Imagine living in a society where people diagnosed with cancer cannot get treatment because they cannot afford insurance. This is not so difficult to imagine, as it happens every day in the United States (US). Even if the person does have insurance, the amount of coverage and quality of care vary greatly according to the person’s financial position. It seems unbelievable, in today’s world of skyscrapers and worldwide instant communication this should happen. Everyone in the U.S. should have access to an equal standard of health care because disease and accidents do not discriminate, the US is the only industrialized nation that does not offer universal health care to its citizens and insurance prices are skyrocketing.
Many working people oppose universal health care because they do not want more of their money going to taxes that support the health care system. These respectable citizens have worked long hard hours almost every day of their lives. They do not want the money they are saving for their retirement fund to be spent treating a stranger’s illness. These mostly upper middle class Americans earned their livelihoods and do not feel that things were handed to them. They do not want to give away what they worked so hard for.
Another group opposing universal health care is the extremely wealthy. Many of these people are born rich and cannot fathom not being able to afford to go to the dentist for a three hundred dollar procedure. Some of them do not want universal health care, because it maintains a class division and leaves them in a superior position. This is a difficult argument to win, because arguing with an individual about their core belief system in not unlike arguing with an individual about their religion. I hope that compassion for others and comprehension of the realities of social economics will win in this situation.
Diseases and accidents do not discriminate against people because of their financial situations and our healthcare system should not discriminate either. A poor and uninsured person is just as likely to be hit by a drunk driver as a rich person, but the situation changes dramatically after the initial unfortunate incident. The rich person will be taken to an upscale hospital and given the best treatments and medications for the duration of their injury. The poor, uninsured person will go to the nearest emergency room to be treated until his or her condition stabilizes then he or she will be released and sent a bill. Neither the poor person nor the rich person wanted to be hit by the drunk driver; it was simply a matter of being in the wrong place at the wrong time. It is not fair that the outcomes of this random accident should differ so.
And what type of care should a driver who chose to drink alcohol and then get behind the wheel of an automobile receive? How can they be held responsible for what might appear to be their series of bad choices and be punished with denial of medical care, when alcoholism is a disease and they are the victim? Many diseases are similar to alcoholism in this sense, due to the fact that a person’s choices and actions influencing their susceptibility to the disease are actually an addiction or a genetic predisposition. Smoking can cause lung cancer and a bad diet can influence diabetes and cause other problems, but the smokers and eaters are not smoking and eating with a detrimental intent. While there are not very many non smoking healthy people who want to pay for someone else’s vices, there are not very many smokers that want to get lung cancer.
Most diseases are not the result of an individual’s bad choices. Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is a disease that attacks millions of people worldwide, and we do not know the cause. The battle with MS will likely be long, painful, and expensive for anyone with the disease. The rich insured person will be able to travel to the best hospitals and get the best treatments while the poor uninsured person, if treated at all, will go to a local hospital with average or poor MS treatment capabilities. The uninsured person will likely have any equity seized to cover hospital bills, and will have less of a chance of surviving the disease. It does not seem fair that some people get certain diseases and others do not, but it is a tragedy that this disparage in treatment exists.
The current US health care system not only puts a price on the quality of life, but also puts a puts a price on life itself, and this needs to change. In this country, some people have health insurance through their work, some people have health insurance for themselves and their families that they pay for privately, some people have Medicare or Medicaid, and some people do not have any insurance at all. Many hardworking individuals have health insurance, but it does not cover a pre-existing condition. Others have minimal health coverage and become frustrated as symptoms deteriorate while they are being told that they are not sick enough for their insurance to take effect. Universal health care would provide the coverage to change this practice.
Universal health care is not a new idea. It is not a program that needs to be tested with the risk of causing problems and doing damage to the economy. Universal health care is already successful in many countries around the world including Germany, Sweden, Canada, Italy, Spain, Australia, Netherlands, United Kingdom and France. In fact, the US is the only industrialized nation without some form of universal health care.
Each country has its own method of achieving a universal health care system. Andrew Seaman, author of the USA Today article “Health care around the Globe,” observes that “Germany requires people making less than $70,000 a year to have health insurance, which is operated by more than 200 competing, non-profit insurance companies” (Seaman p 7e). The care in Germany is provided by private doctors and private and public hospitals. The citizens pay an income tax to fund the system. In Sweden the “program is funded through central and local taxes and copayments on services. The system is regulated by the national government but the care facilities are organized by the local governments” (Seaman p 7e).
The author also praises Canada’s tax funded universal health care system, “many Canadians purchase insurance to supplement the government program…The majority of doctors are not employed by the government. Hospitals can either be public or private, but budgets are negotiated by the government” (Seaman p 7e). This is similar to Spain where some of the citizens supplement the government insurance. In Spain “the national government decides the direction of the system, while the local governments decide how the health care is delivered” (Seaman p 7e). Most of the hospitals are owned by the government, where the doctors are private practitioners.
Seaman then reports, “Everyone living or working in the Netherlands is required to purchase health insurance. Insurers are required to offer a government mandated standard package and provide coverage to all.” Similar to the Netherlands generous system, Italy provides care to all residents, with funding “from a mix of income taxes, local taxes and copayments” (Seaman p 7e).In Australia, health care is provided for citizens, permanent legal residents. The public hospitals in Australia offer free care (Seaman p 7e).
The author adds that health care in the United Kingdom (UK) is offered to “all people ‘ordinarily resident’ in the country” (Seaman p 7e). The system is funded by general taxation and most services are available for small co-pay or are free. The UK government pays the doctors salary to work in government owned hospitals. In France, everyone living in the country—legally or illegally—is provided insurance. “The main sources of funding are payroll and income taxes; however, the government implements some cost sharing techniques, including co-payments and extra billing” (Seaman p 7e).
The system of cost sharing techniques in France is similar to the Medicaid and Medicare system in the US. To achieve a universal health care system in the US, we do not have a long way to go, but we do have a lot of disparities to overcome. According to Roger Baybee, the author of “Universal Health Care” from DISSENT, approximately forty seven million Americans do not have health insurance. The article asserts “Half of all personal bankruptcies are caused primarily by medical expenses” (Baybee p 64). This epidemic of being uninsured is crippling our country and only universal health care can heal us.
Baybee informs, “Per-capita health care spending reached $6,697 in 2005.” Although the US level of spending is forty percent higher than any other nation the “United States ranked an appalling thirty-seventh overall in World Health Organization figures.” The author finally claims, “The combined profits of the nation’s largest insurance companies and their subsidiaries increased by over 170 percent between 2003 and 2007” (Baybee p 64). This means that the problem is getting worse instead of getting better. We can’t afford to let this continue.
The US needs to learn what is working in other countries and use these successes as examples of what to do here. We need to evaluate our current health care system, address areas that need improvement, and make real changes. Universal Health care will provide the United States and its citizens with a secure and stronger tomorrow.



Works cited
Seaman, Andrew. "Health Care Around the Globe." USA Today 23 Sept. 2009: 7e-7e. Print.
Bybee, Roger. “Universal Health Care” DISSENT Spring 2009: 65-69. Print.

NEBULOSITY REFLECTED
2008 N.M.OBER

BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM!
"The bass in this place is great!" Alcyone comments to Elektra as she sinks into one of the Uber Soft Thrones that had just arrived on Club Kraftwerk "Chairs that other people have sat in are so gross" she thinks. "Why are you standing there and looking at me?" she assaults the representative of the Varist. He stands there in his black uniform and green belt. "May I TAKE YOUR ORDER?" Alcyone wonders if He noticed that it annoyed her that he acted as if he had never served her before. The bass resonating from the entire "Club Kraftwerk" morphed into a subsonic slither . With a sharp “V” "Valpolicia” Alcyone responded, she teased him "ooh where are you going my little nazi slave, I haven’t abused you enough ?,” "This so pointless, If all I do represent the Varist and program why don’t I phase the part of my brain that makes me enjoy being near Alcyone” the reprezentative of the Varist and Programmer, Arcturus thought on his way back to the Bar. He knew exactly what she wanted.

Electra is trying the modulation sequence mode of the Uber Soft Throne from M-aKtion that was nearest Alcyone "This chair is not that gross, Alcyone is probably the only person to have sat in it.” She looks down and sees Alcyone’s ‘Alcyone Club Kraftwerk Uber Bass Blue (trans-HjprH-neumonicaly identdtified, while dezined and produced at Obereich Industries, while marked apon the Icewear platform and distributed through kraftwerkakasicoubermitlongloutgestaultstasiswithyou! Distribution inc.’) lipstick and laughs. "This chair is working", she poses like buhddah in the new Madonna video ‘ ooommthiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiissssllllllllllllllllaaaaaaaaammmmmmmeeeeeeeeeeeeeelllllllleeeettttttssssssggoooo!’ "I JUST ORDERED"
Its late, at 450 miles above Earth the Club ‘s sound was almost loud enough to kill a human. There were protocols governing the processors on the station for that specific reason. Almost all of the surface at Club Kraftwerk’ was touch screen, providing a constantly morphing, holographic appearance. The impact from a step on the dance floor could appear as white electric lightning, it could change the color below the person and attract lazers or it could appear to cause a ripple wave spreading across the dance floor. One of the coolest and most intense programs causes the music and visual effects to accelerate when the dancing accelerates, this program totally feeds itself and amplifies the fun by like a billion. The club itself is actually a small privately owned space station. It consists of 100 rentable private rooms, three dance floors, four rooms designed for the old school coffee drinking chess players, six restaurants, a gravity free zone, two gymnasiums, ten game rooms, one electronic history museum and fifty movie theaters.
The Club Kraftwerk space station maintains a stationary orbit nestled between the moon and the earth. The absence of unity and agreement amongst the nations of Earth, combined with their general lack of interest in space, forced the orbiting stations to depend on each other to establish and enforce policies and rules. Eventually the space stations became their own nation. Now they were mining on Mars and the Moon and working towards independence from Earth altogether.
Ironically, it was not the music and food but the games on Club Kraftwerk that provided the majority of it’s income. Lazer tag and a game involving lots of climbing, jumping, balancing and the forming of a sculpture that was called ‘Gestault’ were the most popular. The other eight rooms were simulation role playing video games where the players could watch life-size holigrams of there avatars interact from the comfort of individual climate controlled stations called ‘pods’. In fact, the whole genra of games was generally reffered to as ‘pods’, and since being made illegal on most of Earth, podding had become THE major money-maker in space. Club Kraftwerk is fortunate to be the preferred residence of most of the best game programmers. This alowes them to maintain quite an advantage over the other stations and creates a substantial profit margin.

The owner of the club is most concerned about providing an environment where creativity and fun are encouraged. Most of the profits are used to further the promotion of new technologies related to the club and music scene. The primary developer of these technologies is Maia’s brainchild. An industrial manufacturing company based on the moon called ‘M-Action’. In fact, Maia and Merope are at the HQ now, reviewing the accounting.
‘Can’t we make Asterope do this?,I want to go dancing” Merope pleads with Maia.’no’Maia firmly responds with that gentle authority of her’s , that unlearnable authority that exists only as a small aspect of her entire being but is unchallengeable amongst her peers and desired by her inferiors, with this authority she continues’ this is why I specifically need you, it is your aptitude for organization that allowed us to build this plant on the moon when it was impossible for anybody else, your incite and instinct have therefore enabled every discovery and advancement that we have made since then’ . Asterope seems encouraged, ‘ok we will dedicate half of our resource,, specifically the rescorce that I have indicated in this diagram to production of the Uber Soft thrones. You will be very happy in a month because these other programs will actually benefit from the downsizing and this will be obvious then. I am confident that the thrones will create there own market,….’ Asterope hesitates then continues, “ but I think that we also might be able to encourage a market, ourselves.” Asterope stands up and waves her hand over the glowing ‘orb designator’ causing her diagram to disappear as the wall size screens go black. Then she puts her hand on the glowing orb and a single green line appears across the black screen, this line then reacts to a bass bump, then another beat, and another, and another, until the green scribble is jumping all over the screen in reaction to a drum and bass song playing with full force. She states flatly, ‘we need to make a music video to insure that this market will exist’. Maia looks at her with rolling eyes, and says’ come on Maia, you just want to make a new video, this has nothing to do with M-action, admit it’. ‘Ok, you got me, it is just that we never seem to focus on our music like we used to, I miss the old days’ Maia holds her hand, looks at her and reassures her, ‘We will now, I have been so busy during the past few months, but now I have time, lets go to the club and talk to the girls.’ They board Maia’s shuttle and take off.

‘Electra! We are shooting a new vidieo! Where is Alcyone? ‘Asterope exitedly yells as she runs to Elektra. ‘She went for a walk with ‘Arcturus’, I think that I might barf!’ ‘What is this about a video?’ Elektra asks, now expressing a cinsereity that she reserves specifically for her music. ‘ Asterope pauses and realizes that her plan consists only of ‘make a video’ and she has not thought about the music or theme, ‘ We need to focus on our music and make a video.’ Electra looks sharp and slightly devious, ‘ok’ she condescends, ‘do you have any Idea what kind of video we will make, have you written a song?” Asterope becomes upset with Elektra’s personality’ do you know where Merope is? I need to tell her?” ‘She is in her room’ is Electra’s response, her tone hints at the disapointment caused by Asterope’s rejection, but she is excited about the video.

Meanwhile, Maia is in a game room, quite enthused with her self, as she exerts her skills as a virtual dominatrix upon the very appriciative virtual avatar, representing a very real 19 year old computer wizard. She is using a program application that she created involving a very harsh representation of her musical talent, A high pitched drilling sound and a huge bass drum overwhelm the submissive subject. Whiirrr boom boom boom whirrrrr’ You like to be dominated, don’t you? Boom boom whir. To your knees, worship me. boom boom whirr whirr. He is on his knees and the computer binds his hands and feet and gags the mouth. Boom boom. I am going to have to torture you now.’ Boom. Boom. whiir, water begins pouring on his head and the real subject is informed that his account has been drained of all credit. Everything stops. Just kidding. Maia looks at him and laughs. I do not really charge people, I am just having fun too. Shall we resume? The avatar nods and Maia, in a tight black boddy suit stalks around in a circle and begins to whip the subject…

Merope, I need your help’ Asterope is standing in Merope’s doorway. We need a song and a theme for a video. Well I am working on’ this’, Asterope hears the music and has to sit down. This is awesome!!!!!, wait until you hear my lyrics, Merope starts, ‘candy cunt,…. Super sex’ in a voice that Dracula couldn’t resist. OH my god this is awesome!! What should we do for a video? Well I have been thinking sexy but not explicit, like we could have Maia on the moon in a uniform, Alcyone flying a ship, Elektra could be like a goddess on earth or something, I could be on mars doing something scientific, you could be teaching a class with lots of diagrams and data, then we could be at the club dancing. What if we each have to battle pirates on our way to the club? Adds Merope. That is perfect. Merope responds. So we need pirates, boys or girls? What about Alcyone’s new boyfriend?” Meroope looks confused. Come on I’ll show you.


Alcyone and Arcturus are in the solarium, ‘My mom told me about you’ ‘could you please expound upon that, I am curious.” Arcturus replied. ‘well, Alcyone ponders, wishing invest a level of consideration aproprietly proportionate to Arcturus’s level of sincere interest, or attention at least as it was fairly obvious that Arcturus was comprehensive of the scope of her forthcoming contribution, she also had a tendency to modulate her level of inclusive perspective comprehensiveness in order to atune to others forms of forward, she hated this, and it made her feel weak but Arcturus knew what she was saying, actually, that made her a little nervous too, ‘She said that to ignore the defiance of logic so apparent and obvious in humans would prove quite detrimental to my exponential potential’ few, she did it “Arcturus looks at he rand tilts his head to the side, “how does that apply to me?” “Suck a spoon with a booger on it plid!” she turned and stormed out of the solarium. She was really hot, she really wasn’t playing a game, Arcturus’s sarcastic behaviour was extremely inappropriate. Well, she was currently quite certain of that at least.

Arcturus stood there and smiled, staring out into space for a good ten minutes, It felt really good to know that there was someone else in here.


‘There you are? Where’s dog boy? Is he eating his yummy yummy kibble and playing with his funny dog boy toys? Or did he get off of his leash while you were walking him?’ Merope’s sneer was lickable, she couldn’t help but smile, ‘NO.., just …not right now, ..whatever later.” ‘Oh’ thought Merope, she turns to Asterope, ‘six monthfs!’ BLURT! She totally blew it but she did talk first, her entire life was about trying to talk before Merope, she could do everything just as well, it just took her a little bit longer. ‘No I think they will do very well together, (you disgusting trog, HOW COULD you say something like that, and about your own sister? Seethed from her auora) I hope forever” she stated with a stern sincerity that would be excommunicated from a Catholic Church. ‘oh’ yeah that was Asterope and Merope.

Ok the video, lets tell everyone to meet ‘Squadron 9 ‘Glitch’ “Asterope was the only one that ever pronounced the name correctly, she understood how important things like that were, you know like when someone could reduce themselves to something like saying ‘Japanimation’, instead of ‘animation’ and then, disregarding the naieve that were taught to identify the media that way, you can hear inflection that is really quite disgusting , It usually best to avoid situations like that all together, ‘um, I want an uber video so lets be an hour early.” ‘You can go sit there by yourself at three’ Asterope we will be there when, have a good night huh?” “eye’



The next day at ‘Squadron 9’,:‘It’s us!’ Zailino and Taeuta chime together. ‘Awesome’, Alcyone, rock Maia, totally ’Electra’, ‘way’ Merope. ‘dude’ Asterope’

Und Zigneus: “Hot blue! Alcyone, what flavor is it?” “Here, she touches her finger to her lip and puts it, almost in, his mouth, ‘betcha would love it all over your hot throbbing cock, bay be? Hmm hmm yum yum?’ (this was harmonic performance, there were others in the shop and Alcyone was is and alvvays will be, the worst.) Zigneus hugged Zailino from behind,” You really want to know?” Don’tchou?’ the osccilating dissent of Zailino’s voice was so clean.

‘UND” Taeuta thrusts out her arm holding a jewel of a case, similar in size to a jewel case, it was the new Adobe!, they all started jumping up and down! Und Zigneus pulls out another jewel, “It’s the ROLF BORG extended matrix three.” “we know that you can read, Ziggy’ Asterope’s ‘formative’ years at Juiliard were not currently complementing her. Merope-“NEBULOSITY!!!!!!!!!!” Zigneus- ‘REFLECTED”

I’ll read what’s new Tzab-ek , I am so not about Krittika . ‘At-thur aiya’ Maia holds her arms to her sides, hands at shoulders, elbows at hips, and jumps up and down.

They found there platforms and unfolded. ‘Whats new’ takes a while..

‘ Au Le’ aeondele’!! NAZI!”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iXKx7mzeYM

www.megavideo.com/?v=SV0L09D0

EVox W.e -A strike signature?
EVox N.M. -whoops don't get smashy

EVox N.M. -I'll correct it

EVox W.e -please send the new one

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TITLE: Yeah, I think that a Statue of a Spider would be much better than that Statue of the Daemonic Child Killer. :xxCOMPLETExx:

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CONDITION: U.K. reversing driving on left side of street (major construction)

New U.K. Abortion law - 1 year prison-
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(video conversation beetween N.M. (Denver) and W.e-(U.K))

VOX- W.e. (look)

N.M.- Seriously freaking out about haveing an abortion and staying in prison for a year, webbernadote?

W.e- (look)yea.

VOX- N.M.- Well let us ponder the what circumstances could possably lead to the occurance of that situation.

W.e. (background punks protesting liberal abortion Law ..how fucking stupid are you song)

VOX- N.M.- Is there any possible way that you could avoid it?

W.e. - (look -not possible I must have abortion..)

punks in background(happy future happy future fuck you x2)

VOX N.M.- You can have one here.

VOX W.e- AIRBUS

VOX N.M.- ROCK, I will be waiting to give you a lift from DIA

punks (boys vox)How fuckking stupid are you how fucking stupid are you! (RatGIRl ! vox) I am at the abortion clinic I am at the abortion clinic

(boys) I hope that you are having fun I hope that you are having fun.

end scene close on W.e
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cheesiest air scene ever

(MegaTetraSorry for ever looking at screen already)
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We are standing behind the Ogden, looking at four person band 'Acktung' standing near big black amps and theramin at night.


W.e- glance 3" head turn eye finish.

VOX N.M.-Shoulder Left mouth smirk 'look untitled or something'.... fucking puke but I realy appreciate the black around here.

W.e- (look HAPPY?)

VOX N.M.- They were my neighbors.

VOX W.e- annhilate emo scene or only glass?

VOX N.M.-Emo discussion please finally end

VOX W.e- Why anguish?

----N.M. thought-(I wonder if you actually are carying a pistol from England, probably obviously for me)

N.M. thought- (NOT for me, duh, come on)---



VOX N.M.- shoes like the rest but but like our stuff tuned into a fake verson like the rest.

VOX W.e-Achtung! the emo band that dies.

VOX N.M.-See them leaving in there vans!

-..and the four of them are walking away from Ogden Theater and they die, moon cloud venus gradiant background.real violentlike not to giggle abrupt

Bus RightRight must a been late cause Love and Rockets..BAM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Four emos dead!!!!!!!!!!..-

VOX W.e-tons of awesome giggles!!!!!!!


VOX N.M.-awesome, (ha.e)


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. mortic construction.area...scene volitile yet
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W.e N.M. walking holding hands ( watching emos die feels so good for us and I will seriously get in trouble if I loose W.e)

Then the guitar player's girlfriend looks out of three story window, holding candle, screams NO!!!! then jumps out, suicide.

or hangs herself because lamest Joy Division Cover Band ever Stern Chaveleir curly shoulder length black hair (?)


VOX Stern Chavelier- Ooh, aren't you Misses Cool when you want to be?

N.M,W.e-yuk (cringers) (and I DO actually keep you safe from the icky nast Chavelier ( because absolutey probably actually do have to!! LOL)



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End mortic precaution..beep
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Love and Rockets BUS abrupting emos
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Jail scene:

(criminal slides trays under door, and vocalizes, we ain't got no Earl Grey for ya here, he, he!)



VOX- David J - I am reasonably suspicious that this breakfast was prepared by a criminal.

VOX- Kevin Haskins- Of this (BOOM) I am quite certain.

VOX- David J- I certainly wish that we hadn't abrupted those Emos now.

VOX- Daniel Ash- Says Nothing throughout entire scene (purest silver pants)

((studAnt Version) with lower case g.....))
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court scene
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-Love and Rocket are told by the Judge that Fog played a major role in te incident and they are rushed out of the courtroom.

four Achtung angels floating in sky, super cheesy full moon little black clouds----------------------
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LaR looking out window of bus

there is a bus driver driving the bus.

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*---Holigram art scene presentation-
Discusion forum- SHEISSS MESSIAH YOU PROMISED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
serious discusssion (not about the carpet)

forum:

-lable everything your own way -

prot:
-as if all of the art in DAM is untitled-
-then assemble the phrases to make a story (first in small groups and then large group.-

VOX N.M.- Then we shall....actually UberVOX that)

-Animate story-
-also wondering if we can use lab computers at Denver Metro during downtime to do the work...-

-(I Nathaniel Matthew Ober shall persevere throughout entire project to ensure completion.)


----Holigram art scene presentation-

Run ppt .xh presentation with Daemonic Child Killer statue-

W.e (visiter whom we all absolutely love! prefers the spider)(( and aparently quite obviously convinced N.M. of this fact.))

(even persuasive?..) truth..


VOX -W.e- prolific and teriffic-



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-Conversation takes place in Automobile that makes me want to fuck really bad.-(Beetle)-

(driving by Andrew from Scotland on sidewalk, probably here illegally, possessing grun hair 45 esq. grave girl)
Automobile Sound system playing...'I own you, I own you, I own you'

VOX- W.e - Is this your new stuff?
VOX- N.M. - YES

VOX- N.M. (to computer) UPTT

----- MUSIC (aparrently somewhat loud?) "YOU BELONG TO ME. YOU ARE MY GIRL YOU ARE MY GIRL"

N.M.-glance at W.e and two dot thought start ..

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VOX- N.M.-Congratulations on not miirrorinjg (meaning of word, drone drone, I would rather be doing something better but you guys suck, I cant wait to tell Mum that the really do eat BarbaQue) about the spider thing, just because it is your worst idea ever does not mean that it is not far superior to anything from them. Seriously you are helping me a lot because you know that this is not a contest.

VOX- WebBernadote,-I am straightening it out, this is very hard and so much work

VOX- N.M.-Do you want me to ask you some more questions?

VOX- W.e -(Nice try sir!...or... )



----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------more scenes here GoTTgartenBergRatFallOver devideDriveToTillamookBeachFireMindSpringReadsTheNote..

A suicide note.

I am McJello and I must die .
My only truth.
All else is a lie.
Suicide now.
Good bye.

Momy, I am sorry, I fucked a Jew in Cupertino.

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BEER.

Tent.
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Next Morning

SurfSide Eight beach open oceanside scene

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we are audience at taping of Tonight SHOW
(work baby)
LAX(airbus..)
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And you fly away

-Aparently you have no Nate Awesome stuff to do there in eastern Europe and that is Way worse for me than if you flew straight home.
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I am so miserable..

And Quite the Alcoholic!!!!!!!!!

Judgment
The “VNV” in the name of the electronic music band “VNV Nation” is an acronym for ‘victory not vengeance’. It is a very noble motto for a very noble group of musicians. The band’s album titles—Empires, Futureperfect, Matter+Form, Judgment, Reformation, Of Faith Power And Glory –are rather thoughtful and even uplifting. The 2007 Compact Disc (CD) titled Judgment stands out amongst them. Each song independently contributes to create a well organized and eloquent composition.
VNV Nation is Ronan Harris along with Andre Winter, Sven Heine and Lutz Rahn. Their first album was released in 1999. They are based in Hamburg, Germany but the project is originally from Wexford, Republic of Ireland and London. No acoustic instruments are used when they record at Hamburg’s “Soundfactory” studio. They use hardware synthesizers and computer software programs to create their music and even go as far to list the studio’s espresso machine in the section of Judgment’s linear notes depicting the equipment that was used to create the album.
The cover of the CD depicts a dark and heavenly scene. The mystical scene is comprised of dark ethereal clouds that lighten to a bright white in the center. Hovering with a stoic presence, rising from the mist and fog, are five black, column-like, objects that seem to designate a habitable area in the picture. The Jewel case opens to reveal a dark blue compact disk and a booklet with the lyrics to all of the songs from the album.
The CD begins to play and an ambient hum slowly escalates and welcomes the listener to the richly textured evolving sphere of sound that is the song titled “The Farthest Star”. The lyric “We possess the power / if this should start to fall apart / to mend divides, to change the world / to reach the farthest star” (10) seems to epitomize the theme of the song. It is a very upbeat and hopeful tune about a person that feels to be one of the only awake individuals in a sleeping world. The verse serves to remind the listener that to succeed, they must face and overcome the endeavors of this world. Each of us is a light on this earth; will our light reach the farthest star?
The ballad called “Testament” evokes images of fighter pilots on an ocean craft carrier rescuing a damsel floating alone on a life raft. Alas, the young, dark, maiden champions the white five pointed star so proudly displayed on the rescuing United States (US) Military vehicle. The lyric, “We bring destruction we bring war without an end/then we hope tomorrow never comes/that it never comes” (12), berates a shortsighted agenda concerning world strategy. Here, Harris’s words are protesting the ills brought upon humanity by violence and conflict. Images of armies concurring and destroying paradise are conjured and the singer is left feeling isolated and different than the masses of the world.
The vocals of the song titled “Decent” remind me of the tall bald principal that I was afraid of in grammar school, while the beat slams percussive, drudging on below its capacity to fill the room. The vocals more than compensate for any noise loss with their vivid architecture. The song seems to envelop and fortify one’s surroundings and being, bringing to the room the dark ambience of a sepulture or medieval castle. The song states “Across this cursed place rage the fires / where the innocent are burned on a thousand funeral pyres / in anguish parted from this world / lies the need for the belief of a Devil / serve to palliate and forgive us our sins / in the abandonment of reason and delivery into hell” (13). This investigates the religious person’s acceptance of a dark force personified by a deity, who is responsible for persuading the innocent to commit evil. The words of “Decent” force the listener to accept responsibility for their decisions, because within every individual is the ability to transcend any digression.
“Momentum” is a song of volition. The instrumentation causes the listener to feel as if they are flying overland. It is a well written and very technical piece that escalates to an exciting pace during a lengthy introduction before the vocals begin. The stanza of the lyrics is short and the vocals stress the breaks by emphasizing the final syllable of the last words. Then, the song decelerates and the lyrics, “slowly decreasing / decelerating / losing momentum / losing momentum / stop” (17), finish the song.
The track after “Momentum” is titled “Nemesis”. With this piece, Harris is demanding vindication for the suffering caused by the few that rule the many. Here, the nemesis is the chaos that destroys order. The singer is adamant about defending the rights of others. In the final verse, he asks to, “let retribution hold dominion over Earth”, an agreeable statement for anyone that has ever felt wronged by an unfair or unjust world.
“Secluded Spaces” is a love song. The melody induces a dreamy, euphoric, mindset in the listener. The lyrics describe the natural beauties of a sunset painted landscape from the perspective of someone who feels caught up in the rush of day to day and has just stopped to appreciate it. Harris professes that, “I don’t think I remember/ how long I waited there/ watching everything” (8). This is a happy song in comparison to the rest of the album’s pointed and sometimes distraught directions of focus. I think that Harris feels isolated a lot and this song represents a time when he is not feeling so alone.
The final song on the CD is an uplifting hymnal titled “Carry You”. I do not know if these words are directed to an individual in Harris’s life, or if they are directed at kindred spirits. The lyrics swim deep within the oceans of self reflection. Harris’s insight continues, “The adversary to your soul / the blackest thoughts / that try to [poison you / These storms subside / Lay down your greatest burden / Relinquish that which has control of you / and let yourself through” (12). This is a song of hope and inspiration. If I knew someone that struggled with depression I would give them this CD.
“Judgment” is a well organized and eloquent composition. It is a great listen. I am very happy that I purchased it.

Works Cited
VNV Nation. Judgement. Metropolis Records, 2007.

Cubism
Cylinders, spheres, cones: bizarre cubiques. Cubism is a term first used by French art critic Louis Vauxcelles, after seeing a picture by Georgo Braque in 1908 (“Moffat” par. 3). Cubist art work is composed of bold shapes and geometric lines. The concept shatters the planes of view on the canvas and allows the viewer to see the subject from multiple viewpoints. Cubism revolutionizes the way in which the objects in painting and art can be visualized.
Cubism is the invention of Braque and Pablo Picasso (“Moffat” par. 1). Cubism is more dramatic in its composure than Picasso’s earlier realism and surrealism work. Braque’s pre cubist work is the style called Fauvism, it is an impressionist style with strong colors. Cubism is much more abstract than the artists’ early work. The newer style continues with the simplified color schemes of Fauvism, and simplified color schemes are prevalent throughout all phases of Cubism.
Picasso is the main Analytical Cubist. He creates bronze sculptures and sculptures assembled with odds and ends as well as paintings. The paintings contain geometrically divided, dissected, and reassembled views of the surface of their subject. The canvases are covered with shapes of different colors that cooperate to reveal the paintings’ subject matter: human forms, musical instruments and scenery. The objects in Picasso’s assembled sculptures are painted with the same colors that are used in the paintings.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, from the “cubism” website, informs that “In Cubist work up to 1910, the subject of a picture was usually discernible. Although figures and objects were dissected or "analyzed" into a multitude of small facets, these were then reassembled, after a fashion, to evoke those same figures or objects ( par. 3).” The subject that is initially chosen to be represented in the painting is recognizable in the final product. This is a bridge towards the invention of Abstract art. In order for the audience that is used to Realism and Impressionism to be able recognize Abstract art as a form of art they first must understand the transitions that are represented by Cubism.
Synthetic Cubism developed between 1912 and 1919 (“Wiki” par. 14). As Analytical Cubism dissects the subject, Synthetic Cubism assembles it. Synthetic uses more textures than Analytical. News clippings and sheet music are used as collage supplies (“Wiki” par. 15). Larger shapes are used to assemble the subjects of Synthetic Cubism’s paintings compared to the smaller finer geometrics of Analytical Cubism.
Synthetic Cubism explores the boundaries between what is real and what is illusion in art. Picasso uses a rope to frame the picture "Still Life with Chair-caning" (1911–1912) (“Wiki” par. 16). During that same period Braque is quoted as saying that he and Picasso were like “two climbers roped together, pulling each other up (“Moffat” par. 8).” Both artists maintain individual identities but their work together surpassed their individual volition.
Painters, such as Juan Gris, Albert Gleizes, Robert and Sonia Delaunay, Jean Metzinger, Marcel Duchamp, Fernand Léger, and Roger de la Fresnaye are also noteworthy contributors to the movement (“Moffat” par. 29). Gris’s “Violin and Guitar” uses bold blocks of colors like orange and purple to compose a strong piece. Gris’s style is generally more calculated than Picasso and Braque. He cuts shapes from paper and glues them to the canvas in a collage (“Moffat” par. 31). Most of Gris’s cubist pieces are still lives with a preference for musical instruments.
Delaunay’s 1912, ‘Windows’ series is one of the first examples of abstract art. Before cubism, most art is far from abstract. Realism and impressionism both represent the subject somewhat realistically (“Moffat” par. 40). Cubism art journeys beyond realism and explores impossible views of the subject. Cubism establishes the conditions necessary for abstract art to manifest.
Duchamp caused a stir at New York City's famous Armory Show in 1913. The painting is titled, “Nude Descending Staircase” (“Moffat” par. 41). It depicts overlapping cubist figures descending a staircase. It is his most famous piece. While the painting uses cubism, much of Duchamp’s work pioneered Avant-Garde and Pop Art movements besides Cubism (“Moffat” par. 42)
While Cubism focuses on the dissection and assemblage of the subject, Avant-Garde and Pop Art draw on different focuses. Pop art keeps the bright colors of Fauvism, like Cubism. Pop Art seems to reach farther into the mainstream than Cubism. Aspects of cubism can be incorporated into Avant-Garde artwork. Cubism influences Avant-Garde and Pop Art more than Avant-Garde and Pop Art influence Cubism.
Instead of accepting the concept that art should copy nature, the Cubist painters reject it. Cubism not only revolutionizes the way in which the objects in painting and art can be visualized but is an integral part of art’s evolution.
Works Cited
Cubism By Charles Alexander Moffat. Ed. Alexander Moffat. 23 Sept. 2009. The Art History Archive. 23 Sept. 2009 <http://www.arthistoryarchive.com/arthistory/cubism/>.
Cubism The Metropolitan Museum of Art. 23 Sept. 2009. The Metropolitan Museum Of Art. 23 Sept. 2009 <http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/cube/hd_cube.htm>.
Wikipedia. 23 Sept. 2009. 23 Sept. 2009 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/cubism>.

The Denver Art Museum









The Denver Art Museum is a structure unlike any other structure in Denver. The outside is plated with titanium. The architecture is incongruent and amazing. The Hamilton building looks like a gigantic pyrite formation jutting three stories in all directions from the ground. The titanium behemoth is like something described in a science fiction novel. The aesthetics are so inspiring I wonder what it is like to work inside of these buildings.
I step through the revolving glass doors and into the expansive atrium. The first thing to catch my eye is a twenty foot, bright yellow right angle highlighting the post modern design of the wall furthest from the door. The room is divided into rows that lead to the bold bar of metal cash registers. This is where I meet Margerete.
Margerete is a paid employee of the museum. She works at the customer service desk. Her job consists of helping the customers by selling tickets and memberships. Margerete is an excellent source of information. I ask her what about the museum surprised her after she began working here.
“How often they change the artwork,” she replies, “right now we have 17 artists from around the world installing the Embrace exhibit. That is why we have all of that tarp covering the walls by the stairs”
“That will be amazing. Thank you for the help.” I ascend the aforementioned stairway.
The stairs take me to the Dietler Hall on the second floor. The walls are mostly covered with tarps or being worked on. An artist is busy painting the likeness of the inner steel beams of a skyscraper across an entire section of wall. The atrium seems to extend to the top of the stairs. The walls are angled and slanted.
I follow the hall further. To the right are three glowing blue hemispheres coming out of the floor. They are incorporated with a motion sensor device and a projection of bubbles coming from the ceiling. When you step on the ‘bubbles’ projected onto the floor, they appear to ‘pop’ and disperse. Across from that area to the left is an information center.
The counter and area that comprise the center are tucked into the wall of the hall. There is a conservatively dressed woman wearing a blue shirt with a flower print behind the counter. Her hair is beginning to grey. She appears to be an upper middle class woman. She is not busy so I introduce myself.
“My name is Josselin,” she curtly responds.
“Are you an employee here or a volunteer?” I enquire.
“Oh, I am a volunteer,” she replies.
I tell her, “I think that that would be fun. I really like the museum’s atmosphere. “
Then I ask, “What is the most important part of your function at the Denver Art Museum?”
She ponders for a moment and responds, “Informing people of the layout of the building and the highlights, also explaining exhibits to people, what they are.”
I then inquire, “What surprised you about the museum after you started volunteering here?”
“How many foreign visitors we get here, I expected a lot of people from Denver and the area, but we get many different people from all over the world,” she answers.
“That is really neat, audience is import to art,” I state.
She continues, “Luckily, most of the people that come to the museum already have an interest in art.”
I thank her and assess the magnitude of the current installation. It is like being on a construction site and I feel like I should be wearing a hardhat. Through a doorframe to the north is the Coors Museum. I enter and walk past the red metal sculpture of a horse and several walls full of paintings of western scenery. There is a pedestrian bridge that connects to the western museum to the Raymond T. & .Sally C. Duncan Pavilion.
In the pavilion, at the NOVO coffee shop, I order a mocha from a barista named Maggie wearing an orange shirt and a head scarf. I tell Maggie about my assignment, and she tells me the museum contracts the small café. She hands me a delicious looking mocha. The design on top of the steamed milk looks like an exotic flower. I take a sip and it is the perfect flavor and temperature.
I comment to Maggie that it is perfect then I continue the conversation by asking her what the most important part of her function of the museum is.
“The most important part of my job is to represent the quality of Novo. Café Novo has really high standards and a reputation of quality. It is my responsibility to this café and the main café to uphold these standards.” She continues, “We do latte art, it goes along with the museum theme”
It is really good coffee, I ask the barista, “Do you have any observations about the museum that have been different than you expected when you started working here?”
She energetically responds, “The lack of people who come here.”
I look around at the almost empty room and agree, “Yeah, I think that I would expect more people to be interested.”
She replies, “I don’t know if there is not stuff that people want to see or what it is.”
I think about that while I finish the Mocha. I look around the room. There are seven angular, modern looking, black, couches with silver legs. There are hundreds of polished steel hands with the names of museum contributors engraved on them attached to the walls. The east face is glass and opens up to a patio with a view of the tall buildings that make up downtown Denver.
After the coffee, I realize that I am out of time, so I head out back out of the museum the way that I came in. I see Josselin smiling on the way out and say hi. I think that it would be nice to spend the day giving information in the museum. It would be more difficult to make coffee or work at the admission desk, but those are paid positions. Where I spend time can be just as important as what I am doing. I think that I will volunteer at the museum.

In the small city of Loveland, Colorado, there are not very many things for a seventeen year old to do. My decision to abstain from sports not only left me a lot of free time but also created some havoc for me at school. I chose to avoid the trouble at school by not going. I spent my days working in a restaurant and my nights drinking coffee and listening to music with friends. Two of these friends stood out of the group and really influenced me; they were Xeric and Jennifer. Their companionship and a trip to Alaska strengthened many of the viewpoints that I hold today.
Xeric (pronounced Eric, the ‘X’ is silent) was the alpha of our group. He was a bit shorter than my six foot four and had curly blond hair. His family was established in the area with a kind of an upper-middle,-middle class background. Xeric had the best guitar that could be purchased and was the singer of his band, ‘Crucial Fiction’. He was extremely well read and articulate.
Jennifer was five foot nine, had straight, flowing, blond hair down to the middle of her back. She was an intellectual, very into reading and art. It was she that persuaded me to listen to the band ‘Bauhaus’ and read books by Jack Kerouack. She gave me a top-hat that I liked to wear on the scene. It was these interests that began to define my personality.
It was Jennifer and Xeric that initially decided to go to Alaska. I was a bit of a tag-a-long, Jennifer was a year older than me and Xeric was two years older and had already graduated from high school. Xeric had a crush on Jennifer and taking her to Alaska was his plan to hopefully establish a more intimate relationship. I too had a crush on Jennifer, but knew that it was impossible and I just wanted to go to Alaska for experience. Jennifer did not have crushes on either of us but she thought that going to Alaska would be fun. The three of us strapped our rucksacks to the top of Xeric’s dad’s midsized yellow station wagon, piled inside, and drove north.
Selecting a destination for our excursion consisted of finding jobs in America’s ‘last frontier’ and establishing a living arrangement. Lucky for us, Xeric had an older sister who had already lived up there for twelve years. Her husband enjoyed working at several Alaskan jobsites, including the construction of the oil pipeline. He knew his way around Alaska. They had the knowledge that we needed. We stopped and asked them for directions.
It was pretty amazing to meet an actual pioneering family at the end of the twenty first century. They had homesteaded on the tundra for a decade, and just built a new cabin. We helped them build a firebreak between their home and a national forest that is the size of the entire state of Colorado. After delivering a few memorable nights of northern hospitality, they directed us to the fish processing industry. We would camp for free in the forest that surrounds an Alaskan town while we would work in a fish packing plant in that town.
Our camp was about 12 miles away from the town on the southwest coast of Alaska named Valdez. It was seated in Prince William Sound with enormous glacier formed mountains jutting out of the ground all the way around the inlet and surrounding us. There were always lots of huge boats in the sound. The traffic consisted mainly of enormous tankers going to Exxon and fishing boats feeding the fish processing plants. Most of the food and clothing was brought in to the town by boat or truck. There was only one grocery store there and it was rather expensive.
We had one red dome tent, one green dome tent, and a blue pup tent, at our campsite. We made a lean-too shelter with trees and clear plastic and connected the doors of our tents to it like a small biosphere. The clear plastic lean-too shelter spanned about fifteen feet by fifteen feet and was about six and a half feet tall. This was our shared living area. Protected inside, we could cook our breakfast on a green ‘Coleman’ brand burner with camp pots and pans. If one of us wanted privacy we could go into our tent and zip up the door. Our tents were like our bedrooms.
The climate and environment around Valdez are crazy. One winter it snowed 47 feet of snow there. It is like a rainforest in the summer but, is a relatively cool seventy to eighty degrees. There were tons of mosquitoes in the area, so it was crucial for us to have the shelter with a sealed door and tents with zippers. Our camp was in the midst of thick green forest. We were surrounded by ten foot tall, bright green, spiky, ‘Devils Club’ plants and millions of white and black Birch trees.
On one otherwise cool and peaceful morning, Jennifer awoke to animal noises outside of our dwelling. She poked her head out of her blue pup tent to see a Black Bear, just feet from our millimeter thick clear plastic barrier. Startled, she silently unzipped her tent door, climbed out and woke up Xeric and I. I noticed a small Black Bear cub foraging nearby. Xeric assessed that the large Black Bear must be the mother.
“The most dangerous place to be is between them, because the mother will be concerned for the cub.” stated Xeric with an informed authority.
“What should we do?” Jennifer had never looked more concerned.
“Let’s scare them away.” I said. We looked at the hanging cookware and all had the same idea.
“Ok, everyone discover a percussion instrument.” Xeric cracked.
We each selected a pan and a utensil to bang on it with. Xeric selected a silver pot with a black bottom and a spatula. I chose a silver saucepan and a wooden spoon. Jennifer picked up a black frying pan and a metal spoon. We started pounding on them and dancing around.
We danced out of the door with our haphazardly fashioned instruments and started jumping up and down and yelling. We were all freaking out but were appearing to be somewhat calm and collected under the guise of dancing around in Dr.Marten brand combat boots, flannel shirts, and cargo shorts, while banging on campfire cookery. I wondered who was going to be the first to have a leg chewed off by a bear. I wondered if we all would fight the bear if it attacked one of us. I wondered if we would die.
After a really long minute the mother bear raised her head from the ground. She turned her head to the left and looked at us with an annoyed disinterest. The mother glanced at her cub and nodded toward the forest. Obediently, the cub disappeared into the dense thicket with the mother bear behind it. We had succeeded, and I was very relieved.
“That was really intense.” I said, breaking our silent tension.
“That is exactly why I think that we need a firearm at the site” defended Xeric.
Jennifer hesitated.”I still don’t like that idea. What if there is an accident? And do you really want to murder an animal?”
Xeric responded with, “Well, if it is my life or the animals, I think that I would kill an animal.”
While being an exciting and character building experience, camping on the frontier can be kind of scary. I am glad that Xeric and Jennifer were there with me. They were an added security and they were reaffirming when were deciding how to handle the bear situation. I was impressed because we did not use a weapon to attack the bears but we did not run away from them either. I try to maintain this integrity when I am dealing with tricky situations in my life today.

(CNN) -- NASA's Kepler space telescope has already made a discovery, and its science operations aren't even officially under way yet.


The planet used in the test is a giant gas planet about the size of Jupiter that orbits a star called HAT P-7.
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NASA scientists who put the telescope through a 10-day test after its March 6 launch said this week that Kepler is working well. Its ability to detect minute changes in light has enabled scientists to determine that a planet orbiting a distant star has an atmosphere, shows only one side to its sun and is so hot it glows.

Kepler's ability to take measurements that precise at such a great distance "proves we can find Earth-size planets," William Borucki, Kepler's principal science investigator told reporters at a recent briefing.

The powerful scope is looking at thousands of stars in its vision field in the Milky Way on a 3½-year mission to find planets the size of Earth and to determine how common these planets are.

The planet used in the test, a giant gas planet about the size of Jupiter, orbits a star called HAT P-7 in just 2.2 days and is 26 times closer than Earth is to the sun, according to NASA. It is called an exoplanet because it orbits a star outside the solar system.

Kepler detected the planet's atmosphere, demonstrating the telescope's capabilities and giving astronomers what NASA says is "only a taste of things to come."

"It learned that this planet is like 4,000 degrees Fahrenheit. That is so hot. And it's 4,000 degrees Fahrenheit just on one side only. The other side would be closer to 1,000 degrees Fahrenheit, " said Sara Seager, a professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Kepler science team member.

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"This particular planet showed an unusual change in brightness," she said. "As the planet is orbiting the star, it goes through phases just as the moon goes through phases as seen from Earth."

"Kepler learned something new about an old planet," she said. "The new discovery was that planet is extremely hot, very, very hot. And it's very, very hot on one side, compared to the other."

Borucki compared it to "an element in your toaster or stove."

Monday, July 27, 2009

Leæther Strip : Power Strip 12" leftovers selling online NOW!
Dear friends.

Becasue we printed a little too many of the Power Strip 12" vinyl, I have given permission to Isotank to sell the rest from their mailorder site. So if you need this in
your collection you need to move your pretty ass's :)
Also the rest of the cool t-shirts we did are being sold there now. All very limited.

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A. Clinton Ober

I was born on 14 July 1944 in Fort Dodge Iowa, but spent most of my formative years in the great state of Montana. There exposed to the Native American Culture I developed a love of nature and learned of my connection to the natural world. My immediate and extended families were farmers and ranchers, who also taught respect for the land and to listen and learn from the ways of the natural world.

In 1959 my father died from leukemia, leaving my mother and his five children with crops in the ground and a herd of livestock. Being the eldest child, I then had to forgo school and assume the care of my mother who was also ill, my four younger brothers, crops and a herd of livestock. To leave school and tend to family business was a very common practice back in those days.

My Grandfather, Earnest Monroe Davis, on my mother's side was one of the youngest to enter the Spanish American War and at the age of 89 years was the third last living survivor. Just before his death, he said; do not worry about your not being formally educated, if you want to learn something, go to the local library and there are books to provide any knowledge you are lacking. There, if you cannot find the knowledge you need to achieve your aim, then hire the very best schooled in that knowledge and let them guide you. Then listen to your heart and follow your natural instincts. This sage advice along with the personal challenges of life, have provided the means for an unusual but quite extensive education and connections with great teachers and leaders.

Background

After leaving the land for the excitement of the city in the early 60's, I found and took interest in the fledgling CATV industry. The appeal [at that time] was that Television provided visual information of the larger world and therefore provided a window from which everyone could gain a better perspective of the real world in which they live. After a few years of working with the local CATV operators in Montana, I was hired by Telecommunications Inc. of Denver CO as the National Director of Marketing. During the four years in this position, working with Dr. John Malone, the company grew from near bankruptcy to become the largest CATV operator in the US, [now a part of AT&T].

Upon leaving TCI in 72, I then began my own company, Telecrafter Corporation, which specialized in developing CATV systems, broadcast television and microwave communication properties. This company became the largest provider of CATV marketing and installation services in the US. The company also developed and owned interests in CATV systems, broadcast television properties and microwave distribution systems throughout Colorado, Montana, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming. This company became public in 1980 and four years later merged with Wegener Communication Inc. of Atlanta GA.

Intrigued with the advent of the personal computer in the early 1980s and seeing the PC as a TV set without a signal, I began a new company, X.press Information Services. This company which became a partnership between TCI, McGraw Hill and myself, accumulated distribution rights to every known wire services in the world. These included the likes of United Press International and The Associated Press to TASS news agency in Russia, Kyodo in Japan and Xinua in China along with live feeds from all US Exchanges. These wire services combined into a unified data stream were then transmitted via satellite to CATV systems and Broadcasters for redistribution directly to personal computers via multiplexed sub-carriers to a de-mod receiver attached to the PC. At the time, we along with Microsoft, Apple and Commodore assumed that like TV, radio and newspapers, live news and quote information to personal computers would be free [ad supported] and in a broadcast form. Needless to say, the Internet was discovered and e-mail, chat rooms and porn gave rise to a new generation of communications. X.press Information Services then redirected its efforts to serving the news media.

In 1993 after experiencing near death from a major health disorder and spending 28 days in a hospital, I awoke one morning and noticed the sky was a deeper blue and the trees were a more vibrant green than I had ever seen before. At that moment I felt alive again but very much different from before. Then, while struggling to walk around the home that day, a stark realization came over me that I never owned my home and this mountain of possessions, but rather they owned me. Recognizing that I had become a slave by my own making, to things, I decided to set myself free and find something to make my life about other than things. The big home was sold and all of its contents given to the children. Then after gaining my freedom, I spent the next four years living in a forty-foot bus and traveling around the US. Then one night while sitting and staring across the bay, while parked in Key Largo, and asking what should I be doing, I automatically wrote on a piece of paper "become an opposite charge".

Upon rising the next morning, an odd notion went through my mind that the earth itself was trying to tell me something. Little did I know at the time, that through an inexplicable series of events, a compelling force would lead me to understand that we humans have a bio-electrical connection with the earth. One that with simple ground contact, neutralizes charge in the body and naturally protects the nervous system and the endogenous fields of the body, from extraneous electrical interference.

In the modern electrical world with our bodies now insulated from ground contact, we are vulnerable to electrical interference as our cells all transmit and receive the vital information that keeps us alive and healthy with bio-electromagnetic communications.

Now you know how a cowboy from the great state of Montana became aware of nature's role in protecting the vital communications of the body.

During the last two years, I have spent every waking hour in the pursuit of understanding and identifying the impact that loss of ground contact has on the body. The findings to date extend far beyond anything I would ever have believed.

The following summary is an overview.

In the beginning of my search, time spent with electrical engineers and medical professionals resulted in little more than blank stares and research in the medical libraries turned up nothing. Then after discovering that the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences was compiling a paper on the effects EMFs have on human health. I focused my attention on their work and as luck would have it, their information provided a simple piece of evidence that gave me direction. It was their conclusion that the adverse effects found in some human studies from exposure to EMFs was determined to be inconclusive as the same effects could not be reproduced in animal studies. Pay dirt, EMFs in some studies adversely effect human health and animals in similar studies [a herd of sheep, baboons and the like] did not experience the same adverse effects. These animals were not wearing shoes and sleeping in comfortable beds insulated from earth, they were naturally grounded.

A herd of sheep sleeping under a power line, to study changes caused by EMFs in human melatonin levels. I could not resist; this determined the area of study, ground humans while asleep, the primary time when the healing and restoration of the body takes place.

The method to effectively ground people while in bed was developed and the study began. The effort produced, with a control group, the following results:

85% went to sleep quicker

93% reported sleeping better throughout the night

100% reported waking, being and feeling more rested

82% experienced a significant reduction in muscle stiffness

74% experienced the elimination of/or a reduction of chronic back and joint pain

78% reported improved general health

In addition, several subjects in the study also reported experiencing significant relief from asthmatic and respiratory conditions, rheumatoid arthritis, PMS, sleep apnea and hypertension.

Then a Dr Russell Whitten of Ojai, CA confirmed these findings when he took an interest in the study and additionally grounded 35 of his own patients and found similar results.

This combined evidence confirmed that the human body, with loss of ground contact, is now operating in a bio-electrically stressed state.

Now the task is to identify individuals and companies that can help develop and provide effective and safe methods to restore our vital connection to the earth.

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The swastika is an extremely powerful symbol. The Nazis used it to murder millions of people, but for centuries it had positive meanings. What is the history of the swastika? Does it now represent good or evil?

The Oldest Known Symbol

The swastika is an ancient symbol that has been used for over 3,000 years. (That even predates the ancient Egyptian symbol, the Ankh!) Artifacts such as pottery and coins from ancient Troy show that the swastika was a commonly used symbol as far back as 1000 BCE.

During the following thousand years, the image of the swastika was used by many cultures around the world, including in China, Japan, India, and southern Europe. By the Middle Ages, the swastika was a well known, if not commonly used, symbol but was called by many different names:

China - wan
England - fylfot
Germany - Hakenkreuz
Greece - tetraskelion and gammadion
India - swastika
Though it is not known for exactly how long, Native Americans also have long used the symbol of the swastika.
The Original Meaning

The word "swastika" comes from the Sanskrit svastika - "su" meaning "good," "asti" meaning "to be," and "ka" as a suffix.

Until the Nazis used this symbol, the swastika was used by many cultures throughout the past 3,000 years to represent life, sun, power, strength, and good luck.

Even in the early twentieth century, the swastika was still a symbol with positive connotations. For instance, the swastika was a common decoration that often adorned cigarette cases, postcards, coins, and buildings. During World War I, the swastika could even be found on the shoulder patches of the American 45th Division and on the Finnish air force until after World War II.

A Change in Meaning

In the 1800s, countries around Germany were growing much larger, forming empires; yet Germany was not a unified country until 1871. To counter the feeling of vulnerability and the stigma of youth, German nationalists in the mid-nineteenth century began to use the swastika, because it had ancient Aryan/Indian origins, to represent a long Germanic/Aryan history.

By the end of the nineteenth century, the swastika could be found on nationalist German volkisch periodicals and was the official emblem of the German Gymnasts' League.

In the beginning of the twentieth century, the swastika was a common symbol of German nationalism and could be found in a multitude of places such as the emblem for the Wandervogel, a German youth movement; on Joerg Lanz von Liebenfels' antisemitic periodical Ostara; on various Freikorps units; and as an emblem of the Thule Society.

Hitler and the Nazis

In 1920, Adolf Hitler decided that the Nazi Party needed its own insignia and flag. For Hitler, the new flag had to be "a symbol of our own struggle" as well as "highly effective as a poster." (Mein Kampf, pg. 495)

On August 7, 1920, at the Salzburg Congress, this flag became the official emblem of the Nazi Party.

In Mein Kampf, Hitler described the Nazis' new flag: "In red we see the social idea of the movement, in white the nationalistic idea, in the swastika the mission of the struggle for the victory of the Aryan man, and, by the same token, the victory of the idea of creative work, which as such always has been and always will be anti-Semitic." (pg. 496-497)

Because of the Nazis' flag, the swastika soon became a symbol of hate, antisemitism, violence, death, and murder.

What Does the Swastika Mean Now?

There is a great debate as to what the swastika means now. For 3,000 years, the swastika meant life and good luck. But because of the Nazis, it has also taken on a meaning of death and hate.

These conflicting meanings are causing problems in today's society. For Buddhists and Hindus, the swastika is a very religious symbol that is commonly used. Chirag Badlani shares a story about one time when he went to make some photocopies of some Hindu Gods for his temple. While standing in line to pay for the photocopies, some people behind him in line noticed that one of the pictures had a swastika. They called him a Nazi.

Unfortunately, the Nazis were so effective at their use of the swastika emblem, that many do not even know any other meaning for the swastika. Can there be two completely opposite meanings for one symbol?

In ancient times, the direction of the swastika was interchangeable as can be seen on an ancient Chinese silk drawing.

Some cultures in the past had differentiated between the clockwise swastika and the counter-clockwise sauvastika. In these cultures the swastika symbolized health and life while the sauvastika took on a mystical meaning of bad-luck or misfortune.

But since the Nazis use of the swastika, some people are trying to differentiate the two meanings of the swastika by varying its direction - trying to make the clockwise, Nazi version of the swastika mean hate and death while the counter-clockwise version would hold the ancient meaning of the symbol, life and good-luck.

I was thinking that there should be a Nazipedia with information about the individuals persons of the third Reich and there is a wiki started, it is just tripe though. I read complaints about wikipedia informing people about the Nazism ( that is actually responsible for v-7 sattelights etc. ) anyways, the only proof is the prisoners, right? It is so hard for me top fathom the comprehension level of someone looking at a computer screen and complaining about a Swastica. If I am going to divide my screen by 4 should I do it unequivently so that it does not offend these dullards?

HUNGARIAN VINE