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Interview with poet CRAIG MICHAEL by Dave Wolff
Interview with poet CRAIG MICHAEL
In the 1980s you independently published an anthology of poems, The Deathercizer: Headbanger's Poetry. It was published on a limited basis, mostly for family and friends. What were the reasons you published it exclusively?
At the time, many people were requesting a copy of my book due to my style in writing and the stories within, which gather an interest. I had the once in a lifetime opportunity to please The Deathercizer fans and felt an urgency to accomplish the goal to please their demands before their interests were lost, as human nature usually was in the 1980s, as time kept on ticking into the future.
At the time, I would frequently help my Dad in his office. He was an active human and civil rights activist, pastor and legal law guardian, often appearing on the front lines and on committees. So I was very much blessed in having access to a professional business office XEROX copying machine.
I was an extremely skilled artist and experienced in self-publishing and had the materials at hand to accomplish any exclusive publishing upon request. Knowledge in U.S. Copyright laws and licensing requirements, thanks to my Dad's wisdom, guidance, and my self-education on the subject, I knew how to protect my creativity, which required publications to a mass of people of any materials. Thus an exclusive publishing or mass publishing was required to enter my works into submission into the U.S. Library of Congress as The Deathercizer was accepted into its vast library among the many greater and famous artisans of the centuries, in 1989, along earlier works of mine prior to that time. My earlier works were in cartooning.
It's common for art and written verse to be misunderstood. Poets and artists tend to be blamed for reflecting reality while what inspires them is ignored. Any thoughts?
In thinking of what inspires the poets and artists being ignored, would be that no one asked what inspired them, unless they were reporters. But most of the time, it is the artist not boasting enough about what inspired him, for those to learn, unless asked. Instead, people admire the end results of one's creations and how it inspires the one observing another soul's energy, and never asking why, yet still relating.
Were there any poets or authors who helped to inspire you when you started writing?
About inspirations? Hopefully this will inspire you, the readers, as you get to know me and what inspired me. Please forgive me if I do not answer your questions directly because my "odysseys" were that of both ancient and modern legends, eventually forgotten in my mind, yet becoming the character of my unique personality today.
I became a survivor from a death experience at an early age three after a severe highway auto accident, where I was sitting on my mother's lap, without seat belts, after being bullied by my older brothers in the back seat. My loving Dad, about 34 years old, at the time, was driving the final leg of a vacation journey that extended to California. I was told that I was playing with a toy using the dashboard as a stage, while being held by mother's nurturing hands, who was a survivor of the Nazi invasion as a young girl.
As the old saying goes; "accidents happen when you are closer to home" and it did.
We were within hours of finally coming home, driving along the NYS Turnpike in Albany heading to Plainville, Connecticut at approximately 75 miles per hour, the speed limit back then, when a tractor trailer, traveling in the opposite direction, suddenly decided to make a u- turn, jack- knifing in front of us, just below the line of sight of a rig we just entered over. In a fraction of a second before impact, unable to slowdown, my dad had a choice either to have his entire family decapitated if he went under the trailer, or aim for the cab wheels in hopes of any of us surviving. There were no seat belt laws back then, if there were any seat belts.
I guess I cushioned my mother's impact with my tiny three year old body on her lap, as the car crumbled to a complete stop from 75 mph to 0, as the camping trailer we were towing gave us an even greater impact. My brothers in the back seat were barely injured, although one had to get his neck and head extracted from between the small gap of the front seat back rest, as he looked over the bloody and mangled bodies of his parents and baby brother, as our blood filled the foot wells of the car. He was only four, and of course he went on to become a genius doctor.
We were never expected to survive, as relatives prepared our funerals, taking custody of my two older brothers. The doctors gave up hope on me as my head swelled to the size of a basketball, with one eye hanging out of its socket, laid out on a table naked, until my grandparents demanded that I be covered with a blanket. What saved us all was God's very hands, as communities gathered in prayer and faith for life and healing, using individual members of congregations to portray my dad, mom, and I, as they laid hands on those individuals fervently praying in the name and faith of Christ Jesus. Within that very hour, my parents came out of their death comas. For me, I remained in that death coma, I guess I did not want to leave the serenity of the spirit world. Yet everyone continued to pray, and many days later I was brought back to this world, the doctors even put back my eye, which rested on my cheek until then, while being fed through the veins of both of my ankles.
It was a true miracle what happened to us, as all believed. I was a toddler celebrity in the faith of others, constantly in public's eye in newspapers and churches. That is why I, today, shy away from publicity, always saying there are others who should be more important than I, and they should get all the credit. But this too, inspired my writings.
My father was and is a great writer who inspired me, mainly. He helped change all our lives in society with his heart, writings and actions, as we moved on from Plainville to New Haven. Thus the adventures began.
In my early youth, from the 1960s and beyond, I was exposed to many important biblical and contemporary poets, authors, artists, family, friends, "movers and shakers" of society. So there were many. Too many. I lived in world, away from the world.
I grew up in the college town of New Haven, Connecticut, and often found myself among the geniuses and influences of the Yale University, Southern Connecticut State University, UConn, Albertus Magnus College, and the many more, including the museums, the New Haven Arena, Hungry Charlies, Toads Place, The Yale demonstrations, the Black Panthers rallies, the list goes on and on. Including the once famous "Exit" coffee house where I learned to play chess with then
To enter the gates to the inner city of New Haven, to the "Green" where my Dad's livelihood and missions emanated, we would had to pass through the delightful smell of freshly baked bread filling the air, as we passed the Wonder Bread Bakery factory.
It's a peaceful aroma that never left my senses to this day. As well as the memories of car windows being quickly rolled up by my two older brothers, in the front seats of the car, laughingly staining the atmosphere with their rancid farts as I held my nose, keeping an eye on my baby brother next to me in the back seat, while soon passing through the vast canyons of the Yale University.
I had many influences in life.
As a child, I was inspired by osmosis, always paying attention to the hundreds of literature works and philosophy on the campuses, in groups, or in the home. Receiving a tremendous education with no degree.
I was born into a family who were all doctorate graduates. My grandfather and Dad had their doctorates in Divinity. My Dad also had earned a law degree through Brooklyn Law School. So my influences were through pastors and leaders of the Human and civil rights movements, those of the many Ministries and faiths. I was exposed to the greatest love ever and learned, and then learnt some more. There are so many stories bottled up in me, just waiting to come out. I once had everything documented on paper, but that can no longer be found, except for The Deathercizer.
As my pal, artist and author; Christopher King would say: "to make a short story long," at the time that I started writing, my life consisted mainly of educational, spiritual studies, and daily reading a periodical named "The Upper Room".
Of course with all the power and might that surrounded me, I would seriously fuck up to prove everybody to be hypocrites to the very words that came out of their mouths and hearts, and found myself in the lowest bowels on the earth. Being in the lowest bowels of the earth, you'll find that you've entered a "Turd World Country" with its many fellow citizens. Listening to their ongoing, repeating stories of their deeds and their ruined home life, insults and humor, day after day, month after month, for years. My escapes were through my imaginations when I would sit alone and write, untainted by any other authors' idealisms, fighting suicidal tendencies. Writing is a great release and good for the soul.
The Iron Horse Biker magazines and Playboy had great authors. Sadly, I didn't have a long enough attention span, due to the noises and hysterics around me, to enjoy many novels, except for Robert Ludlum, Mark Twain, educational and religious studies. Political writings always had the same outcome throughout the ages, as if it was scripted.
What about Ludlum and Twain did you find of enough interest to read on a regular basis?
Robert Ludlum was great for immediately catching my attention within the first chapter. I am sure that there are many other authors just as intriguing. But at the time, Robert Ludlum had the gift of being intriguing with non-stop action throughout his novels that kept me flipping the pages. Mark Twain, I could only remember as bringing me back to a time long gone.
Tell the readers about the Upper Room periodical you still peruse to this day.
The Upper Room became my inspiration just to keep on living one more day. It's amazing to find that we are not alone in our struggles and experiences in our "Turd World" lives. I highly recommend it as a gift to others if not yourselves.
The Upper Room is an interdenominational, independent global organization dedicated to helping people grow in relationship with God through regular spiritual practice (such as worship and prayer, Bible reading and meditation, journaling, and participation in spiritual support groups). It publishes a number of devotional magazines and books, and it provides a number of program experiences for in-depth learning in Christian spiritual life. The Upper Room is best known for its devotional reader entitled The Upper Room daily devotional guide which is currently published in 35 languages and reaches people in as many as 100 countries in every region of the world.
The Upper Room has its roots in The United Methodist Church, but receives no sponsorship or funds from any denomination. While The Upper Room's ministry is interdenominational, international, and interracial in scope and character, it maintains a relationship with The United Methodist Church as a unique division of Discipleship Ministries of the UMC. The Upper Room Daily Devotional Guide began publication in 1935, and first published an "other language" edition in 1938. A Braille edition started in 1940. By 1944, circulation had passed the two million mark. In the USA, The Upper Room's main office and operation are located on Grand Avenue in Nashville, Tennessee. Africa Upper Room Ministries is located in Eikenof, South Africa, just south of Johannesburg on a piece property named Anathoth." For online access visit https://www.upperroom.org.
What do you mean about political writings that share the same, seemingly scripted, outcome?
It is called "The Bewitchery of law" , which was once best explained by author R.M. Edgar, on the subject written long before our time, approximately 200 decades back, before we bought the very rope that will hang us all by our necks, which is the digital age today, unless we can stop the madness.
I know and understand that many of your readers never bothered to explore such knowledge and readings as I have been exposed to, yet now I have this opportunity to share it with them to give their lives a greater meaning and understanding of what is happening now, in these days, so that you will all know what I mean as politics always having a scripted outcome. Hopefully all will understand. I am sure that the Thrash band Ritual Servant, and others, will soon be putting this to music, if they haven't yet.
Politics forever kicked in the shins, knocked out and taken down from 200 decades ago and beyond, believe it or not....
There once was a man, a high political authority personel in the Hebrew tribe, who went around getting his panties in an uproar because things were changing. He wanted to kill everyone involved in that change, because he didn't understand, he even missed out on the greatest party ever in human history. And he did his best to eliminate everyone, even the women and children involved in this change. He thought that he was serving the very deity that freed the Hebrews from the supremacy and terror of Egyptian slavery, 2000 years earlier, by murdering his own people, spilling their blood on the master's land. Finally that master deity shows up to let him know what time it was, giving him an even greater job to fulfill, basically saying to this individual, named Saul, screw your politics, follow me, I'll name you Paul. And he did.
As we find ourselves today, Paul finds that many years later after the great commandment, to love one another and the commission to go out and preach the good news witnessed by thousands, that in a town called Galatia, the Galatians started following the politics of man's law once again, forgetting that they were freed from it. The were citizens were becoming bewitched as they started falling away from the truths given to follow by this supreme diety's own son, known as Y'Shua, in human form, mankinds Savior and chief. So the Galatians were reminded of the scripted politics as we should be reminded today.
Anarchy? This is the faith of true Anarchy from the original Anarchist "cookbook", outside of this, you might as well go to your closets and start wearing your sheriff badges and Trump supporter T-shirts, because you are not a true anarchists or true punk:
Please pay close attention and allow me as I quote from here:
Galatians 3:1-14 American Standard Version (ASV)
3 O foolish Galatians, who did bewitch you, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was openly set forth crucified? 2 This only would I learn from you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? 3 Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now perfected in the flesh? 4 Did ye suffer so many things in vain? if it be indeed in vain. 5 He therefore that supplieth to you the Spirit, and worketh miracles among you, doeth he it by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? 6 Even as Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned unto him for righteousness. 7 Know therefore that they that are of faith, the same are sons of Abraham. 8 And the scripture, foreseeing that God [would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel beforehand unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all the nations be blessed. 9 So then they that are of faith are blessed with the faithful Abraham. 10 For as many as are of the works of the law are under a curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one who continueth not in all things that are written in the book of the law, to do them. 11 Now that no man is justified by the law before God, is evident: for, The righteous shall live by faith; 12 and the law is not of faith; but, He that doeth them shall live in them. 13 Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us; for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree: 14 that upon the Gentiles might come the blessing of Abraham in Christ Jesus; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.
Paul, having stated his position as dead to the Law and inspired by Christ, goes on in the present paragraph to appeal to the Galatians to free themselves from the bewitching power of Law, and to yield themselves to the faith in a crucified and now risen Christ, which alone secures justification and its cognate blessings. And here we notice -
HOW LAW CAN COMPETE SUCCESSFULLY WITH A CRUCIFIED SAVIOUR FOR THE HOMAGE OF THOUGHTLESS HEARTS.
(Ver. 1.) Paul here declares that two attractive powers had been presented to the Galatians - a crucified Christ in his own preaching, and the Law in the preaching of the Judaizers; and, to his amazement, the Law had so bewitched them as to lead them to look for salvation to Law-keeping instead of to the Saviour. And yet it only brings out the fact that there is in Law and self-righteousness a bewitchery which is continually leading souls back to bondage. It seems so natural to establish some claim by Law-keeping and ceremony that poor souls are from time to time falling into legal hope and its delusions. The superstition, which is abroad now, and leads so many to ceremonials for salvation, rests upon this foundation. It is the fascination of an evil eye which is upon the foolish votaries; they fancy they can save themselves by Law, and maintain their self-complacency and pride all the time. But it is delusion pure and simple.
ALL THAT LAW CAN REALLY DO FOR SINNERS IS TO CONDEMN THEM. (Vers. 10, 13.) The position taken up by Law is this - to condemn every one who falls short of perfect obedience. No partial obedience will be entertained for a moment. "Every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the Law to do them," is by the Law "cursed." This tremendous deliverance ought to be the death of all "legal hope." The soul who continues to hope in the Law, after such a definite utterance only proclaims his foolishness. One breach of Law is sufficient to secure the curse. The Law maintains its demand for perfect obedience, and, if this be not rendered, it can do nothing but condemn. It becomes the more amazing that any after this could be bewitched by Law. Surely if the Law can only curse sinners, the sooner we look for salvation in some other direction than Law, the better. And to go back to Law-keeping from grace, in hope of acceptance, is clear retrogression.
JUSTIFICATION AND ITS COGNATE BLESSINGS CAN ONLY COME BY FAITH, (Vers. 2-9, 12, 14.) The Law in the nature of things cannot justify sinners. It has no means of doing so. But God in his grace has provided a way of justification. It is through the merits of his Son. And here we must remember that imputation of merit is the commonest fact of experience. There is not one of us who does not get a start in life and a consideration extended to us which are due to the merits of others, a respected parent or some deeply interested friend. We are surrounded with a halo of glory by virtue of the character of others. Their character helps us to a position and opportunity we could not otherwise obtain. It may be called a mere association of ideas, but it is strictly the passing of merit over from man to man. In the same way Jesus Christ has come into our world, allied himself with our sinful race, merited consideration and acceptance by obedience to Law, even as far as death, and this merit of the Divine Man passes over to believers. In the Father's sight, therefore, we are regarded as just, notwithstanding all our sin. We have been justified through faith. But besides, the believers obtain the Spirit to dwell within them, so that a process of sanctification is set up within them as soon as justification takes place. And the indwelling Spirit may manifest his presence and power in wonderful works, as appears to have been the case with these Galatians (ver. 5). So that Divine grace not only secures the justification of all who trust in Jesus, but their sanctification and spiritual power as well. Wondrous blessings are thus the outcome of Divine grace, and the heritage of those who believe. What a change from having to endure the curse of Law!
ABRAHAM ILLUSTRATES THE BENEFIT OF FAITH IN GOD AS CONTRASTED WITH RELIANCE ON LAW. (Vers. 6-9.) The legalists claimed Abraham as their father. One would have supposed that Abraham had been the greatest ceremonialist of the early dispensation. But the truth is that Abraham was justified and accepted by simply believing God when he promised a world-wide blessing through Abraham's seed. The blessing came to the patriarch through simple trust in God. Those who hoped in Law-keeping, therefore, were not the true followers of Abraham. It was only those who trusted God for salvation and blessing who walked in the patriarch's footsteps. Consequently, all the ceremonialism which tried to shelter itself under the wings of Abraham was a simple imposition ] The "merit-mongers," as Luther calls them in his ' Commentary,' have thus no pretence of countenance from the case of Abraham. It was to simple trust in God he owed his standing before him. How needful, then, it is for us to shake ourselves free from every remnant of self-righteousness, and to look simply and implicitly to Christ alone] It is by faith we stand and live. The Christ who became the curse for us by hanging on a tree, calls us to trust him for acceptance and inspiration; and in trusting him we find the promise amply redeemed. *- R.M.E. - http://biblehub.com/sermons/auth/edgar/the_bewitchery_of_law.htm*
So now I have reminded everyone of what true Anarchy is, no posers please! The scripted politics you now find yourself in, that you thought you were opposing, but obviously you are all supporting unless you take the only way out of it. It sucks chasing your own tail around, doesn't it. This also inspired my writings.
In recent years, have politics grown more contrived and scripted as you described?
First let me explain to your readers, who don't use such big words in life, what the definition of "Contrived" means, which is: deliberately created rather than arising naturally or spontaneously.
Now we can all answer this together as we have all witnessed the creation of a pending doomsday, which was deliberately created to control the minds of people, giving them no hope. Thus evident in all the recent massacres. If certain individuals get their way to continue this politically contrived plan to make every person suffer, except the elite, who the politicians suck off for a living, the world is doomed. Generals will gather in black masses, and politicians will hide themselves away, because all that you are experiencing and all that makes you suffer had been deliberately created from someone else's mind, so that they can eat you alive, like a rich bastard slurping down raw oysters alongside an Olympic sized pool, filled with the bones of the idiots who thought serving that bastard was an opportunity. Contrived politics.
True life and living is spontaneous and nature.
Need I say, that recent politics is surprisingly less contrived with President Donald Trump in office? What a marvelous accomplishment our president and the president of North Korea agreed upon in resolving the crap that the previous generations shoved down our throats. Everybody needs to start the day new instead of holding onto the past. Such a great example for us all to make it a much better world. All we need now is to wake up in the mornings and smell that fresh bread dough baking in the ovens, prepared by loving hearts, in every neighborhood, knowing we will all get our share, as we come together to the table end of the day.
Yet the political script remains the same, which is "the rich get richer, and the poor get poorer", as taxes get higher for the underprivileged, with no benefits for the poor person's rainy days. A rich person's rainy day comes with government bail outs and tax incentives. So much for equality and justice.
Why was your anthology subtitled Headbanger's Poetry and how does it reflect the poems you wrote for it?
While living in the "Turd World Country" within our borders, among other genres, I was Hard Rock, a big metal fan at its birth in my youth. Back then The Sex Pistols, Megadeth, Metallica, Dio, Iron Maiden, Black Sabbath, Judas Priest, Motorhead, Destruction etc. were the gods of metal. It was so rebellious and fun to perform.
I was living in a dorm room with about twelve other people and one scrappy television and everybody too lazy to get up to turn the channel knob. I had never seen cable television ever in my life. Just TV from rabbit ear antennas that sometimes worked, but mostly aggravated the hell out of you. I loved to draw pictures and created cartoons, like "Ivan the Acid Freak & Professor Stainfart" in my free time, just so I didn't have to bother with that damned television set.
Finally, a new television set shows up, WITH CABLE! It was like showing a caveman a Bic lighter. Everybody now wanted to watch soap operas and other shows.
I was always the silent type, until that cable showed up.
I was bench pressing over 430 pounds, protecting all the weaklings from the predators, banging a few heads, keeping the peace by shutting everybody up, creating lemonade from lemon life. Finally I got my MTV, after hearing so much about it. I became the monster, it was all over for other programming. Sometimes they would try to change the channel, but I wasn't having it. They would either get a cold look from me, and back down or flying lessons across the room if they changed to another station. Eventually, everyone settled down as the music soothed their inner beasts. We were all rocking and dancing and just having a great time like we were all in the best place on earth. That's when I threw out the art supplies and began writing.
I was always the last guy to fall to sleep, always writing something new. Then I discovered Headbanger's Ball on MTV and was a dedicated fan. All the ole school music I would rock out to, now I was seeing it performed.
So I started writing with that influence, subtitled Headbanger's Poetry in honor of the Headbanger's Ball, naming the book "The Deathercizer", a poem of which is in the book stating how "Life is an exercise for death", In other words, life is synthesized into death, therefore it's Deathercized by the Deathercizer. The prose is buried in the book even though it was the first poem written that inspired other concepts. I wanted to use a puppy for sympathy in the prose and poems, because face it, everyone cares more about a puppy than they will you. Don't believe me then try shitting on someone's rug, they'll divorce or kill you, But if a puppy shits on the rug, the puppy get hugs, kisses, and taken to a park, then bathed and groomed.
So after being abandoned to die in the cold city streets, it becomes a Hell Puppy, which we all are. Left out in the cold. I wanted to develop that some more but....
There is a mix of about everything that was to become metal. If it wasn't for a couple of bad relations, accidents, loses, and whatever else I could think of to ad, it would have been competition in those days of its birth. I was hoping to make it a living once I hit the streets.
You told me The Deathercizer was exclusively published for immediate family and friends. How did your closest associates respond to the verses you captured on paper?
Everybody loved it, or so they said. I would perform the poems with my own vocal metallic rhythm as my long auburn curly hair bounced up and down, hiding my face, with the body of a Viking warrior. My closest associates and even strangers loved my writings and encouraged me to find a publisher. They wanted first copies thinking I would make it big. But who would publish poetry like this in the eighties and nineties. The "beautiful people" were trying to eliminate us in those days because they wanted disco.
There are no "beautiful people" per se, but the so called "beautiful people" failed to destroy the underground scene in New York as it's still thriving and timelier than ever. Would readers today appreciate what you set to paper?
There may not be "beautiful people" but you got to admit, it's a great song from Brian Warner's Marilyn Manson rock band, thus quoting "The Beautiful People" related to my experiences (Blame it on the Buckeyes!). Would today's readers appreciate The Deathercizer? Timing is everything and in these days, without a doubt the readers would appreciate the print on pulp. It's everything of life, in life, for life in the punk/metal world. That's why I kept it an exclusive treasure, until you knocked at my senses, as I opened the door.
Punk is heart! To kill punk, you have to rip out your heart and die. Some have tried, but now they walk around with defibrillators, watching us from a distance, wishing they can be in a state of anarchy. Imagine what we are going to be like when we go to the nursing home? "Nurse! NURSE!! N-u--r-s-e? Orderly, somebody... I need me six strings" as the person next to you starts playing the bed pans, with a copy of The Deathercizer next to the pills, as another sings while dentures slip out of their lips. I think God would look at us and say "Okay, you can live forever" because Punk will never die.
I've heard the meaning of punk has changed over the years; from my research I learned the Sex Pistols were not proselytizing Anarchy in the UK but calling to people's attention anarchy that already existed. If you've seen The Filth and the Fury you'll know what I mean. How often have you seen its meaning change and what do you think it means today?
I wussed out after Headbanger's Ball stopped airing. I pulled a Tripp Van Winkle and faded in and out of the scene, waking up years later, the Tompkins Square Park concerts, and the Rivington and King Killer Studios after a dear friend known locally as Johnny Rotten, LedRotten.com, invited me to hang out with the local musicians, after together jamming at a friend's house in the Hamptons.
I was away from the scene for many years, just chilling on the beaches, looking at the peaches, and suddenly, surprisingly, in the presence of the Cro-Mags, and all the Punk greats, including Spike Polite and Sewage, Iconicide, Skitzopolis, The Shadow Press, Dansedesade, Nihilistics, Universal Truth Machine, Dead Dean and the Living Hells, Jism from Ism, Sea Monsters, everybody, you too. It was like a welcome home party for me. I didn't realize I was hanging with such great musicians, as we enjoyed each other's presence, as Bros and sisters from the heart do. Only to be surprised when they began performing. Meanwhile I would be walking around with a camera filming my experiences for my YouTube channel, acting like the heavy metal comedian. Totally enjoying everyone of all kind and banging to the beats, but never dressed for the part.
So, as a blast from the past point of view, it's gotten better than ever. But I think it means, hey, we are all sinners, so stop putting us down before I make my dog lick you clean....
What led to The Deathercizer being added to the Library of Congress despite the resistance its publication was met with?
Maybe they accepted it because I created a new title or word "Deathercizer" But despite the resistance from the many outside our league, my very creative juices went into each page. How could you just throw that away, if this was your work? You don't, you protect it. When you apply for and receive a Copyright license, to claim "All Rights Reserved", your work becomes published in the Library of Congress. U.S. Copyright laws now protects your works from being used without your permission. Now you have the protections of the U.S. Federal Court System that will defend one's art once published. It is important to protect your artwork, etc., this is a service that our government offers to its citizens, but does not pay for the lawyers and fees if somebody commercializes on your work. And it only costs an hour and a half wage at the time, with easy instructions to follow. I think it even comes in braille if you asked for it. I have a few works in the Library, as anyone who applied and was accepted does. So kids, don't let your mommy, daddy, etc... steal your ideas, get them copyrighted, so you can sue them..... That goes for Moms and dads, etc... too.
What are the experiences in your life you based your verse on? At least those you care to share with the readers?
Okay, let us start from the top of the page again, as far as experiences. ..
You got to read The Deathercizer to see the experiences, it's all in there. Every day of it, just spewing out like hot melted lava.
"Happy Graduation Day" page 12, was based on bringing home the reality of the terrorist attack onboard the Achille Lauro, replacing the old people with young graduates. How the day you couldn't wait to experience in life suddenly turns to tragedy because someone didn't get enough love in their lives and wants to make a statement. It's also based on watching a soccer stadium suddenly incinerating on television, watching all those poor souls just fall back into the flaming pit, while another walks out totally engulfed in fire. And then the space shuttle evaporating in an instant before our eyes. So I brought it closer to home, to feel it's horror in another way.
"Any Size Stone", Page 56, was based on everybody wanting something from me, at a time of hearing nothing but rabid noises echoing through moldy prison walls and how I just wanted to escape from its torture.
"The Feast for the Beast" page 36, was based on the people around me who glorified themselves in the wrongs they did, or should I say, we all did.
I could tell you the experiences in each one of these poems and what they were based on in my mind, but perhaps we should do this each time you published a new one because there are 158 poems. Each having its own deep experience reflected.
Was anyone close to you who read The Deathercizer challenged to look at life from different perspectives?
I really cannot answer this question from another person's perspectives. But I get some challenging fearful eyes looking my way when they hear the name The Deathercizer. It's as if I just shot someone. Although, after I recite a few poems, their perspectives change.
After publishing The Deathercizer did you go on to publish more anthologies? How many ideas were left over after your first publication was completed?
I have many ideas left over. Perhaps with the right spirit, and people in my life, you'll witness Punk Theatre, the musical. I'll make an ending sequel eventually. Maybe name the second anthology "Rezicrehtaed". Try to Google that word. It's a title that the makes more sense when looking at it from a rearview mirror, meaning it is Deathercizer spelled backward.
My future as a successful writer dissolved one evening many years ago, when I decided to move five legal sized boxes of years upon years of my life's works of unpublished written materials, along with my original drawings of art, to the safety of my business office.
I had two of my staff personnel assisting me that evening when I decided to fill my car with gas, so that I could surprise them with dinner in the city, once we finished securing these works. After filling the tank and returning to pay the cashier, in an upstate town, I returned to the pump to find my staff standing there in a panic, where my car once stood. The vehicle was carjacked.
Three weeks later, the car was found, empty of all its contents, the suspects arrested, but everything was gone. All of my life's works gone in the blink of an eye, never to be found or enjoyed by others. It murdered my ambitions and goals. It was great stuff, stolen from the world's stage, by somebody who didn't want to wait for the bus.
I blew it by not listening to that inner voice telling me to get gas later. It is strange that only The Deathercizer survived, after being left behind on the coffee table.
If you wanted to release a new anthology, how many of your poems would you publish in it? Would you publish it independently or perhaps look for a publishing company on the internet?
If you are referring to republishing The Deathercizer, I would put its pages in proper order to show that it is actually a story. Currently I made it a puzzle for its readers to figure out, which I've never told anyone about until now. I would delete a couple, if not rewrite them, if not just leave them as is. Any new publishing, I would do in a continuing series, and find a reputable company. I've never thought of an internet company. But I would do it only if it was to become a career choice, rather than continue starving.
How exactly did you intend The Deathercizer to read as a story? If you did decide to re-release it, how much editing would you have to do to present it as you first intended?
You'll need the right key to open that locked door. I twisted The Deathercizer around so it's like a Rubik's Cube, to be solve by the intellect, but only the author knows for sure, since plagiarism never rests in the hearts of others.
Isn't it a twisted game of poetry?
It would be simple for me to edit the book to its sequential pattern of flow. But to others, it would be like trying to figure out: "where is millionaire Forrest Fenn's treasure of gold hidden?" Only Forrest knows for sure! Poetry is a puzzle, once you figure it out, it becomes your treasure, a key of life.
If you were to be remembered as a writer many years from now, how would you want to be remembered?
I would want to be remembered as a great writer with a uniquely creative style, who inspired the return to the Golden Ages, whose writings opened the spiritual consciousness of mankind. But that would be farfetched, since all my earlier works were destroyed by car thieves.
But at this point, I think I would be remembered as a J.K. Rawlings type, who came late but was very successful. However anyone wants to remember me, I hope it would be with love, fondness, that I had in some way inspired them to make their life worth living and create a better world, even a millions years from now, on the newly named earth called planet "C".
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-Dave Wolff
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By Brian D. Smith
Details of the new housing eServices on the national portal bahrain.bh have been announced by the Ministry of Housing and Information & eGovernment Authority (iGA). Launched by the Minister of Housing, SE Eng. Basim bin Yacob Al Hamar on Sunday, they include: "Housing application", "Status application request", "Update contact details and IBAN", "Request Mazaya application" and "Apply for loan" .
iGA Deputy CE of eTransformation, Dr. Zakareya Ahmed AlKhajah welcomed the attention paid by HE the Minister to digital transformation and the deployment of advanced technologies to improve the services of the ministry. He congratulated the ministry's specialist teams for their hard work in supporting the launch of the latest batch of eServices, which is part of the first phase of its digital transformation plan. He praised the ministry's cooperation with the iGA throughout the study and assessment of the pre-launch period. This is in line with and in line with the vision of the Kingdom's leaders and government to embrace cutting-edge technologies and accelerate the pace of digital transformation, and with the ministry's commitment to streamline its offerings.
AlKhajah said the commitment shown by the ministry's specialist teams also supports the strategy and goals of the iGA, which focus on the digital transformation of government services using different electronic channels. Citizens who meet the eligibility criteria can benefit from eServices through the national portal, bahrain.bh. They must select the services of the Ministry of Housing and then log in using their eKey account. Services are also accessible through the ministry's official website, Housing.gov.bh, which redirects to the national portal.
The Deputy Under Secretary for Housing Policy and Services, Ministry of Housing, Dr Khalid Al Haidan, said the "Apply for Housing Application" service allows citizens to submit their applications for new housing units or housing. allocation of land by the ministry so that individuals can build their own units at their own expense after receiving the land. It also allows them to apply for the ownership of apartments in a building of the Ministry's housing project, provided that the applicant is a Bahraini between 21 and 50 years old at the time of submission.
Housing applications can be used by several types of individuals, category 1 being husbands, wives and children; Category 2 covering parents living with one or more minor Bahraini sons, and Bahraini spouses of expatriates who have a minor Bahraini nationality son, and category 3 comprising unmarried sons, aged 21 and living with one or both of them Bahraini parents.
The 'Status Inquiry' service offers individuals the option of receiving the latest updates on their inquiries, while the 'Contact and IBAN Bank Details Update' is available for those who have already submitted inquiries. housing requests.
Mr. Al Haidan said that the "Apply for Mazaya Request" service allows citizens to apply for the "Mazaya" social housing finance program, which guarantees bank financing to beneficiaries in exchange for 25% of their monthly income in the form of installments. The government, through the ministry, takes care of the rest of the financial support covering the rest of the monthly bank payments. Applicants must be Bahraini and be between 21 and 35 years old at the time of submission.
The "Apply for a Loan" service allows citizens to apply for one of the many types of financing offered by the ministry, including the purchase of housing or apartments, construction for landowners and reconstruction. The eligibility criteria for the purchase and construction financing are that applicants must be Bahraini between 21 and 50 years old at the time of submission, and not be over the age of 60 at the time of submission for the financing of reconstruction. The beneficiaries of the second phase of housing services are the same beneficiaries of the housing applications, which include all 3 categories.
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The father – and acting legend – he refers to, is Béla Ferenc Dezsõ Blaskó, a.k.a. Bela Lugosi (1882-1956), formerly a stage actor who first appeared before the camera in his native Austria-Hungary exactly one hundred years ago and who, a decade after his arrival in the US 1920), made film history when playing the title role in Universal's groundbreaking screen classic "Dracula" (1931), directed by Todd Browning.
The film launched the studio's series of horror films in February 1931, and when later that year "Frankenstein" starring Boris Karloff was released, Universal with then 22-year-old studio head Carl Laemmle, Jr., put itself further on the map: the 'Universal Monsters' with Bela Lugosi, Boris Karloff and Lon Chaney, Jr., became both a trademark and a landmark in the early sound cinematic landscape of the 1930s.
Bela Lugosi worked as a stage and screen actor in his native country (where he worked with director Mihály Kertése who later became Michael Curtiz), before moving to Berlin and finally making his way to America to work as an actor on stage and screen on the East Coast. A decade later he played Count Dracula before the camera, a role he would always be identified with.
I met his son Bela Lugosi, Jr. (b. 1938) for an interview at his downtown LA office near Pershing Square about nine years ago. Then a 70-year-old lawyer – a reserved, very kind and highly intelligent gentleman – he generously took the time to talk about his father and about growing up as the son of a celebrity in the film community.
Mr. Lugosi, how do you look back to your father's career and achievements ?
My father had a very long career before he came to America and a very lengthy career after he made "Dracula." The difference is that his roles were very versatile the first half of his life – before "Dracula" – and were complying to the horror genre in later years, probably because he gave such a marvellous performance as Dracula, first on stage in 1927, and later on in the motion picture. When he was cast by Universal to appear in the screen version, the film marked the beginning of Universal's horror movie success and it brought my dad a lot of attention. As a result he was cast in other horror pictures, also made at other studios, but he was never able to make the transition to other genres. I know he would have liked to have achieved success by playing a variety of roles, but he has become an icon because of his role as Count Dracula and he would have been so surprised and proud of his great popularity still today.
That's right. Yet, after "Dracula," he played mostly doctors, professors or counts, often referring to his portrayal as Count Dracula.
Yes, but it's also because his performance of Dracula is so iconic. Had he not made that motion picture, he would probably not be remembered by so many people, so to that extent it was a blessing. Somehow it was also a curse because of the typecasting, but it did keep him employed and who knows what his fate would have been had he not made "Dracula." He was a wonderful actor, probably he would have benefited of quite a few years of wonderful roles, had he done such a good job in a non-horror genre film.
Did you ever see him at work on the set of a movie?
I did watch him prepare for motion picture roles. He would study the script, go over the lines over and over again till he perfected them. By the time he got to the studio and it was time for his scenes, he could do it in one take while the other actors in the same scene would need multiple takes. He was a viragous reader, studied current events and a variety of subjects, and he prepared his movie roles the same way he prepared his mind on a lot of different subjects. He was 56 when I was born, so he was way in his sixties when I first realized how he prepared for his work, and by the time I started observing him, he had a world of experience. That accounts for his ability to be prepared for a character or a scene. I remember when I was about ten years old, I was on the set of "Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein"  and then I realized how unusual it all was. During their coffee break time, there I was sitting with Glenn Strange who played the Monster, and Lon Chaney Jr. who played the Wolf Man. That was a pretty remarkable experience. And when I look at his old movies now, I am still very interested to see how he mastered his craft.
You were born right here in Los Angeles. Did you also spend your childhood in LA?
I lived in Los Angeles up until I was six years old. I remember playing with some local neighbors. When I was six, I was transferred to a military school where I also lived. So that was from the first grade till the sixth grade, and then I went to public school in the same community. When my parents would visit me on Sundays, the attention of the whole school was on their arrival. Later, when my mom took my friends and me to see dad's movies, they would be scared, but to me, it was just my dad on the screen. When I moved back to Los Angeles, I was in the middle of the ninth grade. So I was pretty much a Los Angeles resident from the time I was fourteen, fifteen years old. While I was in high school, I didn't want so much attention, I'd rather keep a low profile. But you have to know that when my father died in 1956, he wasn't as popular as he is today. Now there's this whole new generation that knows who he is, but he didn't have this iconic status back then. My parents were also very much involved with the Hungarian community in Los Angeles, so we spent a lot of weekends at the clubhouse. Looking back, I can tell you that I had a very normal life as a child and I have great memories of playing in our Los Angeles home.
Bela Lugosi with his son Bela Lugosi, Jr in the mid-1950s. Photograph: Bela Lugosi, Jr.
What was your father's circle of friends like?
They were primarily artists, dancers, musicians – that type of crowd – and not the typical actor-director-producer crowd. He'd have parties in his house, they'd smoke cigars, drink fine wine, dance, but not any names of Hollywood actors and stars. And a lot of his friends were Hungarians that he stayed in touch with. He lived in Los Angeles from 1930.
But the name Lugosi will always ring a bell?
I think so. Every day somebody comments about my name. He is so remembered. The fan mail that I get comes from various generations, people who have somehow been exposed to his films. I also have my own website [click here]. My father was very urbane and cultured, and he always tried to teach me something. He was a good father, very personable with people. He was not a boogie man at home, he did not bring his roles home. But it's very unfortunate that a lot of people only remember him as he was in his later years, which were not the best years of his life. They focus on negative aspects of his life as they tend to overlook his glorious, early years when he was extremely successful. People think he was an addict, but he became addicted to morphine as a result of leg pains that he had resulting from an injury. Late in his life, he turned himself in to be cured, and when he left the hospital, he was completely cured. That was a very heroic effort, and I am very proud how he took control of his life again.
Your father made several films with Boris Karloff who also became one of Universal's legendary horror stars ["Frankensten"]. Was there ever any rivalry between the two of them?
No, none whatsoever. This was only created by the media, which made it interesting for selling tickets for their films.
Did you ever consider acting?
No, I never did. I chose for an entirely different profession. I am practicing law, I still do, every day (laughs). I'm 70 now, it keeps me mentally focused.
Do people still ask you about Tim Burton's "Ed Wood"  with Martin Landau portraying your father?
All the time. I liked Martin Landau's performance, but as I told you, it is disappointing to me that people often focus on the end of his life. That's why "Ed Wood" doesn't do justice to my dad as he really was. Unlike the character in this film, my dad was a gentleman, he was brave and he held on to his work ethics until he passed away in 1956.
RENEGADES (1930) DIR – PROD Victor Fleming SCR Jules Furthman (novel by André Armandy) CAM L. William O'Connell ED Harold D. Schuster MUS Arthur Kay CAST Warner Baxter, Myrna Loy, Noah Beery, Gregory Gaye, George Cooper Bela Lugosi (The Marabout), Noah Beery Jr.
ZOMBIES ON BROADWAY (1945) DIR Gordon Douglas PROD Benjamin Stoloff SCR Lawrence Kimble (adaptation by Robert E. Kent; original story by Robert Faber, Charles Newman) CAM Jack McKenzie ED Philip Martin MUS Roy Webb CAST Wally Brown, Alan Carney, Bela Lugosi (Professor Paul Renault), Anne Jeffreys, Sheldon Leonard, Frank Jenks, Russell Hopton, Louis Jean Heydt, Bess Flowers, Jason Robards Sr.
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For Nervous Managers, Employee Monitoring has Become a Razors-Edge Balancing Act
By Joe McKendrick | June 9, 2020 with 0 Comments
It's crucial that companies be transparent with their employees about what they are monitoring and why.
With the arrival of the COVID-19 crisis came widespread closures of companies, and with it, an unprecedented dispersal of employees sent home to work. For many nervous managers and executives, the challenge has been making sure that their teams were on track with their work, operations were functioning, and valuable data remained secure. How can employee performance be maintained?
Technology offers solutions to keep tabs on when employees were at their workstations, start and finish times, and even the length of their breaks. But is this a proper approach? Invasive monitoring may have an opposite effect of what is intended, diminishing productivity.
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"Even before Covid-19 sent an unprecedented number of people to work from home, employers were ramping up their efforts to monitor employee productivity," Reid Blackman writes in Harvard Business Review. Surveys showed that about half of corporations were electronically monitoring employee activity. With the sudden surge in working from home,
"employers are left wondering how much work is actually going on. The fear of productivity losses, mingling with the horror of massively declining revenues, has encouraged many leaders to ramp up their employee monitoring efforts."
This sudden migration — and privacy implications — concerns privacy professionals responding to a study from EY and iApp. When asked to
identify the top privacy challenges stemming from COVID-19, understanding privacy requirements associated with employee remote work was the top pick, chosen by about half (49%) of respondents.
There are even measures underway for monitoring employees coming back to the office, the Wall Street Journal reports. These include the use of thermal cameras to monitor body temperatures and sensors to monitor social distancing.
For now, issues that managers face with everybody working from home include unclear productivity and accountability, breakdowns in team communication and collaboration, heightened cybersecurity and data compliance risks, employee isolation and mental wellness, and difficulty achieving and maintaining work-life balance."Without the benefit of face-to-face guidance throughout a project lifecycle, remote employees may struggle with daily time management and task prioritization," relates an ebook from ActivTrak, a vendor in the employee monitoring space. "This could lead to inefficient workflows, missed deadlines, and other costly consequences for the organization. Because of the lack of in-person facetime, remote employees often have fewer interactions with their managers and team members. That can, in turn, lead to decreased visibility into their performance or potential workflow bottlenecks. To adapt, managers need new strategies and technologies that can provide this visibility."
Many vendors offer tools that use "stealth monitoring, live video feeds, keyboard tracking, optical character recognition, keystroke recording, or location tracking," Blackman observes. This even includes random screen captures, or recording keyboard activities. Companies that implement tools as blunt productivity instruments, however, may see their efforts backfire. "Despite the easy availability of options, however, monitoring comes with real risk to the companies that pursue it," says Blackman. "Surveillance threatens to erode trust between employers and employees."
While ActivTrak offers electronic monitoring tools, the authors of its ebook endorse open, supportive policies and communications to build trustworthy remote relationships. The book's authors recommend data analytics as an approach to assessing "remote employee workflows and guide, evidence-based opportunities for improvements." Just as importantly, they urge employees and employers "to understand that they are all in this together, and have shared responsibilities' to make remote work productive. Remote work policy essentials should include clearly defined expectations around working hours and maintaining productivity levels, as well as being safe and secure where work is happening."
Metrics are still essential, but Blackman advises that they be selected carefully. "Applying numbers to things is easy, as is making quick judgments based on numeric scores spit out by a piece of software. This leads to both unnecessary surveillance and ill-formed decisions," he warns. "If you insist on monitoring employees, make sure what you're tracking is relevant and necessary. Simply monitoring the quantity of emails written or read, for instance, is not a reliable indicator of productivity."
Get everyone's input on what metrics really matter — from hiring managers to supervisors to "those who are actually being monitored," Blackman says. It's also crucial that companies "be transparent with your employees about what you're monitoring and why. Part and parcel of respecting someone is that you take the time to openly and honestly communicate with them. Tell your employees what you're monitoring and why. Give them the opportunity to offer feedback. Share the results of the monitoring with them and, crucially, provide a system by which they can appeal decisions about their career influenced by the data collected."
Trust is a bond that needs to be painstakingly built, and can easily be lost. At a time when management is out of view, trust is the guiding force that will keep organizations up and running.
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A woman's path to literacy: the letters of Margherita Datini, 1384-1410
Carolyn Patricia James
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On January 9, 2018, Judge William Alsup of the federal district court for the Northern District of California enjoined (i.e. stopped) the administration's recession of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.
DACA allowed persons who entered the U.S. as children permission to work and pay taxes, return to the U.S. following departure, and stay in the U.S. without accruing unlawful presence. In September 2017, Attorney General Jeff Sessions, citing the threat of potential litigation concerning DACA and claiming that DACA was unconstitutional, directed the Acting Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, Elaine Duke, to rescind DACA.
2017 was a tumultuous, stressful and painful year for the many Americans who believe we are all created equal and that we possess natural and constitutional rights that include freedom, justice, liberty, equality, fairness and opportunity.
January began inauspiciously when President Trump and his administration removed all references to civil rights, LGBT rights, climate change and Spanish language content from the White House website. Later in January, President Trump issued Executive Orders mandating that a wall be built along our Southern border with Mexico, targeting sanctuary cities and creating a travel/Muslim ban prohibiting entry into the United States.
On October 30, 2017 Collen Kollar-Kotelly, U.S. District Judge for the District of Columbia issued a preliminary injunction in Doe v. Trump. In its 76 page Memorandum Opinion the Court stated the transgender ban "stigmatizes Plaintiffs as less capable of serving in the military, reduces their stature among their piers and officers, stunts the growth of their careers and threatens to derail their chosen calling or access to unique educational opportunities." October 30, 2017 Mem. Op. at 73 and "there is absolutely no support for the claim that service of transgender individuals would have any negative effect of the military at all." Id. at 75.


Every time I look at my freezer, it reminds me of my sins and the sins that we have been struggling with. Rather than worrying, complaining, stealing (even taking a paperclip from workplace), lying, cheating, getting addicted to different forms of substances, or lusting. If I do not do anything about it, sins keep piling it up as the ice keeps growing thicker in the freezer. I cannot live my life with such burdens. It is good for me to go to God and ask Him to unshackle these struggles for me and be filled with His Holy Spirit and righteousness. No more will I feel worry or guilt, because Christ will forgive and set me free from these bondages. Hopefully, one day I will learn to live a life without sins. Wait a minutes! Does it mean I need to defrost my freezer? No...God helps me please!
It is good, and so true.
so ice has been build up so much for last 20 years.
It will good reminder for my sins, when I see the ice.


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Q: How can i use cartalyst sentinel with tymon jwt in Laravel 5.6? I'm wondering how to implement tymon jwt 1.0.0 rc2 with Cartalyst Sentinel 2.0 authentication package in Laravel 5.6 to take advantage of throttling and others Sentinel features.
Inside AuthController I have this login() method as mentioned in jwt-auth Docs enter link description here to validate the credentials and generate a token.
public function login()
{
    $credentials = request(['email', 'password']);

    if (! $token = auth()->attempt($credentials))
        return response()->json(['error' => 'Unauthorized'], 401);

    return $this->respondWithToken($token);
}

What I did is the following
public function login()
{
    $credentials = request(['email', 'password']);

    if (! Sentinel::authenticate($credentials))
        return response()->json(['error' => 'Unauthorized'], 401);

    $token = auth()->attempt($credentials);
    return $this->respondWithToken($token);
}

But i don't think this is the right way because there is a double authentication, first by Sentinel and the second by jwt. and this is bad for performance.
And second workaround is to modify attempt() method inside JWTGuard class that resides in vendor/tymon/jwt-auth/src folder.
the default is the following
public function attempt(array $credentials = [], $login = true)
{
    $this->lastAttempted = $user = $this->provider->retrieveByCredentials($credentials);

    if ($this->hasValidCredentials($user, $credentials)) {
        return $login ? $this->login($user) : true;
    }

    return false;

}

and I changed it like this
public function attempt(array $credentials = [], $login = true)
{
    if ($user = Sentinel::authenticate($credentials)) {
        return $this->login($user);
    }

    return false;
}

I don't now if this is a right solution or not ?

A: Just use auth('api')->user() to get user using jwt or passport with sentinel

A: in jwt config change with this
'auth' => Tymon\JWTAuth\Providers\Auth\Sentinel::class,

And in auth controller you can used this function
use Tymon\JWTAuth\Facades\JWTAuth;

/**
 * Handle a login request to the application.
 *
 * @param loginRequest $request
 *
 * @return \Illuminate\Http\RedirectResponse|\Illuminate\Http\Response|\Illuminate\Http\JsonResponse
 */
public function login(loginRequest $request) {

    $credentials = array(
        'email'    => $request->email,
        'password' => $request->password,
    );

    if (! $token = JWTAuth::attempt($credentials)) {
        return response()->json(['error' => 'Unauthorized'], 401);
    } else {
        return $this->respondWithToken($token);
    }
}

/**
 * Get the token array structure.
 *
 * @param  string $token
 *
 * @return \Illuminate\Http\JsonResponse
 */
protected function respondWithToken($token)
{
    return response()->json([
        'access_token' => $token,
        'token_type' => 'bearer',
        'expires_in' => auth('api')->factory()->getTTL() * 60
    ]);
}

And now you can logged in.

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Man Utd physio leaves after 11 years to 'prioritise family'
Articles / Conditioning/ Manchester United
Picot joined United in 2010
Written by Simon Austin — May 28, 2021
PHYSIO Jonny Picot is leaving Manchester United after 11 years because "lockdown made me realise how important it is to prioritise family and lifestyle."
Picot started as a part-time physio at United's Academy in 2010 and progressed to work with the youth and reserve teams and then, in June 2017, for the first team.
He announced he was leaving full-time football on LinkedIn, in a post that was reminiscent of that of Chris Rush earlier this year. In January, Rush announced he was stepping down as Blackburn's Head of Performance after 15 years because "the sacrifice of the family is far too great."
Picot wrote: "Like many, lockdown made me realise how important it is to prioritise family and lifestyle. So I made the incredibly difficult decision late last year to leave the club of which I have, and will continue to be a lifelong fan of, and am so passionate about, at the end of this season.
"The sacrifices I made had an impact on my social and family life and I have spent very little time at home over the last 10 years. I am lucky I have a very patient and understanding wife who fully supported my career decisions allowing me to follow my dream and work in the environment of professional sport."
Picot said he would be moving back to his home island of Jersey, "which offers a completely different lifestyle for my two young sons."
READ MORE: Man Utd staff profiles
He will be Head Physio at the £9m Strive Health Club and Academy on the island. The new facility for the development of youth and elite athletes will be used by the British and Irish Lions for their training camp ahead of their tour of South Africa this summer.
Picot also paid tribute to the staff and players he had worked with at Manchester United.
"I would like to say a huge thank you to everyone who has helped and supported me through my journey as a physiotherapist, especially those most recently at Manchester United in the Academy and first team," he said.
"The support and encouragement have driven me to achieve something I only could have dreamt of, and this is now the platform for me to push on and continue to help others achieve great things.
"The experience I have had over the last 20 years in both rugby and football will be unforgettable - something I will remember and be proud of for the rest of my life.
"I have been privileged to work alongside some of the most committed, dedicated, and hardworking people who make everything happen.
"Most of their work goes on behind the scenes, often unrecognised. The long working hours, weekends away from home both in the UK and abroad are necessary for teams to achieve the highest level of performance and success possible."
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These drivers will influence differentiation strategies in the years ahead, and several additional factors will drive differentiation programs. First, in this era of engagement where power increasingly shifts to the individual, personalization becomes critical: the often talked about segment of one will attract much enterprise attention over the next decade. In addition, as the number of connected devices increases, old sources of competitive advantage will shift to new ones.
Second, given the rapid shifts in business and market conditions, flexibility in operating and business models is emerging as a key differentiator. Business agility continues to lead the list of those characteristics that enable success, and companies that effectively deliver business model innovation increase their chances of creating competitive advantage. Third, a new battleground for differentiation is stakeholder experience, and this requires companies to deliver consumer-like experiences across the ecosystem (customers, employees, partners, other stakeholders). Understanding that an ecosystem delivers the intended experience is significant to the transformation program, and the stakeholders within that ecosystem must participate.
Fourth, differentiation increasingly requires shedding non-core functions and specializing, making outsourcing a key piece of future road maps – back to the virtuous cycle described by Mr. Moore. Although the outsourcing term can evoke a negative response these days, this is simply a function of focus. A relentless focus on what we do best (specializing) is a key to future differentiation strategies. Fifth, differentiation will require the alignment and seamless execution of the value ecosystem. As described earlier in this series, value creation (and therefore differentiation) increasingly involves the contributions of an ecosystem.
That's a look at the differentiation forcing function. The critical need to differentiate and the ineffectiveness of traditional methods of differentiation are drivers of enterprise investment in a future state. The next post will focus on the societal change forcing function.


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Equity Partners Told to Bear Brunt of Downturn, But It's Tricky
By Roy Strom
Welcome back to the Big Law Business column on the changing legal marketplace written by me, Roy Strom. Today, we look at the complex relationship between pay cuts for associates and equity partners. Sign up to receive this column in your Inbox every Thursday morning.
Just about two months ago, before the world changed, I wrote:
"Big Law firms have just begun reporting their profit from last year, and by all indications it was another strong year. As profits per partner continue to increase, associates may question the fairness of the current compensation structure. The question partners will have to answer is how much that matters to the ongoing health of the firm."
I'd forgive readers for dismissing the idea at the time. It was about how associate salaries in the wake of the Great Recession hadn't kept pace with inflation—and had fallen considerably behind the growth in profits per partner. Where's the urgency in that, right? The party was still raging, and associates were comfortable.
Flash forward some 60 days, and firm leaders across the country are now grappling with the very question of "fairness" in compensation decisions. Except now the issue is about how to share pain, not gain.
Big Law firms are cutting associate salaries and some are furloughing staff. Many are announcing large delays or reductions in partner profit distributions.
In some of the announcements, there is a noble twist on the salary decisions firm owners made during the good times. Some firms appear to be promising that equity partners will see the biggest cuts in their compensation. This is a markedly different approach than the associate layoffs the industry was criticized for in 2008. Well-intended as those promises may be, they are not necessarily as straightforward as they sound.
The main reason for that is because the majority of equity partner "compensation" comes in the form of a share of firm profits—at least 50% according to the standard industry definition of "equity partner."
It is unclear whether firms are saying that equity partners' year-end take-home totals will be cut deeper than the salary reductions for staff and associates. Or are they talking about temporary reductions to partners' monthly profit distributions?
If it is the latter, the promise has a caveat. That is, equity partners' pain could potentially be made up at the end of the year if revenue projections beat expectations. The question is whether the same is true for associates and staff, or whether firms are unintentionally signaling that it is.
Firms making decisions to cut salaries today don't know what their profits will be at the end of the year. And cutting expenses in the form of salaries will have the effect of increasing the end-of-year profit pie—which equity partners will still divvy up.
Firms are no doubt projecting huge declines in profits even with the cuts to salaries. But promising that an equity partner's profit distribution will decline in greater measure than associate wages has an odd effect of blurring the line between firm owners and firm employees.
And that means there could come a time when firms will need to revisit their egalitarian promise. If a law firm's revenue projection doesn't fall as far as leadership anticipates when announcing today's salary cuts, and partners don't end up taking a bigger hit than associates, will the law firm retroactively keep its promise to associates?
"This is so unprecedented that you really have to preserve your options" and conserve cash, Janet Stanton, a partner at law firm management consultancy Adam Smith Esq., said. "But the people with integrity will do exactly what you are talking about."
To be sure, law firm leaders are operating with imperfect information.
They are making decisions to cut salaries based on projections of significant declines in revenue. None of them have a crystal ball. They don't know what portion of client bills will be paid. They don't how much work they will have. And, ultimately, they don't know how much profit there will be at the end of the year.
They do know that they have very few options to preserve cash. And among their largest expenses are staff and associate salaries.
"What I would focus on if I were a managing partner is cash. Because when you run out of cash, the game is over," Bruce MacEwen, an Adam Smith Esq. partner, said. "And a big cash expense that is variable in the short-term is compensation and salary. So you almost have no choice but to look at that."
There is one other complicating factor law firm leaders need to consider when weighing weather to promise that equity partners will shoulder the largest compensation cuts. That is, how the decision will be received by equity partners.
"Attracting and retaining sought-after people is mission critical to most high-performing law firms," said Kent Zimmermann, a principal at Zeughauser Group. "And decisions during a downturn that put a competitive disadvantage to continue doing that could redound to the benefit of other firms that want to attract those same people."
For law firms, the instinct to protect jobs and preserve wages is heartening. But there may come a time when those promises will need to be revisited.
And yes, that scenario can only happen if there is an upside surprise to law firms' revenue projections. That may be unlikely, but if it does happen, managing partners will have another chance to share gains with their associates and staff. And there will be bigger concerns this time than keeping up with inflation. It will be about keeping a promise.
"They will either have to say you were part of our family and you helped us get through this and we are giving you bonuses," said Kay Hoppe, a legal recruiter in Chicago. "Or the owners of the businesses will stay whole."
Worth Your Time
On Law Students: My colleague Meghan Tribe wrote for Businessweek a story that describes the pain being felt by law school students . Consequences run the gamut from awkward Zoom classes to economic hardship caused by diminished job opportunities.
On Virtual Summers: Speaking of law students, many rising 3Ls looking forward to summer associate positions in Big Law will now be working "virtually." But what that online summer experience will actually look like is anybody's guess.
On David Lat: The legal news pioneer turned law firm recruiter is out of the hospital after battling Covid-19, and he tells Elizabeth Olson that while the Big Law is experiencing uncertainty, "It's not in a freefall."
On Lateral Hires: Willkie Farr & Gallagher expanded its Chicago office with the hire of yet another Jenner & Block partner. The hire comes just two weeks after the Wall Street firm opened a Windy City office led by Craig Martin, Jenner & Block's former chair.
That's it for this week. Thanks for reading and please send me your thoughts, critiques, and tips.
To contact the reporter on this story: Roy Strom in Chicago at rstrom@bloomberglaw.com
To contact the editors responsible for this story: Jessie Kokrda Kamens at jkamens@bloomberglaw.com; Rebekah Mintzer at rmintzer@bloomberglaw.com; Andrew Harris at aharris@bloomberglaw.com
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I've been having this trouble, its not a lot seenable right now but most of the time its like there is 3,4 shadow blur of each character. Building and npcs too so putting it all together it gets kind of hard on the eye and anoying to play and i want to play but its making it really painfull.
I did attach a screenshot where you can see it a little if you focus and the setting im using. I tryed all the *HW Hack*, made no difference other then making it worst.
My pc just basic setting, i played tons of other ps2 game with 0 lag and no problem.
Bug because of upscaling, no fix except to use native resolution.
Use GSDX OpenGL also, not DX11.
even in native res ?
Searching on google i eventually find people having this issue and gregory fixed it in a build but its older so if its still not working now it mean fix in build aren't kept.
I know some people were able to fix it.
I dont want to use native res cause it just look so bad lol, i just hope gregory sees this post and could hopefully add an option of something to fox it, if i remember in one of the build he did add an option in the HW hack for it but its not there anymore and i cant find the build so..
Im just hoping there a fix cause it would make gameplay just SO MUCH better, cause the blur/shadowy is on everything so it eventually gets anoying. i still play the game cause its ton of fun! but hope it can be fix even if he just add it in a next build so i can finish the series!


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Charles B. DeVlieg, called Charlie or CB (1892–1973) was a pioneering tool designer who founded the DeVlieg Machine Tool Company in Michigan.

He developed a series of increasingly precise horizontal boring machines which culminated in the JIGMIL.  This was so accurate that it did not require expensive jigs and was adopted extensively throughout industry, selling 4,500 units. The first JIGMIL is now in the Henry Ford Museum and Charles DeVlieg has entered the Machine Tool Hall of Fame.

He founded the DeVlieg Foundation in 1961, a charity which promoted engineering education.

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1892 births
1973 deaths
20th-century American engineers


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Free Press Summer Fest: 2017 lineup and tickets
By BrooklynVegan Staff February 15, 2017 | BrooklynVegan
Solange, The Shins, Big K.R.I.T., Frightened Rabbit, Hurray for the RIff Raff, Khruangbin, Cherry Glazerr & more are playing the Houston festival.
Category: Music, tour dates Tags: Big KRIT, Cashmere Cat, Charli XCX, Flume, Frightened Rabbit, G-Eazy, Hurray for the Riff Raff, Lorde, Portugal. The Man, The Shins
Radiohead at ACL 2016 (more by Tim Griffin)
2016 ACL Fest weekend 1, day 1 in pics (Radiohead, M83, Foals & more)
By Bill Pearis October 5, 2016 | BrooklynVegan
Plus: check out Radiohead's ACL setlist.
Category: Music, pictures Tags: ACL, ACL Festival, ACL Music Festival, Banks & Steele, Bombino, Chairlift, Die Antwoord, Foals, Frightened Rabbit, Gina Chavez, julien baker, m83, Prinze George, Radiohead, Raury, Ron Gallo, Strumbellas, The Front Bottoms, Welshy Arms
House of Vans in pics (The Specials, Trash Talk, Ghostface, Chelsea Light Moving, Toro Y Moi ++ more)
House of Vans took over The Mohawk for the entirety of SXSW's Music portion, becoming ground zero for shows with Show No Mercy (Pitchfork), True Panther, The Paradigm Agency, Windish, The Onion AV Club, IAMSOUND, Ground Control, and of course the Vans Official showcase...
Category: Music, pictures Tags: Alan Palomo, Alt-J, Austra, Cashmere Cat, Charlie XCX, Chelsea Light Moving, Cold War Kids, Corey Chisel, Dawes, DeLorean, DIIV, Disclosure, Doldrums, Empress Of, Frightened Rabbit, Ghostface Killah, Hunters, Iggy & The Stooges, Iggy Pop, Japandroids, Jonny Fritz, Le1f, Local Natives, Lord Huron, Merchandise, Metz, Middle Class Rut, Palma Violets, Paws, Sheek Louch, Silent Dane, Skaters, Skeletonwitch, Solid Gold, SXSW, The Coup, The Specials, The Thermals, Toro Y Moi, Trash Talk, Wake Owl, Wild Belle
Alt-J, Frightened Rabbit, The Joy Formidable, Guards and more played The Belmont @ SXSW (pics)
The final day for "Warner Sound captured by Nikon" at The Belmont happened on Thursday (3/14) with a pretty stacked line-up. We posted pictures on BV of Flaming Lips' headlining set where they did their first-ever front-to-back performance of 2002's Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots...
Category: Music, pictures Tags: Alt-J, Atlas Genius, Delta Rae, Frightened Rabbit, GUARDS, Joy Formidable, Lianne La Havas, Surfer Blood, SXSW, Wild Feathers
Flaming Lips returning to SXSW, headlining week of Warner Sound showcases @ Belmont w/ Alt-J, Frigtened Rabbit & more
The above flyer is one of five Warner Sound showcases going down at the Belmont during SXSW this year.
We also heard a rumor about another big Flaming Lips show supposedly happening at SXSW this year...
Category: Music, tour dates Tags: Action Bronson, Alt-J, Atlas Genius, Belmont, Blondfire, Charli XCX, Delta Rae, Flaming Lips, Frightened Rabbit, GUARDS, Icona Pop, Lianne La Havas, Rockie Fresh, Sirah, Skaters, Surfer Blood, SXSW, Tegan and Sara, The Rubens, Warner Music Group, Wild Feathers
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SXSW announces even more artists (Vampire Weekend, Local Natives, Thermals, Clutch, Rockie Fresh, Waxahatchee, more)
By BrooklynVegan Staff January 10, 2013
Vampire Weekend in Brooklyn in 2012 (more by Greg Cristman)
SXSW already revealed one round of artists, then a second, and now they've just revealed a third announcement which includes Vampire Weekend, Local Natives, The Thermals, Black Lips, Camera Obscura, Merchandise, Clutch, Rockie Fresh, Baauer, Bleached, TOY, Waxahatchee, Bleeding Rainbow, Count Bass...
Category: Music, tour dates Tags: 100s, 360, 3rd Line Butterfly, A Band of Bitches, A Fine Frenzy, Adam WarRock, Akina Adderley & The Vintage Playboys, Alba Lua, Allah Las, Allison Weiss, AM & Shawn Lee, Ambassadors, Amplified Heat, Anders & Kendall, Andrew Combs, Andy Clockwise, Andy Statman Trio, Ane Trolle, Ango, Apparat Organ Quartet, Army of Infants, Arno Gonzalez, Ásgeir Trausti, Ash, ASSACRE, Atomic Tom, Aurum, Avi Avital, AZARI and III, Baauer, Baby E, Bad Cop, Bajofondo, Barcelona, Beach Day, Bear Mountain, Beat King, Belligerence, Ben Aqua, Berner, Betzefer, Bez, Bhi Bhiman, Billy Joe Shaver, Bird Peterson, Black Drawing Chalks, Black Earth, Black Lips, Bleached, Bleeding Rainbow, Blessed Feathers, Bloody Knives, Bobby Bare Sr, BOY, Branzil, Breathe Carolina, Brodinski, Brodka, Brown Shoe, Bruce Saunders, Calvin Love, Cambriana, Camera Obscura, Candy 66, Carrie Rodriguez, Cars & Trains, Carsick Cars, Carsie Blanton, Chad Valley, Chali 2na, Chappo, Cheeky Blakk, Chevy Woods, Chic Gamine, Child Actor, Christopher Smith, Clairy Browne & the Bangin' Rackettes, Clutch, Coby Brown, Cold Warps, Communist Daughter, Conner Youngblood, Corizonas, Cory Chisel and The Wandering Sons, Count Bass D, Cuchillo, Culotta Rock, D E N A, Daltonians, Danger Boys, Daniel Romano, Dat Boi T aka Screwed Up Essay, David Wax Museum, Davy Knowles, Dead Letter Circus, Decades, Dedo Caracol, Deep Sea Diver, Delhi 2 Dublin, Detective, Devon Williams, Dexter Freebish, Diamond Dolls, Diana, Die!Die!Die!, Diego Garcia, Dillon, Diplomats of Solid Sound, DJ BL3ND, DJ Buddha, DJ DiBiase, DJ Hella Yella, Dj Will, Doña María, Dorrough Music, Dosh, Dream Affair, Dreamend, Dual Core, DWNTWN, Eagles of Death Metal, East Cameron Folkcore, Eddi Front, El Campo, Electric Eel Shock, Elephant Stone, Ensemble Yaman, Equals, Erin McKeown, Eshon Burgundy, Ester Rada, Exhumed, Fakuta, Family, Faye, Fed of Me, Feenixpawl, Fenech-Soler, Fetsum, Fielded, Fitz and The Tantrums, Flame, Fol Chen, Frank Turner & The Sleeping Souls, Freedom Hawk, French Horn Rebellion, Frightened Rabbit, Frontier, G A L P A L S, Game Over Hound, Gemini Club, Gerald G, Gesaffelstein, Ghost Beach, Ginger & The Ghost, GO DJ JB, Goatwhore, Golden Bear, Goldroom, Goonam, Goosander, Grandfather Child, Ha Sizzle, Half Moon Run, Heaven, Heaven's Basement, Helado Negro, Heliotropes, Heroes X Villains, Hey Marseilles, Heyerdahl, Hills Like Elephants, HoodStar Chantz, Hopsin, Houses, Howl, I Am David Sparkle, I Can Chase Dragons!, IAMDYNAMITE, Icona Pop, Idiot Glee, Indians, Intimate Stranger, Io Echo, Ivan and Alyosha, Ivan Neville's Dumpstaphunk, Jack Carty, Jack Wilson, Jackmaster, Jackson Firebird, Jake Bugg, Jason D. 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'Tangata Whenua', Māori, the indigenous people of Aotearoa meaning 'a people born from the land', activates the performance Ngahere. A visual narrative interweaving between the artists body with native forests of their hau kãinga, Whangateau. Adorned in a Pākē, Māori rain cloak, the taonga activates the body, genealogy, time, and space.