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Tourism. The Argentinean Fernando de las Carreras, 53, has made his company Nervous Waters one of the best addresses for fly fishermen worldwide. And built an exclusive travel empire around it. One of the reasons why the business is flourishing is because the wives of the anglers also feel at home in the exclusive lodges - and therefore enjoy travelling with them or even fishing themselves.
He can still do it, even if he seldom finds the time for it in the meantime: As if it were the easiest thing in the world, Fernando de las Carreras lets his aerobatic fly land on the water exactly where he wants it, on the opposite bank of the Rio Grande. He treats his two-handed rod as lovingly and virtuously as a world-class violinist treats his Stradivarius.
The storm typical for Tierra del Fuego, which can make casting an embarrassing slapstick performance for an average angler down here, is no problem for him. Fernando is used to the strong wind. He has known him since he first picked up a rod as a teenager on the Rio Menéndez, a tributary of the Rio Grande. Since he caught his first trout there with a fly rod at the age of 15.
Tierra del Fuego, which was divided into an eastern part - Argentina's Tierra del Fuego province - and a western part - Chile's Magallanes region - in 1881, is now considered by many to be the end of the world. At the turn of the 20th century things were quite different. The southern tip of South America, separated from the mainland by the Strait of Magellan, was a pivotal point. All the ships coming from Europe, which had the west coast of America as their destination, had to pass here.
On the Chilean side, the flourishing trade and lucrative sheep farming enabled the family clan of the Braun-Menéndez, for example, to build a veritable empire - estancias, whaling fleets, slaughterhouses, mines, shipping companies, import companies and banks. Even the southernmost railway on the continent was part of it. The area of the size of Belgium - the land covered three million hectares - was the largest contiguous landed property ever in Chile. Argentina, then the seventh wealthiest country in the world, also benefited greatly, until the opening of the Panama Canal in 1914 put an abrupt end to the economic miracle in the south of the continent. The Strait of Magellan was no longer needed.
Tierra del Fuego is now sinking into a deep sleep. At best, it is still a summer holiday destination for wealthy Argentinians. This is also the opinion of Jacqueline de las Carreras, who grew up in a noble family in Buenos Aires and owns the Estancia Retranca in Tierra del Fuego.
There she hears that in 1935 an American named John Goodall spread 60000 trout eggs in two tributaries of the Rio Grande. The descendants of this brood are said to have grown to enormous size by now.
Jacqueline de las Carreras knows absolutely nothing about sport fishing. She couldn't even fish herself, because she contracted polio at the age of 15, only two years before the vaccination was developed, and has been dependent on a wheelchair ever since. But the enterprising and resolute Jacqueline, whose family lives primarily from sheep and cattle breeding, suspects that this should be an attraction for fly fishermen from the USA.
She consults with her son Fernando. The good-looking teenager sees his mission for the summer more as hunting pretty girls instead of slippery trout. But he promises to think about it. Shortly afterwards, a friend of Fernando's acquaintance introduces him to the grey eminence of fly fishing in Argentina, the guide and then general importer of Orvis rods, Jorge Donovan, "He brought fly fishing into the country. And he was the first to take Americans fishing as paying guests," Fernando recalls. "I was his last student."
Why should what worked further north in Patagonia not work down here at the Rio Grande? Donovan suggests building a six-bed cabin on the river. Your lodge - you've never set foot in one before - is to be called Kau Tapen. It means 'House of Fish' in the language of the indigenous Ona tribe who once settled here and who had been wiped out by the Spaniards.
The only difficulty is that wood is needed for the construction of a lodge, which is not available in the almost treeless Tierra del Fuego. So Jacqueline has the lodge built in northern Patagonia and has its individual parts transported by truck to Tierra del Fuego, where it is being rebuilt at the foot of a hill overlooking the river. 1984 is the first season, Jacqueline takes over the role of hostess. She hires a grumpy cook and hires guides. One comes from Minneapolis. On the flight to Argentina he quickly reads a book about sea trout to bring at least some knowledge with him.
Young Fernando also has to fill in as a guide. After all, the graduate of an English-speaking private school can communicate properly with the US guests. Even more: Jacqueline makes it clear to her offspring that she herself does not want to get into fishing tourism. She sees the small lodge more as an existence for Fernando and his brother. "She encouraged us back then to take the step into entrepreneurship," remembers Fernando. "We borrowed money from her to pay the rent for the lodge. By the way, it's still the same today: Kau Tapen belongs to my now 83-year-old mother - I'm just the tenant."
The premiere is mixed. Travel for fly-fishing enthusiasts was still a rather exotic product back then. Only 12 fishermen find their way to Tierra del Fuego in the first summer, 18 in the second season. The first guests are an elderly Methodist minister and his brother from the United States. Sea trout are mainly fished by British and Scandinavian fishermen at that time. Only the British are not welcome so shortly after the Falkland War, nor are they particularly motivated.
Nevertheless, word quickly gets around in the scene that the biggest trout on the planet are waiting at the "fin del mundo", at the end of the world. Soon competing lodges open: after all, anglers pay a lot of money - today it's 8000 US dollars for one of the best weeks of the season.
Nevertheless, Fernando - his brother is soon to leave - succeeds in remaining market leader and even expanding the business. On the Rio Grande he opens the lodge Villa Maria, which also offers the chance to hook a world record trout. He had the Pirá Lodge in northern Argentina, where golden dourados are fished, built in 1999, when no one had this fierce fish species on their radar yet.
When he then hears from guests that they miss first class accommodation in the Bahamas, he embarks on a 30-day scouting trip. Fernando scouts island by island to find the best fishing spots. Make sure that the lodges are within easy reach. Does a country specific risk analysis. Brings on board experts who know the Bahamas well. And then builds two dream destinations for fly-fishers with the lodges Bair's and Abaco. He now calls his company, in which he holds 60 percent of the shares, and his college friend Santiago Blaquier the rest, "Nervous Waters" - fly fishermen call those places in the river where the current and the nature of the river bed create short, "nervous" waves, where fish prefer to stay and lurk for prey.
Since four-fifths of his guests not only fish but also hunt, Fernando soon dedicates himself additionally to this area. His portfolio today includes "David Denis" (lodges for shotgun game hunters in Córdoba, near Buenos Aires and in Uruguay) and "Red Stag Patagonia" (lodges for red deer hunters in Mendoza, near Buenos Aires, Junín de los Andes and in the Valle Central in Chile). The hunting business now accounts for about half of Nervous Waters' profits.
Asked about the secret of his success, Fernando shakes his head. "There is no patent remedy. It has always been important to me to make our customers happy and offer them the best service. That can only be achieved with hard work. If I had to choose a profession again in another life, I would like to be the butler on a large estate like Downton Abbey. I suppose I have something of the butler gene in me.
One thing's worth mentioning, though. It seems many of his clients have more money than time. So the week's fishing trip he longs for often leads to arguments within the family. "So I thought about what I had to offer to make the wives accompany their husbands."
He raises the service, equipment and cuisine of his two lodges to five-star level, working only with the most renowned guides and chefs, the most modern boats and vehicles and uncorking the best Argentinean wines. The concept works. In the beginning, many women only travel with us to read, but later on, they themselves take a liking to the big trout. Today, many couples, especially from the USA, are among the regular guests. "Three out of five guests probably come back because we were the first in the business to take care of the ladies. The couples tell friends about their wonderful experiences. Word of mouth is still our most important marketing tool, even in the digital age."
Of course, celebrity names among the customers also helped. Kau Tapen was visited by former Fed boss Paul Volcker, US Vice President Dick Cheney and George Bush senior, among others. Fernando must smile when he thinks about the Bush visit. Normally he doesn't talk about VIP guests, but some media had got wind of Bush's visit anyway: "We wanted to do everything perfectly. But nobody at the White House had told us that he was left-handed. But now the best spots on our side of the Rio Grande are much easier for right-handed people to fish. So we had to go to the other side. Bush's guide had no choice but to cross the river with him. This was of course against all regulations. Because they had no waders, the security people were soon blue with wet and cold. Luckily Bush caught a nice sea trout. The pool's been named after him ever since.
What if the distinguished guest hadn't caught any fish? "It is precisely because we cannot control weather and biting behaviour that it is so important to make everything else perfect. A tender steak and a hearty Malbec from Mendoza offer comfort after a hard day on the water."
Today, Fernando de las Carreras owns 21 lodges and makes several million dollars in annual sales. "Our goal is to add another lodge every year, maybe two." So in ten years that would make a total of 30 to 35 lodges. "But we will only expand if everything fits: Location, fishing and hunting grounds, exclusive access for our guests. There is no growth plan to which we are committed." The fishing for golden dourados in particular has great potential: "We already have four lodges for it and of course we have to fill these beds first. But that is only a question of time. Besides, I could also imagine to transport this idea to other countries." The lodges for fly game hunters would also grow rapidly: "We have already increased the number of beds there by 30 percent. There will be another lodge for pigeon hunters and another for duck hunters, in addition to the four already existing." Fernando is not interested in owning as many lodges as possible. He wants the best ones: "If we have the feeling that it no longer fits because, for example, the fish are missing, we close the lodges - but this has only happened twice in 33 years."
The only things he finds difficult are issues he can't control himself. One of his two lodges in the Bahamas - Abaco - was completely destroyed on September 1, 2019, when Hurricane Dorian devastated Great Abaco Island. Although the building was insured, the employees lost their jobs. Fernando immediately initiated an aid programme for the affected families, made donations himself and also called on his guests to do so. In the process, a low six-figure US dollar sum was raised. In October 2019 he was on site: "We do not know yet whether we can and want to rebuild the lodge. It looks terrible there. Everything, really everything was destroyed."
The fact that in the same month the liberal-conservative president of Argentina was voted out of office and his country is now - once again - threatened with hyperinflation and national bankruptcy, on the other hand, hardly weighs on him. After all, almost all customers come from abroad and pay in hard currency. "We have become accustomed to the crises at home."
He's obviously at peace with himself, this Fernando de las Carreras. Mother Jacqueline is now 83 years old. Her life is her grandchildren and her foundation that helps handicapped people get jobs. Fernando's daughters are eleven and 13 - still too young to introduce them to the company. "I don't know if they will be dancers or doctors one day. If they don't like what I give them, they can sell Nervous Waters. Well, I myself will definitely not sell unless I'm forced to."
Then he tosses his fly. On the Rio Grande, where it all began with a little shack. Where the wind sometimes blows so hard that the doors of his land cruisers, which take guests to the river, are torn out of their moorings. "I love this feeling when the line disappears in the water. Any second I can hook a world record fish here. The surprise, the adrenaline rushing into your body - that's what life is all about, right?" ®
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Disgraced Wearside teacher David Fenwick had been questioned before at his school about his "over familiarity" with pupils.
Fenwick, from Hartlepool, has been banned from teaching for life for an affair with a 16-year-old pupil after kissing her at their school's prom night.
A National College for Teaching and Leadership misconduct panel was told that he had "been spoken to informally on four occasions" during his 13 years there.
Its final report notes: "Mr Fenwick's previous conduct at the school has raised concerns about his ability to maintain appropriate professional boundaries with pupils.
"This led to Mr Fenwick receiving advice from his head of department and headteacher on separate occasions and culminated in him being provided with additional safeguarding training.
A teacher since 1996, Fenwick was originally employed in the special educational needs department at the school in November 2002.
A number of official investigations were launched after the school became aware in 2015 of the allegations against him.
A statement from the school after the ban was issued read: "Governors are confident that safeguarding procedures within the academy are robust.
"They are checked regularly and externally reviewed and evaluated and judged to be consistently excellent.
"The academy reported all allegations relating to Mr Fenwick's behaviour to the appropriate authorities as soon as they became aware of them.
"The governors instigated immediate disciplinary action.


The Free Library is for all residents in our community to enjoy, located at the Fayette Town Office building on 1439 Yellow Tavern Road.
The concept behind the library is for all to have access to books. There are books for all age levels. The library is a give and take concept. If you want a book to read stop buy and pick one up. If you have a book you no longer want but think others may enjoy place it in the Free Library. If you really enjoy the book you are welcome to keep it or return it when you are done. We hope that all will enjoy and use the library.


Unique creative office space in the heart of downtown Denver. Currently under renovation. Building is brick and timber construction with a rooftop deck and private balconies. Californa street signage. One block from the 16th Street Light Rail station and numerous area restaurants including Chipotle, Jamba Juice, Jason's Deli, Larkburger and Starbucks.


It has been almost a year, but Indie's ATChC plaque arrived.
I am deep in to socializing Vixen. By all accounts, she is an outgoing little she-devil that fears nothing, but we are not taking any chances. Part of that adventure took us to a friends stable where she boards her horse.
First up, chickens. While the chickens are normally social, we suspect they hid in the coop because Vixen looks like a fox...well, to a chicken any way. She paced the coop, very focus and interested, but held herself together.
Next, we were off to meet Spyder! Vixen was a little tentative at first, but a 5 pound puppy up against a 1200 pound horse...well, I can't blame her.
After a while, she became very brave and even jumped on for a ride. It was a great experience.


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TikTok: What Is It And Why Is It So Popular?
Candace Alnaji
If you're a mom of a teen or tween reading this, you've probably heard of TikTok, the video app popular with kids today. By kids, I of course mean Gen Z—the cohort of folks born after millennials and the age group into which most of today's teens and tweens fall.
If you've heard of TikTok, it's likely because your kid has mentioned it. Or you have overheard your kids talking about it. Or, maybe you've heard murmurings about regarding social media and Internet safety. Regardless of how you've heard of it, it's very likely that you're still not exactly sure what TikTok is. It's an Internet phenomenon cloaked in mystery for those of us beyond our teens and early twenties.
But if it sounds like the app is a closely kept secret, it's not. It's actually one of the most popular social media apps in the world today, having surpassed Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and Snapchat in monthly installs in the App Store. In 2018, TikTok was downloaded more than a billion times. Worldwide, there are over 500 million users, with nearly 30 million of those active users in the United States.
What is TikTok?
To put it into terms most of us reading this would understand, TikTok is smaller than Facebook (which includes Instagram and WhatsApp), but much larger than Twitter and Snapchat.
TikTok is actually the second iteration of Musical.ly—an app very similar to TikTok, which was launched in 2014 and acquired by ByteDance—TikTok's parent company—in 2017.
Today, TikTok remains a place for users to upload lip sync videos or comedy sketches. TikTok's platform is similar to the now-defunct video app Vine in that videos have time limits. In TikTok's case, the duration is fifteen seconds, a little over twice the length of Vine videos.
Why it is so popular?
The allure of TikTok is a bit like the allure of every other social network. It offers instant gratification, the opportunity to go viral, and a chance to connect with those who share similar interests. And according to teens, TikTok not only does this, but it does it better than its social media predecessors.
Without following a single account, users experience a full feed targeted toward their interests. Hashtags encourage users to participate in various challenges, giving even the smallest account an opportunity to become a viral superstar.
Much like Instagram, there are even those considered to be "TikTok famous." "TikTok girls" are to 2019 what "MySpace girls" were in 2006.
Is TikTok dangerous?
Like any other social network, there are inherent risks that come with use of the app. Opportunities for inappropriate behavior exist, particularly when many users of the app are teens and tweens. In recent history, TikTok has made news headlines for allegedly being a "bad influence" for kids. Certain countries outside the United States have also sought to ban the app from use.
However, much of the concern comes from the lack of information many non-users of the app have regarding its intended use.
Bottom line: If you have minors in your care, you should always closely monitor their social media use. TikTok isn't destroying today's youth, but it is not impervious to the undesirable threats kids have always faced. As always, it's our job to make sure we are doing our best to keep them safe.
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If you asked non-Indians people to name an Indian ruler who fought the British I suspect the name that is mentioned most often would be that of Tipu Sultan, the ruler of Mysore in Southern India. That would almost cetrtainly be because they have seen of have heard of the famous automaton in the Victoria and Albert Museum which shows a tiger devouring a red-coated soldier. Guaranteed to grab the imagination the tiger is a vivid representation of Tipu's attitude towards the British; he hated them with a genuine vengeance. Unfortunately for him that hatred led to his downfall, a demise that, in the end, came startlingly quickly, and involved an eighteen-year-old Lieutenant from Guernsey, Thomas Falla.
When Napoleon landed armies in Egypt in 1798 one of his aims was to intervene in British-controlled India, and for that he needed a meaningful ally in the sub-continent, someone who burned with resentment against the British.
Tipu was carrying grievances from the Third Anglo-Mysore War, which had ended in March 1792 (the two previous wars had been under his father, Hyder Ali). As a result of the peace terms at the end of that Third War Mysore had lost land to two powerful Indian neighbours, The Maratha Confederacy and The Nizam of Hyderabad, and also to the British, who had taken away Mysore's access to the coast. Stroking and petting his grievances, when news of Napoleon's arrival in Egypt reached him Tipu opened communications with him.
Obviously the British became aware of Tipu's letters and attempted to negotiate with him, but Tipu rejected all overtures, hoping instead to foment unrest among his neighbours and drive the British out of India, or Southern India at least. British diplomacy won, however; The Marathas decided to stay neutral in the Anglo-French dispute, and The Nizam agreed to disband those units in his army which were commanded by French officers, as did neighbouring Sindhia. Tipu was left alone.
In February 1799 the British invaded Mysore from two directions. Twenty thousand men under General George Harris set out from Vellore in the north-west, to be joined by a further sixteen thousand from Hyderabad under Colonel Arthur Wellesley (later The Duke of Wellington). At the same time six and half thousand troops under Lieutenant-General James Stuart headed out from Cannanore to the east.
Defeats at Sedaseer on the 6thMarch, and at Mellavelly on the 27th, drove Tipu back towards his capital, Seringapatam, and by April he was besieged there. On the 4thof May, with terms of surrender refused (presumably without Tipu asking the opinions of the inhabitants), the city walls were breached, and Major-General David Baird (a former prisoner of Tipu's) drove his men into the assault. Two hours after the assault began it was over. With no quarter given after the refusal to surrender an estimated ten thousand defenders died, including Tipu Sultan. In the whole campaign the British forces lost just over three hundred killed, with a thousand wounded.
One of the dead was Lieutenant Thomas Falla, of the 12th(East Suffolk) Regiment. Son of a well-known Guernsey family, who have been on the island for centuries, Falla was eighteen, he had enlisted in the army as an Ensign in August 1796. On the 6th April Falla was in a nullah, a dry ravine being used as a defensive trench, some two to three miles from the city. A cannonball (some dispute as to whether it was a twelve-pounder or a twenty-six pounder) landed just short of the nullah and rolled in, burying itself in Falla's groin or thigh (accounts differ). What all the accounts agree on is that the wound's inflammation concealed the ball, so that no-one realised it remained lodged in his leg, stuck between two bones, although as the stretcher-bearers carried him away they complained of the weight, despite Falla being "below the middle stature, and not remarkably stout". He suffered for six hours, receiving plaudits for his courage in asking for a bottle of port so that he might die "like one brave soldier". It hardly bears thinking about.
Many grew rich on the looting of Seringapatam, but arguably the British and The East India Company gained most. French-led insurrection in India was essentially finished before it started by Tipu's defeat, and despite scares India was overall calm during the World War that the Napoleonic Wars became. Am I exaggerating when I call it a World War? Look at other stories in this collection of tales, from Holland to Java to Uruguay.
"...et à celle de leur fils cadet, Thomas Falla, Lieutenant au 12me Regiment d'Infanterie. au Siege de Seringapatam, ie 6 Avril, 1799. Age de 18 ans, 6 mois, 25 jours, des suites d'une blessure d'un boulet de canon solide pesant 26 livres, qui s'etait loge entre les deux os d'une de ses cuisses, la dite blessure s'etant enflamme considerablement, ie chirurgien du Regiment, quoiqu'ayant examine la plaie, ignorait qu'un boulet y fut renferme, et ce ne fut qu'apres sa mort, qui eut lieu six heures apres I'dvenement, qu'il fut extrait, à la surprise de toute l'armee."


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Berghain Officially Given High Culture Status and Lower Tax Rate
German court has ruled that it provides more than just "amusement."
by Alexander Iadarola
15 September 2016, 12:21am
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German court has ruled that renowned Berlin techno club Berghain provides high cultural events rather than just "entertainment," and should accordingly be taxed at a lower rate. The club will pay a 7% tax instead of 19% because of a decision by the Berlin-Brandenburg fiscal court in Cottbus, according to a report by German magazine Der Spiegel published three days ago.
For its appeal, Berghain commissioned a report from Lost and Sound: Techno, Berlin and the Easyjetset author Tobias Rapp, wherein he compared a DJ to an orchestra conductor and argued that the majority of the venue's patrons came for the music. Meanwhile, Berghain's defense lawyer Peter Raue contended that clubgoers could have an experience in the club comparable to that of a symphony by late-Romantic composer Gustav Mahler, reports The Guardian.
Berghain originally paid the 7% tax until 2008, when the Finance Ministry decided clubs should be taxed as "entertainment events," citing its allure as a space for intoxication and the lack of stages, beginnings, and endings.
Relatedly, an official for Illinois' Cook County recently told attorneys for two small Chicago clubs that the music they play does not count as "culture," and as a result, they each owe approximately $200,000 in taxes.
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Bathrooms can have a reputation of being cold and sterile, covered head to toe in ceramic tile. It's hard enough to get out of bed in the morning, why should we have to force ourselves out of the coziest spot in our home into the least inviting space of all? We won't stand for it!
There's been a serious trend lately of room-like bathrooms which we can't get enough of. Cold, hard bathrooms have died and gone to hell in a hand basket and warm, cozy bathrooms are here to stay! One of the best ways to achieve that is by adding wood finishes wherever you can- as shown here in some of the most beautiful bathrooms of Pinterest.
Are you planning a remodel? Consider a wood vanity, wood or wood-like tile on the floors or paneling on the walls, or floating wood shelves. (Wow the word wood is starting to look really funky.) What about a quick upgrade? Swap your mirror for one with a wood frame, add a small wooden stool or chair to hold your towels, or top your commode with a wooden tray to corral your accessories. Or pull in that gorgeous antique hutch from your grandmother that's been collecting dust in the basement all these years (if only, amirite). The options are endless!
And if you really want to take your bathroom to new heights, try adding a plant, a painting, and/or an antique rug. You'll never go back.
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Happy summer! Considering it's inappropriately hot outside everywhere in the US, we thought it a good time to discuss the cool tone that is light blue. We've been noticing it quite a bit in our pins lately and its comeback is in full swing. Blue has always been a lovely color but light blue can be especially intimidating considering its associations. How do you keep it from looking like a little boys room? Well, see below. We thought these were perfect examples of light blues used in ways that make us rethink all the things we ever thought about it. Sorry we labeled you, light blue! Turns out you're a striking shade when used unexpectedly.
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Happy Thanksgiving, friends! But on to our favorite holiday...Christmas! It's the best time of the year. We cozy up, drink warm things, sit in candle and twinkle light and watch White Christmas on repeat while making/wrapping gifts. So in extreme anticipation of decorating and setting the mood, I've been pinning inspiration out the wazoo. Last year, Kyle and I just had a tree and that was it! Not this year, my friends. No, this year there will be wreaths, garland and lots o' candles. And since we don't have a fireplace mantle situation in this city apartment of ours, I'll have to get creative. So, for your viewing pleasure: a taste of our favorite ideas-inducing Christmas decorations below and our Christmas Pinterest board for even more. Enjoy!
It may be because I've watched Marie Antoinette too many times (the Sofia Coppola one- is there another?) that now I truly believe moulding is the solution to a soulless room. There isn't a scene in that movie that doesn't feature some seriously dramatic and stunning French wall paneling. IT'S SO GOOD. Now you have a movie to watch this weekend that will provide you with an eye feast of awe-inducing wall decoration.
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'Tis the gift wrapping season! I quite enjoy wrapping presents. I can sit on the floor, dim the lights, light a candle and sing along to White Christmas while judging how high waisted mens pants were back then. So, see above. OBVIOUSLY we like craft paper and are really hopping on this fresh pine train. Check out our pinterest board for even more inspiration and hopefully you're one step ahead and have wrapped all your gifts already!
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If you're like one of us (me), you haven't thought too much about what kind of pie you should make (it's between this or this), or if anyone will eat that recipe of creamed kale that looks pretty because you're too busy thinking about which placemats will set the right mood or if gold leafing votives will be a good activity for your 3 and 5 year old nephews. Also, if you're like one of us (me), you're last minute and not willing to set a Thanksgiving table 2 weeks prior just to share on the blog.
Readers will have to wait until Thanksgiving at 8pm or worse, the day after, to see what the Rehabitat ladies' "tablescape" (I'M SORRY) looks like. And that, in the blogging/styling/design/party planning world, is a DISGRACE. At least we can laugh about how we will not be eating at a 30 person long, outdoor farm table effortlessly wrapped in burberry blankets and sitting on haystacks. But hopefully, it will still be worth the wait.
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MY TOP TEN MOVIES OF 2014
OK friends. Here's my list. Typical blah-blah shit: my favorites, not a best-of; still some stuff I didn't see, but I consider this list pretty complete; didn't get out to the movies as much as I wanted to this year again; other things that I'm sure are relevant and pithy. One relevant note: I fully expect this year's list to be far more fluid in the future than most other years. I can see lots of changes here.
Last observation: lots of really terrific stuff in 2014 and lots of flotsam I couldn't have cared less about with very little in between. Odd.
Anyway, here we go:
THE LEGO MOVIE; ABOUT LAST NIGHT; CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER; UNDER THE SKIN; WALK OF SHAME; NEIGHBORS; CITIZENFOUR; X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST; EDGE OF TOMORROW; 22 JUMP STREET; COHERENCE; DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES; BOYHOOD; GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY; STARRY EYES; THE GUEST; THE ZERO THEOREM; FORCE MAJEURE; FOXCATCHER; INHERENT VICE; AMERICAN SNIPER; THE INTERVIEW
A SPECIAL EXCEPTION
SELMA – I just need to see this again. Was on a handful of Benadryl when I hit the theater, and I know it's incredible, but because of my antihistamine haze, it didn't leave a mark. To be very clear: that's not on the movie, that's on me. I will rectify this soon and will likely have to update my list. Now leave me alone about it.
MOST DISAPPOINTING MOVIE
CHEF – First of all, a champagne problem this year: this is actually still a good movie that I mostly liked. But I don't think it's the movie it could have been. Jon Favreau is one of my very favorite writer/directors, and there were parts of this scrappy tale that made me so giddy to get him back from tentpole stuff for just a little while. But in the end, there was one major letdown: every problem in this movie is conquered SO EASILY. Yeah, Favs has a rough first act. But you know what? Make some sandwiches, dance a little, smile, and everything's OK! Now your kid loves you, you're making money hand-over-fist, you've revived your career, and your ex wants you back. ALL BECAUSE OF SANDWICHES! The hurdles in this movie are set up all over the place, but for some reason, instead of running the race and jumping them all, the story just hops in a helicopter and clears them by thousands of feet. While eating a sandwich. So there are no stakes, because everything is just sort of a bother rather than a real life challenge. Once the truck is purchased…nothing goes wrong. So two-thirds of the movie is basically a foregone conclusion and a celebration of overcoming very little. And it's kind of fun, but also toothless and mundane. I don't know. I just wanted more.
10. LIFE ITSELF – My favorite thing about this movie, besides the wonderfully bloated section covering Roger Ebert's partnership with Gene Siskel? The fact that it didn't shy away for even a second from portraying the man as he once was: really little more than kind of a dick. Which is terrific, because it informs so much of his early diatribes about film AND makes you appreciate even more how he settled his shit down once he got married and unquestionably started writing better than he ever had in his life. Also, why isn't Steve James considered our best living documentarian? It's a mystery.
9. WHIPLASH – This wasn't on my list until a couple days ago, and then I watched it again, and…I just can't ignore it. I still have issues with the movie; I get taken out of everything at various points with Simmons, who is unreal in this role and should without question win an Oscar, but who I also think was written as just a touch too cartoonish, and that kept dragging me away from the reality of the story. Still, even with that…WOW. The last sequence alone is one of the very best musical set pieces ever put to film. EVER. I mean that. A remarkable feat in editing as well.
8. GODZILLA – I don't know what the rest of you guys were looking for, but this is *exactly* what I wanted when I first heard this movie announced with this director. I enjoyed every single minute of it. The scale was note-perfect, the surprise appearance of the second monster was a terrific decision and the VFX were sensational. Don't know what else to say other than it made me very, very happy.
7. INTERSTELLAR – Again…hard for me to fathom what some of you were looking for in this movie. OK, maybe it drags a little at the outset, but the eventual conversion of science and fiction rewarded us with something awe-inspiring. It felt, quite honestly, like a perfect companion to CONTACT, the last movie about "space" that filled me with such wonder and excitement. What you guys treasured so much about GRAVITY this year? That's what INTERSTELLAR was for me. Imperfect for sure but vital without question.
6. JOHN WICK – Along with my #5 pick, the most fun I had at the movies at this year. This is not a prestige pick, and it's not an artsy thinker, but it's slick and it's brutal and it's unapologetic about being exactly what it is: about 90 minutes of revenge and mayhem and a whole lotta brass hitting the ground. Keanu is just the greatest.
5. THE RAID II – See #6. Where JOHN WICK is content on deploying brute force to get the job done, however, THE RAID series has shown itself to be sneakily concerned with detail of movement and economy of space in its fight sequences and as such has become an entirely unique property in the world of action films. It's not often a sequel improves on its original, but this one unquestionably did. A perpetual rewatch, one of the highest compliments you can give any movie.
4. THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL – Remarked the other day that, while ROYAL TENENBAUMS will almost certainly never be eclipsed as my favorite Wes Anderson film, this latest may well be his best…and I think that, in a couple years of letting it season, it might not even be worth debating such. You get the feeling that this is the unequivocal masterpiece that he's been building to his entire career so far. It is SPLENDID. Could see it rating much higher by the time the decade is over.
3. GONE GIRL – In my mind, hands down, the best script of the year and a stunning achievement from Gillian Flynn. It's so wonderfully, wrongly mean, you guys. It is unabashedly a movie about bad people being very bad and doing very bad things, and it GLEEFULLY rolls around in that station like a pig in a mudpatch. If that's right up your alley – and boy, is it ever up mine – it's damn near impossible to come away from this not feeling giddy and satisfied. It made me so. Happy.
2. BEGIN AGAIN – And then on the COMPLETE other end of the spectrum from GONE GIRL in the Realm of Things That Make Geoff Happy, there's BEGIN AGAIN. Look, I don't know what it is that John Carney's got, but it works on me like nothing else. The man chips away at my cynicism and my skepticism and whittles and hones stories that just simply fill me with joy. And he did it again here. It's shaggy and meandering and unsure of itself and even a bit twee in certain moments…and holyfuckingshit, does it ever sing. It's wonderful, and it left me absolutely beaming. And it's not like I even need to point this out, but the music is soul-affirming. None of this should have worked on me, and yet every second of it did.
1. NIGHTCRAWLER – Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand we swing the whole way back in the other direction for the best movie of the year. You know what geeks me up so much here? There isn't a single likable person IN THIS ENTIRE MOVIE. And while the majority of the denizens of GONE GIRL where black inside but squeaky clean on the surface, NIGHTCRAWLER dispatches with any of that. Lou Bloom is a virus. He tries to hide it, but there's nothing you can do to mask that level of emptiness, and we all know that because we all know a Lou Bloom. This movie gets all the credit in the world for not only refusing to turn away from such darkness, but getting as close to it as possible with the brightest light and cackling wildly when it should probably back away. It's mesmerizing and terrifying and you just want to scrub your insides when it's over. That is BRILLIANT, and that's exactly why it's my favorite movie of the year.
It's so nice to see someone else giving CONTACT the love it deserves. I loved the movie. I loved the break from your typical "is either God or aliens" out there. I watched most of it again recently and was reminded how fantastic it was. Glad you think so too GT. 🙂


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Samsung is aiming for the moon with its new exceptional zoom
Samsung has uploaded a video that appears to demonstrate the astrophotography capabilities of the Galaxy S23 Ultra, which is due to be presented on February 1.
Introducing the Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra // Source: OnLeaks
While Samsung Galaxy S23, Galaxy S23 Plus, and Galaxy S23 Ultra It won't be officially introduced until next week, during the event Galaxy Unpacked Feb 1Samsung has started promoting its three upcoming smartphones.
In a video posted this Sunday on its YouTube channel, the Korean manufacturer appears to be showing off the night photo capabilities, and a long focal length for its optical zoom, of the Galaxy S23 Ultra.
Thus, the video makes it possible to see what appears to be a video of the moon rotating in on itself. It was accompanied by a textMoon(which can be translated as "Moon) where each "Ohrepresented by a different camera. If Samsung determines that the image isSimulated for illustration purposesHowever, the message is clear: With the new Galaxy S23 set, you should be able to photograph the moon with ease.
Shots are particularly difficult to achieve
However, this type of capture is particularly difficult on smartphones, for several reasons. First, to take advantage of a close-up of the moon, the camera must take advantage of camera lens At a very long focal length, between 300 and 500 mm. However, on a classic smartphone with x2 or x3 zoom, the focal length obtained is only 50 or 75 mm. It's so small that you don't have a close-up of the moon on the photo.
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Another concern this type of footage poses is dynamic range. You need a camera capable of capturing the details of a star's surface, and therefore an overexposed image with sufficient definition.
It is precisely on these two elements that the Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra is expected. According to recent leaksNot only will the smartphone benefit from a image sensor 200 MP main unit, capable of assisting a hybrid telephoto long focal length device thanks to its high definition, but also a unit with a 10 MP sensor and above all a 230 mm equivalent telephoto lens. Enough to allow x10 optical zoom and x100 hybrid zoom, ideal for taking pictures of the moon.
Handheld image of the moon on the Galaxy S22 Ultra // Source: Omar Belkaab for Frandroid
Remember, the Galaxy S22 Ultra was already particularly effective in this very difficult exercise, even if the images were still a bit blurry. A problem that could be rectified thanks to the better defined 200MP sensor on the S23 Ultra.
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abc, 14 Dec 2010I have a 3G sim and a 2G sim. Is this a good choice to buy this phone considering 1) Displa... morethis phone is absolute featured in its price band....it is good in java phones..
Company claims standby of 420 hrs and talk time of 12.5 hrs. Someone please come up with their hands on experience and comment on the actual battery back-up of this phone. I mean how long it lasts... I am looking forward to buy this phone shortly ..Thanks ..
I think the camera performance is good but it looks bad in this phone as the display is not good as it has a low resolution. Anyone, transfer images to any PC or mobile (having better resolution) and verify it. Phones that are not dual sim in this range have good resolution. Till now this is the best dual sim phone here as per features.
This phone has unbeatable features but the picture quality of 5.0mp is seriously too poor. Most times the image appears to be blurred while viewing or zooming. Could it be that default setting from factory has to be changed.
sim 2 slot for 3G sim, so change the sim in slot those who facing slow speed of internet.
Hi friends, thanks for all the reviews. plz tell me whether the handset supports for both sim dialing without restart. plz let me know. this.
I buy this phone but i dont now how use the push mail i mean how to configure it and connect with my computer to brouse with please if there is any help pl but the phone is pretty good then.
Company claims standby of 420 hrs and talk time of 12.5 hrs. Please tell me hands on experience on battery longevity of this phone, I mean how long it lasts... I am looking forward to buy this phone shortly ..Thanks ..
by the judgement from reading the post made...most of these are Indians. This phone is working fine unless you guys bad luck got the fake one. I have uses this phone for a month now, and have no problems with it.
I heard that the resolution is not to the mark and the phone has frequent software problems mainly in case of browsing (too slow). Is it true?
Anonymous, 14 Dec 2010Hey Samsung Big Bosses,this is a nice phone but atleast give it a Super LCD CAPACITIVE screen ... moreI don't mind the low resolution, but the capacitive screen is definitely a must.
Hey Samsung Big Bosses,this is a nice phone but atleast give it a Super LCD CAPACITIVE screen and a 2500 mAh Li-Ion Battery, ok even 1500 mAh Li-Ion will do. At least you can do that, if you cant give Super AMOLED.One more thing, pls give it a direct 3.5mm jack instead of the adapter combo with the handsfree.
Pls Samsung guys I want to buy this phone, pls improve it and give it to me. I really want this.
I've purchased this phone after exchanging my samsung star. It's sound quality is v.good even better if you use any other 3.5mm headphone. Picture quality of 5MP is not good if compared to my previous 3MP camera. Still i consider it to be best among all the dual sim phones. Sofware is not slow if you close all the open wizards.
If you're using the first line and you came call on the second line is your mobile give tone or signal for presence of a call or what?


David Cameron is here at Chance UK in Finsbury Park to meet staff and he will speak at 11am about tackling the welfare state.
Download a full copy of what he will say here. It looks like a great speech. It's also pretty comprehensive at 2500 words.
"By building the tax credit system around a highly simplified model of human behaviour, and failing to take into account the way people really live, it was sadly inevitable that things would go badly wrong."
"Instead of setting social enterprises and community groups free to help people, Labour have tied them up with bureaucratic constraints and complex funding processes. And rather than encouraging them to take on new challenges, Labour have actively squeezed them out."
"In his tax credit system, a couple living together get exactly the same Working Tax Credits as a lone parent with the same income. This means that if a couple splits up, their Working Tax Credits rise."
The Conservatives will take a "more holistic and sophisticated"
bureaucracies, to help people get back into work."
they are there for you as your support, your advocate and your friend.
workers to help them carry out their work."
hope this speech can still break through that coverage.
11.30am: IDS announces the next tranche of CSJ policy groups.
economic dependency and social care.
GCSE exam, and almost a third of all prisoners and half of all prostitutes come from that 0.6%.
Conclusion: A spot-on speech but nothing new aside from the CSJ announcements. The significant thing is that this was a post-conference marker showing that this agenda is still very much at the forefront of the Party's thinking. And, as Cameron said in reply to my question about it, this is an agenda that Brown will find it difficult to take on in a way that is coherent with the rest of his vision for the country.
Thanks to the CSJ's Chris Bullivant for the pics.


New Delhi: Senior Janata Dal (United) leader Sharad Yadav on Sunday denounced the alleged police action against Banaras Hindu University students protesting the increasing incidents of eve-teasing on the campus, and said the issue will be raised in Parliament.
A group of students had staged a sit-in at the main gate of the university after a woman student of the Arts Faculty was allegedly harassed by three motorcycle-borne men on the campus.
The protesting students were reportedly baton-charged by the police on Friday night.
"It has never happened before at BHU. It is sheer violation of freedom of speech and expression guaranteed by the Constitution," Yadav said in a statement.
"We will raise the issue in Parliament... It is intolerable in a democracy and the government should apologise," he said, adding people will take to the streets to protest it.
BHU, however, said the protest by the students was "politically motivated" to malign the image of the university.


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Have you heard about how everything will be okay in this world once the Pope consecrates Russia to Mary's Immaculate Heart, as stated by Our Lady of Fatima? Have you heard the latest revelation from Medjugorje? Maybe you wonder what the person calling themselves Maria Divine Mercy is saying. One thing is for sure: We Catholics love our private revelations. Approved or unapproved, a sure way to generate traffic on your blog is to start promoting this or that private revelation.
I don't really want to focus too much on which revelation is deemed worthy of belief. (Though for a safe start, only have a devotion to those which the local ordinary has explicitly approved.) I also do not wish to discount the good that has occurred from private revelation deemed worthy of belief. Some of the messages (particularly Fatima's insistence on penance and Eucharistic Adoration) are incredibly important for our time. Instead I'm more concerned by what our present obsession with private revelation says about our faith, our Church, and the world at large.
One thing we must always remember is that private revelation is not binding upon anyone. While you may have a particular devotion to Fatima, one is free to ignore Fatima, and neither person is inherently more or less Catholic because of that decision. What matters is how faithful we are to the deposit of faith. If Fatima encourages you to go to Eucharistic adoration on a daily basis, then blessed are you. If another revelation causes you to take up this or that holy practice, that is a good thing. While doing this we need to always remember what is important is the virtue being cultivated, not the source of the message that encouraged said virtue.
Reject all private revelation, good or bad.
Private Revelation, due to its sensual nature (that is, being perceived by the senses) is inherently ambiguous, and many times provides more confusion than clarity.
Private Revelation can instill within the recipient (and just as much the devotee of said revelation) a sense of vanity, feeling that they are far more enlightened then they actually are.
Because of this, the devil frequently uses private revelation and apparitions to deceive people, especially those who are spiritually immature.
When we examine the Holy Scriptures, we find ample evidence for the caution the Mystical Doctor advises. At first, God gave his revelation through direct contact and the Ten Commandments. When the Israelites demanded more proof that God was who He said He was, it quickly became apparent that signs and wonders were never enough, they continued to rebel. Since they rejected the clear message of revelation, God sent the prophets to comfort His people (Baruch 4:5, IS 61:1) and to call them to repentance. When that failed, He gave signs and wonders. Finally, God gave the Israelites the "sign" of various foreign nations conquering them.
Christ's point was simple. He has already given us everything we need for salvation. Why do we desire more? This world desires more because it is looking for an excuse to not follow God. We demand more because we are looking for an excuse to not follow God on His terms. Isn't that the general point of many of these apparitions? Do Penance, be faithful to the Gospel, believe in the teachings of the Church. If we had been doing these things, God wouldn't be trying to get our attention with these revelations.
If we ever want to get out of the crisis the Church is currently in, we will not find it in a new private apparition or revelation. We will only find it in following the Gospel.
Thank you very much for this. I am going to share it on the "Catholic Party" group on Facebook, where somebody is posting the MDM stuff.
"…say about our faith, our Church…" You mean 'the' Church. If you don't get the basics right all the rest is meaningless.
No, I mean "our" Church. The Church is all of God's people, whether they be clerics making up the Magesterium, or laymen participating in her mission in their own way.
I don't belong to some impersonal structure. I belong to the Body of Christ, and I'm a member of that body.
Would you call Our Lord's revelations to Saint Margaret Mary mere "private" revelation? Or Our Lady's to Saint Catherine Laboure? 70,000 people saw the sun dance and fall at Fatima. The wet ground and mud dried up instantly. How "private" was that? Ignore Fatima at your own peril. Our Lady did not deliver so serious a message to be snubbed, but to be obeyed. Jesus obeyed her. Who are we to ignore her wishes? And what right does the pope have to reveal the vision part of the Third Secret and not the message that went with it? He has no right to disobey the Mother of God. The pope was ordered to consecrate "Russia" with all the bishops, collegially, to the Immaculate Heart and the past half dozen popes have refused her obedience. What you have posted is very misleading. Fatima is not Mejigourje. It is more than just a private revelation as many other visitations were.
Actually….. yes, that is private revelation. If it didn't happen during the Age of Revelation (the time leading from Moses to the death of the Apostle John), then it is private revelation, no matter what it is. What I did was post the teaching of the Church by referencing the Catechism and the Spiritual masters.
The Church is quite clear that such revelations cannot have the assent of faith. If you wish to cite official Church teaching for your position, you are welcome to do so. I'm just going to say, with all due respect, that this issue is about as crystal clear as they come.
Yes, but of course if you're already blinded by devotion to a private revelation, crystal clarity does little good.
If only all of us developed as much devotion and faith in the Mass, sacraments, and magisterium of our Church which just mere private revelation always points us back to.
i agree with you absolutely. the last Fatima apparition occurred on 13th October. the Vision of Pope Leo XIII occurred on 13th October; and they both point to grave dangers facing the Church at the very top. Only a careless Christian will ignore these messages.
harmony with the views of Pope Benedict.
Then why has the Magesterium not taken this alleged complexity into account? There's a reason the situation is 'briefly summarized." From a Catholic perspective, there's not much beyond it.
You say it is "neglected in theology", but then try to show how those who are simply going by what is written are false.
When it comes to private revelations being made into liturgical feasts, again, one is not required to accept they happened. They are made feasts because the theological message promoted is one vital for the Church. That message is what people are required to accept.
Nothing Benedict XVI says contradicts this, but a lot of what you say directly contradicts the Catechism, the spiritual masters of the Church, and Pope Benedict XIV.
But of course, we modern Catholics have a better understanding of spirituality than rubes like St. John of the Cross.
Well, St. John of the Cross didn't have the internets. How enlightened could he have been?
Most times I wish I didn't live in the disinformation age magnified by the internet.
Actually, I was simply quoting Pope emeritus, Benedict XVI, who also quotes the Council and the Bible. If you have any questions, write him.
And you were showing you completely missed his point. Yes, private revelation can help us come to a deeper understanding of the faith. That's simply restating the Catechism.
That isn't the same as saying that Private Revelation is binding upon all Catholics, or that the approach of those like the great Mystical Doctor is not a sound one.
In short, no private revelation is of required belief -it is purely to the discretion of the individual using rules of prudence. Consequently, private revelation as they involve mere human faith cannot be used to decide questions pertaining to philosophy, theology, or any other field of endeavour. Therefore, any Catholic who tries to do this is no Traditionalist properly speaking but instead is engaging in spiritual abuse deserving of no small rebuke. And that is the bottom line really!
(*) This work is *the* most significant source of the past two hundred and fifty years influencing the beatification and canonization process.
Laudable is author's concern i.e., for some (if not, most) Catholics, private revelation has become or is becoming the focal point of their faith. In the prefatory statement however, the phenomenon at Fatima (Church-approved) is associated with the presumably spurious ones. Yes, private revelation is never an article of Catholic faith but the Church approves it nonetheless for the edification of the faithful and—for this reason, she developed guidelines for its discernment.
'Forgetting the divine and supernatural character of the Church (and she is nothing if not divine and supernatural), Liberal Catholics talk and write about her as a simple human development, accepting, in the blindness of their false conception, the naturalistic definition of faith. They thus eviscerate the Church, making her the mere husk of what she really is.
This is taken from Liberalism is a Sin By Dom Felix Sarda and Salvany written over 150 years ago, when it appears that Catholics were already abandoning the dogmas of the Faith, especially those regarding the necessity of baptism with water, faith and membership of the Catholic Church for salvation.
I am a pre_ Vatican II Catholic and looking back I can remember that the Catholicism of many people at the time, especially that of the Beatas, "the Holier than thous " seemed to have been reduced to almost superstition.
Even as a child I never liked the Sacred Heart and Immaculate heart of Mary revelations or the apparitions at Fatima because of the language, which is either sugary sentimental or hysterical. The language of the gospels, epistles and the Early Church fathers and many Church Doctors is not sentimental or hysterical. At the time I felt guilty but after reading the advice of St. Martin of the Cross, I am happy and relieved.
The revelations of the Sacred Heart and the Immaculate Heart of Mary seem to be heretical in that they reduce our salvation to a number of steps, which if carried out, is almost guaranteed and which is contrary to the dogma of the Church, that without special revelation, nobody knows, if they are saved or not. The art work resulting from these revelations also repels me.I have never seen a depiction of the Sacred Heart of Jesus which is not cringe making sentimental. There is no sentmentality in the paintngs of Fra angelo or Giotto.
hmm.. can understand your point, but it seems to be that the gospels and the church fathers are certainly as sentimental and or hysterical as Fatima and the sacred heart revelations. How are they any more 'hysterical' then the book of revelations or any more 'sentimental / sensual' then the song of songs or the book of Tobit, or even the book of wisdom. I guess my point is not so much any particular approval or disapproval of the private revelation per-se but It doesn't seem to me that a lack of sentimentality is by any means a christian virtue.
My comment stands still as regards private revelation which I see as an outpouring of grace so long as properly discerned to be the workings of the true Spirit. Admittedly, there is lack of solid pneumatology after Vatican II. The Holy Spirit Who is the Giver of special gifts, fruits, and virtues, the Dispeller of illusions, has suffered from much neglect. This, I see, is the main reason as to why many have fallen prey to pseudo-devotions and phony phenomena.


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Washington Post: A Savage Story On Vice President Kamala Harris
About this Washington Post article, it's difficult to tell which is worse for Vice President Kamala Harris: the anonymous former staffers' criticism of the vice president's management style or the on-the-record defense of the vice president's management style by equating Harris to Former President Donald Trump.
Former Harris employee Sean Clegg explained that these things get personal to people. Further, he stated that he had never encountered Kamala where he thought she was mistreating him throughout her long history. Has she referred to bulls? Yes. Is it true that this makes some individuals feel uncomfortable at times? Yes. She would, however, have her television program if she were a guy with her managerial style, which would be named "The Apprentice."
In addition, staffers who worked for Harris before her appointment as vice president reported that one recurring issue was that Harris would refuse to read briefing materials supplied by staff members, then criticize them when she looked unprepared herself.
A former staff member said that it's evident that you're not dealing with someone prepared to put in the effort to train and work. In addition to this, the former staff member also stated that it is necessary to put up with a steady stream of soul-destroying criticism and her lack of self-confidence when working with Kamala. Therefore, in other words, one continually sorts of propping up a bully, and it's not apparent why.