#live revolution '17 route 20

[transportationunknown]

on new routes to equity: the future of transportation for the black community

This report is designed to highlight the “on-going challenges affecting African Americans in the transportation system and provide policy recommendations for how shared mobility, electric vehicles, and autonomous vehicles can equitably serve the Black community.” The expansive transportation tech space kicked off 7 to 10 years ago almost rapidly with shared mobility changing the transportation landscape seemingly overnight. Innovations in transportation have long created disparate impacts across Black, Brown, and low-income communities. Patterson states clearly that a “major concern is whether these mobility options equitably benefit the Black community or perpetuate and exacerbate transportation inequities.” (p.4)

Patterson outlines the mobility-related concerns that impact Black Americans, broadly. Starting with an overview of the history of racism in transportation and subsequent advocacy that helped give birth to the Civil Rights Movement, the report introduces the lasting legacy of “Negro Removal” or the blatant destruction of Black communities to further highway expansion for white suburbanites: inequitable, lasting, generational access to transportation opportunity, health, and safety. Next, Patterson breaks down a series of recommendations from the lens of transportation equity and environmental justice. Finally, she provides a series of policy recommendations for these modes under the realms of Access, Sustainability, and Safety. The purpose of this report is to “highlight(s) on-going challenges affecting African Americans in the transportation system and provides policy recommendations for how shared mobility, electric vehicles, and autonomous vehicles can equitably serve the Black community.” (p.6)

The three key issues that Patterson seeks to address are the issues around access, sustainability, and safety for Black Americans and transportation. Access is defined here as “peoples’ ability to use mobility options and to reach goods and services” (p.7). Black Americans lead the nation with zero-car households (20% of households do not have access to a car). Black Americans are also disproportionately transit riders, being the second largest group of riders after whites, despite making up just 12% of the U.S. population (p.8). Additionally, 14% fewer jobs were located near Black Americans (measured from 2000 - 2012).  These statistics stand out harshly against the U.S.’s auto-dominated landscape. Access to job opportunities are difficult to obtain in much of the country, and this is being  exacerbated by Black households moving to the suburbs in search of affordable housing due to being priced out of job rich, and transit rich, cities. Patterson goes onto share Black households being disproportionately unbanked (17%) and underbanked (30%). Given that newer forms of transportation, not including explicitly electric vehicles (yet), rely on apps and bank accounts, there is a great risk of Black Americans being left behind in transportation’s tech revolution without intervention.

Under sustainability, Patterson pulls in some statistics on environmental inequity that mirror that of Bullard’s 2004 article on urban transportation equity. First, 24% of African Americans live near highly trafficked roads (p. 10) and African Americans are more likely to live near busy roads more than whites. Living near constant sites of pollution from PM2.5 can cause devastating damage to the lungs, brain, and heart. Furthermore, there is interpersonal safety. Black drivers are stopped more than white drivers and Black drivers are more likely be killed during a traffic stop. Black communities also carry the scars of urban renewal leaving Black Americans more vulnerable to traffic injuries and death than white Americans. With the various inequities Black Americans face with the current transportation system, getting ahead of compounding inequities is crucial. 

Patterson provides policy recommendations for each of the three transportation options. While there are a few recommendations that are mode-specific, such as requiring zero-emission electric vehicle fleets, most argue for an integration of multiple, communal, and shared services. Two recommendations that speak to this are “Integrate public transit fare payment methods with shared mobility services” (p.13) and “Prioritize deployment of autonomous vehicles as a public electric, shared mobility option over private ownership.” (p.14). Integrating PT fare payment with shared mobility services not only gets at the first mile/last mile issue that exists for Black folks who are increasingly living outside of the city’s transit shed, but also doubles as a low cost option. Current fare payments that allow for third-party apps are paid by debit/credit cards. This can be a hardship for some. By allowing transit riders to continue their ride by transferring to a shared mobility service, it removes the occurrence of double-dipping (or being forced to choose what you can/cannot pay for). Additionally, by allowing transit payments on shared mobility, shared mobility will cease to exist as an option outside of existing service.

Other policy recommendations speak to transportation equity’s roots in environmental justice, notably recommending zero-emission AV fleets that are deployed as a public shared option (over private ownership) and requiring carbon-free energy sources for EVs. This report is sensitive to the integration of transportation tech that does not hurt Black livability and exacerbate automobility, thus adding to inequities of transportation access, sustainability, and safety that it touts. 

[murfasaur]

Thank you for sharing these~ ♥

[creamofthecrap]

The Story of Cream: Masterpost

Looks like I have a mission! Pt. 1: Origins - Ginger Baker 1:1: Wee Ginger 1:2: Two fiery redheads Pt. 2: Origins - Jack Bruce Pt. 3: Origins - Eric Clapton Pt. 1-3: Summary Pt. 4: When Jack met Ginger Pt. 5: Alexis Korner’s Blues Incorporated 5.2: Alexis Korner’s “Jazz” Incorporated 5.3: Rolling Stones shenanigans 5.4: Trolling the Stones 5.5: Mr. nick-your-band pulls a stroke 5.6: Eric goes electric Pt. 4-5.5: Summary: Brotherly love Pt. 6: The Yardbirds 6.2: The myth of Slowhand Pt. 7: The Graham Bond Organisation 7.1: The Importance of the Graham Bond Organisation 7.2: Jack goes electric (literally) 7.3: Ready, Steady, Gaye!

Those were the days 1966 * [First photoshoot📷][Pt.2] * By the Thames-shoot📷 * Party Nights!;[Blue Moon?🔊] June 11: [It’s official!📰] July *: Green Park-shoot📷 July 29: Twisted Wheel;[Live📷] July 31: Windsor j&b festival;[Ginger📷][Fashiön][Backstage📷] Aug 16:[The Marquee][Pt.2] Sept 1: Ready Steady Go;[Backstage📷] Sept 2:[Bluesville '66] Sept 4:[Ricky Tick Club] Oct *: Wrapping Paper-shoot📷 Oct 1:[Regent Street Polytechnic;];[quote] Oct 20:[St. Gile's Youth Club] Nov 4:[Fleet Studios-shoot][Pt.2] Nov 15: Klook's Kleek;[Meet Me In The Bottom🔊] Nov 19:[Blue Moon Club] Dec 16: En route📷 Dec 16: TV France;[Wrapping Paper🎬][Sweet Wine🎬][GIF's] Dec 17: La Locomotive Club; [Live📷] Dec 30:[The Roundhouse]

1967 Jan 11: Top Of the Pops; [Backstage📷] Jan 26: [Top Of the Pops] Feb *: Westener Boutique-shoot📷 Feb 5:[Saville Theatre] Feb *: Kimono-shoot📷 Feb 24: Beat Club;[Backstage GIF Feb 25: Star Club;[Offstage📷][Backstage📷][Live📷] March 7: TV Sweden;[N.S.U.🎬] March 16: Jimi & Eric📷 March 26:[Murray the K] April 3-5: Strange Brew-Sessions;[Pt.1][Pt.2][Pt.3] April 16: Empire Pool;[backstage📷][offstage📷][Live📷] April 21: Brighton Arts Festival;[GIF's] April 25:[Pavillion Ballroom] May 7:[The Swan] May 21: Jaguar Club; [Backstage📷][Ginger📷] May 29: TeenSet-shoot June *:[Red Lion Square-shoot][Pt.2][Pt.3][Pt.4] June 1: Paris Pop Festival;[We're Going Wrong🎬][I Feel Free🎬] June 1:[Paris-shoot📷][Pt.2📷] June 21: Top Of the Pops;[Backstage📷] July *:[Petticoat Lane-shoot📷][Pt.2📷] July 8:[Scottish tour];[quotes📷][photos📷][photos📷] July 14: BBC recordings; [offstage📷] July 16: Eric at the Legalize Cannabis Rally Aug 20: [Redcar Jazz Club] Aug 21: US tour; [Airport📷][More📷] Sept *:[Roz Kelly-shoot][Pt.2]⭐ Sept *: Central Park-shoot⭐ Sept 23: The Village Theatre;[Eric quote📷] Sept 26: Cafe au Go-Go;[Backstage📷] Oct 1: Cafe au Go-Go;[GIF's] Oct 7: Cafe au Go-Go;[GIF’s][Live📷] Oct 13:[Grande Ballroom][Pt.2] Oct 29: Saville Theatre;[Backstage📷][Pt.2📷] Nov 2:[Belfast] Nov 6: Silver Blades Ice Rink;[Backstage📷] Nov 6: Partying with Miss Teen Sweden📷 Nov 11:[Denmark publicity-shoot][Pt.2] Nov 13: Helsinki; [Ginger📷][Eric📷] Nov 14: [Stockholm]; [Clipping📰] Nov 15: [Gothenburg]; [Jack📷][Eric📷] Nov 26: BBC-TV; [We're Going Wrong🎬] Dec *: The Pheasantry-shoot📷 Dec *: Linda Eastman-shoot📷 Dec 20: [Debutante Ball- Chicago] Dec 22-23: [Grande Ballroom]

1968 Jan 5: Industrial Club; [Backstage📷] Jan 10: Revolution Club; [Ulysses🎬][Spoonful🎬][SoYL🎬] Jan 12: [Fenklup] Feb 5: [Copenhagen]; [GIF’s][w. BeeGees📷] Feb 25: [Swing Auditorium] March 9: [Winterland] March 11: [Sacramento Auditorium] March 11: [Sausalito-shoot][Pt.2][Pt.3][Pt.4] March 14: Romp!! TV-appearance: [GIF's] March 15-16: [The Shrine][Pt. 2] March 20: [Eric gets arrested📰] March 21: [Beloit College] March 22: [Clowes Memorial Hall]; [Live📷] March 27: [Staples Auditorium] March 31: Houston Music Hall; [Ginger📷] April 3: [Morris Civic Auditorium] April 5:[Back Bay Theatre] April 10:[Woolsey Hall] May 13:[Mandel Hall] May 17-18:[Anaheim Convention Center]; [Live📷] May 19:[Jack gets arrested📰] May 20: CBS TV; [SoYL🎬][GIF's] June 2:[Pacific Coliseum];[Poster] June 5:[Massey Hall] June 9: Grande Ballroom;[Live📷] June 15: Oakdale;[Tree climbing] Oct 11:[New Haven Arena];[Live📷][Eric Int.][Ginger Int.][Jack Int.] Oct 13: Chicago Coliseum;[Jack📷] Oct 19: The Forum;[Ginger📷] Oct 25:[Dallas Memorial Auditorium] Oct 27:[Chastain Park] Nov 1: [The Spectrum] Nov 3: [Baltimore Civic Center] Nov 26: Royal Albert Hall; [Soundcheck📷][Introduction🎬][I'm So Glad🎬][Sitting On Top of The World🎬][Ginger📷][Jack📷] [GIF's][ GIF's Jack]

1969 * [Goodbye-shoot📷][Pt. 2📷][Ginger quote📷][Jack quote📷][Eric quote📷]

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Friendly reminder to tag your original posts “Cream band” or “the Cream” NOT “Cream”!

[brokenjardaantech]

blog directory

10 mar 2021 update: index being updated weekly to reflect progress of Blue-tinted Red Walls.

28 jan 2021 update: finally decided to make a complete index of sorts for my fics. they will be sorted by series first and then the ficverse’s chronological within the series. please do let me know if the links are broken.

groom lake aftermath (detroit: become human/mass effect crossover) [in progress]

pairings (will be updated as series continues): hankcon, allen60, rk1700, simarkus, jon grissom/allen (jonallen), jerralph

major warnings: non-consensual body modification, canon-typical violence, mentions on parentification, temporary character death

works involved according to chronological order (note 27 Aug 2021: all allen art week entries are no longer considered hard canon and are more proto-canon, so read them with a pinch of salt concerning their place in the canonical timeline):

allen art week day 2: college au

allen art week day 1+ 7: vacation + acceptance

blue-tinted red walls (2020 dbh au big bang entry): [finished]

prologue: a mistake or accidental prophet?

chapter 1: beginnings, never expected

chapter 2: ironies and contradictions

chapter 3: a piss-poor guide on how to be (and not to be) a Human

chapter 4: out of control

chapter 5: the threads of life

chapter 6: running out of time

chapter 7: power unleashed

chapter 8: into no man’s land

chapter 9: a moment of reprieve, full with scheming and self-sacrificing idiots

chapter 10: all in

chapter 11: the luck in survivability

epilogue: after

allen art week day 5: scars (concurrent with work below)

dig site under a red sky (rk1700 december prompt fills): [finished]

day 1: meeting

day 2: secret

day 3: vulnerable

day 4, 9, 23, 28: broken/damaged; sensory overload/overheat; resurrection; instinct

day 5, 6, 13: superior/replacement; comfort; assemble/disassemble

day 7: machine

day 8, 12, 14: hands; dissimilarity; focus

day 10, 27: structure; home

day 11, 19, 20, 30: warmth; devotion; fantasy; cherish (nsfw)

day 15: snow

day 16: soulmate

day 17, 21: connection; pulse

day 22: carry

day 24: identity

day 25: mirror

day 18, 26: human; possessiveness/jealousy/greed

day 29: praise

who wrote history if there were no victors? (found family big bang entry) [in progress]

prologue: into the deep end

chapter 1: gavin’s trial (1)

the invisible price (rupert- and josh-centric)

gloves (simarkus one-shot)

allen art week [finished]

pairing(s): gen, allen60

major warnings: non-consensual body modification, canon compliant violence, mentions on parentification, temporary character death

day 1+ 7: vacation + acceptance

day 2: college au

day 3: coffee

day 4: western au

day 5: scars (nsfw)

day 6: android au

a man, an android, and a somewhere in between

fandom: detroit: become human

pairing: captain allen/simon (siallen)

major warnings: implied past non-consensual body modification on a child

the trust they lose

on a timer: discussions of future child death

abstract ghosts, concrete lives: insomnia, amnesia, flashbacks, nightmares

bricc nines (tentative)

fandom: detroit: become human

pairings: rk1700, minor simarkus

major warnings: overall dark themes, violent revolution route

only me, for you: major character death

the resurrected, cherished: nsfw, rough sex, limb removal, egg connor and nines; also prompt fill for rk1700 Blooming event

absorbance of the deep [abandoned and unfinished]

fandom: detroit: become human

rating: mature

relationship: simarkus, simon & josh & north, simon & daniel

other tags: mermay prompt challenge; sort of modern fantasy

chapter 1: first contact

chapter 2: an actual meeting

chapter 3: schemes and promises

chapter 4: that’s him?

chapter 5: rest

chapter 6: new duties

chapter 7: summary of remaining plotlines

archive [complete]

rating: M

relationship: hank anderson/connor

other tags: Archive (2020) AU, car accidents, implied sexual content

part 1

part 2

optional lore dump

an anchoring bolt [in progress]

rating: explicit

relationship: nivanfield

other tags: mpreg, canon-typical violence, non-linear narrative

Part 0: 17 Oct 2013

Part -2: 15 Jul 2013 - 17 Jul 2013

Part 1: 18 Oct 2013 - 1 Nov 2013

Part 2: 1 Nov 2013

devotion [one-shot series]

rating: explicit (in general), teen and up (select one-shots)

relationship: nivanfield

other tags: memory loss, cyborg piers, fluff, angst, smut

red snakes and multi-layered cakes

how Chris Redfield nearly lost his boyfriend

cutting edge

fragmented memories:

a walk in the park

(un)familiar faces

a temporary moment of bliss

a curve of cold

an impromptu announcement

scenes from the future (ficlet collection):

noodles

gods bound by rules

rating: mature

relationship: allen60, future jonallen60

other tags: alternate universe - mass effect fusion, space, mild sexual content

chapter 1: the catalyst

individual works

detroit: become human

late at home:

rating: gen

relationship: hank anderson/original male character

other tags: parent!hank, kid!mermaid!connor, kid!mermaid!nines; mermaid au

markus manfred and his terrible (and amazing) summer camp experience

rating: main story teen and up, additional smut explicit

relationship: connor/markus

other tags: human au, teen au (smut is set when they are grown up)

a dream not coming true

rating: T

relationship: captain allen/original male character

other tags: suicidal thoughts, implied mpreg, implied child death, implied character death, self-hatred

eternity:

rating: M

relationship: allen/connor

other tags: Non-Explicit Sex, Getting Together, Implied/Referenced Character Death, Hopeful Ending, Fluff and Smut

if we want to

rating: T

relationship: connor/north

other tags: dirty bomb ending, pre-relationship

requirements of frog-holding

rating: G

relationship: rk1700

other tags: frogs

Allen's reflection

rating: E

relationship: jonallen (allen/oc)

other tags: demisexuality, power play, size kink, come eating, multiple orgasms, light dom/sub, stream of consciousness

practical gifts

rating: T

relationship: simarkus

other tags: loss of trust, open ending, secrecy, lying, Simon is sus

nivanfield (Chris Redfield/Piers Nivans)

i found the sea because of you:

rating: T

other tags: emotional hurt/comfort, angst with a happy ending, self-hatred, self-esteem issues, dissociation, ptsd

miscellaneous

a road not taken: 

relationship: nero/ayel (star trek)

content warning: focus on character death

character sketch (1): 

original work

a sketch in the format of two reddit posts

content warnings: amnesia, dissociation

[frighthouseofalighthouse]

I'm gonna do it. I'll take all the history asks for 500, Alex!

OKAy. I may have to reblog and do an add-on, because I will almost certainly go over the 250 paragraph limit. ALSO NICE JEOPARDY REFERNCE. Okay, ready? Go.

1: Historical role model?

We could all stand to be more like Julie D'Aubigny.

2: Favorite underrated historical figure?

See above.

3: Funniest historical kerfuffle?

In 1774 Boston's Committee of Safety (John and Samuel Adams as well as Joseph Warren and PaulRevere were on it) was made up almost entirely of patriots, except for one man: Daniel Leonard. They couldn't decide anything important with him around so they would have a fake meeting and then be like OKAY IT'S AUGUST WE'RE HOT AND TIRED, LET'S GO HOME, and then after he'd left they'd lock themselves in a room and have their REAL, TREASONOUS MEETING. Reading about this is objectively one of the funniest things I have ever heard. It's literally the beack house episode of Brooklyn Nine-Nine where they have a fake party for Captain Holt.

4: Favorite conspiracy theory revolving around history?

Whatever the fuck the real story of the X FIles was (I've watched the whole thing multiple times and I still don't know what exactly what the point was. DOn't get me wrong I love it. It just makes no sense.)

5: Favorite political scandal to examine?

The XYZ Affair because I was there for it all and it's...a lot

6: Opinion on the presidential assassinations and their impact on America?

I answered this in depth last time I got that question and you can read my response here.

7: Which time period would you like to live in?

Either take me back to the revolution or put me in Victorian England (BARRING MEDICAL NONSENSE AND SOCIAL BARRIERS)

6 (again?!): Favorite historical fiction book?

See the assassination link!

8: Favorite tv show based on historical events, but not really faithful to real life?

Top choices are Outlander, TURN: Washington's Spies, Black Sails, and Ripper Street.

9: Favorite musical based on history?

*sarcasm* Definitely NOT Hamilton whaaaaaaat why would you even assume that?! Ahem. Also Les Mis is cool I guess.

10: Favorite movie based on history?

Wonder Woman!!!

11: Favorite biography?

The Swamp Fox by John Oller

12: If you could prevent one tragedy, which would you choose?

The Trump Administration.

13: Fun fact?

MLK and Anne Frank were born in the same year.

14: Favorite female monarch?

Cleopatra or Mary Queen of Scots.

15: Favorite war leader?

I'm biased but George Washington.

16: Favorite controversial leader?

Winston Churchill

17: Favorite feminist pioneer?

J U L I E D ' A U B I G N Y. Also Mary Read and ANne Bonney my queer pirate gals

18: Which president, in your opinion, was the best speaker?

No contest, Abraham Lincoln.

19: If you would travel back in time and kill anyone, who would it be?

Listen I’m not a fan of these questions when people are like “I’d kill Hitler” etc. bc butterfly effect, BUT The British officer who shot John Laurens can CATCH THESE MF HANDS

20: Opinion on each of the founding fathers?

Oh boy. This is an interesting question at this point in time because I am currently grappling with the fact that the people I worked with did not really believe in equality for all, and the system we built was designed to reflect this. However, it is a system that I believed in and put my everything towards so I have many conflicted feelings toward it rn. Anyway here's the low-down on the major ones. GEORGE WASHINGTON: Good guy, needed to loosen up and not be a slaveholder. JOHN ADAMS: old stinky man. Called me mushroom excrement once. Put him back in the swamp from whence he came. THOMAS JEFFERSON: Rapist. Slaveholder. Really stuffy. Founded an entire political party for People Who Don't Like Hamilton. Fuck him foreverrrr. JAMES MADISON: Friendly with me but betrayed me when Jefferson came back from France. 2/10, cute but do not trust him with your secrets or coffee order. JAMES MONROE: A teenager during the war and I barely ever saw him after that but he was fine ig. ALEXANDER HAMILTON: that me! Made mistakes but all around a cool(tm) guy. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN: fresh funky and really funny. Cooler than you'd expect an old man with gout to be.

21: Which leader do you think would make the best spouse?

No leaders are good spouses bc superiority complex.

22: Most pointless war in your opinion?

All. But King Phillip's War was especially whack.

23: John Wilkes Booth - crazy or crazy with a cause?

I mean of course he had a cause, but it was a bad one and having a cause doesn't make him less crazy. He was...really yikes.

24: Why do you think Lee Harvey Oswald killed JFK and did he act alone?

Most certainly did not act alone. But I feel based on timeline of events and maps of the area that either he was paid off either by our own government or the Soviets, or one of the two set him up as a patsy. Then Jack Ruby was paid to cover up the tracks.

25: Opinion on assassinations of leaders in general?

Same as killing anyone else, I guess, murder is bad, and I don't think that's really the route that should be taken to remove dangerous parties from power. But in some cases it may be the only way of removing them, and, well, that is what it is.

26: Do you think we're going to repeat history because we haven't learned from it?

Always. It is constantly happening. There is nothing new.

27: Have you ever been teased for being a history nerd?

hahahahahahahahaha yeah. Ever since first grade.

28: Which historical figure do you think has been subject to the most fictionalization and elevated to a godlike status nowadays?

Due to the musical, Alexander Hamilton (me.) People need to realize that I wasn't perfect but also not evil. Just human.

29: Rant about your favorite topic?

See the other part of my Lincoln Assassination rant here

30: Favorite kids/teens history books?

The Dear America series and the Liberty's Kids novelizations are WHERE ITS AT.

31: How was your interest in history started?

I don't even know exactly when or how anymore. My mom's a book nerd and an archaeology/anthropology major, so I grew up in a house chock full of books, including history books. I've loved it ever since I could read, honestly.

32: Do you know a history professor?

I do not!

33: How did your favorite history teacher structure their class?

I was homeschooled so it was my mom. She made sure we covered every period, but other than that just let me pick out what interested me and what I wanted to read and explore. She read a ton of big historical books right alongside me and we'd discuss as we read. We still do this!

AND THAT'S THE HALFWAY POINT OF THESE. I HAVE TO GET READY FOR AN OVERNIGHT SHIFT AT WORK SOON SO I WILL LEAVE THIS HERE FOR NOW AND REBLOG WITH THE REST OF THEM UPDATED TOMORROW. THANK YOU SO MUCH.

[whatdoesshedotothem]

Saturday 12 May 1838

7 25/..

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dull morning F58° at 8 am felt cold – put on knee-caps again (had I not worn them yesterday or Thursday) and worsted stockings – all ready to be off and breakfast and off to Waterloo at 9 ½ - Calêche took Oddy and George – had not room for Lion – the forest of Soignies in process of down cutting – sold by the ex-king a little before the revolution to the Bank of Brussels (said our Waterloo guide) and now selling off by the Bank, to be turned into agricultural land – jolting pavé all the way made A-‘s back of neck bad – alight at the village of Waterloo at 11 10 opposite the  little garden where the M. of Angleseys’ leg was buried – just go in and see the outside the building for which had afterwards to pay 0/50 – then our woman guide took us to the church and fetched the old man to let us in for which paid him 1/. the entrance end crowded with monuments to the English etc. etc. killed 16, 17 and 18 June 1815.  one monument to the memory of 24 officers and 375 non commissioned ditto and privates of the 70th Highlanders – the M. d’ Anglesey here 2 years ago, and dined in the room where his leg was cut off, and sent the people a portrait of himself – from the church to the little churchyard the English officers buried in the middle in the avenue of limes – at entrance end of it, Sir Alexander Gordon buried aid de camp to the duke of Wellington who never comes without going to his grave – Sir Alexander was in the act of speaking to or had just been speaking to the duke when the cannon ball took him off – M. [Mise], banker of Brussels, has a chateau at Waterloo, and is the principal proprietor – In returning went into a café, en haut, for which gave ½ fr. asked for sols for a franc the full change for which the woman was reluctant to give me till she heard what she was to have for herself – then got into the carriage at 12 again opposite La poste a neat looking Inn where the duke of Wellington had slept, and drove off to the village of St. Jean and alighted (did not go in) at an auberge at 12 ¼ - there our man guide joined us, and there commenced our little tour – the man was one of 3 servants at the farm of St. Jean (aetatis 17 at the time – the master se sauvait) – where so many of the wounded were – the house and farm buildings and court yard full – passed this for some distance and then direct to the montagne de Lion, the great tumulus erected 7 years afterwards on the spot where the prince of Orange was wounded (in the shoulder) – the whole height 200ft. from surface of ground to top of bronze lion weighing 1048lbs. cast by Cokerill of Liège – the apex of the tumulus 100ft. diameter – conspicuous from far – ascended to the top by steps cut out in side of the embanked earth and faced with wood – 5 minutes ascending and 35 minutes at the top – enjoying the fine prospect (charming day – nor hot nor cold, nor wind, nor dust) and conning over our plan of the battle bought at St. Jean village of where we left the carriage – got a thorough understanding of the different positions and then at 1 35 down again and off to Hougoumont thus written by the duke of W- in his despatch from La belle Alliance, instead of château de Goumont, an easy mistake now perpetuated by the celebrity of the written and the writing – an English officer who had fought in the battle (of no great appearance) was on the mountain with a party of ladies and gentlemen while we were there – but from what I overheard our guide seemed the better of the 2 – the proprietor of the quondam chateau de Goumont, M. de Goumont, is now living in the neighbourhood of Brussels? did the man say – government bought the place of him and leave it as was after the battle as a monument of the battle – good taste – the then outbuildings form the present farm-house – the chateau (the chapel and well house remain) was burnt down and all the wounded as many or [more]

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French than English perished in the flames – the French under Jerome Buonaparte and General Foy finding they could not take this key of our position, set it on fire – the wood then close in front of the garden that made it so strong, is now cut down and turned into common ground – the place was at the time exceedingly strong undercover of this wood – the French had no idea of the strength of this position – the duke of Wellington arrived from Brussels in the morning of the 17th and took up this position – the French did not arrive till evening – it rained the whole of the 16th and 17th Friday and Saturday night and day so that on the 18th many of the men fought up to their knees in water or mud – vide the account of the battle given by Sir Walter Scott in Pauls’ letters to his kinfolk – A- had been very poorly in the back of her neck and sickish perhaps from the rough pavé in coming but on leaving Hougoumont at 2 5 thought she could make the round by La belle Alliance (double distance) and off we set across the fields – merely looked at the house in passing slowly by – as we stood opposite it was the room on the left of the door where  the duke of Wellington and Blucher met in the evening of the 18th ‘se mutuellement saluant vainques’ according to the inscription over the door – La grange (the barn) adjoining this room was built after the battle – Napoleon who had rested there quite s’y reposait à midi, proceed with his imperial guard about 2/3 of the way to the 2 monuments (going from La belle alliance to St. Jean the left to Sir Alexander Gordon the right to Alten and his Hanoverians – close on each side the road to Nivelles) and seeing the battle lost wished to fall there with his guard, but Soult said ‘Sire les Anglais sont assez heureux’ and Napoleon turning his head round 3 times (said our guide) criait, sauve qui peut, and himself made the best of his way to Nivelles ........ and Paris – Did Soult thus add to his masters’ happiness or to his reputation? Marius sitting on the ruins of Carthage, and Napoleon at St. Helena!!! Our walk from Hougoumont to the carriage at the hameau (village) of St. Jean took us 1 5 hour till 3 10 – sat 10 minutes in the carriage till the horses were put to and off back again at 3 20 and alighted at Bellevue at 5 10 – the servants dined and so did we very comfortably – our dinner on the table in about ¼ hour – sat over it quietly – paid all – capital Inn – our apartment (n°99) really very spacious comfortable but somehow nor A- nor I had felt well at B- and were not sorry to be off – Off at 6 55 – of the 2 routes equally good, equally beautiful, and of the same length (taking the whole distance from B- to Louvain) said Mr. de Profts’ proxy , I chose the one I believe I went with Lady S- and Lady VC. in 1829, viz. by Tervuren (the other its by Cortenberg [Kortenberg]) and a beautiful drive it is of 2 postes tho’ the road is for the greater part like a green-sided fosse 8 or 9 ft. below the surface of the beech forest thro’ which it passes – at 7 ½ descend to goof white-washed village and steep ascent out of it, and at the top the road se bifurqué – the 2 roads meet – we keep straight or rather inclining left – the other road, right, and enter a fine beautiful perspective as of a long green aisle beech avenue which continues ½ hour (our 4 horses allant bon train) till 8 when in ten minutes we change horses at goodish little town of Tervuren – from there the postboy charitably drove us generally on the parterre – the 2 leaders fresh and spirited and A- nervous – passed 2 good handsome chateaux? country houses just out of the town – the avenue to Louvain chiefly of poplars – but the light had failed us long before our alighting at comfortable hotel de Suède at 9 ¾ - 2 very good bedrooms and  servants rooms for 8fr. – the servants supped – A- and I would take nothing – had the beds warmed – Oddy curled A-‘s hair as she lay on the sofa, and she was in bed (after taking the juice of an orange warmed with hot water) before 11 – I sat writing  out all but the 1st 6 or 7 lines of today till 12 5 according to my watch as I have gone by it today but the women of the house here said it was only 9 when we arrived instead of 9 ¾ - was she not wrong? she was expecting the last railway train from Brussels – 4 trains a day arrive here, - the last at 9 ½ pm. – very fine day – F58 ½° now at 12 10 tonight according to time as I have noted it during the day

[magog-on-the-march]

Lorne Lanning gave a preview of the arc of the planned Oddworld quintology at E3, saying that Soulstorm represents the mob stage of a slow-burning mudokon revolution. In future games (assuming Soulstorm sells enough to justify them), the rebellion and resistance will continue, and will grow more organized. Lanning referenced "what happened in Dubai a few years ago," as an example of what's to come, likely referring to worker protests against poor conditions.

Abe himself is the catalyst for the mudokons to rise up, and playing through a level and rescuing your people, gradually building a force of a dozen allies or more trailing behind you, is a cool, tangible translation of the power of mass action into game form. Granted, Soulstorm isn't going to be a narrative-heavy game, so the "politics" will mostly be limited to toggling your followers from "passive" to "aggressive" and arming them with projectiles of your choosing - but it's very satisfying that the mudokons you rescue in Soulstorm can actually help you battle against enemies as you work to lead them to safety.

Soulstorm is described as being a 12-hour game at minimum, with over 100 hours of replay value. The "perfect" game of Soulstorm will involve rescuing every single mudokon and never allowing any of them to die, as was the case with Oddysee and Exoddus, but fortunately Soulstorm will make it a lot easier to go back and re-play specific levels in an attempt to improve your score. The game will include around 20 different levels spread across seven different "themes," with achievement badges and high score tables so you can compare your performance with other players.

(Full article after the cut for posterity)

HANDS-ON: ODDWORLD: SOULSTORM OFFERS PUZZLE PLATFORMING AND MASS POLITICS

Nicholas Scibetta |  Jun 17, 2019

GAMECRATE

Oddworld is an unusual franchise. It debuted in 1997 with Abe's Oddysee, and it didn't take long at all for word to get out that the game was conceived of as a five-part "Oddworld Quintology." And because Oddyseewas a great game and sold well, we actually did get a sequel in the form of Abe's Exoddus. After that, things became...odd.

According to the series creators and developers at Oddworld Inhabitants, Exoddus was actually a spin-off game, not the true second entry in their planned quintology. And 2001's Munch's Oddysee, and 2005's Stranger's Wrath? Those were spin-offs too. There were also some Game Boy takes on the franchise, but obviously those don't count. And the 2014 remake of Oddysee, New n' Tasty! was just that: a remake, not a new entry in the series. So even though there have technically been eight Oddworld games released so far, only one of those is actually part of the core quintology.

But in 2020, some 23 years after Oddysee first released, we'll finally get episode two of the five-part story, with Oddworld: Soulstorm.

We've seen a lot of games play with traditional side-scrolling platforming in full 3D game engines, butSoulstorm may be doing the coolest take on this kind of thing yet. The game is described as being "2.9d," and as you move throughout the world the camera will switch angles, arcing dramatically and zooming in and out, following protagonist Abe around curves, and generally making the world feel deep and expansive. Three depth layers of platforms are often visible at once, and if you look closely you'll be able to see people in the background slaving away on platforms you'll eventually reach as you go "deeper" into the level.

Soulstorm takes full advantage of the Unity engine to make the game look fluid and rich, and unlike any other side-scrolling platformer out there. In fact even the description "side scroller" starts to fall apart when the game is so willing to curve and change the angle of the platforms you're on. Though the gameplay on display at E3 2019 didn't have a very diverse color palette (it's one particular level of a factory dominated by a lot of amber and industrial tones), the visual effects of fire and explosions were vibrant and well done. Most of Abe's weapons are cobbled together from trash and items he can buy from vending machines (creator Lorne Lanning referenced The Anarchist's Cookbook as an inspiration here), and their effects mirror that. Making a bomb out of a can of soda, for example, results in a popping, fizzy explosion.

Abe Has An Economy

In Soulstorm your mission is to rescue your fellow mudokons from their lives as industrial slaves. You need to make your way through dangerous levels, recruit your comrades to follow you, and try to get as many living mudokons as you can to safety at the end of a level. Obstacles in your way include armed enemies, dangerous machinery, locked doors, and even speeding trains. Clearing paths to safety is the goal in Soulstorm, and you have many more options for how to proceed than you ever did in the classic Oddworldtitles.

Abe has a full inventory and crafting system in Soulstorm, and this looks to be a centerpiece of the gameplay. You gather and purchase resources in the game's levels, and then put together things like improvised flamethrowers and bouncing balls of tape that wrap up enemies. While there was often one specific correct way to solve puzzles in the classic Oddworld game, and you'd try, die, and repeat until you figured out the trick for a particular scene, Soulstorm feels much more open. The items you choose to craft will allow you to progress in different ways, and you'll be able to knock out, kill, or possess the enemies standing between you and freedom.

Yes, in Soulstorm you'll have lethal and non-lethal options at your disposal, and how you treat your enemies matters. There's a more involved "Quarma" system, and killing enemies who haven't harmed you, or allowing your fellow mudokons to die, will result in bad quarma. This system will likely determine the sort of ending you get in the game, but it has more immediate effects as you play as well. Being "good" seems like it will give you more rewards as you play, but taking the "bad" route will often be the easier (or just funnier, or more satisfying) way to deal with situations.

Leading A Revolution

Lorne Lanning gave a preview of the arc of the planned Oddworld quintology at E3, saying that Soulstormrepresents the mob stage of a slow-burning mudokon revolution. In future games (assuming Soulstorm sells enough to justify them), the rebellion and resistance will continue, and will grow more organized. Lanning referenced "what happened in Dubai a few years ago," as an example of what's to come, likely referring to worker protests against poor conditions.

Abe himself is the catalyst for the mudokons to rise up, and playing through a level and rescuing your people, gradually building a force of a dozen allies or more trailing behind you, is a cool, tangible translation of the power of mass action into game form. Granted, Soulstorm isn't going to be a narrative-heavy game, so the "politics" will mostly be limited to toggling your followers from "passive" to "aggressive" and arming them with projectiles of your choosing - but it's very satisfying that the mudokons you rescue in Soulstorm can actually help you battle against enemies as you work to lead them to safety.

Soulstorm is described as being a 12-hour game at minimum, with over 100 hours of replay value. The"perfect" game of Soulstorm will involve rescuing every single mudokon and never allowing any of them to die, as was the case with Oddysee and Exoddus, but fortunately Soulstorm will make it a lot easier to go back and re-play specific levels in an attempt to improve your score. The game will include around 20 different levels spread across seven different "themes," with achievement badges and high score tables so you can compare your performance with other players.

Oddworld: Soulstorm is planned for release in 2020.

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In Your Hazel Eyes (2/?)

Pairing: Ralph/Reader

Rating: M to become NC-17 eventually

Chapter: First / Next // AO3

Summary: You are a customer support worker at a company that works for Cyberlife. The schedule is tedious and busy, so it’s easy for you to get caught up in the cycle of work-sleep-work without so much as finding something to smile about. You decide to take a new walking route one day and come across a garden, and in the garden, a peculiar Android that you grow ever so attached to.

This is the story of how you meet Ralph and fall in love, how you both find eachother again after he goes missing, how he learns to heal from his trauma and live like a free man after the revolution.

The following morning came too quickly. Like a banshee, the alarm beside your bed shrieked into the air of your apartment, abruptly yanking you out from whatever dream you were having. You managed to turn the damn thing off, but only just as the last fleeting moments of the night time visions faded away from memory. For a cold moment you were left to the hard reality of life again--like every morning, it took a breath to absorb it all once more, as if you're entire life had happened all in the expanse of a night and it was up to you to take it and go.

Bare feet against the wooden floor, you padded through your tiny, one-bedroom apartment to get ready for work. It was a cycle you had moved through so many times that your body was on autopilot, leaving your mind to wander from thing to another now that you were, for the most part, conscious. Thoughts about life, about work--those were all simple and tedious things you already had to think about on an occupied mind. No, you let yourself think, to wander about your curiosities and entertain what came forth.

By the time you were in the shower, the reminder of something popped into your head. A face, a smile and a pair of pretty hazel eyes.

Ralph.

And just like that, a flood of memories from the day before returned to the forefront of your mind, acutely reminding you of all that had happened when you decided to stop at that little garden area on the way to work. You remembered talking to him, remembered the way he looked so confused when you asked for his name originally.

You remember feeling so weird that he didn't have a name.

Sentience was something powerful. The ability to distinguish the self was a defining factor for why humans were able to achieve so much in the first place, or at least plenty of people argue as much. Personhood, the right to be, well, alive, came with that notion.

Were androids sentient?

It was a question that came with a lot of weight. Despite living dead-center in the bloom of technology in both time and geographical area, you had a surprisingly low number of encounters with androids as a whole. Hell, even though you worked in a call center for Cyberlife, you had yet to step into a store itself. You were in a position where you could simply sidestep the worrying thought, simply pretend that your life could be its own boring, self-contained sphere.

But you remembered Ralph and his deep, soulful-looking eyes. You remembered the way they watched you, the way they danced with emotions so well--it was nothing like talking to a machine.

A machine.

The term hung on your mind like a coat on a rack, soaking-wet and heavy with doubt. You wondered if anyone had thought about the topic so deeply before, if anyone had been so awestruck by an android’s level of humanity that they too had to question what might have been inevitable of a fact--were they truly alive?

There was such a genuine conflict in your head that you stopped the train of thought--it wasn’t hard to see why some people may have never given it any thought. Would your mind change if you had been around other androids? Was it simply how human Ralph looked that made you wonder?

The entire process of getting ready for work takes no more than a bit over a half hour, on a good day at least. By the time you’re done, the sun is hovering over the horizon of the morning sky, shining down rays of warming sunlight over everything it can touch.

Most days it serves as a reminder for how early it was, and just how much you hated waking up at that time of the morning. It couldn’t have been much different than most workers though--a simple fact of life that everyone had to grumble through in their own way.

Fall was starting to creep into the air. Summer was on its last legs, consistent warm days turning into a coin toss mixed in with cold nights and breezy, cool afternoons that started people to require a jacket or so. The trees had begun to change color along parts of your walk to work--every day they looked a little more red, gold or orange, and every day more of them fell like a shower around you when you walked beneath their shady canopy.

Peaceful. It was the only moments of peace you really had when you counted the stress of both work and home. Adulthood was just like that, you guessed--moments of peace in a sea of problems and issues.

About ten minutes in to your walk had you stepping into the more bustling parts of the outer city, with roads further converging and crowds a common sight along the sidewalks. It was by about then that you started passing through the major square, the one filled with TVs and blaring with sound that, luckily, didn’t seem to come with any anxiety-inducing news.

You heard the distant weather forecast (getting colder, put on a jacket!) and the winner to last night’s sports game (home team won, what a game!) but your eyes wandered instead to the small park that filled the center of the square.

The one from yesterday.

You stood still for a moment, taking in the sights that you hadn’t quite taken in before, when the sun was glittering down over the trees. They too were changing colors, though they seemed yet to lose any of their leaves. There were families walking through the center pathway, a pair of children playing hide-and-seek around one of the benches--the flowers seemed to be just a touch more colorful in the morning light. It was, honestly, quite beautiful to see.

You glanced about the park from where you stood, hoping to see a familiar shape walking about. When you couldn’t find him, you started walking around, circling one side of the park, and then the other. Still no sign of Ralph. The absence of the gardener disappointed you more than you thought you’d feel--an odd feeling for someone you had only just met the other day.

It struck you after a moment that it must have looked odd, sounded odd if someone would have stepped up to ask why you were looking hopelessly around for someone, only to answer ‘I’m looking for an android I met yesterday because it feels like I made a friend’.

The only thing you’d get in return would have been a weird look, assuming the person didn’t feel particularly angry or annoyed with androids that day; unemployment was almost at 40%.

You tried to cover up your searching by sitting at one of the empty benches, hoping that Ralph had stepped away for a few minutes. Perhaps he was gathering the supplies he needed for the flowers, perhaps he was assisting someone who put in a complaint or comment about the park. Perhaps he was just….running late? Did androids even run late to work? That was under the assumption that their work was a job, and they had free time after the job and…

Too complicated, too many rabbit holes that your mind wanted to scurry down and follow to the end.

You stood up slowly from the bench and, with one final glance around, you started the second half of your walk to work.

The office felt busier than ever when you got in.

On any given day, it wasn’t uncommon to take a few calls in a half hour, with most of them being resolved with some simple answer a customer could have figured out themselves with a proper internet search.

It wasn’t unusual to be a bit busy, but it was absolute chaos when you stepped into the building. The air was filled with ringing phones and conversation, most of which you couldn’t do much to pick out from one another; they all blurred together in a constant, buzzing noise that followed you all the way to your desk.

You had a few minutes before you had to sit down and start taking calls, so you used the free moments as an excuse to lean over one of the dividers to the desk beside you. The young woman who sat there, Renee, was a short, unassuming young woman in her early 20’s. She was one of the best callers despite her young age, taking one after another without so much as a hint of fatigue--you often handed her the most capricious of customers since she could handle them so well.

Luckily enough, you found her just as she was setting the phone down. You seized the moment to speak before she would instinctively reach to pick it up when the inevitable ring came.

“Hey,” You said, waving your hand over the divider to catch her eyes. She turned them over to you, glittering green and curious. “So uh, what’s going on today? It’s uh, busier than usual?”

Though you were damn sure of it, there was still a moment of awkward fear that maybe it seemed that way simply because you were bad at your job, hadn’t noticed something on your walk, or a bit of information from last week’s meeting. Maybe even--

“--a new model.”

You blinked, not realizing you had been so deep in your thoughts that you missed nearly all of what Renee had answered with.

“S-sorry,” you offered an awkward grin. “Could you repeat that?”

The young woman smiled and pointed to a screen towards the end of the room. It was flashing over a news story that answered your question as much as she herself did.

“Cyberlife announced a couple new models today,” Renee said, looking back to meet your eyes. “The calls are all from local warehouses and private business trying to secure pre-orders, at least that’s been most of my calls since I got in earlier this morning.”

Thank god for Renee and her wide, exuberant grin. That alone was plenty to calm your nerves, help you realize your feverish worry was nothing more than paranoia-fueled fear. At least it explained things; you hadn’t a lot of experience with pre-orders, but there seemed to be plenty of more experienced employees around you to help if it was needed.

Alright then, it was time to get with the grind. After clocking yourself into the system with the computer on your desk, you saw the red light flicker to life on the phone beside you. After a breath, it began to ring. Instinct had you reach out, pluck it from the receiver and hold it to your ear as your mind started to numb itself into the workday’s beginning.

“Hello, Androtech Suppliers, proud partner of Cyberlife technologies!” Your voice sounded chipper, bright and automated. “How can I help you today?”

By the time that the work day is done, you’re exhausted. Despite having been at a desk for the last eight hours of your life, you feel drained, life sucked right out of you. The sound of ringing phones has been grating against your ears for the last hour because, by god, there is no way to make a tone that doesn’t eventually rub your mind raw and numb when it means that you have yet another customer to work with.

Clocking out of the system is a victory, albeit small in the grand scheme of your sanity, but it’s satisfying to gather up your things and make your way out of the office, the building, and finally onto the sidewalk just as the sun seemed to be dipping out of the sky.

Exhaustion is heavy in your limbs, your thoughts, tugging you down with every step forward. Though there’s certainly nothing physical with your job, the drain is still intense, leaving you feeling so empty by the end of every shift.

You made your way towards home in silence, thoughts gently rolling over the events of the day. Phone calls left and right, one after another that you nearly didn’t have a chance to step away from your desk to each lunch. Renee said that’s how new models usually went down, at least in terms of preorders--it was going to be a busy couple more days until the initial hype dropped and things evened out again.

Working hard for the paycheck, you supposed, though it would be nice to have enough energy to actually do something worthwhile after work every night--Friday seemed too far off to think about, a mere mirage over the horizon that you’d never get to.

By the time you arrived at the halfway point of your walk home, darkness had already crept over the skyline. The sun was gone, hidden away behind the tall buildings and horizon, and the streetlights had started to flicker to life.

You stood under the soft glow of one, looking out towards the garden that filled the area of the market square. At first, there doesn’t seem to be anyone there; the garden itself looks silent and empty.

It’s not quite clear why sadness seems to fill your heart at the sight, or lack thereof, but you’re more than aware that you had been hoping to see a particular face.

Something compels you to stay. It’s no more than a tiny whisper in your thoughts, but it’s enough to give you reason to take a seat at one of the nearby benches. Your feet hurt after all, the consistent walking has not done well for your old pair of sneakers--you really need to buy some new ones, maybe with some extra padding.

When you let yourself drop onto the bench, a soft and familiar voice rings out nearby.

The sound of your name catches your attention, startling you enough to quickly move you back onto your feet, one hand clutching the strap of your bag.

“I--Yes?” you turn your head down the center path of the garden, towards the shopping center, just in time to see those soft hazel eyes gazing back. Ralph approached you quickly, a smile on his face and a gentle flicker to his LED. “Oh, Ralph!”

The recognition poured into your expression and you laughed, falling once more unto the bench when you realized how silly you must have looked at being so surprised at his entrance into your attention.

“Goodness, and here I thought I wasn’t going to see you again,” You said with a laugh gently hanging on your words. “I didn’t see you this morning on my way to work.”

Ralph stood awkwardly beside the bench for a few moments before finally deciding to sit beside you, though he kept very much to his own bubble, pressed to the other side of the sitting area as if unsure how to hold himself.

“I...was required by my programming to get maintenance done.”

You glanced towards him, taking in his gentle features and neatly-kept hair.

“Maintenance?” You asked curiously, if only because you knew so very little about the logistics behind city-serving androids. “Is that something you have to get often?”

Ralph didn’t answer at first. Instead, he merely looked down at his clasped hands. He...looked nervous, for some reason, though you didn’t feel like it was appropriate to prod--it left you concerned, regardless, and you reached out a hand unthinkingly to lay over one of his own.

“Is...everything alright?” You whispered gently.

It was a gesture of comfort, you didn’t really give much thought into the reason behind it, nor to the fact that the being sitting beside you didn’t inherently need for the same comforts as a human--or did it?

Regardless, Ralph shook at the touch, looking surprised at it, and you quickly drew your hand back in the realization of what you had done.

The two of you sat in silence for a few moments, both with your eyes on your hands and your thoughts to yourselves. It...wasn’t a very good feeling, awkwardness bubbling in your stomach, unsure if you had said or done something wrong. Maybe you had--maybe you were trying to make a friendship from nothing. Maybe all you were doing was hindering this android from his job, forcing him into social niceties--could that be part of his programming? To humor humans around him who wanted to talk?

You weren’t sure. You didn’t like not being sure.

Abruptly, you pushed yourself onto your feet, ready to walk off and forget everything and go back to your normal, boring life. You were ready just to toss all your curiosities and worries aside about the gardening android you’d named ‘Ralph’ and pretend that it was all a silly little fantasy.

A hand on your wrist stopped you, fingers gentle but firm as they wrapped around your limb, holding you still when you were about to walk away.

You stilled, felt his grip linger, and then slowly moved to sit back down on the bench, a little closer this time to Ralph.

The silence didn’t last for much longer than a breath or two.

“...Most humans don’t pay me any mind,” Ralph began to say. “We--I--was created to tend this garden, which includes the programming to interact with guests and find out what they like, how I can continue to improve this garden. But….I have never spoken to a human before. Not...like you.”

“Me?” You asked softly, unsure of what he meant.

Ralph nodded. “You talk to me as if I’m….” He paused, trying to find the words. “As if I’m another human.”

His LED was flashing at that point, back and forth: blue, yellow, blue, yellow, red , yellow--

“H-Hold on now,” You forced words from your mouth even when you didn’t entirely have them nailed down yourself. “Hey, it’s alright, just….it’s okay, I promise.”

You didn’t know exactly what you were promising, but it did seem enough at least to calm the android down a bit. He pursed his lips and finally looked in your direction. Did he look….confused? Hurt? The expressions were very hard to decipher when they were all muddled together on his face at the same time.

Ralph’s eyes looked...surreal. Vulnerable. Curious. They looked almost human, if only for a moment, neglecting the still-flashing LED on his temple.

“Does...nobody else talk to you?” You feel confident enough to ask the question, gently, one hand reaching out to him again and falling on his shoulder.

Ralph stared at you for a moment, then spoke.

“Most humans prefer to….hit me. Young humans. Teenagers.” His gaze fell, though it was only for a second. “I have had to undergo multiple repairs due to the actions of several teenagers that live in the neighborhood nearby.”

Realization slowly dawned over you at his explanation, the reason why he was so taken back by an extremely simple act of kindness.

Your hand gripped his shoulder a little tighter.

“Is that why you weren’t here this morning?”

Ralph nodded after a moment.

“I am programmed to tend to this garden,” he said simply. “And gather the opinions of Detroit residents about my work, the choice of flora and any relevant health hazards during pollen season.”

He paused for only a beat.

“...however, the only feedback that has been given to me until you has been in the form of physical abuse by a group of teenagers who, given recent events, find amusement in hurting androids.”

You weren’t sure how to feel or react to the words. Though they were deeply troubling, Ralph spoke them with such a level of distant coolness that you...weren’t quite sure what to say in response?

“I’m sorry,” came out first, seeming the most appropriate. “You can’t….report them? Or anything?”

The answer was heavy at the bottom of your belly; you knew that he couldn’t just do that--he wasn’t a human, so it wasn’t harassment or abuse, legally speaking at least. The offender could be tried for the damage to property, especially if it was against the city, but you doubted the police force would put that much effort into a single civil-service unit when he could just be...replaced.

The information didn’t sit well with you.

It challenged a lot of what you knew and accepted as true, forced contrasting ideals and opinions to play together in your head. It didn’t feel fair that Ralph could be hurt without consequence, it didn’t feel right that he could be looked at with such little worth and, yet--

It started to make your head hurt. It was so easy to be distant, considering you had no funds to have a house android and you never worked with them directly. It was easy to not care or think about them as people when all they were marketed as hyper-realistic machines.

Machines.

Machines?

But when you had one sitting next to you, staring into your eyes as he talked about being hit and broken, it made something hurt in your heart. It was something genuine in his expression, enough that you were forced to confront the blissful ignorance you’d lived with for the past few years.

In that moment, you couldn’t call him a machine. He wasn’t human, wasn’t flesh and blood in the same way that you were, but he….he was still had the same worth, the same right to happiness that you did.

You felt your hand move, shifting from Ralph’s shoulder to lay over one of his hands.

“I’ll visit you every day,” you promised softly, hoping that it would mean something to him. “And if those teenagers bother you again, I…”

The sentence trailed off. You weren’t sure what you could do, if it meant anything to know when people were harassing him. Nevertheless, firm warmth bubbled into your words as you spoke again.

“If they hurt you again, tell me--okay?”

Ralph blinked and looked at you for a long while. You couldn’t make out any particular expression that moved across his face, any sense of emotion that filled those hazel eyes of his. He finally settled on something akin to happiness--his lips pulled into a soft smile and his LED finally settled onto a soft, comforting blue twinkle of light against his temple.

“Does that mean that we are friends?” he asked after a moment. “I think that the interactions we’ve held so far contribute to friendship, though I do not want to misinterpret your intentions.”

For some reason, his curiosity made you smile all the same.

“Yes,” The word sounded very matter-of-factly. “I think that does mean that we are friends, Ralph.”

The evening lingered pleasantly between the two of you from there, shifting into a gentle conversation that moved from topic to topic, though it largely lingered on the garden itself and Ralph’s work in caring for it. It was obvious how much he loved the plants, loved tending to them and watching them grow, especially since it became apparent that each WR600 model was assigned to a specific district and expected to remain there.

Then the topic moved to you and your job, though you felt intensely odd and awkward to talk about how your occupation was essentially selling androids. There was an intense internal fire going on in your thoughts, and talking about your job didn’t help very much at all, making you feel more awkward and unsure than anything else. Ralph seemed aware of the fact and, thankfully, continued to other topics as the two of you enjoyed one another’s simple company.

By the time you thought to glance at your phone for the time, it had grown late--late enough that you needed to hurry home to prepare for yet another long, exhausting day at the office.

You bid Ralph a goodnight and took joy in the smile from him that followed you out of the garden, the sound of his sweet voice still hanging in your ears even as you readied yourself for bed later that night.

“Goodnight!” He had said, so bright and happy. “I’ll see you tomorrow morning!”

You didn’t know what deviancy was back then. You didn’t understand it, the idea that androids were labeled deviants when they finally had control and free-will over their own happiness and desires.

No, back then it was simpler, easier, and all that mattered was the fact that Ralph seemed happy to have you as a friend.

Looking back, it’s clear that night was when Ralph started becoming a deviant, though you wouldn’t realize it for months--not until your friendship had started to blossom into something more.

[denimsnake]

Rules: Answer the questions (which you can change if you don’t feel like answering certain questions) then tag 20 followers you want to get to know better!

tagged by @copperplatescript 

1. Nickname?

George

2. Gender?

nonbinary

3. Star Sign?

Taurus

4. Height?

5′9″ THAT’S RIGHT I’M 69 INCHES TALL

5. Favorite Feature?

i love that i have long pianist’s fingers but that they’re completely useless because dexterity is my lowest stat

6. Favorite Color?

traffic light green!!!

7. Favorite Animal?

tardigrades!!! but i can get along with just about any animal

8. Average Hours Spent Sleeping?

7ish usually

9. Dogs or Cats?

BOTH

10. Number of Blankets You Sleep With?

one!

11. What’s Your Dream Trip?

i wanna take a road trip all around america going to various museums & historical places, especially any place associated with Lewis & Clark, Ulysses S. Grant, or the American Revolution in general. in particular i’d love to retrace the steps of the corps of discovery, but i’m pretty sure a lot of their route is blocked by civilization.

12. How Many Followers Do You Have?

1,278

13. How Many Pets Do You Have?

u h -- 1 dog, 1 horse (there are 5 on the property but only one is mine), 2 sheep, 8 goats, and idk how many chickens. also a few thousand bees.

14. Best Places to Visit in Your Town or Country?

the arizona state museum and the fort lowell museum are both really cool places to visit in tucson. the fort lowell museum is actually working on a living history area on the place where cavalry used to be stationed! i can’t wait for that to open. if you like old movies you should visit old tucson studios!! i don’t think they film there anymore but a lot of really famous westerns were shot there. the sonoran desert museum is really cool if you like biology/ecology. and pretty much any small town in this area has some cool history (shoutout to tombstone)

15. Favorite Ice Cream Flavor?

uhhh probs coffee

16. How Often Do You Read?

i don’t read very much but i’ve been listening to audiobooks a lot recently. that way i can get reading done while doing something else.

17. Favorite Study Locations?

the library tbh

18. Favorite Book?

my favorite book tends to change based on whatever i’m reading, which atm is the temeraire series, which is REALLY good. basically it’s the napoleonic wars but with dragons. but my all-time favorite book has gotta be the hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy.

20 people???? i’m tired so if u wanna do this go for it and say i tagged you.

[anthonycalascione]

Petersen reopens with four new exhibits

The Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles has reopened on a Wednesday through Sunday basis and offers free admission to healthcare workers, first responders and their guests throughout 2021. 

The reopening showcases in-person viewing of three exhibits that opened in 2020 online: “Supercars: A century of Spectacle and Speed,” which showcases the evolution of the supercar; “Extreme Conditions,” which highlights 11 custom competition, recreational, and utilitarian off-roading vehicles; and “Redefining Performance” which features Porsche’s most innovative road and race vehicles. 

Supercars

Porsches

Going to extremes

Also featured is “The Aesthetic of Motoring: 90 Years of Pininfarina,” an exhibition of four milestone examples of the evolution of the Italian design company’s styling. The cars are a 1931 Cadillac Model 452A boattail roadster, a 1947 Cisitalia 202 coupe, a 1966 Ferrari Dino Berlinetta 206 GT prototype and a 2019 Automobili Pininfarina Battista. The Dino will be part of the display only briefly and will be replaced by a 1967 Ferari 365P Berlinetta Speciale “Tre Posti.”

“With its commitment to elegant, aerodynamic design and small-scale production, Pininfarina has created some of the most innovative and revered car designs in the history of the automobile,” Petersen executive director Terry Karges is quoted in the museum’s announcement. “The new exhibit will provide visitors with a behind-the-scenes look at the company’s design history while paying homage to its innovation through these four rarely-seen vehicles.”

Paolo Pininfarina, Pininfarina Group chairman, added, “The models on display perfectly represent our identity, which today is the same as in the 1930s: the centrality of design, an aesthetic sense capable of creating timeless beauty, the obsession with quality, the force of a tradition that combines industry, technology and stylistic research.” 

Tickets must be purchased in advance through the museum website. Face masks will be required of all visitors and the museum will employ social distancing guidelines.

Greenwood Corvette at Hall of Fame

Joining the vehicles on display at the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America museum in Daytona Beach, Florida, is the “Spirit of Le Mans” Chevrolet Corvette raced by John Greenwood, who put the car on the IMSA-class pole and posted the fastest straightaway speed at the French race in 1976.

“Few cars say American motorsports louder and prouder than a big-block, ‘Stars and Stripes’ John Greenwood Corvette,” said museum president George Levy.

“Detroit brothers John and Burt Greenwood stunned the racing world with a succession of rapid Corvettes,” the museum noted in its news release. “In them, John won the 1970 and ’71 SCCA A Production national titles and took a class win with television star Dick Smothersat the 1972 12 Hours of Sebring. John also stood on the top step at the 1974 IMSA Championship Finals at Daytona International Speedway…  and captured the 1975 SCCA Trans-Am title among a bevy of other wins, poles and fastest laps.”

The “Stars and Stripes” Corvette, wearing race number 76 during the American bicentennial year, has a unique wide-body fabrication, generated more than 1,000 pounds of downforce and had a 467cid all-aluminum V8 rated at up to 725 horsepower.

New British car museum

After being delayed in 2020 because of the coronavirus pandemic, the Great British Car Journey museum plans to open in late May in the former Wire Works site in Ambergate, Derbyshire, UK. A 150-car collection is being set up as an interactive, table-led trip through the story of the British auto industry and its role in the global transportation revolution.

“The enforced break, through both ill health and the pandemic, means Great British Car Journey is coming back stronger having given us the opportunity to acquire even more fantastic British made and designed classic cars,” according to co-founder Richard Usher, former owner of Auto Windscreens and of the Blyton Park racing circuit.

In addition to the cars, the museum will offer a “Drive Dad’s Car” experience featuring more than 30 British vehicles, from an Austin Seven to a Rolls-Royce Silver Spirit, that can be driven with an instructor on an on-site driving route. 

For more information, visit the museum’s website.

AACA Museum pioneer passes

The AACA Museum in Hershey, Pennsylvania, has announced the death of Richard Taylor, one of the museum’s “founding fathers,” after a lengthy illness. 

Taylor, of Mansfield, Ohio, not only was among those pushing for the establishment of the Antique Automobile Club of America’s museum, he was its first president and used his expertise from Taylor Brothers Construction to make the best use of its resources. The museum also was one of the first museums in the US to employ geothermal climate control.

Special events this weekend

The “Driven to Win” exhibition opens March 26 at the Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation in Dearborn, Michigan.

Author and Barn Find series host Tom Cotter shares the story of his Cunningham, one of only four C3 models produced with a manual transmission, in an AACA Museum Live presentation via a Zoom webcast at 10 a.m. on March 27.

The National Packard Museum in Warren, Ohio, holds its first in-person educational programming in many months on March 27 when Charles Ohlin, director of educational services, presents “Lighting the Way: Packard Incandescent Lamp History” beginning at noon. Pre-registration is required.

The American Muscle Car Museum in Melbourne, Florida, expects more than 300 vehicles at its “Celebration of Cars” festival scheduled from 10 a.m. until 3 p.m. on March 27. Featured will be “Ragtops and Roadsters.”

The Blackhawk Museum in Danville, California, reopens on weekends starting March 27, though for the time being, tickets must be reserved in advance through the museum’s website.

Autobooks-Aerobooks in Burbank, California, features Dave Wolin and his IMSA RS and Showroom Stock racing books from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. on March 27.

The Mustang Owner’s Museum in Concord, North Carolina, hosts a Fords on Sunday car show on March 28. Among featured vehicles will be a Mustang II drag car.

The cars may have gone to auction but Muscle Car City in Punta Gorda, Florida, still has an open gift shop and StingRays restaurant and on March 28 from 7 a.m. until 1 p.m. stages its monthly flea market.

Mark your calendar

The Kansas City Automotive Museum in Olathe, Kansas, resumes its cars and coffee events on the first and third Saturdays of the month starting April 3 at 8 a.m.

Autobooks-Aerobooks in Burbank, California, features Denny Miller and his book, Indianapolis Motor Speedway: The Eddie Rickenbacker Era, from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. on April 3.

The Mullin Automotive Museum in Oxnard, California, reopens April 9 on a Friday through Sunday basis.

“The GM Oshawa Strike of 1937” is the subject of the Third Thursday Zoomcast presentation April 15 at 7 p.m. at the Canadian Automotive Museum.

The AACA Museum in Hershey, Pennsylvania, will offer free admission to everyone who arrives at the facility in a Ford Mustang on National Mustang Day, April 17, and with a bonus perk for the first 100 Mustangs to arrive.

DeLoreans from the Northern California DeLorean Motor Club will be featured April 17 from 10 a.m. until noon outside the Blackhawk Museum in Danville, California.

The Mustang Owner’s Museum has moved its Spring Carolina Cruise to April 24 and its California Special Mustang Day to May 1.

Beginning in May and running into September, the LeMay Family Collection in Tacoma, Washington, hosts a second Thursday “Cars and Comedy” evening starting at 6 p.m. The museum says to bring a picnic and enjoy an evening featuring local comedians.

Michael Schumacher and Paul Page will be inducted into the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Hall of Fame on May 27.

The AACA Museum in Hershey, Pennsylvania, will host a “Sizzlin’ Summer Cruise In” from 8 a.m. until 2 p.m. on June 19.

There is more than cars to see in Beaulieu, England, home to the National Motor Museum. From June 19 to August 30, the Beaulieu Palace House will showcase more than 250 sculptures in its gardens and inside the Montagu family home.

The Blackhawk Museum in Danville, California, hosts a Father’s Day car show on June 20.

Does your local car museum have special events or exhibitions planned? Let us know. Email larrye@classiccars.com. 

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Looking at 1968 to Learn How to Survive 2020

It’s been suggested recently that this is the worst year in modern American history, which would make it worse than 1968, when both Rev Dr Martin Luther King, Jr and Robert Fitzgerald Kennedy were killed, plus a US Presidential Election brought to power Richard Milhous Nixon and the Uber-corrupt Spiro Theodore Agnew. This year we’ve already had COVID-19, the resurgence of the struggle for equal treatment under the law for People of Colour (which has been essentially ignored and left un-dealt with for well over a century), plus a complete nitwit of a President* who seems to be trying to create either a ‘Police State’ or an ‘untouchabe Emperor Structure of Governance,’ and we’re not even half-way through the year yet!

The Silent Parade was organized by W.E.B. DuBois on July 28, 1917 in New York to protest violence against African Americans nationally. Universal Animated Weekly, Vol 5, Issue 83, 1917. This clip was recovered in 1978 after having been buried in Dawson City, Yukon, for 49 years. pic.twitter.com/Hm7Nydgqcq

Check out the GIF through that link. See? That’s 1917. And that’s only what we have film of, and the first instance of human trafficking in what we now call the United States was in the early 1600s.

So… let’s take look at what people had to deal with in 1968, not with an eye to state we’ve got it so bad right now and to feel hard-done-by in comparison to the ‘Boomers,’ but to see what they dealt with, and then considering what we can learn about how they didn’t go insane while dealing with all the crap they had to. This way, we can protect our mental health in order to get through what we’ve got now.

I’ve grouped events to the end of May into three chronological blocks — Civil Rights (mostly U.S. events, but also elsewhere), General (political events of mostly non-North American locales), and the Vietnam War (including other formalized military events not directly part of the Vietnam conflict) — with the mid-March protests at Howard University being placed in both the ‘Civil Rights’ and ‘Vietnam’ categories, owing to both of those being fundamental to the causation of that particular event.

Civil Rights Events:

February 8: a civil rights protest staged at a white-only bowling alley in Orangeburg, South Carolina is broken up by highway patrolmen; 3 college students are killed

February 13: civil rights ‘disturbances’ occur at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

March 1: the Commonwealth Immigrants Act 1968 receives Royal assent in the UK [learn more about that here]

March 6: the then un-recognized nation of Rhodesia executes 3 black citizens, the first executions since unilaterally declaring its independence

March 19–23: students at Howard University in Washington, D.C. signal a new era of militant student activism on college campuses in the U.S. by staging rallies, protests and a 5-day sit-in; laying siege to the administration building; shutting down the university in protest over its ROTC program and the Vietnam War; and demanding a more inclusive and Afrocentric curriculum

April 2: while filming an NBC television special, white British singer Petula Clark touches African American singer Harry Belafonte affectionately on the arm [read about the details of the filming here]

April 3: the Rev Dr Martin Luther King, Jr delivers his "I've Been to the Mountaintop" speech in Memphis, Tennessee

April 4: the Rev Dr King, Jr. is shot dead at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, casing riots in major American cities lasting for several days afterwards

April 6: a shootout between Black Panthers and Oakland police results in several arrests and deaths, including the 17-year-old treasurer and the first Panther recruit Robert James "Lil’ Bobby” Hutton, who was walking towards the police bare-chested with his hands raised

April 8: Ms Clark’s television special is broadcast by NBC with high ratings, critical acclaim, a Primetime Emmy nomination, and is the first instance on American television of physical contact between a black man and a white woman

April 11: U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1968

April 20: English politician Enoch Powell makes his controversial ‘Rivers of Blood’ speech, which criticised mass immigration, especially Commonwealth immigration to the UK of the variety which was blocked in March by the Commonwealth Immigrants Act 1968

Events in General:

January 8: British Prime Minister Harold Wilson endorses the I'm Backing Britain campaign for working an additional half-hour each day without pay as an economic stimulus measure, causing rifts within his Labour Party supporters who see him as kow-towing to Big Business and un-doing decades of efforts by labour organizations

January 15: an earthquake in Sicily kills 380 and injures around 1,000

February 19: the Florida Education Association (FEA) initiates a mass resignation of teachers to protest state funding of education; in effect the first statewide teachers' strike in the USA

February 27: singer Frankie Lymon is found dead from a heroin overdose in Harlem. Mr Lymon was formerly the lead singer of the squeaky-clean doo wop group “The Teenagers,” noted for being one of rock music's earliest successes and being rock's first all-teenaged act

March 2: Baggeridge Colliery closes marking the end of over 300 years of coal mining in the Black Country of England (environmentally good, but little was done for workers’ job placement in new positions)

March 12: U.S. President Johnson barely edges out antiwar candidate Eugene McCarthy [no, not that McCarthy] in the New Hampshire Democratic primary, a vote which highlights the deep divisions in the country, and the party, over Vietnam

March 15: the U.K. Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and Deputy Leader of the Labour Party George Brown resigns after many months of public drunkenness and wide-spread unacceptable behaviour, culminating in him shouting incoherently at the PM in his office

March 16: U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy enters the race for the Democratic Party presidential nomination

March 22: eight French students occupy the administrative offices of the University of Nanterre, setting in motion a chain of events that lead France to the brink of revolution two months later

March 24: Aer Lingus Flight 712 crashes en route from Cork to London near Tuskar Rock, Wexford, killing 61 passengers and crew

March 28: Brazilian high school student Edson Luís de Lima Souto is shot by the police in a protest for cheaper meals at a restaurant for low-income students; being one of the first major events against the military dictatorship

March 31: President Johnson announces he will not seek re-election

April 2: bombs explode at midnight in two department stores in Frankfurt-am-Main; Andreas Baader and Gudrun Ensslin are later arrested and sentenced for arson; months later, the two escape from prison and with other people form the anarchist/extremist group  Red Army Faction (also commonly known as the Baader-Meinhof Group)

April 6: a double explosion in downtown Richmond, Indiana, the first caused by faulty natural gas lines, the second caused inside the building above by a store of gunpowder; 41 are dead, 150 are injured, and a total of forty buildings are eventually condemned; given racial tensions of the time, some are understandably panicked

April 8: the US Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs (BNDD) is created under the Department of Justice, thereby codifying the racialization of the ‘War on Drugs’ we see today; [read this ACLU document]

April 10: the ferry TEV Wahine strikes a reef at the mouth of Wellington Harbour, New Zealand, with the loss of 53 lives, during Cyclone Giselle (still the windiest conditions ever recorded in New Zealand)

April 11: Josef Bachmann attempts to assassinate the most prominent member and unofficial spokesman of the left-wing student movement Außerparlamentarische Opposition (APO,) Rudi Dutschke, in Germany

April 11: the same day — also in Germany and unrelated to the above —  German left-wing students blockade the Springer Press HQ in Berlin and many are arrested (one of them being Ulrike Meinhof; remember him?)

May 13: one million people march through the streets of Paris, sparking the period called “May 68,” which includes demonstrations, general strikes, the occupation of universities and factories, and causing both the brief cessation of a functioning government (after President Charles de Gaulle secretly fled to Germany) as well as the nation’s economy to come to a complete halt

May 16: just two months after opening, a 23 floor tower block in Canning Town, east London, called Ronan Point, partially collapses after a gas explosion, killing 5

Vietnam War (and others):

January 21: the Battle of Khe Sanh begins

January 21: a U.S. B-52 Stratofortress crashes in Greenland, discharging 4 nuclear bombs

January 30: the Tet Offensive begins, as Viet Cong forces launch a series of surprise attacks across South Vietnam

January 31: Việt Cộng soldiers attack the US Embassy, Saigon

February 1: the Viet Cong officer Nguyễn Văn Lém is executed by a South Vietnamese National Police Chief in the middle of the street, the event photographed by Eddie Adams as well as an NBC film crew, which makes headlines around the world, eventually winning the 1969 Pulitzer Prize, and swaying U.S. public opinion against the war.

February 12: the Phong Nhị and Phong Nhất massacre

March 19–23: students at Howard University in Washington, D.C. signal a new era of militant student activism on college campuses in the U.S. by staging rallies, protests and a 5-day sit-in; laying siege to the administration building; shutting down the university in protest over its ROTC program and the Vietnam War; and demanding a more inclusive and Afrocentric curriculum

February 24: the nearly month-long Tet Offensive is halted; South Vietnam recaptures Huế

February 25: the Hà My massacre

March 7: the First Battle of Saigon ends

March 8: the Soviet ballistic missile submarine K-129 sinks with all 98 crew members, about 90 nautical miles (104 miles / 167 km) southwest of Hawai’i

March 10–11: the Battle of Lima Site 85, the largest single ground combat loss of United States Air Force members during the (at the time) secret war later known as the Laotian Civil War

March 14: nerve gas leaks from the U.S. Army Dugway Proving Ground, immediately killing 6,249 sheep over 30 miles away in Skull Valley, Utah, as well as necessitating the euthanisation of a further 1,877 after they are declared ‘unmarketable’ even for their wool

March 16: American troops kill scores of civilians in the My Lai Massacre, which will first become public in November 1969, helping to further undermine public support for the U.S. efforts in Vietnam

March 17: a demonstration against U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War in London's Grosvenor Square leads to violence; 91 people are injured, and 200 demonstrators are arrested

March 19–23: Students at Howard University in Washington, D.C. signal a new era of militant student activism on college campuses in the U.S., with students staging rallies, protests, a 5-day sit-in, laying siege to the administration building, shutting down the university in protest over its ROTC program and the Vietnam War, and demanding a more inclusive and Afrocentric curriculum

April 23–30: student protesters at Columbia University in New York City take over administration buildings and shut down the university

April 26: the 1.3Mt nuclear weapon "Boxcar" is tested 1.16km underground at the Nevada Test Site in the biggest detonation of Operation Crosstie

May 17: Catholic activists called ‘The Catonsville Nine’ enter the Selective Service offices in Catonsville, Maryland, take 378 draft files, pour homemade napalm over them in the parking lot, and burn them, all as a protest against the Vietnam War; some of the Nine being out on bail after pouring human blood on draft cards the previous October

May 19: Nigerian forces capture Port Harcourt and form a ring around the Biafrans, contributing to a humanitarian disaster as the then surrounded population were already suffering from hunger and starvation

May 22: the U.S. nuclear-powered submarine Scorpion sinks with 99 men aboard, 400 miles southwest of the Azores

The next three weeks see the shooting and subsequent death of Robert Kennedy; the arrest of the American white supremacist, fugitive, and felon who assassinated the Rev Dr King, Jr. (their trial and conviction taking place the next year); the first round of the French elections to be held as a result of the protests the month before; and the official establishment of the CIA’s “Phoenix Program,” involving cooperation between American, South Vietnamese and Australian militaries.

So… that’s where they were at this point in the year. While I’m not about to list all of the things that have happened to us in the last five months (this has taken me a good five hours to assemble, for one thing), it’s probable that 2020 is a fair  equal to 1968, if not actually surpassing the collective effect of the earlier year by this point in the calendar.

How did they get through it then? Good question! I’m gong to call my mid-70s-aged Father to find out. You should call someone at least 65 years old and do the same, as everyone copes in different ways. After reading all of this, at least you’ll have a common understanding of what they went through.

Good luck to us all.

[wsmith215]

Newcastle transfer news and rumours | Football News

Transfer news, rumours and gossip from St James’ Park

By Sky Sports Football

Last Updated: 18/05/20 7:47am

The latest transfer news and gossip on the players linked with Newcastle amid their proposed takeover – and those who could leave the club.

The latest players linked with a move to Newcastle…

Edinson Cavani – Newcastle have been linked with a move for the PSG forward among a host of big-name players (Newcastle Chronicle, May 10); Newcastle have been boosted in their attempt to sign the Uruguayan after it emerged Paris Saint-Germain were not expected to offer him a new contract (Daily Express, May 18)

Kalidou Koulibaly – Liverpool have reportedly tabled a lower offer than Newcastle for the Napoli centre-back (Daily Express, May 18)

Wilfried Zaha – Newcastle have been in touch with Crystal Palace over the signing of Zaha, who would cost around £60m (Sun on Sunday, May 17)

Gareth Bale – Gareth Bale has no interest in a potential move to Newcastle amid reports suggesting the Tyneside club will look to sign him once their £300m takeover is complete. (Daily Star, May 16); Newcastle’s prospective new owners have earmarked the Real Madrid forward as their priority summer signing (Daily Mail, May 11); Newcastle are prepared to spend £53m to bring the Welshman back to the Premier League (Daily Mail, May 13)

Valentino Lazaro – Newcastle are in talks over a £21.25m deal for the Inter Milan star – to kick-start their Saudi revolution (The Sun, May 16); the Inter loanee’s agent has suggested he could remain at Newcastle beyond the end of the season, saying: “We will see what happens later.” (Inter Dipendenza, May 8)

Aaron Ramsey – After a disappointing first season in Italy, Ramsey could be given a route back to the Premier League by Newcastle (TuttoJuve, May 15)

Odysseas Vlachodimos – Newcastle have been linked with a move for the Greek Benfica goalkeeper, although will need to break his £53m release clause first (A Bola, May 15)

Adrien Rabiot – Manchester United and Everton are in competition with Newcastle to sign wantaway Rabiot from Juventus (Tuttomercarto, May 15)

Morgan Sanson – Newcastle target Sanson is in line to be sold this summer by Marseille due to his club’s perilous finances (Le10 Sport, May 14)

Odsonne Edourard – Newcastle have earmarked the Celtic striker as a potential new signing (Daily Express, May 13)

Odion Ighalo – Newcastle are interested in making a shock transfer move for the on-loan Man Utd striker once their £300m takeover is complete (Daily Express, May 11)

Other players recently linked with a move to St James’ Park… Jesse Lingard (Daily Mail, May 2).Donny van de Beek (Le10Sport, April 29)Radja Nainggolan (Calciomercato, April 27)Philippe Coutinho (Daily Mirror, May 3); (Daily Star, April 27)Nabil Fekir (Footmercato, April 26)Fabio Borini (Tutto Hellas Verona, April 25)Managers linked with a move to Newcastle…

Max Allegri, Mauricio Pochettino and Rafa Benitez have been mentioned as potential replacements for Steve Bruce

Mauricio Pochettino – Newcastle’s prospective new owners have made the Argentine their number one choice to be the next manager at St. James’ Park and are willing to pay him £19m a year to take charge (Sky Sports, April 29); Newcastle will have to pay Tottenham £12.5m if they appoint the Argentine as manager this month – but they can sign him for nothing after May 31 (ESPN, May 5)

Rafa Benitez – The former Magpies boss has been identified as an alternative if first choice Pochettino is unavailable (Sky Sports, April 29)

The latest players linked with a Newcastle exit…

Matty Longstaff – Everton have joined a group of top clubs interested in signing Newcastle starlet. But despite his promise, the Magpies haven’t been unable to tie the 20-year-old to a new long-term deal (Daily Express, May 14)

Javier Manquillo – Fenerbahce will make a move for the Newcastle right-back as they look to replace Mauricio Isla this summer (Fotomac, April 14)

Jamie Sterry, Jack Colback and Rob Elliot – All three players are set to leave the club on free transfers this summer (Newcastle Chronicle, April 12)

The latest Newcastle contract talk…

Matty Longstaff – The young midfielder is keen to sort out a new deal at Newcastle – if the Saudi takeover goes through (The Sun, April 19). Newcastle brothers Matty and Sean Longstaff are in the process of changing agents in a bid to sort out their futures (Sky Sports, March 23).

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Tuesday 26 June 1838

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fine morning F67 ½° at 6 ¾ - our Hotel de France very good – the best we have been at yet since Paris – off from Poitiers at 7 5 – thro’ narrow but better streets than last night, and pretty level – passed the grille barrier gate at 7 10 – fine extensive plane all around Poitiers – one might very well make headquarters à l’hotel de France à Poitiers for a week or 10 days, if one had so much time at disposal

(Wednesday Morning à Ruffec, 28 June 1838) and see the old Roman aqueduct ¼ lieue s. pr*s d’une maison [nominée] l’ermitage – and at ¼ de lieue N. Pierre Levée monument celtique – and 1 lieue distant better old abbey of Noaillè and village of Beauvoir le champ de Maupertuis on se donna la bataille de Maupertuis on de Poitiers 1356 at which John King of France was taken prisoner – another Pierre levée near the village of Bellefaye sur l’ancien chemin de P- à Mirebeau – See also at 8 l. from P- Montmorillon and curious mass of old masonry (‘immense étendue de terrain convenient de plusieur couches de pierre’) near the town of Civeau d’l’arrondement of Montmorillon and see Civray again  - on la Charente river in the most fertile part of the department – Church dedicated au vrain Dieu sous Charlemagne – vid. A-‘s nouevelle guide Voyageur in France curious old temple monument at Montmorillon

Croutelle picturesque village at 7 27 and a little damp and small rain spite of the cool breeze or window asleep – Vivonne ill built village – alight to breakfast at the far end of the village aux trois Piliers at 8 ½ by my watch the people said it was only 8 10 – Dirty noisy house – waited ½ hour and wrote out ½ of yesterday – breakfast sans nappe – good milk in very dirty white jug, and good butter and café, and ½ toasted bread and a long roll of yesterday at least for which charged 4/. instead of 3/. so would only give la fille ./20 - - she had burst open the door into the room when we were after breakfast – and in another were a fille and a postillion – riot and noises in all directions – A- and I did job in one room – off from Vivonne at 10 18 red, sandy road – hilly – wood,

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and grass and corn – oat and barley very short and thin – what will A- become she is very little companionable  always poorly or out of sorts ssomeway – wants to be quiet – she is like a millstone round my neck – Le minières at 10 50 poor village – small drizzling rain – walnut and cherry trees along the road sides – goodish oak wood, and, park wise, some magnificent Spanish chestnuts the 1st I have observed and green hedges here and there – red sandy marly ? land, and now 11 25 1st plants I have observed of bled de Turquie – nice well wooded, fine, comfortable looking country but ‘sol calcare et peu fertile’ at 11 ½ good stone bridge over Dive river a broad shallow brook, and good little village Couché-Verac at 11 tolerable little [bong] – nice large old marché – heavy round tiled roof on heavy stone piliers – fine avenue of Spanish chestnuts and walnuts along from Couché V- and fine, wide, extensive wooded country – red sandy stony land – very little depth of soil – not more than 2 or 3 in. apparently and that full of calcareous stone – Chaunoy at 12 40 picturesque straggling village – Maisons blanches at 1 18 small good straggling village – at 1 35 leaving the two servants with the carriage A- and I off to Civray in crazy old chaise de poste with postilion  and 2 horses tout compris for 20/. there and back as agreed with the old post master (né 1766 aetatis 72 and his wife 76) – 3 lieues but the road newly made, a great highroad (route départmenentale) .:. would charge 2 postes there and 2 ditto back – would take us 1 ½ hour to go and the same to return – I had told A- that I feared we should not be repaid and that if we went on without this delay, we might sleep at Angoulême – however she preferred going and going in the chaise de p. – Bon! off we were and such a [?] jolting I had never had in my life – to be sure we went there in ¾ hour (about 7 miles English not more certainly) and returned the same – but somehow anything hung on springs could knock about so terribly I could not imagine for the road was actually good and smooth – no ruts – occasionally newly but well and small broken flints – nothing to jolt on in anything even as good as a Russian Telega? I thought of poor Cochrane so jolted on his return to Moscow that he spat blood for sometime afterwards – I soon found sitting intolerable so made my legs carry me and leaned against the seat stopping my head which saved me shock of the from the jolting, and merely heated me by the uncomfortableness of  the position (there and back) I never spoke nor looked at A- who, however, sat and bore it, and landed at Civray looking as if she had come unhurt – market day – our hotel (trois piliers) all alive with country people – we had a large 2 or bedded chamber au 1er – very old house like all the rest in the grande Place – our windows faced the very curious old church – ordered an omelette for A- to be ready when we came in, and then off to church – A-sat within sketching the interior – not worth it, but I said nothing fearing the heat of the sun outside – the oldest tomb inscription (one of the floor-flags all much worn) I could find was 1427 – no inscriptions save on the floor-flags and these much worn – the interior evidently added long after the old front towards the grande place – this I should suppose to be du temps des Empereurs Romanes – an old 3 arch gateway or façade of Basilica or what – very interesting –the middle archway considerably larger than the 2 side archways – all rich in sculpture – the side archways – 3 moulding each of leafwork and a cockatrice border? but the middle arch very rich – 4 moudlings – leaves figures – cockatrices – lotus? I cannto tell the order of the top moulding tho’ a good deal mutilated, evidently a old very curios representation of the zodiac – as I stood facing the door beginning at the left was

1 Aquarius.  a man sitting in a chair and another astride of his head pouring out a pitcher of water

2 Pisces.   a man sitting (with his shoes off-placed at his right foot and looking like strong ¼ boots of the present day) and  two fishes over his head.

3................. a man standing at something the branchy trunk of a tree, and a goat over his head.

4................ a human figure and leaves and a bird on one stone

5................ and 2 animals on 2 stones above n° 4

6 gemini

7............. 1 stone leafy

8......... virgo

9......... cancer forming the crown stone of the arch (a round arch) –

10........... then 8 stones on the 1st a human head with short horns: on the other stone figures and indistinct –

11 ........... one man with a basket on his shoulders (of grapes?) and another standing in a round tub behind him (wine press?) and

12 scorpio (Scorpion) underneath

13............. two stones

14............... Archer ½ beast the upper ½ man with bow (and arrow?)

15...........Indistinct stone

16............2 oxen eating out of one oblong trough

17........... 2 stones indistinct

over the 3 arches is a broad entablature with large figures and left side (facing the arches)  a large hoses much mutilated our hostess there used to be a prince on his back but at the grande revolution he was destroyed – the sculpture altogether good – the figures round the lowest moulding of the great consists of well done figures in basso-relievo – Roman costume? above the entablature is a moulding along the whole front as if forming the top finish – very curious remain, see it again and have no time and less jolting – the church is built up on all sides save to the grande Place with stables and houses – the clocher has been recently repaired and several other little repairs have been done – one descends into the church by 4 or 5 deep steps – went along the left side the church (supposing me standing facing the west end) along narrow dirty passage the way to stables, and stood sketching an

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old gothic round headed window (but not of the date of the west front) – struck with the window head formed of 9 stones about 3 ½ or 4in. broad inside circumference – each stone rounded or fluted in 4 flutes and the convex of one stone put against the concave of its neighbour so as to form these dots 14 on each side the middle dot, liek nail-heads finished to a point in right 3 sided (prismatic) rays a b   2 elephants with saddle like that and girth all round (across the chest of the animal) on the opposite capital merely [?] the trunks of the 2 animals mutilated but distinguishable – this window looks very ancient, and as the building was consecrated au vrai Dieu sous Charlemagne, may date from this period?

fine country to Civray but red soil not more than 3 or 4 in. deep to the calcareous rock – good road – fine well-wooded country

went in with A- at 3 to see that her omelette was ready then left her for about ½ hour to take another look at the curious west front of the church, and made the tour of the grande place and its old round tile covered wood pilier supported rough paved marché full of little peasant traders and their stables with coarse clothes woollen and linen and pots and pans and bled (corn) etc.

the mistress of the house tells me the country has no commerce but in bled, and a large family has hard to do to live – the new road will do them good and several gentlemen have already come to her house to sketch the church – building a new hotel de ville – Civray being the chief lieue d’l’arrondissement – the old castle (chateau fort) destroyed during la grande revolution – A- took a little sketch of teh curious façade from our windows – off home again at 4 25 and at Maison blanches at 5 7 jolted as before – A- began to look a little dismal but I said nothing – she had a little of Noyau in the carriage – leaned back, lay down on reaching Ruffec till dinner and seemed even better than usual afterwards – herself proposed walking in the garden and the little tour in the town afterwards – stood talking at the maitre de poste at Maisons Blanches till off again from there at 5 20 – he said the 2 hotels at Ruffect were both good (les amabassaders and la Poste – glad to have come to the latter) he mentioned the hotel des ambassaders at Bordeaux and hotel des ministres but on my naming the hotel de Rouen said it was quite new – very good – but being quite new one could hardly say if it was well monté – not much company had passed this way yet – Just out of maison blanches 2 mares with a young mule each – beautiful road – shaded by fine walnut and Spanish chesnut trees and thro’ forest chiefly of the latter and oak – hilly road at 6 pm meet Paysanne on horseback astride as at the Pyrenees – at Ruffec at 6 10 – dinner downstairs at 7 – out at 8 in the garden then sauntering about in the old narrow streeted, boulder stone paved town – no idea the town had been so large – building a nice hotel de ville near in the little grande Place – luckily we found the church – several steps (8? + 4 down to the church door from the street) down into it – very ancient west front in the style of that at Civray but less rich and rather smaller altogether – however very interesting and apparently of the same period – home at 9 ¼ - F67° at 9 ¾ pm small drizzling rain in the morning fine from about 1 pm for the rest of the day

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The Perfect Stereoscope

This post features a collection of images that I’ve labelled “stereoscopes” over the years.  Some are conventionally, some are unconventionally stereoscopes.  Before jumping in I wanted to offer the chance to appreciate the perfect stereoscope.  This stereoscopic image was constructed of no less than ten individual photographs.  They were combined in photo-editing software and together compose an image both visually pleasing and analogically philosophical.

Stereoscopes:  How to Make a Finger Hotdog

A stereoscope allows the perception of three-dimensions from two dimensional images.  How it works: two images show the same thing from slightly different points of view mimicking binocular vision.  One image for each eye.  The two images unite in the mind and create the perception of depth.  Many people people have difficulty seeing the desired effect.  This most often turns out to be because they have difficulty allowing their eyes to see independently one from the other. If you have trouble see the depth here is a brief how-to do that.

1. 2. 3.

Starting simple:

This shape is excerpted from this larger one.  I like the image because the high contrast makes it almost calligraphic which makes the sudden appearance of three dimensions all the more dramatic.  Calligmagic!

You can make stereoscopic images simply starting with a video clip.  A panning shot traveling roughly 10 centimeters (the space between the eyes) will provide the two images needed.  Take screen captures until you find the ones that work.  Here’s one I did of a bust of Dante I saw in a little cabinet in a big antiques place.

The following caption is a bit repetitive but repetition is good for learning, no?  The difference in the screen grabs in the next one though

  Here is the possibility of seeing William Blake’s life mask in three dimensions without being in its actual presence. I constructed this stereo-image by screen-grabbing two images from a video featuring the mask.  The video camera was moving just enough during the shot to provide these two aspects. The two slightly different aspects simulate views from two different eyes.   The video is for Patti Smith’s cover of “Smells like Teen Spirit.”

  Here is a stereoscope or comic strip I made with  Blake’s Lifemask and two of Messerschmidt’s sculptures.

This is from a post originally named “to stay near the well spring.”

Commenting on an old my post of mine,  Nick Mullins said, “Looking through artists’ websites, I sometimes see a thumbnail that looks really interesting, but when I click on it to get the full-sized image, I find that the real image is nothing like what I thought I was seeing in the thumbnail. Sometimes I have gone back and tried to do a sketch from what I thought I saw in the thumbnail. Your discussion of the fish that became a man in a tarp reminded me of that. Sometimes an accident of vision is more interesting than the reality.”

(Here’s an elaboration of what I replied to him:) Yes my efforts have always included either accident or collaboration — you get to new places faster. Plus, employing accidents it’s easier to appreciate what others might see in my work.  It’s only in recent years that I’ve realized that what I simply straight-forwardly produce is a new place to a person seeing it for the first time. It was the most obvious thing but it hit me like a thunderbolt.

Generally I like to think that the accident or other kind of unexpected input points us to a reality we wouldn’t have conceived without it. I don’t mean that in any mystical way. I mean in just the same way a new sound of music will direct our attention to or express a mood we’ve never heard expressed before. Novelty and re-cognition are wrapped up together. Our ability to invent ways to express our experience, to share our experience, always lags behind experience itself. When someone finds a way to say something new about something true, its like a gift we already possess.

I totally get the thumbnail experience. Very often I screen capture a thumbnail at the resolution I like it and then blow it up in photoshop.   The resolution might be fuzzy but most times it retains the thing I saw in it.

It’s true of my own work. I like to work really small: I tend to make less marks and their interrelations are clearer. Then when I blow it up — used to be on xerox machines or cameras, now it’s scanners mostly — I work to catch the rhythms evident in the little one. Yeah, without projectors, cameras, etc., most of my work would be postage stamp sized.

Speaking of stamp-sized:

The first image in this post, which I’ve renamed “At the Waterfall”  is based on this one here. This one is reproduced at it’s original size.  I got the larger image from this small source by a kind of divination.   I used to use this process all the time.  It combines the two things we just talked about: seeing things in small things and seeing things accidentally. The larger image is a painting mind you: I started with a penciled-in grid and painted all those little dots myself.  So there.  The smaller image is from a photo from a black and white newspaper which I hand-colored and amended with pen. It is hard to tell now but the original photo was of a boy staring at the camera from behind a fence. The fragment I used shows (or used to show) his fingers poking through chain links in the fence.

  Stereoscope: Artaud et le Momo.

  William Blake and Robert Crumb:  Neither Two Nor One

Blake illustrates a passage in Dante’s Inferno, Canto 25 describing a six legged snake attacking a thief,  which Dante modeled after a passage in Ovid’s Metamorphosis.

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“Ivy was never so rooted to a tree as the horrid beast entwined it’s own limbs round the others; then, as if they had been of hot wax, they stuck together and mixed their colors, and neither the one nor the other now seemed what it was at first: even as in advance of the flame a dark color moves across the paper, which is not yet black and the white dies away. The other two were looking on, and each cried, “oh me, Agnello, how you change! Lo, you are already neither two nor one!“.”

Charles S. Singleton translation

“So never did the barbed ivy bind/ A tree up, as the reptile hideous/ Upon another’s limbs its own entwined;/ They clave together, — hot wax cleaveth thus, — / And interfused their colors in such wise/ That neither now appeared the same to us: / Just as in burning paper doth uprise / Along before the flame a color brown / Which is not black as yet, and the white dies. / The other two each shouted, looking on, / “O me, Agnello, how thou alterest! / Lo, thou’rt already neither two nor one!”

Melville Best Anderson translation

Style: visual identity & equivalence

I made this post card to send to James Kochalka when his daily comic AMERICAN ELF  reached the ten year mark. My image is based on a photo of Kochalka and his kids and on a somewhat famous painting by someone else.

Here’re the same elements presented as a comparison, bits of multiply reproduced (degraded) GUERNICA and grid paper atop pages from Kochalka’s THE HORRIBLE TRUTH ABOUT COMICS.   This is from a series of photographs I took: videotaped collages I made while I was designing a previous version of this web site (no longer extant.)

And here again a comparison involving the GUERNICA baby: this time posed against Minnie, Vinny,  and some Mayan Glyphs.  I appreciate glyphs, especially with regard to their foreignness. I am always looking to achieve in my drawing and writing the formal quality I appreciate most readily in markings that are illegible to me.

And finally, GUERNICA baby and some grafitti I copied from a barrier on the side of southbound Route 17, around Allendale, NJ. (Graffiti no longer extant, except in the series of photos I took.  I believe this tag says or originally said, “Messiah.”)

Another Stereoscope: Bill and Lynda B.

Stereoscope juxtaposing Plate XI from William Blake’s ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE BOOK OF JOB (1826) and Panel 2, page 74 from Lynda Barry’s THE FREDDIE STORIES (1999).  Separated by 173 years, sharing a similar vision.  I’m sure Lynda Barry has seen this image of Blake’s.   Does that make her’s a copy of  his?  Not necessarily. Blake himself found the poses and compositions for his divine visions in reproductions of Renaissance Masterworks.

I find this likeness wonderful and marvelous.�� I have notes for an essay I’d like to put up as a permanent page here. For now, though, I will suggest the direction the essay would take with a quote from Paul Piehler’s THE VISIONARY LANDSCAPE (pps 19-20):

“The major poets of medieval visionary allegory regard themselves as part of a cumulative tradition, in which each allegorist recapitulates, refines and develops the thought and imagery of his [sic] predecessors, exploring new dimensions of traditional topics, and, most important, attempting to integrate earlier thought and imagery pertaining to the topic into a coherent whole …”

Is 173 years a long time? A bit too long, I guess, for any one of us to endure.   Whatever the number of years, Blake seems irrevocably long ago, from the age of revolution, the mythical time of our era’s origin. His words, images and ideas shine through history like a dead star.  He has, it seems,  joined history — that flat offensive significance of human life which the living are barred from entering.

Meanwhile, Lynda Barry has such a knack for the voices of adolescence and childhood she seems to resurrect a reader’s own past.   The memories she stirs live again.

That makes THE FREDDIE STORIES all the more a marvel: in it Freddie undergoes a “journey to the underworld” which employs imagery familiar from Dante’s journey, even Virgil’s journey. But she builds Freddie’s journey of ” psychic redemption” out of such recognizable, contemporary stuff that she invites us to our own inside of a visionary landscape that has floated along with people for thousands of years.

Style Coloring Page.

“The deeper the influence of the formal, decorative element upon the method of representation, the more probable it becomes that formal elements attain an emotional value.  An association between these two forms of art is established which leads, on the one hand to the conventionalization of representative design, on the other to the imputation of significance into formal elements.  It is quite arbitrary to assume a one-sided development from the representative to the formal or vice versa, or even to speak of a gradual transformation of a representative form into a conventional one, because the artistic presentation itself can proceed only on the basis of the technically developed forms…”

— Franz Boas, “Representative Art,” pps. 82-83 Primitive Art (1927)

  Stereoscope: Blake of the Shtetl.

Here is a stereoscope I’ve had in my possession for over 10 years. On the right is an illustration by Maurice Sendak (1928-2012).  It is one of Sendak’s illustrations for Herman Melville’s PIERRE. Under the image is a caption that reads, “an unbidden, most miserable presentiment.”    On the left is a doodle from a private letter by Henry Fuseli (1741-1825) an artist to whom William Blake admitted a debt.  In the Tate Gallery’s catalog of Fuseli’s work this drawing is titled “Caricature of the Artist Leaving Italy.”  The naming of Sendak as the “Shtetl Blake” I take from Margalit Fox in her obituary of Sendak in today’s New York Times. (May 8th, 2012)

  Blake:  Stereoscope as Comic Strip.

These are plates 9 & 10 from William Blake’s little book FOR THE SEXES: The Gates of Paradise.  I grabbed them off of the wonderful site The Blake Archive.   One way to read them is as adjacent comic book panels: ‘this happens and then this happens.’  Another is to read them as slightly different views on the same thing, as in a stereoscope.  Another possibility is that they are completely unrelated.

  One day in the maze …

the rat met the minotaur.

Seriously though

Style and Stereoscope.

Human creators do not have access to the atomic level (artists anyway) and must discover their own smallest building block.  Each must innovate an idiosyncratic [mark] to which a life’s work can be devoted. Rilke speaks of it in terms of Cezanne, Rodin, and his own poetry: “Somehow I too must discover the smallest constituent element, the cell of my art, the tangible immaterial means of expressing everything…”  After this discovery the artist is free to become a laborer and to spend every minute of life working at “expressing everything.”

I figured I might as well post one of my favorite all time comparison lessons on that style discovery.   Above are two well known paintings by Van Gogh.  One is painted by the artist we know Van Gogh becomes and one is painted before Van Gogh fully realized that transformation.   I think the chief difference between these two paintings is how each painting relates to itself.  The difference between these two painting styles is in the relation between what the painting conveys and how it is rendered. In the first, the smoking skull image, an idea of something is conveyed, however vaguely, without regard to how it is rendered.  The idea is communicated then we notice how it is communicated, the calligraphy in which it is written.  In the second one, the sunflower, what the painting conveys is conveyed through how it is rendered.   It contains no abstract-able message by which we can paraphrase it and do without the painting.  The painting is all.   I like to think that both paintings have the same thing to say.  They are both Van Gogh expressing something, but only in the second painting is the artist mature enough to say what he means.  In that maturity he became capable of “expressing everything.”

When Worlds Collage.

This is a collage in white grease pencil (china marker) of drawings I copied from Lynda Barry and Robert Fludd.    I chose Fludd’s drawing, which I saw for the first time on the front of a book catalog, because it uses the phrase “mundus imaginabilis.”  I mistook his drawing  as a diagram of Sufi mystic experience which I had just been reading about in books by Henry Corbin.  It turns out that Fludd’s ideas were a bit different but by the time I found that out, the drawing had been made.   I combined the drawing of the mundus imaginabilis (which now that I think of it may be the mundus imaginalis in Corbin) with drawings from Lynda Barry because it suited my abiding interest in the difference in accounts of visionary experience in different periods of history.

The Lynda Barry drawings I took from her 100 DEMONS, one of the most enjoyable books I have ever read. These panels come from the introduction where she describes the writing exercise which gave rise to the book (and the title of the book): intending nothing, leaving her brush free to record her every stray thought, she captures the demons that enter her mind. If you haven’t read 100 Demons, I’m not sure what you’ve been doing. You must read this book.

I did this drawing initially as a card for my friend Avy’s 30th birthday. I liked it so much that I made three prints of it, giving one to Avy, one to my friend Kat, and one to someone else (OF).

I post this drawing today because I spoke to Kat on the phone and because today, after years of waiting, I received my copy of Lynda Barry’s latest,  THE NEAR SIGHTED MONKEY BOOK.  Years ago, I put my name on a list so that I could have it as soon as it was available but its publication was repeatedly delayed. I kept getting little e-mails from Amazon saying, “Sorry, not yet” and “oop wait a second.”  So the book finally arrives — with $7.50 due COD — and Kat  tells me Kyle bought the book for her a week ago from the bookstore!

Kat and I spent the rest of our conversation talking about writer’s block, ways of breaking it and how Lynda Barry is the coolest.   Always good to talk to you, Kat.

Two without captions.

  And finally here’s a stereoscope of me

A life mask taken when I was 30 years old.  Twenty three years ago.

A Variety Of Stereoscopes The Perfect Stereoscope This post features a collection of images that I've labelled "stereoscopes" over the years. 

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"The mp3 shifted my energy within seconds; I felt energy running through my meridians and the heaviness in my body and brain lift.  I continued to layer the recording, listening to it everyday, sometimes focusing, sometimes in the background and the following windfalls showed up: I got a new client and an old client who had been taking time off came back, and I won a $3000 contest!"  - Paula / Seattle "Jimmy clears, deletes, rescinds, switches every imaginable and unimaginable issue. I NEVER win on lottery or scratch off tickets. After listening to Windfall a couple of times I went out and bought tickets and doubled my money. " - Rocky / Florida

MyBeliefWorks™ for Amplifying the Field to Co-Create a Financial Windfall

Get 30 minutes and over 100 clearings! Price goes up to $57 after launch week

Buy Now for $44

**ATTENTION** When you get access to your download, it will come to you in PDF format ONLY (you are NOT missing a file) The AUDIO MP3 link will be playable from the top of page 1 of the PDF! (right-click to save). This should ease the access for both desktop & mobile users to now open both pdf & audio on one download link.

PS. I often mention the value in "layering" these audios and that's the benefit of having multiple themed and grouped clearings to focus on separate aspects and word tracks that all work together when layered. So that's why this Abundance series has multiple parts and why we're also making the original 3-mp3 set available at a special price here as well.

LIVE Appearances - Free Healing

LIVE THIS THURSDAY March 12th at 5pm EDT/2pm PDT  Wisdom of the Ancients with Ian Shelley  2020 Clearing Your Vision and Third Eye to See the Best is Yet to Come - Register Here!  

Thurs. April 9th Soul Talk with Patty Malek - Register Here Wed. May 13th The Alara Canfield Show  - Register Here

LIVE Monday March 16th at 4pm EDT/1 pm PDT  I will once again be joining the You Wealth Revolution with Darius Barazandeh as a guest speaker. We will discuss  Breaking Through Your Hidden Plateaus to Progress - Register Here!

Fish Food 

The Daily Bread To Feed The Fish

Tell The Fish: 365 Daily Inspirations & Affirmations

MARCH 11th "Today I will make decisions and stick with them.  I will follow my hunches and purse that which raises my feelings of 'something isn't right' or 'I had better double check and be sure'.  I believe that people, places, and things often show up for a reason and I will seize this day and make it my own."

From the Fish Box

"The easy and simple way of "fishing" does intrigue me.  I took a class from a woman, who in her process of reading, told us that we could break or tear up a contract with something we wanted to clear and that would do it. I did not feel that at all. I did think it was simplistic and that maybe it worked for her but it sure didn't resonate with me. So the intrigue I have with what you do, is surprising. Having been engaged with you on the phone, and feeling the energy of the clearing stuff out of the way, was visceral and I definitely felt it. Much more satisfying!  ​I know there is discernment and depth to your work although the application may seem and appear simple.  I want this to feel as if I can easily apply it for whatever comes up.....setting confusion and remembering techniques and verbiage aside. Thank you again for your help and support." - Mary S.

The Jimmy Mack Healing Radio Show

EVERY TUESDAY at 9pm EDT / 6pm PDT CALL (206) 806-9965 https://www.freeconferencecall.com/wall/goldylocksproductions

Click Here for Previous Weeks' Show and a full archive of past guests & replays.

Yesterday's Show - Special Guest Jeremy Riden  Intuitive Life Coach https://www.facebook.com/JeremyRiden/

March 17th  Special Guest Gosia Lorenz  The Joy of Living Facilitator https://www.facebook.com/quantumtransformations/

March 24th Special Guest Ayla Murray  Psychic, Intuitive, Astrologist, Tarot Reader https://www.facebook.com/harmonicperspective/

March 31st Special Guest Rev Debbie  Our resident trans medium communications with your loved ones in spirit.  Visit her Facebook page

The Jimmy Mack Healing Show is LIVE on Tuesday Nights at 9pm EDT  If you want to Listen in only, go to this website: https://www.freeconferencecall.com/wall/goldylocksproductions OR If you want to call in & ask a question CALL (206) 806-9965 No need to press #1, just dial in and you'll be in the queue. If the Call in Number above doesn’t seem to work, please use this back up Call in Number: (425) 535-9149 when prompted, enter 206.806.9965 followed by #  International Callers, click the link below for the International call in list for your country.  If you're using the Free Conference Call App, it automatically re-routes the best call In number for you.  Please unblock your phone number if you wish to speak with Jimmy and or his guest host. Blocked, Restricted and Private Callers are not brought on air.

Sessions at the Tampa Office 

EVERY FRIDAY AT KODAWARI YOGA STUDIOS TAMPA

I'm scheduling 15 and 30 minute appointments at Kodawari Yoga Studios from 10am-2pm EVERY FRIDAY. *IMPT! You must call Kodawari directly to schedule times and dates with them AND pay them directly at the front desk prior to your appointment UPCOMING DATES 

March 13th March 20th  March 27th April 3rd (skipping April 10th) April 17th April 24th  Call Kodawari's front desk directly to schedule (813) 773-4017 and pay at the concierge desk PRIOR  to your appointment - 15 minutes 38$ or 30 minutes 68$. 3965 Henderson Blvd Suite C Tampa (813) 773-4017 http://www.kodawariyoga.com/

SEE ME AT SWANN HOLISTIC HEALTH *SPECIAL DATE*  FRIDAY APRIL 10th 10-5pm (no Kodawari that day) I’ll be offering sessions at Dr. Charla Tempone’s office at Swann Holistic Health Solutions at: NEW LOCATION! 403 S. Habana Ave. Tampa, FL 33609 Just south of Azeele next to Skin Savvy  Please call their office directly at (813) 873-7773 in order to get on the schedule for 15-minutes 38$ / 30-minutes 68$ http://www.ctholisticsolutions.com

Receive 24/7 Prayers from Jimmy

Your name will be added to a special VIP Prayer list where Jimmy will use his intelligent computer software, src4you which runs 24/7, to delete the negative and increase the strength of the positive creating a higher probability of favorable outcomes for you.  

In addition, throughout the full 30-days, Jimmy will be dialing into your energetic signature each day upon rising and make certain that you are a clear yes, unclear to no and running forward before you start your day. He is doing the heavy lifting for you around 3am NY time while most of you are asleep in order to smooth out your way and increase your most favorable life outcomes.

The 30-day service is now being offered exclusively  and you also have the option of selecting an ongoing subscription ($95/month) which is managed through PayPal only.

Upon written email request, for each new order we offer a one-time email analysis via the intelligent healing software that Jimmy uses on your behalf.  Most clients have had amazing results and outcomes!

You can add yourself and those living in your immediate household and yes you can include pets! Merely include everyone’s names and Jimmy will add them to his daily prayers. *NOTE if the MDP Service was purchased via a special telesummit or radio show offer, prayers will be limited to BUYER ONLY - and will not include family members or pets.

You can run this monthly and stop at any time after the 30 days is up, you will have the opportunity to renew and update your list each month but are under no obligation. I believe you will experience magical transformations and make progress every day! 

Sign Up for 30-Days - $99

**Can't See The Full Email? Click Here to View Online**

Go deep sea "fishing" with Jimmy!

Level 1 is open to ANYONE at anytime! All Mastery Students:  Check your email & Login to view all the newly upgraded content including new books and audios!    

"Jimmy's My Liquid Fish Change Made Simple program is AMAZING!!! He gives you not only videos so you can see the changes within people, but also the books he's written as well! On top of that he's provided all the links and visuals you need so ANY type of learner can do it!!  I appreciated having it to download in a PDF so I can go back to it any time, plus the books and ACTUAL healing sessions so you see, know and understand the whole process even better!!Highly recommend to ANYONE looking to change and make not only their life... but everyone's around them better as well!!" - E.J. / Florida

The Certificate of Mastery Program includes 2 best-selling ebooks and 2 clearing audios plus written & video instructions, AND one-on-one time with Jimmy ALL for about the cost of a single 1-hr session! This online course is for anyone who is familiar with OR new to "fishing" and is ready to dive into the deep end & get results that are beyond the ordinary! It includes The Tackle Box & The Dowser's Handbook ebooks PLUS 2 MP3s "Clearing Dark Energies" & "Increasing Your Intuition" to help clear, strengthen and prepare your energy field for optimal “fishing” results.  This is a work-at-your-own-pace curriculum that will TEACH & CLEAR you at the same time! In under 2wks you will be finished with the program and ready to fish on your own with greater results! Level II offers Practitioner Certification for those who qualify.

LEARN MORE HERE

For those who aren't familiar, here's the list of the MyBeliefWorks™ audio library. 

Find a topic that addresses your issue(s), click on the link to read more. We had a lot of help downloading & channeling these over the years & they keep getting better. Don't forget... you can share these with you immediate friends and family.

Abundance Abuse Addiction Body Scan: Head to Toe Daily GPS Reset Dark Energies/Fears Decision Making Diet & Exercise Education & Learning Family & Relatives The Gold Coin Healing Physical Body Healing Mental Stress Holiday Stress

Increasing Intuition IRS & Tax Time Love & Romance Money Mindset Moving Forward Pain Relief Pet Healing Sales & Success Improving Sex Improving Sleep Traveling w/Ease Work & Career Weight Loss Windfall Youth & Vitality

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Jimmy Mack | Appointments Skype: Jimmy.Mack55 Clearwater Florida USA Book a 15 minute session Book a 30 minute session  Book a 60 minute session  ​ ​​Transformational Healing of Body, Mind​ & Spirit, People, Places, Pets & Situations!​ ​ Download the My Liquid Fish® Starter Kit (*Updated May 2019) Audio MP3 Downloads​ and books​ to improve your life! Get Certified in ​My Liquid Fish® Change Made Simple® Watch Free Videos on YouTube Weekly Radio Show Archives  Shop for ​Supplements ​ http://www.jimmymackhealingshop.com  www.jimmymackhealing.com Copyright ©1998-2020 All Rights Reserved  

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TGIWednesday and receiving unexpected windfalls!

TGIWednesday News

Wowza...time change, full moon, stock market roller coaster ride and a Friday the 13th  happening ALL this week. Panicked?  Don’t care? ... We’ll all be fine.  Regardless of your attitude, know that we are here with you as a support and way-shower. In spite of uncertain economic times there are so many blessings and things to be thankful for.  Our new audio MP3 release Windfall is a prime example because there are so many different ways to receive a Windfall.... unexpected mail box money; just found out about a job promotion; a child getting engaged or expecting a baby; a doctors report that came back all clear; a house sale that went through on one side or the other; receiving free tickets or unexpected invitations. A Windfall could be called an unexpected bonus or a happy coincidence...a piece of unexpected good fortune and it can take many forms, not just money.

TGIWednesday Download

~ A DOWNLOAD FOR RECEIVING UNEXPECTED WINDFALLS  ~ I believe think, know and feel that life can present me with Windfalls of prosperity, abundance and favor. I am ready, willing and able to accept my blessing when I hear or read this now. I know, when, where, how and why to be open to a happy coincidence now and always. I am asking in all languages and throughout all time lines and so it is.

Windfall MP3 On Sale Today!

Having recorded 3 audios to support increasing your abundance, we cleared some very core and outlying issues, but Spirit did not let me stop there and gave me another missing piece over the last few months with our new Windfall MP3. And we're now ready to release the new audio & pay attention because folks, including myself, have seen odd occurrences in our favor that could not otherwise be explained. This new recording is the 4th in our series and it's different in that it is loaded with dozens of unique one-line clearings that together will serve to create and amplify a strong morphogenic field of prosperity. It's all about disentangling, reintegrating, transforming and synchronizing energetic patterns on a cellular and quantum level to open the door to your natural state of abundance and inviting in a windfall and NOT just for money, it includes increases in multiple forms! I myself experienced a windfall of new clients and opportunities coming to me for high profile interview summits as well as a sudden and steady increase in my credit score report in the past 6 months.  Sharing the picture on the right is just a fun visual way to show with you how magical this can be. 

- Aug (710) Started writing Windfall 

- Dec (804) Recorded the audio

- Jan/Feb (816/823) Sent to test group

Each time I did something with the Audio MP3 my credit score jumped. I did not buy a new vehicle, take out loans or pay off anything. Sometimes abundance can come to you in ways other than money!

The testimonials and success stories coming in from early listeners are always a thrill and I'm excited to get an email from YOU like the one's I've already received below:

"Just got done listening to the new "Windfall" mp3 and I was not disappointed.  The word tracks conjure the perfect symphony of what's needed to light up the human DNA and create a resonance with abundance.  Each time I listen to it I can feel any negative blocks or obstacles shifting out in real time....that's how powerful it is.   Also, I just won $20 on a scratch off immediately after I listened to it for the first time, so there's that!"  - Justin A. / Florida "I happily received this email today, perhaps listening to your mp3 produced this? --- 'In Jan 2019, you didn’t cash our check for $543.32. So we’re sending you a replacement. If you find the old one under a bed, tear it up.' - Clementine C.

"The mp3 shifted my energy within seconds; I felt energy running through my meridians and the heaviness in my body and brain lift.  I continued to layer the recording, listening to it everyday, sometimes focusing, sometimes in the background and the following windfalls showed up: I got a new client and an old client who had been taking time off came back, and I won a $3000 contest!"  - Paula / Seattle "Jimmy clears, deletes, rescinds, switches every imaginable and unimaginable issue. I NEVER win on lottery or scratch off tickets. After listening to Windfall a couple of times I went out and bought tickets and doubled my money. " - Rocky / Florida

MyBeliefWorks™ for Amplifying the Field to Co-Create a Financial Windfall

Get 30 minutes and over 100 clearings! Price goes up to $57 after launch week

Buy Now for $44

**ATTENTION** When you get access to your download, it will come to you in PDF format ONLY (you are NOT missing a file) The AUDIO MP3 link will be playable from the top of page 1 of the PDF! (right-click to save). This should ease the access for both desktop & mobile users to now open both pdf & audio on one download link.

PS. I often mention the value in "layering" these audios and that's the benefit of having multiple themed and grouped clearings to focus on separate aspects and word tracks that all work together when layered. So that's why this Abundance series has multiple parts and why we're also making the original 3-mp3 set available at a special price here as well.

LIVE Appearances - Free Healing

LIVE THIS THURSDAY March 12th at 5pm EDT/2pm PDT  Wisdom of the Ancients with Ian Shelley  2020 Clearing Your Vision and Third Eye to See the Best is Yet to Come - Register Here!  

Thurs. April 9th Soul Talk with Patty Malek - Register Here Wed. May 13th The Alara Canfield Show  - Register Here

LIVE Monday March 16th at 4pm EDT/1 pm PDT  I will once again be joining the You Wealth Revolution with Darius Barazandeh as a guest speaker. We will discuss  Breaking Through Your Hidden Plateaus to Progress - Register Here!

Fish Food 

The Daily Bread To Feed The Fish

Tell The Fish: 365 Daily Inspirations & Affirmations

MARCH 11th "Today I will make decisions and stick with them.  I will follow my hunches and purse that which raises my feelings of 'something isn't right' or 'I had better double check and be sure'.  I believe that people, places, and things often show up for a reason and I will seize this day and make it my own."

From the Fish Box

"The easy and simple way of "fishing" does intrigue me.  I took a class from a woman, who in her process of reading, told us that we could break or tear up a contract with something we wanted to clear and that would do it. I did not feel that at all. I did think it was simplistic and that maybe it worked for her but it sure didn't resonate with me. So the intrigue I have with what you do, is surprising. Having been engaged with you on the phone, and feeling the energy of the clearing stuff out of the way, was visceral and I definitely felt it. Much more satisfying!  ​I know there is discernment and depth to your work although the application may seem and appear simple.  I want this to feel as if I can easily apply it for whatever comes up.....setting confusion and remembering techniques and verbiage aside. Thank you again for your help and support." - Mary S.

The Jimmy Mack Healing Radio Show

EVERY TUESDAY at 9pm EDT / 6pm PDT CALL (206) 806-9965 https://www.freeconferencecall.com/wall/goldylocksproductions

Click Here for Previous Weeks' Show and a full archive of past guests & replays.

Yesterday's Show - Special Guest Jeremy Riden  Intuitive Life Coach https://www.facebook.com/JeremyRiden/

March 17th  Special Guest Gosia Lorenz  The Joy of Living Facilitator https://www.facebook.com/quantumtransformations/

March 24th Special Guest Ayla Murray  Psychic, Intuitive, Astrologist, Tarot Reader https://www.facebook.com/harmonicperspective/

March 31st Special Guest Rev Debbie  Our resident trans medium communications with your loved ones in spirit.  Visit her Facebook page

The Jimmy Mack Healing Show is LIVE on Tuesday Nights at 9pm EDT  If you want to Listen in only, go to this website: https://www.freeconferencecall.com/wall/goldylocksproductions OR If you want to call in & ask a question CALL (206) 806-9965 No need to press #1, just dial in and you'll be in the queue. If the Call in Number above doesn’t seem to work, please use this back up Call in Number: (425) 535-9149 when prompted, enter 206.806.9965 followed by #  International Callers, click the link below for the International call in list for your country.  If you're using the Free Conference Call App, it automatically re-routes the best call In number for you.  Please unblock your phone number if you wish to speak with Jimmy and or his guest host. Blocked, Restricted and Private Callers are not brought on air.

Sessions at the Tampa Office 

EVERY FRIDAY AT KODAWARI YOGA STUDIOS TAMPA

I'm scheduling 15 and 30 minute appointments at Kodawari Yoga Studios from 10am-2pm EVERY FRIDAY. *IMPT! You must call Kodawari directly to schedule times and dates with them AND pay them directly at the front desk prior to your appointment UPCOMING DATES 

March 13th March 20th  March 27th April 3rd (skipping April 10th) April 17th April 24th  Call Kodawari's front desk directly to schedule (813) 773-4017 and pay at the concierge desk PRIOR  to your appointment - 15 minutes 38$ or 30 minutes 68$. 3965 Henderson Blvd Suite C Tampa (813) 773-4017 http://www.kodawariyoga.com/

SEE ME AT SWANN HOLISTIC HEALTH *SPECIAL DATE*  FRIDAY APRIL 10th 10-5pm (no Kodawari that day) I’ll be offering sessions at Dr. Charla Tempone’s office at Swann Holistic Health Solutions at: NEW LOCATION! 403 S. Habana Ave. Tampa, FL 33609 Just south of Azeele next to Skin Savvy  Please call their office directly at (813) 873-7773 in order to get on the schedule for 15-minutes 38$ / 30-minutes 68$ http://www.ctholisticsolutions.com

Receive 24/7 Prayers from Jimmy

Your name will be added to a special VIP Prayer list where Jimmy will use his intelligent computer software, src4you which runs 24/7, to delete the negative and increase the strength of the positive creating a higher probability of favorable outcomes for you.  

In addition, throughout the full 30-days, Jimmy will be dialing into your energetic signature each day upon rising and make certain that you are a clear yes, unclear to no and running forward before you start your day. He is doing the heavy lifting for you around 3am NY time while most of you are asleep in order to smooth out your way and increase your most favorable life outcomes.

The 30-day service is now being offered exclusively  and you also have the option of selecting an ongoing subscription ($95/month) which is managed through PayPal only.

Upon written email request, for each new order we offer a one-time email analysis via the intelligent healing software that Jimmy uses on your behalf.  Most clients have had amazing results and outcomes!

You can add yourself and those living in your immediate household and yes you can include pets! Merely include everyone’s names and Jimmy will add them to his daily prayers. *NOTE if the MDP Service was purchased via a special telesummit or radio show offer, prayers will be limited to BUYER ONLY - and will not include family members or pets.

You can run this monthly and stop at any time after the 30 days is up, you will have the opportunity to renew and update your list each month but are under no obligation. I believe you will experience magical transformations and make progress every day! 

Sign Up for 30-Days - $99

**Can't See The Full Email? Click Here to View Online**

Go deep sea "fishing" with Jimmy!

Level 1 is open to ANYONE at anytime! All Mastery Students:  Check your email & Login to view all the newly upgraded content including new books and audios!    

"Jimmy's My Liquid Fish Change Made Simple program is AMAZING!!! He gives you not only videos so you can see the changes within people, but also the books he's written as well! On top of that he's provided all the links and visuals you need so ANY type of learner can do it!!  I appreciated having it to download in a PDF so I can go back to it any time, plus the books and ACTUAL healing sessions so you see, know and understand the whole process even better!!Highly recommend to ANYONE looking to change and make not only their life... but everyone's around them better as well!!" - E.J. / Florida

The Certificate of Mastery Program includes 2 best-selling ebooks and 2 clearing audios plus written & video instructions, AND one-on-one time with Jimmy ALL for about the cost of a single 1-hr session! This online course is for anyone who is familiar with OR new to "fishing" and is ready to dive into the deep end & get results that are beyond the ordinary! It includes The Tackle Box & The Dowser's Handbook ebooks PLUS 2 MP3s "Clearing Dark Energies" & "Increasing Your Intuition" to help clear, strengthen and prepare your energy field for optimal “fishing” results.  This is a work-at-your-own-pace curriculum that will TEACH & CLEAR you at the same time! In under 2wks you will be finished with the program and ready to fish on your own with greater results! Level II offers Practitioner Certification for those who qualify.

LEARN MORE HERE

For those who aren't familiar, here's the list of the MyBeliefWorks™ audio library. 

Find a topic that addresses your issue(s), click on the link to read more. We had a lot of help downloading & channeling these over the years & they keep getting better. Don't forget... you can share these with you immediate friends and family.

Abundance Abuse Addiction Body Scan: Head to Toe Daily GPS Reset Dark Energies/Fears Decision Making Diet & Exercise Education & Learning Family & Relatives The Gold Coin Healing Physical Body Healing Mental Stress Holiday Stress

Increasing Intuition IRS & Tax Time Love & Romance Money Mindset Moving Forward Pain Relief Pet Healing Sales & Success Improving Sex Improving Sleep Traveling w/Ease Work & Career Weight Loss Windfall Youth & Vitality

TGIFunny

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Jimmy Mack | Appointments Skype: Jimmy.Mack55 Clearwater Florida USA Book a 15 minute session Book a 30 minute session  Book a 60 minute session  ​ ​​Transformational Healing of Body, Mind​ & Spirit, People, Places, Pets & Situations!​ ​ Download the My Liquid Fish® Starter Kit (*Updated May 2019) Audio MP3 Downloads​ and books​ to improve your life! Get Certified in ​My Liquid Fish® Change Made Simple® Watch Free Videos on YouTube Weekly Radio Show Archives  Shop for ​Supplements ​ http://www.jimmymackhealingshop.com  www.jimmymackhealing.com Copyright ©1998-2020 All Rights Reserved  

-------------------------------------------------- TGIW newsletter managed by: Sandy Bidinger Digital Marketing Specialist at SMBeConnected Solutions www.smbeconnected.com  

Stay connected!

  Our mailing address is: Clearwater Florida 33756 USA