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Kathy Valentine (the Bluebonnets, the Go-Go's) Talks Brandi Carlile's The Firewatcher's Daughter
Brandi Carlile's new album radiates quiet celebration but also reminds us that human frailty can throw shade on whatever lightness we find.
By Kathy Valentine | March 5, 2015
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Talkhouse Contributing Writer Kathy Valentine has toured everywhere several times over, recorded major label and indie albums, done countless TV performances, and written or co-written hundreds of songs, including hits by the Go-Go's — the band she joined at age 22 and made music history with. Kathy lives in Austin, Texas, plays guitar in "garage glam" blues band the BlueBonnets, and produces aspiring female artists. She is writing a book and screenplay while working on a degree in Fine Arts/English. She's on Twitter and Facebook.
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The Firewatcher's Daughter
I had an unexpected mini-meltdown when I saw Brandi Carlile many years ago.
It went kind of like this: take it all in. Dissect and evaluate all the elements; let the pieces fall back to a whole impression. Decide that everything I've done musically is worthless. Realize that I will never, ever, ever be that good, and wonder if I should give up. (I'm pretty sure non-musicians never have reactions like this when they find a great new artist.) The good news is it was momentary — it's happened before, when I least expect it — and so I settled back into being happy with who I was, realizing my entire output of music hadn't been a stupid waste of time, and able simply to enjoy that she was just really fucking good.
I saw this performance before I'd heard any of her songs, and what I saw made me want to listen to every single one of her songs. Sometimes it's a letdown listening to recordings after being sucked in by a show — it's not as arresting without that live experience, but Carlile's body of work could easily have entered my world first and I'd have been just as lovestruck. I learned that pigeonholing Brandi Carlile isn't as easy as it might seem. She's definitely a little bit country, but she's a whole lot else, too. With a voice that could sometimes be the love child of Brenda Lee's and Roy Orbison's, a voice that sings as easily and effortlessly as someone else might talk, a voice that breaks and melts and then invokes the soul of a Gladys Knight or Betty Everett, and seduces without a trace of guile, like Linda Ronstadt could — well, you just can't stick a voice like that into some genre box.
The Firewatcher's Daughter, Carlile's sixth album, is her first on indie label ATO, and she and her longtime musical partners, Phil and Tim Hanseroth (aka "the Twins"), got full control of how they made the record. The three bandmates wrote virtually all the songs, in different combinations or solo, and share production credits with Trina Shoemaker (Melissa Ferrick, Blues Traveler) and Ryan Hadlock (the Lumineers, Metric). The Firewatcher's Daughter was recorded live in the studio, without even demos for reference. They wanted as little overthinking and over-rehearsing as possible. The result, mostly first takes, retains something that usually gets lost as a musician becomes more comfortable knowing a song inside-out; at first, we go by instinct, finding our way, sometimes spontaneously eye-contacting a change or a repeat just because it feels right. It's an energy that only exists the first few times a song is played, because then you figure it out and remember what fits here and what works there, and then it just becomes a matter of executing the parts. It's a testament to the relationship Carlile and the Hanseroths have with each other that the live, first-take approach worked so well on The Firewatcher's Daughter.
Drawing an audible breath, Carlile begins the record with the first song and single "Wherever Is Your Heart." The lyrics presage much of this record's content, and Carlile's lone voice and guitar accompaniment are augmented, nearly one instrument at a time, until we're swinging happily along to the refrain of an Americana-pop anthem — until the music drops away and the joyful reverie is interrupted by a reminder that there's always the mystery of human frailty to throw shade on whatever lightness we find. "God forgive my mind," Carlile implores with fractured urgency. It's a needed break, making the chorus even more uplifting as it rides out.
Throughout, the music gives the impression that it was made during a time of gratitude and quiet celebration of the blessings and love in life. It's balanced, though, not merely a gushy love-fest. There were people lost, hurt, and left behind — perhaps most piercingly described in "Heroes and Songs," when Carlile sings, "I love you my friend/My dear means to an end/But you're not in my dreams anymore" — a sweet, nostalgic kiss-off to one who is no longer part of the journey. There are misgivings, as in "The Eye," sung entirely in three-part harmony by the Hanseroth twins and Carlile with the barest accompaniment, the center-staging of their voices reminiscent of classic vocal trios like Crosby, Stills & Nash.
It's not a single, but I can easily imagine "The Things I Regret" having a commercial audience — it's as catchy as that Lumineers radio song, with a clean, identifiable piano/guitar melody hook and Carlile as confident as Springsteen, singing a song that tells a story of hope and letting go.
There are a few full-on, straight-out love songs, lacking only a dedication to make them any more of a tribute. "Wilder (We're Chained)" is written from the perspective of a parent to a child without any sappiness — hard to pull off. It sounds like a folk song with a Fleetwood Mac refrain. "Beginning to Feel the Years" and "I Belong to You" are both confessionals accompanied by a restrained and tasteful instrumentation — just the right distance and placement from Carlile's understated vocals. Also in the realm of heart-opening professions of love is Phil Hanseroth's "Blood, Muscle, Skin & Bone," with an alternative pop sound that is only a lush production and a few twists away from belonging on a Metric record.
"The Stranger at My Door" is a classic folktale that ends with electric noise, a little bit of anarchy to disrupt tradition. Also helping to bust lines that might draw a box around Carlile is the uptempo "Alibi," a great blend of soul, '60s garage and country/roots with killer fat drums. One of my favorite tracks is the rockin' "Mainstream Kid," a rave-up commentary on conformity with ripping vocals and a great stomped-and-clapped breakdown for the guitar solo.
The record ends with a cover of the Avett Brothers' "Murder in the City." Carlile sings and plays guitar, but the strings and the twins' back-up vocals give it a gospel-hymned cast. It's both a somber reflection and affirmation of family and bonds and a great closer.
I get the sense that there was more captured here than the process of recording new songs. The Firewatcher's Daughter feels like a time capsule, a musical documentation of what is essential to Carlile right now, where life is the muse and the task at hand was to extract music that mirrored the changes and purpose of the present. The record succeeds partly because she's just a really, really good musician and songwriter, and because she has not one, but two insanely talented partners in the Hanseroths. But mostly it succeeds because, as with the first time I came across Brandi Carlile, she is so legitimately and convincingly who she is that you can't help but look at yourself and make sure that you're being your own unique self too.
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A young man has died and two people are in hospital fighting for their lives after a series of crashes across Devon and Cornwall this Bank Holiday weekend.
A hit-and-run crash on the A3082 between Par and Fowey in Cornwall late last night saw a 42-year-old male pedestrian airlifted to Plymouth's Derriford hospital with life-threatening multiple injuries.
The man remains in a critical condition, while a 43-year-old female pedestrian from the Looe area suffered less serious injuries in the same incident.
A 28-year-old woman from the Par area has been arrested in connection to the incident.
An 82-year-old pedestrian is also in a critical condition in Derriford after a crash on Topsham Road in Exeter around 3pm on Friday.
The same crash resulted in the death of a 22-year-old motorcyclist.
Another crash involving a motorbike, this time in North Devon, left a man with serious leg injuries on Friday night.
The collision between a motorcycle and a van occurred on the A39 between Barnstaple and Bideford around 6pm.
The man was rushed to North Devon District Hospital after the air ambulance reportedly landed on the A396 to attend to him.
Around 30 minutes after that crash, another incident was reported less than 500 metres away on the same stretch of road.
A Range Rover and a Honda Civic were involved, but police reported no injuries.
There have also been multiple collisions reported throughout the weekend.
On Sunday, heavy rain has caused poor driving conditions on many of the south west's major roads with several crashes reported by traffic monitoring service Inrix.
Around 1.30pm the Northbound carriage of the M5 was left partially blocked due to an accident at Junction 26 near Wellington.
The A38 Tamar Bridge was also left partially blocked around 1.45pm today due to a collision involving three vehicles.
On Saturday at around 10.30am, one lane of the A377 Alphington Road in Exeter was closed due to a crash involving a car and a van.
On the A38 there were crashes in both Cornwall and Devon around lunchtime Saturday, while at 2.30pm a two-vehicle crash saw the A3074 in Redruth partially blocked.
There were also reports of collisions yesterday in Dawlish, Torquay, Truro and Helston.
On top of all of this, Bank Holiday traffic and poor driving conditions have caused heavy congestion on many of the main routes in and out of the south west.
For live updates on the region's traffic and travel news, stay tuned to our live blog here.


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Q: Como fazer trigger('change') em um input select? Gostaria de simular um evento de change no meu input, mas não estou conseguindo fazer funcionar.
Assim que a página carrega eu seleciono um valor diferente no meu input dessa forma:
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Está funcionando.
Em seguida eu tento fazer o trigger:
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O meu evento de mudança de input é este:
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E não está chamando o alert no carregamento da página, apenas quando eu mudo o valor do input clicando com o mouse.
Alguém tem idéia do por quê não estar funcionando?
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A: O erro era que:
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estava sendo chamado antes de:
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Inverti e funcionou.

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R.W.Wolf
Tame the Beast
Winner of GQ Magazine & Esquire awards, R.W.Wolf takes men's grooming to a luxury level. Located in Knightsbridge, Monument & Cockfosters, R.W.Wolf has successfully established itself as a leader in men's grooming.
The situation to be solved
We were approached by R.W.Wolf to highlight the re-opening of their branches after Covid-19 Lockdown in London. After being given full creative freedom to intrigue people back into their branches we set out to create something that was relative to the period in time (Post Lockdown). A call to action was requested by the client which was for viewers to book their appointment online.
Our Process and Direction
Having such amazing locations for their branches, we had our pick of where we could film. However we wanted to choose a location that looked and felt derelict. The idea was to push the angle of a barber reopening a branch at midnight, because that's when wolves really come out.. Also, during lockdown there was various videos of mens grooming going down the drain as they were unable to maintain their hair and beards, this was their chance to now book in to 'Tame The Beast'
The Execution
The Project Solution
Like with all projects, lighting played a key role in telling this story. We wanted to show a deserted shop which had been closed for a long time and along with lighting our mist machine played a key role in giving that impression. We made sure to capture small details whilst referencing the brand itself in different shots either by their logo or their famous caption 'Tame The Beast'. We decided a motivational voiceover would lend well to the story and the feedback it received was unbelievable. As with many of our clients, R.W.Wolf added paid advertisement behind their this campaign to successfully reach new audiences who engaged with the video and carried out the call to action.
Reach out, we'd love to hear form you...
Dive into our case studies to find out more about some of our projects we have done in the past. You'll get a brief overview of how we approach projects and our thought process behind video production projects.
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Florida's small business community continues to suffer
by Jordan Kirkland | Apr 13, 2020
A new study released on Monday by WalletHub ranked Florida 16th in the States with the Most Affected Small Businesses due to Coronavirus. The study comes as small businesses, which make up the majority of all businesses in the state, continue to suffer from a statewide lockdown.
COVID-19 has dealt a heavy blow to small businesses in the U.S., with many "non-essential" businesses being forced to close its doors as a result of stay-at-home orders. Though some businesses — largely in the hospitality sector — have been able to take a hit and continue to find ways to adapt to the conditions brought on by the pandemic, most business owners have been forced to lay off staff and watch their revenue crash.
With 35 percent of small business owners in the country saying their business cannot survive more than three months in current conditions, the personal-finance website examined each state's business climate, with Florida ranking higher than most states in the U.S.
#Coronavirus has hurt countless businesses. See how small businesses in your state have been affected: https://t.co/ZzL9lWPTH4 #COVID19 #smallbusiness pic.twitter.com/nvDxoYGdZf
— WalletHub (@wallethub) April 13, 2020
To identify the states in which businesses are hit hardest by COVID-19, WalletHub compared the 50 states and the District of Columbia across 12 key metrics. The data set ranges from the share of small businesses operating in highly affected industries to small-business credit conditions and the state's small-business friendliness. Below, you can see highlights from WalletHub's report.
Here are some of the biggest categories that contributed to Florida's ranking.
COVID-19 Impact on Small Business in Florida (1=Most Affected, 25=Avg.):
27th – Share of Small Businesses Operating in High-Risk Industries
15th – Share of Small-Business Employees Operating in High-Risk Industries Among Total Small-Business Employees
38th – Share of Consumer Expenditures Related to High-Risk Industries
17th – Share of Businesses with E-commerce Sales Activity
11th – Business Vitality
22nd – Average Annual Federal Small-Business Funding per GDP
1st – Small-Business Credit Conditions
10th – Total Amount of Small-Business Loans per Small-Business Employee
While the state performed well in certain categories, areas such as vitality and state credit conditions contributed to Florida's high ranking (54.17) total score. Most notably, Florida ranked 2nd in small-business financial conditions.


3SOUND is a personal navigation solution that integrates acoustic binaural technologies (3D sounds) and GNSS technologies to guide people along a predefined track. The system provides acoustic track perception based on the integration of an augmented acoustic reality application developed for smartphones and an accurate, reliable navigation solution that leverages GPS augmented with EGNOS/EDAS. The system identifies the position and orientation of the user and, using binaural sounds, improves on conventional waypoint or route navigation by providing innovative acoustic guidance via open earphones. The 3SOUND solution also includes a virtual guidance rope for the blind, others with sight impairments, and people working in low-visibility environments (emergency and rescue services, etc). The idea is being developed under the FP7 ARGUS project, which is designing, implementing, and demonstrating a personal navigation solution based on 3D sounds and acoustic track perception.


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John B. Judis/ December 12, 2012
Rein in the Rich: How Higher Taxes Could Lift the Economy
As the negotiations over the fiscal cliff continue, President Barack Obama has insisted on retaining the Bush tax cuts for the middle class, while letting the cuts for the wealthy lapse. Republicans have insisted that raising taxes on the rich would cost jobs – as many as 700,000, according to House Speaker John Boehner.
Obama, for his part, says that a tax increase would not cost jobs; that it would help the economy by reducing the deficit; and that it would be fairer than imposing new taxes on the middle class. "I'm not going to ask students and seniors and middle-class families to pay down the deficit while people like me who make more than $250,000 are not asked to pay a dime more in taxes," he has declared.
Obama is right that a tax increase on the rich would not cost jobs; and he is certainly right that it would be fairer to tax the wealthy whose incomes have shot up, even during the downturn. And he is also correct that taxing the rich will actually benefit the economy--but not primarily for the reasons he cites. If the government extracts income from the wealthy, and then spends it on a $50 billion infrastructure program, an extension of unemployment insurance, and a Social Security payroll tax cut, as Obama has proposed, that will not only boost the recovery, but will also discourage the wealthy from rerouting their savings into the kind of speculative activity that helped create the Great Recession. A closer approximation of income equality is not only better for our souls—it's also better for the economy. The question of fairness aside, the rich have been making relatively too much money for the country's good.
Last September, the Congressional Research Service published a report countering Republican claims that lowering top tax rates would lead, or had led, to higher economic growth. "Changes over the past 65 years in the top marginal rate and the top capital gains tax rate do not appear correlated with economic growth," the report concluded. Republican Minority Leader Mitch McConnell responded by having the report suppressed, but its findings were incontrovertible.
The CRS rested its findings, however, on the lack of a correlation between marginal tax on the wealthy and growth. It didn't try to explain why higher rates might have contributed to faster growth, and lower rates to slower growth, and even recessions. This view remains highly controversial today, even among liberals, but during the 1930s many New Dealers took this position. Recently, Rutgers economic historian James Livingston has reasserted it in an excellent book, Against Thrift. There is a weaker and a stronger version of the argument.
The weaker argument goes like this: The modern American economy is driven by consumer demand; the consumer sector, which includes services, is where new jobs emerge, and where growth is spurred. During economic downturns, purchases of consumer durables, including automobiles and new houses (which economists technically label investment), have been most likely to ignite a recovery. The lower a person's income, the more likely he or she will use additional income to consume goods and services; the higher the income, the more likely it will be saved. In Keynesian terms, middle and lower income taxpayers have a much high marginal propensity to consume. Therefore, it makes much more sense to give them rather than the wealthy a tax break.
The weaker argument shows that it is better in a faltering economy to reduce tax rates on the less wealthy than the wealthy. The stronger argument shows that with incomes soaring in the upper brackets, it is a good idea to raise tax rates on the wealthy. This idea comes from historical evidence showing that today's economy differs from that of the older pre-Great Depression industrial economy.
In the first period of American industrialization -- roughly from the Civil War through the mid-1920s -- the economy was driven by the production of capital goods, from steel and petroleum to machine tools and threshers. More workers became engaged in producing these goods than in manufacturing consumer goods. In countries that are rapidly industrializing in this manner – think of China today – both workers and owners have to sacrifice their consumption in order to provide consumer goods for the growing number of workers who are making capital goods that they cannot consume.
But sometime in the 1920s, these relationships were inverted. In 1890, consumer purchases accounted for about 36 percent of GDP; in 1925, 40 percent. (Similarly in China today, consumption accounts for only about a third of GDP and investment for half.) But in the United States today, consumer purchases account for about 70 percent of GDP, and investment for only 15 or 20 percent. And the growth of consumption at the expense of investment hasn't entailed any decline in output, including that of capital goods.
Due to modern technology – from electrification to the computer and the Internet – and to the increasingly sophisticated organization of work, it has become possible to produce more goods without a net increase in workers and capital. The output of capital and consumer goods has continued to grow, but most of the increase in the labor force over the last eighty years has been in government and services. From 1990 to 2008 (before the recession), the United States lost almost a million jobs in capital goods production.
As a result, the consumer sector no longer has to sacrifice its output and income in order to fund a capital goods sector that is growing more rapidly than it is. And instead of the economy being driven by the demand for capital goods, it is driven by the demand for consumer goods and services. The danger in the older economy was conspicuous consumption by capitalists and growing wage demands from workers, which threatened the funds available for investment in capital goods. The looming danger in the new economy in the failure of capitalists to consume or invest and the failure of workers, crippled by debt, unemployment or falling wages, to consume.
Government economic policy has to be, or at least should be, very different in this economy. It should not consist of giving tax breaks to the middle class and the wealthy, but of redistributing income downward--whether through tax policy, social programs, or labor regulations. If it doesn't do that, or worse still, if it acts as if it were 1925 and encourages a growing gap between the rich and everyone else, it will threaten consumer demand. During the Coolidge and Hoover administrations, the top one percent increased their share of total income by 19 percent. And that happened, too, in George W. Bush's administration. Such policies not only slow a recovery, but spur a slowdown by putting money in the wrong hands.
Regressive policies can also lead to financial crises. When firms suffer from global overcapacity or merely from domestic overproduction – when a glut arises of automobiles, ships, textiles semiconductors or fiber optic cable -- as happened in the late 1920s and again in the earlier part of the last decade, the wealthy, joined by corporate treasurers and bankers, have tended to pour their money into speculation rather than productive investment. The financial sector has become a casino for the rich, where they have gambled away funds that could have fueled the economy. So redistributing income through tax policy isn't just fair; it is one way to began restructuring the economy to prevent future slowdowns and crashes.
Republican pleas to retain tax breaks for the wealthy and corporations and to eviscerate social programs do suggest a Romneyesque indifference to the 99 percent; they also presume an economy that no longer exists. "These incentives," Livingston writes, "are merely invitations to inflate speculative bubbles." Obama's concession to arguments about the deficit, which come from Tea Party Republicans and business groups like Fix the Debt, is understandable, but unfortunate. There will come a time -- when unemployment dips, say, below six percent, and the countries' businesses are at full capacity – when it will be important to reduce government deficits. And raising marginal taxes on the wealthy will be one way – along with other measures – to bring the deficit down.
But bringing down the deficit should not be the principal objective right now. What's important is to continue the recovery from the Great Recession and to take measures to prevent future crises. Supply-siders were right about one thing: the best way to reduce the government deficit is to create economic growth. Obama's proposal to raise taxes on the wealthy and to transfer those revenues to workers and the unemployed isn't just the fair thing to do; it is exactly what's right for the economy.
John B. Judis is the author of The Nationalist Revival: Trade, Immigration and the Revolt Against Globalization.
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Home » Do You Know What's in a Vaccine?
As with all pharmaceutical products, it's important to know what exactly you're taking — or injecting. Vaccines are no exception.
In fact, because vaccines are injected rather than taken orally, it even more important to know exactly what you're putting in your body. Why? Because science shows that whatever is injected is far more potent than anything ingested. Injections, like vaccines, bypass the body's natural detox pathway.
This means more of the injected material in vaccines stays in the body and reaches vital organs and tissues via the bloodstream. This causes both acute and chronic inflammation that leads to many of the health issues that are common nowadays. It can even lead to sudden death.
Did your doctor tell you what was in that needle?
Unfortunately, vaccine ingredients include many synthetic chemicals that are known to be toxic to humans, as well as foreign human fragments (from aborted babies) and animal cells and DNA. These ingredients can cause a host of issues, especially when injected.
Vaccines can contain aluminum, mercury, formaldehyde, antibiotics, human fetal cells, GMOs, animal proteins and DNA, glyphosate and other substances that are potentially dangerous when injected.
Vaccines are injected into muscle tissue, where they form a slow-release reservoir intended to stimulate the production of antibodies for some time. The ingredients are not simply flushed out like they might be if taken in as food, and some ingredients such as aluminium and mercury make their way to the brain and accumulate over time.
Known to cause brain damage at all doses, linked to ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE, dementia, seizures, autoimmune issues, SIDs and cancer. This toxin accumulates in the brain and causes more damage with each dose.
Known to cause CANCER in humans. Probable gastrointestinal, liver, respiratory, immune, nerve and reproductive system POISON. Banned from injectables in most European countries.
Known to cause CANCER. Suspected gastroin- testinal, liver, nerve and respiratory, skin and sense organ POISON.
ALLERGIC reactions can range from mild to life-threatening.
Can be incorporated into the recipient's DNA and cause unknown GENETIC MUTATIONS. This also includes: eggs, dairy, this leads to allergies.
Poisonous if ingested. Causes BIRTH DEFECTS in animals.
Human DNA from aborted BABIES. Pig blood, horse blood, rabbit brains, dog kidneys, cow hearts, monkey kidneys, chick embryos, calf serum, sheep blood & more. Linked to childhood leukemia and diabetes.
One of the most toxic substances known. Even if a thermometer breaks, the building is cleared and HAZMAT is called. Tiny doses cause damage to the brain, gut, liver, bone marrow, nervous system and/or kidneys. Linked to autoimmune disorders, and neurological disorders like AUTISM.
A toxic chemical that is linked to birth defects, developmental delays and infertility. Banned in Europe.
Interferes with vitamin B6 absorption which can lead to epilepsy and brain damage. Allergic reactions can range from mild to life -threatening.
Used as anti-freeze. TOXIC to all cells and capable of destroying the immune system.
Known to cause CANCER in animals and linked to numerous autoimmune issues and infertility.
Potentially toxic to the kidney and nervous system.
Here is the list of vaccine ingredients per the CDC website. This table includes not only vaccine ingredients (e.g., adjuvants and preservatives), but also substances used during the manufacturing process, including vaccine-production media.
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The consumer report also includes data on mishandled baggage, tarmac delays, chronically delayed flights, and the causes of flight delays filed with the Department's EmEdjimurjE (BTS) by the reporting carriers. In addition, the consumer report contains a record of aviation service complaints filed with DOT's Aviation Consumer Protection Division by consumers regarding a range of issues including flight problems, baggage, reservation and ticketing, refunds, customer service, disability access, and discrimination. The report also includes data on oversales and information about the total number of animals that died, were injured, or were lost during air transport in November 2017, as filed by the air carriers with the Aviation Consumer Protection Division.
DOT has launched its redesigned airline consumer website to make it easy for travelers to understand their rights. The full consumer report and other aviation consumer matters of interest to the public can be found at .
At the end of November, there were no regularly scheduled flights that were chronically delayed – more than 30 minutes late more than 50 percent of the time – for two consecutive months or more. A list of flights that were chronically delayed for one or more months is available from .
Oversales data, unlike other air carrier data, are reported quarterly rather than monthly. For the third quarter of 2017, the 12 U.S. carriers who report involuntary denied boarding, or bumping, data posted a bumping rate of 0.15 per 10,000 passengers, the lowest quarterly rate based on historical data dating back to 1995 and down from both the rate of 0.69 for the third quarter of 2016 and the previous lowest quarterly rate of 0.44 posted in the second quarter of 2017. For the first nine months of this year, the carriers posted a bumping rate of 0.39 per 10,000 passengers, the lowest January through September rate based on historical data dating back to 1995 and down from the rate of 0.65 posted during the first nine months of 2016. The previous lowest rate for the January through September period was 0.64 in 2002. Third quarter and nine month bumping numbers were previously released in the November , which includes denied boarding numbers by airline.
Consumers may file air travel consumer or civil rights complaints on the web at or by voice mail at (202) 366-2220 or by TTY at (202) 366-0511. They may also mail a complaint to the Aviation Consumer Protection Division, U.S. Department of Transportation, C-75, W96-432, 3333 New Jersey Avenue, SE, Washington, DC 11111.


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TITLE: Shadowlands
A monochromatic journey into the mysterious world of Contemporary Photographic Film noir. Murderous plotlines, shadowy scenes, and mysterious femme fatales giver the discerning viewer a feast of quintessentially cinematic inspired works in the tradition of Preminger, Welles, Wilder, Siodmark, Hitchcock and Ford.
I aspire to use photographic manipulation within my works, whilst keeping to the traditionalist Film Noir esque ideals!
AUTHOR: JACK SAVAGE UNITED KINGDOM
Jack Savage is a fine art photographer and digital artist. Born in Northampton, England (1980) - He was educated at Nottingham University, where he carries an MA in American Studies and Film. He is also an Adobe certified expert in Photoshop CC and Photoshop trainer.
Finalist of the prestigious Siena Photo Awards 2017/2018/2019/2020. Winner of the much coveted Pangea Prize 1st Place in the Open Monochrome category at Siena Photo Awards 2017. Winner of the Fine Art Professional category - 1st Place at the Black and White Spider Awards 2017.
Winner of the Portrait category - 1st Place winner at The Chromatic Photo Awards 2017. Winner of a Professional Gold Medal in Fine Art, at OneEyeland's World's Top 10 Black and White Photography Awards 2018, and an overall ranking of 2nd place for Professional Photography for the UK.
In early 2019 Jack was a double finalist at OneEyeland's World's Top 10 Black and White Photography Awards 2019, in the Professional categories of Portrait and Fine Art. He also was the recipient of Bronze and a Finalist at OneEyeland World's Top 10 Fine Art Photographers 2019 in the Professional category of Photomanipulation. Jack also won Gold - at The Tokyo International Foto Awards 2018, in the category of Professional - Fine Art - Special Effects, . Also in 2019 Jack received a Silver award from PX3 Awards, The Prie de la Photographie Paris 2019, in the category of Professional FineArt/Digitally Enhanced. In November 2019 Jack was awarded bronze in OneEyeland's World's Top 10 Landscape Photographers 2019 in the Professional.category of Photo Composites. In December 2019 Jack was again awarded Gold - at The Tokyo International Foto Awards 2019, in the category of Professional - Fine Art - Collage,
Jack has been awarded
Honourable Mentions in the Professional categories of Abstract, Fine Art, Portrait, Conceptual, Digitally Enhanced, Special Effects and Photo-manipulation at IPA 2016/2017/2018/2019, IPOTY 2018, PX3 2018, TIFA 2016/20172018, MIFA 2017, The International Color Awards 2017/2018, The Monochrome Awards 2017/2018, The ND Awards 2017/2018/2019, The Chromatic Photo Awards 2017/2018, 2019, The London International Creative Competition 2017/2018, 2019, The Fine-Art Photography Awards 2017/2018/2019, The Federation of Professional European Photographers 2019/2020 & The Black & White Spider Awards 2017/2018/2019.
Jack has also been published and featured in numerous photographic publications worldwide - such as Photographize Magazine, Dodho Magazine, 1x.com, Visions Libres Magazine, Shot Magazine, MUP Magazine, Adore Noir magazine, Black Magazin, Fine Eye Magazine, Silvershotz Magazine, Digital SLR Magazine (Malaysia), The Northampton Chronicle, The Nenequirer, Bored Panda, The International Colour Photographer of the Year Winners Book 2018, The Photography Journal & the art collective Tagree.
Jack has exhibited his works in Siena, Italy, Milan, Italy, Aries, France, and Brighton, UK.
JACK SAVAGE - Shadowlands


Illinois' general election campaign for governor kicked off Wednesday where Tuesday's primary results ended, with Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner and Democratic nominee J.B. Pritzker lobbing attacks and launching ads against each other.
Rauner, who barely staved off primary challenger Jeanne Ives, accused Pritzker of being a "corrupt insider who's a tax dodger and machine candidate." Pritzker, who handily won a multicandidate race, accused Rauner of being a divisive "failure" during his first term.
Pritzker coasted through his primary with the help of his personal wealth and Democratic enthusiasm showing itself at the polls. Rauner, too, used his personal wealth, but to overcome enthusiasm for Ives, a three-term House lawmaker from Wheaton.
Spending tens of millions of dollars on TV ads and building out a statewide field organization, Pritzker captured 45 percent of the vote and won 98 of the state's 102 counties, easily overcoming state Sen. Daniel Biss of Evanston with 27 percent and Kenilworth developer Chris Kennedy with 24 percent. Biss and Kennedy each won a pair of Downstate counties.
More than 1.27 million votes were cast in the Democratic governor primary. That's more than 2 1/2 times the total in the 2014 primary, which featured few strong races. But Tuesday's Democratic total even exceeded the 960,000 ballots cast in the 2010 primary when then-Gov. Pat Quinn battled a challenge from then-Comptroller Daniel Hynes.
Pritzker also used his money to assist Chicago ward organizations, including many in African-American neigborhoods, to counter Kennedy's efforts to gain support there. He had emphasized the historic involvement of his uncle, President John F. Kennedy, and his father, U.S. Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, in the civil rights movement of the 1960s.
The election results show Kennedy struggled to get more than 20 percent in Chicago's majority-black wards. Pritzker had the edge in all but one of them, collecting more than 60 percent of the vote in a majority of them. In the end, Pritzker held the advantage in 33 wards and Kennedy in four wards. Biss led in 13 wards, particularly those on the North and Northwest sides in growing progressive or gentrifying areas.
The Republican primary for governor told a far different story.
Rauner got 51 percent of the more than 700,000 GOP ballots cast for governor, and with nearly all precincts counted won by fewer than 20,000 votes — or less than two votes a precinct across the state. Ives got 49 percent, winning at least 38 counties.
The challenger took the traditional Republican collar counties of DuPage, Kane, Will and McHenry, critical places Rauner will need for support in the fall. Already, the area looked problematic for the general election. All those counties except McHenry backed Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump in 2016 despite their longtime GOP leanings. Rauner won his home of Lake County — also won by Clinton in 2016 — by only 1,200 votes. Rauner took Sangamon County, the home of state government, by fewer than 1,100 votes despite the raft of workers who serve under him.
Turnout was down from the nearly 840,000 votes cast in 2014, which featured a competitive GOP primary for governor that Rauner won. Tuesday's total also was down from the 783,000 ballots in another battle for the nomination in 2010, won by state Sen. Bill Brady of Bloomington.
Now, Pritzker and Rauner begin a race expected to easily shatter Illinois campaign spending records and possibly make a run at the national mark. Both candidates enter a nearly eight-month general election campaign needing to unify their respective parties following bruising primary campaigns. And Rauner and Pritzker also will compete for independent voters, with the suburbs once again expected to be a battleground as they were in 2014. Back then, Rauner narrowly defeated Quinn.
To some extent, Rauner's task is the more daunting. It's difficult for a Republican to win statewide in Democrat-leaning Illinois, and this fall is a midterm election in which Trump remains deeply unpopular here. In 2014, Rauner spent $65.3 million and defeated Quinn by just 4 percentage points.
On Wednesday, Rauner traveled to Ives' home turf for a campaign event at a manufacturing plant on the outskirts of DuPage and Kane counties. One plant worker said employees had been ordered to attend, and were made aware that they'd be part of campaign photos and videos.
The governor angered conservative voters with his approval of bills to expand abortion, immigration and transgender rights. He said the message he received from the contentious primary was that "there are many issues that are very emotional and, frankly, very divisive.
Ives appeared Wednesday on the WIND-AM 560 radio show of her chief political ally, Dan Proft, but indicated no desire to heal any wounds.
Rauner's battle with the right may not have ended on Tuesday night. State Sen. Sam McCann, a Republican from Plainview in west central Illinois, is considering an independent bid. McCann opted not to seek re-election to the Senate.
General elections usually are a referendum on the governor. That's where Rauner will have work to do after nearly four years in office marked by ideological strife — and a record-setting budget impasse — in battling Democrats who control the state legislature.
But Rauner is trying to shift the contest from a referendum on his leadership to the leadership of Democratic House Speaker Michael Madigan, the Southwest Side lawmaker who has run the chamber for 35 of the past 37 years and also heads the state Democratic Party.
"I am the one person who can beat J.B. Pritzker and Madigan, and I will beat J.B. Pritzker and Madigan," the Republican governor said during a campaign stop last week.
Throughout the primary campaign, Rauner sought to damage Pritzker through ads linking him to imprisoned former Gov. Rod Blagojevich and Madigan. The Chicago Tribune reported that in November 2008, Pritzker was caught on federal wiretaps asking Blagojevich to appoint him state treasurer and strategizing with the soon-to-be-arrested governor on who to appoint to President-elect Barack Obama's U.S. Senate seat. Pritzker used blunt terms.
Pritzker also sought to defend offshore holdings as part of his long-standing philanthropy despite allegations from his opponents that he was using them to try to avoid taxes. And he was attacked for disconnecting toilets at a Gold Coast mansion to gain a reduction in his property assessment.
Pritzker said Rauner's lengthy budget impasse shred a variety of social service safety net programs. The Democrat also has called out Rauner for "fatal mismanagement" over the Legionnaires' disease-related deaths at a state veterans home in Quincy.
"That is what failure looks like. And when a governor fails, real people get hurt. When a governor fails, real people feel pain. When a governor fails, those who can least afford it so often pay the price," Pritzker said after greeting Red Line commuters on the South Side.
The ultimate battle will be fought as a cash war. It's questionable whether the race will top the nation's most expensive governor's race, the 2010 California contest that saw former Gov. Jerry Brown defeat former Hewlett Packard CEO Meg Whitman. About $280 million was spent.
But the spending in Illinois already has been significant.
In December 2016, Rauner, a private equity investor, put $50 million into his early re-election campaign as "seed money" with promises of more to come. That brings Rauner's self-funding to $95 million. Then in May 2017, billionaire Citadel hedge fund founder and CEO Ken Griffin added another $20 million to the Republican governor's campaign. It is believed to be the largest single outside donation directly to a political candidate.
Pritzker, whose worth is estimated at $3.5 billion by Forbes, also has used his deep pockets, putting $69.5 million into his primary campaign — an Illinois record for self-funding by a candidate.


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Zane's Discovery
Illustrated by Linda Rigsbee
Zane studied the cave entrance with a longing that only an eight-year-old boy could understand. His parents had forbidden him to enter. According to Pa, there could be a mountain lion or a bear in there. Ma countered that humans were destroying the ecosystem inside caves. Both agreed that he could get lost there.
If there were mountain lions and bears inside the cave, it only made sense that they could be outside them as well. He'd been wandering these woods for over a year, ever since they moved here from Fayetteville, but he'd never seen either – not even a footprint. Pa was just scaring him so he wouldn't go inside. Ma was always complaining about how mankind was destroying the Earth. She was all for protecting the poor animals. Pa said people were animals too. He told Ma that we should be more concerned about people than animals, since we were humans.
How could two people who loved each other disagree on so many things? If he ever took a wife when he grew up, he was going to marry someone who agreed with him.
He crept closer to the mouth of the cave and listened. Sometimes he could hear noises, like squeaking. When he told Pa, he said it was probably bats. When he told Pa that he'd never seen any bats, he said they come out at night to feed. During daylight hours they slept, hanging from the ceiling by their feet. Sometime, he'd like to crawl in there and see. He'd hung upside down before, but how could anything sleep like that? He tried it, hanging his upper torso over the side of the bed, but even with the lights out, he couldn't sleep.
He hesitated at the mouth of the cave. No one would know if he slipped inside for a few minutes. He wouldn't go far. He remembered Ma's word definition of the day this morning. Integrity: doing the right thing even though no one was looking. Was it actually wrong to go inside the cave? If he didn't go far, he wouldn't get lost. That was why they didn't want him inside, wasn't it?
He crouched and started to enter. As his head entered the opening, he paused again. He had promised Ma and Pa that he wouldn't go in the cave. Ma said that if he didn't follow the rules, he couldn't go exploring. He pulled back. Integrity. That was important to Ma. It didn't matter whether she discovered it or not. He would know he betrayed her trust.
He stood, feeling better as he moved away from the cave. Ma and Pa would never know he was tempted. He could have gone in, and no one would have known; but he didn't go in. He wasn't sure why that was more satisfying than exploring that cave, but it was.
He smiled as he turned back toward the house. It was close to lunch time and he was getting hungry. He jogged past the tiny furry form before it registered. He stopped and turned back to the animal. At first, he thought it was a mouse, but it didn't look like a mouse. It was a light brown color, but it had huge ears. It's dark brown legs were up behind it's ears. He leaned over it and noticed the wings. It wasn't a mouse. It was a bat!
He reached down to touch it and stopped. Another rule. Don't touch wounded or dead animals. He was supposed to report it to Ma. Was it alive? He glanced around and found a stick. He used the stick to gently nudge the bat. It moved, making a hissing sound as its tiny mouth gaped open. It had sharp teeth!
He dropped the stick and turned back toward the house. He ran as fast as he could until he got to the house. The screen door screeched as he opened it and slammed shut as he dashed into the house.
"Ma?"
"In here," Ma called from the kitchen, "and how many times have I told you not to let that screen door slam? I have a cake in the oven.
He heard the mixer motor as he ran to the kitchen. "I found a bat! It's alive, but I think it is hurt."
Ma looked up from the icing she was making. "Did you touch it?"
"No…not with my hands. I used a stick to push it and see if it was still alive."
She slowed the mixer as she pulled it out of the bowl. She frowned at him. "Were you in the cave?"
Ah, he could tell the truth. "No. I looked at it, but I remembered your word of the day."
Ma smiled. "I didn't think you understood."
"What are we going to do about the bat? We can't just leave it there, can we?"
"No. The cake is almost done. Let me put this icing in the refrigerator and we'll find a box to put the bat in."
When they returned to the place where he found the bat, it was still there. Mom had put a clean towel in the box and brought an oven mitt to pick up the bat. She put it in the box and they carried it back to the house. She put a little water in the lid of a milk jug and placed it in the box. Then she punched little holes in the box so the bat could breathe. After that, she threw the mitt in the washer and washed her hands.
"Now we need to call and find out where we can take it for treatment."
"Can we keep it?"
"No. We're not trained to take care of wildlife. Let's go look on the internet and find the number to call."
Ma made several calls before she finally found the right person to contact. She described the bat to a woman and she said it was an Ozark Big-Eared Bat. It was on an endangered species list. The woman would come pick up the bat. She wanted to see the place where they found it.
While they were waiting, they looked up some information about the bat. Ma pulled up a site and started reading.
"It says they grow to be four inches long and have one-inch ears." She looked at Zane. "My, what big ears you have. All the better to hear you with."
Zane laughed and she read more. "Oh my! The wing span is twelve to thirteen inches! And it has mitten shaped facial glands on either side of its nose."
Zane laughed again. "Is that why you used a mitten to pick it up?"
She read where they have one "pup" in May or June. Bats were mammals…who knew? They nursed their babies and the baby was old enough live on its own when it was only two months old.
All that was interesting enough but when she got to the part about what it ate, Zane was amazed. A bat could eat six to twelve hundred mosquitoes or other insects in one night – up to 4,500 if it was a mother nursing babies. They ate grasshoppers, cucumber beetles, corn earworm moths and all kinds of insects.
Ma stopped reading and stared at the screen. "You see. This is what I mean. The reason they are on the endangered species list is because of humans invading caves.
Zane leaned over her shoulder and looked at the picture on the page. If it could eat that many mosquitoes in a night and ate all those insects that destroyed their garden, they needed to have more of them around, not less. When the lady arrived to pick up the bat, they took her to the place where Zane found the bat.
She looked up into each tree and finally pointed. "Right there – a bird's nest. It probably came too close and the bird attacked it." She looked around at the trees and the bluffs. "This is an ideal habitat for it – lots of hardwoods, especially hickory and maple. There must be a cave nearby."
"I'll show it to you," Zane said, and lead her to the cave. "Do you want to go in?"
She smiled. "No, and I hope you don't go in there."
He shook his head. "No. Ma says to never go into a cave, because you might destroy their ecosystem."
She gave Ma a satisfied smile. "That's correct."
"Have you ever been in a cave?" Zane asked her.
She nodded. "Yes, before I learned more about animals." She looked at Zane. "God gave us dominion over the animals, and with that came responsibility."
When Pa came home, they told him all about their discovery. At first, he wanted to destroy the colony because they could carry rabies. Ma told him that they could, but usually didn't. She told him what the woman had said about bats.
He thought about the part where man was given dominion. "I suppose that's right. I never thought about it that way." He looked at Zane. "I think it would be a good idea to block off that cave so no one goes into it. Why use insecticide on the garden when we have our own little bat colony?"
Of course, Ma had been the one who insisted on no insecticide on the garden. She said if you were going to do that, you might as well go to the store and buy food. Pa had been the one who argued that she should use insecticide so she would get more out of the garden.
Pa looked at Zane. "It's important to think about our fellow humans, and even consider our species first, but your mother is right. Taking care of animals is our responsibility, and humans benefit from it too."
Zane glanced at Ma. He expected her to say that we shouldn't just take care of the animals because it benefited humans, but she just smiled at Pa. Maybe it didn't matter why we took care of the Earth – just as long as we did it.


Did you know Descanse en Paz uses the imperative form and therefore is a command to the deceased that they not wander about lost in the afterlife but "Rest in Peace"; whereas Descansa en Paz is simply a commentary that the soul of the deceased is at rest, as in the dearly departed "rests in peace"?
The Monday before Revolution Day, my husband's brother J was found alongside the road unconscious. Someone who knew who he was contacted his sister T who has the tortilleria in town. She had their brother B and their dad go and pick J up and take him to the hospital. Later, he was released into his wife's care. She brought him out to La Yacata saying she could not take care of him. I suppose she panicked thinking that she'd have to care for an invalid husband the rest of his life. She couldn't have known that the rest of his life was just a few days.
We didn't know J was up the road at his dad's until Wednesday. I don't know what the big secret was, but my husband's family is weird sometimes. His 70-year-old father was doing the best that he could, but J was rigid and unresponsive. He was conscious and could open his eyes, but that's about it.
On Thursday, his sister T came to see him. One look and she called the ambulance, which took its own sweet time getting out here. The police came along, like viejas chismosas, (busybodies) to see if a crime had been committed. There hadn't been. (We haven't had any positive experiences with the police). My husband was out with the goats when the vehicles pulled up so didn't see them. I had just gotten out of the shower, so threw on some clothes and hurried out to take command of the machete and animals so my husband could go up the hill.
They loaded J up and took him to the hospital, which refused him. He was taken to the community clinic where he was reluctantly accepted and allowed to stay overnight. The doctor explained there was nothing that could be done. J was suffering from multiple organ failure from chronic alcoholism. The clinic didn't want him to die on the premises, too much paperwork and bad for their statistics, so the next morning the ambulance brought him back to La Yacata.
J died early Sunday morning. Suddenly there was a flurry of activity. The death certificate needed to be obtained in order for any of the funeral type activities to be completed. His dad and sister L went to the hospital to see about that while his sister P and I stayed with the body. The hospital didn't want to issue a death certificate. He hadn't died there after all. So L knew a doctor who would come and declare J dead and fill out the certificate for the right price.
Meanwhile, the funeral home was contacted and P and I were instructed to dress the body for burial. J didn't have any clean clothes. I dug around my husband's and son's wardrobes and found something that I thought J would approve of. He was always a snappy dresser when he was sober. However, I didn't think we should dress the body until the coroner arrived. Furthermore, isn't that what the funeral home was for?
While we were debating the pros and cons of dressing the body, L called again to say don't dress the body until the coroner arrived. Well, good then. So we waited. It was nearly noon when the funeral SUV arrived. They had gotten lost on the way over. Fortunately, they had come across my son with the goats and he directed them to us.
We asked the funeral people if we should dress the body. L called and said the coroner wasn't coming so to go ahead and do it. Then my husband called and said he was with the coroner and they were on their way. Then L called and told me to call my husband and tell him not to bring the coroner. Whatever.
The funeral people, having experience with hysterical families, took over and began dressing the body. Unfortunately, they couldn't see very well. J was in an interior room lit only by candles. Remember, there's no electricity in La Yacata. I hustled down to our house to get our solar lights and sent my son back up with them (he's faster).
A few minutes later, the coroner arrived. He had such a bad case of the DTs that when he checked for J's pulse, his hand shook so much that my husband thought it was J's hand shaking even in death. My son and I lit the way for the vital confirmation and it became official, J was dead. Then we held the lights while the funeral home finished dressing J and placed him in the coffin.
My husband's brother B showed up with the sabana santa (the holy sheet) that was placed over J in the coffin. I was wondering about this part–their mother was dressed as a Saint for burial but I didn't think men wore dresses to be interred, this is Mexico after all. So my doubts were laid to rest with the arrival of the holy sheet.
J, now in his coffin and tucked in his holy sheet, was taken to L's house where the wake and novena would take place. I offered our home, as J had always been welcome there, but apparently, L had decided the location several days earlier.
I had to work, so did not accompany the body to its new location. The funeral home went and set up the tent and chairs for the mourners and the mourning commenced. Typically, the viewing and wake last all night with friends and family dropping in to pay their last respects and sit with the body. The immediate family is there throughout the night to receive visitors. As our presence was deemed unnecessary, my son and I went home to get some sleep.
At about midnight, I was awakened by some banging. I thought maybe one of the sheep had gotten stuck under the feeding trough because there was some borrega carrying on too. I wound up my cranky lantern and went out on Joey's roof to check things out. Only I couldn't see anything amiss even though the banging continued. It suddenly stopped and I went back inside.
The next morning we discovered that the front gate was bent like someone had taken a crowbar to try and force it off of its hinges. The back door was also damaged like someone had been hitting it to break the lock. AHH! That explains the banging.
Fortunately, we have fiberglass instead of glass on the back door window and it wasn't as easy to break as the would-be intruder had hoped. I believe they (there had to be at least two with all that banging going on) knew that everyone was at the wake and thus our home would be easy pickings. They didn't count on the gringa (me) wimping out on the all-night vigil and being home. Desgraciados!
J was not embalmed and therefore needed to be buried immediately. L went to the church in town to make arrangements, only funeral mass couldn't be held during the day because of the Revolution Day parade. So services were held in the late afternoon. I don't know why the mass had to be done at that particular church. Any one of the smaller churches would have been fine. It's not like J was a well-known member of the community like Maestro Rene, whose funeral service overflowed the church and town plaza with mourners. The cavernous building just emphasized how few mourners there were.
From the church, the procession moved to the panteon (cemetery). J's sister T bought a boveda (crypt) for his remains to be laid. Interestingly enough, had his mother been dead 6 years instead of 5, he could have been interred in the same boveda (crypt). As it was, he got his own slot.
The novena continued for its nine days, but because it was scheduled the same time I worked, I did not attend. Furthermore, I don't believe J would have wanted a novena. When he arrived in Moroleon right before his mother's death, he was sober and born again. All the pomp and circumstance of the Mexican Catholic funeral proceedings made him decidedly uncomfortable, but as the only non-Catholic among the siblings, his wishes were overruled. Well, I guess you don't care much once you're dead anyway. Carry on.
Then there were the expenses to be divvied up. T paid for the crypt, the mass, and the holy sheet. She is the oldest after all. The funeral, including casket, taxi service for the deceased, tent and chair rental, all came to $10,000 pesos. I assume this was the economy package because it in no way compared to the lavish hooplah my mother-in-law enjoyed upon her death (but of course all of that was paid for by the presidencia (town hall) to avoid a lawsuit.) That expense was covered by the relatives still in the US.
For our contribution, my husband wanted to tile the front of the crypt and put up a plaque but he needed to get a permit in order to do that. So we went to the main cemetery in town to ask about that. He was told that he needed the proof of purchase, which we didn't have. So we went to see T and to find out who had that. Apparently, L had it. As L would not give the receipt to my husband, we asked T if she would strong-arm L into getting it so that my husband could get a permit to tile the front of the crypt. Nothing doing. There was some hysterical screaming. L was going to adorn the tomb as she saw fit. Whatever. I suppose J doesn't much care anymore anyway.
J leaves behind a wife and 3-year-old son. His father, grandmother Mama Sofia, 4 sisters and 5 brothers survive him along with a number of nephews and nieces.
I have to say that death here is so much more up close and personal than what I'm used to. There's a lot of touching of the body and these extensive mourning rituals that still confound me. I'm not sure that it makes the grieving process any easier though. Maybe the busy-ness of it all is meant to keep the bereaved minds occupied on things other than loss. Maybe these traditions are a form of self-comfort.
All I know is that regardless of the goings on, we miss the gentle humble soul that was J and I, for one, believe that he finally descansa en paz (rests in peace).
Your story made me feel sad. What a gift that you get to be part of such an experience. I can't believe the robos took advantage of a funeral to attempt a break in. Feliz Navidad.
Thank you Debra. I do not use family members' first names in any of my posts in the interest of privacy, but I figured Juan is a pretty common name and he really wouldn't mind, just this once.
Jeezus, Mary and Joseph! Is this a true story? Even if it's fiction, along with some of your other stories, this could—should—be edited and turned into a book. I had to read it three times, so incredible it all seemed.
I sometimes fell that I have stumbled on the set of a Mexican telenovela when I was just looking for Sesame Street–so much drama!


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by jimbostudios | February 13, 2019 · 10:12 pm
WOWS Podcast Ep.42 When You're In Love With A Beautiful Podcast
Jimbo introduces a game of "Sex or Shuffle" for Valentines Day, where Fisher has to work out which phrases are the names of sex positions and which are dance moves.
Fisher tests Jimbo's knowledge of celebrities who have crashed their cars.
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Tagged as 2019, barnsley, best, car crash, comedy, crash, Cricket, dance moves, Duke of Edinburgh, fisher, funny, gay, jimbo, joe root, northern rail, podcast, prince phillip, rotherham, sex positions, sheffield, train poo, Valentines Day, wakefield
by cfishtank | March 4, 2013 · 10:47 pm
Not our Roll to pay tax…
There wasn't much feedback on yesterday's 'blog, although it got one 'like' – which made it more popular than the idea that The Queen might one day step down and allow Prince Charles to take over as King before the Queen dies (surely Prince Charles must have been licking his lips yesterday when he heard she'd gone to hospital?).
I'm a bit surprised that Prince Philip didn't get in touch with me, but apparently he was attending a ceremony for various people who had progressed to the next level of the Duke of Edinburgh Award – which I think is an award when you have to try and make as many racist comments to foreign dignitaries as possible…
Anyhow, it's time to be move on to today's 'blog, which is about Rolls Royce (and that's the engine-builder and not the car manufacturer… or the 1970's band who sang Wishing on a Star – and I'm fairly certain they were called Rose Royce anyway).
The reason Rolls Royce have come to the fore is because it has been revealed that they didn't pay any UK corporation tax last year; the only tax that they have paid would be Value Added Tax, Income Tax, National Insurance and Fuel Duty, but not Corporation Tax – the tax dodging bastards.
Having had the Government slowly reduced the rate of Corporation Tax for companies over the last few years by 1% at a time, it must been a bit depressing for the Chancellor to see Rolls Royce (the engine making firm, not the car manufacturer – even though Rolls Royce cars have engines in them) decided to further reduce the liability down to 0%.
To be fair, it's easy to criticise these large multi-national firms who avoid paying tax; but let's be honest we're hardly rushing to pay as much tax as possible are we? Although that said, I am advised that the WOWS 'blog's three readers are Gary Barlow, Harry Redknapp and Jimmy Carr…
I'm only joking.
The WOWS 'blog isn't popular enough to be read by three people…
In any event, Rolls Royce are far from being alone when it comes to a large multi-national companies not paying Corporation Tax in the UK. It has been alleged that Vodafone have avoided paying tax – although they claimed that they tried to pay it over the phone, but they kept loosing signal.
Also, the investment bank Goldmans are alleged to have avoided paying tax… although the shouldn't have done that and this result in their Finance Director been given the Sach… another company to have avoided paying Corporation Tax in the last 3 years was Starbucks, despite UK sales of around £400m in 2011… quite frankly, this is ridiculous… they need to wake up and smell the coffee…
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She's caught the bug…
There wasn't much feedback on yesterday's 'blog, there were no 'likes' which made the 'blog about as popular as Andrew Murray at a St George's Day parade (presuming that he's just crashed out of another major tournament at the semi-final stage).
I was a bit surprised that George W Bush didn't get in touch with me, although I'm reliably informed that he spent part of this morning finding his crayons in order to write to me; although he accidentally got one of the crayons stuck in his ear and that spelled the end of the letter – and led to a waxy build up in his ear…
Anyhow, it's time to move onto today's 'blog. I was in Central London yesterday and I walked along The Mall (which was quite disappointing for a mall, as there were no shops) to Buckingham Palace (although they didn't have all the flags and stuff out waving for me like they did when it was the Diamond Jubilee). I came within a few hundred yards of The Queen and now she's in hospital – that said, I've never been very good with women…
The Queen has been diagnosed with gastroenteritis – which I think is basically a stomach bug, but scores substantially more points in a game of scrabble.
But nonetheless, she's in hospital for (hopefully) only a few days, so this has put all radio stations in Australia on red alert and they're hopeful that there won't be a repeat performance of last year's prank calls.
Likewise, the hospital has changed their rota to ensure that there are no Filipino nurses scheduled to work whilst Prince Philip is due to visit – he has commented that this will be difficult as there's so many of them (the same probably applies to any Indian doctors, and indeed anyone with any form of feature that gives Duke of Edinburgh the chance to make a gaffe).
The world's media have obviously been quick to form a scrum and there's a small police presence… that was according to the BBC's correspondent Ben Ando… his sister Fern couldn't make it though… as she was busy playing host to the contestants on Take Me Out…
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On the 26th of June, St Georges school pupils took part in their annual Sports Day. Three teams – Chaffeymore, Sandways and Queen Oak – all took part in the event. The children are placed into a team as soon as they join the school. Champions Chaffeymore were hoping to get their sixth win on the bounce after many years of dominating the competition. Rivals Sandways and Qeen Oak wanted to break their long run. It started with Gold base doing their traditional obstacle course which Chaffeymore won. One of the funniest races was when Silver Base had to crawl along the track.
On Monday the 26th of June our school had its annual sports day competition with the winning team being Sandways while Chaffeymore came second and Queen Oak came in third.
Every year the Year 6's create an obstacle course for the opening Sport's Day race. This year we had to throw a bean bag in the cauldron, dribble a ball through a metal marker with a hockey stick , crawl under the parachute, run over Jacob's ladder, finally jump over or crawl under the huddles.
In the first sprint from Rainbow Base, Sonny from sandways won the race giving Sandways a start in the lead. The first sprint from Blue Base was Lucas. In Silver Base their last race was won by Joe. In Gold Base the first race was won by Harriet .
They didn't use anything that was growing.
First Gold Base cut their bottles in half.
Then they all went on a walk in the grounds to fill up both bottle halves with natural items.
This is two of the children collecting nature.
Next they emptied their bottles onto their table and collected what they needed from the table.
After that bamboo and long sticks where sawed into reasonable lengths.
Then they filled the bottles with layers of thing that they had collected.
After they had finished some of Gold Base wrapped string around their bottle to hang them up.
First we collected: a cup, a trowl, a piece of card and a out of date banana (at least it looked out of date).
We walked around the school grounds to find a sutible place for our trap. Then we dug a hole the same depth as the cup and placed the cup in it. Then we filled in any space around the cup with soil so bugs could get in.
Next we put in a small slice of banana to lure the bugs in and catch any who got in from getting hungry.
Then we found a short stick and used it to prop up the piece of card, this would stop any rain from getting in but still let in the bugs.


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London On A Budget? Oh Yes!
Noisy, vibrant and truly multicultural, London is a megalopolis of people, ideas and frenetic energy but also has a strong held reputation of being the most expensive cities in the world. Though it's true that house prices push the cost of living beyond what some people might afford, it's surprisingly easy to have a vacation in the UK capital if you have a tight budget. Here's how to do London on a budget without comprising much on style.
It's not necessary to hire a private car when you come to London, in fact, it's more troublesome than it's worth with congested streets and expensive parking. Trains offer better value than taxis when it comes to airport transfers, but it's better to book in advance to save money. Weekdays, instead of taking the Heathrow Express, opt for the cheaper TFL Rail service (formerly Heathrow Connect) which takes only fifteen minutes more to London Paddington for less than half the price. Cheaper still, get yourself with an Oyster card, available from Tube stations, and enjoy discounted travel on the London Underground, Overground and bus services. It also covers you for the Thames Clipper services, which link Westminster to Docklands and pass some of the best sights in the city. Booking multiple days on the hop-on, hop-off sightseeing buses brings the per day cost down. For the best sightseeing tour of all, board a heritage Routemaster at the Tower of London. The #15 route passes St Paul's Cathedral and The Strand on the way to Trafalgar Square and only costs £1.50, the same as a regular bus ticket.
You don't have to pay The Shard's hefty ticket price to get a bird's eye view of London's iconic skyline. Sky Garden in the city offers free slots on a first come, first served basis on week days, but do make sure you reach early, as it tends to get crowded. If you miss out, have a drink in its bar instead; the view's still free though you'll pay for your tab. Too dear? Take the Tube to Hampstead. From a park bench on the Heath you'll enjoy one of the best panoramas of the capital. South of the river, climb up to the Greenwich Observatory - the view across the Thames is equally captivating and it's closer to central London's sights to boot. Budget travelers should also walk along the banks of the Thames. Many of the city's most famous sights line the river, from the Tower of London to Big Ben and the Houses of Parliament. Consider a guided tour with companies such as Free Tours by Foot; these "pay what you like" walks cost next to nothing but offer a fascinating insight into London's rich history. Themed walks focus on a wide range of topics, including street art, food, music and even Jack the Ripper's grisly murders.
Walking's all well and good but what if you were told that some of the capital's best museums are also free? Clustered together in South Kensington, the Science Museum, Natural History Museum and V&A are all located in close proximity to each other. All cost nothing to enter, though donations are welcome and some exhibitions carry an additional cost. That's not all; visits to the Museum of London, British Museum and National Maritime Museum are among the many other London museums that don't charge for entry. Too mainstream? How about Napoleon's toothbrush in the Wellcome Collection or a jar stuffed with eighteen pickled moles at the Grant Museum of Zoology? If art's your passion, you'll be pleased to learn that Tate Britain, Tate Modern, the National Portrait Gallery and the National Gallery operate the same inclusive policy. And don't think you have to miss out on some of London's quintessential experiences. Catch the Changing of the Guard outside Buckingham Palace, or marvel at the grandeur of St Paul's Cathedral during one of its scheduled services. Entertainment can also be had at a discount. Head to the TKTS booth in Leicester Square where you'll find same day tickets to some of London's top shows. Or time your visit to coincide with colorful festivals like Chinese New Year or the Notting Hill Carnival – they're free.
Accommodation in a big city is potentially a stumbling block and it's true you can spend hundreds of pounds a night on a hotel room. The good news is that you don't have to. It's possible to snag a double at a centrally-located, mid-range hotel for around £35-40 in low season. Don't be put off - London's winters are rarely harsh and without the crowds, traveling off peak can be a delight.
Booking last minute? Try finding a room further out. So long as it's near a Tube station you won't feel cut off. East London typically has the best bargains. YHA Earl's Court is another popular option. Dorm beds start from just £18 while a private room can be yours from £50-55. In summer, add another dimension to your trip and camp. Many of London's suburbs have leafy and surprisingly well connected sites; try the Lee Valley, Debden or Crystal Palace for starters. If you prefer to stay indoors, homestays are popular year round and can cost as little as £20 a night; many hosts live within a few miles of central London's sites. Sign up for Couchsurfing and you can even get a bed for free.
Eating well doesn't have to involve Michelin-star dining. London's a cosmopolitan city and those who've come to live here bring with them their own food. Brick Lane offers some of the best curries in the country, while Mexican street food chain Wahaca offers a seasonal menu which won't break the bank.
Many of London's markets offer free tasters and many have restaurants and cafés right by the stalls. Borough Market grabs all the headlines, but for a more authentic London foodie experience, head east to the Roman Road. The market's open Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays but eateries like Rinkoff's Bakery, founded by a Ukrainian Jew in 1911, are open every day. Typically East End dishes like jellied eels are cheap and filling, while those seeking to try traditional pie, mash and liquor will have to wait until G. Kelly's, established in 1939, reopens this winter after its refurb.
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The People and the Word
Reading Native Nonfiction
Reveals the history and impact of Native American nonfiction writing
The People and the Word explores how the Native tradition of nonfiction has both encompassed and dissected Native experiences. Robert Warrior traces a history of American Indian nonfiction writing, including Pequot intellectual William Apess's autobiographical works; the Osage Constitution of 1881; accounts of boarding school in the late 1880s; and modern Kiowa writer N. Scott Momaday's essay "The Man Made of Words."
A tremendously exciting and long-overdue project in the intellectual development centered around American Indian studies.
K. Tsianina Lomawaima, coauthor of Uneven Ground: American Indian Sovereignty and Federal Law
Cultural Criticism, American Studies, Literature
Much literary scholarship has been devoted to the flowering of Native American fiction and poetry in the mid-twentieth century. Yet, Robert Warrior argues, nonfiction has been the primary form used by American Indians in developing a relationship with the written word, one that reaches back much further in Native history and culture.
Focusing on autobiographical writings and critical essays, as well as communally authored and political documents, The People and the Word explores how the Native tradition of nonfiction has both encompassed and dissected Native experiences. Warrior begins by tracing a history of American Indian writing from the eighteenth century to the late twentieth century, then considers four particular moments: Pequot intellectual William Apess's autobiographical writings from the 1820s and 1830s; the Osage Constitution of 1881; narratives from American Indian student experiences, including accounts of boarding school in the late 1880s; and modern Kiowa writer N. Scott Momaday's essay "The Man Made of Words," penned during the politically charged 1970s. Warrior's discussion of Apess's work looks unflinchingly at his unconventional life and death; he recognizes resistance to assimilation in the products of the student print shop at the Santee Normal Training School; and in the Osage Constitution, as well as in Momaday's writing, Warrior sees reflections of their turbulent times as well as guidance for our own.
Taking a cue from Momaday's essay, which gives voice to an imaginary female ancestor, Ko-Sahn, Warrior applies both critical skills and literary imagination to the texts. In doing so, The People and the Word provides a rich foundation for Native intellectuals's critical work, deeply entwined with their unique experiences.
280 pages, 2 b&w photos, 1 table, 5 7/8 x 9, 2005
Series: Indigenous Americas, Volume 2
Robert Warrior is professor of English and Native American studies at the University of Oklahoma. He is author of Tribal Secrets: Recovering American Indian Intellectual Traditions (Minnesota, 1994) and coauthor, with Paul Chaat Smith, of Like a Hurricane: The Indian Movement from Alcatraz to Wounded Knee.
Warrior's careful historical recovery, insightful analysis, rythmic prose, and compassionate sensibility, forcefully solidify the significant presence of a Native nonfiction tradition firmly anchored within the real experiences of real people.
MELUS
Warrior makes a compelling case for greater critical attention to and appreciation for Native nonfiction. Recommended.
Introduction: Reading Experience in Native Nonfiction
1. Eulogy on William Apess: His Writerly Life and His New York Death
2. Democratic Vistas of the Osage Constitutional Crisis
3. The Work of Indian Pupils: Narratives of Learning in Native American Literature
4. Momaday in the Movement Years: Rereading "The Man Made of Words"
Conclusion: Intellectual Trade Routes
Appendix: The 1881 Constitution of the Osage Nation
The Common Pot The Recovery of Native Space in the Northeast Illuminates the significance of writing to colonial-era Native American resistance
Tribal Secrets Recovering American Indian Intellectual Traditions "Robert Warrior writes at once to the memories of tribal survivance and the critical confidence of his generation; he ascertains intellectual histories that have been largely unconsidered in other studies of Native American Indians . . . a courageous comparative textual criticism." --Gerald Vizenor, University of California, Berkeley
Everything You Know about Indians Is Wrong Forceful and eloquent essays on the American Indian in culture and history
The Networked Wilderness Communicating in Early New England Significantly broadens our ideas of literacy, writing, and communication in early America
Firsting and Lasting Writing Indians out of Existence in New England Tracing the origins of the persistent myth of the vanishing Indian
The Way of Kinship An Anthology of Native Siberian Literature Prose, poetry, and drama from Siberia—the first anthology of its kind in English


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Applied research and development is a key feature at Ruhr West. Insights from the university's applied research projects are used in the classroom to ensure a hands-on learning experience.
Researchers at Ruhr West's seven institutes often collaborate with colleagues from other institutes. Moreover, the university's innovative matrix-assisted faculty structure facilitates interdisciplinary cooperation.
One important goal of all research and development activities at Ruhr West is knowledge transfer, first and foremost to the region and the local environments of Mülheim a.d. Ruhr and Bottrop. Implementing research findings in practice in collaboration with local businesses is a top priority. In addition to its industry collaborations, Ruhr West also has connections to many scientific partners. The research projects themselves are integrated into national and international consortia.
The Office of Research & Transfer will be happy to assist you with finding solutions and support for your business and will put you in touch with suitable contacts at the university. Please don't hesitate to contact us!
The Office of Research & Transfer is there to coordinate the research activities at Ruhr West, providing scientists with advice and information about research opportunities. Moreover, support is available to help researchers budget and implement externally funded research projects.
Furthermore, the office is responsible for supporting junior scientists, utilising and marketing research outcomes, and transferring knowledge to stakeholders in the business community, society and the general public.
When it comes to inventions and patents, as well as the professional handling of innovations coming out of the university, Ruhr West is supported by PROvendis, the major organisation for patent protection and commercialisation in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia.


The mother-daughter duo dressed up as Marilyn Monroe and spent countless hours putting together props for the Woman's Club "At the Movies" Fashion Show. Photo PROVIDED BY Lyne Hall.
Lyne and Alise used crushed cardboard, expandable spray foam, pool noodles and plastic drinking cups to created this mermaid grotto for the Woman's Club Mermaid Festival.
Lyne says her husband Mike is a great support in her business and sometimes helps her with executing her creative and sometimes crazy work. The couple is pictured here at the Yacht Club's Toga party.
Canyon Lake resident Lyne Hall is anything but boring, her free spirited personality draws you in and makes you want to find out what she is all about. Lyne is a woman who lives and loves life to the fullest.
Lyne and her daughter, Alise Lawrence, are partners in a design and planning business called Royal Bash. Lyne has over twenty five years of experience with social and corporate events. Royal Bash provides its clients with their initial creation of themes unique to them and their needs, and specializes in party styling and printable to go with it.
Lyne has a degree in Fine Arts and Alise is a chef who works at South Coast Winery, which allows her to create themed gourmet catering, candy buffets and dessert stations. With this duo and their background, you are guaranteed a professional and fun event.
Lyne could have invented Pintrest. She and her daughter can design just about anything you can imagine. For the Woman's Club Mermaid Festive, Lyne and Alise used recycled materials to create an impressive mermaid grotto.
Lyne and Alise were co-chairs of the Woman's Club Fashion Show this year. The Fashion Show's theme was "At The Movies," a theme both women love. The mother-daughter duo dressed up as Marilyn Monroe and spent countless hours putting together props for the production. The club is very thankful to have these two talented women as part of its team.
Lyne says that her big appeal to working in her industry is that it's very creative. "We don't do boring. Our specialty is creating an event for someone that is as unique as they are." If you ever attended one of Lyne's events, you would agree with her statement. She knows how to turn dreams into reality. She can make any event a very special and memorable one. Lyne and Alise love their work and put a lot of effort into their creations.
Lyne says that she loves working corporate events and weddings. Her most memorable experiences were creating her daughter's Hawaiian themed wedding and her step-daughter's vintage garden themed wedding. "These events were close to my heart," she says. .
Lyne has a second business called Creative Communications, its a marketing, production and consulting company. The two businesses really compliment each other and often crossover.
Lyne has a heart for serving her community. She's served three consecutive years as a board member in the Canyon Lake Woman's Club; two years as the Ways and Means Chairperson and one year as the Publicity Chairperson. She's also a member of the Travel Club, Yacht Club and Fiesta Day Committee. This year she served as the Fiesta Day Parade Director and plans to do it again next year. Lyne says Fiesta Day is one of her favorite community events. A self-proclaimed cat fanatic, Lyne also manages to find time to volunteer at the Menifee Valley Human society.
Alise and her husband are Canyon Lake residents. Lyne is originally from England, she was born in Salford, Manchester and moved to the U.S. when she was 22 years old. She moved to Canyon Lake five years ago. "I wanted to live near a lake and found that here, with a touch of paradise," she says. Her husband Mike is a great support in her business and sometimes helps her with executing her creative and sometimes crazy work.
Together, Lyne and Mike have six children and two grandchildren. Lyne enjoys having her family living close by and often has family gatherings at her home. "Life is never dull at the Hall house," she says. The family enjoys boating, playing together in their pool, dining out, going to the movies and playing cards and trivia games. Most of all, they love entertaining in their home.
For more information about Royal Bash, contact Lyne at 951-244-2101 or lyne@royalbash.com. Royal Bash also is on Facebook.


Very often in political discussions, particularly within certain kinds of socialism, the superiority of the objective mode of reasoning over the subjective is proposed. By this 'objective mode of reasoning' I mean the way of speaking in which it is argued that the actual, concrete effect of someone's action counts more strongly than the intent that person had with that action or the subjective attitude that person had towards that same action. Here it is said that what counts is the 'objective' effect, not the 'subjective' aspects of it. The argument in defense of this particular way of reasoning is usually that it is the objective effect that actually exists in the external world, and that has causative power, rather than the subjective intentionality of the actor, which has only relevance for himself.
This issue often appears, for example, when it comes to questions of Party loyalty, and was for this reason often used by the orthodox Comintern parties and their leaders to ensure discipline among Party members in undertaking unpopular directives, or instructions considered to be contrary or even treasonous to the ideology that drew those people to such Parties in the first place. This went in particular during the period of Stalin's government in the USSR, when many a Party Communist was appalled by instructions such as those aimed at combating social-democracy more than fascism, or, and I have personal experience with people burdened by this historical event, the forced repatriation of Communists who had fled the Hitler-governed Germany; in this latter case Communists were instructed not to subvert foreign governments' efforts in sending these people back to Germany (and almost certain death or horror), because the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, guaranteeing the safety of the USSR, might be endangered by anti-German activities. The idea here was that although such directives might not subjectively have appeared becoming of a Communist Party, it was nonetheless necessary because the 'objective' effects of such actions were positive to the cause of Communism (which was then identified entirely with the USSR, but that is another issue which I will not go into here).
Nonetheless, the 'objective' mode of reasoning is seriously flawed. In particular, it suffers from an extreme vulnerability to reductio ad absurdum. Indeed, one may argue that at certain times it is more important what the objective effect of an action is for the actor than his subjective will or experience of it – all organized political activity depends on this, as otherwise every movement or party would split into as many parts as there are members, when nobody would be willing to pay heed to the effects of their actions, and only be concerned with their individual ideas of what should be done. Not even the most liberal party can operate on this basis – in fact, not even the anarchists, fierce opponents of all authority, allowed it when push came to shove in the past. But the risk lies on the other end. Say, one believes that capitalism suffers from inherent flaws, that will appear the more capitalism develops, so that the fullest development of capitalism will cause it to "create its own gravediggers" and lead to its overthrow, and that such overthrow is desirable. Under those conditions, a partisan of the 'objective' mode of reasoning could argue that any attempt whatever to impede capitalism only slows its development, and thereby the inevitable eventual overthrow of the system. Indeed, it would then be, 'objectively' necessary for Communists to support capitalism as much as possible in its development, because otherwise it would take longer for it to disappear! This might well be what Marx had in mind when he argued in his Speech on Free Trade that although workers have no particular benefit by either protectionism or free trade in Britain, free trade develops capitalist contradictions more fully, and thereby helps communism. But what an ultra-Trotskyist position this 'objectively' leads to, one that not even most Trotskyists would endorse! A similar result appears when one argues from a Third Worldist perspective that the overwhelming majority of First Worlders are parasites living at the expense of the Third World, and that this imperialist relation is the primary contradiction (as the Maoist terminology has it) of the world today. Under such circumstances, it can be said that it is incumbent on a Third Worldist living in the West to cause as much destruction and misery as possible in his environment, because regardless of what subjectively he may think of this, this would 'objectively' weaken the First World (if ever so little) and make the parasites less comfortable on their stolen thrones. In fact, one might even from this perspective argue 'objectively' for suicide of First Worlders who understand such contradictions, as this will also make the First World weaker and eliminate parasites.
Of course these examples may appear far-fetched or unfairly neglecting alternatives, but this kind of Modest Proposal-like 'logic' is precisely that which can be applied to any kind of situation, as long as one is willing to carry the 'objective' mode of reasoning to its extreme. We must recognize therefore, if we are not to be self-destructive in the extreme, that the scale of objectivity versus subjective experience is a sliding scale, where even if the truth is not necessarily found in the middle, then certainly at least some moderation must be sought rather than to seek certainty on either end. A lot of the infighting and internal strife between various Communist factions and sects, one would almost say denominations, of the past century has been the result of inability of the participants to see this particular phenomenon as a tension inherent in their reasoning, something which goes in particular for the various Leninists (tending toward the 'objective' end) and the anarchists & friends (tending toward the 'subjective' end). There are countless examples of situations where different positions on the scale of 'objectivity' have clashed within the left, leading often to dramatic results: Kronstadt, Molotov-Ribbentrop, Trotsky vs. Stalin, not to mention the numerous disputes over egalitarianism on the one hand and the need to promote specialists for planning and development purposes on the other hand, and many more. Yet socialists of all sorts do not cease haughtily berating each other either for lack of ideological commitment, or lack of sober, 'objective' thinking, causing much recrimination and little advancement.
I believe it is time we recognize this sliding scale for what it is, and accept that different people can take up different positions (even at different times) as to which should have the upper hand, without this leading necessarily to giving up any rooting in reality, or any seriousness about the idealistic content of socialist thought. If we do so, we will better be able to stick to factual and theoretical matters in discussions about policy and positions, rather than having to resort to arguing who is a 'true' committed Communist and who isn't, based on differences on this normative scale.


Though the Keep Moving Forward Challenge reached the finish line, my journey continues. I've learned that even the tiniest of movements matter, and that moving forward isn't always dependent on physical movement. I am so glad to have completed the challenge as promised and hope that you found it helpful, motivating, and/or inspirational as well.
I'll continue to post MOTIVATIONAL MONDAY and WRITING PROMPT WEDNESDAY entries each week, so "follow" the blog to make sure you know when a new entry posts!
Over the past 8 weeks, we've moved forward in many ways. Sometimes significant distances were achieved and other times the steps left only a vague imprint behind. Keep moving forward even when the rain pours down upon you or you reach a proverbial fork in the road.
As you journey on, here are a few reminders to carry with you.
KEEP MOVING FORWARD and know that we may not walk side by side, but we walk together!
I was sick earlier this week, but I pushed through and was able to continue exercising every day, and work almost 10 hours each day. Take that, common cold!