#Ronald Weiser

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"It's a mirror for America"

Director Oliver Stone threw his hat into this year’s U.S. presidential election with the release of “W.,” his examination of the career of George W. Bush. But with Bush relegated to the sidelines during the hotly contested election, “W.,” which grossed $26 million domestically, didn’t stir up the controversy that surrounded Stone’s previous presidential forays like “JFK” and “Nixon.” The director has been touring with the film as it opens internationally and, given Bush’s lack of popularity, he again finds himself in his accustomed position — right on the firing line. Stone spoke with The Hollywood Reporter film editor Gregg Kilday about the movie’s design and its reception.

The Hollywood Reporter: Why did you decide the time was right for a film about George W. Bush?

Stone: I wanted to make a movie about Bush since 2001 when he assumed power. He started to change things even before 9/11. I think he had a tremendous impact on our nation and the world, perhaps greater than that of Nixon and Reagan combined. I think he was a seminal president in the wrong direction, but definitely very important. I would have done the film a year earlier if I could have, but I have to say it wasn’t possible because of circumstances and also because the research did take a year. In hindsight, it probably would have been better a year earlier, because people were hungry to learn more. If you remember, there were a slew of books that came out between 2004 and 2007. Stanley Weiser (wrote) it in 2006 and 2007. We tried to get it up in December (of last year). We moved as fast as we could. We shot it in May, and we just finished it in time for October and barely made it. Frankly, I’m quite happy with the film. It will stand the test of time as they say.

THR: Why did you decide to focus on the relationship between Bush and his father?

Stone: Dealing with the issue of his character was the key. We decided to divide his life into three acts: The young man, the middle age man and the president. Act one, to put it in broadly mythic terms, would be the prodigal son tale. Act two would be the prodigal son returns, but he is not so good. And act three would be the Icarus myth worked out: The father builds the wings that the son melts when he flies too high. There was a lot of anger in George Jr. The very fact that the Bush family emphasized that they don’t deal in psychobabble, that’s what makes it interesting. They go to such extremes to avoid it. And the son, instead of going the opposite way, which is often the case, went more to the extremes than his father in denying an inner life, saying I don’t read, my wife reads for me. He’s gone to such extremes to deny his father has any f—ing thing to do with anything he decided while he’s been in power. Which is odd and unbelievable, if you think about why a son, whose father fought a war in Iraq, would not even one time, according to him, ever talk to him about it. … It’s extraordinary to me, and we wanted to point that out and I think we did it within the bounds of reason.

THR: And then, when Bush becomes president, your film focuses on the decision to invade Iraq rather than any other issues.

Stone: In choosing the one thing in his presidency, where the seeds of the man cultiminate in the third act, it’s the march to Iraq. In that action, lies all the problems of the son, and they become evident: His willful manipulation of the truth, his determination to outdo his father. He even said at one time, I don’t turn to my father for strength, I have a higher father, by which he either meant Ronald Reagan or God, either one. He obviously admired Reagan more (than his father). Reagan and Churchill were his heroes.

THR: Were you surprised the film didn’t ignite more outrage from Bush supporters?

Stone: I really think people in America are perhaps a little bit blase and glazed over by it, they are Bush-tired so to speak. I do think we hit a tough spot in the zeitgeist. I really felt that on Sept. 16th. It was a close race up until that point. (Sen. John) McCain was coming back in the polls. There was a feistiness in Bush still. And then, all of a sudden, the economy thing hit, and it changed the nature of the debate from the national security state, which is perhaps one of the most important issues that we have, along with global warming and the economy. All of a sudden the economy moved in like this big, black f—ing cloud and poured rain on everything. It made Bush, because of his misbehavior and his response to it, so irrelevant to the conversation that he literally looked like the guy at the end of the Wizard of Oz. He faded away. He literally faded away. In our psyches, he died, which was an interesting phenomenon, and it happened the month before we opened the movie.

THR: In a way, instead of representing the opposition, “W.” seemed to join in the consensus that had developed around Bush.

Stone: Not consensus. No, that’s not the case. We were on the side of accuracy as much as I could be. First of all, I’m not kidding myself. We are dramatists. We’re not journalists or documentarians. We’re looking for a larger truth. For example, the situation room scene is 11 minutes. That’s not possible for those people to have stated their points of view and to reach a consensus in that amount over time. That happened over numerous scenes over the course of a year. It was a reach on our part, a heightened, exagerrated reality. It’s not like we’re doing a docu-drama, no, not at all. Also, those scenes behind close doors, with the parents, with the wife, all the scenes are invented based on what we think happened. Consensus, no. But I think we reached for the man, and I think that is where we came out ahead, but I think we have a balance.

A lot of Republicans have seen the movie and said good things about it. A very strong activist — I won’t say who — said to me after seeing the movie, “I never in my life thought I would have an ounce of compassion for Bush. This movie gave it to me, it made me feel that. But it made me feel more compassion for our country.” Because we walk in his footsteps as dramatists, we’re not judging him. So people fall into an empathy, not sympathy, but an empathy with the guy. He has struggles with his father. We all have struggles in our lives of various sorts. He actually does struggle and he triumphs over some of the demons in his life, though not all. He earns some of our respect in the movie and that’s as it should be. He was elected twice and no matter what his poll ratings are, he’s still the man he always was. And he was loved by half of America.

THR: So how would you describe your final assessment of Bush?

Stone: I view him personally as a John Wayne figure. Wayne was ready to nuke Hanoi. At the same time, on screen you have to say you liked the guy. He had a certain cowboy attitude that you never back down. Go back and look at “The Searchers” or “Red River,” which is my favorite Wayne movie. He doesn’t back down even when he’s wrong. That’s the reason people don’t like Bush. He never apologizes, he never said I’m wrong. He never said I thought about it, I made a mistake. But in a movie sense, they kind of like that in Americans. There is a strange story here. It’s a mirror for America.

THR: Has the movie been more challenging for foreign audiences, given how unpopular Bush is?

Stone: They don’t like him. I knew that on “World Trade Center.” I went out with “World Trade Center” and we did more business abroad than in the States. But in Italy and Spain they said how could you do a movie that was pro-Bush. It was not, by the way, but I really ran into that wall and I overcame it. I was hoping to do the same here, thankfully. I was hoping by going out and thumping for the movie, that it would break some of the ice. But the ice is big here. Bush lost them a long time ago. He presented a terrible picture of America. I couldn’t believe the hatred for Bush in France and in England. Why am I going to the Middle East? It’s probably a suicide mission. They hate him too. But that’s all the more reason to go.

THR: Have you been to the Dubai film festival before?

Stone: Yes, I brought “World Trade Center” there, and they gave it a wonderful reception. You don’t go to the Middle East for theatrical sales. You go there to establish a long-term presence for the film. I’m proud of the film. It’s about one of the most hated people in the Middle East, and I’m saying “Look, I did this movie, I’m responsible for it, here’s why I think it’s important, let’s learn a lesson here.”

-Oliver Stone Q&A with The Hollywood Reporter, Dec 10 2008

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Ronald (UnWiser) Weiser

In this Episode of 2 Tone’s Twisted Tarot Tales, Alienated Michigan GOP Chairman Ronald (UnWiser) Weiser has No Defense about his inappropriate communication with someone related to his Sacrificing of his Pentacles of which he is No Longer Drowning in.

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Hello! Welcome to a new bunch of book recommendations. 

This one focuses on witches and divination in history! 

Some of the books on this list also appear elsewhere in my annobib posts, but that’s mostly because they tend to address multiple topics.

I decided to go ahead and post this tonight because I saw some folks in the tags asking for witch history-related reading material! I decided to include Tarot/etc history books here, too, since they’re related.

You can find more book recommendations via the #annobib tag on my blog, all organized into lists by topic! There’s also an index, here!

Encyclopedia of Witchcraft, by Judika Illes. Even better than the Weiser Field Guide to Witches - this book is huge and chock-full of information. It’ll explain in easy-to-understand language how the concept has developed throughout time, why witches do what they do, and different types of witches.

The Weiser Field Guide to Witches, by Judika Illes. This gives an excellent look at the historical lore concerning witches, from the perspective of a witch herself. It’s kind of tongue-in-cheek, but it does have some information that won’t be found elsewhere.

Triumph of the Moon, by Ronald Hutton. An inside no-holds-barred look at the history of Wicca and Modern paganism. Highly recommended. This is sort of the book that fluffbunnies don’t want you to read.

Stations of the Sun, by Ronald Hutton. Curious about what ancient pagan practices actually looked like? This book mostly focuses on festivals in ancient times and their relationship to the cycle of the year, but it’s a neat look into ancient lore.

Book of Lies: The Disinformation Guide to Magick and the Occult, by Richard Metzger. Lots of facts and history of magick in the context of Postmodernity. This is different from the Crowley text of the same name, which I wouldn’t recommend unless you want to focus on his tradition.

The Place of Enchantment, by Alex Owen. This is a purely historical text that documents the occult revival within the context of Modernity. I remember it being very good, but please realize I haven’t really picked it up much since graduating, and it might just have served my mindset at the time.

Witches, Werewolves and Fairies, by Claude Lecouteux. Mostly focused on the history of what we now call hedgecraft. Details many accounts of astral journeying experienced by both pagans and Christians in earlier times, and gives a good description of the concept of the astral double, the architecture of the soul, and other topics throughout history.

Demons and Spirits of the Land, by Claude Lecouteux. Great, detailed information about spiritwork practices throughout time, in both pagan and later Christian contexts. Lecouteux is a favorite of mine, in case that wasn’t clear!

Modern Wicca: A History From Gerald Gardner to the Present, by Michael Howard. Wicca is not my purview, but this was an interesting book covering the latter half of the 20th century’s occult milieu, by a Gardnerian initiate. 

Perdurabo: The Life of Aleister Crowley, by Richard Kaczynski. If you’re interested in the history of ceremonial magic and how it influenced witchcraft, this is one to check out. It’s a biography of the notorious Aleister Crowley, and gives a good picture of the Golden Dawn’s history, as well.

Secrets of the Waite-Smith Tarot, by Marcus Katz and Tali Goodwin. This book focuses just on the history, symbolism, and creative process of the Waite-Smith deck. It gives you an inside line on just what Pixie Smith was thinking when painting specific scenes, and is a great look at her life’s work, as well.

Mystical Origins of the Tarot, by Paul Huson. While this book contains the normal “Tarot beginner” info, it also features a vast history section tracing the Tarot throughout time. Worth a read, but very dense and a bit obtuse at times.

Tarot Time Traveler, by Marcus Katz. An unusually-organized, highly personal look at Tarot history and the people who shaped it. Also features historically-inspired Tarot spreads and other cartomantic exercises.

The Tarot: History, Symbolism, and Divination, by Robert M. Place. This book will not teach you to read Tarot, but does give an actual, accurate portrait of the history of the phenomena, which is incredibly important and useful. Know your history.

Dark Star Rising, by Gary Lachman. Well, uh, this is more current events than history, but this is an attempt to trace how various occult movements influenced the election of Donald Trump, modern populism, and the rise of the so-called alt right.

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I'll give you some wiggle room! 1, 20, or 48 please :)

Sorry for the waiting, I wrote this at 3 am so :) don’t trust me :)

It’s game night and the boys are at his place. Harry is not there yet but he can tell from the dozens of texts they keep sending in the group chat even though they know he is in a meeting right now making his phone vibrate for last ten minutes, so he turns it off the second he feels his boss eyes in the back of his neck of the fifth time.

It’s late, he’s very much aware of that but this is his first real job after college, he knew it would be hard being an associate in one of the most prestigious law firms of London. He’s been working for it since he started his internship two years ago, making copies, getting coffee and doing errands for almost every lawyer in the office, he met people in the Courthouse and the DA office, he earned his place and his desk as an associate, he studied his ass off in Law School and got good recommendations from teachers to get the internship in Kingsley&Foley, he was the first to arrive and the last one to leave and he never let work interfere with his grades so he could assure a job right after finishing college, which he did. Now the only thing left is to make a name of his own and to do that he needs to work.

Someday it will be me worthy, all of this, the late nights and early mornings; having to put up with pretentious, arrogant and narcissists attorneys that don’t even bother to learn his name of handle him things properly; having to prove himself every second passing and the excess of caffeine that only leaves him exhausted every single day when he gets home. He just hopes that one day all this tiredness will disappear and he’ll have one second to breath, people in his professional circle will respect him and clients will haunt him down, not the other way around.

It’s not like he’s a complete newbie, he has won some cases for the firm, every case that’s been handed to him actually, not very complicated ones, but still, he can handle child support and injuries cases, he’s good at it, but he doesn’t stand out for it. He’s trying, like he’s doing it right now, trying to talk in the middle of four seniors discussing a case and other three associates. They’re eating Chinese and even if he only wants to get home to watch Louis beat everyone in FIFA and then doing a fuss about it eating pizza or some other garbage, he’s too hungry to not pick up the box in front of him.

Harry keeps watching his phone and now they’re sending pictures and it makes him sad because he misses his friends and he hates being an adult. He remembers his conversations with Niall after graduation, when they decided to move in together, find a small apartment and then see what life has for them and Harry warn him, about the late nights and early mornings and Niall just smiled, because that’s him, that’s how he deals with problems, as they go, so he kissed him and made Harry relax for a second to look into his blue eyes and reminded him the reason he fell in love with him after the first week of the first year of university.    

He just wants Niall to be happy and he’s so scared of him getting tired of bored of these situations, it’s been eight months and Harry has come home to find him sleeping almost every night and has to get up before he wakes up, like they’re in some kind of love affair and not a six-year-old committed relationship. Harry wants to save money, he wants a bigger flat in the nice part of town, a bigger tv, some trips and then the ring, he wants stability before he proposes, he saw what the lack of money did to his parents’ marriage and he doesn’t want that or him and Niall, and he knows they’re not his parents, Niall has told him that numerous times, but the feeling stills there.

If he could, he would buy Niall themoon, the stars and the entire night sky.

And that’s when it hits him.

“The airs!” Harry screams, making everyone turn to seem him, standing up from his chair, holding the chopsticks in one hand and the noodles and chicken in the other hand, looking like a mad man in the middle of the night.

“Excuse me?” Asks Ronald Weiser, one of the seniors of the firm.

Harry looks around him and clears his head, leaving the food over the table and cleaning his hands on his pants.

“I think we should buy the airs,” he repeats, loud and clear, proud of the idea plotting in his head.

“If we could buy the Strike Industries airs, we wouldn’t be here,” Amanda Byres replies, not even lifting his eyes from her papers to look at him.

“I’m not talking about Strike’s airs but the Nicholson’s building behind,” and now he has his attention again but this time, they’re curious.

“They’re owned by the Robinson Construction firm, they won’t sell.” He hears Connor say, another associate next to him but he doesn’t have time to hate him right now as he does daily because he’s looking for a piece of paper everyone dismissed since the meeting started almost four hours ago.

“Not anymore,” Harry says, putting the paper over the table, right at the center so the attorneys in front of him could see it. “They sold two days ago to Burdon, they want to take the building down.”

The room in quiet for a couple of seconds before everyone stands up and starts giving directions and orders, picking up phones to make calls and yell to the other side of the line.

“Styles?” he looks up to Michael Bennett, his direct boss, he has a cocky smile on his face, like he just won something, “you can go home, get some rest.”

Well, that’s very thoughtful considering is almost eleven on a Thursday night, but Harry doesn’t complain, he picks up his briefcase and leaves the conference room before they could change their minds.

*

When he gets home and opens his door, he feels the entire day hitting him like a truck and his eyes almost close the second he leaves his briefcase on the floor and his keys in the table next to the door. He walks through the hallway only to find Liam and Louis sitting in the floor with a big bowl of popcorn watching a sappy movie as Niall lays all by himself in the couch, looking at his phone the whole time, he must’ve won FIFA this time.

Harry doesn’t say anything, he just melts into the sofa, taking Niall by surprise and dropping his phone in Louis’ face, making him yell and make a fuss. He hears Liam greeting him and asking him about his day, only to get a snarl as an answer. Harry hides his face into Niall’s neck and feels his finger caress his hair, letting a little whimper leave his lips.

“Did you just make that noise?” Louis’ voice is a numb noise in the back of his mind right now, so he just ignores him and dragging Niall into his arms, protecting him from the popcorn that is thrown to them.

“I missed you,” Harry whispers loud enough for everyone in a small place to hear, he kisses his neck and closes his eyes, letting himself rest since he woke up that morning.

Niall laughs, stroking his hair again, lulling him to sleep. “We’ve become the clingy couple that you used to complain about.”

Harry nods, holding him closer. “To be honest, I love those couples,” he says, smiling, “I was just trying to seem cool for the first few dates.”

“I know.” Niall pulls out to see Harry’s face for a second and leave a little kiss on his lips.

“Can you two shut up?” Louis says, “I’m enjoying this crap.”

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Emergent Magick: Bibliography

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Bertiaux, Michael. Voudon Gnostic Workbook. New York: Magickal Childe, 1988.  

Betz, Hans Dieter. The Greek Magical Papyri in Translation: Including the Demotic Spells. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996.

Blackmore, Susan J. Consciousness: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford, UK: Oxford UP, 2005.  

Briggs, John, and F. David Peat. Seven Life Lessons of Chaos: Timeless Wisdom from the Science of Change. New York: Harper-Collins Publishers, 1999.  

Buckland, Raymond. Bucklands Complete Book of Witchcraft. St. Paul, MN: Llewellyn Publications, 2011.

Carroll, Peter J. Apophenion: A Chaos Magic Paradigm. Oxford: Mandrake and Peter J. Carroll, 2008.  

Carroll, Peter J. Liber Kaos. York Beach, Me.: S. Weiser, 1992.  

Carroll, Peter J. Liber Null & Psychonaut. York Beach, Me.: S. Weiser, 1987.  

Carroll, Peter J. PsyberMagick: Advanced Ideas in Chaos Magic. Tempe, AZ: New Falcon Publications, 1997.  

Cornelius, Agrippa Von Nettesheim Heinrich, Donald Tyson, and James Freake. Three Books of Occult Philosophy. Woodbury, MN: Llewellyn Publications, 2017.

Crowley, Aleister, and Israel Regardie. Gems from the Equinox. Scottsdale, AZ: Falcon Press, 1992.

Crowley, Aleister, and Paul Roland. Diary of a Drug Fiend: And Other Works. London: Sirius, 2018.

Crowley, Aleister. Magick in Theory and Practice. New York: Dover Publications, 1976.  

Davis, Wade. Shadows in the Sun: Essays on the Spirit of Place. Edmonton: Lone Pine Pub., 1992.

Davis, Wade. One River: Two Generations of Scientific Adventurers in the Amazon Rain Forest. London: Simon & Schuster, 1997.

Davis, Wade. Vanishing Cultures. Washington, D.C.: National Geographic, 2007.

Davis, Wade. The Serpent and the Rainbow. New York: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2008.

Dee, Steve, and Vayne, Julian. Chaos Craft: The Wheel of the Year in Eight Colours. England: The Universe Machine. 2016.  

Deren, Maya. Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti. New Paltz, NY: McPherson, 2004.

DuQuette, Lon Milo. Homemade Magick: The Musings & Mischief of a Do-it-yourself Magus. Woodbury, MN: Llewellyn Publications, 2014.  

DuQuette, Lon Milo. Low Magick: It's All In Your Head ... You Just Have No Idea How Big Your Head Is. Woodbury, MN: Llewellyn Publications, 2010.  

DuQuette, Lon Milo. My Life With the Spirits: The Adventures of a Modern Magician. Newburyport, MA: Red Wheel/Weiser, 1999.  

Eliade, Mircea, and Willard R. Trask. Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy. New York: Bollingen Foundation; Distributed by Pantheon, 1964.  

Farrar, Janet, Stewart Farrar, Janet Farrar, and Janet Farrar. A Witches Bible: The Complete Witches Handbook. Custer, WA: Phoenix, 1996.

Faulkner, Raymond O. The Ancient Egyptian Pyramid Texts. Stilwell, Kan.: Digireads.com Pub., 2007.

Faulkner, Raymond O., and Ogden Goelet. The Egyptian Book of the Dead: The Book of Going Forth by Day. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2015.

Frazer, James George. The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion. UK: Macmillan and Co. 1890.  

Frisvold, Nicholaj De Mattos, Ọlàyínkà Babatúndẹ́ Ògúnṣínà Adéwuyi, and Childerico. Ifa: A Forest of Mystery. Bucknell: Scarlet Imprint, 2016.

Frisvold, Nicholaj De Mattos, and Peter Grey. Palo Mayombe: The Garden of Blood & Bones. Dover: Bibliothèque Rouge/Scarlet Imprint, 2011.  

Gleick, James. Chaos: Making a New Science. New York, NY, U.S.A.: Viking, 1987.  

Gleick, James. The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood. New York: Pantheon, 2011.  

Grey, Peter. Apocalyptic Witchcraft. London, England: Bibliothèque Rouge/Scarlet Imprint, 2013.  

Grey, Peter. The Red Goddess. London, England: Bibliothèque Rouge/Scarlet Imprint, 2011. 

Hagan, John C., and Raymond A. Moody. The Science of Near-death Experiences. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2017.

Hancock, Graham, and Santha Faiia. Underworld: The Mysterious Origins of Civilization. Toronto: Anchor Canada, 2003.

Hancock, Graham. Magicians of the Gods: The Forgotten Wisdom of Earths Lost Civilization. London: Coronet, 2016.

Harari, Yuval N. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind. New York: Harper, 2015.  

Hine, Phil, and Peter J. Carroll. Condensed Chaos: An Introduction to Chaos Magic. Tempe, AZ: Original Falcon Press, 2010.

Hofmann, Albert. LSD: My Problem Child. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.

Hutton, Ronald. The Shamans of Siberia. Glastonbury, England: Isle of Avalon Press, 1993.

Hutton, Ronald. The Witch: A History of Fear, from Ancient times to Present. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2017.

Kraig, Donald Michael. Modern Magick: Eleven Lessons in the High Magickal Arts. MN: Llewellyn Publications, 2002.  

Lanza, R., Berman, B., & McKnight, A. (2009). Biocentrism: How Life and Consciousness Are the Keys to Understanding the True Nature of the Universe. Dallas, Tex: BenBella.  

Leitch, Aaron. The Essential Enochian Grimoire: An Introduction to Angel Magick from Dr. John Dee to the Golden Dawn. St. Paul, MN: Llewellyn Publications, 2014.

Lynch, David. Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity. New York: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin, 2007.

McKenna, Terence K. The Archaic Revival: Speculations on Psychedelic Mushrooms, the Amazon, Virtual Reality, UFOs, Evolution, Shamanism, the Rebirth of the Goddess, and the End of History. San Francisco, CA: HarperSanFrancisco, 1992.

McKenna, T. K. (1999). Food of the Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge: a Radical History of Plants, Drugs and Human Evolution. London: Rider.

Noë, Alva. Out of Our Heads: Why You Are Not Your Brain, and Other Lessons from the Biology of Consciousness. New York: Hill and Wang, 2009.  

Parsons, Jack, Cameron, and Hymenaeus Beta. Freedom Is a Two-edged Sword and Other Essays. Tempe, AZ: New Falcon Publications, 2001.

Peat, F. David. Blackfoot Physics: A Journey into the Native American Universe. Boston, MA: Weiser, 2005.  

Peat, F. David. Synchronicity: The Bridge between Matter and Mind. Toronto: Bantam, 1987.  

Pollan, Michael. How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics. London: Allan Lane, 2018.  

Radin, Dean. The Conscious Universe: The Scientific Truth of Psychic Phenomena. New York: HarperOne, 2009.

Radin, Dean. Real Magic: Unlocking Your Natural Psychic Abilities to Create Everyday Miracles. Potter/TenSpeed/Harmony, 2018.

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Les premières nouveautés de l’année 2020 (06/01/20)

À la une : Le temps d'écouter : enquêtes sur les métamorphoses de la classe ouvrière / Michel Pialoux

Cote de rangement : HD 8431 P 258716 / Domaine : Sociologie

« Ce livre concentre plusieurs décennies de travail d’un des plus importants sociologues français contemporains, Michel Pialoux, co-auteur de plusieurs livres sur le monde ouvrier, avec le sociologue Stéphane Beaud ou le syndicaliste Peugeot Christian Corouge. Il rassemble des textes écrits entre 1970 et 2000, inédits ou dispersés dans une multitude de revues, dont certaines ne sont plus disponibles. Ces textes, bien souvent méconnus, sont pourtant d’une importance majeure. Ils analysent la condition ouvrière selon une diversité inédite de points de vue, qu’il s’agisse d’habitat insalubre, de politiques du logement, de pauvreté urbaine, de sous-prolétariat économique, de jeunesse intérimaire, d’organisation du travail, de hiérarchies dans l’entreprise, de militantisme syndical ou encore des rapports entre intellectuels et groupes dominés – ce qui conduit même l’auteur à discuter l’impact des théories sociales (Marx, Foucault, etc.) sur l’appréhension du monde social.

Ce livre offre un modèle d’enquête et de rapports aux enquêtés, d’articulation entre le terrain ethnographique et la réflexion théorique, par l’imbrication peu fréquente aujourd’hui entre sociologie, économie et histoire. En transmettant moins des techniques qu’une posture où le chercheur se donne « le temps d’écouter », il exprime surtout une juste distance à l’égard des dominés, de leurs modes d’existence et de résistance. » - Quatrième de couverture

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Économie

The economic thought of Friedrich List / edited by Harald Hagemann, Stephan Seiter and Eugen Wendler

Cote de rangement : HB 107 .L6 E 258736

Baise ton prochain : une histoire souterraine du capitalisme / Dany-Robert Dufour

Cote de rangement : HB 501 D 258720

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Migrations

L'Amexique au pied du mur : enquête au cœur d'un fantasme / Clément Brault & Romain Houeix

Cote de rangement : JV 6456 B 258723

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Sciences politiques

Turkey in transition : the dynamics of domestic and foreign politics / edited by Gurkan Çelik and Ronald Linden

Cote de rangement : DR 603 T 258731

Socialism / Peter Lamb

Cote de rangement : HX 21 L 258734

Rational choice and political power / Keith Dowding

Cote de rangement : JC 330 D 258735

L'esprit démocratique du populisme : une nouvelle analyse sociologique / Federico Tarragoni

Cote de rangement : JC 423 T 258724

Rethinking the European Union and its global role from the 20th to the 21th century : liber amicorum Mario Telò / edited by Jean-Michel De Waele, Giovanni Grevi, Frederik Ponjaert, Anne Weyembergh

Cote de rangement : JN 30 R 258727

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Religion

La loi de 1905 n'aura pas lieu : histoire politique des séparations des Églises et de l'État (1902-1908) / Jean Baubérot

Cote de rangement : BL 2765 B 258715

Militant jihadism : today and tomorrow / edited by Serafettin Pektas & Johan Leman

Cote de rangement : BP 190 .5 M 258733

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Sociologie

Women's activism, feminism, and social justice / Margaret A. McLaren

Cote de rangement : HQ 1236 .5 M 258729

Empowered : popular feminism and popular misogyny / Sarah Banet-Weiser

Cote de rangement : HQ 1421 B 258732

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Environnement

Climate futures : re-imagining global climate justice / edited by Kum-Kum Bhavnani, John Foran, Priya A. Kurian, and Debashish Munshi

Cote de rangement : QC 903 C 258730

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Anthropologie

Les formes élémentaires de la vie religieuse, cent ans après : Émile Durkheim et la religion / sous la direction de Matthieu Béra et Nicolas Sembel

Cote de rangement : GN 470 F 258719

Noël : aux origines de la crèche / Maurizio Bettini

Cote de rangement : GT 4989 .5 B 258725

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Communication

Visual communication : understanding images in media culture / Giorgia Aiello, Katy Parry

Cote de rangement : P 93 .5 A 258728

Histoire d'une nouvelle : pratiques narratives de rédaction / Gilles Merminod

Cote de rangement : PN 4784 .T4 M 258722

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Gestion

Économie d'entreprise : organisation, stratégie et territoire / Olivier Torrès-Blay, Aléria Amata

Cote de rangement : HD 30 .22 T 258718

Mesurez ce qui compte : comment Google, Bono et la fondation Gates ont révolutionné le monde grâce à la méthode OKR / John Doerr

Cote de rangement : HD 30 .28 D 258717

Réinventez votre business avant qu'il ne soit trop tard : les stratégies gagnantes pour survivre et prospérer dans un monde où tout peut être copié / Howard Yu

Cote de rangement : HD 30 .28 Y 258721

Transport matters / edited by Iain Docherty and Jon Shaw

Cote de rangement : HE 243 T 258726

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Tous ces ouvrages sont exposés sur le présentoir des nouveautés de la BSPO. Ceux-ci pourront être empruntés à domicile à partir du 20 janvier 2020.

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How to Get Miniature Gaming Mileage Out of Old Role-Playing Games!

1st Edition box cover | Amazon.co.uk 

I have been a wargamer since 1983 and a role player since 1985, and the truth is, no game was as formative to my gaming “zeitgeist” as it were, as was Twilight:2000. Why is this so? Because first, the timing of the game was excellent. The Cold War was in full swing, and Ronald Reagan was hell-bent on beating the Soviets, and it seemed to many, damned the cost. With movies like Threads, The Day After, and Testament being made, it seemed NATO and the Warsaw Pact might very well come to blows. 

Or at least it did to this 10-year-old growing up in Gaithersburg, MD, which is a stone’s throw from Washington DC. Maybe it was my subconscious need to make sense of it all. Maybe I wanted to play something other than sword and sandal RPGs. I just wasn’t that into that sort of thing? Well, come one day, I was reading Analog magazine, and I read a review of Twilight:2000. I was hooked. I got the game as a birthday present that next summer and collected pretty much everything that came out for the game until GDW folded up shop in 1993, but here I was, plenty of books and a fertile ground of ideas…what to do with it, right?

I was fortunate in that the game has had something of a bias towards miniatures since the beginning. In fact, a set of Twilight:2000 miniatures rules were published in Challenge Issue 25, which was GDW’s house magazine for its RPGs. (The rules had a very proto-Command Decision feel and could be its predecessor.)

US Army Vehicle Guide Cover | Amazon.com

Furthermore, the game had an official line of miniatures (by Grenadier Miniatures, long OOP), but if you look hard at convention flea markets (bring and buys to our British cousins), you’ll still find from time to time a supply of the figures usually in lots of 6 or 8 packs of figures. The miniatures themselves are a bit smallish compared to some 20mm lines (Britannia comes to mind), but they’ll fit in well with some others, like Ehliem, and they have some nice poses and sculpts. 

Jason Weiser, “500 Miles..” 

And if that wasn’t enough? GDW published the US Army Vehicle Guide, which had an entire section, and black and white pictorial on just how to use Roco and Roskopf vehicles with your figures (not to mention how to make conversions of some of the harder to find stuff). Dated stuff today, but the pictures are a real bit of inspiration on how a gaming table for Twilight:2000 should look.

So, this all inspired the beginnings of my blog. I’d done some stuff for Twilight:2000 before, on the late, lamented Guild Wargamers forum. (which was a real boon for all things 20mm) and I wanted to write a blog to tell those small group of souls that “Good Luck, You’re Not Alone” in this crazy subset of a subset of a hobby, and with all this Cold War Gone Hot nostalgia going around (Down in front, Team Yankee!), I thought, “perfect time for a blog, right?”

So thus, “500 Miles to the German Border” was born. I was prolific my first year and wrote a wargaming-focused analysis on everything that could be of use to the Twilight: 2000 gamer. I think my best stuff has been my writeups of the various role-playing modules as suitable miniature wargaming scenario material, but I have found my blog being quoted in a lot of places, including The Miniatures Page, and even some Twilight:2000 role-playing pages as they mine it back for ideas.

This is just my own experience, really, but honestly? There’re tons of older RPGs out there, collecting dust and not being played, but they’re chock full of ideas that await the application of your favorite miniatures rules sets(s). But the best advice I can give is the following.

Pick a single game and stick with it: It really works best this way. Focusing on Twilight: 2000 has let me do a lot with the game and let me reexamine an old favorite in a new light. I mean, I didn’t realize that Allegheny Uprising could probably take the cake as “grimmest     adventure I’ve ever read”. This is especially true when you’re searching     the module for miniature gaming ideas, and they’re all grim. And readers     like knowing what to expect from each blog entry.

2. Be flexible: It’s more important you stick with the spirit of the game than the letter. I will admit I have had to fudge here and there (the canon color plates in the Vehicle Guides versus the RL schemes that probably would have been used in my vehicle color schemes articles is a good example).

Respect the Copyright: You’re playing in someone else’s sandbox, so be a good net citizen and don’t be posting PDFs online or such. If you must quote, use citations. And always credit photos if you can. I know that’s not always possible but get in the habit of doing so. 

Listen to feedback: Sometimes, comments can really be a big help. My figure review articles, for example, have been nothing but improved due to the assistance some posters have provided (especially the 28mm article, which is a scale I know little to nothing about).

Know your audience: My audience, for example, is going to want all sorts of tutorials, news on where to get neat stuff to improve on that Twilight: 2000 look on the table, and plain inspiration anywhere you can get it. When I am not writing on a topic myself, I am recruiting contributors, and I have two part-time contributors already! 

So, what does all this mean for the miniatures gamer who is looking to crack open a “dead” RPG for inspiration? Well, there’s a fertile ground out there. You’d be surprised what you can find, and honestly, a few throwaway sentences buried in an adventure can be the basis of a great scenario or two for the tabletop. 

And that’s the final point, do something that makes you want to write about it. Blog writing for miniature wargaming should never be a chore. And be consistent, if not prolific, once or twice a month for a posting schedule is pretty good and will keep your fans satisfied for the most part. And do not be afraid to ask your audience occasionally what they’d like to see. You’d be surprised as to what they might come up with. 

So, how is this Not Another Third World War?

As you’ve read from the sidebar, Twilight: 2000 wasn’t a game that posited the usual what I call “Soviet Sunday Drive to the Rhine.” Instead, the Warsaw Pact was on the defensive for most of the game’s background (which can make for some interesting games for all those 6mm types, as all the vehicle guides have HELPFUL information on TOEs). Also, with the end of the Cold War, there are tons of declassified materials you can mine for orders of battle, scenario ideas, and a whole host of other things. (And EpochXperience can help you with that, we’ve got a lot of archival experience!)

By the time 2000 rolls around, you have a background that has some of the bells and whistles left, but not all. What’s striking and fun is the dichotomy. Horse Cav with GPMG and ATGM, MBTs running on hooch and different uniforms even within the same unit. And you can steal ideas from Mad Max, Day After, or dare I say it? Threads? (There is a certain traffic warden that would look awesome in 20mm, and Ehliem makes a nice figure that would make a great starting point. Crooked Dice also makes him in 28mm!). All of this is a historical zeitgeist of the 1980s, where we were pretty convinced the Cold War was going to end with a bang and not a whimper. It left a big impression on my life.

Figures by Ehliem | Jason Weiser, “500 Miles…”

What’s also nice? If you like infantry heavy games? This milieu is for you. As I said before, there’s some ironmongery, but not a lot. And for the modelers? The fact there is fewer vehicles and heavy weapons means you can let your imaginations run riot and really personalize your AFVs and other vehicles, as the “gypsy caravan” look is very, very in Twilight: 2000. 

So, there is a rich tapestry out there for a 35-year-old RPG and plenty of 15 and 20mm figures out there to paint up for it. Why not give it a try?

About Twilight: 2000

Twilight:2000 burst onto the scene in November 1984 in a period of high tension during the Cold War. It took a then likely East-West confrontation and turned it into good RPG fodder, with some historical allegory to the Thirty Years War (with Poland standing in for Germany). 

The game’s initial background posited a Soviet invasion of China after escalating border tensions in the then-future of 1995. This distracted the Soviet Union, and West Germany, in cooperation with East Germany, moved to kick the Soviets out of East Germany by force of arms. This naturally went badly, and expanded into a Third World War that pulled NATO and the Warsaw Pact. The second edition of the game was printed in 1990 and changed the flashpoint to German/Polish border issues in Western Poland and ethnic Germans in Silesia, and the 2.2 edition of the game was published in 1993, just before GDW folded and changed the timeline again, this time positing a successful hardliner coup in 1991.

 The game, while a bit dated, still has something of a following and was even an attempt to bring the game back as Twilight: 2013 in 2008, to mixed reviews, and the game still has a small but fanatically loyal fanbase as the story of soldiers lost, far from home in a post-apocalyptic landscape has had something of an appeal since the story of Xenophon.

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(This article is credited to Jason Weiser. Jason is a long-time wargamer with published works in the Journal of the Society of Twentieth Century Wargamers; Miniature Wargames Magazine; and Wargames, Strategy, and Soldier.)

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boxing day 2019

Boxing day

Christmas boxing originated in england, where the phrase "boxing" refers to the distribution of small items of money. Boxing day, which falls on december 26, is a vacation in england, canada, australia, new zealand, the bahamas (see jonkonnu), and other countries with beyond or present ties to the uk. Origins and improvement

 a few writers agree with that boxing may be traced lower back to the center a while. They note that parish priests of that generation typically unfolded the church alms-box on december 26, st. Stephen's day. Then the priests distributed the cash it contained to the needy. Perhaps this tradition connected itself to st. Stephen's day due to the fact the saint's role inside the christian network of which he become a member become to make sure the truthful distribution of products. Anyways, this practice gave upward push to the use of the time period "box" to indicate a small gift of cash or a gratuity. In scotland those guidelines have been called "handsels" and were given on handsel monday, this is, the primary monday of the brand new yr. Via the early seventeenth century, the church's st. Stephen's day culture had inspired working human beings to undertake the custom of saving whatever recommendations they had been given during the 12 months in clay bins which they broke open on december 26. By using the late 17th century they started out to solicit suggestions from all folks that had enjoyed their services in the course of the yr. They gathered the ultimate of these "containers" on december 26, after which they broke open those boxes and used the cash to shop for christmas treats. In the 19th century many bought tickets to pantomime suggests, which in those days typically opened on december 26. By way of the nineteenth century the custom of boxing had so colored the character of the day that many human beings began seek advice from december 26 as boxing day rather than st. Stephen's day. Parliament declared boxing day a public vacation in 1871. Resistance

 via the eighteenth century center- and top-center-magnificence people have been complaining approximately the growing numbers of tradesmen who petitioned them for christmas boxes. With the aid of mid-century some families have been paying up to thirty kilos in these annual tips. Obviously, one's employees and domestic servants obtained some extra monetary consideration at christmas time. In addition to 1's personal people, however, a small horde of community provider companies would possibly turn up at one's door on the twenty-6th of december requesting a christmas container. These protected dustmen, lamplighters, postmen, errand-runners, watchmen, bell ringers, chimneysweeps, sextons (church custodians), turncocks (guys who maintained the water pipes), and others. What's greater, keep assistants, tradesmen, and their apprentices regularly anticipated a christmas container from their customers. In 1710, english creator jonathan quick (1667-1745) wrote, "by the lord harry, i will be undone right here with christmas boxes. The rogues of the coffee-residence have raised their tax, every one giving a crown, and i gave mine for shame, besides a excellent many halfcrowns to superb guys's porters" (hutton, 1999, 20). Stephening

 at one point, the residents of buckinghamshire, england, raised the practice of boxing to new heights. Residents of a few villages in the region claimed the right to a free meal on the local rectory on st. Stephen's day. Because the rectors had to pay for the meal out in their own pockets, they obviously commenced to resist this custom, recognise as "stephening." it's far advised that 12 months a rector from the village of drayton beauchamp locked himself inside the rectory on december 26 and refused to permit the housekeeper solution the many knocks on the door. In this way he idea to get away dispensing the loose meal of bread, cheese, and ale demanded through the town's residents. When the townspeople found out what became taking place, however, they broke into the constructing and helped themselves to a meal that completely emptied his larders. In 1834 the charity fee, finding no felony or conventional entitlement to this yearly looting, put an cease to the custom. Decline

 via the overdue nineteenth century christmas boxing began to diminish. This decline endured into the 20 th century, and, slowly, the christmas field disappeared from the ranks of english seasonal customs. The english still supply a few tips at christmas time, but they're now not in particular related to boxing day. In truth, a few people now think of boxing day as the day to throw out the bins their christmas gifts got here in. Further analyzing

  chambers, robert. "december 26 - christmas-bins." in his the e book ofdays. Quantity 2. 1862-sixty four. Reprint. Detroit, mich.: omnigraphics, 1990. Hadfield, miles, and john hadfield. The twelve days of christmas. Boston, mass.: little, brown and organisation, 1961. Hollow, christina. British folk customs. London, england: hutchinson and employer, 1976. Hutton, ronald. The stations of the solar. Oxford, england: oxford university press, 1996. Macdonald, margaret read, ed. The folklore of world vacations. Detroit, mich.: gale research, 1992. Muir, frank. Christmas customs and traditions. The big apple: taplinger, 1977. Weiser, francis x. Manual of christian feasts and customs. Big apple: harcourt, brace and international, 1956,

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Weiser Professional Development Fellowship 2018

Weiser Professional Development Fellowship 2018

Deadline:  15 September 2017 Open to: candidates from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Kaliningrad (Russia), Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Kyrgyzstan, Macedonia, Moldova, Serbia, Slovak Republic, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan Fellowship: round-trip airfare, housing, health insurance, and a modest per diem.

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Having recently attended the Masters of Taste event at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, CA where about 80 restaurants and vendors came together to honor and support the Union Station Homeless Services in Los Angeles, I am impressed with the extent of social good the industry is able to accomplish.

In addition to raising over $450,000 for the organization and showcasing their culinary expertise, many of the restaurants and businesses represented exemplified their own ways of giving to the community.

Those amazing chefs and business owners have instilled a giving spirit and inspired many young up and coming entrepreneurs in the making. I am proud to share the future of the culinary arts field with you from the Los Angeles Careers Through Culinary Arts Program!

LOS ANGELES COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS

TURN FLOUR INTO GOLD

OVER $680,000 IN CULINARY SCHOLARSHIPS

AND OPPORTUNITIES AWARDED BY

CAREERS THROUGH CULINARY ARTS PROGRAM (C-CAP)

     (Los Angeles, CA), Wednesday, May 10, 2017: Thirty-eight outstanding culinary students from Los Angeles County public high schools were awarded scholarships to continue their culinary studies on May 1, 2017 by Careers through Culinary Arts Program (C-CAP) at its annual Los Angeles Region Awards Breakfast hosted by the Jonathan Club, L.A.’s premier social club located in Downtown Los Angeles. C-CAP President Karen Brosius, alongside C-CAP Los Angeles Program Director Lisa Fontanesi and Culinary Program Coordinator Gail Carney, awarded over $682,700 in scholarships and opportunities to the students.

  These scholarships were awarded to high school seniors to attend local culinary schools and some of the most prestigious culinary schools in the country. Some students also received C-CAP Education Scholarships that help defray the costs of books, supplies, housing, and other expenses while at community college or another culinary school.

During the C-CAP Los Angeles Cooking Competition for Scholarships held on April 28, 2017, top finalists representing high schools in the Acton-Agua Dulce Unified School District, Baldwin Park Unified School District, Glendale Unified School District, William S. Hart Union High School District, Los Angeles Unified School District, Oxnard United High School District, Pasadena Unified School District, and Rowland Unified School District competed against the clock from memory when C-CAP re-created the intensity of a restaurant kitchen at Los Angeles Mission College, for the high school seniors to face off in an savory and sweet cooking challenge. Students were judged by a panel of local esteemed judges on the presentation of their dishes, knife skills, techniques in the kitchen, taste, sanitary food handling, and timeliness.

This year’s C-CAP Cooking Competition for Scholarships Judges included:

Chef Gretchen Beaumarchais, Legends Hospitality

Chef Cecelia de Castro, ACE (Academy of Culinary Education)

Katteryn Hernandez, Sr. Operations Manager, LA LIVE, *C-CAP Alumna

Chef Alexis Higgins, Mission College

Chef Jared Levy, The Eveleigh

Chef Joey Martin, UCLA

Jayro Martinez, Chef de Cuisine Mh Zh, *C-CAP Alumnus

Jonathan Melendez, Food Photographer, Blogger (The Candid Appetite), *C-CAP Alumnus

Adrian Neria, Food Service Manager, Palmdale Regional Medical Center, *C-CAP Alumnus

Chef Roger Pigozzi, UCLA

Doria Pomrenke, Associate, Caryl Chinn Culinary Consulting, *C-CAP Alumna

Chef Aaron Robbins, Boneyard Bistro, Soca

Chef Jet Tila, Judge, Cut Throat Kitchen; Author, 101 Asian Dishes You Need to Cook Before You Die

Richard Grausman, C-CAP Founder and Chairman Emeritus

The C-CAP Cooking Competitions for Scholarships are hosted across the country and are the culmination of the C-CAP high school program for underserved teenagers at risk of leaving high school without a job or college prospects.  The C-CAP program offers a wide set of opportunities including exposure to the restaurant/hospitality business, a set of useful life skills, scholarships, and the potential for a fulfilling career in a vibrant industry.

In addition to the culinary school scholarships awarded, C-CAP awarded Erik Ildefonzo (2015 Alumnus) from Carson High School, a full-tuition Alumni Scholarship towards his Bachelor’s Degree in the Culinary Arts and he will study at Drexel University in Philadelphia, PA. C-CAP also announced the 2017 Meatless Monday Recipe Contest Los Angeles-based and national grand prize winner at the ceremony. The scholarship was presented to Adrian Gonzalez from L.A.C.E.S for his Three Sister’s Stuffed Squash dish. C-CAP high school students from around the country were invited to create an innovative meatless noodle dish. Through the contest, students are introduced to the Meatless Monday public health initiative.

2017 C-CAP Los Angeles Region High School Seniors Awarded Scholarships:

  Baldwin Park High School

Luis Cervantes, Fantasy of Flavors Scholarship

Kingsley La Mig, Fantasy of Flavors Scholarship

Steven Silva, Baldwin Park Culinary Arts Academy Scholarship

Carson High School

Christopher Torres, Chef Stef Kelly Scholarship, LA Advisory Board Scholarship

Chatsworth Charter High School

Kenia Castaneda, Art Institute of Hollywood Full-Tuition Scholarship

Vernon Dowell, Tuxton Scholarship

Glendale High School

Anthony Avina, Eydie & Ed Desser Scholarship

James Hernandez, Glendale Community College Partial-Tuition Matching Scholarship, Sprout LA/ Moruno’s Scholarship, Friends of Debbie Greenwood Scholarship

Shaunt Mesrkhani, Culinary Institute of America Tuition Matching Scholarship, Kathleen & Richard Cadarette Scholarship, LA CIA Community College Stipend

  Granada Hills Charter High School

Natalie Babikian, International Culinary School at the Art Institute of Las Vegas Half-Tuition Scholarship

Daisy Byun, Lee Ann and Melvin Jacobs Foundation Scholarship

Sabrina Forte, Mitzie Cutler Scholarship

James Monroe High School

Juan Gonzalez, Academy of Culinary Education Full-Tuition Scholarship

Matthew Sanchez, C-CAP Education Scholarship for Chef Eric’s Culinary Classroom

  L.A.C.E.S.

Adrian Gonzalez, Meatless Monday Recipe Contest National Winner, Chef Eric’s Culinary Classroom Full-Tuition Scholarship

  Nathaniel Narbonne High School

Suleima Lima-Ruiz, Paul Smith’s College Full-Tuition Scholarship

Pacifica High School

Belen Gallardo, Lee Ann and Melvin Jacobs Foundation Scholarship Vanessa Gonzalez, Sandra MacDonald Scholarship

Luz Lopez, Lee Ann and Melvin Jacobs Foundation Scholarship, Alice M. Hart/Food for Film Stylists Scholarship

Jennifer Martinez, Culinary Institute of America Full-Tuition, C-CAP Education Scholarship

Rio Mesa High School

Hania Gerszewski-Arredondo, Ronald Newburg Foundation Scholarship

Alondra Corona, Fantasy of Flavors Scholarship

S.O.C.E.S.

Paloma Astorga, Sue & Dave Larky Scholarship, SoCalGas Scholarship

Antonio Morente-Meda, International Culinary Center of California Half-Tuition Scholarship, Mitzie Cutler Scholarship

Sabrina Forte, Mitzie Cutler Scholarship

San Fernando High School

Rene Meza-Diaz, Arbonne Charitable Foundation Scholarship, C-CAP Education Scholarship

Jessica Hernandez, Art Institute of Orange County Full-Tuition Scholarship

Santee Education Complex

Jennifer Perez-Cazarez, Ronald Newburg Foundation Scholarship

  Susan Miller Dorsey High School

Alejandra Landa, International Culinary Center, California Full-Tuition, C-CAP Education Scholarship, Mitzie Cutler Scholarship

Diana Leal, Mise En Place Scholarship, Elissa & Rick Phillips Scholarship

Mouhamadou Ndiaye, Diane Mohilef Scholarship

Julie Ferguson-Villalobos, Mitzie Cutler Scholarship

  Sylmar High School

Amanda Gandarilla, Lee Ann and Melvin Jacobs Foundation Scholarship

Valencia High School

Julia Connors, Johnson & Wales University Full-Tuition Scholarship

Daniel Quijano-Saide, International Culinary Center of California Half-Tuition Scholarship

West Adams High School

Juana Arredondo, Fresh & Ready Food Scholarship

Irene Gutierrez, The Gourmandise Full-Tuition Pro Pastry Series 1 & 2 Scholarship

  West Ranch High School

Eliza Nesheim, Monroe Junior Boot Camp Scholarship

  About Careers through Culinary Arts Program:

Led by chef Marcus Samuelsson as board co-chair, Careers through Culinary Arts Program (C-CAP) transforms the lives of underserved high school students around the country by helping them pursue their culinary dreams. C-CAP, founded by culinary educator Richard Grausman, prepares talented teens for college and careers in the restaurant and hospitality industry through its enrichment program including job training, paid internships, scholarships, and college and career advising. For more information visit, www.ccapinc.org.

  The C-CAP Los Angeles Advisory Board:  Gloria Barke, Karen Berk, David Binkle, Eric Boardman, Jason Bohle, Jennifer Bohle, Linda Burum, Marilyn Caldwell, Tim Castle, Caryl Chinn, Terrie Cooper, Mitzie Cutler, Ed Desser, Eydie Desser, Barbara Fairchild, Ann Flower, Gerry Furth-Sides, Harold Ginsberg, Debbie Greenwood, Jamie Gwen, Miki Hackney, Andrew Harris, Alice Hart, Jeff Hennes, Kristine Kidd, Rick Kirkbride, Carrie Kommers, Gloria Mandell, Georgia Mercer, Dalia Miller, Mary Sue Milliken, Diane Mohilef, Yoko Newburg, Neela Paniz, Elissa Phillips, Rena Pocrass, Joel Polachek, Jayne Portnoy, Sylvia Rieman, Ellen Rose, Jesse Sanchez, Carl Schuster, Art Sezgin, Dave Smason, Teri Solomon, Diana Surfas, Jannis Swerman, Phillis Vaccarelli, Phillip Valdez, Joan Vogel, Donna Weiser-Hennes, Heidi Weisman, Josephine Witte, Donald Wressell, Steven Yamin, Sherry Yard, Ria Young, Linda Zimmerman

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Who's Behind the Billionaire PAC Targeting Elizabeth Warren? by Richard Eskow

A billionaire-backed conservative group is targeting Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts as she tours the country in support of her new book, according to a memo obtained by Politico.

“We view (the) book launch as the soft launch of her presidential campaign,” said executive director Colin Reed. “We’ll do the same to her as we did with Hillary Clinton in 2014,” Reed added.

America Rising’s backers would stand to lose some cushy tax breaks and regulatory favors if the progressive policies advocated by Sen. Warren were enacted. For her part, Warren denies that she’s running for the presidency and notes that this is her 11th book.

America Rising is tracking a number of potential contenders for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, including Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand of New York, Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey, Gov. Andrew Cuomo of New York, and Sen. Kamala Harris of California.

The group appears to be taking special interest in Warren, however. Reed’s memo cites her “enormous sway” over the party and describes her — inaccurately — as its “titular head.” (Reed does not appear to know what the word “titular” means.)

The Rise of America Rising

America Rising was formed in 2013 by Matt Rhoades, the director of Mitt Romney’s failed 2012 presidential campaign, and it represents the worst of what our current political system offers. Its goal is not to debate the issues or offer solutions to the nation’s problems. Instead, the PAC gets cash from big-money donors and spends it trying to tear down its political opponents.

The Republican National Committee’s “autopsy” of its 2012 presidential loss reportedly concluded that the party needed an organization that would “do nothing but post inappropriate Democratic utterances and act as a clearinghouse for information on Democrats.”

In the time-honored Washington tradition of “failing up,” the leader of the party’s most recent failure was chosen to head up the new operation. But, to be fair, Rhoades was not an entirely inappropriate choice. One of his early career highlights, if you can call it that, involved funneling “oppo” information to a seedy but popular website called “The Drudge Report” on behalf of George W. Bush.

The group made a splash the following year when it sent “trackers” to record everything key Democratic candidates did and said on the campaign trail. The goal was to record a “blooper” that could be played over and over on news and social media to embarrass the candidate.

Big-Money Backers

The group’s million-dollar-plus budget is funded by a bevy of high-dollar backers. The list of donors during the 2014 and 2016 election cycles includes:

Hedge-fund billionaire Paul Singer, who specializes in “vulture capitalism” — purchasing distressed assets and squeezing every last dollar out of them. Singer’s fund earned the “vulture” label by purchasing the debts of distressed governments like Panama’s and Peru’s, and then pressuring the authorities to force repayment. In Argentina’s case, the fund’s tactics including seizing an Argentine vessel docked in an African port.

Singer, a major Republican donor, is the founder of a hedge fund called Elliott Management Corporation. He flooded New York’s 19th Congressional district with money last year in order to successfully defeat reform Democrat Zephyr Teachout. Teachout offered to debate Singer, whom she labeled “the actual voice” of her opposition, but he declined to respond. Singer was America Rising’s largest reported donor.

Wrestling magnate Linda McMahon, who ran the World Wrestling Entertainment empire with husband Vince McMahon and is now Donald Trump’s head of the Small Business Administration. McMahon gave $6 million to Trump’s campaign — money Trump has reportedly used in ethically dubious ways.

Hilcorp Energy Corporation, a Texas-based fossil fuels company that has been sued for violating the Clean Water Act in Louisiana. Hilcorp allegedly damaged oyster beds by dredging canals without the proper permission, using a destructive technique known as “prop washing.”

The company was recently ordered to clean up a 4,200-gallon oil spill in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, and last month oil was reportedly leaking from an abandoned Hilcorp well head on the lower Mississippi. Also in March, regulators reported that a Hilcorp gas line in Alaska’s Cook Inlet was leaking 225,000 to 335,000 cubic feet of gas per day and demanded that it be repaired or shut down.

Hedge-fund billionaire Kenneth Griffin, a self-described “Reagan Republican” who once testified before the U.S. Senate that U.S. stock markets are “”fairest, most transparent, resilient and competitive markets anywhere in the world” — a claim that would surprise hundreds of thousands of documented victims of Wall Street investor and borrower fraud.

Health insurance executive Mike Fernandez, who became a billionaire in the HMO business before becoming a major Republican donor. Fernandez, who supported Mitt Romney and Jeb Bush, initially opposed Trump in 2016 and supported Hillary Clinton. In December 2015 Fernandez declared Trump “unelectable.”

Real estate tycoon Ronald Weiser. Weiser, a former chair of the Michigan Republican Party who also acted as the Republican National Committee’s national finance chairman, was a member of Donald Trump’s fundraising committee in 2016.

Money for Nothing

What are these big-money interests getting for their money? America Rising’s Facebook page is an oddly listless affair. Its Twitter feed still features unflattering and now outdated photos of Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine, the candidates on last year’s Democratic presidential ticket.

The real “value proposition” for efforts like America Rising lies in their ability to plant destructive stories about their opponents in respected news outlets (a category that does not include Drudge). These efforts are more difficult to trace.

The group’s current anti-Warren efforts include sending trackers to videotape the senator’s book tour, in hopes of catching her saying something embarrassing, and a somewhat sophomoric “candidate page” attacking the Massachusetts Democrat. It has posted similar pages for Sanders, Booker, and other Democratic presidential prospects.

All in all, America Rising’s efforts have an oddly dated feel to them. Its social media effects feel perfunctory, and its “gotcha” approach to tracking seems like a relic of past campaigns. Politicians like Warren and Sanders have so far proven resilient against the politics of negativity. America Rising’s billionaire patrons could find more constructive uses for their money.

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For Casual Witches, Storebought Witchcraft is Fine

Written by Vivian Caethe

The modern casual witch often relies less on handed-down rituals, covens, or traditional forms of witchcraft than many traditional witches. Instead they are accomplished in do-it-yourself research and synergizing different or sometimes disparate traditions. Assisting them, the internet has brought about a renaissance in the way we perform witchcraft in private and public practice. No longer do we rely solely on books purchased discretely from new age bookstores, mail-order courses, handed-down rituals, or paths such as the OTO or Golden Dawn. Instead there is a breadth and depth to our access to guidance, knowledge, and materials that in contrast to twenty years ago is almost staggering. As such, the casual witch finds new ways to forge a spiritual practice, fitting it around their schedule, their lives, and their worlds.

Most modern Western ritual witchcraft traditions have their origin in the Victorian era, with the Golden Dawn, the Ordo Templi Orientis, and Aleister Crowley as influencers, to name a few. Gerald Gardner followed in their footsteps to found Wicca in the 1950s.

Gardener’s Book of Shadows – Credit John Belham-Payne

For about twenty years, this was the status quo in paganism. The 1970s saw the first transition from the secret society model of paganism to a more varied, eclectic model. This is where we see Budapest’s Dianic Wicca and similar traditions spring up, influenced by feminism as well as environmentalism and social justice concerns of the era. This time also witnesses the rise of Asatru in Iceland and America along with other, similar paths.

From that point onward, paganism (especially in America) blossomed into thousands of paths and movements and witches became increasingly eclectic. These varied witchcrafts borrowed or outright appropriated other traditions, including Native American Shamanism (or what some practitioners assumed were Native American), Voodoo/Hoodoo, Santeria, and other non-European practices. The more interesting witchcrafts came up with new ideas, finding inspiration in city magic, graffiti, technology, and the artifacts of the modern era.

This eclecticism didn’t come into its own, however, until the age of the Internet, and witchcraft has never been the same since. It has turned in a glorious bubbling cauldron of distinct practices and paths that all still manage to have enough similarities so as to be easily recognizable as witchcraft.

Mail order witchcraft advertisement from the 1970s – Credit Flashbak.com

Forging forward, modern witches are as diverse and as knowledgeable as ever before. There are thousands of resources available to the discerning witch on just about every topic of interest (many of which are on Amazon). We no longer have to rely on small covens or mail-order books. Solitary practice doesn’t have to be as solitary any more.

But with this level of accessibility, the “storebought” of our era, how do we honor our own traditions while being respectful of other paths? Buffet-style paganism is a model that many people use, but is it always appropriate to pick and choose from the traditions out there without consideration for their legacy and culture? There is a hazard here of our spiritual practice becoming too shallow and too superficial.

One of the main hazards of superficiality in our witchcraft is insensitivity to the surrounding culture of other witchcraft traditions. As with any Colonial (and primarily White) dominated field, it is often easy to overlook the history and legacy of non-Western traditions. When we fail to appropriately attribute or respect the contribution of other cultures by picking and choosing what we find to be the most interesting, we can lose sight of the purpose of such magic.

Modern witchcraft – Credit: Earl Wilson/The New York Times

That being said, many modern witches avoid this problem entirely by forging new practices, spells, and rituals. The casual witch doesn’t have to rely on the rituals of the past, or cultures not their own, but rather draws power from their own inspiration and spiritual guidance. While ritual can be useful and important for deepening our understanding of the underlying spiritual underpinnings of the universe, there is also a place in our world for the intuitive witchcraft that so many witches are making their own in the modern era. Casual witches perform makeup magic, pin images and spells, and buy their supplies online.

Following this path of intuitive witchcraft, the casual witch uses what they have at hand to focus their intentions. We use the spirit of magic, rather than the law of magic to craft changes in the world. In every sense of the term, store-bought is fine.

Featured image: Richard Bush for i-D Magazine

Works Cited

Clifton, Chas S. Her Hidden Children: The Rise of Wicca and Paganism in America. Alta Mira Press, 2006.

Hutton, Ronald. The Triumph of the Moon: A History of Modern Pagan Witchcraft. Oxford University Press, 1999.

Magliocco, Sabina. Witching Culture: Folklore and Neo-Paganism in America. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004.

Penczak, Christopher. City Magick: Urban Rituals, Spells, and Shamanism. Weiser Books, 2001.

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Conservatives are united in their support of Ron Weiser!

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Ronald Weiser is chairing a SuperPAC to help defeat Hillary Clinton!