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Franco Harris Biography, Age, Education, Career and Net Worth

Franco Harris was born on March 7, 1950, in Fort Dix, New Jersey. He was an American professional football player. Franco Harris was popular for his powerful running style and played for Pittsburgh Steelers. Educational Background Franco Harris attended Rancocas Valley Regional High School in Mount Holly, New Jersey, where he excelled not only in football but also in track and…

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The people who are saying they won't vote in the 2024 U.S. election because they see no real difference between the two sides, show a real deficit in their knowledge of world history.

The countless WWII deaths taught us that you DON'T let fascists get into office. Period.

A second Trump administration would be a neofascist administration, threaded through with right-wing "Christian" nationalism.

NO "ADULTS" IN THE ROOM: A second Trump administration would be different than the first administration because Trump will surround himself with neofascist sycophants who (unlike the "adults in the room" during his first administration) won't stop Trump from acting on his worse instincts,

PRESIDENTIAL IMMUNITY: And Trump's worst instincts will be aided by the "Get Out of Jail Free" card SCOTUS just gave Trump with their presidential "immunity" ruling for "official acts."

PROJECT 2025: Despite Trump's denials about Project 2025, many of the worst people from Trump's last administration are involved in it. This is the agenda they will bring to a new Trump administration.

JD VANCE: Now that JD Vance is Trump's VP, it seems even more likely that the Trump administration will implement Project 2025. That's because Vance was the top pick for VP by The Heritage Foundation (the institution behind Project 2025).

DEMOCRATIC ACHIEVEMENTS: Although Biden is no longer the Democratic candidate for president, the chart below is still helpful to show what a Democrat can achieve in office--even when they do not have control of both Houses of Congress. Below is a list of Biden's achievements and people's polling opinions of them. (Unfortunately, most Americans are not aware of the Biden administration's achievements, so the poll numbers reflect that ignorance.)

THERE'S NO TURNING BACK. There's probably no turning back after our democratic institutions are weakened or destroyed under a second Trump administration.

You can probably forget about your ability to protest, because Trump will call in the National Guard to squash even peaceful protests.

You can probably forget about having access to a free press, as Trump has threatened to shut down outlets that criticize him.

You can probably forget about the power of voting, as Trump will make it harder for certain groups to vote and/or will rig elections like Putin does.

And you can probably forget about Gaza. Trump is now skeptical that a two-state solution can work.

"DON'T LET THE PERFECT BE THE ENEMY OF THE GOOD": Don't be foolish and sit out this election if Kamala Harris or another Democrat is not everything you want them to be in a candidate.

No matter what their shortcomings might be, NO Democrat is a fascist.

REMEMBER THE PAST: Please educate yourselves about the German Weimar Republic, and how Hitler rose to power partly because the center and the far left were wary of each other, and not united in opposition. (And no, Trump will not be as bad as Hitler, but he could be as bad as Franco or Mussolini.)

No one on the left with any real grasp of early to mid-twentieth century world history would ever think it was a good idea to sit out the 2024 election, given that one of the two presidential candidates is a neofascist.

Originally posted 07/21/24; updated 07/22/24

____________________ Image sources (before edits): Monopoly card; Project 2025, Biden's accomplishments; No turning back meme background image; Perfect & Good; Remember the past

why do you guys talk like you think not voting means no one gets elected

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Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson (June 14, 1932 – March 9, 2004) was an innovative composer whose interests spanned the worlds of jazz, dance, pop, film, television, and classical music. He was named after Afro-British composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor.

He attended the High School of Music and Art in New York City. After graduating from high school, he attended NYU. He transferred to the Manhattan School of Music. He received a BA and an MA from the Manhattan School of Music. He studied at Princeton University. He was on the faculty of Brooklyn College and studied conducting in the summers in the Netherlands with Franco Ferrara and Dean Dixon and learned to conduct at the Mozarteum in Salzburg.

He co-founded the Symphony of the New World and became its Music Director. He was the Music Director of Jerome Robbins’s American Theater Lab and the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. He composed a ballet for Ailey entitled For Bird, With Love.

He wrote a great deal of classical music but was well-versed in jazz and popular music. He served as pianist for drummer Max Roach’s quartet and wrote arrangements for Roach, Marvin Gaye, and Harry Belafonte. He composed music for films such as The McMasters, Together for Days, A Warm December, Thomasine & Bushrod, The Education of Sonny Carson, Amazing Grace, Mean Johnny Barrows, and the documentary Montgomery to Memphis about Martin Luther King. He wrote incidental music for at least one episode of the TV show Room 222.

His music has a blend of Baroque counterpoint; American Romanticism; elements of the blues, spirituals, and Black folk music; and rhythmic ingenuity. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence

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Free taster session - Dundee Time and Place #dundeewestend

HERA – Harris Education and Recreation Association – in addition to its spring programme of classes – is running free taster sessions in early 2024. There’s a weekly Dundee Time and Place evening class that meets in the Corso sheltered complex lounge and each class covers a different topic in Dundee’s history. Francis de Franco, the excellent course leader, will also be doing a free taster…

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Once Upon a Time in America (Sergio Leone, 1984)

Cast: Robert De Niro, James Woods, Elizabeth McGovern, Treat Williams, Tuesday Weld, Burt Young, Joe Pesci, Danny Aiello, William Forsythe, James Hayden, Darlanne Fluegel, Larry Rapp, Jennifer Connelly, Scott Tiler, Rusty Jacobs, Brian Bloom, Adrian Curran, Mike Monetti, Noah Moazezi, James Russo. Screenplay: Leonardo Benvenuti, Piero De Bernardi, Enrico Medioli, Franco Arcalli, Franco Ferrini, Sergio Leone, Stuart Kaminsky, based on a novel by Harry Grey. Cinematography: Tonino Delli Colli. Production design: Giovanni Natalucci. Film editing: Nino Baragli. Music: Ennio Morricone. Sergio Leone's romantic epic Once Upon a Time in America is some kind of great film, but I'm not sure what. It's about gangsters, to be sure, but is it really a gangster movie, in the lineage that stretches from the Warner Bros. gangster movies to the familiar parts of the oeuvre of Francis Ford Coppola and Martin Scorsese? It seems to me to more of a character study, a kind of Bildungsroman about the moral education of David "Noodles" Aaronson (Robert De Niro), whose internal life seems to me very different from that of the paradigmatic troubled gangster, Michael Corleone. That the whole story of OUATIA may in fact be Noodles's opium dream, as the concluding shot seems to suggest, gives a quality of fantasy to the film, as even its fairytale title underscores. I have to admit that at first I wasn't happy about giving up four hours of my movie-watching time to Leone's film, which still lingers in a kind of sad obscurity in the minds of the general public, especially since it was mistreated, panned, and tanked on its original release, when it was cut by 90 minutes. It was only the efforts of a few critics and cinéastes that promoted its rehabilitation, and its  showing two years ago on TCM was a "premiere" for that network after 35 years. There are some self-indulgent moments to the movie, too -- scenes that move more slowly than they might, setups that don't quite deliver on their potential. It's very much a "foreign film" in narrative technique, more redolent of Antonioni than of Coppola. What American director of the 1980s would have come up with such an enigmatic ending as the garbage truck and the flashback to the opium den? (The American cut by the Ladd Company ended with an off-screen gunshot suggesting that Max/Bailey had killed himself.) But even its flaws have a hint of greatness about them.  

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An essay about my headcanon on Wizarding schools + a fanon Wizarding School

KSo... this is my first Harry Potter essay, idk who will like it, idk if it will get buried inside the utter sea of content of Harry Potter, but please, if you read the essay, comment on it, I’m sick of just receiving likes for the sake of it on places like fucking Amino:

So, as the Harry Potter wiki puts it, the Wizarding World doesn’t have many wizarding schools, the eleven oldest, the major ones, are Hogwarts, located on Scotland, Beauxbeatons, French, Durmstrang, Bulgarian, Castelobruxo, Brazillian, Ivelmory, located on the USA, Koldovstoretz, Russian, Mahoutokoro, Japanese, and Uagadoau, Ugandan. 

While Hogwarts, Beauxbeatons, Durmstrang and Koldovstorez accept people from the neighbour European countries that do not have a Wizarding School, ALL THE OTHER SCHOOLS HAVE TO ACCEPT PEOPLE FROM ALL THE FUCKING CONTINENT THEY’RE LOCATED. Castelobruxo has to accept people from all South America and the South of Mexico, Ivelmory has to accept people from the USA, Canada, and the North of Mexico, the entire continent of Africa goes to Uagadoau and the entire continent of Asia goes to Mahoutokoro. On the JAPANESE SCHOOL there must be mostly Chinese and Indian students FOR PURE RAW NUMBERS OF POPULATION. Also, Brazil is the ONLY COUNTRY ON SOUTH AMERICA THAT TALKS PORTUGUESE, FORCING ALL THE SPANISH SPEAKERS FROM THE REST OF SOUTH AMERICA TO HAVE TO LEARN PORTUGESE IF THEY WANT TO FUCKING STUDY MAGIC.

A minor example that really grinds my gears due to a personal beef: I’m from Spain. Spain, in the Wizarding World, has to send their wizards to Beauxbeatons. Thus, any muggle-born Spaniard that really can’t learn magic by other means has to either learn French or just not learn magic, with the dangers that the prospect implies. And the same prospect applies to non-Ugandan African muggleborn wizards or any non-Japanese Asian student. They either learn their language or get fucked.

Rowling established that other minor schools exist, but they are poorly-regulated, not register on their respective Ministry of Magic and other stuff, but death of the author is all the rage these days, and as the fandom knows, Harry Potter was a colaborate work from Hatsune Miku and Daniel Radcliffe, and thus, I will SAY my own headcanon: 

Minor schools exist, they are good schools and they are registered on the Ministry. The thing is that the major schools are usually more recognized due to the sheer number of years they have existed and the traditions.

One of these... FANON minor schools is HyS, the Spaniard most famous minor Wizarding School. HyS also has a system of houses, trying to imitate Hogwarts’s success. The houses are Fire, Air, Water and Earth, something basic. HyS was founded on 1939, when Francisco Franco, the muggle dictator that had come to power in that era, closed the country, and forced the Spanish Ministry of Magic to close the Wizarding Spain as well. Of course, children born during that period, that lasted until the 60s, couldn’t really go to France to attend school, and much less when the muggle World War II and the Wizarding Grindelward conflict blew up, so a few powerful wizards, focused on the inherited need to educate their people, founded, with the beneplacit of the Ministry of Magic, HyS, Honor y Sinceridad (Honour and Sincerity). Since Franco tried too hard to control the Wizarding World, HyS became the center of revolutionary ideas and the opposition to the regime.

And that’s my essay. What do you think of it? Please, reblog it and give some feedback!

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Notable Philhellenes

Hundreds of Greek volunteers took part in the struggle of the Greeks and stood by their side in all the critical moments of the Revolution. Many of them have made history internationally.

The first steamship in history to take part in military operations, was the Karteria of the Greek fleet, commanded by the great British Philhellene Frank Abney Hastings (1794 – 1828), who had even financed its weapons. The most important success of Hastings and Karteria was in the Battle of Agali (Itea Bay) on September 17, 1827, where Karteria sank alone the Turkish flagship and destroyed 9 enemy ships.

Portrait of the great British Philhellene Frank Abney Hastings (1794 – 1828), created by the German Philhellene Karl Krazeisen (1794-1878)

Philhellenes helped rescue and release a large number of slaves after the end of the Revolution. They reflected the slaves’ drama trough Western art in many ways.

Painting by German painter and philhellene Paul Emil Jacobs (1802 – 1866), a scene from the trade of Greek slaves.

The Philhellenic movement made its presence felt throughout the 19th and even 20th centuries, and its contribution was critical and decisive for the liberation of Greece.

Many Philhellenes of the period 1821 returned to Greece when their assistance was needed it again.

Charles Nicolas Fabvier (1783-1855) was a French philhellene general and commander of the regular army of Greece during the Greek Revolution of 1821. He is considered the most capable and most beloved of all philhellene officers.

The great American Philhellene doctor and philanthropist Dr Samuel Howe, was one of them. He came to Greece for the second time in 1866-67 bringing aid for refugees from Crete during the Cretan Revolution.

Cretan knife 19th century, gift of the Cretans to the American philhellene Dr. Samuel Howe

Philhellenism continued to manifest itself throughout the 19th century, but also into the 20th. For example, in the unsuccessful Greek-Turkish War of 1897, the Italian Philhellene Ricciotti Garibaldi, the leader of a Corps of Garibaldi red-tunics, fought bravely.

This Corps returned to Greece and fought again on the side of the Greeks also during the victorious war of 1912-1913, which liberated Greece.

Sword donated by the French to the Italian Ricciotti Garibaldi, when he fought on the French side in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-1871

In 1897, the British composer and Philhellene Clement Harris came to Greece, he fought heroically and died for the independence of Greece in the Greek-Turkish war of 1897 in the Five Wells in Arta. He was buried in the Anglican Church of St. Paul in Athens.

A handwritten letter from a relative of Clement Harris to his friends in England, informing them that he was “killed in the Five Wells on April 23, 1897, fighting for the rights of Greece”

The oath of Lord Byron next to the tomb of Markos Botsaris in Messolonghi,  painting by a follower of the Italian painter Lodovico Lipparini (1802 – 1856), oil on wood, 19th century

Philellenism remains to this day an important cultural, political, social, philosophical and literary movement. It inspires educational and academic programs in all modern societies, and the values ​​on which it is based are the cornerstones of the civilized world.

The trip to Greece and the pilgrimage to the Acropolis of Athens and the other emblematic archeological sites throughout Greece, cause to every free man of today the same feelings as those they caused to Lord Byron 200 years ago.

Info by the Society for Hellenism and Philhellenism 

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                                                                JULY                                   2021

 THE RIB PAGE

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They are still uncovering statues on Easter Island.

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Everyone is talking about ‘Exterminate all the Brutes” from Raoul Peck.

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Vampire bats, prevalent in Latin America may be on the way to the U.S.

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What they call faith, I call strength.

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Criss angel will open CABLP, a restaurant in Overton, Nevada. The letters stand for breakfast, lunch and pizza and will include a free meal outreach program to help under privileged and pediatric cancer families.

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A fifth ocean in Antartica??** There have also found 4 new ocean species: Apolemia, Tegula Kusairo, Leptarma Biju and Duobrachium Sparksae.

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In China they have found a possible new species in a skull that is 140,000 years old.

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Why would Jeffrey Toobin be back at CNN?? Surely there are more young deserving talking heads around.

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The Keystone pipeline is dead.

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5,000 pounds of explosives were discovered in a home in South LA. LAPD seems to have detonated the fireworks in a truck right there in the neighborhood. They were too dangerous to transport but not enough to blow them up??? How stupid are these people??

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Days alert : So glad to see Clyde again even if it is only for a moment!! **BTW, I do not understand the Daytime Emmy noms this year as they relate to Days. I really was pulling for Victoria Koneful (Ciara) and she won but George DelHoya (Orpheus), Tamara Braun (Ava) and Cady McClain (Jennifer)??? I was shocked when Cady McClain won. I mean, she was so whiny. I question my own ability to judge a performance. In most categories, the winner was usually the one I thought was the worst option. I was happy for Max Gail and CBS Sunday Morning.  Some performances were sure overlooked. What about James Read (Clyde), Paul Telfer (Xander), Bryan Dattilo (Lucas), Robert Scott Wilson (Ben), Daniel Kerr (Eli) and Lindsay Arnold (Allie) ?? As annoying as the Kristen character is and as long as it took me to get used to Stacy Haiduk in the role, she kicked ass this year. Did they even submit clips?? And,  they are not often on but Tony and Anna forever!!!!!!** And how wonderful is it to see the Dimera boys all together and recounting the whole fam for the votes? **And one more thing, Days was not even nominated for writing while Bold and the Beautiful spends every other show with the Liam character standing in front of the fireplace making excuses for the same shit! Just push repeat, C,mon!!**Philip had a great line for Brady about following Kristen like a zombie.** Dis Eli really say, “Peacock and chill??’ Are these the things they will have to do to do to stay on the air? It took me right out of the show. It was the same day the ads for Days on Peacock started. OMG

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Texas Gov. Abbott vetoed a bill that would make it illegal to chain up dogs without water.**ATexas churches have lost their 501(c) (3) status because it actively ‘educates’ its members on electing specific Republican politicians. –Pete West* This should have been happening long ago. Many churches I know of do this and should not be allowed to have it both ways. #tax the church

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Ellen Burstyn, Jane Curtin, Loretta Devine, Christopher Lloyd, James Caan, French Stewart and Ann-Margaret in Queen Bees and directed by Michael Lembeck?? Yes please!!

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NY has suspended Giuliani’s law license.

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Miracle Workers: The Oregon Trail is coming to TBS, this will be season 3 in the series.

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What is this about Bowen Yang?? A podcast about a sperm bank heist?? Yeow!!

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David Geffen has given $150,000,000 to Yale drama school: Every student will be tuition- free in perpetuity.

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Allison Mack was sentenced to 3 years.

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The latest in sexual assault news: James Franco has agreed to 2.2 mil settlement in sexual misconduct case.** Kyle Massey was charged with immoral communication with a minor.**Bill Cosby is out and here are some reactions: A terrible wrong is being righted.: a miscarriage of justice is corrected. I fully support survivors of sexual assault coming forward.- Phylicia Rashad*I really don’t ever want to hear again as to why many survivors don’t report their rape or assault.- Charlotte Clymer* Women are showing great restraint in not burning everything to the ground right now and I don’t know how they do it.-Jeff Tiedrich

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Amazon is making a series of A League of Their Own with Nick Offerman as the coach.

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Does anyone else have family members that are rich, transient, know it all snobs??

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It looks like New York’s ranked choice voting is leaning toward Eric Adams for Mayor.

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Michigan republicans investigating voter fraud found 2 incidents. One is for a lady who voted by mail and then died, the other was confusion over a man who had the same name as his Father. That was it!

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Jamie Lee Curtis will get the Golden Lion for lifetime achievement at the 78th Venice International Film Fest in September.

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Jerry Seinfeld will star in and direct ‘Unfrosted’ about Pop-Tarts.

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Why is Airbnb still listing properties in illegal settlements and outposts in Palestinian occupied territories? –James J. Zogby

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Merrick Garland has announced that the Justice department sued Georgia over the voting rights.

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The NFL says that it will halt the use of “race norming” which assumed black players started out with lower cognitive functioning in a $1 billion settlement of brain injury claims. The practice had made it harder for black players to qualify. –The Associated Press.

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Scary Clown 45 ended his ‘From the desk of Donald J. Trump’ blog after 29 days. Word is that he felt he was being mocked in the media.

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Religious leadership keeps engaging in partisan politics on behalf of politicians that are particularly unpopular with younger people and they wonder why younger people are disenchanted with the church. – Schooley ** Give young people credit as well for seeing through the hype and lies of these religious hypocrites who use God only as a weapon and a threat. –Larry Charles

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Amazon will stop drug testing for employment. Can every other company jump on this bandwagon? Let’s judge employees on the work they give.

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The Backstreet Boys and NSync are going to work together??!!

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Showtime is bringing back American Gigolo with Jon Bernthal.

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If Biden can carry out air strikes without proper authorization, the Senate can raise the minimum wage without the Parliamentarian.  –Alexandra M. Hunt

Reality Winner is out!!

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Judy Woodruff has been given the Peabody award for journalistic integrity.

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Donald Glover is bringing us Hive. Malia Obama will be a writer.

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Nicholas Cage has married Riko Shibata.

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Catch and Kill: The podcast tapes, is here on HBO.

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Bryan Cranston and Annette Bening will star in Jerry and Marge go large.

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Amblin Partners and Netflix are partners.

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Fall 2022 will bring the Roybal School of film and television production for underserved communities. They are looking to help 9th, 10th, 11th and 12th grade students. Among others, the program was cofounded by George Clooney, Don Cheadle, Kerry Washington, Mindy Kaling and Eva Longoria.

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Will there be a Wedding Crashers2??

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The Mysterious Benedict Society stars Tony Hale.** I would love to see he and Danny Pudi in something together.

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Actor Stephen Amell from Arrow was removed from a plane after getting into it with his wife.  A source said he was drunk and screaming. An official source said that they removed “an unruly customer.”** Andy Dick was arrested for assault with a deadly weapon, allegedly assaulting his partner, Lucas with a metal chair.

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So.. Fox news was digitally altering the faces of people they did not care for??? Is there no end to their bullshit????

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Mark Ronson is set to marry Grace Gummer.

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Crime shows seem to be in the cycle of prisoners and the women who get a thrill from helping them escape.

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Wolfgang Van Halen has released a debut album: Mammoth

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Everyone seems to love Danny Trejo’s memoir and its honesty.

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David Spade will take over as host of Bachelor in Paradise.

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I am sickened when I see the first question that pops up on an online search is the net worth of a person. Oh this twisted world.

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Life is a short pause between 2 great mysteries. –Jung

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Prince Harry and Meghan had a daughter that they named Lilibet ‘Lili” Diana.

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Michael Flynn’s brother Charles (who withheld help from the capitol on Jan. 6), leads the U.S. Army Pacific and commands 90,000 troops.

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I am so excited to read ‘The Boys’ from Clint and Ron Howard, due out in October.

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Dave Chappelle closed out the Tribeca film fest with a surprise concert. This was the first in person film fest since Covid. Look for This time, this place which premiered there.

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Ron Wood will release the album Mr. Luck: A tribute to Jimmy Reed on Sept. 3

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Howard Stern signed a new $500 mil contract with Sirius XM. He is taking the whole summer off and many fans say they will cancel their subscription because they don’t want to pay for a summer of reruns.

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Acorn will bring Jane Seymour back to a series. Seymour will be co -executive produce on Harry Wild. Her character will be a retired University professor who loves her whiskey and solves crimes.

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Annie Murphy  stasr in ‘Kevin can f*** himself about a sitcom wife which airs on AMC.

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I still do not understand why Rep. Mike Nearman hasn’t been arrested for letting insurrectionists into the Capitol.

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There is a wing shortage??

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The Pulitzer prizes have been announced. The list includes Ben Faub, Barry Blitt, Katori Hall, Emilio Morenatti, AP photographers Marcio Jose Sanchez, Alex Brandon, David Goldman, Julio Cortez, John Minchillo, Frank Franklin II, Ringo H.W. Chiu, Evan Vucci, Mike Stewart and Noah Berger. There was a special citation for Darnella Frazier who filmed the death of George Floyd.

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Conan’s last TBS guests were Martin Short, Jack Black, Bill Hader, Mila Kunis, Dana Carvey, Patton Oswalt and JB Smoove. There were some surprises.  The big musical number never happened when Jack Black hurt himself. It was all funny and sweet but Conan never mentioned the band in the last show WTF????????????????????????????????????????? Music is so important to him and he does not thank the band? ** Colbert and Brian Stack gave Conan a cute send after4, 368 shows on CBS calling him a ‘Slenderman Ron Weasly’.  Kimmel wished Conn well also.** Hope his HBO MAX variety show goes well.** BTW, the Duvall interview with Colbert was great to see but why does nobody ever mention ‘Get Low?’ What a performance!!

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Tattoos are on the rise.

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Fast food drive thru’s sometime close with fake excuses like the equipment is down or something because they don’t feel like working. Good people can’t find work and so many waste the opportunities they have. AAAAGHH!!

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Valerie Bertinelli and Demi Lovato will star in ‘Hungry’ on NBC.

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Hulu will bring us David E. Kelley’s Nine Perfect Strangers with Nicole Kidman, Michael Shannon, Regina Hall, Bobby Cannavale and Melissa McCarthy.

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R.I.P. Gavin Macleod, Frank Bonner, Joy Vogelsang, Benigno Aquino, Champ Biden, victims of the Miami building collapse, Robert Sacchi, Stuart Damon, Johnny Solinger  and Clarence Williams III.

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Performance for Multi-User Online Environments (Before COVID-19)

I’m Angela Washko and I am currently teaching a course called Performance Art (In The Expanded Field) at Carnegie Mellon University and have recently had to switch to teaching remotely - a switch that comes maybe more naturally to me than others because of my experience participating in the net art community and operating as a performance artist specifically within online environments. Before everyone was forced to work remotely because of an international pandemic, many artists were already thinking about the internet as a context for performance art.  I wanted to put together a resource focused on artists who have been doing the work of thinking about the specificity of virtual spaces as sites for performance and making work mindful of the unique qualities of the contexts they operate in. I hope that this list of works could be a resource for educators and artists who are interested in looking at artworks by individuals who have been thinking very intentionally about performance in networked contexts.

This list includes artists performing for webcam, artists performing in virtual environments, and artists performing for social media. It specifically focuses on performance, and excludes works of net art that do not contain performance-for-the-internet.  The list also primarily focuses on performance works that are made without the use of expensive equipment or access to institutional spaces (although I know there are some exceptions on this list). Also - it is in no way complete or comprehensive! 

*This list does not include the many artists who perform for video and upload their performances online - UNLESS the artist is specifically thinking about engaging with the digital audience and not prioritizing the gallery as a context. 

**Sexually explicit or violent content that may be uncomfortable for some viewers and situations

Annie Abrahams and Emmanuel Guez, Reading Club (video conferencing)

Annie Abrahams, Daniel Pinheiro and Lisa Parra, DistantFeeling(s) (Zoom)

Annie Abrahams, Ruth Catlow, Paolo Cirio, Ursula Endlicher, Nicolas Frespech and Igor Stromajer, Huis Clos / No Exit (video conferencing)

Larry Achiampong & David Blandy, Finding Fanon 2 (Grand Theft Auto V)

Robert Adrian, The World in 24 Hours (networked happening)

LaTurbo Avedon, Visiting Artist Talk (multi platform)

Jeremy Bailey, various performances by Famous New Media Artist Jeremy Bailey (YouTube)

Jeremy Bailey, The You Museum (online advertising banners)

Man Bartlett, 24hr non-Best Buy (Twitter)

Genevieve Belleveau, Gorgeoustaps and The Reality Show (Facebook)

Wafaa Bilal, Domestic Tension (livestream website)

Wafaa Bilal, Virtual Jihadi (Quest for Saddam game)

Mary Bond, autodissociate me (4chan)**

Marco Cadioli, Remap Berlin (Second Life, Google Maps, Twinity)

micha cárdenas, Becoming Dragon (Second Life)

Ruth Catlow and Helen Kaplinsky, Sociality-machine (video conferencing, custom software)

Ruth Catlow, Marc Garrett and Neil Jenkins, VisitorStudio (custom software for online performance)

Jennifer Chan, factum/mirage (Chat Roulette)**

Jennifer Chan, factum/mirage III (Chat Roulette)**

Channel TWo [CH2], barelyLegal (Google Maps)

Corpos Informaticos, Telepresence 2 (telepresence project)

Petra Cortright, VVEBCAM (YouTube)

Jeff Crouse and Aaron Meyes, World Series of ‘Tubing (Competitive YouTube-ing)

James Coupe, General Intellect (Amazon Mechanical Turk)

Joseph DeLappe, dead-in-iraq (America’s Army)

Joseph DeLappe, The Salt Satyagraha Online: Gandhi's March to Dandi in Second Life (Second Life)

Joseph DeLappe, Howl: Elite Force Voyager Online (Elite Force Voyager Online)

Joseph DeLappe, Quake Friends (Quake III Arena)

Kate Durbin, Unfriend Me Now! (Facebook Live)

Kate Durbin, Cloud Nine (Cam4)**

Electronic Disturbance Theater, FloodNet (Java applet)

Entropy8Zuper! (Auriea Harvey and Michaël Samyn), WIREFIRE (Flash 5)

Entropy8Zuper! (Auriea Harvey and Michaël Samyn), skinonskinonskin (multi platform)

Jason Eppink, Kickback Starter (website, Kickstarter)

Cao Fei, RMB City (Second Life)

Mary Flanagan, [borders] (Second Life)

Foci + Loci, many projects (Little Big Planet 2)

Ed Fornieles, Dorm Daze (Facebook)

Carla Gannis, C.A.R.L.A G.A.N. (virtual environments and social media platforms)

Riley Harmon, Poser (Andy Warhol’s Grave Livecam)

Amber Hawk Swanson, Sidore (Mark) / Heather > LOLITA (livestream)**

Josh Harris, We Live In Public / Quiet (livestream)

Auriea Harvey, Webcam Movies (webcam)

Ann Hirsch, Scandalishious (YouTube)

Ann Hirsch, horny lil feminist (website)**

Faith Holland, Porn Interventions (RedTube)**

Shawné Michaelain Holloway, a personal project (XTube)**

Shawné Michaelain Holloway, b4bedwithurlbae (Periscope)**

Brian House, Joyride (Google Maps)

Brian House, Tanglr (Google Chrome extension)

E. Jane, E. The Avatar (YouTube, online store)

E. Jane, That time I sold my dreads online (ebay)

JODI, SK8MONKEYS ON TWITTER (Twitter)

Miranda July, Learning to Love You More (website)

Devin Kenny, Untitled/Celfa (webcam performance)

Laura Hyunjhee Kim, The Living Lab (social media, website)

Gelare Khoshgozaran and Nooshin Rostami, Just Like A Disco (webcam)

Gelare Khoshgozaran, Misscommunication (webcam)

Gelare Khoshgozaran, Realms of Observation (Chat Roulette)

Lynn Hershman Leeson, The Dollie Clone Series (webcam livestream)

Olia Lialina, Animated GIF Model (multiple webpages)

Olia Lialina, Self-Portrait (browser)

Olia Lialina, Summer (multiple webpages)

Jordan Wayne Long, Box Shipment #2 (Lord of the Rings Online)

Gretta Louw, Controlling Connectivity (Skype and others)

Low Lives, Virtual Performance Series (livestream)

Michael Mandiberg, Shop Mandiberg (ecommerce site)

Eva and Franco Mattes, Freedom (Counter-Strike Source)

Eva and Franco Mattes, Life Sharing (website)

Eva and Franco Mattes, No Fun (Chat Roulette)**

Eva and Franco Mattes, Re-Enactments (Second Life)

Eva and Franco Mattes, Synthetic Performances (Second Life)

Lauren McCarthy, Follower (artist-made app)

Lauren McCarthy, LAUREN (livestream surveillance)

Lauren McCarthy, Social Turkers (Amazon Mechanical Turk)

Lauren McCarthy, SOMEONE (webcam)

MTAA, 1 year performance video (aka SamHsiehUpdate) (livestream)

Jayson Musson / Hennessy Youngman, Art Thoughtz (YouTube)

Martine Neddam, Mouchette (website)

Mendi and Keith Obadike, Blackness for Sale (ebay)

Marisa Olson, Marisa’s American Idol Training Blog (blog)

Randall Packer & Systaime, #NeWWWorlDisorder (Facebook Live and website)

Sunita Prasad, Sunny & Benny Together Forever (My Free Implants website)

Jon Rafman, Kool Aid Man in Second Life (Second Life)

Bunny Rogers, 9 Years (Second Life)

Stephanie Rothenberg, Invisible Threads (Second Life)

Stephanie Rothenberg, Best Practices In Banana Time (Second Life)

Annina Ruest, A Piece of the Pie Chart (Twitter, webcam)

Annina Ruest, Rock N Scroll (Skype)

Nicole Ruggerio, AR Filters (Instagram)

RaFia Santana, #PAYBLACKTiME (Facebook and Paypal)

Anne-Marie Schleiner, Joan Leandre, Brody Condon, Velvet Strike (Counter-Strike)

Leah Schrager, Sarah White - Naked Therapy (video chat)**

Skawennati, TimeTraveller ™ (Second Life)

Molly Soda, various projects (multi platform)

Georgie Roxby Smith, Fair Game (Grand Theft Auto V)

Georgie Roxby Smith, 99 Problems [Wasted] (Grand Theft Auto V)**

Eddo Stern, Fort Paladin (America’s Army)

Eddo Stern, Runners (Everquest)

Tale of Tales, ABIOGENESIS (Endless Forest)

Third Faction, Demand Player Sovereignty (World of Warcraft)

Toca Loca, Halo Ballet (Halo)

Amalia Ulman, Excellences and Perfections (Instagram, Facebook)

VNS Matrix, Corpusfantastica MOO (MOO - multi-object oriented multi user dungeon)

Addie Wagenknecht & Pablo Garcia, Webcam Venus (sexcam sites)**

Angela Washko, BANGED: A Feminist Artist Interviews the Web’s Most Infamous Misogynist (Skype)

Angela Washko, The Council on Gender Sensitivity and Behavioral Awareness in World of Warcraft (World of Warcraft)

Angela Washko, The World of Warcraft Psychogeographical Association (World of Warcraft)

Brett Watanabe, San Andreas Deer Cam (Twitch, Grand Theft Auto San Andreas)

[caltropspress]

FEEDBACK LOOP #4: Armand Hammer & The Alchemist’s “God’s Feet”

As a child I introverted and drew pictures while my mother prayed to Jesus reading King James scriptures.

—Ras Kass, “The Evil That Men Do”

The dark and evil passions of his soul, His secret plot, and sordidness complete, His hate, his purposing…

—George Marion McClellan, “The Feet of Judas”

Bury the Bible at my feet, A testament at my head. If my dear father should call for me, Tell him that I am dead.

—Nelstone’s Hawaiians, “Fatal Flower Garden”

1.  James Joyce apostatized from his Catholic faith but continued to dig it for its rituals. That was an aspect to it he could tolerate and utilize for his art, as if his indoctrinated mind could fully renounce it if he wanted to. ELUCID’s first raps were recorded in a church—hallowed ground for some; narthex reverb, and nothing else, for him. Organized religion is “totally manufactured…a tool of control,” he’s said. Still, he concedes “the Bible is a beautiful book…if you remove the spirituality.” He renders its rolling paper pages into something worth uttering. Smell the burning coals and incense.

2.  “Blow that horn fast, we been read’ to go. When that horn blast, the dead is coming home.”

woods sings first, but ELUCID’s singing voice, to paraphrase Jupiter Hammon, is a penitential cry. I turn the radio knob to 89.9 FM on Sunday mornings when I go for groceries in Passaic. WKCR’s Amazing Grace plays raw gospel, which is what ELUCID emulates here: where the more hideous the voice gets, the holier the expression becomes.

The song structure is raw and unblunted, too. The refrain cuts for 80 seconds before a single verse, like Bashō in its brevity, staggers us. The Alchemist and Earl Sweatshirt co-production is muted: soft keys and Mark tree accents. They leave space to let God in.

3.  White is not a color!

In Franco Rosso’s Babylon, the titular Babylon is—among much mayhem—the cops with the no-knock warrant—the abhorrent clampdown on the sound-system. The guns of Brixton need blazing (or at least a knife to the gut, courtesy of Brinsley Forde). “Racial tension” is only a euphemism for murderous oppression.

4.  And upon her forehead was a name written, Mystery, Babylon The Great, The Mother Of Harlots And Abominations Of The Earth. (Revelation 17:5, KJV)

When Mississippi John Hurt sings “Make Me a Pallet on the Floor,” he’s humbling himself—subordinating for the sake of adulterous love. The pallet is on the floor, and it’s soft and low. The sinful sweet-talk, he knows, signals risk: shoot, cut, stab. There’s no tellin’ what she might do. But the Book of Revelation offers an Armageddon glimpse of what she’s capable of. When accounting for behavior, though, who’s really the whore?

5.  “So the story goes…”

The pallet is full of pestilence and plague—of lice, roaches, scourges. It doubles as a coffin, or a cooling board. Son House sang of his love “laying on the cooling board” on “Death Letter Blues.” The pain of “her Judgment Day” seemed to rack him, and the “10,000 people…standin’ around the burying ground” felt it, too.

In Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men, the stable buck Crooks—the sole Black man on the ranch—associates only with the horses he tends to. Crooks’ bunk is a “long box filled with straw, on which his blankets were flung.” He’s segregated from the other workers, surrounded by harnesses and the sound of halter chains. Crooks, whose nickname carries the weight of criminality, “reduce[s] himself to nothing” when a white woman apocalyptically threatens him with a lynching.

6.  For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand? (Revelation 6:17, KJV)

Milton William Cooper’s Behold a Pale Horse is, of course, a blessing and a bane. A dog-eared and spine-cracked hood classic on 125th in Harlem. But Wise Intelligent has recognized the limits of it. In its hip-hop adoption, the failures and shortcomings show through. Like on 2000’s “Horsementality,” where Kurupt barks a litany of adverbs including “ultramagnetically,” and it’s on “We Are the Horsemen” that Ced Gee looks beyond God to complain “the universe bothers [him].” You’ve got Canibus’ needlessly excessive 666 wordplay and Kool Keith’s “gamma data” and “galactic horse” super-scientifical madness. ELUCID, though, deals in the concrete, disregards the conspiratorial. He “find[s] the spirit getting lifted,” in a decidedly non-Keith Murray manner. When he beholds the white horse that comes forth conquering, we’re reminded of his anticolonialism, not black helicopters and chemtrails.

7.  “In the blink of an eye, the faithful go where they are made whole. / …the dead coming home, prepare a table... / Leave your freshest linens.”

God’ll have you feeling welcome, invited, only to leave you to the cops for violating the Sabbath. He’ll roll up on you like, Wilt thou be made whole? (John 5:6, KJV). Like, Motherfucker, do I look like I want your help? He’ll convince you your disability deserves a miracle, crap on crip culture, and then chastise you about “sin” while he spits ableist fictions.

8.  “Singing murder ballads. / Looking for a body.”

Harry Allen, in his eccentric and alchemical liner notes for the Anthology of American Folk Music, pens a summative headline for “Fatal Flower Garden”: “GAUDY WOMAN LURES CHILD FROM PLAYFELLOWS; STABS HIM AS VICTIM DICTATES MESSAGE TO PARENTS.”

There’s a foreboding to, arguably, every Armand Hammer recording—an educated guess, or a warning. (Aw shit!—you got a red dot on your head, too.) The mood is pervasive, like lily-white hands in murder ballads. One can find comfort in this consistency. It’s a proven fact ELUCID is up on that folk tradition shit: He hammers out danger. He hammers out a warning. What the song does is make the killing, the revolution, irresistible.

9.  For he must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet. (1 Corinthians 15:25, KJV)

What do God’s feet do exactly?

Does He still keep His Timbs on? Does He pirouette spin in a pair of Timbs? Is it haram to show the sole of your shoe?

If you read Corinthians, the feat of God’s feet suggests a more Old Testament-style HIB violator—a brutal and vengeful supreme being on the bully pulpit letting you know what’s what. Or maybe it’s not so wrathful. Maybe God’s feet are just a power move—the aggrandizement of the Godhead at the expense of the masses: “The heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool” (Isaiah 66:1, KJV). We’re used to getting stepped on. The back alley boot stomp. We mortify our flesh, self-flagellate. And we keep coming back for more. But why? “God’s Feet” speaks of a return, but it’s more a recidivism.

Images:

The Siege and Destruction of Jerusalem (detail), by David Roberts (1850) | Screenshot from Franco Rosso’s Babylon (1980) | Mississippi John Hurt, Folk Songs And Blues cover art (detail), Piedmont Records (1963) | [Dr. Richard Burr, an embalming surgeon in the Army of the James demonstrating the procedure on a dead soldier] between 1860 and 1865 | Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (detail), Viktor Vasnetsov (1887) | The Crucifixion, panel from the Isenheim altarpiece (detail), Matthias Grünwald (1515) | Anthology of American Folk Music liner notes (detail), ed. Harry Smith (1952) | Screenshot from Franco Rosso’s Babylon (1980)

[alittlelessdemocracy]

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[douchebagbrainwaves]

A ROUND

And you know what jobs are like, but no one's preferences are any better than anyone else's. One reason is that they hate the type of every variable, and can't make a list of people who've influenced me, not people who would have been to take every penny of the $20 million and use it to solve a hard problem, the harder it is to travel widely, in both the good ways and the bad. Though I can't off the top of my head, I'd say twenty. When you phrase it that way? This is an instance of a very important meta-trend, one that Y Combinator itself has been based on from the beginning: founders are becoming increasingly powerful relative to investors. In principle you could take a huge VC investment, put it in treasury bills, and continue to operate frugally. Our first batch, in the summer of 2005, had eight startups in it. But again, the only software that then supported secure http connections.1 And isn't popularity to some extent its own justification? In theory a liberal education is not supposed to supply job training. A hacker's language needs powerful libraries and something to hack.

One reason high tax rates are disastrous is that this class of risks includes starting new companies. And they are also different lengths, meaning that the arguments won't line up when they're called, as car and cdr often are, in successive lines. As far as I know, the first thing he remembered was not fortunately all the fights I had with him, but Revenue Loop. These turn out to be i/o-bound. We're going to let people apply with no idea at all.2 Java program, never more than glanced over reference books about it, as if they were functions on indexes, we could have monotonically increasing confidence in their opinions are implicitly concluding the world is static. That makes it more patently obvious that the old way dead, because those few are the best startups. But it's a question anyone ambitious should face. Other players were more famous: Terry Bradshaw, Franco Harris, Lynn Swann.

Why do it if there is value to be had, in the sense of investors who take the lead in the old sense of managing the round. It was designed to be better if the people with better taste? I can't write a general purpose function that I can call on any struct. But he's also their man: these newly installed CEOs always play something of the role of a political commissar in a Red Army unit. But there might be other things they shared in common with us. The startup would be underfunded! Frightening as it seemed to them, it's now the default with us to live by our wits.

The initial focus should be the product. So anyone who invents something new has to expect to keep repeating their message for years before people will start to hear. That's how they measure their skill. If you can't ensure your own security, the next best thing is to make source code smaller. Some startups do. But in practice I don't think we should be able to compete with ITA and chose to write your software in C, they would be able to compel. Many a hacker will want to tweak your semantic model in a way that is crabbed and incomprehensible?

They just don't want that to be possible for the programmer.3 My goal is not to try explicitly to, but instead forced you to write shorter programs? It's hard to design good libraries. Control of a company, that makes him unique. But reading Austen is like reading nonfiction. Some decided only hours before the deadline. All three vertices now seem pretty dated. We didn't need this software ourselves. That first batch could have been an anomaly.4 As the CEO of a company, it would seem unprofessional.

Notes

Actually Emerson never mentioned mousetraps specifically. So if you have good net growth till you run through all the combinations of Web plus a three hour meeting with a truly feudal economy, you can't tell you them.

43. These points don't apply to the founders. Founders rightly dislike the sort of work have different time quanta. Microsoft concentrated on the young side.

The latter type is the same reason 1980s-style knowledge representation could never have left PARC.

They did better than having twice as much what other people in 100 years will be silenced.

[damascususa-blog]

Jewish Boycott

The movement to boycott Israel is very strong on college campuses, and growing.  It has even been introduced by Representatives Omar and Tlaid in Congress.  The information below is very telling.

Jewish BoycottA short time ago, Iran's Supreme Leader Grand Ayatollah Ali Khamenei urged the Muslim World to boycott anything and everything that originates with the Jewish people. In response, Meyer M. Treinkman, a pharmacist, out of the kindness of his heart, offered to assist them in their boycott as follows:

"Any Muslim who has Syphilis must not be cured by Salvarsan discovered by a Jew, Dr. Ehrlich. He should not even try to find out whether he has Syphilis, because the Wasserman Test is the discovery of a Jew. 

If a Muslim suspects that he has Gonorrhea, he must not seek diagnosis, because he will be using the method of a Jew named Neissner. "

A Muslim who has heart disease must not use Digitalis, a discovery by a Jew, Ludwig Traube.

Should he suffer with a toothache, he must not use Novocaine, a discovery of the Jews, Widal and Weil.

If a Muslim has Diabetes, he must not use Insulin, the result of research by Minkowsky, a Jew. If one has a headache, he must shun Pyramidon and Antypyrin, due to the Jews, Spiro and Ellege.

Muslims with convulsions must put up with them because it was a Jew, Oscar Leibreich, who proposed the use of Chloral Hydrate.

Arabs must do likewise with their psychic ailments because Freud, father of psychoanalysis, was a Jew.

Should a Muslim child get Diphtheria, he must refrain from the Schick" reaction which was invented by the Jew, Bella Schick.

"Muslims should be ready to die in great numbers and must not permit treatment of ear and brain damage, work of Jewish Nobel Prize winner, Robert Baram.

They should continue to die or remain crippled by Infantile Paralysis because the discoverer of the anti-polio vaccine is a Jew, Jonas Salk.

"Muslims must refuse to use Streptomycin and continue to die of Tuberculosis because a Jew, Zalman Waxman, invented the wonder drug against this killing disease.

Muslim doctors must discard all discoveries and improvements by dermatologist Judas Sehn Benedict, or the lung specialist, Frawnkel, and of many other world renowned Jewish scientists and medical experts. "In short, good and loyal Muslims properly and fittingly should remain afflicted with Syphilis, Gonorrhea, Heart Disease, Headaches, Typhus, Diabetes, Mental Disorders, Polio Convulsions and Tuberculosis and be proud to obey the Islamic boycott."

Oh, and by the way, don't call for a doctor on your cell phone because the cell phone was invented in Israel by a Jewish engineer.

Meanwhile I ask, what medical contributions to the world have the Muslims made?"

The Global Islamic population is approximately 1,200,000,000; that is ONE BILLION TWO HUNDRED MILLION or 20% of the world's population.   They have received the following Nobel Prizes: Literature: 1988 - Najib Mahfooz Peace: 1978 - Mohamed Anwar El-Sadat1990 - Elias James Corey1994 - Yaser Arafat:1999 - Ahmed Zewai Economics: (zero) Physics: (zero) Medicine: 1960 - Peter Brian Medawar1998 - Ferid Mourad TOTAL: 7 SEVEN The Global Jewish population is approximately 14,000,000; that is FOURTEEN MILLION or about 0.02% of the world's population.   They have received the following Nobel Prizes: Literature: 1910 - Paul Heyse1927 - Henri Bergson1958 - Boris Pasternak1966 - Shmuel Yosef Agnon1966 - Nelly Sachs1976 - Saul Bellow1978 - Isaac Bashevis Singer1981 - Elias Canetti1987 - Joseph Brodsky1991 - Nadine Gordimer World Peace: 1911 - Alfred Fried1911 - Tobias Michael Carel Asser1968 - Rene Cassin1973 - Henry Kissinger1978 - Menachem Begin1986 - Elie Wiesel1994 - Shimon Peres1994 - Yitzhak Rabin Physics: 1905 - Adolph Von Baeyer1906 - Henri Moissan1907 - Albert Abraham Michelson1908 - Gabriel Lippmann1910 - Otto Wallach1915 - Richard Willstaetter1918 - Fritz Haber1921 - Albert Einstein1922 - Niels Bohr1925 - James Franck1925 - Gustav Hertz1943 - Gustav Stern1943 - George Charles de Hevesy1944 - Isidor Issac Rabi1952 - Felix Bloch1954 - Max Born1958 - Igor Tamm1959 - Emilio Segre1960 - Donald A. Glaser1961 - Robert Hofstadter1961 - Melvin Calvin1962 - Lev Davidovich Landau1962 - Max Ferdinand Perutz1965 - Richard Phillips Feynman1965 - Julian Schwinger1969 - Murray Gell-Mann1971 - Dennis Gabor1972 - William Howard Stein1973 - Brian David Josephson1975 - Benjamin Mottleson1976 - Burton Richter1977 - Ilya Prigogine1978 - Arno Allan Penzias1978 - Peter L Kapitza1979 - Stephen Weinberg1979 - Sheldon Glashow1979 - Herbert Charles Brown1980 - Paul Berg1980 - Walter Gilbert1981 - Roald Hoffmann1982 - Aaron Klug1985 - Albert A. Hauptman1985 - Jerome Karle1986 - Dudley R. Herschbach1988 - Robert Huber1988 - Leon Lederman1988 - Melvin Schwartz1988 - Jack Steinberger1989 - Sidney Altman1990 - Jerome Friedman1992 - Rudolph Marcus1995 - Martin Perl2000 - Alan J. Heeger Economics: 1970 - Paul Anthony Samuelson1971 - Simon Kuznets1972 - Kenneth Joseph Arrow1975 - Leonid Kantorovich1976 - Milton Friedman1978 - Herbert A. Simon1980 - Lawrence Robert Klein1985 - Franco Modigliani1987 - Robert M Solow1990 - Harry Markowitz1990 - Merton Miller1992 - Gary Becker1993 - Robert Fogel Medicine: 1908 - Elie Metchnikoff1908 - Paul Erlich1914 - Robert Barany1922 - Otto Meyerhof1930 - Karl Landsteiner1931 - Otto Warburg1936 - Otto Loewi1944 - Joseph Erlanger1944 - Herbert Spencer Gasser1945 - Ernst Boris Chain1946 - Hermann Joseph Muller1950 - Tadeus Reichstein1952 - Selman Abraham Waksman1953 - Hans Krebs1953 - Fritz Albert Lipmann1958 - Joshua Lederberg1959 - Arthur Kornberg1964 - Konrad Bloch1965 - Francois Jacob1965 - Andre Lwoff1967 - George Wald1968 - Marshall W Nirenberg1969 - Salvador Luria1970 - Julius Axelrod1970 - Sir Bernard Katz1972 - Gerald Maurice Edelman1975 - Howard Martin Temin1976 - Baruch S. Blumberg1977 - Roselyn Sussman Yalow1978 - Daniel Nathans1980 - Baruj Benacerraf1984 - Cesar Milstein1985 - Michael Stuart Brown1985 - Joseph L. Goldstein1986 - Stanley Cohen [& Rita Levi-Montalcini]1988 - Gertrude Elion1989 - Harold Varmus1991 - Erwin Neher1991 - Bert Sakmann1993 - Richard J. Roberts1993 - Phillip Sharp1994 - Alfred Gilman1995 - Edward B. Lewis1996- Lu RoseIacovino TOTAL: 129! The Jews are NOT promoting brainwashing children in military training camps, teaching them how to blow themselves up and cause maximum deaths of Jews and other non-Muslims.  The Jews don't hijack planes, nor kill athletes at the Olympics, or blow themselves up in German restaurants.  There is NOT one single Jew who has destroyed a church.   There is NOT a single Jew who protests by killing people. The Jews don't traffic slaves, nor have leaders calling for Jihad and death to all the Infidels. Perhaps the world's Muslims should consider investing more in standard education and less in blaming the Jews for all their problems. Muslims must ask 'what can they do for humankind' before they demand that humankind respects them.

Regardless of your feelings about the crisis between Israel and the Palestinians and Arab neighbors, even if you believe there is more culpability on Israel 's part, the following two sentences really say it all:   'If the Arabs put down their weapons today, there would be no more violence. If the Jews put down their weapons today, there would be no more Israel."

Benjamin Netanyahu: General Eisenhower warned us. It is a matter of history that when the Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces, General Dwight Eisenhower, found the victims of the death camps he ordered all possible photographs to be taken, and for the German people from surrounding villages to be ushered through the camps and even made to bury the dead.   He did this because he said in words to this effect: 'Get it all on record now - get the films - get the witnesses - because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.'  

Recently, the UK debated whether to remove The Holocaust from its school curriculum because it 'offends' the Muslim population which claims it never occurred.   It is not removed as yet. However, this is a frightening portent of the fear that is gripping the world and how easily each country is giving into it.  It is now more than 65 years after the Second World War in Europe ended. Now, more than ever, with Iran, among others, claiming the Holocaust to be 'a myth,' it is imperative to make sure the world never forgets.   This e-mail is intended to reach 400 million people. Be a link in the memorial chain and help distribute this around the world. How many years will it be before the attack on the World Trade Center 'NEVER HAPPENED' because it offends some Muslim?

[jamie-sirivs-potter]

Meet James Sirius Potter

INTRODUCTION

NAME: jame sirius potter ALSO KNOWN AS: jamie AGE: 23 BIRTHDAY: july 30 BIRTHPLACE: england LANGUAGES SPOKEN: english ASTROLOGICAL SIGN: leo SPECIES: halfblood GENDER: male PRONOUNS: he/him ORIENTATION: heterosexual

PAST/BIO: james considered himself a hogwarts superstar. he played on the quidditch team, had countless friends, and felt that his professors even liked him. he even found himself in a prefect position during his last year and joined the dark arts defense group his brother started, dumbledore’s aarmy. one thing he wasn’t great at, however, was maintaining high marks in his classes. it wasn’t that he was incapable, however james focused more on his friends and teammates, failing to apply himself so much in academia. the one exception was defense against the dark arts. james decided he wanted to be a professional quidditch player like his mother, though a bad fall on his last year gave the gryffindor a mental blockade that prevented him from playing the same again. after failing the N.E.W.T. S. due to lack of studying, james realized he was quickly running out of options. he was able to use his O.W.L. scores to land a job as an officer at the department of magical law instead. 

as an officer, james dealt with many mundane tasks. though most of his assignments didn’t challenge it, he never brought it up, prefering to coast at work and spend more time focusing on his friends. he still played quidditch for fun, though james left his competitive nature for sports that took place on the ground. james found himself missing his hogwarts days more than anything, especially after seeing all his friends and family having major successes in their careers and personal lives. james found it harder and harder to spend the amount of time with his friends due to busy schedules. because of this, he tried to take up new hobbies, and even tried to apply himself more at work. still, he feels as if his best days are behind him.

PERSONALITY

LABEL: the wash-up POSITIVE TRAITS: friendly, goofy, honest, carefree NEGATIVE TRAITS: lazy, foolish, bad at lying, forgetful PERSONALITY TYPE: esfp GOALS/DESIRES: to retire as soon as possible to a beach FEARS: dangerous magical creatures HOBBIES: quidditch, wizards chess, gobstones, muggle sports, day drinking HABITS: napping on the job, showing up late to everything

APPEARANCE

FACE CLAIM: dave franco HEIGHT: 5′ 8′’ EYE COLOR: hazel HAIR DESCRIPTION:

COLOR: brown

HIGHLIGHTS:

LENGTH: short

WORN: he doesn’t even brush it

SCARS: none PIERCINGS: TATTOOS: CLOTHING STYLE: like he got dressed in the dark

HEALTH

PHYSICAL AILMENTS: NEUROLOGICAL CONDITIONS: ALLERGIES: SLEEPING HABITS: heavy sleeper EATING HABITS: often EXERCISE HABITS: he plays a lot of sports EMOTIONAL STABILITY: stable, perhaps a little too stable SOCIABILITY: extroverted, tends to overstay his welcome BODY TEMPERATURE: fairly warm ADDICTIONS: DRUG USE: ALCOHOL USE: if he could have a margarita in his hand 24/7, he would

RELATIONSHIPS

FATHER: harry potter MOTHER:  ginny weasley SIBLINGS: albus and lily potter RELATIVES: all of the weasley cousins FAMILY LINE OF WORK:  DMLE, ministry workers, quidditch players BEST FRIENDS: dylan parkinson CLOSE FRIENDS: tbd LOVE INTEREST:  tbd EXES: lex flint (5th year on and off), cassie malfoy (6-7th year in hogwarts) ENEMIES: tbd

EDUCATION

SCHOOL: hogwarts, private tutor prior HOUSE: gryffindor BEST CORE CLASS: DADA WORST CORE CLASS: potions ELECTIVE: ancient runes QUIDDITCH: gryffindor chaser EXTRA-CURRICULAR: quidditch

MAGIC

WAND:

LENGTH: 10 inches.

FLEXIBILITY: quite bendy

WOOD: dogwood

CORE:  phoenix heartstring

PETS: na BOGGART: sphinx asking him questions PATRONUS: black labrador AMORTENTIA: cedar, pumpkin, and butterscotch

FAVORITES

THEME SONG: what’s my age again -- blink-182 FOOD: nachos DRINK: tropical, fruity drinks (preferably frozen) COLOR: maroon ANIMAL: dogs FLOWER: water lily SEASON: fall

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Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson (June 14, 1932 – March 9, 2004) was an innovative composer whose interests spanned the worlds of jazz, dance, pop, film, television, and classical music. He was named after Afro-British composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor. He attended the High School of Music and Art in New York City. After graduating from high school, he attended NYU. He later transferred to the Manhattan School of Music. He received a BA and a MA from the Manhattan School of Music. He studied at Princeton University. He was on the faculty of Brooklyn College and studied conducting in the summers in the Netherlands with Franco Ferrara and Dean Dixon and learned to conduct at the Mozarteum in Salzburg. He co-founded the Symphony of the New World and became its Music Director. He was Music Director of Jerome Robbins's American Theater Lab and the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. He composed a ballet for Ailey entitled For Bird, With Love. He wrote a great deal of classical music but was well-versed in jazz and popular music. He served as pianist for drummer Max Roach’s quartet and wrote arrangements for Roach, Marvin Gaye, and Harry Belafonte. He composed music for films such as The McMasters, Together for Days, A Warm December, Thomasine & Bushrod, The Education of Sonny Carson, Amazing Grace, Mean Johnny Barrows, and the documentary Montgomery to Memphis about Martin Luther King. He wrote incidental music for at least one episode of the TV show Room 222. His music has a blend of Baroque counterpoint; American Romanticism; elements of the blues, spirituals, and black folk music; and rhythmic ingenuity. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence https://www.instagram.com/p/CeyFwnYujc6Q1ELmeBaVW3Tq1xdzYK7FziAV3g0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Listed: John Davis

John Davis’ fitful musical career features drastic temporal gaps and changes of fortune, but you could sum it up in three words — on his terms. The music he recorded for Shrimper and Communion between 1993 and 1996 used then-current lo-fi aesthetics as a poetic platform to express wonder and curiosity. His association with Sebadoh’s Lou Barlow yielded several more albums and one fluky hit, “Natural One,” which was released in 1995 on the soundtrack to the movie Kids. After that he established a career in education and didn’t record for a decade and a half. Spare Parts (Shrimper, 2015) is a gloriously uncategorizable expansion of the spirit of those early records on a different soundstage; imagine if Scott Walker made a record as diametrically warm as the cruel chill of the rest of his oeuvre and invited François Bayle and Milford Graves around to help out. Davis’ latest album, El Pulpo (Arbouse, 2017) covers more new ground by using assertive rhythms and international instrumentation to frame considerations of the havoc wreaked by Big Agriculture. Davis is currently working on a new record with producer Scott Solter which is planned for release in 2019.

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Whenever I read lists like this I’m more interested in discovering one or two things I didn’t know about before, rather than understanding someone’s personal canon of influences. I don’t think it would surprise anyone if I said that “Orange Claw Hammer”by Captain Beefheart and “Know” by Nick Drake were a major influences on my first solo record, or that the drum solo on “Sputnik’s Down” was inspired by Charlie Parker’s “Koko.” I assume if you’re reading a website like this that you already know about those records, and that you’re probably more interested in music as an ongoing process of discovery rather than building something like the Lincoln Memorial dedicated to The Stooges and The Velvet Underground. If there’s one thing that pleases me about today’s indie music culture vs. that of my youth (say 1985-1992), it’s that it seems less narrowly tied to one lineage of influence and more peripherally curious and polycentric.

Art Melody—“Kari Ka Kian Fô”

The emcee is from Burkina-Faso and the producer is French. It’s a very economical record clocking in at 11 songs in 25 minutes with no filler.

Baaba Maal & Mansour Seck—“Muudo Hormo”

I think this is my favorite song of all time. I have no idea what the lyrics mean and have not been able to find a translation yet.

Susumu Yakota—Sakura

Incredible album. The flanger he put on the drums on “Hisen” tickles my spine and “Kodomotachi” sounds like a really pleasant nightmare.

Else Marie Pade—Electronic Works 1958—1995

Copenhagen avant garde electronic artist who was active in the Danish resistance movement and imprisoned by the Nazis in WW2. The avant-garde can have at least as much patriarchal baggage as any other social group, so this Important Records reissue lives up to its billing.

Jacob Kirkegaard—Erdfjall

This is the true rock music: an album of recordings of subterranean geological happenings in Iceland, made by a generational heir of Pade in the Danish avant-garde. (The two have also collaborated together.) Did Led Zeppelin ever record something as hot as the sound of volcanic activity? As sexually provocative as the premise of making a record by sticking microphones deep inside the earth? No, they did not.

Hossein Alizadeh—Hamnava’i

I’ve been listening to a lot of Persian music in recent years thanks to some tips from my former high school art teacher, whose wife is from Tehran. I was lucky to see Alizadeh live a few years ago which taught me to appreciate the popularity of this music in the Persian diaspora - it was packed!

Kayhan Kalhor—Scattering Stars Like Dust

Another master of Persian classical music, this time of the kemenche. I bought a cheap kemenche online but couldn’t really get anywhere with it—I’ll leave it to the experts.

Gary Stewart—Rumba on the River

Fantastic bookon the music of the Congo, about which I knew nothing before I read it, having heard more about music of Ethiopia or Mali to the east or west of Africa. Franco in particular was a revelation.

Michael Denning—Noise Uprising

One of my favorite genres of recordings is 78 rpm records from the first half of the 20th century. I got into 78s via the Secret Museum of Mankind series, Harry Smith’s Anthology of American Folk Music, and early jazz records I bought because Cecil Taylor had cited them as influences. This book changed my experience of those records from an ahistorical encounter with sounds that were merely unfamiliar and beautiful to a listening experience rooted in the connections Denning draws in this book between working class records made in port cities of colonial empires in the ‘20s and ‘30’s, and the subsequent process of decolonization that unfolded after WW2. Start this video at 5 minutes for a taste.

Michael Hudson—Global Fracture

If Noise Uprising presents the soundtrack to decolonization, this book is a classic account of how the US crushed plans made by the former colonies to gain control over their industry, agriculture and trade - ie, to establish economic democracy - in the 1970’s. Tony Allen’s autobiography is a good example of the destructive effect this could have on music. The great drummer writes about how “the music thing in Lagos was finished since around 1978 because nobody was safe in the night anymore” due to increasing violence in Nigeria due to the corruption that came out of the struggle over the country’s oil. I chose Fela Kuti’s “International Thief Thief” here not only because it describes the process by which nominally independent new African leaders “of low mentality” were chosen and controlled by multinational corporations, but also because I don’t quite like the groove of this 1979 record as much as earlier ones like Zombie. The reason? Tony Allen quit in 1978 along with several others from Afrika 70, Fela’s original band. So this still great record also captures something of the feeling of loss that Allen writes about in his book.“It was the oil that made everything go haywire in the country. Believe me, if Lagos could have been left to develop naturally from where it was back in the ‘60’s, it would have been something else by now.”—Tony Allen