#my brain is expanding at rates you cannot even imagine enough to fear

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Also, I swear I'm working on the InscrypTOME thing, I'm laying out my thoughts on a Google doc first lmao

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Your thoughts and emotions are becoming more and more balanced and in alignment with each other. In this manner you are creating clearer thought forms about the reality you wish to perceive and live.

Please remember that if your thoughts and emotions flow in different directions or on different frequencies, you will find it difficult to create a constant perceptual field which you can reflect back to your conscious awareness.

There are many things to be seen around you, but if you do NOT bring a vision into your conscious awareness, you will likely NOT perceive it, and/or you will likely soon forget it that vision, experience, memory or choice of actions and/or behavior.

One of the primary outcomes that you are all wish to create, is whether you are aware of it or not, is the slow but steady transmutation of your earth vessel. Your earth vessel is the envelope that encases your third dimensional consciousness.

When your consciousness begins to maintain a steady connection to the higher frequencies, your body begins to shift in an attempt to stay in alignment with the resonance of your thoughts and emotions.

If your thoughts and emotions are not in alignment with each other, your body becomes confused and is unable to create a steady frequency rate. Hence, you will likely feel nervous, depressed and/or disoriented.

Your chosen creative process is based on your thoughts and emotions remaining in a steady state of entrainment. If your thoughts are, “I am ready to return to my innate higher resonance,” but you have fear-based emotions around what you are saying, you will not have confidence in you thoughts and/or actions.  

Then, this unsteady unknown can create fear and insecurity and you may not feel like you wish to face that which you once felt good about. In fact, you may even experience some fear of the because your thoughts, reactions and actions may not be consistent enough for you to complete your desired action.  

Then, your entire earth vessel can become confused by the two opposite messages that are trying to align with each other and with your actions. Fortunately, your third dimensional earth vessel is likely accustomed to your thoughts and feelings being out of alignment with each other, and is far too familiar to have fear-based emotions.

In this case, your body and thinking will likely stay in the safety zone of the third dimension. However, because of the your conscious, or unconscious, desire to return to your higher frequency of consciousness and reality, you will likely feel a great sense of limitation or loneliness for something or someone that you have lost. These types of thoughts and emotions lower your consciousness. It is then that the process of transmutation of your earth vessel comes to a halt.

On the other hand, when you begin to have experiences in which you feel a unique and deeply comforting feeling, you will likely feel like you are returning to your transmutation process. These memories may not include exactly what you were returning to, but they will likely give you a great deal of hope and reassurance.  

Without this hope and reassurance, it is difficult to keep your consciousness on the “path of expanding your consciousness,” and your general “sense of self” can greatly diminish. It is then that you may feel as though you are “cast adrift on a hostile planet.” However, Gaia is not hostile. What is hostile is the humans who wish to halt Gaia’s transmutation.

These dark ones serve to halt Gaia’s transmutation because deep inside they know that they could not transmute with her. These people are usually filled with fear, anger and negative thinking. Do you see now how these “enemies” are actually tormented people who cannot allow themselves the gift of transmutation?

If you can realize that fact, your fear and anger will be released, or greatly diminished. With your own fear and anger diminished, your emotions come into entrainment with your emotional desire to return the higher realities that flickers just beyond your physical perceptions.

Fortunately, these higher dimensional perceptions expand your consciousness so that you can continue your personal process of transmutation. While in this process you become increasingly aware of how your thoughts effect your emotions and your emotions affect your thoughts.

It is then that you are remembering that your thoughts and emotions have infinitely been connected. You also are remembering that your long sojourn through the third dimension is cycling back to return to the awareness of your true Multidimensional SELF. Therefore, you are remembering that you chose to enter third dimensional Earth to assist with planetary ascension.

Do you also remember that YOU have ascended several times? Do you remember that that is why you were chosen to take an earth vessel during this NOW of Gaia’s shift? The memory of your past ascensions will greatly assist you to align your thoughts and emotions to create the thought forms of personal and planetary ascension.

Once your thoughts and emotions are in alignment with the joy and privilege of assisting with planetary ascension, your Lightbody begins to awaken from deep within your earth vessel. Your Lightbody is nestled in the core of your Kundalini, which is within the core of your spinal cord.

Before you connect with this latent energy field within your core, we ask you to connect your own core with the core of Gaia. Because you are wearing a humanoid form, your core is long and runs up and down your spine. Conversely, Gaia’s core is within the center of her circular, planetary form.

We suggest that you allow your self to remember the many times your consciousness has visited the core of Gaia. When you entrain your thoughts with your emotions AND entrain your personal core with Gaia’s planetary core, your human vessel comes into alignment with Gaia’s planetary vessel.

When you are in alignment and entrainment with the planet, you feel very safe and comforted. Furthermore, when you align your thoughts with the emotions of safety and comfort, you will likely be more happy, loving, and helpful to others as they go through their personal transmutation.

Since Gaia is transmuting, and you are entrained with Her planetary transmutation, your personal transmutation is greatly accelerated. You can best maintain your alignment with Gaia by entraining your consciousness with Unconditional Love and Unselfish Thoughts of serving Gaia and all Her inhabitants.

This alignment with Unconditional Love and Service to ALL life is vital because that state of consciousness best allows Gaia to assist you, just as you are assisting Her. “How can the planet assist me?” you may ask. The answer is that once you love and serve all life, you realize that every component Gaia’s planet is alive and sentient.

Your transmutation begins with your own body’s elements of earth, air, fire and water. These four 3D elements are in constant resonance with their fifth dimensional elementals of Gnomes (earth), Sylphs (air), Salamanders (fire) and Undines (water).

With each inhale you can choose to breathe into Gaia’s fifth dimensional elementals and assist them to intermingle with your own inner elementals of the earth, air, fire (synapses,) and water. With each exhale, you breathe into Gaia’s elementals, and with every outbreath you intermingle all the elementals with “all that is within your self!”.

Hence, with every in breath and out breath you merge more and more deeply with the planet on a basic elemental level. This process begins, and is greatly amplified, when you merge your thoughts and emotions to create the thought-form of ascension.

Then you can more easily merge your physical body with your ascension body. Your ascension body is your Lightbody, which is awaiting re-birth in the core of your Kundalini, which is in the core of your spine.

Once consciously aligned with your own core, you can merge your transmuting core with Gaia’s transmuting core. While in your core you can merge your third dimensional elements of earth, air, fire and water with your fifth dimensional elementals of earth, air, fire and water to escalate the transmutation of your personal form. In this manner you can best assist Gaia by merging your personal elementals with Gaia’s planetary elementals.

Can you see how human and planet are becoming ONE?

Do you also understand how you must first become ONE with your personal potential before you can become ONE with Gaia’s planetary potential?

This process of merging with all life around you can only occur once you have merged with all life inside you.

It is within the core of your self that you can deeply experience being within the core of the planet. Remember that the higher frequencies/dimensions are not above you; they are within you. In the same manner, the lower frequencies/dimensions are not below you, but around you. Do you see now how YOU are a Portal?

When you travel inter-dimensionally, you do not go out or up, you go in and through. Turn around inside yourself and see the light resonating from your inner core. The mere act of using your fifth dimensional imagination to look inside your self expands your consciousness enough for you to perceive your own inner light.

You do not have this inner light because you are “good.” You have this inner light because you are a “alive.” The polarities of good and bad mean nothing in the fifth dimension, as they do not exist at that frequency.

In the fifth dimension and beyond there are NO polarities. We realize that freedom from all polarities is a novel concept for your third dimensional brain. However, even the term “polarity” does not exist in the fifth dimension and beyond.

When you travel inter-dimensionally, your first “landing pad” will be a fifth-dimensional expression of your own Multidimensional SELF. (“a” because you have myriad fifth-dimensional expressions of SELF) However, your fifth dimensional SELF is not separate from the fifth dimensional SELVES of others.

In fact, there is no fifth dimensional concept of “others.” Everyone is an expression of the same Oness. Thus, everyone is in constant connection with everyone, just as all your fingers are in constant communication with your hand. Also, your hand is in total unity with your body, which is merging with your Lightbody. Actually, your Lightbody hand appears more as a flash of light, than a palm with fingers.

Your Lightbodies are totally adaptable to every situation. Therefore, if you are on the Starship ready to great guest, you may choose to wear any form that will make the guest feel comfortable. Wearing a form in the fifth dimension is similar to wearing a uniform. Your uniform merges with you so that you appear to be wearing a body that is wearing a uniform.

You usually choose to wear a form when you present your SELF to third dimensional humans, including your own third dimensional self. In this manner, you can share your unconditional love and multidimensional light without frightening their, or your, third dimensional expression.

Just as your body is transmuting into a “light body,” Gaia’s planet is transmuting into a “light planet.” This light planet will no longer need to confine Her great essence within a dense, third-dimensional shell. In fact, the animals, plants and aspects of nature that have become extinct to the third dimension have actually been the leaders of re-location from density into light.

When you begin your conscious visits to fifth dimensional Earth you will be happy to see that many of the flora, fauna and humans you believed have died or become extinct have only “died” to the resonance of the third dimension. They lived the timeline that they chose and have NOW re-located to a version of reality that does not exist in “time.”

“Time” and “space” merged to become the 3D Matrix of Earth. When you leave time and the sequential space that time created, you leave the 3D Matrix and return to the fifth dimensional resonance and beyond. We say “resonance” because the fifth dimension is not static in the same manner as the third dimension.

If you look out into your yard and see a big tree, it will remain exactly where it is no matter what your state of consciousness, intention or belief. If you were to see that tree from a fourth dimension frequency it would sill be bound by many of the 3D rules such as the roots go down into the earth and the branches go up into the sky.

Conversely, in the fifth dimension, you may not see a tree, but when you think, “I wish there was a big shade tree next to me.” with your next blink you see the tree. If you wanted the tree to be taller, your thoughts would change the size of the tree. One thing you could NOT do in the fifth dimension would be to “chop down the tree.”

All life is always respected in the fifth dimension. Hence, if you did not want to be by that tree, you could transport to another location, or shift your reality to no longer have a tree. If there was no tree, and you decide you do want one, you would just think about how wonderful it would be to have a beautiful tree beside you.

You would then connect your thoughts of, “I would like a tree beside me,” with the image of the tree. Then you would feel the emotions of the comfort of the tree, enjoy the feeling of the tree’s shade and the beauty of the tree. You may also choose to enjoy merging with the life force of the tree and its many inhabitants.

In other words, you would merge your consciousness with the experience of being besides a tree. You would then allow your perceptions to follow the dictates of you imagination so that you perceive what your imagination is creating, while you simultaneously create what you wish to perceive.

Again, your inner, higher dimensional SELF would project out your inner thought-form and fill it with unconditional love and multidimensional light to give your thought-form fifth dimensional life. All fifth dimensional life exists within the NOW of the ONE. Hence, all life is accepted and appreciated as a living, sentient being that shares the same frequency of consciousness as your own.

In this same manner you can unite with your Divine Complement, ascended friends from physical Earth, your Mission and/or your Guides who are actually higher dimensional expressions of your own Multidimensional SELF. All of these experiences exist infinitely within the NOW of the fifth dimensional ONE to display infinite versions of “All That Is.”

The All That IS contains every possible reality that IS. YOU set the appearance and members of your reality with your own thought-forms. Then YOU are the creator of your perceptions AND your perceptions are the creator of your environment.

In other words, “Perception IS Creation.” You perceive what you want to create and create what you want to perceive.

Your desire creates the perceptions that represent that which you wish to perceive.

You may ask, “Are perceptions and creations separate or merged terms?”            The answer depends on your state of consciousness,                        which dictates your frequency of reality,                                    which determents how you perceive your world.

All realities travel in a circular path of creation/perception and perception/creation. In the fifth dimension and beyond there is NO separation between “perception” and/or “creation.”

In fact, in the higher dimensional worlds there is NO communications of separate words spread out in a sequential order. ALL is within the NOW of the ONE. All that you could desire, perceive, create or communicate is within that NOW with which you are ONE!

Blessings dear Ascending Ones, We, your Galactic Family, are ONE with you NOW

Blessings dear Ascending Ones, We are ONE with you NOW

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• A lot of folks are still demanding more evidence before they actually consider Iraq a threat. For example, France wants more evidence. And you know I’m thinking, the last time France wanted more evidence they rolled right through Paris with the German flag. – David Letterman • A thoughtful mind, when it sees a nation’s flag, sees not the flag, but the nation itself. – Henry Ward Beecher • A thoughtful mind, when it sees a Nation’s flag, sees not the flag only, but the Nation itself; and whatever may be its symbols, its insignia, he reads chiefly in the flag the Government, the principles, the truths, the history which belongs to the Nation that sets it forth. – Henry Ward Beecher • After I left D.C. to join Black Flag, I felt I was in a band. – Henry Rollins • America has an almost obscene infatuation with itself. Has there ever been a big, powerful country that is as patriotic as America? And patriotic in the tinniest way, with so much flag waving? You’d really think we were some poor little republic, and that if one person lost his religion for one hour, the whole thing would crumble. America is the real religion in this country. – Norman Mailer • America is the only country in the world where you can burn the flag but can’t tear the tag off the mattress. – Jackie Mason • And the word is capitalism. We are too mealy-mouthed. We fear the word capitalism is unpopular. So we talk about the free enterprise system and run to cover in the folds of the flag and talk about the American Way of Life. – Eric Johnston • And when we view a flag, which to the eye is beautiful, and to contemplate its rise and origin inspires a sensation of sublime delight, our national honor must unite with our interests to prevent injury to the one, or insult to the other. – Thomas Paine • Any power must be an enemy of mankind which enslaves the individual by power and by force, whether it arises under the Fascist or the Communist flag. All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded to the individual. – Albert Einstein • As Conservatives, We Don’t Care About The Color of Your Skin, We Care About The Color of Our Flag – Allen West • As long as I live, I will never forget that day 21 years ago when I raised my hand and took the oath of citizenship. Do you know how proud I was? I was so proud that I walked around with an American flag around my shoulders all day long. – Arnold Schwarzenegger • As National Socialists we see our program in our flag. In the red we see the social idea of the movement. – Adolf Hitler • Ashcroft vowed to] spare no effort to preserve the rights of all our citizens to pledge allegiance to the American flag. – John Ashcroft • At least in my country, we have come to accept the flags burning, but what we cannot accept is violence, burning of embassies and intimidations, and there is no excuse for that. – Daniel Fried

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He did not order the flag at half-mast at all for Lady Thatcher. – Rush Limbaugh • Call it ‘nationalism’ when you affix a flag to your car, and leave the word ‘patriotism’ for your efforts to make this country a kinder, more egalitarian place, and one that is less dangerous to the rest of the world. – Barbara Ehrenreich • Can you imagine what Bush would say if someone like Hugo Chavez asked him for a little piece of land to install a military base, and he only wanted to plant a Venezuelan flag there?- Jose Saramago • Canadians are fond of a good disaster, especially if it has ice, water, or snow in it. You thought the national flag was about a leaf, didn’t you? Look harder. It’s where someone got axed in the snow. – Margaret Atwood • Democratic Rep. Charles Schumer of New York made a plea to Livingston, the incoming speaker. These new hearings, these new subpoenas wave a red flag that common sense and common wisdom are not welcome here, .. Mr. Livingston, this may be the first and most important task you will ever face as speaker. Lead us out of this abyss. – Charles Schumer • Donald Trump appears to be searching for an enemy. Is it flag burners, recounts, the press, the popular vote? Trump has gone after them all at times, using wild experience theories even as president-elect to do it. – Chuck Todd • Emblem: the carapace of the great crowned snail is painted with all the flags of the United Nations. – Mason Cooley • Even if only one guerilla cub survives the prolonged struggle, I am confident that he will raise the flag of Palestine overJerusalem… Jerusalem is destined to be the eternal capital of our sovereign, independent Palestinian state under the P.L.O. leadership. – Yasser Arafat • Even if the flag burning amendment does become law, the larger problem will remain of how to respectfully dispose of older, tattered flags. Well, fortunately the U.S. official Flag Code has a suggestion about this. “The flag, when it is in such a condition that it is no longer a fitting emblem of display, should be destroyed in a dignified way, preferably by burning.” Owwwwcchh. In response, the House Republicans are calling for tattered flags to be kept alive via a feeding tube. – Jon Stewart • Every man that tried to destroy the Government, every man that shot at the holy flag in heaven, every man that starved our soldiers… every man that wanted to burn the negro, every one that wanted to scatter yellow fever in the North, every man that opposed human liberty, that regarded the auction-block as an altar and the howling of the bloodhound as the music of the Union, every man who wept over the corpse of slavery, that thought lashes on the naked back were a legal tender for labour performed, every one willing to rob a mother of her child – every solitary one was a Democrat. – Robert Green Ingersoll • Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats. – H. L. Mencken • Every time a colony wants independence, the questions on the agenda are: a) how do you get the imperialists out, and b) what kind of society do you build? There are usually the bourgeois nationalists who say, ���Let’s just change the flag and keep everything as it was.’ Then there are the revolutionaries who say, ‘Let’s change the property laws.’ It’s always a critical moment. – Ken Loach • Every time I hit a shot, I feel like I am shaking hands with the flag stick. – Moe Norman • Everything becomes agitated. Ideas quick-march into motion like battalions of a grand army to its legendary fighting ground, and the battle rages. Memories charge in, bright flags on high; the cavalry of metaphor deploys with a magnificent gallop; the artillery of logic rushes up with clattering wagons and cartridges; on imagination’s orders, sharpshooters sight and fire; forms and shapes and characters rear up; the paper is spread with ink – for the nightly labor begins and ends with torrents of this black water, as a battle opens and concludes with black powder.- Honore de Balzac • Fascism will come to America wrapped in a flag. – Sinclair Lewis • Flag desecration is not a constitutional issue for the courts. It is a political one that belongs to the people. – Larry Craig • Flag of the free heart’s hope and home! By angel hands to valour given, Thy stars have lit the welkin dome; And all thy hues were born in heaven. – Joseph Rodman Drake • Flags are bits of colored cloth used first to shrinkwrap people’s brains and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead. – Arundhati Roy • For black folks, the Confederate flag represents the same thing that the Nazi flag represents to the Jews. There is absolutely no difference when we look at it. Now, white folks try to explain it away like, ‘Oh, it’s OK.’ But when you’re black, it is not OK. It represents oppression and murder. – Ken Page • For me, I’m just trying to be the best at what I do. I’ll wave an Asian American flag if I get that opportunity. I’m not hiding or trying to discredit my background or anything, I just haven’t had the opportunity. – Chad Hugo • Ford used to come to work in a big car with two Admiral’s flags, on each side of the car. His assistant would be there with his accordion, playing, Hail to the Chief. – Richard Widmark • Getting that audience approval is always a question mark, and it’s always that flag that flutters in front of you. – William Shatner • Growth at an exceptional rate is a red flag in banking. It is hard enough to manage an ordinary bank; to control a sprouting weed is well-nigh impossible. If loans are expanding too quickly, the lending officers have probably been saying ‘yes’ too frequently. – James Grant • Haul up the flag, you mourners, Not half-mast but all the way; The funeral is done and disbanded; The devil’s had the final say. – Karl Shapiro • Have not I myself known five hundred living soldiers sabred into crows’ meat for a piece of glazed cotton, which they call their flag; which had you sold it at any market-cross, would not have brought above three groschen? – Thomas Carlyle • He is a poor patriot whose patriotism does not enable him to understand how all men everywhere feel about their altars and their hearthstones, their flag and their fatherland. – Harry Emerson Fosdick • I always carried a small American flag red white and blue with me so people would know I was from America. – George Foreman • I am not the flag: not at all. I am but its shadow. – Franklin Knight Lane • I believe in America. I’m one of those silly flag wavers. – Paul Prudhomme • I believe our flag is more than just cloth and ink. It is a universally recognized symbol that stands for liberty, and freedom. It is the history of our nation, and it’s marked by the blood of those who died defending it. – John Thune • I believe that movements to suppress wrongs can be carried out under the protection of our flag. – Mother Jones • I came to the resolve that the attempt was not only worth trying, but should be tried in the very near future if we wanted at all to keep our flag flying; for I was sure as of my own existence that if another decade was allowed to pass without an endeavour of some kind or another to shake off an unjust yoke, the Irish people would sink into lethargy from which it would be impossible for any patriot . . . to arouse them . . . – James Stephens • I can train a monkey to wave an American flag. That does not make the monkey patriotic. – Scott Ritter • I can’t fly a flag for monogamy or whatever the opposite is; it depends on the person and on the situation. – Sting • I consider that 9/11 was the day when war was started against my own work and against myself. Even though we are not sure of the links, Iraq was one of the countries that did not lower its flags in mourning on 9/11. – Adam Michnik • I don’t judge others. I say if you feel good with what you’re doing, let your freak flag fly. – Sarah Jessica Parker • I don’t want the news to be patriotic. I don’t want to see flags on the lapels of the anchors. I don’t want any of that. – Aaron McGruder • I expect the Republicans will enjoy a large bounce out of their convention. They’re here wrapping themselves in the 9/11 flag, which I think is inappropriate in many ways, but it’s their choice. – Harold Ford, Jr. • I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me. – H. P. Lovecraft • I feel like I’m waving the flag for musicianship, trying to bring back bands that can play. – Jonathan Davis • I feel there should have been some recognition of the Spice Girls at this year’s 25th anniversary. We flew the flag for Britain around the globe in the 1990s and we achieved a hell of a lot. – Melanie Chisholm • I had an encyclopedia with a list of flags in the back, so I would look at all these flags of China and Liberia and England and Denmark and whatever, and I learned all the different flags and I tried to imagine what it would be like to be voyaging on some of these ships. – George R. R. Martin • I have a great respect for the flag, (but) if the government passed a law saying that I had to pledge allegiance to the flag, I don’t think I would do it. I’ve always felt that I lived in a country…where if I wanted to worship God as a Baptist, I could do so. If I were an atheist, I could be one. If I wanted to be a Catholic but was born a Jew, there’s no condemnation…from a government authority. – Jimmy Carter • I intend to talk about race during this election in the South because the Republicans have been talking about it since 1968 in order to divide us. And I’m going to bring us together. Because you know what? You know what? White folks in the South who drive pickup trucks with Confederate flag decals in the back ought to be voting with us and not them, because their kids don’t have health insurance either and their kids need better schools too. – Howard Dean • I learned this a long time ago. If you call a guy into your office and shut the door, if there’s media around, it sends up a red flag. I never wanted to embarrass a player. – Jim Leyland • I look for the entrepreneur to capture my attention. If you don’t come out with a great presentation, you’re dead. That’s a big red flag. – Robert Herjavec • I mean Black Flag happened. I was lucky. I don’t think I could have put together something with one percent of that oomph on my own. – Henry Rollins • I pledge allegiance to the Christian flag, and to the Savior, for whose Kingdom it stands, one Savior, crucified, risen, and coming again, with life and liberty for all who believe. – Dan Quayle • I prefer a man who will burn the flag and then wrap himself in the constitution to a man who will burn the constitution and then wrap himself in the flag. – Craig Washington • I savored my time on top of the podium by watching the American flag rise up out of the crowd as the anthem played, thinking about how every single second of training I’ve done was for this minute and how many people played a role in my achievement. – Hannah Kearney • I stand fearlessly for small dogs, the American Flag, motherhood and the Bible. That’s why people love me. – Art Linkletter • I still want to be the candidate for guys with Confederate flags in their pickup trucks.- Howard Dean • I think love is blind. I hate to use that cliched statement, but people, when they love somebody, they seem to be able to somehow to put aside red flags. – Eric Close • I would warn Orlando that you’re right in the way of some serious hurricanes, and I don’t think I’d be waving those flags [gay pride flags] in God’s face if I were you, This is not a message of hate , this is a message of redemption. But a condition like this will bring about the destruction of your nation. It’ll bring about terrorist bombs; it’ll bring earthquakes, tornadoes, and possibly a meteor. – Pat Robertson • I wrote the script of Patton. I had this very bizarre opening where he stands up in front of an American flag and gives this speech. Ultimately, I was fired. When the script was done, they hired another writer and that script was forgotten. – Francis Ford Coppola • I’d buy myself a cabin on the beach, I’d put some glue in my navel, and I’d stick a flag in there. Then I’d wait to see which way the wind was blowing. – Albert Camus • If a jerk burns the flag, America is not threatened, democracy is not under siege, freedom is not at risk. – Gary Ackerman • If I fall, pick up the flag, kiss it, and keep on going. – Omar Torrijos • If one, then, asks me the meaning of our flag, I say to him, It means just what Concord and Lexington meant, what Bunker Hill meant; it means the whole glorious Revolutionary War, which was, in short, the rising up of a valiant young people against an old tyranny, to establish the most momentous doctrine that the world had ever known – the right of men to their own selves and to their liberties. – Henry Ward Beecher • If the flag of an armed enemy of the U.S. is allowed to fly over government buildings, then it implies that slavery, or at least the threat of slavery, is sanctioned by that government and can still legally exist. – Amiri Baraka • If the test of patriotism comes only by reflexively falling into lockstep behind the leader whenever the flag is waved, then what we have is a formula for dictatorship, not democracy… But the American way is to criticize and debate openly, not to accept unthinkingly the doings of government officials of this or any other country. – Michael Parenti • If you buy the flag it’s yours to burn. – Jesse Ventura • If you start studying history closer, you’ll find that most all wars are based on false flag operations to get people – to convince the people that they’re under attack in some way so that they will support the wars. – Jesse Ventura • If you want a symbolic gesture, don’t burn the flag, wash it. – Norman Thomas • If you wave a flag, make it an American Flag. – Antonio Villaraigosa • I’m about as far from being a flag-waver – you won’t find any American flag pins in my drawer – as someone can be. – Tom Peters • I’m beginning to wonder if the symbol of the United States pretty soon isn’t going to be an ambassador with a flag under his arm climbing into an escape helicopter. – Ronald Reagan • Im in love with red. I think its such a passionate color. Every flag of every country pretty much has red it it. Its power, theres no fence sitting with red. Either you love it or you dont. I think its blood and strength and life. I do love red. I love all colors. Great shades of blue, you find them in nature. Theyre all magic. – Bryan Batt • I’m just always learning lines. I’ve learned to flag the really crucial scenes, and I start figuring them out and committing them to memory as soon as I get them. – Claire Danes • I’m proud of the U.S.A. We’ve done some amazing things. To wear our flag in the Olympics is an honor. – Shaun White • In prosperous times I have sometimes felt my fancy and powers of language flag, but adversity is to me at least a tonic and bracer. – Walter Scott • In the middle of the cavernous cargo hold was a simple, aluminum coffin with a small American flag draped over it. We were bringing another American soldier, just killed, home to his family and final resting place. The starkness of his coffin in the center of the hold, the silence except for the din of the engines, was a real time cold reminder of the consequences of decisions for which we Senators share responsibility. – John F. Kerry • In uniform patriotism can salute one flag only, embrace but the first circle of life – one’s own land and tribe. In war that is necessary, in peace it is not enough. – Bill Moyers • Invention flags, his brain goes muddy, And black despair succeeds brown study. – William Congreve • Israel’s capital will never again be a divided city, a city with a wall at its center, a city in which two flags fly. This city, will, in its entirety, absorb immigrants, welcome pilgrims and be the eternal capital of Israel forever. – Yitzhak Shamir • It is a dangerous day when we can take the cross out of the church more easily than the flag. No wonder it is hard for seekers to find God nowadays. – Shane Claiborne • It is said that peace is the basic tenet of all religion. Yet it is in the name of religion that there has been so much disturbance, bloodshed and persecution. It is indeed a pity that even at the close of the twentieth century we’ve had to witness such atrocities because of religion. Flying the flag of religion has always proved the easiest way to crush to nothingness human beings as well as the spirit of humanity. – Taslima Nasrin • It is said that the Queen has come to love the Commonwealth, partly because it supplies her with regular cheering crowds of flag-waving picaninnies; and one can imagine that Blair, twice victor abroad but enmired at home, is similarly seduced by foreign politeness. They say he is shortly off to the Congo. No doubt the AK47s will fall silent, and the pangas will stop their hacking of human flesh, and the tribal warriors will all break out in Watermelon smiles to see the big white chief touch down in his big white British taxpayer-funded bird. – Boris Johnson • It is the will of the American people that we have a right to protect our flag and this can only be accomplished by passing a Constitutional amendment. – Adrian Cronauer • I’ve got one Aussie flag on my car. It would be nice to have two. – Tom Lehman • Japanese-owned cargo ship Tsimtsum, flying Panamanian flag, sank July 2nd, 1977, in Pacific, four days out of Manila. Am in lifeboat. Pi Patel my name. Have some food, some water, but Bengal tiger a serious problem. Please advise family in Winnepeg, Canada. Any help very much appreciated. Thank you. – Yann Martel • Laws protecting the United States flag do not cut away at the freedom of speech guaranteed in the First Amendment… Congress made this position clear upon passage of the Flag Protection Act of 1989, which prohibited desecration of the flag. – Larry Craig • Let it be borne on the flag under which we rally in every exigency, that we have one country, one constitution, one destiny. – Daniel Webster • Liberals hate America, they hate “flag-wavers”, they hate abortion opponents, they hate all religions except Islam (post 9/11). Even Islamic terrorists don’t hate America like liberals do. They don’t have the energy. If they had that much energy, they’d have indoor plumbing by now. – Ann Coulter • Life is not fair. And you have to choose your battles, because there are some that you cannot win. If you’re passionate about something, then you should pick up your flag and run with it.- Bette Midler • Long live Germany. Long live Austria. Long live Argentina. These are the countries with which I have been most closely associated and I shall not forget them. I had to obey the rules of war and my flag. I am ready. – Adolf Eichmann • Men do not fight for flag or country, for the Marine Corps or glory or any other abstraction. They fight for one another. And if you came through this ordeal, you would age with dignity. – William Manchester • Most people are willing to take the Sermon on the Mount as a flag to sail under, but few will use it as a rudder by which to steer. – Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. • My dad has totally taken my Cat Stevens T-shirt, but it’s OK; I have his Black Flag one, and that’s amazing. – Zoe Kravitz • My daughter, who goes to Stuyvesant High School only blocks from the World Trade Center, thinks we should fly an American flag out our window. Definitely not, I say: The flag stands for jingoism and vengeance and war. – Katha Pollitt • My goal is people associate November with COPD awareness month as much as they notice October with breast cancer and pink. That’d be a great thing if it happened. The fact that COPD kills more people than breast cancer and diabetes put together should raise some red flags. – Danica Patrick • My major aim in writing is to set out flags and issue wake-up calls. – James Broughton • My version, of course, is not this flag-waving, let’s all get on the Jesus train and ride out of hell. I’m not that kind of guy. It’s an embrace that life is good, worth living and yeah, it’s not easy, but there are more pluses than minuses. – Billy Corgan • Nationalism is just racism with a flag. – Peter Joseph • Not another flag has such an errand, carrying everywhere, the world around, such hope for freedom such glorious tidings. – Henry Ward Beecher • Nowhere else in history has there ever been a flag that stands for the right to burn itself. This is the fractal of our flag. It stands for the right to destroy itself. – Ken Kesey • Obama’s a nice person, he’s very articulate this is what’s been used against him, but he couldn’t sell watermelons if it, you gave him the state troopers to flag down the traffic.- Dan Rather • Of all the names Polygamy went by (so as not to exasperate the Gentile population and even some of the wives of the members’ own bosoms any more than necessary) — such as Pluralism, Plural or Celestial Wedlock, the Principle, the Doctrine, the New Covenant and the Gospel Dispensation of the Meridian of Consummate Time — the latter was thought to be the least like waving a red flag in front of a bull. But as it was hard to remember and did not make instant or any other kind of sense, it was not much used. – Ardyth Kennelly • Of course, Mr. Hannity was outraged that any American would not cross her hand over her heart and repeat the hypocritical words, one nation. Whenever we come up on the Fourth of You Lie, I think of Frederick Douglas and his masterful oration, The meaning of the Fourth of July to the Negro. Pledge the flag? I think not! – Julianne Malveaux • Off with your hat, as the flag goes by! And let the heart have its say; you’re man enough for a tear in your eye that you will not wipe away. – Henry Cuyler Bunner • Oh, it’s home again and home again, America for me! I want a ship that’s westward bound to plough the rolling sea To the blessed land of Room Enough beyond the ocean bars, Where the air is full of sunlight and the flag is full of stars. – Henry Van Dyke • Oh, say can you see by the dawn’s early light What so proudly we hailed as the twilight’s last gleaming? Whose broad stripes and bright stars thru the perilous fight O’er the ramplarts we watched were so gallantly streaming? And the rocket’s red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there. Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave? – Francis Scott Key • On a royal birthday every house must fly a flag, or the owner would be dragged to a police station and be fined twenty-five rubles. – Mary Antin • On no further occasion present a flag or medal to an Indian. – Zebulon Pike • On the field of battle, the spoken word does not carry far enough; hence the institution of gongs and drums… banners and flags. Gongs and drums, banners and flags, are means whereby the ears and eyes of the host may be focused on one particular point. – Sun Tzu • On this question of principle, while actual suffering was yet afar off, they [the Colonies] raised their flag against a power to which, for purposes of foreign conquest and subjugation, Rome in the height of her glory is not to be compared,-a power which has dotted over the surface of the whole globe with her possessions and military posts, whose morning drum-beat, following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England. – Daniel Webster • Ostentation is the signal flag of hypocrisy. – Edwin Hubbel Chapin • Our flag honors those who have fought to protect it, and is a reminder of the sacrifice of our nation’s founders and heroes. As the ultimate icon of America’s storied history, the Stars and Stripes represents the very best of this nation. – Joe Barton • Our flag is a proud flag, and it stands for liberty and civilization. Where it has once floated, there must be no return to tyranny. – Theodore Roosevelt • Our flag is not just one of many political points of view. Rather, the flag is a symbol of our national unity. – Adrian Cronauer • Our flag is read, white and blue, but our nation is a rainbown-red, yellow, brown, black and white – and we’re all precious in God’s sight. – Jesse Jackson • Our flag means all that our fathers meant in the Revolutionary War. It means all that the Declaration of Independence meant. It means justice. It means liberty. It means happiness…. Every color means liberty. Every thread means liberty. Every star and stripe means liberty. – Henry Ward Beecher • Our flag represents every American and it should not be hidden away as a result of property agreements. – Mike Fitzpatrick • Our great modern Republic. May those who seek the blessings of its institutions and the protection of its flag remember the obligations they impose. – Ulysses S. Grant • Our moneyed men have ruled us for the past thirty years. Under the flag of the slaveholder they hoped to destroy our liberty. – Denis Kearney • Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong.- James Bryce • Patriotism has become a mere national self assertion, a sentimentality of flag-cheering with no constructive duties. – H. G. Wells • Patriotism threatens free speech with death. It is infuriated by thoughtful hesitation, constructive criticism of our leaders and pleas for peace. It despises people of foreign birth. It has specifically blamed homosexuals, feminists and the American Civil Liberties Union. In other words, the American flag stands for intimidation, censorship, violence, bigotry, sexism, homophobia and shoving the Constitution through a paper shredder. Whom are we calling terrorists here? – Barbara Kingsolver • People from major labels were afraid to go to Black Flag gigs throughout most of the bands existence. They treated our gigs as something threatening. Im sure that it probably was. They probably had reasons to be scared. – Greg Ginn • Punishing desecration of the flag dilutes the very freedom that makes this emblem so revered. – William J. Brennan • Queen’s University flies the flag for the arts in Northern Ireland and beyond. – Liam Neeson • Red flag of the eating disorder: the muffin. Keep your eye on the ladies with the muffins… and sometimes I’ll just eat the muffin top. – Janeane Garofalo • Remember the hours after September 11th when we came together as one to answer the attack against our homeland. We drew strength when our firefighters ran upstairs and risked their lives so that others might live; when rescuers rushed into smoke and fire at the Pentagon; when the men and women of Flight 93 sacrificed themselves to save our nation’s Capitol; when flags were hanging from front porches all across America, and strangers became friends. It was the worst day we have ever seen, but it brought out the best in all of us. – John F. Kerry • Roger Ebert was the last mammoth alive who was holding the flag for real movies and moviemakers. – Werner Herzog • Saying you are a patriot does not make you one; wearing a flag pin does not in itself mean anything at all. – Viggo Mortensen • Since trade ignores national boundaries and the manufacturer insists on having the world as a market, the flag of his nation must follow him, and the doors of the nations which are closed against him must be battered down. Concessions obtained by financiers must be safeguarded by ministers of state, even if the sovereignty of unwilling nations be outraged in the process. Colonies must be obtained or planted, in order that no useful corner of the world may be overlooked or left unused. – Woodrow Wilson • So, friends, every day do something that won’t compute. Love the Lord. Love the world. Work for nothing. Take all that you have and be poor. Love someone who does not deserve it. Denounce the government and embrace the flag. Hope to live in that free republic for which it stands. -Wendell Berry • SST was formed to put out the first Black Flag record. Basically, there wasn’t anyone else to do it. I felt that what I was doing with Black Flag was very worthwhile, and I wanted to get it out there. – Greg Ginn • Sure I wave the American flag. Do you know a better flag to wave? Sure I love my country with all her faults. I’m not ashamed of that, never have been, never will be. – John Wayne • Sure I wave the American flag. Do you know a better flag to wave?- John Wayne • That one flag encircles us with its folds today, the unrivaled object of our loyal love. – Benjamin Harrison • The American flag is the most recognized symbol of freedom and democracy in the world. – Virginia Foxx • The American flag is the symbol of our freedom, national pride and history. – Mike Fitzpatrick • The American flag represents all of us and all the values we hold sacred. – Adrian Cronauer • The American flag, Old Glory, standing tall and flying free over American soil for 228 years is the symbol of our beloved country. It is recognized from near and afar, and many lives have been lost defending it. – Jeff Miller • The Bible represents a fundamental guidepost for millions of people on the planet, in much the same way the Koran, Torah, and Pali Canon offer guidance to people of other religions. If you and I could dig up documentation that contradicted the holy stories of Islamic belief, Judaic belief, Buddhist belief, pagan belief, should we do that? Should we wave a flag and tell the Buddhists that the Buddha did not come from a lotus blossom? Or that Jesus was not born of a literal virgin birth? Those who truly understand their faiths understand the stories are metaphorical. – Dan Brown • The few took advantage of the ignorant many. They pretended to have received messages from the Unknown. They stood between the helpless multitude and the gods. They were the carriers of flags of truce. At the court of heaven they presented the cause of man, and upon the labor of the deceived they lived. – Robert Green Ingersoll • The flag is a symbol of the fact that man is still a herd animal. – Albert Einstein • The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history. – Woodrow Wilson • The flag of racialism which has been hoisted in Wolverhampton is beginning to look like the one that fluttered 25 years ago over Dachau and Belsen. – Tony Benn • The flag of the United States has not been created by rhetorical sentences in declarations of independence and in bills of rights. It has been created by the experience of a great people, and nothing is written upon it that has not been written by their life. It is the embodiment, not of a sentiment, but of a history. – Woodrow Wilson • The flag of your nation – wave it! Begin to separate your nation from whatever covenant your forefathers must have had. Break the covenant of corruption/ stealing/ killing/ destruction/ idolatry – break it right now! – T. B. Joshua • The flag represents all the values and the liberties Americans have and enjoy everyday. – Bill Shuster • The flag still stands for freedom and they can’t take that away.- Lee Greenwood • The flag that was the symbol of slavery on the high seas for a long time was not the Confederate battle flag, it was sadly the Stars and Stripes. – Alan Keyes • The headline is the ‘ticket on the meat.’ Use it to flag down readers who are prospects for the kind of product you are advertising. – David Ogilvy • The less a statesman amounts to, the more he loves the flag. – Kin Hubbard • The meteor flag of England Shall yet terrific burn, Till danger’s troubled night depart, And the star of peace return. – Thomas Campbell • The Minutemen were seen as more of an art thing than Black Flag, although I didn’t see them that way. It confused people when we put out Saccharine Trust, too. – Greg Ginn • The mother condemned for a witch and burnt with dry wood, and her children gazing on;The hounded slave that flags in the race and leans by the fence, blowing and covered with sweat, The twinges that sting like needles his legs and neck, The murderous buckshot and the bullets, All these I feel or am. – Walt Whitman • The Palestinian state is within our grasp. Soon the Palestinian flag will fly on the walls, the minarets and the cathedrals of Jerusalem. – Yasser Arafat • The people are urged to be patriotic … by sacrificing their own children. Patriotism requires allegience to the flag, which means obedience and readiness to kill father, mother, brother, sister. – Emma Goldman • The Royal family to me are not England, and they are not the flag. – Steven Morrissey • The stuff that I got in trouble for, the casting for The Godfather or the flag scene in Patton, was the stuff that was remembered, and was considered the good work. – Francis Ford Coppola • The things that the flag stands for were created by the experiences of a great people. Everything that it stands for was written by their lives. The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history. – Woodrow Wilson • The trouble with America is that when the dollar only earns 6 percent over here, then it gets restless and goes overseas to get 100 percent. Then the flag follows the dollar and the soldiers follow the flag. – Smedley Butler • The victory march will continue until the Palestinian flag flies in Jerusalem and in all of Palestine. – Yasser Arafat • The writer is delegated to declare and to celebrate man’s proven capacity for greatness of heart and spirit—for gallantry in defeat, for courage, compassion and love. In the endless war against weakness and despair, these are the bright rally flags of hope and of emulation. I hold that a writer who does not believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any membership in literature. – John Steinbeck • Then finally I said, ‘Okay, well, I want to know all the details. I want creative input. I want to be consulted. I want to know what they’re doing and who’s involved. And I want to see the space.’ So they took me to see it, and then I realized it was major! All these red flags on the Rue de Rivoli with my name on them right by the Louvre! – Kate Moss • There are some pop songs I hate but I can’t get them out of my head. Our songs also have the standard pop format: Verse, chorus, verse, chorus, solo, bad solo. All in all, I think we sound like The Knack and the Bay City Rollers being molested by Black Flag and Black Sabbath. – Kurt Cobain • There are those who wrap themselves in flags and blow the tinny trumpet of patriotism as a means of fooling the people. – George Galloway • There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn’t an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag…We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language…and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people. – Theodore Roosevelt • There is a strong tendency in the United States to rally round the flag and their troops, no matter how mistaken the war. – George McGovern • There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum. – Arthur C. Clarke • There is much more to being a patriot and a citizen than reciting the pledge or raising a flag. – Jesse Ventura • There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people. – Howard Zinn • There is no rule in the pink-triangle guide to coming out that you must wear a rainbow flag cap and organise a full band parade. – Beth Ditto • There’s a certain elitism that has crept into the attitudes of some in journalism, and it played out perfectly over the issue of these little [American flag] lapel pins. – Brit Hume • There’s a principle here and I’m hoping the court will uphold this principle so that we can finally go back and have every American want to stand up, face the flag, place their hand over their heart and pledge to one nation, indivisible, not divided by religion, with liberty and justice for all. – Michael Newdow • There’s an enduring American compulsion to be on the side of the angels. Expediency alone has never been an adequate American reason for doing anything. When actions are judged, they go before the bar of God, where Mom and the Flag closely flank His presence. – Jonathan Raban • There’s one beneficial effect of going to Moscow. You come home waving the American flag with all your might. – Mary Tyler Moore • This flag .. is raised not without costs, .. without the costs of having struggled for many years, without the costs of having lost so many lives in order to have a free and sovereign and good Afghanistan. – Hamid Karzai • To secure respect to a neutral flag requires a naval force organized and ready to vindicate it from insult or aggression. – George Washington • To survive in peace and harmony, united and strong, we must have one people, one nation, one flag. – Pauline Hanson • Tonight the American flag floats from yonder hill or Molly Stark sleeps a widow. – John Stark • Tony Stewart — Broke out a new chassis at Pocono Raceway last June and raced to the checkered flag for his first victory of 2003; has finished among the top 10 in all but two of his 10 career starts here; Turn one is probably the easiest of the three, but you’ve got the challenge of having to downshift in the middle of the corner, .. You go down the backstretch and into the tunnel turn and it’s basically one lane. – Tony Stewart • Tree of Liberty: A tree set up by the people, hung with flags and devices, and crowned with a cap of liberty. The Americans of the United States planted poplars and other trees during the war of independence, “as symbols of growing freedom.” The Jacobins in Paris planted their first tree of liberty in 1790. The symbols used in France to decorate their trees of liberty were tricoloured ribbons, circles to indicate unity, triangles to signify equality, and a cap of liberty. Trees of liberty were planted by the Italians in the revolution of 1848. – E. Cobham Brewer • Under this flag may our youth find new inspiration for loyalty to Canada; for a patriotism based not on any mean or narrow nationalism, but on the deep and equal pride that all Canadians will feel for every part of this good land. – Lester B. Pearson • Unfortunately a Constitutional amendment that would have empowered Congress to make desecration of the United States flag illegal failed to pass by one vote. – Kenny Marchant • United States, your banner wears Two emblems–one of fame; Alas! the other that it bears Reminds us of your shame. Your banner’s constellation types White freedom with its stars, But what’s the meaning of the stripes? They mean your negroes’ scars. – Thomas Campbell • Using a metaphor in front of a man as unimaginative as Ridcully was like a red flag to a bu… was like putting something very annoying in front of someone who was annoyed by it. – Terry Pratchett • War is the spectacular and bloody projection of our everyday living. We precipitate war out of our daily lives; and without a transformation in ourselves, there are bound to be national and racial antagonisms, the childish quarreling over ideologies, the multiplication of soldiers, the saluting of flags, and all the many brutalities that go to create organized murder. – Jiddu Krishnamurti • We Americans are the most lavish and showiest and most luxury loving people on the earth; and at our masthead we fly one true and honest symbol, the gaudiest flag the world has ever seen. – Mark Twain • We are raised to honor all the wrong explorers and discoverers thieves planting flags, murderers carrying crosses. Let us at last praise the colonizers of dreams. – Peter S. Beagle • We are to regard existence as a raid or great adventure; it is to be judged, therefore, not by what calamities it encounters, but by what flag it follows and what high town it assaults. The most dangerous thing in the world is to be alive; one is always in danger of one’s life. But anyone who shrinks from that is a traitor to the great scheme and experiment of being. – Gilbert K. Chesterton • We cannot allow the American flag to be shot at anywhere on earth if we are to retain our respect and prestige – Barry Goldwater • We considered ourselves Jordanian until the Jews returned to Jerusalem. Then all of the sudden we were Palestinians – they removed the star from the Jordanian flag and all at once we had a Palestinian flag. – Walid Shoebat • We do not consecrate the flag by punishing its desecration, for in doing so, we dilute the freedom this cherished emblem represents. – William J. Brennan • We have but one flag, one country; let us stand together. We may differ in color, but not in sentiment. – Nathan Bedford Forrest • We have room in this country for but one flag, the Stars and Stripes! – Theodore Roosevelt • We have two American flags always: one for the rich and one for the poor. When the rich fly it means that things are under control; when the poor fly it means danger, revolution, anarchy. – Henry Miller • We identify the flag with almost everything we hold dear on earth, peace, security, liberty, our family, our friends, our home. . .But when we look at our flag and behold it emblazoned with all our rights we must remember that it is equally a symbol of our duties. Every glory that we associate with it is the result of duty done. – Calvin Coolidge • We join ourselves to no party that does not carry the flag and I keep step to the music of the Union. – Rufus Choate • Well, start waving and yelling, because it is the so-called Oxford comma and it is a lot more dangerous than its exclusive, ivory-tower moniker might suggest. There are people who embrace the Oxford comma and people who don’t, and I’ll just say this: never get between these people when drink has been taken. Oh, the Oxford comma. Here, in case you don’t know what it is yet, is the perennial example, as espoused by Harold Ross: “The flag is red, white, and blue.” So what do you think of it? Are you for or against it? Do you hover in between? – Lynne Truss • What does one plant who plants a tree? One plants the friend of sun and sky; One plants the flag of breezes free; The shaft of beauty towering high. – Henry Cuyler Bunner • What if the invasion forces will not leave our lands? What if the U.S. forces and others stay in our beloved lands? What if their companies and embassy headquarters will continue to exist with the American flags hoisted on them? Will you be silent? Will you overlook this? – Muqtada al Sadr • What I’m trying to do is to at least raise a flag to the blinding light of technology. – Godfrey Reggio • When a war ends, what does that look like exactly? do the cells in the body stop detonating themselves? does the orphanage stop screaming for its mother? when the sand in the desert has been melted down to glass and our reflection is not something we can stand to look at does the white flag make for a perfect blindfold? yesterday i was told a story about this little girl in Iraq, six-years-old, who cannot fall asleep because when she does she dreams of nothing but the day she watched her dog eat her neighbor’s corpse. if you told her war is over do you think she can sleep? – Andrea Gibson • When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag. – Sinclair Lewis • When fascism comes to the United States it will be wrapped in the American flag and will claim the name of 100-percent Americanism – Sinclair Lewis • When Freedom from her mountain height Unfurled her standard to the air, She tore the azure robe of night, And set the stars of glory there. – Joseph Rodman Drake • When Freedom from her mountain-height Unfurled her standard to the air, She tore the azure robe of night, And set the stars of glory there. She mingled with its gorgeous dyes The milky baldric of the skies, And striped its pure, celestial white With streakings of the morning light. Flag of the free heart’s hope and home! By angel hands to valour given! Thy stars have lit the welkin dome, And all thy hues were born in heaven. Forever float that standard sheet! Where breathes the foe but falls before us, With Freedom’s soil beneath our feet, And Freedom’s banner streaming o’er us? – Joseph Rodman Drake • When I see the American flag, I go, ‘Oh my God, you’re insulting me.’ – Janeane Garofalo • When I was in college there was a girls’ flag football league. The girls were extremely aggressive. – Lynn Swann • When somebody say no, it’s a red flag to a bull to me. – Duncan Roy • When the wheel was accepted as part of the national flag, it was surely implied that the spinning wheel would hum in every household. – Mahatma Gandhi • When you go to plant a flag on the visiting team’s field, it’s a form of taunting, .. What message are you sending when you spear it into the turf of your defeated opponent?. – Brad Davis • When you make love you’re using up energy; and afterwards you feel happy and don’t give a damn for anything. They can’t bear you to feel like that. They want you to be bursting with energy all the time. All this marching up and down and cheering and waving flags is simply sex gone sour. If you’re happy inside yourself, why should you get excited about Big Brother and the Three-Year Plans and the Two Minutes Hate and all the rest of their bloody rot? – George Orwell • While the rest of the country waves the flag of Americana, we understand we are not part of that. We don’t owe America anything – America owes us. – Al Sharpton • Words are some of the most powerful and important things I know….Language is the tool of love and the weapon of hatred. It’s the bright red warning flag of danger–and the stone foundation of diplomacy and peace. – Ani DiFranco • Worrying that banning flag desecration would inhibit free speech reveals a misunderstanding of the flag’s fundamental nature. – Adrian Cronauer • Ye mariners of England! That guard our native seas; Whose flag has braved a thousand years, The battle and the breeze! – Thomas Campbell • Yes, I’m a patriotic person. For these people who disgrace the American way and burn our flag and do all of these things… I say, don’t live here and disgrace my country. Go live in the Middle East and see how you like it. – Payne Stewart • Yonder are the Hessians. They were bought for seven pounds and tenpence a man. Are you worth more? Prove it. Tonight the American flag floats from yonder hill or Molly Stark sleeps a widow! – John Stark • You are the generation that will reach the sea and hoist the flag of Palestine over Tel Aviv. – Yasser Arafat • You are the makers of the flag and it is well that you glory in the making. – Franklin Knight Lane • You cannot have companies where many of the largest ones lose money indefinitely without someone finally waving the white flag, and IBM is the most recent example of that. – Kevin B. Rollins • You don’t defend national sovereignty with flags, cheap election rhetoric, and advertising campaigns. – Stephen Harper • You have to eat before you train. Otherwise, that really intense training, after about 40 minutes you start to flag. – Hugh Jackman • You the devil in drag. You can burn your cross, Well, I’ll burn your flag. – Ice Cube • You’re a grand old flag! You’re a high-flying flag, And forever in peace may you wave. You’re the emblem of the land I love, The home of the free and the brave. Ev’ry heart beats true ‘Neath the Red, White and Blue,’ Where there’s never a boast or brag. But should auld acquaintance be forgot, Keep your eye on the grand old flag. – George M. Cohan

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• A lot of folks are still demanding more evidence before they actually consider Iraq a threat. For example, France wants more evidence. And you know I’m thinking, the last time France wanted more evidence they rolled right through Paris with the German flag. – David Letterman • A thoughtful mind, when it sees a nation’s flag, sees not the flag, but the nation itself. – Henry Ward Beecher • A thoughtful mind, when it sees a Nation’s flag, sees not the flag only, but the Nation itself; and whatever may be its symbols, its insignia, he reads chiefly in the flag the Government, the principles, the truths, the history which belongs to the Nation that sets it forth. – Henry Ward Beecher • After I left D.C. to join Black Flag, I felt I was in a band. – Henry Rollins • America has an almost obscene infatuation with itself. Has there ever been a big, powerful country that is as patriotic as America? And patriotic in the tinniest way, with so much flag waving? You’d really think we were some poor little republic, and that if one person lost his religion for one hour, the whole thing would crumble. America is the real religion in this country. – Norman Mailer • America is the only country in the world where you can burn the flag but can’t tear the tag off the mattress. – Jackie Mason • And the word is capitalism. We are too mealy-mouthed. We fear the word capitalism is unpopular. So we talk about the free enterprise system and run to cover in the folds of the flag and talk about the American Way of Life. – Eric Johnston • And when we view a flag, which to the eye is beautiful, and to contemplate its rise and origin inspires a sensation of sublime delight, our national honor must unite with our interests to prevent injury to the one, or insult to the other. – Thomas Paine • Any power must be an enemy of mankind which enslaves the individual by power and by force, whether it arises under the Fascist or the Communist flag. All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded to the individual. – Albert Einstein • As Conservatives, We Don’t Care About The Color of Your Skin, We Care About The Color of Our Flag – Allen West • As long as I live, I will never forget that day 21 years ago when I raised my hand and took the oath of citizenship. Do you know how proud I was? I was so proud that I walked around with an American flag around my shoulders all day long. – Arnold Schwarzenegger • As National Socialists we see our program in our flag. In the red we see the social idea of the movement. – Adolf Hitler • Ashcroft vowed to] spare no effort to preserve the rights of all our citizens to pledge allegiance to the American flag. – John Ashcroft • At least in my country, we have come to accept the flags burning, but what we cannot accept is violence, burning of embassies and intimidations, and there is no excuse for that. – Daniel Fried

jQuery(document).ready(function($) var data = action: 'polyxgo_products_search', type: 'Product', keywords: 'flag', orderby: 'rand', order: 'DESC', template: '1', limit: '68', columns: '4', viewall:'Shop All', ; jQuery.post(spyr_params.ajaxurl,data, function(response) var obj = jQuery.parseJSON(response); jQuery('#thelovesof_flag').html(obj); jQuery('#thelovesof_flag img.swiper-lazy:not(.swiper-lazy-loaded)' ).each(function () var img = jQuery(this); img.attr("src",img.data('src')); img.addClass( 'swiper-lazy-loaded' ); img.removeAttr('data-src'); ); ); ); • Bastard Freedom waves Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves. – Thomas Moore • Behold a republic standing erect while empires all around are bowed beneath the weight of their own armaments – a republic whose flag is loved while other flags are only feared. – William Jennings Bryan • But didn’t you say you were satisfied with your life?” “Word games,” I dismissed. “Every army needs a flag. – Haruki Murakami • By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April’s breeze unfurled, Here once the embattled farmers stood, And fired the shot heard round the world. – Ralph Waldo Emerson • By the way, I don’t mean to pick nits here, but Obama has just ordered the flag at half-mast for 10 days for Mandela. He did not order the flag at half-mast at all for Lady Thatcher. – Rush Limbaugh • Call it ‘nationalism’ when you affix a flag to your car, and leave the word ‘patriotism’ for your efforts to make this country a kinder, more egalitarian place, and one that is less dangerous to the rest of the world. – Barbara Ehrenreich • Can you imagine what Bush would say if someone like Hugo Chavez asked him for a little piece of land to install a military base, and he only wanted to plant a Venezuelan flag there?- Jose Saramago • Canadians are fond of a good disaster, especially if it has ice, water, or snow in it. You thought the national flag was about a leaf, didn’t you? Look harder. It’s where someone got axed in the snow. – Margaret Atwood • Democratic Rep. Charles Schumer of New York made a plea to Livingston, the incoming speaker. These new hearings, these new subpoenas wave a red flag that common sense and common wisdom are not welcome here, .. Mr. Livingston, this may be the first and most important task you will ever face as speaker. Lead us out of this abyss. – Charles Schumer • Donald Trump appears to be searching for an enemy. Is it flag burners, recounts, the press, the popular vote? Trump has gone after them all at times, using wild experience theories even as president-elect to do it. – Chuck Todd • Emblem: the carapace of the great crowned snail is painted with all the flags of the United Nations. – Mason Cooley • Even if only one guerilla cub survives the prolonged struggle, I am confident that he will raise the flag of Palestine overJerusalem… Jerusalem is destined to be the eternal capital of our sovereign, independent Palestinian state under the P.L.O. leadership. – Yasser Arafat • Even if the flag burning amendment does become law, the larger problem will remain of how to respectfully dispose of older, tattered flags. Well, fortunately the U.S. official Flag Code has a suggestion about this. “The flag, when it is in such a condition that it is no longer a fitting emblem of display, should be destroyed in a dignified way, preferably by burning.” Owwwwcchh. In response, the House Republicans are calling for tattered flags to be kept alive via a feeding tube. – Jon Stewart • Every man that tried to destroy the Government, every man that shot at the holy flag in heaven, every man that starved our soldiers… every man that wanted to burn the negro, every one that wanted to scatter yellow fever in the North, every man that opposed human liberty, that regarded the auction-block as an altar and the howling of the bloodhound as the music of the Union, every man who wept over the corpse of slavery, that thought lashes on the naked back were a legal tender for labour performed, every one willing to rob a mother of her child – every solitary one was a Democrat. – Robert Green Ingersoll • Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats. – H. L. Mencken • Every time a colony wants independence, the questions on the agenda are: a) how do you get the imperialists out, and b) what kind of society do you build? There are usually the bourgeois nationalists who say, ‘Let’s just change the flag and keep everything as it was.’ Then there are the revolutionaries who say, ‘Let’s change the property laws.’ It’s always a critical moment. – Ken Loach • Every time I hit a shot, I feel like I am shaking hands with the flag stick. – Moe Norman • Everything becomes agitated. Ideas quick-march into motion like battalions of a grand army to its legendary fighting ground, and the battle rages. Memories charge in, bright flags on high; the cavalry of metaphor deploys with a magnificent gallop; the artillery of logic rushes up with clattering wagons and cartridges; on imagination’s orders, sharpshooters sight and fire; forms and shapes and characters rear up; the paper is spread with ink – for the nightly labor begins and ends with torrents of this black water, as a battle opens and concludes with black powder.- Honore de Balzac • Fascism will come to America wrapped in a flag. – Sinclair Lewis • Flag desecration is not a constitutional issue for the courts. It is a political one that belongs to the people. – Larry Craig • Flag of the free heart’s hope and home! By angel hands to valour given, Thy stars have lit the welkin dome; And all thy hues were born in heaven. – Joseph Rodman Drake • Flags are bits of colored cloth used first to shrinkwrap people’s brains and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead. – Arundhati Roy • For black folks, the Confederate flag represents the same thing that the Nazi flag represents to the Jews. There is absolutely no difference when we look at it. Now, white folks try to explain it away like, ‘Oh, it’s OK.’ But when you’re black, it is not OK. It represents oppression and murder. – Ken Page • For me, I’m just trying to be the best at what I do. I’ll wave an Asian American flag if I get that opportunity. I’m not hiding or trying to discredit my background or anything, I just haven’t had the opportunity. – Chad Hugo • Ford used to come to work in a big car with two Admiral’s flags, on each side of the car. His assistant would be there with his accordion, playing, Hail to the Chief. – Richard Widmark • Getting that audience approval is always a question mark, and it’s always that flag that flutters in front of you. – William Shatner • Growth at an exceptional rate is a red flag in banking. It is hard enough to manage an ordinary bank; to control a sprouting weed is well-nigh impossible. If loans are expanding too quickly, the lending officers have probably been saying ‘yes’ too frequently. – James Grant • Haul up the flag, you mourners, Not half-mast but all the way; The funeral is done and disbanded; The devil’s had the final say. – Karl Shapiro • Have not I myself known five hundred living soldiers sabred into crows’ meat for a piece of glazed cotton, which they call their flag; which had you sold it at any market-cross, would not have brought above three groschen? – Thomas Carlyle • He is a poor patriot whose patriotism does not enable him to understand how all men everywhere feel about their altars and their hearthstones, their flag and their fatherland. – Harry Emerson Fosdick • I always carried a small American flag red white and blue with me so people would know I was from America. – George Foreman • I am not the flag: not at all. I am but its shadow. – Franklin Knight Lane • I believe in America. I’m one of those silly flag wavers. – Paul Prudhomme • I believe our flag is more than just cloth and ink. It is a universally recognized symbol that stands for liberty, and freedom. It is the history of our nation, and it’s marked by the blood of those who died defending it. – John Thune • I believe that movements to suppress wrongs can be carried out under the protection of our flag. – Mother Jones • I came to the resolve that the attempt was not only worth trying, but should be tried in the very near future if we wanted at all to keep our flag flying; for I was sure as of my own existence that if another decade was allowed to pass without an endeavour of some kind or another to shake off an unjust yoke, the Irish people would sink into lethargy from which it would be impossible for any patriot . . . to arouse them . . . – James Stephens • I can train a monkey to wave an American flag. That does not make the monkey patriotic. – Scott Ritter • I can’t fly a flag for monogamy or whatever the opposite is; it depends on the person and on the situation. – Sting • I consider that 9/11 was the day when war was started against my own work and against myself. Even though we are not sure of the links, Iraq was one of the countries that did not lower its flags in mourning on 9/11. – Adam Michnik • I don’t judge others. I say if you feel good with what you’re doing, let your freak flag fly. – Sarah Jessica Parker • I don’t want the news to be patriotic. I don’t want to see flags on the lapels of the anchors. I don’t want any of that. – Aaron McGruder • I expect the Republicans will enjoy a large bounce out of their convention. They’re here wrapping themselves in the 9/11 flag, which I think is inappropriate in many ways, but it’s their choice. – Harold Ford, Jr. • I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me. – H. P. Lovecraft • I feel like I’m waving the flag for musicianship, trying to bring back bands that can play. – Jonathan Davis • I feel there should have been some recognition of the Spice Girls at this year’s 25th anniversary. We flew the flag for Britain around the globe in the 1990s and we achieved a hell of a lot. – Melanie Chisholm • I had an encyclopedia with a list of flags in the back, so I would look at all these flags of China and Liberia and England and Denmark and whatever, and I learned all the different flags and I tried to imagine what it would be like to be voyaging on some of these ships. – George R. R. Martin • I have a great respect for the flag, (but) if the government passed a law saying that I had to pledge allegiance to the flag, I don’t think I would do it. I’ve always felt that I lived in a country…where if I wanted to worship God as a Baptist, I could do so. If I were an atheist, I could be one. If I wanted to be a Catholic but was born a Jew, there’s no condemnation…from a government authority. – Jimmy Carter • I intend to talk about race during this election in the South because the Republicans have been talking about it since 1968 in order to divide us. And I’m going to bring us together. Because you know what? You know what? White folks in the South who drive pickup trucks with Confederate flag decals in the back ought to be voting with us and not them, because their kids don’t have health insurance either and their kids need better schools too. – Howard Dean • I learned this a long time ago. If you call a guy into your office and shut the door, if there’s media around, it sends up a red flag. I never wanted to embarrass a player. – Jim Leyland • I look for the entrepreneur to capture my attention. If you don’t come out with a great presentation, you’re dead. That’s a big red flag. – Robert Herjavec • I mean Black Flag happened. I was lucky. I don’t think I could have put together something with one percent of that oomph on my own. – Henry Rollins • I pledge allegiance to the Christian flag, and to the Savior, for whose Kingdom it stands, one Savior, crucified, risen, and coming again, with life and liberty for all who believe. – Dan Quayle • I prefer a man who will burn the flag and then wrap himself in the constitution to a man who will burn the constitution and then wrap himself in the flag. – Craig Washington • I savored my time on top of the podium by watching the American flag rise up out of the crowd as the anthem played, thinking about how every single second of training I’ve done was for this minute and how many people played a role in my achievement. – Hannah Kearney • I stand fearlessly for small dogs, the American Flag, motherhood and the Bible. That’s why people love me. – Art Linkletter • I still want to be the candidate for guys with Confederate flags in their pickup trucks.- Howard Dean • I think love is blind. I hate to use that cliched statement, but people, when they love somebody, they seem to be able to somehow to put aside red flags. – Eric Close • I would warn Orlando that you’re right in the way of some serious hurricanes, and I don’t think I’d be waving those flags [gay pride flags] in God’s face if I were you, This is not a message of hate , this is a message of redemption. But a condition like this will bring about the destruction of your nation. It’ll bring about terrorist bombs; it’ll bring earthquakes, tornadoes, and possibly a meteor. – Pat Robertson • I wrote the script of Patton. I had this very bizarre opening where he stands up in front of an American flag and gives this speech. Ultimately, I was fired. When the script was done, they hired another writer and that script was forgotten. – Francis Ford Coppola • I’d buy myself a cabin on the beach, I’d put some glue in my navel, and I’d stick a flag in there. Then I’d wait to see which way the wind was blowing. – Albert Camus • If a jerk burns the flag, America is not threatened, democracy is not under siege, freedom is not at risk. – Gary Ackerman • If I fall, pick up the flag, kiss it, and keep on going. – Omar Torrijos • If one, then, asks me the meaning of our flag, I say to him, It means just what Concord and Lexington meant, what Bunker Hill meant; it means the whole glorious Revolutionary War, which was, in short, the rising up of a valiant young people against an old tyranny, to establish the most momentous doctrine that the world had ever known – the right of men to their own selves and to their liberties. – Henry Ward Beecher • If the flag of an armed enemy of the U.S. is allowed to fly over government buildings, then it implies that slavery, or at least the threat of slavery, is sanctioned by that government and can still legally exist. – Amiri Baraka • If the test of patriotism comes only by reflexively falling into lockstep behind the leader whenever the flag is waved, then what we have is a formula for dictatorship, not democracy… But the American way is to criticize and debate openly, not to accept unthinkingly the doings of government officials of this or any other country. – Michael Parenti • If you buy the flag it’s yours to burn. – Jesse Ventura • If you start studying history closer, you’ll find that most all wars are based on false flag operations to get people – to convince the people that they’re under attack in some way so that they will support the wars. – Jesse Ventura • If you want a symbolic gesture, don’t burn the flag, wash it. – Norman Thomas • If you wave a flag, make it an American Flag. – Antonio Villaraigosa • I’m about as far from being a flag-waver – you won’t find any American flag pins in my drawer – as someone can be. – Tom Peters • I’m beginning to wonder if the symbol of the United States pretty soon isn’t going to be an ambassador with a flag under his arm climbing into an escape helicopter. – Ronald Reagan • Im in love with red. I think its such a passionate color. Every flag of every country pretty much has red it it. Its power, theres no fence sitting with red. Either you love it or you dont. I think its blood and strength and life. I do love red. I love all colors. Great shades of blue, you find them in nature. Theyre all magic. – Bryan Batt • I’m just always learning lines. I’ve learned to flag the really crucial scenes, and I start figuring them out and committing them to memory as soon as I get them. – Claire Danes • I’m proud of the U.S.A. We’ve done some amazing things. To wear our flag in the Olympics is an honor. – Shaun White • In prosperous times I have sometimes felt my fancy and powers of language flag, but adversity is to me at least a tonic and bracer. – Walter Scott • In the middle of the cavernous cargo hold was a simple, aluminum coffin with a small American flag draped over it. We were bringing another American soldier, just killed, home to his family and final resting place. The starkness of his coffin in the center of the hold, the silence except for the din of the engines, was a real time cold reminder of the consequences of decisions for which we Senators share responsibility. – John F. Kerry • In uniform patriotism can salute one flag only, embrace but the first circle of life – one’s own land and tribe. In war that is necessary, in peace it is not enough. – Bill Moyers • Invention flags, his brain goes muddy, And black despair succeeds brown study. – William Congreve • Israel’s capital will never again be a divided city, a city with a wall at its center, a city in which two flags fly. This city, will, in its entirety, absorb immigrants, welcome pilgrims and be the eternal capital of Israel forever. – Yitzhak Shamir • It is a dangerous day when we can take the cross out of the church more easily than the flag. No wonder it is hard for seekers to find God nowadays. – Shane Claiborne • It is said that peace is the basic tenet of all religion. Yet it is in the name of religion that there has been so much disturbance, bloodshed and persecution. It is indeed a pity that even at the close of the twentieth century we’ve had to witness such atrocities because of religion. Flying the flag of religion has always proved the easiest way to crush to nothingness human beings as well as the spirit of humanity. – Taslima Nasrin • It is said that the Queen has come to love the Commonwealth, partly because it supplies her with regular cheering crowds of flag-waving picaninnies; and one can imagine that Blair, twice victor abroad but enmired at home, is similarly seduced by foreign politeness. They say he is shortly off to the Congo. No doubt the AK47s will fall silent, and the pangas will stop their hacking of human flesh, and the tribal warriors will all break out in Watermelon smiles to see the big white chief touch down in his big white British taxpayer-funded bird. – Boris Johnson • It is the will of the American people that we have a right to protect our flag and this can only be accomplished by passing a Constitutional amendment. – Adrian Cronauer • I’ve got one Aussie flag on my car. It would be nice to have two. – Tom Lehman • Japanese-owned cargo ship Tsimtsum, flying Panamanian flag, sank July 2nd, 1977, in Pacific, four days out of Manila. Am in lifeboat. Pi Patel my name. Have some food, some water, but Bengal tiger a serious problem. Please advise family in Winnepeg, Canada. Any help very much appreciated. Thank you. – Yann Martel • Laws protecting the United States flag do not cut away at the freedom of speech guaranteed in the First Amendment… Congress made this position clear upon passage of the Flag Protection Act of 1989, which prohibited desecration of the flag. – Larry Craig • Let it be borne on the flag under which we rally in every exigency, that we have one country, one constitution, one destiny. – Daniel Webster • Liberals hate America, they hate “flag-wavers”, they hate abortion opponents, they hate all religions except Islam (post 9/11). Even Islamic terrorists don’t hate America like liberals do. They don’t have the energy. If they had that much energy, they’d have indoor plumbing by now. – Ann Coulter • Life is not fair. And you have to choose your battles, because there are some that you cannot win. If you’re passionate about something, then you should pick up your flag and run with it.- Bette Midler • Long live Germany. Long live Austria. Long live Argentina. These are the countries with which I have been most closely associated and I shall not forget them. I had to obey the rules of war and my flag. I am ready. – Adolf Eichmann • Men do not fight for flag or country, for the Marine Corps or glory or any other abstraction. They fight for one another. And if you came through this ordeal, you would age with dignity. – William Manchester • Most people are willing to take the Sermon on the Mount as a flag to sail under, but few will use it as a rudder by which to steer. – Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. • My dad has totally taken my Cat Stevens T-shirt, but it’s OK; I have his Black Flag one, and that’s amazing. – Zoe Kravitz • My daughter, who goes to Stuyvesant High School only blocks from the World Trade Center, thinks we should fly an American flag out our window. Definitely not, I say: The flag stands for jingoism and vengeance and war. – Katha Pollitt • My goal is people associate November with COPD awareness month as much as they notice October with breast cancer and pink. That’d be a great thing if it happened. The fact that COPD kills more people than breast cancer and diabetes put together should raise some red flags. – Danica Patrick • My major aim in writing is to set out flags and issue wake-up calls. – James Broughton • My version, of course, is not this flag-waving, let’s all get on the Jesus train and ride out of hell. I’m not that kind of guy. It’s an embrace that life is good, worth living and yeah, it’s not easy, but there are more pluses than minuses. – Billy Corgan • Nationalism is just racism with a flag. – Peter Joseph • Not another flag has such an errand, carrying everywhere, the world around, such hope for freedom such glorious tidings. – Henry Ward Beecher • Nowhere else in history has there ever been a flag that stands for the right to burn itself. This is the fractal of our flag. It stands for the right to destroy itself. – Ken Kesey • Obama’s a nice person, he’s very articulate this is what’s been used against him, but he couldn’t sell watermelons if it, you gave him the state troopers to flag down the traffic.- Dan Rather • Of all the names Polygamy went by (so as not to exasperate the Gentile population and even some of the wives of the members’ own bosoms any more than necessary) — such as Pluralism, Plural or Celestial Wedlock, the Principle, the Doctrine, the New Covenant and the Gospel Dispensation of the Meridian of Consummate Time — the latter was thought to be the least like waving a red flag in front of a bull. But as it was hard to remember and did not make instant or any other kind of sense, it was not much used. – Ardyth Kennelly • Of course, Mr. Hannity was outraged that any American would not cross her hand over her heart and repeat the hypocritical words, one nation. Whenever we come up on the Fourth of You Lie, I think of Frederick Douglas and his masterful oration, The meaning of the Fourth of July to the Negro. Pledge the flag? I think not! – Julianne Malveaux • Off with your hat, as the flag goes by! And let the heart have its say; you’re man enough for a tear in your eye that you will not wipe away. – Henry Cuyler Bunner • Oh, it’s home again and home again, America for me! I want a ship that’s westward bound to plough the rolling sea To the blessed land of Room Enough beyond the ocean bars, Where the air is full of sunlight and the flag is full of stars. – Henry Van Dyke • Oh, say can you see by the dawn’s early light What so proudly we hailed as the twilight’s last gleaming? Whose broad stripes and bright stars thru the perilous fight O’er the ramplarts we watched were so gallantly streaming? And the rocket’s red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there. Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave? – Francis Scott Key • On a royal birthday every house must fly a flag, or the owner would be dragged to a police station and be fined twenty-five rubles. – Mary Antin • On no further occasion present a flag or medal to an Indian. – Zebulon Pike • On the field of battle, the spoken word does not carry far enough; hence the institution of gongs and drums… banners and flags. Gongs and drums, banners and flags, are means whereby the ears and eyes of the host may be focused on one particular point. – Sun Tzu • On this question of principle, while actual suffering was yet afar off, they [the Colonies] raised their flag against a power to which, for purposes of foreign conquest and subjugation, Rome in the height of her glory is not to be compared,-a power which has dotted over the surface of the whole globe with her possessions and military posts, whose morning drum-beat, following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England. – Daniel Webster • Ostentation is the signal flag of hypocrisy. – Edwin Hubbel Chapin • Our flag honors those who have fought to protect it, and is a reminder of the sacrifice of our nation’s founders and heroes. As the ultimate icon of America’s storied history, the Stars and Stripes represents the very best of this nation. – Joe Barton • Our flag is a proud flag, and it stands for liberty and civilization. Where it has once floated, there must be no return to tyranny. – Theodore Roosevelt • Our flag is not just one of many political points of view. Rather, the flag is a symbol of our national unity. – Adrian Cronauer • Our flag is read, white and blue, but our nation is a rainbown-red, yellow, brown, black and white – and we’re all precious in God’s sight. – Jesse Jackson • Our flag means all that our fathers meant in the Revolutionary War. It means all that the Declaration of Independence meant. It means justice. It means liberty. It means happiness…. Every color means liberty. Every thread means liberty. Every star and stripe means liberty. – Henry Ward Beecher • Our flag represents every American and it should not be hidden away as a result of property agreements. – Mike Fitzpatrick • Our great modern Republic. May those who seek the blessings of its institutions and the protection of its flag remember the obligations they impose. – Ulysses S. Grant • Our moneyed men have ruled us for the past thirty years. Under the flag of the slaveholder they hoped to destroy our liberty. – Denis Kearney • Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong.- James Bryce • Patriotism has become a mere national self assertion, a sentimentality of flag-cheering with no constructive duties. – H. G. Wells • Patriotism threatens free speech with death. It is infuriated by thoughtful hesitation, constructive criticism of our leaders and pleas for peace. It despises people of foreign birth. It has specifically blamed homosexuals, feminists and the American Civil Liberties Union. In other words, the American flag stands for intimidation, censorship, violence, bigotry, sexism, homophobia and shoving the Constitution through a paper shredder. Whom are we calling terrorists here? – Barbara Kingsolver • People from major labels were afraid to go to Black Flag gigs throughout most of the bands existence. They treated our gigs as something threatening. Im sure that it probably was. They probably had reasons to be scared. – Greg Ginn • Punishing desecration of the flag dilutes the very freedom that makes this emblem so revered. – William J. Brennan • Queen’s University flies the flag for the arts in Northern Ireland and beyond. – Liam Neeson • Red flag of the eating disorder: the muffin. Keep your eye on the ladies with the muffins… and sometimes I’ll just eat the muffin top. – Janeane Garofalo • Remember the hours after September 11th when we came together as one to answer the attack against our homeland. We drew strength when our firefighters ran upstairs and risked their lives so that others might live; when rescuers rushed into smoke and fire at the Pentagon; when the men and women of Flight 93 sacrificed themselves to save our nation’s Capitol; when flags were hanging from front porches all across America, and strangers became friends. It was the worst day we have ever seen, but it brought out the best in all of us. – John F. Kerry • Roger Ebert was the last mammoth alive who was holding the flag for real movies and moviemakers. – Werner Herzog • Saying you are a patriot does not make you one; wearing a flag pin does not in itself mean anything at all. – Viggo Mortensen • Since trade ignores national boundaries and the manufacturer insists on having the world as a market, the flag of his nation must follow him, and the doors of the nations which are closed against him must be battered down. Concessions obtained by financiers must be safeguarded by ministers of state, even if the sovereignty of unwilling nations be outraged in the process. Colonies must be obtained or planted, in order that no useful corner of the world may be overlooked or left unused. – Woodrow Wilson • So, friends, every day do something that won’t compute. Love the Lord. Love the world. Work for nothing. Take all that you have and be poor. Love someone who does not deserve it. Denounce the government and embrace the flag. Hope to live in that free republic for which it stands. -Wendell Berry • SST was formed to put out the first Black Flag record. Basically, there wasn’t anyone else to do it. I felt that what I was doing with Black Flag was very worthwhile, and I wanted to get it out there. – Greg Ginn • Sure I wave the American flag. Do you know a better flag to wave? Sure I love my country with all her faults. I’m not ashamed of that, never have been, never will be. – John Wayne • Sure I wave the American flag. Do you know a better flag to wave?- John Wayne • That one flag encircles us with its folds today, the unrivaled object of our loyal love. – Benjamin Harrison • The American flag is the most recognized symbol of freedom and democracy in the world. – Virginia Foxx • The American flag is the symbol of our freedom, national pride and history. – Mike Fitzpatrick • The American flag represents all of us and all the values we hold sacred. – Adrian Cronauer • The American flag, Old Glory, standing tall and flying free over American soil for 228 years is the symbol of our beloved country. It is recognized from near and afar, and many lives have been lost defending it. – Jeff Miller • The Bible represents a fundamental guidepost for millions of people on the planet, in much the same way the Koran, Torah, and Pali Canon offer guidance to people of other religions. If you and I could dig up documentation that contradicted the holy stories of Islamic belief, Judaic belief, Buddhist belief, pagan belief, should we do that? Should we wave a flag and tell the Buddhists that the Buddha did not come from a lotus blossom? Or that Jesus was not born of a literal virgin birth? Those who truly understand their faiths understand the stories are metaphorical. – Dan Brown • The few took advantage of the ignorant many. They pretended to have received messages from the Unknown. They stood between the helpless multitude and the gods. They were the carriers of flags of truce. At the court of heaven they presented the cause of man, and upon the labor of the deceived they lived. – Robert Green Ingersoll • The flag is a symbol of the fact that man is still a herd animal. – Albert Einstein • The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history. – Woodrow Wilson • The flag of racialism which has been hoisted in Wolverhampton is beginning to look like the one that fluttered 25 years ago over Dachau and Belsen. – Tony Benn • The flag of the United States has not been created by rhetorical sentences in declarations of independence and in bills of rights. It has been created by the experience of a great people, and nothing is written upon it that has not been written by their life. It is the embodiment, not of a sentiment, but of a history. – Woodrow Wilson • The flag of your nation – wave it! Begin to separate your nation from whatever covenant your forefathers must have had. Break the covenant of corruption/ stealing/ killing/ destruction/ idolatry – break it right now! – T. B. Joshua • The flag represents all the values and the liberties Americans have and enjoy everyday. – Bill Shuster • The flag still stands for freedom and they can’t take that away.- Lee Greenwood • The flag that was the symbol of slavery on the high seas for a long time was not the Confederate battle flag, it was sadly the Stars and Stripes. – Alan Keyes • The headline is the ‘ticket on the meat.’ Use it to flag down readers who are prospects for the kind of product you are advertising. – David Ogilvy • The less a statesman amounts to, the more he loves the flag. – Kin Hubbard • The meteor flag of England Shall yet terrific burn, Till danger’s troubled night depart, And the star of peace return. – Thomas Campbell • The Minutemen were seen as more of an art thing than Black Flag, although I didn’t see them that way. It confused people when we put out Saccharine Trust, too. – Greg Ginn • The mother condemned for a witch and burnt with dry wood, and her children gazing on;The hounded slave that flags in the race and leans by the fence, blowing and covered with sweat, The twinges that sting like needles his legs and neck, The murderous buckshot and the bullets, All these I feel or am. – Walt Whitman • The Palestinian state is within our grasp. Soon the Palestinian flag will fly on the walls, the minarets and the cathedrals of Jerusalem. – Yasser Arafat • The people are urged to be patriotic … by sacrificing their own children. Patriotism requires allegience to the flag, which means obedience and readiness to kill father, mother, brother, sister. – Emma Goldman • The Royal family to me are not England, and they are not the flag. – Steven Morrissey • The stuff that I got in trouble for, the casting for The Godfather or the flag scene in Patton, was the stuff that was remembered, and was considered the good work. – Francis Ford Coppola • The things that the flag stands for were created by the experiences of a great people. Everything that it stands for was written by their lives. The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history. – Woodrow Wilson • The trouble with America is that when the dollar only earns 6 percent over here, then it gets restless and goes overseas to get 100 percent. Then the flag follows the dollar and the soldiers follow the flag. – Smedley Butler • The victory march will continue until the Palestinian flag flies in Jerusalem and in all of Palestine. – Yasser Arafat • The writer is delegated to declare and to celebrate man’s proven capacity for greatness of heart and spirit—for gallantry in defeat, for courage, compassion and love. In the endless war against weakness and despair, these are the bright rally flags of hope and of emulation. I hold that a writer who does not believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any membership in literature. – John Steinbeck • Then finally I said, ‘Okay, well, I want to know all the details. I want creative input. I want to be consulted. I want to know what they’re doing and who’s involved. And I want to see the space.’ So they took me to see it, and then I realized it was major! All these red flags on the Rue de Rivoli with my name on them right by the Louvre! – Kate Moss • There are some pop songs I hate but I can’t get them out of my head. Our songs also have the standard pop format: Verse, chorus, verse, chorus, solo, bad solo. All in all, I think we sound like The Knack and the Bay City Rollers being molested by Black Flag and Black Sabbath. – Kurt Cobain • There are those who wrap themselves in flags and blow the tinny trumpet of patriotism as a means of fooling the people. – George Galloway • There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn’t an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag…We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language…and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people. – Theodore Roosevelt • There is a strong tendency in the United States to rally round the flag and their troops, no matter how mistaken the war. – George McGovern • There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum. – Arthur C. Clarke • There is much more to being a patriot and a citizen than reciting the pledge or raising a flag. – Jesse Ventura • There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people. – Howard Zinn • There is no rule in the pink-triangle guide to coming out that you must wear a rainbow flag cap and organise a full band parade. – Beth Ditto • There’s a certain elitism that has crept into the attitudes of some in journalism, and it played out perfectly over the issue of these little [American flag] lapel pins. – Brit Hume • There’s a principle here and I’m hoping the court will uphold this principle so that we can finally go back and have every American want to stand up, face the flag, place their hand over their heart and pledge to one nation, indivisible, not divided by religion, with liberty and justice for all. – Michael Newdow • There’s an enduring American compulsion to be on the side of the angels. Expediency alone has never been an adequate American reason for doing anything. When actions are judged, they go before the bar of God, where Mom and the Flag closely flank His presence. – Jonathan Raban • There’s one beneficial effect of going to Moscow. You come home waving the American flag with all your might. – Mary Tyler Moore • This flag .. is raised not without costs, .. without the costs of having struggled for many years, without the costs of having lost so many lives in order to have a free and sovereign and good Afghanistan. – Hamid Karzai • To secure respect to a neutral flag requires a naval force organized and ready to vindicate it from insult or aggression. – George Washington • To survive in peace and harmony, united and strong, we must have one people, one nation, one flag. – Pauline Hanson • Tonight the American flag floats from yonder hill or Molly Stark sleeps a widow. – John Stark • Tony Stewart — Broke out a new chassis at Pocono Raceway last June and raced to the checkered flag for his first victory of 2003; has finished among the top 10 in all but two of his 10 career starts here; Turn one is probably the easiest of the three, but you’ve got the challenge of having to downshift in the middle of the corner, .. You go down the backstretch and into the tunnel turn and it’s basically one lane. – Tony Stewart • Tree of Liberty: A tree set up by the people, hung with flags and devices, and crowned with a cap of liberty. The Americans of the United States planted poplars and other trees during the war of independence, “as symbols of growing freedom.” The Jacobins in Paris planted their first tree of liberty in 1790. The symbols used in France to decorate their trees of liberty were tricoloured ribbons, circles to indicate unity, triangles to signify equality, and a cap of liberty. Trees of liberty were planted by the Italians in the revolution of 1848. – E. Cobham Brewer • Under this flag may our youth find new inspiration for loyalty to Canada; for a patriotism based not on any mean or narrow nationalism, but on the deep and equal pride that all Canadians will feel for every part of this good land. – Lester B. Pearson • Unfortunately a Constitutional amendment that would have empowered Congress to make desecration of the United States flag illegal failed to pass by one vote. – Kenny Marchant • United States, your banner wears Two emblems–one of fame; Alas! the other that it bears Reminds us of your shame. Your banner’s constellation types White freedom with its stars, But what’s the meaning of the stripes? They mean your negroes’ scars. – Thomas Campbell • Using a metaphor in front of a man as unimaginative as Ridcully was like a red flag to a bu… was like putting something very annoying in front of someone who was annoyed by it. – Terry Pratchett • War is the spectacular and bloody projection of our everyday living. We precipitate war out of our daily lives; and without a transformation in ourselves, there are bound to be national and racial antagonisms, the childish quarreling over ideologies, the multiplication of soldiers, the saluting of flags, and all the many brutalities that go to create organized murder. – Jiddu Krishnamurti • We Americans are the most lavish and showiest and most luxury loving people on the earth; and at our masthead we fly one true and honest symbol, the gaudiest flag the world has ever seen. – Mark Twain • We are raised to honor all the wrong explorers and discoverers thieves planting flags, murderers carrying crosses. Let us at last praise the colonizers of dreams. – Peter S. Beagle • We are to regard existence as a raid or great adventure; it is to be judged, therefore, not by what calamities it encounters, but by what flag it follows and what high town it assaults. The most dangerous thing in the world is to be alive; one is always in danger of one’s life. But anyone who shrinks from that is a traitor to the great scheme and experiment of being. – Gilbert K. Chesterton • We cannot allow the American flag to be shot at anywhere on earth if we are to retain our respect and prestige – Barry Goldwater • We considered ourselves Jordanian until the Jews returned to Jerusalem. Then all of the sudden we were Palestinians – they removed the star from the Jordanian flag and all at once we had a Palestinian flag. – Walid Shoebat • We do not consecrate the flag by punishing its desecration, for in doing so, we dilute the freedom this cherished emblem represents. – William J. Brennan • We have but one flag, one country; let us stand together. We may differ in color, but not in sentiment. – Nathan Bedford Forrest • We have room in this country for but one flag, the Stars and Stripes! – Theodore Roosevelt • We have two American flags always: one for the rich and one for the poor. When the rich fly it means that things are under control; when the poor fly it means danger, revolution, anarchy. – Henry Miller • We identify the flag with almost everything we hold dear on earth, peace, security, liberty, our family, our friends, our home. . .But when we look at our flag and behold it emblazoned with all our rights we must remember that it is equally a symbol of our duties. Every glory that we associate with it is the result of duty done. – Calvin Coolidge • We join ourselves to no party that does not carry the flag and I keep step to the music of the Union. – Rufus Choate • Well, start waving and yelling, because it is the so-called Oxford comma and it is a lot more dangerous than its exclusive, ivory-tower moniker might suggest. There are people who embrace the Oxford comma and people who don’t, and I’ll just say this: never get between these people when drink has been taken. Oh, the Oxford comma. Here, in case you don’t know what it is yet, is the perennial example, as espoused by Harold Ross: “The flag is red, white, and blue.” So what do you think of it? Are you for or against it? Do you hover in between? – Lynne Truss • What does one plant who plants a tree? One plants the friend of sun and sky; One plants the flag of breezes free; The shaft of beauty towering high. – Henry Cuyler Bunner • What if the invasion forces will not leave our lands? What if the U.S. forces and others stay in our beloved lands? What if their companies and embassy headquarters will continue to exist with the American flags hoisted on them? Will you be silent? Will you overlook this? – Muqtada al Sadr • What I’m trying to do is to at least raise a flag to the blinding light of technology. – Godfrey Reggio • When a war ends, what does that look like exactly? do the cells in the body stop detonating themselves? does the orphanage stop screaming for its mother? when the sand in the desert has been melted down to glass and our reflection is not something we can stand to look at does the white flag make for a perfect blindfold? yesterday i was told a story about this little girl in Iraq, six-years-old, who cannot fall asleep because when she does she dreams of nothing but the day she watched her dog eat her neighbor’s corpse. if you told her war is over do you think she can sleep? – Andrea Gibson • When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag. – Sinclair Lewis • When fascism comes to the United States it will be wrapped in the American flag and will claim the name of 100-percent Americanism – Sinclair Lewis • When Freedom from her mountain height Unfurled her standard to the air, She tore the azure robe of night, And set the stars of glory there. – Joseph Rodman Drake • When Freedom from her mountain-height Unfurled her standard to the air, She tore the azure robe of night, And set the stars of glory there. She mingled with its gorgeous dyes The milky baldric of the skies, And striped its pure, celestial white With streakings of the morning light. Flag of the free heart’s hope and home! By angel hands to valour given! Thy stars have lit the welkin dome, And all thy hues were born in heaven. Forever float that standard sheet! Where breathes the foe but falls before us, With Freedom’s soil beneath our feet, And Freedom’s banner streaming o’er us? – Joseph Rodman Drake • When I see the American flag, I go, ‘Oh my God, you’re insulting me.’ – Janeane Garofalo • When I was in college there was a girls’ flag football league. The girls were extremely aggressive. – Lynn Swann • When somebody say no, it’s a red flag to a bull to me. – Duncan Roy • When the wheel was accepted as part of the national flag, it was surely implied that the spinning wheel would hum in every household. – Mahatma Gandhi • When you go to plant a flag on the visiting team’s field, it’s a form of taunting, .. What message are you sending when you spear it into the turf of your defeated opponent?. – Brad Davis • When you make love you’re using up energy; and afterwards you feel happy and don’t give a damn for anything. They can’t bear you to feel like that. They want you to be bursting with energy all the time. All this marching up and down and cheering and waving flags is simply sex gone sour. If you’re happy inside yourself, why should you get excited about Big Brother and the Three-Year Plans and the Two Minutes Hate and all the rest of their bloody rot? – George Orwell • While the rest of the country waves the flag of Americana, we understand we are not part of that. We don’t owe America anything – America owes us. – Al Sharpton • Words are some of the most powerful and important things I know….Language is the tool of love and the weapon of hatred. It’s the bright red warning flag of danger–and the stone foundation of diplomacy and peace. – Ani DiFranco • Worrying that banning flag desecration would inhibit free speech reveals a misunderstanding of the flag’s fundamental nature. – Adrian Cronauer • Ye mariners of England! That guard our native seas; Whose flag has braved a thousand years, The battle and the breeze! – Thomas Campbell • Yes, I’m a patriotic person. For these people who disgrace the American way and burn our flag and do all of these things… I say, don’t live here and disgrace my country. Go live in the Middle East and see how you like it. – Payne Stewart • Yonder are the Hessians. They were bought for seven pounds and tenpence a man. Are you worth more? Prove it. Tonight the American flag floats from yonder hill or Molly Stark sleeps a widow! – John Stark • You are the generation that will reach the sea and hoist the flag of Palestine over Tel Aviv. – Yasser Arafat • You are the makers of the flag and it is well that you glory in the making. – Franklin Knight Lane • You cannot have companies where many of the largest ones lose money indefinitely without someone finally waving the white flag, and IBM is the most recent example of that. – Kevin B. Rollins • You don’t defend national sovereignty with flags, cheap election rhetoric, and advertising campaigns. – Stephen Harper • You have to eat before you train. Otherwise, that really intense training, after about 40 minutes you start to flag. – Hugh Jackman • You the devil in drag. You can burn your cross, Well, I’ll burn your flag. – Ice Cube • You’re a grand old flag! You’re a high-flying flag, And forever in peace may you wave. You’re the emblem of the land I love, The home of the free and the brave. Ev’ry heart beats true ‘Neath the Red, White and Blue,’ Where there’s never a boast or brag. But should auld acquaintance be forgot, Keep your eye on the grand old flag. – George M. Cohan

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How Could Routine Nasal Surgery Increase Risk for Anxiety and Suicide?

Imagine feeling like you're suffocating every minute of the day. No matter how big a breath you take, you still feel like you can't get enough air. This is the reality for people suffering from empty nose syndrome (ENS), a complication of nose or sinus surgery.

Despite the condition being a horrifying reality for an untold number of people, it remains controversial, with some otolaryngologists (ear, nose and throat physicians) brushing it off as purely psychological.

However, ENS is becoming an increasingly recognized complication of sinus surgery, one that may occur in up to 20 percent of cases following a procedure known as turbinate resection.1 With no known cure, and the condition so severe that sufferers cannot even gain respite while they sleep, some describe it as a "life worse than death"2 — and many have committed suicide as a result.

What Type of Sinus Surgery May Lead to Empty Nose Syndrome?

People with a deviated (or bent) septum may suffer from nasal congestion and chronic sinus infections, leading their physician to recommend septoplasty and turbinate reductions to aid in opening the nasal passage. A septoplasty aims to straighten a bent or deviated nasal septum, which is the divider separating the two sides of the nose.

A turbinate reduction, or turbinectomy, (which is also sometimes recommended for sleep apnea) seeks to reduce or remove the curved structures sticking out from the side of the nose. These can be enlarged for various reasons, such as allergies or sinus inflammation. It is this loss of tissue that may cause some people to feel as though they can't breathe, despite having clear nasal passages.

Each side of your nose contains three sets of turbiantes (a low, middle and high). The low, or inferior, turbinate is most often the one that's reduced or removed, and physicians may use a variety of procedures, ranging from cauterization to radio frequency, to do so. The amount of turbinate that's removed also varies by case and physician, with some removing the bottom third and other removing a bit off the top.

It's a common procedure. In the U.S., an estimated 600,000 people undergo sinonasal procedures every year, which includes septoplasty, turbinate surgery and others.3 By some measures, turbinate reduction is said to be "the most common procedure in rhinology."4 In many cases, the procedure works, leaving patients to breathe easier. But in some people ENS is the agonizing result.

9 Symptoms of Empty Nose Syndrome You Should Be Aware Of

The primary symptom is a feeling of nasal obstruction, or the sensation of suffocating, difficulty breathing or breathlessness. Some people feel they have an "empty nose" while others may report the following, which may develop immediately after surgery or not until months or years later:5

Sensation of excessive airflow

Lack of sensation of nasal airflow

Hypersensitivity to cold air

Hyperventilation

Headache

Nasal pain

Nasal dryness

Difficulty falling asleep

Fatigue

The physical symptoms give way to a debilitating condition that often makes daily living difficult, and carries with it significant psychological symptoms as well. Anxiety is common, as is depression, with one study finding ENS sufferers experienced a 62 percent reduction in productivity at work and a 65 percent reduction in productivity in all other activities.6

Writing in the Huffington Post, Barbara Schmidt, who developed ENS in her 20s after a routine sinus procedure for chronic sinusitis, lives in a constant state of anxiety and described the condition this way:7

"Immediately after my procedure, I experienced a lack of air resistance when breathing and speaking, making these activities that ordinarily came naturally and effortlessly entirely exhausting. I needed to exert great effort simply to project my voice, and for decades I had to catch my breath after speaking just five or six words.

… Although I was in fact breathing and getting oxygen, my brain was no longer made aware of it, so it communicated to my body that it was suffocating, triggering an unremitting fight/flight response … my brain, perceiving suffocation, woke me up every night by generating nightmares when I drifted off.

… The suffering didn't end there: dehydration, dry eyes, ear and facial pain, and the jarring sensation of cold air piercing my lungs whenever I was in an unheated area were miserable, yet mere nuisances compared to the agony of never being allowed to enter into the deeper, restorative levels of sleep ― a torment that's been used as a torture tactic in war."

Still, there was more: Restlessness and simultaneously feeling exhausted yet wired. Unable to focus or articulate. Not sensing air all day, hyperventilating. The brain shocking the body day and night in a desperate attempt to escape the misperception of suffocation. The continuous coursing of stress hormones catabolizing the body, breaking down precious tissues. Constant, agonizing fear."

What Causes ENS?

Turbinates are involved in a number of processes that regulate your breathing. This includes making cold air feel warmer when it's inhaled, swelling and shrinking in size to regulate airflow through your nose, and controlling the amount of heat or liquid lost when exhaling.8

"Physiopathology remains unclear," researchers wrote in the European Annals of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Diseases, "but probably involves disorder caused by excessive nasal permeability affecting neurosensitive receptors and inhaled air humidification and conditioning functions. Neuropsychological involvement is suspected."9

Likewise, in the journal Current Allergy and Asthma Reports, it's explained, "Little is known about the pathogenesis of ENS, though it is speculated that anatomical changes leading to alterations in local environment, disruption of mucosal cooling, and disruption of neurosensory mechanisms are strongly implicated."10

It's a paradox of sorts, because while expanding the nasal pathways by reducing turbinates would theoretically seem to make breathing easier, one study that compared nasal aerodynamics before and after nasal surgery revealed a 53 percent reduction in flow resistance along with "radical redistribution of nasal airflow, as well as dryer and colder nasal microclimate for the postoperative case."11

As for why ENS develops in some patients but not others, only hypotheses exist. One suggests climate may be a factor, with turbinectomy in warmer, humid clients not resulting in as many reported instances of ENS. Other hypotheses suggest ENS may be the result of sensory nerves in the surgical area not regenerating properly or perhaps due to surgical methods that damage nerves more so than others.12

It's also likely that the way air flows through an individual's nose also plays a role, so much so that researchers at Ohio State University's Wexner Medical Center are using 3D technology to design models to test surgery outcomes prior to the procedure. Using a computer model, they can simulate the removal of tissue to determine how it affects air flow, which could help surgeons be better prepared prior to surgery.

"Because the sinuses are surrounded by the brain and the eyes, you have be very precise, within millimeters," otolaryngologist Dr. Alex Farag said in a news release.13 In addition to ENS, other risks of sinus surgery include losing sense of smell or taste, for instance.

Are There Treatments for ENS?

Prevention is by far the most important strategy for avoiding ENS, which is why, if you're considering nasal surgery you should carefully weigh the benefits versus the risks before making a decision. At the very least, if you do undergo surgery, be sure the most conservative surgical techniques are used.14

"Ultimately, prevention of this feared complication through turbinate-sparing techniques is essential," the Current Allergy and Asthma Reports researchers wrote.15 That being said, if you or someone you love has had nasal surgery and is struggling with ENS, there may be some helpful treatments, including "mucosal humidification, irrigations and emollients" as well as surgery to reconstruct the turbinates using implants.

At least one study found that surgical treatment of ENS improved depression and anxiety,16 along with other symptoms. However, there's still much to be learned about which types of implants and placements work best.

"Recent studies have revealed that surgery may result in clinical improvement in patients with ENS but that it does not guarantee improvement in all patients, and insufficient evidence is available to favor any particular implant material," according to a study published in the Journal of International Medical Research.17

In some cases, people with ENS may also benefit from treatment to address individual symptoms, such as hyperventilation, which may be improved via respiratory rehabilitation.18 In Schmidt's case, she sought holistic treatment using Ayurveda, dietary changes, yoga, meditation and conscious breathing, as well as stress mitigation and careful attention to temperature and humidity in her environment.

In addition, she received injections of platelet-rich plasma and stem cells through Dr. Subinoy Das, CEO and medical director for the U.S. Institute for Advanced Sinus Care and Research, which is intended to stimulate new nerve and blood vessel growth and tissue remodeling of the turbinates. According to the U.S. Institute for Advanced Sinus Care and Research, they've had a greater than 75 percent improvement rate with these therapies.19

Alternatives to Surgery for Sinusitis and Sleep Apnea

ENS is iatrogenic, i.e., caused by a medical treatment, diagnostic procedure or physician. This means it's entirely preventable by avoiding nasal surgery. If you're struggling with the symptoms of a deviated septum, including chronic sinusitis, the following natural remedies may help:20

Drink hot liquids — Sipping on hot tea, bone broth or soup may help relieve congested nasal passages.

Breathe in steam — Inhaling steam helps reduce the inflammation of your nasal tissues, allowing your breathing to return to normal.

Stay hydrated — Drinking plenty of water may help reduce the pressure in your sinuses, which decreases the inflammation in your nose.

Use a warm compress — The warmth from a hot compress may help relieve the pain and inflammation in your nasal passages.

If you're considering turbinate surgery due to sleep apnea, there are also nonsurgical options to consider including continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP), a special type of sleeping mask that mechanically restores your breathing by using air pressure to open your airway. Other potential treatment options include:

Buteyko Breathing Method — Named after the Russian doctor who developed it, the Buteyko technique can be used to reverse health problems caused by improper breathing, including sleep apnea.

Orofacial Myofunctional Therapy — Myofunctional therapy involves the neuromuscular re-education or repatterning of your oral and facial muscles. It includes facial and tongue exercises and behavior modification techniques to promote proper tongue position, improved breathing, chewing and swallowing. Proper head and neck postures are also addressed.

Oral appliance — If your mild to moderate sleep apnea is related to jaw or tongue issues, specially trained dentists can design a custom oral appliance, similar to a mouth guard, that you can wear while sleeping to facilitate proper breathing.

from http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2018/12/20/empty-nose-syndrome.aspx

source http://niapurenaturecom.weebly.com/blog/how-could-routine-nasal-surgery-increase-risk-for-anxiety-and-suicide

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How Could Routine Nasal Surgery Increase Risk for Anxiety and Suicide?

Imagine feeling like you're suffocating every minute of the day. No matter how big a breath you take, you still feel like you can't get enough air. This is the reality for people suffering from empty nose syndrome (ENS), a complication of nose or sinus surgery.

Despite the condition being a horrifying reality for an untold number of people, it remains controversial, with some otolaryngologists (ear, nose and throat physicians) brushing it off as purely psychological.

However, ENS is becoming an increasingly recognized complication of sinus surgery, one that may occur in up to 20 percent of cases following a procedure known as turbinate resection.1 With no known cure, and the condition so severe that sufferers cannot even gain respite while they sleep, some describe it as a "life worse than death"2 — and many have committed suicide as a result.

What Type of Sinus Surgery May Lead to Empty Nose Syndrome?

People with a deviated (or bent) septum may suffer from nasal congestion and chronic sinus infections, leading their physician to recommend septoplasty and turbinate reductions to aid in opening the nasal passage. A septoplasty aims to straighten a bent or deviated nasal septum, which is the divider separating the two sides of the nose.

A turbinate reduction, or turbinectomy, (which is also sometimes recommended for sleep apnea) seeks to reduce or remove the curved structures sticking out from the side of the nose. These can be enlarged for various reasons, such as allergies or sinus inflammation. It is this loss of tissue that may cause some people to feel as though they can't breathe, despite having clear nasal passages.

Each side of your nose contains three sets of turbiantes (a low, middle and high). The low, or inferior, turbinate is most often the one that's reduced or removed, and physicians may use a variety of procedures, ranging from cauterization to radio frequency, to do so. The amount of turbinate that's removed also varies by case and physician, with some removing the bottom third and other removing a bit off the top.

It's a common procedure. In the U.S., an estimated 600,000 people undergo sinonasal procedures every year, which includes septoplasty, turbinate surgery and others.3 By some measures, turbinate reduction is said to be "the most common procedure in rhinology."4 In many cases, the procedure works, leaving patients to breathe easier. But in some people ENS is the agonizing result.

9 Symptoms of Empty Nose Syndrome You Should Be Aware Of

The primary symptom is a feeling of nasal obstruction, or the sensation of suffocating, difficulty breathing or breathlessness. Some people feel they have an "empty nose" while others may report the following, which may develop immediately after surgery or not until months or years later:5

Sensation of excessive airflow

Lack of sensation of nasal airflow

Hypersensitivity to cold air

Hyperventilation

Headache

Nasal pain

Nasal dryness

Difficulty falling asleep

Fatigue

The physical symptoms give way to a debilitating condition that often makes daily living difficult, and carries with it significant psychological symptoms as well. Anxiety is common, as is depression, with one study finding ENS sufferers experienced a 62 percent reduction in productivity at work and a 65 percent reduction in productivity in all other activities.6

Writing in the Huffington Post, Barbara Schmidt, who developed ENS in her 20s after a routine sinus procedure for chronic sinusitis, lives in a constant state of anxiety and described the condition this way:7

"Immediately after my procedure, I experienced a lack of air resistance when breathing and speaking, making these activities that ordinarily came naturally and effortlessly entirely exhausting. I needed to exert great effort simply to project my voice, and for decades I had to catch my breath after speaking just five or six words.

… Although I was in fact breathing and getting oxygen, my brain was no longer made aware of it, so it communicated to my body that it was suffocating, triggering an unremitting fight/flight response … my brain, perceiving suffocation, woke me up every night by generating nightmares when I drifted off.

… The suffering didn't end there: dehydration, dry eyes, ear and facial pain, and the jarring sensation of cold air piercing my lungs whenever I was in an unheated area were miserable, yet mere nuisances compared to the agony of never being allowed to enter into the deeper, restorative levels of sleep ― a torment that's been used as a torture tactic in war."

Still, there was more: Restlessness and simultaneously feeling exhausted yet wired. Unable to focus or articulate. Not sensing air all day, hyperventilating. The brain shocking the body day and night in a desperate attempt to escape the misperception of suffocation. The continuous coursing of stress hormones catabolizing the body, breaking down precious tissues. Constant, agonizing fear."

What Causes ENS?

Turbinates are involved in a number of processes that regulate your breathing. This includes making cold air feel warmer when it's inhaled, swelling and shrinking in size to regulate airflow through your nose, and controlling the amount of heat or liquid lost when exhaling.8

"Physiopathology remains unclear," researchers wrote in the European Annals of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Diseases, "but probably involves disorder caused by excessive nasal permeability affecting neurosensitive receptors and inhaled air humidification and conditioning functions. Neuropsychological involvement is suspected."9

Likewise, in the journal Current Allergy and Asthma Reports, it's explained, "Little is known about the pathogenesis of ENS, though it is speculated that anatomical changes leading to alterations in local environment, disruption of mucosal cooling, and disruption of neurosensory mechanisms are strongly implicated."10

It's a paradox of sorts, because while expanding the nasal pathways by reducing turbinates would theoretically seem to make breathing easier, one study that compared nasal aerodynamics before and after nasal surgery revealed a 53 percent reduction in flow resistance along with "radical redistribution of nasal airflow, as well as dryer and colder nasal microclimate for the postoperative case."11

As for why ENS develops in some patients but not others, only hypotheses exist. One suggests climate may be a factor, with turbinectomy in warmer, humid clients not resulting in as many reported instances of ENS. Other hypotheses suggest ENS may be the result of sensory nerves in the surgical area not regenerating properly or perhaps due to surgical methods that damage nerves more so than others.12

It's also likely that the way air flows through an individual's nose also plays a role, so much so that researchers at Ohio State University's Wexner Medical Center are using 3D technology to design models to test surgery outcomes prior to the procedure. Using a computer model, they can simulate the removal of tissue to determine how it affects air flow, which could help surgeons be better prepared prior to surgery.

"Because the sinuses are surrounded by the brain and the eyes, you have be very precise, within millimeters," otolaryngologist Dr. Alex Farag said in a news release.13 In addition to ENS, other risks of sinus surgery include losing sense of smell or taste, for instance.

Are There Treatments for ENS?

Prevention is by far the most important strategy for avoiding ENS, which is why, if you're considering nasal surgery you should carefully weigh the benefits versus the risks before making a decision. At the very least, if you do undergo surgery, be sure the most conservative surgical techniques are used.14

"Ultimately, prevention of this feared complication through turbinate-sparing techniques is essential," the Current Allergy and Asthma Reports researchers wrote.15 That being said, if you or someone you love has had nasal surgery and is struggling with ENS, there may be some helpful treatments, including "mucosal humidification, irrigations and emollients" as well as surgery to reconstruct the turbinates using implants.

At least one study found that surgical treatment of ENS improved depression and anxiety,16 along with other symptoms. However, there's still much to be learned about which types of implants and placements work best.

"Recent studies have revealed that surgery may result in clinical improvement in patients with ENS but that it does not guarantee improvement in all patients, and insufficient evidence is available to favor any particular implant material," according to a study published in the Journal of International Medical Research.17

In some cases, people with ENS may also benefit from treatment to address individual symptoms, such as hyperventilation, which may be improved via respiratory rehabilitation.18 In Schmidt's case, she sought holistic treatment using Ayurveda, dietary changes, yoga, meditation and conscious breathing, as well as stress mitigation and careful attention to temperature and humidity in her environment.

In addition, she received injections of platelet-rich plasma and stem cells through Dr. Subinoy Das, CEO and medical director for the U.S. Institute for Advanced Sinus Care and Research, which is intended to stimulate new nerve and blood vessel growth and tissue remodeling of the turbinates. According to the U.S. Institute for Advanced Sinus Care and Research, they've had a greater than 75 percent improvement rate with these therapies.19

Alternatives to Surgery for Sinusitis and Sleep Apnea

ENS is iatrogenic, i.e., caused by a medical treatment, diagnostic procedure or physician. This means it's entirely preventable by avoiding nasal surgery. If you're struggling with the symptoms of a deviated septum, including chronic sinusitis, the following natural remedies may help:20

Drink hot liquids — Sipping on hot tea, bone broth or soup may help relieve congested nasal passages.

Breathe in steam — Inhaling steam helps reduce the inflammation of your nasal tissues, allowing your breathing to return to normal.

Stay hydrated — Drinking plenty of water may help reduce the pressure in your sinuses, which decreases the inflammation in your nose.

Use a warm compress — The warmth from a hot compress may help relieve the pain and inflammation in your nasal passages.

If you're considering turbinate surgery due to sleep apnea, there are also nonsurgical options to consider including continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP), a special type of sleeping mask that mechanically restores your breathing by using air pressure to open your airway. Other potential treatment options include:

Buteyko Breathing Method — Named after the Russian doctor who developed it, the Buteyko technique can be used to reverse health problems caused by improper breathing, including sleep apnea.

Orofacial Myofunctional Therapy — Myofunctional therapy involves the neuromuscular re-education or repatterning of your oral and facial muscles. It includes facial and tongue exercises and behavior modification techniques to promote proper tongue position, improved breathing, chewing and swallowing. Proper head and neck postures are also addressed.

Oral appliance — If your mild to moderate sleep apnea is related to jaw or tongue issues, specially trained dentists can design a custom oral appliance, similar to a mouth guard, that you can wear while sleeping to facilitate proper breathing.

from HealthyLife via Jake Glover on Inoreader http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2018/12/20/empty-nose-syndrome.aspx

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Predictive Analytics for Right-Brained Marketers – MarTech Advisor

Let me start with a confession. Data, analytics, algorithms, statistics, probability and all such left-brain terms make my head spin. If you are a right-brained marketer like me, then you prefer to go by gut and instinct, love conceptual explanations and enjoy creating solutions rather than having a machine give them to you.  Unfortunately, anyone remotely connected with marketing today, cannot escape data, numbers, fact and technology. Analytics is all of that and more. It’s time to face (and slay) our fears. This article will attempt to decode Predictive Marketing Analytics so it makes sense to a B2B marketer thinking about the what, why, when and how of it.

Why analytics? Quite simply, it leads to better decisions. Informed decisions. Data-driven decisions. It connects various data points and sets to identify trends, patterns, anomalies and gaps. Luckily, the technology available today, does not do just that, but also presents the findings in a way that a regular (right-brained) marketer like you and me can make sense of and apply the insights and decisions to marketing action plans and execution strategies.

The basic concept is simple enough. You have data –> you use technology to run some analytics on it –> you get some actionable insight from it which will help you make better decisions –> that can drive better marketing results & ROI.

So, what’s the catch? Well, there are a lot of different sources of data, there are lots of different kinds of analytics (SEE BOX: Types of Analytics) and there are several use cases for which you can deploy decision science solutions.

With limited resources to invest in technology, and increasing pressure to show results from those investments, marketers need to be sure they are going in the right direction and not just the most popular one. So, let’s zoom out for a bit and put this in perspective.

What does the analytics ecosystem look like? – Big Data, DMP, CDP, AI, CRM, Analytics, Marketing Automation, Intelligence, Machine Learning: all play starring roles but how are they related? This chart attempts to explain the relation and flow of events between the star players in the larger ecosystem.

Chart 1: THE ANALYTICS ECOSYSTEM BIG PICTURE

So now you have an idea of the bigger picture and where and how the major pieces fit, it’s time to zero in on the question du jour: the what, why, when and how of Predictive Marketing Analytics.

The age of predictive marketing is upon us. It is no longer enough to just track historical customer behavior and then tailor our response based on that behavior. Now, it is possible, and perhaps even critical to predict future behavior based on historical and real-time actions; to anticipate, and proactively address upcoming customer needs and wants. To paraphrase Jack Welch, it is not enough to be better than your competitor. You have to set a whole new (and hopefully unique) standard in customer experience. To do this, it’s important to know your customer better than anyone else. What they have done, what they are doing, and what they will do. Going a step further, perhaps it is even about proactively nudging customer behavior in certain directions based on what we know about how they have acted and may act in the future. Predictive Marketing Analytics can help do all of that.

Chart 2: Let’s zero in on predictiveanalytics for (B2B) marketing in the larger Analytics ecosystem.

How can you specifically use predictive marketing analytics today?

Predictive Marketing Analytics has several applications (or what vendors tend to call ‘use cases’) for B2B marketers. Let’s look at the situations in which it may come to your rescue.

PROSPECTING (Demand Generation with lead enrichment and scoring)

Data diagnostics: If your first-party data is in bad shape, disconnected, incomplete, inaccurate, obsolete, then the predictive analytics vendor will help you bring it to a level of acceptability, wherein it can be used as input data for analytics.

Data quality: There are bound to be inhouse data silos across functions and platforms. Externally, several disparate sources of data exist, from browsing behavior to government records. Unstructured data (voice transcripts, emails, chat records etc) pose a whole different challenge. Predictive Analytics technology can help connect all of the disparate data and make each record more complete and detailed by matching and populating it from multiple sources. This, in turn, helps analytics to build more robust, holistic ‘personas’, segments and journey stages – by sorting through and connecting thousands of characteristics and signals to determine which are actually good indicators of future behavior.

Identify the best prospects (within a segment) most likely to buy from you (based on matching characteristics with existing customers – aptly called ‘lookalikes’) and invest your resources in reaching them rather than trying to reach an entire segment.

Expand the prospect base: Using the ‘lookalike’ profile to identify prospects not currently in the marketer’s own database, by trawling through thousands of data points in external data sources.

CONVERSION (build pipeline and tailor response to leads based on their buying intent score and probability to convert)

Prioritize the leads you already have, and focus on those most likely to convert in the immediate future based on lead scores and likelihood to convert predictive models

Reinstate cold leads by finding other contacts within the same organization that can be reached by Sales teams

Lead routing can route leads scored on their buying intent to either Sales teams or to the right (nurture) campaign on your marketing automation platform

Account-based marketing: Profile and identify the right roles within the right prospects for better ABM success

Predict success probability of campaigns targeted at audiences picked via predictive segmentation

RETENTION (keep and grow existing customers)

Manage and pre-empt churn by identifying churn-prone behavior well before renewal dates

Cross-selling and upselling to existing customers by offering the best-fit products and solutions at the right time to existing customers based on the probability of conversion (Note: All vendors may not provide solutions for all use cases, and some may offer more than this)

Is your B2B a viable candidate for predictive marketing analytics?

Predictive analytics is not for everyone. It is not so much about size as it is about maturity though. B2Bs small and large, at a fairly advanced stage of marketing technology in terms of having both, a stable CRM and a marketing automation or ABM stack up and running are ideal candidates for predictive, because leveraging predictive insights can exponentially improve ROI from those installed marketing technologies. As John Hurley, Head of Demand Generation at Radius said in a conversation about predictive,

MA and CRM are workflow tools, predictive has all the data and rich analysis on who should be in each marketing tool

But there’s an elephant in the room

Even though the quantum of data generated has increased exorbitantly, and data is the bedrock of analytics and informed decision-making, analytics is not, ironically about more data but about making better sense of the data available, albeit at scale.

So, let’s say you have decided you need predictive and you also meet the basic criteria for deploying it. You call on several vendors and in every meeting, there is an elephant in the room that no one wants to deal with… no, it’s not your data, it’s the quality of your data.

While having a stable CRM and MAP or ABM platform in place is a prerequisite to deploying advanced analytics, if the quality of data inside those systems is not so great, I don’t have to spell out what the results of predictive will be. The data has to be usable, current and actionable. It’s a sensitive topic because no one wants to admit that their million-dollar system is full of junk. Or, blame anyone who is responsible for putting the junk in there (especially if they are themselves to blame).  Another reason could be that CRM is typically a sales-owned system ,and this evaluation is being led by marketing, who may not want to get confrontational about it and are also under pressure to deliver results. If this was FB, I’d be really tempted to say, “It’s complicated”. Oops, I just did.  

And if you find (or admit) that your data is lousy, then how do you move beyond that?

Bad data is costing you more than you can imagine, in terms of opportunity and revenue. Luckily for you, it is in the interest of the predictive analytics vendors to help B2Bs get their data sorted to a somewhat acceptable level. Without this, their category is not going to grow. So, the good news is that every (good) predictive analytics vendor will most likely do the below for you:

Offer you access to a third-party owned or licensed data set that you can get started with

Help you, through a process known as ‘data stewardship’ which includes, CRM (data) diagnostics, cleansing (deduplicate, remove inaccurate, incomplete and obsolete records etc.), and enrichment (fill in gaps, add fields to existing records from external sources etc

‘Match’ their third-party data with your data and look for a high match rate. A good match means higher probability that you will get the high-quality net new leads or improved database richness that your aim for.

But it doesn’t end there. Even if your CRM or MAP is decent in terms of primary records, here’s another bummer: the data in the fields of those records will ‘decay’ faster than fruits in summer. Many vendors provide access to high quality third-party licensed databases, and once you are subscribed, will match and update / append your existing records constantly to ensure the data fields stay fresh and relevant over time.

You can run but you can’t hide: the future of predictive marketing analytics

B2B buyers are being conditioned by their B2C experiences, and expect the same personalized contact and quick turnaround that B2C offers. Big, complex data with complex, dynamic relationships and interconnections; where marketers need to respond to changes instantaneously, will need predictive analytics to manage it at some point. It’s not a question of if, it’s when.

As Mintigo puts it, “The state where predictive modelling drives core marketing processes, can be called predictive marketing”

Assuming most B2B marketers will strive towards making increasingly robust data-driven decisions, the rise of predictive marketing analytics seems inevitable.

In spite of this, and despite what the surveys say, real-life practitioners and vendors tell me that there is still resistance to committing fully to predictive analytics today.

So, apart from the fact that overly logical and algorithmic discussions make our heads explode, what holds back B2Bs (that meet the criteria) from embracing predictive analytics as a strategic marketing tool?

Maintain the status quo: That hoary old chestnut surfaces again. It is an argument I hear across all categories of technology. CMOs don’t see the urgency in it and don’t prioritize it. Unfortunately, the world is moving to a Data Economy. Everyone – especially your prospects and customers – expect you to be coming from a place of in-depth insight about what they want and need. Ignore that reality at your peril.

Make or buy: Many B2Bs think they can do a better job of building the technology themselves. I had referred to this in my article on Key Account Management Technology a few months ago, and I will say it again: this approach is like waiting for the meteor to come and hit you. In today’s world, when cloud-based SaaS technologies offer full-feature specialist solutions to address complex problems at the cost of one month’s subscription, it is not viable to go down the ‘invest in non-core areas’ strategy.

Wait and watch (while using existing tools): If you are thinking ‘Hey! I just invested loads of time and effort getting users to adopt Marketing Automation and now there is this new thing in between my data and my execution piece’ you wouldn’t be alone. Since most marketers have already got some kind of descriptive analytics in place (BI, dashboards, intel), they may be quite happy (and not wrong) in thinking it is enough to move forward with execution based on that sort of static intel. It is important though to remember that most static BI or descriptive analytics is based on the assumption – ‘what happened in the past will happen in the future in the same way’. However, the Data Economy demands a more forward-focused approach to managing marketing data. Your prospects and customers are evolving rapidly. Your data analytics and insight generation machinery needs to be as dynamic as them. Or, else your intel and reports could be just as useful as yesterday’s news.

Go for a cheaper option: And, that is typically buying data, records, lists from third-party list vendors. It may be a decent short-term option, but if you are going to an external data source, you already understand and appreciate that the data challenge needs a sustainable, long-term and strategic solution.

Change is scary: You have seen others try it and fail. Your own people will resist change, because they already have too much on their plate. You are still smarting from some other post-purchase dissonance issues. All valid. But, the crux with investing in this or any technology is to know what you are going to solve before you make the purchase. This is not something to buy, because it sounds sexy and everyone is talking about it obviously, but it’s also not something to buy if you don’t really have a valid use case for it. Work closely with the vendors pitching for your business to identify clear use cases and then decide if it’s worth the fight.

That said, as it stands today it’s easy to see predictive analytics marketing as just advanced prospecting or segmentation technology. It doesn’t help that vendors describe their services in many different ways – from audience management platforms, AI for business, AI assisted sales & marketing, predictive intelligence platforms among many other descriptions.

While indeed the dominant use cases today are data stewardship, data enrichment, predictive segmentation and lead scoring; the core offerings will evolve as the vendors and users mature. It is important to remember though that investments in data quality and data partnerships today, will not be wasted and can only serve to improve results from more complex predictive analytics moving forward.

Ultimately, the work of all technology, strategy and innovation – no matter how fancy they sound – is to drive pipeline and conversions. And, that is something predictive analytics will only get better at. Some specific areas of maturity are:

Predictive analytics will continue to get better at pulling many different sources of data – and connect thousands of characteristics, variables and behaviors together – to deliver ever more of the perfect customer profiles, micro-segments, intent to buy and probability for success models it is designed to generate.

The third-party databases offered by predictive analytics vendors will look very different from the dominant data licensing model we see today. Already, Radius has the Network of Record, Everstring has its Company Graph, Microsoft acquired LinkedIn (thus giving it access to the wealth of B2B data it owns) among others. Vendors are investing big to develop purposeful B2B databases that can be used to take B2B predictive analytics to the next level. Along with inhouse data also getting smarter and better and machine learning getting more advanced, high ‘data accuracy’ levels are going to drive much more accurate predictive intelligence. It will be an era of strategic partnerships between B2Bs and their analytics vendor.

Intelligent platforms of the future, armed with deep and powerful databases as described above, will not just be able to identify the best-fit prospects or traits most likely to convert, they will be able to proactively and pre-emptively recommend specific named prospects and customers to the Sales teams at the right time for the right portfolio offering.

This will come with tighter integration between the three core components of predictive analytics – data, analytics and execution components. In other words, the backward integration of analytics with Data and the forward integration with execution platforms like CRM and MA will only make the recommendations more robust, actionable and real time.

Right-brained marketers, don’t say we didn’t warn you! Predictive analytics – like math and physics – seems like it’s here to stay. But hopefully, you are not that intimidated by it anymore. Good luck!

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Predictive Analytics for Right-Brained Marketers

Let me start with a confession. Data, analytics, algorithms, statistics, probability and all such left-brain terms make my head spin. If you are a right-brained marketer like me, then you prefer to go by gut and instinct, love conceptual explanations and enjoy creating solutions rather than having a machine give them to you.  Unfortunately, anyone remotely connected with marketing today, cannot escape data, numbers, fact and technology. Analytics is all of that and more. It’s time to face (and slay) our fears. This article will attempt to decode Predictive Marketing Analytics so it makes sense to a B2B marketer thinking about the what, why, when and how of it.

Why analytics? Quite simply, it leads to better decisions. Informed decisions. Data-driven decisions. It connects various data points and sets to identify trends, patterns, anomalies and gaps. Luckily, the technology available today, does not do just that, but also presents the findings in a way that a regular (right-brained) marketer like you and me can make sense of and apply the insights and decisions to marketing action plans and execution strategies.

The basic concept is simple enough. You have data –> you use technology to run some analytics on it –> you get some actionable insight from it which will help you make better decisions –> that can drive better marketing results & ROI.

So, what’s the catch? Well, there are a lot of different sources of data, there are lots of different kinds of analytics (SEE BOX: Types of Analytics) and there are several use cases for which you can deploy decision science solutions.

With limited resources to invest in technology, and increasing pressure to show results from those investments, marketers need to be sure they are going in the right direction and not just the most popular one. So, let’s zoom out for a bit and put this in perspective.

What does the analytics ecosystem look like? – Big Data, DMP, CDP, AI, CRM, Analytics, Marketing Automation, Intelligence, Machine Learning: all play starring roles but how are they related? This chart attempts to explain the relation and flow of events between the star players in the larger ecosystem.

Chart 1: THE ANALYTICS ECOSYSTEM BIG PICTURE

So now you have an idea of the bigger picture and where and how the major pieces fit, it’s time to zero in on the question du jour: the what, why, when and how of Predictive Marketing Analytics.

The age of predictive marketing is upon us. It is no longer enough to just track historical customer behavior and then tailor our response based on that behavior. Now, it is possible, and perhaps even critical to predict future behavior based on historical and real-time actions; to anticipate, and proactively address upcoming customer needs and wants. To paraphrase Jack Welch, it is not enough to be better than your competitor. You have to set a whole new (and hopefully unique) standard in customer experience. To do this, it’s important to know your customer better than anyone else. What they have done, what they are doing, and what they will do. Going a step further, perhaps it is even about proactively nudging customer behavior in certain directions based on what we know about how they have acted and may act in the future. Predictive Marketing Analytics can help do all of that.

Chart 2: Let’s zero in on predictive analytics for (B2B) marketing in the larger Analytics ecosystem.

How can you specifically use predictive marketing analytics today?

Predictive Marketing Analytics has several applications (or what vendors tend to call ‘use cases’) for B2B marketers. Let’s look at the situations in which it may come to your rescue.

PROSPECTING (Demand Generation with lead enrichment and scoring)

Data diagnostics: If your first-party data is in bad shape, disconnected, incomplete, inaccurate, obsolete, then the predictive analytics vendor will help you bring it to a level of acceptability, wherein it can be used as input data for analytics.

Data quality: There are bound to be inhouse data silos across functions and platforms. Externally, several disparate sources of data exist, from browsing behavior to government records. Unstructured data (voice transcripts, emails, chat records etc) pose a whole different challenge. Predictive Analytics technology can help connect all of the disparate data and make each record more complete and detailed by matching and populating it from multiple sources. This, in turn, helps analytics to build more robust, holistic ‘personas’, segments and journey stages – by sorting through and connecting thousands of characteristics and signals to determine which are actually good indicators of future behavior.

Identify the best prospects (within a segment) most likely to buy from you (based on matching characteristics with existing customers – aptly called ‘lookalikes’) and invest your resources in reaching them rather than trying to reach an entire segment.

Expand the prospect base: Using the ‘lookalike’ profile to identify prospects not currently in the marketer’s own database, by trawling through thousands of data points in external data sources.

CONVERSION (build pipeline and tailor response to leads based on their buying intent score and probability to convert)

Prioritize the leads you already have, and focus on those most likely to convert in the immediate future based on lead scores and likelihood to convert predictive models

Reinstate cold leads by finding other contacts within the same organization that can be reached by Sales teams

Lead routing can route leads scored on their buying intent to either Sales teams or to the right (nurture) campaign on your marketing automation platform

Account-based marketing: Profile and identify the right roles within the right prospects for better ABM success

Predict success probability of campaigns targeted at audiences picked via predictive segmentation

RETENTION (keep and grow existing customers)

Manage and pre-empt churn by identifying churn-prone behavior well before renewal dates

Cross-selling and upselling to existing customers by offering the best-fit products and solutions at the right time to existing customers based on the probability of conversion (Note: All vendors may not provide solutions for all use cases, and some may offer more than this)

Is your B2B a viable candidate for predictive marketing analytics?

Predictive analytics is not for everyone. It is not so much about size as it is about maturity though. B2Bs small and large, at a fairly advanced stage of marketing technology in terms of having both, a stable CRM and a marketing automation or ABM stack up and running are ideal candidates for predictive, because leveraging predictive insights can exponentially improve ROI from those installed marketing technologies. As John Hurley, Head of Demand Generation at Radius said in a conversation about predictive,

MA and CRM are workflow tools, predictive has all the data and rich analysis on who should be in each marketing tool

But there’s an elephant in the room

Even though the quantum of data generated has increased exorbitantly, and data is the bedrock of analytics and informed decision-making, analytics is not, ironically about more data but about making better sense of the data available, albeit at scale.

So, let’s say you have decided you need predictive and you also meet the basic criteria for deploying it. You call on several vendors and in every meeting, there is an elephant in the room that no one wants to deal with... no, it’s not your data, it’s the quality of your data.

While having a stable CRM and MAP or ABM platform in place is a prerequisite to deploying advanced analytics, if the quality of data inside those systems is not so great, I don’t have to spell out what the results of predictive will be. The data has to be usable, current and actionable. It’s a sensitive topic because no one wants to admit that their million-dollar system is full of junk. Or, blame anyone who is responsible for putting the junk in there (especially if they are themselves to blame).  Another reason could be that CRM is typically a sales-owned system ,and this evaluation is being led by marketing, who may not want to get confrontational about it and are also under pressure to deliver results. If this was FB, I’d be really tempted to say, “It’s complicated”. Oops, I just did.  

And if you find (or admit) that your data is lousy, then how do you move beyond that?

Bad data is costing you more than you can imagine, in terms of opportunity and revenue. Luckily for you, it is in the interest of the predictive analytics vendors to help B2Bs get their data sorted to a somewhat acceptable level. Without this, their category is not going to grow. So, the good news is that every (good) predictive analytics vendor will most likely do the below for you:

Offer you access to a third-party owned or licensed data set that you can get started with

Help you, through a process known as ‘data stewardship’ which includes, CRM (data) diagnostics, cleansing (deduplicate, remove inaccurate, incomplete and obsolete records etc.), and enrichment (fill in gaps, add fields to existing records from external sources etc

‘Match’ their third-party data with your data and look for a high match rate. A good match means higher probability that you will get the high-quality net new leads or improved database richness that your aim for.

But it doesn’t end there. Even if your CRM or MAP is decent in terms of primary records, here’s another bummer: the data in the fields of those records will ‘decay’ faster than fruits in summer. Many vendors provide access to high quality third-party licensed databases, and once you are subscribed, will match and update / append your existing records constantly to ensure the data fields stay fresh and relevant over time.

You can run but you can’t hide: the future of predictive marketing analytics

B2B buyers are being conditioned by their B2C experiences, and expect the same personalized contact and quick turnaround that B2C offers. Big, complex data with complex, dynamic relationships and interconnections; where marketers need to respond to changes instantaneously, will need predictive analytics to manage it at some point. It’s not a question of if, it’s when.

As Mintigo puts it, “The state where predictive modelling drives core marketing processes, can be called predictive marketing”

Assuming most B2B marketers will strive towards making increasingly robust data-driven decisions, the rise of predictive marketing analytics seems inevitable.

In spite of this, and despite what the surveys say, real-life practitioners and vendors tell me that there is still resistance to committing fully to predictive analytics today.

So, apart from the fact that overly logical and algorithmic discussions make our heads explode, what holds back B2Bs (that meet the criteria) from embracing predictive analytics as a strategic marketing tool?

Maintain the status quo: That hoary old chestnut surfaces again. It is an argument I hear across all categories of technology. CMOs don’t see the urgency in it and don’t prioritize it. Unfortunately, the world is moving to a Data Economy. Everyone – especially your prospects and customers – expect you to be coming from a place of in-depth insight about what they want and need. Ignore that reality at your peril.

Make or buy: Many B2Bs think they can do a better job of building the technology themselves. I had referred to this in my article on Key Account Management Technology a few months ago, and I will say it again: this approach is like waiting for the meteor to come and hit you. In today’s world, when cloud-based SaaS technologies offer full-feature specialist solutions to address complex problems at the cost of one month’s subscription, it is not viable to go down the ‘invest in non-core areas’ strategy.

Wait and watch (while using existing tools): If you are thinking ‘Hey! I just invested loads of time and effort getting users to adopt Marketing Automation and now there is this new thing in between my data and my execution piece’ you wouldn’t be alone. Since most marketers have already got some kind of descriptive analytics in place (BI, dashboards, intel), they may be quite happy (and not wrong) in thinking it is enough to move forward with execution based on that sort of static intel. It is important though to remember that most static BI or descriptive analytics is based on the assumption – ‘what happened in the past will happen in the future in the same way’. However, the Data Economy demands a more forward-focused approach to managing marketing data. Your prospects and customers are evolving rapidly. Your data analytics and insight generation machinery needs to be as dynamic as them. Or, else your intel and reports could be just as useful as yesterday’s news.

Go for a cheaper option: And, that is typically buying data, records, lists from third-party list vendors. It may be a decent short-term option, but if you are going to an external data source, you already understand and appreciate that the data challenge needs a sustainable, long-term and strategic solution.

Change is scary: You have seen others try it and fail. Your own people will resist change, because they already have too much on their plate. You are still smarting from some other post-purchase dissonance issues. All valid. But, the crux with investing in this or any technology is to know what you are going to solve before you make the purchase. This is not something to buy, because it sounds sexy and everyone is talking about it obviously, but it’s also not something to buy if you don’t really have a valid use case for it. Work closely with the vendors pitching for your business to identify clear use cases and then decide if it’s worth the fight.

That said, as it stands today it’s easy to see predictive analytics marketing as just advanced prospecting or segmentation technology. It doesn’t help that vendors describe their services in many different ways – from audience management platforms, AI for business, AI assisted sales & marketing, predictive intelligence platforms among many other descriptions.

While indeed the dominant use cases today are data stewardship, data enrichment, predictive segmentation and lead scoring; the core offerings will evolve as the vendors and users mature. It is important to remember though that investments in data quality and data partnerships today, will not be wasted and can only serve to improve results from more complex predictive analytics moving forward.

Ultimately, the work of all technology, strategy and innovation – no matter how fancy they sound – is to drive pipeline and conversions. And, that is something predictive analytics will only get better at. Some specific areas of maturity are:

Predictive analytics will continue to get better at pulling many different sources of data – and connect thousands of characteristics, variables and behaviors together – to deliver ever more of the perfect customer profiles, micro-segments, intent to buy and probability for success models it is designed to generate.

The third-party databases offered by predictive analytics vendors will look very different from the dominant data licensing model we see today. Already, Radius has the Network of Record, Everstring has its Company Graph, Microsoft acquired LinkedIn (thus giving it access to the wealth of B2B data it owns) among others. Vendors are investing big to develop purposeful B2B databases that can be used to take B2B predictive analytics to the next level. Along with inhouse data also getting smarter and better and machine learning getting more advanced, high ‘data accuracy’ levels are going to drive much more accurate predictive intelligence. It will be an era of strategic partnerships between B2Bs and their analytics vendor.

Intelligent platforms of the future, armed with deep and powerful databases as described above, will not just be able to identify the best-fit prospects or traits most likely to convert, they will be able to proactively and pre-emptively recommend specific named prospects and customers to the Sales teams at the right time for the right portfolio offering.

This will come with tighter integration between the three core components of predictive analytics – data, analytics and execution components. In other words, the backward integration of analytics with Data and the forward integration with execution platforms like CRM and MA will only make the recommendations more robust, actionable and real time.

Right-brained marketers, don’t say we didn’t warn you! Predictive analytics – like math and physics – seems like it’s here to stay. But hopefully, you are not that intimidated by it anymore. Good luck!

This article was first appeared on MarTech Advisor

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10 Tips to Make Your Computer Run Faster By Avoiding Malware

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10 Tips to Make Your Computer Run Faster By Avoiding Malware

So, you’ve got been playing your new PC the last few months, and as time has exceeded by using it’s been getting slower and slower. It’s sooner or later to the point that It’s almost unusable, and is using you nuts while you do use it for undertaking or to do paintings. So what do you do? Choose it up, throw it away, and buy a brand new one? Nope. The ideal solution is to call tech guide or seek the Internet and see if you can discover what is incorrect with your desktop computers and attach it. Sometimes you will need to buy a brand new computer, especially if your contemporary one is like ten years antique. But if you’ve best had it a few months to a few years, then maximum probably you just need to do some primary cleanup and updating of the software program you have got to your laptop. Before you start to panic or rush out to buy a new PC, you should attempt the recommendations I have right here for you to see if they may get your desktop computers up and running like new once more.

1. Update software program

I understand some of you analyzing this might already understand that it makes feel to improve your software consisting of virus and adware protection software program, However, what a variety of people possibly don’t realize is that updating all your different software programs will even assist to improve the velocity of your desktop computers Positive your software program might do precisely what It is imagined to flawlessly, however, the fact is that your software program is complete of system faults and bugs that may be fixed by way of downloading patches. through downloading those patches it might not handiest improve the efficiency of your computer and software, However, it’ll additionally enhance its protection. Updating your software is distinctive for each application.

Every so often you have to do it manually from inside the program itself, and different instances It’s automated. For applications like virus and adware protection software program, you should set it to mechanically Update. If you have other packages that vehicle Replace themselves set them to accomplish that additionally. This could keep you from having to worry about updating your software yourself. For the relaxation of your software that does not routinely Replace itself, checking for updates at least as soon as a month for them ought to be enough. It is able to appear bothersome to Update your software mainly If you have to do it manually, But you will be satisfied you probably did in the long run and your PC will thank you for it.

2. Replace Your Running Machine

In conjunction with updating your software, you furthermore might need to Update your Working Machine frequently. Your Operating System is simply any other software program and prefers those other packages, it is also complete of insects and system faults that want to be fixed with updates. Home windows have the choice of letting you place it to Replace itself mechanically or to Replace it manually when you experience find it irresistible. To regulate this feature in Windows XP, go to Start>Manipulate Panel, and click on automated Updates inside the Manipulate Panel window. In Window Vista visit Start>Control Panel, and click on Home windows Updates. within the Windows, Updates window clicks on Trade Settings inside the left pane. Irrespective of which version of Windows you’re the usage of you will have the identical alternatives to pick out from that are:

1. robotically Download and Install Updates

2. automatically Download updates, But allow me the select while to install them.

3. Notify me However do not routinely Download or Setup them.

four. Turn off computerized Updates.

The suggest setting is of course to mechanically Download and Installation updates, However, you could pick out whichever settings you need then click on follow to shop the changes you make. No matter how making a decision to handle updating your Operating Machine, ensuring which you do it often will truly help your laptop to run Faster and enhance its safety.

3. Defragment Your PC

As you operate your desktop computers and add and eliminate files and software program, over time a number of your files emerge as fragmented and spread out over the hard disk. As time is going along This will get worse and worse and ultimately your computer will sluggish manner down. This is due to the fact the PC has to search the hard pressure longer each time you attempt to use your documents. So that you can restore this trouble It’s as simple as jogging the Disk Defragmenter Utility that comes with Home windows. To run Disk Defragmenter visit Begin>All programs>Add-ons>Device Tools>Disk Defragmenter. as soon as this system opens up, to begin the defragmenting manner just click on the button that says Defragment and let it cross on its personal. because defragmenting your difficult force makes use of all your Gadget resources, its first-rate to do that only while you don’t want to use your laptop. I suggest you Begin it defragmenting at night right Earlier than you visit bed due to the fact relying on how fragmented your hard power is, it could take several hours for the procedure to complete. as soon as the defragmenting method is achieved, your files could be placed returned together well, and you must be aware a full-size boom inside the speed of your PC, particularly if It is been awhile since you remaining time you probably did it.

4. Delete Junk files

Has it ever appeared like your loose area in your tough power is getting smaller or it takes longer to search for a report you cannot locate even though you have not delivered any new documents or software to your desktop computers? That is due to fragments of files that get left at the back of from daily responsibilities you perform on your laptop. each time you Download files from the Net or delete files to the recycling bin, bits and pieces of files are left behind that you can not see and most probably do not know approximately. those are the “junk” files which might be created routinely by means of programs for brief use However aren’t deleted after the applications are completed the use of them. these documents include cookies, transient Net documents, log files, blunders log documents, brief miscellaneous documents, and Gadget Repair points created every so often via Home windows. this could sound like it would be lots of labor to do away with all of these useless documents, However, fear now not there’s a built in software referred to as Disk Cleanup a good way to delete this kind of documents for you.

To run this application go to Begin>All packages>Accessories>Gadget Tools> Disk Cleanup. as soon as the program is open you may be shown a window with a pair tabs and a few alternatives to pick from. The primary tab which you see helps you to pick out which junk documents you would love to dispose of. Beneath this window, it suggests you ways tons free area you’ll gain from deleting these files. Even if It’s just a few kilobytes, still run this system. I have located out from using it that Even though it says it’s going to loose up some kilobytes, it usually frees up 1-5GB of space. Once you are accomplished selecting which files you need to take away, click the Adequate button at the lowest of the window. once the method is completed it’ll mechanically close. Together with deleting those junk files, if you have not had any troubles for awhile with your computer you may free up additional space by clicking the Greater alternatives tab within the Disk Cleanup window and clicking the Cleanup button inside the segment titled Device Restore. This will delete all but the maximum recent Repair point. After you’re performed deleting all your files close this system if it would not close by itself and you were done.

five. Delete Unused documents

In conjunction with deleting the junk files off your PC, you may also get expanded overall performance out of your hard force by deleting documents which you do know about But don’t use. This consists of software and all personal files you create or Download which includes movies, track, and pictures. Sure you might be gambling simplest one or desktop computers game properly now it would look cool to have 50 games set up immediately, But in case you’re no longer playing them, take away them. Sure your loads of photos appearance cool going throughout the display for the My pics screensaver, But do you really need them all to your PC? If the answer is not any then it’d likely be better in case you stored them all to CDs or DVDs and deleted them out of your PC too.

6. Scan forMalware

not most effective have to you Update your virus and different malware safety software program regularly, However, you must also sincerely use it. due to the fact, new sorts of malware are released each day as soon as in awhileMalware or spyware will get into your desktop computers your software program can’t come across. Because of this purpose, it would be clever to run a pandemic and adware Test on your laptop at least once per week. Doing This will ensure that you are virus and spyware unfastened, even if your application failed to robotically stumble on it on its very own and again will boom computer velocity.

7. Test for Registry Mistakes

So that you’ve scanned for Malware, removed junk files defragmented your tough force and are still having space problems or you PC is still crashing whilst running programs. If none of these items did the trick, then the hassle may be and possibly at the least partly is the fault of registry Errors. The registry is just like the vital Manage and brain of all facts for your PC in Windows. almost each record you create and each program you upload or dispose of creates entries for your Machine registry. additionally pretty much any time you remove files or software program, it creates registry Errors. In contrast to the previous recommendations, you will find a software this is designed for fixing registry Mistakes rather than the usage of features constructed into Home windows. most of them are self-explanatory as to how to use them, however, the one I advocate is Glary Utilities. It’s miles the one I take advantage of in my opinion and it reveals numerous registry Errors every time I run it. When you Pick a program you like, Deploy and use it pretty frequently as registry Mistakes add up quick. solving those Errors will honestly make your System performance growth and be Greater stable.

eight. Turn Off Startup applications

Taking for all time to startup seems to be a common hassle for plenty of people I realize. The reason your laptop takes all the time to start Windows and show your desktop is Due to the variety of programs it has been advised to begin on startup. a number of those programs are useless to have to go for walks at startup which includes immediately messaging software. The coolest thing is that you may Flip these packages off in case you select to. To show those applications off, go to Start and type Gadget Configuration within the Run container and press input. once the System Configuration program has opened, click on the startup tab. here are all the programs listed to be able to startup whilst you first log into Home windows. in case you see applications which you understand inclusive of Yahoo IM or Aim, uncheck them and click on follow. Except for packages that Home windows desire to run and Malware and malware scanning software, pretty much all other applications may be adequately deselected. once you’ve got made the adjustments you want to, close the utility and restart your computer for the settings to take the impact. Next time your Working Gadget starts up you must surely word an increase in boot time in case you deselected numerous of the applications. If no longer, then Turn off a few More applications or you can attempt my Next tip.

nine. add Greater Ram

Every now and then, even when there may be nothing wrong with your computer it’s going to nonetheless appear to be running gradually. This may be due to the fact the packages you are using on it require More memory than you currently have to be had So one can run smoothly. The answer, add Greater RAM in your laptop. Including Greater RAM will allow you to run Extra applications on the identical time, and supply your existing packages Greater memory to run in. This is mainly useful for individuals who play a whole lot of games or do quite a few video and photo modifying. those types of packages generally tend to use a whole lot of RAM. The downside to having to probably add More RAM on your laptop is that it costs cash and requires a bit tech knowledge of computer systems. when shopping for Extra RAM for your computer you first need to find out precisely which kind it uses. Then you or someone you know has to take the side of your laptop off and search for the prevailing RAM. maximum computers have a couple of slots for RAM and the chip is just an extended rectangle. Putting in the RAM is as simple as simply setting it lightly in the slot and then pushing it into the area. as soon as It’s cozy, positioned the side returned to your PC, Flip it returned on and It’s good to move. It’s as easy as that.

10. Format Your laptop

So, you have attempted all my preceding pointers and your PC continues to be going for walks sluggishly. The last thing you can strive that quite a whole lot usually fixes your issues whilst all else fails is to Layout your tough power. Formatting your hard pressure will completely wipe all documents on it. Which means any Mistakes you may were having to do to file Errors, Working System Errors or Malware and other malware, are actually completely gone. There are few alternatives you have got a way to Format your difficult force. One option is to use the recuperation discs that come with maximum all retail computer systems. This technique will routinely Layout and then reinstall your Operating Device and all trial software that came to your computer The first day you obtain it. every other alternative is, in addition, your computer from a disc using your Home windows Working Gadget disc and walking the Format difficult drive alternative from there. A 3rd option, which is only I typically use, is to apply a Stay-CD model of Linux and use a drive formatting application on it to Layout my difficult pressure, then reinstall your Operating Machine from its Install disc.

No matter which method you pick out, the end result are the same, a laptop which you’ve had for awhile that now finds it irresistible turned into The primary day you acquire it. Earlier than you try this, though, make certainly Positive you’ve got subsidized up all your private files to an outside tough drive or to discs as these will now be long past if you did not. The most effective drawback I can think of to formatting your hard drive So one can make your laptop fast once more is that its time eating. After you Format it, you presently ought to re Deploy all of the software programs you use and Download all of your updates and patches again. This does, however, beat the opportunity of buying a today’s laptop. No matter being time ingesting even though, once you’ve got your PC again to its operating country once more, it’s going to honestly be strolling at complete velocity once more.