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The IATC journal/Revue de l'AICT – June/Juin 2020: Issue No 21
Critics on Criticism
Paradigm Shift: Making Theatre with Social Media
May 4, 2020 May 11, 2020 Danielle Le Saux-Farmer essay-front
Danielle Le Saux-Farmer*
In The Society of the Spectacle, first published in French in 1967, Guy Debord has a sense that "the show is not a collection of images, but a social rapport between people, mediatized by images." While his observations certainly ring true in the internet age, it is unlikely that Debord could have envisioned the extent to which mediatization has transformed the making of theatrical work. Social media, being at the heart of everyone's day to day experience, is a central part of the two works under discussion here: Semblance (2013) and La fin de la fiction, which is currently in development and scheduled for production in 2022. This paper focuses on these two experiences of professional theatre-making and explores the distinction between creating work with social media and making work about social media, given how the complexities of it proliferate and change so rapidly.
Keywords: social media, theatre creation, process, product, collective
In The Society of the Spectacle, first published in French in 1967, Guy Debord argues that "the show is not a collection of images, but a social rapport between people, mediatized by images" (10).[1] While his observations certainly ring true in the internet age, it is unlikely that Debord could have envisioned the extent to which mediatization would have transformed the making of theatrical work. Over the past eight years of creating new work as a theatre maker, I have experienced directly the intensification of the use of social media in collaborations with the theatre company Les Nuages en pantalon (founded in 2001), with whom I have worked closely. This company has a reputation for working with diverse artists to produce works that bear witness to contemporary cultural concerns facing humanity.
Inspired by the Cycle Repère method, made popular among French Canadian theatre makers in 1980, members of Les Nuages en pantalon devise theatre through a creation process of using material objects as "sensitive resources" through which they explore the relationship between the actor and the stage. Working with Les Nuages en pantalon, each artist participates in the writing, staging, set design and performance. Because of this creative method, all aspects of the production develop simultaneously, organically and over a long period of rehearsals, as opposed to more traditional approaches in making theatre work, often condensed to a few weeks.
Under discussion here are two projects on which I have collaborated that include an exploration of social media: Semblance, in 2013 and La fin de la fiction, which is currently in development and scheduled for production in 2022. Focusing on these experiences, this paper explores the distinction between making theatre work with social media and making theatre work about social media. I am particularly interested in three aspects that have emerged in these collaborative theatre projects: how social media has influenced the creation process, specifically within the context of collective creation; how social media influences the themes of our relationship to reality and fiction; and how social media foregrounds issues of time-sensitivity and relevance with respect to the use of such technology as a tool for making theatre.
Jean-Philippe Joubert. Photo: Stéphane Bourgeois
The Creation Process – Integrating Social Media as a Scenic Metaphor
The Semblance project began its development in 2010 with the graduating class of the Conservatoire d'art dramatique de Québec. As a class, we worked under the direction of the founder of Les Nuages en pantalon, Jean-Philippe Joubert, improvising and writing for three months, until opening of the production in December 2010. The creative process for this piece unfolded in a very short and intense time frame. It was based on collective improvisation and inspired in part by the Cycle Repère method. The fundamental question we discussed was: what is loneliness?
The result was a constellation of characters and situations dealing with different types of solitude and disconnectedness we encounter in a very digitally connected, but superficial, modern world. The central character, a commercial photographer in search of truth and authenticity, foregrounded a poetic shift from digital to film photography. When we reworked the piece in 2013 at the Périscope Theatre in Québec City, we had to reflect the changes in social media usage, and thus we rewrote certain characters to demonstrate how their dynamic online presence was in stark contrast to their real-life situations of being alone, lost and disconnected from others.
Integrating social media in the reworking of the play had profound effects both on the final performance, in terms of writing and staging, and on the creative process. One of things we realized early on was that we could no longer continue to improvise the development of new character arcs. As a group, we were accustomed to using active ways of developing scenes and dialogues. For example, we used improvisation to explore the story's possibilities; a rule of thumb in the process was always "don't talk about the idea—do it." Yet, expressing a character's inner life through social media, such as improvising someone scrolling through their Facebook feed, proved to be quite uninteresting to the performance we had in mind. However, when we staged the act of scrolling, with a projection of the content visible to the audience, the scene became dynamic.
Thinking about staging became a main focus of the process, which developed simultaneously with the writing of the scenes. In terms of process, then, we had to rethink how we were developing the stories. We were trying to remain instinctive, to avoid being too analytical, while, at the same time, the members of the creative team were exploring various social media platforms, quite disconnected from each other. Ironically, as artists of a collective creation, despite our best intentions, we often found ourselves becoming disengaged from the work and one another; a theme that developed further as the piece evolved.
Danielle Le Saux-Farmer as Sophie Lalancette, Maxime Robin as Paul. Semblance by a collective of authors. Directed by Jean-Philippe Joubert. March 18, 2013. Théâtre Périscope, Quebec City. Photo: Vincent Champoux
Within this context of developing the 2013 version of the work, we used the same characters, but now they were much more connected to their social media profiles and were experiencing various forms of loneliness, grief and emptiness, desperately searching for human, real-life, connection. There were employees of a communications agency, for instance, who were in the process of launching the website of a self-help power couple. Indeed, in this version of Semblance the focus on photography really evolved into a theme of the tyranny of the image we project of ourselves, especially on social media platforms. Thus, social media was not only present in the production as a subject in certain storylines, but also as a scenic language. Different social media platforms were projected onto the walls of the space, allowing the audience to experience the characters' sincere quests for meaning and connection in the face of loss and emptiness. As theatre critic Alain-Martin Richard put it, "all the characters in this multiplatform theatre are searching for their own identities, torn between a world of appearances and a world of flesh" (2017).
Reality and Fiction: Extending Characters into the Real Internet
For the 2013 production, we created an extension of Semblance that would exist beyond the time of the performance, into the space of the "real internet." This idea of having an internet platform for a theatre production was not new and is now commonplace. But in this case, we used the internet extension to enhance the narrative, giving the fictional characters full-fledged social media profiles that the audience could scroll through outside of the performance, before or after the show.
We created a Tumblr profile for Fannie, the communications agent, obsessed with body image; clips on Vimeo for Simon, an actor looking for work; and Facebook profiles for the other characters. In creating what we called the show's social media "periphery," our goal was to offer the audience an opportunity to connect and interact with the characters beyond the time and space of the performance and experience them as if they were not fictional characters. One reviewer highlighted the truth/fiction dichotomy that this staging produced:
This strange theatre questions the place of reality/truth within reality, the place of the concrete in the virtual, inquires into the notion of consciousness/awareness. The tools that mankind has invented to tell its stories and define itself find here their expression as well as their limits. But they are between the theatre and the lobby, between inside and outside the building, between direct contact and mediation through social media, between the degrees of a fabricated image (chemical or digital) and its resonance on our identity—all this defines a world that seems familiar, yet quite disconcerting. The characters of Semblance, well before this official exhibit, already existed in another space of reality. On websites, we can follow their careers, read their blogs, watch their videos, visit the marketing agency.
Richard 2017
Alexandrine Warren as Fannie Paradis. Semblance by a collective of authors. Directed by Jean-Philippe Joubert. March 18, 2013. Théâtre Périscope, Quebec City. Photo: Vincent Champoux
Ultimately, we faced a serious challenge: we asked how we can better build the online lives of our fictional characters? We attempted to create intricate, interesting, dense and coherent content, so that these lives could exist and be somewhat believable. We extended them into the outside of the stage production and into the social media realm.
In a traditional theatre performance, what the audience receives is typically limited to what the artists have chosen to have them hear and see in a fixed amount of time and space. Yet if we give our audience a chance to navigate the Internet and scroll through a blog, they will have time to delve into the content at their leisure. This realization evolved into us having to write very furnished, detailed backstories for these characters, complete with photos and videos that would appear to have been created over a real time-span of years and not a few months of writing. So, the task of creating these online profiles not only because colossal from a creative and dramaturgical perspective, but it also revealed the limits of fiction. These characters do not, in fact, have full, complex human lives—they exist only in the world of the play.
Further, unlike corporate creative teams or marketing firms, we did not have the means as a collective, in terms of time or funding, to continually update and develop these fictional online personas. The impossibility of this task for our small production team left us as artists with a concept that did not properly "land." It was a great experiment for the team, but as the social media periphery project took on a life of its own, this time-consuming and labour-intensive undertaking yielded insufficient results.
At the same time, the online portion of the creation, despite threatening to overtake us as writers, did correspond to what we wanted to say. It revealed a bigger truth about the internet and social media: that it is a space where real people interact in virtual ways, and fictional characters cannot sustain that. And despite our general feeling that social media is superficial, real people using it in 2013 were trying to connect and express themselves online. Now, in 2020, with the prevalence of fake social media accounts and a growing corporate presence on the platforms, the stakes have changed again.
Carl Vincent as Benoit Cloutier, Alexandrine Warren as Fannie Paradis. Semblance by a collective of authors. Directed by Jean-Philippe Joubert. March 18, 2013. Théâtre Périscope, Quebec City. Photo: Vincent Champoux
Moving beyond Themes of Online Superficiality: La fin de la fiction
The challenges of sustaining a fictional character's online presence, I believe, would be tenfold if we had tried this concept in 2020. In 2013, as we were reworking the piece, social media was gaining momentum, but it was still a relatively new phenomena. Mostly, it posed questions of what image you would present to the world online as opposed to what you are actually experiencing. Since then, social media has evolved, and is continuing to do so, and we have now gone well beyond the simplistic dichotomy of perception versus reality.
Truth vs. Fiction and the End of Fiction
Five years after Semblance, I was invited by Jean-Phillipe Joubert to collaborate again with Les Nuages en pantalon, this time as Artistic Director of Théâtre Catapulte, a French-language theatre located in Ottawa, Canada, whose mandate over its 28-year history has evolved to support the collective creation of new work by established and emerging artists.
We began developing a new piece, La fin de la fiction (The End of Fiction), focusing on the topic of post-truth politics and polarization on social media platforms. Like many people since the 2016 election of Donald Trump in the U.S., we were both amazed and appalled at the way social media platforms were changing. The title La fin de la fiction was chosen to indicate how the lines between truth and fiction are increasingly blurred, especially when we examine how social media is deployed.
Rather than exploring how fake social media profiles are circulated, we are now researching how certain conspiracy theories, which emerged during the 2016 U.S. Presidential election, used platforms like YouTube, zombie Twitter and Facebook accounts to influence the outcome of that election.
Starting with phenomena like the digital echo chambers (Flaxman et al. 298–320), we have expanded our research to consider the effects of such incidents as the Cambridge Analytica and Facebook data breaches, Russian meddling in many elections around the globe through manipulation of social media, and concerted efforts by a number of organizations to sow discord and chaos between opposing social groups and political movements. One thing that is clear with this new paradigm of information exchange is the speed with which the uses and abuses of social media continue to intensify in the dissemination of (mis)information in the "real" world.
Time-Sensitivity: Staying Relevant with Rapidly Changing Platforms
In my experience with Les Nuages en pantalon, as well as with my own theatre-making practice, the creation process from development to opening night can take a minimum of three years to produce well-researched, factually rigorous content with artistic merit. Such a process is a temporal challenge when the subject matter is social media. Already, in the two years of research we have completed to date, we have deepened the study of platforms like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube by simply keeping up with updates on a regular basis. Our findings continue to change rapidly, particularly in ways that impact how these platforms are used and by whom.
As users have adapted to the changes in social media platforms, our public institutions have also had to recognize the monopoly held by Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple and Microsoft (GAFAM), and have realized—through incidents like the Cambridge Analytica data breach—just how problematic it is to have so much social and political power contained and controlled in this fashion. Further, in 2020, unlike when we first dabbled in such technology in 2013, governmental structures are beginning to legislate how social media platforms can be used for particular social and political ends.
In 2018, when we worked on La fin de la fiction, our aim was to build a cahier de création (creation handbook) as our reference guide for writing on the topic of Russian political interference. After two years of workshops and development, we have realized that this subject matter is so dense that improvisation cannot be the entry point into creating this piece. Moreover, the topic of Russian meddling with the U.S. elections through social media has become so ubiquitous that telling its story theatrically has lost any significance it might once have had. We realized that Facebook's undeniable presence in the global, political landscape was no longer the focus of the project; and thus, we decided to explore such complex notions like algorithms, feedback loops and data points to demonstrate that it is becoming more and more difficult to separate truth from fiction, both in our everyday lives and on stage.
Creation Process: Finding the Theatre in the Algorithm
Today, we continue looking for new ways to stage our relationships with the social media platforms. These relationships constitute a "sensitive resource" for making theatre as understood by the Cycle Repère method. For example, in our work today, we investigate how we can better stage polarization of an audience that reflects the way we have become polarized as social media users within a context that examines how conspiracy theories circulate on these platforms. Regardless of what ultimate shape this project takes, the result of what we have learned so far about the complexity of social media platforms has brought us from showing them onstage in the lives of the characters to providing an opportunity for our spectators to experience social media inner workings and mechanisms.
It is an incredibly exciting project to be working on, even though the ground is constantly shifting beneath us. Every four or five months, we come back to the research and find that we are spending more time refreshing the information than deciding how to use it to create a piece of theatre. We suspect that this constant back-and-forth between the source material and the creative process will impact the form of the piece. In other words, in the same way that social media is a multifaceted, continuously evolving phenomenon, developing this show has become a self-reflexive commentary on the source material.
In La fin de la fiction, the process and the product are inextricably intertwined, as we aim to create a piece of theatre about social media within a society of spectacle increasingly impacted by blurred lines of reality and fiction online. This way it seems to me we are getting closer to Debord's statement that when "the spectacle, taken as a whole, is both and at once, the result and the existing method of production as a project. It is not a supplement to the real world, a decoration that is added. It is the heart of unreality within real society" (Debord 11). So, as with our earlier collective creation, which began in 2010, the members of this creative team are using theatre to ask simple question: what is the human, emotional response to this new paradigm of a society built with and around social media?
Debord, Guy. La Société de Spectacle. 3rd ed., Les Éditions Gallimard, 1967.
Flaxman, Seth, et al. "Filter Bubbles, Echo Chambers, and Online News Consumption." Public Opinion Quarterly, vol. 80, no. S1, 2016, pp. 298–320.
Richard, Alain-Martin. "Semblance: Comment ressembler à notre image. " Revue Jeu, 21 Mar. 2013. Accessed 27 Feb. 2020.
[1]All translations from French to English are by the author
*Danielle Le Saux-Farmer is an actress, director, translator and theatre maker. She obtained an undergraduate degree from the University of Ottawa's Theatre department in 2008. She then completed training as an actress at the Conservatoire d'art dramatique de Québec in 2011, in Québec City, where she worked as a theatre maker for the first years of her professional career. In 2017, she was appointed Artistic Director of Théâtre Catapulte, a French-language theatre company in Ottawa.
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I'm in full agreement with Determined MD. Sending in You women in front of Doctors with push Bras and High Heals.Sweet talking and cajoeling stff with lunches etc is just a sales Pitch to sell the most expensive drugs regardless of Costs and track records. Our primary doctor had my wife on crescor and due to the deaths in europe from higher dosages. He took all his patients of the Meds. The sales rep had the Nerve to tell the Doctor. He should put all of his patients back on Crescor. He stood his ground and said NO! Besides Doctors… Read more »
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Wow, thank you Mr Holt for such a flagrant puff piece for the pharma industry. Let's look up the word "reciprocity", shall we? Based on the word "reciprocate": "to make some sort of return for something done, given, etc." I don't know what you readers make of this term or concept, but let me give you my interpretation of what we as humans in this culture of America think and do per the process of reciprocity. When someone does something that we find inherently kind or supportive, we instinctively want to return the action with similar kindness and appreciation. Now,… Read more »

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Aziz Ansari's career isn't over. So what happens now?
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By Angie Han 2018-01-24 16:05:13 UTC
If Hollywood's reckoning has made some people very, very uneasy, maybe that's a good thing.
As Imran Siddiquee, a writer and filmmaker focused on race, gender, and pop culture points out, that discomfort in itself is a "necessary part of change."
"Whether you have been accused of assault or not, if the #metoo and #timesup movements have made you uncomfortable as a man, that's because we should be uncomfortable about what these stories reflect," he said.
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And it's become increasingly apparent that something needs to change. Casting out Harvey Weinstein was just the beginning; Hollywood's culture of sexism runs far beyond violent abusers like him.
Rarely was that more apparent than last week, when one woman's account of a very bad night with actor and comedian Aziz Ansari went viral. The story sparked fraught conversations about consent, about celebrity, about the court of public opinion – and about what there is to be done about men like him.
People must make amends for the right reasons
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In extreme cases, the answers seem clear. Weinstein, for example, committed such heinous crimes, against so many people, over such a long period of time, that professional exile, along with possible criminal charges, seemed like the obvious answer.
But Weinsteins are relatively rare. Far more common are the Ansaris: dudes (and ladies – but let's face it, mostly dudes) whose actions may not be criminal, but nevertheless reflect a lack of respect for others.
According to the woman accusing Ansari of misconduct, she didn't so much agree to sexual activity with Ansari as give into it. She says he pressured her into sex acts that made her feel uncomfortable, overlooking or powering through her verbal and non-verbal attempts to say no.
Ansari later claimed that he was "surprised and concerned" to hear that the woman, known only by the pseudonym Grace, felt violated by their encounter – which perhaps goes to show just how little concern he had for her feelings in the moment.
Although Ansari's suffered public humiliation as a result, there's no reason to believe his career is, or should be, over. The question now becomes how he moves forward.
"The real work is nothing that can be done in the public eye, because the real work removes from all of this a risk-reward framework."
Justin Baldoni, an actor whose new web series Man Enough tackles the issue of modern masculinity, believes it's important that we as a culture allow men who've screwed up to try and make things right.
"If there's no space to come forward, admit what you did was wrong, and move forward and try to be better, then we're missing a vital attribute of what I think should make us great human beings," said the Jane the Virgin star. "And that is forgiveness, retribution, and the willingness to change your behavior."
That said, change is easier said than done – especially when the world is watching. "The real work is nothing that can be done in the public eye, because the real work removes from all of this a risk-reward framework," said Emily Best, founder and CEO of the crowdfunding and subscription streaming platform Seed&Spark.
SEE ALSO: Hey Hollywood Men: Donating your salary is a good start, but it shouldn't end there
In other words, this atonement cannot be a mere show of contrition from a man trying to impress his colleagues or get his career back on track. It has to involve private self-reflection, emotional curiosity, and, above all, a sincere desire to do better.
And yes, that means the people doing the work may never be applauded for it. Instead, they'll have to settle for simply being better people. "You should be doing the work so you don't hurt women anymore. You should be doing the work so that you see women as people," emphasized Best. "Not because you want to make a million more dollars."
It's time to do the homework
Assuming someone has decided to do the work, for all the right reasons, the next step is figuring out where to start.
The journey will no doubt be different for everyone. But it might begin with an "internal investigation" of sorts, whether that's seeking therapy or asking close friends for honest answers about what went wrong. It could also involve an apology – without expecting or demanding that the apology be accepted.
Once an individual is ready to look outward, he'll find a host of resources from organizations and individuals who want to help drive the culture forward in terms of sex and gender. (For that matter, anyone who's interested in trying to move the culture forward could take advantage of most of these – not just Hollywood types, or those who've been accused of misconduct.)
SEE ALSO: What we can learn about sex and power from the #MeToo backlash
Best referred to Lindy West's recent New York Times essay directed at Ansari as a potential starting point for the curious, since it lists several books and articles about rape culture and consent. "There's a hell of a lot of literature out there that's been talking about this stuff for a long time, that none of these men have read," she said.
"If the #MeToo and Time's Up movements have made you uncomfortable, that's because we should be uncomfortable about what these stories reflect."
This process of education should also include trying to un-learn some of the prejudices so deeply embedded in our culture, they're barely even noticeable.
ReFrame, an initiative by Women in Film and the Sundance Institute, offers unconscious bias training and conscious inclusion training, which "gets people to understand how their brains work in ways that we don't always mean them to," as Women in Film's executive director Kirsten Schaffer put it.
While the program focuses more generally on rectifying the gender imbalance in Hollywood, and not specifically on ending sexual harassment in the showbiz workplace, Schaffer sees all these issues as interconnected.
"It begins with the problem of gender, of the lack of gender equity, and that there simply are not enough women in positions of power. And everything else springs from that," she said. "So I think attacking the problem of sexual assault and harassment, from both the angle of looking at gender parity and putting systems in place that lessen the likelihood that it will occur, and also bigger repercussions when it does occur, are all part of the change."
What Schaffer's seen in these training sessions, she said, is encouraging. "I sat in this circle of like 12 men, and I watched their eyes open," she said of a session she'd attended. "Most of those men came out of that training and they were like, 'Now that I understand how unconscious bias works in the world, I commit to trying to rectify that.'"
Men need to talk to other men
So far, the public eye has mostly fallen on men accused of harassing or assaulting women. However, if this sexist culture is to change, everyone has a part to play. For men, it must involve speaking with other men about these issues.
"When guys see it happening in front of them, [they need] to say something to their buddy," said Schaffer. "If a man in the room says, 'Hey, let's look at that female candidate' or 'Let's make sure we have enough women on the list,' it starts as small as that."
"When guys see it happening in front of them, they need to say something."
This applies to both the workplace and to the social arena. And, Best added, it's crucial that these men have these conversations with victims in mind. "If women are being hurt by a man who's their friend, that introspection, I think, has to happen between and among all men, of, 'How could I be friends with someone who's doing stuff like this?' Not 'How can I help my friend?'"
In other words, we need less fretting about the damaged reputations of predators, less hand-wringing about our "culture of outrage and injury," less worrying about all the men who feel "under attack" – and more men calling each other out when they've stepped out of line or grappling with their problematic friendships.
Siddiquee pointed out that how the conversation is framed is important, too. "I do think as men we have to get away from talking about abuse solely in terms of 'good' men versus 'bad' men, or even 'criminals' versus 'non-criminals,'" said Siddiquee. "Not just because the legal system is itself oppressive, but because that kind of thinking can often reinforce a hierarchy of masculinity, or that same old question of who is a 'real man' and who is not."
SEE ALSO: Justin Baldoni's new web series wants to help men grow
Categorizing men as "good" or "bad" implies that those are two distinct and static groups, when the truth is that anyone can engage in inappropriate behavior. Ansari looked like a "good" guy – a self-proclaimed feminist and a self-styled relationship expert – until that viral account published by Babe, a website focused on women's lifestyle content, exposed him as just another jerk who sees nothing wrong with pestering an uninterested woman into sex.
Likewise, anyone can be a victim, including other men. Baldoni, Terry Crews, James Van Der Beek, and Anthony Rapp are among those who've shared their own stories of sexual harassment and assault within the industry in recent months.
Consumers can speak with our dollars
But you don't have to be in the room with a movie star or a producer to make your voice heard in Hollywood. Anyone – men, women, industry insiders, ordinary consumers – can make a statement with their wallets.
An obvious way to do so is by donating money to organizations working toward fixing Hollywood's sexism problem.
"Voting with your dollars is really important as a consumer, now probably more than ever in our cultural history."
"One of the things I really appreciated are the men who have given money to support the cause, who don't have any allegations against them, but just want to see the world be a better place," said Schaffer. "Like, for instance, Kevin Smith has committed his royalties from his Weinstein films to Women in Film for the rest of his life."
Siddiquee pointed to the #GiveYourMoneyToWomen campaign as another way to put your money to work. Founded by Lauren Chief Elk, the hashtag is a call for women to get paid for their free emotional labor.
SEE ALSO: How to be part of the solution to sexual harassment problems in Hollywood
"In a capitalistic society which systematically denies women access, especially black and brown women, money is of course significant," he said. "But though a one-time gift is great, it's not the same as a consistent pledge to financially support vulnerable people and to do so in thoughtful ways."
Then there's our responsibility to be more conscientious about the entertainment we consume. Rather than try to separate the art from the artist, we can consider how one informs the other – like, say, how Woody Allen's attitudes about women are expressed through his films – and choose not to spend our money on work by known predators.
On the flip side, we can also decide to support projects by women, whether it's paying to see female-directed films in theaters, like A Wrinkle in Time or Mulan, or watching and talking about female-driven series. Either way, the key is to consider where your money is going. "Voting with your dollars is really important as a consumer, now probably more than ever in our cultural history," said Best, the indie film crowdfunder.
People mess up sometimes, and that's okay sometimes
Of course, none of this is foolproof. No matter how honorable our intentions, humans are bound to slip up sometimes. Accepting that is part of the work we need to do, too.
"If we don't try, we're saying we're OK with things just remaining as they are."
"If we want to challenge misogyny and hypermasculinity, all straight cis men can choose to center femininity and femme-identified people in their lives. And we have to be vulnerable and willing to fail in our attempts to do this," said Siddiquee, the writer and filmmaker. "I'd love to see more men risk devoting entire TV appearances to talking clumsily about their role in upholding rape culture."
Trying and occasionally failing, after all, is better than never trying in the first place. "[I]f we don't try, then things just remain the way that they are," he added. "If we don't try, we're saying we're OK with things just remaining as they are."
Even Matt Damon got it right eventually.
Image: Kevin Winter / Getty Images
Baldoni, who now speaks publicly about these issues as part of his day job, noted that mess-ups are part of the process.
"There have been things, who knows, that I've done in the past, that were not what Justin would do today," he admitted. "But it doesn't mean I didn't learn. It doesn't mean I'm not trying to learn. It doesn't mean I'm not listening, that I'm not trying to be better and provide support and a voice for a movement."
Not every man who's done wrong will bounce back, and not all of them deserve to.
That said, some screw-ups are much, much bigger than others. Not every man who's done wrong will bounce back, and not all of them deserve to. The tricky part is figuring out which ones do, which ones don't, and how we should determine the difference – and there are no easy, clear-cut answers.
"For me, personally, it's about who's done the work. I'm a believer that people can change, and I like to give people the opportunity to do that," said Women in Film's Schaffer. "But," she admitted, "I don't know exactly what that looks like."
SEE ALSO: Talking about #MeToo on social media is hard, but we shouldn't stop trying
One approach is to consider that "past behavior is the greatest predictor of future behavior," as Best put it. "If you have somebody who has, once they've ascended to power, greatly abused it, they probably shouldn't be hired back in that position for a long time, until they've proved, increment by increment, that they can be trusted."
How someone can prove such a thing is another question, especially if they're doing the work privately rather than making a show of it for good publicity. There will never be a single set of criteria that applies to all people across all situations. Even if there were, we'd have no way of knowing how genuine someone's change of heart was, or guaranteeing they'd never mess up again.
For all of us, then, that means sitting with some amount of ambiguity and uncertainty.
"I don't think anybody has the moral social justice system built out in their heads to figure out who deserves to be punished for life and who deserves not to," said Baldoni, the actor. "Who deserves to be banished from Hollywood and who deserves not to? Nobody knows. All of us are trying to figure it out, and right now we're all just kind of going off of a gut feeling."
Change takes time
Kirsten Schaffer, executive director of Women in Film, at the 2017 Crystal + Lucy Awards.
What is clear is that we need to keep doing this work in the meantime. We can use our words, our money, and our actions to raise the bar for acceptable behavior, to establish a culture where women are treated with respect, where harassment and abuse are stamped out instead of covered up.
For the most part, it will be slow and difficult. The enormity of the problem is such that we'll want a drastic solution. But dramatic moves, like exiling Weinstein, only go so far. If we're to move toward a lasting change, Best noted, we'll need to reexamine some of our most deeply held core beliefs.
"Relationships between people, emotional health, emotional curiosity, the notions of due process and journalistic excellence – all of these things have to actually be reassessed when we decide that women's voices are equal to men's," she said.
"The patriarchy has been built over thousands and thousands of years. It's not going to be knocked down in three months."
We'll need to reconsider the roles we've assigned men and women in cultural scripts about seduction and romance, and reexamine how the courts and the press process these stories. We'll need to overhaul the boy's club and eliminate the pay gap. We'll need to wrestle with our concept of consent, and move around the weight of the emotional work that goes into professional and personal relationships.
SEE ALSO: '#MeToo, Now What?' asks where we go from here in a five-part PBS miniseries
That prescription applies to all industries, not just showbiz. Still, entertainment does have a special role to play in our larger cultural shift.
"What's unique about Hollywood is that we're storytellers, and in that work we are creating culture," said Schaffer. In other words, the industry helps shape how women are perceived and treated by the culture at large, through the stories it chooses to tell and how it chooses to tell them.
In addition, because Hollywood gets so much public attention, it's particularly well-positioned to set an example for other industries dealing with similar problems. (Which is to say all of them.)
And while the rest of the world is looking toward Hollywood, Hollywood needs to be looking inward.
"It's meaningless for men in Hollywood to say they 'support this movement' if their day today looks no different than their day three or four months ago," said Siddiquee. "How have our conversations changed? How do we show up to sets differently now? How has our approach to filmmaking shifted? Something has to give."
That something will take time. But every minute, every tiny step forward counts.
"The patriarchy has been built over thousands and thousands of years. It's not going to be knocked down in three months," said Schaffer. "Progression towards change is the goal."
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On Episode 3 of UFC 224 Embedded, women's bantamweight champion Amanda Nunes makes the most of her downtime with a trip to the mall. Middleweight Kelvin Gastelum takes in the sight of Saturday night's battleground.
In the host hotel's training rooms, middleweight Jacare Souza and strawweight Amanda Cooper stay sharp.
Middleweight legend Vitor Belfort arrives in Brazil for his postponed retirement fight, and strawweight Mackenzie Dern finally lands after missing a scheduled flight.
UFC 224 Embedded is an all-access, behind-the-scenes video blog leading up to the women's bantamweight championship at UFC 218 on Saturday, May 12th on Pay-Per-View.
Tune in on Saturday for full UFC 224: Nunes vs. Pennington live results and fight stats. The first UFC 224 bout is scheduled to begin at 6:15 p.m. ET / 3:15 p.m. PT.


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By: Tom Wylie
VERMILLION, S.D. -- The DakotaDome, home of the University of South Dakota Coyotes football team, has a capactity listed at 10,000.
But when the University of Montana football team travels to Vermillion on Saturday for its season opener, the teams will kick off in front of only 5,500 fans.
The Dome is undergoing a $24 million renovation, which isn't scheduled to be completed until 2020. But football must go on, so the Coyotes are making use of the space they do have in the 40-year-old building.
Only the east stands will be occupied, with the west-side renovations still under construction. That means the Griz will have a smaller than usual sideline, with no fans sitting behind them.
"I've never been there, I think this one has some construction going on. It will be interesting," said Montana head coach Bobby Hauck. "In this league you play in domes, so it's not a new experience to anyone on this team. But I haven't been there. Some guys on the staff have been. It will be a lot like going to play teams in this conference."
No matter the venue, Montana has had South Dakota's number over the years with a 12-6 advantage in the all-time series and a five-game win streak over the Coyotes.
The Griz will look to make it six in a row Saturday at 1 p.m.


Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alum Marissa McKown '04, a graduate of the Theatre Department's Theatre Directing program, has been named managing director of the 16th Street Theatre in the Chicago suburb of Berwyn. McKown, originally from Indiana, previously served as managing director of the Oak Park Festival Theatre and also worked for several years at Steppenwolf Theatre. At the 16th Street Theatre, she will be in charge of development and fundraising activities, budgeting and finances, sponsorships, and education and community outreach. Located in the Berwyn Cultural Center at 6420 16th St. in Berwyn, the 16th Street Theatre is a program of the North Berwyn Park District. Dedicated to artistic excellence, professionalism (paying artists a decent wage), diversity and affordability, the 16th Street Theatre exists to encourage debate, discussion and compassion through the medium of intimate and diverse theater with the playwright as its central focus.


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Home»News»NBA: Philadelphia 76ers vs. Portland Trail Blazers Injury Report, Predicted Lineups and Starting 5s
NBA: Philadelphia 76ers vs. Portland Trail Blazers Injury Report, Predicted Lineups and Starting 5s
By Abhishek Yadav January 19, 2023 Updated: January 19, 2023 3 Mins Read
On Thursday, January 19, the Philadelphia 76ers will travel to Portland Trail Blazers to take on the first of two meetings between the teams this season. The Philadelphia 76ers, at 28-16, are third in the Eastern Conference and have won three straight contests. Philadelphia 76ers ranks 15th in points per game and ninth in offensive rating. The Sixers have excelled in the less glamorous aspects of the game as well, ranking fourth in both defensive rating and opponents' points per game. The Trail Blazers, who are 21-23 overall and 11th in the West, have dropped six of their last eight contests. The Trail Blazers are ranked 17th in the league in points per game and eighth in the league in offensive rating, while their opponents rank 13th in points per game and 22nd in defensive rating. The 76ers have a better record away from home (17-9), but the Trail Blazers have a better record at home (17-8).
Philadelphia 76ers vs. Portland Trail Blazers Starting 5s
Philadelphia 76ers – PG James Harden, SG De'Anthony Melton, SF Tobias Harris, PF P.J. Tucker, C Joel Embiid
Portland Trail Blazers – PG Damian Lillard, SG Anfernee Simons, SF Josh Hart, PF Jerami Grant, C Jusuf Nurkic
Philadelphia 76ers vs. Portland Trail Blazers Injury Report
When they take the court on Thursday night, the Philadelphia 76ers won't have any players out due to injury. Justise Winslow, a forward for the Portland Trail Blazers, will be out for a while due to a sprained left ankle. The starting center, Jusuf Nurkic, is listed as probable with tightness in his left calf. Gary Payton II, the starting guard, is also listed as "possible" because of pain in his right hip.
Prediction: Portland Trail Blazers vs. Philadelphia 76ers
Among the best teams in the NBA right now are the Philadelphia 76ers, who have been on a tear of late. The Portland Trail Blazers, on the other hand, can only look down. In addition, the city of Philadelphia is beginning to recover and realize its full potential. With a win, the 76ers would start their five-game road trip with a perfect record. By at least three points, Philadelphia is the favorite to win.
Philadelphia 76ers vs. Portland Trail Blazers Match Details
Fixture: Philadelphia 76ers at Portland Trail Blazers
Date and Time: Thursday, January 19th, 10:00 p.m. EST
Venue: Moda Center, Portland, Oregon
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Ellen and Harold Radday began supporting Feeding America in 1998. After Harold's passing in 2011, Ellen faithfully continued donating to our organization. Last year, Ellen informed us that she had named Feeding America in her estate plan and we welcomed her into the Feeding America van Hengel Society. The van Hengel Society is named for John van Hengel, the founder of the modern food bank movement, and it honors individuals who make legacy gifts, including bequests and charitable gift annuities, in support of Feeding America.
After Ellen's recent passing, we connected with Ellen and Harold's daughters Liz Starr and Jeanne Radday. We are honored to share Ellen and Harold's story and are deeply grateful for the legacy of hope they provided for people struggling with hunger.
In 1961, when Ellen and Harold Radday wed, they didn't know that their lives would take them around the world. But Harold's Foreign Service career did just that, eventually propelling them and their three children to destinations such as Kenya, Belgium, Malta and Germany, among others. Ultimately, the couple would come back to the States, settling in the Washington, D.C. area.
Remembered as philanthropists, social justice advocates and ardent supporters of hunger relief, Ellen and Harold's worldwide encounters opened their eyes to the devastating effects of poverty and hunger. Ellen was a "very gentle, kind rebel. She made some waves," said Liz. Her love of people was obvious as she worked in family counseling and adoption services at Catholic Charities, a nonprofit organization, and served as a certified chaplain later in life. With deep faith and a mutual desire to serve, Ellen and Harold's open hearts brought comfort and relief to many in their local communities, whether in the United States or abroad.
Reflecting on her parents' experience abroad in relation to the issue of hunger, Jeanne continued, "While living in the developing world with the U.S. diplomatic mission, they saw malnutrition, and as a result, reductions in health, learning, civic engagement and human development more broadly. Our parents strove to understand this dynamic and to play a role in alleviating malnutrition and hunger.
Feeding America is an honored beneficiary of donations from this loving couple. On behalf of the 41 million people struggling with hunger in the United States, we thank the Radday family for their legacy of giving. Their generous gifts translate into hundreds of thousands of meals for families, children and older adults across the country, bringing the people they have touched hope for a brighter tomorrow.


The Caribbean put up an emphatic presentation at the EU-CELAC Summit 2015 in Brussels last week where over 500 delegates from Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean convened under the theme "Promoting inclusive and sustainable growth by enhancing the role of Small and Medium Sized Enterprises".
The event hosted by the European Commission, was attended by a delegation from the Caribbean Export Development Agency (Caribbean Export), the only regional trade, export development and investment promotions Agency of the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) group and who's presence ensured the visibility of the comparatively small region against the vast populous countries of Latin America with the attending audience.
Deputy Executive Director of the Agency Mr. Escipion Oliveira during his presentation on Caribbean SMEs and how to integrate them in trade and investment opportunities with Europe and Latin America indicated that a paradigm shift was crucial to achieving global competitiveness. Improving access to finance was top on the list of priorities with the promotion of specialized funds and guarantee schemes being key avenues to be explored as financing alternatives to traditional banking loans. Access to finance is an area that plagues not only the Caribbean but also Latin America and Europe, and the Agency has already embarked on an Angel Investor programme to provide an additional funding mechanism for businesses.
Another area that the region has the potential to breed competitiveness globally is through the development of brands and geographical indicators. This coupled with certifications that can present products or services to the international market as organic, fair trade or high quality and indigenous, would enable qualifying regional products to be significantly elevated the in the minds of consumers, increasing demand and importantly the prices they are willing to pay.
However, having great products, high in demand by European consumers could be futile for some of the regions business owners. As Mr. Oliveira pointed out to the audience of policy makers and government officials "it's difficult to do business when you can't access the EU market". His remarks were made in reference to the challenges some Caribbean nationals have in obtaining visas to travel to the UK and other parts of Europe. The visa issue however is not only a problem crossing the Atlantic, but also within our own region where the freedom of movement between the islands together with transportation and logistical issues remains a major hindrance to the fostering of profitable regional trade.
Thus, it should be noted that the EU and CELAC account for a quarter of the market for global goods and services, providing a great opportunity for Caribbean firms to boost trade and in turn stimulate economic growth. SMEs play a key role in generating employment and the EU supports SMEs in the Caribbean through the Regional Private Sector Development Programme (RPSDP) currently being implemented by Caribbean Export, to become more competitive and improve international trade with Latin America and Europe.


Insurance companies would have to provide coverage to children with autism under legislation on its way to Gov. Nathan Deal's desk.
The House voted 161-0 on Thursday to give House Bill 429 final approval, ending a years-long struggle by parents and advocacy groups to gain a level of coverage offered in many other states.
The vote in the House came after a negotiated end to a stalemate last week. House leaders had fought the bill for years, arguing it would hurt small businesses that provide insurance coverage for employees.
The compromise version passed the Senate unanimously last week.
The final bill requires insurance companies to provide up to $30,000 a year of coverage for children age 6 and under.


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Tensile's green facades while looking simplistic often hide a complexity. It is not simply a case of a stainless steel cable stuck on the side of the building and hoping for the best. Careful thought goes into the micro climate, plant selection and habit for all species. There is an integration of plant and cable that when successful goes beyond all expectation creating an effortless design.
Eve Apartments, designed by DKO architecture, embodies the above. The green facades rise out of the courtyard climbing the 4 and 5 storey apartment buildings. The cable systems supplied and installed by Tensile provide a visual barrier between apartments. They use the Jakob Green Solutions range of fittings on 4mm stainless steel cables and are grouped together on the edges of the balconies throughout the courtyard providing privacy and a gentle outlook.
The gardens were designed by 360° Landscape Architecture with varying species used throughout in accordance with the various aspects and levels of solar access. The climbers provide a low maintenance, high impact alternative to other vertical gardens perfect for a medium density development such as Eve.
A simple but strong idea is the best way to describe the green facades within the Eve Apartments. At Tensile we know we have done our job well when our cables become invisible making the facades appear effortless.


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Sagard NewGen signs an exclusivity agreement aiming at investing a minority stake in I-TRACING, French leading independent provider of cybersecurity services, alongside Eurazeo and the Management
Paris, May 12, 2021 – Sagard NewGen has signed an exclusivity agreement with a view to investing a minority stake in I-TRACING alongside Eurazeo, new reference shareholder of the company, the company's management and founders Theodore-Michel Vrangos and Laurent Charvériat.
I-TRACING was founded in 2005 and offers a comprehensive range of high-value-added services to secure its clients' IT systems: consultancy, audits and pen tests, integration of diversified software solutions and associated managed services, identity and access management, operation of SOCs (Security Operations Centers) as well as deployment of cyberattack response units (CERTs or Computer Emergency Response Teams).
Headquartered in Paris, I-TRACING employs more than 285 experts who help their clients (CAC40, SBF120 and medium-sized companies) with all of their cybersecurity needs. The company also has subsidiaries in Montreal, Hong Kong and London, enabling the group to offer managed services and support on a 24/7 basis. In 2020, I-TRACING generated nearly €50 million of revenue, up around 40% vs. 2019, despite the Covid-19 crisis. The company targets around €70 million revenues in 2021.
Eurazeo's small-mid buyout team, Sagard NewGen and I-TRACING's management share the ambition of building a leading European provider of cybersecurity services. This would entail an acceleration of the company's growth through further expansion, capitalizing on its high level of expertise as well as the rapid growth of its market and underlying demand. The new chapter is also aiming at pursuing an active buy-and-build strategy, with several targets already identified, as well as supporting I-TRACING' clients internationally.
The transaction should be completed in June after receiving social and regulatory authorizations.
We are very pleased to enter I-TRACING's a new phase of development alongside Eurazeo and Sagard, to write a new chapter in our journey as an independent company, 15 years after it was founded. Since 2017, we have successfully passed critical steps with the help of Keensight Capital's teams: we have tripled our revenue in a four years' time, structured our offering and our organization, doubled our workforce, accelerated our international growth and made our first add-on. We very grateful for their valuable support. From now on, with the assistance of Eurazeo and Sagard, we will accelerate our growth both in France and internationally in Europe, Asia and North America, accompanying our major French and European clients in all of their cybersecurity needs. We will ensure to maintain our values and mindset, the quality and expertise of our services, commitment to our clients in a thrilling environment for our staff.
Théodore-Michel Vrangos and Laurent Charvériat
I-TRACING's two Founding Partners
We are very happy to accompany Théodore-Michel Vrangos and Laurent Charvériat's outstanding team, alongside Eurazeo, in this new phase of development. I-TRACING has an impressive track record of growth over the last 15 years, offering a broad array of customizable cybersecurity services praised by its clients. This new step will be an opportunity for I-TRACING to leverage Sagard's relational and commercial network in Europe and North America to pursue a dynamic organic growth and add-ons aimed at strengthening its positioning and technological expertise.
Bérangère Barbe, Agnès Huyghues Despointes and Guillaume Lefebvre
Partners at Sagard NewGen
We are delighted to be involved in I-TRACING's project. Eurazeo ambitions to provide long-term support to Théodore-Michel Vrangos and Laurent Charvériat in their growth strategy and contribute to the emergence of a European leading independent provider of cybersecurity services. Further than its financial support, Eurazeo would bring the expertise and support of its experienced teams located in 10 countries around the world and its international business network. We can't wait to actively back the group in a new active phase of its development.
Pierre Meignen
Member of Eurazeo PME's Executive Board
Parties involved in the transaction
I-TRACING : Théodore-Michel Vrangos, Laurent Charvériat, Keensight Capital (Philippe Crochet, Grégory Agez), Management
Sagard NewGen : Guillaume Lefebvre, Bérangère Barbe, Agnès Huyghues Despointes, Martin Klotz
Eurazeo Small-mid buyout : Pierre Meignen, Alexis Bisson, Margaux Bodin
I-TRACING's advisor:
M&A: Cambon Partners (David Salabi, Jonathan Journo, Florian Grison, Yvette Nou)
Corporate lawyer: Hoche Avocats (Grine Lahreche, Audrey Szultz)
Management lawyer: EY Avocats (Frederic Reliquet, Myriam Mataali)
Financial VDD: Exelmans (Stéphane Dahan, Manuel Manas, Guillaume Rohmer)
Sagard NewGen's advisors:
M&A: Rothschild & Co (Philippe de Montreynaud, Tancrede Colas), Eurvad Finance (Charles Guigan, Emilie Thivant)
Corporate lawyer: Paul Hastings (Olivier Deren, Charlotte Dupont, Vincent Nacinovic)
Legal, tax, social BDD: Paul Hastings (Olivier Deren, Charlotte Dupont, Vincent Nacinovic, Thomas Pulcini, Stéphane Henry)
Financial BDD: KPMG (Antoine Bernabeu, Bertrand Thouvenel)
Strategic BDD: Indefi (Julien Berger, David Toledano)
About I-TRACING
I-TRACING was founded in 2005 in Paris by Laurent Charvériat and Théodore-Michel Vrangos, who were soon joined by Michel Vujicic and then Laurent Besset. It is France's leading independent pure-play provider of cybersecurity services, covering all requirements in this field: cyberdefence (CyberSOC, I-CERT, Vulnerability Management Center, offensive audit, 24/7 "follow-the-sun" CyberSOC etc.), consultancy and solution engineering/integration, support and managed services. Idento, which joined the group in 2019, provides consultancy and engineering services in the field of Identity and Access Management (IAM).
The I-TRACING group comprises the I-TRACING companies based in Puteaux, London, Hong Kong and Montreal, along with IDENTO I-TRACING Group, which has locations in Asnières and Nantes.
The company generated consolidated revenue of €50 million in 2020, up around 40% compared with 2019, and its current workforce consists of 285 engineers. Its client base consists of more than 230 companies across all business sectors, including 30 CAC 40 companies.
More information: www.i-tracing.com
Partnership launch between Sagard and Article 1
Paris, June 6, 2022 - Sagard has joined forces with Article 1 to promote equal opportunity and to help young people from working-class backgrounds find employment. Created from the merger of...


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    public void testCase1() throws Exception {
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    public void testCase2() throws Exception {
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    public void testCase3() throws Exception {
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        assertResultWarning(lintFiles(file), 1);
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}

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There are several well-known psychics. They are credited with predicting future events. These psychics are often given credibility or proof after the fact. It is the interpretation of what they said that makes it seem like a prediction, seem real.
The most famous of these psychics is Nostradamus. He is believed to be one of the most prolific clairvoyant in history. Nostradamus is famous for his quatrains- for lines of verse written in symbolic language which predicted catastrophic events such as the stock market collapse, both World Wars and the attack on the World Trade Center, September 11, 2001. What is unusual about these predictions is that he lived in the 1500's! The Prophecies were published in 1555.
Nostradamus's writings were couched in mystery and symbolism. Branches, water, planets, and numerology all played an important part in his writings.
These were not meant to be taken literally but stood for kings and countries, thrones and power. It is only when this symbolism is interpreted in today's context and not at the time they were written does it takes on significant meaning with current events. It should also be noted that most predictions by psychics are largely related to catastrophes, both past and present. Rarely does a seer gain notoriety for foretelling of good.
These modern interpretations are not limited to Nostradamus's predictions, but often play a role in the predictions of other well-known psychics. These include Edgar Cayce and Jeanne Dixon.
Edgar Cayce was known for his ability to heal the sick, especially at a distance. Cayce would lie down in a trance and see the person's ailment and suggest treatment; usually consisting of some sort of spiritual cleansing. He was known as a "miracle man" and did not take money for using his God-given talent.
Jeanne Dixon was launched into fame because she had been attributed with predicting the death of John F. Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States. Her prophecies were published in Parade Magazine and were vague enough to be interpreted after the fact as correct. They were not so much as correct as they were coincidence. Emphasizing her 'correct" guesses while disregarding the incorrect, she was able to convince the public of her psychic abilities. Gathering public acceptance, this became known as the Jeanne Dixon Effect.
Psychic predictions are not limited to our modern post A.D. world, but have in-fact been relied upon by kings and clergy for millennia. For hundreds of years, emperors, kings, philosophers sought the advice of The Oracle of Delphi to wage war and predict its outcome. The powers of the Oracle, due to modern archeological exploration, purportedly come from escaping gasses in fissures in the cave where Pythia (the Oracle) dwelt. These gases, ethylene or some anesthetizing agent put the Oracle in her trance-state as she divulged the occult secrets.
Additionally, even established religions such as Judaism, Islam, and Catholicism believe in and rely upon the teachings of prophets. Those individuals who had the power to speak on behalf of a deity and could glean the future from these conversations. Mohammed and Christ were the most famous and elevated to God-like status. However other prophets appear in the Bible- Moses and Abraham; Noah predicted the Great Flood. All of these had the ability to converse with God.
The power of these prophecies relied upon the ability to convince the masses that the prophet heard from and was speaking on behalf of God. This often occurred through "speaking of tongues"-the commoner would have no idea what was said and would need it interpreted by the prophet. Royalty always kept a prophet or seer nearby-not just for their own peace of mind, but for the sole purpose of reporting to the realm that he had gotten a message from God.
If you happen to be interested in a quality psychic reading, visit Psychic Judy who's native american background (and impressive dream reading skills) make for a fascinating personal reading. I'd also recommend checking out 1800 Psychics where you can find a good deal of information on psychic readings.


Dubai has historically been an international hub for the physical trade of not only gold, but also many other commodities and so the establishment of the Dubai Gold & Commodities Exchange (DGCX) was the next logical step for the region and the local economy. DGCX commenced trading in November 2005 as the regions first commodity derivatives exchange and has become today, the leading derivatives exchange in the Middle East. DGCX is majority owned by Dubai Multi Commodities Centre (DMCC), a strategic initiative of the Government of Dubai, with a mandate to enhance commodity trade flows through the Emirate by providing the appropriate physical, market, financial infrastructure and services required. The Management team of DGCX comprises senior personnel from the commodities, securities and financial services industries bringing a wealth of experience and expertise to ensure the success of DGCX.


Golden Apples: Not Knitting. but Fiber related--in the end!
Not Knitting. but Fiber related--in the end!
Going to Pot.. wtih a bunch of Enablers.
For years, I didn't have much interest in photography.
I wasn't very good, and wasn't interested in spending all the money needed to get good.
I've owned (still own) a PHD camera (Push Here Dummy) that had an auto focus and used 35mm film.
But I found, I needed to take dozens of pictures to get one I liked, --and the feed back loop, (take picture, develop, evaluate, retake picture) was way to too long.
Digital has helped change that.
Ten images memory, and the memory card was sealed inside the camera.
My next digital camera was a Kodak Easy Share, purchased about 4 years ago.
3.1mega pixels, 3 optical, +4 digital zoom setting –it even took Video.
It wasn't the smallest camera I've ever owned –but it was much smaller than my 35 mm PHD camera.
And it came with a 64MB card..WOW!-(you have to understand, my first computer, (which was my computer for the next 7 years!) came with NO hard drive, and when I upgraded year 2 or so, I got a 48K (yes, 48 K!) memory module, and my first hard drive (some time later) was a DD/DD floppy drive (128K? Or was it all of 256K?)--and these upgrades cost hundreds of dollars!
I've been digital a long time(since 1983) and well I remember when a 40MB drive was consider BIG (and it had a big price too--$400!)--and here I was with $25 memory cards that had more memory, for way less money!
Over time, I upgraded-- first to a 250MB card, then to a 1gig one, , and now up to a 2gig card (which, cost about the same as my first 64MB card!)--a nice selection of memory cards (and I've also upgraded to a cel phone with a camera—and it conveniently uses the same size memory cards!) I got a tripod too!
Then, last month, I've upgraded to a newer digital camera.
It's smaller, and lighter (it's another Kodak Easy Share)--this one has 7.0 mega pixels. It's easier to use, and it came with upgraded software that allow simple (and let me be honest, simple is all I want) software for editing the video.
Didn't I start this post saying it was about fiber (Not about photo's?) Well the new camera needed a case.
The clearance center at one of the craft stores came to the rescue.
A pre-made felted pouch. The zipper was broken, the lining ripped.. But the size (and the price!) was right!
So a new lining was in order (and a new zipper) and I needle felted some decoration (I used the lining fabric as inspiration) and then I wanted more.. so out came the embroidery floss, and one thing lead to another...The result?
It's great, your little camera bag. It looks just like a small cosmetic purse, and the colors are delicious.
I still love the my old Fujika 35 mm, for close ups, micro shots, and all the getting great shots of birds, but, agreed, when you don't have access to a dark room, you have to take a class or the film processing eats you up.
Helen...? Yooo-hoooo! Hello? Are you there? I miss you! And no offense, but this post is getting a little old now.


text: Q: Ubuntu 21.10 installer gets stuck at the Updates and other software screen was going to install Ubuntu 21.10 to dual boot with Windows 11 on an MSI Z590 with an Intel core i7, 32GB of RAM, Secure Boot and tpm 2.0, but the installer does not go to disk partitioning. It stays frozen at the Updates and other software screen for more than 10 hours, and it never moves forward. I already tried the previous version 20.04, and that goes to disk partitioning in just 30 seconds even with Secure Boot and tpm 2.0 activated, however in 21.10 it gets stuck at Updates and other software.

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Referrals are king when were talking about GPT sites.I use to think, if I could just get 10 referrals to my site that would actually do surveys I would be good. I thought that spreading my URL around would do something magical but really it just added more inactive referrals. Writing articles about getting free video games and xbox cards didn't help much either. I also tried youtube, I might still have my videos up but they again only give inactive referrals. Hub pages about minecraft and world of warcraft didn't do any justice either. So whats my point? Video games and game cards are not the niche your in.
Belive it or not, video games, console codes, and ebay gift cards are not your niche. It might be a nice micro niche but once the ref finds out that they have to put in work, there going to log out. When that next Friday comes they'll cash their paycheck and buy that game. So what is your niche? Its people who want to make money. The making money online niche is huge. There are tons of people out their that want to make money online, and their people just like you and I. Those people are willing to fill out a survey for $.40 cents and spend hours trying to achieve an online paycheck.
Blasting Yahoo answers, Youtube, and other sources will always get you referrals but its not the full time referral that your looking for. I would rather look for 10 people that would like to make $5 - $10 a day online. Think about this, If you spam craigslist saying earn xbox 360 points and I spam the same area saying Earn an extra $140 - $280 a month in your spare time. Who would win? Of course you would because a lot of people want those points. However, I would get targeted referrals that would enjoy making money.
The first thing I would do is create a blog. Most of you might already have a blog but how many of you post at least 400-800 words a day about your niche? I would assume not that many. Creating targeted traffic requires daily rich content. Post your content on social networks and sites that allow linking. Network with people that like making money and offer R1 as a solution.
There are so many ways to get quality traffic and targeted referrals. You just have to do some deep digging.
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'Impossible' is merely the acceptance of failure.
I'm getting referrals like nothing, but when it comes to referrals, this site has an extremely active referrals %. I have 110 referrals and 11 are active. The last active referral I had was when I had like 70 referrals and that was what, 14 days ago?
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Practically every known individual of the couple are welcome to go to the wedding. Name Regret their inability To accept Mr. Amir Ali, working in your company since 2016. P With compliments from; 2. Hi Friend I hereby invite you and your family for my Brother wedding ,which is going to be held on 10 th of September, 2009 at St. Great invitation letters are brief and easy to understand. I hope this letter will find you, Rohit and the kids, in the pink of health.
On the front of the envelop, the name and address of the invitee, should be superscribed. Lots of love for both of you. Marriage invitation letter to friends are invitation letters that are written to your friends to invite them on the marriage ceremony. Write the letter in the correct format and remember to thank the reader at the end. An invitation is enclosed herewith. Your esteemed presence on this joyful occasion is highly appreciated.
Warm Regards, Saqib Invitation Letter for Marriage to Friends Wedding Invitation to Friend To, John Moser, California Dearest John, Hope you are doing well. Maintain a polite and friendly tone. I warmly welcome you and your family to this ceremony. An invitation letter is an excellent way for inviting relatives. It can be computerized or handwritten but avoid writing it on business letterhead stationery.
Hosting the wedding is, in the end, a mostly meaningless honor that you get to choose how to pass out. So people prefer shorter invitation and a phone call and that will serve the purpose. Please make your esteemed presence available and bless us for the future. Do not worry about any issues regarding accommodation. The three of us are going to do the same-the highlights of our life with them over the past fifty years! I will look forward to welcome you wholeheartedly.
The news is that our brother Rory is getting married next month on the 28 th in the winters. Formal Invitation to Marriage Reception Mr. You will get the formal invitation in due course but I want you to take note of this early and well in time and make preparations accordingly. The beauty of this letter is that, even if someone sends an electronic invitation card through E-mail, he or she can attach a personal letter to accompany the E-card. So that I decide to choose the venue.
You want people there because you love them, not because you want their money or gifts. Invitations for anniversary parties can be formal, on engraved stationary, or informal, a brief letter to friends and family. Herewith I have attached the wedding invitation. As the name suggests, the first and primary purpose of invitation letters is to request the presence of the recipient and the second is to confirm that the recipient will be present. I hope to see you in the event and we will sure have fun with many other best friends invited there. Who else other than you and your husband are the best people to help us in getting us through our daughter's marriage successfully.
Do arrive for the grand celebration of love and togetherness of the cute couple. Dear Friends, I shall be privileged to have you in one of the most auspicious moments of my life. I know that you will be as excited by this news as I am. Mia has finally found the man of her dreams, so she says, but we have to agree with her this time. .
Clearly write it to avoid confusion. It is a small and private ceremony to be attended only by very intimate friends and relatives. I really seek your presence on this momentous event of my life. And secondly, this particular honor is generally only used for the living since these people are, ostensibly, inviting you to a party. Let it take it's own time.
You request you to remain present at least before 2 days of the wedding. Name , Request the honour of your presence. Marriage is a very special occasion for the family of the bride as well as the groom and so both the families would want all their relatives and friends to join them to celebrate such an important day of their lives. You might also include a stamp and a self-addressed reply card which frequently accompany the invitation letter. Should I send him a wedding invitation letter? Yours cordially, Your Name Non-Acceptance of Wedding Invitation Informal Dear Mr. Sangareddy and the functions related to that.
That honor traditionally belongs to the bride, but what if there are two brides? Go straight to the point. I have sent this invitation so that you can have ample time to prepare for the occasion. Regards I hereby invite you and your family for my Brother wedding ,which is going to be held on 10th of September, 2009 at St. Formal non-acceptance of the invitation Mr. Yours sincerely, Your Name 15. Author: 07 Jul 2016 Member Level: : 4 While I do appreciate the author for taking pain in drafting sample letter required to invite for a marriage function, what I feel is that nothing can match the personal visit or phone call.


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Our host, Sian Richards, meets charismatic regional chefs, experts and artisans as a way of introducing viewers to the cuisine, culture and history of Asia. Sian will be travelling in India, from the Taj Mahal in Agra to the exotic southern beaches of Goa. She'll travel by train on India's Palace on Wheels, chat with royalty, tour ancient sites, hike, swim and get around Thailand, Indonesia, Hong Kong, Singapore and Malaysia by bike, car, elephant, boat, hydrafoil and on foot. She'll sample the simple flavours of Asia at roadside stands and dine in sumptuous elegance in Asia's five-star restaurants.


Two people were arrested on SF State campus yesterday afternoon after they stole a laptop from a mall shopper, then fled to campus, according to University authorities.
Three people stole the laptop from a shopper near the Apple Store in Stonestown Galleria, then fled the scene in a Honda. The trio drove to Holloway Avenue at about 2:15 p.m. where an officer from the San Francisco Police Department attempted to pull them over, according to Nan Broadbent, assistant director of SF State media relations.
The University Police Department joined in the chase after the suspects fled on foot, catching two of them and recovering the stolen laptop. They were detained for questioning by SFPD concerning the alleged strong arm robbery.
The two have no connection to SF State.


The Normal Humor returns to the Normal Theater with all original sketches and digital shorts alongside musical guests. Come out for a fun night filled with laughter. Intended for ages 13+.
The Acafellaz return to the Normal Theater for an evening of incredible music. Don't miss your chance to see Illinois State University's premier male a cappella group in this historic venue.
When beautiful Kay Banks (Elizabeth Taylor) announces her engagement, her doting middle-class father, Stan (Spencer Tracy), must contend with a variety of problems ranging from money issues to wedding planning difficulties to the realization that his daughter has indeed grown up. NR / 92 min.