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About The "Personal Computer Master Race" by: Nick Carter
March 25, 2018 Psychosemantic
Attention internet: PLEASE STOP SAYING THIS PHRASE! I can already hear the chorus of "but it's just a harmless internet joke" or "It's just about PC Gaming, don't be a libtard". Do I really need to explain why this phrase makes me uncomfortable, and has since it first appeared around 2005? I will anyway.
During the hayday of the first XBox and second Playstation in the earliest days of Myspace and Facebook, there was an alternate, earlier internet culture that lived in forums. Sometimes it would be the forum of a specific gaming or news website, sometimes it would be grim grimey places like Something Awful and 4Chan. It is in these places that the term PC Master Race started to circulate, and it's never gone away.
"PC Master Race", to be perfectly clear, has zero connection with Political Correctness. In fact, PC Master Race is one of the few Nazi-related catch phrases from the internet that is NOT pejorative: proud Personal Computer devotees have been labeling themselves as members of the PC Master Race for over a decade, originally to shame the owners of Game Cubes and Wiis for being "less evolved", "lower lifeforms", "lazy consumers", "technologically challenged", or even just poor or basic.
To understand the privilege gap inherent in this term, we only need to look at the cost and upkeep of the two machines: 'consoles' are about $300-$600 dollars, and will generally work out of the box. A gaming personal computer might cost upwards of $1,200, needs regular upgrades and maintenance, and demands you spend half of your time fixing problems when it stops working. There is a meritocracy myth at play, where your proud PC user is very self-impressed with their ability to not only afford the costly equipment but also devote themselves to the maintenance of these machines.
Much like the Hot Rod days of years ago, except this time the 'Hot Rod' is a computer: an interface for changing the world or escaping it, depending on how you use it. These self-important PC users will proudly proclaim their "Master Race" status on internet forums to let console gamers know who is in charge: this is their turf, and you won't have a good time if you question them. This war between console gamers and PC gamers was raging for several years, by the time Gamergate occurred in 2014 and united the community behind one vile cause.
In short, Gamergate was a months long attack on several female game developers and journalists (including game developers Zoë Quinn and Brianna Wu, as well as feminist media critic Anita Sarkeesian) who criticized the overt sexism and manipulation in games development and marketing, and the gaming community did not take kindly to this. They went so far as to send death threats, and they would even witchhunt people who criticized them within their own ranks, with games journalists losing their jobs over speaking out in defense of the women who were mercilessly harassed (search for Moviebob + Gamergate for a peak at this madness.) The console and PC gamers united in this case, but it was even earlier that Steve Bannon realized the efficacy of this population. (As mentioned in the book "Devil's Bargain" by Joshua Green.)
Steve Bannon joined the company 'Internet Gaming Entertainment' in 2007, a company founded by Brock Pierce (child actor in The Mighty Ducks, now infamous for his involvement in cryptocurrency). This company paid Chinese gamers to 'farm' for gold and items in World of Warcraft, a PC only game. These gold and items would then be sold to western players for real world money. But in dealing with these gamers directly, on an international stage, Steve Bannon could see what the PC Master Race was capable of when compelled to act. Denial of service attacks, doxing, hacking and interfering with public systems… Bannon had tapped into the anarchic Anonymous culture, where masses of impulse driven young men could be persuaded to change course with the right encouragement. These are the same young men who originally claimed to be PC Master Race.
If you've read all this, you might be thinking "well, I love my PC, so I'm PC Master Race, it's not a big deal, just a lighthearted thing." Just remember you're willingly attributing to yourself a term of Nazi origin, that not only reflects your privilege but connects you to the movement that elected Donald Trump. The term "PC Master Race" in now indelibly tied to online White Supremacy, that's to 4Chan's /pol/ board and the connections it built with white supremacist leaders. And keep in mind there are still people in the world who don't have a computer, or internet, or even basic access to the news. This is the 'digital devide', and when viewed through this lens, the term "PC Master Race" reeks of privilege and authoritarianism.
Consider China: the latest development in Chinese culture is a 'social rating' system. Inspired by the U.S. credit rating, this allows the Chinese government to monitor your social network usage, rate you based on the content you share, and allow or deny certain privileges based on your pro-state score. They've announced that access to local trains will be denied if your score is too low. (This system was developed for the Chinese government by Blizzard-Activision, the same company that designed World of Warcraft.) Think about how poor credit rating affects US citizens, then imagine what it's like in China where they don't even have to disguise it: it exists purely as a form of privilege control. In a civilization that rates you based on your digital social network usage, you won't be able to afford not using it, much like it's difficult to afford living in America without credit. In China's case, you'll find yourself without social clout. And at the top of this system are the network administrators and coders nessecary to keep this system humming.
This is what I think of when I think PC Master Race: a group so impressed with their provenance over machines and code that they expect and demand privilege commensurate with their importance and devotion to the machinary they run. More and more, the PC Master Race won't just have a computer at home (and on their cash register at work): the PC Master Race will become network administrators and programmers, becoming more and more involved and entrenched in the machines that will run society in the future. Our financial markets are almost entirely run by software, from a technologist's point of view it only makes sense to migrate as much of our government and society's underpinnings to digital automation, and when that happens there will be a great devide between those who are subject to the machines, and those who are master to them: the PC Master Race.
Today it's a lighthearted term, much like Pepe the Frog was just a funny mascot once. Today Pepe has been commandeered by the authoritarians of the alt-right, and as tech becomes ever more prevalent in our everyday world, soon "PC Master Race" will become a much heavier term. In the meantime, maybe we could stop associating ourselves with facism and convincing ourselves that it's just an ironic turn of phrase.
Essayscomputers, essay, hate, politics, racism, sexism
Schema Modes and Mind Control: How Poor Mental Health Benefits the State
February 1, 2018 Psychosemantic
An Essay By: Big Nick
"Mother doesn't go out anymore
Just sits at home and rolls her spastic eyes
But every weekend through the door
Come words of wisdom from the world outside
If you want to know 'bout the bishop and the actress
If you want to know how to be a star
If you want to know 'bout the stains on the mattress
You can read it in the Sunday papers"
Joe Jackson – "Sunday papers", 1979
In the realm of mental health there is a concept called schemas: frameworks through which mental health patients and providers can explore someone's psyche to find the root cause of their discomfort. Some examples are defectiveness/shame: the belief that the self is broken or intrinsically worthless; abandonment: the belief that the self has been left behind by someone else responsible for it; abuse: the cycle of perpetuating hateful or irresponsible treatment, seeing your trauma as justification for traumatizing others; and so on… there are 18 recognized schemas that a mental health professional can help you explore.
There's also a punitive schema: a personality mode that causes one to"insist on perfection and demand justice" in accordance with standards that may be unrelenting or unrealistic. This mode can also cause 'avoidance' in the form of "isolating oneself from others to protect the ego and/or to avoid disappointment; it can also lead to 'overcompensation', meaning in this case to "behave like a 'doormat'" and let others have their way with no resistance.
Consider the typical Trump supporter's stance on Hillary Clinton: "LOCK HER UP!" This is clearly a call for punitive action: Hillary should be punished for hosting a private e-mail server for her campaign. But when it comes to Donald Trump's staff using private e-mail servers, or blatantly lying about all sorts of things (literally every sort of thing), they avoid the topic or flat out excuse the behavior. In the eyes of a Trump support, Hillary is a bad person (shameful even) and should be punished… their strongman Trump is excusable because he's "one of us" and "very fine people". There are other schemas that can apply to Trump supports and even Donald Trump himself, in a very similar fashion.
But let's consider the opposite side as well: https://drhurd.com/2018/01/31/trump-derangement-syndrome/. This article posts about the same mental health point of view, but from the position that Trump Detractors are the ones suffering mental illness. The points are a bit labored, but not invalid: in fact you can just as easily make the same claims about republican politicians and the logic holds up. You can even see clearly defensive behavior in the actions of politicians from across the spectrum as they struggle to defend their actions and increasingly have to rely on the strength of psychological distortion to bolster their fibbing.
Depression has taken hold of our nation and mental illness now rules our politics, from the men and women on Capital Hill down to your grandma and niece on Main St. This article offers one possible explanation for why this is happening. We see that education in America has been suffering (and will continue to suffer as the federal government refuses to stop cutting funding for schools.) What explanation could there be for this? It seems logical that a smart, educated population would best serve the nation, so why would our nation's leaders seek to limit the possibilities of our nation's students? To see a clearer picture, let's look at another realm of mental health called Schema Modes.
Our schemas describe in broad terms how our psyche sees the world and process input, but schema modes describe how our emotions and personal agency interact with this worldview. There are 4 "children modes" which are governed by a "parent mode". It's easiest to visualize them:
Children modes:
(Happiness) ______
_____ \
(Anger)___________ \__ ________
_____________ \___| |
(Impulsiveness)_______|*PARENT*|
_____________ ___|________|
(Vulnerability)___/
There are several states the "Parent" can exist in: mental health providers talk about a dysfunctional parent vs. a health parent. A dysfunctional parent will allow the children to govern each other, or govern them irresponsibly and in ways that reinforce depression. For example, someone who's not parenting their emotions may give in to drugs or masturbation as a way of satisfying their drive for happiness, which puts impulsiveness in charge of their emotions. Someone may find it satisfying to find people to argue with on the internet, which then puts anger and vulnerability in charge of their emotions. These things can be find in moderation and with intentional use, but when left in charge of our emotional state we start to lose control. Many mental health patients complain of not having control over their lives, and by exploring their schemas can find ways in which they have found 'control' in unhealthy ways that contribute to their depression. The goal of mental health treatment is to redevelop the 'Parent' mode into a healthy version that intelligently moderates these 4 children with insight and self-compassion.
Can you think of a situation in which someone might benefit from you 'losing your control' of your parent mode? Consider the new Star Wars movie: long time fans feel Star Wars Episode 8 is the most emotional ever released, while casual fans and non-fans find the movie not terribly satisfying. These long time fans have willingly sacrificed some of their emotional control to the Star Wars franchise, and subsequently to the Disney and Lucasfilm corporations. This appropriated control can then be used to motivate them to buy merchandise. For those not keeping track, the Star Wars films have grossed $7 Billion over the last 40 years, while the toy lines have grossed $14 Billion. That's twice as much, and points to a large motivator for Disney to keep people emotionally dependent on an on-going stream of Star Wars content. For more on the relationship between Star Wars, religion and capitalism, I will always recommend reading ŽIŽEK's "The Revenge of Global Finance", which predicted the global housing market crash 2 years before it happened: http://inthesetimes.com/article/2122/
For more perspective, here is a story about the failed attempt to indoctrinate China into the Star Wars vision of capitalist-buddhism: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/star-wars-china-box-office-why-disneys-jedi-mind-trick-isnt-working-china-1075177
So what does this mean for politics? Imagine, if you will, a world where a large percent of the population gets its information from a state TV news source, where the population is kept in a state of anxiety and depression over state-engineered defectiveness (what is the meaning of a living wage? how many people do you know that make a easily "livable" wage, even in the middle class?) With this "defective parent" mode, the state news can slip in to take its place, and people can get their emotional 'moderation' from watching the television. The TV, or internet, or newspaper, whichever source they choose, becomes their new "parent" and tells them what to be happy about, what to be angry about, and when. Especially for an aging population, this is a welcome presence in their lives: as you become older and your mental faculties start to degrade, the desire to let someone else moderate your emotions and develop your opinions for you becomes such an appealing luxury that at some point it appears to become a perceived necessity.
Think of your grandparent who watches Fox News, an aunt or uncle who gets all of his opinions from sports talk radio, a niece or nephew who gets all of their political news from Facebook. All of these people are limiting their worldview by outsourcing their internal parentage to an external media source. All of these modes of media consumption help reinforce the systems of influence and control that propagate white supremacy and homophobia, even in realms where the focus is squarely on the opposite. Using the same means of social control designed to benefit the state or the wealthy will never benefit the working class: it will only normalize and propagate the influence of the more powerful and resource-rich who have been using the same systems to maintain the status quo for generations.
The only way to fight this is to develop two separate but interconnected skills: emotional literacy, and media literacy. You can learn more about these by visiting the following websites: http://medialiteracyproject.org/learn/media-literacy/; https://www.specialeducationalneeds.co.uk/emotional-literacy.html. Both of these skills will give you the power to develop your parent mode: to critically evaluate your own emotions and thoughts, and the emotional messages in the media you consume. Learn to differentiate between entertainment and facts, take agency in how you process information and interact with the world, and avoid the influence of media meant to destroy your self-worth and self-advocacy. Stay strong and keep resisting.
"Sunday papers, don't ask no questions
Sunday papers, don't get no lies
Sunday papers, don't raise objections
Sunday papers, ain't got no eyes"
"Big Nick", 2/1/2018
Essaysamerica, politics, Psychosemantic, resist
I Fell in Love With a Girl at the Rock Show: Lydia Loveless at Ace of Cups, 09/09/2016 by Amanda Wilson
September 21, 2016 September 21, 2016 Psychosemantic
In December, my husband and I went to see Sleater-Kinney at the Newport. I was supposed to review the show for this website so my husband could write off my drinks, but I never did. The thing I noticed most about the show (the band was amazing as always) was all the MEN.
MEN. Everywhere. Standing in front of me, being loud, wearing ironic t-shirts. When did Sleater-Kinney become cool for men to like? The women in the crowd ranged from incredulous, like me, to visibly hostile. My husband got a pass from the stink-eye because he was with me, and, as always, exceedingly polite.
I've continued to mull over that experience for the past year. Thinking about "#1 must have", We Were Feminists Once and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign. What's happened to the feminist movement in the past ten years, and where do I fit within it? I realized it was time to re-engage. Three audio books later (How to Be a Woman, Bad Feminist, and Shrill), I feel like I've regained the beat.
The same old crap is going on
Some good stuff has happened
I still give a shit.
What does any of this have to do with Lydia Loveless' Real tour kick off at Ace of Cups Thursday night? Nothing, and everything.
I am one of those annoying introverts who is always saying they'll go to things and then doesn't, because getting dressed and leaving the house. While introverted parenting is difficult in its own right, I highly recommend a baby as a permanent font of excuses to go nowhere. I had flirted casually with going to this show but not bothered to make concrete plans. When the title of the Facebook event changed to SOLD OUT, I texted my husband a sad face. A few minutes later, I had it on good authority that I would, in fact, be able to get in. A magician never reveals his secrets but one of my posts to Facebook later that night was "there are perks to having a rock star for a husband." I was super excited but skeptical of my ability to stay up past 9P (at 8:30P my husband made me a cup of coffee). I thought about dressing up but opted for comfort: cut offs, studded belt, 'Supernatural' tank top and chemistry themed Toms. I wavered between driving and walking, decided to drive, couldn't find parking, took my car home, and walked past a giant parking space right in front of the door to Ace of Cups. I know what the words SOLD OUT mean but damn! it was crowded.
I tried to look confident as I walked through the door with the SOLD OUT sign on it. "Amanda Wilson?" I said ,with audible emphasis on the question mark , and there I was, at the top of 'The List'. I received an unidentifiable hand stamp and made my way to the bar for a G&T. My bartender was gorgeous and I tried not to stare at her in her tight Jack Daniels t-shirt and leather skirt. I wandered to an empty spot on the floor and looked around.
There were a lot of old people there – older than me! Middle-aged men mostly, and lots of women who looked like me (glasses, varying shapes and effort at dress). I remembered my husband told me to look around for people we know. So I went out to the patio, even though I quit smoking almost six years ago. Right out of the door I see Lydia and her sister, Eleanor. "I'm so glad you got in!" says Lydia, embracing me. "Thank you!" I reply, "It's Mommy's night out!" I say I feel guilty ("He'll be OK," Eleanor reassures me) not for leaving the baby with my husband but because he is a HUGE Lydia Loveless fan. "Really?" Lydia exclaims, "How old is he now?" The answer is eighteen months and ten minutes in the door I'm already the mom showing pictures of her baby to people at the bar. My son demands to listen to Lydia's records most nights before bed, waving his tiny fist in the air.
We chat and I see some other familiar faces. One of the things we discuss is the intractable misogyny of the music industry; how male music journalists still ask the same stupid questions ("how does it feel to be a woman in music? What does your husband think of your lyrics?") And how any response gets twisted into a negative ("Old guys like my music becomes 'Why do you hate old people?"). Looking around, it's clearly true that old guys like Lydia Loveless' music. I think about the guys at the Sleater-Kinney show. I like for men to like music made by women. But is something getting lost? I'm not sure yet.
I follow Eleanor upstairs and try to stay out of the way so she can finish the conversation with her sister I initially interrupted. I ask if Eleanor wants a drink, she does but is not sure what. I bring back another G&T and a Fireball and Coke, which is apparently ridiculous evidence of how out of the loop I am regarding cocktails at rock shows. By the time I returned from the bar Eleanor had disappeared into the green room with Lydia. I'm appraising the guy at the door to determine if I can trust him to deliver Eleanor's beverage when she opens the door and pulls me into the room. "I heard your voice," she explains. I'll bet. When I do talk, it's incredibly loud. This difficulty in modulation contributes to my social anxiety, but I try to embrace it. Eleanor raises her eyebrows almost imperceptibly at the beverage options, taking the G&T and leaving me to sip my cinnamon toast (my husband teased me about it later).
It's blissfully quiet in the green room. It's just Lydia and Eleanor in there now, and as we talk as Lydia's band comes in to make the set list. They say they don't know what to play so I make helpful suggestions (Steve Earle! Heaven! Midwestern guys! Everything's gone! The killing time! I would die 4 U!) Most of which I got to hear later. Eleanor introduced me to their brother and his date. A stream of people come in with various concerns. Eleanor says "someone needs to have a talk with the teenager guarding the door. He can't let just anyone back here." I feel special. I manage to act mostly normal, except when I try to show everyone the picture of a runaway cat that passed out in a catnip display.
I'm reluctant to describe Lydia's appearance because a woman's appearance is always described and because I don't want to sound weird, but she looked like gold. I'm impressed by her guitar playing, how it gets better and better, and her command of the stage. I consider describing everyone's appearance to justify this passage- Ben like something out of a country Teen Beat, killing the electric bass as well as he does the upright, Todd, dressed like Willy Wonka (that will be referenced later), his face completely transforming as he shreds the guitar, Jay with his wristband and Radiohead-esque soundscapes and George looking exactly as adorable and boyish as he has probably looked for twenty years, maybe with a shade more scalp showing through, demonstrating measured restraint when needed but a lot of skill. I enjoy the versatility of the live show, the sound reliable and not repetitive.
The set is incredible, mostly songs off the two most recent albums. I dance and feel amazing and remember why I love live music. I hate music reviews generally and refuse to describe the actual music in a series of pointless adjectives. If you aren't familiar with Lydia's music and you like Neko Case or Bjork or the 80s go listen to it. Lydia does a few solo songs with her electric guitar in the middle, Billy Bragg style. One of them is "Wild Horses;" her dad comes on stage to sing with her and I weep. Because it's beautiful, because of the song, and because I don't have a dad to sing with anymore. Jay plays a loop from Willy Wonka and Eleanor takes the stage, singing "Pure Imagination." As the band begins the encore to their set she takes an elegant stage dive into the waiting arms of a friend.
The men were all up front, phones out, taking video. Tall and refusing to move. I think of the Sleater-Kinney show. I wonder if we need to start calling ladies to the front again, Bikini Kill style. I think of Lydia's face in the green room, joking about wearing a gorilla mask, "I want to wear this so I don't get groped on the way to the stage." She is 26 years old and a star and she should be focused on what she wants to play and enjoying herself, not worried about some pervert trying to cop a feel when she walks to and from the stage. I feel maternal and possessive and aggressive. I want to say, "She belongs to us. Back off!" But I can't because of course she only belongs to herself. I did tell her to dedicate "Midwestern Guys" to them in the crowd which she did, but I wonder if the irony was lost on them, like when I made a bunch of metal heads watch Metalocalypse with me and they did not get it. I know that ten years is not so long between our ages but us feminists in our 30s, did we fail her somehow? Thank you, Lydia, for sharing your gift with us.
-Aew, 09/10/2016.
A/V, Essays, Non-Fictionfeminism, introversion, Lydia Loveless, music
Columbus City Council Votes on June 20th…One Woman's Testimony Against the Christian™© War on Reproductive Rights
June 17, 2016 June 17, 2016 Psychosemantic
Written statement prepared for Columbus Ohio City Council meeting held 6/14/2015:
My name is Amanda Wilson. I am a Licensed Independent Social Worker in the State of Ohio. I am a member of North Broadway United Methodist Church. I am a wife and a mother.
Female bodies bear the majority of the burden of bringing new life into the world. This miraculous ability given to the female body comes with significantly increased healthcare costs over the course of one's reproductive life- from first menses to menopause. I believe that affordable, high quality healthcare is a right, not a privilege. Perhaps the most significant component of affordable, high quality healthcare is access to it. It does not matter if resources exist if women are not able to readily access them. Harassment and intimidation prevent and inhibit women's access to affordable and high quality reproductive healthcare. The fact that this harassment and intimidation is levied particularly at women is a form of discrimination, when women are already burdened with increased healthcare costs over the course of a lifetime. Yelling at women, criticizing them, cajoling them, praying at them, displaying signs and distributing pamphlets that provide misleading and inaccurate information, all of these activities are forms of harassment and intimidation.
Just Monday, I was walking on East Broad where I saw a women yelling at a couple out back of a reproductive health clinic. She was yelling "You don't have to do this! Let us help you!" I found her behavior to be disturbing and frightening and it was not even directed at me. This woman was with another woman who had posted a yard sign with misleading information designed to frighten.
I respect every citizen's right to free speech, protest and prayer. However, activities designed to harass and intimidate women from receiving healthcare at a healthcare facility are not an appropriate expression of a person's dissent with abortion. Jesus was a teacher who brought a message of radical love, acceptance, and grace into the world. As Christians, we are called upon to share wisdom, not ignorance. To spread love, not fear. To provide care to those in need, not limit their access to care. Because of that, I am called to speak up for the right of women to access affordable, high quality healthcare without the threat of harassment and intimidation. That's why this ordinance is so important and I urge you to pass it.
Essaysclinic safety, NARAL, reproductive rights, right to choose
Armageddon It (Jesus is Coming, Start Looting vol. 2)
April 7, 2016 April 8, 2016 Psychosemantic
By: Dave Rine
The Bible, as any Stryper fan can tell you, is metal as hell.
Don't believe me? Try this on for size:
"And I saw an angel standing in the sun, who cried in a loud voice to all the birds flying in midair, 'Come, gather together for the great supper of God, so that you may eat the flesh of kings, generals and mighty men, of horses and their riders, and the flesh of all people, free and slave, small and great.'"
That's Revelation 19:17. It comes right before Jesus, that lily-white, blue-eyed hippie from the Sunday school brochures, comes down from heaven at the Battle of Armageddon and just slaughters everybody. And he doesn't do it alone. When Jesus appears, a few verses earlier, riding a white horse and, "dressed in a robe dipped in blood," (insert devil horns emoticon) he is rolling deep. As verse 14 states, "The armies of heaven were following him, riding on white horses and dressed in fine linen."
When I was in junior high I would dream of someday being a part of that doomsday army. When the rednecks and the rural Ohio 90210 wannabes would be on my case, spitting through their teeth at me like milk snakes and calling me faggot in the hallway, I would fade it all, mutter prayers over my Aldi bag lunch, and face the world with zen tranquility knowing that someday I would get to mob down from heaven with Jesus Christ Almighty at my side and we would roll on all those nonbelievers and wallop their heads off like dandelion tops. And I'd do it all in blazing white, just as clean as Easter Sunday.
I even wanted to write a comic about it someday. I thought it would make people want to become Christians.
Of course, fantasies of apocalyptic violence are not strictly the domain of socially stunted Baptist adolescents. The propaganda magazine for the Islamic Caliphate (IS, ISIS, Daesh, whatever you like to call them) is called Dabiq. Dabiq is basically Islamic for Armageddon. It's the name of the town in Syria where the end-of-the-world battle is supposed to be fought, according to Islam. So ISIS wants the end of the world too. They too dream of a new order, baptized in blood and sustained by the terrible wrath of Abraham's god.
But where my rage against the nonbelievers was fed by a dismal home life and social exclusion at the hands of the jocks and hillbillies in America's breadbasket, theirs was fed by imperial invasion and civil war. They grew up, shocked and in awe, watching their cities get bombed into rubble as their nations crumbled into sectarian bloodletting. Where I prayed for death in the abstract, these black clad millennials from the other side of the world say their prayers with M-16s, lashing out with honest to god brutal murder because death is all they've ever known. They were, as the old storyteller would have it, born and bred in the briar patch.
Every time our terrorist enemies attack, taking apocalyptic violence out of the sandy hellhole of the Middle East, where it's supposed to occur and misplacing it in places like Paris and Brussels, where well-dressed white people are supposed to chill out drinking artisan coffee and pounding strange, we Americans cry out for revenge. And Christians are the worst about it.
Don't get me wrong. The supposedly rational, erudite, "New Atheists" are likewise quick to pick up the call for murderous revenge against the dark, unthinking Muslim hordes who threaten enlightened Western civilization, eager to prove that atheists can be just as bloodthirsty and nihilistic as any Spanish Inquisitor. But for sheer hyperbolic war-mongering, you flat-out can't beat an American Christian venting to Facebook after a terrorist attack. It's as if, on some level, Christians are haunted by the fact that the alleged founder of their religion, the homeless country rabbi who they supposedly regard as God-on-earth, made some pretty irresponsibly pacifistic statements (admonishing his followers to "turn the other cheek," or whatever the hell), and they want to make it crystal clear that they are NOT about that life. "Forget that mess about turning the other cheek," the followers of Jesus declare. Their philosophy was more accurately stated by Raekwon from the Wu-Tang Clan when he said, "Yo, nigga, respect mine, or anger the tech nine." Turns out, "Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called sons of God" was just a folksy, Aramaic way of saying, "Bomb the fuckers into chalk dust and kill their kids so there won't be any more terrorists." Peace through indiscriminate slaughter. Like we needed the Son of God to help us come up with that idea.
And now I, too, run the risk of misrepresenting myself. I have begun to talk like one of the porridge-headed cheek-turners who thinks we should all "be the change" and let our tits hang out and kumbaya our way to a better world where life is a big Phish concert that never ends. Any time I suggest that we respond to terror attacks by doing something other than roto-tillering the Islamic world with cluster bombs, people mistakenly assume that I am advocating for nonviolence. This, we are told, is a clash of civilizations, and our enemies don't share our qualms about killing the innocent. They don't worship a dead hippie, and they don't listen to Bob Marley. They speak in gun blasts and peroxide bombs, so we better be ready to answer back in kind.
Bellicose rhetoric, it seems, is the order of the day. And I am happy to engage in some.
But first I have to into question some of the assumptions we commonly make when these sticky issues of violence come up. We assume, for instance, that "our" religion is a peace-loving one and that "our" civilization is morally opposed to slaughtering innocent civilians. These assumptions are lies.
Though Christianity is theoretically rooted in the worship of a masochistic godman who is quoted as having taught some things that sound militantly pacifistic when computer animated vegetables sing songs about them for little kids, the only reason we know about wishy-washy old JC at all is that a bunch of his followers murdered the shit out of anyone who disagreed with them for hundreds of years. The Christian religion spread across Europe mainly through the actions of emperors like Constantine and Charlemagne, who used the religion to make better subjects of the pagans who they conquered with their armies. You can hang Jesus on a tree for all the good his half-hearted talk of nonviolence did for his emissaries here on earth; Christians had nearly a thousand years of brutal conquest under their belts before they even got to the Crusades. The Crusades against the Muslims and the pogroms against the Jews got so bad that, in 1492, the Islamic Sultans had to organize a flotilla and provide safe haven in the Middle East for thousands of Jews who the Christian Church in Spain was busily working to exterminate. So Christianity also had a few hundred years of crusading on its resume before they even started wiping out the American Indians, or enslaving millions of Africans, or opening the markets of Asia with muskets and gunboats. And all that stuff was well underway even before the Protestants and Catholics started offing each other. Christianity as we know it comes to us crusted with two thousand years of innocent blood.
Now to disprove the notion that the American Empire is somehow adverse to murdering civilians in its pursuit of global hegemony, I need not reach nearly so far back into our history. It was scarcely more than a decade ago that our nation's military invaded the countries of Iraq and Afghanistan. I was just a wallet-chain wearing, green-haired punk kid then, and while I was in the streets with my peacenik friends waving "Drop Bush Not Bombs" banners and trying to start fights with the cops, everyone around us, liberal Democrats included, told us we were being unrealistic. Our ideals didn't reflect the reality of the world around us, we were told. You can't fight terrorism with peace. Grow up.
Meanwhile, the sober and realistic adults, the battle-hardened experts in military planning, were making a real difference. In their prosaic wisdom, the masters of war leveled Bagdad and turned cities like Fallujah into outposts of hell. I recall once being told that civilians killed in the bombing of Bagdad "should have left town," something no one would ever suggest about victims of terrorism in Paris. After invading Iraq, the mature scions of realpolitik thought it would be a bang up job to secure their own power amongst the shambles they had made of that country by turning the various Iraqi religious sects against each other. They knew that this policy would have the likely result of inciting a civil war, and encouraging infiltration by foreign terrorists and militants, and they did it anyway. And, what do you know, Iraq became a haven for Al-Quaeda and the various groups that have now morphed into the Islamic Caliphate. This was part of the prank that our self-important, drone-bombing bureaucrats had been working all along. Bazinga.
And that's only a small snippet from the montage of unaccountable slaughter that our Empire has been responsible for. To really understand the scope of it, you have to look beyond the million or so dead in Iraq, the hundreds of thousands killed in Afghanistan, and the unnumbered, unnamed people left dead from drone attacks in countries we were never even at war with. You have to consider the victims of proxy wars in Latin America, and the many dictatorial regimes that served as puppets for US business. You have to consider the millions of civilians killed in Vietnam. Sure, think about the Native Americans and the people of the Philippines that our Empire mowed down in its early days, but also think about this: The nation of China is now beginning to do what the United States has done for decades, setting up military bases outside of its own borders, even as our own leaders speak of a "pivot to Asia" in terms of our strategic military priorities. This pivot to a new theater of conflict comes as the horrific violence of the Caliphate makes it clear that the shitstorm of violence we've unleashed in the Middle East is not going to abate any time soon.
"Chillax, guys, we got this," our mature and sagacious leaders tell us as they plunge into conflict wherever markets for US capital are threatened, wielding the most horrendously destructive military force in the history of the human race. It's the government's job to keep capitalism going. All we have to do is kill, and die, and pay for everything.
So sorry, Jesus Christ, but nobody's bought that "love thy neighbor" crap for two thousand years, and it's time to pack it in. We all read to the end of the book and we figured out you were going to kill everybody anyway, so what the hell? But if violence and apocalypse are indeed the only ways we can be satisfied, I for one would like to suggest we channel our bloodthirsty rage in a more productive direction.
I say we unfurl our wrath at the people who led us down this path. All the politicians who marshalled the armies and the businesses that profit because of this global empire, how about we tear into them like the Army of God? No more hiding behind the valor of our professional fighting men, it's time we take matters into our own hands. I mean tying all of our leaders onto flatbed trucks and driving a cross-country tour where we let every kid in America beat on them with a spiked bat. Why keep sending our brothers and sisters off to blow up hapless yokels on the other side of the planet, when the people responsible for all of this death are right here in the States, living in nicer houses than we can afford? Let's send the Predator drones to their estates and their penthouses and let the terrifying thunder of justice be the last thing they ever hear. If we really believe that bloodshed is the only thing that can make us free, then let it flow and be free at last. If you want violence that bad, go get you some.
When you get down to the heart of it, we don't love The End of the World because of the killing. It isn't even the crazy dragon beasts and pillars of flame that really turn us on. What we truly love about the apocalypse is the promise of a better world. What we long for is not Armageddon but the New Jerusalem. That's the thing we've awaited for thousands of years, a new world and a better life.
And we can have it, too, but there's a catch. In order for the meek to inherit the earth, the beast who owns it now has to die.
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Jesus is Coming; Start Looting
January 27, 2016 PsychosemanticLeave a comment
This might be hard to believe, but there was a time when I didn't give a shit about the Bible. That was before I found out the world was about to end.
I remember it like it was the nineties. I remember it like the first time I found a Playboy (which was actually a Penthouse, a mildly frightening disappointment). It was the summer I turned eleven, and as I sat on the living room carpet pretending my stuffed animals could talk, my mom's second husband was in the kitchen, trying to win my mom back by convincing her that he found Jesus. It was all pretty standard divorced-parent talk, until he got to the part about the Rapture, and the Final Judgement. The world was coming to an end, but that wasn't all. There was so much more terrifying, awesome shit that was set to go down in the twinkling of an eye. There would be dragons. Mountains would fall flaming from the sky. Massacres, plagues, the mark of the beast, the sun blotted out with blood; this stuff was more exciting than GI Joe, and a hell of a lot more metal than Def Leppard. And unlike GI Joe, all this stuff was supposed to be true.
Hot damn. From that day on, Jack Van Impe and John Hagee became for me what Freddy Krueger and Jason Voorhees were for normal kids. The Book of Revelation was the ultimate horror kick, because it could all come true at any moment, and if you stayed up late to listen to the really creepy preachers who came on after midnight, you knew it that all of the signs in the bible proved that it was coming soon. The Antichrist was probably already among us. The righteous could be called into the sky this very instant. That first night I went to bed terrified, but by the time I was in junior high and my mom had married a completely unrelated bible thumper, I was unabashedly stoked for the apocalypse. Every day I prayed the Rapture would come before gym class.
And while we all know that the Bible, like Wolverine, is a wonderful book for pubescent psychopaths, I have to confess that I never fully grew out of that phase. There is still that part of me that hopes for the end of the world, that thrills when I see the signs coming to pass. So you can imagine my quiet glee when I checked Twitter the other morning, to see that Sarah Palin had endorsed Donald Trump for president.
So that's it, right? Time to quit your job and learn how to make gunpowder because the world has had it. Such an obvious and repugnant combination of two such vile political forces can only portend the final coalescence of the Unholy Trinity described in Revelation.
A quick crib here for those of you who may not be apocalyptically bent religious nuts, the Unholy Trinity (like the Holy Trinity, in fact) is not explicitly mentioned in the bible, but is often used by evangelical eschatologists to give their palpably fakakta end times teachings an air of symmetry. Comprised of Satan, The Beast (aka the Antichrist), and the False Prophet, and is best described in Revelation, chapters twelve and thirteen.
Palin, of course, easily fits into the role of the False Prophet, who performs signs and wonders and deceives the people of earth into worshipping the Beast. Throughout her time in the nation spotlight, she has proven herself adroit at spouting brainless platitudes to stir up the fear and hatred in the hearts of all the forlorn and forgotten grannies, church deacons, and Walker, Texas Ranger fans in America who have been arming themselves for civil war. Like John the Revelator's False Prophet, she is the eager cheerleader for the most violent, hateful and demonic impulses in American politics, shaking her pompoms for Armageddon. With winking, toothy cheer, she extols the doomsday virtues of World War Three, the way the False Prophet displays horns like a lamb and yet speaks like a dragon (Rev. 13:11)
Now, if I am the first person to mention the clear fact that Trump is the Antichrist, it can only be because the left-liberal noise machine has been too busy comparing him to Hitler, Mussolini, Cobra Commander and Yosemite Sam. In the first place, as one of the main duties of the Antichrist in Biblical teleology is to lead the forces of one of the world's great empires into the battle of Armageddon, it should be noted that the entire Republican presidential field is comprised of eager candidates for the Beast-hood. In every Republican debate, the candidates spend half the night one-upping each other to prove that they are the most turned on by the idea of leaving the Valley of Jehoshaphat coursing with blood. It's an honest-to-god Antichrist pageant at those debates, and even Hillary Clinton wants to wear that sash.
But Trump does possess certain Antichrist-like attributes that make him stand out from the pack. Not least of these is the fact that Trump already believes himself to be God. Revelation 13:1 describes the Beast arising, "out of the sea," a phrase which is often taken to mean that the Antichrist will be a gentile, but could also be a reference to Trump's early rise to prominence in Atlantic City. Perhaps most damning of all, chapter thirteen, verse five states that, "There was given to him a mouth speaking arrogant words and blasphemies," which is as clear a Donald signifier as if the Bible had said, "There was given to him a hairpiece that looked like rice noodles held on with Scotch tape."
In Matthew, chapter 24, Jesus tells his disciples that the end will not come until, "you see the Abomination of Desolation… standing in the holy place." This is one of several verses that lead biblical prophecy buffs to insist that, before The Second Coming, the Jewish Temple will be rebuilt in Jerusalem. Of course, when Trump rebuilds the temple, instead of a place of worship, it will be a gaudy and towering hotel and casino. But what do any of the politicians and would-be antichrists of this late stage of capitalism have to offer us besides that same casino swindle? Nothing but a place to watch the pretty lights and pretend we'll be rich one day, while we dump the fruit of our toil into some rich kid's pocket and wait for the bombs to fall, that's the best anybody can do.
So welcome, brethren, to the new apocalypse, where the war-makers will be called sons of God, the privileged, loudmouthed imbeciles will inherit the earth, and the meek are losers who need to stop their crying. Your Kingdom come; your will be done, on earth as in some fake-ass rap video, because that's the only heaven we're still allowed to want.
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The Sisters of Nazareth Convent
A Roman-period, Byzantine, and Crusader site in central Nazareth
Ken Dark
Published September 17, 2020 by Routledge
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The Sisters of Nazareth Convent: A Roman-period, Byzantine, and Crusader site in central Nazareth
This book transforms archaeological knowledge of Nazareth by publishing over 80 years of archaeological work at the Sisters of Nazareth convent, including a detailed re-investigation in the early twenty-first century under the author's direction.
Although one of the world's most famous places and of key importance to understanding early Christianity, Nazareth has attracted little archaeological attention. Following a chance discovery in the 1880s, the site was initially explored by the nuns of the convent themselves – one of the earliest examples of a major programme of excavations initiated and directed by women – and then for decades by Henri Senès, whose excavations (like those of the nuns) have remained almost entirely unpublished. Their work revealed a complex sequence, elucidated and dated by twenty-first century study, beginning with a partly rock-cut Early Roman-period domestic building, followed by Roman-period quarrying and burial, a well-preserved cave-church, and major surface-level Byzantine and Crusader churches. The interpretation and broader implications of each phase of activity are discussed in the context of recent studies of Roman-period, Byzantine, and later archaeology and contemporary archaeological theory, and their relationship to written accounts of Nazareth is also assessed.
The Sisters of Nazareth Convent provides a crucial archaeological study for those wishing to understand the archaeology of Nazareth and its place in early Christianity and beyond.
1. Archaeology without archaeologists: investigations by the Sisters of Nazareth, 1881–1913
2. Architectural archaeology: systematic recording by Henri Senès, 1936–1964
3. Bringing the site into the twenty-first century: archaeological work at the convent, 2006–2010
4. An illusion of riches: the Sisters of Nazareth convent museum
5. Reinterpreting the Sisters of Nazareth site: Roman-period transformations
6. Making a place of pilgrimage: the Sisters of Nazareth site in the Late Roman and Byzantine periods
7. The pilgrims return: Crusader and later structures
8. Wider implications of the Sisters of Nazareth site for Roman, Byzantine, and Crusader archaeology and history
9. Is this the house of Jesus? Memory, materiality, and the long-term transmission of topographical knowledge
Ken Dark is Associate Professor of Archaeology and History at the University of Reading and specialises in the archaeology and history of first millennium AD Europe and the Middle East; the archaeology and history of religion (especially early Christianity); and archaeological method and theory.
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Walt Disney AI Creates Psychedelic Cartoons
Walt Disney Concert Hall is an architectural masterpiece that recently featured an AI display program on its walls. Situated in downtown Los Angeles, CA, the venue developed from a $50 million donation by Lillian Disney. Architect Frank Gehry designed the hall, and it currently hosts the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra. Additionally, for the Philharmonic's 100th anniversary, Refik Anadol, Google's Artists and Machine Intelligence Program, and the Philharmonic team collaborated on an AI display program for the building.
Walt Disney Concert Hall AI Program Used 40,000 Hours of Audio Recordings
The display used 40,000 hours of audio recordings. The team visualized recordings by using an audio browser tool. The invention explored 256 different attributes; these attributes included ones such as pitch, tempo, and tonality. Artist Refik, as well as sound designers Robert Thomas and Kerim Karaoglu, picked specific recordings out of the selection. Then, they created a unique soundtrack with a visual narrative called WDCH Dreams.
Walt Disney Concert Hall AI Program Used Historic Images from the Orchestra's Archive
The display used historic images from the orchestra's archive, including photos and program prints. Additionally, the artist Refik used multiple machine learning formulas to identify visual patterns and create narratives. The name for these narratives is "dreams."
The resulting masterpiece is a psychedelic narrative that projects onto the music hall itself. Consequently, WDCH Dreams was a 12-minute projection that launched in September 2018 for eight days. Moreover, it played every half hour from 7:30 pm – 11:30 pm in the downtown LA area.
What Is Next for Walt Disney?
What is next for the Walt Disney brand is to use AI to create psychedelic cartoons and new characters, based on modern-day kids' values. It might even be able to glean kids' preferences from microphones that are attached to their computers. With a large number of brands increasing their robotics usage these days, we will not be surprised if the new tech introduces AI in surprising ways to cartoons and new characters.


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Theater Voices to stream 'Rogues' Gallery'
Theater Voices to stream 'Rogues' Gallery'
By Indiana Nash | April 7, 2021
From left, Eileen Schuyler, Christopher Naughton and Ellen Cribbs, three of the performers in "Rogues' Gallery." (photos provided)
To get back to live theater, local venues have to stay afloat.
To that end, this weekend Theater Voices is slated to stream "Rogues' Gallery" written by John Patrick Shanley to raise funds for its home base: Steamer No. 10 Theatre.
The company typically hosts four productions a year at the theatre, however, Theater Voices has been dark for more than a year because of the pandemic. Professional actress and director Yvonne Perry approached the theater troupe with the idea to produce "Rogues' Gallery" earlier this year. She was interested in directing it not only because of the fundraising aspect but because of Shanely's strengths as a storyteller.
"He wrote this during the pandemic, for actors to perform during the pandemic because he knew they couldn't do scene work online yet they could really chew on a great character who has a great story to tell," Perry said.
Shanley is known for his Oscar-winning screenplay for "Moonstruck," and for "Doubt: A Parable," which received a Tony Award. "Rogues' Gallery" is a collection of ten monologues, some darkly comedic, others bizarre, and each created to allow theaters to easily produce it with COVID-19 safety protocols in place. Shanley has also said that all royalty fees will benefit The Actors Fund.
Once Perry received the go-ahead from Theater Voices' board, rather than holding auditions, she selected ten professional actors and members of the Actors' Equity Association, who she thought would be perfect for the roles. While some of them were tuning into rehearsals from as far afield as Puerto Rico, each has strong Capital Region ties and will be familiar to local audience members.
Acting in "Rogues' Gallery" gave each of them "an opportunity to do what it is we're trained to do," Perry said.
"We're trained in the very beginning to do monologues. We have to audition with monologues all the time, so working in monologues is definitely in the wheelhouse of any professional actor out there," Perry said. "I really got lucky because I got really appropriate people to do each one of these stories."
Along the way, there were certainly challenges in making the show come together, most of them technological. Some actors were more comfortable than others with recording their monologues. Editing the videos together was another obstacle.
"I have spent the pandemic teaching myself how to do basic editing, both visual and audio, in iMovie . . . It's been a huge learning curve for me this year but that was part of the challenge that attracted me to the project and it was more of a challenge for some actors than others. But everyone stepped up to the plate in the best way that they knew how. That was delightful and I think everyone was learning stuff from it as well," Perry said.
The production premieres on the Theater Voices' YouTube channel at 8 p.m. Friday and will be available online through Monday, April 12 at midnight. It's free to view but viewers are encouraged to donate to Steamer No. 10 Theatre in Albany.
When the Gazette spoke with Perry last week she was just finishing up some of the editing work on it and was impressed with the actors' monologues.
"I'm full of gratitude but I'm not surprised because actors love what they do and they just want to be given the chance to do the thing that they love to do. If it, in turn, is helping a theater that encourages young people to embrace live theater as a lifelong joy, then all the better," Perry said.
For more information visit Theater Voices on Facebook.
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Japansk mispel (Eriobotrya japonica) är ett fruktbärande lövträd i familjen rosväxter med frukter kallade mispelfrukter eller mispel. På engelska heter arten och frukten Loquat. På de flesta germanska språk är dock namnet mispel. På finska är dess namn mispeli, på italienska nespolo, på turkiska muşmula (uttalas mushmula) och på spanska níspero.

Japansk mispel bör inte förväxlas med mispel (Mespilus germanica), ett annat fruktträd i rosfamiljen som länge odlats i Europa och västra Asien.

Beskrivning
Det är en städsegrön buske eller ett litet träd med rund krona. Det kan bli upp till 5-10 meter, men är oftast mindre, omkring 3-4 meter.

Bladen är enkla, mellan 10 och 25 centimeter långa och mörkt gröna och tjocka med en läderartad översida och sammetsliknande behåring på undersidan.

Japansk mispel är ovanlig bland fruktträd eftersom blomningen sker på hösten eller under tidig vinter. Frukten mognar under sen vinter eller tidig vår. Blommorna är ungefär 2 centimeter i diameter, vita med 5 kronblad. Blommorna växer i klasar om 3-10 blommor i varje och har mycket stark doft. Frukterna som också växer i klasar är runda eller ovala och ungefär lika stora som ett plommon. Frukterna är ovala till något rundade i sin form och har ovanligt stora frön. Skalet är gult eller orange och kan vara litet segt. Det saftiga fruktköttet är vitt, gult eller orange och innehåller ett kärnhus med upp till nio bruna frön. Smaken är mild och söt med lätt syra. Frukten är bäst att skördas när den är mjuk och gul. Frukten kan använda på samma sätt som plommon och körsbär. Om skalet är segt tar man bort det innan frukten äts.

Användning

Mispeln kan jämföras med sin avlägsna släkting äpplet i flera aspekter, den har mycket socker, syra och innehåller pektin. Passar att äta som frukt eller tillsammans med annan frukt i fruktsallad. Där mispel är vanligt används frukter till sylt, gele, chutney eller inlagd i sockerlag. Mindre mogna frukter passar i paj. I Sverige hittar man frukten främst bland tropiska frukter i välsorterade fruktdiskar eller på marknader. Den äts oftast som ett plommon.

Mispel i sockerlag är använd i kinesisk medicin för att lindra halsont. Bladen med andra ingredienser är känd som pipa gao (; pinyin: pípágāo; bokstavligen "mosad mispel"), fungerar som demulcent och expectorant, såväl som att hjälpa matsmältning och andningsorganen. Mispel kan också användas för att göra vin.

Som många besläktade arter, är blad från den unga plantan och plantans frön giftiga. Innehåller små mängder av "cyanogenetic glycocides" som frigör cyanid i matsmältning. Den låga koncentrationen och den bittra smaken brukar dock hindra någon större skada.

Intagen i stor mängd har mispeln en liten, men märkbar lugnande effekt, som kan vara i 24 timmar.

Historik
Ursprungligen kommer Japansk mispel från sydöstra Kina. Härifrån har den spritts till Japan där den odlats i flera tusen år. Numera odlas den även i länderna runt Medelhavet. Mispeln var ofta nämnd i den antika kinesiska litteraturen, exempelvis i dikterna Li Bai. I portugisisk litteratur nämns det redan innan Age of Discovery.

Kommersiell odling
Japan är ledande producent av mispel (januari-juni), tätt följd av Kina (mars-juli).
Trädet odlas också i medelhavsområdet, till exempel i Cypern och Egypten. Övriga producenter är Israel, Italien, Albanien, Libanon, Malta, Spanien, Marocko, Algeriet, Portugal, Syrien, Turkiet, Armenien, Australien, Bermuda (där det är väldigt vanligt att göra mispelsylt), Brasilien, Indien, Nya Zeeland, Pakistan, Chile, Guatemala, Mexiko, Central- och Sydamerika samt södra USA.

Odling
Japansk mispel är ett ganska lättodlat träd som är städsegrönt. Kärnorna gror lätt. Trädet är ganska härdigt och kan odlas utomhus i zon 1 om man har mycket skyddat läge. Blomningen sker på hösten eller under tidig vinter. Frukten mognar under sen vinter eller tidig vår. Om man lyckas få frukt måste trädet hållas varmare än - 4 C för att frukten inte ska skadas och ramla av. Odlas som ett subtropiskt träd med svala vintrar och gärna utomhusplacering under sommaren.

Etymologi
Namnet loquat kommer från lou4gwat1, som är kanton uttalat med gammal klassisk kinesiska (bokstavligen "orange vasstrå"). I modern kinesiska mer känd som pipa, från formen av det kinesiska instrumentet pipa. På japanska kallas det biwa, ett namn på samma instrument biwa. Det är också känt som japansk mispel, som anspelar på det ord som används i många länder: nêspera eller magnório (portugisiska), níspero (spanska), lokaat (hindi),  mušmula or nešpula (kroatiska), naspli (maltesiska), nespola (italienska), náspolya (ungerska), nespra (katalanska), nèfle du Japon or bibasse (franska). Andra namn inkluderar: sheseq (hebreiska), اسكادونيا Askidinya, Akkidinya, Aki Dini, Igadinya eller Bashmala بشملة  (arabiska), Akkadeneh eller Akka Dhuniya (libanesiska), zger eller nor ashkhar (armeniska), mushmala (georgiska), mushmolla verore (sommar mispel) (albanska), mousmoula eller mespilia (grekiska), Japanse (wol)mispel (holländska), yeni dünya, muşmula eller Malta eriği på turkiska.

Näringsvärde
Mispeln har lågt innehåll av fett, kolesterol och salt, och mycket A-vitamin, fibrer, vitamin B6, kalium och magnesium.

Se även
 Kumquat

Externa länkar

 Loquat Fruit Facts from the California Rare Fruit Growers
 Loquat page from Purdue University Center for New Crops & Plant Products site
 Loquat nutrition facts
 Loquat Trees - Davis Wiki
 Botanical and Horticultural Information on the Loquat (Traditional Chinese).

Referenser

Rosväxter
Japans flora
WP:Projekt Japan

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3 Usually ends his show with the phrase "bye, everybody, bye," spoken very rapidly.
5 The string dance (a little made-up jig where he pulls an imaginary string behind his back, which moves his hips, and finishes by cutting it).
6 Frequently knocks over the microphone at his desk, usually after an awkward moment or brazen joke.
7 Frequently makes jokes at his own expense and at the expense of band leader 'Max Weinberg' and band member La Bamba.
8 Frequently lampoons how much he is "unknown," "disliked," or poorly paid compared to guests and his "competition," despite the fact that the opposite is true.
9 Since 9/11, no longer begins the show by jumping around the stage but still makes the big final leap onto his mark and then spins his arm to "throw" to Max.
1 Work hard, be kind, and amazing things will happen.
2 [returning from a trip to Cuba, 2015] Maybe it isn't a bad form of diplomacy to send a comedian over.
3 If you wanted the most simple way to understand how America changed between 1954 and 2005, it would be [that] we've mutated from Howdy Doody to Triumph. That's either really good news or bad new for America. I'm suspecting it's bad news.
4 [jokingly, on similarities with Howdy Doody] I'm controlled by others, I have artificial joints, and I have no soul. These freckles are painted on.
5 [Final words at the final The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien (2009)]: And all I ask is one thing and this is... I'm asking this particularly of young people that watch. Please do not be cynical. I hate cynicism; for the record, it's my least favorite quality, it doesn't lead anywhere. Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you're kind, amazing things will happen. I'm telling you, amazing things will happen. I'm telling you, it's just true.
6 If I existed 200 years ago, all the other farmers in my community would be like, 'That guy is worthless! He's sitting on a rock, jumping up like a frog, coming up with weird concepts and ideas, making faces, and combing his hair into a giant pastry.' It's a good thing I was born in this century, when superfluous television seems to be part of the economy.
7 "I've always believed, in my heart of hearts, that it would be a better show if, when I crossed over to the desk, the band kept playing for an hour and I danced in a cage.
8 If you can really laugh at yourself loud and hard every time you fall, people will think you're drunk.
1 Shortly after New York state legalized gay marriage, Conan became an ordained minister with the Universal Life Church so he could officiate the wedding of one of his producers on his show while it was being taped that week in New York City.
2 Is good friends with Timothy Olyphant, Joel McHale and Martin Short.
3 Resides in the Brentwood section of Los Angeles.
5 Hosted NBC's Late Night with Conan O'Brien (1993) from 1993-2009.
9 Prior to her death, Conan frequently parodied Anna Nicole Smith and made jokes about her being a gold digger and a ditzy blonde during his monologues but, after she passed away, he immediately stopped as a gesture of respect.
10 He was given the nickname "Coco" by Tom Hanks on the second episode of The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien (2009). Conan jokingly replied "If that sticks, I'm going to sue you!" The name "Coco" would later be used for the Team Coco online campaign to support him during the "Late Night Wars" in late 2009.
11 At 46 years old, he was the oldest person at the time to start hosting "The Tonight Show". When Jay Leno took "The Tonight Show" back over, if you consider that to be "starting" hosting again, then he would be the oldest now. Otherwise, his record still stands.
12 Grew up in Brookline, Massachusetts.
13 Was the last guest on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (1992).
14 Claims he lost his virginity listening to The Who.
15 Often tries to calm his "Late Night" audience with the term "Cool Babies". This is a lyric from the Talking Heads song, "Burning Down the House".
16 Is an avid fan of filmmaker Kevin Smith.
17 Owns a summer home in Norfolk, Massachusetts.
18 Close friends with writer Chris Graves.
19 Son-in-law of Seattle Dixieland band-leader Jake Powel.
20 One of his all-time favorite television shows is The Odd Couple (1970).
21 For Conan, the most beautiful woman in the world is Gisele Bündchen. He had the opportunity of telling her personally this when she was a guest on his show in 2005.
22 In one episode of his show, a Finnish man in his audience pointed out to him that he looked like President Tarja Halonen. He decided to support Halonen in the election campaign in 2006, and started a skit called "Pro-Finland, Anti- Sweden". Halonen met with him and Halonen gave to him as a gift, Moomin dolls for his family.
23 When Burt Ward was asked to give a speech at Harvard about his role on Batman (1966), he brought the original costume, said to be valued at half a million dollars. Some students came up to him dressed as security guards and told him they would keep the costume safe. Then in the middle of the speech, one student stood up and asked, "When is a costume not a costume? When it's stolen." The lights dimmed and the students grabbed the costume and made off. After snapping pictures with one another in the cape, they later called Ward and gave the costume back. The ringleader of the gang? Harvard Lampoon editor, Conan O'Brien.
24 Once shared an apartment with comedian/actor Jeff Garlin in Chicago across from Wrigley Field before both of them made it big.
25 Son, Beckett O'Brien, was born on November 9, 2005 in New York City, weighing in at 8 lbs. 4 oz.
26 Originally wanted to name his daughter the old-fashioned Irish feminine name Niamh (pronounced "knee-vh" or "neh-v"), which means "radiance, lustre, brightness" -- but decided that her life would be easier if they Americanized the spelling to Neve.
27 In the beginning season of the show, he signed a new contract every week because the network was doubtful of the show's future and his ratings.
28 His show was cancelled for one night and brought back because the network's executives wanted to find a replacement show before cancelling the show. A replacement show was never needed.
29 Both of his parents are of Irish descent.
30 Became the 5th host of "The Tonight Show" on its 55th anniversary.
31 Hosted Late Night with Conan O'Brien (1993) until 2009 when he replaced Jay Leno as host of NBC's Tonight Show. He was fired from The Tonight Show after less than a year because he refused to start the show later. He felt like that wouldn't really be The Tonight Show in a different time slot. Afterward he went on a nationwide comedy and music tour before taking a job at TBS as host of "Conan" in 2010.
33 Replaced David Letterman in the late night slot on NBC after Letterman left for CBS. Virtually no one thought the show would last. It did last, for 17 years.
34 In the 2001 film, Sugar & Spice (2001), one of the cheerleaders is obsessed with "Conan O'Brien".
35 Calls where he sits "The Chat Zone."
36 Calls where he does his monologue "The Laugh Zone."
37 Daughter Neve O'Brien born October 14, 2003 in New York (6 lbs., 10 oz.).
38 The name of his production company, Conaco, was chosen to echo the name of petroleum company Conoco.
40 Once shared an apartment with Bill Cusack.
41 A graduate of Brookline High School.
42 Older brother of Jane O'Brien and Kate B. O'Brien.
43 Lived in Manhattan's fabled West Side apartment building, the Apthorp, whose residents include Rosie O'Donnell, Steve Kroft, Cyndi Lauper, Kate Nelligan and Lena Horne.
44 Married Liza Powel on January 12, 2002, in a full Catholic Mass by Father Paul O'Brien (no relation) at St. James Cathedral in Liza's home town, Seattle. The couple met when Liza was a guest on Late Night.
45 Had a golden retriever named Hudson, who was originally part of a sketch on "Late Night". He now has a golden retriever named Bosco.
46 He was editor of the Harvard Lampoon for two years in a row, and he is the second person to have ever done this. It had been 85 years since it was done.
48 A distant cousin of Denis Leary.
49 His favorite episode of The Simpsons (1989) is "Marge vs. the Monorail".
51 Appeared as an extra and bit player on a number of skits on Saturday Night Live (1975) - notably as "Sheriff Andy" in a Twin Peaks (1990) parody with Kyle MacLachlan, and drinking in the bar in the "Irish Drinking Songs" commercial parody.
52 Worked as a warmup comic for the The Wilton North Report (1987).
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Relations with Indians
Race and Ethnicity in Latin America
by Peter Wade
Pluto Press, 2010
Paper: 978-0-7453-2947-5 | Cloth: 978-0-7453-2948-2
Library of Congress Classification GN564.L29W33 2010
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | TOC
For over ten years, Race and Ethnicity in Latin America has been an essential text for students studying the region. This second edition adds new material and brings the analysis up to date.
Race and ethnic identities are increasingly salient in Latin America. Peter Wade examines changing perspectives on Black and Indian populations in the region, tracing similarities and differences in the way these peoples have been seen by academics and national elites. Race and ethnicity as analytical concepts are re-examined in order to assess their usefulness.
This book should be the first port of call for anthropologists and sociologists studying identity in Latin America.
Peter Wade is a Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester. He is the author of Race and Sex in Latin America (Pluto, 2009) and Race, Nature and Culture (Pluto, 2002).
Preface To Second Edition
1. The Meaning Of 'Race' And 'Ethnicity'
2. Black And Indigenous Peoples In Latin America
3. Early Approaches To Blacks And Indigenous People, 1920s-1960s
4. Inequality And Situational Identity: The 1970s
5. Blacks And Indigenous People In The Postmodern Nation-State And Beyond
6. Black And Indigenous Social Movements
7. Studying Race And Ethnicity In A Postmodern And Reflexive World
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