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Stellar Sunday, a fresh uplifting half hour series featuring the biggest stars in gospel music reflecting on their songs, motivations, and aspirations, including contemporary, urban, hip-hop and traditional gospel music artist.
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The Stellar Pre-Show recognizes all nominees are announces the winners of the non-televised categories. Many nominees have an opportunity to perform and share their talents during this lively non-televised showcase.
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Gospel Announcer Show CaseComing this week 4/24/2019
Hosted by Byron Cage & Janice Gaines
This prestigious annual awards showcase honors Gospel radio stations and the professionals – Program Directors, and Gospel Announcers – who are making inroads into the communities and forging new relationships and audiences. This event honors radio stations across the country in the Major, Large, Medium, Small, and Internet Market categories. Also, the winner of the The Gospel Announcer of the Year award is announced.
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The future of the former site of Pilgrim Baptist Church is bright! Plans are underway to transform the site into the National Museum of Gospel Music. The 45,000 square foot museum is a 501 (c) 3 nonprofit organization and plans to include:
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Mobile Device Management (MDM) is the term used to describe a system or solution for managing mobile devices remotely. These mobile devices include laptop computers, smart phones, ruggedized mobile data collection devices and tablet computers.
Given technology and the increasing need for mobility, enterprises like yours need to operate efficiently outside of the four walls of a specific business location. You need to interact directly with your customers and employees whenever and wherever they are.
Mobility provides increased efficiencies and productivity. Your business gains a competitive advantage by having access to information and applications necessary to act quickly. Managing the related mobile devices allows you to protect and optimize your operation.
Leading mobile device operating systems include Blackberry, Android, iOS, Windows Mobile and Symbian.
Mobile device management solutions will typically provide some or all of the following remote capabilities:
• Distribution of software updates and patches
• Tracking of hardware and software assets
• Distribution of information and data
• Tracking software for license compliance.
• Supporting and controlling devices to troubleshoot issues
• Backing-up and restoring critical data.
• Encrypting wireless communications.
• Disabling stolen/lost devices
• Managing passwords/access security
Here's a partial list of leading MDM software solutions:
• Wavelink Avalanche
• Sybase Afaria
• Odyssey Athena
• Motorola Mobility Services Platform
• Microsoft Mobile Device Manager
• Tangoe
• Landesk Management Suite
• Good Cloud Sync
• CA Technologies
• Boxtone
• Airwatch
Choosing the best Mobile gadget Management software for your operational needs is essential. It's important to identify your needs (current and future) and review all software options.
Here are a few guidelines to consider before selecting your software:
1. Identify which specific applications your business and employees use or need.
2. Look for a software solution that can manage multiple operating systems without the need for additional infrastructure. Also, find a solution that offer an appropriate feature set for your critical operating systems.
3. Look for an MDM solution that integrates with your existing management platform rather than a standalone solution. This will allow you to maximize your existing IT investment.
4. Make sure the solution is able to scale to match you future growth.
5. Speak to references and, if possible, test the product before purchasing/implementing.
6. Assess the "hidden costs" associated with the solution. These can include costs associated with the initial implementation and on-going costs such as help desk, repair and troubleshooting.
It's important to note that the guidelines listed in this article are only general guidelines. Individual enterprise needs and requirements should be assessed prior to implementing any solution.

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The largest country in Latin America and fifth biggest in the world, Brazil is famous for its landscapes, beautiful beaches, culture and parties. But this same country faces huge problems of violence, political and economic instability and is a dangerous environment for journalists.
Among the 465 deaths of journalists registered by INSI from 2013-2017, 18 were in Brazil. The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) ranked Brazil as the third deadliest country for media workers over that time period. Only Syria and Iraq were more dangerous – with the difference that Brazil is not a war zone.
It is important to note that Brazil is like two different countries when it comes to risks for journalists: the big cities and the countryside. Each of them demands a different approach to staying safe.
Risks in big cities
In metropolitan areas near state capitals, like Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, journalists are exposed to urban violence and also to risks that are similar to those faced by journalists in war zones. In favelas where drug gangs with heavy weapons rule, journalists can be victims of retaliation from dealers or even the police who are fighting the gangs.
In 2002, journalist Tim Lopes from TV Globo - one of the largest media groups in Brazil - was killed after being kidnapped and tortured by drug traffickers in Vila Cruzeiro, a favela in Rio. He was working undercover on a story to expose a child abuse network run by the traffickers.
In a rare exception in a country where impunity is the rule, the murderers were caught and brought to justice.
São Paulo, Rio and Brasilia are also known for attacks against journalists covering protests. From May 2013 to January 2018, the Brazilian Association for Investigative Journalism (Abraji) registered 312 attacks against journalists covering demonstrations. Most of the attackers were members of the police or security forces who intentionally beat or arrested media workers. As the frequency and size of demonstrations in Brazil has decreased, those cases have become rarer.
In 2012, Abraji partnered with INSI on a huge program of safety trainings for journalists that helped to create a culture of safety in the Brazilian press. Today, in the big cities at least, journalists are more aware of the dangers they face, media companies have invested in safety equipment and doing risk assessments is now common in the big newsrooms.
Risks in the countryside
Away from the main metropolitan areas, journalists or citizen journalists working for small newspapers, community radio stations or blogs are killed with impunity – mostly in ambushes planned and ordered by politicians, businessmen and criminals whose wrongdoing was exposed by these journalists.
Very few killers of journalists are ever charged. If they are, those who ordered the killings are never exposed. As a result, journalists self-censor their reporting fearing for their lives.
To fight against impunity, in 2017 Abraji launched the Tim Lopes Project. Funded by the Open Society Foundation, its main goal is to shine a light on crimes against journalists to ensure they don't go unpunished.
Whenever and wherever a journalist is killed due to his/her work, Abraji will gather a group of volunteer journalists to finish their last story and investigate their murder. The resulting reporting will be reproduced in Brazil's main media outlets.
Last month, project coordinator Angelina Nunes and Abraji staff member Rafael Oliveira went to Edealina, a small city in the state of Goias, to investigate the murder of Jefferson Pureza, a radio worker shot three times on January 26. The local police arrested four suspects on February 9. The connection between the murder and Pureza's work is still under investigation.
Long road ahead
We still have a long way to go in Brazil, but with the efforts of the journalism community in and outside the country the risks journalists face can be mitigated. One threat that has to be faced and fought against is the lack of solidarity among Brazilian journalists. Only together, and with the same focus, can we make Brazil a better environment for journalists and for society in general which will benefit from greater press freedom.
Marcelo Moreira is an award-winning Brazilian journalist and the former president of Abraji. He is an INSI board member who is currently completing a Knight-Wallace fellowship on safety for journalists at Michigan University.
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There comes a time in every vehicle's lifecycle where it's no longer the right choice for the driver. Deciding when exactly that is will be down to each individual driver and the vehicle of their choice. It depends on the reliability of the vehicle, the resell value and deterioration, and the conditions of the market amongst other things. If you've been thinking about when it's time to sell your auto and move on to the next thing, here are a few points worth considering.
When your needs have changed
This is perhaps the point where the need to sell a car becomes the most obvious. If your car no longer fits your needs as you understand them, then it can be hard to justify keeping it. For instance, if you've recently started building a family, then you're not going to get as much use out of your old sportscar as you once might have. You're going to need a family car, with all the space, safety features, and economical sense that they entail. Similarly, if you move from the suburbs to the city center, you might need a smaller car with a better city MPG. It's all about choosing what's right for you and recognizing when your current auto isn't that.
When you can cut the majority of your running costs
As time goes on, the costs of a car will change. If you bought it on finance, then obviously you are going to cut a major regular cost when it's fully paid off. However, you are also going to see an increase in other costs. Parts will deteriorate, including your engine and its ability to process fuel as efficiently as it once did. This leads to an increase in the average monthly cost of fuel. In a hybrid car, of course, these rising costs might not happen as quickly. There's also the point to consider that an older car that breaks down more often might start to see rising costs from things like breakdown cover.
When those repairs are too steep
Indeed, the more problems an older car suffers, the steeper and steep the costs of getting it back up on the road will be. There are a lot of ways to save money on auto repairs, including learning more about running a home maintenance schedule that keeps it in as good a condition as it can be. There are also some particularly reliable car choices that can keep going for years without too many repairs and will keep those costs low. How do you know when enough is enough and a repair bill is too much? Have an understanding of your car's value depreciation. When a repair bill equals half or more than half of a car's existing value, it might be worth selling it rather forking over the cash.
When the market's in your favor
Even if you do feel like it's time to sell, it's a good idea to see when the market agrees with you, as well. In the long-term, now is one of the more sensible times to sell, not because the market is booming for sellers. Rather, it's because selling prices are expected to plummet within the next four years, so waiting too late could see you get far less than you should. But it might be worth waiting at least a few months to take advantage of the market when it's at its most favorable. There's a lot more demand for new cars depending on the season. Trucks and 4x4s sell better in fall and winter because the roads become more difficult and drivers want a vehicle that's best equipped to handle it then, for instance. Sports cars and convertible, on the other hand, sell best in the spring and summer, and commuter vehicles sell best in the high-points of summer and winter.
When you've found the right buyer
If you find someone who's willing to go above and beyond the average buyer to acquire your vehicle, it might be time to sell it even if you think it's a little early. Be opportunistic and know how to spot a good deal. For instance, if you have a sports car, you might be able to get more by getting help selling your car by a specialized dealer rather than going on the market privately by yourself. While you're thinking about when to sell your car, do your own research on what dealers are available in the area. If you don't find a private buyer, it's always a better idea to sell a car and buy a new one individually rather than using a trade-in to offset the price of a new car. You simply tend to get more for it, that way.
When you have it in good selling condition
Regardless of when you sell your car, it's best to do a little work to make sure that you're going to get the most from it before you do so. If there are any glaring flaws or performance problems, they can decrease your asking price more than the costs of getting them fixed.
Before it loses all value
The rate of depreciation will massively depend on what kind of car you're trying to sell. Some of the most reliable brands of vehicles will depreciate at a slower rate simply because they stay in good condition for so much longer. Other brands, will stay in good value (in most models) because of the sheer badge power that's behind them. In general, however, the rate of depreciation in the first year of a car's life is the worst it experiences. From then, it's somewhat steady until its fifth year of life. That fifth year is when value takes a huge plummet in most vehicles, so it's a good idea not to wait too much longer than that.
Good timing is perhaps the most important point of when to sell your car. Wait too long and not only could you suffer the impacts of value deterioration at its worst, but you could be letting the market take a huge downturn, as well. Sell it too soon, and you might not get the value out of your vehicle that you should have. Time your exit strategy well. Check out Neuwirth Motors when you are ready for a new vehicle.


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Relaxation and stress management techniques include deep breathing, muscle relaxation, and visualization.
Self-administered acupressure (EFT/Emotional Freedom Technique) is easily learned and can reduce anxiety—as well as help with reducing and resolving other unhelpful emotions and thoughts. It is widely used by artists and athletes.
EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) is used for relaxation, visualization, and for addressing past events that are related to current difficulties. EMDR seems to help the brain process differently and more efficiently than thinking and talking do. Research shows that EMDR can produce rapid change. A particular protocol enables you to create your own personal visualization for managing challenges and achieving goals.
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In a parallel rock 'n' roll universe somewhere, Phil Spector bursts into a recording studio brandishing a chainsaw, demands the knob-twiddling lackey on duty go to the nearest hardware store to snag twelve more, and eventually proceeds to replace his wall of guitars with a wall of switched-on chainsaws. Keeping the pop song, the singer, and a minimum of drums, he chops up the resulting sound into fourteen tracks, calls the band the Jesus and Mary Chain, and calls the album Psychocandy.
Well that scenario never actually happened, but the band and the album did. In late 1985, Scottish brothers William and Jim Reid and their band the Jesus and Mary Chain let loose a storm of songs, many indebted to the 1960s Spector style and all buried up to their sonic necks in feedback and distortion. The gorgeous single "Just Like Honey" opens the album – in fine "Be My Baby" style – with the drum intro from that very song. The rest of Psychocandy set the tone for the burgeoning "shoegaze" genre that would pour out of the U.K. in the early '90s.
The band released five more albums and several compilations up until 1998, when – after numerous personnel changes, side projects, and, uh, disagreements, they called it quits. Then in the 2000s – like so many other old-but-suddenly-rejuvenated bands – the Jesus and Mary Chain reappeared, played a few festivals, put out a few greatest-hits box sets, and finally produced a new album, their first in nearly twenty years. Released in March 2017, Damage and Joy is their best in a long time, featuring piles of that wonderful JAMC catchiness/edginess, and showcased recently at the NYC stop of their current tour.
On November 17, 2017, the brothers Reid, along with current drummer Brian Young (formerly of NYC band Fountains of Wayne), bassist Mark Crozer (whose band Mark Crozer and The Rels opened the evening with an enjoyable set of Brit-rock), and guitarist Scott Von Ryper, pummeled an adoring audience at the PlayStation Theater with a blinding, colorful, strobe-driven light show and their trademark distortion-bathed pop-rock creations. In keeping with their earlier-days penchant for playing with their backs to the audience (often resulting in violence on the part of frustrated fans), the band members came off as unidentifiable, haze-engulfed silhouettes against the stage lights, which were trained more on the crowd than on the stage. Only singer Jim Reid appeared to have an actual face. Also in the background, the band's name in ALLCAPSNOSPACES.
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Kicking off with Damage and Joy's intense opener "Amputation," the band propelled through greats like "Head On"* from 1989's Automatic, "April Skies" from 1987's Darklands, "Far Gone and Out" from 1992's Honey's Dead, plenty more from Damage and Joy like "Always Sad" (special guest vocalist Bernadette Denning), "Black and Blues" (special guest vocalist Skye Ferreira on the record but unfortunately not at the concert), and the scintillating "All Things Pass"* (no relation to George Harrison). Winding it all up, the frenzied 1992 single "Reverence." A six-song encore including classics like "Just Like Honey," "Cracking Up" from their 1998 album Munki, and the crowd-pleaser single "Sidewalking" sent the audience out into the night, ringing in their ears, spots before their eyes, and amazing songs reverberating in their reeling heads.
l-r: Scott Von Ryper, Mark Crozer, Brian Young
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YouTube videos courtesy RHINO, The Jesus and Mary Chain Official, njarts.net/SHARKYS NIGHT, njarts.net/Michael Kirik, pojk_tant
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Graphic Communication PhD Programs
Find out about advanced degree options related to graphic communication. Learn about the classes these programs usually include along with possible jobs that might be available. Schools offering Communication Design & Interactive Media degrees can also be found in these popular choices.
How Common Are Ph.D. Programs in Graphic Communication?
Doctoral programs in graphic communication aren't very common. However, you can find related programs in visual culture and sound, as well as media and information studies. Some schools may offer Ph.D. programs in digital media with courses in graphic design or graduate courses in architectural graphics and media. Since the bulk of your time will be spent working on your individual research and dissertation, you can usually customize a Ph.D. program to focus specifically on graphic communication. Online programs in graphic communication or related fields are rare.
|Degree Options
|Doctoral programs aren't common; related degrees in media and information studies and in visual culture and sound available
|Common Courses
|Design planning, visual culture and sound studies, human perception, graphic communication research methods
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|Universities, journalism or media departments, advertising or entertainment industries
What Courses Will I Take?
Many doctoral programs offer a very loose framework for your required courses. This leaves room for you to work with an advisor on planning your individual curriculum. A lot of your time will be spent working on your dissertation. You will most likely be required to complete a minimum number of units from several categories, such as theoretical courses, methodology courses, doctoral research colloquium and specialized electives. Some courses relating to graphic communication that you might take in a Ph.D. program include:
- Cultural and visual studies
- Visual consumption and consumerism
- Design planning
- Human perception
- Graphic communication research methods
Most doctoral programs related to graphic communication take 3-5 years of study to complete. You usually work solely on your individual research and dissertation in the last year or two of the program. This means that the length of time required to complete a Ph.D. program depends on how long it takes you to complete this final step.
What Can I Do with My Degree?
You may be interested in becoming a professor at a university or college after earning your doctoral degree in graphic communication or a related field. As a professor, you can continue researching in your area of expertise. You might qualify to work in a graphic design, communication, journalism or media department. You could also work in advertising or the entertainment industry as a consultant, designer or researcher.
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Nigerian woman learns of a deep secret; Her Granfather was a Nazi
Jennifer Teege thought she knew the hard truths of her life: that her German mother left her in the care of nuns when she was 4 weeks old, and that her biological father was Nigerian, making her the only black child in her Munich neighborhood.
But the hardest truth came to her years later on a warm August day in Hamburg when she walked into the central library and picked up a red book with a black-and-white picture of a woman on the cover. It was titled "I Have to Love My Father, Don't I?"
As Teege, then 38, flipped through the pages, she felt she'd been caught in a furious storm that had suddenly come from nowhere.
She had unearthed the ghastly family secret.
She looked at the names of people and places in the book and realized that the woman on the cover was her biological mother.
And the father in the title was none other than Amon Goeth, the sadistic Nazi who was commandant of the Plaszow concentration camp in Poland. Many came to know about Amon Goeth through Ralph Fiennes' portrayal of him in the 1993 movie "Schindler's List."
Teege doesn't know why she was drawn to the book. But on that day, Teege learned that she -- a black German woman who'd gone to college in Israel and befriended the descendants of Holocaust survivors, who now had a successful career and a loving family -- was the granddaughter of a monster.
It was a moment that cut her life in two. There was the "before," when she knew nothing of her family's sinister past, and "after," when she was forced to live with that truth.
In the library, Teege grew cold knowing she was connected by blood to a man responsible for the deaths of 8,000 Jews. She checked out her mother's book, lay down on a bench outside and called her husband to come fetch her.
Teege had battled depression all her life and had wondered what was behind her sadness. In fact, she'd gone to the library that day for psychological research.
"I always had this inner feeling that something was wrong," she says, likening it to being inside a house with many locked doors. "I didn't know what was behind them."
She looked in the mirror at herself, saw Amon Goeth's chin, the same lines between the nose and mouth, and thought: "Do I carry something of him in me?"
After the initial jolt eased, she embarked on a quest to know everything. Eventually, she wrote a book of her own: "My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me: A Black Woman Discovers her Family's Nazi Past."
She feels fairly certain that her grandfather would not have hesitated to kill her. She is, after all, far from the Aryan ideal espoused by Amon Goeth, who, according to Teege's book, went to the gallows saying, "Heil Hitler."
"It's a story you can't take to your grave. It's exceptional," Teege says on a recent January day at Atlanta's Emory University, where she spoke about her identity and her journey to reconcile with it.
She has left her job in advertising and made her personal history her life's work now. She speaks about how she progressed from her initial fear and guilt to acceptance of her history and knowledge that she is a very different person than her grandfather.
"Today, I am not afraid of him," she says. "We are two very different people."
And she talks about how, for a long time before her discovery, she didn't believe in fate, only in chance. But now she thinks differently. She thinks about the choices she made that took her to Israel and led her to her mother's book. She believes she made them for a reason.
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Thailand waives tourist visa fees
Thai embassies and consulates are waiving the fees for all tourist visas issued between 11th May 2010 and 31st March 2011, which in the UK is £28 per entry.
I recently applied for a 3 entry tourist visa and saved myself £84 in the process. I can assure you that money will be put to very good use when I arrive in the LOS……it will buy me well over 100 bottles of beer Leo or a nice handbag for my better-half!!!
I had heard mixed reviews about the quality of visa services at the main Thai Embassy in London, so I decided to try the Royal Thai Consulate in Hull instead. They accept applications by post and in person, but if you want to apply in person you must make an appointment with them first.
I made an initial enquiry, via email, which was answered within 7 hours (I think this is incredibly good when compared to some other organisations!!!) and when I submitted my postal application, it was dealt with promptly and they returned my passport and visa in 3 days. The only cost involved was an £8 fee, charged by the embassy, to cover return postage.
I was very pleased with the overall service and level of efficiency and would have no hesitation in recommending their services. I would like to say thank you to all the staff at the consulate and commend them for their professionalism.
Here is their website which is very user friendly and easy to navigate……
And you can download visa application forms and other useful information by clicking the link below.......
More information, on the temporary waiver of tourist visas charges, together with details of other Thai-related events and activities in the UK, can be found on the following site……


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The 62nd Annual LPA National Conference will be held from June 28 – July 5, 2019 at the Marriott Marquis Hotel located in downtown San Francisco – Union Square. Click here for more information.
An Open Letter from the LPA Scholarship Committee...
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As part of our service to people with dwarfism and the community at large, LPA offers educational scholarships to prospective and current students attending college or vocational school in the United States. Awards can range from $250 to $1000 (sometimes more). A scholarship committee, headed by LPA's Programs Director, will review application packets, as well as individual donors.
LPA scholarship awards shall be limited to two awards for undergraduate studies and one for graduate studies. Ellen Highland Fernandez graduate scholarship recipients may re-apply up to two additional times.
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SPECIAL REPORT: Airplane Crashes into a Manhattan Apartment Building UPDATE: Yankee Pitcher Cory Lidle May Be Among The 2 Known Deceased, plane registered to Lidle
Posted by Admin on October 11, 2006
UPDATE – 4:45 p.m. US/Central
"Yanks' Lidle Believed Among 2 Dead in Plane Crash – FAA: Plane Registered to Pitcher, Passport Found in Street" – Ch. 2 WCBS-TV (CBS) – CBS Corporation – New York, New York, US – 11 October 2006 – 5:32 p.m. US/Eastern
(CBS/AP) NEW YORK A small plane with New York Yankees pitcher Cory Lidle aboard crashed into a 50-story condominium tower Wednesday on Manhattan's Upper East Side, killing at least two people and raining flaming debris on sidewalks, authorities said. There was no immediate confirmation Lidle was among the dead.
A law enforcement official in Washington, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Lidle was on the plane. And Federal Aviation Administration records showed the single-engine plane was registered to the athlete, who just days ago — after the Yankees' humiliating elimination from the playoffs — told reporters that he was getting his pilot's license.
The official said he did not know whether Lidle was at the controls; at least one other person was aboard the four-seat aircraft.
The crash rattled New Yorkers' nerves five years after the Sept. 11 attacks, abut the FBI and the Homeland Security quickly said there was no evidence it was anything but an accident. Nevertheless, fighter jets were sent aloft over New York and other U.S. cities as a precaution, the Pentagon said.
The plane came through a hazy, cloudy sky and hit the 20th floor of The Belaire — a red-brick tower overlooking the East River, about five miles from the World Trade Center — with a loud bang, touching off a raging fire that cast a pillar of black smoke over the city and sent flames shooting from four windows on two adjoining floors.
Firefighters shot water streams of water at the flames from the floors below and put the blaze out in less than an hour.
Large crowds gathered in the street in the largely wealthy New York neighborhood, with many people in tears and some trying to reach loved ones by cell phone.
"I was worried the building would explode, so I got out of there fast," said Lori Claymont, who fled an adjoining building in sweatpants.
On Sunday, the day after the Yankees were eliminated from the playoffs, Lidle cleaned out his locker at Yankee Stadium and talked about his interest in flying.
He explained to reporters the process of getting a pilot's license, and said he intended to fly back to California in several days and planned to make a few stops. Lidle disccused the plane crash of John F. Kennedy Jr. and how he had read the accident report on the National Transportation Safety Board Web site.
Lidle, acquired from the Philadelphia Phillies on July 30, told The New York Times last month that his four-seat Cirrus SR20 plane was safe.
"The whole plane has a parachute on it," Lidle said. "Ninety-nine percent of pilots that go up never have engine failure, and the 1 percent that do usually land it. But if you're up in the air and something goes wrong, you pull that parachute, and the whole plane goes down slowly."
Lidle pitched 1 1/3 innings in the fourth and final game of the Division Series against the Detroit Tigers and gave up three earned runs, but was not the losing pitcher. He had a 12-10 regular-season record with a 4.85 ERA.
He pitched with the Phillies before coming to the Yankees. Began his career in 1997 with the Mets. He also pitched for Tampa Bay, Oakland, Toronto and Cincinnati.
Lidle was an outcast among some teammates throughout his career because he became a replacement player in 1995, when major leaguers were on strike.
– "Yanks' Lidle Believed Among 2 Dead in Plane Crash" – WCBS-TV
BREAKING NEWS – 3:15 p.m. Central Time
CAPTION: The photo below was a live shot – time taken unknown.
Photo Credit: AP Photo/Courtesy WCBS-TV
At shortly before 3p.m. Eastern time, an aircraft crashed into an Upper-East side Manhattan Apartment Building. There are conflicting reports on whether the aircraft that crashed was a small fixed-wing plane, or a helicopter.
As a precaution NORAD has scrambled fighter jets over major cities (per Agence France-Presse).
The apartment building is located at 72nd & York Avenue; 524 E. 72nd Street. According to a report at WCBS-TV several apartments appeared to be completely engulfed in flames and plumes of smoke could be seen coming from floors 40 & 41. In an article at Yahoo! by the Associated Press a Fire Department spokeswoman is reported as saying the crash occurred on the 20th floor. That report from the Associated Press stated that 3 apartments were fully engulfed. (I am not sure if the fire is out at this time or not.)
Police have reportedly confirmed that at least two people have died as a result of this incident. There was no report of other injuries at this point.
The FAA is already saying they believe this is an accident, and the FBI is already assuring everyone that this was definitely NOT terrorism – but at this point the aircraft has not been identified, the pilot or any passengers have not been identified, and a helicopter that was very close did not hear any Mayday calls from this plane before it crashed into the building. The article states that the FBI confirmed that officials have been sent to the scene "as a matter of routine."
[Frankly, I think the authorities should stop playing games with us, and stop telling us things that they do not know. How can they possibly know that this was not terrorism when so many questions have yet to be answered? It is a complete insult to our intelligence to start spewing such nonsense at this point… Why can't they just say, "We don't know much right now, we're still investigating" How hard would that be?]
"Aircraft Slams Into Building On Upper East Side" – Ch. 2 WCBS-TV (CBS) – CBS Corporation – New York, New York, US – 11 October 2006
[VIDEO coverage is available at the WCBS Website.]
[. . .] Gordon McMahon, who lives in a nearby apartment building, witnessed the accident. He told CBS-2 News he heard a strange sound just before the impact.
"The sound before the impace — really we hear a lot of choppers around here — and the sound did not have the normal sound of a chopper. It sounded more like a firework, as if it's going up into the air," McMahon said. "Before the impact, it was sort of a buzzing sound. I was reading something, and then heard that sound and then the impact and then saw the fireball."
A resident ofa building from across the street told CBS-2 News that heavy debris began falling from the building.
"I just heard a zooming noise, like something falling, and then a huge explosion," the resident, identified as "Joanne" said.
There was word that a helicopter was seen flying near the area on an apparent photography tour, but there is NO confirmaton that that is the aircraft which collided into the luxury high-rise building. Several witnesses [sic – paragraph ends here, continues with next paragraph]
"My first though was my God, we're being under attack again," said Dr. Rock Pazzatano, a surgeon at a hospital near the building. "It didn't sound like your typical fender-bender, it sounded like 20 fender benders."
The White House has learned about the incident and is monitoring the situation, but so far there is no word that the crash is terrorist related. [Cont'd. . .]
– "Aircraft Slams Into Building On Upper East Side" – Ch. 2 WCBS-TV (CBS – WCBS.com)
"AIRCRAFT CRASHES INTO MANHATTAN BUILDING" – Associated Press (AP) – Yahoo! News – Yahoo! Inc. – Sunnyvale, California, US – 11 October 2006 – Published at approximately: 2:12 p.m. Central Time
[Slideshow Available on Yahoo! Website; "Small Plane Crashes Into N.Y. High-rise"]
A small aircraft crashed into a high-rise on the Upper East Side, setting off a fire and startling New Yorkers, police said. There were conflicting reports on whether the aircraft was a small plane or a helicopter.
Fire Department spokeswoman Emily Rahimi said an aircraft struck the 20th floor of a building on East 72nd Street. Witnesses said the crash caused a loud noise, and burning and falling debris was seen. Flames were seen shooting out of the windows. Video from the scene showed at least three apartments in the high rise fully engulfed in flames.
"There's huge pieces of debris falling," said one witnes who refused to give her full name. "There's so much falling now, I've got to get away."
Whether anyone was injured was not known, and it was unclear if the crash was an act of terrorism. [Cont'd. . .]
– "Aircraft crashes into Manhattan building" – Yahoo! News
"US SCRAMBLES FIGHTERS AFTER NY PLANE CRASH" – Agence France-Presse (AFP) – Breitbart News – Breitbart.com, LLC – Los Angeles, California, US – 11 October 2006 – 4:04 p.m. US/Eastern
US authorities scrambled fighter jets above US cities as a precaution after a small plane crashed into an apartment building in New York, a top commander said.
Admiral Tim Keating, commander of the US Northern Command, would not say how many cities were under air cover but insisted there was no sign of terrorism in the accident on Manhattan's post Upper East Side.
"Fighters, along with early warning systems, they've been up there for half an hour, 45 minuted," Keating told CNN.
[Cont'd . . .]
– "US Authorities Scrambled Fighters After NY Plane Crash" – Breitbart News (Breitbart.com)


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We love Norway and Sweden so taking advantage of the situation for what may be our last trip to Scandinavia
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I love blackberries -picked wild, only available for a few weeks each year, elevating them in my book to the 'very,very, extra special' category of foods. This year there was a pretty good crop all round. I picked in Waterford and Dublin and despite Waterfords reputation as 'the sunny south east' the ones I picked in Dublin were huge! You can freeze them for tarts & pies or as I have now discovered you can sprinkle them with sugar and mix them with vodka to make a schnapps. I also had lots of fun styling and tasting the schnapps for my beautiful, talented, photographer extraordinaire, friend Aga who lead the shoot for this recipe. You can see her amazing work here.
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Many events unfolded in the past week which need to be timestamped and placed as dates of importance for those with interest or exposure in the cryptocurrency markets.
The Digital Asset Market shed 3.8% over the past week
But ….
Since March 18th the Cryptocurrency Market is up 27%
Remember March 18, 2018. This date will be mentioned along with many data points as I continue this writing today, as well as in the future.
As a refresher, these are the other major dates of importance since I began my writings for PAC:
December 17, 2017: The first day of trade for CME Bitcoin Futures, Also the all time high in BTC price.
January 7, 2018 : Digital Commodity Market All Time High in Price, 875 billion Dollars.
February 6, 2018: This year's low price for the cryptocurrency market, 276 billion dollars.
March 18, 2018: A retest of the year low in the cryptocurrency market, 276 billion dollars. Also, Daily trading volume hit a year low at 12 billion dollars.
Overall, the past week the cryptocurrency market did shed 4.4%, but has had a sharp rebound off the Sunday evening lows. Also, of note, G20 comments, released late Sunday evening, appeared to be not nearly as negative as some were led to believe and put a nice spring bottom in the market, just as it retested the yearly market cap low.
The G20 meeting date was no surprise, anyone who has Google could look on a calendar and make note, but the way it unfolded over the weekend, you have to start looking at probabilities. On Friday March 16, just as most US markets are closing for the week, the crypto market was 331 billion dollars. Over the weekend, the market proceeded to go lower and Sunday March 18, right around 6pm EST, the market touches the 2018 low at 276 billion just as US Futures markets re open for trade.
24 hour trading volume for the digital commodity asset class reached a year low, 10.8 bb, March 17 – 18. Just hours later the yearly low in the total market cap for the cryptocurrency space was traded, and wouldn't you know by the time US equities open at 9:30 am EST trading volume was back up to 19 billion dollars, and it had recouped almost all of the losses incurred over the weekend.
Major Market Recaps for the past week:
US Equities: Down 2.4%
VIX: Up 15%
US 10's: Unched
ED Rates: Relatively Flat but did make a new multiyear high
Digital Commodity: Down 3.8%
Gold: Down .4%
Many investors and traders in this space are of the belief that regulation is bad for markets. I am not one of those people. If people raise money for an idea and stick to the business plan, (whitepaper,) and fulfill the promises, whether that investment increases or decreases, that is for the market to decide. Those who should worry are the firms/coins, who raised outside capital and simply took advantage of the public and had no real plans to do anything they spoke or wrote about.
Regulation will help mitigate and help eliminate the fraud and deception by those who do not have investors best interest on their mind. ICO's basically created a market for companies and coins to raise capital with minimal regulation as compared to a bond offering or an equity IPO. Some of the white papers I read months ago had 12 month plans of being, "A top 10 on Coin Market Cap."
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England should build a team around Ross Barkley.hes that good i think.Does anyone else agree.!!
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@releasethekraken Sterling was a lot more consistent 2nd half of last season than Barkley, though I think given time, Barkley will have more 'strings to his bow' than Sterling in terms of an all round footballer.
He is still very inexperienced. Something we always do is pile pressure on young players by calling them 'Englands hope for the future' or something. We shouldn't build a team around anyone. We should build a team where various positions are covered by 2 or 3 quality players.
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Yes i agree i think barkley is quality. he and sterling are brilliant young players - i rate sterling marginally above him at the moment but then again i would wouldn't i... both should be in the england team.
So you think that Sterling is overrated but you would build a team around Barkley? Not biased at all are you??!!
Failed to make an impact so far for England but most definitely showing potential. Needs a few years to build his confidence on an international level.


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Today is the day that I feel I have nothing to write, so I'm just going to write only the topics which are related to my art life.
1980: I had born in Shiraz, Iran.
1993: I had studied child music (Orff).
1996: I had started to play classical guitar (I gave that up after 3 or 4 years).
1998: I had started to study avant-garde music composing in Iran (I gave that up after 4 or 5 years).
2005: I had published my first book, a collection of short stories (writing is the only thing that I have never given up yet).
2007: I had lived in Armenia.
2008: I had bought my first photo camera and started to do photography (I had been a part of a photo exhibition in CA, USA).
2009: I had started to write screenplay (I have had no success and I'm writing just for my movies now).
2010: I had bought my first video camcorder and started to produce some short conceptual and future documentary movies.
2012: I had lived in Turkey.
2014: I had join some film festivals in Belorussia, Cyprus and Greece.
2015: I had lived in the Philippines.
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"It was a pleasure for me to able to recommend to the board that we remove the 'interim' label in front of Wright's job titles," said Emory University President James W. Wagner. "He is a seasoned physician-executive who knows the Emory system inside and out after having spent the last 21 years here in positions of increasing responsibility. Over the course of this past academic year, he has gained nothing but plaudits from colleagues across the University as well as from national academic health center leaders.
"I and many others have found Wright to be a firm and judicious leader for the health sciences, as well as a humane and thoughtful overseer of the academic enterprise generally. Already he has made important contributions as a member of the University's Ways and Means Committee and the President's Cabinet. The entire university will benefit from his wise counsel for years to come, and will enjoy the understated humor with which he characteristically dispenses it."
The Woodruff Health Sciences Center consists of Emory University's Schools of Medicine, Nursing, and Public Health; the Yerkes National Primate Research Center; the Winship Cancer Institute; and Emory Healthcare, the University's comprehensive health care system. Before becoming interim head of the center effective September 1, 2010, Caughman served as director of The Emory Clinic, the group practice of the School of Medicine faculty, as executive associate dean for clinical affairs in the School of Medicine, and as vice president for clinical and academic integration in the Woodruff Health Sciences Center.
Douglas Ivester, chairman of the board of the Woodruff Health Sciences Center, said: "I could not be more impressed with the way Wright combines authentic academic values, an understanding of the research mission of the University, and a strong business sense for the health care marketplace. Wright rose to the occasion when he was tapped as head of the health sciences enterprise last fall.
"He did not miss a beat in leading complex negotiations involving Emory's various units, including negotiations with St. Joseph's Health System that resulted in our agreement to form a Joint Operating Company and our ongoing discussions with Children's Healthcare of Atlanta to help craft an enduring partnership that will advance the research and patient care missions of both institutions. I am confident that the Woodruff Health Sciences Center will continue to advance in national prominence under Wright's tenure as CEO."
Caughman said: "I feel honored and privileged by the opportunity to lead one of America's great academic health science centers. The best feature is that it is integrated across premier programs in the Schools of Medicine, Nursing, and Public Health, along with the Winship Cancer Institute, the Yerkes National Primate Research Center, and a world class health care system. There are few places that have such outstanding programs across all dimensions of education, research and healthcare innovation, and where the faculty and staff are so deeply committed to collaborative discovery and innovation---all to improve the health of the people we serve, including the broader global community."
Trained as a dermatologist, Caughman joined the Emory School of Medicine faculty in 1990 after serving in the dermatology branch of the National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health.
In addition to teaching and working as a staff physician at The Emory Clinic, Grady Memorial Hospital and the Veterans Affairs Medical Center, he led a successful research program in cutaneous biology for many years and was one of two co-chairs of the School of Medicine research strategic plans in 1997 and 2003. He served as Chair and Alicia Leizman Stonecipher Professor of the Department of Dermatology from 1997 to 2007.
A former high school English teacher who graduated from Davidson College, Caughman earned his MD from the Medical University of South Carolina and completed his residency in dermatology at Harvard Medical School.
He and his wife Alison have three adult children and one grandchild.
The Robert W. Woodruff Health Sciences Center of Emory University is an academic health science and service center focused on missions of teaching, research, health care and public service.
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Group size is key to having a great time with the whales in Tonga. Day boats take anywhere from eight to 12 people out on a boat — our boats have a maximum of six
We are leading TWO trips.
Trip A: October 3rd-14th 2020
Trip B: October 14th-24th 2020
Each trip is two boats for a total of 14 people per trip. (including us) There is an morning boat and an afternoon boat with us all meeting together for meals, activities and workshops
Each group takes turns in the water; the group on the
The whale-swimming laws in Tonga allow for four guests in the water, plus the accredited guide, which equals five


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Mmm mmm mmm! That Krispy Kreme Strawberry Gloss doughnut was just delicious. Fashionably glossy pink and yum yum. I couldn't fault it for an afternoon snack. I thought I'd update you guys before heading out to Harrods this afternoon to pick up some groceries and makeup.
The last time I was in Harrods, approx 2 weeks ago, I was shopping for a laptop bag fashionable enough to carry my 16.4" Sony laptop to work. After hours of futile search of the web, I decided to look into this trendy number from Aspinal of London.
Online photos of this was just perfect for managing my 'tech powerhouse' around my client's offices in London without looking like a labour of love. So, regrettably, I have to say I was very disappointed when I went into the Aspinal of London store to find that it was not ideal for my Sony. Reasons being, although sophisticated, slightly overpriced at £395 with not enough colour selection on the day and any give in the bag itself.
Without wasting time, I dashed off to Westfield to find a wider range of options under one roof where I went to find Mont Blanc, Mulberry and Salvatore Ferragamo. Long search and yet no pleasing this diva!
So finally, my settled choice came from Fossil. Although I had spotted this earlier in their shop window, I wanted to be sure it was in line with the 'marilyn1diva' image. At the office, I need to be conservative yet stylish, a difference to my ultra glamourous self out of the office.
I have to say it's growing on me and I like it even better now for the unique fashion character it has!


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Taylor Swift attended her bestie's wedding over the weekend. While she wasn't quite as photo friendly as Hailey Baldwin was at her sister's wedding, Taylor apparently still ended up as the center of attention as she toasted her childhood friend Abigail Anderson.
A clip of that toast surfaced online. In it, Taylor recounts a wild night with Abigail and her new husband. She uses her lyrical prowess to make a joke about hearing things in the bathroom that she didn't want to.
"She's running after him. There's falling, there's stumbling," Taylor says as she remembers a very messy night. "They make it to the bathroom, and I heard sound that I can never un-hear."
"And then there's silence," Taylor continues. "And then…" she begins before the video cuts out. Taylor never clarifies which end she heard things coming out of.
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UPDATE: Yesterday ICE appealed, yet again, a judge's order to terminate the removal proceedings against Neil Rambana's client, a US citizen. Despite the fact that immigration judge William Cassidy issued orders in 2006 and 2008 terminating David's deportation, David remains incarcerated. For more, see "US Citizen Falsely Imprisoned by ICE" (Georgia).
In The Nation article (pub. date June 23, 2008) "Thin ICE," in addition to the profiles of several US citizens whom ICE falsely imprisoned for up to five years, I mention a few statistics. No room to explain in the article, or to review the plights of all 30+ US citizens, but in the next few days I'll elaborate.
The statistics:
The first number I mention is the 276,912 US residents ICE deported in 2007. This figure is straight from an online publication by the Department of Homeland Security, FY07 US Immigration and Customs Enforcement Accomplishments. This states:
"ICE implemented a comprehensive interior enforcement strategy focused on more efficiently processing apprehended illegal aliens and reducing the numbers of criminal and fugitive aliens in the United States. In FY07, ICE removed a record 276,912 illegal aliens, including voluntary removals, from the United States."
This high figure is indeed alarming. It means that, like the Nazi government in prewar Germany, the US government has been combing the country for longtime residents and then removing them from the country on the grounds that they are not citizens.
Most of those being deported are being found through the jails and prisons, taken in secret to detention facilities without any notice to their families, and indeed, lying to relatives by saying that the locations are not known. Here's how ICE describes what it's up to:
"ICE's Criminal Alien Program, which screens aliens in prison to ensure that they are removed from the United States upon the completion of their sentences, initiated removal proceedings against 164,296 criminal aliens."
The problem documented in "Thin ICE" is that many of those deported are actually US citizens. An additional problem is that virtually all of the people who are deported from the prisons and jails are longterm US residents, many of whom were picked up for minor infractions or misdemeanors such as drunk driving and failing to stop for the police, prostitution, possessing a small amount of methamphetamines or marijuana, a barroom brawl perhaps years after a bench warrant was issued when someone failed to show up for a traffic violation. (These examples are drawn from cases with I am familiar.)
Again, think Nazi Germany: you're a Jew taken into the police for drunk driving after a fight with your girlfriend and suddenly no one knows where you are. Or your mother goes to work in the morning and you come home after school and she's gone and no one knows where she is. I am not describing Germany during the 1940s, during the death camps, but in the 1930s when the Nazi government started to make doing business with Jews illegal, and then being Jewish was illegal. This is happening here. This is happening now. I am not suggesting that the next step is death camps, but that this current activity is despicable in itself.
More on the rest of the numbers in "Thin ICE" tomorrow.


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Marxism is an incomplete philosophy, and I do consider myself a Marxist. It acknowledges, accurately, that human ideas spring from material conditions and that the conditions of opposing classes are the bedrock of opposing ideas. Human ideas come from class conflict, and class conflict comes from material conditions. Humans are solidly embedded in the natural world.
What Marxism lacks is a clear conception of the nature of consciousness in relation both to a specific era (capitalism, communism, etc) and to nature itself (where humankind comes from and ultimately must relate to). Marxist philosophy and its writers have occasionally hinted at this connection but have never fully fleshed it out in its entirety, or at least as far as I am aware of.
It is my goal here to illustrate in brief terms what the major stages of consciousness are, and further, their relationship with the development of the species including, if applicable, the modes of production. These stages are meant to express the overall development of conscious life and action on the Earth as an aggregate. Individuals exist in complex societies, but the whole of society develops an existence of its own, quite apart from the individual. As with everything, development is uneven. These stages need not apply universally to every last tribe or lifeform. But they exemplify the total development of the planet at various times.
It is vital that we have a sense of ourselves as what we truly are: the cosmos woken to itself. The bare sketch I lay out here is meant to illustrate what that means and what the future really looks like.
Each stage I will discuss in more detail on their separate posts. Necessarily, each stage has greater complexity than the last.
1-No consciousness. The only contributing factors are end-goal oriented processes (like molecular catalytic processes and cell division) or simply physical causation. The interplay of atoms and chemistry rule here. Though these processes never actually disappear (humans are still chemical creatures made of atoms), it is here that they are the main driver of causality. Important so far as the story of life goes, but it can be abbreviated for our purposes.
2-Instinctual consciousness. The first level of consciousness that appears in the cosmos. With many stages and gradations, this is the consciousness of animals. This stage of consciousness, vis-a-vis the cosmos, is not distinguishable from it in any meaningful sense. That is, the consciousness of instinct is entirely expressible as a natural force, it cannot express itself as being distinct from nature because it is not built for that, and it is entirely subject to the whims of nature.
Experiences as we humans understand them can happen at this level, but free will is not present. This is consciousness as it first arises and is entirely ruled by natural processes, such as the environment, chemistry, and genes. Human beings, of course, still live with instinct as an artifact of evolution.
3-Social or Distinct consciousness. Distinct, because it is the first kind of consciousness which can build its sense of the world, and thus its sense of self, as separate from nature. Social consciousness is what I call distinct consciousness in the human context, since our separation from nature exists entirely due to our sociability with each other. As instinct still remains with humans, so to does social conscious remain with humans to this day.
Language is the product of social consciousness. Language makes up the vast majority of all thoughts humans have and influences behavior more directly then even their genes. Language is a means of communicating often complex ideas, ideas which carry content and meaning all on their own apart from the mediums that they move through (writing on paper, spoken tongue, etc.). Language is not possible at the stage of instinct, and its appearance marks the beginning of the social stage of consciousness. Social consciousness had usurped instinct as the main driver of evolution during the early days of human agriculture, and had continued its development through the ancient days of slave economies and feudal societies.
Social consciousness has its focus on fellow social beings and its interactions with them. This social world is in many subtle and not-to-subtle ways perceived as virtually separate (even alleviated above) nature. This is the source of religion and belief in God. It is in this stage of consciousness that spirituality, religion, and politics arise… with all that implies, good and bad. In this stage, humanity can also experience existential dread for the first time… suicide becomes possible. Also, although human instinct still drives us to reproduce, our social consciousness has allowed us the ability to craft our sense of selves in ways that do not rely solely on reproduction.
This stage of consciousness introduces everything we know about being human and also has given us quite a lot of neuroses. The spiritual angst and also the intense creativity that humans are capable of comes from the fact that social conscious acts as if it were divided from nature. In reality, all life (and all consciousness) is embedded in nature (the cosmos) and could not be otherwise. But social consciousness, properly understood, views itself as separate. Because of this, human beings at the social stage of consciousness end up trying to justify themselves, and find meaning outside of nature, rather than within it. This is what I mean when I say that religion and the belief in God comes from the social stage of consciousness. There would be no need for belief in either if human beings had found total tranquility in their own material conditions. As it stands, they quite often don't.
4-Scientific Technical consciousness, or Statistical consciousness. Failing to find ultimate serenity or even practical merit from something outside of and distinct from nature, consciousness (as an aggregate) turns to picking apart and dissecting nature. Including, notably, human consciousness itself. This is the age of science, and, importantly, capitalism.
It is this mode of consciousness that becomes dominant in, and also fuels, the capitalist mode of production. This is because capitalism requires the dissection of nature, on a previously unknown scale, so the profits may flow from nature in the form of surplus value (of human labor… human labor, itself, being the only product of nature directly controllable by consciousness, a very important point I will return to). This mode of consciousness is a great boon to humanity in uncountable ways, by taking nature apart and putting it back together in countless ways, nature comes to serve man far more than in the past.
But it also leads to an amplification of the previously mentioned neuroses of the social stage of consciousness: Science acts as an acid to all previously held logic and meaning. By taking apart nature, and thus humankind itself, what was once the sacred ground of social consciousness becomes mere atoms and chemicals again. Humanity's special place of honor alongside the spiritual vanishes, and we are a part of nature again… though we do not feel it. It feels alien and inhuman because we aren't used to it. The truth is we are a part of nature, though science and technology alone cannot fully numb the sting. This is why in the early development of science and capitalism there is such a conflict between religious morality and secular morality.
Additionally, the capitalistic drive for profits by the exploitation of human labor and the commodification of the world, does not help human woes. Not forever at least. A pyramid of rich and poor develops where money is seen as the only kind of value, where humans are not defined by their own existence as people (or communities) but rather by the size of their accounts, the sheen of their cars, or their position on the pyramid. This is a natural development of scientific-technical consciousness because this stage of consciousness is chiefly concerned with the dissection of nature, and with it, the dissection, and most efficient exploitation of, human social norms and human consciousness itself.
Again, humans are not separate from nature or the cosmos in any real sense. By abandoning the social stage and entering the scientific-technical stage, consciousness on a planetary scale turns away from its fabricated world towards the concrete world of atoms and chemistry again, only now to take it apart and put it back together as efficiently as possible. It can only do so by employing the conscious beings that constitute its entire existence: humans. Most humans end up in what Marxists refer to as the "working class", and their labor is the ultimate source of all the value generated by capitalism with the application of science and technology.
Perhaps most importantly, this is the stage where thought itself is automated. This is a subject which deserves attention alone, as significant to the scientific-technical stage of consciousness. Automated consciousness stands as the ultimate culmination of capitalistic science (achieved as all things under capitalism by the labor of the working class), and includes not merely machines and programs that perform the basic logic of consciousness, but also systems of social manipulation of a wide variety (the automation of a human's own thoughts). It is also the beginning of the next and final stage of conscious evolution, but one which cannot be reached until the primary contradiction of conscious life has been resolved, that is, its separation from nature. This will be made clearer once I discusses scientific-technical conscious alone in its own post.
All past stages are of course still present and in the background. Your screen is based on the interaction of electrons in carefully constructed circuits. Your instincts are still waiting patiently, whether they are wanted or not. And your world is still inundated by language and human social interaction and all that implies. Yet the world of late capitalism is ruled by the law of extraction of value i.e. dissecting nature as efficiently as possible to produce surplus value. In other words, the world as we know it is based on the unit-ization and digitization of the world: mass production for market sale. Capitalism is the main driver of present history, and the frame of present Earth consciousness.
It relies on all past achievements of conscious life on the Earth including chemistry, genes, language, politics, etc. in order to maximize surplus value at the expense of human beings. It has perfected the nature of science and technology as the means with which humankind will fully understand the cosmos with it themselves, but it has not given humans the freedom to use that power. To fully use this power capitalism has to first be overcome by the conscious action of human beings.
5-Cosmic consciousness. This mode of consciousness is the stage by which humanity, armed with the tools of the previous eras, overcomes its separation from nature. As instinctual consciousness is bound by the whims of nature, nature is bound by the whims of cosmic consciousness. The evolution of life and consciousness finally ends where it began: perfectly settled within nature, only this time as nature embodied with consciousness and fully aware of itself.
A child cannot control their actions, but an adult can. Here we come full circle and see how consciousness itself becomes dominant over the forces of nature, rather than the reverse. Here the productive powers formed in the scientific technical mode of consciousness, where capitalism is dominant, are used by social human beings to rectify the problem of their estrangement, and solve their neuroses. Knowledge and scientific reasoning become tools for the maximization of consciousness, not the maximization of value (money). The material conditions of Earth and human society are such that all destitution and want can be eliminated, boredom and spiritual malaise relieved. The Earth becomes the perfect engine for the continuation of conscious life in the cosmos. Cosmic consciousness is simply the forces of life given total reign over the forces of nature for its own maximization.
Like all stages of conscious development, this process will be gradual. Science will assist us in maintaining and creating knowledge in our own benefit. Knowledge can be combined with artificial intelligence and mental engineering to increase our creativity beyond our wildest imaginings. The distinction between technology and biology will gradually fade, as will the distinction between the virtual and the concrete. Cosmic consciousness is exemplified by the coming age where consciousness (of whatever form, mostly human, though gradually more virtual) sees its position in the cosmos totally transparently. Nature will be aware of itself.
Christians have always longed for communion with God, but humanity's real destiny is communion with nature.
Cosmic consciousness, properly understood, is the transition from a life which stands apart from nature to a life which stands as nature emboldened by consciousness. The evolutionary possibilities afforded by this far outstrip the possibilities of previous evolutionary eras.
Cosmic consciousness necessitates first the development of communism, defined here as a classless and stateless society where all means of production (and means of artificial thought) are controlled in common among human beings. Communism is not identical with cosmic consciousness. In the beginning of its development, communism will still exist primarily at the scientific-technical stage of consciousness. All human beings must be gathered in a collective project of consciously moving society, and by extension, the resources of the planet Earth, towards the fulfillment of conscious emotional, material, and spiritual needs. Before this, cosmic consciousness will not be fully developed. Only after the full development of conscious life under communism (and the complete development of all productive forces) will cosmic consciousness come to exist. Of course this will all be clarified once I discuss cosmic consciousness alone at length.
The Birth and Self-Fulfillment of Consciousness: The Cosmic Fugue. These five stages are the steps the cosmos takes to get from absolutely no self-awareness to complete self-awareness, at least in the current Earth example. This is the basic process in which Earth life has given the cosmos a path from determinism to freedom, mindless wandering to narrative adventure, and from stuff which feels nothing to beings which feel everything and can do anything.
In essence, the Cosmic Fugue is the development of a universe which simply is, to one which lives. In the Earth example, we see a gradual progression from beings slaved to the whims of nature (via instinct), to beings which form narratives separate from nature (in language and custom), to beings who can control nature (with science and technology), and finally to beings are one with nature, inseparable from it in mind, body, and spirit. With this progress you will see a change from beings determined to act one way to beings with a choice to make.
We can marvel at the fact that Earth is only one example of this process, and at the same time rejoice that we have an opportunity to be active participants in a cosmos destined to be filled with life and consciousness!