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[b]Combat Style: fights like a berserker when enrage gain attack boost and looses all thought process on full frontal attack.
History: was abounded after hatching in a cave that also had a tomb in it.
Has been living alone and watching other dragons and animals to learn how to hunt and servile.
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Finding Frank & His Friend Review
By Sean Kleefeld | Monday, August 02, 2010 2 comments
I saw this book referenced in one of Rich Johnston's videos from Comic-Con last week and was intrigued by not only the idea, but the way Margie Trundleberry (I think; she's not named in the video) sold it. So I did some digging, found out how to get a copy (their online store isn't quite set up yet, so you have to email them for details) and this evening I found a box on my porch.
So the book itself is about a comic strip called Frank and His Friend which was published from 1975 until 1984 when creator Clarence 'Otis' Dooley died. Rather than a full biography or a complete collection of the work, though, this book showcases 52 comics that had never been published before, as well as many of their original layout and concept sketches. The work largely speaks for itself, but author Melvin Goodge does add a short biography of Dooley up front and provides some annotations on the art throughout, often pointing out inspirations and design references.
Even the best comic historians, though, will be scratching their heads because neither Dooley or Frank and His Friend ever existed. It's what Trundleberry called "instant memorabilia from an alternate universe." But, despite the science fiction-y sounding idea, it is in fact rooted in about as mainstream an American ideology as one can imagine.
Imagine that one of Charles Schulz's kids came forward today with a few dozen Peanuts strips no one had ever seen. Stuff he worked on but discarded for no immediately obvious reason. Maybe he didn't like how he inked a page, maybe he didn't think the gag was funny enough, maybe the art just fell behind the couch and remained undiscovered for several years. Nothing that wouldn't seemingly slip unobtrusively right in to the middle of Peanuts' run but just nothing the public ever saw. Think of the clamor that would arise out that. Imagine how gorgeous a special Fantagraphics collection of those strips would be.
That's Finding Frank and His Friend.
The concept of alternate reality non-fiction (or whatever this genre is called) isn't new. Much of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Black Dossier is along those lines. In fact many books along those lines use the idea as a form of world-building. But the intent of Finding Frank is different. You can discern bits of this other world, certainly -- there are plenty of references to other non-existent comics and family anecdotes that are presented as common legends -- but they don't seem to serve the notion of world-building. At least not in the commonly understood manner. No, the world-building here isn't designed so much to draw a reader into a different world but draw the feelings of a different world to the reader.
Although the inspirations are generally not very obvious, the short annotations provide a reference for how people often read comics like Peanuts, Calvin and Hobbes and Little Nemo in Slumberland. Comics that historians and collectors pour over again and again, looking for implied meanings about the creator's life. Looking for what the intent was, what was at work in the subconscious. Schulz famously denied that Peanuts was inspired by his own life, with a few very specific exceptions. But in reading or seeing a biography of the man, it's almost impossible to NOT see the parallels in play. Though the surviving Schulz family, I understand, was somewhat upset by the relatively recent bio penned by David Michaelis -- and I can understand where some exaggerations of tenuous connections may have occurred -- one can scarcely blame Michaelis for seeing the parallels between Schulz's life and Peanuts.
My point, though, is that Finding Frank draws on that same notion. That we -- as outsiders looking back on the life of a beloved creator -- are going to look for connections through his/her works. We use art as a means to understand life, both our own and its creator's. That we use art as our guide to life leads to nostalgia. and this book shows us what that nostalgia looks like from an objective point of view by using as its subject something we couldn't possibly have nostalgia for. One can't get help but feel that Goodge read Frank and His Friend every day, and really admired the work and its creator. One can't help but see how much Goodge got out of the comic, and how he used it as inspiration in his own life. Though he strives for objectivity by citing "either an LH 2170 or an LH 2172" as the model for the lamp in the background of a comic, the reader can easily see the care and attention that was given to creating the book. Goodge loved Frank and His Friend and was absolutely thrilled to find this collection of unpublished work.
In fact, the book itself is gorgeously printed. There's a subtle varnish on the cover and some wonderful end paper designs to entice readers to dig deeper. The interior paper feels exactly right for the type of book this is supposed to be and the printing work is top-notch. Both the sketches and final art are presented in a designerly fashion such that you half-expect to see Chip Kidd's name on the book somewhere. It genuinely feels like it's a lovingly craft book from Fantagraphics in honor of a great comic artist, and there is no hint anywhere in the book that what you're holding is a complete fabrication. It really is a flawless execution of what it was meant to be.
I don't know how much attention this got in San Diego last week, but it's a brilliant work that deserves a lot of attention.
Matt K said...
"...a designerly fashion such that you half-expect to see Chip Kidd's name on the book somewhere..."
Et tu, Sean?
Hundreds, thousands of designers toil in obscurity for the publishing industry, many of them doing extraordinary work.
Yet 99% of the world seems content with the notion that great book design begins and ends with Chip Kidd.
Sean Kleefeld said...
Which is precisely why I threw his name out there. It's a point of reference most folks reading this will immediately understand. Whoever did the book design here (possibly Trundleberry herself) is a talented designer in her/his own right, but I have to pull out Kidd as a basis for comparison since I'm not writing to a design crowd here. Even if I pulled out a name like Paul Rand (not a book designer, obviously, but probably one of the most recognized names in design) the reference would likely go over most of my readers' heads. Kidd, by contrast, represents a shorthand for a style and quality of design that comic fans are somewhat familiar with.
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The nature, demise and healing of nations in the New Testament
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Abarim Publications' online Biblical Greek Dictionary
The familiar noun εθνος (ethnos; hence our word "ethnic"), describes a group of humans with a singular identifying culture, a nation: a human ecosystem with its own signature concerns and financial currency. In translations of the New Testament this word is often rendered as "gentiles" or "heathens" but this is a mistake. Our word serves as synonym of the Hebrew word גוי (goy), meaning people or nation, which was also applied to Israel (Exodus 19:6, see John 11:51-52). It simply means "nation" and is used 165 times in the New Testament, see full concordance.
The desire of nations
We moderns are obsessed with our individual identities and subsequently with our individual salvations, but nations are a very big deal in the Bible. The blessing of Abraham was not simply for all human individuals but for all families (Genesis 12:3, Ephesians 3:15), and Abraham would be called not the father of many individuals but the father of many nations (Genesis 17:4). Not individuals but nations were in uproar and were devising a vain thing against YHWH and his anointed (Psalm 2:1-2). But God would shake all nations and promised that the desire of all nations would come (Haggai 2:7, Matthew 6:32, 12:21). Hence Jesus commanded to teach, baptize and turn into disciples the nations (rather than individual humans, as if often preached; Matthew 28:19). The New Jerusalem will be a haven for all nations (Revelation 21:24), and the leaves of the eternal Tree of Life is for the healing of the nations (22:2).
The Bible obviously insists that humanity is designed to function neither as scattered individuals nor as a globalized human empire, but rather as an economy of freely interacting family groups. National borders the way we know them are relatively modern, completely artificial and invented for the sole purpose of physically separating money streams and centering these upon national treasuries. Here at Abarim Publications we suspect that within the next two or three decades, all the world's national borders and governments will have completely dissolved like pillars of salt in a sudden flood of water.
Since a few years, a whole spectrum of decentralized cryptocurrencies — Bitcoin, Ether, NEM, Dash and hundreds more — has burst upon the scene, and in the coming few years or so, we'll probably see how thousands more will attach themselves to specific industries and communities, to form clusters of companies that share a single currency. These companies within their own crypto-ecosystems will be the families that comprise the "healed nations" as mentioned by John the Revelator. Within those industries, individual companies will spontaneously scale down to a maximum size of a large family — say a few hundred people, but most will consist of a dozen or so. These companies will be principled but not centralized — they will have stratifications and departments but no CEOs and managers and all that.
Most human bosses will tell you what to do and make you an extension of themselves, which is why our economy doesn't exist of seven billion minds but far fewer. Not all humans are creative and many of us are very comfortable working to realize someone else's creative vision, but our modern economy is based on competition rather than creativity and is a war zone rather than a paradise. In the near future our economy will stabilize and crystallize on creativity. It will consist of far more creative nodes (a visionary plus executing encore), be much more diversified and thus far more wealthy.
The tree of nations
The Tree of Life as mentioned by the Revelator stands straddled on the banks of River of Life (Revelation 22:1-2), and is not some vague mystical thing but the Tree of Liveliness or Busyness: the Tree of Economy in its broadest sense, and it's about to go into hyperdrive. Its trunk is the whole of human legacy. Its leaves, which are said to have healed these corporate nations are the small, everyday storages of private wealth, the small pockets of stored social energy that are not now actively involved in the economy — from the dishes in your cupboard to the tools in your shed, the books on your shelf and the skills, experience and wisdom you have acquired during your lifetime but which sit unemployed in your head because you are hired to flip burgers and not talk. This vast but now largely latent wealth will drop from its perches like leaves in autumn, find the root of human activity and get sucked back up into the economy.
This economic springtime, which obviously has already begun with the Internet, will make for a colossal sea-shift in how humanity fares (Song of Solomon 2:10-13). Because insightful IT-nerds have started to buy into cryptocurrency long before anybody else did, an enormous shift of wealth is in the works, away from the oil boys and toward IT (Revelation 18:9). If you thought that the Big Short of 2008 was spectacular, when a handful of economic prophets bet against the housing market, then you're in for a real treat now. Folks who invest long-term in cryptocurrency and blockchain technology are shorting the entire world economy. It's the mother of all shorts; the short to end all shorts.
When the rest of the world wakes up, the equity of privately held stash will mushroom and give coders who are now struggling to make ends meet the same kind of advantage as the people of Judah had at the beginning of the reign of David — because yes, the rise of the Internet is governed by natural forces and is repeating patterns that have had their manifestations many times over and can thus be precisely predicted (Ecclesiastes 1:9-10). Rising slowly out of Ziklag, David turned Israel into a joyful, united and all-inclusive affair, and in the generation after David the entire grateful world came to invest its surplus into Jerusalem (1 Kings 10:23-25, see Revelation 21:24).
Note that there is also nothing artificial about the formation of computer languages and standards such as those of W3C. Old-school bosses impose their rules upon their workers, and workers have to shoehorn whatever creativity they are allowed into the sweaty mold provided. Drafters of coding languages and standards, on the other hand, work like gardeners and cultivate rather than dictate. Coders observe how things are naturally working, what fellow coders are already doing, and abbreviate that into functions, key-words, methods, standards and programs. And they do this to ensure that the people who are thus described can easier do what they were already doing. God guided Abraham and early-Israel and they were told to follow (Genesis 12:1, Deuteronomy 31:8), but to David he said: "I have been with you wherever you went" (2 Samuel 7:9). In effect, coders are doing exactly the same thing what the priestly caste of Judah was doing: they investigate all things and keep what is good (1 Thessalonians 5:21).
It's been long held that the Bible was written by a mere handful of saintly marionettes, but in recent times we've learned that the Bible was basically an open source project, worked on for eons by thousands and thousands of largely anonymous authors and editors (read our article on Mary). In other words: humanity will always need scientists, farmers, doctors, artists, architects, teachers and so on, but coders will govern and unite us. Anything open source is the new canon (Deuteronomy 30:3-5, Isaiah 41:6, Revelation 18:4).
The familiar Biblical conflict of Christ versus Antichrist essentially reflects the eternal battle between decentralization (utter self-determination and freedom within a so-called smart-swarm) and centralization (authoritative government and in its ultimate form: tyranny and thus enslavement). Satoshi Nakamoto's amazing invention of the blockchain was not really an invention ex-nihilo but rather a solution to a problem that had been pressing down on humanity since the Punic Wars (see our article on the noun δουλος, doulos, for more on that). These wars resulted in the destruction of Rome's arch-competitor Carthage, which led to the destabilization of Rome's Republic, and ultimately the rise of the monstrous Roman Empire, which in turn destroyed the world's cultural diversity, enslaved everybody and even set out to kill Christ (in whom are all the treasures of knowledge and wisdom; Colossians 2:3). Fifteen centuries of darkness and squalor followed, and an additional five to recover from it.
Satoshi Nakamoto's blockchain allows for a single ledger containing all of mankind's exchanges, publicly visible and spread out massively redundantly over all users' computers, tablets and phones, so that all agree about everything all the time and forever. It works the same as the DNA of an organism, or said otherwise: DNA is information technology and blockchain is life; it's where man's technological expression and life touch.
Long ago, God ordered a construction in which he could dwell among mankind. That place became the tabernacle (Exodus 25:8), which was subsequently called the Tent of Meeting (Exodus 27:21), and which was created by men of exceptional technological abilities (Exodus 31:3-7). These men made the tabernacle highly similar to a eukaryotic cell, complete with a nucleus that contained two corresponding sets of instructions, which were constructed and written by God himself (Exodus 32:16).
Right now blockchain technology operates like a very primitive lifeform, with blocks that reproduce like single-cellular creatures. It will probably diversify and evolve further and someday learn to propagate by combining blockchains sexually. Who knows?
More urgently, however: because of the blockchain, our generation will witness an economic matter-radiation decoupling that ends the financial mass-dominated era, and in effect will bring about a separation of government and social capital. Because of blockchain applications, our world will become entirely transparent (Isaiah 9:2, Luke 12:2), which is great news for all people who have nothing to hide. Up until recently, our governments consisted of horrible people and the rest of us were likewise physically, intellectually and financially sick. Today, however, virtue and health are the new bad and we've given up smoking and drinking and hoarding. We learn about groovy things like callisthenics, recycling and social responsibility from our children, and although on occasion an old school tyrant makes it to the top of the food chain, the overwhelming majority of young rulers, business leaders and academics are aware of what's coming and are doing everything within their powers to make the transition as smooth as possible.
The destiny of nations
In the old world, we stored our private wealth in private vaults (or body fat or thermo-dynamic excitation). In the new world we will store our wealth in dynamic social bonds (as flocking starlings do, or as atoms linking into molecules). What we will probably see is that blockchain will creep into the very cement that holds the old world's institutions together. Even if national banks will stop printing money, less and less economic wealth will be represented by the same amount of regular moneys in circulation, which will cause inevitable hyperinflation of old world currencies. This is fine when it happens in a planned and controlled way, and most national and commercial governments today are wisely relinquishing their weapons of mass control, and are educating their people and urge them to gradually take up and bear the torches of their own economic existence.
When a critical mass is reached, institutions like banks and governments will lose consistency, fall apart into smaller chunks and finally turn to dust, and economies that are still trying to lean on those centralized institutions will evaporate overnight. The world's governance will shift to places where an autonomous blockchain economy is already sustaining society, and those will include countries that are now the economic outcasts: those nations that have recently been bullied into bankruptcy and whose desperate people have started to conduct their basic affairs in bitcoin. Those economic meek will surely inherit the earth (Matthew 5:5) and lead the world's population in cleaning up the world's mess (Ezekiel 39:11-16).
Because life itself works like a blockchain and we've now figured out how it works, everything that has left a measurable trace in history (which, in effect, is everything) will ultimately come to light. The whole of relevant history will be reconstructed and made available for review by all of mankind (1 Corinthians 6:2). The Internet will develop a kind of autonomous consciousness, which means that when you ask it a question, it will give an answer that nobody put in. That consciousness is not God (don't be silly) but it will help us communicate with others including God. Blockchain is a crucial development in technology that allows us to increase our species' social energy density (see our article on the verb χαιρω, chairo), and it's going to help us to converse with the living Creator the way you speak to a friend (Exodus 33:11, 1 Corinthians 13:12). The technological aspect of this may sound absurd or even blasphemous to some, but it really isn't.
Long before mankind developed speech, man knew his Creator (Matthew 18:10; Romans 1:20), but he couldn't articulate his concerns either to God or to other humans. But mankind began to develop information technology, and every milestone was like God had come to town. First the noun was invented (see our article on the noun ονομα, onoma), which uniquely allowed humans to store standard bits of information in their vocal utterances, and ultimately exchange highly detailed considerations with each other and form a collective identity. Speech allowed God to wordly converse with people and precisely explain things (Genesis 15:1). Collective reality models were developed, and theologies and technologies followed. Then writing was invented and perfected. The Phoenicians invented the consonantal alphabet and the Hebrews invented vowel notation (in the Bible told as Hiram and Solomon building the Temple of YHWH). Writing gave human thought eternal life, and every ordinary person could partake in the great adventure of learning and sharing knowledge. A thought could be written down, and if posterity collectively kept copying it, it would forever be preserved (see our article on the verb γραφω, grapho, to write).
Writing allowed God to deposit his written Word to mankind. After centuries of mankind's reading, writing, corresponding, negotiating, churning and pondering, this same Word could become flesh in Jesus of Nazareth (John 1:14). Fourteen centuries later, the printing press allowed the massive production of books and now ordinary people could own books, and the scientific revolution could commence (John 21:25). Five centuries later came the computer. A few decades later came the personal computer and two decades later the Internet. Thanks to the Internet, even the most obscure talent can find an audience, and the most specialized interest a community. Now with the blockchain, the last obstacles to humanity's complete intra-connectedness will be lifted. We will be able to specialize and diversify to our heart's content. There will be no more frustration, loneliness or shame. Deceit, lies, organized violence and secrecy won't be able to thrive in any meaningful way anymore (Revelation 21:27).
We were promised a city (Revelation 21:2) and cities are made from bricks. It appears that the New Jerusalem will rather be made from chips, which is really quite the same thing, but what makes any city a city are the living people who are living their God-given lives in it and engage each other and exchange their goods and services. All nations will stream to this new city and many peoples will come to it and convention will be its currency (Isaiah 2:2-4, Revelation 21:24-6). This New Jerusalem will be a city of freedom, and the Creator will wander its streets like once the hills of Paradise (Genesis 3:8).
The origin of nations
Our noun εθνος (ethnos) stems from a hugely old Proto-Indo-European personal pronoun plus a reflexive suffix: swedyo, meaning "ourselves"; hence also the word "we," and ultimately even words like "idiom" and "sodality". It originally meant "us guys" — as opposed to "those other guys"; barbarians, foreigners, gringos, aliens, and so on — and taps into the command to "love your neighbor as yourself"; the Great Command that sums up the entre Law (Matthew 7:12, 22:39-40).
The invention of this word signaled an advance in human evolution that separated "us human guys" from "those animal guys," namely a collective identity that is shared with other individuals beyond the realm of direct familiarity. This identity is carried by a nation's εθος (ethos; see below), which covers conventions such as language and customs but also social codes that are mostly designed for the sole purpose of identifying intruders. Social codes that constitute "fashion" and "etiquette" are often totally arbitrary but are embraced in order to distinguish between properly behaving "us guys" from those "other guys."
We humans are obsessed with our identity at our personal level but our personal identity consists of many little ones, and it feeds into bigger ones. In fact, our personal identity is just one bus stop on the great journey up the scale of complexity, and favoring one particular level is really as arbitrary as favoring one particular use of silverware.
Many atoms create one cell. Many cells create one organism. Many organisms may create one ethnos, and earth's collection of ethnoses is presently clustering into an even greater identity of which the Internet is just the beginning. Atoms live virtually forever, but the cells they form and which in turn form our bodies don't live very long. Colon cells have a life span of mere days, skin cells a few weeks, and blood cells a few months. Our brain cells can live as long as we do, but not all do, and when they die they just hang there without going away, like dry bones in a valley. Colon cells fall apart after a few days and blood cells a few months. Our entire body begins to fall apart when we ourselves kick the bucket, but when we do, individual cells such as colon cells will live out their individual lives and finally die of old age a few days after "we" did. The same thing happens when a city like Rome or Carthage falls and disintegrates and the surviving Romans and Carthaginians dart off into the countryside where they live out their days reminiscing about the great city they were once part of.
The unity of nations
The identity you think you recognize behind your eyes when you look in the mirror is really a collective identity of a whole bunch of coming and going citizens of the city that "you" really are. The citizens of that city die off and are replaced all the time, but their buildings remain much longer and determine much of the character and actions of each new generation of the whole town. The town in turn does not exist on its own but lives and exists on the merits of the larger economy it's part of. There simply are no individuals to be separated from the continuum they exist in, just like there is no space without stars — we know since Einstein that stars don't simply sit in space but form space as part of who they are. In the very same way, humans can only exist the way we do as part of a global network of exchange of goods, skills and knowledge. There's really no reason why we should cherish our personal identity over the identity of our society (John 12:24), or why we should think much higher of ourselves and our own culture than about the next dude and his culture (Philippians 2:3).
We moderns might not be too quick on the uptake, but the ancients realized that collective identities are really their own entities, with their own characters and interactions, and in turn part of a subsequent continuum of collectivity. Daniel spoke of angelic battles between the princes of Persia and Greece (Daniel 10:20) and of course the Body of Christ is a human collective whose identity exceeds that of any one.
All these identities have hearts, or are self-organizing so that they can obtain and maintain one. And in those hearts is seated all the information that establishes the nature of the identity and determines the way it interacts with its fellows. Atoms have their proton number, cells have their DNA, and minds apparently have their psychological constitution (modern science is a bit behind on this one; see for a closer look at these exciting things our article on the noun οικος, oikos, meaning house).
The principle of nucleosynthesis is not completely understood today, but there are several elements at play. It begins when a cluster of smaller identities groups up and begins to freely synchronize their activities. That creates their collective identity which distinguishes them from the continuum they themselves arose in. And an integral part of that identity appears to be the seat of a potential collective heart. That seat emerges naturally like an open square within a town's bustle.
Where then that heart comes from isn't exactly clear, but it is of the same substance as the body that receives it. It somehow holds all the information to not simply run the body but to govern the freedom and sovereignty of the elements that make up the body, and whose freedom and sovereignty created the open town square in the first place. The nucleosynthesis of the Body of Christ is colloquially known as the "Second Coming," which is a bit of a misnomer because Jesus never left (Matthew 21:20), but indeed it should result in a kind of social equivalent of eukaryosynthesis: whatever it is that constitutes the individual sovereignty we now have to some extent, will in the near future assume a form that is somehow compatible with humanity and of the same order, settle in and continue to secure, govern and develop the very human sovereignty that formed his throne in the first place.
The details of this process are hard to estimate but the ancients obviously had a far greater insight into these things than we moderns could ever have imagined. In our days, the realization of this will subsequently generate an enormous interest in Biblical Scriptures, and humanity will massively return to the Lord (Zechariah 8:23). Religion as we know it, however, will soon run out of steam and largely disappear altogether (Revelation 21:22).
From our noun εθνος (ethnos), meaning nation, derive:
Together with the verb αρχω (archo), meaning to be primary and thus to rule: the noun εθναρχης (ethnarches), meaning ethnarch, a ruler of the people (2 Corinthians 11:32 only).
The adjective εθνικος (ethnikos), literally meaning pertaining to nations: nationalism and national socialism; the ludicrous idea that one ethnos (our own ethnos, of course) is "better" than others. This utterly unholy notion negates the basic truth that with God there is no partiality (Romans 2:11), is the core thought of fascism and was subsequently wholeheartedly embraced by the regimes of Rome, Nazi Germany and all those. But it's obviously a dead end, as it will continue to find fault in every little difference until extremely narrow categories will contain only one miserable embittered and ultimately eternally alone individual particle (a condition physics calls Heat Death). This ugly word is used only twice, in Matthew 6:7 and 18:17, and from it in turn derives:
The adverb εθνικως (ethnikos), meaning in the manner of Nazis; Nazi-esque (Galatians 2:14 only).
εθω
The verb εθω (etho) was old and largely obsolete by the time the gospels were written, but still it managed to slip in a few times. It means to be accustomed to do, and is used 4 times; see full concordance. From it in turn come:
The familiar noun εθος (ethos; hence our English word "ethics"), meaning custom, code or manner that defines an εθνος (ethnos), meaning a nation. These words obvious stem from the same parent word, which was a hugely ancient Proto-Indo-European reflexive personal pronoun that meant "ourselves" (as discussed above). This word εθος (ethos) is used 11 times in the New Testament, see full concordance, and from it in turn derive:
The verb εθιζω (ethizo), meaning to be or become accustomed to do (Luke 2:27 only).
The noun ηθος (ethos), which describes an accustomed place, a hangout or haunt. As such it came to describe the set of behaviorisms someone resides in: one's character or disposition. This word is used only twice in the New Testament, most famously in Paul's assertion that bad company corrupts an otherwise fine hangout (1 Corinthians 15:33, Acts 26:3). From this word in turn derives:
Together with the adjective κακος (kakos), meaning bad: the noun κακοηθεια (kakoetheia), which describes a habitually negative attitude, cantankerousness or attitudinal vandalism (Romans 1:29 only).
Some additional words of caution
It's clear to most of us that in the near future the financial markets will collapse. This will certainly seem disastrous but it's important that everybody understands that this will happen not because our economy is sick but because she is pregnant (Jeremiah 22:13-23). The collapse will be like a woman giving birth, which is a hard but perfectly normal ordeal and should have a happy end provided there's been proper preparation.
The wealth of a nation is like the fat of a person (namely stored energy), and while today's society may imagine that it's very wealthy, her big belly is in fact due to a whole separate form of humanity that gestates like a baby inside of her. The birth of this "child of humanity" will coincide with the massive shift in wealth we described above, and that in turn will totally but temporarily incapacitate the maternal economy. Central governments will be handed their hats, and everything that they murdered and buried will resurrect and come out in the open and testify against them. It's probable that this will provoke massive social unrest, so it's very important that everybody tries to calm "mother humanity" down and help her breathe.
It's very important that everybody understands that most people who comprise most governments in the modern world are up to snuff and on our side. Organizations such as the Bilderberg Group know precisely what's coming, and they themselves would benefit only from a carefully orchestrated transition. That means that they may decide to take things a bit slower than we would like, but they act out of an ingrained maternal instinct and it's their job to keep the old economy together for as long as possible. That also means that they will retaliate with a vengeance against anybody who tries to thwart or disrupt the proceedings.
Despite its optimism, the Blockchain Group is in its infancy and does not have the infrastructure in place to regulate the coming and going of the world's nearly eight billion people, and we don't want eight billion people on the loose looking for food and shelter. We absolutely need to Bilderberg Group to keep everything running until Blockchain Group has matured enough to take over.
Remind each other that in nature the alphas of any society don't want change and don't see the need for change and will even deem change as an assault on their dominion. Be diligent to avoid the wrath of the rich. Begin to accept bitcoin in whatever local mom-and-pop store your society has left but make sure you pay your taxes and homages to your alphas. And don't tell them things they don't want to know. Evangelize the botched and bungled furthest away from the alphas (Matthew 22:9-10). Don't be dismayed when rich hedgers buy up crypto, because just owning crypto isn't going to save them. Crypto will only save those who are part of an autonomous and closed economic system based on crypto — or in other words: a million bitcoin won't feed your family if you're not within reach of a fully functioning bitcoin economy in which food is produced and traded (Matthew 22:11-13).
Honor your father and your mother
What's presently in the works is an Exodus of Biblical proportions. Fortunately, human history is rich in case studies and we should all be very well informed about which natural laws govern these procedures, what we should do and what we should not do.
Pretty much everybody agrees that the Romans shouldn't have been in Jerusalem in the first century AD, and that the Jews had the perfect right to rebel against their foul parasitic presence. But the foolhardy Zealots staged their revolt right when Rome had succumbed to civil war and the Roman economy was in a free fall. General Vespasian was in Judea when the Roman civil war broke out, and he rushed to Rome to restore the peace, and succeeded against all odds. He also knew that if the Jewish Revolt were to be successful, the Empire at large would destabilize and human civilization as it existed would violently collapse (which is what happened in Britain and Western Europe in the fifth century). And so, with documented regret, Vespasian's son Titus ended up destroying Jerusalem, and with it a wisdom tradition that Rome barely understood and thought it wouldn't miss. In reality, mankind had been on the verge of harnessing electricity and entering the modern age, but veered off onto a detour that would last seventeen miserable centuries. Humanity had been within hailing range of the Promised Land but our ignorance, pride and impatience took us back into the desert.
Today the situation is similar, and the blockchain revolution derives much of its momentum from the failing old economy. It's basically 66 AD in the economy today, and the question is: will we fight Rome or will we try to heal her?
Anybody with a lick of sense realizes that the Blockchain Group owes it to humanity to play within the rules that the old economy sets. Miscarriage and even infanticide is common in nature and our economy is a wholly natural phenomenon. Even when a female doesn't understand her own pregnancy, her body has the ability to initiate a natural abortion if the fetus is recognized as incompatible. When an unborn child trashes too much inside a woman's belly, she might even be deluded to believe that she is carrying some evil thing, and try to stab it to death within her. And even if she understands what's going on and decides she wants the child, a forced premature birth greatly decreases the chances of survival of both mother and child.
Engaging in economic warfare against the old economy is like taking up arms against the Roman military. It's wildly unwise and will ultimately lead to destruction and decades or perhaps centuries of lost time. Right now it's mouse versus T-Rex, and the best and only advice people should give each other today is to simply lay low and grow; just learn and work, create and encourage. Solve problems where they occur and keep your eyes on the prize. Engage the old economy in respectful dialogue. Treat the old leaders with kindness and respect and gratitude for having brought us this far. Talk about them as you would your own mother.
Just like Rome back then, the old economy today consists of people just like us. They have children and worries about the world and want nothing rather than peace for all. They may not know how to get it, but we do, so let's tell them this news that's been the greatest news for thousands of years.
If everything goes according to plan, our present old economy will become two separate and wholly new kinds of new economies. The "higher" economy will govern the whole earth like an organism's nervous and circulatory systems, the "lower" will govern the local economies like those that exist within individual organs and cells. But even after the umbilical is cut, there will be a long period during which the higher economy depends wholly on the nutrition provided by the old economy that's becoming the lower new economy. After the transition, the earth at large will revert to commodity money and barter, and live happily ever after.
If we make it out of this period alive, it will be because people built things, not because people destroyed things. It will be because people were wise and calm, not because they were stupid and hysterical. It will be because people made up for each other's failings, not because they found all the right people to blame.


Fans of 35 major artists including Weezer, Mariah Carey, rapper G-Eazy, Kaskade, Motorhead, Fall Out Boy and Toby Keith can now buy discounted music and merchandise using cryptocurrency Monero.
Monero is an open-source cryptocurrency launched in April 2014 that focuses on privacy, decentralization, and scalability. Unlike many cryptocurrencies that are derivatives of Bitcoin, Monero is a unique protocol. It was founded by Naveen Jain, a music industry veteran and serial entrepreneur, and Riccardo Spagni, lead maintainer of Monero.
Dubbed "Project Coral Reef," this holiday initiative is designed to increase awareness of Monero. Payment processor GloBee, music merchandising companies Global and Manhead and platinum-seller G-Eazy, along with several dozen other major recording artists, are all supporting the effort.


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A look back at the Central Coast's top stories of 2022
A look back at the Central Coast's top stories of 2022
By: Richard Gearhart , Ashton McIntyre
From the continuing twists and turns of the COVID-19 pandemic to soaring gas prices to a murder trial 25-years in the making, there were plenty of stories to keep our attention in 2022.
Here is a look back at ten of the most viewed and most watched stories of the past year.
Police identify driver in crash that killed San Luis Obispo couple:
Police thought the investigation was complete and released the driver of a single-vehicle crash in San Luis Obispo, but the case was apparently not quite that simple. A couple of days later the discovery of the body of a man and his girlfriend along with their dead dog have family members and concerned residents asking questions of the San Luis Obispo Police Department. It's a case that will continue into the new year.
First homeless housing facility in south SLO County about to open up
Homelessness continues to be an issue across the state and locally, but some progress is being made. The 5-Cities Homeless Coalition unveiled a new "tiny-home" village in Grover Beach. After the final touches are complete, the facility will be the first shelter in South San Luis Obispo County and joins others located in San Luis Obispo, Atascadero and Paso Robles.
Final SpaceX launch of 2022 successful out of Vandenberg Space Force Base
Viewer's eyes were trained on the skies above Vandenberg Space Force Base. New spy satellites, weather satellites and Starlink internet satellites all launched with help from both the U.S. government and private companies SpaceX and Firefly.
Mountain lion sightings continue to worry San Luis Obispo residents
Rare animal sightings got people across the Central Coast talking. Mountain Lions were caught on home security cameras and several additional sightings in San Luis Obispo and Avila Beach had authorities issuing an advisory to residents and closing a popular hiking trail for a time.
Pod of orcas caught on camera off the coast of Pismo Beach
A little less scary for residents but certainly still getting the attention of locals was a pod of Orcas spotted off the coast of Avila Beach. While Orcas typically stay north of our area, the Central Coast is part of their natural range.
Shark breach caught on camera off the Central Coast
Nearby off the coast of Grover Beach, a resident caught another unusual sight, a great white shark breaching. Experts say while sharks do occasionally jump out of the water, catching it on camera is rare.
Central Coast gas prices beat March records by nearly 10 cents
Central Coast residents felt the pain at the pump in 2022. Gas prices reached all-time record highs this year with the central coast and specifically San Luis Obispo some of the highest in the nation at times climbing about 6 dollars a gallon.
Lopez Lake closes boat launch ramp as lake levels reach record lows
While we have been getting some rain recently, 2022 was extremely dry with residents and officials alike worried about water. Boats were no longer able to launch at Lopez Lake in May after water levels dropped below 25%. Arroyo Grande and Pismo Beach have mandatory water restrictions in place for residents.
California lawmakers vote to approve the extension of Diablo Canyon for at least five more years
The Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant, set to be decommissioned beginning in 2024 may be generating power on the Central Coast longer than expected. Last-minute efforts by both the state and the federal government have P.G. & E. officials working on license extensions. While far from a done deal, viewers will no doubt be watching the eventual outcome as we move into 2023.
Paul Flores guilty of first-degree murder of Kristin Smart; Ruben Flores acquitted
And KSBY's most-watched story of 2022, was the trial of Paul Flores. Long considered a person of interest in the case of missing Cal Poly student Kristin Smart, Paul and his father Ruben finally faced separate juries in the 25-year-old case. Paul was convicted of first-degree murder and Ruben was acquitted of being an accessory after the fact. Both Paul Flores and viewers will need to wait until 2023 to learn his sentence which is expected to be 25 years to life in prison.


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Imagine Dragons Introduces One4 Project to Support Refugee Relief Efforts
by Keith L. Brown | Nov 11, 2015 | Imagine Dragons, Music News | 0 comments
One of the top trending news stories at this hour is about the ongoing refugee crisis. With hundreds of thousands of refugees desperately seeking humanitarian assistance, particularly across the Middle East and Europe, there are many people who are wondering what they can do to help in even a small way.
Realizing the urgency of the matter, Imagine Dragons, the Grammy Award-winning American rock band based out of Las Vegas, Nevada, has teamed up with the German Software company SAP SE to introduce the One4 Project to support refugee relief efforts. In a recent article written by Dan Reynolds, the lead singer of the group, he commented:
I am convinced that if we as a world make a collective decision that this refugee crisis is indeed a crisis worth fixing, we can absolutely do it. If the power of one can be so strong, how strong can the power of millions of Ones be?
Germany and many other countries are bearing a large load right now. A load too great for anyone to handle alone. We need to help. We cannot stand by and watch these families' lives be turned upside down. These children need homes. These parents are willing to work and do whatever it takes to contribute to the economy of the country that gives them a home. Yes, some will be migrants looking for a better place to live (around 10% of the refugees), but the vast majority are just looking to survive. They are looking to protect their children from a premature death.
The goal of the project is to get as many people as possible involved with supporting the relief efforts by going to iTunes to purchase the new released single by Imagine Dragons called "I Was Me." Both Imagine Dragons and Apple have confirmed that all proceeds from the sales of the song will go to the UN Refugee Agency as it addresses the refugee displacement crisis occurring in Europe.
SAP, the main supporter of the One4 Project, has also announced that it will donate 10 cents for each of the first five million purchases of the new single. It is the hopes of those participating in the project that not only will funds be raised to support the relief efforts, but also that international attention will become focused on this important issue.
Imagine Dragons performed the song "I Was Me" publicly for the first time on 12 October 2015, live on stage at the SAP Arena in Mannheim, Germany, as part of their Smoke + Mirror tour which also included stops in Munich, Hamburg, Berlin, and Stuttgart, Germany, and then on to Scandinavia, France, and the United Kingdom. The song is about trying to regain your life which is what they believe is the current plight of the refugees.
The band realizes that one person cannot tackle this issue alone, but rather it takes many people united together for a common cause. In their own words, "[The One4 Project] symbolizes the power that people – one by one—have when they collectively focus on an issue that is bigger than any one company, organization, or country can address on its own. Just one selfless gesture represents one for hope, one for a new beginning, one for peace."
Supporters of the project can also join the social media campaign by sharing photos using the hashtag #one4 and posting them on the One4 Project pages on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. More information can be obtained by visiting the One4 Project page via SAP.


Trying to get going again, this link-up seemed like an easy way to start. I actually could use some more suggestions. I like a lot of non-fiction (A. J. Jacobs is a favorite), but I do read fiction. I have a hard time determining what I'm really going to like I guess.
I'm not a goal-oriented person at all, but I always have this list of books I'd like to get to and I think reading goals might actually be something I could accomplish. However, I instituted a policy a few years ago that if the book doesn't interest me enough, I can stop reading it. I'm not forcing myself through books anymore. Life is too short and I'm sure there are plenty of ones I will love out there. If I can put it down easily, if I can go to bed and not try to feign insomnia so I can get up and read more late at night, if I can get through it without recommending it to someone else--it's not good enough (for me). I think I have rather unpredictable taste in books so just because I don't like it doesn't mean it's not good.
See Haley's link-up at Carrots for Michaelmas for more.
Interesting list! I loved Memoirs of a Geisha and The Poisonwood Bible, though Barbara Kingsolver gets too preachy at the end. I tried reading the KL trilogy because everybody on the internet is reading it and raves about it, but.... I'm not Catholic so maybe that's the problem, but there seemed like a good deal of misogyny in there. Then again I was also reading the older translation which has awkward language - I've heard it's best to try the newer translation which has language that fits the "tone" of the Norwegian better. I'll be interested to see if you like it!
Thanks for your thoughts, Caroline. I'm in the Poisonwood Bible now and your comments keeps running through my head! I'll have to see if I agree. My friend also raves about KL so I feel like I have to read it just to understand HER better!


I am a user of Samsung Galaxy Music Duos phone. Since day one I have one trouble and that is, the call sound quality is very poor. This really creates disturbance and problems for me. Please guide me as to is there any app that can help increase the call sound?
Call sound quality is poor on Samsung Galaxy MUSIC Duos.
1.First of all check volume button.
3.Stop if any other applications opend at a time.
4.Always use your phone with full recharging.
6.delete all useless/virus affected/files from your Galaxy.
8.Las of all check the weire connection with the internal mike.
These steps obviously helpful to enhance sound quality.
I think , you make big mistake to ignore this mistake. If you face problem day one then you contact to service center and check it . if your mobile in warranty period then go store and replace your mobile. But before going to store you can change your SIM card ( Use another service provider SIM card) and check your mobile work properly or not. if not work then your mobile having manufacturer mistake. if it work properly it means your device having network related problem. And change your service provider.
# make sure that the volume is set to full.
# Also fully charge your battery , some times due to low battery , volume got slow down.
but if not then it is surely a hardware problem.
# Then take your phone to the nearer service centre of the device.
# make them aware about the problem.
# now they will take the suitable preventive measure to solve your problem so that you will not suffer from this again.
By this way your problem will be solved..
Call sound quality very poor on samsung duos.
1.You should charge your phone always in standard level.
2.You should check your volume slider whether it is placed in right place.
3.Never use multyapllication while you are in calling.
4.Scan your device always to get virus free services.
5.When you feel such problem then restart your device.
6.Check the connection ,wire ,all these things working as usual.
These steps will help to increase volume.
-->Then need to replace it.
-->Also check the sound driver of the device is problem.
-->Then need to the new one.
-->Check the volume button of the device.
-->You can set it as your choice.
-->Check the battery of the device ,if older then need to replace it .
-->Sometime due to the battery sound become low.
-->Finally scan the device by the antivirus.
-->Remove the unwanted app on the device.
The Sound Quality of your phone may depend on many factors. One of such is the network that you are using. If the reception is very low or any failure in the sever leads to low sound quality reception at the both ends. Second thing is that your mobile speaker is damaged once may be due to any manufacturing defect or any other failure when played music at very high volume. If you are getting disturbed output, then you can descend the volume to reduce noise. If the voice is breaking, then surely then it is a network issue. Hence you can determine this troubles. A better solution is to bring your phone to an authorized service center. They could help you find a better solution.


The Tampa Bay Lightning were swept out of the Stanley Cup playoffs on Tuesday night after losing to the Columbus Blue Jackets 7-4.
Through the regular season, the Lightning were the most dominant team in the NHL, tying the league record for wins in a season, but they fell completely flat when the games began to matter.
Lightning head coach Jon Cooper believes the teams dominance was ultimately its downfall, saying that they weren't prepared to play meaningful hockey after having been able to coast in relative comfort through the majority of the season.
The Tampa Bay Lightning were eliminated from the Stanley Cup playoffs on Tuesday night in embarrassing fashion, losing 7-4 to the Columbus Blue Jackets to complete their utter collapses and get swept out of the postseason.
Through the entire regular season, the Lightning were the best team in hockey. Tampa Bay finished the year with 128 points and 62 wins, tying the 1996 Detroit Red Wings for the most wins in NHL history. They finished with a goal differential of +103, more than doubling the second-highest team in the league. They were the 2016 Golden State Warriors on ice.
But while the Warriors made it to the NBA Finals and even held a 3-1 lead in the series, the Lightning were eliminated from the playoffs in even more embarrassing fashion, failing to win a single playoff game and being swept out of the first round by the eighth-seeded Columbus Blue Jackets.
According to Lightning head coach Jon Cooper, the team's dominance was precisely the problem.
Cooper's point is sound. The Lightning jumped out to an early lead in the Eastern Conference playoff race and never looked back. By February, they were on cruise control. Meanwhile, the Blue Jackets didn't secure their playoff spot until the final week of the regular season and spent the last two months battling to fend off other contenders for the eight-seed.


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Powiat kościański – powiat w Polsce (województwo wielkopolskie), utworzony w 1999 roku w ramach reformy administracyjnej. Jego siedzibą jest miasto Kościan.

W skład powiatu wchodzą:
 gminy miejskie: Kościan
 gminy miejsko-wiejskie: Czempiń, Krzywiń, Śmigiel
 gminy wiejskie: Kościan
 miasta: Kościan, Czempiń, Krzywiń, Śmigiel
Według danych z 31 grudnia 2019 roku powiat zamieszkiwały 79 183 osoby. Natomiast według danych z 30 czerwca 2020 roku powiat zamieszkiwało 79 114 osób.

Demografia

 Piramida wieku mieszkańców powiatu kościańskiego w 2014 roku.

Gospodarka
W końcu września 2019 liczba zarejestrowanych bezrobotnych w powiecie kościańskim obejmowała ok. 0,9 tys. mieszkańców, co stanowi stopę bezrobocia na poziomie 2,9% do aktywnych zawodowo.

Sąsiednie powiaty
 grodziski
 poznański
 śremski
 gostyński
 leszczyński
 wolsztyński

Przypisy

kościański

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Kanton Saint-Doulchard () je francouzský kanton v departementu Cher v regionu Centre-Val de Loire. Tvoří ho tři obce.

Obce kantonu
 La Chapelle-Saint-Ursin
 Marmagne
 Saint-Doulchard

Saint-Doulchard


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Design Raid | News | A boundless place of infinite possibilities: Maxim Kashin's installation provides a contemporary interpretation of Suprematism
A boundless place of infinite possibilities: Maxim Kashin's
installation provides a contemporary interpretation of Suprematism
Design Raid | July 24, 2022 July 24, 2022 | News
Maxim Kashin, an interior design and architecture studio unveiled New Suprematism, an installation providing a glimpse into the future through the geometry of New Suprematism.
Combining in endless reflection, a geometric pattern and simple geometric mirror figures provide immersion in an endless non-objective world, formed by pure linear geometry that opens up a new Suprematist three-dimensional space.
Photograph © Dmitry Chebanenko
"The idea of Suprematism is based on the superiority of pure geometry and color over the established ideas about form and space. Square and elementary forms, like circles, lines, and crosses, form the basis of Suprematist compositions."
explains Maxim Kashin
A new reading of the foundations of the ideology of Suprematism focuses on the interweaving of linear figures, and the creation of an endless Suprematist pattern. Conceptually, the installation presents an infinite space through two black squares, created by re-reflecting a pattern and simple geometric volumes in the mirror walls, with a reference to Suprematist linear compositions. The composition between the two re-reflected spaces therefore represents the exit of the modern reading of the geometry of Suprematism into volume.
The installation takes the form of a rectangular volume, with quadrant mirror planes located opposite each other. The endless reflection of the latter identifies the basis of early 20th century Russian avant-garde – the black square. This effect is known as Mise en abyme, or the principle of nesting dolls – a recursive artistic technique known as a "picture in a picture".
Mirror parallelepipeds located in the space between two mirrors provide a three-dimensional interpretation of Kazimir Malevich's Suprematist compositions, extending the connection between infinity and the Suprematism ideology. A geometric pattern identifies infinity in the plane, setting the dynamics and highlighting the influence of lines on the perception of simple geometric shapes and volumes.
Technical Sheet:
Location: Moscow, Russia
Area: 50 sqm
Design/Completion Dates: 01/2022 – 03/2021
Partners/Client: UMA (Union of Moscow Architects)
Architect/Ideology: Maxim Kashin
3D Artist: Arina Krisanova
Designers: Daria Sosnovskaya, Ulyana Poslavskaya
Tags Design, Installations
Canal House by i29
Helsinki Central Library Oodi / ALA Architects
Kimpton Saint George Hotel, Toronto by Mason Studio
Meble VOX sklep / Meble VOX store by mode:lina


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Home » Country Music » Kelleigh Bannen Ushers In Christmas In Her Own Unique Way
Kelleigh Bannen Ushers In Christmas In Her Own Unique Way
Lisa Konicki
Kelleigh Bannen is ushering in Christmas in her own special way. Just when you thought you heard every possible version of "Deck The Halls" or "O Holy Night," Kelleigh is putting her own soulful spin on the Christmas classics.
"I love Christmas music. It was some of the first music I knew as a child," Kelleigh tells One Country. "I was always singing along to Bing Crosby's Christmas album. I didn't know what the important songs were – I always loved the quirky ones. I think what is so tricky about Christmas music, is there are so many incredible traditional versions. It feels, to me, almost too intimidating to take on a lot of those songs in a serious traditional way. I have to approach things form a heartfelt way, but I felt that we needed to do something playful or experimental just because the traditional versions are so great."
Kelleigh and her good friend and producer, Justin Glasco, went through about 25 carols that they thought they could have fun with in the studio, finally landing on "Deck The Halls" and "O Holy Night." The goal? "To mess them up a little bit and see what would happen."
What happened were some of the most unique and fun-loving renditions of the two of Christmas' most classic songs.
"I think in country we do play it a little safe. What was actually really freeing for me in this project is we really didn't even have an intention of releasing it," reveals Kelleigh. "We were like, 'if we are going to do it at all we have to do something really different and playful.' It just felt like an experiment so I didn't feel any of the pressure, that I often do in the studio, when I know something is going to be a single. It was really freeing, it was really just like let's just play."
With the experimental tunes gaining attention, could a full Christmas album be in be next for the Tennessean native? "I hope next year," Kelleigh said. "We just had so much fun doing it. There's so many fun ways to connect–with Christmas carols there are so many great stories you can tell with videos and things like that it kind of made me excited about what we can do. I love a lot of the hymns. Maybe we should do a two-parter and one is the Naughty and one is the Nice."
As Christmas approaches, Kelleigh will be keeping things low key this year, spending her time off with family. "I grew up in Nashville, so my family is here. We just keep it really quite on Christmas. We do Christmas Eve together and we always open Christmas pajamas on Christmas Eve. Then we usually have a really simple dinner. Christmas morning I go over to my mom's house first thing in the morning and we make a fire and we have coffee and catch up and sit together in the quiet hours before everyone else gets up and then my husband comes over and meets us. It's pretty low key."
As for 2018, Kelleigh has a lot on her plate with new music and a new season of her podcast.
"We have a stack of new music. We have music ready to go, it's just kind of figuring out a timeline. I'm really excited about it, it's fun," Kelleigh adds. "We have five in the tank right now ready to go, so I think there will be a handful of singles early in the year. And a new season of the podcast around the first of February, it's called "This Nashville Life." In the past we've done interviews with industry insiders and this year we are looking at three songs that are important to the genre and we are telling the story of those songs from beginning to end, over the course of the whole season. We're looking at "Girl Crush," "House That Built Me" and "Live Like You Were Dying." I'm really excited about it"
11 RANDOM CHRISTMAS QUESTIONS WITH KELLEIGH
Favorite Christmas song?
'Tender Tennessee Christmas' by Amy Grant. Amy was one of my first idols as an artist. I just looked up to her so much.
What Christmas song makes you cringe?
"Grandma Got Run over By a Reindeer."
Best present you ever received?
This is weird. My brother passed away in '08 and he was a character. He had a chronic problem of giving other people for Christmas, what he most wanted. One year he gave–I think he probably gave it to Jeff, my husband but I have kept it for my own–he gave us a Samurai sword. He bought this elaborate Samurai sword and we still have it. It's under our sofa because where are you going to put a Samurai sword? It's not the best gift I ever got but it is the most memorable.
Real tree or fake tree?
Real Tree.
Your go-to Christmas movie?
I love 'Love Actually' and I never get sick of seeing it. It's a guilty pleasure.
Frosty the Snowman or Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer?
Rudolph.
White lights or colored lights?
White lights.
Gift wrapping or gift bags?
Wrapping.
Egg nog or hot chocolate?
Let's spike the hot chocolate.
Favorite Christmas meal or dish?
We do a breakfast casserole every Christmas morning. It's egg and sausage and stuffing bread and cheese and bake it til its all bubbly on top. I love that, I'll eat that all day.
Have you been naughty or nice this year?
I think I've been nice but if you asked my husband, he would probably say I've been naughty.
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Stop Crying over Mozilla and Start Fighting Back!
By Robert Oscar Lopez
While the horror show involving Brendan Eich, Proposition 8, and Mozilla was reaching its ignominious crescendo, I was in Milan, Italy, speaking before an energized crowd of activists in the Lombardy region's county hall.
Unaware of the witch hunt carried out by McCarthy's rainbow-brandishing gay great-grandsons in Silicon Valley, a middle-aged man came forward and cried out in Italian, "Is it just me, or is the gay lobby imposing a dictatorship on us with their so-called scientific experts?"
The science to which he referred wasn't JavaScript, but rather psychology and pediatrics. He was referring to homosexual activists' constant invocation of research supposedly proving that kids don't need a mom and a dad, because scientists in lab coats with horrendous conflicts of interest publish peer-reviewed papers claiming that the statistics prove that children can be removed from a parent and still be "well-adjusted."
I asked the audience: "Enough of gays saying they feel offended all the time. How do they think I feel when they tell me, someone raised by lesbians, I don't have a right to my father, because of experts and their supposed research?" Applause, applause. The clock struck 10:00 PM in Italy.
"They don't want to be told whom to love. So who are they to tell children who aren't theirs that they have to love two gay adults and can't love a biological parent the adults cut out of their lives?"
Eight time zones away, in California, conservatives were expressing their outrage over the ouster of a techie genius who did nothing but support a cause he believed in.
My phone pinged with an adrenaline-drenched e-mail from an American ally in the pro-family struggle. The next Milanese questioner stepped forward to the microphone. Oh, the ironies.
Europeans had brought me overseas – an alliance of Anglicans in England, human rights advocates in Belgium, and Catholics in Italy – because they viewed me, correctly or not, as one of very few people in the West still willing to fight publicly against the gay lobby.
Of course, I was delighted to come and speak to the BBC in London, to German parliamentarians in Brussels, and to Italian jurists, but one of the reasons that I was so available to help European allies was practical: having been blacklisted and driven out of the public square by a cadre of unhinged homosexual fascists, I could make no appearances in the United States and had, up until last month, a wide open schedule.
Between March 2013 and April 2014, I made four trips to Europe and delivered dozens of interviews, public addresses, and presentations, with everyone from I-Télé to church groups to European members of parliament.
Meanwhile, I was largely invisible in the United States. Conservatives who wanted to defend marriage focused on buttoned up academic postulations, religious-freedom arguments like the ones championed with vetoed legislation in Arizona, and warnings about a slippery slope leading to polygamy. I had chosen an urgent and stark tone in my argumentation, naming same-sex parenting as child abuse, invoking past history when social experimentation led to atrocities, and rejecting sentimentality in favor of probing scrutiny.
There was still a belief among many defenders of marriage that compassion, civility, and professionalism could overwhelm the gay lobby with kindness.
The result was that troublemakers like me were banished to Europe. Spineless conservatives started "evolving" to the other side in droves, and the gay lobby's shills opened fire on the Family Research Council's Washington offices, eviscerated the careers of performers like Michelle Shocked and Rupert Everett, and became the party of full-fledged Orwellian totalitarianism.
You know that popular line from the Letter to the Romans: "if your enemy is hungry, feed him"? Don't forget the follow-up: "You will pour burning coals on his head." When you see a movement as unprincipled and ruthless as the gay lobby is, you must be clear that you have an enemy. The gay lobby is not your friend. Any friendliness from them is likely manipulation and subterfuge. Remember: your end goal is to pour burning coals on his head, not to have tea and crumpets and reminisce about the good old days when you were classmates at Dartmouth. When they invite you to dinner with the kids they conceived with a surrogate, they are trying to brainwash you, as they've already brainwashed the kids. Remember that.
While I appreciate tremendously the willingness of American Thinker and Public Discourse to give me a venue, the truth is, many conservatives, even the ones fighting gay marriage, have viewed me as a liability and cooperated with the blackout. Other right-wing journals wouldn't publish me. For a year and a half I got many queries from college students interested in having me speak, but conservatives sponsoring them deemed me too controversial. (Due to the courage of Notre Dame's Students for Child-Oriented Policy and Stanford's Anscombe Society, my blackout streak was finally broken; I was able to deliver a speech at Notre Dame on April 3 and another at Stanford on April 5.)
After I testified in Minnesota in February 2013, gay groups went into hysterics over my observation that buying babies was illegal in a society that had abolished slavery. Behind the scenes, I received a steady flow of worried e-mails from conservative family advocates ("You're going too far! You can't compare slavers to gay dads like my dear friends who have three surrogate children by five egg-donating and womb-renting breeders!"), which precipitated radio silence.
Why did the situation get so bad that Brendan Eich could be the victim of character assassination on such a shameless scale? Is it because the gay lobby is that evil? Yes, of course, the gay lobby has succeeded because its leaders have been willing to employ every kind of wickedness simultaneously: lying, manipulating, betraying, playing the victim, using human shields, accusing, intimidating, buying friends, and destroying enemies.
But that's not news. In all honesty, I think that the gay lobby's fascism has reached this tipping point not because of the gay lobby per se – the real problem has been, all along, that conservatives have never been willing to fight back.
Gay parenting is built on sheer adult selfishness, but too many conservatives are scared of saying so because they have family members and colleagues they don't want to offend. It wouldn't be so bad if they chose to live in silence but at least supported those of us who are willing to call people out for doing things that are wrong. Yet when I say things like this, conservatives get scared; the radio silence deepens, and I end up in Europe again.
Europe is another world entirely. The French fill the streets and fight gay adoption – not because they are arguing for more civil discourse, but rather because kids have a right to a mom and a dad, and it is urgent to fight people who violate that right. They invoke the history of slavery when they see people who want to import children conceived by Indian surrogates. They compare lesbians engaging in sperm-banking and genetic design schemes to Nazi eugenicists, because the parallel is obvious. They refer to homosexual adoption as child abuse and remind people that it's cultural genocide and a violation of international law to use children to engage in social experiments that will alienate them from the civic traditions of their biological parents.
There is compassion in what these activists say, of course, just as there is in what I say. Our issue is not with gay people, as we've said over and over again; we give forums and backing to homosexuals and bisexuals who join us in protesting the gay lobby's abhorrent abuse of women and children. We just don't waste half our public speeches apologizing or delivering "the lady doth protest too much" disclaimers that we aren't homophobes.
And so what if someone does have an inner dislike of homosexuality? Other things are more important; other people's dignity is at stake. If I have to choose between homophobes who will protect children's rights to a mother and father and pro-gay advocates who think homosexuals have a right to take kids from other people, guess what: I'll work with the homophobes.
I can't say I understand fully why conservatives have been so defensive and small in the way they engage the gay lobby. All during 2012 and 2013, there were signs that the gay movement – never to be conflated with gay people themselves – had become an engine of world-historical evil. These are people who are comfortable outing other homosexuals, humiliating gay people who transition out of the lifestyle (even if they have been abused), gunning down nonprofit offices, and closing orphanages to force adoption agencies to set aside quotas of abandoned children for gay homes. They compare people who support marriage to the KKK, slave-owners, Nazis, and Bull Connor on a regular basis. They harass and torment people who have gay parents if they don't sing utopian paeans to the joys of same-sex parenting.
As Brendan Eich is brought down by the terrible hand of fascism, it is time for people who feel outraged by it to move beyond crying over the fallout of a supposedly lost battle for marriage. It's time to get off the defensive. It's time to fight for marriage and children's rights. Eich's ouster was pushed by a political gay lobby that lost its principles after years of arguing for something unjust and indefensible – the transformation of children into uprooted property designed to meet the emotional demands of adults. If we do not defend marriage as the institution that exists to safeguard against such objectification of children, we are doomed merely to manage the fallout of our own weakness. We will be begging to be left alone, and our begging will not work, because we will have surrendered what really mattered in the first place: justice for the vulnerable. Having failed to speak for those too young to speak for themselves, we will reap the punishment of having nobody to speak for us when the great beast comes to devour us next.
Stop crying. Get moving already.
Virginia, Utah, Texas, Oklahoma, and Michigan have still not finalized gay marriage. The cases are still pending. Whatever happens with those cases, there are midterm elections coming up. Make candidates know that we aren't buying the gay marriage swindle. There are countless nations overseas that have not legalized gay marriage yet. And even if gay marriage goes worldwide, we can still rally to pass a constitutional amendment or global resolutions affirming the inalienable right of a child to his mother and father wherever possible.
Instead of crying over the predictable misdeeds of a lobby that has revealed itself for all its evil, we need to fight. Fight to win. Fight gay marriage, because the gay lobby chose to yoke marriage to a "right to have a child." Fight gay adoption, because the gay "right to have a child" means that children become objects, and adults become slave-owners again. Stop worrying about your gay neighbor, getting a regular spot on the radio, being accepted, distinguishing yourself from the supposed bigots (the folks who are really doing all your fighting for you). Fight, for God's sake. Fight.
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Mr. Yao Jian Hui (姚建辉) - Chairman
Chief Executive Officer and Executive Director
Mr. Yao Jianhui (姚建輝), aged 50, has been the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Company since August 2015. He serves as a director to multiple subsidiaries of the Company. He also serves as the chairman of each of the Nomination Committee, Strategic Committee and Investment Committee of the Company and is a member of the Remuneration Committee of the Company.
Mr. Yao graduated from the South China University of Technology with a Master's degree in Business Administration. He has held senior management positions with a number of enterprises across a wide range of industries, including food, construction materials, real estate, commerce, agriculture and forestry, logistics, technology and finance. He was appointed as an executive director of Glory Sun Land Group Limited (stock code: 00299.HK)("Glory Sun Land") in December 2018. He was the general manager and chairman of the board of directors of Dasheng Times Cultural Investment Co., Ltd. (stock code: 600892.SH)("Dasheng Times Cultural") from July 2010 to October 2014.
Mr. Lau Wan Po (劉雲浦)
Vice Chairman and Executive Director
Mr. Lau Wan Po (劉雲浦), aged 46, was appointed as a Non-executive Director of the Company in July 2018 and re-designated as an Executive Director in March 2019. He also serves as a member of each of the Strategic Committee and Investment Committee of the Company.
Mr. Lau holds a Bachelor's degree in Science from the City University of Hong Kong and a Master's degree in Finance from Curtin University of Technology. He has over 19 years of experience in the investment banking industry focusing in the areas of initial public offering, merger and acquisition, corporate restructuring and professional financial advisory services to listed companies in Hong Kong. He was an executive director of Glory Sun Land from April 2016 to November 2016 and a non-executive director from November 2016 to May 2019. He was a non-executive director of Huabang Financial Holdings Limited (stock code: 03638.HK) from January 2017 to March 2017, the vice chairman and an executive director from March 2017 to June 2018 and a non-executive director from June 2018 to October 2018. He was the chairman of Huabang Securities Limited from December 2015 to February 2019. He served as the managing director of each of Haitong International Capital Limited and Haitong International Capital (HK) Limited from January 2010 to November 2015. He acted as an executive director and head of investment banking division of CMB International Capital Holdings Corporation Limited from August 2008 to January 2010.
Mr. Li Min Bin (李敏斌)
Mr. Li Minbin (李敏斌), aged 41, was appointed as a Non-executive Director of the Company in August 2015 and re-designated as an Executive Director in November 2015. He has been the Vice President of the Company since January 2016. He serves as a director to multiple subsidiaries of the Company. He also serves as a member of each of the Strategic Committee and Investment Committee of the Company.
Mr. Li obtained the Master's degree of Business Administration from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He has rich experience in operation and management of logistics, real estate, investment and financial industries. He was an executive director of Glory Sun Land from December 2018 to May 2019. He served as the supervisor, assistant to general manager and representative of securities affair of Dasheng Times Cultural from July 2010 to March 2014 and acted as director and secretary to the board of directors of Dasheng Times Cultural from March 2014 to March 2016.
Mr. Huang Wei (黃煒)
Mr. Huang Wei (黃煒), aged 47, was appointed as an Executive Director of the Company in August 2015, re-designated as a Non-executive Director in November 2015 and further re-designated as an Executive Director in November 2018. He also serves as a member of the Investment Committee of the Company.
Mr. Huang obtained a Master's degree in Economics from the Hunan University in the PRC. He has over 20 years of experience in investment and financing industries. He served as the vice manager of the department of personal housing loan of the Shenzhen branch of Industrial and Commercial Bank of China from August 2002 to November 2004, the vice general manager of the corporate financing management centre from November 2004 to September 2008, the general manager of the department of corporate financing management from September 2008 to February 2012 and the general manager of the department of institutional banking from January 2013 to December 2013.
Mr. Zhang Chi (張弛)
Mr. Zhang Chi (張弛), aged 32, was appointed as an Executive Director of the Company in July 2017 and re-designated as a Non-executive Director in August 2019. He also serves as a member of the Audit Committee of the Company.
Mr. Zhang graduated with a Bachelor's degree in Laws from the Shenzhen University in the PRC and obtained a Master's degree of Science in Management from New York University in the USA. He is experienced in fund investment. He served as an officer in the investment department in Shenzhen Sichuang Technology Development Co. Ltd.* (深圳思創科技發展有限公司) from January 2013 to June 2013. He worked in Shenzhen Creative Investment Group Limited* (深圳市創新投資集團有限公司) and served as an intern in the fund management headquarter from September 2015 to April 2016, an officer in the fund management headquarter since April 2016, and has acted as an investment manager in a management headquarter managing a Government Guide Fund since October 2016.
INDEPENDENT NON-EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS
Mr. Wong Chun Bong, Alex (王振邦)
Mr. Wong Chun Bong (王振邦), aged 62, has been an Independent Non-executive Director of the Company since November 2009. He also serves as the chairman of the Audit Committee of the Company and a member of each of the Remuneration Committee and Nomination Committee of the Company. He holds a range of positions regarding the provision of assurance, taxation, accounting and financial management services, which the Company believes will enhance in the overall financial control and management of the Group.
Mr. Wong holds a Higher Diploma in Accountancy from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He has been an independent non-executive director of Glory Sun Land since December 2018 and an independent non-executive director of Guangzhou R&F Properties Co., Ltd. (stock code: 02777.HK) since May 2017. He is currently the managing partner of a firm of certified public accountants in Hong Kong, an ex-member of both the Council and Court of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, the ex-Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants in Hong Kong, a fellow member of each of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants, the Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the Taxation Institute of Hong Kong and the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.
Professor Lee Kwok On, Matthew (李國安)
Professor Lee Kwok On, Matthew (李國安), aged 61, PhD, was appointed as an Independent Non-Executive Director of the Company on 28 November 2009. He is also the chairman of the Remuneration Committee and a member of the Audit Committee and Strategic Committee of the Company. He is the Vice-President (Development & External Relations) and Chair professor of Information Systems & E-Commerce at the City University of Hong Kong. Professor Lee is the Chairman of Hong Kong Committee for Pacific Economic Cooperation. He is an independent
Professor Lee is the Vice-President (Development & External Relations) and Chair Professor of Information Systems & E-Commerce at the City University of Hong Kong, and he is also a member of the University Court and University Senate. He has been an independent non-executive director of Computer and Technologies Holdings Limited (stock code: 00046.HK) since April 1998. He is the Chairman of the Hong Kong Committee for Pacific Economic Cooperation (HKCPEC) and a member of the Hong Kong Deposits Protection Board. Graduated from a number of world-class universities, Professor Lee has obtained the following qualifications: BEng, MBA (University of Sheffield), MSc (University of Oxford), PhD in Computer Science (University of Manchester), LLB, and LLM in Commercial & Corporate Law (University of London). He qualified as a Barrister-at-Law in Hong Kong and England and Wales, and is a Chartered Engineer (UK Engineering Council), and a professional member of the British Computer Society.
Mr. Lee Kwan Hung, Eddie (李均雄)
Mr. Lee Kwan Hung, Eddie (李均雄), aged 56, has been an Independent Non-executive Director of the Company since November 2015. He also serves as a member of the Nomination Committee of the Company.
Mr. Lee received his Bachelor's degree in Laws and Postgraduate Certificate in Laws from the University of Hong Kong in 1988 and 1989 respectively. He was admitted as a solicitor in Hong Kong in 1991 and in England and Wales in 1997.
Mr. Lee successively served as a manager and a senior manager in the Listing Division of the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong from December 1992 to April 1994. He was a partner of Messrs. Woo, Kwan, Lee & Lo from April 2001 to February 2011 and is currently a consultant at Messrs. Howse Williams. He serves as an independent non-executive director to multiple listed companies in Hong Kong, including Embry Holdings Limited (stock code: 01388.HK) since November 2006, NetDragon Websoft Holdings Limited (stock code: 00777.HK) since June 2008, Newton Resources Ltd. (stock code: 01231.HK) since December 2010, Tenfu (Cayman) Holdings Company Limited (stock code: 06868.HK) since August 2011, Red Star Macalline Group Corporation Ltd. (stock code: 01528.HK) since February 2015, FSE Services Group Limited (stock code: 00331.HK) since November 2015 and Ten Pao Group Holdings Limited (stock code: 01979.HK) since November 2015.
In the previous three years, Mr. Lee was an independent non-executive director of Landsea Green Properties Co., Ltd. (stock code: 00106.HK) from July 2013 to June 2020, Futong Technology Development Holdings Limited (stock code: 00465.HK) from November 2009 to November 2017 and Asia Cassava Resources Holdings Limited (stock code: 00841.HK) from January 2009 to May 2018.
KEY PERSONNELS
Mr. Ho Ka Yiu Simon (何嘉耀), aged 43, was appointed as the Chief Financial Officer and Company Secretary of the Company in December 2018. Mr. Ho holds a Bachelor's degree in Accountancy from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He is an associate member of the Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants. Mr. Ho has nearly 20 years of experience in auditing, professional accounting and financial management. Prior to joining the Company, he worked in several international audit firms and served as a chief financial officer, company secretary and authorised representative in a listed company in Hong Kong.
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