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Slipping out of her corporate job 30 minutes early, Mona meets two friends outside of a graffitied door in Brooklyn. They aren't there for happy hour, they're there to be treated with kambo, the poisonous venom of a green frog native to the Amazon basin.
"I told my boss I was going to the doctor," said Mona. "I wasn't lying."
Traditionally used by peoples across Central and South America in spiritual and healing ceremonies, kambo, or sapo, is now readily available in Brooklyn as a body cleanse ritual.
Pasqualo is the medicine man holding this Tuesday night ceremony. He hails from the Bronx but has been initiated into the Shipibo tribe of Peru. He has 20 years of experience in the world of plant medicine and has been a teacher for eight. Donning a large poncho and a beanie, and speaking in a thick New York accent, he invites partakers to sit in a semicircle and focus on their intentions for joining the ceremony. A part-time music producer and full-time healer, Pasqualo also administers ayahuasca, a psychoactive drug that some say offers the equivalent of 10 years of therapy.
If ayahuasca is hailed as the "drug of choice for the age of kale," kambo is its juice cleanse cousin. Pasqualo says he recommends ayahuasca for a spiritual journey and kambo more for the body. "I've seen kambo cure cancer, depression and other deep illness." But it doesn't cure everything. "We can't win them all; sometimes it's too far gone," he says.
I arrive late to the group. A multitude of candles add to the church-like ambience of the ceremony. Stationed in front of each partaker is a small bin for vomiting. I can hear the footsteps of a dog in the kitchen and the rumble of the F train. Pasqualo asks if there are concerns or health issues. Heads are shaken.
First, appetizers are offered. Rapé, a tobacco mixture, is blown into the nose to "decalcify the pineal gland," says Pasqualo. Then sananga eye drops, made from the Amazonian shrub Tabernaemontana, are drizzled into the eyes to "clear the vision." Mona, a graphic designer who requested a pseudonym in order to maintain her professional image, has recently had Lasik surgery and declines the sananga. She is remorse to miss it. Although last time it felt like her "eyeballs were being ripped out," she highly recommends it. "Relaxing into the pain is a part of the process," she says.
Pasqualo begins to chant, alternating between Spanish and bird whistles. We sit with our backs to him as he shakes a leaf rattle over each of our heads. First he sits behind Mona, his fingers at the base of her neck. Kambo is usually applied to the arm or the leg, but we asked to be scarred right below our hairlines. He takes a piece of wood and burns Mona twice on the neck. I hear her sharp intake of breath.
Then he is behind me. I feel two quick jabs in the back of the neck, not too different from the numerous times I've been careless with a lighter. It hurts. Pasqualo swiftly goes to the third participant in our circle. I anticipate the discomfort we've been promised. Nothing happens. Then I realize it's because he has only burned us; the venom hasn't even been applied yet.
The second time he comes around the circle, he rubs the kambo resin into our open wounds. It burns as any irritated cut would. The temperature in the poorly heated room turns tropical. I feel warm, itchy and nauseous. It's something between an allergic reaction and the stomach flu. My throat closes and my eyes swell shut. It's difficult to breathe. "Tell me when you're ready to take it off," says Pasqualo. "Ready," I think. But instead, I clutch my stomach. I'm determined to prove my plant medicine street cred.
I am unclear about the etiquette of the ceremony. Eventually Mona lies down and I take it as my invitation to go into the fetal position I've been longing for. The salad I had for lunch begins to come up. We were told to eat lightly and the warning gains more context. I vomit twice more into the bucket. "The one who purges the most, heals the most," says Mona afterwards. I receive the gold medal in this category.
Finally Mona raises her hand and Pasqualo wipes the kambo off of her neck. I raise my hand feverously. He wipes it off. The heat subsides. I am aware of the meditative soundtrack and the train rumbles outside again. I feel a sense of peace, but I'm unsure if it's the kambo working its magic, or mere gratitude that I don't feel as I did before. Maybe it's a combination of both.
Pasqualo gets his kambo from a "dear sister" in Iquitos, Peru. The substance is collected from the Phyllomedusa bicolor frog. To harvest the venom, the frog is caught and tied spread-eagle on four stakes. Under stress, the frog releases venom from its glands. It's imperative to the procedure that the frog is not harmed. As for how the venom gets to the U.S.? "Magic," says Pasqualo.
A variety of peoples across the Amazon Basin have used kambo for healing and ceremonial purposes. In the 1990s a study in the academic journal Toxicon profiled its significance in the Matsés people of Peru. The study noted that the Matsés performed kambo rituals before hunting in order to improve their physical skills and to reduce hunger and thirst.
Although lab analyses of kambo's effect are inconclusive, some studies suggest it is effective. The study suggests it causes the release of peptides, which were found to increase cardiovascular and gut activity. This would accounting for the vomiting and increased blood flow that could lead to physical strength. Lab rats given the peptides also showed decreased hunger and thirst.
Pasqualo classifies himself as a medicine man because he has undergone the rites of passage of the spiritual practice of shamanism. But not everyone who administers kambo is a medicine man or a shaman; those who haven't gone through the rites of practice are simply called kambo practitioners.
An International Association of Kambo was formed in 2016, listing practitioners all over the globe, including New York. One of these is Wendy Lieber, who works a desk job by day and is a kambo practitioner in her spare time. She says she was called to share kambo after her first experience in 2014. "It was profound, something inside me cracked open." For Wendy it wasn't a choice, she had found her calling.
Now she serves kambo at least once a week, usually to small groups of around four people. She charges $150 to $200 per person, an average price tag among practitioners. People find her through her website or through word of mouth. Before each ceremony she vets the applicants via phone or email for their medical history and current medications to make sure they won't interact badly with the kambo.
During her first kambo ceremony she had immediate relief from a painful jaw spasm for which traditional doctors had recommended strong painkillers. Wendy believes such treatments address the physical symptoms, not the cause.
"Tissues hold on to trauma and that causes sickness," she says. This is why plant medicines triumph where other medicines do not, she believes.
"On a physical level [kambo] clears you out, we're putting so much junk into our bodies these days," she said. But she also feels that it addresses spiritual issues as well, by teaching clients to surrender in uncomfortable situations.
She credits kambo for changing the way she interacts with her clients at her day job, and says it has helped her bring a more human element to her work. "Sometimes people just want to vent, and I'm much more sympathetic and open to listening," she says.
It is true that the venom causes bodily discomfort. "But that's what we're supposed to do, to relax into the discomfort," she said. "It's a lesson we can take into all of our lives."
Both Pasqualo and Wendy are clear that they do not discount Western medicine. "I would never tell my clients to come off of their medicines," says Wendy. Pasqualo is hopeful for more acceptance of plant medicines in the Western world. "It's inevitable that the two worlds will merge, there's so many things that need to be cured."
Not everyone is convinced about the effectiveness of kambo. While it's perfectly legal in the United States, the government of Brazil banned it in 2004, stating that its effects were not properly studied. This came amidst outrage from the indigenous Katukina people, who felt outsiders trying to patent the drug were committing biopiracy. The Katukina people felt they should be compensated by anyone who develops a patent. Brazil saw similar conflict when an American pharmaceutical giant, Squibb, made billions in 1975 when it developed Captopril, a blood pressure medicine, from the Amazonian jararaca viper.
Is the new wave of kambo practitioners and users appropriating indigenous culture? Wendy says it all depends on their intentions. "Just because we live in a place where the medicine doesn't grow doesn't mean we need it any less."
Pasqualo feels similarly. "There are sham shamans who are doing this for the money or to rip the culture off," he acknowledges. "But I will say this, there are people who earn that right through rites of practice. There are people in it who respect and support the culture. Only you know what intention you are coming with."
At the end of the ceremony, we revive ourselves and look up the subway route home. We are exhausted and sedated on the journey back. For the next few days I feel lighter and refreshed, similarly to how one feels after getting over a stomach virus. "It's my flu shot of the jungle," says Mona. "I'll be back for it again next season."


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Washington politicians are beginning to worry about the Trump administration's accelerating downward spiral. Regarding the President, a Congressional leader and former unwavering Trump supporter stated, "He's not my hero anymore. He got caught. I like people who don't get caught." #politics #fakenews
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The Transportation Security Agency (TSA) was created to stop another terrorist attack like the one we saw on 9/11, but the agency has only proven that it's good at making people feel uncomfortable and late for their flight. It also has allowed so many contraband items to go through its security checkpoints that it's a wonder another terrorist action hasn't occurred.
Especially because this recent failure by the TSA involved someone getting a gun through.
According to CNN, a passenger going from Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport to Tokyo Narita International Airport on January 3. The TSA had apparently lapsed in its duties and let the passenger through to this Delta flight with a firearm.
"TSA has determined standard procedures were not followed and a passenger did in fact pass through a standard screening TSA checkpoint with a firearm at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport on the morning of January 3," the TSA stated.
CNN speculated that this lapse in security is a result of the government shutdown, but the TSA squashed that.
"The perception that this might have occurred as a result of the partial government shutdown would be false," TSA said. "The national unscheduled absence rate of TSA staff on Thursday, January 3, 2019, was 4.8% compared to 6.3% last year, Thursday, January 4, 2018. So in fact, the national call out rate was higher a year ago than this year on that date."
The truth is, the TSA has always been horrible at detecting contraband items. In 2017, the TSA was tested by the Department of Homeland Security and was found to have a 95 percent failure rate, and has continued to prove itself unequal to the task of keeping the people safe both before, and since.
Despite this continued failure and waste of taxpayer money, the TSA will likely continue to be a costly security program that amounts to "security theatre," meant to make the populace feel safe instead of actually making them safe. In the private sector, a 95 percent failure rate would be cause to shut a program down. In the government, they'll likely ask for more money to fix the problem and get it just like they did in 2017
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Americans Rank Top Immoral 'Sins' in New Poll
A national poll shows that while Americans are still holding on to some traditional moral values, they have validated immoral behaviors that are self-satisfying.
The poll, conducted by Gallup, revealed 91 percent of respondents considered extramarital affairs immoral. In addition to cheating spouses, polygamy, cloning humans, suicide and pornography all ranked as the top five immoral "sins" among Americans.
A majority of respondents also ranked abortion as an immoral behavior.
However, more respondents found cloning animals immoral (62 percent) than doctor assisted suicide (48 percent). A narrow 45 percent of Americans believe assisted suicide is morally acceptable. Cloning of animals also outweighed the moral importance of embryonic stem cell research (only 30 percent found it immoral), fornication (36 percent), gambling (31 percent) and divorce (23 percent).
The poll shows what Richard Land, president of Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, says is a deep-rooted problem with Americans' sense of priorities.
Land says Americans' moral values are skewed to focus less on their obligations and responsibilities and more on their "supposed rights and privileges."
Americans' supposed right to be loved has led a majority of respondents to value divorce (69 percent), homosexual relations (56 percent), sex outside of marriage (60 percent) and even having children outside of marriage (54 percent) as morally acceptable behaviors, according to the poll.
Land disagrees with the popular sentiment. He states that morals begin at home with the family. Yet, "Adults continue to convince themselves that they have the right to walk out on their promises and obligations to their spouses and their children in search of their own self-fulfillment," he noted.
When adults shirk their responsibilities as a husband, wife, father and mother, the effects seep into society, Land said.
The federal government spends millions of dollars in social and economic programs to correct the effects of moral depravity such as institutionalized poverty, crime and corruption, he explained. But he believes there is no substitution for a family with a wedded father and mother.
Land described putting self-fulfilling behavior over the biblically moral responsibility to family as "narcissistic," "selfish," "destructive," and "self-idolatry."
The new poll follows another Gallup poll released last week showing decreases in the number of Americans who believe America's moral values are poor and are getting worse.
While more Americans believe that the country's morality is poor and lacking, the Thursday poll shows that the percentage of those who believe the overall state of moral values in the U.S. is poor has dropped seven percentage points to 38 percent. Meanwhile, the percentage of those who believe the country's morality is excellent or good has risen eight points to 23 percent.
Fewer Americans also believe the country's moral values are getting worse. Sixty-nine percent, down from 76 percent in 2010, say the state of moral values is worsening, while 22 percent, up from 14 percent, believe it's getting better.
Land told The Christian Post that those who believe that there is no problem with America's value system are part of the country's moral decline.
He believes that America's immoral culture is reaching a critical point.
"We're seriously broken and it's getting worse and we're reaching a crisis point where we're either going to have to restore traditional American values ... or we're going to see our society [disintegrate]," he summed.


text: US / Mumia Abu-Jamal Teacher in Trouble Over Student Letters to Cop Killer She had her third-graders write get-well wishes to Mumia Abu-Jamal By Newser Editors and Wire Services Posted Apr 11, 2015 10:04 AM CDT Copied This undated file photo shows Mumia Abu Jamal. (AP Photo/Jennifer E. Beach, File) A teacher in New Jersey who assigned her third-grade class to write "get well" letters to a sick inmate convicted of killing a Philadelphia police officer was suspended yesterday. Orange School Superintendent Ronald Lee said in a statement that school administrators "vehemently deny" any knowledge of Marylin Zuniga's assignment. Preliminary inquiries found that Zuniga did not seek approval from administrators or notify parents, Lee said. The letters were delivered to Mumia Abu-Jamal, a former Black Panther serving life in prison for the 1981 murder of white Philadelphia Officer Daniel Faulkner. He was hospitalized last month because of complications from diabetes. Abu-Jamal's conviction was upheld through years of appeals, but he has gained international support for his claim that he is the victim of a racist justice system. The police union condemned the teacher's actions, but a supporter and history professor at Baruch College, Johanna Fernandez, showed Abu-Jamal the letters while she visited him Monday. "I think he was touched," she said. "Quite frankly, I'm more concerned about 8-year-olds witnessing a police officer kill an innocent man in South Carolina than I am about a teacher sending letters her children wrote to one of the most important black public intellectuals of our time, who happens to be very ill." Zuniga will remain suspended with pay until the investigation is completed, the superintendent said. (Read more Mumia Abu-Jamal stories.) Report an error


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The validation and utilization of the C.A.R.E. self-assessment tool and a comparison of perceived levels of cultural responsiveness in Benwood I and Benwood II schools
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Bernard, Hinsdale
Committee Member
Kelly, Kirk; Rutledge, Valerie; Tucker, James
Dept. of Education
College of Health, Education, and Professional Studies
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Place of Publication
Chattanooga (Tenn.)
This study was conducted to determine teachers' perceptions of culturally responsive policies and practices in sixteen elementary schools in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Participants completed a survey called the C.A.R.E. (Culturally Aware and Responsive Education) tool, which was developed by the researcher. The survey was administered in two sets of schools with contrasting populations and a comparative analysis between the two sets of schools was conducted. The purpose of this study was to measure teachers' perceptions regarding the level of cultural responsiveness of their school's policies and practices. An additional purpose was to validate the C.A.R.E. The sample of subjects consisted of educators from two sets of schools (referred to as Benwood Phase I schools and Benwood Phase II schools). These two groups were in differing stages of development of the same reform effort. The Cronbach's alpha was used to determine the reliability of the C.A.R.E. The C.A.R.E was determined to have an overall reliability of .928. Construct validity was established throughout the initial phases of the study by utilizing subject matter experts, including members of the dissertation committee. The data were analyzed using descriptive statistics (means and standard deviations), t-tests, and chi-square. The results of this study indicate that teachers in Benwood Phase I schools perceive the policies and practices at their schools to be more culturally responsive in 28 of 33 indicators identified in the C.A.R.E. instrument. Likewise, the results also indicate that teachers in Benwood II schools scored themselves higher in 5 of 33 areas listed in the C.A.R.E. The results show that in addition to the fact that there is a significant difference in teachers' perceptions of level s of culturally responsive policies and practices in their schools, there is also a significant difference in the amount of professional development related to culturally responsive teaching among the two sets of schools. Educators in Benwood Phase I schools have had more professional development geared toward culturally responsive teaching. Lastly, this research determined that there was no significant difference in the socioeconomic backgrounds of educators in Benwood Phase I and Benwood Phase II schools, but that there is a difference between the socioeconomic backgrounds of teachers as compared to their students in both sets of schools.
Ed. D.; A dissertation submitted to the faculty of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga in partial fulfillment of the requirements of the degree of Doctor of Education.
Multicultural education -- United States -- Evaluation
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Winnipeg Yazidi refugee learns her 12-year-old son is alive after rescue from ISIS
Mother wants the government to reunite her with son in Iraq
A Winnipeg mother, a Yazidi refugee, is astonished to discover her 12-year-old son is alive after being rescued from ISIS.
Nofa Zaghla, from northern Iraq, says her family was separated in August 2014 when they were captured by ISIS.
She came to Canada five months ago with four of her six children. Days ago, she got a call from a relative in Iraq who said her son Emad Mishko Tamo is alive after being rescued from the Islamist extremists.
"Because of ISIS being so evil, and torturing boys and killing everyone that doesn't do as they say, we didn't think we would ever see [him] again," she said.
On Sunday, Zaghla's brother-in-law saw a photo of the boy on social media.
Zaghla said the Iraqi army took photos of him right after he was rescued and posted them online in hopes of finding relatives.
"I was very saddened when I saw his photo," she said about seeing her son covered in dirt. "[I] spoke to him on the phone and he said, 'I'm OK, I'm going to be fine.'"
She said her son was treated for a bullet wound to his arm and stomach injuries. Right now he is staying with his uncle in a refugee camp, but she hopes the Canadian government will help bring him to her as soon as possible.
In a video sent to his mother, Tamo said, "Canada please help me. I want to go to Canada with my mom."
'We will never forget what they did'
The family of eight were with her husband and six children for two days before they were separated.
She said she managed to keep her four youngest children with her, but the two older boys were taken with her husband, and she hasn't seen them since.
"They kept taking us from one place to another because we were being attacked," she said.
Zaghla said she endured beatings from ISIS militants because she refused to give up her small children — her youngest was just starting to crawl at the time.
"We will never forget what they did to us — the torture, the pain, everything they put us through," she said through tears.
After two years captive, Zaghla and her four children escaped during an explosion caused by an airstrike. They spent close to a year in a refugee camp in the Kurdistan region of Iraq before being brought to Canada as government-sponsored refugees.
'We need the government to act fast'
The Yazidi Association of Manitoba is advocating on behalf of Zaghla and her family because of the language barrier.
"We've sent letters and emails to all the MPs across the country," said Hadji Hesso, the association's director.
Hesso said he has spoken with federal immigration officials and is hopeful the boy will be reunited with his mother.
"There are steps obviously for everything … but we need the government to act fast," he said.
The association is hoping the federal government will treat Tamo as a special case and expedite the immigration process.
"He is a child and he wants to be with his mother, like any child should be," Hesso said.
Yazidi is ancient religion derived from Zoroastrianism (an ancient Persian faith founded by a philosopher), Christianity and Islam. The religious minority largely lives in northern Iraq, and hundreds of them were killed by ISIS, which called them heretics. An estimated 40,000 members of the religious minority were trapped by the militants on Mount Sinjar. The siege was broken by Kurdish forces in December 2014.


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Are we living in banana republic? 'Shotgun' Sinha on Aadhaar breach FIRJanuary 08, 2018 15:38
Bharatiya Janata Party MP Shatrughan Sinha today wondered if the people of the country were living in a "banana republic", saying a journalist who did a story to highlight the misuse of Aadhaar details was being hauled up for reporting an "alleged truth".
"What kind of 'justice' is this? Is there only politics of vendetta? Even public is being victimised for coming out honestly for society and the nation," he said in a tweet.
Sinha has been critical of the central government and the BJP leadership over a host of issues.
The actor-turned-politician also congratulated the Editors' Guild of India for its strong response to the lodging of an FIR in connection with the incident and expressed hope that the "genuine authorities" in the government and the Supreme Court in particular would take notice and come up with swift corrective measures.
"A journalist is hauled up for reporting alleged truth about malfunctioning & misuse of Aadhar. Are we living in a Banana Republic (sic)?" the tweet from the Patna Sahib MP read.
The Delhi Police has registered an FIR on a complaint from a Unique Identification Authority of India official over a newspaper report on alleged data breach of more than one billion Aadhaar cards, naming the reporter, even as the daily said it would defend its freedom to undertake investigative journalism.
The FIR mentions the names of the reporter and the people she reached out to "purchase" the Aadhaar data, but they were not named as accused, the police said. -- PTI


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'Staggering loss of civilian life' during US-backed siege of Raqqa – UN
The ongoing siege by Syrian Kurdish militia, supported by airstrikes of the US-led coalition, on terrorist stronghold Raqqa has been marred by at least 300 civilian fatalities and the displacement of some 160,000 people, a UN commission says.
The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), a group of militias dominated by ethnic Kurds, launched their offensive on Raqqa last week amid weapons and military hardware supplies from the US. The effort is taking a serious toll on civilian residents of the city controlled by Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL), chairman of the UN Commission of Inquiry into the Syrian conflict said on Wednesday.
"We note in particular that the intensification of airstrikes, which have paved the ground for an SDF advance in Raqqa, has resulted not only in staggering loss of civilian life, but has also led to 160,000 civilians fleeing their homes and becoming internally displaced," Paulo Sergio Pinheiro told the UN Human Rights Council, Reuters reports.
The chairman did not give an estimate for civilian casualties in the city, but Karen Koning AbuZayd, one of the panels' commissioners, said it has documented about 300 civilian deaths from the airstrikes supporting the Raqqa offensive.
"We have documented the deaths caused by the coalition airstrikes only and we have about 300 deaths, 200 in one place, in al-Mansoura, one village," she said.
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The US troops deployed in Syria are supporting the SDF offensive providing artillery and air support on the battlefield as well as "advice and training" for the militias.
The Pentagon calls the deployment, which is done with no UN Security Council mandate or invitation from the Syrian government, a limited-scale operation. The Americans have attacked pro-government troops in Syria on several occasions over the past few weeks, claiming it was necessary to protect its SDF allies.
Also on Wednesday the Human Rights Watch (HRW) expressed its concern over the toll the Raqqa offensive operation is taking on civilians. The group criticized the US troops for allegedly using white phosphorous munitions as part of the offensive, saying the chemical may cause serious injuries and trigger fires when used in residential areas.
In his speech, Pinheiro also criticized Damascus for negotiating a series of evacuations of opposition fighters and their families from various areas around Syria, including the December evacuation from Aleppo. He said in some cases the residents had no choice but to leave and that their relocation may amount to a war crime.
The evacuation from Aleppo came after years of fighting for control of the city as it was split between pro-government forces and parts held by rebel. The fighting resulted in numerous deaths among residents. The evacuation was negotiated by Russia, Iran and Turkey and came as an alternative to continued street-to-street battles for Aleppo.
The US-led coalition is showing "extraordinary hypocrisy" by not abiding by the so-called "red line" it sets for other countries, Vanessa Beeley, a journalist and editor at 21stCenturyWire.com who has visited Syria on many occasions during the conflict, told RT.
Beeley said she has information the coalition has employed depleted uranium and white phosphorous in Syria. On Wednesday, a New Zealand general confirmed for the first time that the US-led coalition has used munitions loaded with white phosphorus in Iraq's Mosul, claiming that the incendiary substance was utilized "to screen areas within west Mosul to get civilians out safely."
"One wonders why the 'red line' that they keep imposing upon target nations – 'prey' nations – doesn't apply to the US or the US-led coalition?" Beeley said, claiming that the US-led operation in Raqqa "is no attempt to protect the civilians."
"After a five-year-long media, NATO-allied, NGO campaign to try and demonize the Syrian government and its allies, trying to liberate east Aleppo from terrorists… here [in Raqqa], as we saw in Mosul, we have the US-led coalition basically carpet-bombing entire areas – bombing in a country that they don't have any UN mandate to be doing so," she said.
Beeley expressed the belief that the US-led coalition is bombing Raqqa "frantically" because "there's something that they want to hide or destroy before it's discovered by the advancing Syrian army."


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Monday, June 17, 2013
Good morning readers/browsers,
It"s been quite awhile since I have written a new article or diary entry, though I have been adding reviews and will be adding one today.
The reality is that I have been quite busy for the past few months, mostly with putting together a proposal for my own wine label and what not. It"s something that I am setting out to do, and hopefully it will happen sooner than later. I am giving myself one year to set up the whole thing, but with the right moves and what not, I can get it started within a couple of months. My plan is to raise about 250K and it can come in the form of minimum investments of $100 and average investments of $250. When it happens, it"s one of those things that will also focus on strategic partnerships with the arts -- both visual and performance, to also include film & video -- and areas such as fashion, tourism, and merchandising.
Outside of that, I finally converted my first book into an ebook and launched that. I have to also release it on Amazon as well, and then put out a press release. This of course will be followed by doing it for the second and third books. Most interestingly is that I also have a first draft of a fourth book which I never released which can be part of the marketing campaign with the wine label.
I also have been dealing with some reflux (gastrointestinal) and it took a minute to get that straightened out. It was what they call "silent reflux." And since it was happening for so long, I don"t expect it to go away overnight.
I also had to deal with an asshole client, but in the end it might be a blessing, as it might just open up another revenue stream for me.
So, I am now back more and today I will spend some time recoding part of the site and in the next two weeks, I should have recoded the back-end to the site; this would be the engine which powers the reviews.
Our Mission: The Black Winer strives to expose African Americans [and others] to wines,
without the flair, stuffiness, and airs of elitism and snobbery that you get from sommeliers and high level wine
enthusiasts. We believe in finding something that you like the taste of, outside of the basic brands that you have
been force-fed over the years through a combination of ethnically targeted advertising, and what people in your
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Keeping Cool With A Fresh, Fruity Salad
Dustin Roberts was born and raised in Kahaluu, and now enjoys his job as lunch chef at Macy's Gazebo in Windward Mall.
Dustin is grateful that chef Robert Tom at Job Corps Center in Waimanalo influenced his decision to go to San Francisco Treasure Island Job Corps Center, where he got his culinary arts training. Dustin also studied the fine art of making artisan chocolates under Lionel Clement at Nuubia Chocolat.
Before coming to Gazebo, he was the chef for Kualoa Ranch's dinner show.
Dustin lives with and helps his grandparents Henry and Violet Roberts, who run a flower farm in Kahaluu. Henry was a police warden at the old jails, and also used to raise prawns in Waikane. He loves to "talk story" about the early days here in Hawaii.
In his free time, Dustin enjoys hiking, watersports, camping and fishing.
This recipe is dedicated to Dustin for his kindness to his family and for his dedication to his culinary career.
The grape is one of the oldest fruits in the world, dating back thousands of years to the earliest civilizations. The exact origin of the grape is not known, but it is believed to be Asia Minor, the Caspian Sea region, or Armenia. Some studies suggest that grapes were cultivated in Western Asia more than 7,000 years ago. Drawings found in Egyptian burial sites indicate that they may have been cultivated as early as 2,375 B.C.
Grapes vary in color from green to greenish yellow, reddish, blue-black and purple. The sweet, fleshy pulp is covered with a skin that has a thin powdery coating called the "bloom."
Today, the largest grape-producing countries are Italy, France and Spain. Some varieties are seedless. Some common varieties in the United States are Concord, Flame, Ruby and Thompson.
Grapes almost always are treated with chemical substances and must be washed carefully before eating. To prevent the stems from drying out, remove small clusters of grapes with scissors rather than pulling grapes off individually.
Grapes are said to have numerous medicinal properties, such as diuretic, providing energy, good for the digestion and a laxative effect. They also are said to be of help in purifying the system, thanks to their invigorating and cleansing qualities.
• 2 cups cooked brown rice, cooled
• 1/2 cup seedless purple grapes, cut into small pieces
• 1/2 cup seedless green grapes, cut into small pieces
• 1 small can mandarin oranges, drained and rinsed
• 1 kiwi, peeled and diced
• 1/2 cup low-fat raspberry vinaigrette dressing
• 2 teaspoons chopped or slivered almonds
• 8 fresh strawberries, washed, stems removed and cut into halves
Put rice in a colander and rinse so rice does not stick together. Add grapes, mandarin oranges and kiwi; toss to combine. Pour dressing gently over all and toss to combine. Sprinkle with nuts just before serving. Garnish with strawberry halves.
Makes four to six servings.
Diana Helfand, author of "Hawaii Light and Healthy" and "The Best of Heart-y Cooking," has taught nutrition in the Kapiolani Community College culinary arts program.


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How to identify the source of boiler noise2 min read
Boilers are essential appliances in any home and most of the time we take them for granted. They heat the water and the radiators in our homes and perform a crucial role in the comfort and safety of our homes. When we hear noises coming from the boiler it can be worrying, so read on to find out what these noises could mean.
Noises from the boiler can mean many different things. The first thing to do is to identify the source of the noise. It is possible for noises to travel through the heating system, creating echoes. You need to check if the noise is coming from the pipes, the radiators or the boiler itself.
Boiler fault codes
Many boilers have error codes on a digital display which can alert you to the problem. Check the product manual for more information about this. The fault codes are usually on the fault identifier pages of the manual or you could check them online. Not every problem will create an error code though, so you might need to do more checks.
Bleed the radiators
If you hear gurgling noises coming from the boiler, this means air is trapped in the system. You can open all the thermostats on the radiators fully and heat the home at the highest temperature for 15 minutes. Turn off the circulation pump and wait for the radiators to cool. Then bleed the radiators until water comes out. For more information on how to bleed a radiator, browse this handy guide form the Independent.
Circulation pump
The problem could alternatively be the circulation pump. If the pump is working too quickly, it can make noises. You might be able to slow it down if there is an option on the boiler, otherwise it might require a professional. For example, a high quality Gloucester boiler service such as http://www.hprservicesltd.com/gloucester-boilers/boiler-service-gloucester/ will be able to check your boiler and deal with any problems.
Water pressure
Another option is the water pressure of the boiler. If it is set too low, it can cause gurgling noises. The pressure gauge or manometer is located where the pipes meet the boiler. Make sure the pressure is at the right level by checking the manual against the pressure gauge marker. You might need to add more water to adjust the pressure.


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Many of us resort to cutting calories and challenging cardio workouts when we want to lose weight, but this could actually be slowing down our metabolism according to one fitness influencer. Luxembourg-based blogger Nessa, of the Instagram account @Nessasphere, has explained that women sometimes need to eat more in order to shed the pounds in a lengthy social media post.
"Food is your friend not your enemy," she wrote. "Most of us, when it comes to eating healthy, think about a bowl of salad with grilled chicken. But is it enough to reach your goals? Definitely not. Unknown to most people, one of the biggest reasons they don't get results they aim for, is simply NOT eating enough."
STORY: Marvin Humes' trainer reveals how to shape up for Christmas
Nessa said she saw more results when she started eating more
Nessa explained that when you're not eating enough, your body can go into starvation mode and your metabolism slows down. And it can cause long term physical and mental damage to your body. "This kind of plateau can push some people to eating less and at the end it leads to real problems you can't recover easily from. There are many physical actions your body takes when you're not eating enough calories but there are also mental ones," Nessa wrote. "Eating less usually means feeling frustrated, you're hungry, you lose your motivation and simply give up. Is it what you really want?"
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The 40-year-old, who has transformed her body through a healthy diet and regular exercise, said she first started to see results when she ate five or six well balanced meals a day, consuming around 2,000 to 2,200 calories. "I exercise at least 5 times a week usually before heading to work. I turned on my metabolism, I constantly progress, I look leaner although I gained weight, I am stronger and I feel great," she said.
An example of Nessa's daily diet
"My body knows it gets healthy food every 3 hours and do not need to conserve energy. Building muscle, weight loss or body recomposition is a patience game. It takes time and consistency to make it work." Nessa concluded: "Don't skip meals, make food your friend not your enemy and remember, eating more is the key to losing more and looking better."
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Eduardo Castrillo
Born: 1942
He is a sculptor, jewelry artist and designer. He received the Araw ng Maynila Centennial Award, the TOYM Award, and the Republic Cultural Heritage Award. He represented the Philippines at the Paris and the Venice Biennials. His sculptures dominate public places in Metro Manila, cebu, and various memorial parks all over the Philippines. He creates figurative and abstract works in embossed copper and welded brass. He simplifies reality into planes, At other times he multiplies them into a mass of reverberating shapes. He explains that this is aesthetic, both a neo-realist and a cubist tendency, "is essentially the resolution of the conflict between representation and structure." His work is a subject of several books, among which are Beyond Art by Dr. Rod Paras Perez (Loyola Group of Companies, 1970), and Breaking Out: An Eduardo Castrillo Sculptural Tour by Alfredo Roces, (inyan Publishers 1995).


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Diamondbacks Lineup
- Tony Campana, LF
- Gerardo Parra - RF
- Paul Goldschmidt - 1B
- Miguel Montero, C
- Aaron Hill, 2B
- Eric Chavez, 3B
- A.J. Pollock, CF
- Chris Owings, SS
- Mike Bolsinger - P
It's kinda sad that defeat has become such a part of the 2014 Diamondbacks season, that it's more the manner of the loss which provides a reason for interest, rather than whether it'll happen or not. I mean, last season it took until May 30th to achieve our 23rd loss - this year, we could reach that while April is still on the calendar. After the false dawn of the three-win streak, we have sunk right back into record-setting territory again. If we don't win tonight, and go to an 8-22 record, there won't have been a National League team with a worse start over the first 30 games, since the 1999 Marlins.
Avoiding that is largely across the shoulders of Mike Bolsinger, who will need to do a much better job of shutting the Rockies down than Miley did last night. Bolsinger's last start was excellent, but a couple of things need to be pointed out. Firstly, it was against the Cubs. Secondly... Did I mention the Cubs? Certainly, Colorado will provide a bit more of a challenge for Bolsinger. Decent though Mike's last outing certainly was, it's still a small sample of work on which he can be judged, and hopefully, he can learn from it, taking what worked and build upon it, as he goes forward. That will likely determine his potential as a major-league pitcher.
imstillhungry95 should be off the disabled list to recap this one, but I think I saw something on Twitter about him first popping off to rescue a kitten stuck on top of a high-voltage pylon... No possibility of anything going wrong there. :)


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The Corners of His Mind
by Jeff Reichert
My Golden Days
Dir. Arnaud Desplechin, France, Magnolia Pictures
The specter of the Cold War hangs over My Golden Days, appropriate for our present moment, when Vladimir Putin is on the march, asserting Russian power aggressively in ways the world hasn't seen since the heyday of the USSR. In Arnaud Desplechin's latest, Paul Dédalus (Mathieu Amalric), the neurotic lovelorn hero of 1996's My Sex Life . . . or How I Got Into an Argument, en route to Paris for the first time in years on a diplomatic pouch, is pulled aside at the airport by the authorities due to an issue with his passport. It seems there's another Paul Dédalus, a "homonym," with the same date and location of birth roaming the globe. Paul is brusquely frisked and taken into a dark cell lit only by a harsh fluorescent and interrogated by a dead serious André Dussollier. Is My Golden Days some kind of spy thriller?
Not exactly. As in Desplechin's La sentinelle (1992), which used an apocryphal anecdote about Churchill and Stalin carving up Europe before Roosevelt's arrival on the scene in Yalta to stack its deck with free-flowing paranoia, this interrogation exists only to spark Paul into a flashback of his youth. It's also the beginning of the film's second of three chapters (the French title Trois souvenirs de ma jeunesse does a somewhat better job than the English version of letting viewers know what they're in for). By this point we've already seen Paul on the eve of leaving yet another lover in an apartment in Dushanbe and witnessed a particularly harrowing flashback. His soft voiceover—"I remember . . . I remember"— contrasts sharply with the next shot, of a harshly lit prepubescent Paul (Antoine Bui, uncannily Amalric-like with big eyes and a shock of messy brown hair) at the top of a set of stairs in the dark of night brandishing a knife at his mother and screaming at her. She, for her part, looks like some kind of succubus, eyes just as wide as Paul's but filled with malice as opposed to terror as she advances on him.
Seconds later, their tense altercation gives way to a moment of tenderness—Paul's younger sister, Delphine, places a blanket over him, asleep where he fell at the top of the stairs. His mother is passed out on the landing below; unleashed rage culminating in an exhausted standoff. The easy navigation of the juxtapositions—adult Paul in bed with a lover he's about to leave; young Paul at the height of fear and anger; an intense conflict defused by sleep and capped by love—over the course of just a few minutes of screen time is textbook Desplechin. The next scene finds Paul moving away from home to live with his grandmother. His mother commits suicide not long after, crippling his father, Abel (Olivier Rabourdin), and bringing the first section of My Golden Days to a close.
The second flashback, entitled "Russia," tells the tale of how a teenage Paul (now Quentin Dolmaire) managed to "lose" his passport, thus creating his alter ego. It's the tense, waning days of the Cold War and Paul has agreed to use a school trip to help smuggle money and documents to a family of refuseniks in Minsk. Unlike the hallucinatory, poetic, and really quite scary first chapter of My Golden Days, "Russia" plays like the spy film the interrogation that begins it would suggest, with Paul sneaking off a guided museum tour, memorizing Russian addresses and phrases, changing costumes in a closet to look more proletarian, and nearly getting plucked by a police officer in a pedestrian tunnel. The filmmaking here is a taut delight; reminiscent of how easily Olivier Assayas grafted his techniques to the needs of the tense OPEC standoff in Carlos, Desplechin, whose woollier way with camera and editing has been mostly used thus far to cubistically chart familial and romantic disintegration, proves to excel at straight-faced genre play.
This incident has enough twists and turns to make for the story of a lifetime, but when adult Paul is first asked about a stolen passport in the interrogation room, he seems to have no memory of it. "Do you think I'm a Communist agent?" he asks angrily. When presented with the official forms relating to the "loss" of his passport all those years, ago, that sheepish Amalric/Paul grin flickers across his face—it's all come back to him. His denial and remembrances while under questioning play not as the calculated pose of a spy, but as the segmented recollections of a segmented man piecing his life back together in a segmented film. The voiceover that cues the next, and final, chapter bears this out: "I seek shards of memories within me. I recall nothing. Everything is erased. Except three or four snippets…"
This longest section of the film concerns the most crucial period of Paul's development, and is appropriately entitled "Esther" after the love of his life, embodied by Emmanuelle Devos in My Sex Life… as perhaps the fiercest, most idiosyncratic bundle of Gallic neuroses in nineties French cinema. Here she's played by overripe newcomer Lou Roy-Lecollinet whose pouty lips, wide eyes, bangs, and diffident air don't exactly add up to "pretty" or "beautiful" but who's certainly got something, enough to attract Paul and many other men to boot. This section shows us how they met (he was a poor university student, she the younger classmate of Delphine), and it reveals that their initial rush of feeling wasn't any less complicated than what would come later. With Paul scraping by to study anthropology in Paris and barely able to find money to secure lodging each night, much less purchase train tickets home to see his girlfriend on a regular basis, Esther repeatedly seeks solace in the arms of Paul's friends.
It's their origin story, but it's also Paul's, and he admits to Esther several years into their relationship the degree to which it made him. First love is always critical, especially in the movies, but few are the scenarists like Desplechin who plumb it deeply enough to truly turn over all the minute pleasures and pains to find how thoroughly they shape a person. During this chapter a narrator (Desplechin himself) fills in gaps in explication, so that Paul is no longer in charge of directing his own tale. Who in the throes of first love really is?
Paul and Esther love and fight, and fight and love some more. The Berlin Wall comes down. They listen to the English Beat and chain-smoke while preparing for a party at Paul's house. They send each other letters, which are relayed via a Desplechin trademark: direct to camera. She stays with him in Paris for a brief spell and they get a glimpse of what their adult life together might be like—Esther putting a cool towel over Paul's tired eyes, reading, sleeping and waking together in Paul's cramped garret overlooking the Eiffel Tower. These days, for Paul, though fraught, are truly golden. As his studies come to an end, Desplechin quickens the narrative pace: Paul gets a grant to work in Dushanbe, distance temporarily ends his relationship to Esther. When he finally returns to Paris, closing the present-day loop begun at the film's outset, he reconnects with an old friend and they fight over Esther in a bar. Some things we never leave behind.
Even though like the director's last film, Jimmy P., My Golden Days finds Desplechin tempering his penchant for wild tonal shifts, he's still not above the regular deployment of iris-ins, unexpected insert shots, split screens, and clashing music cues. My Golden Days may not feel as dangerous as, say, Kings and Queen (2005), but the oddly lumpy structure, with its awkward dodges and narrative feints, shows a filmmaker who can't hem himself in entirely. This leaves My Golden Days feeling like a grab bag of ideas and material, so, in other words, a film by Arnaud Desplechin. Though its purpose is to chart the initial years of Paul's love for Esther—for a tale of young Paul Dédalus, how could it not?—Desplechin, a storyteller always working to make sure he over-delivers for his audience, can't allow himself to jump right to the heart of things. He's got other stories to share, too! As in his art, so it is in most lives: we dance and dance and dance around the things in our pasts that are painful to recall and admit. Eventually, if we're lucky, we, like Paul, recognize what it is that matters most.


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Job Burnout
Do you drag yourself to work and find it hard to get motivated? Do you experience frequent headaches and/or nausea as you anticipate going to work? Do you find it difficult to find satisfaction in your achievements? Have your sleep habits or appetite changed? Do you experience unexplained head, neck, or back pain? Do you find yourself being more sarcastic, cynical, critical, impatient, or more irritable with coworkers and even with family? Are you self-medicating using food, drugs, or alcohol to feel better or to just not feel at all? Do you feel you face insurmountable barriers at work? Do you find yourself completely overwhelmed and nearly unable to function? Answering "yes" to any of these questions might be an indication you are "burnt out" in your job. Job burnout is the cumulative stress by long-term exposure to demanding work environments. It is manifested in physical, mental, and emotional exhaustion.
Genesis 3:19 "In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread…"
Exodus 23:12 "Six days thou shalt do thy work, and on the seventh day thou shalt rest:…" Ecclesiastes 5:12 "The sleep of a labouring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much:…"
1 Timothy 5:8 "But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel."
The above verses teach the biblical concept of working for a living and providing for our families. However, we also find some suggested parameters for doing so. God ordained six days as enough time in a week to provide for our families and also emphasize adequate rest. People who have a difficult time sorting out their work and personal life or who too strongly identify with their job and no other aspect of life are at risk of becoming a slave to their job. These characteristics can lead to job burnout.
Luke 16:13 "No servant can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other."
Romans 6:16 "Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey…"
Another risk factor for job burnout is when we try to do everything and be everything for everybody all the time.
We simply cannot be in two places at once nor can we be more than we are. Attempting to do so is to give the indication the world cannot function without us. God has given each of us talents and gifts to use in His service, but no one has all gifts or all talents. It is often difficult to cut back on our activities as we may feel our presence at a particular function will be sorely missed. In reality, we may be afraid everything will be just fine without us, and we won't be so missed. We are exhorted in Scripture not to think more highly of our contribution to others' lives than we should.
Galatians 6:3 "For if a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself."
Romans 12:3 "For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith."
Not feeling in control over your work or work environment can be a risk factor for job burnout and yet often there is little we can do to change it.
There may be some opportunities to choose a different work shift or work with different people in a different role but most likely we will have to deal with the work environment as it is if we want to continue in our current job and/or position. Sometimes our workplace struggles are of our own choosing because of desired and increased upward mobility opportunities. While added responsibilities and increased mobility are usually financially compensated, often the added workload produces greater stress and risk for job burnout. We can also be our own negative contributors to workplace woes by having a complaining attitude towards others. The Bible instructs us to be both content with our wages and not to strive too hard for greater position, more authority, or higher salary. Scripture also teaches us to be kind to others regardless of whether that kindness is repaid. This holds true whether we work with other believers or not.
Hebrews 13:5 "Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have…"
Luke 3:14 "…and be content with your wages."
Proverbs 23:4 "Labour not to be rich: cease from thine own wisdom."
Ecclesiastes 6:7 "All the labour of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled."
Proverbs 13:11 "Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished: but he that gathereth by labour shall increase."
Romans 12:10-11 "Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another; Not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;"
Trying to establish and maintain a proper balance between work and our personal lives can be difficult but is a positive step toward decreasing the likelihood of experiencing job burnout. Looking for a different shift or specific role or even another job are all avenues to prayerfully consider. While finding a different career is not easy in today's job world, it may be necessary if career stress and job burnout reach a critical point. Critical points of job stress may include depression, sickness, and other limiting physical problems. Remembering our first obligation is to serve God and to also keep our ambitions in check may help us avoid the crippling effects of job burnout.
Ecclesiastes 2:19-24 "For what hath man of all his labour, and of the vexation of his heart, wherein he hath laboured under the sun? For all his days are sorrows, and his travail grief; yea, his heart taketh not rest in the night.This is also vanity.There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labour. This also I saw, that it was from the hand of God."
Colossians 3:23-24 "And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men; Knowing that of the Lord ye shall receive the reward of the inheritance: for ye serve the Lord Christ."


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Socratic Design is an approach that combines "teoria" (the Greek word meaning: "way of looking at things") and practice in an integral way. We usually have a theory and then apply the theory in concrete stuff. Theory and practice are then separated with a higher level reserved for theory.
In Socratic Design we follow the three dimensions of Aristoteles "teoria", poesia and praxis: where poesis is the art of creating and praxis the art of doing and producing. We need to be aware that the world is based in and with these three dimensions. Our whole reality – even our economy – is based on assumptions or "teoria."


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Interview:1998/11 Drum!
|Premonitions from Marilyn Manson's Lizard King
Drum! November, 1998
|Interview with Ginger Fish
|"Josh Monkey" fan site
Premonitions from Marilyn Manson's Lizard King story by Amy Doerschuk
Ginger Fish has been waiting a lifetime for 1998 to roll around. Funny thing is, he's not sure why. At least not yet, because as far back as he can recall, one thing after another has suggested to him that something significant would happen when he turned 33, which he did this past September.
It's hard to believe that a member of Marilyn Manson could get spooked by anything earthly or otherwise, but Fish sounds a bit tense when he says, "It's a very strange thing. Since I was a baby, that number just always comes up. I get this weird feeling that something's going to happen. It might be monumentally huge and great or it could be totally the opposite. I just think it's going to mark something, but I'm just not sure what it's going to be."
He doesn't feel terribly superstitious about the release of Mechanical Animals, though, the new album he has toiled over for the last several months with his band leader, the nefarious Marilyn Manson. After the extraordinary international success of the band's last release, 1996's Antichrist Superstar, anticipation and innuendo has surrounded its follow-up, and, true to the gossip, the album signals a radical change in direction for the band. Replacing Manson's banshee screech are melodies that are actually sung, layered over lush guitar-heavy tracks supplied by Manson bassist Twiggy Ramirez and former Jane's Addiction/Chili Peppers guitarist Dave Navarro. Say goodbye to industrial cacophony, and hello to classic rock and roll.
The songs are just so different," Fish says. There's some blues influences, all different styles that I've played in the past that people don't consider rock. The first single that's out ('The Dope Show') is a full bump and grind song. It's the stripper beat. There's a bunch of songs on the album where I really got into the old school - Tommy James and the Shondells and the Animals and stuff like that - where the drumming is sparse and it's not rock in the sense that I left a lot of space. It's very roomy, almost the opposite of '1996' from Antichrist, where I was trying to figure out how the hell I was going to be able to do the song every single night and not screw it up because I'm running as fast as I possibly can, like 186 beats per minute."
Much of this musical metamorphosis can be attributed to the fact that Mechanical Animals is the first Manson album that hasn't been influenced by Trent Reznor, Nine Inch Nails' mastermind and Manson's longtime co-producer. I don't even know if Trent was an option, really," Fish says. I don't think he was even available to work on this project. He got a lot of credit for Antichrist but Manson has the predominant say over what the band sounds like. He's the visionary."
Work began on Mechanical Animals late last year, almost as soon as Manson had wrapped up Antichrist extensive touring schedule. Moving operations to Los Angeles, the band members began hammering out new material at Manson's Laurel Canyon home, where, for the first time, they could concentrate solely on the song-writing process without distraction. In contrast, the music for Antichrist had been written in hotel rooms and on the tour bus, which forced Fish to write most of his parts on drum machines. But this time around, Fish asked electronic percussion pioneer Dan Dauz to assemble a set of pads at Manson's house to approximate his live rig.
Finally Fish could work on his parts in real time. "I wasn't sitting pushing buttons and playing a drum machine," he says. "If you sit down at an electronic set and the bass player picks up his bass and starts playing, it's instantaneous. If someone wants to hear a different beat, you don't have to stop, reprogram, step edit and all that kind of stuff. So I could literally play just like I would on stage. When we went in to cut the songs it was literally written around my drumming."
While hashing out material with Manson and Ramirez, Fish would usually start by looping a drumbeat, then improvise over it on the electronic kit. "Whenever we're in the studio, I spend some time just jamming by myself and recording it," he explains. "Then later I'll go back and sample my own beats, and make loops out of that. I had done some loops in a studio in Houston two years ago, and one of the loops from that session became the main beat for one of the songs on the new album. So it can come from anywhere - everything from sampling old records, or just sampling weird sounds and making them into drum beats. You can take almost anything that makes noise and program it into a beat."
A closet piano-plunkin' songwriter, Fish restricted his input into the drum rhythms during songwriting sessions for Mechanical Animals, although he would love to be more engaged with melodies, harmonies and chord progressions on future Manson masterpieces. "I constantly think that I need to write more, and get more involved in the songwriting, because you can't copyright drum beats," he explains. "It's a constant struggle. But another part of me says, 'You're a drummer, be happy that you're a drummer. You've wanted your whole life to be a drummer, so just be the best damn drummer you can be."'
That's right, damn it! But even so, something strange happened during the production of Mechanical Animals that not only threw his drumming abilities into question, but also could have restrained Fish from tracking his parts in the studio. After writing most of the material, and recording demos at Westlake Studios, Manson hired Michael Beinhorn [Soundgarden, Hole] to co-produce the album. And one of the first things Beinhorn wanted to know was if Fish could pull his weight.
It turns out that Beinhorn is notorious for firing drummers who can't live up to his standards. And when he does, he usually hires Deen Castronovo [Bad English, Journey] to ghost-drum. "So here I was - three years in the band, I'd done two albums with the band and now I've got to audition for this producer because he's going to end up firing me," Fish exclaims. "It's like, why doesn't the producer come in and just make the band sound as good as it can? How many times do I have to prove myself?"
More than once, evidently. Before he could even set foot in the recording studio, the frantic Fish was instructed to rent a rehearsal space where Beinhorn could put the drummer through the paces. Like a good little goth/glam demonic drummer, Fish did as he was told, and every day would ask Beinhorn if he planned to come to the rehearsal studio the next day. In the end, Beinhorn never showed up.
"I was stressed out for two weeks, right up until we finally got into the studio to get started," Fish says. "I guess he was going to decide that first day when we started cutting tracks if he was going to get me out of there or not. So I went in to start tracking and didn't know if this guy was going to say, 'This isn't going to work. I need to bring in Deen to do this album for me.' It's a lot to lay on someone's shoulders. You're just trying to play well and do a good job, playing with computers and click tracks, and stuff like that, and you can only be so perfect."
After fostering Fish's anxiety, Beinhorn never actually told the drummer that he would definitely appear on the album. The band just kept working in L.A.'s Conway Studios, and after a few days it became obvious that Fish had passed the test. So the first order of business was to dial-in killer drum sounds, and for that, Beinhorn pulled out the stops. They started with Fish's Premier kit as a basic setup and began listening to as many drums and cymbals as they could lay their hands on. "We rented every single snare drum in L.A.," Fish remembers. "We went through every rental company - Drum Paradise, Drum Doctors, we brought in snare drums from Matt Sorum from Guns, he has his own collection of drums. We spent three days going through snare drums to find exactly the one perfect drum."
In the end, Fish set up two separate four-piece drum kits in the studio. One featured big drums, and was set up in a large room with reflective brick walls. The second kit was made up of smaller drum sizes, and was in a little room with a more deadened sound. "About a third of the songs on the album are just full takes that were recorded all the way through, either on the little set of the big set," Fish explains. "Then there's another bunch of songs where I played the verses on the little set, and paused during the choruses. Then I would go out into the big room and cut the choruses.
"On a couple songs I did a basic drum beat, and then later on played toms on top of it to give it a two-drummer feel, like an Adam Ant sound with multiple drummers. We had to take it a few times, because when you play to your own drum tracks, you can do it so perfectly that it doesn't sound like two drummers. You've got to get a different feel going for the second part, and play it in a different way - above the beat, behind the beat, pull it differently."
In order to use both kits, Fish found himself in a familiar position, once again playing along to click tracks rather than jamming with the entire band. "Originally I thought that we were going to learn the songs and go in the studio and cut them as a band," he says. "That way you're a little more free. A drummer can float around the beat a little bit more - push a little bit in the choruses and pull back a little bit in the verses. But the point is that you want all the instruments to sound great. So if the whole band goes in and tracks together, one instrument might sound great, but the other doesn't sound as good as it should be. Which means you're going to overdub it anyway. But playing to a click is ten thousand times harder than just going in and playing as a band."
After spending three days testing and tuning drums, experimenting with microphones and heads with Beinhorn and drum tech Rob Coursey, Fish was raring to begin tracking his parts. Then the inevitable happened. "The first day of cutting, I went in and the producer heard a weird sound in the bass drum," Fish says. "None of the mikes had been changed. None of the drums had been changed. I hit it and it sounded the same to me. And he's like, 'I hear a slight overtone and a slight ring.'
"So the tech went in and tried to tune the drum and work on it a little. But the bass drum wasn't cutting it, and they spent ten hours trying to get it to sound the way it did the day before. They totally remiked it, moved it a quarter inch toward the wall. When we did Smells Like Children, we took my tour set that was all beat up from being wrecked all the time - even the front bass drumhead was broken - took the rim off the front head because it was rattling, put a blanket over the front of the drum and then did the whole album in three hours and three days. I listen to it now and I still think it sounds great.
"But back then, I wished that someone would spend the time on my acoustic drums and work with me on my sound. And these guys did it. The only thing that drives me crazy about stuff like that would be when Manson would walk in the room and say, 'What have you done?' 'Oh nothing, we've been spending eight hours trying to get the bass drum to sound good again.' And it's like, 'It's not my fault!' It's just the way it is. We've got to take it slow and get this done. If you start with shit, you'll end with shit. So the drums had to sound amazing."
Once they ironed out his bass drum buzz, Fish had to contend with Beinhorn's unusual ideas about how to lock into a groove. "He had a weird way of wanting you to play the snare and the bass drum above the beat and the hi-hat behind the beat," Fish says. "He actually got it from Zeppelin. He had tapes of Bonham playing in the studio by himself, and he actually analyzed them and figured out that Bonham played the hi-hat behind the beat and the snare and bass drum above. He's seriously that anal.
"It got crazy sometimes, though. We'd be playing in the studio and he'd say, 'Play above the beat.' And I would push it and play above the beat, and he's like, 'You're still behind.' And I'm like, 'I'm above. I'm above.' And he'd say, 'No, push it more.' So I'd push it more, and he's like, 'You're still behind.' So I'd go into the control room and listen to the playback, and I'm pushing so far above, I'm not on the click at all. I'm way in front of the beat, to an irritating point.
"Naturally, from my roots and training, I tend to play right on the beat or right behind it, and lock it down. So I went back into the studio and tracked the song again, and I just totally ignored what he was saying. I just said to myself 'I'm going to lock this down right where I think I should put it.' So I did. I locked it down straight onto the beat and he said, 'There, you got it now! You're right above it."'
While the schedule called for Fish to complete his tracks in two weeks, the intrepid basher actually polished off his parts in a mere six days. He's proud of the fact that the majority of drum tracks on Mechanical Animals was recorded on his acoustics. "On the last album, fifty percent were analog and fifty percent were digital," he says. "If it wasn't for Michael Beinhorn, I don't think that would've happened. He's a producer who knows acoustic drums and how to make them sound good. Without him, I could've gotten stuck with a lot more digital drumming."
Manson planned to do a short European tour as soon as the album was finished and had begun rehearsing when Fish came down with a case of mononucleosis. Even though the trip was canceled, Fish got a taste of how the new music was going to translate on stage, and began planning his strategy for the band's upcoming world tour. "This time I plan on being seen," he says. "On the last tour I had a big black drum set, and there were no lights on me. No one would even know if I was back there. But on the next tour, I plan to customize my set so my toms are as low as my snare drums. The set is going to be white or a silver-white, or something like that, so it's really bright. I plan on being as visible as anyone else in the band and getting much more of my image out, because drumming's a very visible thing, and if you can't see the drummer, you're missing part of the show."
Fish had a good reason to hide behind his drums during the Antichrist tour back then, Manson got into the habit of flinging heavy mike stands at Fish's skull during performances, sometimes sending the drummer to the hospital. "Part of me thinks that it's over with," Fish says. "But in the back of my mind I remember that I know these guys better than that. As soon as they get pissed off about something, they're going to start throwing stuff I have a temper, too. If someone pushes me, I'll push back. But it's kind of immature to start kicking and screaming and throwing temper tantrums. I hope that the whole band has grown out of that, but I could still see it happening. And the way my drums are going to be set up, I'm going to be a sitting target."
On the other hand, Fish has the utmost respect for his boss. "Manson is very intelligent," Fish says. "It comes out in his writing. I pick up his lyric sheets and I'm really amazed at how articulate he is." So how does Fish reconcile his willingness to play with a singer who is smart but perfectly willing to crack his skull open on a whim? "There is a very fine line between love and hate," he says. "I walk it every day."


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Let's be straight, this International Women's Day, about women's chief purpose in the eyes of men. Our worth throughout human history has mainly been measured by our fertility. We produced as many babies as we could, because we had to ― to survive as a species, to subsist as agrarians, to produce workers and consumers in the industrial age. But ever since the pill and safe abortions have allowed us to plan our parenthood, men have worried that we're not planning enough of it.
Lately, some of these men are saying they are worried that when we don't have more babies, we're letting ourselves down. We're not living out our dreams. Even worse, we're not achieving our goals. We're failing. Or as The New York Times put it recently, because of our low birth rate, "millennial women won't fulfill their wishes." Plenty of men seem concerned about our baby-producing, but I have a hunch that women's truest wishes are not what they are really worried about.
This piece, which appeared in the Times' data journalism section The Upshot, compares data on what's known as "fertility intentions" (how many babies women say they want to have) with new projections that say millennial women will probably ultimately give birth to 1.8 babies (that's an average; I don't mean to alarm you with images of headless toddlers stumbling down your block). The author, Lyman Stone ― more on his organization in a moment ― bemoans the gap between reality and desire: Those same women say they'd like to have 2.7 babies. The gap between "intentions" and projected reality is the highest it's been in 40 years.
But here's the thing about those expressed intentions: They are the product of surveys conducted before women confront the realities of child rearing. Or use a mortgage calculator. Or navigate an equity-deficient workplace. Those surveys are directed at women who have not yet become parents. Women whose dreams of motherhood are free of compromise and drudgery, who have yet to experience the realities of stepping out of the unequally paid workforce to have babies in a country that doesn't even guarantee paid family leave.
When I was reporting my book One and Only, in which I interrogate our cultural norms around family size, as well as a cover story I wrote for Time about women who opt out of motherhood entirely, I delved deeply into the data and thinking around women's fertility intentions. I read every existing study, interviewed every major researcher in the field, attended conferences in Vienna and Washington. I asked why young women say they want 2.7 children. The answer I heard repeatedly from researchers was essentially: Because they do, and we know they do because that's what the numbers tell us. But there is much the numbers don't tell us, because there is much the surveys don't ask.
These surveys don't ask women questions like: Are you comfortable passing up a promotion for a kid? Or even: How many times a year do you want to go to a movie or have dinner out with friends? As I wrote in my book, it's like asking a tween girl what her perfect wedding looks like. My childhood fantasy was to get married on an island in Boston's Public Garden in a dress my grandmother would take me shopping for in Paris. Instead, my grandmother was confined to a nursing ward, I wore a $200 off-the-rack dress, and we got hitched at my parents' house. My grandmother's absence aside, it was grand. We envision one thing; we live with another. Our ideals change in concert with our emerging realities ― even more so if, as we age, we opt to interrogate what we thought we wanted, and why we thought we wanted it.
"These surveys don't ask women questions like: Are you comfortable passing up a promotion for a kid? Or even: How many times a year do you want to go to a movie or have dinner out with friends?"
Lyman Stone is part of a for-profit forecasting company called Demographic Intelligence, a consortium of demographers who measure fertility intentions. On its homepage, Demographic Intelligence proudly displays the logos of the companies that buy its services: Disney Baby, Pfizer, Bank of America, Merrill Lynch, Procter & Gamble. For these corporations, low fertility is bad for business.
Demographers have long charted the birthrate alongside the economy. Downturns make people feel anxious about affording a kid, while upturns yield baby booms. Except this time. "Far from reversing as America grew out of economic recession, this lost fertility has worsened," Stone argues in the Times. "Lost," "worsened" ― so many women's dreams grievously deferred, right, guys?
It's not mere cynicism to suspect, as I do, that companies are hiring Demographic Intelligence out of something besides deep concern for women's life-course desires. Capitalism requires the production of babies to be workers and consumers, and companies that obtain the services Demographic Intelligence offers ― "to strategically prepare and invest for the future" ― are right in line with House Speaker Paul Ryan's belief that more babies will save the American economy. "I did my part, but we need to have higher birth rates in this country," Ryan (R-Wis.), a father of three, told reporters who'd gathered in December to hear him talk about welfare reform.
In overseeing a GOP that cuts funding for effective contraception and triples down on outlawing abortion, Ryan has certainly "done his part" to ensure more babies are born. But he has done nothing to get American women the structural support found elsewhere in the world, which might enable us to participate in a marketplace that has become dependent upon us while also birthing all those dependents. Researchers have long asserted that even in a down economy, progressive family policies like paid leave and affordable or free child care will raise birthrates, as they have in Europe.
Any demographer will tell you the key predictor of how many babies a woman has is the age at which she first becomes a mother. The average American woman does so at age 26; for European women it's age 30. Certainly, college loans, housing costs, and other concrete factors can help explain why we choose to become mothers when we do. It was hard enough for my generation to achieve a level of stability ― in our bank accounts, our homes, our work lives, not to mention our relationships ― before a positive pregnancy test signified anything other than a true crisis. For millennials, who have come of age in an even more egregiously lopsided economy, it's harder still.
"It was hard enough for my generation to achieve a level of stability before a positive pregnancy test signified anything other than a crisis. For millennials, it's harder still."
At the same time, our ideas about what it means to be a woman are shifting. They have been, in fits and starts, for a century now. Millennial women are finding that the reality of American motherhood is not the stuff of their youthful dreams. They do not want to sacrifice what they've worked for, alongside dudes who didn't have to fight as hard to be heard. They do not want to have their lives reshaped drastically by child rearing. They have seen that the more women are mothers ― having 2.7 instead of two or one, or none ― the less they get to be other elements of themselves.
Hidden away in Stone's Upshot piece, uncloaked in concern about what women want, are data that explain the reality of our intentions in practice: a significant increase in the number of women using long-acting contraception (like intrauterine devices and implants) to prevent pregnancy, and a decline in births outside marriage. And consider this, and Stone's framing between em-dashes: "What began as sharp declines in pregnancy and childbearing among teenagers — typically considered a socially desirable result — has slowly spread up the age cohorts, first to women in their early 20s, then to those in their late 20s."
Women are telling us what they want, when they have access to birth control and safe, affordable pregnancy termination. In other words, what women want is not to have babies they don't want. If that's "socially undesirable," as Stone seems to suggest, then it's worth considering whose desires are really in play. I suspect they reflect the corporate concerns of Disney and Pfizer, and the political ones of Paul Ryan, rather than what women want at all.
Lauren Sandler is a journalist and the author of Righteous, One and Only and a forthcoming book about a year in the life of a young homeless mother.


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