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Lyle should make a connection between Mormonism and the 33 degree Masons, which was itself a takeover of lower Masons by Illuminists. The latter were debauched secret society anti-national elitists who worship Kabalah and Lucifer (Venus, the fallen star). There is an excellent chapter on this and the Germans (including later Rothschild-linked Germans) and the British, in Jim Marrs' mostly well done book: Rule by Secrecy. He doesn't mention Mormons (weird that he doesn't), but elsewhere people have exposed the links of the Mormons to secret-priesthood Illuminist Masons to the Mormons. A good place about Lucifer (Venus fallen star) imagery and Mormons, is: http://vigilantcitizen.com/?p=986 ---- And the Mormons themselves have a page on Lucifer saying it created a problem for them: www.lds-mormon.com/lucifer.shtml ---- And there's the fact they're obsessed with creating a Zion homeland in North America, as Lyle says; but note that it's more transparent than Israel: not using Jewish cover but rather more direct Masonic symbols mixed with Old Testament fundamentalism and Jesus-following pretenses.
Hi...this is Lyle.I am aware that Joseph Smith was a Mason and essentially stole all of the Masonic symbolism that is used in the Mormon religion today.The Mormons are anti-Semitic and Freemasonry is based on the Judaic legends of the flood of Gilgamesh and the Jewish religion as documented in the Dead Sea Scrolls. Masonic lore teaches that the ancient lore of the stonemasons eventually resulted in a schism between "Egyptian" and "Jewish" views of this legend.Joseph Smith left the "tradition Jewish" view and adapted this "Egyptian" view of Masonic pre-history specifically because the Mormons are anti-Semitic. This is also what was really behind the ridiculous "Book of Abraham" scam perpetrated by Joseph Smith, when Smith purchased an Egyptian scroll and "translated" it into Mormon dogma (prior to the time that hieroglyphics were able to be read). This is the entire reason why Egyptian lore is so imbedded in Mormon theology. Because it is "not of the Jew" as traditional freemasonry is.
Hi, this is Clare. :) It seems to me that you say Smith gleaned much of his work from an Egyptian or pseudo-Egyptian tradition (through Freemasonry, which was a mix and re-creation, with POSSIBLY an original tie to Egypt as well). I can see that in it; but there is such a fundamentalist version of Old Testament Jewish (Hebrew-religion) in Mormonism, as well. This, I assume, is for the average person, and allows a kind of control and screen for the other stuff which hides in sometimes plain sight and sometimes is hidden. Is that your point? Best wishes!
I should add, you seem to be confused in thinking Freemasonry is NOT Egyptian (or pseudo-Egyptian and Babylonian or pseudo-Babylonian). In fact, Freemasonry is very full of the Kabbalah, yes, and full of all kinds of other touches as well. If you mean to suggest Freemasonry is "Jewish" because the early Jews got influenced (in part of their group) by the Babylonians and Egyptians, and this is "Judaism" is unfair. Christianity is no more "Greek religion" though it is one of the threads which made Christianity. So ... my point is that Freemasonry is a weird syncretic influence from within a TYPE of Judaism (or pseudo-Judaism recreation), and other religions as well. So ... Smith seems to be pulling from the Egyptian/Babylonian Freemasonry threads, moreso than the Jewish-influence threads. Freemasonry has ALL these thread. --- Though anyway, I wanted to ask you (as I said) whether you think the Judaism influence is used as a cover in Mormonism? [As they use Christianity too as a cover, for the more Egyptian (or pseudo) and Babylonian (or pseudo)?]
Part - 1Let me try to clarify....Joseph Smith was a Mason. And, he knew that Freemasonry was based on the Book of Enoch, which is part of the dead Sea Scrolls and was not included by the Catholic Church in the Christian version of the Bible. Joseph Smith was very well aware that Freemasonry and Christianity came out of Jewish lore and the Jewish religion.The Book of Enoch details the pre-history of the World, which was destroyed in 8,000 BC by a comet, and again in 3000BC by yet another comet. As it turns out, the civilization that was wiped out by the comet (8,000 BC) was the REAL "Lost Tribe of Isreal", which lived at the time in what is now Ireland and England. As a result of that impact, the "Lost Tribe" was forced to migrate to what is now modern day Egypt, and transferred their knowledge to the Egyptions, which formed the basis for the rise of ancient Egyptian civilition.The "Flood of Gilgamesh" as documented in the Book of Enoch actually documents the second comet (3,000 BC) and the ensuing flood that ocurred after the comet impacted in the Mediteranean Sea, and destroyed much of the culture in Egypt and Mesopotamia at that time.The entire basis of freemasonry is to carry on this secret knowledge of this "pre-history" of the world. Further, freemasonry began in Scotland and was founded by the Jewish remnants of the Irish and Scotts who claim to be actual descnedants of the ancient Druids who were the original Jewish inhabitants of Ireland and Scotland prior to the comet impact of 8,000 BC.All of this in turn forms the basis of what is known as "British Isrealism", which evolved into the "Christian Identity" movement in modern day America today. British Israelism is the lore that all of the royals of Ireland, Scotland and England are actual the descendants of the "Lost Tribe of Isreal", and that in the final days, when the Jewish temple is restored in Isreal, a member of British Royal will be kinged the "New King of Isreal". It is important to know that the Book of Enoch is Jewish, and forms the basis for today's freemasonry, which is also Jewish in origin.
Part - 2Hence, since Joseph Smith always was an avowed anti-Semite and anti-Black, he could not and would not adopt the "Book of Enoch" history of the world because of its ties to the Jew. Consequently, he specifically formed a new religion and "sect" of freemasonry that would erase any and all references to Jewish culture and Jewish "Pre-history", and create a new religion, integrating Freemasonry, that would be devoid of "The Jew". Hence, the Mormon religion was strategically created as a warped and non-traditional view of the world, according to an 1830 white supremacist who refused to accept the "mainstream" view of Christianity and Freemasonry. The little-known Mormon "Doctrine of Cain" teaches that the Jews are the illegitimate spawn of Cain and Satan, and that the Jews are the illegitimate spawn of the Jews and the "Beasts of the Fields. This is actually original Mormon theology, which all of the Christian Identity Groups propagate and teach today. Further, all of the founders of the major Christian Identity Groups today are Mormon or Mormon fundamentalists. Mormons and Mormon fundamentaiists founded The Order, The Aryan Nations (AKA Church of Jesus Christ Christian), The Aryan Republican Army, The Covenant the Arm and the Sword of the Lord and the Church of Isreal. Every one of these groups were involved in the propagation of violence against the United States. Their reason is because America is corrupt because it is based on Judeo-Christian Law, which was derived from British Common Law, which in turn was derived from the ancient Greek City States, which in turn took their law directly from Jerusalem.Consequently, all of these white supremacist neo-Nazi groups believe in the violent overthrow of the American Government simply because its laws are "of the Jew". More specifically, Smith's prophecy of "Daniel's Prophecy of the Rise of the Kingdom of God in the Last Days" teaches that God took "The Priesthood" away from the Jews specifically because the Jews forsook "God's Laws" for the "Laws of Man". And, this same prophecy also provides the explanation for why the Jews have been downtrodden, smitten and are "a scoff and a byword" in every nation they've inhabited. So there you go....its as craay as Charles Manson's Helter Skelter. And, the Mormons are terrified that this TRUTH might ever come to light. There is a reason why they first tried bribing me and then threatened my life on 6 different occasions.
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Hi, Lyle! I posted my comments but screwed up the order of the postings. (I copied and pasted from a pre-written copy.) So ... here it is properly:Dear Lyle, thank you for your full comments! Some of this I was aware of, some not. However, though this is how you see it right now, may I ask your patience in what I am about to suggest?We know the British tribes had a tradition that they were the real descendants both of Christ's true teachings (the Joseph of Arimathea tale) and of the Israel lost tribe.There are several ways to interpret this and several ways it may have come about.a) These pre- and early Mediaevals were obsessed with origins. Origins are memory and cultural identity. They are clannishness in the bad sense and in the good sense. (Ayaan Hirsi Ali makes this point about current Islamist tribal behaviours in Africa at least, and perhaps in Arabia.)When the Bible became known to them, they identified with its tales and would have sought to place themselves into it.
ON THE OTHER HAND,b) The Irish/Scottish Celts were Phoenicians. Yes, they came from that region, in two waves at least. Now this does not mean they didn't have other intersociations as well, but they came from Asia Minor through the sea.In being such (as modern philology and pottery/historical text studies show), they are in a sense a Semitic group. They may have had their own tales. What would they have been? That they traded and came from Palestine, Tyre, and so on.If this was seeded already and the Biblical tradition was an encrustation on their tales and thinking, they might very well have focussed their half-ecclesiastical and half-traditional tribal history around the dual role of their ancestors ... as barbarians (to the Christian mind) and as lordly lost people (for pride AND as a remnant of their ancient history as Phoenicians)
PLUS,c) The British monarch (now German Windsor-Hanover line) would have also sought to abrogate political power to her/himself by claiming links to this tradition, whether openly (early on) or in secret societies (later).AND,d) The Masonic tradition was seeded through the influence of the dispersed Templar power magnates, if we look at the Zeno narrative (and Michael Bradley's Canadian connection to that) and at the symbols of the early Rosslyn tombstones -- much later in date than the Templar dispersal but the link is strong nevertheless.Yes, they were "mere knights" but they were also a tradition of Jerusalem takeover ... they were the knights to acquire and conquer Jerusalem --- for the "new" (old revived) Zion.In their minds were they Christians? Some would say obviously so. But in other senses they, like modern top-level cultists in Christianity and Judaism (and Buddhism for that matter) consider themselves something not only more aware/enlightened than the masses, but actually something quite different, with secrets almost completely not suggested in the rituals for the masses.
NOW TOO,e) Some people consider Velikovsky "debunked", though like the term "perp", "shill", or "agent", this term "debunked" is thrown around with such alacrity today that I ask you to consider his works in their own merit in spite of the label "debunked").Velikovsky did predict a huge amount but also CRITICAL features of solar system behaviour before anyone would have connected these dots. Some of his predictions were technically already discovered or suggested by other scientists, but they did not connect those discoveries to any meaning or predictable outcomes and were discoveries not well known.Velikovsky expanded what was known and predicted more, and had a reason for doing so and was RIGHT in his predictions of the DYNAMIC interactions of the features of our solar system.The issue was: mega-catastrophism and planetary latecomers to our solar system. Even if Venus and Saturn and Mars did NOT move around, something discharged their electromagnetic reactions at some point, if ancient texts and many hints from our geologic beds are true. A comet would not do this.A Planet X interfering or an Oort Cloud with disruptive effects would.
ALSO,f) The Egyptian traditions are linked directly to Sumer. The idea that they were seeded by a much older sea-faring nation is tantalizing, but seems unsupportable ... if only as a TOTAL picture.The main histories seem to come from Sumer.But ... and this is an interesting tantalizing thing ... perhaps BOTH Sumer and early Egypt were seeded by the antediluvian culture.In this case, the Celts and their predecessors too (the "dark peoples") could have been remnants of this lost culture, as well: the Celts coming from the Phoenician/Sumerian tradition (lost tribe of Israel); the "dark peoples" (Picts, Albas -- see Farley Mowat's brilliant exploratory romp, "The Farfarers" for this theory) being native but also with traditions they were from a lost land (Mu, I believe it was).The Egyptians believed they came on boats and the earliest drawings are of boats (in the Sinai, I think, or close by -- it's been a while since I read this stuff!).But boats from where? The edgiest current generally known theories right now are that they came from Sumer, or their traditions did.And this would be fine, except as you suggest, they may also have been seeded intellectually by pre-Phoenicians (sailors from Sumer but travelling to the British Isles)?
AS IT HAPPENS, OF COURSE,g) Secret societies AND main-line religions intersociate in various ways at various points in history. And what people make of the old tales changes too. Such tales for each researcher would be increasingly garbled to start, even when the researcher was working from tales and thoughts which had been written down (for contrary points of view pile up over time).THE UPSHOT IS,h) There is a special "Israelist" or "Zionist" branch out of Britain and it is not Jewish in the modern sense. It is also linked now to continental "spiritual geopoliticking" as well. I call this stuff spiritual geopoliticking because that's the driving vision behind the geopolitics for some of these power magnates and cultists.So I agree with you there is a strong "Zionist" revival that has NOTHING to do with Judaism as we know it ... in fact is antithetical to it. And not merely -- as many anti-Zionist Jews think -- not merely because it is a horrible racist and culturally supremacist doctrine, against the dictates of Love, but also because it is not even from modern Jewish tradition directly.No, as you, critically -- and Smith and other cultists of various ilks, approvingly -- have pointed out, this Zionism or Israelism of apocalytic reclamation of lands from the antediluvian or just post-diluvian periods is an obsession of people who are not primarily Jewish in any modern sense. They are people who accurately or inaccurately believe they came from the time BEFORE the Jews rose as a nation of Abraham.
IN CONCLUSION, THEN,i) Both the Jewish histories (through Kabbalah and Enoch and Genesis so on) have some memory of the antediluvian period and feel entitled as a people over others and over the lands in the Palestine area ...AND the British and secret society histories have this belief.And they are different strains of memory or pseudo-memory, each competing mostly out of sight. We see their wars but think they're about something else.FINALLY:j) First, thank you for mentioning the British Israel tradition (whatever it truly derives from and whatever people at the "top" currently think it means and act on).AND:k) I would like to thank you very much for wading through the Mormon re-telling -- itself a mish-mash of wishful thinking and ancient secrets, themselves a mish-mash.:)P.S. Remember please that it's better to know we don't know the whole truth of some of this stuff, and neither do the creeps and cultists and ancient historians we are working from. So it's best not to say "these peoples went here" or whatever, but that we think, or they thought, or a LINE of occult history claims ...Thanks. Again. For all your work!!!!! Amazing foray. And for bringing up your secret book experience, the 19th-century one now unavailable, about the Mormons.
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Most authors at the Sydney Writers’ Festival are there to discuss their most recently published work. They discuss the intricacies of the writing process and show off their glossy new release. Markus Zusak, on the other hand, is speaking this year about a different kind of process – the process of translating his 2002 novel, The Messenger, into an eight-part television series. The Messenger centres on accidental hero Ed Kennedy, and his complex journey of personal growth, punctuated by acts of kindness towards others.
Markus Zusak is an award-winning Australian author best known for his international bestseller The Book Thief, which has since been turned into an Academy Award nominated film; our conversation, however, centred on the earlier novel, The Messenger. Although I was unfortunately unable to sit down with the novelist in person, our email correspondence covered quite a lot of ground, and Zusak carefully shed light on his process.
- From Page to Screen
Alexandra Dent: What surprised you the most when translating The Messenger from novel to screen?
Markus Zusak: First and foremost, it’s that it was made. That’s always what surprises the author of the book, because we all know how hard it is for movies and TV shows to be produced. So many books are optioned but a small percentage make it to the screen. Extra surprising in this case is that the TV series is coming out twenty-one years after the book was published. It just shows that hanging in can give you a reward well after the work is done.
AD: What did you gain from your position as executive producer for the show? How involved were you in the process and how did it differ from writing a novel?
MZ: I still took a fairly hands-off approach. It was mainly in the earliest stages of deciding how we wanted the series to feel, and retaining the heart of the book. I was mostly involved by reading scripts as they came in. Sarah Lambert and Kirsty Fisher were the two main writers, and their work is outstanding, so that part was easy. I would read each script as it came in and pretty much just relax. I think when you’re writing a novel you get to colour the artwork in, whereas a screenwriter needs to trust what the director and the cast and crew will bring to it. I feel like when you’re writing a novel, you get to control everything. Maybe that’s why I chose writing books…
AD: Your 2005 novel The Book Thief was translated to screen in 2013. What did you find unique about storytelling through a television series as opposed to film?
MZ: I loved one aspect in particular, and that’s that across eight episodes, the writers were able to make the world of The Messenger both bigger and deeper. They expanded on the novel, rather than having to break it down to movie-length. The most exciting element in that sense was that Sarah, Kirsty and the other writers were able to play. There’s a beautiful quirkiness in the series, and characters grow bigger from out of the pages of the book.
- The Writing Process
AD: How much of your fiction is based on fact? What would you say are the difficulties that arise when using aspects of your real life as material for novels?
MZ: I have to say it’s less of a hassle than people think, because by the time you’ve used something from real life in a book, it’s usually unrecognisable with everything else that goes on around it. Almost no-one has ever recognised themselves in any of my novels. Also, it’s usually just tiny details or moments.
AD: What are the main aspects you consider when developing characters? How do you create characters that feel so familiar and complex?
MZ: It’s a bit like building a brick wall, rather than an art form (at least for me). I consider myself a tradesman, trying to build a wall that has exactly the right number of bricks. Too many and it falls from the weight. Too few and there are holes for the wind to come through. All I’m ever trying to do when I write is to feel like I’m there – to believe it while I’m in it, so I just keep building till I feel like the job is done.
AD: What does a day in your life look like, and how do you make time to write?
MZ: It looks like early mornings, dog walks, laughing and arguing in the kitchen with my family, and making sure (or at least trying) to get to my desk at the same time every day. I’m distractible like everyone else, but when I write I turn off devices. A lot can be done in even half an hour if you turn the rest of the world off. We all have priorities in our lives, and I just try to be honest about where writing sits on that list. Sometimes we tell ourselves how dedicated we are to something, and then we have to ask, “Okay, so why was that number 11 on the list of things I did today?” I’m guilty of trying to clear a whole lot of tasks before I start work – but sometimes you have to say, ‘No, not today. Today I have to let things go so I do what I’m really supposed to be doing.’
AD: How do you deal with times where you really can’t bring yourself to put pen to paper
MZ: As you can tell, I can be easily distracted. There’s no shortage of jobs to be done – I usually do some work in the backyard. At least that way I feel like I got something accomplished that day.
AD: Who are your main influences? This isn’t restricted to literature! What music/films/people inspire you the most?
MZ: There are literally hundreds of answers to this. I tend to become obsessive with books, movies and music. If I love something, I’ll reread it many times. I’m not trying to decode how the author has pulled off what they’ve done, but I somehow gain an understanding by experiencing it again. The last book I reread (for the third time) was Tobias Wolff’s great short novel, Old School. It’s such a unique book, especially when you hit the last twenty or thirty pages.
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AD: The Sydney Writers’ Festival theme this year is “stories for the future”. What does this mean to you and how do you envision the future of literature? What excites you and what scares you?
MZ: I think as a writer, we all want to write something that stands the test of time, and I guess that only happens by putting all the toil and worry into what we’re working on now. And then you can only hope. The book has to do the rest.
AD: How do you envision the future of literature? What excites you and what scares you?
MZ: I actually don’t concern myself with that. Of course I worry when I stand at Central or Town Hall Station and see 300 people glued to their phones – but that’s when I pull out a book. Pretty daring, I know!
AD: What advice do you have for the next generation of authors?
MZ: Do the work, accept failure as one of the best and most necessary parts of the job. Ask yourself if you’d want to write even if a ray of light came out of the sky and said, ‘Nothing you write will ever be published’. If the answer is yes, you’re a writer.
Markus will be speaking at the Sydney Writers’ Festival at Carriageworks in Eveleigh. He will be in conversation at Markus Zusak: Bringing The Messenger to the Screen, at 3pm on Thursday 25 May.

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Sitting in an empty cabin on the shores of Lake Superior, I find myself wishing I had packed a jacket. Just the end of September, the crisp air gives the feel of mid-October. It is not long, however, before Joe Rose’s voice begins to warm the room with stories of his childhood on the Bad River Reservation. A soft laugh interrupts his slow, deep voice as he remembers Peppy, his fat, yellow cat that acted more like a human than a pet.
But Rose’s voice grows suddenly louder, angrier, as he tells me he fears the traditions of the Bad River Band have now fallen to the wayside for many on the reservation. With a proposed mine in the nearby Penokee Hills, Rose sees the voice of his people slowly being silenced as outside corporations try, he says, to exploit their land. But some are making sure their voice is not silenced. With a new documentary, three Native American teenagers help to celebrate the Indian tradition of storytelling while giving a voice to an often-ignored people.
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I came to the Bad River Reservation to better understand the controversy provoked by the proposed mine in the Penokee Hills. It’s the same controversy that has a Florida mining company looking for iron ore in northern Wisconsin, state legislators calling for jobs and bands of the Lake Superior Tribe of Chippewa pleading to save their land and their culture. But it is not mining executives or legislators or tribal leaders that I speak with. It is three teenagers.
Meeting Shania, Jordan and Ahpahnae during my day at Bad River, at first I have a hard time envisioning the trio working together. They admit to not being close friends. Their personalities are about as opposite as you could imagine.
Shania is a serious, sweet 14-year-old. The most reserved of the three, she nervously plays with her shoe throughout our talk. I cannot help but notice the interesting juxtaposition of her soft voice and shy demeanor with her pink and glittery gold Jack Sparrow T-shirt.
Jordan is also 14, but is loud, enthusiastic and about as goofy as you can get. An avid Chicago Blackhawks hockey fan, he shares with me his love of science and his dreams of becoming a biochemist. Already looking forward to high school chemistry two years down the road, he jokingly warns his mother, who is sitting nearby, “If something blows up, Mom, you’re going to get a call.”
Falling on the middle of the spectrum is 15-year-old Ahpahnae. Confident, composed and a trumpet whiz, he’s the first Native teen to be selected as a Wisconsin Music Ambassador. Ahpahnae will be on a 10-city concert tour of Europe next summer.
To outsiders, the teens’ only similarities might appear to be their age and strong ties to the Bad River Band of the Lake Superior Tribe of Chippewa. But what brings these teenagers together is their incredible passion to protect their land, their people and their culture.
The Bad River Reservation stretches across northern Wisconsin’s Ashland and Iron counties, reaching to the southern beaches of Lake Superior. The area is known for its beautiful landscapes, wide varieties of animal species and, most important to the people of the Bad River tribe, wild rice.
Harvested from the sloughs of the Bad River, wild rice, or manoomin, is the cultural center for the Ojibwe, another name for the Chippewa tribe. The story of manoomin goes back to when the Ojibwe first settled on the land, told by the spirits to make their home where they found the “food that grows on the water.” Ever since, the people of Bad River have taken great pride in the harvest of their most precious crop.
Just south of the reservation is the home to another natural resource: the Penokee Hills. There, one can find dozens of ecosystems and the headwaters of the Bad River. The hills are also home to large iron ore deposits, which have attracted the attention of a Florida-based mining corporation, Gogebic Taconite (GTAC). Working with Wisconsin legislators, GTAC has proposed opening a 22-mile-wide, open-pit iron mine. GTAC contends the mine will help bring hundreds of jobs to an otherwise economically destitute area.
But tribal members fear that what the mine will bring is environmental destruction. The hills where the mine would be are about 1,000 feet higher than the surrounding area. Any pollution from a mine would flow down the Bad River and into Lake Superior, most likely destroying the wild rice sloughs in the process. For the people of Bad River, the benefits of protecting their resources far outweigh the job growth, however desirable, that mining would bring to the area.
“We may be poor in a Western economic sense, but I think we are rich in a lot of ways,” Dr. Patty Loew, a Bad River tribal member and a professor in the UW-Madison Department of Life Sciences Communication, says. “We have rich culture, we have a rich history and we have amazing natural resources.”
Though the Ojibwe people feel they are fighting for their livelihood, their voices often go unheard because of a lack of scientific representation in the Indian community. Because of this, bills backing the mine are passing through the Wisconsin legislature with relative ease.
Loew could not just sit back and watch. She also happens to be the director of Tribal Youth Media. For the past few years, Loew has gone to the Bad River Reservation and taught Native youth how to use digital media and create short documentaries. Loew was drawn to teaching digital media because the spatial thinking needed to create such projects is consistent with Native culture.
“One of the things that I really want to do is help grow this next generation of land stewards, and I want to do it using the traditional ways we communicate,” Loew says. “We have this amazing storytelling tradition in Indian Country. This is the way we communicate. We’re an oral culture.”
In the past, Loew would go to Bad River in the summer to teach a workshop to groups of youth who would make their own short documentaries. But, because of the timeliness of the proposed mine combined with the fear of her people, Loew knew she had to do something different this year.
A grant from the First People’s Fund, a foundation in South Dakota that funds Native artists, gave Loew enough money to buy a video camera for the tribe and to pay three teens to work on the film. Looking back on past participants of her workshops, three names immediately came to mind: Shania for writing, Jordan for filming and Ahpahnae for music composition.
Having worked with Loew in the past and because of their strong connection to the subject matter, the three were eager to work on the project. Ahpahnae says working on the documentary seemed like a good opportunity not only to better educate himself on the subject, but also to better educate others. “I wanted to get more information about [the mining] so I could tell others the same information,” he says.
All three are passionately against the mine. Still, they had originally planned for the documentary to be informative rather than persuasive. According to Shania, in their previous workshops they learned the importance of presenting both sides to an argument, so as to not appear biased in their reporting. But after talking to members of their community, they decided to use the film to make an argument. “Protect Our Future” was born.
“As the kids started interviewing the cultural people and the scientists in their own community, it was clear that people were so passionate and furious and angry and felt so deeply about this issue and felt that nobody was listening to them,” Loew says. “It seemed [to them] that this was more important to have [the documentary] reflect the community because those other perspectives were out there and the community’s perspective was never shared.”
Creating the documentary was more or less a full-time job. It required the three young filmmakers to meet eight hours a day, five days a week throughout June and July of 2013. Jordan jokingly tells me he was originally excited about the project until he found out how hard it was. But the work they did was extensive, interviewing tribal elders and members and exploring the reservation. They even climbed the hills to the proposed mine site, recording equipment in tow.
After a month of reporting, writing and composing, a rough cut of the documentary was shown to members of the tribe. Throughout the entire process, the three stuck to their Native roots. Even the editing process was a collaborative one, allowing elders and those in the film to make suggestions for how they best wanted the film to represent them as a people. But, in the end, it was Shania, Jordan and Ahpahnae’s hard work, passion and vision that made the final cut. It was their film.
“It turned out what I wanted it to be, to educate the public about what’s going on,” Ahpahnae says. “I’m pretty excited for it.”
Rose explains to me the idea of the “Seventh Generation,” a key to understanding the actions of the Bad River tribe.
“We have a strong belief about looking seven generations ahead, and asking ourselves, ‘What will we be leaving to that seventh generation? Will they have clean water? Will they have fresh air? Will they enjoy pristine wilderness?’ When each generation is born, they take on that responsibility of looking seven generations ahead. That’s not just my responsibility, or my son’s responsibility, but the responsibility of my grandchildren, and the responsibility of the young people that put this documentary together,” Rose says.
Through their documentary, Shania, Jordan and Ahpahnae shed light on the environmental impacts that the proposed mine would have on their land. But it seems that getting involved in this project plays into the idea of the seventh generation in a different way as well.
Dana Jackson, Bad River’s education director and Shania’s father, expresses excitement that the youth of his tribe had the opportunity to gain these technical skills. In an ever-evolving technical world, these kids can pass on the stories of their people in a modern way. And because they are still young, they will be able to pass on that knowledge to others in the tribe as they get older.
In November, Shania, Jordan and Ahpahnae will begin showing their documentary at film festivals across the state. The most interesting showing should be at the Tales from Planet Earth festival in Madison, where they will have the chance to tell their story in the same city where legislators are determining the fate of their land. Though they all admit to being a bit nervous about showing the film to and getting critiques from strangers, they are excited knowing they are helping to educate the public.
“I see the transformation and the transformative powers it has with young people and I see how confident they get,” Loew says. “When you know something and you’re able to transmit that knowledge, it’s a very empowering kind of process.”
For a group that has felt ignored for so long, empowerment just might be the first step in finally being heard.
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New York Yankees announce Wednesday lineup vs. Baltimore Orioles
Jameson Taillon will make his Yankees debut Wednesday as he and the Bronx Bombers look to sweep the Baltimore Orioles at Yankee Stadium.
Taillon, who has recovered from two Tommy John surgeries during his career, takes the mound for the Yankees.
Game time is scheduled for 6:35 p.m.
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Here are two short poems, written in response to two different works of art. The first was written as an immediate response to the ‘window’ part of Anish Kapoor’s Memory at the Guggenheim in New York. The second was written sat in front of Chris Ofili’s painting The Healer at Tate Britain.
I have been doing this on and off for years. I find a work that resonates and then write down my thoughts as a poem. I might tweak it a bit afterwards but essentially what is written here is faithful to what I felt at the time.
I do not read anything about the work until I have written my poem. Sometimes, of course, it is impossible to approach something well known without already having some information or opinion about it.
Window of darkness-Lack of light
Sucked-in black velvet illusion of infinity
Vacuum of warmth
To crawl in and be forgotten and to forget for a while
In a cocoon of sensory deprivation
Of longing for simplicity
Wipe the slate clean of chalking up experience
Folding up the sun, eating the star
Dark emitting light
Yellow and black
Name above the crown
Spew as gold
Base material transformed
Mends the whole


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At least one Texas school district is using the internet to promote a temporary employment program as a way for teachers who are not covered by Social Security to exploit a loophole in the program’s exemption laws. The little-known loophole allows participants to recoup money paid into the system, which they say is lost through a provision known as the Government Pension Offset.
The Coleman Independent School District in Texas advertises through its web site that by accepting positions of temporary employment, teachers who work in school districts not covered by Social Security can become eligible to receive full spousal benefits from the system for the rest of their lives. In exchange for as little as $3 in Social Security tax, a teacher and spouse can receive as much as $150,000 in benefits during their lifetimes.
It’s an exemption the federal government says could cost the Social Security program more than $450 million over the retired teachers’ lifetimes.
“Coleman ISD employs people for temporary employment (sometimes as little as one day) in a non-professional role. This may include custodial work, cafeteria work, clerical work, classroom aide, etc. If employed by Coleman ISD in a temporary role, your compensation for the work will have deductions for the Teacher Retirement System and for Social Security,” advertises the district on its site.
Social Security benefits are usually payable to the spouses of retired, disabled, or deceased workers. But a 1977 law, the Government Pension Offset (GPO), reduced those spousal benefits for state and local government workers who also receive a pension from work not covered by Social Security.
However, the law allows workers to avoid that reduction in benefits if they are covered by both Social Security and their government pension during their last day on the job, the General Accounting Office (GAO) said in a report Aug. 16.
The investigative arm of Congress said at least 4,795 teachers in Texas and 24 in Georgia have used this loophole, transferring briefly to jobs covered by Social Security before retiring.
In Texas, the teachers typically worked a single day in clerical or maintenance jobs before retiring, paying about $3 in Social Security taxes, the GAO said. In Georgia, teachers worked a year in another teaching position in a school district covered by Social Security.
Officials in both states told GAO investigators that use of the exemption likely would grow as more people become aware of it, the report said. Teaching associations and web sites have been spreading information on how to use the exemption, according to the agency.
Coleman ISD charges teachers a $200 “application fee” to take advantage of the loophole. It’s unclear how much money the district has collected from the scheme, and officials there did not return an eSchool News reporter’s phone calls before press time. But the GAO report said at least 31 Texas districts were involved in similar schemes, and one districtwhich the agency did not namehas reaped $283,000 in such fees. Some districts charge as much as $500 per application, the GAO reported.
Lonnie Hollingsworth, director of legal services for the Texas Classroom Teachers Association, said his group does not discourage teachers from taking advantage of the exemption and argues that teachers are perfectly within their legal right to do so.
“This is not a loophole,” he said. “It’s an exemption written into the GPO. It was obviously intentioned to function the way that it functions. Whether it was intended for teachers to be able to take advantage after one day, I don’t know.”
But Hollingsworth said it has been the teachersnot the teacher unionswho have spearheaded efforts to exploit the exemption.
“It’s really been a grassroots movement led by teachers. We got so many inquires that we decided to stick the information on our web site,” he said. “It’s kind of like ‘Field of Dreams’if you build it, they will come.” Ideally, Hollingsworth said, the association would prefer to see the pension offset eliminated. “Now that this exemption has bee brought to light, we are hoping there will be more efforts to eliminate the GPO altogether,” he said. Until then, “if teachers can find a way to maximize their benefits, more power to them.”
The stance taken by the Texas association was echoed to some extent by officials with the National Education Association (NEA).
“We have not publicized [the exemption] one way or the other,” said Carrie Lewis, a policy analyst with the NEA. But “there are folks who need those benefits and who count on those benefits when they retire,” Lewis said. “Our overall feeling is that the [exploitation of the loophole] is more indicative of an overall problem with the system itself.”
There are 15 states in which public employees are not covered by Social Security, the Associated Press reported: Alaska, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Georgia, Illinois, Louisiana, Kentucky, Maine, Massachusetts, Missouri, Nevada, Ohio, Rhode Island, and Texas. However, four of those statesGeorgia, Kentucky, Rhode Island, and Texasremain uncovered only in certain local municipalities.
That means teachers in those states who wish to exploit the GPO “loophole” can do so by accepting part-time positions in districts where the Social Security coverage is employed.
While investigators said they did not have time to confirm whether government workers outside of Texas and Georgia were using the loophole, the exemption could be used in about 2,300 government retirement plans in other states, the report said.
Despite teacher enthusiasm, some lawmakers say the exemption undermines the ability of Social Security to provide equal coverage.
“Equal treatment under Social Security is impeded when over 4,800 people are changing jobs at the last moment, and even switching from teaching to janitorial work, in order to take advantage of a loophole,” said Rep. Clay Shaw, R-Fla., who requested the report. Shaw said he has proposed legislation to address the problem.
The GAO said Congress should change the rules allowing the last-day exemption by setting a longer minimum time period to avoid abuses.
General Accounting Office
Social Security Administration
Coleman Independent School District
Texas Classroom Teachers Association
National Education Association
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Hello awesome readers. Today’s short read Saturday is a quick little read from an author that is on my November TBR. Soon I’ll be reading the novel A Glimmer of Guile by Mary Patterson Thornburg, but today I am reviewing one of my 24-hour read-a-thon reads, Uncle Bud’s Health Mine and the Girl Who’s Going to Fix the World.
Uncle Bud’s Health Mine and the Girl Who’s Going to Fix the World
This is a quick read with a general positive vibe. It starts off in the past in a mine turned “health mine” that has mysterious stories about its history. Whether it’s the radon or something else that is affecting the people who visit it, you can decide. Eventually the radon disappears and the mine closes but a girl emerges from it. Being near this girl seems to have a positive impact on people’s lives and as she grows she aspires to help people. Overall it’s a feel good read with elements of fantasy. It had a cute ending but I wish it could have been longer and we could have seen her go out into the world and change more people’s lives. Being so short there was really only so much story between the cave and the girl. It was well written and I look forward to reading more by Mary Patterson Thornburg.
Vivia has guile. Using only the power of her mind, she can make water boil, heal the sick, create illusions, and even transform herself into a bird or a pirate. But guilish folk are considered witches by most people, and that frightens them.
Her first teacher taught her healing arts, and after that she studied with Taso Raym, the most powerful male witch in the land. He taught her many things, and not just guilish skills. Unfortunately, neither Vivia nor Raym could ignore their attraction to each other, and intimacy between them would have meant the end of her guile. So she joined Ladygate, an all-female community, and accepted that love was not for her.
After a while, though, she realizes Ladygate is not where she belongs either. So she accepts the task of investigating the disappearance of a lord’s son, kidnapped, it seems, by the malevolent witch Orath. Her guilish training is not quite complete, and she hopes Raym can help her.
But Raym has also disappeared. Vivia is on her own, with a task to do—one that now touches her heart. She’s almost sure she has the necessary strength and skill…
…Unless Raym and Orath are in league with each other.
Meeting challenges head on, Vivia learns from her mistakes. Her guile grows with each success, as she follows a convoluted, hazy trail to the sea and, beyond, to the lair of Orath and her tyrannical consort, the Red Prince. There she finds Raym, captive and enthralled by a guile stronger and more deadly than she ever imagined. Planning carefully, she prepares herself for a confrontation she must believe she will win…

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Next Tuesday there is to be a Places Overview and Scrutiny Committee meeting and
Item 5 on the Agenda is the presentation of a petition to save the Old Manor Way
Children’s Playground which is under threat from a cash strapped council intent
on doing more damage to its leisure infrastructure than
the Abbey Arsonists.
The petitioners will ensure that I am not the only witness to the sad spectacles that habitually unfold in the council chamber and traditionally the presence of public opposition brings out the worst in councillors more used to operating within a closed self-serving bubble.
The more that turn out to see how this bunch of inadequates operates the better. No doubt the petitioners will be gathering outside the Civic Offices by seven fifteen for photo opportunities and the like. Give them your support if you possibly can.
As far as I know, no decision has yet been taken to sell off Old Manor Way Playground. Unlike most of Bexley’s schemes to attack residents, this one may stand some chance of being defeated by public pressure and irrefutable facts. It’d be a first.

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The effect of the thin membrane on the time evolution of the shock wave induced turbulent mixing between the two gases initially separated by it is investigated using two different sets of experiments. In the first set, in which a single-mode large-amplitude initial perturbation was studied, two gas combinations (air/SF6 and air/air) and two membrane thicknesses were used. The main conclusion of these experiments was that the tested membrane has a negligible effect on the evolution of the mixing zone, which evolves as predicted theoretically. In the second set, in which similar gas combinations and membrane thicknesses were used, small amplitude random-mode initial perturbation, caused by the membrane rupture, rather than the large amplitude single-mode initial perturbation used in the first set, was studied. The conclusions of these experiments were: (1) The membrane has a significant effect on the mixing zone during the initial stages of its growth. This has also been observed in the air/air experiment where theoretically no growth should exist. (2) The membrane effect on the late time evolution, where the mixing zone width has reached a relatively large-amplitude, was relatively small and in good agreement with full numerical simulations. The main conclusion from the present experiments is that the effect of the membrane is important only during the initial stages of the evolution (before the re-shock), when the perturbations have very small amplitudes, and is negligible when the perturbations reach relatively large amplitudes.
- Membrane effect
- Richtmyer-meshkov instability
- Shock tube
- Turbulent mixing
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- Mechanical Engineering
- General Physics and Astronomy


Efforts to improve bus service in the District have been hamstrung by frustrating delays in finding an appropriate site for a new bus garage in Southeast or Southwest, the city's transportation director told a congressional committee yesterday.
The federal government is largely responsible for the delays because it has impeded the city's attempt to negotiate a site for the new facility, needed to improve maintenance of buses that operate in the city, testified Thomas M. Downs, D.C. director of public works and transportation.
"Until federal concern is translated into positive federal action," Downs said, "unreliable, inconsistent bus service will be the norm and not the exception in the District of Columbia."
The House District Committee hearing, chaired by D.C. Del. Walter Fauntroy, was called after the publication of reports in The Washington Post showing that the worst Metrobus routes are in the District and the best generally in the suburbs.
Downs and Richard Page, general manager of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, said they have virtually given up on getting the city's preferred site, a federally owned tract adjacent to Fort McNair, because of Army demands for an environmental impact statement that could take years to complete.
Downs particularly faulted Maj. Gen. Jerry Curry, commanding general of the Military District of Washington, for opposing the facility and demanding the environmental impact statement. Curry had said a bus garage would be harmful to the historic and esthetic nature of the fort and detrimental to the living environment of soldiers based there.
But Downs charged that Curry actually was more concerned about the esthetic sensibilities of the many high-ranking military officers living there on "Generals Row." "I think we have stumbled onto a sensitive area," he said. Curry's expressed concerns "are more a tactic of delay . . . rather than legitimate concerns for the integrity of the fort," Downs said.
Curry adamantly denied this, saying through a spokesman that the comment about Generals Row "is a complete distortion of the facts and patently untrue and Mr. Downs knows it." Generals' homes are on the opposite side of the fort from where the proposed garage site is, the spokesman said.
The Smithsonian Institution had requested that the General Services Administration give it the site for storing building materials and exhibits, a use Curry has not opposed.
But Fauntroy said yesterday he had it on good authority that the Office of Management and Budget, which had to pass on the Smithsonian's request, had turned them down. An OMB spokesman said he could not confirm or deny that account.
The city would be next in line for the surplus land, but the two or three years required to do the requested environmental impact statement would be prohibitive anyway, Downs said.
WMATA therefore is looking at two privately owned sites, Page said. One, owned by Pepco, is next to the preferred site, and it would cost an estimated $25.5 million to buy the land and build there. The other, owned by Washington Gas and Light, is in Southeast at the 11th Street bridge and could require as much as $60.6 million for the project.
The city had hoped to spend a total of about $17 million on the new garage.


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Spring Hill was once comprised of rural farmland, but it began seeing fast population growth in the 1990s and has since developed into a well-liked commuting suburb for Franklin and Nashville. As more and more individuals became aware of Spring Hill’s many enticing suburban amenities between the years 2000 and 2020, the town’s population increased from slightly less than 8,000 to 50,000 citizens.
Spring Hill is home to two distinct shopping centers, both of which make it convenient to run errands without leaving town: The Crossings of Spring Hill is the first shopping destination, and it is a convenient mall with big box retailers, chain restaurants, and a movie theater. The Spring Hill Antique Mall is the second shopping destination, and it is a more interesting shopping destination. It is located in a 1950s gymnasium, and it includes forty or so antique booths. Residents also enjoy spending time in the 30-acre Port Royal Park, which features a splash pad, a huge playground that is accessible to those with disabilities, sports fields, and a small amphitheater that can be used for both movies and live concerts.
Welcoming you to this exquisitely modernized residential neighborhood! A two-story lobby with a spiral staircase welcomes guests as they enter the building. Spacious master bedroom with a newly remodeled country-style bathroom and walk-in closet with an island. Office with a vaulted ceiling and French doors. The eating area is open and features a coffered ceiling as well as natural light. NEW open kitchen concept with enormous center island, walk-in pantry, and combined wet and coffee bar. A spacious laundry room that has been remodeled with a sink, cabinets, and open shelving.
The main floor also contains a secondary bedroom. A guest suite, two bedrooms, and a secret tunnel leading from one bedroom to a large bonus room with an electric fireplace and a foam pit with a climbing wall are all located on the second story. A backyard that is bordered with trees and has a water feature and a stone fireplace that burns wood and is integrated into the hardscape. On the covered terrace is an electric heater.
The region has an illustrious history, which can be seen in the wonderful historic mansions that continue to stand proud in spite of the continuous modern development. These residences offer a unique window into the past of the county and provide a look into its past. This city, which has a population of 30,000 people, is currently enjoying the glories of its history while also seeing enormous growth in commercial and business sectors. New inhabitants are drawn to the area because it offers the perfect combination of commercial development, an atmosphere that is welcoming to families, and the tranquility of a small town. There are young families, corporate people, and even seniors living in this town; it is very diversified.

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There are probably not too many places in the world where a bunch of people get together for a Shabbat meal and a half of them are converts/Jews by Choice, but that happens more than not in Tzfat. For some reason Tzfat attracts converts like bees to clover and a significant percentage of our population are New Jews.
I have a friend (who's husband, incidently, converted) who has an interesting theory. She said that, in the 1500s, many of the Jews who had been forcibly converted by the Inquisition and managed to escape Spanish and Portuguese rule tried to return to Judaism but were initially refused by the rabbis of that era who felt that they had committed blasphemy by allowing themselves to convert -- even under duress -- and thus, could not return.
Quite a few of these Jews made their way to Safed (the Ari Ashkanazi synagogue of Safed was originally started by such Jews...it had been named the Girigoros synagogue because it was established by Spanish Jews who converted and then fled to the Greek island of Girigoros and then came to Safed). Several Safed rabbis, among them Rabbi Beirav and Rabbi Alsheich, advocated for these Jews and were ultimately successful in convincing the Jewish leaders of that era to re-accept the forcibly converted Jews back into the Jewish community.
My friend posits that Safed has a history of acceptance and that's the reason that converts (along with other "seekers") feel so comfortable here.
Whatever the reason, it makes for a diverse community. It's also a good reminder to those of us who are Jews-by-birth that we shouldn't Judaism for granted.


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Compounds in green tea may help protect women against breast cancer, preliminary study findings suggest. Investigators found that rats that drank water containing green tea had reductions in the size and malignancy of breast tumours compared with rats that drank only water. The tumours of tea-drinking rats developed later and were less invasive.
These findings, coupled with observations of lower rates of breast cancer in countries where green tea is consumed daily, suggest that green tea may benefit women as part of an overall healthy diet.
Although data from animal studies cannot always be generalized to humans, the findings suggest that green tea can be protective against breast cancer induced by environmental carcinogens. However, patients who are undergoing radiation or chemotherapy for breast cancer should consult with their doctors before drinking large amounts of green tea.
Green tea contains polyphenols, potent antioxidants that help neutralize disease-causing free radicals. These cell-damaging molecules occur naturally in the body and are linked with heart disease, aging and a number of other disorders. Dry green tea leaves may also reduce the risk of cancer of the stomach, lung, colon, rectum, liver and pancreas, study findings have suggested.
All research on this web site is the property of Leslie Beck Nutrition Consulting Inc. and is protected by copyright. Keep in mind that research on these matters continues daily and is subject to change. The information presented is not intended as a substitute for medical treatment. It is intended to provide ongoing support of your healthy lifestyle practices.

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WHITEFIELD, NH - June 6, 2022 - Weathervane Theatre is pleased to present its brand new initiative North Country Shakes: A Dream Within a Dream this June. Presented on Weathervane’s outdoor stage, this FREE programming will play June 16, 20, 21, 22, and 24 at 7PM as well as June 17 and 18 at 5PM. Rain dates for this outdoor event are June 25 at 7pm and 26 at 5PM. North Country Shakes is made possible by a Challenge America Award from the National Endowment for the Arts.
North Country Shakes is an educational and artistic opportunity for students all throughout Coös County, and surrounding areas, to experience Shakespeare how it’s meant to be experienced — seen and not read. Helmed by Donoso, this new and original adaptation of Shakespeare’s works will bring audiences to the newly constructed Weathervane outdoor stage.
A Dream Within A Dream is a collection of Shakespeare’s most famous works including scenes from The Tempest, Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and more. Inspired by the magic and surrealism that illuminate the world of these plays, North Country Shakes introduces audiences to the weird sisters, a mischievous sprite, quarreling lovers, and even Queen Mab — the fairie’s midwife. Movement and original soundscape drive the show creating a Shakespearean adventure like you’ve never seen before.
Representing a wide variety, the cast of North Country Shakes ranges from Broadway veterans to local school children and features Juliana Chimenti, Morgan Forest, Robert H. Fowler, Brooke Lavoie, Alexandria Reese, Ryan Rosenthal, Deb Stinehour, Kelly Strandemo, Violet Strevig, Freya Wheeler, and Pyper Williams.
“For the last couple of seasons, we’ve not been able to have much community involvement in our programming due to the pandemic, but we couldn’t think of a better way to invite the community back than with North Country Shakes: A Dream Within A Dream,” said Jorge Donoso, North Country Shakes creator and director. “The ensemble, comprised of mostly local talent, is ready to take on Shakespeare’s classics in a way you’ve never seen before and the talent is going to blow your mind!”
“After the success of both Brush Up Your Shakespeare in 2020 and Shakespeare workshops offered to enrolled campers in 2021, we could not be more excited to bring North Country Shakes to life. Performances will feature the elements of lights, sound, and music to fully experience Shakespeare’s works how they were meant to be experienced — seen and not heard, said Donoso.
A fully realized production, North Country Shakes includes an original soundscape composed by Ira Kramer. It also features designs by Rien Schlecht (costumes and set), Robert Salerno (sound), Scout Hough (lighting), and (LB) Amber Slater (props). Assistant direction by Kelly Strandemo, stage management by Sophie Klokinis, production management by Rien Schlecht, and technical direction by Scout Hough.
North Country Shakes is FREE and no reservations are required. Seating will start thirty minutes prior to the performance and it is recommended patrons bring their own blankets/chairs. Chairs are available upon request and on a first come, first serve basis. Should a show be canceled due to rain it will be announced on Weathervane’s social media platforms.
Weathervane’s 57th season opens June 8, 2022 and runs through October 9, 2022. Season productions include Million Dollar Quartet, Eurydice, The Marvelous Wonderettes, A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder, Jesus Christ Superstar, A Class Act, Intimate Apparel, and A Chorus Line. Single tickets are currently on sale at weathervanenh.org, by phone at 603-837-9322, or by visiting the Weathervane box office at 389 Lancaster Rd. in Whitefield, NH. Call the box office for hours of operation.
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ABOUT THE WEATHERVANE
The Weathervane Theatre was founded in 1965 by Gibbs Murray and the late Tom Haas and is under the leadership of Producing Artistic Director Ethan Paulini. For over half a century, it has presented high quality professional productions of plays and musicals. One of the few remaining alternating rep companies in the United States, the Weathervane is recognized as a historical institution nationwide, boasting among its alumni 2021 Tony nominee Elizabeth Stanley, Tally Sessions, four-time Tony nominee Judy Kuhn and recent Tony Award Winner Ari’el Stachel.
Weathervane can be found on Facebook at /weathervanetheatre and all other social media platforms @weathervanenh.
ABOUT THE NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS
Established by Congress in 1965, the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) is the independent federal agency whose funding and support gives Americans the opportunity to participate in the arts, exercise their imaginations, and develop their creative capacities. Through partnerships with state arts agencies, local leaders, other federal agencies, and the philanthropic sector, the Arts Endowment supports arts learning, affirms and celebrates America’s rich and diverse cultural heritage, and extends its work to promote equal access to the arts in every community across America. To learn more, visit arts.gov or follow NEA on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube.

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For instance, Baltimore collected $815 million in property taxes during the most recent fiscal year, according to Bill Voorhees, Baltimore’s director of revenue and tax analysis. Next year, the figure is predicted to shrink to $803.5 million. The following year, $773 million. The year after that, $735.7 million. The year after that, $729.4 million.
Only in 2016 do city officials anticipate tax revenues increasing again.
“I don’t see any quick fixes over the next four or five years, to be honest,” said Voorhees, noting that Baltimore already faces a budget deficit of more than $50 million next year. “Obviously, it means we have much lower revenues than we had in past. It’s creating gaps in our budget. . . . It’s a very large problem.”
Because many states require officials to reassess properties only every so often — the laws vary widely, but a common time frame is every three years — communities generally see a significant lag time before property taxes reflect the true value of a home.
That’s good news for homeowners during boom times, when their tax bills typically don’t immediately reflect skyrocketing values. It’s not so great during the unprecedented bust of recent years, when many homeowners have protested that their taxes haven’t fallen as rapidly as their property values. But in many places, the assessments are beginning to fall now.
State governments, which rely heavily on sales and income taxes, saw massive hits to their bottom lines early in the crisis as unemployment skyrocketed. But those revenues have begun, ever so slowly, to recover.
Meanwhile, many local governments weathered the early years of the financial crisis in part because the property tax revenues they rely upon so heavily held steady or actually increased as a result of assessments that still reflected inflated prices. Many municipalities are now being forced to recognize the collapse in home prices and the shrinking tax base that comes with it. At the same time, they are seeing state and federal aid dry up.
“We’ll see, over the next few years, the real impact of the recession and housing crisis on local governments,” said Andrew Reschovsky, a professor of public affairs and applied economics at the University of Wisconsin at Madison who has studied the effects of the recession on city finances. “I think the case can be made that we have not yet seen the worst of the impact on local governments. . . . That seems to be accelerating.”
Tighter municipal budgets
Recent statistics provide a window into the ongoing struggles in many cities. Local governments have lost more than half a million employees since the financial crisis hit in September 2008. Through November, local governments had shed an average of 9,300 jobs each month this year, offsetting some of the job growth generated by the private sector.

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One year ago, New Canaan boys cross country head coach Bill Martin entered the preseason optimistic that his group of boys were in for a season full of promise.
Yet after injuries plagued much of the team from preseason all the way through to the postseason contests, that promise never materialized.
“Our strength last year was in a couple of sophomores, Max Koschnitske and Alex Urbahn,” Martin told NewCanaanite.com. “But both Koschnitske (broken collarbone) and Urbahn (wrist) suffered debilitating injuries at the start of the year in separate mountain biking accidents, which set us back as a team. We finished 10th in the FCIAC’s, which was very disappointing. We had one of our near guys race toward the back of the pack [in FCIACs] and as a result we had to rely on a guy who should’ve been our eighth guy but instead was our seventh. And other guys got hurt on the day of the race. So we were totally shot. Every team goes through their stuff but we just weren’t deep enough to handle that adversity.”
But with a new year about to get underway, Martin proclaims the Rams as “back to full strength.” And that bodes well for the 2016 team’s chances this cross country season. 52 boys have trained with the team this preseason with the crop of talent fairly well distributed throughout each grade level—10 seniors, 17 juniors, 13 sophomores, 12 freshmen.
But when it comes to the heart and soul of this team, it originates in its three senior captains—Jake Grigsby, Abhinav Pal, and Michael St. George.
“All three captains are four-year cross country and track competitors,” Martin said. “Which is the first time I’ve ever had three captains who have been with me all three competitive seasons (cross country, indoor and outdoor track) since they were freshmen. Those guys all know what the expectations are—the way we run our program, the work that’s expected of them, the off-season and all the aspects that type of training entails.”
Their collective experience gives the team that’s running with them people to follow and emulate, both on and off the course. And while the overall result of last year’s FCIAC’s was disappointing for Martin and his squad, St. George’s efforts in the 5K race on that late-October day, clocking a time of 17:21 (36th overall) and being the first Ram to cross the finish line, gave Martin something good to take with him from that event.
But does the cross country veteran have another level for him to take it to in 2016?
“I hope he does,” Martin said with a smile. “That’s the expectation.”
But while St. George and his fellow co-captains Pal and Grigsby are poised to fill three of Martin’s top-seven spots for the all important meets, that still leaves four spots up for grabs. Among those who have the inside track on capturing those are the aforementioned Koschnitske and Urbahn, now juniors, who Martin feels the team will see, “the biggest improvement from.” Then you have fellow juniors Henry Asker, Faustino Cortina and Corbin Basile, in addition to senior Jack O’Connor.
Basile is an intriguing newcomer to the program, and school district. After previously attending and competing for the Hyde School, a private boarding school with locations in Woodstock, Conn. and Bath, Maine, Basile transferred into the high school. At the very least, he brings a wealth of prior running experience with him to his new team—something Martin knows you can never have enough of.
“In order to determine what caliber he [Basile] is will take some competitions,” Martin commented. “But it’s always nice to have a new guy with experience—hopefully he’s a gem.”
Another ‘newcomer’ to the program that Martin believes could warrant consideration for a top-seven spot at some point is Drew Pohle, who is new to the cross country program but not to Martin as he coached him for the first time back during the spring track and field season.
Having all of this intriguing and promising talent will be necessary for the boys to stand a good chance at competing in the much heralded FCIAC.
“The FCIAC’s always strong at the top, which is the problem,” Martin said with a smile. “The conference usually sends four or five teams all the way to New England Regionals, and usually at least three of those finish in the top-ten. So, at least in New England, we have the strongest league in the region. But you’re talking about Ridgefield, Danbury, Staples, all programs who were top scorers at the New Balance Cross Country Nationals [last year]. So it’s a very competitive league. That’s something we have to manage. We don’t have a break with any meet. There’s not one let-up in our schedule.”
But what will likely play the largest role in determining how the Rams fare in 2016 is how much, or little, the injury bug bites at them.
“We have to manage our injuries and all those types of things because every team will have them,” Martin said. “And then the fatigue factor comes into play as well. It’s a short season and the varsity guys will probably have been running all summer by the time postseason rolls around. So you’re talking about a four month stretch of running for those guys. So we’ll just have to know what the right amount of work and give and take is so that they can do well all the way through FCIAC’s and states. We’ve got a lot of motivation based on how last year finished.”
NCHS Boys Cross Country Schedule:
Tue., 9/13 vs. Trinity Catholic, St. Joseph, Fairfield Ludlowe – Waveny Park, 4 p.m.
Sat., 9/17 Wilton Invitational – Wilton High School, 9:00 a.m.
Tue., 9/20 vs. Staples, Wilton, Stamford, Trinity Catholic – Waveny Park, 4 p.m.
Tue., 9/27 vs. Trinity Catholic, Trumbull, Ridgefield, Danbury – Waveny Park, 4pm
Sat., 10/1 Brewster Bear Invitational – Brewster High School (N.Y.), 9:00 a.m.
Tue., 10/4 @ Greenwich, Fairfield Warde, Darien, Trinity Catholic—Greenwich Point, 4 p.m.
Sat., 10/8 Wickham Invitational – Wickham Park, Manchester, 4 p.m.
Mon., 10/10 vs. Brien McMahon, Westhill, Norwalk, Trinity Catholic—Waveny Park, 4 p.m.
Wed., 10/19 FCIAC Championship – Waveny Park, 2:15 p.m.
Sat., 10/29 CIAC Class L Championship – Wickham Park, Manchester, TBA
Fri., 11/4 CIAC Open Championship – Wickham Park, Manchester, TBA
Sat., 11/12 New England Championships—Ponaganset High Schoool, North Scituate, R.I.


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Rocktober 19, 2020
* Friday was a down day, today looks good though
* Weekly Jobless Claims rise again last week!
Good Day… And a Marvelous Monday to you… It’s a rainy Monday here, here and usually, rainy days and Mondays always get me down, but… I’m going to try and avoid that feeling today! It was a very quiet weekend here, which was good, because I was so worn out from last weekend’s activities that it took me until Thursday to feel stronger… It’s getting to be that time of year, when people spend a lot of time indoors, and since I only feel safe being with people outside, I guess that eliminates any future happy hours indoors here at the Butler House… I’ve been having driveway happy hours on Friday afternoons, and they worked out great. Now, what to do? I’ll figure it out! Ever had a case of the gout? Well, one of the medicines I take has a side effect of the gout… So, I take another medicine to combat that, but every now and then I wake up in the morning, and my toe hurts so darn bad! And it takes about 3-4 days before the stiffness and pain is gone…, and that’s what happened to me on Saturday morning! UGH! Steely Dan greets me this morning with their song: Do It Again…
Which is what the IMF is calling for…. If you haven’t heard, this was big news this weekend, and the IMF has called for a new Bretton Woods Meeting… The details haven’t ben ironed out yet, but they will, and when they do I’ll let you know… Immediately after hearing that announcement, my mind started racing, and coming up with questions… Is this the so-called New Reset? What’s troubling the IMF? You do know that the IMF is controlled by the U.S. right? What isn’t controlled by the U.S. would be easier to name off items! I’ve long thought that one day I would hear of a great meeting of finance ministers from around the Globe, and they would announce a new market for Gold… Gold would from then on have it’s price guaranteed to be $10,000 an ounce with the Gov’t taking all bids and offers at $10,000… Wouldn’t that be something if this the meeting where comes to fruition?
OK… Well, Friday was a down day for the markets… stocks, currencies, and metals all got sold, as the Politics keep getting argued over and played by the stimulus negotiators… I told you previously, what the hold up was, and I still believe that to be thc case… The markets seem to believe that every one needs some new free currency…. This is a slippery slope folks… But since we’ve been headed down the road to collectivism we might as well go through the door with both feet! I hate that we’re going in this direction, but the last time we had free markets that didn’t need bailouts and individuals that didn’t caah for clunkers, and tax rebates, and stimulus checks, was a long time ago my friends…
Boy that just changed my frame of mind… and now I’m depressed! Oh, well, it is what it is, and there’s nothing I can do to change things…. So, as Neil Young sang, Don’t let it bring you down it’s only Castles Burning….
Gold closed down $9 on Friday and last traded at $1,900… The euro was basically unchanged, after attempting to rally, it got snuffed out, and the single unit traded just a hair above 1.17, to close the week. When I last wrote to on last Thursday, the 10-year Treasury’s yield was .69%, and this morning it’s come back to .75%… Must have been a boatload of bonds getting sold late last week, eh? Look the bond boys can buy or sell bonds to affect the yield on bonds… So, they, the bond boys, could be saying, we’re selling to push the yield higher because we fear inflation is rising…
In the overnight and early trading markets things are looking like it will be an up day today… Gold has gained back the $9 it lost on Friday, this morning, and Silver is up 51-cents early… The dollar bugs either haven’t crawled out of the wall boards, to wreak their havoc in the currencies, or they’re not going to participate today, as the euro is rallying in the early morning…
I finally finished my Cormoran Strike novel, all 965 pages of it, and went back to reading my book on Thomas Jefferson last week… I mentioned before that Jefferson was no fan of Hamilton, because it was Hamilton that had introduced legislature that would allow a Central Bank… To which, Jefferson replied… “The central bank is an institution of the most deadly hostility existing against the Principles and form of our Constitution. I am an Enemy to all banks discounting bills, or notes for anything but Coin. If the American People allow private banks to control the issuance of their currency, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the People of all their Property until their Children will wake up homeless on the continent their Fathers conquered.” – Thomas Jefferson. (1743-1826).
Now, I was brought up with the understanding that Thomas Jefferson was the smartest man of his time, and if not the smartest, then in the top 5… I think reading this comment by Jefferson only deepens my understanding, for Jefferson back in 1800 thought so little of a Central Bank and their business, and it’s a part of history! This is not a made up quote, folks… Jefferson actually said those words! And unfortunately, it appears that his foresight is coming into play now… I’m just saying this to wake you up, and make you realize what the cartel, I mean the Fed is doing to us….
Well, to start this week off with a bang… I know that I talk about the price manipulators a lot, but what I haven’t done in a long time is explain just how this price manipulation is done… In 1971, the U.S.’s Gold horde had fallen from around 20,000 tons of Gold or 2/3rd s of the worlds total, to the 8,000 some odd tons they supposedly hold now… This was the reason Richard Nixon took the Gold backing off of the trade dollar. (remember individuals weren’t yet allowed to hold Gold, stemming from the sham that FDR pulled by confiscating everyone’s Gold at $20 an ounce and then revaluing it at $35 an ounce now that the Gov’t owned it!, which was a devaluation of the dollar, but that point is often missed). Was that our trade deficit kept growing, thus allowing foreign countries to submit their bill to the Gold Window and take away the Gold that was owed to them…
Over the years, Gold Leasing has become a very BIG part of every day Gold transactions… So, the trade goes like this… The Central Bank that owns physical Gold, leases the Gold at a price, and interest to a bullion bank… The Bullion bank then sells the Gold to its clients, and takes those proceeds and invests the money in a higher paying interest rate than what they are being charged… Now that all sounds hunky dory right?
Except… The Bullion bank doesn’t have the Gold to deliver bank to the central bank on the lease agreement, unless…. They would buy back all the Gold they sold, at the current prices… But what if the price of Gold has gone higher by a lot, thus causing the bullion bank to take a loss? Ahh, this is where it gets dicey folks… The Bullion Bank figures out that they can hedge their trade by selling Gold in the futures market, thus keeping a lid on the price of Gold… And when the futures contract comes due, they had no intention of delivering the Gold, so they simply roll the futures contract at a new price… And if all that was only for the lease contract amount, no one would say a word…. But… When you produce more short contracts than Gold that is above ground…. And when you sell so many contracts that it would take 90 days of production to cover the short sales… Someone, the regulators, should be asking questions…
And so when I say, the price manipulators showed up at the COMEX with arms full of short contracts, I’m telling you what is happening… Although, I’m sure most trades are electronic these days… The same goes with Silver, of course…. However it takes 180 days of production to meet the short sales traded, with Silver!
And why doesn’t the U.S. Gov’t, Congress, The Treasury, the CFTC, anyone look into this price manipulation, and shut it down? Because, as I’ve told you before, it is my opinion that the U.S. Gov’t is behind all this, gives the wink and nod to the JPMorgans and other price manipulators that they won’t be prosecuted or sent to jail for doing the Gov’t’s dirty deed… dirty deeds, done dirt cheap (AC/DC)… Sure they get their hands slapped for “spoofing”, which is a form of price manipulation, but not this short sale arrangement!
And the reason the Gov’t is behind this, is they cannot, and I can’t emphasize that word enough, Cannot, allow gold to become more popular than their precious dollar.. . What if Central Banks decided to buy Gold instead of hording dollars? Oh, wait! China and Russia do that now… Hmmm… Now, make sure to take good notes, because you’ll be quizzed on this at some point in the future!
This week’s U.S. Data Cupboard is a real let down following last week’s late week rush of data prints… A bunch of housing prints will be the Data Cupboard’s offering this week, and that won’t get me excited to see them one bit! Speaking of late last week’s rush of data prints, we saw the the previous stimulus checks finally get spent on back to school clothes, and it jacked up Retail Sales to 1.9% gain in September… But before you go out and buy everyone at the bar a beer in celebration that the economy is recovering, you might want to stick around to see that Sept. Industrial Production came at a negative -.6%… And Capacity Utilization came in weaker too at 71.5 in Sept. down from 72 in August… I know I’ve told you all this 100 times before, but just for GP, Capacity Utilization is one of the forward looking economic prints we see… And it’s going the wrong way!
To recap… Friday was a “down day”, and today looks like it will be an “up day”, with Gold, Silver and the euro rallying in the early morning trading. The BIG NEWS from the weekend is that the IMF is calling for a New Bretton Woods… Wait, What? Now I don’t know if this going to be the Big Reset that’s been talked about, But wouldn’t it make sense to do that at a get together of the world’s finance ministers? I’m just saying…
For What It’s Worth…. OK… I know what a lot of people would say about this number, but before you jump to conclusions, think about it more… What I’m talking about is the final figure for the Budget Deficit this year… Yes, the virus spending really bloated the number, but… remember, before the virus hit our shores, the economy was already showing signs of going for a ride on the slippery slope… So, this is the report that the final figure was $3.1 Trillion… And it can be found here: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/10/16/us-government-budget-ends-fiscal-year-with-a-more-than-3-trillion-deficit.html?
Or, here’s your snippet: “Efforts to combat the coronavirus pandemic left the U.S. government submerged in red ink as its fiscal year came to a close.
The final tally for the budget deficit in fiscal 2020 came to $3.13 trillion, more than triple last year’s shortfall of $984 billion and double the previous record of $1.4 trillion in 2009, courtesy of a stimulus package passed that year to battle the financial crisis.
Most of the damage to this year’s budget came due to the CARES Act, a $2.2 trillion spending package that included extra unemployment compensation to workers displaced during the pandemic and forgivable loans to business as an incentive to retain workers.
Receipts for the year came to $3.42 trillion against outlays of $6.55 trillion, the biggest of which came during June when the government spent $1.1 trillion, according to the Treasury Department.
The fiscal year ended with government debt at just under $27 trillion, all but $6 trillion of which is held by the public.
Tax collections came in at 1.61 trillion for the year, $203 billion less than estimated in the budget. Corporate tax collections missed the budget estimate by $51.8 billion while social insurance and retirement receipts were $2.1 billion below.”
Chuck again… Think about that for a minute, folks… of the $27 Trillion, $21 Trillion of it is held by the public, and a lot of that is held by strangers…
Market Prices 10/19/20: American Style: A$ .7105, kiwi .6642, C$ .7592, euro 1.1778, sterling 1.3000, Swiss $1.0989, European Style: rand 16.4620, krone 9.2940, SEK 8.7938, forint 310.20, zloty 3.8807, koruna 23.2161, RUB 77.80, yen 105.34, sing 1.3573, HKD 7.7498, INR 73.28, China 6.6876, peso 21.08, BRL 5.6086, Dollar Index 93.26, Oil $39.98, 10-year .76%, Silver $24.79, Platinum $873.00, Palladium $2,379.00, and Gold… $1,910.80
That’s it for today… a little heavy on Gold manipulation, and a little light on what’s going on, but it is what it is… And a little later than usual… I had problems this morning, and that’s all I’ll say about that… I head to the wound center this afternoon, from what I’m seeing, from the dressing changes I’ve made in the last week, there’s progress in healing going on… But why does it have to be so sloth-like? The Chemo I take comes into play here, because it slows the healing process… so I guess that’s the answer to my own question! Duh! Rainy days and Mondays… UGH! But we’ve actually been in a drought, so the rain, to some, is welcome! The Cyrkle takes us to the finish line today with their song: Red Rubber Ball… Now, lets see how many of you have paid attention… the Cyrkle was the opening band for what famous band? The answer tomorrow… I hope you have a Marvelous Monday, and will Be Good To Yourself!


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In a splashy prophetic gesture Archbishop John Sentamu of York, England's first black Archbishop, had his head shorn and anointed in preparation for an act of solidarity with the victims of the Lebanon-Israel war.
He will spend time camped out in his cathedral to draw attention to the plight of those who have been made homeless by the seemingly senseless violence from both sides, which is hopefully now over. And one wonders what has been gained.
One advantage (there are not many) of being Archbishop of York is that you can draw attention to yourself. And though the world may think you are quirky at least it keeps the subject alive.
At least he is being careful to keep it real and have a genuine point of human contact for those who might take notice.
Sentamu says: "I have received letters and calls from people about this conflict, and people are asking 'What can I do?' They feel helpless, they feel bewildered but they want to do something in response to the suffering that they have been watching on their televisions, hearing on their radios and reading in their newspapers." "So my call to everyone is to join me in prayer, join me in fasting join me in providing a meal for every displaced person - especially women and children, medicine for the sick; and at a future date be part of the reconstruction of the areas, in both countries, that have been destroyed"
This seems manageable and authentic.
Another prophet is SA Upper House Member Anne Bressington who yesterday called for all school kids over 14 to be randomly drug-tested.
This doesn't seem to me to be manageable, even though it may be authentic!
Authentic in the sense that Ms Bressington is no doubt tapping into public fears, but unmanageable in the sense that it is taking a sledge-hammer to crack a nut. But maybe I lead a protected life.
I also want to ask (having been a teacher) would teachers be drug-tested, would school volunteers likewise be tested? Will, in the end, MPs be drug tested? And where does this stop?
It seems unmanageable in the sense that any system is inevitably expensive and/or flawed. And begs all sorts of moral questions like why should the obvious rights (innnocent until guilty) of minors be trampled because of fear.
We hear prophecy from the PM today too as he speaks out about the Vietnam War on this anniversary of the battle of Long Tan. He uttered the magic word "sorry", which will inevitably puzzle us all since we had thought he was incapable of doing such a thing!
This makes me suspicious that this is "management" rather than authenticity. Management because the Vietnam lobby now gains much popular sympathy, and we all know how fond dear John is of the popular vote!! But authentic? A little late for that, particularly given his history in saying, or not saying, the magic word.