text: Latest News Staff Picks Peter Lavelle: If she loses, will Obama pardon Hillary Clinton? If she wins, will Hillary Clinton pardon Hillary Clinton? This is what American politics has descended into – a political culture that legally allows crooks and liars full pardon. Published 2 years ago on October 30, 2016 By Peter Lavelle 4,118 Views Share Tweet The FBI's decision to reopen the Hillary Clinton email scandal days before the election present a number of truly fantastic and dangerous scenarios – not of them good. One of the most powerful prerogatives of the U.S. president is the pardon. A presidential pardon can be absolute and free – the courts and the Congress cannot challenge the terms and conditions of a pardon. Could Barack Obama or a President Hillary Clinton resort to a pardon to stop the wheels of justice against the incredibly corrupt Clinton Machine? Amazingly FBI Director James Comey decided not to indict Clinton, even after a mountain of evidence of wrongdoing, criminal behavior, violations of national security, and outright lying. Has he had a change of heart? Possibly. Or does he have in mind a face saving measure to salvage his reputation and career? This is a mute point – Comey has completely compromised himself and the FBI. In doing so, the election may now be completely compromised and the American system of legal due process. Now the plot becomes thicker and thicker. A presidential pardon could rescue the Clinton Machine cesspool. Obama can pardon Hillary for anything he wants – for crimes committed or even suspected. This means he can pardon her without an indictment being issued. We could expect to hear Obama explain himself using the following words: "For good of the country, for the good of America's democracy." What he won't say that he too is probably compromised by Hillary's gross violations of the law. Obama may be willing to save Hillary from prison, but he most certainly doesn't want to be victim of Hillary illegal behavior. Pardoning Clinton before the election would represent the most egregious manipulation of an American presidential election in history. (Forget all the nonsense about Putin meddling in the election!). Pardoning Clinton after the election if she wins or loses would also constitute an unprecedented executive intervention in electoral politics. Obama is a timid political figure. For eight years he has been the empty suit president. It is quite possible he merely wants to leave office to enjoy a life of undeserved luxury surrounded by sycophants. Thus, he may want to avoid throwing Hillary a lifeline to preserve his outsized ego and vanity. If Hillary wins, she will still be under criminal investigation. Upon inauguration would she pardon herself? It would not be illegal and there is nothing anyone could do about it. Though the obvious political storm would ensue. Again the Clintons would show they are above the law. The use of a presidential pardon is a real possible at this juncture. It is also not impossible a President Hillary Clinton would pardon her entire inner circle and Barack Obama! This is what American politics has descended into – a political culture that legally allows crooks and liars full pardon. Peter Lavelle is host of RT's political debate program CrossTalk. His views may or may not reflect those of his employer. Related Topics:featuredHillary ClintonPutinObamaU.S. presidential electioncrimeAmerican politicsCongresscourtslawpresidential pardon Up Next Former assistant FBI director, "Something big is going to happen!" [Video] Don't Miss Donald Trump had Anthony Weiner, Huma Abedin, and classified emails figured out way back in 2012 Advertisement You may like Judicial Watch Calls for Re-Opening of Hillary Email Investigation After More Classified Info Found Can America Ever Come Together Again? 'Too Big to Fail': Russia-gate One Year After VIPS Showed a Leak, Not a Hack Comments Latest Ukraine President Poroshenko moves to steal Russian Orthodox Church property The Duran – News in Review – Episode 84. Published 12 hours ago on August 19, 2018 By Dmitry Babich The press service of the Patriarch of All Russias announced that the first person in the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill, will visit Istanbul on August 31, 2018, for a "very important talk" with his colleague, the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew. All Russia and all of Ukraine will be watching this meeting with their hearts beating. Bartholomew, even though not playing in the Orthodox world the same role as the Pope plays in the Catholic one, is in a "make or break" position now. Bartholomew has been asked by the Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko to separate the Ukrainian "sister church" from the Moscow Patriarchate. The problem is that Russian and Ukrainian Orthodox believers belonged to the same church since Russia's baptism in 988 AD, which makes it more than 1000 years. (Kirill is traditionally called the Patriarch of All Russias, meaning the White Russia, i.e. Belarus, and Small Russia, i.e. Ukraine.) The head of the un-recognized pro-Poroshenko "alternative" Ukrainian church, Filaret Denisenko, said that Bartholomew's agreement will mean an immediate confiscation of all the temples, chapels and monasteries in the country from the "pro-Moscow" church to the newly formed Unified Orthodox Church of Ukraine, which president Poroshenko announced would be founded right after getting Bartholomew's eventual permission. Bartholomew's response is awaited in September, so the visit of the Russian Patriarch to Bartholomew's office in Istanbul has an urgent character. In Ukraine, several deputies warned of "bloody consequences" if the buildings of prayer start to be taken away from the traditional church. The Duran's Alex Christoforou and Political Analyst with Sputnik International, Dmitry Babich, discuss the move by Ukraine President Poroshenko to divide the Russian Orthodox Church and execute a massive land grab against the Russian Church that would be historic in size and scope. Remember to Please Subscribe to The Duran's YouTube Channel. TURMOIL AROUND THE ANNIVERSARY In The end of July 2018, on the eve of the 1030th anniversary of the Baptism of Kievan Rus, an Eastern Slavic proto-state, on whose territory the three modern states of Russia, Ukraine and Belarus are located today, the events of that long past epoch were suddenly echoed by some very modern pains. The authorities in Kiev, the site of baptism performed by prince Vladimir in 988 AD and currently the capital of Ukraine, spread fears among believers. Fears unheard of since Christianity was de facto "rehabilitated" in the former Soviet Union during the celebrations of the 1000th anniversary of the Baptism – under Mikhail Gorbachev in 1988. The heads of Ukrainian transportation companies said in their many conversations with Ukrainian priests that they got "recommendations" from the authorities not to provide buses at the request of peripheral parishes of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Moscow Patriarchate (UPTsMP in the local abbreviation). The aim of the authorities was to prevent UPTsMP from busing the believers into Kiev and holding a mass march there. Since UPTsMP openly condemns the ongoing civil war in Ukraine, refusing to call it a "Russian aggression" and retaining the word "Moscow" in its name, the authorities' concerns are easy to explain. They were afraid that the march could be seen as a sign of the believers' opposition to certain policies of the ruling regime in Ukraine. Namely, the policies aimed at total cut of ties to Moscow, advocated by the ruling regime in Ukraine. PROBLEMS OF TRANSPORTATION "We called dozens of various [transportation] companies and everywhere we heard total refusal. In the end, one of the heads of these companies confessed: they were unofficially prohibited to transport the believers to Kiev under threat of a physical violence," the official site of the Ukrainian church quoted archpriest Oleg Dominsky as saying. Dominsky represented the Ovruch diocese of UPTsMP. https://ria.ru/religion/20180726/1525416709.html Ovruch is located in the north-west of Ukraine, a few hundreds of miles away from Kiev. Similar complaints came from the Odessa, Nezhin and Chernovtsy regions of Ukraine. The metropolitan of the Ovruch diocese Vissarion said in an interview to the Kiev-based Ukrainian television channel 112UA: "Not only the transportation companies, but even simple believers face obstacles [on their way to Kiev]. People are… intimidated, some of them face threats of having problems with their jobs," Vissarion said on 112UA channel. https://ria.ru/religion/20180726/1525416709.html "SEPARATISTS" IN THE MAJORITY However, on July 27, the UPTsMP's march in honor of the 1030th anniversary did take place, with about 250 thousand people attending it, according to the church's own estimates. The deputy of Ukraine's interior minister, Sergei Yarovoi, came with a much more modest estimate, telling the journalists that "about 20 thousand people took part" in the march of the church which the pro-government Ukrainian nationalist organizations often accuse of being "a pro-Moscow group of separatists in priests' attire." Why was the Ukrainian government so much against the march commemorating something that happened 1030 years ago? "It had been clear long before the anniversary that this march would reveal the spiritual bonds between Ukrainians and Russians, since prince Vladimir during the baptism did not make any difference between these two nations. So, the authorities tried to prevent the march, while giving maximum support to an alternative event, organized by the so called Ukrainian church of Kiev Patriarchate, which is loyal to the authorities and calls the war in Ukraine a 'Russian aggression," said Vladimir Sinelnikov, the Ukrainian-born correspondent of the Russian Vesti FM radio station in Kiev. https://radiovesti.ru/brand/61178/episode/1860284/ According to Sinelnikov and several Ukrainian media outlets, the authorities are giving a clear preference to an "alternative" Ukrainian Orthodox church, the so called Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Kiev Patriarchate (UPTs KP), not recognized by any of the world's Orthodox Patriarchates. This so called "church" is headed by "patriarch" Filaret Denisenko, an excommunicated former member of the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church who founded UPTsKP on the basis of Ukrainian nationalism and total rejection of any "spiritual communion" with Russia in 1992. APOSTOLIC SUCCESSION "We know that participants in the march organized by citizen Denisenko and his followers were bused in to Kiev by none other than the local administrations and other government bodies," said Alexander Shchipkov, deputy head of the Russian Orthodox Church's department for relations with society and media. "However, experience shows that excommunicated Denisenko and his so called church never attain the same numbers of supporters as the canonical Ukrainian church, which is officially a branch of the Russian Orthodox Church, sharing its apostolic tradition and many hundreds of years of history. For every true believer, this is more important than the government's graces." According to historical records, Kievan Rus was officially baptized by prince Vladimir in the tenth century AD with the support and participation of the Greek Church in Constantinople, then the official church of the East Roman Empire, later referred to by historians as Byzantine. (In reality, the Byzantine emperors and their subjects called themselves Romans and considered their empire the same state as the legendary Roman empire of Julius Caesar. It is from Caesar that the word "tsar" emerged in the Russian language to designate the monarch, while Roman history became the root of the theory of "Moscow as the third Rome," which presumed Moscow's succession to the imperial city of Rome and its previous successor of Constantinople, the second Rome, that fell to Turkish hands in the fifteenth century.) The first Orthodox bishops and metropolitans in Russia were Greeks from Constantinople, who got their "apostolic succession" from Christ's own disciples, which visited Rome and Greece on many occasions, starting the tradition of "ordaining" new bishops and priests, which lasts to this day. Today, Russia, Ukraine and Belarus are in fact celebrating the 1030th anniversary of this unbroken tradition. UNWANTED SEPARATION "The strength of the Russian Orthodox Church and its Ukrainian sister UPTs MP lies in the apostolic succession, which the current Ukrainian government can neither provide nor imitate," Moscow Patriarchate's Shchipkov said. "The state cannot "create" a church, nor should it aspire to do it. But this is exactly what the Ukrainian authorities are trying to do, urging the Ukrainian Orthodox Church to merge with Denisenko's entity and asking from the ecumenical Patriarch in Constantinople an autocephalous status for this new "united" Ukrainian church of their own invention." In April this year, Ukraine's president Petro Poroshenko and the country's parliament did ask the Istanbul-based Patriarch Bartholomew to give "patriarch" Denisenko and his church an "autocephalous" status, thus breaking the more than 1000 years old link to Russia. Bartholomew is still considering that request. The Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Moscow Patriarchate protested, saying that it did not empower Poroshenko and Rada to ask Constantinople for any special new status for it. "This initiative is an abuse of power, an interference of state into church affairs," the Church's statement said. http://news.church.ua/2018/04/21/zayavlenie-ovcs-ukrainskoj-pravoslavnoj-cerkvi-po-povodu-obrashheniya-prezidenta-ukrainy-k-vselenskomu-patriarxu-varfolomeyu-otnositelno-predostavleniya-tomosa-ob-avtokefalii-pravoslavnoj-cerkvi-v-ukr/?lang=ru SPIRITUAL LINK However, besides a purely religious significance, today's anniversary has an important humanitarian element, which goes far beyond the sphere of religion alone. Joint celebration of the Eastern Slavs' baptism provides an enduring spiritual link between tens of millions of people, who in the 1990s suddenly became divided by newly emerged borders. Ukraine again gives the most vivid – and dramatic – example of this. After the Maidan revolution in Ukraine in 2014 and the subsequent crackdown by the new authorities on all things Russian in that country, Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Moscow Patriarchate (UPTsMP) remained the only public organization in Ukraine which still legally has the word "Moscow" in its name. For millions of Ukrainian citizens, ethnic Russians or not, any kind of legal linkage to Russia is valuable and important. Besides the Cyrillic alphabet, which was given to both Russians and Ukrainians by the saintly teachers Cyril and Method in the 9th century, there are few non-Internet links that remain between the two countries. Already in the beginning of its rule in 2014, the new regime in Kiev terminated air flights between the two countries and banished Russian television and radio from Ukraine's cable networks. Constant attempts to shut down the Russian embassy and to introduce a visa regime or just to close the borders are made from the Ukrainian side. CHURCH SUCCEEDS WHERE GORBACHEV FAILS But why does the church endure where diplomacy does not? In the period of collapse of the Soviet Union as a successor to the Russian empire, which culminated in the country's dissolution in 1991, the Russian church proved to be much wiser and more flexible than the Soviet state. It succeeded where the last president of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev failed. "Russian Orthodox Church then gave its "periphery" so much autonomy, that this prevented the collapse of the whole structure. The unified state might collapse in tears, but the church did not follow it. It remained alive and did not give up its right to cater to believers on all sides of the newly emerged borders," explains Yevgeny Nikiforov, the head of the Orthodox-oriented radio station Radonezh and a specialist in Russian church's history. Even before the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, Moscow Patriarchate allowed the sister churches in Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova to have their own budgets, to appoint their own bishops and to run all of their "earthly" activities (education, production of church items, etc.) without consulting anyone in Moscow. In return, the Russian Orthodox Church remained in "eucharistic union" with them, with representatives of these churches participating in the election of the Russian Patriarch of ROC. But what is most important, all believers in these countries and Russia can satisfy their religious needs on equal footing in any of these sister churches. PATRIARCH IN DREAM OF KIEV After his election in 2009, the Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Kirill became much more active than his predecessors in propagating the idea of the "Russian world," a free spiritual community of the individuals sharing Christian Orthodox values, anchored in Russian culture and having some knowledge (not necessarily proficiency) of the Russian language. The tragic wars in Georgia and Ukraine in 2008 and 2014, when Christian Orthodox believers killed each other on both sides of the fronts, led to innumerable losses for both the church and its Orthodox parishioners. Dozens of Orthodox priests had to emigrate from Ukraine to Russia because of accusations of being "Moscow stooges." But this suffering did not shatter the belief of Patriarch Kirill in the feasibility of Russian world and its benign nature. For Kirill, there is a personal side to these conflicts: the tradition to celebrate the anniversaries of Prince Vladimir's Baptism of Rus in Kiev, established by Kirill's predecessors back in 2008, can no longer be continued because of the Ukrainian government's negative stance towards him personally. "The Patriarch feels very badly about the fact that the Ukrainian authorities do not let him visit Kiev, the cradle of Russian Orthodoxy," explained Vladimir Legoyda, ROC's representative in the Holy Synod's department on public affairs. "For many centuries, this is the first time that the head of the Russian orthodox Church is facing such a constraint on his movement. But the Patriarch is sure that sooner or later such a visit will be possible again. We don't support any sides in Ukraine's war. We just want this war to end as soon as possible." Speaking to a convention of the world's Orthodox churches' representatives in Moscow on July 27, Patriarch Kirill denounced the attempts to divide and subdue the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, he condemned its discrimination and the attempts to disown it of its most famous Pochayiv monastery and Kiev-Pechersk one. "For our church, Kiev is the same kind of a holy place as Jerusalem is for Christians of all creeds or Kosovo is for the Serb Orthodox church," Kirill explained. He also asked the Ukrainian authorities not to "cut away" the Ukrainian church from the Moscow Patriarchate. But will the official Kiev hear the Patriarch? It may not, but after all, the link between the Russian and Ukrainian believers is really not of an earthly nature. And what God has tied together, will the governments be able to severe? Every true believer knows the answer to this question. Continue Reading Latest Judicial Watch Calls for Re-Opening of Hillary Email Investigation After More Classified Info Found Judicial Watching is calling for a re-opening of the investigation into Hillary Clinton's emails after finding more classified information on the former Secretary of State's non-"state.gov" email system. Published 22 hours ago on August 19, 2018 By The Duran Authored by Joseph Jankowski via PlanetFreeWill.com, On Thursday, the watchdog revealed that it had received two batches, 184 pages and 45 pages, of newly uncovered emails belonging to Hillary Clinton from the U.S. Department of State sent and received over her unsecured server. The emails were uncovered by a FOIA lawsuit filed on May 6, 2015, after the State Department failed to respond to a March 4, 2015 FOIA request seeking all emails sent or received by Clinton in her official capacity as Secretary of State, as well as all emails by other State Department employees to Clinton regarding her non-"state.gov" email address. Judicial Watch broke down what they found: On June 7, 2011, Clinton received classified information on her non-secure email account from former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, which Blair also forwarded to Jake Sullivan, about Blair's Middle East negotiations with Israel, the Palestinians and the French On January 26, 2010, Clinton's Deputy Chief of Staff Jake Sullivan sent classified information via his unsecure Blackberry to Huma Abedin's State Department email account that he'd earlier sent to Clinton's and Abedin's non-secure @clintonemail.com email accounts about U.K. negotiations with Northern Ireland. On October 28, 2010, Clinton exchanges information with her friend Marty Torrey – a congressional aide – who asks Clinton in an email if she would advise that Torrey meet with former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf. Clinton responds through her non-secure email account approving the meeting and notes that she is emailing him from Hanoi, Vietnam. An email chain dated April 8, 2010, which contains a memo from Sid Blumenthal to Hillary Clinton related to the change of government in Kyrgyzstan, contains information classified "confidential" and is redacted as "foreign government information" and "foreign relations or foreign activities of the United States, including confidential sources." Blumenthal urges Clinton to "develop relations" with the new government in Kyrgyzstan. These emails caused Judicial Watch founder Tom Fitton to call for the Department of Justice to re-open the investigation into Clinton's use of a private email server during her time in office. BREAKING: More classified Clinton emails uncovered by @JudicialWatch lawsuit! The Comey-Strzok-Lynch Clinton email "matter" was a sham, so it is urgent that Attorney General Jeff Sessions to order a new criminal investigation. https://t.co/Kn0umGFh7n pic.twitter.com/yJmOGmcl1M — Tom Fitton (@TomFitton) August 16, 2018 "These emails were undercovered from the emails that Hillary Clinton tried to delete or otherwise hide from the American people," Fitton said in a video posted Thursday. "These new emails once again show why the Clinton email investigation needs to be re-opened by the Justice Department." The batch of emails also disclosed a January 26, 2010, email to Hillary Clinton's private server from her deputy chief of staff, Jake Sullivan, that is classified "confidential" and contains a "call sheet" that Clinton received prior to a call with Northern Ireland political leaders. Interesting, but not surprising, is also an email that shows a meeting scheduled between Hillary Clinton and leftwing billionaire George Soros. Continue Reading Latest Doug Casey on Social Media: "Facebook enshrines stupidity" "Just as Myspace was displaced by Facebook, I predict Facebook 2.0 will come along and replace Facebook." Published 22 hours ago on August 19, 2018 By The Duran Authored by Joel Bowman via InternationalMan.com: Joel Bowman: G'day, Doug. Thanks for speaking with us today. Doug Casey: No problem, Joel. It's a pleasure to hear your Australian accent come across the ether from Mexico. Joel: Let's dive right in. A week or two ago, Facebook registered the largest single day loss for any one company in stock market history – roughly $122 billion. CEO Mark Zuckerberg lost around $15 billion himself, as much as the annual GDP of several resource-rich, West African nations. Looking back to 2000, during the go-go days of the dot.com boom, Intel and Microsoft both registered staggering single-day losses, too… $90 billion and $80 billion, respectively. And we know what happened next in that case… So, investors want to know… is past prologue? What's next for Silicon Valley's tech darlings? Doug: Talking about losing multiple billions in a single day, it's really a sign of the times. I remember when the only billionaires in the world were Howard Hughes, John Paul Getty and John Beresford Tipton– the mythical billionaire on a 1950's-era show called "The Millionaire." These days, however, it seems everyone's a billionaire. In fact, there are several thousand billionaires roaming the planet today, with new ones being minted almost every day. Of course, much of this so-called wealth is just paper. It's not real. In fact, it's pretty clear to me that we're in a stock market bubble. Which is being driven by the bond market hyper-bubble. And that, in turn, is fueling a real estate bubble, which I believe is just now beginning to deflate in major cities around the world. None of this augurs well for the stock market. You've got bubbles all over the place. Except in the resource market. That's the one place that hasn't inflated. In fact, it's been going down since it's last peak in 2011. Getting back to Facebook, I hope it goes bankrupt. I hate it as an institution. I hate what it does. I don't like its policies. I don't like its management. I don't like the fact that it's causing people to destroy whatever privacy they have left. While turning their brains to mush sending out selfies all day. Joel: You've put a lot on the table there, Doug. Let's unpack a bit of that, starting with the general tendency toward cerebral rot… Many younger readers may not remember this, but there actually existed a time before everybody knew everything, when people had to read books and discuss them, engage in healthy debate and rigorous dialectic in order to learn and develop intellectually. Now that everyone apparently has plenty of time to Instagram their kale salads and "like" one and other's cat pictures, are we to assume mankind has finally reached the End of Learning…some new Age of Enlightenment? Or might Facebook and its (anti)social media cousins represent – in addition to the potential fallout for investors – another, hidden cost to society? Doug: Perhaps humanity is bifurcating into the Morlocks and the Eloi at this point. It's true that people used to go to libraries. But even the Library of Congress has only a tiny fraction the world's data available; libraries are quaint and delightful, but they're dinosaurs. All the knowledge in the world is now at our fingertips on the Internet. The Internet is one of the greatest inventions in history, on a par with moveable type and the Gutenburg printing press. A few people are using it to educate and better themselves—but relatively few. Most people just use it for trivial amusement, as you mentioned. Facebook adds very little value to the equation. In fact, I can't see that it does much that's productive. It's basically a vehicle for gossip and watching cat videos. Joel: And it's less than that. Aside from the general degradation of public discourse, social media also represents a kind of unalterable historical record of bad jokes and regrettable moments, accessible to anyone who may wish to besmirch one's character or skittle one's reputation. We've all said things we wish we hadn't. To err is to be human, after all. What do you make of a world in which everyone's worst moments are readily available to everyone else – including potential enemies – at the click of a mouse? Doug: Facebook enshrines stupidity. A heavy Facebook user is, in effect, saying: "Look at me! I'm a thoughtless person who doesn't have anything better to do with his time". That's on top of the fact that users are exposing their thoughts, actions, and whereabouts to the NSA, the FBI, the CIA and any of a hundred other nefarious agencies. In fact, there are credible allegations that Facebook, along with Google and Amazon, are willing tools of these intelligence agencies. No good can come of being a Facebookista. But that's about whether you should use Facebook. Whether you should own Facebook stock is a different question. Even after the recent selloff, Facebook still has a market cap of about $500 billion, which impresses me as a lot for a chat site cum advertising vehicle. Especially one where most of its growth is behind it. A lot of users are getting hip to the fact they're not customers, they're the product. Facebook was a clever innovation ten years ago. But you know, there's an old saying in the stock market: High Tech, Big Wreck! Just as Myspace was displaced by Facebook, I predict Facebook 2.0 will come along and replace Facebook. My understanding is that kids now see Facebook as something used by old people– people over 21 years of age. So if it's going nowhere with the younger generation, where's it's future? Maybe it picks up a billion new users in the Third World. Ultimately, what's that worth? Facebook may not be a terminal short sale, but I certainly won't be putting any of my own money into the stock. Joel: Assuming you're correct and Facebook 2.0 does displace the current market leader, are you hopeful that such a platform may serve to promote a heightened level of discourse? Perhaps people might find their way into "phyles," that is, subgroups based on commonly shared values that actually have real world meaning? Doug: I hope that, in a year or two, International Man itself grows into a community of likeminded people with above average I.Q.s, libertarian values, and real world experience. IM might, itself, even branch off to become its own kind of Facebook. A private version. I know there's a lot of talk about regulating FB, or breaking it up. That's a bad idea; the government should have zero to do with business in general—and areas related to free speech in particular. I'm disgusted by the fact FB has kicked Alex Jones and others off their platform. But they have a right to do so, as a private company. Although, on the other hand, they're almost a creature of the State. But that's not an excuse for the government to "step in". What will happen is that a newer, better Facebook lookalike—or a dozen of them—will replace them. FB will self-destruct. It's a non-problem. To be frank, you and I don't really have that much in common with most of the 7.3 billion people on this planet. In fact, while I like many individual humans, I despise humanity in general. The more people you put together in a group, the more they act like chimpanzees. Big groups force down the lowest common denominator. There's some cause for optimism, but only on a person-to-person basis. I prefer the company of people who value free minds and free markets—and I suspect most people who are reading this now feel the same way. Joel: That's probably a very good note to end this conversation on, Doug. Thanks, as always, for taking the time. Doug: Meanwhile, we'll look for something with the potential of Facebook in 2008… and stay away from Facebook today. Continue Reading JOIN OUR YOUTUBE CHANNEL Advertisement Your donations make all the difference. Together we can expose fake news lies and deliver truth. 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When you travel, much of your time is spent reacting.
Regular business travelers know this all too well.
"Annoying Thing A" happens.
"Business Traveler B" decides what to do.
Some days are a constant impetus/response pattern. Some of us get good at it. Some of us pride ourselves on our inner peace in spite of Annoying Things A, B and C.
But here's the kicker:
Even if we learn how to react well, we're still reacting!
That's why your choice of how to use your non-reactive time is a key to unwavering happiness when you travel.
It's about getting pro-active.
So, here are 10 tips for ANY traveler seeking unwavering happiness…
Tip #1 – Simple Self-Care.
No, I won't tell you to go to a spa in your spare time.
However, I will tell you to…
…sleep when you're tired.
…pull off at the next exit when you have to pee instead of making yourself hold it.
…allow extra time to get places.
Travel takes energy. When people don't practice self-care in healthy ways, they reach for it in unhealthy ways. They eat hub-cap-sized plates of pasta and grease, claiming they "deserve it." They drink alcohol. They watch TV to numb out.
This isn't self-care. This is self-medicating.
One is pro-active. The other is reactive.
Tip #2 – Discover Audiobooks.
Many years ago, I decided to turn my vehicle into a "school." I started listening to books on business, coaching, and spirituality. Not only am I always learning, but it makes a huge difference in how I show up to my destination.
Tip #3 – Use Intention
Before any new segment of travel, set an intention for your travel. You'll be surprised how your intention determines your outcomes.
Tip #4 – Make Mantra.
Create a simple affirmation. Say it often. Say it when you're waiting in line. Say it when the plane gets delayed. Use it to center yourself. Challenge yourself to say it a thousand times in one day.
Tip #5 – Board the Plane Last.
When the gate agent calls the zones, let everyone else trip over each other so they can then stand in the hot jet way punching their cell phones.
Give inner peace a chance. Wait until the final boarding call to board.
Tip #6 – Work out.
Nothing uplevels your mood like a great heart-thumpin' work-out! Wake up a little earlier, or find the hotel gym after you check into your room.
Tip #7 – Get Help.
I used to lug around my suitcases, and my computer bag. I rented the cheapest cars and dragged my butt all over the place to save a few extra bucks per day. I prided myself on my thrifty stamina.
Now, I pride myself on hiring a car service to pick me up at baggage claim. I'm not into struggle anymore.
Get massive support when you travel. The extra $50 you might spend costs less than a visit to the chiropractor when you get home!
Tip #8 – Wash off your travel
If I have the opportunity, I always take a shower after I fly. I call it "washing off the travel." If nothing else, shower before you climb into bed. Try not to sleep with your travel still on you.
Tip #9 – Forgive unexpected expenses
You rush to the airport in your rental car after the conference. There's no time to fill the tank. You end up paying $45 for a teaspoon of gas at the Hertz desk. Argh!
Travel expenses like this can make you crazy. You can spend the day beating yourself up or criticizing the world for its unfair policies.
Don't waste your precious creative energy!
Travel is filled with lots of unexpected expenses. Your money will get spent because of A) stupid things you did, B) unforeseen situations, or C) the fine print.
Do yourself a big favor. Breathe and let it go because A) you're traveling, B) you're wealthy, and C) you're worth it.
Tip #10 – Think Ritual
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If you could create the perfect Valentine's Day, start to finish, what would it be?
Rob: First off, whoever my date was, we'd fuck in the afternoon. In all likelihood my date would be my wife, but that's just a detail. We'd fuck in the afternoon because that's when I'm horniest. When I get in bed at night, I want to sleep. When I wake up in the morning, I want to go back to sleep. But after I've been up and at 'em for a few hours, I want to fuck real bad. And by fuck I mean eat some serious pussy, because why does that stuff taste so good? Honestly, I don't even need to know, I just need to get my face right up in it. Now, on the off chance that this professional tongue-lashing wasn't "enough" for my date, who I should probably tell you at this point is actually Jennifer Hudson (before she lost all that weight) I would also take my date (again; fat Jennifer Hudson) out for a dinner that cost a MINIMUM of $27.00, because I give a shit about women and what they want/need.
What was the worst thing to ever happen to you on a Valentine's Day?
Rob: Have you seen the film "Jacob's Ladder?" It made that shit look like "Bambi" for homos. (I don't mean that in a derogatory way; in my experience, homos are extremely sensitive people, who give way more "TLC" to their work than straight people or bis.)
What was the best?
Rob: Have you seen the film "Romy and Michelle's High School Reunion?" It made that look like "Wicker Man." (The shitty one where Nicolas Cage punches Kathy Bates full-on in the face.) That said, Mira Sorvino and I were married from 1994-2007 so I am biased.
Who would your ideal Valentine's Day date be? You can choose dead people.
Rob: First off, if you're telling me you've killed or even harmed Jennifer Hudson, my Valentine's Day date will be your mom and I will fuck her very hard and make her love me more than she ever loved you. If you're just a guy asking an innocent question, my ideal Valentine's Day date would be the band Fugazi, because they are not one beautiful woman, but rather they are four serious dudes, so it would present a real challenge to me to romance them properly and meet each of their individual needs. Plus, while I tended to each member, the other three could literally rock my face off with their amazing music, until I was just a love machine with no face, rocking it all the way 'til the sun set on everyone's fulfilled dreams.
How many times have you watched the movie "Valentine's Day?"
Rob: None; I was on my way to the theater to see it, but your mom asked if I could do her in my Volvo station wagon real quick and I lost track of time because she's very good at sex. I'm your dad now.


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The trio of victories concluded a spectacular Heineken Holidayfest at Aqueduct Racetrack for Repole, who was 5-for-6 in stakes races, with Caixa Eletronica winning Thursday's Grade 3 Fall Highweight Handicap and Notacatbutallama taking the Super Mario overnight stakes on Friday.
Stay Thirsty, who early in his career was often overshadowed by Repole's 2010 Juvenile Champion Uncle Mo, nailed Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Sprint champion Groupie Doll at the wire to go out on a winning note. The 4-year-old Bernardini colt, who last year took the Grade 2 Jim Dandy and the Grade 1 Travers, was winless in four previous starts in 2012, most recently headed by Flat Out in the Grade 1 TVG Jockey Club Gold Cup at Belmont Park.
"That was very gratifying for a number of reasons," said Pletcher, who also won the Cigar Mile with Left Bank (2001), Lion Tamer (2004) and Purge (2005). "It's big for his future career to go out on a big note like that."
Overall, Stay Thirsty was 5-5-1 from 15 starts with earnings of $1,936,000.
Unlimited Budget, now 2-for-2, and Overanalyze, who earlier won the Grade 2 Futurity at Belmont, will head to Pletcher's training base at Palm Meadows in Florida to freshen up for their 2013 campaigns along with stablemate Delhomme, who set the Remsen pace and finished third.
"Everyone came back from their efforts in good shape," said Pletcher. "We'll take them to Florida and sort it out from there."
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Dance Card's victory in Saturday's Gazelle capped a high-quality year for Godolphin Racing, becoming the outfit's fifth winner of a Grade 1 in 2012. The 3-year-old Tapit filly joined the Kiaran McLaughlin-trained Emcee (Forego), Alpha (Travers), Questing (Alabama, Coaching Club American Oaks) and It's Tricky (Ogden Phipps Handicap) in capturing some of the most prestigious events on The New York Racing Association, Inc. (NYRA) circuit.
Through Saturday, Godolphin runners were 14-6-9 from 49 starts and earned nearly $3.6 million, with 11 of those wins coming in graded stakes.
"If you put Darley and Godolphin together, it would be $7 million, almost," said McLaughlin. "It was a pretty good year from only 40-odd starts."
For Dance Card, the Gazelle was her fourth straight victory and first in a graded race, and was accomplished despite drifting out in the stretch.
"If someone acts up in the gate, you take them to the gate in the morning and school them, and watch them get better," said McLaughlin. "When they don't do anything wrong in training, and they do it the afternoon of the race, it can be very frustrating, but not so bad if they're five in front. Now that she's won a Grade 1, we may tinker a bit with her equipment."
McLaughlin said that Irsaal, who finished seventh in the Grade 2 Remsen, returned from his efforts in good shape and may move to the turf this winter in Florida.


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My youngest son leans outstretched over the table, his maw agape, grinning like a fool. With my index finger plugging one end, I hold the straw over his mouth. We resemble some sort of animal rescue mission: the injured baby bird, and the veterinarian with the eyedropper.
I release my finger, dropping a tablespoon of 2011 Santa Margherita Pinot Grigio right behind his lower incisors. He swishes it around—a technique he did not learn from his mother or I—and swallows. He grins. Grins. Still grinning. The baby bird opens his mouth again. I say that's enough for now.
For years now, my wife Brandy and I have said Tanner will likely be one of two things: a chef or a sommelier. His sense of taste is hyper-acute. He loves typical kid fare (chocolate bars, chocolate doughnuts, chocolate chip cookies), but also raw onion, lemon juice and salmon. His sense of smell is even more so. Like a beagle, there's very little that comes into his orbit that he doesn't sniff. (Exhibit A: Two weekends ago, I handed him the hotel room key to carry. He smelled it, and then put it in his pocket.) He has sniffed or tasted just about everything in our kitchen and pantry. Since the adults in our household enjoy wine, that's something that comes into his orbit as well. His first taste of wine was about a year ago. He watched me uncork (or was it twist open?) a bottle of Malbec. Can I try it? Pause. I splashed some into my glass. "Just a little sip, okay?" He slowly tilted it back, took a small pull while looking me in the eye, and let out a satisfying ahhhhh. Grin. More?
Since then, he has tried a few different wines, one-eighth of a strawful at a time. And let me be clear: This isn't some routine practice. We don't host G-rated wine tastings every Thursday. (Ooh! Pair the Bordeaux with the Teddy Grahams!) It's something that happens every so often, like Kardashian weddings and pregnancies.
I understand that in my home, my six-year-old is simply tasting a Cabernet. But out in the world, this scenario gets distilled into something much more sinister: I give my kid alcohol. I just Googled "giving preschoolers alcohol," and I'm pretty sure I just ended up on the Department of Children and Families watch list.
Is this a uniquely American paranoia? From strict Chinese Tiger moms to involved Swedish stay-at-home dads to the laissez-faire French parents in Pamela Druckerman's Bringing Up Bebe, we're hearing more and more about what we can learn from parents in other countries and cultures. Surely France, a nation blanketed by vineyards, knows how to smartly introduce wine at the family table, right? Uh, maybe not: The number of French teenagers who drink heavily is on the rise, says the alcohol and addiction office at the French National Institute on Health and Medical Research. The evidence points, at least in part, to French kids being allowed to drink at an early age at home.
But it's not like we can rely on American know-how on this one. The U.S. has a troubled, hypocritical approach to alcohol. It's a taboo that our highest holy order partakes in every Sunday (and then some). Sixty-seven percent of U.S. adults drink alcohol, the highest that figure has been in nearly 30 years. Television commercials for beer and spirits follow advertisements for DUI attorneys. It was only last fall that beer and spirit advertisers were legally prevented from advertising to minors on social media outlets.
To me, letting Tanner take a sip was a way to demystify it, to normalize it. Because as a society, we really don't know how we feel about it. Tanner, you know that commercial with all the guys and girls going down the slip-and-slide? That's a beer commercial. And that stuff is bad for you. It's so bad for you that I have 12 bottles of it in our fridge.
It was also supposed to be innocent. Those little sips were not about alcoholism or law breaking or delinquency or college fraternities or hanging from chandeliers. It was a little something for him to try. It was something of Mommy and Daddy's that he was curious about. But I get it. This isn't like stumbling around the house in Mom's high heels. No one's liver ever failed doing that.
Now that I'm really thinking about, and now that I'm really writing about it, I guess the Bean household is going to change its policy. I can only hope our Prohibition goes as smoothly as America's last one.


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While they do not move large tonnages of product, service industries have logistical needs of their own. Their transportation needs are met by the postal service or carriers of small parcels that make overnight deliveries. Banks must process checks quickly and deliver cashed checks to the issuing bank promptly. Often service industries process paper records and must set up steps to move papers that are analogous to procedures that manufacturing firms employ to move goods. Linked computers are used increasingly for many of these paperwork-integrating tasks. Hospitals must have medicines and a wide range of materials and supplies ready for use. Before a surgeon is scheduled to perform a procedure, the needed instruments must be selected, placed in their order of use, sterilized, and held ready.
The individual elements of a firm's logistics system must be tied together. The firm's management may have a separate logistics department that is equal in status with other major departments such as finance, production, marketing, and so on. However, most firms are more likely to have these functions spread throughout various departments loosely coordinated by a logistics staff. (A more traditional firm had its logistics activities associated with inbound and interplant movements handled by the production staff, and these activities grouped were known as "materials management." The traditional firm's logistics activities involving outbound products leaving the assembly line and bound for customers were handled by the marketing staff, and these activities grouped were known as "physical distribution management.") Today, some firms rely on "third-party" logistics, wherein they contract with an outside firm to coordinate, manage, and sometimes perform the various functions.
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I love bread. It's one of those foods that makes civilization so worth it. The problem is that the body uses carbohydrates like sugar if they're not properly prepared. So I set about to finding ways to get my bread fix, making it fully satisfying but healthier than the typical selections. Mind you, some of us of African and Native American descent also have a problem with too much bran from certain grains, so switching to whole wheat wasn't a good option.
From reading sites about glycemic index, and how the body processes grains, I learned that they should be fermented before they're eaten. This alters their chemistry so that their GI is lower, and the sugars break down slightly, and become more digestible. People in Africa and the Mediterranean, as well as Japan, have been doing things like this for aeons. One group with a very tasty fermented dough recipe I'll reveal to you today are the Druze. You can read about their fascinating culture here.
They make a special "pita" that isn't like the pita pocket bread most folks are used to seeing in the west. In fact, almost every ethnicity in the middle east has their own kind of pita, and some even have more than one.
Druze pita are similar to what Americans may think of as "wrap" bread. If you get the genuine thing, it's about the circumference of a large pizza, and very very thin. It is even thinner than a tortilla. If you put them in a plastic bag right away, they'll be soft, but if you leave them out, they become nicely crispy. As crips, in my opinion, they're better than potato chips.
Before we get started, I'll let you know that there is an art to it. You probably won't get perfectly round, uniformly paper thin pitas until you've been practicing for some months, or weeks if you do it every morning (which you might). If you follow my instructions though, you and your family will enjoy the practice pitas very much.
First of all, you need to make sure you have the things you'll need to prepare this special bread.
A wok or other convex shaped pan that can take heat on the inside. The reason for this is that you will be turning that over so that you have a dome on which to "throw" and cook your pita.
You should be using a gas burner. You can't do this on an electric stove.
Your wok should be able to rest securely so that the fire is more or less under the center of it. Because of how heat is channelled through a wok, it's not so important if it's a bit off. Just make sure it sits there securely.
Wooden spatula. It's the same wooden spatula you'd use if you were cooking things on the inside of the wok. You'll need this to slide under and lift your pitas without burning your fingers.
A round (unused) seat cushion. That's right, a seat cushion. This will help you to stretch the pitas out, and to throw them on the pan fully spread out. If you don't have one, or you don't think you can keep it out of the household circulation of seat cushions in the laundry or something, you can instead use a large plate covered with a lint free cloth. You'll need to tie the cloth securely around the plate. It will not work as well, but it'll do in a pinch as a stretching surface and "throwing" guide.
Now, the ingredients.
1 kg. wheat flour
1/2 cup corn or potato starch
2 tsp. salt
1.5 tsp. baking soda
1.5 tsp. cream of tartar
lukewarm water
Reserve about a cup or cup and a half of the flour for the kneading.
Sift all of the dry ingredients together into a large bowl.
Add enough lukewarm water, while squishing it together with your fingers, until you have a somewhat wet ball of dough. Once you have enough water in, continue to squish out any major lumps.
Spread some flour over the counter, and turn the dough out onto it. You may have to do some scraping off the bowl and your fingers.
Knead the dough, adding flour as you go, until you have a pretty firm ball of dough that is somewhat dry and "heavy". If you need to add more flour than you reserved, do so.
Put the dough in a food safe plastic bag, and squeeze out as much air as you can. Don't seal the bag right up against the dough though. Give it some room to rise a little.
Now for the fermentation: put the bag of dough in a bowl in a warm but not too warm place for an hour, or put it in the refrigerator overnight. On top of the refrigerator is usually perfect for the hour.
When you are ready to start making your pitas, have ready your surface, some flour, a small roller, and your covered plate or cushion. Then heat your upside-down wok. The heat needs to be high or as close as possible without being nuclear.
Take about a half cup or palm sized ball of dough from the bag, and roll it to make it somewhat spherical. Then mash it flatter between your hands, and even more flat between your fingers.
Slap it down onto your floured surface, and then turn it over and slap it down again. This will help spread out the flour, and get the dough "conditioned" for stretching.
Mash the dough down even flatter, using brisk striking motions or just pressing firmly but quickly. It depends how familiar you are with say, pizza making. If you are, you'll know the right "touch".
Using the small roller, roll from the center of the patty of dough outwards. Rotate it a little, and roll out from the center again. Rotate and roll, rotate and roll, and on and on until you have a fairly thin, tortilla like circle of dough.
Gently transfer this onto the plate or cushion. Most like to do this using the back of their hands to avoid tearing it.
Pick up the cushion, and gently, a little at a time, stretch the dough over it. You want a large disk of dough that is not quite as big as your overturned wok. If you make it too big, it will hang off the edges.
Now, take the cushion with your dough, and plop the dough onto the very hot wok.
Once it is bubbling, it is basically done, but if you're new at this, there may be some wrinkles, or your edges might be a little thick. Slide the spatula under the pita to lift it, turn it over, and then flip down the edges so that they touch the pan. You might need to press here and there with the spatula.
The cooking barely takes a minute, so be watchful, or you'll burn holes right through it.
When it's done, slide the spatula under it, and lift it. Put it on a plate and eat it.
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Reflecting on what God taught us this year, plus Gary Thomas on understanding your spiritual temperament, and feedback on sharing a hotel room with the opposite sex. Featured musical artist: Jeremy Camp
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What did God teach you this year? Members of the Boundless team reflect on everything from changing churches to waiting on God (and others) to being generous in our relationships.
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Don't you wish everyone saw faith through the same lens you do? Well, they don't, and according to Gary Thomas, that's a good thing. Even though believers agree on foundational truths, we have what Gary calls different "spiritual temperaments" as outlined in his book Sacred Pathways. What's yours?
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She and her boyfriend are on their way to a wedding, and they'd really like to save some cash. Can they share a hotel room just this once? Candice weighs in.
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My Ghoul Friday
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Recent Moans from the Minions...
I am pleased as poisoned punch to announce Dave the Dead - whom I've blogged about in the past - finally has his own blog. It's called The Shadow Farm, home to the most wonderful creatures.
Most of the handmade haunting props in his yearly display would be equally at home in an art gallery. Dave is a modest artist brimming with talent:
I have been an avid Halloween yard haunter for many years. As my hobby has grown, I have developed a taste for eccentric characters and deep backstories. I have learned a ton since I first decided to build my own scary stuff, and have attempted to take my building to a new artistic level with each new piece.
If it were possible to run on the Internet, I'd tell you to hustle your way over to his blog. You won't be disappointed. And tell him I sent you. *wink*
He will quickly become a household name amongst horror fans and dark artists.
Here's the first group of Underbiters, waiting for touch ups before they are given a protective coating. They turned out differently than how I first imagined, but that's usually how it is with my creations. I might begin with certain plans, but they always end up telling me where we're actually going in the design process.
Besides, these guys were the test group for me to experiment on. No wonder they ended up looking like a gang of misfits.
When they are finished, I'll properly introduce you to each one individually. For now, I hope you enjoy the group shot.
By the way, getting them to line up nicely was a nightmare, but hearing them all say "cheese!" at the same time made my heart melt.
Faithful friends and online followers know I love creating an atmosphere. I think details are often overlooked even though it's those small elements that bring a bigger picture together.
The Obscure Hollow is a website that celebrates the unsung hero of horror: the setting. From vintage film to photography, you will find one of the best collections of images highlighting not just things but places that go bump in the night.
Some people make dream lists for football teams. I make mine listing artists. The Hi-Fructose "Overdose" group art exhibit has almost the exact lineup I would have come up with.
There are so many artists in this show whom I've blogged about, I couldn't fit them all in my tag list for this post. In addition to those great artists, you'll also find Brandt Peters and Travis Louie, and many, many more.
It will all take place at the Copro Gallery in Santa Monica, California. Far, far away from my city of Toronto.
To rub salt into the wound, they're having some fantastic happenings within the show:
Hi-Fructose Magazine and Copro Gallery are proud to showcase an incredible array of artists in 'Overdose' the Hi-Fructose group art exhibition at Copro Gallery in Santa Monica. Hi-Fructose Collected Edition box sets will be available in limited quantities at the show and Greg Craola Simkins, Gary Baseman, Joe Ledbetter, Brian McCarty, Attaboy, and more special guests will be signing them. Brooklyn's own, 'Hearts Challenger' the guerilla style good-time ice cream truck will be on hand to give out free ice cream and candy and Hi-Fructose Vol.11 will premier at the show before the issue goes on sale in stores or online. Limited numbers of free issues and a free poster will be available at the show only! More surprises TBA
The rain poured down so aggressively this morning it woke me up. Glad that Yetch and I had taken advantage of yesterday's sunny afternoon (and equally pleased in the knowledge there's leftover barbecue nosh in the fridge), I got up to face the drastic change in weather.
Grey. Pouring. Cold. Windy. Migraine pending.
I shuffled into my home office, determined to check my work emails first but as always I went straight for my Ghoul Friday Inbox.
Nothing too exciting. Better check the spam folder just in case.
And there it was.
I am happy to officially announce that I will have a table at Rue Morgue's Festival of Fear, Canada's largest Horror event and part of Hobby Star's Fan Expo. It takes place August 28 to 30, 2009 in Toronto.
How I would describe Alex McVey: fine artist, talented, dark, and elusive.
Why elusive? There is very little information to be gleaned on the Internet when it comes to this illustrator from Texas. Sure, he's famous and many a horror fan starts salivating just at the mention of his name, but the details of the man are hard to track down.
I did find out he has been illustrating since 2004.
His work has been featured on everything from comics, to album covers, to high-end limited edition books.
On his extensive list of clients, you'll see the names of people such as Stephen King and Edward Lee (you can see McVey's cover art for Lee's "Trolley No. 1852" pictured right).
And most importantly, he likes banana shakes (ok, I made that part up. But I felt the post needed more insider information).
Recently, someone asked me where they could find an artist who would transform their family portrait into something more monstrous. I've found a possible candidate.
Rob Sacchetto, a freelance artist living in Sudbury, Ontario, is the mastermind behind www.zombieportraits.com
For the price of $80 per person, you can submit a photograph to Rob and have him turn you and your loved ones into the undead.
Hello my dark little darlings. I'm in the midst of putting the second layers of paint on five of my Underbiters, but this post isn't about them. It's about another project that's been shelved for a while.
It's great that Max (Marmota Monax) and the fur coat experiment turned out well. But now, if I make him any friends, they will also need a touch of realism. I suppose this is why Aucellus, his bird buddy, has been shelved for a while.
I'll have to wait for a really ambitious day before I start trying to apply the feathers.
The world can never have enough monsters. Especially custom made ones.
Today I will be posting about two different sites that focus on finding inspiration from the masses.
First is The Monster Engine. Dave Devries, a comic book and Universal Studio monster artist, made the observation that his niece's drawings of monsters were far more interesting and unique than many of the creatures created by adults. From this, the Monster Engine Book project was born.
On a gloomy, rainy Sunday morning, I can't think of a way to spend my time than playing in the magical world of Coraline.
For weeks I've been planning on posting about Coraline the Musical which runs from May 7 to June 20, 2009 at the MCC Theatre in New York. It kept slipping my mind because I've found so many ghoulish topics to blog about lately.
Luckily, a post from Would You Like to See Something Strange showcasing Coraline collector cards also mentioned the Coraline Website. It prompted me to stop and finally blog about it (right after I created my picture of Ghoul Friday with buttons for eyes. You can make your own on the website).
Other highlights include free desktop wallpapers, movie poster postcards and of course watching the circus mice perform. Speaking of which...
The best place to find current art and WIPs is Instagram
I'm also on Twitter but be prepared for political commentary
My self-published book is still available!
Craving more Halloween goodness?
Here are some sites to satisfy the hunger.
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Consensus Report
Building Community Disaster Resilience through Private-Public Collaboration (2010)Board on Earth Sciences and Resources
Each report is produced by a committee of experts selected by the Academy to address a particular statement of task and is subject to a rigorous, independent peer review; while the reports represent views of the committee, they also are endorsed by the Academy. Learn more on our expert consensus reports.
Collaboration between local private and public sector organizations is the key to building resilient communities that can withstand disasters, a new National Research Council report finds. Cooperation could help reduce the impact of a disaster by helping communities anticipate threats, adapt to adversity, and recover after a crisis by engaging community stakeholders to identify risk and leverage available resources. This report suggests a framework for resilience-focused private-public sector collaboration, and provides guidelines for successful private-public sector engagement. Challenges to successful collaboration are discussed, as are gaps in knowledge that could be targeted for research investment.
As part of the meeting of BESR's Committee on Geographical Sciences, the authoring committee presented a summary of the report and its findings via the web. An archive of the session is available for viewing [Adobe Flash Player]. The first few slides of the session are missing due to technical difficulties, but the entire presentation can also be downloaded from the link at right.
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- All elements of the public and private sectors and people from all walks of life including minorities, the disenfranchised, children, and the elderly, should be engaged or represented in decisions related to disaster preparedness, mitigation, response and recovery. Involving the full fabric of society will help identify the needs of different groups at each stage of a disaster and tailor public education and recovery strategies as needed. Through collaboration, all participants and those they represent will become empowered community members.
- Although some disasters such as bioterrorism or chemical hazards require specialized expertise, communities prepared for the most common disruptions are those most likely to adapt in the face of more unusual threats. Therefore, the most effective emergency management policies and systems would highlight an all-hazards approach to disaster preparation.
- Because many community collaboration efforts for disaster resilience are still in their infancy, research could identify ways to make these efforts more successful. Examples of useful research include work to investigate factors most likely to motivate businesses of all sizes to collaborate with the public sector, and work to quantify metrics such as the costs and benefits of investing in resilience-focused collaboration.
- Building and maintaining disaster resilience depends on the ability of a community to monitor change and appropriately modify plans and activities to accommodate observed changes. Private-public collaboration is a crucial means of building networks and trust vital to creating a sustaining community health
- Collaboration between the private and public sectors can help develop community resilience because each organization brings its own resources, capacities, and energies to the table for disaster preparation, planning, response, and recovery. This allows communities to fully leverage available resources and capacities.
- Currently, there is no comprehensive framework to guide private-public collaboration focused on disaster preparedness and response. This is despite the fact that state and federal governments have acknowledged the importance of collaboration between private and public organizations, and several previous National Research Council reports have identified specific areas where the private and public sectors have worked cooperatively to reduce the impacts of a disaster.
- Public-private collaboration is more likely to be sustainable if it begins as a bottom-up enterprise at the grassroots level. Successful collaboration is more likely if it is instigated by members of the community rather than dictated from above.
- Successful resilience-focused collaboration encourages communication and training with goals of increasing community readiness, community planning, trust building, reducing risk, and shortening recovery time.
- Sustainable and effective resilience-focused private-public collaboration is dependent on a few key basic principles including increasing communication between all sectors of the community, incorporating flexibility into collaborative networks, and encouraging regular reassessment of the relevance of collaborative missions, goals, and practices.


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2006 Workshop
June 6-10, 2006
Cumbria, UK
Nowadays, many important
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planning, scheduling and resource allocation to competing goal activities
over time in the presence of complex state-dependent constraints. Some
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space mission while performing navigation tasks, coordinating the movement
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world state other than resource availability (e.g., spacecraft vibration
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synchronizing the auxiliary activities necessary to bring about and
preserve enabling state conditions. Thus, solutions to these problems must
integrate resource allocation and plan synthesis capabilities. In short,
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The aim
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and planning, scheduling and planning, planning and scheduling, etc.
Accepted Papers