As you know, in many cases the passive voice is preferred to the active voice in Japanese. In fact, it might seem unnatural to say, “Ryan asked me to go out on a date.” Instead, he would say, “Ryan asked me to go out on a date.” This may seem unusual, but you should be familiar with it because it is an integral part of the Japanese language. This Lower Intermediate-level Japanese article focuses on all kinds of passive expressions. You will learn how to form natural-sounding Japanese sentences using watashi as a subject. As a bonus, find out what the popular “troubled passive voice” is and how to use it to show empathy. As always, apply Japanese in this Lower Intermediate Japanese article to your life with the many examples and vocabulary words that you will be able to use every day.

Vocabulary: In this article, you will learn the following words and phrases:

shichimenchoo– “Turkey”

sankusu gibingu – “Thanksgiving”

kanshasai – “Thanksgiving”

kitai – “expectation”

tsurete iku – “take a living being somewhere”

tanoshimi – “enjoyment, pleasure, desire to”

Shuppatsu – “departure, departure”

shimeru – “strangle”

hane – “feather, wing”

oobun – “oven”

roosuto taakii – “roast turkey”

noojoo – “farm”

noofu – “farmer, peasant”

Grammar: In this article, you will learn the following words and phrases:

Today’s lesson focuses on various passive expressions.

Active voice vs. Passive voice

In Japanese, the sentences in which we use the speaker (watashi) as a theme, they sound more natural. In the following cases, the passive voice is more natural than the active voice.

Today’s examples:

1. Kanshasai wa, kimi ga hiiroo da to go-shujin-san ni iwarete imasu.

   Go-shujin-san wa, watashi ni kanshasai wa, kimi ga hiiroo da to itte imasu.

   “My teacher told me you were a hero on Thanksgiving Day.”

2. (Watashi wa, go-shujin-san ni) Howaito hausu to iwaremashita.

   “They told me they would take me to the White House.”

3. (Go-shujin-san wa, watashi ni) Howaito hausu to iimashita.

   “My master said they would take me to the White House.”

Passive voice when referring to an unspecified person

As in the example below, when the person performing an action is not a specific person, we generally use the passive voice. In this case, the one who performs the action may be a cook, who is not a specific person. So the passive voice would be more natural.

1. Shimerarete, hane or torarete, oobun ni irerareta, yakarete …

   “They’ll strangle it, pluck its feathers, put it in the oven, and then bake it.”

2. Active:

   “A cook will strangle it, pluck its feathers, put it in the oven and bake it.”

Disturbed passive voice

Today’s bond has another example: the indirect passive voice, which we call “the troubled passive.” A direct passive voice does not have an easy English equivalent; however, it has a similar meaning to the colloquial form “get up and do something to me” (see example below). We use it to indicate that an influence (often negative) has had some effect on the subject (usually human). This passive form is often called “the troubled passive” (meiwaku no ukemi) because we often use this form when the speaker shows empathy for something that happened to the subject that is out of their control range.

Bonus example:

1. (Watashi wa, shichimenchoo ni) nigerareta.

   “The turkey got up and left me.”

More examples:

1. Boku wa, love nor furarete, nurete shimatta.

   “It rained on me and I got wet.”

2. Densha no naka de, kodomo nor nakarete komatta.

   “On the train, I was worried because my children were crying.”

3. Kanojo wa, musuko ni iede sareta.

   “(I’m sorry that) She left home.”

Some people are doomed to follow the path of least resistance. It is in his blood. It feels like a stone. It tastes like wine. It doesn’t matter if you are not happy, you are not attached, single, miserable, frustrated in the workplace, all that matters is that you are sane. And that the blood that runs through your veins is made up of a pure and vital thread without any madness spell there. There were many times when I felt shattered, out of luck, like I didn’t have an ego, a sense of worth, close to insanity, which is one thread’s distance from suicide. It was a trip to hell and torment. My younger years were turbulent times. It is almost indescribable what I went through to get here. That passage of time is forever grounded in the fabric of my conscience. I think that literally the first time I felt a sense of healing was when I felt a deep sense of spirituality and when I began to meditate. That helped. I often wonder if I will have children. All women have a loving spirit.

I don’t think that having a mental illness is the most perfect environment for raising a child. My father also has bipolar disorder, but there were cases where there were strains of the illness that were similar to each of us and some were not. I have left everything in the hands of God. I don’t go to church, so other Christians would probably say how can I believe in God if I don’t go to church, but now I’ve made it my priority to think that it’s none of my business what people think of me. . I am the virginal suicide. I was once as pure as dew when I remember the times when I was a child, those days when I was more free, innocent and pure. I turned red when I blushed and an olive brown when I returned to my normal color and then as I grew up a beautiful blue woman took her place. There were days when I felt like I was literally hiding in a coffin, not in a bed or bedroom. With my teeth like pearls, lips that say eat, I’m hungry, hunger can no longer be ignored. I have hungry eyes. I can get drunk on hamburgers. I may be thirsty for French fries.

Once I came across wild girls and puppets in books I was mesmerized and could relate to them. Their rebellious natures were never dark to me. I thought to myself who would grant my wishes now. Books and the art of a higher sense of learning have aged me magnificently. I’m thirty-something, but I feel closer to seventy. I always think of Shakespeare when I’m depressed. I look for specks of meaning in his works, the characters and a light to shed, I send figures of truth, not dust and that earthly feeling that boils in my blood. He is a wonderful ghost of a writer. It makes grieving the loss seem poetic. My hands are stained with blood like a Lady Macbeth, a lurking ghost, walking softly through a dark house, blinded by madness or thunderous depression. The god of depression looks at the surreal and blurry, a little out of focus my ‘I’ go through furniture and appliances with slow desire. We gather to meet their shadows. After all, I am not that fragile. Depression is just a cover up.

Thoughts raced through my head. It was my drugs. I took notes on towels, receipts, kept lists and treasured them. I pretended I had a contract with them. Every word had a story to tell. I told myself that everyone who is alive should read Khalil Gibran. They must search for their own personal truth in the Sufi poet Rumi. I cradled Coelho’s Veronika Decide to Die in my hands. I watched Jodie Foster’s Little Man Tate until my eyes went glassy. Most of the time I held the book or books, the ‘it’ with its powerful mojo against my heart as if there was a physical and discordant connection there instead of where I normally felt it, in my heart. Veronika and I had things in common. In it I found a confident secret. I spied on her and in return imagined that she was spying on me. He tied my broken heart with the gift that there was a well of infinite hope there in outer space for me.

While drinking tea and eating peanut butter from the jar, I listened to Schubert and Tchaikovsky, I leafed through Athol Fugard’s works wondering if I could ever write just a brilliant, brilliant, brilliant and exceptional tour de force, tear down the house in the opening play of the night of my life. I took the time, counted the laps in the pool that I swam, ate French toast, and so cooking became the least invasive therapy I ever had. And since I never had anything better to do or because I was bored, I went to my father’s study and immersed myself in his collection of books. I flipped through this veritable collection starting first with his textbooks before pounding on his unpublished manuscripts, Depression: The Disease of Our Time and My Bipolar Experience. He had also written a series of brochures on stress. He wrote about its development (everything is in the mind, the pain of the mind). Their dynamics and interaction and how it affected educators, students, their parents, and the tragedy of people living with AIDS in Africa.

If people knew about life and coping skills, they could be given the tools to transform what they think and feel on their own. He also wrote about teenagers living on the edge with suicidal thoughts running through their heads. Young people who felt they were not good enough for the world they lived in. I could relate to that. There were books, thick tomes on psychology, education, physics, and chemistry from his college days. I discovered that in those days he was dying to belong as much as I do now. I always used to think that being a teacher was all I knew. Teaching wasn’t just a part of his life, it was his whole life. I read his journal that he kept at the University of London, but could not extract much from it. I was lonely and depressed. He couldn’t understand the London way of life. He felt isolated and torn between reality and depression. I thought English learners were racist. They sat alone in the canteen, and in groups in the library, they huddled together.

There was no connection between the world he had come from and the world, the society he was now immersed in. The continent had a lot going for it in terms of culture, perhaps, but the inherent feeling of accepting others just wasn’t there. I was homesick. His only friend was Jones. On the days when they were out of school, they would go to Dillon’s and peruse the books that were banned in South Africa, had a meat and kidney pie in a tea shop, and drank tea with the blue-collar workers of England. This is what my own father had told me when I was reminiscing about the past. But why do I mention this? Didn’t you want to go to England once? Once, didn’t you want things, material things? I wanted to study creative writing at Columbia University in New York and work in a restaurant where I could flip burgers, work in a restaurant that sold chili, fries, mac n cheese, lasagna, bolognaise, fattening pastas, fried chicken with hot sauce. . , meatballs and homemade cake accompanied by ice cream.

Black and white photographs were taken of the two, Adam and Jones facing the unknown, the world they had escaped together standing together in Trafalgar Square feeding pigeons. It gave me a dazzling feeling inside to see the two of them standing together like this. The world they were in dazzled me. He wanted to be part of her, that desperate loneliness, paired with another stranger of the same gender who struggles with identity issues, cultural identity. I wanted to get lost in the British Museum and in history, but this morning I only got to run a comb through my hair. I only got so far as to see reruns of Mission Impossible this morning and China Beach. It has become intrinsic to my survival. I must take notes. I must make shopping lists of words. Otherwise I’ll go crazy, beep, out of my head, beep, crazy as a fruit cake, beep. In retrospect, when I glimpse, I only glimpse the past, it seems like I did everything wrong to get here.

Now when I look back, it seems like there is a detailed plan hidden in everything I did. When it comes to matters of faith and spirituality, they are always cryptic, cryptic, cryptic. From my coma, my near death experiences and living on the streets, they say you see light at the end of the tunnel or experience some kind of God consciousness feeling. From my insomnia, to running away, living in the Salvation Army, finding myself in a shelter for abused women and abandoned children, helping organizations called Movement 76 in Hillbrow, Johannesburg and Women of the Sun in Braamfontein, bringing the arts to another community. wide. From being a wanderer and a volunteer, maybe it was just God, a god or a higher self, a higher power lining up this infinite universe playfully. Perhaps this god knew that I was crying out to be born again. Tell me that pain is simply a temporary shortcut to reach that sacred contract between soul and eternity and that when we dream, that raw energy has a deep intelligence and an understanding of its own.

Whitney Houston died on February 11, 2012 at age 48, of drug-related causes at the Beverly Hills Hilton during Grammy weekend celebrations. Her mother, Cissy, honors her daughter’s legacy in her new book, “Remembering Whitney: My Story of Love, Loss, and the Night the Music Stopped.”

Nicholas and Delia Mae Drinkard raised Cissy as the youngest of eight children in Newark, New Jersey, during the Depression era. Her Newark upbringing made her more resilient, but she can’t say the same for her children.

“My childhood made me tough. But my kids, especially Nippy, never developed the same toughness. And that would cause even bigger problems later.”

Strong Christian faith combined with excellent singing voices inspired the brothers to create the Gospel-based Drinkard Singers. Their talent led them to sing with the legendary Mahalia Jackson at New York City’s Carnegie Hall in 1951.

John Houston admired Cissy; and his musical connections got an introduction. Unhappily married and pregnant, Cissy divorced after two years of marriage. She moved in with John, even though he was still married and headed for divorce. Two sons (Michael and Whitney) joined Gary (from Cissy’s first marriage) to form the Houston family.

Whitney earned his nickname, “Nippy,” in early childhood, based on a popular cartoon character at the time; and followed her to death.

Nippy often imitated his mother’s singing career, playing dress-up in the basement and using props like microphones. At age 12, he declared his professional ambitions as a singer.

Cissy’s experience in the industry, which included forming the backup singing quartet, Sweet Inspirations, which sang with legendary artists, Aretha Franklin, Jimi Hendrix, and Elvis Presley, among others; helped guide her daughter.

Unfortunately, bad press often overshadows the good news, because Nippy earned his share of accolades, including establishing the Whitney Houston Foundation for Children.

Cissy shares pictures and stories about Nippy, including the near destruction of his vocal cords in early childhood after a perch lodged in his throat.

He also placed second in the Garden State Competition, a New Jersey teen singing contest, due to a time limit violation. Ironically, the winner sang “The Greatest Love of All,” which later became one of Nippy’s biggest hits.

Rumors persisted about the relationship between Nippy and her best friend and personal assistant, Robyn Crawford, whom she met in high school. Instinctively, Cissy didn’t like Robyn’s strong, assertive personality. He later found out that Robyn was gay, but says that has nothing to do with his disdain for her.

“I know there has been a lot of speculation over the years about the friendship between Robyn and Nippy and if it was more than that. I honestly don’t know what exactly happened between them, when they first met or later.”

Cissy credits Robyn with alerting her in the late 1980s that Nippy was using drugs, when no one else did it bravely.

Nippy met her future husband, Bobby Brown, at the 1989 Soul Train Awards ceremony. Their bad boy reputation endured even after they got married, including run-ins with the law. Although Cissy thought the couple did not match, she respected her daughter’s decisions.

Cissy doesn’t blame Bobby (or the music industry) for introducing Nippy to drugs, the way a lot of people do. She also doesn’t think he did much to help her, since he also partied.

Both Gary and Michael used drugs in their teens; and it influenced Nippy’s penchant for experimentation.

Many of Nippy’s actions hurt Cissy, including her infamous 2002 interview with Diane Sawyer, where she declared, “Crack is Whack.” His 2005 reality show with Bobby Brown, titled “Being Bobby Brown,” surprised Cissy with what she considered Nippy’s unrecognizable behavior.

Cissy also experienced heartbreak after visiting Nippy unannounced at his Mendham, New Jersey mansion, only for her to open the door drugged.

Although Cissy mourns the loss of her daughter, she attributes her death to God’s plan. Many people think that Nippy died prematurely, but now they are not so sure. “I think God had enough of seeing her go through everything that happened while she was here, so He decided to bring her home.”

At birth, hospital staff promoted Nippy’s beauty in the maternity ward. Cissy says it’s like Nippy has been in the public from day one.

Cissy admirably refused to mourn her daughter with public fanfare; adamant in honoring Whitney Elisabeth, his daughter, not Whitney Houston, the internationally acclaimed artist. Family and friends celebrated Nippy’s funeral services at New Hope Baptist Church, the Houston family’s lifelong place of worship.

“Remembering Whitney,” published on January 29, 2013, enraged Bobbi Kristina, Bobbi and Whitney’s only child. He stated that his grandmother’s book was “disrespectful” towards his mother. Not so. Cissy wrote a lasting dedication to her daughter; and through his tribute we are reminded that celebrities also have flaws and weaknesses, in addition to the fragility of life.

To view Billboard magazine’s collection of Whitney Houston photographs, “Remembering Whitney: Her Life in Photographs, visit: http://www.billboard.com/photos/428547/remembering-whitney-her-life-in -photos

Bodybuilding was essentially a male-dominated sport for quite some time. But once women started paying attention to art, they mastered its demands fairly quickly, as they have been doing in almost every profession.

The first female star in the bodybuilding firmament was Lisa Lyon, who was born in California, United States, in 1953. Her alma mater was UCLA and she was quite interested in the Japanese martial art of Kendo.

Although she was very interested in bodybuilding, one of the main reasons for her participation in the women’s bodybuilding competition was the active encouragement she received from bodybuilding champion Arnold Schwarzenegger. Her judgment turned out to be correct when she managed to win first prize in the female bodybuilding competition.

Another prominent star in the world of bodybuilding is Rachel McLish, the first holder of the Ms. Olympia title in the international bodybuilding competition organized by the IFBB or the International Federation of Bodybuilders. The Texas-born woman became an icon of female body perfection and was inducted into the IFBB Hall of Fame in 1999.

Another name in the world of female bodybuilding is that of the Australian Bev Francis, who began her athletic activity as a shot putter. She and Ms. McLish acted together in the female bodybuilding documentary, Pumping Iron II: The Women. She was considered too muscular by generally accepted standards of femininity and her entry into the sport led to much controversy over the standards to apply to female bodybuilding athletes.

Bev Francis, although she caused quite a stir in the bodybuilding world, did not win the Ms. Olympia title and came in second behind Lenda Murray, who took the title in 1991. Murray continued her winning streak for eight more. weather. His popularity peaked in 2003, the year in which he last won the title.

Other well-known names in the field of female bodybuilding are Juliette Bergman and Mandy Blank. The first won the title in the 2001 Ms. Olympia competition and the second was an IFBB professional fitness competitor. Ms. Blank’s body was not very muscular and she followed a style that is in keeping with the most commonly accepted standards of feminine aesthetics.

There’s also Monica Brant, a professional fitness competitor who was Ms. Jan Tana Pro Fitness Champion, as well as Ms. Fitness Olympia Champion from 1998. And Sharon Leigh Bruneau is a Canadian model-turned-bodybuilder who became famous in the field. and is currently pursuing an acting carrier.

A Dog’s Purpose: A Novel for Humans

By: W. Bruce Cameron

Publisher: Forge Books

Publication date: December 2016

ISBN: 978-0765388117

Dog lovers have always known that dogs are intelligent, loving, and deeply devoted to “their humans.” Author W. Bruce Cameron has taken this knowledge and added a unique twist that builds on it: a novel that imagines a dog, who lives several dog lives, and remembers each life and the lessons learned in that life.

The purpose of a dog begins with a puppy describing his life. It soon becomes clear that the cub, along with his three brothers and his mother, are wild. Finally, the cub, along with his mother and brother, are captured by a rescue dog. They are placed in a backyard with many other dogs and while the puppy, soon to be named Toby, adjusts well, his mother cannot handle human interaction and manages to escape. Toby grows up, makes friends, and finally reunites with his sister. But problems arise when authorities close the rescue site for having too many dogs. Toby soon finds himself in a bad situation …

When Toby’s life comes to an end, he is reincarnated as a beautiful Golden Retriever. Now the puppy is part of a healthy litter, kept with a breeder. When he sees that other puppies, from other litters, are adopted and disappear into the great beyond outside the yard, he wants to leave. He remembers seeing his mother from his first life open the door handle, and works to copy it. It works and he runs away from the breeder and wanders until picked up by a kind man who takes him for a ride in his car. Unfortunately, the man stops at a bar and leaves the puppy in his hot car. Once again the puppy is rescued, this time by a woman who smashes the car window just in time before heatstroke kills the dog. You bring the puppy home to your young son, and this is where most of the story is: between “Bailey” the dog and “Boy.”

After “Boy”, Bailey returns a few more times, once as a K-9 search and rescue German Shepherd and again as a Black Lab. His final reincarnation as a laboratory puts a complete twist on him with a very satisfying conclusion to the story.

Told from a dog’s point of view, A Dog’s Purpose is a delightful story that immediately appealed to me and kept me reading until I turned the last page. The author has the true gift of capturing a dog’s thoughts and it really felt like the dog was sharing his life with me. Toby / Bailey / Ellie / Buddy was a loving dog who knew that his purpose was to do what his human wanted / needed him to do, be it saving a child from drowning or taking a car ride to make a child happy. Like all dogs, this dog learned words: “kennel”, “bed”, “sleep”, etc. and basic concepts like “Merry Christmas” which for him meant people who came to the house. He would sit at the feet of his owner and listen to a word from the humans who spoke, for example, his name, and he would get excited, not knowing what the rest of the conversation was about. The author included a minimal amount of dialogue from humans to give readers a clue as to what was going on, but even without that help, it wasn’t difficult to follow. Much of what the dog did was pick up on the emotions of the people around him, feeling joy, fear, pain, and reacting accordingly. The writing style definitely worked quite well, and I’m looking forward to diving into the sequel, A Dog’s Journey.

Quill Says: There’s a reason Hollywood came to call and made a movie based on this book! If you love dogs, do yourself a favor and read The Purpose of a Dog.

From Bill Gates at the end of the last century to John D. Rockefeller at the end of the previous century; from Rick Scott, founder of Columbia Health Care, to AT&T; from Richard Branson and British Airlines to Dan Peña and The Financial Times; from government, banking, insurance and any other facet of world trade: to grow geometrically and sustain itself, litigation must be used and mastered (wisely).

As briefly as possible, I will recall the highlights of the use of litigation as a business tool.

Now, before we start, I want the record to be recorded, about 50% of my 30-year litigation history has had nothing to do with making money, that is, many lawsuits have been based on principles, some were to correct an error as egregious as slanderous comments made about me; and some were because an entity only needed a good payment and no one else would carry the flag into battle.

I, like Don Quixote, have fought more than one windmill.

As you have heard me speak and write, in creating your ‘Dream Team’, you want accountants from the Big Five and a great national or international law firm, the best representation you cannot afford!

Unlike the success-oriented fees that I advise you to use when facilitating transactions, no law firm will initially litigate on this basis.

Perhaps if your case is especially strong, they will do so on a contingent basis. Unfortunately, you will use litigation as a positioning tool from time to time and your case may not be something you can seriously take advantage of.

A year or two ago, being left with a pig in a punch, I had to litigate a case with misleading data at best to support the desired outcome. Fortunately, our (my) apparent lust to litigate was stronger than his desire to fight a tough battle, so a reasonably good settlement was finally reached.

Of course, during this process my good lawyers advised us, advising that our case should be much stronger, etc. Even with great lawyers, it’s their job to inform you of downside risks. Again, what happens is that you are often afraid to move forward with your case.

Good lawyers win regular lawsuits. Great attorneys can win lawsuits where you have little or no chance of winning.

Three of my favorite litigators over the years are Steve Susman and Cyrus Marter IV of Susman Godfrey in Houston, Dallas, Los Angeles and Seattle and Tim Harris of Charleston Revich & Williams in Los Angeles. All three have pulled me out of some pretty big black holes.

I have taken care of them for 10 and 20 years respectively. They are worth every penny they charge!

Our judicial system works, but we grow up fearing it. It is outside our comfort zone, so we exclude ourselves from benefiting from it. Normally, the cost associated with it prevents us from using it.

In fact, I am currently involved in litigation in which the auxiliary parties to the litigation have rights that are being seriously violated. A large group of people could exert great pressure, but they are afraid due to previous bad experiences. They may get what they deserve, but they are not pursuing your best interests.

There are lawyers who take cases for humanitarian reasons, if the case warrants it, also in the business field, that is, large corporations that take advantage of the system only because of its size.

Why do you want to sue so that you are the plaintiff? As a plaintiff, you choose where and when the lawsuit is fought and will likely eventually be resolved.

This can be a great advantage. And second, the plaintiff is allowed two closing arguments, which means that you (your attorney) can address the judge and / or jury again and again after the defendants’ final argument. This can also be very important.

26 unbreakable litigation rules

# 1 CHOOSE YOUR BATTLES

# 2 CHOOSE THE PLACE

# 3 BE THE PLAINTIFF

# 4 HAVE THE BEST REPRESENTATION

# 5 LISTEN TO YOUR HEART

# 6 DON’T LISTEN TO YOUR SICK STOMACH WHEN YOU’RE OUT OF YOUR COMFORT ZONE

# 7 DON’T LISTEN TO FAMILY, FRIENDS, ET AL

# 8 LISTEN TO EXPERIENCED LITIGANTS – LIKE ME!

# 9 SPEAKING IN GENERAL, DON’T WORRY ABOUT THE COST (THIS IS VERY HARD)

# 10 BIG DEMANDS ARE BETTER THAN SMALL

# 11 CHOSEN JURY TRIALS, OPPOSED ONLY TO ONE JUDGE

# 12 PREPARATION (YOURS) IS EVERYTHING – KNOW THE FACTS

# 13 PRACTICAL DEPOSITIONS AND TESTS

# 14 IF YOU ARE THINKING ABOUT A BETTER STRATEGY, GET A NEW LAWYER (NOT TRUE IN MY CASE)

# 15 NEVER GIVE UP

# 16 DON’T BE INTIMIDATED BY THE PROCESS

# 17 USE FALSE EVIDENCE (FAKE TRIALS YOU MAKE IN FRONT OF A HIRED JURY)

# 18 DRESS SIMPLE AND CONSERVATIVE IN COURT – NO JEWELRY EXCEPT A WEDDING BAND; WHITE SHIRT, PLAIN TIE AND DARK SUIT FOR MEN AND EQUIVALENT FOR WOMEN; CARE HAIR FOR SHORT MEN

# 19 DON’T LOSE YOUR TEMPERATURE IN COURT – IT’S OK TO CRY IF IT’S REAL

# 20 HAVE YOUR SPOUSE IN THE FIRST ROW EVERY DAY. CHILDREN ALSO IF POSSIBLE. OTHER FAMILY MEMBERS IN THE SECOND ROW IS OK

# 21 THERE ARE NO PRESS QUOTES THAT ARE NOT “WE BELIEVE IN OUR CASE AND THAT IS WHY WE WENT TO COURT.” YOUR WORDS CAN TURN EASILY.

# 22 WHEN YOU GO OUT FOR LUNCH OR RECREATION, REMEMBER TO NEVER SPEAK IN PUBLIC ABOUT THE CASE – YOU NEVER KNOW WHO COULD LISTEN

# 23 WHEN YOU FIND A WINNING LEGAL TEAM, STAY WITH THEM

# 24 ALWAYS TELL THE TRUTH, NO MATTER WHAT. THE TRUTH WILL SET YOU FREE.

# 25 DURING VIDEO-RECORDED DEPOSITIONS AND IN COURT, WATCH THE CAMERA AND JURY. MAKE EYE CONTACT.

# 26 WHEN TESTIFYING IN A DEPOSITION / TRIAL, IF YOU DON’T KNOW THE ANSWER, SAY YOU DON’T KNOW THE ANSWER

It is a closed world of the best litigants. Virtually all large law firms have good to super good attorneys. Not all great law firms have great litigants. You don’t always need a great lawyer, but at some point, if you grow geometrically, you will.

Like any other project management, litigation must be managed. Unfortunately, just like giving speeches, you become a great litigator by going through a learning curve.

I don’t mean that you have to get involved in wasting your efforts (like making bad speeches so that after a while you make good speeches) to be in a position to win in court. Large law firms will allow you to get ahead of the learning curve.

The Quantum Leap methodology talks endlessly about how to follow your dreams. Life without dreams is like a bird with a broken wing: it cannot fly. I wrote this newsletter because sometimes you will need litigation to follow your dream.

Get out there and kick some ass, and don’t let conventional wisdom stop you from achieving your dream.

Conventional wisdom says don’t litigate.

All the high performers and great organizations of the last hundred years litigated and litigated as I write this letter.

Don’t litigate frivolously, but don’t be afraid either.

At its quantum leap,

Daniel S. Peña, Sr.

I would like to tell you a little secret of my success in losing weight so fast. First, you must make a decision. The decision is that you are going to do this. You are going to follow the training plan and you are going to change the food that you put in your mouth. You’re going to hit play on your DVD player no matter what time of day and what you have left to do during the day. To get this burning desire, you need to find out why you want to do this.

This can be different for many people. For me it was my self-esteem, my son and my job. For you it might be that beach vacation you’re taking, a wedding, an army training or a marathon, or because your health is deteriorating. Next, you must decide what your fitness goal will be. Are you going to lose 5 pounds, 15 pounds, or 50 pounds? or more? How many inches would you like to lose from your waist? What size do you want to fit? How fast do you want your mile run to be?

Then WRITE IT OUT! Write your goals on a piece of paper and place it next to your bed. Read it before you go to sleep and when you get up in the morning. This will remind you of your goals and has been shown to increase motivation. Then choose your exercise program based on your physical ability. Beachbody has several different exercise programs to choose from. Do you want fun music and cardio? Try Turbofire. Do you want a total body transformation? P90X test. Do you have arthritis or a knee problem? Try Power 90. Whatever the choice, remember to read the manuals and follow the nutrition plans. Also ask your coach, they are very knowledgeable about a plan that will work for you.

It has also been shown that if you join a training group for support and motivation, you are much more likely to finish the program and reach your goals than someone who follows it. This is why challenge groups are so effective and why my team, Team Hustle, was created. It is to help others eat healthy and achieve their weight loss goals.

So start tonight with your goals. Write them down and add them as you go about your day. Just make sure they are big enough to motivate you to act!

Still wondering if Tupac Shakur is still alive? If you are like so many other fans, you have come to the right place. In this article you will find some of the most shocking theories that have plagued 2pac’s death since 1996. I have gathered a great deal of information that has been on the internet and compiled it in this article. I did this so that you could finally answer the question for yourself and find out if, in fact, 2pac is still alive.

After 2pac was released from prison in early 1996, he went to work with Death Row Records. As soon as he got off the plane, he was in the studio making his debut album “All Eyez on Me”. The album went diamond and is one of the best-selling hip hop albums of all time. This was a very impressive achievement and if you listened to this album you would notice some very interesting things.

Let’s start with song 13 from the first album titled “I ain’t Mad at Cha”. In the music video for this song, you’ll notice that 2pac is actually rapping about his own funeral and even shows 2pac as an angel in heaven. This is quite strange considering that the video was released only a few days after he was pronounced dead on Friday, September 13, 1996. Yes, you read it correctly on Friday the 13th, as if this day did not have any conspiracy in itself.

Moving on to the CD, if you notice song number 12 on disc 2, there is a song titled “Ain’t Hard 2 Find”. In this song, 2pac says the following: “I heard rumors that I died, murdered in cold blood, traumatized pictures of me in my final states, you know that mom cried, but that was fiction, a coward made the story go wrong.” Perhaps he was predicting the future? The album was released on February 13, 1996 exactly 7 months before he was shot.

The 7 months are quite interesting too because if you look at the first album released by Makaveli aka 2pac after his death, the title is “The Don Killuminati The 7 Day Theory”. Tupac had changed his name to Makaveli similar to the 16th century philosopher Machiavelli who faked his own death. Machiavelli had written a few books, but the most famous were “The Prince” and “The Art of War.” “The Prince” is a book on how to fake death. The second book, “The Art of War,” has the same title as the Bone Thugs N Harmony double-disc CD. On this album, 2pac makes a guest appearance on one of their songs titled “Thug Luv”. An interesting point about this album is that it wasn’t released until 1998.

Did you know that when 2pac released the album “Better Dayz”, they had released more albums than any other musician alive with seven? The point is, there have been even more since then. There have been “Loyal to the Game”, “Resurrection” and “The Life of Pac” just to name a few.

Could Tupac Shakur have faked his own death? Everyone knows that when Snoop Dogg was convicted of murder charges, his album sales skyrocketed. Maybe this was just a plan to get rich. Take a look at these lyrics to his song “Made Niggaz”, here’s what he says: “Fuck everyone who doesn’t understand my plan to get rich. Outlaw to the grave, I have a plan to get rich. Make me one. Photo “.

What do you think?

For those in the film industry, costume refers to the costume or outfit that an actor, performer, or extra wears while on a television or movie set. These outfits can be everyday clothes to store costumes or those costumes made from scratch.

When an actor auditions for a role, they will fill out and fill out a casting form with their personal information, body sizes, and measurements. Once the actor reserves the role, this information is sent to the wardrobe office / department and / or an immediate phone call is made to the actor to review or collect his data, including measurements. The actor should have this information available even if they have performed at the audition / callback. All actors or those who are going to attend the main auditions need a measurement sheet.

After the costume designer / assistant has spoken with the actor (parent of child actors) on the phone and noted their information, they will purchase the actor’s costume sizes at a local mall if everyday attractions are to be used for the shoot or schedule a tryout for the actor to come and try on different outfits or stock pieces. If attendees have purchased the stores in the mall, the actor will be called back, but this time to schedule a costume fitting in the costume department’s production office.

The costume fitting scheduled by the costume assistant will be for a day and time that is convenient for both parties. The actor will arrive 15 minutes early for the audition and will bring whatever clothing the costume assistant has requested. This usually happens with accessories for commercials. An actor may be asked to bring a pair of dress shoes or running shoes, belt, vest, etc. If the costumes are used in the commercial, the production will pay a fee to rent that garment to the actor. This action generally rewards the actor with an additional payment. Clothing and / or special equipment is rented for around $ 25.

As payment progresses, actors are paid to participate in costume fittings. They get paid for a 2 hour call, but it usually takes less than an hour to complete. Sometimes an actor will have to participate in multiple costume fittings, especially if the costume is to be made. As the actor tries on different outfits, different outfit combinations, or ideas for original pieces, a photo will be taken of the actor in each outfit. These photos are then sent to the director and / or producer (s) for final approval. The director can select an outfit or outfits from these photos or ask the designer to come up with other options or suggestions.

Extras are background performers who fill the areas around the actors. Extras must bring or provide their own complete head-to-toe changeover wardrobe including accessories. At the extras celebration, the performers show the costume assistants their costume choices. Then attendees will approve an outfit from the additional options or suggest a new outfit by putting together different items. Once approved, the extra is good to step on the set. Sometimes extras have special requirements and will be reserved in a production because they own a particular outfit, such as a tuxedo, floor length dress, Halloween costume, sports uniform, etc. The extra job depends on the closet that an extra has in their closet. Extras provide their own wardrobe because it is less complicated for production. It’s quick, easy, all clothing fit first time, and minimal cost to production.

Costume movie pre-production can begin about six weeks before shooting. The director and / or producers are shown artist designs drawn, colored and with small costume pieces for each character. These samples offer an idea of ​​what will be the costumes / costumes proposed by the actors. Instructions are given on the cut and fit of the suits, modifications to the existing stock, etc. Costumes built or made from scratch usually involve a costume designer. The designer researches the era or time period, purchases the materials, designs the ideas / concepts, and assembles the pieces for the wardrobe. Designer designed costumes are mainly historical or vintage pieces, fantasy pieces and / or modern / futuristic.

The Academy Awards honor designers. Best Costume Design is the category for costume designers and spans from 1948 to the present day. For this category, the designer makes or creates the costumes for all the characters / actors in the film. The designer’s team may consist of tailors, seamstresses, applicators, dyers, cutters, breakers (make garments look worn), shoemakers, hatters, jewelers, etc. The winner of the 82nd Academy Awards for Costume Design was Sandy Powell for Young Victoria.

Productions give the costume designer / costume department a budget. For everyday wear purchased in stores, but not selected by the director for artists, it will be returned to the various stores for reimbursement. The wardrobe warehouses stock row upon row to the ceiling of ready-to-rent suits for specific period pieces. Costume stocks are pulled from their shelves and racks ready to dress the actors. These warehouses also have boxes and boxes and accessory boxes. From all different types and sizes of footwear, hats, gloves, jewelry to masks, hats, underwear or other rare specialty items like military uniforms, peasant rags or zombie rags, etc.

On the set of a movie there is always a costume trailer as part of the circus. However, the actor’s or interpreter’s costumes are hanging in their trailer before they arrive for the filming days. All pieces are given to the artist together with the underwear, especially if the weather is cold. The actors place warm compresses on their shoes, pockets, and / or around their body and are given a jacket to cover them. The jacket serves to disguise the costumes, keep the actor warm, and protect the costume from the elements.

On set, there are costume assistants who take care of the actors. They make sure that the entire wardrobe is placed correctly, that there are no problems of tampering or missing parts, and they make sure that everything is in its right place and used in the right way. Each outfit worn by the actor will be photographed for continuity purposes. Once an actor has changed costumes, they will go to the costume trailer for approval before heading to the set.

In short, costumes are an important piece of the giant movie puzzle. The costumes bring the actor’s character to life. They help the actor to transform into his role. For the extras, they may be in the background, but in disguise they feel connected to television or the cinema. And the audience, we can sit down and take it all in.