I did not see Star Wars last night.
That was not how it was supposed to be. I was supposed to see Star Wars last night.
Oh, sure, it was kind of a last-minute thing. Although I had seen The Phantom Menace on opening day, and even went to a midnight screening of Attack of the Clones when it was released, I just did not expect to see The Force Awakens for at least a week.
I didn't even really give it much thought. A midnight screening would be impossible for my kids (ages 9 and 12) on a school night, and besides, they're both already going to see it next Tuesday on a group outing with their swim team. So I just figured SLP and I would see it, eventually, sometime over the holiday break.
But then yesterday morning I found out screenings were actually going to start at 7 PM, and I realized we all could go to see it on opening night… if I could find tickets.
We live in the city. There's a movie theater two blocks from our house. It's a 1950s single-screen, restored to its original midcentury appearance. But it's a second-run theater, so Star Wars will maybe be there in, like, February. No, for a premiere like this, the proper experience is at a suburban megaplex. But which one?
I fired up Fandango on my iPhone. AMC Southdale? Sold out. St. Louis Park, Roseville, Eagan… sold out. Finally I found some tickets available for an 8:30 showing in Inver Grove Heights. Purchased!
The Paragon in Burnsville had several tickets still available for the 8:05 screening. Purchased!
You do have your moments. Not many, but you do have them.
With tickets acquired, I hatched a master plan to surprise the kids. We would be leaving for the movie directly from their swim practice. When the car turned the wrong way to go home, and one of the kids asked where we were going, I would, right on cue, turn on the car stereo, where the opening trumpet blast of the Star Wars Main Theme would be playing.
…who came home from school brooding. He didn't want to go to swim team, for whatever reason. Turns out he had not really eaten anything all day because the school lunch was "soooo disgusting!!!!" So in an effort to lighten his mood, we told him the surprise too.
If you're saying that coming here was a bad idea, I'm starting to agree with you.
Burnsville is an outer suburb, about 30 minutes' drive from our house. We arrived at the Paragon at 7:10. Plenty of time to settle in, get some food, and wait for the show to start. No stress, because the Paragon has assigned seating.
We entered the lobby of the theater. It was quiet. Too quiet. Oh, there were people around, but not the endless queues of plastic lightsaber wielding Jedi knights and cloaked Sith lords I expected. We walked directly to a self-service ticket machine, punched in our confirmation code, got our tickets and entered the theater.
I had never been to the Paragon before. Nor, in fact, to any of the new-style contemporary megaplexes with opulent lobbies, beer and wine, and decadent reclining seats. I had been alarmed when I picked our seats from the online seating chart that we appeared to be seeing the movie in a tiny theater with only five rows of seats. But it turned out to be an average-sized megaplex screen. It was the seats that were out of scale.
So, you'd think this would be an amazing experience, right?
Our troubles started almost immediately. Though the lobby of the theater is huge and ornate, once you've handed over your ticket stub you're thrust into a cramped and poorly laid-out concession area. One that was littered with dropped popcorn kernels and straw wrappers, sticky self-service soda fountains and empty napkin dispensers.
We ordered buttered popcorn for the kids, and two cheese pizzas for us. We were told it would be a few minutes for the pizzas, so we all headed to the door of screen 14.
How you get so big eating food of this kind?
A few minutes later I went back for the pizzas. At least, I think they were pizzas. I saw two small, doughy discs sitting on the end of the conveyor belt of the pizza oven and pointed them out to the cashier. I actually said, "Those are my pizzas… at least I think they're pizzas. Or are they pretzels?" I really couldn't tell.
Now that that's out there, allow me to elaborate: Even a crappy pizza is still good. I don't think I've ever had a pizza too bad to eat.
I expressed that sentiment while eating a Papa John's single-serving pizza at a Twins game this past summer. Last night the Paragon in Burnsville proved me wrong. It's hard to explain what was wrong with the pizza. I've never had anything like it. It was, nominally, a pizza. Crust on the bottom, tomato-based sauce in the middle, a vaguely cheese-like substance on top. Except… the cheese wasn't melted. At all. It's not that it was cold. It wasn't mozzarella, or any other kind of cheese that melts. If it was actually cheese. It might have been parmesan. Nonetheless, that was our dinner, so we ate it.
None of that mattered though, because we were going to see STAR WARS. I passed the time on social media, posting photos on Instagram, clever quips on Twitter, and exchanging eager comments with friends on Facebook.
8:05 came. And went. At around 8:12, the manager came in and made an announcement. For reasons she only vaguely alluded to, something about the movie being very popular and them having added more showings, our 8:05 screening was actually not going to be able to start until around 10 PM. "It might be 5 minutes to 10, it might be 5 after 10. But it will be around 10:00," she said. She offered full refunds of our concessions, free passes to future IMAX screenings, and the option to stick around until 10:00 or get our tickets refunded.
People were… mildly perturbed. This is Minnesota, after all.
We discussed it briefly, and decided to wait it out. By this point it was almost 8:30, so I figured another hour and a half would go by quickly. Besides, there was beer.
After maybe another half hour passed, we decided to check out the arcade. I'm not talking about the typical, pathetic movie theater arcade of the '90s or early 2000s… two dilapidated arcade cabinets, one of which is unplugged. This was a real arcade, with a claw machine, skee-ball, air hockey, all of your modern video game cabinets and, first thing you see, a combo Ms. Pac-Man/Galaga machine. We had an air hockey tournament and I set a new personal high score in Ms. Pac-Man, and before we knew it, it was 9:30. We headed back to our seats.
9:55. 10:00. 10:05. At 10:10, an usher started walking the aisles with a small bucket, and handed each of us a packet of Care Bears-branded fruit snacks. (Really? You make us wait 2 hours and the best you can do is give us the crap even 3-year-olds won't touch?) Then the manager returned, to inform us that the movie was "here" and would be starting soon. 10:20. 10:30.
When I got back, the manager had returned. She informed us that the copy they were setting up on our screen was "at 92%" — whatever that meant — and would be a little while longer. She added, disconcertingly, that there were several seats available for the showing on screen 9 that was going to start at 10:55. Several people left. SLP and the kids stayed behind while I went to screen 9 to see what was available. The only open seats, together, were… the entire front row. With good reason. I sat in one of the seats to test it out, and even in the reclined position it would require craning your neck. I decided we should stay put. I went back to deliver the bad news.
They told me they fixed it! I trusted them. It's not my fault!
At 11:00, the realization set in that, even if the movie started reasonably soon, it wouldn't be done until nearly 1:30 in the morning, which meant we wouldn't get home until at least 2:00, and the kids had school in the morning. It was a split decision, but we finally resigned ourselves that this just wasn't happening.
It was partly my fury over how we had been treated. Partly my frustration at having gotten so pumped up to see this movie, spending five hours in total in that effort, and leaving with nothing. But the last straw was a reply to my tweet about my phone being down to 9%. Someone I only know through Twitter replied, in effect, that it was what I deserved for keeping my phone on during the movie, to which I had replied in fuming all-caps that the movie hadn't even started and I had been sitting in the theater for three hours. I blocked her. And some rando who follows her who liked her tweet.
But still, I woke up this morning almost as frustrated as I felt last night.
It was the 92% that stuck with me. What the hell was that about? I don't know much about how digital projection in movie theaters works. I do know that movies are distributed on hard drives now, with encryption, but I really had no idea what the process was. I had to find out, so I could make sense of what exactly was happening that took so long last night, and hopefully find some closure to the whole experience. To Wikipedia!
Regardless of how the DCP arrives it first needs to be copied onto the internal hard-drives of the server, usually via a USB port, a process known as "ingesting". DCPs can be, and in the case of feature films almost always are, encrypted. The necessary decryption keys are supplied separately, usually as email attachments and then "ingested" via USB. Keys are time limited and will expire after the end of the period for which the title has been booked. They are also locked to the hardware (server and projector) that is to screen the film, so if the theatre wishes to move the title to another screen or extend the run a new key must be obtained from the distributor.
Italics mine. That is the key to the whole thing. I'm not sure if the scheduled 8:05 showing on screen 14 ever actually took place last night. I don't know if the management knew it wasn't going to happen, and were just stringing us along, or if they really believed they were going to work out a solution. But the level of incompetence I witnessed may well have carried over into the projection room.
The "92%" referred, I am assuming, to the progress in copying the movie from the external hard drive to the server's internal drive, a necessary step to screen it. However, they also needed a new decryption key for this specific projector, and who knows if they actually had that or not? They had added these extra screenings at the last minute. Whether they were just hoping they'd get the keys from the distributor in time, or they had no clue that they'd even need new ones… I don't know.
All I know is, I did not see Star Wars last night.


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Board of Education Discusses Choice and Other Special Programs; Takes Tentative Action on Child Abuse and Neglect Policy
The Montgomery County Board of Education met on Monday, April 27, 2015, at the Carver Educational Services Center, 850 Hungerford Drive in Rockville. Among other items, the Board discussed the ongoing review of MCPS Choice and other special programs; took tentative action on the Child Abuse and Neglect policy; and set the Extracurricular Activity (ECA) fee for Fiscal Year 2016. The agenda for the meeting, with links to related materials, can be viewed on the Board of Education website. You can also watch the video of the meeting by clicking here.
Study of MCPS Choice and Other Special Programs
The Board received an update and held a discussion on the study that is being conducted of the Choice and other special programs in MCPS. As part of its Fiscal Year 2015 Operating Budget, the Board authorized an external review of the programs that the district provides as options for families to enroll students in schools outside their home attendance zones. On January 13, 2015, the Board awarded a contract to Metis Associates to conduct the study. During the past months, Metis has worked with MCPS staff and stakeholders to develop a plan for Phase One of the study. The plan was developed with input from MCPS central office staff and school-based staff, as well as leaders of the Montgomery County Council of Parent Teacher Associations, Inc. In addition, staff provided an update on this planning process during a recent meeting of the Board's Policy Management Committee. The plan is posted on the MCPS website along with other information on the study. Choice and other special academic programs (for the purpose of the study) include language immersion programs; magnet application programs, including the elementary centers for highly gifted students; and the regional consortia schools (Northeast, Downcounty, and Middle School Magnet consortia).
The study has been designed to focus on four main objectives:
• Understanding the unique history and current state of each of MCPS' Choice and other special academic programs;
• Identifying the original purposes of each of these programs and assessing whether they are fulfilling those purposes;
• Assessing whether all students have equitable access to these programs, especially in light of the continuing growth of MCPS student enrollment and the changing demographics of the region, both countywide and at the neighborhood level; and
• Ensuring that these programs, both individually and collectively, are well-positioned to effectively advance the mission; core purpose; core values, including equity; and core competencies set forth in the MCPS Strategic Planning Framework.
The study will proceed in three phases:
• Phase One will gather and analyze data and information on the unique history and current state of MCPS Choice and other special programs.
• Phase Two will benchmark MCPS programs with innovative, high-quality programs in other districts and review academic research on access to educational options outside students' home schools.
• Phase Three will engage community stakeholders in the development of a collaborative action plan for MCPS Choice and other special academic programs going forward that is informed by the data, information, and the benchmarking analysis from Phases One and Two.
Read the memo to the Board and plan for Phase One of the study
Policy JHC, Child Abuse and Neglect
The Board took tentative action on Policy JHC, Child Abuse and Neglect. Policy JHC reaffirms the Board's commitment to the safety and physical, mental, and emotional well-being of all children and vulnerable adults, and sets forth a comprehensive approach to recognizing, reporting and preventing abuse and neglect of children and vulnerable adults.
Policy JHC was presented at the March 3, 2015, Policy Management Committee meeting and further discussed at the April 20, 2015, meeting. A work group was convened in the fall of 2014 to recommend ways for the school system to enhance awareness of child abuse and neglect among parents, staff, and students and improve how MCPS monitors and reports allegations of abuse or neglect. The Work Group included subject matter experts from county partner agencies, leadership from the three employee associations, parents, community members and representatives from the Montgomery County Council of Parent Teacher Associations. The Work Group assisted MCPS staff in developing six strategic areas of focus for the district. The revised policy, which sets forth the Board's approach to preventing child abuse and neglect, was developed in close collaboration with partner agencies, including the Montgomery County State's Attorney's Office, the Montgomery County Police Department, and Child Welfare Services in the Montgomery County Department of Health and Human Services, commonly known as Child Protective Services.
The policy sets forth implementation strategies for ensuring that: all employees understand and are held accountable for the highest ethical standards in their conduct, as well as adhering to legal mandates and the moral imperative to recognize, report, and prevent suspected child abuse and neglect; children and vulnerable adults who are alleged victims of abuse and/or neglect are supported; human resource management systems and processes for screening new and existing employees, as well as volunteers and outside contractors, are developed; professional development for Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) employees is developed and implemented; and opportunities are provided for parents, outside contractors, volunteers, and the broader community to develop awareness on recognizing, reporting, and preventing abuse and neglect of children and vulnerable adults. Additionally, MCPS staff has prepared protocols for reporting and investigating child abuse and neglect cases.
Policy JHC will now be distributed for public comment and will be considered for final approval at a future meeting.
See the revised policy
Fiscal Year 2016 Extracurricular Activity Fee
The Board of Education approved the Extracurricular Activity (ECA) fee for Fiscal Year 2016. The Board voted to increase the fee from $30 to $32.50. The reduced fee will remain at $15 for income-eligible families. The ECA fee supports adult-supervised extracurricular activities, such as sports and clubs, for middle and high school students. Students who pay the annual ECA fee are entitled to participate in one or more programs during the school year. The ECA fees help to offset the costs for operating after-school programs and for the transportation costs for activity buses. The ECA fee was last increased in FY 2008 and remains lower than the fee charged in many other districts in the Washington, D.C.-area.
Read the memo to the Board
Administrative Appointments
The Board of Education approved the following administrative appointments:
Niki T. Hazel, currently acting director, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, as director, Department of Elementary Curriculum and Districtwide Programs
Charles L. McGee, currently acting director, Department of Infrastructure/Operations, as director, Department of Infrastructure/Operations
Scott W. Murphy, currently principal, Watkins Mill High School, as director, Department of Secondary Curriculum and Districtwide Programs
Joel S. Smetanka, currently director, Division of Instructional and Information Services, as director, Department of Learning Management Systems, Office of the Chief Technology Officer
Floyd D. Starnes, currently principal, Kemp Mill Elementary School, as coordinator, ESOL and Immigrant Bilingual Support Programs
Peter J. Cahall, currently staff coach, Prince George's County Public Schools, as principal, Thomas Edison High School of Technology
Carl R. Bencal, currently principal, Seven Locks Elementary School as principal, Clarksburg Elementary School
Facilities and School Construction
The Board approved the following item related to school construction projects and facilities:
-Appointed an architectural firm for the Thomas S. Wootton High School Revitalization/Expansion Project Feasibility Study
Resolutions: The Board approved the following resolutions:
- A resolution honoring Michelle Schultze, principal of the John L. Gildner Regional Institute for Children and Adolescents (RICA), as the recipient of the 2015 Mark Mann Excellence and Harmony Award, given annually to an outstanding MCPS administrator;
-A resolution recognizing May 4-8, 2015, as Teacher Appreciation Week
-A resolution declaring the month of May 2015 as Asian Pacific American Heritage Month
-A resolution proclaiming May 4-8, 2015, as Pupil Personnel Worker Week in MCPS
-A resolution recognizing May 4-8, 2015, as School Nutrition Employee Appreciation Week
The Board will hold its next regular business meeting on Tuesday, May 12, 2015. Please check the Board of Education meeting calendar for further information.
About the Board of Education
The Montgomery County Board of Education is the official educational policymaking body in the county. The Board is responsible for the direction and operation of the public school system. The Board consists of seven county residents elected by voters for a four-year term and a student elected by secondary school students for a one-year term. Board members are elected countywide but run at-large or from the Board district in which they reside.
Montgomery County Board of Education: Mrs. Patricia O'Neill, president; Mr. Michael Durso, vice president. Members: Mr. Christopher Barclay, Dr. Judy Docca, Mr. Philip Kauffman, Ms. Jill Ortman-Fouse, Mrs. Rebecca Smondrowski, and Ms. Dahlia Huh, student member. Mr. Larry A. Bowers, interim superintendent and secretary-treasurer. Office of the Board: 301-279-3617.
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Few years ago, we had to stand in a long queue for paying bills like electricity, telephone; booking tickets to travel, to recharge the mobile balance. Inventions make our work easier day by day. We are able to transfer funds, make bill payments through computer and laptops. Everyone does not have these every time but mobile is with us every time. Mobile banking makes all of these simpler. We can make transaction from anywhere and at anytime. Today I will give few safe and secure measures for mobile banking.
1. Develop Secure Habits: Never hesitate to use your mobile for banking purposes. But first you have to develop some habits; never keep your account number, pin of debit and credit card in your cellphone or emails. If you are using any banking app then never safe your user id and password for automatic login. Never use mobile for banking on public networks. Never text confidential account details through SMS.
2. Use Recognized Banking Apps: Always use recognized app for mobile banking. These are available in official online stores. In these apps, the technique of encrypting information is used to make the secure transactions. Be safe from apps with too many advertisements.
3. Be safe from Spamming Links: Be alert, if any mail from your inbox invites you to click on bank website. This site may be fraud which looks similar to the original one. Never click on any link which you have received in mail or text message from unknown users.
4. Never Share your Confidential Information: Always use secure websites. These websites URL (Unified Resource Locator) starts with Https:// and have lock icon in browser windows. Some time we share our important and confidential information on social media. Some time we click on the link in social websites which are able to make a copy of our address book. Many times we receive a call from unknown number, while talking to them they are transferring data of your phone to them. Now days there are many websites through which we are able to know about the id of caller by using their phone number. These apps can copy your phone book to increase their database.
Amazing tips. Really loved the tips you shared for security of mobile banking.
I do mobile banking all the time from my phone and I feel really safe. Banks are making very nice apps also.
This is one of the worthy articles I have read so far on secure mobile banking tips.
I have always been a little hesitant to do banking on my smartphone.


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Kvartslampa är en båglampa med kolv av kvartsglas, det vill säga glas av ren kvartssand utan tillsatser, som släpper igenom mycket av den ultravioletta strålning (UV-ljus) som ljusbågen alstrar. Ofta används en kvicksilverlampa där strömmen får kvicksilverångor att glöda, och vars ljusbåge är rik på ultravioletta strålar. Kvartslampan var en föregångare till vår tids solarielampor och användes under 1900-talet inom läkarvården, bland annat vid behandling av rakitis och tuberkulos. På grund av att man ofta använde en kvicksilverlampa blev detta en synonym för kvartslampa. En annan synonym var högsolslampa.

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One of the most glossed over aspect of marketing and sales in most organizations is the deep dive you should be doing to truly understand your best prospects. The easiest way to do that is to think about the current customers you have and identify what common traits they share.
Once you have identified your best fit prospects — the people who you are most likely to delight over and over again — you need to take it one more step to help you personalize the audience and have a very tangible picture of who you're talking to when you create content, thought leadership pieces and marketing messages.
The more real and three-dimensional these avatars or personas are, the more precise and on target your efforts will be and the more "native" it all feel to your audience.
Identify the key role that your persona should be modeled after. It might be the Dean of Admissions or a business owner of a company that has between $5-$10 million in sales. In some rare cases, you might need to create two personas, if you serve more than one core audience. But remember, not more than two. This isn't an effort to describe ALL of your customers, just your best ones.
Core values – what do they value the most personally and professionally?
Why did they choose this profession? What do/did they love about it?
Do they have a team/staff? Describe that structure.
What is he/she like at work? How would his/her co-workers describe him/her?
What do they love about working with him/her?
What do they dislike about working with him/her?
How do they communicate when things are good? How do they communicate under stress?
How are they being evaluated at work? How does their boss define success for them?
What is his/her biggest professional challenges?
What does he/she get excited about?
What do they want to do more of?
What does his/her typical day tend to look like? How do they feel about that?
What skills/qualities are necessary to do his/her job?
What tools and technology do they use to do their job?
How do they stay current in their own industry?
What's the biggest threat to their job/company?
How are they different/unique from their peers?
What publications (on and off line) do they read?
What associations do they participate in?
What are the three most critical events for their industry?
Where do they live (house, condo, apartment)?
Do they have a significant other/family?
How do they spend their off hours?
Once you've answered all of these questions about a target customer – create a narrative about them. Think of it as telling their story. Describe them in a way that anyone who works for you would be able to recognize them.
Give them a first name and find a stock photo that represents them. I know it sounds strange but giving them a name and a face makes them even more three-dimensional and real to you and your sales team.
Once you've got all of that built out — as you create marketing messages — keep this persona in mind. Let's say her name is Lucy. Ask yourself — would this resonate with Lucy? Would this catch Lucy's eye? Where would Lucy go to get this kind of information?
The more detailed and realistic your persona is — the stronger tool it will become for you. Let your personas guide your language, channels, and key messages. Now you're using the right kind of bait to catch the kind of fish you prefer!


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Sometimes called a hole in the heart, this defect — the most common congenital heart defect — occurs when the muscular wall (septum) separating the bottom chambers of the heart (right and left ventricles) doesn't fully form. The hole allows oxygen-rich blood to leak from the left ventricle into the right ventricle, instead of moving into the aorta and on to the body. In the right ventricle, the oxygen-rich blood mixes with blood that doesn't have enough oxygen in it.
Ventricular septal defect can lead to heart failure, high blood pressure in the lungs (pulmonary hypertension), infection of the heart (endocarditis), irregular heartbeats (arrhythmias) and delayed growth. Small holes may heal on their own or cause no symptoms. Larger holes may require surgery to stitch the hole closed or to cover the hole with a patch.


1. Anthropology refers to the study of humans. As a social science disipilne, it examines all aspects of human life and culture. It seeks to understand human origins and adaptation, and the diversity of cultures and worldviews.
2. Economics studies the production, distribution, exchange, and consumption of goods and services. The term may also refer to the financial aspects of something, as in "the economics of managing a business.
It deals with the optimum allocation of scarce resources among its alternatives to satisfy the unlimited human wants and needs of the people. Economists study the ways individuals and groups (such as governments, firms and nations)allocate resources (including money, buildings, land, time, tools and know-how) to satisfy needs and wants.
3. Geography is the science of place. It is the social science that studies the distribution and arrangement of all elements of the earth's surface.
Geography studies not only the surface of the earth but also the location and distribution of its physical as well as cultural features, the patterns that they form, and the interrelation of these things as they affect people. It deals especially with the relationship between the environment of the earth's surface and humans, which involves both physical and cultural geographic features.
5. Linguistics is the scientific study of language and its structure. It involves the description of languages, the investigation of their origin, the inquiry of how children acquire language, and how individuals learn languages other than their own. Linguistics also deals with the relationships between or among languages and with the manner languages change over time.
6. Political scienceis a social science discipline that studies systems of government, and the analysis of political activity and behavior. It is the systematic study of politics.
By the application of empirical and generally scientific methods of analysis, political sciencesystematically studies governance. It is the systematic study of and reflection upon politics. By 'politics,' we mean that which typically defines the processes by which people and institutions exercise and resist power. Political processes are employed to form policies, influence individuals and institutions, and organize societies.
8. Sociology is the scientific study of human social relations or group life. It primarily deals with social interaction or the responses of persons to each other. Social interaction is arguably the basic sociological concept as it is the rudimentary component of all relationships and groups that compose human society. Subjects of inquiry in sociology include the ways in which social structures and institutions (such as class, family, community, and power) and social problems (such as crime and abuse) affect society.
9. Demography is the interdisciplinary study of the size, growth, and distribution of human populations. It examines statistics such as births, deaths, income, or the incidence of disease, which illustrate the changing structure of human populations. Main areas of inquiry include human population dynamics and human population change. It also involves the study of the structure of populations and how populations change over time due to births, deaths, migration, and aging.


Success Skills Centre has a huge database resource of clients with wide-ranging qualifications, experiences and expertise. Periodically, we will be posting the profiles of some of our clients who are currently seeking employment, and employers could go through the profile to help find the right employee(s).
Success Skills Centre can help identify individuals who will best serve the needs of employers that are interested in being part of an internship and work experience arrangement. When the internship period is over, employers often wish to hire individuals or recommend them to other potential employers. We will help to identify the best fit.
Employers who want advertise job opportunities may call, fax or e-mail job requirements to Success Skills Centre. Our phone number is (204) 975-5111, fax number is (204) 975-5108 and our email address is: ssc@successskills.mb.ca.
The information will be circulated to the staff. If an employer agrees, information about the position may be made available to all of our clients.


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Ciao Chérie ist ein österreichischer Spielfilm von Nina Kusturica aus dem Jahr 2017. Die Premiere erfolgte im März 2017 auf der Diagonale. Am 19. Oktober 2018 kam der Film in die österreichischen Kinos. Im ORF wurde der Film am 11. Juli 2021 gezeigt.

Handlung
Ciao Chérie spielt in einem Call Shop in Wien-Ottakring. Larisa führt das kleine Geschäft gezwungenermaßen weiter, nachdem sich ihr Mann nach Belgrad abgesetzt hat. Neben Geldüberweisungen zu den Familien in die Heimat werden in den Telefonkabinen des Geschäfts Gespräche zwischen Flüchtlingen mit den Zurückgelassenen, zwischen Liebenden und zwischen Geschwistern, die sich seit Jahren nicht gesehen haben, über eine Entfernung von tausenden Kilometern, geführt. Dazwischen kommt es auch zu Kontakten unter den Kunden. Im Call Shop kommen Personen verschiedenster Nationen zusammen, und so hört man die verschiedensten Sprachen und wird in die unterschiedlichsten Lebensgeschichten eingelassen.

Etwa in jene der schüchternen Ange, die eine Ausbildung macht und hofft, am Telefon ihr Heimweh nach Togo zu lindern. Mimi dagegen hat eine geheime Affäre mit einem Mann in Italien, sie kommt in den Shop, um mit ihm zu telefonieren und um ihre beste Freundin in Japan um Rat zu fragen. Ein afghanischer Teenager führt ebenfalls ein Doppelleben, während ihn sein Bruder am Telefon zwingt, der Verlobung mit einer Landsfrau zuzustimmen, scherzt er mit seiner ahnungslosen Wiener Freundin vor der Kabine herum. Dioma aus dem Senegal versucht, ihren Freund zu überreden, doch wieder nach Österreich zu kommen. Samo weiß nicht, was er sagen soll, wenn ihm seine Familie aus Syrien beispielsweise erzählt, dass sie nur alle zwanzig Tage für kurze Zeit Strom hat.

Produktion und Hintergrund
Die Dreharbeiten fanden in Wien statt. Unterstützt wurde der Film vom Österreichischen Filminstitut und dem Filmfonds Wien, beteiligt war der ORF. Produziert wurde der Film von Nina Kusturica Projects. Für Ton und Tongestaltung zeichneten Andreas Pils und Gerhard Daurer verantwortlich. Die Musik stammt von The Wladigeroff Brothers (Alexander und Konstantin Wladigeroff) und Božidar Radenković.

Der Großteil der Konversationen im Film wird in verschiedenen Sprachen wie Französisch, Englisch, Romanes, Serbisch, Dari, Somalisch, Japanisch, Italienisch, Kurdisch mit deutschen Untertiteln geführt. Ciao Chérie ist nach Auswege (2003) und Little Alien (2009) Nina Kusturicas dritte abendfüllende Regiearbeit.

Der Film wurde 2019 im Rahmen der Edition österreichischer Film von Hoanzl und dem Standard auf DVD veröffentlicht.

Rezeption
Martin Thomson schrieb in der Tageszeitung Die Presse: "Nach dem Auflegen verharrt die Kamera noch oft vor dem leeren Gesichtsausdruck der Menschen. Das Gesagte scheint in ihnen nachzuklingen. Tränen fließen. Es hat alles nichts gebracht: Man muss zurück in den Alltag und damit zurechtkommen, einsam zu bleiben, sich fremd zu fühlen. Diese Grenzzustände im Gefühlsleben von Eingewanderten ernst zu nehmen und zu ergründen, statt sie als sentimentale Nebensächlichkeiten abzutun, ist ein großes Verdienst von Kusturica."

Alexandra Seibel befand in der Tageszeitung Kurier das Kusturica in ihrem Einraum-Film eine ganze Welt und ihre Vielfalt an Sehnsüchten, Identitäten und verlorenen Heimaten eröffnen würde. "Anstatt Multikulturalität zu predigen, entfaltet sie kleine Vignetten, die in der Neulerchenfelderstraße zum Blühen gebracht werden. Und immer wieder findet die Kamera neue Perspektiven, um ihre Blicke zu werfen."

Auszeichnungen und Nominierungen
Österreichischer Filmpreis 2019
 Nominierung in der Kategorie Bester Schnitt (Nina Kusturica)

Weblinks

 Offizielle Website
 Ciao Chérie auf NK Projects

Einzelnachweise

Österreichischer Film
Filmtitel 2017


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Judge allows flier to sue two TSA screeners
A US judge in Virginia allows a college student to sue two TSA screeners over his arrest after he stripped off his clothes to reveal a protest message written on his chest.
In this Dec. 30, 2010 photo provided by the Richmond Police, Aaron B. Tobey, of Charlottesville, Va is shown after being arrested by authorities at Richmond International Airport in Richmond, Va. AP
Aug. 31, 2011, 7:34 PM UTC / Source: The Christian Science Monitor
By Warren Richey
A federal judge in Richmond ruled Tuesday that a lawsuit could move forward against two airport security screeners who had a college student arrested after he stripped to a pair of running shorts to protest what he felt were unconstitutionally intrusive search procedures.
The student, Aaron Tobey, had used a black marker to display a portion of the Fourth Amendment on his bare chest. It read: "The right of the people to be secure … against unreasonable searches and seizures shall not be violated."
US District Judge Henry Hudson dismissed much of the federal lawsuit filed against various officials involved in the Dec. 30, 2010 incident at Richmond International Airport. But the judge said the portion of the suit that accuses two Transportation Safety Administration officers of violating Mr. Tobey's free speech rights would be allowed to move forward.
The judge's ruling opens the way for further investigation by Tobey's lawyers into why security screeners called the police when Tobey removed most of his clothing.
The lawsuit claims that the security officials had Tobey arrested in response to his protest. Tobey's lawyers say he has a right to peacefully object to the government's treatment of airline passengers provided his actions are not disruptive.
The government argues that the police were called and Tobey was arrested because he failed to follow the screeners' instructions that he proceed through the Advanced Imaging Technology screening device. The device has been controversial because it creates explicit images of the human body that amounts to a technological strip search.
Are TSA pat-downs and full-body scans unconstitutional?
Tobey disputes charges that he failed to follow instructions. He says he was told not to move and that he did not move until a police officer handcuffed him and took him into custody.
"The question … is whether the [screeners] in fact radioed for assistance because of the message [Tobey] sought to convey," Judge Hudson wrote, "as opposed to [Tobey's] admittedly bizarre behavior or because of some other reasonable restriction on First Amendment activity in the security screening area."
Although an airport may seem to be a public space for purposes of free speech, the courts have upheld reasonable restrictions on speech in airports.
In addition to the First Amendment claim, Tobey also accused the federal screeners of violating his Fourth Amendment rights by having him arrested by police when there was no probable cause to believe he had committed a crime.
Travelers, lawmakers up in arms over airport security measures
In dismissing the Fourth Amendment claim, Judge Hudson said Tobey's decision to take his clothing off was "bizarre" and that the screeners were justified in calling the police.
"Given the heightened security interest at airport security checkpoints, it was eminently reasonable for [the screeners] to seek assistance from the … police," Hudson wrote.
The lawsuit also seeks to hold officials accountable for alleged false imprisonment and malicious prosecution.
Tobey's case is being litigated by the Rutherford Institute, a civil liberties group based in Charlottesville, Va.
The dispute arose as Tobey sought to pass through airport security in Richmond on his way to his grandfather's funeral in Wisconsin. He had anticipated that he might be selected for enhanced secondary screening at the security checkpoint. In preparation he wrote his chosen message on his chest and was prepared to partially disrobe in an apparent effort to communicate his objection to what he viewed as intrusive searches.
When he was, in fact, selected for secondary screening, Tobey removed his T-shirt and sweatpants, revealing the message on his chest. One of the screeners allegedly told him that removal of his clothing was not necessary. But Tobey allegedly replied that he was taking his clothes off to protest the checkpoint's unconstitutional procedures.
TSA aimed to put body scanners in public places
The police were called. Tobey was led away in handcuffs and held for 90 minutes. Police allegedly threatened that they would make sure he had a permanent criminal record because of his actions. He was also informed that he would be transported to the county jail.
Police charged Tobey with disorderly conduct in a public place, an offense that carries a year in jail and a $2,500 fine.
Officials later backed down on their threat to take him to jail. Instead he was questioned by an air marshal with the joint terrorism task force concerning his "intentions and goals" and any involvement with terrorist organizations, according to the judge's opinion.
Eventually, Tobey was allowed to board his flight. The disorderly conduct charge was later dropped.
He filed his lawsuit in March. A tentative trial date is set for Jan. 18.
This story, Did TSA airport screeners violate free speech rights of bare-chested student?, first appeared on CSMonitor.com.
Warren Richey


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MULTIDIMENSIONAL Jetzt
Wissen für das Leben auf der Neuen Erde
Unsere Aufgabe Our Task
What´s Love
Intuition English
Dankbarkeit Gratitude
gut & böse 1
good & evil 1
BewusstSein SeinsZustand
Consciousness state of Being
Glück 1
blissful path
Gehirn 1
Rohkost & BewusstSein
R & B 2
Trinitas conscientiae
Triad of Consciousness
Ad Profundum
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Es gibt keinen spirituellen Weg
There is no spiritual path
''MenschSein'' ist AllES
Eternal GNOSIS
Immerwährende GNOSIS
Nichts & Alles 1
Sprache als Grenze
Gnostische Grundlagen der Medizin
Transzendentale Biophysik
Praxis Biophysik
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Vertraue dem gnostischen Weg
Trust in the Gnostic Path
Konstitution des Menschen
Geburt Tod Kreuzigung
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Enlightened view Michael
Wille Liebe Intelligenz
Will Love Intelligence Evolutionary Leap now
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Ablenkung durch Arbeit
Distraction Through Labor
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Lucifer the Lightbringer
One of the most slanderous, ignorant, and utterly false accusations that has been repeatedly directed at H. P. Blavatsky and against Theosophists in general over the years is the claim that Theosophy is a form of satanism and that Madame Blavatsky was a devil worshipper.
To a Theosophist, such an assertion is as laughable as it is ridiculous and nonsensical.
Those accusations and condemnations originate primarily from the realm of Christianity and from those of its adherents who believe in a personal anthropomorphic God and a personal anthropomorphic devil, the supposed enemy of that God.
Considering the fact that Lucifer and Satan have come to be viewed as synonymous terms and names for the same entity, it is not too hard to see why our Christian friends have jumped to such a conclusion, seeing as the Theosophical magazine started in England in the late 1880s by HPB was titled "Lucifer" and that in her masterpiece work "The Secret Doctrine" she speaks of Lucifer in positive and glowing terms.
But there are several important points which need to be understood…
#1. Christianity does not have a monopoly on the term "Lucifer" nor on its definition. The Christian concept and definition of the term "Lucifer" is merely the latest in a long line of definitions and interpretations of this pre-Christian term.
#2. The word "Lucifer" occurs only once in the entire Bible. This is in Isaiah 14:12, which says: "How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!" Those who read this verse in its actual context will clearly see that the sentence is applied specifically to a certain Babylonian king who was an enemy in war of the Israelites. The original Hebrew text uses the word הֵילֵל which literally means "bright star" or "shining one," a term applied sarcastically or mockingly by the Israelites to this particular enemy of theirs. The translators of the King James Version of the Bible – one of the chief of whom was the well known Rosicrucian initiate Dr Robert Fludd, a fact which will no doubt shock and horrify many Christians – chose to translate this word with the Latin word "Lucifer."
#3. "Lucifer" literally means Lightbringer, Lightbearer, Bringer of Dawn, Shining One, or Morning Star. The word has no other meaning. Historically and astronomically, the term "Morning Star" has always been applied to the planet Venus.
#4. Since the only occurrence of the word "Lucifer" in the Bible is that one verse in Isaiah, there is absolutely nothing in the Bible which says that Lucifer is Satan or the devil. It was Pope Gregory the Great (540-604 AD) who was the first person to apply that passage of scripture to Satan and thus to equate Lucifer with Satan. But even then this notion didn't catch on in a big way until the much more recent popularisation of John Milton's "Paradise Lost" in which Lucifer is used as another name for Satan, the evil adversary of God. Also, such luminaries of the Christian world as Martin Luther and John Calvin considered it "a gross error" to apply Isaiah 14:12 to the devil, "for the context plainly shows these statements must be understood in reference to the king of the Babylonians."
#5. Thus the Christians who claim that Lucifer is the devil actually have no Biblical basis or authority for such a belief. Though they may claim to be "Bible believing Christians" whose faith is built solely on "the Word of God" they are actually followers – in this and many other respects – of Christian religious tradition and not of the Christian Bible. Or have they quietly conferred divine infallibility upon the Pope and Milton without informing the rest of the world?
#6. H. P. Blavatsky was never at any point in her life a Christian, gave no credence to Christian theology and did not believe in any type of personal or anthropomorphic God nor in any type of personal or anthropomorphic devil. She believed and taught that there is but ONE Infinite Divine Life which is everything and in everything and that It has no adversary or enemy, since there is nothing but That – the boundless, impersonal, omnipresent Principle of Absolute Existence Itself. She was against the notion of worshipping or praying to anyone or anything. She taught that evil is really imperfection, which is the automatic and inevitable byproduct of the existence of matter.
Now let us take a look at some of the statements HPB made about Lucifer in "The Secret Doctrine"…
* "Esoteric philosophy admits neither good nor evil per se, as existing independently in nature. The cause for both is found, as regards the Kosmos, in the necessity of contraries or contrasts, and with respect to man, in his human nature, his ignorance and passions. There is no devil or the utterly depraved, as there are no Angels absolutely perfect, though there may be spirits of Light and of Darkness; thus LUCIFER – the spirit of Intellectual Enlightenment and Freedom of Thought – is metaphorically the guiding beacon, which helps man to find his way through the rocks and sandbanks of Life, for Lucifer is the LOGOS in his highest, and the "Adversary" in his lowest aspect – both of which are reflected in our Ego." (Vol. 2, p. 162)
* "In antiquity and reality, Lucifer, or Luciferus, is the name of the angelic Entity presiding over the light of truth as over the light of the day. In the great Valentinian gospel Pistis Sophia it is taught that of the three Powers emanating from the Holy names of the Three Tριδυνάμεις, that of Sophia (the Holy Ghost according to these gnostics – the most cultured of all) resides in the planet Venus or Lucifer." (Vol. 2, p. 512)
* "It is but natural – even from the dead letter standpoint – to view Satan, the Serpent of Genesis, as the real creator and benefactor, the Father of Spiritual mankind. For it is he who was the "Harbinger of Light," bright radiant Lucifer, who opened the eyes of the automaton created by Jehovah, as alleged; and he who was the first to whisper: "in the day ye eat thereof ye shall be as Elohim, knowing good and evil" – can only be regarded in the light of a Saviour. An "adversary" to Jehovah the "personating spirit," he still remains in esoteric truth the ever-loving "Messenger" (the angel), the Seraphim and Cherubim who both knew well, and loved still more, and who conferred on us spiritual, instead of physical immortality – the latter a kind of static immortality that would have transformed man into an undying "Wandering Jew"." (Vol. 2, p. 243)
* "The Fall was the result of man's knowledge, for his "eyes were opened." Indeed, he was taught Wisdom and the hidden knowledge by the "Fallen Angel," for the latter had become from that day his Manas, Mind and Self-consciousness. In each of us that golden thread of continuous life – periodically broken into active and passive cycles of sensuous existence on Earth, and super-sensuous in Devachan – is from the beginning of our appearance upon this earth. It is the Sutratma, the luminous thread of immortal impersonal monadship, on which our earthly lives or evanescent Egos are strung as so many beads – according to the beautiful expression of Vedantic philosophy.
"And now it stands proven that Satan, or the Red Fiery Dragon, the "Lord of Phosphorus" (brimstone was a theological improvement), and Lucifer, or "Light-Bearer," is in us: it is our Mind – our tempter and Redeemer, our intelligent liberator and Saviour from pure animalism. Without this principle – the emanation of the very essence of the pure divine principle Mahat (Intelligence), which radiates direct from the Divine mind – we would be surely no better than animals." (Vol. 2, p. 513)
So we see that in the teachings of Theosophy – which are at times deliberately symbolical, allegorical, and esoteric – the Lightbringer or Bringer of Dawn (Lucifer in Latin) is our Mind Principle, our individual self-consciousness and spark of intelligence, which was awakened in mankind around the middle period of the Third Root Race, also known as the Lemurian Epoch. Our mind can either be our adversary (which is what the word "satan" literally means) or it can be the lightbearer (the Lucifer) of spiritual Truth to us, the knowledge of which brings about our liberation from ignorance, including spiritual self-ignorance.
Many Christian Gnostic teachings of two millennia ago had essentially the same view, saying that the being referred to as "Jehovah" had wanted to keep man as an ignorant, uninformed, unevolving entity, but that the real "God" (which they maintained was not Jehovah) sent Lucifer, an angel of magnificent fire and light, to show man the light and help him to wake up to true knowledge, including the knowledge of his own spiritual, immortal, divine identity. For Christians this is illustrated, albeit now in a distorted way, in the serpent visiting Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, in the Book of Genesis in the Bible. Serpents have always symbolised wisdom, as Jesus himself showed in Matthew 10:16 when saying "Be ye wise as serpents and harmless as doves."
Theosophy interprets all these allegorical Gnostic teachings as referring to "the lighting up of Manas" (Manas is the Sanskrit word for Mind) which we mentioned above. When we bear in mind that "The Secret Doctrine" teaches that the Lemurian Root Race was born under the influence of Venus and received its "light and life" from the Planetary Spirit of Venus, it all becomes clearer, since Lucifer has been an accepted synonym for Venus – the bright and morning star – since long before the days of Christian theology and millennia before Lucifer was first ignorantly equated with the devil.
In "The Secret Doctrine" we read that "Venus, or Lucifer (also Sukra and Usanas) the planet, is the Light-Bearer of our Earth, in both its physical and mystic sense." Venus is said to be the "spiritual prototype" of Earth and "the Guardian Spirit of the Earth and Men." It is "the most occult, powerful, and mysterious of all the planets; the one whose influence upon, and relation to the Earth is most prominent" and every change that takes place on Venus "is felt on, and reflected by, the Earth."
Since it would take too long and also be out of place here to try to explain all of this to the reader unfamiliar with Theosophy, we can sum up by saying that what H. P. Blavatsky has to say about Lucifer is entirely esoteric, symbolical, and philosophical. Those four excerpts quoted above are virtually the only specific statements and explanations she ever made about Lucifer, although fanatical Christians and half-crazed conspiracy theorists like to give the impression that she spent almost all her time ranting and raving about Lucifer, which is simply not true.
As for the reason her magazine was named "Lucifer," she wrote in its very first article – titled "What's in a Name?" – that "the first and most important, if not the sole object of the magazine, is expressed in the line from the 1st Epistle to the Corinthians, on its title page. It is to bring light to "the hidden things of darkness," (iv. 5); to show in their true aspect and their original real meaning things and names, men and their doings and customs; it is finally to fight prejudice, hypocrisy and shams in every nation, in every class of Society, as in every department of life. The task is a laborious one but it is neither impracticable nor useless, if even as an experiment. Thus, for an attempt of such nature, no better title could ever be found than the one chosen. … No fitter symbol exists for the proposed work – that of throwing a ray of truth on everything hidden by the darkness of prejudice, by social or religious misconceptions; especially by that idiotic routine in life, which, once that a certain action, a thing, a name, has been branded by slanderous inventions, however unjust, makes respectable people, so called, turn away shiveringly, refusing to even look at it from any other aspect than the one sanctioned by public opinion. Such an endeavour then, to force the weak-hearted to look truth straight in the face, is helped most efficaciously by a title belonging to the category of branded names."
But as she was later to remark, the ignorant and erroneous belief that Lucifer = Satan "has struck its roots too deep in the soil of blind faith" to allow many people to bravely, boldly, and unashamedly reveal the true origins and true nature of what the so-called Lucifer actually is. Those who attempt to do so are always bound to be immediately labelled as "satanists" and "devil worshippers" by a certain class of Christian, those whose trademark characteristics invariably tend to be wilful ignorance and mental laziness. It has indeed become a "branded name," one which still automatically conjures up the image of an anthropomorphic devil even in the minds of the most hardened atheists.
Yet who can deny that even Jesus is portrayed as boldly proclaiming his identity with Venus the Lightbringer in Revelation 22:16, where he says "I, Jesus, am the bright and morning star." If the translators had chosen to translate this verse using Latin just as they did with Isaiah 14:12, it would read "I, Jesus, am Lucifer."
Theosophists are not afraid of public opinion or misguided prejudice, nor of the claims and threats of Christianity, that most arrogant, ignorant, and impudent of all the world's religions. "There is no religion higher than Truth" – and eventually, as always, the Truth will prevail.
Additional from Mara Roux Burger, United 4 Truths Beitrag in der Gruppe "The Universal Law of Nature" auf facebook.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/universallawofnature/search/?query=lucifer&epa=SEARCH_BOX
"Lucifer" in Isaiah 14:12 presents a minor problem to mainstream Christianity. It becomes a much larger problem to Bible literalists. LUCIFER IS NOT SATAN!
Lucifer makes its appearance in the fourteenth chapter of the Old Testament book of Isaiah, at the twelfth verse, and nowhere else:
"How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! How art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!"
"O Lucifer" was used to express "O shining one", and not the name of a biblical character, and certainly not Satan. Its own simple context clearly shows this.
The first problem is that Lucifer is a Latin word. So how did it find its way into a Hebrew manuscript? What Hebrew name was Satan given in this chapter of Isaiah, which describes the angel who fell to become the ruler of hell?
In the original Hebrew text, the fourteenth chapter of Isaiah is not about a fallen angel, but about a fallen Babylonian king, who during his lifetime had persecuted the children of Israel. It contains no mention of Satan, either by name or reference. We can speculate that some early Christian scribes, writing in the Latin tongue used by the Church, had decided for themselves that they wanted the story to be about a fallen angel, a creature not even mentioned in the original Hebrew text, and to whom they gave the name "Lucifer."
Why Lucifer? In Roman astronomy, Lucifer was the name given to the morning star (the star we now know by another Roman name, Venus). The morning star appears in the heavens just before dawn, heralding the rising sun. The name derives from the Latin term lucem ferre, bringer, or bearer, of light." In the Hebrew text the expression used to describe the Babylonian king before his death is Helal, son of Shahar, which can best be translated as "Day star, son of the Dawn." The name evokes the golden glitter of a proud king's dress and court (much as his personal splendor earned for King Louis XIV of France the appellation, "The Sun King").
The scholars authorized by King James I to translate the Bible into current English did not use the original Hebrew texts, but used versions translated ... largely by St. Jerome in the fourth century. Jerome had mistranslated the Hebraic metaphor, "Day star, son of the Dawn," as "Lucifer," and over the centuries a metamorphosis took place. Lucifer the morning star became a disobedient angel, cast out of heaven to rule eternally in hell. Theologians, writers, and poets interwove the myth with the doctrine of the Fall, and in Christian tradition Lucifer is now the same as Satan, the Devil, and --- ironically --- the Prince of Darkness.
And so there are those who do not read beyond the King James version of the Bible, who say 'Lucifer is Satan: so says the Word of God'...."
Henry Neufeld (a Christian who comments on Biblical sticky issues) went on to say,
"this passage is often related to Satan, and a similar thought is expressed in Luke 10:18 by Jesus, that was not its first meaning. It's primary meaning is given in Isaiah 14:4 which says that when Israel is restored they will "take up this taunt against the king of Babylon . . ." Verse 12 is a part of this taunt song. This passage refers first to the fall of that earthly king...
How does the confusion in translating this verse arise? The Hebrew of this passage reads: "heleyl, ben shachar" which can be literally translated "shining one, son of dawn." This phrase means, again literally, the planet Venus when it appears as a morning star. In the Septuagint, a 3rd century BC translation of the Hebrew scriptures into Greek, it is translated as "heosphoros" which also means Venus as a morning star.
How did the translation "lucifer" arise? This word comes from Jerome's Latin Vulgate. Was Jerome in error? Not at all. In Latin at the time, "lucifer" actually meant Venus as a morning star. Isaiah is using this metaphor for a bright light, though not the greatest light to illustrate the apparent power of the Babylonian king which then faded."
Therefore, Lucifer wasn't equated with Satan until after Jerome. Jerome wasn't in error. Later Christians (and Mormons) were in equating "Lucifer" with "Satan".
So why is this a problem to Christians? Christians now generally believe that a fallen Satan (or the Devil or Lucifer who they equate with Satan) is a being who has always existed (or who was created at or near the "beginning"). Therefore, they also think that the 'prophets' of the Old Testament believed in this creature. The Isaiah scripture is used as proof (and has been used as such for hundreds of years now). As Elaine Pagels explains though, the concept of Satan has evolved over the years and the early Bible writers didn't believe in or teach such a doctrine.
For instance, in the original Hebrew texts, Satan was not opposed to God. Satan was working with God. Satan was sent down to do Gods most important work. He did not fall from grace. The Roman Catholic Church takeover is responsible for spreading a literalist interpretation, of a translation of a translation of a translation. It fed the people a dualistic and highly contradictory gospel. Now its God VS Satan, which is the total opposite of the original teachings!
It is imperative that those who wish to gain the Jew-Els that the Bible has, understand that English language Bibles are far removed from original understanding, simply by language barrier.
The literal meaning of phosphorus (Phosp-Horus = Lucifer) is "Light-Bringer."
Here is the definition that you will find on Wikipedia; Phosphorus (Greek Φωσφόρος Phōsphoros), a name meaning "Light-Bringer", is the Morning Star, the planet Venus in its morning appearance. Another Greek name for the Morning Star is Ἑωσφόρος (Heōsphoros), which means "Dawn-Bringer". The Latin word corresponding to Greek Phosphorus is "Lucifer". It is used in its astronomical sense both in prose and poetry.
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The British journalists from the popular newspaper The Sunday Telegraph published a sensational article to some extent. It was about the first billionaires in history, who had made a fortune due to cryptocurrencies. So, the twin brothers Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss have become the first official billionaires. The public is familiar with the twins thanks to the film The Social Network directed by David Fincher. The movie tells the story of the creation and formation of Facebook.
Indeed, the brothers have a long trial with Mark Zuckerberg because the prototype of the social network was essentially copied from another one owned by the Winklevoss. After receiving an impressive compensation from Facebook (in the amount of $ 65 million), Tyler and Cameron decided to invest significant funds in the development of the cryptocurrenies.
About four years ago, the brothers bought bitcoins for 11 million US dollars. Then the exchange rate of the most popular and widespread cryptocurrency was fluctuating at around $ 120. To date, Tyler and Cameron own one percent of all bitcoins in the world due to such a significant investment. When last week the exchange rate of the cryptocurrency broke another record – 11,400 dollars per unit of the cryptocurrency, the brothers became official billionaires.
The Sunday Telegraph notes that this is the first billion, officially earned on cryptocurrencies. This is a landmark event for such a complex and contradictory market.
The Winklevoss say that they are not going to sell their bitcoins, considering the investments of four years ago to be long-term.
As a reminder, a bitcoin was created by a group of programmers or a programmer named Satoshi Nakamoto about ten years ago. At the moment this is the most popular and well-known alternative to traditional currencies, which has no regulatory and issuing centers.


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From October 21st to 27th, the University of Washington Press will be highlighting its open-access publications and partnerships as part of International Open Access Week.
UW Press and Libraries Collaborate on Open-Access Books
Thanks to a new partnership between UW Press and Libraries and a grant from the Kenneth S. and Faye G. Allen Library Endowment Transformation Fund, many books in the press's long-standing and award-winning series Studies on Ethnic Groups in China (SEGC) are now openly available.
UW Libraries' support for the initiative is part of its larger commitment to open and emerging forms of scholarship. Betsy Wilson, Vice Provost for Digital Initiatives and Dean of University Libraries, explained that "the UW Libraries' strategic plan prioritizes the advancement of research for the public good. We are living this commitment by investing in infrastructure and developing publishing resources to support open-access scholarship in all forms. Our staff are constantly working to expand support for all UW authors who publish openly and to assist students and faculty in navigating open-access opportunities."
Edited by UW professor of anthropology Stevan Harrell, SEGC presents research from a wide variety of disciplines on ethnic groups and ethnic relations in China. Anthropologists, historians, geographers, political scientists, and literary scholars have contributed works on minority ethnic groups from various regions of China, as well as on the majority Han and their relationships with other groups. Works are both historical and contemporary and cover topics ranging from identity, local relations, folk literature, and religion to medicine, governance, education, and economic development.
"I'm delighted that UW Press has selected Studies on Ethnic Groups in China as its first book series to go online in open-access format," said Harrell. "This makes our books available to a wider public. In addition, using the Manifold platform gives authors, editors, and readers the opportunity to publish supplementary material, make comments, and see some of our authors' gorgeous photographs in full color."
Manifold is a new publishing platform developed by the University of Minnesota Press, CUNY GC Digital Scholarship Lab, and Cast Iron Coding and funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. In addition, SEGC books will be hosted on several other platforms including the UW Libraries ResearchWorks, JSTOR, MUSE Open, HathiTrust, and OAPEN.
UW Press Director Nicole Mitchell commented on the project's early success: "We've been pleased to see that readers have accessed the open editions from at least 105 countries so far, from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe. We're grateful for the support of the Allen Transformation Fund and fortunate that in launching our first open-access books, we've been able to draw on services like JSTOR and Project MUSE that have built strong global networks for scholarship, as well as the work of colleagues at Minnesota and other university presses involved in developing new infrastructure, processes, and standards for open-access monograph publishing."
What Is International OA Week?
This year's OA Week theme, "Open for Whom? Equity in Open Knowledge," builds on the groundwork laid by last year's focus, "Designing Equitable Foundations for Open Knowledge," which highlighted the importance of making a central commitment to equity as we develop new systems for sharing knowledge.
The Allen Transformation Fund grant, awarded to "facilitate the transition towards open publishing models," promotes equitable access not only by making the SEGC books available to readers across the globe, but also by enabling all authors in the series to make their books openly available regardless of their institutional affiliations or resources.
In addition, UW Libraries works with providers like Manifold to address the accessibility of open-access tools for all users. Working collaboratively with UW Libraries and UW Accessible IT, the Manifold team significantly improved accessibility features in the platform, helping to ensure open access for all.
OA Week on Campus
UW Libraries is hosting special events and information sessions during Open Access Week. This year's theme, "Open for Whom?," invites us to consider equity in open access.
Accessibility Pop-Up Tables – Explore your favorite websites using assistive technologies to better understand the everyday experiences of disabled members of our community.
Tuesday, Oct. 22, noon–2:00 p.m. outside the HUB if the weather is good, inside the HUB if the weather is bad
Wednesday, Oct. 23, noon–2:00 p.m. in the Allen Library Research Commons
Copyright and Creative Commons Licenses – If you need photos, music, or other media for a project and are unsure about copyright restrictions, join us for this one-hour primer. Learn how the Creative Commons helps creators share and use media.
Tuesday, Oct. 22, 3:00–4:00 p.m. in the Allen Library Research Commons
Wednesday, Oct. 23, 3:00–4:00 p.m. in the Allen Library Research Commons
Open Media – This Guide to Open Resources will connect you with media you can use without charge.
Open Educational Resources (OER) – See this Guide to OER to learn how to find and create open textbooks and courses.
Open Access at UW Press – Finally, be sure to check out the open editions of SEGC books as well as the Digital Projects page of the UW Press website for more information about the press's open-access work.
This entry was posted in News and tagged Interntaional Open Access Week, OA, Open Access, Studies on Ethnic Groups in China on October 21, 2019 by UWP Publicity.
"John Okada: The Life & Rediscovered Work of the Author of No-No Boy" wins the 2019 American Book Award!
We are thrilled to announce that John Okada: The Life & Rediscovered Work of the Author of No-No Boy edited by Frank Abe, Greg Robinson, and Floyd Cheung is a winner of the Before Columbus Foundation's 2019 American Book Awards.
This compelling collection offers the first full-length examination of John Okada's development as an artist, placing recently discovered writing by Okada alongside essays that reassess his lasting legacy.
Part of the University of Washington Press's Classics of Asian American Literature series, No-No Boy, John Okada's only published novel, centers on a Japanese American who refuses to fight for the country that incarcerated him and his people in World War II and, upon release from federal prison after the war, is cast out by his divided community. In 1957, the novel faced a similar rejection until it was rediscovered and reissued in 1976 to become a celebrated classic of American literature. As a result of Okada's untimely death at age forty-seven, the author's life and other works have remained obscure.
With meticulously researched biographical details, insight from friends and relatives, and a trove of intimate photographs, this volume is an essential companion to No-No Boy that illuminates Okada's early life in Seattle, military service, and careers as a public librarian, aerospace technical writer, and ad man.
Upon receiving the award, co-editors Frank Abe, Greg Robinson, and Floyd Cheung spoke about Okada's legacy and impact, former University of Washington Press winners, and the significance of receiving this award.
"No-No Boy became a foundational work in the emerging field of Asian American Studies when the Combined Asian American Resources Project (CARP) rediscovered it in the early 70s," said Abe. "It joined a broader literary movement that included establishment of the Before Columbus Foundation itself, so to now have our study of John Okada honored by the foundation brings us full circle. I hope this recognition brings new readers to Okada's novel as well as our own book, which opens new avenues of scholarship for a new generation of students."
Cheung added, "If the Before Columbus Foundation were around in 1957, when No-No Boy was published, I imagine that Okada's novel would have won the American Book Award. I interpret this honor as a posthumous prize for John Okada as well as a kind acknowledgment of the work that Frank, Greg, and I did to tell the story of his life and recover his unknown works."
"In 1984 Miné Okubo won the American Book Award for the University of Washington Press edition of Citizen 13660, her powerful graphic memoir of Japanese American camp life," Robinson said. "Now, 35 years later, John Okada has won that same award. It makes me even more proud to feel that Frank, Floyd and I are following in Okubo's footsteps."
Since the 1970s, the University of Washington Press has published great works of Asian American literature, including America Is in the Heart, Citizen 13660, No-No Boy, Nisei Daughter, as well as the third edition of Aiiieeeee! (forthcoming in October 2019)—the anthology that reintroduced No-No Boy to readers in 1974 with an excerpted chapter and whose enthusiastic reception prompted CARP to reprint the entire novel in 1976. Launched in 2014, the Classics of Asian American Literature series ensures that current and future generations of readers will have access to significant, foundational titles for years to come, and the press continues to seek opportunities to elevate key voices in Asian American literary history.
The American Book Awards were created to provide recognition for outstanding literary achievement from the entire spectrum of America's diverse literary community. The purpose of the awards is to recognize literary excellence without limitations or restrictions. With no quotas for diversity, the winners list simply reflects diversity as a natural process. The Before Columbus Foundation views American culture as inclusive and has always considered the term "multicultural" to be not a description of various categories, groups, or "special interests," but rather as the definition of all of American literature.
The 2019 American Book Award winners will be formally recognized on Friday, November 1, 2019, from 1:00-4:00 p.m. at the Koret Auditorium, San Francisco Public Library, 100 Larkin St., San Francisco, CA. This event is open to the public.
This entry was posted in Asian American Studies, Biography, Fiction, News and tagged American Book Award, Before Columbus Foundation, Classics of Asian American Literature, Floyd Cheung, Frank Abe, Greg Robinson, John Okada, No-No Boy on August 23, 2019 by UWP Publicity.
$1,205,000 Mellon grant to expand the University Press Diversity Fellowship Program
The University of Washington Press, the MIT Press, Cornell University Press, the Ohio State University Press, University of Chicago Press, Northwestern University Press, and the Association of University Presses (AUPresses) join forces to expand the University Press Diversity Fellowship Program.
A four-year, $1,205,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has been awarded to the University of Washington Press to support the continued development and expansion of the pipeline program designed to diversify academic publishing by offering apprenticeships in acquisitions departments. This new grant will provide for three annual cycles of editorial fellows at six university presses: the University of Washington Press, the MIT Press, Cornell University Press, the Ohio State University Press, University of Chicago Press, and Northwestern University Press.
This new grant builds on the success of the initial 2016 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, which funded the first cross-press initiative of its kind in the United States to address the marked lack of diversity in the academic publishing industry. Graduates of the first fellowship program hold professional positions at university presses across the country, including at Columbia University Press, the MIT Press, University of Virginia Press, the Ohio State University Press, and the University of Washington Press. Additionally, for the four participating presses, the initial grant expanded applicant pools, improved outreach to underrepresented communities, created more equitable preliminary screening practices in hiring, and enabled dedicated attention to diversity, equity, and inclusion overall.
The 2016 grant also served as a catalyst for broader changes at the partner presses and within the AUPresses as a larger organization. "Diversity is one of AUPresses' core values. As such, we are proud to partner in the expansion of this significant program," says AUPresses Executive Director Peter Berkery. "Our participation in the original initiative over the last three years has led, not only to more inclusive programming choices at our annual conferences and webinars, but also to the formation of a Diversity and Inclusion Task Force, which will evolve into a Standing Committee to help us sustain momentum in this area of vital importance to our community, higher education, and the entire publishing industry."
This new grant offers opportunities for more sustained engagement with issues of diversity, equity, and inclusion among the new partner presses and the university press community more broadly. "Continuing the fellowship program will enable us to focus on longer-term issues of retention and leadership development among the program's participants," says Larin McLaughlin, Editor in Chief of the University of Washington Press and principal investigator on the grant. "With this new grant, we want to provide the opportunity for new presses to participate in the program while benefitting from the experience of the original partner presses."
Gita Manaktala, Editorial Director of the MIT Press, comments, "The fellows have inspired a strong sense of responsibility among partner presses, which have demonstrated this in several ways: by developing more inclusive press environments, by opening processes to welcome the fellows' perspectives and input into the daily work of acquisitions, and by providing fellows with focused career advice for job placement and professional development."
The first and second grants combined provide for a total of 30 fellows in six years, which will generate marked shifts in acquisitions staff across university presses not possible without this kind of dedicated funding.
Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs at the University of Washington Mark Richards says, "At the University of Washington, we value and honor diverse experiences and perspectives and prioritize promoting access, opportunity, and justice for all. I'm excited about the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation's investment in diversity and inclusion in transforming academic publishing, and delighted that UW Press is a leader in this area."
Betsy Wilson, Vice Provost for Digital Initiatives and Dean of University Libraries, to whom the UW Press reports, says, "UW Libraries actively supports the university in sustaining diversity, creating inclusive experiences for the UW community, and confronting institutional bias and structural racism. This new grant augments our existing commitments and programs to equity and social justice as a world-class research university."
For more information, please contact Larin McLaughlin, Editor in Chief, by calling (206) 221-4995 or emailing lmclaugh@uw.edu.
This entry was posted in News, UW Press News and tagged Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, AUPresses, Cornell University Press, Mellon grant, Mellon University Press Diversity Fellowship, Northwestern University Press, the MIT Press, the Ohio State Univeristy Press, University of Chicago Press, University of Washington Press, University Press Diversity Fellowship on January 23, 2019 by UWP Publicity.
2018 PubWest Book Design Award Winners
The University of Washington Press has the pleasure of announcing that three of our titles received 2018 PubWest Book Design Awards. The program was developed 34 years ago to recognize the superior design and outstanding production quality of books. Our talented Art Director, Katrina Noble, will be presented with custom-engraved medallions and certificates to honor her incredible work.
Silver Award, Historical / Biographical Book
"American Sabor presented a unique design challenge: it was in both Spanish and English, and the two languages ran concurrently with only one set of images, which meant that I had to find a balance on every spread that kept both languages roughly in sync while spreading the many images, quotes, sidebars, and icons throughout. I wanted to find a way to set the Spanish-language pages off from the English while also making it feel like a cohesive reading experience. The book also had to feel immersive and lively, as it was based on an exhibit that appeared at MoPOP (formerly EMP) and the authors wanted the book to feel like an evolution of the experience of the museum exhibit." —Katrina Noble
Bronze Award, Historical / Biographical Book
"The Art of Resistance, in comparison to American Sabor, is a relatively straightforward book with a slightly subversive topic. The book design grew out of the cover design, which uses a painting from one of the artists featured in the book. The cover has a subtle tension that I wanted to carry through the whole book, so I brought the diagonal red line into the interior design as a theme reflecting the artists' subtle resistance to the strict constraints placed on them by Mao's regime." —Katrina Noble
North: Finding Place in Alaska
by Julie Decker
Co-published with Anchorage Museum
Bronze Award, Art Book
North was designed by Laura Shaw Book Design.
This entry was posted in Book Design, News, UW Press News and tagged PubWest on June 29, 2018 by UWP Publicity.
Announcing the 2018–2019 Mellon University Press Diversity Fellows
SEATTLE, WA — The University of Washington Press, the MIT Press, Duke University Press, the University of Georgia Press, and the Association of University Presses (AUPresses) today announce the recipients of the 2018–2019 Mellon University Press Diversity Fellowships.
The Mellon University Press Diversity Fellowship was established in 2016 by the four university presses and the AUPresses as the first cross-press initiative of its kind in the United States to address the marked lack of diversity in the academic publishing industry. The initiative seeks to create a pipeline program of academic publishing professionals with significant personal experience and engagement with diverse communities and a demonstrated ability to bring the understanding gleaned from such engagement to bear on their daily work.
The program provides professional and financial support to cohorts of four fellows per year for three years. The yearlong appointments offer each fellow immersive, on-the-job training along with one-on-one mentoring and opportunities for networking and professional development. Fellows are given the opportunity to connect with one another and meet industry colleagues at two AUPresses annual meetings. Please join us in welcoming the 2018–2019 fellows!
The 2018–2019 Mellon University Press Diversity Fellows:
Caitlin Tyler-Richards joins the University of Washington Press from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she is a PhD candidate in African history. Her research focuses on recentering Africa in book history, world literature, and popular fiction scholarship. Towards that end, her dissertation is a born-digital project on the shape of local and transnational fiction networks in Nigeria from 1945 to the present. She also enjoys speculative fiction from the global South, action movies featuring impossible white men, and defining "digital humanities." Until recently, she lived in Missoula, Montana, with her partner and two dogs.
Jenny Tan joins Duke University Press from the University of California, Berkeley, where she is currently completing her PhD in comparative literature and medieval studies. Her scholarly work focuses on French medieval narratives and their reception in other language traditions. At Berkeley she has actively worked to challenge some of the disciplinary and institutional barriers that have reinforced the exclusion of questions of race and gender from medieval studies (and have made the field notably hostile to women and people of color). She also recently helped to organize an event on "Decolonizing Medieval Studies."
Lea Johnson joins the University of Georgia Press from the University of California, San Diego, where she is a digital curator and PhD candidate in ethnic studies. Growing up between Los Angeles and Natchitoches, Louisiana, Lea developed an interest in circuits of culture and how black women negotiate space. Her interests include African American literature, the transnational South, and black feminist literary criticism. Currently, her dissertation explores race, gender, and the speculative literary imagination in the US South. She has also taught classes on the intersection of culture, art, and technology, helping students develop and experiment with creative projects across digital mediums. Her favorite books are Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God and Audre Lorde's Zami: A New Spelling of My Name.
Nhora Lucía Serrano joins MIT Press from Hamilton College, where she has been a visiting assistant professor of comparative literature teaching interdisciplinary courses in visual narratives, virtual realities, cartography, and Latin America. Her recent professional experience and awards also include visiting scholar of comparative literature at Harvard University, 2018 Eisner Comic Industry Award judge, treasurer of the Comics Studies Society, Smithsonian National Postal Museum fellowship, and NEH Summer Institute on Modernism in Chicago. Originally from Colombia, she received her BA from Amherst College, MA from New York University, and PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her scholarly work and editorial experience focus on visual studies and graphic arts books, comparative early modern and Latin American studies, digital humanities and technology, transnationalism, US Latinx studies, and immigration.
The fellowship program is generously funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation with a four-year $682,000 grant.
This entry was posted in AUPresses, News, UW Press News on June 5, 2018 by UWP Publicity.
UW Press joins UW Libraries
SEATTLE, WA, February 21, 2018 – Starting March 1, 2018, the University of Washington Press will join the UW Libraries and report to the vice provost of digital initiatives and dean of University Libraries, Lizabeth (Betsy) Wilson.
Lizabeth (Betsy) Wilson (Credit: Cass Redstone)
The Press and the Libraries currently collaborate on a number of joint initiatives including exploration of digital publishing platforms, open access publishing, open educational resources development, and support for digital scholarship. The Press has also published a number of books in association with the Libraries including Rural China on the Eve of Revolution; Mary Randlett Portraits; Roots and Reflections: South Asians in the Pacific Northwest; and Shadows of a Fleeting World: Pictorial Photography of the Seattle Camera Club.
"The Press and the Libraries share a complementary mission and vision for the creation, dissemination, and preservation of knowledge," said Wilson. "I am excited to welcome the Press to the Libraries."
Nicole Mitchell, UW Press director, is equally enthusiastic about this new partnership. "My colleagues and I look forward to working more closely with the Libraries as we explore ways to support and make discoverable new forms of scholarship. We're excited about the opportunities to learn from each other and share our expertise."
Nicole Mitchell (Credit: Hayley Young)
The Press has for many years reported to the vice provost and dean of the UW Graduate School, and In recent years has expanded its publishing program, garnered many prestigious awards, and received major funding, including most recently significant grants from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation: one to establish the Mellon University Press Diversity Fellowship program and another to create, with UBC Press, a new model for multi-path digital works in Indigenous studies in collaboration with local communities.
"The future of scholarly communication creates a need to explore new models of publishing and authorship," said Gerald (Jerry) Baldasty, provost and executive vice president of the UW. "A strengthened partnership between one of the nation's leading research libraries and one of the oldest and most esteemed presses in the United States will engender an even deeper sharing of expertise and increased innovation."
About the University of Washington Press
Established in 1920, the University of Washington Press supports the university's research, education, and outreach missions by publishing important new work for an international community of scholars, students, and intellectually curious readers. As one of the largest book publishers in the Pacific Northwest, the Press is known for both its groundbreaking scholarly lists and broad range of regional books for general readers. About the University of Washington Libraries
The University of Washington Libraries is a network of 16 academic research libraries serving three campuses: Seattle, UW Bothell, and UW Tacoma, and is home to the largest library collection in the Pacific Northwest with over 9 million books, journals, and digital resources. The Libraries' mission is to advance intellectual discovery and enrich the quality of life by connecting people with knowledge. Media Contacts:
Casey LaVela, Publicity Director, University of Washington Press, kclavela@uw.edu 206-221-4994
A.C. Petersen, Libraries Communications Officer, UW Libraries, acpete@uw.edu 206-543-9389
This entry was posted in From the Desk of the Director, News, UW Press News and tagged University of Washington Libraries, University of Washington Press, UW Libraries, UW Press on February 21, 2018 by uwpressblog.