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The theory that we plan our lives was something I had never heard of before 2011. Up until that point, I could not have even imagined such a thing. Even after hearing about it 3 years ago, it took me quite a long time to let this concept into my paradigm. How I stumbled upon it wasn't even through my avid research of the afterlife and reincarnation. It came to me through a vision I had. Before the vision, I believed in reincarnation. The idea of it had always fascinated me and I felt strongly that I did have past lives; I just didn't know what those lives entailed. After three years of intense research and listening to many people from all different backgrounds and beliefs speak about it from all around the world, I knew it was something that needed to be shared and discussed.
The Cycle Of Reincarnation & The Pre-Birth Plan
"Many people feel that reincarnation can't exist because they don't remember their past and my answer to the world is we do remember. We don't have the details but we have certain key hints as to who we are. The type of music we like, the people we are most attracted to, the types of food we like, the clothing we wear, certain periods of history that we identify with. These are indications this is where we have been before and so our present incarnation or our present lifetime is a composite of all the fruits of what we were before." Carey Williams – Co-Author: Reincarnation: A New Horizon (Ancient Mysteries – Reincarnation Documentary Hosted by Leonard Nimoy)
Through my research, the cycle of life to death to re-birth has been pretty much the same from all the sources I studied and let me tell you, there were many. It all starts with the Pre-Birth Plan. You establish this plan with a council. Some people call this council the elders or the wise ones. Pretty much, they are very old beings who know their stuff so to speak. You meet with them along with your spirit guides. You discuss the life ahead of you and are given the choice of a few different lives to pick from in the current time period you are incarnating into. To give you an example: I was given the choice of being an artist or a Samurai in Japan. You choose everything, including your parents. Once your choices have been given to you and you pick one, the tedious task starts of planning all the things you wish to experience in the upcoming life. Experience isn't the only thing we seek; we have goals to meet and challenges to overcome. Some wish to learn patience or overcome jealousy. Many people have debated this theory but you also choose to clear up karmas. To me, clearing up karmas simply means creating a balance. There are a few other things like healing, contrast and healing false beliefs. When the life plan is being created, our guides are there with us creating what Robert Schwartz describes through his work as a flow chart. A flow chart is the plan but with free will incorporated into it. He goes into great detail about the flow chart in an interview he did with Afterlife TV which you can view here. Our guides also create synchronicities in our lives to trigger certain things in us and guide us on the best path to help us master our goals. After the plan is in place, we are born and forget the plan and who we truly are.
Why Do We Forget?
"You close your eyes to the past in order to reopen them to a new existence. You can get more expansion by forgetting" – Teal Swan, Spiritual Catalyst
"It wouldn't be a test if you knew the answers" – Dolores Cannon
Forgetting is an integral part of the cycle. It's how we truly get to know ourselves and fully live the current life we are living. Dolores and Teal give really great, simple explanations of it. We're living in the time of remembering and many of us are remembering who we are and why we came to Earth at this time. Those who haven't fully awakened to their abilities but wish to have more insight on who they are and why they are here seek out mediums or people who are in tune with higher frequencies and can connect to help them access that kind of information.
How Does The Pre-Birth Plan Affect The Laws Of Attraction & Manifestation?
The Pre-Birth Plan is set in place but free will gives us the ability to create any reality we choose to live in. With that being said, there are certain things we are meant to experience and because of that, I believe some things are out of our control. For example: if you are meant to experience a certain illness or disease, you will manifest that illness. If you are meant to experience a negative relationship, you will attract that negative person into your life. I guess you could consider that to be the Law of Attraction or Manifestation but because it's not something you are fully conscious of because you planned it before you were born, it's hard to call it that. Lately, I've seen some people get confused because they know about the Laws of Attraction, how to manifest positive things and are on a high vibration but something negative comes into their life and they're suddenly thrown off balance because they felt they were doing everything right so they couldn't understand how they could attract something negative. When that happens, I'm led to believe that that is the Pre-Birth Plan kicking in. There's a lesson to be learned, an experience to be had for growth, healing or balance or in some cases you have strayed pretty far away from your Pre-Birth Plan and things in your life begin to fall apart.
Are Past Lives Relevant To This Life?
On occasion, healing needs to take place from things that occurred in past lives. Other than that, wanting to know about past lives just from sheer curiosity might not be a good idea for many reasons.
"Meher Baba is fairly, fairly clear and I'm afraid maybe for many people's taste, a bit frighteningly clear on this. There is a wall between the consciousness of the present life and previous lifetime stored records. And he said actually it's for a pretty good reason because the variety and also the strength of those previous lifetime recordings is so varied, so complex and in many cases oppositional. This lifetime is way over here and that lifetime is way over there and if all of a sudden we break through the protective wall and these things come out you know, he said this can be or would be-if the individual has not done it-one of the most upsetting things that could possibly occur to him and in the usual human state of emotional being the individual is just not strong enough to encompass and to be able to handle and digest and go beyond this tremendously varied functions. So Baba simply says don't tamper too much with the protective wall. He was talking primarily with people who were just for their own curiosity trying to recall previous lifetimes."
– Don E. Stevens – Disciple of Meher Baba (In Another Life: Reincarnation in America Documentary)
Knowing about past lives can seriously mess with you mentally and emotionally. I know this because I have remembered many of my previous incarnations and asked about them in readings I've had with a medium I know and love. Although I personally find them fascinating and look upon them with no judgments; not everyone may be able to handle knowing about all the roles we play here on Earth.
Playing Roles
We come into each incarnation playing a role. The role is chosen with the help of our guides and council before we are born. We take turns playing different roles. In one life you will choose to be murdered and in another you will volunteer to be the murderer. The list of switching roles is vast and complex. This information is really hard for some people to take in. It took me awhile to really process it all but in the end, it all made sense. There's a part in Kung Fu Panda that I always think of when I think about good versus bad. Master Shifu runs up to Master Oogway and says to him that it's very bad news. Master Oogway smiles and says, "There is just news. No good or bad." From what I've found through my research and what I truly believe in my heart is that negative is an illusion. Negative and positive are both construction material. Negative is an evolutionary catalyst. We come to Earth for many reasons but a big one is soul growth. Soul growth on the other side is very slow because it is paradise. Also, because we are able to forget who we are, we can learn things on a deeper level and expand even more from it. Let's say you want to know love. What better way to know love than to lose it or become separated from it, not even knowing that all of our very existence is love. After I heard the theory that we play roles was presented to me, I no longer hated a single person on this planet nor did I fear anything. Because we live in a world of duality, we must have "negative." The negative is what makes this world. If we didn't have the villains, none of this would be possible. In every single one of those villains (oppressors, abusers, etc.) is a beautiful soul living a human experience that was all planned with soul growth in mind.
Why Is The Theory Of Planning Our Lives Important?
We are living in a very interesting time where many truths that were once hidden are now coming to light. I'm not saying that the theory of planning our lives is true but rather a new perspective on an old story. There are many stories of the human species origins and why we are here but after extensive research and hearing all the stories, this is the one that truly resonates with me. That, and I've remembered who I am with the help of my spirit guides. I wrote an article about how to connect with your own spirit guides which you can view here.
At this time, I feel it is very important to find out what is truly going on in our world and why we are here. All perspectives should be taken into consideration and anyone is free to believe what they feel resonates with them. I'm not here to change beliefs. I'm sharing this theory because this theory helped me. I forgave the negative of this world and felt gratitude for it because it all helped me to grow. Whether or not this theory is true, that is still a positive thing and perhaps others could take something positive from it like I did.
By, Nikkie Gray
Source: http://www.collective-evolution.com/2014/09/16/do-we-plan-our-lives-before-we-are-born/
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The third pandemic of plague (in its bubonic and pneumonic clinical forms) struck the globe between 1894 and 1959. As Yersinia pestis spread from country to country and from continent to continent, it left behind it not only a trail of death and devastation, but also a vast visual archive. It was the first time that plague would reach and establish itself in all inhabited continents. But it was also the first time that any epidemic would be photographed. As plague spread from harbour to harbour, and amongst cities, towns and villages, so did photographs of the pandemic through reproductions in the daily and illustrated press. Rather than forming a homogeneous or linear visual narrative, these photographic documents provided diverse perspectives on the pandemic, which, more often than not, were not simply different from region to region, but in fact conflicting within any single locus of infection. Moreover this photographic production came to establish a new field of vision, what we may call "epidemic photography" which continues to inform the way in which we see, depict and imagine epidemics and their social, economic, and political impact in the age of Global Health.
Plague struck the historical region of Manchuria (today China's Northeast provinces) in October 1910, probably through the infection of one or more humans from a plague-carrying Siberian marmot (Marmota sibirica) also known as the tarbagan (or tarabagan). Plague took a pneumonic clinical form and became contagious in an airborne manner, spreading along the railway systems of the region, which was at the time controlled by the Chinese, Japanese and Russian empires. Dispute and conflict between different scientific and imperial agents regarding the origin and transmission pathway of the outbreak, as well as the optimal way to contain it, ensued. The epidemic ceased by April 1911 after having caused approximately 60,000 deaths. In April 1911 the First International Plague Conference convened in Mukden (Shenyang) to debate the epidemiological and public health aspects of the outbreak. During the conference and in subsequent research the connection between marmots and plague, originally suggested by Russian scientists in 1895, was further explored. The outbreak led, after the formation of the Republic of China (1912), to the constitution of the North Manchurian Plague Prevention Service led by Dr Wu Liande; the Service would continue to study plague until its dissolution (1931). Plague would strike Manchuria again in 1920-21 (again in pneumonic clinical form), with lesser outbreaks, such as the one in Tungliao (Tongliao) in 1928, where the disease took a bubonic form, also being of epidemiological importance. Whether the 1910-11 and 1920-21 outbreaks of plague in Manchuria were biologically speaking part of the third plague pandemic is debatable, as their origin appears to be unconnected to the source of the pandemic in the SW Chinese province of Yunnan. Historically, however, they were perceived at the time as part of the pandemic.


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Augustissimae Virginis Mariae Encyclical of Pope Leo XIIIOn the Confraternity of the Holy Rosary Promulgated on September 12, 1897
To Our Venerable Brethren, The Patriarchs, Primates, Archbishops Bishops, and other Local Ordinaries having Peace and Communion with the Apostolic See. Venerable Brethren, Health and the Apostolic Blessing. 1. Whoever considers the height of dignity and glory to which God has raised the Most August Virgin Mary, will easily perceive how important it is, both for public and for private benefit, that devotion to her should be assiduously practised, and daily promoted more and more. Mary's Place in the Incarnation and Redemption 2. God predestined her from all eternity to be the Mother of the Incarnate Word, and for that reason so highly distinguished her among all His most beautiful works in the triple order of nature, grace and glory, that the Church justly applies to her these words: I came out of the mouth of the Most High, the first-born before all creatures (Ecclus. xxiv., 5). And when, in the first ages, the parents of mankind fell into sin, involving their posterity in the same ruin, she was set up as a pledge of the restoration of peace and salvation. The Only-begotten Son of God ever paid to His Most Holy Mother indubitable marks of honor. During His private life on earth He associated her with Himself in each of His first two miracles: the miracle of grace, when, at the salutation of Mary, the infant leaped in the womb of Elizabeth; the miracle of nature, when He turned water into wine at the marriage-feast of Cana. And, at the supreme moment of His public life, when sealing the New Testament in His precious Blood, He committed her to his beloved Apostle in those sweet words, Behold, thy Mother! John xix., 27). 3. We, therefore, who, though unworthy, hold the place of Vicar of Christ upon earth, shall never cease to promote the glory of so great a Mother, as long as life endures. And since, as old age draws on apace, We feel that life cannot now last much longer, We are constrained to repeat to each and all of our beloved children in Christ those last words of His upon the Cross, left to us as a testament, Behold, thy Mother! Greatly rewarded indeed shall We be, if Our exhortations succeed in making even one of the faithful hold nothing dearer than devotion to Mary; so that those words which St. John wrote about himself may be applied to each,the disciple took her to his own (Ibid.). 4. As the month of October again approaches, Venerable Brethren, We would not willingly leave you without Our letters this year, also once more urging you with all possible earnestness to strive by the recitation of the Rosary to aid both yourselves individually, and the Church in her need. This form of prayer ap pears, under the guidance of Divine Providence, to have been wonderfully developed at the close of the century, for the purpose of stimulating the lagging piety of the faithful. This is witnessed by the splendid churches and much-frequented sanctuaries of the Mother of God. To this Divine Mother we have offered the flowers of the month of May; to her we would have also fruit-bearing October dedicated with especial tenderness of devotion. It is fitting that both parts of the year should be consecrated to her who said: My flowers are the fruit of honor and riches (Ecclus. xxiv., 23). 5. The natural tendency of man to association has never been stronger, or more earnestly and generally followed, than in our own age. This is not at all to be reprehended, unless when so excellent a natural tendency is perverted to evil purposes, and wicked men, banding together in various forms of societies, conspire against the Lord and against His Christ (Ps ii., 2). It is, however, most gratifying to observe that pious associations are becoming more and more popular among Catholics also. They are frequently formed; indeed, all Catholics are so closely drawn together and united by the bonds of charity, as members of one household, that they both may be and are truly styled brethren. But if the charity of Christ be absent, none may glory in the name and fellowship of brethren. So wrote Tertullian long ago in pungent words: We are your brethren by right of a common mother, nature, yet are ye less than men, because unnatural brothers. How much more justly are they called and esteemed as brethren who acknowledge one and the same Father, God; who have drunk in one and the same spirit of charity; who have been borne from one and the same womb of ignorance into the one light of truth? (Apolog. c. xxxix.) 6. There are many reasons for Catholics joining useful associations of this kind. We include in these clubs, popular savings-banks, recreative classes, associations for the care of youth, sodalities, and many other organizations for excellent purposes. All these, though from their name, constitution, and special ends, apparently of modern invention, are in reality of great antiquity. Traces of societies of this kind are to be found even in the earliest ages of Christianity. In later ages they were legally approved, distinguished by special emblems, enriched with privileges, associated with divine worship in the Churches, or devoted to works of spiritual or corporal mercy, and at different epochs known under different names. Their numbers increased to such an extent, especially in Italy, that no city or town, nay scarcely any parish, was without one or more of them. 7. We do not hesitate to assign a pre-eminent place among these societies to that known as the Society of the Holy Rosary. If we regard its origin, we find it distinguished by its antiquity, for St. Dominic himself is said to have been its founder. If we estimate its privileges, we see it enriched with a vast number of them granted by the munificence of our predecessors. The form of the association, its very soul, is the Rosary of Our Lady, of the excellence of which We have elsewhere spoken at length. Still the virtue and efficacy of the Rosary appear all the greater when considered as the special office of the Sodality which bears its name. Everyone knows how necessary prayer is for all men; not that God's decrees can be changed, but, as St. Gregory says, that men by asking may merit to receive what Almighty God hath decreed from eternity to grant them (Dialog., lib. i., c. 8). And St. Augustine says, He who knoweth how to pray aright, knoweth how to live aright (In Ps. cxviii). But prayers acquire their greatest efficacy in obtaining God's assistance when offered publicly, by large numbers, constantly, and unanimously, so as to form as it were a single chorus of supplication; as those words of the Acts of the Apostles clearly declare wherein the disciples of Christ, awaiting the coming of the Holy Ghost, are said to have been persevering with one mind in prayer (Acts i., 14). Those who practice this manner of prayer will never fail to obtain certain fruit. Such is certainly the case with members of the Rosary Sodality. Just as by the recitation of the Divine Office, priests offer a public, constant, and most efficacious supplication; so the supplication offered by the members of this Sodality in the recitation of the Rosary, or Psalter of Our Lady, as it has been styled by some of the Popes, is also in a way public, constant, and universal. 8. Since, as We have said, public prayers are much more excellent and more efficacious than private ones, so ecclesiastical writers have given to the Rosary Sodality the title of the army of prayer, enrolled by St. Dominic under the banner of the Mother of God,—of her, whom sacred literature and the history of the Church salute as the conqueror of the Evil One and of all errors. The Rosary unites together all who join the Sodality in a common bond of paternal or military comradeship; so that a mighty host is thereby formed, duly marshalled and arrayed, to repel the assaults of the enemy, both from within and without. Wherefore may the members of this pious society take to themselves the words of St. Cyprian: Our prayer is public and in common; and when we pray, we pray not for one, but for the whole people, for we, the entire people, are one (De Orat. Domin.). The history of the Church bears testimony to the power and efficacy of this form of prayer, recording as it does the rout of the Turkish forces at the naval battle of Lepanto, and the victories gained over the same in the last century at Temesvar in Hungary and in the island of Corfu. Our predecessor, Gregory XIII., in order to perpetuate the memory of the first-named victory, established the feast of Our Lady of Victories, which later on Clement XI. distinguished by the title of Rosary Sunday and commanded to be celebrated throughout the universal Church. 9. From the fact that this warfare of prayer is enrolled under the name of the Mother of God, fresh efficacy and fresh honor are thereby added to it. Hence the frequent repetition in the Rosary of the Hail Mary after each Our Father. So far from this derogating in any way from the honor due to God, as though it indicated that we placed greater confidence in Mary's patronage than in God's power, it is rather this which especially moves God, and wins His mercy for us. We are taught by the Catholic faith that we may pray not only to God himself, but also to the Blessed in heaven (Conc. Trid. Sess. xxv.), though in different manner; because we ask from God as from the Source of all good, but from the Saints as from intercessors. Prayer, says St. Thomas, is offered to a person in two ways—one as though to be granted by himself; another, as to be obtained through him. In the first way we pray to God alone, because all our prayers ought to be directed to obtaining grace and glory, which God alone gives, according to those words of Psalm xxxiii., 12, The Lord will give grace and glory. But in the second way we pray to holy angels and men, not that God may learn our petition through them, but that by their prayers and merits our prayers may be efficacious. Wherefore, it is said in the Apocalypse (viii., 4): The smoke of the incense of the prayers of the Saints ascended up before God from the hand of the angel (Summa Theol. 2a 2ae, q. Ixxxiii. a. iv.). Now, of all the blessed in heaven, who can compare with the august Mother of God in obtaining grace? Who seeth more clearly in the Eternal Word what troubles oppress us, what are our needs? Who is allowed more power in moving God? Who can compare with her in maternal affection? We do not pray to the Blessed in the same way as to God; for we ask the Holy Trinity to have mercy on us, but we ask all the Saints to pray for us (Ibid.). Yet our manner of praying to the Blessed Virgin has something in common with our worship of God, so that the Church even addresses to her the words with which we pray to God: Have mercy on sinners. The members of the Rosary Sodality, therefore, do exceedingly well in weaving together, as in a crown, so many salutations and prayers to Mary. For, so great is her dignity, so great her favour before God, that whosoever in his need will not have recourse to her is trying to fly without wings. 10. We must not omit to mention another excellence of this Sodality. As often as, in reciting the Rosary, we meditate upon the mysteries of our Redemption, so often do we in a manner emulate the sacred duties once committed to the Angelic hosts. The Angels revealed each of these mysteries in its due time; they played a great part in them; they were constantly present at them, with countenances indicative now of joy, now of sorrow, now of triumphant exultation. Gabriel was sent to announce the Incarnation of the Eternal Word to the Virgin. In the cave of Bethlehem, Angels sang the glory of the new-born Saviour. The Angel gave Joseph command to fly with the Child into Egypt. An Angel consoled, with his loving words, Jesus in His bloody sweat in the garden. Angels announced His resurrection, after He had triumphed over death, to the women. Angels carried Him up into Heaven; and foretold His second coming, surrounded by Angelic hosts, unto whom He will associate the souls of the elect, and carry them aloft with Him to the heavenly choirs, above whom the Holy Mother of God is exalted. To those, therefore, who make use of the pious prayers of the Rosary in this Sodality, may be well applied the words with which St. Paul addressed the new Christians: You are come to Mount Sion, and to the city of the living God, the Heavenly Jerusalem, and to the company of many thousands of Angels (Heb. xii., 22). What more divine, what more delightful, than to meditate and pray with the Angels? With what confidence may we not hope that those who on earth have united with the Angels in this ministry will one day enjoy their blessed company in Heaven? 11. For these reasons the Roman Pontiffs have ever given the highest praise to this Sodality of Our Lady. Innocent VIII. calls it a most devout confraternity (Splendor Paternae Gloriae, Feb. 26, 1491.) Pius V declares that by its virtue Christians began suddenly to be transformed into other men, the darkness of heresy to be dispelled, and the light of Catholic faith to shine forth (Consueverunt Romani Pontifices, September17, 1569). Sixtus V, noting how fruitful for religion this Sodality was, professed himself most devoted to it. Many others, too, enriched it with numerous and very special indulgences, or took it under their particular patronage, enrolling themselves in it and giving it many testimonies of their goodwill. 12. We also, Venerable Brethren, moved by the example of Our predecessors, earnestly exhort and conjure you, as We have so often done, to devote special care to this sacred warfare, so that by your efforts fresh forces may be daily enrolled on every side. Through you and those of your clergy who have care of souls, let the people know and duly appreciate the efficacy of this Sodality and its usefulness for man's salvation. This We beg all the more earnestly as of late that beautiful devotion to our Blessed Mother, called the living Rosary, has once more become popular. We have gladly blessed this devotion, and We earnestly desire that you would sedulously and strenuously encourage its growth. We cherish the strongest hope that these prayers and praises, rising incessantly from the lips and hearts of so great a multitude, will be most efficacious. Alternately rising by night and by day, throughout the different countries of the earth, they combine a harmony of vocal prayer with meditation upon the divine mysteries. In ages long past this perennial stream of praise and prayer was foretold in those inspired words with which Ozias in his song addressed Judith: Blessed art thou, O daughter, by the Lord, the Most High God, above all women upon the earth . . . because He hath so magnified thy name this day that thy praise shall not depart out of the mouth of man. And all the people of Israel acclaimed him in these words: So be it, so be it!(Judith xiii., 23, 24, 26). 13. Meanwhile, as a pledge of heavenly blessings, and a testimony of Our paternal affection, We lovingly impart to You, in the name of the Lord, Venerable Brethren, and to all the clergy and people committed to your faithful care, the Apostolic Benediction. Given at St. Peter's, in Rome, on the 12th day of September, 1897, in the 20th year of Our Pontificate.


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1940 College Football Recap
Minnesota became the first school in the five years of the AP poll to win the championship a second time. The Gophers won the pivotal game of the year against Michigan, stopping Tom Harmon and the visiting Wolverines, 7–6, in the mud on the first Saturday in November. It settled both the national and Big Nine championships.
Harmon ran wild against everyone else, particularly California. In the season opener, which also happened to be his birthday, Harmon accounted for five touchdowns against the Bears: a 96–yard kickoff return, a 72–yard punt return, runs of 86 and 8 yards from scrimmage, and a TD pass. Harmon went on to lead the nation in scoring and all-purpose running and sweep the post-season Player of the Year awards.
The most significant development of the year was Stanford's turn-around from a 1–7–1 loser in 1939 to an undefeated juggernaut under first year coach Clark Shaughnessy. The second-ranked Indians did it using Shaughnessy's revolutionary T-formation with junior quarterback Frankie Albert directly behind center and men in motion.
Elsewhere, Tennessee turned in its third consecutive 10–0 regular season under coach Bob Neyland. The 4th-ranked Vols met another unbeaten team, No.5 Boston College, in the Sugar Bowl. BC won, 19–13, in coach Frank Leahy's last game before moving on to Notre Dame.


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2014 Saving Country Music Album of the Year Nominees
2014 has revealed itself as the "Year of the Dark Horse" when it comes to compiling the greatest albums released in the last 12-month span. Tami Neilson, Karen Jonas, Charlie Parr, Matt Woods? Who's heard of these people outside of their respective fan bases? And meanwhile the realm of mainstream music can't field one candidate, unless you want to count First Aid Kit.


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About two dozen people showed up at the Tuesday night meeting of the Occupy DC action committee, twice as many as were at the first one I attended a couple weeks ago, a sign that people are grasping how powerful the committee is -- it can still approve or reject actions without seeking any form of consensus at a general assembly -- and how important actions are in terms of defining the movement.
Overall, the meeting was positive: the same facilitator who announced at a general assembly earlier in the week that the committee had endorsed a series of actions sponsored and planned by the SEIU, MoveOn.org and Van Jones' Rebuild the Dream -- adjuncts of the Democratic Party all -- at the meeting sought consensus on instead doing an Occupy DC action that would explicitly be separate from those groups.
Conscious of appearances, the de facto leadership of the committee clarified that they hadn't intended to endorse the week of actions those groups are busing people into town for, but rather a single day of action on December 7. Consensus was quickly reached on the idea of doing a separate set of actions that day, with many people talking about specifically targeting Democrats and their allies on K Street as a way of making clear Occupy DC does not endorse the partisan, anti-GOP-only agenda for the week of protests asserted by SEIU President Mary Kay Henry.
Score one for the rabble rousers.
There was, however, some passive-aggressive hostility. One woman angrily spoke of how she didn't like "outsiders" coming in and spreading discord by raising fears about co-option. "Occupy DC can't be co-opted," she said, launching into a diatribe against the folks at the rival camp in Freedom Plaza, which isn't really part of the Occupy movement. We're the real People's Front of Judea. Yawn.
The same woman also spoke out against the need to do an event separate from the SEIU and MoveOn.org targeting the Democrats in particular. And when it came time to discuss an action targeting a $1,000-a-plate Democratic fundraiser this Thursday, she argued that it was unfair to hold the blue faction of the ruling establishment equally to blame as the red faction for the war and welfare for Wall Street status quo, going so far as to say "people will die" if the Democrats lose power.
*cough* Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia . . . *clears throat*
This being DC and all, you're bound to find people here who still believe in the comforting fairy tale of lesser evilism, who think that the problem isn't the institutions of power -- the authority a couple hundred folks in Washington have to start wars and imprison more than 2.3 million Americans -- but those who control them. However, this being DC and all, a higher percentage of these lesser evilers, as well as those who think the Democrats are actually doing
The woman who voiced concerns about protesting the Democratic fundraiser and criticized those damn dirty outsiders raising concerns about co-option? On Friday -- the day after that fundraiser -- she will be a featured "networking professional" at the Democratic GAIN Career Fair, "the place where progressive organizations, Democratic campaigns and consultants will be to collect resumes and talk about what they'll be doing to help Democrats in 2012." That she would object to Occupy DC doing a day of action separate from the SEIU & Friends also makes a little more sense when you realize she works for the SEIU, a job she took after being a paid organizer for the Obama campaign.
This is a problem. Careerists with an incentive to pursue a Democratic agenda -- in addition to the aforementioned woman I saw the co-founder of the Democratic Progressive Change Campaign Committee (PCCC) -- are weighing in on how, or even whether, to target the Democrats. They are weighing in on questions of whether Occupy DC should participate in events being put on by the organizations that employ them. And they're not disclosing their conflicts of interest.
There's a simple solution: require that disclosure. That's not too much ask. Indeed, Occupy Wall Street already has such a requirement:
We acknowledge the existence of professional activists who work to make our world a better place. If you are representing, or being compensated by an independent source while participating in our process, please disclose your affiliation at the outset.One man who worked for the SEIU did just that. When commenting on the series of SEIU-planned actions, he gave us all a heads up: "Hey guys, just so you know I work for the SEIU." Cool, man. People who work for less-than-perfect organizations have a right to participate in the Occupy movement -- lord knows it's tough trying to find a good anarcho-vegan feminist collective to work for -- but the rest of us have a right to know if they work for the very organizations they are trying to get us to protest with. Or the groups we're actually protesting.
What do they have to hide?


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I Made Friends! And an Arch-Nemesis!
26 comments:
Allie- your video was officially the most ridiculous 3 minutes of my life. And I loved it. Needs more naked though, and Bruce definitely needed to be featured.
- November 1, 2009 at 3:29 PM
- Kell said...
Bruce is hot
- November 1, 2009 at 3:47 PM
- Jason said...
And I thought Snuggies were useless!
- November 1, 2009 at 4:07 PM
- Steam Me Up, Kid said...
You are the MacGyver of costume design.
- November 1, 2009 at 5:13 PM
- Tony said...
Sweet Jupiter, that is a bad ass dragon costume. Bruce is my hero.
Glad that you had a fun night, Allie. And you should have totally won the sexiest costume contest. - November 1, 2009 at 5:17 PM
Look out! That knight is trying to slay you!
- November 1, 2009 at 5:25 PM
- Sarah said...
Nice 'tume. Of course it helped you make friends. It's awesome.
I think, in light of the recent CBD comment, it might be time for you to start a regular interior decorating feature. You could call it "Home Decor Thursday" or "Decorating with Allie" or "Crap Blog Detective keeps commenting on my site because I draw so many people to his site and he's an attention whore."
Whoa. Sorry. Where did that come from?
Crap Blog Detective must be jealous of your cowboy hat because his hat sucks so much. - November 1, 2009 at 5:33 PM
- Polly Syllabick said...
I. Can. Not. With that snuggie costume. HIGHlarious.
- November 1, 2009 at 6:15 PM
- Cary McNeal said...
You shoulda won. The undies on the outside was a beautiful touch.
- November 1, 2009 at 6:25 PM
- JUST ME said...
If I didn't think you were cool before, that bikini dinosaur makes me CERTAIN you are awesome.
- November 1, 2009 at 8:14 PM
- dogimo said...
That's one imposing lineup for a super team, there. Bruce the Dragon! Rorschach! Draculess! Fro-Stache, the Disco Avenger! and of course, Sir Tinfoil.
If you can just keep the team going until the inevitable movie deal comes through, you could all be rich. - November 1, 2009 at 8:40 PM
- Jules AF said...
The Crap Blog Detective is mean. I don't see the point of going around and telling people they suck. You don't suck. And Kyle is mean. That's all.
- November 1, 2009 at 8:46 PM
- j said...
bruce is a sexy beast!
- November 1, 2009 at 9:14 PM
- Capricorn Cringe said...
I'm not drunk enough to deal with a dragon named Bruce in women's lingerie. It is quite possible that there is not enough booze in the state.
- November 1, 2009 at 10:36 PM
- miss. chief said...
I think that a water park would be no problem. Just change that sexy lingerie into a teeny weeny bikini and he's set. And you wouldn't have to worry about wearing sunscreen. BONUS!
- November 2, 2009 at 6:57 AM
- Sherri said...
This is exactly why Halloween should be EVERY day. [Plus, CANDY. EVERY. DAY.]
- November 2, 2009 at 8:19 AM
- Kendall said...
As someone who has been freaked out by velociraptors since Jurassic Park, this officially killed any fear I had left. EVAR.
Nothing says sexy like a technicolour dinosaur comfortable enough to wear a pink bra and panties. Hotness. - November 2, 2009 at 9:07 AM
- Luzaire said...
There is a problem with your RSS feed through Feedburner. It hasn't updated since the article about your boyfriend eating Skittles. Please check into this so others don't miss out on your great posts.
Also, thank you for talking about Snuggies here. You reminded me to order one for my mother for Christmas. - November 2, 2009 at 10:17 AM
Ah, Allie, I have to thank you. I've been rather low lately due to intermittent vertigo over the past week. It's been as if my head has decided that flat surfaces are no longer satisfying and challenging, and so it must spice things up a bit, you know, to keep things interesting. But then, I get back from vacation (yes, I had vertigo on vacation...glory, glory, weeee!), and go to catch up on your posts, which is a challenge...if you don't think so , you try looking up at a computer screen with vertigo sometime, I mean seriously, my brain must be having hella fun. Anyway, my point is (and I know, it's hard to find, my psyche has apparently joined the rest of my brain on the vertigo train just for funsies), and I do have one, I sit down to catch up on your posts (bless Jenny the Bloggess for introducing me to your inanity!) and I find myself laughing for the first time in days. And I don't mean just little snorts, but the kind of laughing that got more people in the audience laughing at that comedy show I went to than were actually laughing at the comics (true story). Love it, love you, babe. Rock on! - Elan
- November 2, 2009 at 10:20 AM
- BB said...
I wish I was there.
Man, now you left me nostalgic. - November 2, 2009 at 10:54 AM
- Brian O'Mara-Croft said...
Your video, like your blog, is hilarious! You are more than Bruce, Katie...let him go...let him go.
Lost in the Hive - November 2, 2009 at 12:07 PM
- Ellie said...
Hooray for Bruce!
- November 2, 2009 at 7:55 PM
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- Jovial Connoisseur said...
its just a while ago i came across your blog through a link which was there in some other blog
this is just awesoem and bruce rox... - January 5, 2010 at 1:15 AM
- Rachelle said...
I've been trying to read this post for, like, a week, but this is the first time I've been able to get past the picture of Bruce at the beginning of the post.
I fucking love Bruce.
I don't suppose you have, like, a PATTERN for Bruce, so he could be recreated? Because I don't know if the world is safe with only one Bruce in it. We need an army of Bruce, if only to boost our ability to fight of the zombie legion.
P.S. The plural of Bruce is still Bruce. Like how more than one moose is still just moose. - February 23, 2010 at 3:11 PM
- r3 said...
Bruce is awesome! What a great costume! I love Halloween, except I never know what to go as. I would have to say that the best Halloween costume I ever had was a pimp, because I got four of my sexy lady friends to dress like prostitutes and hang on my arms while we walked down the outdoor mall (before they stopped allowing such festivities there). That was pretty awesome, getting all that attention. Except for when some moron tried to get all grabby with one of my sexy friends and then I got all sort of worried that I wasn't really tough enough to actually be a pimp and beat the shit out of some asshat that messing with one of my ladies, but she and her three other friends took care of that for me. What a relief.
- August 26, 2010 at 11:15 AM


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Christmas Bread, Panettone-style
Recipe by: Cathy in Cincinnati
As promised I'm reporting on my weekend in the kitchen. I was aiming for a low-fat vegan panettone, but I had forgotten to buy the essential aniseed! Here's what I made and it's pretty darn good. I think I'll call it PaneCathy.
2 cups warm water
1 Tbsp (or 2 pkg) dry baking yeast
½ cup honey (vegan substitute, such as agave nectar)
1 cup instant mashed potato flakes mixed into ¾ cup hot soymilk
½ cup wheat germ
2 cups unbleached bread flour
1 ½ tsp salt
1 tsp dried lemon peel
1 tsp ground coriander
½ tsp ground ginger
3 cups unbleached bread flour
1 ½ cups mixed dried fruit, diced
½ cup walnuts (optional)
Dissolve the yeast in the warm water. Wait for it to proof (start to foam) then beat in the honey sub., mashed potatoes, wheat germ, and 2 cups of flour. Let it rise in a warm place for about an hour. (This is the sponge.)
If the sponge looks good and bubbly it's ready. Add the salt and spices and another two cups of flour. If you're kneading by hand, turn out onto a lightly floured surface to knead in the final cup of flour. The dough is rather soft and sticky-try not to add too much additional flour. In the last five minutes of kneading add the fruit and nuts.
Place the dough in a large very lightly oiled bowl, turning it once to oil the top. (This is just enough to keep the dough from drying out.) Cover with plastic wrap and place in the refrigerator to rise for 4 hours to overnight.
Shape the refrigerated dough into two or three round loaves and place on one or more large flat pans. Preheat the oven to 350F while the loaves warm and rise for 40 minutes. (Traditionally an "X" is cut in the top of each loaf just before it goes in the oven. I found the dough a little too soft to do this very well.) Bake for at least an hour until well-browned.
Recipe analysis based on thirty slices per recipe: with walnuts: 141 calories per slice, 14% of calories from fat; without walnuts: 128 calories per slice, 7% of calories from fat.
P.s. Finding out that measly half-cup of walnuts brought the fat up to 14% was a real eye-opener.


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Went to a children's museum yesterday. Enjoy the pics.
Fun with mirrors
Fun with spinning disks
Fun with huge bubbles
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Psst...don't tell Aunt Chip I posted this one... here she is, demonstrating how to play a new game. She is wiggling under the thing-a-ma-stick with the fish between her knees. |
Here's Hubby, skipping around the thing-a-ma-stick with the fan under his chin. I'm not quite sure how he's gotten this far in life not knowing how to skip, but it sure does make for some hilarious entertainment.


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TGIF! Phew – another week has come and gone! I can't lie, I
am sooooo happy it's the weekend. And with snow in the forecast here in
Amsterdam, I am planning on spending much of it inside our warm apartment
finishing my book (SO.GOOD.) and hopefully doing a few things to prep for the
fast-approaching holidays!
If you're spending the weekend cozying up and catching up on
blogs, I have one you must add to your blog reader! Tammy has been one of my
most loyal and long-standing blog supporters and it's been so fun watching her
blog grow so much over the past year or so. She blogs over at Lemons, Avocados & The Bay about life in sunny San Diego with her boyfriend and she's so
sweet and cheerful. Her outlook on life is admirable and absolutely contagious.
Hop on over and check her out – I promise you'll love her! Here are a few words
from Tammy – enjoy!
Helllllllo. I'm Tammy and my blog Lemons, Avocados & the Bay is
all about living the beachy kinda life in San Diego. I spent lots of time
exploring my city,
riding my bike along the boardwalk, and trying out new recipes and restaurants.
My boyfriend and I just renovated our littlebeach
bungalow. It's been a crazy experience, but I love that we can make our
little house our own. I would love if you stopped by Lemons, Avocados & the Bay to
say hello. If you'd like you can also find me on twitter, facebook,
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Mid-Coast Television – Channel 6
MCTV online, click here
Created by June Morrall
Mid-Coast Television – Channel 6
MCTV online, click here
Many years ago I produced/wrote a 60-minute documentary called âThe Mystery of Half Moon Bayâ?.
The way I pitched the project and sold it made me feel like a waitress at Schwabs discovered by a famous Hollywood producer.
Okay, maybe thatâs way too romantic.
I was passionate about my idea of putting the colorful Coastside** on the small screenâand I appeared at the offices of KCSM-TV in San Mateo, landed an appointment with Stewart Cheifet, the general managerâand I can still visualize myself seated on the opposite side of Cheifetâs desk, a very serious look on his face as he took an egg timer and turned it upside down.
âYouâve got three minutes,â? he told me, sternly. I noted he had one of those fine broadcast voices, honey-coated.
Maybe it was really one minute and maybe it wasnât an egg timer but one of those little glass âthingiesâ? with sand inside that tells how much time has passed by dripping grains of sand.
Iâd never produced or written a script for a documentaryâI was just a noviceâbut I had a brave, bold soul and I was in love with Half Moon Bay. Apparently that feeling got across to Stewart Cheifet because, to my total surprise, I got the âgoâ? signal. *
To make the hour show, I was paid a tiny sum but I happily spent nearly a year of my life absorbed with it. I was assigned to work with longtime director Rick Zanardi, and cameraman Jim Threlkeld– and we went out in the field to shoot this doc. They were experienced and great to work with.
What I most regret now is that I didnât have the financial means to keep the raw footageâthere were some oldtimers, now gone, interviewed on those precious tapes, gone forever.
Before âMystery of Half Moon Bayâ? aired on KCSM, there was a premiere at the Pete Douglas Beach House in Miramar Beach. I was so nervous I didnât go into the concert room where âMysteryâ? was being shown on a huge tv screen, donated via the contacts of Coastsider John Essa.
I loved the show and its theme– that Half Moon Bayâs historical failures were actually the reason for its success. KCSMâs publicist took ads out in TV Guide and there were newspaper interviews. Before vanishing from the screen, âThe Mystery of Half Moon Bayâ? was aired several times.
For a long time my copy of âMysteryâ? sat with my books on a dusty shelf.
One day I was invited to a meeting organized by the folks who founded MCTV, the local access station. To me the words âlocal accessâ? seem painfully bureaucratic words that donât convey anything meaningfulâcertainly not what the founders intended: a tv station where local talent could produce shows and have the creative result seen by Coastsiders.
The small group met at the Half Moon Bay library. Thatâs where I encountered Connie Malach and her husband Mike. Theyâd recently moved from San Francisco to El Granada.
MCTV was just being born and Connie and Mike didnât own a vast video library; they didnât have a lot of shows to air. When I told them I had a tape of âThe Mystery of Half Moon Bayâ?, they were excited. Yes, they wanted to air it. Almost immediately âMysteryâ? (with permission from KCSM) hit the local airwaves.
And Coastsiders loved it.
When MCTV hosted their first âSeals of Approvalâ? award ceremonies at the glamorous golf course south of Half Moon Bay, âThe Mystery of Half Moon Bayâ? won a âsealâ? for the most popular show!
A most thrilling moment in my life.
My MCTV trophy sits proudly on my bookcase, a symbol of the mutual affection between the Coastside and me.
The "Seal of Approval" for most popular show. The photo doesn't do justice to the beautiful slick mammal.:
*Stewart Cheifet injected a tremendous dose of optimism and much-needed change into KCSM-TV.Whoever hired him should receive an award. As the new GM, Cheifet had the staff going out into the real world for the first time. They were following politicians running for office and suggesting ideas that would have been nixed before. Stewart Cheifet was innovator and everyone at the station came to life–I know because I was a witness to it.
**I had written a book about HMB, had lots of photos, developed an outline for the show, submitted letters of recommendation & etc.)


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Isn't it fascinating how many men are absolutely certain that most rape accusations are completely false, that it's just wicked women conspiring to bring men down? Yet when you look at the numbers, you know that data that skeptics are supposed to care about, the frequency of false rape accusations is low, about 6-8%.
And then you hear the stories about how rape is handled by the police and by society at large, and you realize that even those numbers are grossly inflated (warning about that link: detailed description of how police treat a rape victim. Very unsettling).


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One thing is certain, Stuart Bogie is a busy dude. Just a quick look over his bio and you see an impressive list of bands he has recorded with and performed with including steady gigs in Antibalas, Iron & Wine, TV on the Radio, plus any number of acts related to those. It's pretty obvious that he is a very in-demand horn player in the indie music space. So, you might not think that he would have time to have his own project. But, he does. It's called Superhuman Happiness.
Bogie started work on the first release by Superhuman Happiness on the heels of a long tour with Antibalas. A Christmas gift for his family, Fall Down Seven Times Stand Up Eight released in 2008 was a collection of songs that he had been working on for ten years.
In July, 2010 Bogie released a super-limited 7″ of "GMYL" b/w "Hounds" which sold out very quickly. "GMYL" stands for the joyous refrain "God Makes You Live" in the hooky sax driven afro-rhythmic head-bobber. The single was recorded at Dave Sitek's (of TV on the Radio) Williamsburg studio Stay Gold. Some of the upbeat happiness of the tracks have to do with the fact that Bogie starts the compositions with handclap exercises to establish the rhythm– no sad songs based on hand clap rhythm- right?
On March 1st the single is going to be reissued by Electric Cowbell records with new label and a colorful sleeve (one side pictured above). Electric Cowbell is a cool singles-only label located in Brooklyn. I recommend you check their site out and try to score some of their releases! Superhuman Happiness shared a now-out-of-print single with the incredible CSC Funk Band. In addition to the "GMYL" single, Electric Cowbell released a collaboration between Superhuman Happiness and Sahr Ngaujah, "Gravity" b/w "String Theory." Sahr performed the part of Fela Kuti in the "Fela!" Broadway show that Antibalas scored and Bogie performed music for. This single is worth checking out as well.
For the record geeks: I compared both the original 7″ and the Electric Cowbell release of "GMYL" and they share the same master plates as they have the same matrix information. SHH-002A/B and U-6368IM-A/B are in the deadwax for both releases. Also scribed was "PCMJR" with a "U" in a circle. This is the marking for Mark Richardson of Prairie Cat Mastering out of Belvidere, IL.
Coming up for Bogie and Superhuman Happiness is a couple more singles to come out this spring or this summer followed by another full length that is currently in early stages of production.
Click Here for the Superhuman Happiness website.
Click Here for Stuart Bogie's website.
Click Here for Electric Cowbell's website.
Here is the video for "GMYL"
GMYL by Superhuman Happiness from Tatiana McCabe on Vimeo.


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Paul Vitz
Paul Vitz is a Psychology professor at New York University. He graduated with a B.A. in Psychology from the University of Michigan in 1957 and with a Ph.D in Psychology from Stanford University in 1962. An atheist until he was in his late 30s, he is now a practicing Roman Catholic.[1] His focus is on the connection between Christianity and Psychology.[2] He is a member of the fellowship of Catholic Scholars, but also has strong contact to Evangelical Protestant organizations and deeply religious Jews.[3]
Vitz criticizes liberalism and believes there is a link between fatherlessness and atheism, as he demonstrates in his book Faith of the Fatherless, the Psychology of Atheism (1999). The thesis of Faith of the Fatherless holds that famous believers;e.g., Blaise Pascal, Edmund Burke, Friedrich Schleiermacher, Karl Barth, and Dietrich Bonhoeffer had strong and loving fathers, whereas their atheistic counterparts who were militant/intense atheists;e.g., Thomas Hobbes, Sigmund Freud, Mao Zedong, etc.; all had fathers who were weak, unloving, or absent (See: Psychology of atheism and Atheism and poor relationships with parents). Thus, philosophers, professors, and political tyrants who denounce God do so in order to relive traumatic childhood experiences and to subconsciously seek out help rather than to explore any sort of valid or respectable reasoning process.
The Daily Mail reported that a study conducted by Public Religion Research Institute in partnership with the Religion News Service found that "children raised by divorced parents are more likely than children whose parents are married to be non-religious as adults."[4]
In Modern art and modern science: the parallel analysis of vision (1984) Vitz and co-author Glimcher provide an illustrated guide showing how modern science—i.e., experimental psychology—has influenced modern art. The book has been widely reviewed and well received.[5]
In Censorship: Evidence of bias in our children's textbooks (1986) Vitz shows how "a widespread secular and liberal mindset" within the leadership of the professional education community has resulted in the removal of conservative religious, family, and economic descriptions of American life from children's textbooks.[6] Even a person holding to the idea of a "noble pagan" believing in the virtues of hard work, discipline, patriotism, and concern for others has good reason to reject all state-approved social studies textbooks. Through the absence of such ideas, these textbooks make millions of Americans who hold traditional views on marriage, business, and politics seem alien and on the fringe. This is done by excluding accurate descriptions of contemporary religious, marital, economic, and political commitments. Vitz concludes a section discussing the positive effect of lawsuits by black parents on textbooks with "Our present textbooks, therefore, are as antireligious as our earlier books were racist." [7]
In his book Psychology as Religion: The Cult of Self Worship (1994 2nd Ed.) he contends that Psychology, based on current theories and practice, is oftentimes damaging. By a series of 'blaming' incidents for childhood experiences and 'trauma', people have victimhood placed upon them and therefore become victims.[8]
Vitz and Creativity
Vitz has stated that the academic, or secular humanistic, idea of creativity since the 19th century has been deeply flawed. Instead Vitz suggests a different definition of creativity:[9]
" | For a Christian, however, all creativity has its origin in God; and to claim that an individual human is really creative is either silly or blasphemous. A person can express his individual capacity in a creative fashion only by aligning himself with God's will. Real creativity requires a soul cooperating with God— a soul who becomes God's loving agent in all its activity however mundane. | " |
- Psychology As Religion: The Cult of Self-Worship (Wm. B. Eerdmans 1977, 1994 2nd Ed.)
- Modern Art and Modern Science: The Parallel Analysis of Vision, authored with Arnold B. Glimcher (Praeger, 1984)
- Sigmund Freud's Christian Unconscious, (Guilford Press, 1988)
- Censorship: Evidence of Bias in Our Children's Textbooks (Servant Books, 1986)
- Presented (at timestamp 20 minutes 00 seconds) in Clergy in the classroom [videorecording]: the religion of secular humanism. (Manitou Springs, CO : Summit Ministries ; Cleveland, OH : American Portrait Films, c1998)
- The Course of True Love: Marriage in High School Textbooks, a Report to the Nation from the Council on Families (Institute for American Values, 1998)
- Defending the Family: A Sourcebook, edited with Stephen M. Krason (Catholic Social Science Press, 1998)
- Faith of the Fatherless: The Psychology of Atheism (Spence Publishing Company, 1999)
- The Self: Beyond the Postmodern Crisis, edited with Susan M. Felch (ISI Books, 2006)
See also
External links
- The Psychology of Atheism
- Faith of the Fatherless, the Psychology of Atheism
- Paul C. Vitz Resource Center
- ↑ http://www.boundless.org/2000/departments/isms/a0000223.html
- ↑ http://www.psych.nyu.edu/vitz/
- ↑ http://www.paulvitz.com/Bio.html
- ↑ Children who grow up with divorced parents 'are less likely to be religious', Daily Mail
- ↑
- Bornstein, M.H., The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism,v. 43 (Spring 1985) p. 330
"This volume is hallmarked by clarity, conciseness, and scholarship. It is historically minded, attending to the origins of phenomena in science and art equally closely. It is intimate in detail, evaluating openly and rationally who is likely to have come in contact with what or whom and when. And, it is authentic, marshalling considerable information and citing equally aptly scientists and artists, art historians, and art critics of the last century and one-half. The book is also professionally organized, and its theses are spelled out, buttressed, and evaluated self-critically. . . . With considerable adroitness and skill, Vitz and Glimcher show how new perceptions of reality reflected themselves in sciences and arts concerned with human visual thinking."
- Choice v. 21 (May 1984) p. 1294
"[This is a] new and most welcome addition to the literature. . . . [The authors provide a] thoughtful and well-balanced discussion. . . . The many good illustrations contribute to the clarity and readability of the discussions. This is a stimulating and informative book that deserves a large audience, from the general reader to undergraduate and graduate students in psychology and art."
- Kubovy, Michael (Rutgers University, Department of Psychology) American Scientist v. 73 (March/April 1985) p. 192-3
"Vitz, an experimental psychologist who does research on visual perception, and Glimcher, director of the Pace Gallery in New York, have joined forces in this wide-ranging study of the interrelations of visual science and visual art in the 19th and 20th centuries….A reader unfamiliar with art history might infer from this book that the 19th century was the first time that there were close ties between science and art. Nothing could be further from the truth….Despite its flaws, this book will repay the efforts of those who are interested in the development of modern art, because it maps the course of a major underground river that links the two lakes of modern art and modern experimental psychology."
- Rembert, Virginia Pitts, Leonardo v. 22 no. 2 (1989) p. 270-2
- Doyle, Robert J., Perspectives in Biology and Medicine v. 29 (Spring 1986 pt1) p. 481-2
- Wertheimer, Michael and Werner, John S., The American Journal of Psychology v. 98 (Summer 1985) p. 328-31
- Richardson, John Adkins, The Journal of Aesthetic Education v. 19 (Fall 1985) p. 89-99
- Bornstein, Marc H., The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism v. 43 (Spring 1985) p. 330-1
- ↑ Library Journal, Patricia Smith Butcher, 1987
- ↑ Censorship: Evidence of Bias in Our Children's textbooks, Paul C. Vitz, p. 77-78, 83
- ↑ http://www.articlecity.com/articles/religion/article_323.shtml
- ↑ Psychology As Religion: The Cult of Self-Worship (Wm. B. Eerdmans 1977), p. 63


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Mike Enzi dies: Former Wyoming senator had bicycle accident – Los Angeles Times
GILLETTE, Wyo. —
Retired Sen. Mike Enzi, a Wyoming Republican known as a consensus-builder in an increasingly polarized Washington, has died. He was 77.
Enzi died peacefully Monday surrounded by family and friends, former spokesman Max D'Onofrio said.
Enzi had been hospitalized with a broken neck and ribs after a bicycle accident near Gillette on Friday. He was stabilized before being flown to a hospital in Colorado but remained unconscious, D'Onofrio said.
Enzi fell near his home about 8:30 p.m. Friday, family friend John Daly said, around the time Gillette police received a report of a man lying unresponsive in a road near a bike.
Police have seen no indication that anybody else was nearby or involved in the accident, Lt. Brent Wasson told the newspaper.
A former shoe salesman first elected to the Senate in 1996, Enzi became known for emphasizing compromise over grandstanding and confrontation to get bills passed.
His "80-20 rule" called on colleagues to focus on the 80% of an issue where legislators tended to agree and discard the 20% where they didn't.
"Nothing gets done when we're just telling each other how wrong we are," Enzi said in his farewell address to the Senate in 2020. "Just ask yourself: Has anyone ever really changed your opinion by getting in your face and yelling at you or saying to you how wrong you are? Usually that doesn't change hearts or minds."
Wyoming voters reelected Enzi by wide margins three times before he announced in 2019 that he would not seek a fifth term. Enzi was succeeded in the Senate in 2021 by Republican Cynthia Lummis, a former congresswoman and state treasurer.
Enzi's political career began at 30 when he was elected mayor of Gillette, a city at the heart of Wyoming's then-booming coal mining industry. He was elected to the Wyoming House in 1986 and state Senate in 1991.
The retirement of Republican Sen. Alan Simpson opened the way for Enzi's election to the Senate. Enzi beat John Barrasso in a nine-way Republican primary and then Democratic former Wyoming Secretary of State Kathy Karpan in the general election; Barrasso would be appointed to the Senate in 2007 after the death of Sen. Craig Thomas.
Enzi wielded quiet influence as the Senate slipped into partisan gridlock over the second half of his career there.
His more recent accomplishments included advancing legislation to enable sales taxes to be collected on internet sales crossing state lines. He played a major role in reforming the No Child Left Behind law that set performance standards for elementary, middle and high school students.
He fought for Wyoming as the top coal-mining state to receive payments through the federal Abandoned Mine Land program, which taxes coal operations to help reclaim abandoned mining properties.
Enzi sought to encourage business innovation by hosting an annual inventors conference. He also backed bills involving the U.S. Mint but his proposal to do away with the penny was unsuccessful.
Enzi was born Feb. 1, 1944, in Bremerton, Wash. His family moved to Thermopolis soon after.
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Chatter about Williams joining the production, which is set to begin later this summer, increased in recent days when the actor bowed out of an upcoming sci-fi and pop culture convention citing a conflict with a movie schedule. Sources confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter that Williams will indeed be returning to the Star Wars film franchise for the first time since 1983's Return of the Jedi. The Lando Calrissian character made his suave debut in 1980'sEmpire Strikes Back.
Williams has in recent years returned to the role that fuels his appearances on the convention circuit, voicing Calrissian in various cartoon series and video games.
The character is one of the more popular personages in the Star Wars universe and appeared in a major way in this year's Solo: A Star Wars Story. Donald Glover slipped on the cape to play a younger Calrissian.
Episode IX is being directed by J.J. Abrams and will reunite Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, Oscar Isaac and Adam Driver, among others. Keri Russell is one of the new additions to the cast. The film is set to open Dec. 20, 2019.
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Consumer spending dynamics will likely play a key role for investors this year. Going into 2022, consumers were focusing on satiating their appetite for durable goods. Given pandemic-related precautions, consumers focused on e-commerce opportunities to order up large-ticket items such as furniture and recreational equipment and small items such as food and daily personal toiletries.
As vaccination rates improve (see last year's Final Four commentary) and variants become less threatening, we expect consumers to pivot from heavy durables back to services spending. In developed economies, services make up an outsized portion of total consumer spending. Even though some services spending has recovered since the onset of the pandemic, we have much more to go. A risk is that wage growth does not compensate for higher prices, but consumer finances are in good shape overall, with household checkable deposits the highest since the Federal Reserve Board started recording the data.
We continue to expect above-trend U.S. economic growth in 2022, powered by solid consumer spending gains.
A perennial qualifier for our stock market final four, over the long-term, earnings drive stock prices. In this environment, with valuation expansion potentially tough to come by due to rising interest rates and high inflation, earnings take on more importance.
The good news is Corporate America is in excellent shape—earnings estimates are higher in 2022 now than they were at the start of the year, which is no small feat. And high inflation has brought pricing power to many companies along with more revenue for commodity producers. This is evident in the double-digit revenue growth S&P 500 companies are expected to produce in first quarter 2022 earnings season (source: FactSet).
Despite margin pressures related to supply chain disruptions and intense inflation pressures, we believe S&P 500 companies may deliver as much as 10% earnings per share (EPS) growth in the first quarter, compared to the current consensus estimate of about 5%. For 2022, we believe S&P 500 earnings are on track to potentially grow mid-to-high single digits. The roughly 2% year-to-date increase in the consensus S&P 500 EPS estimate for 2022 is an encouraging sign.
U.S. Treasury yields have moved meaningfully higher this year due to the increase in Federal Reserve (Fed) interest rate hike expectations. To start the year, bond markets were expecting two or three rate hikes in 2022, but due to broadening inflationary pressures, markets now expect the Fed to hike interest rates eight more times and bring the fed funds rate to nearly 2.5% by yearend. If the Fed does meet market expectations, it would be the most aggressive start to a rate hiking campaign since 1993/94.
This aggressive repricing, however, has put upward pressure on Treasury yields across the curve, with shorter maturity Treasury yields rising the most. This uneven response in Treasury yields has caused the yield curve to flatten and, in some places, invert (yields on shorter maturity securities exceeding longer maturity yields). Yield curve inversion is often looked at as a reliable predictor of recessions. However, the more important maturities on the yield curve, at least in terms of presaging recessions, are the three-month and 10-year yields, which are still far from inversion.
Rates are important not only because of their usefulness as an economic signal and as a driver of bond returns, but also because of their influence on stock valuations, as we wrote about here last week.
The favorite heading into our tournament, inflation impacts will be top of mind throughout the year. The confluence of supply constraints and surging demand has made pricing pressures a big concern for markets, consumers, and policy makers. Russian aggression only made things worse as commodity markets tightened amid global sanctions against one of the largest exporters of natural gas, wheat, and precious metals. The tight labor market could play a factor in the persistence of inflation, as wages will likely rise as firms try to attract available workers off the sidelines. One corresponding risk in this historic environment is a potentially overly aggressive Fed.
There are silver linings. For some, this year may hold a unique place in their life as some lucky car owners have sold their used car for more than they paid. Who has ever heard of a vehicle as an appreciated asset? Inflation and low interest rates have also been a boon to borrowers, with the real value of loans falling due to inflation while interest rates remain historically low. (And it's not lost on us that the biggest borrower of all, the U.S. government, may be the biggest beneficiary.) Firms with pricing power can cope with rising input costs by passing on the cost to consumers without material impact on market share.
The Fed is rightfully concerned about the nefarious effects of inflation on the consumer. Rising prices put a squeeze on discretionary spending and real wages. We are hopeful, but not optimistic, that the Fed's forecast of 4.1% inflation at yearend will be reached.
This year's winner wasn't as easy to call as last year, when the vaccines won in a rout. We're picking inflation as our winner because it's tied so closely to the other key factors. Inflation is a driver of interest rates and Fed policy, a potential drag on consumer spending, a risk to corporate profits, and a headwind for stock valuations. Inflation is also difficult to predict due to the geopolitical uncertainty in Europe and the complexity of ongoing COVID-19 effects on supply chains and labor participation.
When we put all of these factors together, our expectation that inflation pressures will soon start to abate, reducing the likelihood of an overly aggressive Fed, leads us to maintain our positive stock market view. We continue to recommend a modest overweight allocation to equities and an underweight to fixed income allocation relative to investors' targets, as appropriate. However, we recognize that stocks are likely to garner less valuation support at higher interest rate levels, suggesting a slightly more cautious stance may be appropriate at this time. Our year-end 2022 fair value target for the S&P 500 is 4,800 – 4,900.
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