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From Betsy Braddock: Captain Britain #001, “Returns Home, Having Changed”

Art by Vasco Georgiev and Erick Arciniega

Written by Tini Howard

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Silver Coin Featuring Famous Viking King Discovered in Hungary

A metal detectorist in Hungary has unearthed a tiny silver coin marked with the name of a famous Viking king that was lost almost 1,000 years ago.

A metal detectorist has discovered a small silver coin marked with the name of a famous Viking king.  However, it was unearthed not in Scandinavia, but in southern Hungary, where it was lost almost 1,000 years ago.

The find has baffled archaeologists, who have struggled to explain how the coin might have ended up there — it's even possible that it arrived with the traveling court of a medieval Hungarian king.

The early Norwegian coin, denominated as a "penning," was not especially valuable at the time, even though it's made from silver, and was worth the equivalent of around $20 in today's money.

"This penning was equivalent to the denar used in Hungary at the time," Máté Varga, an archaeologist at the Rippl-Rónai Museum in the southern Hungarian city of Kaposvár and a doctoral student at Hungary's University of Szeged, told Live Science in an email. "It was not worth much — perhaps enough to feed a family for a day."

Metal detectorist Zoltán Csikós found the silver coin earlier this year at an archaeological site on the outskirts of the village of Várdomb, and handed it over to archaeologist András Németh at the Wosinsky Mór County Museum in the nearby city of Szekszárd.

The Várdomb site holds the remains of the medieval settlement of Kesztölc, one of the most important trading towns in the region at that time. Archaeologists have made hundreds of finds there, including dress ornaments and coins, Varga said.

There is considerable evidence of contact between medieval Hungary and Scandinavia, including Scandinavian artifacts found in Hungary and Hungarian artifacts found in Scandinavia that could have been brought there by trade or traveling craftsmen, Varga said.

But this is the first time a Scandinavian coin has been found in Hungary, he said.

Who was Harald Hardrada?

The coin found at the Várdomb site is in poor condition, but it's recognizable as a Norwegian penning minted between 1046 and 1066 for King Harald Sigurdsson III — also known as Harald Hardrada — at Nidarnes or Nidaros (opens in new tab), a medieval mint at Trondheim in central Norway.

The description of a similar coin (opens in new tab) notes that the front features the name of the king "HARALD REX NO" — meaning Harald, king of Norway — and is decorated with a "triquetra," a three-sided symbol representing Christianity's Holy Trinity.

The other side is marked with a Christian cross in double lines, two ornamental sets of dots, and another inscription naming the master of the mint at Nidarnes.

Harald Hardrada ("Hardrada" translates as "hard ruler" in Norwegian) was the son of a Norwegian chief and half-brother to the Norwegian king Olaf II, according to Britannica (opens in new tab). He lived at the end of the Viking Age, and is sometimes considered the last of the great Viking warrior-kings.

Traditional stories record that Harald fought alongside his half-brother at the Battle of Stiklestad in 1030, where Olaf was defeated and killed by the forces of an alliance between Norwegian rebels and the Danish; Harald fled in exile after that, first to Russia and then to the Byzantine Empire, where he became a prominent military leader.

He returned to Norway in 1045 and became its joint king with his nephew, Magnus I Olafsson; and he became the sole king when Magnus died in battle against Denmark in 1047.

Harald then spent many years trying to obtain the Danish throne, and in 1066 he attempted to conquer England by allying with the rebel forces of Tostig Godwinson, who was trying to take the kingdom from his brother, King Harold Godwinson.

But both Harald and Tostig were killed by Harold Godwinson's forces at the Battle of Stamford Bridge in northern England in 1066; whereupon the victor and his armies had to cross the country in just a few weeks before the Battle of Hastings against William of Normandy — which Harold Godwinson lost, and with it the kingdom of England.

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The penning found at Várdomb could have been lost more than 100 years after it was minted, but it's more likely that it was in circulation for between 10 and 20 years, Varga and Németh said.

That dating gives rise to a possible connection with a medieval Hungarian king named Solomon, who ruled from 1063 to 1087.

According to a medieval Hungarian illuminated manuscript known as the "Képes Krónika" (or "Chronicon Pictum" in Latin), Solomon and his retinue (a group of advisors and important people) encamped in 1074 "above the place called Kesztölc" — and so the archaeologists think one of Solomon's courtiers at that time may have carried, and then lost, the exotic coin.

"The king's court could have included people from all over the world, whether diplomatic or military leaders, who could have had such coins," Varga and Németh said in a statement.

Another possibility is that the silver coin was brought to medieval Kesztölc by a common traveler: the trading town "was crossed by a major road with international traffic, the predecessor of which was a road built in Roman times along the Danube," the researchers said in the statement.

"This road was used not only by kings, but also by merchants, pilgrims, and soldiers from far away, any of whom could have lost the rare silver coin," they wrote.

Further research could clarify the origins of the coin and its connection with the site; while no excavations are planned, Varga said, field surveys and further metal detection will be carried out at the site in the future.

By Tom Metcalfe.

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kay so new cm episode names have dropped so heres some meta to spark some ideas abt what might be going on there B)

16x02: “sicarius” so there’s two things that come up with this search - a species of recluse spider, with a venom called “Loxoscelism” which causes necrosis around the bite area. the second thing is the “sicarii” who were zealots opposing roman occupation of judea (plus some more religious links, some more modern than others)

since we also know about the whole ‘web’ thing of unsubs being connected during covid -- classic spiders web metaphor, very nice -- and im guessing the main murderer for that episode uses some kind of necrotic poison or acidic thing with the same effect. 

16x04: “pay-per-view”  probably focusing around hotels/ppv content (could be some kind of OF connection there if they’re going the mega-modern approach considering it got popularised around covid era) either way its going into the roots of high-risk victims or some kind of snuff content that the unsub is making? eh im not too sure about that one.

16x05: “oedipus wrecks” oh hell yeah oedipus complex, which comes from a play about oedipus rex by sophocles. taking from the britannica, its about “the king of Thebes who unwittingly killed his father and married his mother “ so if there isn’t any incest in this i will actually be surprised! also interfamily conflict 100%, its wrecks instead of rex so another fun little pun about how its ruining the family/relationships of the people around them yk.

16x08: “pas de deux” eheheheh dance references!! so im assuming a duo of some kind, which OOOH i always loved the duo episodes of cm theyre so FUN. either its gonna be a couple or it focuses around ballet and some kind of competitive couple (maybe even an understudy gone mad to get the role of their dreams, even with the assistance of a partner who got cast as the main role) <[if they dont use that im stealing it for a fic]

also cant believe theres just an episode called MOOSE??? are they going to canada again???? 

ANYWAYS i am just yelling into the void but if u have any other ideas abt the new episodes lmk!!!!

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When is Mardi Gras this year? Prep the king cake, here are the details for Fat Tuesday 2024

The Boeuf Gras float rolls down St. Charles Avenue on Mardi Gras Day as the 440 riders of Rex, King of Carnival, celebrate their 150th year with a 26-float parade entitled School of Design Sesquicentennial on March 1, 2022 in New Orleans, Louisiana. Parades returned to the streets of New Orleans for the 2022 Carnival season after being cancelled last year due to the COVID pandemic.

Across the globe, from France to the U.S., millions celebrate Mardi Gras each year. But the Mardi Gras we know – filled with extravagant costumes, large parades and colorful masks – is not how the holiday began.

Mardi Gras has holy origins, beginning as a religious holiday observed prior to Lent. Today, Mardi Gras has expanded beyond a single day, and now encompasses a whole season of partying. 

Revelers throw beads from a float in the 2023 Zulu Social Aid and Pleasure Club parade during a Mardi Gras celebration in New Orleans, Louisiana, on Feb. 21, 2023. - Shrove Tuesday 2023 marks the end of the Mardi Gras festival in Louisiana.

So, when does Mardi Gras fall this year, and how long does it last? Here is what you need to know about the holiday, plus some history.

When is Mardi Gras?

Fat Tuesday, or Mardi Gras, will take place on Feb. 13, 2024.

When does Mardi Gras start? 

Mardi Gras is French for "Fat Tuesday," according to Britannica. Following the Christian liturgical calendar, it is traditionally celebrated on Shrove Tuesday, which falls before Ash Wednesday.

Historically, on Mardi Gras, people were meant to use "all the fats in the home before Lent in preparation for fasting and abstinence," Britannica reports. Christians would consume rich, fatty foods, such as meat, eggs and cheese, before the period of Lenten fasting, according to the History Channel.

Another name for the Mardi Gras season is "Carnival." The name may derive from the medieval Latin word, "carnelevarium," which means "to take away or remove meat," the History Channel reports.  

These specific customs are no longer the main focus of Mardi Gras. The practice of over-indulgence, however, still rings true for the holiday. Today, Mardi Gras is seen as a chance to go all out and party before the solemn period of Lent.

In the U.S., Mardi Gras is known for its parades, king cakes and beads of green, purple and gold. 

How long is Mardi Gras? 

While Mardi Gras technically refers to the specific day of Shrove Tuesday, it is often considered to be a whole season. The first Mardi Gras festivities often take place on "Twelfth Night," or the Epiphany, which falls on Jan. 6, according to Britannica.

These parades and events continue until the climax on the official Mardi Gras day. Mardi Gras celebrations last anywhere from four to eight weeks, depending on the year's liturgical calendar, according to Condé Nast Traveler. 

In the U.S., on Mardi Gras day, outdoor celebrations last until midnight, until party-goers are "asked to clear off the street," according to the French Quarter official website.

Is Mardi Gras celebrated every year?

Yes, Mardi Gras is celebrated every year. In 2021, parades in New Orleans were canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Mardi Gras festivities in 2024 are already set in New Orleans, starting on Jan. 6. These will continue until Feb. 13. This will be around five weeks of merriment.

The first Mardi Gras in the U.S. took place on March 3, 1699, the History Channel reports. Celebrations would continue for decades thanks to French settlers who partook in parades, masked balls and fancy dinners during the holiday.

However, under Spanish control of New Orleans, bans preventing large observances were placed on Mardi Gras. This remained until Louisiana became a state in 1812, according to the History Channel.

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anybody know what production of Oedipus Rex this is from

link to the videos of the scenes on the encyclopedia britannica website

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Ayman al-Badri Jones (11 dicembre 1998) è un cittadino statunitense e figlio dell'agente segreto israeliano del Mossad, Shimon Elliot/Ibrahim al-Badri e Michelle Jones.

Lavora come agente segreto per il servizio segreto britannico SIS.

È attualmente single.

Breve biografia

Ayman al-Badri nasce l'11 dicembre 1998 in una relazione amorosa tra Ibrahim al-Badri e una donna afro-americana che visitava la città di Sammara in Iraq di nome Michelle Jones.

Ayman al-Badri visse un'infanzia felice senza il padre ed era cresciuto con la madre.

Un giorno all'età di 22 anni riceve un messaggio da un sconosciuto di nome Hufaiza al-Badri che lo invitò in Herat per conoscersi meglio,una volta arrivato a Herat conobbe Hufaiza e altre persone ed poi attraverso un test di DNA, Ayman e Hufaiza rimasero entrambi sconvolti perché si sono rivelati come fratellastri da parte del padre in comune,Anwar al-Badri intanto era venuto per una visita per incontrare il fratellastro Hufaiza ma anche lui rimane sconvolto dalla notizia che Ayman era il suo fratellastro e quindi gli propone il lavoro di ministro di difesa e fotografo per il suo emirato di Kabul, Ayman accettò l'offerta e abbandonò il cognome della madre e iniziò ad usare il cognome del padre.

In seguito Ayman seguì il suo fratellastro Hufaiza al-Badri presso la città siriana di Aleppo e fece conoscenza con Abu Omar al-Sufyan nella città di Damasco.

Con il deterioramento mentale di Ahmad al-Sufyan che aveva fatto brutte cose a Trevis Leblond e Jonathan Duràn (guardie del corpo di René e di suo padre), Ayman lasciò la Siria e si trasferisce temporaneamente a Londra.

Il giorno 2 maggio, Ayman si trasferisce a New York e incontra suo padre Ibra e i fratellastri Tamerlan e Dawud al-Badri.

Sempre a New York, Ayman iniziò a lavorare come fotografo e cantante.

In seguito verso l'8 giugno, Ayman lasciò il suo lavoro di cantante iniziando a lavorare sia come fotografo e pizzaiolo presso la pizzeria John's of Bleckeer Street.

Sempre nello stesso giorno, fa conoscenza con il suo fratellastro David Elliot.

Il 6 luglio, lascia il suo lavoro alla pizzeria John's of Bleckeer Street e inizia a lavorare per la pizzeria NY Pizza Suprema.

L'11 ottobre, Ayman lascia New York e la pizzeria NY Pizza Suprema e si trasferisce a Londra nel Regno Unito iniziando a lavorare come cuoco presso la Taberna il ristorante italiano.

L'1 novembre, Ayman lascia il suo lavoro di cuoco e inizia a lavorare come agente segreto per i servizi segreti britannici l'SIS  (Intelligence britannica per estero).

Significato del nome Ayman:

Nome maschile arabo che assume il significato di "fortunato, benedetto".

Parenti:

Awad Ibrahim al-Badri (nonno paterno)

Simon Elliot/Ibrahim al-Badri (padre)

Michelle Jones (madre)

Hufaiza al-Badri (fratellastro da parte del padre)

Omayma al-Badri (sorellastra da parte del padre, deceduta)

Yaman al-Badri (fratellastro da parte del padre, deceduto)

Hassan al-Badri (fratellastro da parte del padre)

Fatima al-Badri (sorellastra da parte del padre, deceduta)

Hagar al-Badri (sorellastra da parte del padre, deceduta)

Ali al-Badri/Isaiah Elliot (fratellastro da parte del padre)

Anwar al-Badri (fratellastro da parte del padre)

Dawud al-Badri (fratellastro da parte del padre)

Tamerlan al-Badri (fratellastro da parte del padre)

Husam al-Badri (fratellastro da parte del padre)

Sebastian e Jhon Elliot (fratellastri gemellini da parte del padre)

David Elliot (fratellastro da parte del padre)

Rex Elliot (fratellastro da parte del padre)

Vincent al-Badri (fratellastro da parte del padre)

Informazioni:

Data di nascita: 11 dicembre 1998

Luogo di nascita: Los Angeles, California

Residenza: Londra,Regno Unito

Occupazione: cuoco

Prestavolti:

-Kyler Pettis (pv precedente)

-Rome Flynn  (pv precedente)

-Jurell Carter (pv attuale)

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Soliam’s Salted Takes: New Bad Batch? Bad Idea

The sun is shining, the day is beautiful, I have been appropriately watered and well-fed, which makes it the perfect time for Soliam Salted Takes, Power Hour.  Now, as a former Floridian-with-dehydration-problems, you could say I love salt.  Used to eat it straight out of the shaker.  And now, as I have grown older and more decrepit by the standards of the interwebs, my tastes have expanded to that of metaphorical salt as well.

Yesterday, July 13, 2020 Lucasfilm announced they would be making a new TCW spin-off series for Disney+ focused on "Clone Force 99" also known as the Bad Batch.  And boy howdy do I have feelings about this, and none of them are positive.

In the interest of full disclosure: I have never liked the Bad Batch.  I did not like them when they were largely just wireframe models in story-reel released as semi-incomplete content back in April of 2015.  I have seen nothing about the 'finalized' releases that has made me want to go back and revise my assessment.  As such, I have not seen the complete re-release, because I am enough of a masochist in my chosen field of study to not have any desire to be one in my pretendy funtimes hobbies.  Wookiepedia has assured me that nothing much of substance changed from those story-reels in terms of main content, thus my opinions still hold in this case.

I have a strong dislike, in principle, of the idea that a series that spent a lot of time laying down the legwork to establish that the individuality and uniqueness of a person is independent of their genetic make-up chose to make the "coolest" and "most special" of its in-universe cohort extreme genetic anomalies from the norm.  I am extremely discomfited by the fact that these genetic anomalies (Solid Snake knockoff, the somehow-inexplicably-worse version of Deadshot, the personification of Encyclopaedia Britannica, and DPS/Tank hybrid LEEROY JENKINS), with "desirable mutations" are also 'mutated' to be Caucasian/White, as noted to be distinct from the remaining clones, who are based on Temuera Morrison of Maorī descent.  (An argument could be made for Wrecker being non-white, which is a completely different problem, if so:  Either he is white, which is just whitewashing with the rest of them.  Or he's not white, which means the "bigger, less-intelligent, more brutish" character is. The only not-white one.  Which is not at all better, and very possibly worse.)

In graciousness to Dave Filoni, who was behind the concept sketching of the members of the Bad Batch, I do not think the literal whitewashing of the clones was done intentionally.  George Lucas had a vision for this 'Bad Batch' of being like the eponymous 'Dirty Dozen', which is clearly where Filoni took a lot of his visual cues in the design of the Bad Batch.  That does not, however, change the fact it was done, and that it results in the Very Not Good implication of 'the unique white guys' being the superior group from the 'non-white' rest. This is an implicit bias reinforced in the text: by their stellar 'reputation', their distain for their 'reg'—and nonwhite—brothers, and the fact that Captain Rex has to 'earn' their respect, as just a few examples.

(On a personal and entirely biased additional note, I find them all to be variations of the irritating sort of "arrogant asshole action movie hero" seen most commonly in something like Michael Bay's Tranformers movies, which doesn't endear me to their characters at all.)

Fandom, by and large, has ignored this canonical whitewashing in fanart and other fan-made media.  I have no qualms with the reclamation of these characters in transformative spaces, and I honestly believe that reclamation to be a largely good thing.  It does not, however erase the original, canonical problem of them being whitewashed to begin with.

Which is where the new series announcement comes in.

Setting aside personal concerns about any sort of continuation or spin-off of The Clone Wars animated series, the idea of Disney creating a spin-off serial of any kind, based on the "better, whiter" group of a show whose main characters happened to be visually persons of color feels.  Not Good.  Disney's track record, as a corporate entity, regarding the awareness of social justice, racism, and fair treatment of persons of color is notoriously poor.  This is a show based off of an already racist/eugenics-esque (if unintentionally so) premise, and I truly cannot see any light at the end of this tunnel, not belonging to the headlight of an oncoming train.

[ebaeschnbliah]

THE  NEW  RUSSIAN  HOLMES

EPISODE SIX:  HALIFAX  PART ONE  (on to PART TWO)

Outtake:  CREATOR OF A LEGEND

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Directed by Andrey Kavun - Igor Petrenko as Sherlock Holmes - Andrey Panin as Dr. Watson

Episodes:   1    2    3    4    5    6    7    8

A charming guy with a suitcase full of money, who calls himself Mr Ebenezer Buckley, vistits the national bank at Saxe-Coburg Square, where the notes soon get changed into gleaming goldbars. 

But luck doesn’t last long for Mr Buckley. 

TBC below the cut  (with a lot of pics and all the spoilers)  …

The moment he leaves the bank, policemen rush in on the Square, take hold of Mr Buckley and shove him into an already waiting, closed carriage. To the utter shock of the bank employees and onlookers, the man’s face is beaten to a bloddy mess when he falls out of the carriage not long afterwards. Mr Buckley only has time to whisper one word before he dies ..... Halifax ....

The new client ...

Jabez Wilson vistis Baker Street 221b and has a very weird story to tell. Daily, for two months now, he had copied the Encyclopaedia Britannica, neatly page by page, ordered by an organisation called ‘The Red-Headed League’. A somewhat strange job but very well payed. Mr Wilson quickly grew to love it.  

Then something unexpected happened. From one day to the next ‘The Red-Headed League’ vanished without a trace. The rooms were closed. There was no explanation whatsoever, not even a notice in the papers. What Mr Wilson finds though, is a story about an extraordinary talented detective who lives in Baker Street 221b. In his desperation he spontaneously decides to pay a visit to that detective. 

(And Mr Wilson is not alone, because seemingly a lot of people had read that story too, liked it and wanted to meet detective and author in person ... which leads to an outburst of rage by Sherlock Holmes and Mrs Hudson. But that’s a story for another post  (Outtake: CREATER OF A LEGEND). :)))  

Despite the cheering crowd in front of his windows, Sherlock is amused and faszinated at the same time by Wilson’s story. What an intriguing little mystery!

When Sherlock learns that the red-headed vendor has a small flat at Saxe-Coburg Square, the already raised interest of the detective increases even more. John notices immediately how the gears in Sherlock’s head suddenly start turning ever faster and faster. He knows very well the signs, when the extraordinay mind of his friend begins to align seemingly disconnected dots, when he starts to play with possibilities and formes theories ....

On the way to Saxe-Coburg Square ...

Sherlock wants to investigate Wilson’s flat and the surrounding area. The three man take a cab and set out for Saxe-Coburg Square. When the cab stops, suddenly shots are fired at them.

Although the attackers are policemen, the doctor strikes back without hestitation and is able to chase them off. Fortunately Jabez Wilson, the obvious target of the ambush, survives the attack. John cares for the wounded man and later takes him to hospital, while .....

... Sherlock experiences the vague feeling that he’s missed something very important.

Sherlock Holmes pays a visit to Scotland Yard

It really is no easy task to convince Inspector Lestrade that the crime of the century is about to happen very soon .... nothing less than an attack on the National Bank at Saxe-Coburg Square. Sherlock suspects that parts of the police force will be involved on a big scale. He is also convinced that none other than the mysterious master criminal Moriarty is behind that bold plan.  (Allow me to be a little capricious)

Finally Lestrade agrees to organize an ambush to catch the culprits in the act ... ‘but only to prove to you that all of this is just another opium-induce delusion’. 

Dr Watson joins Sherlock Holmes, Inspector Lestrade and his men at the National Bank and then ..... they wait.

Sherlock uses the time to examine one of the late Mr Buckley’s forged bank notes. The man is no stranger to the detective. Ebenezer Buckley, also Timothy Trout, also called ‘Halifax’ (because of his big dream to go to Canada some day) had some extraordinary talents. He was a magician and illusionist, but also someone who liked to play with life. ‘Maybe he would have become an artist some day’, Sherlock muses.

His disposition for perfectionism made Halifax also into an excellent forger. And when he had to go to prison, he met someone there who decided to use that special talent for his own sinister plans. 

So Halifax changed one prison for another and put his talents into the new job. 

And the criminal mastermind was very pleased ....

Finally the long wait is over ....

When the tea starts to vibrate in its cup, Sherlock Holmes knows that  (T-REX sorry, couldn’t resist :)))  ... that the burglars aren’t far away anymore.

The vaults of the National Bank have indeed been breeched ....

... but the burglars are able to escape through their own tunnel. Inspector Lestrade, Holmes and Watson take up the pursuit. 

The unexpected interruption ...

Their ride gets stopped abruptly. A row of policemen blocks the street. Lestrade is furious but all his protest is in vain. The royal cartiage has priority over everything else. 

Sherlock and John exchange the carriage for a tandem bike. The somewhat bumpy ride comes to a sudden end rather soon though .... (‘Tandem Pursuit’)

An apalling discovery ...

While Sherlock and John continue the pursuit by foot, Lestrade still uses the carriage and catches one of the three burglars. He follows the tandem’s ‘path of destruction’ and finds the second one. To his utter shock and disbelieve he has to realize that Holmes’ assumptions had been right .... the burglars are indeed policemen in disguise. To say that Inspector Lestrade is beside himself with rage is an understatement.

Meanwhile Sherlock and John have cornered the third and last burgler. Inexplicably the man is already dead when they catch up to him. 

The mysterious death of three burglars ....

Dr Watson is sure that he’d missed the man with his gun. And indeed ... no gunshot wound can be found on the body. Why then did he die? 

A quick postmortem examination provides the answer to the mystery: poison. What’s more, the toxin must have been administered even before the break-in had been executed. And it will turn out later that all three burglars lost their lives due to the same poison.

The arrest ...

But there is no time for Sherlock Holmes to expound his theories. Inspector Lestrade arrives at the scene with some of his men and arrests Holmes without any explanation. Dr Watson has no chance to intervene. 

The execution order ....

After putting Holmes into a cell and giving his men the dressing-down of their lives, Inspector Lestrade retreats into his office. But there is no time to relax or think things through. The phone rings and from a superior instance he gets the unambiguous order to execute Sherlock Holmes ‘when trying to escape’. What now?

Meanwhile at Baker Street ...

Lestrade’s officers aren’t the only ones who get a proper dressing-down. Mrs Hudson thinks that John hasn’t nearly done enough to protect and support his friend. ‘He wouldn’t leave you! He would help you out!’ And while cutting the cabbage furiously, she threatens to go to Scotland Yard herself. 

‘Suspecting Sherlock Holmes of commiting a crime is as ridiculous as suspecting you of exhibiting bravery’, she tells John, who isn’t quite sure if this had been a compliment or not.

John would have come too late ....

Lestrade enters Holmes’ prison cell and Sherlock knows immediately what’s going on. He might die today.  (When trying to escape)

Thankfully Inspector Lestrade is not a man who follows orders blindly. Not even when those orders come from the highest level. ‘I always decide everything by msyelf’ he will tell Sherlock later.

The inspector and the consulting detective prepare to leave the police station as unobstrusive as possible and then go undercover .......

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TBC .... on to PART TWO

Outtake:  CREATOR OF A LEGEND

Links to watch the series can be found HERE

A big thank you to @spiritcc  and everyone who made it possible to watch and understand this wonderful Sherlock Holmes adaptation. 

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January, 2021

[diceriadelluntore]

Storia Di Musica #90 - Queen, A Night At The Opera, 1975

C’è voluto il successo mondiale del loro film biografico per far ritornare alla ribalta uno dei gruppi più amati e di successo della musica rock negli ultimi 30 anni. Proprio per via di quel successo, la storia dei Queen è ormai di patrimonio comune. La band si formò nel 1971 quando Brian May e Roger Meadows-Taylor, che avevano suonato negli Smile, si uniscono a Freddy Mercury (vero nome Farrokh Bulsara) e John Deacon. Il nome altisonante, Queen, fu scelto da Mercury proprio per sottolineare l’idea enfatica e pomposa della loro musica, in equilibrio tra l’hard rock dei conterranei Led Zeppelin e il glam rock di personaggi come Bowie o i T-Rex di Marc Bolan. All’inizio tuttavia l’attività concertistica è “timida” poichè i quattro proseguirono con ottimi risultati negli studi, diventando una band di 4 laureati: May in astrofisica, Taylor in biologia, Deacon in elettronica, Mercury in design.Nel 1973 il primo disco, Queen, si fa conoscere per la loro rilettura sarcastica e vivace del canone di cui sopra, un mix hard-rock glam che di lì a poco verrà sviluppato con i fiocchi, unita ad una innata capacità di creare singoli killer che diventeranno l’arma vincente dei quattro. Il primo di una lunghissima serie è Seven Seas Of Rhye, da Queen II a cui segue il primo grande successo commerciale: Killer Queen, da Sheer Art Attack (1974) va in cima alle classifiche, aiutato anche dalle pirotecniche esibizioni della band, soprattutto dal look provocatorio e ambiguo di Mercury. A questo punto la band decide il salto di qualità, alla ricerca di un suono elaborato e potente, anche tramite intricate armonie vocali, e in questo caso saranno decisivi le sovraincisioni della voce potente e favolosa di Mercury. A Night At The Opera, registrato tra il 1974 e il 1975 in 6 studi di registrazione diversi, è subito considerato un disco da ricordare, e rimarrà l’apice della loro trentennale carriera. L’album di apre con Death On Two Legs (Dedicated to...) uno dei loro brani più famosi, brano dedicato al loro ex manager Norman Sheffield, che in modo fraudolento fece firmare alla band un contratto a cui riconosceva solo una minima parte dei ricavati delle royalties sulle canzoni. Mercury in tutti i live successivi era solito introdurre il brano con un eloquente ”un vero gentleman figlio di puttana che conoscevo un tempo”; poi Lazy Afternoon è uno swing divertente dedicato ad un dandy “wildiano” e il primo successo firmato Roger Taylor, I’m In Love With My Car. You’re My Best Friend è invece un singolo a penna Deacon, che arrivò nella top 10 inglese, e che sfuma nella prima grande canzone della storia Queen: ‘39 è una stupenda ballata scritta e cantata da Brian May che immagina un gruppo di esploratori spaziali che partono per un viaggio spaziale: durato per loro un anno quando invece sono trascorsi un centinaio d'anni dalla loro partenza, a causa dell'effetto della dilatazione temporale ipotizzata nella teoria della relatività di Einstein (e qui affiorano tutti gli studi di May in materia), realizzano che tutti i loro cari sono ormai morti. L’album non ha riempitivi: Sweet Lady, Seaside Reandevouz, Love Of My Life, la mini suite The Prophet’s Song, scritta da May, che vuole descrivere la via Queen al progressive (sebbene il genere in quegli anni fosse in fase calante). Ma gli ultimi due colpi sono alla fine: Bohemian Rhapsody è un’idea di Mercury che scrisse in pratica tutte le parti musicali, oltre il testo, tranne l’assolo di chitarra di May, e chiese ai suoi di registrare separatamente le singole parti, lasciando il dubbio agli artefici delle idee del cantante. Tra una folta schiera di personaggi storici (Scaramouche, Galileo Galilei, Figaro, il protagonista de Il barbiere di Siviglia e delle Nozze di Figaro, Belzebù), con una ormai leggendaria sezione orchestrale e un assolo di May da antologia, il brano diviene l’essenza del suono Queen, che non potevano chiudere un disco così celebrativo della loro idea musicale con una versione irriverente e rock di God Save The Queen, che diventerà la chiusura di tutti i loro concerti. La copertina fu opera di Freddy Mercuri che ispirandosi allo stemma della Casa Reale Britannica mise attorno ad una Q due leoni (segno zodiacale di Taylor e Deacon), due Vergini (il suo segno) e un cancro (quello di May). Venderà milioni di copie e sarà l’apripista di una serie di dischi che, nonostante non avessero la forza e la coesione ideale di questo, produrranno almeno una hit nei successivi anni, fino alla tragica morte di Mercury per AIDS nel 1991. Un band che era spesso criticata dalla stampa specializzata ma che ha saputo creare un vincolo emozionale unico e duraturo.

[sheikah]

Seeing the ask about you being a teacher of writing and literature got me wondering could you maybe explain the differences between bittersweet endings and tragic endings in stories with some examples to illustrate. I see so many folks predict things for the end of GOT and well it all seems so tragic but maybe its me that doesn't totally understand. I'd greatly appreciate a lesson teach if you have the time thanks!

Hi, anon! Sorry it took me so long to answer this. 

First I just want to say that I don’t talk about the teacher thing much because I don’t want to wave around credentials like it makes me better than anyone else trying to analyze the story haha. I don’t want to seem like one of those people who is like “I definitely know more about x than you do because I went to school here or have this career.” While that sort of thing matters a lot in some contexts, I just think fandom should be fun so I don’t want to look like I’m making it into some academic endeavor when half of my blog is thirst posts and the other half is literally porn in written form haha.

ANYWAY I will talk a little bit on this topic because it’s one that bothers me a bit as I see it discussed around the fandom. When GRRM said to expect the ending to be “bittersweet,” I immediately took that as a good omen. It seems that a lot of other fans, perhaps in the interest of not getting their hopes up too high only to be burned later, continue to expect the worst from the ending. By the worst, I mean the deaths of the main/our favorite characters. 

But objectively, regardless of who anyone’s fave is, Jon and/or Dany dying wouldn’t really feel bittersweet to me. Especially if it’s coupled with the deaths of other “big five” (Jon, Dany, Tyrion, Arya, Bran) characters, this sort of ending would be more tragic than it would bittersweet. 

Let’s look at what tragic means. The first tragedies were Greek dramas performed for the public in Athens. These were serious and important events attended by virtually everyone and treated with the solemnity of a religious gathering.

Tragedies were characterized by the sad endings that befell their heroes. Often in the pursuit of noble causes, the protagonists of these stories would die, and/or bring about destruction and doom to the people that they loved. 

One of the most famous early examples is Oedipus Rex by Sophocles. In this story Oedipus unknowingly marries his own mother and murders his own father. When the truth comes out, Oedipus’s mother kills herself. While some versions of the myth have Oedipus living on to reign as king, other versions feature him blinding himself and going out to live in exile. Either way, this is a very clearly negative ending and one that helped to define what “tragedy” meant from the earliest stages of the genre. 

Tragedy as a type of drama was also a big part of the culture of Elizabethan England, famously in the works of Shakespeare. Shakespearean drama laid the foundations for many of the archetypes we still see in contemporary Western storytelling, and his tragedies in particular have left indelible marks on our literature. 

Romeo and Juliet is probably the most well-known example: two young, “star-crossed” lovers are the unfortunate victims of their families’ bad blood and their love brings about both their own violent, untimely deaths, as well as the deaths of other members of their family. 

In Hamlet, “everybody dies” is pretty close to the mark. Hamlet’s father, his mother, Gertrude, Polonius, Laertes, Claudius, Ophelia, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, and Hamlet himself all die as a result of Hamlet’s actions.

In Macbeth, Macbeth’s ambition and desire for the throne–as well as his misplaced faith in prophecy and magic–lead to the deaths of the king, Lady Macbeth, Banquo, Fleance, Lady Macduff, and Macbeth himself.

In King Lear, Gloucester, Regan, Goneril, Edgar, Edmund, Cordelia, and Lear, all die as a result of Lear’s misplaced trust in Regan and Goneril and the exile of Cordelia. 

In all of the above examples of tragedy, the primary characters all die. It can also be argued that their deaths ultimately result from their own mistakes–hence “the tragic flaw”–instead of solely coming about from the malicious actions of an antagonist. 

So what’s the point? Why write something like this? 

I read a pretty good blurb about tragedy on Britannica back when I was building a class the first time I taught drama as an elective to my students:

“The tragic form, more than any other, raised questions about human existence. Why must humans suffer? Why must humans be forever torn between the seeming irreconcilable forces of good and evil, freedom and necessity, truth and deceit? Are the causes of suffering outside of oneself, in blind chance, in the evil designs of others, in the malice of the gods? Are its causes internal, and does one bring suffering upon oneself through arrogance, infatuation, or the tendency to overreach? Why is justice so elusive?”

I think that throughout ASOIAF, GRRM raises many of these same questions. But I don’t think that his story is ultimately building to such a nihilistic endgame. If our heroes were to die in the final battle, “justice” would indeed be “elusive.” It would ultimately be just another in a long line of stories commenting on the endless and futile toil of humanity against suffering and hardship. I think that ASOIAF is more than that. This sounds trite, and I’ve been accused of “Disneyfying” the story before, but I believe that a “bittersweet” ending means that something will be lost in the battle–characters we love, innocence and youth, dragons, ancestral homes, magic, etc. But ultimately our heroes will survive and live to see another day, a day in which their efforts were not in vain. A future where they can live to shape the realm and continue the progress they’ve already made toward a better world. 

In a tragedy, the primary characters die and often one small, minor character will live on to tell their story. Think Horatio, Albany, etc. If we apply this tragic formula into ASOIAF it would mean Jon and Dany dying, most likely Tyrion dying, Arya and Bran, ultimately as the result of one or more of their own faults. It would then leave someone like Davos to pick up the pieces. I don’t buy this. I can’t see this happening. 

After all, GRRM has said before that his “big five” will live through the series.

So that leaves us with “bittersweet.” Bittersweet is more subjective than tragic. Tragedy has a longstanding tradition and history to give us clues to its meaning. Bittersweet could mean different things to different people. So we should look to the most important person in this equation: GRRM. He has mentioned how his ending will emulate Tolkien. 

Tolkien’s ending might safely be called bittersweet–elves and magic have largely departed from the world. The main characters survive. Frodo never fully recovers from the wound he received from the Witch King. Frodo never truly feels the contentment that Sam finds, and he leaves Middle Earth with Gandalf, et al at the end of Return of the King. But Aragorn and Arwen are reunited, live, and restore the throne of Gondor in a glorious reign. 

To me this means that our heroes survive but find a world very different than the one our series started with. Much of the realm is destroyed by the war. Many people were sacrificed. The dragons have died. The direwolves are gone. Possibly the Iron Throne is destroyed. For many, this is plenty “bitterness!” We don’t need one of the big five to die for something to qualify as bitter! We don’t need either Jon or Dany to be widowed. We don’t need Tyrion to become a turncoat for Cersei and be executed by Dany. We don’t need Arya to be rendered “too far gone” and die in the pursuit of revenge. We don’t need Bran to sacrifice himself for some magical ritual against the Night King. Where would the sweetness be if everything is lost in the pursuit of peace? There would be no sweetness. It would be a tragedy. And I don’t think GRRM is writing one. 

Thanks so much for the ask! :) Hope this helped to answer your question. 

[themalhambird]

@skeleton-richard

When Edward is three, they all go to stay with Aunty Joan and Uncle Edward. There’s a strange feeling about the place: all the adults are talking quietly in corners and breaking off when the children come near, like they’re waiting for something. His father says Uncle Edward isn’t feeling very well, that he’ll probably get better but they all need to be with Aunty Joan, just in case. 

He doesn’t say in case of what.

It’s scary. Edward can’t sleep properly: the bed is too large, and too unfamiliar, and the shadows in his room are darker and scarier than the shadows at home, and the wind howls around the stones and his cousins are bickering next door-

His cousins are bickering next door. 

Edward slips out of bed, and out of the corridor, padding in to the room opposite. Harry sits on the end of the bed; Richard stands by the fireplace glaring at him, hands on his hips- Aunty Joan in miniature, except his hair isn’t long enough- it only grazes his jaw. Both fall silent and turn to look at him as he appears, and Edward shrinks nervously. “I can’t sleep,” he says, and Richard’s expression softens. 

“And?” Harry asks.

Edward shrinks some more. “Can I come in with you?”

“We’re kind of in the middle of something-”

“Of course you can,” Richard says, ignoring Harry and coming to scoop Edward up. Edward clings to his neck as Richard carries him to the bed and tells Harry to get out of his way, which Harry does, though he grumbles under his breath about it. Richard plops Edward down, and scrambles in to bed next to him, pulling the covers around them and letting Edward snuggle up to his side,  A moment later, Harry is on the other side of him, and Edward is enveloped in warmth. 

“Your mother could not kick my father’s ass,” Henry mutters under his breath.

“Yes, she could!” Richard retorts and Edward drifts off to sleep to his cousins bickering about whether Aunty Joan or Uncle John would come off better in a siege. As his lids grow heavy and his breathing evened out, Richard pressed his lips to his hair.

Edward is seven. Richard is thirteen, now, and King, which means Edward doesn’t get to play with him so much. Ever. He’s been excited about coming to Court ever since his father said he’d bring him; he couldn’t wait to come and see Richard. Except, he’s barely seen Richard, and now he probably won’t. They’re going home tomorrow morning. Edward curls up in bed and tries not to cry about it- he’s not a baby, anymore, and it’s not that big a deal. He’s seen Harry and that’s...

Just not the same. Harry’s alright, but Richard’s better; he’s kinder and more patient and he looks pretty and smells nice. Sometimes Ned can make him smile- or laugh- it’s the best thing in the world.

He drifts off to sleep, and has the strangest dream: that Richard comes, and kisses him on the forehead, and gives him a present.

When he wakes up, he’s clutching a book to his chest. He stares blearily at it, and then at the inside cover. for Ned, my favourite cousin. But don’t tell uncle John I said that or he’ll get mad and make the council meetings last three times as long as they already do. Anyway, sorry I didn’t really get to see you that much. I’ll tell your dad he has to bring you back sometime soon. Richard ii Rex Britannica 

My favourite cousin.

When he’s fourteen, Edward  kisses the son of one of his father’s friends in the stables, and rolls about in the hay with him a bit. It’s nice, kissing, and being pressed up against him, right up until the moment his mother catches them at it. She sends Ned to his room, and Ned’s friend back to his father, and later, she wants to know what on earth he was thinking of.

Edward doesn’t know how to tell her he was thinking that Richard’s hair was that length, and that colour, and would probably feel just like that if Edward was ever allowed to run his fingers through it.

(When he’s fifteen, and bored on a rainy day at Court, he decides to go to riding despite the weather. He gets to the stables and stares wide eyes as Richard moans beneath his friend, Robert de Vere. It’s not until de Vere pulls back sharply on Richard’s hair and ducks his head to nip at Richard’s throat that Edward has the presence of mind to run all the way back to his room and hide under his covers)

When Edward is eighteen, Queen Anne comes to speak with him. Robert de Vere has been forced in to exile, “and the King can’t sleep alone,” she says, worry colouring her voice. “And I can’t always be with him, there are times...” she blushes, and Edward blushes too, though he doesn’t know why. “You wouldn’t mind, would you? Being his bedfellow for some of the nights?”

Edward doesn’t mind. He doesn’t mind at all. The King wraps his arms around him, and sometimes he cries in to the back of Edward’s shirt when he thinks Edward’s sleeping. Others, he presses kisses to Edward’s neck, or his hand, and once on his lips. Edward fought very, very hard not kiss back.

The thing about Richard is: he kisses a lot of people. He kisses Anne all the time- of course he does, she’s his wife. He kisses Norfolk, and Northumberland, and Salisbury- chastely, for the most part, though once when the King was very drunk- the Christmas after de Vere was sent away-, Edward saw Salisbury gently untangle Richard’s hands from his hair and hold him at arms length after the king ended up slipping his tongue in to his mouth. “I think perhaps you ought to go to bed, your majesty,” Salisbury says softly, gripping his waist as the King’s knees gave way. “You’ll feel better once you lie down,” he hands the King over to Anne and Edward, and between the two of them, they get Richard undressed and into bed, Richard complaing the whole time that he wasn’t tired and he would be alright and then “Where’s Robert?” Anne and Edward glance at each other, and Anne sighs softly. “You go back down,” she says, “I’ll get him to sleep.”

“No!” Richard sits up at that, grabbing at Edward’s shirt and pouting at Anne. “Mine. My Edward.” He pulls at Edward’s shirt harder, tugging him down on top of him, and then passes out, arms wound around Edward’s neck. 

“Well, “ Edward says ruefully, as Anne helps untangle him. “At least his sleeping.”

So.

Richard kisses a lot of people. He kisses Salisbury, and Norfolk, and Northumberland. He kisses Anne. He kisses Uncle Gaunt and Uncle Gloucester, and Edward’s father and mother, and their aunts, on the cheek in hellos and goodbyes.

He kisses Henry like he hopes it kills him, furiously pressing their lips together like his touch is deadly poison.

He doesn’t kiss Edward. Not in public, not in daylight. He smiles, and brushes Edward’s face sometimes, but he doesn’t kiss him. Not unless he thinks Edward’s sleeping.

Edward doesn’t understand. 

When he’s nineteen, Robert de Vere dies in exile.

Richard is ashen and silent, in private, he gets distracted easily and starts to cry without warning, and Edward holds him until he stops. Sometimes he nudges Edward’s face with his lips as though he’s going to - 

and then he doesn’t.

Edward pulls the covers over them, wrapping his arms around Richard’s waist. “Can I ask you something?” he asks, and Richard says

“If you want.”

Edward swallows. “Your grace...why do you only kiss me when I’m sleeping?”

he expects Richard to deny it, to claim he’s being ridiculous. Or to dismiss him entirely. Instead, Richard says:

“Because you’re my favourite cousin. You always have been. And you’ve grown up in to a handsome man, Ned, and if I start to kiss you I’m not going to stop.”

“I wouldn’t mind. If you never stopped, I mean.”

“You would.” Richard said quietly. “once they hurt you for it.”

“No, I wouldn’t. I love you.”

Richard shudders. “Don’t,” he says, “Please. Don’t.”

Edward leans over and kisses him on the mouth, shifting to straddle his hips. 

“Don’t,” Richard says again, but he’s running his fingers through Edward’s hair and arching upwards, and the next words out of his mouth are “Please don’t stop...”

[vympr]

same anon who submitted the ask recently ... the list of films produced by EB might be of help Wikipedia entry for List of Encyclopædia Britannica Films titles, several entries related to Oedipus Rex with video links ... i hope this helps!

oh ty yes that does help! cuz googling "encyclopedia brittanica oedipus rex" was getting me nowhere 💀

[aymanmalikrp]

Ayman Malik (11 dicembre 1998- 30 dicembre 2021) era un cittadino statunitense e figlio dell'agente segreto israeliano del Mossad, Shimon Elliot e Asma Malik.

Lavorava come medico presso NHS London mentre in precedenza era un agente segreto per il servizio segreto britannico SIS.

Era single.

Breve biografia

Ayman al-Badri nasce l'11 dicembre 1998 in una relazione amorosa tra Ibrahim al-Badri e una donna pakistana-americana che visitava la città di Londra nel Regno Unito di nome Asma Malik.

Ayman Malik visse un'infanzia felice senza il padre ed era cresciuto con la madre.

Un giorno all'età di 22 anni riceve un messaggio da un sconosciuto di nome Hufaiza al-Badri che lo invitò in Herat per conoscersi meglio,una volta arrivato a Herat conobbe Hufaiza e altre persone ed poi attraverso un test di DNA, Ayman e Hufaiza rimasero entrambi sconvolti perché si sono rivelati come fratellastri da parte del padre in comune,Anwar al-Badri intanto era venuto per una visita per incontrare il fratellastro Hufaiza ma anche lui rimane sconvolto dalla notizia che Ayman era il suo fratellastro e quindi gli propone il lavoro di ministro di difesa e fotografo per il suo emirato di Kabul, Ayman accettò l'offerta e abbandonò il cognome della madre e iniziò ad usare il cognome del padre.

In seguito Ayman seguì il suo fratellastro Hufaiza al-Badri presso la città siriana di Aleppo e fece conoscenza con Abu Omar al-Sufyan nella città di Damasco.

Con il deterioramento mentale di Ahmad al-Sufyan che aveva fatto brutte cose a Trevis Leblond e Jonathan Duràn (guardie del corpo di René e di suo padre), Ayman lasciò la Siria e si trasferisce temporaneamente a Londra.

Il giorno 2 maggio, Ayman si trasferisce a New York e incontra suo padre Ibra e i fratellastri Tamerlan e Dawud al-Badri.

Sempre a New York, Ayman iniziò a lavorare come fotografo e cantante.

In seguito verso l'8 giugno, Ayman lasciò il suo lavoro di cantante iniziando a lavorare sia come fotografo e pizzaiolo presso la pizzeria John's of Bleckeer Street.

Sempre nello stesso giorno, fa conoscenza con il suo fratellastro David Elliot.

Il 6 luglio, lascia il suo lavoro alla pizzeria John's of Bleckeer Street e inizia a lavorare per la pizzeria NY Pizza Suprema.

L'11 ottobre, Ayman lascia New York e la pizzeria NY Pizza Suprema e si trasferisce a Londra nel Regno Unito iniziando a lavorare come cuoco presso la Taberna il ristorante italiano.

L'1 novembre, Ayman lascia il suo lavoro di cuoco e inizia a lavorare come agente segreto per i servizi segreti britannici l'SIS  (Intelligence britannica per estero).

Il 24 dicembre, Ayman lascia il suo lavoro come agente segreto per i servizi segreti britannici l'SIS e inizia a lavorare come medico presso NHS London.

Il 30 dicembre, Ayman muore all'ospedale dopo che il suo tumore al cervello si era aggravato.

Significato del nome Ayman:

Nome maschile arabo che assume il significato di "fortunato, benedetto".

Parenti:

Avraham Elliot (nonno paterno)

Simon Elliot (padre)

Asma Malik (madre)

Noah Elliot (fratellastro da parte del padre)

Amir Elliot/Hufaiza al-Badri (fratellastro da parte del padre)

Omayma al-Badri (sorellastra da parte del padre, deceduta)

Yaman al-Badri (fratellastro da parte del padre, deceduto)

Hassan al-Badri (fratellastro da parte del padre)

Fatima al-Badri (sorellastra da parte del padre, deceduta)

Hagar al-Badri (sorellastra da parte del padre, deceduta)

Ali al-Badri/Isaiah Elliot (fratellastro da parte del padre)

Anwar al-Badri (fratellastro da parte del padre)

Dawud al-Badri (fratellastro da parte del padre)

Tamerlan al-Badri (fratellastro da parte del padre)

Husam al-Badri (fratellastro da parte del padre)

Sebastian e Jhon Elliot (fratellastri gemellini da parte del padre)

David Elliot (fratellastro da parte del padre)

Rex Elliot (fratellastro da parte del padre)

Vincent al-Badri (fratellastro da parte del padre)

Informazioni:

Data di nascita: 11 dicembre 1998

Data di morte: 30 dicembre 2021

Luogo di nascita: Los Angeles, California

Residenza: Londra,Regno Unito

Occupazione: Medico

Prestavolti:

-Kyler Pettis (pv precedente)

-Rome Flynn  (pv precedente)

-Jurell Carter (pv precedente)

-Adain Bradley (pv precedente)

-Isha Blakeer (pv precedente)

-Hamza Haq (pv attuale)

[svtnct-kr]

Cat breed Information – Pedigree VS Moggy

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The Power of Visual Thinking

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* * * Here is your latest Saturday newsletter, where I share the latest updates from the site, an idea worth thinking about, few stories you shouldn’t miss, and a question for you. Let’s get started.

Safal Niveshak Updates Just in case you missed, here are a couple of recent posts on the site –

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Imagine! Here’s a note from Ashlee Vance’s biography of Elon Musk –

Visual thinking is a great way to understand complex or potentially confusing information, and also a way to organize your thoughts and improve your ability to think and communicate.

Imagine someone talking to you, and starting with the word – “Imagine…”

You are completely hooked, isn’t it?

Consider this excerpt from Richard Feynman’s The Pleasure of Finding Things Out, where his father helps him visualize about dinosaurs –

We had the Encyclopedia Britannica at home and even when I was a small boy my father used to sit me on his lap and read to me from the Encyclopedia Britannica, and we would read, say, about dinosaurs and maybe it would be talking about the brontosaurus or something, or tyrannosaurus rex, and it would say something like, ‘This thing is twenty-five feet high and the head is six feet across,’ you see, and so he’d stop and say, ‘let’s see what that means. That would mean that if he stood in our front yard he would be high enough to put his head through the window but not quite because the head is a little bit too wide and it would break the window as it came by.’ Everything we’d read would be translated as best as we could into some reality and so I learned to do that – everything that I read I try to figure out what it really means, what it’s really saying by translating.

Then consider how Warren Buffett visually convinced me why gold was a bad investment…

I will say this about gold. If you took all the gold in the world, it would roughly make a cube 67 feet on a side… Now for that same cube of gold, it would be worth at today’s market prices about $7 trillion dollars – that’s probably about a third of the value of all the stocks in the United States… For $7 trillion dollars… you could have all the farmland in the United States, you could have about seven Exxon Mobils, and you could have a trillion dollars of walking-around money… And if you offered me the choice of looking at some 67-foot cube of gold and looking at it all day, and you know me touching it and fondling it occasionally…Call me crazy, but I’ll take the farmland and the Exxon Mobils.

I’ve tried my hands at visual thinking this way –

You may want to check out my Wall of Ideas for more such examples of visual thinking.

Now, visual thinking is not a new lesson that I would attribute to Elon Musk. But imagine the kind of businesses he is building, to save the world, which he had originally visualized when he was under ten years of age.

When it comes to investing, you can avoid yourself a lot of pain by just visualizing your life after you’ve lost a lot of money trading and speculating in the stock market. If the visuals unnerve you, don’t do anything that would get you into such a situation. That’s also the concept of inversion.

I personally used visual thinking when I was deciding about quitting my job to start Safal Niveshak to help small investors become better at their investment decision making. Of course, when I had started planning my future after a job, the first visual was that of – not being successful in my future work, getting over my savings, and having to return to a job.

But another visual I saw was of helping people, enjoying the freedom of doing things my way, and spending a lot of time with my family. And I thank my stars that this was more powerful than the visual of losing everything.

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Why I’m Losing Hope in India (Andy Mukherjee)

Last Refuge of License Raj (Anand Sridharan)

Here’s How to Give Thanks—Not Once a Year—but Every Day (Ryan Holiday)

Happiness Won’t Save You (NY Times)

Meditations

History may not repeat itself, but some of its lessons are inescapable. One is that in the world of high and confident finance little is ever really new. The controlling fact is not the tendency to brilliant invention; the controlling fact is the shortness of the public memory, especially when it contends with a euphoric desire to forget.

~ John Kenneth Gailbraith

On the surface it seems that the present moment is only one of many, many moments. Each day of your life appears to consist of thousands of moments where different things happen. Yet if you look more deeply, is there not only one moment, ever? Is life ever not “this moment?”

This one moment – Now – is the only thing you can never escape from, the one constant factor in your life. No matter what happens, no matter how much your life changes, one thing is certain: it’s always Now.

Since there is no escape from the Now, why not welcome it, become friendly with it?

~ Eckhart Tolle

A Question for You When you get better at what you do, you can make a bigger impact and solve bigger problems. That gives you more satisfaction. And also more income.

Ask yourself this question – How can I get better at what I do?

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