Don't mistake my kindness for weakness. I am kind to everyone, but when someone is unkind to me, weak is not what you are going to remember about me.
“There are shortcuts to happiness, and dancing is one of them.” — Vicki Baum
“Dancing is like dreaming with your feet!” — Constanze Mozart
“Dancers are the athletes of God.” —Albert Einstein
“The body says what words cannot.” —Martha Graham
“Dancing is the poetry of the foot.” — John Dryden
Watching Dancing 💃 as if no one was looking with M and R after dinner at Portside where Totaro vino is served with gusto
Twyla Tharp: “Dancing is like bank robbery. It takes split-second timing.”
Long lines of dancers jitter like marionettes and the principal artists shine in this bold Dutch work that thrums with a dark energy
Cabinets of curiosities were all the rage in the 18th century; before modern museums existed, private collections of natural phenomena were the true markers of status. One of the largest belonged to Albertus Seba, a Dutch pharmacist and zoologist. He eventually published a four-volume book, Cabinet of Natural Curiosities, a stunning, exhaustively detailed document of exotica that became a touchstone of taxonomy and symbol of the Enlightenment.
Kunstkamer review – this fiendishly complicated ballet is astonishing
The Australian Ballet has announced that Artistic Director David Hallbergwill join the Company on stage in a series of special guest appearances for their production of Kunstkamer. A landmark production for The Australian Ballet, Kunstkamer is one of the most ambitious contemporary dance productions ever undertaken by the Company.
Like a modern museum curated with wit and incisive intelligence, Kunstkamer is an "unmissable spectacle" created by Europe's most celebrated contemporary dance company. The production of Kunstkamer is set to run in Sydney from 29 April - 14 May and in Melbourne from 3 - 11 June.
"Kunstkamer is a feast for the modern eye. The work is atmospheric, with spoken word on stage, music by Handel and Purcell, Janis Joplin and Beethoven, and brilliantly touching solos as well as large, powerful group sections." David Hallberg. If you haven't already got tickets for this landmark production, here's another reason not to miss it. David Hallberg is scheduled to appear as a guest artist in the following performances.
Australian Ballet Goes All In
Ballet Companies All Do “Swan Lake”. What Makes One Version Different From Another?
LAST YEAR’S CONSPIRACY THEORIES ARE THIS YEAR’S HEADLINES: Washington Post: A Chinese lab identified COVID in December 2019 but the government kept it quiet. “Wuhan was finally locked down on Jan. 23. So nearly a full month had passed between the time researchers first alerted people a SARS-like virus had been identified and any real attempt to manage it or warn people about it. And as we all know, by that point it was too late. The virus had already spread to other parts of the world, including the US. You can’t help but wonder how things might have turned out if China had acted swiftly instead of secretly early on.”
Victims who sent money to scammers through Western Union between January 2004 and January 2017 can still get their money back
US charges 20 with Covid fraud; $150 million in claims to healthcare system
BBB Studies. Here are links to the studies I’ve written for the Better Business Bureau: puppy fraud, romance fraud; BEC fraud, sweepstakes/lottery fraud, tech support fraud, romance fraud money mules, crooked movers, government imposters, online vehicle sale scams, rental fraud, gift cards, job scams, online shopping fraud, and crypto scams
Fraud News Around the world
- Louisiana: Man pleads guilty to tech support scam; contacted previous victims to get into their online bank account and send funds to scammer
- US Homeland Security stops attempt to cut off underseas cable to Hawaii that provides phone, internet service
- One third of the US public has been pitched by scams that take gift cards; one in four have bought cards with no value on them
- Its not just puppies; Canadian family loses $8000 trying to buy monkeys as emotional support animals
Humor
- Memphis woman runs out of gas and leaves car on Interstate 55 bridge with 229 pounds of weed in it
- Man hands officers meth instead of registration during traffic stop
- Thief caught trying to rob the same bank two days in a row
FTC and CFPB
- FTC settles with for profit medical school in the Caribbean over violations of consumer lending rules and claims about placement rates; to pay $1.2 million in fines and loan forgiveness
- FTC reports to CFPB on debt collection efforts; refunded $4.86 million to victims in 2021
- Biden budget request for the FTC asks for huge increase
Virus Benefit Theft
- Boston: Nigerian gets four years prison for fraud in virus unemployment benefits; got $300,000; sent money out of the US
- Philadelphia:Man gets 6.5 years prison for PPP fraud; got nearly $1 million
- New Jersey: Former postal worker pleads guilty to stealing unemployment benefits from postal warehouse
- Los Angeles: Jury convicts man of PPP
Ransomware
Bitcoin and cryptocurrency
Romance Fraud and Sextortion