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Jay Z recently relaunched Tidal, the music streaming service he acquired in March 2015. His plan is to entice people away from Spotify, Rdio, Deezer, and the host of other similar services already available, but he stands absolutely no chance of doing so.
There are some serious problems with Tidal, not least of which is the way Jay Z is selling it to us as being a good thing for musicians. Musicians like him. Do we care about musicians? Should we care about musicians? Tidal has 99 problems, and the pitch is one.
The Facts
Tidal is a small music streaming service formerly owned by Swedish company Aspiro. Jay Z acquired Aspiro for $56 million Launching the Google Hardware Store, Play Cards Against Humanity Online [Tech News Digest] Launching the Google Hardware Store, Play Cards Against Humanity Online [Tech News Digest] The new Google Store, Cards Against Humanity, extended iTunes downtime, an updated Chromebook Pixel, Jay Z starts streaming, and the notion of a troll-free Internet. Read More , giving him ownership of both Tidal and WiMP. While the future of WiMP isn't clear, Jay Z has big plans for Tidal.
Three weeks after acquiring the already existing service, Jay Z relaunched Tidal with help from his wife Beyoncé and some of their fellow superstar musicians. The hashtag #TIDALforALL trended around the world, and the service received considerable press coverage in the days that followed.
If Tidal walked up w their 16 stars x 16 unknowns and said "we're doing this for them, not us." The internet would've embraced them.
— scott vener (@brokemogul) April 1, 2015
Tidal offers a catalog of streaming music similar, but slightly smaller, in size as Spotify and the like. There are two subscription tiers to choose from: $9.99-per-month for standard definition music, and $19.99-per-month for high definition music. There is no free tier, but there is a 30-day trial for those interested in trying Tidal on for size.
Those are the basic facts about Tidal. But what follows are the many and varied problems with Tidal that will, I suspect, ultimately lead to it failing spectacularly.
The Pitch
To gain the maximum publicity for Tidal, Jay Z held a star-studded event attended by some of his fellow musicians. Thus, we had the pleasure of seeing the likes of Madonna, Kanye West, Daft Punk, Jack White, Rihanna, and Chris Martin all pledging allegiance to Tidal. Literally pledging allegiance, as they all signed a declaration of some kind.
The problem is they're all already massively rich and successful. If you want to persuade people that Tidal is some kind of revolution aimed at giving the power back to the musicians, don't invite a host of already successful artists on stage who are collectively worth billions of dollars.
I've read as many articles as I can on TIDAL.Even watched that weirdo press conference. But heck I just can't figure out how it benefits ME?
— Garbage (@garbage) April 2, 2015
Jay Z would have been better off inviting up-and-coming musicians 10 Music Search Engines to Discover Cool Music, Musicians & Great Bands 10 Music Search Engines to Discover Cool Music, Musicians & Great Bands Read More , who haven't yet got record deals, or who are struggling to find gigs. That would have suggested Tidal is being run by and for musicians, and not by and for a rich cabal of artists who don't need another revenue stream to pay rent.
Everybody understands that the rise of streaming is a bitter pill for some in the music industry to swallow. But the supposedly low rates offered by Spotify et al aren't affecting Jay Z and his happy mob of millionaire musicians. Which makes the whole thing a disingenuous farce.
The Streaming
All products and services should live and die by the experience of using them. So it's only fair to give Tidal a chance to impress. It's certainly not a bad music streaming service, but it offers nothing over and above the ordinary which you can get from countless other alternatives.
Tidal's big selling point is, supposedly, the high fidelity audio. While higher quality streams aren't a bad thing, most people won't even be able to tell the difference. And the minority that can tell the difference will have to pay through the nose for the pleasure.
The Price
Tidal has just two subscription tiers, and neither is free. Prices start at $9.99-per-month, which pays for the standard definition audio quality already offered by most of the competition. There is also a $19.99-per-month tier, which pays for the high definition audio quality.
Jay Z claims that these prices mean Tidal will be offering higher royalty rates to artists, which is no bad thing. But that only works if people use the service, which they're much less likely to do thanks to the barrier to entry created by removing any option to listen for free 6 Online Music Streaming Services With NO Restrictions 6 Online Music Streaming Services With NO Restrictions Finding a completely unlimited music listening experience can be a challenge. So, if you want complete control over your listening experience, check out these six completely free options... Read More .
The Long Game
Streaming IS the future of music. But it's destined to be a long struggle persuading people to switch from buying and owning music to streaming music as and when they want. And the free tier offered by the well-established streaming music services is crucial for enabling that transition to take place.
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The Competition
We have mentioned the competition throughout this piece for the simple reason that they are the biggest problem facing Tidal right now. Spotify, Rdio, Deezer, and Pandora are all bigger, better, and more established than Jay Z's vanity project. And none of them come with the pretentious douchebaggery that was on show at the launch of Tidal.
To succeed, Tidal needs to not only persuade virgin streamers to sign up for a subscription, but also persuade veteran streamers to switch from their current service of choice. Which will require a lot more than a few exclusive tracks from a few select artists. Especially when Spotify is adding 20,000 new tracks to the service every single day.
The End?
The rise of streaming services does not represent the end of the music industry in any way, shape, or form. It's an evolution, and one that could, if handled correctly, be the best weapon in the ongoing fight against music piracy Why The Campaign Against Piracy Is A Farce [Opinion] Why The Campaign Against Piracy Is A Farce [Opinion] DMCA, SOPA, MegaUpload shut down, piracy becoming a religion in Sweden - not a week goes by without some shutdown, anti-piracy laws or shocking statistics about torrents - and I have to ask myself, is... Read More .
Jay Z and his crew may not be happy with the royalty rates currently on offer Why Taylor Swift Is Wrong About Spotify Why Taylor Swift Is Wrong About Spotify In the past week Taylor Swift has pulled her music from Spotify, inspired countless song-pun laden headlines and reignited the debate about streaming music services. Read More , but even a few cents per play is better than nothing. Which is all any artist or record label will get if they push people into piracy.
The Conclusion
Tidal seems doomed to fail right from the off. The pitch rightly generated a slew of negative reactions, very few people desire the lossless audio that's supposed to be a game-changer (even fewer when they're being asked to pay extra for it), and the competition has years of experience and growth on their side.
Far from being a revolution set to make waves in the music industry, Tidal is an unoriginal idea designed to help rich musicians get richer, and screw everyone else. So, with that in mind, I'll be sticking with Spotify. How about you?
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The author should just once listen to tidal on a high quality hifi system and compare to a crappy compressed mp3 to realize how great music can actually sound if the source and recording are right. If he can't tell the difference and still thinks nobody will pay extra for quality he's probably in the wrong business and should stop writing about music.
Love tidal and the quality.. Vast audio/ music library + lots of exclusive contents. Also.. They give out free front row concert tickets
Tidal is now the centre of my music experience. With an iphone, ipad to stream lossless, via apple tv and optical cable into my peachtree dac x for highquality conversion into a $15-20k hifi (valve audio genesis pre amp and valve audio predator power amp) into Sonor Capella speakers ive ditched my cds. And please dont tell me you cant hear the difference of hifi downloads playing on the move into good quality headphones...listen absorptively and ditch the pop music. I accept not everyone is into music as i am, but tidal is cheap compared to buying cds rather than compressed mp3s. Enjoy
The music search features of this service is garbage. One can't search a specific album and,even worse, the recording of individual artists are displayed in a completely random order that can't be sorted alphabetically (or in any other logical order).
You can find individual albums.
You can also search for artist and album
I just did the TIDAL test on my crappy laptop speakers and apparently I got 5/5 right. I still think most people can't tell the difference, just thought this was surprising.
Maybe nobody did not notice yet but some Realtek sound card in cheap computers does not have good panoramic stereo anymore, in order to make it sound louder with less watts the factory mixed R and L , it takes your ears out of the place in your head where it is supposed to be and move it more to center, and no way to change it because it is factory pre set. But who cares? Who does good mix stereo today? It spoil all music more than compression or not.
So that test proved exactly what I already thought- identical. I literally couldn't hear the slightest difference between already CD quality and this supposedly higher quality. Total emperors new clothes.
I am looking for an alternative to Spotify just because they lack simple features like rating a song, sorting songs in more ways than just by name and artist, tagging a song or a proper shuffle play.
Can't believe people would choose Spotify over other services because they don't like Jay Z....
I agree. Tidal is actually awesome. I like the ui it's cleaner and faster and the negative feedback is far more personal(trolling) than practical(evaluation). I signed up with the intent to see a crappy app with bad service and to my surprise found a stable streaming service as well as ui design with speed and quality. I think it's the publics disapproval of Jay that stirs the hated pot against tidal
$20 a month too prohibitive? WTF, do we all suddenly live in trailers on EBT?
The argument isn't solely about being prohibitive, it's also about, who the hell cares. Seriously, TIDAL is just more of the same. so what they have lossless music. So what the musicians aren't being paid. So, so, so. And the consumer is to pay for the pleasure of no caring? What's in it for the consumer? Oh yes, I get to pay $120/year for something I can get for free, or $240/year for something I can get for free. They need to go back to the drawing board and figure out their broken business model, because it sounds more like charity.
I'm a trained audio engineer, but I'm also a realist. The factual argument that lossless is better than MP3 by leaps and bounds doesn't matter! The most important fact is TIDAL erroneously tried to market itself to the masses. The mainstream has no clue what lossless/FLAC is. So if your most important product is virtually unknown, you're basically competing with the free, first to market "crappy" MP3 services, but with a $10/month subscription. Can you say, DOA? Every marketer knows, you must first find a whole, then fill it. There is no hole for TIDAL to fill, and there is nothing game changing, or innovative about it. Just a grave miscalculation from a group of millionaires attempting to sell the public on the need to treat struggling musicians fairly. Shame Jay Z didn't deem them sexy enough to share the stage. Nice try. NEXT!
it makes me so happy to see rich celebs with ego fall down because they are greedy. help the small guy first rise up with the tide(slight pun intended), it'll help all ships.
it's as if wall street banks are asking for giant bailouts...oh wait.
For the people that do not believe lossless is better and compressed audio. First it's possible to measure the audio signal with a simple program like AudioXplorer. Tidal have more db overall and more high frequency respond. High End system only goal are to come so close to the master recording as possible. High End Amplifier, Speakers, Signal path and Room corrections could come close to that. With High End Headphones we do not need room corrections. With a High End DAC with headphones amplifier we could connect directly to a digital device like a computer. The ears are very sensitiv to midrange speakers. So when a file is compressed it will lose frequency or lower the db on the frequency sprectrum. That is exactly what happen with Spotify vs Tidal HiFi on the same track. Not all speakers could play all frequency so well in high db. That means we have to change the EQ curve to match our speakers. But it also means we change how the music was mastered and should be sounded. Anyone that have been listen to High End system know how different a CD play's compare to a system someone else have that is not High End. The perfect speaker have a flat curve and 12db/oct for the low frequency and 18db/oct for the high frequency. That why people with a High End system almost never use EQ because they do not need that when they play lossless. The best way I think to compare lossless vs compressed audio is to play different tracks with low frequency, full range and high frequency audio with a flat EQ curve. I do understand that some people like low frequency and think Spotify sounds better. But that is not true Tidal have more full range frequency and more db. It means with Tidal Hifi we could play more db without noise and distortion. High End system allow audio to be played in high volume (db) and still be crystal clear sound that is not possible with compressed files or bad mastered records.
Who are you trying to convince with your comment? You're preaching to the choir. Those who know what lossless is knows the benefits. TIDAL needs the $10/mo. MP3 quality market to survive, and they will never get them because they already have free. TIDAL is an opportunistic play struggling to find a market, using the dumbest sales pitch ever to capture revenue. TIDAL has three choices, merge, sell, or die.
Exactly. Heathens. Let them suffer in their quagmire of dr beats rubbish headphones
It isn't about the biz. It's all about the streaming quality.
MP3s are ear garbage. They're damaged sound files & they can damage hearing (according to doctors). Many of the people walking around with ear buds today will be walking around with hearing aids in ten years. $20 is a small price to pay for your hearing.
Lossless streaming like Tidal is CD quality, with all the depth & detail of the original recording, with none of the muddy flatness of MP3s. Plus, you can easily rip & rec flacs & cram hundreds of tunes on a music player.
But if protecting your hearing isn't enough for you, another huge advantage is NO OBNOXIOUS COMMERCIALS that come with most streaming services! To me, that alone is worth it.
Until the other streaming services go lossless (& they will eventually), Tidal seems like the best option for the moment.
TIDAL is all about the undeserving rich getting richer and trying to play it off as some type of good thing for us, the public. all hype and all b.s. sorry.
Most intermediate to high-end PCs have optical out (SPDIF) ports. At my house, an optical cable leads from my PC to a digital/analog converter (DAC). The DAC is a $15 box the size of pack of gum. A pair of RCA cables carry the signal from the DAC to an integrated amp that powers four speakers and a subwoofer.
I subscribe to Spotify and Amazon Prime Music. The audio streams from these services sounds only adequate on my system. DFX Audio Enhancer helps but the sound still falls well short of a CD or LP.
Recently, I subscribed to Tidal. My default browser is IE10 so I wasn't happy to discover that Tidal's high definition stream only works with Chrome.
The important point is that the sound quality of Tidal's stream is far better than the low bit-rate streams from other, more popular services. I don't need to use DFX with Tidal. As far as I can tell, songs streamed from Tidal sound the same as songs played from FLAC files. Try this: Listen to a song streamed in HD from Tidal and then listen to it streamed from Spotify. You will hear the difference, I think.
Many music enthusiasts care about sound quality and won't mind paying $20.00/month for Tidal. One CD costs roughly that amount.
If the payout were, as you say, "a few cents per play," then I doubt musicians would be troubled by the move to streaming at all... but, in fact, it's a few fractions of a cent per play for most. Hardly anyone makes one full cent or more per play. It takes my band 1200 plays to equal the pay for one permanent download.
It's good that the days of having to buy an album without hearing it first are gone, but this model with the current payouts just won't sustain any artists... We've got to change something, or talented musicians will start finding careers that actually pay a living wage... what do we do when all that talent leaves and we're stuck with label-manufactured acts?
This article is a big advertisement for Spotify. I personally won't pay for Spotify, nor GooglePlay. Even though GooglePlay has a little bit better quality. I will only listen to music at CD quality, AppleLossless, or FLAC. I actually do hear the difference, and once I show my friends they do too. There are more than just school girls on back of buses listing to POP. I have always owned good quality speakers and headphones, even in high school. Scrolling through the comments I am glad to read many people agree. People do care about quality, especially if we are paying for it, and people do want a connection with the artists that they love. We have come a long way since Napster, and I think Tidal will succeed. Hopefully enough to keep in business.
Don't hate the player hate the game.
Jay-Z is just trying to get in the game of streaming music, he's a producer now, he just don't want to let the train of streaming pass by. Where will you get money as a producer if you can't sell CD's?Streaming!
Yes it's not a revolution, but it's something different.
And yes as rapper he knows the strategy to get people to get in and be col so the youth embrace it... Marketing, just look at Beats by Dre... marketing, marketing marketing, a lot of Stars showing they like it, in clip, advertising etc... And how did they end up... hooo right Apple bought it for it's pop culture not for sound quality.
So he's just paying it smart, and yes sorry he is, he plays the game and play it well, lets just wait and see if they will bring more musicians in it, or label and even service in it, we should see, it's just a start.
"While higher quality streams aren't a bad thing, most people won't even be able to tell the difference. And the minority that can tell the difference... "
The only part of your fairly well written article that I have issue with is the quoted bit above. I know that today a lot of people equate music with iTunes, and that is just plain sad. Highly compressed music via crappy earbuds is sad and irritating when you try to play that over an audio system. Music streaming services offer pretty much that same quality. There is a noticeable difference between a compressed music file and a lossless music file. It's the difference between watching a standard definition video versus a high definition one: There's just more (noticeably) there.
I guess I'm out of the "norm", because I come from the days of vinyl, where I would gladly pay twice the price of a "normal" record for a "master recording", which was thicker and sounded great on an audiophile's 500 watt sound system. I was a working stiff living paycheck to paycheck, and I meticulously kept the records clean to avoid any pops or clicks, because I loved the music. Unfortunately over a decade ago, most listeners ripping music from the likes of Napster, have created a "norm" of listening to heavily compressed MP3's with earbuds. Gone are the days of feeling like your in the same room with the musicians, and closing your eyes, taking in every nuance of the composition. I am one of the few, according to the rest of the comments, that will gladly pay the extra ten bucks a month, to have the opportunity to hear all of the missing frequencies removed by the compressed formats of other streaming services.
The difference between your vinyl albums and the online streaming, is that inherently, flac streamed over the internet is likely going to be eating up tons of bandwidth, only to be listened to on a non-audiophile sound card (do you have an audiophile level sound card, what about a pre-amp for your headphones, etc?)...listening on the computer, over the internet, is never going to give you true flac quality due to these pitfalls. If you could download it and play it then it would be a different story. Streaming audio, no matter how crisp or wonderful it sounds, is always prone to dropouts, pauses, slowdowns, and is not probably going to be able to be listened to on anything other than a subpar system (laptops, desktops, mobile phones). That's why this model really makes little sense.
I fully understand the limitations of high sampling rates with metered bandwidth online streaming which isn't my use case. With Tidal, I typically stream with low bandwidth quality on a portable device (current iPhone / iPad) which never uses up my bandwidth allotment, even when streaming 6 hrs a day. When I find a track I like, I will add it to one of my playlists that have "offline" selected which Tidal automatically downloads the track once the device connects to my un-metered wifi at home. When I listen to my downloaded tracks with low impedance high quality headphones on a portable device, I don't need a headphone amplifier and the sound is very rich and full with a frequency range of 16-20khz, which is much more than the compressed garbage from the other streaming services. The argument of this model NOT making sense is quite frankly, nonsense.
Jay-Z has made a boatload of money, so now he thinks he's smart.
You actually forgot something... hoarding these billionaire musicians to pull out their entire catalog from these known streaming sites would mark a huge hit. It would dramatically decrease their subscribers. Taylor Swift for example, I know a few had left Spotify because her entire catalog was withdrawn. Eventually, if these musicians help out each other, it would save music industry as we all know, it has been deteriorating as technology evolved.
Your statements fails to consider artist like Taylor Swift's fans. They aren't middle age people who have the ability to spend $20 a month. They are kids, teens, and broke college students. What Jay Z failed to do was to look at his target market. His target market gets music for free and no one will choose to pay when before everything was free. If they move their music to only this platform, they could actually be hurting sales because their target market will not hear their music. This could actually do more damage to an artist career than good.Therefore, though this could be beneficial for the rich and the music industry if it had any chance of being successful, there was no market research done and there was a faulty business plan presented. This idea will not revolutionalize the music industry. It will lose investors millions of dollars.
You are spreading the falsehood that artists have been hurt by piracy. It's been proven over and over that pirates pirate, and buyers buy - whether they can get something for free or not, people make a choice. Free albums that are zero dollars to download, but released with a suggested donation, usually make millions when bands release them.
You are saying they are forgetting something - well, people will end up boycotting artists that hold listeners hostage by forcing them to get audio from only one service, becoming a monopoly. If artists act like jerks to fans, people are going to end up dropping them or pirating instead of supporting them...
A "me too" attempt by Jay Z to get on the gravy train. He's jealous that Dr, Dre made $billions on earphones.
People should give Videscape a go. They stream audio and video, there is no fees to view/listen and there are no charges for people to upload their content, unless they want to upload video of more than 15 minutes or want one of the premium services on offer. They also pay fair royalties to content providers, a minimum of 1 cent per stream with a target of increasing that to 10 cents or more as advertising revenue rises!
Unsigned or independent musicians should be getting their stuff on there, a site run by independents for independents not to benefit a few who already have more money than they know what to do with but everyone!
http://www.videscape.com for more details.
And there is also the fact that so many of us want it to fail because Jay Z is a drug dealer thug (once one, always one) douchebag of the lowest genre who merely found a slicker path to wealth. Who can imagine he wouldn't still be dealing were it not for gangster rap.
"Who can imagine he wouldn't still be dealing were it not for gangster rap."
He could be doing time or pushing up daisies as many other dealers are.
Shut the hell up
Shut the hell up asshole
*sigh* ....c'mon, just say it - you can't stand seeing a successful , wealthy, black man.
"Once one, always one"? "A slicker path to wealth"? As soon as you cease to deal drugs, you are no longer a drug dealer. And to abandon illegal activity to instead engage in a completely above-the-board authentically legal capitalist enterprise is not to become "slicker"--it's to become a legitimate, legal, and productive member of society. No matter what other crap you're able to imagine. Sheesh. Way to be bigoted, repressive, and backwards.
I have already been told that I am way out of the norm, but I can say without a doubt that I have bought more cds since I discovered streaming audio (Live365, Pandora, podcasts, et al) than any other time in my life. There is no way I will pay for douchebaggery of this sort...I probably would not even take it for free.
I have to agree though, Tidal is going to have to come up with something better that "owned by Jay-Z" to make it long term.
Me too, because I am too broke to take a chance with an album I haven't already listen too. Torrent technology and free Spotify have avoided me to buy crap.
Hildegerd, I'm guessing an education in English also avoided you.
Michael Alexander, I'm guessing being an arrogant prick obviously hasn't avoided you.
Michael Alexander: Why are you being so rude to me? English is not my native language.
If English isn't your first language, the joke he made was correct. It's a joke, get over it.
Off Topic: Correcting someone's use of English, is to me, rather pedantic and small minded, and it always amazes when some one tells another person to 'get over' a joke at their expense,
On Topic : have to agree, the pitch and the attitude is going to sink this particular enterprise
Your conclusion in the last paragraph is spot on.
I only listen to spotify on my mobile devices. And that's usually without the headphones. Which gives me absolutely no reason to listen to lossless audio...
So true, do they expect us minions to just be complete droids to their music... It's not like I am standing around waiting for them to do their next big thing. I am just trying to make it through my day with music at my fingertips.
... But, don't get me wrong. I am more than happy to pay for a service (especially, for my favorite artist.) However, coming from a middle class stand point... They really marketed this poorly. I also can't help but to mention that all those artist on that stage have some of the largest egos on the block ( of the things I have heard some of these artist say to the public/ social media/ fans doesn't give me the warm and fuzzies to just run out and promote this idea). I also found it odd when Madonna says something along the lines of "we are reconnecting with our fans in the way we once did". Anyone happen to notice that Madonna being the oldest artist up there is the only one who can really make that comment? Closer in age that I could let slip by with this comment, would have to be Jay-Z and it's not like Jay-z gives you the feeling of being connected to his fans. These artist need to be honest ... Why all of a sudden are they so eager now? If it is truly for the fans then why is this music service dripping in a so-called avant garde manner. It's actually kinda of insulting that we civilians are looked as some get rich scheme to them. Just Sad.
I love FLAC, and anything that helps musicians make a buck I'm all for. The price point is too prohibitive though for most of us working stiffs. Judging by the artists that signed up, I doubt we'll see much old school heavy metal/punk.
FLAC makes no sense for streaming. Nobody will be able to stream away from their home network, nor will they have the technology to benefit from it. And for everyone who streams at home on their 60GB a month internet plan, they're going to see pretty quickly that FLAC isn't for them when their monthly bill goes up by $200.


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If You Only Did One Thing …
Sometimes it feels like tricky business to create the reality you want …
Between maintaining a focus on what you want, not letting gremlins drive, staying out of attachment, being a good allower, taking inspired action, etc., even savvy creators can feel a bit overwhelmed with all the guidance we get about how to manifest.
But the truth is it's very simple.
In fact, it could be as simple as this:
Become a good appreciator.
If all we did was build our appreciation skills, that alone puts us in close range of everything we want.
Yes, you could toss in some inspired action and positive expectations to make it even better.
But honestly, if you only focused on one thing to enhance your reality-creating success, good old-fashioned appreciation is your ticket.
Don't get me wrong – I'm a huge fan of Nevillizing it. Visualization is a staple in many manifesting practices. And a pray rain journal is what I turn to when it really counts.
But if all we got intentional about was learning to appreciate more, we'd be vibrationally home free.
Because when we're in a state of appreciation, we're a match for more good things.
Which is why so many spiritual teachers suggest keeping a gratitude journal, and why Abraham shares so many appreciation rampages.
I thought I had a pretty decent appreciation practice going until I read Pollyanna – and realized my skills had lots of room for improvement.
Becoming a good appreciator is mostly a matter of intention and practice.
It's not rocket science, and you will see a direct correlation between making it a habit and the turn your life will take for the better.
But mostly I'm just suggesting that any time we think conscious creation stuff is complicated, that's our cue to get back to basics, which could be anything like:
- looking for things to appreciate
- finding a better feeling thought
- following inner guidance
- pre-paving the day in advance
or any other process you're called to.
When a fellow creator in self-help overwhelm asked the one thing she should practice, I suggested getting thankful was tough to beat for ease and effectiveness.
If your manifesting practice feels like you're playing a game of Twister that's more frustrating than joyful, it's time for a change.
I'd love to hear how you keep things simple in your effective conscious creation routine …

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I've been a bit under the weather the last couple of days, so hadn't been out and about taking any photos. Today, however, I made up for it. Even though I still wasn't feeling 100%, I went to work and took my trusty camera. It might be Easter but in my job that doesn't mean there is no work. Saturday nights are quite busy and there were still night drivers out when I got in this morning. They were still over an hour away from getting back to the yard though, so I quickly nipped down to the paddocks to see the horses and see if the cold snap had kept the Fieldfares and Redwings here. And it had.
|Fieldfare. Must have been at least 40 around today plus about 20 Redwings.
|Redwing on the left, and Fieldfare on the right.
The temperature meant the horses water troughs and the over flow puddle, were frozen. The over flow puddle is very popular with bathing Goldfinches, Dunnocks, Chaffinches and Starlings. I normally use Star or Stevie, the pony's, to hide behind and take photos. Star was up for the job today and I leaned around her neck to get the below photographs.
|Pied Wagtail and Goldfinch on iced over puddle
|Its not Dancing on Ice, its Pied Wagtail on Ice.
I went back to the office and warmed up, saw off the remaining night drivers, caught up with all the out-standing paperwork and waited for the sun to rise. At lunchtime I went back down the paddocks, and the sun had thawed the frosty grass and the iced up over flow puddle. It was Stevies turn to hide behind, so after a couple of carrots, Stevie led me to the puddle.
|Chaffinch waiting for Goldfinch to finish its bath
|Goldfinch and teasels
I bumped into Nelson and Katies owner, Bill, while I was there. While we were chatting the resident male Kestrel flew across the paddock and landed in its favourite tree. Off I went in pursuit. I know Kestrels are fairly common, but they really are my favourite little falcon. Mr Kes was active today. He flew off towards the fields at the very back of the paddocks, but soon came back with some prey and landed on the fence.
|Mr Kes off hunting
|Mr Kes above my head
|Mr Kes with prey......a half eaten mouse
Mr Kes then done something I'd never seen him do before. He 'hid' the remainder of his prey. This is called 'cacheing'. A Kestrel will consume about six mice, small birds or voles per day, and will sometimes just take a mouthful of each and cache the rest. They will then normally go back to where they have cached the remains, just before sunset. This means they don't go to roost on an empty stomach. I watched silently as Mr Kes jumped off his fence perch and walked up to the long grass around the thorny shrub where I normally see the Goldcrests in Nelson and Katies paddock.
|Mr Kes. His half eaten mouse is gripped in his left claw
|Mr Kes walking towards the long grass at the bottom of the thorny shrub. Sorry for quality of photo. I was peering over the fence by this stage, but trying to do it slowly so I wouldn't spook Mr Kes.
|Mr Kes emerges triumphant from cacheing his prey.
I didn't see Mr Kes after that. He will have several little caches with in his hunting territory. I'm just pleased and privileged to have seen one of them.
Katie and Nelson enjoyed the brief sunny interludes and ran around their paddocks sending all the Fieldfares, Redwings, Blackbirds and Mistle Thrushes up into the trees. Nelson only has a couple more weeks here, before he goes for what I call Summer Holiday Camp (training stables for racehorses). Katie will go for her holiday too soon, hers will be a bit more interesting I think. Shes going to be meeting the father of her future foal, wink wink, nudge nudge. But in their place an old friend will be coming back.....watch this space for more details, and photos, in about 3-4 weeks.
Of course Easter wouldn't be Easter without a sighting of an Easter Bunny, so here's a pic of one of the rabbits at the back of the paddocks this morning.
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The carrier had sought to begin flying Dec. 11 but failed to reach agreement with the FAA in time, Wolf said. It plans to be ready for passengers sometime after Dec. 18, but before Christmas, he added.
Northeastern stopped flying Nov. 5, after extremely low fares offered by competing carriers made flights unprofitable. Its inactivity led the Federal Aviation Administration to ground it two weeks later.
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And baby makes three! That '70s Show love interests turned real-life loves years later Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis are not only engaged to be married — they're expecting, too! Guess true love really does exist, huh?
Three months after his divorce from Demi Moore, Ashton (36) was ready to get hitched again, reportedly asking Papa Kunis to marry Mila (30). And the good news keeps on coming as PEOPLE reports that the couple will welcome their first child later this year. Friends of the twosome exclaim, "They are both very, very happy. It's still early."
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Today I have a huge treat for you guys. I'm so thankful that LaTisha Styles has decided to drop some knowledge off to Young Yet Wise. Who is this wonderful woman, and how did she eliminate 22,000 of credit card debt?!
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LaTisha Styles is a motivational speaker, millennial money expert, and spokesperson specializing in simple finance for millennials. As a millennial, LaTisha knows that millennials ARE financially literate and she started Young Finances to help empower her generation. Since starting Young Finances, LaTisha has paid off over 30,000 dollars of consumer debt, invested for retirement, and started a profitable business. LaTisha has been featured in The Economist, quoted in Forbes, and mentioned in US News as a top personal finance expert to follow on Twitter.
"When I made that first swipe I don't think I knew how much it would affect my life. Living with credit card debt that I could not afford cost me a lot of stress, worry, and unnecessary cash. Yes, it was expensive to be in debt. At one point I had a 24% interest rate on a credit card with a large balance." Latisha Styles
LaTisha: Absolutely. I truly believe that when used properly, a credit card can be beneficial. It is simply another budget tool. I would consider it an advanced tool because you have to know exactly what your budget looks like before you can use the credit card properly. Each month your credit card should be paid in full. I do not recommend carrying a balance from month to month. Using this strategy and a rewards credit card, instead of paying interest, I get paid to use a credit card each month.
Me: I love how you didn't put every single dollar and dime into your debt , you still traveled and invested do you think that if you would of put all of your money towards your debt and stayed on a strict budget that you would of been able to still eliminate all of your debt?
LaTisha: I have an issue with very restrictive plans. I know my personality. If a diet promises six pack abs but requires that I never eat macaroni and cheese again, I know it's not for me. Similarly, I knew that if I restricted my budget to the point where I hated working for money, I would break my payment schedule. Some people can handle a very strict budget, but I cannot. I also understand the power of compounding interest. I did not want to miss out on the time to allow my money to grow. So instead of putting 100% of my extra money towards debt payoff, I split it in half and put half towards investing. I also started a side hustle and used that money to help with travel expenses.
Me: Lastly at Young Yet Wise: Things I wish I learned sooner is a key theme so if you could leave us with one piece of advice you wish you learned sooner what would it be?
LaTisha: I wish I had known that a free t-shirt would cost me thousands in the long run. 🙂 I wish I understood that
But now that I know, I am determined to teach others not to make the same mistakes I did.
Here are the four steps LaTisha Styles took to tackle $22,000 of credit card debt:
1. Setting the debt deadline
Firstly, I set a date. I decided that I wanted to pay everything off within three years. That made it easy to figure out how much I wanted to pay towards my debt with each check. I chose to go with a consumer credit counseling service.
2. Creating the cash budget
Secondly, I committed to using all cash. I knew that I was addicted to using credit and there was no point in trying to get out of debt while I was still using it. I had already gotten rid of all of my credit cards and I created a budget that would allow me to use only cash.
3. Needs vs Wants
During the first few months, I started to teach myself how to distinguish needs versus wants. I prevented myself from impulse shopping with a simple rule. If I wanted to purchase something that was not on my shopping list or was not a part of my intended trip, then I was not allowed to buy it.
4. Building an emergency cushion
Finally, I was honest with myself. I didn't try to live super frugal or put all of my extra cash towards my debt. I knew that if I simply stuck with my plan, I would have everything paid off on the date that I self-imposed.
I didn't stress myself.
I still traveled, dined out with friends and put money towards investing and saving.
Yes. I still invested.
To view LaTisha's other great posts on how to invest, budget, and save be sure to check out her website at http://youngfinances.com/. Be sure to also check out her awesome Youtube Channel, and follow her on Twitter
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Again huge thank to LaTisha Styles I'm honored to have her here today. Thanks for your advice, but more importantly thank you for informing and helping other people with their finances. We appreciate you!!! Remember, don't be embarrassed about your debt. The last time I checked blaming yourself was not a form of accepted payment. All we can do is focus on getting rid of it, and not making the same mistakes next time.


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In 1851 it cost only three cents per half-ounce to send a letter up to 3,000 miles. Twelve years later the same three cents carried this letter anywhere in the U.S. While first-class letter rates have increased sixteen-fold since then, a recent experience confirmed that delivery times are sometimes no better now than during the Civil War.
Another change besides the increased cost is that private contractors once carried the mail between post offices, over thousands of designated postal routes. The right political connections usually counted more than submitting the low bid in winning such a contract. For shorter routes, a buggy or 'mail hack' might be used, while on longer runs such as Route No. 8076 between San Antonio and El Paso, Texas, stagecoaches conveyed both passengers and mail over the 700-mile distance. On the longest single run, coaches departing San Francisco on the 2,800 mile drive to Missouri might carry up to 10,000 letters at ten cents each, in addition to passengers and their luggage. In the east, some of the railroad trains included mail cars.
Getting the mail to the right post office was just part of the job. Stamp collectors who specialize in complete envelopes, called covers, are aware that many examples from the 19th century bear only the name and the city or post office of the recipient, such as Mrs. Louisa Roe; Adams, Adams County, Illinois. Today such a letter would probably be returned for insufficient address. In great-grandmother's day this address would have been perfectly adequate, because persons expecting mail had to ask for it at their local post office (there were no boxes yet). Today we call this General Delivery. Newspapers occasionally published long lists of the names of persons for whom letters were waiting. The first home deliveries of mail began in New York City and forty-eight other larger offices in 1863.
If a postmaster had enough office space, he or she might ease the unavoidable crowding and jostling of everyone demanding their mail at once by opening separate delivery windows for ladies and for men. Even so, a young bride like Louisa Roe might have found a visit to the post office unsettling, if the following anecdote noted in an 1864 newspaper from Quincy, in Adams County, Illinois, indeed happened. A carefully staged diversion, as we see, could resolve the problem entirely:
"The girls who crowd through a file of men to get their letters in the Post Office must read this: 'Oh, dear,' exclaimed Mary, throwing herself into the rocking chair. 'I'll never go to the Post Office again, to be looked out of countenance by all those men standing around the halls and near the ladies' delivery. It's so provoking! What can I do, Minerva, to stop those awful men from staring me in the face?' 'Do as I do,' replied Minerva, with a sly look, 'show them your ankles.'"
Various issues of the San Francisco Daily Alta California, 1859-1861, reported the numbers of letters carried by Butterfield Overland Mail stages departing for the east.
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DescriptionHot Throttle is an absurd racing game about a man in a midlife crisis who decides to leave behind his wife and children to pursue his dream of becoming a car. He strips down, and moves on hands and knees to race through different locations. The goal is to win a championship against other naked men in order to earn enough money to pay for the surgery to transform into a car completely. If he fails he has to return to his family.
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JAMIE MURRAY has recalled the moment a Rangers-supporting journalist broke the news that Hibs had won the Scottish Cup – while he was practising for the French Open.
The Hibees celebrated their first Scottish Cup triumph since 1902 last year when skipper David Gray headed home a dramatic late winner to clinch one of the biggest results in the club's history.
But Hibs-daft tennis star Jamie missed out on the madness as he trained on court ahead of another Grand Slam tournament.
However, it wasn't long before the news filtered through to Paris that Alan Stubbs' side had ended their 114-year-old Scottish Cup hoodoo.
Speaking on Graham Hunter's podcast, Wimbledon champion Jamie recalled: "I was on court practising at the French Open and was following it on my phone when we were taking water breaks.
"I knew it was 2-2 and then one of the Scottish journalists came trudging over and I was like 'Stu, Stu, what's the score?'
"He was like, 'what you don't know? It's 3-2 to Hibs, they scored in the last minute'… he's a Rangers fan!
"I couldn't believe it. I was like no way, because it's Hibs, we always guff it before we get to Hampden or whatever, there's been so many bad experiences over the years.
"But to finally do it. I would love to have been there, a lot of my family were.
"But I would rather have missed the game and Hibs won than be there and potentially lose."
Asked whether he had been tempted to miss the French Open for the Final, Jamie said: "No, no. I probably deep down didn't think we were going to win it!"
The winner sparked bedlam at the end as emotional Hibs fans charged onto the field to celebrate before clashing with Rangers supporters.
And while the shameful scenes prevented Easter Road stars from doing a lap of honour, it didn't stop 22,000 fans belting out an iconic rendition of Sunshine on Leith.
Jamie said: "It's a great song. It's so well-known and associated with Hibs. My mum said my grandpa was crying when they were singing it."
Jamie – brother of Andy – only wishes he was there to join in as he added: "I've watched it on social media and stuff, it gets the hair on your back of your neck going.
"I wasn't there, I would love to have been there having looked back and seeing the result but I'm sure for like every single Hibs fan, there has been a lot of pain in Hampden in cup finals and semi-finals, to finally get over the finish line, to beat Rangers as well, it's always nice.
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China's auto industry is the fastest growing in the world. In 1996 there were fewer than 2 million private cars; by 2002 there were 16 million. Visitors to China used to talk about all the bicycles. Now they talk about all the cars – and the smoggy cities.
James Cannon, who heads Colorado-based Energy Futures and visits China often estimates: 'The Chinese automobile population could surpass the US numbers, more than 200 million, within 10 to 20 years. At the current pace, you have China quickly becoming a larger carbon dioxide (CO2) emitter than the US, which is now the world leader.'
However, China's cars won't necessarily be fossil-fuel driven or have internal-combustion engines – an embryonic hydrogen industry could save the country from the tyranny of the tailpipe.
' When I visited China as part of a hydrogen delegation in 1997, we were hard pressed to find more than just basic research into the chemical and physical properties of hydrogen,' Cannon says. 'But since that time China has made very rapid progress in building a well-co-ordinated national hydrogen program. There are several fuel-cell cars now, and plans for larger numbers.'
With the world choking on auto exhaust, the zero-emission fuel cell is increasingly seen as its green savior. Hydrogen fuel cells aren't exactly new. They were invented by Briton Sir William Robert Grove in the 19th century but were not used until the 1960s' Apollo and Gemini space missions.
Fuel cells can be compared to a car battery in that hydrogen and oxygen are combined to produce electricity. The cells are stackable flat plates, each one producing about one volt, the size of the stack determining the power output.
If pure hydrogen is used as fuel the only emission is clean water, with waste heat as a by-product.
Fuel cells could replace power plants to produce electricity on a large scale; and they could be miniaturized to replace batteries in computers and even watches. But the race to put them under the hood of a car generated the most fierce international competition, led by Japan, Germany and the US.
Japan won. Last February, Toyota presented its FCHV fuel-cell car (based on the Highlander) at the University of California, Irvine. The car had been 10 years in the making. 'This could be one of those historic moments,' said Toyota boss Jim Press, 'almost like the Wright Brothers taking off from Kitty Hawk.' That might be stretching it a bit, but the FCHV is the first market-ready hydrogen fuel-cell car delivered to a customer. On the same day Honda unveiled plans to test five fuel-cell vehicles with cells built by Canada's Ballard Power Systems, the world's fuel-cell leader.
The University of California has since been putting into daily use Toyota's cars, which have a top speed of 96 miles per hour, a range of 185 miles on a tank of hydrogen gas and get an equivalent of 64 miles to the gallon.
'Nuclear-generated hydrogen is like a nicotine patch that causes cancer'
US car manufacturer General Motors meanwhile has been developing a fuel-cell car with a more generous 300-mile capacity. General Motors has good friends in Washington, where hydrogen is the new buzz word since President George W Bush announced $1.2 billion in research funding in January. It's perhaps no accident that White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card is a former GM vice-president, as well as the former president of the American Automobile Manufacturers Association. Now GM is declaring its intention to be 'the first auto maker to sell a million fuel-cell vehicles – profitably'.
Who could oppose that? Most environmentalists like fuel cells. But they don't want the promise of them to delay the delivery of fuel-efficient cars today.
Then there's Bush's fondness for the idea of producing hydrogen from nuclear power. Indeed, many see the need for large-scale hydrogen production as a way to jumpstart the moribund nuclear industry.
Hydrogen can be generated in a number of ways: locally using renewable energy or by using power from the large-scale, centralized oil and nuclear power industries.
'Nuclear-generated hydrogen is like a nicotine patch that causes cancer,' says Dan Becker, energy program director for the Sierra Club environmental group. The fossil-fuel and nuclear industries are already beginning to muscle in on hydrogen conferences and workshops. Shell Hydrogen is getting stuck in. It's installing hydrogen pumps at one of its Washington garages in conjunction with GM's plan to provide a fleet of six fuel-cell Zafira mini vans at $1m each for people to test drive.
If fossil fuels are used in the process of separating hydrogen from one of its many sources – water for example – this will produce greenhouse gases and significant pollution. If extracted from natural gas through a process called steam reformation this will generate CO2 as well.
Only through the use of renew-able resources is the whole process emissions-free. Photovoltaics (PV), wind energy, hydro-electric power, geothermal and biomass could each be harnessed to produce the electricity needed to isolate hydrogen.
Denmark, with 3,400 megawatts of wind-generating capacity – the equivalent of five medium-sized nuclear-power plants – would be an ideal supplier of hydrogen for a fuel-hungry world.
But it could also be made at a local level: say, at a filling station level. Or large-scale PV or wind farms might carry the day. According to Worldwatch, the market for oil is growing at less than 1.5 per cent per year, while the wind and solar photovoltaic markets are now doubling in size every three years. PV costs are high, however, and will need to come down considerably to make the hydrogen process competitive.
Iceland meanwhile has declared its intention to host the world's first hydrogen-energy economy and has opened the first commercial hydrogen filling station in Reykjavik.
With most of its heat and electricity coming from geothermal energy, Iceland wants to go totally renewable by 2030. The Icelandic station is in part sponsored by the European Union's ECTOS Project, which also plans to build a hydrogen gas station in Hamburg, Germany to supply a fleet of fuel-cell buses. Citaro fuel-cell buses, made by DaimlerChrysler, have been ordered by 17 European cities, with trials to begin late this year.
Meanwhile, Mexico City, São Paulo, Cairo, New Delhi, Shanghai and Beijing are expecting the delivery of 46 fuel-cell buses as part of a United Nations Development Programme project to assess the viability of the technology in crowded mega-cities.
Attempts by the fossil fuel industry to hijack hydrogen shouldn't blind us to the very real promise of this lighter-than-air element.
In his book The Hydrogen Economy Jeremy Rifkin envisions 'a vast redistribution of electricity with far-reaching consequences for society. Today's centralized, top-down flow of energy controlled by global oil companies and utilities can become obsolete. In the new era, every human being with access to renewable-energy sources could become a producer as well as a consumer – using so-called "distributed generation".'
Despite setbacks and obstacles, there's a gathering consensus that 'the forever fuel', hydrogen, will eventually replace oil as the world's principal energy source. The World Resources Institute (WRI) has predicted that world oil production could peak as early as 2007, at the low end, or 2014, at the high end. This is not just wishful thinking by environmentalists. John F Bookout, a former president and CEO of Shell Oil, is in basic agreement with WRI, projecting that production will peak at 75 million barrels a day 'around the year 2010'.
According to the Britain-based Fuel Cell Today, there were more than 1,000 stationary fuel cells in use around the world in 2002, quadruple the number in 2000. There are just a handful of fuel-cell cars in test programs now, but thousands will take to the streets in the next few years.
There's a lot at stake. As the hydrogen research programs play themselves out, China motorizes at an unprecedented rate, and global warming effects accelerate.
Where a few years ago lack of interest might have been a major obstacle to bringing in the hydrogen era, today the opposite may be true – too much interest from the wrong sources.
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The fossil-fuel and nuclear industries have their eyes on hydrogen production. Claims that 'clean' nuclear fusion will be the way should be regarded with suspicion. Nuclear fusion is as yet unproved and its consequences unknown.
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None of the questions around how hydrogen should be produced and on what scale have been worked out, and no clear technology winner is emerging.
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is flammable and burns with invisible flames. Petrol is not a safe fuel either but it's a better-known danger and so less feared.
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Increasing private car ownership, however it is fuelled, simply adds to environmentally damaging congestion and road-building.
- Hydrogen must be produced by renewables
- Switch to a hydrogen-fuel car, if you can, once they become widely available. Until then there are a number of cars on the market with substantially lower emissions. These include 'hybrids' such as Honda's Insight and Civic and the Toyota Prius, which switch between petrol and electricity, and dual-fuel vehicles found in Vauxhall's Omega, Astra and Vectra ranges, which run on propane (LPG) or compressed natural gas (CNG) with conventional petrol as a back-up. It is also possible, with a small adjustment, to run your petrol engine on vegetable oil.
- Avoid flying if possible – this produces vast quantities of CO2 per capita.
- Use public transport – and press for public subsidies for it. Car share.
- Walk, cycle – the healthiest, cheapest and greenest ways of getting about!
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A HERO soldier who lost three limbs in a Taliban bomb blast is being forced to leave the Army.
Guardsman Dave Watson, 25, who will proudly carry the Olympic flame on its way around Britain, is devastated to lose the job he loves because of injuries he suffered in Afghanistan two years ago.
Dave, of the 1st Batallion Scots Guards, lost his right arm and both legs above the knee and after he trod on an Improvised Explosive Device while on foot patrol in Helmand province.
Recovering at the MoD's specialist Headley Court medical centre, he said he was really upset to leave the Army on a medical discharge, which is likely to happen within a year.
"You fight for Queen and country and they just think, 'Right we will get rid of you'," he said. "But I wanted the Army to be a career for life."
The Sunday Mirror has highlighted the cases of several amputee soldiers who have been discharged from the services in a clear breach of the Military Covenant meant to ensure a duty of care to service personnel.
More than 20 have been forced to leave, including double amputee Gavin Harvey.
Meanwhile Dave, from Preston, Lancs, has amazed medics with his recovery, and has been chosen as an Olympic torch-bearer to carry the flame in Blackpool on June 22 during its journey around Britain.
"I am really proud that I will be carrying the Olympic flame," he said. "It's an absolutely fantastic once-in-a-lifetime opportunity."
He also hopes to win a place in the 2016 Paralympic squad in the discus and javelin events, and has praised medics who have helped him to lead an active life after fitting him with computerised legs.
"I owe everything to the doctors at Headley Court, who have given me my life back," he said. "After it first happened I didn't think I would be able to do anything. But I cannot say enough about how great the doctors are."
Dave has moved now moved to a bungalow, which is being adapted for him by ABF The Soldiers' Charity.
He said: "They have helped me so much, and when I leave the Army I want to stay in the military circuit and do as much charity stuff as possible."
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This weekend's Movement for Black Lives may frame next year's GOP Convention
All eyes will be on Cleveland in July 2016 when the Republican National Convention comes to town. Fifty thousand people, including 15,000 members of the media, are expected to gobble up every hotel room for miles around, rent apartments and condos at exorbitant rates, and create an economic impact of some $200 million dollars. The city fathers are absolutely giddy. If recent history runs true to form, the demographics of most of those spending all that money will skew Caucasian, wealthy, heterosexual, Christian. Party leaders hope that their actions will result in one of their own becoming the next President of the United States, the Leader of the Free World, and the Restorer of the Old.
A year prior to this highly publicized event, which is to say starting today, hundreds of black people will arrive largely by car and bus, for a Movement for Black Lives Convening. The demographics of these attendees will be overwhelmingly African American, intergenerational, and omni-sexual, if that term represents the broadest spectrum of human sexual orientation. The economic impact will be slight — many of them will be crashing in church basements or possibly in the homes of total strangers. They will meet in classrooms at Cleveland State University for workshops to learn, heal, organize and mobilize for what they are determined must be a new American regime where Black Lives Matter equally as much as all others.
The backlash of the Civil Rights Movement, the dawning of the Information Age, and globalization are among the potent forces that have produced the growing divide in America between the relative few who have enormous amounts of wealth, liberty, and secure and expansive personal space, and the vast numbers of other Americans who have increasingly less.
While technology has made it possible to create and transfer immense wealth almost by keystroke — the mortgage manipulation that precipitated the Great Recession is Exhibit A — the smartphones and social media that make us all potential eyewitnesses and video reporters have spotlighted the continuing dangers of being black in America.
One hundred years ago Cleveland was the symbol of great wealth in America. It is currently on a run celebrating the centennials of great civic institutions — the Cleveland Foundation, the Cleveland Orchestra, the Cleveland Museum of Art, and many other cultural gems in and around University Circle. Nobody looks too closely beyond a point at how the fortunes were accrued that launched these proud markers of civic accomplishment.
The choice of Cleveland as the site of the Movement for Black Lives was made intentionally, because our city has come to represent all of the ills that plague black people nationally: indifference and hostility to women of color, especially members of the LGBT community; excessive and outrageous police misconduct, documented by the most recent U.S. Department of Justice report; economic disparity; a public education system that is besieged on all sides; communities with Third World health statistics; and even Ohio's status as an open-carry state.
For one observer, this week's Movement for Black Lives convening evokes the spirit of the old Chambers Brothers anthem, Time Has Come Today, first released in 1967 ["I don't care what others say. Time has come today!"]. One spokesperson told us the convening is inspired by this spirit of creative resistance, righteous resistance, prophetic resistance.
More than 800 people are expected to register for this weekend's programs. Registration is open, inexpensive, and begins at 8am. Information is available online at www.movementforblacklives.org.


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April Booker tells NewsChannel 10, since she heard the news her older sister, Crystal Dawn Booker, was found dead in a field, she's been sick and suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.
"Its hard to sit here and look at my sisters picture and see she's gone...because she didn't deserve it." said April Booker.
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PORT WILLIAMS, NS - A Port Williams native is making a name for himself in the university hockey circuit in Ottawa.
John Deacon, who is a familiar face for Valley Wildcat fans after spending three years on the junior A team's bench, also played for Horton High in 2010-2011. Last September, he made the jump to university hockey after he was recruited by the Gee-Gees at the University of Ottawa, where he had five goals and seven assists in the 22 games he played.
The 22-year-old forward now appears to be on the cusp of a breakout year, with a strong pre-season performance netting him athlete of the week honours Sept. 18 after tallying three goals in one weekend, helping the Gee-Gees to a pair of victories in exhibition play.
"Being named athlete of the week felt very good. It's nice to be recognized by my schools athletic program in that way," Deacon said.
The regular season kicked off Oct. 1, with the Gee-Gees picking up two wins – one a shootout, the other in overtime – and two losses, including one overtime loss.
Deacon has been in the thick of things, adding two assists in the overtime loss, and he says he's feeling confident about the Gee-Gees chances this season.
"We've had a good start to the year. We had some ups and downs in pre-season but we faced some good teams, including the Belleville Senators of the AHL and two NCAA teams Penn State and Robert Morris," he said.
"I feel like this really got us ready for regular season. We started our regular season off with a win and an overtime loss against two of the better teams in our league."
He's please with his own performance on the ice, he added, thanks to the experience he gained in his rookie season.
"I'm more used to the pace of the league and I think it shows with what I've done on the ice so far," he said.
Deacon, who is studying economics at the University of Ottawa, says the Wildcats program helped prepare him, but adds it's definitely a different level of hockey. While he doesn't have any real standout memories from his rookie season last year, he says it helped him get used to the pace and demands of university hockey play.
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Dear Anna,
I'm really struggling with relationships for a number of reasons. I've known I was a lesbian since I was 14. I am now in my 20s and things really haven't gotten any easier. My parents still do not accept it, and I find that I'm having a harder time accepting it than I used to. When I am in a relationship, my parents, some siblings, and various other relatives refuse to meet the girl, and I usually only tell some people. I honestly think half of the people I know think I'm straight. At this point, I'd rather be alone simply because the idea of fitting a relationship into my life seems overwhelmingly stressful. I feel like I'll never be able to be myself or be happy and I'm the only person standing in my way. I feel incredibly stupid because I can't seem to figure out how to change that. Any advice?--Completely Stuck
You're not stupid and you're not the "only person standing in your way." Your intolerant and hurtful family members are the ones in your way, and to a lesser extent, a culture that encourages and participates in homophobia is also to blame. That doesn't make it suck less, however, and for that I am sorry. Not being accepted by people we love is a particular kind of devastation, one that they don't really prepare you for in Coming Out 101. Lots of queer people have fraught relationships with their families (and friends and coworkers and rednecks with reality TV shows). For this reason, we sometimes make our own families. A "chosen family" as they're often called. Because you can't change the clan you're born into, but you can choose not to be around people who wish to tear you down for existing.
Coming out is a lifelong process. And it does get better, as Dan Savage says in his popular campaign. But a big part of the reason it gets better is because we make it better ourselves. It gets better when we surround ourselves with as many good friends and good people as possible. It gets better when we stop putting up with other people's bigotry and start telling the truth about ourselves instead of pretending to be what others want us to be. Choose wholeness. Choose yourself. You might lose your family's approval, but your emotional and spiritual well-being are far more important in the long run, I assure you. This isn't to say you should banish your family from your life forever, but the more distance you can give yourself right now, the better. There are so many other people out there who will love and appreciate you as you are. I encourage you to seek them out. They might be in the form of a school group or online forum, a girlfriend, a kickass job, a queer-friendly church, or any number of straight allies.
Telling your truth means not letting other people define or erase you. It may not seem like it but you have a tremendous power. You are in charge of your own grand destiny. Other people may try to condemn you for it, but they can't stop you from living or loving who you love.
And perhaps most importantly of all, you shouldn't think about dating until you can love yourself first. No more negative self talk and downgrading. You are light and worth and truth and there is so much brilliance and goodness to come. Will you let it?
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