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Raila Odinga: Kenya’s Opposition Scion Makes Final Gamble

Raila Odinga, Kenya’s veteran opposition leader and one-time prime minister, has chosen to sit out Thursday’s presidential election re-run, a move that may well end his dream of winning the nation’s top job.

The 72-year-old has been a mainstay of Kenyan politics since the 1980s, but despite four attempts has never won the presidency.

Instead he seems to have inherited the political misfortune of his father, Jaramogi Oginga Odinga, who led the opposition for three decades but never the country.

For this year’s election, held in August, Odinga led a coalition called the National Super Alliance (NASA), overcoming traditional opposition divisions in what he saw as a surefire plan to defeat incumbent President Uhuru Kenyatta, 55, and his ruling Jubilee Party.

When Kenyatta won Odinga cried foul and took his complaints to the Supreme Court, where a shock ruling overturning the result handed him a rare political victory.

However Odinga dug his heels in over reforms to the electoral commission, and pulled out of the race with two weeks to go, insisting it would not be free and fair.

“All indications are that the election scheduled for October 26 will be worse than the previous one,” Odinga said as he announced his withdrawal.

Odinga called the election commission a “criminal enterprise” and said he would not “participate in an illegality”.

Kenyatta vs. Odinga has been a dynastic rivalry between two families that have dominated Kenyan politics in the independence era. A generation ago, Jaramogi Odinga lost out to Jomo Kenyatta, Kenya’s first post-independence leader.

– Lifelong presidential hopes thwarted –

Born into political royalty, a member of Kenya’s western Luo tribe, Odinga entered parliament in 1992 during the rule of president Daniel arap Moi. He had spent much of the previous decade in prison or in exile during the struggle for democracy.

He ran unsuccessfully for the presidency in 1997, 2007 and 2013, claiming to have been cheated of victory in the last two votes, as well as this year’s. Many observers agree with Odinga’s view that the 2007 election was deeply flawed.

That result triggered widespread politically motivated tribal violence that left more than 1,100 dead.

To stop the killings, international mediators forced a deal that saw the incumbent, Mwai Kibaki, continue as president, while Odinga took the specially created position of prime minister in a power-sharing government.

He held the post until 2013 when he ran for president, losing to Kenyatta by a very narrow margin — and losing his court challenge of the result.

Odinga once again claimed fraud after August’s vote, but this time the Supreme Court ruled in his favour, annulling the presidential election due to “irregularities and illegalities”.

A decade on, the violence of 2007 still casts a shadow over Kenya’s political landscape and tribal resentment endures.

Odinga’s backers among the Luos believe they are being denied political power by a cabal of Kikuyu elites currently led by Kenyatta.

Odinga argues that a fair election would result in his victory, and his supporters believe him.

He says Kenyatta is attempting “to overthrow our new constitutional order” and impose a dictatorship reminiscent of the Moi regime that Odinga struggled against.

– A polarising politician –

While his supporters consider Odinga a much-needed social reformer, for his detractors he is a rabble-rousing populist unafraid to play the tribal card.

He is renowned as a firebrand speaker capable of galvanising a crowd with his oratory. But Odinga also has a reputation for being stubborn and sometimes short-tempered.

For some observers, he has lost some of his crowd-pleasing skills, which some attribute to ill health and advancing years.

With his speech notes in hand he often stumbles and labours over his words — especially in English. Speaking off-the-cuff in his native Swahili however, he retains the ability to inspire.

Raised an Anglican, he later converted to evangelicalism. In 2009, he was baptised in a Nairobi swimming pool by a self-proclaimed prophet. The Bible crept into Odinga’s campaign this year with his repeated promise to lead his followers to Canaan, the mythical “promised land”.

He studied engineering in communist former East Germany and named his eldest son Fidel, who died in 2015, after the Cuban revolutionary.

However observers say the “socialist” and “communist” labels he was given were more an attempt to discredit him by the Moi regime than an accurate reflection of his leanings.

After returning to Kenya in 1970 Odinga set up as a businessman before following his father into politics.

Nowadays he describes himself as a social democrat who wants to fight inequality.

Married, Odinga has three surviving children: Rosemary, Raila Junior and Winnie.

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Roots of Racism: Applying What I’ve Learned

Yesterday I posted the results of my little project to figure out why some people have negative perceptions of black culture.

That’s all well and good – but now what? What can we do now that we’re armed with this knowledge?

Being able to apply these answers to fight racism was my intention from the beginning. General common sense dictates that in order to solve any problem, we must first understand why it exists. In the context of deep-rooted racism, I now understand why it exists. Well, at least in many cases. I think we all know that there will always be those certain, stubborn people who will never change their minds. Let’s agree to forget these people. They’ll catch up later, once they realize the progress we will eventually make. And if they don’t – screw them.

So now that I know why some people foster negative views, I can make a justified argument that certain things must be addressed if we reasonably expect people to change their minds. Because at the end of the day, the most important thing we ALL need to remember is this: racism is not an exclusively one-sided issue. It would be a fundamentally flawed argument to blame 100% of the problem on other people. After all, there has to be SOME reason this problem exists – it didn’t just randomly pop up out of nowhere. There are tangible reasons that some people think this stuff, and it would be unfair to simply dismiss their reasons without consideration. We must make a concerted effort to address the things that are under our control. If we can do this successfully, those that use actual logic and reason to formulate their opinions will see the progress being made, and thus eventually experience a change of heart. Or, to put it simply: if people see that the black community is actively acknowledging the things under their control that are causing negative perceptions, people will eventually change their minds.

I’m going to use a similar format as my previous post, emboldening the general action we must take, and then elaborating below. So without further adieu, here are the steps we can start taking to change the negative public perception of black culture.

Address the rap culture thing

I mentioned in my last post that I had a hard time arguing that girl’s point. I think this one is pretty straight-forward, and any reasonable person would probably agree that you can’t sing about banging chicks, having side bitches and sipping promethazine without expecting at least some sort of ramification.

Sure, it might be intended as fun and games, but this is a serious point that we can’t just laugh away. Kids listen to this stuff. They form their views of the world through the lenses of the people they look up to. Its pretty clear that this is a conversation that needs to get started on a wider basis if we ever expect to make racism go away.

Have, or at least create, a plan

One thing I can’t help but notice after observing all of the attempts at generating attention toward social injustice is this: what’s the plan? I think we all understand that people think its an issue. The problem, in my opinion, is that no one seems to know what to do about it. Every time I ask people what their point is (for example, the flag protest), their answer is “to create awareness”. Okay? That’s all well and good, we’ve created awareness. But now what? What’s the end game?

This is a common problem we learn about in business. Many times, we reach a point where progress isn’t being made and we’re doing work simply for the sake of doing work. In other words, we’re doing stuff, but were not actually doing stuff (if that makes sense). Creating awareness of an issue is good, but if you don’t have a plan to follow up with, your efforts are effectively stagnant. To provide an example, this very post is my version of what I’m talking about. I’ve spent a lot of time sitting down and thinking about what I can do to help sway people’s opinion. So I hit the drawing board, came up with this project, and here I am writing about it. That was my “plan”. Blindly posting and sharing things on social media with no real direction or intention isn’t doing much outside of further strengthening the already-existing opinions of people. Its not changing minds, which should be the goal. And speaking of goals…

Always keep the goal in mind

Something that I see far too often in this “battle” for social equality is how easily so many people let their egos completely ruin what could otherwise be a productive exchange of ideas. Ultimately, the goal of this entire movement should be simple: depress the existence of systemic racism. That’s what we want, right?

So when you go out in the real world and try to accomplish this goal, you have to be able to do it with a level head.You have to be constantly aware of the fact that by angering other people, you aren’t actually accomplishing anything. This is one of the general laws of interpersonal communication. You catch more flies with honey – we might not want to hear that, but that doesn’t make it untrue.

The flag protest is a perfect example. If you are one of those people kneeling, and you want to objectively consider whether or you’re making progress toward your goal of fighting racism, simply ask yourself one question: is my action helping? The reality, despite what so many people want to ignore, is that many people are being even more put off by black people when they see this. That is not the reaction we are going for. We want people to change their minds, remember? Disrespecting the flag is pissing people off, intended or not. It really is that simple. So if we actually take that into consideration, a smart person would understand this and augment their method to actually create progress toward the primary goal of changing hearts and minds. Because at this point, the flag thing has evolved into a battle of ego, and has totally deflected attention from the main goal. Its become more of a “I’m right and you’re wrong” debate rather than an actual attempt at fixing things.

These are just some of the things that are under our control. Racism, closed-mindedness, and bigotry will unfortunately always be things we have to deal with from time to time. But if we can actively acknowledge the things that we have direct control of, we can cater our actions to maximize the effect we have toward forward progress. And that’s what we should all want.

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Best Men's Watches 2015 - Cool, Funky, Unique Watch Review

Updated on January 14, 2015
I like Nixon's Newton series of watches which displays time in a unique way.
I like Nixon's Newton series of watches which displays time in a unique way.

Unique Men's Watches for 2015

I've spent quite a bit of time looking at watches and quite frankly there are many out there that are just too boring. In this post I'll take a look at 7 uniquely funky watches for men that are both unique in style and how the time is displayed.

Before you leave be sure to vote in our poll for the coolest men's watch and leave a comment with any watch you feel should be featured on this page.

Nixon 51-30 Chrono Men's Watch
Nixon 51-30 Chrono Men's Watch

What a Unique Watch Says About a Man:

I don't like wearing normal watches. To me it's entirely boring and if it's too over the top it can make you look like a used car salesman.

Whether or not you like it, people judge you before they even get to know you. You can be the coolest guy in the world, but if you have a boring look, then maybe others will wrongly assume it's not worth getting to know you. A unique watch helps to show your individuality. A cool watch shows that you can go casual or sleek.

For the Businessman:

You're unique just like everyone else, but you have clients so wearing something too unique might not be ideal; however, your watch doesn't have to be boring. A skeleton watch or one with a big face could be just the conversation starter that you need.

Want to wear something a little more funky?

Just because you have to take work a little more seriously doesn't mean that you can't wear something more funky. When you're out and about feel free to express yourself.

Below I've listed a few of my favorite watches for all personality types and occasions.

Stuhrling Men's Skeleton Watch
Stuhrling Men's Skeleton Watch

Best Value Skeleton Watches for Men 2015

Stuhrling Zeppelin Z2

I love how exposed the internal workings of skeleton watches are. I own a few of the Stuhrling watches and as a geer head, they are some of the funnest watches to wear. Also these watches aren't overly pricey and Stuhrling is a Swiss manufacturer who is dedicated to quality so overall you get a lot of bang for your buck.

The skeleton watch I've chosen to feature is the Sturhling 206B.33152 Leisure Zeppelin Z2 which has a unique five piece case design made of the best surgical-grade stainless steel available. I really like the over-sized watch face and window which show the watches engraved 20-jewel mechanical automatic gears.

Additional Details include; a black lizard embossed genuine leather strap with gunmetal clasp, water resistant up to to 50M (165 feet), a protective krysterna crystal on the front and the back, and the steel has been treated with black ionic plating.

Top Rated Cool and Unique Watches for Men

Because of their unique designs and style Nixon and Neff watches are both really in right now. On some of these watches there's a strange part of me that actually likes that it takes longer to read them or that I have to read them in a different way than a conventional watch.

These watches don't all come with a lot of special features, but they offer something completely unique as far as style is concerned. The featured Nixon Newton watch comes in 7 colors and is made of Rubber, Polyurethane, and a Polycarbonate Buckle. It also has a Luminous Light feature that lights up the room pretty well.

Overall if you're looking for a conversation piece or something to go with your unique personality, then this could be just what you're looking for.

Nixon 51-30 Big Face Watch
Nixon 51-30 Big Face Watch

Uniquely Designed Big Face Watches for Men

Available in 9 colors, the Nixon 51-30 Tide Watch allows you to look classy and fresh with its unique number system and finish. It's water resistant at up to 300M (984 feet) and has a tide subdial that lets you know when it's time to head out for the surf.

Personally have warn it on several occasions I like how the double locking clasp keeps it in place, and it feels like it has as much quality as watches many times its price. If you're looking for a watch that works whether you're at the beach, at the office, or at a party, then this is one you should definitely look at. Having seen this in various colors I also highly recommend the matte black, gun metal, or dark wood as your base color.

Overall the Nixon 51-30 is a good watch for the price and I've gotten a lot of compliments on it. I've listed some more of my favorite big face watches below and in the voting list.

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Militant Multiculturalism

I have held forth on a number of occasions (too many, some might say) about the battles going on in the Higher Education since at least the 1960s when the wheels started to fall off. The battles take many faces but occur under the umbrella term “postmodernism,” a new age that will replace the old. One of those faces is that of “multiculturalism,” which has become increasingly militant and focuses on an attack against Western Civilization — regarded as the source of all major problems now confronting the world. It began with an attack on the “establishment” in the 1960s and expanded to take in the whole of Western Civilization, especially during the Viet Nam war, because of  the West’s consistent pattern of aggression and exploitation in an attempt to bring other peoples to their knees and force them to yield up their treasure  — exacerbated  by the presumption of greatness on the part of Western Europe and America and Western art, literature, and philosophy, in particular.

It’s a movement that is well intended, to be sure, though it tends to dwell all too intently on the failures of the Western way of looking at the world. To be sure, there have been terrible mistakes, such as genocide, greed, slavery, pointless wars, and intolerance of other ways of looking the world. But in the tossing out process something precious is being glossed over and in the tizzy to replace the old with the new some important elements are being ignored or forgotten altogether.

Beaten down by this attack, for example, are the “Great Books” of Western Civilization which are now regarded as the villains in the drama, the source of the ideas that have made our culture rotten at the core — though one must wonder how many the zealots have bothered to read any of those books. Indeed, it is mainly dwindling numbers of old geezers such as myself who continue to spit into the wind while defenders of the New Age proudly display their ignorance and triumph in their new-won victories. Their goal is to “rid the world of colonial oppression,” to convert students to one way of thinking, toss out the old, and pave the way to a new and more open way of engaging the world in an effort at what its called “globalization.” And they are winning. Indeed, they may have already won.

One of the old geezers to have joined the battle in a rear-guard effort save the humanities — where these battles have been fought for the most part — is Anthony Kronman of Yale University who has written a book that describes the battles in some detail in an effort to save what remains and perhaps even to resuscitate the humanities as they lie dying in agony from self-inflicted wounds. His book, Education’s End: Why Our Colleges And Universities Have Given Up On the Meaning of Life, points out some of the many ironies of the attack on the tradition that is being replaced. To begin with, there is the fact that replacing our culture with another, presumably superior, culture would require a total immersion in that culture, which is not possible — even in theory — for American students who have spent their lives inculcating scraps from the very culture they hope to displace. Furthermore, the attack on Western Civilization draws on the categories and ideals of that very civilization which also provides the intellectual framework, such as it is, for that attack. And ironically those ideas and ideals are endemic to most, if not all, of the cultures that are regarded by the militants as superior to our own from whence they arose. As Kronman points out:

“The ideals of individual freedom and toleration; of democratic government; of respect for the rights of minorities and for human rights generally; a reliance on markets as a mechanism for the organization of economic life and the recognition of the need for markets to be regulated by a supervenient political authority; a reliance, in the political realm, on the methods of bureaucratic administration, with its formal functions and legal separation of office from officeholder; an acceptance of the truths of modern science and the ubiquitous employment of its technical products: all these provide, in many parts of the world, the existing foundations of political, social, and economic life, and where they do not, they are viewed as aspirational goals toward which everyone has the strongest moral and material reasons to strive.  . . . all of them, all of these distinctively modern ideas and institutions, are of Western origin. . . . The ideas and institutions of the West, liberated from the accidental limits of their historical beginnings, have become the common possession of humanity.”

Moreover, as Kronman points out,

“The idea of tolerance [which the militants champion] finds support in many traditions, especially religious ones. But only in the modern West did it become — fitfully, hesitantly, but with increasing clarity and determination– an axiom of political life.”

I have often noted that we seem to be throwing out the baby with the bath water, but those who would do the throwing couldn’t care less as they reach left and right for the latest Western evil to be tossed. However, while there are indeed many reasons to feel disdain for our past, even terrible, mistakes that we in the West have made, there are also so many things that are worth saving and preserving. To be sure, the universities should be open to new ideas and make the students aware of the many cultures around the world other than their own — all of which also have made mistakes, by the way. But at the same time they should seek to preserve the best of what we have all learned from our own past in order to pass those things along. Healthy criticism is a good thing along with honest appraisal and a weighing of pros and cons, but a hysterical rejection of all things Western in the name of “tolerance” is itself the most intolerant view one can possibly exhibit.

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  1. Well said. We must defend the rights for citizens to state their opinions, as long as they are done civilly, even if they disagree with everything you stand for. It is also within the person who disagrees to protest civilly. That is how this works. People who deny such right or introduce violence are ignoring our constitution and bill of rights.

    My favorite example is the Westboro Baptist Church who pickets military funerals to show their disdain for the US policy on gays in the military. It is rude, but is their right if they do it civilly and at least allow some distance. But, it was also within the rights for hundreds of Americans to civilly block the view of the deceased’s family from the Westboro protestors.

  2. Well spoken. I would only add that the culture of the west is already, by its very nature, multi-cultural. Take, for example, the U.S. … melting pot or salad bowl, whichever analogy one chooses, is make up of people from nearly every nation on the globe. We have absorbed bits and pieces of various cultures and traditions, and those bits ‘n pieces are now part of the American culture. The same is true, though perhaps to a somewhat lesser extent, of Europe. It actually, I think, makes ours a better, richer culture. I am disgusted by those who seem to think our culture should be “all white, Christian” for first of all it is a narrow-minded viewpoint, and secondly it shuts out so many valuable ideas. Good post, and I shall check out the book by Kronman.

    • Those who push hard for “multiculturalism,” the militants of whom I speak, don’t like to talk about the “melting pot,” though I do think it quite apt. Apparently it suggests that as a culture we are everything we should be whereas these folks can see no positives about the West whatever. Hard to fathom, but there it is!

  3. It is actually sinister that anyone would want to forget/ignore/replace anything western in the quest for a ‘melting pot multicultural society.’ That would be a travesty that removes historical relevance of lessons from battles won, lost and forgotten. In the absence of a former civilisation record, history repeats itself. If we let yet another civilisation sink below the waves, we have learned nothing and are doomed to yet more failure. There is no multiculturalism, but there is the ability to embrace, tolerate and accept differences between us. We can only do that by educating ourselves on what each society offers. Wars are never made solely on our differences in culture. Rather, war is waged for the right to resources….we are blind if we cannot see that this is the underlying principles of society. We live always under a scheme of collaboration to gain wealth and good living. To eliminate a Western culture, is simply the fleas killing its donor canine and moving onto its next victim (a perceived, stronger dog ready to carry more fleas). I see no joy for any of us in a scenario where we plot assassinations of character on all that has gone before. It is too easy to be destroyed by our own poisons.

    • Those who push multiculturalism the hardest seem to exhibit a remarkable ignorance of history and the fact that they are themselves a product of the very culture they trash. They seem to see things as either black or white — the West is black and every other culture is white. Bifurcation, it is called!

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By David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service*

As the American empire begins to crash, capitalism becomes desperate and takes off its gloves. We see its fist; all of the characteristics of the culture of war carried to extreme. In fact, that is the simple nature of fascism, the culture of war carried to extreme.

Dr. David Adams

Trump in the USA, Erdogan in Turkey, now Bolsonaro in Brazil. The capitalists finance their campaigns in a desperate effort to protect their wealth.

History is repeating. Hitler, too, was backed by big capitalists at a time when the Weimar Republic was failing.

This is not generally known because the records of German industry for that period are kept secret and the unfortunate historian who tried to document this back in the 1980’s, a young graduate student at Princeton named David Abraham, was drummed out of the profession as a reward for his research.

All of the aspects of the culture of war are exaggerated now. Enemy images are used to label scapegoats (immigrants, leftists, muslims, will the scapgoating of jews be next?). Military budgets are bloated.

Democracy is jettisoned in favor of authoritarian regimes. Educational systems are devoted to producing a generation of passive citizens believing in the glory of past wars. Information is controlled and whistle-blowers punished. Human rights are trampled. The earth is plundered for its resources.

And as always the case with the culture of war, women are oppressed and victimized. This was the theme of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, as the Nobel Committee joins an impressive list of organizations around the world that are working for women’s equality and an end to violence against women, in the face of increased pressures against women’s rights.

As an example, consider how Trump, Erdogan and Bolsonaro deal with the question of abortion. Trump’s oppostion to abortion has been concretized in his choice for the Suprieme Court, a man who is pledged to overthrow abortion rights in the US. Turkey’s Prime Minister Erdogan has described abortion as tantamount to “murder”, angering women’s rights groups and sparking an intense debate in the mainly Muslim nation.

And now Brazil’s Bolsonaro is strongly opposed to abortion. Writing on Twitter on 12 October he said: “The money of Brazilians will not finance NGOs that promote that practice.”

It should be obvious that all of these policies of the culture of war are linked to each other, and hence the struggles for peace, human rights, democracy, sustainable development, education, the free flow of information and equality for women also need to be linked together in one great unified movement.

It’s too late to stop the system from crashing. Just as the Soviet Union crashed because it poured its wealth into the bottomless pit of military spending, so, too, the United States has been doing the same for decades already.

There is no one in the Congress opposed to the military budget, as they are all in debt to the military-industrial complex. And Trump, of course, is making it worse. We will soon arrive at the tipping point when the dollar crashes like the ruble crashed before it.

But we can begin already to construct what will come after the crash. We need a whole new system of governance in the world that is devoted to the culture of peace! The maximum unity is needed if we are to achieve this.

*Dr. David Adams is a member of the TRANSCEND Network for Peace Development Environment and coordinator of the Culture of Peace News Network.

He retired in 2001 from UNESCO where he was the Director of the Unit for the UN International Year for the Culture of Peace.

Previously, at Yale and Wesleyan Universities, he was a specialist on the brain mechanisms of aggressive behavior, the history of the culture of war, and the psychology of peace activists, and he helped to develop and publicize the Seville Statement on Violence. Send him an email.

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Past Life Regression Hypnosis: How It Works

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You heard it many times before. An accountant turns out to be a tax collector during the 1900s. The mother of two was actually a beauty queen during the 1920s. A young man was a beautiful maiden, and the child was a strong soldier during the Roman era.

We are talking about past lives. The concept is very close to reincarnation, since the latter believes that the soul returns to earth a lot of times to learn lessons. In the process, it takes on different forms or personas. However, the soul or the person who possesses it doesn’t remember these past memories since they’re repressed deep into the subconscious mind. To know who you are years ago-or even centuries before-you have to go through past life regression hypnosis.

How to Perform Hypnosis

How does it work? Usually you deal with a hypnotherapist, who’ll try to document everything you’re going to say. Like any other hypnosis, you will be placed in a very relaxed state. This way, the hypnotherapist and you can easily access your subconscious. You will be asked to either walk along a long hallway or imagine a clock with its hands turning backward-anything that would denote a journey back through time.

When you’re completely relaxed, the hypnotherapist will then ask a series of questions, like who you are, what year it is, what you are doing, and any detail that would relate to your “past life.”

Why Do You Do This?

Interestingly, people have a variety of reasons why they decide to go on a past life regression hypnosis. Some are plainly curious and want to see for themselves if it’s really true. There are also others go through it so they’ll have enough basis to debunk it.

And there are many who go through past life regression hypnosis to solve their current problems. They don’t understand what they’re going through or what they’re feeling, and they think that such hypnosis can reveal their repressed memory or trauma and settle it once and for all.

For example, if a person is afraid of the waters, it’s possible that his or her past life will reveal how he or she had drowned. To finally resolve it, the hypnotherapist can use suggestions or subliminal messages such as

These are already all in the past.
I accept the tragedy but am ready to move on.
I have the power to change the course of my life.

Can You Do Past Life Regression All on Your Own?

Yes, you can. There are a lot of self hypnosis scripts you can depend on. You can study and practice them. Basically, the process isn’t completely different, except that there’s no hypnotherapist around to help. If you wish to become a master of it, you can enroll in a hypnosis school.

But Is This True?

It depends on your belief. If you don’t believe in soul or reincarnation, there’s no way you’ll also think that past life regression is truthful. But then again, one, regardless of his belief or non-belief, should remember that past life regression has helped many with a variety of issues.

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In recent years, a growing list of luxury fashion houses (Chanel, Gucci, Versace, Burberry Gaultier, etc.), and the entirety of London Fashion Week, have banned the use of fur and exotic animal skins in their collections, while others have focused on switching to only ethically-farmed sources. Theoretically speaking, if diets can be vegan, then can’t fashion week be, too? Animal rights advocate Emmanuelle Rienda would suggest so, as she’s poised to put on the first Vegan Fashion Week, with the tagline “cruelty free is the new luxury.” VFW will take place in Los Angeles — the largest city to ban the manufacture and sale of fur thus far— from February 1 to 4. “I want to ignite conversations and debates within the industry by educating, elevating, and drawing connections between our most important values: our respect for human life, animal rights, and the environment,” Rienda told VegNews.

The four day event will merge fashion and activism, as a number of conscious designers take to the runway, while others stage presentations, and there will be an exhibit on the evolution of vegan fashion. The runway lineup of designers will be announced on January 21, so stay tuned.

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Shinto: How To Reconnect With Nature

Adapting this Japanese tradition to the 21st century might build a sustainable culture

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Shinto shrine gates (torii) are ubiquitous in western representations of natural Japan. Have we ever wondered why we are fascinated by these images – because of the beauty of this ancient architecture? The natural scenery where they are located? Or are we indeed fascinated by a sense of mystery, the harmony that forms between these human constructions with nature?

Western philosophy has broadly taken up a Hegelian view, which conceives religion as progression away from nature worship and polytheism towards monotheism and ultimately secularism as a society develops. Central to this is an assumption that nature worship and modernisation are in opposite positions and the former must be abandoned to achieve the latter. Modern technological society indeed seems to have distanced us from nature with its apparent control over natural forces. Nature, according to Martin Heidegger in “The Question Concerning Technology”, is taken as resources and evaluated in terms of human utility. However, environmental issues in recent years have made us realise that nature is not backward or merely to be utilised – it is crucial to the sustainable development of a modern society. This calls for us to review the way we live, how we should see nature and our responsibility to it.

"In contrast to Greek polytheism, Shinto is not centred on a fixed pantheon of gods."

Shinto (as Folk-Shinto in this article) is the very religion these torii embody. With its ancient origin, its belief in the myriads of gods and practices in relation to nature, it fits well in the western preconception to be dismissed as primitive. However, Shinto continues to occupy the centre part of spiritual life in the highly modernised society of Japan. Shinto holds that nature has a sense of power and presence that is inescapable and beyond human control or understanding, but sensible in our encounters with it. Its respect to the mystery of nature thus presents to us an alternative way of treating our relationship with nature.

The Spiritual Power of Nature

Abrahamic religions generally believe in a supreme being or a first cause standing over and above the natural world. In contrast, Shinto does not believe in such transcendental beings. Also in contrast to Greek polytheism, Shinto is not centred on a fixed pantheon of gods. The Kojiki, which is one of the bases of Shinto beliefs and rituals, is an eighth-century collection of ancient myths and legends. According to the Kojiki, there are “eight myriads” of (i.e. countless) kami (generally translated as gods or deities) in the world. Shinto worship also lacks physical representations of the kami: some kami, such as Amaterasu-ōmikami (the sun and queen of the kami), are presented as anthropomorphic, but many others do not have a human form.

Indeed, Shinto kami are not realities separate from the natural world of space and time; they are part of nature. In essence, Shinto is a sense of nature, or a way of seeing nature, which acknowledges the spiritual power of natural entities – tama. This spiritual power is not dualistically separate from matter. A tree, a mountain or a river – i.e. nature itself – embodies this spiritual power. Hence, these very natural entities are seen as sacred in Shinto.

"The experience of the sacred of nature in Shinto can be understood through encounters with animals such as foxes."

Worship in Shinto centres around shrines, which are generally attached to locations as a specific focus for this sense of the sacred. For example, shrines are built on Mount Fuji, where Konohanasakuya-hime (the female kami for cherry blossom) is said to reside. Many less prominent shrines are set up around entities such as the sacred trees, which are marked out by the shimenawa (a rope placed around the trunks). Shinto shrines therefore, as Thomas Kasulis argued in his Shinto: The Way Home, function as the “holographic entry points” into the whole sacred world. As each local shrine is connected to nature as a web of kami, the human world where these sacred sites are located thus, to Shinto, embodies an interconnected web of kami of the natural world.

This interconnecting web of the sacred is further connected to human everyday life, as kamidana (kami shelf) are set up in traditional Japanese homes as smaller shrines to worship the gods. In this way, these houses, like the torii or the shimenawa of the shrines, have come to connect to the web and mark the threshold of the sacred.

The Encounter

The experience of the sacred of nature in Shinto can be understood through encounters with animals such as foxes. Foxes represent Inari (the rice kami), and are said to be intelligent and have magical power in Shinto. Norinaga Motoori (an eighteenth century Japanese thinker) once explained why foxes are recognised as kami: Although they are vulnerable and usually overpowered by dogs, they are extraordinary in the way that they can accomplish the works which cannot be accomplished by humans. Hence, they are beyond human understanding. Similarly, everything (e.g. other animals, mountains, rivers, the sun, the moon) which possesses such extraordinary and mysterious qualities are also kami. Motoori’s view might have inverted the expected hierarchy as in western religions animals and other natural entities are generally under human dominion, either as food and labour or as a threat to be controlled. Ascribing religious significance to them means to place them above humans. Nonetheless, humans cannot deny the mysterious power of these natural entities – the spiritual power of nature. Experience with these entities defies human comprehension. It is exactly because of this mystery that these natural entities are recognised as kami.

Motoori further regards the presence of the sacred in Shinto as awe-inspiring. This is because the human sense of sovereignty over nature is threatened, as these natural entities resist complete human understanding. On this, Kasulis comments that philosophy’s purpose, to Aristotle, was to root out wonder by reason and lead us from awe to understanding; Shinto, in contrast, acknowledges a sense of awe and retains the mystery of it. As Kasulis recounted, “the awe in feeling Shinto is not necessarily comfortable”, and there is even an element of fear. This is analogous to an encounter with, say, a tiger in the wild: although we are threatened by it, we experience a sense of beauty of and awe for nature.

"It is undeniable that nature can be destructive and uncontrollable, but its destruction sometimes helps bring back the balance of the earth."

An encounter with nature may also be experienced with our pets. Domestic cats, for example, still retain a sense of mystery. The continued fascination which we have for the cat has indicated our appreciation and respect for this sense of mystery. In fact, some cats are recognised as kami in Shinto.

These examples show that in Shinto, we do not have to locate ourselves in the wild to encounter the sacredness of nature. Nature is sacred because of its extraordinariness and mystery. We recognise this and generate our awe and respect for it. Hence, we can experience the spiritual power of nature even at home, when we relate ourselves to natural entities. In this sense, nature is immanent, both spiritually and materially, in our lives.

Co-habiting with Nature

On a deeper level, Shinto’s respect towards nature is derived from the dependence of human life on nature. This can be understood from a well-known Shinto myth about Susanoo-no-Mikoto (the storm kami) and his sister Amaterasu-ōmikami (the sun kami). In contrast to Amaterasu, who is gentle and kind-hearted, Susanoo is an ambiguous figure in the Kojiki. Susanoo has destroyed Amaterasu’s shrines and driven her into hiding. As a result, he is expelled from heaven. Nonetheless, Susanoo then saves Kushi-nada-hime by killing Yamata-no-Orochi (the eight-headed serpent) and has become a hero.

This myth shows that Shinto acknowledges the destructive aspect within nature, seeing it as necessary to be kept under control at times. This is seen in the rampage of Susanoo (as the storm) that drives Amaterasu (as the sunlight) away, and in the subsequent dispelling of the storm to restore the light of the sun. Yet, Shinto also acknowledges that such destructive forces have a positive side – as in the storm’s elimination of the evil presence, the eight-headed serpent. It is undeniable that nature can be destructive and uncontrollable, but its destruction sometimes helps bring back the balance of the earth. This inspires awe and is an inseparable part of nature’s mystery. While human and nature are interconnected, our life can be enriched by nature’s presence. However, failing to respect this can result in disaster for both humans and the earth, as seen in contemporary environmental crises.

So what is our ethical responsibility to nature? Shinto does not give us a definite answer. It does not call for renouncing the anthropocentric control over nature or returning to the natural order. Neither is there a Shinto equivalent of the Ten Commandments prescribed for our morality. Yet in acknowledging the irreducible mystery and power of nature, Shinto can transform the way that we see nature and thus redress the basis of our relationship to it. While the kami in Shinto are not necessarily human-like, an anthropomorphic view of respect for nature (or Peter Singer’s idea of “the expanding circle”), which extends human rights towards non-humans, does not apply. Our examples above have rather shown it is the sense of otherness in nature, which violates human sovereignty, that is intrinsic to the presence of nature and that requires our respect. If we take this Shinto view, perhaps we can generate new ideas in treating issues like human interference in nature, sustainability in building and city development, animal domestication and captivity, etc. I believe that Shinto can indeed be profoundly relevant to the contemporary global situation.

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International Mobility

Passport holders can use their citizenship to gain from the extra ease of global journey, together with to the United Kingdom, Singapore, Hong Kong and Ireland. Dominica will rapidly also be capable of providing visa-loose tour to the European Schengen states. moreover, the government of Dominica has furnished a number of monetary and different concessions which intended to make doing commercial enterprise on this island paradise even extra appealing, these include beneficial tax holidays, import duty and tax waivers, and streamlined procedures.

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An unmarried applicant wishes to choose bundle A which will emerge as a citizen of the Commonwealth of Dominica. package deal A implies a non-refundable investment of USD 100,000.

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Derf is an imaginary number between 5 and 6. It was created by Carly.

In the episode iTwins, Carly sees hidden camera footage of Chuck beating up Spencer, her older brother. To get revenge on Chuck, she makes up the number Derf and tricks him into thinking it's part of the new International Math Laws that were recently passed by the U.N. Chuck uses the number during his math test and fails it. Therefore, he was forced to go to a math camp called Camp Add'em Up for the whole summer by his dad, Earl.

In real life, the undecimal number system, which is the number system that Chuck was fooled into using, uses an A as the number after 9 rather than Derf between 5 and 6.

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  • "Derf" also spells Fred backwards.
  • "Derf", in reality, means strong or fierce.
  • "Derf" is actually a backwards upside down 4.


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William Fort seemed like any ordinary boy, living with his Aunt Bette in an ordinary semi-detached in a very ordinary town. He went to an ordinary school, with painfully ordinary teachers, who were all in the job for the long summer holidays. The circumstances of his parents’ deaths seemed also very ordinary, a car crash on their way back from a wedding in Scotland. No children, the invite had said, so William’s parents had left him at home with his Aunt Bette, which is where, of course, he was today.
William, however, had a secret, as all little boys in stories like this one do. William was a time traveller. No one could remember the first time that William stepped into the cupboard under his stairs and was transported to a different time, and though many people had tried (and the cat, Kafka, too) no one else had ever been able to travel through time just by stepping into the dark cupboard. William was special.
Perhaps it was that William was an orphan, living in a home with a woman who didn’t know how to talk to children, or to kiss them better after a fall. Perhaps William’s parents had also had this special power, but of course they weren’t around for him to ask. How William had become a time traveller, and why, remained a mystery, but one that William intended to find out.
Today, coming home from a particularly ordinary day at school (Mr Higgins had called him ‘useless’ during javelin practice and Miss Spacey had held the whole class back because Billy Cooper wouldn’t stop humming while she was talking) William decided to find out once and for all how he had come to be a time traveller. In recent months, his time travel had become much easier. Now, on entering the cupboard, he could fix his mind on a specific time period, hold his breath tight in his chest, and then open the door, finding himself exactly where he had wished. This revelation had been a happy one for William, who had previously gotten himself in all sorts of trouble having no control over where he was going; his trip to the time of the Aztecs being a good example (he thought they were all really rather lovely, until it turned out they intended to cut his heart out with a stone).
And so, William got himself a cup of milk, grabbed a biscuit from Aunt Bette’s secret biscuit jar, and opened the door to the cupboard under the stairs. He took a swig of milk, crammed a biscuit in his mouth, shut his eyes, held his breath…. And opened the cupboard door.
The wonder of William’s time travelling was that he could also travel in space. When he opened the cupboard door, he might find himself in a vast green field, in a market place in 16th century Venice, in a far off planet inhabited by small purple caterpillars. This time, however, William was surprised to find that he was exactly where he should expect to be. The cupboard door opened onto the hallway of his ordinary semi-detached house in his ordinary town. The stairs, still covered with that horrid green carpet went, as you would expect, directly up to the landing and into his bedroom. The kitchen still smelled of lino and those plastic plants that had been there as long as William could remember. Perhaps something had gone wrong, thought William. Perhaps he had lost his powers, perhaps he was just an ordinary boy after all.
And then he heard it. The unmistakeable sound of a baby crying. And a mother, gently humming as she paced, and jigged, and try to rock the baby better. William recognised the sound. The same song his mother had hummed to him when he couldn’t sleep, when he woke in the night after a nightmare. “You are my sunshine, my only sunshine…”. William’s breath caught in his throat. Had he managed it? Was he here? Would he get to see her again? He had thought about this day often. What good was time travel if he didn’t use it to see his parents, even one last time?
He looked up from the bottom of the stairs, holding his breath for fear he would be discovered. He didn’t want to frighten his mother. How would she even know who he was? Would she think he was a neighbourhood boy, breaking into the house for a laugh? He thought for a while about how he would begin to explain to her how he came to be there. He hoped that she would know, that she would understand and finally he would know the answer to the question he had wondered about for so long: were his parents time traveller’s too?
Suddenly, William was surprised by a key sounding in the lock behind him. He darted to the cupboard under the stairs and jumped in, careful not to close the door fully behind him. “Hey there! Where’s my beautiful family?” said a voice that William remembered well. His father.
“Up here!” called his mother, “William’s a little grumpy, I think he’s teething”.
William’s father dropped his bag by the stairs and climbed them two at a time. William heard the sound of his father kissing his mother on the cheek and cooing over the baby. Baby William. He crept out from under the stairs.
The hallway, now he came to look at it properly, was different to how he remembered it. Photos on the wall showed a smiling couple, recently married and a baby William, in a hospital cot. The photos of hideous cats that Aunt Bette had brought with her after his parents death, were nowhere to be seen. The carpet, too, looked different, new. The purple stain that had been there since his accident with a pot of paint and a rusty bicycle was yet to be made and the kitchen, despite smelly of those same plastic plants, was less meticulously clean – baby food and cutlery littered the sideboard.
“… a tough day…” William heard from upstairs “… worried… have to… Scotland, they say…” William moved nearer to the bottom of the stairs.
“I’ll come with you” he heard his mother say “It’s about time I got back to work, anyway, William’s nearly old enough to be left with someone. Bette, maybe?”
“I don’t want your sister coming round here, bringing those godawful cats. Stay home with William a little longer. Maybe until he goes to school?”
“I’d love to, Charlie, you know I would. But the cause! I miss feeling like I’m fighting for something. I feel like I’m letting you all down”.
“No one thinks that, Luce, you know that. They’re just all glad William’s safe”. William heard his father say. He stood stunned. Aunt Bette had told him that his father had worked in the city, and that his mother had been a librarian. What was this cause they were speaking of? Why were the others so glad he was safe? William began to suspect that the story he had been told about his parents, about his life, was not the whole story after all.

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Three phase DC/AC inverters in power electronic applications produce electromagnetic interference (EMI) due to switching of the power semiconductor devices at high frequencies. Dithering the switching frequency is one of the effective and low cost tools to reduce EMI. To maximize the usefulness of the dithering process, the effect of each of its parameters on the EMI reduction needs to be understood. In this paper, the parameters of triangular periodic dithering are investigated to find their values in minimizing EMI for three phase DC/AC inverters. The paper presents that, by increasing the amplitude of the dithering signal and selecting its frequency to be equal to the inverter voltage frequency, the EMI can be reduced. Moreover, by selecting a phase shift of pi/12 between the dithering signal and any of the inverter currents, the EMI is minimized compared to other phase shift amounts. The proposed technique is validated through simulation studies.

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Abraham began life as Abram, one of three sons of Terah

Abram’s brother Haran had a son named Lot, the nephew of Abram. Abram was 20 generations and 2000 years removed from Adam (Luke 3:34-38) (see p. 80 in Ideolatry). During this time, the condition of mankind had greatly deteriorated from the intimacy that Adam initially enjoyed with God. Terah and his family had nearly erased the awareness of God, their creator, and had adopted the traditions of the pagan worshippers of idols and other gods (Joshua 24:2). They were worshippers of the moon-god, Sin, among others.

The Midrash, a Jewish text used as a companion to interpret the Bible, also known as the Bereshith or Genesis Rabba, provides an interesting narrative of Abram. It details how he resisted the folly of idols that both his father, Terah and Nimrod, a mighty and powerful ruler, engaged in.

According to the Midrash, Terah was a maker of idols. Both Nimrod and Terah encountered the wisdom of God through Abram in their exchange with him as revealed in the following passage from the Midrash.

“Terah, the father of Abraham and Haran, was a dealer in images as well as a worshiper of them. Once when he was away he gave Abraham his stock of graven images to sell in his absence. In the course of the day an elderly man came to make a purchase. Abraham asked him his age, and the man gave it as between fifty and sixty years. Abraham taunted him with want of sound sense in calling the work of another man’s hand, produced perhaps in a few hours, his god; the man laid the words of Abraham to heart and gave up idol-worship. Again, a woman came with a handful of fine flour to offer to Terah’s idols, which were now in charge of Abraham. He took a stick and broke all the images except the largest one, in the hand of which he placed the stick which had worked this wholesale destruction.

When his father returned and saw the havoc committed on his “gods” and property he demanded an explanation from his son whom he had left in charge. Abraham mockingly explained that when an offering of fine flour was brought to these divinities they quarreled with one another as to who should be the recipient, when at last the biggest of them, being angry at the altercation, took up a stick to chastise the offenders, and in so doing broke them all up. Terah, so far from being satisfied with this explanation, understood it as a piece of mockery, and when he learned also of the customers whom Abraham had lost him during his management he became very incensed, and drove Abraham out of his house and handed him over to Nimrod.

Nimrod suggested to Abraham that, since he had refused to worship his father’s idols because of their want of power, he should worship fire, which is very powerful. Abraham pointed out that water has power over fire. “Well,” said Nimrod, “let us declare water god.” “But,” replied Abraham, “the clouds absorb the water; and even they are dispersed by the wind.” “Then let us declare the wind our god.” “Bear in mind,” continued Abraham, “that man is stronger than wind, and can resist it and stand against it.” Nimrod, becoming weary of arguing with Abraham, decided to cast him before his god  -fire- and challenged Abraham’s deliverance by the God of Abraham, but God saved him out of the fiery furnace.

Abram – 1 Idols – 0

Little is known from the Biblical record about Abram’s life between his birth and his departure from the city of Haran at age 75. It appears obvious that the Spirit of God did not consider this information crucial to our understanding of the narrative of Abram’s life. However, the passage from the Midrash does provide some interesting insight. Abram became who he was by the choices he made in conducting his life. As a young man he learned through the challenges he encountered in his father’s idol-making business and from his interaction with the culture of idol worship surrounding him.

Abram’s paradigms of life became quite different from those of his ancestors and contemporaries. His heart was somehow prepared to hear and be obedient to the one true God. God’s inspired words brought Abram to complete success over his challenges. As he continued with God, he overcame challenges, displayed faith and trusted in God. God rewarded him with a covenant or agreement and gave him a new prophetic name, Abraham, meaning the “father of many nations.” His success brought on harsh persecution, even by fire, but God was with him. God was at work shaping Abram’s life even before He established His covenant with him.

The influence of the idols in Abram’s life lost, and God won.

You can explore this concept in more detail in Chapter 13 “Abraham and the Covenant” in my book “Ideolatry – God Is Not Your Problem,” now also available in digital formats for Kindle, iBooks, Nook and Generic eReaders.

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BELVIDERE – More than 100 Belvidere Education Support Team (BEST) members, teachers, community members and parents plan to hold a sit-in prior to the Belvidere Community Unit School District 100 Board of Education (BOE) meeting Monday. The sit-in comes after months of intense contract negotiations between BEST and the board.

“This is a women’s rights issue. Ninety-five percent of our members are women. Our members make poverty level wages. Many of our members work two and three jobs just to make ends meet,” said BEST President Shirley Benson. “The board is literally nickel and diming us. They’re proposing a raise of about 50 cents an hour for our members. That’s insulting to us and to our students.”

BEST is made up of 148 education support staff members who are para-educators, librarians, hall monitors and computer technicians. They serve 8,070 students at 10 schools within the Belvidere school district.

“We are not asking for the moon. We know the district has the money to meet our requests without raising taxes,” Benson said. “Administrator salaries have been going up for years, while our salaries are shrinking. This is unacceptable. We need to put our students first and we do that by attracting and valuing those who are on the front lines with our students every day.”

The starting salary for our members is $11 an hour. BEST has been negotiating with board members in an attempt to reach a fair contract since April. BEST members’ current contract expired on June 30.

Those attending the sit-in on Monday, Oct. 15, plan to wear black. The sit-in will start at 5:30 p.m. outside the Board of Education Room (lower level) at 1201 5th Ave., Belvidere. The board meeting begins at 6 p.m. in the same location. BEST President Benson will be reading a letter to the board during the meeting, requesting immediate action to come to a fair agreement for all parties involved.

The 135,000 member Illinois Education Association (IEA-NEA) is the state’s largest education employee’s organization. IEA represents preK-12 teachers outside of the city of Chicago and education support staff, higher education faculty, retired education employees and students preparing to become teachers, statewide.