A Day in the Life of a Buddhist Monk: full of great self-isolation techniques
(TrueTube) Say hello to Venerable Manapo (the "Likeable One"). He’s a Westerner and a Theravada Buddhist monk. TrueTube followed him around with a camera to find out what he does all day.
(Mark Felton Productions) This is the true story of Bernhardine Nienau, a young Aryan-looking girl from Munich, Germany, who became close friends with Mr. A. Hitler, the Fuhrer ("Leader"), in the 1930s.
Are [AshkeNAZI] Jews white?
(Unpacked) "Race" is a social construct, as is "whiteness," and it differs.
She was often referred to as "The Fuhrer's Child." But what was incredible about this friendship was the fact that Bernhardine was of Jewish descent.
ABOUT: Dr. Mark Felton FRHistS, FRSA, is a well-known British historian, the author of 22 non-fiction books, including bestsellers Zero Night and Castle of the Eagles, both currently being developed into movies by Hollywood. In addition to writing, Dr. Felton also appears regularly in TV documentaries around the world, including on The History Channel, Netflix, National Geographic, Quest, American Heroes Channel, and RMC Decouverte. His books have formed the background to several TV and radio documentaries. More
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'The Fuhrer's Child - How Hitler came to embrace a child with Jewish roots' by Ian Shapira, Washington Post, Nov. 13, 2018 washingtonpost.com/histor...
It's time to be (culturally) Jewish. My father, the Patriarch, prefers it. My mother's more open minded. "Be spiritual," she encourages, "be Buddhist. Explore your roots. Jesus was a Jew, but he became a Buddhist, according to Holger Kersten, Nicolas Notovitch, and American cult leaderElizabeth Clare Prophet," and others.
JEWISH NEW YEAR
Rosh HaShanah (Hebrew רֹאשׁ הַשָּׁנָה, Rōʾš hašŠānā, lit. "Head of the Year") is the Jewish New Year. The biblical name for the holiday is Yom Teruah (יוֹם תְּרוּעָה, Yōm Tərūʿā), literally "Day of Shouting or Blasting." Did anyone tell Hasidic rapper MATISYAHU?
(Matisyahu) "King Without a Crown" (East Coast Jewish rap)
Being too Jewish can be embarrassing.
It is the first of the Jewish High Holy Days (יָמִים נוֹרָאִים, Yāmīm Nōrāʾīm, or "Days of Awe"), as specified by Leviticus 23:23–25 [2] which occur in the late summer/early autumn of the Northern Hemisphere.
The Lost Teachings of Jewish Jesus Christ: Reincarnation(Elizabeth Clare Prophet)
The High Holy Days are Rosh HaShanah, Yom Kippur, Pesach (Passover), and Sukkot.
Rosh Hashanah is a two-day observance and celebration that begins on the first day of Tishrei, which is the seventh month of the ecclesiastical year. In contrast to the ecclesiastical lunar new year on the first day of the first month Nisan, the spring Passover month that marks Israel's exodus from Egypt, Rosh Hashanah marks the beginning of the civil year, according to the teachings of Judaism. It is the traditional anniversary of the creation of Adam and Eve, the first male and female according to the Hebrew Bible, as well as the initiation of humanity's role in God's world.
We'll rule the world by ideas and other gov'ts,
Rosh Hashanah customs include sounding or blasting the shofar (a hollowed-out ram's horn), as prescribed in the Torah, the Old Testament Jews follow, following the prescription of the Hebrew Bible to "raise a noise" on Yom Teruah.
Its rabbinical customs include attending synagogue (temple) services and reciting special liturgy (prayers) about teshuva, as well as enjoying festive meals. Eating symbolic foods is now a tradition, such as apples dipped in honey, hoping to evoke a sweet new year. More
(Perfect Pitch Entertainment) Feb. 21, 2017. This "hilarious" stand up comedian is available to perform for any event as an individual headliner or with other comedians from Kosher Komedy. The perfect show for fundraisers, synagogues, JCC, private, corporate, Passover tours, camps, bungalows, Saudi Arabian sheikh-parties, whatever! He has traveled the world to entertain audiences with his unique blend of Jewish, modern, observational material. With his impeccable timing and spot on impersonations, he will have guests laughing and wanting a little more. To book this nameless headliner who has performed worldwide and has appeared on many late night talk shows and Comedy Central, call (516) 983-7654. Just refer to him as that Jewish comedian. We'll know who you mean.
Watch German Science-Comedian Vince Ebert's first English stand-up show, "Sexy Science," comparing German and American sensibilities Get tickets and tour dates at vince-ebert.com or facebook.com/vince.ebert.
Bravo, I guess all Germans can be funny.
How did North Americans ever catch up to Nazi German scientific advancements -- could it have been Project Paperclip? That's when the American Nazis helped German-born Nazis escape prosecution to come live in the USA and help build the CIA, NAZA NASA, Gestapo Secret Service, chemical and other secret weapons programs, nuclear bombs and missiles... Go figure.
*It's not easy being of blended race: "[Tiger Woods] once got in trouble with the black community in America for saying he sometimes felt more Thai than black. He's also cited his Thai [Theravada] Buddhist upbringing as something that keeps him calm and focused on the course..." (CNN).
From the blue-blooded pockets of old-WASP ("White Anglo Saxon Protestant") state of New England to the vast tribal lands of the Navajo, Oxford University genetic scientist Bryan Sykes takes us on a historical genetic tour interviewing:
genealogists
geneticists
anthropologists
everyday Americans with compelling ancestral stories. His findings suggest:
Among white Americans, evidence of African DNA is most common in the South [where rape of slaves and servants was a common practice, which continues today as human sex trafficking].
Of Americans whose ancestors came as slaves, virtually all have some European DNA. [Most slaves in the USA were indigenous people taken into slavery here, not brought over from anywhere but the Americas.]
Racial intermixing appears least common among descendants of early New England colonists. [Before long they joined the melting pot, too.]
There is clear evidence of Jewish genes among descendants of southwestern Spanish Catholics. [Columbus was said to be a converso, a Jew induced to convert to Catholicism.]
European genes appeared among Native Americans as early as 10,000 years ago. [There were many "giants" (ogres, Sasquatches, Nephilim), some with red hair and six fingers and toes, and other hominin species here at first contact as Chinese and Afghan Buddhists, Hindus, Egyptians, Africans, Vikings, and many other seafarers tried to explore and sometimes exploit new lands.]
An unprecedented look into America's genetic mosaic and how we perceive race, DNA USA challenges the very notion of what we think it means to be "American" with 8 pages of color illustrations and 8 pages of black-and-white illustrations. More
Genetic history of Ireland, Britain, America
One of the world's leading geneticists, Oxford University's Bryan Sykes, has helped thousands find their ancestry in the British Isles.
Saxons, Vikings, and Celts, which resulted from a systematic 10-year DNA survey of more than 10,000 volunteers.
It traces the true genetic makeup of the British Isles and its descendants.
Ireland and the British Isles (CGI from space)
It takes readers from the Pontnewydd Cave in North Wales to the resting place of the Red Lady of Paviland and the tomb of King Arthur.
This illuminating guide provides a much-needed introduction to the genetic history of the people of the British Isles and their descendants throughout the world. More
Think of human relationships as entanglements. How do they bind us; how do they reveal who we really are? In this episode of Invisibilia, NPR's new show about human behavior, we wanted to explore entanglements: the invisible ways we're entangled with each other. So we called a comedian. I'm a fan of Maria Bamford, who has done impressions of her mother throughout her career:
"My mom told me before I went to my first girl-boy party in the eighth grade: 'Okay, remember what we talked about -- gonorrhea, syphilis, Herpes 1, 2. Watch the cold sores! Date rape is a lot more common than people think! You look so gorgeous! Oh, Jenny's mom's here to pick you up. Well, have a good time!'"
Sometimes the version of her mom she plays is just funny, because the mom can be so charmingly upbeat about the horrors of the world that it's hilarious. But sometimes it feels like it's about elements in their relationship that have a darker side. Like in this YouTube bit:
"'Sweetie, you taking a shower? Can I just get in there a little bit and just show you something? Oh, I didn't know you were naked. Oh sweetie -- listen -- if you want to get breast implants we will support you. Not financially -- but emotionally.'" More + AUDIO
We are here to overtake your planet through its mass media, our charm offensive.
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Stand-up Comedy and Mental Illness: Conversation with Bamford
Over the last several years Maria Bamford has become one of the most acclaimed and original stand-up comics in the country. Along with Patton Oswalt, Zach Galifianakis, and Brian Posehn, Bamford was part of the Comedians of Comedy tour; she’s also released three solo albums and done two Comedy Central specials. Bamford’s voice (or rather, voices) can be heard regularly on Nickelodeon, Adult Swim, PBS, and elsewhere.
But her signature work may be The Maria Bamford Show, a brilliant Web series from 2009 that was screened at the Museum of Art + Design in New York. The premise of the series was that Bamford had had a nervous breakdown on stage and ended up back in Minnesota living with her parents. Bamford played every role in the series: her mother, father, sister, coworkers, and old high school acquaintances. More
No matter how you take your public radio -- a downloaded TED Radio Hour podcast or a Morning Edition show broadcast on your member station -- there's one voice familiar to all NPR listeners. That's the NPR announcer, who voices credit to the member stations, corporations and institutions that generously support NPR and public radio.
Come November, listeners will hear a new voice saying things such as "Support for NPR comes from..." and "This [pause] is NPR" (our personal favorite). Sabrina Farhi is joining us in Washington, D.C., as the NPR announcer alongside the iconic Frank Tavares, who has voiced NPR's funding credits for more than three decades. You'll get to know her quickly once her voice comes on the air in November.
Ed Sullivan: "I'm not as serious as I sound"? She doesn't sound serious at all and, apparently, neither is NPR in this case. After the brilliant articles posted on this site about professional voice artists, the management here has decided to go the other direction. It's hard enough to endure the aural assault from local news channels of untrained, immature types, who over-pronounce vowels, swallow compound consonants, and drops the end of every sentence into a tired gravel [called vocal fry]. But I'm sure teenage girls will love her. NPR has given me yet another reason to change the channel.
Astronomers have found what appears to be a gigantic suicidal planet. The odd, fiery planet is so close to its star and so large that it is triggering tremendous plasma tides on the star. Those powerful tides are in turn warping the planet's zippy less-than-a-day orbit around its star. The result: an ever-closer tango of death, with the planet eventually spiraling into the star. It's a slow death. The planet WASP-18b has maybe a million years to live, said planet discoverer Coel Hellier, a professor of astrophysics at the Keele University in England. Hellier's report on the suicidal planet is in Thursday's issue of the journal Nature. More>>
Artist's impression depicts an exoplanet similar to the newly discovered WASP-18b. As seen from the planet, the host star spans an angle of more than 30° and hovers menacingly at a fixed position in the sky (C.Carreau/ESA/Nature).
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Watch German Science-Comedian Vince Ebert's first English stand-up show, "Sexy Science," comparing German and American sensibilities Get tickets and tour dates at vince-ebert.com or facebook.com/vince.ebert.
Among white Americans, evidence of African DNA is most common in the South [where rape of slaves and servants was a common practice, which continues today as human sex trafficking]. 
Sometimes the version of her mom she plays is just funny, because the mom can be so charmingly upbeat about the horrors of the world that it's hilarious. But sometimes it feels like it's about elements in their relationship that have a darker side. Like in this YouTube bit:
No matter how you take your public radio -- a downloaded TED Radio Hour podcast or a Morning Edition show broadcast on your member station -- there's one voice familiar to all NPR listeners. That's the NPR announcer, who voices credit to the member stations, corporations and institutions that generously support NPR and public radio.
Astronomers have found what appears to be a gigantic suicidal planet. The odd, fiery planet is so close to its star and so large that it is triggering tremendous plasma tides on the star. Those powerful tides are in turn warping the planet's zippy less-than-a-day orbit around its star. The result: an ever-closer tango of death, with the planet eventually spiraling into the star. It's a slow death. The planet WASP-18b has maybe a million years to live, said planet discoverer Coel Hellier, a professor of astrophysics at the Keele University in England. Hellier's report on the suicidal planet is in Thursday's issue of the journal Nature. More>>
