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The Prize:
The winner of the One Month Protective Styling Challenge will receive 4 (Yes, FOUR!) full size Bee Mine Products of YOUR choice!
Incase you need a reminder of how much we love these products click here and here.
- How well you follow the rules
- How well your overall plan of action sounds
- & Being creative doesn't hurt!
Of course, you must do our weekly check-in's and include a picture. 'A' will not be eligible for the prize.
Age: 4 years old
Plan of action:
- Wash hair with Bee Mine Peppermint & Tea Tree Nourishing Shampoo & Bee Mine Avoacado Cream Balanced Conditioner the weekend before the challenge
- Style hair in cornrow/twist mix using Luscious Balanced Cream Moisturizer, Bee Hold Curly Butter & Juicy Moisturizing Daily Spritz.
- Leave style #1 in for at least one week
- Moisturize ends of twists each night with Luscious Balanced Cream Moisturizer then spray twists each morning with Juicy Moisturizing Daily Spritz. Cover hair with satin bonnet each night.
- Massage scalp for a few minutes with Bee Loved Hair & Scalp Moisturizer every 3 days
- Retwist any twists if needed using Bee Hold Curly Butter
- Wash hair with Bee Mine Peppermint & Tea Tree Nourishing Shampoo & Bee Mine Avoacado Cream Balanced Conditioner once a week, restyle in another protective style as needed and repeat other steps (moisturizing ends with luscious moisturizer each night, spraying with spirtz each morning, etc)
Age: 3 (Bday 6/28)
Plan of action:
- Wash and deep condition hair with Macadamia Natural Oil rejuvenating shampoo/Deep repair masque
- Moisturize the hair with Macadamia Natural Oil Nourishing leave in cream and Healing oil treatment
- Protective style of choice: two strand twist, leave in for one week.
- Use setting lotion to set twists
- Spray hair with________?? not sure what to use here
- wash hair once a week and restyle ( she has swim lessons and we dont so a swim cap)
Age: 2
Plan of action:
- Wash/condition/moisturize hair on April 30 (day before challenge begins)
- Braid hair up for the week (either cornrows or simple box braids)
- Moisturize braids daily (1x in morning and and 1x at night)
- Retouch any braids as necessary during the week
- Repeat steps above every Sunday during the challenge month!!
Age: 4
Plan of action:
- Wash and Deep Condition hair day before the challenge begins then two strand flat twist the front of her hair and two strand twist the back of her hair leave in for 2 weeks and then repeat wash and deep condition and then two strand twist hair all over for remaining 2 weeks.
Age: 7 and 4
Plan of action:
- Washing with Dr. Bronner's Peppermint Castile Soap, condition with Amenta Aromatherapy Rose Mint Conditioner, Creme of Nature Lemongrass Leave In/Olive Oil
- Styling product - my homemade shea butter mixture mixed with a little gel for hold or AfroVeda Ginger Almond Butter Cream (cause I need to get rid of it).
- Protective style of choice will be two strand twists for both girls, freshen after two weeks without washing ( I usually wash once a month anyways). They will get a daily spritz of Jessicurl Awe Inspiraling Spray, and moisturize when necessary.
- After one month take down, and I may start over again.
Age: 3 years young
Plan of action:
- Week 1: Wash with JASON sea kelp shampoo and DC with conditioning mix (JASON sea kelp conditioner+Queen Helene's cholesterol cream).
- Weeks 2-4: Co-wash with conditioning mix.
- Air-dry and detangle with water+Kid's Organics moisturizing lotion mix.
- Add EVCO+EVOO mix to damp hair to seal in moisture.
- Moisturize scalp with moisturizing mix (unrefined shea butter and EVCO and EVOO mix).
- Moisturize and seal hair with JC Nourish&Shine.
- Protective style of choice: Alternate weekly between 3-4 plaits (large) and 2strand twists (medium-large) with her ends tucked somehow more than likely bantu knots using JC Twist&Lock and moisturizing mix to set.
- Spray hair daily with leave-in conditioning mix (water+Giovanni Direct Leave-in)
Age: 2.5
Plan of action:
- Braids for a week(wash and condition day before,apply moisturizer and let air dry in 4-5 plaits,braid the next day with shea butter or styling creme from darcy botanicals,sleep with du rag on, spray each morning with mixture(conditioner,aloe vera gel,glycerin,water).
Box Braids for 2 weeks(same plan as above plus wash every 3 days).
Age: 5
Plan of action:
- Wash and deep condition hair with Herbal Essences Hello Hydration 1 day before challenge.
- Moisturize the hair with Taliah Waajid Protective Mist Bodifier right after washing
- Band hair immediately after moisturizing. I will define her curls with 2 strand twist
- PI will leave the style foe 4-5 days.
- I will use Taliah Waajid Protective Mist Bodifier, or curly Q's Moist Curls Moisturizer/Detangle to set two strand twists
- i will Spray hair 2x per day with Taliah Waajid Protective Mist Bodifier, or curly Q's Moist Curls Moisturizer/Detangle
- Wash hair 1x per week.
- Take her twist out.
- Then style again. Maybe large corn rolls and she does not need a rubber-band the hair forms a curl and holds the braids.
Age: 11
Plan of action:
- Wash hair with "Kinky-Curly Come Clean" 2 days before challenge.
- Moisturize the hair with "Kinky-Curly Knot Today" right after washing.
- Detangle with wide tooth comb and Denman D3 (hair dripping wet w/ Knot Today in) and braid hair in 6 sections (bands at top and bottom of each) immediately after moisturizing. Take each braid down on pre-style day 2, separate each into 2 sections. Lightly mist w/ water, brush and band (12 banded sections).
- Protective style of choice: Box braids, twisted at the ends, using "Oyin Handmade Burnt Sugar Pomade" to set. Leave in for 4 weeks (we'll see).
- Moisturize 1x per day with: spray bottle water, steam from the shower, or spritz with "Oyin Handmade Juices 'n Berries."
- Seal ends 1x per day (before bed): Virgin coconut oil/Shea butter mix
- 1x per week with box braids in: 1) Oil/Massage scalp (on the parts) with "Trader Joe's Jojoba Oil", let sit with a conditioning cap on for at least 30 min 2) Wash hair with "Oyin Handmade Honey Wash" 3) Apply "Oyin Handmade Honey Hemp Conditioner" as leave-In 4) Apply virgin coconut oil as sealant over braids.
Age: 5
Plan of action:
- Wash and deep condition with giovanni deep moisture shampoo and deep condi with spiral solutions deeply decadent deep treatment
- style of choice: braids
- Use a mix of giovanni leave in w/ distilled water and jojoba oil to freshen style
- Co wash on monday after swim class
Age: 5 years old
Plan of action:
- Our plan is to start off with some simple braids. Using Wave Nouveau finishing mist as a moisturizer ...spraying his hair at least two times a week(weather is crazy). Cowash next week with 4 big braids to allow for airdrying because Laverius was just cowashed last Saturday. Rebraid Laverius hair and hope to get two weeks from the style. For the last week I hope to give Laverius some big box braids. If our plan does not go this route he will have some type of braids or braids that end with twist and cowashing. Trying to keep it simple with scheduling being very hectic..I have his other brothers to braid as well and whew I'm going to be one busy bee.
Age: 2 and a half
Plan of action:
- (WEEK1) I plan to wash Ny-Ny's hair the night before the challenge starts. Product of choice- Blended Cutie Silky Swirls Shampoo and Blended Cutie Tug me not conditioner. After washing I will finger detangle her hair using Blended Cutie Curly Cake Shake and Blended Cutie Down and Out Styles to set her Protective Style of Choice - TWO STRAND TWIST. Every morning and night I plan to moisturize her hair with Blended Cutie Satin Style Reviver.
- (WEEK 2) Take out twist, wash, condition and detangle hair as above - Protective Style of Choice - BRAIDS. Moisturize with Blended Cutie Satin Style Reviver
- (WEEK 3) Take out twist, wash, condition and detangle hair as above - Protective Style of Choice - THREESTRAND TWIST. Moisturize with Blended Cutie Satin Style Reviver
- (WEEK 4) Take out twist, wash, condition and detangle hair as above - Protective Style of Choice - TWO STRAND TWIST. Moisturize with Blended Cutie Satin Style Reviver
Age: 6
Plan of action:
- Protective Style of Choice: Different variations of cornrows/braids
- I washed and deep conditioned Anisa's hair 3 days before I styled it using Herbal Essence Hello Hydration shampoo and conditioner. I then applied Giovanni Direct Leave-In. I put her hair in several ponytails and left them in for 3 days. Before I braided her hair, I took the ponytails down and applied coconut oil.
- She will have this style for 1 week. I will apply coconut oil/shea butter as needed (depending on if they look dry).
- I will probably use Deva Curl No-Poo cleanser to cleanse her scalp between styling.
- I would like for the ends of her braids to be curly. I'll see what happens in a few days.
Age: 16 months
Plan of action:
- Wash and deep conditon hair with Organix Coconut milk shampoo and Herbal Essence Hello Hydration
- Mosutirize hair with Giovoni leave in conditioner after washing
- Moisterize hair with Shea butter, coconut oil and olive oil mix, After moisteizing the hair I will make 6 big plats around her hair to stretch for 1 day and then take them out and re-braid them again and leave in for another day
- Protective style of week one: two strand twist
- I will use Afro Veda Pur Wipped Gelly and AfroVeda Totally Twisted Almond Butter to set the twist
- Spray hair with glycerin mix 1xper day
Age: 2
Plan of action:
- find her a satin pillow case! (yes, still don't have one, i know!)
- Wash and deep condition hair with Organix Coconut Milk 1 day before challenge.
- Moisturize the hair with leave in conditioner (not sure which one yet) right after washing
- Protective style of choice: Sister twists. Leave in for 2 weeks.
- Use shea butter, aloe vera & (possibly Twists & Locs Natural Honey Locking Formula) to set Sister twists
- Spray hair 1x per day with leave in conditioner
- Wash hair 1x per week with Sister twists in
- Twist out hair after 2 weeks
- Keep twist out for 1 week
- Wash hair at end of 3rd week
- Moisturize the hair with leave in conditioner right after washing
- Finger comb out & let "poof" for week 4
- Spray hair 1x per day with leave in conditioner
Ages: 6 & 11 years old
Plan of action:
- Ms. Priss (6) will be wearing her hair in a braid/twist style. I will wash, dc, band, and moisturize her hair the day before styling. The day of styling I will spritz with leave in to loosen curls enough to style w/o hurting her head. Her style will be washed 1x a week, and taken down at the end of wk 2 if looking ragged to wash and restyle. Jamaican Black Castor Oil will be applied to their scalp 2x a week and their ends moisturized with oil daily. The Artist (11) will have the same routine as Ms. Priss, but her hair will be in a cornrow style.
Ages: 2
Plan of action:
- Detangle hair w/ a spray mix of water & Giovanni Direct Leave-in, a Wide Tooth Comb & Denman Brush
- Apply EVCO to the length of hair as a pre-poo, leaving it on for a couple of hours while they play or take naps.
- Shampoo hair w/ Curly Q's Curlie Cutie Cleansing Cream & Condition w/ Curly Q's Coconut Dream Moisturizing Conditioner. This wash routine will be repeated once a week.
- After hair is washed, part hair into 4 sections. Apply Kids Organics Shea Butter Detangling Lotion to Each Section & Brush through w/ Denman. 'Grease' the scalp w/ Jane Carter Nourish & Shine & Seal & Brush through w/ soft bristle brush. Apply a small amount of the Nourish & Shine to the hair to seal in the moisture & then braid each section, allowing the hair to air-dry overnight.
- The following morning unbraid each section one at a time, and gently comb out w/ a wide tooth comb, applying more of the Shea Butter Detangling Lotion if Needed.
- Once hair is unbraided & detangled, begin braiding or doing 2-strand twists, applying a shea butter/EVCO mix to the braids or twists.
- In the mornings, if their hair looks frizzy, I will lightly spray their hair w/ water & smooth EVCO over their hair. Then I will apply a silk scarf for 5 minutes to flatten their edges & any fly-aways.
- They will sleep in a satin cap & on a satin pillowcase at night.
- To maintain moisture throughout the week, I will spray their hair w/ a mixture of water & Giovanni Direct Leave In & seal their hair w/ EVCO.
Age: 4
Plan of action:
- Wash and deep condition her hair on May 1
- Moisturize and style after washing
- Apply moisturizer as needed during the week
- wash 1x per week and repeat steps
Age: 2 years old
Plan of action:
- Wash and Condition hair with Curly Q Shampoo and conditioner. Use Giovanni direct leave in comb and put into four big twist 3 days before challenge.
- The night before challenge we will put her hair in tiny 2 strand twist and leave in for as long as they will stay probably a week.
- We will use Natural Oasis shea butter to set her twist.
- Spray her hair twice a day with curly q Moist Curls Moisturizer.
- Wash her hair once a week and probably have to redo the protective style.
Age: Both age 5
Plan of action:
- Wash and Condition hair with Curly Q Shampoo and conditioner. Use Giovanni direct leave in comb and put into four big twist 3 days before challenge.
- Wash/condition/moisturize hair
- Protective style of choice - small cornrows for first two weeks for Joeliana (this seems to protect her extremely thick hair) and loose box braids of cornrows for Alia
- Moisturize ends each night and add coconut oil to scalp as needed
- Spray each morning with water/oil mixture or spray conditioner
- Keep this style in for two weeks with two co-washes each weekend.
- In two weeks take out cornrows, deep condition and put in another protective style.
Age: 2
Plan of action:
- Two days before the challenge Pre-poo her hair with a homemade Mixture(Shea Butter,EVOO,V05 Condish and Honey)Leave the mixture in for 45 mins cover with a plastic cap and let her play.Shampoo and Condish with Coconut Organix, Detangle with Modified Denman brush Moisturize with Shea Butter mix and Coconut Organix Condish.Braid 6 big plats to stretch Hair seal the ends with Coconut oil.Spay hair with Homemade hair spritz cover with silk Bonnet(satin pillow case just in case it comes off..)
- Next Day Braid hair into pixie braids(box braids)Moisturize and Seal with Shea mix and Aloe,
- (How to maintain Pixie braids)Co-wash every other day w/Vo5 Tea Therpy seal with Coconut oil spray homemade spritz at night and morning(Re-braid if fuzzy in the front)
- Week 3 Take braids down and Clarify hair with Baking Soda and ACV rinse Co-wash and 2 strand twist hair spray with Homemade hair Spritz and seal with Coconut oil on the ends and scalp.
- Week 4 take twist down Co-wash with White Rain Tropical Coconut Condish and Do a Benzonite clay mask on hair for deep cleaning and to stretch curls. Wash out after 45 min Detangle hair with condish and EVOO and let her have her fro or Afro Puffs for 3 days Keep it moisturized with leave in condish,Shea Butter, and Coconut oil
(**Vid of Pre-Poo treatment)
Age: 4 (bday-6/17)
Plan of action:
- Wash hair with Creme of Nature Shampoo and Creme of Nature Nourishing Conditioner
- Style hair into box braids/twists with Motions Hair and Scalp Daily Moisturizing Hairdressing
- Leave style in for a week (at least)
- Moisturize ends with Parnevu Leave-in conditioner and spray the braids/twists in the morning (to refresh) with John Frieda Frizz-Ease Dream Curls.
- Re-twist/braid as necessary with Motions hair and scalp daily moisturizing hairdressing
- Repeat steps 1-5 and restyle.
All of the children are absolutely adorable! Thanks so much to everyone who signed their child(ren) up. Also big thanks to Bee Mine Products for being so generous with your giveaway!
Please go ahead and email me your child's protective style picture. Also email me by May 9th a recently updated picture (preferably taken the weekend of May 7th-May 9th) of your child's protective style to show how it is holding up. Subject: Protective Styling Challenge Week 1
Answer the following questions in your email: (highlight, press CTRL + C on your keyboard, and paste in email)
What was your protective style of choice?
Have you been following the rules?
Have you stuck with your plan of action? (if you changed anything let us know)
How did your child's style hold up for the first week?
Do you plan on restyling for week 2? (if so, what do you plan on doing?)
Other: (optional)
If you switch up the style by doing a ponytail or pigtails or anything, feel free to send those pictures in as well.
I look forward to hearing from you all soon! Happy Styling!


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The rise of Super PACs should come as no surprise. The limits imposed by McCain-Feingold in 2002 did not remove the drive to influence politics. Instead, it made certain that wealthy donors would have to find a back-door way of contributing to political advertising without "coordinating" with individual candidates and parties.
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Claimed the compensation as owner-in-fee of Revolution Hall in Grenada, the compensation for which was paid to the trustees of his marriage settlement, Edmund Broderip (Smith's father-in-law) and T.S. Horner (both of whom q.v.). In Britain from c. 1793 to 1833, but appears to have moved to Grenada c. 1833.
Illegitimate son of the Grenada slave-owner William Smith and Sarah Jean [or Dean] 'now living with me' [William Smith] in Grenada. Smith's will dated July 15 1793, registered 08/11/1794 (but with handwritten note on margin 'proved 30 April 1803') shows an annuity of £150 later £700 to Smith's lawful wife Elizabeth Smith (will revoked if she challenges it); Sarah Jean [or Dean] to stay in house at Revolution Hall, £100 currency immediately, annuity of £150 sterling. £2000 sterling left to pay interest to children 'being known and called by the descriptions following 'Mary Smith now in England and Grace Smith in Grenada', and to Richard Oliver Smith 'now in England aged 5 years and 2 months'.
Identified as of Gower Street on 23/07/1822 when he served as trustee for a marriage settlement; on 18/02/1833 a quitclaim appears between Richard Oliver Smith and his fellow trustees (Rogers Weatherall and Francis Broderip): Richard Oliver Smith was 'released from trusteeship' to live in West Indies.
His first wife was Harriet Gee; they married in St Pancras, London, 21/08/1806. They had a daughter Emily, born in Chelsea, Middlesex, in 1808, who married Rev. John Nurse (q.v.) in Grenada in 1835. Richard divorced Harriet for adultery an in 1819 married for a second time, to Mary Broderip, in Wells, Somerset, England. They had a daughter, Elizabeth Georgiana, baptised in 1828 in Exeter, Devon. Mary was born 23/12/1787 in Wells, England, and baptised at Wells Cathedral. She died 23/02/1829 and was buried 05/03/1829 in Bathwick, Bath, in the same grave as Elizabeth Harriet, infant daughter of Mary's sister Charlotte Mary, who had married Robert Savage in Wells in 1824.
Richard Joseph Sanderson Smith, born in Trinidad c. 1837 (and whose mother is currently unknown) went on to marry Pauline Josephine Nicholson in Middlesex in 1859. His son Richard John Sanderson Smith changed his surname to Levingston 04/04/1890 by deed poll when he became a partner in his uncle Charles Levingston's shipping line which operated between Rotterdam and Leith.
T71/880 Grenada claim no. 591 (Revolution Hall Estate).
Will of William Smith of Revolution Hall proved 30/04/1803 [administration having been granted 08/11/1794], PROB 11/1252/34.
National Archives, A2A records of Holy Trinity Marylebone Road held at London Metropolitan Archives, P89_TRI/130 1822-35.
Familysearch batch no. M51385-3, I01821-5 and C05051-2. Ancestry.com, London, England, Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812 [database online]. http://agenealogyhunt.blogspot.co.uk/2011/09/part-568s-smith-robertson-genealogy.html [accessed 10/01/2014]. Email from Richard Levingston 30/07/2014. Monumental inscription from Vere Langford Oliver, Caribbeana being miscellaneous papers relating to the history, genealogy, topography, and antiquities of the British West Indies (6 vols., London, Mitchell, Hughes and Clarke, 1910-1919), vol. 1 p. 178: "Mary, the much lamented Wife of Richard Oliver Smith Esqre, and daughter of Edmund Broderip Esqre, she departed this Life Feby 23 1829 in the 40th year of her Age." Bathwick memorial inscriptions https://www.batharchives.co.uk/sites/bath_record_office/files/BWK%20Bathwick%20Memorial%20Inscriptions.pdf [accessed 05/10/2020], "Underneath are deposited the remains of MARY, the much lamented wife of RICHARD OLIVER SMITH Esq and daughter of EDMUND BRODERIP Esq, she departed this life Feb 25th1829 in the 40thyear of her age Also ELIZABETH HARRIET, infant daughter of ROBERT SAVAGE Esq, who died September 28th1825."
Emails from Richard Levingston 30/07/2014 and 15/08/2014. In 1861 Richard S. Smith age 24 born Trinidad was living at 7 Victoria Terrace, Paddington, with his mother-in-law Clarissa T. Nicholson age 53, wife Pauline J. Smith age 20 and his newborn daughter.
We are grateful to Richard John Levingston, Ceris Humphreys, Sonia Baker and John Clarke for their help with compiling this entry.
Mary Broderip
£4,210 16s 8d
Unsuccessful claimant
The dates listed below have different categories as denoted by the letters in the brackets following each date. Here is a key to explain those letter codes:
1817 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
Father-in-law → Son-in-law
Natural Son → Father
Other relatives
Notes →
Smith and Savage married sisters, Charlotte Mary and Mary, who were also the sisters of Edmund Broderip...
Gower Street, London, Middlesex, London, England


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In "Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul." Regina Hall plays Trinitie Childs, the first lady of a megachurch that's been temporarily closed after a scandal involving her husband. In order to rebuild their church and retain their lavish lifestyle, Trinitie must help her husband win back their 25,000 congregants, starting with a planned return to the pulpit on Easter Sunday. But a number of things get in the way of that happening, meaning, of course, that it's going to take a lot of humility and humor for the couple to find their way back to their former glory if they can. We wanted to learn more about the film, so we have called actress Regina Hall. She's with me now. Regina, welcome to ALL THINGS CONSIDERED.
REGINA HALL: Thank you very much. Thank you for having me.
GONYEA: You play the first lady of a Baptist megachurch. For those who don't know, that is the title for the preacher's wife, but it's also more than just a title. It is like it's a political position, one that's often about optics and public perception. I'm wondering what drew you to this character?
HALL: Oh, I thought she was fascinating. She had a quiet strength about her. And, of course, I loved the world - the backdrop of this situation with this couple. And, I don't know, I thought she would be interesting because she's reserved but she's really strong and flawed. You know, she also has her attraction to what comes with that life.
GONYEA: It feels like she's got the toughest job in the whole church.
HALL: Yeah. Yeah, I think she does. Yeah. Well, navigating, you know, her husband, who's, as she describes him, difficult to harness at times, she's got a tough job - tougher than I ever thought. Never really considered all that they had to do because they're not the face of who we see when we think of megachurches. But they certainly play a pivotal role.
GONYEA: I did know that your grandmother would take you to Baptist Church.
HALL: Yes.
GONYEA: And I wonder what that experience was like and whether or not that shaped this role at all.
HALL: I was too little to understand anything about the - I probably didn't even notice the first lady. What I did notice was - you know, I probably felt like little Aria. It was quite entertaining for me.
GONYEA: And Aria - little Aria is a character in the film.
HALL: Yes, little Aria is a character in the film who - she loves the spectacle of church and getting the Holy Spirit. And so I think for me, it was so different than the church that my mother went to - you know? - which was a much quieter church. And so whenever I would go to my grandmother's church, I just - I was always, I don't know, surprised by the singing and the speaking in tongues - you know? - and the choir. It was just - it was larger an experience than probably what I was used to.
GONYEA: The couple at the center of the film is very, well, wealthy but also always dressed in finery. And in fact, at one point, you, talking about your husband in the film - Lee-Curtis Childs, played by Sterling K. Brown - you say, there's nothing like a pastor in Prada or...
HALL: Yeah. Yes, Yes. She looks at him, and she's talking. And she says, oh, there's just something about a pastor in Prada, as they're in this enormous closet and displaying all of their blessings. And they've got a lot. That's quite a closet they have in there.
GONYEA: Well, it's clear this couple loves their wealth, but they also believe, I think, they're doing God's work. Or do they?
HALL: I believe they really do. I believe that that is sincere. You know, we often talked about probably when they started, they were full of sincerity. But, you know, as time and things changed, you know, there was something that got corrupted or tainted in the thinking. And, you know, it just became more and more. And they definitely - I mean, yes, they have a lot. They have cars. They have planes. They have everything. And yet when you - when the movie starts, you also see this kind of empty, large, hollow church.
GONYEA: The film, at its core, is about a couple rehabilitating their image and maybe their marriage after a sex scandal. There are certainly serious moments and questions being asked in the film, but it never gets too, you know, over-the-top heavy. But I'm wondering if that was a tough balance to strike, having to keep things funny even as they got serious.
HALL: I mean, yeah. I mean, I think the directors definitely were conscious to know that certain things are best swallowed with a little dose of something sweet, you know? And so that humor allowed a way into this world. And, you know, they certainly do respect the church and love so many things about the church. But there's an awareness that it could do better. You know, it could do - it could be better. And I think having to toe the fine line of - we didn't want to make these people caricatures. So, you know, you certainly want to make the humanity come through so that, you know, they're not - they're neither good nor bad. You know, it's a complex situation that has been building for a long time.
GONYEA: What do you take away from this film, and what might you want your audiences to take away from it?
HALL: Oh, gosh, that's a really good question. You know, I mean, when I read it, the biggest thing I loved is that I thought about it afterwards. It was a script I read, and I kept thinking it will mean many different things for many different people - people who've grown up in the church, many people who haven't grown up in the church or don't know the church. And ultimately, we hope people enjoy it, too.
GONYEA: And it feels like a film about second chances, even if those second chances can be very elusive.
HALL: Yeah (laughter). Yes, it is. It is. Yeah. It is very elusive. But we've got our devout five, right?
GONYEA: Those five people who show up no matter what.
HALL: No matter what. No matter what. Devout five.
GONYEA: That was actress Regina Hall. Her new film, "Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul." will be out in theaters and streaming on Peacock on September 2. Regina Hall, thanks so much for joining us.
HALL: Thank you for having me. Thank you so much.
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This site has moved!Monday, November 12, 2012I'm not joking. Three years later, cabel.name is now cabel.me. I'll keep this blog around for historical purposes. Comments no longer work and it will no longer be updated. Soon it will be haunted by ghosts. Enjoy. The Best Fast Food ReceiptMonday, October 12, 2009I'm not a real "fast food" guy. I don't really love burgers, and I don't really love super fried or greasy things, and I realize that by making both of these statements it's very possible that the Department of Bro-land Security will revoke my man-certificate. That said, I've always admired Burgerville, Oregon (and Southern Washington's) home-grown fast food chain. Burgerville goes out of their way to feature seasonal , local ingredients in monthly menu items. When a cyclist was denied drive-through service and caused a Twitter PR ruckus, they re-trained staff, put up "bicycle in lane" signs, and offered free milkshakes to cyclists. When they opened a box of Gardenburgers and "became concerned about the look and texture of the product" (!), this caused Kelloggs to shut down Gardenburger production for six months, and they switched to a locally-made product. So, I was happy to see that Burgerville is now testing the coolest receipt ever. (Pictured at left.) They're from company called Nutricate (tip: if you have to put a pronunciation guide next to your name, you need a new name). And, as you can see, they provide highly accurate nutritional info for your meal. I mean, it's not surprising that tartar sauce is high on calories. But it was slightly surprising that Sweet Potato Fries were so much "worse" than regular fries. Sure, there is some irony that you get this receipt after you've paid for your meal. But I say any nutritional education is better than none at all! (Oh, and confidential to Burgerville: the only thing left to do? It's time to fix your interior design and remodel your stores. The sock-hoppy, jukeboxy theme of your restaurants is total disconnect from your modern, local, fresh message. You designed a great interior with Noodlin' (R.I.P.) — get those guys fixing Burgerville!) Next Time: The Disneyland Scammer Kashiwa Mystery CafeWednesday, September 30, 2009So, we're in Japan, and we've just stepped off the train in Kashiwa, a very nice town in Chiba which also happens to be the home of Panic's Japanese HQ, which itself happens to be essentially a cozy apartment, which reminds me of Panic USA 1.0, except Noby and Kenichi don't live in the apartment, and the apartment is in Japan. Anyway. Noby wasn't there yet, so we wandered around the station a little bit, enjoying the good weather and banking on Cabel's First Rule of Japan: if you wander around anywhere in Japan for a little bit, you will come across something interesting. (This is also Cabel's First Rule of Everything.) So we came across something interesting: ...which despite have a semi-unfortunate acronym, was a collection of elegant, architecturally-cool buildings, possibly part of a temporary exhibition to excite the citizens of Kashiwa, with a nice wooden deck with some inviting café tables. We sat down to catch a break. A few seconds later, I heard some halted English coming from my left. "Hello! Please come here!" This was unusual for Japan, because although most Japanese city centers seemed to be filled with hundreds of unregulated and overdriven speakers, I've rarely, if ever, been beckoned in English and in person. It caught me off guard. I wandered over. The cashier fumbled for the right words. "Please... buy something!" OK, this was confusing, because up until this point nobody in Japan has ever outright asked — let alone strongly suggested — I buy anything, ever. In some regions of China, for example, it's normal to be followed for blocks by plucky street vendors, with sooty caps and using the Chinese word for "guv'nor" (省长), trying to sell the hapless tourist genuine 24k goldique watches, small angry turtles, expired pudding, Steely Dan CD-R's, and the like. But simply doesn't happen in Japan — just like it also probably doesn't happen in China either because I've never been there and this entire paragraph is based only on bad movies and stereotypes. While I was a little uncomfortable, I didn't want to be rude. I grabbed a café menu, quickly translated some Katakana (you'll get surprisingly far in Japan by learning this phonetic alphabet!), and found something I kind-of almost.. but not really.. wanted. "I'll take an orange juice, please," I explained, in poor Japanese. "Hai!", was the eager response. A few moments later, I picked up my orange juice. Except it wasn't an orange juice. It was an apple drink called "Appletizer", some weird candy, and a little card. Yeah. Now I was confused. The guys behind the counter and I immediately launched into a humorous, protracted, Englishanese attempt to understand what the hell just happened. Through judicious fumbling, and after a great deal of precise hand-waving and mangled pronouns, it turned out to be something like this: At this cafe, you get what the person before you ordered. The next person gets what you ordered. Welcome to the Ogori cafe! As I sat down to enjoy my surprise Appletizer, loving this insane idea and wondering what would happen if you tried it in America, a Japanese woman approached the cafe. Since she could actually speak Japanese, she could read the large sign at the front and, fortunately or unfortunately, got advanced warning of what she was in for. Before making a final decision on what to order, she quietly snuck up to me to try to ask me what I had ordered, knowing that it would be her unwavering refreshment destiny. The staff put a quick stop to her trickery, and I didn't answer. Of course, regardless of what she ordered, she got the orange juice I ordered a few minutes earlier. But here's one of the moments that make this experiment cool: she actually chose orange juice, just like I did. So she got what she wanted. Ogori cafe synchronicity! Before we left, there was one last thing hat had to be done. Mike went up to the cafe, slapped down a couple thousand yen (~$25), and ordered a little bit of everything: some ice cream, some snacks, some candy, some drinks, a Japanese horn-of-mysterious-plenty intentionally set up as a shocking surprise for the next lucky customer. (After his order, Mike received single iced coffee.) As we walked away from the cafe, with just the right amount of delay, we heard an extremely excited "arigato goazimasu!! thank you so much!!" yelled in our direction, from an ecstatic mom and her equally excited young son. They truly appreciated the surprise. It was so worth it. For the record, here are the rules of the Ogori cafe:
Then, according to Noby, as quickly as it appeared, the Ogori cafe was gone. Next time: The Best Fast Food Receipt In The World Windows 7 PartyTuesday, September 22, 2009Good news! Microsoft recently released some very helpful tips for hosting your own Windows 7 party! Can I just stop here, and can we be honest with each other? Does this kind of acting resonate with anybody? (As Steve noted, it's totally Shovin' Buddies! ) Are there people who can relate to — let alone enjoy — this video? And has there even been a more vibrant and tangible demonstration of the difference between Apple and Microsoft? Anyway. Turns out, though, it's a lot more fun when you imagine these guys are helping you plan a... slightly different party. (I apologize for this childishness. It's mostly this guy's fault.) Next Time: Kashiwa Mystery Cafe. Seriously. I'm even done writing it! Yay! Fireworks! 2009!Saturday, July 04, 2009Somehow the tradition continues! While the funniest fireworks seem to have been in previous (2008) Yay! Fireworks installments (2007), this year's trip to Blackjack still yielded some amazing surprises. Enjoy. Special Bonus FeatureI've told you before about The Gauntlet: the long, treacherous stretch of Vancouver, Washington road that leads to two competing fireworks stands: Blackjack and TNT. Armed to the teeth with minimally-paid teenagers, and with an ever-escalating arms race of inflatable bouncy castles and discounted diet soda, The Gauntlet will not stop — nay, will not take so much as a single restful breath — until you make The True Choice on where to spend your fireworks money.For 2009, I present to you: The Gauntlet HD. Joby Joby BoyFriday, July 03, 2009Let me be clear: I have no intention of this becoming a baby pictures blog. That said, I thought it worth noting to you, the cabel.name-interested, that, one week ago, we welcomed the arrival of Joby Finn Sasser, our brand new baby boy. Already awash in the gaming world (which means he'll be a football broker, right?), here he's about to be wrapped up by Keita Takahashi's Noby Noby Boy. (And our cat.) This plush Boy was a totally amazing gift from Keita — if you can believe this, it was made by his sister! Joby also really loves Girl . So, yeah, baby time! Red hair!? Really long fingers! Doing awesome, fitting right into our lives. (Also: Nicole is amazing.) New life! Let's go! Next time, I swear: Japan Mystery Cafe It just dawned on me that now, at one week old, Joby Sasser will already have a Google hit to his name — with a baby picture. Will this page still be here when he's 21? Will Google? Joby, if this is embarrassing to future-you, just send your dad a holographic e-mail, but set it to 4D — I probably haven't upgraded to 5D yet.
The Most Intense Gamer EverTuesday, June 16, 2009Panic Sale!Wednesday, May 27, 2009Sorry to interrupt your regular blog content: but, did you hear? Panic is having a sale! All of our major Mac apps are 50% off. Transmit! Coda! Unison! CandyBar! Cheap! For three days only. Act now! Click here and make it happen! We thank you. Well, if I can't convince you, maybe this guy can: (Here's a YouTube version!) © 2009 Cabel Sasser |


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During the 12th Global Mobile Broadband Forum (MBBF), Huawei Executive Director of the Board and Chairman of ICT Infrastructure Managing Board David Wang, delivered a keynote speech titled Roads to Mobile 2030: 10 Wireless Industry Trends, saying "Huawei has identified 10 wireless industry trends to define future-oriented wireless networks and prepare the industry for the Intelligent World 2030."
As he explained, by 2030, the digital and physical worlds will become deeply integrated, creating a near-real-life experience. The digital economy will also become a primary driver of the real economy, and industry will shift focus from device efficiency to decision-making efficiency. But these advances will also need us to achieve intrinsic network security and to improve energy efficiency to protect the environment through green growth.
Mobile networks will be an important part of Huawei's Intelligent World 2030 concept, and so Wang summarized the 10 trends we will see in the mobile industry over the next decade.
Trend 1: 10 Gbps for Physical-Digital Integration
In the future, digital communications will be used to expand and deepen exchanges of information between people, delivering multi-sensory experiences including hearing, sight, touch, and smell. To enable these features, mobile networks will need to support 10 Gbps at millisecond latency everywhere and transmit information in ways that are more semantically organized.
Trend 2: One Network for 100-Billion All-Scenario IoT Connections
Digital society will be reshaped by the 100 billion thing-to-thing connections cellular networks will have to support by 2030. Driven mainly by all-scenario IoT, networks will have to begin offering different types of connections services, differentiated by speed and priority requirements. This means a deterministic experience with lower latency and higher reliability must be delivered and a new form of wireless IoT that features ultra-low power consumption and passive connections must be created.
Trend 3: Satellite-Ground Collaboration for 3D Coverage
Satellite-ground collaboration will plug the gaps in wireless ground coverage and achieve three-dimensional airspace coverage, enabling communications and control for future drones and aircrafts. Mobile networks, with their exiting advanced communications technologies and multi-trillion dollar market, will also likely be used to nurture the new satellite communications technologies.
Trend 4: Integrated Sensing & Communications for True Digital Replicas
Sensing and communications will be further integrated, enabling real-time digital replication of the physical world and facilitating high-level autonomous driving and drone management. Both radio interfaces and network architectures will need to be similarly integrated and sensing resolution technology will need to advance to the centimeter level using ultra-wideband with Massive MIMO to achieve these functions.
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As network traffic grows 100 times over in the next few years, there will be an equal spike in demand for solutions that reduce network energy consumption. Per-bit energy efficiency will also need to improve at a similar rate. Energy efficiency must be considered in every aspect of network design, including radio interfaces, devices, and sites. This will enable the construction of these full-link and full-lifecycle green and sustainable networks.
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By 2030, nations will need an average of 2 GHz mid-band bandwidth and over 20 GHz of bandwidths on millimeter wave to accommodate growing traffic. The industry will need to facilitate the evolution of sub-100 GHz spectrum to NR and redefine spectrum utilization using multi-band integration and other innovative technologies to achieve 10-fold spectral efficiency improvement.
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Per-bit data transmission costs will be reduced as multi-antenna technologies begin to be applied to every spectrum band and every scenario. Ultra-wideband modular antennas will support flexible combinations of multiple bands and intelligent reflecting surfaces will apply multi-antenna technologies in more scenarios to enable cloud-based, higher-performance deployment.
Trend 9: Security as the Cornerstone for a Digital Future
Intrinsic device security and intelligent and simplified security at the network layer will become increasingly important as network security and resilience come more into the global spotlight. Operators will need to provide these kinds of simplified security services via cloud-network synergy for their industry customers to promote digital transformation.
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Wang rounded out his presentation by reiterating how these 10 industry trends are a bright sign that the wireless industry is moving quickly in the direction of a fully intelligent world. He closed out promising Huawei will continue to work with industry partners to define these networks of the future and make their vision of the Intelligent World 2030 a reality.
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Once a superhero franchise goes multiverse, it's hard to go back.
No work of fiction ever needs permission to break the rules or push the boundaries of traditional storytelling, but the multiverse, at least as it's been served up in recent Marvel movies, practically demands it. And for the moment that means a lot of cameo opportunities. "Spider-Man: No Way Home" opened the door to the concept, to mostly charming results, but now Benedict Cumberbatch's master of the mystic arts is flying through the interdimensional portal with the concept in "Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness."
This film is technically the sequel to "Doctor Strange," a movie that came out six years ago. But so much has happened in Marvel land that involves Stephen Strange and his goatee — "Infinity War," "Endgame" and, yes, the most recent "Spider-Man" — that where it falls in the "Doctor Strange" standalone film continuity is entirely beside the point. One could not simply watch "Doctor Strange" and then "Doctor Strange 2" and expect it to make sense.
Not only that, understanding, or at least being invested in "Doctor Strange 2," also requires some passing knowledge of "WandaVision," the nine-episode Disney+ series that runs almost six hours total. This is not a surprise or a burden to Marvel fans, but it does seem like quite a lot to ask of the average moviegoer (though perhaps at this point they're one and the same).
So it's especially interesting that Sam Raimi agreed to jump into this messy corporate multiverse at this point. His "Spider-Man" movies are still among the top of the crop of modern superhero franchises, after all. Raimi was able to put his own stamp on this endeavor, including but not limited to a Bruce Campbell cameo. There are horror elements, too, some so intense that families might think twice before bringing everyone to the multiplex, some interesting visuals not entirely dissimilar to the city-bending of "Inception" and some humor. But Raimi doesn't take "Doctor Strange" to an entirely new tonal place, like, say Taika Waititi did with Thor. He mostly sticks to the framework established by Scott Derrickson.
The main issue is that it's a bit of a kitchen sink movie centered on an entirely new and underdeveloped character, America Chavez (Xochitl Gomez), a teen who has the power to travel the multiverse but doesn't quite know how to control it. She's being hunted by someone who wants her powers and Strange decides to help, possibly out of genuine altruism and possibly because it was a good excuse to literally jump off a balcony to get out of his old flame Christine's (Rachel McAdams) wedding early.
Unfortunately, he asks the wrong Avenger for help: Elizbeth Olsen's Wanda Maximoff is the one after the power to go multiverse jumping and has been dabbling in some dark arts to make it happen. She's motivated by the idea that she has children out there in an idyllic suburban multiverse in which she wears yoga pants and loose cotton tops and tucks her boys in at night after ice cream and movies. Soon she and Strange are having a standoff in midair.
The script is inventive in the way it plays around with a jumble of big sci-fi concepts, which makes sense considering screenwriter Michael Waldron is a veteran of "Rick & Morty." But it also underwhelms when it comes to the mishmash structure and the women. Olsen still sells Wanda's pain like the best of them, even though she's been reduced to a stereotype of female hysteria. Christine is merely there to make Strange realize things about himself. And America, well, she never really earns our emotional investment.
After "Infinity War" and "Endgame," "Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness" feels a little bit like wheel spinning. Cumberbatch has fun with his character, but his limitless ego seems to have been a little muted here as he grapples with his own happiness. And that invites more questions, like do we ultimately care about whether or not Doctor Strange is happy? Does he? Could everyone just use some post blip therapy instead of these interdimensional bottle episodes?
Perhaps the Marvel universe is finally starting to feel like a long running comic book series. Or maybe Phase 4 just hasn't kicked into gear just yet.


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The Festivals and their Meaning II:
II. The Blood-relationship and the Christ-relationship
3 April 1920, Dornach
I spoke yesterday about the part played by the figure of Paul at the beginning of Christianity. Easter is an appropriate occasion for such study, and when we think of the numbers of people in the grip of materialism to-day who have no real right to celebrate an Easter festival, it is obvious that the subject is also very relevant to the conditions of the times. A true Easter impulse needs to be inculcated into present-day Europe and indeed into the whole of the civilised world in order to counter the rapid strides now being taken in the direction of decline. It is very necessary to realise how far men are from any real understanding of the Christ Impulse and how closely this lack of understanding is connected with the symptoms of decline in evidence at the present time. These symptoms show themselves clearly to-day in statements often made by well-intentioned people.
In the Basler Nachrichten yesterday you may have read a striking but at the same time tragic article which included the text of a letter from North West Germany. The writer of the letter, with whom the author of the article seems to some extent to agree, emphasises that the universal tendency of the day is to prepare for the destruction of the old without putting anything new in its place, that on all sides—right and left—people are succumbing almost eagerly to illusions. The author of the article himself says: What will come now is the spread of Bolshevism over Europe; that is to be expected, for it is the line of natural development. And then, once people have experienced what Bolshevism really is, something good can emerge. But he adds two or three lines which deserve attention, although the cursory reader will overlook them as he overlooks so many things. The author of the article adds: "It is not these illusions to which people readily succumb to-day that must be heeded, but something else ... We must not listen to what individual dreamers say but detect the general tendencies."
These well-intentioned people are the really difficult ones to deal with. They realise that civilisation is going downhill and are always warning, warning most pessimistically against listening to those who make an attempt to better this miserable state of things. But as a matter of fact they are only representatives of large masses of people who are immediately satisfied whenever some acute crisis is followed by a measure of peace. They are blind to the fact that there is nothing really important about this interval of peace and that the path must inevitably lead downhill until a sufficiently large number of human beings realise that unless a wave of spiritual revival passes over this unhappy Europe, there can be no improvement. It is impossible to make any progress by perpetuating old conditions and least of all is it possible by means of compromises—which are always dangerous because the new that is trying to come to expression is itself compromised.
Even in their feelings men could promote the right attitude by thinking of the forcefulness with which a personality like Paul at the great turning-point of history introduced something entirely new into earth-evolution, something that has glimmered on but at the present time is covered by a layer of ashes. This turning-point divided the old from the new age, although the transition is not noticed because it came about so gradually. When men looked out at nature in olden times, they perceived the divine and spiritual in everything. And this perception of the divine and spiritual passed over into the views that were held concerning the social order, the configuration of life that ought to prevail among the masses, from whom individuals came forth as rulers, as priestly leaders. We will not at the moment consider how this configuration of the social life was regulated by the Mysteries, but it was respected and was administered in accordance with something bestowed upon man without action on his part, as a gift proceeding from the unity of nature and spirit.
A man who through the circumstances and conditions obtaining at some place or another, became the leader, was recognised and acknowledged as such, because the people said: Divinity itself speaks through him. Just as the divine and spiritual was seen in stones, in mountains, in water, in trees, so too was it seen in an individual man. In those past times it was a matter of course to regard the ruler as a God, that is to say, as one in whom the Godhead was manifest. If people of the present day were a little humbler and did not drag in their own opinion about ancient usages, those usages would be far better understood. To-day, of course, there is no such concept as: a man is a God. But in ancient times there was reality behind it. Just as men saw not merely a flowing stream but the divine and spiritual astir in it, so did they perceive the sway of the divine in the social life, as immediate reality. As time went on, however, this vision of the direct presence of the divine and spiritual grew dimmer and dimmer.
Possessing this ancient vision, how did man conceive of his own being? He knew that his being was rooted in the world of the divine and spiritual; he knew that the divine and spiritual is present wherever sense-objects, wherever human beings themselves are, on the physical earth. He knew that he was born out of the divine and spiritual. Out of God I am born, out of God we are all born—this was a self-evident truth to man in those days, for he beheld its reality. It was the outcome of sensory vision.
Such a conviction was no longer within man's immediate reach at the time when knowledge of the divine and spiritual was to be brought to humanity in a new form by the impulse proceeding from the Mystery of Golgotha. In ancient times a man could say: Everything I see in the world reveals to me that objects and beings come from the gods, that their existence is not enclosed within the limits of earthly life. Man was conscious of the eternal nature of his own being, because he knew that he originated from the gods. This apprehension of spiritual existence before birth lay at the very root of the old Pagan creeds. The characteristics attributed to Paganism by scholars to-day are no more than conjectures.
The essence of Paganism before it fell into decadence, was that men knew: before our birth we were beings of spirit-and-soul; therefore our existence is not limited to earthly life. We have the assurance of eternal life, for we come from God and God will take us to Himself again. That, after all, was the knowledge emanating from the ancient, primeval wisdom. And it can be said that this knowledge came to the various peoples in the form appropriate to each of them, for it was bound up with innate vision of the divine and spiritual in the things of the world of sense. In ancient times, this vision of the divine and spiritual was dependent on the blood, and the particular form in which the primeval wisdom came to a man depended on his blood-relationships, his racial stock and his people.
The Jewish people alone were an exception in the sense that although their particular form of the primeval wisdom was bound up with their blood, they regarded themselves as the "chosen people," as the people who, while possessing their own racial creed, maintained that this contained the true knowledge of the God of all mankind. Whereas the heathen people round about worshipped their racial Divinities, the Jewish people believed their God to be the God of all the earth.
This was a transitional stage. When Paul appeared with his interpretation of Christianity there was a fundamental break, with the principle whereby human knowledge was determined by the blood, the principle that had prevailed—and necessarily so—in earlier times. For Paul was the first to declare that neither blood nor identity of race, nor any factor by which human knowledge had been determined in pre-Christian times, could remain, but that man himself must establish his relation to knowledge through inner initiative: that there must be a community of those whom he designated as Christians, a community to which man allies himself in spirit and soul, into which he is not placed by his blood, but of which he himself elects to be a member.
Paul was well aware of the need to establish this spiritual community on earth, because the time was approaching when, in respect of external knowledge, man was destined to succumb to materialism. This being so, it was necessary that man's consciousness of his nature of spirit-and-soul should spring from a source other than that of the mere vision of the physical human being living on earth. In olden times it was a matter simply of looking with the eyes, for the spirit-and-soul in a man was immediately manifest. This was so no longer. Knowledge of the spirit-and-soul was to be sought in a different way. In other words, man had perforce to grasp the problem of death, to learn to realise that what can be seen of the human being here on earth through the senses may perish and disintegrate, but that there is within him an entelechy not immediately perceptible in this physical frame, a being who belongs to the spiritual world. The bond between men in this community of Christians was not to be dependent on the blood; for of this dependence it could always be contended, and rightly so, that if men are to recognise their immortality by what is determined by the blood, immortality is not assured, for the blood is the vitalizer and sustainer of that which ends with death—although in ancient times the spirit-and-soul shone through it. The spirit-and-soul must be revealed in its essence and purity if the possibility of understanding the problem of death in a non-materialistic way is not to be lost. The power to speak to men of a being of spirit-and-soul not bound to physical matter was able to work in Paul only because he had himself experienced this super-sensible reality at Damascus.
Knowledge of the super-sensible, of the spirit-and-soul was dependent in olden times on the blood; the blood itself brought the revelation of the spirit-and-soul to men in the material world. This was so no longer, and it was therefore necessary for men to turn to something not dependent on the blood. But there was a great danger here—the danger that in the age now dawning, man would still be prone to look to the innate qualities of his own being for spirit-and-soul knowledge. Formerly, this was possible because the blood itself was the bearer of super-sensible knowledge. For men of good will the Event of Golgotha had done away with this dependence, but the general trend of evolution was such that for a time men continued the once well-founded habit in regard to the blood. Without being bearers of the now sanctified blood, they still wanted to understand the divine and spiritual through attributes innate in their human blood.
The danger resulting from this consisted in the following, and it is important that this danger should be elucidated.—Man receives his blood through descent, through birth, and when he is 25, 30, 35 years old, he bears this inherited blood within him. In that he is brought into existence by the world-order, he receives his blood. If the blood is itself the guarantee of the existence of the spirit-and-soul, then man can look to the blood. But although little by little the blood had lost the power to be the bearer of the divine and spiritual, men still went on desiring to find in themselves the way to the divine and spiritual through the simple fact of being human. This was less and less possible, for if the blood does not carry into material existence the conviction of the super-sensible, the organism itself can promote no relationship with super-sensible reality. Men came to the point of enquiring into the super-sensible by looking to themselves alone, relying upon what comes with them at birth. But Christianity summons men not to rely upon what is brought into earthly existence at birth; it summons them to undergo a transformation, to allow the soul to develop, to be reborn in Christ, to acquire through effort and training, through earth-life itself, what is not acquired through the mere fact of birth. This could not be grasped all at once and it therefore came about that echoes of the old blood-wisdom persisted right on into the 15th century—and even then a remained the custom to relate the divine and spiritual to descent, to heredity, until in the 19th century even this glimpse of the divine and spiritual was lost and man had eyes for the material alone. Because he was only willing to cognise the divine and spiritual through an organism still untransformed, he lost sight of it altogether, and in the 19th century there befell the great catastrophe; men had forsaken God, had become unchristian, because a situation which had been concealed for a time under the mantle of tradition now came to the surface.
Until the rise of Protestantism a Christian tradition was still alive. What the Apostles, the disciples of the Apostles and the Church Fathers imparted through teachers who preserved a living tradition, was linked with the revelation of Golgotha. But the sustaining power of this tradition steadily diminished. Nor were men able of themselves to reach any true understanding of the Event of Golgotha. Then came the 15th, 16th, 17th, 18th and 19th centuries, and connection was lost even with tradition, in the end it was to documents alone that a measure of importance was still attached. Protestantism set store by documents, by scripts; tradition had been abandoned. But even a genuine understanding of documents came to an end in the 19th century and the fact is that the body of belief professed by the vast majority of those calling themselves Christians to-day is no longer Christianity. Thus in the 19th century the dire need arose to discover the Event of Golgotha anew, and with this need came the last flare-up of the anti-Christian impulse, which was of course there under the surface but had for a time been cloaked by tradition and by scripture. This element made its way to the surface during the 19th century and reached full force in the 20th, when for the majority of people neither scripture nor tradition have importance any longer. At the same time they have not yet themselves kindled the light which can lead again to an understanding of the Event of Golgotha.
To this cause alone are to be attributed the utterly unchristian impulses which laid hold of mankind in the 19th century and have persisted into the 20th. Two of the most unchristian impulses of all are those which took effect in the 19th century. The first impulse which came to the fore and gained an ever stronger hold of men's minds and emotions, was that of nationalism. Here we see the shadow of the old blood-principle. The Christian impulse towards universal humanity was completely overshadowed by the principle of nationalism, because the new way to bring this element of universal humanity to its own had not been found. The anti-Christian impulse makes its appearance first and foremost in the form of nationalism. The old Luciferic principle of the blood comes to life once again in nation-consciousness. We see a revolt against Christianity in the nationalism of the 19th century, which reached its apex in Woodrow Wilson's phrase about the self-determination of nations, whereas the one and only reality befitting the present age would be to overcome nationalism, to eliminate it, and for men to be stirred by the impulse of the human universal.
The second phenomenon is that men seek to draw their knowledge of the world, not from awakened powers of soul, but from the material image of these powers only. Vision of the soul has faded, and in his physical being, man is only an image of the divine and spiritual. This image can bring forth intellectualism, but not knowledge of the spirit. A secret of which I have often spoken to you is that man can only recognise and know the spiritual by lifting himself to the spirit; the brain is merely the instrument for intellectual apprehension. Intellectualism and materialistic thinking are one and the same, for all the thinking that goes on in science, in theology, in the sphere of modern Christian consciousness—all of it is merely the product of the human brain, it is materialistic. This manifests itself, on the one side, in formalism of belief; on the other, in Bolshevism. Bolshevism owes its destructive power to the fact that it is a product of the brain pure and simple, of the material brain. I have often described how the material brain really represents a process of decay: materialistic thinking unfolds only through processes of destruction, death-processes, which are taking place in the brain. If this kind of thinking is applied, as it is in Leninism and Trotskyism, to the social order, a destructive process is set in motion inevitably, for such ideas about the social order issue from what is itself the foundation of destruction, namely, the Ahrimanic impulse.—That is the other side of the picture.
These two impulses, Nationalism, the Luciferic form of anti-Christianity, and that which culminated in the tenets of Lenin and Trotsky, the Ahrimanic form of anti-Christianity, have insinuated themselves into what ought to have been the Christian impulse of the 19th and 20th centuries. Nationalism and Leninism are the spades with which the grave of Christianity is being dug to-day. And wherever these principles, even in a mild form, become a cult, there the grave of Christianity is being prepared. Those who have insight can discern here a mood that is in the real sense the mood of Easter Saturday. Christianity lies in the grave and men place a stone over the grave. In truth, two stones have been laid over the grave of Christianity—the stones of Nationalism and of external forms of Bolshevism. It now behoves humanity to inaugurate the epoch of Easter Sunday, when the stone or the stones are rolled away. Christianity will not rise from the grave until men overcome nationalistic passions and false forms of socialism; until they learn how to find, out of themselves, the forces that can lead to an understanding of the Mystery of Golgotha.
When with the mood-of-soul prevailing at the present time, men profess belief in Christ, the Angel can only give the same answer as was given in the days of the Mystery itself: "He Whom ye seek is not here." At that time He was no longer there, because men had first to find the way through tradition and then through documents and scripts before reaching knowledge of their own concerning the Mystery of Golgotha. The need for such understanding is urgent to-day, for neither scripture nor tradition tell us those things that need to be known; direct knowledge alone can reveal these things. The age must be brought about when the Angel can answer: "He Whom ye seek is here indeed!" But that will not be until the anti-Christian impulses of our time are cast aside. The community which Paul wished to found, a community filled with the consciousness that immortality is assured to man beyond death—this is what must become reality. "In Christo morimur"—In Christ we pass through death.—Not until it is realised that spiritual knowledge alone can lead to an understanding of what Paul wished to establish, will any improvement in the social life of men be possible; there can only be decline.
What must be understood with regard to Christianity to-day is that man must train himself for the attainment of spiritual knowledge, whereas in ancient times it was given him together with the blood.
In the light of these thoughts, the gravity of the present time comes vividly before us—above all the need to work for the spiritualising of our civilisation. Must the bridge leading to the spiritual world—into which man will in any case enter when he passes through the gate of death and in which he will sojourn between death and a new birth—must this bridge be utterly demolished? True it is that this bridge is broken by nationalism and by false socialism; for these tendencies are at the root of all the urgent and fundamental crises of our time. Those who cannot realise this, who want to continue with a consciousness that is merely the outcome of material processes in the human being—such people are lending all their forces to the furtherance of decadence. The time has come when these issues must be decided, and they can be decided only by the free will of man. Free will itself, however, is possible only on the foundation of actual spirit-knowledge.
At the time of the Mystery of Golgotha, remarkable tolerance towards all faiths was practised in Rome. Little by little, having long refrained, people even brought themselves to exercise a certain tolerance towards Judaism. There was great tolerance in Rome in the days when the impulse of the Mystery of Golgotha was finding its way into the evolution of humanity. Towards the Christians alone did intolerance become more and more vehement. There developed in Rome an intolerance towards the Christians as great as the intolerance now prevailing in one nationality towards the other nationalities. The attitude of the different nationalities to-day towards each other has its prototype in the intolerance of the Romans towards a genuine knowledge of the spirit, for this meets with opposition on all sides. There are alliances to-day—all unperceived—between Jesuitism and the extremist elements here and there. For in the repudiation of spiritual knowledge the ultra-radical Communists and the Jesuits are completely at one. That too is reminiscent of the intolerance of the Roman State towards Christianity, and then, as now, the fundamental impulse is the same: in the unconscious part of their being, men hate the spirit, yes, actually hate the spirit. This unconscious hatred of the spirit confronts us from the side of nationalism as well as from that of false socialism. For think what this hatred of the spirit means to-day, what nationalism means to-day! In ancient times nationalism had its good purpose, because knowledge of the spirit was connected with the blood; to be swayed by nationalistic passions as people are swayed to-day is completely senseless, because blood-relationship is no longer a factor of any real significance. The factor of blood-relationship as expressed in nationalism is a pure fiction, an illusion.
For this reason, people who cling to such ideas have no real right to celebrate an Easter festival. To celebrate an Easter festival is for them a piece of untruthfulness. The truth would consist in the Angel again being able to say—or rather to say for the first time: "He Whom ye seek is here indeed!" But of this we may be sure: His presence will be vouchsafed only where the principle of the human universal takes effect! It is to-day as it was among the Romans, who showed the greatest intolerance of all to the Christians. What were all the others doing—all of them with the exception of the Christians? The others were still venerating the Roman Emperor as a God, were also making sacrifice to him. The Christians could do no such thing; the only King whom the Christians could acknowledge was the Representative of universal humanity—Christ Jesus.
This is one of the points from which a direct line has continued right into the present time. One has only to think of it as follows.—Does the formula "In the Name of His Majesty the King" which appears on every ministerial decree, really mean anything to individuals in England, for example? If the truth as demanded by the spirit were to prevail, such a formula would simply not be there. And how, I ask you, are the interests of a true Frenchman to-day furthered by Clemenceau's nationalism, with its inner untruthfulness? It would be Christian to-day to acknowledge such things, but such acknowledgment would at once be the target of intolerance.
These are the domains where untruthfulness is rampant, deep down in the souls of men. And this untruthfulness makes the other stones of nationalism and of false socialism into one stone which is rolled upon the grave and covers it. The grave will remain covered until men again acquire a true knowledge of the spirit and through this knowledge an understanding of universal Christianity. Until then there can be no true Easter festival; until then the black of mourning cannot with integrity be replaced by the red of Easter, for until then this replacement is a human lie. Men must seek for the spirit—that and that alone can give meaning to present existence.
It devolves upon those who understand the evolution of mankind to bring to fulfilment the words: "My kingdom is not of this world." If the future is to contain hope, what must be striven for cannot be 'of this world.' But that, of course, runs counter to man's love of ease. It is more convenient to set up old customs as ideals and then to bask in the glow of self-congratulation; this is far pleasanter than to say: The great responsibility for the future must be shouldered, and this can be done only when striving for spiritual knowledge becomes a driving force in mankind.
Therefore Easter to-day remains a festival of warning instead of being a festival of joy. And in truth those who would fain speak honestly to mankind will not use the Easter words, "Christ is risen" ... but rather: "Christ shall and must arise!"


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Or, their house, rather. Trust me, this is tame in comparison to years past.
Their name isn't really Griswold. I just started calling them that around Halloween time the first year we moved across the street from them. Their house reminded me of something, but I just couldn't put my finger on it....
I remember watching in fascination and horror that first October, as Mr. Griswold perched precariously on his roof line, stringing strands of flashing orange and green lights around each window frame. Lights covered every flat surface of the front of the home.
My mouth was agape as he determinedly staked blue, red, and yellow spot lights on the graves in the front yard, making sure to focus on the spooky skeleton draped across Dracula's headstone.
The blinking skull lights wound around the street lamp next to their driveway about sent me over the edge.
My parents weren't into Halloween, and I spent my early years in a house set so far back in the woods that no one wanted to visit on October 31st. The rest of my childhood was spent in a neighborhood of yuppie McMansions where everyone decorated their front porches with tasteful Autumn leaf wreaths, pumpkins, and the occasional "Boo!" sign on the front door.
So the Griswolds were a bit of a home decor shock to me back in 2003 when T and I moved in. Each October was marked with the sight of Mr. Griswold's busy adornment of his house, and it eventually became a tradition to watch him work and wonder how long it would take him this year.
Last year, Mr. Griswold was later than usual hauling his wares out of the garage. When I told him how much Natalie enjoyed the nightly show, he smiled and said he wasn't sure he was going to do it because his children were off at college. The next night, I grinned to see how excited my girls were when Mr. Griswold's Halloween handiwork lit the neighborhood night sky on L Avenue.
Sarah's post on making your home YOUR haven made me look out the window and think of the Griswolds. Their way of decorating their house might not be my style, but they spent years creating a fun place for their kids to enjoy Halloween and now they offer my kids a nightly show to rival a Pink Floyd concert. I don't cringe anymore when Mr. Griswold clambers up his ladder. I smile in anticipation of the shouts of excitement each night when the lights go up.
Happy Halloween!


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They're creeping everyone out
This director doesn't have a reputation for engaging in tomfoolery on his sets, and this starlet has no reputation at all, yet they've been raising eyebrows with their vaguely off-putting relationship, which is inching into "professionally inappropriate" territory. Their weird fascination with one another is making some folks wonder if they could become a liability while promoting their film. She's infatuated but he's playing Pygmalion, a scenario that always ends messily. Someone should warn her, bless her little heart.
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