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Spotlight On...Steven Dykes
Name: Steven Dykes
Hometown: London, England
Education: Trained at Goldsmiths College, University of London
Select Credits (Show, Role, Theater): Playwright- Homestead (Courtyard Theatre), Kolonists (Bridge Lane, Pelican Studio), The Happiness Compartment (Soho Rep, Greenwich Playhouse), The Swing Left (Unlimited Theatre), English translations of Cold Come, Cranes Gone (Bridge Lane, Traverse Theatre) and La Boheme (ENO)
Why theater?: My father was in the Royal Navy so we moved around a lot when I was growing up. He instilled in me (and my brothers) a military sense of team spirit and self-discipline, so I've always enjoyed travelling, meeting new people and working in a tight unit to take on a challenge (though without the danger of being shot at, of course!). But I guess the main reason I ended up in theatre was that, although I was pretty ok at sports at school, I knew that even the best guys on our team would never make it professionally. Happily, I seemed to be able to read plays and understand how they worked on stage like athletes "read plays" and execute or intercept them on the field. I was never going to be a successful football (soccer) player, but I had a decent shot at making a competent actor ... And while the best moments of a playing career in sports are over in a few years, acting is something you can get better and better at as you age, so I guess things worked out.
Tell us about Territories? Two plays - written ten years apart, brought together very wittily by the director-producer, Cheryl Faraone. I wrote The Spoils with the terrific composer, Paul Englishby, and I would urge people to attend just to hear his wonderfully edgy score. Your interview with Cori Hundt contains quite a detailed analysis of the play's themes (just don't expect a drama set in Iraq!). I would just add that the music is absolutely integral to the plot and that the male character's struggle to 'explain' the composer's intentions is as doomed as his attempts to effectively interrogate and 'save' his female prisoners.
A light gathering of dust is another short one act, this one a 'memory play' about a love triangle revisited. Again it has an implicit political setting, but the main attraction, I think, is the very human interplay between the flawed characters.
I'm told the TERRORITIES double bill is quite a challenging evening, but I'm always amused that audiences will sit in the cinema and comfortably watch something as structurally demanding as INCEPTION or MOMENTO and yet be apparently flummoxed by relatively simple non-chronological story-telling in the theatre. What I admire about PTP/NYC is their determination not to give their audiences an easy ride. Isn't that much more fun for all concerned?
What is it like to be pulling double duty as playwright and actor in Victory?: Great, because I have something else to do rather than drive everyone crazy by hanging around rehearsals of my own plays. They should really speak for themselves, so I don't need to be there and it's wonderful to be able to engage with the genius of Howard Barker, knowing that across the hall my work is being treated with equal respect. That's incredibly humbling. I still think of myself as an actor first (although nowadays I spend more time writing), so I'm a kid in a candy store right now, indulging myself rotten! And VICTORY is a masterpiece, with rewarding roles for all twelve members of the company. Audiences have a treat in store.
Which do you prefer doing more, acting or writing?: Acting is a social activity. You can not do it alone. To be in rehearsal with the impressive cast Richard Romagnoli has assembled for VICTORY is stimulating, exhausting and never dull. What better way to spend the summer? But there's another side of me that loves to be alone. Hours fly by like seconds when writing alone and it would appear I (selfishly) need that level of intense self-absorption at regular intervals. I enjoy directing my own work too. The only thing I don't really relish is "being the playwright", because once the play is written you are simply not essential to the fun, collaborative process in which the director, cast and design team are engaged.
What kind of theater speaks to you?: Anything that is not televisual. I have little interest in realism, introspection or domestic drama that can be better served on the small screen. I want to hear robust, lyrical, visceral language that unashamedly draws attention to the perverse ways in which we communicate (or fail to) with each other. And for me, nothing beats the simple but exquisite visual images that can be created by picking out the the human form in light on a dark stage. I have never lost the thrill of sitting in a hushed theatre as the lights go down and giving myself over to a few hours of collective concentration and suspension of disbelief with my fellow theatre-goers.
What or who inspires you as an artist?: Inspiration for most playwrights (whether we know it or not) begins with Ibsen. To anyone who wants to write a play, my advice would be: start with him. It's ALL in there in his work. Others who have inspired me would be: Mamet and Pinter for their sheer craft; Martin Crimp for taking on and innovating their legacy in the last decade or so; and Debbie Tucker Green, whose 'Stoning Mary' is for my money the best play of the last ten years (though I haven't seen JERUSALEM yet). Towering over all these are, of course, Caryl Churchill and Howard Barker. Both combine a prolific output with an awesome refusal to compromise. As actor or director, they won't let you cheat. They keep us theatre practitioners honest, don't you think?
What show have you recommended to your friends?: Anyone in New York should try and get along to punchdrunk's Sleep No More. I have seen most of this extraordinary company's work in London and I promise you that nothing can prepare you for the experience. And to prove that I am not limited to an appreciation of all things British, my favourite recent production was ONE FLEA SPARE by the superb Kentucky-born playwright NOAMI WALLACE. I'd have given anything to have written her wonderful play, SLAUGHTER CITY.
What's up next?: After a marvellous time with PTP, back to London. I have a curious little piece, BLUE ON BLUE, which had a beautiful first production by the director, Nesta Jones, a few years ago - but a very short run, sadly. I'm hoping to revive it with a group of amazing actor-musicians I had the pleasure to work with recently. As someone of no musical talent myself (certainly not when it comes to an instrument), I find working with musicians and composers genuinely thrilling.
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The Jayhawks (7-13, 0-2) return to the field Tuesday, March 29, as they host Missouri State in midweek action before heading down to Waco, Texas to continue Big 12 play at Baylor (April 1-3). First pitch Tuesday is slated for 6 p.m. at Hoglund Ballpark.
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Autonomous cryptocurrency prediction market platforms on the Blockchain bring liquidity to crypto trading.
Which Blockchain trading platform model is best?
What all Blockchain trading platforms have in common is the elimination of the broker. Traditionally, trading has been a zero sum game. When brokers match orders, they take the other side of the trade. If the trader wins, the broker loses, and vice versa. This model gives brokers an incentive to manipulate fees and trading outcomes, and delay payments. In the foreign exchange markets, 60–70 percent of retail traders lose money, and up to 80 percent abandon FX trading within a year.
SPECTRE.ai has launched an alternative to the P2P prediction market model—an autonomous prediction market platform with a 24-hour liquidity pool, providing instant trade execution at the click of a mouse, similar to the $80 trillion foreign exchange market.
The Blockchain fully enables this permissionless market, producing a provably fair market on which to make trading predictions and settle outcomes. The use of smart contracts on the decentralized Blockchain means information cannot be manipulated or withheld by a central authority since those authorities no longer control the outcome. Immutable smart contacts make revisions, deletions and other forms of tampering impossible without the consent of all market participants.
Many different Blockchain trading models are being introduced, offering opportunities to trade in real-time across crypto-fiat currencies or on what date central banks will lift interest rates. Which Blockchain financial trading model is best? All three Blockchain models discussed below provide a useful but different service to traders.
In a prediction market, the investor bets on a future outcome but does not own the underlying assets. These bets are based on binary "all-or-nothing" outcomes, providing the broker with more incentive to ensure he does not lose all his money. Digital binary options have quickly grown into a $200–500 million market.
They allow investors to forecast future price direction on fiat and, more recently, cryptocurrencies. With fees, you will need to win 55 percent or more of the time to make money. Also, remember the laws of statistical variance. Markets revert to the mean. The more times you bet, the more likely you will come out even, before fees.
The migration of prediction markets to decentralized Blockchain platforms is offering traders much more than liberation from high fees. Some binary trading platforms are allowing traders to choose what to bet on, while others are making traders part owners and paying them dividends.
The first models introduced by Auger and Gnosis operate similar to the sports betting markets but are not limited to any one market, taking bets on binary outcomes in sports, politics, financial markets, and many other areas. Both these prediction market platforms use the wisdom of crowds to decide on outcomes. They contend that individual investors are smarter than the billions of dollars in investment research produced each year, of which 90 percent is never read.
Liquidity and time value are currently very low, although even long range forecasts can be useful to currency traders. On the Auger beta market, 50 percent of traders expect Bitcoin to reach 5,000 by January, while 70 percent expect the pound to fall to parity with the Euro by the New Year. Meanwhile, Gnosis and Wedbush Securities are developing a market on which crowds forecast stock fundamentals. These crowd forecasting tools could eventually be integrated with the more traditional crypto-fiat exchange.
SPECTRE.ai is competing more directly with crypto exchanges with a prediction market providing the speed and liquidity of the FX markets. This prediction market platform allows traders to bet on price moves on a range of underlying financial assets, including cryptos, FX, equities, bonds, ETFs and commodities. The DApp store will allow other companies to create sports betting, working capital financing, ecommerce and other apps that interface with the SPECTRE.ai liquidity pool.
The prediction market platform has its own embedded, decentralised, autonomous liquidity pool (DALP). SPECTRE.ai provides 24-hour liquidity whereas Augur and other Blockchain prediction markets in beta are currently settling peer-2-peer bets on the order of days and even months. The liquidity pool allows SPECTRE.ai to offer Smart Option and Smart CFD contracts on not only FX but any asset, including many cryptos.
Currently, owing to low liquidity, crypto exchanges are primarily used for transactional purposes. If you own cryptocurrencies, you have likely visited one of the one hundred or so decentralized crypto exchanges directly matching buyers and sellers. Most trade the majors, Bitcoin, Ethereum, or both, and a handful of other cryptocurrencies. Traders take ownership of the underlying assets, although more exchanges are offering derivatives such as forwards, futures, options and swaps. These risk management instruments, which allow traders to hedge risk and significantly lower the cost of speculative trading, are fundamental to a more liquid market developing.
Models are developing to allow traders to improve liquidity and trade in and out of currencies in milliseconds rather than minutes, in the same way they trade currencies on a fiat exchange. The market with the largest trading volume LocalBitcoins has a 5-minute average release time—not bad considering the trades are arranged over an onsite messaging system, but far from simulating an FX trading experience. The battle between P2P and decentralized exchanges is still being played out.
Blockchain cryptocurrency trading platforms are developing unique models to build liquidity. One emerging solution is to develop hybrid exchanges with liquidity pools backed by fiat money to support liquidity. SPECTRE.ai has developed a tokenized exchange with perpetual liquidity.
As in other prediction markets, traders do not take ownership of the underlying assets and no brokers are used to facilitate or settle trades. Instead oracilized smart options produce fair outcomes across peer-to-peer trades, which are settled via smart contracts. Oracles are small bots that exchange information between the real world and the Blockchain. SPECTRE.ai's alpha version is live.
Where does the liquidity come from?
On the SPECTRE.ai crypto currency market, traders trade against a liquidity pool funded by the proceeds of its initial coin offering (ICO). The DALP pool is owned by the masses, either via dividend tokens or utility tokens. The dual token structure is an industry first. DALP can be connected to a range of fintech apps, disrupting 'adjacent' industries which have middlemen and moral hazard issues.
These include, but are not limited to, betting, working capital finance, e-commerce applications, and micro-lending apps. SPECTRE.ai has signed an MOU with a major U.S e-commerce group building a decentralised application on the SPECTRE.ai D-App store to connect to the DALP pool.
The apps will be another source of liquidity, while the main liquidity stream will come from trading. When a trade is settled, irrespective of the trading outcome, two percent of the funds is divided between token holders, in the form of a monthly dividend, and the exchange platform, as a technology fee.
If the trader loses, the remaining 96 percent goes toward expanding the liquidity pool. The winner receives a return on investment of 75–93 percent (net the four percent fee), linked to volumes in the liquidity pool. When the outcome is decided, the contract automatically releases funds to the winners' crypto wallets. Direct deposits to the exchange are not required.
As mentioned, SPECTRE.ai provides two tokens. The dividend token pays two percent of all trades on SPECTRE.ai and apps connected to its liquidity pool to investors. The dividend token pays out 2% on Smart Option contracts and a 2-20% spread on Smart CFDs. A special dividend will be paid out if the liquidity pool meets a predetermined threshold. The dividend token supply is fixed.
The utility token provides trader privileges. Token users can trade across all smart options and assets, including exotic contracts, receive payouts of 1–5 percent higher, and gain access to a special education platform. SPECTRE.ai, which states traders can improve their win rate from 35–50 percent to 60–70 percent through fundamental and technical education, uses education as another way of improving trading outcomes and volume, and thus liquidity. Like a central bank, SPECTRE.ai is authorized to buy back up to 15 percent of its token supply to increase token value. Three percent of platform fees are allocated to utility token repurchases.
SPECTRE.ai's goal is to establish a liquidity pool of $5 million or more from the proceeds of its initial coin offering (ICO). This liquidity pool could support 1,000 traders a day with $300 in trades for close to a year, based on average win rates of 59 percent, as estimated by SPECTRE.ai's risk management team. Win rates in the FX market are closer to 50 percent. When the market reaches $30–50 million in size, the average trade size will increase from $50 to $5,000–$50,000.
Investors participating in the SPECTRE.ai token sale will receive a fungible token that can be exchanged for the dividend or utility token.
The pre-sale, which starts October 27th , provides a 33 percent discount to early birds. The ICO hard cap is $30 million. Twenty percent of the proceeds of the token sale will go towards capitalizing the liquidity pool.
No market is a win-win but decentralized Blockchain markets can increase trader odds of winning and significantly cut their fees and losses.


We have had several requests for an Islamic Will.
Iqbal Lambat has been instrumental in developing an Islamic Will Kit compatible with Australian Law.
MFS has included details of the Will Kit with permission.
Both MFS and Mr Lambat recommend that you should always seek legal advice regarding your individual circumstances.


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Advanced Fellows at Universität Hamburg"The goal is to enrich intellectual life in Hamburg."
6 January 2022, by Christina Krätzig
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Political scientist Prof. Dr. Oliver Schmidtke teaches at the University of Victoria in Canada, where he heads the Centre for Global Studies. Conductor Lutz Rademacher was the head music director of the Detmold state theater until 2020 and he now lives as a freelance conductor in Berlin.
Time in Hamburg to dedicate yourself fully to a project of your own choosing: a funding program is making this possible for researchers and artists from all over the world. Conductor Lutz Rademacher and the political scientist Oliver Schmidtke talk about their experiences.
Mr. Rademacher, this year you are the only advanced fellow who is an artist. What is it like surrounded by academics?
Rademacher: I find the exchange within the group—with fellows who specialize in very different topics and are at very different stages of their own careers—extremely enriching. I want to use my time in Hamburg to find out why it is so hard for the public to warm to the so-called "new music" of the twenty-first century—unlike contemporary painting, for example. I offer the 16 other fellows a chance to listen to a piece of music together once a week. The ensuing discussion opens up other perspectives, as do the talks that other fellows give on their fields.
Mr. Schmidtke, as a political scientist, you are researching the emergence of right-wing extremism in different European countries. How do you benefit from your fellowship?
Schmidtke: I have lived in Canada for many years and head the Centre for Global Studies at the University of Victoria. In Hamburg, I am a bit less burdened with daily administrative duties. My time here facilitates more intensive engagement with my research topics and contact to my colleagues throughout Europe, and of course, especially here in Hamburg. All of the fellows receive support from so-called "tandem partners" so that they can gain a foothold in the academic community. My tandem partners are the political scientist Antje Wiener at Universität Hamburg and an educational scientist from the Helmut Schmidt University. We have already cooperated several times and now we are moving forward with a joint publication project. Consulting on things is much easier when you're all in the same place.
Do you intend to write a book, Mr. Rademacher?
Rademacher: No, I want to work on a piece of contemporary music theater and to premiere it on 24 June 2022. The tight time-frame and the small, as-yet unfixed budget are quite ambitious but as someone who has spent the majority of his life as a freelance artist, I am used to that.
What is the work about?
Rademacher: It should be theater-within-the theater. The involved disciplines such as composition, singing, or dramaturgy have a say and make the creative process, against the backdrop of public taste, tangible.
Does public discourse also play a role in your work, Mr. Schmidtke?
Schmidtke: I think that today it's important for almost all researchers. I also try to share my research findings with the public and to make them transparent. For example, in a 2-day workshop on the topic of remembrance policies in Europe and Canada, which I offered in 2021 and was open to the lay public. Communication with the public is, of course, one of the fundamental principles of the Hamburg Institute for Advanced Study, or HIAS, which supervises the fellows. So the goal is to enrich intellectual life in Hamburg.
What do your days look like? What is like to be a fellow?
Schmidtke: Some, but not all fellows live at the University's International Lodge. What we all have in common is is that we meet at HIAS at Rothenbaumchaussee 45 to work. That's where the fringe program takes place. On Tuesdays, for example, we all eat together at noon and Mr. Rademacher offers his music. On Wednesdays, we often explore the city's cultural life together. And every Thursday, one of the fellows presents his or her work. Fortunately, thanks to vaccinations and tests, this is now possible.
Rademacher: But it's not like we all hang around Rothenbaum the entire time. Thanks to HIAS' central location, I can hop onto my bike, for example, and in just a few minutes I can ride over to the Hamburg University of Music and Drama, which has turned out to be an important point of contact for me. It is wonderful to work for half a year in a stable, interdisciplinary group and it is just as important to exchange ideas with experts in your own field.
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Every year, up to 20 fellows live and work in Hamburg for 3 to 10 months. Researchers and artists from all over the world (with the exception of residents of Hamburg) are welcome. Fellows are taken care of by the Hamburg Institute for Advanced Study, which is funded by 9 Hamburg academic institutions. A share of the funding comes from the Excellence Strategy of the Federal and State Governments. The Advanced Fellowships were offered in 2021 for the second time.
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Purpose Statement:
Simply Put: Love God. Love Others.
Restoring wholeness to broken people through healthy, God-centered relationships.
Worship Our focal point is Jesus, celebrating who He is and what He has done for us. Our goal is to worship Him through lives that are modeled after His.
Mission In living our lives like Jesus, we share His message in relevant ways to others around us.
Community God never intended for us to be alone and live solitary lives. We desire to connect with others in personal ways and share life together.
Family We believe that parents are the primary spiritual influencers in a child's life. It is the church's job to come alongside parents and help them lead their families into all that God would want them to be.
Wesleyan Church History
by Edward Coleson
When John Wesley began his ministry in 1738, morality and religion had collapsed in England. In May of that year, Wesley had his Aldersgate experience and went out to minister to the multitudes in the open fields. A century later, the social and moral climate of England had changed dramatically. Queen Victoria was on the throne and "Victorian" became a synonym for piety and morality. Conditions can change for the better. It has happened.
The Fight Begins
Of the many moral and social reforms resulting from the spiritual awakening of the eighteenth century, perhaps the abolition of slavery was the most conspicuous. In 1772 England freed her slaves. This was partly the work of Granville Sharp, who pressed the "King's Bench" (England's Supreme Court) to make the decision that liberated slaves in England–but not in British colonies. His Lordship Judge Mansfield noted that the court did so because slavery is contrary to God's law.
Great Strides in England
A couple of years later, Wesley wrote his famous essay on slavery, in which he said: "Notwithstanding ten thousand laws, right is right and wrong is wrong still." Soon thereafter, a gifted young Member of Parliament, William Wilberforce, took up the abolitionist cause. Just a few days before he died in 1791, Wesley wrote his last letter to this Christian statesman, urging him to continue the fight. It was an almost impossible assignment, but in 1807, Wilberforce did get the government to forbid British ships to engage in the lucrative slave trade. Wilberforce died in 1833, one month before Parliament passed the law liberating all slaves in the British Empire.
In his book Saints and Society, Dr. Earle E. Cairns wrote that English evangelicals accomplished more for good than any reform movement in history. That is a precious part of our heritage. Why do so few Christians today know about these great achievements?
The Cause in America
The American Wesleyan Church came into being in 1843 because the mainline denominations refused to take a stand on the issue of slavery. Presidents Washington and Jefferson had been apologetic for the ancient evil and wished it to go away. Indeed, another Virginia slave holder, Colonel George Mason, urged the Founding Fathers to abolish slavery when they were drafting the U.S. Constitution in 1787, and he warned them that God would judge the nation if they failed to do so.
By the 1830s, the South had begun to justify its "peculiar institution." Defenders of slavery claimed that the Bible actually approved of that practice, and it was not expedient to disagree with them. The situation was not much better in the North. In 1837, Elijah P. Lovejoy, who published an antislavery newspaper, was killed in Illinois. William Lloyd Garrison, the publisher of The Liberator, was dragged down the street in Boston with a rope around his body and would probably have been hanged if he had not been rescued and lodged in jail for his own safety.
Our Great Heritage
This was the atmosphere in which a few courageous Christians, including Orange Scott and Luther Lee, founded our church. Their purpose was both to spread "scriptural holiness over these lands" and to secure justice for their fellow human beings. "I am not ashamed of the gospel of Jesus Christ," Paul wrote (Romans 1:16). In the same way, let us be thankful for our Wesleyan heritage.
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Wilhelm Aloys Bos (Recklinghausen, 1904 - na januari 1981) was een nationaal-socialistisch oorlogsmisdadiger. Hij werd geboren uit Nederlandse ouders in de Duitse stad Recklinghausen.

In 1932 vestigde Bos zich als politiek vluchteling in Nederland omdat hij een Duitse communist zou zijn. Tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog was hij werkzaam als wachtmeester van de Arbeits Kontrole Dienst (AKD) in Emmen en belast met de opsporing van mannen die zich onttrokken hadden aan de Arbeitseinsatz. Hij had de Drentse bijnaam "Duutse Bos". Door zijn toedoen werden honderden mannen gearresteerd van wie velen in Duitse concentratiekampen terecht kwamen, waaruit zij nooit terugkeerden. Ook was Bos bewaker van het Kamp Erica bij Ommen.  Na de bevrijding werd Bos medio mei 1945 gearresteerd en opgesloten in een NSB-kamp in Bourtange, maar wist kort daarna te ontsnappen naar Duitsland.

Voor zijn misdaden tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog werd hij op 8 maart 1949 bij verstek tot de doodstraf veroordeeld. In juli 1978 werd hij door de journalist Tjalling Erkelens van de Winschoter Courant ontdekt in het Duitse stadje Hattingen.. Dit leidde ertoe dat de journalist en een gezin dat hem getipt zou hebben over de verblijfplaats van Bos werden bedreigd door Duitse nazi-sympathisanten. Ook bleek in 1978 dat Bos al negen jaar een AOW-uitkering uit Nederland had ontvangen.  Ook bleek uit het antwoord van minister van Justitie Job de Ruiter op Kamervragen van Ineke Haas-Berger dat toenmalig minister van Justitie Dries van Agt al sinds 1976 op de hoogte was van de lopende AOW-uitkering van Bos.

Toen uitlevering naar Nederland niet mogelijk bleek, besloot de Duitse justitie in december 1980 om Bos te vervolgen wegens betrokkenheid bij de moord op de in Drenthe tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog ondergedoken Rotterdamse politieagent A. Beens.. Echter in januari 1981 bleek al dat hij niet vervolgd zou worden omdat hij zou hebben aangetoond dat hij ernstig ziek was.

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Crossing the Rubicon: Obama's Endless Global Warfare
By Mahboob A. Khawaja
Global Research, January 30, 2012
Theme: US NATO War Agenda
"Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm" exposes the key authors … America's sadistic neo-cons Richard Perle, David Wurmser and Douglas Feith …A decade later, the authors of that study are gone in name but their spirit of unending wars is alive and well within the Obama Administration's recently announced "Defense Strategic Guidance" as part of "Sustaining US Global Leadership: Priorities for 21st Century Defense," Where Clean Break offered what was then a radical Middle East military strategy, Obama's DSG identifies US military priorities for the 21st century to "confront and defeat aggression anywhere in the world" with an emphasis on the Middle East and Asia-Pacific region as the "greatest challenges for the future. (Panetta, 1-5-2012). … .Neither the president nor Panetta felt any need to articulate a credible global threat that requires eternal armed vigilance as the country continues to dismantle its People Programs and as its infrastructure continues to crumble — nor did either provide the American people with a thoughtful rationale for who, why, when, where and how… After the president's departure, Panetta, once known as a liberal House Democrat from California, began to morph into a gnarl-faced Dr. Strangelove with every utterance of war, enemies, threats, death and destruction as he touted U.S. military dominance and its ability to "decisively prevail in any conflict." (Renee Parson "US Plans for Perpetual War" ICH: 01/27/2012)
"The US government is so full of self-righteousness that it has become a caricature of hypocrisy. Leon Panetta, a former congressman who Obama appointed CIA director and now head of the Pentagon, just told the sailors on the USS Enterprise, an aircraft carrier, that the US is maintaining a fleet of 11 aircraft carriers in order to project sea power against Iran and to convince Iran that "it's better for them to try to deal with us through diplomacy … Washington has kept America at war for ten years while millions of Americans lost their jobs and their homes. War and a faltering economy have exploded the national debt, and a looming bankruptcy is being blamed on Social Security and Medicare. The pursuit of war continues. On January 23 Washington's servile puppets–the EU member states–did Washington's bidding and imposed an oil embargo on Iran, despite the pleas of Greece, a member of the EU. Greece's final ruin will come from the higher oil prices from the embargo." (Paul Craig Roberts, "Drowning in Hypocrisy", Paulcraigroberts.org: 01/24/2012)
Politics is a fantasy – more so in the United States mass media dominated culture, a combination of pretension, willful deception, institutionalized manufactured lies and individualistic propaganda and fear mongering suspicion of the disbelief to manipulate the common folks to manage the informed herd and exploit their patriotism to serve the multiple interests of the 1% ruling few elite. Despite its ambiguous claims the liberal democracy seemed at loss to provide any sense of moral or intellectual security to the 99% masses – the political engine of the democratic legitimacy. The well paid corporate news media networks boost the self-crafted fear of wars – the agenda for continuous struggle as if peace is endangered specie even in utopian configuration.
The mankind lives in One World on One Planet. War waged by aggressors in one part of the planet, is a war against the whole of the mankind. Since the elected leaders faltered to deliver peace, they must be questioned for their treacherous role-play. There is no shortage of visionary, competent and intelligent people in the Western societies. Why not nominate intelligent, honest, proactive and responsible Americans rather than wasting time and opportunities on Obama, Romney and Gingrich. Perhaps, the 99% forceful voices of the people and changing fortunes of time signaling tangible shifts in thinking and political perceptions of the Western liberal democratic functionaries fearful of the unknown forces of change, time and history will reinforce the demand to hire competent political leaders rather wasting money and efforts in electing sadistic egomaniacs persons pretending to be leaders. Those with credibility and chosen by the 99% masses could serve the interest of the people for peace, security and economic well being rather than waste money and hopes and disregard institutionalized political cynicism and bigotry – not Obama, not Mitt Romney, not Gingrich or Bush, not Cheney, not Blair – some have been fund guilty of "crimes against humanity" others are candidates in public perceptions for war crimes against humanity.
At the State of Union address this week to both the Houses, President Obama sounded abstract economic remedies to the official ills and mismanagement and politically disconnect rhetoric except to enhance his self-image for re-election in 2012. He failed to explain the rationale of his current warmongering against Iran and made no mention to resolve the unilateral conflicts through negotiation and dialogue as he had originally claimed. The political and intellectual dishonesty was self explanatory as his thoughts barricaded in words and hollow rhetoric devoid of any appeal to human conscience and REASON in dealing with issues of grave importance to the US strategic interests. He seemed hasty, from one point to another – in between waiting for clapping sounds but embracing self-serving fantasy of oratory and power. He claimed major accomplishments killing of Osama bin Laden and continued war against long dead Al-Qaida and other unknown terrorist figures. While the ordinary American folks feel pain and anguish for their human losses for the unworthy and bogus wars on terrorism and continued financial mismanagement, Obama's trouble is that he has gone to the dark forces of the military-industrial complex and Washington based lobbyists and worships the form of self-serving agenda and denies facilitation to the political essence of responsibility of being a people serving leader. Re-election was the motivational punch line for the State of the Union address.
Robert Kagan ("Grading of Obama's Foreign Policy", Foreign Policy, January 30, 2012) paints a rosy picture of his win-win stories but sees the total US troop exit from Iraq as "unnecessary and unwise" and "the deep cuts looming in defense will go a long way to undermining the U.S. position in the world." None of the current analytical trends indicate complete collapse of the working of the US financial institutions and 15 trillion official budgetary deficit and American political governance as the Republican presidential candidates would allege – moral and political decline in public perceptions that according to the CNN polls 83% American people disapprove the role and working of the Congress and Obama's standing maintains a marginal static image.
Almost four years have passed since the exciting presidential election night, President Obama signaled a major shift in American policy to "rebuild America" – a visionary outlook- a picture of tomorrow's New America, from the Audacity of Hope to the first elected colored and intellectually viable President of a collapsed superpower effectively besieged and run down by the handful of Mujahideen challenging the US war plans in Iraq and Afghanistan. Reconstruction of a nation involves rethinking from bottom–up and change of strategic direction to make it happen. After tough lifelong struggle to acquire the White House occupancy as a popularly elected President, Mr. Obama was an actor in a soap opera stage show but consciously speaking to the well informed global audience across many continents and defying physical distances and conflicting time zones to transmit refurbished optimism out of prevalent darkness of lost America that a New America will come into being with a new zeal and best opportunities for peace, liberty and freedom away from the continued wars of greed and institutionalized corruption.
Global humanity is intelligent, informed and mature enough not to long for political cynicism and dubious characterization of aims, interpretations and technical explanations. Someone as intelligent as Mr. Obama appears to be, should have known clearly what his strengths and weaknesses are, and absurdities of the people around him and how best he could have performed effectively as a new visionary President with a new colored image of considerable historic proportion at a time of a war-torn and financially bankrupt and morally exhausted American nation. After almost four years, President Obama appears to be taking the in-between seat on a rollercoaster- a new game of missing moral and intellectual credibility and engaging in a bluffing game of absurdity. As a first legal act of promised closing down the infamous Guantonmo Bay Terror prison, he failed miserably exposing a morally and intellectually weak characteristic. Obama accelerated the war activities in Iraq and Afghanistan onward to Pakistan. Bob Woodward calls it "Obama's War." Paul Craig Roberts ("The World's Least Powerful Man – the Obama Puppet": 01/2010), points out the Obama's tragedy in progress:
"Obama also found out that he cannot change anything else either, if he ever intended to do so. The military/security lobby has war and a domestic police state on its agenda, and a mere American president can't do anything about it. President Obama can order the Guantanamo torture chamber closed and kidnapping and rendition and torture to be halted, but no one carries out the order. Essentially, Obama is irrelevant. President Obama can promise that he is going to bring the troops home, and the military lobby says, "No, you are going to send them to Afghanistan, and in the meantime start a war in Pakistan and maneuver Iran into a position that will provide an excuse for a war there, too. Wars are too profitable for us to let you stop them." And the mere president has to say, "Yes, Sir!"
To blame Assange of Wikileaks for the disclosures of the US global atrocities is simply to transfer moral and political responsibility to the unknown. Wikileaks cannot destroy America but the two bogus wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have caused the US financial collapse, moral decline and political downfall. To the informed citizens of the global village, war is war and peace is peace. Wickedness and righteousness cannot be combined in one human character – one policy statement. It is unthinkable that both terms could be taken for the same meaning and purpose. War is not synonymous to peace. After one year in the office, President Obama attempted to underscore the informed intellect and optimism of the global well wishers while speaking at the Oslo Nobel Peace Prize ceremony: "to say that force is sometimes necessary is not a call to cynicism; it is recognition of history." History tells us that force has been used by various transgressors when they failed to envision their strategic aims come true through bigotry and wickedness. So President Obama needs to re-read the relevant chapters of the living history. Force is necessary when diplomacy and reason fail to produce results but none are applicable to the Obama's Presidency. Obama came into office with the declared aim to renounce war as a means for the growth of American capitalism and the future course of America foreign policy. Yet after a short span of time in the office, he wants to justify the use of naked force and bomb the graveyards of Afghanistan and continues to destroy the left-over human habitats in Pakistan. Seemingly, an entrenched President, Obama bluntly told the audience that "peace is desirable" but that is not enough whereas the cost of the war will be that "some will kill, some will be killed." With gruesome outlook, in moments and crossing over the unthinkable time hurdles, Obama assumed the role of a War President instead of being a Peace President. The souls of Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. must have been tortured and tarnished how a President of Hope is fast changing to be a President off the people and far the people.
In view of his intellectual foresights, it was improbable to imagine that a majority elected President Obama could renegade his own publicly pronounced commitment for change and ANEW America for a sustainable New World Order. To transform the pacifists into optimists, to energize the depressed with new hope and motivate the soft-hearted and peace loving masses of the US, you had enliven them with a new vision when you declared the intent for a new dialogue and friendship with the Muslim world at the day of your official inauguration. You had the courage and commitment to tell the Arabian audience at Cairo visit (2009) enthusiastically:
"I've come here to Cairo to seek a new beginning between the United States and Muslims around the world, one based on mutual interest and mutual respect, and one based upon the truth that America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition….As a student of history, I also know civilization's debt to Islam. It was Islam — at places like Al-Azhar — that carried the light of learning through so many centuries, paving the way for Europe's Renaissance and Enlightenment. It was innovation in Muslim communities – it was innovation in Muslim communities that developed the order of algebra; our magnetic compass and tools of navigation; our mastery of pens and printing; our understanding of how disease spreads and how it can be healed. Islamic culture has given us majestic arches and soaring spires; timeless poetry and cherished music; elegant calligraphy and places of peaceful contemplation. And throughout history, Islam has demonstrated through words and deeds the possibilities of religious tolerance and racial equality."
President Obama crafted the illusion of HOPE and willful bluffing strategy to talk of peace and harmony amongst varied nations and more so to your global well wishers for a New World of friendly relationship between the US and the Muslim world. It was all charged deceit and bluffing to kill the time and find new issues to reassert the American absolute authoritarianism in global affairs. Mr. President, you wanted to appear proactive and smart to talk about peace-building and bridging the generational gaps between the conflicting ethnic and religious fantasies and you did that enthusiastically in your performance at the Oslo Nobel Peace ceremony on December 10, 2009.
Mr. Obama ("Son of Africa" as Ghaddafi addressed you), you knew well that America is broke in moral and political standing and that the nations of the world even some of your closest European friends do not take the US on its own words. The crippling images are outcomes of the American failed warmongering in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan. During the election campaigns, you promised to reverse the Bush's era violations of human rights, torture and the savagery of killings across the globe but once you were in the White House, you preferred marriage of convenience to settle down in Bush's psychopathic behavior as business as usual. You know your talents, abilities and limitations, you have never been to any war fronts in your whole life – like George Bush, you are a drawing room decorated legal Commander-in. Chief, you have no capacity to win these wars nor a strategy to bring your troops home safely and alive. Time is ticking fast if and when you will sit face to face to your assumed enemies to workout safe exist for your fighting men.
Do you think that the global humanity is totally dumb or that ignorant to believe in you and the mockery of your contentious war policy aims? According to Michael Meacher, the British Minister of Environment in PM Tony Blair Cabinet ("This War on Terrorism is Bogus", The Guardian, Sept 6, 2003), explains that the overriding motivation for the war on terror has been the scarcity of hydrocarbon energy supplies and the US and UK will run out of sufficient supplies by 2010. Whereas, the Islamic world will control 60% of the global oil production and equally important, 95% of the remaining oil export capacity. Minister Meacher concludes that "the global war on terrorism has the hallmarks of a political myth propagated to pave the way for a wholly different agenda – The US goal of world hegemony built around securing by force command over the oil supplies required to drive the whole project."
Had the President stayed on the right course for change "Yes We Can", he would have scored high popularity standing not just within America but in global perception as an optimistic President powerful enough to mould and shape the future of the world with America leading as a power of influence, intellect and morally strong political values as was its history. One fundamental factor is often ignored by most American scholars that none of these guys waging the wars from their drawing rooms ever fought on a real war front, their advisors (including the former speech writer David Frum who indoctrinated George Bush to assert the notion of "axis of evil") brief them to talk, but war is not about talking, it is madness of killing fellow human beings under the glued labels of hatred and animosity and nothing else.
Why the intents and real purposes of the War on Terrorism are politically so secretive that none of the US policy makers would dare to talk in public – the wars and the 9/11? Imagine, if the actions of President Bush were legally and politically justifiable, was India not justifiable by the same legal precedent to invade the US after the Union Carbide's plant gas leak had killed approximately 8,000 to 12,000 civilians in Bhopal in few minutes in1984. Aftermath of the gas leaks affected millions of others in that state. But India did not threaten the US with force and opted for reason to prevail over the perpetuated tragedy. Could it be that human victims of the Indian tragedy were not viewed as important and valuable as were the casualties of the 9/11 in American crafted media images? What makes terrorism of the few so intimately aligned to the US politics and friends of the Bush family elite as suddenly undesirable and marked to be killed along with millions of other innocent people throughout the world? Is there a secretive puzzle and political dimension untold and unknown to the genius of the global community?
"It was curious," wrote Orwell in Nineteen Eighty-Four, "to think that the sky was the same for everybody, in Eurasia or Eastasia as well as here. And the people under the sky were also very much the same, everywhere, all over the world … people ignorant of one another's existence, held apart by walls of hatred and lies, and yet almost exactly the same people who … were storing up in their hearts and bellies and muscles the power that would one day overturn the world." (John Pilger, "Welcome to Orwell's World 2010"). Obviously, in a short span of time, according to Paul Craig Roberts, President Obama has reverted to become "the World's Least Powerful Man – the Obama Puppet" (ICH: 01/2010). Roberts explains that:
"No American national interest is served by the war in Afghanistan. As the former UK Ambassador Craig Murray disclosed, the purpose of the war is to protect Unocal's interest in the Trans-Afghanistan pipeline. The cost of the war is many times greater than Unocal's investment in the pipeline. The obvious solution is to buy out Unocal and give the pipeline to the Afghans as partial compensation for the destruction we have inflicted on that country and its population, and bring the troops home."
At the 2009 Cairo gathering, President Obama reiterated the proactive policy aim in "change" by using diplomacy, not force to resolve the conflicts: "Let me also address the issue of Iraq. Unlike Afghanistan, Iraq was a war of choice that provoked strong differences in my country and around the world. Although I believe that the Iraqi people are ultimately better off without the tyranny of Saddam Hussein, I also believe that events in Iraq have reminded America of the need to use diplomacy and build international consensus to resolve our problems whenever possible. Indeed, we can recall the words of Thomas Jefferson, who said: "I hope that our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us that the less we use our power the greater it will be." You were right on Mr. President, somehow the imbalanced scale of power vs. wisdom failed to materialize. The soft hearted US masses are caught in the middle. America is fighting with itself, with its own ideals to defy the aims and spirit of its own Thomas Jefferson's Declaration of Independence:
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments arc instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, that whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government. (American Declaration of Independence: 07/04/1776)
The US news media reported that for days President Obama worked on his own on the Oslo Nobel Peace speech composition. Obama must have felt lonely as the American publics do not seem to share his conviction and outlook on the continued bogus wars on terrorism. How strange that Mr. Obama was elected enthusiastically by the will and passion of the American electorates, yet, he is overriding the primary interest of his own people in prolonging the wars of aggressions across the globe. It is estimated that the US and Britain forces alone have killed three million civilians in Iraq and devastated large parts of the human habitats in Iraq and Afghanistan. Is this the on-going bloodbath of the innocent humanity not the premeditated genocide? Would President Obama assume the responsibility for the wars including the possibility of crimes committed against the humanity? One of the important features of the 21st century effective leadership is to be listening and learning enabling the leaders to be responsible to those who have expressed faith and trust in them. Would President Obama analyze his role and the policy outcomes for a navigational change?
What needs to be changed by President Obama is to live upto the proclaimed hopes and commitments made to the American masses during the elections? Adam Curtis, the author and producer of the Nightmares, BBC world famous documentary on the false pretext of the War on Terrorism streamlines the facts of human affairs and political falsification: "In the past, politicians promised to create a better world. They had different ways of achieving this. But their power and authority came from the optimistic visions they offered to their people. Those dreams failed. And today, people have lost faith in ideologies. Increasingly, politicians are seen simply as managers of public life. But now, they have discovered a new role that restores their power and authority. Instead of delivering dreams, politicians now promise to protect us from nightmares. They say that they will rescue us from dreadful dangers that we cannot see and do not understand. And the greatest danger of all is international terrorism. A powerful and sinister network, with sleeper cells in countries across the world. A threat that needs to be fought by a war on terror. But much of this threat is a fantasy, which has been exaggerated and distorted by politicians. It is a dark illusion that has spread unquestioned through governments around the world, the security services, and the international media."
To replace peacemaking with the nightmare of the war, President Obama offered no different discourse at the Oslo Nobel Peace Prize gathering than what Adam Curtis is reiterating to the whole world. Reconstruction of America would have involved the visionary leadership, a new THINKING to change the course and direction of the US foreign policy and warmongering and a new beginning to stop the wars of aggression in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan, but these hopes were mere words, not part of the current US policy or rational thinking.
If President Obama was serious enough to rebuild America, he would need a navigational change and start THINKING anew, a different perspective to understand the prevalent realities of the world and put an end to the bloodshed carried on with active US forces and support to many self-styled illegitimate dictators and politicians in those countries implementing the American war agenda. Renee Parsons – former lobbyist for Friends of the Earth in Washington ("US Plans for Perpetual War" ICH, 01/27/2012) captioned the prevalent Obama's naïve momentum: "With the world's largest military force including an incomparable nuclear arsenal and a budget to match, exactly who are we protecting the Homeland from — and what condition will it be in when they arrive? If al Qaeda's goal was to destroy the country's quality of life, its economic prosperity or its high regard for the First Amendment and civil liberties while creating a second-rate banana republic, they have done a terrific job."
Historically, all those leaders and powers challenging the Laws of God ended up in self-defeats and got destroyed by natural causes of earthquakes, flooding and sound blasts. The US cannot fight against God and Islam – it does not have the weapons or the capacity to achieve that goal.
Paul Craig Roberts ("Drowning in Hypocrisy" paulcraigroberts.org: 01/24/2012), shares crucial knowledge-based observations and a rational context to President Obama's excelsior across the Rubicons:
"But it is in the War Crimes Arena where Washington shows the greatest hypocrisy. The self-righteous bigots in Washington are forever rounding up heads of weak states whose countries were afflicted by civil wars and sending them off to be tried as war criminals. All the while Washington indiscriminately kills large numbers of civilians in six or more countries, dismissing its own war crimes as "collateral damage." Washington violates its own law and international law by torturing people…… There is no question that Bush/Cheney/Obama have trashed the US Constitution, US statutory law, and international law. But Washington, having overthrown justice, has established that might is right. No foreign government is going to send its forces into the US to drag the war criminals out and place them on trial………War abroad and austerity at home is the policy that is being imposed on the western "democracies."
Dr. Mahboob A. Khawaja specializes in global affairs (global security, peace and conflict resolution) and comparative Western-Islamic cultures and civilizations, and author of several publications including the latest one: Arabia at Crossroads: Arab People Strive for Freedom, Peace and New Leadership. VDM Publishers, Germany, September 2011. Comments are welcome at: [email protected])
The original source of this article is Global Research
Copyright © Mahboob A. Khawaja, Global Research, 2012
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Q: Bad input argument to theano function I am new to theano. I am trying to implement simple linear regression but my program throws following error:

TypeError: ('Bad input argument to theano function with name "/home/akhan/Theano-Project/uog/theano_application/linear_regression.py:36"  at index 0(0-based)', 'Expected an array-like object, but found a Variable: maybe you are trying to call a function on a (possibly shared) variable instead of a numeric array?')

Here is my code:
import theano
from theano import tensor as T
import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

x_points=np.zeros((9,3),float)
x_points[:,0] = 1
x_points[:,1] = np.arange(1,10,1)
x_points[:,2] = np.arange(1,10,1)
y_points = np.arange(3,30,3) + 1

X = T.vector('X')
Y = T.scalar('Y')

W = theano.shared(
            value=np.zeros(
                (3,1),
                dtype=theano.config.floatX
            ),
            name='W',
            borrow=True
        )

out = T.dot(X, W)
predict = theano.function(inputs=[X], outputs=out)

y = predict(X)  # y = T.dot(X, W) work fine

cost = T.mean(T.sqr(y-Y))

gradient=T.grad(cost=cost,wrt=W)

updates = [[W,W-gradient*0.01]]

train = theano.function(inputs=[X,Y], outputs=cost, updates=updates, allow_input_downcast=True)

for i in np.arange(x_points.shape[0]):
    print "iteration" + str(i)
    train(x_points[i,:],y_points[i])

sample = np.arange(x_points.shape[0])+1
y_p = np.dot(x_points,W.get_value())
plt.plot(sample,y_p,'r-',sample,y_points,'ro')
plt.show()

What is the explanation behind this error? (didn't got from the error message). Thanks in Advance.

A: There's an important distinction in Theano between defining a computation graph and a function which uses such a graph to compute a result.
When you define
out = T.dot(X, W)
predict = theano.function(inputs=[X], outputs=out)

you first set up a computation graph for out in terms of X and W. Note that X is a purely symbolic variable, it doesn't have any value, but the definition for out tells Theano, "given a value for X, this is how to compute out".
On the other hand, predict is a theano.function which takes the computation graph for out and actual numeric values for X to produce a numeric output. What you pass into a theano.function when you call it always has to have an actual numeric value. So it simply makes no sense to do
y = predict(X)

because X is a symbolic variable and doesn't have an actual value.
The reason you want to do this is so that you can use y to further build your computation graph. But there is no need to use predict for this: the computation graph for predict is already available in the variable out defined earlier. So you can simply remove the line defining y altogether and then define your cost as
cost = T.mean(T.sqr(out - Y))

The rest of the code will then work unmodified.


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As chairman of the House Select Committee on Benghazi, Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., used $150,000 in taxpayer dollars to settle with a former aide who alleged he was fired in part because he was not willing to focus his investigative work on Hillary Clinton.
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In a list provided to the House Committee on Administration, the OOC disclosed it oversaw one $150,000 settlement involving a claim of veteran status discrimination and retaliation in the last five years. Podliska, in addition to claiming he was fired for his refusal to focus on Clinton, alleged retaliation by his supervisors because he took leave to fulfill his obligations as an Air Force reservist. His December 2016 settlement, which covered the veterans status and retaliation claims, was reported by The Washington Post at the time without the settlement amount.
Podliska's lawyer, Peter Romer-Friedman, declined in a phone interview to discuss the details of his client's settlement, citing a confidentiality agreement. However, he said he was not aware of any other such case brought against Congress and settled in the past five years.
"I can confirm that my client is one person who brought a veterans status discrimination and retaliation suit against Congress and that the case settled on terms that were satisfactory to my client," said Romer-Friedman, a civil rights attorney at Outten & Golden.
A spokeswoman for Gowdy said he and Podliska "never met or communicated" during the latter's employment.
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Lazaga, Pedro
Although mostly known for his increasingly conventional conservative series of comedies and dramas at the end of the Franco period, in the early part of his career Lazaga showed promise as a filmmaker who attempted serious treatments of the Civil War (on which he fought on the side of the Fascists). He started in the film industry as assistant director for innovative film-makers Carlos Serrano de Osma and Lorenzo Llobet, who belonged to a group influenced by experimentalism known as the "telúricos." His feature film debut was Campo bravo (Open Field, 1948), followed by a couple of less interesting films. With La patrulla (The Patrol, 1954), he started a short period of complex narratives on the war experience. Cuerda de presos (Prisoners, 1955) has been considered by critics his best film, and had some impact in spite of poor distribution. The series of projects that followed constitute an interesting cycle on the war experience: El frente infinito (The Endless Front, 1956), Torrepartida (1956), and La fiel infantería (Loyal Infantry, 1959). The latter was so balanced in its treatment of the issue that it almost got him into trouble with censors.
However, at that point Lazaga began focusing almost exclusively on avowedly light comedies like Muchachas de azul (Girls in Blue, 1957), Ana dice sí (Ana Says Yes, 1958), Miss cuplé (Miss Tune, 1959), and Los tramposos (The Fakers, 1959). These were effective films intended to do well at the box office; in terms of narrative they were unexceptional and rather harmless romantic stories with no ideological content. But the years of desarrollismo seem to have pushed Lazaga into a blatantly conservative agenda. A series of reactionary comedies centered on Paco Martínez Soria's persona followed, including La ciudad no es para mí (The City Is Not for Me, 1966), El turismo es un gran invento (Tourism Is a Great Invention, 1968), and Abuelo Made in Spain (Grandfather Made in Spain, 1969). In all of them, Martínez Soria is a representative of traditional Spanish virtues that are being eroded by progress (relative sexual freedom, urban life). In the late 1960s and through the 1970s, he flirted with erotic comedy, directing an undistinguished series of titles including Las amigas (The Lady Friends, 1969), El chulo (The Pimp, 1974), and Yo soy fulana de tal (I am Such and Such, 1975).
After the Franco period, Lazaga became something of a cliché for critics, representing the worst trends in Spanish cinema, and until his death he continued making comedies that suggested a certain nostalgia for the Franco years like Vota a Gundisalvo (Vote Gundisalvo, 1977) or more Martínez Soria vehicles like Estoy hecho un chaval (I'm Just a Kid, 1977) and ¡Vayapar de gemelos! (Such Twins! 1978).
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