Matri, Toy SoldiersLeave a comment on The Metaphysics of Hollywood Mind Control Magic: Jay Dyer on Truth Frequency
The Super Bowl: Here's What You Won't Hear On TV
Source: NaturalSociety.com
Over 100 million people watched the Super Bowl last night on television, and chances are you may be one of them.
I'm not here to sit on some high horse and judge you for watching football, but I am here to share a very important message to you about what you WON'T be hearing on TV about Super Bowl 50…
Read More At: NaturalSociety.com
Posted on February 8, 2016 Categories Mainstream Media & Propaganda, Mind Control, Social Engineering, MK Ultra & Entrainment Technology, News, Pop Culture, Movies, Entertainment & HollywoodTags 1984, Big TV, Brave New World, Huxley, Mainstream Media, Orwell, Priorities, Propaganda, Red Pill, Super Bowl, TruthLeave a comment on The Super Bowl: Here's What You Won't Hear On TV
The Emergence of Orwellian Newspeak and the Death of Free Speech
Source: Rutherford.Org
"If you don't want a man unhappy politically, don't give him two sides to a question to worry him; give him one. Better yet, give him none. Let him forget there is such a thing as war. If the government is inefficient, top-heavy, and tax-mad, better it be all those than that people worry over it…. Give the people contests they win by remembering the words to more popular songs or the names of state capitals or how much corn Iowa grew last year. Cram them full of noncombustible data, chock them so damned full of 'facts' they feel stuffed, but absolutely 'brilliant' with information. Then they'll feel they're thinking, they'll get a sense of motion without moving. And they'll be happy, because facts of that sort don't change." ― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
How do you change the way people think? You start by changing the words they use.
In totalitarian regimes—a.k.a. police states—where conformity and compliance are enforced at the end of a loaded gun, the government dictates what words can and cannot be used. In countries where the police state hides behind a benevolent mask and disguises itself as tolerance, the citizens censor themselves, policing their words and thoughts to conform to the dictates of the mass mind.
Even when the motives behind this rigidly calibrated reorientation of societal language appear well-intentioned—discouraging racism, condemning violence, denouncing discrimination and hatred—inevitably, the end result is the same: intolerance, indoctrination and infantilism.
It's political correctness disguised as tolerance, civility and love, but what it really amounts to is the chilling of free speech and the demonizing of viewpoints that run counter to the cultural elite.
As a society, we've become fearfully polite, careful to avoid offense, and largely unwilling to be labeled intolerant, hateful, closed-minded or any of the other toxic labels that carry a badge of shame today. The result is a nation where no one says what they really think anymore, at least if it runs counter to the prevailing views. Intolerance is the new scarlet letter of our day, a badge to be worn in shame and humiliation, deserving of society's fear, loathing and utter banishment from society.
For those "haters" who dare to voice a different opinion, retribution is swift: they will be shamed, shouted down, silenced, censored, fired, cast out and generally relegated to the dust heap of ignorant, mean-spirited bullies who are guilty of various "word crimes."
We have entered a new age where, as commentator Mark Steyn notes, "we have to tiptoe around on ever thinner eggshells" and "the forces of 'tolerance' are intolerant of anything less than full-blown celebratory approval."
In such a climate of intolerance, there can be no freedom speech, expression or thought.
Yet what the forces of political correctness fail to realize is that they owe a debt to the so-called "haters" who have kept the First Amendment robust. From swastika-wearing Neo-Nazis marching through Skokie, Illinois, and underaged cross burners to "God hates fags" protesters assembled near military funerals, those who have inadvertently done the most to preserve the right to freedom of speech for all have espoused views that were downright unpopular, if not hateful.
Until recently, the U.S. Supreme Court has reiterated that the First Amendment prevents the government from proscribing speech, or even expressive conduct, because it disapproves of the ideas expressed. However, that long-vaunted, Court-enforced tolerance for "intolerant" speech has now given way to a paradigm in which the government can discriminate freely against First Amendment activity that takes place within a government forum. Justifying such discrimination as "government speech," the Court ruled that the Texas Dept. of Motor Vehicles could refuse to issue specialty license plate designs featuring a Confederate battle flag. Why? Because it was deemed offensive.
The Court's ruling came on the heels of a shooting in which a 21-year-old white gunman killed nine African-Americans during a Wednesday night Bible study at a church in Charleston, N.C. The two events, coupled with the fact that gunman Dylann Roof was reportedly pictured on several social media sites with a Confederate flag, have resulted in an emotionally charged stampede to sanitize the nation's public places of anything that smacks of racism, starting with the Confederate flag and ballooning into a list that includes the removal of various Civil War monuments.
These tactics are nothing new. This nation, birthed from puritanical roots, has always struggled to balance its love of liberty with its moralistic need to censor books, music, art, language, symbols etc. As author Ray Bradbury notes, "There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches."
Indeed, thanks to the rise of political correctness, the population of book burners, censors, and judges has greatly expanded over the years so that they run the gamut from left-leaning to right-leaning and everything in between. By eliminating words, phrases and symbols from public discourse, the powers-that-be are sowing hate, distrust and paranoia. In this way, by bottling up dissent, they are creating a pressure cooker of stifled misery that will eventually blow.
For instance, the word "Christmas" is now taboo in the public schools, as is the word "gun." Even childish drawings of soldiers result in detention or suspension under rigid zero tolerance policies. On college campuses, trigger warnings are being used to alert students to any material they might read, see or hear that might upset them, while free speech zones restrict anyone wishing to communicate a particular viewpoint to a specially designated area on campus. Things have gotten so bad that comedians such as Chris Rock and Jerry Seinfeld refuse to perform stand-up routines to college crowds anymore.
Clearly, the country is undergoing a nervous breakdown, and the news media is helping to push us to the brink of insanity by bombarding us with wall-to-wall news coverage and news cycles that change every few days.
In this way, it's difficult to think or debate, let alone stay focused on one thing—namely, holding the government accountable to abiding by the rule of law—and the powers-that-be understand this.
As I document in my book Battlefield America: The War on the American People, regularly scheduled trivia and/or distractions keep the citizenry tuned into the various breaking news headlines and entertainment spectacles and tuned out to the government's steady encroachments on our freedoms. These sleight-of-hand distractions and diversions are how you control a population, either inadvertently or intentionally, advancing a political agenda agenda without much opposition from the citizenry.
Professor Jacques Ellul studied this phenomenon of overwhelming news, short memories and the use of propaganda to advance hidden agendas. "One thought drives away another; old facts are chased by new ones," wrote Ellul.
Under these conditions there can be no thought. And, in fact, modern man does not think about current problems; he feels them. He reacts, but he does not understand them any more than he takes responsibility for them. He is even less capable of spotting any inconsistency between successive facts; man's capacity to forget is unlimited. This is one of the most important and useful points for the propagandists, who can always be sure that a particular propaganda theme, statement, or event will be forgotten within a few weeks.
Already, the outrage over the Charleston shooting and racism are fading from the news headlines, yet the determination to censor the Confederate symbol remains. Before long, we will censor it from our thoughts, sanitize it from our history books, and eradicate it from our monuments without even recalling why. The question, of course, is what's next on the list to be banned?
It was for the sake of preserving individuality and independence that James Madison, the author of the Bill of Rights, fought for a First Amendment that protected the "minority" against the majority, ensuring that even in the face of overwhelming pressure, a minority of one—even one who espouses distasteful viewpoints—would still have the right to speak freely, pray freely, assemble freely, challenge the government freely, and broadcast his views in the press freely.
This freedom for those in the unpopular minority constitutes the ultimate tolerance in a free society. Conversely, when we fail to abide by Madison's dictates about greater tolerance for all viewpoints, no matter how distasteful, the end result is always the same: an indoctrinated, infantilized citizenry that marches in lockstep with the governmental regime.
Some of this past century's greatest dystopian literature shows what happens when the populace is transformed into mindless automatons. In Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, reading is banned and books are burned in order to suppress dissenting ideas, while televised entertainment is used to anesthetize the populace and render them easily pacified, distracted and controlled.
In Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, serious literature, scientific thinking and experimentation are banned as subversive, while critical thinking is discouraged through the use of conditioning, social taboos and inferior education. Likewise, expressions of individuality, independence and morality are viewed as vulgar and abnormal.
And in George Orwell's 1984, Big Brother does away with all undesirable and unnecessary words and meanings, even going so far as to routinely rewrite history and punish "thoughtcrimes." In this dystopian vision of the future, the Thought Police serve as the eyes and ears of Big Brother, while the Ministry of Peace deals with war and defense, the Ministry of Plenty deals with economic affairs (rationing and starvation), the Ministry of Love deals with law and order (torture and brainwashing), and the Ministry of Truth deals with news, entertainment, education and art (propaganda). The mottos of Oceania: WAR IS PEACE, FREEDOM IS SLAVERY, and IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.
All three—Bradbury, Huxley and Orwell—had an uncanny knack for realizing the future, yet it is Orwell who best understood the power of language to manipulate the masses. Orwell's Big Brother relied on Newspeak to eliminate undesirable words, strip such words as remained of unorthodox meanings and make independent, non-government-approved thought altogether unnecessary. To give a single example, as psychologist Erich Fromm illustrates in his afterword to 1984:
The word free still existed in Newspeak, but it could only be used in such statements as "This dog is free from lice" or "This field is free from weeds." It could not be used in its old sense of "politically free" or "intellectually free," since political and intellectual freedom no longer existed as concepts….
Where we stand now is at the juncture of OldSpeak (where words have meanings, and ideas can be dangerous) and Newspeak (where only that which is "safe" and "accepted" by the majority is permitted). The power elite has made their intentions clear: they will pursue and prosecute any and all words, thoughts and expressions that challenge their authority.
This is the final link in the police state chain.
Having been reduced to a cowering citizenry—mute in the face of elected officials who refuse to represent us, helpless in the face of police brutality, powerless in the face of militarized tactics and technology that treat us like enemy combatants on a battlefield, and naked in the face of government surveillance that sees and hears all—we have nowhere left to go. Our backs are to the walls. From this point on, we have only two options: go down fighting, or capitulate and betray our loved ones, our friends and our selves by insisting that, as a brainwashed Winston Smith does at the end of Orwell's 1984, yes, 2+2 does equal 5.
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America 2020 – What Will The Landscape Look Like?
By: Zy Marquiez
We are going to put imagination to a test. You are each encouraged to do this on your own.
Put pen to paper, and imagine the world as it will be during the year 2020.
Monsanto's stock will be completely eviscerated as more information comes forth regarding their full range of cancerous products and genetically modified food garbage.
Cyber false flags will increase at a monumental rate. Said events will be used by the mainstream media presstitutes and the comptrollers to push further for a digital currency. Most people will be skeptical given the banking /financial establishment's unstable records.
The powers that shouldn't be will keep pushing the Vaccine agenda, but they will stir a hornet's nest as millions of parents, specifically women, will draw the line at forceful vaccinations [such as SB277] which will also merge into a greater agenda, that being forceful medical procedures. Lines will be drawn. The parents will make sure there is hell to pay if anyone touches their children.
People will figure how to breakaway from fluoride. Fluoridation information will go widespread, as information will reach critical mass as countless more towns will continue to clamor for the removal of fluoridation such as this, and this, and this, and this, oh and this. Untold numbers of folks will begin to realize the benefits of real, clean water, and will purchase, and create their own filters as time goes by.
Aspartame will be seen as equal to diseases by a sizeable portion of the population and outright bans will be requested, which storm all the way up to congress as more and more people continue to file thousands of adverse side effects from the consumption of such products poisons.
The mainstream media will no longer be seen by the majority of the populace as the most trusted news source. Their numbers will continue to plummet, which will force buy-outs, mergers and outright shutdowns of entire news stations. More independent journalists will detach from the system and they will be coming out in droves. They will smell blood, and the sharks will circle, for the first REAL time in quite a while.
More cancer cures will be found, and an exponential number of people will find out the truth about the causes/cures for cancer and how Big Pharma/Big Medica and the comptrollers are responsible for the suppression of many [most?] of the cures. An increasing number of people will also begin to seek alternative remedies for their diseases, and even more will learn how to combat diseases in more ways than most can imagine.
Organic, non-genetically modified, gluten free, locally grown fresh foods, will grow exponentially to the tune of tens of billions of dollars, with an outside shot at overtaking 100 billion as more corporations position themselves for the global change. This will propel a tidal wave of companies into a bottleneck for decent portions of the market share. New faces will rise, old ones will fall, but folks still remain weary given the previous behavior of corporations in years past.
Tangible assets will grow in people's portfolios, and those said assets will become more readily known by the 'average' investor. People will take the reins of their financial flagship and steer it where it makes most sense for them, and not the corporations. Savings rate will be the highest its been in decades. Banks won't be as trusted as before, even though they will continue to clamor for a digital currencies.
Average health in the United States, and in many western nations, will begin to shift due to the unprecedented change of people shifting to real foods. More people will quit smoking and drinking due to the deleterious effects those vices cause on their health.
Homegrown foods will increase at an extremely rapid rate, and people will begin saving bucket loads of money due to this transition. Their health will also benefit greatly from such an endeavor.
Tyrannical government players will continue to play the 'gun-control' cards after real shootings coupled with false-flag operations. However, they will realize that similar to the Vaccine Agenda, the Gun-Control card will only be worse for them and will serve to wake people up as its continuing to do.
The controlled descent of the economy will have begin to shift into a holding pattern, as 3D printing, coupled with local/online small businesses which are infused with cash via crowdfunding programs that will continue to take the entire globe by storm as individuals stampede into taking their power back. Manufacturing within the United States will begin to look better than it has in over a decade. Small business will be a boon to the economy, especially local ones.
The fracture that is taking place behind the scenes between different warring factions of the globalist empires – some of them no doubt breakaways – will amplify in breath and scope. Mysterious murders and deaths will litter the American/European/global landscape as hidden players keep vying for power in this global game of chess. Who will win? That's up to you to decide.
New whistleblowers will emerge within the Cancer, Vaccine, Health, Biotech, Financial and Intelligence structures. Data dumps will be the name of the game, and this will cause chaos behind the scenes.
Lockheed Martin's stock will continue to grow due to their unprecedented technological innovation directly tied to the Breakaway Structure and powerplayers. Many space related corporations/assets will grow, many of them privately, and a select few will hold more power than people imagine. Space Ports will begin to grow en mass within the BRICS Nations. Space Tourism will be the talk of the day, but false flags will morph on the horizon beyond our atmosphere in the form of 'accidents'. Some battle lines will be drawn in the sand in space between the Breakaways and newer players.
But more importantly, you will realize how to play their game, which is by removing yourself from the board completely thus not allowing your time/money/energy to be tapped by such a noxious system.
The question isn't why would those events take place? The question is why not? Some strong currents of change are already being felt.
The power will ultimately lie in the individual. Will the individual choose to continue the toxic life, or will they realize that there are other doors, other options to be able to live a better, happier, more product life for themselves? Time will tell.
All of this will ensue with billions of choices. You can either help your freedom, or help your slavery. In the end, everyone helps polish one side of the coin or the other.
On the pillars of tomorrow, Orwell and Huxley will be sitting. While relaxing on rocking chairs, volleying back and forth in a heated game of chess, they eventually note the change in the currents of humanity. Each will gaze at each other, nod, smirk, realizing that for the first time in modern times the tsunami of chaos that was heading in our direction, was redirected right at the powers that shouldn't be.
Then Orwell proceeds to tell Huxley, "Guess Tesla was right?"
"Regarding what?" Huxley counters.
"Last week at our roundtable discussions remember he said 'Every living being is an engine geared to the wheelwork of the universe. Though seemingly affected only by its immediate surroundings, the sphere of influence extends to infinite distance.'"
"Guess humanity is figuring it out after all…" finalizes Huxley.
Orwell nods in appreciation as they fade away into the memories of the Universe.
The end? Or the beginning?
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Station 2 base when both ambulances based in Mexico are out on calls will be responsible for coverage until one of the station 1 ambulances return back in service.
Audrain Ambulance District was created to provide emergency ambulance service when the existing ambulance provider ceased operation on October 1, 2009.
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Q: FabricJS - Avoid triggering "canvas.on('mouse:up', function() { ... })" after object end moving Using FabricJS I'm making a canvas with the possibility to add rectangle.
Once a rectangle is added to canvas, it can be dragged in any position.
My problem is that when I stop dragging a rectangle, the event:
canvas.on('mouse:up', function(element) { ... });

is triggered, but this is an unwanted behavior.
How can I trigger the event:
canvas.on('mouse:up', function(element) { ... });

only when is effectively clicked the left button mouse, and not also when I end dragging object?

A: You could do something like this:
var _isDragging = false;
var _isMouseDown = false;

canvas.on('mouse:down', function () {
    _isMouseDown = true;
    // other stuff
});

canvas.on('mouse:move', function () {
    _isDragging = _isMouseDown;
    // other stuff
})

canvas.on('mouse:up', function(element) {
    _isMouseDown = false;
    var isDragEnd = _isDragging;
    _isDragging = false;
    if (isDragEnd) {
        // code for drag complete
    } else {
        // code for no drag mouse up
    }
    // code for both
});

A: adding mouse:move listeners should be avoided
cos the move event is fired on every pixel
see the fabric.js event inspector sample
in most cases, you only need to compare
the two click positions of mousedown and mouseup
fabricjs_obj
.on('mousedown', function (event) {
    event.target.dragStart = event.pointer
})

fabricjs_obj
.on('mouseup', function (event) {
    const a = event.target.dragStart
    const b = event.pointer
    const obj = event.target
    if (a.x != b.x || a.y != b.y) {
        console.log('obj dragged: '+obj)
        return // stop event handler
    }
    console.log('obj clicked: '+obj)
    // process click event
})

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Australian Prog Artist Ben Craven To Release New Single Through Innovative Music Delivery System 'TuneLeak'
By Keith "MuzikMan" Hannaleck September 19, 2014
"Seriously well-distilled and blended" - Van Dyke Parks
Brisbane, Australia – Much to the excitement of prog music aficionados across the planet, Australian cinematic progressive-rock singer-songwriter Ben Craven is releasing his new single through an innovative new music delivery system he's developed called 'TuneLeak'. Ben Craven's new single titled "Critical Mass Part 2" is now available through TuneLeak at http://www.tuneleak.com.
Ben explains, "This project is being driven by music industry commentators saying the album is dead. I agree it's an endangered species, at least commercially. As a musician and a listener, I'm very attached to the concept of albums as coherent collections of songs and all the emotional ties we make with them. So for this album I'm trying a different business model - which I'm calling 'TuneLeak' - where I can engage the audience at every step of the recording process, officially 'leak' songs well before they're finished, and hopefully even get paid!"
The new single is part of Craven's highly anticipated forthcoming third album tentatively titled 'Last Chance To Hear'. Says Ben, "'Critical Mass Part 2' is the first song I've recorded for the album, and the first track I'm putting out there on the TuneLeak website. It's a short, sharp instrumental, and sounds like outer-space spy music. There is of course a 'Part 1' and I'll be leaking that track very soon as well!"
Hailing from Brisbane, Australia, immersed as a toddler in the era of big prog rock, Craven taught himself guitar and keyboards and joined a series of bands. None of them remotely played the kind of music that had been burned into his mainframe as a kid. Nonetheless, the songs he wrote accumulated steadily. In 2005, Craven dispensed entirely with the band approach and recorded his debut album, 'Two False Idols' under the name of Tunisia. The result was a work of incredible maturity, with influences ranging from Pink Floyd and Brian Wilson to the likes of Bernard Herrmann and John Barry.
Says Ben, "My usual suspect influences are Pink Floyd, Mike Oldfield, Yes and King Crimson. But just as important are composers like Bernard Herrmann, John Barry, Henry Mancini and John Williams. I seem to blend progressive music with film soundtrack elements. I'm also a Brian Wilson tragic."
As Craven worked his first album it became painfully obvious that the music business was in the midst of a sea change, and most of the old guard didn't seem to realise they were the cause. Very quickly he took an anti-DRM stance and released the live acoustic EP 'Under Deconstruction' as a high-quality free download.
Craven stepped up a gear for his sophomore album, 'Great & Terrible Potions'. Delivering on the cinematic promise of 'Two False Idols', 'Potions' went widescreen (literally) as Craven blurred the boundaries between conventional songs and orchestral soundtracks. Augmented by a stunning cover designed by legendary artist Roger Dean (Yes, Uriah Heep, Asia), 'Potions' was dense, complicated and unashamedly pretentious – everything a good prog rock album should be! Or, to put it another way, Craven sounded exactly like someone revelling in the creative freedom that could come only from not worrying about what others wanted, and delivering what he felt instead.
And now Ben is working on his latest masterpiece! He explains, "In keeping with the idea of the album as an endangered species, the working title is 'Last Chance To Hear'. It's shaping up to be another solo album in the true sense of the word where I play just about everything, like on my previous album 'Great & Terrible Potions'. The difference this time is a much greater portion will likely be instrumental. Not that I dislike vocals, but sometimes the music can be strong and emotional and moving enough to stand on its own without them."
Here's what the press raved about Ben Craven's previous release:
"Heavy-duty prog rock monster" - Anil Prasad, Innerviews
"Cracking virtuoso performance by an absurdly talented individual" - Classic Rock Society
"Craven's one-man-band production is a prog opus for the 21st century" - Musoscribe
"All the drama, thunder, strum and drang you could want the spiritual grand child of Rick Wakeman and Keith Emerson to bring" - Midwest Record
"Craven's tremendous ability to combine memorable hooks with complex progressive rock and cinematic orchestral music is astounding" - Sea Of Tranquility
"Press play and this album does the rest" - Muzikreviews
In closing Ben has this to impart to his fans and listeners, "The music business is becoming an increasingly cynical place. The landscape is dominated by reissues, remixes and repacking of old material in what feels like a 'last hurrah'. But there are still true believers out there flying under the radar and producing music primarily out of love and obsession. Not because of contractual obligations, deadlines or other market forces. I'd still be making music if the industry was truly dead and buried. But I'd much rather people listened to it!"
For more information: http://bencraven.com/
"Critical Mass Part 2" video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEslxIiq8GM&list=UU7olqUV2tLHKaqPAyu8RKmA
Press inquiries: Glass Onyon PR, PH: 828-350-8158 (USA), glassonyonpr@gmail.com
The TuneLeak Manifesto
TuneLeak is a different approach for releasing music. It's like getting to know someone gradually over a meaningful period of time, rather than telling them you love them on the first date. Most importantly, it's about albums. That is, TuneLeak features albums as they're being recorded.
As each individual song is worked on, the artist will "leak" an early version. It might just be a rough demo. Or it could be almost complete. It will probably sound different when the album is finished. But it will be out there for all to hear.
These leaked tracks ("TuneLeaks"!) will be available for purchase as digital downloads. When the album is finally released, TuneLeak customers will receive a discount equal to the total amount they spent on purchasing the leaked tracks from that album. So, if you download, say, five "TuneLeaks" from a particular artist at $1 per track, you'll receive a $5 discount on the album. You won't pay twice for the same song.
It's not quite crowdfunding. It's not quite pre-ordering. It's artists and audiences coming together on the creative journey of making an album.
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We want a world without Motor Neurone Disease (MND) and it takes an army of people to help achieve this – and we have the FightMND Army on our side.
Our core aims are to generate greater awareness of the disease, to fund world-class research and drug trials to find an effective treatment and ultimately a cure for Motor Neurone Disease and provide assistive care equipment to many Australians fighting the disease.
There is no known cause, limited knowledge of the natural course of the disease, there is no effective treatment and there is no cure.
We call it 'The Beast'. This is why we fight.
The Federal Government has announced a commitment of $5 million to FightMND and the fight against Motor Neurone Disease. The funds from the Government will be invested into further vital research projects as we continue to try to combat 'The Beast'.
Want to volunteer for Big Freeze 5?
Volunteers are the cornerstone of our success and we are asking you to be a part of the work we do, especially for the upcoming Big Freeze 5.
For our biggest annual fundraiser, Big Freeze at the G, we are looking for people to play a number of volunteer roles such as packing beanies, selling beanies and rattling tins to name a few. In 2019, we are selling beanies at more AFL games in Melbourne and interstate so there are more opportunities.
Check out our volunteer agreement and the opportunities available to get involved via the buttons below.
We look forward to having you on board in 2019 as we continue to fight 'The Beast'.
The fight to find effective treatments and a cure for MND has received a significant boost with a multi-million-dollar medical research funding announcement.
As a result of extraordinary fundraising efforts throughout 2018, we are pleased to announce a commitment of $7.6 million to seven new projects, to begin in 2019, taking the total of funds invested into research initiatives to $28.6 million since the Foundation began in 2014.
Register your interest and receive more information about the 2019 Daniher's Drive by clicking the button below.
The 2018 Drive raised $2.6million and was a four-day festival of fun and fundraising with over 100 cars forming the long convoy throughout parts of Victoria and South Australia.. The details for 2019 event, including route and costs are still be finalised but now is the time to register your interest if you want to be involved.
Run Melbourne is more than just a fun-run, it's a way of getting active and fundraising to make a difference.
You can join Team FightMND today and start training and fundraising immediately so make sure you get involved either as a 'Champion Runner' or just a regular entrant.
We look forward to seeing you, maybe as one of our 'champion runners' at the start line.
Our fifth installment of 'Big Freeze at the G' will play host to another group of courageous celebrity sliders that take the plunge into the most famous pool of ice at the MCG on the Queen's Birthday holiday in 2019, raising awareness and funds for our fight against MND.
In 2018, we achieved an incredible result, raising over $6.5million for Big Freeze 4.
Big Freeze 5 will be held on June 10, 2019 at the Melbourne Cricket Ground ahead of the annual Queen's Birthday clash between Collingwood and Melbourne Football Clubs.
It is with great sadness and heavy hearts that we acknowledge the sudden and sad passing of Jim Daniher.
Jim, the patriarch of the Daniher family passed away at the family farm in Ungarie on Friday, April 12, aged 90.
On behalf of the FightMND family, we send our sincere condolences to the extended Daniher family, especially Jim's wife Edna, his son Neale, our co-founder and Patron and Jim's granddaughters Bec and Georgia, who both work for our Foundation.
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Left our camp this morning and headed to Berlin, MD on the recommendation of Jeanne Pierre. It's where they filmed the movie Runaway Bride!
_Loved seeing the hotel (we even ran into Jeanne Pierre again! LOL...that's the two of us chatting in front of the hotel) . We walked and looked in all the cute shops including an adorable thrift store called the "Church Mouse". Dave found an old antique toy store...he was lost in there for a very long time ... finding toys from his childhood.
_Ate lunch in the diner where several scenes were shot. I'm on a mission to find this movie to buy so I can watch all the "scenes" again!
Walked to the visitor center and met "mayor"! Nice friendly guy but a bit long in the tooth:) Headed on to Virginia Beach via the Cheseapeake Bay Tunnel/Bridge...quite a engineering masterpiece!
_Found a nice hotel on Expedia for 41.00 a night in Virginia beach so decided to treat ourselves to a regular bed and TV with a fantastic view. Met an old high school friend, Bob Spiker...a retired Navy man and genuine nice guy! Can't believe we forgot to get a picture with him when we went to dinner!
__BIG change in the weather when we woke up. From 70's to 40's! Cold wind and rain. Nixed our trip to the outer banks and decided to head for Myrtle Beach. Stopped at the Nauticus museum in Norfolk first and were able to watch a military retirement on board the Battleship Wisconsin. Found out later that a good friend of ours, Dave Gleckner, had served his time on this ship. So interesting...and Dave even had a chance to pet a shark.
A first for us...huge fields of cotton ready to be harvested! So pretty driving down the back roads towards Myrtle.
Ocean View, soft bed, TV and WIFI...for 4.00 more??
Last night in Myrtle Beach was so fun:) Ate at a wonderful place in Merrell's inlet called Flo's Place. Seafood was so good! Met a family from TN who shared stories with us...one about a robin they found and raised...named Christoper:) And then we drove by the Krispy Kreme bakery...the HOT DONUTS light was on:) YUMMY! Donuts for dessert and donuts for the drive home!
Sounds like you had an enjoyable trip. We'll have to check these places out the next time we go to Myrtle Beach to visit Bob's niece. We're anxious to be able to go back to the Outer Banks too. See you at the next sale at Andy's.
thanks for reading and commenting Ann! Will look for you at Andy's...can't get there this week...family party...but in a couple more!


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Kick-Ass, Kick Ass or Kickass may refer to:

Comics and franchise
 Kick-Ass (comics), original series also known as Kick-Ass: The Dave Lizewski Years, written by Mark Millar and illustrated by John Romita Jr.
 Kick-Ass (character), fictional character and main character of the original series
 Kick-Ass (film), a 2010 movie with the above character as the main character
 Kick-Ass: The Game, a video game based on the comics and film
 Kick-Ass: The New Girl, comic-book spinoff series

Music
 Kick-Ass (soundtrack), soundtrack from the 2010 film
 "Kick Ass (We Are Young)", song by Mika vs. RedOne, from the soundtrack
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Kick Ass (book), 1999 collection of columns by Carl Hiaasen
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I had found Aliza while beta testing a new app called Sanctuary. The app, designed to be the "Talkspace for astrology," offers free daily horoscopes and, with a $20 monthly subscription, astrological readings on demand. It also includes little cosmic snacks, like the horoscope-inspired "power emoji" and interpretations of the news circumscribed by the stars.
Arielle Pardes writes about personal technology for WIRED. She is a Taurus sun, Virgo moon, Pisces rising.
Astrology, once the domain of woo-woos, has found a grounding force in technology. It is a meme machine, colonizing Instagram with accounts like @jakesastrology and @trashbag_astrology (160k and 252k followers, respectively). A Twitter account called @poetastrologers, purveyor of esoteric weekly horoscopes, has over 445k followers. The social web is teeming with astrologers, professional and amateur, making sense of stars for the modern world. Some, like internet-famous astrologer Chani Nicholas, use astrology to galvanize social justice causes; Nicholas recently partnered with Spotify to curate a rotating set of cosmic playlists. Other brands have woken up to astrology's power to court potential customers. Is Mercury in retrograde? Have we got the product for you!
Astrology's reach is well established, with a constellation of thinkpieces to prove it. But its venture potential has, until recently, remained largely untapped. Now, startups like Sanctuary aim to do for astrology what companies like Talkspace did for therapy and what Headspace did for meditation: reinvent it for an anxious, wide-eyed, phone-clutching generation.
Astrology, which has existed for millennia, reached a mainstream audience for the first time in the 1930s when R. H. Naylor, a British astrologer, offered a horoscope for newly born Princess Margaret in the Sunday Express. The forecast predicted an "eventful life" for the royal baby and included other general horoscopes for readers by birthdate. A reader could find their "sign," ordered chronologically, and have their own professional reading.
This shorthand, later called the "sun-sign horoscope," brought astrology to the masses. Traditional readings are expensive, labor-intensive affairs that involve creating a custom natal chart—a mapping of each of the planets during an individual's exact time and location of birth—in order to assess a person's situation. Naylor's model, which reduced predictions to 12 basic archetypes, did away with all that. All you needed was your birthday and you had a glimpse into the future.
Sun-sign horoscopes quickly became a staple of print media, a fun party trick even for skeptics. Within 15 years, two-thirds of British adults were reading their horoscopes. Today, the influence of astrology is almost unquantifiable. Just try to add up all of the people following astrological accounts, ironically or otherwise, on Instagram or Twitter.
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Co-Star launched last year and has become the most popular astrology app in the iOS app store. (It is not available on Android.) To date, it has been downloaded 2 million times. That's because, Guler believes, a generation of people crave the complexity and connection restored to this arcane system.
Sanctuary also provides full natal charts, which its astrologers-on-demand use to give readings via chat. In designing the experience, Ross was inspired by the rise of meditation apps like Headspace and Calm, which "have been able to translate what was a very esoteric Eastern practice into something that's a really compelling digital experience." Calm, a "meditation unicorn," has raised $88 million at $1 billion valuation. "The venture world has definitely been paying attention to everything that's happening in meditation and wellness and self-care more broadly," he says, and yet "no one has translated or reimagined the astrological reading for a mobile format." With Sanctuary, he aims to fill the gap. The startup raised $1.5 million in its seed round.
If astrology is to become the next great—final?—startup frontier, it will have to convince investors, some of whom have shied away from putting money into apps that are, at best, pseudoscientific. "I don't doubt that there is demand from people wanting this type of information, but I wonder if it's really beneficial for us to consume that information, and if so, is there any way we can back that up scientifically?" says Nicolas Wittenborn, a principal at Insight Venture Partners, which has invested in wellness apps like Calm. Wittenborn, who is an Aries, says investors will also want to know that there is staying power in these apps. They want assurance that astrology is not simply a millennial fad.
After 45 minutes of chatting with Aliza, the astrologer inside the Sanctuary app, I felt I had only grazed the surface of my astrological potential. My entire chart was sprawled before her—what more did she know? Alas, our time had run out. I closed the app and got back to work, channeling Venus all the way.


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None of this season's "cheftestants" were from Seattle, including finalists Kristen Kish, left, and Brooke Williamson.


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Desiros are amongst the best commuter trains available in the market for cost and performance. Angel already owns the largest Desiro fleet in the UK, which has delivered over nine years of service with an excellent record of reliability. Increasing the size of the fleet will allow Angel to deliver value for money by reducing the whole‐life cost of operating the fleet.
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Renee James is a seasoned technology leader with large scale, broad international operations experience. She is currently the chairman and CEO of Ampere, a company she founded. Ampere produces high performance processors for compute, storage and other cloud computing needs.
Renee had a lengthy career with Intel Corporation where she was the president of the company until her departure in 2016. James is a current operating executive at the Carlyle Group.
Chi Miller
CFO and COO
Chi is the chief financial officer and chief operating officer of Ampere. Prior to joining Ampere, he was senior director of finance at Apple Corporation, where he supported the R&D group. Prior to Apple, Chi was with Intel for 25 years, where he held a variety of roles including platform engineering VP of finance, software and services VP of finance, M&A controller and server products controller.
Chi also served on the board of directors for three subsidiary companies while with Intel. Before joining Intel, he was a capital analyst with the Boeing Company and a financial analyst with Chrysler Financial Corporation.
Chi earned a bachelor's degree in Business Management and Finance from Brigham Young University and an MBA degree from the University's Marriott School of Management.
Atiq Bajwa
Atiq is a seasoned technologist with over 30 years of technical leadership experience in product R&D. Prior to joining Ampere, Atiq was VP and GM of product architecture at Intel, where he led the architectural definition and development of Intel's computing products for the data center, PC, workstation and ultramobile markets. Over the course of an extensive career at Intel, he contributed in a number of technical and leadership roles in architecture, design and software development; served as GM of Intel's cable networking operation; and led the acquisition and integration of a large public company. Before joining Intel, Atiq was a member of the team that developed the 32000 family of microprocessors at National Semiconductor.
Atiq received his bachelor's and master's degrees in electrical engineering from Yale University. He holds 6 US patents in computer architecture and was awarded an Intel Achievement Award for pioneering work on the Pentium Pro processor.
Rohit Vidwans
Executive Vice President of Engineering
Rohit brings over 25 years of experience from Intel where he developed microprocessors, graphics, media and supercomputing processors and platforms, and holds 8 microprocessor design patents. Notable projects that he worked on or led include Intels first 8 and 10 core XeonTM microprocessors for data center and enterprise servers and IntelsTM first multi-core phone and tablet SOCs based on the ATOMTM core. He led silicon and platform development teams across the world, bringing products successfully to market. He was appointed a vice president in 2013. Rohit has a MSCE from the University of Texas at Austin and a BSCE from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.
Sean Mirkes
Vice President of Logic Development
Sean brings 21 years of experience in designing high performance microprocessors to Ampere. Prior to joining Ampere, he was a senior principal engineer at Intel, where he led the design team for an advanced core design. Holding 10 patents, his design leadership has spanned multiple generations of Intel™ Pentium 4 and Core™ microprocessor designs, with major contributions to microarchitecture, logic design, circuit design and design efficiency.
Sean has a BS in Computer Engineering from the University of Washington.
Stephan Jourdan
Ampere Fellow
Stephan brings a wealth of experience in CPU, SoC and system architecture to Ampere. Prior to Ampere, he spent 21 years in product architecture at Intel, where he held a variety of technology and management roles including CPU core architect, chief architect of Intel's PC client and mobile device SOCs, and most recently he was an Intel fellow in the Infrastructure and Platform Solutions Group (IPSG) and served as the IPSG chief technology officer.
Stephan is a prolific inventor, with over 50 patents to his name. Stephan received his PhD from University of Toulouse, France, and an MBA from University of Oregon.
Shiv Kaushik
Shiv brings extensive experience in system software, instruction set architecture, SoC and platform architecture. Prior to joining Ampere, Shiv spent 24 years at Intel, where he served as the leader for Intel's Windows OS Division, chief technology officer for the Software & Services Group and most recently as Intel's chief Windows architect. He holds 52 patents in the area of system software and platform architecture.
Shiv received his PhD in Computer Science & Engineering from The Ohio State University, where he sits on the advisory board for the department of Computer Science.
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Ben is the general counsel at Ampere. He joined Ampere from Tonkon Torp LLP where he was a partner focusing on mergers and acquisitions, general business, corporate and securities law matters, and commercial finance transactions. Prior to joining Tonkon Torp, he spent 20 years as an attorney with Lane Powell PC.
Since 2008, Ben has been recognized in Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for his skill in corporate matters relating to securities, M&A and commercial finance.
Vice President of People & Culture
Melissa Moore is a People & Culture leader that thrives in fast-paced entrepreneurial environments. She has extensive experience in developing People and HR strategies and operations for global organizations. Most recently Melissa led HR for one of the fastest growing and most awarded technology startups in Melbourne, Australia, Outware Mobile. Prior to that, she spent nine years in the game industry as an HR director for Ubisoft. Melissa has an MBA from the University of San Francisco and a BA in Psychology from the University of California, Berkeley.
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Matt is the senior vice president of Worldwide Sales and Business Development at Ampere. Matt has 20 years of sales and business development experience in the data center and semiconductor industry. Prior to joining Ampere, Matt was the VP of Sales and Business Development for the Qualcomm Datacenter group, where he was responsible for Qualcomm's first Cloud, OEM, and ODM design wins and revenue shipments of the Centriq platform. Prior to Qualcomm, Matt was with Intel for 15 years, where he held a variety of Sales, Marketing and Business Development leadership roles. Most notably Matt led Intel's sales campaign for Cisco's datacenter portfolio and then went on to develop and lead the Worldwide Amazon account team, growing Amazon into a multi billion dollar account for Intel.
Matt earned a Bachelor of Science from University of San Diego and an International MBA from the South Carolina Moore School of Business.
Mauri Whalen
Vice President Software Engineering
Mauri Whalen is vice president of software engineering at Ampere. Her team leads and delivers software for tools/compilers, BIOS/UEFI, OS, hypervisors, middleware, application development and optimization for the Ampere™ eMAG platform. She also drives the developer program which allows developers to create and innovate on Ampere's hardware platform.
Prior to joining Ampere, she spent more than a decade in Intel's Open Source Technology Center. Her most recent position was vice president of a core system development team, where she led efforts in open source software development across a range of technologies and market segments, including enterprise Linux, leadership in the Linux ecosystem, client Linux programs and related technologies.
She holds a bachelor's degree in computer information systems from the University of Nebraska at Kearney.
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Senior Vice President of Products
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