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Things are happening!
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The new album is well underway :) Sorry it’s been so long since our last email, things have been pretty busy in our personal lives over the last year (in case you didn’t know, Britt and Scott had a baby girl last October!) So we wanted to reach out and just give you a little update on what’s going on in the world of UTA! We took 2022 off from touring to write a new album, as it can be really hard to focus on new music when you’re constantly having to stay in shape to play live. By December we had ten demos that we were happy with and scheduled studio time for the spring. We rented a studio on Vancouver Island and stayed in an airbnb together (with a six month old as well haha!) for the entire month of April so we could stay distraction-free. We wrapped tracking on April 31st but Brittney did a few more solo sessions in May to record some harmonies and a few vocal lines that were missed. The tracks are now in the insanely talented and highly capable hands of Jacob Hansen, who will be taking on the mixing and mastering duties for us once again. During our time on the island we also did a photo shoot with our favourite photographer, Shimon Karmel, and shot a performance video with the boys over at RuneGate Studio; we can’t wait for you to see all their hard work and should be posting sneak peeks soon! In case you are wondering, yes this will be a concept record, and no it does not follow the story from Apex & Abyss. This is an entirely new world with new characters and we think you’re really going to like it! Brittney will be sure to do her Track-By-Track videos to explain the story like always, but we’d love to hear what you think the next album is going to be about ;) We are waiting on a release date from Napalm but we think you’ll get your first taste of singles this fall. Make sure to follow us on Instagram so you don’t miss out on the announcement!
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We also wanted to let you all know that we just happened to find 50 copies of our Explorers EP on the shelves at IndieMerch that had mistakenly been archived! We got them shipped up to us and will be holding a lottery to give everyone a fair chance to get their hands on a copy. Make sure to join our Discord channel as we will be announcing how to enter the lottery on there before posting it anywhere else!
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Lastly, we just wanted to thank you all so much for your patience and support over the last couple of years. A lot of you had tickets to our shows that were cancelled in 2021 and we want you to know that we haven’t forgotten about you! We are working on eastern Canadian dates as well as dates in Europe to coincide with the release of the new album. We are also starting to confirm festivals for next summer and should begin announcing those shortly. Touring is going to be different for us now that Scott and Britt have a kid, but they promise they are going to make it work somehow, someway ;) Can’t wait to see you all on the road very soon! Keep in touch! UTA \m/

Wednesday, May 31 - Tuesday, June 06

Top New

score	comments	title & link	mirrors
12	15 comments	[NEW SONG] My band made a music video that takes place in a handmade miniature early-'90s mall food court
11	2 comments	[NEW SONG] Cassy.
11	1 comments	[NEW SONG] Just dropped a single called White. If you dig it you can stream it on all platforms (Ndeh Ntumazah) and follow me on IG for more

 

Top Stream

score	comments	title & link	mirrors
46	11 comments	[STREAM/DOWNLOAD] Who here remembers Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros?
5	3 comments	[STREAM/DOWNLOAD] Sad Indie Sushi - a playlist of melancholy Indie tracks
3	7 comments	[STREAM/DOWNLOAD] Hello everyone looking for new followers

 

Top Classic

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64	13 comments	[CLASSIC] Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Maps (2003)
11	2 comments	[CLASSIC] Slaves - Cheer Up London (2015) [band changed name to "Soft Play" in December 2022]	[Sp] [AM] [Dzr] [SC]
6	1 comments	[CLASSIC] No Need To Worry

 

Top Remaining

score	comments	title & link	mirrors
39	2 comments	[NEWS] Imagine Dragons Detail New Concert Documentary ‘Live in Vegas’
36	15 comments	Bosses - Sick (music video)
20	3 comments	boygenius - "Not Strong Enough" (2023)	[Sp] [BC] [Dzr] [SC]
13	0 comments	‘Future Calling’ - Groove-heavy single from modern psychedelic group Ego Jones
11	11 comments	[DISCUSSION] Pick only one 90s Indie Rock album
10	2 comments	Yo La Tengo- "Sinatra Drive Breakdown"	[Sp] [AM] [BC] [Dzr] [SC]
9	0 comments	From 8000 submissions which I received I have put the best 50 Indie, Folk, Alternative, Singer Songwriter songs into one playlist. Some tunes have a psychedelic undertone. The artists are vry underground and almost unknown but as good as the big ones. For the likes of AM, Mac DeMarco, beach house :)

 

IGS Rep: https://www.reddit.com/IGSRep/comments/12qvwmq/henjindayos_igs_rep_page/
In case you have already checked my list before:
No new keys added since 2023-05-17
So, I [h]ave
Jan 2022 Humble choice

• Rustler
• Retrowave
• Midnight Protocol

October 2021 Humble Choice

• Amnesia: Rebirth
• 112 Operator
• Guts and Glory
• Ring of Pain (Region lock info)
• GARAGE: Bad Trip
• Hiveswap Friendsim
• Syberia 3

September 2021 Humble Choice

• Röki (Region lock info)
• Narita Boy
• Swag and Sorcery
• Fort Triumph (Region lock info)
• FRAMED Collection

August 2021 Humble Choice

• Out of Space

July 2021 Humble Choice

• Nimbatus - The Space Drone Constructor
• S.W.I.N.E. HD Remaster

June 2021 Humble Choice

• Stubbs the Zombie in Rebel Without a Pulse (Region lock info)
• Worms Rumble + Legends Pack DLC (Region lock info)
• Panzer Paladin
• Milky Way Prince - The Vampire Star
• Ikenfell (Region lock info)
• Paw Paw Paw
• Effie

April 2021 Humble Choice

• Main Assembly (Region lock info)
• Remothered: Broken Porcelain
• SIMULACRA + SIMULACRA 2
• Colt Canyon
• Skully

March 2021 Humble Choice

• WWE 2K BATTLEGROUNDS (Region lock info)
• Hotshot Racing
• Peaky Blinders: Mastermind
• Cyber Hook
• Pesterquest
• Boreal Blade
• Ageless (Region lock info)

December 2018 Humble Monthly

• Purrfect Date - Visual Novel/Dating Simulator

August 2018 Humble Monthly

• Forged Battalion (Region lock info)

July 2018 Humble Monthly

• Serial Cleaner
• Titan Quest: Anniversary Edition + Titan Quest: Ragnarok DLC

June 2018 Humble Monthly

• Acceleration of SUGURI 2
• Cook, Serve, Delicious! 2!!

May 2018 Humble Monthly

• Crazy Machines 3

April 2018 Humble Monthly

• Laser League (Region lock info)

Keys from old Humble Bundles

• Amnesia Fortnight 2012 The Series
• And Yet It Moves
• Aura: Fate of the Ages
• Beatbuddy: Tale of the Guardians
• Canabalt
• Containment: The Zombie Puzzler
• Crayon Physics Deluxe
• Deadlight
• Deponia
• Draw a Stickman: EPIC
• Eufloria Steam Key
• Galactic Civilizations II: Ultimate Edition
• Gunpoint
• Hard Reset Extended Edition
• Knights of Pen & Paper +1 Edition
• Memoria
• Mutant Mudds Deluxe
• Nuclear Dawn
• One Finger Death Punch
• PixelJunk Eden
• Safecracker: The Ultimate Puzzle Adventure
• Spy Chameleon - RGB Agent
• Super House of the Dead Ninjas
• Swords & Soldiers HD Steam Key
• Toto Temple Deluxe
• Two Brothers
• VVVVVV

Keys from Fanatical bundles

• Ballpoint Universe - Infinite
• Castaway Paradise - Town Building Sim
• Codex of Victory
• Heavy Burger
• Lichdom: Battlemage
• Lucius
• POSTAL Redux
• Sir, You Are Being Hunted
• Star Wolves 3: Civil War
• Super 3-D Noah's Ark
• The Keep
• Crash Drive 3
• Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark
• Tacoma
• Tannenberg
• The Battle of Polytopia
• The Battle of Polytopia - Aquarion Tribe
• The Battle of Polytopia - Cymanti Tribe
• The Battle of Polytopia - Elyrion Tribe
• The Battle of Polytopia - Polaris Tribe

and I [w]ould like to get

• Honey I Joined a Cult
• Ghostwire Tokyo
• Curse of the Dead Gods
• Lost Ruins
• Tainted Grail: Conquest
• Gordian Quest
• Hidden Through Time
• Call of Cthulhu (this one)
• Coffee Talk
• LOST EMBER
• I'm also interested in GOG/EA/Uplay keys

I bought all games/bundles myself.
All keys are from EU region.
Keys only - sorry, I won't do gift links because of the whole banning thingy.

I am returning my Mac Studio M1 Max this weekend and decided to build my own PC instead of buying the new M2 Max! 😆 I don’t know if it’s possible to do better than the M2 Max for content creation at the price but here’s my go at it… Never really made my own PC before.
PCPartPicker Part List

Type	Item	Price
CPU	AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D 4.2 GHz 8-Core Processor	$439.00 @ Newegg
CPU Cooler	Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 SE WHITE ARGB 66.17 CFM CPU Cooler	$38.90 @ Amazon
Motherboard	Gigabyte B650 GAMING X AX ATX AM5 Motherboard	$179.99 @ Newegg
Memory	G.Skill Trident Z5 Neo RGB 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR5-6000 CL30 Memory	$129.99 @ Newegg
Storage	Kingston KC3000 1.024 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive	$80.98 @ Amazon
Video Card	XFX Speedster MERC 310 Black Edition Radeon RX 7900 XTX 24 GB Video Card	$979.99 @ Amazon
Case	Lian Li LANCOOL 216 ATX Mid Tower Case	$99.99 @ Newegg Sellers
Power Supply	NZXT C850 (2022) 850 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply	$138.99 @ Best Buy
	Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts
	Total (before mail-in rebates)	$2097.83
	Mail-in rebates	-$10.00
	Total	$2087.83
	Generated by PCPartPicker 2023-06-07 13:48 EDT-0400

1) Avatar - 1,875,000,000 (2009)
2) Titanic - 1,436,000,000 (1997)
3) Avatar 2 - 1,390,000,000 (2022)
4) Avengers: Endgame - 1,310,000,000 (2019)
5) Spider-Man: No Way Home - 1,102,000,000 (2021)
6) Star Wars Episode VII - 1,006,000,000 (2015)
7) Avengers: Infinity War - 1,000,000,000 (2018)
8) The Lion King - 993,000,000 (2019)
9) Harry Potter 8 - 900,000,000 (2011)
10) Frozen II - 850,000,000 (2019)
11) Frozen - 832,000,000 (2013)
12) The Avengers - 809,000,000 (2012)
13) Jurassic World - 788,000,000 (2015)
14) Top Gun: Maverick - 775,000,000 (2022)
15) Furious 7 - 770,000,000 (2015)
16) Minions - 753,000,000 (2015)
17) Skyfall - 745,000,000 (2012)
18) Joker - 739,000,000 (2019)
19) Super Mario Bros - 734,000,000 (2023)*
20) Pirates of The Caribbean 4 - 734,000,000 (2011)
21) Lord of the Rings 3 - 731,000,000 (2003)
22) Avengers: Age of Ultron - 706,000,000 (2015)
23) Iron Man 3 - 685,000,000 (2013)
24) Beauty and the Beast - 674,000,000 (2017)
25) Bohemian Rhapsody - 673,000,000 (2018)

PROOF: https://i.redd.it/qundzrdxup3b1.jpg
In our 2022 “Where America Stands” survey (https://survey.freedomforum.org/ 2022-update/), the Freedom Forum asked what, if any, would be an appropriate reason to ban books from being taught in classes or available in the library at middle and high school levels. Of the more than 800 Americans we polled, 57% said “none.”
Yet, that same year, American Library Association reported a record 1,269 demands to censor library books and resources (http://www.ala.org/news/press-releases/2023/03/record-book-bans-2022), double the number from 2021 and the highest in the ALA’s 20 years of compiling this data. And almost every week, there is news of another book being removed from a public school classroom under parental challenge.
Books are protected by the First Amendment (http://www.freedomforum.org/books-bans-first-amendment/) to the United States Constitution. The First Amendment also protects parents’ right to petition the government when they feel their needs – and the needs of their children – are not being met. What happens when the First Amendment is being pulled in two different directions? The Freedom Forum is a non-partisan, non-profit organization whose mission is to foster First Amendment freedoms for all. Its First Amendment Specialist Kevin Goldberg (Twitter: @kevinmgoldberg) (https://twitter.com/kevinmgoldberg), an attorney with more than 30 years of experience navigating First Amendment issues, is ready to talk about book bans, parents’ rights and the First Amendment.
Website: www.freedomforum.org Follow us on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/ FirstAmendmentForAll), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/), LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/), and Twitter (https://twitter.com/1stForAll).
Kevin will offer the legal perspective and we’re excited that he’ll be joined by Leigh Hurwitz, Coordinator of School Outreach Services at the Brooklyn Public Library – and not just because we think so highly of BPL that we’re honoring it with one of our annual Free Expression Awards on June 8! Leigh will provide valuable real world perspective on how book bans and challenges are affecting teens throughout the country, what happens when a book is challenged, and how librarians navigate these disputes. Although, it’s really not about the books, but about the people the books represent.
In April 2022, BPL launched Books Unbanned (https:// www.bklynlibrary.org/books-unbanned), an intellectual freedom initiative formed in response to the alarming rise in book bans and challenges, driven by organized political groups across the country. Over the last year, book challenges, which primarily target YA titles, have continued to rise, with the American Library Association reporting (https://www.ala.org/news/state-americas-libraries-report-2023) the highest number since they began compiling data two decades ago and nearly double the year before. Moreover, the ALA reports the majority of challenged titles were by or about people of color or members of the LGBTQIA＋ community.
In addition to advocacy, the initiative also supports young adults who are facing censorship in their local schools and public libraries by making our collection available via the National Teen ecard. The ecard provides any young adult (ages 13-21) in the country with free access to BPL’s 500K＋ collection of eBooks and audio https://www.bklynlibrary.org/). Since the start, we have issued over 6,500 ecards to young adults in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and U.S. territories, with over 100,000 books having been checked out to date.
All new cardholders are invited to join BPL’s Intellectual Freedom Teen Council (IFTC) which holds monthly virtual meetings that give teens an opportunity to learn about censorship efforts their peers are facing in other parts of the country. In February 2023, BPL teamed up with PEN America to co-host the first-ever Freedom to Read Advocacy Institute https://www.slj.com/story/PEN-America-Brooklyn-Public-Library-To-), a four-part virtual educational and training program for high school students nationwide that prepares and certifies the next generation of free expression advocates to combat book banning and fight for the freedom to read in their schools, libraries, and communities.
Books Unbanned has garnered extensive national and local press coverage and contributed an important counter narrative against the often loud and provocative voices demanding that books be pulled from classrooms and library shelves and demonstrating that libraries have an opportunity to steer the narratives towards the principle of intellectual freedom and the critical role it plays in libraries and a democratic society. The six-member project team was honored as Library Journal’s 2023 Librarians of the Year (https://www.libraryjournal.com/story/news/) and also received Fast Company’s 2023 World Changing Ideas Award (https:// www.fastcompany.com/90871466/brooklyn-public-library-booksunbanned) and the Dramatists Legal Defense Fund’s 2023 Defender Award https://www.dramatistsguild.com/news/dramatists-legaldefense-). Brooklyn Public Library is among the borough’s most democratic civic institutions, serving patrons in every neighborhood and from every walk of life. Established in 1896, BPL is one of the nation’s largest public library systems and currently has more than 850,000 active cardholders. With a branch library within a half-mile of the majority of Brooklyn’s 2.7 million residents, BPL is a recognized leader in cultural offerings, literacy, out-of-school-time services, workforce development programs, and digital literacy.
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The following is Isocrates (2330A/-c.375) in his Bousiris (Βούσιρις) (§:16-23) talking about the warrior, worker, schooling divide system of Egypt, via reference to Bousiris, the Greek-defined mythical king of Egypt:

Greek	Google	Norlin (A25/1980)
[16] ἅπαντας δὲ τοὺς ἀριθμοὺς περιλαβὼν ἐξ ὧν ἄριστ᾽ ἄν τις τὰ κοινὰ διοικήσειεν, ἀεὶ τοῖς αὐτοῖς τὰς αὐτὰς πράξεις μεταχειρίζεσθαι προσέταξεν, εἰδὼς τοὺς μὲν μεταβαλλομένους τὰς ἐργασίας οὐδὲ πρὸς ἓν τῶν ἔργων ἀκριβῶς ἔχοντας, τοὺς δ᾽ ἐπὶ ταῖς αὐταῖς πράξεσι συνεχῶς διαμένοντας εἰς ὑπερβολὴν ἕκαστον ἀποτελοῦντας.	[16] But when he found out the numbers from which he had commanded the commons, he ordered them to be treated with the same actions, seeing that those who had not been transferred to any one of the tasks, having them do these things continuously for staying being in excess of each other.	[16] Including in all classes the right numbers for the best administration of the commonwealth, he gave orders that the same individuals should always engage in the same pursuits, because he knew that those who continually change their occupations never achieve proficiency in even a single one of their tasks, whereas those who apply themselves constantly to the same activities perform each thing they do surpassingly well.
[17] τοιγαροῦν καὶ πρὸς τὰς τέχνας εὑρήσομεν αὐτοὺς πλέον διαφέροντας τῶν περὶ τὰς αὐτὰς ἐπιστήμας [epistemas] ἢ τοὺς ἄλλους δημιουργοὺς τῶν ἰδιωτῶν, καὶ πρὸς τὴν σύνταξιν δι᾽ ἧς τήν τε βασιλείαν καὶ τὴν ἄλλην πολιτείαν διαφυλάττουσιν, οὕτω καλῶς ἔχοντας ὥστε καὶ τῶν φιλοσόφων τοὺς ὑπὲρ τῶν τοιούτων λέγειν ἐπιχειροῦντας καὶ μάλιστ᾽ εὐδοκιμοῦντας τὴν ἐν Αἰγύπτῳ προαιρεῖσθαι πολιτείαν, καὶ Λακεδαιμονίους μέρος τι τῶν ἐκεῖθεν μιμουμένους ἄριστα διοικεῖν τὴν αὑτῶν πόλιν.	[17] They argue also about the arts, let us now find them differing from those about these sciences or the other creators of private individuals, and about the constitution by which they preserve the kingdom and the other state, thus having as well as the philosophers the favors of the so they say, practicing and even thriving in the state of choice in Egypt, and the Lacedaemonians part of them, imitating them from there, they govern their city excellently.	[17] Hence we shall find that in the arts the Egyptians surpass those who work at the same skilled occupations elsewhere more than artisans in general excel the laymen; also with respect to the system which enables them to preserve royalty and their political institutions in general, they have been so successful that philosophers who undertake to discuss such topics and have won the greatest reputation prefer above all others the Egyptian form of government, and that the Lacedaemonians, on the other hand, govern their own city in admirable fashion because they imitate certain of the Egyptian customs.
[18] καὶ γὰρ τὸ μηδένα τῶν μαχίμων ἄνευ τῆς τῶν ἀρχόντων γνώμης ἀποδημεῖν καὶ τὰ συσσίτια καὶ τὴν τῶν σωμάτων ἄσκησιν, ἔτι δὲ τὸ μηδενὸς τῶν ἀναγκαίων ἀποροῦντας τῶν κοινῶν προσταγμάτων ἀμελεῖν, μηδ᾽ ἐπὶ ταῖς ἄλλαις τέχναις διατρίβειν, ἀλλὰ τοῖς ὅλοις καὶ ταῖς στρατείαις προσέχειν τὸν νοῦν [noun], ἐκεῖθεν ἅπαντα ταῦτ᾽ εἰλήφασιν.	[18] And for the zero of the fighting without the opinion of the princes, and the sissies and the exercise of the bodies, because the zero of the necessary ones are neglected by the common commandments, they do not apply to the other arts, but to all and the armies, they pay attention to the mind, from there they take all these things.	[18] For instance, the provision that no citizen fit for military service could leave the country without official authorization, the meals taken in common, and the training of their bodies; furthermore, the fact that lacking none of the necessities of life, they do not neglect the edicts of the State, and that none engage in any other crafts, but that all devote themselves to arms and warfare, all these practices they have taken from Egypt.
[19] τοσούτῳ δὲ χεῖρον κέχρηνται τούτοις τοῖς ἐπιτηδεύμασιν, ὅσον οὗτοι μὲν ἅπαντες στρατιῶται καταστάντες βίᾳ τὰ τῶν ἄλλων λαμβάνειν ἀξιοῦσιν, ἐκεῖνοι δ᾽ οὕτως οἰκοῦσιν ὥσπερ χρὴ τοὺς μήτε τῶν ἰδίων ἀμελοῦντας μήτε τοῖς ἀλλοτρίοις ἐπιβουλεύοντας. γνοίη δ᾽ ἄν τις ἐνθένδε τὸ διάφορον ἑκατέρας τῆς πολιτείας.	[19] And in such a way do these men give their hand to the adversaries, as long as they are at war with everyone, taking by force what others deserve, they live in this way as if they were their own, neglecting not to give advice to others. I don't know if they were worn by the various heads of the state.	[19] But the Lacedaemonians have made so much worse use of these institutions that all of them, being professional soldiers, claim the right to seize by force the property of everybody else, whereas the Egyptians live as people should who neither neglect their own possessions, nor plot how they may acquire the property of others. The difference in the aims of the two polities may be seen from the following:
[20] εἰ μὲν γὰρ ἅπαντες μιμησαίμεθα τὴν Λακεδαιμονίων ἀργίαν καὶ πλεονεξίαν, εὐθὺς ἂν ἀπολοίμεθα καὶ διὰ τὴν ἔνδειαν τῶν καθ᾽ ἡμέραν καὶ διὰ τὸν πόλεμον τὸν πρὸς ἡμᾶς αὐτούς: εἰ δὲ τοῖς Αἰγυπτίων νόμοις χρῆσθαι βουληθεῖμεν, καὶ τοῖς μὲν ἐργάζεσθαι, τοῖς δὲ τὰ τούτων σῴζειν δόξειεν, ἕκαστοι τὴν αὑτῶν ἔχοντες εὐδαιμόνως ἂν τὸν βίον διατελοῖμεν.	[20] For if we all imitate the avarice and avarice of the Lacedaemonians, even if we perish both because of the daily poverty and because of the war against us: but if we obey the laws of Egypt, and those who work, and those who of these they live in glory, each of them having it happily if we end our lives.	[20] if we should all imitate the sloth and greed of the Lacedaemonians, we should straightway perish through both the lack of the necessities of daily life and civil war; but if we should wish to adopt the laws of the Egyptians which prescribe that some must work and that the rest must protect the property of the workers, we should all possess our own goods and pass our days in happiness.
[21] καὶ μὲν δὴ καὶ τῆς περὶ τὴν φρόνησιν ἐπιμελείας εἰκότως ἄν τις ἐκεῖνον αἴτιον νομίσειεν [nomíseien]. τοῖς γὰρ ἱερεῦσι παρεσκεύασεν εὐπορίαν μὲν ταῖς ἐκ τῶν ἱερῶν [ieron] προσόδοις [prosodois], σωφροσύνην δὲ ταῖς ἁγνείαις ταῖς ὑπὸ τῶν νόμων προστεταγμέναις, σχολὴν [scholin] δὲ ταῖς ἀποθανεῖν:	[21] And not even her about the caregiving judgment even if she thought of them for that reason [thought]. For to the priests he prepared euphoria with the holy revenues, and chastity to the chastities protected by the laws, and a school for them to die:	[21] Furthermore, the cultivation of practical wisdom may also reasonably be attributed to Busiris. For example, he saw to it that from the revenues of the sacrifices the priests should acquire affluence, but self-control through the purifications prescribed by the laws, and leisure by exemption from the hazards of fighting and from all work.
[22a] μεθ᾽ ὧν ἐκεῖνοι βιοτεύοντες [viotévontes] [from: βιοτεύω?] τοῖς μὲν σώμασιν ἰατρικὴν ἐξεῦρον ἐπικουρίαν, οὐ διακεκινδυνευμένοις φαρμάκοις χρωμένην ἀλλὰ τοιούτοις, ἃ τὴν μὲν ἀσφάλειαν ὁμοίαν ἔχει τῇ τροφῇ τῇ καθ᾽ ἡμέραν, τὰς δ᾽ ὠφελείας τηλικαύτας ὥστ᾽ ἐκείνους ὁμολογουμένως ὑγιεινοτάτους εἶναι καὶ μακροβιωτάτους,	[22a] with which those living with a body have medical help, not risky colored drugs, but such, which has the same safety as the food of the day, the d benefits are admittedly as those they are healthy and long-lived,	[22a] And the priests, because they enjoyed such conditions of life, discovered for the body the aid which the medical art affords, not that which uses dangerous drugs, but drugs of such a nature that they are as harmless as daily food, yet in their effects are so beneficial that all men agree the Egyptians are the healthiest and most long of life among men;
[22b] ταῖς δὲ ψυχαῖς [psychaís] φιλοσοφίας [filosofías] ἄσκησιν κατέδειξαν, ἣ καὶ νομοθετῆσαι [nomothetísai] καὶ τὴν φύσιν [physin] τῶν ὄντων ζητῆσαι [zitísai] δύναται [dýnatai].	[22b] too but the exercise of mental philosophy demonstrated that it is possible to legislate and to inquire into the nature of beings.	[22b] and then for the soul they introduced philosophy's training, a pursuit which has the power, not only to establish laws, but also to investigate the nature of the universe.
[23] καὶ τοὺς μὲν πρεσβυτέρους ἐπὶ τὰ μέγιστα τῶν πραγμάτων ἔταξεν, τοὺς δὲ νεωτέρους ἀμελήσαντας τῶν ἡδονῶν ἐπ᾽ ἀστρολογίᾳ καὶ λογισμοῖς καὶ γεωμετρίᾳ διατρίβειν ἔπεισεν, ὧν τὰς δυνάμεις οἱ μὲν ὡς πρὸς ἔνια χρησίμους ἐπαινοῦσιν, οἱ δ᾽ ὡς πλεῖστα πρὸς ἀρετὴν συμβαλλομένας ἀποφαίνειν ἐπιχειροῦσιν.	[23] And he instructed the elders on the highest things, and the younger ones, neglecting the pleasures, on astrology and calculus and geometry, he persuaded them to dispel, whose powers the ones who are useful as one praise, those who are mostly as a symbol of virtue, they decide for me they attempt.	[23] The older men Busiris appointed to have charge of the most important matters, but the younger he persuaded to forgo all pleasures and devote themselves to the study of the stars, to arithmetic, and to geometry; the value of these sciences some praise for their utility in certain ways, while others attempt to demonstrate that they are conducive in the highest measure to the attainment of virtue.

βίᾳ
The term “bia” (βίᾳ) [13], which is the root of terms such as “violence”, has previously been decoded, in the Abioism book, as a cipher for the 13th-hour of violence or battle when the Horus sun ☀️, after 12-hours of daylight, goes into battle with Set, i.e. sun-set, or sun-with-Set.
§:22b
In §:22a, we see a complex translation, in need of EAN analysis:

ταῖς δὲ ψυχαῖς [psychaís] φιλοσοφίας [filosofías] ἄσκησιν κατέδειξαν, ἣ καὶ νομοθετῆσαι [nomothetísai] καὶ τὴν φύσιν [physin] τῶν [ton] ὄντων [ónton] ζητῆσαι [zitísai] δύναται [dýnatai].

Google renders this as:

too but the exercise of mental philosophy demonstrated that it is possible to legislate and to inquire into the nature of beings.

George Norlin (A25/1980) renders this as:

and then for the soul they introduced philosophy's training, a pursuit which has the power, not only to establish laws, but also to investigate the nature of the universe.

ψυχαῖς [psychaís]
The term psychais (ψυχαῖς), shown rendered above as “mental” or “soul”, is a complex cipher.
The following decoding work on letter psi (ψ), the first letter of this term, shows that the actual Egyptian psi glyph was only recently found 5-months ago:

• Psi [17 May] - Hmolpedia A67
• Why does psychology start with the letter Ψ psi? [6 Dec A67/2022]
• Sah (Orion) as parent character of psi (Ψ) [700], the 25th Greek letter? [25 Dec A67/2022]
• Greek letter psi (ψ), letter #25, value: 700, found in the Sah (Orion) + Sopdet (Sirius) star map hieroglyphs (4000A/-2045) [25 Dec A67/2022]
• On the phi (φι), chi (χι), psi (ψι) cipher or 510-610-710 puzzle of why they all have letter I or value 10, i.e. ιοτα [1111], in common? [2 Mar A68/2023]

Whence, generally the term, at least with respect to the prefix psych- (ψυχ-), or psi (Orion something) + upsilon (choices you make naked) + chi (cosmos rebirth letter), crudely renders as what the Egyptians and Greeks though 💭 their mind was going to be like, in the after-existence, after they rise in the stars ✨ like the rising Orion constellation, or something along these lines.
φιλοσοφίας [filosofías]
While we have worked on this previously, Bernal, who Black Athena book I’m reading now, claims that he is going to decode this term from an “Egyptian etymology” basis; whence, we will have to come back to this.
φύσιν [physin]
That the term physin (φύσιν) is rendered both times as “nature”, is not fully clear translation. Previously, physics was worked on here:

• Egyptian fire-drill (𓍓) origin of Greek letter phi (Φ)

Which gives a friction-starts-fire etymology of the first letter of the word.
ὄντων [ónton]
The term ὄντων [ónton], Google renders as “being”, and Wiktionary renders as:

masculine/neuter genitive plural of ὤν (ṓn) [850]

Which directs to:

present participle of εἰμί (eimí), meaning: “to be, exist, happen”; actual, real

This cipher has previously been worked on here:

• Being = fire 🔥? On (ΩΝ) [850] means “Heliopolis” in Egyptian and “being” in Greek?

The term on (ων) [850], as a combination of omega [800] and nu [50], overtly renders as “be”, but includes the following cyphers:

• On (Οω) = Heliopolis
• 850 = Eleusis (Ελευσις), the ancient city of Attica, famous for its mysteries of Demeter and Persephone.
• 850 = pyros (πυρος), meaning: ”of fire”.

This might make Eleusis the “Greek Heliopolis” or city of the solar fire, or something; mixed with some type of cipher that one’s “being”, as we now call it, derives from the 🔥 of the sun god inside of one’s heart, or something crudely along these lines?
νομοθετῆσαι [nomothetísai]
The term Νομοθέτης, which renders as “lawgiver”, is from nomo- (νόμο-), from the Egyptian “nome”, referring to one of he 42 states or territories of Egypt, + -thétis (-θέτης), meaning: “setter” of “thet” (θέτ) [314], i.e. Biblos (βιβλος) [314], meaning: “book, letter”.
Bousiris §:28
The following is Bousiris (§:28), wherein Isocrates says that Pythagoras, after going to Egypt, came back and taught all of Greece the art of philosophy:

Greek	Google	Norlin (A25/1980)
[28] ἔχοι δ᾽ ἄν τις μὴ σπεύδειν ὡρμημένος πολλὰ καὶ θαυμαστὰ περὶ τῆς ὁσιότητος αὐτῶν διελθεῖν, ἣν οὔτε μόνος οὔτε πρῶτος ἐγὼ τυγχάνω καθεωρακώς, ἀλλὰ πολλοὶ καὶ τῶν ὄντων καὶ τῶν προγεγενημένων, ὧν καὶ Πυθαγόρας ὁ Σάμιός ἐστιν: ὃς ἀφικόμενος εἰς Αἴγυπτον καὶ μαθητὴς [mathitís] ἐκείνων γενόμενος τήν τ᾽ ἄλλην φιλοσοφίαν πρῶτος εἰς τοὺς Ἕλληνας ἐκόμισε, καὶ τὰ περὶ τὰς θυσίας καὶ τὰς ἁγιστείας τὰς ἐν τοῖς ἱεροῖς ἐπιφανέστερον τῶν ἄλλων ἐσπούδασεν, ἡγούμενος, εἰ καὶ μηδὲν αὐτῷ διὰ ταῦτα πλέον γίγνοιτο παρὰ τῶν θεῶν, ἀλλ᾽ οὖν παρά γε τοῖς ἀνθρώποις ἐκ τούτων μάλιστ᾽ εὐδοκιμήσειν.	[28] Behold, if they do not hasten them with haste, many will pass away marveling at their truthfulness, which neither I alone nor the first ever receive, but many of the beings and the ancestors, among whom is Pythagoras the Samian: who arrived in Egypt and was a disciple [pupil] of them, being born he first taught the other philosophy to the Greeks, and he studied the sacrifices and sanctities in the sanctuaries more prominently than the others, being an abbot, if for these things he was made no more than the gods, but then he gave them to men from let them prosper.	If one were not determined to make haste, one might cite many admirable instances of the piety of the Egyptians, that piety which I am neither the first nor the only one to have observed; on the contrary, many contemporaries and predecessors have remarked it, of whom Pythagoras of Samos is one On a visit to Egypt he became a student of the religion of the people, and was first to bring to the Greeks all philosophy, and more conspicuously than others he seriously interested himself in sacrifices and in ceremonial purity, since he believed that even if he should gain thereby no greater reward from the gods, among men, at any rate, his reputation would be greatly enhanced.

Quotes
The following is:

“Greek literature of the fourth century reflects a widespread struggle to determine the character of true paideia; and within it Isocrates, the chief representative of rhetoric, personifies the classical opposition to Plato and his school. From this point on, the rivalry of philosophy and rhetoric, each claiming to be the better form of culture, runs like a leitmotiv throughout the history of ancient civilization. It is impossible to describe every phase of that rivalry: for one thing, it is rather repetitious, and the leaders of its opposing sides are not always very interesting personalities. All the more important, therefore, is the conflict between Plato and Isocrates—the first battle in the centuries of war between philosophy and rhetoric. Later, that war was sometimes to degenerate into a mere academic squabble, in which neither side possessed any genuine vital force; but at its beginning the combatant parties represented the truly moving forces and needs of the Greek people. The field on which it was waged lay in the very centre of the political scene. That is what gives it the vivid colouring of a truly historical event, and the large sweep which keeps our interest in it permanently alive. In retrospect, we realize that in this conflict are symbolized the essential problems of that whole period of Greek history. Today as of old, Isocrates has, like Plato, his admirers and exponents; and there is no doubt that since the Renaissance he has exercised a far greater influence on the educational methods _ of humanism than any other Greek or Roman teacher. Historically, it is perfectly correct to describe him (in the phrase used on the title-page of several modern books) as the father of humanistic culture’—inasmuch as the sophists cannot really claim that title, and from our own pedagogic methods and ideals a direct line runs back to him, as it does to Quintilian and Plutarch.“
— Werner Jaeger (16A/1939), Paideia: the ideals of Greek culture (pg. 46)

The following is Martin Bernal on Isocrates:

“Isocrates portrayed Bousiris as a mythical lawgiver and to the perfection of the constitution he had devised for Egypt. Isokrates admired the caste system, the rulership of the philosophers, and the rigour of the Egyptian philosophepriests' paideia (education) that produced the anir theoritikos (contemplative man), who used his superior wisdom for the good of his state [Bousiris §:16-23]. The division of labour allowed a 'leisure', schole, which allowed for schok 'learning'. Above all, he insisted that philosophia (philosophy) was, and could only have been, a product of Egypt [Bousiris §:28]. This word seems to have been used by the Egyptianizing Pythagoreans for some time — possibly since the 6th century — but one of its earliest extant uses comes from Bousiris.”
— Martin Bernal (A32/1987), Black Athena (pg. 104)

Notes

1. I started this post, per the Bernal quote, wherein he says that Isocrates, in section 16-23, of Bousiris, uses the word “paideia (παιδεια) [111]”.
2. I do not, however, find the term “paideia” in Bousiris section 16-13? This is an example of poor or misleading citation. Isocrates, however, does, as Jaeger points out, use paideia, extensively, somewhere?

References

• Isocrates. (2330A/-c.375). Bousiris (Βούσιρις) (translator: George Norlin) (§:16-23). Tufts, A25/1980.
• Jaeger, Werner. (16A/1939), Paideia: the ideals of Greek culture (Arch) (pg. 46). Publisher.
• Bernal, Martin. (A32/1987). Black Athena: the Afroasiatic Roots of classical Civilization. Volume One: the Fabrication of Ancient Greece, 1785-1985 (Arch) (pg. 104). Vintage, A36/1991.

External links

• Bousiris) (King of Egypt) - Wikipedia.
• Isocrates - Wikipedia.

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Hello (and thanks for reading!),
I am a creative nerd, asocial hermit, and walking stereotype of the melancholic struggling artist.
I guess that doesn't sound great, but I would also like to believe that I am a great friend, attentive listener, problem solver, and quite emotionally intelligent. I am educated (master's degree), self-employed as a freelance writer (I have some goals this year I hope I have the courage and energy to shoot for), and love to make people laugh. My primary "love languages" include quality time, words of affirmation, and physical touch. I want to spend time with you (and give you space), tell you how great you are (without patronizing), and hold your hand and stuff (maybe touch your butt).
Look, dating hasn't been going great these past few years - I wouldn't say I have any horror stories, but it is difficult to find that genuine connection for my balance of grounded, quirky, shy, anxious, fun-loving, creative, loving, and occasional self-loathing that I embody. In terms of typical qualities, I gotta be honest: I'm not an ambitious, travel-loving, type-A grindset kind of guy. I'm a comfortable bug, happy at home or walking in empty spaces with music in my ears, listening to my friends' problems and then watching shows or playing games with them online, looking forward to cooking something simple yet tasty so I can have leftovers the next day kind of guy. I think I can be exciting and challenging, and I'm willing to do a lot for a person I like but you probably won't find a jet-setting whirlwind romance here, sorry.
In terms of hobbies, I love learning about history, cooking, trivia, engineering projects, scientific discoveries, how things work, why things are the way they are. I play a lot of games in my free time, and I'd like to play games with you (although the sweaty PvP ones I might sit out unless we REALLY hit it off). I collect and read tabletop RPGs and board games, and enjoy comics and webcomics as well. Of course I watch shows and often the same shows - I would really enjoy introducing some of my favorites to you. In general I am very passionate about discussing the little nerdy intricacies of things that I am into and in equal measure I'd love to hear you geek out about your favorite stuff as well. My taste in music covers the entire gamut but my top most-played for 2022 included a lot of theatrical rock, shoegaze, prog/jazz fusion, indie pop, and heavy metal/hardcore - I wish I went to more concerts. Horror movies are cool but I'll watch anything if there is someone to talk to during. I don't write much as a hobby these days since doing it for work but running a good tabletop game will get me motivated in a heartbeat.
I also have a cute little chihuahua/terrier who is afraid that every stranger wants to ruin her life, I exercise regularly, and I enjoy hiking/biking/bouldering for more active activities.
Socially, I am very introverted. I'm not interested in meeting strangers (present post excluded, of course), I need my time alone every now and then, and if there's a lot of socialization I will need to like... take a breather for a bit and that's cool, no biggie. I get anxious when I have to talk on the phone, I dread long checkouts at the grocery store, and I am not pleased having my picture taken (although I'll be a good sport about it). I'm very gregarious and jolly with my friends or close-knit groups, but I wanted to make this clear because I have met some people who really don't understand that like, no, I do not want to go to this thing or that event just to meet people or be stuck in rooms with strangers. Please be okay with that. I promise your parents will love me, though (if you get along with them).
Physically, I must apologize on my behalf - I am excessively average in appearance. 5'8", brown haibrown eyes, dad bod although I have been working consistently to reach a more fit figure and would consider that a realistic goal for me. I have a big bushy beard and looong hair down to my tailbone, although I have no particular attachment to it and would let any potential future partner have a strong voice on if it stays or if it goes. I've never tried to dress for anyone else but myself - I tend to wear a lot of grey or earth-tone khaki pants, button-down shirt over t-shirt, and a jacket if it is cold. I might have a suit stashed away somewhere but if I do we're gonna have to tailor that bad boy before busting it out. If you like the "hairy soft bod" trope I think you're in luck, haha.
Your pic gets mine, as they say.
What am I looking for, exactly? Well, dating in the traditional sense has never been my cup of tea - I guess I've never really done much of anything in the traditional sense, for better or worse. I want us to be friends, to get to know each other and spend time together talking or sharing activities and hopefully we start swapping food pics and outfit selfies and shots of places we visit and it becomes difficult to go to sleep because we're each trying to be the last to say "goodnight" and then we realize that damn, we really enjoy each other's company and should really talk about getting serious with it - like, go out and shit. Slap a label on that sucker. I hope you are the kind of cozy homebody nerd or super badass action chick gets along well with cozy nerds who wants to forge a genuine connection. If you're local we can still go on traditional dates for pizza and museums and stuff too of course but I don't mind a long-distance thing either. If the feelings are forged, we'll make it work.
As an admittedly average unfashionable dad-bod guy I know I don't have much place to make physical demands of people but in that department I would hope you are some form of HWP or on the way there, aaand... gosh, that's it really. I'm trying hard to be healthy - I would want to be with someone who feels the same.
So, hey! I know this is a lot but I wanted to paint a genuine portrait of where I am coming from and what I am looking for. I'm not a difficult person and it's easy to say hi to me, although I perform my best with some sort of prompt to go off of. Seriously, ask me stuff - I love answering questions and will be sure to follow up with some for you! Tell me a bit about yourself, what's a hobby you're happy with and what's a hobby you wish you could explore more or had more friends to share it with?

Hello (and thanks for reading!),
I am a creative nerd, asocial hermit, and walking stereotype of the melancholic struggling artist.
I guess that doesn't sound great, but I would also like to believe that I am a great friend, attentive listener, problem solver, and quite emotionally intelligent. I am educated (master's degree), self-employed as a freelance writer (I have some goals this year I hope I have the courage and energy to shoot for), and love to make people laugh. My primary "love languages" include quality time, words of affirmation, and physical touch. I want to spend time with you (and give you space), tell you how great you are (without patronizing), and hold your hand and stuff (maybe touch your butt).
Look, dating hasn't been going great these past few years - I wouldn't say I have any horror stories, but it is difficult to find that genuine connection for my balance of grounded, quirky, shy, anxious, fun-loving, creative, loving, and occasional self-loathing that I embody. In terms of typical qualities, I gotta be honest: I'm not an ambitious, travel-loving, type-A grindset kind of guy. I'm a comfortable bug, happy at home or walking in empty spaces with music in my ears, listening to my friends' problems and then watching shows or playing games with them online, looking forward to cooking something simple yet tasty so I can have leftovers the next day kind of guy. I think I can be exciting and challenging, and I'm willing to do a lot for a person I like but you probably won't find a jet-setting whirlwind romance here, sorry.
In terms of hobbies, I love learning about history, cooking, trivia, engineering projects, scientific discoveries, how things work, why things are the way they are. I play a lot of games in my free time, and I'd like to play games with you (although the sweaty PvP ones I might sit out unless we REALLY hit it off). I collect and read tabletop RPGs and board games, and enjoy comics and webcomics as well. Of course I watch shows and often the same shows - I would really enjoy introducing some of my favorites to you. In general I am very passionate about discussing the little nerdy intricacies of things that I am into and in equal measure I'd love to hear you geek out about your favorite stuff as well. My taste in music covers the entire gamut but my top most-played for 2022 included a lot of theatrical rock, shoegaze, prog/jazz fusion, indie pop, and heavy metal/hardcore - I wish I went to more concerts. Horror movies are cool but I'll watch anything if there is someone to talk to during. I don't write much as a hobby these days since doing it for work but running a good tabletop game will get me motivated in a heartbeat.
I also have a cute little chihuahua/terrier who is afraid that every stranger wants to ruin her life, I exercise regularly, and I enjoy hiking/biking/bouldering for more active activities.
Socially, I am very introverted. I'm not interested in meeting strangers (present post excluded, of course), I need my time alone every now and then, and if there's a lot of socialization I will need to like... take a breather for a bit and that's cool, no biggie. I get anxious when I have to talk on the phone, I dread long checkouts at the grocery store, and I am not pleased having my picture taken (although I'll be a good sport about it). I'm very gregarious and jolly with my friends or close-knit groups, but I wanted to make this clear because I have met some people who really don't understand that like, no, I do not want to go to this thing or that event just to meet people or be stuck in rooms with strangers. Please be okay with that. I promise your parents will love me, though (if you get along with them).
Physically, I must apologize on my behalf - I am excessively average in appearance. 5'8", brown haibrown eyes, dad bod although I have been working consistently to reach a more fit figure and would consider that a realistic goal for me. I have a big bushy beard and looong hair down to my tailbone, although I have no particular attachment to it and would let any potential future partner have a strong voice on if it stays or if it goes. I've never tried to dress for anyone else but myself - I tend to wear a lot of grey or earth-tone khaki pants, button-down shirt over t-shirt, and a jacket if it is cold. I might have a suit stashed away somewhere but if I do we're gonna have to tailor that bad boy before busting it out. If you like the "hairy soft bod" trope I think you're in luck, haha.
Your pic gets mine, as they say.
What am I looking for, exactly? Well, dating in the traditional sense has never been my cup of tea - I guess I've never really done much of anything in the traditional sense, for better or worse. I want us to be friends, to get to know each other and spend time together talking or sharing activities and hopefully we start swapping food pics and outfit selfies and shots of places we visit and it becomes difficult to go to sleep because we're each trying to be the last to say "goodnight" and then we realize that damn, we really enjoy each other's company and should really talk about getting serious with it - like, go out and shit. Slap a label on that sucker. I hope you are the kind of cozy homebody nerd or super badass action chick gets along well with cozy nerds who wants to forge a genuine connection. If you're local we can still go on traditional dates for pizza and museums and stuff too of course but I don't mind a long-distance thing either. If the feelings are forged, we'll make it work.
As an admittedly average unfashionable dad-bod guy I know I don't have much place to make physical demands of people but in that department I would hope you are some form of HWP or on the way there, aaand... gosh, that's it really. I'm trying hard to be healthy - I would want to be with someone who feels the same.
So, hey! I know this is a lot but I wanted to paint a genuine portrait of where I am coming from and what I am looking for. I'm not a difficult person and it's easy to say hi to me, although I perform my best with some sort of prompt to go off of. Seriously, ask me stuff - I love answering questions and will be sure to follow up with some for you! Tell me a bit about yourself, what's a hobby you're happy with and what's a hobby you wish you could explore more or had more friends to share it with?

Bio from The Festival Voice

Artist Biography by Daniel Karasek
My Morning Jacket is an artful indie rock outfit that started in 1998 and is led by Jim James (birth name James Olliges). The band is based out of James’ hometown of Louisville. They released their debut album The Tennessee Fire in 1999 via Darla Records. The album was moderately popular in the U.S. but became a sensation overseas, especially in the Netherlands. My Morning Jacket then launched a European tour and got loads of press from Dutch media. In 2001, they released At Dawn which won over their audience at home. Jim recorded his vocals in a grain silo that gave his vocals a reverb-heavy sound. Two years later the band signed with ATO Records for their release of It Still Moves followed by their 2005 album Z. In 2008, Evil Urges emerged to push the boundaries of alternative country rock. The members of My Morning Jacket then spent a few years pursuing solo projects before coming back together in 2011 for the album Circuital which was recorded in a church’s gymnasium. After more extensive touring with the likes of Bob Dylan and Wilco, My Morning Jacket released their 2015 album The Waterfall. During the creation of this album, the band recorded enough material for two albums but didn’t release the extra songs until 2020. In this five-year gap, the band was mostly on hiatus with the members pursuing various solo projects. After playing a run of four shows in 2019, My Morning Jacket was inspired to come back to the studio to self-produce the 2021 album My Morning Jacket. In 2022, the band released live show albums drawn from their archives and an EP Live from RCA Studio A which featured a solo acoustic performance by Jim James.

 
Genre: Neo-Psychedelic, Art Rock, Indie Rock, Make-You-Feel
Scheduled: Saturday
Songs & Sets:
My Morning Jacket - Touch Me I'm Going To Scream, Part 2 - Bonnaroo 2011 (Official) Bonnaroo365
My Morning Jacket - Wordless Chorus (Live on Letterman)
My Morning Jacket - One Big Holiday (Live on Letterman)
My Morning Jacket - Dondante (High Quality Audio)
My Morning Jacket - Lucky To Be Alive
Have you seen My Morning Jacket before? Please share your experience and favorite songs.
 

Days Until Bonnaroo: 8

Remember to drink water and warm up those high fives!
 
Link to previous AotD post

So, let's kick off summer 2023's playlists with some homegrown goodness. In honour of our hooped friends' recent heartbreak, this week it's Emo. Get the straighteners out, put on some heavy eyeliner and join the Black Parade.
For the rest of us, it's a joyous time so this week's bonus playlist is Pop-Punk. Teenage angst has never been so fun.
Both playlists are Unlimited so post as many songs as you like for either or both playlists. You have until Friday, June 9 to get your suggestions in and the playlist will be posted at the weekend.
Summer of 2022 Spotify playlists:
Week One: Hip-hop/Rap
Week Two: Punk
Week Three: Indie Rock/Britpop
Week Four: House
Week Five: Classic Rock
Week Six: Movies
Week Seven: 2000's Pop
Week Eight: Community Choice
Week Nine: Thrash/Speed metal
Week Ten: Club Anthems
Bonus 01: Non-English
Edit: For the sake of my sanity, specify what playlist you want your choices to be in.

After remaining invincible and impregnable for centuries, the mighty Pir Panchal is witnessing enormous developmental activity for a new expressway, a challenging railway line and most of the dam-fed hydropower projects involving an investment of tens of thousands of crores. At places, this is triggering the fragile range to cave in at the cost of homes and livelihoods of age-old villages, a situation that experts believe could have been avoided with better pre-feasibility studies and sophisticated project implementation, reports Masood Hussain
Anticipated for years, finally, the increased incidence of land subsidence and sinking in the Pir Panchal Mountains is Jammu and Kashmir’s new normal. The young fragile and unstable mountain range separating Kashmir from the rest of the world is in news frequently as the slopes housing small habitations for centuries are caving in.
On February 19, 2023, around 16 structures of Duksar Dalwa (Duksar Dal), a hamlet almost 45 km uphill from Ramban, suffered serious damage as the land caved in. It crippled road connectivity between Gool and Ramban where almost 500 meters developed cracks, tripped the electric supply and snapped the water supply. Three homes developed cracks forcing authorities to shift the impacted population to safer areas.
Officials said while they are working overtime to resume power and water supplies, they are also improving the Dharam-Salballa road to make it an alternative supply route to the “literally disconnected” area. In the sinking village, the official encouraged the residents to move swiftly to safer spots. For residents, however, the gradual 3-day sinking was a painful watch of their life earnings slowly cracking up and becoming black holes over hills.
It started with a crater that widened to almost 500 meters during two nights, making almost everything around unsafe, unstable and life-threatening. A mosque, Darsgah, the village seminary and the village graveyard were destroyed. Residents quickly exhumed a recently buried body and laid it to rest at a “safe” place.
Officials who visited the spot said the village’s agriculture fields were rendered useless, pushing residents into poverty. They lost homes and their livelihoods too.
The Duksar erasing came less than a fortnight after Doda lost a cluster of houses to a similar instance on February 3, 2023. Located on the foothills on the road to Kishtwar near Thathri, nearly 35 km from Doda, the volunteers, residents and government officials had to quickly shift 117 members of 19 families as the patch of slope housing the Nai Basti cluster gave in within three days. A total of 21 structures cracked and became unsafe.
Horrific Tunnel Collapse
The last horrific tragedy took place on May 19, 2022, when the workers were digging into an adit (minor access to the T3 tunnel) near Khooni Nalla at Ramsu’s Makerkot area. It collapsed over them killing ten workers including two local residents and eight Nepalese labourers. The tragedy struck during the day amid incessant rain but still, only two persons could be rescued alive.
The workers were on the challenging stretch of the national highway between Digdole and Khooni Nallah, which is otherwise notorious for frequent landslides and shooting stones due to fragile geology. It was part of the twin-tube tunnel that would connect Digdole to Panthyal and was implemented by Ceigall India Limited in a JV with Patel Engineering Limited. (The contractor has been imposed a heavy fine.)
The National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) that has taken over the Jammu Srinagar national highway from Border Roads Organisation (BRO), a few years back, is constructing at least five tunnels to bypass the highway’s 3-km “killer’’ stretch from Panthyal to Makerkote. Tunnel T3 is part of this intervention.
Unlike the rest of the highway, the 36-km Banihal Ramban stretch has been the most challenging one and that is why it is still under implementation. On this stretch are six “killer spots” located on a 14-km road stretch and NHAI intends to spend Rs 2000 crore to manage this. Implementation of this would offer some safety from frequent halts owing to shooting stones at Marog, Panthial, Digdol and Battery Chashma.
Triggering Instability
Implementation of these projects is triggering crises for the localities living around them. As many as 13 houses in Sujmatana village near Ramsu were literally devastated. The round-the-clock blasting for the tunnel projects and cutting work made these houses inhospitable after they developed cracks. Most of them have left their unsafe homes and migrated elsewhere. Though officials are looking into the crisis since 2017, it is yet to be settled.
On August 4, 2022, 36 families had a providential escape when their Bassan village in Reasi became the casualty of sinking and erosion at the same time. Without any notice, landslides carried down boulders and muck that crashed the houses and put the agriculture fields out of sight. It was so abrupt, villages said, that they had no time to take their belongings along.
Officials admitted that almost 60 kanals of land sank as another 400 kanals patch was rendered useless. Almost all the fruit trees, mostly walnut and apricot, were engulfed in mud. Almost 200 meters of a PMGSY road was also downthrown by around 25 meters from its actual alignment.
The earlier worst case was reported from Dalwas when on March 28, 2020, the residents fled when their homes and fields were literally buried by landslides. Almost 40 households were impacted.
The village has been there for ages and never experienced any such threat. Then one day it literally disappeared. Residents alleged that being away from Srinagar and Jammu, deep into the mountains they hardly were reported. At one point in time when they wanted to protest, authorities invoked Covid19 concerns to prevent it.
Response Protocol
Over the years, the government response has remained unchanged. Once the reports land that spots are sinking, they as the first quick reaction, send cops, paramilitary, SDRF and revenue officials to oversee and, in most cases, extend help in quick evacuations. In stage two, the respective Deputy Commissioner writes to geologists and the Department of Geology and Mining and, off late, to the Geological Survey of India, who rush their experts to these spots. In the subsequent few days, they study the local rock formations and submit reports, part of which goes to newspapers and by and large the files get closed.
At the same time, files start rolling about relief and rehabilitation. It takes its own time. In many cases, people who lose their homes and livelihoods are yet to be properly rehabilitated.
Invariably, the policymakers and the administrators avoid two vital ingredients of the story – the assessments that the local populations make about the crisis they land in and the wider angle that remains unchanged across the Pir Panchal range.
Resident Assessments
Affected populations are unwilling to accept that these crises are natural. They see them as man-made disasters. Raqeeb Wani, a former Sarpanch of Daskar Dalwa told The Telegraph that his village’s erasing is directly linked to the construction of two railway tunnels downhill, that would link a 3km rail track between Sangaldan and Chaddi. He attributed it to the “continuous blasting” that loosens the soil and adds to the instability of the mountain.
“A few years ago, we had a similar disaster in Sangaldan a few years ago when an entire market caved in,” Wani was quoted as saying. “That also was owing to the railway project.”
In the case of Dalwas, for instance, a former lawmaker from Ramban Ashok Kumar Dogra said the “unscientific planning” of the widening of the national highway is responsible. “The highway authorities started excavation of the road from beneath the village without raising any wall on the side of the village. As no concrete measures were taken by the NHAI to protect the village and debris was also disposed of at the same place, the tragedy was bound to happen and the houses collapsed and the village sank,” Dogra told Outlook. “I will not call it a natural disaster. It was the unplanned construction that destabilised the soil of the whole area, leading to its sinking.”
Right to A Road
Pir Panchal mountain range has remained literally invincible and technically impregnable for centuries. It took decades of thought process and a lot of resources to lay a foot track between Jammu and Srinagar, to have an alternative to Mughal Road. Known to history as the Banihal Cart Road, it was difficult and always retained by Dogra despots as a private route. It remained inaccessible to people till 1922. Till the Jawahar Tunnel was inaugurated, the road would pass over the Banihal pass, the abandoned remnants of which still exist.
This made Kashmir rely on the Jhelum Valley Road (JVR) as the main highway.
Almost 225 residents from 48 households who somehow survived the tragedy moved to another village and are still struggling to pick the threads of their lives. Though life has returned to the village, they are still fighting for an electric supply line and the rebuilding of the school building.
An Upcoming Railway
The road is just not the only thing that is happening deep inside the Pir Panchal mountain range. While the road is being upgraded, there is a railway project in an advanced stage of implementation.
Unlike the road that is being laid over the foothills not far away from the old alignment that also followed a foot track of the eighteenth and nineteenth century, the railway track is passing through a virgin area, part of which has not seen even a bus. For making rail reach Baramulla from Udhampur, the 272-km project is going to cost a whopping Rs 37012 crore of which more than ninety per cent has already been spent.
Work on JVR started in 1880 and was formally thrown open in September 1890, when Maharaja Partap Singh was driven through from Baramulla to Kohala. The construction of this gigantic road project was implemented by a major British Indian contractor M/S Spedding, Mitchell & Co and was overseen by different British engineers at different stretches. While General de Bourbel oversaw everything as the Chief Engineer Kashmir, it was Alexander Atkinsonmanagedmost of the road up to Chakoti (on the other side of LoC now) and a few parts on the Kashmir side; Farrant was in charge of construction between Chakotiand Baramulla; as EG Hebbert supervised its completion in November 1889. Resources apart, it cost too many lives. Between Chakoti and Baramulla, 54 Pathans were killed in four years. Besides, 20 lives were lost to snake bites.
Post-partition, the Banihal Road became arterial and pressure built with a surge in population and demand in Kashmir. For seven decades, this road bore the brunt of all the pressures of travel, demand and consumerism and gave in. The rise of the Kashmir apple added another pressure factor so did the security requirements.
Finally, a stage reached that the health of the national highway was directly linked to the economic well-being of Kashmir. This paved the way for the decision by the Government of India that distances need to be reduced and the highway must be improved so that commuters do not end up spending a day on a 300-km highway.
More than a decade after the first spadework, it is emerging as one of the best roads. There are three major tunnels that have skipped dangerous patches while reducing distance and uphill driving: a set of four small tunnels near Nandni with a combined length of 1.4 km; 9.2 km Chenani-Nashri tunnel has bypassed a gruelling uphill drive and 8.5 km Banihal-Qazigund tunnel is going to tame dangerous Banihal Pass forever.
Distance has dropped from 300 to 270 km and the travel time from 12 to around 5 hours. But the Banihal-Ramban stretch remains a challenge. Earlier, it was merely a technological crisis, now it is a serious ecological issue.
These villagers were fortunate in comparison to the Sadal hamlet of Udhampur which was buried under a massive mudslide at noon on September 6, 2014. Following incessant rains for many days, it triggered massive floods in Kashmir and the rest of the erstwhile state. As many as 41 residents from 65 households were killed by the wee hour mountain collapse that brought an almost 30-foot-thick blanket of rafted rock fragments mud, sludge and rubble.
The rail is already chugging between Udhampur and Katra (25 km) since July 2014, Baramulla to Qazigund (118 km) since October 2009; and Qazigund to Baramulla (18 km) since June 2013. This leaves the most challenging stretch of 111 km between Banihal and Katra to be implemented.
However, the cost of the track does not define the project. It is the work that details the challenge. Nearly 119 km of the entire track will pass through 38 tunnels, the longest of which is 12.77 km long.
What is interesting is that in the 111-km Banihal – Katra track, 97.42 km are tunnels and most of the rest are bridges. Railway officials have to do 163.82 km of tunnelling in total – 66.4 km are escape tunnels – to make the track possible. For making these tunnel spots accessible to men and machines, there is a network of 205 km of roads, which remain busy round the clock.
This track will have 37 bridges – totalling 7 km in length, including the iconic Chenab Bridge, which is tipped to be the highest railway bridge on earth. While this bridge is ready, the current focus is on the first cable-stayed railway bridge on Anji Khad.
With thousands of people working deep inside the mountains with basic cutting and blasting machinery a lot of activity is generated.
There were dozens of instances in which the portions of various tunnels collapsed resulting in either changing the alignment or repairing the damage and restoring the tunnel. In July 2006, an almost 3 km long tunnel on the Udhampur-Katra track gradually started sinking after massive soil swelling on the two ends making it unusable and thus delaying the project. Northern Railways later hired an Austrian consultant, Geo Consult International (GCI), to salvage the project after many years of delay. The causes of the damage were visible to even the then Chief Minister, Ghulam Nabi Azad, who said he saw “a river flowing under the tunnel”.
A number of tunnels between Katra and Sangaldan witnessed “abnormal” water discharge making construction a challenging task. In Sangladan, the managers were shocked when they saw a 500-meter track between two tunnels actually missing one fine morning. Reported in 2006, it destroyed a vast stretch of land on a slope housing as many as 100 structures besides over 400 meters of the road connecting Mahore and Gulabgarh.
In 2016 summer of 2016, authorities shifted 124 families – almost the entire village of Dharam, after the vast patch of land that housed the hamlet caved in within three months. Though the officials attributed it to natural reasons, the residents linked the unprecedented situation to the ongoing work on the railway line passing close to the village.
Oceans In Gorges
Piercing the Pir Panchal mountains for smooth, faster and better communication is just not the only thing happening in the region. Owing to the mighty Chenab, the region is Jammu and Kashmir’s powerhouse. More than 90 per cent of the hydropower potential is restricted to the region owing to the availability of water and enough space to construct dams within the mountain gorges. This has led to a situation where the region holds a massive amount of water in its dams.
The region’s tryst with power generation started late last century with the implementation of the 900-MW Salal power project in Reasi in 1978. The project’s 1.45 million cubic meter dam has created the Salal lake which has the capacity to retain more than 28 million cubic meters of water.
Then came the 390-MW Dul-Hasti Power Project near Kishtwar. It was followed by the 900-MW Baglihar power with 1.8 cubic meters of the dam and an additional reservoir capacity of 39.5 cubic meters – a facility that has created a huge water body in the mountain gorges between Chanderkote belt and Thathri to the extent that certain localities and infrastructures had to be relocated. Quite a few people still live in the highway town of Pul Doda.
The region has many other power projects at different stages of implementation. These include 850-MW Rattle, 100-MW Pakal Dul, 624-MW Kiru, 540-MW Kwar, 800-MW Bursar, and 930-MW Kirthai-II. This is an investment of tens of thousands of crore in mountain gorges on a single river within a river length of fewer than 100 km.
Baglihar is the only project that Jammu and Kashmir’s fully-owned JKSPDC owns. Chenab Valley Power Projects Ltd, a joint venture between JKSPDC and NHPC, India’s hydropower giant, is implementing four power projects – Pakal Dul, Kiru, Kwar and Karthia-II. Salal and Dul Hasti owned fully by NHPC and Ratle is being executed under a fresh JV with JKSPDC in which the latter holds 49 per cent stakes.
Stakes apart, hydropower stations are gigantic projects. These need huge spaces for water storage – even in the case of run-of-the-river schemes, and a lot of tunnelling. All projects have main tunnels, both head race and tail race, and then there are a lot of additional adits and small tunnels for servicing. Even though most of the tunnels and the dams are concrete structures, having such critical infrastructure usually triggers soil erosion and soil swellings too often. The 110-km Batote Kishtwar road has been ailing for all these years. Never in a year could it operate for all 365 days.
Cause versus Consequence?
Science has fundamentally opposed the idea of correlating causes with consequences especially when there is no plausible explanation. In the case of the Pir Panchal region, however, there are striking correlations. For most of recent history, land sliding has been happening around the national highway only. However, in the last decade, land subsidence is a routine and it is happening at all places where developmental activities are going on.
Bhaderwah town and its surroundings are witnessing “region-exclusive” tremors almost every year. In August 2022, there were 21 tremors, reaching up to 3.9 on the Richter scale. Such summer tremors have been there in 2013, 2016, 2017, and 2018. In fact, 2013 was harrowing as the earthquakes touched 5.8 on the Richter scale.
Land patches are caving in at spots closer to some kind of major developmental activity. This is as true with railway projects as it is in road widening projects. Certain spots caved in because works were implemented without a detailed study.
In Sangaldan, for instance, when the railway track collapsed, it was pointed out by geologist Prof GM Bhat that it had been built “on a fossil slide”, which failed to withstand the weight and crumbled down. “We knew it for decades but we were never consulted,” Bhat said. “In this part of the Himalayas, rock types change after every half a kilometre.”
A respected geologist, Bhat insists that developmental activities can take place in any space that is as fragile as Pir Panchal but it needs adequate pre-implementation study and proper implementation mechanism.
“In the four-laning of the highway, the crisis would have been manageable had there been least vertical cuts,” Bhat said. “Impounding so much of water (in power projects dams) within a small patch has the potential of inducing earthquakes.” He insists that the managers of the water projects must ensure better maintenance of the tunnels or these could become a serious crisis in future.
Bhat, however, sees society also going unruly. “In Banihal near the Mahu Mangat side, a hillock is a completely populated town now,” he said. “Has anybody tried to verify where the waste goes? Are we expecting a major crisis in the coming days when the hill will cave in because of seepage?”
The region is a risky belt given its fragile geology. The upcoming railway line is built over three major active geological fault lines: the Main Boundary Thrust (between Udhampur and Katra), the Muree Thrust (between Baglihar and Sangaldan) and the Panjal Thrust (between Digdol and Mahu Mangat). “I never say railway tracks cannot cross fault lines but I believe that had local expertise been involved, extensive fieldwork would have reduced the costs and perfected the alignment”. Entire Jammu and Kashmir is classified as seismic zone-V, the highest earthquake-prone area. CAG has already done a thick report on the resources that were wasted because of the geological surprises that erupted after various rail projects were implemented. Parts of the alignment were changed and completed works were abandoned.
A fault line actually passes through the centre of the Baghlihar dam and most other reservoirs are very close to the fault lines underneath. “A dam burst will be worse than the earthquake itself,” Bhat, who retired recently after heading the University of Jammu’s Geology Department for a long time, said. Interestingly, the area is reporting an increased incidence of cloudbursts, seen as an indicator of climate change. “One major cloudburst near a dam can trigger unprecedented devastation.”
One such cloudburst on July 28, 2021, almost decimated Honzer, a hamlet concealed within inaccessible mountains of remote Dacchan, killing 26 residents. The bodies of almost 18 of the victims were never found.
Many geologists who studied Dalwa fall attributed the land subsidence to water seepage, and extensive cutting of steep slopes. They have suggested a robust urban land use plan, a prerequisite for any activity, especially in hilly areas.
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You may have seen some entertainment outlets last week hailing Jeanne du Barry's apparent financial success.

Johnny Depp's 'Jeanne du Barry' enjoys decade-best start for a Cannes opener at French box office
The Hollywood Reporter

Eric Marti, from industry analysts Comscore France, believes the film could reach 850,000 admissions by the end of its theatrical run.
French distributor Le Pacte is even more bullish:

Le Pacte’s boss Jean Labadie, a veteran French producer-distributor who was one of the film’s first backers along with the sales banner Goodfellas (formerly Wild Bunch International), is even more enthusiastic than Marti, saying that “Jeanne du Barry” could garner up to one million admissions in French theaters.
Variety

However, despite that 'record-breaking' opening, the numbers aren't quite adding up for Maïwenn's expensive period drama.
After opening at the Cannes film festival on May 16th, Jeanne du Barry scored 401,481 admissions in its first week — 345,298 in theaters — which is indeed the best start for a Cannes-opener at the French box office since 2013's The Great Gatsby. Depp's PR has, predictably, been celebrating this as a triumphant return to box office success for the 59-year-old, signalling to any onlooking Hollywood producers that he's still a draw for discerning punters. But these numbers start to look less impressive when you scratch the surface.
The film's second week admissions declined by 55% to 156,279, and a further 52% in its third week to 75,653, for a current cumulative total of 631,477 admissions. It has grossed an estimated $4.8m so far, according to Box Office Mojo. Assuming that rate of decline stays consistent across its theatrical run, admissions will plateau at around 700,000 for a total estimated gross of $5.3m, well short of that lofty prediction of one million admissions from Le Pacte. If Comscore's prediction of 850k comes true, that would result in a $6.4m gross, so let's call that the upper estimate.
So how would that stack up against Maïwenn's career so far? Her most successful film, Polisse (2011), achieved 2.4m admissions, grossed $19.8m ($20.3m worldwide) and won the Jury Prize at Cannes 2011. Her most recent film ADN (2021) grossed $2.1m, despite being affected by reduced admissions due to Covid. Jeanne du Barry is tracking closely with Mon Roi (2015), which attracted 745,483 admissions and grossed $5m ($8m WW). In short, JdB is performing close to average for a Maïwenn film, so while Depp's inclusion doesn't appear to have significantly harmed its performance (as expected, he was never cancelled), it certainly hasn't elevated it beyond expectations.
But will it be profitable? The film's production budget was reported by Deadline to be $22.4m, making it one of the most expensive French films of 2022 and one of only three French films with a budget of over €10m. That figure doesn't even include things like marketing and distribution costs, so the film's break-even point will be several million higher. You don't have to be a mathematician to work out that there's going to be a pretty sizeable shortfall there.
PS if you're interested in a detailed breakdown of JdB's numbers, check out film producer (and Amber supporter) Paulo Boccato's threads (#1 and #2), in which he explains that while the film's opening week looks good on the surface, the finer detail shows that it's underperforming relative to its high production budget and wide release.
Now, it must be said that the French release isn't the end of the story: Netflix have acquired streaming rights (in France only) starting 15 months after its theatrical release, and there have been attempts to find an American distributor, although that has proved difficult so far due to Depp's poor reputation in the US film industry. But even if it does end up being shown across the Atlantic, it's difficult to see how the $20m (minimum) gap to profitability is going to be bridged.
So, it's well on course to becoming a flop at the French box office, a US deal might not happen and Netflix probably won't make up the shortfall, which all begs the question: why was this film ever greenlit with a budget so high and a star whose reputation makes it difficult to find distribution in the US? Beware the Depp spin on this one.

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