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In this television segment from the 1970s Canadian show Arts '74, artist Evelyn Roth discusses her work in textiles. In the first clip, she shows how she uses videotape as a material for crocheted wearable sculptures (including one which fastens the viewer to a television set) and even a car cozy. Roth's costumes reminded me of those in Forcefield's videos, and her interiors echo a bit with some of Donna Huanca's stage installations and Jacqueline Gordon's Dream Blankets. Neat!
Evelyn Roth on Arts '74
Elastic Youth: Interpreting the Scrunchie Video
In case you missed November's Elastic Youth: Interpreting the Scrunchie lecture by David Riley, organized by DIS Magazine, videos of the event are now online. The lecture comprised part of the programming for the exhibition Free.
Beryl Korot "Text and Commentary" from Art21
Artist Beryl Korot discusses her 1977 video installation Text and Commentary in this brief clip. Korot's solo exhibition "Beryl Korot: Text/Weave/Line—Video, 1977-2010" is on view at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum until January 2nd.
Note: We reblogged another Art21 interview with Korot earlier this year, in which she talks about her involvement with the pioneering 1970s video art publication Radical Software.
NY Art Book Fair 2010
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Printed Matter's annual contemporary art book extravaganza The NY Art Book Fair opened last night, and I dropped by today to take some shots of the festivities for the blog. Easily one of my favorite yearly art events in New York, the fair hosts an overwhelming amount of booths, lectures, screenings, performances, and more by 200+ participating independent publishers, booksellers, zinesters, and artists. The fair is at PS1 in Long Island City, it's free, and it will be open today until 7pm, Saturday from 11am-7pm, and on Sunday from 11am-5pm. Also, be sure to scroll down to the end of this post for a round-up of media art and digital culture-related highlights.
(Dispatch did another version of this project at No Soul For Sale at the Tate Modern, which we covered on Rhizome, here.)
Homebrew Electronics
I met with sisters Sarah and Lara Grant of Felted Signal Processing the other week at their Brooklyn apartment. Felted Signal Processing is an ongoing project, which came out of their individual research as graduate students in NYU's ITP program. Sarah entered the program to further her skills in new media and Lara went to learn how to program, play with hardware and generally learn the electronic side to apply to her interactive fashion. Now graduated, they have teamed together up in their Felted Signal Processing project, which allows them to explore their joint passion for soft circuitry and wearable technology. Together, they build colorful, handmade felt interfaces that allow users to manipulate sound through physical interaction such as pulling, scrunching or stroking. Most of their interfaces are built to output sound, but they are also interested in the development of new materials and techniques for fabricating soft sensors for interfaces that can be hooked up to a variety of outputs. Lara has been felting for 7 years, and they explained that felt is their "dream medium." Sarah was the first of the two to apply the medium to soft circuitry; the name "Felted Signal Processing" actually came from her thesis, where she hacked a guitar pedal and integrated conductive felt into the circuit, letting users squeeze and scrunch the material in order to literally shape sound. Once Lara embarked on her thesis, she chose to develop a skill set of techniques to create and control variable resistance in soft circuitry. Sarah, a programmer with a background in new media art and a long standing interest in sound, focuses on the software and hardware side of their projects while Lara, who spent years working in fashion and textiles with an emphasis in conceptual ...
Patience Module (2008) - Ben Fino-Radin
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Knitoscope Testimonies (2006) - Cat Mazza
Knitoscope Testimonies is the first web based video using "Knitoscope" software, a program that translates digital video into a knitted animation. Knitoscope is a moving image offshoot of microRevolt's freeware knitPro. Knitoscope imports streaming video, lowers the resolution, and then generates a stitch that correspondes with the pixels color. The title "Knitoscope" is based on Edison's early animation technology the kinetoscope, which was a "coin operated peep show machine…watched through a magnifying lens". The "Testimonies" in this piece are from various professionals who work against sweatshop labor.
Google Tea Towels (2007) - Thomson & Craighead
[Source: Arc Projects Flickr]
A beautifully crafted set of four tea towels sporting a series of authentic search engine results returned to a user when the criteria, 'Please Help Me', 'Is Anybody there?', 'Please listen to me' and, 'Can you hear me?' were entered into the search field, while using Google in Netscape 4.7 on Mac OS 9.2 or Netscape 6 on Windows 98.
soundw(e)ave (2004) - Christy Matson
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Check out the first official pics of Carmen Electra & Nelly Furtado on '90210,' plus get 5 major spoilers!
90210's already star-studded fifth season is getting even more stellar in the coming weeks. The show's Nov. 12 episode, titled "Hate 2 Love," features the arrival of Carmen Electra as Vesta, who apparently helps Silver (Jessica Stroup) become the best burlesque dancer she can be! Silver's baby will be so proud of its mom someday.
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Nothing like homemade strawberry jam
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5 kilos!?! Whoa! Now I'm jealous. =)
- March 08, 2007 5:43 PM
Nice looking jam nens! Isn't great to make your own? I really love doing it now because it's pretty simple with such tasty results...and of course a great way to preserve your fruits.
What great stuff you were able to score in Baguio! Plus the veggies below...lucky you! Looks like you guys had a lot of fun :)
- March 08, 2007 6:36 PM
- Lydia (The Perfect Pantry) said...
Beautiful strawberries! I'm jealous. Right now our markets are filled with strawberries, but they're not local, and they're sooooo expensive. No jam-making for me until summer.
- March 08, 2007 7:04 PM
- christine said...
Wysgal, it was such a good deal so I bought that much! I wish it didn't cost so much down here.
Hi Jo, thanks! I love how easy it is to make, I never knew. It might just be worth learning more about th canning process so I could make more at one time. Yes, we had a super time :). The trip to the farm was a nice unplanned bonus. :) I'm actually ready to go back soon.
Hi Lydia! I know what you mean, where I live strawberries are expensive too! That's why I took advantage this time and bought a ton. I'm glad I made this jam because I'm now inspired to make others such as guava (a childhood fave) and mangosteen jam. :)
- March 09, 2007 1:08 AM
- Watergirl said...
Or macerate them with really good balsamic vinegar (if it's not the super expensive kind, reduce the balsamic vinegar a bit to thicken and intensify its sweetness and then add to the berries). Or soak them in your favorite liquer overnight!!!! So love strawberries.
- March 09, 2007 8:26 AM
- christine said...
"Soak them in your favorite liquer overnight." What a great idea! I'm planning an attempt at Frangelico Cake. Frangelico being one of my favorite liquers, I can use that on my strawberries! Must try. :)
- March 09, 2007 4:55 PM
- Didi said...
Whoa?! I just ADORE strawberries! They're my ultimate favorite!! I'm so envious of that 5 Kilos!! *Sigh*
- March 10, 2007 10:15 AM
- christine said...
Hi Cadishhh, I know, right?! Only because they were so cheap. Otherwise, 5 kilos of strawberries can be had only in my dreams. Sigh... :)
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recipe: broccoli garlic pizza
I made this earlier today as a sort of experiment but it turned out great so I thought I'd share it with all of you.
I used a ready made, uncooked, whole wheat pizza dough that I bought at the store but you could easily make your own. I've done this before and you can find some simple dough recipes online.
You'll need:
pizza dough
broccoli cut into bite sized pieces
spinach, also cut into small pieces
grated asiago cheese (or another strong, dry cheese)
minced garlic
olive oil
There aren't specific amounts of anything because it's completely up to you. I put some olive oil and minced garlic in a food processor with a tiny bit of butter for consistency
and rubbed it all over the rolled out dough. The I added the broccoli, spinach, cheese and baked it at 200 C / 400 F for about 15 minutes.
It's kind of this great, guilt free meatless pizza. I hope you get a chance to try it, enjoy!
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I looove spinach and garlic as a pizza topping so I am definitely making this! I also usually crack and egg on top of my spinach pizza so it is just warm and ooozy.ReplyDelete
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- AnonymousMay 07, 2013
That looks delicious! I don't think I've ever eaten broccoli on pizza before but I'm definitely going to try it.ReplyDelete
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Walking impairment is one of the most common and disruptive consequences that people with MS face but also one of the least discussed between patients and their doctors. During this interview, brought to you by MoveOverMS.org, a website sponsored by Acorda Therapeutics, MS experts will explain what they mean by "mobility impairment" and explore what causes it. You'll learn about physical problems such as weakness and balance trouble as well as other limitations like fatigue and depression. Experts will explain the importance of discussing concerns about walking impairment with your doctors early and often, and you'll learn about simple strategies you can incorporate in your daily life that may help you make the most of your existing mobility. Plus, real MS patients will share their stories, strategies and experiences.
What Is Mobility Impairment and How Common Is It?
Dr. Kraft:
Those of us managing patients with MS realize that getting from point A to point B, it truly is what mobility is. And we also realize that patients may very conveniently and safely walk short distances, but the typical MS patient might need something like an electric scooter to go long distances or to be out all day in the mall. And I believe that patients with MS should consider that there isn't just one right way to ambulate or get them from point A to B. There may need to be several different strategies they use based upon what their needs are, how long, how they feel, and so forth.
It is not only one of the most common challenges. It is one of the most disabling for persons in their day to day activities. I would say about two thirds of the patients have difficulty walking to some degree and maybe more if you really query them carefully. Walking impairs daily life. Many patients with MS, because of fatigue, can do fairly well in short distances but have problems over longer distances.
How MS Contributes to Mobility Impairment
Dr. Kraft:
One of the facts of life about MS is that it does cause damage both in the spinal cord often, not always but frequently in the spinal cord, and also in the brain. And remember that when you walk the impulse starts in the brain cortex, and it has to go down clear to your feet, and that has to go through the brain, the brain stem, into the spinal cord, through the spinal cord and out the peripheral nerves. So the likelihood of having a problem somewhere along that path is greater than having a problem along a shorter path.
So we assess that and try to determine how we can substitute for it.
Patients may have some numbness on the skin, but something that many patients may not be aware of is there are nerves from the joints in the feet and ankles that tell the brain where the foot is in space. It's not uncommon for a patient who looks strong and seems strong on testing to have falls. And when you test for this position, sense it may be deficient to let patients know where their feet are. And a good clinical observation on this is a patient who maybe cannot walk in the dark or stumbles at night but during the daytime when they can see, they can walk very well.
Evaluating Mobility Impairment
Dr. Kraft:
We evaluate patients with mobility [impairment] by clinical evaluation. We do the 25 foot walking test. It's a test to see how long it takes to go 25 feet. [Editor's note: There are additional tests utilized to assess mobility that Dr. Kraft covers later in this presentation.] By looking at how fast or how slow patients are we can tell how well they are doing or how badly they are doing. We also will do a physical examination which will involve checking especially the lower limbs, looking for any tightness or contractures, looking for weakness, looking for spasticity, which is that jumpiness of muscles. We will test patients for something we call clonus, which is the bouncing of the ankle when the ankle is moved. And we, of course, need to pay attention to the sensory deficit.
We would look at something called the TUG, the timed up and go test. And this is a test where there are two chairs a certain distance apart, and the patient is sitting in one. And when the timer goes off, the patient stands up, walks over to the other chair and sits down, then gets up and comes back and sits down in the first chair. So this times the speed of walking and times how fast they can get up and turn.
And then we can go with one step higher. We can do the timed up and go with cognitive challenges, doing mathematics in their head. We can just build upon this, and then we are able to really tease this apart and find out where the problem is and try to correct that.
How Mobility Impairment Affects Quality of Life
Mr. Sutliff:
It really impacts not just their quality of life but the entire family. I often talk about MS as being a disease that affects the entire family. And so when patients come to me, they will say they have to adjust their schedules and try and work in rest times in order to combat the effects of the fatigue.
And in terms of their work ability, it can have a distinct effect on that. Sometimes they require adaptations at work in order to make their work less difficult, for example, parking closer to their job so they can get in without the effects of fatigue when they walk in. In some cases, it can result in a loss of work, so it can have a significant impact on their finances.
This disease affects the spouse, the significant other. It affects their children. It affects even their parents. What we do is we try and incorporate some assistance in certain things from different family members, so it's quite a significant effect on the family life.
Discussing Mobility Concerns with Your Doctor
First, it's very important to see your doctor regularly even when you aren't experiencing many symptoms. I recommend keeping a diary of your symptoms and your activities and talk to your doctor about how things have been going since your last visit. You and your doctor might be able to see some patterns emerge that will help you manage your disease. You can also ask your physician about an exercise plan that will be best for you. Check out what resources are available in your community. There may be exercise programs that are specifically designed for people with MS. Water aerobics are very helpful for patients with MS, and it's also helpful for the patients with MS who are having trouble with their balance because it can protect them from injury. And you might want to look into a seated yoga class or a seated strength training class.
Preserving and Maintaining Mobility
Dr. Kraft:
Every patient with MS should see a physical therapist and have a physical therapist to work with. The ability to maintain walking function is not just strength or absence of jumpiness or spasticity of muscles or absence of problems with the sensory input or fatigue. The ability to function is also dependent upon the joints. And let me just take a moment to talk about this. It's very important.
If those of you listening in can just imagine standing up and standing with your knees at maybe a 10 to 15 degree flexion angle, how long could you stand like that? You couldn't listen to this whole program standing with your knee flexed for an hour, but that's what MS patients sometimes are forced to do because they have been so sick for so long and have joint tightness. We call these contractures. So they cannot get the knee straight. They cannot get the hips upright. They cannot get the center of gravity over the ankle. They are forced to stand in a very inefficient way, and with fatigue and weakness it's no wonder they can't even stand up for a few minutes, and let alone walk.
So being sure that the joint range is normal or close to normal and allowing the center of gravity to properly balance the patient is absolutely key. So stretching joints, strengthening muscles, and I should also say that we have shown that both in severe and mild MS patients, can go a long way to increase strength. It may not be a huge increase, but it usually has a very large functional benefit.
What to Expect from Physical Therapy
Mr. Sutliff:
Aerobic exercise has been shown to be very beneficial in the cardiovascular health obviously as well as in combating the effects of fatigue in MS. The key with it is exercising only to a moderate level of exertion. We don't want to over exercise. A "no pain, no gain" approach just does not apply when we are trying to work with patients with MS. I like to incorporate aquatic exercises into the routine, and that can often be done at very little to no cost because there are water exercise classes that are sponsored through the National MS Society. We [have] numerous programs available just in our area here and also around the country.
The water can be used in a variety of ways. If you have your arms out and if you picture being in the shallow end of a pool, perhaps you have weakness in your arm, you can move your arm slowly across your body and then slowly out away from your body, and the water can help assist the movement for arms that happen to be weak. But if we move the arms quickly against the water and press against the water, now the water can be used to resist the movement, and so it can be used for range of motion. It can be used for strengthening. I also will use it for balance-type exercises in the water as well as walking exercises in the water. And even the buoyancy of the water will help unload some joints. So if I have a patient who maybe has some knee pain or some back pain or hip pain, that buoyancy within the water will make their exercise much more comfortable than that same type of exercise may be on land.
For patients with balance deficits, we will do standing balance exercises or dynamic balance exercises where they are moving as they are doing their different balance tasks. Sometimes we will work with sitting balance. And, for example, someone with a weaker trunk and difficulty sitting upright, we may just sit on a flat surface. But as strength improves, we can challenge it by using therapy balls. So the patient sits on one of the large therapy balls, and we can challenge their balance and do different strengthening exercises for their arms and legs in that position.
I will also have them do some resistive strength training, again not to the point of overexerting. This is just a moderate level of exertion for any kind of strength exercise where I really try and teach to our patients that the first repetition, and the last repetition of any kind of strength exercise should have the same speed and quality. There shouldn't be a fatigue effect building in as they are doing their repetitions.
How Important Is Exercise?
I just think it's critical. And I have spent a lot of time working with people with MS throughout our state and in the country over the last 10 years, and just my anecdotal experience is that the folks who are out there being active and exercising just are doing that much better than the ones who aren't. And so for me it's something that is just part of my regular routine, and it makes me feel better. Like everybody else, my schedule gets hectic, and it gets busy, and occasionally you miss a few days. And it doesn't take long before the fatigue and the weakness creeps back in. So I just get back on my routine, and it's such an easy thing to do to fix your problems with energy and stamina.
It just helps your mental disposition. And when you feel like you have control over your energy level and your stamina, when you have a little setback with an exacerbation it makes it easier to deal with it. I am sure it makes it easier for my family to deal with me. So it's good for everybody that's involved.
What Research Is Being Done to Help People with Mobility Impairment?
Dr. Kraft:
I wanted to talk to you very briefly about a study we did some years ago on resistive exercise or strength building exercise in MS patients. I took two groups, one a very mild group of MS patients and one a very severe group of MS patients and studied them both with resistive, in other words weight lifting type of exercises to strengthen muscles, not the aerobic type. We studied them for three months. They came in the laboratory three days a week and came in for three months, and at the end we measured their strength. In both cases, it went up quite a bit, and the muscles strengthened. But amazingly we looked at functional activities. We looked at the time that it took them to climb stairs, and they were much faster, both of them with the exercise, after the exercise. We looked at their timed up and go. They were both faster. We looked at a number of other functions, and they functioned better. It wasn't that they were just stronger. They functioned better.
And then the amazing and I think the most important thing, we gave them a standard measure of self perception of health. It's called the Sickness Impact Scale, and it's where patients assess how healthy they think they are. And when they both came in, initially the mild group of MS patients felt that they were sick people, and the severe group felt they were really sick people. At the end of the study, the mild group scored just like normal people. They didn't see themselves as being sick. And the severe group scored themselves as the mild group did when they came in, just sort of mildly sick. So I think exercise, and this is just resistive and we know that aerobic exercise in addition would also be beneficial, this is just strengthening. Patients could function better, safer, faster, and they felt much better about themselves.
Getting the Most Out of Your Doctor Visit
Dr. Kraft:
I think that there are three points that are really important to get the most out of your medical visit. Realize that with the way the healthcare system has forced us to practice, you don't have hours and hours for each visit. So when you are going to your physician, think ahead of time what you want to talk about. And I have sort of put in place in our clinic three things we can really deal with if they are major things we deal with. Of course, we can deal with more if necessary.
So think of the top three priorities for any visit, and maybe as they get treated and corrected, then the next visit you will have some more things to work on. Think of what you want to prioritize because with regard to new medicines, with regard to new techniques and treatments and so forth, you may only have time and effort, ability to deal with three things at once. So pick the top three priorities.
Second point: Buy yourself a little, inexpensive tape or digital recorder. Take it into the doctor's office, put it on the desk, open it up, turn it on, so that when you and the doctor talk, rather than writing down what the doctor says, which is a form of multi-tasking, which means you probably won't hear exactly what the doctor is saying as you are writing down the other ideas, you can focus fully on what the doctor says. And when you go home, you can let your significant other hear this, you can listen to it, and I guarantee you will hear things you hadn't heard when you were there.
My third one is always ask to get a visit with a therapist, a PT.
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Bluestem's Catfish Sticks with Corn Nuts
As always with our Cook the Book feature, we have five (5) copies of Bluestem: The Cookbook to give away this week.
Fish sticks and corn nuts seem more like convenience store fare than fine dining. Not so in the case of these Catfish Sticks with Corn Nuts from Bluestem. In this inspired preparation, catfish fillets are coated in crunchy, salty corn nuts, giving them a crispy crust that's deeply corny in the best possible way.
Served with an everything-but-the-kitchen-sink tartar sauce and slices of fresh radishes, these are hardly on the same level as the packaged versions.
Why you should make this: Fish sticks don't have to come out of a box, in fact when made at home they are not only grown-up but really delicious.
Next time we might think about: Firm fleshed catfish works well in this recipe but we're tempted to try it out with something a bit milder and flakier like cod.
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- Yield:Serves 4
- Active time: 1 hour
- Total time:1 hour
- Fish Sticks
- 3 cups corn nuts
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 2 cups whole milk
- 1½ pounds freshwater catfish fillets
- Salt and freshly ground white pepper
- 2 tablespoons vegetable oil
- Tartar Sauce (recipe follows)
- 4 ounces radishes, trimmed and thinly sliced
- Tartar Sauce
- 1/2 cup crème fraîche
- 1/2 cup mayonnaise
- 2 hard-boiled eggs, finely chopped
- 10 cornichons, drained and minced
- 2 tablespoons drained capers, minced
- 1 tablespoon Champagne vinegar
- Juice of 1 lemon
- 2 tablespoons Dijon mustard
- 1 tablespoon chopped fresh flat-leaf parsely
- 1 tablespoon chopped fresh tarragon
- Salt and freshly ground white pepper
For the Tartar Sauce: Whisk the crème fraîche and mayonnaise together until smooth. Stir in the eggs, cornichons, capers, vinegar, lemon juice, and mustard. Add the parsley and tarragon and season with salt and pepper to taste.
Note: This sauce tastes better when made 1 day head to allow the flavors to blend. If you make it ahead, leave the parsley and tarragon out of the sauce until just before serving.
For the Fish Sticks: Toast the corn nuts in a dry sauté pan over medium-high heat, 3 to 5 minutes. Shake the pan to prevent them from burning.
Remove the corn nuts from the pan and let them cool completely. Pulverize the corn nuts in a food processor until they are coarsely ground. Set aside 2 tablespoons of the ground corn nuts to use as garnish.
Put the flour in a shallow dish. Pour the milk into another shallow dish. Put the ground corn nuts in a third shallow dish.
Line a large plate or baking sheet with paper towels.
Pat the fish dry. Slice the fillets lengthwise into 1-inch-wide strips. Season them with salt and pepper.
Toss the fish strips in the flour to coat. Knock off the excess flour. Dip the fish strips in the milk, and then roll them in the ground corn nuts to coat. Transfer the crusted fish strips to the lined plate or baking sheet.
Heat the vegetable oil in a large sauté pan over medium-high heat. Carefully add the fish strips to the pan and fry, undisturbed, until the corn nut crust turns dark golden on the bottom, about 2 minutes. Flip the strips over and fry on the second side until the crust darkens and the fish is cooked through, about 1 minute more.
To serve, smear a spoonful of tartar sauce across the center of each of 4 plates. Divide the fish strips among the plates and garnish with the radish slices and reserved ground corn nuts. Serve immediately.
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Located just 15 miles from the Central Business District, New Orleans Louis Armstrong International Airport is the busiest airport in Louisiana and one of the top 10 busiest in the Southeast. The airport offers service to over 30 cities across the country. Fourteen major carriers, including American, Continental, Delta, and United, operate out of Louis Armstrong International.
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As of 2016, the Regional Transit Authority runs New Orleans' three famous streetcar lines including the St. Charles line, the Canal Street line, and the Riverfront line. Trolley fare is $1.25 per person.
In 2004, the new Canal Street Line returned after a 40-year absence. The route ties into the Riverfront Streetcar Line from Esplanade Avenue to Canal Street and travels along Canal Street from the Mississippi River to a streetcar terminal at City Park Avenue and the Cemeteries.
Opened in 1988 to an enthusiastic public, the 1.9-mile Riverfront Streetcar Line was the first new streetcar line since 1926. Seven bright red streetcars now service the Riverfront line, which includes 10 stops between Esplanade Avenue and the Morial Convention Center.
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On Friday, April 22nd, 2016, in New York City, the location of the first mass New World Order ritual sacrifice on September 11th 2001, the official signing ceremony for the 'climate agreement' will be held on the official United Nations International Mother Earth Day, at the U.N. Headquarters: An official U.N.Holy-day, though you still have to go to work … for now! Anyone who is anyone in the solemn field of bureaucracy will be there, to sign the technical sovereignty of all nations away to an unelected body of technocrats, who will have conquered true science and religion simultaneously, declaring the planetary atmosphere a unitary-legislative dominion under their suzerainty and custodianship, simply with the application of some John Hancock's onto a piece of paper bearing various legal fictions – probably a few thousand pages of legalese written by London barristers (QC's, of course, & Corporate Lawyers).
Introducing the all important Carbon Atom: 6-Protons; 6-Neutrons; 6-Electrons – (666); a 'pollutant' when bonded with Oxygen we are told. It will become the property (in Trust) of this governing body, who will farm its global management out to U.N. approved multinational banking corporations, to force the sale of carbon indulgences (sometimes referred to as 'credits' outside of the U.N. Curia) on all denizens of their new planetary plantation. YOU, dear reader, will become their literal indentured property – for your own good we are told – because after all, you are merely made of carbon from the cradle to the grave; from dust we come, and to the dust we will go, but not before we pay the piper for the right to live … there is no escape from the plantation OWNER, and no underground railroad for escapees. As of April 22nd, YOU will be the chattel property of an organized global mafia network, which uses a 'peace' organization as its warm-and-fuzzy face: the Saviours of the Planet! … no modesty (or shame), will be found walking the halls of this particular organization on U.N.Holy International Mother Earth Day.
The suspense is killing me! I just cannot wait until the figurehead of this new empowered United Nations is presented to the world … the spokesman … a global Saviour no-less … the visible representative of all global Carbon (666) … what a Man! Surely he will be taller in stature than Ban Ki-moon whose term of office is over this year … at least 7 foot high with big huge shoes and a strong tough chin I expect! Will he have as great a plume of charismatic hair as a Prince of the Windsor blood? Will women faint at his mere presence? Will the wildlife come out of the forests to greet him at his coming? Will he wear tight fitting spandex underwear in familiar United Nations blue – that ever so calming light-blue of peace, so serene, unlike that brutal red and black of the Swastika, apparently conquered by the coming of U.N. blue? It all sounds like something out of the Apocalypse, but alas, it is reality, and the masses will surely accept his reign … their acceptance was foretold long ago!
the Prince of Peace …
… the Pax Romana 2.0!
Captain Carbon Pants!
Sublime Governor of the
Global Thermostat!
Guardian of Gaia!
The Prince of the Power of the [Hot] Air!
The Mother temporarily forgives your Carbon Sins…
… until the next payment is due! Can't pay today?
No worries … would you like a bridging loan? Good rates!
And is April 22nd merely the calendrical modern-age whimsical 'Earth Day' for 2016? No, dear reader, because of course, no global technocrat would want to solemnize the wonderful benevolent event of the coming of the Saviours of Planet Earth, on any other day than the Friday transition to a Jewish Passover, falling also on a Sabbath in 2016! For the uninitiated and uninterested reader, please humour my trespass in reminding you of a young man, sometimes also referred to as the Saviour – by the wise – who was nailed to a wooden cross by the Roman Empire after being judged by his Jewish peers as guilty of blasphemy. This occurred one Friday in 33AD, the day before a Jewish Passover Sabbath, by the sunset of which Friday, under Jewish law, the Passover Lamb would need to be sacrificed … and so He was, and then his body was rushed into a tomb before sunset, for it was unlawful to handle the dead on a Sabbath (starting the sunset before our Saturday).
ABOVE] Dates in the Hebrew and Islamic Calendars are based on the sighting at sunset, of the first crescent moon after a New Moon (called the Hilal in Islam). The all important Hebrew Passover of Nissan 15, which does not need to commence on a Friday sunset as it did during Jesus' Crucifixion in 33AD, but does in 2016, is indicated by the Green outline, and the Crucifixion is indicated by the 3rd-to-9th hour red marker on Friday daylight, which should have been Good Friday in 2016. The Islamic calendar is also indicated (and of course contextually important to the Clock Tower), because the birth of Ali is specific to the Kaaba, as he was the only human apparently born inside the Kaaba on Rajab 13th. Rajab coincides with Nissan in 2016. The official Saudi Arabian Umm al-Qura calendar, is usually one day ahead of a properly sighted calendar – as any smart Muslim will attest – but this makes little difference, because Ali's mother is said to have remained in the Kaaba with Ali for 3 days after his birth, making Friday afternoon on April 22nd, especially significant for Shia Muslims. Shia are one of the main enemies of the so called 'Islamic State' (a proxy militia armed by NATO and the Gulf Cooperation Council members), comprising of Sunni extremist patsies, who have 'officially' declared the Kaaba an 'idol' to be destroyed; This rhetoric is just part of the official cover story prepared for the Clock Tower attack so that it can be blamed on religious radicals, rather than the blame being laid at the feet of a globalist conspiracy of technocratic imperialists – the actual authors of both the N.Y.C World Trade Center and the coming Mecca Clock Tower attacks. I will expand upon these points in more detail during this post.
Alas! What a coincidence! Behold, the New Age Saviours of the World, will grace us in holding a ceremony for Mother Earth and 'Her' element of material and organic life – Carbon-666 – on what should indeed have been the Good Friday of the Father and Son reunited as One in self-sacrifice, that is, if indeed the man-in-the-big-hat over in Rome, and his predecessors, had not declared a bogus calendar convention to govern the worship of the faithful, constantly placing Easter on inappropriate dates. Far be it for me (a mere mortal!) to question such infallibility from the most sublime Pontifex Maximus, and such infallibility enshrined in the 'consensus on climate' (whatever that means) held over at the unelected United Nations Curia … Finance, Bureaucracy, Religion and 'Science' – in that order – have spoken! I'm not too sure the latter was consulted in true Baconian fashion, but it matters not, because 'the debate is over' … it's time to pay up peasants!
The application of said John Hancock's onto official U.N.Holy Writ (blessed by the Pontifex Maximus for added Roman authenticity), will consummate the solemn marriage of 'globe' and 'governance' (including carbon credits and derivatives trading), and sure enough, Mother Earth will be 'all knocked-up with child of the U.N.Holy Spirit', irreversible! The child of the New Aeon! A Horus Child one might say! Oh, great and worthy ones of wisdom, benevolent Saviours of the Planetary Mother, you who know better than the common rabble! Tell us your Will! Dictate to the unwashed masses the path to salvation from all Carbon Sin! Forgive us, for we are wretched, and you are clean! The Saviours of the World must now commence to 'change times and laws', for it is Your purpose, Your unmoving destiny, like a moth to a flame, to create 'a New Heavens, and a New Earth', in the image of Yourselves … in the image of an enlightened, and ascended, Übermensch (or a select few feeble faceless financial oligarchs behind a curtain sitting in an Emerald GREEN City as fragile as glass, as the case may be).
[NOTE: For those not well acquainted with the English language (including Twitter addicts accustomed
to the overuse of emoticons and limited syllables), I am being sarcastic, and heavily cynical.]
Luke 2:1
And it came to pass in those days,
that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus,
*that all the world should be taxed*
Mark 12:17
Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's,
and to God the things that are God's.
To this 'elite', I say the following:
Plantation Earth, is your playground … for a very short time.
… enjoy it while you can; Satyrs play, be merry …
… drink and dance … beat the servants … laugh at their toil …
… because the Lord of the Vineyard is not far off now …
… the Clock bears witness that your time is almost up …
… but you know this of course … which is why you built …
. . . the BIG Clock . . .
322, and the Clock!
Both symbols of the Skull & Bones society, Chapter 322 of a clandestine internationalist Masonic order, practising elite Hegelian geo-political rituals to initiate 7 Billion+ slaves into a new planetary plantation, where your Carbon Footprint (right to life) will be managed by a global U.N. Technocracy, under the clandestine control of an Order that only a few awake people are aware of.
There's no better slave than a slave who does not know they are a slave!
… 99% of people will refuse to see the truth, because they are simply cowards, though they will act as if it is the minority with sight who are insane, because the Emperor's new clothes are ever so beautiful to the blind in spirit, and vacant in soul!
The Skull & Bones society at Yale, is attached to a higher group of connected Patriarchs: These men control the United States for the City of London money center of the British Crown Overseas Empire (NOT to be confused with the U.K. Government, or simply just the family around the Monarchy … it is a complex Oligarchy, and most of it is invisible). The particular numerical fetish of this American Chapter, is 322, and members are encouraged to integrate the number into their lives: For instance, John Kerry ensured that 322 was included in his Senatorial phone number. The universal symbol for Masonic initiation, is the twin pillars – called Jachin and Boaz in the Bible – because they represent a doorway between the un-initiated, and the initiated (ie, Profane and Holy in the Bible, as only Levitical Priests were authorized to minister in the Temple beyond the Temple Pillars). The World Trade Center in New York City had 7 official numbered towers, the central focus being the two largest Twin Towers.
If you were to stand on the rooftop of each Twin Tower and look over the edge, you would be standing on the 111th architectural level (the 110th was officially the highest enclosed level of both towers). 111 is the fully expressed number of the Aleph in Kabbalah, making this a Double-Aleph (or A∴A∴) gateway. This has been explored elsewhere on my blog. If you were to use the same rooftop rationale for counting architectural levels, of *ALL 7 TOWERS*, then the total amount of floors was 322. This is known as a numerical signature, and was an important part of the initiation ritual being performed for the world on that day. Everyone on planet Earth was being initiated into a New World Order, and the Masters of Ceremony chosen for this honour, by the hidden Oligarchy of the City, were the Skull & Bones crew of Chapter 322. As such, they had the honour of stamping their mark on the A∴A∴ Initiation Gateway Pillars. Also read about the sacrificial gateway dog sacrifice of Sirius, in a PREVIOUS POST.
Not only were each of the Twin Tower's 111 esoteric levels, but September 11th just happens each year, to be exactly 111 days, away from the Roman New Year. The Roman New Year in the current epoch, is very important to NWO Masonic Astrologers (much higher than Cryptic Masonry), because it is when, on certain years such as 2016, the star Sirius performs a Double-Meridian-Transit in one Astronomical Day (different from a timezone adjusted day), at all Earth locations, except at the poles. Because of the 366.25 day celestial year, which is exactly 1 day larger than the Solar Year due to the Earth making one revolution around the Sun in 365.25 days, Sirius only does this on one day during the Solar year. If we apply the same day counting mechanism from September 11th to the start of the Roman New Years Day, and apply it from the end of this Sirius-Double-Meridian-Transit Day, in 2016 which is a leap year, we get April 22nd as a mirror image of September 11th, 2015. This creates a Double-Aleph using two 111's, just as the Twin Towers were an A∴A∴ gateway.
This might sound like a far fetched coincidence, however, on September 11th 2015, a massive Saudi Binladen Group construction crane, smashed into the roof of the Safa-Marwah walkway, of the Grand Mosque in Mecca. This killed over 100 sacrificial pilgrims. As discussed in the PREVIOUS POST about this tragedy, the Mecca Clock Tower, which was built by the Saudi Binladen Group, and which is officially part of a 7-Tower Complex – just like the World Trade Center – would have to fall between two flanking towers officially named Safa Tower, and Marwah Tower, making the crane collapse a perfectly analogous event. Will a 'terrorist attack' I have been anticipating for the Binladen Clock Tower, causing it to fall between Safa and Marwah onto the Mosque and Kaaba, be performed on the day before the Jewish Passover, Friday, April 22nd, 2016, during the three day period connected with the birthing of Ali ibn Abi Talib in the Kaaba? Hopefully not, but the Clock is also relevant to Skull & Bones.
Bonesmen have a secondary initiation rite that married members adhere to. When a member gets married, their wives (and now husbands, as females were allowed into the Order in 1993), have to be initiated into the order also during their wedding ceremony. Thus, the wife has to symbolically drink 'blood out of a ceremonial skull' – called the Yorick, or Fool – in the same manner as each Bonesman did during their own initiation. Upon their marriage and completion of this second initiation, the new couple then receive a Grandfather Clock as a gift, which has to be bought by the other 14 members of the Bonesman's graduating class. Apparently this is now a more inexpensive clock – due to a higher divorce rate than the strict Calvinists were used to – but the symbolism of a Clock as a Wedding gift, is highly important for understanding the connection between the star Sirius – known as the Blazing Star at the center of every Masonic Tiled Temple floor – and the concept of Time and Reproductive Generation. Such rites technically fall in the same category as – and parallel – Sex Magic Ritual, exemplified in highly esoteric pre-Crowley A∴A∴ practices, as well as Crowley's modern A∴A∴. The A∴A∴ predates Crowley from before the days of the Hellfire Clubs of the 18th Century, as discussed HERE.
This post will drink deep from the different vintage esoteric doctrines
– and true doctrines being challenged – that I believe are being invoked by such an attack, should it take place. It should be remembered however, that a Clock Tower attack is not necessary for April 22nd, 2016, to be ritually important, because the signing ceremony of the
New World Order is definitely taking place, in New York City, on this U.N.Holy International Mother Earth Day, which already A∴A∴ mirrors the September 11th, 2015, Mecca Crane Collapse Sacrifice!


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Profanity made George Carlin famous, but as his earliest fans grew up and got serious, he used a new tactic to attract younger generations.
George Carlin died five years ago today after a long standup comedy career built on a very "not-safe-for-work" routine. His 1972 "Seven Words You Can't Say on Television" got Carlin arrested, prompted a U.S. Supreme Court censorship case, and endeared Carlin to a Boomer audience that was ready to push the boundaries of good taste in the name of free speech.
Profanity made Carlin famous, but as his earliest fans grew up and got serious, he used a new tactic to attract younger generations: good, clean fun. Though Carlin continued doing standup throughout his life – and his standup never did clean itself up – he began a second career as a genial silver-screen funnyman when he took on a series of family-friendly roles.
Carlin had several small parts in films before 1989, but it was his role as futuristic Rufus in cult-classic teen flick Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure that brought him to the attention of Generation X – the children of his original audience.
Ten years later, that new crop of fans had grown up and was ready for Carlin to inject a bit of his trademark social commentary into a movie role. That made him perfect for the satirical role of Cardinal Glick in Dogma, delivering a riff on the declining popularity of the Catholic church.
In 2006, the grandchildren of Carlin's first fans learned how funny he was as he voiced the aging-hippie Volkswagen bus Fillmore in Disney-Pixar's Cars.
Whether he was shocking early audiences or keeping it clean for the kids, George Carlin knew how to entertain generations of fans. Carlin was fun for the whole family.


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Are We Communicating Effectively?
Effective communication is critical to every company's success.
If you asked 100 people to name the biggest obstacle they face in their companies, a large portion would identify either poor communication or a general lack of communication. Yet, it is necessary to communicate effectively throughout organizations to improve current practices, develop better products, install new business growth strategies, address employee performance issues and more. It can be argued that effective communication is critical to every company's success.
So why is communication such a problem in companies? Not too many people would admit to being poor communicators. In fact, most of us think we communicate pretty well. The things we are trying to communicate are perfectly clear to us, whether we speak them or write them. However, if communication is actually the sending, receiving and understanding of information, then maybe breakdowns occur in the last two components. We need to ensure communication is truly a "closed-loop" system.
Although managers are responsible for initiating a great deal of the communication that occurs in companies, there are times when important communication is needed from employees as well. Examples include someone doing something unethical (or worse), a co-worker not working in a safe manner, the occurrence of significant quality problems or hearing bad news from a customer. In these situations, as well as many others, employees must be willing to speak up.
In the book "Crucial Conversations," authors Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan and Al Switzler cite people feeling "unsafe" as the main reason why they do not speak up at critical times. Feeling unsafe can manifest itself in a number of ways, including complete silence, passively changing the subject or even anger. Dialog can be used to make people feel safer and reduce these counter-productive behaviors. The authors describe dialogue as the "free-flow of meaning between people." The key word used here is meaning, not just information. Procedures, numbers, policies and so forth might have a great deal of meaning to the person communicating them, but might not have similar meaning to the person receiving them. When we communicate to our employees, we need to recognize the importance of a shared meaning.
So how do we make employees feel safe enough to engage in the dialogue needed to support effective communication in our organizations? Like so many things, this begins with mutual trust. Trust will develop in employees if managers take time to listen to them while striving to be understood by them. After all, if someone does not believe the messenger, they are unlikely to believe the message. This means providing employees with opportunities to speak about what is important to them, even if we disagree, without fear of retribution. We can also build trust when we point out the similarities between different ideas and not just the differences. Often there is more similarity in ideas than we think, and we can find it if we are willing to hold our emotions in check and not view every outcome as "win/lose."
Likewise, in order to maintain dialogue, we must be careful not to over-analyze what others say. Instead, treat what people say as what they mean if you don't possess facts to the contrary.
I once had a very important conversation with a co-worker during which I began to think he had a hidden agenda that would ultimately hurt my department. This perception was affecting my thinking about the matter being discussed. However, as the discussion went on and the facts became clear, my perception changed and we arrived at a mutually beneficial solution. If I had not changed my perception, which was causing me to ignore some of the facts, I am convinced we would not have come to such a workable solution.
Once we establish trust with our employees, we must be sure there is a mutual purpose in any dialogue. Everyone must recognize that we all want the same thing in the end: to make the company successful. Sometimes this mutual purpose is not obvious and needs to be discovered as we proceed, but it must be discovered if there is to be true dialogue. Take the time to do this. In the example of my discussion with a former co-worker, the mutual purpose was finding a way to make it easier for our customers to do business with us, which would lead to happier customers and more business from them. Both of us recognizing this mutual purpose was another contributor to our successful outcome.
When an organization fails to communicate effectively, everyone loses. Good ideas don't get heard, and opportunities are missed. Problems are discovered too late to take corrective action. Needed changes do not receive the necessary support and are not adopted. Perhaps most important of all, the best possible decisions are not always made.
Effective communication is critical among managers and all employees in order for a company to truly be successful.


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I have been wanting to write about the Fu (Mandarin) or Hu (Foo Kien) for quite some time now, however, I debated whether it is proper for me to write about the Fu because it is something that is not easily available or something that can be bought in a store.
Fu or Hu is a Taoist magical paper talisman. Fu is an ancient and special form of 'magic' or sorcery (sorcery is not exactly negative unless use in a negative way) that uses special characters or images or symbols or prayers or words 'printed' on a yellow rice paper in red ink. It is believed that a Fu can store a magic spells and good chi. While anybody can make a Fu or Hu, it entails a special skill and blessing from a Taoist God for you to be able to lock the magic spell or chi in the said magical paper talisman. To do this one has to be an ordained Taoist priest or a Taoist God medium. The said chi and spell is further locked into the Fu by making sure that it passes through the incense burner dedicated to the said Taoist God, Immortal or Deity mentioned in the Fu.
Anyone can activate and tap into the power of the Fu by carrying the magical paper talisman on one's body, putting them on the window or door, or placing in the room, or simply by burning them. Most Fu or Hu are burned while one calls on the God, Deity or Immortal represented by the Fu followed by the intent. However, as mentioned, there are some Fu that are to be worn on the body like an amulet, or place on the door, etc.
Fu(s), I believe, is one of the most powerful talisman in the world, provided you get it from a reliable source, and from somebody who is not driven by monetary reasons. Unfortunately, in the Philippines, there are some temples that sell their Fu. I don't believe that this is right, especially, if there are patrons who have greatly benefited from tapping the power of the Fu, that they sponsor printing of Fu(s).
There are different kinds of Fu(s), depending on the temple and sometimes depending on the purpose or intent of the person needing the Fu. One can use a Fu to invoke a God/Deity/Immortal's help, to protect a household, heal the sick, or exorcise demons or bad spirits. Some people would associate the Fu like a petition paper, or a court order depending on the purpose or intent.
There is no clear record as to what Chinese civilization first used the Fu, however, the Fu is mentioned in a lot of Chinese religious and political texts. An apocryphal Taoist text call Ku Wei Shu or Old Mystical Test, the role of Fu is associated with the last legendary Five Emperors of China, especially with Great Emperor Yu, the mysterious Emperor who founded the Hsia Dynasty.
It is said that the Great Emperor has stop a terrible flood that has devastated most of China by burning several Fu of the Goddess of the North Star.
Personally, I can attest to the power of the Fu, and I use it a lot in conjunction of my mantras and Feng Shui.
There was this one time when one of our houseboy went into a epileptic attack, some say he was being possessed by a spirit, we don't really know, but I specifically remember my mom just got a set of Fu, burned it and after less than a minutes our houseboy became visibly relax. He was sent to the hospital, but the hospital said that they don't think he had an epileptic attack, and our houseboy claims that he saw a dark shadow hovering over him.
Another experience with the power of the Fu that I had, happened when I was still involve in an NGO. One of our managers got an educational grant in Berlin, but he has to pay for her own airfare and board and lodging. The organization raised funds for her board and lodging, however, nobody has volunteered to shoulder her airfare. We decided to write to several politicians, travel agencies, and famous businessman. Unfortunately, all of them turned down our request, except for one Chinese businessman. When we called up his office, his secretary informed us that her boss has read the letter but that he really hasn't replied. We are quite desperate already because our colleague is scheduled to leave in 2 days and she still hasn't raise her airfare fund. We beg the secretary of the Chinese businessman to give us time to present our cause to the businessman himself, the secretary agreed and said we should go to their office that same afternoon and she'll see whether she can give us 5 minutes with the Chinese businessman. We immediately left, and for some reason, I decided to bring a set of Fu (one set is 3 pieces) of The Great Sage, Equal of Heaven Sun Wukong.On our way, the secretary called my colleagues mobile phone and said that there's no need for us to go because her boss has already informed her that he can't finance my colleague's trip. My colleague informs the secretary that we are already downstairs and begged her to still allow seeing the Chinese businessman. The secretary agreed and I decided to burn the Fu with the intent of getting the businessman to finance my colleague's trip to Berlin. To make the long story short, we went up, had an audience with the businessman, and was asked a single question – How would the country benefit from this trip? – My friend gave her reply and she got the funds for her airfare!
I know somebody who is sick of cancer and was given a 'death sentence' by his doctor. He started burning some Fu and now he is well. Even his doctor was surprised that he won over the cancer.
There are a lot more stories about the power of the Fu, be it about money, business, personal problems, etc. The Fu has always made magical solutions for seemingly unsolvable problems.