In Silicon Valley, sometimes the satire writes itself.

And no, that's not a pithy reference to an artificially intelligent joke bot, although that wouldn't be out of place in HBO's satire comedy "Silicon Valley." The show's creators, Alec Berg and Mike Judge, have had ample inspiration to pull from as the real life Silicon Valley continues to outdo itself in sheer over-the-top antics.

"God, it's all so outrageous," Judge told Business Insider.

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The sixth and final season of "Silicon Valley" premieres on October 27. We attended a screening in San Francisco on Wednesday with the show's creators and several cast members on Wednesday ahead of the premiere and it's right back to ripping storylines from the headlines: The new season tackles tech execs testifying in front of Congress, the scooter craze, and the backlash to invasive social media data collection.

Berg says that despite the rapid pace of change in the real-life Silicon Valley, the show has always prided itself on poking fun at the tech industry which has, in some ways, only gotten easier since it premiered in 2014.

"I think it went from season 1, the tech industry felt like it was a bunch of very wealthy, very smug people who were walking around congratulating themselves for having solved the world's issues, so I don't know that our relationship with them has changed, but their relationship to reality has changed," Berg said.

Indeed, the showrunners say, it's that lack of self-awareness that provides them with the ammunition they need to write the most biting satire. Judge specifically cited the time that Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey's went on a silent meditation retreat in Myanmar, where social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook may have helped fuel a mass genocide.

The whole incident was almost identical to a long-running subplot in the "Silicon Valley" show, centered on Gavin Belson, the CEO of fictional tech giant Hooli and the series antagonist. Belson relies on a grifter, his "spiritual healer," for business advice, and spends much of the most recent season in exile from the company, meditating at a monastery.

"Everyone was like, 'How did you get Jack Dorsey to become Gavin Belson?'" Judge said.

Berg added that the lack of self-awareness that Dorsey showed in not only taking the retreat, but promoting tourism to Myanmar afterwards, is exactly what makes the tech industry so ripe for comedy in the first place.

"He was in a country where they are in desperate need of a non-censored social media platform that could somehow allow them to communicate beyond the prying eyes of the government. If only someone could invent something like that," Berg said. "Yeah, stuff like that, that's been our bread and butter from the beginning, is like: there's a lack of self awareness, a lack of humility that has always been red meat for satire."

One might think that the WeWork saga would be similarly meaty enough for "Silicon Valley" to skewer. Unfortunately for those keen on schadenfreude, WeWork cofounder Adam Neumann and his entourage will be absent from the show's final season.

They had just wrapped the last episode, Judge said, when the drama around its IPO began much to the chagrin of everybody working on the show. If there were to be a seventh season, it could easily include a character based on Neumann, known for his distinctive long hair and predilection for walking around barefoot, Berg said.

"The CEO just looks like he could walk right into our show," Judge said.

Even with endless rewrites, sometimes right up until shooting, both creators said there was no way they could get every piece of real-life news into the final season of "Silicon Valley."

At the same time, after six seasons of tearing apart the tech industry, they said it was about time the tech industry tore itself apart.

"I don't know if they've quite owned the reality of everything that's happened yet but it does feel like there's starting to be this reckoning, and I've heard stories of people who would brag about what company they worked at now being afraid to tell their friends that they work in the tech business, because of the repercussions," Berg said. "And that is the polar opposite of what it was when we started."

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In the aftermath of the Yankees devastating walk-off elimination Saturday night, Joel Sherman wrote a story in the New York Post outlining a couple of high-profile moves they can make to avoid a similar fate next year.

One of the suggestions was to sign impending free agent Gerrit Cole; the other was to acquire Francisco Lindor in a trade with the Cleveland Indians. Considering the team in question is the Yankees, both moves are well within the realm of possibility on the surface.

The Yankees possess the self-awareness to understand the Astros are a step ahead of them across the board, along with the resources to close that gap by going into overkill mode this winter.

In regard to a Lindor trade, Sherman admittedly prefaces his suggestion with the phrase, pipe dream. It is Shermans construction of the hypothetical trade that renders it so. He eliminates Gleyber Torres, Aaron Judge, and Luis Severino from the equation as potential pieces coming back to Cleveland in such a deal.

Considering the Indians pitching depth, Severino already figures not to be part of the discussion. Why would the Indians trade away their franchise player, significantly weakening their offense, in return for a starting pitcher?

Judge is another reasonable stopping point for similar reasons. Its unfair to lump a player of his caliber into the category of right-handed outfielder, but thats what he is, and the Indians already have a towering right-handed power bat (who is also a strikeout machine) in Franmil Reyes.

The insinuation that the Yankees would be able to acquire Lindor without giving up Torres, however, is where this proposed blockbuster loses me. The Indians missed the playoffs in 2019, but not by much. There is no evidence to suggest they cant be at least as good in 2020, and its not far-fetched to pick them to win the AL Central for the fourth time in five years.

With the Indians still inside their proverbial championship window, giving up a generational talent like Lindor does them no good if theyre only getting back prospects. Forget about the construction of the roster and farm system for a moment, and simply consider the reaction of an already irritable fan base.

Right or wrong, there is a large contingent of Indians fans who dont believe winning a championship is the top priority of the franchises owners. Trading the teams best position player since Jim Thome without getting a proven, top-tier MLB player in return while the team still has the roster to compete for said championship would be, in a word, unwise.

The Indians have the right to ask for Torres if such trade talks should ever commence, and the Yankees have the right to declare him a deal-breaker. But at no point should the Indians settle for a trade package that doesnt include a player of Torres caliber if their own best player is on the table.

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This year marks the 10thanniversary of Bulgaris partnership with Save the Children. It also marks the 100thanniversary of this foundation, which was established to create programs that provide support to the worlds most vulnerable youths.To celebrate these two occasions, Bulgari North America, in cooperation with the Save the Children organization, has launched Arte di Bulgari an afterschool arts program for children.

Students participate in Save the Childrens new Bvlgari-supported afterschool arts curriculum, Arte ... [+] di Bvlgari, in Channelview, Texas. October 16, 2019 Photo Credit: Chris Olfers for Save the Children

The first Bulgari Arts program took place last week at De Zavala Elementary School in Channelview, Texas. In fact, Daniel Paltridge, President of Bulgari North America, was there to witness the program in action and to meet with the children reaping the benefits.The Arte di Bulgari program will be administered in two school districts in the greater Houston area and is in conjunction with the existing literacy, math and enrichment programs operated by Save the Children via itsEarly Steps to School Success program.

Bvlgari North America CEO Daniel Paltridge and Save the Children President & COO Janti Soeripto ... [+] stand in front of gallery with art made by students participating in Save the Childrens afterschool arts curriculum, Arte di Bvlgari, in Channelview, Texas.October 17, 2019 Photo Credit: Chris Olfers for Save the Children

The Greater Houston area was selected for the program because the area is still struggling to recover from the impact of Hurricane Harvey last year. The Arte de Bulgari program, designed to help children develop self-confidence and self-awareness, will enable social-emotional learning though the arts. Everything from dance to theater, sculpture, painting, photography, visual arts and more will be offered to the children. Additionally, for this program, Bulgari and Save the Children have tapped local artist and experts from the community.

Bulgari North America is proud to announce the next chapter in our incredible 10 year partnership with Save the Children with the introduction of Arte di Bulgari, says Daniel Paltridge, President of Bulgari North America. The arts are fundamental to the Bulgari brand identity, so supporting the arts through childhood education is a natural mission for us.

Bulgari custom-designed pendant to support Save the Children. As with all of Bulgari's Save the ... [+] Children jewelry pieces, a portion of the proceeds of the $770 necklace is donated to the organization.

Also to honor the 10th anniversary of the partnership, Bulgari recently unveiled a new custom-designed pendant dedicated to Save the Children, with a portion of the proceeds benefitting theSave the Children organization. The pendant, which retails for $770, is inspired by the brands iconic Bulgari Bulgari jewelry and is crafted in sterling silver with an onyx insert and a ruby and has the charitys logo on the back.

A student participates in an art activity that is part of Save the Childrens new ... [+] Bvlgari-supported afterschool arts curriculum, Arte di Bvlgari, in Channelview, Texas. October 16, 2019 Photo Credit: Chris Olfers for Save the Children

Throughout its 10-year partnership with Save the Children, Bulgari has raised approximately $100 million for programs that have reached more than 1.5 million children globally.Much of those funds have been raised through the sales of Bulgaris Save the Children jewelry collection. Just last year,Bulgari embarked on a youth empowerment program with Save the Children that brought theChef Niko Romitoto Bolivia to work with the children.

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Organizations spend a lot of time discussing the return on investment for every effort they undertake, and rightfully so. Being a good steward of your resources is important. The difficult truth, however, is that some initiatives like leadership, development and growth don't have a measurable return on investment.

Measuring leadership investment is like attempting to catch the wind in a jar you can't. However, you can see, feel and measure the impact the wind has on the surrounding area. When you consider what it means to be a leader, you shouldn't be looking at the return on investment but, rather, the return on impact.

Understanding Your Impact

What would those who work with you really say about their experience? Would they describe you as a good leader or a great one? Would they spend more time and energy talking about you, or talking about the impact and influence you've had on others?

Good or bad, leaders always leave something behind, but it's my experience as an executive coach that most leaders struggle to answer even the most basic questions about the impact they have. Often, this is because they're unsure about the legacy they hope to leave or they misjudge the scope of their impact. Published in the journal Organizational Dynamics, a review of multiple studies"consistently found that women leaders under-estimated (i.e., predicted lower) how others viewed their leadership behaviors."

Without knowing what you hope to leave behind, you fail to give yourself a target. So how do you define your target? It requires self-reflection, self-awareness and an understanding of the type of impact you want to have on others.

Type 1: You impact people on an individual level.

One leader I worked with described her passion for helping others to grow. She strives to add value to the careers of those around her by identifying skill gaps and then invests time in influencing, coaching and growing others. If you asked those around her, they would each tell you exactly how they are better at their jobs and on their teams because of her influence. The key to this type of impact is that it's individual. She isn't simply hoping people share her vision. She looks at an individual and determines exactly how she can help them.

Now, you might be thinking that this type of impact requires quite the time commitment. Here's where I'll challenge you: Leadership isn't about you. If you're leading others, it's all about them. If you can't find time to connect, you should examine what's getting in your way.

Type 2: You impact your team by sharing your unique skill set.

A lot of leaders fall in this category. They focus on growing others in very specific areas, usually defined by what they themselves are skilled at. Examples include effective communication, client or project management, sales, meeting or presentation skills and ethics and integrity.

These leaders are known for their own expertise in these areas and they are always watching for ways to influence and impact others in the same areas. When I talk with the colleagues and employees of these leaders, they each describe how the specific skill they gained by working with their leader has impacted their career.

Type 3: You impact the overall company culture.

In this case, the leader demonstrates the power that comes with remembering there is a heartbeat behind every name tag and a person behind every employee ID number. These are the leaders that influence and impact organizational culture. These leaders show kindness and are considered great listeners. They lead with a coaching style of leadership and carve out time with others. These leaders are beloved by their colleagues and employees. Even after they've retired or moved on from the position, employees will describe how they carry the behaviors forward. As one employee I encountered put it: "I stop and listen to my people now and avoid jumping to conclusions because my former boss was a great listener and always had time for me." Another said, "I learned to ask great questions and allow my employees to think through problems and solutions because I worked for someone who allowed me the space to problem-solve and think out loud without judgment."

Leaders always leave something behind, good or bad. So, if you haven't spent time thinking about your legacy as a leader, please do. Sit down in a quiet place, consider the type of impact you want to have and write out your goals. In other words, define your target, so you can achieve a positive return on impact.

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If you have ever wondered what makes some leaders in tune with their environments and sensitive to the needs of their employees while others are not, you are not alone. As a university professor who is certified to teach graduate-level management and organizational behaviors MBA courses, I can tell you that emotionally stupid leaders occupy the seat of power of many of our organizations, houses of worship, educational institutions and seats of government, just to name few.

These leaders' decision-making abilities and the protocol guiding their behaviors most often are swayed by their own emotions without regard to the well-being of their followers. But have you ever asked why? Why are some leaders in tune with their working environments while others are not?

First, allow me to define the term "emotional stupidity" so we understand when and how it applies. I define it as the lack of self- and environmental awareness manifested through negative acts resulting from emotional behaviors. So, the definition of an emotionally stupid leader is an individual who lacks self- and environmental awareness and, through their behaviors, negatively affects their environment, whether personal, professional or academic.

These are the six primary characteristics of an emotionally stupid leader:

They're Easily Angered

The slightest mistake made by their employees will make emotionally stupid leaders easily irritable and upset. Have you ever had a leader scream at you and your team for the slightest mistake? This is a sign of an emotionally stupid leader.

Solution: If this describes you, I recommend anger management courses.

As an employee dealing with an irate leader, stay calm. Do not get angry and answer back. Immediately excuse yourself from the presence of this emotionally stupid leader and find ways to calm yourself down. For the future, prepare techniques ahead of time on how to calm yourself down when faced with situations like this. Easily angered leaders are unpredictable and may complain and snap at their followers at a moment's notice, sometimes for no reason. Your lack of response may diffuse the situation and may calm the leader down.

They're Impulsive

Emotionally stupid leaders are impulsive. They act without thinking. Most decisions they make during the impulsiveness stage are made without forethought, and they usually regret these decisions later.

Solution: Make it a practice (until you reach an acceptable level of emotional intelligence) that other leaders in your company agree with important decisions before you make them.

They Lack Self-Control

Emotionally stupid leaders lack self-control, which may result in the failure of the use of willpower, i.e., to achieve or conform. Leaders who cannot control themselves are easy prey for lawsuits and great candidates for legal trouble.

Solution: You likely don't recognize your lack of self-control. You may consider their emotional outbursts, aggressive behaviors and the resulting hostile environment as business as usual. To enhance your self-control, you can practice mindfulness, as explained below.

They Lack Self-Awareness

Emotionally stupid leaders lack self-awareness. They are reactionary and do not differentiate themselves from the environment in which they live and work. The leaders inability to distinguish the difference between the two could cause confusion that may result in a lack of self-awareness.

Solution: If you're not self-aware, it will be hard to convince you that you lack self-awareness. Enroll in self-development training sessions and take personality assessments tests. When you recognize yourself as separate from your environment, you can see yourself more clearly. Be aware of your internal and external selves and how each relates to your environment.

They Lack Empathy

Emotionally stupid leaders lack empathy with their employees. Here, I define empathy as the leader's ability to feel what their followers feel. Stereotyping, prejudice and ignorance could be considered three of the primary reasons leaders lack empathy.

Solution: Put yourself in the shoes of your employees and genuinely attempt to feel what they feel. Stay curious about their feelings.

They Lack Mindfulness

Mindfulness means different things to different people, but at its core, it means paying attention and being aware of your own abilities and environment. Emotionally stupid leaders lack mindfulness because they are not self-aware. They unintentionally remove themselves from their environment and disconnect with their employees.

Solution: Work on being present in the moment and in your environment. Practice daily reflection, be an active listener, take time for yourself, be mindful of others and their well-being, and understand the power of emotional intelligence.

Emotionally stupid leaders are the main reason toxic work environments exist. I hope shining a light on the components of emotional stupidity and the characteristics of emotionally stupid leaders has made you aware of how you can grow and become more emotionally intelligent.

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While he's widely hailed as a visionary director, James Cameron likely had no idea just how unwieldy the Terminator franchise would become when he first sent a from the future to eliminate Sarah Connor in 1984. Since then, the Terminator timeline has grown into the past and the future through four more movies and a TV show not to mention numerous books, comics and videogames.

That expansion has meant a lot of time travel and rewriting of history, meaning the Terminator timeline is now a complex beast far less linear than the chronologies of the Star Wars and Star Trek universes. History is repeatedly rewritten and character fates routinely altered as the Terminator saga branches off into numerous alternate timelines there are at least three dates given for the world-ending Judgment Day, Sarah Connor has died a couple of times, and some instalments even pretend that previous movies never happened.

Indeed, the upcoming Dark Fate (the first Terminator movie to boast the involvement of Cameron since 1991s Terminator 2: Judgment Day) is a direct sequel to T2 that acts as if Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003), Terminator Salvation (2009), Terminator Genisys (2015) and the Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (2008-09) TV show never happened. This is a continuation of the story from Terminator 1 and Terminator 2, Cameron told the Hollywood Reporter back in 2017. We're pretending the other films were a bad dream. Or an alternate timeline, which is permissible in our multi-verse.

For those looking to understand every Terminator, weve pulled together all the disparate strands of the Terminator timeline into one coherent history, all the way from the birth of Sarah Connor to the death of her son, John aka the saviour of humanity. To make it a little easier, weve flagged up which of the sagas many timelines the event is taking place in: the Prime Timeline is the one established by James Camerons first two movies; the Terminator 3 Timeline follows on from Rise of the Machines; the Sarah Connor Chronicles Timeline shows the arc of the TV show; and the Genisys Timeline reveals the rewritten Terminator history established by the 2015 movie.

So boot up for the ultimate ride through the Terminator timeline and remember, there is no fate but what they make Warning: spoilers for every Terminator film other than Dark Fate, which reaches UK cinemas October 23 and US cinemas November 1.

The Prime timeline

The Terminator (1984)

Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)

Terminator: Dark Fate (2019)

The Terminator 3 timeline

Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003)

Terminator Salvation (2009)

The Sarah Connor Chronicles timeline

The Terminator (1984)

Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)

Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (2008-09)

The Genisys timeline

Terminator Genisys (2015)

1965-ish Sarah Connor, mother of the hero of humanitys resistance against the machines, is born.

Why is the Terminator timeline so vague about the date? The script for The Terminator specifies that shes 19 years old in 1984, suggesting she was born in 1965, which could also tally with psychiatrist Dr Silberman saying in Terminator 2 that shes 29 in 1995. But in Terminator 3, Sarahs gravestone says she was born in 1959, while Terminator: Genisys reckons she was nine in 1973, which suggests a birth year 1964. Thats what living your life off the grid does to you

1973 (GENISYS TIMELINE) A shapeshifting T-1000 arrives from the future to kill a nine-year-old Sarah Connor, but luckily a T-800 has also come back to protect her. Sarahs parents are killed by the T-1000, leaving that particular T-800 model to become an unlikely father figure known as Pops and kickstart a whole new Terminator timeline. (Terminator Genisys)

1984 (PRIME TIMELINE) A T-800 cyborg from the future arrives in mid-80s Los Angeles, and embarks on a killing spree whose victims include several women named Sarah Connor, and a police station full of cops. Ultimately, however, the Terminator misses its target, failing to assassinate the one Sarah Connor whos essential for the future survival of humanity it ends up crushed in a hydraulic press, though crucially, a processor chip and an arm survive... Kyle Reese, who travelled back from the future to protect Sarah, dies. (The Terminator)

(GENISYS TIMELINE) Kyle Reeses mission to intercept the original Terminator is instantly made a hell of a lot easier when another version of Sarah Connor and her Terminator dad, Pops, intercept the cyborg assassin on its arrival in 1984. They also save him from a T-1000 whos come to sample the joys of the mid-80s. Based on the Genisys is Skynet message that Reese hears during his journey back in time, Sarah and Pops alter their plan to time travel to 1997 to prevent Judgment Day. Instead, Sarah and Reese set their time coordinates to 2017, where a new computer operating system called Genisys is about to go live (Terminator Genisys)

1985 (PRIME TIMELINE) Future military hero John Connor is born on February 28 and spends his life dealing with the impossible expectations placed on him by his mother.

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1995 (PRIME TIMELINE) Another of Skynets cyborg goons arrives in the 20th century the difference this time, however, is that the target is 10-year-old John Connor, and that the T-1000 is a liquid metal mimetic polyalloy shapeshifter perfectly placed to make the most of ILMs pioneering CG technology. A reprogrammed T-800 who looks a lot like his 1984 predecessor arrives to serve as Johns protector, and follows the boys order to break his mother, Sarah, out of the secure psychiatric hospital she now calls home.

In the ensuing carnage, the trio destroy the Cyberdyne Systems research facility thats developing Skynet from reverse-engineered parts harvested from the 1984 Terminator inventor Miles Dyson is killed in the blast. With Judgment Day seemingly averted and the T-1000 eliminated, all is seemingly well though the cuddly T-800 takes his newly installed casual vocabularly to a fiery grave. No problemo! (Terminator 2: Judgment Day)

1997 (PRIME TIMELINE) The US government gives Skynet full control of strategic defence on August 4. After learning at a geometric rate, it becomes self-aware on August 29 a key date in the Terminator timeline, because at this point, its too late for humans to pull the plug. Calculating that all humans are a threat to its survival, the super-computer launches a missile attack on Russia, who subsequently retaliate in kind. Three billion people are killed on Judgment Day, initiating a decades-long war between humans and machines. (Terminator 2: Judgment Day)

(TERMINATOR 3 TIMELINE) At least, that was the original plan, but the Skynet trampling events of 1995 postponed the apocalypse at least for a few years. Even with Judgment Day averted, however, its still a bad year for the Connor family. Suffering from leukaemia, Sarah lives long enough to see the world not ending on August 29, but dies from her illness before the year is out. (Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines)

1999 (SARAH CONNOR CHRONICLES TIMELINE) It turns out Sarah Connor wasnt dead after all, as the short-lived TV show pretends erases the events of Terminator 3 from the Terminator timeline. Instead, Sarah and John are still on the run from law-enforcement authorities who think theyre responsible for Miles Dysons death when they meet Cameron, a reprogrammed female Terminator sent back to protect John. She transports the Connors forward to 2007 to continue their fight against Skynet because you just know that, er, itll be back. (Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles)

2003 (TERMINATOR 3 TIMELINE) Just before his execution, death row inmate Marcus Wright agrees to sign his body over to Cyberdyne Systems Genetic Research Division. Its not the last well see of him he survives Judgment Day in stasis. (Terminator: Salvation)

(PRIME TIMELINE) Kyle Reese is born at least, he is in the original Terminator timeline, as James Camerons script says he was 26 years old when he travelled back from 2029. However, in the 2017-set Terminator Genisys, Reese meets his 12-year-old self, which suggests hes born in 2005.

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2004 (TERMINATOR 3 TIMELINE) A T-X Terminator arrives from 2032 with a mission to wipe out figures wholl be key members of the humans resistance. With his mother having passed away seven years earlier, John Connor is living off the grid in LA, and hes done such a good job of disappearing that its pure coincidence the T-X finds him she gatecrashes an early meeting with his future wife (and future military leader) Kate Brewster.

With a reprogrammed T-850 acting as a guardian angel (yes, this one looks like the original 1984 Terminator as well), they go on the run. Meanwhile, the US military activates Skynet to counteract a computer virus that in a cunning ruse has actually been unleashed by Skynet itself. So Kates dad, a military general, gives them the location and access codes to Crystal Peak, a facility John believes houses Skynet. However, hes unable to destroy the computer. Crystal Peak is really just a shelter to protect the couple from Judgment Day, which is, by now, unavoidable because Skynet has become totally integrated with the internet. After a couple of false starts, the world belatedly ends on July 24 leaving John to take up his mantle as the saviour of mankind.

Bizarrely, this is possibly when the Schwarzenegger-esque design and voice of the T-800 model Terminators is established though this hilarious deleted scene may not be strictly canon (Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines)

2005 (SARAH CONNOR CHRONICLES TIMELINE) According to Camerons knowledge of the past/future, Sarah Connor dies of cancer in this particular branch of the Terminator timeline. (Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles)

2007 (SARAH CONNOR CHRONICLES TIMELINE) Kyle Reeses big brother, Derek, arrives from the future with a mission to eliminate the architects of Skynet, and joins forces with the Connors and Cameron as they fight a succession of Terminators who knew thered be so many? And that so many of them would be so bad at their jobs? (Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles)

2009 (SARAH CONNOR CHRONICLES TIMELINE) Derek Reese is killed by a Terminator. John Connor travels forward to 2027 with Catherine Weaver, a T-1001 whos the spitting image of the lead singer from Garbage. Theyre trapped there for all eternity thanks to a threat even greater than Skynet the cancellation of a TV show. (Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles)

2011 (SARAH CONNOR CHRONICLES TIMELINE) Skynet goes online yet again, gains self-awareness and, according to what Cameron tells Sarah Connor in 2007, initiates the latest iteration of Judgment Day on April 21, 2011. Dj vu, anyone? (Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles)

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2017 (GENISYS TIMELINE) After their journey through time Sarah Connor and Kyle Reese hook up once again with Pops whos taken the long way round and aged accordingly. Their efforts to stop the Genisys operating system designed, coincidentally, by Miles Dysons son, Daniel from becoming Skynet meet a formidable obstacle in the form of a Terminatorised John Connor, whos in San Francisco to ensure his digital paymaster goes live. Sarah, Kyle and Pops defeat John and think theyve destroyed the Cyberdyne facility, but unbeknown to anyone Skynet survives and becomes self-aware. Reese also pays a visit to his 12-year-old self to remind him that Genisys is Skynet a piece of information that may just come in handy later on (Terminator Genisys)

2018 (TERMINATOR 3 TIMELINE) John Connor, a rising star in the human military, discovers Skynets plans for T-800 Terminator units covered in living tissue, along with a load of human prisoners captured by the machines. He also learns that he and an unknown teenage fighter named Kyle Reese are top of Skynets hit list. Meanwhile, Marcus Wright awakens from stasis and discovers that the medical experiments he signed up for have given him an entirely mechanical endoskeleton causing John Connor and his wife, Kate, to suspect hes been sent to kill them. They eventually team-up, however, and embark on a mission to destroy Skynets T-800 facility. John is fatally wounded in the battle when a Terminator stabs him through the heart, but saved when Marcus donates his own still-human heart for transplant. (Terminator Salvation)

2022 (PRIME TIMELINE) Despite having at least two recorded deaths and even a gravestone, Sarah Connor is still very much alive in a movie set 27 years after the events of Terminator 2. Connor will team up with an ageing T-800 and Grace, a human soldier turned into a cyborg, to protect a young woman named Daniella Ramos from the latest Terminator model known as the REV 9, it can split itself into two distinct bodies. (Terminator: Dark Fate)

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2027 (SARAH CONNOR CHRONICLES TIMELINE) Derek Reese and Terminator Cameron are sent back in time to kill Terminators/save the Connors. And no, we have no idea why or how this happens before Skynet uses prototype technology to send the first Terminator back in time from 2029. Its wibbly, wobbly, timey and wimey. (Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles)

2029 (PRIME TIMELINE) Skynet sends the first Terminator back to kill Sarah Connor in 1984; John Connor sends Kyle Reese to protect her. (The Terminator)

(GENISYS TIMELINE) a super-advanced T-5000 Terminator named Alex infiltrates John Connors team, and infects Connor, turning him into a Terminator.

(PRIME TIMELINE) Skynet sends a shapeshifting T-1000 back to 1995 to kill John Connor as a kid; Connor sends back a reprogrammed T-800 to protect him. (Terminator 2: Judgment Day)

2032 (TERMINATOR 3 TIMELINE) A red letter day for the Terminator timeline, as Skynet finally gets its man When a T-850 with the original Schwarzenegger design assassinates John Connor, Connors wife, Kate, reprograms the unit and sends it back to 2004, to protect the couple from the T-X. (Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines)

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Forgive me for this, but real quick we need to jump back in the pool with Chris Holmes, then lead guitarist for heavy metal gods W.A.S.P., as he conducts one of the more harrowing (and rock n roll) interviews in film history. Say hello to the drunkest man who ever lived, and yes, harrowing as this infamous clip from Penelope Spheeriss 1988 L.A. music documentary The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years might be, this is ultimately a tale of survival, for the man and, even more improbably, for the rock n roll ethos that tried to kill him.

Anyway, yikes. Im a full-blown alcoholic, Holmes concedes, slurring cordially. He estimates that he drinks five pints of vodka a day, although: Five quarts? Pints? Who cares? Yeah, Im a happy camper. Hah-hah! He blames, or rather credits, rock n roll for this: If you can tour one year, itll take four years off your life. There is a Santa glass in the cupholder of his pool chair; his mother is sitting poolside, terrified and resigned and making the most viscerally upsetting face in 80s cinema, nonLarge Marge category.

Do you think you might be covering up some pain? Holmess interviewer wonders, and he responds by cracking open a vodka bottle and pouring half of it in his mouth, and half of the rest in the general vicinity of his face. I dont dig being the person I am, he concludes, struggling to elaborate. I just dont like it. Being who I am, its just likehere, watch. And then he rolls into the pool. Cut back to his mother, still making The Face.

I mention this because a gentleman named Ryan Hater, who plays keyboards in the young Louisville, Kentucky, rock band White Reaper, evidently found it quite inspiring. Whats his name in the pool with the vodka, and his mom is there, and hes just talking about how he wants to be dead? Hater mused during a July interview with Michael Tedder for Stereogum. That made me want to be a musician. The urge to rock n roll, in 2019 as in 1988 as in 1967, is a fundamentally self-destructive impulse. A roaring bonfire fueled by the bodies of knuckleheads, warming the bodies of other knuckleheads. A healthy death drive is a necessary component of keeping this music alive.

White Reaper, to be clear, sound very little like W.A.S.P.: The quintet instead radiates a vulnerable sort of power-pop joy, all 70s-muscle-T dual-guitar leads and righteous solos and hooks with the searing ardor of molten lava and the sticky-sweet naivete of cotton candy. The affable goofiness that first made Weezer famous, the shrewd and ebullient laser precision that makes the New Pornographers the best power-pop band of their generation, the righteous six-string-as-six-shooter audacity of fellow young rockers Sheer Mag. Its arena-rock cosplay, sure, but every ambitious rock band is basically doing arena-rock cosplay until they actually, yknow, tour arenas. Think of White Reaper as Judas Priest disciples who steadfastly obey the law. These fellas dont sound too drunk, either. But youll recognize their jovial-hedonist vibe immediately.

It is ideal, in this day and age, to approach this style of Zippo-flicking guitar music with, if not irony, then at least some measure of cornball self-awareness: White Reapers 2015 full-length debut was called White Reaper Does It Again, which is the second-funniest album title in their brief catalog, after 2017s The Worlds Best American Band. Rally up and dress to kill / Lace your boots and crush your pills, the title tracks chorus begins, amid fake crowd noise that cements the mass-romantic Cheap Trick vibe. Run around and tell the gang / Polish up your dusty fangs. Its an electrifying feeling, even if theyre the sort of cuddly band Mom can bring home to you.

On Friday, White Reaper released their third and best LP, You Deserve Love. I have had Might Be Rightthe carefree bounce of the bass line, the prehistoric power-chord roar of the chorus, the thwarted lust of the lyrics, the dual-guitar riff with the richness and depth of a particularly well-thought-out Dungeons & Dragons campaignstuck in my head for, like, three weeks. Im a happy camper.

You cant talk about songs like this in 2019 without agonizing over the relative absence of songs like this in 2019. The raw, guitar-rock sound is reallyI dont want to say its done, but ... So equivocated Mike Kaplan, program director of New York Citys ALT 92.3, quoted in Joe Coscarellis recent New York Times piece about Mikes job running an alternative-rock station. Even this genres professional champions cant be much bothered to champion it anymore. Its present, but its morphed and mixed with other instrumentation, Kaplan added. Does anyone really go to Guitar Center anymore and pick up the guitar?

Thanks for your insight, Mike. I first heard Might Be Right on my own hometown alt-rock station, Columbus, Ohios beloved independent institution CD102.5, which, like the NYC alt-rock station, will only mess with Lana Del Rey if shes covering Sublime, and unlike the NYC alt-rock station will give Billie Eilish a shot, and like any alt-rock station anywhere leans as much toward Passion Pitstyle synth-pop as anything guitar-oriented. I love it. And Im also relieved that White Reapers album title wasnt The Worlds Last American Band.

It is tempting to process the relentless screwball joy of You Deserve Lovethe righteous airbrushed-van gallop of Raw, the bright New Wave strut of 1Fentirely through nostalgia for the alt-rock 1990s nostalgia for the sleaze-rock 1970s. But the joy is in living vicariously through the 20-something White Reaper dudes themselves. This is all new to them, and thats palpable even if this is all old hat to you. How come what you want and what you get / Always seem to be / Two different things? singer-guitarist Tony Esposito sings on Real Long Time, and this is not the most profound and groundbreaking lyrical observation someone will make in 2019. But there is profundity in looking on as the zillionth guitar-rocker in the zillionth excellent guitar-rock band figures this stuff out for himself.

Chris Holmes, by the way, is still alive, and 20-plus-years sober, and roughly 124 years old in touring years, and a good enough sport that in 2017 he did another pool interview that mostly concerned his wonderment at having escaped the downward spiral implied by his first pool interview. Why do I not drink anymore? After six DUIs, they throw you in jail, he explained, cordial as ever. And its really hard to drink in jail.

That observation, also, is more profound than it might first appear. Holmess continued existence is as stirring a testament to rock n roll defiance as anything he said or did or drank in his, uh, prime. White Reaper are not exactly self-annihilating wildmen, on paper or on record. But the desire is there, and thats reassuringly defiant, too.

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As midterm elections approach, the fight for Onondaga Countys district attorney seat has brought two newcomers challenging longtime incumbent William Fitzpatrick.

Chuck Keller, an adjunct professor at Syracuse University and criminal defense attorney, is running against Fitzpatrick as a Democrat. Gary Lavine, who works at a Syracuse law firm, has been endorsed by the Conservative Party.

No one else in our society has the power over life, liberty, and reputation that a prosecutor does, Lavine said. The first order of business is having the self-awareness that there is a higher calling. The higher calling is to do justice and tell the truth.

The three candidates disagree on how the future district attorney should apply them to a well-established judicial system.

In a given county, the district attorney oversees the prosecutors office and is responsible for considering, investigating and potentially charging active cases in coordination with law enforcement officials. The DA also presents evidence to grand juries and makes recommendations to a presiding judge for a defendants bail, charges and length of prison sentence.

District attorneys are elected for four-year terms by popular vote in a general election. This year, voting will take place on Tuesday, Nov. 5 in Onondaga County.

The Onondaga County Democratic Committee has endorsed Keller, whose campaign has mainly focused on bail reform and prison alternatives. He hopes to increase scrutiny toward Fitzpatricks management of bail reform through consistent review while in office.

Echoing Kellers calls for systemic changes within the judicial system was Syracuse native and Republican Lavine, who currently serves as counsel to Bousquet Holstein PLLC. Lavine is also a member of the New York State Joint Commission on Public Ethics.

Lavine said his campaign, which is endorsed by the Onondaga County Conservative Party, is focused on restoring integrity to the position Republican incumbent Fitzpatrick has held for 27 years.

Lavine said that Fitzpatrick covered for former DA investigator Peter Rauch years before he drove while drunk and killed a teenager. Lavine referenced the alleged cover-up on campaign mailers, according to Syracuse.com.

The alleged incident is one of several matters of controversy Lavine said he felt deemed Fitzpatrick an unethical prosecutor.

Throughout his seven terms in office, Fitzpatrick has been challenged three times, according to Syracuse.com.

Since taking office in 1992, Fitzpatrick said the platforms and policies of district attorneys across the nation have changed for the better. Initially, prosecutors ran on popular platforms that emphasized conviction rates and longer prison sentences. Now, national trends have since shifted to embrace more progressive outlooks that favor decriminalization of lower-level crimes, he said.

While Fitzpatrick said hes glad prosecutors are no longer follow the tough-on-crime approach, he said he doesnt fully support progressive decriminalization.

I know we call them progressive, to me theyre frankly regressive, he said.

Instead, Fitzpatrick said he has focused his career on identifying underlying factors that contribute to crime and conviction rates. He also emphasized his role in facilitating transformation at the local level. Fitzpatrick promoted eight diversion programs which exclusively handle cases dealing with adolescents, people experiencing mental illness and other at-risk groups during his tenure.

Ideally, an understanding of the factors behind crime and conviction rates, applied to the countys diversion programs, would continue to lower New Yorks already-low incarceration rates, he said.

Is that a system that cries out for reform? I think thats a system that cries out to be replicated, Fitzpatrick said.

Recounting his over two-decade-long career as a defense attorney, Keller claimed the diversion programs are currently ineffective because a defendants participation in them is dependent upon them first entering a guilty plea.

Keller said issues relating to justice should not rely on partisanship, but accountability. Lavine echoed this, expressing his hopes that the elections votes will reflect a lack of partisanship. Fitzpatrick said at the end of the day, the DAs primary responsibility is to ensure safety and justice for both victims and defendants.

Having challengers in the DAs race provides a means of achieving that goal, Lavine said.

I personally cannot look the other way, Lavine said. Indifference and inaction lead to tyranny, and thats what we have in this county now.

Published on October 20, 2019 at 10:11 pm

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How often do you wonder about what makes us different? Why dont we all act the same and are there reasons were each unique? Usually, answering these questions takes a significant amount of reading that goes beyond scratching the surface. Even though it would take less effort than before thanks to the internet, it still involves putting in the time to read through different articles on how we become who we are. But maybe that can change with shows like The Mind: Explained.

Long story short, if youre not as interested in psychology, the search for these answers might not seem like the most entertaining pastime. That lack of interest leads to the unfortunate truth that many wont have their curiosity sparked enough to learn more about potentially game changing topics. On a personal level, or any other level, these topics influence a persons view of themselves and cause them to do an entire 180 in life.

Now, imagine if you could get to know your brain by watching brief 20 minute episodes? As in, none of them are longer than the 30-minute TV shows we grew up watching once-upon-a-time on regular cable TV (minus the commercials and advertisements).

Netflixs The Mind: Explained did exactly that. A continuation of Voxs Explained series, this miniseries linked to the original concept is packaged and produced in a way thats brief but still gives in-depth knowledge on the human mind. The network producers and writers managed to give a diverse set of answers to the many questions we have about the most essential organ of our body: the brain.

The brain forms and shapes everything we are. The large and wrinkled block of grey matter, that far too often seems more foreign than it should, is looked at closely in this Emma Stone-narrated series.

The questions this series answers bring viewers one step closer to understanding their relationship with their own minds. Ranging from simple inquiries like, Why cant I remember what I did yesterday? to more complicated questions like, Why does my brain constantly rewrite past experiences and fill in the blanks in ways that arent always true? Why is anxiety disorder the most common mental disorder? Do our dreams actually serve a purpose, or are they just strange visions that come to us? How do our brains even formulate dreams in the first place?

For the sake of not sounding clich, its not necessary to claim this series will change your entire life. But the series could be life changing and is quite impactful. The fear of facing ourselves can often stand as an obstacle to fostering more self-awareness. Were most nervous about discovering facts that lead us to actually feeling like we have control over our lives.

These five episodes each go in-depth and explain topics that are either involved in todays popular conversations or are more absent from mainstream discussion.

Did you know that about 50% of your memory is more than likely made up? Thats because around 50% of the details we believe are hard coded into our minds actually change each year. Memory competitions, and how your emotions affect your episodic memory, are only a couple of topics discussed in this episode. As the first episode aired in the series, it highlights the complexity behind our memories. Even if you think youre completely right about something in the past, theres a chance your mind is acting deceitfully.

They say that story, place and emotion are the concoction helping us remember things more accurately. But what if your emotions get in the way? The most interesting part of the program: an explanation behind how memories of the past and our futures are linked.

While were resting, our brains are usually up to something. Interested in remembering what exactly was fluttering through your mind while remaining inactive for those suggested eight hours? Drinking large glasses of water before going to bed was one tip given by a featured neuroscientist.

If youre trying to dream vividly, you might want to look into the art of lucid dreaming. According to one interviewee, its a skill anyone can develop. Like practicing on a basketball court until youre good at dribbling, youre capable of training your mind to see actual images from throughout the day in your brains nightly visions. If youre able to vividly recall your dreams and sketch them out in a notebook, then youre on your way. You might even be able to interpret them better.

Disclaimer: This episode might get a little extreme for some people. The episode shows this preemptive warning within the first minute. Keeping this as objective as possible, the episode highlights the commonality of different forms of anxiety. Whether its panic attacks, a general sense of fear or paranoia or defining general anxiety disorder (GAD), the different types are examined.

Most importantly, the sickness isnt stigmatized. Its normalized, but not in a way that can cause someone to feel insensitive toward anothers mental condition. The topic is framed to show we should come forward to speak about something that affects a significant amount of the human population.

Long story short, we all have anxiety to different extents. Some people can just develop more triggers than others at certain points in their lives. The whys are explained through people who come forward to describe their stories, guest psychologists and neuroscientists.

Afraid of aging? Learn more about the secrets of a young Buddhist monk turned mindfulness meditation prodigy, who at 41 years old had the brain resembling that of a 33-year-old. It starts by paying attention to your breath. The minds mindfulness becomes more proactive from that simple starting point.

Intentional control of your brain activity is often seen as impossible. But through the ancient practice of Satipatthana, many monks have achieved something that amazes scientists. Through cultivating their mindfulness, they activated parts of the brain that are often involuntarily lit up by our bodies.

One of their main pieces of advice? Introspection is key.

Usually regarded as a taboo subject advocated by zany people, it was practically banned from peoples memory during the Nixon administration. However, recent sample studies emerged (generally small but still reporting key findings) about helping people process their anxiety or life-altering situations.

For example, this episode of The Mind: Explained opens with the story of a man diagnosed at 21 with a type of cancer targeting his lymphatic system. Although he survived, his anxiety about his body relapsing became overwhelming. While visiting a psychologist they told him about an experiential case meant for cancer patients. All the patients were prescribed psychedelic pills to calm their anxiety about death. The results? His brain found a new sense of peace along with all of the other patients in the trial run.

Similar cases also found remarkable results in treating and curing substance abuse addictions and depression. Maybe psychedelics can provide the results other plant or protein-based medicine cant do as successfully.

One of the big messages that the series delivers is if were living without an actual sense of self-awareness, are we living in reality? How do we know if were really being attentive to the world around us? Or are things just floating right above the heads were meant to unlock?

Understanding your mind is the most vital element of knowing your humanity. Although we might convince ourselves that self-awareness isnt important, its really just a mask that were putting on the truth. It definitely works to certain peoples advantages, but theres still that void between themselves and actually having some type of self-certainty. People who are usually twisting things around to fit into their own gravity pool can lack a genuine Im-in-control attitude. If we really want to get all psychology on it, the term for feeling like youre in control is locus of control, and the higher the better.

Our minds can be our best friends. Once we get to know them, it wont seem as scary or even surprising to make certain realizations about who we are. Our brains are meant to be discovered and if we make observations that wed like to alter about ourselves theyre equally as flexible to change.

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