At any writing conference, the interview with an agent, or editor, is the most nerve-wrenching, anxiety-ridden, nightmare-inducing few minutes a writer will have. The best way to prepare for an agent interview, and reduce the nerves, anxiety, and nightmares, can be boiled down to one piece of advice: give 'em what they want.
If you have never attended a writer's conference, I need to explain that usually your attendance fee covers the opportunity to schedule appointments with editors and agents. You pitch your writing project in the hopes someone will want to work with you to get it published. Each conference has its own rules about how many interviews you can get and how long each is.
For the American Christian Fiction Writers conference, all the editors and agents are listed on the conference page with what kind of writing they want to see and what materials you need to bring to the interview. You sign up when you fill out your attendance form. You may ask for as many as eight appointments, but you only get two to four, and you don't know who you will be seeing until you arrive at the conference. Another conference I attended only allowed you to sign up when you arrived at the venue.
No matter what the rules are, you must research the people you want to see to find out what they want. One agent might want to read your first chapter. Another might want a 1-page synopsis. Another requests a one-sheet. If you don't know what a one-sheet is, click here. Because I don't know who I am going to see at ACFW until I arrive at the conference, I have to prepare a lot of materials, so I have exactly what the editor or agent asked for.
I also research what kind of writing the editors and agents want. Usually it's listed on the conference site, but you can also check out the sites of the publishing houses and literary agencies these people work for. I write Christian YA. Not a lot of agents represent that. So I only sign up for the agents who state on the conference website that they are looking for it.
There is a myth, perpetuated by Hollywood, I believe, that a genius of the arts, whether in writing, music, or visual arts, makes it to the big-time by breaking all the rules because they are so talented they don't need to follow the rules.
I've been to enough conferences to realize that if I don't follow the rules, no one in the publishing industry will want to work with me. Pitching a YA novel to an agent who only represents nonfiction will get me nowhere and will show the agent I am not professional. Writing is an art; publishing is a business. Editors and agents set up these rules because they are looking for writers with whom they can have a successful business relationship. Even if they personally love my writing, they will not take me as a client if they don't think they can sell my work.
So if the agent you want to meet says bring me three sample chapters, you do it. If she only wants adult novels, you do not sign up so you pitch your self-help book. If she wants to you dress up as the main character of your scifi dystopian novel for the appointment, as unlikely as that is, you do it. Or if you think that's ridiculous, you don't do it. This business relationship is a two-way street. So many writers are so desperate to break into publishing that they will take any agent who offers them a contract. But you don't want to get stuck with an agent you can't stand. I have had interviews where I get a very strong feeling I would not work well with this person's particular personality.
If you have had interviews with agents and editors at conferences, what advice would you give writers attending a conference for the first time?


in the social popularity game, criticism is a negative.
in the truth-seeking game, criticism is a positive.
you can get an idea of which game people are playing by their reactions to criticism.
if someone wants public praise and private criticism, they may be trying to play both games. but the games contradict, and the contradiction will destroy them.
what a vague, unargued comment.
maybe Anon actually believes the crap he said?
seems like he's implying that morality hurts.
like, doing what's right is coercive.
> like, doing what's right is coercive.
so they think that *changing one's mind* hurts.
> so they think that *changing one's mind* hurts.
correction: they *actually* do get hurt. but that's because they have certain bad ideas that try to resist change.
the point is that people don't have to have ideas that try to resist change. if you already have them, it's possible to change.
how do you change ideas that resist change?
what ideas change ideas that resist change?
> how do you change ideas that resist change?
being *persistent* and *thorough* helps.
don't just refute the bad idea with an argument, still like it or do it, and think you're stuck.
refute it with 20 arguments. and make each one really good, serious, detailed, accurate, etc. find 20 things wrong with the idea you want to change and write them all down in full edited polished detail.
and expose your arguments to criticism. can anyone find anything at all wrong with them?
can you think of a single counter-argument that isn't *fully* addressed? even if it's not great.
doing stuff like this makes a difference. people routinely think they know the answer without actually looking at the issue enough. they don't change because they still have arguments for both sides they haven't sorted out. they still have things they like about the idea they are trying to drop, which they haven't refuted.
i'm not saying that doing all this will 100% solve all problems. but it's a great thing to try. it will solve some problems and partly solve some more. and you'll learn a lot while doing it that will be useful in lots of other ways (e.g. you'll get better at analyzing ideas, judging criticisms, writing well, etc).
people think it's hard to change some idea and get stuck and **give up** way too easily. they didn't do everything they could do.
if you did all this and you were still stuck, there would *still* be plenty of good things to try next. you could brainstorm stuff to try, and make a list of 20 options, and polish those and expose those to critical discussion, and then try some of those. if you couldn't think of 20 options, something's wrong, which you could investigate.
i think this is really really really good advice. reminding yourself that you should just "do X" or "stop doing Y" doesn't address the underlying ideas.
like curi says here, you really need to write stuff down. A LOT. expose much of it to external crit, but expose all of it to lots and lots of self-crit - which happens as you write and think. if you don't write it out in full detail, you are sheltering parts from crit. no wonder changes don't stick!
i think having vague ideas really is the enemy here.
mb even read the stuff you write every day. add more ideas to it that you think of with each new day.
look carefully for instances where you fail or were close to failing and GO WRITE ABOUT IT.
pay close attention to your ideas throughout the day. what's going thru your head? are any of those ideas related to whatever issue you are trying to change?
ideas which are thought of (even if not acted on) MATTER. Make them explicit and come up with *replacements* if they are mistaken. Rather than suppress them and just focus on not enacting them, you need to explicitly address them.
So say you want to change your ideas about eating and you notice yourself thinking something like "i'm bored and wanna get a snack." Rather than just telling yourself "don't eat unless hungry"....use that opportunity to write in full-detail as many criticisms as you can think of about eating when bored. If that idea keeps popping in your head like that, you still have parts of you that think it's a good idea. And that part isn't going to be persuaded with "don't eat unless hungry".
same thing with other issues too. like are you paying close enuf attention to try to catch every idea related to second-handedness? or not thinking all probs are solvable? or having a low standard and accepting a compromise vs a cp? or assuming a conclusion in advance? etc.
also, i wouldn't focus too much on other areas either. really zone in for a whole week or so on whatever your particular issue is and write and think as much as you can about it. i guess just don't spread yourself too thin.
don't assume the conclusion – assume in advance that the idea is false. you need to look at it as open-ended solution-seeking, not just trying to make the one predetermined outcome (drop that idea) happen. you don't know the answer in advance. if you already knew the answer, you wouldn't have a problem.
why do you need 20 arguments to criticize an idea?
why do you need criticism from others?
why dismiss non-hunger eating as something ppl do only when bored?
often they do it when something interesting is going on.
how do true ideas resist criticism differently than false ideas?
how can one tell the difference?
> why do you need 20 arguments to criticize an idea?
you don't **need* 20, but it really helps you think over the issues better to think of a bunch instead of just 1 or 2. you'll learn more. it's practical advice.
> why do you need criticism from others?
you have blind spots, weaknesses, stuff you're bad at, stuff you're irrational about, stuff you're confused about.
other people have differences. even a person who is much worse than you overall won't share **all** of your weaknesses. other people will have some strengths, skills, specialities, variety of perspective, etc, that can provide value to you. they can catch some things you missed.
> how do true ideas resist criticism differently than false ideas?
you can get some hints when people with an idea are evading instead of explaining.
> how can one tell the difference?
>> why do you need criticism from others?
> you have blind spots, weaknesses, stuff you're bad at, stuff you're irrational about, stuff you're confused about.
isn't her idea against criticism?
i think she's wrong about some of that. i guess maybe you do too.


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"Nargaroth" INTERVIEW by Keith Clements
Greetings from MHF, How are you and how's things out there in your country?
I am doing okay. I am living far away now, so I ignore what happens to the world.
"Era of Threnody" came out last month, What do you feel about the outcome of this album?
The album reflects and expresses perfectly what I had to process with it, what makes it a potent and useful album to me.
Most of the fans feel a new "Nargaroth" in the new album, what according to you is this change all about?
On what you base that statement? Did you speak to most of the fans? Or do you just display your own opinion or just the opinion of a few, that posted something in the internet? I get annoyed by such generalized assumptions or statements. In my opinion there is no change in NARGAROTH at all. I did melodic albums before. I did good quality studio albums before. I did challenging elements in my albums before. So, where is the "New" in all of it? The new album follows the tradition that no album shall resemble another, because new experiences that get to expressed by it, gonna sound different and not always the same. The new album is no experiment, no experimental attempt and not a new way of NARGAROTH, but the continuation of the old NARGAROTH tradition. Don't expect a similar album or anything else. The more you expect, the more you'll be disappointing. Any following album gonna be different – in any way.
You feel like a solitary man and you always said that you were in the wrong place, what has brought on these feelings? How do you feel at this moment in time?
I do not mix well among others and feel more comfortable being alone or with close people. I grew up on a farm, that is where I feel okay, that is the way I live. On my land, far away from others. I feel misplaced in the nowadays world, that is dictated by (false) democrats and (fascistic) liberals and mental illnesses, that I am not only forced to accept, but to support openly or I get kicked out of society (jobs and so on). Every day I see the news I get the feeling old timers like me, with old values and traditional family pictures are not only outdated, but unwanted and the new evil in the world. I am tired of this nowadays world with its sick attempt destroy all I hold dear and stand for. I won't change, because I don't share the nowadays worlds view.
Years back you mentioned that "The European Scene is Dead" and there is no place for you to dwell, what made you say that, has things changed for you since then?
The scene is filled with envy, fake images and more and more non-metallions that dare to judge people like me or Black Metal in general and make it to a tamed, insignificant art to sell it to more and more kids that might like certain images, but can't identify with metal at all. Lies, internet scandals, fast food music, fake images and artificial bands – all that is what I despise. I stand for authenticity even if that meant to display mishaps and mistakes. Nargaroth never been on major festivals, magazines or labels and still I am here and known. Many fake magazine cover balloons are gone as fast as they were pushed up. Authenticity will always prevail in the end.
You have always been a man of your vision and lived through it all your life, you never cared what others say or think about you, what molded you to have these characteristics?
Well, probably the way I got raised. Also from the start I was more an outsider and I followed my dreams even though other found it silly. When I want or envision something, I do all to make it happen. I don't want opportunities and greatness in this short life pass by only because I am lazy or scared. I have seen great things around the world most people only dream or talk (lie) about. That's why I don't take most critic seriously, as they haven't seen what I have seen or dared what I have dared. I am not saying I live right, I just say I live the way I live best.
There have been times when you have got angry with the audience for not being so black metal and you have vented your anger by doing certain things, why did you choose to do something like that to your loyal fans and who have come to see you perform, respectively?
First of all, not all visitors are loyal fans. Second, that's the problem with nowadays BM. Its tamed and predictable. That wasn't that way in the 90's, when you often didn't know if you get home unharmed. Black Metal is indecent, so people shall not expect a safe space. Yet, nothing I ever did endangered anyone. So keep calm.
Nargaroth's music is made of hatred, sadness, Insanity, melancholy and it's all connected to emotions, does it actually reveal your inner self or it's just a muse or an act for Black metal?
Aside that you forgot Love, Hope and Consolation, if you really think that "just a muse or an act for Black metal" would be even in its slightest possible in NARGAROTH, then you are wrong here. In my 20 years history I have proven my authenticity! Therefore I don't have to answer this question.
According to you the modern day black metal is full of fakes and lies and not so true and you have said Nargaroth has followed the true spirit of Black Metal, can you tell us what has gone wrong in terms of Black Metal and what exactly do you see in being a Black Metal artist?
See therefore my answer to why the BM scene is dead.
You always called black metal as an art rather than a genre of metal music, can you please explain about it, there would be a lot who would really love to hear this?
A music genre is nothing but a label. A category. Considering what Black Metal means to people and what international impact Black Metal has in so many walks of lives (including outside the metal community) shows that we are dealing with something bigger than just another genre. Its an art of expression.
Thanks very much for your time and the patience to answer my questions, do you have a message for the fans around the world?
Ignore the media, make up your own mind. If you want to support ANY band, try to get original merchandise instead of just download for free. Being a fan shows substance in actions and not just a shallow Facebook post.
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Woman grows up to reject parents' anti-vaxxer belief, shares viral pic of shot record
Woman posts her first vaccine record: "My parents denied me vaccinations as a child. Today, I was finally able to take my health into my own hands!"
Woman grows up to reject parents' anti-vaxxer belief, shares viral pic of shot record Woman posts her first vaccine record: "My parents denied me vaccinations as a child. Today, I was finally able to take my health into my own hands!" Check out this story on USATODAY.com: https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/allthemoms/2019/01/06/woman-rejects-parents-anti-vaccination-belief-got-all-her-vaccinations-viral-reddit-post/2496193002/
Sonja Haller, USA TODAY Published 5:52 p.m. ET Jan. 6, 2019
A woman raised by anti-vaxxers sparked debate when she reconsidered their choices as an adult. (Photo: Getty Images)
A woman shared her first and only immunization record after her parents shunned childhood vaccinations.
The Redditor headlined the photo: "My parents denied me vaccinations as a child. Today, I was finally able to take my health into my own hands!"
The viral posting has 174,000 upvotes and more than 5,600 comments.
The post evoked heaps of praise.
"Thank you for doing this!" wrote one poster. "I have autoimmune disorders that make my vaccinations pretty much useless, and herd immunity allows me to survive without fearing these preventable diseases."
Wrote another: "Thank you for caring about the rest of humanity and congratulations on getting vaccinated. I hope the shots didn't hurt too much and that you don't have any crummy side effects."
The Redditor said that after three shots in each arm during a single visit, she was relaxing at home with her cat and playing video games. But she felt flu-like, with muscle aches and twitching.
Her records show she received vaccines for hepatitis A, hepatitis B, tetanus, MMR (measles, mumps and rubella), chickenpox and human papillomavirus (HPV).
But she's heard from haters, too
The woman, who InVerse interviewed and identified as being in her mid-20s, said in her post that she had been "getting a lot of pretty mean messages." There were several posts that implied her immunization record was nothing more than an advertisement for the pharmaceutical industry.
This poster cautioned readers that science is often fallible.
First step: 'Talking to my doctor'
A young woman who said her parents rejected vaccination for her as a child said she decided to get immunized after talking with her doctor. (Photo: Getty Images)
The woman uses the handle ToddmanHorseboy, a reference to the TV show "BoJack Horseman."
When asked by Redditors why her parents didn't vaccinate her, the woman said her parents listed three reasons: "Autism," "you don't know what's in them" and "against my religion."
Comment from discussion ToddmanHorseboy's comment from discussion "My parents denied me vaccinations as a child. Today, I was finally able to take my health into my own hands!".
Other adult commenters on Reddit asked how she went about getting vaccinated, saying they, too, were considering being immunized.
The woman told InVerse, who chose to keep her identity private, that she hopes the viral post will encourage others to investigate their own choices.
"I just want those people to know it is not as scary as I thought it would be. Talking to my doctor was the first step."
Beauty blogger mom calls out Kat Von D for anti-vaccine stance with heartwrenching story
Kat Von D stirs controversy after saying she'll raise a 'vegan child, without vaccinations'
Australian parents who don't vaccinate will be fined as a 'constant reminder' they should
Parents plan unsafe chickenpox party. One parent 'swamped with requests' to share disease
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By Mahroh Jahangiri • @mahrohj • 4 years ago
Weekly Feminist Cheat Sheet
It feels utterly bizarre to write this: this is our last cheat sheet of 2017. Here is what we're reading before ringing in the new year.
This year, Maha Hilal writes, has "shaped a new era of overt Islamophobia in American politics." Here are five ways the administration waged war at home and abroad.
If you've been following the discussion between Ta-Nehesi Coates and Cornel West like I have, this piece from Opal Tometi and Naomi Klein was a very welcome read: "Forget Coates vs. West," they write, "we all have a duty to confront the full reach of U.S. empire."
The Trump administration is blocking two more immigrant teenagers from seeking abortion care.
Seven Dreamers, including Bernie's former press secretary, were arrested protesting for a clean DREAM Act in Senator Schumer's office and had gone on hunger strike. Unfortunately, our electeds are cruel and Congress is going home this year — with the help of many Democrats — without doing anything to protect the thousands of undocumented youth at risk of deportation.
Do read this conversation between Lauren Chief Elk and Tina Vasquez about how the 'dv as a precursor to mass shootings' narratives facilitates victim blaming and minimizes gender violence.
Also, well worth the read: this op-ed from Rebecca Cokely on race and disability. Rebecca is a white little person, who is expecting a third child, married to a Black average height man with two children who are little people. More on pregnancy: here's how stress of experiencing racism leads black babies to be over twice as likely as white babies to die in their first year of life. Also, pregnant women in Colorado with due dates in February have been told that, unless Children's Health Insurance Program (or CHIP) funding is restored, their health coverage will expire before they give birth.
Before Alex Kozinski, before Harvey Weinstein, before Bill Clinton, there was Clarence Thomas.
An incredible win: a jury acquitted the first "J20 defendants" on all charges. Their arrest — along with over 200 others — in DC for protesting Trump's Inauguration was a clear (AND ABSOLUTELY TERRIFYING) attempt by the government to criminalize protest and threaten the First Amendment. Here's how you can support the others awaiting trial.
Here's to more wins in 2018 — and a stronger feminist movement that challenges each of the systems in the way of people surviving in and outside of this country.
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Faculty React to the Supreme Court's Reversal of 'Roe v. Wade'
Following the court's decision overturning the constitutional right to an abortion, several Columbia Law faculty have been providing expert analysis and commentary in major media outlets.
Katherine M. Franke
Olatunde C. Johnson
Carol Sanger
Meet the 2022 J.D. and LL.M. Postgraduate Public Interest Fellows
Columbia Law School graduates have received prestigious fellowships that support positions in public interest and public service organizations.
Post Graduate Fellowships
Kathryn Judge Has a Vision for Shorter Supply Chains and a More Humane Economy
In her new book, Direct: The Rise of the Middleman Economy and the Power of Going to the Source, the Columbia Law professor weaves together her expertise in financial regulation and her experiences as a conscientious yet conflicted consumer.
Kathryn Judge
Meet 'Columbia Law Review' Editor in Chief Jeffrey Rivas '23
The head of the prestigious journal is taking steps to diversify its membership.
Columbia Law Review
How I Got Here: Makalika Naholowa'a '10
Makalika Naholowa'a is executive director of Native Hawaiian Legal Corporation in Honolulu.
A Conversation With Out-Spoken Professor Katherine Franke
The founder of Columbia Law School's pioneering Center for Gender and Sexuality Law brings an intersectional perspective to her teaching, scholarship, and advocacy on issues such as abortion, LGBTQ+ rights, gender equality, religious liberty, and reparations for African Americans.
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Message From the Dean: A Year of Resilience and Reactivation
As the academic year comes to a close, Dean Lester reflects on the milestones and accomplishments of the past year and looks ahead to the future.
In Memoriam: Morton L. Janklow '53, Preeminent Literary Agent
The Medal for Excellence winner and member of the Dean's Council dies at 91.
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Alumni Tribute
Classes of 2020 and 2021 Cross the Stage and Celebrate Together
After two years of virtual ceremonies, Law School alumni donned their tams for a special in-person celebration of their graduations.
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Through the new project, a team of scholars and experts will examine and propose legal frameworks for the management of international claims and reparations.


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Archive for the 'Oligarchy' Category
Elite Failure and Populist Trump It
[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. "zen"]
GOP Front Runner, Donald J. Trump
A friend sent an essay by the prolific IR scholar, Professor Angelo Codevilla that had been posted at Powerline Blog. It was good.
For the unfamiliar, Codevilla often writes on national security and intelligence matters and some readers may be familiar with his (with Paul Seabury) book, War: Ends and Means ; but in recent years Codevilla has, like Walter Russell Mead and a number of other intellectuals, turned his attention to the shoddy performance, ethical deficiencies and arrogant demands of the new American "ruling class", writing a biting critique of their "meritocratic regime".
In his essay for Powerline, Codevilla turns his attention to the political phenomenon of the improbable GOP presidential front runner, billionaire and reality TV star, Donald Trump. Unsurprisingly, Dr. Codevilla is not a huge fan of the bombastic Mr. Trump, but his analysis of why Trump has captured the moment so easily has some astute insights about the decaying state of our political system and the seething anger of the electorate:
Does Trump trump?
"In the land of the blind," so goes the saying, "the one-eyed man is king." Donald Trump leapt atop other contenders for the Republican presidential nomination when he acted on the primordial fact in American public life today, from which most of the others hide their eyes, namely: most Americans distrust, fear, are sick and tired of, the elected, appointed, and bureaucratic officials who rule over us, as well as their cronies in the corporate, media, and academic world. Trump's attraction lies less in his words' grace or even precision than in the extent to which Americans are searching for someone, anyone, to lead against this ruling class, that is making America less prosperous, less free, and more dangerous.
Trump's rise reminds this class's members that they sit atop a rumbling volcano of rejection. Republicans and Democrats hope to exorcise its explosion by telling the public that Trump's remarks on immigration and on the character of fellow member John McCain (without bothering to try showing that he errs on substance), place him outside the boundaries of their polite society. Thus do they throw Br'er Rabbit into the proverbial briar patch. Now what? The continued rise in Trump's poll numbers reminds all that Ross Perot – in an era that was far more tolerant of the Establishment than is ours – outdistanced both Bush 41 and Bill Clinton before self-destructing, just by speaking ill of both parties before he self destructed
Trump's barest hints about what he opposes (never mind proposes) regarding just a few items on the public agenda have had such effect because they accord with what the public has already concluded about them. For example,Trump remarked, off the cuff, that "Mexico does not send us its best." The public had long since decided that our ruling class's handling of immigration (not just from Mexico) has done us harm. The ruling class – officials, corporations, etc.- booed with generalities but did not try to argue that they had improved America by their handling of immigration. The more they would argue that, the more they would lose. At least if someone more able than Trump were leading against them.
….The point here is simple: our ruling class has succeeded in ruling not by reason or persuasion, never mind integrity, but by occupying society's commanding heights, by imposing itself and its ever-changing appetites on the rest of us. It has coopted or intimidated potential opponents by denying the legitimacy of opposition. Donald Trump, haplessness and clownishness notwithstanding, has shown how easily this regime may be threatened just by refusing to be intimidated.
[Emphasis mine]
Codevilla is right. He may even be understating the nature of the problem, as remarkable as that may seem.
Our bipartisan ruling elite have, in the short space of fifteen years, managed to: lose two wars; collapse at least three states into permanent anarchy; turn Russia into an enemy again; suffer the greatest counterintelligence failures in history; nearly melt down the entire global economy and vastly enrich themselves while presiding over the greatest loss of household wealth for ordinary Americans in history, save for the Great Depression. If that is not a level of incompetence that should disqualify them from public office forever, I'm not sure what would.
Despite this track record of utter failure and brazen venality, our elite have managed to remain firmly in the saddle. Why is this ? In a normal countries they typically have revolutions and coups over far less, but our leaders of both parties managed to cruise from disasters to debacles to win re-election, often by substantial margins.
One reason may be is that the elite, broadly speaking, have managed to restore a substantial degree of control over the information the general public consumes that they had briefly lost in the early 2000's and subsequently narrowed and shape the terms of "acceptable" political debate in American society more than ever before.
Once upon a time, the mass media ecology was relatively simple and politically reflected what historian Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. termed "the vital center" of Cold War liberalism. The New York Times editorial page set the general line for informed opinion and most regional and local papers dutifully fell in line, with the Washington Post, TIME, Newsweek, LIFE and US News & World Report generally critiquing whatever debate the Times had begun in greater depth. The three networks ABC, NBC and CBS by contrast simplified and reinforced these narratives with the immediacy and power of television. The "Fairness Doctrine" effectively made the system an elite monopoly by freezing out dissenting opinions from the Left or Right from radio or television broadcast. Cold War liberalism was de facto defined as a politically neutral position not requiring "equal time". It also represented shared values between most journalists and editors and the American leaders upon whom they reported.
This center began to lose its vitality when liberalism itself became divided over the Vietnam War between hawks and doves and support for various counterculture and cultural liberation movements; the media landscape began to shift and diversify after the Reagan administration terminated the fairness doctrine and the rise of cable news and talk radio. The era of wailing by the gatekeepers really commenced though with the rise of the blogosphere and the early days of social media which contributed to and coincided with the implosion of the newspaper publishing industry as ad revenue tanked. For a while, the internet meant that the elite lost control of the conversation, carefully constructed media scams were outed, scandals were discovered and online tsunamis of anger came down on the once high and mighty.
Elite control over discourse has been reestablished to a degree, not as a monopoly but as a loose hegemony based on the principles of Co-option, Coordination and Coercion.
The media elite are now fully integrated into the political and economic elite, intermarrying with them, sending their kids to the same prep schools, Presidents hiring spouses and siblings of network executives and political aides becoming faux journalists. Its as if James Reston's brother or Walter Cronkite's wife had gone to work for Richard Nixon and their kids to school with John F. Kennedy, Jr. The journalists and editors covertly coordinate news campaigns with each other, politicians, the White House, parties and advocates of causes that they support and when this fails to persuade, the elite like to intimidate. From abusing the powers of government to harass political opponents to whipping up tribal partisan mobs on social media to furiously abuse or dox some hapless private citizen, perhaps trying to ruin their livelihood for daring to express unwelcome of opinions on subjects the elite find distasteful.
And the list of proscribed beliefs and topics grows increasingly long. The following is a partial list of topics or views generally not supposed to be mentioned by candidates, much less debated by the national standards of American politics and mainstream media:
Seeking victory vs. intentionally losing wars
Big donors and corporations which benefit financially from our foreign policy decisions
Criticizing crony capitalism not as vague generalities but as systemic corruption and identifying criminal behavior
Islam's role in terrorist ideologies
Muslim immigrant radicalization and participation in terrorism here and in Europe
Anti-semitism on the Left
Abuse of freedom of speech, freedom of the press and freedom of religion by government officials
Foreign money in our political process and elections
Mass surveillance/"creepy-state" security theater abuses of the rights of American citizens
Violent crime statistics broken down by race, especially rates of violent crime committed by young Black males
Disparities in sentencing broken down by race, especially harsh sentences for young Black males convicted of non-violent or minor offenses
Successful self-defense with a gun (if criminals/terrorists die – so will the story in short order)
Mexico's narco–insurgency and its staggering death toll and ghastly atrocities
Questioning radical feminist ideology's suitability as a premise for public policy
Raising living standards for ordinary Americans as proper intent of government policy
Anti-white male ideology among the elite and Democratic Party; really a crude and reflexive cultural bigotry against middle and working class white males, especially Southerners
That Federal monetary, fiscal and trade policies are intended by design to harm the interests of the American middle-class to the benefit of the very wealthy, large corporations and foreigners
Immigration, esp. illegal immigration or that the Immigration Act of 1965 was intended to change national demographics and drive down wages of skilled professionals and unskilled workers.
Systematically tilting the scales against admitting the children of middle class and working class white and Asian-Americans to elite, "gateway" universities
Erosion of Rule of Law (including the following)
Two sets of standards for prosecution and punishment – one for the elite and one for the rest of us
Government officials abetting and absolving Banksters in criminal conspiracies
Using DOJ/IRS to target political enemies, whistleblowers and journalists
Abuse of government power to steal property
And this is only a partial list.
To do well in the first Republican debate, Donald Trump need only show up and select a few of the more emotionally charged themes and throw them like bombs at the other GOP hopefuls on live television who will scatter but be unable to escape the collateral damage. Trump won't need a plan or a policy or even a reasoned argument because his opponents have no way to talk sensibly about touchy subjects on the minds of millions of voters that their financial backers and the media don't want them to even acknowledge. Harder still if Trump is getting laugh lines in at their expense. All of Trump's vainglorious posturing like a professional wrestling heel aside, the man is absolutely at home in the television medium and comfortable in his own skin (to say nothing of his hair).
A real quandary. Attacking Trump personally, calling him names, ganging up on him or echoing liberal media criticisms will only boost his poll numbers with the GOP base and energize his clown car crash of a presidential campaign to new heights. Having nothing to lose himself with his self-parodying run, no need of campaign donors, Trump cannot be controlled and in a live format could drag down any other candidate with him. Or the Republican Party.
Trump would be an absolutely terrible president – its not even clear that he is serious about wanting the job – but as a candidate he is a walking, talking, club for Joe Sixpack to bludgeon an overweening, corrupt and increasingly authoritarian bipartisan elite.
The beating though is richly deserved and long overdue.
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Ayatollah Khameini: Crony Capitalist and Slumlord
Reuters has begun a remarkable series on the economic dealings of Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Khameini who controls a staggering fortune of $ 95 billion dollars through a secretive fund Setad that expropriates the property of poor Iranians and religious minorities. This would put the venerable theocrat in the same superclass as Bill Gates, Carlos Slim, Warren Buffet and the Sultan of Brunei .
Up until now, former Iranian president Rafsanjani has always been the face of financial corruption in Iran's clerical hierarchy, but to paraphrase John D. Rockefeller's comment about J.P. Morgan, compared to Khameini " he's not even a rich man":
Khamenei controls massive financial empire built on property seizures
The 82-year-old Iranian woman keeps the documents that upended her life in an old suitcase near her bed. She removes them carefully and peers at the tiny Persian script.
There's the court order authorizing the takeover of her children's three Tehran apartments in a multi-story building the family had owned for years. There's the letter announcing the sale of one of the units. And there's the notice demanding she pay rent on her own apartment on the top floor.
Pari Vahdat-e-Hagh ultimately lost her property. It was taken by an organization that is controlled by the most powerful man in Iran: Supreme LeaderAyatollah Ali Khamenei. She now lives alone in a cramped, three-room apartment in Europe, thousands of miles from Tehran.
….But Setad has empowered him. Through Setad,Khamenei has at his disposal financial resources whose value rivals the holdings of the shah, the Western-backed monarch who was overthrown in 1979.
How Setad came into those assets also mirrors how the deposed monarchy obtained much of its fortune – by confiscating real estate. A six-month Reuters investigation has found that Setad built its empire on the systematic seizure of thousands of properties belonging to ordinary Iranians: members of religious minorities like Vahdat-e-Hagh, who is Baha'i, as well as Shi'ite Muslims, business people and Iranians living abroad.
Setad has amassed a giant portfolio of real estate by claiming in Iranian courts, sometimes falsely, that the properties are abandoned. The organization now holds a court-ordered monopoly on taking property in the name of the supreme leader, and regularly sells the seized properties at auction or seeks to extract payments from the original owners.
The supreme leader also oversaw the creation of a body of legal rulings and executive orders that enabled and safeguarded Setad's asset acquisitions. "No supervisory organization can question its property," said Naghi Mahmoudi, an Iranian lawyer who left Iran in 2010 and now lives in Germany.
The Persian name of the organization that hounded her for years is "Setad Ejraiye Farmane Hazrate Emam" – Headquarters for Executing the Order of the Imam. The name refers to an edict signed by the Islamic Republic's first leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, shortly before his death in 1989. His order spawned a new entity to manage and sell properties abandoned in the chaotic years after the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
It used to be said back in the 70's by Western intellectuals of the tweedy, social democratic, Left variety that the future would be a merging of Communism and Capitalism into a "Third Way", perhaps, it was optimistically suggested, of the gentle Scandinavian variety with, democracy, universal free child care and quaint, bicycle-riding, constitutional monarchs. I doubt anyone thinks that today. If there is any emerging universal model at all it is that of nasty authoritarian governments being run, sometimes under a facade of elections, by a bareknuckle, crony capitalist Oligarchy that hollowed out the state.
Sometimes,the crony capitalists are merely the junior partners to the mandarins, siloviki and mullahs and at other times you could look "….from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again" and be hard pressed to tell the difference.
Khamenei's conglomerate thrived as sanctions squeezed Iran
….The ayatollah's organization would go on to acquire stakes in a major bank by 2007 and in Iran's largest telecommunications company in 2009. Among dozens of other investments, it took over a giant holding company in 2010.
An organizational chart labeled "SETAD at a Glance," prepared in 2010 by one of Setad's companies and seen by Reuters, illustrates how big it had grown. The document shows holdings in major banks, a brokerage, an insurance company, power plants, energy and construction firms, a refinery, a cement company and soft drinks manufacturing.
Today, Setad's vast operations provide an independent source of revenue and patronage for Supreme Leader Khamenei, even as the West squeezes the Iranian economy harder with sanctions in an attempt to end the nuclear-development program he controls.
"He has a huge sum at his disposal that he can spend," says Mohsen Sazegara, a co-founder of the powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps military force, who is now living in exile in the United States. "When you have this much money, that's power itself."
Indeed. It insulates Khameini's core supporters from external financial pressure and allows Khameini to have an arsenal of carrots, not just sticks in dealing with other members of the Iranian ruling elite.
It is often overlooked how frequently dictators, even those who were known for ruling through terror like Hitler, Stalin and Mao, could be lavishly generous with gifts and financial rewards or indulged the blatant corruption of powerful subordinates like Goering, Abukumov or Kang Sheng. Every Grand Ayatollah and Marja in Shia Islam maintains a charitable trust to which their pious followers donate. I would be extremely surprised if Khameini, whose scholarly credentials share similarities with Leonid Brezhnev's military decorations, had not made arrangements for substantial contributions over the years from Setad to the trusts of Iran's most respected senior clerics.
Baksheesh is an older faith in Iran than is Islam.
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Is Grand Strategy Democratic?
Friday, August 9th, 2013
[by Mark Safranski – a.k.a. "zen"]
Grand strategy in 1941
A very interesting article at Small Wars Journal by Captain Sean F.X. Barrett, USMC on the state of contemporary grand strategy. Definitely worth the time to read the whole thing:, but I am only going to make meandering comments on a few sections:
The Democratization of Grand Strategy
Calls for a formalized strategic planning process and grand strategy have been mounting for years. However, those sounding these calls erroneously remember a past that rarely if ever existed and overestimate the importance of a formalized process and a final product. Most disconcertingly, they assume that government is necessarily the only supplier of grand strategy, while ignoring that those in government are not incentivized to actually produce it. In fact, the proliferation of communications technology, which provides the means for accessing a wealth of open source intelligence and for disseminating ideas, and the plethora of academics, analysts, and other intellectuals outside of official government communities provide a more effective, democratic, and transparent substitute to the (oftentimes imagined) Project Solariums of the past. The environment in which these intellectuals operate nurtures "real devils," who vigorously propose policy and strategy alternatives in which they truly believe and have a stake in seeing implemented, resulting in a de facto strategic planning process, whose merits far exceed those of a de jure one.
I think the call for a formal process, or at least an institutionalized forum for "doing grand strategy", derives from both the lack of incentives correctly noted by Barrett and the frequently piss-poor and astrategic performance of American statesmen after the Soviet collapse. That the resulting criticism, proposals, counter-proposals, debates and domestic politics in drag relating to grand strategy are an alternative, open-source and more effective mechanism than formal planning is an intriguing idea.
Certainly, if a statesman or senior policy adviser have not done hard thinking about geopolitics and grand strategy while in the political wilderness then they won't do it at all. Once in office, there simply is no time even if the inclination is present. Richard Nixon, who thought very seriously on these matters, as POTUS was militant about having Haldeman carve out undisturbed time for him to continue doing so in a secret "hideaway" office in the EOB. This was highly unusual and difficult even for Nixon to maintain – most presidents and senior officials faced with 18 hour days, 6-7 days a week, simply want to unwind in their off hours, see their loved ones or sleep.
….Furthermore, when formalized strategic planning processes and grand strategy have actually existed, their importance has largely been exaggerated. For example, Richard Immerman debunks some of the myths surrounding Project Solarium, which is often referenced today as a model for grand strategy. In referencing the intelligence that was ostensibly utilized during Project Solarium to guide the formation of grand strategy, he argues that, even though President Eisenhower—whose highest priority was to exploit the full resources of government to formulate a more effective and sustainable national strategy—was welcoming of CIA input, this input had minimal impact on President Eisenhower's policies or grand strategy.[viii] After such a long time serving in the Army, President Eisenhower had already developed highly formed beliefs about national security, and while intelligence has been perceived as playing a critical role by confirming his beliefs, a lack of confirmation would not have significantly impacted or altered his decisions.[ix] Furthermore, Immerman claims that he has "never been able to locate a scintilla of evidence collected by the CIA and other agencies that changed Eisenhower's [mind]."[x]
While Barrett is correct that in discerning grand strategy in historical eras it is often reified and exaggerated retrospectively -that is because grand strategy, much like strategy itself, has a deeply iterative character. In facing the Soviet challenge, Project Solarium both responded to and built upon a solid foundation laid by the post-war "wise men" – NSC-68, Containment policy, the Marshall Plan, the National Security Act, the creation of the CIA , NSC, NATO, the Department of Defense, the Truman Doctrine, the X Article, the Long Telegram, Bretton Woods and stretching back to WWII, the geopolitical vision of The Atlantic Charter, Potsdam and FDR's Four Freedoms. Project Solarium was not ex nihilo but an effort to improve, shape, refine and surpass what the Eisenhower administration had inherited from it's Democratic predecessors.
Barrett is also on target when he identifies a strong ideological-political predisposition in formulation of grand strategy. Eisenhower had not only operational/experential preferences but a worldview that he brought with him into the White House and his Secretary of State, John Foster Dulles, had even stronger convictions that, especially in regard to his fierce and almost Calvinistic anti-communism, sometimes render him a caricature today. We have to be careful though in parsing public statements and private assessments. Dulles, despite his hardline reputation, was a sophisticated and highly influential figure in American foreign policy as the senior GOP adviser through most of the 1940's. Despite talk of "rollback", neither Dulles nor Eisenhower had any appetite for leaping into Hungary militarily to support the anti-Soviet revolt or supporting the Franco-British-Israeli debacle in the Suez. Still less attractive was the prospect of military intervention in faraway Laos. Grand strategic ideas were applied with realism and prudence by the Eisenhower administration.
….It should come as no surprise that three of the first four members of the 2014 QDR's "independent" panel are those that self-selected into the DOD and conformed and performed so well as to achieve flag officer rank, including retired Marine Corps Gen. James E. Cartwright, former vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; retired Air Force Gen. Gregory S. Martin, former commander of Air Force Materiel Command; and retired Army Lt. Gen. Michael D. Maples, former Defense Intelligence Agency director.[xx] The fourth member, Michele Flournoy, former Undersecretary of Defense for Policy, has been deemed politically palatable enough by both Congress and the Obama Administration, and one must assume the DOD well, since nominations are not made, and consent by Congress not given, without DOD's at least tacit approval. That we insist on calling this panel independent should be disconcerting enough in itself. The first four members were selected by the Senate Armed Services Committee, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel will appoint the Chairman and Vice Chairman of the panel, and the other panel appointees will be made by the chair and ranking member of the House Armed Services Committee. This situation is not entirely dissimilar to China under the Ming emperors, wherein the emperors' concern for stability, obedience, and conformism overlapped with the bureaucracy and their strong aversion to changing the status quo. The imperial literary examination system of Imperial China helped breed this mutually beneficial conformism, and its effects prove quite relevant in this regard. While the examination preserved the cultural unity and political stability of China, it also impeded originality and experimentation.[xxi]
Arguably, the period of Ming-Q'ing decline may have been superior in the sense that the Confucian classics and the exams upon which they were based that were the gateway to the mandarinate were at least, an objective and respected yardstick, however ossified and ritualized. All we have by contrast are partisan politics, bureaucratic culture and the increasingly oligarchic client-patron networks within the Beltway and Manhattan..
….President Eisenhower commissioned Project Solarium in part to devise a strategy for coping with a lack of knowledge about the Soviets' intentions and capabilities. Today, however, more and more strategic intelligence is publicly available. For example, the National Intelligence Council's[xxiii] new Global Trends series is unclassified. We now arguably suffer not from too little information, but from too much. This has increasingly democratized the arena of grand strategy and enabled more and more even amateur analysts to help process the wealth of information in the public domain and formulate it into alternative visions for the future. One might argue that what these different entities focus on is simply policy or at best strategies for individual instruments of national power. However, even individual policy or strategy analyses might instead be seen as reflections of the overarching principles that they support (and that are often enumerated in the mission statements of many of these think tanks, institutes, and analysis centers), which as Sinnreich contends, are what in fact help form the basis of an enduring grand strategy
Sort of. There are two other ways to look at this picture.
First, that we have an insufficient consensus bordering on ideological schism within the elite as to what America is and is supposed to become that executing foreign policy, much less enunciating a grand strategy, cannot get beyond the lowest common denominators between left and right and bureaucratic autopilot. This in turn causes the cacophony of voices on grand strategy. I partially subscribe to this view.
Secondly, that our elite, whatever their divisions over political passions or personalities have a consensus grand strategy ( or at least, an ethos) for generational and class aggrandizement at the expense of the rest of us and American national interest in a way that the former 20th century governing class called the Eastern Establishment would have neither imagined nor tolerated. The resulting ferment of "bottom-up" grand strategy is a result of increasing divergence of interests between rulers and the ruled and an erosion of the former's legitimacy as a result of their self-aggrandizing game-rigging , abandonment of the ethic of leadership as stewardship for "ubi est mea" and a deficit of competence that contrasts with their enormously inflated collective sense of self-importance.
I partially subscribe to this one as well.
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Heavy breathing on the line: Follow the money
[dots connected by Lynn C. Rees]
What did Lucius Aemilius Paullus know and when did he know it?
The Aemilii Paulii called him "Boy":
[Boy]…was one of the 1,000 Achaean nobles who were transported to Rome as hostages in 167 BC, and was detained there for 17 years. In Rome, by virtue of his high culture, [Boy] was admitted to the most distinguished houses, in particular to that of Aemilius Paullus, the conqueror in the Third Macedonian War, who entrusted [Boy] with the education of his sons, Fabius and Scipio Aemilianus (who had been adopted by the eldest son of Scipio Africanus). As the former tutor of Scipio Aemilianus, [Boy] remained on cordial terms with his former pupil and remained a counselor to him when he defeated the Carthaginians in the Third Punic War…When the Achaean hostages were released in 150 BC, [Boy] was granted leave to return home, but the next year he went on campaign with Scipio Aemilianus to Africa, and was present at the capture of Carthage, which he later described.
Well before Blair
Trailing glory
Consider the primary sources of the primary source's considerations.
Lucius Aemilius Paullus Macedonicus: Boy's captor employer. He was Lucius Aemilius Paullus' son.
Aemillia Tertia: Wife of Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus Major (he beat Hannibal Barca). Mother of fabled paragoness of virtue Cornelia Scipionis Africana. Grandmother of Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus and Gaius Sempronius Gracchus. She was Lucius Aemilius Paullus' daughter.
Publius Cornelius Scipio Aemilianus Africanus Numantinus Minor: Boy's minder student as a lad. Prolific collector of agnomina based on wrecked cities. Adopted grandson of Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus (Major to his Minor). Biologically, Paullus Macedonicus' son. Pa Macedonicus showed Skip where he kept Boy's leash before he died. He was Lucius Aemilius Paullus' grandson.
Quintus Fabius Maximus Aemilianus: another of Boy's minders pupils as a lad. Adopted into the family of Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus Cunctator the Dictator. Biologically, Paullus Macedonicus' oldest son. He had the spare key to where Boy's leash was kept.
Do Disturb
Then there was Gaius Laelius.
Gaius Laelius (left?) with Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus Major
Gaius Laelius was the Nick Carraway of the Second Punic War: somehow everywhere yet somehow nowhere. Consider Wikipedia's Laelian words: "obscure", "obscurity", "suggests", "apparently", "may have", "largely unknown", "not clear". His epitaph might as well have been "Laelius appears to have died some years after 160 BC, but his year of death is mentioned by neither Livy nor Polybius." Laelius often seems digitally inserted into the Second Punic War. You find him (maybe) at Ticinus, New New City, Ilipia, Zama. Laelius' life was like a box of chocolates: you might get a tasty treat or wake up to your favorite thoroughbred's severed head on the bed sheets.
Father's day is just around the corner
The story we have of the Second Punic War is not Boy's. While, to a certain extent, it might be young Scipio's or middling Fabius Maximus', the history that rolled down through Boy and Boy groupies like Titus Livius Patavinus or Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus is Gaius Laelius' history.
He gave Boy an offer he couldn't refuse. Grey Narrator as Grey Eminence.
Be like Boy
Graecia capta ferum victorem cepit. However, even if you're Boy bringing gifts, you don't bite the hand that feeds you if the hand bites back harder. And rude victors bite even as they beware.
Boy played his part in Laelius' scheme. And what was this scheme?
Laelius was Scipio's Horatio. Much like Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa was for Gaius Julius Caesar, his rise was due to his role as Scipio's shadow. A rising Scipio lifts all Laelii.
Laelius was at the bridge between Scipio's current controversy and future immortality. He had to hold it against Marcus Porcius Catos at the gates who'd casually destroy Scipio's reputation after talking about ways to improve Roman trash collection, animal control, or even destroying those wascally Phoenicians.
Marcus Porcius Cato Major the Censor
Lealius had to protect Scipio.
And that's why the NSA records (meta)data on all Americans.
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Immigration Bill to treat American Citizens as Conquered Subjects
WIRED magazine so far is the only outlet to report on this nasty Creepy-State digital authoritarianism buried in the cosmically awful proposed Immigration "Reform"bill:
Biometric Database of All Adult Americans Hidden in Immigration Reform
….Buried in the more than 800 pages of the bipartisan legislation (.pdf) is language mandating the creation of the innocuously-named "photo tool," a massive federal database administered by the Department of Homeland Security and containing names, ages, Social Security numbers and photographs of everyone in the country with a driver's license or other state-issued photo ID.
Employers would be obliged to look up every new hire in the database to verify that they match their photo.
This piece of the Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act is aimed at curbing employment of undocumented immigrants. But privacy advocates fear the inevitable mission creep, ending with the proof of self being required at polling places, to rent a house, buy a gun, open a bank account, acquire credit, board a plane or even attend a sporting event or log on the internet. Think of it as a government version of Foursquare, with Big Brother cataloging every check-in.
"It starts to change the relationship between the citizen and state, you do have to get permission to do things," said Chris Calabrese, a congressional lobbyist with the American Civil Liberties Union. "More fundamentally, it could be the start of keeping a record of all things."
…."The most worrying aspect is that this creates a principle of permission basically to do certain activities and it can be used to restrict activities," he said. "It's like a national ID system without the card."
For the moment, the debate in the Senate Judiciary Committee is focused on the parameters of legalization for unauthorized immigrants, a border fence and legal immigration in the future.
The committee is scheduled to resume debate on the package Tuesday.
This provision is flatly unconstitutional, but the Bill of Rights is not held in high esteem by most members of Congress or the largest donors to the Democratic and Republican parties. Big Data corporations intend to make enormous profits helping advocates of Big Government transform the "normal" of American life into what formally used to be considered appropriate for inmates in a minimum security prison.
Could a far less intrusive scheme be devised to validate employment status? Sure, but that would not hand bureaucrats and stringpullers of the Oligarchy enormous leverage to use someday over every man, woman and child in the United States.
Imagine, you have offended some local worthy with your letter to the editor or your campaign donation to their opponent and suddenly….your debit and credit cards stop working, your employer can no longer issue you your paycheck, you can't enter any public facilities (the biometric scan rejects you as a "security threat"), the local hospital can't provide you with medical care ("Access to records denied"). Maybe your driver's license is suddenly void and the authorities therefore remotely disable your "smart car". In a keystroke, you can be cyberoutlawed.
To where will you go to escape a powerful person manipulating an omnipresent data system? Or fix a "simple" computer error that is putting your entire life on hold? Or if a hacker gains access to your biometric records? There are few good and reasonable uses for this kind of system, an enormous number of bad ones and none at all that justify being incorporated into an even a semi-free society.
The digital road to serfdom is being legislated one deceptively presented unread bill at a time.
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Myanmar (formerly known as Burma) is a country that not many people have explored. Consumed with ongoing civil wars and ethnic conflict until 2011, Myanmar has only recently opened its borders to the international community. Although Myanmar continues to face many problems, the culture and history of the country is rich and unique. Isolated from the world for about 50 years, Myanmar boasts a different culture than other Southeast Asian countries and houses many ancient sites that are in immaculate condition.
This past year, I was lucky enough to travel Myanmar and visit both the capital of Naypyidaw and the historic ancient city of Bagan.
One of the most fascinating sites I saw in Myanmar was the Shwedagon Pagoda in Naypyidaw. Standing at 105 meters tall and completely gilded with gold, the Shwedagon Pagoda serves as one of the most iconic architectural wonders in Myanmar. Legend says that it was built when two traveling merchants, Taphussa and Bhallika, met Buddha and were given eight holy hairs from Buddha's head. The travelers allegedly built the pagoda 2600 years ago with the help of King Okkalapa to house these spiritual relics. Throughout the centuries, royalty and common folk alike donated to expand the pagoda and continue to layer it with gold and decorate it with jewels. Topping the impressive golden figure are several precious jewels including 5,448 diamonds and 2,317 rubies. At the very top lies a 76-carat diamond bud. Tourists and locals enjoy Shwedagon as an absolute architectural marvel.
Beyond its religious meaning, the Shwedagon Pagoda has also served as a place for protests of political significance. It is hard to find another monument in Myanmar with such political, religious, and historic depth.
Although we arrived at Shwedagon on a rainy day, walking the whole breadth of the pagoda was still breathtaking. Shwedagon towers above its visitors and the gold gives off a shine that makes it seem constantly illuminated. Surrounding the monument are other intricate pagodas and shrines that house many deities. Circling the base of Shwedagon is a set of Buddha statues that visitors can pour water over in a ritual of cleansing and purification. Oddly, some smaller shrines and pagodas use bright and colorful flashing LED lights to outline their featured deity. These LED lights are used to add to the shine of jewels and gold, and act as a unique juxtaposition between modern and ancient worship.
Technically, you can walk across the circumference of Shwedagon in 10-15 minutes at a leisurely stroll. However, we were so transfixed by the enormity and magnificence of it all that we spent a few hours walking and sitting at various points to soak in the atmosphere. We admired the pagoda until sunset, where the golden sun illuminated Shwedagon in what one can only call a holy light.
For the second part of the trip, we spent a few days in Bagan. Bagan is an ancient city filled with Buddhist temples and shrines that rest on a backdrop of beautiful green plains. From the 9th to the 13th century, Bagan served as the capital of what is now known as Myanmar. With each king and queen, there were multiple temples, shrines, and pagodas built in order to renew and reaffirm their dedication to Buddha. Over the course of four centuries, over 10,000 Buddhist temples were built. Approximately 2,200 are still standing today. The city was a hub of commerce, philosophy, and cutting edge technology. What remains now are dusty red temples, shrines, and pagodas contrasted sharply against the green foliage and brown earth.
Although Bagan is home to many ancient architectural wonders, there are still a limited amount of tourists visiting the area. Bagan only has one or two small streets with hostels and restaurants for tourists. Upon arrival, we took a horse-drawn carriage to our quaint hostel a bumpy 20 minutes away, and then spent the rest of the day exploring in our carriage with our friendly driver. He took us to the most popular temples and provided local information.
Each stop featured a considerable amount of locals trying to sell souvenirs. They claimed that their items were unique, handmade, and rare. Although they were definitely beautiful, after a few stops we realized that most everyone sold the same things. There were temples, shrines, and pagodas of all sizes and from various different time periods. We stood in awe at the opening of enormous temples that towered above us, and we also admired the small shrines that were on the side of the dusty roads. Most of the temples allow visitors to walk in and view the magnificent wall paintings and Buddha figurines. Some paintings and figurines are as wide and tall as the temple itself. Other temples allow guests to climb up a few stories to the very top and see Bagan from a lofty view.
While Bagan has so much to see, we opted to rent an electric motorbike to explore on our own the next day. There was no tutorial or license required, so you can imagine how we fared. Long story short, we fell off the bike quite a few times. Having the freedom to roam and spend time at our favorite sites was wonderful. We spent several hours at North Guni, one of the smaller and less visited, yet well-preserved temples. We climbed to the top to admire the view and made friends with a local stray dog. An hour or two passed sitting at the peak of the temple, feeding the dog, feeling the dry breeze on our cheeks, and watching the lazy afternoon sun slowly pass over us.
Before long, a group of four children discovered us sitting there. Seeing that we were tourists, they quickly climbed up to try to sell us their wares. Having bought an exorbitant amount of souvenirs already, we had to politely decline. However, we had a deck of cards on us and we ended up playing American card games on the temple floor for another few hours. Despite the language barrier, we were able to communicate through motions, broken English, and exaggerated facial expressions. The temples alone were amazing, but being able to play games with the local kids and share snacks with a puppy made it an overall heartwarming experience. When the sun started to set, we got ready to return home. We bought a few souvenirs from the children anyways, pet the dog a few more times, and boarded our electric motorbike to make our way back. Sunrise and sunset at Bagan is one of the most beautiful things one could imagine, and although it was cloudy when we were there, we were able to glimpse a bit of the setting sun that colored the temples a fiery red during its descent.
Myanmar has some of the most beautiful historic architectural wonders I have ever seen. However, I do caution potential visitors to be respectful of the environment and culture of Myanmar. The lack of tourists has contributed to the untouched architectural wonders and it is our responsibility to keep it as preserved as possible by practicing responsible tourism. Traveling to Myanmar and experiencing the ancient temples is a once in a lifetime opportunity and comes highly recommended. It is a place that definitely belongs on a travel wish list.


Healing has turned into a prevalent type of healthcare as increasing numbers of individuals use non-surgical treatments. Students which have a wish to help individuals heal from ailments utilizing a holistic method of healthcare have a lot of options at hand. Online training could be finished in several areas that permit students to go in professional careers.
Finishing an all natural health degree program enables students to operate in several areas inside healing. Education concentrates on teaching students to deal with the whole patient. The mental condition, health, spiritual belief, and diet of the individual are taken into consideration when treating discomfort or perhaps an illness. Coursework will be different based on the concentration selected. Students can pick to exercise programs that could include therapeutic massage, diet, acupuncture, and maple grove chiropractic. Several classes are similar inside all programs because students are researching healing. Common courses that could constitute learning several areas could include drug abuse, fitness, physiology, and anatomy.
A diploma enter in reflexology is generally went after in the associate's degree level. Students learn how to apply pressure through therapeutic massage at specific points in the possession of and ft. Education teaches students these pressure points, professionally known as reflex points, deliver therapeutic relief towards the body. The idea is the fact that each reflex point matches another area of the body. If your point is sensitive, professionals massage it to produce your body's healing abilities to that particular area of the body. Common courses can include acupressure, discomfort relief, and therapy.
Students that enter acupuncture training are needed to accomplish a master's degree program. Students frequently start the amount by finishing a diploma enter in alternative treatment to achieve the needed quantity of undergraduate training. Education concentrates on teaching students how you can correctly make use of the industry's needles. Placement techniques are explored as students read the procedures that permit the needles release your body's healing mechanisms to battle illness and discomfort.
Online healing schools don't offer all the coursework required to develop a program. It's because the truth that most areas require students to accomplish a collection quantity of hrs in clinical training. Clinical classes are needed because students should try to learn working directly with patients involving their specific section of study. For instance, therapeutic massage courses may have students practicing techniques on actual clients. Many educational possibilities also require students to acquire licensure. Before entering a course students should investigate the options and make certain to exercise a certified program. Accredited programs be sure that the degree earned is recognized through the professional industry.


2013, Standford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
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Vydří telt 127 inwoners.

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The core activity of the organization consists of Planning, Executing and Monitoring of Integrated Watershed Management programmes. CRD is the designated Resource Support Organization (RSO) for NABARD for Watershed Projects in Kasaragod District under Prime Minister's Distressed District Package. CRD has a meritorious record of performance as the Project Implementing Agency (PIA) for Watershed Projects under Western Ghats Development Programme (WGDP) and also as the Project Facilitating Agency (PFA) for NABARD Holistic Watershed Development Programmes (NHWDP). It is one of the Technical Support Organisations for the Integrated Watershed Management Programme (IWMP) implemented through the Block Panchayats in the State.
CRD is also acting as the Support Organisation for JALANIDHI (Community drinking water and sanitation) project of the Government implemented through the Grama Panchayats and Government approved Service Provider to the Panchayati Raj Institutions for sanitation programmes.
We conduct Capacity Building & Training Programmes for various stakeholders like Grama Panchayat Representatives, Watershed Development Team, Village Watershed Committees, Watershed Community, Farmers and School Children. We have prepared a number of Training Materials (Print & Visual form) on Watershed Project Preparation, Watershed Project Management, Sustainable Agriculture, etc to suit the requirements of various stake holders.
CRD has an impressive track record of meaningful association with Research Institutes in the areas of R&D Studies, Trainings and Natural Resource Management & Agricultural Development programmes.
We do have ample experience in preparing Developmental Projects under various Schemes for the Panchayati Raj Institutions, NGOs & Farmers and Watershed Master Plans under Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS), NHWDP, WGDP and IWMP.


This white paper from Cisco outlines a better IT security lifecycle approach and a model to help companies adapt to the more sophisticated and well-funded cybercrime we're all currently facing.
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Water Lily Spa mempunyai 8 bilik rawatan termasuk bilik untuk pasangan. Perkhidmatan termasuk urut tuaman batu, urut Thai, rawatan muka dan balut badan. Pelbagai terapi rawatan disediakan, termasuk aromaterapi dan refleksologi. Spa dilengkapi mandi lumpur, sauna, tab spa dan bilik wap.
중심가에서 거리가 멀고 가격이 타 호텔에비해 비싸지만 좋은 리뷰들이 많아 선택 엄청후회스럽다 불친절, rude staff, dirty seashore.
We stayed here for 5 nights with our 2 boys. Everything was fantastic. The staff were really friendly, breakfast was good the 2 pools were really nice. We would definitely stay here again.
The facilities were amazing. Reminds me of Hawaii. The rooms were clean. Bed was a little firm. There was plenty of pool space and more than enough lounge chairs at the beach. Breakfast buffet was excellent.
Everything we hoped for. Very attractive setting, beautifully tended gardens, lovely spa with great massages, friendly and attentive staff. The restaurant food did not do the place justice but not a problem because plenty of places to eat in the area within a few minutes walk. Would love to stay again.


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Main » Lawyer: So what if they talked?
Sunday on CNN's "Reliable Sources", Buzzfeed reporter Anthony Cormier discussed the story, which claimed President Donald Trump directed his former attorney Michael Cohen to lie to Congress about the Moscow Trump Tower project.
After Mueller's office disputed the report as "not accurate" Friday evening, the conversation shifted, with some saying the report should have been treated more skeptically all along, while others expressed frustration with Mueller's office for not saying what specifically about the piece was incorrect.
"The president also remembers - yeah, probably up - could be up to as far as October, November", Giuliani said.
Schiff said if Trump knew Cohen was going to lie to Congress, but didn't urge him to do so, "I don't know that it would be a crime".
Rudy Giuliani said it would have been "perfectly normal" for Trump to discuss the testimony with Cohen, his former legal fixer who has admitted to lying to Congress about when the "Trump Tower Moscow" project ended.
Cohen, unlike in the Southern of District of NY case against him, did not say that Trump "directed" him to commit a crime.
Guests on the show, hosted by Joy Reid, were responding to Giuliani's recent TV appearances, in which he suggested the president may have been discussing building a proposed tower in Russian Federation until November 2016.
A panel on MSNBC has taken aim at Rudy Giuliani over the latest statements on his client, President Donald Trump. "We'll decline to comment". Instead, Cohen said they actually continued until that June, after Trump had clinched the Republican nomination.
"BuzzFeed's description of specific statements to the Special Counsel's Office, and characterization of documents and testimony obtained by this office, regarding Michael Cohen's Congressional testimony are not accurate", spokesman Peter Carr said. The deputy attorney general's office, which oversees the special counsel, was only given a heads up it was coming Friday evening. Giuliani blasted the news organisation, which stands by its reporting, calling the story "scandalous" and "horrible".
People familiar with the matter said the special counsel's office meant the statement to be a denial of the central theses of the BuzzFeed story - particularly those that referenced what Cohen had told the special counsel, and what evidence the special counsel had gathered. He declined to address it after the special counsel's office released the statement.


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Q: Code Help for Visual Basic Radio buttons and If Else Statements I am working on building a program in Visual Basic that when one Radio button is selected and Display is clicked, it will show the capital of that state. I keep getting Errors even for some of my code that has worked well before. Please help if you can. I am still learning so thank you in advance.
Here is my code:
Option Explicit On
Option Strict Off
Option Infer Off

Public Class frmMain

    Private Sub btnDisplay_Click(Sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles btnDisplay.Click
        Dim lblOne.Text As String

        If btnTexas.Checked Then
            lblOne.Text = " Austin"

        ElseIf btnOhio.Checked Then
            lblOne.Text = "Columbus"

        ElseIf btnFlorida.Checked Then
            lblOne.Text = "Tallahassee"

        ElseIf btnAlabama.Checked Then
            lblOne.Text = "Montgomery"

        ElseIf btnArizona.Checked Then
            lblOne.Text = "Phoenix"
        End If
    End Sub

    Private Sub btnExit_Click(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles btnExit.Click
        Me.Close()
    End Sub

End Class

Here are the Errors:

Error BC30205 End of statement expected.  12  Active
Error BC30506 Handles clause requires a WithEvents variable defined in the containing type or one of its base types.  10, 31  Active
Error BC30451 'btnTexas' 'btnOhio' 'btnFlorida' 'btnAlabama' 'btnArizona' is not declared. It may be inaccessible due to its protection level.
Error BC30456 'Close' is not a member of 'frmMain'.
Warning   BC42104 Variable 'lblOne' is used before it has been assigned a value. A null reference exception could result at runtime.  Capitals Project

A: On your form, you must have two buttons named "btnDisplay" and "btnExit"
and a label named "lblOne"
and ChecBoxes with named each of these, "'btnTexas' 'btnOhio' 'btnFlorida' 'btnAlabama' 'btnArizona'"

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Okay, so I am super late, as per usual. Fridays seem to be crazy! Here is my week's highlights!
1.) We got our Christmas tree and decorations up this week! It looks so festive and Miss E. loves the tree lights. Unfortunately, so does the cat! It has been interesting, to say the least!
2.). Our photographer held a "Santa Day" and Miss. E got her photo taken with Santa. It was so much fun!
3.) Miss E. Has taken to rolling all over the place. She has a look of pure glee when she gets from point A to point B.
4.) The weather has been absolutely gorgeous! We got out and enjoyed the sunshine.
5.) I created a new gallery wall in my living room and I absolutely LOVE how it turned out! It looks awesome!