#however.......there are some things that you simply cant take. like there is a reason photographers are not using an iPhone 6 to shoot pics

[groenendaze]

back at it again with the texas aesthetic 

#NEW CAMERA IS SO GOOOOOOODD LOOK AT THIS!!!!! #somewhat unrelated but also i have always been somewhat annoyed by the 'its not the gear its the photographer' #because on some ways: YES! absolutely! it is a skill that you can improve! and good photographers can take good pictures on bad gear! #however.......there are some things that you simply cant take. like there is a reason photographers are not using an iPhone 6 to shoot pics #gear DOES matter. it sucks to see people say it doesnt and imo it can be harmful to ppl who have skill but dont have the gear to #fully show off that skill #love my old camera. i could not have taken a picture like this in the lighting that i had that has this amount of sharpness #finch #i have many feelings abt this i think

[hereliesbitches--me]

Full name:  Toruga ( Winchester ) Nicknamed:  The Good Doctor, Father, Doc, Purple Pimp

Gender: Male Species: Demon Age: Immortal, appears to be in his late 30s, early 40s Sexuality: If its a shade of royal purple, its within that field of interest. Otherwise, he couldnt care less Nationality: Travels about, German based design. Dude is a demon imitating human design City or town of birth: The Enigma , The realm of Neikan and the Emotions Currently lives: Moves where there is work, primarily between Europe and the United States, where is assets are located Languages spoken: English, Spanish, German, Russian, Korean, Japanese, variations of the chinese dialect (fluent in Mandarin) , Hindi -- basically a workable understanding of many mainstream languages of varying countries. He’s old, he’s been around, and he is able to retain and learn easily Native language: prefers English and German Accent/diction: Speaks with refined annunciation with his English, but in a more relaxed state he has a slight German accent. Relationship Status: A widower still obsessed with his monsters and his creator but she just wont see him in such a way rip the man

PHYSICAL APPEARANCE

Height: 6’6 Weight: 160 pounds in human form, his dark form varies in weight Figure/build: Tall, stocky built. His muscle is primarily in his arms, legs, and chest, with a faintly noticeable gut (lowkey dad bod) Hair color: Black, peppered with grey strands Hairstyle: keeps it medium length but professional, Eye color:  A deep orange Skin/fur colour: His skin is a sandy beige complexion littered by dark discolored scars. Having tiger features, he has inverted colors with black fur and white stripes. Tattoos: Neikan’s branding is on his left inner forearm. Tends to stroke it absentmindedly  Scars/distinguishing marks: Toruga is littered by minor discolored scars all over his arms and chest, but his iconic scar is the 3 clawed slashing going down his face. Preferred style of clothing: In a button up collared shirt and black dress pants, coupled with his lap coat, He never really goes anywhere without his labcoat. He has no real sense of.. Dressing casual. If not his lab coat, he still wears a kind of trenchcoat in some way. And suspenders for a touch of extra class

HEALTH

Bad Habits: -Cant form real human connection - sees everything as object variables to dissect ,explore, and use for experimentation. - Regularly abuses the fuck out of the other negatives because they are inferior idiots - Sociopathic murderer (“for Science”). -Obsessed with Neikan, the demon who created him, and will turn on anyone in her defense, friend or foe. -Views any personal connection to a person like having a pet you're fond for, but nothing is above Neikan. -Stress smoker.

Addictions: -Sexually infatuated by the color purple, - Takes Sadistic pleasure in watching the bold break down, - Gets off on taking control and causing pain in the act of intimacy.

PERSONALITY

Personality: Toruga is a deceptive man by nature, a demon conjured up and hand made by Neikan herself, inspired by Josef Mengele which she had seen in the lives of one of her vessels. Being based on the mad doctor, Toruga himself is brilliant in the fields of genetics, biology, and the anatomy of anything he can get his hands on. Despite the basis, Toruga is simply a being that never was a child, thus has formed a persona that imitates human emotion and relations to get his way. He doesn't feel true connection, he doesn't feel empathy, sympathy, or guilt for what he does, as long as it feeds into the goal of appeasing his mistress and furthering her goals. Which makes lying and altering his persona to the liking of his associates quite easy. Toruga presents himself like a fatherly figure -- even tempered, soft but confidently spoken, and constantly utilizing praise and interest in another when he’s looking to make nice. He’s a master of manipulation and will not hesitate to research a person’s history, or gauge a weakness from conversation alone, and exploit it if it makes them more agreeable or himself more appealing.   He doesnt respond to insults or physical attacks,  not a single thing in the world bothers him, save for the failure of the negatives to complete a task, or if the insult is directed at his mistress. Or if it is impeding his work, because that would make him unappealing to Neikan. Only then will he react. And he will do so swiftly and violently to make his point known. He is not afraid of death threats, or to be beaten or dismembered or tortured, because of his inability to die (Thanks to his connection to Neikan. For as long as she lives, he can) He finds those sorts of threats mildly amusing, because he has been here for centuries, and he will continue to be well after humanity is nothing more than bones and Ash beneath their feet. His personality can swivel on a dime, but overall he is a fairly pleasant person to interact and talk with. He;s had plenty of time to master human expression.  Toruga also tends to be very physical when he shows interest, with subtle touches, unbroken eye contact, and closeness. Its simply the spider tossing the silk of his webs to capture the poor fly that has no idea the fate to come. He can be incredibly jealous and spiteful when it comes to what diverts the attention of his mistress

Strengths: Determined, Even tempered, charming personality. Incredibly intelligent and gifted with holding conversations. A great asset if you need a doctor to work on any sort of viral or bacterial bioweapon, or if ya need a guy that likes to alter and play with mortal genetics. His inability to stay permanently dead makes him quite the threat in theory, and with that demonic origin he does have supernatural strength compared to the average mortal. He has no real blood, just inky mass of dark matter that makes up his form and drips in imitation blood.

Weaknesses: Neikan. Divine weaponry and magic also hurt like a bitch and would require he directly return to neikan to get fixed up.

Fears/phobias: Failing Neikan to the point she abandons him or makes another negative to replace him.

Favourite color:

P U R P L E 

Did I say purple?  Very important to know. And any shade that compliments it.

Hobbies: - Kidnapping subjects indiscriminately based on their viability and their chance of being pursued, disfiguring them, wiping their memory, and then using them as test subjects for his viral bioweapon projects. - Making handmade clothing for his test subject children. He’s quite the skilled tailor. He especially loves dressing up his daughter before she ran away - Traveling about to meet with and work closely with assorted allies towards an end goal of toppling human society and shifting power - Taking out his anger and frustration on the negatives because they dont die - Talking to his dead husband he keeps perfectly preserved in a case down in his lab

Theme Song: - “Pet” by perfect circle - “Trust me” from the Devil’s Carnival

SKILLS

Talents/skills: - Tailoring clothing of all materials - Extensive knowledge of the medical field - skilled virologist and biochemist - Manipulative - Skillful liar

Education: Multiple lifetimes of trial and error through multiple dimensions and a variety of different levels of technology he’s explored with. Lacking any formal training, being an extension of his mistress means he also inherits the knowledge of her vessels. Coupled with his own experimentation and studied through multiple worlds.

Abilities: Being a demon made of dark matter means he’s endowed with an assortment of natural abilities, however unlike the more well known hell spawn demons, the negatives and their abilities from Neikan are typically only physical based.  Those abilities include: - Enhanced Strength and Endurance (built up after years of handling monsters, and the lack of human limitations/strains on the body) - Complete Regeneration (as long as the weapon is not enchanted or by divine means) - Minor shapeshifting, limited to his true forms. From human, to the black mass in the shape of a man, to a beastial tiger form - A photographic and auditory memory that retains just about any information he finds worthy of withholding. It also allows him to learn any language with ease after being exposed to it for a period of time

FAMILY, FRIENDS AND FOES

Personal history: Created around the time period of Pride’s((The Vessel) lifetime, 6 vessels prior to Nikki, Toruga was formed at first out of curious reasons and the need for a friend, but her intent with him became malicious shortly after her grief in the following life which split her soul into two halves. Left with nothing but malice and hatred for humanity, with the worst aspect of her being, Neikan utilized all her negativity to create a figure that would help speed up the process of ending the lives of the future vessels. Toruga was based on Josef Mengele, which Neikan had been exposed to as a child through the eyes of her second vessel, Hate. The demon was never a child, born as a perfectly capable adult to keep this young grieving woman company, it was at the start of his existence which paved the way to his obsessive love for his Creator. Toruga was her friend, her pet project that she left responsible with overseeing any of her new creations were given a job and set in order. While not active at first, Toruga observed humanity from the distance and learned the art of imitating them perfectly to blend in and manipulate what he understood. He studied their texts, he studied their culture, the array of species, their anatomies, their science and their technologies, absorbed it all until he could put it to use at the very end. Toruga is in love with his mistress, but with her fixation on her vengeance and the delicate heartbreak, she refuses to see him in such a way. Which, in turns, drives his unyielding determination to please her to make her see him. Coming to the existence of the last vessel, Nikki, things got complicated. Neikan assigned him a task to make a malleable beast that can infiltrate, a living machine to be the wolf in sheep's clothing, so when the last life became known, this being would be sent to kill it. Unfortunately for them, that bio weapon became the last life. Once inheriting Neikan and all the previous lives, any of the previous wiring he had instilled in the fetus were completely wiped away with the new presence of thought and free will -- the result, which would send Toruga on a wild chase to retrieve his experiment , all the way back to Earth. He spends years having to establish bases and connections on earth, all while scouring for his little project, taking well over 10 years before finally finding her. When he eventually does kidnap her and attempt to reset her mentally, Nikki retaliates and flees, leaving him with the iconic face scar he has now, but his project was now an unstable mess.  

Toruga is a man who juggles many projects at once. Despite a singular failure, he is always looking to make improvements, which would have eventually led to the creation of Malakaid as a failsafe to getting rid of Nikki, then immediately lost after yet another raid by Rosie and the authorities. But there is no stopping, there is always alternatives to getting what he wants. His web is vast, his determination and will unyielding. The world will fall to his mistress, one way or another. As of now, Toruga works closely with a variety of associates, primarily the Branches of Virtues because of their plentiful assets, and acts as a kind of apostle for Neikan to gain more souls willing to join their cause. His main project is a viral mutagen called the Uxoru virus, and helping work towards a modified super soldier serum made from Angel’s blood.

Parents names: Neikan Shadou (Sheila Lunarcrest)

Siblings: The other negatives, including John, Sebura, Kura, and Joku. By technicality, anyone made by Neikan is a kind of sibling.

Relationship with siblings: Toruga is the head honcho of the show, responsible for directing and punishing the others for their failures. Their stupidity and clumsiness prove to be incredibly irritating to him, and because they cant die he has no hesitation in brutally maiming and abusing them for it. They all have a bitterness, but a respectful fear towards him, and he knows it well. None of them are his equal, for he was the first, and he intends to keep it that way.

Partner/Spouse: -Vermont (Former husband, now deceased. Murdered mistakenly by Toruga himself after Vermont questioned Neikan’s intentions and plans. )

Children:

- Nikki Ai (His first experiment, artificially created and planted within a mother. She has no recollection of him as her creator, but rather this monster that hunts her down. She never came back as she was suppose to, and thus is a nuisance he needs dead)

- Malakaid (The second improvement to Nikki’s design , made from Nikki and Jacob’s dna, spliced with his own. Malakaid was stolen as a baby by Rosie and imprinted on her. Because of this, he will not go back to Toruga.)

( From his relationship with Vermont)

- Veronica Winchester (Eldest daughter, ran away at 12 years old.)

- Toby Winchester ( A young boy, still living with him. He drags him around on his work trips when he’s able to. Because he witnessed his birth parent murdered as a toddler, Toby is practically a skittish mute of a boy that fears his father but will not dare leave the way his sister did.)

Enemies:

Basically got beef with everyone bcuz he probably fucked over your loved ones at some point and just doesn't recall it. He primarily has enemies with Rosie( A very personal vendetta) and the Angel Project, the Divine Calvary, and any enemies of the Branches of Virtues. He doesn’t try to make enemies but if people are gonna try to stop him from completing his work because its “unethical” and “Inhumane” then a bitch gonna go into the cage with the rest of the subjects. But he’s a hard man to hate because as long as you are blissfully ignorant, he seems like such a pleasant man to keep company with.

Associates:

- The Branches of Virtue

- Nathair Elerdand

- Neikan and the Negatives

Affiliated verse:

Tag: :The Good Doctor (Toruga):

- Iniquitous Essence (The info above)

- Pokeverse : Toruga is a scientist of the Aether foundation , working on a secret specialized project for Lusamine, to create a world where human and pokemon are one -- as halflings. He experiments using genetic information gathered from the ultra beast data, along with splicing human dna with that of Pokemon, varying from adults to unborn fetuses. Everyone of which failed (dying in a matter of months, if born. Dying and resulting in a stillbirth. Or death induced by the Human body rejecting the intrusive genetics and triggering a shut down response) until finally there was Rosie. He studied her for the entirety of her childhood, a secret success he dare not report until certain she would not die like the rest, only to be lost in a fire (as far as he knows) aimed at silencing her rowdy father.

Much to his dismay, Toruga continues his research on human genetics, milking the foundations of its assets to feed his curiosity, with no real loylty to anyone but himself. But those skulligans are a promising bunch of nobodies to utilize for testing. He’s on the hunt to get his pet project back

#:The Good Doctor (Toruga): #Hey I made a bio sheet so imma post it here and add it to the page later #I ended up just keeping it short bcuz who the hell cares about his little detailed affairs #Too intricate to matter buy if anyone wanted to know they can ask #The bad bad doctor man #long post #tw: long post #Sorry dash I wanted to share him

[pickupafteryourselves]

@pigfartsss

Hey. I’m making a new post instead of reblogging yours because I don't keep track of who's blocked me yet and I’m too lazy to bother checking heh.

In case you were asking for real (and in case you can still see this), here goes mine:

Because "CC believers" take to any outlet they can to directly harrass Darren and Chris and their friends and family. That's where we inevitably see your conspiracy theories and their harmful effects.

On a small scale, this hinders my fandom experience.

On a much larger scale, these people are spreading misogyny, homophobia and transphobia among other nasty things. This isn't about anyone "believing" anything about Darren (people who are not conspiracy theorists simply accept what he tells us about his own private personal life because why the hell wouldn't we? It's his business).

I know what you're going to say: "I have never addressed the actors directly on social media" and "not ALL ccers" etc

It doesn't matter. CCers who don't tweet hate at people still foster those attitudes here on tumblr and do so in the hopes of roping more people into it. You believing whatever doesn't concern us until you start acting on those beliefs to the detriment of others.

You've possibly never posted a single hateful word and simply delight in reading RPF and daydreaming. In that case, anti-CT posts are not for you, they are for the people who promote the terrible attitudes I mentioned. But you asked why some people were bothered by what CCers say, so I took it to mean you were asking fans. If you wanted to know instead why “Miarren stans” send CCers insults, then sorry for butting in :P (I don’t know any Miarren stans, I can’t answer for them). Tbh that practice seems to me like old, nasty ship wars and it’s something usually both sides feed (though I can’t really offer input in, as I don’t partake in RPS, nor do I stan anyone. I don’t endorse these practices and generally disencourage shippers from behaving like this).

CCers could also take their own advice: If they’re so sure Darren goes home to Chris every night, they could relish in that certainty without the need to use their public blogs to throw insults at their fave’s female partner (including whore and alcoholic, which btw gives you a glimpse into what kind of people they are), who they have CHOSEN to assign the role of villain to in their theories out of entirely subjectively disliking her. What they are certain are mere “PR stunts” shouldn’t ultimately bother them. But they want to hate Mia more than they want to just believe Darren and Chris are holding hands out there somewhere. They’re not the only ones. It’s a defining trait in tinhats across fandoms (Supernatural, Outlander, One Direction, Prince Harry, Twilight, Benedict Cumberbatch, Game of Thrones, Lord of the Rings and sadly so many others - you’ll find they use practically the same arguments, lore, “evidence” and insults).

And it’s nice that you say that proven wrong you’d just accept it. It is. Problem is I don’t know what you guys think will prove you wrong if from the very beginning Darren outright said specifically who he was and you decided he was lying. After that, there really is nothing he could ever say with his own mouth or otherwise that would prove you wrong. The words “Chris and I are not dating” have been uttered. Clearly a wedding doesn’t do it for you (it only makes your theories all the more convulted and outlandish). I know for sure that having kids wouldn’t prove it to you either (see those other fandoms for fake baby theories). Your reasons for dismissing his words are 0% objective. Because you think their wedding attires were awful? Plenty of people without bias would agree and plenty would disagree. I fail to see how one’s personal taste in fashion is confirmation of anything. You want to take snapshots, moments in time, in which Darren is being photographed with neutral expressions while going about his business and call them proof? Still being 0% objective, because you are adding your own (wild) interpretations to them (not to mention if people simply walked down the street with a smile on their face, they would look deranged). And with those methods you could “prove” myriad ridiculous statements. There already is a compilation of Darren looking miserable while holding instruments and you haven’t said he hates music. There is a compilation of Lea Michele and Chris Colfer looking and acting and posing like actual lovers. Why aren’t we stating that they are in love as if it were a fact? This could be endless. Whether you think somebody has chemistry or not is ultimately just that, an opinion. Opinions are not facts. You personally hating the color yellow doesn’t make the color yellow universally shit. So, while you may label the wedding as “trashy” and think “well, if it was trashy, it must be fake,” there actually are people out there who thought it looked great. And you would both be correct in your assessments, because they are opinions. The things is, neither opinion has any correlation to the veracity of the event. Zero.

If someone you don't even know personally one day tells you something about themselves like "So my favourite color is yellow" and you go "Fine. Good for you, I guess," instead of deciding it's a lie and then trying to cling on to anything that could however remotely back up your already solidified conclusion, you'd probably be less stressed out whenever they wore yellow sneakers.

There are plenty of contexts in which skepticism is vital, but people’s sexual orientations are not it. And battling homophobia is very important, but making an unwilling participant your champion for it is completely inappropriate. CCers keep talking about how outing someone is bad. But are their blogs not an effort in doing exactly that? If all they wanted to do was vent amongst themselves, they would have passworded these blogs. But they’ve been trying to make these conspiracy theories spread for ages, because that is what conspiracy theorists do.

#pigfartsss

[paintmyphotos]

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[typhonatemybaby]

I stumbled across this article on twitter the other day and IMO it represents simultaneously the worst and most socially positive elements of what a lot of people think about when they think about scottish independence. Im from Scotland and support independence in the current climate, but for a variety of reasons, some of which are identical to the standard pro-indy platform, some wildly divergent. It starts off well enough, by poking a few holes in Ruth Davidsons generally tepid takes on the broad campaign for independence as well as highlighting her hypocrisy as regards her take on nationalism in general ( cue timely reference to the infamous tank photograph). After this the author takes the tack of using this as a platform for arguing for: “ ...the independence movement to challenge her "thinking" (quote marks very much needed) by giving stronger and more coherent meaning to the philosophy of our cause.“

Which in general is a program i support, especially given that the nature of the mainstream lines of the debate have sort of solidified into entrenched positions since indyref 1.0. However Im broadly speaking an anarchist so any chance of my actual views getting into the rhetoric of the independence debate is pretty slim. Regardless we crack on and Mr Mcalpine immediately starts talking about academic theories and conceptions of nationalism, which i would agree is a fair point to start. However this is also where i start to run int trouble with this article. Instead of using the theories he has outlined to help approach the matter materialistically and even state which of these he believes is closer to accuracy ( though to be fair he does do this later), McAlpine immediately simply lays them out as an offering and moves on to his first major calumny. I find it fitting that he does this after making the error that all online anarchos love to point out : “ oooooh you assumed the nation state is a good model at ALL. you FOOL” etc etc

So what is this first major issue? well:

“Because here's the thing – there is more or less no person in the world who is not wholly reliant on and deeply committed to the nation state system. I get deeply irritated by the 'citizen of the world' crowd who, hypocritically, expect someone else's nation state to provide the police to protect their MacBooks as they check into a hotel in someone else's country using someone else's roads paid for by someone else's nation state raising taxes on their population.

If you are a fascist, an anarcho-syndicalist, a theocrat or a believer in undemocratic kingdoms or empires, or of a single world government, then you have taken a legitimate position from which to attack nationalism. Everyone else is some kind of nationalist.”

Fuck me, bad post op.

First of all this is, for someone who just ragged on Ruth Davidson for not knowing about academic theories of nationalism in human society, this guy displays a total absence of knowledge when it comes to literally any of the ideological positions he’s just listed. Secondly, given the way this guy seems to conceive of nationalism i find the ( I assume rhetorical) claim he makes that  “everyone is some kind of nationalist” to be somewhat farcical. Some people deliberately extricate themselves form this mode of thinking. some never fall into it at all and others merely drift away. Its either that or he is going for the Orwell argument, in which case, buddy, me and my  pal Max have some news for you. 

On the other hand if McAlpine is making the argument that “ we all live within political systems pervaded by the importance of the nation-state” or something along those lines, then frankly that’s one hell of a circular point seeing as he proselytizes the idea of Nation States as inherently legitimate, or at least seems to. If this latter argument is being made here then its not wildly different to that time Louise Mensch got up of Have I Got News For You and complained that anti capitalists protesters were idiots because they’d probably consumed capitalist goods. Not least i find this disgusting because of his insistence on the conception of “our roads” as if humans can cut out cubes of the air and trademark them. A criticism of tourist-colonialism is very justified, i agree, and the idea that the colonized nation, repressed by the colonizer is legitimate in resistance is one that many would say carries some water, but here he turns it utterly on its head, not only by arguing that Scotland is in any way similar to being an imperial colony in any significant degree, but also by turning this argument into a complete unconscious capitulation to the essentialism of the republic. Mcalpine worships the citizen, and now because of it anyone can build upon that ideological failure to wring up whatever evolved form of essentialism they may choose. It is from this that the whole failure of much of the self described civic nationalists springs. Their ideology has replaced the old totem with a new one and now the imagined republic forms what they strive for. It will of course never exist, vote or no. I happily voted Yes once and will do so again, but while i described myself as a civic nationalist last time i don’t any longer. I dont think this article really vindicates why anyone should

In that it is treated differently within the UK political landscape by the powers that be it is more akin to a collection of low priority constituencies, safe seats that neither side is compelled to compete over and thus will not invest in. The vestiges of serious English/Scottish violent tension or the post 1707 internal repression are not actually materially important any more. Scots aren’t being brutally oppressed in that way any more. In the Current material conditions it is about austerity over the course of decades, the aftermath of industrial collapse and regrowth, and cutting away from the worst of liberalism and neoliberalism, into a situation where things are merely bad and not catastrophic.

its for this reason that im skeptical of the premise of his next section: that civic, cultural and ethnic nationalism are fundamentally different. Different they are, but not inextricably so. in fact i believe they are merely faces of each other, and because the idea of nationalism does not allow for people to actually escape that loop, are suited to merely melt into each other as the climate requires. If you cant imagine the “ someone elses roads” rhetoric coming out of the mouth of certain other UK political figures mouths. Mcalpine attempts to escape this by stating that he sees the shades of grey and the nuances inherent in the problems of all these theories, but i would argue that the three distinct ideas of nationalism he has outlined do not form separate trends or tendencies, but that they chase each other in a spiral. I believe they have a dialectical relationship. 

(Getting wildly off the rails I would liken it to Clausewitz’s “ fascinating trinity”, where three separate components of a concept that at first glance each seem the essential component, each rely on each other and by their own presence force the other aspects to relate to them.* The actual philosophical difference between civic and ethnic nationalism is particularly tenuous for reasons which i should not have to elucidate. These are not separate categories. They are elements in dialectical conversation with each other and each exists in the nationalist ideal, if you look in the right places. Creating a theory of the modern nation state isn't like picking different pokemon at the start of the game)

*I am aware of course that this is obscure as hell. feel free to ignore it Anyway getting back on track: I think that by this point another key error in the Civic nationalist platform should be clear by now: the notion that civic nationalism stands somehow as a desperately radical stance against globalization and modern consumerism, or even that it would materially represent a desperately different way of being from such things. Neither of these things are really expressly mentioned in this article as it isn't really the place for that massive discussion yet i personally get the feeling that we should briefly discuss them nonetheless. The Civic nationalist tendency amongst the main camp of the Independence movement in Scotland frequently effectively offers Scottish nationalism/independence as a bulwark, both materially and ideologically against “ the bad capitalism” presuming their own to be so much better. Again this isn't mentioned in McAlpines article, so its not like its at all his fault but i feel the need, as someone in favor of Independence and as an anti-capitalist who takes a Marxian analysis of capitalist economics to reiterate that this position is blatant nonsense

Anyway Mcalpine then knocks it right out of the park with the inclusion of a joke YouTube video, which to be fair takes a nice swing at BBC British nationalist propaganda, which is to be fair pretty horrendous. This section is a little edgy but whatever. He then moves on to complain that Sturgeon has had to avoid the word “ nationalist” in her rhetoric. Frankly i normally have no problem with the idea of nationalism being unpopular, but his point that it is being made unusable by the deliberate propagandist manipulation of the silent nationalism of the British political landscape (lmao) is an accurate one. Nationalism isn't what those people are arguing against. they are arguing for their own nationalism and their own power. Next up, after this worthwhile insight is a quite positive point, the heart of which i understand but at same time cannot stand alongside: The fixed idea of the citizen and citizenry is again raised. Difference and the validity of such is celebrated. All is Utopian. All is then sacrificed. the preponderance of the nation state over the citizen immediately re-erupts onto the scene, as the citizens become components of the national project. Which is inevitably going to cave to bog standard capitalist exploitation no matter how Utopian you make your Tomorrow-Scotland. Surplus Value is still Surplus Value regardless who the extractor is. McAlpine is not willing to accept this however and states:

“ This means that I believe nationalism is a function of people – that the nation state is explicitly a contract between each of its citizens, and not a contract between individuals and 'the state'. “ ...to which i can only respond with “ yeah right”. 

He reiterates his imagined distinction between movement for a nation of citizens and affinity groups and relations, and old school patriotism and rightly criticizes it as a subservience to power, yet fails to reflect on such a notion within a nation.  The rest of this article i cant really bring myself to criticize because it is genuinely clearly rather heartfelt in a way which i too have felt and sympathize with:  snipe though i may I still sympathize with the general platform and the desires behind it: for a better way of living. Further the general premise of the article is made into a rather useful request at the end, even if i still feel that the author failed to live up to it: 

“ If only we could show more courage in defining what our project is about at a fundamental level...” 

Well to the author i say this: if that project is independence please count me as, though a critic, an ally. But if it is nationalism then i would encourage you to see which spooks and phantasms still haunt you and to see which wheels turn in your head.

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People Call My Photos Fake… But They’re Not

The idea of this article came from a recent photo series I saw on BoredPanda about viral photos people thought were real but were fake. It reminded me of some of my photos people always call fake.

People online judge you really easily. It used to really annoy me when people called my work ‘fake’ when I spent countless hours planning and executing that particular shot. Now I don’t care as much anymore as I used to. This is the Internet, after all. And if I think about it, often I can’t blame them.

Take the last super moon for example. More than half of the pictures you see online are indeed fake. People paste the moon in all kinds of settings, and if you know your photography, you can easily see what’s fake and what’s not because of focal lengths not matching. However, people who don’t really know the technical aspects of focal lengths, the ‘general crowd’ can’t really tell what’s real and what’s fake. So if something looks ‘too good’ people often think it’s fake.

The so-called ‘haters’, in particular, will scream fake at you and will sometimes even directly insult you.

In this article, I will discuss a few shots I’ve taken over the years that look ‘unreal’ and thus were hated upon a lot. All the shots I am discussing have their own article on PetaPixel.

2015: Alone in the Universe

This photo gave a boost to my photography career. It shows the ISS (International Space Station) flying over a friend of mine standing on a hill who I was photographing with the Milky Way. This was a lucky shot. I had been to this area a bunch of times trying to shoot the Milky Way (which is not easy in the Netherlands) and this on this shot I saw something flying through the frame.

Upon doing research afterward and asking local astrophotographers (on astroforum.nl, very nice and helpful guys) it was confirmed that this was indeed the ISS flying through my frame. I already knew it was something special when I took the shots, because it was flying much slower than a shooting star, and it was much brighter than a meteor and different than a plane.

A meteor shower was predicted one week later, and with some clever title, a photo story and the image itself, the image spread on the Internet extremely quickly. The result was tons of media attention, and a lot of people calling the shot fake for numerous reasons.

Most common were the people who don’t know anything about photography saying you can’t see or photograph the Milky Way in the Netherlands.

There were ‘Experts’ saying the ISS flew a different direction so the shot could not be real. But they forgot that the exposure started when the ISS was on the right, and that’s why it’s brighter there. And it went to the left, fading out there because it was making its turn there. So while it looks like the ISS is going to the left, its actually going to the right.

There were also haters saying the shot was planned (but not calling it fake) and saying I made up a bulls**t story. At that time I tried everything to convince everyone the shot was real. Luckily I also had support from people from astroforum.nl, and I showed some publishers the raw file. But you simply can’t please everyone.

2019: The Supermoon

My most recent picture that I planned of the supermoon was also called fake by some people, especially people who don’t really know photography. As I mentioned earlier, you can’t really blame them, because there were so many fake moon shots out there.

For many people, a shot like this is again “too good to be true.” The perfect alignment of the moon in between the two towers screams Photoshop. But the challenge is to plan shots like this, and once you tell people how you do it, they turn around.

People calling it fake because the moon is too big. By using a very long lens and planning you can align the moon with building and objects. It’s great fun when you succeed. You can also see a video about it here:

People were also calling it fake because there are hundreds of fake pictures of super moons out there, even featured by news channels.

2017: Erupting volcano Lined Up with the Milky Way

These two images are by far the most extreme. Especially the first image where you can see the Milky Way in line with an erupting volcano in Guatemala. The second image was actually much more challenging, but the first image looks way crazier so that one gets a lot of hate, even today.

I planned this shot to great lengths and before I made the shot. I already told lots of people about my plan, making it even more satisfying when I was finally able to take this shot. Literally hundreds of people insulted me over this particular shot.

Again, when you think about it, you can’t blame people. The number of fake Milky Ways you see on social media nowadays is probably more than the number of real pictures you see. And especially with a shot like this, even I would probably think that it’s fake if someone else had taken it. It was, and is still, featured on worldwide media. Here are some of the reasons people were calling it fake and photoshopped:

First, the top of the peak on the left. Lots of people said it looked horrible. “Such a bad Photoshop,” was often said. The fact is that the peak right there is rising above a thick fog layer, making it look like that. If I had Photoshopped that, I probably would have made it look better!

Because of the very defined haze layer, it looks like the sky is just pasted in the image. What people forget is that I am standing at close to 4,000 meters (13,000 feet) of altitude here. The haze layer was very apparent that night. Compare it to being in an airplane at high altitude and looking out of the window — you’ll also often see a very defined line of the atmosphere.

People also said: “The light pollution looks very strong, but the sky is not polluted.” This is Guatemala. What you see in the image are very small villages. They almost don’t give off any light pollution. It just looks way more extreme on the image because of the long exposure. You can see this on a light pollution map if you check the surroundings of the Fuego volcano in Guatemala. There is not much light pollution, so it’s very easy to spot the Milky Way.

Also, many locals shoot the Milky Way there. The fact is that this shot was technically not that hard. It is not a single shot but was rather a panorama to get the whole valley in the frame. I planned the alignment and the shot, and “just” needed the volcano to erupt. The planning and the whole trip was the most difficult, but being there was simply executing and enjoying the spectacle unfolding in front of my eyes.

I shot the erupting volcano with the Milky Way first and then moved panned to take more shots to get the whole Milky Way with the valley. There were a total of 5 (vertical) shots. No HDR, bracketing, or whatever. But yes, multiple shots to create the full panorama. The second more challenging photo is a single exposure.

‘Photoshop’

I do have to say that all of my shots are indeed ‘Photoshopped’. I always work on my images to make them look good on print and social media. I change contrast, vibrance, saturation, make color adjustments, etc., so you can call them ‘fake’ in that regard. But I don’t change the moment.

When you shoot in RAW format you maximize the data your camera can capture. The photos always come out very flat, so to make it look somehow appealing you have to do some processing. When you shoot in JPG, or when you shoot with your smartphone, for example, the device itself already does all the processing so you don’t need to do any processing on the computer anymore. This is an endless discussion that I will not write about in this article, but can be talked about another time.

The bottom line for me, in general, is trying to display the moment in a photograph. To close, I would like to say that before you judge anyone or think something is fake, don’t just start screaming “fake!” or insult the photographer. If you have doubts, there is sometimes more to it than you think. No matter how much experience I have with this particular thing, it still hurts when people insult me over work I spent lots of time on.

About the author: Albert Dros is an award-winning Dutch photographer. The opinions expressed in this article are solely those of the author. His work has been published by some of the world’s biggest media channels, including TIME, The Huffington Post, The Daily Mail, and National Geographic. You can find more of his work on his website, or by following him on Facebook and Instagram.

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It’s no secret that electronic mail signatures have a serious influence on this planet of electronic mail advertising and marketing. It’s additionally clear that they’re one of many best methods to re-engage together with your current prospects, with out spending any (or little or no) cash.

Profitable companies are utilizing the untapped energy of their electronic mail signatures as a result of they know that choices are all about prioritizations primarily based on invested effort vs profit.

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  1. Create Your Signature with Cellular in Thoughts

It’s superb how many individuals utterly skip over this step, with out understanding the implications. Mobiles account for 46% of all electronic mail opens, that means that testing your electronic mail signature for cellular compatibility is crucial.

A typical false impression is that your electronic mail signature will probably be appropriate throughout all electronic mail shoppers. The unhappy reality is…it received’t. Though I might like to blame Outlook for this, the reason being really that almost all electronic mail shoppers (cellular included) use totally different HTML rendering engines and which means all of them show electronic mail signatures in a different way.

As well as, cellular screens are a lot smaller than PC shows, and so they additionally use scaling. Due to this, vertical layouts work a lot better on mobiles. Utilizing a large format on cellular units may cause your signature to look squashed and the pictures to be scaled up which makes them look blurry.

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The main points a school scholar contains of their signature will probably be so much totally different to the small print a lawyer contains. Solely embody the small print that are related to you. For instance, if you happen to’re a school scholar, you’ll most likely embody the college you’re attending and the topic you’re finding out. You wouldn’t embody these particulars if you happen to’re a lawyer.

Most individuals aren’t thinking about understanding your favourite band, or shade. Your electronic mail signature ought to embody the data wanted to contact you, and some other related data. When you’re not sure, ask your self “Would I give that data to a enterprise affiliate I had simply met?”.

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Particulars which aren’t wanted solely bloat the signature and make it laborious on your recipient to search out the small print they really want.

  3. Contemplate Fonts

A font can utterly change the appear and feel of an electronic mail signature. The identical could be mentioned for the colours and spacing. You must by no means use a number of fonts in your electronic mail signature. The one exception is that if your emblem makes use of a unique font to your signature.

By way of font sizes, you shouldn’t have greater than 2-Three totally different sizes all through your complete signature.

  4. Use Colours Which Mirror Your Model

Like fonts, preserve your choice to round 2-Three totally different colours. Any extra and also you danger creating that “rainbow electronic mail signature”.

It’s necessary that the colours match your emblem as a lot as potential. In any other case, your emblem can look misplaced, or your signature might have that “template” look which you don’t need.

  5. Use Stunning Photographs

In sales-based roles (corresponding to actual property brokers) the place you’re dealing straight with the general public, utilizing a picture of your face can add a private contact to your signature. When you’re not too keen on utilizing a profile image in your signature, you possibly can simply use your organization emblem.

Solely use good high quality pictures which have been professionally taken.

Use PNG or JPEG kind pictures for max compatibility and at all times make sure you compress them utilizing a software like TinyPNG.

PNG’s work greatest for logos and while you want transparency in your pictures. JPEG’s are greatest for profile photos the place the colour high quality must be good.

Keep away from utilizing GIF animations (extra on this later).

  6. Tweak the Spacing

Behind each nice trying electronic mail signature is constant spacing. When you’ve obtained 10 pixels of spacing above the contact data, then it’s best to have the identical spacing underneath the contact data too. The identical goes for all sections of the signature.

Constant spacing makes the signature look skilled and clear, even at a fast look. It additionally makes it simpler to identify data that you simply’re looking for.

  7. Maintain an Eye on Measurement

With electronic mail signatures, there’s 2 sizes to test. The scale in pixels, and the scale in kilobytes (KB).

Measurement in Pixels

The scale in pixels determines visually how massive your signature is, and whether or not it’ll match cellular screens. Remember the fact that narrower signatures look higher on mobiles due to display screen sizes and scaling.

For desktops and bigger display screen sizes that don’t use scaling, the beneficial most electronic mail signature dimension is 700(w) x 300(h) pixels.

For cellphones which have smaller screens that use scaling, the beneficial most electronic mail signature dimension is 320(w) x 600(h) pixels.

Checking the scale of your signature is so simple as opening your signature in an online browser like Google Chrome, proper clicking on it and clicking examine ingredient. You must then be capable of hover over the outer most desk, and it ought to present you the peak and width of the signature.

Measurement in KB

The scale in KB is the quantity of disk house the e-mail signature will take up when it’s saved on a mail server. When you ship roughly 30 emails a day, your electronic mail signature will probably be saved 30 occasions in your server, which may take up invaluable house in the long term. And that’s solely with you sending emails. You probably have a number of workers sending emails, it will probably add up in a short time.

You must purpose to maintain your electronic mail signature underneath 50KB in dimension. There usually isn’t a have to have an electronic mail signature that’s any bigger (even if in case you have a promotional banner).

  8. Check Your E mail Signature for Compatibility

Keep in mind earlier we touched with reference to electronic mail signature compatibility? To make sure your signature seems the identical in all electronic mail shoppers, you should cross check it between all the favored electronic mail shoppers. Simply because your signature seems good in Outlook, doesn’t imply it’ll look good in Gmail.

That is an instance of how cross testing ought to be finished:

Sending from Outlook 2013 to Gmail

Sending from Outlook 2016 to Gmail

Sending from Gmail to Outlook 2013

Sending from Gmail to Outlook 2016

…and so forth.

Hopefully, now you possibly can see what an infinite process cross testing could be if need your signature to be appropriate with the highest 10 electronic mail shoppers. Simply because you’ve gotten finished cross testing, it doesn’t imply that your electronic mail signature will work flawlessly in all electronic mail shoppers. For instance, Gmail inserts gaps beneath pictures, and there may be nothing you are able to do about it.

Generally you possibly can repair compatibility points, different occasions you merely can’t.

  9. Issues You Shouldn’t Do

Don’t make your complete electronic mail signature a picture

When you’re contemplating making a elaborate electronic mail signature, however you possibly can’t do it utilizing HTML + CSS, then both change the design so it may be coded, or don’t do it in any respect.

No matter you do, don’t make your complete electronic mail signature a picture, as the scale (in KB) is often massive and your recipients received’t be capable of copy your cellphone quantity or different particulars out of it.

Mainly, it screams “I care extra about seems, than I do about performance”.

Additionally, you possibly can’t do cut up testing on issues like CTA buttons, and you may’t simply make modifications to the signatures.

Don’t Over Complicate the Design

A easy design goes a good distance. Don’t consider your signature as needing to cram as a lot data into it as potential. Easy designs are simpler to code, and still have a a lot larger likelihood of trying constant throughout all mail shoppers.

Don’t Insert GIF Animations

Animations are enjoyable to have a look at, however more often than not they don’t work with electronic mail signatures. Along with probably being perceived as immature, animations don’t at all times technically work with electronic mail shoppers.

Some electronic mail shoppers convert GIF animations to nonetheless pictures. So, if in case you have an animation of your head shifting round, your recipient may see a nonetheless picture of the facet of your head…not look.

Don’t Use Inspirational Quotes

There isn’t sufficient room for them, and the concept is to maintain your electronic mail signature clear and litter free. Keep away from utilizing quotes in electronic mail signatures, until it’s one thing like a CEO quote that enhances the model picture.

  Conclusion

Creating an electronic mail signature is kind of straight ahead so long as you retain the following tips in thoughts. Hopefully, now try to be absolutely outfitted to make a very nice trying electronic mail signature that will probably be appropriate and on the similar time have all of the options you need.

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2018.

This year might’ve been one of the toughest years I’ve ever had to go through and I will break everything down from start. Read if you like (even though I doubt anyone will see this) but if you do somehow read this here’s my 2018.

Friends.

As a 27 year old, I’ve met a numerous amount of people. I grew up fortunate enough to be around people that actually enjoy my company. For the past few years I’ve found myself in a place where I thought I’d never be. It currently feels like I have no friends. As harsh as that sounds, it’s true. Then again, I said it “feels” like it. I have friends, but as each year goes by I feel like the friendships I have slowly decrease & fades away. I have 2 groups of friends where I can hang out in a daily basis but for some reason they all stopped hanging out with me. Even though at times when I’m near them, I feel unwelcome and none of them would really talk to me.. or simply ask me how I am or what I’ve been up to. I’m not sure if I rubbed them off the wrong way but the only time I see them is if I hit them up directly. I’ve been excluded from many events.. from birthdays to holidays and to just any special occasion. I’ve never asked them why everything feels so different because I don’t want to put them in a weird position. For now, I’ve been letting things rock on it’s own. I haven’t been social as much I use to, part of it is because of the self low esteem I have and how I’m unable to hold conversations. Throughout the years, when I hang out it would usually be one on ones or with a group of 2 or 3. It hurts me that I’m saying this but I can see clearly see they don’t want me around.

Family.

Family has been tough. My family looks down on me. Everytime I see them they never ask what I’ve been up to or anything people would normally say after not seeing each other for awhile. Questions like “how have you been?” “What do you do now for work?” None or that. Instead they say things I don’t want to hear. Things like “when are you going to grow up?” “How come you don’t have a girlfriend?” “Why do you have your beard?” Stuff like that. I never really cared what they say anyway but I can see the disappointment in my parents & grandparents face. I never got the motivation I needed to get the head start, or words of encouragement knowing that they believe in me. I recently told them that photography has really changed my point of view in things and I hope I can be a successful photographer some day. The reaction I got? Classic, “photographers don’t make money” “how can photography make you happy?” “Do something more useful with your life.”

Those words fucking hurt coming from their mouths but it doesn’t matter. I will do whatever I want to do. I’m sick of the asian stereotypes where all they want you to do is what they want you to do. A fucking doctor or anything in the medical field, a fucking lawyer, an accountant. Why can’t they just simply say do whatever you want as long as it makes you happy? I know it was tough for my grandparents and parents growing up in China where job opportunities were brutally limited but it’s 2019 and times have changed.. and I’m in America now. They don’t give me the same love and attention they would normally give me growing up cause they know I’ve already “fucked” my whole future up.

Health.

Health has been the biggest concern thus far. I’ve been recently diagnosed with gout & psoriasis. Gout is disorder that triggers your joint due to high levels of uric acid causing your joints to be in excruciating pain. Meanwhile psoriasis is a skin disorder where your skin cells rapidly grow and creates layers and layers of dead skins forming into a nasty crust on your skin.

It’s been brutally tough having these 2 conditions and it all started with my habit of poor diet. Many people know there are certain things I can’t eat now, in particular.. seafood, red meat & alcohol. It fucking sucks cause I absolutely love all 3 . I’ve been so self conscious with my skin where I refuse to show people my elbow or hands. The psoriasis plaque I have are on my elbows and all over my hands. It’s been getting worst and this year was the worst yet. I would never show my hands when I’m around friends and I would apply lotion really often now just to get rid of dried skin on my hands. There are some people who notice it and asked what happened. But I made up a lie and quickly brushed them off. Gout is really painful, I’m currently having a gout attack as I type because I overwalked this past weekend. This weekend I walked 19 miles and over 40k steps throughout NYC taking pictures. Because of gout, I’ve given up on so many of the things I love to do.. like sports, and outdoor activities such as hiking. I’ve been through so much physical pain on both of feet the past 3 years that I don’t wish this upon anyone. These flare ups can happen at any time of the day and the pain can last up to a week but usually 3-4 days for me.. but it’s close enough. It doesn’t help because I’m a smoker and my diet lately has still been a joke. I can’t blame anyone for this but myself because I never took care of myself. I’m 27 years old and I’m currently dealing with disorders where older people in the 50s would JUST start dealing with. It’s crazy but I do have to take care of myself. Because of this I’ve practically given up on so much things.

Love.

Love has been difficult. Really really difficult. The last relationship I was in lasted for a year and that was in 2010-2011.. so it’s been 8 years since my last relationship. Pretty crazy to say because I never thought I’d go through an 8 year stretch with no girlfriend. But because of everything that’s been going on with my life, I don’t see myself being in a relationship. But that doesn’t mean I gave up. I’ve spoken to girls and tried to engage myself in conversations to their liking. But expectations weren’t there and in the end nothing worked out. I was recently head over heels for a girl that I went to elementary school with. We spoke for a month and things were going well after one night where she decided to call it off. It hurt me so much because I thought I found someone who was feeling me as much as I was feeling them. I’m not sure who to turn to just to talk about it and everytime I get rejected, my confidence just starts going downhill. To the point where I’m done because I don’t have much to offer. And time is ticking on my end.

Life.

In 27 years of living, I haven’t achieved much in life. I dropped out of school during freshman year of high school and it was by far the biggest mistake in life. I decided that free time and hangouts with friends were more important than education. All my friends graduated college, but I didn’t. However I am thinking of going back and hopefully I can get back on my feet. I haven’t been working too because I give myself too much excuses. All in all it’s just tough because I’m terrified of the real world. I don’t have the qualities to present myself to anyone and I don’t even have a degree on anything so finding work has been extremely difficult. It pains me when my fiends and I sit down as they talk about their jobs or how much they make annually and here I am just silent because I have nothing to speak about. Everything I’ve said so far plays a role in my life and they’re not good ones too. I’m not doing enough to provide for my family and myself and for that I kick myself every damn time.

I cant blame anyone but myself. I hope 2019 will be the year where I make drastic changes in my life. I don’t remember the last time I’ve truly been happy. I worry too much about my friends where I put them ahead of me. I’m not sure how long I can last doing this but I really hope a door with new opportunities open for me and I am willing to work my ass off to get to that point.

Thank you for taking your time and reading this even though I know no one will ever see this but if you do, these are my darkest secrets I’ve just shared. I’m just praying I can turn my life around for the better.

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Sports activities Groups And Cities That Simply Can’t Appear To Catch A Break

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Sports activities Groups And Cities That Simply Can’t Appear To Catch A Break

In sports activities, there are many embellished cities and franchises like Boston or Los Angeles. Groups just like the Celtics and even the Patriots have a wealthy historical past of successful. Even when they had been to lose 10 consecutive seasons in a row, they will at all times fall again on their spectacular championship rely being larger than groups and cities that don’t win. However let’s focus on these nonwinners. From town of Phoenix to the Buffalo Payments, successful doesn’t appear to be within the stars for each metropolis or group. Let’s transfer on and see who else has it had it laborious in terms of successful.

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If it weren’t for LeBron James then Cleveland would have continued to be a tragic metropolis for a sports activities fan. After bringing an onslaught of athletic and basketball skill, James, Kyrie Irving, and the Cleveland Cavaliers ended a 52-year drought of not successful a championship.

Outdoors of that, it could be one other 50 plus years till the Browns pull off a Tremendous Bowl win. The Indians got here near successful the World Sequence lately however no cigar. One thing should be within the water in Cleveland that’s stopping them from claiming a title.

The 2016 Tremendous Bowl regarded prefer it was lastly time for Atlanta to interrupt the established order of shedding franchises in that metropolis. The Falcons had a 25-point lead in opposition to the New England Patriots. The image above grasps the sensation of them shedding that result in Tom Brady completely. Nonetheless, nobody is aware of how they allowed that to occur.

This is the reason lots of sports activities followers round Atlanta take delight in being extra of a school fan. However the College of Georgia and Georgia Tech haven’t been hanging any banners both. And since LeBron James introduced that title to Cleveland, Atlanta could be the worst struggling metropolis.

As this checklist continues on, you’ll suppose the earlier group or metropolis had it unhealthy till you learn the following one. The one time the Buffalo Payments obtained one thing proper was throughout the 1991 Tremendous Bowl. They had been favored and down one within the closing seconds. Attending to the 29-yard line they selected to kick a game-winning area purpose.

The one factor is, their kicker, Scott Norwood would find yourself lacking the 47-yard area purpose. He missed it extensive proper. They ended up shedding the following three Tremendous Bowls as nicely. Their final main championship got here in 1965 when the NFL was the AFL.

Perhaps that is the explanation why the group previously often known as the San Diego Chargers made the transfer to Los Angeles. At the very least there’s a sure degree of expectation in Los Angeles. In San Diego, there isn’t a historical past of successful. The Los Angeles Clippers had been as soon as in San Diego as nicely. However we now have seen how that’s understanding for them.

As of 2015, each franchise that’s in San Diego (or has been) mixed for 112 championship-less seasons throughout the previous half-century. That’s the final sports activities wrestle.

The hardest loss for a Washington franchise needed to be the 2012 divisional sport when the Nats misplaced that 6-Zero lead within the deciding sport. Outdoors of that, its been 81 seasons since any group on the market has received a championship. The Redskins might have received the Tremendous Bowl in 1992 however that was ages in the past.

What’s even worse is that the Capitals have turn out to be to be often known as a number of the greatest chokers in all of hockey. The Wizards have received solely 4 playoff collection within the final 30 years. There simply isn’t a successful tradition happening on the market.

Often, it might be straightforward to place the blame on unfastened cannon quarterback Brett Farve. Nevertheless it isn’t his entire fault that town of Minneapolis isn’t used to successful. It’s been 89 seasons since their final title. However their hardest loss does come courtesy of Farve. Within the 2010 N.F.C. title sport, Farve threw his final interception as a Viking throughout extra time.

The Timberwolves have by no means even reached the NBA finals as soon as. Additionally they have the longest drought of any group within the NBA to not attain the playoffs as of the 2017 season.

The final time a franchise regarded like they might have received all of it was when Charles Barkley was on the town for the Phoenix Suns. Sadly, Michael Jordan was working issues again then so he prevented many individuals from successful a championship. NBA followers in Phoenix may additionally always remember the triple-overtime loss to the Celtics within the 1976 finals.

The Cardinals misplaced within the 2009 Tremendous Bowl after main within the closing minute. So heartbreak could be pure as warmth round these components.

When you suppose you’ve seen disappointment you haven’t seen something but. Hold going by and put together your self for some large letdowns.

The Warriors are technically the “Golden State” Warriors so we received’t embody them with Oakland. The final title this metropolis noticed got here again in 1989 because of the Oakland A’s sweeping the Giants within the World Sequence. The Raiders can be in Las Vegas after the 2020 season however they’ve introduced new life to Oakland with quarterback Derek Carr. So we’ll see what they do earlier than the transfer.

Again within the 1970s, enterprise was booming for Oakland because the Raiders and the A’s had been successful. Now it simply appears that they don’t know what a win within the championship appears like.

The one group to know a factor or two about championships in Kansas Metropolis could be the Royals. We nearly didn’t embody Kansas Metropolis on this checklist due to the Royals however previous to that 2015 World Sequence victory, it had been 57 seasons earlier than the final time a franchise out their received.

The Royals really misplaced in 2014 and that needed to be the hardest loss for town. However they got here again the very subsequent 12 months to heal followers hearts. So far as the Chiefs go, they haven’t received the Tremendous Bowl since 1970.

The Houston Astros simply received the World Sequence in 2017. Their metropolis had confronted a significant disaster and their sports activities group introduced them a championship. We guess the remainder of groups in Houston might have introduced that a lot pleasure. As a substitute, we now have the Texans (who’ve by no means been to the Tremendous Bowl) and the Rockets (who haven’t been to the finals since 1995).

As of 2017, the Houston Rockets could possibly be coming near successful an NBA Finals once more. James Harden and firm have been faring fairly nicely and with the addition of Chris Paul within the 2017-18 season, they might discover themselves again in competition. Simply so long as they will get previous Steph Curry.

For the Reds and Bengals, successful isn’t within the stars. Again within the day, town of Cincinnati was successful so much. Oscar Robertson made the Royals a group to look at and the Bengals went to the Tremendous Bowl in 1982 and 1989. Even the Reds received three World Sequence inside 16 seasons.

The town hasn’t seen any of their groups advance int he playoffs in about 20 years. Which means the Bengals nor the Reds have received a playoff sport. Perhaps their fortune will flip round quickly or possibly it received’t.

Seattle is fortunate to have Russell Wilson and the Seahawks. The town ought to eternally be grateful for them. As a result of if it weren’t for the soccer group, the baseball group has been a disappointment since their conception. The Mariners simply can’t win a title.

The franchise started in 1977 and haven’t received a World Sequence. Even after they had Ken Griffy Jr. it simply wasn’t meant to be. They misplaced their basketball group to Oklahoma Metropolis and paradoxically sufficient Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook led them to the finals not an excessive amount of later.

The Philadelphia Eagles simply broke a 28 winless season streak by successful Tremendous Bowl 52! All reward to Nick Foles for successful even with everybody counting him out in opposition to large unhealthy Tom Brady. However what concerning the 76ers? They’ve been counted out for a very long time now whereas followers had been urged to “Belief the Course of”.

The method appears to have come alongside fairly properly. With Joel Embiid and Ben Simmons wanting like the brand new and improved Shaq and Penny, they might do some injury within the NBA sooner slightly than later. The 76ers final championship got here in 1983.

Within the final seven seasons, the Giants have received the World Sequence 3 times. They need to be nowhere close to this checklist. And for argument’s sake, the Warriors are transferring to San Fransico to play in a brand new area so they are going to be thought of a San Francisco group as nicely. However what about these 49ers?

There was a time after they had been the one group successful by the bay. That they had received 5 Tremendous Bowls in a decade and Joe Montana was the person with the plan. Due to Colin Kaepernick, they returned to the Tremendous Bowl however had been nonetheless defeated. Soccer followers simply have little to rejoice over lately.

Typically you need to really feel unhealthy for these groups. However there may be hope for the Bucks thank,s to their younger stud Giannis Antetokounmpo, in accordance with Magic Johnson. The previous NBA champion mentioned, “And he’s going to be like an MVP, a champion, this dude he’s going to place Milwaukee on the map. And I feel he’s going to carry them a championship at some point.”

We’ll see if that occurs. And so far as baseball goes, the Brewers have solely received one championship since they’ve been in Milwaukee. It appears like their possibilities of successful will come from the NBA world earlier than MLB.

For the Carolina Panthers, issues might go nicely any season so long as former MVP Cam Newton is on his sport. They simply went to the Tremendous Bowl however sadly, they misplaced. So far as the Charlotte Hornets go, it could possibly be a protracted whereas earlier than they style a championship.

Even with the best Michael Jordan in cost, issues are wanting bleak for the Hornets. They had been created in 2004 and solely have had a handful of playoff appearances. Jordan had higher provide you with an answer quickly earlier than their fan base loses curiosity fully.

Although Canada is thought to be a hockey nation, the Maple Leafs aren’t getting the job executed. As of 2016, they’ve solely had one playoff look within the earlier 12 years. Speak about shedding. Their final championship got here in 1967. For the Toronto Blue Jays, not less than they’ve received extra lately bringing dwelling a championship within the early ’90s.

Then we change gears to the NBA and the Raptors. The Raptors simply can’t appear to get previous LeBron James. They’ve all of the expertise however they haven’t even been to the finals. Your guess is nearly as good as ours when attempting to determine when they’ll win.

The shot you see above could be the greatest shot in Kings historical past. Although it was a Lakers participant that made the shot, the Kings ended up lacking the NBA Finals because of that shot by Robert Horry of the Lakers. If that they had received that sport, they’d have been up on the Lakers Three-1 within the Western Convention Finals. And in accordance with statistics, it’s nearly unimaginable to beat a Three-1 deficit.

There is no such thing as a clear timetable of when the Sacremento Kings will win a championship. their finest likelihood was throughout these days after they would battle the Lakers. Now, they’re in a continuing rebuilding part.

We really feel your ache, random Jacksonville Jaguar fan. Your group is without doubt one of the solely 4 groups within the NFL to not have received or performed in a Tremendous Bowl. So a few years of not successful simply can’t sit nicely with a fan base. Fortunately, their 2017-18 season regarded promising as they had been only some steps away from enjoying within the Tremendous Bowl.

The group has an excellent fan base over their in Florida nevertheless it looks like the franchise isn’t too involved with successful. Since 1993, they’ve simply been a group that different groups can get to enhance their report. Let’s hope issues change.

Due to Peyton Manning and the Denver Broncos, town of Denver has tasted successful lately. However so far as the Denver Nuggets are involved, they haven’t received something since they began. Even when the group had the likes of Carmelo Anthony and Allen Iverson, Kobe Bryant was nonetheless round making it laborious for these younger gifted groups.

As of 2018, the Nuggets have a pleasant roster and could possibly be executed with the rebuilding part. However that doesn’t imply they’ll have the ability to cease the Warriors or every other prime tier group within the west anytime quickly.

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If You Can’t Say No, You’re A Slave

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If You Can’t Say No, You’re A Slave

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Dov Charney once tried to buy me a car.

I don’t remember what kind of car it was exactly, but I don’t think it was a particularly fancy one—a Hyundai or something like that. And there were some strings, he would buy it, and at some indefinite point in the future I’d have to take over the payments.

Like I said, I don’t remember the exact specifics, but I remember my response: “That’s very generous of you. I appreciate it, but no, thank you. I’m OK.”

It wasn’t just that I was perfectly happy driving a 1997 Volvo with 160,000 miles on it. It was that I have an aversion to debts and entanglements, and however well-meaning the offer was, an entanglement was certainly part of the intention.

In his biography of Lyndon Johnson, Robert Caro tells the story of Johnson attempting to recruit a man named John Hicks to work for him. At a meeting at a diner in Austin, Johnson made his pitch: “I’m going to lend you ten thousand dollars,” he said, “And I want you to take it and buy yourself a Cadillac car. And I want you to move to a better apartment. I want you to be somebody. Furnish the apartment. Get [your wife] a fur coat. I want you to [join some local clubs] and be somebody here in Austin.”

Hicks was surprised. How would I ever pay you back, he asked Johnson. Johnson simply smiled and said, “Johnny, don’t worry about that. You let me worry about that.”

Certainly offers like this are champagne problems. Most people are struggling to get noticed, to get an opportunity at all. To be able to turn down a gift or a job offer is a privilege. Most of us would kill to have a future president offer us a car, and many people need a car, period. Still, this privileged position is not without its perils.

It’s a dangerous game that goes back further than Lyndon Johnson offering a guy a Cadillac. Seneca, the Roman statesman and writer, spoke often about wealthy Romans who have spent themselves into debt and the misery and dependence this created for them. Slavery, he said, often lurks beneath marble and gold. Yet, his own life was defined by these exact debts. With his own fortune, he made large loans to a colony of Britain at rates so high it eventually destroyed their economy. And what was the source of this fortune? The Emperor Nero was manipulatively generous with Seneca, bestowing upon him numerous estates and monetary awards in exchange for his advice and service. Seneca probably could have said no, but after he accepted the first one, the hooks were in. As Nero grew increasingly unstable and deranged, Seneca tried to escape into retirement but he couldn’t. He pushed all the wealth into a pile and offered to give it back with no luck.

Eventually, death—a forced suicide—was the only option. Money in, blood out.

This is only a slightly more dramatic illustration of the trap we find ourselves in. We take out student loans to pay for an education that will get us a job we hope will make those crushing payments worth it. We go to the bank and ask them how much house they’ll let us buy and then we hope two people working every day for the next forty years will prove them right.

All of us regularly say yes unthinkingly, or out of vague attraction, or out of greed or vanity. Because we can’t say no—because we might miss out on something if we did. We think “yes” will let us accomplish more, will give us more of what we want, when in reality it prevents exactly what we seek. All of us waste precious life doing things we don’t like, to prove ourselves to people we don’t respect, and to get things we don’t want.

I read an article a few weeks ago about a law firm in Houston that pays for a private jet for its associates to fly back and forth to California. It was presented as a perk of the job: Housing prices in San Francisco are steep, so this way the employees can enjoy living in Texas while still benefiting from the brisk technology market in California. This isn’t a perk. It’s a bribe, as Upton Sinclair put it. It’s the normalization of an utterly abnormal status quo—one that to sustain, the associates have to work incredibly long hours in an incredibly unpleasant job. But once the hooks are in? It’s hard to get them out.

The reason we work so hard is for “financial freedom.” Somehow we always seem to end up awfully unfree, don’t we? David “DHH” Heinemeier Hansson has talked about the delusion of “Fuck You Money” (having so much you can say, “Fuck you” to people asking you to do stuff you don’t want to do). How many fuck yous are we hearing from these people, he asks. The truth is: Not many. That’s the trap.

The irony of that offer from Dov, I knew, was that he might be giving me a car but part of the reason was to make sure I wouldn’t go anywhere. Stuck with the payments, grateful for the gift, how could I question things? How could I pursue the life I wanted? The answer was that I wouldn’t be able to. And I saw that happen. Other people who hadn’t been able to say no—for personal reasons, for financial reasons, because they didn’t see the strings—to cars or green cards or apartments or positions of power were stuck when the company began to fall apart. As things spun out of control, and lines—ethical and otherwise—were crossed, they were complicit. They were blinded, too, to what they were doing.

The ancient philosophers understood and warned against this. As Epicurus put it, “Self-sufficiency is the greatest of all wealth.” The Stoic philosopher Epictetus has said that “wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.” There is also a story about Socrates. He turned down an invitation from Archelaus, the king of Macedon, because he wanted to “avoid dying a thousand deaths.” Because to him accepting a favor he couldn’t pay back, that created dependency, was worse than death. It was compromising his freedom. It was slavery.

We instinctively grasp the difficulty of Socrates’ position because one of the hardest things to do in life is to say “No.” To invitations, to requests, to obligations, to gifts, and to the stuff that everyone else is doing. Saying yes is so easy…and it feels so good.

Even harder is saying no to less obvious impositions: getting caught up in the status of the job, normalizing yourself at a certain level, the drama, the rush. Why are so many bands from the 70s and 80s still on the road? It’s not only the money, it’s that they need the adulation of the crowd. They can’t go back to regular life. Neither can most of us once we have tasted the forbidden fruits of power or fame or being needed.

Freedom is the most important thing. We’re born with it, and yet many of us wake up one day surprised at the chains we wear. The reason? Because we said yes too many times and never learned how to say no.

Only a free person can decline. Preserving this power is essential.

It’s the difference between a life of subservience and a life of your own, as Lady Bird Johnson, LBJ’s wife knew and often struggled with herself. As Robert Caro wrote, she came to visit John Hicks after he had politely refused her husband’s offer, to let him know she respected, even admired his decision. Because she “had seen other people take their ten thousand dollars and had seen what happened to them.” But Hicks had escaped, as Socrates had escaped, as the brilliant photographer Bill Cunningham escaped and basically all the people who have done truly great work have escaped.

Because if you can’t say no, you’re not powerful or free. You’re a slave.

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If You Can’t Say No, You’re A Slave

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If You Can’t Say No, You’re A Slave

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Dov Charney once tried to buy me a car.

I don’t remember what kind of car it was exactly, but I don’t think it was a particularly fancy one—a Hyundai or something like that. And there were some strings, he would buy it, and at some indefinite point in the future I’d have to take over the payments.

Like I said, I don’t remember the exact specifics, but I remember my response: “That’s very generous of you. I appreciate it, but no, thank you. I’m OK.”

It wasn’t just that I was perfectly happy driving a 1997 Volvo with 160,000 miles on it. It was that I have an aversion to debts and entanglements, and however well-meaning the offer was, an entanglement was certainly part of the intention.

In his biography of Lyndon Johnson, Robert Caro tells the story of Johnson attempting to recruit a man named John Hicks to work for him. At a meeting at a diner in Austin, Johnson made his pitch: “I’m going to lend you ten thousand dollars,” he said, “And I want you to take it and buy yourself a Cadillac car. And I want you to move to a better apartment. I want you to be somebody. Furnish the apartment. Get [your wife] a fur coat. I want you to [join some local clubs] and be somebody here in Austin.”

Hicks was surprised. How would I ever pay you back, he asked Johnson. Johnson simply smiled and said, “Johnny, don’t worry about that. You let me worry about that.”

Certainly offers like this are champagne problems. Most people are struggling to get noticed, to get an opportunity at all. To be able to turn down a gift or a job offer is a privilege. Most of us would kill to have a future president offer us a car, and many people need a car, period. Still, this privileged position is not without its perils.

It’s a dangerous game that goes back further than Lyndon Johnson offering a guy a Cadillac. Seneca, the Roman statesman and writer, spoke often about wealthy Romans who have spent themselves into debt and the misery and dependence this created for them. Slavery, he said, often lurks beneath marble and gold. Yet, his own life was defined by these exact debts. With his own fortune, he made large loans to a colony of Britain at rates so high it eventually destroyed their economy. And what was the source of this fortune? The Emperor Nero was manipulatively generous with Seneca, bestowing upon him numerous estates and monetary awards in exchange for his advice and service. Seneca probably could have said no, but after he accepted the first one, the hooks were in. As Nero grew increasingly unstable and deranged, Seneca tried to escape into retirement but he couldn’t. He pushed all the wealth into a pile and offered to give it back with no luck.

Eventually, death—a forced suicide—was the only option. Money in, blood out.

This is only a slightly more dramatic illustration of the trap we find ourselves in. We take out student loans to pay for an education that will get us a job we hope will make those crushing payments worth it. We go to the bank and ask them how much house they’ll let us buy and then we hope two people working every day for the next forty years will prove them right.

All of us regularly say yes unthinkingly, or out of vague attraction, or out of greed or vanity. Because we can’t say no—because we might miss out on something if we did. We think “yes” will let us accomplish more, will give us more of what we want, when in reality it prevents exactly what we seek. All of us waste precious life doing things we don’t like, to prove ourselves to people we don’t respect, and to get things we don’t want.

I read an article a few weeks ago about a law firm in Houston that pays for a private jet for its associates to fly back and forth to California. It was presented as a perk of the job: Housing prices in San Francisco are steep, so this way the employees can enjoy living in Texas while still benefiting from the brisk technology market in California. This isn’t a perk. It’s a bribe, as Upton Sinclair put it. It’s the normalization of an utterly abnormal status quo—one that to sustain, the associates have to work incredibly long hours in an incredibly unpleasant job. But once the hooks are in? It’s hard to get them out.

The reason we work so hard is for “financial freedom.” Somehow we always seem to end up awfully unfree, don’t we? David “DHH” Heinemeier Hansson has talked about the delusion of “Fuck You Money” (having so much you can say, “Fuck you” to people asking you to do stuff you don’t want to do). How many fuck yous are we hearing from these people, he asks. The truth is: Not many. That’s the trap.

The irony of that offer from Dov, I knew, was that he might be giving me a car but part of the reason was to make sure I wouldn’t go anywhere. Stuck with the payments, grateful for the gift, how could I question things? How could I pursue the life I wanted? The answer was that I wouldn’t be able to. And I saw that happen. Other people who hadn’t been able to say no—for personal reasons, for financial reasons, because they didn’t see the strings—to cars or green cards or apartments or positions of power were stuck when the company began to fall apart. As things spun out of control, and lines—ethical and otherwise—were crossed, they were complicit. They were blinded, too, to what they were doing.

The ancient philosophers understood and warned against this. As Epicurus put it, “Self-sufficiency is the greatest of all wealth.” The Stoic philosopher Epictetus has said that “wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.” There is also a story about Socrates. He turned down an invitation from Archelaus, the king of Macedon, because he wanted to “avoid dying a thousand deaths.” Because to him accepting a favor he couldn’t pay back, that created dependency, was worse than death. It was compromising his freedom. It was slavery.

We instinctively grasp the difficulty of Socrates’ position because one of the hardest things to do in life is to say “No.” To invitations, to requests, to obligations, to gifts, and to the stuff that everyone else is doing. Saying yes is so easy…and it feels so good.

Even harder is saying no to less obvious impositions: getting caught up in the status of the job, normalizing yourself at a certain level, the drama, the rush. Why are so many bands from the 70s and 80s still on the road? It’s not only the money, it’s that they need the adulation of the crowd. They can’t go back to regular life. Neither can most of us once we have tasted the forbidden fruits of power or fame or being needed.

Freedom is the most important thing. We’re born with it, and yet many of us wake up one day surprised at the chains we wear. The reason? Because we said yes too many times and never learned how to say no.

Only a free person can decline. Preserving this power is essential.

It’s the difference between a life of subservience and a life of your own, as Lady Bird Johnson, LBJ’s wife knew and often struggled with herself. As Robert Caro wrote, she came to visit John Hicks after he had politely refused her husband’s offer, to let him know she respected, even admired his decision. Because she “had seen other people take their ten thousand dollars and had seen what happened to them.” But Hicks had escaped, as Socrates had escaped, as the brilliant photographer Bill Cunningham escaped and basically all the people who have done truly great work have escaped.

Because if you can’t say no, you’re not powerful or free. You’re a slave.

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He’ll be back: why old age can’t keep Arnold Schwarzenegger down

The man they call the Austrian Oak has swung a sword, a shotgun and a heads pencil. But as he grows 70, is time eventually catching up with Arnie?

All his life, Arnold Schwarzenegger has embodied dominance. Mr Olympia, Conan the Barbarian, the Terminator, the Governator on screen or on a pulpit he was the biggest, the most prominent, the mightiest. Whether holding a sword, a shotgun or a ministers pen, as a movie attribute or himself, he exulted in success in victory.

Crush your adversaries, assure them driven before you and hear the lamentation of the women. Ill be back. If they dont have the intestines, I call them girlie husbands. He was, and seemingly always would be, the Austrian Oak.

A preternatural grade of trust, focus and desire propelled him from the forest village of Thal to triumph in bodybuilding, Hollywood and US politics. The accent and a identify once regarded unpronounceable did nothing to slow him. Even the jokes, such as Clive James equating him to a brown condom full of walnuts, exclusively bolstered the mystique.

But as Schwarzenegger approaches his 70 th birthday on Sunday he meets a relentless, insidious foe not even he was able to overcome: age. Schwarzenegger, after all, is human. And the clock, unlike alien piranhas and competitive cyborgs from the future, cannot be stopped. As it ticks, his domination ebbs.

He exactly wants to be number 1, in whatever context. He would do anything to sustain it. But the ageing process … its never acceptance, said Barbara Outland Baker, a former lover. I visualize deep inside him there is some discomfort: What am I supposed to do with this tour? I only want to be number 1. If not number one, what am I supposed to do?

Schwarzenegger persists far-famed, favourite and busy manically busy. Early mornings you can blot him in Santa Monica, belting up Ocean Avenue on his bicycle, moving through red lights for his cardio. He still shoots cast-iron, plays, travels and endorses political candidates and causes.

He is like a Terminator machine in terms of ceaseless croaking, leading, disappearing, endeavor, straining, endeavor, said Bonnie Reiss, world director of an institute that bears his call at the University of Southern California.

Striving, but no longer subjugating. Schwarzeneggers recent films have fizzled at the box office. He stumped in vain for John Kasich in last years Republican primaries. Chatter of him guiding for Senate or mounting some type of political comeback has faded. The former act hero who led California is greater number one.

He has invested his remaining political uppercase in the worthwhile if arcane issue of redistricing reconstruct – restraining the gerrymandering which bedevils local and regime polls and fuels partisanship. He is ginning up money and notice for a action which will reach the Supreme court of the united states in October.

Hes a gadfly. He doesnt truly have much of a constituency in the Republican party, said Jack Pitney, a politic prof at Claremont McKenna College. California Republican dont talk about him any more. Hes basically a non-person.

Schwarzenegger used to be political royalty. He married Maria Shriver, John F Kennedys niece, and as an outsized GOP outsider brushed off sexual harassment accusations dubbed gropegate and prevailed Californias governorship in 2003.

It was a rocky term. He mocked Democratic antagonists as girlie mortals, clashed with unions and other strong interest groups and watched the recession erupt a monetary crisis. He precluded meltdown and triumphed re-election by rebooting his administration, moving to the political centre and grinding out legislative increases. Upon leaving place in 2011 he adulterated his bequest by travelling the penitentiary sentence of the son of a political friend. His divorce from Shriver amid revelations of an thing and secret son with their housekeeper further dented his reputation.

For all his political attainments he mobilised California in the fight against climate change the loss of manager clout must suffer, said Outland Baker. He really likes renown and supremacy and the movie industry cant provide the same level of real fulfillment, she said. Their relationship ended in 1974 but they remained in touch and he established an interrogation for her 2006 memoir, Arnold and Me: In the Shadow of the Austrian Oak .

Schwarzenegger, who became a US citizen in 1983, dreamed of the White House. But an effort to amend national constitutions, the so-called Arnold amendment, failed to lifting the embargo on foreign-born nominees. A huge jolt, said Outland Baker: You want to be the best, the crest, if youre Arnold. If he had been able to run, he would try.

The ascent of another celebrity-turned-GOP politician to the Oval Office, however, has made an unexpected capacity, one with a world-wide spotlight and rapt gathering: needler of Donald Trump.

The two used to be on good terms but Trumps rise prompted a rivalry. It explodes in slug and counter-slug every few weeks. The chairwoman labelled Schwarzenegger a total cataclysm and pathetic as emcee of Celebrity Apprentice, which he used to host himself. He told a national prayer breakfast assemble: I want to only pray for Arnold … for those ratings.

Schwarzenegger has swung backwith gusto. Hey Donald, I have a great theme, he said in a video positioned on social media. Why dont we switch responsibilities? You take over Tv because youre such an expert on ratings and I take over your work and then people can finally sleep comfortably again. When Trumps approval ratings sank he gloated: The ratings are in, and you got inundated.

Speculation abounds over Trumps motivation for the trolling.

A competition with person he thinks is worthy of being an opponent, indicated Joel Fox, a tax policy consultant who collaborated with the Governator. I think he notes Schwarzenegger menacing because he has this deep anxiety about his maturity, said Pitney, the analyst.

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Whatever the reason, the Terminator star has become a subtle irritant and agent provocateur to the worlds more powerful soldier, said Michael Blitz, co-author a 2004 profile titled Why Arnold Affairs: The Rise of a Cultural Icon. Arnold may not be able to pump much cast-iron anymore but he remains a continue whiz of pumping irony into the odd country of American politics. He is the has-been who are continuing is .

Schwarzenegger is well equipped for engagement in this nexus of politics and personality, said Reiss, of the Schwarzenegger Institute. Trash-talking and heading psyching comes within the framework of the bodybuilding macrocosm, she said. The future superintendent honed his razzing sciences against a bodybuilding competitor, Lou Ferrigno, the future Incredible Hulk, in the 1977 documentary Gushing Iron.

Trump and Schwarzenegger alter the enmity into publicity, said Outland Baker: They have enough in common that they probably understand the subconsciou of each other better than the rest of us.

Schwarzenegger had more to amplification, said Fox, the implementation of policies consultant. If the president wants to engage with Arnold, its advantage Arnold. The former superintendent has applied the attention to spotlight climate change issues and an after-school program, both induces close to his heart.

Trump-trolling aside, Schwarzenegger labours hard to sustain his brand against the ruin of occasion. It conspires to downsize him, literally: his official summit, 6ft2in, has been feuded over the years by doubters who claim he is closer to 5ft10in.

He still works out at Golds gym in Venice, trundles around Los Angeles in his( biodiesel) Hummer and travels widely to promote climate change meters, bodybuilding contests and movies.

The bankable wizard of action flicks such as Predator, Commando and Total Recall, and slapsticks such as Twins and Kindergarten Cop is long gone. Recent action outings such as The Last-place Stand, Escape Plan and Sabotage misfired. Rotating to smaller, quieter movies Maggie, Aftermath won over some reviewers( Arnie can act !) but gatherings abode away. He plays a hitman in the upcoming slapstick Why Were Killing Gunther.

Schwarzenegger still accompanies stardust and policy comprehension to contests promoting the environment, bipartisanship, voting reform and youth programs. France recently recognised his climate change issues exertions with the Legion dHonneur.

A parcelled, honoring life for most someones but Arnie? The implication of life, he one said, was not simply to subsist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to subdue.

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If not my surname or my husband’s, could we announce our child after a New Zealand volcano?

Franki Cookney and her husband didnt much like one another surnames, so now theyre having a baby theyve decided to pick a brand-new one

When my husband, Rob, and I marriage last year, the question of what to do about our surnames just entered our debates. We are both scribes, so our epithets are on every piece of work we do. That we would save our own seemed a yielded. There was just one niggling doubt. What would happen if “were having” children?

I had always had considered that we would just protrude both our appoints on the birth credential, but I knew this didnt quite solve the problem. Whose name would go first? And which figure would end up being used?

We could use a double-barrel figure, but didnt feel our surnames, Cookney and Davies, gave themselves to hyphenation. Whichever guild you have selected, research results is clunky and we were reluctant to saddle a child with it.

We could have just choice whichever reputation clanged best with our baby first name. But in that scenario, one mother discontinues up not sharing a surname with their child and neither of us craved that. Plus, Id discovered too many tales of mothers being stopped at airport insurance because the identifies on their passports didnt parallel that of their children.

The traditional option of taking my husbands surname was never on the table. Fairly apart from the feminist principle of not was intended to renounce my identity for his, I wasnt keen on the refer. Rob supported this and was by no means offended. The tribulation was, he wasnt a fan of my mention either. Its only a bit unwieldy, he said. Its almost Cockney but not quite. Youre perpetually having to spell it out. We looked at our moms maiden identifies and our grandparents names but ever intent up back in the same plaza, feeling that it wasnt equal, that picking one back of the family over another wasnt fair.

We hit on the idea of taking a new identify about a year ago when before our wedding we went to write our wills. As we chit-chat to one of the solicitors, it transpired that he and his wife had done precisely this. Theres a fair bit of admin, but its good, it cultivates, he said , nodding decisively. Abruptly, it didnt seem so outlandish. This wasnt some childish uprising or bohemian pretentiousness, this was something advocates did!

We mooted it with acquaintances, who were largely unfazed. What appoint will you go for? was the thing they were most curious about. Good topic. Could we blend the letters of our identifies and develop something new, we speculated. Rolls were drawn: Dents, Cave, Devine, Kinsey, Dacovnicks Cookies? Nothing of them quite hit the mark.

As our bridal sucked nearer, we employed the name game on a back burner. But when I became pregnant three months later, “were in” forced to look at developments in the situation anew and decided to change tack. How about a plaza? I proposed. Somewhere weve visited that we enjoyed. A backpacking stint before we got married had left us with slew to choose from but most sounded fairly bizarre when attributed to a couple of ordinary Brits. Rob and Franki Tongariro owned any particular vigour, but mentioning yourself after a New Zealand volcano would be ridiculous. And Zhangjiajie might conjure recognitions of impressive Chinese mountains, but imagine having to incantation it every time you booked a hair appointment or called your internet provider. For a while Salento and Chaltn were on the inventory, after places in Colombia and Argentina. But we werent convinced we are to be able pull off the clearly Latino-sounding former and supposed the latter would result in a lifetime of rectifying people who pronounced it Charlton.

Then Rob said, What about Stone Town? The beautiful old-time town of Zanzibar City is where he had asked me to marry him. It instant appeared right. Stone was straightforward but significant. It seemed good with both our given name and after a few weeks of trying it on with other names would work well with almost anything we chose for our baby. It was perfect: a solid appoint( with possibilities for puns that was not misplaced on us) that felt like a constructive solution to our difficulty. We would prevent our original surnames for job and adopt this new family name for our personal lives.

By law, all you need to do to change your identify is, well, remained unchanged. Simply borrowing and using your brand-new reputation is enough. Informing your chronicles and registers, however, requires a document of proof such as a wedlock certificate or, in our case, a deed canvas. There is no official lane of acquiring a deed canvas. You can write one yourself employing free templates from the internet, but lack of clarity about the relevant procedures ensues in some institutions demanding an original certificate despite the fact that no such stuff dwells. You can either fight it out or you can do which is something we did and compensate 15 -2 0 for a company such as the Deed Poll Office to draw up the word on your behalf and publication and stomp it on watermarked article. Sacrificed the schedule of bodies and organisations you have to notify and the potential controversies over what constitutes an original certificate, this seemed a reasonable compromise.

Perhaps “its been” naive, but we didnt expect to meet with defiance. Uncertainty, perhaps. Intrigue, for certain. When it is necessary to getting married, we had trenched virtually every habit leading, prohibiting the wedding itself, and no one had interrogated us. Surely this too would be seen as a modern update on an outdated tradition. But where reference is announced our decided not to our families, the reaction was mixed.

Franki and Rob. Photograph: Christian Sinibaldi for the Guardian

While they understood our quandary, the common restraint was that the child would lose the connection to its family history. Try as I might, I cant understand this. To me, family history leads far deeper than ones call. Its in accordance with the rules we live, our values, the wisdom and shared know passed down through generations. It is part of the storytelling our mothers did and its in the floors we, more, “re going to tell” and the beliefs we will share.

Our springs are not in our figures, they are in our souls. My grandmother, whose surname was Jones, is important to me not because of her mention but because of her enjoy. My great-grandmother, a midwife I never even satisfied, let alone shared a figure with, forms a part of my gumption of identity. Why? Because of the acces my loving mother talks about her, because of the pictures she has coated in my head of that life, that family, that time.

Interestingly, the figure itself has also substantiated a sticking point, with a few people commenting that its digesting. Youre doing this really unusual thing but youve picked a really everyday figure, said one colleague, as though by doing something different “weve been” obliged to go the whole hog and call ourselves Rob and Franki Thundercats.

In fact, the accessibility of the call was something we concluded would help us sell the idea. It is about to change we were naive there, too. My mother, a former primary school teacher, insisted that someone called Stone would be pestered. Another relative described it as a dead weight of a name.

In my experience, boys will come up with nicknames no matter what. I wasted much of my school years known as Franki Cookie while my first name was regularly elongated to Frankenstein, Frankincense or Frankfurter.

Never tell people your identify picks in advance, advised one sidekick( too late ). Its as if telling beings in advance is inviting a exchange or consultation!

While my familys sensibilities apparently matter to me, I suspect she might be right. Ultimately, this is our decision, based on our requires, and I hope they will come to see it as a practical and positive move , not an reckless one.

Its almost impossible to get everyone on board, adviser another friend, who changed her surname by deed canvas in 2004. The meaning upset my grandma but my dad, her son, understood. When I wedded my husband, he took my appoint. Im still not sure two brothers was 100% behind us, but when we had our first son, he was the first to be born into our dynasty. Im so excited that we are the first in our tree!

This is exactly how I detect. I enjoy the relevant recommendations that our newborn will be born into this new, specially chosen and carefully thought-out last name. And if one day he or she decides to change it either to something new or to one of our old family names we will fully support that.

Even when you change names, lineage can still be traced and, if nothing else, I like to think we will be gazed back on as the ones who tried something new; who instead of obliging do with an unsatisfactory statu, remembered creatively about how to solve it. Thats a family bequest Im joyous with.

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