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Do Killing Farming Animal Is Illegal As Per Indian Law?

The basic principle of equality calls for equal attention but not equal or same treatment. The distinction is critical when it comes to animal rights. Animals should not be subjected to suffering or exploitation. Additionally, they are capable of feeling joy, grief, nervousness, dissatisfaction, feelings of isolation and maternal love. Most of the animal rights activists believe and thinks that animals have intrinsic worth and value.

It is crucial to understand that animal welfare is not just a philosophy but also a larger social movement that challenges the widely held belief in society that animals live only for human use.

Constitution of India

According to Article 48 of the Indian Constitution, the State must work to protect and improve breeds while also outlawing the killing of cows, calves, and other milch and draught animals.

Additionally, under Article 51A (g) of the Constitution, every Indian citizen has a Fundamental Duty to preserve and enhance the environment and to show compassion for all living things.

The Prevention of Cruelty Act

The Act aims to alter the rules regulating the prevention of animal cruelty and to stop animal pain or suffering. Animals are regarded as any living thing that does not belong to a human. Chapter II of the Act contains the most significant clause, which calls for the establishment of the Animal Welfare Board to stop the needless suffering of animals.

The following examples of animal abuse are listed in Section 11 of the Prevention of Cruelty Act-

Beating, kicking, packing too much in, torturing, and otherwise harming any animal

Putting any animal in a cage or container that is not large enough in all three dimensions to give it a chance to move around reasonably

Mutilating or killing any animal using injection techniques for strychnine etc.

Ways to File a Complaint

Each and every individual has a duty to uphold animal rights. A witness to animal cruelty may get in touch with their neighbourhood police department or SPCA (Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals) to help the authorities catch the offender and enforce the law. The following organizations accept direct reports of animal abuse-

Any nearby police station

Animal cruelty prevention organization (SPCA)

In charge of the State or District Animal Welfare Board are senior government officials

MLA in the particular region

The victim has the choice of reporting the accused to the police, along with submitting a brief written statement and a photo. As both of these offences are regarded as cognizable and bailable, Section 428 and Section 429 of the Indian Penal Code may be used to formally prosecute the offender in this situation.

Section 428 of the  Indian Penal Code states that anyone who intentionally harms an animal worth at least ten rupees by murdering, poisoning, maiming, or making it worthless faces a maximum imprisonment of two years in jail, a fine, or both.

Section 429 of the Indian Penal Code states that anyone who intentionally harms an animal worth at least fifty rupees by killing, poisoning, injuring, or rendering it worthless faces a maximum imprisonment of five years in jail, a fine, or both.

Killing of Farming Animal: an Offence

Killing any farming animal, which is very essential for agricultural purposes and other benefits, is a serious offence subject to imprisonment. For example- the law allowed the State to conserve and enhance the environment, and therefore the prohibition on cow slaughter was justified. Cow offspring excretions are a rich source of organic manure that helped improve soil quality and reduced the need for pesticides and inorganic manure.

The current administration passed strict legislation that makes anyone found guilty of slaughtering cattle including buffalo, bulls, bullocks, steers, heifers, calves, and camels, who are beneficial for nature in the farming and agricultural activities, liable and held in court.

You will need a lawyer to punish the offender for killing the farming animals. If you need the help of a lawyer to hold the offender liable for his offence of killing any farming animal in Hyderabad, then Criminal Lawyer In Delhi can be hired. Similarly, Criminal Lawyer In Kolkata can be hired if you need the help of a lawyer to hold the offender liable for his offence of killing any farming animal in Kolkata.

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Myriad Misadventures - Chapter 54

The Myriad Misadventures of a Midgardian Queen-In-Training - Chapter 54

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Word Count: 2125

Pairing: Loki/Reader

Rating: T

Myriad Misadventures - Chapter 54

He keeps his word.

To be clear, you only go without speaking to each other for a week. But you are the first to initiate contact—a smile in the hallway. You are the one who sends him an invitation to go horseback riding. You are the one who begins knocking on his door to discuss politics and philosophy for hours on end.

He puts the reins in your hands, and you accept them with grace.

But you don’t kiss again.

He’s leaving the choice to you in this, too, you know. And Lord knows you want to do it, want to kiss him. 

But then you’ll see him interacting with the other women. Riding with Irina, reading with Rhea, playing piano with Rosa on the violin. And this is normal, you know. You can’t expect him to completely ignore the other women just because you’ve asked for space. 

But it still leaves you at a loss, somehow.

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There’s a knock on your door first thing in the morning.

“Come in, Meg,” you call out, your eyes still heavy. It’s been over a month since the Walden Incident (as you’ve since termed it in your head). It’s not much time, but you have been grateful to find sleep and security already coming more and more easily with each passing day. 

“Not Meg.”

Your eyes fly open at the sound of his voice.

“May I come in? Are you decent?”

“Yes! I mean, wait. Give me two minutes.” You slip out from under the covers and onto the floor as silently as possible, tugging on the tie of your robe to make sure it's secure. You take quick jog to the bathroom to rinse your mouth and face, before returning to unlock the door.

And there he is, looking unfairly put-together for just after sunrise, with an enormous tray of food, which he hands to you. “I was hoping to surprise you with breakfast in bed, but this seemed more practical.” He turns to leave. 

You get over your shock soon enough to call out. “Wait!” He turns back, his eyes...hopeful, almost. “I mean, this is a lot of food for one person. If you want to join me…”

He hesitates. “I wouldn’t want to impose.”

You give him a look. “At this point, I think you can trust me to tell you if I think you’re imposing.” It’s the kind of gentle ribbing you used to fling at him all the time, the kind that has only tentatively returned to your vocabulary in the last few weeks. 

You can tell from his relieved smile that he’s noticed. 

***********************************************

An hour later, the food is long gone, but you’re still talking. And somehow, you’ve ended up on the one topic you had planned to avoid: the other women. It seems this habit comes along with the familiarity. 

“I mean, Rhea is just incredible at politics. Sorry, I mean Lady Rhea,” you joke. “Truly. She makes even Rosa and Irina look amateurish.”

“Just Rosa and Irina?”

You snort. “Well, yeah. I mean, it’s not as though making me look amateurish is a particularly high bar.”

He doesn’t laugh. Instead, a crease appears between his brows. “Why do you do that still? After all this time?”

“What?”

“Cut yourself down.”

“Is it really cutting myself down if I’m just stating the truth?”

"And there it is again." He's not looking at you again, agitated as he walks away from the bed. "I thought you'd finally accepted your place here."

"I don't understand."

"You didn't want to be here from the first. You’ve undermined yourself at nearly every possible turn."

"Then why am I still here?"

He shakes his head, still avoiding your gaze. "I know what people say about me outside these walls. What they think of me. Before the idea for the competition was announced, I spoke with some trusted individuals who suggested I show the world a different side of me. Raise up one of you Midgardians as my equal."

"But you didn't have to keep me.”

“You chose not to leave.”

“And maybe that was a mistake. What good am I doing here?”

“I told you - ”

“Don't give me that bull about getting a bigger audience. You'd still have just as many teen girls watching if I went home," you add accusingly. "I'm not a good fit."

"The response of our audience thus far would suggest otherwise."

You pad across the room to stand next to him in front of your dresser. He doesn't appear to notice; his gaze remains fixed on the smooth, shiny wooden surface. "What do you mean?"

"This is about public opinion as much as it is my own, if not more so. Part of the selection process was based on my own preferences, yes. But we've been paying attention to the civilian reaction."

"You mean, you know what people are saying about me? Right now?" You reach out and gently touch his arm. "Can I see?"

He sighs, but nods. Before you materializes a thin square of glass, like someone had taken an iPad and removed everything but the screen. The Good Evening, America website is displayed, a stars-and-stripes background with Ashley Marino's smiling face decorating the top right corner. 

THE CHOOSING

MEET THE CHOSEN

You click on your name. It's strange, seeing your information page, the picture from last week’s shoot displayed next to facts such as your name, age, etc. 

WHO DO YOU THINK WILL ASCEND TO THE THRONE?

On this page, there's a large pie chart, with four divisions. To your surprise, you’re in second place - you’d have thought for sure you’d be last. Rhea and Rosa are tied for first, with Irina following you. You scroll down, reading the various comments under your name. 

~ (Y/N) is a little rough around the edges, but that's what I like most about her. And she's so mature for her age! ~

~ My favorite is definitely Lady (Y/N). She's so real and relatable! I think she'd make a great queen. ~

~ I was a little skeptical about the whole thing at first, but now I can't stop watching! My favorite segment was the masquerade ball - the looks on the girls’ faces were priceless! I can't believe (Y/N) didn't realize she was dancing with the king! ~

~ (Y/N) and I went to school together! She's a total sweetheart. If you're reading this, (Y/N), everyone from sophomore year English is still rooting for you! ~

~ I love (Y/N)! She and Loki have such awesome chemistry, I can't believe they haven't kissed yet! Irina's probably my second favorite. ~

There are many, many more. Much more than you would ever have expected.

"Is this for real?"

"Indeed. They are quite taken with you."

"And the others?"

"They appreciate Rhea and Irina's maturity. Rosa appeals to their need for drama. And you..." He gestures to the tablet. "You see."

"I see." You look back up at him. "But I still don't understand."

“I find that hard to believe when I quite literally just handed you the answers.” He turns away. You follow him as he paces around the room.

“I’m behind two other girls, both more capable than I am, and prettier, and probably much more everything. If this whole thing is just about publicity, why can’t you just send me home?”

You nearly run into him as he comes to a halt. “You’ve had the option to go home for nearly a year now. Is that really what you want?”

“I…” You stop yourself. “I don’t know.” You look down at your feet, feeling like a child who has just been reprimanded.

“Then you’ll stay.” Without so much as a glance in your direction, he heads for the door. 

“But Lo - ”

He whirls around. “You forget yourself, Lady (Y/N). You are honor bound to stay and fulfill your duties as a Chosen without complaint until you are released or until the end of the competition, whichever comes first.” 

You stare at him, feeling hollow. “So I have no choice anymore.”

For a long moment, neither of you blink. You will yourself to remain steady, to not cry. Finally, he speaks. “None of us have a choice in this, (Y/N). Not you, nor I, nor any of us. You would do well to remember that.”

You unfreeze just as he reaches the door. “So...so what?” He pauses, his hand resting on the knob. “You expect me to stay here and, what, entertain you with my mistakes? My silly Earthling sentiment? Let you use me as a lure to get rid of unsavory figures, to appease the fangirls, to win over the human race? I am not a tool - ”

“No, you are not. You are a Chosen one.” He stops and swallows, in what looks like an attempt to rein in his temper. “A ruler must do many unpleasant things for the good of their kingdom, and the same goes for rulers in training. If you were to become queen - ”

“And if I don’t want to?”

“How am I to know what it is you truly want, (Y/N)?” He runs a hand through his hair, almost yanking at it. “I have offered you the chance to leave time and time again. You have forfeited that right time and time again, and now is the time you choose to start fussing about it?”

“Maybe if—”

“I have no time for ‘maybes,’” he snaps. “The cameramen are getting anxious, as are my advisors. They want you to have more screen time, to more evenly divide it among the remaining contestants. You will report to my private quarters at six for a televised dinner.”

“Report?” you ask incredulously. “What is this, an army bunker?”

“I admire your spirit, (Y/N). It is one of the reasons why you are still here to have this argument with me. But you have a responsibility. You have become a role model for the people of your planet, and until the moment you leave this palace, you will behave as such. If I have to order you around to ensure that happens, so be it. It's entirely up to you.” His eyes flash as he finishes speaking: a challenge. He's what, testing me? Fine.

"Fine." He appears to be surprised by how readily you've agreed, but you continue talking before he can open his mouth. "I'll come to dinner. But don't expect me to suddenly feel thrilled to be here just because you refuse to let me leave."

He pauses, as though thinking it over. "As long as you're there." 

And then he's gone.

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You take time in constructing your appearance, enlisting Meg's help to put up your hair with delicate silver pins, each topped with a single, tiny black stone, one of the only pieces in your jewelry box that isn't some shade of green. You sit down to allow her to add the finishing touches: an ornate onyx necklace and earrings that match the hairpins.

"You're done, miss.”

You feel rebellious as you examine your reflection in the mirror. This dress is different from any you've worn before - low cut sweetheart neckline, with long sleeves that just barely miss your shoulders. Despite being a day dress, the skirt reaches the floor, fading into a slight train in the back, long enough to lend the piece a dramatic flair without tripping you up or slowing you down.

But none of that is the best part. No, the most wickedly wonderful thing about this dress is that, from bustline to train, the entire thing is varying shades of dark red. You don't know how Meg managed to pull it off, but she did, and in a big, big way: burgundy lace layered atop yards of smouldering maroon silk, the latter catching the light just so, each move you make sending a muted shimmer rippling through the fabric. You've made the executive decision to forgo the underskirt, which was thinner than normal to begin with, in favor of wearing it loose, and it drapes itself over your body in a way you didn't know was possible, clinging to your corset and hugging your hips before dropping so that it curves around the outline of your leg only when you take a step forward. The only thing that would make it more scandalous would be to put a slit in the skirt. To top it off, Meg used black kohl to give you a subtle cat's eye, brushing light amounts of eyeshadow just below your brow bone, and exaggerating the shape of your lips using a shade of rouge that matches the dress. 

You look older. 

You look fierce. 

You look ready to kick some Psycho-Alien-Whatshisface ass.

Let's do this.

[morlock-holmes]

I push back really, really hard against the logic that says, “There’s no good or bad, only better or worse” because. well, I kind of feel like that’s the trap behind a lot of the really, really bad things about modern life.

Like, a while back I talked about living in government provided housing, and all the things that were bad about it, and I apparently came off as more negative than I thought, to the point where one person literally thought I was arguing against the existence of the housing I lived in for a good decade of my life. I guess they thought I was claiming that I should have been thrown out on the street?

They suggested that we should have banded together to influence or present demands to the Housing Authority, but they also made it seem, to my eyes, that they wouldn’t accept any complaint as valid unless we could demonstrate that whatever problem we had with our houses was worse than living on the street.

“We don’t like that you’ve decided to pave over the playground that used to be on the property in order to build more units. A lot of us have children and they need spaces to play.”

“Are you saying that living in a house with no nearby playgrounds is worse than being homeless?”

“Well, no, but-”

“Then request denied.”

This extends up to something like

“You got some of your budget from Red Bull and this building looks like a giant red bull can and none of the apartments have windows they just have Red Bull ads painted on the walls and we aren’t allowed to cover them up and we think we’re starting to go crazy.”

“So you’re saying this is worse than having no building at all?”

“Well... I mean... Some of us are starting to wonder, but I guess it is better than being on the street so-”

“So there’s no problem. Exactly. We won’t be changing anything because there’s no problem.”

The ugliness of the ads and lack of windows are contextualized not as a problem to be solved, but as the cost of solving a different problem. And then an objective cost-benefit analysis indicates that they are a reasonable cost to solve the problem, at which point it becomes impossible to mount an objection against them.

Everything bad about (policy) is conceptualized as the cost of the policy, and the cost-benefit analysis is constructed so that the benefits outweigh the costs, and then we just... stop.

I’m too poorly read to know what moral philosophy this equates to, and I find myself at a bit of a loss because I certainly don’t think I’m describing some sort of abstract stain on the soul, but instead the way this creates real-world costs that could potentially be avoided.

[f1]

Mercedes should keep open mind over unique car concept Russell | RaceFans Round-up

In the round-up: George Russell says Mercedes’ recent improvement in performance doesn’t end the debate over their car philosophy. In brief Mercedes should “stick to the process” – Russell Russell said Mercedes need to “keep an open mind” over whether to stick with their current car philosophy, including its unique narrow sidepods, following their successful run of results. “I don’t think changing car concept is going to make us go any faster, maybe the contrary to be honest,” he said. “Sometimes you’ve just got to stick to the process and keep on pushing. “That’s difficult to do when you’re off the pace and things don’t seem to be going your way. But personally, I believe in every single person within our team and I think we’re making huge progress for the time being.” He said the team’s performance in qualifying and the race in Spain shows how far they have come. “At the start of the season we were finishing races a minute behind first position. The last two races we’ve been within 10 seconds so I think it’s definitely going in the right direction.” Alonso confident he and Ocon will “never” collide Ocon and Alonso have nine races left as team mates Before the news of his future broke yesterday, Fernando Alonso’s complaints about Esteban Ocon’s defensive moves had been one of the biggest talking points from his run to eighth place in the Hungarian Grand Prix. “It was quite extreme,” said Alonso of his team mate’s first lap defence. “Obviously I lifted off and nothing happened. But it was probably an opportunity missed there.” Although he admitted he was “a little bit surprised by that defence”, Alonso admitted “sometimes I do the same, sometimes he does the same or at any other team, so it’s the way it is.” The pair also raced each other hard at the Saudi Arabia Grand Prix earlier this year. But Alonso is confident they won’t come to blows. “We try to race hard always but always giving that one percent margin to not have any incident. We never had any and we never will had.” Tyre choices for next three races confirmed Pirelli has announced its tyre compound selections for the upcoming three races. It will bring its hardest rubber for the Dutch Grand Prix at Zandvoort and its middle range of C2, C3 and C4 tyres for the races at Spa-Francorchamps and Monza. Here is the full allocation for 2022 so far: Round Track Prime Option Qualifying 1 Bahrain International Circuit C1 C2 C3 2 Jeddah Corniche Circuit C2 C3 C4 3 Albert Park C2 C3 C5 4 Imola C2 C3 C4 5 Miami International Autodrome C2 C3 C4 6 Circuit de Catalunya C1 C2 C3 7 Monaco C3 C4 C5 8 Baku City Circuit C3 C4 C5 9 Circuit Gilles Villeneuve C3 C4 C5 10 Silverstone C1 C2 C3 11 Red Bull Ring C3 C4 C5 12 Paul Ricard C2 C3 C4 13 Hungaroring C2 C3 C4 14 Spa-Francorchamps C2 C3 C4 15 Zandvoort C1 C2 C3 16 Monza C2 C3 C4 Advert | Become a RaceFans supporter and go ad-free Advert | Become a RaceFans supporter and go ad-free Happy birthday! Happy birthday to Daniel, Nefer, Gilles De Wilde and Manox! On this day in motorsport 30 years ago today Scott Goodyear won the CART IndyCar round at Michigan while points leaders Bobby Rahal and Michael Andretti both retired via RaceFans - Independent Motorsport Coverage https://www.racefans.net

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64 Quotes I Enjoyed From 2017

Below are my favorite quotes from 2017. Though most occurred throughout the year, some took place before but were encountered during.

(Allison Greene)

The irony and thematic implication of this first quote -- transcribed in January -- is not lost on me.

1) “I wish you all a Happy New Year. Meaning that I wish for your New Years Eve to be happy. It’s hard to wish hundreds of thousands of people to have an entire happy year. That’s a lot. That feels greedy and hopeless and also some of you might not deserve a happy year. Everyone deserves a happy moment or day now and again but a whole happy year I would wish on maybe eight people and four of them are terminally ill children.

Also please remember that the turning over of one year to another is a mental construct that bears no more weight than the things that keep us apart and in competitive categories as human beings. Time is not moving. You’re not losing or gaining ground. You’re not separate from ‘them’ anymore than you’re separate from your own umbrella. It’s now, we’re us and this is here. If you’re in pain, this too shall pass. If you’re in luxury, this too shall pass. Ask an old lady how she’s doing. The internet is not real. Draw a picture on a napkin.” - Louis C.K.

2) “Flowers cost money you could spend on alcohol.” - Tracy Cunningham

3) "Never make fun of people for mispronouncing a word. It means they learned it by reading."

[that one felt profound when I first read it, but there are probably holes you can poke]

4) “Middle America does not have a monopoly on tough times.” - Drew Magary

5) “The whole point of going to a wedding is to complain about it.” - Drew Magary

6) “The world is too noisy and distracted to probably ultimately survive. Everyone needs to shut the fuck up. The answers are in the silence. Monks set themselves on fire to protest and make this point.

Just consider it.” - Garry Shandling

7) “The fact that Chargers fans get to live in San Diego isn’t as much of a solace as you think, either. When you’re unhappy, Southern California can be the loneliest fucking place in the world. Everywhere you look, you are surrounded by people whose lives are seemingly more perfect than your own. And the fantastic weather acts a kind of lingering nag... an irritating reminder that you SHOULD be happy even if you’re not. When you live somewhere miserable, at least you have an excuse for it. People leave you alone, or they help you drink the pain away indoors. You’re not surrounded by a bunch of fucking Jack LaLannes and Navy steakheads making it worse.

[...]

This is how the San Diego Chargers ended, and their fans deserved better. There won’t even be rain to help water the team’s grave.” - Drew Magary

8) There is no meeting without a Gentry story. He tells the story of Doug Collins’s college coach at Illinois State, Will Robinson, putting Collins in front of a mirror and saying, “Now, that’s an ugly motherfucker.” Then Robinson gets a basketball, hands it to Collins, and says, “Now you’re a handsome motherfucker.”

-- “Seven Seconds or Less” by Jack McCallum

9) "This is gonna be bad. So be good." - Patton Oswalt, on the next four years

10) REPORTER: You always hear about guys in the zone. What’s it like to be in that zone and have that moment two games in a row?

DION WAITERS: Oh man, I love that moment. I mean, you can never shy away from that. I just feel—one of my favorite quotes is, uh ... I forgot it already. One of my favorite quotes. But yeah, can’t be afraid of taking them shots.

11) "No person can be explained in one trait." - Jason Benetti

12) That Federer could dig so deep without losing the spirit of grace and generosity he has carried for much of his career--amazingly, it didn't sound insincere when he told the crowd in Melbourne that he would've been happy if Nadal had won--was enough to make Agassi introspective. He fired off a text to a friend, fellow American ex-pro James Blake. Watching Federer, Agassi wrote, "makes me feel like I was much more of a broken person than I even realized."

-- the 2017 Australian Open

13) “Do you, because everyone else is taken.” - Uber driver

14) Federer's physical skills have tended to obscure just how he resilient he has been throughout his career--a point not lost on him. "My mental toughness has always been overshadowed by my virtuosity, my shotmaking, my technique, my grace," says Federer. "That's why when I lose, it seems like, 'Oh, he didn't play so well.' And when I win, it looks so easy." He says it has been that way since he was young. "Just because I don't sweat like crazy and I don't grunt, I don't have this face on when I hit the shot like I'm in pain, doesn't mean I'm not trying hard," he says. "It's just how I play. Sorry."

15) "I’ve always said the only way to change anyone’s opinion is to make him laugh first. It still is." - John Waters

16) “Women like babies. Men like their sons and daughters.” - Kevin Haack

17) “At once, Federer would triumph over his two greatest rivals: Nadal and Hawk-Eye.” - Chris Almeida, on Roger Federer’s 2017 Aussie Open win

18) “Brady did everything in Super Bowl 51 short of fertilizing crops with his own feces to feed his teammates.” - Bill Simmons

19) “It's still hard to believe the Falcons actually lost this game. They're the first team in Super Bowl history to lose with a pick-six in its pocket, one that felt like an unlikely gift given that it came from Brady. Some will throw around the "choker" label, which is inelegant at best and condescendingly incurious at worst. If choking means running after a quarterback on 68 dropbacks until there's hardly any air left in your lungs, the Falcons choked.” - Bill Barnwell

20) “Keep in mind: Plenty of people already think Chance The Rapper is corny. Plenty of people have been thinking it for years. Plenty of people who now love Chance The Rapper had to get over the corniness threshold, to train themselves to love the yawpy ad-libs an the voice-cracks and the general hyperactive teenage energy. When Chance won Best New Artist and howled the word 'God' in his acceptance speech about 32 times, I saw plenty of grumbling — We get it, dude, you believe in God — in my Twitter timeline. Someone even said that the music industry had figured out how to manufacture a marketable version of Christian-rap figurehead Lecrae. And that gets at another common complaint about Chance: that he’s an 'industry plant,' a creature created by the music business, one who uses 'independent' as a buzzword rather than as any kind of unifying philosophy. Those of us who love Chance, that line of thinking goes, have been somehow hoodwinked or manipulated into it. And there have been plenty of other perceived sins over the years: the overalls, the KitKat commercial, the constant references to Nickelodeon cartoons, the persistent smiling. Whether or not you love Chance, there is a strong possibility that he’s annoyed you once or twice.” - Tom Breihan

21) “Traveling is the antidote to ignorance.” - Trevor Noah

22) "But mostly, it's in how Celebration Rock treats every day like the last day of school, raising a glass to the past, living in the moment and going into the future feeling fucking invincible." - Ian Cohen

23) “In fact, it turned out that there was nothing ‘dangerous’ at all in picking on women and refugees. People will pay you good money for that. The dangerous ideas are the ones they don’t pay you for, the ones that don’t get you on HBO. You’re actually dangerous when you do what Yiannopoulos did in the ‘pedophile’ tapes: defend society’s most hated outcasts, and tell the truth about the complexities of gay men’s sexuality. You’re dangerous when you stick up for those on the fringes rather than kicking them. There’s nothing courageous or edgy in bullying the despised and excluded. But it might be dangerous if you dared to empathize with them.” - Nathan J. Robinson

24) [Taj] Gibson was asked if his dunk over Dwyane Wade was his favorite moment as a Bull. "It really wasn't. That was just a dunk. It really wasn't one of my favorite moments of my career, to be honest with you. I had a lot of shining moments in my career. Just being around Thibs, he taught me that people don't look at, some of the games, most of the games, they look at the bright spots. I have a lot of different bright spots in my career. The biggest one in my career would have to be just being on the team when guys were down and having a coach look at me and know that he can count on me. No matter what position, no matter what time in the game. And he would trust some of the most important plays for me to do. Those were the most important moments of my life, just having a guy between Fred and coach Thibs, knowing guys that are ahead of me, making twice as much money as me, and he's still calling my name through crunch time. Those were the best moments of my life."

[have some, Carlos Boozer]

25) “You can't let politics dictate what you read or who you fuck.” - Chuck, “Girls”

26) “Watching Kawhi Leonard play basketball is like when you get the email you’ve been waiting for and it says all of the things you were hoping it was going to say.” - Shea Serrano

27) “This isn't a choice, like my diet. This is a necessity, like my drinking.” - Ben, “Veep”

28) “It's like how love songs never go out of style because no one's ever written one that's closed the book on the subject.” - Brian King, Japandroids

29) Pitchfork: A lot of the lyrics on the album take advantage of this universal, mythic rock'n'roll language, like on "Fire's Highway": "Hearts from hell collide/ On fire's highway tonight/ We dreamed it, now we know."

Brian King (Japandroids): Personally, I really like the concepts of good and evil, heaven and hell-- the extreme boundaries of how people can feel and how fast things can change. I like that that language. I'm not talking about just some night you felt a certain way, I'm talking about the night you felt that way-- that one time. People have always alluded to those extremes as a way of characterizing the most intense feelings since blues and the early days of rock. A blues singer won't be like, "We broke up." He'll say, "Satan stole my baby from me." You just pick it up.

30) “Friends of mine, hitting partners, are Federer fans for real. They own his racket, his sneakers, the hat with his RF logo. When he loses, they're wrecked; when he wins, it's only slightly less painful, because it's one fewer win they get to witness.” - Rosecrans Baldwin

31) “Bad ideas rarely spread when the population is educated about better alternatives.” - Greg Graffin

32) This entire story (9:47 to 10:15)

RIP, Don Rickles (1926-2017)

33) “Being pregnant is cool and weird: Your bones ache, your gums bleed, your ligaments basically just start giving up. (A hormone called ‘relaxin’ is involved.) You plan decades ahead, then worry you’re jinxing it all. You’ve got a decreasingly nebulous imaginary friend there to listen to your hopes and fears at all hours and you occasionally get the hiccups. But the strangest thing about being with child is the way your body becomes not yours, and not even the baby’s, but the world’s. Complete strangers reach out and touch. Internet commenters opine. Photos of yourself splayed postpartum on a gurney, hair matted to the side of your face, one boob swung free, are triumphantly text-messaged to fathers-in-law without your express written consent.

It’s not fair, it’s never fair, but it’s nevertheless the shared experience of so many women during a powerful, vulnerable time.” - Katie Baker

34) "I just watched Deadheads spin around for three hours looking for miracles." - Brad Back

35) “Comparison is the thief of joy.” - Theodore Roosevelt

36) "The Spurs’ run of NBA success is now old enough to vote, and in a couple of years it will be legally old enough to share finely aged red wines with Popovich, although I suspect he’s been slipping it glasses at home for a few years now. One of the cornerstones of that success has been an ability to find talent where nobody else looked." - Rodger Sherman

37) "Cutting at the right time is more important than being fast." - Bill Belichick

38) “You run into an asshole in the morning, you ran into an asshole. You run into assholes all day, you’re the asshole.” - “Justified”

39) “An asshole is not a brilliant visionary just because a toilet has a bottomless appetite for what comes out of it.” - Albert Burneko, on the passing of Roger Ailes

40) "He would’ve been a rock star no matter where he’d been born, or when." - Rob Harvilla on Chris Cornell

41) "Instead of getting married again, I'm going to find a woman I don't like and just give her a house." - Rod Stewart

42) “I have never regretted taking a walk. Every time you walk, a bunch of cool shit happens. You burn calories, for one thing. You think of cool ideas. You also get an immediate sense of the layout and vibe of wherever you happen to be. It’s a cheap shortcut to feeling like a local. I walked around downtown Atlanta for two hours once, which was long enough for me to realize, ‘Oh hey, this is the part of town that sucks!’ Then I went and walked around a cooler part.

Also, walking forces me to pocket my phone and actually look around for a bit (in theory…sometimes I check the phone while walking, which is galactically fucking stupid and could get you killed). I can actually feel GOOD about the world when I walk around, because I’m seeing it as it stands now, instead through the horrifying prism of online news and discourse. The sun still shines out there. People are smiling. It’s not bad. You wouldn’t even know we’re all gonna die soon. Not everything has rotted away just yet. You can leave the shifting sand dunes of the day far behind, to borrow a phrase from Professor Fartsniffer up there.

Also, you don’t have to look for a parking spot.

I walked today. I walked past a school and saw a bunch of kids playing touch football and they accidentally launched the ball over the fence and into the road, where they couldn’t get it. So they asked me to grab it for them. I hucked it back over and one kid shouted ‘YOU DA REAL MVP!’ And you know what? For that one little moment, I was, indeed, da real MVP. Step aside, Kevin Durant’s mom. I saved touch football. What did you ever do?

That kind of experience isn’t really possible when you’re sitting in a car. When you drive, you’re basically in a kind of self-imposed purgatory. The goal is to get wherever you’re headed so that you can resume your life again. I have tried to slow down and savor my surroundings while driving but it rarely works out because A) It’s not safe and B) I want to make good time. I have my eyes on the road and my ears on my SWEET TUNEZ, and I’m only slowing down to gawk at an overturned milk truck. ‘Wow, that looks BAD.’

The most important moments in life usually happen when you’re walking. Ever ask someone you’re dying to go out with if they wanna go for a walk, and they say yes? It feels fucking GREAT. That’s gonna be a good walk. Then maybe you two walk down the aisle after you get married, and then walk through the hospital to see your new baby in the nursery, and then walk with that child as takes its first steps. And then maybe someone close to you dies, and you have to walk with their casket to their gravesite. I’ve made some of these walks. I haven’t forgotten any of them.” - Drew Magary

43) "‘A great nation does not hide its history, it faces its flaws and corrects them.’ - George W. Bush

Let us again state clearly for all to hear. The Confederacy was on the wrong side of history and humanity. It sought to tear apart our nation and subjugate our fellow Americans to slavery. This is a history we should never forget and one that we should never ever again put on a pedestal to be revered." - Mitch Landrieu

44) "Just found out Joyce Manor is playing in Bristol on 7/13. When god closes a door, he opens a moshpit." - Chris Trott, after missing the Captain, We're Sinking Show in Chicago on 7/12 due his England trip

45) “The most prestigious honor in music isn't a Grammy. It's ‘I like this band enough to see them at 10:30 p.m. on a Wednesday.’” - Steven Hyden

46) “I think of you every time I speed up my podcasts.” - Christine Jastrow’s 31st birthday tribute to yours truly

47) "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." - James Joyce

48) “Personally speaking, a millennial is anyone younger than me who gets on my fucking nerves. I don’t think of like, Dak Prescott as a millennial, because he seems cool. But Chris Brown? Fuck him sideways.” - Drew Magary

49) "It's a scientific fact that a beer tastes better when it travels more than 5 feet in the air" - @PFTCommenter

50) Dustin Brown perfectly summed up what it's like to play on Centre Court. "It would be nice if we're playing every match out there. It's very comfortable. Even when things aren't going your way, it relaxed me a bit to say 'this is where you always wanted to be,'" he said after his Wimbledon second round loss to defending champ Andy Murray.

51) "One thing I’ve always found fascinating about Federer (or, rather, the way we talk about Federer) is that there’s never been any backlash. Normally, when an athlete has been around as long as Federer has, and has been as great as Federer has, and is on the receiving end of so much adulation, some sort of noticeable backlash occurs. Never with Fed.

Relatedly, people root for Federer unabashedly, and did so even during that stretch in the 00's when he was as dominant a force as any sport has seen. Casual fans tend to root for the underdog, but Federer was so sublime that he made people root for Goliath." - Andrew, Deadspin reader

52) “‘Federer manages to scamper across himself’ is one of the more Federer tennis calls I've ever heard.” - Brian Phillips

53) “Everything before the word ‘but’ is horseshit.” - Jon Snow

54) “Be present.” - Megan Filip

55) "The successful person is one who finds an opportunity in every problem. Unsuccessful people find a problem in every opportunity." - Lou Holtz

56) “It ain’t a hit till Nate Dogg spit.” - Mack 10

57) "Nobody goes to work tomorrow. General strike, fuck this country." - some of Blake Schwarzenbach first words at the Jawbreaker reunion

58) “It’s hard getting good news -- you don’t know what to do with it.” - Blake Schwarzenbach, at the first Jawbreaker show in forever

59) “When I was a child, I spoke like a child.” - Davis,“Treme”

60) “In one sense, the story of human history is just people inventing progressively more advanced ways in which to be awful idiots, in groups.” - David Roth

61) "Reality gives nothing back and nor should you." - Kobe Bryant

62) “Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy.” - F. Scott Fitzgerald

63) "Brevity is the soul of wit" - William Shakespeare

64) "If I shoot an airball, call the foul." - Dirk Nowitzki

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1. How Would You Handle If A Co-worker Is Rude To Customers? That would depend on what kind of a rapport I had with him. If I felt comfortable, I would probably mention that being rude is probably going to be bad for him in the long run, since unhappy customers reflect badly on the sales associate. Otherwise, I would mention to the supervisor what I had witnessed and let him handle it. 2. How Would You Handle The Negative Comments From The Angry And Frustrated Customers? Show your warm, friendly and professional character. Only express it and do not tell your customers about that. Keep it in mind and you should demonstrate your ability in controlling and your power so that you are authorized to make dialogue (while your listening skills are maintained) and you will not be bull dozed or effected by the sentiment of the complainant. 3. How Do You Advise The Customer If A Customer Does Not Know What He Needs And Comes To You For An Advice About The Product? In order to find out what product characteristic or other demands which the customer requests, I make some related questions. It is usually useful to make a conversation, so you can examine any special requests or preferences. Once I receive that information, I will tell the customer some ideas and show how they satisfy the customer's needs. Customers only have lots of information. This information can come to customers from different sources, and it is normally not able to say which product is the one they want. Through the conversation, the customer can express their expectations from the product and up to them, you can give the exact advice. 4. How Would You Explain The Philosophy Of Good Customer Service? My career's philosophy is to take responsibility to keep the customer in good relationship and bringing out a clearly experience for the individual customer by appraising the customer's demands, by satisfying the customer's requests, keeping the promises and listening to the customer's needs. 5. Tell Me What Are Your Biggest Strengths In Customer Service? Identify which you are good at: Knowledge, Experience, Skills, Abilities. Prepare a list of your strong points. Review the recruitment requirements: You should review carefully the recruitment requirements to know for sure which requirements are the most important to the employer. Make a list of your strong points in your resume/cover letter: List and describe your strong points in your resume and cover letter orderly. You should make descriptions to those points in your resume. 6. Tell Me About Your Career Goals In Customer Service? Levels of career goals: You are not sure about your goals, then answer: I'm rather busy with my duties and goals of the Company, as a result, I have not focused much on my long-term personal goals. 7. How Would You Handle If You Are In A Company And The Company Is Not Serving The Needs Of The Customers? Base on the quality of the job, you need to understand the products, services and systems and you should observe the actions from both sides, the company's point of view as well as (more important) the customer's. 8. What Would You Do To Deny A Request From A Customer? It is the right time for your diplomacy, characters and calmness to shine. A brilliant basic for your answer is a simple but not a complete explanation. An important thing with all businesses is to be able to keep customer, particularly in the fierce argument so it is best to mention this customer faith. 9. How Will You Answer Accurately To The Customers? Explain to the interviewer that you realize that you are the first point of contact for the customer and how very important it is to speak politely, accurately and professionally. Throw in this quote: You never get a second chance to make a first impression. 10. Explain Me How Would You Deal With Difficult Customers? I listen to the customer and concentrate on the customer's matter. I do not argue or debate over any problems. I find out the useful solution or other effective ideas that are comfortable with the customer.

CUSTOMER SERVICE CARE Interview Questions 11. What Would You Do To Get Things Moving When There Is So Much Of Traffic Of Customers And More Coming In? I build a quick line system, one line will helps anybody with jobs that can be done fast, while the other one for slower moving customer matters. One or two people are appointed to solve the customer's issues. That decreases the numbers and pushes the difficult jobs faster. Quick service should be given to customers. A long waiting line is the good basic for getting complaint. The demand for efficient time frames is realized in the good customer service practice. 12. Can You Please Tell Me About A Routine Day Of A Customer Service Representative? List whatever tasks you perform each day. Some of these may be among them: Answering requests, responding to calls, maintaining and updating records, providing service information, dealing with misapplied payments and billing. 13. 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A/N: had to. just had to. also, this is really old ;v;

You work at Starbucks but hate coffee.

Like absolutely despise it as much as it could be - it's bitterness just extremely wards you off. So does whatever other flavor is surfing around in it.

With that being said, it was a horrible combination, yes, you would think, but you needed a decent paying job and this was the best you could get currently with being in college. So you made do if it meant survival - i.e, being able to buy supplies and food, and primarily whatever else one needed for a living. It helped that the campus wasn't too far either. That and there was wifi and employee discounts to take advantage of so it wasn’t half bad, nor was the smell of java beans and confection sweetness. You also volunteer at animal shelters when you’re free from the pressures of getting an education to blow off some steam and working part time to do something you enjoy more than making six am zombies a cup of joe while having to deal with overly crotchety or peppy people was just what you needed. Including some of your co-workers you put below minimum effort in socializing with. It was an okay level of existing for what it was worth, and you just tried to remind yourself that the pot at the end of the rainbow that is a college degree would be so very much worth all the hard work.

It was the average afternoon for a mid fall day and a ginger walked in some time past one thirty. He had a young face, probably European, that had more than a healthy amount of freckles. He walked up to the cash register, seeming all but meekly polite as he ordered a small latte and told you his name so you could sharpie it on his cup.

“Alright, I’ll call you in a bit pal.” you smiled.

He nodded and you got to work. Crafting him his oddly simple drink given all the options to pick from as you thought of his name.

Newton. Certainly not one you hear everyday - in your case anyway - but very unique. It gave you can idea and as you were an in the moment confidence person, you went through with that idea.

You called him up and he listened like a retriever, red head popping up in attention. You reached over the shelf frame on the side of the register, glad you had long enough arms to compensate for your short body. He grabbed the cup from you carefully and it didn't take long for him to snort then chuckle, but it was more school boyish than you expected and that was insanely adorable. He was amused by the nickname you had wrote - Newt. You even doodled a little one next to your curly handwriting. His smile jerked up higher on one side it turned out.

You smiled again, this time more earnestly and shrugged as he looked your way. Then you noticed something more odd than his name and of course you had to call him out on it.

“Cool critter man." it was a witty compliment meant for the stick bug crawling on his shoulder. It was a bright green and getting close enough to graze his collar as it crawled upward.

He startled, and without delay, frantically snatched it up. He then angrily whispered a reprimand to it, letting it crawl into his breast pocket. You watched him all the while, bemused before he seemed to remember that you were there. He started up in a stammer and you cut him off. 

"Does it have a name?”

You swore you could see the headlights of his brain blinker as he tilted his head at you. He swallowed roughly and looked at his latte as he thumbed open a piece of plastic on the lid over the lip of the cup.

“P-Pickett,” he answered quietly.

You cocked your head to the side too.

“Nice.”

A smile shyly tilts his lips and he thanks you.

It’s only a matter of time before you decide to tell him your name, but that's about when he’s forced to go sit at one of the tables as a grouchy customer moves in behind him on the otherwise non existent line and loudly complains about him holding it up. It was moment where you really wished you could tell some people to suck it and frack off. She was just lucky more people came in after her complaint. So, you get back to work and help her with a strained attitude, a little less enthusiastic than before and painting mental mustaches on her and the rest of who followed that were not of the savory kind of personality.

When you’ve hit another lapse of inactivity in coffee serving, you spy Newt in the back, alone and ears plugged with buds. Probably listening to some chill tunes. He was writing furiously in a worn journal and taking periodic sips of his latte. Sighing, you check the time on your Android. It’s nearly three now. Good as time as ever for a break, and what better than to see how the politest guy you’ve served in a long time is doing. You made yourself something quick and poured a mug before popping out from behind the desk and telling Jordie - the quiet, sweet guy of the staff that never threw anyone under the bus and kept to himself - that'd you be back in thirty. You took a drink from your mug as you ambled over to Newt.

“Hey." You absently wonder if no one has every really went out of their to talk to him before because of how he reacts to you. He seems quirky - in the good way. So it’d be a shock that no has tried to befriend him.

You’ve managed to give him another start and he’s turned to a stuttering mess as you sit down across from him, a piping hot chocolate in hand. Unknown to you, it surprised him that you had arrived at his table.

"W-why are you- won't you get in trouble for not being on the job?" he asked in that raspy accent, taking out his ear buds.

"Hey, it’s no problem Newt, I’m on break and well…sitting at an empty table or back of the break room by myself can be lonely." you explained, leaning back in your seat.

"A-are you sure?”

“Absolutely.” you soothe and the tension strung in his shoulders dropped visibly.

He’s nervous as you then try to start up chatter, asking if he had any hobbies.

"Well, I volunteer at the nearby animal shelter. And several others." he confessed sheepishly.

"Really? Huh, so do I."

Something sparked in his lovely eyes and soon you two couldn't shut up. You relate on a few things, like options and philosophies, and he mentions that he also rescues pit bulls - he insists on telling you tokens of several, which you don't at all mind -, and smiles brightly when you pipe up that you have one too. You feel comforted by his presence and he seems to like you to some extent if he hasn't stopped yammering with you yet.

He got even more animated when you started to rambled about endangered species the moment he brings them up. And misunderstood or stereotyped ones.

"They deserve a lot more concern, you know? Like, these are animals - the creatures who have had the earth a lot longer than we have, so aren't they entitled to something more than just advertisements on TV that don't help as much as they say they do?"

He drank the last of his latte in a short gulp, he placed the empty cup down, "I wholehearted agree, I suppose we can only hope for more efforts to be exulted but I hope to help that some day."  

Yes, he had told you he was aiming to become a zoologist in his near future, a career you once considered taking on in flitting thought, but your indecisiveness had left you wondering more on you choices of occupations.

Turns out you both like art too and share taste in music.

Sadly, that topic is cut short and because your break time’s up in a flash and you have to get back to work and Newt has an essay to finish.

You down the rest of your hot chocolate, "Um, sorry. Gotta go back to the grind an' stuff." you tuck back some hair. 

He says he looks forward to seeing you again and gives a less bashful smile as he rises to leave too.

You hobble on back behind the register, catching sight of him through a window and holding onto his image as he disappears in the street. You sigh, feeling warm inside, and you know it's not because of the hot chocolate.

You wonder if he notices the heart shaped cookie you slipped into his bag before he left.

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Non-performatives

Sara Ahmed, in a blogpost/article (https://feministkilljoys.com/2019/04/29/nodding-as-a-non-performative/), writes about how “words can be said because of what they do not do” – in other words, someone can verbally agree with a complaint but then do nothing. Or, for example, a people can say they are tolerant, and precisely that statement will remove the burden of looking of and dealing with intolerance.

Polite gestures can have the function of keeping an atmosphere informal and cozy: what is performatively prevented is formal unease.

Similar to virtue signaling, which proclaims certain opinions not in order to do anything with them, but in order to signal you’re ‘one of the good guys’; subverted in dog-whistling, which is basically directed virtue signalling. All of these things, of course, achieve something, but what they achieve is not always in line with the content of the expression: in virtue signalling, the opinion about something is nearly emptied (cf. Roland Barthes who wonders, in a 1947 article, how a writer may be “of the left” other than by simply saying so), in dog-whistling, the opinion is formulated in such a way so as to only be understood by those already agreeing (so not expressed in order to convince anyone).

Non-performative affirmations (or “nodding”, as Ahmed writes) are a broader category, they are containing a problem, keeping it under control, by giving the impression of affirming, and then doing nothing: the complaint is kept in limbo, one goes home feeling one was heard and then hears nothing more, and nothing changes.

(Good way to explain why one should perhaps align oneself with movements and parties not because of their slogans, expressed opinions, PR, but because of their track record.)

In the file on theory and practice, cf. the Feuerbach-thesis on philosophy ‘merely interpreting’ the world in various ways.

PS.

It seems non performative affirmatives should be contextualized in terms of a relation of power (i.e. institutional settings, for example); the nodding of friends when you tell them about experiences can also be a way of letting you vent, simply affirming that they hear you—in this setting, there is not precisely an expectation for things to change because of your nodding, you’re not signalling anything else than you’re actually doing.

Because of this, one might perhaps rephrase the non-performative affirmative as a way of showing mercy without extending it (cf. Malcolm Bull, On Mercy)

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L'évidence Asaf Avidan 14/02/13 Par Francis Dordor

Asaf Avidan - Different Pulses

L’album de l’Israélien Asaf Avidan procure une expérience forte et rare, croisant la sensualité glaciale de Portishead et la liberté de Jeff Buckley. Le fruit d’un parcours chaotique. Critique et écoute.

Ce matin, le bonheur a le visage délicat et juvénile d’Asaf Avidan. À peine son bonnet de laine ôté, sa crête de jeune coq redressée, sa langue se met à darder joyeusement du verbe, chaque question donnant lieu à une réponse précise et panoramique. Quel sens donner à Different Pulses, chanson-titre de son troisième album, le premier en solo ? : “Elle est assez explicite et contient toute la philosophie du disque. Il s’agit de l’interaction et du conflit permanent qu’il y a entre l’espoir et la perte de l’espoir. Quoi que je puisse faire, il en sera toujours ainsi. Ces ‘différentes impulsions’ rythment ma vie. Elles encadrent la seule loi possible, désespérante et stimulante, en ce monde. À l’image de Sisyphe qui montait son rocher au sommet de la colline pour aussitôt le voir redescendre, nos actions sont marquées par le sceau de l’échec mais aussi de l’obstination.”

Il est rare de rencontrer un musicien de rock coiffé à l’iroquoise comme au temps du punk’s not dead qui soit à ce point réfléchi, articulé et dont les chansons exhibent aussi crûment le noyau dur de la vie. Et puis, vous initiant à une forme de sensualité glaciale, il y a ses chansons envahies par une voix radicalement étrange et qui pourtant ne vient pas d’ailleurs. Une voix déchirée et déchirante, terriblement humaine quoique d’un genre indéfini, qui rampe sur le fil du rasoir, qui pendule entre extase et agonie. Décrire la nature singulière de ce timbre revient à convoquer dans la même sphère sonore Björk et Roy Orbison, Jeff Buckley et Eartha Kitt. C’est dire si cette voix est androgyne et passionnée. Les mots non plus n’ont rien d’anodin, qui systématiquement vont tripoter du côté de la douleur, de l’épuisement, de la maladie, de la mort, du côté du corps et même de la viande. “Mon album, prévient-il, c’est comme une opération chirurgicale sans anesthésie.” Ma vie est comme une plaie que je gratte pour mieux saigner.” Ainsi s’ouvre Different Pulses dont le beat lourd et solennel conduit une sorte de marche funèbre. D’ailleurs, deux lignes plus loin, “La mort est comme un arbre planté dans ma poitrine.” Chez Asaf, le corps cache tant de choses inattendues. Dans Setting Scalpels Free, quelque chose comme un doo wop lynchien, “un prophète change l’eau en vin” dans son estomac et “un bossu fait sonner les cloches” dans son thorax. Et puis il y a la noirceur orbisonienne de Cyclamen, soit L’Écume des Jours de Boris Vian en mode electropop, avec ce parallèle entre le nénuphar qui pousse dans les bronches de la Chloé du roman et le cyclamen qui envahit celles du personnage de la chanson, alité, entubé, en mal d’oxygène.

C’est assez de métaphores tragiques, d’organes douloureusement personnifiés pour que, par contraste, le visage rayonnant d’Asaf en cette matinée d’hiver nous interroge. Certes, il y a la vie. Ou mieux, l’instant présent que le chanteur israélien entend savourer. À Paris pour la promotion de ce disque, le premier pour un nouveau label, il est entouré d’une équipe qui le materne comme un petit Jésus.

Il y a trois semaines, il envisageait de s’installer dans la capitale française avec Michelle, sa compagne. Histoire de fuir l’hystérie que promettent les élections israéliennes… “Tout ça me déprime. Je n’allume plus la télé. Je ne veux plus être nourri par cette peur qui seule va rendre possible la réélection de Netanyahu. Mais cette peur, je la retrouve partout où je vais…” Pour ce fils de diplomate, né à Jérusalem en 1980, qui a passé une partie de son enfance en Jamaïque, la posture serait presque convenue. Celle du bobo de gauche s’indignant en boucle mais au final impuissant face au populisme ambiant incarné par un Premier ministre qui n’a jamais cru possible un processus de paix en Israël.

Sauf qu’Asaf n’a rien du pacifiste planqué dans son loft. Quand il a atteint ses 18 ans, âge où tout Israélien est appelé à effectuer son service militaire (trois ans pour les hommes), il a joué le jeu. “Tous les élèves de la classe de l’école d’art dont je sortais ont cherché à contourner le problème en obtenant la plus mauvaise note aux tests physiques, afin d’être aiguillés vers les sections les moins exposées comme la documentation ou le cinéma. Moi, je ne voulais pas bluffer. Je voulais rendre à mon pays ce qu’il m’avait donné. J’ai obtenu 97 points sur 97 et bien que je n’aie rien d’un athlète, j’ai été incorporé dans l’infanterie mobile, l’un des corps les plus exigeants.”

Au bout de quelques mois, ses certitudes sévèrement fissurées, il est sujet à des troubles psychologiques, fait des cauchemars, se réveille en pleine nuit en hurlant, au désespoir de ses camarades de chambrée. Le moment de rupture vient après un entraînement particulièrement éprouvant qu’il exécute plombé par trois nuits d’insomnie consécutives. “Nous devions marcher 65 kilomètres dans le désert avec un barda de 60 kilos. Puis courir les deux derniers kilomètres et à l’arrivée faire des séries de pompes. J’ai terminé le parcours Dieu sait comment. Je ne me suis évanoui qu’au moment des pompes. Je me suis réveillé à l’hôpital militaire avec des tubes dans les bras. On m’a réformé après un séjour en psychiatrie. J’ai continué à faire des cauchemars pendant un an.”

C’est ici le moment décisif, celui où le processus de création se met en marche. Un cancer du système lymphatique l’isole dans une bulle et une rupture amoureuse le laisse désemparé : il découvre la fécondité paradoxale de certaines expériences négatives. “Chaque traumatisme aura été source d’inspiration. Ces épreuves ont contribué à faire de moi ce que je suis aujourd’hui : un chanteur de blues, quelqu’un qui va au plus profond puiser dans la douleur afin de s’en montrer digne et de pouvoir s’en défaire.”

Cette référence au blues, peu audible sur l’album, renvoie à la formule plus stoïcienne que masochiste “It serves you right to suffer” (“souffrir t’est profitable”) que John Lee Hooker utilisa sur l’une de ses complaintes parmi les plus lugubres et vitales, comme pour souligner cette capacité qu’a la vie à toujours conquérir quelque chose, même dans ses défaites, même dans ses plus apparentes dégradations. “Quand j’ai rompu avec cette fille, ce n’était pas seulement une rupture. Je venais de passer six ans avec elle. Elle était mon premier amour. Elle représentait tout ce que je connaissais de la vie d’adulte. J’avais tout construit autour de cette relation. Je n’imaginais pas que cela puisse se briser un jour. Je venais de terminer des études de cinéma d’animation à l’université et j’avais commencé à travailler dans un studio, à réaliser des spots publicitaires pour les enfants. Cette rupture m’a littéralement anéanti. Elle m’a aussi aidé à comprendre que je n’étais pas fait pour ce travail, que ce que j’avais à exprimer ne pouvait être contenu dans ce seul cadre.”

Lui qui, hormis deux accords plaqués sur une guitare, n’a jamais fait de musique se met à écrire des chansons pour régurgiter tout ça. Plein de chansons. De quoi remplir deux albums – The Reckoning et Poor Boy/Lucky Man – qu’il enregistre avec The Mojos, ce qu’Israël a sans doute produit de plus classique en matière de rock’n’roll, la voix d’Asaf lancée sur des rampes à la Robert Plant en surplomb de beats lourds et de chorus de guitares enflammées. Un triomphe. Et un tube, One Day, qui tourne en boucle sur les ondes de Galei Zahal, la radio de l’armée ! “Nous étions parmi les premiers à chanter en anglais dans un contexte de patriotisme exacerbé où c’était mal vu.”

En 2011, fatigué par trois années ininterrompues de concerts un peu partout dans le monde, et jusqu’en Chine, il suspend sa collaboration avec The Mojos pour se tourner vers Tamir Muskat du groupe d’electro oriental Balkan Beat Box. Muskat, sorcier du mix, va habiller les titres de Different Pulses de parures sonores composites, ou rétrofuturistes comme on dit, où sont fixées ses attentions pour le trip-hop, le dubstep, pour Moby, Ennio Morricone, la twanging guitar et le son fifties en général. Un lit de braise et de glace sur lequel Asaf vient se coucher comme un lépreux béatifié, l’amour et la mort en guise de piliers de baldaquins et, cupidon aux flèches empoisonnées, Leonard Cohen lui soufflant à l’oreille des “broken hallelujahs” d’une impressionnante grâce létale. Tel ce Is This It final où désirs d’aimer et de mourir finissent par se confondre. “La chanson pour moi n’est pas un art mais un outil qui permet de mieux me comprendre, qui m’aide à vivre. Une thérapie.” Prions pour qu’il ne guérisse pas trop vite.

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