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Ted Murray Interview on Tennis Authority
Blog Talk radio andthe UR10s Network featured a podcast interview with Tedd Murray on the ""Tennis Authority" Show:
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Ted Murray
Is founder of "Tennis from the Heart" – Developing Character Through Sports
Our vision is to make tennis fun and fulfilling while developing life skills that will contribute to achieving ones' dreams.
My goal is to create a community of players, parents, and coaches who share a similar philosophy of making tennis an enjoyable, personal development process that contributes immense value to everyone involved in the sport. By sharing the philosophy, tools, and training that really works and has life-altering potential, Tennis From the Heart can contribute to the adoption of a new paradigm towards competition, the opponent, and sports in general. The goal will be self-improvement and growth with the score being an important incentive and measuring device for one's progress.
The entire program provides training for coaches and parents as well as players in a variety of formats: online instruction, books and videos, and live workshops anywhere in the world. By consulting with tennis clubs and resorts worldwide we can establish a positive atmosphere that will lead to increased profitability for the club by creating more enjoyment and value for everyone. The wonderful sport of tennis can help you lead a life you love and can help the entire world gain more understanding and cooperation.
Over 37 years of tennis coaching in a variety of locations throughout the world and working with players of all levels and abilities, including multiple Grand Slam winners and Olympic medalists such as Leander Paes.
My goal is to share my unique concepts of tennis teaching to as many players and coaches as possible in order to enable players throughout the world to develop a greater passion for the game while improving their skills. Help students and coaches tap into the emotional and spiritual development that is possible to achieve through tennis. Provide consulting services to tennis programs worldwide to improve the entire delivery system of tennis and make it more fun and accessible to people worldwide.
Specialties: Training tennis coaches, Cardio Tennis programs, starting new tennis programs, developing top junior talent, Starting club and tennis combinations, writing inspirational tennis articles and books. Consulting for the tennis business.
As a USPTA Pro 1 and president of his own tennis management company, Ted Murray lends a wealth of knowledge and experience to the many aspects of the tennis profession.
In 1973, Ted met Peter Burwash, who taught and inspired Ted to make tennis a career.
Ted spent the next 20 years with Peter Burwash International and is a founding member of the world-renowned tennis management company. While at PBI, Ted directed tennis in such places as Puerto Rico, Hawaii, Mexico City and Canada.
Previously, he directed tennis for the Hotel Camino Real and Costa Rica Country Club, where he was responsible for the elite junior program at 16 courts.
Now, with his own company, Ted is currently developing the Punta Gorda Club for Tennis and Fitness in Punta Gorda, Fla. The club features seven tennis courts and a 15,000-square-foot fitness center. He also co-authored a book titled "Tennis Unlimited."
Ted's international experience also extends to the junior development arena. He developed future Davis Cup players for India while working for the Britannia-Amritraj Tennis Foundation in Madras, India. While there, Ted helped coach the 1996 Olympic Bronze Medalist, Leander Paes.
Other junior teams he helped coach include the Hawaii Junior Davis Cup Team, as well as nationally ranked juniors in Mexico, Puerto Rico, Costa Rica and Atlanta.


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We had the honor of assisting Amanda and her mom throughout the wedding planning process then coordinated Amanda's big day on July 19th at their Westin Tabor Center wedding in downtown Denver. The church ceremony was followed by cocktail hour and a four course plated dinner at the Westin. Thank you to Awesome Blossom flowers and Amy's Cakes for the gorgeous flowers and "smoking" firehouse groom's cake. Thank you to Boulder Affair for the wonderful custom linens.
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The Independent Critic
America Ferrera, Forest Whitaker, Carlos Mencia, Regina King & Lance Gross
Rick Famuyiwa
Rick Famuyiwa, Malcolm Spellman, Wayne Conley
Rated PG-13
90 Mins.
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"Our Family Wedding" Review
Much like another film opening this weekend,
She's Out of Your League,
helmer Rick Famuyiwa's
Our Family Wedding
benefits tremendously from a winning cast and an abundance of sweetness that work together to create a film that often transcends its broad humor, hyperactive culture clashes and wealth of ethnic stereotypes that would have likely trashed virtually any other film. Unlike
She's Out of Your League,
however, the film's sweetness and winning cast can't quite compensate enough to offer the film a hearty recommendation.
Our Family Wedding
follows the African-American Marcus (Lance Gross) and Mexican-American Lucia (America Ferrera), a pair of recent college grads who've returned home to share the news of their pending nuptials with their respective families. Unfortunately, their families have already been "introduced" to one another when his father, radio talk show host Brad Boyd (Forest Whitaker), runs afoul of a tow truck driver, her father (Carlos Mencia), after leaving his car parked downtown overnight.
What began as a vision of a small wedding quickly becomes a war for wedding supremacy between the two very competitive fathers, as Marcus and Lucia adopt a "Our marriage, their wedding" attitude and the small wedding becomes a lavish affair in quick order.
Do you see where this is going?
Of course you do.
It's difficult to determine with any certainty just how or why a film directed by the same guy who shot
Brown Sugar
The Wood
could turn out so badly, but the blame does, indeed, seem to rest squarely on the shoulders of Rick Famuyiwa, who also co-wrote the script with Malcolm Spellman and Wayne Conley. While Famuyiwa's two other films did a nice job of portraying African-American culture, his attempts here at blending two cultures falls flat and, even worse for a comedy, is startlingly unfunny.
It's not the fault of the cast. That much I know. America Ferrera, as the bride-to-be struggling to be the sparkling presence between the two sides, is her usual dazzling self and gives the film a solid zest and energy even when the dialogue itself is immensely flat. As her future husband, Lance Gross is generally called upon to be not much more than a quiet, steady presence and he does so quite nicely. The two performers are lovely together and project a natural, believable chemistry.
While Forest Whitaker has never been known for his ability to pick scripts, bouncing between award-worthy and straight-to-video with equal enthusiasm, his presence here is definitely a plus as he proves to be a nice counterbalance to the more manic Carlos Mencia. Anna Maria Horsford, Shannyn Sossamon and Anjelah Johnson all have nice turns in supporting roles.
It's difficult to fathom that this was the best film Famuyiwa and crew could come up with in a year in which the United States has its first black president that we couldn't end up with a more insightful or even edgy film on culture clash and race relations than
Our Family Wedding.
Weren't we seeing films like this 20 years ago?
Or more?
Tech credits are fine across the board, most notably Julio Macat's bright and lively camera work that gives the film an energy all its own. Original music from Transcenders is also a huge plus, a nice complement that calms the film down on more than one occasion.
Our Family Wedding
will likely appeal to the Tyler Perry crowd, a crowd that cares more about message than method and family than cinematic focus. While the film is flawed,
Our Family Wedding
has a genuine heart and, of course, a feel good ending likely to please its target audience.
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It is a pleasure to visit the Naval War College and to have an opportunity to discuss some of the problems that are facing my NATO command, Allied Command Europe, but, before I get into the main portion of my remarks on the "Strategy and Capabilities of Allied Command Europe," I would like to discuss briefly with you some of the atmospheres which seem to surround the military services today.
Recommended Citation
Goodpaster, Andrew J.
"Strategy and Capabilities of Allied Command Europe,"
Naval War College Review: Vol. 23
, Article 3.
Available at: https://digital-commons.usnwc.edu/nwc-review/vol23/iss8/3


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I Love a Parade!
- Dean Cotton, WCA Ministry Director
Participating in a parade may seem like an unusual subject for a 'ministry clowning' article. At the beginning of a new year I think it is important to remember the definition of ministry. Mr. Webster defines it as "a thing through which something is accomplished." As clowns, we need to remember that our main purpose is to use the 'thing' – clowning - to share the gift of laughter with each and every person, young or old, who crosses our path. And through laughter, we earn the right to share our specific message, whether that message is a smile, a healing laugh in a difficult situation, teaching important life lessons, or sharing the simple thought that God loves you. Clowning is a powerful ministry for every person who takes on an alternate personality through makeup and costuming. With this in mind, here's how DeanO and friends ministered in a parade!
DeanO and four other clowns in our troupe enjoyed the privilege of clowning in a college bowl game parade in downtown Atlanta, Georgia a few days ago. This was our 10th year to participate in this event and it is fun because of the large crowd of folks watching the parade in anticipation of the big game.
I don't know if you are an experienced pro when it comes to parades or if you have only thought about clowning in a parade. Either way, here are some points to ponder:
- As a clown we need to entertain, engage and bring smiles and laughter to those watching the parade. Waiving from a parade vehicle or walking and waving to the crowd is not what a clown should be doing. For this parade we had two clowns engaging the crowd and drawing attention (one with a 20 foot rainbow silk on a long pole and another (me) juggling). And we had three clowns with funny parade gags.
- Your prop should be well made and have a quality look to it, light enough to be carried for the parade route, easily reset (or better yet, self-resetting or not needing to be reset), and large and very visual. You may not always have opportunity to speak to the crowd (and those in the back can't hear you over the marching band), so your gag needs to be understood when people look at it.
- Are you in physical shape so that you can walk in the parade, at a marching band pace, keep up your clown energy, and not be dragging by the end? You may want to do some extra walking and exercise in the days leading up to the parade. Some parade routes are several miles and not on level streets. I started this parade juggling and playing my kazoo. I soon found myself out of breath and put the kazoo in my pocket… I guess I better add more exercise time in my schedule in 2017!
The summer parade season is fast approaching. I encourage you to get out there and have some fun clowning around in the parades in your home town.
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Matthew 28:1-10
All age Sermon preached in Bishopton Parish Church of Scotland in Renfrewshire on 24th April 2011, Easter Sunday.
Matthew 28:1-10
All age Sermon preached in Bishopton Parish Church of Scotland in Renfrewshire on 24th April 2011, Easter Sunday.
Matthew 21:1-11
Sermon preached in Bishopton Parish Church of Scotland in Renfrewshire on 17th April 2011, Palm Sunday.
John 9:1-41
Sermon preached in Bishopton Parish Church, on 3rd April 2011, Fourth Sunday in Lent.
John 1:1-18
Sermon preached in Bishopton Parish Church, on 2nd January 2011, Second Sunday after Christmas
It is perhaps fitting to start the year with one of the most profound and baffling Biblical passages in the New Testament, especially when it starts with the words: "In the beginning". It is also one of my all time favorites. If there was a holy of holies of Biblical texts, this would be it. I also love preaching about the Word made flesh, because I am passionate about bridging the gap between the spiritual world and the material world, and exposing this dualism farce that almost derailed Christianity in the last two centuries. It's perhaps more of an obsession now, than a passion.
But this challenge of Christianity is nothing new, of course. The reason I thought last week's passage was so important in reminding us that Jesus was Jewish, is that we often tend to look at Christianity through Greco-Roman lens, rather than through Jewish lens. This was a major problem in the first few centuries of the Early Church.
Matthew 2:13-23
Sermon preached in Bishopton Parish Church, on 26th December 2010, First Sunday after Christmas
I don't know how you spent your Christmas day, but I spent considerable time looking at historical accounts about the birth of Jesus. While most normal people I know spend Christmas day playing with the brand new toys and gadgets that they got for Christmas, I was reading historical articles. Sad, I know… You see, I was trying to figure out how to harmonize the birth account in Luke chapter 2, which we read on Christmas Eve, with the account in Matthew chapter 2, which we read today. The problem was a gap of at least 10 years between the two accounts.
Luke places the birth of Jesus at the time when Quirinius was governor of Syria. Luke writes: "When the first census took place, Quirinius was the governor of Syria." According to historical records, Quirinius became the governor of Syria after Herod's son, Archelaus was deposed in 6 AD. The problem is that Matthew places the birth of Jesus at the time of Herod the Great, which is at least 10 years before that time, as he died around 4 BC. Do you feel a headache coming? I certainly did.
Luke 2:1-20
Sermon preached in Bishopton Parish Church, on 24th December 2010, Christmas Eve
Christmas is that time of the year when preachers usually go into imagination melt-down. Virtually every year at Christmas we have to preach from the same passage, so it is quite difficult to know what we can say that is new and fresh. Everyone knows about the baby born in a stable, the shepherds, the choir of angels, the wise men and so on. Is there anything surprising about Christmas anymore? Haven't we already said everything that can be said about it?
Every year we hear that Christmas is not about pine trees and tinsel, or about buying and receiving gifts, but about the baby Jesus being born in a stable. We are urged to think about the Son of God being born into the world, and to not allow ourselves to get distracted by all the commercial hype around Christmas. That is a good message in itself, but it's getting a bit old now and I have to admit I am getting tired of hearing it. It's like a broken record. Is there anything new and surprising about the birth story of Jesus?
Luke 23:33-43
Sermon preached in Bishopton Parish Church, on 21st November 2010, the twenty-fifth Sunday after Pentecost – Christ the King.
Today is the last Sunday in the Christian Lectionary Calendar before Advent, when we start preparing for Christmas. And as we think about what's coming in the next few weeks, I'm sure everyone is trying to figure out how they can buy the most gifts with the least amount of money possible. And we don't do that because we're tight for cash; we do it because we do our best to resist the temptation of giving into consumerism…
I know that toy stores will become dangerous territories for the coming weeks! When I walk into a toy store I cannot help but be amazed at the variety of toys available these days. You can buy a costume and be anyone you want, from a Star Wars trooper to Robin Hood and King Kong. I still remember when I was a child I had to build my swords from wooden sticks, and my shields from discarded cardboard. There was no 'made in China' sticker within a mile of the toys I played with.


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I would rather you vote against my position because you had an opposing view than vote with my position because you flipped a coin.
Before each election, I have traditionally written up an analysis of the California ballot measures and send it to my friends. It's not always obvious what the "real" agenda is on each one, and even with clear purposes there are often competing interests at play. These writings are the result of my own analysis, which comes from a libertarian perspective, and I'm not knowingly affiliated with any party behind any ballot measure. I believe that mere lists of "vote yes" or "vote no" are not very helpful except for sheep: it's important to know why one is urged to vote in any given direction. I would rather you vote against my position because you had an opposing view than vote with my position because you flipped a coin.
- Dec 2019
In 2015, in a series of six studies, he and co-author Matthew Feinberg found that when conservative policies are framed around liberal values like equality or fairness, liberals become more accepting of them. The same was true of liberal policies recast in terms of conservative values like respect for authority.
- Nov 2019
talk radio and cable news
To what degree are talk radio and cable news themselves connected to conversations on social media?
Twitter also surfaced a recent study from academics in France, Canada and the United States
I am not able to find whether this study has yet been published formally with peer review. You can find the first author, Shelley Boulianne, on Twitter, and the last, Bruce Bimber, but I don't see a Twitter account for the middle author, Karolina Koc-Michalska.
Twitter's employees could haphazardly access data that belonged to any customers. Way to go.
- Oct 2019
Did he understand that today, 65 percent of elected officials are white men, though they make up only 31 percent of the American population?
In fact, only two regional cultures consistently exhibit urban-rural vote splitting, and together they account for just 15 percent of the population. Only in the Midlands has the split been a stark one.
I've long argued that United States politics resolves around the tension between advancing individual liberty and promoting the common good. The regional cultures we think of as "blue" today have traditions championing the building and maintenance of free communities, today's "red" ones on maximizing individual freedom of action. Our presidential contests almost always present a clear choice between the two, and the regions act accordingly.
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Fałszywa świadomość podsuwa ludziom tłumaczenie, że prekariat jest wolnością, czymś ciekawym. Prekariuszem się stajesz, gdy sobie uświadamiasz, że masz za krótką kołdrę. Ale nie zawsze o tym myślisz, bo chcesz być "wolnym specjalistą", a nie prekariuszem. Co nie zmienia faktu, że lewica na razie pozostaje projektem wielkomiejskim.
Alienacja. Stara poczciwa alienacja.
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In case you wanted to be even more skeptical of Mark Zuckerberg and his cohorts, Facebook has now changed its advertising policies to make it easier for politicians to lie in paid ads. Donald Trump is taking full advantage of this policy change, as popular info reports.
The claim in this ad was ruled false by those Facebook-approved third-party fact-checkers, but it is still up and running. Why? Because Facebook changed its policy on what constitutes misinformation in advertising. Prior to last week, Facebook's rule against "false and misleading content" didn't leave room for gray areas: "Ads landing pages, and business practices must not contain deceptive, false, or misleading content, including deceptive claims, offers, or methods."
- Sep 2019
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while questions like 'Who gets to make decisions over the management and use of land? And who benefits from those uses?' must be front and centre in the discussion on how land is used and its benefits distributed, the question of how we construct a normative idea of 'public interest' must also figure strongly.
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True meritocracy came closest to realization with the rise of standardized tests in the 1950s
Interesting, I'm ready to buy that the post-WWII period had the biggest opening to education in the USA — tho far from truly open or meritocratic and definitely unevenly distributed in many ways, including between K12 and higher ed — but I'm not sure I'd put standardized tests first in a list of reasons for the opening. I'd want to hear more about that.
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Abstract is a sales pitch and a guide; the authors summarize their entire paper into less than 100~200 words to draw you in and guide you throughout the rest of the paper.
This is a literature review on the relationship between the public opinion and foreign policy. The American public is, largely, regarded as uninterested and unaware of foreign policy. However, here the authors survey the literature and conclude that the public is able to hold a nuanced and coherent view on foreign policy and is able to make a voting decision based on this view.
I've long argued that United States politics resolves around the tension between advancing individual liberty and promoting the common good. The regional cultures we think of as "blue" today have traditions championing the building and maintenance of free communities, today's "red" ones on maximizing individual freedom of action. Our presidential contests almost always present a clear choice between the two, and the regions act accordingly.
In fact, only two regional cultures consistently exhibit urban-rural vote splitting, and together they account for just 15 percent of the population. Only in the Midlands has the split been a stark one.
- Aug 2019
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Expert Summaries of the Mueller Report
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The experts seem divided
97% consensus is not a "divided" unless one wishes to make it a controversy.
Manufactured controversy - Wikipedia
Consensus on consensus: a synthesis of consensus estimates on human-caused global warming - IOPscience
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For an update supporting the "97%" figure, see Consensus on consensus: a synthesis of consensus estimates on human-caused global warming - IOPscience
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"Democrats think it's not progressive enough because it doesn't put extra burdens on higher-income people, like an income tax does," Hines says. "And Republicans worry that it's too easy for the government to raise money with one."
I happen to be Cardona's neighbor
Like so
- Jul 2019
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So the solution for the U.S.'s relatively high poverty rate will probably rely little on personal responsibility and moral rectitude. Instead, the U.S. should look to European countries, or to Australia and Canada, for ideas on how to reduce poverty. There's just no substitute for a strong social safety net.
Poverty is not due to individuals, especially when class mobility in the USA does not exist anymore.
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When people do inexplicable things, it's always tempting to project qualities onto them that would offer a more innocuous explanation of their behavior than bad judgment, fecklessness, or stupidity. And this particular bias has infected contemporary political analysis with a virulence that rivals Ebola. Even when the subject's motives are as transparent as Donald Trump's, there will always be a class of pundit who insists that Trump is playing 3-D chess, when, as one anonymous staffer put it, "more often than not he's just eating the pieces."
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a spectacular, nearly 900-page leak known as "RickyLeaks"
The PDF is found here.
Did he understand that today, 65 percent of elected officials are white men, though they make up only 31 percent of the American population?
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Journalists wanted to turn campaigns into larger narratives, and there was no easier narrative than covering politics as though it were a sport.
Not the only narrative, of course, but the easiest one, certainly.
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Hubert Humphrey
He was the Democratic Party's nominee in the 1968 presidential election, losing to Republican nominee Richard Nixon.
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The practices and institutions that govern our daily lives
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Without looking forward to an extremity of this kind (which nevertheless ought not to be entirely out of sight), the common and continual mischiefs of the spirit of party are sufficient to make it the interest and duty of a wise people to discourage and restrain it.
This was cited by Justin Amash recently in his decision to leave the Republican party.
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Sarah Kendzior likens Trump to dictators in former Soviet republics of Central Asia. This was published in March, 2016, before Trump had won the Republican primaries.
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Dodwell is right in one respect; Morrissey still has many fans. Many profess to have no interest in his political views, regarding him solely as a musical content provider, a beat maker, a purveyor of vocals. This is bollocks, of course; they're clearly hugely invested in him. In any case, if you're capable of blithely setting aside his views, then there's something badly missing in you.
- May 2019
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He is gone to my father already
The Hardwicke Act for the Prevention of Clandestine Marriages passed in 1754, enforcing couples marrying in England to follow certain rules in order to be legally married. One of these rules was obtaining the consent of the father. Any couple under twenty-one needed the consent of a parent or guardian if the child was legitimate. If a couple married without consent, then by law their marriage was void.
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executors of my father's will
"Before 1858, the executor or executrix would register the will in the relevant ecclesiastical court to obtain a grant of probate, thereby allowing the bequests to be fulfilled" (BBC, https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/trail/familyhistory/journey_life/research_tools_04.shtml).
- Apr 2019
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This huge spread reflects the difference between two groups of people giving different answers to a highly innocuous question: 'Is it more important for a child to be considerate or well-mannered?' The answers sound almost identical, but social psychologists know that 'considerate' taps other-directed emotions while 'well-mannered' is about respect for authority. People's answer to this question matters for Trump support because it taps into a cultural worldview sometimes known as Right-Wing Authoritarianism (RWA). Rather than RWA, which is a loaded term, I would prefer to characterise this as the difference between those who prefer order and those who seek novelty. Social psychologist Karen Stenner presciently wrote that diversity and difference tends to alarm right-wing authoritarians, who seek order and stability. This, and not class, is what cuts the electoral pie in many western countries these days. Income and material circumstances, as a recent review of research on immigration attitudes suggests, is not especially important for understanding right-wing populism.
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nt colonies teach us self-organization stems from an adaptation that compresses information about the environment. Our economy and political system are similar forms of information compression
I really like the way information compression is being used as an analytical tool for creating models here. makes a lot of sense
The problem is that political competition can also falter. When it does, politicians have less incentive to promise fair outcomes.
Our economy suffers from extreme inequality due partly to inadequate competition. The problem is that our parking brake for inequality is politics, and our politics is also noncompetitive
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The Geopolitics of Japan: An Island Power Adrift
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The Geopolitics of France: Maintaining Its Influence in a Changing Europe
He watched an hour-long lecture by Dr. Joy DeGruy on what she called "Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome." He listened to the work of Tim Wise, an activist who speaks on college campuses and with corporations on fighting racism. He watched Morgan Freeman's National Geographic series, The Story of Us. He watched Noam Chomsky's documentary on American wealth distribution, Requiem for the American Dream. He watched Ava DuVernay's examination of incarceration, the Netflix documentary, 13th. "13th turned the light bulb on," Stills says.
This is lovely to read. Kenny Stills, American-football player, finds his viewing and reading material.
Everybody should see "Requiem for the American Dream", available on Netflix.
- Mar 2019
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"Imagery in public space is a reflection of who has the power to tell the story of what happened and what should be remembered," Bleiberg said. "We are witnessing the empowerment of many groups of people with different opinions of what the proper narrative is." Perhaps we can learn from the pharaohs; how we choose to rewrite our national stories might just take a few acts of iconoclasm.
The prevalent practice of damaging images of the human form—and the anxiety surrounding the desecration—dates to the beginnings of Egyptian history. Intentionally damaged mummies from the prehistoric period, for example, speak to a "very basic cultural belief that damaging the image damages the person represented," Bleiberg said. Likewise, how-to hieroglyphics provided instructions for warriors about to enter battle: Make a wax effigy of the enemy, then destroy it. Series of texts describe the anxiety of your own image becoming damaged, and pharaohs regularly issued decrees with terrible punishments for anyone who would dare threaten their likeness.
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Living in a media ghetto means less that my views are shaped and improved, much less challenged, than that they are hardened and made more extreme;
Some of the reasons why views are getting so extreme.
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Thanks, SM. I, too, want to emphasise that there are excellent philosophers who are outside the academic system. Publishing in journals, working in a university, etc., is only one way to philosophise; it has many advantages, most obviously that of providing a social and material infrastructure for enquiry. But there are other ways to philosophise, too!
Saying what makes a good philosopher is complex and always arouses disagreement, not least since the characteristics of a good philosopher depend a lot on what one considers to be the aims of philosophising, and those are highly plural. The ancient Indian philosophies regarded metaphysical theorising as crucial to the 'liberation' of humans from the 'wheel of suffering', a conviction largely rejected by classical Chinese philosophers, for whom abstract theory was a distraction from the spontaneity characteristic of a properly 'harmonious' life, something apt to be threatened by self-indulgent 'cleverness'. Within modern academic philosophy, one finds many different conceptions of the aims of philosophy, ranging from the modest to the momentous. Common candidates may include advancing social justice, enhancing scientific enquiry, informing public policy, or the solution of local intellectual problems or, at the other end, the development of 'big picture' accounts of life, the universe, and everything.
Second, success in being good at philosophy often requires a very different set of epistemic, practical, and interpersonal competences, many of which are often classified as vices. 'Playing the game', in terms of institutional and disciplinary politics, typically rewards traits such as aggressive ambition, insincerity, and self-interestedness. Not always, for sure, but to play that game is to step into an arena with ever-finer lines between legitimate self-interest, pragmatic acquiescence, and more Machiavellian traits.
A person can be good at this thing called philosophy without also being good at this thing called academic philosophy, which is one historically recent, institutionalised form taken by philosophy. Think of how differently philosophy is conceived and practiced in a medieval Christian monastery, a Zen Buddhist temple, or a 21st century British university.
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Some children have it bad. Some are miraculously unaffected. But millions of seven- to 15-year-olds are hooked, especially boys, and it is time someone had the guts to stand up, cross the room and just say no to Nintendo. It is time to garrotte the Game Boy and paralyse the PlayStation, and it is about time, as a society, that we admitted the catastrophic effect these blasted gizmos are having on the literacy and the prospects of young males.
This is the opposite of what he later said here.
As Trump Moves to End Trade War With China, Business Asks: Was It Worth It?
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Mr. Fiske's Florida Congressional Committee is one of a string of political action committees with anodyne names — NorPac in New Jersey, To Protect Our Heritage PAC outside Chicago, the Maryland Association for Concerned Citizens outside Baltimore, among others — that operate independently of Aipac but whose missions and membership align with it.
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- Feb 2019
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In a 2011 Reddit IAmA, Jennings recalled how in 2004 the Democratic politicians Chuck Schumer and Harry Reid unsuccessfully asked Jennings to run for the United States Senate from Utah. Jennings commented, "That was when I realized the Democratic Party was f@#$ed in '04."[19]
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What is the simplest way to differentiate between a conservative and a liberal?
Ask if a fetus is human.
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too individualistic, devoid of the community feeling that should bind Chris� thms together.
It's funny how today this view of how Christians should behave with/in society would probably be labeled as socialist (or, at least, not conservative).
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it arises from a flawed pattern of reasoning rather than values
Both well-meaning populist states and right-wing dictatorships share the same failure mode.
- Jan 2019
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o one, or almost no one, fads to beheve 1n climate chan~Je out of sincere ignorance. Ttiey •choose-to d1sbeheve either for material gain or 1ust to be dicks.
"If people were more aware of x, then they would realize they're wrong about y, and they would do z" is a line that is constantly repeated in my WGST classes, and I always look like an asshole when I argue that that's not how things work.
To doubt Blum was to doubt the traditional edu-cational system and therefore the entire society. Nobody wanted to do it.
This is the politics of ignorance at play. If you acknowledge that there is a problem, you must then address that problem. You must do something about that problem. If you don't want to do something, then you will choose not to acknowledge that there is a problem.
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"You cannot look at 'web 3.0' without looking at blockchain or without looking at AI (Artificial Intelligence)," he said. "So, our hope is that through this discussion of these various digital domains, the business models, the opportunities and the risks and the unintended consequences in terms of human rights, in terms of privacy, in terms of subversion of democracy, we are able to come out with some common principles...of strengthening cooperation across borders."
<big>评:</big><br/><br/>联合国数字合作高级小组联合组长 Amandeep Gill 的上述观点,如同 TED Talks 讲者们勾勒的世界理想那般,昭示出强烈的国际公民精神。民众们可以为这些机构在数字化转型方面做出的努力而感到欣慰,但同时也得警惕,此刻听到的甜言蜜语,其实和总统们在电视前的新年致辞并无大异。<br/><br/>举个令国际主义者们略感沮丧的例子——联合国长期以来一直在探索区块链的多项人道主义用途,比如使用以太坊区块链将基于加密货币的代金券发放给叙利亚难民、利用虹膜等生物识别技术追踪消费情况。机构付出的努力值得肯定,但这样的技术运用其实是对历史发展轨迹的重复和既得利益体系的维护。何时,我们对技术落地场景的讨论才能从参与者的价值判断转到渠道本身?Gill 的 "strengthening cooperation across borders" 也许暗示着,在旧的世界秩序下,这就是道无解难题。
It was like making the court jester king
Look where that got us.
- Dec 2018
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nail-adorned jewels she gave to the heroes:
She is well-respected within the mead hall and in return respects the men of the hall
'Mid hall-building holders. The highly-famed queen, 55 Peace-tie of peoples, oft passed through the building, Cheered the young troopers; she oft tendered a hero A beautiful ring-band, ere she went to her sitting
Wealhtheow portrays the role of a traditional Anglo-Saxon woman at the time. Wealhtheow is first introduced to the audience, she immediately falls into her role as peaceful greeter and cocktail waitress. The author then reinforces that she is a member of the weaker gender by directing Wealhtheow to her proper position behind the king. When the queen is not serving drinks or greeting the hall guests, she may usually be found obediently following Hrothgar throughout the mead hall and "waiting for hope-news".
- Nov 2018
In October 2017, Facebook also expanded its work with a Washington-based consultant, Definers Public Affairs, that had originally been hired to monitor press coverage of the company. Founded by veterans of Republican presidential politics, Definers specialized in applying political campaign tactics to corporate public relations — an approach long employed in Washington by big telecommunications firms and activist hedge fund managers, but less common in tech.
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Immediately many people will object that this is too hard, too implausible, contradictory to human nature, politically impossible, uneconomical, and so on. Yeah yeah. Here we see the shift from cruel optimism to stupid pessimism, or call it fashionable pessimism, or simply cynicism. It's very easy to object to the utopian turn by invoking some poorly-defined but seemingly omnipresent reality principle. Well-off people do this all the time.
Politicians, she believes, "owe us an answer," and so she, in her own very Terry Gross way will "keep asking and re-asking and asking, and maybe I'll ask it in separate ways, and maybe I'll point out that they haven't yet answered the question."
Entscheidend ist, dass sie Herren des Verfahrens bleiben - und eine Vision für das neue Maschinenzeitalter entwickeln.
Es sieht für mich nicht eigentlich so aus als wären wir jemals die "Herren des Verfahrens" gewesen. Und auch darum geht es ja bei Marx. Denke ich.
- Oct 2018
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Republican Senators have been holding judicial confirmation hearings during Senate recess, with no Democrats present.
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The repair of the PSLF could be a strong issue for any politician who seeks to help. It was a bipartisan, and it is has bipartisan support (outside of the Trump administration) for a fix.
The Trump administration set up Mick Mulvaney to run the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (who has called for the elimination of the CFPB) with the intention of gutting consumer protections in favor of big business. This article shows how this policy if specifically affecting the educational loan business.
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Choice. The Democratic Party stands behind the right of every woman to choose, consistent with Roe v. Wade, and regardless of ability to pay. President Clinton took executive action to make sure that the right to make such decisions is protected for all Americans. Over the last four years, we have taken action to end the gag rule and ensure safety at family planning and women's health clinics. We believe it is a fundamental constitutional liberty that individual Americans -- not government -- can best take responsibility for making the most difficult and intensely personal decisions regarding reproduction. The Democratic Party is a party of inclusion. We respect the individual conscience of each American on this difficult issue, and we welcome all our members to participate at every level of our party. Our goal is to make abortion less necessary and more rare, not more difficult and more dangerous. We support contraceptive research, family planning, comprehensive family life education, and policies that support healthy childbearing. For four years in a row, we have increased support for family planning. The abortion rate is dropping. Now we must continue to support efforts to reduce unintended pregnancies, and we call on all Americans to take personal responsibility to meet this important goal.
- Sep 2018
Now an impoverished Marxist cultural critique suggests that such encounters between people, qua humans with richly diverse lives, are the very opposite of — or further, directly opposed by — the alienated encounters underwritten, if not compelled, by money. You see this kind of argument when people say "the 'sharing economy' is an oxymoron that has nothing to do with sharing because people are lending their underutilized resources for financial recompense." However, what has always seemed to me most interesting about many 'sharing economy' platforms is not that they are spaces outside of commercialism, but rather ways of affording a re-embedding of economic exchanges in social relations within commercialism. When I ride-share or home-share, there might be money changing hands, but the actual experience of the 'service' is of two people (when there are face-to-face encounters) who cannot entirely withdraw into prescribed roles of employee and customer. This is why these 'sharing economy' experiences tend to be awkward, in ways that I have tried to argue are in fact deconstructive of the monolithically abstract idea of capitalism.These moments underline that there can be 'sharing' within economies, that relations between strangers do occur at levels or in ways beyond what is covered by their monetization. Service designing, it seems to me, is precisely the pursuit of these forms of sociality that exceed commercialism even within commercial interactions. This is the quality that a well-designed service encounter will manifest, a quality that will differentiate such a service from other less-designed ways of managing or engineering services.Service designers should therefore be expertly sensitive to these emergent and sometimes even resistant socialities. Designers should understand that at the very core of their practice is all that is concealed by excessively capitalistic perspectives: the hidden labor of informal economies; the emotional and aesthetic labor provision that service interactions compel from providers without adequate recompense; the satisfiers that make care work rewarding beyond their inequitable pay scales; the moments of delight involved in the comfort of strangers. All of these, it should be clear, are political, sensitivities that acknowledge oppression and exploitation via gender, race and class.All this is why service design is never just the design of this or that service, but part of the wider project of redesigning work and generating sustainable livelihoods. For instance, service design is not tangential to current debates about the roboticization of jobs. Service design is unavoidably involved in Transition Design, toward or away from meaningful work, or rather perhaps toward or away from quality ways of organizing the resourcing of new kinds of society.
Product designers tend to aim to create tools that should be appreciated in their own right for what they help accomplish — what the philosopher of technology, Albert Borgmann calls a focal thing. These well-designed products are valued for what they enable someone skilled to do with them. The service designer is less concerned with developing a refined product, valued for its versatility or finesse, and more concerned with a material means to an end, an enabler of a service interaction. This means that those products need to be more 'alive' to the needs of the participants in the service. They need to be less present in their own materiality, and more automated or responsive, directing the interactions between the service co-creators.This means that service designers must have a particularly acute sense of the agency of things. All designers understand the weak forces — affordances — that the forms of things exert on users in the appropriate contexts. For service designers, these forces must be more dynamically deployed because the point is less the products themselves and more the experiences they enable but even at times direct. Compared to a product that will be used regularly, and perhaps diversely, by an owner, the touchpoints that service designers design need to be more subservient to the overall experience. They should be more sensitive to a diversity of users and use cases on the one hand, but more focused on accomplishing just this or that transition in the service journey. This means that they tend to be more animated by intention than the artifacts conventionally produced by product designers. But paradoxically, this makes them less materially present as things. A product within a service pro-duces, leads forth, by being more of a sub-ject, something underlying the process, rather than an ob-ject, something jutting out with physical presence.
To accomplish these goals, service designers make use of the same power that all designers deploy and that are particular to design compared to other expert professions but that the history of non-service design has tended to ignore or fail to comprehend. Design is always the design of things, of useful things for people. To be useful, a thing must communicate or influence or force its users to interact in particular ways. You cannot design a tool that will accept any kind of input. So though modern designing has mostly focused on the design of physical products, the nature of the decisions that a designer makes about the forms (and contexts and systems) of things are completely driven by attempts to sculpt the social practices involved in using those things. I use this metaphor of sculpting to indicate that design is a process of removing materials to create the negative space to be filled by certain kinds of interactions.Service design's focus on people-to-people coordinated interactions therefore emphasizes the obverse of artifact design. All service design is still in every case still design of things, or in the terminology of service design, touchpoints — products and environments, but also communications and interactive screens. Service design is just more oriented toward the sequences of interactions between people that can be afforded by a network of designed things.
Service design at its best is an expertise in forming how people interact without directly instructing them as to what to do to get paid. But precisely because what service design brings to service management is an attention to these other ways of inducing certain kinds and qualities of interactions, service design should begin with an acknowledgement of its baseline power, that which it should always seek to avoid enlisting to effect a design. This then is why I insist on calling this practice Service Design and not Design for Service.
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We can't force two people to become friends, nor should we want to.
How many social engineers does it take to change a light bulb? An infinite number. That's why they leave you in the dark till you become the change you seek and make your own light to live by.
If you cant force two people to become friends, then how do 'diplomats' (political manipulators?) profess to do the same thing with entire nations? Especially while so often, using the other hand to deal the deck for other players, in a game of "let's you and him fight"; or just being bloody mercenaries with sheer might is right political ethos installed under various euphemistic credos. 'My country right or wrong' or 'Mitt Got Uns' or ...to discover weapons of mass destruction...etc.
So much for politics and social engineering, but maybe we can just be content with not so much forcing two people to be friends, as forcing them to have sex while we're filming them, so we can create more online amateur porn content. LOL ;)
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Commandez dès maintenant les objets de l'Enlysée, pour une bonne cause et sans dépenser un pognon de dingue !
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E. coli, many are of metabolic enzymes. Thus, acetylation could represent a novel posttranslational mechanism of metabolic control. Yet, almost nothing is known about the regulation of these acetylations or of their metabolic outcomes.
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Remember, remember, the sixth of September. In many ways, this date in 2018 is as momentous as August 15, 1947 was.
No it isn't. Enough with the hyperbole. Getting rid of a toothless law that never stopped LGBT relationships isn't changing anything. Let's see what happens when Article 19's terms and conditions to free speech are removed, now that would be momentous.
But they are actually validated by the most illiberal part of our Constitution, Article 19(2), which allows caveats to free speech on grounds like 'public order' and 'decency and morality.' Those are open to interpretation, and anything goes.
This is the root cause of legalized sanction of censorship, but none of the dimwits who routinely protest against movies or books being shut down ever focus on it.
In this great democracy of ours, where the voice of the people is supposed to find expression in its politics, not one political party in the last 71 years tried to repeal 377. Parties don't have principles, only incentives, and all of them behaved this way because they feared that voters would not approve. That tells you what every gay person in this country already knows from lived experience: our society is homophobic. Not just that, our society and the state do not give a damn about Consent.
No shit, Sherlock.
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jump-start a sputtering capitalism
Because socialist regimes never had pollution or any other problems.
- Aug 2018
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I feel like this word captures very well the exact era of Trumpian Republicanism in which we find ourselves living.
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Marcus Vitruvius, the classical Roman architect, defined architecture in proportion to the human body—an ideal building, as he saw it, had to reflect the ideal dimensions of a man. Today such anthropocentric design, indeed male-body centered design, seems irrelevant, perhaps even irresponsible, as the magnitude of our self-inflicted environmental disasters poses fundamental challenges to architects and designers. If the human body was the correct proportion for architecture for Vitruvius, what should the scale of design be that addresses today's environmental challenges? Climatic change, species depletion, and oceanic pollution are worldwide problems. What is left of Vitruvius's ideal of human reach has stretched to new global scales and millennial time frames. How can architecture conceptualize a planet on which humans have become involved in vast geological forces?
Framing a post-humanist question for architecture. What would this mean in service design?
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Historian Richard Frankel:
I do think there's certainly a very strong possibility that it's not going to end well -- and that's from the perspective of a German historian. And as a historian, my natural tendency is to always try to stop people from invoking Hitler. In most cases it was not appropriate to make such a comparison. But now, with Trump, my resistance and that of other historians to making that comparison is being overcome.
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The focus on details and delight can be traced to manifestos like Steve Krug's Don't Make Me Think, which propose a dogmatic adherence to cognitive obviousness and celebrates frictionless interaction as the ultimate design accomplishment. Users should never have to question an interface. Instead, designers should anticipate and cater to their needs: "It doesn't matter how many times I have to click, as long as each click is a mindless, unambiguous choice.15"A "mindless, unambiguous choice" is not without cultural, social and political context.
But addressing problematic internal culture of design teams is not enough. As an industry we must also confront the real-world socio-political outcomes of our practice. If we accept a code of conduct as necessary, we must also accept a code of outcomes as necessary. We must create ethical frameworks to evaluate our work at all stages, especially once it is alive in the world. Our lack of ongoing critical evaluation of our profession means that design continues to reinforce a harmful status quo, creating exploitable systems at the expense of societies.
It is critical that user experience design must begin to deconstruct the outcomes of our collective body of work, especially as tech becomes more embedded and less visible or more easily ignored. Saitta writes, "All infrastructure is political; indeed, one might better say that all politics is infrastructural; we ignore it at our peril."
Beyond better design paradigms, designers must look beyond the field, toward practices that directly criticise or oppose their work. In particular, security research and user experience design have significant practice and goal overlap and this relationship is often antagonistic. Both fields primarily focus on the systems of wide-scale interactions between users and technology, but the goals of the two fields are diametrically opposed; design is to create the best possible experience for a user, security is to create the worst possible experience for an attacker. By focusing of the outcomes of the two fields, it's clear that security research is a form of user experience design. Design should reciprocate, and become a form of security research.
Design is inherently political, but it is not inherently good. With few exceptions, the motivations of a design project are constrained by the encompassing platform or system first, and the experiences and values of its designers second. The result is designers working in a user hostile world, where even seemingly harmless platforms or features are exploited for state or interpersonal surveillance and violence.As people living in societies, we cannot be separated from our political contexts. However, design practitioners research and implement systems based on a process of abstracting their audience through user stories. A user story is "a very high-level definition of a requirement, containing just enough information so that the developers can produce a reasonable estimate of the effort to implement it23." In most cases, user are grouped through shared financial or biographical data, by their chosen devices, or by their technical or cognitive abilities.When designing for the digital world, user stories ultimately determine what is or is not an acceptable area of human variation. The practice empowers designers and engineers to communicate via a common problem-focused language. But practicing design that views users through a politically-naive lens leaves practitioners blind to the potential weaponisation of their design. User-storied design abstracts an individual user from a person of lived experience to a collection of designer-defined generalisations. In this approach, their political and interpersonal experiences are also generalised or discarded, creating a shaky foundation that allows for assumptions to form from the biases of the design team. This is at odds with the personal lived experience of each user, and the complex interpersonal interactions that occur within a designed digital platform.When a design transitions from theoretical to tangible, individual user problems and motivations become part of a larger interpersonal and highly political human network, affecting communities in ways that we do not yet fully understand. In Infrastructural Games and Societal Play, Eleanor Saitta writes of the rolling anticipated and unanticipated consequences of systems design: "All intentionally-created systems have a set of things the designers consider part of the scope of what the system manages, but any nontrivial system has a broader set of impacts. Often, emergence takes the form of externalities — changes that impact people or domains beyond the designed scope of the system^24." These are no doubt challenges in an empathetically designed system, but in the context of design homogeny, these problems cascade.In a talk entitled From User Focus to Participation Design, Andie Nordgren advocates for how participatory design is a step to developing empathy for users:"If we can't get beyond ourselves and our [platforms] – even if we are thinking about the users – it's hard to transfer our focus to where we actually need to be when designing for participation which is with the people in relation to each other25."Through inclusion, participatory design extends a design team's focus beyond the hypothetical or ideal user, considering the interactions between users and other stakeholders over user stories. When implemented with the aim of engaging a diverse range of users during a project, participatory design becomes more political by forcing teams to address weaponised design opportunities during all stages of the process.
'Mindless and unambiguous' is only true for those who have both the cultural context to effortlessly decode an interface, and the confidence that their comprehension is solid. Not only is this dogma an unreasonable constraint, it also frequently fails.
Weaponised design – a process that allows for harm of users within the defined bounds of a designed system – is faciliated by designers who are oblivious to the politics of digital infrastructure or consider their design practice output to be apolitical.
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Und hier werden Eltern die Kinder weggenommen und sie bekommen gar nichts? Nicht einmal einen Zettel?«
how can this be possible and legal in a western democracy? how bad are we allowing our world of men to still become?
- Jul 2018
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I am generous with what I have—I choose to be generous with what I have—precisely because we are no longer committed to one another as members of a shared social structure. Instead, the shift of responsibility for the public welfare toward private entities displaces our obligations to one another in favor of individual liberties and, I think, leaves us queasy about the notion of obligation altogether.
The game theory of things tends to pull the society apart, particularly when it is easier to see who is paying what. If the richer end feels they're paying more than their fair share, this can tend to break things down.
I suspect that Francis Fukuyama has a bit to say about this in how democratic societies built themselves up over time. Similarly one of his adherents Jonah Goldberg provides some related arguments about tribalism tending to tear democracies down when we revert back to a more primitive viewpoint instead of being able to trust the larger governmental structures of a democracy.
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Actually, no, it hasn't, no matter what the Bunny's sign says. The scientific method is designed specifically to root out bias and false assumptions, including political ones. Sure, individual scientists can be political, but the scientific method is not. Its ideological agnosticism is why it works so well. In fact, the self-correcting nature of science means it is the best source of secular knowledge that humankind possesses.
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Such thinking has also been gaining some traction in the West, although so far only at the political fringes. The underlying idea is that some types of services, including social networks and online search, are essential facilities akin to roads and other kinds of infrastructure and should be regulated as utilities, which in essence means capping their profits. Alternatively, important data services, such as digital identity, could be offered by governments. Evgeny Morozov, a researcher and internet activist, goes one step further, calling for the creation of public data utilities, which would pool vital digital information and ensure equal access to it.
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Phil Tetlock, a professor of psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, who has studied forecasting in depth, suggests that "vague verbiage gives you political safety."
- Jun 2018
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Interactive visualization of the relations between members of Portuguese governments and companies
This is one of the best and undisputable representations of politics promiscuity with business. It clearly shows that not all parties are equal...
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A case in point of the politics of difference within sociomaterial assemblages isoffered by Chasin (1995), who explores identifications across women, servants andmachines in contemporary robotics.
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China in Vogue, But Vietnam Still Hun Sen's Lifeline
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...I remain convinced that if American civil society and the American press fail to come to grips with just how radically theocratic the Christian Right is, any kind of post-Trump soft landing scenario in which American democracy recovers a healthy degree of functionality is highly unlikely.
readers of major news outlets are presented with an unrealistically benign picture of a darkly authoritarian, cult-like branch of Protestantism.
"Beijing typically finds a local partner, makes that local partner accept investment plans that are detrimental to their country in the long term, and then uses the debts to either acquire the project altogether or to acquire political leverage in that country."
- May 2018
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With news this week that EPA's Inspector General would look into Pruitt's use of multiple email accounts, he is now facing more than a dozen probes and investigations from Congress, the White House and his agency's internal watchdog.
How does Pruitt still have a job?
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"We don't want to advance something that we know will just get vetoed," Ryan told reporters Wednesday morning.
Says @spearkerryan the man who sent dozens of repeal Obamacare votes he knew would never become law.
Such hypocrisy.
- Apr 2018
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Most previous explanations had focussed on explaining how someone's beliefs might be altered in the moment.
Knowing a little of what is coming in advance here, I can't help but thinking: How can this riot theory potentially be used to influence politics and/or political campaigns? It could be particularly effective to get people "riled up" just before a particular election to create a political riot of sorts and thereby influence the outcome.
Facebook has done several social experiments with elections in showing that their friends and family voted and thereby affecting other potential voters. When done in a way that targets people of particular political beliefs to increase turn out, one is given a means of drastically influencing elections. In some sense, this is an example of this "Riot Theory".
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Can civilisation prolong its life until the end of this century? "It depends on what we are prepared to do." He fears it will be a long time before we take proportionate action to stop climatic calamity. "Standing in the way is capitalism. Can you imagine the global airline industry being dismantled when hundreds of new runways are being built right now all over the world? It's almost as if we're deliberately attempting to defy nature. We're doing the reverse of what we should be doing, with everybody's silent acquiescence, and nobody's batting an eyelid."
Hillman is amazed that our thinking rarely stretches beyond 2100. "This is what I find so extraordinary when scientists warn that the temperature could rise to 5C or 8C. What, and stop there? What legacies are we leaving for future generations? In the early 21st century, we did as good as nothing in response to climate change. Our children and grandchildren are going to be extraordinarily critical."
Although Hillman has not flown for more than 20 years as part of a personal commitment to reducing carbon emissions, he is now scornful of individual action which he describes as "as good as futile". By the same logic, says Hillman, national action is also irrelevant "because Britain's contribution is minute. Even if the government were to go to zero carbon it would make almost no difference." Instead, says Hillman, the world's population must globally move to zero emissions across agriculture, air travel, shipping, heating homes – every aspect of our economy – and reduce our human population too. Can it be done without a collapse of civilisation? "I don't think so," says Hillman. "Can you see everyone in a democracy volunteering to give up flying? Can you see the majority of the population becoming vegan? Can you see the majority agreeing to restrict the size of their families?"
Hillman accuses all kinds of leaders – from religious leaders to scientists to politicians – of failing to honestly discuss what we must do to move to zero-carbon emissions. "I don't think they can because society isn't organised to enable them to do so. Political parties' focus is on jobs and GDP, depending on the burning of fossil fuels."
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The strategy was to force vulnerable Democrats facing reelection in pro-Trump states to vote on making tax cuts for individuals permanent.
This is the problem. Our tax code shouldn't be messed with just to win elections.
Politicians should try to change laws because they believe what they are doing is right.
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- Mar 2018
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The White House says Trump has addressed the matter "directly", which is not true, and treats it as settled.
How common it is now for a mainstream news outlet to assert that the White House (and Trump) by implication is saying untruths.
- Jan 2018
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Hoy diríamos (ontológicamente) que las políticas públicas y la planificación del desarrollo, así como gran parte de lo que se denomina diseño, son tecnologías políticas fundamentales de la modernidad y elementos clave en la constitución moderna de un solo mundo globalizado.
- Dec 2017
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I was listening today to hearings on the FBI, where the fact that FBI agents gave to Democratic candidates was cited as prima facie evidence of corruption. We saw this in summer 2016 too, where fact that people in the DNC didn't like Sanders was presented as a massive conspiracy.
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There has been a massive conflation of opinion (personal belief), bias (personal action), and agenda (structurally embedded goals). These things often line up, but strong institutions and processes can help stop opinion from becoming bias and bias from becoming an unintentional agenda. And where institutions don't mitigate these things in appropriate ways they should be reformed.
But if we collapse this chain, if opinion = bias = agenda, well, then everything immediately becomes corrupt, because everyone has an opinion.
In the case of Republican congressmen, this isn't a matter of perception. They're lying to protect Trump.
- Nov 2017
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"it's not about the technology" because "the technology is neutral."
Right. Technology isn't neutral. Nor is it good or bad. It's diverse and it's part of a broader context. Can get that some educators saying that it's not about technology may have a skewed view of technology. But, on its own, this first part can also lead to an important point about our goals. It's about something else. But, of course, there are some people who use the "bah, the technology doesn't matter as long as we can do what we do" line to evade discussion. Might be a sign that the context isn't right for deep discussion, maybe because educators have deeper fears.
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Conceiving the enactment of rights as dissensus is more powerful than understanding dissent as civil disobedience. For all its illustrative history, civil disobedience still evokes a reactionary politics, whereas dissensus is creative and affirmative. Although significant as a specific act, civil disobedience is rather too narrow to understand political acts in general. Staging dissensus brings into play the imaginary, performative, and legality of rights all at once and constitutes subjects as citizen subjects of power. Julian Assange, Edward Snowden, Anonymous, Aaron Swartz, and Open Rights are not only definite individuals or collectives of civil disobedience but stand for a political subjectivity enacting rights as the staging of dissensus. This is what we gather from their acts. When they enact rights that they do not have and the rights that they should have, they bring into being political subjects who cannot be known in advance. Their acts are contestations over who is counted as political and what counts as politics. To put it slightly differently, the performative and imaginary force of rights lies in the double movement between their inscription and enactment.
Acá estaría el derecho a scrappear como una forma de reapropiación de los bienes comunes y de repolitización de lo publico.
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The grandstanding is his only resort. Grandstanding and gaslighting
2 Nov 2017
A 58 percent majority say they approve of Mueller's handling of the investigation while 28 percent say they disapprove, the Post-ABC poll finds. People's views depend in large part on their political leanings, but overall, Americans are generally inclined to trust Mueller and the case he has made so far.
www.vox.com www.vox.com
Millions of Americans believe (or are willing to claim that they believe) insane bullshit. So what happens if Mueller finds evidence that Trump committed a crime, and the right-wing media says he didn't, or it doesn't matter?
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Robert Mercer's hedge fund owes the IRS $7 billion.
Since the IRS found in 2010 that a complicated banking method used by Renaissance and about 10 other hedge funds was a tax-avoidance scheme, Mercer has gotten increasingly active in politics. According to data from the Center for Responsive Politics, he doled out more than $22 million to outside conservative groups seeking to influence last year's elections, while advocating the abolition of the IRS and much of the federal government.
- Oct 2017
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En el caso de los Data Selfies, lo que queremos hacer es presentar otra idea sobre nosotros mismos, nuestros gobernantes e instituciones públicas (principalmente). Particularmente por la sensación de no ser representados apropiadamente por la línea de tiempo de Twitter.


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Created by Dean Mortlock
Bridgwater & Albion Rugby Club, Bridgwater
New for 2018 is a Car Boot Sale every Thursday evening at 6pm at the Bridgwater & Albion Rugby Club in Bridgwater.
Sellers are free to arrive at the site from 5pm onwards, and buyers from 6pm – the Car Boot finishes at 8pm.
It's £6 for any vehicle selling, and just 50p admission for buyers.
For more information, check out the Paul's Promotions website here.
BRIDGWATER – Bridgwater & Albion Rugby Club
Every Thursday / 5pm (Sellers) & 6pm (Buyers)
£6 (A Pitch) / 50p (Admission)


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The objective is to meet with multilateral development banks and their implementing partners present in the region. The delegation is headed by the Swedish Minister for Public Administration Ardalan Shekarabi and the visit will be carried out on the 13-17 of February next year. The Minister will be accompanied by high-level representatives from Sweden.
Mexico and Central America are affected every year by natural disasters such as floods, earthquakes, droughts and hurricanes. While increasing the frequency and intensity of severe weather events, climate change also makes communities more vulnerable to the effects of those events by weakening communities and increasing vulnerability. Disaster management and proactive actions towards climate change are therefore a priority of the governments and international aid agencies supporting Mexico and Central America.
MAJOR NEEDS AND EXTENSIVE PROCUREMENT PLANSSeveral multilateral organizations as well as bilateral donors prioritize and fund projects to mitigate the effects of climate change and natural disasters in their respective strategies for the region, together with local partners and government stakeholders. Creating an adequate procurement chain of relevant solutions constitutes a significant part of the resilience system, providing opportunities for suppliers to introduce goods and services in different countries within the region. Swedish companies offer a wide range of high quality and innovative products and services with a competitive life-time cost in several sectors, e.g. water and sanitation, transport solutions, health, emergency and relief, construction material and equipment, ICT, food and nutrition and energy solutions.
MAKING SWEDISH SOLUTIONS KNOWNThe delegation will meet both high-level representatives and procurement professionals from multilateral organizations such as World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank and the Central American Bank for Economic Integration, together with their implementing partners at both private and governmental levels. Read more about the programme on the following pages and please confirm your participation as soon as possible but no later than 23 December, 2016, by using the attached registration form.
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Bosch UK Gender Pay Gap Report 2017
Bosch's strong engineering heritage is an important factor in explaining our success. Yet, more important is our ability to adapt to a rapidly changing world. In this new environment, it is crucial for everyone to play their part because greater diversity means greater long-term business success.
We appreciate and make use of different mindsets, experiences, perspectives and life plans at Bosch for this reason. Diversity is now an integral part of our corporate strategy. This gives us an edge in competition because our corporate slogan, "Invented for Life," refers to a wide range of diverse solutions.
Bosch launched a diversity initiative in 2011, aiming to promote an understanding of diversity by showing positive examples. Our message, "Diversity is our advantage," is communicated through channels worldwide and invites all associates to participate. This initiative is broad and focuses on gender, generations, internationality and culture.
When it comes to gender diversity in particular, Bosch promotes mixed teams at all levels and draws on our entire talent pool. Some goals of our diversity initiative have therefore included targets such as achieving a 20% proportion of women in leadership positions by 2020, creating flexible working conditions, supporting associate networking groups and developing progressive and transparent human resource processes.
Women@Bosch, a networking group, which pre-dates our Diversity Initiative by 16 years, is now firmly anchored in Bosch. It offers women in Bosch across the world the opportunity to exchange ideas and information through activities such as events, speeches, site visits and workshops, and is an ideal platform to promote careers and personal development.
Bosch has received numerous awards across the world for our efforts to promote greater gender diversity but there is, by our own admission, further progress to be made. In this spirit, we very much welcome the introduction of gender pay gap reporting legislation in the UK.
Steffen Hoffmann,
President, Bosch UK & Ireland
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A local conservation group ties up with 30 schools to build awareness about preserving the environment and wildlife, particularly the tiger, among children, using entertaining videos and Nature walks for the purpose
A video of animals and birds set to the famous Matt Munro tune Born Free is shown to 60 middle school girls. They watch a polar bear wriggling in the ice, an elephant swimming in the sea and a group of birds flying in the evening sky, with much excitement.
The message is that animals should be allowed to live and roam in their natural habitats, without people encroaching on them. Another animated video presentation talks about the ill-effects of bottled water. While the girls laugh at the animated stick figures spitting out impure water, a message about the dangers of packaged water is driven home. This is one of the many sessions that R Mohammed Saleem, president of the Environment Conservation Group and city co-ordinator of 'Kids for Tigers,' will conduct with the children of St. Joseph's Matriculation Higher Secondary School at Trichy Road. Saleem has tied up with 30 schools in the city for this campaign, conducted with the support of NDTV, Aircel and Sanctuary Asia to create an urge among children to save the wild tigers and their habitat.
The overwhelming response of schools and awareness amongst children have caught Saleem by surprise. At a recent session, when children are questioned about the total forest cover that the state has, he gets the prompt and correct reply, 17 per cent,. When asked about the number of countries that the tiger can be found in, the reply is equally instantaneous.
"Children have answers to questions on the environment that many adults don't, and will do their bit to preserve the environment if moulded at the right time. These workshops are essential for them, as they will take home important messages of conservation," he says.
Five children from each school will eventually be selected by their teachers as tiger ambassadors, and one will get to go on a fully sponsored three-day trip to a popular tiger reserve in the country.
While the younger children are shown informative videos , the older ones from class IX and above will be taken on field trips to nearby eco tourist spots.
The first nature walk has already been a hit. Children from a private school in Tirupur went on a short trip to Baralikkadu and came back energised.
"Field trips are a great way for older children to observe trees, birds and animals and find out about their co-existence. For instance, children noticed butterflies flocking to a particular tree, through which they came to know that the survival of the species is dependent on that particular tree," he says.
"The current generation of children has seen far less trees and vegetation around their homes than we did. They are also growing up with several other distractions. Prior to this campaign, the children planted ten saplings in the school campus, showing their keenness to increase tree life in the campus," says a proud Anita Sagar, high school Biology teacher at Carmel Garden Matriculation Higher Secondary School. Experts from Sanctuary Asia will be coming in from Mumbai to train the teachers on environment and wildlife conservation, as the initiative gathers momentum.


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A resource for informing patients and caregivers about Multiple Sclerosis, its possible causes, effects, and treatments. Get the most current information on new developments, clinical trials and other important matters for anyone dealing with MS.
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National Television Series, Business & Beyond, to Feature Nutra Pharma on CNBC
BOCA RATON, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb 8, 2007 - Nutra Pharma Corp. (OTCBB:NPHC), a biotechnology company that is developing drugs for HIV and Multiple Sclerosis, has today announced that it has been selected by Platinum Television Group to be featured on the national television series "Business & Beyond."
"The opportunity to be featured on this television series is timely, as we recently announced that our drug discovery division, ReceptoPharm, had commenced its Phase IIb human clinical trial for the treatment of Adrenomyeloneuropathy (AMN)," commented Rik J. Deitsch, Chairman and CEO of Nutra Pharma Corporation. "Being featured on 'Business & Beyond' will provide Nutra Pharma with a large national audience, with whom we can discuss our recent accomplishments and explain our business model," he added.
The segment, entitled "Bringing Bio-Technologies to Market," will be featured on CNBC, with repeat airings occurring 100 times in 25 leading markets across the United States over the next several months. Filming was recently completed and the segment is now completing post-production.
About Nutra Pharma Corp.
Nutra Pharma Corp. is a biopharmaceutical company specializing in the acquisition, licensing and commercialization of pharmaceutical products and technologies for the management of neurological disorders, cancer, autoimmune and infectious diseases. Nutra Pharma Corp. through its subsidiaries carries out basic drug discovery research and clinical development and also seeks strategic licensing partnerships to reduce the risks associated with the drug development process. The Company's holding, ReceptoPharm, Inc, is developing technologies for the production of drugs for HIV and Multiple Sclerosis ("MS"). The Company's subsidiary, Designer Diagnostics, is engaged in the research and development of diagnostic test kits designed to be used for the rapid identification of infectious diseases such as Tuberculosis (TB) and Mycobacterium avium-intracellulare (MAI). Nutra Pharma continues to identify and acquire intellectual property and companies in the biotechnology arena.
This press release contains forward-looking statements. The words or phrases "would be," "will allow," "intends to," "will likely result," "are expected to," "will continue," "is anticipated," "estimate," "project," or similar expressions are intended to identify "forward-looking statements." Actual results could differ materially from those projected in Nutra Pharma's ("the Company") business plan. The Company's business is subject to various risks, which are discussed in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC"). The feature of Nutra Pharma on "Business & Beyond" should not be construed as an indication in any way whatsoever of the value of the Company or its common stock. The Company's filings may be accessed at the SEC's Edgar system at www.sec.gov. Statements made herein are as of the date of this press release and should not be relied upon as of any subsequent date. The Company cautions readers not to place reliance on such statements. Unless otherwise required by applicable law, we do not undertake, and we specifically disclaim any obligation, to update any forward-looking statements to reflect occurrences, developments, unanticipated events or circumstances after the date of such statement.
Nutra Pharma Corp.
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Nigger….that's right I said it
The album formerly known as Nigger.
I'm really excited about Nas' new album. This is an important feeling because I'm generally dissatisfied with the state of music, especially hip hop. Very little of it excites me. So many hip hop artists get hype and then wack musically, personally, or both. What drew me into hip hop was the feeling it produced. I love music connecting me to my people's history, the struggles and the accomplishments, the wisdom and the reaffirmation that real change is a byproduct of our own self-awareness, self-empowerment, and solidarity. Today, that message is overshadowed by the illusion that the most important things in life are things. There's an air of complacency, a disrespect to the struggles of our past and present.
On his last album, Nas shared the thought that hip hop is dead. This time, his effort is directed at starting a very necessary dialogue that everyone keeps trying to sweep under the rug. If you listen to his new album, you can't ignore the elephant in the room: race.
Originally titled Nigger, retailers threw a hissy fit about placing the album in their stores. Oh, is this because they care? Or because they can't face the reality that their past is the present?
"How will we look if we sale an album called 'Nigger'?"
You'll look like you may be ready to be honest. But alas, fiction incessantly proves its power over reality.
Having to rename the album only gave Nas the opportunity to cause more impact, as he decided to call the album nothing and place an image of his back, scarred by a whip in the shape of the letter "N". The iconic shape of the letter indicates Nas as the artist, but it also recalls the album's original title, Nigger. The image he uses is more effective than the word.
The album doesn't drop until July 15th, but to hold you over in the meantime is The Nigger Tape, the mixtape he did with DJ Green Lantern. Since it's not available for retail, he can call it whatever he wants to.


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Mining firms pour $1.311 B on expansion projects in '13
MANILA, Philippines - Investments in the mining sector grew 61.4 percent, exceeding the target last year on continued capital expenditures of existing mining projects as well as potential big ticket projects that are still in the pre-development stage.
"These are all continuing investments, no new investments were made last year," said Mines and Geosciences Bureau (MGB) Leo Jasareno.
Mining investments last year went to the Palawan HPAL Project of Coral Bay Nickel Corp., a joint venture of Japanese firms Sumitomo Metal Mining Co., Mitsui & Co., Sojitz Corp. and Filipino firm Rio Tuba Nickel Mining Corp.
Other recipients were the Canatuan silver-gold project of TVI Resource Development Philippines. (TVIRD), the Teresa Gold Project of Lepanto Consolidated Mining, nickel projects of Surigao Integrated Resources Co. in Surigao del Norte, Philsaga Co-o Gold Project of Philsaga Mining Corp., Toledo Copper Project of Atlas Mining and Development Corp., and the Didipio copper-gold project of Oceanagold Corp.


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In our new feature, 'What's in Your Closet?', we explore the wardrobes of our favorite fashionistas. Up first we've got Rachel Lynch of I Hate Blonde who takes us on a tour of her closet and her chic Soho space. Photographed by Louise Palmberg.
Thank you, Rachel, for taking the time! You can follow her on Instagram @ihateblonde to keep up with her fashionable adventures.


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KHENTRUL RINPOCHE'S COLORADO SERIES July 17 -29
Cultivating awareness and understanding of the subtle body is beneficial for tantric and yogic practitioners.
The subtle energy body has different names in different religious traditions from Chinese medicine's view of chi through the Vedic understanding of prana, nadis and marma points to Tibetan Vajrayana's focus on winds, channels and drops. Each tradition has their own point of view on the chakras and their own skillful means to make use of their understanding.
For vajrayana and sowa rigpa practioners, it is in important to understand these teaching from the perspective of Tibetan buddhism and in the context of their tradition. Khentrul Rinpoché will give an introductory teaching on the chakras, winds, channels and drops going over what they are and how they relate to the teachings. The energy channels are used in many practices from rapidly cultivating shamatha and vipasanna to ultimately realizing enlightenment through the 6 vajra yogas of Kalachakra.
Shar Khentrul Jamphel Lodrö Rinpoché spent the first 20 years of his life herding yak and chanting mantras on the plateaus of Tibet. Inspired by the bodhisattvas, he left his family to receive an extensive education in a variety of monasteries under the guidance of over twenty-five masters in all the Tibetan buddhist traditions. Due to his non-sectarian approach, he earned himself the title of Rimé (unbiased) Master and was identified as the reincarnation of the famous Kalachakra Master Ngawang Chözin Gyatso. Khentrul Rinpoche is considered the 7th emanation of Bodhisattva Akasagarbha. While at the core of his teachings is the recognition that there is great value in the diversity of all spiritual traditions found in this world; he focuses on the Jonang tradition. This ancient tradition was thought to be extinct by many Western scholars. Khentrul Rinpoche found that these teachings held the most advanced Kalachakra instructions held the profound methods to harmonize our external environment with the inner world of body and mind.
Khentrul Rinpoché has made it his life's goal to be a powerful ambassador for global peace and harmony. He was awarded citizenship to Australia where he learned English in order to pass on these hidden teachings to the West. Since 2014, he has travelled to more than thirty countries, empowering students to realize their own sacred truth of limitless potential through a clear, systematic step-by-step presentation of the Kalachakra Path to enlightenment. By teaching people how to cultivate a flexible mind and remove bias, Khentrul Rinpoché aspires to create compassion-based communities, transforming this world into a golden age of global peace and harmony.
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