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Skip to comments.Robert Downey Jr. Blows the Whistle on Elite Hollywood Pedophile Ring
Posted on 10/15/2017 7:30:10 PM PDT by dontreadthis
Movie star Robert Downey Jr. has made a shocking revelation and lifted the lid on a major Hollywood pedophile ring that connects powerful Elites "all over the globe".The Iron Man star has gone on the record to expose a huge network of pedophilia, prostitution, and human trafficking that involves a whole host of, what he calls, "sick f*cks".Not only has he named some well known Hollywood celebrities, but he's also ousted one of the most powerful people in America, who he says is a "Rosetta Stone of every perversion from Hwood all over the globe" and provides depraved services for "Arabs, Wall Street, DC, Royals, and Hollywood elites".Mr. Downey is one of a long line of stars to come forward to expose pedophilia in politics and the entertainment industry, but up to know, he's been the most forth coming with names and details.
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If true he's going to need the Ironman suit.
It's also no secret that InSync and Back Street Boys producer Lou Pearlman seduced his band boys.
Of course ignored by all the media. Not shocking. Nor is it shocking that this is happening in Hollywood. This type of thing has been known probably since it's inception.
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...I (Robert) am a FORMER personal "friend" of a woman named Diana Jenkins. Doubt you know her, but she's the Rosetta Stone of every scandal and perversion from Hwood all over the globe. She's an Uber-wealthy divorcee whose hubby ran UK's Barclay's bank - and she ran the Arab investors for the bank! She's been running a high-class call girl/party-girl ring for Arabs, Wall Street, DC, Royals, and Hollywood elites. She's also a MAJOR philanthropist, arts supporter, political donor, and social hostess to EVERYONE. Her best Hwood pals include Sean Penn, Clive Davis[Whitney Houston's mentor], Ari Emanuel, George Clooney, Cindy Crawford, and her "little pet" named Hayden [Hayden "Leslie P" Panettiere]. Diana is the connector of wealthy Arabs and Asians and Athletes with Hwood actresses/models. She also is a sick and twisted b*tch. When Hayden and her own Mommy went on the outs, Diana Jenkins took that place in her life, by Hayden's choice...
Diana Jenkins has since divorced Roger Allen Jenkins and relocated to California where she has established herself as one of the most powerful and influential people in America, yet, has somehow remained in the shadows.
She is a major investor and project stakeholder in the Clinton Foundation, and in March 2010, she raised more than $1 million for Bill and Hillary Clintons "charitable" organization.
Ms. Jenkins was also named in the Congressional Pay-to-Play Clinton Foundation inquiry letter...
Occultism, satanism, atheism are behind these "rings."
Just look at Marina psychobitch and who she hangs out with.
I'm super surprised that these people are still walking around with the stuff they do in public and on camera. Their not so nuanced performances that give glory to evil, they must be protected by supernatural forces and not good ones.
I'm not one to believe in crazy occult conspiracy theories, but if there is any truth to any of it you'll find it with Marina psychobitch and her pals.
It has also been alleged that she is connected to global human trafficking networks, and if what Mr. Downey is saying is correct, she may be one of the biggest players in the largest trafficking and pedophilia rings in the United States, if not the world.
She is a major investor and project stakeholder in the Clinton Foundation
This is on of those reports you file away and see what comes of it.
I've heard some stories about some of his "good listies", so I'm not buying off on all this.
There may be a lot more truth to it than we think. Even someone telling the truth can get a few facts wrong, meaning well.
At least he went there, opening up the topic for discussion.
That's a good thing.
You'd think he would have been taken to court by now, wouldn't you.
Looks fake
It does make me wonder about the stuff that 4chan found, and the stuff that Andrew Breitbart claimed before he died.
I often think that real justice will only occur after death. For their own sakes, I hope these sickos are caught and spend a long time in jail preparing to meet their Maker.
She is a major investor and project stakeholder in the Clinton Foundation, and in March 2010, she raised more than $1 million for Bill and Hillary Clintons "charitable" organization.
Well, well, well.
Yes, he might be in danger of committing Arkancide.
Wasnt this anonymous and someone just claimed it was Downey?
Looks vaguely like a Bond film villain
Looks creepy.
Notice that pedophiles all look alike? Receding hairline, fat, short, double-chinned....just gross.
This information from Robert Downey Jr. was originally posted
But it looks like a compendium of different comments from different sources:
An hour ago i sat here trying to remember this creeps name. Like a clone of weinstein
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Images from Google Earth that supposedly show a "flying saucer" or some disc-shaped UFO at the end of a runway at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, have been the focus of worldwide headlines for the last couple of days. But is that what it is — some grounded extraterrestrial vehicle? The images, of course, set the internet to speculation overdrive, with skeptics cautioning that it was unlikely that the JPL had absent-mindedly left a UFO outside (if their intent has always been to deny the existence of UFOs). But one UFO researcher that specializes in investigating and debunking UFOs believes that the "flying saucer" does have a connection with exploring space, just more on the human side of the search.
The Sun reported this week that photos from Google Earth hit the internet that apparently captured a "silver, circular object" at rest at the end of what appears to be a runway structure outside of a facility on Mesa Road, which is part of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). But that's not all that was shown in the UFO video uploaded by name shame on YouTube (the Sun's source). In the short clip, the user points out that at another moment in time (2014), the so-called "flying saucer" was off the straight stretch of what appears to be pavement and setting on ground in an area of scrub brush a bit farther away from the facility. A user named shame suggests the object has been on a "walkabout."
Conspiracy theorists have long associated NASA's JPL as a warehouser of recovered UFOs and secret laboratories where extraterrestrial vehicles are studied and reverse-engineered for their advanced technology.
Nigel Watson, the author of the UFO Investigations Manual, told the Daily Mail, "I doubt this is a captured extraterrestrial flying saucer. More likely it is a structure or vehicle that has a flying saucer shape."
He went on, "Secondly, why would they leave it out in the open to be spotted by the likes of Google Earth?"
But Watson likens the flying saucer sighting to the recent spate of images being captured on NASA's live feed cameras on the International Space Station.
"Seeing strange anomalies on Google seems to be the latest craze that is rivaling the watching of live images from the International Space Station to get a glimpse of UFOs," he said. "In most of these instances we see what we look for."
UFO hoax-busting site UFO of Interest was quick to offer a more NASA-nuanced explanation for the so-called UFO. They suggest that the "flying saucer" is actually the "test antenna" at the end of JPL's 3000 Foot Range Mesa Antenna Measurement Facility. The facility tests the radio frequency performance certifications and calibration services in support of JPL research and technology tasks.
The Mesa Antenna Measurement Facility is just one of many laboratories operated by the JPL in the area.
The JPL, as many know, is responsible for maintaining communications with NASA's numerous spacecraft on their varied missions throughout the solar system.
The following was pulled from the "About JPL" page on its website.
"The Jet Propulsion Laboratory is a unique national research facility that carries out robotic space and Earth science missions. JPL helped open the Space Age by developing America's first Earth-orbiting science satellite, creating the first successful interplanetary spacecraft, and sending robotic missions to study all the planets in the solar system as well as asteroids, comets and Earth's moon. In addition to its missions, JPL developed and manages NASA's Deep Space Network, a worldwide system of antennas that communicates with interplanetary spacecraft."
It is through the JPL that NASA maintains contact with the Mars Curiosity Rover and the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, whose transmissions of data have also been the source of a few UFO sightings over the years, as the Inquisitr has reported.
However, NASA's official position remains unchanged in that UFOs only exist as unexplained anomalies and that, as yet, alien life, intelligent or otherwise, has yet to be detected.
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BlackBerry To Acquire Excellent Technologies For $425 Million
A unicorn" startup agreed Friday to a deal that values the organization at less than half the billion-dollar valuation it received just two years ago. The case is Great Technology Corporation Stockholder Litigation, Court of Chancery, State of Delaware C.A. No. 11580-VCL. The wooing continued even following it was clear BlackBerry was interested in acquiring Good Technology, the lawsuit stated.
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ISLAMABAD, Oct 18 (APP):China and Pakistan have initiated cooperation on fighting against corruption, the Foreign Office said on Thursday.
"I can confirm you that politically Pakistan and China are actively cooperating in fight against terrorism," Foreign Office spokesman said at the weekly press briefing here at the Foreign Office.
China had assured the government of Pakistan of supporting its agenda of fighting corruption during a recent meeting between Prime Minister Imran Khan and Minister for International Development of Communist Party of China Song Tao here in Islamabad.
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When asked if Pakistan's stance could invite the ire of Taliban, he said Pakistan in fact did not want to experience the same chaos as it did after the USSR abruptly left Afghanistan in late 90s.
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Spokesman Muhammad Faisal said Pakistan was steadfast in maintaining its position on Kashmir, adding that "there was no change in the principled stance."
He said the new government was continuing with the same policy on Kashmir and mentioned the prime minister's initiative of writing letter to his Indian counterpart for holding talks on important issues including Kashmir dispute and terrorism.
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Is your life great? Are you thankful for you financial situation? Are you happy you have the people in your life that you have or have had relationships with? Can you smile to yourself and think about how great it is to have the job you have, the relationships with your children, family, friends, neighbors, or even your mail person? Does your dog or cat make you feel good or proud that you have them and that they love you?
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So … Thursday I'm on top of the world but Friday I'm almost in the pits. What happened? What had changed in my life so drastically that I went from feeling great to feeling worried, pressured, resentful, and insignificant?
I spent some time trying to answer that question and I came up with the answer today. Nothing in my life had changed. My life was the same on Friday that it had been on Thursday. The difference was in my lack of thankfulness for the things I had. I had begun to look at what I didn't have and to ignore those things I did have. I stopped thinking "I'm making more than I ever have before." and started thinking "I don't make as much as he does." I stopped thinking how great it was to have my family near and started thinking, "It sucks when people I love talk bad about each other." I stopped thinking about how grateful I am to own a home and vehicles and started worrying about how I was going to pay the taxes I owe on them. I stopped thinking about how great it was to see my sister and instead started feeling the pain of their departure.
In a nutshell, I had made a choice to feel bad about those things I mentioned above. I should have chosen instead to feel good about their counterparts. As I went through my day, feeling badly, the things that had brought me so much joy a day earlier didn't seem nearly as joyful. As I looked forward to my coming advancement at work it didn't carry the same impact or greatness anymore. I thought to myself "I've made a choice that makes me feel bad now, and makes the good things I have seem mediocre. I've made a choice to feel bad and not only to feel bad now, but to change how I think about things in my past and in my future." It seems very silly to me now.
So I asked myself, "How do I get back?" I guess if I made an unconscious choice to get here then I can just as easily make a conscious choice to get back. So that's what I'm doing. I'm starting right now.
As of right this moment, I am on top of the world. I am making more money than I've ever made before in my life. In addition, I am happy that my friend is making a lot of money! I believe in him and I know he deserves what he makes. I bowled my best game ever last week and I fully expect that I can repeat that score this week. I have a great job and a great opportunity for advancement financially, and influentially. I enjoy the people I work with and I care about their successes. I have a great network of influential supporters and I am thankful and blessed by them everyday. This year was one of the best Thanksgivings of my life. My son's are intelligent and capable. Most my family love and respect one another. I'm excited that I was able to see my sister and her family and I am thankful that I can stay in touch with them through Facebook and email.
I learned a great lesson today. It wasn't the first time I've learned it, and it may not be the last. But, I know that happiness is a choice. I want to always be thankful for everything I have. I want to encourage you too. Realize that when you're moving from thankfulness to worry, resentment, fear, or anxiety, that it's a choice you're making. It's not something that is happening to you. It's something that is happening within you. You're in control. You get to choose. You are just as able to choose happiness as you are to choose the alternative. Be thankful today, tomorrow, and everyday. Be thankful this moment, and every moment.
I believe in you.


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Motivating Yourself:
So what does it mean 'Motivating yourself' it means to push yourself further, climb over the barriers that stop you and accomplish your dreams, goals and targets!
Everyday is a new day, everyday without realising it you are accomplishing something! But what happens when you dont go any further.. what happens what life stops you in your path and says 'You can't go any further' failure has struck you and you loose motivation, you loose that drive to more.
I want to explain what people go through every day, the battles they face, the barriers they bump into.
I have a friend but I'm not going to use his proper name for this I'm going to call him 'oliver' i went to college with Oliver, incredibly smart guy but he was the type of guy that gets struck by bad luck every day. not just every day but his whole life! Always taking one step forward and two steps back, but it wasn't always people saying you can't go further it was LIFE. you dont realise it but its not always people saying you can't its the unstoppable path of life playing its hand.
You always look at those people like celebrities, powerful icons or even your friends and think 'how did they do it, how are they successful and I'm not' well i will tell you this they didn't produce it over night. they never lost motivation and they always kept moving. Failure happens, but its what you do after you have been struck with failure that makes the difference.
Oliver had never asked for help, never asked for guidance but he called me up one day and said ' Can i ask for some help, i need you to shed some light ' So i met him and he basically laid on his problems, what he is faced with every day. Sometimes you need someone to pull you out of the hole you got in and get you back on track.
i explained to him some of the rules i live by every day. The rules that motivate me to go further, to achieve more and to become a better me.
The advice is as follows;
-NEVER let anyone tell you that you can't do something, just because it seems hard or unrealistic.
-FAILURE is temporary, its something that can be overcome. its not permanent! < Motivating Yourself
-WORK hard and decide what you want and how you are going to get there.
-TAKE RISKS if you can sustain those risks. its all well and good saying 'yes risks are great they hold the characteristics of being entreprenuel, however if you can't sustain the risks you are making without logical thought.
-BE the best you can be, grow yourself into the best possible version of you.
To produce motivation is hard, you can loose motivation, you can loose that drive to go further, to do better and to be greater thats why its always good to have friends to push you further, sometimes you need guidance, you dont have to take this path by yourself. Guidance is always there!
Be the best you and never let anyone tell you different. < Motivating Yourself
If you have any other questions tweet me @mrjamesvincent or follow me on Instagram @james.vincent


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WTM in London 2017
Dear friends and partners!
We are happy to say that Vodohod Russian River Cruises had a good show during the World Travel Market in London on the 08th-10th of November 2017!
It is necessary to mention that WTM is the annual event and the greatest one in the world where all the travel companies and agencies are gathered in one platform to find brand new collaborations.
As usual, in 2017 WTM was a highly successful event. The figures show that WTM London 2017 hosted an increased level of seniority amongst its visitors, with a significant increase in purchasing ability. For the first time the number of senior industry buyers from the WTM Buyers' Club smashed through the 10,000 barrier. Overall attendance figures are around 50,000.
Last year we it was easy to notice the new boost of interest for Russian river cruises and now we have got the clear evidence of it. During the three days of the show Vodohod staff onsite had not a single minute of being free: meeting with our long-term partners and new companies' representatives were mixed together and appointed for all available time slots.
We are proud to conclude that WTM 2017 has given us the most effective result and as always helped us to conduct fruitful discussions and talks with various partners from all over the world.
Faithfully yours,
Vodohod Team


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New Worlds; Maps from the Age of Discovery
London: Quercus, 2008. Octavo, 30 x 24.6cm, 224pp, lavishly illustrated with maps from 1475-1899, white boards, illustrated dustjacket. More
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Vermont: Terra Nova Press, 1997. Second Edition. Octavo, 29 x 22cm, xxxvii +448pp, colophon; photographs and description of 345 maps; orange boards, illustrated dustjacket with red and green title. The illustrations are for the most part taken directly from Dr Norwich's photographs and digitised by G.B. Manasek Inc., with Jared..... More
London: Review, 2003. First Edition. Octavo, 25.3 x 19.5cm, 314pp, lavishly illustrated in colour and black and white, map endpapers : Typus Orbis Terrarum, or World Map, from the 1570 Theatrum, blue boards, gilt titling on spine, gilt accented illustrated dustjacket. Brings vividly to life the Antwerp that produced Abraham..... More
EXTENT: Islington – Shadewell – Newington Butts – Tyburn. Margin Marked off in half miles and lettered for reference. Imprint and table of references to churches and public buildings below map. Howgego 138 (7). This linen-backed copy is very fragile with separation along some of the folds most notably the vertical..... More
University of Chicago Press, 1971. Octavo, 28.4 x 22cm, 185pp including bibliography and list of participants. Previous owner stamp on front pastedown and front free endpaper, minor foxing to the first and last gatherings and to the edges of the leaves. Occasional pencil notation. Includes the papers presented at the conference..... More


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my haul - 3
[The third of three parts.]
my haul - 1
my haul - 2
Brigid Brophy, Black Ship to Hell (1962). The urgency of Brophy's writing springs essentially from this: she accepts Freud's account of the death wish as a fundamental truth about human nature, at any rate in modern times; then combines that fact with the existence of weapons of mass destruction: we all basically want to destroy everything, and now we can, so we will. This leads to (among other things) a violent assault on religion - based not so much on its claims being untrue (that's merely a given) as on denying that belief can be sincere or morally unreprehensible - these are formidable, in-your-face polemics and I'm shaken and impressed. And yet it isn't difficult to see why her books aren't in print any more. Brophy's passionate admiration for Freud leads to many pages of unparticularized generalities like this, sampled in mid-torrent: "She [the prostitute] has, in fact, improved on the tragic conception of fate by adding to it the numerical idea of chance. The male sex is a lottery, in which the prostitute has bought the highest possible number of tickets. Any one in her holding may be the winning number, the father she is seeking; but since no one knows which is he, it is the series as a whole which becomes the object of her sexual and aggressive desires. For the prostitute, every professional act of intercourse is an act of incest and, at the same time, an attack on her father. In exercising her profession, she gratifies her incestuous wish (and its murderous companion), yet the fact that it is a game of hazard allows her to plead not guilty to incest. Just so, if one member, no one knows which, of the firing squad has drawn a blank cartridge, all may feel innocent of the killing but the execution none the less gets done. The same psychology is manifest in the very usage of modern European languages, where the plural you, vous, sie is a politer way of addressing one person than the singular thou, tu, du. ... " This jostle of ideas is dazzling, but I feel like it was even more dazzling to write than to read. So much seems to be being asserted, (and yet, in some sort of mode that suggests that it isn't really being asserted), and it's so heavily bolstered by impatient logical expressions like "just as", "of course", "in fact", that I keep wanting to say - Hold on there! Just let me get it straight, what (or who) actually are we talking about right now? Are you claiming that every prostitute... ? In what useful sense is this an account of prostitution (or warfare, or education, or artists, or elections..)? This was a fashionable style of its era - displaced at some time in the 1980s by the style of theory (revulsion from the post-Freudian style when I was at university led to me wrongly supposing that this was also how Freud himself must have written, thus putting off discovery of my own passionate admiration for Freud for a further twenty years). The passing of time reveals violently hostile contemporaries to share as much as they disputed - Brophy often reminds me - at any rate, so far as her language strategies are concerned - of C.S. Lewis in his populist defences of Christianity (another blatant misuser of "in fact", "of course", etc). Both made, in passing, exactly the same unanswerable protests about the practice of vivisection - protests that were complete failures and now excite surprise - in our time intellectuals are conspicuously silent about this, it is only the emotive masses who think there is something not quite right about what's euphemistically known as animal testing. (More generally, Brophy also reminds me a lot of Germaine Greer - the same enormous learning and the same admirable assurance of being able to cut through it to what other learned people don't see at all.)
Pedro Antonio de Alarcón, El sombrero de tres picos (1874). I read this in English a long time ago but can't remember anything about it, and my reading of the Spanish is so painfully slow that nothing has yet happened. But this caught my eye in the introduction: "Surprising to say, the Eco de Occidente [magazine started by the young author and a hometown friend] fared far better than most little magazines. In a short time Alarcón found himself with sufficient funds to be able to start out to seek his fortune without any help from home.." This unlikely success, I am sure, is not unconnected with how Alarcón's literary career afterwards went so wrong, declining into persecuted conservatism. It just isn't right that a little magazine should actually make a profit.
A selection from Modern Swedish Poetry translated in the original metres by C.D. Locock (1929). The poets in question are not what we would call modern: the young Karin Boye just sneaks in at the end, but this basically covers the period of her predecessors, Oscar Levertin, Verner von Heidenstam, Anders Österling, and E. A. Karlfeldt, gaily sad, rather portly Prufrocks for the most part, who mildly rebel, or dreamily escape, from the oppressive uprightness of Swedish society.
Our Lund is conquered - hath no choice at all:
Off bubbles Winter through the sluices brimming,
And Easter brings - alive! - in Persian shawl
Ghosts of quite unexpected little women! (Österling, from "Spring comes to Lund")
Vainly now in grey October pryest thou mid rocks and islands:
No new Venus, bridal-vested, craves thine escort o'er the sea:
Thou art God of the dumb fishes - through thy realms of gloomy silence
No sea Flora passes scattering sunny blue anemones.
Goodly storehouses thou ownest, halls beneath the deep waves sunken,
Gorging priceless roe and draining many a shipwrecked flask of rum;
And that figurehead thou bearest, ruddy, shaggy-haired and drunken,
Smiles contented thro' thy dreams of pleasures past - and yet to come?
(Karlfeldt, from "Ode to the Autumnal Neptune")
Richard Borshay Lee, The !Kung San: men, women and work in a foraging society (1979).
This is a detailed study of the last days of one of the last groups of hunter-gatherers, - nearly detailed enough to use as a survival manual - and I think the reference library is impoverished for not still having it on its shelves. In truth, I don't think many people use the reference library for books unless they are on local subjects. It seems to be mainly visited for its computers - (by the way, the South West Grid for Learning bars access to all sites ending in "blogspot.com", thus preventing public library users from encountering many of the most best sites about modern poetry, among much else. Probably the users couldn't care less about that, but it seems wrong). Anyway, back to the !Kung San. One abiding impression of Lee's book is that the hunter-gatherers are very like us; they are about as superstitious as we are, no more. Because his study covered several stays that were years apart, it usefully points up how life changed quite dynamically, and at roughly our kind of pace: for example, plants that were widely eaten in one season were never seen to be eaten again - most earlier anthropological studies were too short to generalize safely from, they just recorded a snapshot. I liked this exchange - the !Kung preferred boiled meat to roasted meat, so Lee asked: '"How did you !Kung live long ago before you got the iron cooking pots from the white man?" /Twi!gum regarded me with a twinkle in his eye amd replied, "It is well-known that people can't live without iron cooking pots, so we must have died!"' (Those apparently diacritical marks refer to various kinds of click produced with an ingressive air stream - there are four, / is a dental click, ! is alveopalatal - try it... )
Lope de Vega, El Castigo sin Venganza (1631)
Curious that in Spanish stage directions salir means to come onto the stage, not to leave it. But then (I've never thought about this before), why do we say e.g. "Enter Macbeth" and not "Enters Macbeth"? As you might gather, I haven't got very far with this one yet...
The Poem of the Cid, trans. W.S. Merwin, 1959.
According to Ron Silliman the best translation is Paul Blackburn's, but Merwin's pleased me. As for The Cid itself, I'm not so sure. The image of the poem is laid before us in the first cantar, and everything then is fascinating, the war-lord in enemy country, the fierceness, the bare narrative with its sudden ellipses; but I didn't think much of the story about the heirs of Carrión marrying and disgracing the Cid's daughters - it seemed only on about the level of an episode in a Robin Hood ballad. I suppose I was expecting something with a bit more epic stature, and perhaps this was wrong. Nevertheless, the poem intrigues at the micro-level. Here is the Cid in Valencia, after the arrival of his family, welcoming a Moorish invasion:
Delight has come to me
from the lands beyond the sea,
I shall arm myself
I cannot evade it,
my wife and my daughters
will see me in battle,
they will see in these foreign lands
how it is that houses are made,
and how we earn our bread
their eyes will be filled with the sight.
Mistrusting my own response I tried to find some decent criticism on the poem, but it's a curiosity of how Google works that the better-known a literary work is, the harder it is to track down any detailed writing about it; you are completely swamped by encyclopaedia summaries written for the very ignorant and school essays written by the very ignorant, interspersed with the usual tantalizing hints of stuff in Jstor and Project Muse that we're not allowed to read and that probably aren't half as exciting as they look when you can only see a few broken phrases.
Labels: Anders Österling, Brigid Brophy, C.S. Lewis, El Poema de Myo Çid, Erik Axel Karlfeldt, Fourth World, Lope de Vega, Pedro Antonio de Alarcón


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Cloud Data Architects (AWS) to Stockholm / Gothenburg
We will continue our internationalization by opening our ninth office in Gothenburg in February and are looking for Data Architects to build a modern cloud-based data platforms. As a Data Architect, you will design, implement and operate technical solutions that consist of data models, data integration, storage and cloud based data pipeline. You will sit at the same table with the top leadership of our customers, IT and business decision-makers and data expertise. You will use your skills and vision to support the development of our customers' business by actively participating in pre-sales work together with other data experts and our sales.
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Girl 'excluded from education' because schools can't cater for her autism and dyspraxia
A mother has told of her frustration that her daughter hasn't been to school in two years because there isn't one that can cater for her special needs.
Kirstie Greer from Bangor was three years old when she was diagnosed with a condition called dyspraxia.
And just three years ago she received a late diagnosis of autism.
Kirstie (16) has been home-schooled for the past two years because there are no schools that can offer her the help she needs. Kirstie attended a mainstream primary school but by primary seven she was being bullied.
However, her mum Nuala Greer (49) said that rather than dealing with the bullying, staff concentrated on Kirstie's reaction to it.
"The South Eastern Education and Library Board told us there was no suitable placement available, which effectively left her excluded from education," she said.
"It seems there's no school that can cater for her at her academic level and at the same time understand her condition. The board has labelled her aggressive and violent because of the way she has reacted to bullying or to people touching her, but what she needs is concern, understanding and awareness."
Kirstie became frustrated that she wasn't being taken seriously.
"I kept lashing out because no-one did anything about it," she said. "Nobody was listening to me and when I sorted it out myself I kept getting into trouble."
Nuala said she felt there was little understanding of Kirstie's difficulties and blamed a lack of training.
Kirstie eventually went on to a secondary school. "It took about five months before we got her into a new school. She was at home during that time with very little support; we were just learning the system then and we were very naive," Nuala said.
But as the bullying problems continued, Kirstie's parents became increasingly concerned for her well-being and removed her. When Kirstie was then placed in a second school, Nuala was forced to give up work.
"I just wasn't functioning," she said. "I was dropping Kirstie at school and waiting for my phone to ring which was happening quite a lot – getting phone calls to come early for her two, three times a week. It became impossible.
"I was getting phone calls from the point of view of concerns for her wellbeing. They didn't have the resources to manage her to that extent."
Autism charity Positive Futures is supporting Kirstie to help her get out of the house and meet other young people.
"They've made real inroads," said Nuala. "But that's because they treat her as a person, not just as another tick in a box. They understand her."
Nuala said since Kirstie's diagnosis they have made progress but she wants to highlight the lack of awareness of autism in schools.
"I just felt I had to speak out. We felt completely isolated," she said.
A spokeswoman for the South Eastern Education and Library Board said: "It is the policy of the SEELB not to comment on individual cases. But there are mechanisms in place to address concerns in relation to provision made as part of a statement."
The board said the issue can be raised with it as part of the annual review; an appeal can be made to the Special Educational Needs and Disability Tribunal or it can be referred to the disputes and resolution service.
Dyspraxia is a disability that can affect movement and co-ordination. When the brain processes information, the messages are not being properly or fully transmitted to other parts of the body. It affects the planning of what to do and how to do it, and is associated with problems of perception, language and thought. There may be an overlap with related conditions such as dyslexia and autism spectrum disorders. As with autism, people with dyspraxia may be over-or under-sensitive to certain sensory stimuli. Source: The National Autistic Society
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Lloyd Webber's Cats Shows No Sign of Ageing
United Kingdom Andrew Lloyd Webber, Cats: Singers, Dancers, and Orchestra / Anthony Gabriele (musical director), Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff, 29.7.2014 (PCG) Read more
Opera and Musical Stars in Cape Town's Showboat
United Kingdom Jerome Kern & Oscar Hammerstein, Showboat: Soloists, Cape Town Opera Chorus, Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra / Gareth Jones (conductor), Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff, 22.7.2014 (PCG) Read more
The Novello Singers Recapture All the Romance of the Great British Musicals
United Kingdom The Great British Musicals, The Novello Singers, with soloists Louise Dearman and Jon Robyns, Hosted by Nicholas Parsons and Simon Callow (Saturday matinee only) with Ross Leadbeater (piano), St. James's Theatre, London, 4-5.7.2014 (IL)
The Novello Singers include West End performers Rhidian Marc (Les Miserables), Annatt Bass (The Phantom of the Opera), Leigh Rhiannon Coggins (Pirates of Penzance), James Charlton (The Light Princess), Mira Ormala (Love Never Dies), Matthew Crowe (South Pacific), Jonathan Broad (West End Men), Lydia Jenkins (Iolanthe), Victoria Humphreys (The Bakewell Bakeoff), and Ben Irish (HMS Pinafore)]
Marc Bolan Bio-Musical Fails to Raise the Rafters
United Kingdom 20th Century Boy – The Musical: Cliffs Pavilion, Southend, Essex, 15.4.2014. (JPr)
Cape Town Opera Captures Magic of Show Boat
United Kingdom Jerome Kern & Oscar Hammerstein II: Show Boat: Soloists, Cape Town Opera Chorus, Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra, Lyric Theatre, The Lowry, Salford, 8.7.2014 (MC)
RNCM Opera's Company Has Authentic Sixties Feel
United Kingdom Stephen Sondheim, Company: RNCM Opera, The RNCM Ensemble / Julian Kelly (music director), MMU Capitol Theatre, Manchester, 25.6.2014 (MC)
Musical Theater Meets Opera in Colorful Show Boat
Kern, Show Boat: Soloists, orchestra and chorus of San Francisco Opera, John DeMain (conductor), War Memorial Opera House, San Francisco. 1.6.2014 (HS)
Miss Saigon Retains its Emotional Grip
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Cleveland State's men's basketball team hosted Roane State Community College Saturday evening, winning by a score of 67-65.
Leading the Cougars was Delaino Walker who tallied a double-double, scoring 22 points and 10 rebounds. Maurice Dickson also lit up the floor with 16 points, 6 rebounds and a steal. Jonathon King had a double-double of his own, dominating under the rim for 12 points and 11 rebounds. Demonte Person and Darius Turman combined for a total of 6 points, 4 steals and 8 rebounds.
It was a back and forth game that saw multiple lead changes. The Cougars went into halftime with a score of 42-39 before they were outscored by a single point in the second half; 26-25. Overall, the Cougars shot 42% from the field, 20% from the arc and 59% at the free throw line.
Cleveland State now sits at 7-9 (4-5) as they work to get back to .500. The Cougars will look to make it a three game win streak as they face Jackson State Community College on Friday, January 25th at home.


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Lyr/Chords Req: Celtic Alleluia
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Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Celtic Alleluia
From: justice
Date: 16 Mar 13 - 01:12 PM
The Star Spangled Banner started life as an English drinking song, and no one has ever claimed that's an easy one to sing.
Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Celtic Alleluia
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 16 Mar 13 - 12:05 PM
That's pretty hard to believe. If a religious piece that well-known had been a popular song of ANY kind, (never mind a drinking song) it would have been talked about the world over. Not to mention that O'Carroll's melody is too hard to sing to be a drinking song.
Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Celtic Alleluia
From: GUEST
Date: 15 Mar 13 - 12:56 PM
Actually, I attended a workshop by Christopher Walker in St. Louis a few years ago. He told the audience that the Celtic Alleluia is based on a popular Irish drinking tune. I suspect that Fintan O'Carroll, who he credits, is the composer. I am trying to find the original lyrics as I was to play it at a local cafe for St. Patrick's Day.
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Celtic Alleluia Chords and Lyrics Please
From: GUEST,Beccy
Date: 04 Mar 05 - 03:16 PM
Wowweeee... Thanks everyone. Mudcat to the rescue, as usual!
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Celtic Alleluia Chords and Lyrics Please
From: GUEST,ClaireBear
Date: 03 Mar 05 - 10:26 AM
So in one of those head-shakingly weird moments when the various aspects of one's life come together with a resounding thump, at choir practice last night our director decided to can the eerie, challenging setting of the 23rd psalm we'd been working on for Sunday -- and substitute "The King of Love My Shepherd is," set to St. Columba, which I found for this thread only yesterday.
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Celtic Alleluia Chords and Lyrics Ple
From: Joe Offer
Date: 02 Mar 05 - 02:16 PM
Yeah, I'd say there might be a tie with St. Columba. The words I know to "St. Columba" are "The King of Love My Shepherd Is." Cyberhymnal also lists How Sweet and Awesome Is This Place and As Now the Sun's Declining Rays as lyrics for this tune. It's certainly not exactly the same tune as the O'Carroll/Walker "Celtic Alleluia," but there's a tie.
I like "Celtic Alleluia," although it's not particularly easy for a congregation to sing. Still, many congregations sing it with sloppy gusto. I like to hear it sung well on occasion - but sloppy and enthusiastic is OK with me. I like church singing that engages people, and I think that's often more important than musical quality.
It appears that O'Carroll and Walker and OCP have been quite successful with this hymn. My current OCP (Oregon Catholic Press) hymnal has two hymn settings of the "Celtic Alleluia," each with three verses. The verses are derived from scripture passages. There is also a setting for the Gospel Acclamation (sung before the reading of the Gospel), with a choice from a number of verses - choice to be made according to the liturgical season. I found one hymnal with 16 verses - and those aren't th eonly verses I've heard.
I suppose the most-used of the umpteen available verses is this one:
The love of the Lord knows no ending.
All in Israel say:
"God's love has no end."
I think it sounds good on a good pipe organ with a good organist, and OK with guitar accompaniment. Can't say I like electronic organs for use in church. Sorry, I didn't find guitar chords.
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Celtic Alleluia Chords and Lyrics Please
From: GUEST,ClaireBear
Date: 02 Mar 05 - 11:50 AM
"St. Columba" is hearable at the Cyberhymnal (www.cyberhymnal.org) on the page for the hymn, "As Now the Sun's Declining Rays."
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Celtic Alleluia Chords and Lyrics Ple
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 02 Mar 05 - 11:40 AM
Clearly there is more than one piece known at the Celtic Alleluia. There is a piece widespread among Catholics by that name. (We sing in in the U.S. and we sang it in Bantry, Ireland.) It is by Fintan O'Carroll and Christopher Walker and is copyright 1996 by OCP Publications. It doesn't sound anything like an O'Carolan piece.
If you go to this page
http://user.chollian.net/~johann/music/christian/christianm1/celtica.mid (click)
you can hear how it goes. I must say that the organ rendition of it is particularly lifeless.
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Celtic Alleluia Chords and Lyrics Please
From: GUEST,ClaireBear
Date: 02 Mar 05 - 10:57 AM
I found one that I gather is a completely different piece. With luck, maybe it and not the "Carolan Air" one is what you're looking for -- at least the description for this one lists something that sounds like a real tune name (although it's one I don't know). Here's the description from the Hal Leonard Web site:
Series: Fred Bock Publications
Publisher: Fred Bock Music Company
Arranger: Ruth Elaine Schram
Ruth Elaine Schram has established a strong reputation for solid choral writing. Utilizing the Irish folk hymn, "St. Columba", Ms. Schram has added a wonderful text of praise from Psalm 9. The optional flute obbligato adds the perfect finish to this delightful piece. Available: SATB.
Inventory # HL 08739079
Width: 6
Length: 10
15 pages
Both this version and the one Malcolm mentioned above are listed at Hal Leonard. Here is the search page that leads to both of them.
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Celtic Alleluia Chords and Lyrics Please
From: GUEST,Beccy
Date: 01 Mar 05 - 11:09 PM
Aw Malcom, you took the words out of my mouth. THAT's my problem. I can't find anything on it, but I really recognize the tune. The problem could lie in my extensive Irish Music collection that seems to be without program inserts (hubbie insisted on putting liner notes in storage box and putting cds in sleeves to save space... ARGH!)
Does anyone else know the tune?
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Celtic Alleluia Chords and Lyrics Please
From: Malcolm Douglas
Date: 01 Mar 05 - 10:06 PM
Some rather dull trawling reveals that this modern hymn is credited to several different people, or combinations of people, including Christopher Walker, Fintan O'Carroll and Tina English; whoever they might be. The tune, when it is even mentioned, is usually, and meaninglessly, described as "O'Carolan's Air" (sometimes spelled by romantic fantasists as "aire").
Evidently the words are recent and in copyright. The melody may be older; I did manage to find a snatch of a sound clip claiming to be "O'Carolan's Air", but it was so short and "cutesy" that it could have been any one of several tunes by, or wrongly attributed to, Carolan.
Why on earth couldn't these people have used the tune's usual name, whatever it is, rather than concealing it under a generic title?
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Celtic Alleluia Chords and Lyrics Please
From: Peace
Date: 01 Mar 05 - 07:32 PM
Subject: Lyr Req: Celtic Alleluia Chords and Lyrics Please
From: GUEST,Beccy
Date: 01 Mar 05 - 07:22 PM
Hey Folks- Long time no forum! The politics gave me agita- so I backed out. But I'm back and asking for some help. I'm putting together our church's Easter programme and looking for marvy Celtic-ish (new word) hymns and choruses. I have some friends who say there's a really neat tune done occasionally at their mass called the Celtic Alleluia. When they hummed it I was familiar with the tune, so I'm assuming it's a traditional one whose name escapes me now, but they couldn't tell me the words nor could they give me the name of the tune from which it's drawn. Any help available???
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Many people love to poke fun and religion which has lead to quite a few religious jokes. I figured why not have a couple of religious jokes as part of our Friday Funnies.
Religious Jokes #1 A Rabbi in the Confessional Booth
A priest was called away for an emergency. Not wanting to leave the confessional unattended, he called his rabbi friend from across the street and asked him to cover for him. The rabbi told him he wouldn't know what to say, but the priest told him to come on over and he'd stay with him for a little bit and show him what to do.
The rabbi comes and he and the priest are in the confessional. After a few minutes a woman comes in and says "Father forgive me for I have sinned." The priest asks "What did you do?". The woman says "I committed adultery." Priest: "How many times?" Woman: "Three times." Priest: "Say two Hail Mary's, put $5 in the box and go and sin no more."
A few minutes later a man enters the confessional. He says "Father forgive me for I have sinned." Priest: "What did you do?" Man: "I committed adultery." Priest:"How many times?" Man: "Three times." Priest: "Say two Hail Mary's put $5 in the box and go and sin no more."
The rabbi tells the priest that he thinks he's got it so the priest leaves. A few minutes later another woman enters and says "Father forgive me for I have sinned." Rabbi: "What did you do?" Woman: "I committed adultery." Rabbi: "How many times?" Woman: "Once."
Rabbi: "Go do it two more times. We have a special this week, three for $5."
Religious Jokes #2 The Retiring Priest
A Priest was being honored at his retirement dinner after 25 years in the parish…
A leading local politician and member of the congregation was chosen to make the presentation and to give a little speech at the dinner.
However he was delayed, so the Priest decided to say his own few words while they waited:
"I got my first impression of the parish from the first confession I heard here. I thought I had been assigned to a terrible place. The very first person who entered my confessional told me he had stolen a television set and, when questioned by the police, was able to lie his way out of it. He had stolen money from his parents; embezzled from his employer; had an affair with his boss's wife and had sex with his boss's 17 year old daughter on numerous occasions.
He had taken illegal drugs; had several homosexual affairs; was arrested several times for public nudity and gave VD to his sister-in-law. I was appalled that one person could do so many awful things… But as the days went on I learned that my people were not all like that and I had, indeed, come to a fine parish full of good and loving people."
Just as the Priest finished his talk the politician arrived full of apologies at being late. He immediately began to make the presentation and gave his talk:
"I'll never forget the first day our parish Priest arrived" said the politician. "In fact I had the honour of being the first person to go to him for confession."
Moral: Never, Never, Never Be Late
Religious Jokes #3 Once an Asshole……
A bus full of ugly people had a head on collision with a truck. When they died, God granted all of them one wish. The first person said, "I want to be gorgeous." God snapped his fingers and it happened. The second person said the same thing and God did the same thing. This want on and on throughout the group.
God noticed the last man in line was laughing hysterically. By the time God got to the last ten people, the last man was laughing and rolling on the ground. When the man's turn came, he laughed and said, "I wish they were all ugly again."
Just goes to prove that some folk will always be assholes
Religious Jokes #4 Being Quiet In Church
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'Tis the season for many happy returns.
The IRS expects more than 70% of taxpayers to get tax refunds this year, and as of March 16, the agency had issued more than 61 million refunds averaging $2,960 per worker ahead of the April 17 filing deadline. Most Americans who are carrying credit card debt (70.4%) told LendEDU in a survey released Thursday that they are using their refunds to clear the balance on those cards, with the average person using 65% of their cash back to do so. But everyone has their own idea of the best way to spend it.
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"I have a lot of student loans. Taking that $1,600 or whatever is barely a drop in the bucket. It didn't feel like it was making any difference," she explained. "And this year was a special occasion."
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"We slowly lose money in our account during the year (as things come up), and the tax return puts it back above what we had at the beginning of the year," she said. "Eventually we will buy a new car, work on the house and send the kids to college."
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Most people have equally prudent plans, according to data from Principal Financial: 46% expect to save or invest it; about one in three (29%) intend to pay off or pay down longer-term debt like student loans; and another third (33%) have earmarked it for shorter-term debt like credit cards. This is what financial educators like Dr. Eric Patrick, CEO and founder of Black Market Exchange, recommend. He and his wife are putting 80% of their $3,000 return toward paying off their last credit card, with the remaining 20% ($600) going into savings.
But others -- particularly younger employees -- see the sudden windfall as "free money" to play with: 16% of millennials and 13% of Gen Xers plan to drop the refund on consumer products, compared to just 4% of Boomers. And millennials are much more likely to spring for a big-ticket item over other generations, with 14% planning to put their refund toward an expensive purchase, compared to just 8% of Gen Xers and 5% of Boomers.
Amy, a 35-year-old in customer service, took $500 from her $3,000 return -- a little more than 16% -- to buy a new couch. She's also treating herself to more ride-sharing services, like taking a Lyft or an Uber when it's late, rather than relying on New York's mass transit system. "My debt is actually under way better control now, and I always look at tax returns as money for a bigger purchase," she explained, noting that she's "not going crazy" with the extra income.
"I could've bought a whole living room set," she pointed out.
Chantel Bonneau, a financial advisor with Northwestern Mutual, told Moneyish the biggest mistake people make with their tax returns is seeing them as "free money."
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"You didn't win the lottery. It's not a freebie. This is your paycheck; you overpaid the government," she said. So you should treat your refund the way you would treat a regular paycheck. Most financial planners told Moneyish that you should prioritize paying off debt, padding your savings account and investing.
"This (refund check) is forcing you to evaluate your financial strategy," said Bonneau. "It's an opportunity to have a proactive personal or family discussion about money, and it can be a good habit builder."
Here's the definitive guide to what to do with your tax refund, keeping in mind you can put it all in one place or allocate portions of it into a few of these places, for any situation you're in:
You're carrying a lot of debt. Northwestern Mutual reports that nearly half of Americans carry at least $25,000 in debt -- and the average debt is $37,000, excluding mortgage payments. Credit card debt hit $92.2 billion nationally last year, and student loan debt is at an all-time $1.45 trillion high. "If you get $2,000, $4,000, whatever your refund is, you can use that to make a measurable impact and dent into your debt, especially high interest rate forms of debt or credit card and consumer debt that does not look great for your credit score," said Bonneau.
That's what one Brooklyn mom, who asked to remain anonymous, did with her $8,000 return. The 37-year-old had racked up $7,100 in credit card debt after leaving her data entry job in July to take care of her newborn, but now her balance is back to zero thanks to the refund, which she credits to having a baby and overpaying half of her salary last year toward taxes. "Being unemployed is expensive," she said. "I've crawled my way out of credit debt once before, and I didn't want to be there any longer than I had to."
You have little to no savings. About six in 10 Americans (61%) don't have enough cash socked away to cover a $1,000 emergency, such as an ER visit or a car repair, according to Bankrate. "Make an emergency fund a top priority if you don't have at least three to six months worth of expenses saved up," said Wendy Liebowitz, vice president and certified financial planner at Fidelity Investments. "You never know when you are going to have an unforeseen expense. If you need a new roof, new windows, a new car, a medical expense, or you lose your job." And your refund is the perfect starting capital to get one rolling, or to beef up the one that you've been working on.
You're behind in your retirement planning or saving for college. "If you're not matching your employer-sponsored retirement plan, like a 401k plan, or you've already maxed out your 401k or employer-sponsored plan contribution, you can set up an individual retirement account, like a Roth IRA or a traditional IRA," said Liebowitz. Putting your tax refund in there now may not seem like a lot of fun, but it's going to earn interest over time. As NerdWallet notes, a 35-year-old with an $80,000 annual income who contributes the full $5,500 limit to a Roth IRA until retiring at 67 could end up with $518,000 in savings (assuming a 6% annual return). In a similar vein, investing the refund into a 529 will boost your college savings by earning twice as much interest (2%) as a savings account (which generally hover around 1%).
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You're eager to give back. Dr. Patrick and his wife also regularly give tithes (or a tenth of their income) to charity, although this year they're paying down debt first. "We are very big believers in giving back," he said, noting that a financial planner can find ways to give more. "We got a new tax preparer who actually increased my paycheck every two weeks by $300, after claiming dependents and things like that, so now that's $300 I can donate or do whatever with," he said. Plus, charitable donations are often tax-deductible, which can boost next year's tax return.
You really want to treat yourself. Before you go dropping $1,500 on four "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" Broadway tickets, deposit your refund into your savings account and sleep on it. "I'm not against using some of the money to treat yourself, especially if a small portion reduces the other urges to spend more," said Betterment certified financial planner Marshay Clarke, who suggests an 80/20 split between doing something responsible, like saving, and something fun, like expanding your work wardrobe. "Putting x-amount in a savings account will make you feel better at night, but you'll also be satisfied that you were still able to do something for yourself," she said.
You got a really small return. Just because you only got a few hundred bucks instead of $3,000 is no reason to blow it on a big purchase. In fact, it means you're doing your taxes right the rest of the year. Clarke suggests saving it the way you would if you got an especially big paycheck, which is essentially what this is. "Put it away. Remember where this refund came from: You are having too much money taken out of your paycheck every month," she said. In fact, if you get a huge return, you may want to talk to HR to see if you should change your withholdings. "At the end of the day, I would probably want to have more money in my paycheck (each month), and know that I'm paying enough to the government, instead of waiting until the end of the year to get a refund from overpaying," she said.
This article was originally published on April 4, 2018, and has been updated with new data.